GENIUS,
hat seest shou oa youmfer desert
plain,
Large, vague, and void?
{ see a city full of flivkering streets;
f hear the hum of nivriad engine beats.
What seest thou?
{ see a desert plain,
Large, vague, and void.
What ler human
face,
Pale, frail
i see a soul
T read a page
What seest vou?
human face,
rail, and small
E008
and sme all?
by vin;
and of sin
tragedy worn t
of poetry
{ see a
Pale,
ast thou at yonder dim Cross
roads
Baside
Y'ntraveled Pos i
The Inn of splomdi
What seest tho
E see the §
Beside a shuttered
Florence nson in
- .
“Knockers”
Last “Granny.”
that
ity
i Mystery
cross roads
inn
AeClure!
Perchad high on
‘Knocker At
noond meal
rong with
work of a tai
moodily eatin
There
appetite that
Common
Pi
was somet
jay, for he did a very
untouched
From where
] down oR
Irongh a tangied web
steel beamms, nine ste
any one not accustomed
this would have
height; but to KnocRer
the
+
seemed
ing
ting
Kno«
name
tel
1.
‘Kar ni
from
nin
ning
had
lligent'y
amination he
fore entering
fore he hs
and
sald, all
Low to tie
had
Jim.”
F's good
“Big
in
had
young pupil a
gee med so
GARY
Knocker had given
When, however
fldently
and they
knot, he became
vory worst thing pe
“granny.”
The only difference in these
knote is that in the square
twe lines forming the loop are parallel,
while in the granny t! are
The latter imes slip
placed under
Perhaps only a
or or a would
appeared on-
f examiners,
told hin i ie the square
lid the
and did
ible: he tied a
r before the be
onfuseq
EE
two
hitch the
rossed.
wiren
ey
'
Some
raip
gtr
tural iron work
sailor ed the
mistake; but
of men the
knot cannot be overk
of the examining board,
who had grown gray in
work, saw the an instant
Kindly but firmly refused to
further with the examination
“They wouldn't
chance to she
fron work!
evening, as
Big Jim.
Well, according rules. vou
send in your application again
months. In the meantime learn to tle
the square hitch.”
Big Jim meant that for consolation,
«ss well as advice, but it fell short of
the mark. THe {rue cause of Knocker's
deep desire to enter the union did not
come from the dollar and a half in.
crease In wages
To Knocker a fearls
was a hero What would
friends have thought when t
him marching with such men in
parade? That would indeed have
triumph.
“Three months!
do me then to be
Knocker's mental comment, as
looked round for some source of
amusement. “I don’t care whether 1
ever learn to tis the
not.”
Just then a band down the
struck up a tune, and Knocker became
all excitement
unions were forming for their march.
In a few moments the great Labor day
parade would pass the (Maypool Build
ing.
Knocker poked
from which to watch M.
a long scaffolding Board, he ran one
end of it far out past the edge of the
have not
lasaeg
false
these two «
ng a
oked. The
an old
eracting
among
offense of tyi
head
man
iron
and
prox eed
error in
even give me a
ahout
that
hig failure to
yw what 1 know
said
he r
Knocker hotly,
lated
to ran
in three
fron worker
his boy
ey saw
the
een
Much good it will
in the union!”
od Jast to one of the roof trusses,
‘hen he boldly walked out on it
gat dows, allowing his faet
over the end of the board
Although it bent in a manner
| frightful to the onlookers who
filling the street below, Knocker
| the plank was of yellow pine,
| would bear five times his weight
A moment later the
| tion ‘ted
| corner below.
most
knew
and
rowd’'s
ard the
atiom-
wns at tow
looked in that
band
the
company
Knocker also
i tion, and
ing round the
Cloge behind «
gaw the leading swi
cornar
ame a
| haps a hundred men
Cag nd blouse Knoci
ther
§
ng
strevt
ol
into
Pe r
dr
i "
i recognize the as
{ who had mpl
this company leading al!
These "
Lv pool
dered he!
their uthfal fries
irl
#iovh
tion
There was
man, with
ontio
pi
one ex
big
OUurage
ation sh !
owing in his far
ang from the
swiftly t
and squa
and pushed his
recjaw, apr
way
moment Iater he rea
{ nee which shut
rowd A
high boar
the «
Buildin from
agill i
ta a sailor
and
Bis
the fence fisappeared
enclosure
Meanwhile ith
found his
era from
posit
Knocker ion
maintain spiint
hands crue
jaws and
tha
ly
he had one chance left
came in contact with
the hoard
he might
(new
the hard knot
116%
granny before react
sliding posit
There little hope
however, for the plank had
paszed the forty fifth degree
or's weight on the end wonld
arted it sliding down that
not 1 in a slight indentation In
the pine, caused by the rough iron on
the edge of the building
hen a alight quiver
the plank.
