Bellefonte,
Pa., July 21, 1911.
THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.
An Incident That Marked His Spirit
and Independence.
In his “Glimpses of the Confederate
Army” In the American Review of Re-
views Randolph H. McKim writes:
“It seems to me as 1 look back that
one of the things which stood out
strongly in the Confederate army was
the independence and the initiative of
the individual soldier. It would have
been a better army in the field if it had
been welded together by a stricter dis-
cipline, but this defect was largely
atoned for by the strong individuality
of the units in the column, It was not
easy to demoralize a body composed of
men who thought and acted in a spirit
of independence in battle.
“As an illustration of the spirit of
the private soldier I recall an incident
to this effect. Major General Gordon
had organized a strong column to make
a night attack on Grant's lines at Pe-
tersburg. When he was ready to move
and the order to advance was given a
Big Texan stepped out of the ranks
and said:
“ ‘General Gordon, this column can’t
move before 1 a. m. The men have a
truce with the Yanks, and it ain't up
till 1 o'clock.’
“The column did not move till that
hour. The private in the ranks had
taken command, and the major general
recognized his authority.”
PONGEES HARD TO MATCH.
Because Each Piece Is Made From
One Lot of Raw Silk.
Pongee silk is the undyed silk of
silkworms fed on the leaves of scrub
oak chiefiy, though other trees are
used in some portions of the pongee
district. The silk is produced almost
exclusively in Shantung province and
portions of north China immediately
adjacent,
The real pongee cloth, made of this
uncolored specially produced silk, is
distinct from the pongees of com-
merce made in all colors from other
silk. Each piece of cloth is made
from a particular lot of silk, and
therefore each piece varies from all
other pieces in exact quality, weight
and fineness and In a slight degree in
color and other qualities.
There are certain general grades of
cloth, certain varieties of weave, cer-
tain popular weights, ete., but women
shopping in Chinese pongees find it
very difficult to match pieces, and on
the face of things it is practically Im.
possible to furnish any great number
of pieces of an certain weight, grade
and quality such as a modern clothing
manufacturing establishment would
require to standardize a certain line of
garments from that particular cloth.—
New York Sun.
Located His Station.
There was an absentminded bishop
in western Ontario, who was constant-
ly finding himself in awkward situa-
tions, on account of his extreme ab-
straction. On a certain occasion he
was traveling from London in a nerth-
erly direction and found when the
conductor approached him that he had
forgotten where he was to go. The
conductor suggested that he telegraph
from the next station and find out his
destination. It was before the days of
long distance telephones, and the
bishop telegraphed to his wife from
the first station, “Where was I go-
ing?’ to be answered at the following
station. The answer came, “Exeter:
be sure to get off there.” The bishop
then beamed at the anxious conductor
and remarked placidly: “These little
difficulties always turn out satisfac-
torily."”—Argonaut.
German Pedigree Book.
There is in Germany what is known
as the “German Pedigree Book,” or
“Deutsches Geschlechterbuch.” The
purpose of the pedigree book, accord-
ing to a Berlin correspondent, is to
record the uncestry not of nobles,
but of bourgeois persons who can
prove that they are of genuine middle
class or working class ancestry and
have no noble blood in their veins.
The editor explains in his preface that,
while many German nobles “out of
court and material considerations have
not kept their biood pure. there are
many good business class families
which have managed to do so." By
thus encouraging. the proper pride of
such families the pedigree book is do-
ing much to eradicate the traditional
envy of the nobles
it Depends on the Dog.
Two Broadway business men met
before a bar. They were good friends.
“I'm worried a little,” said one.
“My chauffeur ran over a dog today
and killed it.”
“Oh, I wouldn't worry about a little
thing like that,” said the other. “The
dog probably got in the way. These
dogs are a pest.”
“But it was your dog.”
“What!” came from the second.
“My dog? I'm sorry. but that will
cost you $100. That chauffeur of
yours is too careless. 1 insist on the
hundred, understand.” —New York Tel-
egraph.
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Cross Purposes.
“Can you tell me something about
the game laws around here?’ asked
the stranger in Crimson Gulch.
“Well,” replied Three Fingered Sam,
“I could, but my advice to you would
be if you don't know the rules of a
game don't try to play it.”-—Washing-
ton Star.
DEEP SEA DIVERS.
vo vars torr, tod
PERILS THEY HAVE TO FACE
The Awful Pressure of Water and Alr
That May Bury or Burst Them—The
Helmet Telephone a Wonderful Aid
In Work and In Times of Danger.
