} “Bellefonte, Pa., July 14, 1911. — WOMEN ALWAYS THE VICTIM in Colonial Days Ducking Stools Were Common In Maryland. In Virginia the Penalty Was Often Inflicted, and Georgia Sinned as Late as 1819, Nowadays if 8 woman forms the habits of talking 100 loud and too long or Insists upon saying unpleasant things in wrong places and at wrong seasons there are several things which may happen to her. If she is a person of some social standing her busband may get u divorce, or if she belongs in one of the lower strata he may leave her without that little formality. If she makes life too unbearable for the neighbors she may possibly be ar- rested and fined. If she lives in Eng- land and interrupts the proceedings of parliameni. calls names, chases digni- taries to cover whenever they show themselves in public and knocks off policemen's helmets she is called a suf- fragette and sometimes imprisoned. But even the most “obstinately oppro- brious and virulent woman,” to quote the stately Addison, may be confident that she will escape the punishment meted out to her sister of old. What- ever happens, she won't be sentenced to the ducking stool. In many ways modern life is tame and lacking in dramatic incident for a self assertive lady, and even the English suffragettes complain that they are not taken se- rlously enough. No such claim could have been made in the past, say between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, when far more rigid views prevailed on the sub- ject of feminine self repression. In those days inagistrates were unani- mous in the conviction that “meekness is ye chojsest orniment for a woman,” and it was held a crime to speak “dis- cornfully” of those in anthority, civil or ecclesiastical. A woman must not even indulge in too great freedom of speech in the privacy of her own home and neighborhood. Sometimes she did, and then she was attended to in a sim- ple yet spectacular manner. She was bound securely to a stout chair firmly fixed to the end of a long beam, arranged to work up and down on the principle of the seesaw, on the edge of a river or pond. On the bank at the other end a man gorked the contrivance by means of a strong chain, and she was given a ducking. which lasted until justice was satis fied or reform was promised, the popu- lace of course gathering in large vam bers to assist at the function In England the practice was so gen- eral that each town had its ducking pond conveniently located where petty offenders of various kinds were disci plined. The pond for the western part of London was what is now a portion of Trafalgar square, Charing Cross Many of the old ducking stools are still fu existence as curiosities. In the days of their activity they were kept in the church porches, where they doubtless pointed a moral us to the haughty spirit which goeth before n fall. The first colonists brought the inst: tution to this country, although it nev- er flourished in New England In fact, there are no authentic records of the actual use of the ducking stool in these colonies, although a number of women were sentenced to be so pun- ished They had. however, other meth- ods of treatment for tadies of a shrew- ish disposition, one of these being the wearing of a cleft stick upou the tongue. In the central and southern colonies the custom was quite popular In the seventeenth century ducking stools were in every connty in Maryland, and in 1775 one was placed at the conflu ence of the Ohio and Monongahela riv- ers. In Virginia the penalty was often employed. and in 1534 & Thomas Hart- Iy of that colony wrote, it is said, to Governor Endicon of Massachusetts, giving a detailed account of a ducking administered to “one Betsey, wife of John Tucker. who by violence of her tongue had made his home and ye neighborhood uncomfortable.” After describing the machine he adds: “Ye rope was slackened by ye officer, and ye woman was allowed to go down under ye water for ye space of half a minute. Betsey had a stout stomach and would not yield until she had al- lowed herself to be ducked five several) times” After she promised to “sin no more” Betsey was untied and allowed to “walk home in her wetted clothes, a hopefully penitent woman.” The ducking stool prevailed longer in America than In England. In the #ld country it does not seem to have been used iater than 1809, but in Geor- gla women were ducked for scolding as late as 1819. It is interesting to note that in 1824 a woman in Phila- delphia was sentenced to be ducked, but the decree was not carried out, as it was “deemed obsolete and contrary to the spirit of the times.” A writer on colonial customs states that one of the last indictments for ducking in this country was that of Mrs. Anne Royall in Washington, a lobbyist, who “became so abusive to copgressmen that she was indicted as a common scold before Judge Wiliam Cranch and was sentenced by him to be @uok- ed in the Potomac. She was, howev- er, not subjected to the ducking indig- nity, but was relensed with a fine."