Knocker would not have noticed it;
but under the high-strung condition of
his nerves he felt it quite distinctly
and grew sick at heart. The boy clos
ed his eves
It was only the hard knot coming in
contact with the granny that
the plank to quiver... An instant later
Big Jim arrived on the spot
his quick eye took in the
and he knew in an instant
to save the hoy
fon, be
goeemed of
already
Knock
have
ret ay
ran
what to do
| about to let go, heard hw
| tone of volce—drawing his mind from
| the danger, cheerily encouraging him.
| As he talked the big man was not
{ tle. He braced himself and was pull
ing sturdily down on the lashing. In
| and made fast in Its original position,
1
Knocker back to
safety.
Down on the sireet
play merrily th
differe unions fell
again,
Jim."
making
In that mo
in
true cau
the bands began
more an ever, and
gald faintly
you miss the parade’
jim fh
the hoy
BOW
ment
tion
tho
r the union
Since you did not
1," answered
3
ff the parade
happens
‘We
From
will wat
companies
ow cheer
ing along
FAMOUS OLD ARITHMETIC,
In It Children Two and a Half Centu
Ago Studied Multiplication.
ries
HE KILLED THE GRASSHOPPER,
Nebraska Man's Story of the Way #
Saved His Crops.
red,
an en
Appes
made
saved his
I found.” } sai that the grass
iimbing
morning
what was
eed me and my family, |
y the field how
getting morning,
my impa liberties
:
hoppers ware in the habit of ¢
every
feed
NE on
the wheat
gpend the
ints
stalks to
day
ded to f
fn
d to go ont s x
‘ Be i LO Sen
were on every
at
with
tistics the
were taking my wheat |
strike at a clump
hung stalk and
occasionally
as they tO a
ound
“Aft
a Erasshoip
made
fier,
that when
oy i gd ho
no further off to get his din
but remained on the ground until
time mb the stalk
raing. Immediately on mak.
important disc
wont
down
regular to cl
next me
ing the overy |
and took our long wire clothes
line, amd called my wife and
help me. Then we went through that
forty acre field, drageing clothes
line the wheat us, and
knocked all the grasshoppers to the
ground There they stayed till the
next day
“Next morning we gave the hoppers
Just time enough to get well started
want out and
proceedings of the day
The result was the same, and
course of a few days
to come
the
over between
repeated the
before,
in the every
starvation. Our neighbors came out
and called
but we harvests
~Nebraska State
Journal.
Painting With Milk,
Guy E. Mitchell tells of a
He and others
for painting barns and
outbuildings. Into a gallon of milk
are stirred three pounds of Portland
cement and enough pigment to give
the proper color. This mixture spread
Mr
used ii
becomes as good and
paint. It makes the
possible paint for trees where
large limbs have been pruned or
sawed off, says Mr. Mitchell.
The total commerce of Abyssinia
is about $9,00000 a pear,
Rev.
lying, it Is
By the
T is
ingratitude to
not not
parents
a thief, to be
con
is the
These ingrate
through hell,
anda to
In other words, they are ined
the devil and his imps
It i= a sad and shameful
room in a miserabl« down ten
room, man,
that mi
cience
who “g
bse
nian
his Journey
“hateful
and of
to God i enemies ol
tumble
On a
even the
Besides
Evmpathy
} y
muna
not ev
gtenlins iL is
the
a liar, to be a murderer
yre dis than thie lar or
picable
hi fa
J back on hl ther and mo
in the
whom |
God
not only by God
cailegory
y
Ww 1
Wis i
and
from a
cits
sick without
hi
such word
&4 down
pain that
What Japan W
f Kor
of
fants oO
iv
¢
era and What Russia Wants
Her.
