_— Bellefonte, Pa., November 14, 1913. HE GOT HIS PRICE. In Fact He Had to Have It and For a Very Good Reason. Tody Hamilton bad an experience with an editor of a weekly paper in Michigan when he was general press representative with the Barnum & Bailey show that guve him a new view of tinance. The big show was billed to appear at Owosso, Mich, and the contract agent with the No. 1 advertising car had falled to come to terms with the editor of a weekly at a little junction point twenty miles distant Hamilton went to the little town, sought out the editor and prepared copy for a double column advertisement. “I'll give you $10 and twenty tickets for two weeks’ service in your puper. two colnmusx, mostly cuts,” said Ham flton to the editor “Oh, no. rou won't! You'll give me | $63 or the advertisement won't go,” replied the editor coolly “Sixty-three dollars! Great Scott!” roared Hamilton “That's more than your infernal paper is woklth. | never give more than $10 and twenty tickets for our stuff in any country weekly Man, you're crazy, stark mad!" All efforts at persuasion failed. The editor remained obdurate. It was $63 or nothing [Finally in despair Hamii- ton exclaimed: “Why do you make it $u3* You might as well make it $163. It's just as unreasonable.” “I'll tell you, friend.” replied the edi. tor calmly *l1 have a note coming due shortly for just that amount, and you have got to pay it” Hamilton did. for he needed the ad- vertising in that particular weekly, and the editor knew it.—New York Sun. PLAGIARISM. Only a Crime When One Filches From the Commonplace. Plagiarize all you please, provided you steal from the right sources, for the secret of individuality Is familiar. ity with the masters. The great geun- fuses were meant to be objects of plagiarism. To be plain, the more yon absorb of a first class mind the more your own originality is fed. Plagia- rism is only a crime when it. is a theft of commonplaces from mediocre sources. Let the young musician soak full or Beethoven, Wagner, Mozart and Men- delssohn. That is the surest way for him to find himself To absorb comic opera music ix the way to smother, lose and kill himself. Let the young preacher preach Bush. nell, Robertson and Brooks So doing. he will come to preaching himself. As for writers, there is truth in the advice given by a great man that the best way to acquire a good style 18 to read Addison and exercise oneself in endeavoring to rewrite him You cannot plagiarize the Bible, nor Shakespeare, nor Homer, por Dante. nor Milton These have ceased to be men: they are humanity. You can plagiarize Shaw, or Brete Harte, or the last “best seller To isolate oneself from the mas ters is vot the road to originality; it is the road to vulgarity “Few English authors,” says Ham- merton, “studied past literature more willingly than Shelley and Tennyson. and none are more original” -Frank Crane in Woman's World. : Prehistoric Man In Belgium. Prehistoric man bas been traced in several periods in Belgium, and M | Putot, a Belgian geogogist, has wade a novel attempt to estimate the popu. | lation at different stages. Ib the lower Aurignacian period five of Belgiums' numerous caves seem to have been in’ babited, their capacity being fifty to sixty persons In the Magdalenean period the population was probably sixty. Retreat of the ice permitted | leaving the shelters at the close of | this period. nnd the settlers on the | banks of the lakes may soon have! auinbered 100 or 1530 The coming of | the Cervides forests perhaps developed | a population of LOO, which way have! increased to 4.000 or 5,000 at the be winning of the polished stoue age — New York 'ress Whist. Whist undoubtedly ix derived from the old gnme of trumps. which has «a purely English lineage There 1s no record of the origin of this game nor of its development into ruff and bon ors. which was the parent of whist The earliest reference to it is believed to be In a sermon of Latimer about the year 1529 The name probably 1s derived from the “hist” or “silence which cloxe attention to play demands of the players. Glasgow's Pavements. According to an excellent custom In Glasgow, before any street Is paved or repaved all city departinents that may be likely to open the street ure comwnnicated with so as to give them an cpportunity to exsinine cheir pipes or make necessary repairs, alterations or renewils hefore the paving is laid. —~Chicago News While There's Life Mrs. Matehem - Forty years old, Mr. Singleton. and never been married. Dear me! But surely you have not given up all hope? Singleton—No, in deed! | hope | am safe for another —— | —Westminster Gazette. forty years. anyway —Boston Tran seript * PANGOLINS OF AFRICA. It is perhaps just us well to know what a pangolin is, although one is not likely to meet it outside of Africa or the London zoological gardens. The latter establishment has one of these rare mammals and is very proud of it. This specimen is of the particular- ly rare variety with the rather inele- gant given name of “white bellied.” The pungolin is a sort of anteater. whose body is covered with scales, Al- | though it is 1 mammal, a stranger ask- ed to make nn offhand diagnosis would | certainly call it a lizard. The white bellied pangolin trains with the owl and bats and sleeps dur ing the daytime. ‘When sleeping it is rolled up into an object about the size of a large croquet