Belletonte, Pa., December 8, 1916. BROOK MADE SWEET MUSIC Traveler Tells of Seductive Sounds Produced by What Are Known as Water Bells. When you are traveling in unsettled regions and camping on the trail, writes a Companion reader, one at least of the saddle and pack animals that you turn loose to graze wears a bell, so that you can find them more easily when you want them. At the camp in northern Minnesota I thought I heard the bell of a “shag- anappe” (Indian pony), and followed the sound more than half a mile with- out finding any track. When halfway back to camp I heard the bell again, and, taking the bearing accurately, I followed a compass line in the direction of the sound. I went through brush and glade for about a quarter of a mile until I came to a tiny waterfall. I could still hear the sound of the bell, but rather faintly, thr ugh the splash of the falling wa- ter. There were gong-shaped bubbles, some of them four inches in diameter, floating on the water below the fall, and the water came over the fall in a divided stream; some of it dripped from the ends of twigs. The charm of the brook’s music held me there for some time enjoying that delicious drip! drip! drip! and the clear, soft ting! ting! ting! That still night in the tent I heard the silver bell-like tone again. Have you ever been hammering at something and when you struck a cer- tain blow have you heard a ringing from a pan or barrel near by that you had not touched? Or, in blowing a horn, or even in shouting, have you not heard the answering ring of some sonorous vessel set in vibration by the horn or the voice? Well, there you are. water sets those bell-shaped bubbles in vibration. The original sound of the drop is re-enforced, and away it goes through the air, as if on a witch broom, to play its mysterious pranks on some | unsuspecting traveler. Since that time I have often listened for water bells when camped near a brook, and usually with success when | the air was still and the water in con- dition to form large bubbles.—Youth’s Companion. Truck Counter Does Its Work Auto- matically and It Is Said Cannot Make a Mistake. — An ingenious machine designed to automatically count truck loads of : merchandise is invented. It is claimed that where any considerable amount of shipping is being done, the truck counter will frequently save its cost | in a single day through the elimina- i tion of errors that invariably creep in where the usual method is em- ployed. The counter is so made that when the truck rolls on to the apron, the weight of the truck load presses the apron down, the truck wheels move the lever forward, and the load is | As the trip lever moves for- | tallied. ward, it also goes down, and with it the narrow apron; therefore the platform becomes 80 nearly level that po, resistance is offered to the trucker. As the truck passes off of the ma- chine, the latter is instantly set for the next load. The machine cannot be tripped by the weight of the men push- ing the truck or by returning with | either an empty or a loaded truck.— Modern Mechanics. eee re Persian Easy to Learn. A new interest in Persia which the | war has awakened may tempt some of us to become acquainted with the lan- guage of the country. We need not be afraid of making the attempt, for Per- | sian shares with English the reputa- tion of being a singularly easy lan- guage to learn, the chief trouble being that it is written in the Arabic char- acters. It had, however, at one time three numbers and eight cases, and the Avesta, the chief book of the Zoroas- | trians, is only to be understood by the | ripe scholar. But modern Persian has | no cases, no declensions and no gen- ders, and may therefore, be mastered without tears and without the appli- cation of wet towels to the head. meee) Joffre Goes Fishing. An American writer who saw Gen- eral Joffre at the front says he often goes fishing. Military plans for 3,000,- 000 troops are evolved in this way. The head of the grand army of France resembles Oyama and Grant, remarks “Girard” in the Philadelphia Ledger. “In the war with Russia the supreme commander of the Japanese often went off in solitude to fish. His subordinates interpreted that as a good sign. Gen. Horace Porter, who was on Grant’s staff during the last year of the Civil war, said that the Union chieftain did a lot of whittling in the Wilderness campaign. When he whit- tled he was thinking. Bismarck said he could tell in 1870 when all was well with the German army by watching Von Moltke. If the chief of staff accepted the first cigar offered him things were serious, but if he carefully selected one he knew that “on Moltke’s mind was free, What was the source of the ringing? I have found | an explanation that seems to me to fit. | The dripping | "REACHES LIMIT IN MEANNESS : “Snoopy” Person Is a Pest in Any Community, and a Sure Maker of Troukie. There are few persons laeaner ‘han those who try to get from a | -hild facts about the parents anc home ! of the little one. Some persons cultivate children for this express purpose. They encourage the youngsters to ! talk about their home affairs, and pick from them bits of information they hope to use in future conversation with the neighbors. And yet these very people would be indignant if you should call them “snoopy.” The little ones feel flattered by the attention they are given and readily talk about what father or mother said {and what they did. Often they repeat remarks which have been made about the neighbors —and invariably this causes trouble. To stir up strife and ill feeling is | just what the prying person wants, j and the children make the best of i tools. | Children are likely to forget, or get | the wrong idea of what is said, and | give it a different internretation from | what is meant. ' ’ | In this way parents are often cred- | ited with statements which they did not make and which would be decid- edly distasteful to those who might . | hear about them. | The old saw, “Children and fools al- | ways tell the truth,” cannot always be relied upon.