DEATH?R,
JAMES RUNKLE,
In the death of James Runkle, at
Tusseyville, Tuesday morning, Potter
towuship loat one of its most aged and
respecled citizens, He was born at
Centre Hill, March 15, 1833, making
his age almost eighty-five years. He
was the last sarvivor of the children
of Jacob Philips Runkle,
He was a farmer by occupation, and
lived all his life in Potter township
Sarviving him sre his wife, nes Catha-
rine Spangler, aud the following chil.
dren : Mrs, Hulda Bullivan, York ;
Mrs, Mary Bodtorf, Newberry ; Mrs,
Lydia High, Lock Haven ; Mra. Alice
Osman, Glen Iron ; Wm. G. Runkle,
Bellefonte ; Jane and Hugh, at home;
Mrs. Maggie Musser, Penn Hall ; one
gon, Uslvin, is dead.
Interment will be made Friday
morning, services at the house sat tep
o'clock. Rev, I). Gress, of Centre
Hall, and Rev. J. M. Runkle, of Will
will officiate,
il
iamsport,
Mr. Ruukle
weeks, bis first illness being grip.
Was about three
SAMUEL 8. STOVER.
Samuel 8B. Btover, who for a number
of years made his home with the
Misses Annie and Lizzie Bible, east of
Centre Hall, died Wednesday evening
of last week, aged sevenly-two years,
In-
mat
three months sod nineteen days.
terment was made at Centre Hall
urday forenoon, Rev. B. F. Bieber
officiating.
One daughter, Mrs,
man, of Miimont, survives,
Madie BShively,
Msazie Kather-
Another
daughter, Mrs, died
about three years ago.
One brother, George Stover, of Al-
toons, survives, and was present at
the funeral,
The dead
Daniel, Mra, U
glemay, William, Joseph,
Mrs. William Ewerick,
sisters
Mrs.
Drotiers and
D. Osmag,
John
Mrs, Revecea Musser, wife Aro
Larousburg.
Miss Marjory Lieb,
M. Lieb, of Bellefonte.
lom Musser, of &
of J.
daughter
Ellsworth Irs, son of John Hermap,
of Pleasant Gap.
emma ———
Ji Spectacle on the Diamond,
Agdew days ago a hall dozen or more
Bellefonte, hauling
MeNitt-Huyett Lum-
of Centre
teamstiers rota
umber from Lhe
ber Compsoy’s yards, cast
Hall, for the Yeager-Davis
euergad irom
drunken condi
SWihg
Centre
Company, the
Hall
tion that
HOWL 10 BLU A 25"
UbaLie
Lhe
8
sole of Lhemn were
unassisted Lo wount thelr sleds,
the Liind.
Moun
vaius were unable to
they were
fF (rivers began
eading
Nittany
the blind Deguu
reaching the foot of
fail soe ol
draw Lhe
nite
bealiug
IORUS wlich
ed, whereupon the
£4
Whit
Wis 8 slislne
was wilhessed Ub)
W. H. Runkle,
and unless he reports Lhe eflair to the
s rules, it
ful spectacie, and
Borougiu Constable
court at Ms next sitting, the voters ol
Centre Hall
BPOIORY .
will owe themselves ab
anisms ——
signed Telephone Contracts,
Messrs, N. B. SBuafler and Harry E.
Fye, Hall ; M.
Buith, Thomas Hosterman aod Philip
C. Frank, of near Centre Hill,
sigued Bell
plone cola psny instruments Lo be
east of Centre obert
Lave
contracts with the tele
ior
placed iu their residences, [hese cou-
Litree years term aod
tracls are {or »
call for Lie bunding of a poie line tou
the Bell iruuk lines, aud that the poie
live be sigued over to the Beil
NT
I will preach
15,
y of
Cou~
A psn
Notice for Methodists,
Halli Sup-
al Bpruace-
7:80
These services will conclude the work
of the conference year, Our friends
are kindly asked io see me about any
Uupaid subscriptions 0 benevoiences
or church papers, at that time or be-
fore. Let there bea good attendance
at these services, Very truly,
UG. Ww. Maluxay.
ms i Ap MP AAA
alt Centre
at 10:30 ;
Spriog
day, March
town, 2:30 Milis,
Marriage Licenses,
Reuben dH. Munson, Philipsburg,
Annie B, Milliver, Philipsburg.
