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Bellefonte, Pa., January 19, 1917.
HIS TREASURE WAS A ROCK
Overjoyed at Supposed Good Fortune,
a Kentuckian Fainted When Plow
Struck Hard Object.
For generations tradition has de-
creed that the Indians in thc aborig-
inal days of Kentucky buried a pot of
gold on the farm of John Williams in
Casey county. A few days ago Mr.
Williams decided to institute a system-
atic search for the treasure, the Davis-
ville (Ky.) Messenger states. His pow-
erful team of mules he hitched to a
strong plow and in the locality where
the gold is supposed to be hidden he
began digging deep into the earth. It
always has been claimed that the pot
is of gigantic proportions. After con-
siderable deep plowing had been done
and numerous excavations made, Mr.
Williams’ mules came to a sudden
standstill when the plow struck an ob-
ject that could not be moved.
So, certain that he had found the
traditional pot, he was overjoyed and
fainted. Passers-by hurried to his as-
sistance and he was survived, and told
those present what he was seeking.
An excavation was made and it was
proved the plow had struck a huge
rock. However, the search is being
continued.
There are a number of farms in
Boyle county upon which it is alleged
large quantities of silver and gold are
buried. In most cases it is said to
have been hidden by misers or fright-
ened people during war times. Not
a few early residents lost their lives
by keeping their money in their homes
and attempting to hold it against the
intrusion of robbers. That was one
reason treasures were buried.
Some years ago some parties near
Paint Lick, in Garrard county, in
wrecking an old house found several
thousand dollars which had been hid-
den during war times. The man who
had hidden the money died without
telling the secret.
CONCERTS THROUGH THE AIR
Enjoyable Musical Program That
Emanates From Doctor's Radio
Experimental Laboratory.
War bulletins and important world
happenings, now and then interspersed
in a nightly musical program from the
air, emanate from the radio experi-
mental laboratory of Dr. Lee DeFor-
est at Highbridge, N. Y. Among the
musical numbers on the nightly pro-
gram are operatic selections, popular
dance music, sentimental songs, Ha-
waiian medleys, and stirring band and
orchestra phonograph offerings. +
In point of clearness it is said that
the xylophone and the accordion are
among the best instruments for wire-
less transmission, although the brass
band and the human voice, especially
if soprano, ofttimes are equally clear
to all the listening amateur stations.
To transmit the human voice by wire-
less telephone the speaker or opera-
tor talks into an ordinary microphone.
In the case of the musical selection,
on the other hand, the microphone is
placed inside the cabinet of a phono-
. graph, where it can get the full vol-
ume of sound.—Scientific American,
He Hit Something, Anyway.
A citizen of northern Maine is a bit
sensitive on the subject of shooting
bears. He was employed one summer
to watch a lumber camp, a proceed-
ing made necessary by Bruin’s fond-
ness for the pork and molasses stored
there for winter use. The bears had
been more or less troublesome during
the smnmer, and the watchman threat-
ened the next one that came prowling
about his camp with dire destruction,
One night he heard a bear. He seized
his rifle and fired. The bear fled into
the darkness, but a gug-gug-g-g-g be-
trayed a fatal wound. The sound could
be distinctly heard for some time—gug-
gug-g-g-g. In the morning the would-
be hunter found the bullet had missed
the bear and penetrated the kerosene
barrel. The gug-gug-g-g-g was caused
by the escape of 52 gallons of good oil
which lay spilled on the ground.—Lew-
iston Journal.
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Student of Volcanoes.
Frank Alvord Perret, whose knowl-
edge of volcanoes is probably unique
in the world, is an American, a native
of Hartford, Conn. After volcanic out-
bursts he has ben able accurately to
forecast their conduct for sometime to
come, and in this way his labors have
been of inestimable value to residents
of volcanic districts. He has visited
and studied practically every volcano
of note in the world. He was the first
to reach Messina after the devastating
earthquake in 1908. As an inventor he
is also widely known. In 1904 he took
up volcanology and became honorary
assistant to Professor Matteucci in the
Royal observatory, Mt. Vesuvius, and
‘was later decorated knight of the Ital-
ian crown.
Gallieni and Kitchener.
