Bellefonte, Pa., September 19, 1913 The Shyness of Shorty. [Continued from page 6, Col. 4.1 ing fall of struggling men and. what Po, I ; LS JIN J \ — a [ — “Han's up!” brought him unsteadily to bis legs, the agonized scream of a woman. It ech oed through the house, chilling nim, and dwindled to ap aching moan. Something was wrong. be knew that, but it was hard to teli just what He must think. What tard work fit | was to think too! He'd vever noticed before what a laborious process it, was. Probably that sheriff had got into trouble. He was a fresh guy, any- | bow, and he'd laughed when he first saw Shorty I'hat settied It. He | could get out of it himself Evidently it was nothing serious, for there was | no more disturbance above, only con- fused murmurings Then a light | showed in the stairs, and again the | shufiling of feet came as four strange men descended. They were lighted by | the sardonic Bailey, and they dragged | a sixth between them, bound and belp- | less. [t was the sheriff. i Now, what had ne been doing to | get into such a tix? ! The prisoner stood against the wall, | white and defiant. He strained at his bonds silently, while tis captors | watched his futile struggles There | was something terrible and menacing | in the quietness with which they | gloated—a suggestion of some horror ' to come. At last he desisted and burst | forth: | “You've got me, all right. You did this. Bailey, you — traitor!” 1 “He's never been a traitor, as far | a8 we KuOW, sueered ote of the fOUF. |. ined in the corral outside beard | “In fact, | might say he's beeu strictly ou the square with oa” ) “1 didn’t think vou made war on women, either, Marsh ‘I'remper, but it seems you're evervthing from a dog thief down Why couldn't you tight me alone, in the daylight. like a man?” “You don’t wait till a rattier's coiled | before you stamp his head off,” said ! the former speaker “Its either you | or us, aud | reckou it's you.” ' So these were the {'remper boys, eh? The worst desperadoes in the soutb- | The | mildly curious, west, and Bailey was their ally. watcher eyed them. bad a quartet as rumor had painted ! —bad even for this country of bad men. ‘The sheriff was a fool for get. | ting mixed up with such people. | Shorty knew enough to mind his own | business, anyway, if others dido't. He | was a pesceful man and dido't intend to get mixed up with outlaws. His | mellow meditations were interrupted | by the hoarse speech of the sheriff, who bad broken down Into his rage again and struggled madly while words | ran from him. ‘ “Let me go, — you! Let me free! ' ’ want to fight the coward that struck | my wife. You've killed her! Who | was it? Let me get at him!” Shorty stiffened as though a douche of ice water had struck him. “Killed her! Struck his wife!” My God! Not that sweet creature of his dreams who had talked and smiled at him without poting his deformity! An awful anger rose in him, and he moved out into the light “Han's up!” Whatever of weakness may have dragged at his legs, none sounded in the great bellowing command that flooded the room. At the compelling volume of the sound every man whirl ed and eight empty hands shot sky- ward. Their startled eyes beheld a man's squat body weaving uncertainly on the limbs of ap insect, while in each hand shone a blue-black Colt that waved apd circled in maddening, er ratic orbits. At the command Marsh Tremper's five, and be took a gambler's chance. As he whirled he drew and fired. None but the dwarf of Bar X could have lived, for he was the deadliest hip shot in the territory. His bullet crashed into the wall a hand’s breadth over Shorty’s cowlick. It was a clean heart shot. the practiced whirl and flip of the finished gun fighter, but ounce Shorty betrayed the strength ot | tains with silver caps and sucking the and it semed to him that they were as : ir the oid man’ll swear | been drink. i sheriff and his surly prisoners drove | them Trempers of his modesty. “Oh, Ross,” it cried, “I've brought your gun!” And there on the steps, | disheveled. pallid and quivering, was | the bride, and grasped in one trem bling hand was her husband's weapon. | “Ab-hI" sighed Shorty seraphically | as the vision beat In upon his misty conceptions. “She ain't hurt!” In his mind there was no room for | desperadoes contemporaneously with | her. Then he became cuuscious of the lady's raiment, and his brown cheeks | flamed brick red, while he dropped his | eyes. In his shrinking, groveling mod- | esty he made for his dark corner. One of those at bay, familiar with | this strange abashment, seized the mo- ment, but at his