Beworraii Wada,
Bellefonte, Pa., January 23, 1914.
CAUGHT BY A POSTAL TRAP.
The “Twopenny Detective” Is Often
Employed In England.
Detectives, lawyers’ clerks and oth- |
ers often experience great difficulty in
obtaining an undoubted specimen of
& certain person's signature. In one
case recourse had to be had to a mar-
riage register. In another the only
signature procurable was on the fly
leaf of a book which the suspect had
presented to a relative, and only two
or three years ago a testimonial to a
sea captain was brought into court,
because among the signatures to it
was one for which the police had long
hunted in vain. ?
One of the most common expedients |
resorted to for overcoming this diffi-
culty is employing the “‘twopenny de-
tective”—that is, sending a registered
letter to the person whose signature
is wanted. And this is frequently
successful. Thinking the postal packet
contains money or valuables, the ad-
dressee unsuspectingly signs the re- :
ceipt only to discover that inside the :
envelope there is nothing but a ‘*‘fak-
ed” letter.
This trap once caught an anonymous '
letter writer—a woman—who, on be-
ing interrogated shortly before, had :
declared that she could not write, and
whose friends believed her to be il-
literate. It was, in fact, mainly in-
strumental in getting her six months’ '
imprisonment.
The receipt for a registered letter,
it should be carefully noted. is not
given up to anybody. but can be ob-
tained only in certain cases to further
the ends of justice.—London Tit-Bits.
THE AUTOMOBILE BACK.
Medical Advice Showing How It May |
Be Avoided.
The automobile is coming into such
general use that any advice to its
users is of general interest.
A great many people in cranking |
their cars strain their back or *‘drop a
stitch,” and if this is once started it
usually happens more easily another
- time. Many people, after riding for
any length of time, are tired in the
back when they get out. If this is
kept up the pain or weakness in-
creases until many times the person is
laid up with what is called lumbago or
rheumatism. Both of these conditions
are commonly due to the wrong way
of using the muscles of the back.
In cranking keep the back straight,
like “the oarsman’s back.” Bend from
the hips, snapping the crank over by
straightening at knee and hip, but do
not bend at the middle or the waist
line.
In sitting in the car keep the back '
Get the hips well back |
straight also.
against the back of the seat, and. if
the upholstery make the shoulders
droop put a robe, a cushion, a book or
-anything at the hollow of the back to
prevent this. Do not slouch in the
seat and do not sit on the lower part
of the spine. This reverses the normal
curves of the spine and must mean
strain, with at times much crippling.— |
Journal of American Medical Associa-
tion.
His Hunt For Home.
On one occasion De Pachmann, the
famous pianist. with his nervous and
irritable temperament, was summoned
to aprear before Queen Alexandra at
Buckingham palace. He obstinately
refused to go. His friends labored with
him for hours and at last persuaded
him not to commit an impertinence
which would never be forgiven by the
English people.
Finally he was dispatched in a cab.
The night wore on to morning, and
the frantic wife of the pianist and his
friends could learn nothing of what
had become of him. At last a forlorn
looking cab drove up to the house,
and De Pachmann dismounted. Gn
leaving the palace he had forgotten
where he lived and could only tell the
cabman that it was in a square with
a church in it. So all night long he |
had been engaged in making a round
of the innumerable squares of London.
A Businesslike Suitor.
“No-0, he isn’t the sort of husband
I should have chosen for my daughter,
but I think perhaps he’ll get along in |
the world all right.”
“What way does he differ from the
man you would have chosen?”
“When he proposed to my daughter
and she had told him to see me he
sent me a note telling me where his
office is and what his office hours are
and asking me to drop around and see
him when convenient.” —Houston Post.
Soda and Water.
For sheer simplicity of phrase and
conception few have surpassed that
delightful old lady who, with a shrewd
twinkle in her eye, inquired whether
“soda water” should be written as
two separate words or if there should
be a siphon between them.
‘Danger Not Imminent.
“Better go home, Jimmy; your moth-
er is looking for you.”
