Dewi Ftd Bellefonte, Pa., October 20, 1911. Ocular Defects In Artists. It was sald of the late Edwin A. Ab- bey that his nearsightedness had much to do with his close attention to de tail. one of the characteristics of his art. Au illastiator who does Woon in black and white, spe of Mi. Abbe; 's conscientious drawing in of deteils, woadered bow much ocular def cts accounied for cert iin aptitudes of well knot n artists. “A cynical person told me the other day.” he said, “that he half believed every impressionistic painter nearsighted and drew what he saw with It sounds ren sible. “And .onsider me. I am completeiy color blind. 1 cannot even tei, blue from yellow. a failing which is rarer than red-grecu color blindness “Yet | would not see colors if | could. When ! draw, you see, 1 put in precisely (he effects I get in nature, and they teil me that shade gradation is the chief merit of my work. I lay that to color blindness.” - New York Sun. iking Wilks 3 gniasses of When They Fined the Servants. There must have been a servant probicin even in the specious times of Elizabeth, if we may judge by a list of rules drawn up by a baronet of that era for the guidance of his domestic helpers and recently brought to light by an English writer. The baronet evidently liked his house kept in order, and if it were not made ahsolutely spotless on Friday after dinner every- body responsible had to pay three- pence. He liked punctuality, and six- pence was the fine for meat that was not ready at 11 or before for dinner ! and at 6 or hefore for supper, while the table had to be laid hal? an hour before those times, on pain of twe- pence. Oaths were » penny each, and it was equally expensive to leave a door open which was found shut, while to tench any of the children any ‘“anhonest speech” was fourpence, The fines were duly paid each quarter day out of the wages, and with fine vagueness (he baronet winds up. “They shall be bestowed on the poor or other godly use” The Doctor's Revenge. It Is always a pleasure to hear or read of arrogance rebuked; hence this little tale, which might be headed “The Doctor's Revenge.” An elderly Indy whose characteristics entitle her to the present name of Mrs, Pertiv Pom. pous had a pet meakey which suddenly became ill. She had the assurance to send for a prominent physician to treat the little beast. When the doe- tor wa: inivoduced to his patient he was very much enraged, but he did not betray himself. He took the sick mon- ker's pulse and asked the usual ques- tions. Now, in the room was a little boy. Mrs. Portly Pompous’ grandson. The doctor approached the boy, exam- ined his pulse also and then said sol- emnly to the lady: “Madam, your two little grandchildren are suffering from indigestion. Give them only light food, with plenty of exercise, and they will come out all right"-Boston Tran- seript. End of the Honeymoon. It was along toward the waning of the honeymoon that this dialogue took place: “Are you sure that you love me as much as ever?” “Perfectly sure.” “And you will never, never love any- body else?” “Never, never.” “Is there anything you wouldn't do to make me happy?” “Nothing within the bounds of rea- son.” “Aha! 1 thought so! You have be- gun to reason. The honeymoon is over!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. When Beecher “Hollered.” Coming home from the morning serv- ice one Sunday Dr. Beecher threw | himself on a lounge and said in a tone of deep dejection, “I believe that wns the worst sermon I ever’ preached.” One of his daughters pro- tested that she had seldom heard him when he was more energetic. “Oh, yes,” was the impatient reply, “when | I haven't anything to say I always | holler." —Outlook. vo ct — Their Use. | “Why do you have those glass cases with the ax, hammer, crowbar and. so forth on these cars?’ asked a trav- | eler on the railroad going to New York. | “Oh, those are put there in case any one wants a window open,” replied the | facetious man.—Youth's Companion. | Stupid Man! Mrs. Ascum—But why didn't you | buy the material If you liked it? Mrs. ' Nurich—The salesman said it was do- | mestic dress goods. Mrs. Ascum— Well? Mrs, Nurich—You don't suppose I'd wear anything meant for domes- ties, do you?—Philadelphia Press. | Why He Didn't Pay. i “I have bet a silk hat with tha’ man five times In the last year, and he has never paid me one of them.” “That so? [I didn't know he was in the habit of breaking his word.” ! “Oh, he isn’t. He won the bets.”