Bellefonte, Pa., April12, 1912.5 | AFTER A WITCHCAT. “Hex” Has Caused Various Kinds of Woe in Tumbling Run Valley and Can't Be Killed With Ordi- nary Ammunition. At Tumbling Run valley, near Potts- ville, Pa., a family is lying in wait for a witchcat with a gun with a solid gold bullet, and has also put a “witcheat-eating cat” on the trail of the “hex,” or witchcat. This witchcat appeared at the home of Howell Thomas, some weeks ago. It was always seen at four o'clock in the morning prowling around the barnyard, and it is said to have grown until it was four feet long. It is averred that the hens began crowing like roosters and the pigs barking like dogs, and this first evi- dence that something was wrong was followed by horses, cattle, poultry and even people pining away and dying. The climax came when Howell Thomas himself died. Two daughters were left—one a spinster, the other married. The former charged the lat- ter with having put the “hex witch- cat” on the property, and at the funeral the two had a grievous clash, for the unmarried sister tried to ex- pel from the house the married “witch-sender.” The Thomases had been shooting at the “hex” and though their aim ordinarily was good, they seemingly could not hit the strange cat. After her father's death, Miss Thomas held a conference with an unknown witch doctor and announced that it had been revealed that the reason the bullets had not been effective was be- cause they were lead. She followed directions and molded a solid gold bullet out of a five-dollar gold piece. But when the magic bullet was in the gun ready for use, the cat failed to reappear. Miss Thomas and the neighbors have lain in wait for the “hex,” but all in vain. Some declare its absence due to the fact that too many people have leen wearing orucifixes and talismans to protect themselves. The affair became so mysterious that the Pottsville Repub- lican editorially asked a complete investigation, The latest turn to the mysterious case, however, is the most interest. ing of all. A black cat owned by a Schuylkill Haven man has been found by the “hex” doctors to be a “hexa- hemeron cat.” This cat is sald to have been born on the Gth day of the sixth month in 1806, and to have been one of a litter of six kittens. It was blind only six days after be- ing born, whereas all ordinary cats are blind nine days. The word hexahemeron is taken from two Greek words, “hex” and “hemera,” and means a completion in six parts. It is usually used in referring to the six days’ labor of Creation, as de- scribed in the first chapter of Genesis. While there are only five books in Moses in the authorized Bible, the hex doctors declare they have a sixth book of Moses. In this book the witch of Endor ascribes full power to the hexahemeron cat in warding off evil spells. It was declared that the “hex cat” had beyond doubt an engagement with the evil one, whereby it had im- parted to it an imp, or spirit. The Schuylkill Haven cat has never eaten anything but toads, frogs, lizards and serpents, and the hex doctors agreed that its presenc will restore the Thomas homestead to a normal condition. A —————————— en —. Her Occupation, The junior member of the old law firm of Goldsmith, Colston, Hoadley & Johnson having used the phrase “a shining ornament of the Cincinnati bar” in referring to some other law- yer, Murat Halstead seized upon the phrase and thereafter invariably re- ferred to Mr. Johnson as “the brass ornament of the Cincinnati bar.” At an evening gathering Mr. Halstead saw a handsome woman. He begged to be presented, and was—to Mrs. Jcknson, Tt did not occur to him who the lady might be. He was curious about her. “Johnson, Johnson?” he rej®ated; “I have never had the pleas- ure of meeting you before, Mrs. John- son. Do you live in Ohio?” “Oh, yes,” replied the lady, brimming over with smiles; “I live in Cincinnati,” “In- deed!” sald ir. Halstead, quite aston ished; “may I inquire of what family of ¥ohnsons you are?’ The smiles were more than merry this time. “Mr. Halstead,” she replied, “for fifteen vears I have been trying to polish up the brass ornament of the Cincinnati ar!” A Deduction. “Look at that fellow Gassaway!” said Hicks. “By George, if ever any man was born with a silver spoon in nis mouth, he's the one!” “Think so?” said Dubkins. “Now I should have said, looking at Gassa- way's mouth, that it must have been a soup-ladle he was born with, w Harper's Weekly, The Main Reality, Critic—How the public flock to that play! And yet there is nothing real in it, Manager—Oh, yes, there is. There's real money in it, Slight Accusation. “Jobbs drinks like a fish.” “That isn’t against him. drink nothing but water.” Fishes loaded i CAN'T BAR ALL THE DIVORCED | Monarchs of Great Britain and