Bellefonte, Pa., October 29, 1915.
REASON CANNOT BE GUIDE
Product of the Mind, and Is Subject
to the Will but Never
Superior.
Reason cannot select correct prem-
ises; she can only prove the prem-
ises you give her. “Oh, what a won-
derful creature is man,” exclaimed
Ben Franklin; “he can find reasons
for anything he wishes to do.” That
is the trouble with reason as a guide.
Reason cannot guide. Reason is al-
ways guided by something else be-
hind it, which supplies the premises
from which reason makes its calcula-
tions and records. ‘Reason is a calcu-
dating machine. Give it correct
‘premises and it will compute and
‘record the right answer every time.
But reason has no power of choice
in the matter of premises; like any
well regulated calculating machine it
automatically accepts the premises
fed into it. You have but to watch
your own thoughts carefully to prove
this,
Who, or what, then, is responsible
for the choice of premises that you
feed into your calculator? It is life
itself which uses reason. It is life
itself which creates reason, the cal-
culator. And why does life need
reason? Life needs reason to weigh,
compute, compare and record life’s
institutions and experiences. Without
the calculator and recorder, reason,
life would endlessly duplicate its ex-
periences and intuitions without
learning anything from them. Life
is the creator, reason the creature.
Life is the actor, reason is acted
upon. Life is positive and reason
negative. To depend upon reason as
guide is to exalt the machine above
the mind that made it.
“ALARM” THAT IS NOISELESS
Yet the Invention May Be Relied
Upon to Awaken Even the
Soundest Sleeper.
Alarm watches that signal the time
for which they are set by a shrill ring-
ing are common, but a “noiseless”
alarm watch which accomplishes the
same result is entirely new.
The story has been told of a married
man who possessed a ringing alarm
watch and who, with his wife, was
awakened every morning by the silvery
tinkle of the watch under his pillow.
It took this man’s wife five years, so
the story goes, to discover that the
alarm watch and not the neighbor’s
alarm clock was really awakening her
every morning. The noiseless alarm
watch, however, performs its early
morning task differently. The noise-
less alarm consists of a cord which
tightens about the wrist, the pressure
gradually increasing until released by
the wearer of the watch. This is ac-
complished by pushing a small slide
and twisting the stem of the watch a
half turn.—World’s Advance.
The Pity of Self-Pity.
Self-pity is indulged in by most men.
Some more, some less. The human
mind is so constituted that under
certain conditions of stress, it turns
upon itself and says: “You poor,
abused thing.” The ruination which
is wrought by it appears in the fact
that when a man pities himself he
does so for the very reason that ought
to lead him to cclf-condemnation. He
pities his weaknesses, rather than
reforming them. He coddlcs his in-
firmities, when they need to have the
punishment which pugilists give each
other. No man ever pitied himself
when he is doing'the hard things—we
mean, really doing them. While a man
is being brave the thoughts of being
abused or ill treated are impossible
thoughts to him. The business maa
who sits down, and while he holds his
face in his hands, bemoans: “I am
having a hard time,” needs the dash
of that really cold water which ad-
versity always uses when she would
make a strong man. Self-pity un-
twists the fiber of which manly men
are builded. Hard times make great,
robust, stalwart men—when the sub-
stance is there to work on.—Bloom-
ington Journal,
i Most Colid Book in the World,
Consisting of but ten pages, yet
Aaying claim to the title of the most
+Selid book in the world, a volume re-
recently presented to the Columbian
-Field museum is a unique work, says
‘the World’s Advance. It is made up
‘of ten slabs of tte finest jade, ex-
*quisitely engraved with Chinese char-
‘acters. The text is in both Chinese
‘axl Manchu, with the most elaborate
“ornamentations on the first and last
pages. This queer jade volume was
made at the order of Emperor Kang-
hsi, who lived from 1662 to 1722, and
it is a family document of great his-
toric value. It is supposed that this
relic was sold on account of the finan-
cial stringency affecting the deposed
imperial family, who lived in retire-
ment on a limited income since the es-
tablishment of the Chinese republic.
A Venetian Trait.
“Our town is considered the Venice
of Sagebrush county.”
“A town on a prairie? Why, you
have to haul your drinking water to
this alkali burg.”
“That may be true.”
“Then where does your resemblance
to Venice comes in?”
“We have a large floating popula
tion.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
RECORDS OF SONGS OF BIRDS
Gramophone Has Been Successfully
Employed in a New and
Interesting Way.
