Bellefonte, Pa., September 7, 1923.
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ERROR THAT WAS PITIFUL
Little Wife Meant Well, but Dyed
Hair Almost Meant Death of
Her Husband's Love.
He had gray hair and his wife was
a little blonde, bobbed-hair person
who looked scarcely more than a child.
Again and again they were taken for
father and daughter.
She let her hair grow and then she,
had it dyed gray.
Her husband was horrified. Some-
how his love seemed to have grown
less.
“I always used to think it hurt him
awfully when I was taken for his
daughter,” the little woman told the
Woman. “But it seems he loved feel-
ing that this young thing was the
woman who had fallen for him. I'm
going to do all I can about having
the dye bleached out. You see, I've
bobbgd my hair again—and as the new
yellow hairs grow in his love seems
to be coming back again. It's so hard
to tell,” she ended. “I felt I was
doing something so wonderful for him
and it almost broke his heart !”—New
York Sun.
GOT THE MESSAGE TWISTED
Carelessness of Telegraph Operator
Made a Mixup of a Somewhat
Amusing Character.
An Inspector of railway property
whose duties had taken him to Bridge-
port, Conn,, discovered that the foun-
dation under the local freighthouse
needed repairs. Without delay he filed
this dispatch to the New York office:
“Foundation under freighthouse at
Bridgeport unsafe—rush men at once.”
In sending the message the operator
on the New York wire apparently did
not space the letters properly in the
word “foundation” and also pressed
too long to form the letter “t”; for
this was the message received in New
York:
“Found a lion under freighthouse at
Bridgeport unsafe—rush men at once.”
The inspector was astonished a few
hours later to see a special work train
come into the yard with a flat car
containing a large animal cage and
also ten men expecting to have an
exciting time catching a lion that they
supposed had escaped from some pass-
ing circus.—Youth’s Companion,
Reader Has One Guess.
Uncle John was an ardent supporter
of the local football club. As a re-
spected follower of the team he had
his own private niche. Aunt Martha,
long puzzled at. his regular absence
from home on Saturday afternoons,
decided to investigate.
On the following Saturday Uncle
John did not turn up in the stand
alone, Aunt Martha was with him.
“John,” she asked, soon after the
game started, “what are those eleven
fools in white doing?”
“They are trying to put that bit of
leather between those two posts there,
my dear,” he replied.
There was a short silence.
“And what are those elevea other
fools in red doing?” was her next
question.
“They are trying to prevent the
other fellows from putting the ball be
tween the posts, my dear.”
Another silence.
“And what are these other 20,000
fools doing?” was her next question.
“They are all enjoying themselves
except one, dear.”—London Answers.
Mission House Made Memorial.
The mission house at Kettering,
Northamptonshire, = England,’ where
William Carey on October 2, 1792,
founded the first missionary society
which is recognized as the basis of
the modern missionary enterprise; was
put up for sale, the owner having died
and the estate thus having become
purchasable for the first time since
that memorable occasion. The pur-
chase was made on behalf of the Bap-
tist Laymen’s Missionary Movement of
England. The property will not only
be retained for the denomination as a
historic memorial} but will probably be
ase as a hostel for returned mission-
aries.
Mare Students Take to Classics.
An’ increase in the study of the clas
sics this year has been announced by
New York university. There were 100
students of Latin a year ago, as com-
pared with 128 this fall. The number
of Greek students increased from 28
to 48. There has been an even more
pronounced increase in the number of
students of the romance languages,
amounting to nearly. 75 ‘per ‘cent in’
fon or from 434 in 1921 ‘to 757 in
Necessary Garden Equipment.
The wisdom of Socrates, the strength
of Hercules, the endurance of Atlas,
the conquering power of Napoleon, the
versatility of Leonardo da Vinci, the
patience of Job, the optimism of Polly-
ana—and the courage in the autumn to
say, “Well, never mind, next year it
will be a ‘garden—From Life.
Concerning Plants.
Plants with sweet-smelling flowers
gre more common in dry, than:in moist
climates. Thyme, sage, and lavender,
for instance, bloom profusely on dry |
uplands and fill" the air with thelr
scent, but the wild flowers of low or.
swampy ground @re seldom highly
scented, and if Shey ¢ are their odors are.
unpleasant. I:
' 870,000 rats were destroyed, it was
| must be tetally blind,
PLANT TREE IN RIGHT PLACE
Much of Natural Beauty May Be Los’
If Proper Spot Has Not
Been Selected.
It is a beautiful thing to plant a
tree, but it is doubly beautiful to plant
the right tree in the right place.
