Bowral
Bellefonte, Pa., November 20, 1914,
HIS CURIOUS FALL. |
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It Wedged Him Head Down In a Slit
In a Steep Cliff. f
A personal experience of a highly
sensational character is recorded by A. |
H. Savage Landor in his book “Across |
Unknown South America:”
“The forest near the Secundury river |
was at first overgrown with dense |
vegetation that gave us a good deal of |
work and extra exertion, but after
that. when we got some distance from
the water, the forest was fairly clean, |
except of course for the fallen trees. |
We found troublesome ravines of great |
depth where streamlets had cut their |
way through. |
“In going down one of those difficult |
ravines 1 had an accident that might |
have been fatal. The ravine, the sides
of which were almost vertical, was
very narrow—only about ten metres
across. We let ourselves down. hold:
ing on to a liana. When we reached
the bottom we found a tiny brook
winding its way between great round
boulders that left a space about two
feet wide for the water. | began to
climb the other side. and 1 had got to:
a height of about thirty feet. In order
to go up this steep incline I had set one
foot against a small tree and I pulled
myself up by a liana. Unluckily the
liana suddenly gave way The weight
of the load that 1 had on my shoulders
made we lose my balance so that my
body described a complete semicircle.
1 dropped down head first from that
height on the rocks below.
“Providence once more looked after
me on that occasion On the flicht
down | already imagined myself dead:
but no—-my head entered the cavity
between two great rocks. against
which my shoulders and the load be
came jammed. while my legs waved
wildly in midair. | was forced so
hard against the two side rocks that
I could not possibly extricate myself
It was only when Benedicto and the |
new man came to my help and pulled |
me out that we were able to resume |
our journey | was much shaken anc!
a good deal bruised. but otherwise
none the worst for that unpleasant
fall.”
WEIRD DREAM STORY.
The Startling Vision That Saved the
Lite of Lady Vernon.
The following dream story is told in
“The Story of My Life,” by Augustus
J. C. Hare. The story was told to Mr.
Hare in Rome in 1870:
“Lady Vernon dreamed that she saw |
the butler. with a knife in one hand
and a candle in the other, crossing the
entrance hall, and she awoke with a
great start. After awhile she com-
posed herself to sleep again, and she
dreamed--she dreamed that she saw
the butler. with a knife in one hand |
and a candle in the other, on the mid.
dle of the staircase, and she awoke
with a great shock. She got up. She
thought she could not be quite well,
and she took a little sai volatile. At |
last she fell asleep again. and she
dreamed—she dreamed that she saw
the butler, with a knife in one hand
and a candle in the other, standing at
her bedroom door, and she awoke in a
great terror. and she jumped out of
bed. and she said, ‘I'll have an end of
this; I'll have an end of these foolish
imaginations.’
“And she rushed to the door and
threw it wide open. And there just |
outside stood the butler, with a knife
in one hand and a candle in the other
And when he suddenly saw Lady Ver
non in her white nightdress. with her
hair streaming down her back, he was
so dreadfully frightened that he
dropped the candle on the floor and
rushed off down the staircase and off
to the stables, where there was a horse
ready saddled and bridled, on which
he meant to have ridden away when
he had murdered Lady Vernon. And
he rode away without having murdered
her at all. and he was never heard of
again.”
Clews to His Writing.
Sometimes the worst of handwriting
becomes intelligible when one grasps
the rules, for a man’s script—particu-
larly an author’s—is frequently made
difficult, chiefly by his deliberate or
unconscious inversion of the accepted
rules of calligraphy. Henry Ward
Beecher had a daughter who acted as
copyist, and she read him with ease
simply by remembering three princi
ples—that in her father’s manuscript
no dotted letter was meant for an “i.”
no crossed letter stood for “t" and
that no capital letter ever began a
sentence.
Two Bores.
“Well, dear Emmi. do yon not think
that there is a peculiar marriage state
with our upeighbors? He is always
traveling and leaves—ah-—-his poor
wife alone. That must bore her terri
bly, the poor woman!”
