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‘THE CENTRE
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1909.
REPORTER
Abolished Taltlion Fee.
The board of trustees of the Pennayl-
vania State College recently passed a
resolution abolishing the tuition fee of
$100 for all students outside the state,
The resolution takes effect after this
year.
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; Milton Editor Dies,
Joseph A. Logan, editor of the
Miitonian since 1850, died from an
attack of vertigo, aged sixty-four years,
He is survived by his widow, twosons
and one daughter. ‘The deceased was a
Civil War veteran, and was postmaster
during the Arthur administration.
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Fine School Record,
Miss Lena Emerick, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. M. L. Emerick, in Centre
Hall, made a remarkable record dur-
fog the past ten school terms. Up to
within a month she was present every
day during these terms, but she was
then obliged to miss a few days on ac-
count of sickness. Miss Emerick will
graduate at the approaching com-
mencement, and is deserving of this
bit of recognition.
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Merchandise at Public Sale,
G. Fred Musser, trustee, and W.
Harrison Walker, attorney, will sell at
public sale on Friday and Baturday,
April 24 and 3d, the stock of merchan-
dise in the store, fixtures, wagons, ete.,
of W. J. Copenhaver, at the store room
occupied by Mr, Copenhaver, at Col
yer. This being a bankruptey sale all
of the goode and fixtures must go re-
gardless of the post of prices offered.
The sale will begin on Friday evening
at 6:30 o’clockand on’ Baturday after-
noon at 2:00 o'clock, and will continue
Baturday afternoon and Raturdsy
evening, or as long as there are any
goods not disposed of.
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Kelih's Theatre, ;
Comedy predomivsates in this week's
bill at Keith's Theatre, Philadelphia.
Wm. H. Murphy and Blanche Nichols
head the list of entertsivers in a barn-
storm military burlesque on stage life
and actors, called * The Behool of Act-
ing.” Hymak, * the chameleon com-
edian,’”’ gives an impersonation of haif-
dozen characters while supposed to be
hypnotized. Zinka Panna plays many
instruments and eplivens her act by
the introduction of several trained
dogs. A laughable acrobatic act is the
offering of the Brothers Byrne. A
given by Newhold and Carroll. A
bridge collapses and the two perform-
ers are suspended in mid-air where
they proceed to do some stunts on the
high horizontal bar. There are twenty
minutes of riotous fun in MeCallum's
* Bunny Bouth ".
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LOCALS,
This the first of April. Now for the
April showers aud onion snows.
Easter post cards are on sale at
this office. They are exceptionally
pretty in design,
Mrs. John Koarr has been st the
Bellefonte hospital during the past
three weeks. Her condition is im-
proving.
B. F. Royer will make public sale of
his personal property, at Potters Mills,
Baturday, April 10th, See sale register
and posters,
Mrs. A. Y, Williams died at her
home in Port Matilda, aged fifty-seven
years, In addition to her husband she
is survived by a family of sons and
daughters.
Wednesday afternoon Rev. Daniel
Gress went to Mifflinburg where he
preached that eveniog in the Reform-
ed church for the pastor, Rev, K. Otis
Bpesaard, Ph. D.
Much plowing bas been done during
te past two weeks. Farmers who
could not move until the first of April,
will find themselves somewhat be-
hind their neighbors in plowing.
Remember the Pink Lavel will
appear next week, Bend in subserip-
tion, if you please, and by all meauvs
do not fail to send a notice if you have
changed your post office address,
David C. Boon will hereafter be
found on the James Wert farm
(formerly the Bpart farm ) nesr Lin-
den Hall, haviog moved there from
the Willism Pealer farm, near Spring
Mills,
The large manufacturing concerns
are requesting their clerical forces to
brush up in percentage, so that the
ten, twenty, thirty or more per cent.
in the cut iz wages may be reckoned
quickly.
In the Woman's Home Companion
for April is begun a stirring new novel
by Cyrus Townsend Brady, entitled
‘‘ Hearts and the Highway.” The
various instalments of the story are to
be illustrated by F, C. Yohn,
Miss Lsura Barner, daughter of
George Barner, who was married
about a year ago to Mr, Wohlfert, with
her husband moved to a small farm
near Mill Hall, the middle of March,
and began farming at that time,
+7" R.D. Foreman, of the firm of Fore
man and Smith, dealers in grain,
coal, ete, at Centre Hall, remains con
fined to bed, suffering from rheumas-
tiem fn hip and one of his limbs. He
has been housed up for several months,
and for some weeks has been obliged
to remain in bed,
STATE GRANGE AT STATE,
The Excoutive Committees Deoldad to Hold
its 1900 Meeting at Centre County's
College Town,
Ihe next sespion of the Pennsylvania
State Grange will be held at State Col.
lege, where is located the state's great-
est edoneational institution—Penney!-
vania Btate College.