General Gallieni may fairly be
called the French Kitchener in one
very notable respect. He won deserved
fame not only as a conqueror but as
the enlightened organizer of con-
quered territories, with a special bent
toward education. “My idea of our
duty,” he once said to his officers in
Africa, “is that if we storm a village
one day we ought to begin building a
schoolhouse in it the next.” Just so
Kitchener, having avenged Gordon by
smashing the Mahdists, set up Gor-
don college at Khartum in his mem-
ory.—London Chronicle.
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Grave-Strewn Grove in Belgium Will
Be Gold Mine to Owner
After the War.
Every now and then some despair-
ing hotel owner or storekeeper in Eu-
rope looks into the future for comfort
and winds up his autotelling of for-
tunes by saying: “When this war is
over there will be such a rush to Eu-
rope as we've never seen before.”
He’s right. There will be a rush,
.and we'll be in it.
souls in Europe are preparing for it,
and have been preparing for some
time.
There’s a wood along the British
front in Belgium called Ploegsteert by
Belgians and Plugstreet by the Brit-
ish Tommies.
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WHY RED LEAD IS SUPERIOR
Its Fineness Makes It One of the Sur-
est Preventives of Corrosion
That Is Known,
The average thickness of a coating
of paint for iron and steel may be
one two-hundredth of an inch, states
an authority on the subject. In many
parts, however, the coating may easily
reach a thinness of one six-hundredth
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Thrifty, farsighted :
If, therefore, a paint contains par-
ticles whose smallest dimension is one
' four-hundredth of an inch, it is obvi-
ous that the particles will stand out
in a paint coating where the thickness
It is a mile and a half |
long and three-quarters of a mile wide, |
and streets have been cut through it, |
paved in corduroy fashion and named
after thoroughfares in London. It is |
dotted with graves.
A brewer in Armentieres owns
Ploegsteert grove; he used it as a
home for his pheasants. But he can
sell it any time he wishes for ten times
! the
of the paint coating is only one six-
hundredth of an inch. Many particles
of pigment classed as coarse or sandy
lead are considerably larger in size
than the size indicated by one four-
hundredth of an inch diameter. and
these will project still farther through
the paint tilm. Such coarse particles
become, therefore, the weak point in
film, and corrosion may start
: around such particles.
more than it was ever worth before |
the war.
ready to receive them almost as soon
American tourists-to-be may |
rest assured that Ploegsteert will be |
The paint film itself is weak at such
points. as the coarse particles may
not be completely encased in the oil of
the film. For these reasons, concludes
the authority, the superiority of a high-
i Iy oxidized red lead is really due to
as they are able to journey there.— | Fo 5
Its superiority, however, lies not only
William
Weekly.
Gunn Shepard in Collier's
FOR STUDY OF WILD ANIMALS
New York Zoological Society Intends to
Establish a Tropical Station in
British Guiana.
its fineness. It is a better pigment.
in the more continuous paint film it
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produces but in its producing a better ;
- working paint—a paint that flows out
well but will not run, sag or weep.
FIRST “TANKS” IN WARFARE |
. steadily until it reached $470,000,000
A new undertaking of the New York |
Zoological society is the establishment
of a tropical station in British Guiana. |
for the study of the local fauna, es-
pecially birds. Money for the first
year’s work of the station was sup-
plied by Cleveland H. Dodge, Mortim-
marks that the first model of this kind |
Romans Found a Means of Stopping
the Hitherto Deadly Persian
War Chariots.
Apropos of the armored automobile
of the British, the Figaro of Paris re-
of war automobile is found illustrated
er L. Schiff, C. Ledyard Blair, James |
J. Hill and George J. Gould; while
the government of British Guiana has
offered the use of its botanical gar
dens and wild government land.
officers of the new station comprise C.
William Beebe, curator of birds in the
in the bas-reliefs of Khorsala and
Nineveh; armed chariots used by the ;
Greeks and the Trojans in the days
of Agamemnon, and which were intro-
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New York zoological park, in charge; |
C. Innes Hartley, PP. G. Howes and |
Donald Carter.
a bungalow at the edge of the jungle
and equip it as a laboratory. One
It is proposed to build |
of the first birds to be studied will be |
the hoazin (Opisthocomus ecristatus) |
or » » ). | planted on the ground on the advance
of which there are no specimens in
captivity, and concerning which there
has been much controversy. One funec- |
tion of the station will be to collect |
ing animals for the New York zoo.
Too Tempting.
