“whom was a young subgltern of the od J "Bellefonte, Pa., famuary 12, 1912. It Was the Means of Betraying Mar- shal Ney to Death. A saber of honor brought Marshal Ney to dishonor and death. When Na- poleon entered Cairo on July 22, 1798, he was presented with three swords of honor richly inlaid with pre- clous stones. He brought them back to Europe, and in 1802 he gave one to Ney and another to Murat, keeping the third for himself. Ney received his at an imperial re ception. The sword passed from one to another of those present, among Auvergne regiment. When Napoleon escaped from Elbe Ney left the king and took sides with his former chief. After the allies entered Paris Ney made preparations to get out of the country, but his wife and a friend per- suaded him that there was really no danger. and he decided to remain in France. Then came the order for his arrest. He fled to a castle in the pos- session of some friends and succeeded | in reaching it without his presence be- ! ing known. One day, feeling tired, be threw bim-. self on a couch, first taking off his orl. | ental sword. which be always wore out of affection for the emperor. Hearing | voices, he sprang up and hurriedly left the room, forgetting his sword. A min- ute later a party of women and men entered the room. one of them being | the young subaltern of the Auvergne | regiment, now a colonel. He at once recognized the sword and, calling io some gendarmes, proceeded to search the premises. Finding that he was discovered, Ney gave himself up quietly. On Dec. 7. 1810, the marshal, whose sobriquet was. the Bravest of the Brave, the hero of a hundred battles, was shot. Scarcely two months after the owner of the second sword, Murat, had met his fate in the same way. And Yet He Had More Cash In Bank Than He Could Use. One morning last year I sat in the | office of the head of a very large busi. | ness, one of the shrewdest men 1 know. His cashier came in and laid | on Lis desk a report of the cash in the bank. The amount exceeded $400. 000. “That's a pretty big balance,” said my friend to his clerk. “It's much more than we need in this business But we have borrowed no money for several months, so 1 wish you would | send to each of our bunks a note for $100,000.” When the clerk went out I express. ed surprise at this action. or a man to borrow $200.000 when he had more money than he could use seemed to me a wasteful proceeding. “I do it,” he said “10 keep my credit alive. I want the bunks accustomed to lending me money. | want them to regard a good line of credit as a regular thing with me. Some time | may need it, and when I do I want to have it ready and waiting. An estab lished credit is a big asset, and the only way to get and keep it is to con stantly employ it.” I have thonght of that action a good many times since. I had always prid- ed myself on not borrowing money And T paid cash on the spot for every thing that | bought. I looked upon people who bought things on credit as rather poor financiers. But a few months ago 1 wanted some money—a small amount and for only a month. 1 went to a bank where 1 had kept a deposit for over fifteen yeurs, and they asked me to deposit good bonds as collateral to the full amount of the loan. My friend could borrow by simply signing a note. 1 had to give ample security.— Matson Hale in National Monthly. Talking Canaries. Talking canaries are a great rarity, but several authenticated instances are on record. At Norwood, England, in 1858 a lady had a canary bird which began by repeating a word which its mistress had often used to it—“Kissie, kissie"—and by following the word up by an imitation of the sound of a kiss. After a time the bird repeated other words until it bad a large vocabulary of phrases, one of which consisted of five words. Again, in 1863, a talking canary was exhibited in Bath, with a vocabulary such as is generally taught te parrots, and another talking canary was exhibited for a few weeks in this country, but it unfortunately caught cold and died. In Germany and the Tyrol canaries are taught to imitate the notes of other birds and whistle simple tunes, and the words which it imitates may be regarded ns a mere development or variant of its musical notes. The Lerot and the Snake. Every one hus beard of the remarka- ble combats of the Indian mongoose with venomous snakes, in which little rikki-tikki-tavi comes off victor. The fact that the mongoose invariably sur- vives has led to the suggestion that it fs immune 0 snake poison. Other ani- mals said to be immune are the pig and the hedgehog. The experiments of British naturalists show that an animal of the dormouse family must added to the list of the immune. This animal is known as the lerot and to fight flercely with vipers. of viper's poison were in- one lerot, from which In- by a viper. and no signs of is is no 11 effects followed. On one | a lerot was bitten badly in | i= When Big Guns Crash. ! The effects of two ten-inch turret guns fired simultaneously on board a war vessel are rather astonishing. A says: “For several moments I won- dered what hit me and where 1 was hit. The glass that protects the helms- man from the weather and the win- dows of the charthouse, the glass of which is one-third of an inch thick, were smashed to atoms. An ink bottle that stood on the table in the chart- house jumped about six inches, and bottle dropped back to the from which it jumped. Three water bottles and three tumblers were on the table in the smoking room, all being full of water. When the guns were fired the bottles and the tumblers jumped into the air. Three gentlemen who were their old places, but every drop of wa- ter had been spilled upon the table, though nothing had been broken.” This suggests a rather unpleasant out- look for the sailors in case of a bat- tle.