FHE CENTRE REPORTER fs THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1909, Attorney's Notice, Zo my Clients and the Public :— I expect to sesame my duties ae Representative at Harrisburg, Pa. January 5th, 1909. So long as ecircum- stances will allow, I will be at my office in Bellefonte, Monday forenoon and Friday and Raturday of each week, where I shall be pleased to meet any one who may desire to see me pro- fessionally, ; J. CALVIN MEYER, Bellefonite, Pa. EE ——— ———————— Rebersburg. Miss Ruth Hubler, who is employed at Btate College, is spending some time with friends and relatives here. Wm. Douty, a former resident of this place, but now living in Union county, is at present circulating among friends in this village. Prof. C. L. Gramley is spending several days this week al Bunbury, The remains of George Earnest, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolfort, of Philadelphia, were brought to this place last Saturday and buried in the Union cemetery. Funeral services were held in the M. E. church at Smuliton Thureday evening twenty-six kind and generous ladies, all members of the Lutheran church, surprised Mrs. Woodling, widow of the late John Woodling. Each one of these ladies took with them to her house a basket filled with eatables. They also pre- sented a purse of money, It is stated upon reliable information that several parties in town are mak- ing arrangements to purchase a large automobile which is to be used to transfer passengers to and from Co- burn station, making two trips a day. Light baggage will also be carried. Friday evening Mrs. Neese gave » party at her home in honor of her granddaughter, Miss Jessie Waite, A large pumber of young folks wer: preseut, and all report having had » pleasant time, Saturday your correspondent had the pleasure of visiting the plating plant operated by H. G, Krape. Mr. Krape is at present crowded with work, which goes to show that his plating proves s stisfactory, There were two runaways in town Baturday evening. The one was the horse owned by G. W. Wise. This animal was frightened at the ringing of the Reformed church bell For. tunately the horse was soon caught While Calvin Weaver was watering his horse at the eastern part of town the animal frightened at a passing vehicle. Mr. Weaver was just in the act of gelling into the buggy when the horse started. He was thrown to the ground, his head striking the step of the buggy and the hind wheel pass. ing over him. Mr. Weaver received s bad cut on the head which required several stitches to sew up. i ———— re ————— Aaronsburg, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Hall and daugh- ter Jennie went to Bellefonte to attend the funer<. of Andrew Bell, brother of Mrs. Hull. James Bwabb, of Tusseyviile, paid & shor: visit to his mother, who Is stil} improving. Mr, McCormick and Miss Nellie Mingle, of Potters Mills, epent the Sabbath with the lady's parents, Mr, and Mm. E. G. Mingle. Mrs. Maggie Houser, of Bellefonte, visited her mother for a few days. Fred and Clyde Stover returned from a week's visit to Altoona. Herbert Hosterman and wife, nee Maggie Mingle, and baby Isabelle, of Buflaio, New York; are enjoying a few weeks swith their parents and many friends, Clark Herman, of State College, is in town greeting his many friends. Mrs. Kate Crouse, in company with her daughter Mabel, is spending a few days with her patents, at Winfield ' Thursday evening a number of the young folks in town gathered to cele brate the fifteenth birthday of Mary Jane Stover. Those present were : Ruth Crouse, Mary, Helen and Flossie Btover, Mary Kreamer, Mildred Acker, Estella Stamm, Verna Bower, Martha Wyle, Olle Treaster, Ardrenna Har- man, Fred Guisewite, Leroy Mensch, Fred Wolf, W. C. Mingle, Horace Btover, Grover Beaver, Gurney Wert, Clyde Bressler, Clarence Eisenhauer, Paul Winkelblech, Oak Hall, James Gilliland has been confined to his room from illness the past week, Wm. Bohn and family, Ssmuel Reitz and wife and Oscar Rishel and wife attended the funersl of George Kline st Siate College Bunday. | Mre (ivton Etters transacted busi . .« fonte Monday, 14a Wieland spent Bun - + eter, Mrs. Murray Left. yY. The Grange + decided success. Avout two hundred guests enjoyed the dinner of oysters and other good things served by tue ladies. A Jif entertainment was g!ven in the afternoon. The youug people of Oak Hall and vg on the dam on Fatarday, Miss nce Marsal, of Fillmore, was a in town on Baturday, or — TE A MEMORY OF THE PAST. The Unalloyed Joy That Came With the Little Red Scarf. “1 was wondering the other aay what one thing had given me the most pleasure in the world,” sald the village deacon. *“! had to go back a long Wways-—clear back into the blessed San- ta Claus days—but I recalled it. It was a scarf I found In my stocking one bright Christmas morning. 