‘The Image-Maker.
And yet, O Sculptor, for the sake
Of puch an efigy as I—
The superscription like the
Disfigured now, and hard to trace
Didst Thou thyself consent to dio.
-John B. Tabb, in the Atlantic,
face
YAMATE
THE SAILOR |
RY THEODORE A, CUTTING,
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fhe most skilful master of catboat-
sailing that
Never, 1
adreit hand
tiller. He conld
the wind and
there
at
think, was more
than his
sheer up close
bowl along as if it
blew across his beam. Always, too,
he knew exact amount of sail to
spread, and could carry more in rough
water than of his fellow fisher
men,
Yamate
Japanese. |
a
sheet
into
the
any
of
the
also the jolliest
first saw him from
head the at Monterey as I
stood watching the salmon-boats re-
turn. There was a stiff offshore
breeze, to which the foremost boats
paid by single or double
reefs cd wut presently came
Yamate full canvas, his boat
rocking until the tip of the boom
dipped the his mouth curved
in a gleetui gri and his eves danc-
ing with the joy of swift motion
He shot in to the pier and
drifted up to landing without a
stroke of where had
had recourse an awkward tack,
or even to under a swinging
boom that batte] them upon head and
shoulders.
It was dur
smelt one vear
was
of pier
respect
sad! ; in
nade
Waves,
close
the
ar,
to
the others
rowing
ir a run of salmon and
in June that Yamate's
put to a test that taxed
the utmost.
gale, which
end to all
third all b>
the
sailing was
even his
There
{wo
ing: but
were out
ment of the fishermen,
salmon mad
decd, wore
of the men
began to
sought
few ran
Among the latte
Nakamura The
propitious fer
asmuch
seq from the
rendered a
shore
his uasual
the very
formed, to
skill to
had been a
had put an
pon the
again
fizsh-
ats
fays
To Heanppoint-
howevar, the
So fow, ine.
taken that moat
their hooks and
mackerel; thers
grounds; and =a
for smeit
scattered
ta he
drew
ast for
rocktish
coast .
r were Yamate and
fay was not very
taking this fish, in
was stilk a heavy
ecent wind-storm, which
approach to the
But Yamate, with
earlessness, ran in tn
along which the break
cast his net.
great swell rose his
and then down In each
hollow it sank again
the thin edge formed and
uri under the very keel,
the boat escaped being
in
the
down the
ts there
<0
dangerous
tine
ars
Up with each
little craft,
suceessive
Sometimes
began
but always
overwhalmed
The wind, sufficiently brisk
for the fore-and-aft
was increasing: but this'was no cause
of worcy to.Yamate, who preferred
a gale to a calm He was jubilant
too, from the success of his zelne.
for each draw was satisfactory:
for the (elicately flavored smelt there
was always a market,
With Nakamura it was otherwise
Wall beyond line of breaker:
fished while
slatted But only taste
less surf soreh a savdiae
came to his met
Envicusly he
who still lav
a Conatant eye
shells. yer and
more daring
and Creep up
apoa each
it seemed,
comber
For
tinued ro fish in
To Yanat:
kamura
At
survey
ged rocks
pounded,
ran In
plentiful
Hardly was the fisherman's net ont
when he took alarm at an approach-
Ing swell Quickly he threw the till
ar over and hanled upon his sheet.
His" canvas had put hegun to draw
when the wave reached him: but of
its own accord it held together until
it was several yard: to leeward.
Nakamura was sorprigsed at the
rapidity with whith it had come npon
him, and a lttle nervous: Lut since
the danger way
bad come “eves
little ‘water, he made fast the shoot
and brsiod himself with straighten ng
the small » ine,
“Look cnt! Look out! A big one'™
suddenly shouted Yamate,
fo
already
precarious sail,
and
the he
perseveringly, his sal
breeze,
ind
n the
few
in at Yomate
surf-line, but with
upon the incoming
gain he
draw his
into the wind
just in
o sscape from a gigantic
looked
mn the
saw i
yivirads Sheet
tle
on time
Orn an
two lionirs more th
the same
came no harm and
te fish
in
Nati
Lo. ait
$
ta Nakamura, after a timorons
breakers and the jag
beyond, againet which thay
slacked off his shegt and
the smelt seemed so
he
where
Owey
and shot
a twinkling.
ful or two of water: but for all that,
the I'ttle erat cut its way through
to safely and stodd off on a tach.