The executive committee of the
Btate Grange, consisting of Master W.
T. Creasy, of Columbia county; I.
Frank Chandler, of Luzerne county,
and ', H. Dilldine, of Columbia coun.
ty, together with a local committee,
including John 8. Dale, Elmer Musser,
W. K. Corl and Willard Dale, repre-
senting the Cintre County Pomona
Grange, met at Btate College Friday
evening, when it was definitely de-
cided that the next session of the State
Grange should be held at that place.
Those connected with Pennsylvania
State College, as well as the citizens of
the town, have voucned for and ar-
ranged that the twelve or more hunp-
dred Grangers who attend these meet.
ings will be properly cared for. The
sessions have never been held where
better facilities were obtainable for
holding the meetings. The Bchwab
auditorium, the chapel, and the mspy
commodious rooms that may be used
for committee purposes have never
been equaled in points of elegance and
convenience anywhere the Grange has
held previous meetings,
Arrangements have also been made
by the railroad companies whereby
the passenger coaches on the Pennsy
will be carried direct to Btate College
over the Bellefonte Central Railroad,
thas avoiding a change at Bellefonte,
Dr. Hunt met the committees at the
railroad station, and together with a
number of others connected with the
college, they were escorted to the
Auditorium, Armory; Agricultural
building, and other points, and dined
at McAlister Hall,
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Roral New York Seed Potatoes,
The und reigned offers for sale one
handred and fifty bushels Rural New
York seed notatoes. These potatoes
were grown from stock received frem
New York last spring. Price, $1 00
per bushel, Terms strictly cash,
HB. WW, Bmirn,
Centre Hall, Ps,
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Woodward.
Mr, sand Mrs. Calvin Eby, of Potts.
towp, are visiting the former's parents,
Mr. and Mrs, N. W. Eby,
Rev. Kessler and family, of York,
moved into the Jacob Neidig home
last week.
Miss Minnie Boob, of Milton, Is
visiting ber parents io this place,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Musser were
called to Asronsburg Bundsy morning
on account of the serious {illness of Mr,
Musser's father, Absolom Musser, but
before they reached the place he had
passed away.
After spending a week with their
parents, Herbert Hosterman and
family left for Aaron iourg Baturday.
Master Owen Smith, of Fiedler,
spent the greater part of last week
with his grandmother, Mrs, Brindle.
Dr. and Mrs. Luther M, Weaver, of
Philadelphia, W. J. Smith and Mrs
F. O. Barefoot, of Centre Hall, were
in town Baturday afternoon,
Among those on the sick list are B,
M. Motz, Orvis Stover, Dewey Motz
and Mrs. Walter,
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Condo, of
Tower, Illinois, visited their aged
grandfather, 8. M. Motz, last week,
Georges Vallay.
Harry Wagner and Whitmer Lingle
left for Illinois Tuesday of Inst week,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Herman spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Haugh,
J. C. Barger left on Monday for
Lock Haven, after spending a week
with his family here,
Mre, Bara Reeder spent a day last
week with Mrs, James Foust,
W. T. Motter spent Bunday with his
parents In Bugar Valley,
E. L. Lingle, who has been employ-
ed at Lemont for some time, is home
and expects to help his father with
the farming this summer,
Maynard Barger is at the home of
William Neese, where he will work on
the farm this summer,
The Locust Grove K. L. C. E. elect-
ed new officers Baturday evening, to
#:rve for the next six months. They
are as follows : Pres, B. E Gobble ;
vice pres., M. LL Barger; sec, Iva
Hennigh ; treas., 8. P. Heunigh,
IJ OTICE—Senled bids will be received 1,
the Commissioners of Centre county at
their office in the Court House, Bellefonte, Pa., in
accordance with the Act of Assembly,
the st day of April, 1908, for the sors ing,
tghtoing of bolts and painting, in CCOrGanGs
with specificatirns which are on fite in their of.
fice in che Court Hove, for the following bridges:
Everett bridge, over Pine Creek, in Haines
township ; length 60 feet, and width 14 fee*,
Low truss,
Creek. In Potter
Colyer bridge, over Binki
length O4 feet, way 10 feet, Low
township ;
truss,
Ken gy A ills, in i a
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loogth 45 feet, roadway 12 feet, eB oo
Wallace Run bridge, over Wallace Run, near
Snow Rhos Intersection, in Boggs township |
length 53 feet, 16 foot roadway, Low tras, ©
Nall Works over Spring Craek, near
Fair G in rowhstl i lengt!
feet, roadway 14 feet, Hah rae, £. ho
All bids must be in 12 o'clock neon +
30th of Avr, 190, wiil be on Syhe
Paint will be farnished by the County, snd bids
will be received on each bride spArANlL Taos
bidder shall deposit a certified Ohook for one:
all of his Lid with nis
sai evidence ol gind ut:
reserve the right to any ow
k, near
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THOUGHTS 4 DREAMS
Startling Rapidity With Which the
Mind Works In Sleep.