The deed loses half of its beauty
when a tree is placed where it does not
belong, and where it will be impossible
for it to add to the joy and comfort
of those who may be near it in future
years. A tree placed in a location
where it will be in the way, and where
it cannot develop in accordance with
its natural tendencies, is doomed to
be a failure. The same is likely to be
true of the tree that is planted with-
out thought as to the variety that is
best suited to the situation. It is the
tree planting that involves thought
and judgment that is the real blessing
to humanity.
The beautiful thing in the planting
of the tree is the attitude of mind of
the one who does it. Those who are
to receive the benefits from the act
appear long after the work is done;
those who do the work are seldom di-
rectly rewarded for the labor. When
a person plants a tree, he is contrib-
uting to the pleasure of generations to
come, and if he plants the right tree
in the right place he bestows a bless-
ing upon others in the most unselfish
manner. If, on the other uand, the
wrong tree is planted, the future gen-
erations cannot reap the full benefit
of the work done years before by the
well-meaning but uninformed tree
planter, and the deed as measured by
results becomes less beautiful. —INli-
nois Arbor. Day Bulletin.
OWES SPEECH TO WIRELESS
Young English Woman, Dumb From
Birth, Said to Have Become Nor
mal After Treatment.
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A young woman, deaf and dumb
from birth, the first patient to undergo
treatment by a new wireless inven-
tion, articulated several words in the
presence of a crowded audience at the
Royal Medical college, Epsom, Eng-
land.
Wireless, having brought hearing to
the deaf, is now bringing speech te
the dumb.
This latest wonder is made possible
by the invention of Mr. J. W. Theo-
bald, a Sunbury garage owner, and a
medical friend, Dr. Frank Thompson.
The dumb patient puts on ear recelv-
ers, and receives a lesson in phonet-
fics with the sounds magnified till they
are deafening to normal ears.
Dr. Thompson prophesies that his
first patient will soon be able to con-
verse freely. A curious unexpected
result has been that her deafness Iv
also tending to disappear.
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Molten Lava Welds Volcanoes.
George Gillman read a paper before
the Geographical society descriptive !
of an ascent a year ago of Kilimanjaro, |
which he alluded to as Africa’s high-
est mountain. The party which he!
led were the first to ascend after the !
mountain had become British terri- |
tory. From wherever across the sur-!
rounding steppes one approached the
isolated mountain mass two outstand-
ing features impressed themselves at |
once—the tremendous size, coupled |
with great height, and the almost in-
credible contrast between the tropical
half desert below and the alpine des-
ert above. Structurally, Kilimanjaro
consisted of three single strato-volca-
noes, each of which had had its own
origin and history. Through mutual
interbedding of the laval flows, how-
aver, all three had grown into one
solid complex strato-valcano,
Fighting Insect Pests,
A new method of control of “scrow-
worms,” “wireworms” and sod web
worms which attack tobacco and sim-
ilar crops has been discovered by the
tobacco insect laboratory of the Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture.
It has been found that these worms
are very greatly attracted to nitroben-
zine, and by flavoring poison with this
~hemical a mortality of from 80 to 90
per cent of the larvae in heavily infest-
ed fields is produced. These larvae
are very important pests of tobacco
and a large variety of other crops, and
up to this time fall plowing and other
Indirect methods were the only knowr
ways of combating them,
Women Lead in Fighting Rats.
In a state-wide rat campaign con-
ducted in Virginia early this year,
when it was estimated that more than
disclosed that women make as effec-
tive leaders as men In this work, ac-
cording to the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, When regarded
according to the number of rat-tafls
turned in for prizes, seven counties
led. by women and three ‘led by men
were the most successful.
Fighting Forest Fires.
The California district of the
forest service, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, has received
$4,000 from the Automobile Club of
Southern California for the develop
ment of public camps in national for-
ests. In addition, the automobile club.
co-gperates. yery closely with the for-
est service in fire-prevention work.
Approved methods of preventing fires:
are printed in the maps furnished by
the club to tourists.
Blind Persons Privileged.
Blind persons who reside in On
tarlo may travel free of charge on the:
street cars of Toronto and environs
Applicants for passes on this; account
' the summer.
‘STORY CALLS FOR AFFIDAVIT
Yarn of South Carolina Man. Almos’
Too Much for Ordinary Reader
to Believe.
Representative James F. Byrnes,
Democrat, of South Carolina, is not
much of a fisherman, but he is fine on
fish stories.
In the cloak room of the house,
members from various states were
swapping yarns.
“Talking about fishing,” said Mr.
Byrnes, “there is one pool in a moun-
tain stream near Tryon, N. C, I will
always remember. I was in that part
of the country one summer resting and
rambling for my health and a good
time.
“lI saw a mountain man, with hook
and line, make his way to the creek
bank and commence to fish. With my
glasses I could see that he had baited
his hook with a tiny frog. For some
time he fished, throwing the hook out,
but he got no bite. Tiring of this, he
stuck his pole in the bank, picked up a
small rifle and went to shooting at tar-
gets in the woods. Fearing a stray
shot, I came out of hiding and ac-
costed him. While we talked we heard
a commotion near the fishing place.
