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.
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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.
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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.
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is called “the bell with the wail of a | fafeand sure remedy for infants and children,
When first cast |
and see that it
it Zaid
peror. fearing an ill omen, Oe oo | In Use For Over 30 Years.
with his magicians.
These gentlemen |
held a long confab and finally stated |
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Years of Suffering
CATARRH AND BLOOD DISEASE ~DOCTO!
Miss Mabel F. Do 124 Lataygtte
street, Fort Wayne, Ind., writes .
three 1 was troubled with
disease. J tried Several doctors
ful because contains i
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utmost of more than 20
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ENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Condensed Time Table effective June 19, 1911.
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ELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Schedule to take effect Mondav. lan. 6. 1910
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