Dewan | SHELL THAT HIT
Bellefonte, Pa., September 24, 1915.
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KILLS SHARK WITH CROWBAR
Great Battle Waged for an Hour
Against a Man-Eater Results
in Victory.
A man-eating shark up to his eyes
in mud and a stranger in the Bronx,
was killed near Throggs Neck after
’
everyone within half a mile of him.
had screamed at least once and missed
him with a rock at least twice. David
McGowan, an inspector in the Bronx
department of sewers, is the amateur
toreador who finally sent him winging
or flippering into the valley of death.
Mr. McGowan, accompanied by a
quartet of pickax wielders and a dou-
ble sextette of shovelers, was improv-
ing the Bronx sewerage facilities
when he huard a hoarse cry. Mr. Mec-
Gowan selected a crowbar he could
trust and hurried to where a strug-
gling form was creating a whirlpool.
He inserted the crowbar into the huge
bulk. The head of an indignant shark
appeared, and Mr. McGowan, with four
excellently executed handsprings, was
back on shore again.
Then began a battle which lasted an
hour and endangered the life and
property of all who dwell near Weir
Creek. Pickaxes were hurled by the
drainage pickadores and shovels de-
scribed parabolas that were interest-
ing, but dangerous.
Finally. when the shark was at the
point of death from ennui and ex-
haustion, Mr. McGowan stepped for-
ward and inflicted the fatal wound.
The shark groaned, sighed, whistled,
rolled over, kicked once and was no
more. He was found to weigh 200
pounds when dragged to the shore
and was seven feet long.—New York
Herald.
NECESSARY TO FIND TICKET
Bishop Had Good Reason for Making
Search for Article That He
Had Misplaced.
The distinguished and well-beloved
bishop of a certain southern state is
80 absent-minded that his family is al-
ways apprehensive for his welfare
when he is away from them.
Graphic Description Penned by
Frederick Palmer.
| One Succecsful Shell Out of a Thou.
sand; the One Supposed to Make
Waste of Other 999 Worth
While.
By FREDERICK PALMER.
(International News Service.)
British Headquarters, France.—
There are points along the Bnitish
front which see nothing but desultory
shell fire and sniping for weeks and
months on end; points where neither
side has made an attack through the
winter and spring. These are known
A practical stale- |
as quiet corners.
mate exists. Neither Briton nor Ger-
man finds any object in trying for a
gain. Troops who have been in the
thick of it elsewhere are sometimes
sent to these regions for a rest and a
change.
Other points—points which stick
out, as it were—are known as “hot
corners,” where the guns and rifles
seem always busy. Such has been
the La Bassee region.
A visitor may see about as much of
what is going on in La Bassee as an
ant can see of the surrounding land-
scape when promenading in the grass.
The guns of both sides seem en-
gaged in a kind of savage, vindictive,
blind man’s buff sparring. Of course,
the gunners have a point on the map
at which they are aiming. They have
information in one way or andther
that there is something at this point
worth shelling. It may be a house;
and of course, every house is down
on a large scale map. Troops may be
in the house; or if they are not, and
. You destroy the house, you have de-
, stroyed shelter for troops and made
Not long ago, while making a jour- |
ney by rail, the bishop was unable to
find his ticket when the conductor
asked for it.
“Never mind, bishop,” said the con- '
ductor, who knew him well. “I'll get
it on my second round.”
However, when the conductor
passed through the car again, the
ticket was still missing.
sured him.
ed the bishop. “I've got to find that
ticket. I want to know where I'm
going.”—Youth’s Companion.
British North Borneo.
The state of British North Borneo
is governed by the British North Bor-
neo company, a chartered company,
the only one remaining under the
British flag. The governor is appoint-
ed by the company with the approval
of the British secretary of state for
the colonies. The population is esti-
mated . at 500,000, there being less
than 400 whites. United States Con-
sul Hanson, at Sandakan, states that
he is informed that within twenty
the enemy nervous. At least, theo-
retically, you have ‘made him: so;
nothing seems to be able to make the
British soldier actually so, or the
French peasant either.
We had left our car to go forward
on foot. We were coming into the
zone where the inhabitants had been"
ordered to vacate their homes. This
is an unfailing sign that whatever the
condition of your health you are be-
coming a poorer risk every minute
for a life insurance company. A
shell may get a group of soldiers in
a house or in a dugout. Houses are
not safe shelter in hot corners where
the visitor, instead of looking for
houses which have been damaged by
shell fire, looks for the anomalous one
that has not.
