ut Se Democratic mh " Belletonte, Pa., September 14, 1917. COURTESY AND DISCOURTESY. A lad of fifteen was looking from the window and was announcing the pas- sage of a village character, a man who, while peculiar, was respected by all who knew him for his honorable life and Christian character. “Do you think that a courteous way to speak of him, Mark?” his father asked. “He is not so ld, and as he is the only man of his name in the town he needs no distinguishing ad- jective. Why not call him ‘Mr. Rus- sell’ when you have occasion to speak of him?” Mark hung his head; he did not know what to say. “] am eager to have you treat everybody with respect, Mark,” con- tinued the father. “You cannot afford to fail in courtesy to anyone you meet. Your discourteous words do not do so much harm to the person to whom they are spoken as to yourself. And courteous words have never done any harm. In fact, they frequently help those who hear them. Sometimes, too, they bring an unlooked for reward to the speaker. “Did you ever hear the story of how one of the best-known men in Wash- ington got his start in life? In 1871 he was an assistant door-keeper in the House of Representatives. One day, he overheard a stranger ask another door-keeper for assistance in finding one of the Senators from California. The door-keeper very surlily answer- ed that it was none of kis business where the Senators were; they could be found at the other end of the Cap- itol. “But can’t you help me?” the stran- ger urged. “I was sent over here be- cause he was seen to corre this way.” “No, I can't,” was the answer. “I have trouble enough looking after the Representatives.” “The stranger was about tc turn away when the assistant, who had overheard the conversation, said: ‘If you are from California, you have come a long way. I you.’ “Then he asked him to take a seat, and hurried off in search of the Sena- tor. | | | satisfactory. { i | purpose of which did not appear, was The discourtesy of the | letter received in reply was too great | to be borne; no further consideration | was given the writer. He was passed | { i by for another. When he learned the | result of his discourtesy, he told the 1 | | | i i story as a warning to others, and said: { “I am thankful that the experience : came to me at a time wnen I could best stand my disappointment. And I shall see to it that the mistake is | never repeated.” “Now, Mark,” the father concluded. . “IT have not repeated these stories to | make vou feel that we should be cour- teous simply because it may pay us well; or that we should avoid disccur- ! tesy because it may bring disaster to our plans or loss to our pockets. We are to be courtecus—not in a coldly ! calculating way—but because courte- | ous treatment is due everybody we | meet. I learned my lesson when I! was about your age. ‘Won't you let | me pass it on?”—Alexauder Valliant. | (The Canadian.) Czarina Saved Her Royal Jewels. The Russian royal jewels, including the gems that incrusted the imperial | Romanoff crown, are safe from the | democratic hands of the new rulers in | Petrograd. With a woman’s intuitive knowledge of trouble ahead, the for- mer Czarina had them tucked away in a safe deposit vault in her ances- tral city of Darmstadt, Germany, | right at the beginning of the war. And there they will remain until Mr. and Mrs. Romanoff claim them again. The stery of the Russion royal jew- | els is told in the London Chronicle by ! a writer who says that the former Czarina was largely responsible for the war, in that she assured her Ger- | man friends and relatives that Russia would not be a formidable antagonist. | She sroceeded to prove this antebel- lum prediction by pro-German in- trigue which ended wita the revolu- | tion and the overthrow of the Roman- off dynasty. But the former Czarina, who, before | t i i i her marriage was Princess Alexandra | Alice of Hesse, had no illusions about Germany. Accordingly she packed up | the family jewels in the summer of war clouds appear, and sent them in | | | | “The carc bore the name of Collis | P. Huntingdon, the railroad magnate. “Soon he found his man and piloted | reached their destination before the | way charge of trusted messengers to her | brother, Grand Duke of Hesse, for safe keeping until peace was restored. The royal emissaries traveled by the of Finland and Sweden. They | him to the Californian, who, as he | mobilization oi the Russian army was turned away, said to the courteous door-keeper: ° “<I wish you would call at my hotel | forehandedness in the matter of sav- rr» this evening: I want to talk to you. “At the interview that night he of- fered the assistant a position at near- ly twice the selary he was receiving