Demo tan Bellefonte, Pa., December 11, 1914. | HOPEFULNESS. O toiling bands of mortals, O unwearied feet, traveling ye know not whither, soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop and but a litle way farther, against the set ting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness, for truly to travel hopefully is a vastly better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.—Robert Louis Steven. son. Ancient Theatricals. The “Agamemnon” of Aeschylus was | first produced at Athens in 458 B. C. | with the other plays of the great Ores- | tean tetralogy. The official record of | the year, which has been discovered, | runs—“Tragedy: Choregus Xenocles of | Aphidna; Poet, Aeschylus.” So we soz} that the modern order of precedence— “So-and-so presents a new play by A. N. Other”--is ancient enough, for the | citizen | who provided and paid for the chorus | choregus was merely a wealthy and a room for rehearsals, and nobody remembers Xenacles of Aphidna to-| day. | ancient Athens. name did not appear in the record. — London Chronicle, Inexpensive Traveling. ‘There was once a lawsuit between Samuel Foote. the famous actor, and a Mr. Ross respecting the Edinburgh theater, let by the latter cr the former. | The matter was terminated in tavor | of Mr. Ross, and Foote was saddled ! with the costs. When he had paid the bill to Mr. Ross’ Scottish solicitor he 8aid to him, “Now, when do you go to Scotland 2” | “Tomorrow.” | “And how do you travel? I suppose, | like the rest of your countrymen, you ' will do it in the most economical man- ner?" i “Yes,” replied he, “I shall travel on | Foote!” | { Revenge of an Eagle. i This may seem a wildly impossible | story, even in the annals of the royal | and ancient game. but golfers wil! be golfers, you know. says the London | Citizen in telling it. ' He said he drove | hard and so high that a lady eagle | who was winging her way over the | course received a little white ball smack on the side of her head. Tae | ball dropped ahout seventeen inches from the hole the golfer was playing | for. Meantime the eagle paused in| her flight and. after circling round a! few times in a considering mood, swooped down and deposited an egg | between the hole and the golf ball. In! revenge she had laid the golfer a sty- | mie! ; | Homespun In the Commons. ' In an interview published in the | Christian Commonwealth Mr. Keir | Hardie recalls his first entry into the | house of commons in 1892 as member for South West Ham, wearing a cloth cap, tweed suit and flannel shirt. | had always worn a tweed cap and! homespun clothes.” he said. “and it never entered my head to make a change. [I believe my wife thought about it and bought a soft felt bat, but it had not arrived when I set out for the house of commons. I received | eight or ten top hats from good heart- ed people in the country afterward, and several people sent me orders on their tailors to get a suit of clothes.” BLL je Pitt as a Talker. Who set the fashion in the house of commons of long speeches? It was the elder Pitt, of whom Lord Brougham said: “He was prolix in the whole texture of his discourse, and he was certainly the first who introduced into our senate the practice, adopted in the American war by Mr. Burke and con- ‘tinued by others, of long speeches— #peeches of two and three hours—by “which oratory has gained little and ‘business fess.” Pitt's ability amount- ed to a vice. He himself confessed that he did not like to take part in a| debate when he had an important state | secret on his mind, “for when once I! am up everything that is in my mind must come out.”—London Spectator. a Oil vn Wood. : Nearly every one thinks that oil will make anything siippery and that it will decrease friction between any two sliding surfaces. This is not 80, for oil poured on wood will actually increase friction, and it has been found generally that anything used as i a lubricant that is absorbed by the thing lubricated will have the opposite effect from the desired one. Wood friction will be decreased by soap or graphite, because these are not ab- sorbed by wood.—St. Louis Republic. Inquisitive. “Your husband is of a studious turn of mind, isn’t he?” . “Yes, indeed. Whenever we have hash he isn’t satisfied unless he knows everything that is in it.” —Detroit Free Complication. But there was oae difference in The leading actor's | i | INNOCENT LADS ARE WHIPPED | Russian Fathers Permitted It Rather | Thar Face Alternative | of Eviction. St. Petersburg.—The Society for : Prevention of Cruelty to Children is | demanding from the war office an in- . quiry into the wholesale whipping of ' children at the Peter Paul Fortress, | ordered by General Daniloff as punish- | ment for the prank of some children. | Included in the military quarters of i the fortress are lodgings for married | non-commissioned officers and their | families. Several of the non-commis- | sioned officers have children, and re- cently while the patrol was passing | across the fortress square, some of | the boys about twelve years old, chil { dren of enlisted men who were play- ing in the square at the time, mimicked the march of the soldiers | and threw pebbles at them. One soldier was hit in the back but | not in any way injured. General Dan- iloff learned of the incident and at once gave orders that all the families should be cleared out of the military quarters unless the father in each | case would consent to flog his sons, Inquiry failed to identify the boy who threw the stone, and with one excep- tion the fathers agreed to carry out the orders to whip their boys. The one who refused was turned out of his lodgings, while