Demarei Waan
Bellefonte, Pa., January 1, 1915.
FOUGHT TO DEATH OVER PIG
Possersion of Porker the Cause of
Sharp Skirmish Between Ger-
mans and French.
Even pigs figure sometimes .n the
news from the front and, as might be
expected, in somewhat of a comical
light. But, says a Paris dispatch, they
have caused a tragedy also. One pig
was the cause of a battle in which 30
Germans were killed and another was
made to pose as a corpse to save him
from the enemy.
In Ban-de-Sapt, north of Saint Die,
both French and Germans from their
trenches spied out a fine fat porker in
a pen, just between the two lines. Both
formed parties to go out and capture
the porcine delicacy, but the French
reached there first. They fastened a
rope about the animal's hind legs and
dragged him back to their trenches
with the Germans close behind.
So heated did the controversy over
the pig become that it finally de-
veloped into a night battle in which
the Germans were beaten, losing, be-
sides the 30 dead, a number of
wounded.
The other pig had just been killed
by a farmer in Flanders when it was
reported that the Germans, always
eager for such titbits as fresh pork,
were near at hand. Determined to
save his property, the quick-witted Bel-
gian took the carcass to his room,
tucked it in his bed, placed candles
over the sheeted form and was pray. |
ing fervently when a German soldier |
entered the room. The soldier tip-
toed out when he discovered that he
had come upon a chamber of death.
LEGAL POINT OF IMPORTANCE
“Delusions” Sufficient to Cause the
Breaking of a Will Must Be Along
a Certain Line.
The New York Law Journal tells of |
two cases recently decided which are
of some interest upon the contention
quite frequently made that testators
were victims of “insane delusions,” |
when, in fact, they had merely im-
bibed false impressions or were
strongly prejudiced or eccentric in
their modes of thought. In re Alex-
ander’s estate in the supreme court
of Pennsylvania, it was laid down
that a “delusion” of a testator, such
as will invalidate a will, must be “an
insane belief or a mere figment of
imagination—a belief in the existence
of something which does not exist and
which nc rational person, in the ab-
sence of evidence, would believe to
exist.” It was further laid down that
the burden is on a party relying on
the existence of a delusion to invali-
date a will to prove that such delusion
controlled the testator’s volition and |
destroyed his freedom of action in
disposing of his estate. The evidence
was held insufficient to show that the |
will was executed in consequence of
an insane delusion on the part of the
testator, the petitioner's father,
though testator practically disinherit-
ed her and may have been mistaken
in his judgment that she had been
guilty of unnatural conduct toward
him and her mother.
Made an Anthem of It.
It is pleasant to hear that the stern
business of drilling has its Jight side,
as well as most other things. In a
certain territorial regiment, I was told,
not many miles from London, one of
the newest recruits was awaiting his
turn on parade to be inspected. Pres-
ently to him came the youthful officer
in charge. He has what is known as
the varsity accent, and by those who
do not know it outside the stage it
may easily be mistaken for facetious-
ness.
The “nut” officer stooped and in-
spected. Then: “Ha, ha, no shave,”
he said. “He, he, no razor,” replied
the new recruit blithely, thinking that
he bad met a sociable soul with a
pleasant way of reprimanding. The
result was, of course, disastrous to
the recruit. But now, when the regi-
ment is marching and “Tipperary” is
getting a little overdone, the monot-
ony is varied by the front section sud-
denly calling out in full-throated uni-
son: “Ha, ha, no shave,” which is
instantly replied to from the back
with a stentorian roar of, “He, he, no
razor!”—ILondon Daily Mirror.
Tries on Shoe; Breaks Ribs.
When John Bartlow went into Wil-
liam Grittner’s shoe store here he
found a pair he liked, but they fitted
a little tight, and he could not get
into one.
Grittner seated himself on a low
chair, took hold of an upper and bade
his customer “push hard.” He did,
and Grittner’s hold slipped, the heel
of the new shoe striking him a hard
blow over the heart.
When the doctor arrived he declared
that Grittner had suffered three bro-
ken ribs and possibly other internal
injuries, and directed him to go to
bed.—Turbotville (Pa.) Dispatch Phil-
adelphia Record.
One Professor Missing.
It takes mcre than book learning to
be a success as a doctor. He needs a
lot of common horse sense, and in all
this chatter about higher education
and a new curriculum—which is one
way of freezing out competition in the
medical college trust—I haven't seen
~antioned any professor of common
sense.—Providence Medical Journal.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
SAILORS OF ELIZABETHAN AGE
Memorial to Famous British Mariners
Is Far Off the Tour-
ist Track.
