Beware.
Bellefonte, Pa., June 26, 1925.
A BARGAIN.
I sold my conscience to the world;
The price I thought was good,
The conscience—'twas a useless thing;
I needed clothes and food.
But when ‘twas gone my joy went, too,
And peace had flown away,
The things the world gave in their place
Were broken in a day.
And then the way grew steep and dark,
My feet began to slide,
I did not know which way to go,
For I had lost my guide.
I bought my conscience back again—
My conscience worn and old!
The world demanded thrice the price
Since I to him had sold.
Just all I had to pay for it,
And took the poor thing back,
And turned me to my empty home,
Yet did not feel a lack.
It nestled in my heart again,
And held my life as true,
And showed me right and wrong as clear
Ag :f it-had been new.
I have my conscience back again,
The world may keep its gold,
For peace and joy have flown back, too,
And never shall be sold!
THE SCHOOL DAYS OF AN OLD
CRANK FROM GREENSVAL-
LEY.
By Levi A. Miller.
“Thirteen studies for a girl thirteen
years old is an outrage,” exclaimed
the old crank, as he removed his eye-
glasses with a jerk and crumpled the
paper up, and threw it into Noll
Bros. spittoon.
“Whoever heard of such a thing?”
calmly asked school director Freeman
Heyl.
“I have, and so has everybody else
who has been paying any attention to
school affairs of late. It is outra-
geous, and if we don’t want the fe-
male portion of our community to
grow up physical and mental invalids,
we must stop it. I had to set my foot
down on the slate they had arranged
for my boys; and because I would not
let them take all the studies laid down
in the course, I was told that I might
take them away and educate them my-
self. I didn’t take them away, and
they are not worrying their heads off
with a dozen studies either.”
“But don’t you suppose the school
teacher knows more about what chil-
dren ought to study than you do?” in-
terupted Heyl.
“He ought to, but he does not,” re-
+ plied old Crank gruffly. “He is a
smart fellow, no doubt, and can work
sums from addition to alligation, and
further, too, I suppose, but has uo
more idea of the capacity of a child’s
training than a hungry pig has of the
size of its own stomach. He can ex-
plain vulgar fractions and read off
vards of grammar, but he can’t tell
you what particular branches a child
has a fondness for, nor how many
studies it can handle.”
“What did you study that made you
such a good scholar ?”” asked Heyl half
derisively.
“I’ll just give you a little sketch of
my career as a scholar,” said Crank,
as he settled himself comfortably on
a nail keg and laid his feet on the
spittoon. *My first day was an epoch
in my life. ‘the school Ma’am, or
Mistress, as we called her, was one of
the first lady teachers in our section.
She was a handsome woman and a
good teacher. My primer was so bad-
ly torn that my tather pasted the
leaves containing the alphabet onto a
paddle made of a shingle. This was
a common custom thea, because books
were expensive. Besides the paddle
came in handy when a pupil needed
correction.
“There is no lingering over this
part of the story. We little folks
were allowed to sleep, go out and play
and enjoy ourselves generally as long
as we did not annoy the larger schol-
ars. It was a year or two before I
got to reading in school, although I
could read pretty well at home.
“At school we had to spell, not only
in the book, but out of it, and until a
scholar could knock off all the words
in the United States speller, from
acorn to abecedarian, he wasn’t allow-
ed to begin reading from a regular
reader. ‘I'here were couplets between
the lessons, such as:
‘My son do no ill,
Bad men go to the pit.’
“There were also selections from
proverbs scattered among the first
spelling lessons. Following there
were moral selections at the heads of
the pages; and after finishing the
three long columns of three syllable
words, beginning with ‘ambiquity,’
the half of each page was taken up
with selections from Poor Richard’s
Almanac; the first one began:
“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Then followed a department common-
ly known as ‘towns’ names,’ beginning
with Acre—a seaport town in Turkey;
then came those two immortal poems,
dear to every one who studied the
United States speller. The first be-
gan thus:
“The dog will come when he is called,
The cat will walk away,
The monkey's cheeks are very bald,
The goat is fond of play.”
“This poem continued in this style
until it exhausted the animal kingdom,
or at least as much of it as school
children are likely to know anything
about. The next one, although not a
great poetical work, still lives, and
probably will for a long time, if only
for the benefit of the parodist. I al-
most forget it, but this couplet is a
sample of the whole:
“Who ran to catch me when I fell?
And kissed the place to make it well?
My Mother.”
