Belletonte, Pa., July 20, 1917.
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PRESENTATION OF FLAG.
The ‘Watchman” cheerfully pub- |
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One of the Stories as to How Base from a recent issue of a Ronceverte,
Ball Originated.
lion boys play base ball each year in
the United States.
England, and many v
play the game in Japan, Porto Rico,
Cuba, and Mexico, and we have, out-
side of professional players,
nine million boys who annually enjoy
one of the oldest games known to
man.
Base ball is supposed to have had
its origin in England and then to
have been passed to the United States,
but the game was long ago known to
the American Indians, and before they
played it, the sport was common In
China and India. As the research of
man into how ancient peoples lived
and played progresses, we begin to
feel with the prophet that “there is
nothing new under the sun.”
For with our own Cherokee In-
dians, residents of this continent long
before any white man ever saw the
land, base ball was a popular game.
It was played with goals and bases,
and called for great skill in the hand-
ling of the bail. So popular was the
vigorous use of the ball (one of the
best exercises any one can enjoy)
with the Cherokees, they had a legend
about it.
The Cherokee story-tellers claimed
that the moon is a ball which was
thrown against the sky in a game a
long time ago. They say two ball
teams were playing against each oth-
er. One of the teams had the best
runners and had almost won the
game, when the captain of the other
team picked up the ball with his hand
and tried to throw it to a goal. But
it struck against the solid sky vault
and was fastened there as a warning
to all future players mever to try to
cheat.
Why a warning? The rules of base
ball in the days of the beginning of
the game forbade the ball ever being
touched with the hand. This made
the game more difficult than it is to-
day. It was cheating ever to touch
the ball with anything but the bat, the
primitive bat much resembling a mod-
ern tennis stick. The Cherokees say,
when the moon grows pale and small,
as it does after the full period, that it
is because of sorrow for those on
earth who indulge in cheating.
The Chinese and East Indians
played base ball all of a thousand
years before the Christian era began.
They used net bats, and the ball could
not be touched with the hand. One
day, as the legend runs, a favorite of
a Chinese emperor was playing the
game before his master and was very
anxious to win. He was so anxious to
be victor he grasped the ball in his
hand when his opponent was not look-
ing, and threw it toward the coveted
goal.
But the ball, so the legend says,
was so angry at being used to cheat
that it bounded back and struck the
unfortunate favorite. He was struck so
hard he was driven off the earth and
became a lone star in the heavens. He
gives forth light every night to warn |
others who are tempted to cheat, of
their possible fate.
The interesting feature of these
legends—one from our own land and
one from distant China is the lesson
they convey out of the early days of
man; cheating in sport, or anything
else is dishonorable and brings its own
bitter punishment.
Base ball is a delightful game. The
game quickens the wits, hardens the
body. But it is not worth the while,
any more than any other sport, if
foul play and cheating are permitted
to enter into it. Honesty in sport is
like honesty in work; it carries with
it the conscicusness that you have
done your best and if victory
does not perch on your banner, you
have fairly lost and can sincerely con-
gratulate the winner.—Ex.
Universal Training the Only Way.
Would you trust an important mes-
sage to a telegraph operator who first
touched his finger to a key only the
week before? Would you choose to
operate on your limb or body a medic-
al student in his Freshmen year?
Would you want to ride on a railroad
train behind an engineer who had pre-
viously been only a chauffeur? Ordo
your banking with a popcorn wagon?
Not one of these possibilities is a bit
more illogical or absurd than to ex-
pect raw, untrained troops, in what-
ever numbers, either to safeguard us
against threatened invasion or defend
us when one is made. These very
words will be read by mere than one
man who at some time was a victim
on stagecoach or passenger train
where a single bandit, armed only
with a mask and revolver, held up and
robbed the entire party, and simply
because they were unprepared.
It is not surprising that our people
hesitated when universal military
training was proposed. It seemed to
savor too much of Prussianism to the
Simor-pure American; and to the son
born here of foreign parents it ap-
peared as one of the chief reasons
why his parents left their fatherland
and crossed an ocean to find liberty.
