Bellefonte, Pa., January 29, 1915. THE SALESGIRL TALKS. It was one of those loathly “match- ing” missions, undertaken, with dire- ful threats in case of nonfulfillment, at the breakfast table that morning, that brought me alongside the ribbon counter of the great department store, Four women were ahead of me at the counter. None of them appeared to know whether she wanted cerise or alice-blue ribbon. But they all seemed to be perfectly certain that the sales- girl, who had a great many puffs, an uptilted nose, and a certain self-pro- tecting manner of independence, was trying to put something over on them. Therefore they one and all spatted with her. The spats were unequal, because the salesgirl needed her job. After going over the entire stock all four of the women decided that they wouldn’t buy any ribbon. “lI seen you lampin' them four pills,” said the salesgirl as she took my “matching” sample and studied it with tired eyes. “How would yuh like to stand behind here and let about a thousand of them pills a day heave Irish confetti at yuh?” “Irish confetti?” I inquired, mysti- fied. “Half-bricks—yuh’re on’y pretend- in’ that yuh don’t get me, ain’t yuh? Well, there ain’t anythin’ in this thing o’ sittin’ on the mourners’ bench; but along about this time o’ the after- noon I feel so clawed up by them pill- in’ cats that breeze in here to take a’ inventory o’ stock that I get to thinkin’ Wee home. “Them four dolls didn’t skate in here t’ buy. They just ambled along t scratch. They've been V-wedgin’ through bargain-counter crushes all day, and they've picked up a peeve, doin’ that, that they’re afraid to tote home t’ their men-folks because they are hep that the men, when they hit the hall and hang their kellys up on the rack, are goin’ t’ be there with grouches themselves. “They're not keen fr the kind 0’ dove’ll pull in case anythin’ is started. So, just t’ get the rough edges o’ their peeves sand-papered down, they skid along here a little while before closin’ up time and begin t’ toss chunks o’ loose asphalt at us sunny-natured-look- In’ dolls behind the counters. A lot of ‘em pick me out because I'm there most o’ the time with one o’ them grins that got froze on my map by mistake when I first fell intuh this business and before I jerried up t’ it that the grinner is pie for them wim- men that wants somebody t’ pick on. “There ain’t no use chirpin’ about it, ['m crazy over my own sex. They make it just about as peaceful for me as if I was on a battle field ten hours a day. Sometimes I feel like I'm de- velopin’ intuh a white hope. one that don’t bark at us. We hate t’ break outa the plant and steer for the hallroom with the coyote music in our ears, and that’s what it sounds like at the 2nd of a long day when wo snag a piller to be waited on just before the big doors are closed and we're due to vamp. “Well, this one with the dimples and the fine double row o’ mother-o™ pearl molars and the sunny smirk that looked like the twenty-four carat thing plumped on a stool in front of me, and looked me right in the lamps with a widenin’ of her cutey grin; and 1 wiped the froze grin from my chart and smiled right back at hex, and it looked like a sure thing that we're go- in’ t’ be little playmates for the time, and get along like as if both of us had been rollin’ the same hoop and playin’ puss-in-the-corner together ever since we begun t’ wear our hair in braids. “Does she run to form? Does she? Say, honest, I ain’t through yet pickin’ chiggers and burs that that sunny- mapped doll tossed at me from her side o’ the counter. “As soon as she opened her face 1 had a sudden, chilly feelin’ that I'd got her wrong, and that she was goin’ t’ add her monniker t’ my list o’ mis- takes in pickin’ ’em from their looks. “She had a voice that sounded like a creaky dumb-waiter comin’ up when the janitor is sore after one o’ them reg’lar nights. Her voice was no more like her smile than a rubber plant is like a early lilac, and she was out for battle, murder, arson, and collectin’ the insurance before she’d been squatted on the stool nine seconds. “And all the time, get me, she wicked me just like the eye of a cam- era, and kept that smile workin’ her dimples as if she was pullin’ down eight dollars a minute for that stuff. I'm fightin’ the inmates of a Bide-a- “She wanted t’ match some mauve baby-ribbon, and I had the thing that answered t’ her sample under a micro- scope and a searchlight. Would she see it? Not so’s you could observe it with the undraped optic. She told me, gazin’ at me with her homemade, mo- lasses-candy smile all the time, that my goods had a greenish