Bellefonte, Pa., October 11, 1912.
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CARING FOR UNCLE HORACE.
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Uncle Horace was over sixty and |
discouragingly rich.
There is a point where one’s income
becomes so great that people pass
from common, ordinarily covetous
envy to a resignedly helpless state of
mind. They write down the figures of
‘hat income, stare at them and then
gay: “Oh, shucks! There ain't no
such income!” That was the delight-
ful kind of income Uncle Horace had.
Mrs. Stebbins and Mrs. Cromp, his
two nieces, were so devoted to him
und said they counted it such a joy
to have the dear old man’s presence
glorify their homes that they lost
good sleep planning how to entice him |
away from each other.
Moreover, each was firmly con-
vinced that the other was a designing
person.
Since he had come to stay with
Mrs. Stebbins for a few months she
had felt that something was Wrong
with Uncle Horace. If it had not
been for his income Uncle Horace
would have been a small, insignificant
individual with pale eyes and an un-
pleasant habit of wanting the best |
chair, and of sitting in the next room
and coughing when his niece had call-
ers. Under the circumstances he was
a reserved, original man with ideas of
his own, which his relatives delighted
to humor.
What worried Mrs. Stebbins espe-
cially was Uncle Horace's air of ab-
straction and his unwonted helpful-
ness. Usually he was under feet, in-
vestigating everything that went on |
and getting in the way tremendously.
On these occasions Mrs. Stebbins was |
wont to say, through her teeth, that
it was perfectly wonderful the way |
Uncle Robert kept up.
This time he paid no attention to |
what was going on in the house, but
would sit deep in meditation or stare |
out of the widow. Mrs. Stebbins’ |
first fear was that he was losing his |
mind. |
She said she would feel perfectly
terrible if anything like that hap-
pened io the dear old man while he
was under her care. She said she
never would be able to forgive her-
self, never!
“Mebbe it's rheumatism,” Stebbins
suggested, hopefully. “That is liable
to make a man do almost anything!”
“Pon’t you want some more blank-
ets on vour bed, Uncle Horace?" his
niece asked him after this suggestion.
®“Are you perfectly comfortable?”
“Thank you, Tilda, I'm perfectly
comfortable,” Uncle Horace had re-!
sponded. “I guess I'll go after the
mail!”
This was really a double blow, for
Uncle Horace normally was not po-
lite, and he always wanted anything
that was offered him, no matter what
it was, and also it was a long walk to
the post office.
Mrs. Stebbins had begged him to let
little Johnny go and save his own
strength, but Uncle Horace had per
sisted. He said he felt that he ought
to do something instead of sitting
around and letting the family wear
themselves out waiting on him, and
that he was glad to be of service.
“Not in this rain, Uncle Horace!"
“Surely not when the wind is blowing !
s0, Uncle Horace!” or “Don't worry |
me by going out in this snowstorm,
Uncle Horace!” had not the remotest !
effect upon him when he started to
elimb into his galoshes and wrappings
to go after the mail
Mrs. Siebbins said to her husband,
dolefully, that she feared it was the
beginning of the end.
The week that Uncle Horace took |
to starting at®a sound and to flush |
at a word or an unexpected look, filled |
Mrs. Stebbins with alarm. That
something awful was the matter with
Uncle Horace she was convinced and |
she besought him to see a doctor. She
made him jelly and fed him beef tea |
despite his protests and tried in vain |
to get some intelligible conversation !
out of him.
Then one day he went after the
mail and did not come back. |
Mrs. Stebbins had the whole town |
out searching for him. She wept as |
she looked on closet shelve: and up |
trees and in other impossible placer |
and said that nobody could know
how her heart bled at the idea that
darling old Uncle Horace might be in
terrible danger that very moment.
The Stebbins family and most of
the town stayed up all night search-
ing. Then the next morning a note
that explained everything came from
Uncle Horace.
