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Demorraic atc,
Bellefonte, Pa., August 6, 1915.
HE WAS JUST A STRAY.
He's a little dog, with a stubby tail, and a
moth-eaten coat of tan,
And his legs are short, of the wabbly sort: I
doubt if they ever ran;
And he howls at night, while in broad daylight
he sleeps like a bloomin’ log,
And he likes the feed of the gutter breed: he’s
a most irregular dog.
I call him Bum, and in total sum he’s all that
his name implies,
For he’s just a tramp with a highway stamp
that culture cannot disguise;
And his friends, I've found, in the streets
abound, be they urchins or dogs or men;
Yet he stick§to me with a fiendish glee. Itis
truly beyond my ken,
I talk to him when I’m lonesome-like, and I'm
sure that he understands
When he looks at me so attentively and gently
licks my hands;
Then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes,
but I never say aught thereat,
For the good Lord knows I can buy more
clothes, but never a friend like that!
So my good old pal, my irregular dog, my flea-
bitten, stub-tailed friend,
Has become a part of my very heart, to be
cherished till lifetime’s end;
And on Judgment-day, if Itake the way that
leads where the righteous meet,
If my dog is barred by the heavenly -guard—
—we'll both of us brave the heat!
—W. Dayton Wegefarth.
Reminiscences of an Old Centre Countian.
Editor Democratic Watchman.
One of my greatest joys when a school-
boy was to go to spelling school in com-
pany with Sam Thompson.
We made it a point to ascertain when
there would be spelling school at the
surrounding school-houses, anywhere
within three or four miles. It was never
too far to go, nor too cold, nor too
stormy for us.
Each of us had every word in Web-
ster’s speller, and also every word in
Cobb’s spelling book, at our tongue’s end
and we took it by “turns” to “down”
everybody. We took great pride in this
work ’till Sam went into the old Centre
Democrat office to learn the printer's
trade.
Some of my earliest recollections are
of about the time of the Mexican war.
The war spirit had grown warm. There
were militia companies everywhere. My
father was a “militia captain’ of a com-
pany.
The most prominent officers were Gen-
eral George Buchanan, of Wolfe's Store;
Major Jared B. Fisher, of Spring Mills,
and Captain Daniel Eisenbise, a tavern
keeper in Lewistown.
Buchanan was a pompous fellow, about
five feet tall, with a squeaking voice like
a “barker” at the door of a side show.
They met one day in the spring for
“Muster,” and one day in the fall for
“Review and Inspection.” Nearly every
‘man was armed with his “squirrel” rifle.
I made it a point to be on hand, princi-
pally to see the different looking guns,
for they were a great curiosity to me.
I can’t recall the name of the drum-
mers but I remember that “Yoney”
Creamer was the fifer. He was from
Oak Hall.
General Buchanan was in the habit of
walking backwards in front of his men,
when he was manoeuvreing them. One
time when he was at this exercise, about
midway between where the Curtin mon-
ument now stands, and the Reynolds
bank building, his sword scabbard and
his legs got tangled together, and he fell
backwards full length in the dust. The
men roared with laughter, but the Gen-
eral got as mad as a hornet.
I remember how in my boyish simplic-
ity, Ithought it would look bad for a
man to get shot in the back. I thought
the General ought not to advance back-
wards on the enemy—crab fashion.
In the fall of 1856 I attended a great
Democratic mass meeting in the “Dia-
mond.” I ‘regret my inability to give
any particulars about it. But I remem-
ber something about a Republican meet-
ing the same fall and held at the same
place.
The public feeling about slavery was
boiling hot. On the 22nd of May of that
year, Congressman Preston S. Brooks, of
South Carolina, made a brutal assault on
U. S. Sumner during a recess, and while
the Senator was writing at his desk.
On the 21st day of June following,
Congressman Anson Burlingame, of
Massachusetts, made a scathing speech
in Congress, denouncing the outrage and
branded Brooks as a coward. Burlin-
game was a crack rifle shot. Brooks
promptly sent a challenge to fight a duel.
