EE
THE FRUGAL PAST
A Pair of Trousers Went a Long
Way In the Good Old Days.
WAIL OF A MAN IN A GROUCH.
His Wife's Reckless Gift to a Tramp of
One of His Battered Castoff Gar-
ments Moved Him to a Touching Dis-
course on the Vice of Extravagance.
“A poor man came to the door this
afternoon and asked if 1 had any old
clothes 1 could spare.” said Mrs. James-
worthy. “1 gave him those gray trou-
sers of yours, as they were too badly
worn out for you to use them again.
They were all faded and full of holes.”
“The next time you undertake to dis-
tribute my raiment among the prole-
tariat, Mrs. Jamesworthy,” returned
her grouchy husband, “you might at
least consult me. You are assuming
altogether too much when you take it
for granted that 1 am done with a
pair of trousers. As things are going
now in the business world I find it ex-
pedient to wear such garments so long
as there is any way to fasten my sus-
penders to them.
“Times are growing worse and
worse, and the financial stringency is
breaking all records, and the man who
strives to support his family has
troubles enough without coming home
to find that the wife of his bosom has
given his purple and fine linen to some-
body’s wandering boy. ;
“I had expected to get two seasons’
wear out of those trousers, and I had
a sentimental fondness for them, as 1
wore those trousers on that red letter
day when, three years ago, 1 stood in
the White House and proudly shook
hands with the illustrious president of
this great and glorious republic. |
hoped to hand them down to my chil-
dren’s children. so that when 1 am
cold in my grave they might contem-
plate those historic trousers with
streaming eyes and recall the glorious
occasion I have referred to. Now I no
longer have a souvenir of my meeting
with the president. and posterity is
robbed of a great privilege by reason
of your heedless course.
“I'd never think of giving away
anything of yours without your ap-
proval, Mrs. Jamesworthy. Time and
again I have been tempted to call in
some poor but respectable widow with
a large family to support and give her
your false hair, which has become an
eyesore to me, as I find it lying around
wherever | go, but 1 felt it would be '
doing you an injustice and refrained.
Yet when an unknown hobo comes to
our door asking for refreshments you
hand him my cherished trousers, which
are more to me than pride of ancestry
or pomp of power.
“Your action is a fair sample of the
extravagance which keeps men for-
ever walking in the shadow of the
poorhouse. 1 have no doubt that my
sainted mother would roll over in her
grave if she could know of such doings.
Under her wise and skillful manage-
ment my father had a chance to ac-
cumulate a few piasters for his old
age. He wore his trousers until they
were full of holes; then my mother
took them and half soled them and
made them as good as new, and he
wore them for another term of years
until it was impossible to tell what
their original color might have been.
“When they were too far gone for
further use mother made them over |
so the older son could wear them, and
when he had used them five or six
years there still was enough sound ma-
terial in them to make a pair for the
youngest son. | was that youngest
son. and all through my boyhood and
even in early manhood 1 was wearing
expurgated editions of my father’s
trousers.
“You may make as many faces as
you please, Mrs. Jamesworthy, and
point the finger of scorn until the cows
come home, but that doesn’t change
the fact that it was economy of this
sort that kept our parents in ignorance
of such things as the bankruptcy court
and the associated charities. When 1
had worn those historic trousers for a
few summers and winters, until they
would answer the purpose no longer,
my mother cut them up into strips and
made rag carpets of them. and those
rag carpets were more sensible and
more serviceable than the tailor made
affairs you have strewn over these
floors.
“After this, please, you will call me
into executive session before giving :
away any of my bhabiliments, Mrs.
Jamesworthy.”—Walt Mason in Chi-
cago News.
Concrete Bells.
The peculiar vibratory or mnonvibra-
tory properties of concrete are strik-
irgly shown in bells made of this ma-
terial. A bell cast in concrete will
ring almost like a metal bell, but a
slight touch of the hand serves imme-
diately to stop vibration and the re-
sulting sound. This is due to the lack
of homogeneity from the standpoint of
sound transmission. — London Stand-
ard.
On the Go.
“My husband is not home two nights
a month.”
“You should get the minister to see
him.”
“He is the minister—always being
called away to see people.”’—Kansas
Oity Journal.
This Is Not Difficult Nhen
Strait Is F.ozen,
' On Aug. 15 we sailed through Be-
ring strait and were at last in the
arctic. The straits are thirty-six miles
1
Bering
wide. with East cape, a rounded, dome
shaped mass of black basalt, on the
Asiatic side and on the American side
Cape Prince of Wales, a headline of
sharper outline, but neither so lofty
nor so sheer. In between the two
capes and in line with them lie the
two islands of Big and Little Diomede.
