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Bellefonte, Pa., January 22, 1915.
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STAR OF THE STAFF.
Morrison was about as likely a cub
as ever drifted into the office of the
Madison World with lofty ideas of
the “journalistic profession” and a
firm resolve some day to set the na-
tion aflame. It is true that he was a
little taken aback when, after a month
of probation, he was placed on the
“salary list” at ten dollars a week,
but he had read somewhere that Dana
was once a city editor at liitle more,
and he took courage. :
Duffy, the managing editor, told
him he was to be congratulated on
getting any salary at all in so short
a time.
“Why, on the New York ——” he
told Morrison, “college students serve
six months without pay, and are glad
of the opportunity. Anyway, you
haven’t caught the World style. Watch
SBnead’s articles and youll get a line
on what we want.”
Snead was the star of the staff, and
Morrison always regarded him envi-
ously as he came in from an assign-
ment and tore off reams of stuff that
was practically railroaded to the com-
posing-room with scarce a touch of the
editor's pencil. Snead put no dis-
count on his own work.
There was but one man in the
World editorial rooms who did: not
share Duffy’s opinion of his pupil—
for Snead himself had been a cub un-
der Duffy. That was Billings, who
handled the telegraph.
When in a good humor he had been
known to chuckle over some of it.
At other times he might have been
heard- to mutter, “Slush.”
It was a bleak day in January. A |
heavy snow had fallen, blockading the |
car lines and putting business to the
bad all over town.
into the office with the police reports,
which he threw in a heap on Duffy’s |
desk for inspection, and settled him-
self to write an article on East Side
distress.
Duffy glanced the reports through, |
and entered the various assignments |
on his book. This completed, the re- !
porters came forward to receive in-
structions for the day.
“You, Morrison,” he said, “look up
this distress case. Take it down:
Mrs. Edith M. Lindeman, 1125 Calvert !
without food |
street; two children;
two days. Here's an order on the
cashier. Buy her food and wood if
she needs it; and write a half column,
sure.”
Morrison sallied forth that morning, |
armed with the office currency, and
fought his way through the snowdrifts |
toward the East side. It was a pe-
culiarity of the town that one might
find wealth and squalor side by side
even in what was known as the “ex-
elusive section.” But it must be con-
fessed that Morrison was somewhat
nonplused when he read the number
1125 on the door of a veritable man-
sion.
“Here’s the devil to pay,” thought
the reporter as he consulted his notes
again. But there were the figures
staring him in the face.
A maid, neatly attired in cap and
apron, answered his ring. Yes, Mrs.
Lindeman lived there, and what was
his business, please. He felt iike a
tool as he blurted it out.
“A mistake, of course,” he finished,
with a laugh.
“Quite a natural one, though,” said
a quiet voice behind the maid. A
woman, evidently the mistress, came
forward. She was a strikingly hand-
some young woman, but her eyes were
very sad.
“Marie,” she continued, “this gen-
tleman no doubt is looking for that
Italian family in the rear. I had no
{dea they were in such straits. It is
the rear of 1125 you want. The maid
will show you.”
. Guided by Marie, Morrison entered
an alleyway which emerged on anoth-
er running just behind the Lindeman
house. Ascending a flight of rickety
steps, he brought up at the door of a
squalid tenement.
An hour later a groceryman and a
wood-dealer had relieved the imme-
diate wants of the Sonnatini family,
and Morrison, with two receipts made
out to the World, was hurrying to the
office to write the story of his life.
Duffy was knee-deep in copy, but
he liked that. He handled all the
“local,” and kept the linotype opera-
tors crying for quarter most of the
time.
Morrison had finished his story and
was off on another assignment. Snead
was grinding out a suicide, with the
usual tear trimmings. Duffy weeded
out the copy rapidly, casting the
“slop,” as he called it, right and left
and piling up the spicy matter for the
regular two o'clock edition. Morri-
son’s Sonnatini story came in for
rapid perusal and immediate disfavor.
“D—n that cub!” muttered Duffy.
“Come on, Snead,” he called out.
“Cut that story off. I've got a good
one for you.”
He caught up the assignment-book.
