SSARSTREAR RT < proprietor. Bellefonte, Pa., June 11, 1915. An Old College for Girls. One of the oldest schools for girls on the American continent is the Col egio de la Pez in Mexico City. This was founded by wealthy Spaniards in 1732 for the benefit of the children of the poorer classes. The building was designed after the royal palace in Madrid and covers nearly five acres of ground. The original name was the Colegio de San Ignacio. About eight hundred girls are usually in the col- lege under a staff of 456 teachers. Grumbling. It is the easiest thing in the world to be dissatisfied. Anyone can do it, as the phrase goes, without thinking. But those who really think must agree with Amiel, the philosopher. He counsels thus: “Despise not your situation. In it you must act, suffer and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and the infinite.” Had His Uses.’ “That man doesn’t seem to do much _ but stand arounc and look important,” said the manager. “Yes,” replied the “He's naturally gifted that way. All the rest of us are hustling in such a hurly-burly fashion that I think it well to keep him around to give a touch of ease and dignity to the scene.””—Washington Star. Lucky Escape. The Desk Officer—“Well, madam, what's the complaint?’ The Complain- ant—“Why, sir, I gave a man named Blinks, Jim Blinks, 76 cents to go to the court house an’ get a marriage li- cense for me an’ him—an’ he never came back.” The Desk Officer—“I congratulate you, ma'am. Good day.” Some Big Battles. At Leipsic the forces were: French, 160,000; Austrians, Prussians and Rus- sians, 240,000; total, 400,000. At Wa- terloo—French, 71,947; allies, 67,661; total, 139,608. At Gettysburg—Federal, 95,000; Confederate, 75,000; total, 170,000. At Mukden—Russian, 400, 000; Japanese, 301,000; total, 701,000. Stood Up for His City. A small Chicago boy, visiting his uncle in a country town, was asked if there were as many people there as there were in Chicago. Whereupon he said with all the pride of his seven years: “Why, we have more people in jail in Chicago than you have in the whole town.” Time of Drought, Bill, age three, was moving to the suburbs and after all the things were packed and the house locked up he came and rang my bell and said: “Please, can I wash my hands and face at your house? Our water is all packed.”—Chicago Tribune. “Penny Situps.” Some of the cheap lodging houses in London are called “penny situps.” They provide mere benches, with wooden backs. Each lodger places his arms on the back of the bench before him, and then, resting his head on his arms, tries to sleep. Diminutives. The man who is “below five feet in height” may well be reckoned as being among the “diminutives.” The average height is around five feet six inches. A man is “tall” when he is six feet or over. Under five feet five he is “short.” English Life Guards: England’s famous Life Guards were organized just after the Restoration. They were recruited from the old cav- aliers who fought for Prince Charles Stuart, and in 1661 they were formed into three troops. Unduly Suspicious Men., “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “has been forced to git so suspicious dat if you tries to be plain honest wif ‘em, -dey thinks you has managed to hit on some new kind of a trick.” Many Juvenile Readers. More than seyen and a half mil- lion books are lent by London public libraries in a year, the juvenile read- ers taking considerably over a mil lion. First Folding Pocket Knives. Pocket knives with blades to fold into the handle by a spring, were first made in the middle of the . eighteenth century. Only Way to Make Character. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself into one.—Froude. Daily Thought. We cannot improve the world faster than we improve ourselves.-—Mandell Creighton. Happiness Ever by You. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.—Goethe., For Earache. An onion poultice will often relieve the worst earache. ; Dally Thought. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is § 2 J —— a a FAVORED THE CONCISE FORM Neat Rebuke Administered by Em- peror Francis Joseph to Devotee of “Red Tape.” The emperor of Austria-Hungary is no slavish admirer of red-tape meth- ods. He loves the fluent, direct man- ner of the military man, and is on the best of terms with the bluff, honest generals of his army. The following is an instance of how he upheld one of them in his controversy with the bu- reaucracy. The officer was Galgotzy, a taciturn old soldier, whom the whole Austrian army knew and admired. After the oc cupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Gal gotzy was sent to build a military road. Funds were short and the sum avail able for the purpose seemed