i ————— ——— a — Bellefonte, Pa., August 2, 1912. MISTAKE, BUT WORKED WELL | impressive Description of Shocks in | Unintentionali Friend! Lotter to | Bullet-Proof Debtor Brought Quick | Yosemite Valley Which Gave Birth Results From Him. to a New Mountain Avalanche on Talus While He Looked. | A lawyer who had drifted out of the | seen } regular line into a collection practice “A noble earthquake! A noble | dictated so many dunning letters every | earthquake!” exclaimed John Muir, day that he had his stenographer sign | when he was awakened at half-past them and would himself read over the two o'clock of a moonlit morning in carbon copies the following day if he the Yosemite valley. For years he thought it necessary. He had another | had believed that the many great ava- bad habit, which was that as it came | lanche taluses leaning against the to the close of a day and he had be- walls of the valley at intervals of a come weary of nagging people Le mile or two, had been caused by an would grow facetious and instead of earthquake at least three centuries dictating the names of the debtor prop- | before, and here was his chance to erly would vary the monotony by say- | make some observations. Never be ing “Dearest Skin" or “Darling Mr. fore had he enjoyed a storm of this Smith,” knowing that his stenog- sort, but the strange, thrilling motion rapher, having the correspondence could not be mistaken, and so he ran before her, would fill in the proper | out of his cabin, both glad and fright- name. | ened as he made his exclamation. it chanced that she, like mostgood | “The shocks were so violent and stenographers, decided to gel mar- | varied, and succeeded on another so ried, and she brought her sister Into closely,” he writes in the Century, the office to succeed her. The first “that I had te balance myself care- full day of dictation that the attor- | fully in walking, as if on the deck ney put in after the sister's advent | of a ship among waves, and it seemed chanced to be one of his humorous | impossible that the high cliffs of the ones, and he started a letter to a bul- valley could escape being shattered. let proof debtor named Samuel Smith | In particular I feared that the sheer- “Dear Sammy,” and then proceeded to | fronted Sentinel rock, towering above tell Sammy” his opinion of him. The | my cabin, would be shaken down, and next morning, on looking over the car- [| took shelter back of a large yellow bon copies, he was horrified to find | pine, hoping that it might protect me the new stenographer had typed that | from at least the smaller outbounding letter exactly as it was dictated and boulders.” | sent it out in the mail the night be- The most impressive part of his de- fore. | scription is of the sounds. “It was a All that day the attorney expected | calm, moonlight night,” he says, “and Mr. Samuel Smith to show up with | mo sound was heard for the first min- fire in his eye and a pistol in his hand. | ute or so save low, muffled, bubbling He shivered when the office door open- | underground rumblings, and the whis- ed and he left for home very early in pering and rustling of the agitated the afternoon. The next morning, how- | trees, as If Nature were holding her ever, he received a letter from "Sam- | breath. Then suddenly out of the my,” which started off “Dear Billy” | strange silence and strange motion (the lawyer's given name being Wil- | there came a tremendous roar. The liam), and which went on to say, “If | Eagle rock, on the south wall about you had addressed me in such friend- | half a mile up the valley, gave way, ly style before you would have had | and I saw it falling in thousands of the money sooner,” and inclosed was | the great boulders I had so long been “Sammy's” check for the whole studying, pouring to the valley floor account. in a free curve luminous from fric- The new method had brought grati | tion, making a terribly sublime spec- fying results, but the attorney did not | tacle—an arc of glowing, passionate dare to adopt it as a regular prac. | fire, fifteen hundred feet span, as true tice; on the contrary, his dictation | In form and as serene in beauty as a since has been notable for its ex- | rainbow in the midst of the stupen- actitude. dous rock storm. The sound was so tremendously deep and broad and ear- nest that the whole earth, like a liv- | ing creature, seemed at last to have found voice, and to be calling to her sister planets. In trying to tell some- long time, and many experiments | thing of the size of this awful sound, have been made with the common net: | jt seems to me that if all the thun- tle, which has been a promising plant | ger of all the storms I had ever heard on account of the strength of its fiber | were condensed into one roar, It and its ready growth wild under the | would not equal the rock roar at the most discouraging conditions, with a | pirth of a mountain talus. Think, large yield per acre. The great diffi- | then, of the roar that