Sir John Benn has persuaded the
London county council to commemo-
Ratcliffe Cross, says the Manchester
Guardian. The scheme hung fire for
a time because the antiquaries could
not fix the site of the cross, which
has vanished as utterly as the name
and reputation of the Ratcliffe high-
way near by. The place chosen is
a little east of Rotherhithe tunnel,
where a grimy wharf has preserved
the name of the cross where so many
of the stout-hearted explorers set sail
for the northern seas.
Perhaps when Shadwell gets its riv-
erside park there will be a few bold
exploring sightsears from the West
to look upon the memorial which is
otherwise far from the tourist track
as any spot in London. It shows
square-ended Tudor ships under full
sail above the names of Sir John Wil-
loughby, Sir Martin Frobisher and
other great names in Hakluyt and in
English memorie®. Frobisher lies
near Milton in St. Giles’, Cripplegate,
well within the tourist area.
If you go from the memorial up
Butchers’ row into Stepney you are in
| the traditional sailors’ town, although
nowadays you find the sailors far-
ther east, where dockland has grown
up since the Elizabethan sailors went
| to sea. The church in Stepney’s one
bit of green is the sailor’s church of
; London, unless Deptford with memo-
i ries of the shipbuilders is admitted to
| have as good a claim. All the chil-
! dren born at sea were baptized par-
. ishioners of Stepney. Mariners’ tombs
| are as thick here as those of Dutch
merchants in Austin Friars. The dis-
, coverers should go back by Wapping,
packed in between London docks and
the river and still keeping in a score
of tarry inns suggestions of the Fro-
' bisher times. You can drink ale in
the “North American Sailor” and think
of the great days of old when they
used to hang the pirates somewhere
| about Wapping Old Stairs. It was
Johnson advised Boswell to explore
Wapping, but Boswell did not find
; much that was exciting—‘“perhapsfrom
| want of sufficient exertion,” he says
humbly.
TAKE DISEASE FROM WHITES
| Tuberculosis Among Alaskan In-
dians Has Been Laid at the Door
of the “Paleface.”
The great prevalence of all forms
of tuberculosis among the Alaskan In-
dians, as proved by a report by Dr.
i Emil Krulish, is explained by the
Journal of the American Medical Asso-
ciation as follows:
“Tuberculosis is a comparatively
new infection among ‘Indians, be-
! stowed upon them by the benevolent
paleface along with firewater and cer-
| tain other blessings of civilization.
|
Ameng these blessings must probably
be counted scarlet fever, measles, in-
fluenza, whooping cough and diphthe-
ria. Not yet possessing the racial im-
munity which it takes many genera-
tions to acquire, the poor Indian suf-
fers from them in greater degree than
does the white, and more frequently
dies of them. Then there are the
overcrowding and the unsanitary con-
ditions prevailing in most of the homes
of tuberculosis sufferers; while at
least this much good arises from their
misfortune that after the disease is
well developed in them its progress
(unless they are well cared for) is
rapid, and death removes what would
ntherwise remain a menacing focus
of infection.”
Tuberculosis was one of the chief
causes of the dying out of the In-
dians all over North America.
Two Famous Names.
“Thomas Atkins” is a newcomer
compared with “Jack Tar” of the senior
service. “Jack Tar” as a nickname for
a sailor is first recorded in 1786, but
sailors were known as “tars” for more
than a hundred years before that. The
name already appears in literature in
the latter half of the seventeenth cen-
tury. “Tar” may be short for “tar-
paulin.” Sailors were called “tarpau-
lins” early in the seventeenth century.
Tarpaulin, of course, is canvas tarred
to make it waterproof, and the sailors’
hat made of that material, something
like a sou’-wester, was called a tar-
paulin. However that may be, British
sailors have been “honest tars,” “jolly
tars” and “gallant tars” for 200 years.
There is more steel and oil about a
modern battleship than tarry rope,
perhaps, but probably Jack will remain
Jack Tar for another hundred years
yet.—Manchester Guardian.
First English Newspaper.
The first newspaper printed in the
English language, with its old English
type and its quaint account of events
In foreign countries, was a pamphlet
issued in 1621. Its title, “Corrant or
Nevves from Italie, Germanie, France,
and other places,” is as curious as its
contents. For many years it had been
supposed that no copy of the Corrant
was in existence, but recently a copy
of this interesting document was dis-
covered.
Busily Engaged.
“That boy of mine is mighty re-
sourceful,” said the proud father.
“He makes a terrible racket,” re-
plied the man next door.
“Yes. He has the whooping cough.”
“But he couldn’t cough all the time.”
“No. That's why I had to give him
my automotkile horn to play with.”
rate the Elizabethan sailors at Old
RIDING iN A JINRIKISHA
Sensation Not Altogether Pleasant,
Though Almost Every One Seeks
the Experience.
When the European or American
tourist first lands in Japan he at once
demands a jinrikisha. Having read of
it and heard so much of it he wants
an immediate experience of it as soon
: & monocle?”
