EE —
Demorralic: Watcha
Bellefonte, Pa., June 14, 1912.
CLINTON'S SQUAB FARMER.
“Accidents are liable to happen in
the best regulated families,” bemoaned
Mrs. Harvey.
“What calamity is distressing you
now?” asked Clinton, who was spend-
ing his college vacation at his sis
ter's suburban home,
“Only that we expect the Hancocks
€4r dinner and the squabs hawen't
come.”
“How easily you women are imposed
upon. If that butcher promised to de-
liver those birds, why aren't they
here?”
“I didn’t order them from the mar-
ket, but from a farm about three
miles north which is famous for its
young pigeons.”
“Not for its punctuality, however!
Cheer up, Girlikin, I'll chase down
there and bring them back even if
I have to have a squabble with some
cantankerous old farmer,” said oblig-
ing Clinton, who waited only long
enough to receive directions, then
went at breakneck speed on his com-
missien,
Clinton arrived breathless at a little
piece of land which was an apology
for a farm, for it was covered with
old-fashioned flowers, a tennis court
and croquet arches.
“Where's the farmer?” he asked a
freckly faced youth.
“In the barn yonder,” grinned the
boy.
Clinton approached the barn intent
upon venting his indignation, when
“l Want to See the Squab Farmer.”
to his surprise, standing in the door-
way, a pretty young girl in a pink and
white gingham apron looked up to him
with questioning, sparkling liquid
eyes.
“May I be of assistance,” she asked,
as he stumbled over a few squabs.
“You seem ® be in difficulty.”
“Will you help me pack these |
squabs?” she replied in a well modu:
lated voice.
“Gladly!
squab farmer.”
“Then there is no need for a formal
Form of Court Oath May be Changed
introductiqn, for I'm that party.”
“You!”
“Yes,” laughed the girl.
of the world.”
“Well, I was wondering at your
strange vocation,” acknowledge Clin-
ton.
“These plump little birds that you
see here, there and everywhere mean
- ¢hat I can continue my college course
and probably go to Europe next sum-
mer,” said the girl, who seemed to have
all the charming attributes that Clin-
ton admired.
“I'd eat squabs five times a day it
that would help!” he exclaimed en-
thusiastically.
Greatly interested, Clinton hardly
realized how the time had flown until
he loc:~7 at his watch.
“By ....! My sister is waiting im-
patient.y for my return. May I come
agai. and hear all about the squabs?”
asked Clinton, “and you,” he added to
himself.
Clinton's mind after he had left the
charming girl was so preoccupied with
thoughts of her that he was rather as
tonished to see his sister coming to
ward him with the words:
“Where are those squabs?”
“Where are those squabs?’ he re-
iterated. “Mercy! I'll hike back and
fetch them.”
“It's too late now. The guests ar-
rived sooner than we anticipated.”
“Clinton,” she said, grasping his
arm, “did you have such a dreadful
quarrel with the old farmer that you |
forgot your errand?’
“Hardly that,” answered her abashed
orother. “It would exhaust my vocabu-
lary to tell that squabberino farmer
what I thought of her. By the way!
Jane, why don’t you ever wear pink
and white gingham aprons, they're so
fetching?”
“Is that the reason you didn't fetch
the squabs,” asked Mrs. Harvey indig-
nantly. “Well, it's the last time ! send
you on an errand!’
“You won't need to send me the next
time because Pm going there tomor-
row on my own accord,” answered
+ wn ton.
———For high class Job Work come to
the Warcmvas Office,
J
Besides 1 want to see the |
“You look
as if you had seen the eighth wonder |
ASHINGTON.—Steam shovels are
eating their way into the birth-
place of Nellie Custis, granddaughter
of Mrs. George Washington and ward
and adopted daughter of Washington.
For years the shovels have been bit-
ing trainloads of yellow clay out of
the flelds of Abingdon—as this estate
was named by John Parke Custis, son
of Mrs. Washington—and this clay
has been molded and baked into brick
for the upbuilding of Washington city,
Year by year the shovels have dug
nearer to the old and battered frame
house where the most popular woman
of the late revolutionary and the early
republican eras came into the world
and where her childhood was spent.