The gramophone is sometimes put
to strange uses. The leader of an
African hunting expedition, who set
out on a motor trip from the Cape of
Cairo, recently used it as a decoy for
tigers and hippopotami. In tiger-
hunting it is usual to tether a lamb
to a tree; its bleatings attract the
tiger within reach of the hunters. Be-
fore leaving England the explorer had
some records made of bleating lambs,
and, says, a recent writer, he tried
them on the unsuspecting tigers of the
African jungle with considerable suc-
cess.
The record makers gained one of
their greatest triumphs when they suc-
ceeded in getting good nightingale
and blackbird records. The chief dif-
ficulty was the objection that birds
had to the sounds of the recording
machines. The clever men got round
that by setting up a dummy record-
ing machine, in the horn of which
they put some of the birds’ favorite
food.
When the bird entered the horn to
get the food the clockwork was set
in motion. The little creatures soon
grew accustomed to the sound, and
80, after much tedious and discourag-
ing labor, successful records were
made. These records are selling in
thousands all over the world.
TENANTS DIDN'T WIND HIM
Old Gentleman Merely Was a Harm-
less Optimist With a Seemingly
Peculiar Delusion.
A district visitor was paying calls
on the folk 1n a row of cottages, and
was shocked by the conduct of a shab-
bily-dressed old gentleman, who
passed from door to door in a great
rage, and threatened the occupants
with all manner of dire penalties.
“Dear me, what a peculiar oid
man!” she exclaimed to one of the
tenants. “Why do you permit him
to abuse you in that fashion?”
“Oh, we don’t mind in the least,
ma’am,” answered the tenant, with
a twinkle in her eyes. “We're quite
used to his little ways by now. He's
been a harmless lunatic for ten or
eleven years.”
“You don’t say so! Poor old fel-
low! ‘What particular form does his
madness take?”
“Optimism, ma'am. He comes for
the rent every Monday, and actually
allows himself to fancy that he'll get
it!”—London Tit-Bits.
—_—
Exercise for Thin Folks
When it comes to the question of
exercise, the thin woman will do well
to remember the old Greek warning,
“Nothing too much.” She assuredly
needs a certain amount of gentle ex-
ercise every day, but she does not
need and ought not to take up the
violent sports which will do the fat
| woman all the good in the world.
There are two outdoor practices, how-
ever, which will be of great benefit to
the thin woman. One of these is
walking, the other is swimming.
When the thin woman walks she
should not try to see how much
ground she can cover in a certain
period of time. Let her walk quietly
and at a moderate pace, paying par-
ticular attention to her breathing.
Walking in the fresh air will help
you to breathe correctly, and it will
also give you a splendid appetite for
those three meals of good, wholesome
food of which you ought to dispose
daily. Swimming also will aid your
appetite, and it is positively the best
and quickest way to develop the bust
and shoulders. This is the swimming
season; don’t fail to learn if you want
to gain weight and a healthful sym-
metrical body.
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Papuans Die Young.
The average duration of life is
shorter in Papua or New Guinea, than
in any other country, possibly owing
to the peculiar diet affected by the
natives, who devour with gusto the
larva of beetles, dug out of decayed
tree trunks and habitually drink sea
water when near the coast. “The
people die off at about 40,” we are told
in A. E. Pratt's Two Years Among the
New Guinea Cannibals. “We saw one
very old man, who may have been
about 60 years of age—the only exam-
ple of longevity that we came across.
He was bent almost double, and had
a long white beard. His fellow tribes-
men regarded him as a great curiosity
and brought him to see us, Despite
the decrepitude of his body, however,
there was no trace of senility; his
Senses were unimpaired, and the poor
old creature showed great gratitude
for a gift of tobacco.”
Styles Soon Change.
“So you are going to motor across
the continent, Mrs. Whyffer?”
“Yes. We start tomorrow.”
“I dare say you anticipate a pleasant
time?”
“Yes, but there is one thought that
troubles me.”
“And what is that?”
“I'm afraid our car will be out of
date when we reach our destination.”
Great Advantage.
“What is your idea of the zero of en-
Joyment?”
““Why—er—a monologue on a pho-
nograph.’
“I know somehing less enjoyable
than that.”
“Yes a"
“A monologue on the stage. You can
{ shut off the phonograph.”
HOW MEN SLAIN IN BATTLE ARE
RECOGNIZED.
Turkey the Only Country Which Re-
fuses to Make Use of Any Contriv-
ances by Which Its Dead Defend-
ers May Be Known.
“A dead man is of no use to the sul-
tan; why, therefore, trouble about
him?” replied a Turkish pasha (gen-
eral) when asked why Turkey, of all
the warring nations, omitted to supply
some sort of identification means for
its lost men.
Every other nation in the present
conflict provides means of identifying
the dead, and these tags or identifica.
tion slips are usually sent by the vic
tors to the vanquished after a battle,
as a courtesy of war, although it has
been noticed that “courtesies of war”
are going into the decline just now.
