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Bellefonte, Pa., August 17. 1017.
OFFICER'S VALUE TO ARMY
Ability to Lead Men With a Minimum
of Loss Is What Counts in Mod-
ern Business of War.
Three months of the hardest applica-
tion that any of these young men has
ever known, then, is the price they
pay to become officers, says Frederick
Palmer, writing in Collier’s Weekly of
the officers’ training camps. Those
who cannot stand up to it will not get
their commissions, and some of them
will be sore, no doubt. Their parents
and friends will register complaints.
That is only human. But the system
must be stronger than any individual.
The system realizes the enormous
responsibility of making an officer who
will be worthy to lead men in action
with , skill in the grim, mercilessly
scientific business of modern war
which means a minimum of loss to his
own men and a maximum to the ene-
my in any undertaking. The ledger of
that business reckons its profit and loss
in casualties. A poor employee in busi-
ness loses the firm’s money. A poor
officer lores lives unnecessarily for his
country. Every one of those rookie of-
ficers and every recruit of the selective
draft, when he grows weary of the
grind, may inspirit himself with this
‘thought:
“Proficiency in all these things that
are being taught to me means that
some soldier will owe his life to my
capable direction. It means that my
company will get the trench it storms
with small loss, instead of being
thrown out under the spray of machine
guns at great loss.”
WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
Punch, Faithfulness, Capacity and In.
clination for Work Said to Deter-
mine Worker's Salary.
In an interview with Darwin P.
Kingsley, a writer in the American
Magazine, reports:
« ‘Suppose you explain, Mr. Kings
ley, some of the differences between
the $1,000-a-year and the $5,000-a-year
man.’
«punch, faithfulness, capacity for
work and inclination for it, returned
the life insurance president, ‘make up
the yardstick which measures most
differences in salary. It's not at all
difficult to spot the youth who has the
makings of a winner.
“The $5,000-a-year man, to begin
with, is always on the job. He is too
busy to watch the clock. He is likely
to be quicker at his work than the
man at the next desk, and he is al-
ways looking for more things to do.
In a roomful of clerks, the man who is
always asking for heavier tasks
doesn’t have to ask for promotions.’ ”
The Ululation.
“Ah!” said the daughter of a hun-
dred New England somebodies. “How
I should love to visit the boundless
West !—it is boundless, isn’t it?—and
go to sleep listening to the coyotes
howl! You can hear the coyotes howl
in Kansas City, cawn’t you?”
“Not all the time,” responded the
young man from the mouth of the
Kaw. “You see, where my tent is lo-
eated there is often so much fuss be-
ing made by lynchers, cowboys, Indi-
ans and stage robbers about the time
I go to sleep that I cannot hear the
coyotes. But just before I left. 1
thought I heard one howling on top of
a steen-story building. But it was only
the millionaire owner of the edifice.
Solicitors for the Red Cross had
chased him to the roof, where he had
barricaded himself and was screaming
in agony for fear they would catch
him and compel him to come clean.”—
Kansas City Star.
To Grow Buckwheat in England.
Of all the different grains recom-
mended to save wheat just now, buck-
wheat and rye secm the only two that
ean be grown and ripened in this coun-
try, says the London Chronicle. Buck-
wheat owes its name to the resem-
blance of its seed to a beechnut, hence
its German name, Buchweizen, corrupt-
ed to buckwheat. Hitherto buckwheat
has been mostly grown here to feed
pheasants, but it is a most nutritious
and quite pleasant food for man. It
yields very abundantly, grows on poor
soil, and needs little manure. The only
trouble is it does not harvest well in
any but dry weather, and that is prob-
ably why hitherto it has not been more
grown here.
Wasn't Ready to Go.
Clinton had been anxiously looking
forward to his sixth birthday, when
he was to go to school “to learn to
read and write.” At the end of the
first session, when the children were
dismissed, Clinton kept his seat. |
“Clinton,” said the teacher,
time to go home now.”