“Take this down: Mrs. Edith M.
Lindeman—got that? 1125 Calvert
street—two children—husband miss-
ing—starving—World sent supplies.
Throw a good heart-throb into it.
“Hey, Jimmie,” to the office-boy,
“tell the foreman these receipts go on
the first page with story; De Vinne
caps, in box! Now hustle, Snead!
Tear that off as quick as you can.”
Morrison got it when he returned.
“Now ‘look here, my boy,” said
Duffy. “You've got to brace up. Get
a little style into your stuff. That
story of yours would be all very well
Snead tramped |
} atter all those years of living
straight!” he muttered.
1'wo hours later Lanyon arrived in
Jersey City with a good half-hour to
spare before his train was due to
start. He sat down in a corner of
the waiting-room and pulled out his
time-tables. But,
himself up to his thoughts.
Somehow, he could not get his land-
lady’s pretty daughter out of his mind.
He had tried hard to forget her, but
his thoughts always came around to
her again before long, and every now
and then he would ask himself how
she would regard him after she had
heard the news.
He glanced up at the line of people
sitting facing him on the opposite
benches, and over their heads to the
big clock on the wall.
him that the minutes were dragging
terribly. He was getting nervous.
shoulder toward the entrance. He
could feel his heart thumping against
hands were trembling.
prison came before him. He heard
the clanging of the great steel doors,
the sharp orders of the keepers. He
straightened up with a frightened gasp
and looked about in alarm. It was
reassuring to find that no one was
watching him. But would his train
never be called?
How he wished he was safe across
the Honduran border!
it would be to feel that he need have
no fear of capture!
this time. He glanced from one to
instead of poring !
over them as he had intended, he gave :
It seemed to |
He gave a startled look over his |
And then a vision of the gray, bleak |
What a relief | ,,v ty itself. The queen thanked him
another of the long row of travelers |
| in front of him, slowly turned his gaze :
to the doors where the passengers
FINALLY LEARNED THE TRUTH
Queen of Roumania Had to Go Im
cognito to Ascertain Real Worth
of Her Voice.
In her youth, Queen Elizabeth of
Roumania spent much time on the
. training of her voice, and, encouragev
by flatterers, came to believe herseh
to be a singer of unusual talent. At
length, says Bibliothek der Unter
haltung und des Wissens, she decided
to have her voice tried by some great
teacher. So she went one day, dressed
very simply, and without the usual
retinue of servants, to see Professo:?
Dumanois of Bucharest, and urged him
to give his frank opinion on the quality
of her voice, and her future prospects
He tested her voice with great care.
first with the simple scales, then with
, a song, and lastly with an operatic
his ribs, and as he looked down again |
at the time-tables he saw that his |
aria.
When the trial was over, the profes
sor said: “I cannot say that you have
a wonderful voice. You sing fairly
well, and with not a little feeling. 1
might undertake to train you to sing
in operetta; but to speak quite frank:
ly, you haven’t the looks for it.”
Up to this time the teacher had not
known that the rank of the aspirant
was any higher than that of scores of
other young ladies, equally ambitious,
who constantly came to him. But his
surprise was great when the lady
handed him the visiting card of the
queen, and he found that he had be-
fore him no less a personage than
' heartily for the frank way in which
| he had judged her musical ability, and
Again his eyes wandered about the
room, keenly observant of the crowd
were filing in from the ferries, and
then—
“Dwyer!”
He choked back the cry that rose to
his lips and sank back in his seat, !
white and trembling. Far down at |
man he had robbed.
For a moment Lanyon’s nerve de
i serted him completely. He felt that
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! ered him, and that escape was im-
possible. Probably Dwyer had not
come alone. At any rate, there were
always policemen near at hand in
| such a place.
| Dwyer came forward very leasurely.
| For a man on the trail of a thief who
{ had relieved him of a fortune, he
| seemed to be singularly unperturbed.
| He even stopped to laugh at a crow:
| ing baby on one of the benches. Still,
it was just like the old man never to
| betray his true feelings.
| Never before had Lanyon been
through such agonizing moments of
suspense. He felt that the strain was
more than he could bear, that his
nerves would give way, and he would
cry out if he had to endure it much
longer.
