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Belletonte, Pa., June 8, 1917.
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It is the person—one goes to in trou-
ble.” |
He had no words for that, only little
caressing touches of her arm, her hand. ‘
Perhaps, without knewing it, he was |
formulating a sort of prayer that, |
since there must be troubles, she |
would always come to him and he |
would always be able to help her.
And Sidney, too, fell silent. She was |
recalling the day she became engaged
to Max, and the lost feeling she had |
She did not feel the same at all |
had.
He Almost Crushed Her.
now. She felt as if she had been a
dering, and had come home to the |
arms that were about her. Looking in-
to his steady eyes, she knew that she |
was safe. She would never wither for
him. |
Where before she had felt the clutch |
of inexorable destiny, the woman's fate
now she felt only his arms about her, |
her cheek on his shabby coat.
“I shall love you all my life,” she |
said shakily. |
His arms tightened about her.
The little house was dark when they |
got back to it. The Street, which had |
heard that Mr. Le Moyne approved of |
night air, was raising its windows for
the night and pinning cheesecloth bags i
over its curtains to keep them clean. |
In the second-story frame room at |
Mrs. McKee's, the baritone slept heav= |
ily, and made divers unvocal sounds.
He was hardening his throat, and so
slept with a wet towel about it.
Down on the doorstep, Mrs. McKee
and Mr. Wagner sat and made love
with the aid of a lighted match and the
pencil-pad.
The car drew up at the little house.
Katie had heard it, and now she came
heavily along the hall.
“A woman left this for Mr. K.,” she
said. “If you think it’s a begging let-
ter, you'd better keep it until he’s
bought his new suit tomorrow. Almost
any moment he’s likely to bust out.”
But it was not a begging letter. K.
read it in the hall, with Sidney’s
shining eyes on him. It began ab-
ruptly :
I'm going to Africa with one of my
cousins. She is a medical missionary.
Perhaps I can work things out there.
If I caused death, I did not mean to.
You will think that no excuse, but it is
true. In the hospital, when I changed the
bottles on Miss Page’s medicine tray, I
did not care much what happened. But it
was different with you.
You dismissed me, you remember. I had
been eareless about a sponge count. I
made up my mind to get back at you.
You remember the packets of gauze
sponges we made and used in the operat-
ing room? There were twelve to each
package. When we counted them as we
got them out, we counted by packages.
On the night before I left, I went to the
operating room and added one sponge
every here and there. Out of every dozen
packets, perhaps, I fixed one that had
thirteen. The next day I went away.
Then I was terrified. I was so fright-
ened that I went down sick over it. When
I got better, I heard you had lost a case
and the cause was being whispered about.
I almost died of terror. Then I left the
city. I couldn’t stand it. I was afraid
to read a newspaper.
I am not going to sign this letter. You
know who it is from. And I am not going
to ask your forgiveness, or anything of
that sort. I don’t expect it. But one
thing hurts me more than anything else,
the other night. You said you'd lost your
faith in yourself. This is to tell you that
you need not. And you said something
else—that anyone can ‘come back.” I
wonder!
K. stood in the hall of the little house
with the letter in his hand. Just be-
yond on the doorstep was Sidney, wait.
ing for him. His arms were still warm
from the touch of her. Beyond lay the
Street, and beyond that lay the world
and a man’s work to do. Work, and
faith to do it, a good woman’s hand in
the dark, a Providence that made
things right in the end.
“Are you coming, K.?”
“Coming,” he said. And, when he
was beside her, his long figure folded |
to the short measure of the step, he
stooped humbly and kissed the hem of
her soft white dress.
(THE END.)
| tailoring will be represented.
the army draft is in force the need for |
| enginemen,
| men, . glaziers,
| phers,
| boatmen, mule packers, photographers,
— Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
ARMY NEEDS MEN
~ OF MANY TRADES
em
Specialized Work of Every
Kind Must Be Done.
—
WHAT WE ARE SHORT OF
Chauffeurs, Cooks, Blacksmiths, Car-
penters, Etc, In Great Demand—Navy
Especially Wants Electricians, Ma-
chinists, Firemen
Other Positions Open to Patriots.
Men of practically every trade will
find abundant opportunity to pursue
| their favorite callings in the military
and naval forces of the country at pres.
| ent existing as well as in those yet to
| be organized. Striving after the effi-
ciency which must be attained in as
| short a time, as possible, army, navy
and marine officers are assigning re-
cruits to those branches of the service
where any special knowledge they pos- |
| sess will be valuable.
In the army as well as in the navy
practically every vocation from engi-
neering and medicine to baking and
When
men of all trades will be unlimited.
At the present time the different
branches of the service have the neces.
sary quota of certain tradesmen, and
no more are being taken. Other trades.
men, however, are still in demand, even
for the forces already organized.
Because the duties of the engineer-
ing corps are more varied than those
; of other branches of the service there
is a greater demand there for skilled
workmen. The volunteer engineering
regiments which are soon to get away
for the front are almost recruited up
to their full strength, but there is yet
a chance for cooks, chauffeurs, automo-
bile mechanicians, longshoremen and
plain pick and shovel men.
