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Bellefonte, Pa., June 12, 1914.
DEADLY SNAKES IN AUSTRALIA
Many Species Are There, Yet Fatal
itles From That Source Are by
No Mean Common.
“Snakes hereabouts?” I chanced to
Inquire.
‘“Thaosands,” said the sawyer.
“Deadly?”
“They tell me, and I believe it,” he
replied, weighing his words, “that the
death-adder and tiger-snake kill in
half an hour. I'm told,” he drawled
on, in harmony with the droning weath-
er, ‘that a dog won't last no more
than twenty minutes. The death-ad-
der, now, he’s a slow, stupid beast, and
won't move along. The tiger-snake
comes at you; but the death-adder,
he’s a slow, stupid beast—-lies still
and bites when you tread on him.
There's the black snake, too, and the
brown snake—they’'re deadly; and a
few others, like the tree snake, and
maybe some more. I reckon the car
pet-snake is the only snake we got in
this country that can’t do too much
damage.”
“Mortality high?”
“What say? Oh! Well, I'll tell you,
if you go hunting for snakes you're
likely to be kept real busy; but if you
mind your own business, and give the
snakes a chance to mind their own
business, and if you look out for them
slow, stupid death-adders, you're likely
to be let off. I heard tell of a kiddie
being bit once. He put his hand in a
rabbit-hole.”
“Did the child die?”
“Ah, well, no; he took an anecdote.”
It had been a mild abrasion; for
these snakes—the black snake and ti-
ger snake and death-adder in particu-
lar—are more virulently poisonous
than the rattlesnake or cobra. Yet
death from snake-bite is by no means
common in Australia.—Norman Dun-
can in Harper's.
HIS CARD OF IDENTIFICATION
Bmall Boy Unfortunately Presented It
at Time When Young Lady Least
Appreciated It.
She was entertaining her first beau
In the parlor, and the occasion was a
kind of breathless ome, for she was
fair and modest and flowerlike and
unaccustomed. She wore the roses he
had brought her, and he kept his kid
gloves on, for the call was formal.
There was a ring at the doorbell. The
caller was a small boy. Was her little
brother at home?
No. Little brother was not at home
She was not always so very polite
about little brother, but this time she
outdid even the book of etiquette.
She was so sorry little brother was
not at home. Who should she tell him
had called to see him?
Unfortunate question!
“Well,” said the small boy in tones
that had nothing to conceal, and by
way of identifying himself, “you may
just tell him the guinea pig's got little
ones—and then he'll know who it is
that’s called.”
Rattlesnake’s Age.
The general belief that the number
of its rattles is a true guide to the age
of a rattlesnake has small foundation
in fact. According to Mr. Elwin R.
Sanborn of the New York Zoological
park, a very large snake may have
few rattles, and a small snake twice
as. many as the big one. A rattle
snake frequently loses rattles through
violent contact with rocks or bushes—
a loss that nature replaces at the rate
of about three segments a year. The
baby rattlesnake has a tiny button
where his rattles will ultimately be.
Thus, according to the usual theory,
at the end of the first year he will ap-
pear to be three years old, or perhaps
three years and a half, if the button
is considered as the beginning of a
new rattle. Probably the number of
the rattles increases for a certain
number of years, remains stationary
for another period, and then decreases
as the snake grows old. That is the
course of growth and decay in the
horns and antlers of hoofed animals.
—Youth’s Companion.
Canine Newsdealers.
Two Chicago dogs—an Irish terrier
and a water spaniel—the property of
a successful newsdealer of that city,
are proving themselves very useful to
their master. If the latter goes ta
funch, or has to leave his stand for a
time, the two watchful animals sell
newspapers for him. “Rex,” the Irish
terrier, perches himself on the stand
and grips between his teeth a big cala-
bash pipe and a copy of a newspaper,
while “Brownie,” his partner, takes up
his position on a little soapbox beside
the stand and holds in his teeth a lit-
tle “plug” hat for the safekeeping of
the pennies. When a passerby buys a
paper “Brownie” sits up to receive the
coin. Both of the dogs seem to have
a flerce as well as a sharp eye to busi-
ness, and their master places great
faith in them.—Wide World Magazine.
Must Not Whistle In Russia.
