sili
, Pa., [anvary 19, 1912.
Twining Plants.
One of the peculiarities to be no
ticed in conpection with the twining
of plants is the fact that with very
few exceptions all the individuals of
one species always twine in the same
direction. Most plants twine in the
oposite course to the movement of the
sun or the hands of a watch. Suck
twiners are the morning glory. wis-
taria, wax plant, trumpet creeper and
many others. Among those which
twine in the opposite direction the |
and wild bindweed, or chmbiag|
polygonum, are familiar examples.— |
‘Harper's Weekly.
| she would seize two or more and with
Primitive Race.
In the more inavcessible parts of the
Sierra Madre mountains in northern
Mexico live a curious people called the |
Tarabvamaris. Many of them dwell in
caves, but they have also small vil
lages, all of them about 8,000 feet
above sea level. The Tarahuamaris
are small in body, but possessed of |
much endurance. Their only food is,
maize. and they manufacture a drink
called teshuin from the same cereal. |
Their language is limited to about 300 |
words, and thier cannot cou * beyond |
ten.
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Wanted to Patent a Circus. i
P. T. Barnum once came to the of-
fice to know if he could patent the |
threering circus. In technical par- |
Jance his three-ring circus was an ag- |
gregation and not a combination to'
produce a new result. Therefore it |
was not patentable, which information |
highly incensed the showman. “It will |
be adopted by every circus just as |
soon as [I make it known,” he de- |
clared. And it was.—From the Scien: |
tific American's “Ten Stories.” i
Rap at English Language.
Mr. Ruskin was once asked if it |
would not be well for the Welsh lan- |
guage to die out and be replaced by |
the English. “God forbid!” he re |
plied. “The Welsh language is the
language of music. There is no genius |
about the English language. ‘The
Scotch have got all the poetry and!
the Irish all the wit, and how the
devil we got Shakespeare I do not
know.”
As We Speak It.
A German who had come to Amer-
fica to master our language was being
shown behind the scenes of a vaude- |
ville theater by one of his American |
friends. “That man,” sald the Ameri- |
can, indicating an actor with a wave |
of his hand, “is taking off his make-
up to make-up for another take-off.”
The German departed, sputtering~—
Buccess.
Be Honest With Children.
Tt should need no long discussion to |
convince parents that, if they want
their children to be honest and
straightforward, they must be honest
and straightforward in dealing with'
their little ones. Children are such |
arrant imitators that it behooves their
elders to set the best example for
them in speech and action.
Dangerous Wax.
Not many persons know that the
preserving wax used in jellies is high. |
ly explosive. It should be placed in|
a small teapot, and the vessel must
be only half full when ready for use.
Be careful of the drip when Feplaeing
it on the stove. Several accidents this
season have proclaimed its danger. |
ous features,
Too Ready With Assistance.
Smith—"Goldmore is a very gen.
erous old fellow. Do you know, he's
always helping somebody out?” Jones
(sadly)—*“Yes, I know; I was down to
see his daughter the other night, and
he helped me out, too.”—Stray
Stories.
Explanation of Sun's Heat,
The reason why the sun retains its
heat despite the large amount it
gives out is explained by the fact
that heat is generated by the fall of
particles toward its center,
Foolish.
The man who goes into court
merely to obtain satisfaction is about
as foolish as the one who exhausts
himself in trying to go through the
world on a bluff.
As Yet Inexperienced.
The husband who bas not yet
learned to wear a smile over an ach-
ing heart still has rice in his pockets.
—Exchange.
Valuable invention.
A man in East India has invented
an electric pen that carbonizes the
sheet of paper over which it passes.
Japs Prone to Suicide.
There are more suicides in Japan.
in proportion to its population, than
in any other country in the world.
Fate's Grim Humor.
A psuper murderer in a Germad
prison has just fallen heir to $5,000,
000.
Grumbler's Power Small.
Rurely is the grumbler a mender
of methods,
| shine, searching for the leaves that
| he sat down in the nest and worked
| no needful thing, he was a bird of
| The boy was drowned while bathing
| mother had to wait for the comfort
of her husband until ‘after working
ONE BIRD'S LABOR OF LOVE
Naturalist Watches Thrushes Building
Their Nest, Where the Female
Did the Work.
The other day I sat for an hour
watching a pair of wood thrushes en-
gaged in building their nest near “Slab-
sides.” 1 say a pair, though the fe-
male really did all the work. The
male hung around and was evidently
an interested spectator of the proceed:
ing. The mother bird was very busy
bringing and placing the material,
which consisted mainly of dry maple
leaves which the winter had made
thin and soft, and which were strewn
over the ground all about. How
pretty she looked running over the
ground, now in shade, now in sun-
were just to her fancy! Sometimes
a quick, soft flight bear them to the
fork of a little maple sapling.
Every five or six minutes during her
absence the male would come and in-
spect her work. He would look it
over, arrange a leaf or two with his
beak, and then go his way. Twice
his feet and pressed it with his
breast, as if shaping it. When the fe-
male found him there on her return
he quickly got out of her way.
