astronomical instruments, Bais Well Guarded, A remarkable new safe lock has Geen Invented. It is provided with | phonographic mechanism, so that it can be opened only by the voice of the owner. A mouthpiece like that of & telephone takes the place of a knob on the door, and this is provided with the usual! siyle or needle, which tray- els in a groove in the sound record of the phonograph cylinder. Before the safe can be unlocked the password must be spoken into the original cylin- der by the one who made the original record, - Fircless Cooker Improved. i A decided disadvantage of the fire | less cooker is that it is not entirely | fireless, for the heat of a stove or gas jet is necessary in order to bring | the food to be cooked to the proper’ temperature where the cooking pro- cess continues after being placed in ‘the interior of the cooker. A new form of the fireless cooker makes use of the electric current for the purpose of fmparting this initial heat, and the combination is said to represent a great convenience and economy. Fircs of Buffalo Chips. On the piains where wood was un- known bufialo chips supplied the camp fire that cooked the meals of the plainsmen. The old time prospector with bs wagon and mules, carried with him on the plains a store of blacks sawed from a 2 by 6 pine plank. When meal time came he chopped a block into many small pieces, lit his fire, cooked his bacon and boiled his tea or cofee, all of which he succeed: ed in doing successfully by proper management. Way to Oil a Clock. When 2 clock does not run continu- ously, or stops frequently, the cause is often due to 2 lack of oll. This may be remedied by saturating a piece of ab- sorbent cotton with kerosene ofl and placing it inside the clock, below the pendulum. When the cotton is re- moved a month or so later it is found to be very dirty. This shows that the fumes of the kerosene oil have not only oiled the clock, but have also cleaned it.—Pictorial Review. Something From Nothing. Some children wera once asked by an inspector at a school examination whether they knew the meaning of the word “scandal” One little girl, holding her hand up attracted the no- tice of the inspector. He desired her to answer the quesrfon, upon which she gave this definftion: “Nobody does nothing, snd overybody goes round telling it.” ——— Proper Way to Dry Umbrella. Umbrellas when wet ghould be half. opened and set to dry with the point upwards; they will last much longer it dried in this way; when they are put wet into a stand in the ordinary way, the water settles in the top and rusts the ribs, which in time causes the silk io become rotten, and easily | crack into holes. . | —————— Had Tested Them. One evening grandina sent Johnny to the siora to buy matches and told him to hurry, for she wanted to light a lamp. Orne hour later Johnny re turned with the matches. Grandma sald: “Johnny, the matches are not good.” “Yes, they are” answered Johnny, “I have tried every one; they were all good.” —————————— Sleep for the Little One. Twelve hours’ sleep is the right of every child under goveon years of age, ten hours until ten or twelve years. |. Many a pale, washed-out looking child of this age owes his fll health to lack of sleep.— Woman's Home Com panion, Spiders Ald Scientists. Ceriain species of spiders are culti- vated by scientists on account of the fine but durable thread they weave, the thread being used on delicate Two Classes. : The people of this world are divided into two classes—those who are able to have drawing-rooms when they start on their wedding journeys apd those who arc not, No Cause for Hilarity. Sweet potatoes are exposed to the attacks of a dozen serious ineects, says an exchange, We see nothing to laugh at, either. Undoubtedly. The man who is “never at his best until he has a few drinks in him” must be very poor at other times. — Exchange. Country's Farming Population. Classed according to color there are 5,422,892 white farmers in this coun- try and 917,468 others. {deal Womanliness. True womanliness consists in wom- sm adapting themselves to the world's greatest need. : ——————————— Hard to Bear. HIS DEATH LEAVES BIG GAP Collins, Waiter in House of Commons Smoking Room, Had Known Gen. erations of Members, Scarcely any figure could have de- parted from the house of commons and left so great a gap in the intimate | life of members as has been oceca- sioned by the death of Collins, the waiter in the upper smoking room. For something