“Well, it is just as one takes it. You
are always at home: that is a still
greater bore.” —Fliegende Blatter
Easily Settled.
“Pa. the doctor at the hospital said
that he would have to have a lot of
cuticle to cure Mamie's burns.”
“Well, tell him to telephone to the
nearest druggist for all he wants and
charge it in the bill.” Baltimore Amer
fean. Eo
Drawing the Long Bow.
Hokus—I once saw an Egyptian
smoking an Egyptian cigarette. Pokus
~I'm a better liar than you are. |
once saw a ‘Turk taking a Turkish
bath.—Judge.
THE FIRST TEACUPS.
They Had No Handles, and Saucers
Were Used as Covers. :
In the middle of the seventeenth cen-
tury tea was introduced into England,
and with it caine the Chinese or *chi-
na’ teacup. Strangely enough, the
men who imported it from the orient
did not themselves understand the
method of its use.
The, Chinese put a pinch of tea into
a large cup without a handle, filled it
| with boiling water and then inverted
a saucer over the receptacle, within
whose rim it closely fitted. The object
was partly to retain the heat, but
chiefly to prevent the escape of the
fragrance of the herb, which the Chi-
nese found most delicious. The infu-
sion was permitted to stand for five
minutes, when it was decanted into
a second cup without a saucer and
daintily sipped.
John Bull, however, emphatically de
clined to take his tea in Chinese fash-
ion. He liked the appearance of the
ornamental ware upon his table, but
he insisted on placing the cup in the
saucer, like a miniature flowerpot, and
used it exclusively to drink from, pre-
paring the beverage in a common in-
stead of an individual receptacle.
In course of time England began the
manufacture of cups and saucers, and
. pictures which have been preserved
from the days of the Stuarts show big,
flaring cups, four inches across the top,
with saucers less than three inches in
diameter. By degrees one dwindled
and the other expanded, until in the
middle of the nineteenth century the
opposite extreme was reached, and
fashionable tea services had cups only
an inch and a half in diameter, accom-
panied by five inch saucers.
The handle of the teacup came from
Mediterranean lands. Originally it
was made of thick and strong earth-
enware and applied to heavy jars and
lamps. Its decorative possibilities pop-
ularized it with Greek and Roman pot
ters, who extended its use to small
amphorae and flagons; but, as the word
“amphora” indicates, the handle was
double. Single handles crept into use
by slow degrees and were probably ap-
plied to drinking cups about the time
that coffee came into vogue in south-
ern Europe, the beverage being taken
almost at the boiling point, so that
some device for lifting the cup without
burning the fingers was found desira
ble.—London Tatler.
A BRIDE FROM THE TOMB.
Odd Romance of Benedello Marcello,
the Venetian Composer.
Benedello Marcello, one of the most
famous Venetian composers, fell in
love with a beautiful girl named Leo-
nora Manfrotti, who married Paolo
Seranzo, a Venetian noble. She died
a short time after Ler marriage, a vie-
tim to the harsh and jealous treatment
of her husband.
Her body was laid out in state in
one of the churches, and her lover
actually succeeded in stealing the
corpse and conveying it to a ruined
crypt in one of the islands, and here
he sat day and night by his lost love.
singing and playing to her, as though
by the force of his art he could recall
her to life.
Leonora had a twin sister, Eliade,
who was so like her that her closest
friends could scarcely distinguish them,
One day Eliade heard a singer in a
gondola singing so exquisitely that she
traced the gondola to the deserted fs-
land, and there she learned later the
fate of her sister’s corpse and the iden:
tity of Marcello, Aided by a servant,
Eliade substituted herself for her sis-
ter’s body, and when Marcello returned
and called Leonora to awake he did
not ask in vain, for apparently she rose
alive from the coffin. Marcello when
he found out the delusion was quite
satisfied and married Eliade, but his
happiness was short lived, as he died a |
few years afterward.—London Tele!
graph.
