Bellefonte, Pa., September 3, 1909. It Is Flashed Out Over Nearly a Mil- lion Miles of Telegraph Wires Every Day In the Year—The Finely Ad- justed Instruments That Are Used. A few minutes before 12 o'clock noon every day in the year a young man walks into a certain room of the main | building at the naval observatory, which is set up on a hill in the north- western part of the District of Colum- bia. He glances at the various clocks in the room and then goes over to a table which is covered with electric apparatus, He watches the clocks to his left closely and waits for the hands to | reach 11:55. As the second hand ap- proaches the 60 on the dial he pre- | pares to shift a switch. The clock is go finely adjusted that when the sec- ond hand points to 60 it exactly marke the beginning of a new minute. As it touches the 60 the switches are thrown on. That starts a signal that goes out instantaneously over 900,000 miles of telegraph lines. In Washington, New York, Buffalo, Cleve- land, Newport, Baltimore, Newport News, Norfolk, Savannah, New Or- leans, Key West, Galveston, Chicago and elsewhere the time balls go up on their poles. People know that it is five minutes to noon, Washington time. The clock which keeps the time in the observatory ticks on. With each tick there is a contact of electric points. A circuit is closed, and an in- strument on the table similar in ap- pearance to a telegraph sounder ticks away loudly. It goes on to the twenty-ninth sec- ond, then skips one tick, then resumes its steady sounding until the last five seconds; then there is another gap. These gaps are for the purpose of giving listeners at the other ends of the great system of wires a chance to know what part of the minute the clock is on. So it goes up to the last minute, At the twenty-ninth second there is again the skipping of one second. Finally the clock gets around to the fiftieth second. Then the circuit re- mains open for ten seconds. There is silence ail along the telegraph wires. At the other end, where there are time balls or merely train operators, the long pause Indicates that noon is almost there. The second hand makes on toward 60 and finally reaches the mark. Then there is another click; in about a second the sounder is down, and that tells hundreds of thousands of people that it is noon in Washing- ton. : It is a wonderful operation, this get- ting the time, and highly technical. Finely adjusted clocks, chronographs and other instruments of great value are used, and the taking and recording of the time have reached a point where the human equation is practically elim- inated. The results obtained are of great value, particularly to mariners. The time is not only flashed to hundreds of points in the United States, but it is sent far out to sea by wireless. A cable carries the flash to Havana; an- other to Panama and Callao, Peru. The observatory here does not send the time much farther west than the Rockies, but they have an observatory at the Mare Island navy yard, and from there the time is sent up and down the Pacific coast, just as it is from here to the eastern part of the United States. In the cities where the central time is used the flash marks 11 o'clock. An hour later local opera- tors drop the time balls. The mean time is determined by as- tronomical observations. When cer- tain stars pass the seventy-fifth merid- fan, called the meridian of Washing- ton, it is a certain time. The operator watches for the stars through a tele scope, the field of which is covered with fine wires. As the stars reach a certain point in transit the operator presses a key in his hand. A contact is made and re- corded on a chronograph. The chrono- graph consists of a cylinder covered with paper. A fountain pen rests on the paper. It is held by an arm at- tached to the mechanism. The cylin- der revolves once a minute, and the pen moves along the surface of the paper, making a spiral line, A sidereal clock of the finest make is running in a vault underneath the ob- servatory. With each tick of the clock there is a contact of two points. These two points are attached to wires that lead to an electro-magnet &at- tached to the arm that holds the pen of the chronograph. The clock is so adjusted that each minute the pen jumps to one side. Consequently there is a break in the line. There are other breaks, too, when the observer watches the stars cross the lines in the field of the telescope. The mean time thus re- corded for each star, after being cor- rected for errors, is the clock time of the star's transit. Whatever difference there is between the clock time and the sidereal time marked by the trans- it of the stars is the error of the clock. From these astronomical ob- servations the sidereal time is ob- tained. The error amounts to but little, rarely being more than from five one-huudredths to ten one-hun- &redths of a second. The time of sending a flash over the wires is practically nothing. A flash has reached Greenwich, England, in three-tenths of a second.