rHE CENTRE REPORTER
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1908.
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Democratic County Ticket.
For Congress : WW. HARRISON WALKER
For Assembly : J. CALVIN MEYER.
For Sheriff: FRED F, SMITH.
For Register : G. F. WEAVER.
For Recorder: F. PIERCE MUBSER.
For Treasurer : J. D, MILLER.
For County Commissioners :
OC. A. WEVER.
J. L. DUNLAP.
For Auditors :
J. W. BECK.
JOHN L, COLE.
LOUAL AND PERSONAL.
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Paragraphs Ploked from Exchanges of
Interest to Reporter Readers,
Miltheim Journal—
Dr. J. G. Bpangler, of Mapleton De-
pot, Huntingdon county, proprietor
of the Millheim water plant, spent
Monday night snd Tuesday in this
place.
Mrs. C. F. Garret and two children,
Mary and Glenn, started for Hanover,
York county, Tuesday morning on 8
visit to her parents, also to attend the
Woman's Missionary convention at
Red Lion, Pa, to be held next week.
Dr. J. Frank Raine, a former editor
of the Journal, spent Saturday sod
Sunday visiting friends io this place.
Monday morning he left for Baltimore,
Md., to transact some important busi
ness, before returning to Bykesville,
where he has been located for about
three years.
Special services were held in the
Lutheran church in Millbeln SBuuday-
evening. It will be remembered by
the congregetion as ‘‘note-burning
services,” on account of all notes that
were held against Fairview cemelery
baviog been paid, they were publicly
burned. The cemetery is now free of
debt. Rev. B. R. M, Sheeder preach-
ed a sermon suitable to the occasion.
Democratic Watchman—
Mart. B. Garman this week bought
the Nichols property oun gast Curtin
street now occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Lukenbach. He expecta to
make it his future home but will not
move there until next spring.
At a meeting of the state Eclectic
medical society in Harrisburg last
week Dr. W. 8. Glen, of State College,
was elected president, and Dr. R. H.
Meek, of Avis, who by the way is also
a Centre countian, secretary.
It is very probable that D. Buck, of
Unionville, who is one of the stock-
holders, will succeed the late Edward
L. Hoy as manager of the Bellefonte
Jumber company, giving sbout four
days a week to the business and the
other two to his home interests.
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Note from Illinois,
Mrs. Philip Mersinger, of Joliet,
Illinois, a few days ago, in making a
remittance to the Reporter, writes as
follows, which will be of interest to
the Reporter readers :
I look forward to the day I receive
the Reporter as [ do for an old friend’s
visit. It has been a welcome guest in
our home for more than eighteen
years.
We have had a great deal of rain
this spring, but have had ideal weath-
er the past week. The farmers and
gardners are a busy set of people.
With good weatber now we will have
good crops. The bay, or grass, has
never looked better than it does now.
I continued the business just as Mr.
Mersinger and I had worked together
since I came in 1850 and have a very
good trade. I have three good men
employed and we are all kept buay.
With best regards to you and yours,
and all inquiring friends (for I will
pever jose my interest in the Penns
Valley people) I am
Very respectfully yours.
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Oak Hall,
George Tressler and wife, of Penns
Cave, whre guests at the home of Ed-
ward Sellers over Bunday. 5
Mrs. James Ross, of Linden Hall,
was Lhe guest of her sister, Mrs. Con
ningham, recently,
Edward Zong snd family spent Sun
day with friends at Boalsburg.
Arthur Peters and sister, Margaret,
of Pine Grove Mills, spent several
days last week with their brother,
Luther,
Miss Annie Ksup, of Lemont, and
Luther Dale, wife and son, of Pleasant
Gap, were recent visitors st Bunny
Hillside,
Mrs, Ada Benner spent several days
Inst week at Pleasant Gap,
Mrs. Charles Corl, Miss Anns Meyer
and nephew visited their sister, Mrs,
John Close, last Wednesday.
Miss Gertrude Wieland visited Lin-
den Hall friends, Thursday.
O. L. Rishel had a Bell telephone
placed in his residence, Monday.
Misses Marion and Eva Zimmer
man, of Plesssut Gap, were gests at
the home of UO. L. Rishel, Saturday,
Willis Houtz sod wife, of Oesntre
Furnace, snd the Messrs, Marshall, of
Fillmore, were visitors at the home of
Mrs. Benner, Bundy.
Mre, Sannel Blaser, of Unionville,
is visiting her husband’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs, Adam Blazer.
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The Thrice-a-Week New York World
will be mailed all Centre Reporter sub
scribers for sixty-five ceuts, paid in ad-
vance. The World will be discon.
tinued every year upon expiration of
We Are Not as Familiar With
Them as We Should Be.
FEW OF US KNOW THE WORDS
Mow Many Americans, For Instance,
Can Recite “The Star Spangled Ban-
ner” or “My Country, 'Tis of Thee?”
“Dixie” and “Maryland, My Mary-
land.”
Proud as they are of thelr nation, Le
14 a strange fact that Americans are
not so familiar with their country’s
patriotic airs us are the people of the
foreign lands.
