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© Bellefonte, Pa., January 5, 1923.
WHICH?
Two little Tempers went their way
Through town and country on New Year's
Day.
One, like a queen, wore a golden crown,
And fairy Sunshine had spun her gown;
And she gayly tossed as she danced along,
A largess of smiles, good cheer and song.
The other one wore on her brow a cloud
And her voice was fretful, and cross and
loud;
And people pulled up their mufflers high,
And said, “There's an east wind passing
by.”
And she scattered about, in the frosty air,
Quarrels and bickerings everywhere.
Both had followers in their train,
Earning their wages, pleasure and pain.
And Time took snapshots of each and all,
And hung the pictures on Memory’s wall.
Sunshine and shadew, gloom and cheer;
Which will you walk with all through the
year?
—Congregationalist and Christian World.
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SOME WEDDING DAY RHYMES.
The popular rhymes about wedding
days and colors, writes Doris Blake
in the Chicago Tribune, seem to have
a subtle influence regardless of wheth-
er one is of a superstitious nature and
willing to admit it or not. .
And why shouldn’t a bride listen to
a bit of ancient superstitious lore if it
will make merrier the great and
eventful day for her?
Says one rhymster:
Marry when the year is new—
Always loving, kind and true.
When February brides do mate
You may wed or dread your fate.
If you wed when March winds blow,
Joy and sorrow both you'll know.
Marry in April when you can—
Joy for maiden and for man.
Marry in the month of May,
You will surely rue the day.
Marry when June roses blow,
Over land and sea you'll go.
They who in July do wed
Must labor always for their bread.
Wkhoever wed in August be
Many a change are sure, to see.
Marry in September's shine,
Your living will be rich and fine.
If in October you will marry,
Love will come, but riches tarry.
If you wed in bleak November,
Only joy will come, remember.
When December's snows fall fast,
Marry and true love will last.
Another interpretation is:
Married in January's chilling time,
Widowed you'll be before your prime.
Married in February's sleety weather,
Life you'll tread in tune together.
Married when March
roar
Your home will be on a foreign shore.
winds shrill and
Married neath April's changeful skies,
A checkered path before you lies.
Married when bees over May blossoms
flit,
Strangers around your board will sit.
Married in merry month of June,
Life will be one honeymoon.
Married in July's flower banks blaze
Bitter-sweet memories in after days.
Married in August heat and drowse,
Lover and friend in your chosen spouse.
Married in gold September glow,
Smooth and serene your life will flow.
Married when leaves in October thin,
Toil and hardship for you begin. iy
Murried in veils of November mist,
Fortune your wedding ring has kissed.
Married in days of December cheer,
Love will shine brighter year after year.
And then you have probably recit-
ed these rhymes about the days of
the week on which to marry:
Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
Wednesday the best day of all.
Thursday for losses,
Friday for crosses,
Saturday no luck at all.
Or this:
Wed on Monday, always poor;
Wed on Tuesday, wed once more;
Wed on Wednesday, happy match;
Wed on Thursday, splendid catch;
Wed on Friday, poorly mated;
Wed on Saturday, better waited ;
Wed on Sunday, Cupid's wooing;
Wed in the morning, quick undoing.
And the one about the color of the
wedding gown:
Married in white,
right.
Married in green, ashamed to be seen.
Married in gray, you will go far away.
Married in red, you will wish yourself
dead.
Married in blue, love ever true.
Married in yellow, you're ashamed of your
fellow.
Marrid in black, you will wish yourself
back.
Married in pink, of you he'll e're think.
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subscribe for the “Watchman.”
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Something for Nothing.
The Marquis de Chamburn, the
French charge d'affaires, said at a
luncheon in New York:
“Some people are actually declar-
ing that Germany has now suffered
enough and the Allies ought to let her
off. If the Allies did that they would
be like the man at the party.
“A man went to a party. It broke
up at about 5:30 o’clock in the morn-
ing. The man then made his way out,
balanced on the curbstone and hailed
a taxicab.
The taxicab drew up beside him,
and he climbed in at one door, and im-
mediately rolled out at the other.