tint, and was no more mauve than diluted water- melon is Chinese yellow. “Then she added that if I tried t’ get a job as a brakeman in a freight- , yard I'd get the toss for color blind- all-hands medicine that the hubby- ness before I'd got more than one foot into the examination room. “Smirkin’ merrily all the time, with the dimples ripplin’ across her chart like little wavelets on a still pond, she asked me how I had ever bunked a reg’lar store intuh stakin’ me t’ a job ' that called for color-matchin’.” It used . t’ be that I'd let ’em hand me the har- poon one after the other, just as fast as they could nudge up t’ the coun- ter. “But four years of it has funneled the vinegar intuh my ‘nachully win- some disposition, so that now I take a slant at their wicks as they elbow along; and if they're there with that I’m - goin’ - t’-push -yuh-one-in-the-chops glitter in their lamps, I feel myself stiffenin’ like somebody that’s waitin’ tor a trolley car t’ hit him on the nigh end o’ the wishbone, and it’s all I can do t’ keep from tricklin’ back as good as they shoot in. ~“On’y I need the eight-a-week, whereas that eight thing isn’t gum change. for them, so that they've got me sewed up before the gong rings, and they know it. So the best I get for mine is a ’casional little uppercut that I've gotta eat as like as not before the ambulance in the shape of the floorwalker comes up, whereas they can paste me ontuh the ropes and swing on me with both mitts. “And they're hard t’ dope by just lookin’ ’em over, if yuh’re inquirin’ o’ me. I get ’em right, as they sail down the aisle, about four times outa five. Then I head-on intuh one that don’t run t’ her looks, and I'm in Heinie. “D’ye think you can chart ’em right because they’re there with one o’ them Delly Varden smiles? I'm askin’ yuh that, because most men do. I ain't never cut the trail yet of a man that wasn’t a fall-guy for a smilin’ cat. But I needn’t talk. I'm a mark for that stuff myself ev'ry once in a while. “Ill wise yuh t' one of the smilin’ kind that waltzed up to my counter day before yestiddy afternoon. She was a nifty-dressed, peachy-skinned dumplin’ of about thirty or so, that was togged like she had a man work: in’ the day and night shifts both ends from the middle t’ keep her diked out in all the scenery fit t’ wear. “I wicked her smile when she was 20 feet away. It looked like the sun comin’ out from under a cloud and shimmerin’ on the water on the day youh’re bound for Coney. Some dolls pull that kind of a grin all the time that they’re not sleepin’ just t’ give all hands a chance t’ pipe their pearly teeth. But this one’s smile looked t’ be on the level. . “‘Pm goin’ t' get along with this cunnin’ fatty,’ says I to myself, as she swung for my counter. ‘She’s a chatty little thing that'll be prattlin’ to me all about the news of the day and askin’ me if I don’t find the life of a sales- girl hard, and if I'm engaged, and it not why not, an’ all the like o’ that. Hi-hum! It’s nice t’ wait on a cheer- ful skirt just before closin’-up time.’ “That’s a bug with most of us, yuh know—t’ top off the day by waitin’ on (Copyright.) WHY POPES NEVER PREACH Tradition of the Church, That Has Seldom Been Broken, Forbids Présence in Pulpit. The preparation and delivery of ser- mons which impose such a heavy burden of toil upon other ministers of God have no terrors for the pope, for the good and sufficient reason that the traditions of the church forbid his preaching. Of all the many strange restrictions which hedge about a pope, one of the strangest is that he should not be al- lowed to preach. Only once in 300 years has a pope delivered a sermon, and that was under most exceptional circumstances in 1846. On the Octave of the Epiphany a celebrated preacher, Padre Ventura, was to have occupied the pulpit in St. Peter’s, but was suddenly taken ill. To prevent disappointment to the vast crowd which had assembled Pius IX broke through the custom of ages, and ascending the pulpit delivered a simple, homely sermon that perhaps impressed its hearers more than the finest eloquence might have done, be- cause of its uniqueness. A Russian Sentinel. The sternest ideal of military duty is fulfilled ‘by the Russian soldier, An illustration is given by an Eng- lish officer who has seen service in the East. On leaving an Armenian village, he passed a beautiful green valley, watered by a river that flowed between strong embankments. His Armenian servant told him that, after a great storm, the river had risen in such a flood that the persons living near the bank fled for their lives. There was a powder magazine