Harry Sparrow, business manager
of the New York team in the Ameri-
, to pieces.
duced by Cyrus in the armies of the
Persians. Having at hand no Z2a80-
line, Cyrus had his chariots or his cars
drawn by horses. Sylla at the battle
of Cheronea found means of defense
against those armed chariots which
for centuries had spread terror on bat-
tlefields. He armed his soldiers of the
second line with poles divided into four
sharpened points. These poles were
of the armored chariots launched in
an assault by Archilaus, Mithridates’
commander. The first line of the Ro-
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and forward regularly supplies of liv- | mans retired in the rear of this bar
rier against which the armed chariots
in their impetuous assault were broken
Suddenly the light forces of
i Sylla hurled themselves forward ; they
can league, tells of a pleasure trip he !
once made in South Sea Island wa-
ters, says the Saturday evening Post.
His ship touched at a port with an
unpronounceable name.
surrounded the armed chariots, cov-
ering them with a cloud of arrows and
a shower of stones. Few of these
I chariots could escape, amidst the cries
Accompanied '
by his suite and most of his subjects, |
the reigning ruler, a fat half-caste,
came down to welcome the visitors.
The subjects jumped off the little
dock and swam about the steamer, |
! ‘ | to rid herself of the pests.
while his majesty was received aboard
in due state. Strange to say, the
oflicial interpreter and general facto-
tum of the imperial outfit was a little
cockney.
The tourists began pitching copper
coins over the sides, in order to see
the common herd dive for them. Pres-
ently a wealthy San Francisco man
hauled a gold piece out and poised to
fling it into the water.
“Ow, sir, don't do that, if you please,
sir,” the cockney implored. “You'll
be ‘avin’ ’is royal 'ighness in the wa-
ter next sir.”
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Qualities of Salesmanship.
Integrity is one of the mightiest fac
tors in salesmanship. If you have a
reputation for stating facts exactly
for never attempting to gain momen:
tary advantage through exaggeration
you possess the basis of all successful
salesmanship. :
Next to integrity comes personality,
that indefinable charm that gives tc
men what perfume gives to flowers
Many of us think of salesmen as peo
ple traveling around with sample kits.
Instead we are all salesmen every day
of our lives. We are selling our ideas.
our plans, our energies, our enthusi
asms to those with whom we come in
contact. Thus the man of genial pres
ence is bound to accomplish much more
under similar conditions than the man
without it. If you have personality
cherish it; if you have not, cultivate
it, for personality can be cultivated
although the task is not easy.—Charles
M. Schwab, in the American Magazine
Found Diamond Ring in Tobacco Plug.
Miss Mayme Peetz of Louisville,
Ky. employed in a tobacco factory,
will recover a diamond engagement
ring that slipped from her finger and
was discovered recently by Jerome
Hayes, a rancher of Sutter county,
California, when he bit into a plug of
tobacco. The story of Hayes’ find was
carried in the press dispatches. Miss
Peetz read the item and wrote to the
postmaster at Marysville, Cal., describ-
ing the ring and Hayes will return it.
Even Our Speed Is Slow.
An automobile for children pro-
pelled by a one-cylinder auxiliary such
as may be attached to the rear wheel
of a bicycle makes its appearance.
It may not be long before we hear
complaints that the city is behind in
furnishing garage accommodations at
schoolhouses. And when these are
built they may have to be abandoned
because there are no hangars.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
of mockery of the Roman soldiers.
Invited to Doom.
Before the cold weather set in a cer-
tain South side matron had so much
trouble with flies in her kitchen that
she decided to make a supreme effort
After carefully fasteming the screen
doors she placed saucers containing fly
poison on the table and on top of the
refrigerator and went into another
room to await developments.
Soon afterward the matron heard her
little daughter in the kitchen. Inves-
tigation showed the youngster at the
kitchen door, carefully holding the
screen wide open.
“What in the world are you doing?”
cried the housewife.
“Why, mamma,” the youngster re-
plied, “I am holding the screen door
open so the flies can come in and get
the poison.”
Tired of His Solitude.
Many years ago my aunt taught a
country school. One cold, snowy morn-
ing only one pupil, a little boy, showed
up at the schoolhouse after a walk of
two miles from his home. My aunt de-
cided to reward the boy for coming on
such a stormy day when all his mates
remained at home, so she told him he
might sit down and read a story book
for a while. He did so; but alone as
he was, the minutes seemed like hours,
and he became tired. Soon my aunt
heard a tiny voice say earnestly, as if
she had forgotten the time, “Ain't it
most time to go home ?’—Chicago Trib-
une.
