Page 2. THE CENTRE DE RAT, BELLEFONTE, PA tt Was Enormous In Size, but It Was Safely Anchored. Emmanuel Arago, the French politi cian, was 4 nephew of the noted as- tronomer and was considered a hand- some man, nlthough his nose was ex- tremely conspicuous. At one time he was traveling by train to time with dilated eyes began to cry In vain did the child's mother en- deavor to calm the perturbed juvenile. The poor mother was in despair, and | as the shrieks grew more and more plercing Arago felt bound to interfere and see what he could do. He sald to the child: “What alls you, my dear?” Thus addressed, the child sobbed out, “Take off your nose.” Arago looked at the mother, grew very confused and sald: “Ah, mousieur, excuse me-—excuse my son." “But, madame," does he mean?” The mother then explained that she had during the carnival who sald Arago, “what masks and with thing of nothing else, “B - added, “we got into the same carriage as you, who no doubt for some good reason prolonging the carnival But you see what a deplorable result has followed. Let me then beg of you to have pity on a poor take off your nose.” “But, madame," fled. “A litt] nore have convulsi er. “Take off y« “But, madan spalr, “that Is | a false nose, bt “Impossibl agonized lady “Touch The lad: a \ nose, but It did not come hand, as eted “A thou "sg pray-—ol ] with your hat" So Ar tinned his journey with his nose hI is hat, and the child's screams rad i sided Arago himeslf story with much are sald Arago, stupe- and my child will shrieked the moth- ur false nose." iid Arago ible. i ns,’ 8{ in de 08 This is not ny own!” possible!” cried the at Arago's off In he sald, “but ROLE OF THE COCOANUT. The Staff of Life to the Sea Washed mn a cols Natives of Island. idence that i A greater rial to man than any vegetal the of the cogal re The co that it may have floated halfway across Jhe. Pacific, is thus universally distrib- wted throughout tropical islands, It thrives best near the sea, seldom penetrating f the Interior. Its hard « 1 cont of mall for the en bryo plant, enab ind hard usage | protracted period and locking up securely the precious life in mio first to spring up on newly arisen woanut, so formed g it to st not only bat buoys It » tough outer hich offers to man ite all hi ttered where the warm borders offer a footing humble native secures vinegar, oll ladles, cordage, itech for roof and material nt, combining food, clothing shelter In a single gift, continually making waste places habitable.—New Age neces wine CUuns H "Building Up a Speech, Before nnking a speech Charles Dickens would ide his various Heads aud then In his mind's eye liken the whole sublect to the tire of a cart wheel, he being the hub. From the Bub to the tire he would run as many spokes as there treated, a1 speech Le would deal with each spoke separatel) elaborating them as ho went round the wheel and when all the spokes dropped out one by ote and nothing but the tire and space rema.n- «4 he would know that he had accom plished his task and that his speech was at an end Ge on Doing IL Old Lady (to grocer's boy)-Don't wou know that It is very rude to whis ®le when dealing with a lady? Boy That's me to do, mum “Told you to whistle? “Yes'm. He sald If we ever sold you maything we'd have to whistle for the mnoney.”~London Fun, Running Conversation. Collector (angrily)-You know very well, #ir, that this bill has been run fing severa! years, Now, | put It up to you, what do you want me to do with It? Debtor-By George, I'd outer #t In the next Marathon race If 1 were goul-Puck What Did He Mean? “Yeu: 1 he'leve that every Intelligent avoman should have a vote” “Put, senntor, | understand that you vere opposed to women's sulfeage “1 am." Judge, Versallles when a child who was In the same car and who had watched Arago for some | taken her | child to sce a number of persons in | false noses and he | had become so excited that he could | an unfortunate occurrence,” she | were subjects to be! d during the progress of the | what the guv'nor told | FACT, FUN AND FANCY. Bright, Sparkling Ravagraphe--Solect- ed and Original, A Mother Goose Rhyme. Solomon Grundy Bought a car Monday, Bpeeded on Tuesday, Jailed on Wednesday, Out on Thursday, Wrecked on Friday, Died on Saturday, And that't the end Of Solomon Grundy, | Family | jugs It doesn’t require a magician to make an automobile turn turtle, jars and are bottles frequently