Bellefonte, Pa., February 5, 1915. BILL DAIDY’S CHAPTER. It is a feature of the glad, free life of this republic that every man is en- titled to an opinion on everything un- der the sun, and, within wide limits, is entitled to the unrestricted expres- sion of that opinion. Bill Daidy is one of those who be- lieve there is good in the large exer- cise of that privilege, although of late years he has added cautiop to candor. In the old days'he came in off his en- gine, loaded with the usual accumula- tion of griefs over the shortcomings of the roundhouse, which are apt to loom large in the long watches of the night run. He gradually grew the habit of clos- ing his regular harangue to the round- house foreman with a sort of perora- tion which summed up the real or im- aginary derelictions of everybody con- nected with the road, from cail-boy to president. In an effort to break the -flow of Bill’s rough eloquence the roundhouse foreman unwittingly set Bill's feet upon the path that led upward—down- ward, Bill laughingly insists some- times. “Bill, why in thunder don’t you write a book?” said the long-suffering foreman, when Bill had become more than usually aggressive in his none too gentle impeachments. “You are sure wasting your talent on an “en- gine.” Bill glared for a moment before he was able to let down the pressure of road management which he had men- tally assumed, and then, as the recol- lection of a purchase he had recently made for his growing son. flashed across his mind, he gave way to a slow grin and said: “Blamed if I don’t believe that’s a good idea, Ballard. Maybe I'll just go you a chapter, when my boy gets fit with his machine.” So, Daidy, in his evenings at home, took to rehearsing his daily griefs to the boy, who laboriously hammered them out of the typewriter into gro- tesques of composition and the print- er’s art. Daidy “dictated” and “revised,” “killed copy” and “edited,” although he did not know it in those terms, and after many days what he had grown to call “The Chapter” was fin- ished, decked out with border lines that fairly exhausted the resources of the boy and the eighty-odd characters of the machine. Bill, gloated over it for a week of nights, and then liked it so well that he decided to have it all done over again, in order that he might not only supply Ballard, but also send carbon copies of it surreptitiously to the su- perintendent of motive power, the di- vision superintendent, and—holy of holies—the general manager. The superintendent of motive pow- er duly received his copy, threw it in the waste basket, and remarked casu- ally, “Bill!” He liked Bill, but not Bill’s too free excoriations. The division superintendent read his copy and, laughing, pigeonholed it for future use in letting down the pres- sure of the superintendent of motive power when next they should lock horns over engine failures. The general manager took up his copy from its personal cover and read it from start to finish, as follows: Chapter One. If this don’t fit your case, you get a clearance card right here. The board is out for others. ‘When you build an engine and want the most results and don’t care what kind, fix yourself with a lot of dis- couraged draftsmen, and, for chief, get a good wrangler that talks into his whiskers and don’t decide much. Tell them fellows, at the start, that you put them into that cheese-box of- fice to stay, and they can’t break out onto the road to see an engine do busi- ness, noways. Don’t pay any of them too much. They are working on paper, and you can easily fix the engine after we get it. Hire a lot of master mechanics that know all about sawmills. There ain’t none around here, but you can see them running in the woods if you take a ride with me. They will be ready to lay up your new engine when it comes out. Pix up boiler steel specifications that you know are O. K., and then let the purchasing agent bluff you into taking something better but cheaper; he can prove it. That will sure give a lift, once in a while, to some of us fel- lows that’s a little slow about circulat- ing in the scenery, and it will make things brisk in the boiler shop. Them fellows need work. They are too strong to rest nights. Use hammered engine frames. If I was a track man I'd like to be abie to put my hand on a busted weld and say, “Them’s it,” after the engine jumped the track and got pulled out of a borrow-pit. The dispatcher won't care, if she don’t block the track. It makes work for the blacksmiths. Fix your spring-rigging so, when it breaks, the equalizer will hit, point down, in the track. Gives the engine a better start when she jumps. She will go farther and everything had ought to be made to go as far as it can. Truck-pedestal binder-bolts should get low enough to rip up a frosty plank crossing. It gives the engines a good name as goers. One nuts enough. Two stay on too well. Put your *driving-box wedge-bolts in a safe deposit box behind the driving wheels. Somebody might get at them with a wrench, on the road. Wedge- bolts had ought to be smelled or heard from when the journals screech; not seen. If anybody thinks he wants to slack a wedge-bolt, let that man shoot the jamb-nuts off with a gun. That’s what guns