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Bellefonte, Pa., June 5, 1914.
NO JOB FOR CORONER
"MERELY DIFFERENCE OF OPIN-
ION AMONG ITALIANS.
Stolid Americans Naturally Felt a Lit-
tle Alarm at the Heated Discus-
sion, But It Was Nothing to
Excited, Volatile Latins. |
“There is something most refreshing '
fto the colder northern races in the ex- |
}citable and volatile Latins,” said
George Hamlin recently. “We had a
delightful exhibition of this quality
when we first reached Milan. We en-
tered a cafe, celebrated as much for
the artists who frequent it as for its
excellent cuisine, and had barely giv-
‘en our order when our attention was
‘attracted to a nearby table where two
diners were engaged in what was evi-
dently a very serious discussion. At
‘that time our linguistic accomplish-
‘ments were limited to Mark Twain’s
famous ‘Quanta costa?—Troppo caro,’
with an additional phrase or two
thrown in, all of which were inade-
quate to unravel any clue to the earn-
est conversation opposite.
“Presently the voices grew louder
and more passionate, and the two men
looked positively violent as they half .
rose from their seats and glared at
each other ferociously across the
table. We became decidedly uneasy.
Vendettas, stillettos and such Italian
appurtenances are all picturesqque
enough in grand opera, but we did not
care to have our dinner punctuated
with deeds of carnage.
“In the meantime all the other
diners had stopped eating and were
gazing with interest toward the scene
of altercation. Gradually they aban-
doned their dinners altogether and
came over to take sides with the dis-
putants. Even the waiters forsook
their posts, and attached themselves
to one side or the other. ‘Surely,’ we
thought anxiously, ‘this quarrel must
involve the honor of the whole nation.’
“By this time the din was fearful. A
score or more of excited men were
shouting at each other across the
small table, brandishing furious fists
in each other’s faces, and looking like
bloodshed and murder. Our soup
cooled untasted before us; all appetite
had vanished. We clung to our
chairs, too terror-stricken to flee for
our lives, even though we felt a des- :
perate conviction that a massacre was
at hand and our minutes were num-
bered.
“Finally, one of the crowd pounded
on the table vigorously and yelled
‘some noises which sounded like a
pack of firecrackers exploding. There
was an instant’s silence, and then the
‘whole lot of them, waiters and all, |
bolted out the front door.
“We breathed an immeasurable re-
lief! At least the scene of slaughter
was transferred and our skins were
safe. Just then our waiter reluctant-
ly returned, though he made it plain
that his duty to us was a decided bore.
“ ‘Was it a feud?—a vendetta? we
asked—‘and can’t the police stop them '
before they kill each other? |
“And the waiter replied in his own
peculiar brand of English: ‘It be on-
lee that they not agree which be the!
shortest road to La Scala, and so half |
they go one way, and half they go the
other, to make it prove!’ ”
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A Real Drought. :
If you don’t like it in the United
States this summer go to Aden. Ed.
Howe has lately been there, and the!
following are some of the pleasant |
things he says of the place: ‘“At nine
o'clock this evening we came to Aden, |
in Arabia, said to be the hottest town
in the world. Every drop of water
used there is condensed from the sea, '
though there is a white population of
2,000, including English soldiers, and
an Arab population of 40,000. There
is a tradition that rain fell at Aden
three years ago, and that every roof
in town leaked; but previous to that
time no rain had fallen in the town
or its vicinity for many years; many
of its elderly citizens had never seen
a rainstorm, and looked with wonder
upon the one which fell three years
ago. A gentleman who lives at Adep
says he pays $20 a month for water,
which is delivered at his door in tanks
drawn by camels. Some of the nu-
merous shops in Aden sell bottled wa-
ter, and the price in quantity is usu-
ally a dollar per hundred gallons.
Many years ago great tanks were built
at Aden to catch the precious rainfall,
but these have not been in use for
many years, although tourists usually
visit them.”—Nebraska State Journal.
