Bellefonte, Pa., December 12, 1913.
WHERE MONEY IS USELESS.
Ascension Island Has None and Has
No Need For It.
The island of Ascension, in the At-
lantic, belonging to Great Britain, is
of volcanic formation, eight miles by
six in size, and has a population of
about 450. It was uninhabited until the
confinement of Napoleon at St. Helena,
when it was occupied by a small Brit-
ish force. It is 280 miles northwest of
St. Helena. Vast numbers of turtles
are found on its shores, and it serves
as a depot and watering place for
ships.
Ascension is governed by a captain
appointed by the British admiralty.
There is no private property in land,
no rents, no taxes and no use for mon-
ey. The flocks and herds are public
property. and the meat is issued as ra-
tions. So are the vegetables grown on
the farms. When an island fisherman
makes a catch he brings it to the
guardroom, where it is issued by the
sergeant major. Practically the entire
population are sailors. and they work
at most of the common trades. The
muleteer is a Jack tar: so is the gar-
dener; so are the shepherds, the stock-
men, the grooms, masons, carpenters
and plumbers. Even the island trapper
who gets rewards for the tails of rats
is a sailor.
The climate is almost perfect, and
anything can be grown.—London Fam- |
ily Herald.
ELEPHANT SERVANTS. |
An Easy Solution of the Nursemaid
Problem In Bengal.
In “Tigerland” the author relates an |
extraordinary comedy witnessed by a
friend who was sitting in the veranda ,
of his tent in Bengal watching his ele-
phants, which were picketed under
some trees a short distance off.
He saw the wife of one of the
mahouts emerge from her tentlike
shelter with an infant In her arms.
She took it close up to a huge “tusker,”
to whom she made a low salaam: then
put the sleeping child down before it
and salaamed again. Next she spread |
a blanket on the ground and placed the
baby in the center of it, well within
reach of the tusker's proboscis. Then
salaaming again. more ostentatiously.
went off to the bazaar. !
Presently the child awoke and soon |
began to crawl toward the edge of the
blanket. But when it had gone a foot
or two the elephant, stretching out his
trunk. gently pulled it back to its orig-
inal position. Again and again the
baby attempted similar excursions to
vegiona beyond the blanket's edge, but
always with the same result. Explora-
tion under elephantine supervision
finally proved too dull, and so the child
lay quiet for awhile, gazing up at its
huge nurse, then dropped off peace-
fully to sleep again.
Social Calls In China.
It is difficult for a Chinaman to mas-
ter the English pronunciation, and this
accounts in great measure for the prev-
alence of pidgin English. The letter
r is almost always sounded like 1, so
we have ki-lin or kleen for green and
lain for rain. “Too muchee lain just
now" Is often heard. “just now" being
a favorite expression to denote the im-
mediate present. In calling upon a
lady one says to the hoy thouse serv-
ant of any age from sixteen to sixty).
“Missee have got?’ and the answer
comes, “Have got" or “No have got."
according to whether she is in or out.
This recalls the time honored. true
story of the lady who called and the
boy reported to his mistress of the
house, “One piecee man down side,
b'long missus.” Scarcely complimen-
tary to the “piecee man!"—Amy W.
Hotchkiss in National Magazine,
Clock Story Variation.
A very young enthusiast at the Cen-
tral telegraph office, says the Manches-
ter Guardian, really wanted to know
about things. and, being unable to gain
certain technical information from his
colleagues, he decided to unscrew one |
of the elaborate instruments from the
desk and take it home to examine it
and find out for himself how it work-
ed. Some weeks later a box of pieces
was returned to the engineer in chief
with the following note: “1 am not
quite certain how to put the itclosed
instrument together. so have inclosed
8s. for the mechanic's time. It took
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Where George Eliot Went to School.
The ancient cottage at Griff, War-
wickshire. in which nearly a century
ago was held the first school attended
by George Eliot, is situated two miles |
from Nuneaton. exactly opposite the,
entrance gates of Griff House. which
for twenty years was the residence of |
George Eliot's father. Robert Evans, |
the original Adam Bede, and subse- |
quently tenanted by Isaac Evans, the |
Tom Tulliver of “The Mill on the
Floss.” —London Times.