“Picking himself up he brushed the
dirt from his hat, took out a roll of
bills and said to the driver:
“#Well, how much—hic—do I owe
ory
you?
— The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
HIGH TRIBUTE TO RABBI WISE
Churchman of Another Faith Ex
presses Deep Admiration for
Character of Jewish Leader.
Every time I hear Rabbi Wise it
makes me want to play truant from
my own church; he is so vital, so
vibrant with intellectual power, so
aglow with moral electricity—like a
bit of human radium.
Tall, athletic, graceful, his dark
brown eyes eagle-like is their bright-
ness; his deep bass voice as velvet in
appeal, and resonant in denunciation;
his style bristling with epigrams,
swift epitomes and phrases that sting
the mind with the surprise of beauty
—his charm as an orator is equal to
his daring as a prophet.
One moment he is walking to and
fro like a lawyer at the bar; another,
he is exploding some injustice or ab-
surdity with a quick saber-thrust, with
row a glint of humor and now a gleam
»f prophetic indignation.
Emerson said that the man who
speaks the truth will find life suffi-
ently dramatic. It has been so with
Rabbi Wise, who early took for his
notto: “I will try to see things as
they are, and then I will try to say
hem as I see them.” His gallant fight
‘or a free pulpit in a free synagogue is
nemorable in the religious life of
America.
As chivalrous as he is fascinating, in
Vew York he is not only a personality
jut an institution—admired, feared
ind idolized by turns—a leader of his
»wn people and a captain of the forces
naking for social justice, civic honor,
ind national idealism.—Joseph Fort
Jewton in the Atlantic Montnly.
FROM ANCIENT GREEX COINS
jurator of Boston Museum Believes He
Has Found Origin of Old
Golden Receptacle.
Lacey D. Caskey, curator of classical
rt at the Boston Art museum, believes
hat he has made a discovery regarding
fon bow! which has just been put on
xhibition at the Art museum.
“I found the bowl weighed the equiv-
lent of 100 Babylonia shekeles, 100
ersian darics and 100 Corinthian stat-
rs,” explained Mr. Caskey. {The
jreeks took their unit of weight from
he Orient and when I discovered that
he bowl weighed the same in oriental
noney as in Greek money, I was satis-
ied that the bowl was made from
jreek gold coins of the Seventh cen-
ury, B.C.
“Another very interesting feature of
he bowl,” said Mr. Caskey, “is its in-
jcription. ‘The sons of Cypselus dedi-
ated this from Heraclia’ The bowl
vas found at Olympia and it is thought
hat it was a part of the spoils after
he conquest of Heraclia. Cypselus
igures as one of the worst tyrants of
Jreek history, so the inscription bear-
pz his name is considered of histor-
cal value. One son of Cypselus Peri-
;nda was titled one of the seven wise
nen of Greece.”
“Gehenna.”
Gehenna is the Greek name for the
valley of Hinnom, situated south and
west of the city of Jerusalem. Sacri-
jces to Moloch, instituted by Solomon
(1015-975 B. C.), were offered there,
and for years after, it was the place
chosen by the Jewish kings for the
practice of their idolatrous
When Josiah, king of Judah, restored
the national worship, he made Gehenna
a place of defilement by covering it
with human bones; after this, it be-
came the cesspool of the city. Fires
were kept constantly burning there to
ronsume the bodies of malefactors, car-
.casses of animals, and whatever other
offal had been cast out from the city.
The word “Gehenna” occurs frequently
in the Scriptures; and in the new
Testament is translated ‘hell.”—Kan-
sas City Star.
Plan Fine African Roadway.
For several years work has been in
progress on a roadway to encircle
the entire peninsula at the southern
extremity of South Africa, on which
Capetown is situated. The roadway
is now completed, and at the opening
ceremonies, last May, it was claimed
to be the finest marine drive in the
world, surpassing even the famous
Corniche road, at Mentone, in the
south of France. The road is 125
miles long, and for most of its length
is hewn in the rocky sides of the
mountains that tower over the entire
sea coast of the cape—Popular Me-
chanics Magazine.
Science in Law Court.
When do sounds become noises?
