Bellefonte, Pa., May 15, 1925.
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THE PASSING YEARS.
They're passing away, these sweet, sweet
years,
Like a leaf on the current cast;
With never a break in the rapid flow,
We watch them as one by one they go
Into the beautiful past.
As light as the beautiful thistle down,
As fond as a lover's dream,
As pure as the flush in the sea-shell’'s
throat,
As sweet as the wood-bird’s wooing note,
So tender and sweet they seem.
One after the other we see them pass
Down the dim-lighted stair;
We hear the sound of their steady tread
In the steps of centuries long since dead,
As beautiful and as fair.
There are only a few years yet to love;
Shall we waste them in idle strife?
Shall we trample under our ruthless feet
These beautiful blossoms rare and sweet,
By the dusty byways of life?
There are only a few swift years. Oh; let
No envious taunts be heard;
Make life's fair pattern of rare design,
And fill up the measure with love's sweet
wine
But never an angry word.
—New York Dispatch.
PLEASANT GAP PHILOSOPHY.
By Levi A. Miller.
It is your own fault if dogs and
tramps come to see you the second
time.
It is not what others think, but
what others think of you, that fixes
your value.
The commercial world is so organ-
ized, operated and controlled by col-
lective interests that individual suec-
cess is almost impossible.
The real philosopher is the man
who doesn’t care how much his wife's
clothes cost.
There was a woman once who could
kep a secret, but she never got any to
keep.
A man who cannot keep a contract;
a woman who cannot keep her word
when she has given it to her little chil-
dren; the churchman who lacks the
courage to carry out his professions
when he has ceased to worship and
has begun to work; the politician who
dare not be unpopular to save his con-
science; all the vast army of well
meaning and weak-willed men and
women who are making life harder
for themselves and those about them,
need the spur of conscience disciplined
in the ways of duty. And for the
most of us who have work to do in the
world, whether it is small or great, the
supreme need of the hour is the duty
of being true to ourselves and facing
without weakness the obligations of
the task that has been given us to do.
He that maketh haste to gain
knowledge, like the man in the rapid
pursuit of wealth, will fall into many
snares.
If you try to please everybody you
will please nobody. Live out your
own idea of things and you will find
people either smart enough or fool
enough to agree with you.
Self-love is in. alliance with the
principle which endears home, kin-
dred and native land to every human
heart, and ‘the love of a child for his
home, parents, brothers and sisters
should find its counterpart in the love
of the man for his country and illus-
trious countrymen.
We can usually tell the character of
a man by his conversation. An inces-
sant talker is a bore; an embarrassed
and silent guest is a source of discom-
fort, and his departure is hailed with
delight; a witty man or woman is a
pleasure; an egotist, who endeavors to
monopolize the evening is worse than
a criminal. The genial men and wom-
en are benefactors and philanthropists
and deserve praise and reward. Be a
good listener, and when you do say
anything be sure you know what you
are talking about; do not interrupt a
conversation, nor correct the mistakes
of another. Select topics for conver-
sation you think will interest; people
like to have others interested in their
personal affairs, if the latter can be
touched upon in any way that their
pride is flattered. In conversation
with women, let thm lead and choose
topics for discussion, and in this con-
nection men should remember that la-
dies care for something else than ever-
lasting “small talk.” As it is called
current topics, in the way of theatre,
opera, the society news of the place,
and the doings of mutual friends are
safe enough provided gossip is not in-
dulged in. Never argue with others;
do not become absent minded when at
a social gathering; be not too liberal
with compliments when with ladies,
and above all do not speak badly of
any one.
Poverty is a child of civilization,
and the higher civilization rises the
more dense poverty becomes. It is a
result of natural causes, is in perfect
harmony with the great system of the
universe and, therefore, right. This
is a shocking doctrine, but domestic
economists enumerate it and philoso-
phers say amen. They tell us that
man was made to live on the products
of the earth. Animal and vegetable
foods were provided in abundance for
all who are willing to go forth and
gather them. Aboriginal man knew
not poverty. There were fruits and
roots, and flesh and fish and fowl in
almost prodigal abundance, and he had
the means at hand for applying them
to his wants. Mother Earth has never
yet failed to provide for those who re-
main with her. Hot winds may scorch
a large area; frosts may gather a crop
too early, or a pest may consume the
product of the soil; distemper may
annihilate the cattle from the hills and
flocks from the valleys for leagues
around; yet there is a limit to all
these, and beyond this limit there is
plenty for all. A good Providence
comes to the rescue.
