Bellefonte, Pa., August 31, 1917.
BIGGEST OF THE BIG GUNS
Giant Weapons of United States De-
fending Panama Canal Shoot Pro-
jectiles Weighing Over Ton.
It is not easy to understand what
the power of a gun really is—its pene-
trating and destructive power, ob-
serves Popular Science. What we call
a 15-inch gun—which means one
whose muzzle or hollow part is 15
inches in diameter—will hurl a shell
right through a plate or wall of the
hardest steel 12 inches thick seven
miles from the muzzle. The power of
the very largest land guns ever made
—the German howitzers or 16.5 guns
—is such that one of their missiles
cracks open a steel and concrete fort
as if it were a nut.
There are two classes of guns—
naval guns and army or land guns.
Because they can be manipulated more
easily than those of a ship, land guns
are the heavier. From eight to ten
miles is the greatest distance that a
gunner can cover successfully at sea.
The largest naval gun is the 15-inch
English gun on the famous super-
dreadnaught and the largest land gun
is the German howitzer. Of the two
the naval gun fires a shell weighing
over half a ton, while the other fires a
projectile a ton in weight. But the
new giant 16-inch guns of the United
States defending the Panama canal
and New York at Sandy Hook shoot
projectiles weighing 2,370 pounds,
which is over a ton. These immense
steel guns can sink a ship before it
has really come into sight on the hori-
zon, the location of the battleship hav-
ing been determined by airplane or
tower.
TAKING POISON OUT OF SALT
World's Supply Seems to Be Inexhaust-
ible But None of It Is Wholly
Pure Until Treated.
As far as the supply of salt goes
it is estimated that there is enough
available to last forever. Michigan
alone, it is said, claims to be able to
supply the whole world for 2,000 years
with all the salt it needs. But no
matter how plentiful salt may be, it
has the disadvantage of being a poi-
son, for no salt is wholly pure. Thus,
if the poison in salt can be eliminated
vast additional sources will be avail-
able.
Scientists have come to the front
and have tackled the problem suc-
cessfully. By adding a solution of
just the right amount of sulphate of
soda, the barium or poison in the salt
is changed to sulphate, and with it is
removed the pink or brewnish color
due to iron salts. Thus is made avail-
able an unlimited supply of salt, which
means more raw material for the
chemical industries, because the bari-
um-bearing salt is used for making ice.
Delilah and the Czar.
Nicholas was not the first, nor will
he be the last, to yield up judgment
and will into the hands of a queenly
and beautiful woman. The motive of
Samson and Delilah of the vale of
Sorek is a scarlet thread that runs
through all history. And Empress
Alexandra herself, a broken-hearted
woman from the beginning, was led to
the brink of the precipice by forces of
tremendous and universal strength;
her passionate and morbid love for her
invalid son, born after long waiting,
whose pains were alleviated, it would
seem, by Rasputin’s magnetic force,
just as the fatal malady of the czar’s
father, Alexander III, was lightened
by the similar but more benign power
of Father John of Kronstadt; her ob-
stinate and unconverted devotion for
the land of her birth; her passion for
autocratic power. Those are not vul-
gar or trivial motives; they have
swayed great souls through all his-
tory.—North American Review.
Miidly Censuring Him.
“My goodness!” she says, with a |
pretty scowl, “I think a girl would |
feel dreadfully foolish if she proposed
to a man.”
“I should think so, too,” replies the
diffident youth.
“Put, then, I suppose there are some
giris who ave just simply compelled to
do the proposing,” she sighs. :
After an hour’s eonsideration of that
remark he realizes what she really
means.— Woman's Werld.
His Scheme.
“How in the world do you manage
to keep your cook so long?”
“My husband has promised her that
if she is working for us when we strike
oil he will buy her an automobile.”
“But I didn’t knew you had any oil
prospects.”
“We haven't.”
Matter of Discipline.
“Why does Bliggins tell that same |
story over and over?’
“He has his family educated to
‘laugh at it. If he tries a new one, they
are not sure whether it’s an effort
to be funny or only natural foolish-
ness.”
Making Up.
Hubby—TI've made up my mind for a
nice comfy evening at home.
Witie—And I've made up my face
for an evening out. So come along.
——One of the most curious exhib-
its at the recent exposition at Knox-
‘ville, Tenn., was a building construct-
ed entirely of Tennessee-Kentucky do-
mestic black coal, put together with
‘to operate his
black cement.
THE MILITARY AVIATOR. |
Must Be a Soldier, a Mechanic and
Absolutely Fearless. i
It takes mine months to make a mili- |
tary aviator. The profession makes |
the severest possible demand upon the
resources of the individual. It requires |
a combination of physique, of courage, |
of nerve poise, to make the expert flier, |
while to do the work of an aviator in!
war involves technical skill that can
hardly be characterized as short of sci. |
entific.