— | Cincinnati Times-Star. iin ets did | From the Fountain. Nell—-Maude always uses a fountain | pen. Belle—-Her letters are Tether | gushing, aven't they? — Philadelphia Record. ! ———— ; his face as an exhibition. . ing a friend about the negro band of ! large cities are on the lookout for this. , stream of water is thrown in their dl- ! of an electric railway in South Africa , of conveying the current, and several | #f you an The Cedars of Lebanon. Very carefully inclosed gnd guarded are the 200 remaining cedsrs of Leb- anon, those famous trees that once viel all the sides of the Syrian ouniains. So tall and beantiful were they in comparison with the trees of i*alestine that the Hebrew writers cel- ehrated them with extraordinary praise, and from the earliest times their soft white wood was the giory cr Jewish architecture. They were used in Solomon's temple and in its successor and also in the church that Constantine built at Jerusalem, The surviving trees are called by the Arabs the “trees of God,” and under their wides).cooding branches the cler- gy of the Greek chur h occasionally celebrals mass. Several of the (rees ia the grove are over 1,500 years old and have a height f 100 feet and a circumference of 50. In appearance they more resemble the aged larch or the majestic cak than the cedar that is known in America.— Harper's Weekly, A Claus» In Napoleon's Will, Peter the Great is said to have made 2 wil! in which he exhorted his heirs to approach »s nearly as possible to Constantino le and toward India, but the authenilcit: of this document has been dispot d, ond it is shrewdly sus- pected to have Leon forged late in the eighteenth century hy Angnst von Kotzebue, Of the genuineness, however, of the last will and testament of Napoleon 1. there can be no manner of doubt. One of its clauses wes as viddictive as the testamentary injunction of Queen Aus trigitda to hor hasband to have her two doctors killed and buried with her. The exile of Lonzweed absolutely bho. queathed 10,000 franes to a follow called Cantillon, who had ben tried in Paris for an attempt 10 naarder the Duke of Wellinzion. The man was still surviving in Brussels when Na- poleon IIT. came to the throne, and Cantillon was duly paid his legaey. Sam Played ths Bass Drum, They used to say that (xm had the biggest month in Indiana avenue, Ile was a short, nero, and his mouth was the mest not'c able thing about him. It is said thet he used to make pretty good money placing or- dinary sancers in his mouth flat with He was tell- stocky which he was a member, “I should think you would ail want to play the instruments with solo parts, | == such as the cornet,” was suggested. “Dat ain't it,” replied Sam. “Each man plays de horn dat suits his monf best.” | “Well, then, Sam, what horn do yon play?" Is was evident that the ques. tioner was puzzled. He wondered how | Sam's lips could be compressed to blow a horn. “Oh, Ah plays de bass dram, sah,” said Sam. —-Indianajolis News. The Troubled Professor. “The professor is so dreadfully ab- sentminded.” “Ye3?' “He paid marked utteations to a pretty girl who lived near the college and was afraid she might get some lega! hold on him, and so he wrote her a love letter with invisible ink.” “Clever den, Yes?” “Then he made on typewritten copy of the letter for his own protection and finally sent the girl the (ypewrit- ten copy.” “1 see. Poor old prof.” “And he didn't find out his mistake until the ink had faded, and now he wonders what in Tophoet he wrote!" -- Cleveland Plain Dealer. Water and Electricity. Since the general introduction of electricity into the ¢ities it has been known that it was possible to secure a very cousiderable shock through a stream of water, and firemen In all Wires which look as if they might con- duct heavy currents are ent before a rection. Recently in the construction it was noticed that a column of steam from a locomotive could be the means workmen were shocked in this man- ner. A Quick Reply. The Duchess of Lauraguais, who was somewhat given to making poet- ry, could not think of a word to rhyme with coif. Turning to Talleyrand, who chanced to be by her side. she said, “Prince, give me a rhyme to coif.” “Impossible, duchess,” replied Talley- raud without a moment's delay, “for that which pertains to the head of a woman has upeither rhyme nor rea- son.” y Why It Worried Him. “What are you looking so glum about, old man?” “Somebody stole Dawson's um: “But why should that worry you?" “It was stolen from me.”