roses Deworealics ef Bellefonte, Pa., November 12, 1915. WOMAN'S HIGH PLACE IT IS HER'S BECAUSE SHE CAN KEEP A SECRET. Miss Margaret M. Hanna Is One of the Most Trusted Employees in Office of the Department of State. There is only one woman in the United States who has knowledge of international events before they hap- pen. Her name is Margaret M. Hanna. She is the confidential secretary and assistant of the second assistant secre- tary of state, Alvey A. Adee, who is the only permanent official of high rank in the department. No matter who may be the executive head of the department, and regard- less of whether the administration is Democratic or Republican, the course of the foreign office is steered by Mr. Adee. All of the diplomatic affairs are managed by him. The complex unwritten code called international law is to him familiar in its every par- agraph, and he has all precedents at his fingers’ ends. But it goes without saying that such business involves an immense amount of detail. Which is where the peculiar and exceptional talent of Miss Hanna comes into play. She takes all that part of the work off Mr. Adee’s hands. To him she is like a card catalogue to a librarian—and quite a bit more, in addition. Not until the present generation, strange to say, was it discovered that women are the great systematizers of detail. Even the cleverest men are not in the same class with them at that sort of thing. Hence the fact that nowadays many captains of industry prefer to employ as their confidential secretaries women who, with special capability in this line, know how to relieve them of all bother about the petty machinery of their office busi ness. Thus they are at liberty to de- vote their entire attention to affairs of major importance. Such is the function that Miss Han: na performs for the second assistant secretary of state. Incidentally to her duties she helps to prepare many state papers that are in the last degree con: fidential in character. She is the custo: dian of many an important secret af fecting the welfare of the country; but, from her point of view, this is merely a part of the day’s work. She forgets the secret automatically when she leaves the office and goes home. It has often been said that a woman cannot keep a secret. Perhaps most women cannot. Holding that belief, wrongly or rightly, the department of state prefers not to employ them in confidential capacities. Too much is often at, stake to make the taking of any risks advisable. But the rule is broken in Miss Hanna's case. She knows how to keep a secret, and the government of the United States is willing to bank on her reliability in this regard. When the Workers Quit. To the number of men under arms add those engaged in making war mu- nitions except food and clothing— though a great deal of war clothing is wasteful in that it is used up far fast- er than if the wearers were in a civil pccupation. Economically considered, all these men are idle, for they are producing no wealth. For Great Britain their number has been calculated at some- thing like half the total working popu- lation. The proportion is probably about the same for the other belliger- ents, except Russia, where it is some- what lower. Suppose something like half the gainfully employed population of the United States struck work, sat down and twiddled their thumbs for two or three years, being supported in idle- ness by the government during that period. Suppose there was some de- struction of real property by blowing up bridges, throwing explosives into factories, burning villages. Suppose there was a very high casualty and mortality rate among the idlers. Our economic position would then be about like Europe's. The government would be borrowing immense sums to sup- port its millions of pensioners, and our problem would be to offset the drain as much as possible by levying on labor that is not normally employed productively—the surplus labor of women, children, the aged and the halt —and by economizing in all possible ways.—Saturday Evening Post. Hog May Not Trespass. Chief Justice Ailshie of the supreme court of Idaho makes the following comment in Fall Creek Sheep com: pany vs. Walton on the effect of a statute relating to trespassing hogs: “The man who drew the amendment made swine an exception in the laws of Idaho from all other kinds of tres- passing animals. So now when that cloven-footed quadruped of ancient no- toriety goes foraging beyond the pro tecting care of the swineherd he at once loses his character as a domestic animal and becomes ferae naturae, subject to capture by anyone on whose premises he may at any indiscreet mo- ment find himself. Of course the hog doesn’t care much about his char: acter; he would ordinarily just as soon be treated as a wild animal as to be treated as if he had been domesti- cated for centuries. His fate is gen- erally