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Bellefonte, Pa., July 16, 1915.
The Land of ‘‘Pretty Soon.”
I know of a land where the streets are paved
With the things we meant to achieve.
It is walled with the money we meant to have
saved
And the pleasures for which we grieve.
The kind words unspoken, the promises broken,
And many a coveted boon
Are stowed away there in that land somewhere—
The land of *‘Pretty Soon.”
‘There are uncut jewels, of possible fame,
Lying about in the dust,
And many a noble and lofty aim
Covered with mold and rust.
And, oh, this place, while it seems so near,
Is further away than the moon!
Though our purpose is fair, we never get there—
The land of “Pretty Soon.”
It is further at noon than it is at dawn,
Further at night than at noon;
Oh! let us beware of that land down there—
‘The land of “Pretty Soon.”
—The King’s Own.
ORIENTAL RUGS.
inne.
How many of us who in the spring and
fall read the announcements of depart-
ment stores and importers of sales of
Oriental rugs know much about these
“flowers of the loom” beyond the
facts that they. are often extraordinarily
beautiful and sometimes tempt us beyond
our strength?
Woven in the grazing districts of south-
ern Asia and Asia Minor and by the
nomad tribes, the same method is fol-
lowed today as was used when the in-
dustry originated, thousands of years ago,
and its products were used to furnish
the palaces of Egypt and Babylonia.
Secrets of dyeing have in some cases
been handed down in families, and all at-
tempts to buy the formulas for certain
unusual colors have failed. Hereditary
designs have been modified slightly by
individuals, and this accounts for the
fact that no two antique rugs are exactly
alike. Each has woven into it some ex-
pression of individual love of nature or
joy or sorrow. For instance, we can
imagine that the rug a future bride wove
for her husband would differ greatly
from the one her mother might be weav-
ing at the same time to be used for the
guest of honor at the family hearth, al-
though both might follow in the main |
the same design.
Now that the demand for Oriental rugs
has increased so largely that there are
few comfortable homes throughout the
land where at least one is not cherished,
the making of them has become largely
commercialized. There are, however, no
rug factories, as we understand the word.
Every step in the industry is performed
by hand in the old, rude methods, by vil-
lagers working in their own dooryards
usually, but painted patterns are given
out for the workers to follow, and fre-
quently several people are engaged upon
the same rug at the same time. In the
days of old the work of weaving was
done, as it is done today among the
nomadic tribes, only by the women. But
the increasing demand already spoken of
has drawn men and boys into the work.
The method of weaving is thus des-
cribed by Vincent J. Robinson, in his
Eastern Carpets: “A very rough loom is
contrived by placing two horizontal poles
or large beams, according to the width
of the proposed carpet, the one about a
foot or cighteen inches above the level
of the floor, and the other six or seven
feet above that and parallel with it.
Upon the upper of these beams are coiled
the threads or warps which are to form
the foundation of the carpet, with their
lower ends strained or fixed to the bot-
tom pole. The loom being set up, the
pile is gradually worked into the warp
threads in the following manner: Small
bobbins of wool, goats’ hair or other ma-
terial of which the pile is to be made,
dyed of the required colors to form the
pattern, are passed over and under the
warp threads twice, so as to bring the
two ends of the pile to the front of the
carpet, when the engaged end is cut,
leaving the two ends of the material pro-
jecting to form the pile. This is repeated
in the same color, changed to suit the re-
quirements of the design, and when one
row is finished it is hammered closely
down with a kind of comb and another
row is begun. Before a commencement of
each row of the pile,the warps, which are
divided into two sets, are crossed, a shoot
of hemp or cotton is introduced between
them; they are then crossed again by
means of a treadle, and the weaving of
the pile recommences. After a com-
pletion of several rows of pile the pro-
jecting ends of it, which have only as
yet been roughly cut, are carefully trim-
med to the length which it is intended to
assume."