Heyl, growing impatient, said:
“That’s rot of the very worst kind.”
“There is just where you are off,”
replied old Crank; reaching for i copy
of a reading book now used in our
air’specimen:
“I have two hands,
That can spin a new top.
And climb a tall tree
To make the nuts drop.”
“This is the most sensible thing in
this most pretentious poem, in the
book; and it is not sensible when com-
pared with the quotations I gave you
from our speller, and this is a reader.
The only quotation in it, and that
without credit, is a portion of the Sun-
day school song entitled ‘Little Grains
of Sand.” The meanest thing, how-
ever, in the book is the attempt to
steal a little poem from McGuffy’s
First Reader, which ranked next in
popularity to ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little
Star.’ Just listen to the mess the
thief made of it:
“I will not hurt my little dog,
But stroke him on the head,
I like to see him wag his tail,
I like to see him fed.”
“How that grates upon the ears of
us old fellows who yet proudly recall
the days when we climbed trembling-
ly on to the up-turned coal box and
-, | belched forth in stentorian, yet quiv-
ering voice, with arms rising and fall-
ing, out of tune like so many pump
handles:
“I like to see a little dog,
And pat him on the head,
So prettily he wags his tail
Whenever he is fed.”
“I wouldn’t trust my dog in the
company of the fellow who mutilated
that good old poem.”
40h, you're a crank,” sighed a bay:
who had just exhausted his second ci-
gerette. “I don’t see nothing in none
of em.” a
“You can’t. You're a fool,” return-
ed old Crank; evidently pleased that
he had been offered such a good
chance to express his opinion of a ci-
garette fiend.
“But that is neither here nor there,”
continued the Crank. “What I want
to say is that our old school books
were better adapted to the business in
hand than the books now in use. From
the first page to the last of each one
of them, beginning at the John Rog-
er’s primer, there was fact, or sug-
gestion, that, when once fixed in the
vouthful mind could not help but
bring forth good fruit. They incul-
cated pure morals, taught manners,
suggested easy topics for investiga-
tion in history, mechanics, arts, sci-
ence, animal and vegetable life. The
modern book is a batch of trash, with
not enough information in it to raise
a child above the level of a Hottentot.
But why waste time talking about it.”
“Just what I was thinking,” sighed
school director Heyl.
JACKSONVILLE.
Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. in the
Reformed church.
Mrs. William Weaver was an over
Sunday guest with friends near Zion.
Eggs are 25 cents a dozen and poul-
try 20 to 25 cents per pound, in this
vicinity.
Miss Elnora Weight left on Mon-
day to attend the State Normal school
at Lock Haven.
The Reformed church has been im-
proved by adding a new porch and
concrete steps, during the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Miles Bartley and
daughter Rebecca were over Sunday
guests at the Lester Bartley home. at
Bellefonte.
Messrs. Mervin and Willard Hoy
visited in Bellefonte on Sunday, and
also made a short stop at the new
aviation field.
Miss Mary Weight, who is in train-
ing at the Lock Haven hospital for a
nurse, made a short visit to her home
here on Saturday.
Mrs. Alice Brett and daughter Mar-
jorie, of near Pittsburgh, are spend-
ing a six week’s vacation among
friends in Centre county.
Word has been received here that
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fisher and fami-
ly, of near Pittsburgh, will make a
tour through Centre county some time
next month, and will stop in our vi-
cinity for a few days at the Harry
Hoy and Luther Fisher homes.
The cow sale held by Mr. Ricker,
Monday afternoon, was well attend-
ed. The prices were $67.50; $100.00;
$127.50; $96.00; $115.00; $95.00; $55.-
00; $47.50; $75.00; $51.00; $72.50;
$85.00; $80.00; $121.00; $67.00; $67.-
00; $40.00; $88.00; $55.00; $39.00;
$46.00. Wise and Hubler were the
auctioneers.
The Ladies’ Aid society met at the
home of Mrs. Robert Bennison, on
Thursday, fcr an all-day sewing bee.
A large amount of sewing was com-
pleted. Those present were Mrs. W.
E. Weight, Miss Ellnora Weight, Mrs.
Joseph Neff, Mrs. Nevin Yearick and
daughter Norma, Mrs. William Dix-
son, Mrs. Martha Yearick, Mrs. John
Condo, Mrs. James Bartley, Mrs. El-
mer Swope, Mrs. Mary Bartley and
sons Arthur and Roy, Mrs. Gertrude
Harter and son Charles; Mrs. Ray Al-
lisen and daughters Madge and Lois,
Mrs. Mary Loder, Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Bennison and Virginia, Max and
Nellie Bennison, and Clarence Weight.