Through the three narrow channels be-*
tween the capes and the islands the
tide runs with the swiftness of a riv-
er's current.
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The Eskimos constantly cross from
continent to continent in small boats.
In still weather the passage can be
made in a light kyack with perfect |
safety. The widest of the three chan- |
nels is that between Big Diomede and
East cape, and is, 1 should say. not
more than fifteen miles across.
we were passing through the straits
we saw a party of Eskimos in a skin
boat paddling leisurely across from |
They no doubt had |
America to Asia.
While |
been on a visit to relatives or friends |
on the neighboring continent. We were
told that in winter. when the strait .
fs frozen solidly, the Eskimos frequent-
ly walk from one continent to the oth-
er.—From "A Year With a Whaler,” by
Walter Noble Burns.
TRUE TO THE END.
And After Many Years Came Her
Tragic and Pathetic Reward.
A number of years ago some miners
in Wales, in exploring an old disused
pit. found the body of a young man
dressed in a fashion long out of date.
The peculiar action of the air of the
mine was such as preserved the body
so perfectly that it appeared asleep
rather than dead.
The miners were puzzled at the cir-
cumstances. No one in the district had
been missed within their remembrance,
and at last it was resolved to bring in
the oldest inhabitant. an old lady over
eighty years old, who had lived single
in the village all her life.
When she was taken into the room
where the dead man lay a strange
thing occurred. The old lady fell on
the corpse and kissed it and addressed
it by every term of endearment spoken
in a bygone generation. He was her
only love, and she had waited for him
her long life. She knew he had not
forsaken her.
The old lady and young man had
been betrothed sixty years before. Her
lover had disappeared mysteriously,
and she had kept her faith during the
long interval.
“cruelty.
" WALKING TO ASIA. ~ | = MURDER TRIALS. ~~
Holland Has a System of its Own Fer
Dispensing Justice.
A learned and capable jurist has as-
serted that the French method of legal
procedure, which, contrary to our own,
presumes an indicted person guilty un-
til he is proved innocent, comes nearer
dispensing actual justice than our owa
system.
But in Holland the courts have, in
some respects, a better system than
that of the French. The accused in
every case has the benefit of the doubt,
and circumstantial evidence as the
only foundation for a plea of convie-
tion is in disfavor,
The Dutch do not have juries, and
there is no battle of wits among coun-
sel. All questions, whether by the
prosecution or the attorney for the ac-
cused. are put to the witness through
the judge after he has weighed the jus-
tice of the interrogation.
This feature of their system has
some pronounced advantages over our
own. It eliminates the practice of con-
fusing the witness or the accused by
misleading questions. It renders im-
possible the abominable practice in our
courts known as the “browbeating” of
witnesses, which unfortunately is per-
mitted to an extent that causes the in-
telligent observer's blood to boil at
times because of its unfairness and
It makes the solemn business
of dispensing justice a common trade
instead of a heavenly vocation.—Sioux
City Tribune.
VENUS HOT AND COLD.
One Half the Planet Burns, While the
Other Half Always Freezes.
Venus, the “evening star” of the po-
ets, the most brilliant object in our
western sky. that planet which re-
volves around the sun in a path inside
ours, must if inhabited have beings of
a very different type from ourselves,
for Venus has always had one hemi-
sphere turned toward the sun and one
turned away from it. Consequently it
is always daytime and summer on
one-half of Venus, always night and
winter on the other half.
As Venus is more than 23,000,000
miles nearer the sun than we are, it
must be twice as hot on her day side
as it ever is at our equator. And on
her night side. where a ray of sun-
light has never shone, it must be so
cold that the air is liquefied. if not
solidified. There must be a constant
uprush of hot air from the scorched
surface and a corresponding inrush of
icy air from the frigid side. Along the
boundary between the two hemi-
spheres this must cause a violent and
+ perhaps almost perpetual rainfall.
The miners removed the old lady to '
her house, and that night her faithful
spirit rejoined that of her long lost
lover.—London Telegraph.
Wise Eskimos.
Everything in the Eskimo dress has
a reason for its existence, writes Cap-
tain Roald Amundsen in “The North-
west Passage.” The members of Cap-
tain Amundsen’s expeditions had be-
come accustomed to the Eskiino dress
and had adopted it, but many of them
thought it ridiculous for grownup
men to go about wearing fringe to
their clothes, so they cut it off. 1 had
my scruples about this, says the au-
thor, as I had already learned that
most things in the Eskimo’s clothing
and other arrangements had their dis-
tinct meaning and purpose. so I kept
my fringe and put up with the ridicule.