— Bellman. fot Gelden. The power of speech 1s a gift vouch- safed to sdone, and the effect of it is to sender silence, perhaps the grandest thing In ail the world, a bore to hin. — Puck. time.—Rabelais. The Treatment In Fever Cases Till Quinine Wrought a Change. In 1832, when the French were cos ducting a campaign of conquest in Al geria, the mortality among the troops | and colonists there was France was being continually called upon for fresh levies of men and youths to supply this terrible loss, chiefly from fever incidental to the climate. At that time the practice of bleeding still prevailed. “Bleed them till they are white” was the injunction which Broussais, the head physician of the French, gave to his followers when the condition of the soldiers was re- ported to him, At Bone in one year out of an effec- tive force of 5,600 men, 1,100 died of fliness in the hospital. Most of them had been “bled to the white.” At this time the effects of sulphate of quinine were known, but few phy- siclans ventured to employ it. One, Maillot, had interested himself in the new remedy and, going to Bone in the medical service of the government, he resolved to see If it would not reduce the frightful mortality, which was one to every three and one-balf men who entered the hospital. At first he employed the quinine merely as an adjunct to the bleeding. He soon found that bieeding was kill- ing the men and that quinine was sav- ing them. Little by little he left off bleeding, to the great scandal of the medical profession. Exactly in proportion as the bleeding ceased the deaths in the hospital de- creased. In two years the deaths fell off from ove In three and a half of all who entered the hospital to one In <wenty and finally to ope in forty-six. Maillot. quite naturally enough, be- eame an earnest opponent of bleeding, but he was so actively resisted and so ceaselessly vilified that he became em- bittered toward his colleagues. Nearly thirty years passed before Maillot saw the complete triumph of his ideas. Doctors continued to bleed their patients heartily for all manner of ills. But In 1860 Maillot was made commander of the Legion of Honor and chief of the medical staff of the French army. and bis Influence, with others, in bringing about a virtual revolution in the practice of medicine was fully recognized.—Harper's Weekly. Missed a Train That Was a Day Late. When the Switz City division of the Illinois Central was built it was known as the Indiana and Illinols Southern. It was a narrow gauge road; the road- bed was bad, the engines and ears were built on a miniature scale, and, while there was a schedule, had a train been on time the fret would have been regarded as an wiracle. The round was known as the “Try Weakly.” On one occasion Jostah MeConnell desired to go to Switz City from Sullivan, but wissed the train by a minute or two. The clock at the station showed that the train had left Sullivan five min- utes ahend of time. and McConnell sued the railroad company for $5,000 damages On a trial of the case it was proved beyond a doubt that the tran McConnell missed should have gone the day before and was really twenty three hours and fifty-tive minutes late, Lettres de Cachet. Lettres de cachet was the name giv- en in France to warrants sealed with the king’s seal ordering persops to be thrown Into prison or exiled. The first came into use about 1670 and shortly became one of the popular ter- oes of France. It is said that no less than 9,000 lettres de cachet were is- sted during the reign of Louis XIV. and 80,000 during the reign of Louis XV. In many causes these terrible doc- uments were secretly sold and used! as a source of illicit revenue. They were frequently signed in blank, and the holder of one of these royal ter- | rors could write in the name of any person against whom he happened to have a grudge. The national assem- bly abolished this iniquitous privilege | of Issuing lettres de cachet on Nov. 1, | 1789. i Juvenile Logic. | Little Mabel's mother was expecting | Mabel's auntie on a visit Just as she was almost due to arrive a telegram came, which read: “Missed train. | Will start at same time tomorrow.” Mabel hurried home from school, ex- pecting te greet her auntie, instead of which she was shown the telegram. She read it through carefully and la- | boriously, and then she remarked: “How silly of auntie, mamma!" “Why. dear?" inquired her mother. “Well, don't you see that if she starts at the same time tomorrow she will miss the train again.”