On looking that way we saw that the
froggie had climbed up the line and
was sitting on the end of the pole sing-
ing, and brook trout were jumping out
of the water trying to get him.
“‘By George! there's my chance!
said the fisherman, and he ran back
and commenced to shoot the fish as
they rose from the water. Late that
afternoon, when I saw him again, he
had a half bushel of trout he had
shot.”
That broke up the meeting.—Utica
Globe.
NO CHANCE TO GET AWAY
As Clubman Mournfully Related, He
Was Caught Whether He Was
“Going or Coming.”
President Walter C. Teagle of the
Standard Oil company ¢f New Jersey
said the other day in Washington:
“The fable that my company runs
chain stores and copper mines and
restaurants and so on is so persistent,
so indomitable, that it reminds me of
a story.
“If you do not want to marry her,
why on earth did you propose to her?”
said one clubman to another.
“ ‘That's just it,’ said the other, ‘She
proposed to me.’
“ ‘Why didn’t you have spunk enough
to refuse her, then?
“That’s just it. I couldn’t. She
worded her proposal so cleverly, you
see. She said, ‘Will you marry me?
Have you any objection? Thus, wheth-
er 1 said yes or no, she had me. She
had me going and coming.’
“*Not at all’ said the first club-
man, with a condescending laugh. ‘You
should have observed a discreet si-
lence.’
“Just what I did,’ said the other,
‘and she fell into my arms, murmur-
i Ing that silence gave consent.’ ”—Los
Angeles Times.
Birds’ Working Hours.
Some birds work almost all day in
They clear the crops of
insects.
The thrush gets up at half-past two
every morning. He falls to work at
once, and does not stop until half-past
nine at night—a clear 19 hours. Dur-
ing that time he feeds his young 206
times.
The blackbird starts work at the
same hour as the thrush, but leaves off
earlier. His whistle blows a. half
past seven, and during his 17-hour day
he sets about 100 meals before his
family.
The titmouse is up at three in the
morning, and his stopping time is nine
at night. A fast worker, he is said te
feed his young 417 times a day.
Educational “Movies.”
When used in combination with
other methods of presenting ideas,
such as newspaper publicity, the
spoken word, exhibits, slides, and
printed bulletins, the United States
Department of Agriculture has found
that motion pictures constitute a val-
uable addition to these extension
agencies. The department maintains
its own motion-picture lahoratory,
where films are prepared to picturize
improved agricultural practices, to
warn about dangerous conditions
or undesirable methods, or other-
wise to acquaint those at a distance
from the national eapital with the
work of the department or its applice
tion to farm life.
Magellanic Clouds.
Magellanic clouds are. two cloudy
masses of light, oval in shape and un-
equal in size, seen at night in the
heavens, in the vicinity of the South
pole. They are supposed to be nebu-
lae, or dense aggregations of stgrs,’ so
far distant as to give to the unaided
eye the impression of cloud-like
masses. They cover areas of about
42 and 10 square degrees respectively,
and are so named in honor of Ferdi-
nand Magellan, the great Portuguese
navigator, who first ‘observed them in
1520, during his voyage around the
world.
Serbia Mas Pretty Custom.
Oliver Semple’ Barton, who has been
traveling ‘in ‘Europe studying national
costumes, has gathered some very in-
teresting material! “In Serbia’ he found
Kitls walking dlong’ the streets with
the names of thelr fiances embroidered
on the fronts of thelr ‘aprons. The
| engagement then’ becomes a public af-
fair, and the news is proudly published
by the young lady by the display of the
| name, which'fs' written #o that all may
gee. says Mr. Barton 'in The Mentor.
FOUND HAPPINESS IN WORK
Great’ Writers and
With Much Wisdom in Refusing
to “Rust Out.”
Examples of long life accompanied
by happiness in productive labor are
oumerous, both in biography and in
contemporary life, observes the York-
shire Post. B. W. Leader died the
other day in his ninety-third year,
after joyously producing his type of
beauty in landscape art almost to the
last. Edison, our greatest contempo-
rary inventor, passed recently his sev-
enty-gsixth birthday. He was too busy
to pause for congratulations, entirely
happy in his research and experiment,
finding the days too short for his ex-
acting mind. The old classical apo-
thegm which tells us that they die
young whom the gods love, must be
taken with the proverbial grain of salt.
Wordsworth in all his verses breathed
the atmosphere of contentment and
Joy, and survived until he was a hap-
py octogenarian, glad in himself and
gladdened by his countless admirers.