like fifty years he had been in the service of the house, and he had known whole generations of members, who looked upon him with almost affection. The upper smoking room is the true center of serious gos- sip in the house of commons. It is the place where men speak their | minds to one another, Collins, in mov- ing about among the tables, heard all the gossip, and no man was so in- fallible in interpreting the real opinion of members—an opinion not always expressed in more public quarters. Some few weeks ago a garden party to the staff and police of the house of commons, Mr, T. P. O'Connor made | general reference to the unique posi. tion of Collins. He told how, when Mr. Lloyd George was in doubt about the passing of his budget, when all the political authorities told him one thing or another, he went to Collins, as the best informed politician, to know what ought to be done. Collins was an ideal waiter, know- ing the preferences of his regular cus- tomers and needing no order from them when they entered the room over which he ruled. He seemed to have the secret of perpetual youth. His round, sunny, boyish face, his alert ness and his uniform cheerfulness gave to him an appearance of juven- ility which belied al statements as to his age. He had the true Irish tem- perament, was witty and ready, and was never known to be “out of sorts.” No man was more generously treated or more highly respected by his cli. ents.—Westminster Gagette. NO USE OF BEING A SPORT Sullivan Offered to Flip Coin to See Whether He Sould Serve Ten Years or Nothing. This is the sad story of one of the most thoroughbred sports known to the history of hazards. His name was Sullivan, and he had blue eyes and red hair, with a brogue to match his coloring. John Hays Hammond, the mining engineer, met him in prison in South Africa at the time when Hammond and other men were held as captives by the Boers in connec. tion with the Jameson raid. The en- gineer and the Irishman became well acquainted. “Probably you wonder why I'm in here,” sald Sullivan, one day, when the thermometer had gone as high as A165 in the shade. “Well, I'll tell you; I got into a little trouble, and I plead. | ed guilty to it. “ ‘Five years!’ said the judge. * “Your honor!’ I cried out, ‘I'll throw heads and tails with you to see wheth. er it shall be ten years or nothing.’ “And would you believe it, Mr. Hams mond? That judge got mad and added on five years, anyhow. And now I'm serving that extra five years. What's the use of being a sport?’—Popular Magazine, Geography Lesson From a Shrimp, Dr. Gaillard, a member of the Tile ho mission, discovered in Lake Tchad numerous shrimps of a species well known to naturalists, but hitherto found only in the Nile and its tribu- taries. This discovery leads physical geographers to assert that the basins of the Nile and of Lake Tchad were once in communication. For it is im- possible to imagine that the very fra- gile eggs or larvae of Palaemon niloticus, as this shrimp is called, could have been transported from one basin to the other by aquatic birds In the manner that seeds are carried. The topography of the intervening region is not yet sufficiently known to make it possible to assert certainly that there was once a great lake or marsh between the Nile and Lake Tchad or that a tributary of the great river once took ies rise in the Sa- haran lake, but there is a vast de- pression about the Bahr-el-Gazel re- gion that makes this hypothesis seem probable, v The Fish Hawk's Warning. "“The fish hawk tells us when the shad begin to run up the river,” said a Gloucester fisherman. “We have learned that it isn't much use to cast nets, no matter how mild the weath- er may be, until Mr. Fish Hawk swoops down on us. “When he comes sailing up the bay we know it's time to get to work. Lots of farmers down Jersey would never think to start planting until the fish hawks come. I don’t believe they have ever been later than April 12, thougln, They work their way up the coast from Florida and the other southern waters early in March, when the fish begin to come north. follow the big schools of herring, as a rule, because the herring swim close together, and the hawk has easy pick- ing. The shad follow the herring, and when the fish hawk comes we know the shad are not far behind.”