Beweif Mihwan Bellefonte, Pa., November 28, 1913. Famous Flags. There are ouly a few Old Giorles In the Annapolis collection of 173 his toric tugs, but each is counected with some incident that gives it the honor of its present position. There is the thirty-one starred flag that dew be side the sunrise flag of Japan when the close shut kingdom were pried open for American colninerce, unt Charles Haywood defended so gal lautly in 1847 at San Jose, Lower Cai ruin. is there to recall the story of fiow he and his tiny garrison held an old mission Louse for over three months against an overwhelming Mex- fean force. Here, minders of our history's saddest war. Side by side in the one case are draped | the ensign of the Union man-of-war Kearsage umd the stars and bars of | the ensign of the Confederate cruiser Albemarle. Another treasure is the ensign of the battleship Maine. which was recovered fourteen years after the catastrophe in Havana bharbor.— | Christian Herald. Diamonds and Wealth, A famous French scientist’ estimates | that all the diamonds recovered in the | history of the world could be packed In a box three feet wide, six feet high and eight feet long and would weigh less than thirty tons. It seems almost beyond the power of mind to grasp the fact that a treasure worth more than a billion dollars in gold could be contained in so small a space. The high value of the gems is still more strikingly illustrated by the fact that gold to the value of a billion dollars would weigh more than 4,000, 000 pounds. of money occupy a large place in civili- gation. But when one takes into con- sideration how far diamonds are from constituting the real wealth of nations or a measure of brains, of true social standing or worth while success in | life the enormous expenditure of hu- man energy represented by the pile of gems valued at a billion dollars is ' an appalling waste.—Chicago Herald. The Poison In Poison Ivy, Poison ivy has long been a mystery both to scientists and laymen. Why and in what manner it causes the pe culiar rash and irritating inflammation have puzzled both botanists and phy siclans. But Dr. Minande of Paris says his study of the plant shows that poison ivy contains prussic acid. This Is found principally in the young leaves and buds. In older leaves there is very little of it. In three and one-half ounces of young leaves there is about a quarter of a grain of the acid. As with other plants in which prus sic acid is found. the polsonous sub stance does not exist in its perfect form. but develops as soon as the leaves are bruised. a chemical action being set up through the union of an enzyme with a gincosid. They Don’t Want Strangers. In the northwestern part of Switzer: land, far from the tourist's path, is a little town, Selzach, where for more than 250 years watchmaking hus been the chief industry “There are no ma- chines in the place for the production of watch parts—the men work as did | their fathers and grandfathers.” says the Berlin Post. “A feature of the place is the Passion play. produced every summer by the watchmakers and the members of their families These simple pecple have succeeded in main- taining for their play a modest dignity | and have not allowed it to become commercial. information that the town ‘cannot ac commodate many strangers.’ ” . Careful John. A rural storekeeper was greatly both. | ered by rats which infested his bufld- ing, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Also he possessed a valuable watch- dog which guarded the premises at night. One night, just before he locked up, he scattered poison around the place and left a note on the counter for the clerk who opened the store in the morning. The clerk found the note as was in tended. But he nearly dropped through the floor when be read: “Jerry—You take the poison in the! morning so the dog won't get it. There | is some in the cellar too. John.” 1 The Signal. i “How do you endure listening to | Bliggins' funny stories? He spoils them by laughing at them himself.” “That's what | like about him. You don't have to listen In order to laugh at the right time. All you have to do | is to wait till he gives the signal.”— Washington Star. Amended. An English official once said to Father Healy, the famous Irish wit: “Healy, I've got a crow to pick with you.” “Make it a turkey.” said Father Healy, as quick as a wink. “and I'll Join you at 6 sharp.” Prints Full Editions. “Has Jack ever kissed you?" “Never once.” “I know that. Jack isn't given to taking single kisses.”—Boston Tran- script. High Praise, “Marie, you certainly are a fright!” “I knew you would (ike this gown. Isn't it too hideously fashionable for doors of that island | The old tag that Lieuten- | too, ure a few re | Diamonds as a measure The few notices of the Saturday performances which one sees | In the neighboring places contain the words 7" —Kaneas City Journal a I A RS. i tllicit Gold Buying, | Most people have heard of I D. B. | (illicit diamond buying), a crime which | in South Africa is punished with penal | servitude on the breakwater at Cape Town. The Rand. however, has the lesser known offense of I. G. B. (illicit gold buying). Cousidering that in the Rand mines only a few peuny weights of gold £0 to a ton of quartz, it is obvious that the miner does not get much chance of stealing the precious metal. When does the gold thief get his opportunity ? The pieces of quartz are ground into dust by powerful hammers known as “stamps.” Water then washes the dust over inciined plates coated with | amalgam. The gold instantly com- bines with the mercury in the amal- gam, afterward being easily separated | by chemical process. It is of this gold laden amalgam that the « :houest employee will scrape off por.ons which. though