‘Bellefonte, Pa., October 20, 1916. Experiment on Reclaiming Mountain Land. Between two and three hundred farmers attended the field day tests held. by the department of experi- mental agronomy at The Pennsylva- nia State College on an old abandoned farm, about two miles west of Snow Shoe, last Thursday. During the past two years the college officials have been conducting fertilizer and other tests on the above land with a view of ascertaining if it is possible to reclaim it and bring it up to a state of profit- able production. The land in question is composed of the DeKalb soil, which by the way, forms forty-three per cent. of the total acreace of Pennsyl- vania. The experiments conducted included 33 or.e-tenth acre plats, and lime, manure and various kinds of fertilizer were used. The results shown last Thursday proved conclu- sively that such land can be reclaimed and made to give profitable yields, though not such great returns as are obtained from the valley lands of Centre county. Included in the col- lege officials whe were present and made explanatory addresses were Dr Sparks, Dean Watts and Profs. Gard- ner and Tomhave. A free luncheon was served the guests by the college officials. Injured in Automobile Accident. Rev. Wilford P. Shriner, with his wife and two daughters, Mrs. Paul Shugart and Miss Amy Skrirer, and a guest, Mrs. Emma Hall, all of Al- toona, were victims of an automobile accident last Saturday afternoon when their automobile skidded against a tree. The party was returning to Al- toona from Johnstown with Rev. Shriner driving. In passing another automobile the car skidded into the gutter and struck a tree. Mrs. Shugart and Miss Shriner were thrown from the ear and sustained » number of cuts and bruises. Murs. Shriner and Mrs. Hall escaped with a few bruises while Rev. Shriner got a bad bump on one knee. The front part of the car was badly damaged. The Shriners are well known in Belle- fonte from having lived here a num- ber of years while Rev. Shriner was pastor of the Methodist church, and while their many friends sympathize with them for their accident they are all glad it was no worse. Sugar vs. Tobacco. “The high price of sugar is driving out the big tobacco plantations in Cu- ba, and if there is not soon a let-up in the advance Havana cigars of the future will be very scarce,” remarked James Ellis, an importer of Philadel- phia, to the Washington “Post.” “Every acre of land that is favorable to the cultivation of sugar cane is be- ing utilized for that purpose, and about 80 per cent. of the sugar land now is controlied by Americans. The sugar industry has brought millions of dollars to the island in the last two vears, and the country now is in the most prosperous condition in its his- tory. “Before the European war tobacco and sugar were of almost equal im- portance as crops, but since the begin- ning of that struggle the great de- mand for sugar and the high price it commands have forced the tobacco in- dustry into the background. Unless the demand for sugar falls off within a few years, more Cuban tobacco will be grown in the United States than in the island.” ging. Thirty-five positions for medical men as assistant surgeons in the United States Public Health Service are now vacant. A short time ago an examination was announced by the Board of Medical Examiners in Phil- adelphia. The jobs pay $2000 a year to start with, with a liberal allowance for traveling expenses. Promotion up to a salary of $5000 is possible, yet no one has appeared to take the ex- amination. Dr. F. Irwin, chief of the Board, said he attributed the fact to the fall- ing off in the number of medical stu- dents, owing to the limiting of num- bers and the increasing rigidity of standards. There were five vacancies in the service, and a recent act of Congres: provided for thirty more officers, making a total of thirty-five. Exam- inations for the Public Health Service are now being held in many parts of the country. A Frosty Reception for Hughes. From the Philadelphia Record. Candidate Hughes had a queer day at Pittsburgh last Wednesday. The gangs were responsive. Penrose and Flinn and the lesser lights of the two Republican factions were on hand os- tensibly agreed. But the workers the fellows who do most of the vot- ing, refused to participate in the shouting. They were polite, but un- enthusiastic. It was an off-color occa- sion for Judge Hughes. Even a cry for “more tariff” brought no respon- sive outburst. It is said both the chief and his chieftains were greatly an- noyed and disappointed. “Was that operation you perform- ed successful, doctor?” “I can’t tell yet. The patient’s wid- ow won’t pay my fee and my lawyer advises suing the estate.”—Baltimore American. —Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN. English Girls as Shell Makers. The English women are busy. Their men have gone to the war, and to those doomed to sit at home and wait for mews a complicated mackine which requires incessant attention can be a very real comfort. The ma- chine is almost human; it is the result of the concentrated intelligence of some clever man—it dees the work so admirably, without effort and without fatigue—roughing, turning, polish- ing, with automatic precision. At the outbreak of war woman, to her dismay, found herself confronted by the idea, fostered by generaticns of men, that, whatever her country’s need, she must remain industrially incapable. Now this is all changed; the errorist who preached this doc- trine has been swept away by the rushing tide of events, and woman, no longer chained to the rack of conven- tion, is happy in the thought that in the industrial trenches she is as capa- ble as the man. The workers them- selves have been the first to acknowl- edge this, and have yielded their places willingly, knowing that their country will gain and nct lose by their going. Armed with :my permit from the British Ministry of Munitions, I was priviledged recently to see the Liver- pool woman at work. Their occupa- tion was the distinctly vnfeminine one of turning heavy shells. I entered ex- pecting to see haggard faces, signs of gigantic effort and unaccustomed toil; I anticipated dirt and malodor. In- stead I saw cheerful flitting figures, not unpicturesque in their uniforms, every woman in the shed showing an almost