. Bellefonte, Pa., August 6, 1915.
Mark Twain Liked Girls.
Mark Twain, although the creator of
the most lovable boy in literature, Tom.
Sawyer, was really more interested in
little girls, says Marion Schuyler Allen
in the Strand Magazine, and it was
through his interest and affection for
my little daughter Helen that we came
to know him so well and to share the
last months of his life. He used to
pretend that only girls were interest-
ing; that boys ought not to exist until
they were men.
ture. In one of the books he gave
Helen he wrote, “It is better to be a
young June beetle than an old bird of
paradise.”
Standing by His Colors.
The box office man in a Broalway
theater was called away for ten min-
utes and had to leave things in charge
of a greenhorn. Before departing he
explained in detail the prices of the
various tickets, and the new man said
he understood.
No sooner was the novice left alone
than a woman appeared at the win-
dow.
“How much are the tickets here?”
she inquired.
“Well,” said the greenhorn, remem-
bering his instructions, ‘‘the blue ones
are $2, the red ones are $1.50 and the
yellow ones are only $1.”—New York
Tribune.
Got the Candy.
“Sis, gimme some o' that candy o’
yours?” :
“No, Bobbie, 1 won't. That’s my best
candy, and it was given to me, and
you shan’t bave a bite of it.” ‘
“If you don’t gimme some I'll tell on
C you.”
“What do you mean? What have
you got to tell on me, silly boy?”
“That Mr. Humber, that mother
don’t like, called on you last night,
didn’t he? An’ you sat in the den,
where there’s only two chairs, didn’t
you? Well, I put a hunk of chewing
gum on one of the chairs, and it's
there yet this morning. Do 1 get a
piece of candy? Thanks,
land Plain Dealer.
Looking For Publicity.
“George,” she said, “before we go
any further I must insist that the
word obey be dropped from the mar-
riage service.”
“Oh, pshaw!" he replied. “Why
bother over that. It’s a mere formal-
ity. Nobody expects it to be binding
apy more.”
*“That’s all very well. But if we have
it dropped the papers will give us a
much more extended notice than they
would otherwise.”—Chicago Record-
Herald.
Beards and Armies.
The German emperor is not the only /
tyrant in the matter of whiskers. A
British army regulation reads: “The
hair of the head is to be kept short.
The upper lip is not tv be shaved, and
the chin and under lip are to be shav-
ed.” Marbot tells in bis reminiscences
how when he joined the First hussars
at Nice a false mustache had to be
painted on his upper lip with shoe
The fact was he real- i
ly was interested in any young crea- |
sis!”"—Cleve- |
nee
: Reynard the Fox.
' Renard, or, as it is more usually
written, Reynard, is the name given
to the fox in a famous German epic
of the fourteenth century called “Rey-
nard the Fox.” The book is really a
satire on the state of Germany in the
middle ages, the different animals, each
of which are given a special name,
typitying different institutions. Thus
Reynard the Fox stands for the church,
Isengrim the Wolf for the barons and
Nodel the Lion for the emperor. Oth-
er characters are Tibert the Cat and
Bruin the Bear. Both in the last nam-
ed case and that of Reynard the per-
sonal name given by the author has
passed into common speech.
East African Highlands.
The young Englishman, be he officer
¢r settler in the east African highlands,
cuts a hardy figure. His clothes are
few and far between. A sun hat, a
brown flannel shirt with sleeves cut
above the elbow and open to the chest,
a pair of thin khaki knickerbockers
cut short five inches at least above the
knee, boots and a pair of putties com-
prise the whole attire. Nothing else
is worn. The skin, exposed to sun,
thorns and insects, becomes almost as
dark as that of the natives and so
hardened that it is nothing to ride all
day with bare knees on the saddle—a
truly Spartan discipline from which
- at least the visitor may be excused.—
Strand Magazine.
A Mountain of Alum.
In China, twelve and a half miles
from the village of Liouchek, there is
a. mountain of alum which in addition
to being a natural curiosity is a source
of wealth for the inhabitants of the
country, who dig from it yearly tons
of alum. The mountain is not less
than ten miles in circumference at its
base and has a height of 1.940 feet.
The alum is” obtained by quarrying
large bocks of stone. which are first
heated in great furnaces and then in
vats filled with boiling water. The
alum crystallizes out and forms a layer
about six inches in thickness. This
layer is subsequently broken up into
blocks weighing about ten pounds each.
Wolsey and His Orange.