small, will | mount up to a good bit of gold in time | —Pearsou’s Weekly. Well Qualified. The drapery magnate wus bombard- ing the applicant with the usual ques- tions “Speuk French? “Yes.” “Good salesman?" “Yes. “Can you tell a good lie?” “Oh, yes!” “Well, I'll zive you a start.” The young man got on famously for a few weeks, until one fine morning a | | dainty Parisian damsel approached him and sweetly stated her require | ments in the native tongue. The poor | young man was flabbergasted. not | comprehending a single word. Five | minutes later he was facing his indig- | nant employer. | “This is scandalous, sir When I em. ployed you did you not tell me that sou could speak French?” i “Phe | | | i | i { i ~ Aged Preachers In Germany, The shamefully inadequate provision 1 | Soothing. “Then yon refuse to eat my first bis- made for the support of the aged min | cuit? isters of the gospel of most denomina- tions in this country is In marked con don’t want to eat it trast to the superb provision made for your monogram eagraved on it { *1 don’t refuse to eat it. my dear. | : I wish to have | and them in Germany. There, it is stated. | then bang it upon my wateh chain.” — the young minister gets a winimum Louisville Courier-Journal. salary. usually $500 and a parsonage. This salary is increased every few years until at sixty-five the minister i | Defining It, | Instructor (at night schooh—Give a | even if he has changed his parish, re | sentence with the word “metaphysi- celves $2500, the largest compensation | ian” in it. Khaggy Haired Pupil—On permissible. to which Is to be added! bis way home Mr Jopes metaphysi- the use of the parsonage and certain | rian. - Chicago Tribune. fees given him. At sixty-five the min ister can withdraw on a pension if he shall so elect or if the parish shall so desire. or he can continue by general consent five years longer. On with drawing he receives as a pension for the rest of his life two-thirds of his last and highest salary. On his death his widow receives an adequate pen sion for the remainder of her days and also ench of her children until their sixteenth or eighteenth year.—Chris | tian Herald The Idea of Suggestion. tichard Munsfleld once said that when he was a lad in London he often nearly starved. There was a certain bakeshiop where he would go and feast upon the odors coming from the door That boyhood notion znve him the iden of putting those lines in his play. “Benn Brummel.” about “dining on the names | of things" —n suggestion he used with i | mildly replied the culprit: | “but did you not also ask me if I could tell a good lie?'—London Tit-Bits. Significance of Small Duties. Don’t object that your duties are so insignificant They are to be reckoned of infinite significance and alone im portant to you. Were it but the more perfect reguniation of your apartments, the sorting away of your clothes and trinkents, the arranging of your papers =*Whatsoever thy hand tindeth to do. | do it with all thy might” and all thy worth and constancy your duties are of evidently higher. Mneh more, if wider scope: if you have brothers, sis- | ters, u father. a mother, weigh earnest. | ly what claim does lie upon you on Le half of each and consider it as the one thing needful to pay them more and more honestly and nobly what you owe. is if one can do that? and steady disconnection and extine- What matter how miserable one : That is the sure tion of whatsoever miseries one has in | this world. Thomas Carlyle. Rochefort In Court. Henri Rochefort went to court of- tener, it is said. as plaintiff, defendant or witness than any other man in Par is. Partly thix was because of his ur ticles, partly because of his continual dealings with the picture dealers, with | whom he often disagreed In his later ; years, moreover, he was often called as a “witness” by parties in political suits, not because he had any pertinent testimony to present, but because be had a happy faculty when on the wit ness stand of making the government. | the police and all that set appear a set {of fools or scoundrels The French code of procedure allows a witness much more latitude in “telling his own , story” than does ours And Roche | fort's stories, whether relevant or not, were sure to have a sting in them for | the folk fv authority.— New York Sun Musical Marvels. It has been said of Dr. Hans von Bulow and Rubinstein that, if every note of music worth preserving had | been destroyed. they could between | them have reproduced every line of fit Von Bulow once gave a series of twen ty piano recitals without a line of mu sic and striking approximately 1.250, 000 notes, each of which had to be re tained in its exact position in his mem: (ory: and Verdi once, for a wager, play ed faultlessly an entire opera, drawn "by lot. which he had composed four teen years earlier and of which he was not allowed to see a note. Nice For the Cows. Retired Haberdasher (late of Lon don)—Now. then, ‘Enry. I'm goin’ to have a large party ‘ere next week, and I shall expect. an unlimited quantity of milk. cream and butter. After that the cows can ‘ave a rest till me and Mrs. P. returns from the contenong.- London Punch. London Juries. England has been investigating its Jury system and finds that charges of unfairness against juries are no new thing. One old bishop remarked. “Lon don juries are so prejudiced that théy would find Abel guilty of murdering Cain.” Vindictive. Ethel-Yes., | know Billy is very wild, but I'm going to marry him to re- form him Kate—! told that boy a dreadful punishment would overtake him.—New Haven Register. He Got On. Miliyuns—When ! marrlea your mother | was earning $10 a week. Two years later | bought out my employer. Daughter—And put in a cash regis ter!