LUUAT AND PERSONAL.
Mrs. J. 'W,
was In
Keller, of linden Flall,
town among friends on
day.
Decker, of Dellefonte,
Colonel
Monday, delivered a Chevrolet
to
new
dan Edward E. Dalley,
Holi
even
There will be services in the
mess church, at Colyer, Sunday
he: sermon by Rev,
avi, of Allentown
H. B
plants at
Swope, a coal with
Madera
half million doll ho
earfield
operator,
and
county
Stahl spent a
Ebright
Mifflintown
Sunday
Bellefonte hospital
are entertained fat
custhed,
home
lege,
with aceadont
an
raflrond station.
Niver Ackerman, of
the
house undergoing repairs and
Georges Valley,
ia doing plastering in the Booze:
remodel
ing. He is a skilled me®hanie, having
worked moat of the time in the
cities where work is regularly inspect.
He = a Acker.
the
Georges Valley
wil. nephew of FF. M
man, painter, who also lives In
and bag been working
in Centre Hall for a month or more,
Misa Edith Sankey
Oklahoma, on Monday, where she spent
the winter with her sister, Mra
Worrell, at Gans. She reports Okla-
yma not too prosperovs agricultural
ly! and the spring She
will remain in Centre few
days to to
with her office as secretary of the
Grange Encampment committee, and
then will go to Middleburg, where she
has her home with her brother, M. A
Sankey. Before coming here an few
days were spent with her couein, Mrs,
Roger T. Bayard, in Tyrone.
returned from
Frank
unseasonable,
Hall for an
duties
attend connected
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PESSIMISM NEVER IN ORDER
Present Time Always Just as Good a
Time if One Will
Consider,
as Any,
but
Our age is bewn
led as an age of In-
evil?
we are om
troversion. Must that needs be
i.
ht
ankering
onsists ;
with
with
ire we
our feet; time is Infoeted
Hamlet's
Is It
thing t
Do
ture
KO
we
sald
Reksad
Uring
outsee na-
truth dry?
I look upon the discontent of the lite
ary announcement of
the fact that they find t
of ine
and regret the con
as a boy
has learned t
is any period one
born in-—is it
tion; when the old and the new stand
and wi, and
Class us a mere
themselves no
in the state their fathers,
as untried ;
dreads water before he
» can swim, If there
would to be
the age of Revoln
PT
geste
not
side by side, and admit of being com-
pared; when
searched
the
can be cormmpensated
bilities of
like all times, is a
we know .what
Waldo Emerson.
the energies of all men
hope ;
the old
py the rich possi
This time,
good one, if
with it.—Raiph
are by fear and by
when historic glories of
the new era?
very
to do
Origin of Polka.Dot.
Silvered with the dust of decades is
the polka-dot pattern in men's scarfs.
Fashions may appear and disappear,
but the polka-dot is peerless and dis-
appeariess, As regularly as sunrise
and the seasons, this design brightens
windows and wearers, It is one-and-
Invisible with the fine art of dress
alike In America and England,
To the polka-dot is ascribed an odd
ancestry. Its name, of course, is de-
rived from the polka, an old-fashioned
round with three steps to the
measure, This dance, introduced In
Europe by a Bohemian, round about
1835, spread to the United States at
the time that Polk was a candidate for
the presidency. The polka-dot was
bracketed with Polk's name by politi-
cal admirers, and polka-this and polka-
that, from shirts to shoes, became a
bit of furore in merchants’ windows,
dance
Wood Has Bad Reputation.
Elder is of ll-omen since Judas,
they say, hanged himself thereon, yet
it has the virtue of beauty in the days
of wild roses and honeysuckle, Elder.
flower-water Is good for complexions,
say rustic malds, and 0ldtime farmers
claim for elderberry-wine that it Is
“a pretty tidy tipple,”
Though the elder-wood is a dank,
weeddnfested place, it is to the liking
of rabbits, that always seem to abound
there,
Such woods cumber the ground, but
here and there the superstition holds
good that to cut or burn elder is to
arouse the wath of the trees’ dryad,
and so they are «pared,
“
The Main Thing,
Flubb—Dioes his wife kiow how Im
spends his time? :
Dubb—-No; but she makes it her
business to find out how he spends his
money. ~New York Sun,
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“HORSE-POWER” UNIT WRONG
Mistake That Can Be Definitely
Traced to James Watt Was Never
Officially Corrected,
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“II. P,” as you know, stands
“horse power,” and if, therefore, your
motorcycle is a four and one-half h. p.
one, you know that what Is meant is
that the engine has a power which is
equivalent to that of four and a half
horses,
Not so!
the extent
pounds,
writer.
