——— Bellefonte, Pa., july 13. 1917. CARNEGIE AVOIDS SKIBO AS A HOME Feels That War Changes Have Made It Undesirable. — FEEBLE UNDER HIS 82 YEARS Multimillionaire Has Been a Semi- invalid Since an Attack of Grip, and, Much to His Disappointment, He Is Prohibited From Seeing Any One Ex- cept a Few Close Friends. Andrew Carnegie, who before the United States entry into the war was perhaps the world’s foremost peace ad- vocate, has been so touched by the changes in Scotland that he has decided to give up Skibo Castle at Dumfern, Scotland, as a summer home. Instead he will spend this summer at Lenox, Mass. It was announced that he nor any member of his family probably would ever again visit Skibo Castle because of changes, physical and sentimental, caused by the war. Mr. Carnegie is feeble and a semi- invalid, and he has been under the care of two nurses for some time, but this condition, it is said, has resulted from the grip and a threatened pneumonia attack of more than a year ago. His somewhat secluded life and withdrawal from all public activities have given rise to frequent statements concerning his health. Mr. Carnegie is in his eighty-second year. : Since his retirement he has been com- pelled to limit the number of his daily visitors, and he now meets and talks with only a few of his oldest and Photo by American I’ress Association. ANDREW CARNEGIE, closest friends. This is not to his lik- ing, but in obedience to his physician, who decided that Mr. Carnegie fre- quently overtaxed his strength by see- ing all callers. . Affected by the War. Identified so long with the interna- tional peace movement, Mr. Carnegie is more severely affected by the world war than most men. In talks with his intimate friends he has expressed his disappointment at the way it has spread and continued. One of his con- fidants said: “Phe war came, as we all know, as a shock to Mr. Carnegie. The contin- uation of it over so many months has been even a harder blow to him and to the cause which he had so close at heart.” Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, head of the Carnegie foundation, said he and his ssociates frequently consult with Mr. Carnegie, although all of his philan- thropic activities had long ago been placed in charge of the various au- thorized administrative bodies, of which the foundation is the general supervis- ing power. Shadowbrook, the new summer home of the Carnegies, recently purchased from the estate of Anson Phelps Stokes, is the first country place own- ed here by Mr. Carnegie. It will be recalied that he formerly spent his vacations at Skibo castle, in Scotland. It is said that no member of the Car- negie family will ever desire to live in the Scotland mansion again, princi- pally because of the changes brought about by the war. Many of the peo- ple there whom Mr, Carnegie knew as neighbors and friends have gone away, some have lost their lives in the war, and conditions as they may exist after the conflict do not appeal to Mr. Car- negie. The Carnegie estate in Scotland and one other comprise the larger part of one county. While the castle and grounds are attractive and flourishing, a large part of the estate is not adapt- ed readily to cultivation. A few days ago, when Sir Howard Peters of Mont- Teal called on Mr. Carnegie and dis- cussed intensive farming throughout Britain to meet the U boat menace and made the suggestion that the Skibo lands be used, Mr. Carnegie replied: “Yes; maybe potatoes could be grown there, but if any one can raise a crop of anything it would be more than I have ever been able to accom: plish.” pi A FABLE FOR EVERYBODY GEORGE ADE Of the Vigilantes. “We must convince people who shrink from contact with Cold Porcelain that a Bath isn’t a bad Idea, whether you are going to get married or not.” A Marriage Broker was trying to promote an Alliance so as to get his piece of the Dowry. He said to the young man: “She's a nice Girl. Go home, take a Bath, put on your Good Clothes, go and talk to her. I think it will be all right” The Young Man was skeptical. “The trouble is,” he said, “I might go home and take a Bath, and then she wouldn't have me, after all!” We must convince people who shrink from contact with Cold Porcelain that a Bath isn’t a bad Idea, whether you are going to get married, or not! We must drive home to a lot of Nice People the important Fact that whether “We can teach them to obey orders.” the entry of the United States means Real War or merely the opening of a new Commissary, we need Universal Military Training, This country is first in the production of a good many things, but our largest and surest crop — the one that never fails—is the Crop of half baked Liabilities, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. ; Whether