i Bellefonte, Pa., June 3, 1927. EVOLUTION. Poor little worm, you slowly crawl along, Working so hard to move an inch or two; A twig, like some great log, can bar your road, A stone stops, like a cliff, the way of you. So you must crawl about and find some path " Around the object that lies in your trail A crevice seems a canyon—hard to cross, A small depression, like a great, wide vale. Thus you go on, led by instinct alone, “Till you have reached the point where you must soon Begin to spin the wondrous silken thread That grows at last into a,fine cocoon. ‘When you have slept through the allotted time : Within the chrysalis that holds you there, You will emerge; and then on gorgeous wing, You will be free to cleave the sunlit air. I, too, must travel onward step by step— How slow it seems—along life's rugged road. I, too, meet obstacles that bar the way, Aud sometimes have to detour with my load. Like you I cannot see so far ahead That I can choose some shady avenue, And wander on at leisure and at ease As some other travelers seem to do. Some day each one shall reach the destin- ed place Along the trail and there silently sleep. When we shall have slept our allotted time, We shall wake from our slumbers long and deep. We, from our prisons, shall at last be free Through wide ethereal space at will to fly, And pass to glories that are yet unknown On some fair planet far beyond the sky. -—By M. V. Thomas. THE UNDERSTUDY. “Why all this fuss about women ?” Virginia Starr was wont to say, when she reached years of expression, “they can take care of themselves.” It was her theory—a life-long . theory, so it seemed to her—that only men and animals needed to be cared for. It may have been instinct, and again it may have been developed by ber own particular circumstances. At all events, having only a scandal for a mother, she had, from earliest child- hood, taken care of her father, and the horses and dogs and livestock that went with him. He was a dear— Jack Starr was; to Virginia at times on old dear, at times a dear boy—but from whichever angle she viewed him he looked the same—simply in need of her. The animals needed her, too, and she cherished them as humans. Women were things apart—not human at all, in that they stirred in her no cherishing impulses. Virginia got on with her sex perfectly; she loved many of her friends, but not with the love that ran like warm red blood, tenderly, pityingly, surging through her heart. Not with the love that she felt for Jack when he scolded her, or kissed her good-night, absently, without looking up from his book, or when she watched him battling with a vicious horse. Nor with the love that clutched at her for the dogs when they gave her their adoring, selfless dog-smile. or when they dug up her flower-beds. Virginia should have married young and had a family of boys; but she didn’t; she stayed with her fath- er. There were those who thought Jack Starr selfish about her; many women who felt that he should have married again, himself, and thus have discovered that the disillusioned past could bury its dead. But there were others who knew that Jack Starr “Whe does she live with?” “Another man.” “Why an “She ‘liked him better than she did me.” “And so she went away.” “Yes—she just went right away.” He hadn't looked at her until now. Virginia’s upward gaze met his eyes, and she rose at once. Her arms went around his middle and she laid her head against him. “Perhaps he was lonely,” she said, | “You've got me, father.” Jack’s hand pressed her close, but he otherwise never stirred. “He had everything—a wife and kids—he just left them, too, and went away with your mother.” “ 7” Virginia wriggled her head from under his hand, and looked far up to his face. His eyes stared out beyond her, through the window and into the win- ter dusk. 3 “They said—for love.” His voice sounded very cold and yet—hurt. Virginia shivered. But she didn’t let go of him. She clung to him. For days she did everything she could think of for him. 3 ; And that was that—all of it. What- ever else she discovered about her mother, had never been from Jack. Various relatives had now and then enlightened her, as she grew older. Jack’s memories were undeniably his own, for his married life had hardly exceeded two years. Virgina was just a year old when her beautiful, lawless mother—but twenty-one her- self— had left, without a backward glance, and had trusted to her chival- rous husband’s divorcing her, even as her lover had trusted to the pride of his wife. The open wound of Jack Starr’s disillusionment and pain was healed over before his daughter had reached the age of a confidante, but the scar never faded. Virginia was eighteen when she re- ceived her first proposal. She had played at love with the freedom of her period and set, and had enjoyed it. - To face it seriously, however, made it look to her, of a sudden, out of perspective. She and her father had shared all troublous times until now, but it was a long, desperate week before she could bring herself to force this upon him. In the end she would have