BE RT Bellefonte, Pa., February 11, 1921. asm. LUCKY SIXPENCE SAVED HIM Good Story of How Fate Intervened to Preserve Beau Brummell to History's Pages. The old superstition about the lucky charm of a crooked sixpence arose early in the Eighteenth century, and its author was none other than Beau Brummel, the most famous of the world’s dandies, Brummel, although the bosom friend of the prince of Wales, came from common enough stock, his grandfather having been a valet. But he saved, as did Brum- mell’s father, and Brummell had some $150,000 to serve him. * He became a great gambler and a good loser, often staking thousands of pounds. One night he played at Walter's club, and when he rose from the table he was a pauper. Not only that, but heavily in debt. He wandered out into the London streets, with head downcast; and as he strolled along he picked up a crooked sixpence. In a whimsical mo- ment he returned to the club and matched it with a chance friend. He won, matched again and again, and won each time. The game changed to shilling matches, and then to gold pieces, and Brummell at the end of a few minutes found himself with two or three pounds. He went to the gaming table, sat down, and when dawn came and the game closed he | had won over 12,000 pounds, or about $60,000. The crooked sixpence he car- ried with him for years, and shortly after he lost it his bad luck arose again, and he once more became a | pauper. the Sistine Chapel Sufficed to Give Him Eternal Fame. Michelangelo's decoration of the vault of the Sistine chapel was hailed | as the greatest piece of work ever done by a painter’s hand. It was a task of colossal proportions, the ceil ing alone measuring 132 feet by 44 | The painter had to do much | work lying flat on his back on a scaf- | feet. fold. For some time afterward he was unable to read except when in that position. Michelangelo arranged the spective delusion and filling the open spaces with paintings. Just above the i windows are the figures of the ances- try of Christ in attitudes of eager ~waiting; above them 12 gigantic fig- | ures of prophets and sibyls; in the corners, four representations frem the In the center of the vault the stories of the “Creation of | history of Israel. the World,” the “Fall of Man,” and the “Deluge” are told in nine pictures. Among the central pictures is the “Creation of Adam.” Adam is depicted just on the point of rising, just as; God’s touch sends the first thrill of | Of the proph- | image of deep life through his veins. ets, Jeremiah is the thought, and Zachariah a type of men- tal absorption. Fidelity Marked Telegrapher. One striking example of the early spirit of endurance under great stress of which the telegrapher of the old school was capable was given by John Carnahan, then a young man in his thirties, at the time of the Custer massacre. He was operator and news- paper correspondent at Bismarck, which was the nearest telegraph of- fice to the scene of Custer’s last fight, 500 miles west. Attending his regular duties, and gathering here and there from the incoming scouts and plains stragglers the thrilling story of Custer to send to the anxiously waiting world, he worked 40 hours without rest, and for several days and nights he only caught a few winks of sleep, yet all the newspaper reading world were eagerly grasping for the thonsands of words of story he was gathering. They never knew how one man was work- ing to satisfy them, Wonderful Theatrical Setting. A variegated Richard III, was of- fered in Berlin to an audience that gasped a little at first but proved ap- preciative when the first surprise was over. For Richard was clothed sym- bolically in black when he was brood- ing, in blood-red when he ascended to the throne, and this actual ascent was presented literally by a flight of steep blood-red stairs that lead to the cov- eted seat. The scene was so drenched with the dreadful color that when later on, in the dream, the phantom warriors were luridly clad, too, the ap- pearance of Richmond’s forces in pure white completed the symbol. No at- tention was paid to court customs and costumes; all else paled besides the enhanced effect of Richard's demoni- acal appearance. Proper Verb. “What do you do?" “I follow the races.” “Follow ?”’ “Follow is the term, I'm never ahead of them.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. A Penalty, Indeed. “Perarnps the penalty for bootleg- ging is not severe enough.” “It. isn’t,” replied Uncle Bill Bot- tletop. “A bootlegger ought to be made to drink his own licker,” vast | space as though it had been roofless, ; framing it with architecture in per- | AMERICAN WOMEN—A EULOGY Frenchman Pays Pretty and Deserved Tribute to the Sex as He Has Observed It. American women are far and away the prettiest, youthfulest and smart- est (clothes and brains) women on earth. They can also be the sensiblest, kindest and helpfulest, the hardest- worked—no, I mean the hardest work- ing—and they have no rivals for char- itable enterprise. They have a wonderful capacity for being excellent housekeepers, even though they may seem not to keep their houses more than a few minutes in the morning, before flying away, and an hour or two in the evening when they drop exhausted on a sofa. They are good mothers, good daughters and good sisters, and their husbands, who ought to know, proclaim to the whole world, to the earth and to the stars, to the believing and the unbelieving, that they are incomparable wives. I am ready to testify that they are in- valuable friends. But somehow the American woman, has faults from which French women are free, and the latter frequently criticize her to the disgust of the uncompromising American man. 0%. In England and France, and gener- ally in all old countries, there is a providential excess of women, and men choose. A Frenchman marries when he needs help; an American marries when he can afford it.