At last Dwyer saw him.
“I've been looking for you, Lanyon,”
he called, as he stepped up to the
bench.
The old man seated himself by Lan
yon’s side, and, lounging back, chewed
thoughtfully at an unlighted cigar.
Apparently, he was dividing his at
tention between the cigar and the
clock on the wall, but Lanyon knew
that the tail of his eye was upon him
all the time. At last, he said slowly:
“lI know all about that prison rec
ord, Lanyon. Your friend Berrian has
just given me the whole story.”
“Berrian! He told you!” cried Lan-
yon, and in that moment the remnants
of his faith in human nature van
ished.
“Yes, he told me,” Dwyer conti
nued. “And, I’ve come here to let you
know I won’t hold it up against you.
You've done good, faithful work for
me for ten years, and I believe I can
trust you.
“You weren’t much more than a boy
when that happened. You've learned
a good deal since then, I guess.”
Lanyon felt as if he were in a
dream—a dream that had brought one
fleeting glimpse of hope, and then had
plunged him in despair. A mist came
into his eyes. .
At last his hand went into his pock:
et, and he pulled out a roll of bills.
“Mr. Dwyer,” he said, “this money
is yours. Even though I am a thief,
I couldn’t rob a man that’s treated
me as you have. But, you see, you
made a mistake about wanting me
back.”
Without the least show of surprise,
Dwyer took the bills and counted them
very slowly. Then he put them care
fully away in his pocket.
“f guess when a man goes wrong
more than once there isn’t one person
in a hundred who’d be willing to trust
him again,” he said.
“I don’t believe there is,” Lanyon
assented, leaning forward and cover
ing his face with his hands. -
“Unless it’s somebody that’s gone
wrong himself and knows what it is
to live it down,” said Dwyer.
He laid a hand on Lanyon’s shoul
der. “I was in Trujillo myself thirty
years ago. But they got me at last.
I did my turn behind the bars. And
if Berrian’s father hadn’t given me a
chance, I'd have been behind ‘em
again before very long, like as not.
“Go up to Maine, my boy. That
old mother of yours will want to see
you. And then come back.”
Real Sarcasm.
A Texas court has decided that
money is not baggage. Those who pack
their bank notes in a trunk when they
travel will therefore remember that
the do so at their own risk. Money is
such a bother!
the other end of the room was the
he was lost, that Dwyer would surely
search the room until he had discov:
went home with her ambition in that
direction decidedly diminished.
MUCH SOUND; LITTLE EFFECT
Protest of Champ Clark Reminded
Alabama Statesman of
Humorous Story.
The most dramatic day of the Sixty-
third congress was when Champ Clark,
the speaker of the house, took the floor
for his famous speech explaining why
he opposed President Wilson’s policy
of repealing the Panama canal tolls
exemption law. Clark was on the los-
ing side, and everybody knew that the
vote would certainly uphold the presi-
dent.
While the speaker was delivering
his remarks in his vibrant, booming
voice, Tom Heflin of Alabama walked
through the Democratic cloakroom.
Even there the thunder of Clark's
voice was audible.
Heflin stopped, laughed and said:
“That reminds me of an old colored
man down in my state. He was work-
ing out in the middle of a field on a
hot summer day. It was so hot that
the heat seemed to be simmering vis-
ibly wherever you looked. After a
while the midday train rushed by
about half a mile away, whistling for
a crossing and roaring and thundering
as it went.
“The old man watched it go by,
took hold of his hoe and stooped over
his work once more. Then he said,
talking to himself:
“‘Boom! Bing! Bum! Hum! But
[I's gwine to ride you nex’ Sadday
night!’ ”—Popular Magazine.
Big Business Helps Missions.
It has often been said that business
in foreign lands has owed much to
Christian missions in opening up new
territory to trade. It now develops
that missions will owe something to
big business. It has been the custom
for the home offices of the foreign
missionary societies to pay their rep-
resentatives in the field by foreign
drafts. The war has made this
method impossible. The treasurers of
the various missionary boards at a
joint meeting voted to appeal to some
American mercantile house doing
business in every part of the world.