bail, and in this po- + sition, owing to its plating of pointed scales, Is about as easy to attack or handle as a hedgehog. ants, but in captivity it thrives on chopped raw ment and eggs. It is ar- | boreal and a wonderful climber with its clawed feet and prehensile tail. It seems to have no value to the hu- | man race except as a curiosity, al-! though perhaps the natives in Africa eat it as they do most everything else that by any stretch of the imagination can be called edible—worms, ants, lizards, snakes, ete., ad nauseam. —New York Post. ENGLAND'S CURIOUS WELL. its Water Never at the Same Level For Two Consecutive Minutes. Two miles out from Settle, on the main road between that town and In- gleton, Yorkshire, England, there is to be found one of the most curious of natural phenomena in the shape of the famous ebbing and flowing well of Gig- gleswick. A small, unpretentious little struc- ture, scarcely to be distinguished from the ordinary trough of water to be seen on many of our country roads, It Is yet one of the most quaint and fascinating spectacles one could hope to see. As | the name implies, the well has the na- ture of a tide. It ebbs and flows con- tinually, though by no means with reg- ularity. Sometimes the privileged traveler will see the oblong stone basin filled with clear water: then. even as he gazes into its pellucid depths, the wa- ter gradually sinks until the trough is half empty. or it may be more. There is barely time to wonder at this strange thing ere. with a rush and a whirl, the trough is again full. The ebb and flow continue with more or less marked ef- fect. and the water is never at the same leve! for two consecutive min- utes. Sometimes the outflow has scarcely begun before the basin again fills, but at other times the trough is almost emptied. - Wide World Maga- zine. When Women Knew Not Golf. | A correspondent sends the Glasgow Herald some anecdotes of that period, not xo long ngo, when women knew nothing of golf One Indy, making sympathetic conversation at dinner, sitld to a keen golfer: “1 often see you in your red cont. Do yon need many dogs to play golf? A younger lady suid she knew exactly how the game was played “They get what they call a caddier to hunt about in the grass till they tind a round stone, und then they hit it into n rabbit hole” A third lady. who had evidently enjoyed a near- er view of the game, said: “It is play- ed by two men. One Is a gentleman and the other is a common man The common man sticks a ball on a lump of dirt, and the gentleman knocks it off!" | An Indignant Artist. | Haydon. the painter, was much dis- gusted when he visited London in 1846 | at the time when two of his finest: pictures were being shown at the | Egyptian hall, and the public thronged | into another room where General Tom ; Thumb was on view. “They rush by | thousands to see Tom Thumb.” wrote | the disappointed painter in his diary. | “Their eyes ure open. but their sense is shut. It is an insanity. a rabies, a madness, a furor, a dream!” Another entry later on runs: “Tom Thumb had ' 12,000 people Inst week, R. R. Haydon | 13314 (the half a little gir. Exquisite | taste of the English people!” Browning's Pauline. The first edition of Browning's “Paul. | ine” was sold at auction for $2,400, yet | not only did Browning receive nothing for it originally, but be would have withdrawn it from print If it had been possible. Yet so highly did Rossetti | think of this despised masterpiece | that, not being able to find a copy else- where, he went to the British museum library and spent several laborjous days copying it word for word. Wasteful, Grasper (a very careful manm—No, 1 should never allow my only daughter to marry a journalist. He always wastes one side of the paper. And still less should she wed a poet. He doesn’t even go to the end of the line.— Exchange. Effective Method. Mrs. Newed (to dear friend)—What's the secret of getting a new gown out of hubby after he refuses once? Mra. Wiley—If at first you don’t succeed ery again. —Judge. Few, but Costly. “Were there many doctors at the consultation? “Oh, not so mauy aly shes E380, 600 worth.”—Life, The sharp ! pointed scales give it somewhat the appearance of an “animated fir cone.” Its natural food appears to be white | CURIOUS DUELS. Which the Weapons Se- lected Were Avalanches. | An extraordipary duel was fought ! near Mont Blanc in France. Two | young men who had fallen in love with the same girl arranged to tight a duel, | with nature as decider of the result. ; Selecting a part of that mountainous | district, many thousand feet up, where . avalanches are known to fall at fre- . quent intervals, the lovers agreed to ' take it in turns to stand for a given time In the most dangerous spot tha: could be found. The idea was that ' when one was killed by an avalanche . the other should be free to propose | to the girl whom they both loved. In this case the idea became a fact. This is not the only instance on rec- ord of a duel by avalanche. A few | years ago two Iatlians, named Guetta . and Sorato, decided to test fate in this , manner, and also for the love of a woman, For three mornings they tempted na- ture, but nothing serious happened. On the fourth day Guetta was knocked down by a falling avalanche, but not | much hurt. Then it was that thelr : food supply gave out, and they return- ' ed home to zet some