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BREAD UPON THE WATERS.
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else to go, come to me.” She smiled
painfully through tear-starred eyes
and twisted lips. “There, there, Bill
Buck up. It's all right and youre
as full of pep as a butcher's dog.
Aren't you, Darling?” She kissed his
rough cheek. :
or heaven's sake, Ollie, go ! I'm
going to make a fool of myself,” he
pleaded. :
And Ollie went ! She was a product
of Bill Garford's country and knew
much more about men than women .
It was nearly five o'clock before
Bill could trust himself to greet
Uncle Jimmy Breeze. The old pros-
pector entered the office with a shuf-
fling, sidelong gait, not unreminis-
cent of the sidewinder rattlesnakes of
the deserts wherein, for forty years,
he had been wandering behind a
couple of jacks, seeking his Bl
Dorado. He sidled over to Bill and
smiled up at him from under a
scraggly white mustache; his brown,
seamed old face wore an ingratiating
smile, his eyes, blue and childlike,
were those of the born visionary.
«Well, you old desert terrapin, Jim-
my, how about you?” Bill greeted
nim kindly. They shook hands and
he indicated a chair for Uncle Jimmy.
«Jes' r'arin’ to go, Bill,” Uncle
immy piped.
: ane to have the ordeal over
with promptly. So he said: Rarin’ to
go where, Uncle Jimmy ?’” 2
«prospectin’ down to the Hell's
Bend country, Bill. There's a range
o‘ low hills down that way I been
aimin” to prognosticate around in for
forty year—an’ if I don’t do it this
year mebbe 1 don’t get another
chance. Somehow, Bill, I got a sneak-
in notion that country ain't ever been
half scratched over. A feller I met
once in Silver Peak showed me some
samples he'd picked up down there
an’ they sure looked mighty soothin
to the eye. He was figgerin’ on goin
back in but took pneumony o‘ the
lungs over to Rhyolite an’ was dead
in four hours.”
Bill handed Uncle Jimmy a cigar
and Uncle Jimmy proceeded immedi-
ately to chew it, so Bill brought the
brass cuspidor over to his side and
waited.
“Well, Bill,” Uncle Jimmy resumed,
«jt’s been quite a spell since me an’
you've met up an’ a whole lot 0’ wa-
ter has flowed under the bridges
since. From what I hear you're rich.
Got this here bank an’ six branches,
mines, ranches, cattle, sheep, horses,
mules an’ jacks but nary a wife or
papoose to leave ‘em to. How come,
eri ot
Bill, you ain't done nothin’ for your
country?” |
“No time, Uncle Jimmy. I'm al- |
ways as busy as a one-armed man |
saddling a colt.”
“Well-1-1,” Uncle Jimmy drawled,
“geein’ as how you ain't exactly "a |
pauper an’ realizin’ you ain't got
more'n a couple o' distant relatives
mebbe to leave your bank-roll to,
the thought occurred to. me mebbe |
you'd consider throwin’ in with me.
If you could see your way clear to
grub-stakin’ for me about two hun-
dred dollars, Bill, you got my word
for it T'll cut you in as a full pardner
on any good thing I run across durin’
the next year !”
He looked up at Bill wistfully, ea-
gerly—pathetically eager! He remind-
ed Bill of an aged terrier anticipating
the receipt of a nice bone. He was
desperate and Bill knew it. Hungry,
perhaps. Certainly he needed a new
pair of overalls, for the ones he wore
were faded almost white and patched
beyond further repair. His soggy old
hat was a ruin, his miners’ boots
broken and warped.
oma. (TO Pe contived next week.)
VET
» YEAR 1816 SUMMERLESS.
“January and February of 1816
were warm and spring-like. March
was cold and stormy. Vegetation had’
gotten well along in April when real.
winter set in. Snow and sleet fell 17
different days in May. In June there
was either frost or snow every night |
but three. Snow was five inches deep |
for several days in succession in the |
interior of New York and from ten
inches to three feet in Vermont and
Maine. July was cold and frosty and
ice formed as thick as window panes
in every ene of the New England
States. August was still worse. Ice
formed nearly an inch in thickness
and killed nearly every green thing
in the United States.
“In the spring of 1817 corn that
had been kept over from the crop .of
1815 sold for $5 and $10 a bushel,
the buyers purchasing it for seed.
May 10, 1839, snow fell to the depth
of a foot in Jamestown, Va., and was
piled in high drifts in most of the
southern States. There was snow in
many parts of Towa and Illinois May
11, 1878 and again on May 23, 1882.
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CABIN IS INTACT
AFTER 125 YEARS.
cabin 125 years old and in
an excellent state of repair, was dis-
covered recently in Sugar Valley,
Clinton county, by Colonel Henry W.
Shoemaker, a member of the State
Forest Commission.
