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THE CENTRE REPORTER
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1908.
P— me So ————A——_——_—
The Country Editor,
His better you will have to seek
Beyond my ken
He saves the country once a week
With virile pen.
Wrong in the very bud he nips
In f arless way ;
Hews to the line and lets the chips
Fall where they may.
He boosts his county and his town ;
For right he stands.
He calls the haughty tyrants down
Of foreign lands.
And for it all he taketh greens,
Potatoes, squash,
Cordwood, horseradish, cider, beans,
And even cash,
Red Cross Stamps for Sale
Red Cross Christmas Stamps are on
sale at this office, All for charity.
Si A ls
Jury Wheel Fllled for 1009,
Six hundred names were placed in
the jury wheel to be drawn for the
several terms of court during 1909
The filling of the wheel, of course, was
performed by Jury Commissioners
Adam Hazel and Clement M. Gramley,
with W. Miles Walker as clerk.
nt fp Apr —
LOCALS,
James N. Van Ormer, who for a
number of years lived in Millheim,
died in Harrisburg, and was buried
there.
If a farmer wishes to find out the
amount of corn he has on the ear, mul-
tiply the length of erib in feet by
width in feet, and divide by two and
one-fourth. Theeasy way to divide by
two and one-fourth is to multiply by
four and divide by nine.
The 1908 Christmas stamps offered
by the Red Cross Bociety are decidedly
prettier than those of 1907. They rep-
resent so much, sod when attached to
a Christmas greeting they show the
right spirit prevailing at the Christ-
D&S season.
Bruce Crotzer, who has been staying
about Centre Hall for the past few
months, intends going to Freeport,
Illinois, sometime next month. He
has a cousin, Elkanah Crotzer, living
near that place, and he will stop with
him for a while, and probably go on to
Kansas to his uncle, J. A. Strunk.
Have you examined the label on
your paper recently ? Nines are won-
derfully popular, and so are tens. To
you it means but a dollar to put a new
figure on the label and put the date in
advance ; to the publisher it means
his very existence. The whole news-
paper business is conducted on this
doliar—one from each subscriber each
year.
Mrs. Catharine Bitner, who makes
her home with ber daughter, Mrs, J.
8B. Meyer, at Penn Hall, has been ill
for some few weeks. She is past
eighty-one years of age, and conse
quently her sickness is regarded with
apprehension. Mrs. Bitner's sisters,
Mrs. Amelia Bingaman, of Laurelton,
and Mrs. Tamar Derr, of Lewisburg,
came to see her Saturday.
The post office department is appeal-
ing to the public school teachers to
teach the pupils the proper way to
address letters, packages, ele. also the
method of procuring money orders,
etc. Many letters are improperly
directed, not only in form but incom-
plete — the pame of the person for
whom the letier is intended, the post-
office or state are ofttimes omitted,
The real estate of the late John
Brachbill, in Bellefonte, was sold at
public sale. The store and dwelling
on Spring street was purchased by W.
R. Brachbill for $4,000, and the proper-
ties on High street, which includes
the stores of James Wiasn, John D.
Bourbeck and D. &. Willard were pur.
chased by Charles Brachbill for $3,000,
The sale was made in order to settle
up the estate,
Rev. Monsignor Nevin F. Fisher, of
Philadelphia, is one of the prominent
prelates whose name has been sub
mitted to the Pope as successor to
Bishop O'Connell as rector of the
Catholic University of America,
Father Fisher was born at Boalsburg,
this county, and is a brother of Dr.
P. 8B. Fisher, of Zion. He was edu-
cated at the Th ological Bemioary at
Overbrook and the American College,
Rome. Upon his return to this
country he became # professor in the
Overbrook Seminary. He was named
as the first rector of the Catholic High
school st Broad snd Vine streets,
Pniladelphia, by Archbishop Ryan
when the school was opened in 1890,
The title of Monsignor was conferred
upon him by Archbishop Ryan in
1908. Fatler Fisher is fifty-two years
of age.
Potters Mills.
W. H. Binith and family, of Spring
Mills, visited friends at Potters Mills,
Sands v
Wi 30 fy on the sick list.
