Bellefonte, Pa., April 3, 1914.
MEXICAN POTTERY.
Skilled
Primitive Methods of the
Workmen of Durango.
Practically all the pottery used in
the Durango section of Mexico, from
the tiniest teacup to the largest flower-
pot, is fashioned by hand from Duran-
go clay. There are about twenty such
factories in the city, employing from
five to fifty men each. The clay used
in this industry is obtained from the
base of Durango’s famous Iron Moun-
tain, one mile north of the city.
The vessels are all fashioned by hand
and foot power. The only instrument
used is a large wooden wheel, through
the axis of which passes a pole about
three feet in length, terminating at
the other extremity in a small wooden
wheel set parallel to the big wheel.
The operator sits so that he may turn
the large wheel (set horizontally near
the floor so that it will move freely)
with his foot, which in turn causes
the little wheel above, on a level with
* his chest, to revolve very rapidly. A ,
convenient sized lump of the clay
dough is placed upon this little wheel,
and as the mass revolves by the im-
pulse of the laborer’s foot, he hollows
out and fashions the vessel.
The skill and dexterity of these work-
men is little short of remarkable. !
With only the eye to guide, he fash-'
jons with astonishing rapidity vessels
which do not differ one from the other
in either size or shape. A single la- |
borer is able to complete about thirty- |
gix dozen jars of nearly a quart ca-
pacity in a day.—Argonaut.
LIGHT AND THE EYES. |
Glaring or Dazzling Effects May Re-
sult In Permanent Injury.
In a paper read before the Interna-
tional Exposition of Safety and Sanita-
tion in New York city G. H. Stickney
called attention to the fact that the
most common defect in lighting is ex-
cessive glare and absence of diffusion.
Glare may emanate directly from the |
light source or be reflected to the eye !
by a glossy surface; it can also be
caused wherever excessive contrast of
intensity appears in adjacent fields of
vision. The dazzling effect is unpleas- !
ant and interferes with seeing. Under
continued exposure eye strain and
even permanent injury to the eye may |
result. : |
An unshielded light hung over a ma-
chine is a common source of eye fa- |
tigue. The glare may not be so evi- |
dent on first glance, but when the
workman's eyes have been subjected |
to such light for a long time discom- |
fort and inability to see result.
Glare from glazed paper, desk tops
or polished metal often induces eye,
trouble, headache and other indisposi-
tion, though the sufferers may not be
aware of the cause. The remedy is to :
change the relative positions so that
the reflected light is kept out of the!
eyes as much as possible and to en-|
large the dimensions of the light source.
—Engineering Record. .
Popular Judgment of Genius. i
Fabre’s first entomological work gain- |
ed the honors of the Institute of France
and a prize for experimental physiol- |
ogy. His extraordinary absorption in
his entomological pursuits was a source
of perplexity to those among whom he
dwelt. One morning he was passed by
three women vintagers on their way
to work. When they passed him again
at sunset he was still seated on the
same stone, with his eyes fixed on the
same spot, whereupon he saw one of
them tap her forehead as she whisper-
ed, “A poor innocent.” But more than
one country guard suspected that he
was up to no good in his mysterious
wanderings about the countryside.
However, the sight of the little dark
ribbon of the Legion of Honor, with
which he had been decorated by the.
French government, was generally
sufficient to allay suspicion.—Westmin- |
ster Gazette.
Hail to the Chief!
Jones had not wanted to go to the
gregarious feast where the speeches
strung out endlessly. Circumstances
obliged him .to stay. The speeches
were strung out partly because the
chief and dullest orator was not ex-
pected until late. Finally he came,
and there was a rush of committeemen
to escort him to his place.
“Hello!” exclaimed Jones’ compan-
jon, “what is that they are making
such a pother about?”
“We still follow,” answered Jones
sourly, “the ancient custom of bringing
in the bore’s head.”—New York Post.
A Vaishnava Love Lyric.
In one of our Vaishnava lyrics the
lover says to his beloved: “I feel as if
I have gazed upon the beauty of thy
face from my birth, yet my eyes are
hungry still; as if I have kept thee
pressed to my heart for millions of
years, yet my heart is not satisfied.”—
Rabindranath Tagore.
Look Pleasant, Please.
/ “How did you manage to quiet that
ugly, howling mob so quickly ?”