Oranges were first brought to Eng-
. land about the middle of the sixteenth
century and found ready favor with
those who could afford them. Curious
use was sometimes made of the fruit
soon after its introduction. Cavendish
describes Cardinal Wolsey as entering
a crowded chamber ‘holding in his
hand a very fair orange, whereof the
meat or substance within was taken
out and filled up again with the part of
a sponge, wherein was vinegar and
other confections against the pestilent
airs, the which he commonly smelt
unto passing among the people or else
when he was pestered with many suit-
ors.—London Globe.
Nature and the Prairies.
Lovgz and lovingly did brooding nat-
wie wrer over the western prairies.
swig ages ag: she planed off the
an:z'es of them. While the Pharaohs
buil! .yvramids the prairies yet bidea
their time. Robed in thick carpets of
grass and flowers. they gathered year
by year their riches of vegetable mold.
Richly brown is the good earth of the
prairies, yielding readily to plow and
harrow. Now we see everywhere the
snug homestead. tree embowered. and
near by a red barn. Here on the
prairies is found the true and ancient
blacking before he dared to appear he-
fore the regiment.--Cleveland Plain
Dealer. ens
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Thoughtful and Saving.
When a well known comedian was
appearing at a music hall in one of the |
Scottish cities the prices were put up.
A man explained to a friend that he
had gone to the ha'! with his wife in
tending to go inte the pit and had
found that 18 pence was being charged
instead of a shillizg. “Of course you
didn’t go in?" said the friend. "Ou.
yes; I went in, but 1 paid them out for
their greed. | sent my wife home, so
they lost sixpence by it.” — London
Mail
Stale Bread.
To freshen stale bread just twist the
bread or rolls up tightly in a paper bag
and lay the bag in the oven, and you |
will not know them from the fresh
article. The oven should be a moder-
ate cne. =
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v4 = A Substitute.
““Have you a stove lifter I could bor
democracy of America, the aristocracy
of worth, high appreciation of the no-
bility of earnest endeavor and great
friendliness of men.—Breeder's Gazette.
Toc Commercial.
age,” said a senator. “Take this ar-
tist’s experience. A picture dealer en-
tered a well known artist's studio in
Boston the other day and bargained
for a large canvas—a landscape of
meadowland and cattle When the
price was agreed on and paid. the deal-
er took out his knife and. to the artist’s
horror, with one sweep of the blade.
cut the canvas in two.
* ‘There now.’ said the dealer com-
placently. *'! have two pictures, one of
| beautifrl meadowland and a lake, the
other of un interesting group of cattle.
I can get for each about what I paid
you for the whole canvas. Now sian
this half, too.” ’— Washington Star.
Frenchwomen in Business.
If the Englishwoman fails in busi-
ness that proves her inferior in one re-
spect at least to her sisters across the
row?” asked the woman who had just
moved in. 3
“No, but my husband is a piano;
mover,” suggested the woman next
door.—Philadelphia Record.
Counts Up.
“My dear,” he said in a mildly re
proachful tone, “I have no doubt at all
that you are a good bargain hunter and
that you always get really excellent
bargains, but you get too many of
them.”--Chicago Post.
A Noisy Caucus.
“Papa, will you tell me one thing?”
“Yes, my son.”
“If a lot of crows were to hold a
meeting and swear at one another
would that be what they call a caw-
cuss ?’—Exchange.
Seeing Rome.
“Papa certainly didn’t manage this
European trip very well. He said we'd
be in Rome two days, but he made a
mistake, and it’s three, and now we've
geen everything, and there's absolutely
nothing to do for a whole day.”—Life.
channel. Frenchwomen succeed as
shopkeepers, and many large business-
es are entirely under feminine control.
The difference between the two nation-
alities in this respect is indicated by
the name above the shop doors. Who
- ever saw “Mr. and Mrs. — above an
English shop? In Paris, however, “M.
and Mme. —” and even “M. — et
femme” are quite common.—London
Opinion.
R. L. 8S. and Deroulede.”
The critic who first introduced M.
Deroulede to the English public as a
poet was Robert Louis Stevenson. It
was when stranded in a village inn in
the course of his travels with a donkey
in the Cevennes that Stevenson picked
up a copy of his verses, and, after read-
ing them, he delivered the verdict,
“One feels that one would like to trust
| Paul Deroulede with soifféthing.” His
songs are of war and are inspired by
his own experiences of the Franco-
German campaign.—Westminster Ga-
Zette.
Skin Came.
