Berit Belletonte, Pa., May 18, 1917. “K ® (Continued from page 6, column 4.) “Of course not. ing.” ‘She stirred restlessly. “What time is it?” “Half-past six.” “I must get up and go on duty.” He was glad to be stern with her. ‘He forbade her rising. When the nurse came in with the belated ammo- nia, she found K. making an arbitrary ruling, and Sidney looking up at him mutinously. “Miss Page is not to go on duty to: day. She is to stay in bed unti. fur ther orders.” “Very well, Doctor Edwardes.” The confusion in Sidney’s min¢ cleared away suddenly. K. was Doc tor Edwardes! It was K. who had per formed the miracle operation—K. whe had dared and perhaps won! Deal K., with his steady eyes and his long surgeon’s fingers! Then, because she seemed to see ahead as well as back into the past in that flash that comes to the drowning and to those recover ing from shock, and because she knew that now the little house would nc longer be home to K., she turned he: face into her pillow and cried. Her world had fallen indeed. Her lover was not.true, and might be dying; her friend would go away to his own world, which was not the Street. K. left her at last and went back to seventeen, where Doctor Ed still sat by the bed. Inaction was telling on him. If Max would only open his eyes, 80 he could tell him what had been in hig mind all these years—his pride in him. and all that. «With a sort of belated desire to make up for where he had failed, he put the bag that had been Max’s bete noire on the bedside table, and began to clear it of rubbish—odd bits of dirty cotton, the tubing from a long- defunct stethoscope, glass from a bro- ken bottle, a scrap of paper on which was a memorandum, in his illegible writing, to send Max a check for his graduating suit. When K. came in, he had the old dog collar in his hand. “Belonged to an old collie of ours,” he said heavily. “Milkman ran over him and killed him. Max chased the wagon and licked the driver with his own whip.” : His face worked. “Poor old Bobby Burns!” he said. “We'd raised him from a pup. Got him in a grape basket.” The sick man opened his eyes. Please stop think- (Continued next week.) ——Over one month of the trout fishing season has passed away and so far there has not been one real good day for fishing. The weather " has either been too cold or rainy or it was too windy to fish with any expec- tation of success, and the result is that the number of trout taken from all the streams in Centre county this year is considerably smaller than in former years. One redeeming feature, however, is that wheii the weather does become favorable the streams will not have been fished to death and fishermen will have more chance of making a good catch. ALCOHOL AND CRIME. CADELIA ALEXANDER. Alcohol is the Devil in liquid form. It ruins not only the body but also the character. Millions of men who are honest when sober have been known to steal and even murder while under the influence of liquor. Alcohol weakens the will power until a man under its influence does not know right from wrong and in nearly all cases he does the wrong. Inquiry concerning thirteen hun- dred different convicts in our state prisons and reformatories a few years ago led to the discovery that alcoholic drink caused a large portion of these criminals to be guilty of the crime. In some counties of certain States where the law does not allow the sale of liquor the jail is empty most.of the time. Why? Because the men can not get alcohol to drink and do not make brutes of themselves. The liquor men try to make all and do succeed in making over half of the taxpayers believe that they would have more tax to pay if there was no liquor sold. This is not true because all the revenue received from the sale of liquor all over Pennsylvania would not pay for half the building and keeping up of the great jails, peniten- tiaries and reformatories that have to be built because these men commit such crimes while under the influence of liquor. When a case comes up in court and the county has to pay the costs it is not the eriminal nor the liquor men that have to pay for it but it is the taxpayer. This goes to show that when there is no alcohol there is not so much tax. Wouldn’t it be better if the money spent to keep up these jails, prisons and reformatories was spent to make better schools. Nobody wants to hire a criminal after he has served his sentence because not any- body would trust him unless it would be his own people. So the people who are dependent upon him for a living have to be kept and the tax payer has to pay for this too, A recent report of Massachusetts shows that ninety-six per