= Bellefonte, Pa., “November 17, 01
AN INSPIRING TRIBUTE.
it Made a Remarkable Scene In the
House of Representatives.
A touching scene occurred in the
house of represeutatives a unmber of
years ugo when an aged member from
New Jersey arose and for the first
time addressed the speaker. All eyes
were turned in his direction as he’
stood calmly awaiting recognition, He
was tall, spare and erect. His vener-
able appearance and kindly expression,
coupled with most courteous manners,
at once commanded attention.
As In husky tones he again said .
“Mr. Speaker” there came from the
farthest end of the great hall in a
whisper, but distinctly heard by all,
the words. “Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt." |
A moment later aud from the floor
and gallery many voices blended in
the familiar refrain. “Don’t you re-
member sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?”
The ovation which immediately fol-
lowed was such as is rarely witnessed |
in the great hall. Business was sus- |
pended for the moment and the hand
of the new member warmly grasped
by the chosen representatives of all
parties and sections. ' It was an iaspiv- |
ing tribute, one worthily bestowed. |
The member was Thomas Dunn Eng- |
lish, author of the little poem, sung in |
palace and cottage, which found its '
way into all languages and touched all |
hearts. Adlai BE. Stevenson in “Some- |
thing of Men I Have Known.”
CURIOUS ESKIMO LIVING.
The Pallet Roms in Homes Entirely
Devoid of Furniture.
“Pucniture is quite noknown in a!
common Eskimo home. writes the |
wife of the Danish governor of Green-
iand, Anna Bistrup, in an article on |
“Eskimo Women [n Greelund” in the!
Century.
“The houses of the Eskimos ave all
built of stone and turf, with the wia-
dows opening toward the sun, the one
entrance always being on the side that
is least exposed to the wind. Along
the back wall runs a platform, a pallet
of boards, raised eighteen inchex above |
the floor. It is from six to eight feet :
deep, and through its whole length it’
is divided into rooms or spaces of .
eight or ten feet. Each room Is sepn-
rated from the neighboring room by a
pariition of board or skin. An open
passage runs the whole length of the
house nlong the pallet rooms and
serves for the traffic of all the Inmates,
but each pallet room claims for its
own the bit of passageway adjoining
“Bach pallet room is occupied by one
famiiiv, and there they stay night and
day. The best pallet room is the in-
nermost and is always occupied by the
owner of the house or the oldest if the
house has more than one owner.”
Worthy of the Highest.
The talk had turned to the orphan
children of Henry Doane of Cherry-
ville. The former resident asked the
stage driver how they had prospered.
“They've done first rate,” was the
hearty response. “Both of them have
done fivst rate.
“Joe Eddie, be learned the carpenter's
trade and has worked right along, and
as for Emma Susan-—well, I'll tell you
what somebody from over the Center
sald to me only last week about her in
conversation regarding hier husband.
“Emma Susan married Frank Bax.
ter, one of the James Baxiters. Well,
that mun from the Center, he said to
me: ‘I hear Frank Baxler's been cho:
sen selectman, Well, | don’t know but
what he'll do all right for you, he
said; ‘but, whether he's the man for the
place or not. there's one thing certain-—
if ever a woman looked suitable 10 the
position of selectman’s wife and would
do it credit Emma Susan Baxter's thar
roman! Te Yonth's Coruion.
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Too Many Books. :
' Barnaby Rich In his preface to “A
New Description of Ireland,” published
fn 1600. wiles: “One of the diseases of
this age is the multitude of books
that doth so overcharge the world that
it is not able to digesi the abundance
‘of idle matter that ix every day hatch-
ed und brought into the world. that
are as divers in their forms as their
authors be in thelr faces. It is but a
thriftless and (hankless occupation,
this writing of books A man were
better to sit singing in a cobbler's |
shop, for his pay is ceriainly a peuny |
a patch! But a book writer, if he |
gets sometimes a few commendations |
of the judicious, he shall be sure to
reap a thousand reproaches of the ma- ,
Hclons.”