It is surprising to wen" how many
uses there are for divers. The navy,
of course, employs many to set sib.
marine mines and torpedoes and to at-
tend to Investigations of the condition
of ships’ bottoms, Hridze construction
companies use them, nx do thie who
bulld dams, waterworks nil reser. |
voirs. Waterworks In large cities Keep
a diver on their staff coustnuy. |
Wrecking companies need their serv. |
ices, and the profession of underriver |
tunneling makes many demands on the |
time and skill of the man in armor. |
Since Smeaton In 1779 designed a
pump to supply air to the diving bell
little real improvement in the art has |
been made. save in derail of helmet !
and clothes, until the invention of the
telephone. The greatest advance ever
made In the art, divers wil! tell you, is
the combination of the telephone with
the diving sult. Refore its advent div-
ers had to depend entirely upon pulls
on the life line for communication
with the surface and upon signs to
each other when under water if two
wished to communicate Today the
modern diving helmet ix equipped with
a telephone. and the diver ean not only
hear what i= said to him from the sur-
face, advise those In charge of his
pump as to whether the alr I= “com.
ing right" or not. but he ean communi.
cate to a brother diver and hear the
fostructions sent to him frown the sur-
face, all of which facilities are of great
assistance In the work.
At first thought it may not seem 80
difficult a thing, this going down under
water and breathing air sent in from
a pump by a tube. Hut the physical
drawbacks to the work are enormous.
For every ten feet a diver descends he
sustains an additionn! pressure of four
and a half pounds over every square
inch of his body. What this means
may be better understood shen con-
sidering the greatest depth ever made
by a diver—204 feet. His body at that
depth sustained a pressure of eighty-
eight and a balf pounds to the square
inch over and above the fifteen pounds
always sustained when in the air,
Divers must dexcend very slowly,
swallowing as they go: otherwise they
may bleed at the nose and ears and
even lose consciousness. And they
must ascend even more slowly than
they descend. particularly when com-
ing from great depths; otherwise they
may literally burst from internal air
pressure. At the least, teo sudden a
rise may cause an attack of that ter.
rible disease known to tunnel workers
called caisson disease, or the bends, in
which air gets into the tissues under
pressure and causes the most extreme
torture.
The diver. getting ready to descend.
clothes himself in very heavy under
wear of guernsey or flannel, the draw-
ers well secured to prevent slipping.
and adds a pair of heavy woolen socks
If the water be cold two such suits
may be worn. If the depth to be ne-
gotiated is great cotton soaked with
oll is put in the ears or a beavy woolen
cap pulled down over them. Shoulder
pads, if worn to take the sveight off
the helmet. are pext tied on, after
which the diver wriggles into his
heavy suit of rubber and canvas. Next
come the inner collar and the breast-
plate, which are secured with clamps
to the rubber dress. the utmost care
being taken in this operation not to
tear or pinch the rubber. Finally the
shoes are fitted on and the rubber
gloves clamped to rings in the sleeves.
The helmet is the last to go on, and
never before the valves and telephone
have been tested. The nrtendants start
to pump as the helmet is clamped
home. The helmet is attached to the
pump with a rubber tube. which is
canvas and wire protected. No diver
descends, after the helmet is put on,
until he has tested the outfit and found
that his air supply is sufficient and
the pump working properly.
He is supplied with a life line, with
which be can signal should his tele-
phone get out of order and by which
he may be drawn to the surface should
he become helpless for any reason. He
must take great care when walking
about on the bottom not to foul his
life line or his air tube and for this
reason must always retrace his steps
exactly to his starting point if he has
gone into a wreck or about any ob
structions. For the same reason two
divers working together must be care-
ful not to cross each other's path.
Sometimes the life line may become
so entangled in wreckage that it must
be cut, and then there is danger of the
diver not finding hi~ way back to his
boat or float, especinlly if the bottom
1s muddy and fouls the “seeing.” But
the greatest danger of all. of course, is
that the tube be cut or the diver faint
In either case he Is in desperate
straits. If the man handling the life
line “feels” anything wrong he will
haul the diver up willy nilly and re-
gardless of the severe bleeding at nose
and ears which will result from too
rapid a rise to the surface. But if the
diver be inside a wreck or if his life
line gets tangled in wreckage such
hauling would do no good. It is in sit-
uations lke these that the slender con-
necting link of telephone wire means
80 much to the men who risk thelr
lives far beneath the surface of the
water. —Sclentific American.
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hard march. Before his outposts and
sentinels could he driven In his small
band was aroused, mounted, formed in
battle line—all in pitchy blackness—
the enemy By daylight the Russians
and Poles, who had thought to eat
him up. were virtually annihilated. —
New York Press.
Dr. Johnson's Revenge.
Tom Osborne, the bookseller, was
one of “that mercantile rugged race to
which the delicacy of the poet is some
times exposed.”