wished to approach it lightly. She had taken him for a hard ride, knowing that they were both more completely at ease on a horse than anywhere else in the world and yet she found, when the moment came, that she couldn’t just fling off: “How the dence do you know when-—" It was with white cheeks and trem- bling lips that she finally faltered: “Father—I'm too miserable to live —1I don’t know whether I'm in love or not—oh, do you mind my asking? How can one tell 7” “Good lord, Jinny!” said Jack, startled, “good lord-—already ?” He turned in his saddle and looked at her, aghast. “I don’t know, father—I mean— well, that’s just what I do mean. I don’t know—" Their horses walked with muffled, thudding steps in the soft wood road. Branches of red and gold maple leaves hung low, to be grasped and thrust aside for passing—the sun sifted through, sliding down the west. “Better not marry him if you ean possibly live without him, Jinny,” her father said at last. “Mistakes—well, a mistake of that kind——" “Yes,” acquiesced Virginia. “You know you're playing with lives—human lives—when you play that game,” Jack said. “I call the stakes high—some don’t but—" She reached her hand toward him and he took it hard. “Think you see, dear?” he asked, with a troubled smile. “Be sure you feel pretty special—” “Yes,” she nodded, “that’s pretty special—I'll go by that.” It sounded indefinite, but there formed instantly for Virginia one of those weird, inward, definite pictures —indescribable, but fixed. In a flash “ it— wasn’t holding on to Virginia, or cramping her life, or anything, Vir- ginia was doing exactly what she | wanted to do. She had grown up normally with school and friends, and a range of freedom on a farm where | fire stock was bred. Jack Starr had piles of money, as the saying goes. His daughter had, in due time, come | out, seen the world, and returned to ' him and the animals of her own voli- ! tion. i k Now, in her twenty-fifth year, she was still dancing at one ball or anoth. | €r; running up to town in winter, or | speeding the five miles to the Hunt | Club in summer. She was still, when she couldn’t possibly stave them off, repulsing eligible offers, because she | didn’t love enough and was afraid of ; herself. No man had vet appealed to her in any definite particular. She knew that she could hold the rough faces of the dogs against her cheek and get much the same reaction that she got from the wistful, pleading kiss of a man. In each instance, she sorrowed, and longed, with a kind of ache, to protect. Well—that wasn’t enough to marry on—was it? She had a perfect horror of failing as her mother had failed. After her first proposal she had done something that took-real cour- age. Jack Starr had never talked of his wife; in all Virginia's growing up, he had never referred to her for the sake of an example of any sort. Her leaving him had been a devastation, and then so much time had interven- ed before Virginia was old enough to understand, that the habit of silence had become too well formed to be broken. When Virgina, at the age of six, had excavated the whole story with two or three extraordinarily aimed blows, he had felt as if he had undergone a major operation without an anesthetic. “Father, why haven't I a mother?” she had asked, on her return from a children’s party, one night. Jack had been some time in an- ‘swering her. He rose and stood before the fire, his hands in his pockets. Virginia, in a white dress with a pink §ash, sat on a cricket looking up at im, “Jinny, you have a mother,” Jack said, finally, with his teeth set on his pipestem, “but she doesn’t live with us.” bs be TEL ey she knew just exactly the standard of special. ; Five or six years passed and she had attained it for no man. Then one June she left home to visit a sporting community on Long Island, where, within two days of her arrival, she stepped intq the trap laid for her by a most ironic Fate. It was obviously her Fate, for the bait was ingeniously contrived by one who new her—an appeal to the vulner- able spot in her nature. As an easy lure for the victim, a game of polo at the club had been chosen. Virginia and her hostess de- cided to take it in, quite as if they stood on the broad piazza overlook- ing the field, and while they discuss- ed the best probable viewpoint, Fate sent Virginia a glimpse of the bait. He was a tall, slim man, with dark hair, and a smile about his lips that seemed to go no farther. In company with others, he walked toward her, and the forced, set quality of his smile arrested her attention. Even when he added to it, as he bowed to Mrs. Hendricks, he looked no more mirthful than before, though one could see, as it were, that his inten- tions were good. “Poor little David Lane!” said Mar- ion Hendricks, drawing two chairs together. “Why don’t we sit right here, Jinny ?” Virginia regarded her with a little laugh. “You never have two consecutive thoughts, do you, dear?” she said. “Who’s poor little David Lane? The man with the sad smile?” “Yes,” said Mrs. Hendricks, set- tling herself and inattentive. “It’s