1 got a red one, and my brother got a blue one. I was a mighty proud boy that morning as I trudged downtown with that red scarf around my neck. I wore It every day until the birds be- gan to sing in the springtime and the kids were hunting up thelr marbles. I don't now remember who gave it to me nor what became of it, but I do know that the memory of it still clings like a benediction. “Sluce the days of that little red scarf I have had things of far more intrinsic value. I have worn lodge emblems of high degree: I have Lad a gold watch and chain: I once had a palr of shoes that cost $5 and a neck- tle that cost twice as much as the lit- tle red scarf. Nay, more, I once tackled a plug hat. But among these things do I recall none that gave me such genuine and unalloyed pleasure, such a swelled up feeling, as did that little red scarf way back in the days when the wolf sat out in the road and howled. ’'Tis the little-red scarf days that stir the memory with ‘It might have been.’ "—Osborn (Kan) Farmer. PLAIN JOHN SMITH. How His Name Changes In Various Parts of the World. John Smith—plain John Smith—1s not very high sounding: it does not sug- gest aristocracy; it is not the name of any hero in dle away novels, and yet It Is good, strong and honest. Trans ferred to other languages, it seems to climb the ladder of respectability Thus in Latin it is Johannes Smithus: the Italian smooths it off into Glovan- nl Smithi; the Spaniards render it Juan Smithus; the Dutchman adopts it as Hans Schmidt; the French flatten It out Into Jean Smeect, and the Rus. sian sneezes and barks Jonloff Smit. towskl. When John Smith gets into the tea trade In Canton he becomes Jovan Shimmit; If he clambers about Mount Hecla, the Icelanders say he is Jahne Smithson: if he trades among the Tuscaroras he becomes Ton Qa Smittia;: In Poland be Is known as Ivan Schmittiwelsk!; should he wan- der among the Welsh mountains they talk of Jihon Schmidd: when he goes to Mexico he Is booked as Jontll F'Smitti; If of classic turn and he lin- gers among Greek ruins he turns to Ion Smikton, and in Turkey he is ut. terly disguised as Yoe Seef.—Phreno- logical Journal. Mystery of a Cookbook. Somebody mentioned cookbooks. “It takes a good deal to make me wonder,” sald the publisher, “but 1 received a jolt in the culinary line the other day that set me thinking. In looking over the manuscript of a cook book that had been submitted for our approval I was struck by this intro duction to many of the recipes, ‘Good for boarding house table.’ “Now, why that discrimination? Isn't anything that is good enough for a boarding house table good enough for any other table, and isn’t anything that Is good enough for any other ta- ble good enough for a boarding house table? Judging by the way those par. ticular recipes read, they may result In some rather tasty dishes. Then why Hmit them to boarding houses?’ His Successor. Bhortly after the death of one of England's greatest poets a devoted ad- mirer of his visited the little West morland villages where the poet had lived and died to gaze reverently at his house, the little church and at some of his favorite haunts where some of his Immortal poems were com- posed, Seelug an old man a native of the village), the stranger entered into con- versation with him, remarking sadly on the death of the poet, to which the old man answered kindly and encour. agingly: “Aye, aye, still I mak’ na doobt but t' wife 'll carry the bizness on.” Brief and Pithy. An American law journal has quot. ed the charge to a jury delivered by a certain Judge Donovan as the shortest on record. The judge sald: “Gentlemen of the jury, if you be- lieve the plaintiff find a verdict for plaintiff and fix the amount, If you believe the defendant find a verdict for defendant, Follow the officer.” But an English periodical caps this brief charge by quoting a shorter one delivered by Commissioner Kerr. Ile sald to a Jury: - “That man says prisoner robbed him, The prisoner says he didn't. You set tle 1t.” i ————— Plagiarism, At the literary club a sympathetic erowd surrounded the humorist, whose house had been robbed. “They cleaned out everything,” sald the man-- “everything, but, thank good. ness, they didn’t swipe from my desk the manuscript column of jokes for next week's paper.” “Perhaps