Vol. LXXIV. Get our prices before going elsewhere. YEAGER & DAVIS, SUCCESSORS TO: POWERS SHOE CO., ARCHIBALD ALLISON, PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING All work muuily and promp'ly exocuted, HIGH STREET, BELLEFONTE, Pa, 0 Irvin Stationery Ce. Irvin Stationery BELLEFONTE, Pa. JUST A FEW WURDS You will find at this complete stock iu all departments Special attention i» culled to our Behool Supplhe, You will not know whether you did the best you might have dome unless you see our goods and get our prices, TT ———— Irvin Stationery Co. store a Irvin Stationery Co. You would imagine something wrong wilh a wan whom you would see Wear a Straw Hat In January. It Is just as foolish to buy your planos and o gans from a "cheap mail or. der house” whea you 8 more oon veulent chance to compiein when you buy of the local dea'er and he gives you poor vals. You'll] have no cause to complain if you wil but secure our goods, You have our guaraviee and we make our promised good. Any style or make you wish sat your service. Ifyou desire fuformation before purchasing, notify us and we'll be glad 10 call on you, M. C. Gephart, STORES AT: BELLEFONTE and MILLHEIM, H.G.KRAPE, . . . . Manager NERVE OF ENGINEERS IT DOES NOT, AS A RULE, DESERT THEM AFTER AN ACCIDENT. Despernte Chances the Man at the Throttle Will at Times Tuke With- out Being Able to Give nw Satisface tory Reason For Ms Action. “1 have been often asked way cuginee: tious and the was line of thei: perintendent 3" hy Fig i 8 «i i instruc. road,” said the g il su. of a railroad to a man, “und 1 have summed it up that # is Ly an nature for thelr no edception to the gi "Sometimes, they cannot factory reason w by they do so i give you an autlicutic instance of’ habit + nade me live 10 34 SU minute “On a road 1 was at the ed with was a long trestle several miles In length, with bridge in the center. TOT been opened, and as passing through the bridge men beard the rumble of a fast, beavily laden passenger train as it struck the bi & wile away. Knowing that the red danger signals were set with the Open. Ing of the draw, they supposed that the engineer would na might be necessary. Instead, to their consternation, the traln came along at regular speed, and a frightful accident appeared inevitable. They yelled to the captain of the t to go at speed, and as the boat glided thr ay the draw In the darkpess they exerted themselves to swing the draw into the » tke chances In business and at engineers are neral ran give a satis. wild thi ars in ¥ inect- a bay draw had wns draw bont idea idge slow up or stop ugbont id get to the point where the ralls separated. “The eng disregarded the last danger signal. a fow hundred yards from the draw, and came on. By & remarkable colnel and position the draw, which was of course in motion, swung so that rails of the east bound track were In Juxtaposi. tion with the west bound upon which the train was running. and the heavy engine and one of the passenger coaches, striking the en glided upon the draw and eer, however, lence of time the track, it bound rails, stuck there, Ing on the west bound track, almost a figure 8 of the coaches “If the draw had moved the thirtieth part of a second faster or slower, east bound rails would not has been opposite the west bound rails at the very instant that the preat « ngine struck them, and a frightful disaster would have resulted. When 1 got out oni the bridge an few minutes later, 1 fully expected to find the train in the bottom of the bay and the deaw smash. ed Into splinters. 1 discharged the eh glneer an the gpot and asked him why he bad not observed the signals. [He admitted that be saw them. but could not give a satisfactory reason for fail Ing to observe them. He evidently took bis chances of finding the draw closed when be reached it “The engineer of today is a sober, sieady, nervy man, especially on the te making he © a limited express train through the dark. ness of the night, fog. sleet and Lllnd. Ing snow at G0 miles an hour, The sto- ries we read about of an engineer los Ing Lis nerve after an accident are largely fictiom. In 27 Years of active railroad life 1 have had but one or two men apply to me for a transfor upon the ground that thelr nerves had gone back on them for running fhe fast trains, “I have had men who have Ds flung BO feet over their tenders in a head on come to me after