SOME STRANGE EXPERIENCES
The Events of a Whole Lifetime May
Flit Past the Dreamer In a Few Mo-
ments—Queer Results of
Experiment by a Noted Psychologist.
a Dream
A characteristic of dreams which, as
the rather materialistic Dr. Clarke
says, “hints at a life that has neither
beginning nor end and 8 bounded by
no limits which human thoughts can
compass” Is the rapidity with which
events happen in the dream world.
Thus, when asleep and dreaming, we
live an entire lifetime in a minute:
in a space of time that is gearcely
more than a second we pass through
experiences that could not be duplicat.
ed In this objective sphere In hours,
perhaps in years.
Count Lavalette relates that one
night, when {imprisoned and under sen-
tence of death, he dreamed that he
stood for five hours at a Paris street
corner, where he witnessed a con
tinuous succession of harrowing scenes
of blood, every one of which wronght
his soul to the highest pitch of excite-
ment. When he woke he found that
he had been asleep less than two min-
utes.
In a more recent experiment, made
expressly to test the truth of these
theories, the subject was aroused from
gleep by a few drops of water being
sprinkled upon his forehead. It took
but an instant to accomplish this re.
sult, and yet in that incaleulably brief
space of time the man dreamed of
going on an excursion: of an accident
by which he was plunged into a lake,
and during the long struggle to escape
death that followed all the experiences
of bis life seemed to flash before him,
Just as they are sald to appear to a
person who is actually drowning.
Dreams gre tricksters Professor
Titchener of Cornell university told
with gusto of his experience. As na
specialist in psychology he interested
himself in dreams. Like a true sclen-
tist, be ones met about gathering data,
He wanted know what caused
dreams, where they came from, what
they meant, and all that He deter.
mined to watch himself when he slept
and to awake himself at once when
he found himself dreaming something
of value. So, with a notebook on a
writing table near his bed, he forced
fmeclf to waken for several nights
and to write down, while the dream
impressions were vivid, his remem
brances of the detafls and by a study
of the room, the bed and his physical
condition to attempt to arrive at the
possible causes of his dreams.
He was getting on famously. One
night he had a particularly vivid
dream. In accordance with his prac
tice, he forced himself to awake and
immediately write down clearly every.
thing about it, then went back to sleep
The next morning he arose
and was astounded to see that his note
sheet was blank. He remembered pos
ftively the notes had down
thereon in the middie of the preceding
night. The next night again he wrote
down his notes after his dreams, only
to have the same uncanny sensation
the next morning at finding nothing
recorded
The strange circumstances set him to
pondering. That night he Impressed
upon his mind before dropping off into
slumber that he must awaken with his
first dream, or, if not with that, with
his second dream. Subsequently this
strong antesleeping command deliver
ed to himself was present all through
his dream consciousness. When the
first scenes of a vivid dream came be
fore his fancy he felt himself awaken,
and he set about writing down the
facts upon the pad at his table.
It was then that froni some source
of inner consclousnesa he felt the com-
mand again to awake, although he
seemed at the timd to be in full posses.
sion of his normal faculties. His eyes
opened, and the secret was out. He
found himself lying in bed, where he
had been all that night His rising
after each dream had become so much
a routine that he bad dreamed that
he had arisen and had made the notes,
and his dream was so clear that it
seemed reality —Outing Magazine,
Pat's Deficiencies.
Mrs. McCarthy's husband went out
in a boat alone. The boat overturned,
and be was drowned. A friend met
her some weeks later,
“1 hear,” sald he, “that Pat left you
very well off--that he left you $20.
$00."
“True,” sald Mrs, McCarthy; “he
iia.”
"How was that? acked her friend.
“Pat could not read or write, could
he?”
“No,” sald Mrs. MecCarthy,
swim." New York Press.
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Good Reason Why,
The Woman Hater — Can you ex-
plain why it Is that a woman hardly
ever thanks a man for giving her his
sent In a street car? The Man Hater
~Easily, sir! It's because she hardly
ever gets the chance. Brooklyn Life.
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to
again
he set
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Almost Got It,
“Is there any difference In the mean-
ing of the worde ‘nautical’ and ‘ma.
rine? ” asked Mr. Malaprop.
“Not much,” replied Mrs. Malaprop.
“One Is a cinnamon of the other.”-—
Chicago Record Herald.
True dignity Is never gained by
place and never lost when honors are
withdrawn. Massinger,
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Advertise In the Reporter,
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By the Way He Docs it He Gives
an Index to His Character.