Science was invoked to free Sidney
Vine of the charge of driving a noisy
motorcycle. An audiometer, which
photographs sound waves, recorded
the hubbub created by other noisy ma-
chines whose drivers were not inter-
fered with.
The defense tried to show that more
disturbing motorcycles passed the same
peint, and had photographs to sustain
the contention. It lost, but consider-
able interest was attracted by the new
scientific procedure.—London Mail.
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An Oath in Japan.
Qirl scouts take a promise of loyalty
to God. The Japanese do not worship
any one God, so a knotty problem
arose when scouting was introduced
in Japan. At the International Coun-
ci! held in England recently, it was
Geeidad to permit the Japanese to join
the movement provided they lived up
to the ten scout laws and are loyal
to” the spiritual part of the promise.
They may swear by the Eternal Truth
of Their Ancestors or whatever rep-
resents the ideal to them.
GREDIT SNEEZE TO SCULPTOR
Promotheus Said to Have Introduced
the Action to the World
of Mortals.
The Greeks, who refined upon all
ancient and inherited customs, and
after them the Romans, had an elab-
orate code by which they distinguished
whether a sneeze was to be regarded
as a blessing or a malign portent, the
distinction being mude according to
the time, place and circumstances.
Thus, if one sneezed between mid:
day and midnight, the augury was hap
py, unless the moon chanced at the
time to be in the sign of the Virgin,
the Balance, the Crab or the Scor-
pion, when it became an evil omen.
Both Greeks and Romans regarded
“sneezing to the right,” that is, turn
ing to the right side as the sneeze oc
curred, as a most happy omen.
Father Famien Strada, who has
made the most erudite researches into
the history and literature of the
sneeze, says that Prometheus intro-
duced it to mortals. He had made a
{ beam of sunlight.
statue which he wished to endow with
life, and for this purpose he stole a
Wishing to conceal
the theft from Apollo, he hid the beam
in his snuff box. Shortly afterward,
being desirious of taking a pinch of
maccaboy, he absentmindedly put the |
beam up his nose—causing himself to
sneeze violently.
GIANT TREES CENTURIES CLD
Sycamore Near Long Island City Be
licved to Be Good for Many
More Years of Life.
“Old Sycamore,” a giant tree at
Wheatley, L. IL, was born only
years after Columbus landed at San
Salvador, in 1492. It was eighty years
old when Hendrick Hudson first saw
Long Island.
This is the opinion of experts who
have examined the giant sycamore.
Its age ls estimated between 300 and
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i 400 years, more likely the latter, it is
he origin of the solid gold Greek liba- | years ey.
said. The trunk near the ground is
. 24 feet in circumference and some of
|
rites. !
the limbs, half way up even, are
larger than the trunks of many trees
which claim to be patriarchs.
The height of “Old Sycamore” has
not been ascertained, but it towers
over the landscape in lordly fashion.
Ninety years ago the place was used
by the county butcher as his home.
His beef when slaughtered was hung
on chains * from
limbs
The tree is said to be in splendid
condition, and good for a century or so
more.
Music.
Music is the most abstract, pure
embodiment and type of universal law
and movement. It is a key to the di-
vine method throughout all the worlds
of matter and spirit. It is the most
fluid, free expression of form, in the
becoming form developing according
to intricate and divine necessity.
There is nothing arbitrary in music;
no acquiring any power in it except by
patient, reverent study, and mastering
of divine proportions and the eternal
laws of fitness. Goethe says: “The
worth of art appears most eminent in
music, since it requires no material,
nd subject matter, whose effect must
be deducted; it is wholly form and
power and it raises and ennobles what-
ever it expresses.”—John Sullivan
Dwight.
Furniture Big Factor in Life.
Did you ever weigh the fact that
next to food, or possibly fashions, fur-
niture is the chief thing in your life?
It was a necessary witness at your
birth. From your high chair you grad-
uated into the nursery. Then came the
sofa, where you wooed your bride. Pol-
ished and new is the table across
which you smiled at her you had won,
at the first breakfast. Furniture in
your home reflects your ambitions,
your success. And then—life has not
greater joy than the selection of the
crib for the coming of the little
stranger, your first born.