There was one suca on an adjoining
; | road—an estaminet, which is a pub-
“Oh, well, bishop, it will be all right ;
if you never find it!” the conductor as-
. the door of this estaminet and above
“No it won’t, my friend,” contradict- |
mfles ‘of that place are natives who
have never seen a white man, and
‘who live by the spear and the blow
pipe just as did their ancestors of
the tenth century. Mr. Hanson states
that elephants and rhinoceroses are
so plentiful that they are a nuisance
to owners of rubber and cocoanut es-
tates by destroying young trees, and
that “the telegraph line across the
country is out of commission a third
of the time because the elephants rub
against the posts and push them
down.”
French Soldiers’ Ways.
A lieutenant describes in Every-
man’s Belgian Supplement the soldiers
of France as “big children.” He says
that the foundation of the army of the
republic is the peasant who has a
simplicity that makes him docile to
the dictates of discipline and the or-
ders of his superiors. A democracy
is growing in the army that did not
before exist. “You may,” he says,
“be as exacting as you like, regarding
the divers service duties. For three
or six months of %ainy winter you
may make them work 14 hours a day
at earthworks exposed to shot and
shell if you treat them as friends; if
you trouble about their meals, their
footgear, their straw bedding, ‘and
above all if you swear at them, when
they do impudent things. You can get
wonderful results out of them; if you
tickle their vanity, they are charmed,
they adopt you, they would face death
to fetch you if you lay wounded on
the field.”
Pay of Capital Employees.
Uncle Sam has more than 36,000 em-
ployees in Washington to whom he
pays an average of $1,135 a year, or a
total of about $41,140,000. The high-
est average salaries are paid to White
House employees who get $3,900 a
year, and the lowest is paid to employ-
ees in the state, war and navy build-
ing, averaging $560 a year. Co-opera-
tive buying is now practiced by a part
of the employees, and it is suggested
that this and other co-operative ac-
tivities might be profitably practiced
by the entire army of Uncle Sam’s
workers in the capital city.
lic drinking place or cafe.
A stretcher was being borne into
the doorway of the estaminet was
chalked some lettering which indicat-
ed that it was a first clearing station
for the wounded. Lying on stretchers
. on the floor were some wounded men.
They looked a little stunned, which
was only natural when you have been
as close as they had to a burst of a
shell—a shell that made a hit. The
concussion was bound to have this
effect.
A third man was the best illustra-’
tion of shell destructiveness. Bullets
make only holes. Shells make gouges,
fractures and pulp. He too had a band-
aged head, and had been hit in sev-
eral places; but the worst wound was
in the leg, where an artery had been
cut, causing a loss of blood. He was
weak with sort of a “Where am 1?”
look in his eyes. If that fragment
which had hit his leg had hit his head
or his neck or his abdomen he would
have been killed instantly. He was
an illustration of how hard it is to
kill a man with several shell frag-
ments unless some of them strike in
the right place. For he was going to
live; the surgeon had whispered that
fact in his ear, that one important
fact.
And it was the one successful shell
out of the thousand; that one which
was supposed to make the waste of
the other nine hundred and ninety- !
nine worth while.
Returping by the same road by
which we came, an automobile passed
swiftly by. We had a glimpse of the
big, painted red cross on an am-
bulance side and, at the rear where
the curtains were rolled up for ven-
tilation, of four pair of soldier boot-
soles at the end of four stretchers
which had been slid noiselessly into
‘Place at the estaminet by the sturdy,
kindly, experienced medical corps
men.
As we walked along, one of our
guns of a battery near by smoked again
in the course of a desultory cannon-
ade, seeking to pay back in kind for
injuries which the four prostrate fig-
ures in the ambulance had received.
LEAVES MONEY FOR A CLOCK
Pioneer Wants a Timepiece in the
Courthouse in Morrison Coun-
ty, Minnesota.
Little Falls, Minn.—By the provis-
ions of one of the most peculiar wills
ever filed in Morrison county a clock
will probdbly be installed in the court.
house tower shortly. The will of
Cyrus Page, a pioneer resident, con:
tained directions for the payment of
$2,000 to the county for a tower clock
for the courthouse.
In the event the request is rejected
by the county the testator ordered tat
the money be given to the Little Falls
Council in trust to be used for the re-
lief of deserving poor. -
SAME OLD HEN EVERYWHERE
Roosters Have Often Saved the Trav-
eler in Foreign Lands From
Homesickness.
