Bellefonte, ¢ Pa., Tanuary 26, 1912. KNEW NAME AND ADDRESS Three-Year-Old Wanderer Had Them Down Pat and Was Not Afraid. Arrived at the mature age of three, Casper H. Miller, Jr.,, of 10,623 Ta- coma avenue, has taken to exploring the neighborhood. Sometimes he strays. But since everybody, along with his sisters, his cousins and his aunts, knows the young gentleman, he is never allowed to get out of sight. That is, almost never. The other day was one of those ex- ceptional days when all hands were busy and the youngster wandered away, fetching up at McVeigh's the dairyman, in Hathaway avenue. He didn’t seem a bit afraid, either. “What's your name, little man?” asked Mr. McVeigh. “Casper Hart Miller,” was the re- ply. Only, he pronounced it “Hart- miller,” McVeigh hunted in vain through the city directory and the telephone book for any Hartmiller. “Where do you live, Casper?” was the next inquiry. “Eddy 291X,)” was the immediate reply, and with the aid of the chief operator of the Eddy exchange the street and number were quickly fixed. The name Hartmiller looks so good to the boy's father that he contem- | plates adopting it for family use. ! Cleveland Leader. { Wouldn't Take Foy's Money. Eddie Foy, the actor, lives near New Rochelle and owns a motor car. The other day the comedian was in a hurry to get to New York to attend a rehearsal. The car was in front of ‘his home. He gave the crank a twist, Something broke in the engine and the machine was put out of commis. sion. The next best thing for Mr. Foy to do was to catch a train. A car was coming along the road and he hailed it. There was no one in it but the driver. He readily consented to take the comedian to the station. When they arrived there Mr. Foy offered the man a dollar bill. “No, thank you,” replied the car's driver. “I don't want your money, | Mr. Foy.” The comedian thought that the man was certainly a queer chauffeur. “Oh, you know me, then?” he asked. “Yes, by reputation,” replied the other. “And here's my card.” On the card, Mr. Foy says, was en- graved “W. H. Vanderbilt.”—New York Telegraph. Association of Ideas. Mr. Baker, who claims to be at home in all that pertains to good cooking, was sitting on the hotel piaz- za one evening lately, explaining to his friends. Lawyer Thompson and Colonel Robb, the manner of prepar- ing the latest fad in delicacles—the snail—for the breakfast table. Thompson was interested, but Robb was quiet and seemed drowsy. Sud- denly he brightened up. “I saw three of them playing mar- bles in front of the postoffice this morning,” he remarked. “Why, what's the matter with you, colonel?” asker Mr. Barker. “I'm talk- ing about snails.” “Well, I'm talking about messenger boys,” said the colonel. “Go on with your conversation.” Too Hopeful, Andrew B. Humphrey, secretary of the American Peace and Arbitration league, was discussing in New York the universal peace movement. “This movement,” he said, “has lately made gigantic strides, but, of course, we mustn't expect too much of it. We mustn't, like Peleg Shucks, expect to see universal peace come in our time. “Peleg Shucks was thinking about buying a gun. ‘I guess, though,’ he said thoughtfully, one night at the gen- eral store, ‘I guess I'll wait awhile afore purchasin'’ “‘Wot's yer idee in waitin’, Peleg? asked the storekeeper. “Wall, ye see,’ said Peleg, ‘arter all them European nations take up this Carnegie-Taft arbitration and disarm- ament contract, guns, by goshtal mighty, is goin’ to get tarnation cheap.’ ” Quite a Gentleman. “You have some beefsteak, of sourse?” queried a man who had hur. riedly entered a butcher shop. “Yes, sir.” “And beefsteak is good to take the olor out of a black eye?” “The best thing in the world, sir!” “Good! Save two pounds for Riley, “Which Riley?” “The Riley who lives in Edward street. I'm going to black both his ptics. He'll probably call in haif in hour. Good evening!” Twenty minutes later the same man ‘ame back with his coat in rags, his tollar gone, his nose damaged, and yoth eyes puffed up. “Did you find Riley?” asked the thopman, with a twinkle in his eye. “I did, 'sir, and he has kindly con- sented to let me use the beefsteak. Mr. Riley is a gentleman, sir!” Kept Him Busy. “Why this endless procession of young men?” “Oh, my daughter ig very irritating. | dvery time she gets herself engaged | she makes a formal affair of it, and | tends the young man to call on me.” DID MOSES ~ MAKE MISTAKE? First Chapter of of Genesis Conforms In Many Instances With Late Dis- coveries in Science. We have often heard “the mistakes of Moses” in the first chapter of Gene- sis commented