from the Government. “Vy fortune was made from that time on,” tke ex-door keeper said re- cently as he told the story to a group of friends in his heautiful home. “It was several years later—in 1874 —that Francis Marion Cockrell, wio served as Senator from NMissouri for thirty years, gained his first election as a reward of a courtecus act under trying circumstances. He had just concluded a canvass for the nomina- tion to the office of Governor of Mis- souri. In the convention he was de- feated by one-sixth of a vote. His friends felt for him. They looked to see some expressions of the keen dis- appointment he must have felt. But to their astonishment, after the announcement of the result, Mr. Cockrell threw up his hat to the ceiling and with a ringing shout, call- ed for three cheers for the successful candidate. This act of courtesy, it has been said, led to his selection as Unit- ed States Senator. “You have no doubt read of the re- ward of courtesy of the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city to an unassuming gentle- man who, for years, was in the habit of visiting the museum and asking questions as to the methods and con- duct of the institution. Je was par- ticularly insistent in requesting infor- mation regarding its financial affairs. Sometimes the question seemed intru- sive; they must have become quite mo- notonous as the same questions were asked again and again. But the direc- tor answered with unvarying ~ourte- sy. At length the curious visitor died. When his will was opened it was found that he had left the bulk of his enormous estate to the museum. “That experience reminds me of the conductor of the Chicago and Alton Railway who once carried 2 passen- ger who asked all manner of questions about the farm lands adjacent to the railway line. The conductor answer- ed as fully as he could. Again and again, he found the man on his train. Always, he asked questions; always he was courteously answered. Then he was seen no more. After some time a letter came for the conductor, contain- ing a thousand dollars, a letter of thanks for valuable information given to an investor who had used the con- ductor to learn all he could of Illinois farm lands. “I recently read of a inan who had a similar opportunity. He was young and ambitious, and long cast his eye on a position paying twice the salary he had been receiving. If he only se- cured it, he would be fixed for life, he thought. But there seemed to be no prospect of gaining the coveted prize. One morning, he received a letter from a stranger which asked two questions, to which an early reply was sought. No hint was Ziven why the questions were asked. Under ordina- ry circumstances, the letter would have been answered courteously. But that morning the recipient had missed a train, he had heard a bit of bad news and he had a headache. Thus he al- lowed himself to feel resentful to the unknown correspondent although the questions asked were perfectly proper from one stranger to another. Giving way to his feelings, he wrote and mailed a reply which two hours later —he bitterly regretted. He heard nothing further from his correspond- ent. But, some weeks after, he was informed that the letter had been sent by a man commissioned to seek a suit- able man for just such a position as he had been looking for. His name had been so favorably considered that it was decided to appoint him—pro- vided the answer to the letter, the immediately | | complete. The tale of the Czarina’s German ing the family gems is said to have been revealed by memb ts of the Rus- | sian commission, who visited New York city recently. A New York society woman had her | eve peeled for bargains in royal jewel- | ry and approached members of the commission on the subject of purchas- ing a string of rare pearls which she had seen the former Czarina wear at | a fashionable European rescrt some years ago. She was told that she, would have to talk to Mrs. Romanoff or her brother, the Grand Duke of ! Hesse. 5 Ivan Narodny, Russian business man | and writer of New York, told the New York Tribune it was impossible to place an exact value on the royal jew- els, but estimated that they ought to | bring close to one hundred million dol- lars in the market. He said they were of far greater intrinsic value | than the historic jewels deposited in | the Kremlin, which are safe. | The disappearance of the royal jew- | els became known about a month af- | ter the revolution, when the provision- al government’s appraisers were tak- | ing an inventory of the Hermitage, ! one of the structures of the Winter |! Palace, where the treasures were sup- i i posed to be kept, according to Mr. Na- rodny. { “When the vaults of the