Beat dpa Bellefonte, Pa, November 27, 1914. etna 5 " FATHER STUMPED THEM, A Test In Mental Arithmetic That Worried the Students. They had a schoolboy and schoolgirl party at a Brooklyn man’s house the other night. Father and mother were permitted to mingle with the young folks for awhile after the edge of the | first fun had worn off. There were | games that the elder folks knew noth- | ing about, and they sat like wallflow- ers. Finally a game of arithmetic was started by a boy who is considered the ! best cipherer of his class in the high | school. After several problems had been given of an odd nature, over which there were much laughing and puzzling, father dared to speak up. Said he: “Boys and girls, they used to give us this example in mental arithmetic when 1 went to school. 1 suppose fit will be easy for you, but it’s the best I can suggest to take part in the game.” And he recited this couplet: If a third of six were three What would a fourth of twenty be? The score of boys and girls present went at it. They wrinkled their brows, and they pursed their lips. The use of pencil and paper was not permitted. The mathematician had not been among the first to try an answer. He was plainly a little perplexed. He asked to have the problem repeated and wanted father to reassure him that it was a mental arithmetic exam- ple. Finally he, too, gave an answer. But father shook his head. “Well. then. papa, for goodness’ sake tell us what it can be,” said his daugh- ters. “The answer is seven and a half, and I'm surprised to see that I'm able to stump all you high school stars,” grin- ned father. “Come, mother, we may as well depart. They don’t play the same arithmetic games that we did.” The high school mathematician at first declared that father was jn error. | But next day he admitted that the an- swer was correct and that all had been | stumped.—New York Sun. AN OLD TALE OF TWO CITIES. Travel From New York to Philadelphia In Stage Wagon Days. In the New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy of May 9. 1768, appeared this notice: To the Public: That the Stage-Waggons, kept by John Burnhill, in Eim-Street, in Phila- delphia, and John Mercereau, at the New-Blazing Star, near New-York, con- tinues their Stages in two Days, from Powles-Hook Ferry, opposite New- York, to Philadelphia; returns from Philadelphia to Powles-Hook in two Days also; they will endeavor to oblige the Publick by keeping the best of Waggons and sober Drivers, and sets out from Powle-Hook and Philadel- phia. on Mondays and Thursdays, punctually at Sunrise, and meets at Prince Town the same Nights, to ex- change Passengers, and each return the Day after: Those who are kind enough to en- courage the Undertaking, are desired to cross Powles-Hook Ferry the Even- ings before, as they must set off early. The Price for each Passenger is Ten Shillings to Prince Town, and from thence to Philadelphia, Ten Shillings more, Ferriage free: There will be but two Waggons, but four sets of fresh Horses, so it will be very safe for any Person to send Goods. as there are but two Drivers; they may exchange their Goods without any Mistake. . Persons may now go from New-York to Philadelphia, and back again in five Days, and remain in Philadelphia two Nights and one Day to do their Busi- ness in: The Publick may be assured that this Road is much the Shortest, than any other to Philadelphia. and regular Stages will be kept by the Publick’s obliged humble Servants, JOHN MERCEREAU and *JOHN BARNHILL. To Prevent Exaggeration. There was once a gentleman who, having killed a man, presented him- self to the editor of a newspaper. “I have come,” he said. “‘to tell you about a painful occurrence at my house. My brother-in-law and I had an argument, and [I stabbed him, and then, in the excitement of the moment. I cut his throat. Knowing what ex- aggerated stories are apt to get into the newspapers, I thought I had better step around and tell you exactly what did happen.”—London Spectator. Ice Peaks of New Zealand. In southern New Zealand the line of perpetual snow is much lower than it is in the Alps of Europe. It varies, of course, in different parts of the range; but, generally speaking. a mountain 12,000 feet in New Zealand carries as much snow and ice as one of 15,000 feet in the Swiss Alps, and New Zea- landers point with pride to glaciers comparable to the Aletsch and the Mer de Glace. Just to Prove it. “You have squandered my entire for- tune. ” “Well, before we were married you asked me if I would love you as well if you were poor, and [ said 1 would, and I have made you poor to convince you I told the truth.”—Houston Post. His Genius. “Why do people think he's a genius? Nobody can understand what he’s talk- ing about.” “No. but he can make people believe ‘to deal with hundredths. ‘of Rome? that he does.”