-—Illustrat- ed Bits. Absurd. Bootmaker (who has a deal of trouble with his customenr)—I think, sir, if you were to cut your corns [ could more easily find you a pair. Choleric ou | Gentleman—Cut my corns, sir! 1 ask you to fit me a pair of boots to my feet, sir! ['m not going to plane my feet down to fit your boots!-—London Telegraph. Very Diplomatic. “You say De Skill plays an &leal game of golf? “Yes. He plays well enongh to make ft interesting for an influential friend without actually béating him.”—New York Tejpgram. Humorist In Straits. Please belp mg to recover my child. Lady~Is sour child lost? Beggar—No, mum, but his clothes are worn ent. —Noston Transcrips Nothing is so Ger sand 50 precious as | that little way.— Puck. GAMBLED FOR A GIRL. Prince Lucien Bonaparte Won a Bride From His Brother Pierre. it is said that the two brothers, Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte and Prince Pierre. in their early youth when shooting mouflons in the moun- tains in Corsica, came across a beau- tiful peasant girl with whom they both fell violently in love. Whe she was and whether she favor- ed both brothers or neither I cannot tell. Be that as it may, they quar- reled. Les preuxs chevaliers of old would no doubt in similar occurrence have had recourse to lance and sword. The Corsican princes decided to play for their belle n gnme of cards. They went to the nearest inn and wrote and signed un paper agreeing that which- ever won the game should marry the: jady fair. Prince Lucien won and, faithful! to his word, a short time after married ber. She never left the island as far as 1 know. Prince Lucien lived in England, securing to her a comfortable income, which she received till her death, some- where about the spring of 1801.—From the Princess Murat's Memoirs. — a ——— Flower Perfumes. A garden full of flowers is more fra- grant when shadowed by a cloud than when bathed in sunshine; at least that is the conclusion to which experiments of a French scientist lend. He asserts that it is light and not. as commonly believed. oxygen that exerts the great- est influence In desortying odors. Ac- cording to the same authority, the in- tensity of the perfume given off by a flower depends upon the relation be- tween the pressure of water in the cells of the plant, which tends to drive out the essential oils thar cuuse the odor, and the action of the sunlight, which tends to diminish water pres- sure In the cells, Sprinkling the Rant increases the turgescence and as a consequence an more copious production of perfume. At night the air round a flower bed is heavy with odors, be- eause then thelr emanation is not op- posed by the sunlight. — New York Tribune. Killing One Fly. Every fly begins as an egg deposited in some kind of organic filth. It hatches into a tiny maggot within a few hours, begins to feed and grow. completes its growth and comes out as a perfect fly in possibly ten days. It then requires at least fourteen days to mature its first batch of eggs. and It may live to mature and deposit at least six layings, of from 120 to 130 eggs each. This means that in killing one fly we may be preventing the batching of nearly a thousand ¢:hers.—Youth's Companion. i mp—————— Two Kincs of Curiosity. Philanthropic Visitor (to jailbirdy— My friend. may 1 ask what it was that brought you here? Jailbird—The very same thing that brought you here —the desire to poke my nose into other people's business. only | used gener ally to go in by way of the basement window.— Exchange. Mean, Miss Mugley—1 always try to retire before midnight. | don't like to miss my beauty sleep. Miss Pepprey—You really should try harder. You cor tainly don't get enough of ii. Two Sides. Willls— Why don’t you go to church? Gillis—Too far. Why doa’t you goi | Willis— We live next door to one, and | hate to get all dressed up just to go Soulless Contributors. “The congregation numbered thirty- two souls this morninz.” remarked the parson “Thirty souls,” corrected the deacon. “We got two plugged nickels in the collection box." —-Kansas City Journal. A rlousehold Jewel. “1s your new maid competent? “Very. She can even fool agents and peddlers icto believing that she's mis- tress of the house.”