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Bellefonte, Pa., May 24, 1912.
LEARNING HOW.
“lI am especially anxious (or Harold
to come,” read Harold's mother. “Dor-
othy has never had any one to
play with except her father and me,
and she doesn’t know how to play
with children of her own age. A more
angelic child never breathed and Dick
is eager to see what a bit of well di-
rected spice will do for her. He al-
ways has felt that she should have
been born a boy, you know. So come
soon.”
It was with timid obedience to her
parents’ urgent directions that Dor-
othy, aged four, went forward two
weeks later and gravely gave her Cous-
in Harold a welcoming kiss, saying in
slow and awestruck tones: “You can
play with my toys and the attic is all
ready.”
“Well, come on!” shouted Harold. |
Then, pulling her ruthlessly by the
hand, he started up the broad stair
way for the stories above.
“The dears!” chimed the mothers in
unison. Then the two settled down
to discuss the various merits of their
offspring, wondering how soon they
might be called upon to explain to
Dorothy just what it was that Har-
old meant by his boyish actions.
But there was no sudden summons
to the attic. Two hours later they
crept upstairs to call the children to
luncheon and to note Dorothy's prog-
ress.
Harold was directing operations with
the air of a general. Dorothy sat near
by, her angelic eyes blazing with ex-
citement, shearing wildly her best
doll's hair. About her lay several |
dolls of various sizes, mercilessly bar-
bered, and on the floor were strewn |
the curls that had once graced the
bisque heads. |
It was not this sight that made her |
mother start forward with a cry of
terror and catch up her child in a fe- |
ver of amazement. Dorothy's curls
had evidently been the first to fall. ,
They lay intermingled with the |
tangled floss upon the floor.
“He's been teaching me to play, |
mother,” cried Doruthy as she strug- |
gled free. “We're barbers, and he
cut off my hair like his and we've cut |
the dolls’ hair, too, when they had |
any.”
During luncheon both children were |
gravely admonished and though rest-
less to a marked degree they promised
solemnly not to use the scissors and
not to throw anything—Harold having
suggested an imitation of an apart- |
ment buliding fire that he had wit- |
nessed where all the furniture had
been thrown from the upper floors. .
Further, they promised not to pound
anything, and not to paint anything
but their own paint books. i
Then with a sigh from Dorothy's |
mother and a tender smooth to Dor- |
othy’'s shorn head, the children were |
allowed to seek their own amuse- '
ment once more.
“Harold doesn’t mean to be destruc-
tive,” fis mother said sadly, but a bit
proudly as well. “And he does obey.
We can trust them now that they have
our restrictions to go by. It is his
inventive genius for something new
to do. He never played barber be-
fore in his life. It must have been |
because his father had his hair |
trimmed while | was buying my new |
hat yesterday—a perfect dream, Ma- |
rion! A most extravagant willow
plume and a few gold rose buds—"
“But such an investment, dear!” an- |
swered her sister. “Mme. Renova has
used my white plume, dyed green, on
a high small toque.” |
With that the subject of fashions |
was launched for the afternoon.
Some hours later, because of the !
silence in the attic, they went in
search of the cherubs. They were not '
in the attic, nor in the nursery nor !
yet in mother’s room. But there they '
found evidences of pilfering that sent
terror to the mothers’ hearts and set
them to calling loudly for their dar-
lings. Dorothy had rifled her mother's |
hat box. The tissue paper coverings
and the box lid were strewn about, '
but the hat was gone.
From the guest room the cherubs |
answered eagerly and innocently,
“We're playing milliner’s shop,”
called Dorothy's high treble, an eerie '
gleam in her usually soft eyes. “Har-
old knows such lots of plays and I'm |
learning like you sald to. And we're
going to stuff some dolls’ pillows with |
these.” i
On the bed lay the two hats, shorn
of all that had made them models of |
the season's most perfect designs. Up |
right on each stood a single wiry stick
from which all the fibers of a once |
fovely plume had been stripped. On |
‘he white counterpane lay a heaped |
1p mass of green and rose. |
“It's some like excelsior, only soft- |
er,” shouted Harold, “and in pillows |
it will be fine.”
Then, seeing the tragedy that lay in
his mother’s eyes, he scrambled to her |
side, saying eagerly: “We didn’t cut |
or throw or pound or paint, mother—" :
The rest was drowned in the slam- |
ming door on the retiring figures of
Dorothy and Dorothy’s mother.
