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PLAY EASEBALL IN FLANDERS
Canadians Take the Great American
Game Over Sea and Introduce It
in the Fighting Zone.
The baseball season has opened in
Flanders. The roar of cannon can be
‘heard above the crack of the bat and
ball, and spectators and players have
a lively time of it.
The great American game has been
taken over to Europe's fighting zone
by the Canadians.
Each major unit of the Dominion
forces has its team, and a series of
games has been scheduled. Prolonged
battles or great advances will, of
course, interfere with the schedule,
but nevertheless the games have been
arranged for and are eagerly antici-
pated. The baseball outfits including
uniforms, bats, balls, masks, gloves
and all the rest have been sent over
by patriotic Canadians. The news of
victories on the diamond behind the
lines travels quickly to the men in the
trenches, where many a cheer has
gone up, to the astonishment of the
Germans, who on frequent occasions
have taken this outburst of enthusiasm
to be the forerunner of an attack. Un-
doubtedly our boys in khaki will go
over to Europe well provided with
baseball kits, and there will be some
lively battles going on behind the lines
while the other more deadly contest is
fought at the front.
CITY GIRLS LEARN FARMING
After Period of Training They Are
Taking Places of Men Who Are
Needed in War Work.
There is a 200-acre farm in West-
chester county, New York, where 50
girls are learning to be farmers. As
soon as they have a knowledge of any
kind of work they hire out to the
neighboring farmers for 20 cents an
hour, to take the place of the men, who
are needed for other kind of work in
this busy war time.
An employment bureau to supply
women for this kind of work in New
York state is being established by the
standing committee on agriculture of
the mayor's committee of women on
national defense, and it has been
proved that there is not only a demand
but a supply of woman farm workers.
Some of the girls at the Westchester
camp are college girls and they all
wear blue shirts and overalls, except
the dieticians from Teachers’ college,
who wear white. They get their board
and rooms at the Westchester farm
while learning amd 50 cents a day.
Next year these girls will be compe-
tent to start other agricultural centers.
They begin with a few hours of work
each day and increase it until they can
work up to the hours of a man of nor-
mal strength.
Hurled Into Sunshine.
“I was in Petrograd during the first
appraisal of the new assets,” writes
Isaac F. Marcosson in Everybody’s.
“Like prisoners long immured in the
dark and suddenly hurled into the sm
shine, the people blinked in the strange
light of their unfamiliar emancipation.
The onetime bailiwick of the czars was
a study in scarlet—animate like an
American city during a national con-
vention. Its great thoroughfare—the
Nevski Prospekt—once the Street of
Sacrifice, was now the Highway of
Happiness. Never was there such glad
reunion. It was like the meeting of
lost tribes after. much wandering in
the wilderness. Exiles streamed in
from Siberia under the general am-
nesty; Jews came forth from their long
restraint, for creed lines were down;
delegations of troops flocked from the
front. Equality was the password that
loosed every tongue.”
Gunfire and Rainfall.
Investigations to determine whether
intense and prolonged gunfire really
influences rainfall, as is so often as-
serted, have beem proposed by the
Paris Academy of Sciences. Ioniza-
tion of the air is produced in various
ways by artillery discharges, and it is
regarded as theoretically probable that
this may lead to precipitation in air
charged with moisture. It is believed,
however, that the influence could apply
only to small falls. The effect of even
great battles must be merely local, and
heavy and prolonged rain can only be-
explained by the action of large atmos-
pheric currents.
Siberia Adopts Gregorian Calendar.
Viadivostok journals announce the
abolition of the “old-style” calendar;
all dates have been set forward to the
“new style.” The Japan Chronicle as-
sumes that “this reform will carry
with it an abolition of religious holi-
days hitherto enforced in Russia.” A
working year in old Russia consisted
of about 200 days; heavy fines were
imposed for working on réligious holi-
days. Those restrictions are now
gone forever.
Receive Equal Wages.
