Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, March 31, 1922, Image 6
C——————————— A Bema ada Belefonte, Pa., March 31, 1922. BULL POUT QUITE AT HOME Heroes of This Remarkable Fish Yarn Furnish Something New in Plscatorial Stories. One feels almost like apologizing for telling a fish story that isn't a bit like any other fish story ever told since the days of Jenah, but there is one good excuse for the uniqueness of this fish story. It is gospel truth, says George L. Brown, according to the New York Sun. The scene of it is Blizabethtown, a village completely surrounded by Adirondacks. The streams and ponds around Klizabethtown have been famous in their day for speckled trout and more recently for pickerel, perch, black bass and bull pout. Let the humble bull pout be the he- ro of this yarn, the “Sacramento cat,” as he has been named in California, the sluggish browser of weedy ponds, that will live wherevor a frog can and bite anything from an angleworm to a plece of a tin dinner pail. And the bull pout's tenacity of life may be credited with a good share of the uniqueness of this unprecedented fish story. In the days when the thing hap- pened the young fellows of Elizabeth- town used to go fishing for bull pout Saturday nights in Lincoln pond or in the “marsh” not far away. And on Saturday night Carl E. Daniel and his cousin, the late Arthur H. Norton, went out and brought home a fine mess after midnight. Carl was tired and he just dumped his bull pouts with the grass in which he had carried them home, into a dishpan. Then it occurred to him to put the dishpan in the kitchen sink and turn on the faucet a little, and he did so before gaing to bed. That's where the story begins. The rest of it happened while Carl was asleep. You see, the grass overflowed with the water from the dishpan and clogged the drain of the sink. And then the sink filled up and overflowed. And then the whole of the ground floor of Carl's home, “Colonial Cottage,” be- came a pond. And when Carl got up on Sunday morning and went into the kitchen he found all his mess of bull pouts swimming around over the floor as happy as if they were back in Lin- coln pond. That's the story, and if you doubt that it happened in just that way you can ask Carl, who is now head of the Elizabethtown Hardware company, Inc. es rereivcii—— A Secret Society. “It would shock, or bore, or disgust the world in general, I suppose, if all the school teachers and office workers who want to marry should suddenly teil the truth. The public prefers to believe that women cherish their eco- nomic independence more tenderly than they ever could cherish husbands and bables. And our pride helps to keep up the great delusion. “Many of us, especially the older ones, would never admit our loneliness and disappointment, perhaps, even to ourselves: but the majority, I believe, have ‘had to tell’ someone—Some equally lonely woman friend—wheth- er or not we told it in words, the story of frustrated hopes, of baffled in- stincts, of imprisoned powers. wwe form a kind of great secret society. The initiation is, mercifully, gradual; the dues are endless; the badge may be anything from a com- mutation ticket to a Phi Beta Kappa key; the password, seldom uttered, is always the same—loneliness.”—From «No Courtship at All” by Another Spinster, in the Atlantic Monthly. Clever Smuggler Caught. ‘What is said to be one of the clev- erest devices ever developed for smug- gling was uncovered on Puget sound recently by federal officers, when a speedy power boat, believed for sev- eral months fo be a successful smug- gler of illicit goods from Canada into the United States, was captured at Seattle. It had been known for some time, federal officers state, that a dumping device was in use on some ot the smuggling boats, - gays Popular Mechanics Magazine, but a complete outfit of this type had never hefore been captured. Along with the seizure, more than $2,000 worth of contraband was taken, which made it possible for the government to confiscate the boat. iia ' Climbs Fujiyama Top. Maj. Orde Lees, British balloonist and Arctic explorer, has just com- pleted a trip to the summit of Fujt ‘yama, the celebrated “mountain in southeastern Japan. It is sald ho {= ithe first European to have reached the top of the mountain in winter, which is 12,365 feet above sea level. Major Lees was accompanied by H. C. Irish of London, and accomplished nis feat in 48 hours. The last 4,600 feet of the climb were made over slippery ice. Major Lees was a mem: ber of the Shackleton Antarctic expe dition in 1914, and he and Mr. Irish are members of the British air mission to Japan, ee ————————————— fe Electric Sealing Machine. A sealing machine, in which the wax is electrically melted and which is intended to meet the requirements of bankers, brokers, jewelers and large commercial institutions in the sealing of valuables, has made its ap pearance, The machine can be at tached by a cord to any light socket and operated at a cost of one-half cent an hour—Popular Mechanics Maga zine. Get your job work done here. God ening, Fairy lal COPYRIGHT IY VESTERN NEVSPAPER UMION eee . sd ——————— ROBBIE ROBIN ' «it is so since,” chirped Robbie Robin, “that almost every one knows me by sight at least. And most people know my voice when they hear it and the different songs and calls I have. “] am glad of that for I like many people. I like friends and I like to be about. I am naturally so- ciable and 1 am not a snob. “I've a fine voice and I look quite smart, I'm told, but I am not a snob. And I wouldn't be a snob for anything. “A snob is a creature who puts on airs and who thinks he is better than other creatures. And I know what I think of a snob.” “Do tell me,” said Mrs. Robbie. “I think a snob is a foolish crea- ture,” said Robbie Robin. ‘Any crea- ture who