Damp Room Test. |
To ascertain whether a room is damp
or not place a weighed quantity of
fresh lime in an open vessel in the
room and leave it there for twenty- |
four hours, carefully closing the win-
dows and doors. At the end of the
twenty-four hours reweigh the lime,
and if the increase exceeds 1 per cent
of the original weight it is not safe to
live in the room.
Silver Fox Fur. i
The black silver fox fur is most val-
uable when there is no silver in it—
when it is a pure rich black through-
out. A dressed skin of this sort aver-
ages 30 by 10 inches and will easily
bring $3,600. A good silvery skin.
clear and pure in color, with bluish
underwool, is worth about $2,000.
Cheap Carpet Cleaner.
“What can 1 use to clean carpets?”
asked a correspondent who signed her-
self, rather bashfully, “Young Bride.”
“Have you tried your young hus.
band?” replied the answers editor,
who lost his position just a few hours
after the reply appeared.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Getting It Right.
“He's broke, and the girl he was en-
paged to has dropped him.”
“She dropped and broke him, eh?”
“No. She broke and dropped him.”—
Houston Post.
Just a Hint.
Mr. Staylate—Is that clock right?
Miss De Pink (wearily)—I think it
must need cleaning. It’s been two or
three hours going that last hour.—New
York Journal.
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
- «Plautus.
WEIRD HOUSE WARMING.
Bad For the Old and Helpless Natives
In Dutch New Guinea.
Concerning a peculiar custom discov-
ered among the natives of Dutch New
Guinea, this interesting description is
given by A. F. R. Wollaston in the
Geographical Journal: “On top of the
first steep ridge we came to the first
native dwelling that we had seen in
the country. If was a rectangular
wooden structure, raised on piles about
five feet from the ground. A sloping
ladder or two or three poles tied to-
gether leads to a narrow platform.
behind which is the living room about
ten or twelve feet square. In the mid-
dle of the floor is a square fireplace, |
usually lined with sand or small,
Stones. The walls are made of split
poles placed closely together, and the
roof is made of the leaves of pandanus '
or of a palm if any happen to grow in
the neighborhood. There was a mys-
tery about that first house which we
were never able to solve. It was evi-
dently quite newly built, a small clear- .
ing had been made about it and a few
banana and dracoenas recently planted. |
“Outside the house were a number
of men, women and children. the men
occupied in cooking large quantities of
yams and sweet potatoes and great
lumps of pig’s flesh. We naturally
supposed that it was a sort of house
warming, as in one sense it turned
out to he. The men shook their heads
and pointed in a mysterious way to-
ward the house and made the curious
sign which they are accustomed to
make when they talk of something dis- ]
agreeable. Then they invited us to
enter the house. where we found an
old man sitting by the fire. He was
diseased and decrepit. but appeared by
no means likely to die. He took a
keen interest in our appearance and
enjoyed the tobacco which we gave
him. |
“When we returned five days later
we found the place utterly deserted
and the house a blackened heap of
ashes, on the top floor of which were
lying the charred remains of human '
bones. It was impossible for any one
to say five days earlier that the old
man was going to die—indeed. he must
have lived for months or even years.
What we may imagine to have hap-
pened was this: That as he was un- |
able to get about any longer and find
his own food. his relations did not in- !
tend to support him and that the
preparations we saw were really for |
his funeral feast, but we were puzzled |
by their having cremated him in a
newly built house.”
MADE HIMSELF SAFE.
Young Bessemer Had a Cautious as |
Well as an Inventive Head. |
The most trivial incidents have often
originated the fortunes of our richest
men. Take, for example, the fortunes |
made out of Bessemer steel. This'
genius, young Bessemer, had some idea
of making steel out of iron, but a
poor, newly married young man has !
no means of experimenting on a large
scale. The story 1 must tell as 1 heard
it from an intimate friend of Bessemer
and is a true tale. i
After Bessemer had in his small lab. |
oratory experimented with the metals
and at last obtained the desired result
by blowing air through melted iron he
found in the bottom of the crucible a i
little lump of the famous steel. Now
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the question was how to make the dis-
covery public. He put the lump of
steel into his pocket and made his way |
to Nasmyth of steam hammer fame. !
