Bellefonte, Pa., May 24, 1912.
THE QUEST.
Anything that is homeless arouses
one's sympathy and a homeless cow |
should naturally share in this outpour-
ing of kindly emotion. But the night
that the McLane's cow lost her happy
home nobody in the summer communi. |
ty sat up and wept in tender commis-
eration.
Just why the cow
chosen
should have
when the McLanes’ man had his back
turned for a fatal instant is one of the
mysteries of bovine phychology which
nobody can figure out.
In something like a panic she lum-
bered along through the trees until
she saw a light. “Aha!” said the cow.
“home at last.”
The light shone from the cottage oc- |
cupied by Miss Atkinson, a maiden of
& considerable number of years, who
was entertaining at the moment three
other staid and elderly women at
bridge.
Just as one of the three had sald |
disgustedly that she made it spades
Miss Atkinson, who was facing the
porch, gave a bloodcurdling
“A man!” she hissed. “There was
& man peering in through the porch
screen door! He disappeared when |
oper:
' Oné of the bravest of the four ven-
tured out to the porch and in a quav-
ering voice demanded to know who |
was there, while the others supported
her with the carving knife and the
broom.
Nothing answered from the silence, |
which made it all the worse.
The guests put Miss Atkinson to
b- ' with the hot water bag and the |
smelling salts and locked every win-
dow in the cottage. Then, shivering
with fright, the three held hands and
bolted for the hotel.
It was a little later that the Bundy |
cottage was upset. Mrs. Bundy had
put the children to bed and was cro-
cheting while her guest, Mrs. Hulton,
was reading aloud a particularly grew-
some detective story. Suddenly Mrs.
Bundy made a startled clutch at Mrs. |
Huton’s wrist and said: “Lis-s-ten!”
Mrs. Hulton heard it, too. *Th-th-
there must be t-t-two of 'em!™ stam-
mered Mrs. Hulton. “I can hear four
f-f-feet juct as plain!”
There certainly were several differ
ent footsteps outside the cottage—
slow, careful footsteps. There was
also deep breathing. Then something
blurred against the low diamond
paned window over the corner win-
dow seat.
gave a cheep like a strangled chicken
and nearly went over backward in her
rocker.
Holding the family revolver at arm's
length and with her head turned the
other way, Mrs. Bundy sat down again
and they listened. There was noth-
ing to be heard. They passed the rest |
of the night on guard.
Farther down the lake shore, on
the rustic seat facing the moon, Laura
Spilger and her young man sat talk-
ing. Their absorption in each other
was so great that they heard nothing
until something strange was thrust
over Laura's left shoulder. Young
Burmaster made a wild but futile grab
at Laura as she leaped in the air.
Landing on the extreme edge of the
slippery terrace, she tumbled down |
into the lapping waters with a gur-
gling splash.
Then as young Burmaster, too,
sensed the presence of something
weird and inexplicable he felt his
scalp twitch in freezing horror, and
leaped after Laura. Hand in hand they
arose, dripping, and stood affrighted
in the two feet of water at the shore's
edge.
From the Spilger's cottage came
questioning rumblings. Laura's fa-
ther was demanding to know the rea-
son for all that uproar. Getting no
answer, because the two in the lake
were still paralyzed vocally, he came
forth to investigate.
“What do you want?” he roared at
something creeping by. “I'll teach you
to prowl around my house, consarn
you!” Presently there was the spite-
ful pop of the little Spliger boy’s air-
gun.
Nothing happened. The Spilgers
and young Burmaster sat up very late
discussing the mystery. It was dis-
couraging to the Spilgers to find that
their peaceful summer home was get- |
ting just like every other place, and
one had to lock and bar doors and
windows and take in the washing at
night.
The Doggetts were roused from
slumber by some one fumbling at the
kitchen window. At the Plunketts
some one was distinctly heard at the
chicken house. Mrs. Pilking said she
heard footsteps on the Pilkins’' front
porch that night and the Pikes report.
ed that their mignonette bed had been |
trampled.
A ——
At an impromptu mass meeting a
the next morning the cottagers voted
to spend $50 a month fer a watchman,
Then they took naps all the rest of
the day to make up for their wakeful
night.
But early that same morning a
weary and homesick cow had broken
into a gallop as she spled the Mec.
Lanes’ barn and in two minutes more
she was munching her feed and
~ switching files.
—For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
to wander from the comfort- |
able, hay stuffed barn toward dusk |
shriek |
and her cards flew all over the room |
Thereupon Mrs. Bundy
"THE PRESIDENTS OFFICE.
' Elegance In its Architecture and In Its
Appointments,
The president's office is an ellipse in
plan. A triple bay window forms one
end and at the other is an open fire
place. Four doors, opening inward.
are equaily disposed. two on each side.
and are curved to conform with the
curve of the wall. The tall windows
| are bung with stately, heavy curtains
and are flanked by bookcases set into
the wall.
