“Bemorvalic; atc Bellefonte, Pa., June 18, 1915. pT And He Did. A country deacon went home ome evening and complained to his wife that he had been abused down at the store shamef@lly. “One of the neigh- bors,” he said, “called me a liar.” Her eyes flashed with indignation. “Why didn’t you tell him to prove it?” she exclaimed. “That’s the very thing— that’s the trouble,” replied the hus- band; “I told him to prove it, and he did.” Hibernation. All sleep is phenomenal, but the sleep which endures the winter through with some warm-blooded ani- | mals which find themselves suddenly surrounded by frigid weather, and when all functions that make for the best of life are as if they had never been, is most curious. While it is mainly explicable it is none the less astonishing. Kerosene Found Effective. Investigations have been carried on ! to discover remedigs for insects which damage such forest products as tele- graph poles, railroad ties and tool handles. With hardwood products liable to attack by the so-called pow- derpost beetles it has been found that kerosene and linseed oil are effective repellents against these insects. Earth’s Diameter. The earth’s greatest diameter is not necessarily at the equator. According | to the eminent Professor Henkey, the actual greatest diameter is that taken | from the summit of Mount Chimbo- | razo. The line drawn from this point to the opposite side on a point in Su- matra gives a diameter of 7,929 miles. | An Englishwoman “Soldier.” The most famous Englishwoman | “soldier” was Dr. James Barry, who | joined the medical corps in 1813 and served at Waterloo and in Crimea. In | 1858, after many promotions, she be- | came inspector general, and it was not until many years later that the fact that she was a woman was discovered. In a State of Doubt. “Your legal department must be very expensive.” “It is,” sighed the eminent trust magnate. “Still, I sup- pose you have to maintain it?” “Well, I don’t know. Sometimes I think it Birmingham Age-Herald. Real Lords of the Earth. He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living places. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords and kings of the earth—they and they only.—John Ruskin. Field Marshals. The “baton” borne by generals in the French armies and by the mar- shals of other nations is emblematic purely—simply a mark of their office. The title of “field marshal” is not known in the United States army. We Conquered Nature. “Yes, gentlemen,” said the geolo- : gist, “the ground we walk on was once under water.” “Well,” replied the patriotic young man of the party, “it simply goes to show that you can’t hold this country down.” Many Sources of Paper Supply. News print paper has been made by the forest service laboratory from 24 different woods, and a number com- pare favorably with standard spruce pulp paper. History of Linen Manufacture. The Scots in Ulster first established linen manufacture during the reign of James the First, and from this begin- ning has the business of the present day developed. Sawed-Off Sermon. ‘When a young widow takes a young man into her confidence, he is up against the worst kind of a confidence game.—Indianapolis News. Reputation and Character. Reputation is what men and wom- en think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us.—Thomas Paine. Wrong Figuring. It is a telling commentary on a man when he begins to figure his money in liquid measure.—Philadel- phia Inquirer, Wary Ostrich. The ostrich always approaches its nest by a devious path, the idea be- ing to conceal the location from ob- servation. Life and Work. I must do my own work and live my own life in my own way, because I'm responsible for both.~—Kipling. Cynical Comment. Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. Cervantes. Varied RKenu. The chorus girl dines one day on a crust and the next on a crustacean.— New York Evening Mail. ' TAKES ISSUE WITH EDISON | a | Here is One Man Who Does Not Be i. lieve the World Will Give | Up Sleep. } r— | Mr. Edison says sleep is a bad habit, : and that we shall some day get over it. Like drinking and smoking, it is to be among those things which wo shall try in time to give up on the first of the year. He says people called him crazy when he said electricity would supplant all other motive power in transportation, and one therefore hesi- tates to say that he is crazy about anything. However, we will hazard a guess that if he is off his box any- where, it is with respect to the pleas- ant custom of indulging ourselves in a good sound snooze. How else we are to refresh ourselves from the day’s | work we cannot imagine. The trouble with this objection, as it applies to Mr. Edison, is that he doesn’t think we are wearied by the day’s work. He 21 hours a day, and they all gained weight! He leads us to infer that it is what we do when we are not working that wearies us. Thinking over it | briefly, we believe there is something ; in that. Probably half the things we | do in our leisure time is very hard | work. The celebrated tired business man is only tired when his wife wants | | | him to go out somewhere after din- ner. It is the opera and the fox trot | that wear him out. Still, think of giv- | ing up sleep! If it is a habit, it is a nice one. We have got some glimpses of what Mr. Edison means when we have tried to sleep in a chair car, but given a feather bed and a soft pillow, we don’t get him at all. Last night, for. instance. Wasn't the habit deli- cious last night?