Spaniel That Likes to Fish.
Francis Gilpin, sportsman and pi-
oneer of the Pike's Peak region, is the
owner of a dog whose greatest joy is
to go fishing. Mr. Gilpin believes that
his animal is the only dog in the world
that will retrieve fish.
When on his trout fishing trips Mr.
Gilpin never carries a net with which
to land his catches. As soon as he
has made a strike his dog runs into
the water and maneuvers about the
fish until it is within distance to pounce
upon. The fish is then brought ashore
in the dog’s mouth and laid beside the
master. Not a blemish is ever found
on the fish as a result of the dog's
teeth.
How Many Had She?
A newspaper man of Columbus was
walking through the corridor of the
second floor of the Bartholomew coun- |
ty courthouse when a woman ap-
proached him. “Say, mister,” she be-
gan, “mebbe you can tell me some-
thing. Where is it you go to p= cute
your husbands?” The newsp:;~ man
directed her to the office of the prose-
cuting attorney, and has been hanging
around there ever since to learn how
many husbands she had to prosecute.
—Indianapolis News.
COUNT GOLD IN BILLIONS
Production of Yellow Metal in the
Last Quarter of a Century Has
Been Enormous.
Eight billion do#lars in gold has been
mined in the last 25 years, against an
equal amount in the 400 years pre-
ceding, the National City bank stated
today.
The gold money of the world has
doubled in the last 20 years, while sil-
ver money has decreased one-half in
the same period. The bank, it was
said, was impelled to issue the state-
ment because of the exceptionally
high price of silver, of which the Uni-
ted States was now the world’s larg-
est producers, and the large inflow
of gold, of which this country had im-
ported more than $600,000,000 since
the beginning of the year.
“The total world production of gold
from the discovery of America to the
present time was $16,500,000,000 in
coining value,” the statement said.
“The gold money of all countries of
the world for which statistics were
available in 1896 aggregated $4,144.-
000,000, and on January 1, 1916, $8.-
258,000,000 ; silver money of the same
countries was in 1896, $4,237,000,000,
and in 1916, $2,441,000,000. The ‘un-
covered paper’ money of the countries
in question was stated in 1896 at $2,-
558,000,000, and in 1916 at $8,583,000,-
000.”
Down to 1885 the world’s gold out- !
put never reached as much as $100,-
I 000,000 annually; in 1896 it crossed
the $200,000,000 line: in 1903, $300,- |.
000,000, and in 1906, for the first time,
exceeded $400,000,000. It advanced
in 1915. Silver production first ex-
ceeded $100,000,000 annually in 1880,
and in 1893 exceeded, for the first
time, $200,000,000, making its highest
record in 1911, $292,000,000, and slow-
ly declining to $232,000,000 in 1915.
INFLUENCE OF THE “LUBOK”
Cartoons From Russian Papers Have a
Large Circulation Among the
Uneducated Masses.
In Russia the humorous and satir-
ical papers are read only by the edu-
cated classes. Though such publica-
tions as Boudilnik, Loukomorye and
Novi Satirikon have been publishing
countless war cartoons, reflecting every
phase and turn of the great struggle,
these periodicals do not reach the
primitive, illiterate people of the wide-
Iv scattered villages.
It is the cartoon, of course, that
reaches and influences the masses, and
in order to reach the masses several of
the Russian journals began publish-
ing the cartoons in separate sheets.
They were known as “luboks,” or DOS-
ters, and while many of them were
crude and even savage in their execu-
tion, they carried their messages di-
rectly to the hearts of the people.
Tons of these luboks have been
turned out, J. Finger writes in Car-
toons. They have gone everywhere,
into the remotest communities where
books and newspapers are never
known. One doesn’t need to know the
alphabet in order to understand a
lubok. Its meaning is clear and on the
surface. And when you consider that
millions of these cheap, colored pos-
ters have flooded the highways and by-
ways of Russia you can begin to un-
derstand their influence.
They are the poor man’s newspaper.
To him they bring the news of the war
—important victories won, incidents of
the Galicia-Bukowina drive, the cam-
paigns against the Turk and the Bul-
gar. Under the dim light of lanterns,
far away from railroads and telegraph,
under the thatched roof of the peas-
ant’s hut, these luboks are discussed
eagerly and passed on.