“Got a camera man on the scene,”
answered the resourceful police cap-
tain. “Then every man of them perk:
ed up and tried to look handsome.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Some Heat Left.
First Married Man—Is there ever an
occasion when everything at your din-
ner table is stone cold? Second Mar-
ried Man—No, not everything. We al-
ways manage to have a heated argu-
ment.—Judge.
~ " Ever Eat It?
There is a dish of the olden time that
has been crowded almost out of mem-
| ory by the ruthless tide of common
| events. It was a cold weather food
| that came with the snow and hog kill-
| ing time and then vanished with the
| angry clouds and howling winds.
When one ate it the green grass melt-
ed away the snow, the birds sang in
the blossoming cherry trees and old
frigid winter became the middle of
May. It was so easy to eat. It melted
in the mouth like ice cream, it was so
soft and delicate. Let a person fully
satisfy his appetite on it. and he could
go out in zero weather and enjoy a
tropical blessing. This food did not
last long, for it was part of a1 event
that soon hurried by, and this was a
grateful dispensation, too, for a person
would be apt to eat too much of it if it
lasted long. But it is well it passed
away. This degenerate generation,
filled with caramels and angels’ food,
couldn’t appreciate it. But in those
beautiful days before the war it was a
beloved diet We refer to hogshead
cheese.—Ohio State Journal.
Moods of the Bay of Fundy.
The bay of Fundy is full of strange
and contradictory features. Grand
| Manan island, which lies to the port
hand of a vessel entering the bay, is
one rocky graveyard—on the reef to
the southeast an impaled ship is a com- |
mon sight. Every indentation. nay.
every rocky cranny. bears some ter-
rible and suggestive name descriptive
of some maritime tragedy. On the
island, twelve miles in length and
scarcely inhabited. is a graveyard
| filled with the bodies of unknown
sailors. A little above Trinity rock the
coast of Nova Scotia rises in rocky
parapets from the sea and a narrow
\ inlet admits to the Annapolis valley
where. strange to say. the eye rests on
a fertile valley of apple orchards
which raise the highest priced fruit
in the world. In this sheltered space
is a climate which, owing partly to
the gulf stream and partly to position,
differs altogether from the arctic cold
of the stormy sea without.—Westmin-
ster Gazette.
Cold and Colds.
“Without having gone anywhere near
either pole.” writes a correspondent of
the London Chronicle, “1 have had my
experience or the fact that intense cold
outside stops the cold in the bead.
We were six men essaying the ascent
of the Grand Combin in the Alps (over
14.000 feet). From our first attempt
we were driven back by a thunder-
storm. and a stay of some hours to dry
in the hut with the stove going woke
up all the microbes. When we return-
ed to the hut next day from the valley
there were at least four severe colds
among us, with sneezing and sore
throats. On the third morning we trav-
ersed our peak, slowly cutting snow
and ice steps in weather memorably
bitter even for that height. On the
other side it suddenly occurred to me
that I had no ‘cold’ left, and the others
made the same discovery.”
Not on the Play Bill.
Miss Mary Moran, the English ac-
tress, tells of an incident that occurred
| when she was playing Belle, the wick:
ed lady in R. C. Carton’s play, “The
Tree of Knowledge,” to a holiday au-
dience. At the end of the fourth act
Belle leaves her husband and goes
away with the villain of the piece. In
. a moment of remorse she bends over
her sleeping husband, kisses him and,
taking from her neck his mother’s
chain, she places it beside him, re
marking as she exits: “The best and
the worst of us are fools.” On this par-
ticular occasion the clasp of the chain
refused to unclasp. Twice she tried to
remove it, when a voice from the gal-
lery exclaimed: “Keep it, Belle. You'll
want something to pawn if you're go-
ing to skip out with that other bloke!”
Prosperity Is Communistic.
A man cannot prosper in any honest
business without benefiting the com-
munity as well as himself, for he can-
not induce men to deal with him with-
out offering them an advantage; and,
taking all the transactions of life to-
‘gether, the advantages which men offer
to others must. on the whole, be equal |
to those which they receive themselves.
Doing business, therefore, is a very ef-
fectual and extended mode of doing
good, and the fortune which is ac-
quired in doing it is, in a very impor-
tant sense, the measure and index of
the good done.—Jacob Abbott.
Out of Harm’s Way.
“And you say you never attend wed-
dings any more?” asked the sweet
young thing.
“No, I do not,” replied the bachelor.
