Bellefonte, Pa., July 13, 1917.
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PEACE HATERS.
The dove of peace was on a limb.
It cooed in tones pathetic,
“Oh, why, throughout this world so grim
Is strife so energetic?
They talk of me in tender strain
While rendering my position
One of embarrassment and pain
Through scattering ammunition.
And even in a neutral clime
They start investigations,
Which keep me trembling all the time
With wild and weird sensations.
Each man assurances will bring
That preciously he rates me,
And yet, while all my praises sing,
‘Most everybody hates me.
— Washington Star.
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A Year to Plant Things.
There is no more occasion for a
food crisis, or a food scarcity, in the
United States of America, in peace or
war, says the Boston Transcript, than
there is for an oxygen famine cn the
suramit of Mount Washington. In
one year, this country could, if it
would, produce food enough to feed
all the world, including China. We
are amazed, nowadays, at the way in
which Germany has stood the test of
an almost complete dependence on her
own resources in war. But do the
people of America realize that the
cornfield of the United States—the
land devoted to the maize crop alone
now, or the area which might be de-
voted to it without taking an acre of
ground away from any other food
grain or from the needed pastures—
is larger than the whole extent of
Germany? Our wheat field is larger
than England. Our pastures are
greater than the area of Germany and
Austria and France together. And
not more than one-half the land
which might be devoted to the raising
of food is cultivatea for food. Cot-
ton, tobacco, we can cut them down;
corn we must have. But if we are
hard pressed on win certain lines of
food supply, it is actually and truly
because our capabilities are so great,
co boundless, that no one has ever
considered that they would not be ad-
equate to every emergency. We have
had so great a food-field that we have
not stopped to plant it. We have not
considered our food—only our money,
and the chance to make it. ;
But the time has come to think
about it. We are no doubt the Egypt
of the world—the land te which all
others can and do come for food—but
before Egypt feeds the world, it must
feed itself; nor must it cease eo feed
the worla. On the face of the earth
now, 20,000,000 men are removed
from productive toil; they are de-
stroying, not increasing, the world’s
resources. Many more millions of
men than that are at work keeping the
fighters for civilization supplied with
the munitions of war. The fields of
France are ploughed with bomb shells
instead of with the implements oi
peace. England can never produce
her own corn. And now we may have
to stand side by side with these Na-
tions, millions of our own with guns
in their hands, and feed these of our
own as well as the others whose cause
of liberty is our cause, toc.
With an immense emergency con-
fronting us, it is the duty of every
man and woman to turn farmer.
Parks, lawns, meadows, scrub-land,
should all be planted. The other day
2 woman reader sent the proof that
in her back yard in Roxbury, by plant-
ing two ten-cent packages of vegeta-
ble seeds and four pounds of seed po-
tatoes, she had grown in that back
vard not only all the vegetables she
had need of in her household, but had
sold $30 worth of vegetables, includ-
ing $6.30 worth of new potatoes 1n
their season. What if every woman
in New England who has a little plot
of land about her house did that? And
America, including New England, is
the home of that most wonderful of
all food plants, Indian corm. The
and which gave this plant to Amer-
ica never meant that there should be a
“food crisis” here. Corn will produce
four times as much as wheat per acre,
and requires only one-tenth of the
seed to sow it, and only one-third of
the time from planting until it can be
used for food. A woman may take a
spade and a hoe and with a quart of
seed can plant a back yard full of corn
which in two months will bring her
and her children their roasting ears.
Our fathers fought their wars with
the Indians on a handful of parched
corn per day. We could fight anoth-
er and a greater war on corn products
alone if it were necessary.
Now steady and sure again,
And measure of stroke and step wekeep;
Thus up and down we cast our grain;
Sow well and you will gladly reap.
Fall gently and still, good corn,
Tie warm in thy earthy bed;
And stand so yellow some morn,
For beast and man must be fed.
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Rome’s Great Colosseum.
The most imposing theatre ever
erected by mortal hands, a grim house
of death, consecrated by blood and
tears, the Colosseum stands today a
stupendous monument to Roman pride
and degredation. Almost a third of a
mile in circumference, it towers 157
feet up into the air, the original and
monumental “play to the gallery” of
popular approval. In 80 A. D. Em-
peror Titus opened its history with a
tremendous inaugural of a hundred
days of “games,” in which men fought
with other men and with wild animals,
and no one knows the exact tale of
the lives snuffed out on its bloodier
sands to make a Roman holiday.”