In « rtain cities of Russia street
whistling by civilians is a penal of-
fense, the privilege being reserved
for the police; who exercise it, how-
ever, not in order to make tunes with
their mouths, but to send signal blasts
to each other. The whistling habit
being hereditary, it soon disappears,
and in these cities no difficulty is ex-
perienced in dealing nowadays with
the few who offend.
|
i COLONY HAD ITS DARK DAYS
Prosperous Sierra Leone Gave Little
Promise of Being a Success When
it Was Started.
The first settlement in Sierra Leone,
the prosperous British colony on the
west coast of Africa, was made in
1786. At that period London swarmed
with free negroes living in poverty
and on the verge of starvation, and Dr.
to Africa to found a colony was ac-
cepted as the best solution of the diffi-
culty. The first shipload of colonists
consisted of 400 negroes and sixty
whites, the latter principally women
of bad character. Although land for the
colony had been purchased from the
native king, the Africans were not
friendly, and a hostile attack, together
with the shiftlessness of the colonists,
almost brought the venture to ruin.
[n 1791 the survivors were removed to
a new settlement, and in 1793 the pop-
ulation of the colony was inereased by
the introduction of 1,200 negroes from
Nova Scotia and the Bahamas. In
1794 th: settlement was again trans
ferred to Freetown, now the capital of
the colony and the greatest seaport
on the west coast of Africa. In the
early days the government of the idle
blacks was no sinecure, and Sydney
Smith remarked, not without truth,
that Sierra Leone always had two
governors—one just arriving and the
other just leaving. The soil of Sierra
Leone is exceedingly fertile, but few
white men are able to live there.
SOME “DUTIES” ON THE SIDE
Village Postmaster Had Other Affairs
to Attend To Besides Those of
His Uncle Sam.
A conversation, printed in the Buf
falo News, seems to indicate that in
some communities the most burden-
some duties of the postmaster are not
always those that the government reg-
ulations prescribe.
Joe Hénderson stamped into the
postoffice.
“Mornin’, Mr. Morely.”
“Morning, Joe!”
“Has Tom Warden been in fer his
mail yet?”
“No.”
“Will you be here when he comes?"
“Yes.”
“Well, when he comes, will you tell
him that on his way from the cheese
factory I wish he’d stop and get that
shoat of Herman Langer’s and take it
down to Fred Wilkins, and tell Fred
I said he could have it fer that single
harness even up, if he'll fix up that
bridle and throw in them russet lines
stead of the old black ones; and if
he won't swap, tell Tom to bring the
shoat down to my place, and put it in
the extra pen, and be sure and shut
that door to the hen house, or all ‘the
chickens’ll get out. Sure there ain’t
no mail? Mornin’, Mr. Morely!”
“Morning, Joe!”—Youth’s Compan-
fon.
Making the Best of a Pest.
A farmer in the parish of Maitland,
Nova Scotia, recently came across a
skunk’s nest that had three tiny young
ones in it. The little skunks were
only a day or two old, and instead of
ruthlessly destroying them, the farmer
picked them up and carried them
home.
The family cat had been raising a lit-
ter of four kittens, three of whom the
farmer had drowned, and after a few
suspicious sniffs, she consented to
adopt the little skunks in place of the
lost kittens. The skunks did not suck-
le in quite the same way as the Xit-
ten, and it was interesting to watch
Tabby push and box them into posi-
tion. She soon got them in excellent
order, and pussy and her quaint fam-
ily afford lots of amusement for the
children of the neighborhood. The far-
mer intends to make his find the nu.
cleus of a skunk farm, and when the
success of the fox farms of the mari-
time provinces is considered, it ap-
pears possible at least that he will find
the venture porfitable. Skunk is at
present among the most valuable of
furs.—Youth’s Companion.
Captain’s Wall.
“It’s the office boy,” said the captain
of a great liner, “who has taken the
romance out of seafaring. Steam had
nothing to do with it. In the old days
the master of a steamer was a great
man he stood almost as high socially
as did officers of the navy. Now he has
to face an impudent little whelp of
a boy when he goes to the owners’ of-
fice at the end of a voyage. At sea,
the captain is the absolute master,
but in the office the boy is supreme.