Colonel Shoemaker purchased the
log cabin and had it n down
auled on four two-horse sleds twelve
niles across the mountains to his
home at McElhattan, where it will
Ve used as a garden house in a wild
flower garden. Although the cabin was
built in 1804, only two of the logs
were found to be unfit for usein re-
construction. The logs are an extra
large size ‘and of clear white pine.
"The floor boards are of white oak and
nome of them less than twenty-four
inches in width. "The house was built’
by Jacob Embigh, an ‘early pioheer
from Berks county ‘whose descendants
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FATHER AND SON
TRAVERSE NORTH
Expedition Goes on Foot to
Hudson Bay.
New York.—A small expedition in
which two generations are represent-
ed recently left Hudson, Manitoba, 0
travel northward by snowshoes acrese
the unexplored lands of northern On
tario and Manitoba to Hudson bay.
Arthur W. North, his son, Robert;
now fourteen years old, and already
an author; an Indian amd a five-dog
team will compose the party. :
They will cross territory uninhab-
ited except by wolves and a few Inb-
dians, making the trip in winter be-
cause the mosquitoes and swamps
make travel in this region impossible
at other seasons,
The party will have a distinct col-
legiate atmosphere. Mr. North, who
was captain of the University of Cali-
fornia track team some years ago, will
carry a banner of his alma mater re-
cently presented to him at a dinner
in New York given in his honor by
his college mates.
Robert, who is on leave of ahsence
from the [I'hillips-Andover academy,
will also carry a banner presented to
him by his school.
From Hudson, a station on the
Canadian National railroad just east
of Winnipeg, the expedition is muking
a 200-mile dash northeast to Cat lake.
From here father and son will head
for Big ‘Trout lake, at the head of
the Severn river, a distance of 15 days
of Indian travel, crossing the Height
of Land, or watershed, on the way.
The Indians in this section are prim
itive nomads.
From Big Trout lake they will trav:
el north to the Hayes river, following
it down to its junction with the Nel- i
son river at York Factory, a leading
post of the Hudson's Bay company,
situated on the west coast of Hudson
bay.
After a short stay at York Factory
the party will travel west to connect
with the Hudson Bay raiiway, now
in the course of construction, which
will connect the Ims, Manitoba. with
Hudson bay. They will study the
lives and customs of the Ojibway and
Swampy Cree Indians who inhabit
this region, and will also visit the
scenes of the recent gold rushes be-
tween Red lake and Fort Hope. Mr.
North will take pictures of Indian
scenes.
U. S. Locomotives Find
Foreign Resting Spots
New York.—What happens to good
focomotives when they die? The sub-
ject, says the Baltimore Sun, has heen
brought up for, discussion by the Bald-
win Locomotive works, which cites the
case of No. 4287, built by Baldwin in
1878 and which once provided motive |
power for the old Camden & Atlantic :
Railway company. Very recently No.
4287 was found quite by accident hy
an explorer in the jungles of Dutch
Guiana, covered with the forest |
growth just as it had been aban-
doned long before.
Many years ago, it seems, an ad-
¢enturous soul named Bradley staked
a gold mining claim 60 miles up the
Maroni river, in Dutch Guiana. A
short railroad line was built through
the jungle and No. 4287 apparently
purchased in this country to furnish
the motive power. An explorer 8
cently going through the jungle was
startled when he came upon the relic
quite by accident. New Yorkers can
also recall the “dinkies” which for
merly hauled the trains for the Man-
hattan Elevated lines in New York:
When the railroad was electrified in
1902 the steam engines were sold to
"Chinese interests. At last reports
these locomotives were still doing
duty in the Orient.
Sty, \
.Sees Test-Tube Era ™
w=. Ousting That of Ax
Moscow, Idaho.—The lumberman of
tomorrow will swing a test tube as
well as an ax, says W. D. Humiston,
Idaho lumber expert.
“The era,” Humiston declares, “is
approaching, with science producing,
countless substitutes for lumber,
when a vastly different and intensely
more valuable by-product will be pre-
cipitated from timber through the
chemist’s laboratory.”
Commercial companies, he says,
have found 1,200 uses for cellulose,
one by-product obtained from trees
and plants. Tamarack, or larch, which
1s too heavy to be shipped with prof-
it, is now exploited through the test
tube as a valuable derivative; carbo-
hydrate galactan can be extracted
from the tree and the wood chips can
be converted into synthetic lumber.
are stil numerous throughout Su-
gar Valley.
Christian Symbol in
Old Turkish’ Mosque
A beautiful mosaic of the Virgin
Mary has heen found in a Turkish
mosque in Constantinople. For 500
years it hed been hidden under white-
wash.