—Hxchange. \ SHOW PAST IN ITS TRUTH, Buildings Which Have Survived Are | ! the Most Valuable Historical Rec- ords the World Has. It has been said that history was the written order of things. No doubt what had been written was of enor- mous value, but it was not all, and even where we had a literature of the past . it was in some cases not the greater part of what conveyed the past to us, sald Profi. Fiinders Petrie, in London, the Philadelphia Public Ledger states. Where should we be in the under- standing of the ancient Greeks if there were no statuary and no sculpture? How could we understand their mag- nificent sense of accuracy, precision and refinement if there were no archi- tecture to study? Many years ago, with regard to the great question of the restoration of the Parthenon, the objection was made that no person could ever get to know precisely how the columns were put together. Professor Petrie thought it was only a question of measurements, and he bought a lathe in Athens and did some careful measurements. To his intense surprise he found he could not detect the errors. There were none. He thought he was going to deal with tenths of an inch, but he found he had How the Greeks did it, he did not understand. He could not comprehend the physical means of doing it en that scale. That was only an instance of how much a btiilding could teach them. Who could appreciate the accuracy, the sense of perfection and the sense of beauty, if we had not these material remains? Then, if they looked a little later, let them consider how miserable was the greater part of the histories of the emperors. What did they understand They understood the Coli- seum — the majesty of it and the cruelty of it—they could understand the magnificent temples, the great architecture, and they could see from that what Rome was far better than by reading all the imperial historians. And if they looked a little later what was there in the whole writings of the thirteenth century which gave them such a perfect picture of the medieval mind as Salisbury cathedral? He ventured to give these as illus- trations of the value of the material civilization side by side with the civi- lization of the people, because he thought they would enable them to grasp perhaps more clearly how much they could ascertain and feel and know about the civilization of which they had material remains. They enabled them to understand the feelings, senti- ments and ideals of those bygone men from their literature. The question of material evidence might seem a dead and dull thing, but he ventured to think they were as much a key to the mental designs and powers as any other form of expression. Remembers Flora Temple. Spectators at the United shoe ma- chinery trial yesterday in the United States district’ court enjoyed the re- partee between Judge Putnam and Frederic P. Fish of counsel for the defense, says a Philadelphia paper. At- torney Fish was arguing on the patent question involved in the anti-trust suit against the United company, and as a means of illustrating a point re- marked: “You can put a race horse in a plow and you can put a plow horse in a race.” Here Judge Putnam interrupted to say: “Flora Temple was a plow horse.” “Yes,” responded Attorney Fish, “but she soon got out of it. I remem- ber seeing her in a box car at Taun- ton.” “Why, I didn’t think you were that old,” replied Judge Putnam. “Oh, Lord,” replied Attorney Fish, ‘you don’t know what an old fellow I am. I remember Flora Temple well, and I know what her time was, too. It was 2:27.” By this time the whole courtroom full of lawyers and spectators was in rears of laughter, and Judges Dodge and Brown, sitting with Judge Put- aam, joined in the merriment. Cat Trees Peanut-Thief Squirrel. Policemen are reputed to have a penchant for fruit-stand peanuts, but the Judiciary square squirrels cause the Greek who conducts the store op- posite City hall the most anguish, as they are a thieving lot. Hourly they cross the street on foraging expedi- tions, but one nearly came to grief, says an exchange. The squirrels became so bold mn preying on the peanuts that the Greek recently installed a large cat as guard- fan of the stand. While the cat appar- ently was snoozing on the shady side of the stand an unsuspecting squirrel slipped up. The feline leaped and so did the little thief, the latter up a small tree. For nearly two hours the terrified squirrel hung on a limb with Thomas keeping a sharp vigil below. A fox terrier came along about noon and drove puss into the store. The squir- rel snatched a peanut and ran back to the park in triumph. Petroizum for Germany. Petroleum deposits of considerable extent have been discovered near Ei- tape in the southwest of German New Guinea, and the whole territory has, subject to the consent of the impe- rial council, been declared a close re- serve in order that no mining claims may be established by private indi- viduals or concerns. It is expected that the reichstag will vote $125,000 to be spent by the local authori- ties in boring and prospecting. Noth- ing definite so far is known concern- ing the quality of the petroleum or the extent of the supply. ; German scientist. MUSICAL HEADS AND FACES. They Have a Shape All Their own, | Says a German Scientist. That all musicians are “freaks,” so i far as their physical appearance goes, , "is the opinion of Dr. Paul Sohn, the Not only this, but he finds that, regardless of their race or nationality, all persons of marked mu- | sical ability show a close resemblance to one another in the shape of their heads and faces. The head and coun- | tenance of the typical musician often