they had been dis. charged from the hospital and ask to be they 20, and the ead of an engine Is their | home. If they run into a person or a Wagon load of people on the Is not thelr fault, they take View of it; they have 1 If it Is thelr fault, we discharge them, and they can tike any view of it they please then, for we do not wish nour employ care. less mien. This is true with gli of the biz roads. and as a result American en. gineers of today are about as model a set of men in thelr employment as Can be found.” Washingswon Star. track, If ir a practical 0 Things Not Wanted, Dogs, planos and I¥pewritérs are the Pessessions most frequently advertised for sale at second hand, according toan advertising man run these thiree hard in the gale of things desira- Lile Cameras next. Bicycles and cameras would probably head he list. so many people seem to wish to be rid of them. but thelr tenare of advertising popularity Is brief. Household furn ture, bh ges come usually ses and the list. Tuen sews machines and musical Instruments. looks are far down, almost the last In the lst. Folks who bare them usy- ally seem to wish to keep them —New York Sun. Carrin fiext in Jewelry, watchen The Charge Not Sustained. “You sav.” h pursued the chairman of the mvestigating committees, “that resorted to no | the election so far as you know?" °* he what 1 sald.” “Did be pot circulate several boxes of cigars 7 “Yes, sir, but them cigars wasn't bribes. Here's one of thew. You try it.” Detroit Free ress. ————— Saving Requires Character The faculty of saving mot rarer than the faculty and it calls for the exer degree of good Judgment restraint. Is a word, It character.-- World's Wor ’ athe tas OF making ig and more self requires nore ise ofa bh na BEWILDERED SHOPPERS. Japanese Peasants Whe Track of by Laels, hen the peasants .get themselves up for a pligrimage to a city for the purpose of laying In a stock of finery, they present the quaintest ap- pearance lmaginable. The women gen- erally tuck up their petticoats well above their knees, either leaving the legs bare or swathing them In white bandages which form a kind of leggings. Their hair is done In the usuy- al elaborate Japanese style, and gener ally an artificial flower is stuck In at the top. It does look comic to see the wizened face of an old woman with a large red nose hobnobbing over it. And this floral decoration Is not confined to the women. When you meet a party of pligrims, you often see the old men also with a flower stuck coquettishly above the car. At Nagano it appears that many of the poor old dears from the country get Ho bewildered by the magnificence of the places they go to and the distrac. tions of shopping that they quite lose thelr beads and consequently thelr way. So the ever thoughtful Japanese police have Insisted that every party of pligrims Is to have a distinguishing | badge. At Nagano It was the common- | est thing possible to see some anclent | darge rushing about wailing: “Where is i ee Kept Japanese els my party? Where Is the purple iris party 7* or “Where is the yellow towel round the neck party?" And then she would be told that “yellow towel round the neck party” was on its way to the station or that the “purple irises” were still saying their pruyers In the temple. | ~Knusas City Sthr. rs A ls i Write Graut Hoover for prices on | natra noe. oon “No. 34. COMPANY, BELLEFOXTY, Pa IF YOU are looks have them ng for seasorstble Eoxls—we Finest Ca'itornia and Imported Ors: ges Lemons, finest Mediterrsnean froit Bansuas, the Luest fruit we tuy cen Lug Fresh Buseaits Cakes and Crackers. Bweet Mild Cured Kan ¥ Diid Beef, Canned Meats, Salmon and Sardines, Olives, Table Olls Plekles, sweet end sour Pure Extracts, Gig ger Ale an New Cheose Cereal Preparations of eve ry description 4d Root Beer BECHLER & CO Reduction in-..... All Goods In Stock, Especially in . . | MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. LADIES’ WRAPPERS. SHIRT WAIST SUITS. | TAILOR-MADE GOODS. ACCO nimod ite our We want oraer 1 g ry g Lusiness, more business : 3 O Induce more than 2s AYErs Lo come this way % 2 Las : ever we have knocked the prices and We are offi 113d 1s 311 ot gpl # Tigris 3 ZOO0s over, My or not SPRING MILLS, PA. BRO] | J. SMITH Smith for sale Seed Wheat This is the stock of the offers well known firm of GEO. K. HIGBIE & CO. Rdchester, N.Y., and is the Red Iron Clad.