more. By this time the police had come to hear of their strange duel, and threatened them both with imprisonment. So the un- daunted rivals settled their differences in another and less adventurous way. They drew lots for their lady love. Sorato won. and after Guetta had let the village he was married to the giv | of his choice. — London Answers. STRENGTH OF A LIMPET. Its Sticking Power Largely Due to At- mospheric Pressure. Every one ix familinr with the say- ing “to stick like a limpet.” but there are not so many who know how fit is that a limpet is able to stick as it does to the rocks upon which it passes its ' existence. The creature is able by means of the central portion of its body, which ean be raised independent. Iy of the edge or frill which surrounds it, to create a vacuum much in the same way that a piece of soft wet leather cun be made to adhere to a smooth surface by pressing out all the air. Thus the so called “strength” of the limpet ix largely due to atmos pheric pressure. It is not entirely so. however, for if they are closely examined it will be seen that the shells accommodate themselves around the edges to the surface of the rock upon which the limpet ix located. and if removed to another spot the edge of the shell will probably be found to be a very bad fit and the creature's power of adhesion somewhat lessened. If taken by sur prise with a smart sidelong blow even a large limpet is easily enough dislodg- ed, but if it is given the slightest warn- ing its power of suction is instantly brought into play and very often con- siderable force is then necessary be- fore it can be detached. — London Standard. An Unburied Picture. Rossetti secured permission in 1869 to reopen the coffin of his wife in order to secure the manuscripts of some poems which he bad buried with her seven years before. Some such incident might bave oc curred in connection with J. M. W. Turner if his desire to be buried wrap- ped up in his own painting of “Car- thage"” bad been carried out. There was some difliculty in selling the paint- ing. and the artist kept the canvas by him. He always said he would be wrapped in it when be was buried and even went so far as to ask Chantrey if as his executor he would fulfill his ' wishes or that point. “No doubt.” answered the sculptor, “1 shall bury you rolled up in your . picture if it is one of the conditions of | your will, but | would take you up next day and unroll you!" Found a Way, Teacher—Now, children. try to figure Just this once without counting on your fingers. How much is three and four. Peper! (looking under the bench after a long waithh—Seven. Teacher— Right. Four and six. Peper! (again peeping under the bench)—Ten Teach: er—Hold up there. you little rascal! I'll teach you to count on your fingers! (Takes Peperi’s hands and clasps them | behind his back. Now, then. five and three? Peper! (after another long look ' | under the bench —-Eight Teacher— Well, how did you manage to do that? Peperl— With my toes, teacher. — Fli- | gende Blatter. ! The Brightness He Saw. | A man who died recently in the | north of England and had been Being a dishonest life under the cloak of re- Hgion, wishing to pose as a good man to the last, said to those around him: | “All is bright before mn!" “Aye,” said one of those present, whom he had swindled out of a sum of | money, *“an’ in about ten minnits’ theau'll be near enoof to see th’ blaze!” i —Manchester Guardian. | The Brighter Side. | “Well,” chuckled the optimistic fail- | ure, “I've got one satisfaction.” “Aad what's that?’ asked the sym- pathetic friend. “If 1 had succeeded | should prob- abiy have made a nuisance of myself | telling people that 1 was a self made ' man.”—Detroit Free Press. Wonderful Printing. Bacon—They say Dauber does some | wonderful work. Egbert—Yes. | un-' derstand he painted some bananas green, and in a month they all turned yellow. Do one thing at a time, and the big things rst -Lincoln . approached the clerk and inquired: | CIGAR BOXES. | There Is a Tremendous Trade In These | Cedar Wood Receptacles. Cigar boxes are a negligible quantity | | to the average smo¥ar who stands be- | fore a tastily dressed showcase and | buys a “five cent straight” or a i | for a quarter.” Few of even the inveterate smokers ever stop to of the number of these boxes used the United States during a year, from where they come. Thirty millions is the total number of boxes supplied to cigar manufactur- | | ers in the United States. Many mil- Hons more enter the country filled with | foreign rolled cigars from Cuba, Porto | Rico and the Philippines. Manufactur. | ers declare that the boxes made from | | Spanish cedar, a wood which is rarely ' | seen outside of Cuba, is the best for | packing the seductive weed. Various woods have been tried. but | wherever used connoisseurs have pro- | | tested that even the finest of cigars | were spoiled by putting them in boxes | made from other wood than Spanish | cedar. This wood always retains the flavor of a good cigar, and some assert that it greatly improves the flavor. | The reason given is that the Spanish | cedar grows only in that soil which | produces the finest quality of what is | known as Havana tobacco.