But he brought no material, he did
leisure. The female did all the
druagery, and with what an air of
grace and ease she did it! So soft
of wing, so trim of form, so pretty of
pose and so gentle in every move-
ment! It was evidently no drudgery
to her, the material was handy, and
the task one of love.—Country Life in
America.
NOT ALL ARE LIKE THIS
Example of the Cold-Blooded New
York Landlady Probably
an Exception.
“Bver since coming to New York I
have heard about the cold-blooded
metropolitan landlady,” remarked the
woman-who-hails-from-the-west, but it
was not until my colored laundress
lost her son that I rubbed elbows
with the genuime calloused article.
in the Hudson, and a policeman
brought home his few garments and
dilapidated old shoes, with the word
that the body
covered. .
“The woman's first thought was
would hardly he re- |
that she wanted her husband to know |
of their loss and come to her comfort. |
He is employed as kitchen helper in
a boarding house run by a woman in
the north end of Manhattan, I tele-
phoned to his employer, and she calm-
ly replied that the man could not
come to the telephone, no servants
were permitted to do so; nor would
she give the message to him. ‘He is
particularly busy today, and I cannot
spare him,’ was her harsh reply.
Rather hotly I informed her that I
would immediately
and she replied that the message
would not be delivered until after
working hours.
“Later I learned that I should have
reported the matter to the police de-
partment and a policeman would have
heen sent to inform the father; but
as the matter stood, the distracted
hours,’ nearly ten hours, at that.”
How Divers Fish,
When diving lessons are going on at
the Newport Training Station there
is always fish for supper. The thick
black mud at the bottom of the bay
is dotted with flounders, big fellows
that the divers easily capture by hand
| and bring up without any trouble. It
! is hard to walk on the sea floor with-
out stepping on them, where they lie
! half buried in the ooze. All the man
under water has to do is to stoop and
i pick them up. Being a sluggish fish,
| they make very little resistance and
| are hauled up to the surface by the
| tail or fins without any fuss. BIg eels,
| too, are plentiful, fat, green fellows
| thick as a man's arm. It would take
| a stout net to hold them and no diver
dares to tackle one, no matter how
i much his mouth waters for eels stew-
ed in milk, The muscular contortions
of such eels as inhabit Newport har-
bor would be pretty sure to foul the
lifeline or airhose and would prob-
ably result in the diver's death, so
| the men in the diving suits confine
| themselves to the complaisant
| Aownder:
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The Order of Precedence.
The fair Englishwoman looked puz-
| zled. “How do you manage,” she ask-
| ed, “about going out to dinners and
: about presentations and all that sort
! of thing? You know no order of prece-
! lence, don’t you know.”
| “Oh, mistake not,” cheerfully replied
| the American. “We have, indeed.”
| “I have not been able to discover
iit. What is the basis of it?"
| “Oh, we go alphabetically, don't you
know,”
Companions in Tribulation, |
“Who are the two men who shake
hands and look sympathetic every
time that prima donna’s name is men- |
tioned?” i
“One i» her manager and the other
is her husband.”
In the Interest of Economy. |
“I suppose they will have combina- |
tion accidents next.” i
“What do you mean?”
“Where an airship drops on an aw
tomobile and the automobile does the
rest.”
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telegraph him, |
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Cleaning Glass Vases.
Flower vases which have become | Who knows how to appreciate superior | at birth will be gov
cloudy and discolored should be
cleaned with a mixture of vinegar and
salt, poured in and well shaken about. |
A long piece of stiff wire, upon the
end of which is a little pad of soft
rag, should be poked into all the cor!
ners and crevices, and the vase then |
rinsed in warm water and dried with
a good polishing cloth. Fly marks |
upon the gilt frames of pictures |
should be rubbed with half a lemon |
and then polished with a chamois
leather.
Art Anachromism. :
“It is generally acknowledgad that
the most brilliant little cavalry officer |
the nation has ever produced was!
Oliver Cromwell. It is, therefore, pe-
culiarly unfortunate—but it is never-
theless a fact—that on the statue of
the Protector which stands outside
Westminster hall the spurs are repre-
sented as uttached to the boots up-
side down! Further, the left spur is
on the right foot, and the right is on
the left, while it is insisted by the
best experts that the spurs are not
of the period.”— Bargain Book.
Paving the Way.
At a political meeting a very enthu-
siastic German made a speech begin-
ning like this: “My dear fellow citi-
zens and fellow Shermans. I don’t
vant to say nodings about nobody, but
look at dem Irish in de Tenth vard;
vot have dey got? Paved streets!
Und vot have ve got? Mut! Mut!
Now, my fellow citizens und fellow
Shermans, vot I vish to say is dis: |
Coom, let us put our heads togedder
und make a block pavement.”--The
Housekeeper.
Fault May Be in Eyesight.
Children who suffer very much from
headaches without any apparent cause
should be taken to an oculist to have
their eyes examined. It may be that
they are overstraining them without |
being conscious of the fact. Defects
of the eyes can he cured in so many
cases if glasses are worn for a time,
and even the tiniest children soon be!
come accustomed to wearing them,
Promotion Shoots.