The workmen who were replaster-
ing the interior of the mosque report:
ed the glint of gold which they had
uncovered to the religious authorities.
who notified the National museum.
whose experts were sent at once to
complete the uncovering of the mo-
saic. Once disclosed in all its glory
of form and color, the next step was
to ask Angora what to do about this
picture of the mother of Christ dead
on ber bier surrounded by saints and
angels high on the wall of a Mosler
mosque,
Angora, seat of revolutionary Tur-
Key, replied that the mosaic was to
remain where it was and was to be
preserved with the utmost care.
Thus for the first time in history
Moslems worship beneath the shadow
of images, the representative of which
has for centuries been absoiutely pro-
hibited by the Moslem religion.
Watch That “Stepped
Out” Pleased Leslie
Little Leslie Luckiboy bad been
given a beautiful watch—which, by
the way, was his first—as a Christ
was present.
Funnily enough, he did not seem
very excited about it, and managed
to restrain his enthusiasm in a very
marked manner. However, he went
out to a party, and returned in tre
wendous spirits, exclaiming:
“I've got a ripping watch!”
“I'm so glad you like it,” said his
mother, duly pleased at his joy whick
up to now he had concealed.
“Yes,” he continued, “it’s half an
hour ahead of Lew’s watch, and it’s
a whole hour ahead of the church
clock. It beats them all!”—London
Answers.
No Use for Them
“No,” said the sunburned farmer,
“you won't do any business here, me
lad. I've finished with labor-savin’
machines. 1 don’t bold with ’em.”
The young traveler could not help
but smile.
“Look here,” continued the farm-
er, pointing to a typewriter, “take
a look at that. That's a writin’ ma-
chine my wife spent all her savin’s
on ‘cos 1 ain’t very handy wi’ me
pen.”
“What’s the matter with it?”
“Matter!” exclaimed the farmer,
“Why, nobody can write their blinkin’
pame with it unless they can play
a ehurch organ!”—London Answers.
Variation of “Quoits”
The gume of horseshoes is based
on guoits. which is a pastime resem-
bling the ancient discus-throwing of,
Greece. Few traces of a game re-
sembling quoits can be found on the
continent ¢f Europe and its origin
may be sought tor on the borderlands
of Scotland and England. There are
references to it in the Midlands, dat-
ing from the beginning of the Kif-
teenth century. Ascham, in his Toxo
philus (1545), refers to the game as
being played chiefly by the working
classes, who often used horseshoes
for want of quoits, a custom still pre-
vailing in country districts.
Lanes =
Determining Mental Age
Mental age is most accurately
based upon the individual Terman-
Binet test of intelligence. A child is
said to have a mental age of ten
years, for example, when he passes
the tests on the Terman-Binet scale
which, it has been found, are passed
by a majority of normal ten-year-old
children. Terman defines mental age
as follows: “By a given mental age
we mean that degree of general men-
tal ability as is possessed by the aver-
age child of correspending chronolog-
ical age.” ... J
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Ca A Wee Bit Tune
A millionaire who wrote a rather
illegible hand took a “place” in the
north of Scotland. One night before
retiring he sent the head keeper de-
tailed written instructions for the
MOrrow,
Next morning he was awakenea
very early by the persistent skirling
of bagpipes beneath his window.
Summoning his man-servant, he asked:
“What's that racket?”
“Oh,” said the man, “that’s Donald
the keeper, playing that wee bit tune
ye sent him last night.”
Wit of Conversation
The wit of conversation consists
more in finding it in others, than in
showing a great deal yourself. He
who goes out of your company, pleased
with his own facetiousness and in-
genuity, will the sooner come into it
again. Most men had rather please
than admire you, and seek less to be
instructed and diverted than approved
and applauded, and it is certainly the
most delicate sort of pleasure, to
please another.—Franklin.
Returned With Thanks
A n sent a small boy to deliver
a note to a young women who lived a
few streets away. He gave the bey
8 nickel so that he would harry.
After a short time the messenger
came back, and, returning the money,
sald:
“Migs Jones says she will be glad to
sve you tonight, but she didn’t want
the nickel I” :
IS PRAYER FOR THE DEAD
A FUTILE SUPPLICATION.
At the March meeting of the Cen-
tre and Clearfield Ministerial Associa-
tion, held in the Methodist church,
Philipsburg, Monday, March 4, 1929,
Rev. C. S. Brown, Episcopalian min-
ister, Osceola Mills, made the ad-
dress, his subject being, “Shall We
Pray for the Dead?” taking his text
from the second book of Maccabees,
12-43, “It is a holy and wholesome
thought to pray for the dead.” The
subject, very clearly presented, was
followed by much discussion. Among
other things Rev. BroW said:
Dr. Cadman, when asked, “Shall
Wwe pray for the dead?” answered,
Why not?” To show that this pious
habit is not confined to the Episco-
pal church the words of Dr. Spurr
a leading Baptist minister of Eng-
Jand, were quoted: “Of late years
there has been a revival of belief
in an intermediate state for right-
eous souls in the next life, before en-
tering heaven.” In the protestantism
of today the statement in the Web-
ster Confession that “at death the
souls of the righteous are at once
received into the highest heavens” is
increasingly disbelieved. None who
pass over are wholly good, none are
perfect. The grace and help of
Christ in response to prayer, will be
available as here. This is a truth
we should recover and live By, for it
agrees with the teaching and entire
spirit of the New Testament.”
