Bellefonte, Pa., August 10, 1917.
PORPOISE FISHERY IS OLD
One of Least-Known Industries
America Operated for 200 Years
From Cape Hatteras.
One of the oldest and least-known
industries in America is the porpoise
fishery, which has been operated from
Cape Hatteras, in North Carolina, for |
It should attain an
about 200 years.
unusual prosperity in the next few |
years, for the bureau of fisheries is
urging more general use of porpoise |
It is an
hides in place of cowhide.
excellent leather and could undoubt-
edly be used more widely, says the
Baltimore American.
Heretofore the most valuable prod-
uct of the fishery, has been the oil
which is extracted from the jaws of
the porpoise and is worth about $20 a
gallon. It
lubricating watches and other very
delicate mechanisms. The body biub-
ber is also valuable. Attempts to
manufacture fertilizer out of the car.
casses have failed because of the dis
tance from a fuel supply.
The porpoises are taken at Hat-
teras in seines operated from the
shore, and it is probably the only
place in America where this has ever
been successfully done. During the
fall, winter and spring many por
poises are seen off the South Atlantic
coast and at Hatteras they come with-
in a few hundred yards of the surf.
They are taken by spreading seines
about 200 yards outside the surf line.
As soon as the -.porpoises have come
inside the seine it is dragged ashore.
Often a whole school of these sea crea-
tures is taken in a single haul.
IS CURIOUS TRADE MONOPOLY
Making of Missionary Boxes in England
Has Been in Hands of Same Fam-
ily for Many Generations.
—
It is curious how certain trades and
occupations remain peculiar to certain
families. There is one occupation
employing a large number of men to-
day which is in tht hands of the same
family that has been associated with
it for many generations. It is the mak-
ing of missionary boxes, says London
Tit-Bits.
It might be supposed that any car-
peater could knock together a suitable
receptacle for contributions to mis-
sionary and other charitable funds;
but the fact remains that every mis-
siopary society, every church organ-
ization, that requires a collecting-box
=oes, as a matter of course, to this old-
established firm whose specialty it is
to make such boxes.
It is a thriving business, and one
which has profited rather than suffered
through the war, for the institution of
flag days and other means of collect-
ing funds has led to an enormous in-
crease in the demand for boxes.
Training Gunners for Sea.
When England trains her gunners
for the sea, she sends them to Whale
island in Portsmouth harbor. Here
the entire island is given over to steel
sheds, which are built like gun turrets
on a battleship. The great guns pro-
jecting from these sheds are dummies,
as Popular Science shows, though they
are exact counterparts of those on a
battleship. The prospective officers
and men are made to go through the
exercise of range finding, loading, aim-
ing and “firing” these guns as rigidly !
as if they were in a real battle at sea. |
The heavy steel projectiles are hauled
from the magazine by hydraulic and.
electric cranes just as in an actual
ship. A real breech mechanism locks !
the projectile and its powder charge in
the gun, while an intricate swivel
mounting of steel swings the gun into
firing position.
India Bearish on Siiver.
A London bullion house says the re-
eent fall in silver prices at Bombay |
throws a light upon the bearish atti-
tude of the Indian bazaars which has
obtained for some time past, and also
apon the way in which the Indian peo-
ple have been content with greatly re-
duced imports for industrial consump-
tion. It is more than probable that
many individuals whose silver jewel-
ry depreciated seriously when the In-
dian mints were closed to free coin- |
age have taken advantage of the high
prices compared with those ruling ‘for
the last twenty years or so and have
turned their silver bangles into silver
coin.
Urges Eating of More Fish.
In a bulletin dealing with the whole-
sale supply and price of staple foods
in New York issued by the health de-
partment housewives are advised to
substitute fish for meat, it being noted
that there is an abundance of fish on
the wholesale market and that it is
far cheaper than meat. The bull. in
says in part: “There is no reason
why households should be fed on ex-
pensive meats when fish is cheap and
just as nourishing and healthful.”
Restful Slumber.