In the construction of the Colosse-
um its builders adhered to the then
new note of ‘superimposing the three
orders—Doric, Ionic and Corinthian—
an idea that has exerted a greater in-
fluence upon the design of monumen-
tal works than any other Roman in-
novation. :
But who thinks of that standing be-
fore it today the golden Italian sun-
shine glorifying every car and conjur-
ing back from the dead past vivid
spectacles of Roman holidays, full of
noise and color, laughter and bloody
agonies, or when liquid moonlight
transfigures the classic ruin into a
magic, where stalk the thin ghosts of
saint and vestal, slave and emperor ?
— National Geographic Magazine.
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German Atrocities Recounted. i
Pomeroy Burton, a native of Bea- |
ver county, this State, is delivering |
addresses throughout the country,
urging more thorough enlightenment
of the people in regard to the Euro-
pean war and the reasons why Amer- |
ica has been forced into the great
struggle against military autocracy. |
Mr. Burton is manager of the London |
Mail and other British newspapers. |
Recently he visited Pittsburgh and |
was interviewed at length for “The |
Dispatch,” in which he covered much
of the matter discussed in his address- |
es. In the latter, however, the former |
Beaver boy dwells upon a sentimental |
timidity in regard to full exposure of |
well authentic atrocities of the Ger- |
man military, a censorship of such |
matter in England and France which |
has prevented Americans from gain- |
ing a full appreciation of these hor- |
rors. For instance, in his address at |
the International Rotary Convention |
which met at Atlanta, Ga., he said: |
“If, coupled with this urgently
needed campaign of enlightenment |
there could be accomplished a radical |
revision of the French and’ English
censorship rules, permitting a much |
freer flow of all kinds of war facts
and war developments from the fight- |
ing areas than is possible under exis- |
ting conditions, the effect, I feel sare, |
would be enormously beneficial to the |
whole Allied cause. -
«Tor instance, would it not be the |
height of wisdom to reverse the poli- |
cy which, even yet, conceals from the |!
world the full truth about the incred- |
ible atrocities in Belgium; atrocities |
which, if possible, have been outdone |
in Rumania, and which up to now |
have not been publicly disclosed; |
adopting a new policy which would !
release to the whole world the story i
of appaling barbarities perpetrated by |
the Germans there—many of them
too horrible to describe from a public
platform, but all of them serving to
show the people here what they might |
expect in the event of a German inva-
sion of the United States; what sort |
of enemy, in fact, it is that we are
fighting; exposing the fiendish devil-
try which caused thousands of poison-
ed candies, filled with typhus germs, |
to be dropped from German aero- |
planes for Rumanian children tu pick |
up and eat; the tragic story of how |
the Queen’s little boy, her youngest, |
picked up one of these poison-laden |
sweets in her garden, ate it, sickened |
almost at once, hovered between life |
and death for weeks and finally died |
in her arms, this story being written |
by the Queen’s own pen and sent to a |
lady who has recently returned to
New York, and who has the etter |
with her now; the shocking story of !
how brutal German soldiers forced
gentle and refined Rumanian women
to disrobe in public, and then drove
them in groups through the streets;
the story of Rumania’s pitiable plight
today, with disease raging uncheel?”~7
for lack of surgeons, physic. =
medical supplies; the blood-curdling
details of scores of submarine sink-
ings where non-combatant victims
were ruthlessly shot down, or, when
they escaped that horrible fate, were
cast adrift without food or water, in
small boats on the high seas, to die
one after the other from madness
and from thirst; and in a different
category, the thrilling stories of those
combats in the air which are *iking
place every day over the fighting lines
in France, stories of courage and dar-
ing the like of which have never been
equaled in the widest realm of fiction;
the countless stories of noble heroism,
of human sacrifice and suffering for a
great cause, which show in their true
light the details of modern warfare,
so persistently concealed, and so ur- !
gently needed to stir the people's
pulse and to make them fezl and real-
ize the truth and the full truth about |
this gigantic struggle between might
and right on the one side and might
alone on the other. ’
“Reverse this policy of secrecy, let
the people at home have these and
other true pictures of the var as it re-
ally is, and I firmly believe the re:
sponse would be electrical—the peo-
ple of the United States would rouse
as one man to their task, fired with
patriotic ferver born of a full and
true understanding of what this war
means to them and their future, of |
the individual obligations it imposes
upon those at home as well as upon
those who are constantly facing death
in the firing line for the sake of those
at home.”
Not Well Enough Known.
We cannot accomplish much in the treat-
ment of dyspepsia. however much we may
temporarily relieve its symptoms, SO long
as the blood remains impure. It is a fact
not well enough known by people general-
ly that when the stomach, liver and other
digestive organs are supplied with impure
blood, the digestive process is impaired,
so as to cause faintness and loss of anpe-
tite and sometimes a deranged state of
intestines, and in general all the symp-
toms of dyspepsia.