so pathetic! The girl he was going to marry died.” “Oh, no!” exclaimed Virgina, soft- ly. “When?” “Last month. They would have been married next week.” “He's playing to-day?” “Oh, yes. He goes hard into every- thing. No one can misunderstand.” “I should think not,” Virginia mus- ed, slowly. “He's trying to distract himself, of course.” David Lane played brilliant polo that afternoon. He was in the thick- est of offense and defense entirely recklessly. Virginia’s heart stood still more than once as she watched his | apparent that he didn’t care in the least what happened to him. His pony slipped, finally, on a vio- lent turn and came down with a crash. How he escaped the crowding, gallop- ing hoofs everywhere upon him was a miracle. But he was on his feet al- most at once, though evidently daz- ed. The grandstand had had a thrill of horror, and wild conjecture sprang to its lips. David Lane was h supported from the field, a substitute went in, and the game continued. Then the initiated gave him nothing worse than a wrenched shoulder or collar-bone, and the latter supposition was presently confirmed. a . Virginia drew a long, harrowed breath; her heart beat unevenly throughout the afternoon. Again and again she bit her lip and cringed as His picture of his spill returned to her mi Marion Hendricks, on the other hand, appeared to follow the game quite unmoved by the near-tragedy, and it was only as they climbed into | the motor that she exclaimed, with dismay and irritation: “Oh, good heavens, now we're one man short for dinner!” “David Lane ?—Was he coming?” “Yes—What a bore!” “Can’t he still come?—only a col- larbone,” suggested Virginia with the casual cold-bloodedness of the hunt- ing country. “I'll call him up the minute we get home, and see,” Marion responded. A slow drizzle was falling now; the clouds hung low and ominous and the June air turned suddenly autum- nal as twilight descended with au- tumnal rapidity. Mrs. Hendricks chattered as she drove fie car hurriedly, but Virginia barely listened. It had shocked her —the sight of that man, so careless of destruction. But she didn’t refer to it. She knew that she had a faec- ulty for conjuring dramatic situa- tions. It was an irresistible luxury of the imagination that she had in- dulged in always. The dreary wet- ness of the coming night and the com- fort of the speeding motor fitted her mood, and she rather gave herself up to wondering about the girl who had died and sympathy for the man who mourned her. Her question, as they turned into the drive, came quite ir- relevantly to Marion Hendricks: “Does David Lane live down here ?” “No, he’s staying at the club just for the polo. His family live in Hon- olulu, and he’s in business in New York.” : “Oh!” said the girl, pityingly. “He is alone, isn’t he ?—Marion,” she went on, as they entered the house, “make him come to dinner tonight— I hate to have him left at the club.” She laughed a little at herself, and Marion laughed as she went to the telephone. Virginia stood and listened. es—he was coming, if they didn’t mind cutting up his food!—Oh, he was quite right—— “David’s a game one!” Marion cried, as she rang off. The rain came on in a heavy, sul- len downpour. Virginia was aware of it depressing her spirit as she dressed for dinner, and, before leav- ing her room, she turned. out lights, and stood by the dark win. dow, listening to it and to the rus- tle of the trees as they shook it off. There was something gentle and sad in the atmosphere that made her ache with a restless, intangible desire. “What's the matter ?—What is it I want?” she asked, and answered herself a moment later. “It’s that man—and his brave attempt at a smile—I want to help him—I want awfully—to help him—” : The bait had done work; she had walked the trap. It was a wrench to leave the dark window and descend in the bright light to the great bright room below. She watched the door covertly until the tall figure of David Lane appear- ed, his arm in a black sling across his white shirt front. She noted that a pallor beneath his tan gave to his face a strange grayness, and that his eyes were dull. But she had no chance to speak her sympathy, for, after presenting him, her host, Jeff Hendricks, instantly monopolized him. “So you're all smashed up, Dave. How much went?” Lane laughed and pointed to his neck. “And cut your head, too.” ‘Yes—a little—nothing much.” “Jove, I'm sorry! What did you come for, old man? Marion didn’t mean to drag you here.” ‘That’s all right—I wanted to come.” He smiled his forced smile. “It was lucky Jumbo wasn’t hurt, wasn’t it? I'm going to let Jim ride him Saturday. He’s one pony shy.” Virginia turned away and joined another group. “Poor little David Lane,” she was thinking whimsically, and then of why that phrase suited him so well when he was six feet tall and all of twenty-eight years of sophisticated manhood. : Across the dinner table she watched him from time to time. The girls on either side of him, amid much laugh- ter, vied with one another in the prep- aration of his food, making bitter comment upon