HE . Beworaliiddan Bellefonte, Pa, August 1, 1911. MUST CARRY Y GOOD WATCHES Railroad Men Are Gomptlivd te Use Accurate Timepieces. It may be news to many that the watch of the railroad man is as nec essary in modern railroading as the air brake. Without accurate time- keeping there would probably be more accidents thon if there were no air brakes. length; the watch of the conductor on the side tracked train must agree with the watch of the conductor on the ex- press to which he had to give way; each station master along the road checks the time of every train that stops or flies past. In order that there may be agree- ment among all these railroad men standard. The railroad man is there- fore compelled to buy not simply an ordinary watch of reasonable but a particularly good watch, a piece which is adjusted to heat, and at least three positions. railroad watch. for a lever set watch is preferred to the pendant set watch because there is just the chance that the stem of the pendant set may not be pushed back after setting through an oversight. On one great line about 5,000 watches, worth on an average of $25 apiece (a low average). are used. If we take into consideration the number of watches that are used on other roads throughout the country it is evident that the value must run up into hundreds of thousands of dollars. In order that the watch may be up to a regular standard it must be inspected regularly. There is not only a general time inspector on most rail roads, but a staff of local inspectors who are placed along the road at con- venient points and to whom the men may resort when they wish to com- pare their time with the standard time at that place. Once every two weeks the railroad man Submits his watch to such an inspector. usually a jeweler or watchmaker by profession. The inspector gives his expert opin- fon on the condition of the timepiece. If it needs cleaning he says so and does it; If it is fast or slow he regu- lates it. and uot until it is running with sufficient accuracy is it allowed to escape from his care. A watch's record is kept as if it were a thief. So far as repairing goes. the railroad man is under no compulsion. He need not hand over his watch to any particular watchmaker or inspector for repair, but he can give it to any watchmaker in whom he has confidence. It must, however, be submitted to the in- spector before it can be used in actual service. That no favoritism is shown in the matter of watches is evident in the fact that no less than eight dif- ferent manufacturers supply railroad watches.—Scientific American. Making the Chances Even. In days when tavern brawls in Eng- land were frequent and swords were out on the slightest provocation com- mon fairness demanded that the biades of chance combatants should be of equal length. In a sudden affray there would be no thought of measur- ing swords, so the authorities took the matter into their own hands at the gates of the city of London, where every gallant wax liable to be chal- lenged, and if the public official found any blade beyond thirty-six inches the smith stood by to snap off the steel to the required length. In Queen Eliza- beth's reign this was the common practice. A Sixtus V. Salad. When Pope Sixtus V. was an ob- scure monk he had a great friend in a certain lawyer who sank steadily into poverty while the monk rose to the papacy. The poor lawyer journeyed to Rome to seek aid from his cold friend, the pope, but he fell sick and told his doctor to let the pope know. of his sad state. *“! will send him a salad.” said Sixtus and duly dispatch- ed a basket of lettuce to the invalid. When the lettuce was examined mon- ey was found in the hearts: hence the Italian proverb of a man in need of money, “He wants one of Sixtus V.'s salads.” Jam For Breakfast. People who like to eat pastry or other irregular dishes for breakfast should be consoled to learn that no less a man than Herbert Spencer ate strawberry jam at his ®orning meal He did it to avoid monotony. believing that digestion was best served by keeping the stomach entertained with variety. He is said to have told of a man who went into a decline from a loo steady diet of mutton chops. A Gilded Fad. “Yes, papa is going to buy me a bat- tleship.” 1 beg your pardon, “Good gracious! what for? “1 want to use its deck for a danc- ing party.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. . FOILING THE PICKPOCKET.. - | What to Do When Your Hat Is Tipped Over Your Eyes In a Crowd. for a man there is only one really | "safe pocket, and that is a pocket experienced which few men except race goers have their suits supplied with. It is a breast pocket inside the waistcoat, and it should have a but. ' toned flap, for without the button even money is the trousers if the owner is rath left hand pocket is right. A skillful thief hind you may insinuate his right into your right hand pocket easily, the left comes awkwardly to him, For safety’s sake the pickpocket sel- dom works single handed. He usually works with a couple of “screens,” plant themselves in front of the in- tended victim. If the “job” is a diffi- cult one they carefully jostle him at the critical moment in order to dis- tract his attention. This jostling is usually called “working the ramp.” A favorite trick in a dense crowd is to tip a man’s hat over, as though «identally. His hands naturally fly to set it right. Instead they should straight to the watch and the pocket. If your hat is knocked a crowd make sure your money is safe before troubling about the If you are quick enough you at eateh a hand there. The trained pickpocket's fingers are almost as delicate and sensitive as those of a skilled pianist. To become an expert demands long practice. But the expert could with or without the shelter of a newspaper go through, one by one, every one of a man's twelve or sixteen pockets except that one in- «ide the waistcoat if he knew it to be worth his while. Three years ago a mun was sentenced for training young pickpockets. He used clothes dum- mies with bells so arranged that they rang when the picking was clumsily done.