Impostor and Malefactor,
Carlyle used to tell of an old Scotch- |
woman who. speaking to her family, |
sald: “There's twa sons. baith doin’
weel in Glasgie. T'ane's an impostor,
and t'ither's a malefactor.” It was
found that she meant *upholsterer”
and “manufacturer.”
Where the Cost Comes.
“Does it take much money to send a
boy to college?" asked the boob.
#No."” replied the cheerful idiot. “It's
keeping him there that takes the coin,”
~Oincinnati Pnqnirver. |
' gives it as “at least thirty feet.”
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VERDICT OF THE AUDIENCE.
Ordeal Which Budding Actors In Nor-
mandy Must Face.
It is not without fear that an actor
makes his debut in the capital of Nor-
mandy. A debut in the French prov-
inces is by no means an easy ordeal to
pass through. An actor has a right to
choose three different parts, says Mme.
Rhea, which must be played inside of a
month.
The first and second debuts have no
significance; he may be received coldly,
critically or enthusiastically—it has no
meaning: the third one decides his
fate. That night after the play the
manager, very solemn in his dress suit,
appears before the atidience and says:
“Monsieur or Mlle, So-and-so has made
his or her debut. The management
wishes to know the verdict of the pub-
He”
Then he produces a placard on
which is printed in large letters the
word “Accepted.” If the actor pleases
the audience applauds: if not, it hisses
until the manager produces another
placard with the word “Refused.”
Then the applause starts again, with-
out regard for the feelings of the poor,
broken hearted girl or boy who has
been waiting in the wings for the ver-
dict of that inhuman jury called the
public.— Argonaut.
LEAP OF A KANGAROO.
Never Over Four Feet High, but May
Be Thirty Feet Broad.
Precisely how far a big kangaroo
can jump is a matter of some dispute.
A writer In Cassell's Natural His-
tory says that they can leap “over ten,
fifteen or more feet.” Mr. H. R. Francis
man’ to cover nineteen feet at each
‘ bound for full half a mile.” and he
believes that he does leap “an average
of full twenty feet.”
Mr. Lydekker is of opinion that the
great kangaroo leaps “not far short of
thir*v feet,” and Mr. Thomas Ward
Prob-
ably Mr. Rudyard Kipling's “twenty-
five feet to a bound” is near enough
as a general rule.
‘tells us that he has “known an ‘old
| Swede manages to consume 84 pints of
But with this more than Olympic
leaping power they seem commonly
either unable or unwilling to rise any
height from the ground. Their spe-
cialty Is broad jumping only. Mr.
Ward says that they “cannot clear an
obstacle greater than four feet,” and a
five foot fence is commonly high
enough for any kangaroo paddock.—
London Times.
Memory In Old Age.
Ways of the memory in later life ex-
i it is found that the German consumes
' 9% of spirits.
ercised the famous Dr. Jowett of Ox- |
ford when he reached it, but he found |
consolation. *At fifty-five you fail to
remember things—words, pictures, per-
sons—after six months or a year's in-
terval. Yet the circle of objects which
you recognize is ever becoming wider,
and this power of recognition is a
great gift if cultivated. There is the
greatest value iu ‘forgotten knowl-
edge.’ Instead of the stores of mem-
ory oppressing you, with a little trou-
ble you can recall all that is useful or
necessary.” And to Lady Wemyss, re-
covering from illness, he wrote: “Like
you, I read a book through and do not
remember a word of it. 1 think, how-
ever, that the reading of the book has
an effect. and if I read it again 1 un-
derstand it better. [I helieve that as
we lose our powers of memory we may
increase the power of reminiscence— |
that is, of recalling what we want in
small quantities for a short time.”
Did the Romans Smoke?
“Why is it that smoking never crept
| sertions are based on the practical
into Roman literature?" I have asked.