The two methods of knotting the pile
are the Ghiordes or Turkish knotand the
Sehna or Persian knot. In the former
the ends of the pile come up between
every two threads of the warp; in the
latter, they come up to the surface be-
tween the spaces. The texture of the
rug is determined by the number of
knots to the square inch. Some of the
' most prized of the antiques have as
many as 924 knots to the square inch,
the cheapest of the modern rugs may
have only forty. Since it is estimated
that a skillful weaver can tie three knots
in one minute, anyone with a few min-
utes’ calculation can work out the time
it must take to complete a rug five feet
by eight feet, allowing, say, 400 knots to
the square inch—a little over four years.
The secret of the glorious coloring
found in Oriental rugs and their wonder-
ful permanence lies in the use of care-
ful prepared vegetable and animal dyes.
The art of dyeing has many carefully
preserved secrets and many factors enter
into the process, such as the qualities
and temperature of the water, atmo-
spheric conditions, number of dippings
in the dye and the length of exposure to
air and sunshine—all have their own
peculiar effects upon the color to be pro-
uced.
The luster which is so much prized in
old rugs has been gained by the years-
long tread of bare or soft-sandaled feet,
No Oriental would be guilty of walking
on his prized possessions with heavy
boots. Some manufacturers of our day
attempt to produce this luster of age by
artificial means,by chemically treatingthe
rug, by burying it in sand or mangling it.
But this kind of treatment is far from
beneficial to the wearing qualities of the
A distinguished Frenchman, M. Charles
Blanc, has written: rer
ene
“Were a man to live aslong as Methu-
selah he would never cease to find fresh
beauties in a Persian carpet.”
These beauties are enhanced, if one
understands a little about the symbolism
of the various geometric and conven-
tionalized natural forms most frequently
: employed by the Orientals. The circle,
for instance, as almost every one knows,
symbolizes eternity; the familiar swastika
and its modifications, the latch hook and
the Greek border, are said to represent
health, happiness and good luck, as well
as the movement of the earth on its axis,
and the supreme” deity of the Aryans;
the zigzag symbolizes water or lightning;
the star of six points, Allah; the hour
i glass figure, formed by two triangles, fire
and water. Continuity of life, of the
endlessness of eternal life, is represented
by a meandering line.
It is often said that the whole rug is
the emblem of eternity and that the pat-
tern symbolizes the changing world of
nature. Occasionally lines from the
Persian poets are found woven in a car-
touche at one end of a rug, and some-
times a date and a signature. Little
irregularities in the design or a little
bead woven in, or a tassel of wool left,
were thought to keep away the “evil
eye.”
The prayer rug, of which so much is
heard, is distinguished by a niche, called
the mihrab, at one end. Wherever the
faithful follower of Mahomet may be at
the hour appointed for prayer, he spreads
his rug with the mihrab toward Mecca
and prostrates himself, with his head
resting on the point in the rug and his
arms outstretched.—New York Tribune.
Summer Schools for the Training of
Teachers for Continuation Schools.
The Cox Child Labor Bill, Act No. 177,
provides that minors between the ages
of 14 and 16 shall attend school eight
hours a week, if such school has been
established in the school district in
which the pupil works or resides.
There will be a demand for properly
trained teachers to teach these minors.
This demand will increase from year to
ear. ,
y In order to enable the teachers of this
Commonwealth to take courses that will
fit them for teaching positions in the
continuation schools which are about to
be established, and to provide a source
of supply of trained teachers for the
school authorities of the Commonwealth,
the State Board of Education has com-
pleted plans for the establishment of six
summer schools, to be located as follows:
Philadelphia Trades School, Philadel-
pria.
Poplar St. Industrial School, Reading.
Technical High Schooi, Altoona.
North Industrial School, Pittsburgh.
Academy Industrial School, Erie.
Free tuition and supplies will be fur-
nished by the State to teachers, both
men and women, holding a certificate
valid in Pennsylvania and having taught
one or more years within the Common-
wealth. Those approved for entrance to
the schools will pay living expenses and
transportation from their homes to the
school and return.