And last, the bed supports you as
you drop into the peaceful sleep
which has no waking.
Yes, furniture truly is the chief
thing in your life.
Felt Sympathy.
“Now,” thundered the school teacher
on a morning of unusual density on the
part of his scholars, ‘you are all block-
heads, but there must be one among
you who excels in something, even if
only in crass ignorance. Let the big-
gest dunce in the school stand up.”
The invitation was more in the na-
ture of “bluff” than anything else;
but, to the teacher’s surprise, one
stolid-visaged lad rose to his feet.
“Qh,” purred the master, “I am glad
{o see that one of you has the honesty
{o admit his ignorance.”
“isn’t that, sir,” said the youthful
satirist; “but I ’adn’t the ’eart to see
you standin’ there by yourself!”
Really Not His Fault.
The late Doctor Creighton, bishop of
London, once made a visit to Father
Stanton’s church in High Holborn, a
mest ritualistic organization. The
service was quite to his liking, but
Father Stanton talked so fast that he
did not have a chance to say anything
until he got Into his carriage to go
away. Then he remarked: *“I like
your service, Stanton, but I don’t like
your incense.”
“Very, sorry, my lord, very sorry,”
replied Father Stanton, submissively
“put it is the very best I can get for
3 shillings and 6 pence a pound.”
“Old Sycamore’s |
Think of it. All the rush, the prep-
aration and the almost childish ex-
| citement and all the old lessons, too,
past for 355 days, and then the whole
thing will be gone through with again,
and we will be as interested as ever,
as eager as ever and as behindhand
' and hurried as ever. Just as the joy
‘ of the time never grows old to us, so
we never learn from the past exper-
ience to be ready next year.
It is not a custom to make resolu-
tions on New Year’s properly speak-
ing. It is simply human nature. We
make each Monday morning a sort of
new week stand from which we drop
gracefully by Tuesday afternoon, and
of which we have no memory by Wed-
nesday. It is our natural impulse to
decide how a new book or gown or
rug shall escape the fate of its prede-
cessors. This one shall go as it has
been started. It shall stay fresh. It
is not necessary that the leaves be
dog-eared, the little rent torn, the ug-
ly spots trodden in or the gray splat-
tered. No, it is not necessary, but it
will happen, and the new becomes the
old, and so the world wags on.
Why is it? Why can we not make
a change when we really want to?
Why cannot you who speak so loudly
| lower your voice, and you who delight
to slander, know it and disapprove,
stop? Why cannot you study when
you should, get up at the right time,
{refrain from spending money you
i should not? Why?
{ There is a very popular idea that on
New Year’s day every one is busy
| paving the highway with determina-
| tion for the new, clean start, but this
| is a mistake. There is a most amus-
‘ing, or pitiful, if you will, army of
| workers all busily absorbed in paving
| but there is also a large, amused and
i also pitiful crowd of onlookers. They
{are old, experienced hands at the
| work. They know that the roadbed
is a quicksand and that the best laid
| stones will sink out of sight in a week
or at most a month and be lost. They
‘are the blase old hands who make no
| resolutions on the 1st of January, and
: who find their fun in watching those
! who still struggle.
There is a curious fact about these
{two groups. The line of demarkation
{is not that of age. The class to which
' a man belongs can be read only in his
i face and in his voice. The workers
{are absorbed and eager. They have
| faith that with energy they will suc-
{ ceed, and they have faith in the worth
of their aim. There are many of them
i gray-haired and feeble-handed, but
they have retained that sweetest of all
I human qualities, a childlike faith in
! themselves and others, and no matter
what the truth is they have a belief
that they have succeeded in years
past.
The onlookers are cynical. They
have logical, practical minds. They
‘have reviewed the past, read the fu-
| ture and refuse to roll the stones up
{ the endless hill. Poor wise ones!
| There are no people so sincerely to be
| pitied as those who cannot stand on
New Year’s day and make resolutions.
Do make some—not a number, but
one or two—and live up to them! Just
the mere effort will sweeten you and
add new zest to life. Do not admit
that you have been thoroughly beaten.
| Perhaps it will be unwise to take a
' pet fault and resolve against it, but
most of us have such a wide selec-
tion possible that the choice may fall
on something that we really hate, and
if we put our vigor to work we may
kill the habit.
ene pe eens.