THE POTENCY OF LAUGHTER
Ehown by the Effective Way In Which
Cervantes Emiled Spain's Vain and
Foolish Chivalry Away—Men Who
Never Laughed and Rarely Smiled.
Vhat an index to character is man's
laugh! What surer clew can we have
to both his intellect and his temper un
less it that
laughs? “Nothing,” says Goethe, “is
more significant of character
than what they find laughable.” “You
know no man,” says Tieck, “till you
have heard him laugh-till you know
when and how he will laugh.” “The
perception of the ludicrous,” says Em
erson, “is a pledge of sanity. A rogue
alive to the ludicrous is still convert!
ble. If that sense is lost his fellow
men can do little for him.”
Lavater, the great physlogunomist,
lays his great stress on the very un-
equivocal and derisive nature of g
laugh as an index of character. If it
be free and hearty and occasion a gen
eral and light movement in all the
features and dimple the cheek and
chin, it is an almost infallible evi
dence of the absence of acy great ma-
terial wickedness of disposition. Cae.
sar mistrusted Cassius because that
lean and hungry conspirator rarely, if
ever, Induiged in laughter. When Hor
ace Walpole was in Paris in 1765 he
found that laughing was out of fash
fon in that gay capital. “Good folks,”
be writes, “they have no time to laugh.
There are God gnd the king to
pulled down first, and men and wom-
en, one and all, are devoutly employed
in the demolition.”
How often a man fails to betray the
tiger that lurks within him until
laughs! Is there nothing sig
in the fact recorded bs
Cato the sounger that m
make him laugh, that his
was scarcely softened
smile? Is it not a characteristic tral
of the gloomy tyrant, Philip
Spain, that he rarely smiled
he laughed but once in his er
be he ‘seldom or neve:
men's
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the
cre on St. Bartholomew's day?
not a suggestive fact regarding
gloomy, taciturn Wallenstein, the ter-
ror of the people, at the sight of whom
as he paced through his camp with his
lofty figure enveloped in a scarlet
mantie and with a red feather in his
cap & strange horror took possession
of the soldiers, that he was never
seen to smile? Can we wonder that
the poor little dwarf, Alexander Pope,
the cynical satirist, aMicted with asth
ma and dropsy, tortured with rheuma-
tism, racked with headaches and
threatened with cataract, should pever
have laughed, but only smiled?
It has been sald of the greatest of
English dramstists, who united with
his Intense humor an equally intense,
plercing insight into the darkest and
most fearful depths of human nature,
that nae heart would have been strong
enough to bold the woe of Lear and
Othello except that which had the un
quenchable elasticity of Falstaff and
the “Midsummer Night's Dream.”
Might not a similar remark be made
of that “pendulum betwixt a smile and
a fear,” Abrabam Lincoln, in whom
sadness and a keen sense of the comic
were so strikingly combined? How
exuberant was his mirth, sparkling in
Jest, come story and anecdote, and yet
how often thé very next moment those
sad, pathetic, melancholy eves showed
a man familiar with “sorrows and ac.
quainted with grief!
Who can doubt that but for the
merriment in which he indulged—the
contagious laughter which welled up
from his soul as naturally as do bub
bles in the springs of Saratoga—he
would have sunk under his weary
weight of care long before he fell by
the pistol of Booth?
It is indeed statesmen, students and
thinkers generally who most need the
relaxation afforded by occasional mer
riment. SBome centuries ago it was the
fashion in Europe for men of rank to
keep a buffoon, and a banquet was
considered incomplete where a priv
leged jester was not an attendant.
This was perhaps for those days »
wise custom. It is surprising how
much a few minutes’ sleep will refresh
the body and a few minutes’ laughter
the mind, and many a useful life might
be prolonged by the substitution of
these remedies for “carking care” and
weariness in place of the usual treach
erous tonics and stimulants.
What a dismsl deduction would be
made from the happiness of our homes
Af they were robbed of their merri
ment! What pictures of innocent
mirth has Goldsmith given in the
“Viear of Wakefield,” and how artless
the remark of the good Dr. Primrose,
“If he had little wit we had plenty
of laughter!”
What a power for good and evil is
the world's “dread laugh, which scarce
the firm philosopher can scorn!” How
many men have been cowed by it who
could have faced without flinching
battery's deadly fire! How many bad
customs and wicked practices, how
oi
ni
or reform, how many absurd doctrines
in politics, theology and soclolegy,
which have defied the artillery of argu.
ment bave been “laughed off the pub.
He stage,” never to return! Did not
Cervantes “smile Spain's vain and
foolish chivalry away? —Willlam Ma.
thews In London Great Thoughts.
I gotton goods never prosper.—Ger.
man Proverb. ¥
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Office at Palace Livery Stable, Belle.
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