Burlingame accepted at once, and sent
this laconic reply: “Rifles at one hun-
dred yards. Meet me at the Clifton
House, Canada side Niagara Falls.”
Brooks declined to meet Burlingame,
assigning as a reason, that to get to the
place named, he would have to travel
through Black Republican territory.
But to the meeting: “Andy” Curtin,
as everybody then called him, presided.
The first speaker was Edgar A. Cowan,
of Westmoreland county. He became U.
S. Senator March 4th, 1861. The next
was General Harriman, of New Hamp.
shire. When he finished, the afterwards
Great War Governor, led Burlingame for-
ward and said “Now I introduce to you
the man who backed down “Bully
Brooks.” Who hasn’t heard of Burlin-
game?”
Burlingame was just about the size
and build of Isaac Mitchell, of the Belle.
fonte Trust company. 3
Respectfully,
DANIEL MCB
Hobart, Oklahoma. RDP
| Woman’s Liberty Bell Story.
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'u. S. Horses and Mules for the War.
—_— —— — —
The Woman's Liberty Bell, symbol of | England and France have been ship- |
| the women of Pennsylvania for the rights
| of full citizenship, will pass through this
i county on August 7th, 1915.
! The bell, mounted on a motor truck
! and escorted by a corps of women speak-
| ers, is touring the State to remind the
| voters that the women of Pennsylvania
: are asking for the passage of an equal
| suffrage amendment to the State Consti-
| tution on November 2nd.
Practically every voter will have a
chance to see it, as it will visit every
{ county and pass through hundreds of
towns between now and election day.
{ Its bronze tongue will not be heard, how-
ever, until the men of Pennsylvania see
| fit to give the same privileges of citizen-
| ship to their womenfolk that they them-
: selves now enjoy.
! In several counties through which the
bell has already passed, enthusiastic
male suffragists have urged the women
‘not to wait until November to unchain
the clapper, but to let their bell boom out
its proclamation of political liberty now,
just as the old bell did in 1776. But the
i custodians of the woman’s bell have
smilingly declined to follow this advice.
For, although prompted by the same
motives of patriotism that impelled their
forefathers to declare their independ-
ence, the women of Pennsylvania feel
that when it comes to recognizing Jus-
tice and Fair Play, the men of Pennsyl-
} Vania have it all over the former King of
| England. And as this coming election
i gives the men of Pennsylvania their first
opportunity to grant political freedom to
i their women-folk, the Suffragists are
confident they will grasp it.
The bell with which they are symbol-
izing their appeal for the ballot weighs
2,000 pounds and is an exact duplicate of
the original Liberty Bell, with the ex-
ception that the crack which developed
in the old bell, after it had proclaimed
its message to the men of the nation,
does not appear in the new bell. The
motto, “Establish Justice,” has also been
added to the inscription that adorns the
old bell.
There will be big street meetings in all
the towns in this county through
which the bell passes. Local suffragists
will preside and the speakers accompa-
nying the bell will explain its message
and tell why the women of the State are
seeking the ballot.
Publicity Bureau, Penna. Woman Suffrage Assn.
Following is the schedule for the Suf-
frage Bell in Centre county:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7TH.
10.30 a. m.—Leave Milroy, cross Seven moun-
tains.
11.30 a. m.—Potters Mills, 15 minute stop for
speeches.
m.—Centre Hall, lunch and noon meet-
mg.
BA Centre Hall. 0
m.~Boalsburg, 15 minute stop for
speeches,
m.—State College, 45 minute stop for
speeches.
m.—Lemont,
speeches.
m.—Pleasant Gap, 15 minute stop for
speeches.
6.00 p. m.—Bellefonte, dinner and night.
7.30 p. m.—Bellefonte, evening meeting.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 8TH.
The entire day will be spent in Bellefonte.
MONDAY. AUGUST 9TH.
10.00 a. m.—Leave Bellefonte Route 447.