What Men Are Most Needed.
The engineering corps of the regular
| army is also in need of skilled workers,
The adjutant general's office has sent
orders to recruiting stations to enlist
| as many of the following workers as
possible: Blacksmiths, blasters and
powder men, cabinetmakers, wooden
boat calkers, bridge, house and ship
carpenters, clerks, cooks, divers, drafts.
men, drillers, teamsters, electricians,
chauffeurs, farriers, fire-
men, masons, mine foremen, concrete
foremen, painters, railroad construction
horseshoers, lithogra.-
machinists, oarsmen, skilled
pipefitters, plumbers, riggers, riveters,
harness makers, shoemakers, store
room keepers, surveyors, transit men.
tinsmiths and students of engineering. -
The quartermaster’s corps is in need
! of chauffeurs, bakers, bookkeepers, ste-
nographers and typewriters. The need
of bakers is especially great. A com-
mittee of motor truck owners and ex-
perts is striving to enlist 1,360 skilled
motor truck drivers for the quarter-
master enlisted reserve corps. They
will be used to man forty truck trains.
Applicants are recruited, given a tech-
nical examination, a physical examina-
tion by the army surgeon and finally
enlisted. Those who have driven pleas-
ure cars as well as motor trucks for at
least a year and who understand the
mechanism of motor and transmission
have little difficulty in passing the ex-
amination,
General Call For Cooks.
In.every branch of the service there
is a crying demand for cooks. All fight-
ing forces must have good cooks, but
the men of this trade are not respond-
ing in as great numbers as the recruit-
ing officers would like. The navy and
marine corps are as anxious to get
good cooks as the army. Cooks will
have no trouble in finding work to do in
the country’s military service.
* Men skilled as mechanics, electricians,
wiremen, cablemen and telegraph, tele-
phone and wireless operators, photog-
raphers, chauffeurs and aeronautical
experts are needed in the signal corps.
A part of the function of the signal
corps is the installation and operation
of wireless stations, telephone systems
and telegraph and cable lines at all
points where the army is operating.
The aviation section is also a part of
the signal corps.
The Navy's Requirements.
At the navy publicity bureau it was
said that the principal need of the
navy is for electricians, machinists,
firemen and cooks. Bakers, musicians,
yeoman, carpenters, coppersmiths, paint-
ers, pharmacists, plumbers and fitters
can also find employment in the navy.
The marine corps is enlisting electrl-
cians, machinists, aviation mechani-
clans, chauffeurs, civil engineers and
searchlight operators.
Both the army and the navy offer an
excellent ofiportunity for barbers and
tailors. On all the battleships there is
a barber shop, and some of them are
quite elaborately equipped. The men of
the various organizations are constant-
ly having their clothes repaired and
pressed, and the services of the tailors
are in constant demand. As barbers
and tailors in the army and navy usual-
ly make more money than their civilian
brothers there is little demand for them
at present in the country’s fighting
forces.
To Conserve immature Animals.
Two prominent New York clubs have
cut veal, lamb and sucking pig from
their menu to help conserve immature
food animals.
and Plumbers. |
| Beginning of Ballooning.
The art of ballooning originated in
the year 1783, with the experiments of
Messrs. Charles and Robert, who im-
proved or those of Montgolfier, of a
few weeks earlier, by the substitution
of hydrogen for heated air in the fill-
\ ing of balloons. All these first attempts
i at aerial navigation were made at or
near Paris. In November of 1783 Pi-
| lastre de Rozier made a successful as-
cent in a Montgolfier “fire balloon,” and
i the interest then awakened has con-
| tinued to the present day, with ti:
honors still resting with France. How-
! ever, after all these attempts, a man
| by the name of Blanchard was the first
| to make ballooning a vocation, and he
| died a natural death in 1809, after 66
flights without accident. His widow
was not so fortunate. She had served
| an apprenticeship with her husband,
i and was killed ten years after his
death, in Paris, by a fall.
Napoleon’s Cannon.
| Machinists who made war muni-
| tions in the time of Napoleon I had no
| such equipment and tools as those of
the present day process.
According to an old-time sketch
brought to light recently, cannon were
' bored by means of a wooden lathe
driven by horse power.
The horse traveled in a circle in the
{ lower part of a building, turning a
| prodigious axle, to the upper end of
| which a crude but huge gear wheel
| was attached. This propelled a smaller
| pinion mounted near its periphery and
! the pinion in turn revolved a chuck in
| which one end of the cannon was at-
i tached.
| The boring tool was advanced by a
| man operating a hand wheel at the
{ far end of a machine.
| Another hand wheel on a small
| traveling car about the lathe lowered
| the cannon into place or removed it
{ when machined.
Lines of Earnestness.