Mat: so with Nakaiourm, Easily
enougs dud he squared away and rin
down late the breakers with the
wind, but to work back In its toeth
was suother thing. As before, he
prapared to draw slowly away on a
long (nck, but in an instant the great
Wave wag upon hin broadside. Prom
stem 5 stern it tumbled into the
| sailboat, Piling her lu a tries, Over
, she wv, boom and galt withing
i
y ————— ”
| down into the sea, and the next mo-
ment was bottom up, driving rapidly
| toward the rocks.
Nakamura, at besf but a laborious
tewimmer, found himself under a
| tathom of water in a heavy coat, His
feet, moreover, had become entangled
in the length of net,
From the loosstiting overcoat
| nranaged to get free, but from
seine about his feet he could
j extricate himself. Indeed, it seemed
i but to tighten with his struggles.
arms alene, however, he
| his way to the surface, and caught a
! half-breath. But upon the
part of his inhalation
{ing brine,
Strangzling and suffocating, he wore
away his strength trying to get free
from the net. More and more fren-
zied and confused became his thrash
ings. Not a single breath of pure
air could he get: when it was not
water that he sucked in, it was froth
and spray Soon he sank helplessly
beneath the green surface: and then
the long, sobbing inhalation that he
took was from the depths,
Yamate's eyes, even while he
ed his own craft to safety, were turn-
ed back toward his less skilful coun
tryman; and when he saw the cap-
size, he immediately threw over his
into the breakers with the wind
astern.
A great
as he ran,
of sail he
formed beneath him
with the full spread
pace with it, riding
high upon it as it rolled in toward
the rocks. At last, as if fretful of
its load, the billow reared to a crest,
and all but pitched the boat forward
headlong.
But at
brought to
below, and
the smother
lived.
Close
keel of
wave
and
kept
was
rocks
In
still
instant it
the
Spray.
rait
the same
its Knees
crumbled
foam
by
into
of the «¢
the upturned
boat the
wate oould see
bolling water,
down and
d !
ay
Nakamura's
capaized ‘fisherman Ya
nothing. All was
which here suc)
away, and there
Then the wih a
crash upon rim aan
leaped twenty
alongside
but of
white
swirled
bubble rth again
vighty
Tock,
billow fe’!
stone
and the whippe¢
in the
Had not
it hand
also
Yamate's
it the tiller, thoat would
in like
his
have crashed led
obedient to
the
vet
rch cance:
turned aside from out-
rock and drove far
her toward the solid abutment of the
mainiand, that could dodged.
Still the daring had
sight of Nakamura tumul-
on
not be
Japanese
Upon the
the contents of
a floatirg mass
can,
basket, but of the man not a
Then an
kind
vard)
anite
the
of
boat
lines,
and a
sign
indistinguishable mass
bubbled
f the
the surface,
not an Instant
a turn of the sheet about
grabbed with the other hand a gaff,
and leaned far out over the gunwale
He aescured and pulled the ob
ject It was the coat
same instant
corks and
an empty the two oars
some within
It
up
ple of did
bt Ya
He took
the
gtern
COs to
mate lost
Ip
ampt:
his quick ove
sight of a second shadow in
waters, which rapidi:
the shape of a black head of halr
Yamate hooked again and brought
Nakamurz by the arm.