The military flier must be a soldier, |
a mechanic and a daredevil. Besides |
sailing his craft and fighting his ene- |
mies, he must be mathematician enough |
to make his observations, artist enough |
to take photographs, telegrapher enough |
wireless. navigator !
enough to pick his way by means of
map and compass over unfamiliar land- |
scapes and resourceful enough to con- |
tend with fog, with cloud and with the |
thousand and one contingencies which |
the hazards of the air involve. Further- |
more, his most difficult technical du- |
ties must be performed while that ele- |
ment of the death constant with which |
he always rides is augmented by the |
nasty rattle of aerial machine guns
around and above him and the yap of |
bursting anti-aircraft shells which pur- |
sue him from below. No man with |
the effects of dissipation vitiating his |
blood and unsettling his nerves can be |
trusted with the issues of the air.— |
Peter Clark Macfarlane in Collier's |
Weekly.
LIVING IN JAPA.
Hard Work For the Middle Classes to
Make Both Ends Meet.
Dr. Takata, Japanese minister of ed-
ucation, has recently published a book
concerning economic conditions in Ja-
pan. The pinch comes harder upon the
middle classes than upon the lower
classes since the former must not only
live, but must keep up a respectable
appearance on salaries no greater than
those that men who work at trades
receive,
For example, according to Dr. Taka- |
ta, a primary school teacher earns |
$15.50 a month, but his lowest budget |
for a family of four reaches $17.33. |
His wife must do work at home to |
earn the deficit A magazine editor |
and writer who has a wife, two chil- |
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dren and a maid spends $32.75 monthly
on household sundries. His earnings
are irregular, but always below his ex-
penses. He has been compelled to bor-
row money from his wife's relatives,
and her trousseau is not unknown to |
the pawnshops.
The learned author states that two-
thirds of the Tokyo doctors earn no
more than $50 a month. Obviously the
professional classes of Japan are in the |
grip of conditions that are far from en |
viable. ! |
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Washington Monument.
The cornerstone of the Washington |
monument was laid on its fine site, |
which overlooks Washington, George- |
town, Arlington and Mount Vernon, by !
President Polk July 4, 1848. Its mar- |
ble shaft rises in all the dignity of un- |
adorned simplicity to the height of 555
feet. The base of the shaft is fifty-five |
feet square, and it gradually tapers
until at the 500 foot point it has dimin-
ished to less than thirty-five feet. This
monument is said to contain 18,000
blocks of marble, each two feet thick.
They were lifted on an elevator run by
steam, suspended in an inner frame-
work of iron, which was built up at in-
tervals, thirty or forty feet at a time, in
advance of the surrounding masonry.
The aluminum capstone, nine inches
high, was set in position Dec. 6, 1884,
thirty-six years and a half after the
cornerstone was laid.
Nature Teaches Inventors.
“We get our hints from nature,” the
inventor said. “Take, for instance, the
hollow pillar, which is stronger than
the solid one. The wheat straw show-
ed us the superior strength of the hol
low pillar. Solid, the wheat straw
would be unable to support its head of
grain. Where did man get his idea for
carriage springs? From the hoofs of
the horse, which, like the springs de-
rived from them, are made from paral.
lel plates. Scissors we get from the
jaws of the tortoise, which are natural
scissors; chisels from the squirrel, who
carries them in his mouth; adzes from
the hippopotamus, whose ivories are
adzes of the best design: the plane
from from the bee’s jaws; the tripham-
mer from the woodpecker.”
Homespun Philosophy.
Don’t wear out shoe leather seekin’
trouble, for it’s all time huntin’ you
and wondering why you live so far.
The fields will answer the world’s
prayer for its daily bread if it’s in ear-
nest with the handlin’ of the hoe.
Some folks ask neither poverty nor
riches, but only middlin’ ground and
somebody to till it for ’em.—Atlanta
Constitution.
Minimum of Waste.
“No waste, now, ma; no waste. We
all gotta help.”
“You attend to your own business,”
snapped ma with some acerbity. “The
only things I throw away are tea
leaves and eggshells.”—Kansas City
Journal.
Meager Achievement.
“Methuselah was the oldest man.”
“Yes,” “replied Mr. Groucher. “But
so far as I've been able to find out¥hg
was one of those men who devote t
time strictly to growing old and neyer
attempt anything else.”—Washington
Star.
Quick to Hear.
Witey—That Mrs. Brown must be an
awful gossip. I never can tell her any-
thing but what she’s heard it befiore.—
London Answers.
OUR NATIONAL FORESTS. | MINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
They Are 153 In Number and Are Scat-
tered Over Nineteen States.