The courses given in the summer
schools for the training of teachers for
the continuation schools will consist of
industrial English, industrial geography,
industrial civics, hygiene for the worker,
industrial arithmetic, industrial book-
keeping and industrial drawing.
These schools will open on the 19th
day of July, 1915, and continue in session
5% days a week, until August 13, 1915.
On or about the 13th of November,
1915, in various sections of the State, ex-
aminations will be given in the subjects
taught in the summer schools. Teach-
ers passing satisfactory examination and
having had three or more years’ teach-
ing experience will be granted a grade
“A” certificate which will entitle them to
teach in any continuation school operated
in Pennsylvania. All teachers passing a
satisfactory examination and having had
from one to three years’ teaching ex-
perience, will be granted a grade “B”
certificate which will entitle them to
teach in any continuation school of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
summer schools for the training of teach-
ers for the continuation schools, ' should
make application .to Millard B. King,
Director of Industrial Education, Bureau
of Vocational Education, Union Trust
Building, Harrisburg, Pa. ;
Aeroplane Versus Airship.
The fighting aeroplane is an important
weapon against raiding airships; and un-
less the aeroplane has to carry the weight
of a machine gua, it has a big advantage
inspeed. But if it carries a gun that ad-
vantage is greatly reduced. A rigid air-
ship of the latest type should attain a
speed of sixty milesan hour; anaeroplane,
when laden with pilot, passenger, ma-
chine gun and ammunition, does not as
a rule exceed sixty or seventy miles, an
hour.
If the aeroplane carries bombs instead
of a machine gun, it must, in order to
cripple the airship, pass directly above
her, and from that point drop a bomb
upon the craft below. But aeroplane
pilots, when approaching an airship,
must be wary, for it has machine guns
in its cars, and can maintain a hot and
dangerous fire. If the pilot of the aero-
plane sees the airship before it sights
him, his best course is to gain a high
altitude, and then close in suddenly and
drop his bombs. Should it come to a
contest for height between an aeroplane
and an airship, the bigger craft will have
an advantage—at any rate until she has
reached her limit of altitude, which is
about ten thousand feet. An aeroplane
can climb quickly until it has gained a
height of about six thousand feet; but
after that the decrease in the density of
the air reduces the “lift” of its wings,
and its rate of ascent is much slower.
The airship, however, can rise rapidly
and at a sustained pace. ging ou
“If in a combat between an airship and
an aeroplane the pilot of the smaller craft
has used all his weapons of attack with-
out avail, and if he must at any cost put
desperate method of attack. He can
steer his machine directly at the airship
and allow it to crash into her hull. By
that heroic action, although it will almost
inevitably cost him his life, he may so
injure the airship that she will go reeling
to earth.—Claude Grahame-White, on
“Aircraft in War,” in the Youth's Com-
panion. :
"Endless Chain.
get your troubles.” “That's right
Mayba I, can find a show. tonight thal
will make me forget: the: vne 1 saw
last night.”—Washingten Star «ee
All those who desire to enroll in these |
“You ought to go to a show and for
the airship out of action, he has one last |
HAVE NO STANDING IN LAW
Exponents of “Spirit Mediumship”
~ Find Little Comfort in Appeal-
ing to Courts.
Subtle though the judicial mind may
be, writes L. Arthur Wilder in Case
and Comment, it has no place for
spirit mediumship. The Michigan su-
preme court once had occasion to con:
sider the case of one who advertised
himself as “a modern day seer,” “clair-
voyant trance medium” and “clairvoy-
ant physician,” “thoroughly con-
versant with the occult sciences,” per-
mitting “a peep through the keyhole
of the mysterious future” and offering
advice “with a strange certainty” op
all business affairs and affairs of the
heart, “restoring lost affections, peace
and confidence to lovers and discord-
ant families” “on a positive guar
anty,” locating lost, stolen and buried
property and treasures and calling his
business “psychometry or soul read-
ing” or: “prognosticating.” The court
held that he was properly convicted
of being a disorderly person and fur- i
ther that no intent was involved, since
the offense itself was a misdemeanor,
and either specific ‘acts or advertise-
ment itself constituted the offense. A
like attitude is taken in New York,
Delaware and England, and there is
a record of a conviction in France of
an impostor who claimed the power
not merely to materialize a spirit but
to photograph it.
