‘cises the muscles of the legs. PE Beworrali ald Bellefonte, Pa., March 19, 1915. ONE OF LIFES GREAT TASKS Showing Boys and Girls Their Work May Be Properly Described as the Divine Profession. “There are noc men nor women alive, of too deep visioning, nor of too lus- trous a humanity, for the task of show- ing boys and girls their work. No other art answers so beautifully. This is the intense cultivation of the human spirit. This is world-parenthood, the divine profession. “lI would have my country call upon every man who shows vision and fine- ness in any work, to serve for an hour or two each day, among the schools of his neighborhood, telling the chil- dren the mysteries of his daily task— and watching for his own among them.” “There was an old priest who served men in Siberia. Around him, in that bleak winter land, were the best and worst of the Russian empire. He tend- ed the sick, and prayed with them; brought food, cut wood, procured medicines, watched with the dying, ‘prepared the dead. A certain young Red came out to the colony and ob- served the priest’s manner of life “ ‘Father,’ he said, finally, ‘I should think you would lose your soul in the midst of such misery and evil and darkness—as our life here is made of.’ “The old man leaned back and looked at the ceiling, shutting his eyes. “ ‘Well, now, that’s queer, he said, presently. ‘I had almost forgotten that I had a soul’ "—Will Levington Com- fort. BENEFIT IN WAGGING EARS Exercise Is Declared by Physicians to Have an Excellent Effect of the Hearing. You will rarely find that a man who can wag his ears suffers from deaf- ness. The reason for this is very sim- ple. Wagging one's ears exercises them just as much as walking exer- A great deal of deafness is caused by the mus- cles of the ears becoming stiff and refusing to respond quickly to the sound waves Quite a large proportion of children can move their ears, just as they can move the skin on their forehead up and down, but as they grow up they lose their power through want of prac- tice. It is a mistake to let a child lose this power, for it may mean the dif- ference between good and bad hearing in after years.. Dr. M. Fernet, the famous Paris doc- tor, has even gone so far as to suggest that people should be trained to wag their ears just as they are trained to exercise any other muscles of the body. Who Go to Church? The facts about church member- ship are contained in United States census bulletin No. 103, and the per- centage of church membership in the total population is given for the year 1906, 26 years after Kansas has be- come a prohibition state. According to this tabulation, which is the latest obtainable, the lowest percentage of church membership was in Oklahoma, including Indian Territory, the rate being 18.2. The rate in New York was 43.7; in Pennsylvania, 43; in Illinois, 38.3; in Nebraska, 32.4; in Maine, 29.8; and in Kansas, 28.4. Forty-three states had a larger percentage of membership than had Kansas. Since this tabulation was made up. two of the four states that had a low- er rate of church membership than had Kansas. namely Oklahoma and West Virginia, have joined the ranks of the prohibition states. Of the six states, therefore, having the lowes! rate of church membership in the Jnited States, four are prohibition states.—Royal E. Cabell in Leslie’s. The Order of Merit. In the whole of the Almanach de Gotha there is no decoration so ex- clusive as the Order of Merit which has just been personally conferred on Sir John French by King George. The commander in chief of the British army in the field shares this distine- tion with only one other British sol- dier—Lord Kitchener—and three ad- mirals, Lord Fisher, Sir Edward Ho: bart Seymour and Sir A. K. Wilson. Marshal Oyama, Admiral Toga and Marshal Yamagata are the only for- eign members of the order. Instituted in 1902 by King Edward for those pre- eminent in the fighting services, in literature, art and science, the order is essentially democratic and confers no special title or personal prece- dence on the holder.—London Chron- icle Worry and Adrenals. Every time we are excited, every time we worry a reflex action is sent to the adrenals, which causes a pour- ing into the system of adrenalin, the latter increasing the heart action and the arterial tension. This fact ex- plains why worry and excitement so often lead to arterio-sclerosis, heart ‘disease and nephritis.