“And why not, pray?’
“Why, don’t you see what's happen-
ing every day to innocent bystanders?”
—Yonkers Statesman.
Testing a Man.
An epigram of Myrtle Reed's seems
to have made a hit with New York
women. In “Threads of Gray and
Gold” she writes: :
“The only way to test a map is to
marry him. If you live, it's a mush-
room. If you die, it’s a toadstool.”
Sarcastic.
“I try to mind my own business,”
paid Mrs. Slothington.
“I never saw any one.” replied Miss
Cayenne, “who endured failure with
greater fortitude.” — Washington Star.
Life's i.ittle Sorrows.
“Rich women have no real joys.”
“No; the stores never have a clear-
ance sale of diamond necklaces.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal,
A young man idle, an old man needy.
=Italian Proverb.
4 A Pen Picture of Lincoln.
And now Abraham Lincoln rose from
his seat, stretched his long, bony limbs
upward as if to get them into working
order, and stood like some solitary pine
on a lonely summit, very tall, very
dark, very gaunt and very rugged, his
swarthy features stamped with a sad
serenity, and the instant he began to
speak the ungainly mouth lost its
heaviness, the half listless eyes attain-
ed wondrous power, and the people
stood bewildered and breathless under
the natural magic of the strangest,
most original personality known to the
English speaking world since Robert
Burns.
There were other very tall and dark
men in the heterogeneous assembly,
but not one who resembled the speak-
er. Every movement of his long, mus-
cular frame denoted inflexible earnest-
ness, and a something issued forth,
elemental and mystical, that told what
the man had been, what he was and
what he would do in the future.—
From “The Valley of Shadows,” by
Francis Grierson.
Measuring Light Speed.
Even in this speed mad age we can
never hope to equal the speed of light,
which the scientists tell us is 186,000
miles a second. If light could not ac-
tually be measured no one would be-
lieve it.
There is a delicate instrument used
in measuring light which throws a
beam of light upon a revolving disk.
There was some doubt about the fig-
ures obtained in this way until it
was found that when the earth was in
the part of its orbit nearest to Jupiter
eclipses took place sixteen minutes
earlier than when it was in the far-
thermost part, whereas by ail rules
of astronomy they should have taken
place at the same minute each time.
It is deduced from this that the light
was not instantaneous and consequent-
ly took sixteen ‘minutes to traverse the
diameter of the earth's orbit, a dis-
tance of about 200,000,000 miles, thus
giving to light a velocity of 186,000
miles a second, which was accurately
shown later by other experiments.—
Exchange.
‘The Taste For Salt.
Concerning the African craving for
salt, Livingstone gives interesting tes-
timony. Only the rich among Bak-
wanis could afford to buy it. and the
poor suffered from indigestion for lack
of it. Native doctors accordingly made
galt a usual ingredient of their medi-
cine, and Livingstone successfully gave,
sufferers teaspoonfuls of neat salt.
But now comes a notable point. “Ei-
ther milk or meat had the same effect,
, though not so rapidly, as salt. Long
afterward, when I was myself depriv-
' ed of salt for four months at two dis-
tinct periods, I felt no desire for that
condiment, but I was plagued by very
great longing for the above articles of
food. This continued as long as I was
confined to an exclusively vegetable
diet, and when I procured a meal of
flesh, though boiled in perfectly fresh
rain water, it tasted as pleasantly salt-
ish as if slightly impregnated with that
condiment.”—London Standard.
Scar of Art Theft.
There is a picture at Hampton court
which bears witness to a theft that
may be termed patriotic. This is Hol-
bein’s “Field of the Cloth of Gold,”
which after the downfall of Charles I.
Cromwell proposed to sell. But when
the would be purchaser came to in-
spect it he discovered that the head of
Henry VIII. had been cut from the
canvas, He refused to buy the pie-
ture, and it was preserved to the na-
| ton. At the restoration a nobleman
: confessed to having committed the
crime for “love of art and country.”
He returned the missing head, which
now occupies its original position, the
circle made by the knife in the canvas
being still plainly visible. — London
Chronicle.
A Regiment of Wrestlers.
Captain Holmes, a famous athlete in
the Indian army, raised one of the
finest regiments in the British service
by the sporting method of challeng-
ing all and sundry to wrestle. Those
worsted were to enlist, and in a short
| time the gallant captain was able tu
show a collection of wrestling prizes
| that were a credit alike to himself and
the army.—London Opinion.
