Bellefonte, Pa., February 18, 1916. om nm HORSE NOT YET OBSOLETE Will Remain, It May Be Safely Assert- ed, Long After Some Prophets Have Been Forgotten. Some prophets and sons of prophets who predict that horses on the farms will soon be only a memory will have passed away, and pleasing epitaphs will be carved into the stones which mark their resting place, long before their prophecies become fact. The in- troduction of the farm tractor will not, as some believe, remove the horses from the fields and from their pas- tures, Farm Machinery asserts. The advent of the street cars did not have that effect upon horses, neither did the bicycle nor automobile. Today there are more horses in this country than there were ten years ago, and prices are considerably higher. The one thing that the farm tractor will do is to supply the need of power on the farms which horses cannot give. Take away the farm tractors which are in use today and several hundred thou- sand horses would be required to re- place them, or if horses could not be had the lands would have to go un- plowed and untilled. - The number of tractors now in use will be multiplied many times within the next ten years, but there will be as many horses in this country as there are today, and prices will be even higher than now. Farm tractors are becoming a neces- sity, just as electric street cars have become—the same as telephones have supplanted the telegraph in a way and have taken the place of messenger boys and quick delivery of mail. No one will agree that there are not more miles of telegraph wire in use today than ten years ago, nor can it be said that there are fewer messenger boys, yet the telephone is in almost every business house and in many house- holds, doing work for which there was little demand a few years ago. The farm tractors will simply fit in. to the greater needs of the country and will do the heavier chores and drudgery which horses are little fit for. They will not replace the horses, but will simply assist them and make life easier for them. They will also enable farmers to breed better horses because their ‘mothers will be kept for that purpose instead of spending half or more of their time in doing heavy work. Let us not dream too long upon the practicability of the horseless farm. It is a long way off, as yet. ~ “Bowl of Death.” The latest thriller for amusement parks and similar institutions is a so- called “bowl of death,” which turns from a horizontal to a vertical posi- tion and then back again as the rider drives his motorcycle at high speed around the rim. A picture of this de- vice appears in the Popular Mechan- ics Magazine. The bowl is made i of segments of perforated steel, is 15 feet in diameter and is hemispherical | in shape except for a flat section at! the center and a sharp inward curve! at the rim, designed to furnish the rider some degree of protection against | : the danger of running off the edge. When the motorcyclist begins his ride the bowl is horizontal, with the open side up. As soon as the machine at- tains sufficient speed to ride on the vertical edge the bowl is slowly swung to a position in which the open side is vertical. Farming on a Precipice. On mountain slopes so steep as to ap- pear quite worthless for agriculture, the rice growers of the Philippine is- lands are producing crops upon made- to-order farms. These famous ter- races of the mountain province extend as far as the eye can reach, a work of patience rivaling the pyramids. Im- agine a whole mountain laid out in ledge above ledge, the walls almost perpendicular, the strip of field graded just enough to allow the water to flow from one terrace to another without violence, so that every acre is irri- gated but not washed out by the cur- rent. The work appears too vast to be the work of human beings. In fact it might better represent some great up- heaval of the earth’s crust.—Popular Science Monthly. Growth of Rubber Industry. ‘The world’s production of crude rub- ber last year amounted to 142,000 tons. This is a substantial increase over 1914. Of this amount of rubber 75, 000 tons is used in the United States, and of that amount more than one-half finds its way into Akron, O., the home of the tire industry. It is a matter of record that in 1905 75,000 acres of land were devoted to rubber culture, and in 1915 there were 1,330,000 acres devoted to this industry. i More Noise Than Harmony. It is said that a din will be produced in a new Richard Strauss symphony by the following instruments: Eight horns, four trumpets, four trombones, two bass tubas, two harps, an organ and celesta, bass drums, kettledrums, bells, cymbals, triangles, tom-tom and a shepherd’s bell, also eighten first violins, sixteen second violins, twelve violas, ten violoncellos, eight double basses, two large flutes, oboes and clarinets. ? Plain Duty. “The customhouse officer who is visiting our Maud is hard to bring to the point, but he certainly is a jewel of a man.” _ “Then he ought to declare himselLl.”