Dewar Watcha. "Bellefonte, Pa., Februsry 2, 1912. MAKING RAIN WITH ROCKETS Experiments Triad With Considerable 8Buccess on a Coffee Plantation in Southern India. Experiments made during cloudy weather produces rain- fall are described in a letter from James Stanes, “Some years ago,” he says, “an ex- periment was (ried in the Cuddapah district of southern India with con- siderable success. | am part owner of au estate in the Seramully hills, which is situated in a particularly dry zone. For several seasons poor coffee crops withered away from lack of rain during July and August. “When I was visiting the estate in July, 1905, I noticed that heavy clouds gathered every afternoon and thought that if we had been in a position to fire explosive rockets from the highest peak of the hills, about 4,500 feet, a shower of rain might have been produced. “I therefore arranged t© have a " supply of rockets kept on the estate and fired off every afternoon at the rate of one rocket every five minutes, but only when the condition of the atmosphere was such that heavy rain threatened on all sides. “Whether rain has fallen in re- sponse {0 these explosives or not the fact remains that ever since we first tried the experiment we have been fortunate enough to catch sufficient moisture to enable the crops to sur- vive the drought.” Firing into the clouds with the ob- Ject of causing rain was practiced for several years in southern Germany, Switzerland and France, but seems to have been abandoned some time ago. The idea was to protect the vineyards and other cultivations from damage By hailstones, it being thought that by the discharge of large guns rain would fail and that the danger from hailstorms would be averted. —London Daily Mail. "REAL MADAME “SANS-GENE” Story of Adventurous Career of Marie : Therese Pigueur in the French Army. Everyone knows the washerwoman who was so familiar with Napoleon in Victorien Sardou’s play, “Madame Sans-Gene,” but the real “Sans-Gene" | + who lived at that time was a dragoon - in one of the great Corsican’s armies and spent twenty years i® camps and barracks, in campaigns and battles over Europe. In the Musee de L'Ar ‘mee in Paris a special case has just been installed inside which stands her equestiian statue. Her real name was Marie JThergse Plgueur aad she was born in Dur gundy iu 1774. end of the reign of terror, she rolled in a cavalry » giment command: ed by one of her uncles and soon ac quired the nickname of “Sans-Gene.” Mme, Sans-Gene fought in Germany | with the French and Batavian armies, charged at Hohenl'nden, took part in the siege of Toul 1, was in the Ital fan, Spanish and Austrian campaigns and fought at Austeriitz and in Rus. sia. During the Hrndred Days the emperor conferred the Legion of Hon- or upon her and she charged at Wa- | terloo for the last time. With tlie Restoration she left the army to gel married. She was then thirty-nine. Iu the course of her mar- tial career Sans-Gene had five horses ghot under her and was wounded eight ¢lmes in different engagements. She died in hospital in 1861, Both Delighted. Two elderly gentlemen, both de- cently clothed in sober black, were sitting side by side in a Euclid ave- nue car, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Fach was reading a morn. ing paper. Suddeniy one of the men uttered an exciamation of pleasure and the other peered at him over his glasses, “1 see here,” evplained the first with a beaming f ce, “that Mr. B., who died last week, has left his en- ‘tire fortune to various charitable -enterprises. This will be a surprise to his many relatives. It is to me a glad surprise in my case, for I am the pastor of a churck to which he has left $10,000.” The gecond man looked at the arti cle and his face, #00, became wreath- ed in smiles. “God bless him!" he rxclaimed heartily. “All to charitable iastitutions in spite of his relatives! Ah, sir, I like to sce money left like - that. I do, indeed!” “Are you als® a «‘ergyman?” “No, sir, I am a lawyer.” - The Ghost Walked. The mistakes 8 a that one's trou- des end with desdii was set aside in tarwich v. Washia ton Cut Glass Com: any 21 Wash. Dec. No. 12 (Adv. heets), in whish the supreme court f Washington fir't announced that he defendant eor; ration “gave up ‘he ghost.” How it died is not fully . pparent, but having yielded its spirit (0 the one who made it, it still retain- #d its worldly cares, for in the next :antence the court said: “But that id not deliver it from the burden of s contracts.” Evidently, in this case, the ghost alked, being “Im torment” Who 1all hengeforth sa that corporations ave Bo souls ?