—Detroit Free ’ 1 CPA AVA TAY ATVATATAN Sally i I w women. ulceration and inflammation, and cures female weakness. When the local health eral health at once. Mcedical. I Signals of Distress TO READ AND HEED THEM. Sick kidneys give many signals of dis- tress. The secretions are dark, contain a sedi- ment, Passages are frequent, scanty, painful. Backache is constant day and night, Headaches and dizzy spells are fre- quent. The weakened kidneys need quick help. Don't delay! Use a special kidney rem. edy. 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 [ do not heisiate one moment in confirming the public state- ment I gave in their praise in Oct. 1907. A GC AY AT ANLT AVAVATLVATATAVAVAVAVAYATATa 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.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's—and take no other. 56-21 . Saddlery. -n ASD BTA » New Departure in Business Surely, you must think well of any plan that will save you some dollars on a set of Single Harness. Now it is up to you to make us make good. SCHOFIELD'S MAIL. ORDER DEPT. Why send your money away when you can buy at home goods better in quality at less money, with a guarantee to be as represented or money refunded and all freight charges prepaid. A Set of Harness in Nickle or Imi- tation Rubber, at.......... $12.85 ‘This harness is equal to any $15 set on the market. Genuine Rubber............ $14.85 which has no equal for less than $17. To insure prompt shipment money should accompany order. cut of the harness will be mailed upon request. Address all communications to E. N. SCHOFIELD, Mai! Order Dept., Bellefonte Pa. to which he will cheerfully give his prompt attention. LAC ANT AT LT BV LV OC LT LT LV SV Ma WAS VATA TaN GUARANTEE—The above goods are as rep- resented or money refunded. James Schofield, Spring Street ~~ 5532 Bellefonte, Pa Autcmaobiies. The “FORD” AUTOMOBILE Needs no boosting. It’s smooth-running motor, ample power and durability tells the tale. Every car sold helps to sell others. It is the one car that speaks for itself and the prices commend it to would-be purchasers: Read the list. Touring Car, fully Sqstoped, hike above picture $ 780 Torpedo Body, fully equip Runabout, fully equipped .00 . 7725.00 680.00 W. W. KeicHLINE & Co. Agent Centre County Branch 21 -tf.56 Bellefonte, Pa. Shoes. Sho es. Stop the Leaks. If a ship springs a leak it would be a foolish captain who would crowd on sail and try to run away srom the leak. The first thing to do is to stop the leak, or the very press of canvass increases the dan- ger. Look at the drains which affect some women in the same light as the leak. It is vio use to op stimulants and tonics, as if they w carry you away from the effects of that leakage of vitali- ty. The first thing to do is to stop the unhealthy drain, which is the | what Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription | does. It stops the drains which weaken | It regulates the periods, heals | of the womanly organs is established, { women find an improvement in their gen- | There is no need’ for tonics or stimulants. There is no | more nervousness. The whole body is built up into sound health. “Favorite | | Prescription” makes weak women strong, ' and sick women well. i BELLEFONTE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW HOW | Yeagers Shoe Store Fitzezy The Ladies’ Shoe that Cures Corns. Sold only at Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Buildin. HELLEFONTE, Fa me a= AST ASTM AT SESE IES LYON & CO. Clearance Sale still going on at Our Store. ——————- ——— We will continue our Clearance Sale of all Summer Goods. They must be sold now and the low prices will help to sell them. A few things of the many we mention that will mean a big saving to you. Washable Dress Goods in all prices and this season's styles. Silk Foulards, Plain Washable Silk, Figured Stripe Washable Silk, all reduced. Long Gloves in Silk, Lisle and Cotton, all reduced. Hosiery, Summer Underwear, in Ribbed and Muslin, all reduced. Shoes, men’s and women's Shoes for Summer, all at reduced prices. Ladies’ and Children’s Low Shoes at a big reduction. We will not quote any prices. Give us a chance to show you the goods and the prices we give will make quick selling. I —— LYON & COMERANY, Allegheny St. 4712 Bellefonte, Pa. 3 Seségaeard LY —h ri wh. ——a wb awe
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