Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, November 22, 1912, Image 3

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Bellefonte, Pa., November 22, 1912.
FROM LUCILE'S DIARY.
Offenses to the Eye. |
The effort which is to be made in
New York to restrict or remove the
huge and unsightly signs which dis- |
figure the streets of the city by day
' and night, will be walched with inter.
| est
elsewhere. It is believed
nances and that others might be elim-
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Fillmore Bow That Ended a
Famous Enmity.
How the Ex-President and Thurlow
FINE JOB PRINTING | [\[OELlI0, 0A on sud security and
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WATCHMAN OFFICE Flour and Feed.
That Malcolm Cox, my erstwhile | inated by proceeding against them as
suitor, was married and to an eastern | nuisances. Those that threaten life
girl whom I had never even seen or shut out light and air ought to come
struck me as so droll that the moment | easily within that category. The pub- |
I received the announcement of the lic is somewhat slower to recognize
wedding I determined (o be the first the fact that simple offenses to the |
them when he eye may be proper objects of regula-
one to entertain
brought his bride home to Chicago. tion; but with the increasing apprecia-
I decided to have them to dinner ' tion of civic beauty, this recognition is
with just Uncle Bob and Betty to | bound to come.
meet them, as I thought a small, in- | handsome buildings and lay out at-
timate party would be the most | tractive parks if any one who chooses
friendly. | can mar the effect.—Providence Jour
My invitation was answered by a nal.
rather stiff little note from the bride. '
I took it to mother, thinking she |
would be amused by its primness. : About Names.
She read it and then cast one of her | In the days when people and names
reproachful glances at me. | were fewer than now, families received
possible that you invited company to | They were Bakers and Brewers and
dinner Saturday night? Didn't you | Taylors and Chandlers and Wheel
remember that we are all going out | Wrights and the like; or else their
to your Uncle John's farm for the j Names described their appearance, or
week end?” | the places in which they lived, or the
“That's so; I had quite forgotten DOPes to which they were bred. The
it.” 1 said. “I'll have to stay at home, , ©ld and well-known firm of I. Catches
though.” . and U, Cheatem might come under this
“But I've promised Tilly a few days’ head. Nobody knows just when the
vacation at that time and so even if ; Christian name was added as a more
you do stay at home I don't see how distinctive feature, or why the James
you can give a dinner party. 1 do ; and Marias should belong to England,
wish you would consult me before you | the Mimis and Felicites to France, the
invitations.” | Gretchens and Hedwigs to Germany,
“Oh, dear!” I sighed. “It seems to ; the Bridgets and Noras to Ireland and
me that whenever 1 try to have a lit- | the Carlottas and Eulalias to Spain
tle pleasure something goes wrong.” | and Italy.
“Well, dear, don't feel so badly,” |
said mother, seeing the tears in my
eyes. “Surely, you can postpone the
Didn't Know He Did It.
Col. G. M. Quarles, a tobacco plants
It is futile to erect
dinner.”
“No, I can't; it would be too awk-
ward, for I don't know Malcolm's wife
at all. But if Cousin Fannie will only
stay at home from Uncle John's she
and I can get up a nice little dinner
and maybe Betty would bring her
maid to wait on the table.”
“Fannie is so fond of the farm that
I hate to ask her to give up the out- '
ing,” said mother, in her undecided
way.
“Oh, I'll ask her, mother,” I return-
ed. “She would enjoy going to the |
farm just as much some other time, |
I'm sure)”
Saturday morning when grandmoth- |
er and father and mother were leav-
ing the house father was greatly sur-
prised to find that Cousin Fannie and
I weren't going to the farm with the !
others. i
“Lucile had an engagement for to-
night and Fannie is going to stay and
act as chaperon,” explained mother.