“Has she got the bairbrush with
her?”
“No.”
“Then I guess I'll play awhiie long-
er.”—Pittsburgh Post,
Wanted Some Benefit.
Bill (on the third story, to Tom, on
the fifth)—I say. Tom, whenever con-
venient would youse mind dropping a
hammer or a brick or anything hard
on me head? Oi just been takin’ out
some accident insurance!—Buffalo Cou-
rier.
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| NEWSBOYS ON HORSEBAC
i
' Carriers
Make Quick Time to the Sub-
i urbs In Montevideo.
| Most American newsboys think
themselves well off if they own a good
| suit of clothes, but in the Uruguayan
| capital of Montevideo there are over
| fifty newsboys who own horses and
peddle their papers on horseback.
Montevideo has 300,000 inhabitants,
! but it spreads over more territory than
an American city of the same popula-
| tion: there are almost no tenement '
| houses, and there are several large
| parks.
Like Americans,
want their evening paper as soon as
; Pcssible after it comes from the press.
| The horseback newsboys supply this
| demand with astonishing rapidity. La
Razon, one of the leading evening jour-
. nals, is issued at 5 o'clock. About
| twenty minutes before that hour the
i newsboys, mostly young men from
; eighteen to twenty-five years of age,
| gather in the street in front of the
newspaper office. When the papers are
brought out the clerk hands a bundle
to each, and away he starts at a full
gallop. All the business in the center
of the town is done by ordinary “foot
| newsboys;” the horsemen race away
; to their “beats” in the suburbs, shout-
ing with ail their might, “La Razon!
| La Razon!"
i A customer who wishes to buy a pa-
| per steps to the sidewalk and holds out
| his arm. The horse knows the signal
- and pulls up so short that it is a won-
der the rider is not catapulted over his
head.
So efficiert is this system of eques-
trian newsboys that a dweller in the
outskirts of Montevideo gets his even-
ing paper almost as soon as the man
who lives in the very heart of the city.
—Youth’s Companion,
It Sprung From Bell’s Efforts to Teach
i the Deaf to Speak.
| Professor Alexander Graham Bell
is reported to have explained in a lec-
ture how he came to invent the tele-
phone as follows:
“My father invented a symbol by
which deat mutes could converse, and
finally 1 invented an apparatus by
which the vibrations ot speech could
be seen, and it turned out to be a tele-
phone. It occurred to me to make a
machine that would enable one to hear
vibrations. 1 went to an aurist, and
he advised me to take the human ear
as my model. He supplied me with a
dead man’s ear, and with this ear 1
experimented, and upon applying the
apparatus 1 found that the dead man’s
ear wrote down the vibrations.
“I arrived at the conclusion that if }
could make iron vibrate on a dead
man’s ear 1 could make an instrument |
cause .
more delicate which would
those vibrations to be heard and un-
derstood. I thought it I placed a deli-
cate piece of steel over an electric
magnet 1 could get a vibration, and
thus the telephone was completed.
{ “The telephone arose from my at-
tempts to teach the deaf to speak. It
arose from my knowledge not of elec-
tricity, but as a teacher of the deaf.
Had I been an electrician 1 would not
have attempted it.”
“Belling the Cat.”
“Who will bell the cat?" 1s a curi-
| ous old proverb, famous in parable and
I in history. The mice. says the para-
| ble, held a consultation how to secure
themselves from the cat, and they re-
| solved to hang a bell about the cat’s
! neck to give warning when she ap-
| proached, but after they had resolved
| on doing it they were as far off as
ever, for who would do it?
Both parable and proverb have im-
mortalized themselves in
When the Scottish nobles met at Stir-
ling in a body they proposed to take :
| Spence, the obnoxious favorite of
James II, and hang him and so get
rid of him.
“Ah,” said Lord Grey, “that’s very
well said. but who'll bell the cat?’
“That will 1,” said the black Earl
| Angus. He undertook the task, accom-
. Dlished it and was called “Archibald
i Bell the Cat” until his dying day.—
Glasgow Times.