With his stomach
and so holding Ht,
triman Inboard
did thre
in the
augnt
the assumed
ne
in
cver the tiller,
in the
things
next instant
he resunged
and
“ev
his attention the
none too agile
swung round broadside to
and a billow of
than six vards Jdistant
There was but one chance of CHCR
ng It off the wind’
turned
He
had
the waves
upon
Aas
Donal
no
“iyo
waa less
to slack befgre
Q
rock This Yamate did. letting go
the sheet upon the instant the craft
fame round and taking the ses upon
the stern. The distance lost was ap
palling: it seemed that the grip
tne wave would not loose until! it had
borne them to the very rocks. The
instant it passed, Yamate jerked In
the sheet to bring boat about:
but It was not to be. A second more
followed so closely that once more
(he had to turn back. Then Yamate
for an Instant lost hope, for cer
sainly If no thine wore given him be
twean breakers to turn, he could not
draw out of them. Boats do not sail
backward.
Sual! as hig hope had become, how-
ever, the Japanese stood alert at helm
and sheet. To his joy, he saw that
the third was far behind the two
that had fallen in such quick succes
#*lon. Amidst the flurrv even before
the billow had passed, he bdre over
| the tiller and stood away.
The boat cmme whirling round and
; ied down through the foaming
j trough of water with the speed of a
| 2ull. Bo cloge It wes upon the rocks.
Fthat the bom end almost serapod
lin turning; so close, too, that the un.
devrtod helped to sweep it back. But
the boat Jived, there was
i the whole tumbling line of breakers
taat stood hetween her and safety,
Bill she was headed toward the
apen sea, amd for Yamate that was
encugh to stir hope, although be knew
that every inch of the way must he
fought for against wind and wave,
With the sheet somewbat free to
acaulre momentum, he ran off on »
long tack almost parallel with the
shore,
When the foremost wave reached
Him he whet up ints and through
without misfortune, and Inimedintaly
slacked away again to get ap epost
tor meeting the sceond.
of
the
| althoush
helt of breakers, where three already
definitely formed waves were racing
toward him. 7TRe first two were of
moderate size, gathering height
womentum ag they advanced; but the
third and most remote gent a chill
to his heart. It was far out, rising
and looked to the troubled sailor like
an unstable mountain ridge coming
against him,
While the spell of that sight held
him, the nearest of the three waves
upon his starboard bow. Al-
though he had mechanically forced
over the tiller to meet it, the boat
was not fully in position; and in con-
sequence sea-water came over the
gunwale,
Yamate did what he could to brine
the eraft properly up, and then, as
the breaker passed, stood away as
before, One favoring circumstance
not desert him-—the breeze swept
from the sea without gust or lull.
that he would before now
to grief.
the tremendous ridge of
higher and higher,
and thinner, Al
ready the crest was forming and
glints of white were beginning to
ghow. , The wind caught away the
and made cf it streaming pen-
of mist. So high and thin the
that it became trans.
green, beautiful but ominous.
Meanwhile the intervening billow wag
threatening the ds Japanese
sallor. It was perfectly able to over
whelm the boat if allowed to catch it
broadside, and in absence of Its
overtowering pursuer, it would have
caused anxiety But Yamate met and
cut through it without taking aboard
a drop
B00 «
Hut
have
Up came
witer, rising
growing thinner
for
come
rants
gperate
the
1 Te
OBEY
followed the mountain.
mags of the great third wave that
Japanese did attempt an:
tack He immediately
tore t mast from its step,
al might heaved it, to
gether with =all and rigging into the
sea Then back ran into the
stern-shects again caught the
the not
other
forward,
and with
sprang
he
wi
His
he
and
tiller.
