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Bellefonte, Pa., June 14, 1912.
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LUCILLE'S MISTAKE.
“How's Arthur?” asked Marcia
“Finer than ever,” answered Lucille, |
“but he travels so much that [ feel
like a telephone operator, saying Hello
and Goodby to him so often.”
“How long will he be in town now?"
“Arthur is away at present and
doesn’t expect to return for a week.”
“Are you sure?”
“What do you infer, Marcia?"
“Only that | thought | saw him at
the theater last night.”
“Impossible. [| had a letter yester-
day.”
“Maybe he returned since.”
“Not without my knowledge.”
“Well, the girl he was with—"
“Don’t be idiotic,” interrupted Lu-
cille indignantly, “Arthur isn't taking
other girls out.”
“Lacille, 1 could swear on my bull
dog's life that it was Arthur.”
“You're too persistent. Didn't I men-
tion Arthur was away?"
“What are you girls arguing about?"
broke in Janet.
“About Lucille's
commenced Marcia.
“Oh, | saw Arthur down town this
morning, he deliberately walked by
without even bowing.”
“It wasn't Arihur,” contradicted Lu-
cille, vehemently. “I'm going home tc
write to him now.”
“Poor Lucille,” said Marcia. “Sup
pose Arthur was deceiving her. It's
a great risk to marry a traveling man.
{ felt duty bound to tell her.”
“People rarely thank you for telling
them unpleasant truths.”
“Why, she was as cross as two
stick, and never even said goodby.”
Upon reaching home Lucille found a
12-page letter from Arthur in which
he wrote. “Don't know my next des
tination, but address your ever wel
future husband,” !
| AJEW YORK.—Dr. E. B. Ackerman,
! veterinarian of the health depart-
! ment, is nursing a couple of slightly
| strained wrists that have bothered
| him a little since the day when he
| was obliged to use all the strength
; that was in them to strangle a rabid
| Boston bull terrier that was getting
| ready to present the doctor with an
| attack of hydrophobia.
The health department got a hurry
| call on the phone from Mrs. Anna
! Hatch to the effect that a mad dog
| had taken possession of her aparty
| ment, and as she had left some dishes
| cooking on the stove, she would be
| greatly obliged if some one were sent
| at once to remove the intruder.
Dr. Ackerman was given the assign-
ment, and when he got to Mrs. Hatch's
place she told him that the dog had
|
Rabid Dog to Death
crawled into a closet, that she had
shut the door and had locked the crea-
ture in,
Dr. Ackerman uniocked the door and
whistled. There was an Instant re-
sponse on the part of the Boston bull,
which had as much froth on his face
as adorns the top of a summer schoon-
er at Coney. The dog's mouth was
wide open and his biting apparatus
was in fine order.
The veterinarian met him half way,
perience, grabbed the beast tightly
pressed both thumbs carefully on the
jugular vein and the windpipe and
held on grimly, urged on by the fright-
ened screams of Mrs. Hatch, who
pleaded with him not to let go.
it was all over in less than five
minutes, and the dog was stretched
out on the kitchen floor in a perfectly
harmless condition. The remains, froth
and all, were sent to the research lab:
oratory in Manhattan, and a report re-
ceived by the Brooklyn office of the
health department confirmed Dr. Ack-
erman’s diagnosis that the dog had
rabies.
‘Missionary Work in Chicago’s Slums
HICAGO.-~A great religious move-
ment has been started in this city
| by the Presbyterian Church Extension
| board, and its example is likely to be
| imitated in other big cities of the
world. The Extension board has ask-
{ed for 1,000 volunteers to carry the
| message of the Gospel to the natives
| of many distant lands—to followers of
| Confucius, of Zoroaster, of Mohammed
| and of many pagan gods. These work-
ers are asked to give their time with-
| out recompense, other than the cen-
| sciousness of work well done. They
| are expected to enter into dark places
! to spread the light, brave pestilence,
| heal the sick, and establish places for
| physical and mental recreation, where
nothing but drudgery and care is now
{ known,
| But with all this there are few dan-
ony, the Arabian colony and all the
other colonies of foreigners which
go to make up the cosmopolitan city.
The appeal for workers to labor in
this field is made on the ground that
unless American Christian ideals gov-
ern the lives of the foreign born, the
ideals of Americans will in a genera-
tion be supplanted by those of Europe
or Asia, because the children of for-
eign parentage far outnumber the
and with a knack learned by long ex- |
about the neck with both hands. He |
flesh. The grass juice adds a peculiar.
and exceedingly pleasant flavor, and’
when taken from the hole the grass
which clings to the fish can be easily '
pulled off, and all the scales and skin |
will come with it"—Edward G. W. |
Ferguson in Outing Magazine.
|
Fairies—Good and Bad.