Rus- sia Find They Must Modify i Their Ideas. | Queen Mary on her husband's ac- | cession to the throne caused it to be | known that she intended to revive { the rules and regulations of Queen ! Victoria. She even went a step fur- ther, says the Metropolitan, and in- ' timated that the men concerned in divorce cases, as respondents or as | corespondents, would be regarded ! with disfavor in the highest quarters. Queen Victoria never visited her | displeasures on the men implicated in divorce cases, save in the solitary in- stance of Sir Charles Dilke. Indeed several of her most famous and most trusted ministers, such as, for in- stance, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmer- ston and the now octogenarian Lord Llandaff, were mixed up in all sorts of divorce cases, without ever forfeit- ing either their office or her good will. Both King George and Queen Mary, however, found that it was quite impossible to put their avowed intentions into practice. They could not exclude divorced women from their court unless they barred there- from the king's own first cousins, Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia and Princess Louise of Schleswig-Hol- stein, as well as a host of other royal and imperial foreign more or less closely related to them by ties of blood. In Russia divorce wag condemneua formerly both by the court and by so- ciety. Moreover, it was extremely difficult to accomplish, being granted only on the grounds which would suffice to secure a decree of nullity from English and American tribunals, or else for infidelity. But in the lat- ter case the legal conditions were ex- f pensive that demands for the dissolu- tion of marriage ties were few and far between. Now, however, the entirely changed. come frequent in Russian society, and despite the objections of the em- peror and of his Hessian born but English bred consort, the court has had to open its doors. Thus the wife of General Soukhomlinov, the min- ister of war, one of the most popular figures at the court of St. Petersburg and in the great world on the banks of the Neva, was first married to M. de Butewiteh, with whom her union was legally and ecclesiastically sev- ered in 1909. Countess Witte, wife of the former premier who represented Russia at the peace conference at Portsmouth, N. H, in 1905, and who is still a minister of state, is algo a divorcee | and is received at court. Moreover, there ares nuinber of divorces In the situation has fmperial family itself, something wholly unknown until the present reign. Nile and Lake Once Connected. Geologists are not confined to the testimony of fossils in ascertaining the changes that have taken place on the earth's surface; sometimes living animals are equally good as evidence. In the center of the vast and almost fresh water shrimp of a variety found nowhere else except in the Nile. Seeds tances, but the eggs of this shrimp are too fragile for this. The conclu- not too far away as geologists reckon, have been a junction between Lake Chad and the Nile or at least that the that in time of flood the waters min- gled. Now they are separate by many hundreds of miles of desert. This has been imperfectly explored, but it is known that for a thousand miles or more to the east of the lake there ex- tends a series of depressions that might easily be the bed of an ancient arm of the lake. This region is almost banks during the dry season. Pos- open the old course. Questioner Floored. One of the members of the school the wits of the boys by propounding the following question: give two-twelfths to john, two-twelfths to Isaac, two-twelfths to Harry, and should keep half the pie for myself, what would there be left?” his hand as a signal that he was ready to answer. “Well, sir, what would there he left? Speak up loud so that all can hear,” said the committee man, “The plate,” shouted the hopeful fellow, The committee man turned red in the face, while the other members roared aloud. His Specialty. “I like a very sensitive horse for hunting.” “Why do you prefer a sensitive one?” “Because he naturally is quick to take a fence.” Mot Always. “It is always wise,” said the sage one, “never to iake a step without attaching weight to it.” | “But,” objxcted ihe foanlleh one, { “thet is what the covvicr with cliln and bali dona” ‘masts and was absolutely personages ‘and perhaps you can't ‘hard as we could. acting and the cost of a suit so ex- | Divorces have be- | , I've , respondence may be carried by birds for long dis- . He was never allowed to keep the unexplored part of Africa south of the Sahara lies Lake Chad, which just now is the goal of many scientific ex- peditions. In several parts of this lake | there have been found specimens of a BOTH BOATS WERE HELPLESS Captain, for