cent. of those in the jails, prisons and refor- matories of that State were addicted to the use of alcohol. This would cost the people an immense sum of money because they would not only have to pay for the keeping of the men who had committed the crime but also have to pay for keeping those who were de- pending on these men for a living. It is nearly always the man who can not afford to spend his money for drink that does it. Georgia convict camps are being consolidated says a special from At- lanta. Consolidation is not due to any new scheme of efficiency but to the fact that labor is becoming scarce. Labor is becoming scarce because con- victs are becoming scarcer and con- victs are becoming scarcer because Georgia has drawn the line tight- er each year in the enforcement of the State prohibition law. Sixty deputy wardens have been laid off through the decrease in the number of convict camps. This is rather blunt testimony to the relationship between alcohol and crime. They diminish together. Liquor men plead that prohibition throws men out of work. Apparently it does in Georgia. Scores of convicts who might be laboring in stripes are working as free mén and sixty men who might be watching them are look- ing for other positions. Since they have prohibition in Ore- gon the decrease is apparent in all lines of crime but particularly in crimes involving drunkenness. The man who gets drunk and stabs his friend in a saloon brawl figures no more in county jail records. Non- support cases have fallen off and the money that used to go for alcohol is used in the home. Vagrants are rare in the county jail. A case of drunk- CASTORIA. CASTORIA. in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of » and has been made under his per- ‘sonal supervision since its infancy. cde Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and ‘‘ Just-as-good ”’ are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORI Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. neither Opium, Morphine nor age is its guarantee. It is pleasant. It contains other narcotic substance. Its For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALwAys Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Year * The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY, 59-20-e.0. enness is infrequent and highway rob- | Items of Interest About Our Forests. bery is a crime unknown there. This goes to show that crime and alcohol go away together. Since Russia has banished liquor she has lost an annual revenue of! ber from fifteen acres of forest. many million dollars but she has gain- ed a larger revenue through the mor- ality and efficiency of her people. Russia’s drunkards and criminals are being replaced by sober, efficient | workmen, happy homes and by well clad and well fed women and children whose universal cry is “Don’t reopen the liquor shops.” Records of the first month under the dry regime in Virginia show that com- mitments to the county and city jails fell off one thousand, five hundred fif- ty-four during November from the to- tal of three thousand, one hundred thirty-four for the previous wet month of October. Not in seventeen years were there as few prisoners in the Lynchburg jail as on December twentieth. Two white men, two negro men and two negro women constituted the number. and one of them was being held for wife murder committed last spring. In prohibiting the sale of intoxi- cants in Virginia, the State has taken one step toward saving the one thous- and five hundred fifty-four people who might otherwise not be in jail. Prohibition seems to have accomplish- ed what his own will power could not It has thus far been a substitute for inhibition. But, if in October there were one thousand, five hundred fifty-four diseased per- sons who craved alcohol and who when they could get it easily became lawless under its influence then if in- terstate shipments of intoxicants be- comes more frequent, many of this number are apt to become subjected to temptation again, and there will be a corresponding increase in jail popu- do for the individual. lation. The startling effects of prohibition in Moorhead, Minnesota, were acute- ly felt on a recent occasion, when for the first time in twenty years there was not a prisoner in the county jail. This ought to be enough evidence to convince us that alcohol and crime go away together and that we should have nation wide prohibition. —It is estimated that the 1916 po- tato crop in the United States was 74,284,000 bushels short of the 1915 crop. Germany’s crop was 1,212,530,- 000 bushels short and Great Britain’s almost 80,000,000 bushels short. The crop in