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Bellefonte, Pa., January 22, 1915.
A FISH-CHOWDER FEUD.
From the galley companion came
the noisy clanging of the supper-bell.
Twelve men hurriedly dropped the
trawls they were baiting and crowded
into the narrow forecastle. Tom Den-
nie, the thirteenth man, was rather
more leisurely.
His way across decks to the fore-
castle took Tom past the galley, and
at the companion hatch he stopped
to sniff.
“Fish-chowder again!” he grunted
in complaining and soulful disgust.
“Fish-chowder all the time! Nothin’
but fish-chowder on this old tub!”
Even as he stood there, mumbling
his complaint, Evie Bishop, the trawl-
er’s fat cook, came puffing up the com-
panionway with a big flat basket filled
with heavy crockery mugs on his |
arm. In his other hand he bore a '
huge and steaming coffee-pot.
Tom glared savagely at the cook.
Then he sniffed the odor drifting up
from the galley and glared harder.
“Fish-chowder!” he snorted again.
“All the time it’s fish-chowder on this
here craft! What’s the matter with
yer, Evie? Can’t you make nothin’
but that eternal fish-chowder?”
Now fish-chowder—his particular
variety of fish-chowder—was the pride
of fat Evie Bishop's simple heart.
Any one who maligned that chowder
touched Evie on the quick.
“The boys seem to relish that chow- |
der pretty much,” said Evie with cold
and crushing scorn.
“Well, I don’t,” snapped Tom. “I’ve
ett chowder till I'm ashamed to look
a decent fish in the face.”
“There's them as says they couldn’t
never git enough of that chowder,” |
Evie declared with pride.
“Well, that ain’t me,” growled Tom.
“Seems to me it's time we had some-
thin’ else for supper once in a while.”
“What’s the matter with the chow-
der I make?’ Evie demanded, and his
tones made the question a challenge.
Tom shrugged his big shoulders and
threw out his hands, palms upward, in
a despairing gesture.
“What ain’t the matter with it
would be a simpler way of puttin’ it,”
said he.
The blood surged into Evie’s thick
neck, and thence to his leathery
cheeks.
“Don’t you go to malignin’ my vit-
tles,” he said hoarsely. “That's a
good chowder. I've been told by any
quantity of folks that my chowders
was the best they ever ett. It’s only
ignorammersuses like you that ever
finds fault with it—folks that ain’t
never been used to nothin’, anyway—
block-headed ignorammersuses, that
can’t even read,” he emphasized his
most telling shot.
With his nose high in the air, he
swept grandly past Tom Dennie and
into the little forecastle.
Tom waited there until Evie, grin-
ning maliciously at the way his shot
had gone home, came out of the fore-
castle again.
In a moment Tom’s big fingers were
gripping tightly the cook’s left fore-
arm.
“Say, yer wanter take that back
that yer jest said about me—about
my bein’ ign’runt,” he hissed.
“Huh! I do—do I? Yer can’t even
so much as read,” the cook taunted
again. .
“You eat them words of yourn—
you eat em right now!” bawled Tom,
giving the arm a more excruciating
twist.
Evie still had the big coffee-pot in
his hands. Now he lifted it quickly
and turned a good pint of the scald-
Ing fluid onto the back of the hairy
hand that was twisting his arm,
With a yowl of rage Tom caught up
an iron capstan bar. What he might
have done with it there is no telling,
but at that moment the skipper, at-
tracted by the uproar, came poking
out of the cabin.
“Here! What’s goin’ on here?’ he
roared. “No fightin’, now. What's
the trouble between you two? Drop
that bar, Tom! Drop it, I say! And
you, cooky, stop a menacin’ of him
with that coffee-pot. Now you git into
yer galley; and you, Tom, go into the
fo’castle and git yer supper.”
“I'll git that darned cook before I'm
done,” Tom threatened to the men
about the table. “Jest went and scalt
me, he did.” :
The fishing was good that trip. Tn
five days’ time they were running
for T wharf with a full favre. They
swept past the lightship just after
dark.
Tom Dennie, tumbling aboard after
the last of the mooring-linegs were
fast, almost collided with Evie Bish-
op, just coming out of the galley. For
a moment they glared at each other.
