X Hm THE OENTRE REPORTER THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1909. nme A A A AAAS LOCALS, Virtue is its own reward, but vice gets more publicity. A steam heating plant has been in- stalled in the United Evangelical church in Millheim. - The farm recently purchased by Pennsylvania State College from Dr, Christ will be officially known 8s the Thompson farm. “The agency for the Oliver typewriter was secured by Charles D. Bartholo- mew. He is using ope of the late models, and finds it works like a charm, : will convene this ( Thursday ) fore- noon, in Grange Arcadia, to hold its annusl meeting. The attendance is expected to be quite large. It was reported that the Meyer brothers, of Millheim, would engage in the butchering business at Pleasant Gap, but this 18 an error. They had been dickering for Mr. Millward’s business at that place, but for some reason the deal fell through just as it was about to be closed up. State College residents will here after, no doubt, always believe in the virtue of commissions, because that borough, after appealing to the rail® road commission, secured a telegraph office. The office will be opened about the first of next month, and Miss Dreese will be the operator. This from the Reedsville corres pondent to the Lewistown Democrat and Sentinel: Miss Laura Stover, who went recently to Georges Valley, Centre county, where her parents are living temporarily, has been here dar- ing the week, and on pension day she acted inthe capacity of chief clerk for 'Equire Kohler. - John Bower, a retired farmer and Asaronsburg’s oldest inhabitant, is con- fined to his rocker, afflicted mostly with partial blindness and deafness He spent most of his years on the farm of his father, Jobn Adam Bower, about one mile south of Aaronsburg. For one of his advanced , ninety- one years, his physical condition Is fair. 7 Spring Mills. Miss Mabel Allison visited in Belle. fonte last week, , Best Kiape, who is employed in Howard, is visiting among relatives in this place. Dr. P. W. Leitzell, of Portland Mills, spent a few days in this vicinity this week. Formerly the doctor wis lo- cated in this place, which acrounts for his many friends here. Rev. J. Max Lantz is conducting a series of meetings in Millheim. M. Bhires and family sre visiting their daughter, Mrs. R. E. Catherman, at Martinsburg, W, Va. Mrs. W. O. Graden passed from this earth Sunday night. She had been a patient sufferer for more than a year. At this writing Mrs. D. P. Heck- man is in a very critical condition with no hepes for her recovery. Dr. and Mrs, Alexander, of Potters Mills, visited friends in town during the week. T. M. Gramley spent a day in the county seat during the early part of the week. nd B. 8B. Gramley is making s business trip to Shamokin and Mt. COseme this week. sane John Sowers is wearing that broad smile that will not come off. He says i's a boy. 4 Between twelve and one o’éloek Inat Thursday morning a fire was discover- ed in the store building of Andrew Corman, and it was only through miraculous fire fighting that the build- ing was saved. The entire stock was burned or badly damaged and the store room was pretty badly charred. Both stock and bailding were insured and the insurance adjusters have made a prompt settlement, Aaronsburg, "4% Mr. Miller, of Johnstown, is at present visiting his daughter; Mrs, Donat, - Wm. Stahl, of Illinols, is visiting his sister Mary, at the home of &frs. E. J. Deshler. - Mrs. J. P. Condo retarned home from » week’s visit among friends in York. Miss Eva Kerstetter spent a. few days at Coburn, ne Mrs. Heckman, of Centre Hall, paid 8 visit of a few days 10 her niece, Miss Jennie Rupp, and other friends here. Miss Grey, of Btate College, spent a few days with her friend, Miss Beckie Boyder, 2 Ed. Vouada and his mother, of ', Alice Bright. “1 yer, of Coburn, and sie v1 Guaisewite, of Féldler, spent a day «i " their father, J, CO, ver, at tie uo of G. J. Weaver. Mr, sud Mis. Merril Elsen te, Mr. snd Mrs, Bowersox, lert Eisenhauer Is visiting his ged mother, in Ig. “James Swabb qe to his Home | Tussey ville, after spending a week thel Mrs © where she alicuded her broth Letter from Illinois} ‘Below ls given a letter from J «H, Jordan, of McConnell, Illinois, who recently spent some time in the east, which will explain itself ; As I'looked through the columns of the Reporter and noted some of the things that occurred since we returned from our eastern trip, I decided to let my friends know, through your paper, how we enjoyed our trip. We arrived home safely, the evening of. December 29. My wife, our son Roy and I were much