—St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. NATURAL MEANS OF DEFENSE | Possibility That Another Generation | of Fighters May Utilize Their Whiskers. % Here is a war comment from George i W. Monroe, the comedian: { The Russian army has one advap- tage over all other armies, and that is whiskers. not even lyddite, shrapnel or slugs. A flossy kind that toss around with It has an entanglement of | whiskers that nothing can penetrate— Russian soldier's whiskers are not the | and some of his associates worked at something for a given period of time i NOISE AS A FACTOR IN WAR Those Accustomed to It Make Better Soldiers Than Those Who Are Not. There has been growing in recent years a belief that the soldier from Did Service to Humanity. Captain Hutchinson, the dockmaster at Liverpool, is credited with having originated the reflecting lighthouse in 1763, and anotser great improvement : in the invention of a light for light- the rural districts is not as good a . campaigner as his brother-in-arms ! from the cities. From Europe there has just come one comment from an excellent authority bearing out in a way, so far as the British troops are | concerned, this conclusion. houses was made by Lieutenant Drum- mond, who was the first to suggest . the using of oxyhydrogen light. To- ' day there is no danger rock or point along any of the navigable coasts but : ' has its modern lighthouse. An English sergeant major, a class that is the flower of the British army, who is Great Britain’s professional the opinion as the result of the Bel- | quired the boy’s mother. owing to their system of training, and ! one.” soldier par excellence, has expressed ! gian and French campaign that the regiments recruited in the cities are ' proving the best on the battlefields because they are accustomed to noise. “It is the quantity of the German shells that is having this effect,” he said, “and hellish noise racks the nerves beyond the breaking point for , those who live away from the big cities.” Mayor Gaynor wrote in one of his inimitable letters that he could work in a boiler factory. Most city dwel- lers have to labor under conditions . ' closely approximating such a condi- tion. No one ever believed anything good could be said of the ding-dong concussions assailing the civic ear; and yet we learn by this testimony that noises of this kind may become a factor in war.—New York Press. PLEASURES OF FILM ACTING Man Had Been Told It Was a Bore, But on Experience Found It Far Otherwise. “Say,” said Harry Mestayer, “they told me film acting was a bore. Take it from me, it’s a cinch. I went to a . to decline at twenty-five years, studio today to be photographed in a production. First, the director gave ' me a cigarette to smoke. Then he handed me a glass of beer. I finished four cigarettes and four glasses of . beer before the scene was taken. Next ! | | every passing gale. They are so dura- : i | ble that when he falls on them he does ; into the ground. The only time a Rus- emy. The other armies may have the best tactics, armament, discipline, spirit and patrictism, but the Russian . army has the chilled-steel whiskers. The most difficult job a Red Cross i nurse*has to perform, after the Rus- | sian army has finished an engage- | ment, is to comb the bullets and ' shells out of the soldiers’ whiskers. Fifty years from now, when the next great war is fought, it will not be a question of rapid-firing, long-range guns; it will be a question of whis- kers. The world will ask which army has the best whiskers. Whiskers will decide the battle. Nations will no longer waste money in buying big guns and testing them. They will grow whiskers for national defense and they will test an army’s efficiency by drawing up a company on the parade grounds and allowing a husky ! coal heaver to go down the line and hit each soldier in the face with an ax. Whiskers that won’t make the ax bounce will be sent to the rear as un- fit for the firing line. Andrew Carnegie is seventy-nine years old. He was born at Dunferm- line, Scotland, November 25, 1835. He | came with his family to the United | States in 1848, and