Variety's Sake, TeMs Story of Men Who Were Not Rescued at Sea. “I suppose you've heard plenty of | stories about men being rescued at | sea,” remarked the captain of a steam- (er on a line plying out of New York, “and for that reason I'm going to tell | you a story, for variety’'s sake, about | some men not being rescued at sea. {ft was one of the worst experiences “It was in the middle of a terrible | hurricane, and the boat I was on was | just barely manageable. All we could do was to keep steering way on her and trust to weather the storm. “Well, at the very worst of it, when the wind was howling like mad and the waves were almos' burying us. | we heard a yell from out somewhere on the sea. The next moment we caught sight of a sailing vessel not more than a few hundred yards away, evidently in distress. “Soon we were so close to her that | we could gee she had lost one of her at the | mercy of the storm. We could plain- ly see her sailors clinging to the rig- ging or hanging on to whatever hadn't been washed off her decks. What was | worse, we could plainly hear them shouting to us for help. “But—there was nothing whatever we could do. You are not a sailor, | understand what I'm telling you, when | say that | we simply had to stand there on our boat, listening to those men in their agony, yet we couldn't so much as throw them a rope. “Why? Because our boat was bare- ly manageable itself, as I told you. We were fighting the storm just as If we had stopped | we would have lost steering way and | run the rick of being swamped. Also. | ~e stood an excellent chance of be- 2g rammed against that disabled boat and sending ourselves and it to the bottom. Ag to throwing them a rope | —first, we couldn't throw (it far enough for them to reach it, and see- ond, there was the probability of the rope's getting tangled in our propel ler and spoiling our chances of es- cape. “There was nothing—nothing what- ever—for us to do And, I tell you, | it was a terrible thing to scoot past those poor devils hanging on to that hulk and hear their cries growing fainter and fainter in the distance. | never forgotten the sound of them.” i i | | [ ever had since I've been a sailor. | | i Would Be Interesting Reading. “We may wonder if the world will ever be allowed to see the private cor- amassed by the late Queen Victoria.” says a writer. “It is stored away in a streng room built into the walls of Buckingham palace, and the queen sha: d her confidence ! with no one. So long as she was physically able to do so she opened and closed the safe hesself and ar- ranged its consents. When she was too feeble to do this she employed an | old and trusted secretary, but even he had to work under the royal eye. i i keys nor to read the letters (hat he handled. Queen Victoria was always | a voluminous letter writer, and she was in constant communication with | most of the royalties in Europe. Every domestic secret and privacy of | royalty during hall a century is said | to be represented by the contents of | this wonderful safe, and it is easy to _ believe that the modern historian | sion is that there must at some time, would find his hands full if he weve | permitted to browse among these let- | ters. But probably he will have to | wait a few hundred years, and then | two must have been close enough £0 flat, and the lake even now has an habit of shrinking for miles from its sibly engineers of the future may re- committee undertook to sharpen up “If I had i i d should | ac. 8 Nice pe .m ou entertain your friends, and not be tied i i There was a profound study among the boys, but finally one lad held up i i i i ‘business training get the better of (the name of the piano he uses very his popular audience will be a lan- | guid one, It is one of the ironies of | life that we can never have things | when we want them.” | The Supreme Test. ! “What makes you think that you | really love me?" she said. ife thought for a moment before he replied, and then he said: | “I am willing to button you up your | back all the rest of your life.” “That is something, but is it ali?” “l am willing to let our house be | run by strangers, and that you should | ever remain in entire ignorance of its management.” “Rather good. Anything else?” “l am willing that we should have no children, so that you will be able to | go to Europe whenever you want to. ‘ down.” “Good! And is that all?” “Is this not enough?” And she doubtfully replied: 1 “I suppose it ought to be, but IT was | in hopes that you would say you were willing to have me wear anything I pleased all the rest of my life, no mat- ter how really ridiculous it was."