The Awakening.
“Then,” said the man who was pre-
paring the sketch, “I shall say that
you first saw life in the little village
of Backwoodsville—" “No,” said Mr.
Selfmade, “I was born there, but I
didn’t see any life till I came to New
York.”—Puck.
No Need to Worry.
Anxious Mother—“Jack, you must
remember to use your right hand
more. I don’t want you to become left
handed.” Little Jack—“Don’t worry,
mamma. Some of the best pitchers
in the league are southpaws.”
Complimentary.
Jack—“1 was just admiring Mabel's
hair. How pretty it is.” Mabel’s Rival
~—“Oh, she has some prettier than
that.”—DBoston Transcript.
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A
DIDN'T TAKE HIS ALL
LAUNDRYMAN UNDULY EXCITED
OVER MISHAP.
Fears That Loss of Ambassadorial
Shirt Might Prove His Ruin
Turned Out to Be Quite
Unnecessary.
‘What happens when an ambassador
gets superheated under the collar has
become known on more than one occa-
sion but it remained for the last few
days to develop what happens when
an ambassador loses his shirt.
There are countries where ambassa-
dors don’t wear shirts—at least as
shirts are understood here. Indeed,
there have been envoys at Washington
who affected flowing robes, but that
was before the day when a million
pairs of scissors got busy on some
200,000,000 Chinese queues. Shirts are
as necessary a part of an ambassa-
dorial wardrobe as of that of the plain-
est native. Almost every Indian
wears a shirt nowadays until he joins
a circus or comes to New York, when
he must apepar in the traditional
blanket of his forefathers. And all
the excellencies that are accredited to
this country affect this garment.
So it is with that particular excel-
lency who has lately been paying a
visit to New York, a habit that dur-
ing the present administration has
gained such vogue among the diplo-
matic corps. Among other things, this
ambassador sent to the hotel laundry
a shirt. It was one of several shirts,
and, according to the best information
obtainable, it was a white shirt.
When the “wash” came back the
shirt was not in it, or of it. It was
missing. The ambassador made a
complaint. An attempt was made to
trace the garment, but a frantic
search revealed nothing that looked
like it, except shirts that were estab-
lished as belonging to other persons.
The chambermaid, the valet, the por-
ter, and the employes of the laundry
were closely questioned, but none re-
membered having seen the article.
It was with deepest regret that the
management reported to the ambassa-
dor the result of the inquiry. His ex-
cellency was wroth. He said he must
have damages; the shirt should not
have got lost. It was pure careless-
ness, and the hotel must reimburse
him.
Wild notions as to the value of a
shirt that was good enough to be used
by an ambassador flitted through the
mind of the manager. He knew that
| shirts cost a lot more in the United
States, as a rule, than in Europe, if
they are made to order, or if they
| happen to be of a superior material.
He knew of hotel clerks who wore
shirts that cost as much as $15 apiece,
and who would not think of putting on
a cheaper garment. What would be
the price of shirts worn by an am-
bassador?
As he pondered, the ambassador
spoke.
“That was a good shirt,” he said,
“and it was new. It would be only
right that I should be paid its full
value.”
“And what, may I ask,” ventured
the manager timidly, “is the value
your excellency puts upon the gar
‘ment ?”
“It cost me,” said the ambassador,
“$1.85.”
The shirt was promptly paid for.—
‘New York Times.
True to Yankee Traditions.
A long-felt want has been supplied
by an enterprising New Jersey farmer
who owns some land of doubtful value
within easy reach of New York city.
