8 A ———. The New Racket. No.9 AND 1, URIDER Ex. BELLEFONTE, I'A Is There 1 Man in Centre county who has not heard of The Racket? If there is we have an im. portant message for him. Send him to No. g and 11, Crider’s Exchange, Belle- fonte, Pa. NEW THIS WEEK. 1 = Important adglitions to our Spring line and of Dress Goods, Linings If U need a dres ice if U buy befor department. diaga: cape chi patie ™m better can i tcq vards, WOrIrds id Freel ms ¢ Wher bicycl y Uy R.SPIGLEMYER, ISHEMSPIGLEMYER CORRESPONDENTS DEPARTMENT. (Continued from 7th page.) PLEASANT GAP. Mr. Wm. prominent citize Barnes, one of our ns, with together family, left for New Castle, where he ex- pects to make his future home, be Public sales seems to PLENTY : attraction of the season; there wil large number in this vicinity. A SURPRISE :—Miss Marion, the bright Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Riddle, was given a pleasaut surprise the other Monday ev little daughter of ening, in the way of a birthday party MADISONBLRSG TEMS SURPRISE prise birthday party at Andrew Ocker’s, on Friday eve ng. It was the birthday of their youn ighter, Della, Miss Della had away visiting the week previous and didn't know a word about the arrangements that were being made rest da been for her entertainment on the evening of fier birthday, till she stepped into the parlor which was filled with guests, Among them were Misses Lizzie Meyer, Katie Stover, Bessie Stover, Sallie Shaffer 31la Condo, Mrs. Wm. Rishel of Howard Harry Roger, Forest Ocker, Robert Coldren, James Clyde Smith, Irvin Hazel and Harry Ream. Miss Della was completely overcome by the surprise and is half provoked at her parents and sisters for not telling although she is very thankful Lingle, her for the [fimmings. | _ 1 Christi most | his | Was a sur- STATE COLLEGE NOTES, OLD NAME At & public meeting of the freeholders, held at the school hous on last Suturaay eve, to consider the ad- visability of changing the same of the place. It was decided after consider. able debate, to retain the old name. The vote was— for State College, 28; Uni- versity Heights 24; State Centre 1. uw A Succrss (—The birthday fete given in honor of Mrs. C. Harkness, at Atherton's by the Missionary Society ul the Presbyterian church, on the eve of Feb. 27, was a decided social and finan. cial success, | time. Two features especialy should be mentioned, The bazar of the junior Endeavor realized SPH work \n $1 1... Ang they should have for thelr crimg ial praise gallery realized $6 ; amount of fun, Tl] Glenn, of on Monday looking up old friend ’ RESHMEN WIN The Fresham 1 the Soph’s by lox itation rooms Wi hey were very mad, and to Wil 's ran against l out t { them 1AMS] Soph the W lice force, who put a sudden damper on { illiamsport po | | | their wild’ career, and they returned, it | is to be hoped a wiser set of boys. Goon WALKS laid generous walks in front of his prop- erties should do the same, T. Scott Baily has secured Jeff Hubler Mr Mr. EE man, now occupied by Mr. ( Mr. Enos H. Hess, tion, has ju to blacksmith for him. Hubler has 0. House- B. Strunk rented the property of of the experiment stat thre at Fi yugh western Peansylvania le AARONSBURG CULLINGS | ir streets on Saturday evening | after singing, but we dare not say with dare we Theodora’? Mr. and Mrs welcome guests of his father a few days last whom th James Wert were week We noticed Frank Guisewite and wife, of Woodward, on the streets on Sunday. Rev. Lohr, of the United Evangelical church preached his last sermon ia this conference year, on Sunday afternoon. Hope he will come back again as he is liked by all denominations, Miss Annie Samm, of New Berlin, was seen in young peoples meeting with Sa rah Kline, - - “GORTON SIFTINGS.” Tramps are quile numerous in this many presents she received, After partaking of a sumptuous feast prepared for the occasion all returned to their homes saying that they had spent a very pleasant evening. The next time keep on the alert Della Prize Fiout On Saturday eve Maher fight was fought is pl It only lasted about gob 3, when ning the Fitzsimmons th Over In one round, of the poli ¢ stop pe 1 the conte Fitz almost laying out its brutality had by far the better Maher It is ceded by mid round would have as Maher just warmed up right, when the was stopp