Simple Enough.
“I don't know how to make con- |
versation when in society.” i
“It's simple enough. When you're
with automobile people you talk auto-
mobile, and when you're with bridge
people you talk bridge.” :
—Don't read an out-of-date paper. Get
all the news in the WATCHMAN.
| to do's’ which were beaten out during
| two by four gave me eighty-eight ror
| therefore 60 by 8S gave me 5.280
| feet we were traveling to the minute
| the house,
; Is a straight line.
. proportion of this cut out inch.—Edgzn
| studied and selected with the greates:
, cides the kind of tree. Much mor.
| ehair who would not think of puttin:
. that amount into a tree.—Kansus in
| fireproof buildings and he 18 a fire in
: surance agent.” Cleveland Plain Den:
| er.
you think poets have to be born? Th:
: kept the law.—John Miiton.
* BEETLE BITS.
Cook Learned the Secret of Their Util-
ity From an Insect.
Ransom Cook was little known out-
side of the village of Saratoga, where
' he lived, but he gained a small fortune
from a carpenter's bit, Invented by
him, which has been in common use
for years. This device has two lips,
protriding slightly above the edge and
opposite each other.
Simplicity itself, but the world never
had such a bit until Cook made it, and
an insect taught him how to do it. Sit
: ting down on a recently felled pine tree
one day outside Saratoga. he heard the
crunch, crunch of something inside the
log. Curious, he investigated and saw |
that an insect of the bettle family was
boring into the wood at one end of the
prostrate tree. And the hole was
lengthwise. Moreover, it was perfect |
ly smooth. Cook had no bits In his kit |
that would wake such a hole withou:
slivering the Interior so that it would
be rough. Procuring an ax, he chop-
' ped off the end of the log where the
! insect had been working, split the sec:
tion and. capturing the beetle, took it
home and examined it under a micro
scope. Then the secret of the insect's
ability to bore smooth horizontal holes
in any kind of wood was revealed
The beetle was provided with power |
ful nippers on either side of Its jaws.
and they operated in precisely the
same manner as do the small blades of
the bits which he immediately invent:
' ed, patented and put on the market. |
“Beetle bits" were the foundation of
his fortune.—New York Press. !
SPEED OF A TRAIN.
You Can Figure It Out From the Clicks |
of the Rail Joints.
If any reader wishes, when on a long
' raflway journey, to test the speed ut
which the train is traveling he might |
! perhaps do worse than follow the |
method suggested by “Nothing to Do" |
“We were coming down from Lon
don to Holyhead,” he says, “and the
wheels flying over the rails beat out to
my brain the rhythmic tune ‘Nothin:
to do, nothing to do,’ as they went over
the joints in the rails. 1 took out my
watch and with the aid of the second
hand counted the number of ‘nothing
one-quarter of a minute. I found tha:
twenty-two was the number. Twenty
one minute. The rails of the L. and
N. W. rallway are sixty feet long:
which was, of course. the number ot
Thus | was able to tell my traveling
companion, with some degree of accu
racy, that at that time we were trave:
ing at a mile a minute.
“Any reader can do this. All that ix |
| necessary Is to find out beforehand the
length of the rails and after that te
watch your watch.” —London Answers
She Rapped Bismarck,
Bismarck was no favorite with wom |
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en, least of all with clever women wh |
dared to think for themselves and im
agine that they could fathom question. |
of state. He was never tired of snub: |
bing strong minded Indies, putting |
, them down and stamping on them |
One day he paid a visit to the Russian |
embassy at Berlin, where he behaved
as usual, flouting even the mistress ot |
the Countess Schouvalofl
herself. He took his leave at length
to the relief of everybody, and pres
ently the family mastiff was neara |
; barking at the great man as he passed
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through the courtyard. [Immediate
. the countess ran to the open window |
| and Bismarck beard her voice, sayin: |
to him in a tone of gentle entreat)
| “Oh, please, M. le Chancelier, don’t bit
my dog.”
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Course of the Sun.
It is not known whether the sun I~
moving around another as a center !