the army | surgeon on duty at the fortress was sent to see that each of the other boys received as severe a whipping as his physical condition would allow him to stand. Under the doctor's supervision the orders for flogging were then car- ried out, and according to the infor- mation in the hands of the S.P.C.C, several of the boys were so desperate- | ly punished that they were unable to walk back to their homes, but had to be carried on stretchers. MRS. ANTHONY VISITS PARIS Indiana Woman in French Capital to Show Parisians a Thing or Two About American Styles. Paris —Muncie, Ind., was put on the map when Mrs. C. H. Anthony, wife of the leading banker of that city, created a nation-wide sensation with i her astonishing creations in gowns. Shortly after her first sensational bow ( Mrs. C. H. Anthony. as a creator of fashions, she set so- ciety agog with her lavish display of diamonds embedded in the heels of her slippers. Mrs. Anthony is now in Paris, where she promises to startle the Parisians by showing them some- thing in real classy gowns and dresses strictly American in design, style and make. YOUNG SKUNK ATTACKS BOY An Oklahoma Youth, Camping Out, Had to Spend Night in a Creek After Animal Was Killed. Haskell, Okla.—John Reerink, six- teen years old, with his father, was living in a tent while they were build- ing a barn for a farmer living north of town. One night, becausesit was hot, John took his blanket and went outside under a tree to sleep. He was awakened by something soft nos- ing about his head. He struck at it with his hand and an instant later a set of sharp teeth pierced his ear. His father was aroused by the yells that followed and found a large skunk clinging to the boy’s ear. He killed the skunk. The blanket was buried and John spent most of the night in an adjacent creek trying to wash off the odor. Then he went to a doc- tor to have the ear dressed. The bite of a skunk is often very poisonous. Woman Sues Pie Makers. Rochester, N. Y.—Alleging that when she bit into a custard pie two of her teeth were snapped off as a result of encountering a marble, Mrs. Glenn A. Miller has brought suit for $3,000 damages against Nelson A. White and George N. Perry, pie manu- facturers. a ————————————— Court Refused to Accept ‘Excuse. Chicago.—George Detzler, charged with wife desertion, testified that the reason he left home was because his wife would put his bowl of soup in Cora—I love and I am loved! Dora— Then you must be perfectly happy? the feather bed to keep it warm. The England’s Shortest Ministry. England can beat France in the com- petition for the shortest ministry on record. On Feb. 10, 1746. the Earl of Bath came into power and on the 12th of the same month went out, having merely achieved for his government the historic nickname of the “short lived” administration, The average length of an English ministry has been variously estimated at four, five and six years, but Walpole managed to re. main in power for twenty-one years and. Pitt for eighteen.—London Chron- icle. Street Beggars of Bombay. If the clothes of an ordinary beggar in Bombay were searched cooked food sufficient to “satisfy at least five per- different places. It is well known that food. They eat as much as they can and sell the rest. A Bombay street beggar is a well to do individual and sends home weekly a postal order of 19 or 15 rupees. One of the fraternity sons would be found stowed away in : these beggars are regular venders of : Honest Answer. : The stories told of Snetzier, a fa- mous Swiss organ builder, prove that | he was a man of rare and incorrupti- ble honesty. At one time the parish officers of a country church applied to Snetzler to examine their organ and make improvements in it. ; “Gentlemen.” said Snetzler after a | careful examination of the instrument : in question, “your organ be wort £100 Joost now. Vell, I vill spend you £100 i on it, and it shall den be wort £501" — London Graphic. The Prayer He Didn't Make. { In a certain parish near Dumfries a | newly made elder was summoned to | the sickbed of a parishioner. Being | naturally a bashful man, he was in | great anxiety as to the “prayer he wad ha’e to pit up” and wished to avoid go- | ing altogether. At length he was per- suaded by his wife and started on his ! errand. On his return his wife greeted | him with the query: “And how did ye get on, William?’ | “Oh, grand! He was deid.”—Dundee | Advertiser. f was overheard saying to a brother pro- fessional that he had done badly that day, having “earned” only 2 rupees. pp PRY False Alarm. Mrs. Noowed—Oh, John. our cook is, Where the Hippopotamus Lurks. going to leave us in the morning! Mr. Noowed—What makes you think | s0? “Why she’s been sitting on the kitch- | en floor with a bottle in her hand, sing- Which affords them cover by day ing. And when I asked ber what was and said, ‘We morning.’ ”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. RES a 1 Would Enjoy the Job. mother on a shopping expedition and, | Seeing a large candy man in a confec- tioner’s window, he paused in front of | it with a wistful look; then, turning | away regretfully, said: : “Mamma, I could lick that fellow with both hands tied behind me.