Demon fan Bellefonte, Pa., TO DEFEND ATLANTIC CITIES Block Island, Ten Miles From United States Coast, Could Be Made Impregnable Outpost. According to Rear Admiral Grant, instructing the house naval commit- tee in the matter of submarine de- fense, “Block island is the natural Helgoland of the Atlantic coast,” says Seven Seas. The comparison, in strategical geography, is manifestly close, though Germany's Helgoland is 2a much smaller rock than ours, so less useful for military purposes. Should a naval base be created in Newport harbor, such as the Ger- mans have at Wilhelmshaven and the British at Portsmouth, Block island could be made an impregnable out- post. With submarines based at New London—an arrangement already be- ing developed—the island would be a stepping-stone and advance station, enabling them the more widely to ex- tend their operations out on the ocean. Narrow waters have become im- mensely helpful for coast defense with the development of mines and subma- rines, as has been demonstrated at the Dardanelles and in the Baltic. The Straits of Dover, the English channel and France are exposed for the great- er part of the coasts, but Germany, with her Baltic front secured by the tortuous Scandinavian entrance ways, also has a buffer for her shore line on the expansive North sea, staked out by the island of Helgoland, 35 miles distant. Block island is ten miles from the Rhode Island mainland. If the strate- gists could move it, they might prefer to have it farther out. But, as Ad- miral Grant, commander in chief of the submarine flotillas, points out, the “Helgoland of the Atlantic” would serve conveniently where it stands. FIFTH AVENUE THE JOYOUS Famous Street Has Few Rivals in Any of the Great Cities of the Old World. Perhaps the chief impression which the metropolis makes is of the vivacity of its life. It is the completest expres- sion of our national joie de vivre. And it is pleasant to record that for the most characteristic moment of this quality you would not cite Broadway at night, but Fifth avenue by day. The sparkle of this famous street is, per- haps, largely due to the New York climate. Climates are never perfect, but among the world’s greatest cities the American metropolis is singularly fortunate. It is flooded with sunlight, and on its best days the air has a crisp and tonic quality. By a tacit un- derstanding, ill-dressed and sad people keep off Fifth avenue. On a bright morning there is no resisting the street’s gay intoxication. The most expensive shops in the world are close at hand, the best restaurants nearby. Brave men lounge at the windows of exclusive clubs, and fair women cut coupons at fashionable banks. Life seems indeed worth living. The whole town is gay. Even children and nurse- maids in the park seem more engag- ingly clean and innocent and spirited than elsewhere, as if they, too, felt the call of happiness. It is worth while noting the clearness of much of New York’s air, doing justice to the clean and simple liveliness of much of its enjoyment—because its prominence as one of the world’s chief centers of dis- sipation and pleasure-seeking has done its reputation bad service with many people of virtue and good taste.— Har- per’s. December 15, 1916. Butter Tree of Tropics. Mr. Yerby, the United States consul at Sierra Leone, tells of a wonderful tropical tree called the shea, or butter tree. It furnishes the natives not only with nuts, which they highly prize, but with butter, which may become an article of commerce of importance, since it is already exported to Europe, where it is used in making artificial butter. This tree produces a nut cov- ered with a soft pulp which is in turn covered with a smooth skin, eas- ily removable when the nut ripens. This pulp is sweet and wholesome. About 60 per cent of the nut is butter, which is edible. The tree begins to bear when it is fifteen years old, and reaches its full capacity in twenty- five years. Barring jungle fires a but- ter plantation is a long time and prof- itable investment. Chocolate manu- facturers could easily absorb the pro- duct. Candles and soap can also be made of it. Trees that can produce butter, soap and candles are worth cultivating. Bound to Have Change. In the absence of her husband the fascinating young married woman went boating with an old admirer. “Ah,” sighed the old admirer, “if only you had married me instead of Wilkinson.” “Then I should have been with Mr. Wilkinson at this moment instead of you,” said the fascinating woman. “How strangely things turn out!” CASTORIA Bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. In use for over thirty years, and The Kind You Have Always Bought. ATMOSPHERE SUITED TO HIM New Boarder’s Tastes Were Musical, It Is True, but Could He Live Through This? “So you are a great lover of music?” said Mrs. Blumley to the new boarder, who was about to take possession of his room. “Really it is almost a coin- cidence that you should have come to my house, for, with hardly a single ex- ception, my boarders are musical. You will find yourself in a real musical atmosphere. “I play the piano a little myself, and I have a little granddaughter only nine years old who plays wonderfully for one of her years. I will have her play for you this evening if you are to bein. Mr. Pinkly, the very blonde young man who will sit opposite you at table, has composed several two-steps and Miss Simpson, who will sit at your left, sings very well, indeed. You must hear her sing ‘Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight.’ “Then the lady on your right works in a piano store and naturally that makes her somewhat musical. The el- derly, bald gentleman tunes pianos and the small, red-headed man sells sheet music. The lady with the gray curls has a graphophone in her room and is very nice about asking the other boarders in to hear it. Then the lady with the blonde wig—only don’t tell her that I told you it is a wig—she sings in the chorus of a church and gets a dollar a Sunday for it. “My son-in-law, who lives with me, plays on the banjo and my daughter plays on the mandolin. She also plays the zither a little and my grandson is wonderfully clever getting music out of a common comb with a bit of paper over it. We have delightful little con- certs in the parlor and will be glad to have you hear us. You will find your- self in a real musical atmosphere. You must hear my son give imitations of Harry Lauder. So glad you love music. I am sure that we will have a great deal in common.”—Judge. TELL WIVES YOUR TROUBLES Women’s Advice Often Helps Men and Discussion Helps Women, Is One Writer's Opinion. Many men seem to take a certain pride in the fact that their wives have all the “freshness and lack of experi- ence of a little girl.” They think, be- cause they have shut their wives off from any contact with real life, that they are better, more indulgent hus- bands than those who go to their wives at night with their troubles, and who never make an important business move without first planning it out at home. They are wrong. In the first place, they deprive themselves of a valuable asset in business—the clear, penetrat- ing power of a woman's intuition. In the second place, it is no compliment to a woman to keep her forever a lit- tle girl. Many of the moral breakdowns oc- cur, not in youth, but in the middle- life period, when habits are supposed to have been formed and character fixed. Youth is usually free from covetousness and greed. Middle age is less likely to be. Almost every week the newspapers report the financial difficulties, if not the downright dishonesty, of some re- spected man in middle life, who has sacrificed everything in trying to get too much. And we have noted that such catas- trophes take place less often in the families where the wife is fully ac- quainted with her husband’s affairs.— Woman's Home Companion. Peru's Wisdom. In granting a water-power conces- sion on the Santa river to an electric power company, the government of Peru has reserved the right to take over the plant, if ever such a course seems advisable, reimbursing those who have put their money into It. As the situation is explained, the water power represents public wealth which some day the state may need; but meantime, in order that it may not be wasted, the use of it by a priv- ate company is permitted. The Pe- ruvians might doubtless hasten the in- dustrialization of their country if they adopted a free concession policy; but they have learned from Mexico. And they might win quick prosperity if they heeded the objections of finan- ciers to the idea of government inter- ference; but they have learned from the United States. So they are build- Ing, and plainly with success, on the doctrine of expropriation.—Christian Science Monitor. New Idea in Hospital. The newly-completed hospital of the Hebrew infant asylum in New York contains one room built entirely of glass. It is divided into 12 compart- ments, each having glass sides through which the nurse can see the baby at all times without going in. Each com- partment is ventilated separately, states the Southern Hospital Record. A child having a communicable dis- ease can be cared for in one of these little compartments without any pos- sibility of infecting the baby in the next one, although it may be only three feet away and the children smile at each other through the glass. Gun With a Record. There is a 15-centimeter gun still In service on the Champagne front which has been in action ever since the opening of the war. It is believed this gun is, about the “sole survivor” of the early days of the struggle and that its record of 18,830 shots fired is far and awav ahead of anv other gun. SIGNALING DURING CIVIL WAF Troops Moved Too Quickly to Admit Possibility of Wigwagging or Telegraphing. “Couriers at Verdun replace tele phones” was a newspaper headline. And that reminded J. E. Hyneman, who was one of the “eyes of the army of the Potomac,” about the days in front of Richmond 51 years ago. Ha was in the signal corps, and he tells me that it was often impossible to wig- wag messages to the generals, or even telegraph to them, owing to the quick movements of an army. “During the battle of Petersburg,” said this veteran the other day, accord- ing to Girard in the Philadelphia Ledger, “I was on duty at the signal tower on the left of our lines. Mes- sages came to this station principally from General Meade. It was neces- sary to send them to the front by courier. “I was especially detailed to keep track of General Wright, commander of the Sixth army corps, and deliver to him all messages. Just before sun- down I carried my last one to him from Meade. “General Wright's answer, given or- ally, was this: ‘Tell General Meade 1 am looking into the streets of Pe- tersburg and expect to go into the city at daylight tomorrow.’ “But Richmond fell and the army of the Potomac moved into Petersburg that night.” Mr. Hyneman said that he had com- pletely exhausted three horses that day and General Wright sent back to the signal tower with him two orderlies with fresh mounts. “One of these men,” continued this old soldier, “rode all night with a mes- sage for General Sheridan. It was from Grant.” That was one of those final words which led “Little Phil” out in front of Lee's retreating graycoats at Appomat- tox and brought the surrender. GOOD IN HEALTH EDUCATION Organized Fight Against Tuberculosis Has Been Productive of Some Wonderful Results. All within a decade or so has sprung ap the present organized fight against the white plague. The field that, ten years ago, was almost barren of any organized machinery for the control of the disease, includes at present 1,200 local antituberculosis organizations, 575 hospitals and sanitariums, 540 special dispensaries, 1,000 dispensary physi- cians, 4,000 nurses, and 400 open-air schools. The total cost of creating and operating this machinery represents an outlay of over $100,000,000 of public ind private funds. But there are results to show from all this expenditure. They may be summarized as follows: (1) The stead- ly growing enlightenment of the people on the subject of tuberculosis, 'ts causes, methods of prevention and treatment; (2) the gradually falling mortality from the disease (in the reg- istration area in 1902 the rate was 16.3 per 10,000; in 1911, 13.2) ; and (8) the Impetus given to the entire public health movement through concentra- tion of public attention on a disease, ‘he grrqual eradication of which is de- pendent on the realization of higher zeneral health standards. The present lower mortality marks the effect of the intensive educational :ampaign, of the steadily expanding system of institutional and home con- trol of the disease, and of the general !mprovement in the sanitary and eco- 1omic conditions of the people. Tuber- :ulosis, however, is still with us, with 'ts appalling though reduced mortality, ind with some of its fundamental oroblems still awaiting solution. Vegetables of Medicinal Value. Most of our common garden vege- tables are reputed to have some medi- tal value. Among them so reputed A WELL KNOWN WOMAN SPEAKS. In Every Town in Pennsylvania Neighbors Say the Same. Bodines, Pa.—*“I will drop you a few lines to let you know that your ‘Favor- ite Prescription’ has done me a wonder- ful lot of good. 7 “Seven years ago {8 when our first child ¥ was born I was left %% miserable. I doc- %: tored with two phy- * sicians without any relief. I then went to see one of the head doctors in Williamsport; he said I must have an operation at once and that I should quit work, but that was something I could not do. I then began taking your ‘Favorite Prescrip- tion, and it helped me so much. I always suffered so until our last child was born when I got along nicely. I shall never go through it again without your medicine.”—Mzgs. F. W. MYERS. The mighty restorative power of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription speedily causes all womanly troubles to disap- pear—compels the organs to properly perform their natural functions, cor- rects displacements, overcomes irregu- larities, removes pain and misery at certain times and brings back health and strength to nervous, irritable and exhausted women. It is a wonderful prescription, pre- pared only from nature’s roots and herbs, with no alcohol to falsely stim- ulate and no narcotics to wreck the nerves. It banishes pain, headache, backache, low spirits, hot flashes, dragging-down sensation, worry and sleeplessness surely. Write Doctor Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel Buffalo, N. Y., for free and confidential medical advice, also for free medical - book on Diseases of Women. : + ent influence from the others, but com- | PR ARERR, ire asparagus, beans, beets, carrots, elery, cucumbers, lettuce, tomato, thubarb. Each of these has a differ- bined they make for health. The fam- ily having a garden will certainly con- sume a far greater variety of food than one that has to buy everything. [n some prisons where the prisoners ire given a very limited range of food the physicians report the principal sicknesses to be intestinal disorders. Every family should have as big a vegetable garden as it can find space for. : A Deserted Village. The first time you see a destroyed and deserted village you have strange feelings, especially when you know that the smashing process may be re- sumed at any minute. Can you imagine a village which has no inhabitants— houses with only parts of walls stand- ing, perambulators, chairs, bedsteads and pictures heaped up in confusion, churches destroyed as if stepped on by a giant, tombs a tumbled-up heap in the church yards, no children at play, no shops, no sounds except the echo of your footsteps and the roar of distant guns ?