Demornaic Watcipa, Bellefonte, Pa., June 11, 1920. FAMILY MARKED BY ODDITY London Newspaper Tells of Strange Fate That Pursued Group Both in Life and Death. There lived at Ipswich in the reign of William ITI a family known as the #%odd family,” a most appropriate name, as the following facts prove, London Answers states: Every event, good, bad or indiffer- ent, came to that family in an odd year or an odd day of the month, and every person was odd in manner or behavior or appearance. Even the letters of their Christian names al- ways amounted to an odd number. The father and mother were Peter and Rahab; their seven children (all boys) bore the names of David, Eze- kiel, James, Jonas, Matthew, Roger and Solomon. The husband possessed only one leg and his wife only one arm; Solomon was blind in his left eye and Roger lost his right in an accident; James had his left ear torn off in a quarrel. Matthew's left hand had but three fingers. Jonas had a stump foot, David was humpbacked and Ezekiel was 6 feet 2 inches at the age of nineteen. Every one of the children had red hair, not- withstanding the fact that the father's hair was jet black and the mother’s white. Strange at strangely. The father fell into a deep sawpit and was killed, the wife died five days after from starvation. Ezekiel enlist- ed, was wounded in 23 places, but re- covered. Roger, James, Jonas, David and Matthew died in 1713 in six dif- ferent places on the same day; Solo- mon and Ezekiel were drowned in the Thames in 1723. birth, all died as RECALL LEGENDS OF HAWAII | Two Idols, Recently Unearthed, Bring to Memory Folklore Tales Almost Lost to Memory. Of the two old Hawaiian idols lately found concealed in the earth at Hook- aupu, Paukukalo, one, a female ido], is in a fairly good state of preservation. The idol is supposed to be that of Ki- hawahine, the Undine of Maui myths. Her haunts are the springs at Pauku- kalo, the Kauaha pond, and the match- less pools in the wooded glens around Pilholo, Makawao. The legends about her compare with those of the German fairy folklore, and around the charms of her person | as she sits combing her wealth of golden tresses at the edge of some bathing pool is woven many a half- forgotten Mauri folk tale. In some of the latest ones she is reputed to have lured two haoles at different times on a merry chase only to see her disappear in one or another of the deep, clear-water pools among the wooded glens of Pilholo. One, a doctor, ended his aimless wanderings to her glenwood haunts by becoming a paralytic, the other, a woodcutter, never ceased to describe the charms of this “wonderful woman with the gol- den hair,” always able to elude his em- brace, but ever beckoning him on to her lair among the vines and trees and pools and crags of the glens about Pilholo.—Wailuku (H. I.) Times. A Drawback. Jacob Ruppert, the New York brew- er, told at a luncheon a story about a war profiteer. “He gave a dinner one night,” said | Mr. Ruppert, “and when his wife en-! tered the drawing room he was as- tonished to see her in a very decol- lete dinner gown—no sleeves, very low in the front, and lower still in the back. His wife had never worn a | decollete gown before and the profiteer | stared at her in bewilderment. ss Well, she said, ‘don’t you like it? Don’t you like this Paris confection, darling? «ure I like it, said the profiteer, | ‘but what I want to know is, honey, where the dickens are you goin’ te tuck your napkin?” Deficient Vitality a Great Misfortune. Persons who can rarely or never say that they feel full of life. are really among the most unfortunate. They do not live, but merely exist; for to live implies more than to be. To live is to be well and strong— to arise feeling equal to the ordinary du- ties of the day, and to retire not overcome by them-—to feel life bounding in the veins. A medicine that has made thousands of people, men and women, well and strong, has accomplished a great work, bestowing the richest blessings. Such a medicine is Hood's Sarsaparilla. The weak, run-down, or debilitated, from any cause, should not fail to take it. It builas up the whole sys- tem, changes existence into life, and makes life more abounding. It is simple justice to say these words in its favor. Hood's Pills very effectively supplement it in cases where a cathartic or laxative is needed. 65-24 Not Yet Hardened. “Will you allow me to step into your office for a moment?” said the man who was buying a quantity of gaso- line at a service station. “Why certainly,” replied the gaso- line merchant. “You look upset. Any- thing wrong?” “Nothing particularly. I noticed my grocer coming down the street. I’m three months behind with my bill, and I lack the gall of some people. I can’t snap my fingers at my grocer and go right on indulging in a luxu- ry I can’t afford.”