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DEATHS,
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The home of Mr, and Mrs. George
W. Ocker, of Lewisburg, was dark
ened Saturday by the going out of
their only chiid, Esther Miriam. Bhe
was in failing health for nearly a year,
and waa seriously ill for more than six
weeks, with sn affection of the
stomach, She bore her suflering
with such sweet patience that her
parents felt that she had a sustaining
knowledge of the land where there is
no more sickness. They are support.
MoUloskey-Magser,
A wedding with a tinge of romance
in it was consummated in Millheim on
Monday in the marriage of Jobn C.
McCloskey and Lydia A. Musser, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Musser, parents of the bride, by Rev.
W. J. Dice.
Miss Musser, three years ago, met
the gentleman who Is now her hus-
band ou a run from Lewisburg to
Watsontown during the time of the
Lewisburg fair. The young man
sought and secured an introduction to
SETTLED OUT OF COURT.
Racing For the Honest Lawyer In a
Town In Denmark,
In telling of his boyhood home In
Deumark, “The Old Town,” Jacob A.
Rils says that he does not remember
that there were at any time more than
two lawyers in the place, One was
good, the other bad-not a bad law-
yer perhaps, but reputed to be tricky,
whereas the other was known to be
honor itself,
It is therefore perhaps the best char-
acter I can glve my people when I re-
ssi
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Special attention is called to the
Its name describes it —it is g
clog up, chains and sj
of trouble, The long
or light, on the wagon in better condition
without tearing off the leaver, or without thresh
other loaders do,
and bas no pears to
{0 break,
cariess,
rock ets
stroke delivers the
ler, chatted for half an hour while the resk,
car was rushing on. Unlike many
other acquaintances formed by both
of them in times past, this meeting
ripened into love and finally marriage,
Mr. McCloskey is formerly from
Howard, from there he went to Wash-
cord the fact, writes Mr. Riis, that
when two farmers quarreled, each sure
that he was right, they made haste to
hitch up to get first to the honest law-
yer, and usunlly that was the end of
the quarrel, for the last in the race
was willing to make peace.
ed in their sflliction by the thought of
her joy in the beauties of that other
world where they will sometime be
again a united family,
Either was born in Rebersburg and
for twenty-six summers was the light
of her parents home snd hearts, She
run off and cause no. end
easy hay whether heavy
without chewing it
ing out the seed
not the cli
was catechised and confirmed fourteen
years ago by Rev. J. M. Rearick, at
that time pastor of the Centre Hall
charge, Her conversiun was manifest
in ber earnest desire to do her chris.
tian duty in every respect, in her in-
tense epjoyment of the service of
God’s house, and in a deep personal
devotion which made her a constant
reader of the Bible.
Esther was a graduate of the Buck-
nell school of music, and played the
piano and organ with skill and good
taste, thus giving her family and
friends great pleasure, By nature and
by training she was appreciative of
beauly. Bhe had a circle of devoted
friends who, while they mourn her
loss, rejoice in her entrance upon the
life of beauty,
Funeral services were held at the
home on Tuesday morning, conducted
by her pastor, :.Rev. J. F. Beeuach,
who took for his text I+, x: 8, * The
grass withereth, the flower fadeth ;
but the word of our God shall stand
forever.” . Rev. D. KE. Juod of the
Baptist church spoke also, basing his
remarks vpon the words ‘‘ Iu every-
thing give thanks, for this is the will
of God concerning you. V’
Rev, Mr. Aurand, of Miffliburg, who
cenfirmed Mrs. Ocker, was present
and cflfered prayer
Mr. and Mrs, Ocker have the tender
8y mpsathy of their neighbors and the
members of the church to which they
belong * »
aged eighty-seven
sud twenty-two
Bpriog
apoplexy
Charles Grimes,
years, (wi
0 months
days, died at
his home st
Baok last Wednesday of
Iu 1853 he married Priscilla Trouse,
and to this union were born six
children, three of whom are living,
Mrs, Jacob Bnavely, Bpring
Anna Hasseoplug, Mif-
El'z beth, at home,
cted Mone
Lutheran
by Rev. N. A.
was made in
namely
Mille; Mera,
flinburg,
Fuoerai
day morning
church, at Rebersburg,
Whitman, 1
Union cemels
a were cond
from te
iterment
William |
t the home
night
near
rn Thuraday
{ f Jame ww B. H
where he made Li's home, He
#ixty years, and for
¢ LO support him-
ghters survive,
swraer,
Colyer,
was aged some
SOLO LilOe Was Oey
peifl. Heveral dau
The body
and shipped to Bellefonte
meat by Uadertaker Ros
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burial
for inter-
stan.
was prepared for
Another Great Maguz as,
The North American announces
that another high-class magszine is to
be given free. It will be called the
Family Magazine. Ii is the same size
aud general appearsnce as the
Monthly Magazine which has been
stich a popular feature of the Sanday
North Awmerican for several months,
The Moot Magazine will continue
to be given fres the North
Americsn of the Sunday of
each month, The Family Magszine
free with the North
will be given
American of the fourth Sanday of
beginniog with pext
bly
with
gecond
each month,
Fuuday, Jane 25.
