Bellefonte, Pa., May 17, 1912.
ECONOMICAL AGNES.
“What are you looking so blue
about Agnes? As though you had
been steeped in indigo. Isn't the latest
fashion in hair dressing becoming to
you or has your father cut down your
allowance?” asked Celine.
“Dad hasn't diminished my allow-
ance, but doubled it on the condition
that I don’t attempt to economize any
more.”
“Has he had a brain storm?”
“Indeed not. He says my economies
cost more than other people's lux-
uries. My lisle stocking income and
silk stocking proclivities don't coin-
cide.
“The first time 1 wore my white
serge suit Jack and I were at the Tea
Shop, where the waitress spilt a
glass of ice tea over it. Jack be
moaned my fate. I smiled serenely,
trying to show what a nice disposi-
tion I had. The next day I dipped the
gown in gasoline, but I had taken the
wrong jug, it was kerosene.”
“Was it ruined?” asked Celine.
“We sent it to the cleaners, but
nothing would eradicate that odor.
After using three bottles of imported
violet perfume on it 1 hung it in the
back yard to air. When it seemed
safe to risk wearing it, the skirt was
gone, stolen.”
“Another time [ thought it would
be sanitary to give our bath tub a
fresh coat of enamel. Dad brought
home a portly millionaire friend from
Kansas. Father wanted Mr. Smith to
invest some of his surplus cash in a
certain stock company. Our guest
said upon retiring he'd think it over.
Mr. Smith is accustomed to taking an
early plunge. The enamel wasn't quite
dry, and he ‘stuck to it. After repeat-
ed calls dad rushed to the rescue,
At breakfast he was as surly as a
bear and snapped at me when I sug-
gested a remedy. Father didn't dare
mention stocks, and we have never
seen or heard from him since.”
“Did you ever try your hand at
painting after that?”
“Yes, our porch furniture looked so
shabby I painted the chairs.”
“They look just like new.”
“Oh, these are the new ones. We
couldn't use the others. Father and
mother were going automobiling.
While mother was waiting on the ver-
anda, she exclaimed suddenly in the
most aggravated tone: ‘Look at my
new silk dress.’ It was a spotted foul-
ard, 1 assure you, spots of green
paint all over it. After we thought the
chairs were dry some one would dis-
cover a daub of paint on their suit.
Dad's patience was finally exhausted,
#0 he bought these rockers.”
“Is your brother out of town?" ask-
ed Celine, dr
' “Yes.” .
“There's some class to him when he
wears that light gray suit.”
“Don't mention that suit to me.
Bob said: ‘Sis, ‘get rid of my gray suit,
I don't want it any more.’
“One of those A menians came to
the door with a suit case of kimonos
and I exchanged the suit for a silk
kimono.”
“What an excellent idea. What did
Bob say about y.ur business abil
ity?
“I'd hate to tell you. He nearly col-
lapsed when he found I had traded the
new suit,
“Mother had sel cted a new refrig-
erator at what see 1ed an exorbitant
price. 1 attended a furniture auction
sale, and after w-iting four hours,
procured an ice box all porcelain and
glass for only ten dollars more than
the other would hz ‘e cost. When it
came it was 16 in-~hes too high and
10 inches too wide for the pantry.”
“Did you send it “ack?”
“No; it was boug't on the condition
that it could not be returned.”
“Don’t you trim your own hats?”
“Not since I blackened my leghorn
with shoe polish. Jack and I were
caught in a rain storm, Jack gave
one howl. ‘You look like a coal black
lady!’ he roared. The shoe polish had
dripped off.
“Another time I had needed my
white pique skirt in a hurry so the
cook washed it and I put it in the oven
to dry and turned the gas low, I for
got all about it and the skirt was
burned to a crisp,
“But that wasn't even as bad as the
time I dyed my last blue messaline,
coronation purple.”
“Was it a success?” interrupted
Celine.
