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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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.)