you find him at the Corner of Forty-second and Broadway, or on a Depot Platform in Indiana, or steer- ing an auto through the cornfields of Kansas, the delightful specimen of Young America who has turned eight- een and who knows more than his Parents, is the most obtrusive item in the Picture. Young men are fresh the world over, but the American cub is fresher than Green Paint, than which nothing could be fresher. Sometimes it would seem that all the women who Didn't Raise their Boys to “The delightful specimen of young America who has just turned eighteen.” be Soldiers raised them to be Vaudeville Performers. Nowhere else in the world do Young People accept so lightly and in such a take it for granted manner the Sacrifices made in their behalf. Nowhere else is the directing advice of Elderly People received with such good natured Contempt. They are too old io spank, but we cin line them up and fry to convince them that this World is not all Ragtime and Cigarettes. We can teach them to respect the Flag, obey orders and get at least a glimmering conception of the Eternal Law of Compensation—that he whe |- takes must also give. We are now at war with Germany. We have not struck back, but we have taken Blows in the Face, and either we must retaliate or cease to claim rela- tionship with the Human Race. Up to this time the Germans have done all they can to convince Ameri- cans that we must battle for our Rights or go out of business. They have vio- lated our Hospitality by Infamous ; “We have taken blows in the face.” Plots. They have murdered our Peo- ple. They have struck down our Flag. Every time we begin to cool down from one insult they landed us Another, just as a Slight Token of Contempt. The Germans have been the best Allies of Patriotic Americans. it is pretty hard to convince these Good People that the War is a Final Struggle between Despotism and De- mocracy and that if the Allies lose every man in the remotest corner of the United States must get ready to wear a Collar made in Germany, Many of them seem to believe that now as we enter the War we are tak- ing up an Idle Quarrel over the Loss of Property. They want to refer the whole thing to a Claim Agent. Let us show them if we can that we are fight. ing to defend our very existence as a free government. We are fighting to win back our Self Respect, without which we are a Pauper Nation, PETER’S TERRIBLE TRAVEL. “Speaking of travel,” says Peter MacQueen of the wanderlust. who lives in Charlestown, Mass, when docked. "I do not know where to be gin. In America alome 1 do miles a year. ficult. danger~us and fearful travel in th: world. “First comes the railrond There one enc unters the Ancient and Han- orable Order of Baggage Mashers, the Iman atrocity, the brakeman who yells the stations and slams the doors —a wilder and more frightful scene than the wild lions of Africa. “1 like New England travel! because I have only twenty miles a day. In Yankeeland one sleeps till 9, has his coffee and rolls abed, walks to the next town, avoids helping the railroad war lords on fares, distances the ether cone and puts the undertaker into a re ceivership. “All of which is only an introduc- tion to my quiet but firm protest against that insidious form of white slavery known as ‘the long jump’ in lyceum work. Don’t you think your- self that a reform is needed in long jump and big risk work In lyceum labor? 1 shculd call it a sweatshop of the mind. “For the quiet, restful travels of Peter MacQueen see his notes on the Philippine war. the Boer campaign. the Siberian summer, the cannibals of the upper Amazon and with the wild beasts in Teddy’s Africa.” —Lycenmite Magazine. VILLACE OF DING DONG BELL. A delightful itasy from “Mother Goose” has been created especially for the children an® will be produced on the last afternoon of Chantauqua week by members of the Chimes of Nor- many” company, who will appear on the program the same evening. It is called “In the Village of Ding Dong Bell,” or “Mother Goose on a Holi day,” and is full of the romance and rhythm of all the familiar lines so dear to children e- erywhere. The preduction is done by profes sional actors and musicians of wide : atteiapted 20.000 That is the most dif | The costuming Is exeel- * lent, and the play Is sure to appeal to parents whose children take them to the performance CLEAN WATER. Jeremiah to fill six barrels “1 tol? lished accounts of some African p! rations. Jeremiah was his ful negro body servant. The journey they were taking was long ‘But when I opened the first barrel, he continued, "it was covered with soapsuds. 1 asked the boy what was wrong with the water [le xaid: ‘Very clean water, master. 