Benoit, Bellefonte, Pa., March 12, 1915. AFFECTED BY WATER’S DEPTH Geographers Have Found It Easy %o Trace the Cause of Tidal Irregularities. To be exact, there is only one ocean in the world where the tides follow the moon with regularity, and this is the great Antarctic basin. And the reason is that there is the only place ap sweep of water is to be found that fs entirely uninterrupted by land. The enormous waves caused by the moon’s attraction course round the world south of Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, with absolutely pothing to break them. Here in our northern hemisphere great masses of land interrupt the tidal waves and, combined with the shallowness of the inland seas, cause them to perform antics which seem most strange. The depth of the water has much to do with the tidal irregularities. Out in the open ocean, where the tide is abysmal—about five thousand fathoms —the speed of the waves is amazing. Where the depth decreases to five fathoms the tide cannot travel more than fifteen miles an hour. In Eng- land, for example, which is surround- ed by narrow, land-broken seas, the result is that they get some of the most dangerous tidal races and cur- rents to be found. The most formid- able of these is the whirlpool between the islands of Jura and Scarba, on the west coast of Scotland. This is known as the “Caldron of the Spotted Seas.” There the current runs at times at the rate of more than twelve miles an hour, and the force of a heavy tidal ‘current rushing up to the wide- ‘mouthed river forms what is called a “bore.” A most striking example of ithis tidal feature is often seen on the /Amazon, when a moving wall of wa- {ter, reaching from bank to bank and ito a heignt of more than twenty feet, will rush inland. DOGS HELPED EACH OTHER Case of Mutual Understanding Seems to Argue for Existence of Intellect. A horse trough in one of the suburbs of Sydney was the scene of a funny in- cident the other afternoon. Two dogs, water spaniels, were trotting along, when they came to this place, and stopped for a drink. They were both thirsty, but neither was tall enough to reach the trough; and they talked the matter over, as dogs will, and won- dered why they had not been treated with as much consideration as horses. Presently they solved the problem. One of them ranged himself under the edge of the trough and the other, rest- ing his forefeet upon his companion’s back, was able to reach into the pool and slake his thirst. When he had fin ished he hopped down, seemed to say that the water was good, and then in turn ranged himself under the edge of the trough, and thc other reached up for the drink he had earned. When he was satisfied, they trotted away to gether, as well contented as any man could be who had met a problem and vanquished it.—Dawn. Keeping Flowers With Sugar. Two professors of the school of ag: riculture at Rennes, France, have made some interesting experiments in prolonging the lives of cut flowers. One hundred different flowers were used in the experiments, and it was found that sugar helped to keep most of them fresh, but was positively in- jurious to lilies and sweet peas. It hastens the opening of roses and orchids, but did not thus affect tulips, daisies or chrysanthemums. Experiments were made with small quantities of chloral, ether, glycerin. alcohol, limewater and ammonia salts, leach of which served to lengthen the [life of various flowers. Some of the flowers kept in sugar and water lived {four times as long as they ordinarily { would. The sugar does not have an exactly ‘equal effect on the different flowers lit preserves. Carnations seem to like la 15 per cent solution and roses dc better in a solution of from 8 to 10 per cent.—Florists’ Exchange. Common Ailments. The pain from an ingrowing toe nail can be relieved, says nurse, by treating with a mixture composed of jone ounce chloride of zinc and one {drop each of muriatic and nitric acid; {mix them thoroughly and apply one ldrop daily to the afflicted toe. The suffering caused by chilblains dis often relieved by painting them ‘with collodion, with equal parts of oil iof turpentine and ichthyol, applied swith a: camel’s-hair brush. When the feet are swollen and con: gested from rheumatism or other jcauses, try bandaging them. Begin at ithe toes, drawing as tight as may be borne until the heel is passed. This I usually relieve the congested ondition. Good Work of Aviators. In all of his reports General French has laid stress upon the great service rendered by the aviators in ascevtain- ing {Lc moves of the enemy as soon as t..y start to make them. The reconi:oissance work they have per- fcrzmed has been invaluable. Accord- ing to the official statement of the British war office, their aviators are coverinz an average of 2,000 miles a day. REAL MEANING OF ZIONISM, | Rebirth of Nation in Paiestine Is Movement for Greater Freedom of the Jews. The Jewish movement called Zion- ism is not a movement for the restora- tion of the Jews to Palestine. The : little land could not support more than | 3,000,000 of the 14,000,000 Jews. It is a