Belefonte, Pa., November 26, 1926. An Eventful First Car Ride. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By Rev. L. M. Colfelt, D. D. My first schooling was gotten in a log schocl house at Chalybeate, Bed- ford County, Pennsylvania. Yet in that public school house that smelled of wasps and frowsy children, where in winter our faces burned fronting the great wood stove and backs froze I received the most faithful tuition in the three R’s under Josiah Amos, afterwards Squire Amos, that ever was my after experience in academy or college. He would compel us to recite as many as five times a day in our several text books and though but 7 years old I was carried rapidly forward through all the readers, the arithmetics to algebra and the gram- mars to rhetoric. I could write a quite passable hand and spell almost any word in the language. The old- fashioned spelling bees, held pub- licly at night, were no mean aids to perfection in the art of spelling. To this lame teacher I confess an ever- lasting debt of gratitude for the pains he took in laying the foundations of my education deep and sound. I am glad he lived to see the fruits of his handiwork and bear witness to a pardonable pride in my efforts as preacher, editor and political speaker. Then my father sent me to the Classical Academy of Rev. John Lyon, Bedford, Pennsylvania, where in my 10th year I was well started in Latin. Great was the elation that filled me when my teacher sent word in my 11th year that on Monday next, I was to start Greek. Forthwith I went to the library, got my hands on a Greek grammar and mastered the un- familiar alphabet by nightfall. By the time I had reached my 14th year I was ready for the Junior class in college, leaving but two years to grad- uate. Indeed, I had read the Classics far in advance of what was required in the whole college curriculum, which made my college course in Classics superfluous. My teacher, John Lyon, was a polite education himself, his personality being more instructive than his teachings. I think he was the most highly cul- tured man with whom I ever came in contact, being the son of a distin- guished father of Carlisle, Pennsyl- vania, and having the advantages of collegiate education in this country and a university course abroad. Years afterward, Dr. Alexander T. McGill, professor in Princeton, con- spicuous leader of the Presbyterian «Church and father of the Chancellor of New Jersey, told me that Rev. John Lyon was the finest scholar he had ever known. It was a privi- lege little appreciated by the body of pupils to enjoy his tutelage and honor to the town to be dignified with such - .an academy. His pupils were mostly of a select class of boys and girls, some from as great a distance as Michigan and Missouri. Brinton Lyon, Alexander Ring: Daniel Cessna, Joseph and Frank Schell, Lyttleton Savage, William Hughes, Mary Lyon, Julia Marcell, Carrie Cessna, Mary, Eliza and Louisa Anderson, Ella and Marie Watson, Nellie ‘and Matilda Hartley, James Russell and Rebecca Russell, stand out in my memory as students of high merit and of refined and attractive personalities. Mr. Lyon was a strict disciplinarian and wield. ed on rare occasions with great effect, a rattan covered with leather, and lads of other schools and of homes who had proved incorrigible were reduced to lamb-like submission a: soon as enrolled. Withal, he was a genial man, tall, erect, springy in walk, with piercing black eyes, won- «derfuli waving black hair, most re- fined facial features and altogether so impressive a figure that it was not strange he was called St. John the Divine. Owing to the strain of so large a school he requested of my parents that I, then 15 years old but tall for my age, might be permitted to assist him in giving out the spell- ing in the morning and conducting the lessons on the outline maps in which the whole school participated, chanting the exercise. He was wont to leave the school at 11 A. M. for his recess, in my care and it speaks well for their self-discipline that, though many of the scholars were much older than I they never tock advantage of the opportunity for larking. I received for these and other small services my tuition free and the to me the pricely stipened of $10 per three months quarter. I shall risk being tedious by recording how I spent that first $10. It was expended in paying my railroad fare to and fro on a Christmas vacation visit in company with my brother James, to my uncle Davis’ family near Milroy, Pennsylvania. We had a very pleasant time but when it was necessary to return to my duties at the school, a blizzard had frozen the stream crossing and coated the whole region with ice, making it quite im- possible for my uncle to send us with a team to the nearest railroad station at Lewistown, Pennsylvania. We. set forth bravely to walk the distance of ten miles, but it was mostly gliding and sliding the entire distance. The cutting winds so paralyzed my fingers I recall crossing the bridge from Lewistown to the station that on my overcoat coming