The efforts of the California poul-
trymen to prove that eggs laid by
Chinese hens are not sanitary are
amusing. If these California hen own-
ers had ever traveled a bit they would
have found out that the hen is the
same old hen wherever it scratches
and cackles.
It is a homesick feeling that comes
over the sojourner in a foreign land,
who does not understand a word of
the language spoken around him, to
hear a rooster crow, says the Hart:
ford Courant. It is the same old
crow and is like a voice from home.
So of the dog's bark, the horse's
neigh, the mosquito’s hum, the fly's
buzz, the pig's squeal. They. are the
same thing in every* land and in all
climates.
The birds in different lands vary
somewhat in what they have to say,
but the barnyard and household crea:
tures speak their same old language
everywhere and at all times. They
are the true world inhabitants; and
the notion that an egg laid in China
is any different from an egg laid by
a hen in Connecticut or in California
is the fanciful and selfish production
of those who have never heard the
friendly greeting of the hen in strange
lands.
Don’t Forget to Live.
Prepare to live by all means, but for
heaven’s sake do not forget to live.
You will never have a better chance
than you have at present. You may
think you will have, but you are mis-
taken.—Arnold Bennett.
Balm for Little Women.
The fine little woman who weighs
only one hundred pounds can thank i
her stars that she is on earth. If she |
resided on Mars she would weigh only
thirty-eight—Galveston News.
What a Woman Can Do.
A woman may not be able to write
poetry, but she helps to make life a
grand, sweet song every time she cans
a bushel of cherries.—Toledo Blade.
CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas.H. Fletcher.
1n use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
p—————
Funeral Director.
H. N. KOCH
Funeral Director
Successor to R. M. Gordner.
STATE COLLEGE, PENNA.
renee ns
Day and Night Service.
60-21-tf. Bell and Commercial Phones.
. and invigorate stomach, liver,
Farm Implements,. Etc.
Medical.
Hats and Caps. Clothing.
THE HFART.
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“low It Acts In Every Day Life. ||
The human heart, in a healthy man |
weighs but eleven ounces. It beats |
from long before birth until
an average lifetime, about seven mil- |
lion times, allowing seventy beats to |
the minute. Every twenty-four hours |
this siignt organ performs labor!
equivalent to lifting a ton of material |
eighty feet into the air. If the blood |
becomes poor, and filled with poisons '
from diseased kidneys, the heart is not |
only starved, but poisoned as well. It!
soon becomes exhausted and ‘unable |
to meet any extraordinary demand’
which may be made upon it. Supply!
pure blood; get the kidneys to work- |!
ing; tone up the feeble stomach! Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.
purifies the blood, relieves the kid-
neys and tones up the alimentary
canal. ‘Give the Heart the food it needs '
and it will continue to work till the
natural end of life.
Oil City, Pa.—*A few years ago I|
> i. was so completely
2%” A . . worn out and ner-
% vous I could not |
20 keep up with my |
ordinary house- |
+1 hold duties. Both |
got nc rest at
2) night. I was urged
to try ‘Golden
Medical Discovery’ by my sister (now
living in Oklahoma) who had been so
much helped by Dr. Pierce's remedies
that she was insistent. I took four or
five bottles in all and was so much
better and stronger for it, and am only
too glad to commend its use to others
in such a hopeless condition as I was
then.” —MRS. GEORGE F. SPENSE, Cor.
Walnut and Third Sts., Oil City.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regniate
Wwe's
- ——Have your Job Work done here.
Flour and Feed.
(CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
Manufactures and has on hand at all times the
following brands of high grade flour:
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST y
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
The only place in the county where that extraor-
dinarily fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour
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
Prepared to supply the
death, in!
A Complete Showing
of
“Young
Men's
Clothes
of the Better Kind
Now Ready.
Priced from $10 to $20.
Unusual Values.
Let Us Show You,
You will be Pleased.
FAUBLE’S
BELLEFONTE, 58-4 PENNA.
Shoes. Shoes.
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'
Penna.
The Whole Story in a Few Words.
500
PAIRS OF
Ladies $3.00
and $4.00
SHOES
‘Now on Sale at
$2.48
Per Pair.
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This is not a sale of small sizes and
narrow widths, but all new up-to-date
Shoes. Remember this is a sale of
~ Shoes (not low Shoes.)
Cash Only. No Exchanging.
Price $2.48 Price $2.48
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Bldg, BELLEFONTE, PA.
58.27