movement to win more freedom for ' Jews everywhere. But the new birth | of a Jewish nation in Palestine is in: process of practical completion. A generation ago a few Jews emi- | grated from Roumania and Russia to ! Palestine because convinced that the Jew’s undying yearning for the land of : Abraham is a fact of the deepest meaning. It is evidence of the sur- vival of a nationality that has shown its fitness to survive. Those pilgrims and their successors have demon-! strated that Palestine is fit for the modern Jew and that he is fit for the | land, Where the land was treeless and sup- posed to be worthlessly sterile the col- | onists have caused the almond and . the olive, the grape and the orange, ! wheat and the sister cereals to thrive and abound. They are changing the desert into a garden. At the same time the material development of the Jewish colonies has been accompanied by no less remarkable development of the Hebrew colonizers both socially and spiritually. Hebrews, after a sleep of more than two thousand years as a “dead” language, has again be- come a living tongue, serving as the medium of intercommunication be- tween Jews from many countries of different languages. The renascence of the Hebrew language has in turn acted powerfully to revive the spirit | of Jewish nationality. { i i | i It is a strange instance of the turns | of history’s wheel that nearty twenty- | three centuries after the return of Ju- | dean exiles from ancient Babylon, which for millenniums has been bur- ied beneath the dust of ages, modern | Jews now return again to the land of ! their fathers and build up another Hebrew commonwealth, BLESSING OF GOOD HEREDITY That “Blood Will Tell” Is Shown in | the Descendants of Some Early Americans. We have heard so much in these latter days about the evils of bad he- redity that it might be well to reckon : for a moment some of the blessings of good heredity. i If it had not been for the descend- ants of Jonathan Edwards our eastern universities and colleges would be short their most distinguished presi- dents. If it had not been for the descend- ants of a single Austrian who came to this country three generations ago Sir Thomas Lipton would have had pretty easy work lifting the yachting trophy. That Austrian’s name was ' Herreshoff. John Adams was a very mediocre president of the United States, but a first-class minister to England, and a sound patriot. His son, John Quincy Adams, originated the Monroe doc- trine | In the third generation came Charles Francis Adams, war minister to Eng- | land, the only man who ever called . Lord Palmerston down and made good ' with it; while scattered around the country are some hundreds of less noted descendants of the original J. A.; all of them remarkably above the average in intelligence and character. In colonial days an Irishman of Eng- lish descent and his wife, who was Irish without any explanations, came to Virginia. Their name was Preston. Four governors of Virginia were de- scended from this Irish pair. Their seed gave governors to South Caro- lina, Louisiana, Kentucky, New York, | Missouri and California. f In the Civil war twelve of their de- | scendantg reached the rank of general in one army or the other; and the colonels they produced are almost too ! numerous to mention. Heredity werks both ways; usually the right way. but Activities of Women. Miss Rose M. Webers gave up her position as a teacher to become a po- licewoman in Racine, Wis. Twenty out of every hundred wom- an bread winners in New York city are adrift, that is, without homes. Symmetry in the feminine form is the ideal of a new course to be insti- tuted at the University of Pittsburgh. Among the 3,329 woman prisoners investigated by a government commis- sion not one college student was found. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland will personally underwrite $1,000,000 of the $11,000,000 war loan in that country. Woman Officeholders. Katherine Bement Davis, commis- sioner of corrections in New York, says that many women in public of- fices hold over from one administra- tion to another, and, through their knowledge of the affairs cf the office, keep things going. If that is true, why should they not become the high officials themselves once in a while? Officeholders, she says, are but a small part of the population at any time and could not make great inroads upon the happiness of the home. Plan to Use Reindeer. The Laurentide company of Quebec, producers of pulp and pulpwood, is re- foresting its nonagricultural cutover lands. It is also importing reindeer from Newfoundland, to see if they can take the place of dogs in winter woods work. ! could for you.” ‘I qualities. 