The fourth Irish Teachers’ congress
was held recently in Dublin and it is
Jnteresting te know that the woman
teachers of Ireland receive the samé
‘pay as the men for the same kind of
work. English woman teachers have
tried to obtain the same pay but Ire-
land was first in having the demand
for fair play backed by the entire or-
ganization.
——If you find it in the “Watek-
man” it’s true.
LETTER SENT TO WRONG MAN
One of Least Familiar of Gladstone
Stories Is Recalled by Death of
Irish Lord.
The death of Lord Clonbrock recalls
one of the best and perhaps one of
the least familiar of Gladstone stories,
says the New York Herald. The late
peer was a remarkably venerable per-
son and much more sympathetic to the
tenants’ cause than most Irish tories,
When the agrarian question was at its
fiercest, he made a pacific and moder-
ate speech in Ireland partly approving
Gladstone's land bill. Gladstone saw
the speech and, always eager to gain
a recruit, wrote a civil letter, begin-
ning “My Dear Lord,” expressing his
gratification at this unlooked-for sup-
port and begging his correspondent to
waive the ceremony of an introduction
and to dine with him in Downing
street to discuss some knotty point in
the bill.
He handed the letter, as was his
custom, to a private secretary to di-
rect and post. The private secretary
misdirected it to Lord Clon——, an ab-
sentee landlord and an Irish Tory of
the hottest type, who was sober only
at unprecedented intervals.
The peer came to dine in due course.
As soon as the women had left the
table the G. O. M. drew up his chair
and opened the subject in the most
earnest tones.
“] was glad te see that your lord-
ship took a more sympathetic view of
the subject than the bulk of your or-
der. You have unequaled knowledge
of the Irish tenant farmers. Would
you favor me with your opinion of
them and of the condition of Ireland
generally?” .
“Condition of Ireland?” stuttered the
wine-charged visitor, “— awful. Ten-
ant farmers? The dirtiest set of
rascals that ever cumbered God's
earth.”
Only one observation was open to
the discomfited host: “Let us join the
ladies.”
CENSUS TAKEN BY DENMARK
Little Kingdom Counts 2,920,000 inhab-
itants, an Increase of 163,000 Over
Figures of Five Years Ago.
Very few European countries have
been in a position to proceed, since
August 1, 1914, with their normal quin-
quennial census. Denmark is one ot
the exceptions. On February 1, 1916,
the little kingdom couated 2,920,000
inhabitants, i. e., an increase of 183,000
souls over the census of 1911.
The distribution ratio is 75 inhabit.
ants to the square kilometer. The
Copenhagen Frederiksberg county con-
tains 605,000 inhabitants, i. e., more
than one-fifth of the total population.
The 74 other cities number 604,000 peo-
ple. Rustic population, 1,711,000.
The three principal cities, besides
Copenhagen, are: Aarhus, 66,000;
Odense, 45,000, and Aalborg, 38,000.
The present war increased the import-
ance of the seaport town of Esbjerg
(19,000 inhabitants), which hardly ex-
isted 50 years ago.
The “Why” of the Swagger Stick.
These cute little “swagger sticks”
that officers in uniform are carrying oan
the street are the reverse of military
in their appearance, says the Boston
Transeript. Odd little affairs, some-
times not more than a foot and a half
long and more suggestive of effemi-
nacy than of masculine swagger. The
swagger stick, as nearly as its origin
can be traced, came from England,
where, in days of piping peace, the
soldier's very tight dress uniform
made it almost impossible for him to
dispose of his hands when walking
about off duty, and it apparently be-
came necessary for him to have some- |
thing to carry and twirl. In England
the private soldier carries a swagger
stick as well as the officer. They are
incongruous with khaki. But put a
tight, red tunic on a man and a gay
little pill-box on the side of his head,
and the stick becomes logical enough.
However, swagger sticks are not car-
ried in the trenches.
Learn to Rule the Spirit.