—Dr. Edmund M. Pond, surgeon to the Rockland Hospital, before the Vermont Dental Society. Large Contract for Meat. The British government has con- tracted with various Argentine meat plants for the purchase of 15,000 tons of frozen and chilled nteats each month for a period of 12 months. —— | HOW BREAD GOT ITS NAME Famous “Pumpernickel” Derived From Humorous Remark Made by the First Napoleon. “The fact that the German emperor has called upon his people to eat a new compound bread in order to hus- band the supply of wheat in Germany,” said a local baker the other day, “is reviving the old story as to the deriva- tion of ‘Pumpernickel’ or ‘bomber- nickel” the German brown bread which is more or less widely known in America. This name, so the story runs, dates back to the invasion by Napoleon of Germany. “After a hard day’s journey across German territory, Napoleon rode to an inn by the side of the road and calling the proprietor, ordered some- thing to eat. His larder low through the ravages of war, the innkeeper was able to offer the great militarist only some coarse brown bread. “Napoleon, shrugging his shoulders, pointed to his horse, Nicol, and said, ‘Bon pour Nicol'—the French equiva- lent for ‘that is good enough for Nicol. Whether the Frenchman finally ac- cepted the bread or went further to lIcok for better, the story does not relate. It does say, however, that the Germans quickly accepted this as a nickname for the bread, so confusing the French words, though, as to mak- ing the form ‘pumpernickel.” Whether or not the tale is a true one can hardly be determined, but at least it sounds probable.” TALLEST FLAGPOLE ON EARTH Stick of Timber at Panama-Pacific Ex- position Worthy to Float the Stars and Stripes. A fitting symbol of the mighty for ests of the West is Astoria’s flagpole, the tallest in the world, which floats the Stars and Stripes, 241 feet above the exposition seawall at the corner of the Oregon building at the Panama-Pa- cific exposition. The stick, for it is a single stick of timber, is actually 251 feet long, but ten feet of its butt is embedded in a 200-ton block of solid concrete, which, without other stays, holds the pole up- right against the wind. The pole was shaped from the trunk of a Douglas fir, which, as it originally stood in the Oregon forest, towered 347 feet in the air, and might nave matched its height, though not its girth, against any but the loftiest of the California sequoias. Looking up at the great flagstaff it is hard to realize that it weighs up: ward of forty-six tons, and that there is lumber enough in it to build five crdinary eight-room houses. Its great height gives it an appearance of slen- derness and lightness. Just to transport this pole and set it up, Russell Hawkins and the citizens of Astoria spent nearly enough thou- sands of dollars to build several of the houses its lumber might construct. He Reached the Limit. The Green Bag tells of a police mag: istrate in a western city who is a na- tive of Binghamton, N. Y. Once a cul prit, haled into court for drunkenness, told his honor that he had played in a brass band in Binghamton. . The judge discharged the prisoner. Now this incident was published in the newspapers, and during the next six months at least five other prison- ers brought before the judge explained that they had played in the aforesaid band. The judge telegraphed to an cld friend back in Binghamton asking how many pieces were in the band. The reply came back: “Nine” According- ly his honor announced himself as follows: “Hereafter no prisoners will be dis: charged on account of former mem. bership in the Binghamton band. The limit has been reached.” Rebe!s Use Portable Ice Plant. Gen. Francisco Villa, commanding the constitutional forces in the morth of Mexico, had a portable ice-making apparatus constructed for the use of his army and hospital corps during his later operations. The machinery, which is capable of producing 500 pounds of ice at one time, is divided into two sections and mounted on substantial trucks which are attached to motor vehicles and transported when the army is on the march. The engine, cooling tower and other of the equipment are arranged on one truck, while the freezing tanks, 20 in num- ber, and each with a capacity of 25 pounds, are carried in a refrigeration box on another.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. : Wound Makes Man See Green. A very interesting case is reported of a soldier, in a recent engagement, being shot in the forehead, the bullet passing out of the back of his head without killing or even stunning him. He remarked “Everything seems green all round me,” and when in the hos. pital tent he still persisted that he saw everything green. This case appears to favor the cerebral theory of color vision of Dr. Eldridge-Green, the shock to the brain having altered the dis- criminatory apparatus so that impulses caused by green rays had a preponder- ating influence.