Bellefonte, Pa., January 27, 1911.
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Attractive Title.
The difficulty of using a foreign lan-
guage wes amusingly illustrated when
a certain mission started work in Chi-
@a. They were in some perplexity,
says Rev. lord Gascoyne-Cecll in
“Changing China.” as to the title they
should choose for their society. They
wanted to convey to the Chinese that
their denomination claimed especially
to feed the souls of men. They ex-
plained all this to an educated China-
man and quoted well known texts.
He immediately wrote down two char-
acters and assured them that they rep-
resented what they had said about the
spiritual food that they provided and
would also be very popular with the
Chinese. as indeed it proved. The
moment they openad the door of the
<hapel the; were besieged by hun-
dreds of Chinese of the poorer class,
who, after listening for a short time,
went away discontentedly. The mis-
slonsnries fond out afterward that the
title given to them, literally translated.
was “health giving free restaurant” -—
a most attractive title to the hungry
Chinese!
Proof of His Generosity.
The teacher had a class in English
literature Lofore her. The subject for
the day wis Gray's “Elegy.” She had
asked the class to bring in questions
on the life of Gray. These questions
were fo -be deposited in a box which
was to be opened before the class and
each question read aloud. If no one
could answer it the one who contrib-
uted it was to be called on for the an-
swer.
The first slip drawn out contained
this:
“Give a proof of Gray's generosity.”
The tercher thought of what a re-
cluse Gray iad been and of how little
interest he had ever shown in his fel-
lows, and she wondered how any one
could have . received the lmpression
that he was generous.
Every ane looked blank. and no one
atteinped to answer, The girl who
wrote the question wis called on for
hier “prooi.” amd this is what she said,
“He gave to wisery all he had a tear”
~—Nntional Monthly,
Letters and Postage Stamps. {
“Strange ideas some people have |
about postage,” said the clerk who |
opens the wail. “Yes, Sec this letter |
flere with three one-cent stamps on it |
and stomped 1 cent due? That's al
case in point. The writer of that let!
ter thought that perhaps it weighed a
Tittle over an ounce, a little more thaw |
would go for 2 cents, and so he put on |
a little more postage -1 cent more— |
which he thought would cover it.when |
the faci i« that it required zu addi- |
tonal two cent stump, Of course you |
know that letter postage ds not frac’
tonstalsat that it goes in multiples of
two. 10 a letter weighs ever so little!
aver an ounce it requires an additional |
two cent stamp. But not everybody |
seems te know this, and so we some- |
times get letters like this one with o |
Httle were postage for a little more |
weight.” Now York Sun.
A Strange Situation.
“Tweet i a very funny thing." said!
Binks.
“It eught to be”
pher,
“Ol,
said the philoso-
1 don't mean that way,” said
Binks. “I mean that it is a strange
thing. Now, [ can't speak ["rench, but
I can always understand a French |
joke, and U can speak English, but!
I'm blest if I ean see an English joke."
“Most people are,” sald the philoso- |
pher.
“Are what?” said Binks.
“Blest if they can see an English |
joke." said the philosopher. “It is a |
sign of an unusually keen vision |
Hacper's Weekly.
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Force of the Imagination. \
There is a story of a man who was |
tied up in a dark room and informed |
that he was to be put to death by |
bleeding. His tormentors made a
small incision in his neck and arrang-
ed for a stream of lukewarm water to
trickle down his back for fifteen min- |
utes. At the end of fifteen minutes
the man died of exhaustion. He had
not lost a drop of blood, but he thought |
Be had. Such is the power of sugges- ,
tien.—Tondon Saturday Review.
Suggested a Remedy. |
Even medical gentlemen are not de- |
wold of professional jealousy. Two |
doctors were bragging about the nw
ber of their patients.
“Why, last night I was wakened up |
half a dozen times.” said the younger |
“You were, eh?’ replied the other.
“Well, arhy don't you buy some insect
powder?”
Did Not Look Like It.
“What is 1t?” asked the visitor in
the studio.
“An Italian sunset,”
proud artist.
“Oh? |
“Didn't you ever see an Italian sun- |
set?
“Ql, yes. That is the reason I asked
what it was."—Yonkers Statesman.
replied the
Considerate.
“Phe most considerate wife [| ever
keard of.” said the philosopher, “was
a woman who used to date all her let-
ters a week or so ahead to allow her
husband time to post them.”
Accomplished.
Blobbs—1. never knew such a liar as
Tongbow. Slobbs — Yes: that fellow
could actually eat an onion and lie out
of it.—Pkiladelphia Record.
HE PUNISHED GRANT.
The Cadet Was Guilty of Dismounting
Without Leave.
While a student at West Point U. 8.
Grant excelled in mathematics and
horsemanship. He jumped his horse
over a bar five feet six inches high.
which made a record for the academy
and a close second to the highest jump
ever recorded in America. He recelv-
ed little honor for some of his efforts,
however, notably in the case recalled
by Nicholas Smith in “Grant, the Man
of Mystery.” But perhaps the humor
of it reconciled him.