ROYAL IN ITS MAGNIFICENCE
“Founder's Room” in Pittsburgh Car |
negie Library Is a Splendid
Apartment.
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|
A recent report of the Pittsburgh
Carnegie library contains a picture of
the “founder’s room,” of which a
writer in the Boston Evening Tran-
script says:
“It seems to be a vast apartment,
about fifty or sixty yards long and
nearly as wide. It has indirect light-
ing and a flagged floor, upon which
one might play hopscotch if one felt
inclined. There are four or five thrones
in the room, one on each side of the
fireplace, and there is a table with a
lamp on it. The room is very mag-
nificent; it has all the spaciousness
and discomfort of a royal palace.
“What Mr. Carnegie does in this
room we are not told. There are no
sleeping accommodations, unless one
of the thrones is really a folding bed.
It does not look cozy enough to use
for an office.”
Typhoid in War Time. -
In the Franco-Prussian war in the
year 1870 there were 73,000 cases of
typhoid fever in the Germany army.
Out of this number there were 7,000
deaths. In the Boer war the British
army suffered from typhoid fever to
the extent of 57,000 cases, of which
8,000 died. During the war with Spain
the United States army was ravaged
with typhoid fever. In 1898 there were
20,738 cases and 1,580 deaths among
108,000 men. In other words, one man
in every five contracted typhoid
fever. Even among the troops which
never left the United States, but re-
mained in the various concentration
camps at home, one man in every six
came down with the disease. In 1898
nine-tenths of the deaths which cec-
curred among the troops in the United
States were caused by typhoid fever.
—Scientific American.
The Doorman’s Plea.
The stage doorman of a certain New
York theater is a doughty Italian of
sufficient brawn to guard a much
larger portal. Silvestro, as he is
called, has been somewhat envious of
the showy uniform of the theater's
carriage porter, in contrast to his own
unpretentious civilian garb. With a
preliminary respectful salute to Mr.
Hopkins, owner of the theater, on his
way to make up for “The Marriage of
Columbine,” Silvestro poured out his
soul with characteristic variations on
the idiom, “Scusi, meester, I try do my
best, all de time. I love my job, I love
dis theater, everything. Santa! I love
you, I love Mr. Hopkins, everybody
round de place. I give my heart out,
all the time, my soul, my life; nothing
I would not give to serve you. Siete
soddisfatto? Den, please get me a
fine cap like da porter’s one.”
Wires Near Houses.
The sight of a man trimming a
tree suddenly falling to the ground,
killed by a shock from an electric
wire, against which the branches
were blown, leads Philip E. Edelman
to suggest in the Scientific American
that not nearly enough care is taken
in stringing high power wires 5 keep
them far away from trees, barns and
houses,
Mr. Edelman says that every muni-
cipality should require high voltage
wires to be separated from all neigh-
boring objects by a distance of mot
less than eight or ten feet. :
Sense of Fitness.
Some women seem to have no idea
of the relative value of adjectives
or epithets. A golden-haired, fluffy
thing was looking at a picture of the
wounded English soldiers in a hospital
ward. “Don’t they look ‘dinky’ in
their cots?” she exclaimed. “Dinky!”
—they might have been prize poms
instead of men who had bled for their
country.
Farmers’ Wives Buy Bread.
It is no uncommon thing these days
to see a farmer's wife come into town
and buy a few loaves of bread to take
home with her. Even the farmer's
daughters are not learning to cook as
they did in the good old days.—Mit-
chell Tribune. ay sip ot
WORKING IN OCEAN'S DEPTHS
Most Remarkable Divers Are the
Pearl Fishers of Torres, Who
Work With Simple Equipment.