d. DEMOCRATIC of the contest, in an upper cut on the eye all that the sex con. been much better, was contest ~The question debated on Friday evening at the Literary Society “Which would you rather be—A Repub- lican or Democrat” was decided in favor of the Democratic party. So there is after all some hope of the Democrats electing a president next fall. The question for discussion next Friday even. ing is “Resolved that the U. 8. is richer west of the Mississippi River than east of Fd IMPROVING =Mr. U, 8, Shaffer, our post master who has been very sick the past two weeks of the grippe, neuralgia and varios other complitatidus, is ‘at this writing slowly improving and if nothing happens will soon be well again, Mrs. Adam Shaffer, who has been sick for some time is slowly improving. section and most all are young, robust looking fellows. [I think it would be a good thing to have some work for them money,’ that will tell whether they ally want work or not Mt burg re J. Packer made a trip to Philips last Saturday W. B. Lausburr spent Sunday in Phil ipsbhurg Our school closed last Wednesday the 4th very quietly, G. P. King and family returned home very jolly over their Mr. King going into the dentist business as he pro visit is ments Mr. Johu Lutz is begining to look old. helpmate Wonder if O. Beecher has forsaken this place, as he does not come aroun) any more, ~Ira From was arraigned before Squire Keichline on Thursday evening charged with cruelly beating a little girl named Smith, whom he adopted about a year ago. After the testimony was all in, the Squire dismissed the case owing to the lack of evidence. The wife of From was severely reprimanded for her treatment of the child and upon her promising to treat it better in the future, she too was discharged. Dr. W.T. Glenn has | Mire, | | | i | The Irrigation Problem. { Eastern people have little iden of the difficulties that beset the question of supplying water to the 453,000,000 | pores of arid lands in the west, The | trouble is with conflicting state jaws as well as with state lines that rur exact. | ly contrary to the direction in which | they would have been run had ccusider- | ation been paid to the natural lay of the | ground. Orren M. pert, goes 80 far as to propose a redis- | tricting of all the semiarid states and territories on geographical lines instead Donaidson, one ex- | i of political Ones, Everyone had a splendid | | between | flowing int i There is a natural irrigation district the the mountains, statd Montana, Colorado two by the Washington Cascade range and Rocky yet three and Wyoming are in Rocky mountains, and Oreg by the Case m aro mn ont idea would obtained fl SOMeLimes od by the San France rise in Utah, fl takes its rd to Wyoming, dips west into Utah again, then back into Wyoming, and finally comes around by way of Ida ho more, and finally into Utah, y Great Salt lake There have bitter contests over The laws of the differant been water rights states and territories are at variance, and there is hopeless confusion. The | cnly way to get out of it aj parently | | | | . | it made uniform and adjoining property owners | | not | i | | | | to do as they all say, ‘have no work no | | gion of Hawaii would be for the United States to take the whole into its own hands, making uniform irrigation laws, just as land The pro posed repartition on irrigation lines will of the matter laws do. The people themselves states most concerned would never con sent. At present, under United States arid law, each state containing lands may have 1,000,000 acres of them to ir But time the rigate and sell on its own terms this is only a beginning In general government will have to assume the whole responsibility lifficult for the sepa The question is too big and rate states to sett) The Middieman’s Story. The middl 1 Those who but has bad considerable pman has a side beliove 80, itis na in selling agricultural imple mers gives the point of view long time, if the n farm will busy 1 the farmer gives | ant. And the bad mid { these notes, ‘1 have som thar a {ttle more waste paper.’’ To get his money back and save himself from ruin the dealer must put up the price of machines so as to make the honest farmers pay the debts of the unreliable ones The trouble seems to lie in the insidi ous and seductive credit system. If peo- ple, farmers included, would train them salves into the habit of buying only such personal property as they have oash in pocket to pay for, then the middleman would not seem half so wicked. By sheer foros of pluck and shrewd. ness the Japanese are driving the Chinese | merchants ont of the Hawaiian Islands | and taking their places. These Japanese are not barbarians. They are more civi- lized than we are in some respects. If Japan secures that supremacy in the Hawaiian Islands which the United States so far does not seem to care to assume, it will mean, first, the transfer of a great trade from the United States to Japan. Next, with Japan looming up larger and larger among the world's great nations, nothing is more certain sha thinks the time is than when ripe, vill reach out and take posses At least she will try to Preparations are making to construct | a tunnel road under the East river be | road will be two miles long 1 18 i Brooklyn : | harde o from the upper part of New vided himself with the necessary imple. | harder to go fro pper bd John you had better be looking up al and Brooklyn. The If built ns it will greatly facilitate between New York city At present it is considerably tween New York shonld be travel and York to the upper part of Brooklyn than from Jersay City to Philadelphia, and it takes nearly as long a time If New York had been a live western city, her clumsy modes of transfer woulda have been replaced by modern facilities long | ago | Some years ago the manufacturing | firm of Proctor & Gamble at Ivorydale, near Cincinnati, established the system of dividing with their employees a cer tain share of the profits of the business. During six months recently, in the midst of the depression all around them, the workmen received § per cent of their wages in dividends Little Billee of Germany has confi- dence enough in himself to undertake to settle the American financial question if we would only give him a whack at it MIS Nn Swit st) Fi 548 i! We now ward con LALLY Wane it FE uot un komt er attained any wuptlry A sen ig word left who supp! | got the chiof up toa ol mpetit red supply the missing word secretly for 2 ghillings, or about $5, The deluded me chanic sent on the money and ived the wi Shortly afterward he got a etter mpany, saying that he h 1, and that there were several sundred dollars standing to bis credit The only trouble was, #0 the letter ran, that another competitor had lodged a claimed £2. If how ing to buy the man out, lin by postal, prize money woul forwarded to hi The wi " ", in ‘‘reven; rec rd fr vd Ww m the c¢ complaint and ua will pen R the i rkingman started to in order to raise the m pawn lothing ney, en a friend suggested to him tO have sny send the prize money that «fact ating that he as it had all vd a charge on for '' notoris ol wi t! ming He wrote t In } ne be would be reading At 9 a wed] by higl Was nase and sext. Dinner in the fourteenth oentury, probably 11 or 11:30 o'clock, sad dar- ing the meal some lesson wonld be read alond After dinner came nones, and while moet of the monks were engaged in that service the conversia, or lay brethren, and the monks who bad in their turn served the others at dinner sat down to their meal. Then came a short time set apart, if desired, for sleep, which was followed by active employment of dif- ferent kinds, by study or recreation. Vespers were sung at 8 p.m. Bupper was at 8 and was followed by a reading from some book of edification. At 7:30 came compline, and then at 8 the breth- ren went to the dormitory to sleep until they were aroused for matins. It was in the intervals of these stated studies that the officers of a Benedictine house trans- acted their manifold business and the other brethren studied in the ‘‘carrells” or wrote and illuminated in the Seripto- rium. —Quarterly Review. The “Big MeKinneys™ Marion county, Ia, of which Knox- ville is the county seat, the home of the “Long Three Robinson Brothers,'' the giants who starred s voral seasons with Barnom as the three tallest brothers in the world, is the native county of the "Big McKinneys,'' four mammoth gpecimens of humanity who claim to be the only four brothers in lowa whose combined weight i# more than 1,000 pounds, Only two of the brothers, Doo and Jim, now reside in Marion