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No Use.
Pocahontas had saved the life of |
| addressed.
Captain John Smith.
“What would bave been the use of |
1
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killing him, anyhow, pa?” she said. |
| shark and the whale (which latter,
being utilized to the advantnge of
i ! “it you had died when yon ought to”
+ aver published Is the
i ficial “fossils” and hidden (bem in a
| quarry, to which they then enticed the
| brother,
' move fllnesves than other fish?”
A Mighty Drinker.
William Lewis, Esq., of Llandisruan,
who died on Dec. 30, 1793, in the act of |
drinking a “tumbler maur”—that is, a
Origin of the Four Poster.
In medieval times, when life was
very insecure, it was usual for people
to sleep on a bed which was surround-
cup of Welsh ale containing about a {sd by sides of boards with strong
wine quart—had made it a rule in his
life to read a certain number of chap- |
ters in the Bible every morning and by |
way of assisting in the digestion of so
much spiritual food to drink neo less |
shan eight gallons of ale every morn-
ing. It was calculated by some mathe- |
matical genius of the time that in the
course of his life Mr. Lewis must have |
drunk e ough ale to float a seventy-
four gan ship. His size was extraor-
dinary. If we may believe the Gen-
tleman’s Magazine he weighed 560 |
pounds, and the diameter of his body |
was no less than six feet. Fortunate- |
Iy, says the writer of his obituary no- !
tice. he died in his parlor, for it woukl
hmve been impossible to bring him
downstairs in a coffin. Even as it
was, the undertakers had to use a |
crane to lift the coffin on to a car-
riage and to have the same machine in
the churchyard to let it down into his
grave. Chambers’ Journal
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Whale Extract. i
It is said ‘hat the flesh of both the |
however, cannot, of course, be proper-
Iy classified as a fishy are largely uti-
lized in northern Europe for the prep
aration of a fish extract (hat resem
bles in some respects the popular ex-
tracts of beef, being at the same time
far cheaper. All fishy flavor is elim-
imared by chemical processes, and the
extract Is vaiuable for the foundation
of soups and In general cookery.
Whale meat Is very nutritious. but its
excessive amount of fat venders it un- |
palatable to most persons. No this fai
is removed before the extract is boiled |
"down 10 a sirupy consistence and sea!-
‘od In jars. In many of the fish facto
‘ pies of Norway a “‘fish meal? Ix made |
that is eaten extensively by the na |
tions of northern Europe. In these |
several ways fish which were former- |
ly vejected as heluz nnfit for food ave |
many.—Scientific American.
Hoaxed the Naturalist.
Une of the wost remarkable books |
“Lithographin |
Wirceburgensis,” written by a Wurz- |
burg naturalist named Bebringer In |
1726. Probably very few copies ave |
in existence, as the author destroyed |
ail that he could get possession of soon
after the book appeared. He had heen
victimized Ly some practical jokers,
who had made a great variety of arti.
professor. Behringer was overjoyed
by so rich a find and had ao suspicion |
of the trick, although many of the fos.
wile were of a very grolesque churac-
ter. He took his treasures home, made
elaborate drawings of them and wrote
a minute description of each, ax well |
as an exbaustive commentary filled
with fogenious and plausible theories.
When he Lad published the book the
jokers confessed, and then, of course,
the profes<or did hiz utmost 1o sup.
press {he work
Superstition About Cats.
In the Man errato It is belleved that
all the eats whe wander about upon
the roofs during the month of Febrn. |
ary are really witches, whom it is Inw
ful and even necessary fo shoot. An
old German superstition has it that
if a black ext site upon the bed of a
sick man it 1s a presage of his death,
while if afier his decease it Is seen
upon his grave it is enough to arouse
doubts as to the locality to which his
soul has< departed. In Hungary it Is
thought that cats generally become
witches between the ages of seven and
twelve years. A French belief con
cerning the cat is that if the antmal
be carried in a cart and the wind blow
from it to rhe horses they immediately
fall tired. If any part of the horse-
man’s clothing he made of cat's skin
the hovse will feel as though it carried
a double hnrden
Restored Courage.