Geo: + muel Jordon, of Iili-
pols, ste vie. ¢ thelr many friends
about Tussey viii nd this place,
Tie Potters vi « orchestra gave a
musicale at the howe of George Jor-
don, Friday night.
Miss Ella Smith is staying with her
cousin, Mrs. Mary Cumings.
Mra, Badie Foust Is not Improving,
but is gradually grow ing weaker,
J. KR Htrong has sold hie rroperiy to
WW, sMetormick, and «111 start for
Boston, Muss , abou. J+ uary lst.
The Workinger property ls for |
A TEMPERANCE UNION.
Members Limited to Fourteen Drinks
of Liquor Daily.
“Signiug the pledge” Is no new thing,
a8 Is proved by researches in italy.
Interesting particulars of what would
appear to be the earliest examples of
written pledges to abstain from gam-
in the Turin Studi Medievall by Signor
Girolamo Biscaro, who has discovered
three such documents in the archives
of Milan. The first of these records is
an oath sworn on the gospels by Gla.
como Pasquali and Armanino Duca
to the effect that for two years they
will abstain from gambling in Pavia
or within three miles thereof and will
likewise refrain from inducing others
to gamble on their behalf. The penal
ty for any breach of this oath is fixed
at § soldi, parable to Paplo Bovatorin,
In the second document Perano de
Bono promises Uberto de Proto
abstain from gambling for a certain
period, exception being made be-
half of the game of bismentiro, at
which, however, he was not lose
more than 2 denarli on any one day.
Further, he undertakes to visit
any inn for drinking purposes before
the hour of Monday A
breach of either clause of the pledge
Involves the payment of § soldi to De
Proto By the third document Sileto
Ferrario expressed his willingness to
pay 12 denarii to his brother Lamperio
he be persuaded to play for
money in any place of public rt or
to spend more than 2 denarl on intoxi
cants in any one day.
The motive for these contracts is not
stated, but it is presumed that they
were entered into by employees whose
inasters wished to keep thelr prociivi
ties In check. There Is nothing in the
documents to suggest the existence of
any organization for the promotion of
temperance. The honor of being first
in the field In this respect therefore
still rests with Germany, where two
temperance societies were founded In
he sixteenth century
Of these the Order of St. Christ
Ih formed Sigi
Diettrichsteln on Jan. 18, 1517
Order of Temperance by the |
of Ilesse on Dee, 20 The
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A PAFRISIAN RUSE.
The Dressmaker's Lure That Ensnared
the Americans.
Margaret Gould
Septeruber Woman's He
of the ways
thilishm
tells in the
ime Companion
Parisian dres
ents sell their ¢
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worked In one of t
Paris
and
Grace
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ments in
sudden
among
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ute)
ite
cived
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to bulge
ificent equipage
ned a regally gowned grand lady,
nded by footmen and mald and re
by bowing estab
ment. to neglect of all other
natomers was In a gracions
this day and easy to be pleas
thelr past efforts and select
ral « sw creations with
ard cost After had
Core
the whole
the
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y need of thie
§ nie hor pid] over
rest fons Fue American w
present wanted a gown copled from
the one the princess had bought, and
she got it after much pleading and at
a price far beyond the limit she had
got
And the
The
em ilove
Liers } gown has two prices
wi Anes it price and a French price
It to say which is the
greater price
loa thes aa 1
oman hot
ry
fut of this fable
princess was no princess
of the house
is this:
but an
»
fio] feast
Along about April the cry goes up,
“The Americans are coming!” and then
the prices go up too.
Along about November, when the
Americans have left, you might almost
gay they are giving away gowns, only
the Frenchman never does give away
anything. Then it Is that the French
woman in general and the French
actress in particular selects her ward
robe
The Bad Spot.
An Irishman one day was told to put
ap a signboard on which were the
words, “To Motorists~This HII Is
Dangerous.”
Away went Mike with the signboard
and placed it at the bottom of a very
steep hill, A few days later his em-
ployer went to see how the board was
put up and, finding it at the bottom of
the hill, sought and found Mike.
