Yeagers Shoe Store
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Sold only at
Yeager’'s Shoe Store,
BELLEFONTE, PA,
Shoe
Bush Arcade Building,
A Good Christmas Present
The ‘“‘Democratic Watchman.’’
Christmas Presents.
Christmas Presents are all ready
for the careful buyer. Bring your list
with you and we will help you with your
selection of fine and pretty gifts for the
whole family.
Alarge assortment of Cushions
and Table Scarfs in the linen, white and
ecru colors,
Everything that is new and dainty
in Necktie Bows, Jabots, Sailor Collars,
Ruching and Waist Frills, Handker-
chiefs for men, women and children.
Every department is full of new
things Furs, Coats, Coat Suits, Silk
Scarfs in plain and brocades, Messa-
lines, Silk Crepes, Mikado Crepes, Um-
brellas, Jewelry, Table Linen and Nap-
kins to match. Towels in plain and satin
damash.
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We have no space to give you a
complete list of all our new things.
We invite an carly inspection of our
complete stock. The prices we guar
antee the lowest.
SF SN SI ee.
LYCN & COMPANY.
Allegheny St. 47-12 Bellefonte, Pa.
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MARC BATTLE FOR THE DOC
Sport Killed the Big Bok Cat, but He
Suffered Severely in the
Combat,
| After a battle in which he came near
| meeting death himself, Sport, a me-
| dium sized coach dog, the property of
| W. M. Butterbaugh, a rancher lving
in Lemp's Guich, Idaho, killed a bob
| cat that measured six feet from nose
' to tip of tail.
The dog was terribly scratched and
| bitten and has not yet entirely recov-
ered. He was mauled by the long,
sharp claws of the big cat and in some
places the scratches are deep, dig-
ging clear to the bone. The cat w
weigh half again as much as the dog,
| and towered above him in height.
| Afr. Butterbaugh did not see the
| fight, but arrived on the scene short
ly after the dog had killed the cat
and found his faithful friend lying on
the ground, unable to move, and
scarcely living. It looked at the time
like a bad case, but he succeeded in
: nursing the animal back to life.
“For some days we had been miss-
ing chickens,” Mr. Butterbangh said,
{ “and I was unable to figure out what
was killing them. 1 would get up in
the morning and find one or two lying
dead in the barnyard, still warm, and
| 1 could not tell what sort of an animal
was doing the mischief.
“But Sport Gapired it out, and one
morning | lg~7d him take out after
something. 1 got up as soon as I could
and followed up the gulch, expecting
that they would take that trail. When
{ got there I found the dog lying on
the ground and the big cat dead.
“I'he dog had chased him up there,
but the cat had turned on him and
shown fight. They must have fought
there 15 minutes before the battle
was settled. And from the looks of
both the cat and the dog it must have
been a terrible battle.”
DODGE THE POSTAGE STAMP
| Foreign Countries Devising Schemes
for Benefit of Large Users
of the Mails.
| Any man who can devise a practi-
i cal substitute for the postage stamp
| will deserve the gratitude of every
! large business house in the world, and
| may earn a large fortune. For the
| labor of axing stumps to their enor-
{ mous mail necessitates in some firms
| the employment of a special clerical
| staff.
In the postoffices of some countries
| steps in this direction have already |
| been *1ken. Here, for instance, news-
| pepe and magazines are mailed by |
{ they publishers in bulk without
| stamps, and the postage is paid in a
lump sum of one cent a pound. Then,
again, some firms that send out large
| quantities of circulars register them-
= | gelves under a certain number at the
postoffice, their envelopes are printed
with this number and the circulars so
+ mailed are paid for in bulk. In Ba-
| varia large consignments of
may merely be postmarked by ma-
chinery and sent without stamps, the
postage fee being paid in 2 lump sum
at the time of mailing. It is said that
since February 1, 1910, this system
has saved the Bavarian postoffice the
expense for paper and the printing
cost. for 10,000,000 stamps
A writer in the Umschau, a Ger-
man publication, suggests a further de-
velopment of this system along the
lines of u meter, like those used for
water, gas and electricity, in which
the letters would be placed and auto-
matically stamped with a postmark,
the machine recording each letter so
mailed. These machines would be in-
spected periodically and the bills col-
lected, just as ave ‘hose of the con-
sumer of gas or water.
