i —— Bellefonte, Pa., August 3, 1917. WHERE THE CRIME OCCURRED Court Decided That Heaven Had Ne Particular Relation to the Case on Trial. : Even remote cobwebs, callous to the ordinary flow of legal oratory, suf: fered a severe jolt in their nooks in the District of Columbia Supreme court building, when a certain dark skinned emulator of Demosthenes de livered one of his $25 speeches to g jury, relates the Washington Times, Be it understood in passing that this Afro-American member of the district bar is known to have three set ad. dresses, each of which he agrees to rid himself of for the acquittal of his client for a stipulated price. Now the $25 type of oratory is his best, the other two being of the $10 and $12 Species. It was the highest priced ad: dress that was being delivered on the occasion in question. John Doe, negro, was charged with stabbing “a fren.” The evidence was all taken and it behooved the Ethio- pian Demosthenes, representing John to impress not only John, but numer ous others in the courtroom, who, to use legal terminology, might be placed in the category of “prospective clients.” “When man took Father Time by the forelock and started to meander with him down the halls of Eternity,’ vociferously began the negro attor ney. You could have heard a pin drop. And then without further mention of the evidence against his client the perspiring orator soared into the high- er realms and started a dissertation anent the angels and archangels. Old. er habitues of the court realized that the defendant at the bar had paid a $25 fee to his counsel and anticipated a half hour of irrelevant epigrams and verbiage. But not so the court. “Leave heaven and get back to Ana- costia,” the court laconically suggest: ed. “There's where this crime hap. pened.” Now every one is wondering wheth. er the $25 address is being revised. EASTER LILY FROM BERMUDA Most of Bulbs Have Come From Island Gardens but They Are Now Be- ing Grown in United States. ‘than one great financial institution The Easter lily, the accepted floral | emblem of that church festival, was | introduced into this country about fifty | years ago from Bermuda. The little | group of islands have sent us millions of bulbs and received millions of American dollars in return. The large eastern cities buy hundreds of thou ! sands of bulbs annually, costing in the neighborhood of $100 per 1,000. Of late years some disease has at tacked the bulbs, and on this account. . and by way of developing our own possibilities, experiments in the culture of Lilium longiflorium, the botanical name of the Easter. lily, have been made, which prove that in sections of Florida, Mississippi, Washington, Ore. gon and California it can be grown with perfect success. Thus, it is point. ed out, we are making ourselves inde- pendent im the way of beauty as well as in matters of greater utility and commercial importance. Rheumatism Superstitions. It is when it comes to rheumatism that old superstitions come most defi nitely to the fore, and there are scores of cures and preventives which have come down through the centuries, One of these which the Belgians have introduced to the fighting men at the front is the wearing of a strip of eat: skin beneath the coat. According to the Belgians, this makes you immune from both rheumatism and gout, and with the trenches deep with mud and icy water, the average soldier, wheth- er in France or England, is only toc glad to “take a chance”. on any sort of preventive, and it is said that scores of domestic pussy cats have been offered up as a sort of sacrifice to provide whole regiments with the coveted strip of fur. The fad has spread to England, where “catskin” bands are now seld ; but so far Ameri- | ca has been content ith” the theory that the wearing of a steel ring, or the cariging of a potato in the pocket, would keep off the dread aching of joints and muscles. No Feed for Game. Lord Davenport, the British food controller, in an interview at “which he announced a nuaiber of new regu- lations, observed, with regard to the order prohibiting the feeding of game with grain required fot fooll ‘or stock- | reaming: “Pheasant rearing and indul- | gences of that kind, which wore all | right in happier days, are indulgences { we do not wish to see coatinued, and this 1s our methed of "bringing them te an end. I do not suggest that there is much of this geing on. We mean te be on the right sid. The broeds_ will keep themselves alive in thé woods, if a man allows them to go in the woods. I do not say we are giving.the farmer liberty te sheot them, but that | is what we mean in so ‘many words. We mean the order to be observed, and if there are any abuses proeeed Ig from it we shall take further and stronger measures to put it in force.” A Douabting Texan. The ladies who declare they will serve their country by working in the fields will be able to save their com: plexions, but it wil come pretty hard for many of them to learn how to cuss - narily was.—Glasgow Weekly Herald. ' name for his see. a mule effectively.