: His Foot In It.
“Well.” said the hostess, bidding her
guest good night, “you have a long
drive home, but it’s a lovely evening.”
“Yes, isn’t it a fine night?" answered
the guest addressed.
“So you'll have a nice drive and
won't wish you hadn’t come to see
me.”
“On the contrary, 1 assure you, I al
ways think that the drive home is the
very best part of affairs like this.”
Another one of the things that might
have been put differently if one had
Plain Dealer.
National Flowers.
Teacher—Now, children, can you tell
me what are the national flowers ot
France? Class—Lilies. Teacher—And
Spain? (Silence for a minute—then
small voice at back of the schoolroom)
—Bulrushes, ma'am.— Life.
v
His Bluff Called.
“My dear, you grow prettier every
day.”
“And shabbier, John. Compliments
are all very well, but I'd like to see a
Httle ready cash occasionally.”
Maternal Solicitude.
“Is she good to the children?”
“Very. She lets them do everything
their father doesn’t want them to do.”
—Detroit Free Press.
The greatest man is he who chooses
with the most invincible resolution.—
fleneca.
the Uruguayans
Se as |
ORIGIN OF THE TELEPHONE.
history. !
had time to think it over.—Cleveland |
England? Class—Roses. Teacher—And |
K. | ~ "PERILOUS HUGGING. =
| —————
, The Embrace of a Kangaroo Does Not
Leave Pleasant Memories.
Notwithstanding the kangaroo’s pop-
ular reputation for speed, he is easily
overtaken in the bush by a good horse
(they say) within half a mile. A ca-
pable kangaroo dog—a lean, swift
beast, a cross between a greyhound
and a mastiff, bred to course and kill—
soon runs him to bay. Without dogs
it is the custom to kill with a cudgel.
| This is often accomplished by the
sportsman from the back of his horse.
- Dismounted, however, with the kanga-
roo waiting alertly for attack, it is
sometimes a perilous venture to come
to close quarters. A slip, and the
sportsman finds himself at once in a
desperate situation.
One of the lumberjacks with whom
we rested in the shade of the blackbutt
showed us the scars of an encounter.
He had ridden the kangaroo down.
said he, and, being in haste to m ke
an end of the sport. he had caught up
the first likely stick his eye could dis-
cover and he had stepped quickly and
confidently in, and he bad struck hard
and accurately. And the next instant,
caught off the ground, he was strug-
gling breast to breast in the hug of
the creature, frightfully aware that he
must escape before the deadly hind
foot had devastated him.
“My club broke,” he exclaimed, “and
the boomer got me!”
There were long scars on his back
and shoulders, the which we were not
very sorry to see, for we could not
make out why any man should wish to
kill a kangaroo for sport.—Norman
Duncan in Harper's.
THE HANGMAN’S ROBE.
Dennis Didn't Like It, So He Sold It to
i “Old Cain.”
James Berry was not so well paid
, for his services as his French con-
frere, M. Antoine Deibler, who draws
£560 a year, while his four assistants
have a similar amount to divide be-
tween them. Sanson, the first execu-
tioner to wield the guillotine, was
originally paid £1,520 a year, but when
executioners were appointed in each
department this was reduced to £800.
Before the revolution the legal tariff
in France was 25 shillings for a be-
heading, 16s. 8d. for a burning at the
stake, and the same amount for a hang-
ing, with allowances for the erection
of a scaffold or the provision of fuel.
One of James Berry’s predecessors,
for a bri® period, donned a uniform
when at work. In 1785, according to
a contemporary chronicler, the sheriffs
of London were “so pleased with the
excellent mode in which Edward Den-
nis, their hangman, performed his
duties that they presented him with a
very elegant official robe—a khilaut, in
fact, as eastern potentates term a simi-
lar garb of honor. Dennis found this
inconvenient when at work on the
scaffold and sold it to a well known
character of those days, ‘Old Cain,
who, having set up as a fortune teller,
wanted a robe to complete the cos-
tume in which he received dupes.”—
London Chronicle.