“Good morning, judge,”
prisoner, cheerfully.
“You seem in a good humor for a
man who has spent the night in jail.”
“So I am, your honor. I had a good
night's rest and that always refreshes
me. You see, my wife i#2 a timorous
woman, and when I sleep at home I'm
compelled to investigate many strange
noises. No doubt there were burglars
all around me last night, but I didn’t
have to get out of bed and look for
them.”
said the
is universally used for :
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| TREASURE IN ROYAL VAULTS
Vast Accumulation of Jewels, Armor,
Furniture and Works of Art Stored
in British Palace.
Special precautions are taken at
Buckingham palace during renovations
for guarding the treasure vaults. These
are three in number, and their contents
are of great value, comprising the
vast accumulation of jewels, armor,
statuary, pictures, furniture, etc., which
have come into the possession of the
royal family through various channels
during the last two centuries, and for
which no accommodation can be found
| in the state apartments of the royal
| residences.
| Two of the vaults are of great size,
| the largest measuring 300 feet by 260
feet. These are used for the storage of
furniture, pictures, ete. The third vault,
much smaller and steel lined through-
| out, is the jewel room, the contents of
which may be termed priceless. Of
gold ornaments alone there are over
6,000, weighing considerably over a
ton in all, and many individual items
would fetch thousands of pounds in the
open market.
Most of these treasures came to
Queen Victoria as gifts from other
sovereigns. Every object in this vault
is catalogued, and the whole collection
is checked once a year under the su-
pervision of the keeper of the privy
purse.
WAR GREAT LEVELER OF MEN
Dancer and Athlete, Patrician and
Plebeian Are Equally Valiant
When Call to Arms Comes.
1 asked the president of an impor-
tant college what type of student has
responded most quickly to the war
drum, writes Girard in the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger.
“The surprising thing,” said he, “is
that there is no class in this response.
At our college the boy who is regarded
as the best dancer was among the very
first to volunteer. As many glee club
fellows as football men are going to
the front. Athletes are no more eager
to face the cannon than are our bright-
est students.”
War, like death, levels up and down.
Those aristocrats and high-bred gentle-
men, George Washington and Marquis
De Lafayette, starved quite as well at
Valley Forge as did the frontiersmen
from interior Pennsylvania.
Meade, the cultured patrician, stood
the gaff of battle as well as but no
better than did Sheridan, the plebeian.
Marshal Murat, son of a tavern-
keeper, became a king, and Marshal
Ney, son of a cooper, later grew into
a prince, and both were as valiant
upon many a bloody battlefield as
were the sons of emperors and czars.
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A Case for the Oculist.
The oldest inhabitant of Little
Cockleton possesses a telescope which
he never used.
“Why don’t you make use of it
sometimes, James?” a neighbor asked.
«It used to be a good 'n,” James said,
sorrowfully, “but it’s broke now.”
“Broken?” the neighbor asked.
“How's that?” ,
“Well,” James replied, “it was such
a good 'n that I could see the old
church steeple five miles away quite
plain, but Joseph, the scoundrel, got
the lend of it and tried to make out
the steeple of the Methody chapel,
more’n ten miles away. He tried and
tried, and couldn’t, so that he strained
my glass, and it's never been right
since. Drat Joseph.”—Buffalo News.
New Artificial Food Products.
The Germans now add ammonia to
the waste liquors of breweries or Su-
gar factories, and produce food pro-
© tein directly with the aid of yeast.
Reports also come on high authority
that in Germany artificially digested
wood fiber is being used in stock-
feeding. Wood is chemically closely
related to starch and sugars, and the
making of sugar out of cellulose has
bean done experimentally in the labor-
atory for a generation. It was only
a question of getting the process cheap
enough to be practical, and we who
would scoff at “bread from sawdust”
may be regarded by our children as
old fogies, akin to those who refused
to “believe in airplanes and wireless
telegraphy.—Physical Culture.
Artificial Sunshine.