Now the deep clay pits are but a few
yards from the house and probably
not many months will pass when the
house will be no more. The clay ex-
hausted and the level of the fields re-
duced about thirty feet, the place may
be converted into railroad yards by
the Washington Southern rallroade
the Washington-Richmond line,
Abingdon was a great estate, but
the house was never a noble bit of
building, according to an exchange.
When John Parke Custis married Nel-
lie Calvert of Maryland he seems to
have caused the erection of this am-
ple though plain dwelling with the
idea that later he would erect a house
in keeping with his wealth and stand-
ing in the community. Abingdon, be-
ing a Custis home, was directly or
remotely associated with nearly all
the colonial and revolutionary fam-
ilies in Virginia and Maryland. The
house was built by John Parke Custis
in 1778. It stands about 300 yards
back from the Potomac river and
about three miles south of Washing-
ton.
John Parke Custis was descended
from John Custis, who came to Vir-
ginia from Holland in 1640. The son
of this immigrant, John Custis II.,
built Arlington hours in Northampton
county, Virginia, naming it after Hen-
ry, the earl of Arlington, who, with
Lord Culpeper, held Virginia under
patent from Charles II.
Young Custis bought from Gerald
Alexander 1,100 acres of land, part of
which is now Arlington National cem-
etery. He built Abingdon House and
there in 1779 Eleanor Parke Custis
(Nellie Custis) was born. John Parke
Custis, an aid on Washington's staff,
died at Yorktown in 1781 and Wash- |
ington adopted Nellle and her young
brother, George Washington Parke
Custis. The children thereafter made
their home at Mount Vernon,
Nellie remained there till she be-
came the wife of Lawrence Lewis,
Washington's sister's son, and George |
Washington Parke Custis remained
there till the death of Mrs. Washing- |
ton, in 1802. Abingdon House is pow |
occupied by the foreman of the bricg- |
making company and his family.
‘Chinese to Adopt
| 8 HE adoption of the western cal
endar was among the many
changes ordered in decree issued by
the cabinet in China, according to ad-
| vices transmitted to the state depart
ment through the Chinese charge
| d'affaires in this city. The message
also confirms the reported retirement
of the prince regent and his return to
! the order of imperial princes, and the
appointment of Shi-Hsu and Hsu Shih
! Chang as guardians of the emperor.
| The message says that Chow Tszchi
| has been appointed assistant minister
| of finance. The department was also
| informed that by a decree issued Chi-
| nese subjects are permitted to cut off
their cues. .
When the Chinese government or-
dered that the western method of
reckoning months and years be adopt-
ed, the date jumped from the 19th day
of the tenth month to the third year
| of Hsuantung to the 9th day of the
| eleventh month of the year 1911 A. D.
It was a long jump, apparently, and
in reality the change to the use of the
Gregorian calendar, used by most of
| the great nations of the world, was a
| significant step in China's advance to-
ward modern civilization.
For centuries it has been the cus-
| tom in China to reckon the days of
the year by the luna calendar, each |
year having 360 days, and the months |
having twenty-nine or thirty days, as |
the case might be. Every third Jear
it was necessary to slip in an extra |
month so as te keep the season in |
place and the years running smooth- |
ly. Whenever a new emperor wl
cended the throne the Chinese began |
to reckon their years all over again. |
The day of the year, however, did 1.t
change with the coming of a new
ruler, but it became that day and’
month of the first year of , and |
the new ruler's name was given. {
Chinese historians were compelled |
to work overtime keeping their dates
straight, for it was no joke to reckon
the date of an event which happened
ten or fifteen hundred years ago when
the nistorian had to figure out who
was on the throne and what year of
his reign the event occurred in. But
all this is now to be changed.
HE bill recently introduced by Sen-
ator Burton of Ohio, which pro-
poses to change the form of oath in
federal courts and elsewhere under
the jurisdiction of the United States,
is in the hands of the judiciary com-
mittee of the senate and is now be-
; ing considered with a view of early
| action upon the subject. The bill, of
| Which Charles J. Bonaparte, the for-
mer attorney general of the United
States, and Dr. Ira Remsen, president
of Johns Hopkins university, are the
sponsors, does not contemplate to
change the religious character of the
oath. The principal change which it
proposes is the omission of the ex-
pression “So help me God” at the end
of an cath and the substitution of
“promise” or “declare” for the word
“swear” in the formula.
