Bemorraiic; aldo Belletonte, Pa., July 16, 1915. ES ——. Doubles in Geography. The “doubles” of geographical nos menclature are endless. They may be partly accounted for by the tend- ency of all people to assimilate place- names to something with which they ‘are familiar. The Galicia to which our eyes are turned now takes its name from the town of Halicz: but the Hungarian king who annexed the region at the end of the twelfth cen- tury called himself “Rex Galatiae”— presumably recalling the country in Asia Minor known to -us through St. Paul's Epistle. And now we call Eng- land by the same name as the north- western corner of Spain once inhabit- ed by the Callaici. of Gallaeci. And close by are the Carpathian mountains, which have no connection with the Carpathian sea, the part of the Medi- terranean near Rhodes named after the island of Carpathus.—Manchester Guardian. Lucky Horseshoe. It was about the middle of the sev- enteenth century that the superstitious use of horseshoes as emblems of good luck originated in England. They were at first deemed a protection against witches and evil spirits, and were nailed on doors of houses, with the curve uppermost. It was the belief that no witch or evil spirit could en- ter a house thus guarded. The cus- tom of nailing horseshoes to ships and other sailing craft is still in vogue in all English-speaking countries. To find a horseshoe with an odd num- ber of nails attached to it is consid- ered the forerunner of good luck, and | the more nails the greater the good fortune that is likely to attend the finder. A person about to be married who finds a horseshoe believes that a happy matrimonial career awaits him. First Guns in England. When Edward IV returned to Eng- land in 1471, ten years after he suc- ceeded to the throne, he obtained some forces from his brother-in-law, the duke of Burgundy, including 300 Flemings armed with hand guns, thus being the first to introduce these weapons into England. Afterward they became common. At first they were fired by the application of a lighted match to the powder by the hand. The match was a wick lighted and pressed against the powder in the pan. The invention of a lock to fire the powder in place of the hand was suggested by the trigger of the crossbow. The matchiock fired the arquebus, or harquebus, used by the soldiers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in projecting a ball which weighed neag- ly two ounces. Monster Cheeses for Presidents. The first monster cheese presented to a president of which we can find record is that offered with great pub- licity to Jefferson in 1802. The cheese was made, one might almost say built, in Cheshire, Mass., in a press giving it the great dimensions of 4 feet in diameter and 18 inches in height. After being successfully pressed it was drawn from Cheshire to Washing- ton in a six-horse dray amid popular rejoicing. With regard for the dig- nity of his office, the president insist- ed on footing the bill to the tune of $200. There is record of an even greater cheese presented to President Jackson; and President Van Buren received a great cheese every year of his incumbency. With him the cus- tom seems to have ended. Life Amid Deathlike Stillness. In the rainless interior of Australia there is a “silence of the grave.” This deathlike silence has a peculiarly de- pressing effect. If two men are camped and one of them goes to a dis- tant township to get provisions while the other remains behind to look after the camp, the man who is to remain says to his friend in forcible, gold fields language: ‘Now, Bill, don’t be long away. You know what kind of a place this is to live in by yourself.” Or words to that effect. If his mate is away for two or three days the si- lence gets on the man’s nerves, and in the end he shouts to make a noise. And often he is afraid of the sound of his own voice. Mosquitoes Near Pole. The presence of mosquitoes in myri- ads within the bare, uninhabitated arctic circle is surely in some degree a mystery. The mosquito is a blood- sucker, but in these universal plains he is for the most part and of strict necessity a vegetarian. A few birds excepted (and the birds are furnished with impervious feathers) there is no local life whatever. The Lapp in sum- mer drives his reindeer to the sea, and no native crosses the field if he can help it. Yet in this region, “seemingly the most unsuitable for its effective working,” the mosquito flourishes, “a primeval and enduring curse, inexplicably developed to its utmost.” The Modern Joke Book. Joe Miller died too soon, or he might have made his living compiling campaign books.—Chicago News. Must Report All Tuberculosis. In Great Britain physicians are obliged to report every case of tube culosis tn the’ “nard of health. Or the Toes. Occasionally a man’s sins find him out—at the elbows.—Judyge. - Our Teachers. It may be safely said that many schools in which morals are never taught from text-books, or by formal exercises, furnish a most stimulating every day. Many of us know teach- ers, who, without much preaching, con- vey, in all their intercourse with their pupils, the influcnces and qualities which purify and invigorate character. A considerable acquaintance with teachers impresses me with the belief that the feeling of their responsibility for the moral welfare of their pupils, and their appreciation of the values of character, are steadily deepening among them. No profession is so sacred that shallow and self-seeking persons do not find a place in it; but I believe that as: much seriousness and devotion may be found among the teachers of our common schools as among any -other class of persons— the clergy not excepted.—Atlantic Monthly. Electricity on the Farm. The use of electricity on the Amer- ican farm is growing. The time will come, say electrical experts, when the farmer will consider it a necessity. The introduction of tungsten lamps is doing much to advance the use of this power on the farm. It is possible for the farmer with a small plant, driven either by a gasoline engine or by damming a small stream, to obtain sufficient current to light his house and candescent lamp. Central generating stations for farming districts to take the place of the small individual plants now being installed—that is what elec. tricians see in the future. War and Etiquette. Many a little convention has had its death knell sounded on the battle- | field, and after every great war new customs are born. D’Israeli relates an instance of this in a more confined field in Italy. “Such was the party hatred of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, the two great Italian factions, that they carried their rancor even into i their domestic habits. At table the Guelphs placed their knives and spoons longwise; the Ghibellines across; th2 one cut his bread across, the other longwise. Even in cutting an orange they could not agree, for the Guelph cut his orange horizontally and the Ghibelline downward.” Make Your Work Interesting. De not look on your work as a dull duty. If you choose you can make it interesting. Throw your heart into it, master its meaning, trace out the causes and prewious history, consider it in all its bearings, think how many ; even the humblest’ labor may benefit, | and there is scarcely one of our duties thusiasm. You will get to love your work, and if you do it with delight you will do it with ease. Even if at first you find this impossible, if for - | time it seems mere drudgery, this ma: be what you require; it may be good | Hke mountain air to brace up your character.