. i at nine dollars an ounce. BEST PART OF FISH WASTED Public Really Not Educated to Abpre] ciate the Titbits of the Alaska Salmon. As I saw the Admiral Watson taking | on thousands of cases of salmon ai] Seldovia I asked Mr. Randolph how long the fish then being shipped had been out of the water, relates John A.: Sleicher, in Leslie’s. He said: “Only | a day. They go from here to Seattle | and can be on your table in New York in three or four weeks after they are caught.” Fresh fish! Mr. Randolph said that one of the | choicest delicacies he ever ate was a mess of breaded broiled hearts of the | big king salmon. Some of these fish! weigh 180 pounds each, while the red | or “sockeye” salmon average only! eight pounds. “They taste like sweet: | breads,” he added. “It is too bad they | are wasted.” And so are the fine, large i livers, as big as your hand, and the spawn which if it was sturgeon eggs | would command a high price for caviar. Plans to utilize some of these | products are being studied by Mr. Ran | dolph and by others. Another titbit | is the little chunk of sweet, tender | meat lodged in the cheek of the sal mon, just below the gills. The can | ners reserve such delicacies for them: | selves and their friends, but the time | will come when they will find special mention on the menus of the highest priced restaurants. | The canners get at wholesale only | about thirteen cents for a one-pound | can of the best red salmon and only half the price for the pink and even | less “for the white. The red salmon | constituted only three-sevenths of the pack, but three-fourths in value of the entire product. The public prefers the red meat and is willing to pay double price for it. So much for gratifying a taste. PERFUME LURES THIS AUTO It Plunges Across Sidewalk Into Big Display Window ‘on Broadway, New York. | ‘Mrs. Harry E. Klein, wife of Charles | Dillingham’s general manager, was ap- proaching Longacre square, on Broad- way, in the new $5,000 automobile her husband gave her for Christmas, says the’ New York Telegram. Nearing Forty-seventh street, she made up her mind to run in near the curb and make a purchase. But coming up, “on the wrong side of the road” and heading right at her Christmas gift, was a low, rakish machine of sinister aspect. Mrs. Klein realized her peril. She suddenly turned to the right to save her car and avoid a crash. The ma- chine bounded like a gay torpedo out of peril. An actor on the sidewalk shouted his best and fled, the Christmas car in full pursuit. Through the plate-glass windows of Peter Feriere’s perfumery shop the Christmas gift went. In that window reposed perfumes Gasoline and scents of Araby, Hymettus and | parts about the Christmas present mingled. Mrs. Klein, spattered with perfume, climbed out of the car, unhurt. Wanted Market Price for Votes. A corpulent negro woman came into the office of Judge George I. Griffith of Kansas City, Kan., one morning and inquired for the “jedge.” “What can | I do for you?” asked the judge. “Is | yoh runnin’ foh jedge again?” she asked. “Yes, I'm trying to get the nomination,” the judge replied. “What's the ‘sideration foh votes dis yeah?” “What!” almost yelled the judge, beginning to understand the drift of the conversation. “Ah means,” explained the negress, “is votes wuth one dollah er two dollahs dis 'lection?” “Are you aware that it is a serious of- fense for a person to sell his vote?” sternly demanded the judge. “Ah don’ 'zactly undahstan’ yoh, jedge, but ef yoh means yoh ain’t buyin’ ’em, dat’s all right. Ah believe yoh’s no politish- un nohow.” And with this contemptu- ous parting shot she left the office. New Use for Submarines. It is reported that the Germans are laying mines from submarines. The mines are carried one above another in a vertical air-tight chamber within the submarine. When they are to be laid, water is admitted to the cham- ber and a door in the outer shell of the.hull closing the chamber is opened. The mines are then released, one by one, through proper appliances. The mine anchor sinks to the bottom and, by suitable mechanism, the anchorage cable is unwound to permit the mine to float at the desired depth below the surface. This method of mine laying is absolutely secret, and therefore is proportionately dangerous to the en- emy. Where Accordions Are Popular. The natives of Madagascar are great lovers of music, and in addition to their own primitive instruments the accordion is very popular. Within the last few years the importation of these instruments has shown a steady