—Chicago American. |RULES TRUANCY IS A CRIME | Many Lawyers May Lose Shingles as the Result of a New York Court's Opinion. | The status of one who has spent a | term in a truant school is the same I as that of a criminal who has served n sentence in prison, according to a ‘decision of the appellate division of | the supreme court, and on this ruling i lawyers, physicians and employees in i the civil service who in their youth i were detained in truant scheols may | be debarred from the practice of their | professions or dismissed. It is estimated that in New York are several hundred lawyers and phy- sicians who at one time were inmates of truant schools. Nearly every law- ver and physician who heard of the decision recalled offhand from two to a dozen colleagues who had had that experience, and one eminent at- torney was mentioned who delighted to boast that he had been committed © to a state institution as a truant. NO POSSIBILITY OF ERROR Two years ago a man who had been practicing at the bar for 27 years was disbarred because it was discov- ered he once had been a convict in the Elmira prison. An applicant tor appointment to the police department | was rejected twice under civil service ' rules because when a boy he had been arrested for plaving baseball, although | sentence had been suspended.—New York Telegram. Kitchener Wheat. Some years ago Lord Kitchener's name was given to a kind of wheat that was introduced by him into South Africa. The story is told in the Daily London Chronicle. While Kitchener was in India some of the scquaint- ances he had made in South Africa wrote to him that their wheat was suf- fering from rust and that they had heard that Tibetan wheat was immune from this disease. Could he send them a few bushels? He sent the wheat and that was an end of the matter, as he thought. Some years afterward he was at Nairobi, and saw a few acres of growing wheat, named Kitchener wheat. He learned that the seed had come from a part of South Africa, 2.000 miles distant—the offspring of the marriage of his Tibetan wheat with a native variety. “So,” said Lord Kitchener, “just as my grandfather, | Doctor Chevallier, gave his name to a famous barley, mine is now attached to a special kind of wheat.” | | Sweets in the Field. { The change of food that one makes | when first going into the woods is apt | to produce digestive disturbances, but | even when the system has recovered | from these there is almost sure to be | a sense of something missing in the | diet. Sugar and acid are both lacking | in most cases, and are missed. Sugar is a fuel for the human engine, and | the wise camper will take it along in the form of sweet chocolate, jelly pow- | der, or some such form. Our troops | in Cuba in '98 clamored for candy. | Davis tells of one husky doughboy | who'd “sell his soul for a chocolate | caramel.” The recent punitive expe- | dition into Mexico has developed the ! same clamor for sweets, much to the | surprise of the daily press. { In making up grub lists have plenty | of coffee. The allowance at home | may be only one cup a day, but in the | woods half a dozen may be consumed. { —Quting. Cat Calls Help for Kitten. John McNulty, a fireman in the fed- eral building, was annoyed by the meowing of a cat the other evening. The next morning he found Minne- haha, the post office pet, clawing at the cracks of the door of one of the big vaults in the basement. McNulty hastily opened the door, and was startled to see a kitten jump from within. It was one of Minnehaha's kittens, which wandered into the vault just before it was closed, and the mother cat traced it to the vault door and called for help.—Wilmington (Del) Dispatch to New York Sun. Safety Demands Federal Control. Only Way to Mest Emergenclss of Nation, Says A. P. Thom. ee. STATES’ RIGHTS PRESERVED Principles Which Railways Hold Should Govern Regulatory System In Inter- ests of Public and the Roads—Com- pulsory System of Federal Incorpo- ration Favored. Washington, Dec. 4.—That the inter- ests of national defense require that control of railway lines should rest with the fedeial government and not with the states was the claim ad vanced by Alfred P. Thom, counsel to the Railway Executives’ Advisory Committee. in concluding his prelim- inary statement of the case for the railways before the Newlands Joint Commuiitee on Interstate Commerce. “We must be efficient as a nation if we are to deal successfully with our national emergencies,” said Mr. Thom, “and we must appreciate that efficient transportation is an essential condition of national efficiency. If we are to halt and weaken our transportation systems by state lines, by the perma- pent imposition of burdens by unwise regulation, we will make national effi- ciency impossible.” States’ Rights Would Not Suffer. Mr. Thom cited many instances in which shippers in one state were in- juriously affected by selfish regula- tions imposed on the railroads by neighboring states. He pointed out that federal regulation would be no in- vasion of the rights of the states but wonld be the means of preserving the rights which they acquired when they entered the Union, one of which was the right to the free movement of their products across state boundaries. What the Railroads Advocate. The principles which the railroads believe should be incorporated in any just system of regulation were sum- marized by Mr. Thom as follows: 1. The entire power and duty of reg- ulation should be in the hands of the national government, except as to mat- ters so essentially local and incidental that they cannot be used to interfere with the efficiency of the service or the : functions. including the investigation, just rights of the carriers. 