— eS Ee Bellefonte, Pa., February, 24, 1911. FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. Here's to the tree and the cherries it bore; Here's to the hatchet that smote it full sore; Here's to the lad that was honest and true; Here's to his colors. the red, white, and blue; Here's to his sword with the laurel entwined; Here's to the hero in all hearts enshrined! g 3 i gs if i i E : 2 i 2 R gg ig ] 2 0: : i iI if HH zEg : i : : a g i assured var ighoud Soom | support I can give, for w! shilling left you shall have part.” GOOD TO HIS GUESTS. Thoughtfulness of his guests was a i 8 —_ ier striking tic in the make-up of Ww. An incident which illus- trates this comes down to us, as told by Elkanah Watson. Watson was visiting Washington at his Mount Vernon home, after his retirement from the Presidency. I was, he says, extremely oppressed by a severe cold and excessive coughing, con- tracted by the exposure of a harsh jour- a decision in his favor would “cause the most people the least trouble.” His argu- ment won the day. never new so constant an at- in church as Washi And is behavior in the house of God was reverential that it pro- effect on my congre- y ever with- have often been at Mount Vernon on Sabbath morning, when his breakfast table was filled wit guests. But to him they furnished no pretext for neglecting his God and losing the satisfaction of setting a good example, For instead of staying at home, out of false complaisance to them, be used con- stantly to invite them to accompany him. ughing : A Story of Starch. y Ss from | Starch keeps us “stiff” inside as well as posure. It |, Hall the food we eat, potatoes and n contains a large amount I TE Et ams A Jum amount beside him course, been of importance to man since with his own the earliest times. The other use of starch, at the hands of laundresses and careful housewives, began about three - hundred and sixty years , and is sud to my intellectual stature, | to have nated in re It came into jpopelarity in England in the of Elizabeth, whose courtiers and ladies wore ruffs of cambric too large to stand firm without artificial stiffening. The starch of the Elizabethans was like | that of modern times except that it was | colored, and it gave delicate tints to the | huge linen contrivances of the fashion. i 3331381 §8+2f 538 it 5 ; ik LE Epdd fh : 2 Ha E i g and fears. It Jes always nprested as a quaint pretty picture, that o A Tri end great rs a himself to the task of making the happ. abies of that day. wl ness, and charming the confidence, of a Before Elizabeth's time ruffs were not shy, frightened hing of cambric, but of fine Holland, which As to Mrs. Washington, the little guest Jucywired no stiffening, and was very cost- —as she said later—was so a ily. ed on this EH with oa Washing. | It is recorded that. when the Queen had ton, I paid very little attention to his ruffs made of lawn and cambric for her wife. She took small note of children, | OWn use, none of her friends could tell and the only recollection that comes to | how to starch them; but the Queen made me of her in this first interview is that ' Special call for some women who could she was handsome, of dignified - starch, and Mrs. Grilham, wife of an offi- and was dressed in a rich figured ilk cial of the royal household, was the first . Washi [rosse] tie to use some Ey but 1 declined doing so. As after retiring, my ng in- | . elapsed the door of my room was gently opened, | bowl of hot tea in his hand. i It is said that the Commander-in-Chief cellency and M of the Continental hich were | preparing to receive the British after the surrender of Yorktown—was heard to | ment the following words to a portion of : which army: your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzahing increase their morti- fication. It is sufficient satisfaction to us that we witness their humiliation. Pos- | Presidency: “The Dancing Assembly of | Philadelphia—May the members thereof, i ' and the Hix sex who Honor it with Shee A more particular follower of fashion Presence, long continue the en t 0 than George Washington would have been | abi amusement so Innocent and 30 ag hard to find. Most of his clothes were or- | Pie. terity will huzzah for us.” TRAITS OF WASHINGTON. dered from London, and no out-of-date rel would please him. He once told | a friend that *“we often have articles sent to us that could only have been used in " : | revolutionist. iy oes 0 PLL perfine blue cotton velvet as will make a coat, a waist-coat and breeches for a tall man, with a fine silk button to suit it; six pairs of the very neatest shoes, and | aPParently, and certainly with a deal of one dozen of the most fashionable cam- | bric pocket-handkerchiefs.” No one ever knew Washington to be be- hind-hand on any occasion. Punctuality, | which seemed a part of his very nature, he expected to see just as rigidly observed by his