Thomas B. Weaver, Asronsburg,
sara Bowersox, Asronsburg,
Lioya KE. Bartges, Coburn,
Mezie Haflley, Anronsiurg,
Daniel FP. Heam, Spring Mills,
Tawmie C, Haflley, Aarousburg.
s—— Ay oni
LUOUALS,
Mre, John H. Puff hes been confined
£9 bed during the past week,
Mrs. 8. W. Bmith is in Philipsvurg,
the guest of her sister, Mrs, I. R.
Morgan,
John Frazier, southeast of Centre
Hall, has been seriously ill during the
past ten days,
Rev. J. R. Beclirist was returned to
this charge again by the conference
taat just adjourned.
Postmaster George M. Boal, last
week, was to the Bellefonte Hospital,
and had removed from the back of b's
shoulder a growth which annoyed
him for a number of years. While he
has not besn at his office since return-
ing home, he is getting along »
SKY 45d ia’ about Ge |
emer AY
LOOALS,
John Q. A. Kennedy will have bale
Tuaesdny, Marcti Slst,
Mrs, George O. Benner Baturday
went to Martha, Lier former home.
Mra, Mervin Arney and daughter,
Mies Pearl, are ill, but are reported as
improving.
Mra. Kote Dale, widow of the late J,
U, Dale, of Centre Hall, has been seri.
wusly ill during the past week, Mrs,
Minnie Richards is also ill.
Btate Treasurer Berry will, in all
iikelihood, be nominated for the legis.
{ature by the Delaware county Demo-
orals, He is an out and out temper.
ance man, and if elected will aid the
oause of local option,
Miss Candace and Andrew MeCor-
mick, after a visit to their grandpa-
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Reesman,
and sister, Miss Bertha, and brother,
Master Bobbie, returned to Joliet,
[ilinois, Monday morning.
The fact that the farmers in lower
Georges Valley have liberally sub
«wribed toward the construction of a
rural telephone line, has awakened the
residents in the upper portion of that
valley, and now they too are canvass
ug that district with » view of build.
ing} a line, to Centre Hall, In the
vent that this is done, a side line will
y s—
«xtend down Penns Creek, a —
4A. Walter, of Millheim, is the, dele
gate-elect to the Lay Electoral Confer-
ance of the Central Penn's annual cone
ference the Methodist church,
which meets in York, Friday, March
2, W. W. Spangler is the reserve
delegate-elect to the same conference.
his conference has equal lay and
ministerial representation in the
Geperal Conference, which will meet
in Baltimore, Md., next May.
of
oc mcs dpa
CHURCH APPOINTMENTS.
| Appointmends not given here have not been
sported to this office. |
Bl NO Srvicos
Effetts In Some of the Pol-
onze Reflectors.
Peculiar
ished Bi
and then mirrors of a curious
They are
wre of Jap-
anese ass sliver
ed, but
face
pattern
», polished on the
the raised
de.
back
symbolical
long puz-
fan and
believed
even
The
inute differ
lished face,
ite that they do not
3 of the mirror
ass and that can be de
» optical tests
iture in the po
¥
=
by i
remaining mystery has
these delicate differ
were produced io
i
pattern on
only
fo bh
curvature
exact correspondence to th
the back. The makers
often In ignorance of the
orts
mirrors possess it
The "
PW
wy « ¢
ences olf
the
ans A .
ang do not know
ids and aft
i] hand, and It is
entific men that the differ.
vature is eansed by the met
lly under that pres-
the tools used in scraping and
the parts naturally
more than the thick. This ae
for the mirrors’ becoming
Chicago News,
mirrors are cast in me
ng unequs
thin
Book Auction Back In 1732.
governor of the
province of New York, died on July 1.
1731. In the New York Gazette of May
8, 1732, Is the following advertisement,
the first of the kind:
“On Thursday, June 1, at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, will begin to be sold
at public anction a collection of valua.
ble books belonging to the library of
his excellency John Montgomerie, Esq.
late governor of New York, ete. de
ceased, A catalogue of the books may
be seen at the Coffee House in New
York, with the conditions of sale.”
This is also the first instance where
the word “auction” appears,” “venduoe”
being the term in general use.
x :
Jolin Montgomerie,
ros
ry
Heavier Ammunition.
“Is this the man we are to initiate
tonight?’ asked the {illustriofis con.
ductor,
“It is,” replied the outside guard. The
fllustrions conductor walked around
the 350 pound candidate, Inspected him
carefully and turned to his assistant.