Pete, “I have been told
is something like a poker
once taught an Englishman to play
poker, and believe
nothing iike a monocle to prevent a
man’s facial expression from slip
pPing.”—Washington Star.
He Knew the Reason. Meat Market.
SM,
Atiorneys-at-Law.
“What makes an Englishman wear
“Well,” replied Piute
that diplomacy
game. I
(Get the Best Meats.
You save nothin,
by buying poor, thin
or gristly meats,
me, son, there's use only the
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
mmm
Coal and Wood.
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, best blood and muscle mak-
as he finds himself in the land of its
birth. Almost any day one may see a
procession of men and women, ashore
for a day or two from a steamer in
port, making their way up the crowded
thoroughfares of Tokyo, sitting rather
awkwardly in their jinrikishas, trem-
bling unbalanced over the axle, not
knowing whether the thing is going to
tip backward or fall forward, so loose-
ly does the puller seem to hold the
shafts. The first time one gets into a
jinrikisha he always feels like a baby,
and this gawkish sensation coupled
with that of the uncertainty of one’s
position in balancing it, renders the
experience not quite so pleasant as
anticipated. But the only way for
comfort is to sit back at one’s ease
and leave the responsibility to the man
who pulls it.—Japan Magazine.
No Ammunition.
A party of young folks gathered at
the home of a pair of newlyweds on
the East side, and during the conver-
sation many and varied subjects were
discussed. Recalling a visit of the pa-
trol to the neighborhood, one of the
young men began to talk of the pres-
ence of burglars in the vicinity. Im-
mediately everyone present began to
tell of every time a burglar had been
within a mile of his home.
The young wife naturally became
nervous and feared for her safety, de-
spite the fact that she had a big, husky
husband to protect her. She let her
fears be known, and a young gallant
immediately replied that her husband
ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere.
I alwavs have
—— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
. High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
A. G. Morris, Jr.
Restaurant.
DEALER IN HIGH GRADE
ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS ESTAURANT. x
AND CANNEL tat efonte now has a First-Class Res-
Meals are Served at All Hours
Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell or in any style i ga
wiches, Soups, anything ea can
be had in a ik minutes any time. In ad-
dition I have a complete plant prepared to
furnish Soft Dri in bottles such as
iICOAL
Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw
;
POPS,
and Sand. SODAS,
a SARSAPARILLA,
SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.,
iso for pic-nics, families and the public gener-
FEDERAL ally all of which are manufactured out of
the purest syrups and properly carbonated.
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD
50-32-1y.
BOTH °'PHONES.
Money to Loan.
should purchase a revolver to keep in
the house to give her a feeling of se-
curity.
“I have one now,” replied the young
hubby.
“Oh, yes, he has one,” spoke up the
lady of the house, ‘but he hasn’t any
capsules for it.”—Youngstown Tele-
gram.
Looking to the Future.
We are to consider that nations like
Rome, France, Austria, Russia, Great
Britain, have gone forward by. the
millennium—the thousand years. We
have not yet grown into our name. We
are a nation in our small clothes.
America! It is already—(dating from
1898) —something bigger than the
United States. We are even more
fortunate than Rome, for if it be na-
ture’s intent to widen our hive, and if
it would in any way conciliate the In-
lian-Spanish and Indian-Portuguese
of the South, we could wisely and i
without humiliation abandon our ship- |
clerk Vespucius and accept our cap-
LIME AND LIMESTONE.
Yard Opposite Eff ONEY TO LOAN on good security and
§ i 5 houses to rent,
P R.R. Depot. {8 Sea J NT
58-23-1v = 51-14-1v. efonte Pa.
LIME. LIME.
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 Time
~ American Lime & Stone Company.,
58-28-6m General Office: TYRONE, PA.
Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa
Groceries. Groceries.
tain’s name of Columbia for our huge
portion of the western world. Colum-
bia may become the gem of the oceans.
Six seas may lap her beaches.—John
McGovern, in National Magazine.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. i
Get Rid of Humors
And Avoid Sickness
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA, OLD-TIME REME-
DY, PURIFIES THE BLOOD.
Humors in the blood cause internal de-
rangements that affect the whole system,
as well as pimples, boils and other erup-
tions. They may be either inherited or
acquired. They affect all the organs'and
functions, membranes and tissues, and
are directly responsible for the readiness
with which some people contract disease.
For forty years Hood’s Sarsaparilla has
been more successful than any other med- ~
icine in expelling humors and removing
their inward and outward effects. It is
distinguished for its thoroughnessin puri-
fying the blood, which it enriches and in-
vigorates. No other medicine acts like
it, for no other has the same formula or
ingredients. Get Hood’s Sarsaparilla to-
day. Insist on having Hood’s. 48-49
Fruits, Confectionery and
FINE GROCERIES.