“Oh, no!” answered the little -fel-
Jjow. “I haven't learned to read and
write, yet.”
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Instruments of Precision.
Accuracy is one of the most neces
sary qualifications of the present-day
‘business gizl—or so it would appear
from the following conversation over:
heard the other day in the park: “So 1
answered the”’phone, and he said, ‘Is
‘Mr. X. there? and I said, ‘Yes, do you
want to see him? and then what do
you think he said? He said, ‘My dear
girl, this is not a telescope; this is a
telephone.’ "—Manchester Guardian.
— If you find it in the “Watch-
man” it’s true.
MUCH METAL GONE TO WASTE
One Hundred Million Pounds of Cop- |
per Used in 35,000,000 Shells Or-
dered by Allies in United States.
Up to date the warring allies of Eu-
rope havé placed orders for 35,000,000
shells in the United States. This means
a lot of valuable metal going to waste,
for these orders require a total of 101,-
000,000 pounds of copper, 46,750,000
pounds of spelter and 173,250 pounds
of lead.
A British 18-pounder, or 3.3-inch
shrapnel, requires 5 pounds 9% ounces
of brass, containing 66 to 70 per cent
of copper, or nearly 3% pounds. A
small copper band around the shell
adds 43% ounces, making the total cop-
per 4.04 pounds. Spelter consumption
per shell of this size is about 1.87
pounds. Lead bullets weighing 7.92
pounds constitute the metal load of the
projectile.
One pound of copper is used in mak-
ing 24 Lebel rifle cartridges. Every
125 of these cartridges consume 1
pound of spelter and a small amount
of nickel. Steel consumption per shell
varies more widely with the different
types. A finished 3.3-inch shell contains
6 pounds 15% ounces of steel, the steel
shell weighing 6 pounds 5% ounces and
the diaphragm 9% ounces.
Just 33 complete chemical and me-
chanical operations have to be gone
through with great accuracy, precision
and carefulness, before white cotton,
mixed with sulphuric and nitrie acid,
becomes smokeless powder.
USE' LANCE BOMB AS CHASER
Britain’s Mosquito Fleet Armed With
Novel Weapons for Fighting in
Close Quarters.
The armament of Great Britain's
80-foot “chasers,” “ML’s” they are
called, is interesting. Each carries,
besides its deck gun, a “depth charge,”
six “lance bombs,” and a rifle for each
of its ten men.
The story of the lance bombs goes
like this: A British destrqyer was
once placed in the embarrassing posi-
tion of having a U-boat bob up right
alongside. It was impossible to de
press the guns sufficiently to strafe
the stranger, and there was nothing
else to strafe him with. What hap
pened to the destroyer 1 can’t say,
but it must have got away to tell the
story, for each boat is now provided
with lance bombs for just such emer-
gencies, says William Washburn Nut-
ting in Collier's Weekly.
The lance bomb is a 14-pound con-
tact bomb on the end of a six-foot han-
dle, the idea being to use it at close
range by hurling it much as an ath-
lete throws the hammer. These are
implements loaded with awful possi-
bilities in the hands of an amateur,
and the surest road to unpopularity
with one’s shipmates is to suggest a
lance bomb rehearsal.
Tapping a Submarine.
It's in the In and Out club, the
junior service club in London, where
tall yarns are spun by the fellows in
town on leave, and this one is the
. best, but with it goes no guaranty or
refund money. But before shooting
my piece let me state that, no matter
how wild the lie may sound, truth at
least in this war is stranger than fic:
tion, writes a London correspondent.
In a cove on the east coast of Ireland
Fritz submerges, thinking he could
escape his sole pursuer, an old-time
gunboat on patrol, with a busted wire:
less, and without any way to call for
help. By means of a grapnel the gun-
boat finally locates him lying still on
the shelving bottom. A diver is sent
down. He has a big hammer. He
knocks on the hull of the German sub,
and the taps of the hammer spell out,
in the Morse code: “Will you come
up or will you take a bomb?” Fritz
comes up. :
And Then He Kissed Her.