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Artificial Sponge.
An artificial sponge, the outcome of
German ingenuity, is now to be had,
according to the Scientific American.
The process of making it consists
principally in the action of zine
chloride on pure cellulose. This re-
su'ts in: . pasty, vic ous mass, Which
fg mixeh with coar.ely grained rock
sa’'t,
Placed in a press mold armed with
pins the mass is pierced through and
through until it aprears traversed by
a mult.tude of tiny canals, like the
pores of a natural sponge. The ex-
cess of salts ig subsequently removed
by prolonged washing in a weak al-
coholic solution. The artificial sponge
swells up with water but hardens on
| drying, just like its prototype; it is
| gaid to be eminently adapted for fil-
| tering water for ganitary or industrial
| uges and It can be employed for all
| tie pu-poses that are usually assige-
| @d to the genuine article.
Ancient Roman Long Branch.
The sea coast of Laurentum may
hr ve been in favor with the fashion-
aile and the wealthy for a brief
grace of time under Augustus and his
fr:mediate successors, but was given
up quite soon to pa. venues and mer-
clants and retired officers, and the
s:me set of noisy people who haunt at
tle present day the popular watering
p'aces of the world. To make the
avalogy more striking, an inscription
t
revealing the fact that a synagogue
bd been built at O-tia for the use of
tte Semitic “villeggianti” on the
n ighboring coast.
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His Misf-rtune.
“you got a raise in pay.
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“Yes but i* didn’t do me any good.”
“Why, not?”
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{ihe cut spout i. —Toledo Blade.
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bs been found at La Capocotta sing- |
irg the praises of a wealthy Jew, and |
4 ialk in my sleep and my wife |
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Gratuities of the Season Give a Se
vere Jolt to Man of Small
income.
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small income, “has come to be a se
rious matter,
| “Every summer I send my wife and
daughter to the country, to a modest
| hotel in a quiet place—does them good
| and doesn’t cost ns much more than it
| would to have them stay home, or
| didn’t use to.
| “Years ago wo gave some small tips,
| a little to the waitress and a little to
| the chambermaid, amounts not great,
but now we have to give more to them
| and we have to give also to the chef
and to the housekeeper and so on,
| something to everybody
i something for us. It seems to be the
i custom, and it all counts up.
“This vear, for instance, 1 sent the
folks along weekly the little check for
| their board and their other moderate
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! along very pleasantly and I see us set
| tling the financial problem very nice
i ly, and then a week or two before they
are coming home we put down a little
they come away, and do you know
that this year these amounted to $30.
“Thirty dollars; and that gives me
——just as it does every year—quite
a little jolt. I know it's coming, but
I never realize it till it comes.
“You know what Lincoln said about
paying bills? that it was easier to
pay a big bill if you had the money
{ than a little bill if you hadn't, and
that sum up on the tips hits us in
something that way. We pay ‘em, but
nice little financial schedule
"IT PLEASES THE SERVANTS
Berlin Police Arbitrarily Fix the Sums
They Shall Be Allowed for
Food.
Another instance of the way im
| which the Berlin police authorities in-
| terest themselves in every detail of
| the private life of the city’s inhabi-
| tants is afforded by a decree just is-
| sued by the police president which
arbitrarily fixes the sum per day
{ which is to be allowed for food to
| domestic servants during their em-
| ployers’ absence in summer.
| The term “domestic servant” in-
| cludes cverything, irom the maid of
| all werk of the small household to the
butler, with all his retinue of lesser
| lights, in the house of the rich, and
the decree lays down that each man
servant shall receive a daily allow-
ance of 35 cents and each maid ser-
vant 30 cen.
whole time of their employer's ab-
sence.
! The new police regulation has been
greeted with more delight by the
serve .s than by their employers, es-
‘pe-- vy among the middle classes,
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letters | here the domestic servant problem
in Germany is already acute enough.
Although the amount of the daily al-
lowance cannot be considered as ex-
! cessive in relation to the present
prices of food, when it is remembered
that the ordinary wage, which in Ger-
many is anything from $7.50 per
{ month upward for the average domes-
tie servant, has also to be paid dur-
ing the employer's absence, it will be
seen that the new regulation will
mean a considerable item in the
reckoning of the middle-class family
about to start on its summer vacation.