Hoods's Sarsaparilla is of great service
in dyspepsia, because it purifies tke blood,
making it the healthy stimulus the diges- |
tive organs must have for the proper ver-
formance of their duties. Hood's Sarsa-
parilla, especially if taken in a little hot
water, has “a magic touch” in dyspepsia.
Get it today. 62-27
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Honor Buttons Presented to Rejected
Volunteers.
Upon our entrance into the world
conflict, prompt steps were taken by
navy recruiting stations at New York
to protect men of patriotic motives
from being confused with spineless
slackers because of their civilian at-
tire. Buttons bearing the inscrip-
tion: “I have volunteered for the na-
vy—have you?” were issued for per-
sons who applied for enlistment but,
because of physical imperfections,
could not be accepted. When pre-
sented, the badge is accompanied by a
letter which establishes the holder’s
right to wear it. —Popular Mechan-
ics Magazine.
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——>Put your ad. in the “Watch-
THE RESTLESS SEX.
Robert W. Chamber’s New Novel Be-
gins in July Cosmopolitan.
“The Restless Sex” is the title of
Robert W. Chamber’s new novel, the
| first installment of which begins in
July Cosmopolitan.
After a short foreword, “The Rest-
less Sex” gets away to a quick typic-
al Chambers start.
“About a decade before the Great
Administration began, a little girl
wag born,” are the exact words in
which Mr. Chambers introduces his
latest heroine, Stephanie Quest.
The father of little Stephanie was
an intinerant actor; the mother, an
uneducated and very young girl who
| by night.
tinted photographs by day and did |
fancy skating at an ice palace in Utica :
From this unpromising
start, and from a scrdid early child-
hocd, Stephanie emerges like one of
| those rare, beautiful flowers that.
sometimes takes root and flourishes
in the mire of poverty.
It is too early in the story to fore- |
cast the ultimate destiny of the char- |
acters, but if performance holds true !
to promise, “The Restless Sex” will |
surely add another laurel to Mr. i
Chamber’s already crowded wreath. |
In the United States only one |
farm in seven, of more than twenty |
acres, now supports sheep, and conse- |
quently we import nearly a third of a |
billion pounds of wool yearly.
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TIME TO GET THAT SEASON TICKET
SAME OLD PRICE $2.00
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Since the very beginning of
the automobile industry, when
Michelin invented the pneu-
matic automobile tire, Miche-
lin Tires have been famous
for their durability,
GEO. A. BEEZER, Agent,
Bellefonte, Pa.
Yet, to-day, you can buy
Michelins for less than many
other makes.
Come in and let us tell you
how you can save money by
using Michelins.
Michelin Casings are just as good as Michelin Red Inner Tubes,
which are oftén «imitated in color but never in quality.
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FOURS.
Touring from $ 940.00 to $ 985.00
Roadster a 930.00 ** 985.00
Everyweather “1,140.00 ** 1,185.00
Chassis fs 850.00 ** 885.00
North Water St.
man.”
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STAN DS FOR
EFFICIENCY.
Effective March 1st, Prices Advance
DURABILITY.
SIXES.
Touring from $1,180.00 to $1,250.00
Roadster “7 1170.00 * 1,250,00
Everyweather °° 1,380.00 :% 1,450.00
Chassis 1,090.00 °° 1,150.00
Heaslet Victoria Top 1.450.00 °° 1,575.00
‘ “Exten. * 1,450.00 1,500.00
GEORGE A. BEEZER, AGENT,
61-tf.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
HI rr meammmearcaeth
Honest Clothes
Priced Honestly
AT THE
FAUBLE STORES.
We will surely surprise
and please you with the
values we are showing.
We will prove to you
that The Best Clothes
made in America are
here, and our prices will
positively show you a
big saving.
Allegheny St. BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-4
Lyon & Company’s July Clearances
bringiwonderful values. :
=Wel still have a full line of colors in
stripestand floral designs in voiles that
we sold so fast at 10c.
The bettter quality voiles that sold at
20 and 25 cents now must go at 14c.
Everything in wash fabrics must be
sold now at great reductions.
CHILDREN’S HOSE.
One lot of Mercerized Hose for infants
in light blue, pink and sand shades, sizes,
41-2 to 6. included qualities 25 cents,
our price 12 1-2c.
Ladies’ Out Size Silk Hose.
One lot of black Silk Hose, out size,
regular values 90c¢, our price 30c.
WHITE SALE.
We are going to continue our White
Sale of Under Muslins, Night Gowns,
Drawers, Petticoats, Corset Covers, En-
velope Chemise, Camisoles, at less than
cost to make them.
White Shoes.
All our White Summer Shoes for Ladies
and Children, in high and low, at less
than cost to manufacture. ;
Also Men’s Fine Dress and Work Shoes
at greatly reduced prices.
Come in and see what great bargains we have.
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