Durability of Radium.
Radium once extracted from the ores
becomes available for continued use
without appreciable loss and becomes
a permanent addition to the needed
supply. The same radium that is
placed at humanity’s service today may
be used by our children for many gen-
erations.
One.
“There never was a woman who did
not gab about her neighbors,” growled
Mr. Gabb. .
“Oh, yes, there was!” replied Mrs.
Gabb. :
“That’s right,” commented Mr. Gabb.
“I forgot about Eve.”—C Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Tangible Asset.
“] believe I'll promote a transporta-
tion company.”
“Land or water?”
“The latter, I think. For the former
I'd need rails and right of way, but in
a water proposition I'll have an ocean
to start with.”—Exchange.
In Doubt.
“Is that boy of yours learning to play
the piano?”
“I hope he is, but from the way 1t
Sounds I don’t think so.”—Washington
tar. : as
We are very fond of reading others’
characters, but we do not like to be
‘read ourselves.—Rochefoucauld.
| Don’t Wait.
; Don’t wait if you are showing symp-
' toms of “lung trouble,” but get a bottle
_of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
| and begin its use. Where there is weak-
ness, obstinate cough, or spitting of blood
its remedial action is marvelous. Mr.
Cornelius McCawley, of Leechburg, Arm-
strong county, Pa,
' pints of blood at one time” to quote from
| his letter. He was perfectly cured by
the use of “Golden Medical Discovery.”
When there is constipation the action of
the “Discovery” is assisted by the use of
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets.
Russian Ranks and Classes.
[ There is no upper middle class in
Russia; a family is either of the peas-
antry—although this term has now a
very wide inclusion—or of the aris-
tocracy. And at court no one has
precedence according to inherited
rank, only according to official po-
sition in the government.
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Tone Up the Blood!
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA, A SPRING TONIC- |
MEDICINE, IS NECESSARY
Everybody is troubled at this season
with loss of vitality, failure of appetite,
that tired feeling, or with bilious turns,
dull headaches, indigestion and other
stomach troubles, or with pimples and
other eruptions onthe face and body. The
reason is that the blood is impure and im-
poverished.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla relieves all these
ailments. Ask your druggist for this
medicine and get it today. It is the old
“had eighty-one |
“hemorrhages, sometimes spitting five:
Attorneys-at-Law.
Coal and Wood.
X «1E
A. G. Morris, Jr.
DEALER IN HIGH GRADE
ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS
AND CANNEL
COAL!
: Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw
and Sand.
ALSO
FEDERAL
STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD
BOTH ‘PHONES.
P.R.R. Depot.
58-23-1v
Monev to Loan.
KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law, Belle
fonte, Pa. Practicesin all courts Office-
Room 18 Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y.
B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices
in all the Courts. Consultation in English
or German. Office in Crider’s Exciiatige,
Bellefonte, Pa.
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at
Law. Office in Temple Court,
fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at-
tended to promotly. 40-46
H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Office No. 11, Crider’s Exchange, second
floor. All kinds of legal business attended
to promptly. Consultation in English or Germ
M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. Practices
in all the courts. Consultation in English
and German. _ Office south of court house.
All professional business will receive prompt at-
tention. 49-5-1y*
KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law,
Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given al
legal business entrusted to his care. Offi-
ces—No. 5 East High street. 57-44.
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul-
tation in English and German. Office
in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5
Physicians.
S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and S
State College, Centre county, Pa. "Bifice
at his residence. 3541
a ER SR ES SR
Dentists.
R. J. E. WARD, D. D. S,, office next door to
Y. M. C. A. room, High street, Bellefonte,
: Pa. Gas administered for painless extract.
ing teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work. Prices
reasonable.
D¥
H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, Office in
the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All mod-
ern electric a liances used. Has had
years of experience. work of Superior quality
and prices reasonable. 45-8-1y
CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
Manufactures and has on hand at all times the
following brands of high grade flour:
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
The only place in the county where that extraor-
dinarily fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour
SPRAY
can be secured. Also International Stock Food
and feed of all kinds.
All kinds of Grain bought at the offi
exchanged for wheat. RERt at theofice. Flowr
Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where
Meals are Served at All Hours
Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell or in any style desired, Sand-
wiches, Soups, and anything eatable, can
be had in a few minutes any time. In ad-
dition I have a complete plant prepared to
furnish Soft Dri in bottles such as
POPS,
SODAS,
SARSAPARILLA,
SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.,
for pic-nics, families and the public gener-
ally all of which are manufactured out of
the purest syrups and properly carbonated.