Mr. Brown, continuing said: “Many
creed have neglected the beautiful
flowers of practice growing from the
root, “I believe in the Communion
of Saints,” the relation between the
living and dead never ceasing, each
interceding for the other. In St.
Paul's letter to Timothy, he mentions
a Christian named Onesiphorus, who
at the time appeared to have died
and passed on. For him the prayer
of the Apostle is, “The Lord grant
that he may find mercy in that day
(the day of general judgment.”)
Among the Jews, prayer for the de-
parted souls was practiced long be-
fore the birth of Christ as the Book
of Maccabees shows. Jesus rebuked
some of the superstitions of his
day, but never said a word in con-
demnation of this practice.
The writings of the early teachers
of christianity show that primitive
christians in private prayer and pub-
ic worship pray for their dead. St.
Augustine, in the Holy Communion,
condemned unto God the spirit of his
pious mother, Monica. They believed
that the interval between death and
the end if the world is one of the
only imperfect bliss, in which the
souls of the righteous await the per-
fection of their happiness at the day
of resurrection and general judgment.
Therefore prayers for their progres-
sive sanctification in Paradise seem
reasonable. All the early Liturgies
or Communion Services such as used
in many cities prayer that the guilt
of the departed may be washed away
i and his soul find rest in joy and felic-
ity. From a devotional book prepar-
ed by two ministers of the American
denomination known as The Disciples
of Christ, Mr. Brown quoted a poem
by Julia Dorr:
“How can I cease to pray for thee?
Somewhere in God's great universe
thou art today:
Can He not reach thee with His
tender care?
Can He hear not me when for thee
I pray?
What matter it to Him who holds
within the hollow of His hand all
worlds, all space,
That thou art done with earthly
pain and sin?
‘Somewhere within His Ken thou
hast a place.”
This sacred ode is followed by the
petition.
“Holy Father those who have gone
on into the life beyond, our hearts
prompt us to bear up to Thee in our
petitions.
Hold them safe in Thy good care
till the night is over and the shadows
flee away.”
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Real Estate Transfers.
Henry S. Tilingsworth, et al, to D.
E. Woomer, et ux, tract in Ferguson
Twp.; $3,400.
Jared L. Zettle, et ux, to Samuel W.
Zettle, et ux, tract in Spring Twp.;
$1.
Louise Gardner, et bar, to Char-
lotte Walker, tract in Howard Twp.;
$1.
William A. Rockey, et ux, to Ralph
R. Rockey, et ux, tract
Twp.; $1.
R. Roy Finkel, et al, to James P.
McCool, tract in Gregg Twp.; $450.
James P. McCooi, et ux, to Charles
L. McCool, tract in Gregg Twp.; $1.
John H. Carver, et ux, to Howard
Callahan, et ux, tract in Potter Twp.;
$1. .
Clara V. Alexander, et al, to Mi-
cheal J. Howard, et ux, tract in Spring
Twp.; $500.
Maude E. McMullen to Harry H.
Deihl, et ux, tract in Boggs Twp.;
$1,500.
James E. Williams to James H.
Weaver, tract in Boggs Twp.; $1.
Howard G. Krape, et ux, to S. R.
Bierly, tract in Miles Twp.; $1,450.
Frank T. Knoll, et ux, to William
B. Gates, et ux, tract in State Col-
lege; $950.
William M. Garis, et ux, to C.D.
Bartholomew, tract in Centre Hall;
$1.
Nannie B. Homan to Gilbert H.
bt et ux, tract in Ferguson Twp.;
Hamry A. Leitzel, et ux, to Mabel
Leizell, tract in State College; $1.
Eleanor R. Gettig, to Margaret P.
Subeiek, et ux, tract in Bellefonte;
4.
John M. Coldren, et ux, to
Lawrence Runkle, tract in Centre
Hall; $290.
J. E. Johnstonbaugh, et ux, to J.
Earl Crust, tract in Patton Twp.
$4100.
who profess to believe the Apostles !
in Harris.
Who Will Take Your Place?
well. How will it be after you have
gone? Who will see that those for
whom you have saved will continue to enjoy
the income your care has provided.
Wo you are here, everything goes
Everyday people are losing money
through bad investments. Why not profit by
experience, and place your estate in the
hands of trained men. This bank has full
Trust powers, and they are at your service.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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