a —————————————————————————————— EE. Bruce. Bellefonte, Pa., July 27, 1917. CITY IS HIGH IN THE AIR Gwalior, Capital of Native Indian State, Built on Top of Rock 300 Feet in Height. South of Agra in the hot half-desert country of central India a great rock looms out of the flat plain. The sides of the butte, as it would be called in the Rocky Mountain country, rise sheer for about 300 feet, and the area of its surface is large enough to sup- port a city. It is about two miles long by a quarter of a mile in breadth. This is Gwalior, the capital of a na- tive Indian state under British domin- ation, and once one of the strongest military positions in India. Two other cities are instantly called to mind by the sight of Gwalior—one, the neighbor city of Chitor, perched on its rock to the southwest, the other the Pueblo Indian village of Acoma, just half way around the world in the New Mexico desert. All three of them were picked for their military value, and all three have outlived their use- fulness. A narrow winding road cut out of the rock leads from the plain to the citadel above. At the top of the road is the beautiful painted palace, its ex- terior tiled over with ernamented, high- ly glazed tiles of a workmanship whose secret has been lost. Color and design are each perfect after their fashion, making the palace one of the sights of India. Inside, alas, it is not a sight but a_smell. The bats, the multitudinous Indian bats, have taken possession ; they swarm here as in no other place for hundreds of miles around, and no creature with a nose can remain to admire the interior of the painted palace. SEA WATER FOUND IN LAYERS Lower Strata Contain Less Dissolved Oxygen and This Has Influence on Fish Life. Land animals breathe in oxygen with the air. Fish get it, but less of it, of course, dissolved in water. Messrs. J. W. Sale and W. W. Skinner re- ported in a paper presented at a meet- ing of the American Chemical society that the lower layers of certain tidal waters contained less dissolved oxygen than the upper layers. They show this to be due to the greater specific gravity of the under layers compared to those above them. In other words, the water is found in strata, according to its weight, and this prevents an up-and-down circula- tion. - When we recognize that the oxygen is also depleted by other agencies there is sometimes found to he very little of it in the lower layers. The depletion is greatest in Septem- ber. Tidal waves and storms bring JAPAN IS SELF-SUFFICIENT Country Has Preserved Its National- ism and Independence Thanks to Anti-Foreign Government. Japanese egoism has caused much trouble and misunderstanding. It has doubtless also caused much progress. In Turkey, the young men from Ar- menia, Persia, Syria and Egypt dare not call their souls their own. Na- tionalism in the Syrian Protestant col- lege has to give way to international brotherhood, and no matter how much emphasis is laid on the development of the individual talent for leadership in those small lands, which are denied nationalism by the powers net of heaven but of Europe, there is little hope that the young graduate can ever really lead his nation to better things. Japan, thanks to the anti-foreign government, has saved her national- ism and independence; and methods similar to those used in Turkey or China do not apply. If unity and strength come to China or Turkey, conditions there will become similar. While we exclude the yellow men from America, we cannot hope eternal- ly to dominate their souls at home. | Christian money, sent to Japan, will . long, with wards of precipitates which with the depletion of oxygen have a great influence on fish life. Substitute for Olive Oil. The production of sim-sim of sem- sem (Sesamum indicum) seed is an important agricultural endeavor on the East coast and in the interior lake districts of Africa. The total exporta- tion of this product from the protee- torates of British ast Africa and Uganda during the fiscal year ended March 31, 1915, (the last available de- tailed statistics), amounted to 3,134,320 pounds, valued at $102,824, of which amount about 20 per cent was pro- duced in Uganda and the remainder on the coastal plain of British East Africa. In that year 28 per cent of these ex- ports went to India, 22 per cent to Aden, 18 per cent to Italy, 15 per cent to Italian Somaliland, and most of .the balance to Zanzibar and France. In former years Germany was the largest purchaser of this product, which is a substitute for olive oil. These figures, it should be understood, do not repre- sent the total production of sim-sim within the territory mentioned inas- much as a very large amount is con- sumed locally. Nature Smiles on Malaga. Malaga is perhaps the oldest of Spanish cities. Certainly she is in many ways the fairest of them all. If ever there was a lotus land, it is here, The rich earth is fairly bursting with fertility, hidden under a wealth of semi-tropical vegetation, with here and there the green vine hills that bear the grapes for which Malaga is known all over the world. There are flowers, too, great, gaudy blooms, that go with the South sea appearance of the aloes and palmettoes and palms. In a word, Malaga is a city where nature smiles. Sometimes a year will go by there without seven cloudy days. Something in the Way. “What are you going to