Deep down in their hearts, if the |
truth were told, the majority of grown- {
ups have a strong regard for fairy
stories, and there are few of us with
so little imagination that we have not
| a liking for these light, fantastic tales.
| Just as there are all sorts and condi-
tions of men, so are fairies diverse as
a class. The banshee is an Irish fairy,
| and Scotland calls it a brownie. An
' elf is a fairy of diminutive size, sup-
posed to be fond of practical jokes.
| Genil are eastern spirits, sometimes
| good, but occasionally bad. A gnome
| 1s a guardian of a coal mine or quarry
| and a goblin a phantom spirit. Imp is
the Welsh spirit of mischief and jack-
o’-lantern a bog or marsh fairy who
loves to mislead. Every one knows the
| mermaid as the sea spirit, and nalads
| are water nymphs. Oberon was king
| of the fairies, and a pixie is a fairy of
Devon. Puck, full of fun, is Swedish,
| and a sylph is a spirit of the air.
|
|
|
! Violet For Mourning.
| It was not by accident that violet
was chosen by many nations as the ex.
clusive color for mourning and by us
also for hal” mourning. Painters suf-
fering from hysteria and neurasthenia
will be inclined to cover their pictures
uniformly with the color most in ac
cordance with thelr condition of lassi
tude and exhaustion. ‘Thus originate
the violet pictures of Manet and his
school, which spring frow no actually
observable aspect of nature, but from
a subjective view due to conditions of
the nerves. When the entire surface
of walls in salons nud art exhibitions
of the day appears veiled in uniform
half mourning this predilection for vio-
let is simply an expression of the nerv-
ous debility of the painter.—Nordau's
“Degeneration.”
Peace Hath Her Victories.
She—No, | can never marry yon, but
we can always be friends. He-—-Well,
that is one of rhe advantages of not
getting married. - Puck.
Shoes.
few years.
within the last
Cures
Yeager’s Shoe Store
Fitzezy
The
Ladies’
that
Sold only at
Shoe
Corns
American born and will in a genera | =
tion outvote them. |
Already there are on the staff of |
the extension board 680 volunteer
workers, while 50 others are employed |
as experts in conducting the various |
| gers. None of the volunteers will be
| eaten by cannibals; none will be
| staked out on the desert sands to dle
| of heat and thirst; none will be cruci-
| fied, burned at the stake or impaled.
Hood's Sarsaparilia.
Blood Humors
Found a 12-Page Letter.
come letter to Genera: Delivery, Kan-
sas City, und it will be forwarded.’
“How strange, but it is merely a co-
incidence,” thought Lucille. i
“Lucille,” called her youngér. sis-
ter, “Arthur just drove by in a cab |
and did not even look up!"
Lucille rushed to the window, and
could only catch a glimpse of the cab, |
but the figure seated next to a lady |
looked strangely like Arthur. :
“Saw Arthur at the ball game this |
afternoon,” said Lucille’s brother, “but
didn't have a chance to speak with
him.”
“Yes, and | caught a glimpse of him
a’ the restaurant late last night, drink-
ing high balls,” said her brother's
chum “He's some sport.”
“It's incomprehensible,” confided
Lucille to her sister. “I can't endure
this strain much longer. To think Ar
thur would be {n town, and not come
near me.”
“A young man wishes to see you.”
announced the mald.
“Oh, Arthur,” cried Lucille joyfully |
as she entered the dimly lighted Ii-
brary, giving him one long, fervent
‘kiss. “Such tales as they have been
telling about you and | nearly be
lieved them. Have you been in the
City? You didn't take a girl to thea-
ter, did you? You didn't drink bigh-
balls? You didn't forget your Lu-
«cllle,” she finished, giving him a hug.
“Have you lost your voice? Why
don't ycu answer?"
“I'm not Arthur,” stammered the
young man. “I'm his twin brother.
Don't be so embarrassed. [ rather like
your sisterly welcome.” 1
“Forget it, please,” sald Lucille, “Ar-
thur never told me how much you re.
sembled each other.”
“Well, | wish I was Arthur. | prom-
dsed him i would call on you when in
town, but this is the first opportunity
1 have had.”
“To think | doubted Arthur,” said
Lucille, after her visitor had depart-
ed. “But 1 fancy if any one had seen
me kiss and hug an absolute stranger,
they would have doubted me, too.”
But This Is Different,
“Fan,” sald George, “you know how
1 feel toward you. Do you recipro-
cate?”
“George,” Fan said, with a shy
glance, “does this mean annexation?”
The Trouble.
Father— You mustn't cry for it; wait
til you are older
Tommy—Then I'll be too old to cry.
—If you see it in ‘the WATCHMAN, it's
true. ii
, volunteers to Christianize
| dents—and especially the children-
For all will do their work right here
| in Chicago.