is for, and they’d ought to be car- ried in the tool kit The roundhouse gang’s too good for the job. New engines don’t run hot soon enough to suit yours truly. Put a crew of hoboes in there and tell them they got to save oil and ram the cellar-packing down in with a pinch- bar. They will dc it. The babbit and stuff you drop over the division makes good ballast. Wall in your cellar-bolts, so if a fellow gets them out, digging babbitt out of the cellar, on .a fast run, he can’t get them in again inside of fif- teen minutes apiece. The dispatcher won't care—ask him—and the en- gineer daresn’t. It’s all he can do to talk his way out of a lay-off. Don’t you worrysabout front-ends. If the engine looks good to you, but don’t steam no more than a teakettle with the bottom out, let the trainmaster put on a helper once in a while. Three or five years from now somebody else will have your job anyhow, and he’ll set most of your front-end furni- ture out on the scrap pile while he cleans house, and forget to put it back again. That will help some. If you*find there’s rooms to rent in the front end after you get it done, and the heater men show up again without the incubator, fill her up with their stuff. It’s hang for us fellows, down when you're going some. Bend your feed and air pipes as sharp and as often as you can. shows that nobody was looking and they freeze up quicker. | it so that if a fellow goes to the front throttle without getting orders from line of the cab is clear. The boy allows we are working too many nights at this. change. We are. So don’t bother about fire-boxes and ash-pans. the president sends word that he “couldn’t see the right of way on his | and I'll tell him he was on the wrong end ‘of the train. It was all clear ahead of the engine. That'll make him know that we are men of some parts; part wood and part leather, with brass trimmings— which I am Yours truly, WILLIAM DAIDY, Engineer. When a man has enough strength of | character to get his head above the common level, however grotesquely he may at first appear, there is usually something in him worth observing. If he has balance and staying powers he may get his feet upon the solid, and a leader has been discovered. Somewhat in this fashion the gen- eral manager reasoned as he read Bill's chapter, He called his secretary, was soon established that neither of them knew who William Daidy was, nor what of William’s chapter was fact and what fancy. Therefore, the general manager made a brief investigation, put some pointed questions to the superinten- dent of motive power, who fumed a little, but electrified the master me- chanic (as witness his short and sim- ple inquiry of Bill), and thus Bill's little seeds began to grow apace. Changes were made. Plans were devised and revised until new engines bore signs of improvement. These things were discussed on the home road, and the news of them went broadcast over many roads. Bill's ideas bore the test of service, and flourished like the proverbial green bay tree, until finally they came before the “First Intelligence,” the “Great Arcanum,” or “Court of Last Resort” of the railroad mechanical world, and were called good. No longer bearing the name of “William Daidy, Engineer,” it is true, but la- beled with the names of many men, for that is the way of the world, and the destiny of all things that are good enough to prove good. Bill never got beyond ‘Chapter One” of Ballard’s “book.” There wes ‘no need. But having demonstrated that he was “a man of parts,” it was thought advantageous to transpose him to the ranks of those he had smit. ten. Thus, Bill became a road fore: man of engines—and more. Foolish Question. A man who, with his family, had spent several weeks at a fashionable summer resort discovered one morn: ing that he had lost his pocketbook Thinking it possible that it might have been found by some employee of the hotel at which he was staying, he reported his loss to the landlord. “That’s too bad, Mr. Johnson,” said that functionary. “I'll make inquiries about it. What kind of pocketbook was it?” “Russia leather,” answered the lodger. “What color?” “Dark red.” “Any distinguishing mark about it?” “It had a clasp.” “What was the shape of it?” “Flat, of course,” said Mr. Johnson. “Haven't I been here more than a month?” Response to Popular Demand. “Don’t you think these crook plays have a tendency to make burglars rather picturesque and popular?” “Sure,” replied Crowbar Jack. “1 have been thinkin’ serious of givin’ up me reg’lar work an’ startin’ a corre spondence school.” but it helps hold the front trucks ! It | Look out for your engine cab. Fix | door he can’t get back again to the | the dispatcher, showing that the main | He wants a | When | last trip for smoke,” send him to me, : and by careful question and reply it | CONCRETE AND SEA WATER interesting Experiments Made to De- termine the Action of Liquid and Frost on Material. One of the largest construction com- panies in this country is making ex- periments to determine what is the action of sea water and frost upon concrete. According to Science Con- spectus, the company made 24 col umns, each 16 feet long and 16 inches square, reinforced with iron bars near their corners