He looks the captain over and then
grunts: ‘Sit down; he's too busy to
see you now. So the captain cools
his heels while later comers march
past him. He goes through that on
every trip, and yet he dare not quit his
ship for fear he may not get another.
I can find you 50 captains who had
rather stay on the bridge through a
No. 1 gale than face the little jeering
devil in the owner's office.”
Prompt Cure for Anemia.
Towns with sealing wax factories
have no difficulty in getting girl labor
cheap. Girls employed in the resin
department of sealing wax factories
are probably the plumpest and health:
fest class of girl workers. Beste 7
that disease from which the majority
Smeathman’s scheme for sending them
Estimating Loss by Smoke.
England is making an organized at:
tempt to measure, by means of instru
ments standardized by the smoke
abatement committee, the extent of
the soot and dust existing in the at
mosphere of several large towns. The
instrument to be used follows the
principle of the rain gauge, a given
area being exposed to catch all solid
matter that either falls by gravity or
is borne down by rain. This is col
lected in a glass receiver placed be
neath a duct leading from the collect:
ing surface. The receiver will be re
moved once a month and replaced by
a fresh one.
Full Explanation.
The Germans have a way of making
compound nouns and sentences with
the verb two or three pages further
on, which to the student of Teutonic
languages is somewhat perplexing.
The six-year-old daughter of a friend
of mine, however, can go the Germans
one better. While walking with her
mother the other day, she bowed to 8
young woman.
“Who is that?” asked her mother.
“Why, don’t you know?” explained |
the small daughter. “She is the little
irl-with-red-hair-who-sits-next - to - me
at-school’s-mamma.”—Exchange.
For Left-Handed Persons.
Enterprising manufacturers make
various articles for the special benefit
of left-handed people. Besides scis
sors adjusted for their use, you can
buy left-handed screws, gimlets and
other tools. And, most thoughtful of
all contrivances to minister to thei:
physical peculiarity, corkscrews twist
ed the wrong way, as a right-handed
person would think, for left-handed
butlers and waiters.—London Chron:
icle.
Beyond All Regulation.
No labor union has ever been or
ganized that could regulate the wages
of sin.—Detroit Journal.
Medical.
The Weary Way
DAILY BECOMING LESS WEARISOME TO
MANY IN BELLEFONTE.
With a back that aches all day,
With rest disturbed at night,
Annoying urinary disorders,
Tis a weary way, indeed.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are especially for
kidney trouble.
Are endorsed by Bellefonte citizens.
“I suffered for Ten from weak kid-
neys,” says Mrs. Mary Hull, of 223 S. Al-
legheny St., Beilefonte. *‘Not long ago
the trouble me worse and I knew that
if I didn’t do something to Check it, it
would become serious. I had a dull pain
across the small of my back and often
sharp twin darted through my body
and nearly bent me double. I could hard,
ly straighten after stooping. Dizzy s|
were common and black spots often otis
ed before my eyes. One of my family
had taken Doan’s Kidney Pills an she
said they did her a lot of good, so I decid-
ed to try them. They greatly relieved
the backache and removed the dizzy
spells.
since.’
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t sim) mol ly
ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s
ney Pills—the same that Mrs. Hull had.
Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
59-20
I have had very little Hon 4
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 yeur wife, $2. Hot and
cold running water in every room
The Ryerson Ww. Jennings Co.
59-9-6m
Flour and Feed.
As to Love.
“Is love nice?” one little girl ques-
tioned another. “It depends,” was the
answer, given by a member of a large
family of older brothers and sisters,
“it’s nice when you love your mother,
but when you love other young men
and women it’s hard on the rest of
the family.”
Coal and Wood.
A. G. Morris, Jr.
DEALER IN HIGH GRADE |
ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS
AND CANNEL
ICOAT |
Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw
and Sand.
ALSO
FEDERAL
STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD
BOTH ’PHONES.
LIME AND LIMESTONE.
Meat Market. Atiorneys-at-Law.
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S LE NoopaI erie
nte, ra in
Get the Best Meats. Room 18 Crider’ he 51-1-1y.
b; ing poor, thin B. SPANGLER.-Att -at-Law. Practices
on gristly ae — = the in all the Courts. at i in English
" LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
——— 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 w!