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
a
Meat Market.
(Get the Best Meats.
50-32-1y.
cm
You save Tothing by buying poor, thin
or gristly meats. [use only the
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, blood and muscle mak-
ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere.
I always have
— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET, EY MY.SHOR
BELLEFONTE. PA. P. L. BEEZER,
4719 MILL AT ROOPBSURG. High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
Groceries. Groceries.
Fruits, Confectionery and
FINE GROCERIES.
White Almedia Grapes, Florida
and Naval Oranges, Lemons, Ba-
nanas, all in good order and free
of frost.
Large Spanish and home-grown
Onions, sound and in good order.
Fine Popping Corn, on the ear
or shelled; this goods will pop.
We have revised the prices
downward on our Beans; come in
and see the fine stock and present
prices.
If you want a fine, sweet, juicy
Ham, let us supply you.
The Finest Meadow Gold Brand
Creamery Butter at 40c per pound.
Sweet, Dill and Sour Pickles; our
Olives by the quart are very fine.
Fine weather yet for using Mince
Meat. Nothing else will compare
with what we make at 15c a pound.
SOME SEASONABLE GOODS.
Spinach 10 and 15c a can; Rheu-
barb, Jersey packed, sanitary cans,
10c a can; Pumpkin 10 and 15c a
can; all large No. 3 cans.
Fine Golden New Orleans Mo-
lasses, by the quart or gallon.
We have some fine Marketing
and Clothes Baskets ready for the
spring trade.
We are still handling the fine .
German Kraut. In order to meet
the demand for small quantity, we
have some packed in half-gallon
Mason Jars at 25c a jar.
Bush House Block, =.
LIME
RT
AND LIMESTONE.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
57.1. = -. »
Bellefonte, Pa.
LIME.
Lime and Limestone for all purposes.
H-O Lime Put up in 40 to 50 Pound Paper Bags.
LIME.
for use with drills or spreader, is the econom-
2 ical form most careful farmers are using.
High Calcium Central Pennsylvania Lime
American Lime & Stone Company.,
& © Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown snd Spring Meadows, Pa ;
General Office: TYRONE, PA.
reliable medicine that has stood the test Plumbing.
for forty years,—that makes pure, rich
blood—that strengthens every organ and ONEY TO LOAN on good security and
builds up the whole system. It isthe all- houses to rent. G d H 1th
the-year-round blood-purifier and health- J. M. KEICHLINE, 00 ca
giver. Nothing else actslike it, for noth- Attorney-at-Law,
ing else is like it; so be sure to get 51-14-1y. Bellefonte Pa. and :
s. : 59-14 Good Plumbing
Restaurant.
GO TOGETHER.
Flour and Feed. ESTAURANT.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-fixtures, foul sewe , Or escal
gas. you can’t have good Health. The air you
reathe is poisonous; your system mes
poisoned.and invalidism is sure to come.
SANITARY PLUMBING
is the kind we do. It’s the only kind you
ought to have. Wedon’t trust this work to
boys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics,
no better anywhere. Our
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire
establishment. And with good work and the
finest material, our
Prices are lower
than many who give you poor, unsanitary
work and the lowest grade of firishings. For
the Best Work try
Archibald Allison,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
56-14-1v.
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
This Agengy represents the largest Fire
Insurance Companies in the World.
—— NO ASSESSMENTS —
Do not fail to give us a call before insuring your
Life or Property as we are in position to write
large lines at any time.
Office in Crider’s Stone Building,
43-18-1y. BELLEFONTE. PA.
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
week, total disability,
Der Josh oka) Ginenity
10 disability,
week, partial
Pinot 26 weeks)
PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR,
pavable quarterly if desired.
Larger or smaller amounts in proportion.
Any person, male or femal aged
male or female engaged in 2
Fire Insurance
{ invite your attention to my Fire Insur-.
ance , the strongest and Most Ex
tensive of Solid Companies represent
ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvania
H. E. FENLON,
50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.
Fine Job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
o—A SPECIALTY—0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
iat
BOOK WORK,
at we can not do in the most satis-
There is no
cheapest
manner, and at. Prices consist.
ent with the class of work. Call on or