Even when they are stirred to the
point of singing by bands they find it
hard to recollect the words. And itis
doubtful whether many are aware of
the bits of history attiched to some of
the land's patriotic alrs,
Take “The Star Spangled Banner,”
for lnstance. How much can you sing
of that song? Yet, If any can be called
the national anthem, this Is the one.
Of course it is unfair to ourselves to
say that we cannot sing It, but it must
be admitted that we don't know it as
generally as we should.
its author, Francis Scott Key, now
les in a cemetery at Frederick, Md,
where an American flag Is always
waving over his grave. Key wrote the
song after an experience he had while
a prisoner aboard a British war vessel.
While he was aboard the boat Fort
MeHenry, the sole protection of Bal
timore, was bombarded, and the song
tells of his satisfaction at finding the
flag of his country still waving upon
the dawn of the succeeding morning.
It is a hymn which all Americans
can join In singing, because it breathes
the spirit of the whole land and has
not one suggestion of sectionalism in
Next as a national song comes
“America,” sometimes known as “My
Country; "Tis of Thee,” Objection is
frequently ralsed agalust this because
the tune was not original. It Is the
property of the British empire as much
as it Is of the United States, and when
it 18 heard from afar one cannot tell
whether the band wants to feel the in.
spiration that is In the words of
“America” or In “God Save the King."
The words of the song “My Country,
“Tis of Thee.” were written by Samuel
Francis Smith. The song was first
sung at a Sunday school celebration of
the Fourth of July at the Park Street
charch in Boston. It is an interesting
fact that one of the little boys who
helped to sing “America” for the first
time is now the chaplain of the United
States senate, the venerable and rev-
erend Edward Everett Hale
Then we have “Columbia, the Gem
of the Ocean,” which has something
ilke an echo of “Britannia, the Pride
of the Ocean.” The tune of “Yankee
Doodle” is a good one, and we all like
to whistle or bum it, but the words
unfortunately are not very good and,
furthermore, it has been sald did not
mean a great deal at the time they
were written. At any rate, it has not
the solemn grandeur that “The Star
Spangled Bauuver” holds,
The origin of “Yankee Doodle” Is
shrouded in the mystery of a score of
conflicting tales. it is generally
agfeed, however, that the tune came
from England, and the words were in-
vented Ly the British soldiers to be
sug in derision of the raw American
troops who joined them at the camp
on the Hudson below Albany in 1765
doring the French and Indian war.
Twenty years later the rebellious pa-
triots played “Yankee Doodle” at the
battle of Lexington, and it became the
first national song of the United States.
Philadelphia bas considersble inter-
est In “Hall Columbia.” It was writ.
ten Ly Joseph Hopkinson of this city,
although the alr was one composed by
a German who wad cond an or
chestra in New York. opkinson
wrote the words at the time when war
was threatened with France In 1708
aud for a long while It was the most
popular of our patriotic songs.
As for sectior il songs, there are sve
which have m. (hty good tunes, a case
in point belug “Dixie.” Although this
was the battle hymn of the Confed-
eracy, Lincoln enjoyed it lmmensely
and on the day of his assassination
asked a band to play it for him.
“Dixie,” however, was written long
before the civil war and was not in-
tended for the use of the Confeder-
ates, It was written in 1850 by Dan-
fel D. Emmett, who was singing with
Bryant's minstrels in New York, Bry-
ant’s show was dragging, and as fall
ure seemed imminent he asked Em-
mett to write a negro “walk around”
which would stir up some enthusiasm.
“Dixie” was the result.
Its adaptation nearly two years later
pearing at the New Orleans Varieties
theater in “Pocal®ntas.” On
of the rising tide of war a govave drill
was Introduced into the show. The or
chestra leader tried over several airs
for the march and finally hit
“Dixie.” burst
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south. At the
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pally associated with “Maryland, My
Murs land.”
This song was cousidered by James
Russell Lowell to be the best poem
produced by the civil war, and Mr.
Lowell could not have been partial to
its sentiments, It was written by
James Ryder Randall, a Marylander.
At the outbreak of hostilities Mr, Ran-
dall was teaching In a small college In
Louisiana. When he heard the news
of the riots In the streets of Baltimore
fu April, 1861, he was fired by the in-
telligence and angry because his. na-
tive state did pot forsake the Unlon.
Under these circumstances he wrote
the poem, It was first published in the
New Orleans Delta and copled in all
the southern papers and, of course, be-
came very popular among Maryland
secessionists, One of these, Miss Jen-
nle Cary, suggested adapting it to the
alr of the familiar college song. Miss
Cary was In Virginia just after the
first battle of Bull Run. She and a
party of friends were serenaded at
Falrfax Court House by the Washing
ton Light artillery of New Orleans.
Miss Cary responded by singing “‘Ma-
ryland, My Maryiand.”—Philadelphia
Press,
RESTAURANT TIPS.
The Much Vexed Question From the
Waiter's Point of View.