They decided to ask the Standard Oil
:ompany to become the agent of the
mission boards for the transmission
of meney to their stations in foreign
fields, and through its treasurer the
arrangement was speedily made. The
readiness of the company in doing this
without compensation is indicative of
the spirit of co-operation for the com-
mon good which underlies our great
corporations.—Leslie’s Weekly,
Carrying the Polish Jewels.
If the archbishop of Cracow, in his
flight from the threatened city, has
really taken all the sacerdotal treas-
ure with him his load must be a
heavy one. For in the cathedral, an-
cient Poland's Westminster abbey,
were gathered rich tribute in gold
and jewels from generations of Polish
lords and ladies. The kings of Po-
land—and many of her uncrowned
kings—are buried in the cathedral.
Here Kosciusko sleeps. Cracow in
the days of its metropolitan glory shel-
tered 80 churches within its walls. A
third of that number remain, more
than enough for the present popula-
tion.—London Chronicle.
School Children’s Health.
Boston’s health authorities have
started another vigorous campaign
against giving communicable diseases
of children a foothold in that city.
School physicians are urged to in-
quire at the homes of children the
‘cause of their absence, and in an
open letter to parents the authorities
advise that physicians be consulted
in every case where the child com-
plains of throat affection.
Goatskins Scarce in Mexico.
There is to be a shortage of goat-
skins from cenfral Mexico for at least
two years to come, because of the fact
that breeding stock and young goats
have been taken for food.
— GRR
A woman needs to give double care to
the preservation of her health—once for
her own happiness and once for the
health and happiness of the children she
may have. How often does she take
this extra care of herself? Rarely, in-
deed, until she has entered upon a course
of suffering, and has learned from ex-
perience the necessity of care. It ought
to be a part of the mother’s duty to in-
struct her daughter in the necessity of
preserving her womanly health. The
budding girl ought to be taught that the
high office of motherhood has its weighty
obligations and responsibilities, and that
if there is peril in motherhood it is chief-
ly due to the neglect of the necessary
laws of health. The best way for young
women to protect and preserve their
womanly health is to use Dr. Pierce’s
Favorite Prescription on the first symp-
tom of irregularity. Irregularity is the
beginning, often, of complicated and pain-
ful feminine disorders. ‘‘Favorite Pre-
scription’’ regulates the periods, relieves
inflammation, ulceration and female
weakness, soothes and strengthens the
nerves and enriches the entire body with
vigor and vitality. It contains neither
alcohol, nor narcotic.
-—They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best.
Hood's Sarsapariiia.
Severe Rheumatic
Pains Disappear
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA WILL SURELY
BRING RELIEF—DON’'T SUFFER.
Rheumatism, which perhaps causes more suf-
fering than any other disease, depends on an
acid which flows in the blood, affecting the mus-
cles and joints, producing inflammation, stiffness
and pain.
This acid gets into the blood through some
defect in the digestive processes, and remains
there because the liver, kidneys and skin are too
torpid to carry it off. ) J
Hood's Sarsaparilla, the old-time blood tonic, is
very successful in the treatment of rheumatism.
It acts directly, with purifying effect, on the
blood, and through the blood on the liver, kidneys
and skin, which it stimulates, and at the same
time it improves the digestion. :
Don’t delay treatment until you are in worse
condition. Get Hood's and begin taking today.
Flour and Feed.
CURTIS Y. WAGN ER,
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 ony 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 pought at the office Flour
xchanged for wheat.
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
: BELLEFONTE. PA.
7-19 MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
1
Meat Market.
(Get the Best Meats.
You save nothing by buying poor, thin
or gristly meats. [use only
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, 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,
——— — ————
Attorneys-at-Law.
KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law,Belle
Office
fonte, Pa. Practicesin all courts e
Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y.
B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices
inall the Courts. Consultation in English
or German. Office in Crider’s Excl
Bellefonte, Pa.
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at
Law. Office 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, second
floor. All kinds of legal business a
to promptly. Consultation in English or Gertidn
M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. Practices
in all the courts. Consultation in E
TRY MY SHOP. Sd and German. : Office south of court house.