“I don’t like it at all,” grumbled fa- |
ther. “Lucile, is this one of your—"
“Don’t scold me, daddy, dear,” I in
terrupted him. “I simply have to
keep my engagement. If it weren't |
for that I'd just love to go to Uncle
John’s with you. Next time you must
sureiy take me. Anyway, I am saving |
you a little money by not going. The
return trip fare is $5, isn't it? If you'll |
just give me that amount, I won't
have to ask you for anything extra
on this week's allowance, as I was |
afraid I'd have to do.”
He handed me a $5 bill. “I can’t
quite understand your system of fi- |
nance,” he sald as he kissed me good- |
by, but he laughed and I felt glad |
that his vexation had passed away. I |
. er in Christian county, Ky., had a ne-
gro man servant named Mose. Mose
was driving his boss into a town one’ “One afternoon as Mr. Weed and
day when he suddenly remarked: |
“Marse Garrett, dey had me up befoah '
‘my church las’ night fur dancin'”
“I don’t suppose you were guilty—
were you, Mose?” asked the colonel.
“Yas, suh; yas, sub,” and dey proved |
hit on me, too; but I come clear. My
friends stuck to me close; and, after
; dem other niggers hall done testified |
ag'inst me my friends all got up and |
testified dat, though it was true I
danced, I was so drunk at de time I
' didn't knew whut I was doin’. So I!
come clear—and the preacher ’scused |
me!"—Saturday Evening Post.
Not Much on Pulchritude.
They were a quaint old couple, and |
| It was evident they had never seen |
many circuses. All the wild things
| In cages interested them intensely, |
but the woman kept hurrying her hus- |
band along. “Hurry up John,” she |
| would say, “we don't want to miss the |
: hippopotamus. We may never get a
chance to see another of 'em.” See-
ing the hippopotamus was the main
object of the expedition, evidently.
And gt last they came to the tank
cage where the great, sleepy, pig-like
| animal sprawled. The old woman |
looked at him a full minute, and her |
: face relapsed into the bitterness of dis.
appointed hope. “Lord,” she muttered |
as she turned away, “ain’t he plain?”
Blind Man’s Repartee.
A blind man was passing along the |
roadway in the darkness of the night |
with a jar on Iris shoulder and a
. more.’
| in that instant all the enmity of a
think I understand father even better ; lighted lamp in fils hand. A meddle-
than mother does. | some fellow met him, who cried out: |
A few minutes after the family left, “O, fool, since day and night are alike |
Betty telephoned me that she and | to three, since darkness and light are |
Uncle Bob had just got my note ask- | as one to thy eyes, what use hast thou |
ing them to dinner, but they couldn't | for this, thy lamp?” But the blind
come for they had promised to go out . man laughed and answered him:
to the farm also. She said she wished “This lamp is not for me; nor to guide
that I had invited them earlier so they , these blind eyes of mine. It Is for
could have arranged to come, as she | ignorant fools like thee that they may
wasn't very keen on going to the mot knock against me and break my
farm, | jar."—From “Why the World Laughs,”
“It’s too bad you can’t come, but I'm | by Charles Johnston,
sure you'll enjoy the visit to Uncle
John’s,” I said comfortingly. “By the |
way, dear, will you please tell Molly
to come over this afternoon in time | Nurses are often very negligent in |
to help set the table?” | regard to keeping sunlight away from
“Yes,” she snapped, as she hung up | a sleeping baby’s eyes. In parks and
the receiver. Betty's manners are un- On the street one often sees a baby
gracious, to say the least. | asleep in its carriage with the strong
| sunlight streaming over its face.
The dinner was very good. I made | Grown-up humans know how their.
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Care of Baby's Eyes. i
the mayonnaise and whipped the OVD eves ache when they wake up in
cream for the dessert. Malcolm |
seemed very much impressed when I!
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told him that I had prepared the din-
ner myself with Cousin lannie’s help.
“You are adding cooking to your |
other accomplishments,” he sald.
“That's what my wife is going to do,
aren't you, dear?”
“Yes,” she answered quietly,
She was very quiet, indeed, and the
more Malcolm and I talked and |
laughed over some of the good old |
times we used to have the stiller she |
the morning with a glare of light on |
their faces. How much wotse it must |
be for a baby’s delicate eyes! Mothers |
should see that those to whom they -
intrust the eare of their babies under- |
stand the importance of care in this!
respect. :
Long Hair and Short Pay.
