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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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