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LA SI DAL A MN ent
Dr. Hammond, who expressed his ky
lief in Brown-Sequard’s elixir of life, long
ago gave to the public his conclusion that
there was no scientific basis for the 4:
cay of vitality. If man is really immor-
tal, his life cannot decay. Therefore,
disease, decay and death merely happen
because we are ignorant of the laws of
life. This was Dr. Hammond's reason-
ing.
For the whalers in the northwest seas
the government is building a permanent
refuge and life saving station at Point
Barrow. Many lives have been lost and
horrible sufferings have been endured in
the past few years. A number of whal-
ing ships with their crews have been
lost and never heard of, swallowed up
in the eternal mystery that broods over
those far northern regions.
There are those sometimes who com-
miserate Texas because she has mostly |
of the elements of
that |
are |
Now Comes word
seemed to lack one
perfect prosperity, and
mineral wealth, But
that a petroleum has
found both in the east west of the |
state,
is
valuable been |
and
The oil in western Texas resem
bles that of Pennsylvania, Te
long way from the
xas is a
other oil producing
regions, and if a good article
nating oil is found
the state will have a
ural gas in sn
undoubtedly
thore
detected alon
An old inha
either, remembe
1d not a sir
when the
it h
Zens swe
f English. Butt
s the old New Yorker most
“the of squal
Poversy
He says: “The squalor line & rising in
Nega York as surely and as mercilessly
as M8 tide rises in the rivers that sur
round
found to fore
alls rise
ye; that increase of
is, tho
In
he
te / 1. *
» 1 TO recede,
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The
Book of Divorce.
laws of
tories
name of *
Yor e,"
for divorce
in one st:
other.
necticut,
grounds for
the discretion of
South Ca
all on any grou
sufferer can ad out or
a divorcee in
he lives or elsewhere
thinks the strange
the utter futilit: tempting
a general United States divorce law.
may get
Useful Apes
Professor Romanes has been teaching
a chimpanzee in the London Zoological
to She
learning to obey
sgearden count sticceeded in
the order to pick up
one, two or
far as five
generally
though she sometimes made mistakes
more straws accurately as
Above that number she was
accurate as far as seven
This learned chimpanzee understood
spoken language “to a degree which is
fully equal to that presented by an in
infancy.” This, Professor Romanes says,
is a higher intelligence than is mani-
fested by any other brute, so far as he
has been able to discover.
The ape wus indeed almost able to ar
ticulate words
tions. One kind of a grunt meant yes,
another no, while a third sound meant
to say ‘thank you" for gifts or favors
“At times she sings a strange howling
note, interrupted at regular intervals.”
The creature manifests great docility
and affection for ber keepers, who are
very kind to her.
If civilized man inhabited the wilds in
which these animals are found, he would
his slaves. Man subjugated to his ser.
vice the horse, a far stronger, less intel
ligent animal than the chimpanzee. So
why not the chimpanzee and its fierce
cousin, the gorilla. which grows to
man's size in the wilds of western
Africa? The negroes there have, indeed,
occasionally broken in the gorilla to
pluck cocounuts and carry water for
them. Why could they not be trained
to systematic service? There is no sin
in making slaves of gorillas and chim-
panzecs. There is a story that apes have
been trained to do very useful work in to-
bacco fields.
Pan-America means simply all Ames-
fea. “Pan” is a Greek word signifying
sll.
The piano and organ manufacturers of
the country have united in an associa-
tion. It is fitting that organ men should
organize,
Senator Sherman says he is almost per-
suaded to become a free trader to the ex-
tent of having full’ reciprocity with our
South American neighbors.
The public will be indebted to Michael
Davitt for one bit of information, He
says the Clan-na-Gael is not a secret so-
ciety any more than the order of Free
Masons is,
John Williams, of Washington, has
answered in a practical manner the
question whether the negro race is dy-
ing out. He is the father of twenty-
nine children and grandfather and great
grandfather of fifty-eight more—eighty-
soven in all,
It is said the best crop raised this
year in North Dakota has been mort-
The crops have failed there
They are entitled
They need it, and need it now,
At the Unitarian convention in Phila-
1 not know how the for-
eign missions would pan out. “Nearer |
ver,” said the report, “there
must not allo
wa FW
’
The Unitarians recognize |
fact that there 3 no end
missionary work to be
lone at home.
The Injured Husband Club,
It Phila elphia,
juite the lats
. 1 ir
startet in
i ol
The coming season bids fair to be
have ever experienc-
accordingly.
You know what we have done in
ak
wil
iii TH
4
it
around the
wed husband
find surceuse
roof tree of the al
in its diversions
A cou
. t.
A privately,
imittee examines the
Hen WwW iko
is by common consent the most en y |
wd |
>
i
i
TOW,
the
3s
arsed
HI:
The club agrees to pay divorce and ali-
members, and
of
A man who makes friends
for ita
mfort them
exp
144
to the extent
expelled from the club,
he organizati rowing with m
ar
velous rapidity. It is expected there
5&2
ka be 5,000 members in
This is hard on
Two meetings of
were recently in progress
significant interost
on the same
day in our wide
other
country, one east, the
One was the
ociation at
oting of del
5 that s
¥
iw
Ral Hn
New York
tht
1pply
th met wi ho same
rotect the interests of farm-
The
ved in Farmers’
Feder of the Mississippi Valley.
The eastern calls itself the Union of
Milk Producers for the Supply
operati name of the
fi.
ern organization the
ton
of the
The
Louis
000,
‘st farmers at St.
represented a capital of §20,000,-
The
with a capital of $500,000
to
union a
whi growing
milk farmers intend to start
Both intend
fast
pr a
¢
i"
Ives together
he
ts out of the hands
bind theme in
. .
nd take t fixing of the
of their produ nid
themselves,
10,000
y
dlemen and regulate them
Under existing arra:
are at the mercy ol
New York Milk Exchange. a combina
tions of 100 men, hardly
ever milked a cow in his life
ements,
milk producer the
one of whom
The plan
dis
producers themselves,
At the wheat growers’ meeting a Chi
the farmers
weliish as they
be a blessing to humanity. It was the
They had aec-
gether, and farmers could hang together
The faruers re- |
selves, The price of bread will not be
any higher to consumers, however,
Then the agricuiturists resolved to
memorialize congress to make reciprocity
treaties with the nations that take our |
products, so that fariners’ stuffs can en-
ter those countries free. They also deo.
cided to ask congress to break up other
trusts and monopolies, and to admit ag-
ricultural implements and the iron used
in their manufacture free.
It will be deeply interesting to watch
the farmers’ management o® what is un-
doubtedly the coming syatem of indus
try for the world-the system of co-oper
ation,
Our line of Gent's
Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks and Sateh-
Furnishing
most
Bellefonte,
In fact there is nothing that. Men,
els, is by far the largest and
»
complete ever shown in
Boys, or Children want for Fg! and
Winter wear that we do not “have in
largest variety and at the very lowest
prices.
You shouid see the goods piled on
shelves—not a
our counters and va-
ant space to be found. The goods
that fill our store from one end to the
other, are the first selections from the
the United
The styles, fit, make
finest manufacturers in
States.
quality of our Men’s. Boy's and Chil-
and
the immense assortment we can show
you and the very low prices we have
marked them.
Remember that our goods are all
bought of us not perfectly satisfactory
when taken home, if returned, meney
will be cheertully refunded.
Yours Sincerely,
M. FAUBLE,
Proprietor.
REYNOLD’'S NEW BANK BUILDING, BELLEFONTE.