—Scimtific American. French Trees Vanishing. There is one featurc incidental to the winter warfare which will grieve all those who love to tour the old French country roads. The loug lines of beautiful trees which convert these into shady avenues are being sadly damaged. The need of firewood is very pressing, and as there is no coal available, the trees are being ruthless- ly sacrificed. Ee —————— LL CANDLE MANY CENTURIES OLL Inhabitants of Arras Have Great Faith in Sacred Relic Most Care- fully Guarded. Devastated Arras possesses an an- cient church, Notre Dame des Ardents, which remained uninjured despite the recent terrific bombardment. and which contains a unique reli: that is nearly 1,000 years old. The relic is known as the noly candle. It is guarded in a richly enam- eled silver casket, made to the order of Jean de Sasquepee, lord of Baudi- mont and owner of Arras, and a curi- ous history is attached to it. It ap- pears that in May, 1105, the Holy Vir- gin appeared during the night to two minstrels. A terrible plague depopulated Arras at that time, and the Virgin—so goes the legend—gave the two minstrels a candle, which they in turn gave to Bishop Lambert of Arras and toid them that the hot wax of this candle mixed with pure water would cure the inhabitants of Arras of the dreadful malady. The remedy proved efficacious, and a grateful populace erected the monas- tery of Ardents. The candle has been carefully guarded, and it is the drm belief of the inhabitants of Arras that it frequently saved them from utter destruction. IS WORK OF MANY MONTHS Construction of the Marvelous Zeppe- lin Aircraft Not a Matter Which Can Be Hurried. The building of a Zeppelin 1s not the work of a day. The mere work on the vessels takes an entire year, and when that work is done another three ' months must be spent in testing. Stretched in a framework of girders, there are from seventeen to twenty-. five balloonettes from end to end. Over | these and over the girders is an outer skin of proofed canvas. Slung under the great length is a series of cabins. Right in front is the station of the lookout man, who is in charge of the starting and the landing; he nas an- chors slung beneath him. In the first boat, which is entirely covered in, are two petrol engines. Behind this boat is the gangway, fitted up with sleeping berths for the crew. In the center is the observation station. It is from here that the bombs are dropped, and it ic in here that the marvelous steer- ing and sighting apparatus is installed, as well as the wireless plant. Training for the Housewives. The failure of former shop and fac tory girls as wives and housekeepers is often commented upon by American social workers. In this connection it is interesting to note the establish- ment in Leipsic of a compulsory con tinuation school for unmarried women employed in industry. According to the regulations pro- vided for this purpose by the muni- cipal council all unmarried women who have finished the public schools and who live, or are employed in in- dustrial, mercantile or other estab- lishments in Leipsic are compelled to attend this continuation school for three years. Even unemployment is not accepted as an excuse for failure to attend the school. Housekeeping is the central subject taught, although instruction is also to be given in in- dustrial and general subjects. The: number of hours of instruction ranges from four to six:each week. In addi tion to the compulsory features of the school, provision is also made for vol- untary attendance on the part of girls living at home or in service. Hair Pulling a Disease. Hair pulling isn’t confined to mari- tal disputes. There is a curious af- fliction, more of nerves than of the skin, called trichotillomania, which causes people io pull out their own hair. In the last number of the Jour- nai of the American Medical Associa- tion a Kansas City specialist describes two cases which he treated. A young woman of twenty-seven was in the habit of pulling out her eyebrows; a schoolboy of fourteen tweaked the hairs out of the left side »f his head. The hair pulling was involuntary; ir resistable impulses, coming suddenly, . caused them to do it. Rest, freedom from worry and tonic containing arsenic produced noticeable improve- ment in both cases. Secret Closely Kept. Cologne's toilet water industry, which is being so seriously