—Fish- ing Gazette. Her Explanation, “Mammy, dear,” sald little Matty, “what is a stepmother?” “Why, Matty,” replied his mother, “were 1 to die and your dad should marry again, the lady would be a step- mother.” “Oh, I see,” remarked Matty; “you'd : It is always painful to see somebody ‘Ise faoling the public. step out and she'd step in.” “That's it."—San Francisco Wasp. 1 on | ——For high class Job Work come to the WATCHMAN Office. = id deal HT AV AVY. Terrible Suffering a a ————— ———— 4 » ECZEMA ALL OVER BABY'S BODY. four months old and 4 » 4 » 4 » When bab, $ ; Was his face roe out with eczema, at » sixteen months of . his face, hands 4 iu a The » over . We To a or cloth over his face and 4 a, iy eh |e . a few he was cured Mrs. Inez Lewis, Baring, | 4 » 4 » 4 » lS tat. 2 Su wi , @c- Cordin tothe test y of thousands of ' here is no real substitute for it, Do not be led t ; any ion said to be “just 116 Buy but on having 3 Hood's BUILDING MATERIAL When you are ready for it. you will get it here. On LUMBER, MILL WORK. ROOFING. SHINGLES AND GLASS. This is the plate where close prices [naterials get the orders of all who know of t AN ESTIMATE? BELLEFONTE LUMBER CO. §2-5-1y. Bellefonte, Pa. WV AT LAV AVAT ANT LT FAV AT AT AT ATLL BY BSE BTE it today. In usual liquid form or agi tablets called Sarsatabs. 57-1 | i | Claster'’s | i! i This $13.50 Cravanette Raincoat at $7.78 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 t Both Telephones 56-27.y Insurance. EARLE C. TUTEN (Successor to D. W. Woodring.) Fire, Life and Automobile Insurance None but Reliable Companies Represented. Surety Bonds of All Descriptions. i BELLEFONTE, PA i | _ Do not fail to Life Property lage lines at any time. 43-18-1y. The Preferred Accident JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successor to Grant Hoover) Fire, Life Accident Insurance. This represents the largest Fire Fo Asengy rors the rw —— NO ASSESSMENTS — Office in Crider’s Stone Building, call before insuring [vets a val in oath to wite BELLEFONTE, PA. BV BV AST LTA Insurance Co. ’ mu : THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY BENEFITS: This is a dark grey fancy worst : $5,000 death by accident ed Raincoat, Has a very closely 5,000 loss of both woven hard finish surface with ; S500 Lous af both hand Bo tus foot narrow stripe running up and 2.500 loss of either hand. . down. The fabric has been chem- 4 2,000 loss of either foot ically treated amaking it practically b 630 loss of one eve nproof. e nt is 25 per week, total disability, across the shoulders and three ; (limit 52 weeks) quarters down the front with a 10 per w partial disability, good quality plain Black Sat- ¢ (limit 26 weeks) . in. Made with a self collar. Has i PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR, two large outside pockets, and i : flaps, and one outside and one in- : pavable quarterly if desired. sige breast pocket. Garment is | Larger or smaller amounts in proportion. well sewed and tailored through- : person, male or fi d in a out and makes a practical coat for || Spin, get rainy weather at a very moderate good moral and condition may price : nsure under this s ma—— $7.76 | MAIL ORDERS FILLED CLASTER’S | BELLEFONTE Direct from Wholesaier to Consumer 57-3tf Fire Insurance LYON & CO. The Largest White Sale We are now having the largest White Sale in town. Muslins, Table Linens, Nap- kins, Towels and Toweling. Bed Spreads, Sheets and Pillow Cases, White Stuffs, Laces, and Embroideries, in fact everything that is needed for the best sale, at prices that will save money for all. In addition to our big white sale, we have Our Annual Rummage Table which speaks for itself. Special sale of fine Furs. Coats and Coat Suits. Ail Furs and Winter Coats and Suits at closing out pric- es. Everything in Winter stuffs must be sold regardless of cost. We invite all to see our prices and convince your selves that we do ex actly as advertised. LYON &CO. Dry Goods Allegheny St. 4-12 Bellefonte, Pa. ———— re eee Yeager’s Shoe Store From the First = [ \G ee Minuteto the Last Every Hour, every Day in the Year, you should have lcd the Bell Telephone within arm’s-length. Resolve te have one Now if you're still trying %o get along without it. Resolve to make it serve you more in the everyday duties it wonderfully. helps with, se Resolve to call the Business Office to. day and learn more about Ask especially about direct line service. Ww. 8. Local 57-12t BELLEFONTE, PA. it. CO. OF PA. Mer ~ Fitzezy The Ladies’ Shoe that Cures Corns Sold only at Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA. ~~
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