his lack of appetite. He maintained that he was feasting on their wit and drinking the laugh- ter from their lips. “It won’t do you half as much good as this,” one of them provoked him, holding up a golden glass of cham- pagne. “Won’t it?” said Lane. He eyed the glass a moment and reached slowly toward it. Then slow- ly he drained it to the last drop. The girl at his side laughed again, rather uncertainly. As he looked up, Vir- ginia, watching, met his eyes. They were lifeless and sinister in the sec- ond before they focussed upon hers. And then a dull red crept into his face and he turned and plunged into gay banalities. Virginia shivered, unex- pectedly. “ ‘Aye,’ ” she quoted to “ ‘but the wine is mouldy. * * Musicians were already tuning up as the y returned to the big rooms. ox-trotting was inevitably to hold genial sway. Virginia was quickly surrounded and suffered her- its tempting straight into herself, riding, for it seemed to her terribly (Continued on page 6, Col. 1.) “I“thereto the Publication of Copy: of Petition and Decree of Court and Rule Therein Contained, with Notice to Persons Interested. { In the Matter of the Petition of BALTI- MORE YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS ! (ORTHODOX), a corporation created and existing under the | Maryland, for its appointment as succeed- ‘ing trustee of the Meeting House Proper- | ty and Burial Ground, situate in the Bor- : ough of Bellefonte, in the County of Cen- jtre and State of Pennsylvania, and any other property and assets of what was formerly the Centre Monthly Meeting of Friends. 5 ; . In the Court of Common Pleas of Cen- tre County, Pennsylvania. No. 195 May Term, 1 To the HONORABLE JAMES C. FURST, President Judge of the said Court:— The petition of BALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS (ORTHODOX), respectfully represents: First— That it is a corporation duly in- corporated and existing under the laws of the State of Maryland and so incorporat- ed by Act of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, entitled “An” Act to incorporate the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox),” approved April 7, 1886, being Acts of 1886, Chapter 327, which Act of Assembly in its entirety reads as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gener- al Assembly of Maryland, That Francis T. King, James Carey, James Carey Thomas, Joseph P. Elliott, Francis White, Jesse Tyson, Chas. W. Davis, Simon J. Marten- et, James Carey, Jr., Joseph Edge, George L. Scott, John B. Crenshaw, John Pret- low, Thomas McCoy and Zachariah Me- Naul, and all those persons now con- stituting the religious Society known as the “Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends for the Western Shore of Maryland, Vir- ginia and the adjacent parts of Pennsyl- vania, in unity with the Ancient Yearly Meeting of Friends,” who now hold their yearly Meeting on Eutaw Street in the City of Baltimore, and all those persons who may hereafter become members there- of, agreeably to the rules and discipline of said Society, or such rules and disci- pline as may hereafter be adopted there- by, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of (Orthodox), and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able and capable to sue and be sued at law and in equity, to have a commen seal, and the same to change, altar and renew at pleasure, and to do all aets necessary and lawful for carry- ing into effect the objects and purposes of the aforesaid Society, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to re- ceive and hold by gift, grant, devise, purchase, or otherwise, real and person- al estate and other effects and property, and the same to grant, mortgage, de- mise or otherwise dispose of, the whole or any part or parts thereof; provided, the clear yearly incme from the prop- erty of said Corporation shall not ex- ceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. : Section 2. And be it enacted, That the objects of the Corporation hereby creat- ed are for the adoption and carrying out the rules and discipline of the re- ligious Society of Friends, who now hold their Yearly Meeting on FEutaw Street, in the City of Baltimore, and for the carrying out such religious, edueca- tional and charitable work as that in which the said Society of Friends has been or may hereafter be engaged. Section 3. -And be it enacted, That the rules and discipline of. the said Society of Friends, as laid down in its last Book of Discipline, adopted by said Yearly Meeting in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six. shall be the rules and discipline of the Corporation hereby created, and the same may be altered and changed in such manner as has been or may hereafter be adopted by said Yearly Meeting. : Section 3. And be it enacted. this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 7, 1886. Second.