friends. When he invited le to dine with him at a certain hour he ex- pected them to be there. Very often one or two would appear when dinner was al- most half over, and to such he would sometimes say in his polite hg © Gen- tlemen, we are punctual here. y cook never asks whether the Company has ar- rived, but whether the hour Col. Humphreys, who has seen much of ! public life, was given full charge of all ar- ents connected with the reception of guests at the President's levees. ranged an ante-chamber and a presence- room. In the latter the guests assembled. Its doors were opened wide while Hum- phreys preceding the President, walked through the ante-chamber and, i the presence-room, announced in a | States. This rather embarrassed Wash- 3 : | lence and the tenderness of the scene. Eton, and later Die said to Humphreys. passed th the , you have taken me in once, but you shall never take me in a second time.” | SOrPs of light infantry and Virginia planter, twenty years her senior. and money in plenty were left her at his death. The two littl her second marriage—were always treat- ed with the greatest kindness and i eration their foster-father. In brought her so many | the steward and, in a rebuking tone, he suitors and so much favor, never deserted | said: Take it away, sir; take it her as she grew older. Washi doctrine that marriage is a failure. On the contrary, he wrote many years after ith Martha Custis: “I most interesting event of one's Hie. the | (0 the fact that he would spare himself his marriage with My brave fellows, let no sen- { all night—an elegant room; the sation of the satisfaction for the triumphs | nating, fireworks, etc., you have gained induce you to insult | pretty.” | a dancing assembly in Philadelphia a few a | take my leave, but shall be obliged to you In a letter to Madison, Jefferson says that 3 Col. Humphreys on one such occasion ar- | if €ach of you will come and take me by | dignified sensibiy ad) § sensibility; The President of the United | Jb la e children— | One consid- | curable was obtained as a pleasant her | prise. With much was not a believer in te broide pron d | starcher. witha sm Ss mn Sided 2 har i In 1564 a Flemish woman, Frau Van de her neck and shoulders. Pluses, came: jo Londons and gscablighed ANCI i there a sc to starching. FOND OF DANCING, | school succeeded, and the Frau of Flan. |. Dancing was a pastime of which Wash- , ders became rich. She charged a high | | ington was excondiigly fond. Gen. | price for each lesson, with an additional little dance at my | charge for a recipe for making starch out ! quarters a few evenings - His ex-| of wheat, flour, bran, and roots. rs. Greene upward | Among the nobility the favorite color was yellow—rather odd when we remem- | ber what the modern housekeeper thinks | | OF yetiow Slotkes; The Wir isgblonssle) 3 ad | fol preferred green. ropriately | illumi- | enough, our Puritan forebears used blue | were more than | starch, although many of them did not | ; approve starch at all. They classed it | among the idle trumperies of life. of three hours without once sitting down.” Knox describes “a most genteel entertain- given by myself and officers, at ashington danced. We danced This toast was given by Washington at An Intelligent Elephant. In India domesticated elephants are usually given drink from large wooden troughs filled with well-water by means | of a pump, and an elephant usually per- forms this operation. Every morning he | goes regularly to his task. I On one occasion, when one old fellow | was engaged in pumping such a trough full of water, it was noticed by a passer- by that one of the two tree-trunks that supported the trough at either end had ' led from its place, so that the trough | began to empty itself before it was full. | he elephant was closely watched to! see whether he would discover that some- thing was wrong. The animal showed signs of lexity, but, as the end near- | est him lacked much of being full, he! continued to pum Finally, seeing to pass out, he left the pump-handle and ! began to consider the phenomenon. He seemed to find it difficult to explain. Three times he returned to his pumping, days previous to his retirement from the | 1 agree- Many incidents showing Washington's | shrewdness have been recorded by vari- ! ous writers. A good example is an ex- i perience he had with Volney, a French Volney wrote to the Presi- : duction to the American people. Wash- ington had reasons for not wishing to | give it, and yet with the utmost courtesy, tact, he simply wrote back the words: C. Volney needs no recommendation G. Washington. WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO HIS SOL- DIERS. , from bl Fraunces's tavern, soon after | and three times he examined the which their beloved commander entered | Soon a lively of his ears indicated the room. His emotions were too the dawning of strong to be