open I could not rebutton it and feared I = should freeze before reaching our destina- tion. Arriving at Huntingdon, we found there was no evening train out and would be none till Monday A. M., Having exhausted our funds in the purchase of through tickets we reg- istered at the hotel under serious apprehension as to where the money should: come from to discharge our the sermon. On the next morning before discharging the bill, we made bold to approach a stranger who had registered from our county and made known to him our predicament and asked the loan of $2.00. Without hesitation, that kind man, whose name is now unknown to me proffer- ed the money saying he knew my father by reputation and had no doubt we would repay the loan, which taught us a great lesson that it is a good thing to have an honest father. We took our places with happy hearts in the train and on a level stretch just outside of Huntingdon I had just remarked to my brother at my side “At this speed we'll soon be home” when bump, crash, smash, the car left the metals and was dragged 30 miles an hour by leaps and bounds over the ties for some distance until the coupling link broke and released the car just on the edge of a precipice that overlooked the river. Every seat in the car was broken, the wheels burst up through the floor and with the last terrific jerk all the passeng- ers were hurled forward in a heap about the stove and door. I can hon- estly record that I was not frightened though I gave myself up for lost when the seat gave way and the floor bil- lowed under the upheaval of the wheels. Indeed, I could even laugh at a parrot in a cage carried by a colored woman, that as the cage was smashed, cursed and swore and chat- tered over the hubbub at a fearful rate. But when I got outside in the crisp air the reaction came and I was forced to sit down in the snow in a faint. Happily no one was hurt but one man who in the act of jumping from one car to another was flung on his head which taught me a lesson that served well in later railroad ac- cidents that it is best in a crash not to attempt a self rescue but cling to the seat as long as possible. A little lat- er, a townsman, John Border, in an ac- cident at the same place, attempted to save himself by jumping out of the window just as the car rolled over and down upon him. His was the only fatality. We were placed on an engine and taken back to Huntingdon to await the arrival of a passenger car from Altoona. Finally, late in the afternoon, we reached Mt. Dallas, the terminus, only to find the stage gone. A deep snow was falling and if ever there were two dead-tired but happy boys, it was my brother and myself, when, after trudging eight miles through the snow and the dark, car- rying our valise, we finally, all cov- ered with snow, burst into the farm kitchen to greet our astonished par- ents. This was my first ride on a railroad and a jolly Christmas indeed! Though fully prepared to enter the Junior class in college in my 14th year, my. parents, with the sad fate of my brother in view accounted me too young and decreed I should defer matriculation several years. This was one of the sorest disappointments es- pecially as a number of my older classmates went to the colleges of their choice at that time. Some of them were never forgotten nor for- given for putting on airs upon their return home and looking supercil- iously down upon me as I was forced to remain on the farm. But I had my revenge several years later in standing my “Exams” successfully for the Junior class while they were lagging in Prep’s and none better than Freshman or Sophomore years. I literally ate my heart out those two years of enforced detention on the farm not knowing that they were the most valuable years of my life, strengthening my frame, compacting my muscles, laying up reserves of nervous energy, teaching me the dignity of manual labor and the value of money measured in terms of hu- mansweat and above all, filling my mind with nature’s lore that in days to come would prove invaluable in ill- to come would prove invaluable in il- lustrative material in my profession. OAK HALL. Mr. and Mrs. James Gilliland and family spent Sunday as guests at the Nannie Gilliland home. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Houtz and son visited, Sunday, at the home of Mr. Houtz’s brother Walter, at Pleas- ant Gap. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitehill spent the week-end visiting at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Maurice Green, of Clarence. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Zong were entertained at supper, Tuesday even- ing, at the home of their son, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zong, of State College. Mrs. William Ferree and son Billie, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Margaret, of Greensburg, spent last week in Philadelphia attending the Sesqui. Mr. and Mrs. George Lohr and children, of Penn Hall, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Frazier, of Bellefonte, were entertained on Sunday at the Edward Zong home. The Better Start. A better start usually can be had by cranking the engine over a few times with the starter before switch- ing on the ignition. When the cyl- inders have a chance to load up with a stronger charge of gas, the firing of but one cylinder when the igni- tion is turned on usually will send the engine off with a snap. Care should be taken not to crank too long before switching on the ignition, as the en- gine will present starting trouble if it becomes flooded with gasoline. Just a few turns of the shaft and then snap on the ignition. EE. eG L —Poultrymen of Centre county who are raising a large number of pullets, can reduce their labor and time by convenient location of colony houses on the range. The best arrangement |is to have the houses 100 feet apart {and in a square, four houses then oc- HOT WEATHER AND WAR IN CHINA. Mrs. North Tells About Both in An- other Homey Letter. It has been some time since the Watchman has published a letter froin either Mr. or Mrs. W. R. North, who are new located at the Syracuse unit educational mission, near Chungking, China. Of course the arrival in the North home nine months ago of a young son was quite an event, and now the time of both father and mother is so occupied in looking after the wants of little Billy that they do not have the leisure to do the writing they did before he joined them. And it is also natural that a good portion of Mrs. North’s letters to grandpa and grandma Shuey in Bellefonte are in connection with Billy, who already weighs nineteen pounds, and other family matters in which the general public has no particular interest. But in a letter written home the latter part of May, after disposing of all family affairs she says: “Bill and I are entertaining the boys of the graduating class three at a time. we started in having them once a week but now we are having them twice and I'm afraid we will soon have to have them three times if we are to get around before school closes, as there are forty-three in the class. “Most of these boys have never eaten foreign food before and it cer- tainly is interesting to see how well the different groups observe the way things should be done. Some do them very well and make few mistakes and then others are awful. . “Rumors of war reach us daily, and across the river just below the Rape house a pontoon bridge was built to- day, so it looks as if something might happen soon. Bill and I are planning in go into the city tomorrow to spend the night but I don’t know whether we ought to risk it; we might get shut in and have to spend more time there than we want to. “(Ten days later.) Well, you see, more than a week has elapsed and a lot has happened. As I half expected, I got locked in the city on account of fighting and had to stay from Tuseday until Friday. Bill got out home early Wednesday morning but I didn’t come with him, and it’s just as well I didn’t. The fighting was much worse out here than it was in the city; and furthermore, in there the houses are behind thick walls which can stop some of the bullets, while out here there is no wall at all. “I really hadn't any exciting ex- periences except having te stay in the city longer than I had planned to do. I was a little short of clothing but managed to get through all right, but it was nice to get back home on Fri- day. The city gates were opened to everybody on Saturday, and since then it has been quite peaceful. Such is war in China. I hope it is over for a few weeks or years. “It has rained most every day this week so haven’t gotten many of my winter things put away. t’s not June yet and we're having weather already such as you have in July and August over there, so you can imagine how hot it gets here. The mosquitoes are so bad and it’s so hot here by the camp that I'm getting out of patience. I'll have to plan to do my writing in the daytime hereafter. Just now I'm going to undress and get under my bed net as soon as possible. That’s the only place one can be comfortable, or partly so, in China. Enough for this time. Mrs. W. R. NORTH. JACKSONVILLE. Butcherings will begin this week in this vicinity. Mrs. G. G. Ertley and daughter June, of Howard, were Sunday visitors at the George Ertley home. Services this Sunday morning at 10.30 in the Reformed church, when Home Mission exercises will be held. Misses Ella and Cora Neff, Ben Neff and Ray Ishler, of State College, were Sunday visitors at the Joseph Neff home. : Our former pastor, Rev. R. F. Gass, of Bedford, is expected to visit old friends in this county over Thanks- giving. The farm sale of Mrs. Lynn Ertley, last week, was well attended. The Ladies’ Aid society had a stand there and took in sixty dollars. From Pirate to King The discovery of the Indians who speak Elizabethan English is one of the strangest travelers’ stories ever heard in these days. It is not, how- ever, quite unique, for the late Mr. Cecil Sharp found in the Alleghanies numerous communities of English folk whose language, appearance and customs dated from