—That for a great number of years and in the year 1834 and subsequent legal title to the Meeting House property whereon was and is erect. a Meeting House constituting the church formerly of the said Centre Month- ly Meeting of Friends, in the Borough of Bellefonte, in the County of Centre, and State of Pennsylvania, and the burial ground of said Centre Monthly Meeting of Friends, .situate in the same place, was held under a deed dated the twenty-see- ond day of the tenth month (commonly known as®the month of October) in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and thirty four, recorded in the office for the recording of deeds, &ec. in and for the said County of Centre on the twenty- fourth day of October, A. D. 1839 in Deed Book M. page, 432, et seq.. being a deed from George Valentine and Mary, his wife, Reuben B. Valentine and Sarah. his wife, Abraham 8. Valentine and Clarissa, his wife, Bond Valentine and Izddia, his wife, and William A. Thomas and Eliza, his wife, of the first part, and Isaae Miller, of the second part, conveying to the said Isaac Miller, the party of the second part, and to his heirs, according to the course of the common law of England and his as- signs in trust nevertheless. as thercinafter in said deed set forth, the said premises therein described as follows, to wit: “ALL that certain lot or piece of land situate in Bellefonte, bounded on the West by James D. Harris Mill with 2 Friends Meeting house thereon erected : Beginning at a post on the line of said Mill tract thence North seventy five degrees East eighty eight and a half feet to a post, thence South twenty-five Gonigle’s let to a post; thence South forty degrees West sixteen feet-by the road leading from Bellefonte to Harris Mill sixteen feet to a post, thence North twenty five degrees West twenty feet to a post thence south sixty degrees west seventy-two feet to a postin the line of of beginning; also a certain lot or piece of land situate on the Northern Border of the Forge tract adjoining a lot of Doe. Daniel Dobbins on the North and in- closed by a stone wall occupied and de- signed as a place of Burial.” “In trust nevertheless to and for the use, benefit and advantage of the religious society of the people called Quakers belonging to Centre Monthly Meeting, held at Belle- fonte in Perpetual succession forever.” Third.—That subsequent to the death of the said Isaac Miller, on petition to your Honorable Court of Eliza M. Thomas and others, all the then members of the Cen- tre Monthly Meeting of Friends, to No. 33 August Term, 1901, under the following caption, viz. “In the matter of the Peti- tion of the Members of Centre Monthly Meeting of Friends, for the appointment of new trustees of the Meeting House property and Burial Ground, in the place and stead of Isaac Miller, deceased;”’ by decree of your Honorable Court dated and filed in said proceeding May 1, 1901, your Honorable Court entered the following de- cree: “And now May 1, 1901, the foregoing petition read and considered, whereupon the Court does hereby grant the prayer thereof and does hereby appoint George Valentine, Jr., Edmund Blanchard and Joseph D. Mitchell, Trustees of the Cen- tre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of the Meeting House Property and Burial Ground and all the premises mentioned and described in the aforementioned deed conveying the same to Issac Miller, Trustee, dated October 22nd, A. D. 1834, and recorded in the office for the record- in of deeds, &c. in and for Centre County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book “M,” page 432 &e., the said Trustees being hereby appointed in the place and stead of the said Isaac Miller, deceased, with all the powers and title, duties and obligations originaly vested in and imposed upon the said Isaac Miller by virtue of the said deed, and this appointment being - made without requiring any bond from said Trustees. By the Court.” Fourth.— That by their deed dated September 4, 1898, and recorded in the of- fice for the recording of deeds, &c. in and for the said County of Centre on February 1 in Deed Book 75, page 695 &c., George Valentine and Emily J. his wife, laws of the State of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends | That East by lot of Hugh McGonigle, on the ! traet degrees East eighty eight feet to Mec- said Mill tract, thence North twenty-five , West one hundred & two feet to the place ' ha V. Hale, Robert Valentine and Mary N., his wife, Mary B. J. Valentine, Anna J. Valentine, : Caroline -M. Valentine, De- borah -D." V. tine, George ! Jacob D. Valentine, Jr., Louise M. Valen- .j tine, Ellen D. Valentine, Robert Valentine, ! Jr. and John P. Harris, Trustee, conveyed to George Valentine, Jr. and Edmund Blanchard, Jr., and to their successors and assigns, the said premises therein de- scribed as follows: ALL that certain tract of ground sit- uate in the Township of Spring, in the County of Centre and State of Pennsyl- vania aforesaid, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a post north of an oak pointer, on the south- ern line of the said Borough of Belle- fonte at the northwestern corner of the farm. tract, other land of the said par- ties of the first part, thence along said Borough line south seventy seven and one-fourth