To which a correspondent answers that
it has crept. It ix mentioned by Pliny
(N. H. xxvi. 6-16). He records the use
of coltsfoot for smoking and recom-
mends smoking the dried roots and
leaves of this plant as a remedy for ob-
stinate colds and coughs. From this |
the botanical name of the coltsfoot |
(tussilago), which means “cough easer.” |
has been derived. British boys who |
have neither coughs nor colds still
smoke coltsfoot surreptitiously and find
that it makes them satisfactorily sick.
—London Spectator.
Bad Calculation,
John. who was going to bed one
night and having no light, was grop-
ing his way (the bed being one of the
old fashioned kind. with high bed
posts). John, in feeling for the bed
post, missed it with his hand and
struck it with his nose.
“Ach!” he yellel. “That is the first
time I knew my nose was longer than
my arm.”-—National Monthly.
Guessing His Trouble.
“l sometimes feel as if the world
had little use for me—that things would
go on just as well if 1 were out of it.”
“Come, cheer up, old man. Before
this time tomorrow you may meet some
girl who will look just as good to you
as the other one ever did.”—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Bad Form.
Brother—What did you say to that
old chap just new? Sister—I only
thanked him for picking up my bag.
Brother—My dear girl, you must learn
not to be so beastly grateful. It's not
done, you know, nowadays.—London
Punch.
Her Life Long Passion.
A girl baby begins to flirt with men
when she is about two years old. So
far as we can determine she keeps it
up until she i= about ninety.—Albany
Knickerbocker Press.
He & the truiy courageous man who
never desponds.
TOMB OF JONAH.
Moslems Lock Upon it as Sacred and |
Guard It From Intrusion. i
The site of Nineveh is almost per-
fectly level, but adjoining the western
wall are two huge mounds that conceal
the palaces of the greatest kings of
Nineveh. On the lower or southern
mound stand a mosque and a village
of considerable size, says a correspond- |
ent of the Christian Herald. i
The village is named Nebi Yunus, or
the Prophet Jonah, for the mosque
contains the tomb In which Jonah is |
said to have been buried. The age of |
the tomb is uncertain, but it was prob- |
ably built long after the Hebrew proph-
et’'s time. However, (he place is now |
sacred, so sacred that pilgrims from |
afar visit it.
“1 rode up the steep, narrow streets |
of the village to the mosque,” writes |
the Herald's correspondent, “dismount- |
ed und entered the yard. A crowd of |
excited Arabs quickly surrounded me. |
I expizined to a priest that 1 had come
to see the grave of Jonah, and with a
motion of the hand I made him under-
stand that | should reward him. Re- |
moving my shoes, [ followed the priest |
through a dark passageway. !
“Then he pointed to a wall and said
the tomb was just beyond. I wished tc
enter the prayer room, from which the
tomb itself might be seen, but the place
wits considered far too sacred for my
profane feet. The few Christians who
have been permitted to see the tomb
may only look through a small window
into a dark chamber, in which a cloth
covered mound is barely discernible. It
is said that no Moslem will enter the
inner shrine.”
DRINKING IN EUROPE.
Munich Heads the List In the Quantity
of Beer Consumed.
Norwegians are one of the most tem-
perate of nocthern nations, consuming
but 46% pints of beer and 4% of bran.
dy per head of population yearly.
The Dane drinks on the average 156
pints of beer, but little wine, and only
36 pints of brandy each year. The
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beer and 13 of spirits. The Russian
drinks 71% pints of vodka and the same
amount of beer. The Frenchman,
however, takes 100 pints of wine, 15 of
beer, 48 of brandy. The Britisher
soothes himself with 9 pints of whisky
or gin, 3 of claret and 228 of beer.
The Dutchman will drink 54 pints of
beer and 12 of brandy. Taking every
German province to obtain an average,
187% pints of beer, 10% of wine and
In Munich, however,
the average amount per head rises to
850% pints. being the highest of any
province, while the lowest average ob-
tains in the northern province of Al-
satia. Here the inhabitants are satis-
fled with only 144 pints of beer per
head.
The Italian is the least of all addict-
ed to alcoholic beverages, taking only
3 pints of beer. 1%, of alcoholic bever-
ages and 144 of wine per head.—Pear-
son's Weekly.
Star Colors.