“Daughter,” said the mother, severe:
ly, “I wish to speak to you on a Very
serious subject.”
Daughter assumed her most child:
like expression and murmured: “Yes,
mamma.”
“I must tell you that I was passing
through the hall last night and I saw
that young Mr. Simpkins kiss you.”
“Yes, mamma.” 2
“Did you give him permission to kiss
you?”
“No, mamma.”
“Then how did he come to do it?”
“He asked me if it would offend me
if he kissed me.”
“Yes, yes. And what did you say?”
“T said how could I tell until I knew
how it would affect me.”—Cleveland
. Plain Dealer.
Birds Heaviest Eaters.
Birds are the heaviest eaters in the
animal kingdom. Assuming—which
is conservative—that an adult lark
consumes fifty grasshoppers a day
| and that five pairs of larks nest each
season on every good-sized farm where
they are not persecuted or too much
disturbed by the plowing and mowing
of all the suitable land, the number of
grasshoppers dispatched daily on such
a farm means a boon the enlightened
farmer must appreciate.
Russia Plans Waterways.
Russia may carry out a complete re-
organization on a huge scale of its in-
land waterways, if plans made previ-
ous to the recent political upheaval are
realized. The project includes im-
provement of existing waterways, con-
struction of new waterways and ports,
utilization of waterfalls for producing
electric power, improvement of navi-
gation, etc. The work, it is estimated,
will be finished in 1930 and cost $487,-
000,000.
SIGHTS OF CHINATOWN GONE
Romance of New York’s “District”
Vanishing as the Celestials Adopt
American Clothes and Manners.
Much of the romance that once at:
tached to New York’s Chinese district
is vanishing, says the New York Sun.
Pell, Mott and Doyers streets have beer
largely Americanized and the sight ol
pigtailed celestials in their silk blouses.
loose trousers and stubby felt footgear
is by no means as frequent as it once
was. .
Slumming parties still visit the dis-
trict occasionally and the sight seeing
busses still do a profitable business in
carrying out of town visitors there, but
the things that once were seen are tc
be seen no more. Chinese children gc
to American schools, Chines. mer
chants buy Liberty bonds, and Ameri
can dress is becoming the custom.
Perhaps no better evidence of the
decadence of Chinatown, so far as its
unusual side goes, could b~ found than
a recent Chinese wedding in which the
daughter of a prominent merchant be
%came the bride of a rising young Chi:
nese student. The ceremony was per:
formed by a Protestant clergyman; the
bride made her response in excellent
English, and so did the bridegroom.
Besides that she wore the conventional
occidental bridal costume and he the
conventional black of the American
husband-to-be. Even the attendants
were clad in American clothing, and the
only things Chinese in the whole affair
were the names and the nationality
LAST OF BRITISH FORESTS
Held as Sacred Reservations for Cen
turies They Are to Be Sawed
Into Lumber for War Uses.
A bit of news that has come through
from London concerning the arrival in
England of ten units of American
woodmen, who, it is said, are to turn
various forests of the United Kingdon
into lumber, is calculated to arouse &
mixed kind of surmise as to the icono
clastic doings that are in contempla
tion in war-crazed England. For cen
turies the British forests have been sa:
cred reservations; now, it seems, they
are to be sawed up into boards anc
beams. Is it a scheme to clear the
land for more wheat and potatoes? O1
does it mean a hurry call for a thou
sand ships of oak?
Along with the American woodmer
have gone the American sawmills
There will probably not be a remnani
of Epping or Waltham forests left
These forests, in the days of Robin
Hood, covered the whole of Esses
county, a region as big as the state of
Delaware.—Exchange.
Doing His Bit.
Outside of Springfield, Il, is 8
bridge, and guarding it were soldiers.