The society held another bee at the
home of Mrs. George Ertley, yester-
ay.
eel eee:
Privilege and Duty to be Member of
Legion.
Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., of
New York, in a recent statement com-
menting on membership in the Amer-
ican Legion, said:
“Every veteran of the world war
should belong to the American Legion.
It is a badge of honor and a privilege
limited to those who served in the
armed forces of the United States
during the war and received an hon-
orable discharge. The Legion should
count its membership by millions, not
by hundreds of thousands. It is noc
only the privilege, but the duty of
every qualified veteran to apply for
membership and the same applies to
those women eligible to membership
in the auxiliary. There are tens of
thousands of young men who are not
qualified who would give their eye-
teeth to belong to the American Le-
gion,”
chools, he selected the following as a “FIGHTING BOB” LaFOLLETTE
IS DEAD.
Wisconsin’s Radical Senator, a Suf-
ferer for Years Passed Away
With Words of Love for His
Fellows on His Lips.
In Washington, last Thursday,
death brought to an end the daring.
and stormy political career of Robert
M LaFollette.
Peacefully, the Wisconsin Senator,
last year an independent candidate for
President, passed away at his home
in that place, a victim of heart at-
tacks, from which he had been a suf-
ferer for a decade, bronchitis and
bronchial asthma.
To the last, Mr. LaFollette sought
to ward off death’s thrust as he had
done on several occasions in recent
years, but when he realized that the
fight was a losing one, he called his
son, Robert, to his bedside, and in an
almost inaudible voice gave this last
message to the public: :
“I am at peace with all the worid,
but there is a lot of work I could still
do. I don’t know how the people feel
toward me, but I shall take to the
grave my love for them which has
|-sustained me through life.”
ILL SEVERAL WEEKS.
Confined to his bed for several
weeks by illness which had wrecked
his body repeatedly in the last few
years but had failed to weaken his
fighting spirit, the Senator suffered a
heart attack last Thursday morning
which brought to his physicians a re-
alization that the end was near. He
lapsed into unconsciousness shortly
before noon, and died at 1:21 p. m.,
with his wife and other members of
the family at his bedside.
Without ostentation, the body was
taken, Friday, to the Senator’s home,
in Madison, Wisconsin, for burial. No
services were held in Washington.
But on insistence of those who stood
shoulder to shoulder with him in his
battles in Wisconsin, he will lie in
state in the capitol there Sunday, and
funeral services will be held Monday
in that building, where he once presid-
ed as Governor.
eee lle
Marriage Licenses.
Edgar J. Grove and Helen M. Sto-
ver, Bellefonte.
Andy Sutika, Curwensville, and An-
na Peit, Glen Richey.
Edward S. Gordon, Bellefonte, and
Ruth A. Summers, Milesburg.
William H. Kline and Thelma 8S.
Hazel, Bellefonte.
George W. Griffith, Ebensburg, and
Gretchen A. Williams, Howard.
Byron E. Decker, Spring Mills, and
Anna W. Bartges, State College.
MEDICAL.
Why Suffer So?
Get Back Your Health as Other Belle-
fonte Folks Have Done.
Too many people suffer lame, ach-
ing backs, distressing kidney disor-
ders and rheumatic aches and pains.
Often this is due to faulty kidney ac-
tion and there’s danger of hardened
arteries, dropsy, gravel or Bright's
disease. Don’t let weak kidneys wear
you out. Use Doan’s Pills before it is
too late! Doan’s are a stimulant di-
uretic to the kidneys. Doan’s have
helped thousands. Here is one of
many Bellefonte cases:
Mrs. Mahala Kreps, Phoenix Ave.
says: “My kidneys were in a wretch-
"ed condition and I suffered a lot with
dull, nagging backaches. At night
the pains were so severe I couldn't
rest. My kidneys acted too often and
I had dizzy spells and headaches.
Doan’s Pills helped me from the first
and four boxes cured me. I have had
no return of the trouble.”
1 Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
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‘We Place on Sale
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4 1
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fon ms ou : Sale Price $2.75
Silk Scarfs in All Colors a
silk Hose in All colors Sale Price 95c.
$2.50 up
Leather Hand Bags .in all the
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A complete line of Silk Crepes; also Silk
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