However, an unpleasant duty has
rarely been fully met by volunteers—
suppose only volunteers paid taxes,
for instance! To rely on volunteers
puts a penalty on patriotism and re-
wards the unpatriotic; there is noth-
ing fair or just in it. We are not a
warlike people; we have no desire to
add to our territory unless by friend-
ly purchase; and it is hardly believa-
ble that any Congress would declare
war with an overwhelming majority
of the people set against the under-
taking. The training of our future
armies should begin in the High
school and continue until we have at
all times at least 2,000,000 men ready
for active service.
I have no patience with the weak-
lings who cry “disgrace to be draft-
ed.” Is there any disgrace, or only
honor, when, the family threatened by
a madman, the father calls all his sons
who are fit to come to his assistance
in its defense? When Uncle Sam
calls, all the boys should respond.—
Mechanics Magazine.
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W. Va., paper:
Despite the cold and disagreeable
i bly a thousand people, many of them !
from a distance, assembled at the
camp of Co. E, of the West Virginia
National Guard, to witness the pre-
sentation and raising of a beautiful |
flag presented to the company by Mrs. |
George T. Brew in memory of her
| brother, Lieut. George L. Jackson, of |
Pennsylvania, who lost his life during
the Spanish-American war. After
the presentation address, delivered in |
a pleasing way by Col. J. H. Crosier, |
the national emblem was raised to the |
top of the flag pole by Miss Janet |
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Brew, the daughter of the donor,
amidst the bugle call and firing of |
the salute.
In accepting the flag on behalf of |
the company, Captain White made a
brief and graceful response, thanking
the donor for her remembrance of the
soldiers, and paid the citizens a de-
served compliment for the manner in
which the had been received since
their arrival in camp. We give
below Col. Crosier’s remarks:
Capt. White and members of the
company you command, a little less
than twenty years ago a brave and
gallant young man of the State of
Pennsylvania, by the name of George
L. Jackson, heeded the call of his
country and as a first lieutenant of a
Pennsylvania company enterea the
Spanish-American war in whieh he
lost his noble life. A sister and a
niece, Mrs. George T. Brew and her
daughter, Miss Janet Brew, now re-
side in this city. These ladies, in
memory of that deceased brother and
uncle, and in honor of your company,
have commissioned me to present to
you a beautiful banner, bearing the
stars and stripes, symbolizing not on-
ly the grand fundamentals of civil
and political life of American citizens,
but the high esteem in which Ameri-
can soldier boys are held by these fair
donors. I am proud to be the medi-
um through which this guerdon of
military merit is placed in such trust-
worthy hands. It is a gift which
means something more than formal
compliment. It means more than sim-
ilar emblems of all other countries
combined. It means an incentive to |
that honorable ambition which should
ever characterize an American citizen
soldiery.
I know full well that yourself and
the soldier boys you command will re-
ceive this souvenir in the spirit in
which it is given, and that it will
never be tarnished while in your cus-
tody, except by the hand of time.
Happy is the country whose citizens
are good soldiers, and whose soldiers
are good citizens! Such a country is
impregnable! Even though all the
trans-Atlantic monarchies were band-
ed together against it; it would
“langh a siege to scorn.” »
Let us hope that the day is not far
distant when the “Star Spangled
Banner” will again peacefully wave
over cur fair country. We have been |
called a “nation of natural fighters,” |
but whatever nay be our fighting ca- |
pacities, thank "God, we are neither |
quarrelsome nor blood-thirsty. Though |
jealous of the honor of our country, !
both as soldiers and citizens, we all
know and feel that it is far better for
the “Stars and Stripes” to wave over
us in the sunshine of peace, than in
the smoke of battle. I sincerely hope
that it may never be necessary for
vou to unfurl this banner in the smoke
of battle, but I have no doubt, if you
do, you will wave it in the thickest of
the fight. I now commit it to your
keeping, and please accept it with the
warm felicitations of all concerned in
its presentation. {
Chemical Wealth in Lake Waters.
The most noted example of an in-
land sea in the United States is the
one in Utah. This lake contains prac-
tically the same salts as occur in the
waters of the ocean, only at a much
highei degree of concentration.