in- crease, about 20,000 being imported annually to the value of about 150,000 francs ($28,950). These goods have practically all been imported from Germany. beat tn White Crow in Pennsylvania. A white-feathered crow, according to residents of Logansville, can be geen in Solomon Kessler's woods. Hamilton Joseph says he saw the crow sitting on the limb of a tree with two black crows. Joseph has a reputation for veracity in all matters—York (Pa.) Dispatch Philadelphia North American. | PERSIA’S OLD CAPITAL! TEHERAN A CITY THAT HAS SEEN MANY VICISSITUDES. Now the Center of Warring Interests That Threaten Its Very Existence —Not an Especially Healthy Place in Summer Months. The capital of a small buffer state between three clashing empires, the English, Russian and Ottoman empire, Teheran in recent years, and more es- pecially since the outbreak of the great war, has had an importance thrust upon it of a most embarrassing kind, begins a war primer of the Na- tional Geographic society. Geograph- ically of greater interest to each of the groups of contending powers than any other neutral capital, Persian Teheran is experiencing insuperable difficulties in keeping its destiny clear of those of the warring giants around it. Teheran, according to the Persian, is very beautiful, but the praise of his country’s capital is seldom sup- ported unreservedly by the western- er; for he finds the Persian city of Shiraz far more beautiful and Is- fahan the peer of the residence. The capital lies 79 miles south of the Caspian sea, on a plateau of coarse sand and gravel, which is fringed by low, distant hills, and, to the north, by some higher mountains. Mount Damavand is the key to the city's setting, towering in the northeast to a magnificent crest of 19,400 feet high. To the southward stretch level lands, which lose themselves in waste and desert. The East and West meet and mingle as oil and water in the shah’s metropo- lis. Teheran is, of course, a purely Oriental city, but, like all eastern cen- ters of importance, it has suffered such encroachments from the West as street cars, telegraphs, gas lighting and severely dyed and tailored clothes for men. It is backward in its development and uneven in its im- provement. Its Boulevard des Ambas- | sadeurs is more or less of a splendid | thoroughfare and it is lined with a Eu. ropean type of shops, two good hotels and a number of fine native palaces. It has one of the largest military parade grounds in the world—>550 by 350 yards —roughly paved with strewn cobble stones. The modern city is not so very old, as it came into existence less than 700 years ago, about the time that ancient Ragha, the crumbling suburb to the south, began to sink into ob- livion. Ragha, known in the time of Alexander the Great as Ragae, was the birthplace of Harun al-Rashid, and at one time the golden capital of Parthia. In the days of its supremacy it was as vain and rich and showy as storied Hamadan, the pride of earliest Persia, the city of seven walls in seven colors, with palaces wrought in gold and silver and frescoed with precious stones. Modern Teheran is the in- heritor of the traditions and the pride of Ragae and of Hamadan and of the ancient honors of Pasargadae and Per- sepolis. With the rise of Teheran, Media regained the place that it lost to Persia in the time of Cyrus. Anarchy has ruled within the capi- tal in a way more or less pronounced during the last several years, and the people of the city have accom- plished little toward its moderniza- tion and development of its impor- tance as a place of commerce and manufacture. There is an important caravan trade, which passes through Teheran toward the Russian borders, and a certain manufacture of cot- ton, linen, carpets, shoes and iron products. Its business is enough to give support to a population of about 260,000, in which are included about 600 Europeans. The climate of Teheran is not a favorable one and especially are the summers unhealthy, when all of the people who can get away go to the foothills in ‘the north. Writing in 1596, a Persian gives a pathetic summary of a Teheran summer. He says that the air was too hot and even smelly, that the water was heavy and unwholesome and, in short, everything so bad that the Angel of Death ran away from it. But, then, this author wrote shortly after a fearful cholera plague had passed over the city. The nearby contrast of the cool summer gardens in the foothills, likely, has conspired to give the Teheran summer a bad standing. Wisconsin’s History. Wisconsin has from time to time been an annex of various other states. ‘Wisconsin from 1805 to 1809 formed a part of Indiana territory. From 1809 to 1818 Wisconsin was embraced in the territory of Illinois. When Illinois became a state all the country north