Democrat atc Bellefonte, Pa., April 24, 1914. ° NO MORE MARRIAGE RISKS. Reformers of Today Certainly Are Throwing All Kinde of Safeguards Around the Ceremony. Under the microscope of modern criticism marriage seems to be honey- combed with false ideas and tyrannous customs. So wrong is it that we al- most doubt if any of our grandparents could have been happy, and we sigh with relief when we consider that at last modern intellect is about to de- molish the old-fashioned methods and build in their place a scheme of com- mon-sense marriage in which no sor- row and regret can cloud the domestic hearth. What a primitive, careless thing marriage has been hitherto Just be- cause a man and a woman have been attracted to one another they have rushed blindly into a lifelong partner- ship without any careful forethought or inquiry. But we see the end of all that non- sense. Already the new marriage— the careful, well-considered mating— ‘has arrived. The first medically ex- amined wedding has been celebrated in this country. Surely this will give a lead to the world. In future the first consideration will be the medical certificate, and after that the certificate of temperament. No man and woman will enter the state of matrimony without the con- sent of learned psychologists to testify to their suitability to one another. And then the financial certicate, the considered judgment of economic specialists as to ways and means. ‘However physically sound and temper- amentally suitable the man and wom- an may be, the new marriage will in- sist that their income be sufficient to insure a life of comfort according to their normal standards. Our marriage reformers are going to allow us to take no risks.—New York Telegram. GERMANY GROWS IN WEALTH Remarkable Showing Made in a Re- port Recently Ordered From Leading Financier. Karl Helfferich, director of the Deut- eche bank, has completed his report to the kp.iser of the wealth of the Ger- man nation. It will be published a few weeks hence and will be sold for $30. From the proof sheets, says the New York Sun, it appears that Doctor Helf- 'ferich estimates the aggregate total wealth of Germany at from $75,000, 000,000 to $78,000,000,000. The wealth of France is placed at $60,000,000,000, ‘that of England from $57,000,000,000 to :$66,000,000,000 and that of the United States at $124,000,000,000. The Ger- man per capita wealth is placed at from $1,100 to $1,200, that of France, $1,425; England from $1,250 to $1,385, and the United States $1,360. The annual income of the German 'people is placed at between $9,000, 000,000 and $10,000,000,000, of which iabout one-sixth is used for public pur- poses. The amount used for private ‘purposes could not be ascertained defi- ‘nitely, but is estimated approximately ‘at $6,000,000,000. From the deposits in German com- mercial and savings banks it is de- duced that the Germans save $1,000, 000,000 a year. Adding the automatic increase in values to the estimates the annual increase in the aggregate wealth is $2,500,000,000. The government has issued a map in colors which shows where aviators may and where they may not fly. They must not go within 12 to 15 miles of Metz or the surrounding fortresses. A similar prohibition, which varies in distances, applies to all fortified places. White Men In Tropics. The Caribbean tropics are a garden of delights for the rich man, and an El Dorado. In sugar, in cotton, in cat tle pastures, that world holds treas ure today greater than the treasure shipped by the Spaniard through Pan- ama the golden. The Caribbean tropics are good, indeed, to the man strong enough to be master. They are good, too, to their own poor, for ‘they curse their natives with no cold ‘and rarely with famine; but for the poor white man from the north they jare h—I1. It is not due only to the risks of the crop. It is due to the so icial conditions that forbid the white iman in the tropics from laboring with the hands. No white man can do it in the islands or in Central America and keep his caste. Only in Panama, ‘where an entirely artificial and unique icondition has been made by the crea itors of the wonder of the isthmus can it be done.