Then the cook spoke.
“Tom,” he said, “we been a chew-
In’ away at each other and neither
one gittin’ any satisfaction. Whatter
yer say if me and you goes ashore
and settles this man to man fashion?
If I wallop you, you buy me the best
dinner I can eat up to Cotter’s, in
Dock square, and if you put it over
me I'll buy the dinner for you. Is it
a go?”
“Yer bet it's a go,” said Tom with
alacrity.
~ T wharf is no place for settling
such difficulties, so they poked down
the avenue, crawled through the gate
of a wharf below, found an ideal lit-
tle spot, even enough and properly
lighted, and peeled off their coats.
There was a moment of cautious
circling; then they closed. The near-
by freight-sheds echoed to grunts and:
~
{ half-choked oaths and thudding blows.
|The cook drew first blood on Tom's
nose, but a moment later he spat forth
|two of his front teeth. Then a bolt
| of lightning, or a cannon-ball, or a
| mule kick, or something of the sort
, caught him full on the jaw.
{| When the whole solar system had
, ceased to sparkle before his eyes and
- he scrambled weakly to his feet an-
other bolt of lightning—or was it a
14-inch shell ?—caught him once more.
Tom stooped and pulled the cook to
. his none too steady pins.
“Now yer can buy me the feed. I'm
hungry for a good feed,” said he.
“Yer’ll get it as soon as we can git
| to Cotter’s,” declared Evie.
Cotter’s in Dock square was well
nigh deserted when they got there.
| Tom was rubbing his battered nose,
and looking at Evie with a new and
i decidedly respectful interest. A wait-
| ress brought them red-bordered nap-
kins and laid a bill of fare before
| each.
| Tom picked him up, blinking at it
solemnly.
“Anything you want, yer know,”
| Evie invited.
The respect in Tom’s eyes grew.
' Also he grinned across the table at
his companion—a grin that lost some-
what in effectiveness by reason of
Tom’s badly split lip.
“Ye're a game little man,” declared
Tom, whacking the table with one
mighty fist. “Yer put up a peach of
[a fight. I wouldn’t ’a’ believed yer
had it in yer. I know a game one
when I see him, Evie; and that bein’
the case, yer’ll not be findin’ me
bleedin’ yer any. Just bring me—”
Tom paused. He wrinkled and un-
{ wrinkled his heavy brows as he
scanned that bill of fare.
ticed he was holding it upside down.
“Bring me some of this and a cup
of coffee,” said Tom pointing a pudgy
page.
Evie Bishop, let it here be stated that
he did not so much as change a
muscle of his face when the waitress
set ‘before the open-mouthed Tom a
large and steaming bowl of—fish-
chowder!
(Copyright.)
| GAVE AWAY HARD-LUCK PIN
Hotel Clerk Who Got It Not Afraid
of Ominous Warning That Ac-
companied It.
clerks at the McAlpin were a little
somebody, by accident or otherwise.
Colonel Behan, who drove his auto-
mobile over here, has not escaped the
illlluck engendered by the possession |
of the pin, which is a dark stone, on |
which is carved a head that might be |
that of a Viking or a Hindu demon. '
Colonel Behan did not murder a man, |
but six months after the pin came in '
to his possession his automobile
struck an old man in Washington
with fatal results. He told Elbert
that he had since given the pin to
three or four other persons, and that
each had returned it to him after a
spell of nervous prostration. He of,
fered the pin to Elbert, but the latter
hesitated. Yesterday Elbert jokingly '
remarked that he would take that pin |
and the risks accompanying it if Colo |
nel Behan was really in earnest. The
colonel took the pin from his tie and
passed it over.
According to the story that goes
with the pin, it was at one time the
property of an Indian prince. Elbert
says he is not superstitious, but he
isn’t going to walk under any ladders.
—New York Times.
The Value ot Good Clothes.