—Washington Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean. There never was a day that did not bring its own opportunity for doing good that never could have been done before and never can be again—W, H, Burleigh. 1 rens Y. WAGNER, | THE DUTCH KITCHEN. Bed In the Corner. Holland, of all countries, is a memo- rial to the unceasing labor of man’s hands. It exists not because the sea, higher than its green stretches, suffers it to. but because man by the labor of his hands and of his brain has kept ! the water back. The Dutch people ! ! have not only earned their land—they have made it. “When have they found time to do it all?" you ask yourself. But you are to know more of the work which in ' Holland never ceases. Of the work which goes on within those houses you know nothing until at Delft you make | your first acquaintance with a Dutch | kitchen. The kitchen is properly a large room , as compared with the other rooms in | the house. for it is the gathering place at all times for the family. The table | mistress, sitting at one side, can reach her hand out to the stove without ris- | ing. | In one corner of the kitchen is such ! a bed as you have never seen before. ! The stifly starched white muslin cur- | tains make it look like a blind window, but the grandson pulls the curtains | back, and in the recess formed by the | closet on one side and the corner of the room on the other you see the place where your hostess sleeps. There are a high feather bed and many cover- | ings. The stove is a brick one, set in a | deep old fireplace. The old mantel is | piled with brass vesseis, which the | old woman uses as though they were | common tin. On one side is a china | statue of the Virgin. On the other side | under a glass globe is a waxen statue | of Queen Wilhelmina in her wedding | gown.—New Idea Magazine. : las itisto fill the stomach with food and ' Largest Room In the House and Has a | oypeot to keep strong. Coal is converted | inso heat | tion. When the digestive and patritive | : system is deranged the food crowded into | the stomach is an injury to the body it ' should sastain. | wonld be saved if people would pay more | bill for | nervousness, sleeplessness or other ailments cansed by ‘‘stomach trouble,”” who could bave been cheaply and completely cured | hy a lew doses of Dr. Pierce's Golden Med- is round and stands not quite in the center of the room. but so that the | i ——Do you know that yon can get the | finest, oranges, havanas and grape fruit, | aud pine apples, Sechler & Co. | © =—Do you know we have the old style | sngar syraps, pure goods at 40 cents and | 60 cents per gallon, Sechler & Co. ——Do yon kuow we have the old style | engar syraps, pure goods at 40 cents and 60 cents per gallon, S-chier & Co. —— Do yon know where to get your garden seeds in packages or by measare Sechler & Co. | Castoria. CASTORIA FOR INFANTS and CHILDREN, Beas the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. ThejKind You Have Always Bought. In Use for Over 30 Years. CASTORIA The Centaur Company, New York City. 54-35 21m Flour and Feed. nS Beockeauwory Minis, Brrievonre Pa. Manufacturer, and wholesaler and retailers of ROLLER FLOUR, FEED, CORN MEAL, Ete. Also Dealer in Grain. Manufactures and has on hand at ail ig the following brands of high grade r WHITE STAR, OUR BEST. HIGH GRADE, VICTORY PATENT, FANCY PATENT—formerly Phes- nix Mills high grade brand. The only place in the county where SPRAY, an extraordinary fine grade of Spring whest Patent Flour ean be 0 ned, ALSO: INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD. FEED OF ALL KINDS, Whole or Manufactured, All kinds of Grain bought at office. Exchanges Flour for Wheat. OFFICE and STORE, - Bishop Street, lefonte, MILL . + = ROOPSBURG, 4719 Children Cry for | re | Fletcher's Castoria. It wounld be just a= seusible to fill your pockets with coal and expect to keep warm, only by combostion. Food is converted into strength only by