The southern lover was impetuous, !
says the anthor of a book of reminis-
cences of eastern Virginian entitled |
“Memory Days” and the maiden was |
timid amd nnused to passionate pro- |
posals of marringe.
“Oh, don't!” she interrupted in a whis- |
per. “You frighten we dreadfally!” i
Overcome hy contrition, the young
man humbly apologized for his fervor, |
and a painful silence ensued. The gir) |
broke it at [ast i
“Robert.” she began, with a hopeful |
smile, “1 -don't think I shall—-bhe so
frightened (his thine” |
Sick Horivmm,
“Why,” said a youngster to his elder :
“do herrings have so many |
“Who says they do?” asked the youth
“Why, this book says that thousands |
upon thousands of them are cared ev-
i
“There ave millions of other Jon | ery year. ” {
Smiths, and there wouldn't have been
a line about it in the papers.”
Her news instinct was unerring. |
Saving the captain's life made a first
page story of the affair. — Chicago |
News.
“
Black Eggs.
The black Cayuga BR a South | * swell fate?
American bird, frequently lays black |
eggs. ‘The coloring does not penetrate |
the shell. being due to an oily pigment
which can be rubbed off. In succes-
sive layings the coloring fades and dis-
appears.
Society as the Dector Saw It.
When the doctor was asked what he |
thought of the reception he had at- |
tended the previous evening he sald:
“It was a cacbuncle.”
“What {do vou mean hy that?”
“Why, it was an great gathering and |
- New York Times. i
The , Bluff Physician.
The Doctor—Yon would have an at- |
| tack of brain fever but for one thing. |
Tmpatient Patieni—And what's that? !
| The Doctor--The fact that nature made
| you an immuue from that particular |
Baltimore American. |
"much damp.
| felt secure.”
! man unfortunately addicted to drink
| time.”
, three more kicks.
The Usual Way. | variety of fever.
She—What would you do if you had pe —
enough to supply your needs? Wealth " social " its origin and
d start in to make a lot more to | should be used for social purposes.—
eo my wants. —Kxchange.
| Comte.
| posts at the four corners. These sides
sontained sliding doors, which could
| be fasteued inside. When men retired
Ww rest tifey took a weapon with them.
If attacked in the night they were
sroused by the noise made by the
crashing in of their wooden defense
and were able to defend themselves.
When the law became strong enough
to protect human life the sides of the
bedstead were gradually dispensed
with, but the four posts remained.
The boxlike bedsiead still survives in
the rurai jaris of Scotland and is al-
most necessar; where the earthern
floors and imperfect ceilings cause
Kmily Broute in “Wath-
ering Heights” describes one of these
bedsteads in the old mansions as form-
ing a “litle closet,” Mr. Lockwood,
who had ‘e «<leep in it, says, “I slid
back the paaei sides, got in with my
light, pulled thew together again and
——————— at
He Lagged Suparflusus.
Pittsfield, in the Berkshire hills, had
in the old duys, like many another
New England town, a number of men
and women who were called “charac-
ters.” One of these was Bill Brown, a
and frequently intoxicated for days at
a time.
On one occasion he went into the
shop of the local hatter, Mr. Smith,
and ssked for the best beaver in the
, right, for the lugs certainly do busi-
stere. Mr. Smith produced the desired
article, saying as he took the money. |
“That beaver will last a man a life !
Rill went proudly down the main |
i street with his tine beaver on his head |
and immedixtely celebrated the even!
with a proivacted debauch. i
When he recovered he returned to |
the shop with x most disreputable hat, !
MLook bere, I thought you said this
here beaver would last me a lifetime.”
