Part 2. S— MAGAZINE SECTION. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY The Centre De , DECEMBER 14, 1906. Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, Current Topics "GIANT RIVER TUNNELS. TAKE PLACE OF BRIDGES IN CON, MECTING NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK, Completion of Borings Under Hudson River—One of Greatest of Evngineer- ing Feats. After half a century of speculation on the practicability of tunneling the Hudson river from New Jersey to the island of Manhattan, it is now possi- ble to walk dry-shod from Jersey New York. The twin bores have been completed; that is, they have been cut through and cased in, though of course some finishing touches are yet t put upon them. It was a few days ago that in the presence of the engi. neers, the directors and a porters, W. G. Oakman, president ol the Hudson Companies, split an old brick bulkhead with a hydraulic jack and completed the first Manhattan Jersey tunnel stem. y was six-inch gap in “ground hogs" little wider, through into New Y The old wall that was cu was seven f« thick. It of a forme [ Hudson. engineers afte snder t prise an WOrk with Two peath dori tion sey pany of ti The years The about will Lo 1 § )y be aozen re- “ through +) the Lilt 1 i relic * Fy Cu n 4 eV th Lae in tubes 15 { const will rk 213.000.0000 an about nen the entire 4 JOU UO, Cosi The tul are 5,7 feet in diameter an one track ti vorkmen. Two tubes his od New Jersey snder the rive t Church ts es each, on tae - : eRe Rs BhEF 23 a I collisions due to operating blunders the risk of travel ought to be nil Many Tunnels to be Dug. It having been proved practicable to tunnel beneath the Hudson river, the Pennsylvania Railroad undertak- ing will be pushed rapidly, and it may be expected that in course of time ev ery trunk line coming into Jersey City {will have its own tunnel. The East river plercings not present much (of a | m, five years trains o from Phil- ! no water to do In less than be running Boston with robl ight to phia to believed that within ten years ving will make the trip from hia to New York in one hour. 18 s ty el} NO TURK 5Y STUFFING? Christmas Dinner Incomplete With- out iis Ulu-Fashoned Addition. fonomice obnox line most us is THE UNCONVENTIONAL SARAH. It was Thomas Carlyle who sald that all genius was akin to savagery SBarah Bernhardt exemplifies this In the buodolr of her chateau In Paria | Mme, Bernhardt is a perfect barbarian | in her defiance of all the convention | alities regarding color schemes. Her sleeping room Is hung In royal purple decorated with peacock plumes. Over her Louis XVI bed is a eanopy made of unspun silk taken directly from the silkworm cocoon. A great splash of erimeon satin, in the form of a shield, | and will be put on ! ate | president | Alexander Graham of the hangings are row after row of tiny monkey skulls, the eye sockets of which are illumined with electric Heghts The “divine Sarah” has parted with her pet tiger, and now has for a com- panion a large and ugly baboon, whose ears have heen plerced so that the may earry huge rings of solid gold, Bernhardt is sald to look as young as she did twenty years ago. Her face is without wrinkles, and her step Is as spry and her manner as vivacious as when she first electrified her native adorns the center. The walls are hung in old tapestries, and in the interstices city as an actress. | carnation * FORTUNE FOR A ROSE. A WONDERFUL NEW VARIETY WHICH BRINGS THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. ———————— One to Two Hundred Figures for Flowers, nated what ists to be the y Queen Fientirice finest rose It ever is 4 A ol ’ { in the bud light crimson, | ticular merit | that none of the beauty of its coloring | {8 destroyed either in natural or arti | ficial light. Added to this it has a fragrance equal to that of the Amer rose grows on dy stems from twy parents are the ty Beauty, and y foot long: Known va- can yy er — ing on the | Grown at Gardiner Hubbard Mansion It was originated by Peter t Plssett, ket by ngto " of yrder W Florist F, H. Kramer Bissett Is the head & Gardiner Hubbard, th Gardiner Hubba of the Nat She i. the d Society Be of the telephone. | produced at her beau residence, Twin Oaks, the national capital The leading Sorists of have known of the existend rose for a year and have | tempting offers for it, but for Florist Kramer to « and finally secure the beauty. Such a fabulous sum for seems Insignificant, however is remembered that but a few : ago Thomas Lawson of “Frenzied nance” fame pald £30,000 for a mere while the greater amount of $125,000 was expended for the “Fi ances” carnation It is hinted that tie ul Ju o eo of de 3 t re oor | Mr. Lawson cleaned up over $100.000 out of the Lawson pink and the buy. ers of the “Flancee” carnation easily doubled the amount expended. Origin of the American Beauty. And yet the “American Reauty™ of whom every flower lover is fond has a very, very sad history A number of years ago n Washington gardener who made only a specialty of garden FOSeR, rey vel from abroad fn ship ment of plants, among which wis a “mongrel.” This, of door cul ture produced very layge and fragrant blooms. It attracted the attention of Thomas Fields, a Washington florist Nothing was known by him of the forcing qualities of this rose in the grecnhovise, but as he mther ked itn color and general appearance, one af ternoon while her hnsband was ab gent, he purchased the single ant from Mrs. Ready for five dollars Ready, when he retured and was told of the male, believed that his wife had asked too much for the flower. Fields experimented with the plant and found that It exceeded oven his fondest hopes. He named it the “American Beauty” and probably cleared $25,000 on this one deal, odiy