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THE CENTRE _REPORTER.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1911
THE UNIFORM PRIMARY.
Moral Tone of Campaign Elevated—Men
Brought Into the Field Whe Would Have
Avoiaed Political Conventions.
If the new primary law is responsi
ble for the clean ticket nominated by
the Democrats it is well worth the ad-
ditional expense the law incurs. A
better ticket could not have been
named. There is not a man on the
Democratic ticket who was not well
known over the county before he ap-
nounced intentions to bec me a candi-
date for office ; they needed no lntro-
duction to the general public. They
were known not as politicians, but as
men of affairs, each aspirant having
special qualifications for the office he
sought,
Two facts were demonstrated in
connection with the uniform primary
laws, which have never been proved
quite so forcibly since the act was
written into the statues in 1906, be-
cause this was the first year Centre
county named more than ope or two
candidatés, and these were chosen
without contest. :
One point is that the law upques-
tionably opens the field to men who
would probably never have been can-
didates under the old delegate conven-
tion system. Aupother is that the
moral tone of campaign methods is
being elevated. The second point
probably rests upon the very fact of
the multiplicity of candidates for the
various offices.
Whether the class of candidates
brought out under the new system
averages better than under the old
is a question, and is, perhaps, largely
a matter of personal opinion ; but no
one can diepute that the voler has
been given a wider range in choosing
the character of candidate for whom
he wishes to cast a nominating vote.
Io years gone by both the leading
parties in Centre counly made great
pretense to * locate ** candidates in all
portions of the county. This was
well planned in some instances, but at
other times was the means of defeat-
ing the best men in the fleld, The
nominating method in vogue now has
to a great extent msde * locating ”
impossible, as is readily observed
when one looks over the map of Cen-
tre county with reference to the resi.
dences of the eandidates pamed.
Happily for the Democratic party its
candidates are better distributed over
the county than those of the Republi
can party.
Under the law of the new primary
system seveial inroads are being made
on the questionable methods of cam-
paigning ; and money have
played a small, if any part, in the
ecarnpaign just closed. These are be
supplanted with legitimate
methods. The tendency is toward
decency ; the practices successfully
followed by some candidates in times
past would now mark their political
burying plots.
Judging from the many newspapers
scanned by the writer during the
campaign, one method of reaching the
voter resorted to in many counties
waa by advertising in the newspapers.
This plan was pot followed to as large
an extent in Centre as in otber coun-
ties in the state, where newspaper ad-
vertising was almost wholly employed
as the campaigning method, and by
the experienced campaigners is de-
¢lared to have been the most effective,
surpassing the posting of circulars,
distribution of esrds, souvenirs, ete.
T his is a triumph for the newspaper,
and the only wonder is that its col-
umns were not generally souzht in the
past.
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Birthday Party,
On a birthday anniversary of their
eldest daughter, Miss May, on Taes-
day evening of last week, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry A. McClellan gave a sur-
prise party in her honor. The young
peopls had 8 most joyous time, play.
ing games aod induigiog in many in-
nocent sports, All told there were
forty-one guests present the names of
whom follow:
Misses Ruth Yarnell, Ada and May Wagner,
Ruth Martz, Lala Zerby, Alma Stoner, Myra and
Margretta Rockey, Helen Bodtorf, Bertha Miller,
Orpha and Eva Flisher, Ada Meise, May Fraizer,
Marion Burchfield, Bessie McClellan, Messrs,
Fred and John Horner, Harold Ream, Roy Martz,
Bamuel Zerby, Edward Bohn, Sparr Wert, Will.