“So it would,” growled Mr. Smith,
— Youth's Companion,
Penalty of the Peach. |
The Egyipcinns appear to have been |
| acquainted with what Is commonly |
called prassic acid, the most deadly
of poisons, It is held that they dis-
tilled it from certain plunts and trees,
notably the peach. Iu the Louvre
there ix an ancient Egyptian papyrus
from which the following has been de-
cipbered: “P'ronounce not the name
of 1. A. U, under the penalty of the
peach.” This hax been supposed io
he a death warning to those who might
be tempted to reveal mysteries in con:
nection with the religions rites of the
priests,
‘The Roundus probably learned of
prassic acid {rom the Egyptinns, His |
tory hax it that in the reign of Tiberius
a Roman knight accused of treason
drank poison and immediately fell
dead at the feet of the senators, a siz-
nificant circumstance, inasmuch as no
other poison hax the almost instan
taneons effect of prassic acid,
The Light Was There.
A well known New York clubman
was found by a police officer very late
one night in a pitiahle state of intoxi-
cation. The wretched fellow stood he
neath a lamppost, which he was Lick
ing with might and main.
Slightly amused, the policemsn
watched Lim a moment, Then he said:
“Here, sir, what are yon doing
there”
No veply. Only—bang, bang, bang
—the tipsy one dealt the lamppest
‘What are yon repeated |
the policeman.
doing?"
| fully concealed.
audiences to be reputable business, and
when he replied that he had decided 10
do it and Lad signed a contract to that
effect the dear old indy wrote back that
she was “still”
that she would tell
lage about It
ne one in the vil
GCifice of the Lungs.
“What is the office of the lungs? a
teacher asked x small pupil in a class |
in physiology. |
“The chest.” she promptly replied.
“And.” said the teacher, telling the
story. "I guess she was somewhat near
ness in the chest.”
Helping Him,
Intrepid Widow Speaking of conun-
drums, Mr. Slocum. here's a good one,
Why is the letter “0” like a wedding |
ring? Proceastinaiing Bachelor Ol,
I'm no good at conmudrums. Intrenid
Widow-You give it up? Why. he
rause “we” can’t be “wed” without it. |
The Possibility. !
He--Nothing could over come be
tween us, could it, dear? She—1 can't
think of a single thing unless 1 should !
happen to become engaged to some |
other man hefore we get married. |
Not Digestible.
Tramp—Piease, ma'am. will you give
me a bite to eat? Lady--[ haven't any-
thing cooked. hint 1 can give yon a pair
of old shoes. Tramp — Exense me,
ma'am, hut "in no goat.
A Way They Have In In Germany. |
“One day while [| was in a big beer |
garden in Bavaria,” said a returned |
traveler, “a2 handsome young officer in |
and seated himself at a nearby table.
There was brought to him a big radish,
several slices of rye bread and a tall |
mug of beer. ‘Then I saw that band- |
some young officer draw from the tail
pocket of . that magnificent uniform |
something wrapped in paper. This he |
unrolled, a sweet smile playing about |
his blond mustache as he did so. and |
at last a piece of sausage seven or |
eight inches long was revealed. My |
astonishment at this sight was cave!
I doubt it any officer |
of our infantry would dare attempt |
such a movement on the subsistence |
depa rtment.” —Indianapolis 2 News.
What More Could Me Want? |
“What Is vour father's objection to}
me, Millie?" asked the yeung man. i
“He says you have no application.
Gerald.”
“No application!” he echoed bitterly. |
“1 wonder If he knows U've been com- |
ing to see you (wice n week for neucly |
six vears I=Ohienge Tribune.
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| a magnificent new uniform came i |
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Peculiar.
“Peculiar chap, very,
boss in his house.”
“What's peculiar about thaty”
“He admits it." —Toulsville Courter.
Journal.
His wife is;
The man delivered another quick
volley of very furious kicks, and then.
looking up. he said: !
“Oh, | know she's in all right. |
‘cause there'sh hic a light upstairs.” |
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A Poor Press Agent.
Max O'Rell was exceedingly popular |
as a lecrurer, and the way in which
| his mother viewed the suggestion that
her son should take to the platforin is
worth repetition. She wrote to him
from the native village which she hail
never left for more than a day to say
that she did uot think appearing before
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