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Hazarding a Guess. | “Know anything about golf?” “Not much. Why?" “What's a bunker? Do you know?” | “I suppose it’s one of those cranks | that simply live and sleep on the links.” —Philadelphia Press. i the matter, she threw the bottle at me | won't go home until | ] | river in search of palatable herbs. The | hippopotamus stays with her calf until | One day Tommy accompanied his | Herds of hippopotamuses are not | | found everywhere in central Africa. They stick to the swampy shores ! overgrown with the papyrus plant, | when they come out to rest. At night | they feed on land. sometimes walking | long distances away from the lake or | hippopotamus is a great eater. A cow | the young one gets strong enough to walk and swim. MORAL POWER. | | | None of us can live well by an || occasional good resolution. Every- thing depends on storing up in our. selves, by a habit of right willing | and well doing, a great and ever | increasing fund of moral power, || which shall always be available to | brace us against sudden temptation, || to help us carry out our better pur- || poses and to hold us steady and true to the ideal. Hardware. Suggestions for Xmas Presents. | Aluminum Roasters Enameled Roasters Steel Roasters Carving Sets Casseroles 4 Complete Line 59-11-1y of Your Advertising By HERBERT KAUFMAN “Do Something! Be Something!"’ is a commodity which must be bought with the same common sense used in selecting potatoes, cloth and It can be measured and weighed—it is merchan- It varies just as much as the grocer’s and the lots of the real estate man. * Your cook refuses to accept green and rotten tomatoes at the She does not calculate the number of vege- tables that are delivered to her, but those that she can Neighborhood Author of IRCULATION real estate. dise with a probable value. green stuff, the tailor’s fabrics price of perfect ones. your wife selects a piece of cloth serve the purpose she has in view. erty you consider the neighborhood as when you buy advertising you must find out how much of the cir- culation you can use. You must judge the neighborhoods where your copy will be read, with the same thoughtfulness that you de- voted to selecting the spot where your goods are sold. A dealer in precious stones would be tenement district, and equally short-sighted, in a newspaper largely distributed there. and women who might see what he had to say not ten of them could afford to buy his goods. These thousand without muscle. him, One of the Percolators Fancy Serving Trays Fancy Serving Dishes Brass Candle Sticks SCTE OSE TITS of Community Silverwear Guaranteed. The Potter-Hoy Hardware Co. He could make them willing to do business with but their incomes wouldn’t let them greatest mistakes in publicity is to drop your lines where the fish can’t take your bait. Razors Carpet Sweepers Skates Sleds Wagons Pocket Knives Canary Birds BELLEFONTE, Pa, use. When she first When you buy a piece of prop- well as the ground. Just so foolish to open up in a to tell about his jewelry Out of a thousand men readers would be mass become customers. Yeager’s Shoe Store RRR “FITZEZY” The Ladies Shoe that Cures Corns Sold only at Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA 58.27 Dry Goods, Etc. : a | court refused to accept his excuse and Cora—No—it isn’t the same man! ' sentenced him to jail for six months, Circulation is, as you see, a very interesting subject, but very few people know anything about it. It would surprise you to know that this ignorance often extends to the business offices of news- papers. I have known publishers to continually mistake the class of their readers and have met hundreds of them who had the most fantastic ideas upon the figures of their circulation. While I would not be so harsh as to accuse them of anything more than being mistaken, none the less their tendency to infect others with this misinformation renders jt extremely advisable for you to become a member of the Missouri society—and “be shown.” * (Copyright.) LYON & COMPANY. We are now ready to supply your winter needs at greatest economy. Underwear for men, women, children and infants.: Wool, fleeced and cot- ton, in white and grey. Blankets. Blankets in wool and cot- ton. In wool we have the red, white and gray; also the fac- tory blankets in white and checks. Cotton blankets from 5oc. up. Comfortables from $1.00 to the finest satteen covered. Hosiery. Our stock of winter Hosiery is now at the best. In cotton we can give you the Blue Ribbon and Bursons from 12) to 50 cents a pair. The Blue Ribbon Silk Hosi- ery for men, women and chil- dren have been tested and are the best wearing stockings at prices that will mean a big saving. We buy these direct from the factory. : Rivoli Silk Hosiery—We are also sole agents for Rivoli Silk Hose for ladies. Assort- ment of all the new colors; also in black and white, from 50c. to $1.75 per pair. These values can not be matched at these prices. La Vogue Coats*& Suits. This department is always alive with the newest and lat. est models. We have again this week replenished our stock of Coats and Suits with the newest up-to-date models. We have also added a great many new models in Misses’ and Children’s Coats. Furs. A visit to our Fur depart- ment will convince you that we have the largest and best assortment in Fur Sets and single Muffs; just the thing for these cold snappy days. Prices the lowest. Specials for Little Tots. We have this season added everything necessary to make the little tots warm and com- fortable. In this department you will find all wool crib blankets, wool hand knit af- ghans, drawer leggins, sacks, caps, mittens and boo- tees. The little Eskimo Suits in red, tan and grey, Teddy Bear Blankets and Eiderdown Caps. : See our Holiday Line of Leather Goods, Party Boxes, Neckwear, Ribbons, Gloves, Veil ; ings and Jewelry. Our remodeled store front has been greatly admired. We can now show merchandise with the very best light. We invite all patrons to the new store. Lyon & Co. .... Bellefonte
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