There are very few of us but have
reason to know that a well-ruled spirit
would have saved us a world of sor-
row. Dickens, that reader of the hu-
man heart, touches upon this point
with quaint simplicity when he makes
Mr. Meagles mildly suggest to his
daughter’s maid when her fits of pas-
sion came on, “Count ten, Tatty-
coram,” and when they were unusually
violent, he pleads: “All'T ask of you,
dear child, is to count twenty-fiye.”
If we would quench fires of passion. a
pause, a silence, may change the
whole course of events and save a life-
time of misery.—McClure’s Magazine.
Convicts Make Good in Road-Building.
‘The investigations of the national
commission on prisons and prison la-
bor into the reliability. of convicts at
work on roads and farms shows that
the vast majority of the same and
able-bodied men row confined in penal
institutions, if properly handled, can
be depended upon to perform the tasks
set for them without the slightest
fear of their escaping. In Colorado
prisoners in six large camps are con-
stantly employed inythe construction
of roads.
Purchasing in Season.
With fruits.and vegetables the price
is often determined by the season. A
vegetable ott of seagon is much more
expensive than one in season, but it is
no more nutritious. In order to pur-
¢hase to best advantages; the house-
wife should understand such things
and should also be familiar. with gen-
eral market conditions.—Exchange.
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“Trench Traps” of the Germans.
“What do you think made that
wound?” asked an officer who was
conducting me through one of the ad-
vanced hospitals on the Somme,
pointing to a badly swollen and lacer-
ated ankle of a soldier that was just
being dressed. The puffy and discol-
ored flesh might have come from a
severe sprain, but two or three black
punctures on either side indicated
that the injury was a more aggravat-
ed one. “If there was a tropical river
about,” I replied finally, “I should
hazard a guess that the man had step-
ped into the mouth of an alligator, or
had been nipped by one while swim-
ming. As I have never heard of alli- |
gators in the Somme, I fear I shall |
have to give it up. What did do it?”
“Trench trap,” was the laconic re-
ply; “or, to be more exact, a wolf
trap. Ever since the steady pressure
cf our advance began to tell—since
the Boche began to realize that he
would have to continue backing up
before our attacks—the Germans have
been leaving them behind in the |
trenches, or laid in inviting little run-
ways through the wire entanglements.
Not many of our men were caught
after the first day or two—we have
only had two or three cases here—
but several scores of traps have been |
discovered, along with a lot more of |
diabolically ingenious contrivances de- |
signed to hamper our advance or to
give us pause in the matter of occu-
pying abandoned dugouts. In fact, |
the dodging of the trench traps has |
added quite a new interest ard zest to
our latest attacks.”
Scientific “trench trappery” is in-
deed a new development of modern |
warfare, and, iike so many other |
things, it has taken the methodical
and thorough Teuton to bring out its
refinements, to make a fine art of it.
The wolf traps were only
the first of a series of many devilish
little devices left behind by the oust-
ed Germans to deliver a last blow at
the victorious “Tommy” or “Poilu,” a
sort of modernization of the famous
Parthian shot.
Obviously, “trench trapppery” par!
excellence is only practicable in the
face of a slowly and steadily advanc-'
ing movement; just such a one as that |
on the Somme has become, or as Ver-
dun was in its opening phases. Obvi-
ously, too—since the proverb that a
once-burned child is twice shy applies
with equal force to the French and
British soldier-—it must show a pro-
gressive development to stand any
chance of success, must be constantly
varied, constantly carried on in a new
way. That the general scheme has
been a flat failure is principally due
to the fact that the Germans have not
been able to vary their devices suffi-
ciently to baffle their wary quarry,
who, meeting guile with guile, have as
often as not trapped the would-be
trappers and “hoisted them with their
own petards.””—September Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
——California newspapers an-
nounce that a chemical compound has
been perfected, by a man in that
State, which will take the place, in
motors of all kinds, of gasoline. Ex-
periments] runs Lave been made, it is
said, in which tea cents’ worth of the
compound, dissolved in water, has
propelled a six-cylinder car, carrying
seven passengers, 100 miles over
country roads. The automobile own-
er who has been compelled to pay re-
cent prices for gasoline would proba-
bly have about the same sensation,
were he able to run his car at a cost
of one-tenth of a cent a mile for mo-
tive power, as a housewife were a gro-
cer to offer to sell flour at $2 a barrel.
