CL Bellefonte, Pa., February 21, 1913. Burns in Effort to Reach Little Boy and Baby Who After- wards Are Saved. Kenosha, Wis.—A story of heroism reached here the other day from New Munster, a village in the western part of Kenosha county. A mother wag burned to death trying to save the lives of her two children. : The little ones’ escape was due pri marily to the bravery of one of them —a small boy. Mrs. Johanna Kretschmer, twenty. six years of age, sent one of her old. er children to the village to buy a can .of gasoline, The boy lost the cork to ‘the can on the way home. When he “Tried to Fight Her Way Through the Flames. reached the house he left the can near a burning gasoline stove and went out to play. Two other children, a boy of five and a baby girl, eighteen months, were in the house, The gas from the’ can was exploded by stove heat and the house took fire. Mrs. Kretschmer was hanging clothes on a line in the’ yard. She rushed back to the house ‘and tried to fight her way through the flames. She was overcome by the fumes and sank down in the midst of ‘the fire. William Kersting, a neighbor, saw the house burning and went to the rescue. He forced his way to a hall way, where, although badly burned, | he found and carried to safety the two unconscious children. It was learned later from the boy that when he saw his sister's life was | threatened by the fire he carried her to the hallway, where both were over come by the smoke. He is seriously ‘burned. i The coroner's jury, after returning ‘a verdict of accidental death, added: “Mrs. Kretschmer gave her life for, ‘her children.” | ‘BRAVES MAD DOG FOR SON Child Is Badly Hurt Before Its Mother | Can Drag the Vicious Brute i Away. i Stamford, Conn.—Perry Sia three years old, son of James Mullin, | an employe of Mrs F. A. Hamilton of | Riverside, is in the Stamford hospital in a serious condition from wounds, i LORNA MAKES HAY | waving of farewells. was well out in the bay the hand that WHILE SUN SHINES By DOROTHY DOUGLAS. Lorna gazed blankly at the big ship that was making its way ponderously out to sea. She was stunned with the sudden knowledge that her husband was glad to be leaving her. They had been married a scant year, and through all those months Lorna had fought against the hints, from kindly neighbors, that her hus- band had married her out of pique. But Lorna had believed in her hap- piness until the moment the ship had pulled away from the wharf with her husband on board. Then, she had looked up suddenly at him as he leaned over the bulwark and was surprised to see an expression of relief, as from & released burden, in his eyes. She had taken the blow like a little soldier, with smiling lips and a happy When the beat held her handkerchief swept across her eyes and she stood for a moment in blank misery. After that | | braced her shoulders and went home. She knew, first of all, that she had come upon a blank wall in the path of her life. “I am married to a man who does not love me,” she told herself with a peculiar sense of aloofness stealing over her. So, with her fighting blood aroused and her pride hurt, Lorna probed deep into the heart of things in order to discover the lack, for she knew the lack was in herself. “I will make hay while the sun shines,” she smiled at her own ex- travagance. As Lorna descended the stairs the big living room struck her as being dull and toneless. This, too, was her fault. “I will also make over the rooms.” She laughed quite like the old Lorna | who had not known David Brooks. “I | ing terms in the state under illegal will buy yards and yards of cretonne | sentences. she | bing his arm, finally attracted the at- with big pink roses in it, and when | David comes home he will think the | on trial to be first offenders, and so | got an indeterminate sentence. The garden has walked into the house.” When Lorna first beheld herself in her new raiment she blushed at her | own extravagant beauty. Her hair was | fluffed as if from a lover's caresses, and her eyes were aglow. “But David will not know me,” she reminded herself. Even in her new view of life Lorna was not without her moments of blank dismay. What if David could not stamp the memory of Beth Cornish from his heart? Could it be possible that the gossip she had heard was not true—that merely her own careless- ness had made David indifferent? Fortunately these morbid thoughts were short lived. As the weeks passed swiftly, Lorna realized that she was indeed improv- ing the hours. “Perhaps, after all,” she reasoned, “it is good for us to come against blank walls in our paths. I might never have known that the biggest things in life were passing me by— perhaps I was really contented with only half of David's love.” So in the end Lorna came to look upon her cross as a blessing. She seemed to have made new friends; she seemed to hold them firmly at her side. She gave one or two dinner par- ties and found herself branching out in many directions. Lorna had pot ceased to love her husband, but she began to feel inde- pendently strong. When the letter came which men- tioned the day of her husband's ar rival, Lorna sank down into her big chair and trembled. After all, now that he was coming, she felt strangely weak. There was so much at stake. ‘She knew that she could never again ‘be happy with half his love. She had struggled for the whole and she must have it. She did not go down to the wharf, ‘but waited for him at home. Lorna had dressed with unusual care. Her | gown of traily blue and her little blue | slippers peeping from beneath were | only the setting for her exquisite beau. ty. She knew that she was looking | well, and the knowledge lent a certain