The pioneer in a new life of endeavor
had noticed that city hunters were
greatly handicapped in their efforts
by having to tramp over a much great-
er area than they should to accom-
plish a very little shooting. Plainly
the situation demanded the services of
‘an efficiency engineer. So he as-
sumed the job. He wire-fenced about
fifteen acres of his most worthless
brush land; stocked it with a modest
assortment of Belgian hares and per-
mitted the idea and ground to lie fal-
low for three years. Then he allowed
it to become known that he would per-
mit “shooting over” his covers by city
sportsmen on the basis of a payment
of 50 cents for every “rabbit” shot.
Gothamite hunters jumped at the op-
portunity, and the original genius is
now busy booking dates and collecting
half-dollars. And still there are those
who maintain that the day of opportu-
nity for the man of modest means has
passed.
No Place for Nearsighted.
The nearsighted man watched his
friend restore to a portly dowager a
ridiculous little bead bag that she had
dropped as she sailed past their cor-
ner of the room.
“I wish,” he said plaintively, “that
women could learn not to drop things.
My wife got me into a ridiculous
scrape the other night by not being
able to hold on to her belongings.”
“How was that?’ his friend in-
quired.
“It was at the opera,” continued
Benedick, “and in the middle of the
first act Carrie let her opera glasses
slip off her lap. She asked me to get
them. I looked down and thought I
saw them under the seat in front of
her.
“] grabbed them, but they didn’t
come at once, and there was a squeal
from the woman in front. It was the
heels of her little slippers I had
grabbed, and nearly tipped her out of
her seat. y
“She got hysterical, and had to go
out until she calmed down. 'O, I had
| a merry evening!”
Breeding Tailless Dogs.
Philippe de Vilmorin has just com-
pleted some odd experiments to as-
certain the influence of heredity on
tailless dogs. There are several dif-
ferent breeds that have no tails, and
these are fairly common in some parts
! of France and Germany.
In an effort to ascertain if absence
of tail is hereditary in dogs, he brought
about twenty-seven crosses between
dogs of different breeds. He reports
to the Academie des Sciences that
when tailless is bred with tailless, the
result is 75 tailless and 25 with tails.
This is exactly in accord with the
formula of Mendel, absence of tail be-
ing in such dogs dominant to posses
sion of tail. Of the 75 tailless dogs
25 are pure bred, and the other 650
unite the two characters. The 25 pure
will bear pure tailless progeny; the
50 mixed will bear in the same pro-
portion, 25 pure tailless, 50 mixed, 26
with tails.
Breeds that normally possess tails
are pure and will always have pup-
pies with tails.
He makes no report on the effect of
breeding triled with tailless.
“I am truly grateful to you for what
you did for me last winter,” writes Mrs.
Edward Smith, of Jeddo, Orleans Co., N.
Y. “Your Invalids’ Hotel is truly a home
for the sick.” The Invalids’ Hotel and
Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., presid-
ed over by Dr. V. M. Pierce assisted by
nearly a score of specialists, is always
full of men and women seeking a cure
of chronic diseases. But no Hotel or In-
stitute would hold the great army of
women who are under treatment by Dr.
Pierce and his staff from day to day.
Thousands of sick women are taking ad-
vantage of Dr. Pierce’s offer of a free con-
sultation by letter. That offer is open to
you. All correspondence is strictly pri-
vate. Address Dr. V. M. Pierce, Buffalo,
N. Y. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
makes sick women well and weak wom-
en strong. .
Large Closed Country.
Afghanistan, the buffer state be-
tween British India and the Russian
possessions in Asia, with an area of
about 250,000 square miles and a pop-
ulation of probably about 5,000,000
Mohammedans (no census has ever
been taken), is, with the g¢xception of
Tibet, the largest closed country in
the world.
To Clean Wood.
Wood that is grained or varnished
in imitation of hardwood is best
cleaned by rubbing it well with cloths,
wrung out of soapsuds, to which some
borax has been added. As a finish
rub hard with a soft cloth dipped in
kerosene,
Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
You Need a Tonic|
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA, AS A SPRING
MEDICINE, IS THE BEST.
