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.
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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.
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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.
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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.