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Belletonte, Pa., March 10, 1916.
THE MOTHER OF TOMORROW.
Here is the mother of men to be
In the unborn days that fly
Swift on the wings of destiny;
Eagerly drawing nigh.
Fearlessly swinging her western way
This daughter of pioneers,
Dreaming her dream at the end of day,
In the romance of love and tears.
She is the mother of cities to come
There on the western sea;
She plants her prayer in the setting sun
For empires yet to be!
Dreams she a dream of sons full brave,
And of daughters that will fling
Their lives back unto the God who gave;
And deem it a little thing.
Untrod ways does she face alone;
This mother of men to be;
She beareth her burden without a groan,
A far off thing does she see:
The freedom of all her kind she dreams
In aland unbound, and new; :
She lifts her eyes and a great light seems
To break in the endless blue!
—By William L. Stidger.
San Francisco, Cal.
The Country Girl's New Found Joy in
Living.
“Yes the country is a fine place when
the work is done” said a country girl
when a city friend exclaimed about the
joys of the country. The point that the
girl made is that the work is almost
never done, and when it is done there is
nothing interésting to take its place. In
some sections that statement holds true
today, but it is fast giving place to the
ideals of the new country life movement,
which is sweeping from east and west
and from north to south as fast as en-
thusiastic, resourceful and imaginative
country lovers, both women and men,
can make it.
These men and women the majority of
them born in the country realize that the
great problem in rural life today is to
make the country, even remote sections
of it, a more useful, happier place in
which to live, that it is the longing for
interesting activities and wholesome re-
creation that drives our young men and
women to cities.
Several years ago a country teacher in
Page county, Iowa,stirred the whole com-
munity by new methods which she intro-
duced in her school by adapting the sub-
jects taught to country conditions, and
by taking an active interest in the farm-
ers’ problems of that section. Country
school gardening, corn testing, applying
arithmetic problems to the everyday
problems of the farmer were unheard of.
The farmers and farmers’ wives began to
want to get acquainted with the teacher
who was giving their boys and girls a
greater interest in their own homes.
That country teacher was Miss Jessie
Field of Clarinda, Page county, Iowa, a
bred-in-the-bone country girl, who be-
cause of her love for rural life, went
from college into a country school in-
stead of accepting a position offered her
in a city school. Later when she went
to Helena, Montana, to be principal of
schools, the country folk of Page county
realized their loss, and called her back
to be county superintendent. What an
opening this was! Here was a whole
county as her opportunity instead of one
small country school, and she had not
really liked the work in a mining city
far removed from the fertile plains of
Iowa. With a jovous heart she went
back to introduce her ideals for country
life into the schools of the whole county.
So effectively did she do it that her work
became known through the whole coun-
try and attracted the attention of
the educational department of the
United States government, during the
Roosevelt administration.
That was where the National Board of
the Young Womens Christian Association
founa Miss Jessie Field, but it was three
years before she would consent to leave
her beloved boys and girls of Page coun-
ty and under the direction of the small
town and country work for the national
organization of the Young Womens
Christian Association. Miss Field has
been in her present work three years
and during that time the work has grown
from the merest beginning to an organi-
zation of 15 county Associations made
up of 56 branches in 14 States, with a
membership of 4420 Miss Field is the
consulting expert. She is assisted in this
great work by six young women, known
as “field county secretaries,” who travel
through six of the 11 fields (or groups of
States) into which the country, for ease
of administration, is divided and who
directly supervise and assist in the local
girl more attractive than her country
cousin, but prefers the girl he knows will
understand him and his problems and
will be the inspiration to him in his
every day life. .
THE COUNTRY GIRL'S RECREATION.
Up to date gymnasiums no longer be-
long to city Associations alone but be-
long to any country sections. Then
there are those delightful hikes, picnics,
tennis tournaments, games, skating,
snow shoeing, and coasting, parties, vol-
ley ball and basket ball. In Gatesville,
Coryell county, Texas, the girls in the
county Association promoted basket ball
so that it was enjoyed by 500 girls in
that section. In Montgomery county,
Kansas, a “Good Times Club” was form-
ed among business girls which had an
attendance of 84, while a recreation club
in that Association gave nine special
recreational occcasions with an attend-
ance of 273. The National Guards drill
was used for these meetings.
COMMUNITY SERVICE.
All kinds of community service are
rendered by these girls, from the open-
ing of their Y. W. C. A. rooms as a sub-
station of the public library to holding a
better babies contest at the county fair,
opening rest rooms at the county fair or
in the county seat for the use of farm-
ers’ wives and daughters during the long
tiresome day while they shop and wait
for their husbands to do the usual routine
business. These girls have promoted
the singing of Christmas carols, better
music in the churches, and community
Christmas trees. They have collected
and dispensed clothing for poor families,
have bought toys, candy, etc., for Christ-
mas presents for poor children. In Gates-
ville, Texas, the county Y. W. girls open-
ed a rest room for farmers’ wives which
was used by 1000 visitors in a year.
These wide-awake girls also maintained
a residence for seven country girls so
that they might attend the High school
in the town. They also held a cooking |
and sewing contest which was partici-
pated in by 50 girls. In Lake County,
Hlinois, the county Association members
themselves distributed candy, toys, books,
mittens and hair ribbous to the children
of 18 poor families. Through the visit-
ing nurse they distributed clothing to 15
other families and through the Associa-
ted charities in Chicago they took care
of one poor family consisting of father
and mother and eight children, providing
rent, fuel, groceries, clothing, a Christ-
mas dinner and toys and candy for the
children while the father was out of
work for several months. When the
man secured a position again they trans-
férred their support to another family.
During the summer the camp fire girls
of Lake county, which is a branch of the
Association, made pajamas, skirts and
aprons, for the women and children from
a congested quarter of Chicago, who
were attending the summer camp there.
HELEN GOULD BIBLES.
Mrs. Finley J. Shepard has for several
years authorized the Young Women's
Christian Association to offer in her
name a beautiful Bible as a gift in recog-
nition of memorizing the 516 Bible verses
specified as a part of their Bible study.
In Greens county the interest in this
study ran so high that the daughters,
mothers and grandmothers were enthu-
siastically memorizing these verses. One
day one of the boys called up a girl friend
and asked her to play tennis with him,
and she replied she would but she had to
study Helen Gould Bible verses first. The
young man had not heard of Helen Gould
Bible verses but during the game he took
measure to find out about them and car-
ried the news to several of his boy friends.
In a few days boys in the fields at their
work were studying Helen Gould Bible
verses and a request came in to head-
quarters to have the boys admitted to
these contests. It was with regret that
the National Board was oblidged to tell
them that this contest was open only to
members of the Y. W. C. A.
EIGHT WEEK CLUBS AND COMMONWEALTH
CLUBS.
One interesting phase of county work
is the Eight Week Club whose leaders are
college girls who come home and gather
about them theirgirl friends and all girls
of the community who have not had the
opportunity of going to college and share
with them some of the good things they
have had the privilege of enjoying. The
activities of the club are divided into fun
and recreation of all kinds, study—Bible
study, lives of great women, eight weeks
with good books, useful service. The
leaders of these clubs report a most in-
teresting variety of community service
from cleaning up a church and keeping
the lamps washed, trimmed and filled to
providing tennis courts and grounds for
the country school, staying with babies
so that their mothers may go to church
and buying a nice black dress for a dear
old lady who could not go to church be-
cause she did not have one.
The Commonwealth Club is a similar
work done there.
THE MEETING PLACE. }
The county Young Womens Christian
Association members do not always have |
an entire building for their use as do the
city Asscciations but a meeting place is |
chosen which is convenient to the greatest
numbers concerned. Sometimes school
houses are chosen as the community
center. Sometimes churches or a few
rooms are rented in some building, in the
small town the grange rooms are often
used and in one or two instances the Y.
M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. have a build-
ing or rooms which are used jointly. The
wide-awake country girls who make up
this organization have demonstrated that
the meeting place is not the most im-
portant thing but rather the spirit of the
workers.
ROMANCE IN COUNTRY LIFE.
When one thinks of a country organi-
zation, cooking and Sewing are the fea-
tures most likely to come to mind, but
in reality the classes in the country As-
sociation today resemble very much
those in the educational department of
their city sisters Association. We find
girls enthuisastically studying English,
literature, French, stenography, type-
writing, bookkeeping, all the commercial
branches, and dramatic expression as
well as first aid to the injured, home
nursing, thorough courses in plain sew-
ing, dressmaking, millinery, domestic
arts and sciences, also clubs for tomato,
corn, and other vegetable growing and
canning clubs ranging from preserving
garden vegetables to the most delicate of
fruits, jams and jellies. And lastly we
find real classes in manicuring. In real-
ity the country girl is fitting herself for
a useful all round life, whether it be
business position, to go out inthe world to
teach others, to be good house wives or
for own well-managed, love ruled ha
Is it any wonder that the
household.
today does not find the city
farmer boy
organization, the only difference being
that it continues throughout the year and
that it need not have a college girl as a
leader, but any live, progressive young
women of the community.
——For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
Marchioness of Aberdeen Greeted.
The Marchioness of Aberdeen, vet.
eran suffragist and leader in women’s
movements on both sides of the sea,
was feted by the suffragists of Tarry-
town on Friday evening, February 4.
She was the guest of honor of Miss
C. E. Mason, of the Castle School of
Tarrytown and the Equal Franchise
Association of that city presented her
with a great basket of yellow flowers,
roses and pansies, in acknowledge-
ment of her long devotion to the
cause of woman’s enfranchisement.
lllinois Woman Wins as Mayor.
The first woman mayor in Illinois
is Mrs. A. B. Canfield, seventy-four
years old. She is chief executive of
Warren, whose population is about
1,500.
The new woman mayor cannot be
accused of seeking office for the sal-
ary offered, for the position of mayor
brings only $12 a year. Mrs. Can.
fleld has lived in Warren thirty-four
years. During the last twenty-four
years she has conducted a millinery
store. She is a lineal descendant of
John Quincy Adams, a member of
the State Suffrage Association,
W. C. T. U. and the Methodist
copal Church.
——Have your Job Work done here.
Mrs. Russell’s Talk On Women and War. i
| A very successfui lecture was given at
; the Court House on Tuesday evening, the
129th. The hall was crowded to hear the
| Honorable Mrs. Bertrand Russell, of Lon-
i don, England, who told of English wom-
_en’s work for the war.
| In her opening remarks Mrs. Russell
recalled a former visit to Bellefonte
while she was a student at Bryn Mawr
College, and said it made her feel young
| again to be serenaded by the Academy
i boys. :
Mrs. Russell told about the splendid
work done for soldiers by the English
{women in England and abroad, with
| special mention of the hospital the Abbays
‘ of Royaumont, west of Paris, which was
entirely managed by women—the doctors,
: nurses, orderlies, chauffuers and cooks
all being women. She then told of the
hospitals equally run by women in Servia,
! which have now had to be transferred to
| Corsica where thousands of Servian
| refugees have found shelter.
After briefly touching on the many
| new industrial openings for women in
munitions works, the engineering trades,
- in motor driving, farm work, etc.. Mrs.
| Russell gave a vivid description of the
| arrival of thousands and thousands of
| Belgian refugees in England and their
| hospitable treatment by the English peo-
| ple.
| Then followed a humorous account of
| some of the difficulties of private hospi-
tality to the people who cling together in
| large families, and ask for entertainment
in groups of ten to twenty people.
Mrs. Russell concluded her address
with a vivid account of the terrible suf-
ferings of Polish refugees in Russia, and
of the new Units for their relief being
organized by the constitutional suffragists
of England, under the leadership of Mrs.
Henry Fawcett.
It is hard, she said, for us to realize the
hideous misery that has overtaken whole
populations of the peasant fold of Poland
and Galicia, forced to flee from the battle
zone between the opposing armies on the
long line of the German-Austrian and
Russian front. We have known the
martyrdom of the Belgians, and the
exodus of helpless thousands, driven from
their homes and their “country, to take
refuge in England. But from Poland the
exodus has been infinitely greater. These
refugees had no ships to convey them to
a friendly port, but were forced into
flight over sparsely populated wastes, at
the beginning of the awful severity of a
Russian winter. The railways being re-
quisitioned for military purposes, thous-
ands, even millions of them, went on
foot over the rough tracks which do duty
for roads in Poland, east and ever furth-
er east, looking for shelter, even as far
as Siberia. Though thousands have died
on the road, the towns and cities are
overcrowded with refugees, and in Petro-
grad alone there are a million additional
inhabitants this winter. Great efforts
have been made in Russia, but the coun-
try does not. exist that could deal, ade-
quately in war-time with such an invasion
of destitute people. Shelter and food has
been provided, but adequate aid for the
suffering women and dying children has
not yet been organized, and their plight
is terrible.
The National Union of Suffrage So-
cieties felt that it must do what it could
to meet a need so desperate, and it sent,
therefore, through the Joint War Com-
mittee of the Red Cross and Order of St.
John, a Maternity Unit for Petrograd,
consisting of two doctors, matron, nurses,
and sanitary officer, to be in charge of
an administrator, with secretary and
almoner. The Unit is recognized by the
* Russian Red Cross, is immediately under
the protection of the Empress Alexandra,
and the patronage of the Grand Duchess
Kyril and of the English Ambassadress,
the Lady Georgiana Buchanan. It co-
operates with the Tatiana Committee,
which devotes itself to work for the
refugees, and is named after the Grand
Duchess Tatiana, the Emperor's eldest
daughter. ‘They telegraphed that the
“need is urgent,’”’ and the letters received
from our advance party, Miss Moberly
and Miss Violetta Thurstan, confirm the
urgency with stories that wring our
hearts, of the huge dark “baraks’” where
women and children are crowded togeth-
er in insanitary quarters, and where
babies are born only to die. In connec-
tion with a group of such “baraks” is a
feeding station, to which the refugees go
for their three daily meals, and next to
this feeding station is our hospital of
twelve beds, with operating theatre,
kitchen, and doctors’ room. Thither the
members of our Unit have gone, and
though few in number, their long train-
ing and experience in organized work
will enable them to cope with difficult
conditions, and even to become a cen-
tre training for others.
All the reports we receive from our
administrator emphasize the need of
trained workers, and small bodies of ex-
perienced women sent now will save an
incalculable amount of suffering, and do
a service out of all proportion to their
actual numbers. It is for this nucleus of
help that an appeal is made, and in order
that our pioneer workers in Petrograd
may have the assurance that at least
there are funds enough to keep their
Hospital going for six months; money is
needed for equipment and stores, to pay
adequate salaries to our workers, to keep
up the Hospital, and above all for the
power to extend ourgwork, since the cry-
ing needs every where are for organization
and personnel.
English women are contributing all
they can, and they are now appealing to
their American sisters to help in this
work for suffering women and children,
and to American men to give a thank
offering that their country has been pre-
served from the supreme misery of in-
vasion.
Dr. Robert Beach, the Chairman, closed
the meeting with an eloquent appeal to
the audience to help in this work of hu-
manity, and the Academy orchestra gave
spirited musical selections while a collec-
tion was taken. Mr. Charles M. Mec-
Curdy took charge of the money, and is
willing to receive any further contribu-
tions at the First National bank.
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Still Talking About ft.
Hojax—Windig imagined himself a
second Clay during the campaign, but
after the election his name was mud.
Tomdix—Oh, I don't know.
dries up occasionally,
Mud [
KNOW NOTHING OF RESULTS
Men in the Submarines Simply Obey
Orders That Are Given by the
Commander,
nnn
Ini the Berliner Tageblatt Herr Ar-
nold Hoelriegel tells of a trip to the
Austrian submarine which torpedoed
the Italian submarine Medusa.
“I was in the interior of this famous
U-boat,” he writes. “The big blond
lieutenant showed me every part of
the delicate machinery and explained
how the torpedo is loaded and fired.
I was amazed at the amount of metal
and glass and wire and pipe in that
comparatively small space in which
there is scarcely room to move about.
“The lieutenant told me the story
of an accident to the machinery, as
a result of which they never expected
to come to the surface again. They
were 20 hours under water, and during
that time the engineer and mechanic
worked without a moment’s respite to
repair the break.
“All hope had been abandoned and
the crew were breathing heavily in
the vitiated atmosphere, when sudden-
ly the submarine began to rise slowly,
and when it reached the surface all
hands went on deck to breathe the
fresh air.
“Describing the sinking of the Me-
dusa the lieutenant said:
“ ‘We were lying outside the harbor
of Venice in smooth water. The com-
mander had his eyes glued to the
periscope. We, of course, see noth-
ing and all we do is carry out his
orders.
“‘Suddenly we begin to maneuver.
Evidently something is about to oc-
cur. Only a small part of the peri-
‘scope is above the water; then we
dive again,
“ ‘Presently we can hear the sound
of another motor in our vicinity. The
commander shouts the order to have
our torpedo ready. Quick and will-
ing hands respond. The order is
given to fire, and the deadly instru-
ment speeds on its way. We hear
the explosion, but whether we hit
the mark we were, of course, un-
able to tell, as we quickly turned and
sped away.”
FIXED PRICE ON NECESSARIES |-
Warring European Nations Compelled
to Arbitrarily Regulate the Cost
of Foodstuffs.
Practically all the governments in
Europe have, since the war, put in
force regulations concerning the
prices of foodstuffs.
Some governments, while allowing
the local authorities to fix prices on
most things, issued decrees applicable
to their whole territory concerning a
few highly important articles. Thus
Austria and Germany both prescribed
the proportion of wheat or rye flour
that should be used in making bread.
Later both Austria and Germany fixed
the wholesale price of cereals, and
brought the distribution and consump:
tion of flour and bread under strict
control.
Turkey fixed prices for petroleum,
sugar, and flour. In Italy salt, tobacco
and matches are government monopo-
lies, so that their prices were fixed by
the central authority. Denmark, Hol-
land and Switzerland limited them:
selves to controlling the most impor-
tant breadstuffs of each country.
Neutrality in Saloniki.
A correspondent of the London Daily
Sketch gives a description of Saloniki,
which he pictures as a town of odd
contrasts in these days in which Greek
neutrality is on the edge of the boil-
ing pot. He says: “Bulgarian and
Turkish consuls lunch together every
day in a restaurant surrounded by
scores of British and French officers.
Every Friday the Ottoman consulate
flaunts the standard of the Crescent
in the teeth of the entente battleships,
which look on with complete indiffer-
ence. Restaurants, cafes and hotels
are, of course, making undreamt-of
profits.. In the gulf, within sight of
the quay, lies a heterogeneous fleet of
ships of all the allied powers, with a
great throng of transports, hospital
ships, supply ships, tugs, lighters, re-
producing afloat the medley that pre-
vails ashore.)
A Soldier's Decalogue.
Here are the “Soldier's Ten Com-
mandments:”
Thou shalt not use profane language
except . . . on seeing thy comrade
shot or getting petrol in thy tea.
Six days shalt thou labor and do all
thy work; on the seventh do all thy
odd jobs.
Keep thy rifle oiled, and shoot
straight that thy days may be long
in the land the enemy giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill—time.—From
“Soldiers’ Stories of the War,” by
Walter Wood. :
Book of Books.
American-made Bibles are reported
as now the “best sellers” among all
books. It is estimated that the year
now closing will show an increase of
50 per cent in the sale of our Bibles
over the best previous year’s record.
The war has interfered with the
printing of Bibles in the countries af-
fected, hence the demand for the
American product.
Chug! Chug!!
Automobile racing men expect a
speed of two miles a minute to be
attained in the near future. A new
world’s short distance track record
was made recently which approximat-
ed this speed. A two-mile lap was
made in one minute and a trifle over
two seconds—an average of 115.67
miles an hour.
SHOT MEANT LIFE OR DEATH, County Correspondence
Salvation of Arctic Exploring Party
Depended on Accuraté Aim of
One Man.
After they had existed on the bar-
ren ice-bound Wrangel island for six |
months, the dozen survivors of the ill-
fated Karluk of Vilhjalmur Stefans-
son’s arctic expedition, were rescued.
A small amount of seal oil and a few
fox carcasses were all that remained
of their food supply, writes Mr. Burt
M. McConnell in Harper's Magazine.
Munro had only twelve cartridges left
with which to sustain himself and his
companions.
“On one occasion,” said Munro,
“after our food supply had become ex-
hausted and we were wondering where
the next meal was coming from, I saw
a seal out on the ice. I crept to
within a hundred yards of him be-
fore I had to stop to steady my nerves.
My heart beat so lgudly that I thought
the seal must surely hear it.
“While I was resting the thought
came to me, ‘If you miss him, you will
starve’—for seals were very scarce,
and we had seen no other game in
seven days.
“I crept to an advantageous posi-
tion, set the hair trigger of my rifle,
and took deliberate aim. I think I
held the gun sights on the head of
that seal for at least two minutes, but
my hand was toe unsteady to make
my aim certain. I lay down on the
ice to regain my composure, but the
thought that if I waited too long the
seal might disappear would not allow
me to rest.
“I aimed again, but my nervousness
again frustrated my aim. I kept say-
ing to myself through clenched teeth,
‘I'll get you!’ and calling the seal all
sorts of names. I was a cave man
for a few moments. When I had be-
come calmer, I fired. The seal gave
one shudder and lay still.
“I saw and killed only just one seal
after that; so the rescue party came
in the nick of time.”
ROPED HIMSELF TO BRIDGE
And Then the Youngster Let the Tide
Come In in True Melodrama
Style.
The colossal lie told by seventeen:
year-old John Streeper proved a little
too much for him, and he was confined
to his bed with a doctor trying to give
him something for his nerves. The
police said it was not his nerves that
needed treatment at all; what he need:
ed most was a remedy for an over-
grown imagination. The boy had the
police and detective forces of the city
in a fine frenzy for hours with his yarn
about being tied by four negroes to a
log under a bridge for the tide to over:
whelm as it rose inch by inch.
It was a thriller for sure, and Streep-
er was tied to the log, but he had tied
himself. Color of truth was given the
boy’s colossal yarn by the fact that
negroes caught in robbery by his fa-
ther had threatened vengeance upon
him, but that incident merely formed
the foundation for the fabrication. The
lad had remained out later than the
domestic law allowed, and it was nec:
essary for him to frame an excuse that
would go well with dad. The chief
incident of a “movie” show he had wit-
nessed recently gave him all the cue
he required. He provided the scenario.
—Atlantic City Dispatch to Philadel
i phia Record.
China’s Cheap Nobility.
After the re-establishment of. the
monarchy, Chinese emperors will re-
ceive $12,000 gold, as an annual allow-
ance granted because of their rank.
This decision has just been reached
by the government, and a mandate
setting it forth is to be issued in a few
days. Princes will each receive $8,000
gold, annually. The allowance for a
duke will be $4,800. Marquises of the
first, second and third classes will re-
ceive $4,000, $3,200, $2,400, respective-
ly. The allowance to a first-class earl
will be $2,400. An earl of the second
class will receive $1,500 and one of
the third will be paid only $1,200 and
so on through the lower ranks. Yuan
Shi-kai has issued a mandate address-
ing the son of the murdered Admiral
Tseng Ju-cheng as marquis, and has
ordered the young man to report to
Peking for service on the bodyguard.
“Girls” at Age of Thirty-Five.
Cheer up, spinsters. You are still
young even if youre thirty-five and
melancholy. Shake the latter feeling
and laugh youthfully, for the members
of the Brick Presbyterian chugeh have
solved the age problem for “girls.”
Yes, it's true, says a New York cor:
respondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
You are still a girl at thirty-five. This
is the age limit they set for admis-
sion of boarders to the new William A.
Barbour Memorial dormitory for self-
supporting young (notice the “young”)
women. The age limit to the member-
ship is one of the new laws laid down
for the management of the new home.
The building will be seven stories
high and will accommodate 120 young
women as regular boarders.
Socks Went Astray.
“A. young woman in Vancouver put
a note in a pair of socks she had knit
asking the soldier who got them to
write her.” She received a letter from
& man in a northern logging camp stat-
ing that he had bought the socks for
65 cents,” says the Rocanville (Sask.)
Record.
How Sympathies Are Divided.
There are now in the United States
4,063,028 persons native to Germany,
Austria and Turkey, and 6,885,724 na-
tive to the nations fighting in the op-
posing alliance.
{ Items of Interest Dished Up for the Delec-
tation of ‘““Watchman’ Readers by a
Corps of Gifted Correspondents.
TYLERSVILLE.
Joseph Bressler’s daughter Alva is
numbered among the grip victims.
February, 1916, will be remembered as
the month of stormy Sundays, as there
has been a wind or snow storm each
Sunday.
At the Womelsdorf sale, the first of
the season, corn brought 88 cents per
bushel in the ear. All feed except hay
is scarce in the valley.
The fox which Samuel Snyder and
Newton Wallizer wounded on Monday
by shooting oft one of its legs was finally
run down on Tuesday by dogs, and dis-
patched.
Potatoes are very scarce in this end of
the valley. Some villagers have already
used up their year’s supply and many
farmers will not have enough of the
vegetable for table use and planting.
Any one who figures out that the fish-
ing season opens fifty days hence shows
that he is a true follower of angling for
the sport of it. If he is also practical he
will get his tackle and “bait” ready in
good season.