Modern industrialism has brought
all the world to Chicago. Almost every
religion under the sun is represented
here, and it will be the work of these
the resi-
of the Persian colony, the Chinese col-
kinds of work—evangelistic, Bibie
in manual! training, sewing and Eng-
lish for those employed during the
day, and kindergartens for the chil-
dren in the daytime. There is a vast
field for the work of the missionaries
in the congested districts of the city,
where the bulk of the aliens live.
ROOKLYN, N. Y.—Jack London
probably never heard of Eddie
Deering of Brocklyn or “Darky Sam”
of Coney Island, but they deserve to
take rank with some of the heroes that
Londen has made famous, for they did
some extraordinary stunts in rescu-
ing five men from the launch Sterling
of Astoria, which got Into serious
trouble off the old iron pier just be-
fore sunset.
Neither Eddie nor Sam could swim,
but when they saw the launch drift-
ing helplessly in the rough sea about
a half mile off shore, and saw the oc-
cupants waving their arms and shout-
ing for help, they did what heroes usu-
aly do in such cases like that. They
took a long chance and came out of
the adventure soaked to the skin, but
with flying colors,
The first thing they did was to try
to get a boat, but according to the
story told by Deering they visited
‘Boys Risk Lives to Save Fishermen
nearly every pavilion from Balmer's to
Steeplechase Park without success.
Those who owned boats refused to
lend them. They returned to the spot
where the boat was plunging in the
waves, and found an old flat-bottomed
rowboat, half buried in the sand. With
two boards as oars they paddled out
to the Sterling. Two trips were made,
and all hands, except Capt. Fisher,
who declined to abandon his craft,
were taken to the beach. Finally the
police boat came to the scene and tow-
ed the Sterling to Astoria.
Captain Fisher Lad taken out a fish.
ing party, including Charles Berkins
and Julius Guse of Manhattan, Albert
Peterson of Brooklyn and Louis
Gron of the same place. The sixth
man was George Edwards, who acted
as engineer. As they were making
for home the machinery broke down,
the boat began to leak and the ene
gine got frozen up so that it would
not work.
Deering said he was glad to have
been able to help in the work of res.
cue, but he would not go through the
experience again for $1,000.
“Not one o' the blokes even said
‘thank you,” was his comment oD
the behavior of those who had been
saved by himself and “Darky Sam.”
A Plague of Rats Afflicts Winnipeg
INNIPEG, Man.—The brown rat
has reached Winnipeg. According
to the statistics of the department of
agriculture of the province there is
an area of 90 miles long abutting the
United States on its northern frontier
and 60 miles wide in which the rats
have made their appearance.
Mr. Golden, the deputy minister, es-
timates that the damage done this
year by the brown rat is $1,000,000,
and it will proportionately increase un-
less the people generally awaken to
the seriousness of the situation.
According to the deputy minister,
the rats in the province move in a
radius of 15 miles each year, and he
has compiled many valuable statistics
relating to the rat. Two years ago
the department conducted a series of
investigations and produced virus that
it was thought would eliminate the
pest. There was quite a considerable
amount of interest at first, and many
applications were made for the virus.
Reports indicate that thousands of
rats were destroyed by its use, but
that public interest lagged after a
while, and no systematic method now
seems to be followed by the farmers.
Minister Golden conducted some in-
teresting experiments at Gretna, a
town a few miles from the frontier of
the United states last year, to deter
mine the amount of food the rat
would consume a day, and at the same
time to test the virus, The rats were
caught and one of them received an
injection of the virus. Within two days
it died, and the other rat, not having
been provided with food, proceeded
to devour its dead comrade. Within
24 hours it had consumed all of the
dead rat with the exception of half
an inch of the tail, and it succumbed
within a few hours to the poison
which had been injected into the other
ral,
| general debility, without causing any
| procured a
! never been troubled since.”
| Doniphan, Kan.
Commonly cause pimples, boils, hives, eczema or |
a ’ ! salt rheum, or some other form of eruption; but |
study, gymnastic, night school classes | sometimes they exist in the system, indicated by |
feelings of weakness, languor, loss of appetite, or
g reaking |
out,
They are expelled and the whole system is |
renovated, strengthened and toned by Hood's |
Sarsaparilla. i
“My daughter had a breaking out on her body,
I read testimonials of Hood's Sarsaparilla and |
bottle. This did her so much good I |
got another bottle, and it cured her. She has |
Mrs. Ella Condery, :
’ ere i8 no real substitute for HOOD'S SARSA- |
Get it today in usual liquid form or chocolated |
tablets called Sarsatabs. 57.22 |
W. J. BRYAN,
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building, = BELLEFONTE, PA.
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