—Washing. | ton Star, | NO NEED TO NAME HER. | | The Relative Who Never Abandons One Afflicted With Insanity. “It's a funny thing about a lunatic's relatives,” said the superintendent of | an insane asylum. **There are rellable statistics about the way a lunatic’s | relatives stand by him. ! “The relative who stands by a lunatic least. who stops visiting him in the asylum first of all, is a brother. The next relative to drop off is a wife. That sounds bard, but it's true. Don't count on your wife if you are going to | become a lunatic. Next husbands drop off. A little truer than wives hus. bands are, hut only a little. Next fa- thers abandon the lunatic, nest sisters, “One relative never abandons him. Till she dies, or he dies, she comes regularly on visiting day. bringing un- derwear and tles. cakes and tobueco— | provided, of conrse, that the lunatic's a male. If it's a female this relative Is equally faithful. And even thongh as sometimes happens, the poor, mad | creature hates her, curses her, tries to strike her when she visits him, she still remain faithful. When her visits cense they cease for only one reason— death. | “Nor do | need to tell you which rela- tive this one is" —=New York Tribune. Origin of Kina's Counsel, King's counsel has the great Bacon as the founder of the order He had no inclination to be made a “serjeant” and persuaded Queen Elizabeth to ap- point him “queen's counsel estraordi- nary.” James Il. granted to Bacon a pat. ent, confirming his status as “one of our counsel learned in the law.” as K. C's are still officially designated. An annual salary of £40 was originally attached to the position and was re- ceived hy all “silks” down to 1831, when parliament abolished the salary, together with the allowance for sta- tionery and bags. The receipt of » salury by K. C's meant that they had accepted an office of profit under the crown and those who were wmem- bers of parliament had to seek re-elec- tion.— London Tatler. | As Koreans Shop. Shopping in Korea is a very grave and solemn task and occupies the mus- ter of the house the greater part of the day. In the market here he pur- chases his provisions. cooking utensils, | linen suits, hats. sandals, tobacco, and | the native drink. a liquor obtained from fermented rice. Only one article of the same kind is purchased from a single store. It would be an offense against Korean etiquette to buy a ' dozen at a time. as this would de- plete the stock too quickly and give the shopkeeper the trouble and work of restocking before he was ready! It will therefore be seen that wholesale orders are not welcomed in this odd country: “little and often” appears to be the Golden Rule in buying.— Wide World Magazine. ! i i or —— Out For a Dicker. i The old fashioned farmer, who lked nothing more than to dicker, bobs up’ now and then to rub sthows with the moderns. In a departinent store re- cently one of the sid fushioned kind “How much are you ssking for rub- | ber boots today?” Then, when he was told the price, he | looked wise and queried: { “And how much are you gettin'?'— New York Globe. | A Concession. “My wife refused to recite the usual speeches in the marriage ceremony.” sald the worried looking man. “That showed originality.” “Yes. But It hasn't prevented her from allowing the lawyer to use the customary phraseology ia applying for alimony.” —~Washington Star. Regular. “Is your father a regular attendant at church?” “Yes. He goes once a yoar. whether he thinks he needs it or not."--Chicago Record-Herald. —— Well Trained, “How long have you been married? “8o long that | can’t remember when 1 had a will of my own.” — Detroit Free There 18 nothing at ail !'n life except what we pul there, - Wma Swalchina LYON & COMPANY. FURS. FURS. Good Furs at low prices are unusual at the beginning of the season. The continued warm weather has had something to do with the special low prices. Our assortment is the largest, everything new in Neck Pieces and Muffs to match. We are showing the Brown Fur sets in the long new scarf effects with the large pillow muff, Black and Red Fox sets, animal Scarf and Two-skin Muffs. White Fox set, Two-skin Scarf and Muff. Real Brook Mink sets in all the newest shapes in the Two-animal Scarf and Muffs. Childrens and Misses Fur sets in white, black and brown, in all the new shapes. Single Muffs, in black and brown, in barrel, envelope, and pillow shapes. LaVogue Coats and Suits La Vogue Coats and Suits. We are showing special new models in our Coat and Suit de- partment for November. Blankets and Comfortables. Comfortables and Blankets from the cheapest to the best, at prices that will interest all thrifty buyers. UNDERWEAR. Men's, Womens’ and Children’s Underwear in fleeced and wool. In all sizes at remarkably low prices. Lyon & Co. .... Bellefonte The Centre County Banking Company. Strength and Conservatism are the banking qualities demanded by careful depositors. With forty vears of banking ex- perience we invite you to become a depositor, assuring you of every courtesy and attention. We pay 3 per cent interest on savings and cheerfully give you any information at our command concerning investments you may desire to make. The Centre County Banking Co. Bellefonte, Pa. The First National Bank. We have received a limited number of Wall Maps of Centre County Showing State Highways, County Roads, Railroads, Etc. We shall be glad to give them to our friends while they last. They cannot be sent by mail. The First National Bank, Bellefonte, Pa.
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