“You blooming fool!” he eried. “Why
didn’t you put that sign in the right
place?”
“Shure and ain't 1? asked Mike.
“Don't all the accidents happen at the
bottom 7* Harper's Weekly.
Crazy to Expect It.
Harduppe—8ay, old fellow, lend me 8
hundred, will you? Riggs—A hundred
what? Harduppe-~A handred dollars
I- Riggs—Oh, stop your joking.
Harduppe (earnestly)—-Joking? 1 was
never more serious In my life. I'm
broke. Riggs-~My dear man, you're
not broke; you're cracked! Catholic
Standard and Times.
Not Designed For Lovers.
He—I am sure Cupid had nothing to
do with the alphabet. She —~ What
gives you ou that impression? He—If he
been doing it he would have placed
U and I much nearer each other. St.
Touts Republic.
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CPOSSEOW.
Poison Arrows of
3800 Sharp
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us tribe
sUpervision,
traveler,
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sud Dri
which
George
thus
these
title
nid
has wo
Forrest,
describes the Lidard
peu] “if 1 4
for a book on the upper Ballwin |
should call It “The Land of the Cross
bow,! which is the characteristic w eap-
on of the country and the
Every Lissoo with any pretensions to
chic . possesses at least two of these
wea pons—one for everyday use in hunt-
ing, the other for war. The little chil
dren play sith miniature crossbows.
The men never leave their huts for any
purpose whatever without thelr cross-
bows, When they go to sleep the ‘nu-
kung’ Is hung over their and
when they die it is hung over their
graves, The largest crossbows have a
span of fully five feet and require a
pull of fully thirty-five pounds to string
them. The bow Is made of a species of
wild mulberry of great toughness and
flexibility. The stock, some four feet
tong In the war bows, is usually of
wild plum wood The string Is of
plaited hemp and the trigger of bone.
The arrow, of sixteen to eighteen
inches, Is of split bamboo about four
times the thickness of an ordinary
knitting needle, hardened and pointed
The actual point is bare for a quarter
to one-third of an inch, then for fully
an inch the arrow 1s stripped to half its
thickness, and on this portion pelson is
placed
“The poison is Invariably a decoction
expressed from the tubers of a species
of acoultum which grows on those
ranges at an altitude of 8.000 to 10.000
feet. The polson Is mixed with 1
or some vegetable gum to the consist
ency of putty and is then smeared «
the notched polut. The ‘feather’ Is sup
plied by a strip of bamboo leaf folded
into a triangular form Mnd tied
notch at the end of the arrow
polut of the angle outward
duction thickness of
where the polson is placed
point to hs ak off in the badd
one whom It strikes, and,
ries enough polson to kill a cart
a wound is lavariably fatal. Fre
immediate Incision is the usual
when wouaded on a llmb
of the body, at Chengka
of the Laowo chief showed us
aration bled oplum
and which was an eff
antidote,
“With
seemed
He
1.18800 tribe.
heads,
as each car
or foes
which reseln
he sald
few exceptions
fo us to be arrant cow
but the crossbow and poisoned ns
are certalely most diaboll
An arrow from a war bow
& deal board an Inch thick a
or eighty yards of the
natives were so expert that tix
hit 8 mark four Inches In «
peatedly at sixty to el
BO one goes anywhere without
crossbow and his bearskin «
of poisoned arrows and as «
lage Is at feud
lage mutual
In open fight the Lissoo are usually
careful to keep at a respectful distance
from each other and behind oxhide
shields which protect the whole of the
body. But if battle Is rare, murder
and sudden death by ambush in the
Jungle are common.”
Drank and Remembered.
A porter in a big New York ware
house in Greenwich street was recent.
iy discharged for getting drunk and los.
ing a valuable parcel. The discharge
sobered him instantly, coming as a sud
den hard shock. He sald he would
take the oath never to touch liquor
again, but his pleadings for reinstate
ment were unheeded. He searched
everywhere for the parcel, but could
not recollect what disposition he had
made of it. Of his honesty there had
never been a question In twenty years
Overcome by the loss of his place, he
got violently drunk and while In this
condition recollected where he had left
the parcel and went and recovered it.—
New York Times,
Where Willie Was.