—Capt. Louis Keene, in Cartoons Magazine. Mental Effect of the War. According to Dr. William Graham, an alienist of high repute in Belfast, the war, so far from causing madness and mental overthrow, as many have supposed it would do, is having a tonic value. It is natural to suppose thet the stress and agony that are in- scperable from the great struggle” would lead to profound and general psychic disturbances and to much in- sanity, but Doctor Graham says the fact is indisputable that insanity, like crime, has lessened during the war. Fishing for Ice. Tourists aboard vessels in Alaskan waters are often entertained by watch- ing a ship’s crew fill the vessel's ice chests. Heavy nets are let down into the sea and fastened about floating cakes of ice, which are then easily lifted aboard by means of a crane. Tbe material used for the refrigerators in this way is from glaciers, which ex- tend down into the ocean. These glaciers are continually discharging great masses of ice into the water, which finally find their way out to the channels followed by the snips. In ten minutes three or four tons can be brought on board if the floating frag- ments are plentiful. ——For high class Job Work come to tbe WATCHMAN Office. Medical. It’s Three Years Old BUT MR. RINE SAYS IT'S JUST AS GOOD TODAY AS WHEN IT WAS FIRST MADE. Over three years ago Mr. Rine testified to complete relief from kidney ills. He later says that there has not been the slightest return of the trouble. Bellefonte sufferers will take a deal of comfort in Mr, Rine’s statement. Read what he says: James H. Rine, carpenter, 239 High St., Bellefonte, says: “My back was so weak I could hardly put my shoes on. Ihad severe pains through my limbs and could hardly drag myself around. Doan’s Kid- ney Pills, which I got at Green’s Phar- macy Co., cured me.” Over Three Years Later, Mr. Rine said: “I have had no occasion to use Doan’s Kidney Pills since they cured me.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Rine has twice publicly recommended. Fos- ter-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N > H. N. KOCH Funeral Director Successor to R. M. Gordner. STATE COLLEGE, PENNA. Day and Night Service. 60-21-tf. Bell and Commercial Phones A. G. Morris, Jr. DEALER IN HIGH GRADE ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS AND CANNEL COAL and Sand. | : Wood, = “3 Straw b | : BOTH 'PHONES. Yard Opposite P. R. R. Depot. ——An American egg-preserving plant has been established in China and is handling 300,000 eggs daily. Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Scrofula and all Humors Give Way HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA, THE GREAT PURIFIER, CLEANS- ES THE BLOOD. There are many things learned from experience and observation that the older generation chould impress upon the younger. Among then 1s the fact that scrofula and other hu- mors, which may be either inherited or acquired, and which produce ecze- ma, boils, pimples and other erup- tions, can be most successfully treat- ed with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. This great medicine is a peculiar combination of remarkably effective blood-purifying and health-giving roots, barks and herbs, which are gathered especially for it. Just remember that this pure, safe and effective remedy has been tested for forty years. Get a bottle today—now—from Attorneys-at-Law. KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law ¢ fonte, Pa. Practicesin all courts Room 18 Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y. B. SPANGLER .-Attornev-at-Law. Pra tice inall the Courts. Consultation in Englis} or German. Office in Crider’s Excise Bellefonte, Pa. 40- S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor ® Law. Office in Temple Court, Belk fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business a+ tended to promptly. 40-46 M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. Practic: : in all the courts. Consultation in Englist and German. Office south of court hous: All professional business will receive pron, tention. 4 KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law , Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given a-} ces—No. 5 East Hieh street. legal business entrusted to his cars, G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consuv! tation in English and, German. Offis - in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 5& - sama . Ph 1y* Physicians. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Su State College, Centre county, Pa. i - at his residence. 