—~Lord Avebury. Roumania. Roumania is one of the richest of the countries of the Balkan region, and although it has an area of only a little more than 50,000 square miles it has a population of nearly seven million, the most compact in racial association of all that vast region of central Europe extending from the seas of the North to those of the South. More than 92 per cent are Roumanians. There are Jews, 4.3 per cent, and the remainder are sprine kling of Germans, Bulgarians and Hun. garians, with no fewer than two hun. dred thousand gypsies. Roumanians are practically of the Greek Ortho- dox religion. i | | | | | Medical. When Seeking Fortune or Health. From the day that a young man starts out to seek his first position to the end of his business life, his health has a world to do with his success. Good blood means good health; good health means strong men and women, full of vigor and ambition, with minds alert and muscles ever willing. Bradford, Pa.—*“Dr. Pierce's Golden S Medical Discovery has been a family remedy in our . family for twenty years. When I feel run down or need a medicine for the appetite I use ‘Golden Medi- cal Discovery.” My Y wife uses it also and we both de- pend on it and like it so well that we are glad to recommend it to others.” —MR. Joe SEMAN, 56 Bank St. Twenty-four hours after you start to take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis- covery, poisonous matter and blood im- purities begin to leave your body through the Liver, Bowels, Kidneys and Skin,’ It’s a tonic and alterdtive that brings new activity to the liver, stom- ach and bowels in a short time, thus causing sallowness, indigestion and constipation to disappear. It's a pure glycerine extract of native medicinal roots, made without alcohol. . It enters the tiny blood-vessels of the skin, bringing with it fresh vitalized blood, and ahiding faith in its wonder- ful cleansing power has come to thou- sands, when pimples, boils, carbuncles, rash, eczema, acne and other skin troubles dried up and disappeared Get Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis- covery today in either liquid or tablet form, or write Dr. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N, Y., for free book and free medical advice. drill in the higher and. finer moralities - barn with this economical type of in- |’ ! which we may not look to with en- Glad Vacation Time. The boy home from school for the summer vacation or. the dear old farm, rested on his hoe, and gazed over across the broad, hay-scented field where the game was going on. “Ah,” said he, sighing, “why are we born? Why lured from eternal nothingness into concrete existence, to buffet the storms of this unkind world? What, then, this problem of human existence with which science has wrestled fu- tilely for ages?” And his revered parent, leaning over the fence, said he didn’t know; but, all the same, there would be no baseball for sonny that afternoon, and if he didn’t hoe out that ‘tater patch before night there'd be some wrestling done, though, that'd make science open her eyes if she should chance along by the woodshed that evening.—Exchange. Call for Various Kinds of Wood. As many as 72 different kinds of wood are used in the manufacture of umbrella handles, canes, and whips in the country. mss? ~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN i I of the cost could be ernceled by -the . Old Papers for Euffers. Nothing fills the place of a buffer in a trunk like new:papers; they are so unyielding tha: wrinkles and pros tuberances cannc: make themselves felt, says the Chizagc Journal. It is useless to try to arra:ge heavy arti. cles at the bottom of a trunk and the light ones on top—the baggage hane dlers know no top and no bottom. Cone venience in handling is all that cone cerns them. keeping an even, smooth surface for each successive layer one is doing one’s best to protect the contents. To Curtail Fire Losses. Some day we shall come to full real ization of the enormous unnecessary loss entailed by fire and shall begin the right sort of preventive campaign to lower it. One place to begin is in the schools. It is probably within the truth to say that a considerable part saving that could be made by bringing up the oncoming generations with proper appreciation of . the wealth wasted by fire that even reasonable precaution would prevent. CASTORIA. CASTORIA. Promotes Digestion Cheerf- ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium. Morphine nor Mineral | OT NARCOTIC. fal erfect Remedy tion, Sour Stone Diarrhoea Worms C JFeverisl ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. 0 8 S—— PacSimile Signature of ° i ass § ¥' i i TE CENTAUR COMPAXY, | Le LD aE Exact Copy of Wrapper. for Consfipe NEW YORK. | B31 A 35 CENTS GASTORIA GASTORIA | Mothers Know That For Infants and Children. Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of Use For Over ~ Thirty Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. 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. ellefonte, Prepared to supply the Farmer's every want. An Old Established Progressive House, with an Up-to- date line, with a guarantee back of it. 60-15-tf McCalmont & Company, || Penna. | ng Shoes. Hats and Caps. Clothing. The Fauble Sale! All Clothing, Suits, Trousers and Rain Coats at 1-4 OFF NONE RESERVED. This Sale Includes Every- thing in Our Clothing Stock It's at Faubles. You know ‘what that means. FAUBLE’S BELLEFONTE, PENNA. 58-4 I Shoes. REDUCTION SALE of Ladies Low SHOES Now Going On. FOR $248 You can have your choice of any pair of this season’s Low Shoes that I have in my store, Pumps, Oxfords, Colo- nials, in all shapes and all kinds of leather. I guarantee that not one pair of these shoes sold for less than $3.50 and the most of them sold for $4.00 "and $4.50. Nothing reserved, all MUST GOAT $248 Now is your chance to purchase your Summer Shoes less than the cost to manufacture. Cash Only. No Exchanging Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Bldg, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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