If parents are courteous toward their
children, the latter will always be
courteous in return. There is no bet-
ter way to. train a child in courtesy
than to observe toward it the most
scrupulous politeness, and a child
whose own conversation is respected
can be easily taught to respect the
conversation of others, and to know
when to talk and when to be silent.
The habit of listening, inculcated in
childhood, will do much toward form-
ing agreeable members of society in
after years.. A guest should converse
with a child for a moment, but it
should not make itself tiresome by en-
gaging his or her entire attention.
Neither should strangers be allowed,
under any circumstances, at home or
abroad, to tease a child. Its angry
answers may be amusing, but it works
irreparable injury to the child. Chil-
dren are apt to be troublesome when
they talk too much. Never reprove a
child in the presence of strangers. To
do this injures its feeling of self re-
spect, and is an annoyance to the vis-
itor also. While it frequently hap-
pens that a word of timely admoni-
tion is necessary, reproof should be
left until alone with the child. Do not
allow children to be cruel in their
treatment of animals, as it renders
them brutal in disposition.
It is said of Abraham Lincoln that
he would not take a case in which his
client was not clearly in the right. He
felt that to defend a guilty person
was to fly in the face of justice, if not
to become a participant in the crime.
In his estimation all knowledge of
guilt is guilty knowledge. Others
who have attained greatness in the
professions, and whose opinions had,
and yet have weight with judges and
juries, and are held in high esteem by
honest, intelligent people had similar
notions. There are so many grades of
lawyers, both in point of ability and
character, that there need be no diffi-
culty in finding one for any kind of
job that will insure a fee. Notwith-
standing the very general impression
that lawyers, as a class, are rascals,
the public has great respect for the
cloth, and in spite of the fact that it
is almost universally considered a
very unforiunate thing to fall into the
clutches of one of thm, they are ea-
gerly sought when occasion may de-
mand. To the average mind the law
is a darkly mysterious thing and the
lawyer is its oracle. It might be that
Le would not be trusted very far in a
horse trade, but in a matter of law his
integrity is not questioned. To their
credit be it said, it is a rare thing to
hear of 2 lawyer acting dishonestly
with his client.
Geographically, Pleasant Gap is
quite fortunate; the recent destructive
storms happily passed us by; we had
not a single mishap to report; all here
continues serene, in view of which fact
we were unmolested. Our sympathies
go with the sufferers, however; we,
fortunately, are not in a position to be
required to ask favors.
Fully half of our gardens are plant-
ed, but vegetation lies dormant; the
ground continues too cool to promote
advancement; we are awaiting a
warm breeze.
Education is not the amassing of
truths, but it is the deep realization
of truth, and hence around the great
forehead of Daniel Webster all the
shouts of liberty in all the ages of the
past should be great music in the up-
per air. Education is the power to
think, the power to act. What we
need is not information alone, but
awakening—something that will move
the sluggish blood in our hearts and
make us truly alive.
Evrybody should read the novel
where woman decorates the great
truths of life; but where the’ novel is
the simple history of love nobody.
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The Cedars of Lebanon.
The cedar of Lebanon (technically
“cedrus lebani”) is native to Syria,
Asia, Palestine and the island of Cy-
press. It usually grows in the moun-
tains at an elevation of 4000 to 6400
feet above sea level. This tree has
been famous from early times in sa-
cred and profane writings. These ce-
dars are large, ornamental evergreens
with wide-spreading branches. They
are noted for the size of their trunks,
rather than for their height as many
people suppose.
Until the outbreak of the world war
one of the original groves mentioned
in the Bible was still standing at the
cient Lebanon. This last remnant of
the cedar forests so often referred to
in the Old Testament was visited by
the English botanist Hooker in 1860.
He found about 375 trees growing in
nine groups. Five of the oldest trees
measured 30 feet or over around the
girth. Hooker estimated them to be
about 2500 years old. Some of the
head of Kedisha valley near the an-!
younger trees were estimated at 100
years. It is reported that even these
survivals of antiquity were destroyed
during the great war. In ancient
days the white gum which oozes from
the trunks and branches of these ce-
dars was used for embalming.
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