THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. AUGUST 13,1908. oe a Nr———t—————— ei nnder way bridge \ ri hig! ) I t rive $ ity Tw he famous st iter Wil Dri i u pensl mn structures A third the IB I's § land bridge, an fir o ver design, is nearing completion it its opening wi be delaved 1 t has been th } tested win ( \ prehension caused by the collapse of the mammoth Quebe bridge f the game type, a disaster that cost the lives of over 10) workmen, The Manhattan bridge w be of the ‘1 type | w ress ‘ t the old Brookl bridge 1 as the “Ju g off” place e mb us t [ { hs « a golds A! | Steve | die, who ited realized botl bit was { of the first men who ju ed from Brook Ivyn bridge and lived to t t ' 1t mus Vis P 1 } N ¢ 4 4 one of Mr. 1 { 9 ¢ } ard busi d did act \ { Brodie's r D ] | gelf a bridg 5 he? 8S dat mug « n't n off ‘ ont A RB i The M ] ] e 1 fl y | ’ the | TEMPORA FA MANHATTAY F ha g LL) i ler ! w ' ‘ I g w pa ” xt I r Ki | { RON (X of b 1 & WON u | t f the TY rn : ) $ nd | ‘ | [| ! § ‘ | } 1 ' | ’ nr In ! 1 i in the air on \ forms r rd the w and eng ¢ to make f cable Lat L " fr DAi2 wir total for the f r 8 f rf . wires. Each of these lividual wire must be Jald with exactly the ' curve, with the sams iin on It. © else It will become a wer long part ot the great cable to which it belongs After the cables are mpleted they are hung In place and allowed stretch Then they ar rapped around with a covering of strong res. and this covering Is given 1 y or thres contings of paint All this acts protection from the entl | | to the life of tl ‘ 1 cables for the briage Im } ed fn about six ont ‘ ing to 1 calculations of the ef el Men lose thelr lve i mt big bridge enterprise 1 the Ye bridge already has th 1 ! The great height at wh 1 most of the fmportant work has to e | ‘ a strain on the strongest nerve \ the clearest heads But one woman has ventured to the top of the skele ton structure, A newspaper reporter Miss Mazie Clemens, connected with a New York dally. She tripped and fell on the narrow walk way plunging under the guard rope to in stant death only by a miracle Miss Clemens spoke of her expe rience in part ag follows “1 ellmbed up 500 steps and when | reached the beginning of the footpath the force of the wind compelled me to remove my bat, and I, being of slight build, had a fear that the breese, If It nud es nped | - 3% ad freshened, might wart me along with it elim proached point on top of the first tower, was n cable there, 1 “From bed a to anchorage 1 foot walk until I ap- to the highest There hand rall except where the along the here and it even a board on either side. anchorage seven the ascent 0 ran posts It looked almost impossible to me, 1 gazed and trembled at the prospect, but I started on the journey, It was a bigger effort than I figured upon but I stuck to it. At last, panting but trinmphant, 1 stood 490 feet above wat d gazed upon the magnificent pa of New York spread far be low 1 “lI have been rocked in an ordinat cradle and in the cradle of the de and enjoyed both sensations ut was a \ ind creepy feeling to sta on the swaying, creaking stru i inl ide and peer d $7 { great FrCcKs f the f l I ety path to the riv I A ere the big river | wers | d fr | e si { 4 os ) * je f ti p ( f ¢ | 1 ) ¢ a ' ' ‘ ft) a ’ ’ CHAMPION DIXIE Il 1} Sw Motor Boat That Won ¢ Harmsa Tr Ts { { { | ' s ¢ ‘ Hon The races took place off H + } or rl 1 o bay lo iy Island, id) « boats started frot tte Cor ‘ ' ’ ’ ’ ¢ » J | ‘ ' ’ ’ 5 4 ‘ 3 ’ ince of 1ixie goes t { ta 8 Bar Pe CAPTAIN A BARCLAY) PEARCE ANL LIXIN Li who had direct charge of her during the contest The engineer, Albert Rappuhn, collapsed during the race owing to 1 intense heat of the « gines and the gasolhe fumes that es caped He fell senseless alongside « the ftly pounding nery, Captain Pearce was forced to run the engines well ns to govern the course of the eraft until the engineer regained his senses The fact that the Dixie 11. won the race in spite of this accident and handicap goes to ac centunte the high quality of Yankee pluck, perseverance and Ingenuity England had another competitor be side the Dixie IL. In the Diamler 11, owned by Lord Howard de Walden, ’ EW mach and ns Ar yt 2 —- Bert M. Fernald — Lou- denslager of New Jersey Frank and the Campaign > O. Lowden of lllinois. Ny | - MN ~ pr a ERT M FER- B NALD, nomi nated for gov ernor