10.15 a. m.—Milesburg, 15 minute stop for
12.30 p.
2.00 p.
3.00 p.
3.30 p.
4.30 p. 15 minute stop for
5.15 p.
speeches.
1100 a. m.—Unionville, 15 minute stop for
speeches.
11.45 a. m.—Julian, 15 minute stop for speech.
es.
12.45 p. m.—Port" Matilda, lunch and noon
* meeting. Rh
2.15 p. m.—Leave Port Matilda via Bald
Eagle.
4.30 p. m.—Osceola, 30 minute stop for
speeches. ;
6.00 p. m.—Philipsburg, dinner and night.
7.30 p. m.—Philipsburg, speeches and even-
. ing meeting.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10TH.
9.00 a. m.—Leave Philipsburg.
10.00 a. m.—Winburne, 30 minute stop for
speeches.
12.00 m.—Snow Shoe, lunch and noon meet-
* ing.
+ 1.30 p. m.—Leave Snow Shoe.
3.30 p. m.—Howard, 15 minute stop for
speeches.
4.15 p. m.—Blanchard, 15 minute stop for
speeches.
4.45 p. m.—Beech Creek, 15 minute stop for
speeches.
ELIZABETH BLANCHARD BEACH,
Chairman Centre Co., Woman’s Suffrage Party
Evolution of the Envelope.
There are many persons now living
who can remember the days when let-
ters went through the mails in the form
of a folded sheet of paper sealed at one
edge, for envelopes were not in common
use until. 1855.
In that year a machine was patented
for producing these now indispensable
covers for epistolary correspondence—a
machine which, as compared with hand
labor, did the work of five. girls. A better
machine was produced in 1865 which
performed the work of seven girls. Three
years later came the machine with a de-
vice for gumming the flap of - the enve-
lope, which did the work of ten girls.
Next came another machine of Amer-
ican device, which did the work
of twenty girls, and is still largely used.
This has a rival in an invention which
gums, prints, folds, and counts
the envelopes, and binds them with a
paper band in packets of twenty-five.
This ma chine supplants the labor of
thirty -five girls.—Harper's Weekly.
Statistics of Sight and Hearing.
Blindness is more common in men
than in women, the proportion, accord-
ing to the last census returns, being
one in every 1,316 males and one in ev-
ery 1,424 females. As regards deaf-
ness, however, the position is re-
versed.
——For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
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-ground comes back to a man after he
ping many thousands of horses and mules '
out of the United States to be used in
warfare. !
New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the
great ports selected by the agents of the !
Allies to export horses and mules. They
have shipped nearly 12,000 horses and
19,501 mules from October, 1914, to Feb-
ruary 26, 1915. :
The agents of the Allies do not buy any
horses and mules in New Orleans. The
animals come from distant States. The |
shippers use New Orleans to export the
horses and mules because there are two |
private docks from which toload. That.
means that the public can never see a
ship-load of horses. The writer tried in |
vain to do this. The public is not allow- |
ed even around the pens. :
We are informed by the United States
Government Bureau of Animal Industry
that although 75,000 horses were export- |
ed from the United States to the Allies
from September to the first of January |
there is no immediate danger of a short- | P€
age of horses in this country. Three !
times the amount of horses exported in :
the last four months of 1914, or 225,000, |
would only be about one per cent, of our
horse stock, say the learned government |
officials. |
A leading newspaper tells its readers
that most of the horses exported to be |
made food for the cannons, “are very!
mediocre animals which would ordinarily |
sell for less than $100 per head and are |
of a class which we can well afford to |
spare. But a few are mares and doubt-
lessly either old or non-breeders.”
That statement is sadly misleading. A
visit (unwelcome) to the pen where the :
luckless animals await the ships will con- |
vince most anybody how wrong the!
newspaper is. A cavalry horse must be |
lively, and an old horse would never do. |
Almost every horse is to be used as a '
remount, the mules to drag the cannons !
and supply wagons. We are informed |
that in Paris over 60,000 horses are kill- !
ed every year for food. Germany slaugh- |
ters about 150,000 a year to feed her peo- |
ple. Therefore if France has any of our
horses left after the war, or if Germany
captures them from the Allies, they will
doubtlessly be butchered for eating pur-
poses.