The h. p. unit of power Is a fraud,
and the late James Watt of er
fame Is responsible, He was a very
careful engineer, in theory and prac-
for
You would be ipcorrect to
of than 40,000
remarks a London Answers
no less
tice, and he discovered, by many
periments, that the raising of
pounds one foot per minute was a good
average horsepower,
But “horse-power” today Is
oned at 33,000 lbs. per foot per
ute—11,000 pounds in excess! Tha
due to the fact that Watt, in his anxi-
ety to business, offered to
1 ol } . 1 sl
sell engines which would
200 000
encourage
O00) pounds per foot as
~-f third more
It would seem at he meant ultl-
mately to be honest, but he died be-
fore that happened, and so bequeathed
to the wi it,
a false surement of horse-
power,
wld, which has
unit med
accepts tl
Engineers,
error, and mal alio
but the average Individual does
Your 10 h. p. car is, therefore, In fa
but a 6 2-3 one, and its power is equ
to raising i
minute,
222,000 pounds
ids a t
y is
A001 0
IMMENSE ROOKERY IN LAKE
Birds Find Sanctuary on Island on
Which Hunters Are Forbidden
to Set Foot,
Set In the midd
is Hat island
the most
in the wor
to its shape,
natn “uy
KNDOWH (0
0 tear the
not get
But 1
to write to that
a8k if he won't
one picture of
bonnets off"
Eagles Change Color.
le is clothed in three
before it reaches
first year it ia
year slatecolored,
n and white. It
the bald-headed
It is so called from
the white of feathers about its
head, The three different appearances
of the young eagle one time provoked
a strange misunderstanding among
bird observers, It was thought that
they were three different species—the
black, the George Washington apd the
bald, The eagie is one of the Fal-
conldae, which includes hawks and all
similar birds of prey.
might be said that
bald.
rufl
eagle Is not
Great Authors Write Badly.
All great authors write badly. That
fs well known. At least the pedants
say so. Great writers are impetuous,
The vigor of their vocabulary, the ine
tensity of their style, the daring of
their phrases disconcert the pedants,
To the pundiis good writing apparently
means writing according to rules, But
born writers make their own rules, or
rather make none. They change their
manner at every moment as inspiration
dictates; sometimes they are harmont
ous, sometimes rugged, sometimes in
dolent and sometimes spirited. So,
according to the common notion, they
cannot write well.—Anatole France,
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~ HANDS INDEX TO CHARACTER
¥ — —
till Reveal Much, Though Probably
Less Than Was the Case Some
Few Years Ago.
Once it was possible to tell a “lady”
by her ha
a lady
cial cl
nds—that is if you regarded
“a female of the favored so-
8.” She had well-kept hands
did nothing to roughen
them or enlarge thelr knuckles or cause
premature wrinkles, Even If fortune
had against her she somehow
avolded that would mar the
Eymuetry those hands. She did
without for tea and did
needlework for money in order to avoid
the work that she regarded as menial,
And of this
knew her hands
index
because she
gone
work
of
the
sugar her
class
that
her so-
her hands that she
ElOVes by day and by
| night to keep them white and to pro-
| tect them an ur them
| ravages of v . and
| 1 he git it ’ i a ner
{ Th 4 ' f ir
because a
that it
dd
cial position it was
saved,
woinan
wis at
others lool
for an to
wearing
from the
housework.
diff
nt now,
+a v1 % (ian
ari HOW
ould once
PRIZED AMBER AS ORNAMENT
It From “Barbarous™
Who Had idea
Real Value,
scured
Germans,
of Its
Small
1 killed
stood
whic
He
burn-
% post,
en-
vod
3
Western Preduct.
andering
ountry. It
pilot
ich g als
and point
row
isely north and ‘
The Indians followed the direction
given them by these pointing leaves,
ind told the men about It
This plant belongs to the family of
the Compositae, and looks very much
like the sunflower, It bas a strong,
resinous odor, somewhat like turpen-
white
of “turpentine plant.”
One of Noah's Pets.
It was swampy around Denver 2.
000,000 years ago, according to Prof.
J. D. Figgins, director of the Colo-
rado Museum of Natural History, The
hobnob with
the monsters of long ago can do go In
the city park collection, in Denver,
where the skeleton of an animal close
ly related to the present-day rhinoce-
covered with an imitation hide.
Natural Qualification.
“Oliver Twist was always asking
for more,” remarked Senator Sor
ghum,
“Yet he became a worthy citizen,”
observed the admirer of Dickens,
“Yes, Probably he grew up evens
tually to be a tax collector.”
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: in today
delighted them all.
Frank Phillips
Deal Potters Mills, Pa.
“The Old Homestead’
The most wonderful human interest play in years.
Founded on the famous stage play of the same name.
Tears ; Quiet and Thrills!
running the gamut of the best in
Laughs ;
Pathos
Comedy and
picturedom.
A Gem of Artistry!
See the Big Storm Scere!
Worth Coming Miles to See--DON'T MISS IT!
SATURDAY, MAY 5th
BELLEFONTE. PA.
Matinee (Scenic Theatre) 10 & 22¢
Night (Opera House) 10 & 28¢
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NEW BOX STATIONERY
At the Office of THE CENTRE REPORTER