Literary endeavors are not
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think, according to this story
German paper. A novelist, of longer |
grew. | van than pocketbook, met a
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moonlight row and in our haste to get
into the boat, I fell into the water and
he carried me, dripping, back to the
house, where every one thought him
quite a hero for rescuing me, for they
didn’t know that the water was only
a foot deep where I fell. We laughed
heartily at the recollection, but
merely
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“No,” he replied, “I should have to
two novels for that.”—Youth’s
panion.
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Weed Renswed in Old Age the
* Friendship Broken for a
Quarter Century. i
BY E. J. SDWARDS.
History will tell you that Thurlow
Weed, when attending the first Whig |
| 2aucus at Buffalo, was so struck with |
the personal appearance of a young |
lawyer of the name of Millard Fill- |
more that he induced the Buffalo poll | EARLE C. TUTEN
ticlans to nominate him for and elect
| him to the New York legislature. It |
| will tell you that Mr. Weed was Mil- |
lard Fillmore’s political spons.r; that |
| the two men were very intimate for |
years, but that after Mr. Fillmore was |
elected vice-president of the United '
States he developed an intense jea- |
| lousy of Mr Weed that led to their
| complete political and personal
| estrangement. It will tell vou, further,
| that this bitter enmity ended only
| after a quarter of a century had
| passed, but it does not tell how this
was unexpectedly brought about
! through the simple agency of a bow to
‘a woman. Charles C. Clarke of New
! York city, who knew both Fillmore
| and Weed intimately, told me the
| story.
“In the autumn of 1875, Mr. Weed,
' following his habit of years, went to
| Saratoga Springs to spend the month.
{| He was accompanied by his sister
| Harriet, the faithful and constant
| companion of his old age. At that
! time his eyesight was so obscured
| that he was just able to distinguish
‘the outlines of persons he met, de
pending upon their voices to recognize
: them.
his sister were driving over to Sara-
toga Lake they met a carriage going
towards the village, whose occupant,
catching sight of Miss Weed, lifted
his hat and bowed with courtly grace.
M$. Weed turned questioningly to his
sister.
* ‘Harriet,’ he said, ‘didn’t that gen-
tleman bow to us?
“‘Yes,' was the reply.
“ ‘Who was it?’ asked Mr. Weed. 1
could not distinguish his features.
“Miss Weed hesitated. ‘Brother,
she said at iast, ‘that was Mr. Fill
exclaimed Mr.
For several
Then he
“‘Mr. Fillmore!’
Weed, ‘Mr. Fillmore!’
minutes he was silent
turned to his sister.
“ ‘Harriet, he said, ‘when we re
turn to the village I will seek him out
and offer him my hand. We are old
men now, and cannot afford to remain
enemies any longer.’
“Once back in the village, Mr.
Weed, by inquiry, learned the name
of the hotel where Mr. Fillmore was
stopping. He went there immediately
and inquired for his old enemy.
“He is sitting on the veranda with
Mrs. Fillmore,’ the clerk told him
“ ‘Won't you take me to him?’ asked
Mr. Weed.
“He was led up to where the ex-
president was sitting. ‘Mr. Fillmore!’
he said. And Mr. Fillmore caught
both of Mr. Weed's hands in his, and
quarter of a century was ended. Side
by side the two old men sat for an
hour upon the piazza, becoming the
good friends they had been in the
early days when Millard Fillmore was
growing into prominence.”
Two or three days before 1 was told
this story, 1 called upon Mr. Weed.
The talk turned upon Mr. Fillmore.
Mr. Weed'’s then all but sightless eyes
looked into mine, a peaceful smile
lighted up his face. “It is one of the
happiest recollections of my life that
Mr. Flilmore and I became warm
friends again before he died,” he said.
(Copyright, 1908, by E. J. Edwards.)
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