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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.