The Nation of Hotel Keepers.
The * playground of Europe” is the
very appropriate n me bestowed upon
| Switzerland. Iu the summer time
| tourists come from all parts of the
| world and fill the hotels—the best or-
ganized and best kept of any in the
worldi—for the Swiss are a nation of
hotel keepers. The statement of the
Chocolate Soldier, the hero of Bern-
{ ard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man,” that
| dred rooms, fifty segvants, twenty
| cows and so on, sounded like a baro-
! nial tale until he explained that he
| was the son of a Swiss hotel keeper.
| Now tLe long and severe Swiss win- |
| ter has been turned to advantage,
i and even wken the great, blue lakes
| are frozen and the snow mantles the
lower hills, the tourist still raves
| aver the varied bea ties and grandeur
| of the Swiss scene-y and the many
| delights of her mountain hostelries.—
it Joe X ._.chell Cha ple in National
| Magazine.
She Knew Vhat to Do.
A North side metron, directing an
electric coupe for the first time, ven-
tured far out on the South side and
| punctured a tire. The drove home on
the rim and came in for a scientific
treatise on tires {rem her husband.
“Never drive th~ electric with a
busted tire,” said he. “It will ruin
the tire, amd tires ~ost money.”
Another puncture followed a few
far from home.
Algo this time she did not drive the
rest of the way.
She sat in her ck riot and six boys
| psshed her home.— Chicago Post.
Tragical We”“ing Party.
An appalling haprening
Turkey a few days ego, at 2 wedding
celebration, the bride, bridegroom and
twenty-eight of the ruests being blown
: to pieces. A powder merchant named
Yahia was celebrating kis wedding in
| the village of Sinan, in the Yemen,
| when a terriic explosion occurred in
| ane of the rooms where powder was
| sumed. The bride ang bridegroom
and guests ali perished, some of them
being terribly mutilated
TIP QUESTION IS SERIOUS
“This tip business,” said a man of
that does |
expenses—and they are always careful |
about those—and everything is going
memorandum of the tips to give when
it does sort of put the kibosh on our .
for food during the
his family has a home with three hun- |
days later, but this time she was not !
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Hark! the merry chimes are warning
ug that this is Christmas morn-
ing,
And it's time that we were rising,
though the hour isn’t late.
Still. the kidlets will be flocking, each
to overhaul his stocking,
And there's scads of things we've
got to do that really cannot wait.
Yet, before we kick the clothes off (quite determined not to doze off),
Let's indulge in dreamy musing on this joyous Christmastide;
Let us, while the bells are pealing, get up some real Christmas feeling,
ill ourselves with sweet emotions that are not quite cut and dried.
"True, the minutes fast are gliding, but, consarn ‘em, let ‘em glide.
Think of these long weeks of waiting, all the glad anticipating
Of the gay and jestive season that at last, at last is here;
Never resting, never stopping in our mad carver of shopping,
Searching over the ideal, not too cheap and not too dear;
Crushed and elbowed in the reeking crowds, that like ourselves are seeking
Just the very thing of all things that their loved ones most desired.
Limp and draggled then emerging from the pushing, struggling, surging
Mob, with parcels overladen, reaching home at last, dog tired.
Those experiences may be best described as “most all-fired.”
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ance more heroic
Than we've manifested through the
weary ordeal of that time;
We have stood the stress of barter with
the courage of a martyr;
Now we find sweet compensation
list'ning to the Christmas chime,
Whose clear cadence, =oft and mellow, seems to whisper to a fellow
That the worst is nearly over, that we soon may breathe again,
Soon may find surcease of sorrow, and that, maybe by tomorrow
Or the next day, may be lifted something of this mental strain,
That & blessed sense of rest may soothe the tissues of our brain.
We have done with haste and flurry, no occasion now Lo worry,
Lest some sensitive relation may have been quite overlooked.
All the lists of names ave checked and all the walls with green are decked, and
Now within a few short hours the Christmas dinner will be cooked
Hail to Christmas! happy season! There is some substantial reason
To be gleeful at thy advent—the beginning of the end.
