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Bellefonte, Pa., March 5, 1915.
Charms of Music.
[By Philip Harrison.]
(Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.)
Sometimes a poet is born (they are
not made) in an unpromising place.
‘But then, everybody knows that. There
is hardly a father but has looked upon
the cherubic countenance of his heir
and hoped devoutly that the deadly,
unpractical gift of the muse has not
been visited upon him.
At least, hardly a farmer father in
Middleboro. It is essentially "a farm
ing commuity. The banker and the
parson, the storekeeper and the livery
man have their proper recognition, of
course; but Middleboro has no use foi
poetry.
However, Henry Milton was not a
poet; ‘he was born a musician. And
that was worse. For poetiy, unhal
lowed as it is, was known by reputa
tion to Middleboro, and a young fellow
with such an unfortunate name as Mil
ton might have been expected to suc
cumb, but music—
“See here, Hen,” said his father, “]
don’t object to your playing the old
pianner. I guess that’s what pianners
is meant for, though I don’t seem to
see as you gets much tune out of it
But you've got to get down to work,
my boy. Pianners ain’t work, unless
you makes ‘em. Now, it is to be the
farm or Mr. Sutphen’s insurance busi:
ness?”
It was the scandal of the town; 2
hulking lad of twenty, home long age
from the high school, spending his
days at the piano composing airs.
“And there’s no tune to them,”
wailed his father. “I heerd the fellow
who wrote ‘The Star-Spangled Ban-
ner’ got a heap of money outen it. But
who’s going to print that rubbish
. Hen’s writing?”
In the eyes of the good citizens of
Middleboro, the profession of music
“] Don’t Object to Your Playing the
Old Pianner.”
was associated with a barrel organ, a
dark, Italian face, and a monkey.
“Never mind, Harry, dear. I be-
lieve in you,” said pretty Lucy Rollins.
“They don’t understand. But I know
you are going to become a great com-
poser, and some day Middleboro will
be proud of you.”
The end of it all was that Henry
Milton packed his grip one morning
and took his departure for the me-
tropolis, with the evil predictions of
all Middleboro ringing in his ears. But
there was sweeter music than that,
sweeter even than the melodies which
came to him night and day. Lucy had
promised to be his wife when he had
achieved success.
Of the boy’s struggles in New York
nothing need be set dow I. Lucy wait-
ed three years, four, five. Oeccasional-
ly, in the first part of the long wait, a
letter came, full of promise. Then the
letters ceased. New York had swal-
lowed up the boy, as she swallows
many others.
“I reckon that Hen Milton went to
the bad long ago,” said the insurance
agent, remembering sundry errors of
omission and commission which he
had discovered after Henry left his
employment.
That was the universal agreement.
Old man Milton had had the misfor-
tune to have his only son turn out bad.
The stubborn old man mourned for the
young fellow secretly, but he set his
face as hard as a flint in public.
Then came the day when an attack
of paralysis seized him, and he
awakened from his coma to see Lucy
at his bedside, nursing him. When he
recovered he asked her to keep house
for him. He meant to adopt her, he
said, as he had no children.
The months passed. Lucy some-
times dared to speak of Henry, but the
old man would not betray his emotion.
“He was a bad lot, my dear,” he
said. “I know there was something
between you, but you've had a mighty
narrow escape. I want you to find
some young fellow that will be worthy
of you.” ;
Then Lucy would sigh and say noth-
ing. It was three years now since she
had heard from Henry.
Then one day the insurance agent
came in, breathless with excitement.
All the city was talking of a new
opera, he said, composed by one Henry
Milton. He was America’s great mu-
sical prodigy. The newspapers were
full of him.
Middleboro reluctantly agreed that
it might have been mistaken. But not
S80 the old man. He was more stub-
born than ever.
“I don’t care if he can fool the pub-
lic,” he said. “Any knave can do that.
When Henry takes up a clean line of
work and makes good at it I'll take
him back. Till then—no, sir!”
Yet Lucy knew that he secretly de-
voured the newspapers, searching for
his son’s name. He was secretly proud
of him. Lucy had an idea.
“Father,” she said coaxingly—she
called him that nowadays—*“he is to
conduct at a performance in Boston
next Friday. Now you know you have
been promising to take me into Bos-
ton. Let us go and hear him.”
“What do I want to hear him for?”
growled the farmer. ‘“Hain’t I heard
him times and again strumming on
that old piano? I've had enough of
hearing him, my lass.”
However, by dint of coaxing, Lucy
inveigled him to Boston, and thence to
the opera house, where, upon a dozen
billboards, as large as life, were the
words Henry Milton, beneath a flesh
and blood reproduction of the young
man.