The taxidermist makes an honorable
~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN
living at a skin game.—Philadelphia
Record. 4
“This is indeed a very commercial |
Gastronomic Clock.
An ingenious Frenchman once de-
vised a clock that would tell him the
time in the dark, not through his eyes
but thrcugh his mouth. Beside his bed
he placed a large flat clock dial on
which every hour was marked hy a
small cavity. In each of these he
placed a different spice; the figure 12,
for instance, held quique and the figure
6 cloves. To find the time he felt for
the short hand with his fingers and
dipped them into the cavity to which it
pointed. then tasted his fingers. This
gave him the hour. To get the minutes
he felt for the long hand and tasted
the spice to which it pointed. If he
tasted pepper and then nutmeg, for
instance. he knew it was half past 3. |
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The Life of the Wasp.
With the coming of winter the life of |
the wasp ceases, but until that time |
they are most exemplary creatures.
There are no lazy folk in waspland.
They are most industrious and ambi- |
tious—quite as much so, in fact, as
their more celebrated relatives the hees
and the ants. Labor and effort are!
evenly divided in a nest of wasps. For
instance, some of them assume the
duty of plunderers, going out in search .
of food, while others act as policemen
and stay at home and guard the place.
‘A Force Proportioned to Its Frame.
The war of 1812 has proved that our !
free government, like other free gov-
ernments, though slow in its early
movements. acquires in its progress a
force proportioned to its frame and
that the ubion of these states, the
guardian of the freedom and the safety
of all and of each, is strengthened by
every occasion that puts it to the test.
—James Madison.
RANGES
Also Lid, Dicer, Etc.
Among the slang synonyms for “hat”
is “cady,” which is supposed to have a
Hebrew origin, and has been long in
use in ‘Whitechapel in London, as wit-
ness a popular song of 1886, in which
the refrain supplies one of the few
rimes to “lady: “Met a lady. raised
my cady.” It is doubtful whether any
article of apparel has so many slang
alternatives as a hat. A by no means
exhaustive list would include “tile,”
“golgotha,” “canister,” “castor,” *‘chim-
ney,” “colleger.,” “cock and pinch,”
“cow shooter,” “david.” *digget’s de-
light,” “fantail” ‘‘gomer.” “goss,”
“mushroom,” “pill box,” ‘stove pipe,”
“thatch,” “truck” and “weejee.”—Lon-
don Chronicle.
A Neat Selection.
“That's a nice umbrella you have
there.”
“Ain't it? Reflects credit on my
taste, doesn’t it?"
“It certainly does.
get it?"
“Picked it out of a bunch of seven
that were standing in the boarding
Where did you
i house hall this morning.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Where the Shoe Pinched.
Young Girl (glancing at her pedal ex-
tremities)—Oh, dear! My feet are so
| awfully big! Practical Auntie—But you
stand on them all right, don’t you?
Young Girl—Oh, yes, but so do other
folks too.—New York Tribune.
Spiteful.
Ragged Rogers—De lady in de next
house give me a piece of homemade
cake. Won't you give me somethin’,
too? Mrs. Spiteful—Certainly, I'll give
you a pepsin tablet.—Boston Trans
cript.
Put a Stop to this
Kitchen Drudgery, Now!
Oh, yes, it can be done if you are cooking on a coal or wood stove.
Half the work of the kitchen is taking care of the stove.
Jabbing
away with the poker to get the ashes out so it will “draw’’ or shovel-
ing up ashes and lugging them outdoors. And perhaps the wood box
is empty when the fire has gone out, and you have to haul up coal.
All this is work—the back-breaking kind that makes you “all
wore out” when the last supper dish is wiped dry.
Put a stop to it today—now.
and then
can really
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Jou will know how safe, sane, saving and satisfying a cook stove
e.
¢ It doesn’t die out and have
to be ‘made up.” You put it out purposely between meals and save money
and keep your kitchen clean and cool.
chimneys prevent smoke and smell.
Yes, clean, for the combustion
With the separate oven and fireless cooker it can do anythin any other
stove will do—bake, roast, broil, boil, fry, heat water for was
irons for ironing day.
days and
There are lots of other improvements your dealer can explain to you, lik.
the regulated flame control, the perfected oil Fegeryoin the improved wick
that outlasts the ordinary kind and so on.
comfort and economy really mean.
Go today and learn what cooking
THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO.
Philadelphia Pittsburgh
Best results are obtained by using Rayolight Oil ;
Announcement.