settled in Pitts- burgh. His first work was as a weav- | er’s assistant in a cotton factory. He | later learned telegraphy and took up | railroading, in which he advanced un- i til he became superintendent of the i Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylva- nia system. He joined Mr. Woodruff, . inventor of the sleeping car, in organ- izing the Woodruff Sleeping Car com- pany, gaining through this the nu- cleus of his fortune. Mr. Carnegie later became identified with the steel industry of this country. He has given libraries to many towns and cities in the United States and Great Britain, and large sums in other benefactions. His favorite benefaction is the Car- negie hero fund. | ress etesir ee rte——— | Carnegie’s Busy Life. | | Why He Stopped the Train. ‘When a passenger train on the Big Four railroad, between Springfield and Bellefontaine, stopped at a crossroad near West Liberty, O., because a frightened horse had become en- tangled in a wire fence, the passen- gers could not understand the delay. Philip Henn, conductor, was asked by a passenger why he had stopped the train, inasmuch as the engine had not struck the rural mail wagon of Elbe Yoder of West Liberty, the owner of the horse. “The people of West Lib- erty rescued me from the flood of March 25, 1913, and saved my life. When I see anyone from that town or vicinity in trouble, I'll stop and help them out no matter how fast my train is running.”—Indianapolis News. Germs in Salt. Doctor Rappin of the Pasteur insti- tute, at Nantes, has just discovered that, far from being able to kill germs, salt may itself furnish a breeding place for them. In a cubic centimeter of the concentrated marsh brinc from which salt is deposited he found no less than 30,000 bacteria. no | sian soldier is in danger is when he | would be cheaper to obey the law. turns the back of his head to the en- not even bend them; he drives them a very pretty actress was ushered in ane told to kiss me. rather cold caress. and the director— he was a fine fellow, believe me— remonstrated. “ ‘What's the matter? ‘Don’t you like Mr. Mestayer? “‘Why, I've only just met him,” she She gave me a ' he asked. ' palmistry long ago. replied. “‘Well, kiss him as though you meant it.’ “She did. We had to rehearse it five times and then do it while the camera was working. I understand there will be more cigarettes, beer and kisses tomorrow. I'm going to give that director a box of cigars if he puts in enough rehearsals. The pic- ture business! Say, ‘This is the life.” —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. The Warrior's Lance. The lance has been more or less ridiculed by military experts, on the ground that it is out of date and cum- bersome, but the weapon still has its advocates, who point out its value in shock tactics and in cavalry charges. In the German troops, for instance, the lance in the hands of the Prussian uhlans remains a formidable weapon. . America. Recently attention has been invited . to the fact that the lance point often makes too deep a wound for the shaft to be withdrawn quickly, and that therefore the lancer must run the risk of having it wrenched from his grasp in the charge. In view of this, experi- ments have been made with a new kind of lance carrying a ball below'the base of the lance head. It is said that the new arm is just as effective in dis- abling an enemy and is free from many disadvantages. Women in Legislatures. It is certain that Arizona, Colorado and Oregon will have women in the legislature. Mrs. Frances Willard Munds was elected to the Arizona senate. Oregon also will have its first woman in the legislature, Miss Marian Towne of Jackson county was elected to the ! house, and is said to be the only Dem- ocrat in the lower branch. In Colorado, of ten woman candi- dates for political positions only two were successful. They are Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, re-elected state super- intendent of instruction, and Mrs. Evangeline Heartz, elected to the low- er house of the legislature. Mrs. Heartz in the house and Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson in the senate, will be the woman legislators during the com- ing season.—Woman’s Journal. Kill 2,099 Lions in Seven Years. Two thousand and ninety-nine moun- tain lions have been killed in Cali- fornia since 1907, according to a state- ment by the state fish and game com- mission. Of this number 118 have been killed in the state for the six months ended June 30. The state pays a bounty of $20 for each lion killed. The total cost of killing lions has been $41,980. Humboldt is the banner county for this year, and for every year. In the six months ending with June Men- docino, Trinity and Siskiyou are next in order named. Los Angeles county claimed bounty on 15 lions in seven years. Stingy Fellow. First Maid—That rich young fellow that's courting Miss Ethel is awful stingy! 