—~Exchange. JUST A LITTLE GIFT. The Present an Economical Duchess Made to Her Rich Friend. Recently when the wealthy Mlle. de it. was to be married one of our good duchesses had to make her a present, just a little present. The duchess thought it would be useless to expend wuch money for a person so rich. She thought if she would look through her vast mansion she would be able to find <omething, some trinket. to which the addition of her card would give <utficient glory. She finally found in her writing desk an insignificant «ameo that she had once worn, The following day she received from her young friend a letter of enthusi- astic thanks: “Oh, you have been very foolish! This is too. too beautiful,” ere, “She is making sport of my little present,” thought the good duchess. Then came a second letter, this time from the husband who was to be: “How can we thank you? We are de- lighted! This will spoil us.” “The impertinent fellow!" said the duchess. “He wants me to understand that I have been niggardly.” Nevertheless she went to pay a visit to the R.’s before the marriage. There, in the midst of her presents, exposed in a most prominent place, she saw the little cameo placed upon her card. An old gentleman approached her. He is a member of the Academy of Insecrip- tions and Belles Lettres. “What a wonderful present you have given these children. Mme. la Duchess,” he said. “For forty years we have been seeking for this very! cameo. It is of the era of Trajan, and this trinket is valued at 200,000 francs.” Ah, the poor duchess!—Coi de Paris. | A Novel Fine. An Englishwoman in the Rivera stepped on the footboard of a train, intending to enter the carriage, but found the door locked. The train started suddenly and she recognized that she would have to travel on the footboard until the next station was reached. A man who saw ber plight crept backward on the footboards, stepping from carriage to carriage with some peril and supported her with his arm uniil the next station! was reached, half an hour later. The woman was fined several francs for “illegally traveling outside the train.” The rescuer disappeared without leav- ing name or address. $ Hart Earning a Spanking. Mrs. Brown—1 was downtown yes- terday. I didn’t know but I might meet you. Mrs. Greene—I was down. town, too, and I'm awfully sorry I didn't see you. Little Johnny Greeng— Ma, don’t you remember we saw Mrs, Brown's dog and you said: let's hurry away from here. That old cat must be somewhere near.” What old cat did you menn, ma? Peculiar. “1 do mot understand it.” said the philosopher. “What is bothering you now?’ ne quired the other. “If a man is two hours late home his wife raises a row, w he is gone two years she will give a royal welcome. Women are ar Pourson's Weekly. Yo Particular. “Mayme is a crank on Vain tings harmonize, isn't she?" “Yes, to such an extent that won't use rats because she ant colored hair.” Baltimore Americah. Glory, ambition, armies, fleets, _ thrones, crowns—playihings of gown | children—-Victor Hugo. THE KING'S CHAMPION. Westminster Hall, Where His Chal- lenge Used to Be Uttered. Westminster hall, in London, was' built originally by King Willlam Ru- fus (1056-1100) and tradition goes that the oak of its ceilings was brought from the forest of Shillelagh, in Ire- properties rendering it hateful to ders and their webs. Richard transformed the hall. Leaving the wails standing, he buttressed rn strongly and raised over them the mugnificent roof of oak which is still extant and intact. It is ninety-two fect Ligh. The length of the hall is 200 feet, its breadth sixty-eight feet. It was large enough for mounted men to enter in order to challenge any who would dispute the rights of the king, a ceremony that is quaintly described as follows on the occasion of the coro- nation of Richard ITI. and Queen Anne in 1483: “In the afternoone the King and Queene entered the hall, and the King sate in the midle, and ye Queene on ye left side of the table. and on every side of her stoode a Countesse, hold- ing a cloth of Pleasance when she listed for to drink. And on the right hand of ye King sate ye Archbishop of Canterbury. The ladyes sate all on one side in ye midle of the hall, and at the table against them sate the Chancellor and all the Lords. And at the table next the cupboard sate ye Mayor of London. * * * At the sec- and course came into ye ball Sr. Rob- ert Dimmock., the King's Champion, making Proclamacion that whoever would say that King Richard was not lawfull King. he would fight with him at the utterance, and threw down his ranutlett, and then all the hall cryed King Richard. “And then one brought him a cupp of wine covered. and when he bad drunk he cast out tle drinke and de- parted with the cupp. * * * At the end of the dinner the Mayor of Lon- don served the King and Queene with sweete wine, and had of each of them a cupp of gold and a cover of gold And by that time that all was done, it was darke nighte. and so the King re turned to his chamber, and every man to his lodging.” The last time that the hall was the scene of the challenge of the king's champion was at the coronation of George IV, Bell With the Wail of a Child. that the bell would never sound right until a live child was given to it. The mass was then melted again, and a | live baby was thrown into the molten metal. The wail of agony uttered by the little tot as the bronze engulfed it seemed to be repeated every time , the bell was tolled. and today the Koreans still claim that the wail of a i child can be heard in the voice of the oi A queerly shaped gong which occu- | pies a position of honor in the center ! of the city of Seoul, Korea, is said to be one of the largest in the world and | child in its voice.” the bell sounded with a harsh and! cracked note, and the superstitious em- ' Signature of | metal. But She Wasn't Satisfied. Lady Jekyll. who was foud of puz- ling herself and others with such ques- tions ns had been common enough a generation before her. in the days of the “Athenian Oracle.” asked William Whiston of berimed name aud eccen- tric memory. one day at her husband's table. to resolve a difficulty which oc- curred to her In the Mosaic account of the creation. “Since it pleased God. sir.” she said, “to create the woman out of the man, why did he form her out of the rib rather than any other part? Whiston scratched his head and an- swered: “Indeed. madam, I do not know. unless it be that the rib is the most crooked part of the body.” : “There.” her husband said, “you have it now! 1 hope you are satisfied.” —S8outhey’s Doctor. | The Retert Sarcastic. | “That new family next door borrow- ed our ax again this morning,” his wife told Jones. “Well, why did you lend it to them,” he complained. “How could I help it?" “You might have given them some kind of an excuse.” Mrs. Jones waxed sarcastic. “Yes,” she snapped. “1 might have told them that you were going to use ft—or some other crazy. impossible thing." —Youngstown Telegram. An Explsnation, “So you have been married! Did your husband die, or what?" “The latter.”—Chicago Record-Her ald. | “Received your ‘Medical Adviser’ and I think it orie of the greatest books of the age,” writes Mr. H. M. House, Chases: town, Franklin Co., Ark. 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