—Lip- | pincott's Magazine. i Advertising Genius. “I guess | have insulted that great pianist forever,” said Mr. Cumrox. “But 1 couldn't help ’etting my old me.” “What have you done?” “I noticed that he always plays up conspicuously.” “Of course.” : “Well, 1 offered to buy some good, formula for a hair tonic and give him a half interest in the business.” : . ' Troroughness. “When I take up an idea.” said the! agotist, “I cover it completely.” “You do more than that,” replied the satirist; “you bury it.” i Sleeping With Children, When it is necessary for an adult child, the following method will be found quite satisfactory, and insure comfort to the adult at least. Make two; then have the child sleep be- iween the middle and lower sheets, | .and the adult between the middle and | upper sheets. This prevents the child ! from rolling around and also holds the sheet tightly about its shoulders.— Good Housekeeping. Pieces for Quilt. I have found the following method of cutting pieces for a quilt to be & saving of time and labor, says a con- tributor to Needlecraft. Have the pat. tern cut from cardboard and a piece of beeswax pressed on each corner; then press the bit of cloth to the pat- ! tern, cut it out, remove it, and youn are ready for the next without the trouble of putting in and taking out pins. Her Help. Mrs. Penfield—"My husband has found a way by which he says I am of the greatest help to him in his liter- ary work.” Mrs. Hillaire—"How nice that must be for you, my dear! But how are you able to do it?" Mrs. Penfield—"As soon as [| see him at his desk, I go into another room and keep perfectly quiet until finished.” —Puck. Pipes Not Made From the Brier. French brier pipes are not made from the roots of the brier, but from the root of a white heath which at- tains a considerable size in the south of France, where it is sedulously cul- tivated for pipe-making purposes. The name is derived from the French bruyere, the dialect form of which is briere, meaning heath, Little Marjorie at Church. Little Marjorie went with her moth- er to church on the night the minis ter baptized a convert by immersion. As soon as the ceremony was over the little girl leaned over to her mother and said in an excited whisper, “Mamma, do they drown some one here ever’ Sunday?” Medical. The Proper Course | INFORMATION OF PRICELESS VALUE TO EVERY BELLEFONTE CITIZEN. How to act in an eme is know!- edge of inestimable worth, and this is par- ticularly true of the diseases and ills of the human body. If you suffer with back: ache, urinary disorders, or any form of kidney trouble, the advice contained in the following statement will add a valua- ble asset to your store of knowledge. What could be more convincing proof of the efficiency cf Doan’s Kidney Pills than the statement of Bellefonte citizens who have been permanently cured? Mrs. J. F. Thal. 23 W. Thomas St., Belle 2 says: done for me. My back ached fora lon time and I had severe pains in my kid- neys, agcompanied by headaches and at- tacks of dizziness. The kidney secretions caused me no end of annoyance. When my attention was called to 's Kidney Pills, I procured a supply at Green's Phar- macy Co., and it did not take them Jong togive me relief. I cheerfully recom: Doan’s Kidney Pills to anyone afflicted with kidney complaint.” (Statement given October 21, 1907.) THEY NEVER FAIL. When Mrs, Thal was interviewed o she said: ' two years, they have , may continue to publish my former en. ment of this remedy.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other. 57.11 —————— on Fine job Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING oA SPECIALTY—o0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE There is no cheapest ** le of work, from the "to the finest BOOK WORK, ators tone. nd a igs con ent with the cass of work. Call on or la 52.5-1y. communicate with this office. Lumber. NAST. WY 4 ANT AY ATs : BUILDING MATERIAL When you are ready for it, you will get it here On LUMBER, MILL WORK, ROOFING, SHINGLES AND GLASS. This is the place where close prices prompt shipments o icliakle aterials jugterials get the orders of all w! AN ESTIMATE? BELLEFONTE LUMBER CO. Bellefonte, Pa. TAT AVAVATAVANTAVY TAY AT ATAT LAT LTA ATL S to sleep in the same bed with a young | the bed with three sheets instead of he has | | QUESTION OF RIGHT LIVING VER. SUS WRONG LIVING. Every Individual in the Family Has Some Rights That Every Other Member of the Household Should Respec:. | It should be remembered in the { home, that every individual in the | family has some rights that every | other member of the household is | bound to respect. i The husband and father should be made comfortable and to feel that his wishes are to be considered and home |a place in which to rest from the { daily grind whether it be the wresting "a living from the soil or labor in any other walk of life. These thoughts