caused Many an alleged stolen kiss is really a voluntary contribution. It's a hard matter to convince a man from his lawyer, One trouble about giving women vote Is that personal registration quires a statement of age. The negro who recently died at the age of 122 at Jackson, Miss, is liable to get scolded for staying so long. Some men talk big about settling the affairs of the nation when they don't even settle with the butcher and the baker. n The doctors used to bleed a man for every allment; now they bleed him whether he has anything the matter with him or not Did woman and a little m ever notice that if a little is married to a big man she if a big woman is married to she is boss, too? you is boss, An, it, th Another View of “The preacher mother and | YOU him for d Too Sick For That A man wl damages 10 Plea of Insanity. Wi aid 1} her | w! | One On The Grocer. A gentler | DOT store i to t} Small Chance of Cold Feet. \ exclaimed. “1 ail that was going 3 : } i Nature's Compensations has wan sg! ) N is generally longer Warned By Example. Pat hard drinker Many times while he had attacked his family, furniture and arrested The had got him to promise to several times but it would Inst A» short time One after he WhSs A drunk broken the been priest reform only morning had been on a called and stop you may « that Mike M14 Bproe Pat, if to the night.” "What has happened to Mike? Pat" “Why sald the priest. “Mike had drank so much that when he went to {blow out the candle the alcoho! in his breath caught fire and burned him terribly inside.” | "Oh, what an awful end.” shuddered { Pat, and getting In attitude of prayer | he sald: “Father, 1 do solemnly swear | to you, to God above, and to all the {saints that I will never { lighted candle again” | He Was Lucky. "Well, lobby, how church ?™ asked his father. as they walked homeward from the place | worship, to which Bobby had Just paid his first visit “Is fine!” ejaculated the young man. “How much did you get, father? "How much did I get? Why what do you mean? How much what? Asked the astonished parent at his evident irreverence, “Why, don't you remember when the funny old man passed the money around. I only got ten cents” Between Them, The late Judge Silas Bryan, the father of William J, Bryan, once had saveral hams stolen from his smoke. house. Fe missed them once, but mid nothing about IX to anyone, A fow dayn later a neighbor came to him. “Bay, Judge” he sald, “1 hear'd yow bad some hams stolen t'other night ™ “¥en” replied the judge, very con. : “but don't you tell anyone, Jo and 1 aro the only ones who know clergyman don't end mae : you yo on same Inst nnked blow out a do you like I Ar 0 Not Much Between. Recently a stranger passing the public highway addressed a er's boy across the fence: “Young man, your yellow." Boy-~Yes, 1~ corn look! ind that's the kind we plant. |'ed lord gets the sald | to see the sights engaged a room at | hotel, that talk is cheap when he gets a bill | | « leven, and supper re- | | surprise, the globe and | finely worked copperplate | ing a divinity surrounded by four ani | of | | exactly where the first descendants of | : Stranger-—Don't look as would get more than half a erop oy We don't exnect to The other half Then after a short “Boy, there Isn't and a fool" replied if you land time much the man between ou HA " NO, the boy, fence” A Continuous Meal. A famer who went to a large city n and the clerk about We before retiring the hours for breakfast dinner from from plained the clerk “Wa-al, say,” inquired the farmer “what time air 1 goin’ town?" asked dining from six to eéleven to three, three to eight” have ex in ter the see Bcant Working Clothes. In Blogapore and Penang may be seen people from almost every part of representatives of ale most every race except our North American Indlans., The greater propor tlon of Malays, East Indians and Cin. galese, with thelr bronze black skins, make the Chinese and Japanese seem almost like white people. Each wears the costume of native country in so far as he wears anything, but eight out of every ten to be consider themse sufliclently dressed when they have of loins, T! the his persons seen well n yard or two nbout plies to lonalities, whether M ian, Chi nese « tl + bet- ter class, or Parsee, dresses as + woul n home Th Fo cheesecle thelr is 88 81 workmen of al nat r other ; a nd a comb Ishman fitting prevent The ustinl wh » has taken to his picture com- sources as nke the » Post ers rumor had it about to marry “It 1s.” was the “Surely with that mate frie your presen in tal haty 0 earth ¢ J n for t Ba this serious step ™ have uo reason,” was the calm » | A in love —Lippin- an be reas “1 resporse cott’s ov f———— Responsive. There was at Jeast one responsive hearer In the crowded little church in an English and it happened this way Guests had arrived unexpectedly at the country parsonage on Sunday morning The weekly supply of butter had run short, so tl l wpltable host dispatch- ed old Joe, the handy man, to his neighbor, Mr. Paul, whose dairy al ways boasted a surplus. The parson proceeded to church with his well pre pared sermon some of the deep sayings of the great apostie and was well under way with it when old Joe, returning empty banded, concluded he would quietly slip in and bear his mas- ter preach Just entered the minister leaned over the pulpit, stretched out his band with a most impressive in- terrogation in voice and manner and called out, “And what did Paul say? Distinctly sounded through the church old Joe's reply “He say, marster, he ain't going to let you have no more butter till you pay for the last you got.” village on 88 he The Tomb of Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan, the Mongol chief, in the thirteenth century proved bimself one of the world's greatest warriors His tomb exists at Edchen Kore and is described In Count de Lesdain’s “From Pekin to Sikkim" “Two small tents, one behind the other and con nected by a very low inner door made of wornout felt and admitting through thelr rents the rain and the wind, are the ‘monument’ destined to perpetuate the renown of the greatest conqueror the world has known. The ashes of the body of Genghis Khan are deposit od in a kind of chest cuble in shape and placed on a wooden support made of small colored plilars adorned with paintings on all its sides except that facing south, which Is covered with a represent. mals which are not easy to identify. The tomb, In fact, has not always been here, but it Is difficult to know the great emperor Inld his remains.” Couldn't Quite Qualify, “Mebbe you'd lke to put a plece| about me In yer paper,” quavered the! old man, hobbling up to the city edi tor's desk “What have you done?’ demanded the arbiter of publicity’s destiny. “Nothin’ much, but IT was a hundred yoar old yesterday.” “A hondred, eh? But can you walk without a stick and read One print “You are an impostor!” The old man broke down and con fessod that he was only ninety seven «Cleveland Leader . 4 JAPANESE HUSBANDS, In Rising 8un Country Matrimony le Built on Equal Rights Plan. The recent outburst of race antag. onism In a Pacific coast city, directed against an American girl for marry- ing a Japanese, lends interest to the public ertion that bands are the best in the world” by Mrs Yakamine nent hie for years a York Mrs Hitch, daughter southern families, before she doctor and 18 a stanch international marriages “No woman in the world 18 more protected and better cared for than the wife of a Japanese,” she sald. “The Japanese husband is considerate, faith. ful and patient. his religion, He is a home loving man, and naturally he is thoughtful of the little attentions to his home and fam- fly. Every woman loves these little attentions, Plenty of women prefer kind words and the thought that they are apprecinted to diamond rings. If a Japanese sees some little plece of Jewelry, ornament or painting he thinks his wife would like he takes fit home to her. It is this sort of thing, the fact t) he has thought of her during the day, that makes her happy “Contrast the Americ: Jap d und America nx “Japanese hus. made Ww ife mist resident Yakamine of of of the emi scientist, of Japanese and many ely New wns Miss the old met the of one defender 1 t n and the anese hush An er the ss AN THE NURSERY. ’ eves should be shaded fro lly from bright v's mouth give led water hes so often gis a8 present o babes are useless cause evervihing used in mouth should be hurned A baby should be given ter three time mouth should be rf a day with horax wats to acup. This w and gums keep them the pure cold wa day Its nsed several time two or s A be) r, a teaspoonful | prevent the mouth from becoming sore and sweet and clean The Persistent Social Aspirant, Persistency is ever the hallmark of the woman determined to be