the end of the Seventeenth century, and who had preserved a large number of English folk-songs that are no longer to be heard in the mother country, Nor were private communities of the kind set up by Benjamin Sharp and his crew altogether unique, for we pos: sess records of the famous English pirate, John Plaintain, who, having begun his caréer of erime in the West Indies, founded a state on Madagas- car of which he conquered a consid- erable part. GOITRE CAME BACK After Two Operations External Remedy Then Successful. Mrs. Myron B. Johnson, Millville, Pa. says: “I have had two operations and after four years another goitre began growing, which for one year caused head- aches, palpitation, dizziness, difficult breathing, throbbing in throat and head, nervousness, despondent, loss of weight, pain in eyes and back of head. In fact, Order Trees Now for Reforesting Waste Land. Centre county’s waste land owners are relatively slow in making request for forest tree seedlings for the pur- pose of planting up those waste areas which are fit for nothing else but wood and timber production, says Thomas C. Harbison, of the Penn forest dis- trict. Nearly every farm has such waste areas—large or small—which should be planted during early spring before the regular farm work starts. If Centre county is to receive her just quota of the forest tree seedlings, which are to be distributed by the De- partment of Forests and Waters, her land owners should order them now. Of the twenty million trees originally available for distribution next spring, only one half remain to be allotted to new applicants. To date Centre county citizens, within the Penn forest district, have made application for forest tree seed- lings as follows: C. G. Aikens Ray C. Noll ......... Whiterock Quarries .. Ernest Hbeling Israel Jannet H. B. HONG ........c.civrnieisvariie Osceola Water Supply Co. vo.ovvnennee Mary HB. Noff ............. aes W. G. Edwards J. W. Saxton Chas: Bilger ...v.... iii iiss oes Joi LIB cui ocicsiienrnbashvssansiics 1000 GS. Frank, M.D. .......... i. eee 6000 tesa cssssssssssrennasnnnen Total ..i.eineeeinnviionineias 162,200 The district forester at Milroy is at the applicant’s service to give advice and assistance relative to forest tree planting. He will show to prospective tree planters the successful planta- tions on state forest and will examine for the purpose of making recom- mendations, all prospective planting sites above one acre in extent, upon request. Real Estate Transfers. Lewis Stein to Harry Ratowsky, tract in Philipsburg; $1. Alexander G. Davidson, et al, to Helen D. Ehrenfield, et bar, tract in Philipsburg; $4500. Wiilis M. Bottorf, et ux, to Ethel D. Bottorf, tract in State College; $1. Charles D. Bartholomew, et ux, to A. P. Krape, tract in Centre Hall; $725. Henry F. Fisher, et ux, to A. P. Krape, tract in Potter Twp.; $64.50. Musser W. Gettig, to S. D. Gettig, et ux, tract in Bellefonte; $1. George Glenn, et ux, to James IL Lytle, tract in Ferguson Twp.; $1. James I. Lytle, et ux, to Etta Ross Glenn, tract in Ferguson Twp.; $1. Wilkie C. Horner, et al, to David F. Young, tract in Potter Twp.; $30. Adam H. Krumrine, et ux, to School District of State College, tract in State College; $1. Albert Haupt to Samuel Haupt, tract in Benner Twp.; $1,000. E. R. Taylor, sheriff, to Cramer, tract in Ferguson $6,000, Pine Grove Water Co. to Cronover, tract in Ferguson $625. Ernest W. DeHass, et ux, to Wesley Gunsallus, tract in Liberty Twp.; $525. : E. R. Taylor, sheriff, to Irvin G. Gray, tract in Half Moon Twp.; $2000. Jacob T. G. Twp.; ——The Watchman publishes news when it is news. Read it. Castle Worth $10,000,000. Berlin,—Castle Homburg, near Frankfort-on-Main, to which the former Emperor, according to his settlement with the State of Prussia, may “eventually” return, is consider- ed the jewel of German castles. It has 300 rooms and salons, many of which are preserved just as they were built by the Landgrave Frederick II 250 years ago. There is in the castle a solid silver service of 400 pieces, which cost a | small fortune 100 years ago. In the workroom of William II is a rocking horse, which he used for a desk chair, William, when not writing, was wont to lean back in the saddle and rock back and forth, as if riding at the head of his troops. The bed chamber of the late Empress Augusta Victoria is paneled in solid mahogany, inlaid with precious stones. The castle is valued roughly at $10,000,000. ‘UBWIYNEBAM Yj) J0J 9qLIosqng— Keep in Trim! Good Elimination Is Essential to Good Health. HE kidneysare the blood filters. If they fail to function properly there is apt to be a retention of toxic poisons in the blood. A dull, languid feeling and, sometimes, toxic back- aches, headaches, and dizziness are symptoms of this condition. Further evidence of improper kidney func- tion is often found in burning or scanty passage of secretions. Each year more and more people are learn- ing the value of 'Doan’s Pills, a stimulant diuretic, in this condition. Scarcely a nook or hamlet anywhere but has