hopelessly insufficient. By dint of hard work and ingenuity, Galgotzy succeded, nevertheless, in performing his task, and thereupon re- ported: “Road built; 25,000 florins re- ceived; 25,000 florins spent; remains nothing. Galgotzy.” Dissatisfied with so summary an ac- count, the audit officials applied for a detailed statement of expenditure. Gal- gotzy ignored the application, which was presently renewed in peremptory form. Impatient of red tape, he re- plied: “Road built; 25,000 florins re- ceived, 25,000 florins spent; remains nothing. Whoever doubts it is an ass.” Shocked by such impropriety, a red- tapist-in-chief submitted the general's “account” to Francis Joseph, who blandly inquired: “Do you then doubt it?” FATE OF THE FOURFLUSHER Young Man Was Mistaken in Think- ing Girl Had “Fallen for” the Automobile. elder trees, with closed lips, drink- ing in the glories of the setting sun. “Excuse me,” he said, lifting his hat with his right hand white he ad- dressed her with the left, “but do you as a match? That is my automobile standing there’ and I find myself with- out a match to light the lamp.” It was obviously but a ruse to en- gage her in conversation, but he was him how sorry she was about hav- ing no match. “They all fall for the automobile,” he muttered to himself. One thing led to another, and soon he was sitting beside her chatting gayly about the Latin Quarter, Shakespeare’s latest play, the preva- lence of divorce and other absorbing ; topics. But soon it really did begin | to darken up. “I must go,” she said, and, giving him a final smile, she strode daintily to the automobile to which he had pointed as his, hopped in and was lost in a cloud of dust, leaving him to re- flect on the just deserts which sooner or latér must envelop all fourflushers. Limitations of Private Philanthropy. In a certain city an energetic associ- ation secretary was just completing his fund for a fine new building. One night his wife was called out to a _case of distress, through which he got ‘an insight into the bad conditions sur- rounding working young women in his city. After carefully getting up his facts, he formed a committee, se- cured speakers and announced that on Friday there would be a public meet- ing to consider the problem of the working young women in local indus- tries. Promptly he was summoned by telephone to meet the directors of his association, and when he entered the room, one of his Christian backers burst out upon him with: “What in public meeting? Don’t you know I've got 80 girls working in the basement of my department store?” His other ‘directors were equally stern, and he was ordered to call off his meeting or lose all the important contributions to his building find. He held his meeting and immediately thereafter fosigned eRavard A. Ross, in Atlan- tic. Buchanan's Public Life. One hundred years ago James Buch- anan, who in later life became Presi- dent of the United States, was elected tives in the Pennsylvania legislature. This marked the beginning of Mr. Buchanan’s public career. At the time he was affiliated with the Federalist party. He disapproved of the war with England, but did not shirk® the duties of an American citizen when the war became a fact and was himself one of the first volunteers to march to the de- fense of Baltimore. Mr. Buchanan retired from the legislature at the mination to abandon political life, and devote himself exclusively to the prac- tion to congress and soon became a figure of national prominence. Non-Retroactive. A New York salesman tells of a stay made by him at a western hotel where he observed an old-fashioned roller towel. / “Say,” asked the Gothamite ot a man in the washroom, “don’t the own: er of this hotel know that it’s against the law of the state of Illinois to use roller towels now?” “He knows it right enough,” said the man addressed, “but that law wasn’t passed when this towel was put up.” ; Af She sat on a bench under one of the h—1 do you riean by getting up this’ a member of the house of representa- : men together. happen to have such a thing on you rather a nice-looking young man, | with a three-dollar knitted necktie ' and all, and she smiled as she told . FAVORED MUSIC IN WARFARE “spiritmoving drum.” i Great Soldiers of the Past Maintained Absolute Need of the Mar- tial Strains. The war between Russia and Japan was regarded by many experts ip things military as having sealed the fate of the martial drum. The Japan ese armies moved from first to last pilently, save for the occasional blast of a bugle. The drum was conspicu ously absent. Before that war it had been abolished in some European armies, but no great war had been fought without it. Napoleon was an ardent defender of the drum, and he