affectionate familiarity with her lathe. Now, a lathe can be a fear- some thing, especially when it is a “turret” one—and blocks of steel weighing 100 pounds are not exactly feminine toys; even when a shell body has had a considerable amount of material taken out of it it is dis- tinctly heavier than a tennis ball. 1 watched a young slim girl at work. Deftly rolling the rough *‘body’ along the floor she knelt and embrac- ed it as if it were a doll, and, slipping a halter around its neck, with the aid of a lieht crane che fitted it into the lathe, and within the space of a couple of minutes had her machine at work. Not so long ago I was with those who decreed that heavy shell making was beyond the power of women, and it is the introduction of these lifting ap- plicances into the factory that has placed this work in their hands. Ma- chinery has always been the friend of the women. Working one of these light chains myself, to which a block of steel was attached, I could hardly realize that I was lifting anything from the ground. In the well-lighted and well-veati- lated workshops of the company in Liverpool, which is regarded as the pioneer of the movement for bringing heavy shell work within the reach of women, there is installed every pos- sible machine for simplifying the work. Lloyd George has spoken re- cently of the humanizing of industry, and here you see it in practice. Since November last 450 girls have heen making shells day and night, working on three shifts per dey of twenty- four hours, 150 girls and women per shift. There are breaks for meals and rest, and, as is usual new in factories, the night shifts have their dinner at 2 a. m. Male labor has not been entire- ly eliminated, but there are only five men employed to every seventy-five women. The women have proved themselves competent for the work. These heavy shells require in all some ten opera- tions, necessitating the employment of different machines. In many of the that the wild horse is dying out. there factories it is usual fer the lathe to; be fitted with a “stop,” and at this | point the woman relinquishes the | work, which now requires extreme | delicacy and care, into the hands of | the skilled man, who completes the operation. At the works there are none of these stops in use. The wom- en receive these shells in the rough and complete them ready for the “howitzer,” and I am told that their “scrap” is less than that of any other factory in the country. If this is not feminine achievement what is it? The man whose organization has made all this possible is young and enthusiastic and believes in woman’s capacity. At another factory in the city some 600 girls are employed, and it seemed to me that they were all in the sheds at once. The roar of these shell looms —for that is what they are—was in- tense, the sound cof running water per- sistent. The shell is washed out even as it is bored. The shells here were of somewhat lighter make, and after a fort-night’s training it was proved! that a woman was competent to take command of her lathe. The girls learn from other workers, and are not drafted in from any training school. "wild Horses. According to popular supposition there has been a marked decline in the number of horses in this country. The statistics prove the contrary. The statements prepared by the depart- ment of commerce show that the num- ber of horses in the United States has increased more than 50 per cent. in the last fifteen years, the number in 1915 being in excess of 21,000,000 valued at more than $2,000,000,000. The popular belief that the horse must go, and is going, is founded largely on his comparative rarity in the cities. In one field, however, there is no doubt that the horse is becoming | scarcer. That field is the prairie. | The wild horse has been hunted down and hemmed in the corral. The droves are being thinned out and stampeded. The thunder of the hoofs of the charging squardrons of untam ed steeds is now found only in the in- terminable pages of western fiction. Nevertheless the wild horse still exists. He may be merely fractious, and he may be an outlaw, a branded rogue, but of his wildness there is no question. They have been issuing wild horses to our cavalrymen along the border. At the remount stations they have been giving out horses that exhibit all grades of wildness, from mere fractiousness to absolute vie- iousness. According to the records of certain regiments it would appear that the wild horse is much more to be feared than the sneaking sniper, or the tropical heat. In one troop twen- ty-three cavalry-men are' out of the ranks because of injuries received from these untamed chargers. The commander of a squadron has been sent to a hospital by an outlaw’s vie- ious hoofs. The record of injuries is as long as the casualty list of ordi- nary battle. It is quite possible that the school of the cavalryman should include ex- ercises in horse breaking as well as in parading—that he should be equally versatile with lariat and rains. Yet our boys along the berder seem to have been quite overwhelmed by the equine affliction. Tt proves that while all the authorities, from statisticians to cowboys, admit are enough wild horses left te serious- ly impede an army.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Clubby Smoke —“Bull” Durham . 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PLEASANT, GAP, PA. | 61-20-tf BELL PHONE. Help the Syrians and Armenians. President Wilson, in view of the dreadful suffer- ing of the Syrians and Armenians at the hands of the Turks, has appointed Sunday and Monday, October 21st and 22nd, as days on which contribu- tions may be made for their relief. Thousands have been murdered and multitudes driven from their homes. These are now destitute and starv- ing. We will forward gladly any contributions made. / The First National Bank 59-1-1y BELLEFONTE, PA. To the man who wants POWER in his car—“Come in and look at the new SERIES 17 Studebaker Cars.” There's a 4-cylinder car at $875 with FORTY h.p.—and also a 6-cylinder : model at $1085 with FIFTY h.p.— Economical, flexibic power that makes each of the cars a wonder to drive. Let us show you how much POWER you can get in a Stude- baker—and how smoothly it drives. GEORGE A. BEEZER, Bellefonte, Pa.
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