affected by the war, was established in the beginning of the seventeenth cen- tury. The inventors of toilet water (eau-de-Cologne) were Paul Feminis and Maria Clementine, a Catholic nun. They began on a small scale, with few persons employed, whom they did not initiate into the secrets of the whole process, the last and most im- portant mixture being made by the inventors themselves. Paul Feminis left the secret with the Farina fam- ily, while the nun bequeathed the se- cret to one Peter Schaeben, who had been her assistant for many years. Thrift. Mayor Mitchel of New York, at the conference of mayors in Philadelphia, said at a luncheon: “A city should be conducted as thriftily as a Scotch household. You know, of course, the kind of Scotch household | mean—the kind where the father, setting off on a fortnight’s busi- ness trip, says in the hall: “ ‘Good-by, all, and, Kathleen, dinna forget to mak’ lettle Dugald tak’ his glasses aff when he’s na lookin’ at naething.’ ” ASSEMBLYMAN GETS ANSWER. Philadelphia, .March 17. Railroad men who have checked up on the argument made by Francis P. Boland, Assemblyman in the New Jer- sey Legislature, in the joint debate beld last Friday evening at Jersey City with Hart J. Fackenthall find that Mr. Boland juggled with facts. For instance, he called upon the Pennsylvazia Railroad to explain why in statement No. 1 issued by the Ex- ecutive Committee of Associated Rail- roads it was stated that in the first balf of 1914 two passengers were kill ed on the Pennsylvania Railroad, while in the bulletin previously issued by the Publicity Department of the Company it was stated that 189,167, Pennsylvania System without any be- ing killed. The two passengers killed last year lost their lives falling from trains, a fact given in No. 1 statement. With equal clearness it was stated in the Publicity Department Bulletin that no passenger was killed in a “train acci- dent.” Such is the conclusive answer to question No. 1, which Mr. Boland 80 vehemently hurled at his opponent, Engineer Fackenthall. Mr. Boland also demanded answer lo a statement in statement No. 1 of the Executive Committee, that last year the Full Crew—“Excess Man Crew"—Laws forced a waste of $2, 900,000 on the railroads in Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey, when on the back of the Pennsylvania Railroad menu card a figure of $1,702,407 was given. The answer is that $2,000,000 was merely a general statement of the cost. It also is a fair average amount for such expenditures under normal conditions. Business is now greatly depressed and traffic reduced. | There are now employed on eighteen roads in the two states 2299 excess brakemen, whereas these same rail- roads when the laws took effect were compelled to add 2819 men to train | CTews. - ~ Look Ahead. {It’s only a trifle now, that little touch of stomach trouble. But look ahead. | Every dangerous disease begins in a tri- | fle, just as the destructive avalanche be- | gins, perhaps, in a rolling pebble When the first symptoms of a disordered or diseased ‘stomach appear begin to use Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. The perfect control exercised by this remedy over the stomach and other or- gans of digestion and nutrition makes speedy relief certain. It will relieve in extreme cases. But it benefits quickest when the disease is taken at the start. Take no pill which reduces you to pill slavery. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets do not beget the pill habit. They cure con- stipation, and its almost countless conse- quences. ~ Education. Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and : their ways; and the fashioning of the | affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.—Huxley. First Fuchsia. The first fuchsia known to cultiva- tion was taken to England by a sailor and grown and flowered by his wife on a window sill. It was later seen by a London nurseryman, who pur- chased it for about $20. Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Loss of Appetite MOST SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY TAK- ING HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA. Loss of appetite is accompanied by loss of vitality, which is serious. It is common in the spring because at this time the blood is impure and impov- erished and fails to give the digestive or- gans what is absolutely necessary for the proper performance of their functions. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the old reliable all- the-year-round medicine, is especially useful in the spring. Get it from your druggist today. By purifying and enrich- ing the blood and giving vitality, vigor and tone, it is wonderfully successful in the treatment of loss of appetite and the other ailments prevalent at this time, It is not simply a spring medicine—it is much more than that—but it is the best spring medicine. : Hood’s Sarsaparilla makes the rich red blood the digestive organs need. 60-12 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. 58-23:1y : 326 passengers were carried on the ! CASTORIA. LY, CASTORIA. a re tent ms CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Pil Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature § | wy = juz ull gL Loni 8 Rurorrorm) . uf Im | EY et] eT TT TT ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. AVegetable Preparation forAs- siniaing te FoolanRea ling the Stomachs of | ETT 18 | Promotes Digestion Cheerfi- #1: | ness and Rest.Contains neither | Opium Morphine nor Mineral : INOT NARCOTIC. | : erfect Remedy for Consfipa nile fiom, Sour Stomach, Diarra ihe || | Worms. C JFeverish 8’ | | nessand LOSS OF SLEEP. Use Puce Sane of | For Over megmncess | [Thirty Years EE CASTORIA i 35 Doses —335 CENTS Exact Copy of Wrapper, THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. od all 59-20-e.0.w Plumbing. Good Health and Good Plumbin; GO TOGETHER. 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. When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky water-fixtures, foul sewerage, or escapins gas. you can’t have good Health. The air yo reathe is poisonous; your system become: poisoned and invalidism is sure to come. SANITARY PLUMBING is the kind we do. It'sthe only kind vu ought to have. Wedon't trust this work boys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanic: no better anywhere. Our Material and Fixtures are the Bes: 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. Fo the Best Work trv ~ Archibald Allison, Opposite Bush House - 56-14-1v. OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET. BELLEFONTE, PA. 7-19 MILL AT ROOPBSURG. Bellefonte, 1} : Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. Cato’s Follow-up System By HERBERT KAUFMAN Author of “Do Something! Be Something!’’ F A MAN lambasted you on the eye and walked away and waited a week before he repeated the performance, he wouldn’t hurt you very badly. Between attacks you would have an opportunity to recover from the effect of the first blow. But if he smashed you and kept mauling, each impact of his fist would find you less able to stand the hammering, and a half-dozen jabs would probably knock you down. Now advertising is, after all, a matter of hitting the eye of the public. If you allow too great an interval to elapse between inser- tions of copy the effect of the first advertisement will have worn away by the time you hit again. You may continue your scattered talks over a stretch of years, but you will not derive the same benefit that would result irom a greater concentration. In other words, by appearing in print every day, you are able to get the benefit of the impression created the day before, and as each piece of copy makes its appearance, the result of your publicity on the reader’s mind is more pronounced—you mustn't stop short of a knock-down ims pression. Persistence is the foundation of advertising success. Regularity of insertion is just as important as clever phrasing. The man who hangs on is the man who wins out. Cato the Elder is an example to every merchant who uses the newspapers and should be an inspira- tion to every storekeeper who does not. For twenty years he arose daily in the Roman senate and cried out for the destruction of Carthage. In the beginning he found his conferees very unrespon- sive. But he kept on every day, month after month and year after year, sinking into the minds of all the necessity of destroying Carthage, until he set all the senate thinking upon the subject, and in the end Rome sent an army across the Mediterranean and ended the reign of the Hannibals and Hamilcars over northern Africa. The persistent utterances of a single man did it. The history of every mercantile success is parallel. The adver- tiser who does not let a day slip by without having his say, is bound to be heard and have his influence felt. Every insertion of copy brings stronger returns, because it has the benefit of what has been said before, until the public’s attention is struck like an eye that has been so repeatedly struck, that the least touch of suggestion will feel like a blow. (Copyright.)
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