The greatest depth recorded of
work done by a diver in a suit is 182
feet; this depth was reached by the
Spanish diver, Angel Erostarbe, who
recovered $45,000 in silver ingots from
the wreck of the steamship Skyro off
Cape Finisterre. The sponge divers
of the Mediterranean work at a maxi-
mum of 150 feet, and the Australian
pearlers at 120 feet. The greatest
depths reached by divers without ap-
paratus were by the pearl fishers
of Torres, mostly Malayans from the
smaller islands. They go down with
the aid of a stone and a loop in the
rope thereto attached which they
clutch with their toes, these organs
being far more prehensile’ than in
races: normally shod. ‘They seldom
venture to descend below 50 feet, a
depth at which they can remain for
two minutes. The stone enables them
to remain at the bottom while they
| are sweeping the pearl oysters into
a basket attached to the stone. When
| the diver feels that he must come up
| to breathe he releases his toes from
| he becket in the rope and at once
| floats to the surface. Young and
heaithy Malayan divers working oys-
ter beds below six fathoms make four
| descents an hour during four hours
in the morning and the same during
| four hours in the afternoon following
' a four-hour rest. A civilized man at
! a depth of 42 feet finds such a dive in-
| tolerable after a single minute.
TRIED TO “BEAN” THE HAWK
New York City Employee Flings Pa.
per Weight Ineffectively at
Daring Pigeon-Eater.
There was a hunt for game yester-
day atop the municipal building. The
game was variously described as a
hawk and an eagle. The hunters were
a couple of score of city employees,
led by Alderman Carstairs and Jack
Kennedy, chief clerk of the water de-
partment, The “guide,” if such he
could be called, was Elevator Dis-
patcher Peter Kearney, whose office
is on the roof of the building, and
who has been watching the big bird
capture and devour pigeons.
“The bird is two feet high. at least,
and his wings spread four feet,” said
| Kearney. “He’s black, but his breast
! has streaks of white on it. He has a
| brown bill, with a black spot right on
| the end of it.”
{ The hunters trooped out on the roof
| just after Kearney had informed them
| the bird had settled on a ledge 15
i feet below, with a pigeon in its mouth.
| There was a long discussion, and final-
{ ly Frank Halliday tied a paper weight
i to a long string, and tried to “bean”
the hawk.
The weight fell pretty ciose to the
| hawk's head, and it soared up, taking
refuge in the folds of Civic Virtue’s
' bronze skirt.—-New York World.
Practical Trade School Idea.
London has elaborated the trade
school idea to include the work of out-
! fitting women with an equipment to
face life’s struggle. In the six trade
schools of London, four of which are
under the direct control of the London
county council, and two of which are
connected with the polytechnic insti-
tutions, aided by grants from the Lon-
don county council, various trades of
the traditional feminist classes, such
as dressmaking, ladies’ tailoring, cor-
set makirg, millinery, embroidery,
In addition to competent teachers
these schools have enlisted in their
interest advisory committees of em-
ployees of the classes of workwomen
being developed by the schools, one
result of which is that employment
at profitable wages awaits the capable
students of these schools. The voca-
tional school idea is spreading and ex-
tending through the civilized world,
with the result that it brightens the
prospects of youth and heartens young
people with the knowledge that they
will enter upon their career with some
technical acquaintance with and some
manual dexterity in those lines of
work in which the world stands con-
stantly in need of workers.
Wanted Quick Settlement.
The humors of that type of lawyer
who is known as the * “ambulance
chaser” are not lost upon Representa-
tive Howard of Georgia, who, by the
way, has not even sympathy for the
type. He recounts the story of an
elderly negro who was run over by a
wagon. A sympathetic attorney
rushed to the hospital and offered to
handle the case on a contingent fee.
“Go 'way f'um me, white man,” said
the old darky, feebly.
“But I want to help you,” said the
lawyer.
The old man showed a gleam of in-
terest.
“Does you?” he said.
The lawyer nodded.