arose to heaven culty bas been in separating the fiber | at the simultaneous birth of the an- | from the woody stem. In a method | cient canyon taluses throughout the | of treatment that has been worked out | Jength and breadth of the rarze!” i in the last two or three years, the | The Indians and many of the white | dried nettle stems are boiled about men left the valley in terror of this! half an hour in dilute soda lye, and | earthquake, the final rumblings of | the loosened fibers are then separated | which were not over for two ‘months, | in a machine with revolving brushes. but Muir remained to study its ef- The material is then subjected to a fects. Among other things, he kept | number of alternate boilings in dilute | a bucket of water on his cabin table ! lye and thorough washings. both un-' to learn what he could of the move- | der high pressure. The product is a | ments. | mass of yellowish fibers, free from | gum, that can be bleached, combed, | Pedigree Was Fine, But—, and spun into lustrous white yarn. This is claimed to have the smooth. | Though nepotism has been known ness and softness of flax, with a | !0 Set good railroad jobs for young strength even greater than that of | men, there is one passenger official in hemp. The yarn has been made into | Kansas City with whom family con- brilliant damask, and can be used-- | nections do not go very far. alone or with other threads—for up-, A few days ago the official In ques- holsteries, ribbons, and a variety of | tion was in quest of an additional man fabrics. for his office. A friend, learning of his desire, took , occasion to write a letter indorsing a young man of his acquaintance. The letter contained some glowing testimonials of some of the things ac- complished by the young man's. an- cestors and relatives. But it didn't gel very far with the passenger offi- cial, when sent the following laconic deply to the young man’s indorser: “NOBLE EARTHQUAKE.” i Netties as Substitute for Cotton. The search for a cotton substitute has been going on in Europe for a Year's Sleep in Prison. A remarkable case of lethargy is re- ported from one of the towns in South Russia. A certain Moisselyinko was put on his trial in March of last year on the charge of having committed an armed robbery, but in the midst of the proceedings he dropped to the floor in what was supposed at the time to be a “Judging from your letter, the young fuming oy e en afterward | man you recommend must have > In this condition the prisoner has good pedigree. However. 1 merely to lain til March 8 of the present year. | sire a clerk now, but if I conclude He has evidently been all the time In | start a stock farm later, I will let complete possession of his wits, but | YOU know and will be ii sive tie was unable to move a limb, open his | JOBE WAN & Shanes. nas eyes or take food. When his eyelids | Ata, were raised the pupils could be seen, and he was all the time fed by arti- | ficial means. i During his sleep he has lost some weight, but he has kept throughout the external appearance of a man in | normal and healthy sleep. Planting the Poppies, When the daffodils are in flower the garden begins to regain the at- tractions which it lost in winter, and the tasks which the spring imposes are entered on with zest. Among the most important is the sowing of an- nuals,. Two very commonr mistakes should be avoided. One is sowing too heard of in . | thickly and the other sowing too deep- ar aaah he dors pind ly. An annual such as a Shirley pop- ening while her mother read of the PY. When well grown, will occupy a En 0 the Titanic. square foot of ground at least, yet " . “wha in that space dozens, if not scores, of uct, she sa % does THe seeds are often sown. The result is a “Titanic,” her mother tremendous waste, not only of seeds, “means very large, or big.” but also of plants, for all that do grow Marion was thoughtful for a min. | Must be spoilt, unless they are thinned ute. Then turning to her mother she | Tuickly and severely. sald: i “I can use it in a sentence.” i radoxica ; “How?” asked her mother. | Mi Fl Gard ig at “The Titanic ship hit an iceberg Ti o M188, Mary Garden. at 2 tan tell” said erry’s in New York, sald of a beau- tanicer ' Marion. tiful girl who was wearing one of the ‘ultra-decollete dinner gowns of the Justified. | 1912 season: Judge—What have you to say for “When you see a pretty girl in such yourself for beating this man in| a low cut gown as that you have a such a brutal manner? ' remarkable paradox before you—the Prisoner—Your jionor, he asked me paradox of a person who displays if my name was Ismay, | simultancously very bad taste and Titanic as a Synonym for Large. Marion made it a practice to use replied, Judge—Discharged. | very good form.” ‘WHEN MUIR REJOICED |RECORDED QUEER BET | NATURALIST WRITES ABOUT A LOSER PAID GUINEA A DAY FOR | THREE YEARS. Maae Wager with Clergyman Based on Expectation of Napoleon's Death and Finally Was Released From it by a