The British and Japanese systems
are the most elaborate. Each English
soldier has a small oblong card
stitched inside his tunic. On it are en-
tered the man’s name, regiment, next
of kin and other similar information.
Besides this, every article of his cloth-
ing is stamped with a number which
corresponds to one written opposite
| his name in the regimental records, as
well as the county depot of his bat-
talion.
The Japanese system is very simi.
lar. Each man has three disks—one
round his neck, another on his waist
belt and a third in his boot—on each
of which are three numbers corre-
sponding to the wearer's name, corps
and brigade respectively.
Russian soldiers wear a numbered
badge shaped like an “ikon”’—sacred
picture image — which is formally
blessed by the priests.
Germany’s soldiers carry ‘a metal
disk bearing a number, which corre
sponds with a number at the Berlin
war office. After a battle numbers, not
names, are telegraphed and certified,
And the effectiveness of this system
may be judged by the fact that after
the fighting around Metz in 1870, when
the casualties exceeded forty thousand,
complete lists were posted in the capi
tal two days later.
The United States government uses
a simple cloth tab woven into the
shoulder strap of the tunic. Italy uses
a small zinc plate affixed to the trou-
sers at the waist, on which are em:
bossed the soldier’s name, place of or-
igin, number and date of enlistment,
while the Portuguese cavalry soldier
has a number stamped on the leggings.
The French. who formerly used little
aluminum name plates, which in war
with savages seemed an irresistible
attraction to the enemy, now use little
cards; but Austria still has an ornate
identification badge of gun metal,
shaped like a locket, with inside all
particulars inscribed on little parch-
ment leaves.
importance of the Corn Crop.
Corn is king ot all the crops. More
than 20 per cent of all the improved
farm land in the United States is an-
nually devoted to the growing of corn.
In 1914 105,000,000 acres were planted
to corn in this country, producing
2,700,000,000 bushels, which brought
the growers $1,900,000,000. For nearly
fifty years the land planted to corn
has been equal if not greater than
the acreage of all other cereal crops
combined.
Corn from a standpoint of acreage
yield and value exceeds every other
Crop.
Wherever corn is grown, there you
find high-priced land and prosperous
people.
No other crop can replace corn, but
corn can readily take the place of any
other grain crop.
Corn is put to a greater number of
uses than any other crop that grows.
There are greater possibilities for
improvement, yield and quality of corn
than any other crop.—From a Lecture
by P. G. Holden.
PERFECT HEALTH IS EVERY
WOMAN’S BIRTHRIGHT.
When a girl becomes a woman, when
a woman becomes a mother, when a
woman passes through the changes of |
middle life, are the three periods of
life when health and strength are most
needed to withstand the pain and dis
tress often caused by severe organic
disturbances.
At these critical times women are
best fortified by the use of Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, an oid remedy
of proved worth that keeps the entire
female system perfectly regulated and
in excellent condition.
Pa—“I was badly run
down some years
ago. I was in a
tired - out, worn -
out condition,
After taking two
bottles of Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription I felt
stronger. I Kept
it up until I had
taken six bottles.
If is a very good
A medicine and I
e was pleased and
satisfied with it.”—MRgs. D, H. LUPFER,
822 Franklin Street, Reading, Pa.
Mothers, if your daughters are weak,
lack ambition, are troubled with head-
aches, lassitude and are pale and sick-
ly, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
is just what they need to surely bring
the bloom of health to their cheeks
and make them strong and healthy.
Sick women are invited to consult
Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. Address In-
valids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
The modern improvement in pills
—Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. The
help Nature, instead of fighting with
her. Sick and nervous headache, bili-
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ments of the liver, stomach and bowels
are prevented, relieved, cured,
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| You save nothing by buying poor, thin
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ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere,
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60-21-tf. Bell and Commercial Phones. P.L. BEEZER,
High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
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The Farmers’ Supply Store
(CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
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» Spike-tooth Lever Harrows,
ake Fertilizer Grain Drill—and
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Brookville Wagons—all sizes in st
Spring-tooth Harrows
Land Rollers; g-Hole Spring Br:
the price is $70.
POTATO DIGGERS,
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:
Poles, Manure Spreaders, Galvanized Water Troughs, Cast Iron
Hog and Poultry Troughs, Galva
Force and Lift Pumps for any depth of wells, Extension and
Step Ladders, Poultry Supplies and
All Kinds of Field Seeds.
RR TO RSR
Nitrate of Soda and Fertilizer for all crops, carried at my ware-
house where you can get it when you are ready to use it.
Soliciting a share of your wants,
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All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
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I am respectfully yours,
Bellefonte, Pa.
7-19