Further west in the States of Ore-
gon and California, there are a num-
ber of lakes of various sizes, contain-
ing waters in some cases heavily
charged with valuable salts readily
recoverable. Especially noticeable
among these are the Searles Lake, in
the lower part of California; Owens
Lake and Mono Lake, in the eastern
part of California. These lake waters
contain considerable quantities of so-
dium carbonate, which is used in the
households, as well as industries. The
borax content of these waters is also
considerable and offers a readily
available source for this salt. Some
potash is recovered, and a great quan-
tity of common table salt is also ob-
tainable from these lake waters.
The origin of these salts is in many
cases hard to trace. In some cases
they are undoubtedly due to an arm of
the ocean becoming land-locked and
the water gradually evaporating, pro-
ducing concentrated salt solutions,
but since in some there are present
salts which do not occur in the ocean
waters, it has to be assumed that
these salts have been leached out
from the surroundings, in mest cases
high mountain ranges.
The war, with its accompanying
high prices for chemicals, has brought
these lake waters to the attention of
the American Chemical society, and
plants are already established and are
being established on the edges of
these lakes where, through solar
evaporation, as well as artificially, va-
rious salts are separated from each
other and obtained in marketable con-
dition.
A remarkable incident with these
waters is the fact that they seem to
be continuously fed from subterrane-
an sources, since they maintain prac-
tically a uniform concentration of salt
solutions. The natural evaporation,
which takes place from the surface of
the lakes during the hot, dry season,
does not seem to materially vary the
salt percentage in the lake waters.
The waters of these lakes belong to
the people of the United States, and
whoever places a pipe line to the edge
of the water and pumps the water out
of them has the right to the salt con-
inte of the same, without any further
cost.
Airmen’s Sensations in Battle.
| of a second later.
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Then an almost
solid wall of air nearly threw me on
“The most striking thing to me | my ‘beam ends,’ and I was really hard
about being under gun fire in an ae- put to to get the reeling machine back
roplane is the unreality of it,” said a | on an ‘even keel.
For the next mile
British aviator who has been flying in or two the air was like the water in
Flanders since the outbreak of war. |the wake of a big side-wheeler—all
The roar of your own engine drowns | chopped to pieces—and the machine
i the sound of the guns on the earth, : rocked lil ingless tor lor
ae ; and even the detonations of the shells | iy ae 2 3g The pi 8 hid
It is said that more than eight mil- | weather of Sunday afternoon proba- Se a big |
which do not burst very close at hand | turbed for some seconds after a big
are rarely heard. Shrapnel bullets ftv | your astern told me the ‘42’ had come
in a broad cone Sirah ahead—that { to earth.”—Lewis
iis, in the same direction as that in} Popular Mechanics.
{ which the shell itself is moving—so AN
i that practically the only shell
that
i ever does any harm to you is the one
which bursts directly beneath your
machine, and which, therefore, vou do
not see explode. The littie puff balls
| of smoke which blossom out around
vou are perfectly harmless. At the
worst a few of their spent bullets may
shower back upon you, sometimes so
gently that you can see, and even
reach a hand and catch them. A shell
| bursting even immediately over you
!is not dangerous in itself, but rather
ominous as indicating the Tact that
the ‘Archies’ have you well ranged.
The back kick from the shell-casing
mighc stun you if it hit you on the
head, but the chance of that is almost
negligible.
“Ordinary heavy artillery is rarely
used against air craft, but occasional-
ly one’s work takes him inte an air
zone in which some of the big shells
are traveling. This is cne of the most
remarkable experiences that can fall
to the lot of an airman; in fact, the
weirdest sensations of my whole fly-
ing experience ars connected with the
occasion on which I blundered into the
road of a passing ‘42.
“As you doubtless know, the Ger-
mans have used their 17-inch guns
for the intermittent bombardment of
Dunkirk, and other points 15 or 20
miles behind the lines, right down te
the present time. Well, I was at an
altitude of about 6,000 feet one dav,
and climbing higher at an easy angle,
when one of these big fellows, almost
at the end of its long flight, came
plowing along in the opposite direc-
tion. First a dark little blur appear-
ed in the air ahead, and at an angle of
about 35 degrezs—a little steeper
than the one at whick 1 was climbing
—above me.
coming right at me, and I swerved to
the left in an instinctive effort to
dodge the threatened blow. Then a
sort of droning hum became audible,
even above the roar of my engine, and |
At first it seemed to be
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More Than 3,500,000 Rotor Cars.