The fireplace is incased in fine war-
ble, and fluted ionic columns support
the mantel, on which stands a bell
glass covered clock, flanked by can-
delabra. In the fireplace are complete
preparations for a wood fire. Even
the paper is placed under the logs.
| ready to ignite.
The style of the room is classic co-
lonial, and the woodwork is painted
a creamy white with blue white em-
bellishment. Each of the four large
ornate door frames is surmounted by
a rich pediment. The wall is covered |
by a warm olive green burlap, which |
extends up from a paneled wainscot to |
a wide, elaborate molding or entabla-
ture of plain plaster. A flat dome of |
this virgin plaster surmounts the recom
and gathers in its shallow, inverted
basin the light from the bay window
and gives play to every tint and shade
of gray. i
Pendent from the middle is a chan- |
delier of electric candles, and triple |
groups of the same adorn the wall be-
| tween the doors and windows.—Wil-
liam 8. Nortenheim in National Mag-
eine. ”
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,.__ SIKH SOLDIERS.
An Interesting Division of the British
Army In India, |
In the English papers one may fre-'
quently see pictures of tiny soldiers,
about seven or cight years of age, |
, gravely saluting elderly officers. These
infants at arms are boy recruits hold- |
ing regular and dignified places in the
Indian army. Each Sikh regiment is |
allowed twelve of these little chaps,
who are trained almost from babyhood,
They are pald each 3 rupees and S an-
nas a month and at the age of sixteen
enter the regular army.
The Sikh soldiers are an interesting
and remarkable part of the British
army in India. Their conduct in fron-
tier engagements has distinguished
them as brave, steady and devoted to
their English officers. Yet about fifty |
years ago these well ordered soldiers
were fanatical savages who in their
mad uprisings shook the power of
! Great Britain. Once conquered, they |
accepted British rule and were trained |
‘and disciplined into a well equipped |
army of 30,000 soldiers. They formed !
part of the force that subdued the mu- |
| tiny. The Hodson's horse troops, |
which helped capture Delhi, were com-
posed of Sikhs whose devoted service |
| to their leader made them famous. |
Their scarlet sashes and turbans gained |
them the name of “Flamingoes.” Thelr |
descendants are no less determined |
fighters and stanch soldiers.—New York |
Press.
Some of the medical treatises of an- |
cient Assyria are models of simplicity,
' and we cannot doubt the effectiveness
I of their prescriptions. Thus we are
' told that if a man has colic we should
! “make him crouch down on his Leels
‘and pour cold water over his head.”
| That ouglt to cure colic if only the
| water is cold enough. Again, “When a
| man is bilious rub him with an onion
| and let him drink nothing but water
and abstain from food wltogether.”
i The onion part is probably decorative.
‘At least it can de no harm, while the
abstention from food is salutary in the
extreme, even for those who are not
very bilious. But if a man is in “a
weak state” why should it benefit him
to “strike him on the head fourteen
times with your thumb?’ This is sug-
gestive of faith healing.
Primrose Day.
Primrose day in England, the anni-
versary of the death of Benjamin Dis-
raell, Lord Beaconsfield, had its origin
in the tribute, a modest wreath of prim-
roses, sent by Queen Victoria for the
| funeral of Beaconsfield. The general
impression that the primrose was Bea-
consfield’s favorite flower came from a
misunderstanding of the words at-
tached to the queen's tribute—“F. Viec-
toria. His favorite flower.” The pub-
lic thought the queen meant that the
primrose was Beaconsfield’'s favorite
flower when in truth she meant that it
was the favorite flower of the prince
consort.—New York American.
“Swallowed a Word.”
Little Mary was telling what she
thought was an exciting story about a
dream. She stuttered in her effort,
| gulped and paused hopelessly without
| completing the sentence.
“Why, child, what is the matter?”
Yer mother asked.
The little girl smiled ruefully and
replied, “1 swallowed a word.”"-In-
dianapolis News,
: The Main Thing,
Aged Snitor—It is true that I am
considerable older than you, but a man
is as young as he feels, you know,
and- Miss Pert—Obh, that doesn’t
matter! What | want to know is if
you are as rich as you look.—Boston
Good Substitute.
BEdna—Did Mabel get that six shooter
she spoke of providing herself with as
——— 1
Assyrian Healing. |
a protection against burglars? Eva—
No. She got a «i= Soter.—Judge.
There are persons who are not ac-
tors, not speakers, but influences.—
|
"KILLING A COBRA.
A Plucky Crow For Which the Big
Snake Had No Terrors.