“I went away to get married,” he
wrote in his crabbed hand. “I have
been corresponding for some time
with a most estimable widow of forty.
five, who wants to make a home for
me in my old age. She has four chil
dren, and we will all come to visit
you soon, for I know you will be as
fond of Sally and the children as you
are of me"
They revived Mrs. Stebbins three
times before she quit fainting. Then
she remembered that Mrs. Cromp was
tit just as hard as she was and that
made her feel better.
“It serves that designing, self-seek-
ing woman exactly right!” she told
the neighbors. “Pretending to care
about the doddering, foolish, tiresome
old man! As for me. I took him ir
because 1 felt it was my duty!” i
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
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Mole Hill That Sheridan Made
Into a Mountain
Rearrangement of His Office When He
Became Commander of the
Army Gave Him Week
of Great Trouble.
By E. J. EDWARDS.
Promptly at ten o'clock of the morn:
ing in 1883 that Gen. Phil. Sheridan
was to take charge of the offices set
apart for the general commanding |
the army, in the war department build
ing at Washington, he entered them
with that brisk step which was al
. ways characteristic of him. He was
in civilian clothes, and as he had
grown somewhat stout in the twelve
years that had passed since 1 first met
him, the shortness of his stature was
all the more emphasized. His mous
tache was iron gray, his hair was
close cut, revealing the regularity and
perfect contour of his head.
With his decisive tread he marched
up to the desk that had so lately been
vacated by Gen. Sherman and that was
now to be his. Then, all suddenly, a |
| bewildered look came over the feat
ures of the great union cavalry leader |
He started to thrust out a hand to
wards the desk, then pulled it back.
He slowly surveyed the desk and what |
was on it, and the books and papers
and other things placed about the
room. Then he turned to me.
“This looks to me to be the most
difficult piece of work I've been called
upon to do since | was a cadet.” he
said.
“Why, general,” 1 replied. “1 should
think it would be comparatively easy
to command the army In these piping
days of peace.”
“Oh, that—yes, that's easy
enough,” he replied. “But I'm talking
about this desk and this office. Look
| at these books here and those papers
. there, and all the other things scat.
tered about. [I've got to rearrange
them so I'l know what they're all
about and where they are—and I'd
rather plan and fight a big battle than
do it.”
He took up a book, biew off the dust
that had gathered on its cover, and
made a pretense of beginning the re-
arrangement of his desk by putting
the volume down in some other spot
For perhaps half an hour he fussed
about the desk. “Whew!” he ex-
claimed every little while, “this cer-
tainly is just about the most difficult
job I ever had to tackle.”
The better part of the day he busied
himself picking up books and papers
from one corner and moving them into
another, or transferring the contents
of one drawer or cabinet into another.
Between handiuls he would stand off
and view with unconcealed perplexity
the work he still firmly believed that
he alone could do. And every once in a
while, when he could not find a place
to suit him for the disposal of a book
or a paper, he would turn to me with,
“Yes, I'd rather fight a battle than
have to do all this over again.” i
At three o'clock in the afternoon,
when | bade the general! good-by, he
was still puttering around, with a book
in one hand and a file of some sort in
the other. The last words I heard him |
speak were, “This is the most em-
barrasing and troublesome work I've |
had on my hands in I don’t know how
long."
Later | learned that not until nearly |
a week had been spent by Gen, Sheri
dan in thus making a mountain out
of a mole hill did he at last declare
that he had his offices “arranged”—
a bit of work that any ordinary office |
clerk could have accomplished in the
time that the hero of Winchester and |
Five Forks spent in fussing with the
contents of a couple of desk drawers '
(Copyright, 1900, by E. J. Edwards.)
AVOID KNOWN DANGER SPOT
Fijian Islanders, Unlearned in Medi-
cal Lore, Steer Clear of Dread
Appendicitis.
A stranger, whose tanned neck and
hands suggested a long residence in
the tropics, was listening to a group
of early afternoon lpungers in the
lobby of a New York hotel the other
day when the conversation turned |
upon appendicitis. Various theories |
as to how the inflammation first gets |
started had been discussed, when the
stranger's soft drawl broke in on the |
conversation.