3 Second Maid—What teink so? First Maid—Why, I heard him say to her: “A penny for your thoughts,” and he a millionaire, mind you! makes you Revenge. “How is it that you have been to the library so often this week?” in- “Three books you have had, and not read “lI know that,” replied the youngster, “but they fined me five | cents last week for keeping a book | out over time, an’ I goin’ to make | em earn it.” ——————_— | Famous Connaught Rangers. : The Connaught rangers were orig- | finally called the “Devil’s Own” be- cause of their rascality, but their su- perb fighting in the Peninsular war changed the term from one of re- proach to one of honor. At Fuentes d’Onoro and at Badajos they fought with amazing fury. 1 Re | Fragrances Di~in’s* rd by Sunlight. Flowers are mcre fragrant when the ! sun is not shining cn them, according ! to a French scientist, because the oils | that produce the perfume are forced out by the water pressure in the plant cells and this is diminished by sun- light. Camel’s Working Life. Camels are fit for serious work at five years, and their strength begins al- though they live for thirty-five and forty years. Impervious to X-Rays. Silk fabric, heavily impregnated with lead and tin salts, is being made in France for making X-ray proof garments for doctors. Such Brazen People. I wasn’t shocked in the least at the play, only at the attitude of the audi- ence, which refused to be shocked. —Puck. As to Palmistry. If the lines of the hand really indi- cated how long a person will live, in- surance people would have adopted Yukon in Fifth Pizce. A government survey resulted in ranking the Yukon river in sfth place among ths great sireams of North Usual Ratio. Cityman—“How many servants do you keep?” Suburbanite—“About one out of twelve.”—Buffalo Express. Optimistic Thought. One becomes better acquainted with a country through having the good luck to lose the way. * No Indication. Because a man makes a profession of religion is no sign that he is way up in his profession.—Philadelphia Ine quirer. Cptimistic Thought. We may despise the world, but wa cannot do without it. z Restaurant. ESTAURANT. Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res- taurant where Meals are Served at All Hours Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the half shell or in any style desired, Sand- wiches, Soups, and anything eatable, can bepaam a few miniies 2y me, In: fd ition I have a complete plant prepared to furnish Soft Drinks in bottles 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 carbonated. C. MOERSCHBACHER, 50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa. Little Hotel Wilmot. The Little Hotel Wilmot IN PENN SQUARE One minute from the Penna Ry. Station PHILADELPHIA We have quite a few customers from Belle- fonte, We can take care of some more. They’ll like us. A good room for $1. If you bring your wife, §2. Hot and cold running water in everv room The Ryerson W. Jennings Co. Meat Market. (Get the Best Meats. You save nothing by buyi r, thin or gristly meats. or oot Poo LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and 1: St: ith the fresh- est, pon ng lg ei oh mak- 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, Hats and Caps. Clothing. High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa. PERSONALITY after all is largely a matter of being and feeling well dressed. And it’s the man who is habitually well dressed who most appreciates the fact. ‘““‘High Art” Clothes are a favorite with men of personality, because they have a person- ality themselves. In every minute detail they are minutely correct. In the broad effect of the whole they are perfect. Every ‘‘High Art” garment is an individual-designed cut to express an individual at his best. You know the minute you get into ‘‘High Art’ clothes, be- cause they feel just right, fit just right and are just right. $15.00 to $25.00. FAUBLE’'S BELLEFONTE, PENNA. 58-4 Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. Farm Implements, Etc. As F{ TG “2 Sf Lay ps CESS IN Sm SO ESA at Prepared to supply the Farmer’s every want. The oldest house and Largest Dealers in the county in Hydrated Lime and Fertilizers of every kind, for every use, and well prepared for drilling. McCormick Binders, Mowers, Tedders, Hay Rakes, Hay Loaders, Walking and Sulky Plows, Harrows and Land Rollers, Conklin Wagons with patented truss axles, and a complete line of Farm Machinery and Im- plements, Binder Twine and Farm Seeds. Coal, Wood, Wall Plaster, Cement : AND BUILDER'S SUPPLIES. An Old Established Progressive House, with an Up-to- date line, with a guarantee back of it. McCalmont & Company, Bellefonte, Penna. €0-15-tf
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