motion the sheriff screamed, “Look out!" The quick danger In the cry brought back with a surge the men against the wall, and Shorty swung Instantly, fir- ing at the outstretched hand of Balley | as it reached for Tremper’s weapon. | The landlord straightened, gazing | affrightedly at his finger tips. “Too low!" and Shorty's voice held | aching tears. “I'll never touch another | drop. [t's plumb ruined my aim.” “Cut these strings, girlie,” said the sheriff as the little man’s gaze again wavered, threatening to leave his pris. | oners. “Quick: He's blushing again.” | When they were inanacled Shorty | stood In moist exudation trembling and speechless, under the incoherent thauks of the ride and the silent admiratiou of her handsome husband She duttered about him in u tremor of anxiety lest he Le wounded. caress ing him here and there with solicitous pats till he felt his shamed and happy | spirit would surely burst from its mis- shapen prison | “You've made a good thing tonight,” | said Turney, clapping nim heartily oo nis massive back “You get the five thousand all right We were going! to Mexico City ou that for a bridal trip when | rounded up the gang. vut I'll see you get every cent of It. old man. If it wasn't for you ['d bave been a heap farther south thao that | by now." The open camaraderie and good fel | towship that rang in the man's voice affected Shorty strangely. accustomed | | as he was to the veiled contempt or | open compassion of his fellows. Here | wus coe who recognized him as a man. an equal, i He spread nis lips, but the big voice | squeaked dismally: then inflating | deeply, he spoke so that the prisoners | him plainly “I'd rather she took 1 anyhow blushing violently “No, uo,” they cried. “It's yours’ “Well, then, half of It” And for Gibraltar even in the face of the lady and so it stood As the dawn spread over the dusty prairie, tipping the westward moun: mist out of the cottonwood bottoms he bade them adieu. “No: | got to get hack to the Bar X ing again. and | don't want to dissi pate no wroug impressions around” He winked gravely. ‘I'hen, as the off, he called: “Mr. ‘Turvey, take good care of | think a beap of ‘em, for, outside of your wife, they're the only ones in this outfit that didn't laugh at me.” In a dark night a traveler gropes his! way along a familiar path, slowly and | doubtfully. Suddenly a blaze of light- Sing Ahows lim thik Be ie on the brink of a preci ng wandered in darkness from the familiar road. What that blaze of lightning is to the eye, Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser is to the mind; a revelation of unknown Visible Sound Waves, Curious luminous circles or arcs, del- icate and perfect in form, have been seen over the craters of Vesuvius and Etna—one at each explosion. A study of this strange phenomenon has been made by Mr. Frank A. Perret, who has witnessed it hundreds of times, and he concludes that these “flashing arcs,” as he calls them. are really sound waves made visible for an in- stant, the rate of propagation of the images seeming to be about that of sound. The appearance is analogous to the air waves seen above heated roofs. An E:ception. “When a fellow starts to do anything he can always succeed if he only sticks to it.” “Not always, How about you when you start to remove a sheet of sticky Londen fly paper that you've sat down on?'— Telegraph. WHAT, WHEN AND HOW TO EAT Many Things That People Do That Seriously Injure Their Health. By EUGENE CHRISTIAN, F. $.D. {Copyright, 1913, by American Press Asso- ciation.) ROM the way people cling to life, from the measures they adopt to avoid disease, one would think that their most profound study would be the laws that would make them healthy and extend their period of life, but when we ex- amine thelr habits, when we put the conduct of the human family beneath the searchlight of science, we find that most of the things they do tend to- ward shortening their life period and toward the production of disease. This is rather a gloomy aspect of the ques- | tion, but it is true. The dreamy optimist who can see sunshine through the darkest cloud is not always the best friend to human- ity; neither is the pessimist who sees nothing but the cloud, but the true friend of humanity is the one who can stand midway between and see the facts as they exist and tell them in plain language and thereby relieve suf- fering and aid in extending our period on earth. This is what | have en: deavored to do. As stated in one of my previous ar ticles. man gets his growth at about twenty-four years and dies at little less than thirty-nine If he