The Farmers’
Supply Store
We are Headquarters for the Dollyless
Electric Washing Machines
Weard Reversible Sulky Riding Plows and Walking Plows, Disc
Harrows, Spring-tooth Harrows, Spike-tooth Lever Harrows,
Land Rollers; 9-Hole Spring Brake Fertilizer Grain Drill—and
the price is $70.
POTATO DIGGERS,
Brookville Wagons—all sizes in stock. Buggies and Buggy
Poles, Manure Spreaders, Galvanized Water Troughs, Cast Iron
Hog and Poultry Troughs, Galvanized Stock Chain Pumps,
Force and Lift Pumps for any depth of wells, Extension and
Step Ladders, Poultry Supplies and
All Kinds of Field Seeds.
Nitrate of Soda and Fertilizer for all crops, carried at my ware-
house where you can get it when you are ready to use it.
Soliciting a share of your wants, I am respectfully yours,
JOHN G.
60-14-tf.
Both Phones
DUBBS,
Bellefonte, Pa.
Dry Goods, Etc.
AR EELS. es
LYON & COMPANY.
Clearance Sale of All
SUMMER GOODS
EXTRAORDINARY REDUCTIONS.
Tailored Coats and Suits.
16 Summer Coats of La Vogue make—this season’s style—in
light, black, Copenhagen, navy blue; that sold from $19 to $30,
now must go at $7.50 to $10.
Coat Suits.
12 Suits of La Vogue make, in light, Copenhagen, black and
navy blue, that sold from $15 to$30, now must go at $7.50 to $10.
Summer Washable Dress Goods.
In voiles, stripes and floral designs, Scotch and domestic Ging-
hams, Silk Ginghams, all at greatly reduced prices.
Silk Waists. Crepe de Chine Waists.
In all colors and black and white, that cold at $3 and $3.50,
now $2.
Washable Silk Waists in white and floral patterns, that sold
at $1.50 and $1.75 now $1.
Summer Underwear and Hosiery.
Men’s, women’s and children’s Underwear and Hosiery at
great reductions.
Shoes. Shoes. Shoes.
Men's, Women’s and Children’s Summer Shoes all reduced.
Men’s Low Shoes that sold for $3.50 now $2.50.
Men’s Fine Dress Shoes that sold for $4, now $3.
Men’s Working Shoes that sold for $3.50 now $2.
Ladies’ and Children’s White Canvas Shoes from $1.00 up.
Parasols.
Silk Parasols that sold from $2 to $5, now must be sold from
$1.35 to $3.
Don’t miss this sale.
season’s wear.
It means money saved, and almost a
Lyon & Co. ... Bellefonte
The Centre County Banking Company.
a
“STOP, LOOK, LISTEN!"
A Lawyer received $10,000 for suggesting these
words to a railroad. The sign, “Stop, Look, Lis-
ten!” saved the road many thousands of dollars
in damages. It’sa good sign. It’s worth $10,000.
Wise people are often warned by a similar’ sign on
the road of extravagance. They stop in time.
How about yourself? Think this over seriously.
A bank account is the Best Kind of Security at
any time. If you haven't a bank account now,
start one at once. Any account, however small
you are able to begin with, will be welcomed and
carefully conserved at
THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
56-6 BELLEFONTE PA.
EGER RC IR SET
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Groceries. Groceries.
Bush House Block, - - 57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa, :
FOOD SUPPLIES
We have just received a shipment of new caught Blue Back
Mackerel, messed and boneless ;
Canned Salmon and Tuna Fish are both very satisfactory hot
weather goods. Our brands will fully satisfy your desire.
Our fancy new American Cheese are now at their very finest. If
you want the highest quality, give us your order. ;
Asparagus tips, new pack, Nabob brand, just received at 1oc per
can. Elite brands, large can, fancy, at 25c.
We have a blend of TEA that has proved very satisfactory for
making iced tea and for regular use at 6oc per pound.
The new crop of California Summer Valenica Oranges are now
just at their best. We have fancy stock at 25¢, 30c, goc, 50c
and 6oc a dozen. Also fancy California Lemons.
Our Sliced Dried Beef is all full slices, cut only from the tender
part of the meat. Comes in clean wax paper envelopes. Some-
thing new and desirable.
We take special care in the selection of Bananas and can give you fancy fruit.
MEADOW GOLD BRAND CREAMERY BUTTER
Is a Strictly Fancy Grade. We get it in frequent orders so that you can de-
pend on it having that New Sweet Flavor. Try it and be convinced.
SECHLER & COMPANY,