And sentiment alone keeps 90,000,000
people from eating a single chop of
chevaline! (horse meat.) But still at
the sight of gold and silver we will ship
countless thousands of horses, our noble
and intelligent beasts. to be slaughtered
in so horrible a manner.
Soldiers from the battlefield say that a
shell bursting in the ranks may kill thirty
men instantly, but often the many horses
or mules nearby are only mortally wound-
ed and may linger for hours, suffering as
man can never suffer. It isnot always
possible for a cavalry man to end his
mount’s suffering after the animal has
been struck. He iseither ordered to re-
tire or get a remount. Soldiers must
obey orders instantly and cannot stop to
do a humane act. And so the horses and
mules linger for hours and days, suffer-
ing the most intense agony. One very
bad thing about this war is that no side
ever grants an armistice. The wounded
human beings and their dumb com-
panions suffer as a result. : i
The writer is neutral in regard to the |
present great war. All the nations at
war have good and bad points in their |
favor—mostly bad. The writer does not |
oppose the shipping of war material to |
any nation that can pay cash, providing
that the said war material does not con-
sist of American horses and mules.
Something should be done for man’s
best and most useful friends. Surely
they have some rights, and those rights
are to live and die peacefully. Horses
and mules seldom die peacefully on the
battlefield. And some estimates say that
more than 2,000,000 horses and mules
have been killed in the past six months
of fighting.—By Jack Colma Wynn, in
Our Dumb Animals.
Pests Abound in Farms of Pennsylvania.
Judging from reports received at the
State capitol, this is an extraordinarily
bad year for pests on the farm and ir. the
orchard and, thus far, it seems as though
corn will be the only. crop not hit by
some disease or bug.
The corn acreage this year is the great-
est in many years, being 102 to 103 per
cent, in area sown, as compared with
the average of the last ten years. No
pest has been reported as affecting it yet.
Wheat has been afflicted by the Hessian
fly. the pears and apples by the fire blight,
the apricots by the woolly aphis, the rest
of the fruits by the red leaf beetle, the
peaches by a destructive borer. Various
bugs also are reported as destroying
vegetables, while the potatoes are con-
fronted with the blight and the familiar
Colorado beetle. In spite of it all, State
officials say Pennsylvania will have big
crops.
Little Sermon for All Time.
This is from Charles Dudley War-
ner’'s “My Summer in a Garden:” “The
love of dirt is among the earliest of
passions, as it is the latest. Mud
pies gratify one of our first and best
instincts. Fondness for the
has run the round of pleasure and
business, eaten dirt, and sown wild
oats, drifted about the world and taken
the wind in all its moods. The love
of digging is sure to come back to
him... . To own a bit of ground,
to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds
and watch thelr renewal of life—this
is the commonest delight of the race,
the most satisfactory thing a man
can do.”
Historic Parisian Square.
Before the Revolution the Place de
la Concorde in Paris was but a piece
of waste ground. It was often used
for public festivals and demonstra-
tions, and in this manner its baptism
of blood was begun as early as 1770.
In May of that year an exhibition of
fireworks was being given to cele-
brate the nuptials of the Dauphin and
Marie Antoinette (note the irony of |
fate: 23 years later, as the deposed
king and queen of France, both were
beheaded upon this very spot!) when a
panic was occasioned by an accidental
discharge of rockets and more than
twelve hundred persons were crushed
to death. :
——Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN.
-| three weeks among friends
Where is Tipperary?
And where is Tipperary?
“It’s a long way to go,” says the music ;
hall ballad that half the world is singing, |
which is the utmost that the majority of
the singers know about the real Tip-
perary.
It is related that Cromwell once stood
on a hill top in Erin surveyed the smiling | the season about to concur as one which !
forgetfulness of others.—Robert Louis Stevenson. |
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
DAILY THOUGHT.