Under authority of an act of congress
passed in 1891 the president of the
United States is empowered to set
apart public lands bearing forests a=
publi: reservations. The primary pur-
poses of the national forests are to in-
sure continuous production of timber
and favorable conditions as to flow of
water. As means to these ends strict
supervision is maintained over the sale
of mature timber, and the forest areas
are guarded against fire.
These areas are much used by camp-
ers, hunters and fishermen. “Recrea-
tion maps” are issued, which not only
present maps of many of the nhatiena!
forests, showing towns, streams, road:
and trails, but contain information per-
taining to camp sites, fish and zame.
and campers’ registers are kept at the
headquarters of the forest supervisors.
The national forests, 153 in number.
are scattered over nineteen states.
Alaska and Porto Rico. All bet two
of these states, Florida and Michigan,
lie west of the Mississippi. The total
area of national forest land, excludin zy
that of other lands within national for-
est boundaries, is 244,189 square miles.
This area is nearly as great as that of
the state of Texas, or of New England
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey.
Delaware, Maryland, District of Co-
lumbia, Virginia and West Virgiuia
combined, or of Ohio, Indiana, Illinais
Michigan and Wisconsin combined.
EAT ORANGES AT NIGHT.
Then You Will Sleep Soundly and Riss
Happy In the Morning.
If you are troubled with sleeples:.
ness or if you are restless at nights, eu!
oranges befcre retiring. Oranges a)
the best sedative in the world. A mai
on the orange diet will never get rheu-
matism, and he will have no appetite
for alcoholic liquors. Both apples aad
oranges cure the liquor habit.
Oranges, caten before retiring, wii
make you sleep so soundly that you
arise in the morning invigorated ana
refreshed, with the notion that yon
have been drugged with some potion
that makes life all the happier and joy:
ous. The acid of the orange will heip
purge you in case you need purging.
and the sugar of the orange will sweet-
en your breath and your whole body.
The coolness of the juice will reduce
i the fevers of your digestive tract, ana
you will be 1,000 per cent better off for
the orange diet.
Orange buds and orange leaves steep-
| ed in hot water and made into a tea
are also splendid sedatives. ;
The orange was originally a berry in
Asia. It was brought into Europe bj
Alexander the Great, and it has beei
greatly improved since Alexanders
time, especially by the horticulturists
of California.
The oranges are not growing here fo:
nothing. They thrive here because na-
ture intends them to be used by you as
a food.—Los Angeles Times.
When Brodie Bluffed Mitchell.
Once when in England Steve Brodie.
the famous bridge jumper, was in a
party which included Charlie Mitchell.
the prizefighter. Mitchell made some
remarks derogatory to John L. Sullivan,
to which Brodie rejoined with scme
sarcastic observations on the sprinting
ability Mitchell displayed while in the
ring with Sullivan. This angered the
prizefighter, who knocked Brodie flat.
As he scrambled to his feet Mitchell
made another rush at him, but by then
Brodie had a pistol in his hand and,
thrusting it under his assailant’s nose,
remarked: “You think you're goin’ te
make a reputation off lickin’ Steve Bro-
die, don’t you? Well, you just hit me
once and there’ll be a lot in the papers
about it, but you won't read it.” That
closed the incident.
Watches, Thick and Thin.
Although some of the early watches
were very small in circumference, they
were thick, and the front and back
fairly bulged so that they were more
the shape of an apple than a cookie.
which they really resemble today. The
waferlike watch is an invention of
very recent times, and the process of
thinning it is even now going on. The
obvious advantage of the thin watch
is that it can be placed in the belt or
pocket without making a bulge. If
watches had always been worn round
the necks they’ might still be spherical
rather than disklike in shape. — Ex-
change.
Climbing the Ladder.
The prudent, penniless beginner in
the world labors for wages awhile,
saves a surplus with which to buy
tools or land for himself, then labors
on his own account amether while
and at length hires another beginner
to help him. This is the just and gen-
erous and prosperous system which
opens the way to all, gives hope to all
and consequent energy and progress
and improvement of condition to all—
Lincoln.
Men Classified.
Patriot—One who goes with his wife
to buy a hat and enjoys himself,
Martyr—One that goes with her, but
falls asleep in the store.
Coward—The sneaky character that
always remembers he has an engage-
ment.—Penn Froth,
She Wasn't Old.
“There’s no use setting your cap for
Mr. Gotrox, dear. He's an old woman
hater.”
“Yes, but I'm a young woman.”—Bos-
ton Transcript.
Some Hope.
“Does the doctor give you any hope?"
“Yes, indeed. He told us yesterday
net to worry about the size of his bill."
«-Detroit Free Press.
Seville Has a Treasure House Packed
With Authentic Facts.
In the historic Spanish city of Se-
ville, near the famous cathedral and
occupying a frontage of about 200 feet,
stands a building that is of paramount
interest to the people of practically all
the American republics. Because of
the contents of this building Seville is
becoming the Mecca of American his-
torians.