The riding master was onc Hersh.
berger. “an amusing sort of tyrant,”
and on one occasion, whether seriously
or as a joke, he determined to “take
down" the young cadet.
At the exercise Grant was mounted
on a powerful but vicious brute that
the cadets fought shy of and was put
at leaping the bar.
‘The bar was placed higher and high-
er as he came round the ring till it
passed the record. The stubborn rider
would not say “enough.” but the horse
was disposed to shy and refuse to
make the leap.
Grant gritted his teeth and spurred
at it, but just as the horse gathered for
the spring his swelling body burst the
girth, and the rider and saddle tumbled
into the ring.
Half stunned, Grant gathered him-
self up from the dust only to hear the
“strident. cynical voice” of Hershber-
zer calling out:
“Cadet Grant, six demerits for dis-
mounting without leave!”
BEAT HIM TO THE STATION.
The Message That Got There Before
the Patrolman Did.
“When | was a patrolman,” says a
prominent detective, “there used to be
a sergeant on the force who had it in
for me. He reported me for various
delinquencies, and--well, he's dead
now, and 1 won't say anything against
him. He got sick, and It was reported
at the station that he wasn't expected
to live. So the boss called me amd
told me to go around and see if 1
could do anything for the old fellow.
1 called at the house and asked if |
could see him. They let me in, | tip
| toed into the room where the sergeant
| was in bed and sald. “The lieutenani
sent me around to see how you were
getting along.’
“He spoke with difficulty, but I could
make out what he said. ‘Go back.’ he
grunted, ‘and tell 'em that I'm getting
along fine. The boys have fixed me up
all right, and I don’t need anything
I'm feeling better.’
“80 1 went back to the station. |
was stopped a couple of times on my
way and got In about half an hour
later. Then | made my report ‘He
says he's better and doesn’t need any-
thing. says 1. The lieutenant jumped
up. ‘Do you mean to xay that you
saw him? says he. ‘1 did. says L
‘And he told you he wax all right?
‘Yes, sir.’ ‘You blamed liar! shouts
the lieutenant.
minutes ago that he was dead”
“And it was true. What do you
think of that old scoundrel trying to
get me in bad with his dying breath?”
~Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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A Picture of “Night.
Along the high hedged lane John
Strong swung, the June glonming deep-
ening into night. He loved to shove
his face into the night. He gloried in
the uncertainty of night, the indefi-
niteness of night, and his soul cried
back a wild answer to the ery of the
nighthawk and the owl. Night is more
primitive than day: night is more
| calamitous: night is a savage: night
everywhere is the true aborigine. Day
has taken on civilization. Night hurls
'! the world back to the day of the war
club. the flint arrowhead, the painted
visage. John Strong loved the night
with an almost malevolent love. In
the night he could wear the Valkyries
screaming, the witches riding their
broomsticks. the ghouls scraping the
mold from off the new buried coffin
| John Strong swung along. his face set
to meet baeowing ujabt=-2Aveatire.
Where He Drew the Line.
Thomas was un old gumekeeper on
Sir Greville's Scotch estate, says Sir
William Kennedy in “Sport In the
Navy." When he was sixty years old
he contracted measles and was very
ill for a time. Sir Greville, with char
acteristic kindness, sent the old man
some hothouse grapes and a pineapple.
The nest time the two met Sir Greville
asked Thomas how he liked the fruit.
“Weel, Sir Greville,” answered the
gamekeeper, “the plums was good. but
1 dinna think much of the turnip.”
Ulterior Motives.
“See, here.” sald the kind hearted
lady. “1 gave you a plece of ple two
weeks ago, and you have been sending
one or more of your friends here every
day since.”
“Youse do me a Injustice, ma'am,”
replied the husky hobo. “Dem guys
. wot | sent wuz me enemies.” —Chica-
go News.
Not Familiar With the Quotation.
“Ah, Mr Blinks” said the fair one
lightly. “1 see you wear your heart
upon your sleeve ™
Mr. Blinks tooked bewildered and
hastily pulled down his cuffs.
“] guess maybe It wax my red flan
pel underwear you noticed.” he lamely
remarked. —Clevelund Plain Dealer.
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The Bed.
‘fhe bed is n bundle of paradoxes.
We go to it with reluctance, yet we
quit It with regret. We make up our
minds every night to leave it early,
but we make up our bodies every
morning to keep it lute.—Colton.
‘I got a message ten
The Church That Stands In the Field
of Forty Footsteps.