Among the efforts being made by
England to get better crops, on account
| of the threatened food crisis, one of
the most interesting is an experiment
in growing cereals and other field crops
with the aid of “artificial sunshine,”
provided by overhead electric current.
This experiment, under the supervision
of V. H. Blackman, professor of plant
physiology and pathology at South
Kensington, is being carried .out at
Huntington court farm, near Hereford.
The purpose of the experiments is to
continue on a large scale work done
during the last few years near Dum-
fries, where in 1916 an increase of
about 50 per cent in grain and 85 per
cent®in straw was obtained ‘on a crop
of oats.
i merit
Terrible. -
“My dear, you mustn’t let anybody
read that letter from Cousin George at
the front. I'm surprised that he'd
write such things.”
“What's the matter with his let
ter? It’s mighty interesting.”
fessions of his disgraceful conduct
| are dreadful. I wouldn't for the world
have anyone know of his doings.”
“] don’t get you at all.”
“you don’t? Didn't you read that
part of his letter where he says he
was out with a British tank last night,
| and they rolled all over the place?”
“Some parts of it are, but his con-
———
A New Economic Problem for House-
wives.
The present crisis has brought to
the housewives of the United States
problems which the housewives of
England and France have already met.
Besides the question of food conser-
vation, another problem now faces
them, the new-old problem of domes-
tic service. Since the Russian Revo- |
lution, thousands of women who have
been among the best domestic serv-
ants in the United States have re-
turned to Russia. There the stronger
women are stepping into the place of |
the men in the factories and are thus |
releasing men for service at the front. |
In the Middle West, merchants,
manufacturers, and bankers are re-
fusing to take on new men between
20 and 30 years of age, and are as
rapidly as possible training women to
take their places. This draws from
the trained stenographers, bookkeop-
ers, and clerks, whose ranks in turn
are being filled by girls in the shops,
who are studying nights in order to
take their places. The places of the
shop girls and factory girls, now an-
swering the unprecedented call for
trained stenographers, bookkeepers,
telegraph operators, etc., are, in turn,
being filled by those serving in the
households. It is just here that the
housewives car be of great service to
their country. Most valiantly are
they coming to the front and proving
thmeselves equal to all the demands
put upon them. .
“To meet the general shifting of
women and girls from the homes into
industry, the women of the United
States will probably have to resort
to the methods adopted by the French
and English hosewives,” stated Mrs.
aymond Robins, industrial chairman
{or Illinois, of the Woman’s Commit-
tee of the Council for National De-
fense. “There have been varions
methods. Many housewives have al-
ready begun to anticipate the neces-
sity for releasing their servants to
take the places of men who are leav-
ing the factories for the army. Some
have solved it by releasing the cook,
after breakfast, for instance, until
the dinner hour, using the second
maid from morning till noon and dis-
pensing with a maid altogether dur-
ing the arternoon. This permits these
girls to do other work in the interim.
There is still another method, which
I thick is going to prove a blessing
to our allies, the French, and to our
own housewives. A considerable num-
ber of French women have come to
our shores. Already, in New York
and Chicago, these women are co-op-
crating. Arrangements are being
made whereby these women can go
out for the day; they are good cooks,
are handy at all kinds of needlework,
and are much better adapted to house-
work than they are to shop or office
work. Housewives are taking advan-
tage of this fact, and in considerable
numbers are availing themselves of
their help. Some groups of house-
wives have made this arrangement:
One woman goes out to cook the din-
ners; another to clear away; another
to sew, or prepare the vegetables, or
tidy up the house.
“This releases the American domes- |
tics to do the work of mechanics. .
Women have never until this war had
an opportunity to show what they are |
capabie of in this line. They have al-
ready, in England, proved themselves |
capable of becoming highly skilled |
mechanics. They are sure to do it!
here. It would have come eventually.
This war has only hastened it. At a;
recent convention in Kansas City, the |
school board of that city promised the |
committee from the Woman’s Inaus-
trial League to put courses in mechan-
ics into all the schools for girls. This
knowledge every housewife needs, not
only just now, but at all times. There
are innumerable ways in which such
knowledge will be invaluable to them.
