FHE CENTRE REPORTER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 183, 1808. * AAronsburg. Mre. Nora Bower Kreamer has gone to spend a few months with her hus- band at Edinboro, where he is going to school. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Guisewite en- joyed their Bunday dinner at the home of Merchant Thos. Meyer, at Millheim. James Swabb has gone to Pittsburg where he will be employed in a bakery. Mr. and Mrs. Stahl, of Milton, visit ed their sister Mary, at the home of Mrs. Deshler, Harry Burd returned to his work at Akron, Ohjo. after having visited his father and brother a few weeks. Mise Ruth Bwabb spent last Friday night with her sister, at Tusseyville. Miss Mabelle Crouse has gone to Philadelphia to work in a millinery store, Spring and summer styles are now in the making. Miss Nellie Burd returned from a few weeks’ visit to Bellefonte friends. Are. Malinda Stover, who died near Coburn, was buried in the Reformed cemetery Monday forenoon. The singing school under the leader- ship of A. 8. Stover is growing more interesting each evening. Mrs, Bara Leitzell has returned home after spending two weeks with her sister in Potter county. Rebersburg. Ralph Stover, of Asropsburg, at- tended to business in town ove day this week. Charles Miller, of Williams, Iowa, ia visiting his brother Howard. Mrs, Sara Leitzel after visiting her th Ross Mowery, has returned to her home in Aaronsburg. Rev. Wetzel and wife called at the sme of William Eckert, Saturday. Charles Wolf, of Wolts Chapel, was in our burg one day this week. Jacob Spangler, of Tylersville, WAS & risitor in town one day this week. A series of meetings started in the ,utheran church Bunday evening. Mrs, Ida Weaver, of the east «nd of this valley, moved to town one day this week, into her own home which she bought a few months ago. William Eckert, the landlord, has rented a hotel in Moorsburg and will take charge of the same in the spring. Noah Frank, of Gordon, and brother Henry, of Montandon, were visiting friends in town. er, h Colyer. W. J. Copenbaver, general merchant at Colyer, had his home brightened by a new-comer, ** Russell Byrne,” weigh- ing ten and one-half pounds. Good for Walter, May the little fellow grow to be a sound Democrat. Wm. J. Stump, of Millheim, is vis- iting friends at Colyer and vicinity. He had been employed by the Beli Telephone Company for the past three years, but is home at present. He will resume work in the spring. the sick are Mrs. A. J. Weaver and Charles N. Fye, the Iatter being ill of typhoid fever. Both are improving slowly. The people who intended going to the convention last week were snow- bound. It was impossible for them to get out, A J. E. Kline lost a valuable horse, last week, as did W. R. Neff. Cause unknown. sonie— A — — ————— Sober. The blizzard lust week was the worst this community has experienced for gome time, Roads were blockaded ; mail carriers unable to get through ; drifts eight to ten feet high. John Ilgen, wifeand son, of Farmers Mille, visited at U. G. Auman’s, Sunday. Fishermen are still along the streams trying to hook some of the finny tribe. Everybody made good use of the ice last week. Many loads were taken ofl Penns Creek. P. 8. Confer and sons are taking out a car load of fence posts. | Milton Vonads and wife were out enjoying a sleigh ride one day last week. Among Woodward. Mr. and Mrs, Isaish Boob and son Bruce, Mrs. Phoebe Wise and son El Wood, attended Mrs. Geary’s funeral at MifMinburg, on Thursday, Miss Miriam Benner having spent a few months at Flemington returned to her home last week. Miss Minnie Grenoble, of Belletonte, was called home one day last week on account of the illpess of her father, Johu Grenbble, F. P. Gulswite and family spent the Habbat: with the former's mother, Mrs, Glantz, Services will be held in both church- es on Buoday morning. sma AAI ————— It is safe to say that a more striking story then “ Bimeon Tetlow's Bha- dow,” wuich Jesnnette Lee con- tributes to the March number of The Sart Het, has pot appeared in any recent magszine, It grips the reader’s attention from the very first sentence. ip on AAI fA ATTAIN A SCRAP OF PAPER. It Was the Means of Bringing a Mur- derer to Justice. Serups of paper have on several oc- casions been the means of throwing a light