county The former of these weighs 258 pounds and the latter 240. Frank, the second largest, weight 207, is somewhere out west, and John, the giant of the four, weight 286, is a Chicago policeman, Not one of the four is what would be termed a ‘'floshy’’ man. Each is a trim specimen of perfect manhood, standing from 6 foot 4 to 8 feet 7 inches in height. John makes the boast that he “oan stand fiat footed and torn & back somersault any day,” and Jim can mash a man’s hand in his giant grasp, or can take a dime and twist it all cut of shape be- tween his thumb and fingers, —8t. Louis Republic. English American News, This is the way a writer in the Lon- don Telegraph refers tc recent Amerioan laws against pool selling and betting at race tracks: ‘The antibetting ukase passed last autumn at the instance of the Puritans, who would fain introduce the ‘blue laws of Connecticut’ into the eity of New York, the most cosmopoli- tan capital in the world." ter foll time y tierce, which was, RisO up even | Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report Real Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE OAK HALL NOTES, ker and wife, of Slab ly saddler, M1 ewig away The Peans of Tar hat ex dwell their metrical ) There seems to be Bo reason why verses for musi hould » in meter. But the rhymers may retort that there is no reason why they should What is most striking is the utter pov- erty and monotony of their topics, the pordidness of their view of life, the baseness of their ideals, the insincerity of their enthusiasm, the total absence of healthy passion or indignation and even of genuine, unforced gayety or pentiment. The humor is that of the mock valentine, their pathos that of the pavement artist They pass from praises of debauchery and peans of rowdyism to grimy cari catures of the sordidness of lower mid- dle class life, inapt jocosities on love and marriage, birth and death and pat. ently insincere criticisms om public events. Their philosophy is a mean and shallow knowingness, their patriotism is cheap and empty bluster. The worship of the ugly, which leads the most popu- lar ‘comedians’ to assume a red nose when they have it not and trick them- pelves out, with neither rhyme nor rea son, in garments many sizes too large for them, inspires the lterature of the musio ball no loss than its physical presenta tions —Oontemporary Review on HOS, 8h t be wr The Stairs an Afterthought, The old story about building a honse and forgetting the staircase, which has probably been worked off at the expense of every young architect who has been born sinoe staireases were invented, was actually realized in the case of Mootagn House, which the late dowager Duchess of Buoclench made famons by her en tertainments. When the house was near ly finished, it was discovered that no means of reaching the apper floors had been provided, and the grand staircase | which had to be added considerably marred the arrangements of the man sion. — London Figaro, . » Much in Little Is especially true of Hood's Pills, for no medi cine over contained so great curative power In so small space, They are a whole medicine Hoods chest, always reddy, =) - Pills ways ecient, always sat- is, constipation, ete. be. {stactory ; prevent a col or fever, cure all with Hood's Sarsaparilla, sek \ “The ouly Pills to ‘ | Hered | | | | Can You Solve It $ an example in arithmeti th \ which the school boys ! wheels turning during p A young man wer narried, and the IEIFIENIE IE m ht m bd m bh m a m " m bd m hh m bd " hb " wi mm “ " boa m i. m Me m R. z Jf How Can | Have Beautiful Teeth? By keeping them th ighly clean— They should be brush ed with pure water after every meal and retiring at befo I night. A good little g tooth yowder sprinkled upon the Reh will add much to their appearance and to the | rancs of the breath. after for™® ty year experience in the drug business we can recommend nothing better than our “Rose Dentrifrice” and “Saponaceous Tooth Powder” which we have sold for years with satisfaction to our customers and ourselves. So well satisfied are we of their merits that we will sell you a trial bottle of either for ten cents, Our line of tooth brushes is large and select, prices from five cents to fifty cents. REEN'S 1 : ARMACY
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