Eccentricity is not to be desired
either in dress or manners. It is only
another name for vanity. Still, there
is something to be said for those of
us whose circumstances often require
us to wear garments not cut after
the prevailing mode. Good clothes,
however, made in any fashion except
the “latest extreme,” have a marked
effect upon the mental condition of
the wearer. Even Emerson deigned
to discuss the moral effect suitable
clothes had upon certain tempera:
ments. He says: “If a man (or wom-
an) have not firmness and have keen
sensibilities, it is perhaps a wise econ:
omy to go to a good shop and dress
irreproachably. One can then dis
i ‘miss all care from the mind, acd may
easily find that performance an addi
tion of confidence, a fortification that
turns the scale in social encounters.”
You have all heard the experience of
the woman who declared that the
sense of being well dressed gave her
a feeling of inward peace which re
ligion was powerless to bestow.—Sub-
urban Life.
Formation of California Coast.
The geologists tell us a strange
story of the California coast. Ages ago
its mountain peaks, mere reefs in a
great expanse of sea, rose to such'a
height that Santa Barbara channel was
a vast valley over which roamed the
elephant, camel, lion, saber-toothed
tiger and other animals whose fossil
remains are scattered over the coun-
try and some of which are found on
the islands.
Then the land again sank beneath
the sea and again rose, and marine fos-
sils are found in abundance along the
shores and on the mountain tops many
miles from the sea. Numerous gold
hunters have been surprised to find
the skeletons of whales at an eleva-
tion of 2,000 feet and two miles inland.
Evie no |
finger at random to a line on the
And to the unbounded credit of !
The superstitious among his fellow |
“leery” of R. G. Elbert, the room!
clerk, when, after enviously admiring !
the big scarfpin they had just seen!
Col. J. Harry Behan of Washington |
present him, they learned that every !
previous owner of the pin had killed !
INHABITANTS OF THE MINE
Always in the Child, or Youth, or
Man, Accompanied by the One He
Knows Above All Others.
Real men and women are not the
only people. Our minds are inhabited
as truly as any other country. Every
child has his invisible playmate, to
whom he talks more freely than to his
parents, and with whom he goes upon
strange adventures—a tiny Columbus
with whom he embarks upon the wa-
ters of the bathtub to discover a new
land, or a roving De Soto, with whom
he ships through the garden gate, un-
attended and unafraid, always before
'he is three years old, bent upon an
‘excursion into the wilderness which
lies across the brook in the field or in
the woods. If you are the father or
mother of this child you never can
understand that—how the timid baby
who was never before out of your
sight could have gone so far alone.
Why, when you found him, stained
with his travels, very tired, almost
nodding, he was still confident, preoe-
cupied, and bent upon a farther pil
grimage into the unknown. It is be-
cause he was not alone. He was ac
companied by another whom he knows
better than he will ever know father
or mother—one of those companions
of his own fancy, about whom he nev-
er tells you or anyone else.
These people grow up like other
people. The little child has his fa-
miliar, and the young man has his
“ideal,” always a woman—not the
one he marries, nor even the one he
| might have married, but one whom he
never saw in the flesh; a veiled and in-
scrutable presence who never forsakes
him. And when he grows old, and
the wife he did marry grows old, she
remains young, fairer than the lilies,
sweeter than honey-dew upon the
' leaves of June.—Corra Harris, in Har-
per’s Magazine.
MOTHER HAD FORESEEN IT
. Sammy Was There With the Ex
pected “Break,” Just as Had
i Been Looked For.
| Upstairs in the nursery Sammy
| was receiving final instructions from
| his earnest young mother as to his
| behavior at the dinner party that eve
| ning.
Sammy was not going to be present
during the whole of the feast. His
activities were confined to the latter
coffee-and-fruit part of it. Neverthe
i less, his mother knew from past ex
perience that this would give her
young hopeful ample time in which
to disgrace the family.
“Remember, dear,” she said, “Dr.
| Pung Sang Haug is a Chinese gentle-
man and your father’s friend. He
may be dressed in a way that you
will think funny, but, Sammy, you will
-be a good little boy, and not stare at
him or say anything, won't you?”
Sammy vowed that he would be a
model of virtue and politeness.
When the time arrived, he was ush-
the worthy Chinaman in all the mag-
nificence of silks and pigtail. For a
long time he confined, by a mighty
. effort, his attention to an apple, but
at last he just had to speak.
