LD ena Bellefonte, Pa., September 29, 1911. Herringbone Brickwork. In the ordinary acceptation of the wm the eel is a scaleless fish. ant is due to the fact that its scales are ery minute and imbedded in the skin hey form, as pointed out by a cor spondent, very interesting and beau- ful objects for the microscope. 1a ize the scales of the eel vary from oue- wentieth of an inch upward, accord ng to the age of the fish. They are srmed of two layers of a clear, horny Jf see, the upper of which Is .Jded with crysis of calcium car sate. These are so transparent as ) look like empty cells. The scales ary in shape from 8 blunt to an Jongated oval and are sometimes al- nost kidney shaped. This is how the scales of the eel tell Z#s age. On each may be observed at & tervals several more or less clearly 2 iarked lines parallel to the margin. al . Lot it ‘hese mark lines of growth, one fou ach year of the life of the fish, Three sare, nowever, must be allowed for 1 innermost ring, as the eel has ne cnles until the third year. The scales o not overlap to any extent and are rranged in series of small groups at ight angles to each other, so as to esemble what is known as herring jone brickwork. Conger eels, how wer, are said te have no scales.— Lon: om Field BALKED THE BURGLAR. May or May Not Have Been a Low Down Game, but It Won. Che man with his coat collar turned p and his derby pitched down over 's eyes who was slouching along In @ shadow of the building suddenly “koned to the man on the other side the street. ‘Here's an easy one. te,” he growled hoarsely. Where's an easy one?” snarled Pete. This here house. It's like taking m from a stenographer that's fixin' + hair. Some chump has gone away left his latch key In this door” ‘ete took a swift look at the house 1 began to back up. “You can uo it" he said. “I don't want to buil am it.” Are youse nutty?” Naw, I ain't nutty. But de feller t lives dere is a low down sneak out no feelin’ fer nobody. an’ 1 dont nt nothin’ ter do with ‘lm. No. | 't know him, but I'pi next ter his ne. He sticks that key in dere to _eok suckers like you. Dere's a wire “ion dat key an’ a million volt battery to dat wire. 1 wouldn't touch yer'd gimme de First National bank. But zo ahead—I'll be acrost de street watchin’ wot happens.” Nothing happened.—Cleveland Plair Dealer. Ancient Inkstands. An inkstand that was probably in use 3,400 years ago is exhibited in a Berlin museum. It is of Egyptian make and is supposed to belong to the eighteen’h or nineteenth dynasty, ot 'somewhe ‘e about 1500 B. C., although its real ge can be judged only ap- proxi ly. It is made of wood and has two compartments, an upper one rovided with two holes, one for black nd one for red ink, and a lower one ‘or holding reed pens. The black and red ink are certainties, for some still remains, in a dry condition, within the receptacles. Another ancient inkstand .s supposed to have been intended for ‘he use of a schoolboy. It would cer- ainly hold ink enough for a school boy's needs, for it has no fewer than four ink holes. Both inkstands were found at Thebes.—London Globe. Eased His Conscience. Dean Buckland when at Westmin- ter used to tell a curious story of - prown paper parcel which he re. eived one day by post. After many <rappings had been unfolded he found 1 small black splinter of oak about an inch and a half long. The writer of the unsigned note accompanying the parcel said that when he was a boy. many years before, he had chipped the splinter off the coronation chair. As age advanced his conscience grew troublesome, and he asked the dean to be kind enough to restore the splinter to its place.—Pall Mall Gazette Making It Ciear. Parson's daughter: “Good morning. Giles! Haven't noticed you in church for the last few weeks.” Giles: “No. miss; I've been oop at Noocastle a-viz iti’ my old ‘aunts. And strange. isn’t it, I don't see no change in ‘em since 1 was a child like?’ Parson's daughter: “What wonderful old ladies . they must be.” Giles: “I didn’t sar «nts, miss; 1 said ‘awnts'—'auntx \ boy where I used to wander in my child hood days like!” Advice. “Now that you've heard my daugh r sing, what would you advise me to Well,” the music master replied, “1 know. Don't you suppose you me ——. A — SIGNATURES ON CHECKS. The Plainer They Are the Less They Appeal to Forgers. “You ought to sign your check dif- ferently, Mr. Blank,” said a Chicago Railroad Man's Magazine, “but the bank employee to a depositor whose ac- mystery is still with us and whirls its count runs well up toward $100,000 a hundred question marks before our year. eyes every minute of the day. “What's the matter with that “Of course every one believes that check?’ asked the customer, nettled the edge of the wheel goes around the that. as he thought. it should be inti- axle. But does it? Take the end of mated he didn’t know how to draw a any spoke near the tire or any part of check. . the tire and on a still. windless night “You misunderstand me,” said the fasten a candle to it; then back off till teller. “The check’s all right. 