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.
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Wood, = “3 Straw
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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
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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.