concealed. Juruing to them he said: With a heart full of love and grati- tude I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may going to put it in its place again. Bat it be as prosperous and ha; as r former ones have been and hon- Was not, 55 #00n Losathe ; SA Darel) t, She orable. I cannot come to each of you to Raising the trough, which he then al- OW Tere To ec oben al huge feet, he rolled away the second ‘braced him. In | manner he took leave of each In eye was the tear of ® yas uo to the pump and completed his task. ted to interrupt the majestic si- Leaving the room, he Ww , where a 5 5 g : i 8 re Anest shad respondingly high, the £238y Ww i away. It shall never be said that ie such an example of luxury and extrava- gance. A SHREWD CALCULATOR. Much of Washington's success was due ; a the concession have made an annual foundation of happiness or misery.” And ' "0 effort—whether he was doing an act Qetivery of 200.000 kilos per annum in Mrs. W. paactical and industri- °f s, or concerning himself in t for their previlege. ous, gen and trustful, seems to matters of importance to the nation. ber is the result of a disease. The have been well fitted to inspire this senti. | humorous Story ahustiat this very | first forest that exuded gum was a sick ment in her noble husband. When he | Sharacteristic, ati Site ane: | forest, rode away to war she wrote in her diary: ngton neighbor, : “Yes, | forsee consequences; dark days | Mr. Mason were both vestrymen of Po-| ——In a contest between two living and darker nights; social ts hick church, the members of which were | skeletons it is difficult for either to cast abandoned: yume planning to erect a new on a | the other in the shade. i jeopardy by war, perhaps; neighbors and different site. At a meeting to dis- —— i pany} variance, and eternal separa. CUSS the matter Mr. Mason favored the | ——They say every man has his price, | tion on earth possible. But my mind is old location, while Col. Washinglon just but isn’t it true that a good many men | made up. My heart ian "the cae. 38 Siongy ued new ne. The mat. | give themselves away? George is right—he is always right. | deliberat; When the 1 pd =o lived w AWED BY GREATNESS. some other | husband wasn't pitied by woman. - { which th ced and id them carefully together at Poa, a unique crea The Status of England's Qneen. It may be said that, by reason of curi- ' ous provisions of law prevailing in Great Britain, the Queen is, for private business purposes, not as a married wom- an at all, seeing that she is the only wom- an in the realm who does not come with- Property Act. The iple of this law may be stated sim thus: The King. as such, is entirely different from all 8 er married men. His time is too fully taken up with the affairs of state to per- ‘ mit him to devote any part of the remain- der to domestic matters. It follows, there- fore, that the whole management of the Queen's private business matters must de- volve upon Her Majesty herself, and that no responsibility whatever in respect to them rests upon the King. If, therefore, such a thing could be im- agined as Queen Mary contracting debts in her husband’s name, the King would not be responsible for them, as any other husband in Great Britain would be unless he had given due notice to all concerned that he would for the future decline to settle such accounts. The Ria may not be sued for the re- covery of the amount of money represent- ed by any indebtedness he may incur; but the Queen is accorded no such protec- tion under the British law. She has her own Attorney-General and Solicitor-Gen- eral to represent her in all her legal mat- ters, though: of course, pavept for ordi- nary private purposes their services are scarcely ever needed. Authorities have held that, while the Constitution is glad to recognize the Queen, the fact must not be lost sight of that, after all, her position is limited to that of Queen Consert, and that, there- fore, she is in a sense one of His Majes- ty’s subjects. In certain contingencies, remotely likely to arise in these times, she would be treated as a subject; but in other respects she is accorded privileges by the realm that are given to no other person save the King. In this relation particular mention may be made of the question of high treason. Now, it is generally understood that the King is the only personage against whom it is high treason to plot; but it would also be high treason to conspire inst Queen Mary. All consorts of British rul- ers have not enjoyed this privilege. When, for instance, Philip of Spain married the first Queen Mary, it was denied to him, though some time after the marriage a special act of Parliament was passed in which he was granted the concession. The signature “Georgius Rex” will te attached to all state documents of such importance as to demand it; but in no circumstances whatever would the cor- responding