EERE Ee. DEATHS, FRANK GARDNER, Frank Gardner died Tuesday morn- ing at ten o'clock, at his home at Rock Springs, after an illness of only four days, although he has been in delicate health for many years. His age was about sixty-five years. BSur- viving him are his wife, who was Miss Ella Goheen ; one son, John, and three sisters, Mrs, D. M. Ciemson, of Pitts burg ; Mrs, J. M. Goheen, of Tyrone, and one sister in Illinois, Mr. Gardner had Deen a sufferer from asthma for a long time, but on Saturday morning he took inflamma- tion of the brain and gradually grew worse. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. Inter- ment in Graysville cemetery. MRS. JOHN CARSON. Mrs, Elizabeth Frances, wife of John Carson, of near Bellefonte, in the Nigh Bank district, died a few days ago, and Wednesday interment of the remains was rade at Bpruce- town. She was aged sixty-eight years and ten days. Mrs. Carson’s maiden name was Kleckner, and was born in Salona, She came to Potter township when & young girl, and it was while living there that her marriage took place, and for some time the couple lived in that township. Besides her husband, several child- ren survive, smong whom are Mrs, Minnie Brown Millbeim ; Mrs. Nan- nie Love, near Bellefonte. She is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Bamuel Bible, of Oak Hall Station. FRANK ROBB. == After; suffering from consumption for two years, Frank Robb, a native of Nittany died at the home of his sister, at Bloomsburg. He was aged fifty- one years, and during the past years was employed by the Commercial Telephone Company. Interment was made at Sonydertown Monday morn- ing. He is survived by a wife, —————— A AY LOCALS, Dandy sleighing. The ice mien were cutting a crop Wednesday. The Reporter guesses that it will be Bryan, This is a guess, remember, but pot far from the truth. A pew line of post cards just in, and among them are a lot of embossed Valentine cards. These will be sent by mail 6 for 25 cents; 12 for 40 cents. Joseph W. BShaughensy, of Belle foute, representing the insurance flim of John F, Gray & Sop, was in Ceutre Hall on Tuesday, sud from here went to the south side of Potter. H. D. Meek purchased tne College Hardware company store and took pos session jast week, The stock will be replenished snd the store lransformed into an up-to-date hard wars store, B. H. Arpey expects to go to Niagars Falls the Istter of this week to visit his sou, aud beginning of next week will be accompanied home by Mrs, Arpey, who has been in tuat city for several weeke, I'he Democrats in Gregg township eanuot be sccused of pot pomivatiog the right nusn for the office of super- visor, st least if thers is anything in the name, That township has ou its ticket Israel Bpayd, sud he is all right, B. F. Homan, of Oak Hall j=tation, the cream separator snd lmplement dealer, was in town Wedpesday., He has been uo usually busy during the past few months, owing to the super- grecling st Biate College, RoLis—Tue finest roiis and bresd baked anywhere you will flud at Murray's bakery, Centre Hall, Parties who are lu need of any for sales or banquets will pieass call and see for themselves, Prices to suit every- body. —~MRS. REBECCA MURRAY. The De Jmval cream separator advertised by D. W. Bradford, Ce Hall, who has been giving most of h time since ast spring to the sale of the same. The De Laval has many su- perior qualities, first of which is light running aod darability. All other features of a separator are subordinate to these. Write or call by telephone, and Mr. Bradford will be at your services, George W. Homan, of near Pine Grove Mills, on the White Hall road, bas been seriously iil during the past two months, The beginning of his illness was due to indiges:ion, which two weeks ago developed into typhoid fever, slong with other complications, His present condition iaserious, Miss Mae G3. Homan, a nicce, who is a trained nurse from the Medizo-Chirur- gical Hospital, Philadelphia, is at present taking care of him, Charles Miller, of Williams, Iowa, in visiting his aged mother, Mrs. Mollie Miller, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Keller, st Lin- den Hall, and other relatives there, It is over forty years since he left this to locate in Illinois, near Free- port, where he