—Houston Post. Great Bank Has Rule Not to Advance | Employee Who Has Not Saved i Part of His Salary. | Extravagance and lack of thrift are | at the bottom of practically every | breach of trust committed by trusted | employees and officials. In a certain | international bank, known all over the | world, a rule established by one of its i shrewd founders is rigidly, though al- ! most secretly, enforced. Every young man who enters its service is closely | watched. He must not only bear him- self properly at all times, but he must Save part of his salary. He is not | urged or even advised to do so. It is i left to himself. If he makes no pro- | vision for the future he never occu- | pies a position of trust, handles money, Securities or negotiable paper, or is au- | thorized to sign bank obligations of | any character. i An employee of this bank once sta- | tioned in New York city who spoke | several languages and displayed great ability found out while here the ex- | Istence of this secret rule when he ap- | plied for a vacancy which he was in every way capable of filling. He was | told in the kindest way that advance- i ment along that line was not for him } because they know that he had not | saved a dollar in the 22 years of his service. The principle underlying this | rule is that the man who cunnot take care of his own money is tempera- mentally unfit to take care of other people’s. Experience has taught more that the man who lays up a compe- tence for himself will not risk disgrace and ruin by stealing from those who trust him.—New York Commercial. | WHEN HE FOUND HIS TONGUE | Recruit Took Wind Out of Pompous | Surgeon’s Sails When He Re- covered His Wits. A very pompous army surgeon was sent to a recruiting depot in the high- | lands to examine a batch of lads who | had taken the king's shilling. The ab- ! rupt, overbearing manner of the doc- | tor so frightened one nervous recruit | that he was unable to answer the first i question as to his name and place of | birth. “Why don’t you answer?” roared the doctor. “What's your name, ] say?” Still the panic-stricken lad could only stare open-mouthed at his ques- | tioner, who exclaimed: “Why, I believe ®he fellow’s stone | deaf!” And, taking his watch from his pocket, he held it to the left ear of the recruit, saying: “Can you hear that ticking?” i The youth shook his head. The | watch was applied to the other ear | with the same effect, and then the ' doctor opened the vials of his indig- nation om the head of the would-be soldier, i “What do you mean by enlisting , when you are stone deaf? Why, you | can’t even hear the ticking of a watch when it is held within an inch of the | drum of your ear!” And then the worm turned. “She’s no’ gaun,” said the recruit, finding his tongue at last. And when the doctor holding the watch to his own ear, found that it had indeed stopped, his feelings were too powerful to be expressed in words, extensive though his vocabulary ordi- | Soldiers’ Little Joke. The Paris police authorities have | decided in the future td arrest all sol- diers on leave who perpetrate the | hoax that they are carrying danger- | ous hand grenades” er other high ex- plosives in the underground Ran) or tram cars, thus scaring other pas- | sengers to get out. | It has been a common practice for | soldiers weighted down with a steel | helmet, knapsack, blanket roll and canteen to squeeze into a crowded car and then warn the other passen- | fers: “Don’t jostle or crowd me or my gre- nades maw blow up.” | This usually caused many fellow | nassengers to leave the ear at the next | station, thus giving the soldiers plenty | of room and seats. _— Repartee of a Bishop. | A good story of Canon Adderley | concerns Wilberforce, Bishop of Ox- | ford, whose official designation was | “Samuel Oxon,” made up of his Bap- tismal mame, ‘followed by the Latin Wilberforce was one day addressing a. meeting—writes Mr. Adderley—and I suppose he coughed or cleared his throat in the midst of his speech. “Ty Thorley’s food for cattle,” said 4 yoice. “Thank you,” said the bishop, “it may ‘be good for asses, for it does not suit Samuel Oxon.” “On another oeeasion his gudiepee hissed. Said Wilberforce, “Remember, gentlemen, that is not an excessively human utterance.” —_— Homes for Foreign Diplomats. For many years the foreign Rgad: quanters of the United States diplo- matic corps have been excee 1y in- adequate. Any residence was “consid- ered good enough for consular and dip- lomatic duties until the war began, when the imporkance of such duties had occdsion to be emphasized. Now a bill has been introduced into com- gress providing an appropriatior” of $200,000 a year for the rent of suitable buildings in foreign countries for the use of the diplomatic serviee, both as residences of diplomatic officials and as offices of the diplomatic establish- ments. | couraged by the knowledge of Califor ! haired, dark-eyed female bound hand | { paring supper. | draws approximately ten inches of wa: | kind of biscuit. Suffering Attending Explorations in Continent Have No Parallel in United States. As a record of human endeavor the explorations of Australia constitute a chapter in history for which the Unit- ed States has no parallel. The pioneers who crossed the Alleghenies found fer- tile country beyond; the trappers and traders on our northern boundaries were in country abundantly supplied with food and water; the men who pushed their way across the great plains had forage and water for their animals and wild game for themselves. The forty-niners who crossed the des: erts of Utah and Nevada were en nia beyond. Only the Spanish ex: plorers from Mexico and pioneer