they knew,” suggested a sonneteer cynically, “that the jokes BRASS HORNS. The Way the Thin, Seamless Tubes Are Bent Without Injury, Suxhorns, so called after a famous Belgian rawmily named Sax, aho in vented and Introduced these instru ments about the middle of the last cou tury, are the mainstay of all modern brass bands. They are manufactured in many different sizes, from high so prano to the huge contrabass or bom- bardon, and the most important of the lot is the euphonium, which supplanted the now obsolete “serpents” and ophi- cleides.. The tallest saxhorn ever made stands eight feet high and contains more than forty feet of tubing. The advantage of seamless or “solid drawn” tubes for such instruments as trombones and horng is considerable, since, no matter how good the Join may be, sooner or later the action of the breath will wear away the solder. To bend these thin brass tubes with- out splitting or denting the metal was at one time very difficult, but, thanks to a most ingenious artifice, the opera- tion Is now both safe and simple. The tube is first washed out with a chem- lcal substance, such as is used by plumbers to prevent solder from ad- bering where It 1s not wanted, and it is then completely filled with molten lead poured in from a ladle. Thus sup- ported from within, the brass is easily and safely bent to the required shape, the lead being afterward removed by heat.—Pearson’s, A CURIOUS WORD. ——— % Twists That May Be Given to “Ba” In the Chinese Language. In the Chinese language the same word may be given several different meanings by the modulation of the the English “Yes.” nounced so as to that,” or An Lives modulations In which may be pro- mean “1 assent to eminent authority on philology an Aunamiti lan tongue the inonosy Habje spoken guage, a by the people China In this language the syllable “ba” A LINGUISTIC ESCAPADE. When Henry W. Longfellow Shocked liitellcctual Boston. In the origiunl impression of Long- Yellow's poem of “Hiawatha” there were found In the seventh book the three lines following: Straight into the river Kwasind Plunged as If he were an otter, Dove as if he were a beaver, How this offending preterit passed the proofreader without protest is one of those mysteries which have never been revealed. But the form certainly made its appearance and ean still be found In coples of the poem which were regularly published and sold. Boston never received such a shock since the days when Fenimore Cooper insisted that it was only in the middle states that the English language was spoken In its purity. But that attack came froin an outsider. Here the of. fender was of her own household, was, in fact, her favorite son. What means of suppression were resorted to will probably never be disclosed. A myste- rious reticence has always been pre. served In regard to this linguistic esea. pade. The biographers of Longfellow appear to Le silent upon the subject, + of some sort must, however, have been taken at once. “Dove” was expunged, and the decorous “dived” assumed its place, and the whole trans- fiction was so completely hushed up that public seandal was created, Let him who possesses a copy of that «frat impression continue to cherish it. Whatever may be its worth now, the time when it will reach the value of © mn of Scrip Measnre Ho will cowre virtuous s ture, ad wile will | far above rubie "1 r Thomas R. Louns- bury i Harier's Magazine, THE PALACE WAITED. A Buggestion That Changed the Plans i of a Pepe At a time wh a lady, an avrestor. Pronounced the sharp account of a prince. IP'ropounced with the semi accent, It weans what has been Pronounced with grave circumflex, It been left of a fruit after the Erave thrown aw ay 5 Juice has been squeezed out Pronounced wii! bo accent, It means three. Pronounced with the as ending or interrogation ac cent, it means a box on the ears rd “ba.” In the order piv en above, Is said to mean, if Thus the wi Heri y “Three ladles gave a box ear to the favorite of the Chicago Record-Herald pronounced, on the prince.” - Two Previous. A Richmond woman ploy a little darky, Miff Cole MIff became confidential and told his has in her em One day next Sunday.” “But, Miff, that's a long walk know it is more than five miles.” “Oh, ain't goin’ to I's goin’ to ride.” “How is that, Mir» in a Kerridge ¢' missus, | walk “I's goin’ funeral” All day Baturday nothing but’ the approaching affair she expected that on Monday would be regaled with a full sccount of the funeral But MIff turned with a host melan holy face. In an swer to her inquiry he sald: “1 didn’t