That Settled It.
Commissioner Dillon, apropos of
his success in the New York milk
strike, said to a reporter:
“The trust had dictated to the farm-
ers so long, it thought it could dictate
to them forever. But the farmers got
together, and from then on they took
the initiative as completely as the lady
in the story.
“One clubman said to another, point-
ing with a shocked look from the club
window toward a lady in an ultramod-
ish skirt:
“‘I thought you said, George, that
you'd never consent to let your wife
wear one of those outrageous gar-
ments?
“Yes, so I did,’ George replied, ‘but
my wife overheard me.’ ”
Highwaymen Used Bait.
Highwaymen operating in central
Illinois are making a specialty of hold-
ing up occupants of motor cars at
night. They use the lure of a tire
placed in the road. The trick has
never failed to work, and the robbers
are reaping a harvest. Drivers of cars
at night, seeing the tire, and believing
it to have been dropped by some car
ahead, invariably stop to pick it up.
As he ‘is about to place it in his car
the highwaymen emerte from a hid-
ing place convenient and present guns
and a command to deliver. The au-
thorities urge tourists traveling at
night to go armed.
Prayers Seemed to Go Wrong.
Robert wanted a baby sister. The
Smiths, who live across the street,
have a house full of children, who were
playmates of Robert, Recently anoth-
er baby came to the Smiths. Robert
came to his mother again and asked
for a baby sister for Christmas, to
which his mother replied : “Why don’t
you pray for one?”
Robert answered, disgustedly: “I
have prayed, and every time I pray
God leaves it at Smiths.”
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EVERYTHIN
IN. PRICE
HAS NOT GONE UP
All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing
this time last seascn.
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MINCE MEAT.
We are now making our MINCE MEAT and keeping it fully up to our
are selling it at our
usual high standard; nothing cut out or cut short and
former price of 15 Cents Per Pound.
SWEET POTATOES.
Fine Celery, Oranges, Grape Fruit, Apricots, Peaches,
(Except Pepper).
starch. The whole line of Soa
and many other articles are sell
On our Fine Coffees at 25c¢,
in price on quality of goods
not advanced in price and
All of these goods are costing us more than former!
best to Hold Down the Bill on hi
market in the near future.
and we will give you FINE GROCERIE
you good service.
Bush House Block, - -
ing at the usual prices.
COFFEES, TEAS AND RICE.
Finest Selected SWEET POTATOES at 40 Cents Per Peck.
Prunes—All spices
Breakfast Foods, Extracts, Baking Powders, Soda, Corn-
ps and Washing Powders, Starches, Blueing
28c, 30c, 35c and 40c, there has been no change
and no change in the price of TEAS. Rice has
can be used largely as a substitute for potatoes.
y but we are doing our
LET US HAVE YOUR ORDER
SECHLER & COMPANY,
57-1 a
Bellefonte, Pa.
gh prices, hoping for a more favorable
S at reasonable prices and give
PRICES REDUCED
PRICES REDUCED
{EAGER'S SHOE STORE
When the Time Comes to Purchase
the Shoes and Slippers that you expect to
buy remember you can save on each pair
that is purchased at Yeagers.
Compare the Prices Below
Ladies’ Kreep-a-Wa Slippers, all colors,
Childs’ Kreep-a-Wa Slippers, all colors,
Men’s good quality Felt Slippers
Men’s Black and Tan Romeo Slippers
Ladies’ 8-inch Kid Boots - - -
Boy's High Cut Shoes - - . .
Childs’ Champagne Kid Shoes -
Ladies’ Warm Shoes for cold feet
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with any other firm selling shoes, then you be
the judge as to the better place to buy.
98c
75¢
75¢
$1.75
$3.25
$3.00
$1.50
$1.35
YOU CAN SAVE MONEY
on anything you may need in the shoe line.
YEAGER,
The Shoe Store for the Poor Man.
Bush Arcade Bldg.
58-27
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
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BANK. ACCOUNT
THE ea OF YOUR HOME
A Bank Account
Is the Gibraltar of the Home!
If you are a man of family you must have a bank account. A BANK
ACCOUNT IS THE BULWARK, THE GIBRALTAR, OF YOUR HOME,
It protects you in time of need.
It gives you a feeling of independence.
It strengthens you.
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It Is a Consolation to Your Wife,
to Your Children
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THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
BELLEFONTE
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