and in January, 1909, immersed them in the water at the Boston navy yard. At high tide the water almost entirely covers them, but at low tide they are completely ex- posed. Thus in cold weather the col- numns are alternately thawed and trozen, as the tide rises and falls. The columns are made with various quali- ties of concrete—mixed dry, plastic, and very wet—and also with different qualities of cement. Experts are study- ing the effects of the addition of wa- terproofing materials; clay and other substances are added from time to time, and the effect is observed. Many years must elapse before it will be possible to tell with certainty which kind of concrete is most permanent. When last examined many of the col- amns were virtually unaffected; but others were badly eroded. The ‘col- amns that contain the largest propor- Fion of cement mixed wet have so far shown the least wear. Of two columns made with one part of cement to one of sand and two of stone, the one mixed dry was badly eroded over its | antire length, whereas the other, which | was mixed very wet, was only slightly | pitted. The experiments, it is expected, i will throw much light upon a prob- tem that has long perplexed construc- | tion engineers.—Youth’s Companion. | BROUGHT TO SINGLE SHEET | War's Effect on European Newspa- | | pers Is Manifest in the Size of | the Issues. i fra | No one can have failed to observe | how greatly the size of his daily paper has dwindled, how, in fact, everything which entails the consumption of pa- per exhibits a strict ecoonmy. This is owing to the shortage of paper due to the war, and it is quite possible that if the war lasts for any considerable time practically all English daily pa- pers will consist of a single sheet. Al- ready this step has been necessitated in France. Some 15,000 tons of news and white paper in reel made from wood pulp are consumed each week in this coun- i try. Already the consumption has risen 25 per cent owing to the ab- normal demand for war news—it would certainly have been greater were it not for the curtailment in size. Most of the paper used in England—about 11,500 tons—is manufactured in this country, but about 2,600 tons comes cach week from the continent and 900 tons from Newfoundland. The former source has already com- pletely dried up, the immediate re- sult being to send up the price of paper which before the outbreak of the war was about one penny a pound to 13, pence. And it will probably rise much higher.—English Exchange. | | | | Helpfulness Sometimes Resented. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson’s “Passing of the Third Floor Back” made a deep and lasting impression on Kansas City. It stimulates a fine desire to be more charitable and kind- ly. “We remember,” writes Franklin P. Adams of New York, “the morning after seeing ‘The Passing of the Third Floor Back,” we felt more than usually unworthy, and spiritual reform was working into our calloused heart. A young woman, carrying an achingly heavy suitcase was walking up the subway stairs. ‘Let me help you,” we said. ‘Don’t touch that!’ she cried, as one about to bite. ‘If you don’t stop annoying me, I'll have you arrested.’ So, fearing the headline, ‘Bard Gets Jail Term for Mashing,’ we ran away, like the coward we were.”—Kansas City Star. Birds Fly From Battle. One of the war correspondents has noted the complete absence of birds from the battlefields of northern France and the consequent profusion of spiders and other cognate crawling things. Birds always desert scenes of heavy gunfire; and, what is more, they often do not return for many years. All birds left the theater of war in South Afriea, and it is only now—14 years later—that they are returning. Meanwhile South Africa has suffered from a vexatious plague of ground in. sects—“tecks,” as they call them over there. It is not supposed that the African birds left the country, but that they merely retired to some re- mote and peaceful part of the veldt. Distances Near Suez. Once again the makers of maps are busy. Most Englishmen had a vague ‘| idea that the Egyptian frontier ends with the Suez canal. That is not the case. From the map you will perceive that the British occupation extends across the very arid Sinai peninsula; the desert that cost the Children of Is rael 40 years to cross!—Londor Chronicle. Make Films of Skim Milk. The menace of a “film famine” which oecause of the European war threaten to injure the American mov."g picture industry, has been banisned. Moving picture film is be- ing made out of skimmed milk. The first roll of practical skimmed-milk fllm was shown in the exhibit of the Illinois state food commissioner at the national dairy show. ‘sings, her busy fingers keeping time to Health and Activity. Health is always active. The healthy woman must have an outlet for the vig- or she feels, and she will find it in work or play, in dancing or in darning, in the chase or at the churn. Even work does not satisfy her, so, as she works, she the tune she carols. Directly the duties of the house become a burden, when the song dies on the lips, and the limbs move sluggishly, when amusements have no more attraction and sports fail to inter- est, the health is declining, vitality is be- ing lowered, and it is time for the wom- an to look around for the cause of her weakness. She will find it usually in || disease of the delicate organs; in debili- tating drains, nerve racking inflamma- tion and ulceration, or female weakness. For this condition nothiug is as good as Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It makes weak women strong, sick women well. It is a temperance medicine, abso- lutely non-alcoholic and non-narcotic. Wiilie’s Discovery. “I know how we walk,” said Willie. “We put one foot down and let it stay till it gets 'way behind, and then do the same thing with the other, and keep doing it.” Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Severe Rheumatic Pains Disappear HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA WILL SURELY BRING RELIEF—DON’T SUFFER. Rheumatism, which perhaps causes more suf fering than any other disease, depends on an acid which flows in the blood, affecting the mus- cles and joints, producing inflammation, stiffness and pain. This acid gets into the blood through some defect in the digestive processes, and remains there becausethe liver, kidneys and skin are too [ torpid to carry it off. i Hood's Sarsaparilla, the old-time blood tonic, is very successful in the treatment of rheumatism. | It acts directly, with purifying effect, on the blood, and through the blood on the liver kidneys and skin, which it stimulates, and at the same ' time it improves the digestion. Don’t delay treatment until you are in worse condition. Get Hood’s and begin taking 3 today. | 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 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. 7-19 MILL AT ROOPBSURG. Atiorneys-at-Law. High Street. Get the Best Meats. You save nothin poor, thin by buyi or gristly meats. only use LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and Supply JY Customers with the fresh- Sholcest, © 5 muscle mak- Steaks Roasts. prices are no ing Se than poorer it To elsewhere. J alwavs have — DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa. Restaurant. 50-32-1y. ESTAURANT. Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res- taurant where Meals are Served at All Hours Steaks. Ch Roasts, Oysters on alf shell oe in 207 style desired, Sant and anything eatable, can Pr an iti an furnish 0. ee, Ios oy Fotiles 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 C. MOERSCHBACHER, High St., Bellefonte, Pa. Moncey to Loan. ONEY TO LOAN on good security and houses to rent. Attorney-at-Law, Bellefonte Pa. 51-14-1v. sem smi 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. LIME AND LIMESTONE. LIME. Lime and Limestone for all purposes. H-O Lime Put up in 40 to 50 Pound Paper Bags. LIME. American Lime & 58-28-6m for use with drills or spreader, is the econom- ical form most careful farmers are using. High Calcium Central Pennsylvania I.ime Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace. Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa Stone Company., General Office: TYRONE, PA. Groceries. Groceries. 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. New crop California Prunes 12c, 15¢ and 18c per pound. New Evap- orated Peaches 10c, 12c apd 15c. Apricots 18c, 20 and 25¢c per pound. 1 fine fruit. Creamery Butter from the Fox River (Illinois) Creameries. Finest Meadow Gold Brand 42c per pound. New crop California Walnuts and Almonds, uts, Celery, Cran- berries, Sweet Potatoes, Oysters direct from the shell—We do not handle any Baltimore tub Oysters Evaporated and Dried Corn, very fine, new goods, 15¢ and 25c 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 full 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. Buy some of our fine cheese and compare it with other goods. Our Olives are large and of the very finest flavor at 40c per quart. Burnett's and Knight's Extracts, Crosse & Blackwell’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. md KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at Law Belle ‘ fonte, Pa. Practicesin all Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y. B. SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. Practices in all the Courts. Consultation in English or German. Crider’s Bellefonte, Pa. In S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Temple Court Belle. fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at- 40-46 and Counsellor at Law tended to promotly. J H. WETZEL—Attorn £ xchange, second floor. All kinds of legal business Office No. 11, es, Secoid to promptly. Consultation in English or i Polleronte. a. Prompt attention Siven 2 all business entrusted to his tes NoTE) 5 East High street. . ul® G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul German tation in English and Office in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5 Physicians. J KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law . GLENN, M. D., Physician Slats ate College, C. ot Ey county, 7a See w= Dentists. R. J. E. WARD, D. D. S., office next door to %! M.C. A. A. room, High street, Bellefonte, Hg Pa, Gas (Samiini iste: for painless extract: teeth. Superior Crown and Prices reasonable. pe Hoge wor 52-39 R. H. W. 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