1 put soap into ever: barrel to make it clean. So we drank soansuds all the way.” “FEAST OF TABERNACLES.” In 2 remarkatle article in the Con gregationalist, Boston, written by Lin coln Wirt on the uplift movement of a Chautauqua week In a community, the Chautauqua is referred to very ap- propriately in several different ways. as follows: "The encyclopedia of the common people.” “The country folks university,” "The feast of the taber nacies.” The article was also copled in part in the Literary Digest. Mr. Wirt says that it is ‘only after swinging arour ~ the Chautauqua cir cle and looking into the faces of many thousands of thoughtful, prosperous American citizens that one can begin - to realize that here has arisen almost in a night one of the greatest educa tional movements of history. GETTING OUT OF THE RUT. Going to a Chautauqua is like grab bing hold of your bootstraps and lift ing yourself out of the little old rut nto which every man works himsel in the course of twelve months. Iv ery man needs to take a look out wo the horizon at ‘east once a year. Chautauqua affords you the chance No man can hope to successfully form and reform the’ public opinion | whic is behind all government and progress in religion and social reform without employing the resources ot the experience, an wil Le one of the most | Chautauqua platfornm.—Dr. Frank Vv unusual things of this character ever’ Gunsaulus. CASTORIA. CASTORIA. ALGOHOL- 3 PER CENT. | similatingtheFood by Regula- | machs and Bowels of | —_—— Cheerfulness and Rest.Contaits i neither Opium, Morphine i ine; y Gi | Mineral. N oT NAR Recjpead OldDre SAMUCLPTAIER x Senna i A soit Salts i Anise Sed i Spent it Horm Seed Clarified Sugar, Wintergreen Flavor | ig A helpful Remedy for . {| Gonstipation and Diarrhoea. Ill and Feverishness an | Loss OF SLEEP resting therefrom-in Infancy. NS Fac Simife Si¢nature of : AVegetable Preparationfords-4 Thereby Promoting Digestion Pumpki Seed | old { Tie CENTAUR COMPANY. | YOR {Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature In Use For Over Thirty Years = CASTOR THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, RED CROSS! Have You Done Your Share? Do not fail to help in this great work. Send a contribution to Chas. M. McCurdy, Treasurer, Bellefonte, Pa. 59-1-1y The First National Bank, BELLEFONTE. PA. with witer and have it ¢lean.” said Dr | MacQueen in one of his recently pub | ex- | faith- The | EVERYTHING All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing . this time last seascu. assump, CR ERE HAS NOT GONE UP IN PRICE MINCE MEAT. We are now making our MINCE MEAT and keeping it fully up to our usual high standard; nothing cut out or cut short and are selling it at our former price of 15 Cents Per Pound. Fine Celery, Oranges, Grape Fruit, Apricots, Peaches, Prunes, Spices, Breakfast Foods, Extracts, Baking Powders, Soda, Cornstarch. The whole line of Washing Powders, Starches, Blueing and many other articles are selling at the usual prices. COFFEES, TEAS AND RICE. On our Fine Coffees at 25¢, 28¢, 30c, 35c and 40c, there has been no change in price on quality of goods and no change in the price of TEAS. Rice has not advanced in price and can be used largely as a substitute for potatoes. All of these goods are costing us more than formerly but we are doing our best to Hold Down the Lid on high prices, hoping for a more favorable market in the near future. . LET US HAVE YOUR ORDER and we will give you FINE GROCERIES at reasonable prices and give you good service. SECHLER & COMPANY, Bush House Block, - 57-1 - = - A AT A TRC WI Bellefonte, Pa. Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. shines. Shoes=. A AM A ET SHOES AT. HALF PRICE $6 Shoes for $3 On Sale Now. Ladies White Kid, Cham- pagne Kid and Ivory Kid Pumps, Colonials and Oxfords. This is an opportunity to purchase the very latest styles in the very latest shades of color at just half price. If you are in need of a pair of good quality of Low Shoes, at a price less than the cost of the very cheapest shoddy kind, you had better purchase quick, as these shoes at such low prices will not last long. $6.00 White Kid Pumps now $3.00 $6.00 White Kid Oxfords now $3.00. $6.00 Ivory Kid Colonials now $3.00. $6.00 Champagne Kid Oxfords now $3.00 YEAGER'S, The Shoe Store for the Poor Man. Bush Arcade Bldg. 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. Sentinels of the Home! There is a deal of talk on preparedness. ARE YOU PREPARED? This world is full of vicissitudes. You may be in the best of health today, with fine prospects in business. There may come a siege of illness. There may come a loss of position. Be prepared. Start a bank account. Open Your Account With Us THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK, BELLEFONTE
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