—Ernest Dim- net, in Harper's Magazine. MORE IN LIFE THAN WEALTH, —— Man Who Refuses to Let Money Dominate Him Calls Forth Eulogy From Rudyard Kipling. Sooner or later you will see some , man to whom the idea of wealth, as RANKED AS MARVEL OF ART | Michelangelo’s Superb Decorations IN | ,,)6v if vou offer it to him at a cer- . tain price. { clined to laugh at that man, and think ; that he is not smart in his ideas. I mere wealth, does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing wealth do not interest, and who will not accept At first you will be in- suggest you watch him closely, for he will presently demonstrate to you that money dominates everybody except the { man who does not want money. You may meet the man somewhere, but be sure that whenever or wher ever you meet him, as soon as it comes to a direct issue between you, his lit- tle finger will be thicker than your | You will find that you have: no weapon in your armory with which! If more! wealth is necessary to you, for pur-| loins. You can attack him. poses not your own, use your left hand to acquire it, but keep your right hand for the proper work in life. vard Kipling. Application Wins. The ancient fable of the tortoise success and failure. termination of purpose that brought the tortoise in ahead of his fleet-footed antagonist in that quaint race scribed by Aesop. Thomas Jefferson, though endowed by nature with a brilliant mind and surrounded by every environment conducive to success, knew the need and advantage of constant application. During his school days he held himself to a rou- tine of 15 hours of work a day, and during all his career he was an ex- emplar and exponent of the thrift of time.—Boston Globe. Coal as Congealed Gas. Attention has been invited to an in- teresting explanation cf the burning of coal. Coal, petroleum and illumi- nating gas are related to one another much as ice, water and steam. For this reason perfect combustion of lig- uid fuel is already a long step to- ward vaporization, just as ice is ad- vanced toward steam, when turned in- to water. The volatile elements of coal are locked up in the solid form, or virtually frozen solid. It has been demonstrated how great an amount of heat must be taken from the so- called permanent gases to make them liquid, and how much more to make them solid. Yet nature has solidified gas into the form of coal, and solid coal, like solid ice, will dissolve inte vapor only through the expenditure of heat. True Friendship. But what is a friend? Someone said “it Is another name for God,” and he is right inasmuch as true friend ship is almost divine. A true friend Is one who unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures bold- ly, takes all patiently, defends cou: rageously and remains a friend, un- changeably. What a great blessing is a frie.d with a breast so trusty that we may safely bury all our secrets in it, whuse conscience we may fear less than our own, who can relieve our cares by his conversation, our doubts by his counsels, our sadness by his good humor, and whose very looks give comfort to us.—Exchange, Indications of Trouble. Johnny—Did Moses have dyspepsia like what you've got? Dad—How on earth do I know? Why do you ask such a question? Johnny—Well, our Sunday school teacher says the Lord gave Moses two tablets.— London Mail. If you! employ both arms in that game, you! will be in danger of stooping.—Rud-! ; from 2nd the hare tells the whole story of de- | Louisiana Court Has Solemnly Held That the Man Does Not Attract Any Attention. It is at last judicially determined that the groom at a wedding is merely a necessary incident, accessory, Or piece of furniture, The bride is the whole cast. In a divorce action in Louisiana, in which defendant denied he was the man who had married plaintiff, and his identity with the bridegroom was in issue, the court says: “The only evidence introduced by the defendant in support of his de- nial that it was he who married plain- tiff in Indianapolis on October 9, 1911, was the testimony of the Pro- bate judge who performed the cere- mony and that of the proprietor of the Imperial hotel. The Probate judge and the proprietor of the Imperial hotel both testified that they had iden- tified the plaintiff as soon as she had spoken to them when they stepped off the train in New Orleans; and from that circumstance, counsel for defendant argue that the Probate judge and the proprietor of the hotel would surely have been able to identi- fy the defendant if he were the in- cividual to whom plaintiff was mar- ried by the judge in presence of the hotel proprietor. We do not think so. With due respect for his honor, the Probate judge, and for the proprietor of the Imperial hotel, it may be that | the bride attracted more attention than the groom.” — From West's Docket. MUST BREAST TAPE TO WIN Starter in Life's Race