“No, the dress became a hideous
purple, but the pan containing the dye
slipped. The sink, the table, the wall,
everything was tinged with violet. The
maid threatened to leave, said she
never worked in a purple kitchen, and
never intended to. We had the wall
cleaned and raised her wages.”
“l certainly don't blame your fa.
”
“You needn‘t sympathize with him,
My allowance won't be doubled very
long. Jack says he thinks I would
make a dear, sweet, economical wife,”
Wind Wagon Travels Fast.
Mme. Bleriot has a wind wagon or
aeroplane invented by her husband,
which stays
otherwise like a monoplane. It is de-
signed on principles similar to the
yacht, but it is on wheels and is driw-
en in the same way that an aeroplane
is propelled. Mme. Bleriot goes out
on the sands in it with her five chil.
dren, traveling at the rate of sixty
miles an hour.
—Don’t read an out-of-date paper. Get
all the news in the WATCHMAN,
“" WATER OF THE WORLD. |
What Will We Do When the Population
the Rainfall?
Dr. McGee, an American scientist,
“who follows the form of investigation
that uses weighing scales for testi-
mony—scales that cannot lle,” has
found that the average Individual uses
directly or Indirectly about 4,400 tons
of water every year. He drinks a ton.
The vegetables he consumes require
about 400 tons for their growth, and
his annual meat supply of 20C pounds
uses up no less than 4,000 tons of
water.
Using this figure as a basis, Dr. Mc-
Gee shows that when the population
of the United States has reached 1,017,-
000,000, which he thinks will occur
about A. D. 2210, every drop of the
annual rainfall will be required to
maintain the food supply, and no fur-
ther increase of inhabitants will be
possible.
The present inhabitants of the entire
world, estimated at about 1,500,000,000,
can be increased to 20,000,000,000 if
the total annual rainfall of earth re-
mains as it Is today—that is, thirteen
times the present population will
crowd the earth to its limit.
Dr. McGee's estimates, however,
leave quite out of account the ques-
tion of tapping the oceans, which is
at least a possibility.—London Maga-
zine.
MOVING THE PIANO.
Changing Its Position In a Room Will
Affect Its Tone.
It is said that the very act of mov-
ing a piano around in a room is suffi-
cient to disturb its tonal qualities.
When a piano has been moved into
the position for which it is intended,
is accustomed to the temperature and
the drafts prevalent, it should be tuned,
experts say. Any change of tempera-
ture or movement may cause the
strings to contract or expand slightly
with the resultant loss or gain of half
a semitone. Changing the position of a
piano is sald to have almost the same
effect as constant playing, only In the
latter case the constant action of the
hammers against the strings tends to
loosen their adjustment and the instru.’
ment runs out of tune,
Sea air has also a detrimental effect
on pianos. Here again contraction’
and expansion of the wires are the
chief causes of disturbance. Planos
constructed for the tropics are much
more strongly built than those used in
temperate climates. Wood that is not
liable to warp and crack Is used in the
sounding boards; otherwise they have,
to be brass bound and stayed to pre-,
vent splitting.—New York Sun.
Gluttons of the Seas.
The pike’s reputation for cruelty and
voraciousness is such that it has been'
popularly dubbed the “water wolf.”
It is probable, however, that many
species of sea fish are equally, if not
a great deal more, rapacious. Large’
dogfish, congers, pollack, cod and bass
are especially ferocious, while halibut
will very often seize and kill other
large fish. An English angler was
“playing” a large conger when a buge '
halibut swam up to and savagely bit’
at it—a proceeding that cost the halibut
its own life. for on its making for the
wounded conger a second time the
boatman contrived to gaff and haul it
aboard. There have been many ex-
amples of pike being found dead, chok.
ed by their own species, and these tis):
not infrequently atttack another pike
that has been hooked by a fisherman :
—
Arsenic Eaters.