look very much like those of the lion or the sphinx. : The peculiar shape of a musician's’ head is due, Dr. Sohn believes, to the gradual expansion of the sound center | of his brain and the consequent change ! in the conformation of his skull. This | is why the heads of Wagner, Beetho- ! ven, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss | and other great musicians all have an! eccentric, abnormal and sometimes fan- | tastic appearance. A musician's sound center develops abnormally because it | is there that everything in his life finds its motive. ! The musical head and face are of a : primitive type, because musical genius ; is a reversion to the time when men communicated their ideas by means of more or less inarticulate sounds. But, | although the musician’s physical ap- pearance is barbarous in its lack of beauty and regularity, it contains no hint of degeneracy. i The typical musical head is charac: | terized by the horizontal breadth of the forehead. the broad nose and chin and the wide, extremely mobile mouth. ' The. brow often overhangs greatly, as was so notably the case with Beetho- | ven. The eyes are lustrous, but bear a separated, dreamy expression. The liands are broad and strong. “Musicians,” says Dr. Sohn, “are ab- ' solute slaves to their sense of sound, | and it is this that not only affects their physical appearance, but makes them mentally so nervous and excitable. The main feature of the musical intellect is that mental excitement seeks a differ- ent outlet from that in the case of ordi- nary men.”—New York American. MARK TWAIN AS A LINGUIST. His Grim Vow After He Firmly Decid- ' ed to Learn French. i When Mark Twain was a young re- | porter, working on the San Francisco Call, he made up his mind to learn the | i French language. He did not want to | go to the expense of a teacher, and 80 | he bought a grammar and conversation book and set to work. Before breakfast he pored over the lessons; late in the | evening he was at it again, and every | available moment of the day he em- | ployed with equal assiduity. He soon began to look about for op- | portunities to make use of his new ac-! complishment. Accordingly he began to | eat at a French restaurant once a week. ' One day as he and his roommate were coming out of the restaurant they | found on the sidewalk just outside the door a Frenchman. He was asking first one passerby and then another the | way to a certain street. but no one un- derstood him. That was Mark's | chance. The Frenchman looked at him with wistful eyes and began ta talk. Mark listened attentively. Three, or four times the stranger was cora- | pelled to repeat his question, then | Mark seemed to catch his drift. But, he had scarcely spoken half a dozen | words in reply, when the Frenchman fell to the sidewalk in a dead faint. | The true cause of the stranger's fainting may never be known. Very likely he was famished, and perhaps he had been put out of this very res-: taurant because of his seedy appear- | ance. But, whatever the cause, the joke was on Mark for once. Mark’s roommate was careful enough of his’ friendship not to tell the incident at the office of the Morning Call, but he teased the rising humorist a good deal about it. When the fun had lasted | long enough Mark set his jaw, and | with unlimited determination written on his features announced, “I'll learn French if it kills every Frenchman in the country!”—Youth’s Companion. It Sure Is! : Isn’t it strange that with a world fuil of perfect babies there are no perfect men and women?—Woman’s Home Companion. ——Have your Job Work done here. 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 a Flour SPRAY can be secured. Also International Stock Food and feed of all kinds. All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour xchanged for wheat. OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET. BELLEFONTE, PA. 719 MILL AT ROOPBSURG. Horse Fountains Reopen. Horse watering fountains maintained | by the Women’s Society for the Preven- | I tion of Cruelty to Animals will again be | placed in use very soon. There are 39,! all of which were closed on June 1st be- | cause of an epidemic of glanders. That | | epidemic is over and the prohibition has | i been removed. I Coal and Wood. A. G. Morris, Jr. DEALER IN HIGH GRADE ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS AND CANNEL COAL Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw and Sand. ALSO FEDERAL STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD BOTH °’PHONES. Yard: Opposite ‘P.R.R. Depot. 