became owner of a large farm, which he sold ten years ago, and went to his present farm, near Will isms. He was a clerk in the store core dacted by Frank Harlacher, in Centre Hall, for several years, before locating LOCALS, / Next week the musical convention, Miss Elvy MeClenahan returned te New York, where she is engaged in a hospital, Donnelly, the Renovo child murder- er, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Miles Dippery is moving from Cen- tre Hall to the Koch property, east of Centre Hall, Keep in mind the Farmers Institute to be held in Centre Hall Monday and Tuesday, 17th and 18th prox. A good program has been arranged. Thursday evening of last week, Mies Roxanna Brisbin entertained the class in the Presbyterian BSabbath school taught by George L. Goodhart, and of which she is a member. Mr. and Mrs. 8. H, Glen, of Altoona, who had contemplated moving to Centre Hall, bave decided to remain in the railroad town for a few weeks longer, anticipating resumption of work in some of the shops. A number of bills have been enclosed in this issue of the Reporter. There have been many responses to those gent last week and the week before, yet some of the Reporter readers must have mielaid the slip, for otherwise they would certainly have in some form sent a message to this office. Thisjlittlejootice isja gentle reminder, Prof. C.D. Koch on makingjhis tour of the eastern district of Pennsylvania as inspector of High Bchools, was in Centre Hall last week, Prof. Koch is a thorough schoolman and will use his office for the best interests of the Penn. sylvania Borough and Township High Schools. He was very favorably im- pressed with the High Bchool in Centre Hall, and spoke flatteringly of the course a8 laid down by Principal Neff and approved by Btate Buperin- tendent Schaeffer. While in Centre Hall Prof. Koch was entertained by Dr. G. W. Hosterman. : Program for Frogress Grange, There will be a regular meeting of Progress Grange in Grange Arcadia, Baturday afternoon, one o'clock. The program is as follows : “ The trade card, with special refer ence to dues paid, and other privileges,” “ Testing seed corn.” Recitation—Miss Elsie Moore. ** What part of farm management belongs to the husband ; what part to the wife? Belect reading—Mrs. D. W. Bradford Bird or Bee? Two quaint observations about hum ming birds are published In “Early Long Island,” by Martha Flint, both quoted from letters of the seventeenth century, written from the new coun- try of America. Says one “The Humbird Is one of the wonders of the country, being no bigger than a Hornet, yet having all the Demensions of a Bird as bill, wings with quills, spider-like legges, small claws. For Colour she is as glorious as the Ralne bow." Adrian Van der Douck, one of the Hollanders of Nieuw Nederlandt in 1642 writes of a— “Curious small bird concerning which there are disputations whether it is a bird or a bee. It seeks its nour- ishment froin flowers like the bee and is everywhere seen regaling itself on the flowers. In flying they make a humming noise like the. bee. It is only seen in Nieuw Nederlandt In the sea- gon of flowers, They are very tender and cannot be kept alive, but we press them between paper and send them as presents to our friends.” Value of a Constitution. It happened in the spring of 1860, when Garibaldi was pursuing his expe- dition in Sicily and when the words “Constitution and Liberty” were on ev- ery Neapolitan's lips. “Why are you so anxious for a constitution?” asked a foreign tourist of his gulde and donkey driver while they were traveling through the mountains of Sorrento. “Well, you see, your excellency,” was answer, “because I think we shall It is now close out my asses to visitors from all coun tries— English, French, Americans. All of these have a constitution, and they are all rich.” It Didn't Go. “Lady, I'm out of work,” explained the tramp, undismayed by the forbid- ding glare of the lllinols farmer's wife. “I'm a deep sea fisherman; but the fish Is all fished out of the At lantic ocean this year. Beln' a poor, unfortunate, but honest man, I'm now on my way walkin' to the Pacific coast where the fishin’ Is good, Can't you help a feller along a bit?” “Yeu, indeed,” replied the farmer's wife; “I'll just unloose the dog and help you run part of the way."