by Maine Re public ing Vass, ins, Is mak an active ci The ate election In Maine Is chiefly Interesting to the rest of country because st the i takes place a nu ber of weeks before the general nati al election While be sald to be a polities for the whole country in 1 FERNALD, BERT M Maine ea weather vane nnot il tion always interesting the in its state elec as indicating by the wind vote which way itical is blow general ing he late Senator Allison of Iowa was very cautions about taking sides on K | nestior “The more | see of th , Allison," « any q Drist nce el . ' \ L i M ’ { ' ole ’ \ wel ‘ { Aig }- n . post held for two by Congressman f Sears past In " J | i Z the “4 " in i Hi« is born N rise Minn. | 1861, and is an the low State versity Mr. 1 det married daughter of t} whe ping oar n pate the late Ge M. Pullman He a factor in vari fuancial and indus trial corporations of the middle west When Colonel! Low FRANK O. LOWDEN. den unsuccessfully ran for governor of Illinois four years | | ! | i ago he was credited with making the most unique campaign since Victor Murdock, the aurora borealis states man from Kansas, rallied the red | headed men of his district to his sup port and won the race for congress a warm finish Mr. Lowden did | travel In ears patented by his fathe Indaw. On the contrary, he traveled | nothing but freight cabooses He dressed In the working "togs™ of » farmer and smoked a corncob pipe Colonel Henry Watterson, the fa mous Kentucky editor, politician, states man. lecturer and speaker, has had » varied and important career, and he A Ao Faces In the Hall of Fame rr y tl Lr Dr. Wiley, Foe of Germs. “Marse' Henry Watter- Publicity of the Democracy. son, Expert ~ a \ fa py of w - oy ry Lo papers throughout the country are kept supplied with timely matter concer ing the Democratic eandidates and proceedings of the campaign. Ee wi see to it that the speeches of Mr Bryan and Mr. Kern, the vice presi dential eandidate, are placed before every voter in America who can read po watter what language he reads, and ny F | ’ } > 3 - wh " . i Dr. Harvey W. Wik who as pure food « f the ‘ t 1 the ¥ for « ‘ ‘ i hie ‘ | Kr : K¢ ’ Ing mn ‘ ! fore ¢ i | | “8 " 4 4 ( A ot 5 " o ever ‘ " Dr. W (1? Ss ( ‘ are EY § r 2 \ ore ' ‘ [ A] it) ‘ ‘1 ’ ro K i pr i § lo § ] i 2 1.4» y § ge } | 3 | . v harmnfu \ 1 » ’ inf i ‘ P\ | f ™ a hie 1 e his fom 1 wo } #4 dry up d blow away Herman Ridder, who w collaborate with ( ! Henry Watters other Det ratic editors n 3 ry « ty to the national Iw cr press irean, Is the presicent the New Yorker Staants-Zeitung col pany and one of the best known Ger man journalists America. He is ver much interested | tariff legislation de signed to provide cheaper paper for newspapers Mr Ridder is of Ger man parentage, bin is himself a native New Yorker He begnn his busines CAMYEr AR AND erran hoy it the age « eleven years, ene NERMAN RIDDER. od the employ ’ an insurance company in his thirte year and at twenty became an | ! ance agent He engaged In news | work seven years Inter, est thi ished is now engaging in still another branch | | of the world's work. He has been ap pointed the generalizsimo of the pub Helty forces of the Democratic national campaign committee that Is just now working to elect W. J. Bryan presi dent, and that the colonel Is extremely well fitted for this task not even his bitterest opponents will deny, As head of the national Democratic publicity department it Is Colonel Wat. terson's task to see that the news | and national Katholisches Volkshintt an Germ Catholle weekly, and in IS8S 1 the Catholic News, which soon becan the lending American paper of that ~ liglous denomination. Mr. Ridder | been Influential in politics—eity, stale as an Independent Dem Hm 1% ocrat. He took a prominent part the Cloveland campaigns and in the sarlous reform movements In New York city, having been especially active in the German-American Reform union Much of his time Is devoted to char ftable work, A year ago he was elect. ol president of the American Mewspa. per Publishers’ association. in | Sleepwalking. Women and children are more apt te suffer from somnambulism than men, possibly because their brain Is more delicately poised 1 therefore more easily Influenced by dre A som- nambulist nearly al walks with } PO open, the being ely din ted He is er able to t his dre nnd fate the timid