The structure is a veritable treasure
house of authentic facts concerning
the colonial period of ali the Spanish
speaking countries of the new world
as well as a mine of information rela-
tive to the early history of a very
large part of the United States.
The house is known
Lonja, and the treasures it contains
consist of the general archives of the
| Indies, that wonderful collection of un-
published, unedited and for the most
docu- |
ments, reports, letters, etc., which prac- |
part even unindexed original
tically embrace the administration of
the colonies under the dominion of
Spain in all the Americas.
The mother country
the sea, and thes»
of letters of officials—private and con-
fidential as well as of a public charac-
ter—form an almest inexhaustible mine
of historical facts.—Ixchange.
INSTINCT OF THE SPIDERS.
They All Knew How to Land When
Cast Adrift Upon the Waters.
1 took a large spider from his web
under the basement of a mill, put him
on a chip and set him afloat ¢n the
quiet waters of the pond. He walked
all about the sides of his bark, survey-
ing the situaticn very carefully, and
when the fact that he was really afloat
and about a yard from shore seemed
to be fully comprehended he looked
out for the nearest land.
This point fairly settled upon, he
immediately began to cast a web for
it. He threw it as far as possible in
the air and with the wind. It soon
reached the shore and made fast to the
spires of grass. Then he turned him-
self about and in true sailor fashion
began to haul in hand over hand on
his cable. Carefully he drew upon it
until his bark began to move toward
the shore. As it moved the faster he
the faster drew upon it to keep his
hawser taut and from touching the
water. Very soon he reached the shore,
and, quickly leaping to terra firma, he
sped his way homeward.
Thinking that he might be a special’
expert and an exception in that line
of boatmanship to the rest of his com-
panions, I tried several of them. They
all came to shore in like manner.—Vir-
ginia Pilot.
Radium Cures Cancer.
Practically all experimenters have
demonstrated one basic fact—that ra-
dium does destroy cancer cells without |
producing any disintegrating effect
upon normal tissue. The radium mole-
. cule is the only agent known to man
which succeeds in doing this. Of that
supremely important fact there is no
longer the slightest room for doubt—
that is to say, if the radium rays could
be brought to bear upon every cancer
cell this scourge would vanish from the
world. The reasons that its use does
not always succeed are many and too
intricate for description in this place.
But the records of so many positive
cures are now available, cures of can-
cers usually regarded as hopeless and
inoperable, that we must finally con-
clude that medical science has obtained
a powerful weapon in its struggle: with
this disease.—World’s Work,
The Rocker Rebelled.
In the early days of missions in Per-
sia the people were naturally suspi-
cious of the missionaries and were con-
stantly on the lookout for something in
their houses which would exert a bale-
ful influence upon native visitors. A
Persian lady, calling one day on an
American missionary lady, wished to
sit in a rocking chair, whieh was some-
thing she had never seen before. She
got up into it with her feet and at-
tempted to squat upon her heels, as
she would have done upon the floor,
with the result that she and the chair
both took a tumble backward. Hence
there went abroad a report that the
missionaries kept in their houses a ma-
chine for converting people to Chris-
tianity.—Los Angeles Times.
Won’t Need a Gun.
Mrs. Irons—So you aren’t afraid of
burglars? No doubt your husband has
a revolver?
Mrs. Lyons—Yes, but I'm so afraid
of firearms that I have hidden it.
Mrs. Irons—Then what protection
would you have in case of a robbery?
Mrs. Lyons—My dear, the way that
man will roar at me when he can’t
find that gun will scare any burglar
out of his wits.—London Answers.
Human Faces.
Dreadful limits are set in nature to
the powers of dissimulation. Truth
tyrannizes over the unwilling members
of the body. Faces never lie, it is said.
No man need be deceived who will
study the changes of expression.—Em-
erson.
Her Threat.
Excited Man (to druggist)—If my
wife tries to buy carboli¢ acid here
don’t sell it to her; she has threatened
to disinfect my meerschaum pipe with
it.—Boston Globe.
its Class.
“Mac's stery sounded ridiculously im-
probable, didn’t #2”
“Worse than that; it sounded like a
movie plot.”—Life.
as the Casa
kept in very |
close touch with her children across
detailed reports, |
contracts, cedulas and legal documents |
of every kind, as well as thousands
| EVERYTHING "* fone vr |
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.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Shoes. Shoes.
(EAGERS SHOE TORE
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
season’s goods, made in
many styles, Patent and
Gun Metal. A Rare
Bargain.
SHOES SHOES SHOES
$198 $198 $1.98
YEAGER'S,
The Shoe Store for the Poor Man.
Bush Arcade Bldg. BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-27
Present Your Wife
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
THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
BELLEFONTE
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