All probabilities are against the iden
Since the Invention of the telescoy-
and micrometer no turning to the
right or left has been detected. It. ~«
far as known, seems to be movin:
along on a straight line. But analog)
is against this also. Millions of oti
suns attract ours, and the path beyond
a doubt bends this way and that. like
that of a bee In a swarm, but th
curvature cannot be noticed. Draw =
circle ten miles in diameter, cut ou
one inch. and you would say the men
‘The sun's path trav
ersed during the last 300 years ut
twelve miles per second is about in th
Lucien Larkin in New York American
Select Trees With Care.
Trees for street and lawn should be
care. They are for life, often for sev
eral generations, yet a dollar often dv
thought and time are given to the =»
lection of an easy chair. Many persons
will willingly spend $30 or $40 ror
dustrialist.
A Bad Outlook.
“No. | can't get up enough courags
to ask old Patterson for his daughter
“And why not?"
“Because I'm a builder of absolute:
She Knew,
Miss Gusher—-Oh, please tell me! [Co
Poet's Wife—Yes, borne with.—Har
per's Bazar
Men of most renowned virtue have
sometimes by transgressing most truly
' questioner and addressing the court,
| of baldness. But Dr. Gottheil in an
his characteristic and expressive
ances all the more striking.
or two. One day he had a misunder- |
standing with one of his tenants, in
the course of which the tenant gave
him a sound thrashing. The same aft-
ernoon the lawyer rode into M., bruls-
ed, bleeding and dirty. i
“Hello!” said a friend, meeting him. |
“There must have been a runaway! |
“No, sub,” replied the judge grimly,
“there was no runaway, sub, but there
would have been if I could have got
loose, suh!”
His tenant was arrested and tried
for assault and battery. Of course
Judge Shirley was the principal wit-
ness.
“What did you say to this man,
Judge Shirley?" demanded the attor
ney who appeared for the tenant.
“Well. sr™."” returned the judge
evasively, he falsified, and I called
his attention to it, sub!”
“But what did you say?” insisted the
lawyer.
At last, cornered and forced to:
answer directly, the old judge replied:
“Well, your honah,” turning from his
“your honah, | may as well admit that
I used the common American tuhm.”— |
Youth's Companion.
KEEPING AN ENGAGEMENT.
Garrett Made a Mighty Effort to Be on
Time Just Once.
The late Edmund Garrett, a brilliant
journalist and one time assistant edi-
tor of the Pall Mall Gazette, was a
man whom other men loved. Butalong
with his virtues he had an extensive
list of peculiarities, some of which are
humorously exploited in a blography
by E. T. Cook.
Garrett had no idea of time, and he
used to get into some trouble at the
office of the Gazette for that reason.
“This must stop,” he said to me, "and
matters must be mended.” A day or
two afterward an invitation came from
the proprietor to dinner. Edmund said
that at any rate there must be no
doubt about this entertainment and bis
punctual attendance thereat, and 9
good deal of fuss was made about get
ting ready for it.
Shirts were looked out, white ties |
and dress clothes were overhauled and |
all the resources of our establishment |
brought into requisition, so that the
| appearance of the guest should do jus-
| long before that time Edmund was ar.
| rayed in spotless raiment, starting out
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tice to the host. Dinner was at 8, and |
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in good time to get to dinner.
I stayed, reading, in the flat. After
about half an hour | heard somebody
coming up the stairs and 1 heard to my
amazement the latchkey put into the
lock. The door opened, and in came
Edmund, with a face ashy pale.
He took off his hat and threw it on
the floor and said: '
“Hang it, old man, I've muddled it
again! It was last Wednesday!”
Sun or Heat as Maker of Baldness.
The fact that savages almost always
possess fine crops of hair, taken with
the fact that they do not wear bats.
has led some people to belleve that go
ing bareheaded might be a preventive
article quoted by the Medical Record
points out that the action of the sun's
rays upon the head Is injurious not
only to the hair, but to the whole sys-
tem, overinduligence in sun baths caus-
ing {irritability and nervous cardiac
and circulating disturbances and le
sions of the skin that are often serious
But it is pointed out that the tight
hatband constricts circulation in the
arteries and veins of the head, and.
as the Medical Record says, it Is ©
moot point whether this be not as)
harmful to the hair as are the actinic |
rays of the sun.