diges- Many a severe illness attention to the warnings of the deranged stomach. Many a person pays a doctor's treatment for ‘“‘heart trouble,” ieal Discovery, the great remedy for diseas- i of the organs of digestion and nputri- tion. — Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Hood's Sarsaparilla. er pS — Attorneys-at-Law. Money to Loan. Gor BLOOD Means good health, and Hood's Sarsa- ri Ia has an upapproached record as a dood-purifier, Thi«< medicine cures scrofula, eczema, eruptions, eatarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervousness, that tired feeling, dyspepsia loss of appetite, genera! debility, and build= up the whole system. It effects its wonderful cures, not simply because it contains Sarsaparilia but be. cause it combines the utmost remedial values of more than 20 different ingre- dients. There is no real substitute for it. If urged to buy any preparation said to be “just as good" you may be sure jt ie in- ferior, costs less 10 make, and yields the dealer a larger profit. Get it toduy in the usual liquid form or in chocolated tablet form called Sar satabs. 100 Doses Ove Dollar, M35 Pennsylvania Railroad. PENNSYLVANI A RAILROAD PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS : TO —)NIAGARA FALL S( September 8, 22, and October 6, 1909 Round-Trip Rate $7.10 from Bellefonte. Tickets good goicg on train leaving 128 PP. M., connecting with SFECIAL TRAIN of Puliman Parlor Cars, Dining Car, and Day Coaches runnivg via the PICTURESQUE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ROUTE Tickets good returning on regular trains within FIFTEEN DAYS, includiog date of ex- cursion. Stop-off within limit allowed at Buffaio returning. ilustrated Booklet and full Information may be obtained from Ticket Agents, J. R. WOOD, PassengerTraffic Manager. 64-26-14t Colleges & Schools. GEO, W, BOYD, General Passenger Agent. F YOU WISH TO BECOME. A Chemist, An Engineer, An Electrician, A Scientific Farmer, in short, if you wish to secure a training that wiil THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE £ Teacher, A Lawyer, A Physician, A Journalist, fit you well for any honorable pursuit in life, OFFERS EXCEPTIONAL ADVANTAGES. TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES. TAKING EFFECT IN SEPT. 1000, the General Courses have heen extensivel nish a much more varied range of electives, after the Freshman ing History ; the Rogiish, French, German, 8 tures; Peyehology ; Ethics, Pedagogies, and sdapted to the wants of those who seek either the most thorough trmining for the Profession of Teaching, or a veneral Collere Education. I he courses in Chemist: test in the United YOUNG WOMEN are admitted to all courses on the modified, so as to fur- ear, than heretofore, includ- nish, Latin and Greek Languages and Liters olitical Science. These courses are especially , Civil, Electrieal, Mechanical and Mining Engineering are among the very tes, Graduates have no difficulty in securing and holding Boos fons. same terms aa Foung Men, FIRST SEMESTER bYeging Thursday, September 17th, 1908. For specimen examination papers or for catalogue giving full iniormation respecting courses of tudy, expenses, ete, and showing positions held by graduates, address Clothing. THE REGISTRAR, State College, Centre County. Pa. MEYER—Attorney-at-Law, Rooms 20 & 21, Crider's Exchange, Hellefonte, Pa 41 J.> * B. SPANGLER — Attorney-at-Law. Prac . tices in all the Courts. Consultation in English and German, Office in Crider's Ex. change, Bellefonte, Pa. 40.22 Law. Office, Garman House Block, efonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at. tended to promptly. H 8S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at . 1h 40-44 i | S KLINE WOODRING i . ! ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in all the courts. 51-1-1y Office Room 18 Crider's Exchange, | H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counselior at ie) es Law. Office No. 11, Crider's Exchange, | second floor. All kinds of legal business attend. . ed to promptly. Consultation in English or oar | man. i | i ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY—Attorneys-at i Law, le Block, Bellefonte, Pa. Suc i Practice in | censors to Orvis, r& Orvis. all | the courts, Consultation in English or German, i i | ¥ M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at-Law. Prac {e)e ticein all the courts, Consultation in giish and German. Office south of court house, All professional business will receive prompt attention. 