He laughs best who laughs last. One
fine day the anovaks, a sort of tunic
Seen through a small telescope or
field glass Venus often appears like a
crescent. Then are visible the pro-
jections that can be nothing but moun-
- tains of great height. — New York
reaching below the knee, made of deer- |
skin, from which the fringes had been
cut off, commenced to curl up, and if
the fringe had not been put on again '
| quickly they would soon have looked
~ like neckties.
| Astronomy.
{ If there were any money to be made
in astronomy everybody would be
studying it. About all we can see is
figures, and these are so big that they
stagger the understanding. Every
; child in the United States knows how
to find the north star from the point-
ers of the dipper, but no child can
appreciate the statement that this star
is distant from the earth 210,000,000,
000.000 miles—two hundred and ten
trillions! A railroad train traveling
at one mile a minute would have to
run without stopping for 479.000,000
years in order to traverse this dis-
tance. If light really travels 187,500
miles a second a ray from the north
star would be thiity-six years in
reaching the earth.
Right In His Face.
A group of grieving depositors stood
on the sidewalk before the closed
doors of a recently defunct bank. It
wasn’t a merry scene. One man who
had lost his all was trying to brace up
. a colored grandpa whose white wool
bobbed up and down into the folds of
a bandanna.
“Don’t cry, uncle.” he said.
burst every day. you know.”
“Yes, sir; | know it, but—huh huh,
hub-4is bank—bhub, huh—done bus’
right in mab face.” —Harper's Weekly.
“Banks
The Wrong Heart.
“Mr. Bubkins.,” said the proud
father, shaking the young man warmly
by the hand. “let me tell you that you
are a man after my own heart.”
“Oh, no, sir.” protested the blushing
suitor; “I’m after your daughter’s!”—
London Answers.
A Popular Role.
Girl (to prominent actor'—I suppose
there is some role you take special in-
terest in. Actor—Yes, my dear young
lady, the payroll.—Boston Transcript.
We never have leisure enough to
atone for the things we do in haste.
World.
Scared Out of the Duel.
One day M. Edmond About called
upon Grisier, the most celebrated fenc-
ing master of his day. "1 am in a
quandary,” said About. *1 allowed
myself yesterday the pleasure of a
joke in bad taste, and a duel is to be
the result. 1 know nothing whatever
about fencing, and, as you can see, |
am fat. Will you give me a lesson, so
that I may not make myself too ridicu-
lous?” The lesson was given, but
About proved a very poor pupil. On
his way out he saw a photograph of
Grisier. “I suppose.” he said. **1 must
not ask you for one of these?’ *“With
the greatest pleasure,” said the fenc-
ing master. And. with a chuckle, Gri-
sier wrote across the photograph, “To
M. Edmond About, the best pupil 1
have ever had” A few hours after-
ward the seconds of About’'s adver-
sary called on the writer, saw the pho-
tograph on the mantelpiece and, fear-
ing for their friend at the hands of so
redoubtable a swordsman, arranged the
affair without any duel.
Birds as Large Eaters.
It may not be thought that of all an-
imals birds are among the largest eat-
ers. This means, of course, in propor-
tion to their weight. Some birds are
known to consume two and one-half
times their weight of food in twenty-
four hours. The heron. which has a
light weight of four pounds in spite of
its size, is a striking example. One
was lately caught which had just
swallowed two trout of one and one-
half and two pounds. Wild pigeons
are among the foremost eaters, and
| they make a most copious repast
whenever an abundance of food is
found. Thus a single pigeon picked
up a thousand grains of wheat in one
day.—Scientific American.
Effects of Time.
Mr. Evans entered a New York res-
taurant and saw a friend seated at one
of the. tables.
“Hello, Lovell,” he said. “how are
you?”
“Oh, pretty well,” replied Lovell.
“What are you doing now?" inquired
Evans.
“Well. when 1 came in here,” said
Lovell, “about two hours ago 1 was
not in business, but I've changed since
then. I'm a waiter now.”—Pulitzers
Magazine.
Always Counting.
“Your husband says that when he is
angry he always counts ten before he
speaks,” said one woman.
“Yes,” answered the other, “I wish
he’d stop it. Since he got dyspepsia
home seems nothing but a class in
arithmetic.”
Labor is the instituted means for the
methodical development of all our
powers under the direction and control
i of the will.—J. G. Holland.
Pharmacy.
Attorneys-at-Law.