Foolish to Handicap Himself by Forebod- ings That Hinder Success. Don’t be hampered at the start of life's race by the thought that per- haps that hinders success. Don’t run yourself out. gait that you can hold. Take a Don’t en- danger your health or sacrifice your | happiness by overeffort. The man who runs too fast at the start lags at the finish unless he has extraordinary staying powers, BRIDE OBSCURES THE GROOM { TOAD BECAME PET Lived for Thirty-Six Years With French Family. Little Creature Soon Lost All Fear of Mankind and Furnished Amuse- ment to Its Protectors. There was a wise old toad that lived for more than thirty-six years in a hole beneath the doorstep of a French farmhouse, How old it was when first noticed no one could say, but it had probably lived for a long time before familiarity with the sight of man em- boldened it to rest tranquilly on the doorstep over which persons were con- stantly passing. The step became the batrachian’s hunting ground, where, with little trouble, it might capture the ants which persisted in crossing and re- crossing it. The toad, hunting for its supper, came to be regarded as one of the sights of the neighborhood, i and certainly the skilful manner in {which it used its wonderfully formed | tongue entitled it to be ranked as an expert ameng hunters. IFor one thing, it showed wonderful skill in judging distance; the tongue was never darted out until the insect came within a certain range. The ac- ! curacy of the creature's aim was an- : The in- other matter for surprise. sects were generally in motion when | the tongue was darted against them, but the arrow never failed to hit its mark. The rapidity with which the tongue i wus shot forth excited much wonder. The operation is a complex one. The tongue is doubled or rolled up when in the mouth; therefore, a twofold action is required, an uncoiling of the weapon, and then the darting of it i forth. there is something about you | The withdrawing of the tongue, with {the captured insect on the top, was not less remarkable. Notwithstanding ‘the rapid motion, the fineness of the tongue tip acd the struggles of the f prey the victim was never dropped. ' rightly be The toad was so tame that it might called domesticated. It ! would remain quietly in one hand and One morning, over in France, there | was a call to go over the top. The officer in addressing the men told them what was to be accomplished and who was to lead them. It was a desperate a pale-faced young feilow man upon whom the great burden had heen put, “Why did you choose Jones to lead that expedition?” the commanding offi- cer was asked, after the attack had proved successful. “Because,” said he, “once he gets started all hell can’t stop him.” That's a great reputation for =n man to have on the field or the farm, in the office of out on the job. Train yourself so that once you get started nothing on earth can keep you making a finish er in Chicago Daily News. Improved Lighting System. The advantages of electric lamps | held it. creditable to . yourself and to your job.—IF. A. Walk- It was the con-! stant application and unswerving de- | that can be moved ahout from one vi {| place to another may now be consid- Leo, the great pontiff, was an early | b iil oh ; i ere 1stalling ¥ 3 1 | riser in order that he might not lose Sted in dusiiling ihe psbiing eyston i & moment of time in the fulfillment of | : his great and sacred duties. in the home or elsewhere. system The new but a novel type of plug, to be used ' with a special outlet, gives portabil- | ity not only to the lamp bulb, but to the entire fixture. The outlets are tablishment where occasional as well as permanent lighting may be desir- able. The plug has curved blades in- stead of the ordinary straight ones, and is easily attached to any fixture. The outlet has two parallel slots in a rounded triangular center. As the plug is inserted with the curved blades pointing upward, electrical and me- chanical connection are formed, and | the heaviest household fixture is safe- ly supported. The outlet will also re- ceive the standard parallel-blade plug | used with cord connections. To change a lamp from its regular one it is simply necessary to lift the fixture from its old location and plug it into the desired outlet. Can Hock the Flivver Now. The latest thing in pawnshops is one for motorcars., Heretofore pawn- shops have been reserved for the class that want to put up their watch or dress suit, but now, with so many workingmen owning flivvers, those who are on the inside of the pawning busi- ness decided that a similar institution for motor cars would be had. The motorcar pawnshop is located near Columbus Circle, in the heart of “Gasoline Row.” Here, when the mo- tor owner is short of ready money, he may drive his “fliv’ and place it in “hock.” If he fails to pay back the loan with interest the car is sold as second hand. All in all, it is said to be the most profitable business for these pioneers in the pawnbroking line, and they always have a hundred or more cars of all kinds and condi- tlons on hand.