fam and John Stoner, William Ricket, Lee and
Earl Frazer, William and George Swartz, Elmer
M iller, Domer Ishler, Robert Burchfisid, Mrs,
Lil lian Gettig, Mrs. Cora Burchfield, Mr. and Mrs,
Thomas Fleisher, Mrs, J. RB. McClellan, Hazel,
Frank lin and Stanley McClellan,
Undertakers, funeral directors, mor-
ticiaps, which ? There Is a discussion
among the profession to change the
page from funeral director to morti-
cian, the title * undertaker ’’ having
been tabooed in many sections. “Une
dertaker ” signifies nothing, as any
one who undertakes any thing Is an
* undertaker, ”’ * Funeral director ”
does not altogether cover the case,
since a skilled funeral director might
not be able to embalm a body. The
pew word ‘' morticiap,” Latin in
origin, is broad enough to cover all
the work of the profession, snd in time
no doubt will become common in use,
B. Gardner Grove makes it known
in this way that the apple picker left
in bis orchard on the Walker property
can be had by the owner, provided he
can prove its ownership.
GONOERNING YOUTH AND OLD AGE,
Thy Idea of Youth ls Relative~Ferhaps
Old Age Is a Myth, at Least Few
Rench Its Mystie Portals,
Some of the newspapers are dis-
cussing the very interesting question
of woman's age. They are inquiring,
‘““ When does 8 woman cease to be
young ?! Various answers have been
given and a rather sharp controversy
has sprung up between the parties
who are interested.
The idea of youth is relative,
back in 1863 a young
eighteen heard a man
meighbor : “Well,
Pm forty-five
Away
fellow
say to
I'm out of the draft,
today.’ The young
amszement, ‘I wonder if I'll ever
live to be as old as that ?' thought
be. Well hedid. And now that he
is forty-five plus twenty-one, it is his
opinion that a man of forty-five is lit-
tle better than a youth. Certainly he
life,
The boy of eighteen thought a girl
of fifteen or possibly sixteen the most
charming representative of feminine
youthfulness,
wan of sixty-four,
is only a ehild now.
e¢rufirmed in the opinion that the true
are really the girls who were
schoolmates before the war,
tions of nature that most men
them the pleasant aroma of eternal
youthfulness,
as old age, of course,
fixed figure, When we are eighteen
we think it will be found at forty-five.
and ¢
of age for twenty additional
man is young the
century mark. Perhaps old
merely a myth. Atany rate one sel
dom reaches ite mystic portals,
-
Aaronsburg,
until she passes
in town Tuesday,
Lewistown this week,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Stover made a
business trip in their suto to Lauorel-
ton one day last week.
through the weste » states,
After an absence of 8 month
work in the Lutheran charge.
ents in this place,
Wm. Wolfe, of Fiedler, moved
oneof CC. G Bright's
known as the Polly Stover property.
E E. Ardrey and wife, of Bellefonte,
were visiting their father, J. CC. Bto-
ver, at the home of George Weaver,
Ralph Btover and family bave
moved from this place onto their farm
west of Millheim, farmed by their son
Milton.
“Mr. and Mrs, George McCormick, of
Potters Mills, were the welcome guests
at the home of their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. G. Mingle, over Sunday,
Among those who satitended the
Bellefonte fair Thursday were Mer-
chant E. A. Bower, Mrs. Walter Or.
wig snd daughter, Mrs. Clarence Mus-
per and daughter.
Leroy Mensch hss gone to Balti
more, Md., to attend a musical conser-
vatory to complete hisstudies. Leroy
had been teaching before he left, and
his pupils were well satisfied with his
work.
Mrs, Wm. QGuisewite entertained
her Larkio's Club in her usual pleas.
ant ménner, on Thursday evening.
The guests numbered some twenty.
After having speut the evening pleas-
antly they were called to the dining
room and served with ice cream and
cake, salted peanuts, and the fruits of
the season. The evening will be long
remembered by Mrs. Guisewite’s host
of friends,
houses,
bet teg
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Transfers of Reni Estate.
Bophia Hale to Edward M. Greist,
Beptember 28, 1911, tract of land io
Philipsburg. $100,
Ammon J. Hazel et ux to Busan
Gettig, April 1, 1909, tract of land in
Miles twp. $800,
(Gibbs Braden et al to Mintie Bradip,
Beptember 13, 1911, tract of land ip
Philipsburg. $1.