“Mother,” he said, in a penetrating
whisper, “if the gentleman wasn’t a
. friend of daddy’s wouldn't he be
funny ?”
i Another Way of Putting It.
In a police court an inspector was
| giving evidence of the arrest of the
1
| prisoner.
i “I went to No. 27,” he said, in a
| dignified staccato fashion that came
| from long practice, “where I saw the
| prisoner in bed. I said: ‘I have a
| warrant for your arrest for burglari-
ously entering the premises at —,”
rand so on.
| At the end of the inspector's evi-
| dent the magistrate asked the pris-
| oner:
i “Any questions?”
! “Yes, sir,” said the prisoner, and
he intimated that the inspector had
not given his evidence correctly. “I'm
sure,” he said, “Mr¥fackson”—the in-
spector—“don’t want to say only what
is true. Didn’t you come to my room”
—turning to the inspector—“and say:
‘Now, then, Ginger, ’op out of it—I
want yer’'?’—London Answers.
Wise Generation.
Many are the errors which have
been committed in the world, and
which a child would not commit now,
80 it seems.
The present generation sees clear-
ly; it wonders at the errors; it laughs
at the lack of understanding of its
ancestors, not perceiving that those
chronicles were writ with heavenly
fire, that every letter in them cries
aloud, that a penetrating finger is
pointed thence at it—at the present
generation; but the present genera-
tion laughs and begins proudly, self
confidently, a series of fresh aber-
rations, at which its descendants will
hereafter laugh in their turn.—Gogol.
Suez Canal a Disappointment.
In some respects the Suez canal was
a disappointment. It was to cost eight
million pounds, and be wide enough
to take two vessels at any point. The
bill at the end of ten years actually
come to 16,633,000 pounds and the
canal was only wide enough for the
passage of a single vessel except at
certain sidings. For political reasons
De Lesseps avoided the direct route
and gave his canal an eastward turn
when a few miles from the old town.
And many visitors expressed surprise
that the “Suez” canal never went to
Suez at ali!
ered into the dining-room, and beheld {
MARRIAGES OF THE CHINESE |
Are No Longer a Dreaded Ordeal
Since Western Methods Have
Been Adopted.
No longer need the poor little Chi-
nese girl look forward with dread to
ber wedding day, says a writer in the
Strand. Today she can marry the
man she loves and not walk blind-
folded into matrimony with the man
who has been chosen as her husband
from earliest childhood. Until the
revolution in China in 1911 it was the
general custom in the East for the
parents to allot their daughters hus-
bands from babyhood, and with the
consent of both families a huge party
would be given and the children be
considered engaged. But it was not
permissible for either the future bride
or groom to know of the arrangements
made on their behalf. The families
might even drift apart, leaving the
young ones in total ignorance of the
existence of each other. Between the
ages of fifteen and eighteen the Chi-
uese girl was told that she was to be
married soon, and arrangements would
be made for the wedding, but the
young bride never became acquainted
with her future husband till after the
ceremony, when her thick, beautifully
embroidered, but impenetrable veil
was removed. Then would she behold
for the first time the husband to whom
she was tied “for better or for worse,”
knowing that she must resign herself
to her lot and endeavor to live her life
through with a man whom perhaps she
could never like. Many a young Chi-
nese bride has been known to attempt
suicide, often attaining her freedom
through that one open gate—death.
But such a thing has not been heard
of since China adopted the forms of
modern civilization. The Chinese gen-
tleman has learned the art of court-
ing and winning his bride, and the
happy couple enter into their matri-
monial compact with open eyes. The
Chinese are gradually adopting our
methods, and the marriage service is
no longer a dreary and almost weird
ordeal. In fact, in the matter of dress,
as well as in customs, the Chinese
are becoming very Europeanized.
His Ashtray.
Cover a small box lid inside and
out with tapestry and proceed to line
it with glass. This means that five
pieces of glass must be cut, ope large
piece from the bottom, and four ob-
longs for the sides. Any paint and
window glass store will supply you
with these pieces of glass, just as
they formerly cut them for the passe-
partout work that was the rage a
number of years ago. Glue carefully
put along the edges of the glass will
glue it to the bottom of the box and
the pieces of glass to each other. There
will, of course, be a rough edge at
the top. This edge should be covered
with tarnished gilt galloon. Cover the
wrong side of the galloon with glue
and proceed to bind the edge with it,
half of the width of the gallon going
inside the tray and half upon the
tapestry outside the tray. It is a pret-
ty little novelty which would look wel)
in a man’s den, and the tapestry will
be sufficiently dark to please his mas-
culine taste.