Many Manias,
At a recent congress of neurology a
paper was read in which the move-
ment by which the growing lad caress
es the first shoots on his upper lip
was labeled moustachiostrepsomanin;
the habit of twirling the cane seen in
old drum majors, strepsorhabdomania.
that of putting the little finger into the
ear, otodactylomania. Then we have
“stomatodactylomaniacs,” who put the
finger into the mouth: “onychophago
maniacs,” who bite their nails; “har
monlomaniacs,” who drum with their
fingers on windowpanes or tables, and
“trepodomaniacs,” who nervously move
their legs. — British Medical Journal.
His Harvest Season,
Teacher—Now, Earlie. tell us when
is the harvest seson. Earlie—From
November to March. <Teacher—Why.
Earlle, | am surprised that you shouid
name such barren months. Who told
you they were the harvest season?
Earlie—Pa. He's a plumber.—Brooklyuv |
Eagle. |
Literary Note.
Dentist—Penley, the novelist, was in
this morning and had a tooth pulled
Priend—Ah! An extract from a& popu
lar author, as it were.—Boston Tran
script.
The Fear of Woman,
Mrs, A.—They say that the world Is
coming to an end. Mrs. B.—I'll bet It
catches me with my old clothes on.—
Hatire.
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:
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
Theoaly place in the county where that extraor.
SPRAY
can be secured. Also International Stock
and feed of all kinds. Food
All kinds of Grain bought at ¢
Fa bought at the office Flour
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
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The Pennsylvania State College.
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upon request.
Address all communications to
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A Set of Harness in Nickle or Imi-
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This harness is equal to any $15 set on the
GUARANTEE—The above goods
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$ Spring Street 5532 Bellefonte, Pa
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TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES.
TAKING EFFECT
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ence. These cour
The courses in Chemistry, C
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Grocerics.
Groceries.
COFFEE
But we are doing all that it
is possible for us to do under
present conditions to give our trade good values.
The coffee market just now is a pretty hard proposition
We are selling a good sound coffee and of excellent
at 25 cents per pound.
This is a GENUINE BARGAIN.
giving very high value for the price named. On our en.
tire line of Coffee you will always get better value here
Sechler &
Bush House Block, -
and 30c. per pound we are
us a fair trial on our coffees
Company,
flavor
: And at 28 c. per pound
for the price charged. Give
i and you will find the proof in the goods.
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Lime and Crushed Limestone.
We are the largest
imestone and Lime for all purposes.
AMERICAN LIME &
55-4-6m
H-0 Increase Your Crops H:0
Lime is the life of the soil.
USE CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA LIME
Some Farmers have actually doubled their crops by use of “H. 0.” lime
Drill it for quick results. If you are not getting results use “H. 0.” lime
Manufacturers of Lime in Pennsylvania. Ground
Works at Bellefonte, Frankstown, Spring Meadows, Tyrone Forger and Union Furnace.
Write for literature on lime.
STONE COMPANY.
Offices at TYRONE, PA.
e, Pa.
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| T H. WETZEL~—. Counsellor aL
J Office No. JL cn 2 Exchange, second
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Dentists.
R. H. W. TATE, Su Dentist, Office
of "
Years experience. work of Superior Qualty
Restaurant.
tap clonke now has a First-Class Res-
Meals are Served at All Hours
Plumbing.
Good Health
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When have dn steam
wate fl et” SPS tk
#38, you cat have goed Hes s air you
poisoned and invalidism is sure to come.
SANITARY PLUMBING
is the kind we do. It's the kind you
boys. ‘2 LL Skilled Mechanics
r
no better anywhere. Our
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire
establishment. And with good work and the
finest material, our
Prices are lower
than many who give you r, unsanitary
work lowest grade Panishings.
big Fog Linh, si Roe
ARCHIBALD ALLISON,
Opposite Bush Houge . Bellefonte, Pa.
EDWARD K. RHOADS
Merchant, and Dealer in
ANTHRACITE asp BITUMINOUS
COALS
CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS
and other grains.
—— BALED HAY AND STRAW ——
Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand.
KINDLING WOOD
fy the bunch or cord as may suit purchasers,
respectfully solicits the patronage of his
friends and the public, at his Coal Yard,
near the Pennsylvania Passenger Station.
1618 Telephone Calis: {ESA Hllvegy
Meat Market.
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Get the Best Meats.
, thin
or Gretly meats. {use only the
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
customers with the
REITER
and are no
are
I always have
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP,
P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. 43341y. Bellefonte, Pa.