—Boston Transcript. An Obstinate Family. Cholmondley—1 thought you intend- ed to marry Miss Wealthington? Dolmondley—I thought so, too, but her family objected. Cholmondley—What did Miss Wealthington say? Dolmond- ley—Oh, she's one of the family, you now Stale Bread. Bat your bread stale and not fresh want to avoid indigestion. Slice it, dry in the oven and tons: a delicate brown. Thy secret is thy prisoner; if thow The Moors. Morocco is not so bot as it is often supposed to be. The greater part of the country is near eller the sea or the mountains, often both, and it is only about as far s uth as Georgia or Louisicna. The sun is hot, of course, at midday, in a dry region where the sky is usually clovdless and the iati- tude is about like that of the gulf coast of the United States. But the tem. perature in the shade is seldom ex- treme—that is, in the parts of the coun- try where the bulk of the people live. South and’ east of the mountains, on the border of the Sah ra desert, the conditions in respect to heat are alto- gether different, but there the popula- tion is small, The people of Moroe- co are fansti al Moslems, and they re- sent biticriy anv kind of pressure to change old (usioms or give up old ways, but they sre much less formid able than the used to be in the prime of Moorish power, especially in com parison with the conditions in the ad- vanced conutries of the earth.—Cleve- land Leader. Poor Hand In a Bible Class, A woman of Lou.svilie, Ky., who en- joys a gnme of cards, recently visited a friend in Indianapolis. Sunday morning came, and the hostess invited her visitor to accompinr her to Sun- day rchoo!. It is the preetice of the teacher of the Eible class of which the hostess i= #1 member to nsk each mem ber of the «lass to read n verse from the Bible and comment on it. visitor from Louisville had not been informed of the teacher's custom. However, the teacher seeined to think that visitors az well as rezalar mem- The | that they were man bricks. were made layers could be seen undisturbed. is said thar bed bear a gre:ler bricks. the first century. One of them bore the imprint of a horseshoe, which may prove that Romans used a horse- shoe like ours, although it is generaily believed that thelr horseshoes were strapped on, not naiied. not These ancient ks made this way can weight than modern Loss of Weight In Rowing. A well known physician in New York city who has long been identified | with aquatics, says that the average individual loss of weight in a four mile pull, whether in a race or 2 row against time, is two or three pounds. Under peculiarly trying conditions of heat the individual loss may reach five or six pounds. On the other hand says this physician, many oarsmen go through a four mile pull with the loss of only about a pound in weight. This lost weight is fully recovered by the next day. [P'roper training is so ar- ranged in these days that a four mile race comes only when the oarsmen are thoroughly rested and at the top of their training weight, so that the loss of weight rarely indicates that the in dividual 1s * stale,” or below good train- ing condition, Goldsmith's Obituary Notice. It would be difficuit to find a nore quaint announcement of death than that published in an old newspaper in 1774, at the time of Oliver Goldsmith's | demise. bers should participate, and when the | member next to the visitor had read her verse and made her comment the teacher smilingly looked toward the visitor. The visitor appeared to be dizconcerted for a moment, and then she hastily =aid, “I pass.”—Indianap- olis News, Roman Bricks. When the preparations for rebuild- ing the Campanile, in Venice, were undertaken the archaeologists were afforded an opportunity to make some interesting studies of the bricks. It was found that they had been used , fertilizers. {elty of Nantes, in arches, fortifications, the tops of | | leaves come next, and the leaves of walls and in other ways before they were built into the campanile and “1774. April 4 Died, Dr. Oliver yoldsmith, Deserted ic the village The traveler hath Inid hin down to rest; the good natured man is no more: he stoopse hut to conquer: the vicar hath performed his sad office; it is a mournful task from which the hermit may essay to meet the dread tyrant with more than Grecian or Roman fortitude,” Dead Leaves as Fertilizers. According to tests made in France, dead leaves: possess a high value as They are extensively used by the market gardeners about the Pear leaves have the highest quantity of nitrogenous, oak vines stand lowest in value. “They’re at the Rear Window!” The Bell Telephone guards bytightashy ay, and brings im- mediate help when danger threatens, Have you a Bell Telephone in your home? THE BELL TELEPHONE CO. of Penna. let it go thou art a prisoner to it, Automobiles. 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. 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