thinks he is better than some one else is foolish. “How does he know he is better than any one else? He doesn’t know it. Perhaps he may have more money or better. clothes than the next per- son, but he may not have any right to be a snob. “He may be mean and cross and selfish. Or he may be silly and vain. “A snob is always rather apt to be like that. And those who have a right to be snobs never are.” “That sounds very strange,” said Mrs. Robbie. “Pray explain.” “Well,” sald Hobbie, “any one who is fine enough to be a snob is toe fine to be a snob. A snob is such a silly, conceited thing that any one %ho has the right to put on airs wouldn't do it because that would make such a person at once become a silly, con- reited person.” “Oh, I see, chirp, chirp, I see,” said Mrs. Robbie. “I would never pe a snob,” said Robbie. “I belleve in being friendly and sociable, TH go walking and hop- ping on green grass whether it is the grass of a person who owns a fortune or whether it is the grass of a person who has very few extra pennies lying around. “But oh, Mrs. Robbie, how I do en- joy sprinkling myself. I wish that people would give me drinking dishes of water which are big enough for me to bathe In, too. “A great many do this, and I am very thankful. It is kind of people to give us drinking dishes and bath- tubs. But I also wish they would be quite careful to put these dishes where they are pretty sure that cats cannot get at them, for cats may come for us when we're net on our guard and when we're bathing and having a fine time. “But dear Mrs. Robbie, though we are so fond of a good bath as often as we can get one we're very bad house- keepers. They say our nests are €on- sidered very dirty, for we don’t bother much about how we build them. We build very carelessly and we use weed stalks or bits of dried grass or mud or anything else that is handy.” “Yes, that is true,” sald Mrs. Rob- ble, “but I am fond of wy untidy home. I sit on two broods of eggs through the summer and sit on four eggs at a time. “But I stay in the same nest. Even though It is a bit untidy I like it! “But I'm not a fhncy creature.” «Oh, Mrs. Robbie, I've been told that there are some flne worms in the lawn three places down from here. Let us fly there and have a little meal.” “I don't believe it will be a little meal” said Mrs. Robbie. “We're not strong for lit- tle meals. We're great for bi meals. : ‘How many worins Wwe <an eat! And how we love to gobble them down whole! + “We have good appetites, you and I.” “Indeed we have,” said Robbie. So they flew off and had a fine meal and then Robble Robin sang a song of joy, and this was what he sang: 1 love the whole world and I love every one, To and to eat are both lots of fun. I wouldn't be silly and act like a snob, For no robin would and, and least of all Rob! “For that,” he said. “is my name when I'm making up songs, as it rhymes more easily than Robbie.” PR . Properly Refused Citizenship. Thirty-seven applicants for Ameri- can citizenship were recently rejected “] Do Enjoy Sprinkling.” “A Little Meal.” in the federal courts of Boston, Mass, : on the grounds that all had claimed exemption from military service dur- ing the World war on the plea that they were aliens. The list included Greeks, Swedes, Russians, Irish, Nor- wegians, Turks and Armenians; ORIGIN OF WORDS Entertainment and Knowledge ir the Search. in the End, It Will Be Found That Ex planations Are in the Nature of a Guess. Most people take their words (and their’ phrases, too) ready made; that is, they learn a small vocabulary from hearing other people talk, and after- ward, finding the same words in books and dictionaries, they are emboldened to use them in their speech and writ- ing. If they ever wonder where these words came from originally it isin a vague, listless way, rather like the way they look upon mysterious astron- omy. If one pins a comparatively small class down to their actual knowledge of the English language one can learn something more definite, but still nebu- lous. This small educated class real- ly has heard of the Angles and Danes who impinged their language on the Picts and thus started the Anglo-Sax- on boom. It will tell you also how Julius Caesar brought his cohorts into Britain and almost succeeded in mak- ing it a Latin-speaking island. Coming down to the year 1006, the same cultivated persons explain by means of the Conquest the large num- ber of French words that have been more or less Anglicized that we use every day. And when we ask why there are so many German words in our tongue it is only necessary to re- call the fact of a common Teutonic origin of the sailors and beachcombers who lived either in the fens or along the shores of Europe and England. They spoke what may be called a com- mon language. After Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Sam Johnson and other notable writers had introduced more Latin, Italian and French words into the language and invented a few of their own English may be said to have peen finished. Really every language, including English, is extraordinarily conservative and resents new words. All the same new words do get into them. These words are sometimes re- quired to describe new things in the arts, sciences, ete. When Morse invented his code a handy word had to be made and so arose telegraph and a variety of der}v- atives. "Phe afrplane has given us In turn several new words. Slang gives us a novel word now and then. For instance, the word “boycott” had no trouble at all in finding its way into eur tongue and into most Edro- pean languages. It arose frem the treatment of Capt. Boycott of Lough Mask House in the County Mayo In 1880. “Boston,” a new word for a new card game, got into the language earll- | er. It comes from the siege of our city of Boston in 1775-76 and the moves of the game