Hermitage were opened the jewel boxes were ! gone,” said Mr. Narodny. “The im- perial crcwn reposed on its silk cush- ion in one chamber of the vault, but all of its stones were found to be of paste. i “Examination of the famous paint- ings hung on the walls of the Hermit- age and the Winter Palace revealed that many priceless canvases had been removed and replaced by cheap copies. Nobody knows what become of the or- iginals. These disooveries so aroused the provisional government that an investigation is now under way to see how many of Russia’s art treasures have been stolen. The museums of Moscow and Petrograd ought to con- tain wonderful collections of rubies and emeralds in existence... Some time ago I received a letter from a government officer asking me to rec- ommend an American expert to assist in the examination.” Sousa Fourth of Family to Eenter Service of U. S. Lieutenant John Philip Sousa, now at Willow Grove, is the fourth mem- ber of his family to enter the service of the United States in the present war. Others of the family in the service are: Ensign James Bowers, 2 brother-in- law, in the navy; George Sousa, of Washington, a brother, in the marine service, “somewhere on the other side,” and Lientenant Lenox Lohr, of Washington, in the engineer corps. Lieutenant Lohr was the honor man of the 1917 class at Coraell. Since being commissioned in the na- val reserve Lieutenant Sousa has been training a band eof move than 250 young musicians at the raval training station, Great Lakes, ill. Comment- ing on the fact that four members of the family are in active service he says, “I think we're doing fairly well.” Incidentally, Lieutenant Sousa, who is known over the entire country as a trap-shooting expert, has been made the commander-in-chief of the Shot- gun League. Of it he says: “It is an organization of the 500,000 marksmen. We believe that if the 500,000 are lined up and 2,000,000 ex- ponents of Prussianism are given the usual thirty-yard start we'll be able to take care of them all. I know per- sonally that I'll be able to account for four, and I know several Philadelphia trapshooters who ought to be good for seven or eight.” | but, rather, a necessity. And, except : 2 . ces just bein will try to, help! 1914, when she saw the international | : 2 | skin. i shampoo is not an exception. i the baby’s erib you can save quite a FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT Do not dare to live without intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.—Phillips Brooks. some clear | In skirts for general sport wear, the | straight lines are usually employed, says the Dry Goods Economist. Pleats ‘are noted in some models, sometimes the entire skirt is pleated, sometimes pleats are used in cluster effect. Many novel ways of introducing pleats have been brought out. While pockets have lost a bit of their popularity, they still appear in some of the best numbers. Self belts often give a pretty finishing touch to! ys Seirts and occasionally sashes are used. - Silk is to be the fabric of the sea- ! son, according to one fashion expert of New York. Such a statement may | sound prejudiced at the beginning of | the winter season, she admits, but she | points out the fact that since so much | wool is being requisitioned by the | government for the soldiers’ uniforms, | and so much cotton is needed for am- | munition, silk is not a luxury today, | for heavy coats and suits and knocka- | bout costumes, for which wool will be | i required,” silk will be found an ideal substitute. But there are silks 2nd silks. A | silk of poor quality is just a waste of | money. Quality is always economy | in the long run. Cheapness is waste. | And, if you would heed the slogan! “Eliminate waste,” that is being | shouted from Washington and echoed ! throughout the country, you will se- | lect only silks of quality, she declares. The silk manufacturers have al- ready anticipated this far-reaching | ! demand for silks and are offering : i such a diversity of weaves that one | may find the silk for every need. So! | widespread is this demand, that it is | ! difficult to say just which silks are the : most fashionable. It required a woman to think of a | clothes line cleaner, which is a new | addition to the household convenien- | introduced. Nobody but a woman realizes the amount of dirt which a clothes line may catch without regard to the amount of care that is bestowed upon it. The device is a little double scrub- | bing brush with stiff fiber bristles set | in such a manner that #hey close to- | gether and reach every part of the | clothes line as it slips between them. | Each brush back has a flange that | extends to the full depth of the bris- | tles