35-4) W* Dentists. H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentis., Office the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All mee’ ern electric appliances used. Has bh; «* DD Will Improve Anything But the face of a pretty woman— for that needs no improvement. Perhaps your house does. If so, we would be glad to estimate on Painting or Paper Hanging no matter how small the job may be—and we will guarantee to do the the work right. Our past reputa- tion for good work and our exper- ience gained by 12 years at the business is at your command. FRED DUNZIK Painting and Decorating, Wall Paper and Paint Store. PLEASANT, GAP, PA. BELL PHONE. 61-20-tf Employers, This Interests You The Workmans’ Compensation Law goes into effect Jan. 1, 1916. It makes Insurance Compulsory. We specialize in placing such in- surance. We Inspect Plants and recommend Accident Prevention Safe Guards which Reduce In- surance rates. It will be to your interest to con- sult us before placing your In- surance. JOHN F. GRAY. & SON, Bellefonte. 43-18-1y - State College your nearest drug store. Always years of experience. All work of Superior qual; » keep it on hand. 61-43 | and prices reasonable. 45-8 ESTAURANT. : Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res- taurant where Meals are Served at All Hours Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the half shell or in any style desired, Sand- wiches, Soups, and anything eatable, can be had in a few minutes any time. In ad- dition I have a complete plant prepared to furnish Soft Drinks in bottles such as POPS, SODAS, SARSAPARILLA, SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC., for pic-nics, families and the public gener- ally all of which are manufactured out of the purest syrups and properly carbonated. C. MOERSCHBACHER, 50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa. (Get the Best Meats. You save nothing by buying poor, thin or gristly meats. [I use only the LARGEST AND FATTEST: CATTLE and supply my customers with the fresh- est, choicest, t blood and muscle mak- ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no higher than poorer meats are elsewhere. I alwavs have — DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, High Street. 34-3¢4-1y. Bellefonte,Pa FINE JOB PRINTING 0—A SPECIALTY—o0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE There is no style of work, from the cheapest “Dodger” to the finest BOOK WORK, that we car. not do in the most satis- factory manner, and at Prices consist- ent with the class of work. Call on or communicate with this office’ Coal and Wood. THE VERY BEST FLOUR That Money Can Buy Geo. Danenhower & Son Wholesale Distributors, 61-6-1y. BELLEFONTE, PA. TVW TY TY VY OY UY UY OY WY UY OY WT UY OY OY CURTIS Y. WAGNER, ‘BROCKERHOFF MILLS, BELLEFONTE, PA. Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of Roller Flour Feed Corn Meal and Grain Manufactures and has on hand at all times the following brands of high grade flour: WHITE STAR OUR BEST HIGH GRADE VICTORY PATENT FANCY PATENT The only place in the county where that extraor- dinarily fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour SPRAY . Also International Stock Food o38 be Secured. Son, Iperpitions) All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour xchanged for wheat. OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET, 58-23-1y BELLEFONTE, PA. 719 MILL AT ROOPSBURG. The Preferred Accident Insurance THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY BENEFITS: $5,000 death by accident, 5,000 loss of both feet, 5,000 loss of both hands, 5,000 loss of one hand and one foot, 2,500 loss of either hand, ? 2,000 loss of either foot, 630 loss of one eve 25 per week, total disability, (limit 52 weeks) 10 per week, partial disability, (limit 26 weeks) PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR, pavable quarterly if desired. Larger or smaller amounts in proportion y person, male or female, engaged in a referred occupation, including house eeping, over eighteen years of age of moral and physical condition may insure under this policv. Fire Insurance {invite your attention to my Fire Insur. ance Agen , the strongest and Most Ex, tensive Line of Solid Companies represent ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvania H. E. FENLON, Agent, Bellefonte, Pa, 50-21. Good Heal and Good Plumbing GO TOGETHER. When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky water-fixtures, foul sewerage, or escaping gas. you can’t have good Health. The air you reathe is poisonous; your system mee poisoned and invalidism is sure to come. SANITARY PLUMBING is the kind we do. It’s the only kind you ought to have. Wedon’t trust this work to Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics, no better anywhere. Our Material and Fixtures are the Best Not acheap or inferior article in our entire Aa And with good work and the ent. finest material, our Prices are Lower than many who give you r, unsanitary work and the lowest grade of finishings. For the Best Wi ork trv Archibald Allison, Opposite Bush House - Rosy 56-14-1v. Bellefonte, Pa.
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