J. B. Irish et al to Mike Salvisku,
July 7, 1911, tract of land in Rush
twp. %61.
Mary Kolar to Basan Kirko, Bep:
tember 15, 1911, tract of land in Boow
Shoe twp. #510
James Mixon et ux to Wea'ey Taro.
las, August 19, 1911, tract of land in
Philipsburg. $960
Matilda Gardoer to Nathan M,
Kunes, July 24, 1011, tract of land in
Liberty twp, $05.
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MEASURED BY A PAPER DRUM.
The Whirling Cylinder Registers the
Projectile’s Flight With Minute Ac
curacy at Any Desired Distance.
Wing Shots and Shot Charges.
Persons at all interested in gun firing
of any kind, whether of the revolver
or rifle or of heavy ordoance of any
kiud, occasionally come upon the term
“muzzle velocity” and velocities of the
missile at stated distances,
“How can anybody tell how fast a
bullet is traveling+when it leaves the
muzzle of a weapon?’ is a likely com-
ment on the part of the layman.
As a matter of fact this approximate
velocity of the missile may be one of
the easiest of determinations to make,
In the first place, a drumlike cylinder
is made of fixed diameter and of suf
ficiently stiff paper to allow of its re.
volving rapidly on a spindle. Using a
cylinder of small circumference, it is
necessary that the speed approach
a minute. These rev-
are produced by electric pow-
er, and the count Is made by an exact
mechanical register.
The gun is placed securely at the re.
quired distance from the drum and is
sighted directly at the center of the
cylinder, which "is spinning at
many even miles, a minute, ns
circumference determines, With
the drum’s speed adjusted an electri
current cCischarges the weapon, the
bullet striking the center of the drum
fs mensured from top to botte
The oo understands that with the
vy the bul
gh it on the
ning out on the
h scarcely
Irum’s perl
®O
rods,
Mn
read
stntior
thro
dian eter, col
witl
drum let would pnss
line of {ts
other side
a shade of impediment.
whirling at
itions a minute
r a fraction more
ond mean a rate of
seconds, Thus in
shery
imeter onl
than a foot this
2.000 yards in i
the bullet to enter one
per drum,
side of the pa.
it and out at the other
side the o of the drum
would siderable deviation
from an exact diameter of line of pas
sage,
It is
inside the
fs used
CTORS
pposite side
abow con
of deflect
further rim of the drm that
1 for the computation of velocity
of the missile wold of the cylin
der may be computed ta the ten thou
gpandth part of qd if
gnd the lineal 4d 00 run
this space wm shown
The spe
fi secon necessary
istan
ner side of the
ever Is the bullet penetrates outward
steers ifs time In 3 yulng the
f the cylinder. 1f it has re
ton thousandth part of a
bullet to foot its
velocity to mile may be
mputed by choolboy. By
o1'8 velocity
diameter of
fiy oue
the
apy
on EI va RE a
106) 3 ards or VLR TArGsS aay be do
ng had
with his
» wing shooti
farme
muzzle load shotgut harige of
black powder would shoot directly at a
or in full Sight. He
evolved a the v
oncoming bird, holding that the heavy
Hi
passed him
he could
1 as fo the
breast feathers “turned” the shot
use the bird was
LP breast oy
over his
» could pull
ner fell on
an a ‘the compara
yw black powder could be ig
sending the shot
Tact :
rge of shot. Be
be trigger andy. the
the p
tively sl
nited and exploded,
twenty-five or thirty yards, the bird
had flown yards perhaps beyond its
position when the fowler first touched
the trigger. But firing directly at the
bird after it Lad passed the shot
charge had a strong tendency to drop
as it flew, and the bird flying on a
level line “got In the way” of the
charge.