As thou comest wreathed with holly, we can certainly be jolly,
: Welcome thee with feast and wassail, and in general unbend,
For we know that we have spent for thee the last cent we can spend!
Now the door bell will cease ringing to
the people who were bringing
An endless string of packages from
morn to dewy eve;
We no longer will be running to comn-
ceal those things with cunning,
And we'll lose our wonted air of
having something up our sleeve.
There will be a deuced litter, when
ihe gewgaws gleam and glittel,
Of waste paper, string and cotton, from the kitchen to the hall;
But, with Consciences el , we will grow enthusiastic
And “wonder how they guessed,” as on the donors’ nec
Looking blissful over dewdads that we didn't want at all,
ks we fall,
Ah, this blessed thing of giving! It is half the joy of living
To watch the looks of gratitude an pleasure and surprise
That, at least to ontward seeming, are upon loved faces begming——
Ag the loved one opens his parcel and digs out his gaudy tles.
And the gentle wife and mother her emotion tries to smother
When conducted by her husband, to some secret corner, where,
As a proof of fond affection, he has hid from Ler detection,
His gift to her, a cozy, costly, well-upholstered chair
(Of whose comforts, in the future, you may bet he'll get his share).
| Now this Christmas spirit moves us to
sense that it behoves us
To keep Poverty's bare platter and
fill Destitution’s cup.
Rring turk and pie and gladness to
the homes of empty sadness!
To help out sweet Christmas char-
ity who would not loosen up?
But it’s highly aggravating not to say exasperating,
When we've given most nobly and without thought of stint,
To find out, as we expected, that the modest are neglected
And our princely benefaction hasnt found its way to print.
(Certainly we didn’t ask it, but a man might take a hint).
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But away with sad reflection! This is no time for dejection. :
Merry Christmas, happy Christmas, as we said, bas come at last!
All the many tribulations, all the trials and vexations
That have crowded thick upon us for the last six weeks, are past,
Not a protest shall be uttered, though the house with toys is cluttered _x
And the kids are all parading to the sound of horn and drum, ,
Lusty lung and larynx voicing the extent of their rejoicing, e
We will have to stand the racket now that Christmas day is come. ;
(Later tone our nervous system at some sanitarium),
—\, Thank the Giver if we're able to sit
Gis ‘round a well-spread table,
Where the plump white-bosomed
turkey sheds its savor through
the room,
And pudding comes on smoking, and
there's no end to the joking,
And no heart that harbors malice
and no mind o'ercast wi
| Let us be profoundly grateful that we have at least a plateful, Henson,
: Grateful for the pepsin tablets that correct our Christmas cheer;
Hold it as among our mercies if there's coin left in our purses '
Be thankful for those dear fo us and those who hold us dear. ;
(And most supremely thankful Christmas comes but once a year)
Copyright, 1911, Western Newspaper Union) :
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[CHRISTMAS IS A PROPHEC' its ills, from the world, and to give
to common humanity their rightful
sovereignty. He worked with Tis
| hands for His daily bread. He is ; 't
: to dignify and glorify in the thou .t
, of mankind all honest toil. He L 1-
ored woman with His sympathetic : 4
appreciative regard. He is yet to
lieve her from every form of serf’ m
| It Forecasts the Perfect Social Con-
{ ditions Which Will Fulfill the
Promises of Christ.
Christmas is not only a fact com-
: memorating the one sacred festival
!in the world’s calendar, but the glor-
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fous prophecy of a coming day, sur- created by the past ages. He ' Kk
passing all the brightest social dreams little children in His arms and bled
that have ever visited the most ad- them. He is yet to make blessed ihe
vanced human mind. He sprang, on ¢hild life in every welcoming ho: eo.
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flis buman nature side, from kings
and peasants, from saints and sinners.
He is vet to lift every peasant to the
kingliest throne of character and ‘trans-
form the chief of sinners into the
holiest of saints. . He allied Himself
with poverty and the common people.
He in yet to banish poverty with all
He gave His peace to His distraeiod
disciples. He is yet to make wars
cease unto the end of the earth. He
nnited 17i= brethren with Himself ang
Hig Father in one unbroken onencss.
Jie J yet lo Miho evary man a broth
er to fellow-man and ut one with!
his Father in Heaven. {