of it, including Wisconsin, was joined to Michigan. After more than forty years of shifting Wisconsin was admit- ted into the Union with her present boundaries in 1848. Her Belief. Harlow—My wife is too much of an orthodox to suit me. Barlow—Makes you get up and go to church Sunday morning, eh? Harlow—No; but judging from her regular raids on my pocketbook she evidently thinks I am made of “dust.” Newspapers for Moros. The Habar Sing Tau Sug is a new Moro newspaper, published by the Sulu Press of the Moro mission at Zamboanga, P. I. The publication is printed in Arabic and has as its ob- ject the uplift of the Moro people among whom it is widely circulated. — ————————— RAY-O-LIGHT OIL. useless Question. “Would your wife vote for you as a candidate for office?” *I don’t think there's any use of my bothering my head about that,” re- plied Mr. Meekton. “I don’t believe Henrietta would let me run in the first place.” Meat Market. (Get the Best Meats. You save othing by buying poor, thin or gristly meats. I use only the LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and supply my customers with the fresh. est, Chooat. best blood and muscle mak- ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no higher than poorer meats are elsewhere. I always have — DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa High Street. Fine Job Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING o0—A SPECIALTY—o0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE. le 98 orks from the BOOK WORK, that we can not do in the most satis- There isno cheapest manner, and at Prices consist. fu a else of work. Call on or communicate this office’ Flour and Feed. CURTIS Y. WAGNER, BROCKERHOFF MILLS, 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: WHITE STAR OUR BEST HIGH GRADE VICTORY PATENT FANCY PATENT place in the county where that extraor- y fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour SPRAY can be secured. Also International Stock Food © and feed of all kinds. All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour xchanged for wheat. OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA. MILL AT ROOPSBURG. ‘The onl dinaril 719 Are you paying to sit in the dark? a ——.~".._.e. é ese ee ———— | Te ed TTT Ji oe {ll el | WY 1 inh Ahr 2 A) | a LN \ fr) AU \ Li Prue to ruin your eyes, paying to smell burn- ing wick and the odor of poor kerosene? Are you doing these things? Unless your home is equipped with Rayo Lamps— you probably are. And what’s more, you are pay- ing the identical price that would buy you the flood of brilliant, eye-soothing, steady light that beams from a Rayo p filled with slow-burning ATLANTIC Rayo Lamps are beautiful—an ornament to any room. And they burn brightly, without flicker or smell. Your dealer can show you a special design for any room, ranging in price from $1.50 up. No matter what sort of light you've got, the addition of a few Rayo Lamps will make your home brighter and the folks happier. But Rayo Lamps are at their best when burning Atlantic Rayolight Oil. It is the one kerosene that burns without smoke or smell—that is always the same. It gives the brightest light and the greatest heat for the least money. The use of Atlantic Rayolight Oil doesn’t stop with burning and heating ; thousands of housewives have written us thatit’s the very finest thing to brighten faded carpets, keeps the moths away from closets, shelves and drawers, cuts grease better than anything else, and that for washing windows it’s without equal. Be certain to ask for Atlantic Rayolight Oil by name— it costs no more than the unknown, unreliable kerosene. The dealer who displays the sign can always supply you ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh | Compare this issue of the “Watchman” with other county papers, and note the difference. : -_——. i \ | Dry Goods, Etc. LYON & COMPANY. AFTER Inventory Sale We have finished inventory and find we have too large a stock of Winter Goods. We cut prices again in order to move this winter stock at once. SUITS. 22 Suits, ladies’ and misses’, value from $15, to $25, now $3.50. COATS. All Winter Coats in cloth, corduroy, Persian lamb; all sizes and colors including black; must be sold at $7.50. See these bargains and you will be convinced they can not be manufactured at these prices. ’ Spring Showing We have just received a line of Spring Coats and Suits. La Vogue styles speak for themselves. ~~ New Silks. New Silks for dresses and waists. Everything new in woolens, lawns, organdies, ginghams, etc. Neckwear. Spring Neckwear here for your inspection. - Shoes. Shoes. Sale of Shoes still on. Men’s, women’s and children’s Shoes that sold from $2.50 to $3.50, price $1.98. Lyon & Co. «.. Bellefonte
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