In 1916 there were 1,067,332 more
motor cars registered in the United
States than in 1915. This was an in-
crease of 43 per cent. The gross total
of registered cars, including commer-
cial cars, was 3,512,996; the number of
motorcycles registered was 250,820.
The several States collected in regis-
tration and license fees, including
those of chauffeurs and operators, a
total gross revenue of $25,865,396.75. |
Of this amount 92 per cent. or $23,-
910,813, was applied directly to con-
struction, improvement or mainte- !
nance of the public roads in 43 States, |
according to figures compiled by the
office of public roads of the United !
States Department of Agriculture, in |
Circular 73, “Automobile Registra- |
tions, Licenses and Revenues in the
United States, 1916.” i
The figures for 1916 correspond
very closely with the annual percent- |
age increase of motor car registration |
of the last three years. This yearly |
increase has averaged 40 per cent. in |
the number of cars and 50 per cent. in |
revenues.
When viewed over a period of years, |
the increase in motor car registration
and gross revenue has been remarka- |
ble. In 1906 the total State registra- |
tions were approximately 48,000 cars, |
on account of which several States !
collected in fees and licenses a total |
gross revenue of about $190,000. Only |
a small part of this was applied to |
road work. In 1916 the $25,865,369.- |
75 collected formed nearly 9 per cent. |
of the total rural road and bridge rev-
enues of the States. |
Recent years have shown an in- |
creasing tendency to put the spending |
of the motor car revenues directly in |
the hands of the State highway de- |
partments. Of the total amount ap- |
plied to road work in 1916, 70 per |
cent., or $16,411,520, was expended !
more or less directly under the con- |
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this sound increased during the two or | trol or supervision of the State high-
three seconds that elapsed before the | way departments.
big missile came even with and swept
by me. It was probably several hun-
dred yards away, at its nearest, but |
the distance seemed less.
“A few faint stirrings of air began
to rock my machine even before the
shell went by, but the full force of the
‘air wash’ was not felt for a fraction
Only 13 States did |
not exercise any direct control over
the expending of the net automobile
revenues.
Several million acres of land in |
California are shortly to be irrigated !
at a total cost of $10,000,000 or $15,- |
000,000. :
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MICHELI
8 Ways to Judge Tires
How much does the tire weigh?
( Michelins weigh 12 to 15% more.)
How thick is the tread?
(The Michelin Universal has a double-thick
How large is the traction surface ?
(In the Michelin Universal three-quarters of the
tread bears on the ground.)
Does the inner tube fit naturally?
(Michelin Tubes do, though other tubes are
Is the price right?
(Michelin Tires, though the besi you can buy af
any figure, are moderate in price.)
Organization behind the tire?
( Economical Efficiency is the Michelin watchword. )
Experacnce of the tire-maker ?
Y (Cichelin invented the pneumatic automobile tire. )
P What do users gay ?
i (Ask them and you will be convinced)
GEO. A. BEEZER, Agent,
Bellefonte, Pa.
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STANDS FOR
POWER. EFFICIENCY.
Effective March 1st, Prices Advanced as Follows:
FOURS.
Touring from $ 940.00 to $ 985.00
Roadster 5 930.00 ‘985.00
Everyweather “1,140.00 *“ 1,185.00
Chassis i 850.00 ““ 885.00
North Water St.
61-tf.
DURABILITY.
SIXES.
Touring from $1,180.00 toz$1,250.00
Roadster “1,170.00 41,250,
Everyweather * 1,380.00 "1,450.
Chassis “1,090.00 ::%1.150.00
Heaslet Victoria Top 1.450.00 :* 1,575.00
Exten. ** * 1,450.00 1,500.00
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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.
FAUBLE’
Allegheny St.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
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LYON @ COMPANY.
Lyon & Company’s July Clearances
bring wonderful values.
We still have a full line of colors in
stripes and 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.
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CHILDREN’S HOSE.
One lot of Mercerized Hose for infants
in light blue, pink and sand shades, sizes,
4 1-2 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 350c.
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.
Lyon & Co. -.. Beilefonte.