1 was nothing can be seen but that candle referring to your signature. It is just flame. the kind that a forger takgs delight “Let the wheel revolve slowly, free in copying. If you will al me the from the ground. The candle flame privilege of saying so. you're liable to makes a circle of fire all right and | meet with loss in that way at any goes around the axle. Now lower the | time. Any good penman could imitate wheel until it rests on the ground and it so cleverly you'd hardly know the start ubead. The flame suddenly stops | difference yourself. going in a circle and begins to make | “The plainer the signature the less a wavy line, first high and then low. | likelihood there ix of a crook trying to It goes around nothing at all. | imitate it.” he continued after the de- “Men with clear minds can perform | positor had become interested. “In the experiment satisfactorily by tying | nearly every big forgery of which 1 a handkerchief around the tire in day- | ever heard. or In uty of them at light. but to do this takes a keen math- | jeast. the siznature imitated was that ematical imagination, because the eye | of a man who wrote with a flourish or is confused by other moving objects Who had some peculiar type of writing and 1s not able to see the handkerchief | that ordinarily would appeal to the free from these other influences. laity as hard to imitate. It is a fact "at night the candle flame alone can | that it is a rare occurrence for 4 big be seen. so that Is perhaps the best | forger to attempt to imitute the signa- time to try the matter out. Tie a | ture of the man who writes a plain torch to a locomotive driver and then | band. send the engine slowly back and forth | “Not long ago | had occasion to tell while the observer ix off some hundred ' a friend of mine be stood a chance of feet distant in the dark. The torch | having some forger get a good sized docs not move in a circle. It simply | check in on him. My friend changed goes ahead somewhat like a flying ma- | the style of his signature, and a few chine rising and falling in the wind, | days later he was asked by a bank to coming to a dead stop at its lowest Inspect u check which had been pre- point and going twice us fast as the sented for payment and to which his engine when nt its highest point. old style signature was attached. He “The fact that the bottom of an had changed just in time The forger engine wheel always stands still is had been practicing on the old signa- more easy to lenrn than the fact that | ture, getting it down ‘pat.’ and had not the top of the wheel moves just twice ascertained that the new signature as fast as the train. but this can be Was being used."—Chicago News. proved easily with a plece of hoard. ! ee cr “Take a piece of board, say, ten feet CAMELS ARE VICIOUS. long and lay one end on top of the wheel. Now move the engine forward They Have Numerous Dislikes, the Chief of Which Is Man. two feet and you will find that the! board has gone ahead four feet. just, A necpllarity of the camel is his dis- likes. Likes he has none. save for the twice ns far ax the engine. Lay down | mimosa thorn and, perhaps, for dying. WHEEL PROBLEMS. Does the Edge of the Wheel Revolve Around the Axle? “The wheel that turns under the Jocomotive or the car has a long and queer history,” says a writer in the the board and tie two pieces of string to the wheel, one at the top and the | . other at the bottom, where it rests on i Hey "eu a the ground Now run your engine for- | equipped the squadrons of the camel ward two feet and see what happers. | ong with Lright crimson saddles the The bottom string has moved forward, animals so resented the outrage that too. but not nearly so far as has the, oa. of (hem gave up the ghost top piece of string. although the ends in pure disgust. were even at the start. The camel always, of course, hates man and sometimes displays his vin- Plants Breaking Up an Island. dictiveness in no uncertain manner. A The layman would scarcely associate gignified and elderly British officer has great strength with so delicate and | peep seen to foot it all round the camp fragile a thing as maidenbair fern. in piue silk pajamas. with one slipper yet if its roots have not sufficient | 44 a shaving brush, closely pursued room they will break the pot in which | by his own animal, with his long neck the plant grows. Blades of grass will! h t tm a force the curbstones between which | speed igi Bost lh 3 Savage they spring up out of their place. and | Wit to be pleasant. At length 8 in a single night a crop of small mush- | o . | fatigue party was summoned, who, rooms has been known to lift a large | ci tajaeraph poles. young t rail stone. Indeed. plants are on record as | | way ties and such ¢njoleries, prevailed having broken the hardest rocks. The | upon the beast to desist. island of Aldabra, to the northwest of | Madagascar, Is becoming smaller | . | possess distinct advantages. His gaitis through the action of the mangroves comfortable when one has learned to that grow along the foot of the cliffs. | ride him, and for really long journeys. They eat their way into the rock in direct! | which must perforce be made at a slow a ons. and into the gaps thus pace, he is much less tiring than a formed the waves force their way. , In time they will probably reduce the | horse. Besides. he carries with him all {sland to pleces.