58-23-1v Jd i Meat Market. |Get the Best Meats. You save nothin, poor, thin or gristly meats. I use BY buys the LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and supply my customers with the fresh- est, choicest, 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 Ww Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the half shell or in any style desired, Sand- wiches, Soups, and anything eatable, can be had in a fe ‘ew minutes any time. In ad- dition I have a complete plant prepared to 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. Money to Loan. ME TO LOAN on good security and ! houses to rent. i Moe t-Lay orney-at-Law, Bellef 51-14-1v. onte Pa. LIME AND LIMESTONE. LIME. Lime and Limestone for all purposes. H-O Lime Put up in 40 to 50 Pound Paper Bags. LIM! \+J American 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: Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa Stone Company., General Office: TYRONE, PA. The Centre County Banking Company. “STOP, LOOK, LISTEN!" A Lawyer received $10,000 for suggesting these words to a railroad. The sign, “Stop, Look, Lis- ten!” saved the road many thousands of dollars in damages. It’sa good sign. It’s worth $10,000. Wise people are often warned by a similar sign on the road of extravagance. They stop in time. How about yourself? Think this over seriously. A bank account is the Best Kind of Security at any time. If you haven't a bank account now, start one at once. Any account, however small you are able to begin wi'h, will be welcomed and carefully conserved at THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK, sos BELLEFONTE PA. Farm Implements. ~ SLEIGHS AND SLEDS — AT THE —— Farmers’ Supply Store. Sleighs ranging in price from $25.00 up. All old comfort square backs, some spring Sleighs and some without springs, Come in and make your selection while the stock is com- plete and take it home and then you will have it when the snow comes, which will be soon. . Also genuine Buffalo Robes, Cast Iron Hog Troughs, Galvanized Water Troughs, BROOKVILLE WAGONS Corn Shells, Blizzard and hand Fodder Cutters, Pumps of all kind. THE NEW IDEA MANURE SPREADERS Poultry Grits, Charcoal, Beef Oats—something fine. ground Flax Seed Meal Call in and look us over. JOHN G. Both Phones. Scrap, Oyster Shells, Hulled Old process Flax Seed Meal, pure and Cotton Seed Meal. A good warm store and fair treatment. DUBBS, BELLERONTE, PA. : Attorneys-at-Law. KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law, Belle i fonte, Pa. Practicesin all courts Office Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y. B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices in all the Courts. Consultation in Linplish or German. Office in Crider’s Exch | Bellefonte, Pa. S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Temple Court, Belle- | i fan Pa. All kinds of legal business at- . | i | | i i i { | { | { ; tended to promotly. H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office No. 11, xchange, J Crider’s E; floor. All kinds of legal business af to promptly. Consultation in English or Gerthan M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. Practices in all the courts. Consultation in E; and German. Office south of court house. {30 professional business will receive prompt at- | tention. Po iye KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attomey. -at-law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given sali legal business entrusted to his care. Offi- | eso: 5 East High street. 57-44. G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul- tation in Hughish and German. Office in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5 Physicians. . GLENN, M. D., Physician and Sur; State College, Centre county, Fa. Sttice at his residence. : Dentists. : R. JE . WARD, D. D, S., offi td .M.C.A. room, Hi High tres Boi Sih 30 Pa. Gas administered for painless extract- ing teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work. Prices 52-39 reasonable, R. the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All mod ern electric appliances used. Has had years of experience. All work of Superior quality and prices reasonable. 45-8-1y H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, Office in Plumbing. Good Health and 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 breathe is poisonous; your system becomes poisoned and invalidism is sure to come. GO 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 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 poor, unsanitary work and the lowest grade of finishings. For the Best Work trv 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’ Stone Building, 43-18-1y. “ BELLEFONTE, PA. TATA | The Preferred Accident Insurance THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY BENEFITS: $5,000 death by accident, 5.000 loss of both feet, loss of both hands, loss of one hand and orie foot, loss of either hand, loss of either foot, loss of one eve 25 per week, total disability, (limit 52 weeks week, partial disability, ime 26 weeks) PREMIUM §12 PER YEAR, pavable quarterly if desired. Larger or smaller amounts in In proportion Any person, male or female, in preferred ccrupsion, including” house ee , over e mo and physical condition max insure under this policv. BST BTL BST TBO LOM dln TT ? Fire. Insurance {invite your Sttention to my Fire Ina ance Agency, the strongest and 2 So AT Solid Companies represen! ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvan. H. E. FENLON, Agent, Bellefonte, Pa 50-21. we Fine Job Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING o—A SPECIALTY—0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE. There is no style of work, from the cheapest 2 bodger to th e finest "BOOK WORK, that we can not do in the most satis- ry manner, and fan the of ee Call or with Slate WO! on communicate with this office’
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