Forget ourselves; help us bear cheerfully the
General style conditions point toward
expanse of fertile plain that unfolded be- | will be known as the tailor-made year.
fore his eyes. “That is a land worth
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Despite the fact that frills and fur-be-
‘fighting for!” he exclaimed. He was! lows will decorate our dressy frocks and |
gazing at the golden vale—the heart of A notwithstatding the tendency of skirts to
| widen their yardage in exact ratio to
Tipperary today is a region as beauti- | the number of inches clipped from their
lengths, the simpler frock of the tailleur | with a heavy cold.
Tipperary.
ful as its people are hospitable and kind-
ly; a peaceful region quietly prosperous,
a people proud of their history and their
relics of the golden age of Cashel of the
Kings. It is a region whose story is in-
terwoven with the most glorious and the '
most distressing events of Irish history.
It is a region bright with color and vivid
with romance.
A word about the Tipperary of today.
There is Tipperary the county and Tip-
rary the garrison town. No matter
‘ferences— but are “arm sizes” only. The |
. being replaced by the set-in sleeve of !
which of the two the 'rimester had in | long proportions, which fits, at present,
mind when he made his song Tipperary rather closely both over the upper and |
type will prove to be the lodestar of fash-
ions for autumnal acceptance. Sleeves, |
as usual, point the way to new paths of
modish dalliance.
When a sleeve changes the manner of
its being it serves to also introduce a |
new style in silhouettes.
Arm sizes have enlarged their circum-
It is
kimono sleeve has had its day.
the town is described as a “slow” sort of a | lower arm.
“kick up” in the Irish party after Par-
nell’s death—but more of this later. Tip-
: place, which never recovered from the
The next development will be a fulness
i of the upper arm portion with a bell
‘flare at the wrist line,
perary county is in the Irish province of
Munster, and is the sixth largest county
in Ireland, having 1,092,962 acres of peat !
bog, meadow, field and mountain. It is
which later on
will offer an undersleeve bloused into a
cuff for our selection.
Slashed effects are already de rigeur. -
It remains for the season to show us the
a varied and picturesque land. Most of | perfection of this mode.
it is a great plain. On its southern bor- |
der are the Knockmealdown mountains,
and north of them the wild Galtrees— '
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Galtymore, the highest of them, lifts its’
ancient head over 3,000 feet in the air.
On the east are the Slieve-Ardagh hills,
and near the town of Templemore the
storied Devil's Bit mountains. The Suir
is Tipperary’s biggest river. It takes its
rise in the Devil's Bit, and flows south-
ward and eastward by the historic towns
of Templemore, Thurles-Cashel and Clon-
mel. The river Shannon, the poet's own
river, washes the border of the county.
Tipperary of this modern day is one of
the best agricultural districts in Ireland.
From Cashel to Limerick, right in the
midst of Tipperary, stretches the Golden
Vale, the most fertile valley in all Erin.
Tipperary is given mostly to agriculture
and dairying. There are some ancient
lead mines, whose ores hold a trace of
silver, but they engage only a small por-
tion of the populace. Large meal and
flour mills are scattered over the coun-
try, and the town of Tipperary comes
second only to the City of Cork as a but-
ter market.
The town of Tipperary is very ancient.
King John built a castle there as far back
as the thirteenth century and one of the
landmarks of the place is an old gate
house which belonged to an Augustinian
monastery founded by Henry III. One
of the show places of the town is the
barracks built by the English govern-
ment, about which it seems that the gov-
ernment architects were simultaneously
planning barracks for Tipperary and a
barracks for Hong Kong, China. Both
sets of plans weredrawn up and forward-
ed to their destinations. By some blun-
der the Tipperary plans went to Hong
Kong and the Hong Kong plans to Tip-
| perary: No one was any the wiser until
the work of the builders was complete.
So it happens that a fine piece of Anglo-
Chinese architecture can be seen at the
base of the Slievena-Muck hills of Tip-
perary.