pleased with the kind hospi- tality of the people of old Centre, We visited in Penns, Brush and Nittany Valleys, and not the least of our pleas- ures was the trip to Pennsylvania State College, I was in Centre Hall three times, and consider it a very clean, up-to-date town, with nice hovses and pretty churches, good sidewalks and roads. The weather was fine the evening we arrived. in MeConnell. We took supper at the home of my brother, Samuel, after which my mother pre. sented to me a gold watch as a Christ. mas gift, and which was very much appreciated by me. The sixth of this month was a very cold day. The thermometer registered 20 below zero in the morning. with very little snow on the ground. Now if any good, steady boys want to work on a farm le: me know. There ia plenty of work, and the wages are $25 a month. a so os Buys Back Old Home, Ex-sheriff John P, Condo sold his residence at Aaronsburg to Dr. B, C. Musser, from whom he bought the same last spring. The purchase also included a number of acres of land whieh Mr. Condo had purchased from C. G. Bright at the same time. Dr. Musser is again in possession of the residence which has been in the Mus ser family for years and will no doubt remain io that family for some (ime to come. Mr. Condo has not decided definitely where he and his family will locate, but the chances are he will purchase a home in York, and make that his future residence, A A ————— Telephone Company Meets, The annual meeting of The Patrons Rural Telephone Company was held last Thursday at the Garman House, Bellefonte. The finances of the ¢6m- pany proved to be in good condition, and the service obtained over the Bell lines with which system the company is working, altogether satisfactory. The former officers of the company were re-elected. They are : President, Leopard Rhone ; vice president, John 8. Dale ; treasurer, James C. Gilliland; secretary, 8B. W, Smith, a ——— I —— on ——— Ill Wind That Blows No Good. From Millheim Journal. Millheim haviog lost three stores and one hotel the usual evening loaf- ing place of a number of persons is cut off. There are actually some who complain that there is no place to go to snd have concluded to stay at home io the evening. The best place for them. a — —— Travsfor of Foal Estate, J. B, Heberling, et ux, to William Dale, January 11, 1909; tract of land in Ferguson twp. $4000. Katharine McKinney to D. L. Con- fer, January 11,1909; tract of land in Howard Boro, $150. Willlam Foster, et al, to David F. Smith, tract of land in College twp. $450, Wm. J. Dale to Harvey J. Markle, Nov. 25, 1908; tract of land in Bpring twp. $2700. George W, McGaffey, ot ux, to Aus- tin C. Harper, December 28, 1008; Planning Mill property, $6000, Mra. Joseph K. Harkins to Edna A, Divges, January 2, 1009; house and lot in Philipsburg. $1000, William L. Foster, et al, to J. W. Meyer, January 9, 1909; lot of ground in College twp. $1350, John H. Thompson, et ux, to George W. Woodring, January 12, 1909; tract of land in Worth twp. $150. Dr. Thos. B. Christ, etal, to Lloyd L. Houtz, Janvary 11, 1909; tract of Iand in College twp. $67.50. os ff ot — Good Company for 1000, You are careful what choice of friends the young people of your house- hold make. You do not open wide the door to those whose speech and be havior betray ill-breeding and lax morals. Are you ss careful to shut it against books and periodicals that present vualgar and demoralizing pictures of life and its purpose? Per- haps you are among those who have found that The Youth's Companion occupies the same place in the family reading that the high-minded young man or woman holds among your as- socistes. The Companion is good without being * goody-goody. Ia ite stories it depicts life truly, bat it chooses those phases of lifein which duty, honor, loyalty are the guiding motives, A full description of the current volume will be sent, with sample copies of the paper to any ddress on request, Che new subscriber who at once sends $1 75 for a year’s subscription will re- Garden,” lithographed in thirteen ¥ A i THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, BEETHOVEN. The Composer's Own Story of How He Became Deaf. Charles Neate, ou a visit to Vienna, was either commissioned by certain Fugish authorities to induce Beethewen to visit England or was persuading him to do so on his own account, and fs an allurement he spoke of the su periority of the English aurists in thelr treatment of ear disease and held out hopes that were Beethoven to consult them he might at least find some sort of relief. Beethoven shook his head. “No,” he sald, “I have consulted all kinds of doctors and followed thelr prescriptions. 