The Family Magszine,
by its planned with an
@pecial to appeal to every
element io the family circle.
LOCALS,
Thomas Kietler, of Youngwood,
was in Ceatre Hall over Bunday.
Messrs. Bart Byard and Besjamin
Jones, of Tyrone, were in Centre Hall
over Sunday.
W. M. Grove, the surveyor, is now
surveyiog in the mountains in the
vicinity of Renovo,
Frank V. Goodhart, assistant to
Undertaker L. , Rearick, is in Al
tooua visiting his brother, R, H.
Goodhart, a railroad engineer,
The many friends of D. W. Rey-
nolds, postmaster at Reedsville, and a
former resident of Centre Hall, will
regret to know that he is not in the
best of health, .
This week Miss Louelin Reynolds,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D, W. Rey.
nolds, of Reedsville, will graduate
from an institution fo Boston. After
the commencement exercises are over
she will return to her home, and next
winter will engage in teaching.
Pref, and Mrs. John G. Rossman, of
Btuttgart, Arkansas, arrived at Spring
Miils, and for six weeks will remain at
the home of the former's parents, Mr,
snd Mra H. F. Rossman, Mr. Ross.
mn is superintendent of the Stuttgart
schools, having been elected to tha
position a’ the beginning of the pres.
ent echool year,
#8 indicated
name, is
view
ington, D. C., and then to Downey,
Idaho, where he is a train dispatcher,
and which place Mr. and Mrs. Mec
Closkey will make their home. At
present the couple are seelug sights in
the National Capital City, and after
the honeymoon trip is over, the groom
will resume his duties in Idaho, and in
a few months the bride will go west
to preside over their home.
The Centre Hall hotel is being re-
painted.
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William Kern, who died in Potter
township last week, is said to have
had a life insurance policy for $1000,
pn
The woman of today who has good
health, good temper, good sense
bright eyes and a lovely complexion,
the result of correct living and good
digestion, wins the admiration of the
world, If your digestion is faulty
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dealers.
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Savages That Grind Their
Teeth to Sharp Points,
The most terrible specles of canni
bals living are the cruel, bloodthirsty
Manyuema of Tanganyika, in central
Africa. Living to the west of Tan
ganyika, cannibals, clothed In
primitive fashion with a plece of bark
cloth rudely hammered out from a
neighboring tree, have an appetite for
human flesh which is well nigh in
satiable,
They exercise the most flendish cun
ning in tracking down their quarry,
choosing fat, well covered people in
preference to those who are lean and
bony. Their favorite practice is to
waylay their victims at eventide so
that they may have before them a
long night in which to effectually dis
pose of thelr prey by cutting it up
Into strips and drying it over a low
fire in the woods, These dried strips
of human flesh are carefully preserved
for future use, and on two occasions
grewsome forest food depots
were discovered and their owners kill
ed by the Wafipa people, who inhabit
east Tanganyika
Most of these cannibals file their
teeth to sharp points so as to enable
them more tear the flesh
from th when they have to eat
their inable in a hurry.
African
these
t Lose
easily to
e¢ bone
meal
id Magazine,
Troubles of Those Ignorant of the
Language and Native Ways.
All Japanese Inns, of course, charge a
great deal more to the globe trotting
European tourist who does not speak
he or she is not
strictly a la Japo
the entire house
abomi
Wide Wor
the language, since
ent to
naise and worrles
hold with a variety of strange de
mands—extra quilts to sleep on be
cause they find the floor hard, an im
provised pillow, special food (the or
dinary guest takes what is given hin
and at the hour that his host pleases
and is thankful), knives, forks and
spoons because he has neglected tc
practice eating his food with chop
sticks, a bath with fresh water in if
because he will not follow the custow
of entéring the bath as soon as he
arrives, thus getting the opportunity
of first bath and the water while it Is
fresh, and half a dozen other require
ments. He reserves his chadal alse
until he leaves, and often the host mis
understands this action and, fearing
he will get no recompense for his ex
tra trouble, augments the bill accord
ingly.
These visitors not unusually treaf
the waitresses like so many novel play:
things, especially travelers of the
sterner sex, who sometimes fail hope
lessly to distinguish between profes
sional geishas and ordinary maidsery.
ants.—~Vera Collum in Wide World
Magazine.
cont travel
Her Only Want.
“1 have difficulty in satisfying my
wife. She has a thousand wants.”