many enthusiastic users. Ask your neighbor! DOAN'’S 7&® Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chem.,Buffalo, N. ¥. CHICHESTER S PILLS Twp; Medical Hints for Housewives. Don’t expect to get the best serv- ice if you call the doctor between mid- night and beauty sleep. Even a gro- cer would hate to get out of bed to put up a yeast cake. ! ‘Don’t ask the doctor what ails your neighbor. He might tell you then you’d be adding her troubles to your own. Ask the doctor now and then if he needs money. This always makes a hit. He will give you the reputation of being a humorist. It’s no disgrace to be sick. The dis- grace comes if you stay sick and en- joy telling about it. Don’t tell your doctor about the floral. wreath you sent when your former physician died. He may not be a lover of flowers. If your family physician tells you that your baby is not sick and that you don’t need a physician, don’t get mad and consult another physician. He may be honest, too. Say nothing derogatory to your doc- tor about your former physician. It may divert his attention to thinking how long it will be before he gets his. If your husband is intolerably se- 55000 | vere, don’t get a divorce. Try a course of calomel. i When sending flowers to diabetics, don’t choose the sweet pea. \ Better Thani - IBC CE 3 You can’t feel so good but what will make you feel better. PIRI — RUNKLE’S DRUG STORE. Insurance Fire... Automobile ALL OTHER LINES Bonds of All Kinds Hugh M. Quigley Successor to H. E. FENLON Temple Court BELLEFONTE, PA. Cut Flowers... and..... Potted Plants... ems Artistic Funeral Work tie fil Kinds of Fruit Trees Strawberry Plants Berries and Vines 2h HALF MOON GARDENS Charles Tabel, Proprietor Bellefonte Pa Phone 139-J 71-39-3t We Deliver IN Our Meats whether they be Beef, Pork or Fowl, is always assured, because we buy only the best and have our own refrigeration plant in which we season without freezing the flavor out of our products. Orders by telephone always receive prompt attention. Telephone 450 P. L. Beezer Estate ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW EKLINE WOODRING. — Attorney-at Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in Office, room 18 Crider 5 all courts. Exchange. KENNEDY JOHNSTON — Attorney-at Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt ate sted tention given all legal Pushes en- 0 care. ces—No. Eas High street. 5 Fo M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law and Justice of the Peace. All pro- fessional business will receive prompt attention. Offices on second floor of Temple Court. 49-5-1y G. RUNKLE. — Attorney-at-Law. Consultation in English and Gere man. Office in Criders E go Bellefonte, Pa. 5, Fachan B————— mes osememann. PHYSICIANS D R. R. L. CAPERS, Bellcfuai OSTEOPATH. 8 ellefonte tate Coll Crider’s Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldge: 8. GLENN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, State College, Centre county, Pa. Office at his resi- dence. 35-41 D. CASEBEER, Optometrist, Regis- C tered and licensed by Ne State. Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. Frames repaired and lenses matched. Casebeer Bldg. High S8t., Bellefonte, Pa. 71-22-tf VA B. ROAN, Optometrist. Licensed by the State Board. State College, every day except Saturday. Belle« fonte, in the Garbrick building opposite the Court House, Wednesday afternoons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m. Bell Phone. 68-40 Feeds We Keep a Full Line of Feeds in Stock Try Our Dairy Mixtures —22% protein; made of all Clean, Pure Feeds— $44.00 per Ton We manufacture a Poultry Mash good as any that you can buy, $2.90 per hundred. Wagner's Dairy Purina Cow Chow.. ......... 50.00 « « 0il Meal, 84 per cent. protein, 54.00 * Cotton Seed, 48 pr. ct. prot., 44.00 “ Gluten, 28 per cent protein, 45.00 * « Alfalfa Meal .....co00000000ee 4500 “ « LL Re Ee 8400 « « Middlings .............. 7. 86.00 « = (These Prices are at the Mill.) $2.00 per Ton Extra for Delivery. We are discontinuing the storage of wheat. After July 1st, 1926, all wheat must be sold when delivered to our mill. 0. 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Parrish, Druggist. : ’ i ot | cupying about one acre of range. This | my whole body ached. In less than one Lodicet Ask your Drugglss It will be to your interest to buith the Pa Ny the go: is better than building the houses in week after using Sorhol Quadruple most of Pilla 15 ited aod Gord. merle consult us before placing your Hh t" to church O0€ 10Dg Yow, as it reduces the dis. ibe Symptoms left, The doctor now says, 238, scaled vith Blua, Ribbon, Market on the Diamond Insurance. would provide, we wen ure tance the poultr n Las to travel ! i g all. I will gladly tel ‘ake no other. Si i i i i -) yma . or write my experience,” 3 in the morning, in which the heat. Information xr most drug stores or write 50 Bak Always aH : JOHN F. GRAY & SON. BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE BELLEFONTE, PA. sem —Subseribe for the “Watchman.” Bellefonte 43-18-1yr. State College