“Another plan being tried out by
the housewives of the allied nations
and American housewives, which will
help to make it unnecessary for
women to be kept in the homes for
domestic service, is the co-operative
plan of housekeeping,—several fami-
lies uniting and employing one cook,
one cnambermaid, ete. The cook goes
first to the families which wish early
breakfast; then she goes on to the
next, which wishes breakfast later,
leaving another maid to follow and
clean up. This is done all through
the day, and is proving satisfactory.
Some, in Chicago, are doing this to
meet the need for help.
“Jt is one thing to release the girls
for work in the Government contracts,
but that does not end the housewives’
duty to them. We must vrofit by the
sad mistakes of England and France
and further protect those girls as they
are shifted from one big contract to
another. This is met in France and
England by the committee of house-
wives, appointed by the mayor of each
city to look after homes for the girls
coming to their city or town. Many
housewives have taken them into their
own homes, and, in some instances,
where work has only been half time,
supplemented it by giving them house-
work to do.
“This work of readjustment takes
time, but so splendidly are the house-
wives of America rising to these
changed conditions that this co-opera-
tion will soon overcome the serious
prablems lately created. Women in
many places are coming forward and
are doing their own housework where
practical, and in every way they are
trying to conserve. Women are learn-
ing more through thesc trials than in
any 25 previous years. These les-
sons arc going to be valuable to them
always, and, out of this situation, will
arise better homemakers, better busi-
ness vomen, and better citizens.”—
The Monitor.
No Longer a Fad.
Vegetarianism was at one time
looked upon as a fad of the worst and
most bigoted type, but the day has
come when it is accorded considera-
tion and has a greater number of fol-
lowers than even the most optimistic
adherent of the cause could have
dreamed 20 years ago. The fruitarian
movement has an extraordinary num-
ber of educated and cultured people
who have openly joined its ranks.
Every simple and natural dietist is
an enthusiast and anxious to bring
others into the field. There must, in-
deed, be something pleasing and at-
tractive about a mode of life which so
fascinates its devotees that their la-
bors to enlist others as followers are
unceasing.—London Telegraph.
Not Overly Modest.
Here is an advertisement from a
Berlin newspaper which does not err
on the side of modesty: “A young lady
of highly esteemed and noble family,
as beautiful as Helen, as thrifty as
Penelope, as economical as the Elec-
tress Marian of Brandenburg, as
sprightly as Madame de Stael, a singer
like Mlle. Breval, a dancer like La
Cerito, a pianist like Rosa Kastna, a
violinist like Mialnollo, a harpist like
La Bertrand, a sculptor like Princess
| Marie d’Orleans, as austere as Lu-
| crece, as charitable as St. Elizabeth
of Hungary, as devout as Nightingale,
having at command a large fortune,
lacking masculine acquaintance, seeks
a husband by the newspapers’ agency.”
She Knew Her Country.
In a kindergarten class flags were
shown, and in answer to a question
a little girl gave response that was ex-
pected of her:
“This is the flag of.my country.”
“And what is the name of your coun-
try?” was the next question.
“mis of thee,” was the prompt reply.
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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 25¢, 28¢, 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 s : .
Bellefonte, Pa.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
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Shoes. Shoes.
YEAGER SHOE OTORE!
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$1.98 $1.98 $1.98
Your choice of any
pair of Ladies’ $3
SHOES
For $1.98
These Pumps are of this
season’s goods, made in
many styles, Petent and
Gun Metal. A Rare
Bargain.
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The Shoe Store for the Poor Man.
Bush Arcade Bldg. 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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With a Check Book!
You'll be surprised at the system you'll inaugurate in your home if
you PAY ALL YOUR BILLS WITH CHECKS. You can tell HOW
MUCH IT COSTS TO A PENNY TO RUN YOUR HOME. It will
give your wife a sort of business education.
Start an Account Today In Your
Wife’s Name
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BELLEFONTE
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