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Experts Both.
“How do you feel,
killing a man?”
Colonel, after
“Oh, I don’t know, Doctor; how do
you feel ?”’—London Opinion.
War Has Killed 250,000 Horses.
“I have lately come into possession
of authentic informaiion on the waste
of horseflesh,” writes the editor of
Truth, “and it is calculated to excite
the greatest horror and indignation.”
Leaving out Mesopotamia and Af-
rica outside of Egypt, he writes that
more than 250,000 horses have died
during the war up to about the end of
May, and in addition 30,000 have been
sold owirg to old age and disease. He
continues:
“The most significant fact of all is
that 33,000 animals have died in
America while awaiting shipment,
while 6,000 have dicd at sea in the
course of transit. Here we have 39,-
000 animals purchased for military
purposes, not ane of which has heen
available for that purpose owing to
their previous disease. In this is pre-
sumatly to be found the explanation
of the greater part of the scandal—
namely, the culpable negligence, or
worse, with which the animals have
been bought.
“I am told that some which have
survived the Atlaniic voyage were
found to be over thirty years old.
Some are even said to have died upon
the gangway at the port of shipment
under the exertion of walking aboard.
It may almost be taken for granted
that the rate of mortality on this side
of the Atlantic has been aggravated
by neglect, ignorant horsemanship
and tc some extent downright ill- |!
treatment. On all of these points
men who have served at the front can
give evidence. I have myself heard
many lurid statements on the subject.
But the figures show that the root of
the whole scandal lies across the At-
lantic, where the wretched beasts are
bought.”
Upward of 1,000,000 horses and
mules, the writer says, have keen pur-
i chased by the British Government
i during the war, so that more than 25
per cent. of the -animals purchased
have died. With regard to deaths of
horse: or mules, due to “enemy ac-
tion,” he says that in one week, out
of more than five thousand deaths in
France, only 118 were due to gunshot
: wounds—a trifling percentage. About
42,000 of the animals have died in
England.
German Railroads in Bad Shape.
A well-informed neutral observer
writes that traveling on a German
passenger train nowadays is by no
means a pleasure. “The carriages vie
with each other in dirtiness and bad
repair. Everything indicates neglect.
This 1s not surprising, for the de-
mands made on the German railways
are enormous. Almost everywhere in
the territory occupied by the Central
Powers in the Balkans German loco-
i motives and other railway material
are exclusively employed. They have
to be content in the Fatherland with
old rolling stock which was already
set aside for less exacting work. The
coaches are pretty well played out,
and one 1s often surprised that a rick-
ety carriage does not suddenly fall to
pieces.”
Side by side with the defective and
inadequate rolling stock goes another
great difficulty due to the lack of
grease and train oil for lubricating
purposes. The substitutes which
must be employed are of very infer-
ior quality, and do no harm to the
rolling stock. The number of women
guards increases steadily. In very
many cases they are badly acquain-
ted with their duties and have no bet-
ter answer to give than “Es tut mir
leod, mein Herr; ich fahre die Strecke
selbst sum ersten Mal” (I'm sorry,
sir; it’s the first time I’ve done this
journey myself.) One sees women
employed on railways not only as
guards, as formerly, but as brakemen
and artisans.
——Put your ad. | in the “Watch-
man.”
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in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per-
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Allow no one to deceive you in this,
All Counterfeits, Imitations
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 Qil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups.
It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee.
For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use fer the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ;
allaying Feverishness arising
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
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Bears the Signature of
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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 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
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