“I can't help yon to settle that
point,” he said, “but I'll tell you a|
funny thing. I've spent half my life |
in the Fiji islands, down in the South |
Seas. You've all read as likely as
not, that the bloomin’ natives tattoo
themselves from head to foot. Well,
it's true—with a reservation. They've
learned to leave a spot above the
right groin bare. This used to puzzle
me until 1 asked one of the chiefs for
an explanation. He told me that long
ago they had observed that when that
part of the body was tattooed the sub-
ject usually contracted a fever and
died. This was appendicitis, you
know, brought on by the irritation in-
duced by the tattooing. The natives
didn’t know that, of course. They
ascribed it to evil spirits, but learned
to avoid the dangerous spot and prot-
tect themselves.”
Damage Done by Smoke,
In an address ore the American
Civic association, Herbert M. Wilson,
chief engineer in the United States
geological survey, places the annual
damage and waste by smoke In the
United States at $500,000,000 in the
iarge cities alone, or about $6 to each
wan, woman and child of the popula
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WANT TO REGULATE RIVERS
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Association Aims to Enlarge Powers
of Water Supply Commission to
Deal With the Use of One of the
State's Most Valuable Assets.
Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 10.—The plan
snd scope of the new Water Conserva-
tion Association of Pennsylvania has
been adopted and the officers are busy
with a statewide campaign of educa-
tion, the aim of which is to crystal
lize public sentiment on legislation
to be urged at the approaching ses-
sion of the legislature to enlarge the
powers of the State Water Supply
Commission to enable it to cope with
the many problems surrounding the
water resources of the state.
The new association was formed for to the approval of the president.
the purpose of procuring such legisia-
tion as it is a well known fact that,
the state is not only not getting the
revenue it should from the rivers and
streams, but that also the unregulated |
rivers do tremendous damage each
year by causing floods. The members |
of the association are those interested |
in the conservation of the state's
water resources from many stam
points. The bylaws of the association
fllustrate the objects and are as fo]
lows:
“Article 1—Name: This organiza-
! fice of the association shall be at Har-
tion shall be known as ‘The Water
Conservation Association of Pennsyl-
vania.'
“Article 2—Object:
of
The object
this association shall be to obtain, by |
publicity, conference and otherwise,
co-operation of individuals, assolia-
tions and companies, interested in
water conservation, to secure adequate |
legislation under wise state super
vision, necessary to the broadest and
best utilization of the waters of lhe
state.
“Article 2-—Members: All member.
ship shall be personal and represent.
ative as far as possible of all the
various water concerns, civic orzani
| the executive committee, which may
LH AAT OT
zations, engineering societies, flood
protection committees and all others
interested in these questions.
“Members shall be elected by the
association.
“Article 4—Officers: The affairs of
the association shall be conducted hy
the following officers, namely, presi-
dent, secretary, treasurer and an oXx-
ecutive committee of seven. Five of
the executive committee shall be
chosen by the members with a right
to add to their number, and other »f-
ficers shall be elected by the execu-
tive committee.
“The duties of the president shall
consist of presiding at meetings,
formulating plans for co-operation,
soliciting funds, extending the in-
fluence of the association, delivering
addresses, preparing articles upon the
objects of the association and arrang-
ing for publicity.
“All disbursements shall be subject
“The duties of the secretary shall
be to keep all records and books.
solicit funds and inform members of
the progress of the work. :
“The treasurer shall keep all ac-
counts and pay vouchers only upon
the approval of two of the officers of
the association and furnish monthiy |
to each member of the executive com: |
mittee a statement of his receipts and |
disbursements. :
“Article 5—Office: The general »f-
risburg, Pennsylvania.
“Article 6—Meetings: Meetings of
the association shall be held upon call
of the executive committee. Meetings
of the executive committee shall he
held upon call of either the president
or secretary. Three shall constitute a
quorum of the executive committee.
“Article 7-—Changes: These bylaws
may be changed by majority vote of
be by letter ballot, if necessary.”
A plan of campaign has been adon:-
ed which consists of sending letters
to all companies, associations and
publicists who are likely to be inter
ested in this work: and. as the work
of publicity and education will take
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tions, etc., throughout the state, ex-
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particularly to suggest the organiza-
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