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“Bellefonte, Pa., September 11, 1925.
Reunion of Centre County Veterans
at Grange Park.
The fifty-second annual reunion of
the Centre County Veteran Club was
held at Grange Park, Centre Hall, on
Wednesday of last week, twenty-sev-
en veterans being present. Among
those who passed away during the
year, and who were invariably found
in the ranks on reunion day, were
Capt. George M. Boal, of Centre Hall,
for many years president of the club;
Charles Smith, of Pine Grove Mills;
George Cox and James Reed, of Belle-
fonte. According to the secretary’s
report the mortuary list of the past
year numbered twelve.
In compliment to the veterans the
Citizen’s band, of Ferguson township,
was present and gave a number of pa-
triotic concerts during the day. At
10:30 o'clock in the morning the sol-
diers were called to attention by the
president of the association, W. H.
Bartholomew. Rev. G. W. Emenhizer
delivered the address of welcome after
which secretary W. H. Fry read the
minutes of the last meeting. Follow-
ing the appointment of committees
the meeting adjourned for dinner,
which was by no means one of bacon
and hardtack. In fact every old sol-
dier was able to make a full hand at
dispensing with the good things
spread before them.
On reassembling at 1:30 o’clock
Dean R. L. Watts, of State College,
spoke briefly in response to the ad-
dress of welcome. The committee on
the nomination of officers reported the
following: President, W. H. Barthol-
omew, Centre Hall; first vice presi-
dent, Henry Meyer, Rebersburg; sec-
ond vice president, B. D. Brisbin, Cen-
tre Hall; chaplain, Rev. G. W. Emen-
hizer, Coleville; secretary and treas-
urer, W. H. Fry, Pine Grove Mills.
All were elected.
The committee on place of meeting
reported in favor of Grange park,
during the Grange picnic week.
Among those who made brief talks
were Rev. Arthur Price, Rev. S. V.
Bergen, Rev. J. Max Kirkpatrick,
Rev. Forbes and Miss Rebecca N.
Rhoads, who told of her work at the
soldier camps during the past year.
Rev. C. L. Chase, the colored evangel-
ist, of Philipsburg, entertained “the
boys” with a number of southern mel-
odies, and Hon. J. Laird Holmes, of
State College, a son of a veteran,
made a brief talk. Treasurer W. H.
Fry reported $34.59 in the treasury.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported as follows:
Resolved, That after a lapse of more
than 52 years since the organization of the
Centre County Veteran Club we are grate-
ful that so many survivors of the great
Civil war are again permitted to meet in
annual reunion, to clasp hands and renew
old acquaintances.
Resolved, That we learn with regret of
the loss of so many of our comrades
(twelve) who have answered the last roll
:all, never again to mingle with us in our
innual social gatherings.
Resolved, That our thanks are due the
Grange association of Centre county for
their kind invitation to meet on their 2t-
tractive grounds, and use their buildings
for our meeting.
Resolved, That our thanks are due the
Citizens band for their excellent music
throughout the day.
Resolved, That our thanks are due all
those who through pure patriotism favored
us with such interesting addresses and
made the program one of more than the
usual interest.
Following is a list of the veterans
present, with their age and company
in which they served:
Rev. G. W. Emenhizer,
Regiment.
S. H. Griffith, 80, Co. G, 24th Regt.
D. W. Eberhart, 92, Co. C, Eng.
William Flack, 80, Co H, 45th Regt.
B. D. Brisbin, 83, Co. (, 148th Regt.
W. H. Bartholomew, 79, Co. F., 2nd Cav.
W. H. Fry, 82, Co. E, 45th Regt.
T. A. Snyder, 81, Co. D, 1st Cav.
Cyrus Walker, 83, Co. E, 7th Cav.
J. B. Holter, 79, Co. H. 59th Regt.
Ben Espenshade, 86, Co. E, 79th Regt.
Philip Dale, 83, Co. G, 149th Regt.
William Hoy, 84, Co. H, 50th Regt.
John Griffith, 83, Co. D, 100dth Ohio.
W. BE. Tate, 82, Co. G, 136th Regt.
C. H. Martz, 77, Co..C, 21st Cav.
G. D. Houtz, 83, Co. D, 78th Regt.
J. I. Williams, 82, Co. D, 46th Regt.
B. F. Hoy, 82, Co. H, 46th Regt.
C. J. Campbell, 84, 49th P. V.
L. A. Chase, 80, U. 8S. Troops.
J. M. Jacobs, 78, 13th P. V.
A. H. Waring, 84, Co. D, 143rd Regt.
M. W. Morrison, 77, Co. D, 1st Bat.
R. G. Forgeus, 78, Huntingdon.
W. R. Evans, 82, Co. C, 49th Regt.
M. Noll, 80, Milton.
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Philosophy of Solon Silonis.
82, Co. H, 45th
Several weeks ago we published “A
Fable” from the pen of a naturalist of
world-wide reputation, who writes un-
der the pseudonym, “Solon Silonis.”