trav- elers through the deserts of Arizona and southern California can appre- ciate the suffering and understand the failure of the heroic Australian scouts, says the National Geographic Maga: zine, The center of the great continent, which their hopes had pictured as grass-covered plains, fertile valleys, lakes and timbered highlands, inter spersed perhaps with arid stretches, | had turned out to be one of the most extensive deserts in the world, into which streams rising near the coast were lost in a sea of rock and sand. It is as if the people of the United States should wake up some morning | and find that all the land between the Alleghenies and the Sierra Nevadas had been converted into plains like the arid stretches of Utah. SIR LAUNCELOT TO RESCUE But Gallant Knight Left Fair Damsel i to Her Fate, According to Mod- ern Version of Story. “That’s funny,” mused Launcelot, | ; one of the knightly boarders at King Arthur's table. “That’s funny,” he! added, “I haven't rescued a damsel in distress for almost two weeks.” At that moment a piercing, but sweet, scream issued from behind ga clump of laryngitis trees. “Sic ‘em, Semper Tyrannus,” chuckled Launcelot, and spurred his good steed Yea-Bo. Behind the laryngitis tree he found a fair golden: and foot, while a great hulking wretch | was tickling her lovely nose with ai feather. “What ho! Ho what,” cried Laun- celot, and prepared to spit the fellow on his lance. “Nay, nay, good knight, good knight!” cried the dark, fair one’s tor: | | mentor. “Do you give me leave to ex | plain. This wench is my wife, and many a time and oft have I warned | her it would go hard with her if 1! came home once more and found her ! at the ‘runnies’ instead of home pre | And but just now J came home famished to find no sup: per and my wife at the ‘runnies.’ ” “Give it to her good. Go to it!" said Launcelot and hied him hence.— Detroit Free Press. New Type of Boat. : A party which plans an exploring | expedition in certain South Americap | rivers has purchased a shallow water motor boat. The craft is 28 feet long, has an eight-foot beam and is equipped with an 18-inch propeller. The latter projects less than ten inches below the lowest point of the keel, is situated in | a well or tunnel, and operates at all | times in a solid column, which extends | upward from the tunnel, draws the | water up into the latter and the col: | umn to a depth of at least four feet nine inches. The boat has a draft | of but seven inches without a load ; and when carrying 15 passengers | ter. The motion of the propeller tends to lift the boat from the water. The | boat is so shaped that it produces | practically no stern waves. The pur- chasers believe that it will prove pax ticularly adapted to exploring shallow streams and inlets. It is large enough to carry a good-sized party, together ! with their camp equipment and all needful supplies, for a considerable period.—Popular Mechanics Magazine | | | | | Futility of “No Trespass” Signs. In the American Magazine David | Grayson comments as follows on aj farmer who eovered his land with “Nc | Trespass” signs: | “I did not need to enter his fields, ner elimb his hill, nor walk by his | brook; but as the springs passed and ! the autumns whitened into winter, 1 | eame into miore and more eomplete | possession of all those fields that he 20 jealously posted. I looked with | strange joy upon his hill, saw April | blossom in his orchard and May color the wild grape leawes along his walls, June I smelled in the sweet vernal of his hay fields, and from the Octe- ber of his maples and beeches I gath- | ered rieh crops—and put up no hostile signs of ownership, paid no taxes, wor- | ried over no mortgage, and often mar- | velled that he sheuld be S0: poor with- in his posted domain and I so rich When Bread Was First Made. The earliest instance of the prepara. tlon of bread as an article of food is found in the Bible in Genesis 18:6, | The grain employed was of various | sorts, The best bread was made of | wheat, which, after being ground, pro- duced the flour or meal. Barley was only used by the poor or in time of ! scarcity. “Spelt” was also used, both in Egypt and Palestine. The bread | taken by persens on a journey (Genesis | 14:23; Joshua 9:12) was probably a, 1 ary fame—was ! wore boots so full of holes that ! poor Lincoln hardly could boast. { war and eventually as president of the United States, but it may not be equal | the least of the small tragedies of the | orléss, might purchase it on account | els were in many cases the “litera ure ern term, was unknown.—Exchange, | | without.” | : | i | dress I borrowed from Aunt Matilda, i thought I might be a fool. TE — ——————————————————— PROMOTION BASED ON THRIFT | GREAT DESERT IN AUSTRALIA AZTECS’ FEAST OF THE DEAD Custom of Burning Up an Image of the Departed Is Still Common i Among Indians of California. The religion of the ancient Mexi- cans seems to have been character- ized throughout by a peculiar blood- | thirstiness, involving constant human sacrifice. The feast of the dead was | celebrated after this fashion : } “They took a faggot of ocotl, which | in Spain would be called pitch wood, and they dressed it up in blanket or dress. If the dead person had been a woman, they dressed the faggot in her petticoats and put it in front of Ccook- ing pots and other household utensils. If the dead person had been a chief and a valiant man, they dressed the faggot in a rich mantle and waist- cloth and labret and gave it a hand ful of pitch wood. The labret was made of a piece of amber or crystal. This, which they were accustomed to wear when they drank or danced in their native ceremonies, hung down from a hole pierced through the lip. | They seated the image on a sleeping mat and they put there much food and they invited the principal men ti®re. Then they put fire to the pitch wood and everything which they had put there burned up.” The custom of burning up an image, | together with offerings for the dead | was not only found among the Aztecs | but is also common among the Indians | of California today.