“1 know by the way yogaol your
bead you think it's pretty hard on the
public. Suppose every waiter here got
a regular salary, with no chance for
extras, Do you suppose he'd be jump-
ing hurdles for a lot of fussy people,
all kicking about better things than
they get at home? Do you think he'd
present the glad smile to those he'd
like to choke, break his neck making
everybody comfortable and then listen
to their hard luck stories or more pain-
ful jokes? No, sir; he'd serve the stuff
just as he got it from the kitchen. He
wouldn't go back and fight for tidbits
and extra hot food. He'd be In no
hurry to serve any one and plle up
work for himself. The customer would
walt because the walter wouldn't, and
probably he'd never come back, and
that's where the owner would lose.”
“It must take great iogenuity to
make the system pay,” 1 mused.
“It does,” sald Joseph. “The stupid
walter starves, Do you know that in
order to hold good walters the cheap
hash slinging joluts have to pay high-
er wages than the swell restaurants?
There's not the opportunity for tips
in the cheap places, and the walter
must follow opportunity like a bird of
prey. He simply has to be clever
enough to get tips, and he has no social
standing to make him bashful. There
are two methods—one Is to get them
spontaneously, the other to force them
out. Most people tip only because
they're ashamed not to. [I make out
better with the first method, especially
in a place like this, where most of our
patrons are regulars. It lsn't the reg
glar who does the complaining. He
knows and saves the exertion.
“With strangers it's a gamble. It
may be a little party, and the things
they order gladden your heart with an-
ticipation. You try to be a genlivinan
with the service, and then at the finish
you get nothing-or maybe a dime
You can't complain; you'd be discharg
ed. But there are ways. You can’t
blame a walter who is bunkoed If he
administers a rebuke in a dignified
way, such as, ‘Ah, sir, you've forgot
ten a dime of your change, or he can
call his belper and without a word
point to the colin for him to remove *
Robert Sloss In Harper's Weekly.
Persevere,
I bave often heard people In mature
life say, “If 1 had only kept on as |
had begun, If 1 had only persisted in
carrying out mye ambition, I might
bave amounted to something and been
infinitely happier.”
Muititudes of people have led mis
erable lives of regret, with thwarted
ambitious constantly torturing them,
simply because In a moment of weak-
ness and discouragement they turned
back. If there is any time a person
needs nerve, grit and stamioa It is
when tempted to turn back, when the
coward volee within says: “Don’t you
see how foolish It Is for you to fry
to do this thing? You have not the
means or the strength. How foolish
to sacrifice years of comfort and pleas
ure at home among the people who
love you for the sake of doing what
you have undertaken! It Is better
to turn back and acknowledge your
mistake than to go on and sacrifice so
much.” Whatever you do or how
heavy the turden, do not lay it down
at such a time. No matter how dark
the way or how heavy the heart, wait
until the “blue” depression or the dis.
couragement has passed before taking
any decided step.--Buccess Magazine.
Customs of the Street.
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LAWS OF WAR.
he Code That Governs Hostilitiss Be-
tween Civilized Nations.
The “laws of war” as at present for-
mulated by the civilized nations forbid
the use of poison against the enemy;
murder by treachery, as, for example,
assuming the uniform or displaying
the flag of a foe; the murder of hose
who have surrendered, whether #pon
conditions or at discretion; desipra-
tions that no quarter wiil be given to
an enemy; the use of such Ty or
projectiles as will cause unnecessary
paln or suffering to an enemy; the
abuse of a flag of truce to gain Mmfor-
mation concerning an euncmy's posi
tions: all unnecessary destructiea of
property, whether public or privat,
They also declare that only foriified
places shall be besieged, open cities or
villages not to be subject to slege or |
bombardment; that public buildings of |
whatever character, whether belqiging
to church or state, shall be spared;
that plundering by private soldiegs or
thelr officers shall be considered had-
missible: that prisoners shall be Weat-
ed with common humanity; that the
personal effects and private preperty
of prisoners, excepting thelr armd and
ammunition, respected; that
the population of an enemy's cewotry
shall be considered exempt from par-
ticipation in the war unless by hestlle
acts they provoke the iii will of the
enemy.
Persona! and familly honor a the
religious convictions of an’ iapmded
people must be respected by the in
vaders and all pillage by regular ps
or thelr followers strictly SEulat po
shall be
No Plot.
The actor, rounded dp In ssa
with a bunch of others, —
composure while his companic in
misfortune were giving way to degpalr.
“l can prove my Innocence of som-
plicity in any conspiracy to the gom-
plete satisfaction of the autho es,"
he sald
“How can you do that?’ one sf his
companions asked “You will aways
be suspected of belug connected with
a plot”
He smiled confidently.
“Not when 1 tell them that for
1 have been playing in musical
dies.” — Baltimore American.
ears
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Golfing Sarcasm.
“Caddy, how many strokes ls that
for tals hole?’ asked the golfer with
the plaid cap.
“] can't say, sir.”
“Can't say?
“No, sir: 1 can only count wp to
twelve, sir.” —Plck-Me-Up.
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