“Put the goat back” he sald, “and
bring me a mule.” ~Chicago Tribune.
He Gets Too Many.
“My, John, you haven't a particle of
tact!” i
“What have 1 done now?"
“Asking Mr. Hamfat to dinner and
telling bln you will give him a good
roast! And he a second rate actor!” —
Baltimore American,
One Way,
Husband—1 don't know how much
of an allowance to give you. Wife
You know how much you can afford,
don’t you? Husband-Why, yes. Wife
~Then give me as much more as you
JOHNNY'S CAREER.
The Same That Was Started by the
Cornell Widow,
Sheer nonseuse rhymes and jokes
without apparent reason or object are
frequently used to fill the pages of the
Cornell Widow. If anything more foot-
less than the “Man of Glegledort”
verse has ever been written, the Wid-
ow wishes to state that her bump of
credulity was Imported from Missour!
and must be shown:
There was a man from Glegledort
Who, to save his barber's fees,
Would wet his hair and let it freeze,
And when 'twas frozen break it off.
The Widow claims the credit of orig
inating the nonsense rhymes which
dealt with the cleverness and precgliy
of the bright little lad who careiUssly
slaughtered his mother, father and im-
mediate relatives. These poems, If so
they may be called, appeared in the
Widow In October and November, 1900
The same year they were collected and
published in pamphlet form under the
name of “The Johnny Book.” Johany
started his career by “an tragedy” as
follows:
Johnny hung his little sister,
Bhe was dead before they missed her.
Johnny's allus up t' tricks,
Ain't he cute?-he's only six.
Next we find that—
Johnny with his little ax
Dealt his brother orful wacks
He don’t care if mamma kicks
Ain't he cute?he's only six.
Later development of the little romp
shows that
John has gone from bad to worse,
Now his father's in a hearse
Bmeared him with a load of bricks
Ain't he cute?—he's Only six.
And so on until Snally
Johnny saw a buzzsaw buzz
like a bike and thought it wuz
Johnny's corpse Is full of nicks
Ain't he cute?he's only six.
verses terminated the Widow's
with John, but
hese
connection
tive and and pushed
it to a finish.
started In
edifying career
the Widow office and trav-
eled
the bit of “Eb and
in this we discover that
others w
doggerel.
Flo was fond of Et
FE re
as
WHERE
for = ghe called her beau
ides of love!” Great
i: should see ‘em, Eb and Flo
itself this beautiful
hardly claim a place in a volume
great A: can poets, but
traveled far and wide and received an
iy
hardly f
came a pursuing nightmare. — From
hemian Magazine.
Women the Greater Dreamers.
following figures:
Thirteen
t
Fate of a Schooner That Was
Used as an Experiment.
SHE WAS DASHED TO PIECES.
& Thrilling Sight From the Time She
Struck the Seething Rapids Until
the Mighty Falls Tore Her Into
Splinters—A Pair of Tough Geese.
The following story of the first pub-
Niagara Falls
at the time by an eyewitness:
the
at that
fact, to
lake,
her
He excursion to was
written
“The
largest
schooner Michigan was
vessel on Lake Erle
time She was too large, in
the various harbors on the
being somewhat
Major Frazer,
would
enter
and, decayed In
uppers, the owner, got
the the
purpose of testing the fate of a vessel
that fecident
near the cataract and also the fate of
idea that she answer
by might approach too
living things that might be caught in
The of the
large public houses at the falls on both
sides of the river and of stages and
purse to pur-
that they
amply repaid by the specta-
the exhibition would attract.
the rapids proprietors
steamboats made up a
chase the schooner, aware
would be
tors that
“For several days previous to Sept
affair
urday, the
to Buffalo
night
i country
village
the day for which the
fixed, which was Sat
and ecanalboats came
f erowilexd the
i of
On
with ped
Sept. bb wagons
rattled throug! in
night 1 , and
Sept. 6 Bu lo it-
» be moving in one
I On of
the morning
self seemed t
toward
IASs
Five
to
They
Penn,
The
the
a $e oof conn
atiraction,
been
ivertised
Buffalo Saturday orning.
Henry Clay, fillam
Hppewa.