Professor Edward C. Pickering of
Harvard has been able to show that
Ptolemy had an excellent eye for color
values; that William Herschel had a
strong sense of red, but was a little
weak on the blues; that the noted
astronomer Sufi, of the tenth century,
was another who had a good color
vision; that of various other ancient
astronomers some were wenk on the
reds and sce on the blues. His as-
certainty that the color of the stars hans
not changed in these centuries. Most
of the old astronomers have left rec-
ords of the colors of the various stars,
and these values he applied to stand-
ards established by taking the aver-
age color value of certain stars given
by a number of Harvard observers.—
Saturday Evening Post.
Able Assistant.
The small son of a clergyman who
was noted for his tiresome sermons
overheard two friends of his father
saying how dry they were and how
hard it was to keep awake during
them. The following Sunday while
the minister was preaching he was
astounded to see his son throwing peb-
bles at the congregation from the gal-
lery. The clergyman frowned angrily
at him, when the boy piped out in a
clear treble voice:
“It’s all right, pop. You go on preach-
ing. I'm keeping them awake.”—Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
The Neglected Negative.
“A young man.” said the ready made
philosopher, “should learn to say ‘no.’ ”
“Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I
feel that my boy Josh ought to take at
least that much trouble. When I ask
him to help around the place he simply
gives me a haughty stare.”—Washing-
ton Star.
Accommodating. :
“John, if I should die I want you to
promise me you wouldn't marry again
within a year at least.”
“All right. Go ahead. I'll promise
anything.” —Chicago Record-Herald.
Our Language.
“80 when you broke the news to her
she went all to pleces?”
“Yes, but it didn't take her long to
collect herself.” --Boston Transcript.
Undesirable.
“Are they denirable tenants?”
“Dear me. no. They're nice people.
but they've got four children." —Detroit
Free Press,
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The path of duty is the way of safety
and the road to honor,
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J. M. KEICHLINE,
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CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
and
tonlanuiagtures an
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
rh BTR
SPRAY
can be secured. Also International Stock
and feed of all kinds. Reed
All kinds of Grain bought office Flour
exchanged for wheat. #: the
has on hand at all times the
high grade flour:
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
47-19 MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
Adtomey avian, |
$5.00 the bottle at your drug-
gists, or sent Parcels post on re-
ceipt of price. Money refunded
if it fails to cure YOU.
WM. H. FIELDING,
Sole Agent. Druggist,
58-20tf. LYNBROOK, N.Y.
Fine Job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
o—A SPECIALTY——o0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
BI
BOOK WORK,
There is no
that we car: not do in
ent
on or
Meals are Served at All Hours
flake, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the
half any style desired, Sand.
wiches, IDS ang
Get the Best Meats.
You , thin
0 save oy poor,
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and customers with fresh.
mand oo mos no
I alwavs have
— DRESSED POULTRY =
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
..NEW SUPPLIES..
For Holiday Trade
OUR REGULAR LINE OF
FINE GROCERIES
Has received our best attention and is now in first-class condition
for supplying all the demands of the holiday season.
We will
call special attention to several items that will be in active
demand during the next few weeks.
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We hear a great deal of advice
lot of goods on hand and want to sell them.
about shopping early. Our ad-
vice is to commence early and keep right on the job. We have a
The telephone is a
wonderfully useful invention, but we would be pleased to have
our friends do more personal shopping.
SECHLER &
Bush House Block,
57-1
COMPANY,
Pa.
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poisoned and invalidism is sure to come.
SANITARY PLUMBING
is the kind we do. It's the
BEETS
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire
establishment. ond with good work and the
Prices are lower
than many who give you y
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Sre Skilled Mechanics,
ARCHIBALD ALLISON,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
56-14-1v,
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
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
Bis Nag, rpieastis the list. Fire
— NO ASSESSMENTS —
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Office in Crider's Stone Building,
BELLEFONTE.
43-18-1y. PA.
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
of
of one eve
BP cla disability,
10 per whe; paitia) disability,
PREMIUM $12 FER YEAR,
pavable quarterly if desired.
Largeror in
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Fire Insurance
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H. E. FENLON,
50-21.
Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.