“I have difficulty in satisfying mine,
and she has only one want.”
“What is it?
“Money.” Baltimore American.
Consistency.
Mother—Aren't you goin' to wash up
them tea things, Mariaranne, before
you go out? Daughter—No, 1 ain't
I'm late enough for “mother's ’‘elp”
class as it 1s.—London Opinion,
Modernity,
“Some are so intensely modern that
they prefer a Corot to a Rembrandt.”
“If it's a better hill climber I don't
blame ‘em. Me for the French ear
every time."-London Punch,
His Biggest Mistakes,
“What was the biggest mistake you
ever made?’
“Thinking I was too foxy to make a
big ilatake." Old dlund Leader,
There Is s something more Awful in
happiness than in sorrow.—Hawthorne.
, —
They used to tell of two well to do
neighbors who had fallen out over a
line fence and started simultaneously
for town, Both had good teams, and
they were well matched in the race,
For half an hour they drove silently
alongside, each on his own side of the
road, grimly urging on their horses,
but neither gaining a length, At last
as the lights of the town came Into
sight, for it was evening, a trace
broke on one of the rigs, and the
horses stopped. The other team whirl
ed away in a cloud of dust,
“Hans,” the beaten one called after
him, and he halted and looked back,
“are you golng after Lawyer —-1
naming the square one,
“1 am that!” came back.
“Then let's go back. I''m beat"
And back home they went and made
it up.
A MERCENARY MARRIAGE.
Romance of Lady March and
Second Duke of Richmond,
One of the mercenary marriages
which turned out happily was that of
the second Duke of Richmond. He
was married to Lady Sarah Cadogan
as part of an agreement that her fa-
ther's gambling debts should be can-
celed, Lord March (as be then was)
being eighteen and the bride thirteen
Immediately after the wedding Lord
March's tutor took him off to the con
tinent for the grand tour, and Lady
Sarah went back to her nursery. This
is the sequel as told by Lady Russell
n “The
“Three
the
Rose Goddess"
Yours
from his travels,
Lord March
returned but, bay
ing such an uninteresting recollection
of his bride, was in no hurry to claim
her and went the first evening of his
return to London to the opera. There
he noticed that all eyes—and lorgnettes
directed to box, where,
surrounded by several persoys, sat g
most beautiful creature, Tuin
ing to a man beside him, he asked
who she was. ‘You must be a stranger
was the answer. ‘not to
ning toast of the town,
Lady March” Lord
time In going to the
himself to his
ever after lived
that thelr devotion
‘ame proverblal”
elnps edd
were one
young
in London,
know the relig
the beautiful
March lost no
box and introducing
ride, with
so affe
whom he
tionately
to one another be
Crusity to Women,
Fonder what death the man will
t tortured life he will be
d who discovered the lit.
tie “trick” by which a woman's age
can be beyond a doubt
that 1s to while her health is
normal. The only instrument required
is an ordinary watch. The wrist of
the lady whose age Is In question Is
the telltale, for when you eount her
pulse and it registers sixty-ulne beats
per minute you know that she is be
tween twenty and twenty-five years
old. During the next five years seven
ty-one beats go to the minute, and the
“femme de trente ans” and over is en.
titled to seventy throbs, It Is a pity
the man of science who established
these facts Is not more exact when
dealing with the women of riper age,
for, acconding to romor and tradition,
it Is only after she is thirty that a wo
man begins to leave off having birth.
days.~Weatminster Gazette,
——
caused to leg
ascertained
SHY,
Dropping Coaches on the Run.
The Ingenious means by which one
of the great rallroad systems of Eng.
land drops passeuger coaches off at
Intermediate stations without slowing
up the locomotive, even for a fraction
of a second, in Its speed of sixty or
more miles an hour Is called the “slip
conch” systom and Is described in
Popular Mechanles, It Is a system
never tried in America and canslats tn
dropping, or “slipplag,” one or more
of the rear coaches just before the
station is reached. Undoubtedly many
American tourists in England after
alighting at their destination have
been amazed to discover that the
coach which they occupled was still
beside them, while the locomotive nnd
the remainder of the train were no
where to be seen,
As George Sees the Peers,
“David Lloyd George,” sald the miner
from Wales, “Is a very witty speak.
er. I've heard him many a time In
Carnarvon. Speaking In Welsh, he
once ridiculed in Carnarvon the house
of lords, He sald the average peer
thought so much of himself at family
prayers he always made one well
known passage run:
“‘Burely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life, and
I will dwell in the house of lords for
ever, "London Globe,
His Wish,
“Life Is something of a game after
all.” sald the cynical person,
“Perhaps,” replied Mr. Meekton,
“but 1 wish Henrietta wouldn't regard
it as bridge, with me forever playing
Shpouige ns dummy.” - Washington
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