Osborne, irritated by what he
| thought ap unnecessary delay on the
| part of Johnson, went one day Into the
| room where Johnson was sitting and
| abused bim in the most Ilberal man-
| mer. Johnson beard bim some time un-
moved. but at Inst, losing all patience.
be seized n huge follo and. aiming a
! blow at the bookseller's head. succeed-
{ed in sending him sprawling to the
| floor Osborne alarmed the family by
| his cries. but Johnson, placing his foot
| on his breast. would not let him stir
| until he bad exposed bim in that situa-
| tion and then left him with this tri
| umphant expression: “Lie there, thou
| son of dullness, ignorance and obscur-
| ity.”—From Kearsiey's “Anecdotes.”
| No Room For Him.
Several relics of exceptional value
and of nnusual interest to archaeolo-
gists were discovered in a smal! town
near Nuremberg, and as soon as the
news reached him the director of the
Nuremberg Historicai museum went
to the village and introduced himself
to the mayor, saying:
“I am in charge of the museum at
| Nuremberg, and I'd like to"—
| “You're too late, my good sir,” in-
| terrupted the mayor. “We've already
got here several merry-go-rounds, a
bearded woman, a theatrical company
‘ composed of apes, a troupe of trained
! dogs and a band of Hungarian musi-
(clans, so you can readily see that
‘we've got no room for your museum.”
And with these words he nodded to
the director und went away.
Greenland’s Exclusiveness.
Greenland. with its icy mountains, is
very exclusive, and, so far from inviting
visitors, it even wiakes it inconvenient
| for tourists to land on the little bit of
| occasionally green land that surrounds
i its great heart of perpetual ive Per
| mission must be bad from Denmark.
| Denmark is, indeed. very careful and
| conservative in the management of
| Greenland affairs ‘The trade there is |
| monopolized Ly the state, and only
‘ government vessels are weicomed to
| Greenland waters. ‘I'his is 10 protect
| the Greenlanders from unscrupulous
‘merchants. The state also tixes both
| the price they shall pay for food and
| the price they shall sell at
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| Saves Time For His Wife.
They were discussing their husbands,
neither of whom was distinguished for
his domesticity.
“My husband amuses me,” said the
hostess, “by the excuses he has for
being detained downtown of evenings. '
Sometimes 1 can almost bear his brain
working out an excuse ar he tiptoes |
up the stairs.”
“My husband,” said the caller, “is |
different. He is a very systematic |
man, you know, and some time ago he |
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wrote out a list of various excuses
and numbered them. Now, when he
comes in he just calls up the stairs,
‘No. 4 or ‘No. 20, or whatever the
number may be.’—Judge.
Needs no boosting.
Read the list.
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Runabout, fully equipped
cured through the stomach. * ry"
is a specific for diseases of the organs of
digestion and nutrition.
the stomach, heals weak lungs, purifies
the blood.
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Medical.
Do it Now
BELLEFONTE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT WAIT
UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE.
The appalling death-rate from kidney
disease is due in most cases to the fact
that the little kidney troubles are usually
neglected until they become serious. The
slight symptoms give place to chronic dis-
orders and the sufferer goes gradually
into the grasp of diabetes, dropsy,
Eright'e disease, gravel or some other
serious form of kidney complaint.
If you suffer from backache, headache,
dizzy spells; if the kidney secretions are
irregular of passage and unnatural in ap-
pearance, do not delay. Help the kidneys
at once.
Doan's Kidney Pills are especially for
kidney disorders—they cure where others
fail. Over one hundred thousand peo-
ple have recommended them. Here's
a case at home:
Mrs. John Fisher, 51 S. Water Street.,
Bellefonte, Pa., says: “I can recommend
Doan’s Kidney Pills just as highly today
as I did three years ago, I gave a public
statement in their favor. A member of
my family procured Doan's Kidney Pills
from Green's Pharmacy Co. and received
prompt and permanent relief through
their use from an attack of kidney com-
plaint. I have also taken Doan's Kidney
Pills for backache and pains through my
kidneys and they have always had
the desired effect. You are welcome to
publish this statement.”
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. 56-28
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New Departure
in Business
Surely, you must think well of
any plan that will save you some
wo Bi 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
rd { the harness
accompany order. cut of
oii be mailed upon request.
Address all communications to
E. N. SCHOFIELD,
Mail Order Dept.,
Bellefonte Pa.
to which he will cheerfully give his prompt
attention.
GUARANTEE—The above goods are as rep-
resented or money refunded.
James Schofield,
4 Spring Street 55.32 Bellefonte, Pa
Pl TAT LAT LAV BT LTH TAL
Aut-mohiles.
The “FORD” AUTOMOBILE
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:
Touring Car, fully equipped, like above picture $ 780.00
T Body, fully pps, plug
725.00
680.00
W. W. KEicHLINE & Co.,
Agent Centre County Branch
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Bellefonte, Pg
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Shoes.
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Yeagers Shoe Store
Fitzezy
The
Ladies’ Shoe
that
Cures Corns.
Sold only at
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building. KELLEFONTE. Pa
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.
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LYON & COMPANY,
Allegheny St. 47:12 Belivfonte, Pa.