about the same either way.” Duration of Titles in the Land of Con- fucius Is to Be Definitely Fixed by Statute. | The question as to the exact status of China, whether it is a republic, em- | pire, kingdom or what, is a compli- cated one—but perhaps the president will resolve our doubts before many years are past by being proclaimed emperor. For the present one does not know what to think on reading of the remarkable sliding scale peerage system that is to be submitted to the next parliament for approval. This limits the duration of titles in any one family as follows: Dukedom; inherited for five genera- tions successively invested with princehood, marquisate, earldom, vis- county and baronetcy. Princehood; inherited for four gen- erations successively invested with marquisate, earldom, viscounty and baronetcy. Marquisate; inherited for three gen- erations successively invested with earldom, viscounty and baronetcy. Earldom; inherited for two genera- tions successively invested with vis- county and baronetcy. Viscounty; inherited by one lineal descendant invested with baronetcy. Baronetcy; not hereditary. The foresight in this remarkable | roster is the fact that the president’s family alone is to be perpetually here- ditary. BROUGHT BACK OTHER DAYS Biscuit Revived Sad Memories in the Breast of Hobo Who Received “Handout.” Congressman Henry A. Ccoper of Wisconsin largely smiled the other day when the conversation in the lobby of a hotel turned to fond memories. He said he was reminded of the sad emo- tions of a poor oid hobo. One afternoon the hobo in question rambled up the garden walk of a sub- urban home and obsequiously asked for bread. Some home-made biscuit were given him and a few minutes later he was shaking with sobs. “What seems to be the matter, my poor man?” asked the tender-hearted housewife. “Are you thinking of other days?” “Yes, .lady,” answered the hobo, with another quiver of his weary frame. “Of dear friends and relatives, 1 suppose,” suggested the housewife, “and of the home you used to have.” “No, lady,” was the startling re sponse of the tramp. “I was think ing of the stones I used to have to break in a quarry at Rockville.,”—Phil- adelphia Telegraph. ' A Man who Knows Wonderful Facts About | Flies. “In the “Interesting People” depart- | ment of the October American Magazine i appear a picture and sketch of A. E. Chapman, a southern Californian, who knows how to rid a whole community of flies. Following is an extract from the article about him: “Mr. Chapman says that the bait is a very important part of fly traps, for this special feast must be made more enticing | than the odors from the kitchen.” He | has found that, although a great variety : of foods can be used successfully, the at- | tractiveness of any bait varies with the season. A food that drew thousands of | flies at one time of year will not interest | them in the least at other times. Fresh fruits in season are always good, but in the early summer the only really satis- factory bait is ground meat sprinkled with formaldehyde to keep it fresh. “In his study of the habits of flies, Mr. | Chapman has discovered one character- istic which he believes not only has en- abled the fly to progagate its species but i also has saved the human race from ex- | tinction by this pest. He has learned i that young flies up to the end of the two- | week period during which they lay no | eggs, have no taste nor desire for any | food but the daintiest and freshest they ~can find; but that at the end of this | period their taste undergoes a complete i and radical change. By a wise provision | of nature, they now desire only the kind of food that can be found in refuse heaps, decaying matter, or other places where instinct bids them lay their eggs. “ ‘When you bait with stale fish,’ says : Mr. Chapman, ‘you fill your trap with old flies that in all probability have laid their full quota of eggs and whose days are numbered. In the beginning of a cam- paign a number of trapsshould be baited this way, but after you have got the ad- vantage of the old flies, the majority of the traps should be baited with the nicest, freshest food and fruit available. Thus you will be sure to catch the young flies before the laying period begins.” ” Brain Blood-Supply Must Be Good. The importance of having pure blood is per- haps never more deeply impressed on us than when we are told bv physiologists that if the brain is supplied with impure blood, nervous and billious headache, confusion of ideas, loss of memory, impaired intellect, dimness of vision, and dullness of hearing, are experienced, and in time the brain becomes disorganized and the brittle thread of life is broken. The more we learn of the usefulness of the great blood purifier, Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the more grateful we are for this old and successful family medicine, which