RUNYVILLE.
Jack Witherite departed for Altoo-
na, where he is employed in the Al-
toona shops.
Mr. and Mrs. Elias Hancock are vis-
iting their son, E. R. Hancock, at
Philipsburg.
Wilson Lucas, of Milesburg, spent
Saturday night with his father, Ed-
ward Lucas. °°
| Miss Jennie Taggert, of Philadel-
phia, is visiting at the home of Mrs.
Alice Rodgers.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Lucas, of Altoo-
na, spent New Year’s day at the home
of L. J. Heaton.
Walter and George Kauffman, of
Ryde, spent Christmas with their
brother, Earl Kauffman.
Clyde Shutt and family moved from
Snow Shoe last Tuesday into the Har-
ry Fetzer house in this place.
Mrs. Grant Houseman, of Altoona,
spent last Wednesday at the home of
her mother, Mrs. Annie Lucas.
Roy and Emanuel Rodgers, of Ty-
rone, visited at the home of their
brother, Charles Rodgers, last Friday.
Miss Verda Sparks, of Altoona,
spent several days last week with her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Sparks.
Fred Reese, who is employed at Al-
toona, spent Christmas at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Reese.
Mr. and Mrs. James Flick and lit-
tle son Robert, of Altoona, spent
Christmas at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Austin Walker.
Mrs. Claude Lucas and Mrs. Forden
Walker, of Snow Shoe, spent Tuesday
night at the home of their sister, Mrs.
Earl Kauffman.
Edward Lucas and sister, Mrs. Mary
Heaton, visited a week at Polk, at the
home of Mr. Lucas’ daughter, Mrs.
Joseph Greenlee.
JACKSONVILLE.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Neff spent last
week visiting friends at State College.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beatty, of
Blanchard, were Sunday visitors at
the William Weaver home.
George Ertley spent the most of
last week visiting his brother and
other friends at State College.
Mrs. Mary Resides and daughter
Helen, of Williamsport, were Christ-
mas visitors at the Clyde Yearick
home.
Deimer Ertley and Clarence Weight
left on Wednesday for Altoona in the
hope of landing good jobs for the bal-
ance of the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Garbrick, of Cen-
tre Hall, were visitors at the J. J. Vo-
nada home on Christmas, coming here
to visit Mrs. Garbrick’s father, Z. W.
Hoy.
The recent public sale of the person-
al effects of Mrs. Mary Deitz was well
attended, but bidding was not very
spirited.
Miss Jane Piince, a well known and
popular young lady of this place, has
gone to make her home with Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Shope, at State College.
Milford Beightol, little son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Beightol, who was
so severely burned some weeks ago,
was able to sit up for the first time
on Tuesday morning. The lad is now
getting along nicely.
W. B. Bathgate, our enterprising
dairyman, this week moved his broth-
er, Emmett Bathgate and family, to
Blue Ball, where they will make their
future home. Mr. Bathgate has a
good position at the clay mines at
that place.
TE ECA I Be 4 CE SE nll,
TURNING OVER NEW LEAVES. |
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA.
The Economy of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Appeals to every family in these
days. From no other medicine can you
get so much real medicinal effect as
from this. It is a highly concentrated
extract of several valuable medicinal
ingredients, pure and wholesome. The
dose is small, only a teaspoonful three
times a day.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a wonderful
tonic medicine for the blood, stom-
ach, liver and kidneys, prompt in giv-
ing relief. It is pleasant to take,
agreeable to the stomach, gives a
thrill of new life. Why not try it?
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Children Cry for Fletcher's
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just to protect the coming
generations.
Do not be deceived.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “Just-as-good” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
Never attempt to relieve your baby with a
remedy that you would use for yourself.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups.
It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee.
For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Comfort—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAY
Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
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uary 20
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Boys’--at a reduction of 25 per cent.
These reductions begin Saturday
January 6 and positively end Jan-
Don’t miss this sale—it’s an oppor-
tunity for real saving
It’s at, Fauble’s