49-5-1ye | Physicians. | 8. GLENN, M. D,, Physician and Sur . geon, State College, Centre county, Pa. ! Office at his residence. 35-4) { | ; R. J. E. WARD, D.D.S,, office next door to ! ¥. M. C. A. room, High street, Bellefonte, | Pa. Gas administered for painless extracting teeth, Superior Crown and Bridge work. Prices | reasonable, 52-32. R. H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, office in the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All modern electric Appliances used, Has had years | of experience. All work of superior quality and ! prices reasonable, 4581y Yeterinary. D® 8S. M. NISSLEY VETERINARY SURGEON, Office Palace Livery Stable, Bellefonte, Pa. 3:.20-1y* Graduate University of Pa. Patents, JPAIENTS, TRADE MAR COPY- rights, &c. Anyone sending a sketch and destriptivn may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable, Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing nts. 60 years experience. ttens taken hrongh Munn & Co. receive Special Notice, with- out charge in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, a bandsome fllustrated weekly. Largest ctreula Iation ol any scientific journal. Terms $3 a year; four months $1. Sold by all newsdealers, MUNN & CO,, 361 Broadway, New York. Branch Office, 625 F St, Washington, D. C. 5245-1y. Men's Furnishing Goods. ONEY TO LOAN on good secarity aud houses for rent. J. M.KEICHLINE 51-14-1y Att'v at Law, Meat Markets. ET THE BEST MEATS. You save nothing ny buying, poor, thin or gristly meats. ! use only the LARGEST, FATTEST, CATTLE, and supply my customers witn tne fresh: est, choicest, best blood and muscle mak + ing Steaks and Roasts, My prices are , 80 higher than poorer meats are ese where I always have wee DRESSED POULTRY ove Gune in sesson, and any kinds of geoe meats you want, Tay My Suor. P. L. BEEZER. High Street. Bellefonte a ——————————————— Travelers Guide 43-34-1y ENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNA. Condensed Time Table effective June 17, 1908 Heav vows Rav vr. _— Stations | al lid No il 5No3 No o\Ko 4 No 1. § a. m.'p.m. p.m. Lve, Ar. [p.m p. M.A, Ire +105 655 2 20 BELLEFONTE. | 9105 05 9 40 T7151 708) 2383 ...... oN eecuress sue ee 452/927 TT 11] 237 .......e Dussssses 118 51 447/19 21 721 718 2 46 .HECLA PARK | 845 4 4 $18 T | 247... Dun kles.. $43 438 913 733171 23) 2 51 ..Hublersburg... 18 39 4 34/19 09 737 728) 255 ..Soydertown.....| 836) 420 3 08 7 40/17 30| 2 58/.......Nittany........| 18 31! 4 27/19 03 7 42/7 33| 8 01........Huston....... 118.32 4 24/f0 00 T46 7 38] 308 ........ | RA lie 20' 4 21°18 87 7 48 {7 40] 8 08,.....Clintondale....' 8 26/ 4 18 {8 54 7 52| 7 #4] 3 13|-Kriders Siding. 822 414) 8 80 756/749 3 160. Mackey ville... 18 18 4 09(f8 48 8 02) 754 8 22/. Cedar Spring...| 8 12/ 4 03) 8 43 806 7 87 8 25.........80l0DA....... 1810 4018 41 810 802 330. MILLHALL.. 805 258 & 36 (N. ¥. Central & Hudson River R. £3 I .. 8 5s ne Jersey Shore... 3 Sl " 3 9 rr. + vel | fe 39] 11 30/Lve } WMe'PORT JAF S501 6 50 Phila. & Reading Ry.) 7 30{ 6 50}..cccocsense PHILAuwicsisenenns) {82¢ 11 30 10 o 9 00}.........NEW YORK.........| ® 20 | (Via Pnila.) | | p. m. a. m.lArr. Lve. a. m./p. m, tWeek Days WALLAY H. GEPHART, Ge- 1 Superintendent. J3FLLEFONTE CENTRAL RAIL. - ROAL. Senea' le to take effect Monday Jan, 6, 1908, wr v 1 [EASTWARD Ten. w 1} read up {No.5 tNo.3|" Sramons, |No.2i#No.4 ®, Jenene metic. NR LIER rou | AM lam Ly Ar am (rom nm, 2 ou} 17 15/6 30 ...Bellefonte..., 8 50, 12 50 ¢ 00 207 10206385 ..... Coleville......| 8 0 12 40 5 80 212 10 23.6 38 ...... ho 837 123TH M0 2 17, 10 27.6 43, .....Stevens “85 12355 | |..Lime Centre.. ! { 2 21 10 30 6 46 Hunter's Park, 12 31 5 40 22 10 34 6 50 ...,. Fillmore i 12285 38 2 32 10 40 ¢ 55 ...... Briarly...... 1224580 2 3) 10 45.7 00 ...... Waddles...... 12 205 9 2 50 10 57 7 12.....Rrumrine..... 12 07 5 07 3 0 7 25 .Oiate COlERe. CT | T27 Strubles | ® 30 17 81 ...Blormeago...... T 40 | 3 0| 1735 Pine wrove M'is 735 320 F. HH, THOMAS Bunt. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria. Hats and Caps. RE DER DEERE READY THIS WEEK ; ; : ) ; iN | ——) MANY OF THE (— ~NEW FALL STYLES You will like what you Men’s and Boys’ Clothing and Furnishings SEE HERE. We have Tried Hard to have our This Fall Stock include The Best, The Very Best the market affords. We believe we have succeeded. We would like to have you see them, we know you will be pleased. M. FAUBLE AND SON,
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