Oranges, Lemons and Bananas
are standard all season fruits. We
are now receiving new crop Florida
and California Valencia varieties of
sweet fruit at 30c, 40c, 50c and 60c
per dozen. Lemons 30c and 40c
perdozen. Bananas 15c, 20c and
25c per dozen. Nice Grape Fruit
at 5c each.
Evaporated and Dried Corn, very
fine, new goods, 15¢ and 25¢ Ib.
We are always ready to fill
orders for our own make of Mince
Meat. It is the only goods on the
market that has the fuil portion of
beef in it and in general merit far
above any other brand.
Cranberries, solid red fruit at 10
and 12c. per quart. We use the
“legal standard dry” quart meas-
ure—there is a difference.
New crop California Prunes 12c,
15c and 18c per pound. New Evap-
orated Peaches 10c, 12c and 15c.
Apricots 18c, 20 and 25c per pound.
All fine fruit. Buy some of our fine cheese and
Creamery Butter from the Fox compare it with other goods.
River (Illinois) Creameries. Finest
[0] li :
Meadow Gold Brand 42¢ per pound. ur Olives are large and of the
very finest flavor at 40c per quart.
Burnett’s and Knight's Extracts,
Crosse & Blackweil’s Table Vinegar
in bottles. Durkee’s Salad Dressing.
If you want a fine, sweet, juicy
Ham, let us supply you.
SECHLER & COMPANY, |
Bush House Block, - - 57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
New crop California Walnuts and
Almonds, Cocoanuts, Celery, Cran-
berries, Sweet Potatoes, Oysters
direct from the shell—We do not
handle any Baltimore tub Oysters
nm
Flour and Feed.
Farm Implements.
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 office Flour
xchanged for wheat.
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
7-19
SLEIGHS AND SLEDS
—— AT THE ——
Farmers’ Supply Store.
Sleighs ranging in price from $25.00 up. All old comfort
square backs, some spring Sleighs and some without springs,
Come in and make your selection while the stock is com-
plete and take it home and then you will have it when the
snow comes, which will be soon. Also genuine Buffalo
Robes, Cast Iron Hog Troughs, Galvanized Water Troughs,
BROOKVILLE WAGONS
Corn Shellers, Blizzard and hand Fodder Cutters, Pumps of
all kind.
THE NEW IDEA MANURE SPREADERS
Poultry Grits, Charcoal, Beef Scrap, Oyster Shells, Hulled
Oats—something fine. Old process Flax Seed Meal, pure
ground Flax Seed Meal and Cotton Seed Meal.
Call in and look us over. A good warm stove and fair
treatment.
JOHN G. DUBBS,
59-18 Both Phones. BELLEFONTE, PA.
KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law, Belle
fonte, Pa, Practicesin all courts Office-
Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y.
T B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices
in al the Coutts. Consgjestion i English
or German. ce in Crider’s Xchange.
Bellefonte, Pa. 40-
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at
Law. Office in, Temple Court, Belle-
fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at-
tended to promotly. 40-46
H. ETE Atomey and Counsellor at Law
Office No. 11, Crider’s Exchange, second
floor. All kinds of legal business af
to promptly. Consultation in English or German
M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law.
in all the courts. Consultation in E;
and German. Office south of court house,
All professional business will receive Prompt -
tention. 49-5-1y*
J KENNEDY B HNSTON—Attorney-at-la
a.
w,
Bellefonte, Prompt attention given all
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. Odice
change, Bellefonte.
Physicians. -
in Crider’s
GLENN, M. D., Physician and Sur;
State College, Cantons county, Pa.
at his residence.
Dentists.
W*
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. 52-39
R. H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, Office in
the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All mod-
cars of electric a Narices Sod: _Has had
and prices reasonable. © or Superior Quay
— Plumbing.
Good Health
and
Good Plumbing
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’s the only kind you
ought to have. Wedonr’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 finishings. For
the Best Work trv
Archibald Allison,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
56-14-1v.
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident. Insurance.
This Agency 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 fo 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:
$5,000 death by accident,
5,000 loss of both feet,
5,000 loss of both hands,
5,000 loss of one hand and one foot,
2,500 loss of either hand,
2,000 loss of. either foot,
loss of one eve
25 per week, total disability,
(limit 52 weeks)
10 per week, partial disability,
(limit 26 weeks)
PREMIUM §12 PER YEAR,
pavable quarterly if desired.
Larger or smaller amounts in proportion
Any person, male or female, eng: in
referred occupation, inclu house
eeping, over eighteen years of age
good moral and physical condition may
nsure under this poiicv.
Fire Insurance
[invite your attention to my Fire Insu1
ance Agency, the strongest and Most Ex
tensive Line of Solid Companies represen!
ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvan:
H. E. FENLON,
50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa
Fine Job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
0—A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest bodger to the finest
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’