near the river. The sentinel who was guarding it prepared to retreat, but the officers who were watching the scene from a mountain forbade him to leave his post. For an hour the sentinel struggled against the rising waters, clinging desperately to the lock of the magazine door. The water rose to his chin, and then the flood ceased. He was deco- rated by the government with the ribbon of some honorary order in rec- ognition of his heroic obedience. Irresistible. Some .aations (of a remote world) were very intent upon living at peace one with another—so intent that they spent enormous sums in making them- selves prepared for war. For in that world. curiously enough, the condi- tions were such that there was no way to keep from fighting except to be ready to do so at the drop of a hat. But incidentally to these martial preparations it was impossible to pre- vent war acquiring, potentially, new horrors, and when these numbered several the nations suddenly flew at one another’s throat. They laid it to a natural curiosity. “We simply bad to try those new horrors out!” they explained to the astonished onlookers, who had been saying that there never would be an- other great war. WAR TERMS NOT UNDERSTOOD “Forlorn Hope,” for Instance, Has Not the Meaning With Which It Is Cradited. In the course of every war one | hears a great deal about ‘forlorn ! hopes.” The term is one of the most misused in the vocabulary of war. It is commonly misunderstood to mean “lost troop”—that is “detached ° troop.” The word “hope” in the | phrase is not an English but a Dutch | word, “hoop,” meaning literally ! “heap,” and secondarily body of | troops. The word “forlorn” represents | the Dutch “verloren”—lost. A ‘‘ver- loren hoop” was a detached body of troops thrown out in front of the main line of battle to find the enemy and engage them first. This was the regular sixteenth and seventeenth century practice, and though it was one of the more dangerous kinds of service it was not desperate or, in the English sense, forlorn. Nowadays much the same work is done by the detached bouies of cavalry which are thrown out before the main line to find the enemy. “Capitulation” is another term of war, which is very loosely used. It does not mean surrender, but sur- render on terms; in fact, it means the terms, not the surrender. It is from the Latin “capituluun” or “heading” (from which is derived our word “chapter”), and a capitulation is a formal treaty of surrender drawn up under a series of headings or chap- ! ters, embodying the terms on each point. WRONG TO TEASE CHILDREN Trick Altogether Too Frequently In- dulged in by the Older Members of the Family. It is not at all unusual to see the | older children of a family teasing the younger ones, while the mother often pays no attention or seems to think it of no importance. Yet to one outside of a family circle it is plain that this teasing gives pain and annoyance to the little ones. A six or eight-year-old boy thinks his two-year-old sister the finest in the world, and he wants to show his affection and good will, but he has no conception of the proportion between his own strength and hers. So he pinches, shoves and pushes her laugh- ingly; takes away her dolls; throws things at her—in short, deals with her | just as he would with a boy ‘of his own age. He does not understand why she cries, why she is frightened, for he means no harm and is in good humor. Often the mother fails to realize that such conduct is making the tinier members of the household unhappy. This tendency in many older children should be watched, and rebuked when necessary.—The Delineator. Nothing to It. The nut was in America. He had run over for a couple of weeks, “just to see the bally country, doncher- know.” He didn’t see very much, of course, but he was very sniffy about the little he did see. Just before he left for Britain he was dining with an American, and was giving his views of the country in gen- eral with that easy air of quiet dignity that stamps the man who is sure of his subject. “There’th one thing, though,” he said, “that I thimply can’t underthand about you Americanth. Your mem- berth of parliament, or whatever you call ’em ovah here, are thimply im- pothible perthonth. How on earth can you thand being ruled by a collection of bounderth whom you wouldn’t have to your houthe to dinnah?” ‘The American looked at him in sur- prise. “Well,” he said, “there don’t seem to be such a mighty great difference be- tween us, if you come to that. How do you like being bossed around by men who wouldn’t ask you to dinner?” Woman's Logic. You sometimes wonder about the logic of the feminist mind. A man was to meet his wife at her office at one o’clock to take luncheon with her. He was 20 minutes late. She had gone out. He sat down and waited. At 1:30 she arrived. “What are you doing here?” she asked. “I'm waiting for you.” “Didn’t you know I wouldn’t come back after I'd given you up and gone out?” “But you did come back, didn’t you? You are back now, aren’t you?” “Yes, but you might have known that when I did come back I would have had my lunch, and there would be no use in waiting to have it with me.” “Well, have you had it?” > “No.”