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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
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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- |
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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 !
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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.
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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.
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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