do?” asked the sweet young thing. “I'm going to kiss you,” said the man. “But don’t you see I have a chap- con with me?” “Yes, but she’s deaf, isn’t she?” “But she’s not blind, and, besides, he has a very jealous nature.” His Advantage. “A shoemaker is in no danger of iving any of his stock left on i nds.” “Why isn’t he?” “Because the shoes he makes are 1 soled by the time he finishes om.” ~The “Watchman” has all the news be administered by the ones for whose use it is given, teaching democracy and not autocracy in a land which denies foreign domination in all things. —Maynard Owen Williams, in the Christian Herald. CITY HALL 220 YEARS OLD Dungeon and Cell in Dundee Structure Show Severity of Punishment Two Centuries Ago. In the High street of the city and royal burg of Dundee is an ancient structure, within which the town coun- cil still transacts the business of the city. This building was erected some 220 years ago and cost £4,000. In the underground basement is the “con- demned cell,” seven feet six inches in height and eight feet by seven feet, and without light, ventilation, or sani- tary provision of any kind. In this gruesome dungeon the old-time ecrim- inal condemned to death awaited his end. In the upper portion of the build- ing are 22 cells, once used for ordinary prisoners. One of these cells, under the sloping roof of the facade, illus- trates the severity of methods of pun- ishment two centuries ago. To a strong iron staple in the center of the apartment the unfortunate prisoner was attached by shackles on his ankles, the roof overhead being so low that he could not stand upright. Only the worst type of criminal was con- fined in this cell. The ponderous key of the heavily studded door which ad- mits one to the cells has quite a me- dineval appearance, being eight inches 2% inches. ~-72 Spare Convict’s Hands. Now we know exactly what Justice Darling really thinks of violin players, says the London Globe. ‘One of that tuneful craft appealed against doing hard labor for felony because it might spoil his hands. The court remitted the hard labor and gave reasons. Justice Darling said that it was ex- pedient for the convict to have a pro- fession in which he could do no harm. If his hands became hard ard he could not play the violin, he might again take to practices of the kind of which he had been convicted. This is quite a new view to take of the uses of the violin. Playing the violin is useful, according to his lord- ship, because it keeps the performer out of mischief. We wonder if this applies to all music. The vocalist who breaks out in song, we presume, less likely to break into a dwelliag house. He who picks the banjo will be kept from picking pockets. And the per- former who blows the cornet with feel- ing will not blow a safe with nitro- glycerin. Paid Wages Due 40 Years. Edwin Fawcett, son of a former pa- per manufacturer, surprised Corn- wall-on-Hudson, New York, by appear- ing there, distributing” to former em- ployees at his father’s mill in, Moodna pay that had been due them 40 years. The elder Fawcett’s concern got in finaneial straits after the panic of 73. When the mill closed in 1877 it owed wages to several employees, and Sam- ‘uel Fawcett told them they would get their pay some day. His son appeared with a list of for- mer employees, including Charles D. Smith, who was a mere boy when the mill employed him. He received pay, with interest, amounting to $65; his | sister received $30 due to their mother, now dead. Others were paid and, in case the employee had died, his next of kin received the money. Little Things That Count. Go at your garden work with a will and stick to it all during the: sum- mer, You may not raise much, but every little helps. Everything that you raise for yourself lessens the drain onthe general supply that must be provided for those who eannot raise anything. If you raise only a peck of potatoes, that means that there will be just one more peck of potatoes fn the world than there would have been if you had done nothing, and helps the world situation just so much. This is a day of big things, but it is also . 8 day of small things, because many of them are necessary to make a big thing. Your garden is one of the lit- tle things that is to help feed the world, so stick to it and serve both your country and yourself directly , and importantly.—Exchange. Pathetic Picture of Poor Peasants. Few more pathetic pictures of the sad condition of the Macedonian peas- ant have been drawn than that pre- sented by Herbert Corey, the war cor- respondent in a communication to the National Geographic Society, a part of which is issued as the following war geography bulletin: “Along the Monastir road there is a continuous dribbling stream of ref- ugees—not many at a time. Some- times half a dozen will trudge by in the course of a day. Sometimes an entire village has been evacuated farther up the line, and fifty or so who have held on to the bitter end, tramp stolidly and unwillingly to safety. These poor folk never leave their homes until they have been com- pelled to. The outer world is a strange and hostile place to them. Perhaps not one in a hundred has ever been twenty miles from his hamlet. “They pile their poor effects on a donkey, put the babies on top, and load the women with what there is left. If there is a spare donkey, the man of the