follow all the stra- tegic moves in this military history. | Pomp, meaning a solemn procession, comes from the the Latin word pompe, which was in turn derived from the Latin verb pempein, which means to send. Meddle, to mix, is a distortion of the word middle, but it has as good a place in the language now as its forebear. Who knows where the word haber- dashery comes from? Ask any man who sells neckties, collars and other little things to adorn (perhaps) the person of man and he hasn't the least idea. Look up the word in the stand- ard dictionaries; the search will not be rewarded. Quite otherwise is the origin of the word humble ple. It comes from the eating by servants long years ago of ple made from the umbles, or entrails, of the deer. There is considerable entertainment and not a little knowledge to be gained by looking up the origin of words. Why not add it to the list of popular indoor sports?—New York Herald. Long in Public Life. . “Uncle Joe” Cannon's announced in- tention to retire from service in con- gress at the expiration of his present term, completing forty-six years in the house, hi called attention to the length of service of other house mem- bers. Burton of Cleveland and Long- worth of Cincinnati are the veterans of the Ohlo delegation, each now serv- ing his ninth term. The Clevelander, however, in addition, has served one term of six years in th ate, Fess, of Yellow Springs, 1s serving his fifth term; Cooper of Youngstown, and Kearns of Bavaria, their fourth; and Cole of Findlay, Foster of Ath- ens, Moore of Cambridge, Murphy of Steubenville, Stephens, of Cincinnati, and Thompson of Defiance, their sec- ond. The others are all first-termers. Tone Producer for Vielin. it is sald that a modern violin, of any ordinary make, can be converted into the equivalent of a Stradivarius, or other violin of Italv's golden days of string-instrument making, by the attachment to it of a newly Invented tone producer. The device, according to an illustrated article in the March Popular Mechanics Magazine, is ap- plicable to any kind of string instru- ment, is made of specially prepared wood, and is so constructed that it conforms to the shape of the instru- ment to which it is attached. Edmonton Has a Gusher, A new gas well north of Edmonton, Alberta, is gushing at a rate of 40,- £00,000 cubic feet a day and the roar of the gas can be heard at a distance of fifteen miles, Men working in the viernity have to wear masks. HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA. Spring Debility Loss of Appetite, that Tired Feeling ~ and Sometimes Eruptions. Thousands take Hood’s Sarsaparil- la as a spring medicine for that tired feeling, nervous weakness, impure blood and say it makes them feel bet- ter, eat and sleep better, and “makes food taste good.” Spring debility is a condition in which it is especially hard to combat disease gems, which invade the sys- tem here, there and everywhere. The white blood corpuscles, sometimes called “the little soldiers in the blood,” because it is their duty to fight dis- ease germs, are too weak to do good service. Hood’s Sarsaparilla strengthens the “little soldiers” and enables them to repel germs of grip, influenza, fevers and other ailments; relieves catarrh and rheumatism. It has given satis- faction to three generations. Get it today, and for a laxative take Hood's Pills. 67-11 Ira D. Garman Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry “JEWELRY MADE OVER” 11th Street Below Chestnut, 63-34-6m PHILADELPHIA. PA. Caldwell & Son BELLEFONTE, PA. Plumbing and Heating By Hot Water Vapor Steam Pipeless Furnaces Full Line of Pipe and Fittings AND MILL SUPPLIES ALL SIZES OF Terra Cotta Pipe and Fittings Estimates Cheerfully and Promptly Furnished. 66-15 mm CHICHESTER S PILLS E DIAMOND BRAND, Ladies! Ask your Dru, flat for Ohi.ches.ter 8 Diamond Brand Plils in Red and Gold metallic boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. Take no other. Buy of yo Drageist. Ask for OIL 1-OIES- TE BLANC BRAND Sifesiren g known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable years SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE FAUBLE'’S, For 35 years Bellefonte’s Best Men’s Store, has never been as well pre- pared to serve men and young men as we are this season. Shoes, Hats and Suits for every age and type of man Your kind. Your Price is here and no matter what you buy or what you pay, it carries the Fau- ble Guarantee: ‘‘Your Money Back if Not Satisfactory.” If its not good enough to guarantee its not good enough for the Fauble Store to sell. Let us show you the advantages a really good men’s store can offer. { La ) X) 4 od eT: oh & RULES, WY When W. L. Malin was doing the «heavy work” in the first Bellefonte telephone ex- change back in 1880, he was a Pioneer. He did not wear a coonskin cap nor carry a rifle. But he was “one who goes before, as into the wilder- ness, preparing the way for others to follow.” Every development of the telephone has been a pioneering feat. There have been no guide posts to point out the way; no route maps to show which were the smooth roads and which the rough ones. And Bell Telephone “pioneers” who are today plan- ning for millions of subscribers five, ten and twenty years hence are “preparing the way for others to fol- low.” Every community served by the Bell System profits by this arrangement. A discovery in New York or California or Florida is at once available right here in our own state. If the pioneers in our company find something to improve telephone service it is at the dis- posal of every office in the system where it might properly be used. Only by such an organization has the Bell System of today been made possible, and only by its continu- ance is future progress assured. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA C. W. HEILHECKER