one, “Maria Regina,” be al. lowed to be affixed, either in conjunction with that of George or without it. Should | Mary survive the King, many cf the priv- ileges that she at present possesses will be withdrawn from her, only nominally | in some cases, but actually in others, : while constitutional law provides that some curious restrictions shall be placed upon her. It will no longer be high treas- on to plot against her, and it is held by, at least one high authority that she could not jany again without the special li- cense and permission of the King's suc- cessor. — | Fishing with Dogs. ey | The Ainus of Saghalin Island, off the! Sibenan coast, have a unique method of fishing for salmon-trout with i The waters about the island are won- | riveted, wired, and clamped to a some- horn? derfully clear, and from a boat the bot- | tom of the water is distinctly visible, and innumerable salmon-trout may be seen swimming. The Ainus, when about to fish, take with them a number of dogs. Ata cer- tain point all the men and dogs come to a halt. Then half the men and dogs move farther along the water's edge, | about two hundred yards. At a concerted signal the dogs are started from their respective points, and swim straight out seaward in single file in two columns. At a cry from the Ainus, the right column wheels left, and the left column wheels right, until the heads of the columns meet. Then, at another signal all of them swim in line toward the shore. As the dogs near the shore, increasing numbers of fish appear in the shallow water, frightened forward by the splash- ing of the advancing column of dogs, which, as soon as their feet touch bot- tom, pounce upon the fishes with light- ning rapidity. e animals promptly bring the fish have seized to their masters, who cut off their heads and give each dog the head which belongs to him as his share of the catch. The dog that catches nothing gets nothing. It is believed that this dog-drill of the Ainus is entirely unique. It is the more extraordinary, when it is considered that the many of which have been cap- tured the forest, are still half-wild. Cranes That Herd Sheep. The yakamik of South America is, so far as is known, the only “shepherd bird” anywhere. We have all known, of course, of dogs that, unaided, may be trusted to Shepherd a flock of sheep, but a shepherd i i iva te Chie to pas- ture, protect them from prowling animals, | to bring them safely home again, ture. The native owners of sheep and poul- try in Venezuela and British Guiana are the possessors of this shepherd bird, and back safely. Any unlucky animal detect- ed by the yakamik while prowling about to steal gets very much the worst of it. e bird savagely attacks the marauder th wing and beak, forcing it to retreat in haste. A dogs no match at all for At dusk the bird returns with its flock, never losing its way, no matter how far it may wander, for its sense of location is extremely acute. When it arrives home, the yakamik roosts upon a tree or shed near its charges, to be ready its supervision of them when they are let out in the A queer bird is to be as affec- as it is trustworthy. It will follow its master about with capers of delight, showing its appreciation of any attention | given it by the most extraordinary evolu. | g ~The trouble with most of us is that we never put off till tomorrow the trou- ble we can borrow today. i ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. for | can enjoy life to the full, eat heartily, | cure is being established. The “Pellets” A Safe Explosive. A new osive has been discovered in Berlin which is set off only by a special detonator. The inventor was led to the discovery by the fact that certain very powerful explosives can be exploded only by the application of a certain degree of Sica) lore. the elements of this ex- plosive 8! at reciprocal pow- ad that ordinary oh does not permit r required to break them down. But there are other chemical compounds whos in- gredients have so little affluvity that they can be separated without difficuity. Nitrate of ammonium is of the latter class; and when suddenly placed in con- tact with a source of ignition its acid and ammonia gas elements explode and while | exploding the nd poses, Ammonal, the explosive obtained by knowledge of the properties of nitrate of ammonium, is excessively powerful and absolutely smokeless, and the products of its combustion are harmless. This explosive is produced by mixing aluminun: in powder with nitrate of am- monium. | The strength of the explosive can be increased by varying the proportions of | the elements, and thus rendering them equivalent either to the most active nitro- glycerine or to the most harmless gun- wder, so that ammonal is good for use in mines for blasting, extracting coal or slate, and in places where the work to be done requires a slowly progressive ex- plosive. It is of