LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Court convenes on Monday. We are having delightful weather, Cleveland Mitterling lost a young mare colt on Friday night through death, After June 1st, the address of Rev, R R. Jones will be Lutzville, Bedford county, Pa. Harold Durst, son of Mrs. John H. Durst, has been quite ill during the past week, but is now improving. Mrs. Robert McCummon, of Altoona, visited her sister, Mrs, V. A, Auman, several days the past week. Mrs. Maynard Meeker and Mrs, Elizabeth Mitterling went to Baltimore, Md. last week to visit relatives, F. V. Goodhart has already begun work on the erection of his furniture store building at the lower end of town. Prof. and Mrs, N. L. Bartges and daughter motored to Nippenose valley on Tuesday to spend the week with relatives. Ernest A. Frank, a student in the State College High school, has been confined to his home in Centre Hall for the past two weeks from a severe case of quinsy. The **Dues Social” of the W. C. T, U. will be held in Grange Arcadia, Satur. day evening. Every member is earnest- ly requested to be present and bring a friend. —Secretary, A State road truck driven by Musser Coldron and a new Studebaker car own- ed by a Bellefonte party collided at the crossing at Pleasant Gap, on Tuesday, doing considerable damage. A reception for Rev. J. M. Kirkpat- rick, the new Presbyterian pastor for Centre Hall, was held in the church on Tuesday evening. A number of out-of- town people were present, Undertaker F. V. Goodhart brought the remains of Mrs. Annie Parker, who died in the Lewistown hospital last week, to Spring Mills, on Wednesday evening. Burial was made at Spruce- town on Saturday, Few persons attending the graduating exercises in Grange hall last Friday evening were aware that a State *‘cop™ in civilian clothes was in the sudience However, the order was so good that there was no need of his services. Mrs. James W. Runkle and daughter, Mrs. J. R. G. Allison, who wentjto New Castle, Kentucky, a few weeks ago to visit the latter's son, Gross R. Allison, took ill while there and were forced to return home, arriving here Saturday. Their stay was shortened, owing to the drinking water not agreeing with them, James McClenahan, aged eleven years, son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Mc- Clenahan, who has been a cripple since birth, was taken in charge of the Red Cross, with the consent of his parents, and taken to Harrisburg this week with the thought of restoring tHe child to full strength and the use of hig limbs, Among those who are attending the annual sessions of the Grand Castle, K. G. E., and the sister organization, the Ladies Temple, at Easton, this week, are the following: A. C. Ripka and Mrs. Kryder Frank, from Centre Hall ; A. B. Lee, Mrs. D. M. McCool, from Spring Mills, and Mrs. Cora Mec- Clellan, from Millheim, Bazaar and Exchange sale will be held at the livery barn of D. Wagner Geiss, at Bellefonte, on the 1st and 3rd Tues- days of each month until further notice. Persons having articles for sale, includ- ing live stock, potatoes, produce, furni- ture, anything, bring it to the sale barn any time. Persons desiring such artic les may buy on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, Delegations of high school students from various parts of central Pennsyl- wvania will gather at Penn State next Saturday for the twelfth annual Inter- 8cholastic Day. A large tract and field meet open to all high schools in Pennsyl- Vania will be the big feature of the day, and teams have been entered by more than a dozen schools, In addition, the jcollege buildings will be thrown open on that day and the entire plant will be open to inspection by the visiting dele- gations, Borough council calls attention to the - means to enforce the ordinance which forbids these things, Nine times out of ten the offender is a citizen of the borough, and there are a few cases in particular where the ordinance is regard- ed with such contempt that the guilty ones believe there is no in the town has the courage to punish them. Council will be commended if they put teeth in this ordinance and close down on the first one who attempts to give them the ba! ha! George F. Weaver, of Curtin town- ship, this county, enjoys the distinction of having a great-grandchild who is old- er than his youngest daughter, and Wea- ver himselt is not an old man. In fact, he is just 68. He has been married twice and is the father of eighteen chile dren, thirteen of whom are living. His first matrimonial venture was made when quite young and his oldest daugh. ter's oldest daughter married Edward Askey of Liberty township. Their old est son, Charles, is 13, and Weaver's youngest daughter by his second mar- riage is a few months younger than the Askey boy. In fact she is great aunt to the lad who was born before she was, Weaver is regarded as the Daniel Boone” of Curtin township, as he prob. ably has killed more deer and bear than any resident of that locality, f } TOOK HIS WORK SERIOUSLY Harvard Professor of Greek Insisted That His Students Should Give Best Efforts to Studies. A scholar of unusual appearance and manner was Professor Sophocles of Harvard, whose genuine love of Greek left him no patience with indifferent students and sometimes led to the charge that he dealt unjustly with the young men in his classes. This anec dote of him appears in Mr. John Spen- cer Clark's life of John Fiske. One day a backward student called to explain his remissness and to assure the professor that he did love his Greek study. “Then name two of your favorite passages,” said the professor. The student named one in the Iliad and one in the Oedipus. Professor Sophocles handed him the books, say- ing “Find those passages and read them to me.” The student, In his reading, made several serions mistakes. *Young man,” said the professor, brusquely, “you do not understand Greek! You have no love for that noble language! You murder It! Enough! 1 want no more to do with you.” The was much complaint in the class of '63 that the professor's marks were incorrect, and particularly in the three students entitled to different marks, When they Professor Sophocles re cases of widely complained, plied: “I can't distinguish between you, gentlemen, You must take your chances as to what you get.” OCEAN'S LAW MOST STRICT Among Fishes the Important Fact of Life Seems to Be, “Eat or Be Eaten” In the Dublin museum a stuffed angler fish, commonly known as a fish. ing frog, may be seen, its stomach still swollen by an enormous cod which It had swallowed. In the stomach of the cod were found two large herrings In each herring were several sprats, while each sprat, in turn, contained a number of tiny crustaceans, or shell fish, In the salt seas, it is eat or be eaten. The fishing frog, a fish shaped lke a gigantic legless frog, and provided with a luminous bait which it dangles from a long feeler over its wide mouth, has the most prodigious appetite. As many as 20 flounders have been found Inside one fishing frog; another contained 60 herrings. Each fish has its special prey. Pol Inck assemble in shoals and pursue the close formations of young cod, They surround the cod, drive them to the surface and devour them. Whit. ing, in similar fashion, pursue and de vour the herring shoals, while hake feed upon sardines. Mackerel will eat any small fish, They devour enormous quantities of fry, being especially fond of young mackerels. The John Dory's favorite food is sprats, while rays are not par- ticular; they will devour any fish that come thelr way. Self-Reliance. Now is the time for every one who wants work to think up something for himself. Don't depend upon somebody else. The integrity of life consists in self-reliance. Be your own proprietor, if it iz of nething else but an acre and a little shop. We know the difficulty and do not discard the sympathy. But regard rather that independence and high purpose that make up the real manhood. Men will have to work for others while time lasts, but there is nothing so noble in the hearts as the aspiration to be one's own man and direct one's own destiny. Soclety Is divided in classes these days, each one striving to outwit the other, but the grandest class of all is the man him- self, with his own destiny in his fists With all our organized industry, there never was a time when individual en: terprise had a better chance than now, If you are articulated in some great In. dustry, keep in the heart the hope that you will be your own master some day. ~Ohlo State Journal. Few Fine Pearls Found. New fine pearls are rarely found nowadays because the demand has been so great and the fisheries have been worked so continuously that the pearls are not given time to grow. If a fine pearl is bought, it is rarely one that has not been in the market for many years and passed from one deal er to another. Dealers today depend to a large extent upon purchases of pearls from cdllections of rajahs and princes in India and of old families In Europe. They declare that every time a large and really fine pearl appears in the market a hundred wealthy per sons bid for it. Consequently the best pearls are beyond the reach of any but the wealthiest people, Quips Which Tickle Travelers. Nature seems occasionally to have been in an impish mood of jocularity when she was about her Work of shaping and molding things. For in- stance, why did she make the Dalma- tian side of the Adriatic one mass islands and creeks, which are many hiding holes for any time lay the Adriatic seaboard as bare and flat and plain as plan it? Was it to make the Italian people wide-awnke and watchful u In Verdun on Armistice Night It Was the Only Sign of Peace Cor. respondent Found. We rolled into Verdun long after dark, on the day of the armistice, and found no celebration there, Williams Slavens McNutt writes in Collier's Weekly. There were no shells falling in the town, but otherwise the mar- tyred city was as we had known it during the