believed, with Mar shal de Saxe, that great general of the eighteenth century, that the measured sound made by the drum and the fife was Indispensable to make men march well. “The drum,” the Corsican is re ported to have said, “imitates the can non. It is the best musical instrument in the world, for it never gets out of tune.” And the little corporal was fond of pointing out the passages in “Othello” wherein the poet makes the Moor pay a glowing tribute to the Napoleon’s opponent, Wellington, contended that without the strains of music it was quite impossible for troops to mak successful charges. Wanting music, he said, men would come up ragged and open against the enemy. Musical authorities seem agreed that, when used in a proper way, the drum is thoroughly musical. Fhe com: mon snare or side drum is freely used in musical compositions. A large num- ber of drummers performing simul taneously out of doors produce good music. In this connection Berlioz, the composer, pointed out that a sound that was insignificant when heard singly, such as the clink of one or two muskets at shoulder arms, or the thud as the butt comes to the ground at ground arms, becomes brilliant and at- tractive if performed by a thousand GERMAN MOTTO “ICH DIEN" Urged That Language of Teuton Be Removed From the Prince of Wales’ Badge. The school readers of a past gen- eration told the brave story of the bat- tle of Cressy, fought on the 23d of August, 1346, in which the English defeated the X¥repch with great slaugh- ter, an exchange remarks. Among the | | dead was the old blind king of Bo-! ' higher than they are now in the es- end of his second term with a deter- tice of law. A few years later, how- ' ever, he was induced to accept elec- | ! t historic diplomatic controversy. Pres- hemia, who was led into the battle by ! guides. His standard was taken and ! carried to the black prince. On it was his crest, three ostrich feathers, | with the motto in German, “Ich Dien” | (“I serve”). This the prince adopt- | ed; and it has been borne ever since by the successive princes of Wales in | memory of this victory. Today it is being urged by British | newspapers that the language of the | Teuton be removed from the badge and the plain English, “I serve,” be: used in its stead. To the feathers | taken from John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia, with the motto, the cor- | onet was added, it is said, by Edward VI and “the- prince of Wales’ feath- ers” are vested in the heir apparent, whether he is crested prince of Wales ! i or not. But worse is yet to come if the suggestion of a Welsh paper pre- vails. The paper suggests that to . be a correct and proper motto for the prince of Wales neither “Ich Dien” | nor “I serve” should be used, but the ' simple Welsh translation, “Gwasanae- that.” ; War Brought Prosperity to Cuba. | “The European war,” says a trav- | eler recently arrived from that island, | “has put money in the pockets of the | Cubans, and they are good ‘spenders.’ | North American goods, liked by the | Cubans, will find a better market there today than at any time since the founding of the Republic. “The sugar crop is better this year ‘than it has been for many years. Not only is it larger than usual, but they are getting better prices for it than ever before. This is due to the Ruro- pean war, which has cut down the beet sugar crop of the continental countries from one-quarter to one-half. Prices for raw sugar will' go much timation of many down there. “In the ten years I have been work- ing in Cuba I have never known the people so happy and prosperous. Cer- tainly they have the money to spend, and it is waiting for the manufactur- er who is willing to go into the trade.” Raised Neutrality Question. One hundred years ago the famous American privateer General Armstrong met her doom in a heroic battle with three British warships. The engage- ment took place in neutral waters, in the harbor of Fayal, belonging to Portugal, which fact resulted in a ident Madison took steps to compel Portugal to insist upon the inviolabil- ity and obtained the promise of' an award, but later Louis Napoleon, to whom the matter was referred as ar biter, reversed the award. Great Britain apologized to Portugal for the act of the British commander in at- tacking an enemy in a neutral port. Mark of Regiment's Bravery. The white plume borne in the badge of the Royal Sussex regiment (36th foot) is a memorial of the conspicu- ous bravery displayed by that regi- ment on the brink of the prec..ice at tne battle of the Heights of Abraham, .near Quebec, more than a century and a half ago. Relic From Ireland. i The Tura brooch belongs to the | tenth century period of art. It is sue of the finest pieces of early