excellent service when something requiring great precaution and care is to be extracted, such When the pulverized aluminum in am- monal takes fire it scizes the oxygen of the nitrate of ammonium and the gases force the explosicn. One of several advantages of ammonal is that the men who work with it are absolutely safe. It cannot go off without the agency of its detonator. It is harm- less when not exploded. No precautions are needed either in its use or in storing it. In storage it resists all the changes in temperature as long as it is kept in a dry place. All sorts of experiments have been made in testing it. A three-pound pack- age of it was thrown in the fire; the en- velope burned, but there was no explo- sion. A package of one-pound weight was put on a hard rock and pounded |. Toate given six with a hammer. The result was what it would have been bad the ammonal been been sawdust. Another package was placed at the end of a pistol. and the pistol was fired without affecting’ the eqplosive. Thus it was shown that ammonal can- not be exploded except by the touch of its own detonator. Washington's Artificial Teeth. It may not be generally known that the | Americans to wear artificial teeth. By | the time the War of the Revolution had | i ended he had parted company with most | of the outfit which nature had given him. | An ingenious physician and dentist of | New York City undertook the then un- | usual task of re-equipment, and produced | at length a full set of artificial teeth. These are now, of course, a dental curios- | ity, and offer an additional proof of the heroism of our first President, for it is a | matter of fact that General Washi n | wore those teeth for many years and, so far as we know, never complained of | them. i The teeth were carved from ivory, and what ponderous gold plate. Three large | | clamps, in particular, figure conspicuous- ily in the roof of the mouth, and must have caused difficulty, if not anguish. There were an upper and an under set; | and the two were connected and held in position relatively by a long spiral spring on each side. Nevertheless, Washington wore them | long and well; a fact sufficiently attested | by the worn and dinted condition of both ! teeth and plate. At the last account these teeth were! the property of a dental institution in | Baltimore. i The Spelling Habit. The art of spelling words correctly is | of comparatively recent ute. Time was when men and wouen did not care. but wrote ahead without regard to strict orthography. Madame de Sevigne, for instance, never learned the proper way to While it was remarked by Madame de Maintenon that at the col- lege of St.-Cyr much precious time was wasted in learning how to spell. E It Semaine Sowever, for the Empress ugenie, at piegne, to put to a practical test the spelling standard which obtained even among the highest literary authorities. Thus, under pretext of a theme proposed to them for an ex- amination, a number of French Academi- cians took down from dictation a compo- sition by Prosper Merimee. Not one “immortal” wrote without mistake. | As to the Empress, she could not un- | so many faults being made, un- | til it was conveyed to her that she her- | self, from the same dictation, was Fespon- sible for no less ha ninety: "Lk - peror again made sixty. It is but r to S04 noveever, Shiak the dictation aS co: i y with a view to focussi the difficulties not only of spelling, . grammar. Nature's Object Lesson. In almost every community will be found some one woman who is a splendid example of ect health. She knows nothing of di which afflict most women. Motherhood to her is pure j with scarce 4 pain-pang to mar it. dhe sleep soundly and throw her whole energy into work or play as it may happen. That woman is Nature's lesson. She has no privilege above any other member of her sex. No rights that do not belong to ecery woman. This fact has been proven in thousands of cases in which women have been lifted from misery up to the high level of robust health by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The possibilities .of perfect health inhere in every woman. Its development is ob- structed by local disease. “Favorite Prescription” removes the on and makes weak women strong and sick women well. In the use of ordinary pills the dose must be increased the longer the pil fs used. That means the pill habit is being established. In the use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets the dose is diminished instead of increased. That means that a are an aid to Nature, and when the nat- ural functions are re-established the “Pellets” having done their work can be | bread, dispensed with. They are invaluable for the cure of constipation and its myriad consequences. ration and violent means are Bj as gold. | ; nearly any dealer. This can be | the old familiar game of “hide i ble” in which the hunter is ; hidden