France was about 15,000,000 short. —Statistics show that about $4,- 000,000,000 worth of firewood is used annually on the farms of the State, but Pennsylvania ranks as one of the small consumers in the total of $225,- 426,000 worth of firewood used on the farms of the United States. ——Students from 17 other States are taking advantage of the school fa- The enrollment at the State manual training Normal now shows 175 students enrolled from cilities of Kansas. the other States. .pers going indefinitely. “put on the things.” A single issue of a New York Sun- day paper is said to consume the tim- | Pennsylvania’s state forests were ful- ly stocked, they could furnish eiough pulp wood to keep forty Sunday pa- Forest fires in the United States ssn. have caused an annual average loss of seventy human lives and twenty-five to fifty million dollars worth of tim- | ber. The indirect losses run close to’ half a billion dollars a year. If the 25,000,000 trees planted on the Pennsylvania state forests were set four feet apart, as they actually are in the woods, and planted in a straight line, they would cover almost 19,000 WEDNESDAY IGHT in the midst of everything—a sudden thought: “Wonder how the fire is?” Then, it's leave your sweeping, run downstairs, rake and shake, shovel coal and I trudge back again. Wouldn't it be fine to go right ahead and _ forget about the kitchen? It certainly would! And you can. NEW PPRZECTION have brought a new kind of sweeping day—a new kind of every day to thousands of busy housewives. A Perfection Oil Cook Stove will come into your kitchen and lighten your burdens. All you do is strike a match and You can regulate the heat exactly as you want it. It stays that way without watching. You’ll be specially interested in the fireless cooker and the separate oven. dealer near you who selis Perfection Oil Cook Stoves. THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Look up oy tt “Ta IN ATLANTY ® smell. Look for the sign: Another important thing is that Perfection Oil Cook Stoves burn the mosteconomical of fuels—kerosene. There’s a difference in kerosenes —not a price, but a quality. To be sure of getting perfect results, ask for Rayolight Oil. It’s so highly refined and scientifically purified that it always gives an even, intense heat without sputter, smoke or crash a _— miles. Planted twenty feet apart, they would provide shade trees on both sides of 40,000 miles of highway. The latest advice is not to char the ends of fence posts before setting them in the ground. The charcoal is said to hold water and thereby hasten rotting of the post. — Subscribe for the “Watchman.” the “if. Dry Goods. Dry Goods. LYON @ COMPANY. Owing to the continued cold weather we are compelled to make greater reductions on all SUMMER SUITS AND COATS LOT 1.—Black and White Checked Coat Suits, all this season’s style, that sold at $15 and $18, now go for $10 and $12.50. LOL 2.—Navy Blue and Black Suits, all this season’s styles, that sold from $18 to $25, now go for $12.50 to $15. LOT 3.—Better qualities, including Silk and Jersey Cloth, Serg- es, Poplin, Poiret Twill, Wool Velours, in Rose, Emerald, Navy Black, Gold and Purple, that sold at $25.00 to $35.00, now go at .. . $20.00 and $23.00. COATS for Ladies’, Misses, and Children, all this season’s styles. Must be sold at the same reductions. Formerly sold at $8.00 to $35.00, now go from $5.00 $28.50. RUGS! RUGS! Our Rug Department is again replenished. We have just re- ceived a big lot of Rugs in Rag, Jap, Velvet, Body Brussels and Axminsters, at prices that were contracted for before the advance. Tapestry, Draperies and Curtains. A big line of Tapestry in Cotton, Linen and Wool, 36 to 50 inches wide, in all the new colorings. Draperies, Curtains and Portieres to match any color. s SHOES! SHOES !! ~ Do not forget that we can save you big money on Shoes for Men, Women and Children. We have them in all colors; black, tan and white, Lyon & Co. --- Bellefonte. You Can’t Get Away From it yyirHout style, all good value counts for naught. Realize this— High-Art Clothes are designed by a master in his profession—tailored to the thousands, his responsibility exceeds that of any custom tailor and the laurels are his. The new models this spring will please the most fasti- dious—they will suit many who never thoughta ready- to-wear suit could carry with it such distinction. Come now—see these garments and appreciate what style, supplementing value, fit and wearing quality can do for ready-made clothes. time invested. A You will profit on the FAUBLE’S. Allegheny St. s« BELLEFONTE, PA.
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