Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, February 23, 1912, Image 7

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    CACTI FOR TELEPHONE POLES
Scheme for a Government Line n
Arizona Desert Which Is Be-
lieved to Be Feasible.
Sabuara for telephone and tele
graph poles is the latest idea and one
that is to be tried out. It sounds
plausible and it is believed that it
will be more economical than the old’
style of poles. Its test is to come
from Arizona.
The government is to build a tele- :
phone system for the forestry serv-
ice of the Coronado forest reserve.
The first of these lines to be built
out of Tucson is to be used into the |
Catalinas, and it is there that the
Sahuara experiment is to be tried. i
The giant cacti will not be sawed
off and set up nor will they be trans-
planted, but the growing plant will be '
used as a pole where it is found prac-
tical. Where they can be found in
what approaches alignment, so that
the line will not have to zigzag too
much, the sahuara up in the canons ,
through which the line will pass are
to be ufilized for the purpose of at
taching brackets to which the wires
will be fastened. And so the secret is
out.
Along the proposed line it is diffi-
cult to set poles, owing to the rocky
nature of the country traversed. Not
only is this the case, but it is diffi-
cult to get the poles up there in the
hills to set, while the sahuaras are
right there in many instances, and
while not at a uniform distance this
is not considered important. An-
other saving will be that while the
made to order poles will not oust the
ready made ones, these will be of
long life and will not demand replen-
ishing and replacing from time to
time. .
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For Once a New Yorker Rose to the
Occasion and Was There With
Apt Response.
Two men somewhat alike as to
build, dress and general appearance
entered an upper West side restau-
rant within a few minutes of one an-
other the other evening, says the New
York Press. They were also alike and
not different from the average New
Yorker in burying thepselves in news-
papers as soon as they had chosen
tables.
Presently there entered a well-
| abyss fifteen feet wide yawned be- early next morning,
BOUND TO HAVE THAT PAKTY | HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR HIM |
Little Thing Like Dizzy Walk in Air | Apparently Captor Need Not Have
Couldn't Fease Ardent Bridge Been Afraid That His Pris.
Devotees. oner Would Escape.
Nothing short of devotion to bridge, Billy Oswald of the Cleveland out
could have nerved a party of women door relief department was sent ug
to do what this party of women did. to Detroit the other day to bring back
Half an hour before the time set for , # prisoner who had escaped from the
the playing to begin in the tenth-floor | workhouse. Full of the sense of his
apartment something went wrong with | responsibility, Billy had handcuffs
the dynamos, and all elevators stepped | flapped on the man and stuck val
running for, anyhow, a day and a half. ' iantly by his side, leaving no possible |
When the bridge hostess learned that chance of escape. When an hour out |
she nearly fainted. , from Detroit, homeward bound on the |
“Nine flights of stairs to climb,” she | D. & C. boat, the prisoner suggested
| said, “and every woman I have invited | that Oswald relax his vigilance.
is fat. They'll never get here.” , “Whatchu keepin’ these things on
She implored everybody about the me for?” he asked. “You don’t think
house to suggest some way out of the | I'm goin’ t' jump over in the middle !
trouble. Nobody could, except to of Lake Erie, do you? Can't get away |
walk; there was no alternative. But ROW.”
the hostess did not give up so easily.' Billy saw reason in the argument,
She looked across at the neighboring | released his man from the irons and |
apartment house, whose tenth-floor | gave him leave to stroll about deck. |
windows faced her windows. An When (he boat neared port, however, |
the prisoner |
tween the two buildings, but to a wo- wasn't to be found. Oswald looked the
man in her predicament fifteen feet! boat over from engine room to bridge,
dwindled to fifteen inches. but in vain. When the boat slid |
“There is a way,” she said. “How ' alongside the dock Billy was the first
about those long planks on the roof? | man off, stationing himself where he
Lay them across to the opposite roof, | could see every person
make a handrail of ropes, and my ashore.
guests can go up in the elevator to; In a couple of minutes’he spied his |
the roof of that house, cross the man. But he wasn't trying to slip off!
bridge, and walk down one flight to unobserved. He came along boldly,
my apartment.” lugging Oswald's baggage in one!
Employes of both houses gladly as- hand and his own in the other. !
sumed the role of bridge builder, a
“Aw, there you are!” he sang out. |
hallboy was stationed in the lobby to! “I've been lookin’ all over the boat
explain matters to arriving guests, and | for you the last half hour.”
a few minutes later a procession of | ————————— i
scared but determined women gasped
and clutched on their aerial way.—
New York Press.
' BEWARE THE CARELESS MAN
Wise and Up-to-Date Grandmother
Hands Out Some Good Advice
. to Engaged Girl.
KEEP THEIR MEMORY GREEN
Frenchmen Delight in Pilgrimages to
the Tombs of the Great or her fiance. “He never seems to no-|
Notorious. tice how I dress,” she said, rather!
—— well pleased.