{io tow
agar river
hippewn
:
& 3
Ff 4
ae © Lie
Ningn
messengers went fis
of the Willlam Penn
Henry Cla
indeed on the An
Landing was three miles
the falls, and
newer
the crowds
river in wy
of
number
oY
- i
ing thelr sleep. The
requently Is
of women is 45 per cent
who dream
that
siderat
per cent,
very rarely,
doctor noted,
suggested more or less directly by the
incidents of the material life of every
day.—-Boston Advertiser.
Thrifty Paganini.
When Paganini was asked many
years age to play at Vauxhall Gar
the place would hold.
“That Is impossible to say,” sald the
manager. “It is a large, open space.”
After some reflection the great vio
large, open space contain when quite
full?”
“Perhaps 20.000."
“Ah, 20000 people!
how much?
“Four shillings each.”
“Four shillings each! Twenty thou.
sand at 4 shillings make 80,000; 80,000
shillings, £4000. Well, 1 will play in
one concert for £3,000, and you may
have the other thousand.”-8t Louls
Republic.
And you ask
Poles of the Earth.
The circle of the earth's dally rota
tion upon its axis being the greatest at
the equator, the consequent greater ac
tion there of the centrifugal force dur
Ing the period when the earth was a
yielding mass produced a bulging out
of the surface in the equatorial region.
with a consequent flattening at the
poles. Thus we have an oblate sphe
roid. with the length of the axis of the
poles about twenty-six and a half miles
less than the equatorial diameter.
A Literal Youth.
“Why, Johnny,” sald Mrs. Muageins,
“what are you doing here at home?
Is Willle's party over?”
“Nome,” blubbered Johnny, “but the
minute { got inside the house Willie's
father told me to make mysel! at
home, and 1 came.” Harper's Weekly,
Helping Mer.
“You loved her very much?”
“So much that when her first hus-
band died I married her that 1 might
share her grief and so lessen it"
“And how did it work?"
“Fine! I'm sorrier now for his death
than she 1s." Houston Post.
Sos.
Incredible,
Customer (looking over his bill You
bave made two mistakes in this bill,
once In your favor and once In mine
Walter—In your favor? Where?—Lus
tige Blatter.
Produce much, consume little, labor
diligently, speak cautiously ~Chinese
afternoon
hazardous
sailor
1g task, an extremely
mtrusted to the oldest
w
oarsmen the
nder
was
i quar
and
nendous
first rapids
the tre
as near as they dared
approach cut big
adrift, a:
while the oarsmen
bend
remove
being drawn down by the rushing wa
ters ndeed, such the fea
Lae
% we
of the v2
thelr every nerve and
themselves from the peril
had been
men that thed
Nis
time he
had set. If they had obeyed the reck
lens old captain, he, the and
crew would have preceded the Michi
cut the line before the
yawl its
“The bh
the river were lined with people
Michigan, unguided by human agency
approached, head on, the first rapid of
the seething descent, apparently keep
ing the very course that a skillful nav
igator would have guided ber In. The
American ensign streamed from her
bowsprit and the British jack floated
at her stern. The vessel shot the first
rapid unhurt, still head on, making a
plunge, shipping a sea and rising from
it In beautiful style. In ber descent of
the second rapid, the water momenta
rily Increasing in velocity and tumult,
her towering masts went by the boand,
giving the spectators a startling repre
sentation of the crashing of a vessel's
gpars In a shipwreck at sea. She
swung around and presented her
broadside to the dashing and foaming
water, and, after remaining, as it seem-
od, stationary for a moment. swung
around until she was headed upstream.
“Passing the third rapid she bilged,
but carried her hull to all appearances
whole as she tossed and groaned be
tween Grass island and the British
shore to the Horsesloe fall, over which
igh grounds on both shores of
as the
she was drawn sternforemost and
hurled into the thundering abyss.
struck in the seething waters below.
Immediately after she went over hun.
dreds of people hurried below the falls,
The river was covered with fragments
of the vessel.
i
fol
i
when they got on land
tial they made wo resistance to being
gijtured. The bears, before they aban.
climbed the masts of
was presumed,
what their fin.
and then deter-
niitied 10 take the chances of getting to
nnd, =lim as they were, The raecoon
rip up a mast and remained there une
til the mast fell, He was never seen
Fhe foxes ran frantically up
and down the deck and went over with
the ‘schooner, as did the buffalo bull
and the geese. Not a trace of foxes or
buffalo was fod. Two of the
geese swam ashore half a mile below
the falls. ‘The other two met the fate
of the buffalo and the foxes.”
fo exhausted
whip
and,
thut outlook saw
be anyhow
Adon the
the ves
Frain
fer would
hr ae It
figuin
ever
HIT HIM IN TWO PLACES.
