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MARKED CHANGE IN OPINION
Naturalists Claim That Ideas Held by
Former Colleagues Were Based
on Wrong Conclusions.
Naturalists are not pinning their
faith to ail the theories of the Dar-
winians, as they were a few years ago.
They are ready to discard any theory
aS soon as it is demonstrated to be
incompatible with facts. One of the
latest ideas to be cast into the dis-
card is that every part of a plant or
of an animal had a definite value and
played a part in securing its survival.
This change in attitude is well illus-
trated by an article in the Journal
of Heredity in which the editor ex-
presses the opinion that the extra-
floral nectaries found on . cherries,
cowpeas and other legumes, castor
beans, ferns, etc., “just happen;” they
have no particular reason; once there
they remain, for they are of no disad-
vantage.
Nectaries are the glands that
secrete nectar. They are found in
most flowers, but in many are also
found on the leaf stems. Many theo-
ries as to their use have been ad-
vanced, but long experimentation has
proved each of these theories to be
erroneous. :
“We can hardly avoid the conclu-
sion in many cases,” writes the edi-
tor, “that they have no vital func-
tion and that the plant would proba-
bly get along just as well without .
them,” although he admits that it is :
“dangerous for man to assume that
he can understand all the ways ot
‘Nature and decide by his own stand- °
ards whether or not a certain struc-
ture is of value to a plant.”
FROM SEVEN TO THIRTEEN
Said to Be Age When Spirit of Reck-
lessness Especially Dominates
the Child.
"The motor development of the child
from the age of seven to thirteen,
says Philip Duvis in his book “Street
Land,” is far greater than its mental
development. FN
The thirst for adventure, for dis-
covery, for taking chances is the
strongest characteristic of this age.
The greatest risk, the more it sat-
isfies certain children’s unconscious
calls for acts and daring and cour-
age.
In illustration, Mr. Davis tells of
discovering two boys swinging from
telephone wires on which they had
climbed.
“You may be electrocuted,”
warned them.
“That’s what we want,” one of them
answered grandly.
Co-operation on the part of teachers,
parents, police and public service com-
panies, the author says, will to some
extent solve the social problem pre-
sented by this spirit of recklessness
among young children,
The Mirror and the World.
The glass reflects the features of
him who looks therein. Smile is re-
turned for smile or tears for tears.
With the world, as with the glass, one
finds what he brings to it. Is a
man suspicious and looking for evil?
He will meet it on every hand. Does
he seek goodness? He will find it all |
about him, lurking in unexpected
places. The traveler intent on watch-
ing for obstacles or enemies misses
the wayside flower, the song of the
bird, the music of the brook, the :
If he is on the
smile of a child.
lookout for evil it seems to meet him
and the good is unseen. Are you pos-
sessed of fear?
every shadow; you hear threats in
the wind. Smile on the glass. Smile
on the world. Hope and fear not.
Believe in good and expect good in
others and you will find it. Look for
sunshine, look for joy, look for love !
and kindness. © Do not miss the good
while repining over wrongs, real or
fancied. Be yourself what you would
see in the mirror. Be yourself what
you would find in the world.—Milwau-
kee Journal,
Clever Borrowing.
The college stadium is but another
instance of the modern adaptation of
ancient devices to twentieth century
needs.
celled the ancients of Greece and
Rome, and in many other things they
have not improved much on what had
been acomplished some two thousand
years ago. In science, discovery and
invention, especially in regard to
things material and utilitarian, we
have undoubtedly outstripped them;
but in poetry, philosophy, painting,
sculpture, architecture—in short, in
the realm of the arts—we have made
but little progress, and that not on
particularly original lines.
although occasionally we do succeed
in expanding their ideas to fit our own
larger needs, and the modern stadium
is a case directly in point. In this
instance we have borrowed both the
idea and the name,
Taking to the Woods.
Mrs. Flatbush—“I see Sweden is
being urged to pass a law giving
women the right to propose mar-
riage.”
Mr. Flatbush—“Well, I only hope
the woods in Sweden are convenient
to the towns.”
——They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best.
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You see danger in |
In many things the so-called |
civilized nations of our day have ex- |
Their ,
works are still serving as our models, '
RECORD IN FINDING DISTANCE
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| Longest Line Measured by Triangu.
lation in Canada Said to
Be 135 Miles,
i The longest distance ever measured
| in Canada by means of the triangula-
| tion system was accomplished by the
Canadian geodetic survey in the work
in which it was engaged in outlin-
ing the western boundary of the Do-
minion. One of the distances meas-
ured by the triangulation method was
{ 135 miles in length. By the measure-
ment of one side of a triangle and the
reading of the angles on the transit at
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which angles are formed by taking a
sight at the distant point—the side of
the triangle required to be measured
can be found.