has accomplished so much in removing scrofula, rheumatism and catarrh and other blood diseases and correcting run-down conditions of the system, If you need a blood purifier, get Hood’s Sarsaparilla. CASTORIA Bears the signature of Chas.H. Fletcher. In use for over thirty years, and The Kind, You Have Always Bought. Facts About the New York Subway. More than two billions of people have been carried by the trains of the New York Subway during the past nine years. That not a single passenger fatality has occurred in that time is just cause for pride on the part of the Interborough ! Rapid Transit Company. The speed and ' frequency of their train service makes this fact all the more remarkable, but it does not guarantee that a frightful ca- tastrophe may not some day occur on one of these subterranean lines. It does show that great skill has been exhibited in protective devices and that great care has been exercised in their operation. Stone jars with tight-fitting covers make excellent bread receptacles, better than tin boxes. ——For high class Job Work come to the WATCHMAN Office. ; ‘Medical . A PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN TESTIFIES Back Hurt—Nervous—Sleepless. Cherry Tree, Pa.—“Eight years ago when my little girl was born I came 5 near dying. When I got able to go thoul, my back hurt so when I would ‘bend over that I would have to take hold of something with my hands to get up. My husband got me two bot- tles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip- tion, which I took and got along nicely. I could sit up, and my back did not hurt me. Was so nervous I could not sleep nights; my heart troubled mec and my back had sharp, stinging pains when I ‘would lean my head forward. I wrote to Dr. Pierce and was advised to take ‘Favorite Prescription.’ I used several bottles and now I do all my own work and tend to my garden and flowers. May God bless you is my prayer.”—Mgs., Ervis W. STIFFLER, Route 2, Box 85. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription speedily causes all womanly troubles to disappear—compels the organs to properly perform their natural func- tions, corrects displacements, over- comes irregularities, removes pain and misery at certain times and brings back health and strength to nervous, irrita- ble and exhausted women. It is a wonderful prescription pre- pared only from Nature's roots with glycerine. Get it now! In tablet or liquid form. If you are troubled with indigestion, Constipation, Biliousness, Bilious Head- aches, and a hundred and one ills which depend upon an inactive liver—usc Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, Shove, Hats and Caps. Clothing. J Once Weara High Art Suit or Overcoat You'll Wonder Why You ~ Never Bought One Before ropolitan. It number of fabric press your taste. HE style shown here is purely met is what Fifth Avenue, New York, is parading in right now. You'll like the trim, close fit of this coat. Its slim lines are becoming and the wide patterns will surely ex- Above oll “Bio Ae" STYLE CLOTHES are a built-in value proposition. When the ’ 9 . seasons over, you Il appreciate the un- usual service these clothes give. They're priced from $12 to $25.00 ——wuw Dry Goods, Etc. LYON & COMPANY. This month we are better prepared with Winter Goods Every line is complete with desirable merchandise. Coats and Suits. La Vogue Coats, all the new models at late season’s prices, which means a saving of 25 per cent. and more. Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Coats from $5.00 up. Ladies’ Suits. La Vogue Suits embrace virtually every new fashion endorsed for the winter, while the prices are the lowest ever quoted. Furs, Furs. We have on display in our fur department many of the handsomest styles the winter has produced. Natural American Red Fox, White Fox, Skunk, Raccoon, Opossum, Mink, Black Lynx, Black French Coney, Fur Sets, also Single Muffs, in all the new shapes; in fact the greatest line of Furs ever seen in Bellefonte. Blankets and Comfortables. The largest and best assortment of Blankets in grey and white from 50 cents to $10.00 per pair. Comfort- ables from $1.00 up. Just the right coverings for these cold nights. Shoes, Shoes. Men's, Ladies’, and Children’s Shoes at greatly reduc- ed prices. ——) WE ARE (— Ready for the Christmas Shopper If you are looking for a gift to embroider or crochet, inspect our line before buying. Visit our store and be convinced -that we are prepared for all your wants in every department. Lyon & Co. ... Bellefonte Shoes. Shoes. The Whole Story in a Few Words. 200 PAIRS OF Ladies $3.00 AND $4.00 SHOES Now on Sale at $248 Per Pair. 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 $248 Price $248 Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Bldg, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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