'HE Names Novelist Chambers — Professor Michelson, Who Won $40,000. Dippel, the Handy Man In Grand Opera. ——— much story entitled * Fighting Chance, a book dealing with the present day spirit of social evo- lution, has been very successful in the writing of his- torical novels. He began his career as an artist, having had the advantage of study in Paris under stant. He found that had more attractions for painting, he Is not only. He can writ ry as well as prose al 1 ri hand at the composition of dramas. It was at the time “Cardigan,” a story hat | vittion, t he i tior cha R “iin Ww. CHAMBERS, author the discussed The of ROBERT WwW. BERS, CHAM- fiction writing him of one talent Fart 0 poet to the Univer faculty ng wit} w hose » been connected ng a sh ago Boned, £ his part Metr polit irk. when he bt tige | tenor, was sing at the an Her led that he would in the next stop the per ns Manager Andreas Dip tenped ty 3 - where ind A rassmen shed without a Speaking of Mr fter the performance, for months ‘Boheme’ but a had not seen the score I have ng mes, but 1 had experi ence of this sort before, and my memory Is excel lent All my tumes are kept at the theater, and while I was dress ing for the part an accompanist play ed over the score on the plano, and I went over it. “Most singers rest the day before they sing. That day 1 had been eating heavily I had smoked, drunk a few cocktalls. 1 was at dinner with Mrs. Dippel at the friend wher the summons came “Once In London, at Covent Garden, Jean de Reszke suddenly became hoarse, and at 4 o'clock in the after sn Cos ANDREAS DIVPEL and —_——_— | districts in southern Africa for | worldwide importance. { i [ naturalists, | | | | | | winlan | evolution, Benjamin Con- | than | I had | house of a | noon he announced to the management | that he would be unable to sing in ‘Die Gotterdammerung’ that night. The 4) rector sent for me. 1 had studied the part, but had never sung it. Richter went over the plano. After “Do you know the other two acts as well as that? “Quite,” 1 answered. “ “Then we won't tire your wvhlce by going over them,’ he sald.” The announcement that Professor Alexander Agassiz has completed plans for a trip through remote and unknown we finished that he asked: | first net with me on the | { CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. ANU AR Y In the News. Professor Agassiz’s African Trip. Senator Eugene Hale's Story. How Robert Bacon Be- came a Hero. BE sclen- research Is of Professor Agas- world's most eminent He is the only son of the late Louls Agassiz, who in his day won an enduring reputation as a zoologist. In the estimation of some scholars the Investigation and siz 1s one of the | present Agassiz is even a greater man | than was his father. The elder Agassiz disputed the Dar- theory of while gasslz much to Alexander has done confirm it Professor is dire rator of um of « Zoology vard en time EUGENE ~that ha long speech | quack cl the tion “How's “ ‘Splend ous Do ne that we would tre itously." ™ A Parplexed Polit When the procity was congress, Senat gan received stituent Dear Senator—-If this here receprosty bisnes is fixed between us and Cuba as they say we'll have to grow our own ter. bac or else make them Cubans rich enough to buy the hull country. I do a littel chawin myself and I don't bieve In bulldin up no trust. I'd like to raise my own plug. I ain't no hand to agk favors, put #f you could sent me a package of terbac seed It would be remembered. P. 8 with tin things onto it. other day om it all patie I nis graty- ical Economist. uban recl int In of Michi a con. fight against ( its bitterest pe Burrows this letter from it - n | Outwitting Her Lawyer. “Still, there are oecasions when a sult,” sald dict for $50,000, which was phld, ject to her order. get a penny of It." “How was that?" “She found the only way of outwit: ting him-she married the lawyer.” SEEDS SUCKBLL'S SEEDS SUCCEED! mr Ripka AL OFFER:, J } | lawyer Isn't the chief beneficiary of 8 | Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. | | “I know of one Instance. A friend of | mine in Virginia sued a railroad com-| pany for damages and secured a ver | and | the whole amount is now in bank sub- | Her counsel didn't | setts Bay, First Patent In America. first patent In to Joseph Jenks, a founder and machinist who had emigrated from Hammersmith, England, where he was born In 1602. He was a very ingenious man, and was Induced by Governor Winthrop, the younger, to come to Lynn, Mass. about 1642, master mechanie to establish “the {ron and steel works.” He was acknowledged head of the The granted America was as | | weren't good enough, fron smelting and founding business | and the first builder of machinery in this country vention in America, having Introduced the idea (first granted by act of par- lament in 1625) of protection for the manufacture of improvements by pe- tition to the government of Massachu- In 1646 he took patents for mill improvements, and in 1655 he pat ented the present form of the grass scythe, for which he should be held in grateful remembrance. In 1652 he made dies for the first coinage of money, the pine tree shillings. In 1654 he built the first fire engine to the order of the selectmen of Boston (the first ever bullt in this country): in 1657 he built a forge and entered upon the manufacture of his improved scythes nine years before his application was granted.—Journal of American His- tory. i'e For spliled Stains. any article taken to remove Ink on ng Is a | 1s more and Take more upon security. and first patentee of in- | Bible Authority For It. Mr. Rundlett, at time na chant In the town of Newenastlo, Instructed his clerks to strictly follow the precepts of the Bible in all of thelr dealings. One day a lady came in to buy a plece of dress goods, and one of the clerks spent a great deal of time show: ing her various cloths, which she sald The clerk sald he had a better plece In the rear of the store. Ie showed her this plece, which she had already seen, but told her it was much finer and worth 50 cents a yard more. She sald that she could readily see that it was better and made her purchase. Mr. Rundlett, who had seen the transaction, censured the clerk, who replied that he could refer to the Bible to justify his action “Why how is that?" “Well, she was a stranger, and 1 took her in.” one mer: Me., A Sare Remedy. His sleep had been disturbed nightly by the howling on his own back fence of his neighbor's cat. At last in de- spair he consulted his lawyer, “There i the cat every night on our fence," explained, "and he yowls and yowls and yowls, Now, 1 don't trouble with git have & this neighbor, and want you to sug- want within my m 1 not?” Sore Throat Cure TONSILINE i he alr [} FTONSILINE, — natural for the intelligent purchaser to depend big trade-mark names for “Queen Quality ” shoes. The reputa- tion of that name has cost a million dollars, and it is worth that today. name upon any shoe that would discredit it? they afford to sacrifice quality? for your protection. 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