Spring sickness comes in some degree
to every man, woman and child in our
climate. It is that run-down condition of
the system that results from impure, im-
poverished, devitalized blood. Itis mark-
ed by loss of appetite and that tired feel-
ing, and in many cases by some form of
eruption.
The best way to treat spring sickness
is to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Ask vour
druggist for this old reliable family medi-
cine. It purifies, enriches and revitalizes
the blood. It is an all-the-vear-round
alterative and tonic, and is absolutely the
best Spring medicine.
Get your blood in good condition at
once—now. Delay may be dangerous.
Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla, noth-
ing else can take its place. 59-21
Little Hotel Wilmot.
The Little Hotel Wilmot
IN PENN SQUARE
One minute from the Penna Ry. Station
PHILADELPHIA
We have quite a few customers
from Bellefonte. We can take
care of some more. They'll like
us. A good room for $1. If you
bring your wife, $2. Hot and
cold running water in every room
The Ryerson W. Jennings Co.
Flour and Feed.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are to or-
| dinary pills what the grain of mustard
seed is to ordinary seeds. They are very
small but are remarkable in their action.
They relieve disorders of the bowels,
stomach and liver. Easy to take.
——When you can get the best as
cheap as you can get the cheapest, why
don’t you do it. Get the WATCHMAN and
you are sure you have it.
Coal and Wood.
A. G. Morris, Jr.
DEALER IN HIGH GRADE
ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS
AND CANNEL
itCOAL'!
Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw :
and Sand.
ALSO
FEDERAL
STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD
BOTH ’'PHONES.
Yard Opposite } ll %
P.R.R. Depot.
58-23-1v
LIME
Meat Market.
Attorneys-at-Law.
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(Get the Best Meats.
You save nothing by buying poor, thin
use only
or gristly meats.
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and 1 ust: ith the fresh-
ast, choicest, best blood and muscle mak-
ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere.
I always have
— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
Restaurant.
ESTAURANT.
Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where
Meals are Served at All Hours
Steaks, Cho Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell Of in any style desired, Sand-
wiches, Soups, anything eatable, can
be Iiad fn a few minutes ay me. In po
gicon | avs a comple play, prepared to
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 ted.
" C. MOERSCHBACHER,
50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Money to Loan.
ONEY 10 LOAN on good security and
ouses 0 Te. M. KEICHLINE,
Attorney-at-Law.
Bellefonte
51-14-1y. a.
AND LIMESTONE.
LIME.
H-O Lime Put up in 40
Lime and Limestone for all purposes.
LIME.
to 50 Pound Paper Bags.
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.
asim ms
Groceries.
Groceries.
KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law,Belle
fonte, Pa, Practicesin all courts Offices
Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y.
B. SPANGLER.-Attorney-at-Law. Practices
in all the Courts. Consultation in English
or German. Office in Crider’s E
Bellefonte, Pa.
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at
Law. Office in Temple Court, Belle-
fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal busin Js at-
ed to promptly. 40-46
H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Office No. 11, Crider’'s Exchange, second
floor. All kinds of legal business
to promptly. Consultation in English or Geran
M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. Practices
in all the courts. Consultation in English
and German. Office south of court house.
All professional business will receive prompt at-
tention. 49-5-1y*
KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law,
Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given all
legal business entrusted to his care. Offi-
ces—No. 5 East High street. 57-44.
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul-
tation in English and German. Office
in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5
Physicians.
S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Si
State College, Centre county, Pa.
at his residence.
Dentists.
R. J. E. WARD, D. D. S,, office next door to
Y. M. C. A. room, High street, Bellefonte,
Pa. Gas administered for painless extract-
ing teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work, Prices
reasonable. 52-39
R. H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, Office in
the Bush Arcade llefonte, Pa. All mod-
ern electric appliances used. Has had
years of experience. All work of Superior quality
and prices reasonable. 465-8-1y
Plumbing.