degrees west twenty two and four-tenths perches to stones, thence by land now or formerly of the Valentine Iron Company south twelve and three- fourths degrees east thirteen perches to stones, north of dead pine pointer, thence by same lands north eighty three and one-fourth degrees east sixteen and five tenths perches to post, the north- western corner of what is known as the Workmens Cemetery, thence by same north seventy seven degrees east six and two-tenths perches to the western line of said farm tract, and thence by said line north eleven and one-fourth degrees west fourteen and six-tenths perches to the beginning; containing one acre and one hundred and forty perches more or less, and also containing a graveyard on about forty five perches of ground surrounded by a stone wall;” “in trust nevertheless to and for the use and bene- fit and advantage of the religious society to the Centre Monthly Meeting held at Bellefonte, in perpetual succession for- ever, to be used as a place of burial un- der the direction and control of the said Centre Monthly Meeting.” Fifth.— That in and by the last will and testament of Mary V. Hale, late of the Borough of Bellefonte, in the County of Centre and State of Pennsylvania, deceas- ed, dated November 12, 1900, and probated before the Register of Wills for Centre County, Pennsylvania, at Bellefonte, Pa. and remaining on file in the office of the ' said Register and therein recorded in Will Book E, page 3541, &c. the said testatrix made a bequest as follows, to wit: “I give and bequeath unto the Trustee Friends, Bellefonte, Penna., or to the per- son, persons or body corporate, holding the legal title to the Meeting House and grave-yard properties of said Monthly Meeting, at the time of my decease, or in whom the legal title to said properties may then or shall thereafter be vested, his, her, or their successors, the sum of One thousand dollars ($1,000) to be paid by my executors, hereinafter named, within three years after my decease, in- terest on said sum of one thousand dol- lars, to be likewise paid by my said exec- uters from the date of my death until the aforesaid payment of the said prin- cipal sum, at the rate of five per cent. per annum thereon, payable yearly, the first payment of said interest to fall due one year from and after my decease; in trust nevertheless to invest the said sum of one thousand dollars on good and sufficient security to keep the same thus invested from time to time to collect the income and profits arising therefrom and to appropriate said income and prof- its from time to time together with the interest to be received from my said ex- ecutors prior to the payment of the said principal sum as aforesaid, in manner following, to wit: First, to the preser- vation in good order and condition at all times of the graves of my grandmother, Ann Bond Valentine, my father, mother and brothers, in the graveyard of the said - Centre Monthly Meeting; and sec- ond, to use whatever remains of said in- come and profits each year after paying for the proper care of these graves, for the care and maintenance of the Meet- ing House property of the said Centre Monthly Meeting in such manner as the said Centre Monthly Meeting shall di- rect; it being, however, a condition of this trust that these graves shall at all times thus be cared for out of the in- come and profits from . this fund as a superior’ and primary charge thereon, and that only so much of said income and profits Shall be: appropriated = each year to the aforesaid uses of the Meet- ing as remain after paying the expen- ses and charges for such care of the said graves: the said bheauest to terminate and the entire fund to revert fo my es- tate in case of a failure at any time to comnly faithfully with the terms of this condition.” Sixth.—That on or about April 4, 1902, ‘the above named George Valentine. Jr. i Edmund Blanchard and Joseph D. Mitch- ell, Trustees of the Centre Monthly Meet- ing of Friends, received payment of the above mentioned legacy from Ellen Hale | Andrews and George Murray Andrews, | Executors of the last will and. testament of the said Mary V. Hale, deceased, since | which time the principal amount of said fund viz. $1000., had heen invested by { said Trustees and the ‘income derivable | therefrom collected and disposed of by said Trustees. Seventh.—That in later years, because of deaths, changes of residence and for other { reasons, the membership of the said i Monthly meeting became very small and | attendance of meetings for worship in said | meeting house and of business meetings , of the said Monthly Meeting became small- jer and smaller, until such meetings for | worship entirely ceased, and it became i impracticable for said Monthly meeting to function as the local organization of the ‘ said - ‘religious denomination; whereupon by _ appropriate action . by the said ' Yearly Meeting, the chief governing body, in aceordance with the views of the remaining members of said Month- ly Meeting, and in accordance with the rules and discipline of the said Yearly Meeting, the said Centre Monthly Meeting was formally “laid down” or discentinued and thereby ceased to exist, on or about , May oth 1919. i ; | Eighth.