If the testimony offered by an Eng-
lish naturalist in Ceylon be given full
credence, then the cobra is not so
dangerous a snake as popular reputa-
tion makes it. In at least two in-
stances, reports this naturalist, cobras
were chased by large birds. In neither
case did the snake seem to have any
hypnotic power, such as is generally
credited to snakes in general.
A crow was seen fighting an in-
truder into its nest situated at the
very top of a tree. The crow was
circling at close quarters and pecking
hard at the nest, cawing loudly all the
time. The nest was some forty feet
above ground.
Presently a snake came out of the
nest and started to descend, with the
crow in hot pursuit, pecking at the co
bra continually, The snake took refuge
about ten feet down in a clump of
; dead ferns, from which it was chased
out by the crow. It came from branch
to branch until it reached a large hori-
zontal limb, which stretched out about
twenty feet.
Here the snake was ant a great dis
advantage, inasmuch as it could not
turn upon the crow. The latter seem-
ed fully to appreciate the situation,
and its tactics were excelient. It would
peck hard at the spine close to the tail
and then peck near the snake's neck.
At each peck pieces of the snake's
skin were torn out, whereupon the
cobra would lie quite motionless. But
just as soon as it evinced signs of
again attempting to escape the crow
would recommence its attacks with
| extraordinary surety of aim. After
fifteen minutes the cobra was dead.—
Harper's,
AMBERGRIS.
from the wastebasket every day.
The Part it Plays In the Production of
Costly Perfumes,
Ambergris is supposed to be a morbid
secretion of the liver of the spermaceti
‘whale, found floating or washed ashore.
It is a little lighter than water and
might easily be taken for a plece of the
bark of a tree. On examination, how
ever, it is found to be of a waxy na
ture, streaked with gray, yellow and
black and emitting a peculiar aromatic
odor. It fuses at 140 10 150 degrees F.
and at a higher temperature gives cut
a white smoke, which condenses into a
crystalline fatty matter.
It is found in all sizex, from a pound
up to twenty or thirty. but occasionally
pieces weighing 100 or 200 pounds are
found in whales.
Ambergris has been known from an
early period, some pharmacopoeias pre-
scribing it for fevers und nervous com-
plaints. It is sometimes mingled with
the incense burned in churches and is
also putin certzin kinds of wine to im-
| prove the “bouquet.”
But the great use of ambergris is in
the manufacture of perfumery—not
that its fragrance is either very pow-
erful or pleasing, but it possesses the
peculiar property of causing other in-
gredients to throw out their odors.
making them more specific and dura
ble.
In this respect it bears a resemblance
to the use of mordants in dyeing, with-
out which the colors would fail to be-
come permanent; hence all the best
perfumes contain ambergris, which is
one reason of their costliness, and
hence also the fact that “homemade”
| depositing it in the Bank of Rio .n
cologne, for instance. smells only of |
alcohol.—~Exchange.
The Bloodhound,
The bloodhound is sometimes called
the sleuthhound, and it is the largest
variety which hunts the scent. Th
male weighs from 83 to 100
and the female from 93 to 110
They vary in height from twenty-three
to twenty-seven inches measured at
the shoulder. The color of these dogs
is black and tan, brown or liver col-
ored and sometimes tan flecked with
white or badger colored hairs. It is a
popular impression that the blood-
hound Is ferocious and savage. He
probably owes this reputation to his
having been used to bunt men. A pure
bloodhound when he has caught the
man does not worry him to death, but
runs up to him to be fondled or bays
at him—that is, stands and barks.
This is the statement of an authority
on the bloodhound.—New York Sun.
Progressive Courtship.
“No, Annabel Green, | cannot marry
rich bachelor uncle declares
cut me off with a nickel If I
without his approval” And the
man with the weak chin sighed
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“Very well,” replied the determined
girl; “I will go to your uncle. What is
his address?"
“Don’t go, Annabel!” cried the youth.
“It would only prejudice him still more
marry you I will marry your uncle.”—
Buffalo Express.
Why Certainly.
May-—Girls, what do the papers mean
when they talk about the seat of war?
Blla—I don’t know. any more than 1
do what a standing army is for. Bell
-How ignorant you are, dears! The
Oh, well, what's the difference? 1 will
| simply marry Fred instead of Jack.—
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The self satisfied person is cheaply
|
Things China Knew Long Age.
There is a distinct tradition of fiying
machines at a very remote date In
China. according to the author of “The
Civilization of China,” and rough wood- |
cuts of such cars have been handed
down for many centuries. There are
even hints of the X ray, there being a
record of a physician of the fifth cen- |
tury B. C. who was able to see into the |
viscera of his patients, while another
physician, who lived about 1,800 years
ago, was accustomed to use an anaes- |
thetic and operated upon the bowels
and offered to cure the headaches of a
military commander of his day by
opening his head. Hypuotism has been
used for hundreds of years, but is for.
bidden by law. The ranks of the Box- |
ers were largely recruited from the so- |
clety of the vegetarians, who vestver | Py
eat meat, smoke nor drink.