should live eight times his period of maturity, as do all other animals. his period of life would be about 200 years. The fact that he doex not do this is evi- dence conclusive that there is some- TOO FAT FOR HEART TO WORE WITE PROPER EASE. thing wrong--that he 18 committing some fundamental error that is short- ening bis life and rendering him less able to enjoy the time he does live. | The purpose of this article is to point out some of these mistakes and sug- gest a few remedies Wrong Eating. Man is by nature a vegetarian From this healthy and natural custom, Dr. | however, he has departed and preys like a wild beast upon his brother ani- mals. When we take the flesh of an- other animal into our bodies we must take in the uric acid. the toxic carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide poisons that reside in all flesh food. This adds greatly to the same poisons that are residual in our own bodies. Inability of the system to throw off these poisons causes disease nnd shortens life. Instead of studying our diet as we would our business and balancing our food as we would our cash. we eat at bapbazard. Jt is u system of guess- work. The most skillful mechanics and the most learned of our population are called upon to construct our houses and machinery. to cut and make our clothes, but the most igno- rant of our population lay out our diet. The city people are fed from sub- cellars. The food is selected. prepared and combined by uneducated persons. who neither know nor care anything about the barmonious chemistry of the things they serve. The one primary object is to appeal to the taste. which causes people to eat more than they should. Food Should Suit Age. Bread is the great American staple of dlet. and yet cereal starch-that is, everything made out of corn. wheat. rye, oats. harley or rice -is the most gifficult of all foods to digest and con- vert into energy. Food should suit age. These cereal products are composed but very little of these foods, starch composes probably of the human diet. Inability of body. therefore, to cast out excess of unused matter is the cause The overconsumption of acid fruits is another fundamental error in nutrition. If we were living in the tropics. where the pores of the skin were constantly open. the body could eliminate and vol- atilize a great deal of acid. but in our northern climate such articles as grape fruit. lemons. limes. pineapple. apri- cots and all sour fruits should never be taken except In exceedingly hot weather. When taken at other times the tendency is to ferment other foods, crystailize the starch atom which makes the blood crystal, which in its turn makes rheumatism, gout, lumbago, knotted bands and feet. stiffness and premature old age. The overconsumption of sweets is an- other mistake in our diet. The carbo- hydrate (starch and sugar) element is prominent in nearly all of cur foods, and when we add to this pure concen- trated cane sugar in any quantity, espe- cially in the hundreds of combinations which compose the desserts on the av- erage table, we are burdening the di- gestion and assimilation of our food and especially the elimination of waste. The failure of the body to utilize sweets and throw off the excess is a most pro- lific source of disease. Overeating. Overeating is vne of the greatest er- rors of civilized people. There is noth- ing more conducive to this habit than the average “good dinner.” composed of six to a dozen courses. We eat all that we should of probably some good, plain food: then we change from one thing to another, appealing to a differ ent set of taste buds with each change, until we have laden the stomach with twice or perhaps three times as much food as the body needs If the stomach cannot dispose of it indigestion. fermentation and sour ' atomach result. This poisons every ounce of food that passes through the Intestinal tract If the stomach can dispose of it and it is taken into the cells we become superfat. laden with adipose tissue that we do not need and that possesses no item of strength to its own support. It is as much a bur- , den as carrying so much brick on our : shoulders day in and day out. | The surplus fat accumulates around the vital organs. limiting the capacity of the lungs to purify the blood. It also accumulates around the heart, | making the action of that much over- | worked organ more and more difficult. | This is why fat people have no endur- | ance and often fall down with vertigo and dizziness. Endurance is measured almost en- tirely by the ability of the lungs to oxi- dize and purify the blood. Wrong