—That fer many years last past the said Joseph D. Mitchell, one of the resided in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania and, as your petitioner is in- formed, has affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church of America; and that for a number of years past the said Ed- mund Blanchard or Edmund Blanchard, Jr., another of said Trustees, has been liv- ing in the State of Texas, so that the said George Valentine, Jr., is the only one of said Trustees now residing in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania, and the only active Trustee. board or agency of the said religious or- ganization known as the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox), that is to say, the said Centre Monthly Meeting of Friends, has thus become extinct. Temnth.—That for the reasons above set forth, it has become impracticable for the said Trustees to fulfill or comply with the conditions of the bequest under the said will of Mary V. Hale, deceased, as set forth in the paragraph hereof number- ed, Fifth, and that, therefore, it is the de- sire of the remaining former members of the said Centre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of your petitioner and of the said Trastees that the said Trustees be authorized to declare the termination of said trust and the reversion of the said principal fund constituting the corpus of said trust, to the estate of the said Mary V. Hale, deceased, in accordance with the terms of her will, and be authorized to pay over or transfer to the executors of the said Mary V. Hale, deceased, the said principal fund, in termination of said trust and satisfaction thereof, or that their acts in doing so be ratified and confirmed, and that thereupon the said Trustees shall be released and discharged from all ob- ligations arising relative to said trust fund. Eleventh.—That for the reasons above set forth, it is also the desire of the said remaining former members of the said Cen- tre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of your petitioner and of the said Trustees, that upon their release and discharge from the said trust fund referred to in the par- agraph hereof numbered Fifth, the said Trustees shall also be released and dis- charged from all remaning trusts under their trusteeship, and particularly from the trusts relative to the Meeting House property and Burial Ground, referred to in the paragraph hereof numbered Seec- ond, and the additional Burial Ground referred to in the pargraph hereof num- S.~Valentine and Lillie U.; his wife," Valentine, Jr., of the people ealled ‘Quakers’ belonging | or Trustees of Centre Monthly Meeting of ! Trustees above named has permanently - Ninth.—That the said individual church, | .bered -Fourth; and" that thereupon your tioner shall be appointed by your onorable Court in the place and stead of the = said above mentioned Trustees, as Trustee: of said individual : church, beard or agency, that is to say, of the said Cen- tre Monthly Meetirg of Friends and of all the said remaining trusts relative thereto. : id Twelfth.—That under the constitution and discipline governing the said Balti- more Yearly Meeting of Friends (Ortho- dox), among other things it is provided that “when a meeting is discontinued the property belonging to said Meeting shall vested in the Yearly Meeting, to be held in trust for some specific purpose, ov to be used for the advancement of the general work of the Yearly Meeting, as that body may determine: and that “all funds held by such discontinued Meeting shall be administered in accordance with the directions of the original donors ;”’ and that the Yearly Meeting shall have a Permanent Board (also called the Repre- sentative Meeting) whose duty, among oth- er things, is to “inspect and perfect, when necessary, titles to land and other estates belonging to any Meeting.” . Thirteenth.—That your petitioner, dur- ing the entire existence of the said Cen- tre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of the said meeting house or church and burial grounds thereof, was and is the superior Judicatory with which said church has Neen conneciad, i under its charter as © ration is du ualifi ; Trustee as aforesaid. 5 110 aot ay Fourteenth.