hatchet by being to . is “hot or cold,” or by di . FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT. ——— It is a great service to create an honest smile as we meet one another in this heavy-laden world =The Rev. Dinsdale T, Young. An amusing feature for a Washi 's rthday entertainment, says What-to Eat, is to have a story teller, costumed to represent George Washington, to tell as many improbable yarns as possible. The fun of the game, of course, is founded on the proposition that Washington could not tell a lie. The storyteller should , look very serious when relating his yarns and the more absurd stories, the greater the ainusement. Another appropriate en- tertainment of the same nature is to have a story-telling contest, each guest exert- | ing himself to tell the most improbable ! of three or ote persons decides upon the Either the hostess or a committee stories and awa est Manchausen. Cherry Tree Contest.—A cherry tree contest affords much amusement. The hostess should secure a bough of a green om the branches 9 Which she sus- means of green several dozen candied or imitation cherries. Each is blindfolded in succession, tu around three times, handed a Jie of scissors and told to clip as many - ries as he can. Each is allowed two or Tee nutes in which to do the clipping. yer is supposed to clip into space, wherever he thinks the cherries are, and must not feel for the tree or endeavor to the prize to the great- ' touch it with his hands. The person cli ping the greatest number of cherries in the time allowed is awarded a box filled with crystallized fruit. Burying the hatchet is a feature no less entertaining. Procure a hatchet-shaped candy box, which can be bought from as thim- ided to the whether he viding the com- pany into equal sections which compete ' with each other in a hatchet-hunting con- test. One section adjourns into a hall or i neighboring room, while the other hides the hatchet. ‘the first section then re- esses in which to locate the hatchet. If the correct loca- tion is named, the guessing side wins a poiat, if not, the other side scores. The iding party next adjourns to the hall and . becomes the guessers. And thus the alter- nation continues several times, and the side with the greatest number of correct , guesses to its credit wins the prize. Those ‘on the winning side often are allowed to engage in an individual contest of card cutting or drawing straws or some such simple lot game, to see which one shall Father of hisCountry was one of the first | finally possess the hatchet filled with can- _ Question Contest.—Any short Wash- ington Birthday entertainment might be combined with a historical contest, the questions all pertaining to incidents in the life of Washington. Here is an appropri- ate list of questions with the correct an- swers: Question 1. What was the profession of Washington's father? Answer. Plant- er. Q. 2 Did George Washington attend o. any college? A. Q 3 “What was the maiden name of his mother? A. Mary Ball. Q. 4. In what year was Washington A. 1732, In what State? A. Virginia. Who sent him on his famous journey through the wilderness? A. Gov- ernor Dinwiddie. Q. 7. What nobleman was his early patron? A. Lord Fairfax. Q. 8. What position did he hold under Braddock? A. Aide de camp. Q. 9. Whom did he marry? A. Mrs. Martha Custis. Q. 10. How did he act when compli- mented first on his military service? A. Blushed, stammered and could not speak. Q. 11. What year was he made conti- nental commander-in-chief? A. 1775. Q. 12. Where did he spend the winter of 1777? A. Valley Forge. aE When was he elected President? Q. 14. How long did he hold the Presi- dency? A. Two terms of four years or Did he leave children at death? 0. Q. 16. Where did he die? A. At Mount Vernon. Q. 17. Did he hold slaves? A. Yes. an Did he approve of slavery? 0. Q. 19. What became of his slaves after their master’s death? A. They were set ree. Q. 20. whom was he called “first in war, first in peace,” etc?. A. By the House of Representatives. Q. 5. Q. 6. Two girls last gave such a jolly Washington's y entertainment that others may like to copy it. They sent out invitations to a Colonial Sigtinety ove A square of heavy water. color paper, just enough p into a large envelope, for a crest a small gilt hatchet surrounded by a border of cherries. Beneath it was the date 1732. 3508 is hiao and gilt. Thelivitationwes tten as for an ordinary party, but was kept in an oblong space that left an inch and a half border of white paper. Quite conceal the invitation form trees to form a nook for the music, a band of three pieces. Tied around the lower half of tree the trunks were great gilt hatchets made of pasteboard. The refreshiinis juiso were pe great 0 and steam Bot in several French drinks, while lamon ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
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