upon, but what espe- | cially strikes us in that chapter is not | its contraventions of science, but its | harmonies with late discoveries. How did the writer, many centuries before the story of the rocks had been de- ciphered, know that there was a begin ning and then a pause before life ap: peared on the earth? Who taught the writer that the earth was “without form | and void” before it was divided into continents? How came it that the | long delayed, slow emergence of land | should be set forth as it is? Was it mere guesswork that prompted the writer to say grasses were created be- | fore animals, and not for animals al- ready existent? Is it a happy accident | that life in the water appears before life upon the land? And ages before the scientist dreamed of paleontology we find man last in the series just as he appears today by his remains in the drift instead of in the stratified rocks? Further investigation may explain dis- crepancies, but what except inspira. tion can account for these coinct- dences ?—The Advance. WILL RUN IN THE FAMILY: Boy Gently Breaks to Father the News of His Expulsion From School. ——— “That boy will be the death of me | some day!” declareg the head of the family. “I'm sure I don’t know where he gets all his impudence and self- | assurance—surely not from me. He returned home from school the other day to spend the holidays, as I sup- posed, and, entering my office, he threw his hat on the floor, selected an easy-chair, put his feet on my desk, lit a cigarette, inhaled a few puffs, and then, turning languidly to me, he drawled: “‘I say, dad, do you remember the time when you were expelled from school?” “I did. There was no use denying it, for one doy in a burst of confidence I had told him some of my escapades as a boy, and lived to regret that I had been so indiscreet, “ ‘Well,’ said he, ‘history has repeat- | ed itself. “ ‘What do you mean, you rascal? I roared, “Oh, said he, easily, ‘I've been ex- pelled, too. Astonishing, isn't it, dad, how such things will run in a fam- py? Banks Guarded by Soldiers. Like the Bank of ¥ngland, the Bank of France is now guarded every night by soldiers, who do sentry duty out- side the building, a watch being lke- | wise kept inside its precincts. But within quite recent time the officials | | at the French bank resorted to a very novel method of protecting their bul- lion. This consisted in engaging ma- sons to wall up the doors of the vanits | in the cellar with hydraulic mortar as soon as the money was deposited each day in these receptacles. The water was then turned on and kept running until the whole cellar was flooded. A burglar would be obliged to work in a | diving suit and break down a cement | wall before he could even begin to | plunder the vaults. When the bank | officials arrived next morning the wa- | ter was drawn off, the masonry torn down and the vaults opened. Cun- ously enough, within a few months | after this obsolete maner of protecting the bank’s cash was done away with, i burglars did actually get into the | vaults and decamp with about $45,000 | in gold coin.—Strand Magazine. { How Tourists Economize. ! A comedy of economy is reported | from St. Moritz. A stout couple, ac- ' companied by a son and daughter who were also “thick,” as the Germans | translate stout, entered a crowded ho- tel at the busy time of lunch and or- | dered one lunch at table d'hote. The | father sat down and finished two help- | Ings of soup and all the bread near him and left the table, kis place be- ing taken for the entrees by his wife, who had been waiting with her chil- | dren in the hotel corridor until her | husband appeared. i The young man then took his moth. er's place to attack the joint, and he was followed by his sister for the sweets, all doing justice to tite menu. | In the crowd the tourists did not no- | tice the unusual Isnch, but the head waiter did, and when asked for the bill presented one for four lunches. The paterfamilins grumbled a good | deal—and paid! Swiss English. Swiss English always seems de signed to round off the scenery with | ‘he touch of humor. For years the best in the writer's collection has "een an inscription by a path leading 0 a waterfall near Meiringen, which explained that a toll was necessary for “the fondation and amtertaining” of that path. Until last month, how- | ever, there was nothing quite equal ‘0 the Strasburg cathedral notice: ‘Express interdiction to circulate dur- ‘ng divine sewvice. Beadle have to oreserve order.” But Switzerland has at least tied with Germany now in the collection. In a certain Oberland val- ley, too unspoiled yet to be given away by name, there is a series of -zates which bear a short request in | Oberland German te the wayfarer to close them. And twice it is trans late® into English “Shut up!”