The Way Cicero Treated Mis Devoted
Admirer Petrarch.
In the early autumn of 1308 Petrarch
suffered accident which may be
narrated in his own words. “You shall
hear,” he writes to a friend, “what a
trick Cicero, the man whom I have
loved and worshiped from my boyhood,
has just played me. 1 possess a huge
volume of his letters, which 1 wrote
out some time ago with my own hand
because there was no original manu-
script accessible to the copylsts. il
health hindered me, but my great love
of Cicero and delight in the letters and
eagerness to possess them prevalled
against my bodlly weakness and the
laboriousness of the work, This is the
book which you have seen leaning
against the doorpost at the entry to
my library. One day while golng into
the room thinking about something
else, as I offen do, I happened inad-
vertently to catch the book in the
fringe of my gown. In its fall it struck
me lightly on the left leg a little above
the heel. “What! My Cleero, quoth
I, bantering him, ‘pray what are you
hitting me for? He sald nothing, but
next day as I came sgain the same
way he hit me again, and again 1
laughed at him and set him up in his
place. Why make a long story? Over
and over again 1 went on suffering the
same hurt, and, thinking he might be
cross at having to stand on the ground,
I put him up a shelf higher, but not
til after the repeated blows on the
same spot had broken the skin and a
far from despicable sore had resulted.
I despised it, though, reckoning the
cause my accident of much more
weight than the accident itself. AM
last, when the pain was too much not
only for my wit, but for sleep and
rest, so that to neglect the thing any
longer seerned not courage, but mad-
ness, I was forced to call in the doe-
tors, now some days
been ridicu-
lous
and some
an
nf
of
who have for
fussing over this really
nd, not
nger to the
yi with 11 4
woul Without
wound
as they insist, though I think you }
eart, and now
From H. C
trarch.”
GUIDEPOSTS IN FRANCE.
A Striking Feature of the Roads
Throughout the Country.
A feature of
present guldepost
the roads of France
he ever
kist of an fron
ong and a foot
on sturdy posts
substantial wall
painted In and blue
without any possibility of m
the or township
h they stand, but the next Impo
place in either direction a
between all
Thus you wi
road
white
. commune
whic
tant
the
points upon that routs
find if traveling on a
which leads to Paris that the nai
the metropolis will appear on the sign-
board, although it may be several hon.
dred kilometers distant
In addition to these guideposis the
Touring Club of France has put on
the chief roads a series of signs and
symbols to indicate to motorists and
bicyclists what sort of a road they are
approaching. The sign “ralentir.” which
transiated Into good United States
means to “let up,” has caused many
motorist who is unfamiliar with
road he Is traveling to slow down and
to find shortly after the sign had been
passed that it was well that he paid at
tention to it because of a steep grade
or some abrupt turn. There is vo ex
cuse, In view of the symbols and sign
boards, for any one motoring in France
to get on the wrong road or to come
unexpectedly into trouble. — Frank Pres.
brey in Outing Magazine
8 well as
r
distances the chief
you are
3
the
Shakespeare's Last lliness
According to a tradition handed
down by Ward, the vicar of Stratford
brought on by a “merry meeting” with
Drayton and Ben Jonson. Another au
thority, Halllwell-Phillips, says that
the great poet died of typhoid, cause:
New Place. Like nearly everything
alg about Shakespeare, the question
of he character of his last {llness can
be answered only conjecturally.
At the Wind's Mercy.
“Beroggins is always boasting about
his new balloon.”
“That's all it's good for”
“What's all it's good for?”
“To blow about”-Cleveland Plata
Dealer.
Use For Them All.
“You have three pairs of glasses, gro-
fessor.”
“Yes; 1 use one to read with, ome to
see at a distanco and the third te find
the other two."
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horns. Orders booked now. Also for
hatching. D, ROSS BUBHMAN,
Oeatre Hall, Pa,
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The undersigned offers for sale a com.
plete Threshing Outfit, comprising a
Frick Traction Engine, 12 H.
P., Geiser Separator, size 30x
46 inches, good as new
and has a wind stacker,
Birdsell CLOVER HULLER
good as new, with sell-feed tach.
mest. CHAMPION®
in run order,
WATHR ANK, tank
in good condition,