70 BE HANDLED WITH CARE | Matter of Giving Advice Is Always Worth the Most Thoughtful Consideration. A very good rule is expressed in the homely words, “Mind your own busi- ness.” The desire to help another is praiseworthy, but it may be carried too far, and when it is, one becomes meddlesome and officious. Every man has to be accountable for his own acts. No one may carry this responsi- bility for him. This is what makes proffered advice often impertinent. The man who of- fers it offers only half of the need and the easier half at that. If his advice is followed and failure comes, he can only say, “I did the best 1 It is seldom that ad- vice thrust on another is of real serv- ice to him. Forcing it on any person who does not feel the need of it is confusing and misleading. The man who hears is not likely to make a de- termined effort to follow it, nor can he wholly forget it. The result is that he feels unsure of the things he is doing. Besides, it is often hard to distinguish a well-meaning friend from an idle meddler, than whom no one is more detested. There are, of course, persons who ask advice, and then thought of the most serious kind is needed. Not what you would do, but what the other man ought to do and can do—that is the only advice you can give him, and then you are probably better off if he doesn’t take it. For giving advice is one of the hardest things a thoughtful person can be asked to do, and one of the cheapest things the thoughtless person does.—Milwaukee Journal. MATTER OF OFFICE HOURS Diverging Opinions of Two Managers as to Attaining Results Are of Interest. Two men with offices in the Wall street district, each employing a cleri- cal force of a dozen persons, were talk- ing shop at luncheon the other day and one said he was an early riser and usually was at the office before ! any of the clerks. “I'm an early riser, too, and get up ! because I like to,” said the other, “but I never get to my ottice before nine o'clock, a half hour after the office opens for business. I do this because after considerable experience and ob- servation I found that it is more effec- tive with the employees. “They are shrewd folk, they are, and have their own methods of sizing up the boss, and I find that they conclude that the employer who gets to his , office early either needs the extra time to do his work in or he wants to see that his employees are not beating time on him. Either of these con- ditions is, in my opinion, not to the interest of the employer. “Therefore, I let them see that I trust them to be on hand promptly and also that I can do my part of the work in less time than they can. I can’t always, but when I can’t I'do it at home, where they can’t see me or know anything about it. I respect my people and they respect me, and 1 | don’t have to get to the office early to do it, either.” The Coonskin Cap. The coonskin cap is the badge of ; The time was | pioneer extraction. when the coonskin cap was to a rifle match and turkey raffle what a col- lapsible silk tile is to the foyer of Delmonico’s restaurant. Fitness of dress to occasion is a prime consid- eration, and the day was when an early pioneer occasion in winter was made as distinctive with coonskin caps as Fifth avenue is distinctive to- day with high and shiny “plug hats.” True, a coonskin cap with the ear lappers turned up, yet lying off from the head at about forty-five degrees and with the tie strings pendant there- from, more resembles a war bonnet than a headpiece of civilized men; but, for all that, one can hardly do less | than feel a sort of veneration for the coonskin cap as symbolical of the traditions of midwest pioneers, and 80 well reminding one of their sterling No pioneer historical col- lection should be counted complete without a coonskin cap.—Lafayette Courier. : Cat Was Soldiers’ Pet. The “Grenadiers’ cat” was picked up by a man of No. 1 company in an en- campment in Bulgaria, and embarked with the regiment for the Crimea. The cat went through the campaign in a soldier's knapsack, occasionally peeping out from its shelter, and sur- veying the novel aspect of a battle with great contentment. Like most pets the cat did not come to a peace- ful end. It finally became an inmate of the regimental hospital, that being the only quiet and safe refuge to be found for it, got worried, and died at Balaklava. Such was the end of “Bul. garian Bell,” the only instance prob- ably of a cat going into action.—Lon- don Tit-Bits. In Jars of Pottery. Water is made deliciously cool by putting it at night into jars of coarse pottery and placing these out doors where the night air can reach them. The pottery is so porous that some of the water will ooze out during the night, leaving the rest delightfully cool. Glazed pottery cannot be used for the purpose. protected by a covering of fine wire, mosquito netting or cheesecloth to keep the contents clean and yet admit the air. : Each jar must be ———— SUGAR’S GREAT FOOD VALUE Constitutes One-Half the Nourishment That Man Needs, and Has Many Other Virtues. Sugar and sugar-forming foods con- stitute more than one-half of the nourishment needed by a healthy per- son. As a food it possesses well-known properties, being a nutrient to adipose tissue and a respiratory fuel, and it is decidedly diuretic in its action upon healthy kidneys. If sugar is withheld, as in diabetes, a person actually starves and andergoes progressive and rapid emaciation. The excessive use of sugar or sweets in the dietary is never advisable, but