“Tipperary,” as the townspeople call it,
hasn’t a very large population—6,000 ac-
cording to the last available census
figures. And one reason for this they
say is, that the lads and lasses of Tip-
perary these many years have been turn-
ing their faces toward the United States.
—Philadelphia Record.
LEMONT.
The potato crop will be a large one.
The steam thresher
move.
The farmers are through hauling in
wheat.
William Daugherty was seen in our
town one day last week.
The warm rains, with warm nights, are
bringing the corn along.
The farmers are busy cutting oats and
plowing for the fall seeding.
Repairs are being made on the state
road between this place and Pleasant
Gap.
Mrs. James E. Lenker and daughter
are spending a few weeks among friends
in Berwick.
Coilege township supervisors are busy
building two concrete bridges near Oak
Hall station, this week.
The Lutheran Sunday school of the
Shiloh congregation held their picnic
Saturday, and all had a good time.
Mrs. David Williams and children re-
turned home Wednesday, after spending
in these
is now on the
parts.
“Hip! Hip! Hurrah!”
“Hip! Hip! Hurrah!” our modern
‘yell of delight, is said to have an
ancient origin. The word “hip” is
supposed to be composed of the ini
tial letters of the Latin phrase “Hiero
. solyma est perdita,” meaning “Jerusa..
lem is destroyed,” the “i” in “hip” be
ing substituted for the “e” in “est.”
{When the German knights were per
/secuting Jews in the middle ages they
are said to have run shouting “Hip,
hip,” as much as to say Jerusalem is
destroyed. Hurrah is said to be from
the Slavonic ‘“hu-raj,” meaning to par
adise. Hence, “hip, hip, hurrah”
{would mean “Jerusalem is lost, we are
on the way to paradise.”
Mrs. ‘Penfield’s Decoration.
Mrs. Frederick C. Penfield, wife of
the American ambassador at Vienna,
has been awarded the grand cross of
the order of St. Elizabeth by Emperor
Francis Joseph for her kindness to the
soldiers. This is the first time that
the order has been conferred on a
lady not connected with the imperial
family. Mrs. Penfield was the widow
of a wealthy Philadelphian before she
became the wife of Mr. Penfield, and
has always been noted for her charity.
Tough Spider Webs.
Some of the spiders of Java have
webs so strong that a knife is re-
quired to cut them.
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—=Have your Job Work done here.
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effects and full skirt, which rumor whis-
Apron overskirts are being featured in
both plain and plaited styles. This phase
of skirt styles is but the logical develop-
ment of the mode progressing toward the
polonaise.
Polonaise, skirt extenders and over
draperies are to be important style fac-
tors for fall.
Bodices which are boned and fit in at :
the waist line, with a normal line main-
tained, are inevitable.
The day of the straight, comfortable |
but not natty looking silhouette is of the
past. Exit loosenéss in body garment-
ure; enter tightly caparisoned mesdames
corsets,
pers will be supported by hoops.
Plaited skirts for the tailleur or trot-
about frock are to bask in the light of |
another day. Coats to be worn with '
these are of the sports order, or may be .
cut with long lines predominating, be
equipped with circular-cut coat skirts,
well restrained from a tendency to flare
too greatly, and be modishly completed
with long, braid bound revers which but-
ton forward rather than to face outward
and are topped with muff-shaped col-
lars.
Suit coats is but a name to deceive the
uninformed as to the real reason this
new overcoat has for existing.
It is the dressy sister of the tweed!
overcoat and is designed with circular
cut skirts ostensibly topped by a tight-
fitting jacket with the jointure concealed
by velvet pipings or furore braid trim-
mings.
In reality it is in one piece and is but
the overcoat of familiar lines dressed up
to meet the demand for something new.
Apropos of the overcoat modes, purple |
is the smartest colcr to adopt—with '
Chinese blue and spruce green aspirants
for leading honors. These colors are at
their best in the new texture materials,
which resemble duvetyn very closely.