Down upon them came the smother
of foam. The seething poured
in upon the two fishermen from port,
Nakamura, as
bottom of the
ime swallow.
flood
starboard and
stem.
he ]
in the
second 1
lay limply
boat, was for a
ed up by the sea,
Yet the craft
fil, for Yamate
rpare and
Lelped to cut
came through
Yamate
did
held
at
completely
The
too,
they
not
her
the
irge
ANYASs prow,
a passage; and
and re
ttle
snatched the oars
struggle A very
them now, low
the gunwale., Bat
Onl oily swells
which lapped gently
bows and rolled on
Yamate was glad of asshniance
the flshing-boat that
in to and to tow
the
wave would _O
peat
Water was
worst
them,
WARE Dast.
met
the
Yet
from
came
Japanese
lend a hand
of danger
Nakamura was dragged from under.
to
was
presently he Came Io
farther uassist
tralling rigging,
and presently was
again under his own
but still effective can
Comuanion.
and
Yamate, refusing
drew In his
vas. --Youth's
The Perssvering Guesser.
Aked, John DD. Rockefeller's
was praising the perseverance
suffpagettes, who, he eaid,
roads undergo imprison
and fo sacrifice their lives to
what they decided an intoler-
wrong.”
Then, with a
sumead :
"It I= amazing what perseverance
will achieve sven misdirected per
severance has achieved marvels
There is the case of Robson, great
Notts ericketer
“Robson, during his Australian
tour, was determined, one scorching
afternoon, that his side shouldn't do
the hard work of fielding.
“Well, when the Australian cap
tain spun the coin, Robson shouted:
"Woman!
“Then, seeing that heads lay up
permost, instead of acknowledging de.
feat Robson sald, with perseverance
and nonobalance:
"“ "Wellrwe'll go in
“ ‘But-—er-I thought ' said the pu:
zgled Australian, ‘you see, 1 don’t quite
know the English meaning of “wom
an.”
“Then, maid
‘We'll toss again.’
Dr
pastor,
tho
“stood
of
to
right
Dr. Aked
amle re.
Robson, gallantly,
toss. Robson calied heads, and talla
came up.
at this point have surrendered in de
spair, but not so Robson.
" "Honors are now easy,’ said he,
with a pleasant smile. 'On with the
rutfber.’
“The AusiraMan a third time fp
ed the toss correctly, the persevering
Robson led his side to the
benches”
Bureau of Education.
A national department of odaen:
Hon, with a georetary in the esabinet,
congress to the national bureau of
education, Commissioner Brown
experts to make important education
make his modest bureau
mission originally outlined
fulfil Its
Tor
aed od
KILLS WOMAN AND SELF.
Youthful Telephone Inspector Shoots
18-Year-Old Companion,
Reading. While speeding along
in a taxicab here Stella Rocktashel,
18 years old, was shot and killed,
her companion, George BE.
Knaut, 20 vears old, after directing
the chauffeur to hurry to a hospital,
turned that killed the
girl upon himself and ssnt a bullet
Into his heart, dying almost instantly.
Whether there had been a quarrel,
the had agreed to die
gether, has not been determined.
Lewis Becker, the chauffeur. 1s una-
ble to throw any light on the affair,
but the police believe, however, that
it, was a case of deliberate murder
and suicide.
Started For Girl's Home,
The engaged the
in the business section of
shortly before 2 o'clock A, M., the
young man telling the chauffeur to
drive to the girl’s home at 617 North
Front Stregt When the vicinity of
the young woman's home was reach-
ed the chauffeur was startled by a
revolver shot inside the cab. Simul
taneously with the report the front
window of the cab was shattered and
the driver heard the whiz of a billet
over his shoulder
A moment later Becker declares
the man in the cab yelled excitedly,
“Drive to the hospital!”