Today the modern nitro powders are
immensely quicker than was the old
black gunpowder, yot it has Deen an
engineering problem to determine just
how fast and in what line a charge of
ghot will travel. In this determina.
tion the revolving drum device has
ghown several important facts which
have been taken in connection with
the speed of individual game birds
and the effects of windage on a shol
charge.
That most important fact as to the
flight of shot from a modern shotgun
fs that at forty yards the shot are
“strung out” for approximately fifteen
feet. While the leading pellets in the
wreussion © Pp
to kill
All this hes led to the modern prac
tice of the fowler to reckon with the
bird, the influence of the wind In
“drifting” the charge, and out of
these established facts to “lead” the
bird sufficiently to kill ft rather than
maim and eripple it—Marvin Holtoo
fu Chicago Tribune.
“The Other National Game,
Afra. Caley (ns Galey arrives hom
nt 6G. mi-Well, what In the world
reminded yon fo come home at all’
Onlev-The game waz enlled on ae
eount cf daylight, my dear Puck.
itatred does not cease by hatred a
any time. Hatred ceases by love
This is an old rule~Buddha,
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ORIGIN OF “MARK TWAIN.”
Samuel L, Clemens Quoisd as Saying |
He Inherited the Name.
The familiar story of
Bamuel L. Clemens’
Mark Twain Is
jucorrect.
sippi river
use
now declnred to
It pictures Clemens,
pilot, ligteuing to the
heaving the lead at the bow of a
boat and singing out, “By the
three; by the mark,
Ciemens smites his brow
quizes, “There is my nom de plume.”
It is true that
with the picturesque cry of the
with the lead, but a man other
Mr. Clemens first discovered
turesqueness,
Isalah Bellers,
news for the
To Professor
Yale Mr
was from
'rofessor
river
mark,
shed rive
New Orleans Plcayunpe.
William Lyon Phelp
ged
who furni
Clemens confes
Sellers he got the
Phelps’ story is quoted in
Professor Henderson's “Mark Twain”
According to this book, Mr. Clemens
snid to Professor Phelps: “Captain
lers used- to sign his articles in
Picayune ‘Mark Twain He
18G3. 1 liked the
1 think 1 have done
i seem te have made this
what generally known”
Professor Henderson
ber of Interesting incidents
with the use «
hen he
name-and stoie iL
for
HONE
him no wrong,
uaine
3
as
recor a pun
con
w
Mr. C
Enterprise hui
‘Mark Twain,” 1
When
on that pa
lemens sent 1«
ture Le
Twain." lien
use of this nan
ed: 1 chose
most perso
also because
reporter in UH
save
ized ac
be hour
sand
suid ean
ix an
ne the hands
don Graphic,
OnN% Of i ses
be oi hore easily
bourglass than hy wateh!
of ua watch. 1a
Just Suited.
“There's only ane o
aparim
buliding
to tesa
the
indows
sev ion
ene” neent of
y wig TW wi
you can iti =eeing everything in
thie dinfvg rooms of the nel igh bors on
both =idex of von
‘What's the rental?”
the portly
a flat
smi!
nly auked
dame who was looking for
Charo Trine
The Mandrake Legend,
There fx on oie? ted with
the mandrake which states that when
ded it ntiers uo pierce.
ing ery. The forked tnbers bear a
fantastle resemblance to the body and
fogs of n pun, nnd from this fancied
likeness th the lLellef which
wax wides during the middle
ages
wend conne
tro
we pew
read
Haine and Huge,
[eine md a preconceived idea that
Vietor Hugo, ealled by Bim “the
French poet in whom all x false,” had
a hunip on his back. He was delighted
when he was told that one of Hugo's
hips protruded owing to malformation.
Caustic,
Delighted Mamma ~ 00 — professor,
what do you think of little Arthur as
a violinist? Professor~| like the wa”
be puts the fiddle back into the case
Chicago News,
Happiness 1s the natural Gower of
uty. ~ Phillipa Brooks. Lo
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