on some of the greatest eriminal mysteries of modern times. Had it not been for the minutest scrap of tissue paper it is quite possible that the notorious Franz Muller would have remained a free man to the end of his days. After foully murdering a Mr. Briggs in a railway carriage on the North London line Muller made off with his victim's hat. When caught several months later a top hat declared to be Mr. Briggs’ was fourf® in his posses- sion. Its shape, however, had been considerably altered, and Muller In- sisted that the hat had been bought by himself. Was it Mr. Briggs’ hat? “1f itis Mr. Briggs’ hat,” sald the hatter who supplied him, “you may find a piece of tissue paper in the lin- ing. Mr. Briggs’ bat was too large for him, so 1 put the paper in to make it fit” When the lining was turned down a scrap of paper which had adhered to the leather was discovered. Muller had a bigger head than Mr. Briggs and had therefore resolved to take the pa- per out. He left that little bit, how- ever, sufficient to establish the identity of the hat beyond all question as that Mr. Briggs was wearing when he was murdered. This only one instance among many where bits of paper have solved great mysteries.—London Answers. is ART OF THE ETRUSCANS. Mysterious People Who Left Traces of a Remarkable Civilization. Why did the Etruscans devote their whole lives to the incessant making of pottery until it accumulated in such quantities that thgy were compelled to bury it in order to keep room for themselves in thelr streets and houses? Then, again, there is the mystery of the Etruscan inscriptions, These In- scriptions are fairly numerous, but hitherto they have proved to be utter- ly undecipherable. The Etruscan is lan- im- Considered could investigation. guage, as a nothing Se0I more them with such ease that almost any given series of hieroglyphics can be read in three or four ways by an equal number of rival Egyptologists. language more utterly impossible first glance than the Assyrian argow- headed language could not well 1 pH men who can read, write and speak ar- rowhead with facility. And yet no man can make the least sense of the writ ings left by the Etruscans, although they are written in Roman characters. All that we know of the Etruscans seems unreasonable and preposterous. Naturally this makes them fascinating to every one who delights In mystery and the solution of puzzles—Putnam’s Magazine The Paper Told the Tale. A certain Greek adventurer some years ago undertook to palm off upon the public false copies of the gospel manuscripts. Many learned men were deceived, but not Dr. Coxe, libra- rian of the Bodleian library at Oxford, How he detected the fraud was related in his own words in the Spectator: I never really opened the book, but I held it in my hand and took one page of it between my finger and thumb while I listened to the rascal's account of how he found this most interesting antiquity. At the end of three or four minutes 1 handed it back to him with the short comment, “Nineteenth cen- tury paper, my dear sir,” and he took it away In a hurry and did not come again, Yes, 1 was pleased, but I have handled several ancient manuscripts in my time, and I know the feel of old paper. . some Effect of Whistle on Rattlesnakes. “Should you ever encounter a rattle snake and he shows fight just begin to whistle softly and the reptile will un- coll and lay with his eyes closed and body quivering.” sald a Tennesseean. “On more than one occasion I have run across rattlesnakes and have al ways taken the fight out of them by whistling. The snake seems to become absolutely helpless when he hears a soft whistle and will make no attempt to spring upon you. This whistle ap- pears to soothe his anger and robs him of ting power. 