house always rides. If there are two spare donkeys, the eld- est sons ride. The women always walk. Only once did I see 2a man walking while his wife rode the don- key. The road buzzed with gossip of it, “They have suffered greatly, these poor folk. Yet candor compels me to say that at first sight the difference between a Macedonian peasant evict- ed and a Macedoriar. peasant at home is so slight that it fails to arcuse a sass hovels. When they hide themselves frem an invader they always choose some nook inthe hills from which they may watch their roofs. They cache foodstuffs in secret places, from which they take a handfuil of corn or a cheese of ewe milk at night. “When they are driven out the men go silently. Sometimes they are sul- len. Sometimes they smile at the sol- diers in a sort of twisted, sidewise fashion, in a poor attempt at propiti- ation. The women follcw at their heels patiently. After the first outcry against the order of eviction they never openly defy the soldiery. Yet it is the women who most flagrantly disobey. “They return at night to the aban- doned homestead, taking their chil- dren with them. To do so they must evade the guards and tramp across a desolate country in the darkness, in continual danger from the prowling dogs or irom the rifles of the sentries. Somehow they manage to do it. Hu- manity requires that these little vii- lages in the war zone be emptied to the last human, for in the rear is food and shelter, while at the front is only starvation and danger. “Yet little by little the inhabitants trickle back. At first they are unob- trusive. Although fifty may be liv- ing in a hamlet one sees no more than four or five at a time. Eventually they resume their former mode of life, so far as that is possible. Sometimes they live on the hidden stores of food. Sometimes it is quite impossible to discover how they live at all.” much sympathy. These poor folk seem to a westerner always on the edge of starvation. The principal item cf their diet is maize, so poorly ground by crude water turned wheels that their bodies are repulsively swollen from the resultant indiges- tion. “A man with a yoke of oxen and forty sheep is rich. “Their homes are mere inclosures of stone, topped with blackened thatch, without windows and some- times without other door than a blan- ket or a bit of flapping skin. Often the fire is lighted in the middle of the dirt floor and the smoke seeps out through the crevices of the walls and the holes in the roof. Baths seem un- known and vermin are a commonplace of their existence. “Yet they cling blindly to these Much has been said about American ingenuity as a factor in the world war. A little contrivance known as the farm tractor is one of the devices made in the United States that is certain to figure largely in the present emergency, and also in the fu- ture of agriculture. If all the horses in the United States have to go to war, these farm tractors will do their work at home, and maybe more than horses have ever done. Not much is + yet generally known about the ma- | chine, since it has not fully emerged i from the experimental stage, but its 1 work is giving eminent satisfaction. | It is said that, as a human and horse lakor-saving invention, it has come to stay. In that case the farm-labor problem has apparently been partly solved.—The Monitor. CASTORIA. CASTORIA. Children Cry ANETHERON CA % Z[\\ \ NR RRRERRS NN aahhRN The Kind You Have Always All Counterfeits, Imitations neither Opium, Morphine no Bears the 59-20-e.0, NANANN oN In Use For Over 30 Ye The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY, Fletch SN for Bought, and which has been in use for over over 30 years, has’ borne the signature of and has been made under his per- i sonal supervision since its infancy. : TIL © Allow no one to deceive you in this, and ** Just-as-good ”’ are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Drops and Soothing Syrups. Oil, Paregoric, It is pleasant. It contains r other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ; 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 allaying Feverishness arising Signature of é IS 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. PISS S PSPS SSS SASS SALAS PPS PPP The First National Bank, 59-1-1y BELLEFONTE, PA. PP ASSES A A A A AP SIP SS SSP SPP PSAP PPPS ASP EN HE SS RDO. HAS NOT GONE UP IN PRICE | EVERYTHING All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing this time last seascu. ; 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 25c¢, 28c¢, 30c, 35¢ 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 - . - Bellefonte, Pa. Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. Shoes. Shoes. PE FOR Two Days Only JULY 27th and 28th. Time and Space will not permit me to go into details in regard to prices, but you can depend on this sale, to be A Real Money-Saving Sale. I i never misrepresent in any of my advertising and you can purchase shoes at less than the cost to manu- facture today. SACRIFICE SALE | Remember this sale is FOR Two DAYS ONLY JULY 27th AND 28th For Cash Only 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 Jreparedness. 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 accourt. 4 Open Your Account With Us THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK, 66 BELLEFONTE wid
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