On the train was a porter whose name
was Bob, writes K. C. B. in the New
York American. When we crossed the
bridge, hurrying along at 60 miles an
hour, Bob opened a window and threw
out a bundle of magazines and news:
papers that he had gathered up on the
way from St. Louis. The soldiers knew
he was coming, and were watching and
caught the bundle. I was told that
every day when Bob goes by he does
the same thing. He has six stripes on
his arm. His kinky hair is turning
white. In the army he has two sons.
And I remembered that years ago,
away off in the islands, I would have
given an arm for a daily newspaper. 1
know that those soldier boys think that
Bob is doing his bit. He wore on his
coat a Red Cross button, and beneath
his skin, which is dark, his soul is
white. And I thought of Kipling when
he wrote, “You're a better man than I,
Dunga Din.” And if it happens that
Bob reads his I want him to know
that I am glad I could put it here, just
for him and his folks.
The Forecast of Youth.
A story of Millais, the painter, told
by Holman Hunt in one of his books,
says that the works of Millais had
heen collected in a gallery in London.
An ardent appreciator of his genius
went early in the day to see the ex-
hibition. Ascending the stairs, she
encountered the painter going out,
with head bowed down. As she ac-
costed him, and he looked up, she
saw tears in his eyes. “Ah,” he said,
“you see me unmanned. Well, I'm
not ashamed of averring that in look-
ing at my earliest pictures, I have
been overcome with chagrin that I so
far failed in my maturity to fulfill the
full forecast of my youth.”
Identifying Himself.
A Muncie manufacturer has his sec-
retary trained to leave the office after
a caller has spent ten minutes of the
manufacturer’s time, and call up the
business man on a telephone from the
factory and say the manufacturer is
wanted in the plant, according to the
indianapolis News.
The faithful secretary the other day
noticed that a caller was overstaying
his time with the boss, so slipping to
another telephone, called up the manu-
facturer’s office and said to the one
answering the phone: “Hasn't that
darned old bore gone yet?”
“Nope,” came back the reply, “I'm
the darned old bore.”
Mosquitoes Attack Army.
The malaria-bearing mosquito is a
reglly dangerous enemy in the Balk-
ans, says the National Geographic
Magazine. Last year the allied troops
did not realize what the Macedonian
mosquito can do, apparently. In con-
sequence fully one-half of their
strength was out of action because of
malaria. During one period more
men were invalided home than arrived
on ships.
RULED FROM “AMEN CORNER”
Politicians Dictated Actions of Gov:
ernors and State Conventions From
Nook in New York Hotel.
The best-known of all present gen:
eration “Amen Corners” was in the
Fifth Avenue hotel, in New York
What memories of the past can be con
jured up in recalling this unique cor:
ner—where sat Abraham Lincoln, Ed:
ward VII, then prince of Wales; Dor
Pedro of Brazil, William McKinley, U.
S. Grant, Roscoe Conkling, Chester A
Arthur, Generals Sherman and Sheri
dan, Tom Platt, James G. Blaine, De
pew, Watterson, and where nearby was
made the famous utterances, “Rum
Romanism and rebellion” that snatche¢
the presidency from Blaine in 1884.
To emphasize the significance of this
“Amen Corner,” Chauncey M. Depew.
in his speech the night “farewell” was
given to the old place in 1908, said:
“I know governors who throught they
did things from the executive chamber,
but they were done from the ‘Amer
Corner.” I know speakers who were
looked to for the makeup of their com
mittees, that consulted the ‘Amen Cor:
ner. I knew conventions where 90(
delegates thought they would make ug
the state ticket themselves, but re
EVERYTHING ™° ii"
IN PRICE
All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing
this time last seascun.
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 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
ceived their ‘inspiration’ from the pluskt
seats in the ‘Amen Corner.”
IMPRINT IN MUD GAVE IDEA
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Mental Suggestion Caused Him tc
Start Making Bogus Coins, Says
Los Angeles Counterfeiter.