Tennyson reached eighty-three, borne
along as on the crest of a flowing wave
of joy, the beating of which can be
felt in all his work, even to his rhyth-
mic swan’s song of “The Pilot.” Car-
Iyle died at eighty-six, and, although
lone and sad in his closing years, he
owed his longevity very largely to the
joy he had cultivated in his work for
fifty productive years. Sir James Bar-
rie, in his Inimitable rectorial address,
recently spoke the truth when he said
that Carlyle’s misery was an illusion
to Carlyle himself and a myth in bi-
ography. He was happy in his work
with a glow of joy that counteracted
the pains of his nervous dyspepsia, and
nursed his inherited vitality into con-
tinuous strength.
MIXED IN HIS METAPHORS
Of Course Brown Fully Understood
What He Meant to Say, but
He Blundered.
Re ———
Mr. Brown was calling on an old | fl
friend.
“I declare,” he remarked to his
friend's wife, “it quite cures me of’
homesickness to drop in here and see
a litt'e of your home life—er—er—
not that your home life is anything but
the—what I mean to say is that it
makes me all the fonder of my own
home—or rather, that, on the homeo-
pathic principle, a hai» of the dog
that bit you-—which isn’t, of course,
what 1 mean. But when a man is
lonely he can enjoy the society of al-
most anybody—"
“Sir!” said the lady, icily.
“Il mean,” returned Mr. Brown, as
he mopped the perspiration from his
face, “that, be it ever £0 humble—no.
no, yours is not that—but there’s no
place like one’s own—but, I mean—
well. T must be going! Good day !”—
T.ondon Tit-Bits.
Stockmen Fight Pests.
Stockmen in the Canadian river dis-
triet in Texas have shown themselves
increasingly in accord with the poi-
soning methods advocated by the bio-
logical survey of the United States
Department of Agriculture for the ex-
termination of predatory animals, par-
ticularly coyotes. In one district, poi-
soning operations have resulted in a
kill estimated as between 75 and 90
per cent of the coyotes over an area
of 2,202 square miles. A border strip
five miles wide, and including approxi-
mately 1,200 square miles, was poi-
soned, with a resultant kill of 25 per
cent of the coyotes. In coyote poison-
ing operations stockmen do not usually
spend time hunting dead animals be-
yond the point where they are con-
vinced of the effectiveness of the meth-
od. © It is considered more profitable to
devote as much tlme and energy as
possible to covering a wider territory
. with poison’ baits.
Woman Pirate Achieves Fame.
There recently appeared on the river
at Hong-Kong, much to the alarm of
ship owners and thelr crews, a woman
pirate, who has already taken a heavy
toll of loot from vessels. Nothing is
known of her, except the fact that
she speaks English, wears a serge cos-
tume and Wellington boots, and car-
ries a wicked-looking revolver, with
which she compels her victims to sur-
render. Under her are a score or
more Chinese brigands, who, although
they are cut-throats and robbers, obey
her implicitly.
Wanted Story With a Purpose.
Billy had fallen and hurt himself,
and I called him to me saying: “Don’t
cry, Billy. Come here, and I'll tell
you a story.”
He stopped sobbing, and came.
“Tell me what kind of a story you
want,” I sald.
“Well,” he sald with a sigh, “tell
me one that will make my thinks glad
again.”—Exchange,
A Bad Blunder.
A certain church society visits the
hospitals: of its city, and the other
night the society had supper; in the
Sunday school room. before leaving on
its mission of mercy. At the conclu-
sion of the meal Brother Miller sald:
“Now: that we have eaten supper,
let’s go to the home for incurables.
The ladies haven't spoken to him
since.—Kansas. City Star. ;
Increased Use of Tobacco.
Smoking is on: the: increase in the
United States. There was a jump of
156: per: cent in’ the: value of cigars and
cigarettes from 1914 to 1921, and’ of: | b
Lyon & Co.
this 4 per cent was from 1019 te 1921
The ‘value in. 1014 ‘was $814,884,000;
1919; $778,602,000, ‘and: 1021; $606,
749,000.
Inventors Acted |
All Misses and Growing Girls
Three-Quarter Length
Socks
Reduced to 25 Cents
These Socks are all
Good Quality and this is
a Wonderful Reduction
All Sizes
Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Tos & Co.
je & Co.
Fall and Winter Coats
A large assortment of New Coats
are here for the early buyer. All
the Newj[Colors—Fur and Cloth trimmed; the New
Side Fastenings. An excellent opportunity for the .
earlygbuyer, at special low prices.
Silk and Wool Dresses
One lot of Dresses, all sizes. Colors
Navy, Brown and Black ; values up to $28.00—closing
out at $10.00.
Sweaters
See our tables of Sweaters, all sizes
and colors. Prices less than cost.
Shoes... Shoes
School Shoes that will give good
wear for boys and girls. Mens Shoes
for work and dress. Womens High and Low Shoes,
Black and Cordovan—prices the lowest.