-~Case and Comment, to. ascertain | whether the discharge of explosives When pineteen, at the | en 1 | DEEP MYSTERY OF THE LAW | Man Who Won't Support Family ls i imprisoned and Wife Really Pays Penalty. | Mysteries, far beyond the compre- | hension of the average mortal, are ! constantly revealed in the law and its i administration. The other day a { much-harassed woman appc red in a | Boston court and compiained to the | judge that her husband refused to support their two small children. She could get along without him, she said, but she demanded that he be com- pelled to go to work and help support his offspring. Her story was corrobo- rated by witnesses. So the judge found the man guilty _ and sentenced him to one year in the house of correction. Here was what seems on the sure face to be an easy problem. A huse ' band and father, either through disin- clination or through inability to find work, is brought into court on a | charge of non-support. In order to , relieve the situation, he is sent to the : house of correction, where he will be kept at work. That he is not able : to send his pay envelope home to his | family every Saturday night—because . there is no pay envelope in such cases—Iis, in the eye of the law, a - minor circumstance, The main thing | seems to be that the man has been : guilty of an offense and that he is | punished for it. He is punished, but {it is his wife and his two helpless | children who pay the penalty. The law may be ironical, but it has no sense of humor. “You have been | found guilty of not supporting your | children,” it says, “and therefore I will send you where you cannot sup- | port them.” ELECTRIC POWER FROM WIND Economical Lighting Plants Can Be Based on It, With Gasoline Motors to Help. There has never been a time whca the forces of nature were subjected to such searching scrutiny to deter- mine their availability for the devel. | opment of mechanical power as they | receive at present. This arises main. | Iy from the progressive use of elec- tricity. | Among other things it is believed , that the wind can be utilized to a far | greater extent than in the past, espe- cially for electrical tighting. With this , object in view the average state of | the wind has been investigated in Eng- | and. It is found that for approxi. { mately half the time the mean wind ! velocity is ten miles an hour, and for about one-third of the time fifteen | miles. In the winter the average is ; higher. The great difficulty arises {| from the calm periods, which may | last days, or even a week, but it has ' been shown that economieal-lighting ! plants can be based upon wind power . by providing gasoline motors to take . up the work whenever the wind fails, . Vanity. A real friendship with a vain wom. (an lacks comfort and sincerity. Wound for a second her vanity and | the friendship snaps. Many people wonder at the attraction of women who are undeniably plain, but it ! often has its root in the fact that | they are lacking in vanity. They are not constantly absorbed in their own charms, so have time tc admire those | of other people, consequently they | are seldom lacking in friends. Vanity is not altogether an attrfe | bute of the grown-up. One sees it | frequently developed to an alarming ! extent in young children. Nor is it a matter for amusement. Rather should every mother strive to uproot this tendency, Ridicule is one of the swift. est ways of extinguishing it, Children should be taught not to attach importance to whatever physi cal charms they may possess. Beau- tiful eyes, a lovely mouth or a de- lightful nose should not be subjects of comment, but if commented upon at all should be lightly done, for no child should be started in life with the handicap of vanity.—Exchange. Children and Firearms Again. Little Anna Quinn, fourteen years old, was instantly killed the other day at Lowell, Mass., by the explosion of a ma Borg, aged twelve years. The two children, with Sonia Borg, a sister of Thelma, and another play-fellow, were playing about the Borg ome when they discoverc® the revolver. After all had looke: at it, Anna playfully held it against the heart of Thelma Borg. “I'm going to ki" you,” she said, smilingly. The trige - was rulled, but the revolver failed explode. Once more the weapon w. examined by the children and then Thelma Borg took it and placed it close to the Quinn child’s hea Playfully she ex- claimel: “You killed me; now I'm go- ing