"Bellefonte, Pa., April 21, 1911.
Between 2 and 3 o'clock in the after-
noon Havana begins to revive from
the lull which falls at about 11, for,
although this city no longer frankly
the siesta as she ought. |
dully in the motionless |
twos and threes to the streets |
shops are. This is the |
which to witness, if one has '
humor for it, a whole series
of comic occurrences.
Havana's sidewalks are narrow,
and their lack of width gives rise to
some local customs and a deal of heart-
burning. One does not keep hard to
the right, regardless, in approaching
another person traveling along the
narrow flagging in the opposite direc-
tion. One must take under advise-
ment sex, age, color and present condi-
tion of servitude as blazoned forth for
all to read in the details of personal
attire.
Men usually give women the inside
of the walk, stepping down when
necessary to let them pass. Serving
people, regardless of age and sex, and
all others who so humble themselves
as to carry packages are expected to
yield the walks to their superiors, who
then are about everybody they meet.
Frequently, of course, it is difficult
to make in the flash of turning a cor-
ner all the nice calculations requisite
to deciding who shall have the walk
and who shall surrender it.
I know of nothing funnier than to
watch two fairly well dressed and cor-
pulent Cuban ladies determining, as
they stand tottering, face to face on a
foot wide flagging. the whole delicate
problem of their relative rank. The
one arrayed in the giddiest garment
seems usually to win.
If there is small choice in color and :
cost between the pink costume of one |
and the blue costume of the other:
the one with the straightest hair stands |
fast and the other walks round, some- |
times with grunts and comments sotto |
voce. i
Or, all details seeming equal, they |
face each other and glare until the one |
with least nerve wilts, swerves into an |
adjacent doorway, and the victorious !
one sweeps by with uptilted chin and |
exultant petticoats.—Irene A. Wright's
“Cuba.”
Warning Before Command.
In bringing up my children I found
that at night when they were tired
they were spared many tears by being
vrarned before 1 gave them a strict
command. Instead of saying “Now it
is time to go to bed. Put away your
blocks at once,” 1 would say. “It is
nearly time to go to bed. Finish your |
house first and then put away your
blocks.” In this way the children
were fully prepared to go, and there
was consequently no begging and no
temptaticn for me to show my lack
of firmness by being persuaded to al-
low them to build “just one more
house.”
Imagine a mother in the midst of an
absorbing chapter being told by one in
higher authority to put down her book
at once and go to bed. Would it not
save a frown of impatience to be told
to finish the chapter first?—IIarper’'s
Bazar.
A Curiosity of Sound.
If when riding in a balloon at a
height, say. of 2,000 feet a charge of
guncotton be fired electrically 100 feet
below the car, the report, though really
as loud as a cannon, sounds no more
than a pistol shot, possibly partly
owing to the greater rarity of the air,
but chiefly because the sound, having
no background to reflect it, simply
spends itself in the air. Then, always
and under all conditions of atmosphere,
there ensues absolute silence until the
time for the echo back from earth has |
fully elapsed. when a deafening out-
burst of thunder rises from below, |
rolling on often for more than half a
minute.
Impartial.
Professor C. Alphonso Smith once
wrote an English grammar. The book
was published while Dr. Sh Zn was
teaching at the University of North
Carolina. One day he received from
a farmer a letter containing the follow- |
ing: i
“I am glad somebody has written an |
impartial grammar at last.” i
Dr. Smith immediately wrote to the |
farmer asking what he meant by an |
“impartial grammar.” The answer
was: ¥
“You give the children this sentence |
to parse: ‘One Confederate killed ten
Yankees.' "—New York Post.
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Where Honesty Failed.
“You are still having trouble in your
search for an honest man?” |
“Yes,” replied Diogenes. ‘“There are
lenty who are scrupulous about busi-
1ess and politics. But I have never
yet found a man so bonest that he
wouldn't try to ring in a portrait taken
when he was ten years younger when
you ask him for a picture for publica-
«don.”"—Washington Star.
indispensable.
“That banquet tonight can’t get
~ ilong without me.”
“You have a pretty good opinion of
ourself. Billed for a speech?
~ “Oh, no. I was invited to listen." —
~ souisville Courier-Journal.
Proof.
~ Kicker—Have you a cook engaged at
resent? Snicker—! think so; there's
+ man out in the kitchen every night.—
Iagper’s Bazar.
| Tissot answered in the negative.
| disposing of the husband by beheading
| raiders.”
| om.
| placing it under the pillow of an inti-
LAST OF THE YAQUIS.
Passing of a Once Famou. Tribe of
Mexican Indians.
All the world has heard of the fa-
mous Yaqui Indians of the state of
Sonora, Mexico. They are for the most |
part dwellers in the hills, crudely arm- |
ed with primitive weapons, but ter- |
rific fighters who have more than once |
decisively beaten the soldiers of !