1 shall never be cured. I will tell you how the thing happened. “lI was writing an opera. I had to deal with a very tiresome and capri- clous tenor. I had already written two great arias to the same words, nelther of which plegsed him, and also a third, which he did not care for the first time he tried it, although he took it awny with him. 1 was thanking heaven 1 had done with him and had begun to settle myself to something else which I had laid aside. 1 had hardly worked ft it half an hour before I heard a knock at the door, which I recognized as that of wy tenor. “1 sprang up from my table in such & rage that as the man came into the room I flung myself upon the floor, as they do on the stage” (here he threw up his arms and gesticulated in illus- tration), “but I fell upon my hands When I got up I found 1 was deaf, and from that moment I have remain- ed so. The doctor sald I Injured the nerve."—Diell's “Life of Beethoven.” GRAFT IN RUSSIA. Removing the Difficulties In an Army Officer's Transfer. A young Russian officer wished to be transferred to another regiment-and took his request in person to one of the lights of the Russian general staff That powerful officer shook hikx head and declared the matter very difficult arrange Then his glance fel) suddenly upon the shoes of the leutenant. To the amazement of his visitor, the senior officer sald that the lieutenant's shoes nearly good enough for an officer and that he would strongly advise him to buy new shoes of a shoomaker whose Then, telling his vis- in eight days, he missed The latter was clever enough to realize that he could not re turn without the new shoes, so he hur. ried to the shoemaker On who had sent him the shoemaker sald that the lieutenant shoes in five days for the sum Much astonished, the officer went fo a comrade for advice. He was told to pay half of thid sum at once and the rest when his shoes were finished This the officer did, and, wearing his new boots, he duly kept his appoint- ment with the general staff officer and learned to his joy that all the “grave difficulties” In the way of his transfer had been successfully removed. His Hobby. One man with an odd hobby isn't a person who gets much mail, and what be has or expects to have he can keep in mind very easily. Probably he never had a letter which went astray. Yet every time he sees in the news papers the list of advertised mail sent out from time to time by the general postoflice in New York he turns at once to the initial letter under which his name comes and runs carefully through the list. He never yet has found any letter that might be sup- posed to be for him and, furthermore, hasn't found any that might be for any of his relatives. He takes an odd pleasure In doing it, however, something with that eager ness which fmpels a man to grub through a packet of old letters In hopes that he may come upon some rare variety of stamp. Really, If ever he found his name in the list it proba. biy would kill his enjoyment of the hunt forever thereafter.—New York Sun. to nimost impossible. 5 ups sis were not address he cave tor to return dis hearing have the conid of £250 Anticipated Cause For Sorrow. Ina came in from the country on her fifth birthday to visit her cousin May At night they were put to bed early. An hour passed, when heartbreaking sobs were heard from the children's bedroom. “What is the matter, children?’ ask- ed May's mother, entering the dark room. “From under the bedclothes Ina sob bed out, “May won't give me any of her peanuts.” “But May has no peanuts,” replied her aunt. : “I know that,” sobbed Ina, “but she sald If she did have peanuts she wouldn't give me any.” Delineator. Sufficiently Occupied. A story is told of a colonel tn Gen- eral Lee's division In the late civil war who sometimes indulged in more apple Jack than was good for him. Passing him one evening leaning against a tree, the general said: “Good evening, colonel. Come over to my tent for a moment, please.” “S-scuse me, ggen'ral, sscuse me,” replied the colonel. “It's "bout all I ean do to stay where I am.”