Jury. “One of the most curious bets I | ever heard of was made in England a hundred years ago,” sald Angus Mc- Gregor, an attorney of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Belvedere. “The wager was between a knight, who was also a member of pariia- ment, and a clergyman, for in that day it was not considered scandalous for dominies to put up their money on sporting propositions. I is but fair to the preacher, however, to say that the other man did the banter- ing, and this was the knight's singu- lar offer: That if anyone of a crowd present would put up 100 guineas (something over $500) he would give to such person one guinea a day dur- ing the remainder of the lifetime of Napoleon Bonaparte. “In making such an extraordinary offer he evidently thought the great Corsican had but a few days to live. Before the others in the company could recover from the shock of the strange proposal, the clergyman shout. ed out that he would accept the terms and then and there the wager or deal was consummated, there being wit- nesses to the act of the minister in putting 100 guineas into the challen- ger's hands. “A splendid bet it was for the rev- erend gentleman, but a miserably poor : " w—_—s { Fine Job Printing. ____ Attorneys-at-Law. Sr —— p— : St — - —— = —— | FINE JOB PRINTING Roce to en, S008 security and | GQ Ke. Pac Pras a one J. M, KEICHLINE.| Room 18 Crider’s . 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Fire, and Gr ain Life Manufactures and has on hand at all times the and WHITE STAR : OUR BEST Automobile Insurance HIGH GRADE VICTORY PATENT one for the other, who had to surren- | Life der a guinea every day and this he continued to do for the better part of three ycirs. Along toward the close of 1814 the knight wearied of his los- ing game. As you American say, he began to have cold feet. At first he tried to beg off, but the parson would not listen to his entreaties. A bet was a bet he contended, and the fact that he was ahead to the tune of some 900 guineas made him not in the least compassionate. Boney might live a good while longer and that daily rev- enue was very sweet, “As a last resort the knight refused to pay any longer, and the parson brought suit before a judge. Eloquent and learned counsel spoke on both sides, but it must have been that the advocate for the defendant knight pro. duced the most convincing argument in telling the fury why his client should not be made to pay any longer. “In the first place,” said the law- yer, his client had not in the begin- ning made the bet seriously; it was a sort of jocular proposal, but once be- ing made the proponent was too game to back out. Secondly, it was con- trary to public policy to give legal sanction to such a bet. Napoleon was Britain's most dreaded foe and for a British subject to have a procuring interest in prolonging the enemy's life was a horrid and untenable thought, The jury took the same view and freed the knight from fur- ther payments.”—Baltimore Ameri. can, Young Financier. It appears that there Is more or less humbug about the traditional slowness | of the messenger, the fabulous lazi- | ness of the office boy—and all that sort of stuff. At any rate, there is a voung fellow in Cleveland who may be said to be abreast of the age In which he lives. He works in a down- town office building, but he has a rapidly growing account in a savings bank. The other day our young hero went to his bank to make a deposit of 50 cents. The teller, with more than his customary haughtiness, informed the boy that the bank would not receive deposits of less than $1. The kid didn't waste auy time arguing about it. He walked over to the desk, wrote a check for $1 and presented it at the paying teller's window. It was honored, of course. Then the little financier said: “lI wish to deposit $1.50.” And that deposit was accepted. And the teller ground his teeth. Haec fabula docet—that you can de posit a cent if you have an account.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Got Right One That Time. “Crack” went the baseball bat, and “crash” went the big windowpane of a kosher butcher in East Eighty-sixth street as the ball found its mark, says the New York Daily Mail. Like a flash, out darted the butcher and with multitudinous outcries start- ed in pursuit of half a dozen small boys, who were legging it for dear life in the direction of Car! Schurz Park. His chase would have proved fruit. less had not a policeman, by one ot those miracles that occasionally hap- pen, come around a corner just ahead of the fugitives and proved nimble enough to grab one of them. The prisoner, knuckles in eyes, pro tested that he hadn't “done nothin’” and there was growing a doubt as to the value of the capture until a pow: erful female voice descended from an upper window across the street, say ing: “Dot's de boy! Dot's de boy! I hat him mysell seen from my upstairs window down.” Where the Danger Lay. 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