war. No lights showed. The narrow streets were filled with the rustling sound of many soldiers passins In the dark, talking in low tones, And yet there was something strange about Verdun, something different, some change that forced itself upon my attention, and yet one which 1 could not determine. An American soldier stopped near the car to light a cigarette. He had been whistling “Annie Laurie,” and after a long whifY went on whistling. And then I knew what made me feel different in Ver dun that night, Everywhere, all over the city, Amer- lenns were whistling! They were whis- tiling casually, unconsciously, one this and one that, But they were Oné could plek out the Americans In the dark all over the because where there was an heard the shrilling of Hl American tune or newer rag. The French don't whistle casually on the street at any tune, and never be- fore had the American generally prac ticed his habit in Verdun, And that night golng about their various tasks in the dark old city, the Americans were whistling, Hearing that cheery, familiar sound, my mind for the first time really took hald on the end of the great war as an understandable fact, city, American one SOIme « BOY HAD QUEER ASPIRATION California Youth Believed He Would “Make an Ideal Lady's Maid, but He Weakened. “Bert A. Baldwin, lady's maid” Sounds funny, doesn’t it, especially Bert is a farmer's boy, but the po vouch for it Here's the story: Deted Joseph Lawrence and avid Broderick, being of an inquisi #1 Bert as he saunt They watched with two heavy suitcases, fives ushop. I itched him come out. In went » find Dave to find out about it Vhagt did 3 rn rie they demanded of the young fellow want In the pawn ted to sell a complete outfit of clothes, o« lied the shopkeeper. » for Joe and Dave, for Bert and soon corral Off to jail Bert. » the story: rt blushed, stammered and cob He had ofdered the women's fe Well, oy went Then o that he . aid, He ie heard there lady's maids Use for Unneeded Explosives. Prof. Qaervain, well-known Swiss seismologist, has made a deserves the very de the gestion which | attention of our military authori ties and of scientifle men in this coun try There are at present large stocks f of high every countrs wv ¥ i explosives in which cannot be preserved and must be denitrated or exploded. He sug gests that 50 tons should be exploded times and under various conditions and that ob all the surrounding area ghould be requested to listen for the Such tests could not fail, says Nature, to throw far more light than unprepared the many problems presented by the transmission of sound-waves by the atinosphere, at definite atmospheric servers in sound, accidental explosions on Postage Then and Now. Persons who thought the raise in the price of letter postage from two to three cents a “big jump” at the time of our entrance into the war. should consider the colonial and early government rates of postage. On March 3, Just 72 years ago, the United] States Issued Its first postage stamps, just seven years after England had adopt ed them, - These first American stamps were of the 5 and 10 cent denominations, and naturally enough bore the likeness of Washington and Franklin, Previous to this time postage was pald in eash, usually by the receiver of the letter. The earliest rates were from 8 to 25 cents, Poisonous, but Valuable, Before Ameriea went into the war there were discussions with reference to the cultivation and sale of medicl- nal herbs ; afterward the interest paled before the necessity of raising vege tables “to beat the kaiser.” So many weeds are sold to be made into medi- cine that it would be difficult to name them all. Even the jimson, short for Jamestown, called also devil's apple and several other names besides stramonium, has its value. We re member how as children we were warn- ed in a loud, stern voice: “Don’t touch that weed, it's still ns poisonous as | the leaves sell 2tb medicine. Che sa Wooer Discovered That Business Methods and Lovemaking Are Things Thgt Will Not Mix There was no sentiment about the young man. His had been a business training, and he carried business meth- ods into his soclal life, “Will you be my wife?” bluntly. The girl looked startled. “I'm not much of a lover,” he added, “but I guess I'll make a pretty good husband. I might give you a whole lot of soft talk, but what's the use? Mar- ringe Is a contract and should be sets tled on a business basis. When I want anything in business I go after it bluntly. 