—Town Topics Cf all work producing results, nine Phiipotts. powerful 4 amatic effect. Thix iden of suggestion has done many a good deed. About ninety years ago a thirsty man walked up Wall street—I understand the habit of get ting a thirst no longer prevails there, or maybe it is only the manner of al laying it—and pumped a tin cup full of water from his own well. “Not so good us | used to get from my father’s well.” or something to that effect he remarked to his wife. “A pretty idea for a song.” said she, and so he sat down and In an hour wrote “The Old Oaken Bucket.”—Philadelphia Ledger Votaries of Church Bells. The church bell has its voraries Tennyson sung of “the mellow lin-inn lone of the evening bells.” And du you remember that experience of “Henry Ryecroft?' “I once passed » night in a littie warket town where | had arrived tired and went to bed early. [I slept forthwith, but was pres. ently awakened by | knew not what In the darkness there sounded a sort of music, und, as my brain cleared, | was aware of the soft chiming of church bells Why, what hour could it be? I struck a light and looked at my water. Midnight. Then a glow came over me. ‘We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow! Never till then had [ Leard them. And the town in which I slept was Evesham, but a few miles from Stratford-on Avon.” What if those miduight bells had been to me but as any other and I had reviled them for breaking my sleep 7" — London Chronicle. Joke of a Sultan, The sultan of Turkey once played a Joke at the expense of some medical experts at Constantinople. When the plague broke out in his capital the sultan asked If anything was known as to the cause. On being informed that it was to be found in the state of the rinking water, he called at once for six empty bottles, which he had filled in his presence, all from the same one of the palace wells, placed his own seal upon them. and then. without divulging their community of origin. handed all six to a prominent analyst. To his amazement the re port sent in was that four of the sam ples contained plague microbes The fifth was merely putrid water, and the sixth was quite pure Abdul Hamid calmly shrugged his skoulders and kept his thoughts to himself. Would Fill the Bill. Some who have attended councils and associations can appreciate this story of the late Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod of Edinburgh. Going into a room in which was a cage containing a large owl, he surveyed it for a long time. The owl sat unmoved, placid and erect. His mien was dignified, his horus impressive. his eyes cold and observant, his countenance sagacious and critical. At length Norman broke silence, “Man, ye wad mak’ a splendid moderawtor!"—Christian Register. Sentimentalism, “Here's a very good definition of a sentimentalist.” “Let's hear it.” “'A sentimentalist is a person who weeps over a fallen column, but is too lazy to help set it up again.’ "—Bir- mingham Age-Herald. Gifted. “l am convinced,” said Mrs. Meek: ton, “that women are especially quali: fled for the duties of statesmanship.” “Why? “Because most of the women | have known were natural born lecturers.” - Washington Star. His Undertaking. : Young Timeseed—-This term I am going to undertake the study of Latin and Greek. Old Hardfax — H'm! | suppuse them dead languages does need an undertaker.—Chicago News. A Realist, “If there were four flies on the table and | should kill one, how many would be left?" inquired the teacher. “One.” answered a bright little girl ~*“the dead one!” —London Tit-Bits. Model Husband. S8he—My husband has never spoken a harsh word to me in his life. He— Too considerate, eh? She—Oh, mo Too cautious.— London Opinion. | | { | | | | wpiration to its possessor — John Milton. Technical Retirement. “Is vour child tn hed by 8 every evening?” | “Technically, yes. We begin arguing | bout that time ”— Philadelphia Ledger. The modesty of women naturally | mases them shrink from the indelicate | questions, the obnoxious examinations, : and unpleasant local treatments, which | some physicians consider essential in the | treatment of diseases of women. Yet, if | help can be had, it is better to submit to | this ordeal than let the disease grow ana | spread. The trouble is that so often the woman unde: all the annoyance and shame for nothing. Thousands of wom- | en who have been cured by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription write in apprecia- tion of the cure which dispenses with the examinations and local treatments. There is no other medicine so sure and safe for delicate women as “Favorite iption.” It cures debilitating | drains, irregularity and female weakness. | It always helps. It almost always cures | i Medical. Judge for Yourself WHICH IS BETTER—TRY AN EXPERIMENT OR PROFIT BY A BELLEFONTE CITIZEN'S EXPERIENCE. Something new is an experiment. Must be proved to be as represented. The statement of a manufacturer is not convincing proof of merit. But the endorsement of friends is. Now supposing you had a bad back, A , weak, or aching one Would Fou experiment on it? You will read of many so-called cures, Endorsed by strangers from faraway places. It's different when the endorsement comes from home, Easy to prove local testimony. Read this Bellefonte case. Jame H. Rine, 239 W. High St., Belle | fonte, Pa., says: Doan’s Kidney Pills are | certainly a wonde kidney remedy. Ten years ago I first used them and at that time I told in a public statement of benefit they brought. That statement still holds good. I have often urged my friends to try Doan's Kid Pi ney trouble. Whenever | complaining of kidney disorders, I a trial of Boan s The above statement must carry con- viction to the mind of every reader. 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