Since the introduction of Senator
Burton's bill the attention ot the judi-
ciary committee has been called to the
fact that several of the most progres-
sive countries of Europe have mate-
rially changed and modernized the
ancient and antiquated forms of the
oaths used in judicial proceedings. No
country as yet has gone quite so far
as Switzerland.
The cantons of Zurich and Aargau
took the radical step of entirely abol-
ishing the oath several years ago, and
the result has been so satisfactory
that there is no desire to return to
the old system. When the great coun.
cil of the Canton of Vaud at its last
session considered the draft of a new
civil code, the abolition of the oath in
any form from judicial proceedings
was strongly urged, and, after an in-
teresting debate, a provision abolish
ing the oath was incorporated in the
new code, which went into effect on
January 1 of this year,
GREAT undeveloped industry,
worth millions of dollars annual.
ly, lies at the doors of the people of
the south and the far northwest in
the immense wastes of wood incident
to the manufacture of lumber,
An amazing statement of these
wastes and the consequent loss in
wealth and conservation of timber re-
sources is made as a result of a two-
year government investigation, not
yet concluded, by F. P. Veitch, chief
of the leather and paper division of
the bureau of chemistry, and M. G.
Donk, assistant chemist, whose pre-
liminary conclusions have just been
made public. :
“The waste wood of the south and
northwest from the lumber industry—
Great Wood Waste a National Peril
tops, stumps, slabs and sawdust and
the dead and down timber from fives |
and storms—supplies one of the great |
undeveloped resources of this eoun-
try,” sey the investigators. “From
this wood, by industrially developed
rhamieal methods, the entire output
SORCES
(nl: x
of naval stores, embracing turpentine,
rosin, tars, pitch, rosin spirits and
rosin oils, having an annual value of
at least $30,000,000, may be obtained
without boxing or turpentining a sin-
gle live tree.
“It is possible to recover from the
wastes of the yellow-pine lumber in-
dustry (including dead-and-down tim-
ber) as much or more turpentine,
rosin and rosin oils as now are pro.
duced by the ordinary methods of tur-
pentining from the living tree. The
profitable utilization of mill wastes
in this way would add materially to
the wealth of the south and help to
conserve its timber resources.”
SRDS DED DYDD DSSS SD
Rest and Motion In the Universe.
The studies of Professor Campbell
on the radial velocities of stars and
nebulae have led him to some interest-
ing conclusions concerning the motions
that take place among the bodies con-
stituting the visible universe. He finds
that stars which the spectroscope
seems to prove are relatively old trave!
at higher velocities than those which
are younger and that the formless
nebulae, like those in Orion, appear to
be nearly or quite motionless in re-
gard to the stars. In explanation he
suggests that the rate of motion de-
pends upon the time during which the
condensation into stellar bodies has
been going on. When the matter is
widely scattered in minute particles.
solid or gaseous. the pressure of radia- |
tion, acting from all sides, counteracts |
the pull of gravitation, and the nebu- |
lous cloud remains at rest. But after i
condensation the gravitational force |
overcomes the radiation pressure, and |
the condensed bodies begin to move, |
and their velocity Increases with age. |
—London Graphic.
EE ————
Wall Street Jokes.
A lad of about sixteen years after |
wandering up and down Broadway for
a block either side of Wall street stop-
ped before a policeman standing at
the junction of those two thorough- |
fares and inquired where he could find |
the firm of “I. C. Graves.” “What's.
the number?’ the patrolman asked. |
“One hundred and one Broadway,” the
boy replied, “and I don't see any such
building around here.” “No, and you
wouldn't if you looked a month,” re-
turned the officer. “That is the num- |
ber of Trinity church and the grave-
yard, and, furthermore, I guess you are
new on the job, for that is the pet joke
all Wall street houses play on their
new ‘runners.’” As the boy disap-
peared a man who had overheard the
| conversation said to the officer: “When |
i I first began work in this district I
was sent down to a ‘round building at |
There's a
Also makers of 8,
: her exactly what he thought of the in
| cident. The woman closed the door
| morning, and it contained some of the
Waverly Oils
The quality of Lamp Oil you use counts im-
mensely for or
give thought. It is
Family Favorite Oil
e-refined from Pennsylvania
tripl | Rou nsylvan prude Oll—the best ever
te ickers—no eoot—no odor.
Costs no more than inferior oils—saves as
well as eyes and comfort. Your has it i organ]
barrels direct from the refineries.