bec { 1K strong nd the st I helr som namin ent many curion 1 ymbulist’s sense of he en suspend ed, for, gen he k inl er questio pered but often the same ear Is deaf to loud of smell is and phosphorus to the cannot tell sense of taste noises, The sense ly are frequent Brimstone altered } sald to | w pleasant scents and ns the mnan many wine from water, becomes perverted or entirely uspend ed. in their sleep, while asmod- 1 Some people walk periodically others do it g1 } ically, One Germs doctor goes to the extreme of asserting that somname- bulists are attracted by the moon, and thus they walk on roofs of ho at great heights because they uses and derive a peculiar pleasure from contemplating the moon A Tiny Death Dealer. A most agonizing death is caused hy an insect f we Blze f a pea—a small el pider. It lives In Pern, in 8 h America, | a few spect mens have reached Europe in ship . ads of tl r t go a dock aborer { cky « gh to come upo r t! Victor docks while unlon y hard Th fly Acath deal er d wed the be of his hand | ngs into his flesh. The FX not} t as 80 n the | gan to wor the fainted w i K afterward | ca to ¢ i ed thr tsvs hefore N " t | a | i 1er's vi } scor the 08 8 and 4 f . s+ b ' . Worst of t MM east two * w'! 1 ¥ . 1S 1 . ¢ n ’ ¢ t “ . 1 LI 1 r ’ Extreme Obe ence ’ \ A } . \ - } i ¢ to g l | ples ®t ms . Clin . t at t 1.1 ¢ Hi¢ pro to™ wer and say t g Bu P the ors ters were served He s d wered a small « ter her plate 2 had ac- cide od y Hh 1) i t ri . ’ thie } g1 ’ A h i Chr tian Keg Countess Mertford's De Edwa ‘ ford tn the ¢ x of «( I rried s ! r { n . Y g | | " George R 1 ! ’ - 2 ’ at’ 1 . ’ “ [ | | £ ‘ bh § fot : nm fic) .; ! > 1 nD tie ft " i, 1 f ) ed ” q f her « | ‘ f e 3 ol | 1 1 ‘ gd} drew his 1 rf it ex pired nt 1 iy Hert! "s feet T™ COUNtERR rose 1a to Ameshury church perhaps as a ht ™ ce for her fickleness I'he Ins r ® Be strong | fay pr ® 1 well Frances, ( ons Hert PE | Stars That Outshine the Sun. . f the oo "tt it ’ 134% fine of I Bove ) ‘ 4 ) HOOrs referring t~ stars that are so distant that they have no measurable parallax, asserts that one of thes the brilliant Canopus, can be said with confidence to be thousands of times brighter than our sun. Whether we should say 20. 000, 10.000 or 5,000 no one can decide. The first magnitude stars, Rigel and Speca, slso are at an immeasurable distance and must, in view of their ac tual brightness, enormously outshine the sun Two Kinds of Basa. A gentle n toid | Ife one Bat he Wis § r to spend the { tke fishi BEL ! Lig wee) i i { e ¢ the cool eve rn ] 1 not be at i | { i to send t 1 { t 6 ¢ the re f { | the g [ = yy} I sought 1 ( “r ) “1 nl 4 | tore where | w | to @ all his ts 1 up t ho Li i n for the ‘ y ve ty } shat they « ( ¢ home pt midnight he rhed f 1 got the fi hr @ showed the to The rvevor of table delicacies had sent him a dozen Bass of the botue J PUCKBEE'S BULBS SUCCEED! SPECIAL OFFER: \ Wt " 7) ¥ iF sade to bulld New Business. A olf tric you b por » 3 ~ wo Bult in 1, Souvetia vollection ir a or 7 ante, Foe GUARANTEED TO PLEASE Write to-day Mention this Paper ~~ Be ~~ BEND rs or porter o vaduntie nulla vpn urirniet, Lu wt I about the B i Pa ry hs in WAHOTS ’ ve, eusoesef sl buriness » ’ * } BUCKEREE BT ROCKFORD, LIL us is easy to use Makes pure soap p - n of » : 3 | o or rug eints, V i anmer Lye. The Penn Chemical Works PhiladciphiaU ® 2 lies are the s Ost, i t economical bowel regulat. Ors you ever used Tasteles bo gently lax never grip« Sold with 1 Rexall guar tee. In boxes of twelve tablets 10c, and thirty-six tablets, 5c, Sardar Sreens The Jexall store ROUND. TRIP | RATE J. R WOOD, Passenger Trallic Manager PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PERSONALLY -CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS NIAGARA FALLS August 19, Sept, 9, 23, and Oct $7.10 from BELLEFONTE Tiekets good going on train leaving 1.85 P.M Paliman Parlor Oars. Dining Car, and Day Coaches run ning via the PICTURESQUE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ROUTE Tickets good returning on regular trains within FIFTEEN DAYS, including date of excursion. Stopoff within limit allowed at Buffalo returning Hilustrated Booklet and full information may be obtained from Ticket Agents ’ . 1908. connecting with SPECIAL TRAIN of GEO. W. BOYD, General Passenger Agent
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