Placing the metal on Nasmyth’s desk, |
he told him that he had made this ex- |
traordinary discovery. which would;
revolutionize the whole metal world. |
Then came a little incident which
shows what wonderful heads these '
Scotch financiers possess. What do’
you think Nasmyth said to his excited
inventor?
“Eh, mon, it's vary risky to show |
your wonderful invention. The world |
is vary dishonest.” |
To which the aspiring inventor re-
plied:
“Right, Mr. Nasmyth. I just calcu- |
lated who 1 was coming to see, 80 with |
my last half crown 1 registered the |
invention on my way.”—London Strand |
Magazine.
——Have your Job Work done here.
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Flour and Feed.
Bilious people have a sorry time. Their
lives are practically divided into three
periods: The time when they are com-
ing down with biliousness, the time when
; they are down, and the time when they
are getting over the attack. Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets relieve biliousness, and
sick and bilious headaches, and they
do not make victims of the pill habit.
——For high class Job ‘Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
Coal and Wood.
A. G. Morris, Jr.
DEALER IN HIGH GRADE
ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS
AND CANNEL
COAT
Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw
and Sand.
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$
ALSO
FEDERAL
STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD
BOTH
’PHONES.
LIME AND LIMESTONE.
Meat Market.
Attorneys-at-Law.
(Get the Best Meats.
i , thin
Rode ir Agua
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
You save nothin,
or gristly meats,
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, best blood and muscle mak-
ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no
higher t 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.
Bell:fnte now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where .
Meals are Served at All Hours
St . Cho, Roasts, sters on the
RT I RT By
wiches, Soups, and anythi le, can
be had in a few minutes any time. In ad-
dition I have a complete plant prepared to
furnish Soft 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.
Money to Loan.
MZ 10 LOAN on good security and
0 ;
houses io Yen). M. KPICHLING,
Attorney-at-Law
51-14-1v. Bellefonte
LIME.
Lime and Limestone for all purposes.
LIME.
H-O Lime Put up in 40 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.
tne
soma
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Groceries.
Groceries.
Fruits, Confectionery and
FINE GROCERIES.
The Finest Meadow Gold Brand
Creamery Butter at 40c per pound.
Large Spanish and home-grown
Onions, sound and in good order.
If you want a fine, sweet, juicy
Ham, let us supply you.
Oranges are a standard fruit for
all seasons. The goods we are now
receiving are the California Valen-
cia variety, of excellent quality at
25c, 30c and 40c per dozen. Extra
fancy large fruit at 50c and 60c per
dozen.
Bananas are also an all-year-
round fruit. We give careful atten-
tion to having nice, clean yellow
fruit. When you want some nice,
clean fruit send us your order and
you will be pleased.
Our Olives are large and of the
very finest flavor at 40c per quart.
Burnett's and Knight's Extracts,
Crosse & Blackwell’s Table Vinegar
in bottles. Durkee’s Salad Dressing.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
‘Bush House Block, - -
571 +.
mmm,
Farm Implements.
Buy some of our fine cheese and
compare it with other goods.
We have a fine grade of Olive
Oil in tins of half pint, one pint and
one quart size. But none of the oils
in tin will compare in quality or
body with our high grade Rae's
Lucca Oil which comes only in
glass of three sizes, at 30c, 50c and
90c per bottle.
STIILL IN THE PRESERVING SEASON.
We sell pure Spices by weight
only—we keep no package Spices.
We have a full strength pure Cider
Vinegar and a White Vinegar of
high grade, each one at 25c per
gallon. You can depend on these
goods being just what you want.
New Evaporated Peaches, Apri-
cots and prunes are just now ar-
riving. We are up-to-date on all
these items. Let us have your
orders.
