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Bellefonte, Pa., May 26, 1911.
THE QUESTION.
Were the whole world good as you—not an atom
better—
Were it just as pure and true,
Just as pure and true as you;
Just as strong in faith and works;
Just as free from crafty quacks;
All extortion, all deceit;
Schemes its neighbor to defeat;
Schemes its neighbors todefraud;
Schemes some culprit to applaud —
Would this world be better?
If this whole world followed you—followed to the
letter—
Would it be a nobler world,
All deceit and falsehood hurled
From it altogether:
Malice, selfishness, and lust
Banished from beneath the crust
Covering human hearts from view—
Tell me, if it follwed you,
Would the world be better?
—Selected
THE CANOPY BED.
“My t-grandfather slept in it," Van
d the caretaker, as he ushered
said; “none
of my sons could sleep in it. Their feet
over.”
an eyed the big bed curiously.
All his life he had heard of it, and now
he had traveled far to see it. It was a
lumbering structure of great width and of
y disproportionate length. And
coverlet and the canopy were of rose-
colored chintz.
“I think I shall fit it,” he said slowly.
Brand’s criticai weighed
smallness, his immaculateness, his dif-
ference from her own great sons.
“Yes," she said, with the open rudeness
of the country-bred; “yes, you ain't very
an Alen winced. Even from the lips
of this uncouth woman the truth struck
hard. But he carried the topic forward
with a light ease of a man of the world.
“My grandfather had the bed sawed to
his own length,” he explained; “did you
ever hear the story?”
“No,” she said; “I ain't been here long.
They kept the house shut up till this
“Well, I'll tell you when I come down,”
and Van Alen apenas jis bag with a
finality that sent the old
“Supper’s ready,” she told him, “when-
ever you are.”
At the supper table the four big sons
towered above Van Alen. They ate with
appetites like giants, and they had big
ways and hearty laughs that seemed to
dwarf their guest into insignificance.
But the i ficance was that of body
only, for Van Alen, fresh from the out-
side world and a good talker at all times,
dominated the table conversationally.
To what he had to say the men listened
rly, and the girl who waited on the
e listened.
She was a vivid personality, with burn-
ished hair, flaming cheeks, eyes like the
sea. Her hands, as she passed the bis-
cuits, were white, and the went
, down delicately to little points. Van Al-
. en, noting these things keenly, knew that
she was out of her place, and wondered
how she came there.
At the end of the meal he told the story
of the Canopy Bed.
“My great grand-father was a little
man, and very sensitive about his height.
In the days of his early manhood he spent
much time in devising ways to deceive
people into thinking him taller. He sur-
rounded himself with big thi had a
big bed made, wore high-heeled boots, and
the crown of his hat was so tall that he
was almost overbalanced.
“But for all that, he was a little man
Ao the sturdy men of his eration,
and if it had not been for the Revolution
I think he would have died railing of fate.
But the war brought him opportunity.
My little great-grandfather fought in it,
and won great honors, and straight back
home he came and had the bed sawed off!
He wanted future generations to see what
a little man could and his will provid-
ed that this house should not be sold, and
that, when his sons and grandsons had
proved themselves worthy of it by some
achievement, they should come here and
sleep. I think he sw red a little when
he wrote that will, and he has put his de-
scendants in an embarrassing position.
We can never sleep in the canopy bed
without taking more upon ourselves than
modesty permits!”
sought those of the girl who waited on
the table. Somehow he felt that she was
the only one who could understand.
She came back at him with a question:
“What have you done?”
“I have written a book,” he told her.
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“But you meant it?"
“In a way, yes. [ have been in here sc
often and have looked at your grandfath-
er’s picture. He was a great little man—
you can tell from his eyes—they seem to
speak at times.
“To you?"
“Yes. Of how he hated to be little, and
how he triumphed when fame came at
ast.
“I hate to be little—"
It was the first time that he had ever
owned it. Even as a tiny he had
brazened it out, boasting of mental
achievements and slurring the weakness
of his stunted body.
“I know," she had shut the kitchen door
behind her, and they were standing in the
hallway alone, “I know. “Every man
must want to be big.”
She was only the girl who had waited
on the table, but as she stood there, look-
ing at him with luminous eyes, he burned
with dull resentment, envying the blond
boy who had sprawled at the head of the
supper table. After all, it was to such a
man as Otto Brand that this woman would
some day turn.
He spoke almost pougmly: “Size isn't
everything.” She fl “How rude
you must think me,” she said; “but I
been so interested in dissecting your
grandfather that I forgot—you—"
Van Alen was moved by an impulse
that he could not control, a primitive im-
pulse that was not in line with his usual
repression.
“] am tempted to make you remember
me,” he said slowly, and after that there
was a startled silence. And then she
Wel Pa assed the oi hi
e e sitting-room on his
way upstairs, he looked in, and spoke to
Otto Brand.
More than any of the other brothers,
Otto typified strength and beauty, but in
his eyes was never a dream, his brain had
mastered nothing. He was playing idly
with the yellow cat, but he stopped at
Van Alen’s Si oi J
great ather and yours were
se oy Suid, With Me cheeks
; “they own the next farm.”
“The Wetherells?" Van Alen inquired.
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cent. re A t
she’s here. But she don't need to ory
“Why not?”
“There's plenty that wants to marry
her round about,” was the boy's self-con-
scious summing up.
With a sense of revolt, Van Alen left
him, and, undressing in the room with the
can bed, hecalled up vaguely the vision
of a little girl who had visited them in
the city. had green eyes and
had
freckles and red hair. Beyond that she
had made no impression on his callow-
Bass. And her name was Mazie Wether-
ell.
a Sfrew lise! i the couch, a
night coming in through
open window, stirred the curtains of the
canopy bed with the light touch of a
ghostly hand.