—That, as herein set f . and by reason thereof, the said chars | Monthly Meeting of Friends has become extinet, and its Property is liable to be { wasted or destroyed. i WHEREFORE, your fully prays Ri follow : JA. al e said George Valentine, . Edmund Blanchard or Edmund Blanchard, Jr. and Joseph D. Mitchell, as Trustees as aforesaid, be authorized to declare the : termination of the trust under the will of i Mary V. Hale, deceased, and be thereupon i authorized to complete the reversion and ¢ Payment over of the principal or corpus of said trust fund, or that their acts in | doing 80 be ratified and confirmed, and | that said trust be thereupon declared | terminated, and that thereupon the said trustees be released and discharged frem igs fries and y al) (obligations arising : inder, as set forth in the par of this petition numbered Toren, agranh B. That upon their release and disch | from the said trust fund last above ea tioned the said three trustees shall also be released and discharged from all re- maining trusts under their trusteeship, as set forth in the paragraph of this peti- tion numbered Eleventh, petitioner respeci- ’ mentioned three original trustees, as th trustee of the said individual ~ Fooly board or agency, that is to say, of the said Centre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of all the then remaining trusts relative thereto, and particularly of the trusts rel- ative to the Meeting House property and Burial Ground referred to in the para- graph of this petition numbered Second, and relative to the additional Burial Ground, referred to in the paragraph of this petition numbered Fourth, in accord- ance with the Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved the seventeenth day of May, A. D. 1921 (Pamphlet Laws, page 861, &c.) and in ac- cordance with any other Act of Assembly in such case made and provided. AND your petitioner will ever pray, &c. BALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING FRIENDS (ORTHODOX) oF By Thomas W. Y. Clark Clerk of the Permanent Board. State of Maryland. City of Baltimore, SS: on the 11th day of May A. D. 1927, be- fore me, the subscriber, a Notary Public in and for the said State, personally ap- ' peared the above named Thomas W. Y. Clark, whe being duly aftirmed according’ te law says that he is Clerk of the Per- manent Board of the Baltimore Yearly , Meeting of Friends (Orthodox), the above | named petitioner, that he makes this af- | fidavit for and on behalf of the said peti- | tioner, ‘that he is well acquainted with the | facts set forth in the said petition, and | that the facts therein set forth are true, ; to the best of his knowledge, information i and belief. Affirmed and subseribed to before me the (day and year abeve written. TE ! THOMAS W. Y. CLARK. Julia B. Robinson, sy LAK Notary Public. My Commission I'Notary’s Seal] expires May 6, 1929. DECREE. And now May 13th 1927, the foregoing petition presented and directed to be filed, and the Court hereby grants a rule upon all parties interested to show cause why the prayers of the foregoing petition should not be granted, which rule is made returnable on Tuesday the twelfth day eof July A. D. 1927, at the Court House in Jellefonte, Pennsylvania, at ten o'clock A. MM, and it is hereby directed that a copy of the foregoing petition and of this decree (which decree contains said rule so that a copy thereof includes a copy of . Said rule), be published by the said peti- tioner for four successive weeks in one newspaper of “general circulation of the said County of Centre, published in the Borough of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and that on the said return day of said rule at said time and place a ful} hearing of the said matter will be had by the said Court to enable it to make such order in | the case as shall be most likely to pre- serve the property of the said Centre Monthly Meeting of Friends in the inter- ests ef the denomination, according to the uses to which it was intended to be de- voted, and to determine all other matters invelved in the prayers of the said peti- tion, at which time ‘and place all persons interested may be heard. By the Court JAMES C. FURST P. oF Notice of the fcregoing copy of pe- tition, decree and rule, is hereby giv- en to all persons interested who are hereby notified that they may appear and be heard by the court at the time and place named in the above men- tioned decree. BLANCHARD & BLANCHARD, Attorneys for Petitioner. 72-21-4t To Install Chimes in Masonic Home at Elizabethtown. Troy, N. Y.—The belfry of the new John S. Bell Memorial Chapel of the Masonic homes at Elizabeth- town, Pa., is soon to be endowed with a large chime of bronze bells, ship- ment of which has been made by the Meneely Bell company of this city after nearly a year was consumed in its manufacture. Architecturally and in the wealth of its appointments this new chapel of the Pennsylvania Order of Free- Masons, which was built and equip- ped by Mrs. Sell in memory of her husband, will rank among the best examples of its kind to be found any- where. It occupies a choice position among buildings which with their grounds represent an investment of several million dollars. The tenor bell of the chime dupli- cates in size the Old Liberty Bell in Independence Hall and possesses the musical tone of F natural. There are ten bells in all, carefully graded for accuracy of pitch and uniform tone color to complete the perfect scale, and their scope is of sufficient com- pass to render music in either of two keys. Experts who were chosen to test this chime before it was shipped expressed the opinion that it is one { of the sweetest toned combinations of bells in existence.
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