—Julius Muller, in the Cen ‘tury Magazine. Worth Knowing. A wealthy Norseman named Thor |firm Karlsefrie, with three ships and 64 imen, founded a colony somewhere on ithe American coast in 1007, and here his son Snorro was born, the firsi white child born in America. Because of the trouble made by the Indians the colony was given up after three years, and little Snorro with the oth jers went back to Europe. Spanish | children were born in Florida, but the first English child was Virginia Dare born in 1587, on Roanoke island, now a part of North Carolina. Two chil dren were born on the Mayflower and named Oceanus and Peregrine. ——If you always want to have the best take the WATCHMAN and you'll have it. | | ' | i i | DUCKING A SCOLD. Punishment a Long Tongue Used to Win In Old England. It is interesting in these days of woman's rights and woman's progress to conjure up a picture of a “ducking” as practiced in England at the end of the eighteenth century. ‘When the “scold” had been properly tried and convicted she was escorted by a crowd of her neighbors—in fact, by the whole village—to the nearest | pond, and the greener and slimier the pond the better. A long plank was produced, at one end of which was the ducking stool, and in this the scream ing, struggling victim was securely pinioned. The chair end of the plank was then pushed far over the edge of the pond, and at a signal it was tilted deep into the green ooze until the scold was com- pletely immersed. When the dripping, balf drowned woman was raised to the surface again to the jeers and laughter of the onlookers it can be imagined that her tongue wagged to some purpose. After a second dose she emerged more sub- dued. and after a third or fourth she was as penitent a woman as the vil- lage contained and was allowed to pro- ceed home, a sadder and wiser woman until the next time.—London Tit-Bits. RENTED SCENERY. It Was a Parisian’s Idea, and It Suited the Thrifty Peasants. M. Georges Moreau one beautiful day, in the course of a walk at Villiers- Saint Benoist, greatly admired three magnificent oaks which towered from the edge of a field. “You’ll not see ’em much more, citi- zen,” growled the owner of the land. “They make too much shade. I'm go- ing to cut them down.” “What a sacrilege! Cut down those magnificent trees! Better rent them to me.” “What’ll you do with them?’ “I shall look at them as 1 pass by. Will you give to me for 15 francs a year the right to admire them?” “Agreed! It's only a Parisian who could have such a funny idea!” The story spread abroad. and now whenever M. Moreau takes a walk in that district the peasants hail him with: “Hey, citizen, will you rent those trees there of me? If not I'll cut ’em down. Yes or no? .One, two. three” — M. Moreau yields and pays to save the lives of the trees that delight his view. The little birds would be un- grateful did they not salute with their most harmonious roulades the preserv- er of their nests.—Cri de Paris. Uncovered by the Wind. “In the year 1793,” says an old chron- icle, “the waters of the Rio de la Plata were forced in the month of April by a most violent current of wind to the distance of ten leagues, so that the neighboring plains were entirely inun- dated, and the bed of the stream was left dry. A number of ships which had been sunk in the river for upward of thirty years were uncovered and, among others, an English vessel which was cast away in 1762. Several per- sons repaired to the bed of the river, on which they could walk without wet- ting their feet. and returned laden with silver and other riches, which had been long buried under the water. The phenomenon obtained for three days, at the end of which the wind ceased, and the water returned with great vio- lence to its native bed.” A Good House. Mrs. Allen was entertaining a caller one afternoon not long ago and was enthusiastically explaining the many advantages of concrete hollow block construction, of which the walls of her new home were built. “The air spaces in the walls afford insulation against heat in summer and cold in winter,” said Mrs. Allen. “And not only that, but such walls afford ventilation and insure a more healthful house.” The visitor nodded approval and paused reflectively for a moment, then replied: “Well, our frame house must be quite as well built. Every night we lock the cat in the cellar and have to let her out of the attic in the morning.”’—Detroit Free Press. Saving Trouble. When Bobbie went to see his grand- mother he was much interested in whatever went on in the kitchen. One day she said to him: “I'm going to make you a nice little pie in a saucer, all for yourself. Don’t you think I'm pretty good to take so much trouble?” Bobbie pondered. ‘‘Grandma,” he said at length, “mother told me not to be a bother, and if it’s going to be any trouble you can just as well make my ple reg’lar size.”—Exchange. His Distinction. “William, are you ever going to get matters so arranged that we can afford to have an automobile?” “I don’t expect that we can ever afford one, but I hope to get matters go arranged within a few months that we can have one.”