to kill you.” She fired. This time the weapon exploded. Odd Sentences. “Break rock for 100 days or go to church every Sunday for six months,” wos the sentence imposed upon three Kansas City (Mo.) boys, after they had been convicted of throwing eggs at pedestrians. “1 sentence this boy to a whipping every morning for a month. Not the namby pamby kind, but good, real bard ones; ones that'll make him eat off a mantelpiece. You'll find then that he'll develop Into a good boy.” This was the remedy prescribed by mag- istefal wisdom in the case of an eight- year-old boy who, his mother said, #ad a mania for rmnning away from home. —-Case and C) mment. revolver held by her playmate, Thel- |. WORST PENMEN IN CONGRESS Sparkman of Florida and Adamson of Georgia Share That Honor Between Them. “I'll bet you a dinner for ten peo- ple,” said Representative Frank Clark of Florida one day last spring, ac- cording to the Popular Magazine, “that the worst penman in congress is Sparkman of my state.” “I'll take that bet,” replied Hard- wick of Georgia. “The man who writes the worst hand in the world is Adamson of my delegation.” Sparkman is chairman of the com- mittee on rivers and harbors and Adamson is the head of the commit- tee on interstate and foreign com- Her Anxiety. “Could you wait cn me before the others?” asked the woman in the drug store. “1 am in a great hurry.” The drug clerk complied and filled her preseription immediately. “Thank you so much,” ske said. “I am afraid that Fido will awake before I return and miss me.” » BRT BTV BTNT JV AV AY, merce. The two congressmen who had made the bet selected a commit- tee to pass on the handwriting in question, and then secured letters written by Sparkman and Adamson in their own penmanship. Those let- ters were something horrible to see, and the judges decided that the writ ing of both was so bad that the writ- ers, not the men who had made the bet, must pay for the dinner. While the banquet was in progress Adamson told this story: “Last winter a constituent of mine wrote to me and asked for a speci- men of my handwriting, explaining that he had heard it was the worst in the world, and that he was making a study of bad penmanship. I com- plied with the request. In a few days he returned my letter to me, with this note: “‘Fine! Am enthusiastic. Didn't know such handwriting was possible. Please send me a typewritten copy of the inclosed. I need a key to it.” EXERCISE ON THE DECLINE Medical Journal Says That Automo- biles and Motor Boats Are Mak- ing People Lazy. Anyone who takes an outing, par- ticularly at the seaside, can hardly fail to notice the revolution that has taken place during the last decade in the methods of enjoying a vacation, pays the New York Medical Journal. The automobile whizzes by on the roads and the motor boat sputters noisily within sight of the shore, each bearing its crowd of pleasure scekers, while even the swimmers are support- ed, a large proportion of them at least, by an artificial contrivance de- signed to keep them afloat without exertion. Rowing, walking and swimming are the three ideal exercises, all demand- ing the open air and all having defi- nite objects apart from their excellent effect on bodily health. But the mod- ern amusements, such as motoring and motor boat racing, have nothing to recommend them save that they too require outdoor space. rom Golf seems to be increasing the number of its devotees, even if the latter go to the links in high pow- ered cars. But the writer would like to see the immense audiences of base- ball and football games playing on numerous diamonds and gridirons of their own, and would welcome a regu- lation that prescribed a playground ten times its size to adjoin every new library. It is not only the rich who become lazy; the omnipresent trolley car embodies the favorite recreation of the poor ———— ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Hood's Sar saparilla. Terrible Suffering ECZEMA ALL OVER BABY'S BODY. . my baby was four months old his face broke out with eczema, and at sixteen months of . his face, hands and arms were in a dreadful state. The eczema spread all over his body. We had to put a mask or cloth over his face and tie up his hands. Finally we gave him 's Sarsaparilla and in a few months he was cured.” Mrs. Inez Lewis, Baring, e. Hood's Sarsaparilla relieves blood dis eases and builds up the whole system, ac- cording 10 the testimony of thousands of There is no real substitute for it. 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