go, missus. He ain't dead Fit." New York Herald up Decay of Building Stones. The causes of decay In building stones are various and depend on the physical structure of the stone, its composition aud the nature of the sur. rounding stmosphere. The most de structive agent to which the stone is exposed Is rain or a8 moist atmosphere and also in a minor degree wind, frost and smoke. The alr of large towus is usually charged with various deleteri- ous acids. These acids are dissolved by the rain, which penetrates the stone In a greater or less degree, according to Its phygicnl structure, and combines with the constituents of the stone, causing it to decay, so that any con- trivance that will check the admis. slon of water will be most likely to succeed In arresting decay.— Building World. Cab Hire. . The price that one pays for a taxi today Is just a little different Yrom what was paid for, say, the hire of a sedan chair in days of old. In the do- mestic accounts of “Mistress Nell Gwyn” we read: “For chalring you to Mrs. Knight's and to Mrs. Cassell's and to Mrs. Churchill's and to Mrs. Knight's, 4 shillings. For chairing you yesterday and walting eleven hours, 11 shillings 6 pence. Paid 13th Oct., 1675." London Chronicle, A; A Golfer's Tools. One of the most striking featues of modern golf is the variety of clubs used to persuade the ball into the hoie, As a matter of curiosity I kept count of the different putters used by my % Diplomacy. ": “Do you expect people to believe ev- “Certainly,” answered Senator Sor. “#0 long as 1am carefu! not to m every ing 1 baleva” Wash ne ost one "sald what shal) be thus mtiff, let it { these stones be made i visibly and deeply af der munifi rand ng his pal ones of his children Poverty Mas 113 A dvantages. ie uf life olwerves advantages and ad If you are poor you can wear out your old clothes You { are excused from calls. You are pot troubled with many visitors. Bores do not disturb you. Spongers d6 not haunt your tables. Brass bands do not sere nade you. No one thinks of present. ing you with a testimonial. No store keeper irrit you by asking you, “Is there unyihing I can do for you? Begging let'er writers do not bother Fou. Fiatterers do not flatter you, You are saved many debts and many a deception. And, lastly, If you have a true friend in the world you are sure fo know it iu a short space of time by him uct deserting you.—Huntsville (Tex) PVostdtem. A wan ou ‘ Ww that i yersily OY er: is uses FEL The Oricin of a Miserable Joke. Confucius had just met William Penn at one of Cleopatra's & o'clock teas. “William Venn?” he sald. “William Pent? Seems to me 1 have heard of you, #ir.” "Yeu" said Penn, with a, pleased ginile. “Il am the man who was might. fer than the sword” “Ah, yes!” sald Confucius. “You are also the, man who Invented sleep, are you not?™ “No” sald Penn; “I founded Phila. delphia.” “Oh, yes.” said Confucius. “I knew It was something of that kind.”—S8uc- cess Magazine, The Important Item. He—Mere Is a thrilling account of the way in whieh that daring wowan climbed to the top of a mountain which is five miles high. Wonderful, Isn't It? She-Yes. What did she wear? Cleveland Plain Dealer, ss Well Bred, “Do you speak the truth?" "Not always” “Why not Mways?” , “I hate to be impolite.”—Nashville American, —————— So . Generous. “My husband Is the most unselfish of men™ exclaimed Mrs. Youngwife. “lI gave him a whole box of cigars, and he only smoked one and gave all the rest away.” “op Aide thelr Koran. 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DT OTICE-~This is to notify all whom it may oonoern tha: on the thirty first diy of December, 1908, I purchased of E. . Harter his Er - Ml the. hi oe Tat 5 sod everyihiog | Saonanuty Aud eve on my farm sito ated in Potter towaship, about two miles south. Sa propane a Gepost toto 1a. poi sls ox we at on " HENRY F. BIENER. 15, 1908, For BALE~Fine level farm, 180 scres. with. Hall, Fh ans snd onc-fourth miles of Ceutre u ELMER ©. ROSS, Lemont, Pa. VETERINARY SURGEON, A Jriuate of the University of Penn’a. Office at Palace Livery Stable, Belle fonte, Pa. Both x oct.L08. yr DR. SMITH'S SALVE a CURES : Flesh Wounds, =~ Gener)» - - -- Blacksmithing - - Special attention giv- en to tire setting and satisfaction always guaranteed, . , All Kinds of Repair Work Given Prompt Attention, Trimming & Painting Prices Reasonable wtih SHOES TO KEEP THE FEET WARM AND DRY. . . ALSO HAVE A Complete Line For Children. PLEASED ,T0 HAVE YOUCALL . . C. A. Krape Spring Mills « « « Pa. 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