Mexico. |
Peaceable when undisturbed, fully |
alive to the richness of their mines
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sees ladies venturing | they sought only to defend that which | ‘Coo 0
was theirs from the grasping hands of
those who desired their mines and |
their lands. Like most aborigines, |
however, they were doomed from the |
first. What was at the time of Cortes
a tribe of 5,000 strong, able to defy the
warriors of Montezuma, has dwindled
until there are now not more than
500 souls in the valley of the Yaqui |
river and in the mountain gorges |
which wall in the source of this
stream.
The bulk of the Yaquis have been
wiped out In sanguinary wars or taken
prisoners and shot, and those for whom
no excuse for death could be found
have been deported to the fever strick-
en vales of Yucatan. The Yaquis as a
race are no more, but their passing
has been made complete only during
the past few years. Wide World Mag-
azine.
TESTING A PICTURE.
Tissot, the Famous French Painter,
and His Critic.
interesting story
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Jacques Tisset, the great French paint- |
er. While ip England he painted a |
beautiful religious picture and, meet- |
ing a countrywoman, asked her opinion |
of his work. “It's a chef d'oeuvre,”
she replied, giving a remarkably just
and detailed appreciation of the vari- |
ous merits of the really splendid paint- |
ing.
“Are you satisfied?” asked a friend.
He
| entirely repainted his picture, working
night and day.
When finished he sent again for his
fair critic, who pronounced it ad-
mirable and remained silently admir- |
ing it with smiling criticism.
“Are you satisfied?” asked the friend
again when the lady had departed. |
“No,” replied the artist, and he set to |
work for the third time.
When the Parisienne saw the new
painting she gazed at it for some meo- |
ments with evident emotion and then
without a word sank softly her
knees and began to pray.
“Are yon satisfied now” whispered
the friend, and Tissot said “Yes —
London Saturday Review.
Hannibal's Downfall.
The fate of Hannibal turned upon
the result of n promenade. It was after
he had crossed the Alps and entered
Italy, with winter quarters established
at Capua. His residence was one of
the best houses in the ctity, and while
walking in the garden he heard a fe-
male voice singing not far away.
Struck by the tones of the voice, he is-
sued an order that the singer should be
brought before him. Ie was so greatly
impressed by her charms that he at
once attached her to his household,
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him. Retribution followed closely upon
the cowardly perpetration of the out-
rage. The balance of the winter was
devoted to pleasure, discipline and
drills were practically abandoned, and
with the advent of spring the Cartha-
ginian army was so demoralized by
the dissipation of the city that its pres-
tige was lost, and with it came the
downfall of Hannibal
The Sara-Kabbah Fashion.
The Sara-Kabbah people of central
Africa adopt the hideous fashion of
wearing large wooden disks in the lips,
the one in the upper lip about three
inches in diameter and that in the
lower six inches. “These ornaments,”
says Mr. Karl W. Kumm in “From
Hausaland to Egypt,” “restrain the
wearers from prolonged conversation,
One of the chiefs, when I asked him
the reason why they disfigured their
women, infermed me that their fore-
fathers had developed this habit in
order that the women might exercise
no attractions for the Moslem slave
Warning a Serpent.
Down in Bermuda Mark Twain
made = speech about snakes to a
group of little girls. The speech was
great. The only trouble was that the
little girls could not appreciate it. It
flew over their heads. This was the
humorist's conclusion:
“Never warm a serpent in your bos-
It is far easier to warm it by
mate friend.” Harper's Weekly.
Recklessness.
Singleton—-Wigwag seems frightfully
despondent. He says he doesn’t care
what happens to him. Henpeckke—
The first thing you know that fellow
will be going off and getting married.
—Philadelphia Record.
Bungalow.
The word bungalow is an Anglo-
Indian version of the Hindu bangla,
which primarily means Bengali, or of
Bengal, and is also applied to a
thatched hut.
Fitting Trait.
“young Biffins' infatuation for pret-
4y Miss Gladys is merely puppy love.”
“I suppose that accounts for his dog-
like devotion.”--Baltimore American.
fdleness is the sepulcher of a living
man.—Holland.
The Tale of a Purposely Interrupted
Yachting Cruise.
A few seasons back a well known
hostess chartered a splendid yacht for
August and invited a large number of
her friends for a three weeks’ cruise, At
first all went well, though tbe party
was not specially well assorted, but
after a few days they began to evince
signs of being somewhat bored with
each other's company.
The hostess marked these signs of
incipient boredom. which became more
plainly evident each day. and at last
in despair she took counsel with one
of her guests, an o'd and experienced
“What on earth shall 1 do to amuse
these people?’ she asked.
The yachtsman looked at the serene
| sky and calm, blue water and shook
his head doubtfully.
“A storm would enliven them up a
bit.” he said. “but the weather looks
quite settled. There is only one thing
to be done. You must arrange a break-
down: the engineer will manage that
all right for yon. He has probably
| often done =o before. Then you must
make for the nearest port for repairs
and let your guests have a run ashore.
The Gold Dust Was There.
North America has counted as a gold
producing continent only since the late
forties. But it might well have done
so for about 200 years. According to
the London Chronicle. in the voyage
round the world which began in 1719
the privateer Captain Shelvocke found
in certain California valleys “a rich
black mold which, as you turn it fresh
up to the sun, appears as if inter-
mingled with gold dust. Though we
were a little prejudiced,” he adds.