a judicious mix- ture of sugar with che general diet ( is necessary to maintain health. Any- one who omits sugar from his diet will lose in weight, become thin and have no muscular strength. Sugar gives one muscular strength. Eating candy is an agreeable form of sugar. It should not be eaten at all times; if taken be- tween meals it is apt to cause indi- gestion. It is always best to eat candy after meals, with dessert. Growing children need sweet foods and candy to help build up their muscular strength. The child’s longing for cake and candy is in reality a systematic demand for food to give it strength. Let the children have candy at meals, never between meals. Eating too much of the sweet things, particularly be- tween meals, causes fermentation in the digestive tract, and sometimes a serious illness may result. an antiseptic. Burning sugar on a shovel will destroy unpleasant odors. For hoarseness and weak voice there is nothing more comforting than some- ! thing sweet slowly dissolved in the mouth. RAILWAYS IN SALT MINES One of the World's Wonders Is Situ- ated Near City of Cracow, in Austrian Poland. Writing of the wonderful Wieliczka salt mines near Cracow in Austrian Poland, the Manchester (England) Guardian gives an interesting descrip- tion of a railway station in the mine. There are 65 miles of pony tramways, says the Guardian, and 22 miles of railway. - All these lines and the prin- cipal passages or “streets” meet in a sort of central cavern. Here is a cen- tral railway station, with spacious waiting rooms, offices and an excellent refreshment room all complete, all hewn out of rock salt, and looking, ac- cording to one description, “more like a summer pavilion than a railway sta- tion, with its latticed galleries and stately pillars gleaming white and iri- descent.” This is comparatively mod- ern, of course. The oldest “building” -in the mine is the chapel of St. An- thony, dating from 1691. It contains three altars, a pulpit and much statu- ary, all elaborately carved out of rock salt. But services are now held only in the more modern but equally elab- orate chapel of St. Cunigund, which is entered down 46 salt steps. The chapel Is 50 yards long, and is used regularly for worship. The ballroom is a huge room, where miners’ festivals are often held. A miners’ orchestra plays regu- larly in this hall not only for the dances, but for the entertainment of visitors, for the mine is one of the wonders of the world and is much vis- ited by tourists. Purity of Water. It is sometimes useful to be abic wo obtain an idea of the purity or other- wise of a given water supply without incurring the expense of a full chemi- cal and bacteriological analysis. Among the constituents of sewage are phosphates in comparative abundance, If a clear glass bottle is nearly filled with the water to be tested, a lump or two of sugar added, and the whole corked tightly and placed in a sunny place for two or three days, the water should remain quite clear. If, how- ever, it contains phosphates in ex- cess, a milkiness will have developed in it, in which case the suspicion of contamination would be sufficiently confirmed to warrant a full analysis if the water supply before any more of it is used for drinking purposes. : Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Have Good Health TAKE HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA, THE OLD RELIABLE SPRING TONIC. Don’t let the idea that you may feel bet- terin a day or two prevent you from get- ting a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla today from any drug store and starting at once on the road to health and strength. When your blood is impure and impov- erished it lacks vitality, your digestion is imperfect, your appetite is poor, and all the functions of your body are impaired. Hood's Sarsaparilla isa wonderful blood tonic. It will build you up quicker than any other medicine. It gives strength to do and power to endure. It is the old standard tried and true all-the-year-round blood purifier and enricher, tonic and ap- petizer. Nothing else acts like it, for nothing else has the same formula or in- gredients. Be sure to ask for Hood's; in- sist on having it. 60-11 Fine Job Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING 0—A SPECIALTY—o0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE There is no style of work, from the cheapest “Dodger” to the finest BOOK WORK, that we car: not do in the most satis- factory manner, and at Prices consists . ent with the class of work. Call on or comm with this office’ Sugar is ! A Woman's Word is worth much to women. “I suffered for fifteen years with falling of internal organs and nervousness,” writes Mrs. Vincent Bohall, of Franklin, Johnson Co., Indiana. “One year ago I began taking your ‘Favorite Prescription’ and ‘Golden Medical Discovery.” I took six bottles of each, and now 1 am well. I owe my life to Dr. Pierce.” Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the most wonderful remedy for woman's ills, known to science. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. Flour and Feed. At'orneys-at-Law. _ KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law,Belle fonte, Pa. Practicesin all Office - Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y. B. SPANGLER.-Attorney-at-Law. Practices in all the Courts. Consultation in English or German. Office in Crider’s Eachinge. 40- Bellefonte, Pa. S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at Ww. ce in Temple Court, Belle. fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at- tended to prompotly. 40-46 J H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office No. 11, Crider’s Exchange, second to promptly. Consultation in English or German floor. All kinds of legal business attended (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- i 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. Plumbing. Good Health and Good Plumbing GO TOGETHER. When you have dripping steam pipes, leak) water-fixtures, foul sewerage, or escaping as, you can’t have good Health. The air you reathe is poisonous; your system become: poisoned and invalidism is sure to come. SANITARY PLUMBING is the kind we do. It’s the only ought to have. Wedon’t trust this work te boys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics, no better anywhere. Our Material and Fixtures are the Bes kind you 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 T, unsanitary work and the lowest grade of finishings. For the Best Work trv Archibald Allison, Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, P: 56-14-1v. at- 1y* 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 prom tention. 4 KENNEDY JOHNSTON-—Attorney-at-law, J Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention Riven all legal business entrusted to his care. Offi- | ces—No. 5 East Hieh street. 57-44. G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul- tation in Fogleh and German. Office in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5 ————————————— Meat Market. (Get the Best Meats. You save nothing by buying poor, thin or gristly meats. I use only the LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and supply my customers with the fresh- est, choicest, bl and muscle mak- ing S 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, 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa High Street. 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. P.R.R. Depot. kel 58-23-1v How Alexander A do so failed.” He simply “ealized that he would And instead of wasting time with slashed it apart. 1-—The problem of location. 2—The problem 3—The problem 4—The problem 5—The problem Gordian knot they must be cut can’t cut the knot with anything neighborhood. tising. of sales. more powerful every hour. one. incompetence. Untied the Knot By HERBERT KAUFMAN Author of “Do Something! Be Something!” LEXANDER the Great was being shown the Gordian Knot. “It can’t be untied,” they told him; “every man who tried to But Alexander was not discouraged because the rest had flunked. have to go at it in a different way. his fingers, he drew his sword and Every day a great business general is shown some knot which has proved too much for his competitors, and :e succeeds, because he finds a way to cut it. The fumbler has no show so long as there is a brother merchant who doesn’ the impossible—who takes lessons from the failures about him and avoids the methods which were their downfall. The knottiest problems in trade are: t waste time trying to accomplish of getting the crowds. of keeping the crowds. of minimizing fixed expenses. of creating a valuable good will None of these knots is going to be untied by fumbling fingers. They are too complicated. They're all inextricably involved—so twisted and entangled that they can’t be solved singly—like the through at one stroke. And you but advertising—because: 1—A store that is constantly before the people makes its own 2—Crowds can be brought from anywhere by persistent adver- 3—Customers can always be held by inducements. 4—Fixed expenses can only be reduced by increasing the volume 5—Good will can only be created through publicity. Advertising is breeding new giants every year and making them Publicity is the sustaining food of a powerful store and the only strengthening nourishment for a weak The retailer who delays his entry into advertising must pay the penalty of his procrastination by facing more giant competitors as each month of opportunity slips by. Personal ability as a close purchaser and as a clever seller, doesn’t count for a hang, so long as other men are equally well posted and wear the sword of publicity to boot. They are able to tie your business into constantly closer knots, while you cannot retaliate, be- cause there is no knot which their advertising cannot cut for them. Yesterday you lost a customer—today they took one—tomorrow they'll get another. You cannot cope with their competition because you haven't the weapon with which to oppose it. You can’t untie your Gordian knot because it can’t be untied—you’ve got to cut it. You must become an advertiser or you must pay the penalty of (Copvright.)
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