1 generally know what 1 want, too, and I want you.” She gasped, but presently regained her composure. “Fortunately,” she sald, “I've had a little business training myself, so we can discuss this proposed contract properly and dispassionately.” “I'm glad to find you so sensible” he told her. “I can give you nothing better than a second option,” she sald, “What!” he exclaimed. “I might tell you that I am conscious of the honor you do me, but that I am already engaged,” she explained. “That, with a suggestion that it is very sudden, would be the sentimental way, but I will merely say that the first option is already taken.” “Then there is no hope?” “How foolish,” she commented. “As a business man you ought to know that a first option does not necessarily mean a closed contract. If you don't want to take a chance on a second op- tion, say so; if you do, I'll drop you & line If 1 find myself on the matrimonial market he asked, & again.” “That's sort complained. “That “1. wel of cold-blooded,” he she asserted, I don’t believe 1 like business as i8 1 thought I did,” he remarked. she returned. “I'd rather have a first option.” “A first option never has been and will secured by business methods." Brooklyn Eagle. 8 business” “Yery likely” never be STAND ON SITE OF TRAGEDY Ancient Willow Trees Believed to Be Near Scene of the Deportation of the Acadiana Whoever poem, has read Longfellow's geline,” will be Interested in visiting the land of Evangeiine, the Annapolis valley In Nova Sootia, Can- and the country about Wolfville, Grand Pre, the which was the scene of deportation of the Acadians in 1755, Is only a short distance from Wolfville, but little is left of the vil- lage where the tragedy told of by the poet was enacted. The chief object of what was once G d Pre, are the mammoth, gnarled ancient wil- known as Evangeline's wil- lows, which stand, a conspicuous group, amid the fertile green meadows and serve as a windbreak. They show their age, these ancient trees, and were undoubtedly planted by the French Ca- nadians, for the Acadians invariably planted willows wherever they settied, and these trees are perpetual memo- rials of them. Beside the willows, there may be seen at the site of Grand Pre the old well, portions of the foun- dations of the church of St. Charles, and some stones that mark the site of the priest's house. These willow trees are always visited by tourists, and al- though history does not exactly tally with the poet's account of the deporta- tions of the Acadians, and though there may be a division of opinion as to the justice of the act by the English in the deportation of the Acadians, the old willows tell no tales, but stand, sturdy and strong, and are sightly landmarks still hale and vigorous. sda which is the center. Hitle village the interest in low trees, Poetical Inspiration, It Is not about great events that great novels are written. The same Is true of great poems. Not “the 15 decisive battles of the world,” but such relatively unimportant ones as Balaklava, Ivry, Hohenlinden and Blen- heim have Inspired the poets. Wa- terloo was considered to be the greatest battle of modern times, but the lines Byron inserted In “Childe Harold” constitute the only memors- ble poem cver written about it. The only ballad of the Civil war, which became fixed forever In people's minds, related to no great battle but to Stone wall Jackson's march through the lt tle town of Frederick. The great events are peaks In the mountain ranges of time, that leave little to the imagination. Literature thrives by the streams of legend and glory that run down from them and by the lanes and roads of emotion, aspiration, passion and endeavor that lead up to them. The side lights and side issues and everyday events make literature, as they make life itself. Insects In Amber, The proverbial “fly in amber” fis strikingly exemplified in a collection of WANTED White girls over sixteen | at Mont Alto, Hamburg Sanatoria, for | kitchen, dining room, cleaning. Apply | to Katherine Mullin, State Dept. of | Health, Harrisburg, Pa. 3t | Watches and Clocks Repaired . By WALTER 8, WOLFE at C. B. Stover’'s Hardware Store, Spring Mliis, Pa. All Work Guaranteed, re — ro ———————— a | FOR SALE. .—A Chevrolet car offered for sale. Inquire of W., E, Bartges, | Centre Hall, R 1. Bell phone 77R12 = THE VERY BEST Implements Only are gaod enough for the Farmer. You will find this kind in a carload which we have just unloaded, The most improved, most substantially constructed load of implements that we have ever re- ceived, The line includes : Hay Loaders, Side Rakes Dump Rakes Manure Spreaders Drills, Mowers Hay Tedders Spike Harrows, Lever Harrows Perry Harrows and Tractor Disc Harrows. Come and look this line over before you place your order, DR ——— Also a Car of Wire All Styles —Cattle, Hog and Poultry Wire, The right kind at the right -price. Bradford & C CENTRE HALL Spring Fashions In All Their Glory smears Bh § senses Nieman’s Department Store WE ARE RFADY to show you the most up-to-date line of Spring wearing apparel for men and wo- men, This line vvas bought of the largest manufacturers in New York City, and everything is up to the very latest iri style and workman- ship, and vemember that everything will be sold at Pre-War Prices. You don’t need to pay high prices at Nieman's Store. We extend an invitation to every- body to vi.it our store and see the great values we ar: offering. I CNA. AS . J. Nieman, Millheim
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