Bellefonte, Pa.
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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
place in the county where that extraor-
ly fine ‘grade of spring wheat Patent Flour
SPRAY
can be secured. Also International Stock Food
‘and feed of all kinds.
of Grain bought at the office Flour
for wheat.
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
The only
dinari
All kinds
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7-19
Farmers’ Supply Store,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
look it over—price is right.
Scrap,
SAR
The Cow and Hen are Money Earners,
The American Cow and Hen are money earners and the question is all in
the balanced rations, that are required to bring out their productiveness.
FEED THE COW ENSILAGE
and use the Blizzard Ensilage Cutter for Silo filling. All Experimental Sta-
tions use the Blizzard. Easy to operate and has a self feeder, making it ab-
solutely safe for the operator. We have one here on our floor. Come in and
THE NEW IDEA MANURE SPREADER
is second to none and will do the work to your satisfaction. Wiard Walking
and Sulkey Plows, Spring and Spike tooth Harrows, Single and Double Disc
Harrows, Steel Land Rollers, Grain Drills, Galvanized Water Troughs, Cast
Iron Hog Troughs—rat proof, any length, Galvanized Chain Pumps—good
for all time, force and lift easy. Running Pumps carried in stock—put in
the well and guaranteed. Cutting Boxes and Corn Crackers, Corn Shellers—
both hand and power, Poultry Netting, Poultry Grit, Oyster Shells, Beef
Alfalfa Meal and Charcoal—everything to make the hen profitable.
BROOKVILLE WAGONS A SPECIALTY.
Ladders—both single and extension, up to 40 feet,
at the right price and will stand up to the State's
carry 5 to 6 grades in stock to suit all customers and at prices as low as any tramp agent
offers you as he says at cost. Look out for the runners who are selling at cost.
JOHN .G. DUB
for le picking. All kind of field SEED
‘Test. Don't ey about Fertilizers, we
BS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law,Belle
fonte, Pa. Practicesin all courts Office.
Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y.
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B. SPANGLER.-Attorneyv-at-Law. Practices
in all the Courts. Consultation in English
or an. Office in Crider’s Ex
Bellefonte, Pa.
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at
W. ce in Temple Court, Belle-
fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at-
tended to promotly. 40-46
H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Office No. 11, Crider’s Exchange,
floor. All kinds of legal busi
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to promptly. Consultation in English or German
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. y*
KENNEDY POHNSTON—Attorney-at-law
Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given all
legal business entrusted to his care.
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
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Physicians.
S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Su;
W State College, Centre county, Pa. "Bifice
at his residence. .
Dentists.
es—
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
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H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, Office in
the Bush Arcade elefonte. Pa. All mod-
as
years of exboronis. A er of eerie, ad
and prices reasonable. 45-8-1y
Plumbing.
Good Health
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-fixtures, foul sewe: , Or escaping
g , you can’t have good Health. The air yon
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 work to
ys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics,
no better anywhere. Our
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not acheap or inferior article in our entire
establishment. And with good work and the
finest material, our ;
Prices are lower
than many who give you Ir, unsanitary
work and the lowest grade of onan . For
the Best Work trv : i
Archibald Allison,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
56-14-1v.
comnts.
+ 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 hand,
2,000 loss of either foot,
630 loss of one eve
25 week, total disability,
Pe mit 52 weeks) i
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 in
referred vccupation, includi house
eeping, over eighteen years of age
(ri and physical condition mas
insure under this poiicv. :
Fire Insurance
{ invite your attention to my Fire Insui
ance , the strongest and Most Ey
Br of Solid Companies represen’
ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvan.
H. E. FENLON,
50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa
Fine Job Printing.
FINE J OB PRINTING
0—A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
‘There is no le of work, from the
Ta “Dodger” to the firiest
BOOK WORK,
tha: we can not ‘do in the most satis-
a, and at Prices conaist-
pple ly, Call on or
communicate with this office