—Birmingham Age Herald. Penn State Students Will Work on Farms. | Over seven hundred students in ag- : riculture at The Pennsylvania State i College are prepared to strike out to i the aid of as many farmers needing labor for the summer months, and i will leave at the close of college, June ‘16th. While the farm labor situation {in Pennsyslvania is such that this | number of men is comparatively small, their willngness to decline | chances for higher wages in the indus- | tries is highly recommended by their | instructors. | In the various courses there are 109 | Seniors, many of whom will become | permanently attached as farm mana- | gers and assistants; 143 Juniors, 183 ! Sophomores, 163 Freshmen and 176 i | | | I | | i | i | 1 | | | i | money? for production. ER | CE A Profits Helped Build Our Business Do you think it’s right to save Swift & Company’s business : has been built up partly by selling capital stock fof cash and partly by thrifty saving, putting some of our earnings each year back into the business to increase facilities That is what most all of us seek to do—save part of our earnings for future usefulness. It is the way American indus- tries have been built up. It means the least drain on the financial resources of the country. For the past twenty-iour years Swift & Company ..as made an average profit from all sources of 11.3 per cent on investment (capi- tal and surplus), and 2.3 cents on each dollar of sales—a fraction of a cent per pound. Out of this we have paid dividends and saved something to help us keep pace with a growing country. Swift & Company, U. S. A. from the two year course, most of whom will go directly to general and truck farms and work for $50 or $60 a month and board. The demand for summer farm help this year has been greater than ever before. per cent. of these students have been reared on farms and will spend the summer on the home farm. Practic- ally all have had farm experience nec- essary now for entrance to the school. re + eee pee. Two Sly Burds. “Keep your eye on my wife. I've got a quart here. I'm going to take a swallow.” “Then slip me the bottle, I'm going to take a duck.”’—Flordia Times-Un- ion. SA YN TAA Thirty-five | i Building Your Wealth A bank works for you night and day, week after week, adding cents to dol- lars. Little by little the amounts grow till each addition is a respecta- ble sum. Where does the gain come from? Not from your pocket. Nor from ours. It is the result of production. Money placed in a bank is given an opportunity to work and to produce. Thus a bank builds your wealth. Start with a small deposit if you will. Add to it when you can—regularly if you can do so. It will not be long till you can fairly see it grow. Let us earn wealth for you. CENTRE COUNTY ‘BANKING CO 60-4 BELLEFONTE, PA. 20... Sim the Clothier 2..... F What the Sim Stores Have Done Is Not Only the Talk of the Town It’s the Sensation of This Whole Section. PNA We are Making Hundreds of People Hap- | py and Saving Them Hundreds of Dollars by Selling Our Big Stocks Less 20 per Cent. “YOU'VE STARTED SOMETHING” remarked a customer yesterday morning. “I see the other mer- chants are following SIM THE CLOTHIER’S LEAD- ERSHIP and it looks as though you forced them to it. But no matter what they do---or what they adver- tise, the credit for the movement belongs to Sim the Clothier. The public knows full well who started it and it is showing its appreciation by making your Bellefonte and State College Stores busy places these days.” Now—at Sim, The Clothier’s You Can Choose from Everything in Our Store (With no exceptions what- ever at ONE-FIFTH OFF Fashion Park Suits Arrow Collars English Tweed Hats Men’s Trousers Rain Coats Umbrellas Unionalls Lion Collars Kuppenheimer Suits Other Dependable Suits B. V. D. Underwear Holeproof Hosiery Traveling Bags - Rexford Union Suits Dobbs & Crofut & Knapp Hats Boys’ Waists All Straw Hats Panama Hats Top Coats Manhattan Shirts Bates Street Shirts To our good friends and old customers and the - hundreds of new customers and those customers yet to come—we cannot say how long this advantage will last. But we do say—come to SIM’S for your wants and DO IT NOW—SAVE ONE-FIFTH. None Sold to Dealers---None Set Aside None Charged Alterations Free im the Clothier BELLEFONTE STATE COLLEGE
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