—New York Sun. Old Papal Palace Restored. The ancient castle of Avignon, near Lyons, France, papal residence from 1309 to 1417, has been recently re- stored, and it is planned to furnish it with medieval furniture from the Vatican. The mayor of Avignon ap- pealed ts the mayor of Rome to help in obtaining the desired furniture from the Vatican's administration. Up to now the famous castle is un- furnished and there is nothing with- in the building to remind one of the splendor of the fourteenth century. take its food from the other, provided a leaf was placed on the hand which Without this precaution the warmth of the human hand was evi- dently annoying and uncomfortable task that was being undertaken, and fo’she ehally hits Salloly, was the ! I'ew things scemed to please it more than to be placed on a table in the evening when the lamp was lighted. It would look around with the great- est confidence in its gleaming eye and when insects were placed on the table it snapped them up with even greater rapidity than in its day huntings. In this way the toad lived for thir- ty-six years, the pet of the neighbor- hicod, It wight have lived many years more had not a tame but spiteful raven pecked out one of its eyes. Thumb Prints for Brides, The newest slogan of English social life is to tight bigamy with Bertillon victhods, There the war has brought ail an unprecedented wave of bigamy. CSeldiers with two and sometimes three wives are still being daily charged in the courts. Australians . with wives at the other end of the Cearth and brides in England were said : to be the worst offenders, their special requires no cord connection, ' plural marriage system becoming one of the jokes of the music halls. It has been suggested that couples {seeking marriage licenses should fur- nish their photographs, which shall be located in the parts of the room or es- | aftixed to their marrviage “lines,” The certificate bearing the thumb prints of both bride and bridegroom shall then he photographed and the proof filed with the statistical records at Somer- sec house. By adopting this system it is believed that no question can ever remain unsettled as to the actual iden- tity of the contracting parties in case any such question should ever arise. Corn Products Widely Used. The products of corn go around the world to a degree beyond all guess- ing. Two products widely diffused are glucose corn sirup and grape sugar, In 1919 corn sirup was dis- tributed to nearly seventy-five differ- lent countries, in weight amounting to 220,580,761 pounds and of the value of $13,169,051. To more than twenty countries corn sugar was sent to the amount of 35,236,448 pounds and of the value of $1,970,893. Corn sirup is a distinctively American preduct. Its greatest purchaser was the United Kingdom, and France was next. The same distinetion is true in the foreign purchases of corn sugar. Glucose was discovered about 1800. Synthetic Camphor. “amphor is now being manufactured synthetically from turpentine. This step has been made in order to sup- ply the American market with the aro- matic substance. The majority of camphor is imported from Japan. It is used in medicine, in the making of celluloid, which is a combination of camphor and guncotton. The Depart- ment of Agriculture had established a camphor farm in Florida and is pro- ducing a very good grade of the sub- srance, Many Hiccough “Cures.” After hiccoughing for 15 days, John P. Wallace, thirty-three years old, of Camden, N. J., was relieved by phy- siclans at Cooper hospital, that city. Wallave, sho is a shipyard worker, was taken ill with stomach trouble. Physicians treating him received nu- merous letters suggesting “sure cures,” which ranged from the use of ice cream without swgar to the smoking n “hi clear.” $298 $2.98 $2.98 On sale NOW at, Yeager’s Shoe Store 200 Pairs Children’s Shoes —sizes from 6 to 2. These shoes have been sold in the last year at prices as high as $5.00. The lot includes Misses’ good quality Vici Kid and Youths’ High Top Genuine Elk Shoes, with buckle tops. They are Real Bargains and you will miss 1t if you do not get in on this sale, Yeager’s Shoe Store THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. Come to the “Watchman” officeffor High Class Job work. Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co. THE STORE WHERE QUALITY REIGNS SUPREME. Winter Clearance and White Sale Our White Sale is now on in full swing, values and Reductions Extraordinary. 36 inch unbleached Muslins, NOW. ...ceeesrressessssasarasseseal2e 36 inch Heavier and Better Qualities in Bleached and Unbleached Mus- MN eves stasis sri sii 150 la daw a iis sa sieve» 302 cach secs es esr sesso 45 x 36 Pillow Cases... eevee Coats and Suits Ladies’ and Misses Winter Coats and Suits at Prices that will Mean Quick Selling. Ladies’ Suits, Black, Navy, Reindeer and Copenhagen at..... $19.50 Ladies’ Coats, all Sizes, all Colors, that sold from $35.00 to $65.00, cerevisiae $15.00 to $39.50 sees eee ess sssesses seca Special Lots On lot of Men’s handsome Silk Neck Ties, value ranging from $1.50 to $3.50, we are making quick selling price at..............98¢ Turkish Towels 10 dozen All White, Very Heavy Turkish Towels, size 22x44, 85¢., our price. ci... ai .. 50¢c New Spring Dress Goods All the new styles, large assortment Dress Voiles, small and large de- signs, the regular 85¢ quality, during the sale...............50¢c Better quality, beautiful colorings, value $1.75, during the sale. .$1.25 eG eee sees ses testes ess reste BER eRO BREN OERENS Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co. THE STORE WHERE QUALITY REIGNS SUPREME
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