The Office Boy's Windfall,
It takes little 10 encourage a poet. A
typographical error, says the Washing-
ton Star, fanned the lame of hope in
the breasts of the Crestville versifiers.
The local editor had written this notice
for the head of the editorial page:
“Poultry taken in exchange for sub-
scriptions and advertising.” But in the
paper the note appeared as “Poetry
taken in exchange.”
However, the only person who profit-
ed by this error was the office boy,
for the next fortnight he sold to the
Junkman a quarter's worth of paper
Youth's Companion.
Womanly Intuition.
Mrs. Flatleigh—The new family up-
stairs have a lot of money, but they
used to be very poor and ordinary.
Mr. Flatleigh—How do you know?
Have you called on them? Mrs. Flat-
leigh—No. but there was a half eaten
broiled lobster and a whole Camem-
bert cheese in thelr garbage can on the
dumb waiter this morning.—Judge.
The Star of Brazil.
The most important cut stone of
Brazil is that called the “Star of the
South,” which was found by a negru
woman in 1853. It was appropriated
by the mine owner who gave her in
return n pension for life. The stone
was sold for $15,000, the new owne!
neiro and receiving on this security «
loan many times greater than the
value paid for the gem. The diamond
was at length sold for ten times th
amount paid. It was finally acquired
by a syndicate and cut in oval form
at a cost of $2,600 by a firm In Am
sterdam. An Indian rajab offered more
than $500.000 for it, but was refused
A little later it was bought for the
gaekwar of Baroda.
How We Bite.
A ten-pournd bite requires a 40-pound
contraction of the human jaw muscles.
That is because our jaws are built on He {
same princi as a pair of tongs. In
order to ascertain the of the!
ordinary jaw, an instrument was recently |
devised, with a name that would put the |
avarage jaw to a severe test, viz., the
gna mometer. With this weird |
instrument about 50 experiments were |
tried on all classes of folks, the full reg- |
ister of the gnatho., etc, being repre- |
sented by 275 pounds, says London |
Answers.
A working butcher
taken as quite a strong man, but his bite |
only registered a power of 165 pounds.
The man with the highest record was a |
printer, who registered 270 pou
Among the women the highest was 160
i
In selecting meats for the teeth-testing
experiments, it was found that the ten- |
derest meat was hot boiled tongue, the |
central part of which only off a resis-
tance of from 3 to 4 |
In order to crush the loin pork chops a |
force of 20 pounds to 25 pounds was re-
quired, while mutton chops demanded
from 30 pounds to 40 pounds. Round of
beef took 40 pounds to 50 pounds, and
beef-steak, well done, 60 pounds to 80
pounds.
One baby in arms, a couple of others |
tugging at her skirts as she moves about |
the house, no help, and yet this woman |
manages to sweep and cook and sew. Is
it any wonder that she wears out fast?
Is it any wonder that her nerves are rack- |
ed? Hardly a woman is exempt from
“female trouble” in some form. It is upon
the woman of many cares, the woman
who cannot rest, that the disease falls
the hardest. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription comes to every weary, ng
woman, vexed by woman's ills, as a boon
and a blcssing. It heals ulceration and
inflammation. It dries the drains that
sap the strength. It cures female trouble,
strengthens the nerves, and makes weak
women strong and sick women well.
“Favorite Prescription” contains no alco-
hol, neither opium, cocaine nor other
narcotic. It cannot injure the most deli-
cate woman. |
—Soils that are heavily manured for
cabbage, lettuce, celery and other crops
will not need very much manure the fol-
lowing year, when planted with tomatoes,
peppers and root crops, especially if a
fair amount of commercial fertilizer is
used.
——Preacher—Here, stop fighting, little
y. *
Little Boy—What, stop, and my girl
standing on the corner eyeing me! Not
on your life! She'd think I was a quitter.
—Alfalfa is a lime plant, and a dress-
ing of 60 bushels of slacked oyster shells
or 50 bushels of slacked stone lime to
the acre should be given.
—Finest Job Work at this office.
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Discovery is invited. Does it cure dys-
pepsia, "stomach trouble,” weak heart,
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Look up the testimony and decide wheth-
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—_
Endorsed at Home.
SUCH PROUF AS THIS SHOULD CONVINCE
ANY BELLEFONTE CITIZEN.
The public endorsement of a local citi-
zen is the best proof that can be produced.
None better, none stronger can be had.
a man comes forward and testifies
loli feliow citizens, addresses his friends
you may be sure he is
so Te Cone! I Vila i oo
one's ex
for the public good is an act of kindness
ing statement given by a resident of Belle-
cases
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that they will %5vs a effect.”
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