Irish work %nown, and is composed of white bronze, a mixture ot copper and tin. On it are 76 different designs of tracery. It is a wonderful relic of the ; middle ages, illustrating the traditions of the early Irish church. It is now in the possession: of the Dublin mu- seum. ; Still Teach Outworn Belief. Noted for many queer institutions, | Cairo has the unenviable reputation of | being the home of the “deadest uni- versity in the world.” This is El Ezhar, the great Moslem university, which schools its 11,000 students on the Ptolemaic theory of the universe which makes the earth the center of the solar system around which the sur. and stars revolve. : Unbusinesslike Transaction. Probably the smallest money order ever sen’ from Eatonton, Ga. was sent recently. A man walked into the post office, asking for a morecy order for three cents, which he owed to his society, and he said he would have to send a money order, as it didn’t take stamps. The money order cost him three cents, and it took a two- cent stamp to send the order. ~arm Work a Lasting Joy. Approached from the point of view of science, the labor of the farm is & continued joy. It is a manipulation of | ¢he laboratory which the real chemist. does not relegate to a helper, it is the touching of a canvas by an artist's brush which cannot be left to an ama- teur—From Dr. Harvey W. Wiley’s “The Lure of the Land.” The First Telephone. Robert Hooke, in 1667, conveyed sound to a digtance by. distended wire; and between Hooke’s time and that of Elisha Gray considerable progress was made in the direction of the tele- phone; but it appears that the first real telephone was given to the world by Alexander Graham Bell, about 18717. Prophet's Liking for Narcissus. Mohammed loved the large-flowered narcissus, and has sounded its praises in the epigrammatic saying: “Who- ever has two loaves of bread, let him exchange one for the narcissus flower; ! for bread is food for the body, but the narcissus food for the soul.” Expensive Wood. One of the most expensive woods used regularly in an established ine dustry in the United States is box- | wood, the favorite material for woed carving. It has been quoted at four cents a cubic inch, and about $1,300 by the thousand board feet. Worth While Quotations. “Never wait for life to come to you, but create the atmosphere around you. Believe in joy until it comes, for she is only half alive who allows life to make her instead of making life.” Selected. - One Thing She Knew. Salesman—‘“What size collar does your husband wear?’ “Dear me, I've forgotten! But I know it’s larger than Fido’s.”—Judge. Worth While Quotation. “Great men had good mothers, but if all good mothers had great sons there would be a surplus.” Restaurant. ESTAURANT. Bellefonte now hasa 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 be had in a minutes any time. In ad dition I have a complete plant prepared to furnish Soft in bottles such as POPS, SODAS, SARSAPARILLA, SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC., for pic-nics, families and the public gener- ally ail of which are manufactured out of the purest syrups and properly carbonated. C. MOERSCHBACHER, 50-32-1y. High St., ~ Bellefonte, Pa. 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 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. | A TEI Meat Market. (Get the Best Meats. You save nothing by b poor, thin or gristly meats, Iuse LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE ; ith the fresh- mE es A aT OOrer meats are elsewhere, 1 alwavs 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. Shoes. Hats and Caps. Clothing. FAUBLE’S Where America’s Best Clothes are Sold Honestly. If there is a man in Centre county who questions the truth of our statement about our special $12 and $15 Suits as compared with other Bellefonte stores, we want to see that man for just five minutes. He will be all of Three to Five Dol- lars ahead and through doubting. | FAUBLE’S BELLEFONTE, 58-4 PENNA. is: Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. Farm Implements, Et. Prepared to supply the Farmer’s every want. The oldest house and Largest Dealers in the county in Hydrated Lime and Fertilizers of every kind, for every use, and well prepared for drilling. McCormick Binders, Mowers, Tedders, Hay Rakes, Hay Loaders, Walking and Sulky Plows, Harrows and Land Rollers, Conklin Wagons with patented truss axles, and_a complete line of Farm Machinery and Im- plements, Binder Twine and Farm Seeds. ~ Coal, Wood, Wall Plaster, Cement AND BUILDER'S SUPPLIES. An Old Established Progressive House, with an Up-to- date line, with a guarantee back of it. McCalmont & Company, Bellefonte, 60-15-tf
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