Then dreams came, aud through them
ran the thread of his hope of seeing
Mazie Wetherell in the morning.
But even with such preparation, her
beauty seemed to come upon him una-
wares whem he saw her at breakfast.
And again at noon, and again at night.
But it was the third day before he saw
her alone.
All that day he had explored the le
and breadth of the family estate, ng
that the population of the little village at
its edge had decreased to a mere handful
of laggards, finding that there was no
lawyer within miles and but one doctor;
gaining 3 final impression that back here
n the hills men would come no more
where once men had
It was almost evening w he follow-
ed a furrowed brown road that led west-
ward. Above the bleak line of the hori-
zon the sun hung, a red gold disk. There
were other reds, too, along the way—the
sumac flaming scarlet agninst the gray
fence-rails; the sweetbrier, crimson-spot-
ted with berries; the creeper, clinging
with ruddy fingers to dead tree-trunks;
the maple leaves rosy with first frosts.
And into this vividness came the
who had waited on the table, and
flaming cheeks and cophey hair seemed
to challenge the glow of the autumn land-
She ;
would have passed him with a nod,
but he stopped her.
“You must not run away, Mazie Weth-
erell,” he said; “you to treat me
better than that when you were a little
“I remember your lovely manners.”
“l had to have nice manners. Itis
“And pretty women?” he asked, with
his eyes on the color that came and
“I was a Itttle fellow "
his comment; “I am a strong little fellow
now.”
She turned on him reproachful eyes.
do always harp on it?” she
“Why you
On what? v
our size. You twist everything, turn
e so that we come back to it.”
He to answer lightly, but his voice
it is because in your
The Japanese Long-tailed Rooster. birds are robust. resist the heat
— Vil ate SO yt Some of
From the common barnyard fowl! the them live to the age of nine years. They
Japanese have evolved a rooster with tail are very tame and affectionate, not to
feathers three long. The tails of say timid. The hens of this improved
these fafe products of stisuce and pa. | yace are pretty fowl, though not to
tience have created d 2 Genta. | be compared with thei mate. They lay
ry of effort. In prize birds often | about eggs a year.
Measule 25 much as five and even six em——
The birds are kept in leng, narrow
cages darkened to prevent the bird from important to Mothers.
making to look downward. | msamise carefully every bottle of CASTORIA,
When the -feathers have grown tO | g safe and sure remedy for infants and children,
reach the bottom a bamboo perch is set | gad see that it
back in the cage and bent so as to form
an arc. Thus set, the perch permits the | Bearsthe
feathers to hang free. The hapless curi- | Signstare of yp
{7 Jr. 2 tow out 1a Yap YR ONE 30 YUM ge Dingl
up
straight. He is not permitted to leave 90 Bd You
38s Sage ere than, once in two days.
Apu ge confinamant of betes wen. SS .
ty-four orty-eight hours, keeper | ——When a man about one
takes him out and permits him to walk | thing, he is usually a lithe off about
for one-half hour. While the bird walks | everything else. :
a man the long tail jeathars th ————— ———
prevent them being worn -
ed. Once or twice during the month the Machinery, Etc,
bird is washed carefully with warm water
and exposed to the air and sun to dry.
When a bird is to travel, it is put into a
Medical.
Signals of Distress
BELLEFONTE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW HOW
TO READ AND HEED THEM.
Passages are frequent, scanty, painful.
Absolutely
may want a Sprayer or Spray
WAGON AND MACHINE
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JOHN G. DUBBS,
Bellefon
Sick kidneys give many signals of dis- | 215-4t te, Pa.
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The secretions are dark, contain a sedi- EE —
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Backache is constant day and night,
Headaches and dizzy spells are fre-
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The weakened kidneys need quick help.
Don't delay! Use a special kidney rem-
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Doan'’s Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys,
backache and urinary disorders.
Bellefonte evidence proves this state-
ment.
Mrs. B. N. Dietrich, 319 E. Bishop St.,
Bellefonte, Pa., says: “I know that Doan’s
Kidney Pills are a good remedy for kid-
ney disorders and I do not heisiate one
moment in confirming the public state-
ment I gave in their praise in Oct. 1907. A
member of my family complained a great
deal of backache and headaches and I
heard so much about Doan’s Kidney Pills
that I procured a supply at Green's Phar-
macy Co. Their use effected a complete
cure and also strengthened my kidneys.
The benefit received has been permanent
and I have thus been convinced that
Doan’s Kidney Pills live up to representa-
tions.”
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AT THE
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Rs Pe al
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For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents.
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sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—and take
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Good Health
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cheap or inferior article in entire
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ARCHIBALD ALLISON,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa. 4
. 56-14-1v.
A Set of Harness in Nickle or Imi-
tation Rubber, at.......... $12.85
This harness is equal to any $15 set on the
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The “FORD” AUTOMOBILE
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and the prices commend it
Read the list.
. It’s smooth-running motor,
am
tale. Every car sold gle
for itself
to would-be purchasers:
ANOTHER CARLOAD
DUE MAY 30th.
W. W. KeicHLINE & Co.,
Agent Centre County Branch
Bellefonte, Pa.
§6-21-¢f
Yeagers Shoe Store
Are Children
Worth
Bringing Up?
It can’t be done without
RUBBERS.
This is what appeared in a recent
number of the American Journal ot
Health:
The family doctor should din it into
the mother's head all the time, that
the health of their children lies in the
feet. Keep the feet dry. Never let
them get wet. No child should be al-
lowed to go out in snow or rain, or
when walking is wet, without Rubbers.
REMEMBER, Yeager's Rubbers are
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cheaper than the other fellows.
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
Dry Goods. Dry Goods.
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