—Chicago Record- Herald. Between Girls. Lou—I saw Ethel yesterday, and we had the loveliest confidential chat to- gether. Lucy—I thought so. She wouldn't speak to me today.—Judge. Safe. “Why do you always carry your ume brella even when it is not raining?’ “So some one else won’t carry it when it is raining.”—Houston Post. There is no substitute for thorough- going, ardent and sincere earnestness. —Dickens. You take a bath for the outside of your body to remove accumulations. and dead matter. Does not the inside of the body need an occasional bath think you, to help rid it of clogging and effete materi- al,—Nature’s waste which has lodged in some canal of the body and is poisoning the blood current with its corruption? Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cleanses the inner man, purifies the blood, strengthens the stomach, builds up the muscle. The same invigorating results which follow a bath, follow the use of “Golden Medical Discovery.” Don’t suffer with constipation. Use Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Hood's Sarsaparilla. Loss of Appetite MOST SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY TAK- ING HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA. Loss of appetite is accompanied by loss of vitality, which is serious. It is common in the spring because at this time the blood is impure and impov- erished and fails to give the digestive or- gans what is absolutely necessary for the proper performance of their functions. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the old reliable all- the-year-round medicine, is especially use- ful in the spring. Get it from your drug- gist. By purifying and enriching the blood and giving vitality, vigor and tone, it is wonderfully successful in the treat- ment of loss of appetite and the other ail- ments that are so prevalent at this time. It is not simply a spring medicine—it is much more than that—but it is the best spring medicine. Hood's Sarsaparilla makes the rich red blood that the stomach and other diges- tive organs need. Get it today. 59-12 Little Hotel Wilmot. Meat Market. Attorneys-at-Law. The Little Hotel Wilmot Get the Best Meats. IN PENN SQUARE You save by buying poor, thin One minute from the Penna Ry. Station or gristly meats. 1use FILE PHILADELPHIA LARGEST AND FATTEST CA a od and muscle mak. Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no We have quite a few customers from Bellefonte. We can care of some more. They'll like us. A good room for $1. If you bring your wife, $2. Hot and cold running water in every room i than poorer meats are I alwavs have — DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, High Street. ~~ 34-34ly. Bellefonte. Pa. The Ryerson W. Jennings Co. LIME AND LIMESTONE. LIME. LIM. Lime and Limestone for all purposes. H-O Lime Put up in 40 to 50 Pound Paper Bags. for use with drills or spreader, is the econom- ical form most careful farmers are using. High Calcium Central Pennsylvania Lime American Lime & Stone Company., H. J Office No. 11, Crider’s Exchang All professional business will receive prom tention. J ces—No. 5 East High street. W?* KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law, e fonte, Pa. Practicesin all courts Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y. B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices in all the Courts. Consultation in English or German. Office in Crider’s Exciiauge, Bellefonte, Pa. 40- S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at Law. ce in Temple Court, Belle- fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at- tended to promptly. © 40-46 WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law e, floor. All kinds of legal business att to promptly. Consultation in English or Geran M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. Practices in all the courts. Consultation in English and German. Office south of court nate. 1y* KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given ail legal business entrusted to his cals 8 G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul- tation in png and German. Office in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 5 Physicians. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Su State College, Centre county, Pa. "Sifice at his residence. Dentists. R. IE NARD D. DSi office: next door to . M. C. A. room, street, Bellefonte, Pa. Gas Ae for painless extract. ing teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work. Prices reasonable. ' 52-39 D¥ years of experience. All work of Superior quality 45-8-1y H.W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, Office in the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All mod- ern electric appliances Has had and prices reasonable. Coal and Wood. 