Coal and Woed.
S KLINE WOODRING —Attotney.at. Law Belle-
> . Frac
A. G. MORRIS, JR. MURRAY'S Room 18Crider’s Exchange. = 51.L1y.
Shipping and Commission
Merchant, and Dealer in
ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS
COALS]
CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS
and other grains,
——) BALED HAY AND STRAW (—
Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand.
FEDERAL STOCK FOOD.
KINDLING WOOD
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.
58-23-1v Telephones: {Commercial WE
Monev to Loan.
ONEY TO LOAN on good security and
houses to rent.
J. M. KEICHLINE,
Attorney-at-Law,
51-14-1y. Bellefonte .
Flour and Feed.
(CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
Manufactures and has on hand at all times the
following brands of high grade flour:
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
The only place in the county where that extraor-
dinarily fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour
SPRAY
can be secured. Also International Stock Food
and feed of all kinds.
All kinds of Grain bought at the offi 1
exchanged for wheat. REDE Bt thotice Flour
Rheumatic Remedy
THE MARVELOUS CURE FOR
RHEUMATISM,
$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
0—A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
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.
Restaurant.
ESTAURANT.
Bellefonte ‘now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where
Meals are Served at All Hours
Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell or in any style desired, Sand-
Jviches, Soupe, and anything eatable, can
dition I have a ( com] od pd ar
furnish Soft Drinks in bottles Such as
POPS,
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,
50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Meat Market.
Get the Best Meats.
You save nothing by buyi r, thin
or gristly meats. [use on
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, blood and muscle mak-
ing Sveaks and Roasts. My prices ave no
higher than poorer meats are elsewh
ere.
I always have
— 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.
SAUER
KRAUT
The original Kraut made in Germany, by
natural fermentation.
(Not with acids as
much of the highly advertised kraut.) It is
White Clean Goods, cut in long fibers like
slaw.
Comes in pails about 13 lbs. for 75c,
18 lbs. 90c, and 24 lbs. for $1.15.
Let Us Have Your Order
it will please you.
'SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bush House Block, wie
51 - - -
Bellefonte, Pa.
LIME AND LIMESTONE.
LIME.
Lime aid Limestone for all purposes.
H-O Lime put up in 20 1b. paper bags
| LIME.
58-28-6m
for use with drills or spreader, is the econom-
ical form most careful farmers are using.
High Calcium Central Pennsylvania I.,ime
AMERICAN LIME & STONE COMPANY.
Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa
General Office: TYRONE, PA.
B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices
in all the Courts. Consultation in English
or German. Office in
ay Boh
Bellefonte, Pa.
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at
Law. Office in Temple Court, Belle-
fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal businesstat.
to promptly.
H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Office No. 11, Crider’s Exchange, second
floor. All kinds of legal business attended
to promptly. Consultation in English or German
ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY—Attorneys-at
Law,Eagle Block, Bellefonte, Pa. Success-
EO Peligonte, a. Yuu
the courts. Consultation in English or German, 50-7
M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. Practices
in all the courts. Consultation in English
and German. Office south of court house.
All professional business will
ention.
J legal business entrusted to his care.
ces—No. 5 East High street. 5
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul-
tation in English and German. Office
in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5
Physicians.
W?*
receive prompt at
49-5-1y°®
KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law
Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention ven al
GLENN, M. D,, Physician and $
State Colle tre county, Fa. Office
it ge,
at his residence. 35-41
Dentists.
R. J. E. WARD, D. D. S., office next d
4 M: Cr A. om, Hi } street. Beiletontes
ig admini or painless extract
ing teeth. Superior C i Price
fog teeth, S perior Crown and Bridge work, fice
R. H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist,
the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Fa. All mot
Tenor ano: spies vet). ties Tui
e Wi
and prices reasonable. SEK Of Super pir i4
Plumbing.
Good Health
Good Plumbing
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
ought to have. Wedon’t trust this ETE a
Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics,
no better anywhere. Our .
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
GO
Not acheap or inferior article i i
establishment, And with 00d woul and the
finest material, our
Prices are lower
a ine ym
work and the low
the Best Work try Eade
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Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
: 56-14-1v.
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coma
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Insurance.
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(Successor to D. W. Woodring.)
Fire,
Life
and
mss
Automobile Insurance
None but Reliable Companies Represented.
Surety Bonds of All Descriptions.
Both Telephones 56-27.y BELLEFONTE, PA
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Fire,
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Life or Property as we are in position to write
large lines at any time. 5
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Larger or smaller amounts in proportion.
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pe
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Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.
50-21.