and is rounded on the outside! edge so that the two brushes, which | are hinged together, open and shut! { easily. Two string straps keep it | "from slipping out of the hand. Oatmeal made into a paste with rose water and then smeared all over the | face and wiped off with a sponge of | flannel dipped in tepid water and one or two drops of lemon juice may be! | used by those troubled with very open ' pores. The lemon juice has a tenden- i cy to close the pores and the friction , with the oatmeal is beneficial to the Every good thing which is done to | excess is harmful, and the summer Every time the hair and scalp are thus thor- | oughly washed the natural oil so nec- | | essary to the life of the hair and the | healthy condition of the scalp likewise | takes its exit. A certain amount of | this loss will do no harm, providing if, in the meantime, a norrral amount of oil has been acquired. But when shampooing is carried to excess the hair falls out. Furthermore, the hair loses its color and lustr2. To this we must add the absolutely ruinous ef- fects of quick drying etfected by the dry heat apparatus, which further aids in drying out the oil. A systematic brushing of the hair every night before retiring will do much toward keeping both scalp and hair clean. The brushing stimulates the roots to pour out their oil and makes the hair lustrous. — { When buying rubber sheeting for little by getting just enough for the width of the mattress; then sew pieces of cotton cloth the length of the rub- ber sheet and about one-half yard wide, enough to tuck under mattress, on each side. You will find your rub- ber sheet will wear longer and keep smooth and free from wrinkles. “Slippers and stockings should match the evening dresses,” said a Parisian dressmaker to me the other day. Where the dresses are so short in places, or so transparent, if a dif- ferent colored stocking is worn the silhouette is wrong. No matter how lovely the dress may be, the effect is spoiled if this point is not covered.— New York Herald. : A Cheap Dustless Duster.—Dip a piece of cheesecloth in kerosene, hang in the air for 48 hours. A better dus- ter could not he desired. Keeping Up With Styles.—Another institution which has vassed in Em- poria is the separate cuff on men’s shirts.—Emporia Gazette. The sin of gluttony is common, and therefore much condoned, but like every other violation of nature’s laws | have a penalty. Fat, inefficiency, sluggish mentality, the reddened nose, the pimpled face, certain of the chron- ic skin eruptions and much fatigue and nervousness are duz to the abuse of the digestive apparatus. Rich, in- digestible foods in larg> quantities, highly seasoned to stimulate the jad- ed palate, are forced into a body al- ready rebellious from repletion. Ex- ercise is largely limited to walking to and from the table and bodily deteri- oration proceeds rapidly. Many an overfed dyspeptic, sudden- ly dragged by the stern hand of cir- cumstances from a life of physical ease and plenty and forced to work out of doors, suddenly discovers that his semi-invalidism has gone, that a chronic skin derangement of many years standing has disappeared and that a new vigor and rest of life has been given him. Not every one can spend his whole time in the open air, but a certain amount of exercise and plain, whole- some food in an amount not exceeding the body’s needs can be had by almost every one. . buy. | all kinds of people. | under it and scratch the supporting er SELLING AS AN ART. The Road to Success, and the Reason Some Salesmen Fail. In a story about a wenderful sales- man a writer says in the American Magazine: “Asked for his views on salesman- ship and to give suggestions thet would be helpful to others, he said: ‘Any person can sell to any man who wants to buy, but it takes a salesman to sell to the man who doesn’t want to It took me five months in one case to work my way into the confi- dence of a wealthy man who hated life insurance agents, and we had been ac- quainted a month before he discovered that I was selling insurance. He later : had me write him up for a $10,000 policy. p ‘A salesman should know his goods forward and backward, know human nature like he knows the alphabet and : not lie. Self confidence, which is in- | dispensable to success, results from exact knowledge of what you are of- fering to sell and knowledge of your prospect. { “‘Salesmen sometimes fail because | they have a set way of dealing with ! That will never | do. They should learn to adapt them- | selves to all sorts and conditions of | men and women. Use an easy conver- | sational tone. Be natural. Don’t get! excited or talk loud. Make strong, | positive assertions about your goods. | You must be absolutely certain that | the article you are selling is the very best on earth. Then stop talking be- | fore you kill the sale by talking too | much.’ ” | GRAVEDIGGER BEETLES. These Queer Insects Have a Remark- ; able Sense of Smell. | When an animal dies in a garden or | | in the woods and decomposition be- | gins carrion bugs come from far and | near. A dead bird, a mouse or a harm- | less snake wantonly killed by some ! wanderer provides a banquet for hun- | dreds of insects. Among these the | “gravediggers” are found, embracing forty-three species, twelve of which | are found in Europe, the rest in Amer- | ica. ! You can identify these beetles, says | the Popular Science Monthly, by the | two jagged yellowish red or reddish transverse bands upon their black wing covers.. Their scientific name, i necrophorus, means no mc - than | “buriers of the dead.” As ui ers | the insects have legs especial: ..lapt- ed for digging. A gravedigger beetle has a most ex- traordinary sense of smell. He can detect the peculiar odor of decomposi- : tion a long distance away and flies to the dead thing as straight as an ar row. His remarkably keen nose is sit: uated in his clublike feelers. As a rule several gravediggers are found near a dead body. They crawl earth away, so that the body soon lies in a hollow. Gradually the body is lowered until it sinks below the sur- face. Then it is covered with earth, The female lays her eggs around the interred form, thus insuring for the newly hatched larvae a plentiful food supply. Emeralds and Beryls. There is no decline in the vogue of the emerald, using the word not in the generic sense of the trade, but for a beryl of the accepted green emerald hue. Fine specimens always cause a flutter in the auction room, for the very good reason that those are ex- tremely rare. Perfect stones are as costly as fine rubies and, of course, much more so relatively than dia- monds. The Duke of Devonshire owns what is believed to be the largest and near- est faultlessness in existence, and it came from Nuzo, in Colombia, the main source of modern examples. The an- cient emeralds of great magnitude we read of were probably not beryls at all, and, indeed, “oriental emerald” is the designation of the green corundum.— London Chronicle. How to Begin the Day. Begin the morning by saying to thy- self: I shall meet this day «with the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I,>who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful and of the bad that it is ugly, cannot be injured by any of them.—Marcus Aurelius. Doesn’t Always Work. “Take my advice,” said the man who has a great deal of litigation. “Do any- thing rather than go into court.” “I tried that once, and it taught me a lesson.” “How s07?” “I was given a stiff fine for resisting an officer.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Asmodeus. Asmodeus is an evil genius or de- mon. In the ar cryphal book of Tobit he is represented as slaying the seven husbands of Sarah. In the Talmud he is described as the prince of demons and is said to have driven Solomon from his kingdom. Delicately Put. “I do,hope you appreciate that in marrying my daughter you marry a large hearted girl.” “I do, sir. And I hope she, inherits those qualities from her father.”—Pass. ing Show. : The Bible. The sixty-six books of the Bible were written by about forty men during a period of 1,600 years. True merit is like a river—the deeper it is the less noise it makes.—Tazlitt. New Fall Suits ——) FOR (—— YOUNG MEN HERE'S a certain Clothes feeling within every Young Man that makes him want “The Thing.” We’re showing the Smart New Fall Models for Young Men. There’s no radical departure in style of cut this season, but there are many new fabrics and colorings and many lit- tle “Tailor touches and kinks” that are new and very artistic. We were never better prepared to give the Young Man his Ideal Suit than we are at this present writing, and we're always pleased to show. FAUBLE'S. | Allegheny St. =.C§BELLEFONTE, PA. LYON & COMPANY. FALL AND WINTER OPENING —s) OF (= COATS and SUITS We extend a cordial invitation to all to come in and see our large varieties of exclusive mod- els in Coats and Suits. New Fall and Winter Dress Goods : and Silks. We are receiving new Woolen Dress Goods every day. Plaids, serges, poplins, garbardines. mannish effects and broad cloths in all the new fall colorings. NEW SILKS. Plaids and shadow effects in stripes and blocks in all the new grays, blues and Roman colorings in taffetas, satins, messaline and crepe de chines, Georgette crepes and silk voiles to match all colors. Lyon & Co. --. Bellefonte.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers