Bellefonte, Pa., July 14, 1916. ;
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All Printing is Advancing.
The war is having its effect on the
printing trade. Next to the increasing
‘difficulty in having orders for paper and
ink filled at all every printer in the coun-
try is compelled to advance the charges
for his product because of the unpre-
cedented rise in the cost of the too es-
sential, paper and ink.
Many buyers of stationery are wonder-
_ ing if conditions justify the rapid ad-
vances that have been made, and will be
made as long as the market remains in
the present unsettled state.
The answers to these questions are the
facts: that the paper and ink manufac-
turers are compelled to advance prices,
because of the high costs of raw ma-
terials, particularly of chemicals and
dyes.
The table below shows the normal
scale of prices, as compared to the prices
that paper manufacturers are now pay-
ing for the same materials:
Bleached Sulphite (wood fibre) was $2.65 cwt.
Now $3.75 to $4.25 cwt.
Bleaching Powder was 1%c. Now 13c. (and
unobtainable.)
. Soda Ash was 65c. cwt. Now 2c. (and un-
obtainable.)
Rosin was $3.75 bbl. Now $6.50 bbl.
Satin White (for coated paper) was 5c. lb.
Now 9c. Ib.
Casein was 6%c. 1b. Now 20c. to 30c. Ib.
Alum was lc. Ib. Now 3c. Ib.
Aniline Colors was 40c. 1b. Now $20.00 Ib.
Fourdrinier Wires (paper machine) was 29c.
sq. ft. Now 39c. lb.
- Woolen and Cotton Felts have advanced 10
per cent.
Thirds and Blues (rags) were
2c.
Lumber (cases and frames) was $13.25 M. Now
$18.50 M.
Wages have increased 20 percent.
The above ratio of advances also applies to
inks and other material used in the manufacture
of blank books and stationery.
Furthermore, the chemical people will
not make any contracts at any price, so
that mills are simply buying from hand
to mouth, as their needs require, in many
instances being unable to obtain certain
supplies at any price.
As soon as conditions are normal, that
is, when imports can be again resumed,
or a larger domestic supply developed,
prices will right themselves.
The chemicals used by paper manu-
facturers in making bleaching powder,
have been bought in great quantities
during the past few months by the mak-
ers of high explosives, so that this market
has been demoralized. This accounts
for the shortage of supply, and the very
high prices of such chemicals.
The higher prices now prevailing do
not mean exorbitant profits to either the
manufacturer or the paper dealer. It is
a difficult thing to maintain even usual
profits above the constantly rising costs.
So great is the demand for paper
abroad that it is said that if not a pound
of paper was sold for home consumption
the American mills could still run two
years, night and day, on the orders they
have for foreign delivery.
$1.35. Now
Forest Fire Damage at the Bear
Meadows.
Full reports have been received by
the Department of Forestry for the
big forest fire which burned in .the
Bear Meadows region from May 9th
to May 16th. They show that a to-
tal area of 5,670 acres was burned
over, with an ensuing loss of over
$8,000. About 4,270 acres of the
“burned area are in Huntingdon coun-
ty, and 1,400 acres in Centre coun-
ty. 5,204 acres were State lands,
part of the Bear Meadows State for-
est, and the remaining 466 acres
were forest land privately owned.
The bill for extinction submitted
to the Department for payment was
$849.68. This does not include $570
earned by 250 State College stu-
dents, who refused to accept pay for
fighting the fire, nor does it include
charges for the time of the forest
service employees. With these
items, the total ‘expense is about
$1,600. The total number of men
engaged in combatting the fire was
435. ;
This is only one of a thousand in-
stances of big damages resulting
from forest fires because the De-
partment of Forestry has not suffi-
cient funds to maintain an efficient
patrol and lookout system during
the dangerous season. Because of
the inadequate force of the State
forest, and the total absence of
means for rapid communication, be-
fore a large crew could be summon-
ed the fire had reached such size that
it was almost a hopeless task to at-
tempt to extinguish it. Even after
the crew was mobilized, the roads
were so few and in such poor condi-
tion that it was next to impossible
to travel in any way except afoot.
The fire burned fiercely for over
six days, and ‘in addition to the loss
in timber and ground covered thous-
ands of game birds and wild ani-
mals met death in its flames. It was
by far the worst fire of recent years
in the Bear Meadows section. It is
to be hoped that the next Legisla-
ture will supply funds which will
‘make it possible to prevent a recur-
‘rence of such a needless waste of a
'much needed resource. . ...
APRA LAM RT
——Have your Job Work done here.
SKUNK KNOWS NO FEAR
LITTLE ANIMAL IS WELL ABLE TO
PROTECT ITSELF.
Picks No Quarrels, but Decidedly
Never Goes Out of Its Way to
Avoid Them—Formidable
Weapdn of Defense.
The skunk is not only one of the
handsomest of American “varmints,”
he is also the boldest. He is the beau
sabreur, the Cyrano, the insouciant,
devili-may-care adventurer. Confident
in his powers of offense and defense
he goes carelessly about his way, ask-
ing. only to be let alone. He is not
looking for trouble, neither is he
avoiding it
Encounter him about sundown on a
country road and he will let you alone,
if you do not crowd him. Perhaps
he will hop along in your pathway,
keeping just far enough ahead for
your common convenience. If you are
acquainted with his little peculiari-
ties you will permit him to set the
pace. If you are not acquainted with
them—if, perchance, you think he is
a pretty, black-and-white, kittenish lit-
le thing, and if, so thinking, you rush
up and try to make a capture, disil-
lusionment will soon be your portion.
For when you are at just the right dis-
tance he will give his white-tipped tail
a quick flirt in your general direction.
You will then pause. You will sud-
‘deny have lost all inclination to ad-
vance. Probably you will be nause-
ated, possibly half-choked and half-
blinded. All the Arabic perfumes nec-
essary to purify Lady Macbeth’s little
hand wouldn’t purify your apparel in
a year. You are likely to feel a long-
ing to hide from your fellow man for
some time to come. ‘Your fellow man
is likely to .reciprocate the feeling
with usury. You have committed a
gross indiscretion, a great strategic
blunder, and you will have to pay the
price. But you have added to your
stock of knowledge. Never again will
you try to kick any little polecat
around.
The oil he employs with such effec-
ENGLISH SPARROW
Length, about six and one-fourth
inches. Its incessant chattering, quar
relsome disposition, and abundance
and familiarity about human habita-
tions distinguish it from our native
SPAITOWS.
Range: Resident throughout the
United States and southern Canada.
Habits and economic status: Al
most universally condemned since its
introduction into the United States,
the English sparrow has not only held
its own, but has ever increased in
numbers and extended its range in
spite of all opposition. Its habit of
driving out or even killing more bene-
| ticial species and the defiling of build-
ings by its droppings and by its own
unsightly structures, are serious ob-
jections to this sparrow. Moreover,
in rural districts, it is destructive to
grain, peas, beans, and other vege-
tables. On the other hand, the bird
feeds to some extent on a large num-
ber of insect pests, and this fact points
to the need of a new investigation of
the present economic status of the spe-
cies, especially as it promises to be of
service in holding in check the newly
introduced alfalfa weevil, which threat-
ens the alfalfa industry in Utah and
neighboring states. In cities most of
the food of the English sparrow is
waste material secured from the
streets.
L
COOPER’S HAWK
(Accipter cooperi)
Length, about fifteen inches. Me
dium sized, with long tail and short
wings, and without the white patch
on rump which is characteristic of
the marsh hawk.
Range: Breeds throughout most of
the United States and southern Can-
ada; winters from the United States
to Costa Rica.
Habits and economic status: The
Cooper's hawk, or “blue darter,” as
it is familiarly known throughout the
South, is pre-eminently a poultry and
bird-eating species, and its destructive-
ness in this direction is surpassed
only by that of its larger congener,
the goshawk, which occasionally in
autumn and winter enters the United
States from the North in great num-
bers. The almost universal prejudice
against birds of prey is largely due to
the activities of these two birds, as-
sisted by a third, the sharp-shinned
hawk, which in habits and appearance
might well pass for a small Cooper’s
hawk. These birds usdally approach
under cover and drop upon unsuspect-
@g victims, making great inroads
upon poultry yards and game coverts
favorably situated for this style of
hunting. Out of 123 stomachs exam-
ined, 38 contained the remains of
mammals. = Twenty-eight species of
wild birds were identified in the above-
mentioned material. This destructive
hawk, together with its two near rela-
tives, should be destroyed by every
possible means.
CASTORIA.
CASTORIA.
tiveness is a yellow, clear liquid, slight- |
ly phosphorescent, so as to be faintly
visible at night. It is acid and is
virtually acrid when it falls upon any
tender living tissue. It is extremely
volatile, and a tiny drop is sufficient
to fill all the surrounding atmosphere |
When in- |
haled in large quantities it is suffo-
with the offensive odor.
cating, sometimes producing uncon-
scicusness and even death.
The liquid is distilled within the
body and is carried through long
tubes to two small capsules imbedded
in the thick muscles at the root of |
The animal can discharge ,
the tail.
either or both capsules at will, and
his aim is astonishingly accurate. One
would never think it, but he is very
miserly with this fluid. He will not
waste it, and will even try all kinds
of bluffs to avoid using it. With ani-
mals anywhere near his own size the
skunk prefers to fight with tooth and |
claw. The conclusion, when one is in |
the neighborhood of a skunk’s recent
operations, that he has fired all the
oil in the universe, is premature.
is a pardonable error.
JUST A FEW WORDS FOR DAD.
One Writer Who Believes the “Old
Man” Has Not Been Given All
He Is Entitled To.
Dad is rarely the object of rhap
gsody. The poets pass him over 2s of
all things least poetical. The song
writers indite no sob melodies to im:
mortalize him, but reserve him for
rollicking ditties in which he figures
as a failure or a freak. Even in the
best-regulated families, where there
is no thought either of discourtesy or
unappreciation, what father wants or
does or says is alluded to half apolo
getically, as if to suggest that not
much could be expected from such a
source. If one were so minded it
would be possible to extend this sur-
vey of dad indefinitely along. these
lines, but there is another picture ot
him equally true to life and more in-
spiring to contemplate. It is one too
seldom limned, if not too lightly ap-
praised. .
The common ‘or garden variety of
dad, no matter what his circumstan-
ces, represents much that is admira-
ble. As a rule he is self-sacrifice sub-
limated. The father who is worth
while, which is the kind we are talking
of here, lives not for himself. Possi-
bly he has his weaknesses and his
pleasures, and to an extent ministers
in the unessentials to his own com-
forts and habits. But, after all, for
whom and for what does he live, strug-
gle and contrive, deny and save? To
the end that his children shall be bet:
ter, abler, happier and more richly
endowed of gifts and goods than he
and his wife. There is no discounting
or undervaluing the mother’s part and
lot. But is there not a tendency to
award scant meed of praise to dad ?—
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
Durable.
The admiration which Bob felt for
his Aunt Margaret included all her
attributes.
“I don’t care much for plain teeth
like mine, ' Aunt Margaret,” said
Bob, one day, after a long silence,
during which he had watched her in
laughing conversation with his
| mother.” “I wish I had some copper-
toed ones like yours.”—Youth’s
Companion.
It
smells that way, however, and this !
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Children Cry for Fletcher's
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 80 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his pere
nr sonal supervision since its infancy.
{ Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ¢¢ Just-as-good *’ are but
Fxperiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Irants and Children—Experience agairst Experiment.
substance.
and allays Feverishness.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Cil, Pare-
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups.
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
Its age is its guarantee.
It is pleasant. If
It destroys Worms
For more than thirty years it
i has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Diarrhoea.
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Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALwAYs
Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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In Your Home!
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OMY.
When you pay the bills of the grocer, the butcher, the baker by check
you know just how much it costs to run your home.
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Fancy Wisconsin Cheese, with mild flavor. At th - present market value
of Cheese it should retail at 28¢c to 30c per pound Lut we still hold our price
down to 25 cents. It’s a fine bargain at this price.
We have made no advance on Canned Corn, Pcas and Stringless Beans.
At our present prices they are as good valu: as any food product on
the market.
Our White potatoes are good size and fine quality Also Parsnips, Onions,
Turnips. Sweet Potatoes and Cabbage.
If you are not pleased with Syrup in tin cans and pails try our fine goods
sold by the quart and gallon. We have a pure Sugar and a fine grade of
Compound goods at 50c and 60c per gallon. Sure to please you.
California Naval Oranges—seedless. The smaller sizes are all gone for
this season, but we have fancy fruit at 30c, 40c, 50c and extra large at 60c.
Have just received some very fancy New Mackerel. Try them.
We have the Genuine New Orleans Molasses—new crop, light colored,
heavy body to sell by the quart or gallon. It will please you.
Evaporated Peaches, Pears, Apricots, Prunes and Raisins, all at reasonable
prices. Come to the store that has the goods you want.
If you are not using our Vinegar, just try it and see the difference.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
| Bush House Block, rio, 57-1 - .i le Bellefonte, Pa.
i Shoes. Shoes.
Prices on
Shoes Reduced
$2.98 $2.98 $2.98
On account of the backwardness of the season I have decided to
LAD
regardless of cost.
dispose of my full line of
ES” LOW SHOES
Nothing reserved, every pair and kind will
be sold. These shoes are All New Spring Styles, nothing old or
out of style. I give you my personal guarantee, that not one
pair of these shoes sold for less than $4.00 and the most of them
at $4.50 and $5.00.
Your Choice of Any Pair for $2.98
This sale is for CASH and CASH ONLY. All shoes must be
fitted at the store as they cannot be exchanged. No shoes
sent out on approval.
This is an opportunity to purchase your needs in Summer Low
Shoes for less than the cost to manufacture.
These Shoes are Now on Sale,
in all sizes and widths. You had better come at once in order to
be fitted.
These Shoes are the best that can be purchased, as high grade as
Shoes can be made, and the price is less than you can purchase
shoddy Shoes at the cheap stores.
H. C. YEAGER,
THE SHOE MAN, =
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Bush Arcade Bldg, 58-27