Recognizing that something seri-
ous hal Becker rushed the
Reading Hospital
entered hospital
was a second shot in-
Halting at the hospital
summoned night
¢ in turn called the in-
and
the revolver
or two 10.
couple taxicab
the town
geeurred,
machine
Just as
grounds
side the cab
door Becker
nur and sh
ternes
to the
he the
there
the
we
Dead On Reaching Hospital,
The woman was found
teat of theeab: Her face
with blood There was
it formrnd that sho
bullet wound in the
head, together with
told how
Fired at close
pasied through
in a
was
wan
right
MW der
had
range, ti
her
the flegh,
i examination of th
was dead
: igh the
was nothing hospital
ians could do, and they imme-
notified police, w
© man
{00 hay
} heart
the
ao ook
lesnbhana
eiephiong
* dey eloped
neEnector
neg
that
sweral pe
. Paying he want-
uerade ball An
mask ball here
af the opinion
nd
sous to
lend bim
od to go
there was no
the authorities
that the case f murder
suicide
Miss
YO
Rockins
INE Wi
She an
for several
Was a
of lively 4d Epoti-
Knaut had been
Years Her fath-
is George Rocktashel, 2a Reading
Railroad engineer, and of the
best known rallroad men in this see-
tion
Supposed They Were Engaged.
Her mother sald:
“Why thiz thing
not explain Knaut
ter had always been
and I understood that
gaged to be married
a fine young man
I do not know, but
were at no piace where they
not have been
From another source it waz learn.
ed that Knaut and the girl were at
a social gathering In 2s asvening and
that later they were in a Saloon, It
was from there that they went to a
nearby street corper, where the taxi-
Prepossess-
ing an
tion
friends
one
occurred 1 can
and my daugh-
good friends,
they were en-
I thought him
Where they were
I know that! they
should
home
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE,
i
Farmer Adopts A Sare Method Of
Ending His Tronbles,
Warren Charles ¥.. Hull, of
Grand Valley, despondent and seek-
Ing death, committed suicide by blow-
ing himself to atoms with the aid of
dynanriite He placed 15 aticks of
the explosive in a hollow stump, at-
tached a battery to it and aa! on the
sump while he touched off the im-
provised mine
Where the stump was there i= a
hole big enough to bury a brick
house The only portion of Hull's
hody recovered was found in a tree
iwo farms away
For some time Hull
brood ng over financial losses,
farm wax to have been sold by the
sheriff, He hunted out a great box
had been
blasting last year, and writing a note,
he pinned it to a tree near his barn,
then went to the woods, half a mile
distant, to end his life in a manner
which would leave no uncertainty as
to the success of hig suic'de plan.
The note which he left reads as fol.
lows: “On the day of the sale my
troubles will be over.” The sale was
postponed
STATE ITEMS.
Tue Hate Health Department bag
received word of three cases of cere
hrospinal meningitis at Wilkes-Barre.
They are the only cases of the kind
in the State.
Caught by the coat in machinery
which he was watching at Drapér
Colliery, Gilberton, 15-year-old Oscar
Leibig, of Frackville, was mangled
to death,
tees of the Free Library of the Beth.
lehems elected these officers: Presi.
dent, Prof. J. L. Stewart, of Lehigh
University; viee president, Abraham
8. Schropp;: treasurer, W. A, Wilbur;
secretary, Miss Elizabeth A, Dinan.
The body of an unknown woman
was found In the Lehigh Canal at
Easton. In a dress et waa found
a half pint bottle of whisky and a
256 cents in it. The body
Be
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JAPAN'S WAR ON THE PLAGUE.
One Item the Killing and Disscetion
of 800,000 Rats a Year,
The plague in Japan first broke
out in 1599, the cases numbering 220
The second visitation was 1902 and
1903, the cases numbering 71. The
third outbreak August
24, 1805. From then until the end of
March, cases numbered
103 The means employed for fight.
ing the disease are given hy the Lon.
don Illustrated News as
(1) Collecting and purchasing of
rats at five sen a head rather
body, for the whole carcass has to be
delivered). To insure greater actiy-
ity a ticket is given to every man who
brings in a rat This ticket is num.
bered, and may draw a maximum
prize of yen £00 .
{2) The distribution gratis of rat
poison on application. Ten cakes of
poison to each house Delivered tc
3000 houses a day-—30,000 eakes of
poison at an average cost of about
yen 75 a day
{2) Cleaning of houses and go
downs (warehouses).