—Lon- dan Chronicle. “EIGHTS” ARE 'E THEIR HOODOOS Postal Clerks Say St Stamps of That Denomination Cause Them Much Financial Loss. When a meek little man stepped up to the stamp window in a branch office and asked for an eight cent stamp he caused as much consterna- tion as if he had demanded “your money or your life.” All the clerks came to the window to take a look at him. They muttered to one another and made strange and fantastic signs, crossed their fingers, knocked on wood and did various oth- er things that are supposed to drive . away evil spirits, “We're just out stamps,” a clerk finally stammered. “Got lots of two and ones.” “Well, gimme a five and a three,” said the meek little man, upon receiv- ' ing which he paid for them and de- parted. “What's the matter eights?” queried an inquisitive specta- tor. The stamp clerk was still too nerv. ous to answer, but one of the others said, with a smile: “Eights are hoodoos. None of the small offices handle them if they can | help it. It’s this way: They are just ; a wee shade different in color from the ones and it is no infrequent thing for a stamp clerk in a hurry to hand ! out a lot of eights when ones are | It always costs | ‘him seven cents a stamip when he asked and paid for. does it. The clerk here the other day, during the rush hour, when the offices are closing, was called upon for | a dollar's worth of ones. He handed ! out a hundred eights instead. Cost | him seven dollars. Then he got rid | of all the rest of the eights and now | he won't have anything to do with | eights. Even says ‘egten’ instead of ‘ate.’ Hiustrated by the Imminent Peril of Mr. Pearce, Who Read News- paper During Session. A member of the British parllament remarks in London Opinion that the | rules of the house of commons are | past all understanding, and then pro- | ceeds to cite the case of Mr. Pearce, | | M. P, and the imminent danger in | which he one day appeared to be. This was when the sergeant-at-arms, with his terrible sword in hand, rose from his chair and rushed with cyclonic speed in the direction of the mild, meek and altogether unconsecious-of- offense ‘member. It was quickly made clear what was the cause of this hasty saber charge by the sergeant. Mr. Pearce had actually been reading a newspaper, and there is no more hein- ous offense known to parlinment. The of eight cent with the | | purpose not | with the debate actually in progress, | though one may succeed in doing it , surreptitiously by folding the newspa- per small and concealing it behind the ; order paper of the day, much like a boy may nibble at an apple in scheol, concealing the pippin behind his spelling book. Yet more gross breaches of parliamentary etiquette and decorum may be seen, members even wearing their hats when a fel- ; low member is addressin® the house, and even the dearest friends of an orator may go to sleep while he is de- livering his choicest periods. Japanese Fruit Trees. Among the many ways of their own that the Japanese have for doing is | their system of pruning and training ! fruit trees. The system is called . “tana,” and consists in training the branches overhead on trellis work ! made of bamboo or wire supported on ! wooden posts about five and z half feet high. This offers advantages in gathering | the fruit, and not only serves to pro- tect the trees against wind and | storms, but is said to increase pro- | duction. Only very .light pruning is done, and that usuaily in the winter- time. This system is generally adopt- ! ed for pears and vines, less often for } 3pples and plums.—Youth’s Compan- i ion. I ———————————————. Life of the Grapevine. There are some who contend that | the life of the grapevine is longer + than that of the oak. It is rare that {a wild grapevine is found that has | died of old age. Pliny mentions a vine 600 years old. There is a vine at Hampton Court, England, planted in | 1769, while here in America there is a i wild grapevine on the shores of Mo- | bile Bay, within a mile of Daphne, Als. commonly known as the “General { Jackson” vine, more than 6 feet in | eireumterence at its base. There is la grapevine in Carpenteria, Cal, der which more than eight Che: | persons may stand. Its trunk is eight feet In diameter at the base and it has borne as high as ten tons of fruit. It is said that this vine wgs planted in | 1842. i Good Mental Tonic. 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