proud carriage to her figure. David saw her through the French ! windows before he entered the house. | He caught his breath and was con- ‘scious of a thrill. Whether it was from surprise or longing he knew not. But certain it was that he quickened his step and took her into his arms with an emotion for which he had not bar- It left him breathless and a “Lorna—" he said, and stopped. “What is it, David?” she asked with | a little unsteady laugh. She looked up i at him and the glow in her eyes left him dazed. “You are not the same Lorna— ‘whom I left—I hardly feel that you | are really mine—" . “But I am, Davy boy.” She smiled, ‘because she knew that she had won, -His arms held her in a way that made her knowledge certain. “I have made :the house over, though. See!” She ‘turned and swept in the changed sur ‘roundings, David looked over her head, but did not release her. “Lorna!” he put a ‘firm hand under her chin. “Lorna— little wife—look at me. Did you—did | you think all this was necessary to— ‘to make me love you?” - She looked up for one fleeting glance, then her head went down om his shoulder. David's arms closed about her and drew her near to him. He was silent a long moment, and when he spcke his voice was not quite steady. “I love you, dear,” he sald simply. “I have always loved you.” Lorna smiled up at him. “That is all 1 want.” ‘From “Holidays in Hawaii,” by John to him: NOT FOUND IN JOE MILLER Youthful Minstrel at School Show | Got Off One Good and Orig- inal Joke. i It is customary in many of the New York schools to give entertainments | on the last day before the pupils dis perse for the Christmas holidays. Parents are invited to see and hear their young hopefuls recite or take part in special vaudeville stunts or fairy plays devised by the teachers. | One teacher who found herself blessed—or otherwise—with a room- ful of unruly boys when school began in the autumn hit upon a happy idea. She promised the boys that if they were good they might have a minstrel show just before the holidays. All through the term the teacher kept this prospect before them, promising the particularly noisy youths good parts if they would keep their deport: ment up to a fair standard. The promise had the desired effect, the boys were reasonably manageable, and when the performance came off it was a howling success, One little temporary darky, rub tention of the interlocutor. “Why, Mistah Jones,” he exclaimed, “what's de mattah wif yo’ a’'m?” | “Why, Mistah Bones, ah wuz out | in de Hudson ribber yestahday fo’ shad, an’ ah got mah a'm lame rowin’ against de tide.” “Well, well,” returned the young Mister Bones, “ah nevah saw such | foolishness! Why didn't you let de shad row?” PRISONERS MIGHT BE FREED Many in New York Jails Are Held Contrary to the Strict Letter of the Law. An examination of the prison reports of the state of New York has shown that 254 prisoners are at present serv- Part of these prisoners claimed when law of New York provides that on second convictions no indeterminate sentence can be given. Part of them, however, have sen- tences which terminate in the middle of the winter. The law of New York wisely provides that no prisoner may be released in the winter season, when work is scarce and the incentive to crime is redoubled by the hardship of the cold. As to the first ground of illegality, other states have permitted indeter- minate sentences on second convic- tions without discoverable bad re sults, As to the second ground one can say the clamor against the courts would be less effective if judges would take more care to get on familiar and really friendly terms with the law.— Chicago Journal. Tree Gone Mad. Nature in the tropics, left to her self, is harsh, aggressive, savage; lcoks as though she wanted to hang you with her dangling ropes or impale you on her thorns, or engulf you in her ranks of gigantic ferns. Her mood is never as placid and sane ae in the north. There is a tree in the Hawaiian woods that suggests a tree gone mad. It is called the hau-tree. it lies down, squirms and wriggles all over the ground like a wounded snake; it gets up, and then takes to earth again, Now it wants to be a vine, now it wants to be a tree. It throws somersaults, it makes itself into loops and rings, it rolls, it reach es, it doubles upon itself. Altogether it is the craziest vegetable growth I ever saw. Where you can get it up off the ground and let it perform its antics on a broad skeleton framework, it makes a cover that no sunbeam can penetrate, and forms a living roof to the most charming verandas—or lanais, as they arz called in the isl ands—that one can wish to see— Burroughs in the Century. Just a Little Farther On. After North Carolina voted to be @ “dry” state, its citizens became very suspicious of strangers. One day a commercial traveler wen! up to an old negro in a little town it the eastern part of the state and sald “Say, uncle, if you will lead me tc gome place where I can get a drink ll give you two dollars.” The old darky looked him over care fully, accepted the two plunks, and said, “All right, boss; jest foller me.” He led the thirsty one through the town, on through the suburbs, intc the country, and then started due west. After they had traversed aboul five miles in silence and still nothing in sight, the man asked: Where are we boss; we can’t git nuthin in state.”—Judge. SE ————————————————— Grounds for Divorce. A Cleveland lawyer tells this one: “A woman came up to my office the other day and wanted to know if she could get a divorce because her hus band didn’t believe in the Bible. 1 told her that unless she had some thing else on him there would be na use in bringing suit. “‘But he's an absolute infidel!’ she | insisted. “ “That makes no difference,’ said I “Doesn't it, indeed? she cried, tri umphantly. ‘Well, you are a fine law: yer, 1 must say. Here's the laws of Ohio, and they say that infidelity, if proved, is a ground for divorce!'” Fine Job Printing. | Money to Loan. FINE JOB PRINTING o—A SPECIALTY-—o0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE There is cheapest "I th om te BOOK WORK, that we car: not do in most satis a iat) Yulin. communicate with this office, 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 mr —— : Attorneys-at-Law. ——— TO LOAN on good security and | ( KLINE Attorney-at-Law, houses to rent. i " J. M. KEICHLINE, S fe Ei Pcie a 41 a So Pa. — N B. SPANGLER Attornes at Law. i | or (CURTIS Y. WAGNER, BROCKERHOFF MILLS, BELLEFONTE, PA. Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of i Roller Flour Feed Corn Meal JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successor to Grant Hoover) Fire, Life Accident Insurance. This represents the Jargest Insurance £3 the lores Fire —— NO ASSESSMENTS — Do not fail to give us a call before —_— Life a Sl before insuring yous or large lines at any time. Office in Crider’s Stone Building, 43-18-1y. The Preferred Accident Insurance THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY 1H : i TI i HH Te Fire Insurance a and Mos ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvania H. E. FENLON, nt BELLEFONTE. PA. ’ me emer exchanged for OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA. 4719 MILL AT ROOPBSURG. All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour wheat, T. H. H. Robes You are safe when you deal with us——42 years in one store room is a guarantee that our prices and goods HAVE BEEN RIGHT and always give satisfaction. Our goods in Robes, Blankets and Har- ness is at the present time the Larg- est that has ever been placed upon a Bellefonte market. fail to call and see us, and examine our large stock, and get our prices, as the Tariff is off. This is to your advantage. After Forty-two Years of Honest Dealing we have earned a place in the public confidence unquestion- ed. James Schofield, Spring Street 55-32 Bellefonte, Pa b You will miss it if you should 3 Groceries. _— : SALMON—Canned Salmon at 10c, 15¢, 20c and 25¢c. Canned Corn at 3 for 25¢; 10; 2 for and fancy Corn at 15¢. 25, im. A SECHLER & a dish of fine te flinty whole- m= OMPANY. UNPARED PEACHES—AL 12¢, 15c aa al Lime and Crushed Limestone. We are the AMERICAN LIME 58-3-1v Increase Your Crops Lime is the life of the soil. USE CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA LIME Some Farmers have actually doubled their crops by use of “H. 0.” lime Drill it for quick results. If you are not getting results use “H. 0.” lime Manufacturers of Lime in Pennsylvania. Ground imestone and Lime for all purposes. Works at Bellefonte, Frankstown, Spring Meadows, Tyrone Forge and Union Furnace. Write for literature on lime. we ln lB. Ll Mo A MM. & STONE COMPANY. Offices at TYRONE, PA. S. TAYLOR—Att ae and at Law. Office in jemple Court, fonts, Pa. All ki . o fa kinds leant busingis 38 H. WETZEL—, and Counsellor at Law J Office No. 11, C 5 Exchange, second floor. All kinds of legal business to promptly. Consultation in English or German. ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY—, - ; Bitomcysat ors to Orvis, Bower & Orvis. Practice the courts. Consultation in English or German. M. KEICHLINE— -Law, i J a in Api Sem business will het at ve ention. ly KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at- and Grain EE Tm business rusted to care. Manufactures and has on hard o di times the | ces—No. 5 East High street. 57-44. G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul- WHITE STAR tation in English and German. Office OUR BEST a ~ Ctider Engian an Bellefonte. ue HIGH GRADE Physicians. VICTORY PATENT | tn S. GLENN, M. D. FANCY PATENT WwW ge Bl Ct ana Be The in the Place : SOULY Whets tiat exit SHAAN SPRAY — | , E. W, he D:D. Sie DF i H.C. A room, High el be Also can secured. Also International Stock Food | ing teeth. Superior Crown and work. Prices Youu Stee and reasonable. DATE Sr Ret, ofn em used. Has pic-nics, families public gener. all of which Ee the purest syrups and properly carbonated. C. MOERSCHBACHER, 50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa. ______ Plumbing. bi Good Health and Good Plumbing GO TOGETHER. When you have dsippiag steam pipes, leaky water fixt foul fos. you can't have good od Healt. Farm poisoned and AIT a in to come. SANITARY PLUMBING is the kind wé do. It's the kind you Sulit to have. Wedon't trust work to boys. Qur rkmen are Skilled Mechanics, no better anywhere. Our Material and Fixtures are the Best Not a cheap or inferior articie in our entire establishment. And with good work finest material, our iis Prices are lower than the ARCHIBALD ALLISON, Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa. 14-1v. Coal and Wood. EDWARD K. RHOADS Shipping and Commission Merchant, and Dealer in ANTHRACITE ano BITUMINOUS COALS CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS and other grains. —— BALED HAY AND STRAW —— Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand. KINDLING WOOD by the bunch or cord as mav suit purchasers, respectfully solicits the patronage of his friends and the public, at his Coal Yards near the Pennsylvania Passenger Station. jo1s Telephone Calls: {ESTE iliveey ETN (Get the Best Meats. TELE pig oe oe LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE SEER = DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, High Street. ~~ 3434ly. Bellefonte, Pa.
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