—S8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Beaver's Day's Work. | A young beaver in Regent's park gardens, Loudon. was once placed at | town clocks sounded the hour of noon. The beaver began by barking the tree a foot above the ground. That done. he attacked the wood. He worked hard, alternating his labor with dips in his bathing pond. He bathed and labored alternately until 4 o'clock in | the afternoon, when he ate his supper of hread and carrots and paddled about in his pond until half past 5 o'clock. Ten minutes later. when only one inch | of the tree's diameter remained intact, | he bore upon his work, and the tree | fell. Before it fell the beaver ran as | | men run when they have fired a blast. | | Then as the tree lay on the ground he | portioned it out mentally and again be- | gan to gnaw. He worked at intervals all night, cut the log into three parts. rolled two of the portions into the wa- ter and reserved the other third for | his permanent shelter. The work done. | he took a bath.—Harper's Weekly. . Betting In Buenos Aires. The Hippedrome, one of the finest race tracks in the world. is owned by | the Buenos Alves Jockey club, and its | enormous revenue is derived from this source. The Argentinians are born | gamblers, and they wager almost in- | credible sums on horseflesh. The mu- | nicipal statistics of Buenos Aires show that $25,800,000 in American gold was wagered upon the races at the Hippo- drome in one year. This is an average | of fifty Argentine dollars for each man. ! woman and child in that great city. | Naturally the reported figures do not | include all the money wagered on | horse racing. so that the true sum is | no doubt several millions in excess of | the reported figures. There are none | so old and few so young that they | will not wager n few pesos on a fa- | vorite. The tense faces of all present ' show the personal interest in the result, The jockey club receives as its share 10 per cent of all bets, besides the en- trance fees and seat sales.—Travel | Magazine. Victoria and Napoleon. Queen Victoria once gave a remark- able description of her visit to the tomb of Napoleon 1. during the reign of Napoleon III. “The coffin is not yet here,” she wrote, "but in a small side chapel of St. Jerome. Into this the emperor led me, and there I stood at the arm of Napoleon (IL, his nephew. before the coffin of England's bitterest foe, I, the granddaughter of that king who hated him most and who most vigorously opposed him and this very nephew, who bears his name, being my nearest and dearest ally! The or- gan of the church was playing ‘God Save the Queen’ at the time, and this solemn scene took place by torchlight and during a thunderstorm. Strange and wonderful indeed!” An Offensive Cravat. A man once called upon Whistler with a letter of introduction, and an amusing scene followed, arising out of the fact that the visitor was wearing a red necktie. Whistler declared it in- terfered with the color scheme of his room and “put him off” a picture he was painting in quite a different “key.” Finally he obliged him to take off the offending cravat before he would con- descend to exchange another word with him. The Lamb. “Does your husband play poker?” “Yes, but not for money.” “That so?" “No. He wouldn't do such & thing. When he plays it's only for fun, and he keeps tally with little red. white and blue checks.” —Detroit Free Press His Pet. Harker—Think I'l try to sell old Stuffem some pet dogs. Barker—Iise- less job. All he thinks about is eating. Harker — Hasn't any four legged friends, eh? Barker—Only one. and that's the dining room table.—~Chicago News. ! Unidentified, Suspicious Neighbor--Did your moth- er have a rooster for dinner yesterday. sonnie? Sonnie—Yes'm. Suspicious Neighbor—A big one with black tail feathers? Sonnie— Dunne. Mother Bide cook the feathers.—Sydney Bul 1 letin. ; Regrets. | Regrets are a waste of time in every | possible instance except one—when | they become valuable lessons for the | future. every drop of ink sprang out, but the | in the room also left their seats. The : bottles and tumblers fell back into | ' The Changing Colored Terraces at the Mammoth Hot Springs. It is with surprise that visitors to | the Yellowstone National park who re- correspondent on board the vessel | turn after an absence of a year or more find that many changes have oc- | eurred in the appearance of the col- | ored terraces at the Mammoth hot springs. Indeed, such alterations oc- cur sometimes in a period of a few weeks. The terraces consist of a series of basins, each set being a few feet low- er than its predeceszor, and the hot water from the springs at the top of the terraces flows from basin to basin, depositing its chalky sediment at the rims, thus slowly building them up. Wherever the flow of water contin ues constant for a considerable time the fluted edges and sides of the ba- sins become beautifully colored. The variegated hues are mainly due to vegetable matter, and so if the flow of water ceases these bright colors rapidly fade, leaving the terraces milk white. In a little while the edges and | walls of the dry basins begin to crum- | ble, and the most beautiful forms dis- appear in white dust and chalk-like | fragments. One of the favorite terraces at the hot springs. called the Minerva ter | race, exhibits these changes in a mark- work upon a tree twelve feet long and | two feet six inches thick just as the | ed degree because of its conspicuous position. Sometimes, owing to a failure of the flow of water, the Minerva terrace parts with its splendid colors and re sembles a set of fluted basins carved out of snow white marble. But when the water begins to run freely again the colors return with all their former vividness and beauty. The changes in the flow of the water seem to depend in part at least upon conditions prevailing in the heated rocks underlying the terraces.