“Den,” said the victim, “you go out
an’ find de man dat run into me and
bus’ his haid wide open!”
Hen Was Practical.
The Johnsons had an old hen which
insisted upon neglecting her comfor-
table nest to lay a daily egg in the
coal cellar. Ea
“I can’t think,” fretted Mrs. John-
son, as she and her small son, Joe,
together hunted for that particular
egg, “why this one hen insists upon
using the coal cellar.”
“Why, that's easy, mother,” ex-
claimed Joe in astonishment. “I
£’dose she’s seen the sign, ‘Now is the
‘time to lay in your coal.’”
- waistcoat making, cooking, laundry |
work and upholstery, are being taught. |
County Correspondence
Items of Interest Dished Up for the Delec-
tation of ‘““Watchman’ Readers by a
Corps of Gifted Correspondents.
PINE GROVE MENTION.
This week will see most of the wheat
on shock in this valley.
Mrs. Sarah Stover, of Centre Hall, is
visiting friends at Bloomsdorf.
Miss Bertha Corl spent last week with
friends in Tyrone and Altoona.
Miss Lottie O'Bryan spent last week
with friends at Axe mann and Bellefonte.
Owing to the showery weather much
hay has been left lay on the fields unfit
for use.
Hannah Royer .was an over Sunday
visitor at the E. E. Royer home at
Bloomsdorf.
W. K. Corl has purchased a new Frick
‘thresher and will put two threshing - out-
fits on the road.
G. Mc Fry and wife were over Sunday
visitors at the W. H.
west Main street.
Road supervisor J. E. Reed has been a
very sick man the past ten days, but is
now convalescing.
Miss Ruth and Hugh Goss, of Tyrone,
are spending their vacation with friends
in and out of town.
Mr. and Mrs. George Miller, of Axe
Mann, spent several days last week at
the J. C. Homan home.
J. O. Campbell is manipulating a new
Pullman five passenger car, sold by G.
E. Ward. It’s a beauty.
Last Sunday J. W. Miller in his car
took his parents a joy ride down the val-
ley, landing at Huntingdon.
Mrs. J, H. Ross last Friday returned
from a very pleasant visit among friends
in New York and New Jersey.
Mrs. Nannie Shaw is arranging for a
trip to the western part of the State, and
expects to be gone several weeks.
J. H. Ross and party autoed down the
valley Monday to see how the boys were
getting along at the old Ross home.
Mrs. Shoop, of Spruce Creek, has been
visiting at the N. C. Neidigh home and
see how Old Home week was conducted.
Miss Olive Mitchell, of Bellefonte, was
here Friday to see how her farmer, Frank
Swabb, is making out with his two jobs
on his hands.
Rev. L. S. Spangler, of Everett, came
over and spent several days greeting old
friends hereabouts. He likes his new
field very much.
Mrs. Esther Fry, after a three week's
visit among Centre county friends, re-
turned to her home in the city of Broth-
erly Love last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Weiland are re-
ceiving congratulations over the arrival
of twins, a boy and a girl, last Friday, at
their home at Fairbrook.
Last week the veteran tar burner, John
Woods, came out of old Tussey moun-
tain with four barrels of pitch tar, which
he is now offering at rock bottom prices.
Isaac.Miller and son Ed, of Philadel-
phia, motored here on Friday to view the
former's earthly possessions on Tadpole,
gud look the ground over for the fall
unt. ;
Rev. John E. Reish, of Loganton, in his
new Ford car, took a spin through the
valley Friday and spent the day with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Reish, at
Rock Springs.
Mrs. G. W. Ward departed last week
for a four months’ trip west, to visit the
Panama Exposition and other places of
interest en route and will spend some
time with relatives in Kansas.
Last Saturday Harry Fetzer, grade boss
on the State highway, handed in his res-
ignation. He has a similar job awaiting
him in Clearfield county. Supervisor J.