—Denver News. Even Sneeze Alike. The machine-like character of the German army, of which so much has been heard, did not escape the sar- casm of Bismarck when the relative merits of soldiers and politicians were under discussion. “Soldiers,” he said, “have a much easier task than diplo- matists; they receive their instruc- tions, and know exactly how far they have to command and obey.” The conditions of their life, he added, showed itself in their outward de- meanor. “For instance, in the first guards this is nothing less than mare velous. In society you never hear one of them sneezing differently from the other!” The blow which knocked out Corbett was a revelation to the prize fighters. From the earliest days of the ring the knock-out blow was aimed for the jaw, the temple or the jugular vein. Stomach | punches were thrown in to worry and | weary the fighter, but if a scientific man "had told one of the old fighters that the most vulnerable spot was the region of the stomach, he’d have laughed at him for an ignoramus. Dr. Pierce is bring- ' ing home to the public a parallel fact; | that the stomach is the most vulnerable | organ out of the prize ring as well as in it. We protect our heads, throats, feet ‘ and lungs, but the stomach we are utter- ! ly indifferent to, until disease finds the | solar plexus and knocks us out. Make your stomach sound and strong by the : use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis- : covery, and you protect yourself in your most vulnerable spot. “Golden Medical Discovery” relieves “weak stomach,” in- digestion, and other diseases of the or- gans of digestion and nutrition. It is a : temperance medicine, entirely free from alcohol and narcotics. Social Contract. An up-to-date bride, when asked at her wedding if she would “love, honor and obey,” murmured, “I will if he does financially what he has prom- ised.” Hood's Sarsaparilla. Pure Rich Blood Prevents Disease BAD BLOOD CAUSES MOST AILMENTS— HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA CORRECTS IT. Bad blood,-that is, blood that is impure or im- poverished, thin and stale,—is responsible for more ailments than anything else. It affects every organ and function. In some cases it causes catarrh; in others, dyspepsia; in others, rheumatism; and in still others, weak, | tired, languid feelings and worse troubles. 1t is responsible for run-down conditions, and} is the most common cause of disease. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the greatest purifier and It has Scrofy been wonderfully successful in removing a and other humors, and in building up whole system. Ask Hood's s today. Take it—give it to all the family so as to avoid illness. 60-3 Flour and Feed. CURTIS Y. WAGNER, BROCKERHOFF MILLS, BELLEFONTE, PA. Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of Roller Flour Feed Corn Meal and Grain ufactures fs brands of high grade flour: WHITE STAR OUR BEST HIGH GRADE VICTORY PATENT Thes only place in the county where that extraor- ly fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour | SPRAY can be secured. Also Titernational 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. enricher of the blood the world has ever known. | and has on hand at all times the ' your druggist for Meat Market. Attorneys-at-Law. (Get the Best \ Meats. You save no by buying poor, thin or gristly meats the use only LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and supply my customers with the fresh- = Soice d 3 iced vr , are ing an y prices 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 Ali Hours Steaks, Ch Oysters jon, the the bald Sh Shell 0 ope, Ross any style desired, Sand Sous, and anything eatable, can edn aime ir on I have a com furnish Soft Drinks in bottles such as POPS, SODAS, 'ARILLA, SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC., for pic-nics, families and the public gener- for pic. of which are ee pu out of the purest syrups and properly ca; C. MOERSCHBACHER, 50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa. Money to Loan. FANCY PATENT ONEY TO LOAN on good security and houses to rent. J. M. KEICHLINE, Antomey at-Law 4 51-14-1v. a, 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. P R.R. Depot. 