Good Health
and
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-fixtures, foul Sewerape: 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’sthe only kind you
ought to have. Wedon’t trust this 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 r, unsanitary
work and the lowest grade of finishings. For
the Best Work trv
Archibald Allison,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
56-14-1v.
Fruits, Confectionery and
FINE GROCERIES.
White Almedia Grapes, Florida
and Naval Oranges, Lemons, Ba-
nanas, all in good order and free
of frost.
Large Spanish and home-grown
Onions, sound and in good order.
Fine Popping Corn, on the ear
or shelled; this goods will pop.
We have revised the prices
downward on our Beans; come in
and see the fine stock and present
prices.
If you want a fine, sweet, juicy
Ham, let us supply you.
The Finest Meadow Gold Brand
Creamery Butter at 40c per pound.
Sweet, Dill and Sour Pickles; our
Olives by the quart are very fine.
Fine weather yet for using Mince
Meat. Nothing else will compare
with what we make at 15c a pound.
SOME SEASONABLE GOODS.
Spinach 10 and 15c a can; Rheu-
barb, Jersey packed, sanitary cans,
10c a can; Pumpkin 10 and 15c a
can; all large No. 3 cans.
Fine Golden New Orleans Mo-
lasses, by the quart or gallon.
We have some fine Marketing
and Clothes Baskets ready for the
spring trade.
We are still handling the fine
German Kraut. In order to meet
the demand for small quantity, we
have some packed in half-gallon
Mason Jars at 25c a jar.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bush House Block, - - 57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa. |
Farm Implements. .
(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 office Flour
exchanged for wheat.
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
47-19 MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
Caution !
Look before you act.
until you have consulted with the leading
Farmers’ Supply Store,
Don’t pay out your hard cash
59-18
A SE
Because we are at very little expense for we eat at our own table and sleep
in cur own bed and can give you the benefit of traveling expenses, of course
we cannot give goods away and must have a small margin in keeping with
the quality of the goods. We handle everything of the very best make from
Plows, Harrows, Grain Drills, Corn Planters, Cultiva-
tors and all of the leading tilling implements. °
..BROOKVILLE WAGONS...
a specialty; Buggies on: orders, Cutting Boxes, Corn
Shellers, Planet Jr. Garden Tools.
moth Clover, Alsike Clover and Alfalfa Seed, Field
Peas, Millet and Timothy Seed, all of the very best ob-
tainable; Chick Grit and Charcoal, Flax Seed Meal,
Metal Hog Troughs, Galvanized Water-troughs, Spray-
ers and Spray Material, and Seed Potatoes.
Fertilizers just come in and get it
We Have a Warehouse Just For Fertilizers Alone,
and for your accommodation we have both phones—Telephone your wants.
Thanking you for past patronage and soliciting a fair share in the future,
i : I remain truly yours,
JOHN G.
Red Clover, Mam-
If you want
DUBBS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
This Agency represents the largest Fire
Insurance Companies in the World.
— 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,
43-18-1y. BELLEFONTE. PA.
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
BENEFITS:
$5,000 death by accident,
5,000 loss of both feet,
5,000 loss of both hands,
5,000 loss of one hand and one foot,
2,500 loss of either hard,
2,000 loss of either foot,
630 loss of one eve
25 per week, total disability,
(limit 52 weeks)
10 per week, partial disability,
(limit 26 weeks) .
PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR,
pavable quarterly if desired.
Larger or smaller amounts in proportion.
Any person, male or female, engaged in a
referred occupation, includ house-
ping, over eighteen years of age of
good moral and physical condition may
nsure under this poiicv.
Fire Insurance
{ invite your attention to my Fire Insur
ance Agency, the strongest and Most Ex
tensive Line of Solid Companies represent
ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvania
H. E. FENLON,
Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.
50-21.
Fine Job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
o—A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
There is no sf
le of Yorks from the
cheapest er’ to the
BOOK WORK,
that we can 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.