A Spoiled Scene.
E. H. Sothern once found his wit fail
him in time of need. It was in the
fourth act of "The Lady of Lyons.”
i Sothern played Claude Melnotte, and
| Virginia Harned was cast as Pauline.
Beausant, the villain, was pursuing
Pauline, and she cried loudly for help.
Claude is supposed to dash to her res-
cue and catch the fainting Pauline in
his arms. Sothern dashed on to the
stage, but slipped and slid, sitting
down near the footlights. Losing his
presence of mind, he declaimed the
line: “Look up, Pauline. There is no
. danger.” As Virginia Harned was
| standing, this was, of course, an im-
, possibility. By this time the audience
| was in an uproar, and when Arthur
Lawrence, who played Beausant.
scornfully said, “You are beneath me,”
the amusement of the audience knew
no bounds.
Marksmen and Rifles.
No marksman ever holds a rifle “as
solidly as a rock.” He may think he
does, but Arms and the Man insists
that the best shot gives merely the
“necessary impulse to the trigger,
while the rifle is moving in the right
direction” —that is. when he takes de-
liberate aim. The snap shooter works
apparently by a sort of instinct. Fir-
Ing successfully at a running deer
, through the woods and over broken
‘ground implies a knack like that of
thrusting one’s finger toward an indi-
cated object.—New York Times.
Natural Inference.
A schoolteacher was reading a story
to a class of very small folks and
paused at the words “lay brother.” to
| explain their meaning. “Does any one
know what ‘lay brother’ means?’ she
asked. .
For 2 moment a row of perplexed lit-
tle faces looked up at her. Then one
; face brightened suddenly, and a small
voice piped, “Yes, ma'am, it’s a roost-
er!”—Youth’s Companion.
He Was Sensitive.
Blobbs—You’re pretty much stuck on
Miss Gobbs, aren’t you, old man?
Hobbs—1 was once, but after what
she said to me last night I’m not go-
ing to pay any more attention to her.
Blobbs — Gee! What did she say?
Hobbs—*No!”—Cleveland Leader.
Nothing Lacking.
Manager—Your play seems to lack
the human touch. Playwright—You
are mistaken, sir. My hero borrows
money from his friends in almost
every act.—Boston Transcript.
Why It is Fiction.
Women are mysterious except in fic-
tion. There they are solved in the
| last chapter.— Wisconsin State Journal
Coal and Wood.
Pharmacy.
Attorneys-at-Law.
CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS
—) BALED HAY AND STRAW (—
58-23-1v Telephones: {Sopmercial 204 E.
by the bunch or cord as may suit purchasers,
respectfully solicits the patronage of his
friends and the public, at his Coal Yard
near the Pennsylvania Passenger Station.
A. G. MORRIS, JR.
Shipping and Commission
Merchant, and Dealer in
ANTHRACITE anNp BITUMINOUS
COALS!
and other grains,
Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand.
FEDERAL STOCK FOOD.
Rheumatic Remedy
58-20tf.
MURRAY'S
KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law,Belle-
fonte, Pa. Practicesin all courts Office
Room 18 Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y.
B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices
inall the Courts. Consultation in English
or German. Office in Crider’s Exc
Bellefonte, Pa.
THE MARVELOUS CURE FOR
RHEUMATISM,
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and
w. Office in Temple Court, Belle-
fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal busineSstar-
to promotly.
$5.00 the bottle at your drug-
gists, or sent Parcels post on re-
ceipt of price. Money refunded
WETZEL—Attcrney and Counsellor at Law
Office No. 11, Crider’s E:
H.
J floor. All kinds of legal business attended
to promptly. Consultation in English or German
or
if it fails to cure YOU.
GES; BOWER & ZERBY—Attorneys-at
in
the courts. Consultation in English or German. 50-7
Law,Eagle Block, Bellefonte, Pa. Success-
a Orvis. Practicei
ors to Orvis, Bower & 3 all
WM. H. FIELDING,
Sole Agent. Druggist,
KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. Practices
and German. Office south of court
M.
in all the courts. Consultation in English
J ala
All professional business will receive prompt at
ention,
49-5-1y*
LYNBROOK, N.Y.
Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given al
legal business entrusted to his cary. oa
J KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law
ces—No. 5 East High street.
Fine Job Printing.
KINDLING WOOD
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Money to Loan.
51-14-1y.
ONEY TO LOAN on good security and
houses to rent.
J. M. KEICHLINE,
Attorney-at-Law,
Bellefonte Pa. -
FINE JOB PRINTING
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul-
tation in Fuglish and German. Office
in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5
asm
Physicians.
GLENN, M. D., Physician and Surgeon.
Ce Office
\ A J S.
State College, Centre county, Pa.
0—A SPECIALTY—o0 at his residence.
ATITHE Dentists.
WATCHMAN OFFICE
le of work, from the
ger” to the finest
There is no
cheapest “D
BOOK WORK,
that we car not do in the most satis-
factory manner, and at Prices consist-
ent with the class of work. Call on or
communicate with this office.
R. J. E. WARD, D. D. S., office next door to
Y.M.C. A. High street, Bellefonte,
Pa, Gas adn eto for painless extract.
ing teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work. Price
reasonable. 52-3
R. H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, Office in
the Bush Arcade, efonte, Pa. All mod-
ern electric appliances used. H
as had
years of experience. All work of Superior quality
and prices reasonable. Gely
Plumbing.
Restaurant.
Flour and Feed.
CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
Manufactures and has on hand at all times the
following brands of high grade flour: 50-32-1y. High St., Beliefonte, Pa,
WHITE STAR —
OUR BEST Meat Market.
HIGH GRADE
The only place in the county where that extraor-
dinarily fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour
can be secured. Also International Stock Food
All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
Meals are Served at All Hours
POPS,
ESTAURANT.
Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where
Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell or in any style desired, Sand-
Yiches, Soups, and anything eatable, can
be had in a few minutes any time. In ad-
dition I have a Somplets plant prepared to
furnish Soft Dri in bottles such as
SODAS,
SARSAPARILLA,
SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.,
for pic-nics, families and the public gener-
ally all of which are manufactured out of
the purest syrups and properly carbonated.
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
SPRAY
and feed of all kinds
ed for wheat.
(Get the Best Meats.
You save zothing
or gristly meats.
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, blood and
by buying poor, thin
use oo the
Opposite Bush House -
Good Health
and
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-fixtures, foul sewerage, or escaping
gas, you can’t have good Health. The air you
reathe is poisonous; your system becomes
poisoned;and invalidism is sure to come.
SANITARY PLUMBING
is the kind we do. It’s the only kind you
ought to have. We don’t trustthis work to
boys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics,
no better anywhere. Our
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire
establishment. And with good work and the
finest material, our
Prices are lower
than many who give you
work and the lowest grade o
the Best Work trv
Ir, unsanitary
finishings. For
ARCHIBALD ALLISON,
Bellefonte, Pa
14-1v.
ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere.
I always have
womens,
Insurance.
—— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET, TRY MY SHOP.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
4719 MILL AT ROOPBSURG. P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
Groceries. Groceries.
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None but Reliable Companies Represented.
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The original Kraut made in Germany, by
natural fermentation.
much of the highly advertised kraut.) It is
White Clean Goods, cut in long fibers like
slaw. Comes in pails about 13 Ibs. for 75c,
18 lbs. 90c, and 24 Ibs.
Let Us Have Your Order
it will please you.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
57-1
Bush House Block, - -
LIME AND LIMESTONE.
(Not with acids as
for $1.15.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
This Agency represents the lar; Fire
Insurance Companies in the Wosid,
—— NO ASSESSMENTS —
Do not fail to give us a call before insuring your
Life or Property as we are in position to write
large lines at any time.
Office in Crider’s Stone Building,
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- - Bellefonte, Pa. |
LIME.
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H-O Lime put up in
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for all purposes.
201b. paper bags
for use with drills or spreader, is the econom-
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