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.
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best take the WATCHMAN and you'll
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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.
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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.
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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.