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. Yard Opposite \ P.R.R. Depot. {EWS 58-23-1v 58-28-6m General Office: TYRONE, PA. Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa Ty Plumbing. Farm Implements. Good Health and Good Plumbing Headquarters for FARM IMPLEMENTS Oil Meal Poultry Supplies Pumps of All Kinds Gasoline Engines Spring, Spike and Disc Harrows Knapsack and Barrel Sprayers Spray Material, Field Seeds Walking and Sulkey Plows Grain Drills, Corn Planters Water and Hog Troughs and Manure Spreaders Buggies, Corn Shellers Cyclone Door Hangers, and ...BROOKVILLE WAGONS... Telephone your orders and when in town call and look us over, we may do you good. We have Fertilizers in stock at all times which you can get just when you need it. If we have treated you fair we would ask a continu- ance of yaur patronage. Truly yours, * JOHN G. DUBBS, BELLEFONTE, PA. 59-12 The World. Flour and Feed. 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 a extraor- ly 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 office Flour exchanged for wheat. ' OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA. 47-19 MILL AT ROOPBSURG. Restaurant. ESTAURANT. Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res- taurant where Meals are Served at All Hours 'ARILLA, 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, 50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte. Pa. Money to Loan. ONEY TO LOAN on good security and houses to rent. J. M. KEICHLINE, Attorney-at- tea. 51-14-1y. The Thrice-a-Week Edition of THE NEW YORK WORLD Practically a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. No other Newspaper in the world gives so much at so low a price. This is a time of great events, and you will want the news accurately and promptly. All the countries of the world steadily draw closer together, and the telegraph wires bring the happenings of every one. No other newspaper has a Service equal to that of The World and it relates everything fully and promptly. ‘ The World long since established a record for impartiality, and anybody can afford its Thrice-a-Week edition, which comes every other day in the week, except Sunday. It will be of particular value to you now. The Thrice-a-Week World also abounds in other strong features, serial stories, humor, markets, cartoons; in fact, everything that is to be found in a first- class daily. The Thrice-a-Week World’s regular subscription price is only $1.00 per year, and this pays for 156 papers. We offer this unequalled newspaper and The Democratic Watchman together for one year for $2.15. The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2.50. 58-46-tf Groceries. Groceries. Fruits, Confectionery i FINE GROCERIES. White Almedia Grapes, Florida and Naval Oranges, Lemons, Ba- nanas, all in good order and free of frost. Fine weather yet for using Mince Meat. Nothing else will compare with what we make at 15¢ 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. SECHLER & COMPANY, Bush House Block, - - 571 - - Bellefonte, Pa. 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. GO TOGETHER. When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky water-fixtures, foul Sewerage; or escaping gas. you can’t have good Health. The air you reathe is poisonous; your system becomes poisoned.and invalidism is sure to come. SANITARY PLUMBING is the kind we do. It’sthe 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 r, unsanitary work and the lowest grade of finishings. For the Best Work try Archibald Allison, Opposite Bush House - 56-14-1v. Bellefonte, Pa Insurance. JORN F. GRAY & SON, (Successor to Grant Hoover) Fire, Life Accident Insurance. This Agency represents the largest Fire i 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 BENEFITS: feet, ds, of one hand and one foot, of either hand, loss of either foot, of both (0) 25 week, total disability, Pel limit 52 weeks) 10 partial disability, DS fimie 56 reeks) PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR, pavable quarterly if desired. insure under this poiicv. : Fire Insuranc invi attention to my Fire Insur. EA fap a Sel Ee panies ed by any agency in Central Pennsyl H. E. FENLON, 50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa. VATA TA TAT NA TAS TAY Fine Job Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING o-—A SPECIALTY—o0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE There is no style of work, from the cheapest r’’ to the BOOK WORK, that we can not do in the most satis- factory manner , and at Prices consist- ent with the class of work. Call on or communicate with this office.
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