PL BEEZER, a profession usiness receive prom Hl
High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
3 KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law,
Bellsfonte, Pa. Prompt, aitention Riven af
e; usiness en 3 -
Restaurant. ~e—Neoo East High pion os “a5.
: G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul-
ESTAURANT. tation in Susie and German. ¥
v Bell efonte 2ow has a FirstClass Ress in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5
urant where
Physicians.
, Meals are Served at All Hours
i S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Sur;
i + Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the State College, Centre county, Pa. Ofice
| half shell or in any style desired, Sand- at his residence. 35-41
wiches, Saupe, and anything « ie, can
be had in a few minutes any time. In ad- D tists
dition I have a complete plant prepared to entists.
furnish Soft rinks in bottles such as
i R. J. E. WARD, D. D. S., office next door to
| PO Jia ODAS 1 M C. A E00, Hi 2 street, Bellefonte,
» a. Gas niste extract-
SARSAPARILLA, Bridge wor
i
| SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.,
! for pic-nics, families and the public gener-
| ally all of which are manufactured out of
i the purest syrups and properly carbonated.
| C. MOERSCHBACHER,
50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa. *
Money to Loan.
ONEY TO LOAN on good security and
houses to rent.
J. M. KEICHLINE,
Attorney-at-Law,
Bellefonte Pa.
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Coal and Wood.
51-14-1v.
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DEALER IN HIGH GRADE
| A. G. Morris, Jr.
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"ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS
AND CANNEL
I FOAY
| Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw
and Sand.
| FEDERAL
' § STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD
BOTH 'PHONES.
Yard Opposite mn
LIME AND LIMESTONE.
LIME.
‘H-O Lime Put up in 40
Lime and Limestone for all purposes.
LIME.
to so 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 Lime
American Lime & Stone Company.,
Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa
General Office: TYRONE, PA.
Groceries.
Groceries.
Fruits, Confectionery and
FINE GR
OCERIES.
Oranges, Lemons and Bananas
are standard all season fruits. We
are now receiving new crop Florida
and California Valencia varieties of
sweet fruit at 30c, 40c, 50c and 60c
per dozen. Lemons 30c and 40c
per dozen. Bananas 15c, 20c and
25c per dozen. Nice Grape Fruit
at 5c each.
New crop California Prunes 12¢,
15¢ and 18c per pound. New Evap-
orated Peaches 10c, 12c and 15c. !
Apricots 18c, 20 and 25¢c per pound.
All fine fruit.
Creamery Butter from the Fox
River (Illinois) Creameries. Finest
Meadow Gold Brand 42c per pound.
New crop California Walnuts and
Almonds, Cocoanuts, Celery, Cran-
berries, Sweet Potatoes, Oysters
. direct from the shell-—We do not
handle any Baltimore tub Oysters
SECHLER & COMPANY,
57-1
Bush House Block, -
Evaporated and Dried Corn, very
fine, new goods, 15c and 25c Ib.
We are always ready to fill
orders for our own make of Mince
Meat. It is the only goods on the
market that has the fuil portion of
beef in it and in general merit far
above any other brand.
Cranberries, solid red fruit at 10
and 12c. per guar, We use the
“legal standard dry” quart meas-
ure—there is a difference.
Buy some of our fine cheese and
compare it with other goods.
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.
If you want a fine, sweet, juicy
Ham, let us supply you.
Bellefonte, Pa.
ing teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work. Prices
reasonable.
R.H. W.
the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All mod-
ern electric appliances used. Has
years of experience. work of Superior quality
. 45-8-1y
TATE, Surgeon Dentist, Office im
and prices reasonable.
Plumbing.
Good Health
an
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
: S——
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-fixtures, foul sewerage, 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 énly 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 Bes
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
14-1y.
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
his resents the largest Fire
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— NO ASSESSMENTS —
Do not fail to give us a call before insuring your
Life or Property as we are in position fo write
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Office in Crider’s Stone Building,
43-18-1y. BELLEFONTE, PA.
The Preferred
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, Over een 7
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house
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o—A SPECIALTY—0
AT THE
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a the
There is no le of ork from
BOOK WORK,