A. Decker has charge of the grading now.
After a month’s visit among the friends
of his youth, C. S. Dannley left Wednes-
day morning for his home at Wadsworth,
Ohio. Before taking his leave he ex-
pressed himself highly pleased with his
stay.
Rev. J. O. C. McCracken, of Johnstown,
is making his annual mid-summer stay
at the old home farm, lending a helping
hand in husbanding the big crops, while
his wife and youngsters are looking after
the berry crop.
A concert band has been organized
here to be known as the Ferguson town-
ship citizens band and to consist of
twenty-five pieces. W.K. Corl was elect-
ed president; Fred Gearhart secretary,
and E. M. Watt treasurer.
Friday Prof. Devoe Meade, of Ithaca,
N.Y, joined his wife and baby boy, Kep-
ler Meade, at the Kepler home in the
Glades. The same day Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Graff came in from Cincinnati, for
a month’s outing at the same home. Both
gentlemen are graduates of old Penn
State, in the class 1912.
C. B. Hess, a retired merchant and old
soldier, is nursing a broken leg. While
stepping from a rig he made a mis-step
and fell, fracturing his left leg above the
ankle. The old veteran is getting along
nicely, but was sorry to miss the ex-
student gathering on the 6th, as he was
one of them in the fifties.
Our neighboring town of Boalsburg is
noted for long livers as the following list
shows: Cyrus Durst, J. H. Meyers, John
Kuhn, John Woods, Alex. Kuhn, Joe Het-
tinger, Adam Felty, whose combined
ages are five hundred and seventy years,
an average of over 81 years. There are
a number on the 75 and 76 year list.
Last week while tax collector J. E.
Elder was driving along by Struble a
passing auto upset his rig, throwing him
on the hard pike breaking several ribs
and causing other injuries. A passing
auto took him home, the rig was badly
broken. The auto driver admitted being
at fault and agreed to defray all ex-
penses.
Saturday evening, July 3rd, the J. C.
Kreps home at Struble was the scene of
a happy birthday gathering, it being their
eldest daughter, Anna's, eighteenth
birthday. She was the recipient of many
beautiful and valuable presents. Re-
freshments were served and the evening
was spent in fun and music, so that all
had a joyous gathering.
Among the home comers were: G.W.
and J. H. Ward; J. C. and Randall Dun-
Glenn home on
lap; J. A. Musser and wife; S. E. Goss
and
i
wife and two sons, Jack and Curtin;
Frank Meyers, J. N. Bell, W. J. Mayes
and wife, Henry Meyers and wife, Mr.
| and Mrs. Chas. Fisher, John and Samuel
Kaup, A. V. Saussaman, Mr. and Mrs.
Ross Gilliford and Dr. L. C. Thomas and
Maggie Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Homan are
; mourning the death of their son Willis
who died last Thursday night at their
home at State College of an attack of
spinal meningitis, aged four years. He
was a bright little fellow and leaves a
void that cannot be filled in the home.
Burial was made Monday at 1.30 p. m. in
the Pine Hall cemetery, Rev. W. H.
Traub officiating,
At a meeting of the Ferguson town.
ship school board last Monday evening
the following teachers were chosen:
Principal of the High school, Prof. J. R.
Jones; Pine Grove Mills grammar, Geo.
Dunlap; primary, Viola Burwell; Branch,
Esther Neidigh; Pine Hall, Grace Elder;
Oak Grove, F. B. Tate; White - Hall,
Claire Martz; Krumrine, Arthur Bur.
well; Centre, Clarence Weaver; Fair-
view, George Irvin; Glades, Helen Ward;
Kepler, Edna Ward; Marengo, H. M.
. Edmunston; Gatesburg, Roxie Johnson;
Baileyville, Nannie Houser.
EAST BRUSHVALLEY.
| Fresh cherry pie and thunder showers
| a specialty.
The chatter of the mowers is heard in
all directions.
The corn is growing nicely,
i the frequent rains.
Tabernacle meetings are closed now.
What shall be the next?
C. B. Mallory left this week for Swiss-
ie where he will again resume his
work.