—The Southern | Workman. MANY GREAT MEN DIED POOR | Burns’ Last Hours Were Tortured With | Thought of Paitry Debt He Could Not Pay. | —— | It was old Sam Johnson of diction: | it not?—who once | they | freely admitted the pebbles! Burns died with hardly a copper ir the house, his last hours tortured with the thought of a paltry debt he could not pay, while among the musi cal geniuses who have suffered most Severely at the hands of Dame For tune a conspicuous place must be ac corded to Mozart and Hayden, both of whom at one period of their lives were on the verge of starvation. Though in their early manhood Wel lington and Disraeli were both gravely handicapped by debt, neither of these great men ever suffered anything like the privations that President Lincolr and President Garfield did. Most mer can at least declare there were four walls around them when they were born into the world, but even this General Grant is known in history, of course, as the commander-in-chief of the Northern armies in the Civil ly widely known that, in spite of the great offices he so ably filled, he died | with hardly a copper in his posses | sion. Se —— One of War's Tragedies. The closing of Robert college is no war. Founded in 1863, it has for hal! a century steadily increased its influ: ence over the life and thought of the near East. Although situated in Con stantinople, it has drawn most of its students from neighboring countries— Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Armenia While its consistent policy has been tc leave politics strictly alone, not a little of the Liberal movement in the nea: East may be traced to its doors. It is asserted that Bulgaria won her inde pendence through men educated ai Robert college; and a number of the Greek and Serbian high officials owe tc it their early training. Even the Young Turk party, which brought about the revolution of some years ago and sc nearly succeeded in its enterprise oi liberalization, was largely inspired by men trained there. Whether its work is pow finally ended, hinges on the re sult of the war. igs Paper-Covered Novels. Paper-covered ‘novels have lost none of their attractiveness through the half-century since they were written. The choiee of titles is not their least alluring feature. Admirers of Ned Buntline, who did not like his title of “The White Cruiser” as being, toe col. of its more mysterious alternative designation, or, “The Fate of the Un- heard-Of.” Almost anybody would like to know the fate of the Unheard- of. Most of thie dime novels were pub- lished in square twelvemos, but this was an octavo, issued in New York in 1853. They filled a want, if not a long: felt one. Their resurrection conies at a time most opportune, for these nov- of the trenches” during the Civil war, if the term can properly be applied to writings which were not literature and when trench warfare, in the miod- CE Couldn’t Go. “You say you are not going to the family reunion?” “What would I wear?” “Wear the clothes you have on.” “Not to a family reunion. This hat I sneaked from Cousin Lucy, this and this coat, belongs to Sister Jane.” mnt Slight Mistake. He—You look at me as though you She—I beg your pardon. You can’t be such a fool, after all, He—What do you mean? She—Your remark shows that you Possess the ability to read one’s thoughts at a mere glance. EVERYTHING "ot cons ve | All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing this time last seascu. EE CT 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, Peaches, Prunes, Spices, Breakfast Foods, Extracts, Baking Powders, Soda, Cornstarch. The whole line or Washing Powders, i 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. YEAGER'S SHOE STORE SACRIFICE SALE —) OF (— FO Two Days Only AUGUST 3rd andi4th. 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 never misrepresent in any of my advertising and you can purchase | shoes at less than the cost to manu- facture today. Remember this sale is FOR TWO DAYS' ONLY AUGUST 3rd AND 4th For Cash Only SPIT PUAN ANANSI Bo PUR WN TT VN VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS YEAGER'S, The Shoe Store for the Poor Man. BELLEFONTE, PA. Bush Arcade Bldg. 58-27 Sentinels of the Home! There is a deal of talk on preparedness. ARE YOU PREPAREB? This wonld is full of vicissitudes. You may be in the best of health teday, with fine prospects in business. There may come a siege of illness. There may come a loss ef position. Be prepared, Start a bank account. Open Your Account With Us THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK, 66 BELLEFONTE wd
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