The church in Woburn square, Lon-
don, Is said to occupy the site of the
“Field of Ferty Footsteps,” to which
a tragic legend attaches. The story
dates from the days of Monmouth's
rebellion. According to the version
given in Mr. J. 8. Ogilvy's “Relics and
Memorials of London Town,” two
brothers fell in love with a woman who,
either from callous vanity or fearing
reprisals from the unsuccessful suitor,
would not say which was to be the
favored swain, suggesting that they
should fight a duel and to the victor
she would give her charms. They
came from the town to this suburban
field. The woman calmly sat down to
await events. She had not long to
wait, judging from the number of foot-
prints, when one of the brothers fell
dead, and as the victor approached
she held out her arms to greet him,
when, with a sudden revulsion of feel-
ing for his brother's death, he slew her
as she stood, and, turning the weapon,
Le drove it through his own heart. So
they were found stiff in death with
the footprints stamped in the wet
clay. where they remained indelible
through summer heat and winter
frost; no green thing would grow,
nor any man build himself a dwelling
there. Streets were erected all round, |
but it was not until the nineteenth
century that men took heart of grace
and built a church there. when the |
consecration of the ground rolled back
the curse and the memory of the leg- | {
end grew faint and faded away.
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Organ Pipes.
The names of the different parts of |
an organ pipe are interesting. For in- |
stance, the air is forced in through a |
hole in the pointed toe of the pipe, |
goes through the flue (the slit cut in :
the side) and strikes the lip.
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cases it then hits the beard (a metal |
eyxlinder attached just below the open- |
ing) and rebounds against the lip, pro- |
ducing a double vibration.
also a tongue,
called the harrel. Exchange.
Faultfinding.
Often the most unhappy people are
those who have lost the art of admira-
tion and become experts in the art of
fanltfinding. Beauty is everywhere.
but they see it not because of the
flaws somewhere below it. Faultfind-
ers should turn their magnifying
glasses upon themselves and there dis-
cover why they are not loved,
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Carries On.
Woggs—So young Saphead and his
father are carrying on the business?
Boggs—Yes. The old man does the
business. while voung Saphend does
the carrying on -- "nek
Repentance is the golden ker that
opens the paiace of eternity —Miiton.
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! thirty-seven volumes and dealing with
all the then known facts of the world.
Pliny. who died A. D. 79, collected the
data for his work in his leisure inter-
vals while engaged in public affairs. |
The “Natural History” was for its time
an amazing production, treated of some |
20,000 facts and was of very high aa-
thority throughout the entire middle
ages. Forty-three editions of the work
were printed before the year 1536, and
no scholar's library was considered
complete without it.—~New York Amer-
ican.
Wakeful Night.
A rather imaginative Washington
lady decided she had insomnia. She
couldn't sleep, she sald. One morn-
ing she was more than usually de-
“What's the matter, dear?’ asked
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| gloomily. “I did manage to drop off
| to sleep, and 1 dreamed all the time 1
| was asleep that | was awake.”—Phil-
; adelphia Saturday Evening Post.
Made the Rhyme.
“Carpet” rhymes with
evade the difficulty thus:
“Sweet maid of the inn. ‘tis surely
no sin to toast such a beautiful bar
carpet.”—London Answers.
Cynical.
ways run smooth.” sighed the young
widow.
“That's right,” rejoined the oid bach-
no single!
' word, but some bold poet dared to’
“The course of true love doesn't al- |
forty different meanings.
Little Miss—Same way in English.
“You amaze me. Mention ope.”
“Not at home.”
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The beloved of the Almighty are the
ity of the rich.—8andl
pet; believe me, my dear. your feet |
would appear at home on a nobleman’s
rich who have the humility of the poor
and the poor who have the magnanim-
elor. “Sometimes it ends in mar The Kind You Have Always Bought.
riage.” —Chicago News.
Dry Goods. Dry Goods.
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Worth
Health:
the health of their
feet.
them get wet.
lowed to go out
the best and the
Bush Arcade Building,
Yeagers Shoe Store
Are Children
Bringing Up?
It can’t be done without
RUBBERS.
This is what appeared in a recent
number of the American Journal or
The family doctor should din it into
the mother's head all the time, that
Keep the feet dry. Never let
No child should be al-
when walking is wet, without Rubbers.
RememBer, Yeager's Rubbers are
cheaper than the other fellows.
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
children lies in the
in snow or rain, or
prices just a little
BELLEFONTE, PA.
LYON & CO.
and Wash Silk.
Allegheny St.
4712
THE LARGEST
White :-
: Sale
etc.
Is now on at our store. Everything
* new and bought with special care to
make this the largest and best White
Sale we ever held.
New muslin Underwear for Ladies
and Children, new Table Linens and
Napkins, Towels,
Muslin and Sheetings at old prices.
New White Goods in Cotton, Linen
Lace and Embroideries, the finest
and at lowest prices.
New Tailored Shirt Waists,
Percales, Ginghams, in fact, every-
thing that belongs to a large store.
Complete in every department.
We cannot give you a full list of all
the Bargains. Come in and see our
stock and you will see we mean to do
| as we advertise.
Rummage Sale.
In addition to this big White Sale we
are making a Rummage of all small
fots of odds and ends in everything in
the store. This will mean goods bought
at less than cost for winter and sum-
mer stuffs.
The Rummage Table will mean dol-
lars saved for all customers.
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LYON & COMPANY,
Bellefonte, Pa.