Waverly Oil Works Co.—Iasdependent Retiners— Pittsburg, Pa.
———
the Battery’ to see if | could find
‘Mr. Fish.’ It seems that the
here haven't changed much in
twenty years.”"—New York Tribune.
Referred to an Expert,
A stylishly dressed woman in a
smart looking brougham narrowly
averted running over a messenger boy
a few days ago. The woman stopped
her car and opened the door of the!
electric to express her sympathy. But
the boy was ahead of her and in a |
harangue that for emphasis would
have made Captain Kidd or any of the |
old buccaneers green with envy told
hurriedly and. turning to her eight
year-old son, who, dressed like Lord
Fauntleroy, sat demurely beside her.
sald in a shocked voice:
“I never heard such language in my
life.”
“Oh, that's nothing,” the little fellow
told his mother. “You ought to have
heard the cook talking to the neighbors
about you the other day.”—Kansas
City Journal.
The Circulation of Oratory.
On one occasion Senator Tillman was
so much pleased with a speech he
made that he printed it in pamphlet
form.
“I congratulate you,” Senator Balley
said a few days after, “on that speech
which you have circulated as a pam-
phlet. 1 happened to see one this
best things I have ever seen in any
pamphlet on that subject.”
“I am very proud to hear you say
so,” said Tillman, much gratified.
“What were the things that pleased
you so much?”
“Why,” explained Bailey, “as I passed
the senate restaurant this morning |
saw a girl come out into the corridor
with two cherry pies wrapped up in
it.”—Popular Magazine.
your comfort and health,
¢ oil made for people who
pe
We Awto Oil and Wi Gasolines.
EEE
Getito
your money’s
ESSEC EERESRE
Clothing.
Good Clothes
Sold with a
Real Guarantee
Your Money Back any time
you think you did not get
Biggest Assortment in Cen-
tral Pennsylvania, at
ry
>
Cc
= |
[=
rT
wn
Know &
2
worth. The
tenham Green, all within five miles of
temperature of a hive of bees) and
from the domestic fires and from the
foundries, breweries, steam engines
and other manufactories.—~John Timb’s
“Curiosities of London.”
Medical.
Why Women Suffer
MANY BELLEFONTE WOMEN ARE LEARN
ING THE CURE.
Women often suffer, not knowing the
cause.
Backache, headache, dizziness, nervous-
ness,
Irregular urinary passages, weakness,
ha Seentng torture of itself.
tell of weakened
T hy
Que kay give The hop the kiduiys: peed
PC endo like Doan's Kidney
R by thousands—
Heres convincn ; proof from a Belle-
ere’ rom
fonte citizen.
Mrs. L. Ingram, i St., Belle-
fonte, Pa., says: SE aie Pills
have done me a world of good and 1 feel
that I cannot speak too highly of them. I
suffered intensely from backache my
kidneys gave me a great deal of annoy-
ance. Nothing helped me until I ured
Doan’s Kidney Pills at Green's rmacy
Co. In Tetuth 3 the improvement they
ommended them in
October 1507, and at this time 1 can say
that I have had no further trouble from
my k . You are wi to use my
name as one who recom n's
Kidney Pills highly from personal experi.
ence.
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
no other. 57-18
Fine Job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
6—A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
BOOK WORK,
that we car: not do in the most satis-
factory manner, and at Prices consist-
ent with the class of work. Call on or
communicate with this office.
——
Insurance.
EARLE C. TUTEN
(Successor to D. W. Woodring.)
Fire,
Life
and
Automobile Insurance
None but Reliable Companies Represented,
Surety Bonds of All Descriptions.
Both Telephones 56-27.y BELLEFONTE, PA
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
Tra Comnressnts the lrusst Fire
——NO ASSESSMENTS —
Do not fail to call
Life or allio give waa are elon sssurin your
large lines at any
Office in Crider’s Stone Building,
43-18-1y. BELLEFONTE, PA.
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance
manne.
THE $5000 TRAVEL POLICY
ller amounts in propo o
pt
food under wd = 8 ay
Fire Insurance
1 invite your attention to my Fire Insur,
ance Agency, the strongest and Most Ex
tensive Line of Solid Companies represent
ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvania
i
|
:
|
H. E. FENLON,
Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.
50-21.
td