-Lip- pincott’s, Family Repartes. “Well,” snapped Mrs. Henpeck, “I certainly was a fool when I married you." “True, my dear,” responded Hen: peck, “and 1 regret to state you haven't improved any.”-—Detroit Free Press. Good Beginning. Doctor-Madam, your husband must have absolute rest. Madam-—-Well, doe: tor, he won't listen to me. Doctor-A very good beginning, madam-—a very good beginning. Binghamton Herald, Appear to know tail nor tall~-Epictetus. rr —— AN UNOPENED PADLOCK. Vienna's Strange Rolic That Defied the Worla's Locksmiths, In 1510 a blacksmith went to Vienna and locked an | ind around a tree with a i i Vhiat he did with the kes ve to this day. There ond to the effect that into the alr and CHine At could not be found, gavernment offered a prize of LOO ducats to any one who could make a key that would turn the bolt in the lock without breaking It. Many have tried to win the prize, but nobody has won it. Eventually it became the practice the con- testants to drive a nail In the free aud the heads of of the nails bear the initials of those who drove them. The practice of driving nails into the tree sealed its fate. The lower part of the tree In a few years assumed the appearance of a moss of fron. One spring the leaves failed to come out, and ister a summer storm blew the top away The historic stump was cut off and placed pedestal on one of the prominent street corners in Vienna. At the same time the band was cut in two and put around the stump to hold it in its nica, leaving the pad- lock In its original pe Aud there the old stump stands to this day an object 1 ists and the dents of Vienna Stock im Elsen been named after Book, ANTIQUITY OF GEOMETRY, The BO Oni 1 Is a mivthiul log he carelessly thre that it never any rate, the key and the A down trian among sone solid On i iron Wition wih of the curiosity of tour the resi. , ft glreet, “Stick an Ire has Reratr wT veneration of Incidentally on the stump Beience May Have Existed In India For Long Ages. Did we learn our rule of thrie our Euclid from India? have brought to light astronomical ta. bles in India which have been constructed by the pr etry. of the o fra sranmed und Kesearches Some are have been made not the Christian be well fo etry must have been cultivate dia to a considerable fore the period assigned the west, tary propositl brought fr The Ind “Surya Bidhanta be a revelation fr cated to Meya, n about contains a rat etry first known In Gree fact, is found theorem which geometricians time of Viet And it empl tion unknown others Th uted to tu they have ri in trigono feal Tribune 1088 that 4 000000 veurs onal which differs is is é¢ i if ie bios vr CHarad irish Stories. An Irishman while taking a barge up Bhannon was asked what goods he “Timber the had oun board and aryl Censls answered, What miber and what sort of fiuit . ] must know, the tim- h brooms, and the fruit, averred that the habit It of living outside of the great grievance Ire o complain of an Englishman, I don’t werd PT ’ ab} ilking Liorse! believe in | abzentees."” Not belave In "em! Come to Dublin with me and I'll show ye "em by the hundred. Why, the country just swarms with em.” your Ravenous Rats. It is estimated that the rat does £50,000,000 worth of damage a year in England. In a slaughterhouse near Paris rats ip a single night picked to the bone the carcasses of thirty-five horses. There Is very little that they will not eggs, young birds and animals are among the dainties which they snap up in the ordinary course of business, But when pressed by hunger they will eat anything through which they can drive their terrible teeth. Rat will eat rat. The Idea that a trapped rat will bite off an Impris- oned leg and so escape Is now sald to be wrong: it is the other rats which do the biting. They eat the captive, eat: Books Bound In Lead. A bookbinder was putting a binding of lead on a book. “WHY lead?” a visitor asked. “This,” the binder answered, “is a naval code book for use on a battleship. All such volumes are bound in lead.” “But why?” “So that In the event of the ship's destruction the books will sink with It, for they contain secrets of immense value, and every precaution must be taken to kedp those secrets dark.” a Ari ln ‘A Substitute. : “You're rather a young man to be left In charge of a drug store,” sald the fussy old gentleman. “Have you any diploma?’ “Why-er—no, sir,” res plied the drug clerk, “but we have a preparation of our own that's just as good."—Phliadelphia Press. Consolation. “Steward, how long will it be before we get into the harbor?” “About an hour and a half, ma'am.” “Oh, dear, 1 shall die before thon.” LH THE WIND OF DEATH. to's Street For Use VWhen the Bora Blows. hat whi OH Dalmatia, or, paihe IHyrin which resnches t Dabinatia, the halts } ’ us onlled it wl f HOLL 80 nny the few bits of Europe a measure unhackney- still of the beaten paths of the tourist, who himself is al. ost much of a curlosity to the people as they are ta him. ‘There are nccording to article in Appleton's Magazine, when the bora blows, that wind of death, as the natives call it, which comes out of the blue with more than a suddenness of a tornado and shakes the earth and all that Is on the earth, séinging, blinding, choking. In the square of Trieste life Hues are prominent features which the citizens the hora clutches grope thelr whirling dust and the fiying in the goes ns and it is sitnply excavate them- the drift and think no vinged demon, which the or i sky. | Life Lines In Tries Iiyria is now that part of Adriatic is cantry, en it fell years ago. he forgatien fH fie iio t ir hand it one of that vin in ul Hi it in out HE SEHROTNN, an Hing! ETasn Ww hen them, and way through the they promiscuous missiles But the COs, gdark« ned air it gone the people bara quickly when ever in 4 of the scoured HIS SYMPATHY. It Would Have Been Worth More Only | He Lacked Presence of Mind. In the eriminal court in Baltimore a | darks ri stealing a He was | Hs the i | 2 out of his pock- | inno- how he came in | teh he sald: the corner when | me and says he 1s | cent to buy food | i this ld get $4 on | him | nd pawn- | got the | orson | ME Ne ry for Lap ro fion of the vor touch- yolk canal, the s ed When the task of cuttin at first f« and restore the ne under: £3 y grd { ight © 100 Napoleon this jan v ent plan determ il: tute warm, though this would removing one 8 cout roiling up one's same purpHos It dd that an stranger, seeing a soldier in (ull highlander uniform shiv. ering In a cold wind, asked him: “Sandy, are you cold with the kit?” Na, na, mon,” the soldier answerad indignantly, “i nigh kilt with the cauld.” much like teoat and for we asst emi fand wai whiirt sleeves the is sa i'm §¢ it Labor of Ants. It periinps be pushing meta. phors to an ranted extreme to speak of “dignity of in connec tion with the ations of ants. But if by the phrase we mean that labor is the honorable lot of all citizens and that all of whatever sort are upon the same level of respectabliity then we might venture to apply the saying even to the labors of an ant hill. For therein all are workers, from the uewly fledged callow to the vet eran of a second summer.—Harper's Magazine, wolild iabor” aoc] labors Nothing. A cockney tourist who had invaded Ireland was trying his hand at chafing a native, “Pat,” said he, “what is the meaning of the word ‘nothing’? “Sure, 1 can't explain it, but ye'll find it in the place where your brains ought to be!” Narrow Escape. John-—-You very nearly got engaged while you were on your tour in the mountains, 1 hear. Michacl--Preclous near. But fortunately just at the last moment 1 fell down a precipice Pearson's Weekly, At the Club, ra. Bloodgood—1 thought her quo. ta wis apropos, didn’t you? Mrs, Newritch--Dear me! I always sup posed his name was Edgar Allan. Ex f 3 | 2 SHOES DVN DBD WV WN BBY DR VND a— “eo SHIRTS Men. 000 BN WoW WH WW HW We TSW WW a Ss f £%i} £2 il - a « 8 Perfectly sale Will not scot or smoke. THE BEST FOR ILLUMINAYING BOOKLET SENT FREE Your Dealer Has It. om — a rn _— UDITOR'™ NOTICE —In the Orpban's we Qourt of Centre County, In the matter of the estate of Mary Oust, late of Benner twp. Aeeonsed. The underdgned, «un atid’ tor nted by the sald eonrt to make diviribntion the ands in the hande of the Acoountant to and among those Hy eutitied thereto, will meet the parties in we 0 y the b liefonte, Pa on Ssturday the 5th day of Janture. AD. 1008, at 10 o'clock 6. t., when an where the sasd parties Way appear or be forever deberred coming in on mid fond, Dec, 19 1907.51, D. PAUL FORTNEY, Auditor,