Recently we received the following
meaty paragraph from the same con-
tributor. Evidently he knows some-
thing of Centre county.
There’s a Chinese saying that
“Nothing matters much in this worid,
although it is sometimes worth while
to plant bamboo.” Now the fine iro-
ny of this saying is better understood
when it is recalled that, as botanists
tell us, some of the bamboos require
sixty years to reach maturity, after
which they fruit but once, and die
down, Certainly.—If the voters of
Centre insist on voting the Republi-
can ticket against their own interest,
and even at a loss to their pride,
“nothing matters much,” and they had
better set the time-piece of construc-
tive citizenship back, and go to raising
bamboo.
——For good, reliable news always
read the “Watchman.”
i 4eph, is it not?”
glance at a civilization (Egyptian)
which, though its qualities were but
mediocre, endured for more than four
thousand years. It is, with that of
China, the longest that history has
ever known. For 40 centuries, while
the rest of the world was given over
to barbarism, massacre, brigandage,
rapine and monstrous disorder, it pro
cured for the people who lived under
it a happiness and tranquillity, secur-
ity and peace that might well be en-
vied by the people of today who rank
among the most fortunate.
What were the forces that kept this
civilization together? Obviously and
above all, the priestly oligarchy that
held the reins, an oligarchy of wise
and thoughtful men who jealously
guarded their secret; while above
them were kings not only by divine
right but actually divine, the monarch
not being merely the representative of
the god on earth, but the god himself,
and so comcretely and actually god
that not one, himself to begin with,
for one Instant doubted his divinity,
of which he way so sincerely, so deep-
ly convinced that he worshiped his
own image and did it obelsance.
But there were other peoples who
were governed by prudent oligarchies
and kings who held themselves to ba
gods, and that nevertheless did not
last long. In the Egyptian people, as
In the Chinese, side by side with the
divine authority that strengthened the
social edifice from its base to its crown
there existed a certain force that
never left them, an authority humbler
than the other but more effective, in-
asmuch as it permeated, saturated,
the entire organism; and this was the
obsession of death and the adoration
of the corpse. Strangely enough,
wherever the thought of death is up-
permost, persistent, and paramount,
life takes a firmer grip, quickens, mui-
tiplies, flourishes. The two civiliza-
tions that endured the longest, that
were the most stable and tranquil of
all that are known to us, had the
same ideal: a coffin.—Maurice Maeter-
linck, in the Forum.
American Languages
Albert D. Richardson, who traveled
in Missourl in the fifties, wrote of the
ploneer’s vocabulary, “Tolerable,” he
noted, was one of the most familiar
words in the Missouri vernacular. He
tells of asking his way:
“Is it a good road from here to
St. Joseph?”
“Tolerable good, sir.”
He found it “intolerably bad.” So,
meeting a teamster, he changed tha
form of the question.
“A bad road from here to St. Jo-
“Tolerable bad, stranger.”
Then he asked a negro boy»
“Is it a straight read from here to
St. Joseph?’ - :
“Tolerable straight, Massa,” was ths
reply.
But eastern vernacular was as
strange to the Missourians. Richard-
son tells of a native who observed:
“I've lived on the frontier all my |
life. I know English and the sign
language and have picked up a smat-
tering of French, Spanish, Choctaw
and Delaware; but one language I
can't understand is this infernal New
York language!”
He Had an Excuse
A very dignified looking gentlemen
stopped at a Park Row news stand and
purchased two very staid, conserva. |
tive newspapers and an extremely lit-
erary monthly magazine,
He paid for them—but after a mo-
ment’s hesitation asked in addition for
a certain monthly magazine bearing a
deeidedly zippy title.
It seems that he must have senseq
something of the inconsistency of his
purchase and felt that some kind of
explanation was due—even to so un-
literary a fellow as the particular news
dealer in question.
“Er—I hope,” he said, as he laiq'
down the necessary amount for the!
magazine, “that you don’t think I read |
this paper. Er—I'm just a contribu.
tor.”—Monterey News.
“Hobble” Stairway
In a certain building in Skowhegan,
Me, is an unusual flight of stairs
which hve a rise of five inches and a
correspondingly narrow tread, looking
as if they were made for the conveni
ence of small children. This stairway
was built according to the idea of Dn
Henry Leavitt, a dentist in the build
ing. It was the day of the hobbilg
skirt, Clad in a hobble skirt, any
woman ascended a flight of ordinary
stalrs with difficulty and Doctor Leav-
itt planned the stairs with this style in
mind. About the time they were fin.
ished, the style passed to await its
resurrection, but the stairs still re |
main—a memorial to a forgotten freak
of fashion.
Piano Autograph Book
The head of a music house in Wash:
Ington lays claim to having a uniquq
autograph “book.” His book is a grand
plano. On its lid are scratched the
names of famous artists who have
played there on that plano. Paderew,
gki’s name leads all the rest, the date
after it being 1893.
