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
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| [ ever had since I've been a sailor. |
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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.
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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
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There was a profound study among
the boys, but finally one lad held up
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‘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.
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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.” :
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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
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| 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.
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