1 ~~ | Bellefonte, Pa., November 24, 1911. The Conscience of Clara. One day when Mrs. Bell was mak- | ing a neighborly call on Mrs. Ellis | the latter, In the presence of ber | caller, discharged her colored maid, | whose obstreperousness could be | borne with no longer. A few weeks later Mrs. Bell again called ou Mrs. Ellis, and to her sur- prise her hostess informed her that Clara was back. The services of the maid were re quired by her mistress, who pressed the button in the drawing room. There was, however, no response. Finally Mrs. Ellis went out and waited on buerself. While she was gone Clara, who was acquainted with Mrs. Bell. having served in her fam- ily also, put her head in at the door and explained: “Mis’ Bell. | heard Mis’ Ellis all the time, but do you recollec’ the as’ time you was here she discharged me an’ sald she'd never have we again? | said I'd never come back too. But here I am, so we bofe tied. That's why I's ashamed to come in. | was ashamed for bofe of us.”—New York Times. Chili Con Carne. From remotest Mexico comes this recipe for chili con carne, which is capable of warming whatever cockles the heart may bave and of diffusing calories to one's works at large: First | comes a fire of logs in the open. Second | comes an olla of generous proportions. Into the olla put a gallon of water and | plenty of the bot chilis, and in that | region of Mexico they ripen so hot that not even the rattlesnake will dare take refuge in their shade. Upon this be- ginning lay as much of a side of beef in ope piece as may be squeezed into the pot. Set the cover on this olla and | lute it dowr with clay. ‘Chen put the pot into the fire and heap the glowing | coals all over it, with particular atten- | tlon to the iid, so that the luting may bake into brick. Keep the fire burning slowly all day long. When night has come scatter the embers, break the | brick seal of the olla, fork out and throw away whatever of the meat re- mains solid. The remainder is the chill con carpe. No sauce is needed. The Love Affairs of Handel. Women :reatly admired Handel, | who was very handsome, but the serenity of the composer scems only to have been ruffled twice by love on his part. [lis first attachment was to a London girl, a member of the aris- | tocracy. lier parents believed him | beneath Ler in social position, but were good enough to say that if he ab- | stained from writing any more music | the question of marriage might be en- tertained. I(t was easier to abstain from their daughter than from his art, and he did so. Years after almost the same thing occurred. Handel and an: other beautiful pupil of his fell in love | with each other, and proud parents | gave him the choice between giving | up his profession or their daughter. | Music, “heavenly maid,” was chosen.— “The Love Affairs of Some Famous Men.” Hitting the Doctor. | As today. in the days gone by the doctors were made the target of the | Jjester's fling. Pausanias, the Spartan general, | when asked by a physician how it was that he was never ill, exuitingly answered, "Because [ never consult you.” i At another time Pausanias said that | the best physician was the one who | dispatched his patients with the least possible suffering. | Pausanians, strongly disapproving of | a certain physician and his methods | and berating him in no mild terms, | was asked by a friend how, as he had aever consulted that particular doctor. he could be so sure of his statements. | Pausanias answered, “Well, had I con- sulted him would | be lving today? os A Summer Without Nights. To the summer visitor In Sweden there is nothing more striking than the almost total absence of night. At Stockholm, the Swedish capital, the sun gues down a few minutes before 10 o'clock and rises again four hours later during a greater part of the month of June. Put the four hours the sun lies hidden in the frozen north are not | hours of darkness. The refraction of | his rays as he passes around the north pole makes midnight as light as a cloudy midday and enables one to read the finest print without artificial light at any time anring the “night.” Put on His Guard. : Little Brother «who bag just been given some candy)—If | were you | shonidn’t take sister yachting this aft. ernoon. Ardent Saitor--Why do yor say that? Little Orother-—-Well, 1 heard her tell mother this morning that siie feared she'd have to throw you over.-{izchange. i The Daarest Spot. Poetical Lady—1s there anything on earth that you tong for at times with a great yearning? Mere Man-Yes, there is. When | draw two cards to three aces there ig one spot that 1 vearn for with all my— But the Iady had teft him.