The average Engiishman has a hor '
ror of arsenic, but the peasantry in
Austria-Hungary and other parts of
eastern Europe eat it habitually, be-!
lieving that it gives plumpness and.
beauty to the figure and longness of
breath. Peddlers sell white arsenic’
about the countryside quite without re
striction. The quantities taken are
small, and so long as the doses are reg. |
ular no illness results. Once they are’
stopped, however, symptoms of arse-|
nical poisoning at once become mani- |
fest. Mountaineers in eastern Europe
often take a dose of arsenic before
commencing a climb, and it is also
customary to give it to horses and dogs
to give brightness and gloss to their
skins.—London Chronicle. |
Meteors,
The frequency of meteors is at its
highest toward the end of July and the |
beginning of August. During the drst |
six months of the year the total num-
ber of meteors observed on a clear.
moonless night is only about six an
hour. At the beginning of July the fre-
quency increases and attains its maxi
mum, sixty-nine an hour, on Aug. 10.
The mean for the entire year is twen-
ty-four meteors an hour.~London
Standard.
Progressing.
“1 understand your boy Josh is ex-
perimenting on the lines of perpetnal
motion.”
“Yes,” replied I"armer Corntossel.
“And 1 feel some encouraged about it.
I thought for awhile that the only
thing Josh was going to take in was
perpetual rest.” Washington Star.
A Resemblance.
She—In a way, getting married is
like using the telephone. He—How 80?
She—One doesn't always get the party
one wants.—Boston Transcript.
Views of Optimist and Pessimist.
Howell—Fortune knocks once at ev-
ery man’s door. Powell-While mis-
fortune keeps on knocking.—Judge's
Library.
nud Soot fis. unde lap yig wing
market has gone by.--Spanish
Proverb.
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WHEN COAL WAS FORMED.
Curious Condition the Earth Was In at
That Period.
What is said to be the strangest
period through which this earth has
passed is the one that was responsible Pleasan
for the formation of coal. The planet
is described as being at that time flat
and smooth as to surface and peculiar
as to vegetation. The continents were
Just beginning to rise above the ocean,
and the land had not yet become dry.
Mountain ranges had not arisen from
the swamps, and the atmosphere was
! thick with fog. In this state of affairs
there sprouted and flourished the
plants which were later to furnish the
world with its coal supply.
These plants grew as big as our
largest trees, taking deep root in the
morass and flourishing like the lush
grasses in moist meadow land, devel-
oped into the strange shapes now
found in tropic vegetation. The for-
ests looked, scientists state, like dense
growths of weeds, rushes and enormous
ferns. Some of them grew in the shape
of cacti, having spines all over them.
This kind of vegetation was very rich
in carbon, which it derived from the
warm, moist atmosphere. Then the
millions of years rolled by, the forests
of giant weeds were buried by deposits
of earthly material, and the chemical
change took place which slowly
| changed them into coal. This process
stopped with the carboniferous age, so
| that when the present supply of coal
is dug out of the ground there will be
no more.—New York Sun,
A RUSSIAN ROYAL TRAGEDY.
Czar Boris and the “Bell With the Ear
Torn Off.”
The kamaoulie koloko, or “bell with
the ear torn off,” had a most roman-
tic history. In the sixteenth century
Prince Dimitri, the rightful heir to the
Russian throne, was deposed by a re-
volt led by Boris Godunoff, who was
afterward proclaimed czar. The seat
of government was then at Uglich, and
thither Dimitri was sent in order that
he might remain under the direct ob-
servation of the usurper.
Boris, fearing the populace might
awake to the justice of the claims of
| the young prince, planned the assassi-
nation of Dimitri. He was one day
stabbed ia a courtyard. None of the
bystanders showed any disposition to
ald him. A priest, however, from the
cathedral belfry saw the crime and
immediately began tolling the great
bell, which was held sacred and rung
only on unusual occasions, such as a
coronation or the death of a czar.