Drinking, In addition to man's “civilized” er- | rors in eating. he has made nearly as many mistakes in his drinking habits. , Pure water, designed by nature as the | great universal solvent. the helper, the | digester of foods. the maker of good | blood, is the last thing man seems to ' want to drink. Instead of this purify- ing, life giving beverage, he takes whis- | ky, brandy, cordial, rum, gin. beer, ! wine of a hundred kinds. fermented grape juice and the hundreds of soda fountain concoctions. bubbling. spar kling vichies, sharp tasting carbonat- ed waters. anything and everything : except the pure article. i In addition to these mistakes the old dieticians have told him for a bundred years not to drink with his meals, the hypostasis of these good old teachers being that water diluted the gastric Juice. Modern science shows that this is the very thing that should be done; that man does not take enough water with his food. The normal human body is composed ; of 66 per cent water, and the average i meal is composed of only 25 to 30 per cent water. [f this difference is not made up by drinking pure water, then the stomach calls to its ald a large | amount of gastric juice. which robs the body of its normal amount of moisture and sours and ferments the food. Ev- ery meal. therefore. should be compos- ed of 66 per cent water, but the liquid should be water. nothing hut water. Tobacco and Liquer. The tobacco and liquor habits are probably the most universal and the most injurious vices of civilized peuple. Liquor is a stimulant that not only dethrones the reason. but poisons the body, and thus the heart action is quickened In the effort of nature to oxidize and cast out these poisons, while tobacco is a sedative which par alyzes, as it were. and slows down the action of the heart and the general cir- culatory and vital processes. All the mistakes and errors above re cited are difficult, troublesome, expen: sive and worse than useless. Man's health would be as much superior to what it now Is as pure water is supe rior to beer and whisky If he would obey the simple laws of his organiza. tion, and his period of life wonid grad- ually increase nntil in a few genera- tions he could live out his natural riod of 200 years if he would obey three great fundamental laws natural eating. natural exercise satural hreathing. A mother in New York, | tain thing that people with obstinate log Jail. in agony at the bronchitis, bleeding at the discovery that she was a consumptive and emaciation, conditions gad tad ga HER) Ios ioiized vor ky nea mption ha So in ve per- | te and permanently cured by the use : she caught him in her arms and they | of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical . died together. Consumption Js not her- EE —— editary. Consumption been cured, a Wonders Where He's At. fact which has been proven in autopsies S— in which the show the healedscars | The last heard from Gen. Felix Diaz he of tuberculosis. Hope should never be | seemed not to be certain whether he was up a tree or in a hole. Clothing. Fashionable Models in FALL SUITS AMET hi Jie There's a distinction in the clean-cut, slen- der lines of these garments. They offer the individuality of style that appeals to the dis- criminating man. Moderate prices an at- tractive feature. Good Suits at $12 The Best at $25 FAUBLE'’S The Up-to-Date Store. The Pennsylvania State College. : EE The : Pennsylvania : State : College EDWIN ERLE SPARKS, Ph.D., L.L. D., PRESIDENT. Established and maintained by the joint action of the United States Government and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania FIVE GREAT SCHOOLS—Agriculture, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Mining, and Natural Science, offering thirty-six courses of four years each—Also courses in Home Economics, Industrial Art and Physical Education—TUITION FREE to both sexes; incidental charges mod- erate. First semester ns middle of September; second semester the first of February; Summer for Teachers about the third Monday of June of each year. For catalogue, bulletins, announcements, etc., address | YE 57-26 THE REGISTRAR, State College, Pennsylvania. : : ~~ A ———— m—— — A ——— Gasoline Engines. Jacobson Gasoline Engine For all Power Purposes. THE BELLEFONTE ENGINEERING COMPANY stands back of these machines and guarantees them to give satisfactory service. - Cut shows stan- dard engine on skids. Can be furnished on Hand Trucks or Two-Horse DISTRIBUTORS The Bellefonte Engineering Co., 58-26 BELLEFONTE, PA. ~ FOUNDERS and MACHINISTS. RR
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