The professor (at the dinner table)—
Oh, by the way, Mrs, Chopsticks, have
you seen your little boy Willie lately?
Mra. Chopsticks—No, professor, 1 have
not seen him since 10 o'clock, and 1
can't imagine what has become of him.
In fact, I am very much worried about
him. Professor—Well, seeing Martha
pour me out that glass of water just
now reminded me of something that 1
had on my mind to tell you some time
age, but which unfortunately escaped
my memory. It was just about 10
o'clock, 1 think, that I saw little Willie
fall down the well.—Atlanta Constitu.
tion.
Some
gouty
very
with every other
suspic is Inevita
fon
Sympathy For the Orphans.
An elephant while stamping through
the jungle one day quite unintentional.
ly stepped upon a mother bird, crush.
the little brood in the bushes near by,
she sought out the nest and with a sym-
pathetic sigh sald: “Poor little things!
I've been a mother myself. I'll keep
you warm.” And she then proceeded
to sit upon the nest.—From George T.
Lanigan’s Fable, “The Kind Hearted
Bhe Elephant.”
Modern Version.
“Then you will be ever at my beck
and call? inquired Aladdin,
“With the exception of Tuesday and
Friday afternoons, Monday and SBatur-
day evenings and every other Sunday,”
fruity septied the genle.—Washington
The Knocking.
“De successful man” sald Uncle
Eben, “keeps quiet so's he kin hear op-
portunity knockin’ at de do. De fall
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DR. SOL, M. NISSLEY,
VETERINARY SURGEON,
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of ice at Palace Livery Stable, Belle-
fonte, Pa. Both 'phones,
oct. 1.08 1yr
FLAT IRON CLEANER.
| we Household women, here is what you
| want—our Acme Flat Iron Cleaner and
Waxer, It saves time, labor and linen,
and produces an excellent finish. Price
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Reliable agents wanted in each locality
THE STOVER CO,, Altoona, Pa.
P.0.Box 383.
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"\ Era .RINARY BURGEON AND DENTIET
he undersigned, having received a
diploma Ton the Detroit (Michigan) Veterinary
Dental College and also a license to practice gen-
eral Veterinary Burgery, is prepared 10 serve the
Be ople in this community in either or both capac
ties, Charges are reasonable, and responses will
be made promptly 10 calls made in th son or by
mail, P. C. FRANK
Vete rinary Burgeon,
Centre Hill, Pa,
0.jan. 14
P.O. Address:
Bpsing M Mills, vr. 1. 4. 4.
ABBAGE FOR SALE ~The eBfeigned of
fers for sale several hundred heads of
choice cabbage. Price from 60c to §1 00 per
dozen. E. P. BHOOK,
Eyeing } Mills
The Thrice-n-Week World.
The Thrice-a-Week World will be
sent to Reporter subscribers at the rate
of sixty-five cents per year, paid in
advance, The regular subscription
price in hl 00
Iv # gene orally the chickep-hearted
man who is henpecked.
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i W, A. Henney
Centre Hall
General
Blacksmithing
Special attention giv-
en to tire setting and
satisfaction ways
guaranteed. ¢
All Kinds of Repair
Work Given Prompt
Aiealon. - . . ".
Trimming & Painting
Prices Reasonable
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SHOES TO KEEP THE
FEET WARM AND
DRY. . . .
Ladies’ Kid and
Gun Metal Shoes.
ALSO HAVE A
: Complete Line
| For Children.
PLEASED
YOU CALL.
a
FEIT
ma
Ri
TO HAVE
C. A. Krape
Spring Mills « - « Pa.
A full line of Selz
Shoes and Rubbers
for Fall & Winter
A NEW STOCK
OF DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS, EIiC,
Our stock of goods
was never more
H, F. ROSSMAN
a
wonders.
Boys,
Bellefonte
State College
Shoes.
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embossed at the top “Centre Hall, Pa.”
has just been added to the assortment
of for ladies. The quality
and »'yle are good enough for the use
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