IB. Hulbert
im: is want
Hry
a
sentimental reiatd
man dares ne
quent spectad ie
y is with the
‘ and
WwW
who
erall
expectat
the habit
daughters
jluxuries unknown
vehic of her
self tempted to give
riage and 2 husband
matter of wanting
there is a menace of gr
fons
of
wD
hey carry her
this ease and
who must dally w
remain single
import to t
own
0s
{to
ave
1Irrison.,
arge func
playfellows
there still
and main
i hia
nity aang mbie
Ing generation requires
Baltimore where beauty and
back ducks, the moth
fldren have the fun
Om Im:
apparent subs
Certain it is that young
chieve matrimony are a fre
blame him, acquainted as he gen
informed on every side of the
? As for the girl It is
equip and prepare their
commonly provide her with
es of rooms, maida, horses
abroad. timt she cannot find her
for the humdrum estate of mar
downtown. * * * | think in this
she is better off than if married
~-Evervbodie’'s Magazine
of the
fence
the
BOCiely
nts 80
they
th
BO
cait
variety
1
ike
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CRACKED VOICES.
A Lack of Muscular Conlitrol is What
Causes the Break
The pitch of the human
pends primarily upon the number of
vibrations per second of the wvooal
cords, and they in their turn,
on the length, size and degree of ten
sion of the cords, which increase in
length with the growth of the larynx.
One of the deepest bass notes, from
the greater length of the cords, has
only eighty double vibrations a sec.
ond. while a soprano voince can give
892 such vibrations in game timo,
The size of a lad's larynx is, rougi-
ly. that of a but when the
piping sob ting up into
manhood his larynx grows rapidly and
the vocal become elongated
nearly in the proportion of three and a
half to two, The cartilages by which
their tension is regulated also share
in this growth, as is seen by tha
swelling of the so called "Adam's ap-
ple,”
Now, all these parts do not increasas
with equal rapidity; hence the mus.
evar conirol, which must be very
exact, is rendered uncertain and the
voice is said to “break.” A similar
change takes place in the case of wo
vioyiee dad .
depend
the
woman's,
swaiboy 18 shoo
cords
men, but much less in smount,
and a further compensation in the for.
mation of the uuper part of the larynx
| serves to disguise the effect.
very
Popularity of the Walking S%ok.
For the past few years walking
sticks have been more generally wed
{ by the gentlemen of the frock coat
They will, however, seen on all
occasions during the spring and sum
mer season. The well groomed man
carries his walking stick to business
| for service all through the day. and
the man who spends but a few hours
about the business district
likewise leans on his stick.
Some are of white walnut, stained
with acid to the taste of the owner
! English furze is very popular, as are
likewise the Madagascar and cherry.
Partridge wood and the pimienta are
sought, and oak j= always in deman 1.
It would be quite impossible to say
what style of handle is most favored,
Each is good if not clumsy in treat.
ment. Thoroughbreds carry the cans
for service rather than to twirl in the
hand. ~—Sartorial Art Journal
aa mata yar te PE IEE
be
of town
Mustard water will remove the odor
of onions from the hands.
Spring Mills Hotel
EPRING MILLE, PA.
PHILIP DRI Prop.
times for both
Free bus to and from all
lent Livery stisched, Table
The juors and
MM,
First-class accomadations at a'l
d beast
Froese
wing
man a
finipe
bosrd 6
wiues at Lhe Lar
Centre Hall Hotel
CERTEE HALL, PA
IAMES W. RUNKLE, Prop.
sipped. Bar snd table supplied
summer bosiders given special
Heslthy wocality Besutiful scenery
Within three miles of Pe ave, & most besuth
Cavers by & boad
bo wt
trent
Blilention
pate 1
ful # BOER enirauce
Well located for haunting and fishing
Heated throughout Free carriage to al
Old Fort Hotel
154 AC
8. Location :
sDlers
1 trains
HHA WVER, Proprietor,
One mile South of Centre Hall,
first class. Good bar. Parties
1joy sn evening given special
Meals for such ootasions pre
short notice. Always prepared
Accom modalious
wishing Ww e
slleniion
paied on
for the transient
RATES: $i
trade
80 PER DAY
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alls 4 anlin
Penn's Va al 1£§ Bantin Company
CENTRE HALL, PA.
W. B. MINGLE, Cashief
Receives Deposits . .
Discounts Notes . . .
Hotel
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Haag
BELLEFONTE, PA.
: F. A. NEWCOMER, Prop.
Heated throughout, Fine Bubbling
RATES, $1.00 PER DAY.
Special preparations for Jurors, Witnesses,
and soy persons coming to town on special ed
ca sions Bowls boardems well cured for,
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(EViS. BOWER & ORVIS
ATITOERNEYS- AT LAW
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BARGAINS!
A rp
The readers of this pa.
per are eonstantly apom
the alert to ascertain
where goods can be pun
chased the lowest
prices, and if a merchant
at
does not advertise and
keep the buyer conver.
line of
goods, how can he expect
to sell them?
EE
THINK OVER THIS!
sant with his