The chapel tomb of Honore de Bal-
zac at Pere la Chaise was visited this
make a yearly pilgrimage to the spot me I always look all right to him, no
on August 18. There “friends of Bal-
zac” keep the novelist's memory! “Then don’t marry him,” advised a
green in an essentially Parisian man- youthful grandmother of 60 almost
ner, leaving cards ané bead wreaths tartly and wholly disregarding gram-
on the tomb and delivering speeches ' mar.
and eulogies that are listened to
reverently by a fair audience. refuse to grow old. “Take my advice.
During August innumerable Amer- [If a man does not care how you look
ican tourists visit the different ceme-, he never will provide the money for
teries of the city, and many happened = you to dress ag wei! ns you will wish
to be at Pere la Chaise this afternoon to, A man ought to care how his wife
at the time of the little ceremony. is dressed. Not that it is the most im-
The French themselves have a verit- portant thing in life but that it has
able cult for ancestors that must be | to do with the whole tone of their
second only to that of the Japanese, | home. There is something wrong
matter how I am dressed.”
smartly gowned variety of women who
{ result of ca
' ly held, the horses break away and in a
The pretty gir! was talking about |
She was herself of the trim,
and on every fete day anniversary or | with a man who does not wish
dressed, ouking Woman, ome. holiday they “precipitate themselves” = his wife to look her best. If your
what in a hurry, if one were to judge '
from her manner, and a trifle dis-
trait. Glancing hastily around the
room, she seated herself at the table
which one of the men had selected.
He merely lifted his eyes from his
paper for an instant, in the disinter-
‘ested manner New Yorkers adopt, and
fell to reading again, while the wom-
an seized the menu card and began
studying it. It took her a couple of
minutes to decide what she wanted.
Having found it, she laid her hand on
the arm of the man. As he looked up
at her a curious expression came over
her face.
“Why—why, you're not my husband,
are you?" she gasped.
“l am sorry, madam,” he replied
gallantly, “that I am not.”
Then both of them laughed, which
aroused the man at the other table
from his paper long enough to permit
him to announce hiv self.
Sleepers Effectually Roused by Threat-
ened Danger in Which They All
Felt a Share.
“Y am no foe to whiskers. Indeed,
in cold weather, I regard whiskers
as a blessing. They protect the
throat.”
The speaker was De Wolf Hopper, !
the comedian. From his corner table
in Delmonico’s he resumed:
“And reverencing whiskers as I do,
I shall pever cease to regret a joke
I once perpetrated in Nola Chucky.
“We were playing in Nola Chucky
during a campaign, and one evening
on my return to the hotel I was
amazed to find the whole place packed
and jammed with sleeping and be-
whiskered farmers,
“They had come in, you see, from
miles around to vote, and now, utterly
worn out, they lay snoring every-
(to use their own expressive word) | fiance is tractable I advise you to be-
to the cemeteries, leaving always | gin a course of instructing him at
some mark of their presence in the | gnce. If not——" she shook her head
shape of a bouquet, large or small. | warningly, smoothed down her slim
The tombs of public men and women hips, gave her satin walking suit a lit-
are yearly the object of special dem- tle flip and left for her constitutional
onstrations, ' in the park.
Heine's tomb is perhaps one of the |
most favored by foreigners, but that!
of the original Dumas’ “Dame aux |
Camelias” is the best cared for, as
every day in the year it is visited and
carefully dusted by a half-crazy wom-
an with dyed yello® hair and thread
| gloves, who enters freely into conver-
, sation with all visitors and loves to
relate the history of this ‘“Margue-
rite."—Paris Correspondence London
Evening Standard.
To Try Trapping Sparrows.
Agents of the department of agri.
culture, it was announced, have been
for the last two months experimenting
with devices to trap English sparrows.
From Maine to California an agent
of the department has traveled during
those montls. Many machines have
been tried out, but as yet one has not
been perfected which officials say will
| do the work successfully.
Dr. Charles J. Fisher, who has the
work in hand, said that the English
sparrows are a nuisance and that they
harm bearable frnit trees in the
spring.
“Take young apple and peach trees,
for instance,” Dr. Fisher said. “The
sparrows eat into the buds and de
stroy the cores. It then becomes im-
possible for them to bear fruit.
| Sleep the Fountain of Youth.
' Any number of women who are cut-
ting ruthlessly into their allowance
. to swell the cash drawer of the beauty
; parlors could solve the riddle of ap
| pearing fresh and animated if they
would but make a practice of taking
. the proper amount of sleep.
. The value of sleep as a restorative
‘and as a fountain of youth is unbe-
| lievable until one has bathed regular-
' ly therein. It almost seems magic in
| its effect and many a woman who has
discovered the secret is the envy and | Bave agents at work with devices.
admiration of her beauty parlor From what I have heard these ma-
| friends. : chines have not as yet heen per
| Eight hours for work, eight hours for , fected.
sleep and eight for play is the eld rule. |
Up to now no one has improved on |
~ this proportion. If you care more for
| the preservation of your youth and
| attractiveness than of your pleasure
; take not less than the allotted eight
. hours of sleep from the 24. i
Washington at this time. In several
parts of the country, however, we
Artist's Habits,
Leonardo da Vinci was erratic fa
ing reminiscences are preserved in
one of the novels of Bandello. “He
used often to go early in the morning
and mount upon the platform, and
: Quail Hatches Chicken. from sunrise until the dusk of even-
An incident of some interest is re- | ing, never putting down
“We are doing no experimenting |
his methods of work. Some interest | x A’
A Runaway.