1 saved my life on one ‘occasion in this manner. Try it and you'll find that I tell the truth.” Nashville Tennesseean, What, Indeed? A duchess requiring a lady's maid had an interview with one, to whom, after having examined her appearance, she sald, “Of course you will be able to dress my bair for me?” “Oh, yes,” replied the girl; “it never me more than half an hour to } i i MISERLINESS. Spend When You're Dead. “I'm not opposed to a money.” remarked the lighting a fresh cigar, “but 1 can’t help feeling that it is wrong for one to do it by meanness and by denying one- gelf comforts. It Is because much of this that 1 feel this way. “Whatever is the reason I must say that in my observation the usual result fs that when one has saved up money by this self denial the ones who re- the money after death waste it. “Pa {Hluxirate this let me tell you of a specific case. A few years elderly woman died In our city called to care man saving ceive ago an I was for the remains, [I as- desolate places I ever saw. There pone of those little things which go to make a room comfortable and cheer ful. [I couldn't but help thinking that the poor woman's life had dreary one. In a way I still think so. “She wns 0 enty In the who had been was heen a town wis one her friend She No one supposed the deceased hb the world When we were remove the body the pe house called my attention small box which they all the effects of the dead w “When we opened that box we that it contained $5,000, the old saving of a lifetime “In her efforts to hoard up this mon- in about to of the cent CETERA Y Onn * had denled herself little luxury. What for? if you can. 1 can't, “A relative nearest « only hLelr, came on from a lantie state and took the with bh money necessities; the ren . | er for burial On the a a ~he fle day of the funeral . y had several hack then she made t] a present { $5. gave hearse the two men vho dug spent $2500 for a f the $5000 she Same sun ate the mot rest blew id Iady bad ife to accnun sad, that is Lut ea, of scores af th to you did the mind. "Lewiston Journal ral cnse em {hat 1 could recite EO00KWORMS. the Borers. “Oue of the qgneerest superstitions,” thin 4 in this that the Inmense ravags RAVE 8 SACO city.” Is the cominits printed boen aml ye think it bores volume People hrough books and eats out Ia in the middie of disappears, and goes so far as to assert that the ‘ worm will eat a hole that would hok a right In the mi book, then vanish without lea exit “The aon ¥ 3 ties A ve the superstit 1 1. is marble ile of “ier ABY HK BA) is that wood will gh books and also that plain truth borers that infest throu harm ¢ There are a horers to Insects eq do about as much insects nds of damage why the are not more frequently caught is that they do their and generally leave the book to enter the chrysalis state in oth- None of the boring worms gre large, and even when a in actually at work the sudden opening of bosk allows the insect to drop out unolmer an made books, however, little troubled by borers. There «0 many different kinds of chem covers, bindings, pa- As en di more the iy ollie ferent ki or less bhnoks, reason work er quarters borer the v ed “Amer! are vOory are feals used in the per and paste that boring insects gen erally get very sick at the stomach before ther have made their way far inf» an American In southern Europe, however, great damage Is of. ton done to libraries not only bor. ers. but also by ants, which eat their way into the heart of a book and leave galleries and chambers easily mistak- en for the work of the borers"-St Louis Globe-Democrat, book by A Knocker That Meant Life. 80 cruel were some of the punish ments meted out to criminals in Eng land centuries ago that it was small wonder the poor wretches claimed the “eight of sanctuary.” If they reached a church or some other privileged place the law could not touch them. A curi- sts relic in connection with this cus tom exists today in the form of the quaint knocker on the door of Durham eatuedeal., The applicant having ham. mered at the portal, one of the priests inside would inepect him through the eyes of the copper mask above the knocker and after due pariey would admit the frightened criminal au Following Instructions, “Here, my poor man,” sald a kind old jady, “here is a shilling for you. Now don’t go and spend it in vile drink” @ “Thank you, ma'am,” answered the tramp heartily, “I'll not. 1 suppose was a-referring to the wretched stuff they ‘as at the Dun Cow, mum? Ah. but I'll go to the Black Bull. They keep the right sort there!” London a. ad Active Enough. . Physician (reflectively)—H'm! The ease is one, 1 think, that will yield to a mild stimulant. let me see your tongue, madam, if you please. Hus. band of Patient (hastily)—Doctor, het » Tr: Announce ment... 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