—Har- per's Weekly. Serving His Country. A certain public office has been the object of much satire because of the passive nature of the incumbent's du- ties—except wien he is ealled by tragic occurrence inte the thick of action. So very negative, indeed, is the work of this public servant that he sometimes serves his country most efficiently by being absent, ns appears in this extract ° from Moses Coit Tyler's journal, writ- « : ten in Washington years ago: “President Grant pever starts a con- versation. but when it is started he | often says au neat thing. Last year | there was an excursion down the Po- tomac. He wus on board. with his cabi- net and a quorum of hoth houses. “Mr. President,” said Mrs. Judd, who sat near him. ‘it would be a pretty bad thing to have a great accident hap- pen to this party. Nearly the whole government would be destroyed.’ “Yes, Mrs, Judd, assented the pres- ident, ‘but you observe that the vice president has very prudently stayed at home.” The Fauble Stores. Se ————— CANALS IN ENGLAND. monial Disappointment. land navigation, which includes sev- eral thousand miles of canal, may be said to have had its origin in a matri- menial disappointment. The Duke of Bridgewater, the originator of the sys- tem, was engaged to be married just after he had attained his majority. A dispute arising between the couple, the match was broken off. The duke's | ehagrin changed the course of his life. He gave his first and last ball to the London world of fashion and then bur fed himself amoung his coal fields at Worsley, Eschewing the society of women. he refused even to employ them as servants In his manor house. Disappointed in marrying the most beautiful woman in England. he de- termined to unite by means of a canal his coal fields with Manchester, then beginning its career as a manufac: turing town. In those days good roads were the exceptions, bad roads the rule. The cottons of Manchester and the woolens of Leeds were conveyed from place to place on pack horses, ! which jogged along in single file. The | freight charge from Leeds to London was $63 a ton. When the duke’s canal was finished the prices of coal and j otuet commodities in Manchester fell one-half. The success of this canal started the ! duke to build one which would con- | nect Manchester with Liverpool. To { procure the funds he reduced his per ‘ gonal expenses to £400 a year. So | straitened was he at times that the | London bankers hesitafed to discount | his note for £500. Sometimes when i “hard up” he would send his steward i upon a collecting tour among the ten- ' antry of the ducal estates. The stew- , ard would ride from tenant to tenant, getting £5 here and £10 there. When | he had collected money enough he would return and pay the canal labor- | ers their weekly wages. In a few years, however, the duke's canals paid 1 him an annual revenue of £80,000.— ! New York Press. The British system of artificial in- They Had Their Origin In a Mate. | Hood's : Sarsapariila. _ ce em m——— Scrofula Is commoniy inherited. It may, how- ever, develop so slowly as to cause little if any disturbance ing childhood. may then produce catarrh, and marked t to consump- t before causing eruptions, sores or a A am. oe Shin a i t -puri- fier and tonic, Hood's Sarsapariiia. M suffered with scrofula, which covered face entirely. I gave him Hood's Sa lla, and w he had tak- en three bottles he was © ely cur ed.” Mrs. Elsie Hotaling, Voorheesville, N.Y. Theru is no real substitute for HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA Get it t in usual liquid form or AO a 57-2 Mag izines. 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Condensed Time Table effective June 19, 1911, READ DOWN READ UP. a STATIONS EL. here No 1 No5/No 3) {No No 4No3 a.m, |p.m.io.m.(Lve. . p.m. p.m. a, #050" 55" | BELLEFONTE. "6 45 06| 9 | 715] 656 232..F.. Nigh. 927 452 9 | 720167 01) 2 371... Zion... 921 447 9 727) 708] 2 45. HECLA PARK. 915 4 41! 9 | 720° "| 2 47|"F..Dunkles..... 913 438 9 i 73317 13, 2 51}...Hublersburg.... 19 09 4 34| 9 | 737 718] 2 55|.F.Snydertown....; 9 06 4 29 9 | 7 4017 201 2 581........ ittany..:. 19 04) 427 9 | 742/723] 3 01{..F... Huston ...... 902 4240 9 i 7 728 305....... Lamar....... 859 421 9 7 48(7 30! 3 08|....Clintondale.....|f8 56 4 18) 8 ! 752] 734] 3 12|F Krider's Siding 8 52 4 14) 8 aed oC 8] : r ng. | 308 747 3251... Salona........ 8 40 1018 | 810 7520 3 30l. Nill. HALL. "| 8 51 3 561 8 ! (N.Y. Central & Hudson River R. R.) 1 o 318% hE Jersey Shore... suk | 3% 4 | 20 ArT Loose Lve.! } #12 27, 11 30 Lye. § WM PORT | 7% 23 6 | t__ | (Phila, & Reading Ry. | | 7301 650... PHILADELPHIA 1836 11 30 10 10! 850... NEW YORK 900 (Via Phila.) p.m. am'A Lve. a.m.! p.m. Ir. t Week Days. WALLACE H. GEPHART, General Superintendent. Bellefonte.
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