(4) To prevent rats from reassem-
bling In godowns extensive repairs
are being earried on and all ground
floors and walls rendered impene-
trable. (In connection with this reg.
ulation the number of godowns con
sidered in need of repair was 1615.)
(6) The damming of holes in
drains to prevent the rats getting out.
This process was also carried out on
the sea coast near the Kobe customs
house,
(8) Inspection of patients. Doe.
tors from the sanitary department
make a house to house inspection
and where any sick person is dis
covered carefully investigate the na.
ture of the disease,
(7) Examination of dead bodies,
(8) Injection of anti-plague serum
In family of infected patien.
(9) Strict isolation.
The rats killed in Tokio from 1900
to June, 1908, numbered 4,820,000,
an average of more than 800.000 a
year. The ratio between the number
of rats infected and the number of
cases serves to prove bevond a doubt
| that these little animals are the most
active disseminators of the disease;
and the thoroughness and care with
which the inspection is carried on is
evinced by the fact that over 100.000
rats may be dissected without finding
& trace of infection, yet vigilance is
never relaxed,
Never for one instant do the sur
| geons forget that the very next one
{ may contaln microbes enough to de.
populate the largest city. The mar
velous rapidity with which the eram-
. ination is dgne can be imagined when
| one learns that from 2000 to 3000
| rats gre egamined a day, according to
| the number brought in.
| The cakes of poison supplied by
| the Government are made of sweet
| potato, red pepper and arsenic and
| are colored with methyl violet to pre.
' vent children eating them by mistake,
| The cleaning of houses fis carried ont
occurred on
1906, the
{for
| whole streets being taken at a time.
4
| houses and piled up in the strects.
Dirt, dust and refuse of all kinds are
carted away and burned.
THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER.
when 1 first beheld von"
Eve (wrathfully) "Sa vou were
expecting some other women, wore
you?!"-~New York Times
5 Aw oa ;
SORRY HE SPOKE.
"Shop early,”
band. 2
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CLex ENT DALR
ATTORNEY -AT- LAW
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office N. W. corner Diamond, two doors trom
First Matioual Bank, lyme
WwW G6 RUNKLE
ATTORNEY -AT-LAW
BELLZFORTE Pa.
All kinds of legal business attended we promptly
Fpecial attention gives 10 colisctions Ofics,
Boor Crider's Exchange. ire
R B. SPANGLER
ATTORNEY -AT-LAW
BELLEFONTRPA
Practices in all the courts. Consullation is
English and German Office, Orider's Exchange
Bursting yd
04 Fot ho
EDWARD ROYER, Proprietor
Location : One mile Bouth of Centre Hall,
Assommedations fntolam Good bar. Parties
wishing to enjoy an evening given spogisd
stiention. Meals for such ooessions pe
pared on short motice. Always prepared
for the transient trade.
RATES : $1.0 PER DAY.
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[be dalional Hate!
MILLERIM, Pa
L A BHAWYER, Prop
Floet clam scoommodstions for the travian
©00d table board and siseping a partment
The sholomt lignom at the bar. Stable so
ssmmodations for horses fa the bast win
Bed. Bs woand from all trains es fhe
Lewisbury snd Tyrone Ralirosd, st Oobusy
LIVERY 2
Special Effort made to
Accommodate Com
mercial Travelers.....
D. A. BOOZER
Centre Hall, Pa. Penn'a RL Ry
Pena’s Valley Banking Company
CENTRE HALL, PA
W. B. MINGLE, Cashief
Receives Deposits .
Discounts Notes . . .
H. GQ. STRCHIEIER,
CENTRE HALL, . . . . . PE™N
Manufacturer of
and Dealer In
HIGH GRADE ...
MONUMENTAL WORK
in ail kinds of
Marble veo
Granite, Dems tefl to got my price.
SHAR ~~
LARGEST [NSURMNGE |
H. E. FENLON
Agent
Bellefonte, Penn'a.