“against the thought that it could be
possible that this metal should be so
promiscuously and universally mingled
with common earth, yet we endeavor-
ed to cleanse and wash the earth from
some of it, and the more we did the
more it appeared like gold. In order
to be further satisfied I brought away
; some of it, which we lost in our con:
fusion in China.”
Ate Himself Thin.
A terribly emaciated man. about
thirty-five years of age, was eating
four meals a day. including a heavy
breakfast. He was also taking milk
between meals. | induced him to give
ip the milk between meals and to take
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After the action at Sabine Cross-
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was leading the fleet on the way down
the Red river. A rifle fire was direct |
ed upon her decks from the Coufed-
erate skirmishers on the shore. At
one point the river widened out and
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open stretch the man at the wheel. who
bad been replaced once or twice dur-
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rected shot from the bank. The little
vessel turned sidewise to the current
and grounded bow and stern across
a squad of Con-
federate cavalry, led by General Green
and ex-Governor Mouton, seized the
opportunity for a brilliant coup. They
rode out through the shallows, the wa-
ter being up to the shoulders of their
horses. keeping up such a sharp fire
that the decks of the gunboat had to
be abandoned. The cavalry reached
the edge of the channel, and it seemed
for a moment as if they would be able
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You Know
Good Clothes
when you see them.
Then don’t fail to see
the Clothes the Fauble
Stores are Showing
this Season. They are
The Best
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SOLD HONESTLY
You know how much
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Some of them. | expect, will find an ouly a cup of weak tea for breakfast. | to get on board and take possession READ DOWN : READ UP.
excuse for bidding you goodby and At once his weight begun to Increase. | of the vessel. If thelr attempt had ] STATIONS | i
those who remain with you will get It ix now normal. Obviously it was a | heen successful the vessel would have | No IiNo3iNo 3 No No 2
along all right together.” | case pot only of ordinary mental wor- | been sunk where she lay and the chan- , 4 mp. mp.milve. — Ar.p.m.p.m. am.
The hostess took her guest's advice UY. but also of worry and overwork of | nel would have been blocked. The ey 6 55{ 2 20, BELLEFONTE. | 9 10] 5 05| 9 40
and arrived at Toulon a day later, the millions of cell lives within him. | pext vessel in the column was still | T3007 hl 330 em an 5a) 4 ari 21
where nigh twenty of her guests bid He gave the cells and organs a rest | above the point waiting until by the 2 718 3 Sf HECLA PARK. 845! 441/915
' her goodby.—London M. A. I. | and at once there was a storage of en- | movement of the smoke from the 7 33i17 23 2 i » EAE
| ergy and weight. Metropolitan Maga | stacks of the Lexington it could be | 731 728 2 33... Xie
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| And Miss Alcott Was at the Other End _ Mr. Lately Married ut. dearest, 1 | Pt 0)" a ahrapuel killed | | 5.1) 1 18K aan
of the Flirtation. THORNE Ne ag Danse to $0 to the General Green. Discouraged by the 5% 18 iz. 1812 10 343
It seems an awful thing, but here is Syera on Sh oy “ Diy yes, death of their leader, the cavalry turn- | 8 Tol & 02! 3 30. MiLL HALL. “| 8 0s! 3 56! 8 36
the circumstance on Peron} tat Louis oyt Ts = | ed back to the bank. The Yankee | (N.Y. Central & Hudson River R. R.)
M. Aleott, the sainted author of “Little —_ Lae gunners again took possession of the | 1140 8353... Jersey Shore...... 309 7852
Women," once publicly flirted with Ed- tia: Curélousneas deck and the wheelhouse. and, getting | 1215 9 Ram. wM'PORT | kve- 2 3 nx
{ ward VII. The fact comes out in Mrs. “Why didn’t you ABWer my letter | out their stilts (long poles fastened by | 2 69 (Phila, & Readin Ry. . i
| Belle Moses book, “Louisa May Al- out the money you owe me? | swinging bolts to the side of the ves- | 650..... : %
| cott. Dreamer and Worker.” There IS wsnguce ron didn't Inclose a stamp.”— | sel), they succeeded, although still un- | 1910 900. NEW YORK. | 900
a passage in the book which contains gogo, | der a sharp fire, in pushing the bows | = |, ~~ (ViaPhila) Co io
Miss Alcott’s personal account of the Al daa ae | of the vessel around and getting her { Week Days. s
incident. It refers to the time when A Very Great Impediment. ‘again under way.—American Review | WALLACE CARL
| the late king, then Prince of Wales, | 1 gies Seminary Examiner—Mimss of Reviews. Gene endent.
made hig famous visit to this country. jones state the chief impediment to 1 ELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
“1 went to Boston,” Miss Alcott re- | mapriage. Candidate—\When no ous Politeness is good nature regulated Schedule to take effect Mondav. Tan. 6. 1910
lates, “and I saw the Prince of Wales presents himself. Iliegende Blatter. | by good sense.—Sydney Smith. WESTWARD TTEASTWARD
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