Meals are Served at All Hours
Steaks, Cho Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell o Oe any style desired, Sand:
wiches, Soups, and an e, can
Sharh ox mimes ARE
e
BE I a 1D oarad fo
POPS,
SODAS,
SARSAPARILLA,
SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.,
f -nics, families and the public gener-
HES of whioh are Fnanifgcsared | out of
the purest syrups and properly carbo
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Money to Loan.
ONEY XO LOAN on good security and
houses to rent.
M. KEICHLINE,
I Attorney-at-Law,
Bellefonte
51-14-1y. Pa.
LIME.
Lime and Limestone for all purposes.
H-O Lime Put up in 40 to 50 Pound Paper Bags.
\*J
LIM
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, Tveone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa
General Office: TYRONE, PA.
Groceries.
Groceries.
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, sweat, 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 15¢ 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,
571 - -
Bush House Block, - -
Farm Implements.
Bellefonte, Pa.
(CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
* Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
ufactures and has on hand at all times the
a brands of high —p flour:
WHITE STAR :
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
place inthe county where that
Ey vor. a extraon
SPRAY
red. Also International Stock Food
San be secured. 4 oo, temarions
All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour
exchanged for wheat. 5
OFFICE and STORE BisHOP STREET,
’ BELLEFONTE, P.
‘4719 MILL AT ROOFBSURG.
Caution !
Look before you act.
until you have consulted with the leading
Farmers’ Supply Store,
Don’t pay out your hard cash
Because we are at very little expense for we eat at our own table and sleep
in our 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.
motk 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 PR . loins solic!
JPN. G.
59-18
ESAT
Red Clover, Mam-
If you want
ting a fai re in the future,
DUBBS,
“BELLEFONTE, PA.
FINE JOB PRINTING
or German. Office in Crider’s Ex
Bellefonte, Pa. Se a
S. TAYLOR—Atto: and Counsellor at
ce in Tem le Court, Belle-
usiness
40-46
Law.
Jonte, Pa. Allkinds
to promotly.
H. WETZEL—Attorney and lConselivE ation
Office 8 11, Crider’s Exchange,
floor. kinds of legal business
to promptly. Al ine ps in English or Gettin
M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law._ TEs ices
i sll the ¢ courts. Consultation
German. Office south of ot Elghh
All pa business will receive prompt at-
tention. 1y®
OHNSTON—Attorney-at-law,
KENNEDY 2
Blisonte, 7 a, Prompt attention given all
usiness entrusted
ror-NoR 5 Bone Hoo Hich street.
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 S
State College, Centre county, Pa. Office
at his residence. 3541
to care. Offi-
57-44.
Dentists.
R. J. E. WARD, D. Dn, Si office next door te
Y. M. C. A. room, efoute.
eto So refit Ba CT
uperior Crown and Bridge wo!
reasonable. 52-39
D* H. )) TATE Sur; dig ny OFce in
‘onte, Pa. All mod-
ances used. Has
work of Superior quality
45-81y
Qe i al
years of sxpesignce.
and prices reasonab!
Plumbing.
Good Health
Sood Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-| fixtures, f sewsrage, or escaping
as, you can’t Toy 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. Wedon’t trust this i to
boys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics,
no better anywhere. Our
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior Sriicle 1 in our entire
establishment. And with good work and the
finest material, our
Prices are lower
than many who give you Tr, unsanitary
work and the Jomest grade of finishings. For
the Best Work
Archibald Allison,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
56-14-1v.
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 Dy 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 hand,
2,000 loss of either foot,
630 loss of one eve
Jota) Bl disanility,
25 per wi
Pe oe
10 per week, et disability,
(limit 26 weeks)
PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR,
pavable quarterly if desired.
alate or smaller amounts in proportion.
or female
preted JSecupation, includi
good moral and physic
under this poiicv.
Fire Insurance
Oy insur
the strongest ost Ex
tensive Line G0 Solid Companies Jepresent
ed by any agency in it antral Perey}
H. E. FENLON,
50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.
Fine Job Printing.
o——A SPECIALTY—0
! AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
There of from the
BOOK WORK,
that we can not do in the most satis-
EE oh, on or
Cotamunicate with this office.