When a team runs away it is usualy the
relessness; the reins are loose-
short time are beyond control. There is
a runaway disease called “galloping con-
sumption,” and that runaway, like the
' other, is usually the result of careless
ness. The neglected cold, the cough un-
checked, bronchial affection developed,
depleted vitality, blood too little in quan-
ity and too poor in quality to nourish the
body and renew the wasting tissue: Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is con-
fidently commended as a cure for the dis-
cases of respiratory organs; obstinate
coughs, bronchitis, “weak lungs,” spitting
of blood and like forms of disease which
if neglected or unskillfully treated lead to
consumption.
He Wondered.
The Benedict—I ee only about one
! in every 1,000 mar ed couples live t«
.elebrate the golden wedding anni
versary.
Inquisitive Hostess. ;
Small Girl (entertaining “er rr. BW
er's calleri— Hew is your litle oor**
shat | haven't any little girl
Small Girl (after a palicel aie
# the conversationi--tew ‘ss -oup
littie boy?
Caller—My dear, [| haven't =.» "ig
boy, either.
Smail Girl—What are yours ’— Wom
an’s Home Companion.
There is a saying that “a man’s first
right is tobe born well.” It is a constant
reproach to motherhood to see a puny,
| pining baby grow to be a puling, peevish
pro It is a reproach because proper
preparation and care will give the mother
| the health without which she cannot |
‘ have a healthy child. The use of Dr.!
| Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a pre-
| parative for the baby’s coming gives the !
| mother abundant health. The birth hour |
| is practically painless, and the mother |
! rejoices in a hearty child. This is the
testimony of many women who never
The Bachelor—Io you suppose they | ;ced a child until they used “Favorite |
get tired of living?
«mins| Medicine for the Blood is Needed Now
nhealthful modes of living during the winter have made the blood impure,
Tecause the pracalih! and that tired iy, as well as the cores end eruption that cccur
at this time
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where. Yes, the entire floor space of ported from tae Woodland neighbor- '
the hotel was covered with sleeping | hood. Last week on the farm of W. |
farmers. All were whiskered, and [L, Riley of that vicinity a quail’s nest !
their whiskers, sticking up in the air, ‘wag found in which a hen had laid an |
caused the hotel halls to resemble egg, With this was found the usual
fields of grain. Those upstanding number of quail eggs.
whiskers in the draughty corridors - The last of the week the hen cgg
waved in the breeze, for all the world | hatched and the quail seemed to loge
like fields of nodding grain on a windy all interest in her own eggs and turn-
day. ed her attention to the chick, leaving
“Then 1 played my joke. I shouted her nest and disappearing with it.
at the top of my lungs: Some of the quail eggs were broken
“ ‘Hit the one with the whiskers.'” and showed that they would have
“And instantly every blessed farm- ' heen Matched in another week.—Mor
3 oped to his feet with doubled ganfield Post.
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Old Festival Retained.
With an unbroken record dating | From benighted Turkey comes news
back uaint | through the state department of an
eS he ua th Sud PICtUr- | jnyention calculated to make the dis-
Served at Bt. Osmaldy erat was. B- | honest milkmen of all the world quake
8 church, Gras- i, heir poots. The invention consists
mere, Westmoreland Yecent. |
» of a can fitted with valves which per-
in. There is an opening, of course, by
which the can is filled, but as soon as
while kueellng. Each year the In-| i. ic gone and scientific §
nepectors
habitants conveyed » the Shutes 3 | have tested the contents and pi»
king of ' Mounced them unad®lterated sgd un-
Turkey Leads in Good Work.
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memorial gift of rushes and a speaial ; Jtersd JH: le OPERInE lo cv)
bo sent to the consumer.
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and, forgetting to eat and drink, paint
without ceasing. Then two, three or
four days would pass when he would
not touch it, but remained for one
two hours together contemplating,
considering and examining within
himself, judging his figures. 1 have
seen him, too, according as his ca-
price or humor moved him, go off at
noonday, when the sun was in Leo,
from the Corte Vecchia, where he was |
composing his stupendous horse of
clay, and come straight to the Grazie,
and, mounting the platform, take a
brush and give one or two strokes to
one of the figures, and straightway
depart and go elsewhere.” i
Remembered the Great Napoleon. |
The last French woman who met
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parents were on the domestic staff of |
the Palace of Fontainetleau. She was yA
five when Napoleon, shortly before |
taking leave of bis guards, spoke “WW
her in the palace park. Mine. Millos
retained a vivid recollection of this
meeting until the day of her death,
vania.
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