Monster of the Delta.
A 320-pound shovel-nose sturgeon, a
decided rarity in New Orleans, attract-
ed a large crowd in front of Kolb’s.
German tavern Sunday afternoon.
This big fish was caught in the Gulf
of Mexico a short distance off the
coast, in a seine. It measures about
nix feet in length, has a narrow body
and five rows of bony shields which
extend from the gills to the tail. The
striking peculiarity of this fish is its
sucker mouth, a round gristle projec-
tion about five inches in length, be-
neath a broad snout. The snout is
about eight inches in length and is
used to burrow in soft bottoms for
mollusks, which form ‘the sturgeon’s
principal food.
The eggs of the sturgeon are used
in Russia to make caviar. The blad-
der is used in the manufacture of isin-
glass. The fish is coarse and is cut
into steaks for broiling.—New York
Sun.
Great Work Completed.
The Jura mountain tunnel has been
completed after three years of unin-
terrupted work. It is a five-mile tun-
nel and has been cut through the Jura
mountain from Moutiers, France, to
Grenchen, Switzerland. The cost was
$5,000,000 of which $2,000,000 was
contributed by the Eastern railroad of
France. The tunnel will shorten the
traveling distance between Paris and
Milan and Paris and Bern.
EE EE A SEIS
Medical.
Case After Case.
PLENTY MORE LIKE THIS IN BELLE-
FONTE.
Scores of Bellefonte people can tell
you about Doan’s Kidney Pills.
Many a happy citizen makes a pub-
lic statement of his experience. Here
is a case of it. What better proof of
merit can be had than such endorse-
ment?
Mrs. Jessie Dunlap, 249 E. Lamb
St., Bellefonte, says: “About five
years ago, I was troubled by a pain-
ful back. My kidneys were weak
and I had dizzy speils. Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills were recommended and I
got a box at Green’s Pharmacy Co.
They soon gave me relief and two
boxes fixed my kidneys up in good
shape. I have not been troubled
since.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same t
Mrs. Dunlap had. Foster-Milburn
|
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 60-4-1t
ET .
House With Glass Floors.
George R. Howe of Norway, Me, is
planning to build on a hill in that
town a fireproof house, entirely of arti-
ficial stone, steel and glass. The floors
and stairways will be of solid glass,
while electricity will be used to a
great extent to eliminate possibility
of fire
Size of Zeppelins.
Zeppelins vary in diameter and
length, but most of them are of large
size, being almost as big as battle-
ships. The Deutschland, for example,
is 485 feet long and 46 feet in diame-
ter, with a capacity of 25,000 cubic
yards, and a lifting power of 44,000
pounds.
——Some authorities say the flounder
is only a codfish with a flattened head.
CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas.H.Fletcher. |
In use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Shoes.
Hats and Caps.
The whole art of a happy and success-
ful life lies in moving with Nature in-
stead of against her. Directly we begin
to antagonize Nature by neglect or dis-
obedience of her laws written in our
| bodies, instant frictionis set up, and fric-
: tion means waste of energy and loss of
| power. Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense
| Medical Adviser teaches the science of
| this life in accord with natural laws. Tt
deals with the great facts of human
origin and development, as well as with
the humbler hygienic matters which
touch every-day life. This book of 1008
pages is sent free on receipt of stamps
to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21
one-cent stamps for paper covers, or 31
stamps for cloth binding, to Dr. V. M.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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 Belle-
fonte, We can take care of some more.
They'll like us. A good room for $1. If you
bring your wife, $2. Hot and cold running
water in every room
| The Ryerson W. Jennings Co.
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Clothing.
BELLEFONTE,
You CanSave
$5.00 to $10.00
On Your Suit
or Overcoat
if you buy it at
FAUBLE'S.
Mid-Winter
REDUCTION
Sale now on.
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