Swiss Roses for Rockies
An effort will be made this year te
transplant §wis§ mountain roses ta
the Canadian Pacific Rockies. These
roses, brought from Fwitzerland by
Doctor” Huesscher, late Swiss consul
at Montreal, are extremely hardy, and
only thrive above elevations of 3,000
feet,
hotel, London, was the scene of a dou-
ble tragedy a few weeks ago. For
many years two goldfish, named Er-
nest and Eva, made their home in tne
fountain there. Guests from all parts
of the world admired them, for the
fish were famous on account of their
tricks.
As soon as a cork was put in the
water, Ernest would leap over it in
a flash of gold, and sometimes would
turn a somersault in the air. One day,
however, a thoughtless guest flicked
some cigar ash into the fountain, and
the fish were poisoned.
Another notable goldfish died recent-
ly. His name was Peter, and for four-
teen years he lived in the garden
fountain of St. Andrew-by-the-Ward-
robe, London.
Legends of long-lived fish are nu-
merous. One of the most interesting
concerns the “Holy Trout of Kilgee-
ver.” This fish lived for many years
in a well In the west of Ireland. Tra-
dition says that, when French troops
landed there more than a century ago,
they ran short of food, and certain
soldiers decided to have the trout
fried for dinner, When they put him
on the pan, the trout disappeared up
the chimney and found his way back
to the well, where he lived for many
vears.—London Tit-Bits.
Tramp’s Quiet Remark
Made Big Impression
I remember once two or three of us
children had climbed up a high chest-
nut tree near the gate of our home
(reminisces Sir William Orpen
“Stories of Old Ireland and Myself”).
A broken-down old tramp was passing
painfully along the road, but he
stopped when he heard our laughter,
and at last detected where we were
akove him.
“Ah, children,” said he, *I woula
tike to be up there with you!”
We laughed still more at the {idea
of this old man climbing a tree. And
one of us said:
“What on earth, old man, do you
want to come up here for?”
To which he replied:
“Wouldnt I be nearer to heaven?"
And away he moved on his weary
tramp of the roads. But we were
very quiet for a bit after what he
said.
Testing Gold
To test gold, dig the point of a
knife into it, and if it powders it is
not gold. Gold is richly yellow, but
to tell it from pyrites when in very
minute flecks, turn it so that the light
catches it from various directions.
Gold will not alter in shade, but py-
rite does. A drop of nitric acid will
cause a fuming on pyrites, but does
not affect gold. 3
You must pan creek sands and grave
el to find gold. It may be near the sur-
face, but generally the heaviest de-
posits of placer gold are on and close
to bed rock, which may be a few feet
or many feet deep. Gold placers are
test found in a big bend in a creek,
which allows it to be deposited, or on
the upper side of a reef or ledge
crossing the stream. Sometimes it Is
a dry deposit, up where the stream
formerly flowed, and is called a
“bench” placer.—Victor Shaw, in Ad-
venture Magazine.
Mercury
Mercury is a metallic element exist-
ng in a liquid form except when ex-
posed to a very low temperature. It is
comunly called quicksilver. It is a
metallic element, just as iron or gold
is an element, that is, it cannot be sub-
divided into anything else; but there
are many compounds of mercury, that
is, mercury in chemical combination
with other things such as compounds
of mercury and oxygen, mercury and
nitrogen, etc. {
world’s supply of mercury is obtained
in California where ores are found
containing mercury in combination
with other matter, separated by vari-
ous chemical processes. Gold . dust
readily unites with mercury forming
an amalgam. The mercury is after-
wards removed by distillation.
Famous English Regiment
The name “Ironsides” was given to
a famous regiment of one thousand
horse that served under Oliver Crom-
well, in allusion to the iron courage
displayed ty it at the battle of Mars-
ton Moor, 1644. Members of the
“Ironsides” were chiefly recruited from
the eastern counties of England. They
were extremely religious, almost to a
man, and enjoyed the proud distine-
tion of never having been defeated in
battle. Cromwell said of them in a
speech, the year before his death,
“truly they were never beaten, but
whenever they were engaged against
the enemy they beat continually,”s-
Kansas City Star.
Great Christian Creed
The Athanasian creed was one ot
che three great creeds of Christendom
—the two others being the Apostles’
creed and the Nicene creed. It de-
rives its name from Athanasius, the
opponent of Arius and champion of
orthodoxy, by whem it was supposed
to have been written. It is the most
. rigid of three creeds mentioned, and
was the standard of orthodoxy during
the Middle ages. It is famous for its
so-called “damnatory clauses.” By
many it is thought to have been writ:
ten by Sergeant Hilary of Arles about
450; some argue for a later date, be
tween 700 and 800, while others pro
nounce it a forgery.—Exchange,
in ;
A large part of the ;
centuries for plastering walls, is the
essential part of a new fireproof build-
ing material. Mixed with cinders,
ably with that of wooden buildings,
says Popular Science Monthly. In
a recent laboratory test the outside of
FARRER ERR,
a six-inch gypsum concrete wall was
subjected to a temperature of 1,700
degrees for an hour, and at no time
did the interior surface become warn.
—Read the “Watchman” and keep
well informed on everything.
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