58-23-1v LIME AND LIMESTONE. LIME. Lime and Limestone for all purposes. H.-O Lime Put up in 40 to 50 Pound Paper Bags. LIM 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, Conféctionery and FINE GROCERIES. 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 perdozen. Bananas 15c¢, 20c and 25c per dozen. Nice Grape Fruit at 5c each. New crop California Prunes 12c, 15c and 18c per pound. New Evap- orated Peaches 10c, 12c and 15c. Apricots 18c, 20 and 25c per pound. All fine fruit. Creamery Butter from the Fox River (Illinois) Creameries. Finest Meadow Gold Brand 42¢ per pound. New crop California Walnuts and Almonds, Cocoanuts, Celery, Cran- berries, Sweet Potatoes, ters direct from the shell—-We do not handle any Baltimore tub Oysters Bush House Block, - - Evaporated and Dried Corn, very fine, new goods, 15¢c and 25c 1b. 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 init and in general merit far above any other brand. Cranberries, solid red fruit at 10 and 12c. per quart. 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. SECHLER & COMPANY, 57-1 Bellefonte, Pa. 5 Ere KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Lav Belle jonte, B a. Practices in Office- Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y. B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices in all the Courts. Consultation in English German. Office in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte, Pa. S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at Law. ce in Temple Court, Belle- fonte, Pa, All kinds np legal business at- tended to promptly. 40-46 H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office No. 11, Crider’s Exchange, second floor. All kinds of legal business attended to promptly. Consultation in English or Serhan in all the courts. M. J and German. Office south of Rot house. al professional business will receive prom; lye ate 4 pellefonte: Prompt attention given alt J Ts ent to his - SNEED 5 East Hivh street. “Su. oe G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul- tation in English and German. Office in Crider’s aoa Bellefonte. 58-5 Physicians. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law._ Poe Consultation KENNEDY JOHNSTON ~Atiorney.ablaw, S. GLENN, is D. Physician snl 5 State College, Centre county, P. " at his College, C Dentists. R. J. E. WARD, D. DS office next dovt te Y.M.C. A. room, High st reet, Bellefonte, Pa, Gas administered for painless extract.. ing teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work, Prices reasonable. 52-39 R. H. We TATE, Sree n Dentist, Office in brood Puan Lig] pa. “iin a used. years of experience, as ig of Se re To and prices reasonable. 1y Plumbing, Good Health and Good Plumbing GO TOGETHER. 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’s the only kind you ought to have. Wedon’t trustthis work to boys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics, no better anywhere. Our Material and Fixtures are the Best 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 work and the lowest grade the Best Work trv Archibald Allison, Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa 56-14-1v. nea Jrisanitary Insurance. JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successor to Grant Hoover) Fire, Life Accident Insurance. This Agency represents the largest Fi Insurance rr ween! in the World, e — 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 $5000 TRAVEL POLICY BENEFITS: $5,000 death by accident, ,000 loss of feet, loss of 5,000 loss of one hand and one foot, 2,500 loss of either hand, 2,000 loss of either foot, loss of one eye 25 week, total disabi Pe al disability. 10 per w partial disability, (limit 26 weeks) PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR, pavable quarterly if desired. Larger or smaller amounts in Dropostion Any person, male or femal referred occupation, includi Bouse De over eighteen of age moral and 30d physic condition maz Fire Insurance { invite your attention to my Fire Insu1 ance Agency, the strongest and Most Ex tensive Line of Solid Companies represen! ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvan. H. E. FENLON, Agent, Bellefonte, Pa, under this 50-21. Fine Job Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING o—A SPECIALTY—o0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE. There is no style of work, from the cheapest *° ’ to the BOOK WORK,
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