were suggested by i a neighborly call not long since which showed the thoughtlessness of a wife, The husband, by the way, the pro- vider, be it remembered, came in from the field in working clothes and com- fortably seated himself on the couch | made attractive with cushions of var- jous sizes and descriptions supposed to be for use. The tired man had no sooner sunk into the downy depths of the support- ing pillows than the wife exclaimed, “John you cught not to lean against those pillows in your working clothes, { you will soil them.” The man was not to blame when he quickiy pulled them away from his doubtless wearied Rody and threw them across the room. One naturally blushed for the thoughtless wife, There should be nothing in a home too good for use, especially in the liv- ing room, or by the man of the house, whose bodily strength is given freely that his loved ones may be made happy and comfortable, It is not well thus to confound values. constantly for others and must have the welfare of his family at heart should he valued above any sofa pil- low no matter how dainty or expen- sive. Then there are the rights of the wife and mother to be always re- spected. Her especial domain should be arranged with care and a regard for her convenience. Work in the ordinary ill-constructed kitchen re- quires more expenditure of strength and nerve power than is needed for the successful carrying out of a large business that is thoroughly sys- tematized. The ceaseless traveling from one end of the room to the other for arti- cles that should be confined within a small compass, wear out more women than the work.—Mrs, T. L. Andrews. Courtship. Courtship after marriage preserves Surely the man who labors | Soup the Chief Dish, ° For practical living most of us ought to make soup the chief dish of the meal, and with some fruit dessert it is most satisfying and sustaining. We should recognize that the vast ma~ jority have more need to conserve their money and foods than fo cult vate appetite. Children. especially when in good health, necd no coaxing to eat all that they need, and if tend- ency to be dainty is discovered, it is often best that they, or we, be induced 10 eat plain foods by the sauce of real hunger, rather than derange already perverted digestion by artificial stime ulant to appetite. Plenty of plain food, and in not too great variety, ig the natural need and demand of real grow ing health. Age or infirmity need ap- petite coaxers, but vigorous health sharpens its own appetite. Indolence or acquired daintiness are toc be most honestly condemned. Norwegian Cabbage Salad. As an appetizer {or cther Jishes of the Dutch supper sort this ir without compare—that is, where the cabbage taste is liked. It goes wiih au beer drink: Select a hard red cabbage, inke off all loose and defaced leaves und shred it with a machine or sharp knife as fine- 1y as is possible. Then drop the slaw into cold water for two boure. Drain dry and cover it with boiling water —not too much—and simmer mntil al- most cooked. Drain off the water, add salt if needed, cayenne, sugar and caraway seeds, putting the last two between layers of the cabbage. Two tablespoonfuls of sugar and twe of the seeds will be needed. Then cover the cabbage with boiling cider vimegar and finish the cooking, Thie can be eaten hot or cold. Cheese Custard. Beat up four eggs, add half a eup- ful of boiling milk, three heaping ta- blespoonfuls of grated cheese, reason- ing of salt, pepper and red pepper; di- vide into some small buttered tim- bale molds, stirring all the time, so as not to let the cheese settle. Stand the molds in a saucepan, allowing the water to come within half an inch of the top; simmer very gently until set. Serve on rounds of toast . Crumbs for Frying. Care should be taken in drying bread to be used for crumbs. Do not let it remain in the oven long cnough to brown, for cutlets or croguetten rolled in over-browned crumbe w.'. not brown when frying. Sugared Popcorn. Boil one cup white sugar, three tablespoons water and one teaspoon butter until ready to candy. Then throw in three quarts popped corn. SESE SERED PD High Art Model the lover in the husband and the! gtiy well and cool. Nute may be pres sweetheart in the wife. pared in same way Clothing. THAT WILL ticular dressers. FOR SPRING ENTHUSIASTIC APPROVAL It is not extreme in any way, but has an individuality bound to appeal to par- Inclined to be form tracing, 4 buttons, coat flared at bottom, it is well balanced and stylish and will please the man who does not lean to the extreme in dress and yet wants something distinctive and better than the ordinary. Our Prices begin at $15.00 All the way up to $30.00 FAUBLES MEET WITH :
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