2. As one of the means of accom- plishing this, a system of compulsory federal incorporation should be adopt- ed, into which should be brought all | railroad corporations engaged in inter- state or foreign commerce. 3. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion under existing laws has too much to do and is charged with conflicting prosecution ana decision of cases. The latter duties should be placed in the hands of a new body which might be called the Federal Railroad Commis- sion. Regional Commissions should be established in different parts of the country to assist the Interstate Commerce Commission by handling lo- cal cases, 4. The power of the Commission should be extended to enable it to pre- geribe minimum rates and not merely maximum rates as at present. This would increase their power to prevent unjust discriminations. Justice to Public and Roads. 5. It should be made the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in the exercise of its powers to tix rea- sonable rates. to so adjust these rates that they shall be just at once to the public and to the carriers. To this end the Commission. in determining rates, should consider the necessity of main- taining efficient transportation and ex- | tensions of facilities, the relation of expenses to rates and the rights of shippers, stockholders and creditors of the roads. 6. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion should be invested with the pow- er to fix the rates for carrying mails. 7. The federal government should have exclusive power to supervise the issue of stocks and bonds by railroad carriers engaged in interstate and for- eign commerce. 8. The law should recognize the es- sential difference between things which restrain trade in the case of ordinary mercantile concerns and those which restrain trade in the case of common carriers. The question of competition is not the only fair criterion. 9. The law should expressly provide for the meeting and agreement of traf- fic or other officers of railroads in re- spect of rates or practices. This should, however, be safeguarded by requiring the agreements to be filed with the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion and to be subject to be disapprov- ed by it. “My legal proposition,” Mr. Thom said, “is that the Constitution as it now is gives full authority to Congress to regulate the instrumentalities of in- terstate commerce in all their parts. If the power of regulation is to reach the public requirements, it must be co- extensive with the instrumentalities of commerce.” Mr. Thom expiained that the roads are not asking either of the Committee or of Congress any increase in reve- nues. but that they are merely asking the perfection of a system which will be responsible to any need that may arise CASTORIA Bears the signature of Chas.H.Fletcher. 1n use for over thirty years, and The Kind You Have Always Bought. Shoes. Shoes. Good | News YEAGER'S SHOE STORE Good News profit. help me make the increase. Ladies’ $3.00 Shoes Ladies’ $4.00 Shoes Boy’s $3.50 Shoes Shoes have advanced one dollar per pair on an aver- age since I started this sale, but I will continue to keep the price down. PTT YEAGER'S, The Shoe Store for the Poor Man. 58-27 Bush Arcade Bldg, I have decided to continue my LOW PRICE SALE on SHOES until January 1st, 1917. My business has more than tripled in the last month, but this increase is not sufficient to justify me to con- tinue to sell shoes on ten and fifteen cents per pair Five times is the amount of increase I must have, but I have faith in the people of this community and know they will take advantage of my offer and Remember I am selling shoes at One Dollar per per pair less than any other store in Centre county. Ladies’ 9-inch Lace Boots $3.25 same as other stores sell at $4.50. Men’s Rubber Boots . ot, Boy’s High-cut Shoes . . . Men’s $5.00 Shoes at . . $2.75 2.75 4.00 2.50 3.25 2.75 BELLEFONTE, PA. Take Blue Serge for instance In our stock of “High Art” Blue Serge Suits. we find an assortment of models and sizes that makes us confident of fit- ting any man. And what wardrobe is complete without its blue serge suit? Let us show you these fairly-priced, unordinary blue serges. They make this staid and steady fabric a lively thing indeed, and you’ll find a blue serge awaiting you unlike **the one before.” HiGH-ART-CLOTHES MADE BY STROUSE & BROTHERS, BALTIMORE, MD. FAUBLE’S, Allegheny St. - BELLEFONTE, PA. 58-4 Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. LYON @ COMPANY. HOLIDAY MERGHANDRE | Start Your Christmas Shopping Early. Come and See Our Cut Glass Department. By a lucky chance we are able to sell real Cut Glass at prices that seem astonishingly low. Everything in the different Fruit Bowls, Flower Vases, Tumblers, Cream and Sugar, Spoon Holders, Etc., at prices that will make you buy quickly. For example, we are showing a 12-inch Orange Bowl that sells everywhere at $6.00; our price $2. A hand- led Nappy for jellies or nuts, 6 inch, that sells at $1.25, our price 80c. Cream and Sugar Sets, regular price $3.00, our price $1.00. Our limited space will not al- low us to give all prices. We ask you to come in and see this new department. CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS. BATH ROBES for men and women. IVORY SETS for the dresser. SATIN PIN CUSHIONS, SATIN SACHETS. Shell Combs, Shell Three-piece Turkish Towel A large variety of Lace and Stick Pins. Barettes and fancy Ornaments. Bath Sets. See our large Art Department, particularly Tapestry, Wall Panels, Scarf Sets, all colors, all prices, from 50 cents to $3.50. SILKS.—See our new line of Silks for waists, dresses and ki- monas. COATS, SUITS AND FURS.—Owing to the continued warm weather we are making further reductions on all Coats, Suits and Furs. Lyon & Co. ... Bellefonte.
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