—Toledo Blade. Trarsformation. An English farmer had a pumber of guests to dinner and was about to help them to some rabbit when be discov- ered that the dish was cold. Calling the servant. he exclaimed. “Here, Mary, take this rabbir out and ‘eat it and bring it back a little ‘otter! ! the rich are exempt. ! lowing bitter little anecdote, which occurred during his student days in | | they are culled, “esoteric” and ‘“‘ex- | | oterie,” the first for the few, the in- itiated. the second for the rank and | ill Timed Humegr. | physician and author, always kept in sight the injustice of fate that sub- - | file. Dr. Frederick Van Eeden, the Dutch thing to the masses of the people and "| jects the poor to tortures from which i He told the fol- Amsterdam: Once n poor man was brought in | affected with a very strange and rare disease of the spine that caused him, by involuntary spasms of the legs, to jump and to continue hopping when be | tried to stand on his legs. Our pro fessor wanted to show this to his stu: dents, and he requested the patient to stand on his feet. The poor man looked at the crowd around and said with a pathetic, imploring took: “If the gentlemen will please not laugh.” would be serious. And yet when the man began to 3 - { distance listening, pulled out his watch bop the “ger. lemen” roared. And ! felt the tears come to my eyes and | i ed to you for three hours and nine my fists close in my pockets.— World's Work. A Greenland Duel. It is rather a pity for the zayety of nations that French men of letters cannot fight their duels as duels are | fought in tireenland. In Greenland when one man has been insulted by another the adversaries each compose a satire in verse. This each man re cites to his household until the serv ants and the women heart. pointed. and insulted, the offender and offended. stand face 10 face, and each recites his | poem. a chorus. raise the laugh against his adversary Each man speaks ip turn, whipping the enemy with epigram aod quip. and after two hours of this wordy battle the meeting gives the victory to him of the two adversaries who has amused the whole assembly most Colored His Sermons. “A winister has got to be alive anil resourceful ioday.” said a deacon of a big metropolitan church. “Oars finds he can’t speak well extemporaneonsiy, and he reads from a typewritten copy | I never knew how he managed to preach so effectively until one day | happened to see his manuseript. Half of it was underlined in different colors It looked so curious that 1 asked hin: about it. **A little schewe of mine,’ he sald! laughingly. ‘Il found I was delivering what 1 bad written in the same tone So now, carly on Sunday morniug. ! go over the copy | carry into the pn pit. I keep crayon pencils of six differ | ent colors on my desk. Red means | one tone, green yet another, yellow sud | blue yet others, As 1 turn each pie 1 see at a glance just how [ am to] speak.’ "—New York Sun. Secret Societies. Secret societies are so ancient that their origin is lost in the mists of the past. They existed in Egypt, Persia. India, at the earliest times with which history or iezend gives us any insight. It seems to be natural for men to organize such societies for both good and evil purposes. Nearly all the ancient religions were of a two faced | character, popular and secret, or, as | The professor promised they ! | something of a fake.” know it by | Then a place of meeting is ap | The two men, the insulter lis friends and servants form | Fach man tries hard to pechanm pipe?” inanired an inveterate ' The philos«gohers would teach one another to the select few who made up the “inner circle.” Cicero tells us that the wise men of Rome and Greece be- lieved quite differently from the com mon run of reeks and Romans. A Good Listener. Alfred Henry Lewis, the author, was walking up Pennsyivania avenue one day when be met Louis Brownlow, the magazine writer. “Louis,” said Lewis solemnly, “listen to me—for three hours.” “Why. what's the matter?’ asked Brownlow. “Why,” said Lewis indignantly, “I've been in this town all day, and every body else has been doing the talking I do love my little conversation!” Brownlow went to Immncheon with him and, after doing a sprint ia long with the remark: “lewis, I've listen- minutes. une. Goodby.” —New York Trib. Voleaniec Agh. : The destrnetive Philippine voleanoes | have value for one thing at least, | say® a writer in the Pacific Monthly. | They are directly responsible for the finest hemn producing area in the i world. Hemp thrives in a «oil heavily | impregnated with voleanie ash. His SWwapa, i “How do yon pronose to support my | faughter, roung man “But, sir, | was onlv proposing to | marry her.” - Exchange. i Opinion. Stella—What do von think of marry- | ing a nobleman? | Bella—1It is Vike buying a fish instead | of catching it.—New York Times. How blessings brighten as they take | their flight!— Young. i There are times in every life when the vital forces seem to ebb. Energy gives place to languor. Ambition dies. The | current of blood crawls sluggishly throuzh | ! the veins. It is a condition commonly ! The Genuine Article. “lI don't know about this picture, Bobby.” said the visitor as he ran over specimens ot the camera work. “1 am afraid a dog! with a propeller instead of a tail is “That air’t a propeller.” said Bobby. “That's his tail. He kept waggin’ it while his picrure was being tookened.” —Iarper's Weekly. Vulgar. i “When ordering champagoe some | people are not satisfied with the pop of the cork.” “Think na? “No: they think tbe waiter ought to | also sonnd a gong “*- Kansas City Jour nal. Women and Youth. She—A woman, von know, is as young as she looks fle—Yes, bur un fortunately she isn't always as young | as she thinks she looks. Exchange Sarcastic. Major Mull=The doctor says he | thinks [ am