Lucy felt herself trembling. She
knew that he had long ago forgotten
her; she had nerved herself to accom-
pany the old man only out of a sense
of duty, in the hope of effecting a
reconciliation; if she saw Henry she
meant to show him her indifference.
But when the farmer saw his son
conducting in the orchestra, a strange
lock came over his face. And Lucy,
watching him, knew that the past was
forgotten in the joy at finding his boy.
The old man’s stupefaction increased
as, seated all through the bewildering
medley of sounds, he saw Henry wav-
ing his baton and his hand, sometimes
in alternation and sometimes together.
“Well, I'm swinged!” he exclaimed.
He turned to his neighbor.
“How much do you reckon that there
young fellow Milton makes a night out
of this?”
“0, perhaps three hundred dollars,”
answered the other.
The farmer gaped at him and sub-
sided into his seat.
They were at Henry’s side almost
before the piece was ended. And
Henry, looking up, suddenly perceived
his father and Lucy. His face grew
pale.
“Hen! Hen!” faltered the old man,
and suddenly he grabbed Henry to
his heart and muttered something
about forgiveness and coming home.
“Well, father, I wanted to scores of
times, but you know you told me not
to see you again until I had got a bet-
ter job than composing music,” said
Henry.
“Better job? Suffering snakes, you
ain’t composing still, Hen, are you?”
demanded the farmer. “Three hundred
dollars a night for working that wood-
en plug and making the band go—say,
it beats blowing the church organ out
and out. Go on and compose all you
want to, Hank, so long as you keep at
that there job of yourn.”
But Henry, knowing his father, was
content with the compromise. It was
all his stubborn old soul could bring
itself to. Besides i:
“Lucy, dearest, if you had answered
me—"
“But it was you,
stopped—"
And that explanation was the begin-
ning of the long-promised paradise.
Henry, who
Saved the Children.
. Our class was held on the third floor
of an old wooden school building. One
afternoon another boy and myself
scattered some snuff in the air before
the afternoon session began. When
the professor began talking to his as:
sistant they were seized with a fit of
sneezing, bobbing their heads toward
each other in a most ludicrous fash:
ion. The students howled with laugh-
ter when they were not sneezing.
Finally the professor managed to
get his breath long enough to ques-
tion the class and all but we two
guilty boys were dismissed.
He took us to his office and while
we were there—about twenty minutes
later—fire was discovered in the build:
ing. We got out with difficulty and
the school was burned to the ground.
From an angry man the professor
became deeply thankful and he has
since maintained that we boys were
the instruments of fate, for the build
ing burned so rapidly that there
would have been great danger if all
of the children had been in class when
the fire started.—Exchange.
Various Compounds of Coal.
Coal has given to the world several
hundred thousand compounds, most of
which are of great value. For coal
contains carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, ni
trogen, sulphur, phosphorus and the
halogens. It sometimes even contains
gold and radium. Among the materials
mentioned by Dr. Louis Cleveland
Jones in an address before the Frank
lin Institute as obtained from coal
are acid bases, alkaloids, gums, var
nishes, solvents, sugars, saccharine,
stuffs as bitter as saccharine is sweet
disinfectants, dyestuffs of brilliant
hues, stimulating and sleep producing
drugs, healing medicines and violent
poisons, vile odors and pleasing per
fumes.
Coal and Its Formation.
Pach different kind of coal—peat,
lignite, semibituminous, bituminous
gas coal, smokeless coal, semianthra
cite, anthracite, graphite, diamond —
represents only “a different step in na
ture’s slow process of converting the
vegetation of the carboniferous era
into the fuels so necessary to our mod
ern civilization.”
The earth’s crust is a vast retort
and in its work of carbonizing vegeta
tion it saves us the by products in the
form of asphalt, bitumen, petroleum
and natural gas.
| coons
SNAKES WERE ALL DROWNED
But Animais, Liberated From Their
Cages Just in Time, Swim Ashore
From Wrecked Scow.
Tied to tall trees on the banks of the
Skagit river is one of the strangest col-
lection of animals ever harbored in
this neck of the woods, as the result
of the wreck of a scow towed by the
gasolin- launch Tango, carrying the
50 members and full properties, exhibi-
tion tents, and cages full of the Sound
Amusement company of Seattle, bouad
for this city.
The launch dragged itself across a
snag on the North Fork, but in pull-
ing the scow over, a plank was ripped
from the bottom and it sank.
The men on the Tango sprang on
the scow and tore open the cages to
free the animals, which leaped into the
water and swam ashore. There they
scattered in the woods and kept the
showmen busy all day rounding them
up.
cages, the wriggling, writhing reptiles
went to their death. One big snake
cost its owner $500.