—Phila- delphia Ledges, The Right Foot Foremost. the right foct foremost was ordination originally the entry of persons Into a bullding and that the left kept at the z £ | £ § 2 g g : iE: i gx i% : of £lag ( THE OLD CIRCUS POSTER. Pretentious Langusce With Which the, Bhow Was Deseribed. The pravciioquent extravagance of lnancuige of the old time elreus poster Is Hlustrated by this reproduction, which is given verbatim: “There will be presented a resplen- dent series of sublime, moral, interest. ing. Instructive, amusing and wonder- ful scenes which would appear entirely too fabulous If expressed in an adver- tisemoent. They must be seen to be duly appreciated. These great displays will unfold in all the loveliness and beauty of enchantment, carrying-the minds of the bewildered or spellbound spectators off on the gentle wings of the imagination to such pageantry as they might dream of after reading a few pages of ‘Arabian Nights’ Enter- tainments.! Words are really wanting to give adequate expression. Web. ster’s unabridged fails most signally in language to fully portray a semblance of the reality. Zoonomy may be learn- ed at this great college In a single evening. Here the visitor will see splendid specimens of the zygodacty- lous race that live upon the earth or float and poise upon the wings of gold and sliver plume in the cerulean arch, and in reference to these the corps of superintendents in courtly dress will elucidate the peculiarities of each with guarded suaviloquence.” THE TWO ROMEOS Mrs. Siddons’ Opinion of David Garrick and Spranger Barry. David Garrick and Spranger Barry werg both playing Romeo at the same time In Loudon. larry played it at Drury Lane on the Monday, and Gar- rick played it the next night at Covent Garden, and the town was divided as to which was the greater Romeo-—in fact, there was quite a great excite. ment about it, and the¥ acted it upon such different lines and with such mar- velously different ceptions that the people argued the case Shakespeare 1 Shakespeare intended well, and sulted It would do fora other way Bo they asked Mrs. Biddons, who was the Jullet with the same Romeo, which she considered better of the two, and she sald “It Is difficult to sa wonderfully great, but how they impress me scene. In the ba seems so eager, so inte: full of fire and spirit that I'm afraid he'll Jump up in the balcony to nd Bar. ry is so lovable and fas ing that I'm afraid 1 shall have to jump down from the balcony to him." cot which The fact is that it man's temperament act in that way it nother temperament the fis to fended be acted if one best to 1 pray 7 fe alternately both youu ony They are I will tell in the bal irriek WCOny scene se and so fran The Relationship “You say, madam" ea tacied witness box sort of relat : please explain what you mean by that ~Just how you are related to the de fendant?” The witness beamed upon the court and replied “Well, it's just lke this. His first wife's cousin and my second husband's first wife's aunt brothers named Jones, and they were cousins to my mother's nunt. Then, again. his grandfather on his mother’s side and my grandfather on my mother's side were second cousins, and his step. mother married my husband's step father after his father and my mother died, and his brother Joe and my hus band's brother Harry married twin sisters. 1 ain't never figgered out just how close related we are, but I've al ways looked en "im as a sort of cousin.” “Quite 80," answered the lawyer, “Your explanations are perfectly satis. factory.” lawyer to egy, that married Forgetful, An eminent painter was once asked if he thought art students did well to go to Europe to study. He sald that undoubtedly the atmosphere was more artistic in Europe than anywhere else, but that Paris as a city to study and work In was overrated. To illustrate his meaning he sald that a certain rich man's son after three Years In Paris wrote home to his fa- ther: “Dear Father—1 have made up my mind to set to work. Please lot me know at your earliest convenience whether It was painting, architecture or music I came to Parls to study.” Humility. It is a curious fact of human nature that humility draws forth from the world almost as much admiration as courage. As in the case of courage, it is almost Impossible wholly to con demn a character in which we see it, and without It the greatest virtues leave us cold. If every good word which the Pharisee sald of himself were proved true we should still dis like him. We even dislike his mod- ern and far less offensive descendant, the prig.—London Spectator. A Straight Tip. Customer-—Quick shave, please. Bar ber—Close, sir? Customer—See here, what business is it of yours whether T'm close or not? I'll tell you one thing, young man-—I don't tip, if that's what you want to know. Puck, His Fears Realized. “My heart Is In my mouth. 1 am afraid to heap you answer” “You may well be, Mr. Doliboy,” re torted Ethel. “I m@ver could marry a man whose heart was not in the right place!" «Work and WINTER For]Men & Boys, NWN This Settles It! 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