recog. nized socially, and she applies it with out stint to the smallest detall of each undertaking, nagging. insisting and pushing art Is accomplish ed. Bo do some women pursue an man, never heeding the thousand and one evidences he gives of Indifference, but dodging artfully around each sign of and bobbing up In his path at all turns It is useless to argue that they do not gain their end and aim, times they do. In the long ran society yields to the persistency of this type ) until some p too, eligible of woman or the man is safely har | nessed to her triumphal ear Charlotte Bonbonniers. An amusing new bonbonniere is In the shape of a very realistic charlotte russe and about the sizagf that airy dainty. The top of the charlotte lifts | away, disclosing the eandy box. A fun loving hostess bought souve. nirs In this form for all the guests at a luncheon. They were filled with goodies and passed by the maid, look. ing, until closely examined, like a sec. ond dessert course, The discovery of thelr true nature caused much surprise and nughter What Money Can't Buy. Mosey can't buy everything. There are %0 admission tickets to a sunset, you wouldn't trade the look In your boy's eyes when he greets you at night for a million dollars of anybody's money, and If you keep a well fur It is his phllosophy, ! “no Intentions” | for many Thursday, December 2nd, 1800, Se THE —eecep A Thrifty Wife. A careful, prudent wife is a blessing to man, especially to a poor man, but some wives are a little too careful, lord Eldon's wife was somewhat “near,” as they say in England. His lordship was very fond of hunting and retired to the country for a few weeks toward the end of the season, where he was in the habit of riding a little Welsh pony, for which he gave BO shil lings. One morning his lordship, in { tending to enjoy a few hours’ sport, ordered Bob to be saddled. Lady El don objected, but as company was present gave no reason. In a few mo- ments, however, the servant opened the door and announced that Beb was | ready. “Why, bless me,” exclaimed her lady. ship, “you can’t ride him, Lord Eldon! He has no shoes on.” “Yes, my lady, he was shod this week,” sald the servant, “Shameful!” exclaimed her ladyship. “How dare any one have him shod without orders? John,” she continued, addressing her husband, “you know you rode the pony only a few times last year, so I had the shoes taken off and have kept them ever since in my burean. They are as good as new, and these people have shod him again. We shall be ruined at this rate.” Liked the Treatment. ater w Ww engaged upon house In the whole squad!” sak tome of hem, 1 suppose Souls. e understand ot touch the | Drifting or toy i 11 e test of wort BYE Nn earth 8 pea blown robor known, a bores Than this vosquin MID | | Scrap Book What's In a Label. There 1s a good deal of art in sdven tising, and it has to be adapted to the public it seeks to meet. Edward Reeves In “Brown Men and Women” makes clear that what attracts the American market may not serve that purpose in the islands of the south seas, He tells an experience which a food firm had with one of those sea girt communities, The natives get very tired of fish, but are fond of canned beef, which they buy when. ever they have money. That they are nothing more than children in thelr ideas the traders find out to thelr cost if they are not careful. An exporter of canned peat was nearly ruined by clinging to the trademark of a drag- on's head. Shipment after shipment was sent out from San Francisco, each can branded with the flaming dragon. The natives shuddered at the sight of the hideous thing. They were not go ing to eat the disgusting beast In vain the agents tore off the labels; the natives were suspicious and would not buy. The whole shipment had to be returned and put in fresh cans with a fat ox or sheep on the label. All the natives fully believed that the figure on the label was a true picture of what was inside. A Frog's Nest ys species of tree frog con- water a curious nest, or art eggs and h., Start he moth- ke wall 1) is 4 Pe ve | i} KiGhey « ns in my loins and a con i stant. dull kachy In the moraing Tyme. Svat 1 1 had to mt 3 It Costs Just a Post Card to learn how to increase your income on your savings and how to bank by mail and how to insure your bank deposits, without cost, with a fund of ten million dollars. 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