In carrying out this feat it was neec-
essary to work at night and to use
powerful acetylene lamps to find the
point 135 miles distant. The transit
or telescope is perched high on a
mountain side in order to overcome the
curvature of the earth’s surface. In
a distance of 60 miles it is nec-
essary to have an elevation of
2,000 feet in order to see the point at
which the instrument is sighted. In
135 miles the elevation is correspond-
ingly greater. This is perhaps the
second largest line ever measured by
' this method. The record is held for
! measurement across the Mediterra-
| nean between Spain and the northern
' shore of Africa, a distance of more
than two hundred miles.
IOLANTHE
the two ends of the measured line— |
IN DIRE PLIGHT
Excellent Reason Why She Could Not
i Appear When Her Cue for the
Stage Was Given.
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proverbially courageous, and perhaps
Amateur theatrical companies are |
that is the reason why the Puddje- |
| combe Thespians selected “Iolanthe™ as
the means by which they would aston-
ish the natives. As every lover of Gil-
bert and Sullivan is aware, one of the
most effective scenes in the opera is
the rising of Iolanthe from the bed of
a beautiful river, and it seemed that
this scene would go particularly well. :
The queen and fairies had sung their |
welcome well, the limelight was full
on,
“Iolanthe!
the fairies.
But Iolanthe did not appear.
Come, folanthe!” sang
tically, and the fairies anxiously re-
peated:
“Iolanthe! Come Ioianthe!”
| It was a tense moment, and the ex-
‘ citement had communicated itself to
the audience. Again the invitatior
, Was repeated, and then a petulam
| voice from beneath the water's silvery
: surface was heard:
“Oh, do be quiet!’ it said.
you see I'm caught on a nail?”
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| Sea Moss.
Sea moss is a term popularly ap-
plied to any of the polyzoa, which are
compound marine animals, several of
which share a common horny skelie-
ton, or polyzoary, which is plantlike !
in form. According to the bureau of |
fisheries, several hundred thousand
| pounds of these skeletons have been
imported annually from Europe, chief-
ly from France and Germany, for dec-
orative and millinery purposes, and
the supply has now been practically
cut off by the war. It therefore seems
opportune to develop a domestic in-
dustry, as sea mosses, probably equal
in quality to those heretofore im-
, borted, are said to be abundant on
; Jur coasts, especially in New Eng-
| land. Those with large bushy fronds
' are the most valuable.
i Eclipses Come in Series.
All eclipses occur in series, the first
| one of which takes place at one of
the poles and the last at the opposite
pole. The whole number in the series
of lunar eclipses is completed in a
period of about 870 years while the
entire series of solar eclipses covers
a period of 1,200 years. Yet the time
of the beginning of any of these
eclipses, and the path of totality or
partial obscuration can be calculated
to the moment or the mile. This is a
, matter difficult to explain to the ama- |
teur in language to be easily under-
stood. The statement of the fact is
sufficient. To ordinary students or
observers the reasons for totality or
| partial obscuration are much more in-
: each year.
Amazing Appetites.
If a baby had the appetite of a
| young potato beetle it would eat from
50 to 100 pounds of food every 24
hours. If a horse ate as much as a
caterpillar, in proportion to its size,
it would consume a ton of hay every
24 hours. A caterpillar eats twice its
weight of leaves every day; but a
potato beetle devours every day at
least five times its weight of foliage,
every bit of which represents just so
much money to the farmer.
The most destructive of all insects,
however, is the grasshopper, which,
when in good health, consumes in a
day ten times its weight of vegeta-
tion. No wonder that whole districts
are devastated by its multitudinous
swarms.
Mean Old Thing.
“That fellow Tompkins is a pretty
slick proposition.”
“What has he done now?”
“He buys all his cigars at a de-
partment store and has them put on
his wife's charge account, and then
when the first of the month comes
around he calls her down for running
up such extravagant bills,”
teresting, simply with the passing of !
The queen waved her wand fran-
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PRAISING THE LUSCIOUS PIE
Writer With a Subject Worthy of His
Pen Dilates in a Rhapsody
Worth Reading.
Let us celebrate the gastronomic
poem of the age—the pie. It graces
each season, but most especially is it
dedicated unto midsummer and the
time of berries, black, red and blue.
The pie is both friend and foe, com-
forter and avenger. It is mighty in
the mightiest. It can mercilessly
slay, and it can soothe and assuage
the drooping spirit. It is a poem both
lyric and elegiac—singing the sheer
pleasures of the senses and again, per-
adventure, the pains thereof. Dead-
ly is the pie when overeaten, but
: gracious, yea, and beneficent, when
partaken of in due measure and in
reverential awe of the lawful gastric
processes.
“My blessings on the head of him who
first invented sleep,” sighed Sancho
Panza on a memorable occasion. Be
ours on the head of him who first in-
vented pie. May he dwell forever on
blessed isles of pie among the
cherry orchards of Elysium. May his
jowls delight in mincemeat, pumpkins,
the juicy squash, the tooth-staining
blueberry, the pippin apple and oodles
of lemon custard.
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outer crust in order that something
felicitous and fruity may remain, like
wine, the best at the last.
Let us heartily rejoice that it is our
good hap to dwell within the great
New England pie belt, and not a thou-
sand miles from certain justly cele-
brated pie foundries.
Give us liberty, or give us death.
But, failing that, give us pie.—Bos-
ton Globe,
Declared by Scientists Who Ought to
Know to Be Many Millions of
: Years Old.
The discovery of splinters millions
of years old has been made by a pro- |
fessor of paleontology at the Univer- :
The splinters are |
sity of California.
neither decayed nor petrified, but re-
tained the grain and distinct markings
of the California redwood, and it is
even possible to whittle shavings from
the larger splinters. The discovery of
these splinters was made at Mussel
Rock, California, a bank of rock about
! twenty miles out of San Francisco.
This stratum of rock offers an excel-
lent opportunity for the study of rock
formations, and it was while on a trip
of this kind that the splinters were
found embedded in the sandy base of
the rock. Furthermore, these splin-
. ters were contained in a stratum which
had sunk under the sea and had been
“Something felicitous and fruity be- |
' different position so that the redwood
tween two crusts”’—that is pie. Long
may it wave! Begin at one corner of
afterward raised and turned over in a
trees were in a horizontal position in-
the crust and eat judiciously along the | stead of vertical.—World’s Advance.
Groceries.
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Groceries.
NEW GOODS
season.
Good Things we can find.
days.
Bush House Block, - :
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Jo % wl
We are now receiving daily consignments of new Prunes,
Apricots, Peaches, Raisins, Currants, Cranberries, Sweet
Potatoes and Celery, with many other items to follow in
We expect new Almonds and Walnuts before Hallowe'en. -
We are not offering any old stock at cut prices—don’t
have any to offer, but we are busy looking for all the New
We do Not Mark Our Prices Down
by the date of the calendar and then up again after eight
Our prices are based on actual value and change only
with regular changes in market values.
The inducement we offer you to trade with us is that you
can come here with confidence of getting
FINE GOODS AT FAIR PRICES,
every day in the year.
Bellefonte, Pa.
Dry Goods, Etc.
LYON & COMPANY.
Chin Chin.
LA VOGUE
COATS and SUITS
This means exclusive style, finest
quality of materials and best
workmanship. Fur trimmed, braid
trimmed, fancy military styles,
and vlain tailored, made of Gabar-
dine, Poplins and mannish mater-
ials, Broad Cloths and Mixtures.
La Vogue Coats in numerous
swagger fashions made of Plush,
Corduroy, Scotch mixtures, Per-
sian Lamb, Cheviots, Velours.
some with big fur collars. Broad,
soft, rolling effect or the new high
For an indefinite time prices will
be the same as the 8-Day Bargain
Sale.
Lyon & Co. ... Bellefonte
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You have but to slip
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the full “kimona”
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its silk Velvet collar
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and ready to wear.
Select a "Bich. Art"
Ragaway from
$15 to $25
and great at any price.
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with
that
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The Whole Story in a Few Words.
500
PAIRS OF
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AND $4.00
SHOES
Now on Sale at
$2.48
Per Pair.
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This is not a sale of small sizes and
narrow widths, but all new up-to-date
Shoes. Remember this is a sale of
Shoes (not low Shoes.)
Cash Only. No Exchanging.
Price $2.48 Price $2.48
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Bldg, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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