Furious at this tacit expression of
reproach, the czar commanded that the
priest should be tortured and executed
and that the bell should be taken down
and placed beside the body of its ring-
er. This order was fulfilled, and the
bell was beaten with clubs by the en-
tire populace, the Czar Boris being at
their head.
The czar then decreed that the bell
should be exiled to Tobolsk and that
one of its hangers be removed to indl-
cate its disgrace.—Harper's Weekly,
Camembert Cheese.
Camembert is the name of a .com-
mune, a few houses about a Camem-
bert church in the prefecture Vimou-
| tier and the department of Orne. The
cheese got Its name from the fact that
it originated near there, but there isn't
a cheese factory nearer than three
miles away now, and not enough peoc-
ple live in Camembert to run one of
any size. Caen, the principal Camem-
| bert market, is in Calvados. The
cheese is carted to the shore and car
ried across the mouth of the Seine to
Haver in boats. It is made, however,
on the northeastern side of the Seine
and from there comes to Haver direct.
The cheese is shipped unripe even tc
home markets near at hand in French
cities. It is seldom over four weeks
old when it leaves the factory and
often only two or three.—Argonaut.
The Proof.
“Apropos of international marriages,”
said a Texas congressman, “I am re-
minded of a saying of Vicomte I'Oig-
* ‘These American heiresses, grum-
bled the vicomte to his friend, the
Chevalier Tete de Veau, ‘are a cold,
calculating, designing lot.’
“Yes? said Tete de Veau.
“ ‘Yes,’ said I'Oignon. ‘I've just been
accepted by Miss Billa Nare and,
though Billia is worth twice as much
as Lotta Golde, the latter declines pos-
itively to release me from our engage-
ment.’ "Washington Star.
Caught In His Own Trap.
Mother—Why, what is the matter.
Johnny? What are you crying about?
Johnny—Teccher made me sit in her
chair on the platform today, just be-
cause I whispered once. Mother—Well,
I don’t see anything dreadful in that.
You have had to sit there before. John.
ny—But there was tacks in her chair
today! [I'd just put 'em there for her
to sit on.—Judge.
Equally Creditable.
“Do those stories that statesman tells
give the public an impression that he
is a man of mentality?"
“I think so.” replied Senator Sor
ghum. “Even if they do not indicate a
ready wit they show a long memory.”
~~Washington Star.
Well Done.
“Whatever [ try to do | do with all
my might.”
“That was what Ridgely said. He
told me you got his last dollar.”—
Washington Herald. .
A man is hated sometimes for pride
when it was an excess of humility
gave the occasion.
Flour and Feed.
CURTIS Y. WAGNER
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
Manufactures and has on hand at all times the
following brands of high grade flour:
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COFFEE
The coffee market just now is a pretty hard proposition
But we are doing all that it is possible for us to do under
present conditions to give our trade good values.
We are selling a good sound coffee and of excellent
flavor
at 25 cents
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This is a GENUINE BARGAIN.
And at 28 c. per pound and 30c. per pound we are
giving very high value for the price named. On our en.
tire line of Coffee you will always get better value here
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and you will find the proof in the goods.
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Restaurant.
ESTAURANT.
Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
Meals are Served at All Hours
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SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.
for pic-nics, and gener.
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C. MOERSCHBACHER,
50-32-1y. High §t., Bellefonte, Pa.
Plumbing.
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ARCHIBALD ALLISON,
Opposite Bush House - . Bellefonte, Pa.
Coal and Wood.
EDWARD K. RHOADS
and Decies a
ANTHRACITE ano BITUMINOUS
COALS
CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS
: and other grains.
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Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand.
KINDLING WOOD
by the bunch or cord as mav suit purchasers,
respectfully solicits the patronage of his
friends and the public, at his Coal Yard,
near the Pennsylvania Passenger Station,
1618 Telephone Cals: {GSE Tif up
Meat Market.
Get the Best Meats.
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LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
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1 alwavs have
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Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want,
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. ~~ 4334ly. Bellefonte, Pt
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