We are pleased to observe in the Pleas-
ant Gap correspondence both philosophy
and information, and while editors gen-
erally consider these matters should be
confined to their editorial or resume
pages there is no reason why corres-
pondence, both private and public, should
not be set to a higher strain, less and
less personal gossip and more and more
matter of a helpful and constructive
character.
After Peace, Prohibition and Equal
Suffrage have been attained, and we have
at last taken departure from the lower
caves of brutedom, will come the Titanic
struggle for clear thinking. Hypnotism,
messmerism, interferences with the per-
sonal rights, undue influence, unsought
advice, wrong thinking what a battle they
will put up compared to the War Lords,
the Brewery Kings and the Set Aristo-
crats. If we could all have the mind of
the one who was at peace, even for a
day, then surely the Kingdom of Heaven
would be at hand, not only as to locality
but chronologically. It any of us Penn-
sylvania Dutch want to realize how far
we have to go in order to take no
thought of the morrow, and to resist not
evil, and to learn that our war is one
with the powers of darkness, we have
but to observe the operations of ayarice
which breaks over the line into dishon-
esty; of fear of want that impoverishes
our very soul, and of pow-wowing, that
relic of ancient Gypsy, Roman and In-
dian superstition that so often devolved
into “hexing” and deviltry. The book
of Prof. Pattee, of State College, entitled
“The House of the Black Ring,” is a pic-
ture of Sugar Valley and our race to
greater or less extent. It is not pleasant
reading, less so than “Tillie the Men-
onite Maid,” which depicts our avarice
and meanness, but if we don’t get the
beam out of our own eyes how can we
remove the mote from our brother's eyes?
It will be a glorious war, this mental
one, and we will be a surprised crowd
when we get over our jag and cease to
believe things that are not so.
NITTANY ITEMS.
C. N. Decker has been quite sick for
several days.
Walter Holter, of Howard, spent Sun-
day at W. H. Becks.
Mrs. G. B. Harshberger entertained a
number of her friends at a quilting party
last Wednesday.
Mrs. W. E. Brandt, of Crafton, is visit-
ing her father, John H. Beck, who has
been ill for some time.
Rev. J. A. Bright, of Topeka, Kans.,
preached in the Lutheran church at
Snydertown Sunday evening.
Miss Hester Zerby, a daughter of H. P.
Zerby, of Nittany, and Willard Strunk, of
Parvin, were married Thursday evening
at five-thirty, by Rev. W. J. Schultz, at
the Lutheran parsonage.
One of our young farmers was unable
to work last Wednesday afternoon, he
was so busy watching the parsonage for
the wedding party. All afternoon and
evening he stood on guard, but he lacked
perseverance for when they came Thurs-
day he failed to see them. Didn’t you,
Lewis?
LEMONT.
Robert Hunter transacted business in
town last Wednesday.
The chicken thieves raided B. F. Hoy’s
hen house and took a number of the
fowls. It is up to the officers to run
them down.
Miss Mary Payne, one of the hustling
young ladies from this town, went to
Clearfield, Wednesday, where she is learn-
ing millinery.
The jurors who were called to the
county seat for the second week of court
were all discharged Monday, excepting
twelve, who were held to hear the last
case on the list.
The infant son of Robert and Ruth
Smith passed away, Thursday, of heart
trouble, and the funeral was held Satur-
day afternoon. Interment was made in
the Houserville cemetery, Rev. James
Lilley officiating.
Those who suffer at the instance of in-
gratitude have not acted from honest
motives; but have made a show of gen-
erosity for a purpose—that they may get
a greater return, and of course their dis-
appointment is a just punishment for
their baseness.
——They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best.
Required for Health and Beauty!
It is surprising that it is necessary to repeat
again and again that the health and beauty of
the skin require that the blood shall be pure. If
the arteries of the skin receive impure blood
pimples and blotches appear, and the individual
suffers from humors. Powders and other extern-
al applications are sometimes used for these
affections, but will never have the desired effect
while the causes of impure remain. :
The indications are very clear that. Hood's
Sarsa is the most succes m e for
Ba ing the blood, removing pimples and
lotches, and giving health beauty to the
a rwstons To all the OF Sins 0d Pile
up whole em. Insist on having
Sarsaparilla when you ask for it. Don’t take
anything else.
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