Ready Is still a gardener, doing odd Joba for peo- ple around town-spading ot gardens, supplying rich earth a planting shrubs, with ont Is a Ravishing Pink and Crimson Tea | housan. DollarsExpecteaProfit=Other Huge A Washington gardener has origi is believed by expert flor. ETOWR~ | tea of a peculiar shade of pink with a touch, | Its par- | lies probably in the fact] f not superior to! The stur- Mr, Kramer is p Washington florist with large experience in the flower line, many new and inter elties hav originated his houses. Among the popular produced roses which h 1 or, a clim “Climbin ' ty red bloom of the World,” Hobert H, Kramer,” and many which have been sold to houses and named by them, He { Just originated the “Climbing { can Beauty” which will probably listed by flower-sellers next spring, 1 recently exhibited In Washington “¥. H. Kramer” carnation pink which many florists Lia inred of either the “Lawson He states that “Queen Beatrice” { for distribution { 1907 during whi of money will be erect £3 1 tion thou ’ ' i OV on garden | are the ing varie “Champion | B. Lee” “P.] other Ling ing in , Aft et with | ROIs catalogue \ 11d ie | the | sort [LE LA io | the dy f sum | the of yw or = | 0 {IO ge in no or $200 from ¥¥) will be made wer Attempted Graftings. Mi ¥ he ! er osial juet of t offering bloot fo 3 ul Ringe dso wo | rt of “Golden | wagh to sell cut enabling the purcha- Dre variety cheaply. Washington Florists" Club re | awarded the new “Queen Beat a certifieate of rit, the tl kind ever given by the club I'he new flower is so striking and beautiful that every member of | the club consented to the award, RIN Ie was unw 1 se oD wt rt flowers erebhy r< to The cently r “A f of wa wyaente the rut — Comfort on Uncle Sam's Ample Breast. “Capi Is one of the best recruiting officers that Uncle Bam has” confided one of the sergeants attached to the recruiting headquarters “Back of | nearly every enlistment there Is a woman In the ease. Lovers’ quarrels chase a lot of fine lads Into the sery Your romantie youth gravitates to the recruiting office after a serious | break with his sw part as naturally | a8 a duek takes to wats It seems to him the most fitting way In which to sacrifice himself when love's young dream Is apparently dispelled Way down In his heart he nurses the Idea of making his erstwhile inamorata sad, and it's the army or navy, with the possibility of death In battle, for | him. Again, other first class material ie reerunited by the desire of young | fellows to sport a uniform hefore their | girls. In such cases Cupld does his | recruiting through vanity. But in both { ways he manages to fill up big gaps in the ranks of Uncle Sam's fighters.” rn —— One of the richest boys in the world is the adopted son of the late million. aire, Zeigler. He In fourteen and will inherit nearly $20,000,000, — ud long ne yep ice, ot r Bdwin Booth for a aged twenty-five cigars rm THE I PRESIDENTS PUBLIC LAND COMMISSION RECOM* MENDS RADICAL CHANGES IN LAWS. ry YTRY ¥ IC LAND FRAUDS. w/ 24a Three men their fort it wi on has ever been so reckless robbed of its e648 Las the United v HO Wii. Ne early history of but the central tion of the the repu , land in vast tracts hae . ” ‘ ON | p Wong ted t ndividuals and cor spite of the publie years has been er, the absorption rate, I% who hag urs to realise ason why he buy out hub- willing to sell an citizens, ju a do en princely TFCIIeRRLY i desert te ment He was Cow Cilitil “oOu mai ire d the nest year Appoints le | i Com = n np sed of EPI We (UE uvestigate the land conditions Pub Lares wll fied to in sell Prete t . Need for Land Laws Legislation. Ww R A | wore HOMESTEAD ENTRY IN EASTERN OREGON OF JOBAN J. MURPHY. Made to Sect Valuable Timber Lands. — Entryman is cook indn adjoining Lumber Camp were buying hundreds of which was published as Ser ims and then went looking for ment 154. BSth Congress ther speculation: It is herewith publish 4 Typical Cases of Fraud, showing as it does the necessity for energetic action by Congress on one of the most vital questions of the day, namely, the correction of the national abuse which is taking away from the American homeseeker the opportunity to acquire a plece of land and rear thereon a home for himself and his This subject will be further ich of Ro te Doen- d Session. n part, The three cases are cited simply cnuse they are typical of thousands nd hyndreds of thousands of instan which could be related of the great west where the government still owns half a billlon acres of land, | another half billion have | ya sed private ownership under | family, the various loose and v fraudn- | considered In next week's issue, wi tent land laws with which the statate | will include an additional section wok 18 defiled. | this report. fn } although into va bor SENATE "A pl NORE »"e MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. SUBMITTING THE SECOND PARTIAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC LANDS COM- MISSION, APPOINTED OCTOBER 23, 1903, TO REPORT UPON THE CONDITION, OPERATION, AND EFFECT OF THE PRESENT LAND LAWS, To the Benate and Mouse of Representatives: I submit herewith the second partial report of the Public Lands Com- mission, appointed by me October 22. 1008, to report upon the condition, operation, and effect of the present iand laws and to recommend such changes as are nes largest practioal disposition of the pub- Hie lands to actual settlers wh d homes upon them and to secure have concluded to submit this second rial report bearing upon in permanence the fullest and most effective use of the resources pake lands. The subject is one of such magnitude and importance that I larger features which require immediate & without
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