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.
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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
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All Goods In Stock,
Especially in . .
| MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.
LADIES’ WRAPPERS.
SHIRT WAIST SUITS.
| TAILOR-MADE GOODS.
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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
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Tigris
3
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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.