A wise old financier confides he has
often found it valuable to put a stupid |
man on a promotion scheme. He un.
derstands baseball, and thig is the
way he explains it: A great batter’
doesn’t expect to see a ball come to |
him straight over the plate: when |
the dull promoter pute his straight!
over the plate it catches some of the!
keenest of ‘em napping.
Estimation of Genius.
Charles V. asked Michael Angelo
one day in what estimation he held
Albert Duerer. Then, with all the'
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' manufacture of perfume,
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noble frankness of a man of genius,
talents, he instantly replied:
teem him so highly that T would if 1°
were not Michael Angelo, much rath. |
3; be Albert Duerer than even Charles '
Life. |
Beneficent Work of Nature. i
Through the assisted immigration of '
plants the timber resources of Ameri-'
| ca have been enlarged and its orchards |
have been rendered more productive
and valuable. Grain crops have been’
made surer and larger and food for
domestic animals has become more
. varied and more satisfactory.
Geographical Glee.
Milwaukee, to the funnysmith, is but
one vat of heer; Chicago is the windy
burg, with lots of atmosphere; Sioux
Falls, as the divorcee’s joy, long since
attained renown, and Brooklyn, to the
humorist, is baby carriage town.
Rarely Lose Their Minds.
An alienist says alienists rarely
loge their minds. That they more fre.
quently lose their morals is evident
from the manner in which some of
them testify in criminal trials,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Might Better Wait.
Many a woman has made the ter
sible mistake of marrying merely to
show the public that she had the
chance.
Town's Claim to Prominence.
The town of Grasse in France Is
one of the largest eenters for the
Fé'st Requisite.
Nobody ever taught well who did
not Jove to leach.—Munsey's Maga
sine.
Ee
Plato's Philosaahy,
ncnest Is the greatest of all
Sell
Ye
‘ey
—The size and of the lambs
by the feed and
“I es care of the ewes during the winter.
Medical.
Don’'tO ve r-look
This.
A CAREFUL PERUSAL WILL PROVE ITS
VALUE TO EVERY BELLEFONTE
READER.
The average man is a doubter,and there
i litte wouder that is so. Misrepresenta-
The public asks for better evidence than
he testimony of strangers. Here is proof
oR should conve every Bellefonte
reader.
Mrs. C. Johnson. 365 E. Bishop St.,Belle-
fonte, Pa 3 : Knot 3 10 much
in praise 's Kidney or they
are the best remedy | ever used for back-
ache and other symptoms of kid
plaint. At one time my back was so lame
and painful that I could hardly get around
and spells were common.
the
Ent imasura On he advice of
Ro ead
’s Pharmac
ney com 3
tober 21st, 1907.)
PERMANENT RELIEF. .
On November 23rd, 1909, Mrs. Johnson
and said
as intervi : “1 still
have ot Kidney
For sale by all dealers. Price 5 cents.
ae Yo.
r ni
Aber the name—Doan’s—and take
no other. 57.1
Mone to Loan
ONEY TO LOAN, on good security and
mI we,
"Bellefonte, Pa.
51-14-1y.
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makers of Waverly @pecial
y Oils
Lull oul
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Ante
Rofinera— Pitisburg, Pa.
Olt and Waverly Gosolines.
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Good Cement.
From an old notebook comes this
recipe for making a cement to mend
broken china: Fill a smail bottle
with ground isinglass and pour over I8
sufficient unsweetened gin to fill the
bottle. Place it on the back of the
stove or in a warm place, immerse
in a vessel of hot water until the isin.
glass is dissolved, and the cement 18
ready for use.
Napkins Known to the Ancients.
The napkin, in its primitive state,
found its origin in China. During the
Man-Dshu dynasty (4,000 years ago)
the napkins were already In general
use; they were of silk or certain kind
of linen and canvas; later came the
paper napkin.
Children Not AH Alike.
Children should not be harshly treats
ed because they are different in som®
respects to others. The difference in
the case of your own boy may mark
him out for a genius later on,
-
Pineapple for Diphtheria,
Pineapple is declared to be one of
the best known remedies for diph-
theria. It has been tested, we arg
told, with good effects In cases of
great severity.
terine.
TRY
My Maple Leaf Brand
-- Butterine --
Better Than Butter
ONLY 25¢c A LB.
R. S. Brouse,
Busn ARCADE BuiLpine,
PA.
| 56-48-tf.
Fine job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
oA SPECIALTY—0
AT THE :
WATCHMAN OFFICE
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest *'Dodger”’ to the finest
BOOK WORK,
hat we car: not 4g.i the most satis.
actory. Fanner, es .
ent with the class of A Lal on or
communicate with this offic
“Overcoats
Odds and Ends
wT
One-Half Price
One Week Only
The Best Store for Men and Boys in Central Pennsylvania.
Allegheny St.,
Bellefonte.
48 Mens and 17 Boys
The Fauble Stores.