These fabrics are as light in weight,
but their weaves are different.
the material used for one of the first of
the fall models shown.
Heavy satins for evening wear, about |
which we ventured to make a prophecy
six weeks ago as to the probability of
their strong style value, are being intro-
duced and with an air of finality as to.
their style position which confirms the
position we took.
To jump from satins to the realms of
things required for day wear is to an-
nounce a rigid acceptance of high col-
lars for all blouses pour le mode—for
autumn. .
The higher the collar the smarter the
styie, but these collars almost to a unit
fasten in front. This means extra high
boning at the back and sides and almost
none in the front.
A straight line across the collar top at
the back is the accepted design, with a
narrow turnover effect adjusted in oddly
cut points for collar decoration.
Not only are these collars done in fine
nets, mull and lawns for chemisette
adornment for present day wear, but
they will be made of serge, flannel or
silk for wear with the one piece dress for
fall.
Collars on coats and suit coats are
most extraordinary. They are high,
wide and all encompassing.
The princess mode, about which one
hears so much, like the struggle waged
for an acceptance of the taffetas vogue,
is one over which much speculation
will be waged.
It surges forth from the ateliers of the
great makers to be received with dis-
dainful shrugs as not new enough or
decided enough to be interesting. While
the princess has much to recommend it
in a smart styled way, it would seem
when one views contingent offerings as
though the style tendencies point in
another direction. :
Full skirts and a tight waist are more
in keeping with the shortened corset
style which is making a re-entry.
Redingote and polonaise modes have
the floor at present. Designers and cre-
ators are paying a great deal of attention
to both of these tendencies.
Last, but not least, do not forget to in-
‘clude a suit of navy blue serge, men’s
wear kind, in your autumn wardrobe.
Notwithstanding the furore made over
navy and darker blue taffetas for the
summer modes, serge in this ever de-
pendable shade will be a standby ap-
proved by the fashionables for the next
season’s wear.
Pineapple Ade.—Cut slices of very ripe
pineapple into small pieces. Put them
with the juice into a large pitcher and
sprinkle them well with sugar. Pour on
boiling water, allowing a small half pint
to each pineapple. Cover and let stand
until quite cool, occasionally pressing
down the pineapple with a spoon. Strain
the infusion aud serve in tumblers with
ice.
“Temperance” Punch.—The juice of
three oranges and three lemons, a grated
pineapple, a quart of strawberries; add
from two to three cups of sugar to the
fruit. Pour one quart of boiling water
on a tablespoonful of tea and let stand
15 minutes; strain and when cold mix
with fruit and sugar. When ready to
serve, add one quart of mineral water
and ice. Serve with a slice of lemon in
each glass.
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| County Correspondence
‘ Items of Interest Dished Up for the Delec-
| tation of “Watchman” Readers by a
Corps of Gifted Correspondents.
i PINE GROVE MENTION.
: Harry N. Musser is now driving a new
i Ford car.
_ Owing to the rainy weather farm work
1 is at a standstill.
| Grandmother Dannley is housed up
!
J. H. Neidigh is on his rounds, taking
| orders for fertilizers.
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Corl spent Sunday
i with friends in town.
| Farmer H. C. Houck is on the shelf,
i nursing a bruised hand.
Farmer Elmer E. Royer, who was very
! ill last week, is now improving.
Miss Lizzie Gettig, of Braddock, is vis-
iting friends down Pennsvalley.
! Miss Susan Wagner, of Altoona, is vis-
iting friends down Pennsvalley.
W. E. McWilliams spent the first day
of the week with his friend, J. W. Fry, on
Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Steward, of Pitts-
burgh, are here for an outing during the
hot weather.
Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Aikens were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Hess,
for Sunday dinner.
_ Miss Jennie David, of Chicago, is visit-
ing her aunt, Mrs. E. S. Tressler, and
other relatives along the line.
: "Squire Isaac Woomer spent last week
in Clearfield county, looking after his
large milling trade in that section.