Bert Mansfield, who owns the dog
and pony part of the show, remained
on the scow with his pet dog Chester,
despite the entreaties of his compan-
ions, until he barely escaped with his
own life, 5
Another valuable animal still at
large is the trick mule, High School
Jack. There were six horses and 20
trained dogs. Several trained rac-
were lost.—Mount Vernon
(Wash.) Dispatch to Seattle Times.
BECAUSE HIS DOG LIKED HIM
Why the Southern Mountaineer Was
Willing to Pay to Check a
Mongrel.
The pedigree of a dog makes no
difference if you love him. This was
the opinion expressed by a citizen of
Pioneerville, at Boise, Idaho, when he
found that he would have to pay $7.50
to check a mongrel as far as St. Louis,
about two-thirds of the journey.
He and his brother, two southern
mountaineers, who still dress in the
Tennessee mountaineer style, ap-
peared at the Boise station with tick-
ets to Nashville. He remarked that
he wanted to check his dog through
and asked whether or not he could
get off at certain stations to feed and
pet the animal
“That dog is powerful fond of me,”
he remarked in explanation.
His face fell somewhat when he was
told that it would cost him something
like $10 to check the dog.
“Why can’t he go on our tickets?”
he said.
When told that he would have to
pay $7.50 to St. Louis and another |
fee from then on, he said:
“Well, that cur thinks so powerful
much of me I reckon I'll have io pay
it. It makes no difference about the
kind of dog, if you love him, you
know,” and he slowly counted out the
money from an old miner’s wallet and
put the dog in the baggage car, with
a final love pat on his head.
Find a Death-Proof Boy.
Six thousand volts of electricity and
a plunge of twenty feet headforemogt
upon an iron rail could not kill four-
teen-year-old Edward Krout of Spring
Grove, though either would have been
thought to do it, according to a York
(Pa.) dispatch to the Philadelphia
Record. The boy's companions
thought so, and in fact had already
bundled what they regarded as the
lifeless body of their chum upon a
small express wagon to haul it to his
home, when the “corpse” came to life.
The boy was seated on the over-
head Western Maryland railroad
bridge, - near the borough, when one
of his legs, dangling over the edge,
came in contact with the highly
charged trolley wire beneath. Imme-
diately he was hurled to the trolley
track, twenty feet below, striking vic-
lently on his head.
Moratorium Abuses.
Apropos of bank hoardings and the
consequent exorbitance of interest
rates, Representative Reilly said:
“Thank goodness we haven't got a
moratorium, like the French and Eng-
lish ones, over here.
“A great many people, you know,
abuse the moratorium. Two English
maid servants were talking one day
when a man sauntered past them.
“‘Look at Mr. Brown,’ said the first
maid, ‘swingin’ is stick and smokin’
‘is cigar. Nobody'd believe ’e was
‘ard up.’
“‘Lumme, no!’ said the second maid.
‘Why, since this ’ere meritorious come
in, ’e walks down parst all the bakers
and butchers and pubs as if ’e didn't
owe ‘em a penny.”
English Lads Shout “Marseillaise.”
Never say that the English are not
a musical people. You shall meet seven
little muddy boys, keeping loyally to
the gutter, clad in not many inches of
old clothes, and none of them so much
as ten years old. Yet they will all be
shouting the whole of the “Marseil-
laise,” which is not an eight-bar tune,
but a very complex melody, without a
mistake.
Whether the London urchin has been
furnished with a translation of the
French battle hymn it would be hard
to say, for though the music is well
rendered the words are indistinguish-
able.—London Chronicle.
Whale a Victim of War.
An enormous whale drifted ashore
near Margate, England, the other day.
It had been killed by a mine in the
North sea.
The ‘scow sank before the ‘snakes ;
could be liberated, and locked in the |
: The Oldest Handicraft.
The toy industry is one of the old-
est industries in the world. The Brit-
. ish museum can show us a doll (with
| strings of mud beads for hair) and
others with movable arms, with
which the children of ancient Egypt
played on the banks of the Nile.
Jointed dolls and dolls’ furniture have
come down to us from the days of
Greece and Rome, and we know that
balls, tops and toy animals were fa-
vorite playthings at an even earlier
date.
Like Pickled Grapevine Leaves.
Pickled grapevine leaves are consid-
ered a great delicacy by the Syrians.
Life’s Bitterness.
One of the worst of life’s bitten
nesses is to send to some distant post-
office for a package held for postage
and find that it is a sample copy of
a magazine that you had bought two
weeks before.
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Medical.
Bellefonte’s Reply
BELLEFONTE ACCEPTS THE EVI.
DENCE AND MANY BELLEFONTE
READERS WILL PROFIT BY IT.
Which is the more weighty proof
—a few words from a Bellefonte res-
ident, whom we know and respect,
or volumes from strangers in distant
Sons? There can be only one re-
Pp
y.