Subtle hypnotic influences, working
subconsciously on the mind of a man
who was out of work and needed
money badly, caused John Kly of Los
Angeles, Cal, to become a counterfeit:
er. His weird story of how mental
suggestion caused him to make bogus
coins of small denominations failed,
however, to give him his freedom and
he was sentenced to five years 1r
prison.
Kly said the imprint of a half-dollar
in the mud brought the first criminal
thought. Next came a display of dent:
ists’ molds in a window. This was fol
lowed by a desire to test his ability.
With a silver plating outfit and a home:
made mold he finished several bad half:
dollars. His landlady demanded rent
He had no money and decided to give
her the bad coins, which she accepted,
and the coins fell into the hands of
the police.
For Moving of Heavy Objects.
A portable elevation of newly im:
proved type greatly facilitates the
handling of boxes, bales, machines and
other heavy objects in warehouses and
other places. The apparatus is mount:
ed on a truck for moving about, has a
platform supported by two uprights as
it is raised and lowered, and is pro-
vided with a base that can be rotated
like a turntable for unloading in any
desired direction. The platform is
raised by gears and a crank, which can
be operated by hand or by an electric
motor. The crank-handle cannot fly
back to hit the operator, as it must be
removed to open the break-jaws before
the platform can be lowered; another
safety device is a ratchet holding the
load at every point reached ; and throw-
ing a lever lifts the front of the ma-
chine from the swivel-wheel, locking
the elevator on the floor on four sup-
ports so widely separated that there is
no risk of upsetting. In sizes of 6 to
20 feet high, this form of elevator is
not only useful for raising and piling
loads up to 2,500 pounds, but is adapt-
ed for varied work, such as installing
and repairing ceiling motors, pulleys
and shafting. :
An Old Sport.
The duke of Grafton, oldest member
of the British house of lords, and old-
est peer of his rank in the kingdom, is
ninety-six years old. His grace is one
of ‘England's most remarkable “grand
old men,” retaining an extraordinary
interest in sport in spite of his years.
He was injured at ninety while skat-
ing, and at ninety-two became an en-
thusiastic devotee of motoring. He
has had a well-filled political and mili-
tary career. He was a member of the
famous Coldstream Guards and served
in Crimea, retiring in 1881 with the
rank of general. He has served as
equerry to the three British sovereigns,
being active equerry to Queen Victoria
from 1849 to 1882 and honorable
equerry since 1882 to the late King Ed-
ward and to King George.
London Hears Cannonading.
Inv&stigations by the Royal Meteor-
ological . society seem to have estab-
lished that the cannonade in France
has been repeatedly heard in London
and even at more distant points. Good
evidence even indicates that one ter-
rific bombardment was heard in Chil-
tern Hills, 200 miles distant. On the
other hand, the sound was unheard in
certain French zones only 20 miles
behind the lines. |
The explanation of the scientists is
that the sound waves travel over these |!
silence zones, but at greater distanCes
are Zeflected back toward the earth
by the hydrogen in the atmosphere 50
miles above the earth’s surface.
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French Music.
If democracy means something dif-
ferent to us here in the United States
from what it means to Englishmen, it
is because of our ancient friendship
with France and because through that
friendship we have learned to respond
to her ideals of liberty, equality and
fraternity as Englishten do not. So
it is to France that we owe, and are |!
likely in increasing measure in the
future to owe, progress in the appreci-
ation, in the performance, and in the |
creation of music.—Exchange.
Shoes. Shoes.
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YEAGER SHOE STORE
Shoes Shoes Shoes
$
1.98 $1.98 $1.98
Your choice of any
pair of Ladies’
$3 SHOES
For $1.98
These Pumps are of this
many styles, Patent and
Gun Metal. A Rare
Bargain.
SHOES SHOES SHOES
$1.98 $198 $1.98
YEAGER'S,
- The Shoe Store for the Poor Man.
Bush Arcade Bldg. 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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MUCH IT COSTS TO A PENNY TO RUN YOUR HOME. It will
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Wife’s Name
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