3 Wilson Cummings, the old drover from
. Stonevalley, was here last week and
| Dough: a drove of cows and young cat-
| tle.
W. E. Daugherty, the hustling imple-
ment agent, was here Monday, looking
over his territory, and reports business
good.
Little Claude Meyers, who underwent
an operation in the Bellefonte hospital
. last week, was brought home well and
- happy.
{ J. Summer Miller was kicked in the
{ side by a colt a few days ago, and injur-
. ed so that he has been confined to bed
ever since.
i Earl Houck, Lawrence Harpster, Luther
Mong and Murray Smith hiked it over
; old Tussey mountain on Sunday and got
! a good soaking.
Wm. Trostle, the horse buyer of Mill-
| heim, was around among the farmers last
| week and purchased a car load of horses,
mostly for the European war.
i On account of the hard rains work on
| the state road is almost at a standstill.
i Laborers are also hard to secure when
i the weather does permit work.
Mrs. J. A. Decker and Miss Gertie
: Keichline were Boalsburg visitors last
i week and were royally entertained by
‘Rev. and Mrs. S. C. Stover, at the par-
sonage.
After a ten days sojourn at the St.
Elmo Dr C. W. Chadman departed last
Friday for his home in Lancaster. Mrs.
Chadman will remain here another month
: or longer.
Rev. John E. Reish, of Loganton, with
his sister and lady friend, in his Maxwell
car, autoed here Monday for a few days’
visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Reish, at Rock Springs.
Claude Buchanan Hess celebrated his
| seventy-sixth birthday on the 26th of
July. Though fast in bed with a broken
leg he was able to see some old comrades
and neighbors who wished the old soldier
a long lease of years.
Mrs. Alice Buchwalter and two sons,
Henry and Howard, came up from Lan-
caster and are making their mid-summer
visit at the old McWilliams home at Fair-
brook. They will also visit friends at
State College and in Altoona before re-
turning home.
On Monday John Hess was sixteen
years old and the following day his cousin
Edwin reached the same age, conse-
quently a birthday party was given in
their honor at the Samuel M. Hess home
on the Branch. ' Both young men are of
the same height and weight.
Rev. William E Sunday, a former Fer-
guson township boy, now pastor of the
Lutheran church at Hooverville, is nurs-
ing a badly burned hand sustained while
having the parsonage wired for electric
light. His congregation gave him a
month’s leave of absence to recover from
the shock and with his wife and mother
he is now enjoying the hospitality of his
many friends in the valley.
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING. — That's
what it did on Sunday afternoon during
one of the most terrific rain and electric
storms that passed over this section this
summer. There is an old saw that “light-
ning never strikes twice in the same
place,” but this was very emphatically
disproved on Sunday when a live boit
struck the P. M. Corl home at Struble,
the second time it was struck this sum-
mer. The house was badly damaged and
caught fire in several places, but by the
timely aid of neighbors the flames were
extinguished and the building saved from
going up in smoke. The family, however,
were pretty badly frightened and none of
them went to bed Sunday night, fearing
an outbreak of the flames during the
night, but fortunately this did not occur.
| Other buildings struck by lightning were
i the Mrs. Daniel Dreiblebis home at Stru-
ble, the bolt going down the chimney to
the fireplace, filling the house with smutt.
Mrs. Dreiblebis and two daughters were
in the kitchen and were slightly stun-
ned. The William Wolf home nearby
was also struck, but little damage was
done. The home of Charles Smith, at
Lemont, was struck and at State College
the residences of D. G. Meek, Dr. Wil-
liam Frear, W. C. Meyers, G. C. Meyers
and a fraternity house were all struck
but none of them damaged to any ex-
tent. The Corl home seems to be a target
for lightning. Not only has the house
been struck twice but it is only a few
years since a bolt of lightning killed
seven of his herd of milk cows as they
were pasturing in a field.
Must Report All Tuberculosis.
In Great Britain physicians are
obliged to report every case of tubers
, culosis to the local board of health.