Mrs. B. Holter, Pine St., Belle-
fonte, says: “Whenever a cold or
strain causes a dull, constant ache
across the small of my back, I use a
box of Doan’s Kidney Pills and get
relief. I believe Idid not take Doan’s
Kidney Pills long enough to be cur-
ed, but when I take them, a few
doses always fix me up. Another of
the family has been benefitted by
Doan’s Kidney Pills.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
‘Mrs. Holter had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 60-10-1t
Meat Market.
Get the Best Meats.
ing poor, thin
You save gothing by bu
or gristly meats. I use only the
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 here.
I alwavs have
— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
34-34-1y. * Bellefonte, Pa.
“High Street.
! Flour and Feed.
(CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed it
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 lace in the county where that e3 r-
Ee in he rs Rat 3
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.
MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
7-19
Groceries.
In the course of a life time every man
spends hundreds of dollars on medicine
| or medical advice which he would save if
he had at hand Dr. Pierce’s Common
Sense Medical Adviser. Its name tells
; its scope. It is a common sense presen-
! tation of physiological fact and Bygignjc
law. It teels the truth in plain English.
It is written so that “He who runs may
i read.” This encyclopedia of medical in-
i formation is sent free on receipt of
stamps to pay the cost of mailing only.
Send 21 one-cent stamps for the paper
bound book, or 31 stamps for cloth cov-
gr, Address Dr. V. M. Pierce, Buffalo,
CASTORIA :
Bears thesignature of Chas.H.Fletcher.
In use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Lime and Limestone.
LIME!
Lime and L.imestone for all purposes.
"HO LIME
Put up in 40 Ib. paper bags.
For Use With Drill Spreader.
High Calcium Central Pennsylvania Lime
Write for Free Literature.
American Lime & Stone Co.
60-8-6t General Office: TYRONE, PA.
Restaurant.
ESTAURANT.
Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where
Meals are Served at All Hours
Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell or in any style desired, Sand-
wiches, Soups, and anything eatable, can
had na hii ont a
a com
formish Soft Drinks. in’ bottles puch. an
POPS,
SODAS,
SARSAPARILLA,
SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.,
for pic-nics, families and the public gener-
ally ail of which are manufactured out of
roperly carbonated.
the purest syrups and p
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
50-32-1y. High St.,
Bellefonte, Pa.
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
Groceries.
Fruits, Confectionery 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
per dozen. Bananas 15c¢, 20c and
25c per dozen. Nice Grape Fruit
at 5c each.
New crop California Prunes 12c,
15¢ and 18c per pound. New Evap-
orated Peaches 10c, 12c and 15c.
Apricots 18¢, 20 and 25c 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
Bush House Block, - -
SECHLER &
57-1 - Te
Evaporated and Dried Corn, very
fine, new goods, 15c and 25¢ 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 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
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.
OMPANY,
Bellefonte, Pa.
"J KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law
J Belcionte. Pa ttention given
Attorneys-at-Law.
KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law,
onte, Pa. Practicesin all courts .
S Room 18Crider’s Eas 51-1-1y.
B. LER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices
fal LER A Consultation in English
Bellctonse, ie es. Office in re
S. TAYLOR. and Counsellor at
=
Prompt af
entrusted to his
ces—No. 5 East High street.
G. RUNKLE.—,
tation in i
in Crider’s
care.
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58-8
Hev.gtLdw,
Belistante.
; Physicians. 0h
S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Wisner
Dentists.
§
R. J. E. WARD, D. D. S,, office next door to
Y. M. C. A. room, High street, Bellefonte,
ng teeth Sa A apnuisteretl for haiciese eniact
. rown 1
reasonable. 52-39
RHI IATE, Siren Pantie, Ofc Jn.
YOUR Of care cs Rl of erin a
and prices reasonable. 45-8-1y
Plumbing.
Good Health
and
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-fixtnres, foul sewerage, or escaping
gas you can’t have good th. 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 trust work to
boys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics,
no better anywhere. :
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 r, unsanitary
work and the lowest grade hia For
the Best Work trv
Archibald Allison,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
aE : 56-14-1v. ;
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
help us
—— NO ASSESSMENTS —
(0 hot fail to give us a call before insuring your
e or
as we are in position to write
time. :
Office in Crider’s Stone Building,
43-18-1y. . BELLEFONTE. PA.
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
snenen
» geBEEEs
Fire Insurance:
{ invite your attention to my Fire Insu1
ance Agency, the strongest and Most Ex
tensive of Solid Companies represen!
any agency in Central Pennsylvan:
H. E. FENLON,
50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa,
Fine Job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
o—A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THE :
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
There is no per’ tothe fncet the
BOOK WORK,
an not do in the most satis-
hat we cap 3 and at Prices consist-
manner,
! th the class of work, or
ent Call on