Miss Mildred Wolfe,
Saturday and Sunday
Miss Neta Page.
Ask Centre Hall about that base ball
game on Saturday. It started right and
ended in a nice game of give-away.
On last Sunday night a weasel visited
a coop of chicks belonging to Mrs. O. F.
Stover, and left some twenty in a lanced
condition.
A. W. Weber tore his new straw hat
last week since the arrival of that new
hay-maker. Ephriam Ebenezer was sug-
gested for his name.
Miss Nora Yearick, daughter of S. C.
Yearick, has found employment at
Madisonburg at the home of her grand}
father, Frank Yearick.
Several of the members of the I. O. O.
F., of this place spent their particular day
of “Old Home week” at Bellefonte and
reported having a fine time.
The Winkleblech lumbering crew have
already set their new mill and are run-
ning at low speed, sawing the necessary
material used in the construction of an
up-to-date saw mill.
owing to
of Loganton,spent
with her friend,
DR. HAWES AT HARRISBURG.— Mon-
day’s Harrisburg Patriot contained the
following notice relative to Dr. Hawes:
Large audiences attended Market
Square Presbyterian church yesterday to
hear the Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes,
pastor of the Bellefonte Presbyterian
church, who recently received a call to
the pastorate at Market Square. Dr.
Hawes made a very favorable impression
with his commanding presence and at-
tractive personality and forceful address.
He made no intimation regarding his de-
cision on the call as pastor.
In the morning the minister preached
from the text, “As the heart panteth after
the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after Thee, O God,” and in the evening
gave a fine discourse on the subject,
“Into Thine Hands I Commit my Spirit;
Thou Hast Redeemed me, O Lord God
of Truth.”
Dr. Hawes visited the Bible classes and
met a large number of the congregation.
The Rev. and Mrs. Hawes were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Flem-
ming, 104 South street, during their visit
in this city.
. Although Dr. Hawes has given no de-
cision in regard to the call to the pastor-
ate of the church, it is believed that he
will make an early reply.
ALLEGED ELOPERS CAUGHT.—On Wed-
nesday of last week sheriff A. B. Lee re-
ceived a telephone message from Snow
Shoe that Michael Perro, single, and
Mrs. Sofia Vozniak, a married woman
with two children, had left that place in
an auto, driven to Bellefonte and taken
the Lewisburg train for Wilkes-Barre,
and he was requested to apprehend them.
The sheriff at once telephoned to sheriff
Hackenberg, at Lewisburg, to arrest the
couple and when the train arrived there
they were taken into custody and placed
in jail. On Thursday morning sheriff
Lee went to Lewisburg and brought the
man and woman to Bellefonte. Both
stoutly maintained that they had no
thought of eloping or of doing anything
improper, but were simply going to
Wilkes-Barre to visit relatives. Under
these representations the only thing that
could be done was to discharge both after
they paid the costs and they then re-
turned to Snow Shoe.
REFORMED CHURCH REUNION.—The
fifteenth annual Reformed reunion wil]
be held at Hecla park on Tuesday, July
20th. The usual train service will pre-
vail. A special train will leave Belle-
fonte at 8:00 a. m. The morning ad-
dress will be delivered by the Rev: Ray-
mond R. Jones, of Centre Hall. Special
music by a Ladies’ Octette.
Not Well Enough Known.
We cannot accomplish much in the treatment
of dyspepsia, however much we may temporarily
relieve its symptoms, so long as the blood re-
mains impure. It is a fact not well enough known
by people generally that when the stomach, liver
and other digestive organs are supplied with im-
pure blood, the digestive process is impaired, so
as to cause faintness and loss of appetite and
sometimes a deranged state of the intestines, and
in general all the symptoms of dyspepsia.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is of great service in
dyspepsia, because it purifies the blood, making
it the healthy stimulus the digestive organs must
have for the proper performance of their duties,
Hood's Sarsaparilla, especially if taken in a little
hot water, has “a magic touch” in dyspepsia,
‘Get it today.