—Scientific American. | manner of things the vider is likely to | need en route—canvas buckets of water. Bathrooms. in. Paris. in which bottles stand to cool: a writ- An observant English journalist in ng Sesh (801 yecussatity of the Vlice Paris has—as a hot weather amuse: | type). but still an efficient substitute; a | luncheon basket, rifles, telescopes, a ment—made a private census of bath- | mountain gun, if required. and other rooms. He calculates that in all the | needful articles. flats and private houses of Paris there | are about 2,800 bathrooms. And this —— Long Arrow Flights. writer, lying in his own bath and mak- | There vonD fnovcion siebery teat ing another calculation, will bet a! oo 4 A Siow: 5 eat bathful of water that he could get up | per Nile a . age Dy uy and pitch a cricket ball from the gar | yo I oy Dg vey oy the flake den about his modest flat this way |, © 0 ve I Nmance: of 307 and that over as many bathrooms. It yards with his best arrow, thus break- is a curious little difference of national ing all records achieved in recent architecture. And the quaintness of " the difference comes with the fact that | Hes to Mie fet ene 3 ROW eves: you see more people in London who | gq ational weapon of yew. Neade. look—yes—dirty than in Paris. Even , gymous archer under Charles 1. the beggar in Paris is clean in face. n- | gates that the ordinary range of the ger nails and clothes. —London Chron- | paw was from 320 to 400 yards. The icle. longest shot authentically recorded in | England Is that of a se-retary of the Turkish embassy, who fn 1TH shot an arrow 463 yards with the wind und 415 against it in the presence of several wembers of the Royal Toxo- philite society. who measured the dis: tance and preserved the arrow - "all Mall Gazette. “Cat!” She Exclaimad. Wan--Anyway. 1 don’t like his looks. Fan—That's becanse he looks in my di- rection rather oftener than he does in | yours.—Chicago Tribune. —— He Didn't Know. “I didn’t expect any better treat- ! ment than this,” said the lady on the | pier scanthingly to the inspector whom she suspected of rudeness. “You can't make a silk purse out of a SOW's ear!” “As to that I don't know. madam.” said the inspector placidly. "1 do not recall any ruling of the treasury de: partment on that point. [If you ure bringing in any of either you'd better declare them and leave the classifica- tion to us.” —~Harper's Weekly. —— o— The Island of Hongkong. Hongkong is an island about eleven miles long, with a width of from one to three miles, and consists almost en- tirely of a series of hills. There is a good road around a portion of the is- land on the sea front. but the grade up the mountains are too steep for practical automobiling. and the streets generally are not wide enough and not strongly enough constructed to permit the use of heavy cars upon them. Honesty is the best policy. but be who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.—Whately. ————————————— v Hood's Sarsaparilla. An Enthusiast. Towne—Oh, yes, he’s quite an en- thusiast. He goes in for things in real earnest. Browne—Yes; if some one were to send him on a wild goose chase he'd speak of himself after- wud as a sportsman.—Catholic Stand- the system. a ones SL50%8, As a mount the camel Is said to. Fauble’s Clothing Stores. It's Complete! Our Fall and Winter show- ing of Clothes for Men and Boys is at its Best. New Suits, Overcoats, Under- Raincoats, wear, Hats. Everything that Man or Boy wears is here, and than you ever saw in Belle- fonte at any: time. We want you to see what we are show _ ing. TheKind of Merchandise, the Quantity, the Style. It will help you to select the Best. ISE & © VALTINORE THE SAFEST STORE for you to trade with in cen- tral Pennsylvania. A look is all that’s needed. You can’t We guard against mistakes, with our make a mistake. guarantee of money back any time you want it. Do you know of a safer way to buy clothes. Let us see you. That's all we ask. -- a Pho. BALTINOR. The Fauble Stores Bellefonte, Pa. “Let me see. Ail Up With Him. “You had a high old time in Bu- | Jo. held up in the Apennines and laid | up in Rome.” Her Ability. “Are you able to keep your servants | any length of time?” I've had my husband i six years.” —-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Keep your heart high. That is the sum of philosophy.—Cousin. ———————————————" Plumbing. Good Health Good Plumbing GO TOGETHER. i I fas you can't have good Heals. * r poisoned and jinces; yous em come. SANITARY PLUMBING is the kind we do. It's the kind you cought to have. Wedon't trustt work to boys. r workmen are Skilled Mechanics, no better . Our Material and Fixtures are the Best Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire getablishunant, oe with good work and the Prices are lower than many who give you r, unsanitary work and the lowest grade of finishi the Best Work try gs For ARCHIBALD ALLISON, Opposite Bush House i Bellefonte, Pa. v. Fine Job Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING o—A SPECIALTY~—0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE ems of wo! from the There is no st cheapest ** tr" to the finest BOOK WORK, that we car: not do in the most satis- ,.and at Prices consist- CO ina class of york. Call on or communicate with this office. . . e— : Patents. TENTS, TRADE MARKS, COPYRIGHTS, &c. Anyone sending a sketch and de- scription may quickly our opin. jon free whether an invention is probable able. Communications are strictly on patents sent free. Oldest for securing BIE . Pat. fiotice without i Cov yective "pe a C AMERICAN, tion of an: ie urna) “Terms $3 a year; Lion oe bv a a year MUNN & CO., m— 5245-1. 631 New York. B13. 1 office. on F Sue W eahinaton. D. C. Money to Loan. 'ONEY TO LOAN on good security and houses to rent. MR tow 51-14-1y. Bellefonte, Pa. —— Travelers Guide. Com RAILROAD OF PENNSYLVANIA. ‘Condensed Time Table effective June 19, 1911. READ DOWN READ UP. r STATIONS | 7 7 No 1 No5 No 3 ‘No 6/No 4 No2 i i a. m./p. m./p.m.|Lve. 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