The lines of earnestness should be
| massaged in this way. With the
| tips of the fingers pat the forehead
| lightly from eyebrows to nair line, re-
peating the process until the blood suf-
| fuses the brows with a rich glow.
| The lines in front of the ears should
he treated by the same process. There
| should be the same soft, light patting,
| coaxing the blood to the surface, but in
no wise drawing the skin. That nust
be avoided always, the dragging and
loosening of the skin.
No section of the Atlantic sea-
board will offer a better field for ex-
ploitation than the deep sea fishing
grounds directly off the Delaware
capes, if Atlantic fishermen decide to
take advantage of the proposal recent-
ly issued by the Federal Bureau of
Fisheries to the Pacific coast fishing
fleets that they go into shark catch-
ing on a wholesale scale to furnish a
new substitute for leather.
SEE
World’s Chewing Gum Bill is a Large
One.
The world’s chewing gum bill this
year will be well over $1,000,000, and
most of that money will come to the
United States, according to the com-
merce department’s figures. This
country is the biggest producer. Eu-
rope’s consumption of chicle is grow-
ing tremendously—in the first part of
TUESDAY
OW the old range does love to heat things up, espe-
cially when it’s sizzling hot outside! Then, there's
always the coal or wood to carry, always that constant
raking and poking, pulling this and pushing that, to keep
H
the fire going.
But the ironing must be done. There's no other way to
do it, is there? No, not unless you have a New Perfection
the fiscai year European nations ex-
ercised their mastoid muscles on
$696,040 worth. North American
countries were second with $103,997.
Oceanica was third—$78,020.
These figures show that the folks
way down in South America are ac-
951.
for American cum and even the
Qil Cook Stove in your kitchen.
NEW
have made thousands of women happy—freed them from the iron-
ing day and the everyday drudgery and overwork you have now.
A Perfection will heat the irons on Tuesdays. And it’s always
ready to bake, fry, boil or roast at the strike of a match. You'll be
particularly interested in the separate oven and the fireless cooker.
OVES
Your dealer will explain about them. Ask him.
THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
One of the many good
points about a Perfection is
that it burns the most eco-
nomical fuel—kerosene. And
the best kerosene isRayolight.
It’s so highly refined that it
burns without smoking, sput-
tering, smelling or charring
the wicks. Look for this sign:
The Africanders spent $16,000 |
LECTION
OIL gDOK-SY
“heathen Chinee” and the Jap, and lo
—the pocr East Indian, sank ther mo-
lars in the springy substance, as
Asia’; bill was $14,538.
Consul General L. J. Keena, at
|
| Valparaiso, Chile, reports that there is
quinted with the delights of the mn- | ~ 20 Doris
tiring jaw bone for they invested $17,- |
an opportunity in that country for
the introduction of American depart-
ment stores.
Grav Anes
5
62-18-9t.
Dry Goods.
Dry Goods.
|
orem eee eee
at 10 cents to 50 cents.
and $4.50.
COATS AND
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Special Sale of Summer Dress
ES BT A EE Ei,
LYON ®& COMPANY.
Stuffs in Washable Silks
and Cottons
Seventy-five pieces dress goods in plaid and checkered
voiles, flaxons, basket weaves, poplins, figured and
striped pongees that sold at 15¢ to 75¢ per yard now sell
Washable Silks and Satins
32 and}36 inches wide, the regular price $1.25 and $1.35
now go at go cents and $1.00.
Special Sale of Shirtwaists
The handsomest line of Shirtwaists in the country.
silk, crepe de chine, tub silk, georgette, crepe voiles,
plaids, taffetas, values from $1.25 to $6.50, now g8c.
In
COAT SUITS
We are still selling Coats and Suits at greatly reduced
prices.
All colors and blacks.
Coats from $9.00 up. Suits from $10.00 up.
Washable Skirts and Middies
We have a large stock of Sport Skirts, all colors and
white with the new pockets and belts, regular price
$1.50, special $1.25.
Blouses and Smocked Middies in
all colors and plain white, from g8c to $1.50.
SHOES!
SHOES !!
We are selling Shoes for less than they cost to manufac-
ture.
and tan.
Men’s, Women’s and Children’s in black, white
Rugs, Carpets and Linoleums
Save money by buying your Rugs from us.
Carpets
and Linoleums at prices that will mean a big saving.
Lyon & Co.
«o> Bellefonte.
“FOUR GENERATION”
ENDORSEMENT
TH fourth generation has taken “High Art Clothes”
just as favorably as the first did, way back in
1868. In fact, if the constantly increasing sale of these
clothes in our shop is indication, “High Art Clothes”
in this generation are more popular than ever.
This season we offer the largest assortment of bright,
snappy models for young men and ultra though con-
servative styles for those of mature years, we ever had.
This is based on our confidence in
High-Art Clothes
and if you are not already one of those who would
wear no others, call and see how good looking,
well fit-
ting and reasonable these clothes are. You'll be a
“High Art” enthusiast ever after.
FAUBLE’S.
Allegheny St.
#« BELLEFONTE, PA.