Demorvaic: atc Bellefonte, Pa., September 21, 1917. Guard Against Frost Damage. Don’t watch the moon for signs of the first frost—watch the weather bu- reau. And when the warning comes, as it usually will from 21 to 48 hours in advance, look to the protection of the garden produce which is not yet under cover. There are a number of ways to forestall the surprise attacks of this Jack Frost person and repre- sentatives of the United States weath- er bureau, realizing that a good deal more produce will be subject to loss from frost this fall than ever before, have advised early preparedness on the part of farmers. First, the specialists suggest, pro- tectiye coverings should be made rea- dy. Vegetables can not scamper to cover, but the gardener can scamper covering to the vegetables and per- haps save a winter’s suprly in a short time, if he is prepared. Id blankets, tarpaulins, sacks, straw, manure, pa- per and various other materials may be used for covering. The conditions favorable for the formation of early frost in fall are usually of short dur- ation and consequently protective measures ordinarily will have to be employed only for a dav or two. Af- ter the first fall of frost there is gen- erally a return to normal tempera- tures for a number of days, possibly for .a week more, during which time immature vegetables that have been protected will continue to grow or rip- en. When frost is imminent and protec- tion is not possible or practicable, veg- etables likely to be injured should be gathered and canned, dried, pickled, preserved or stored. Those that can- not be saved from exposure to freez- ing should, if possible, be gathered before thawing takes place. In the case of potatoes, especialiy sweet po- tatoes, all vines should be cut off at the surface of the ground after the occurrence of frost. Tomatoes may be pulled up, plants | and all, and hung, tops dewnward, in | a dark place, preferably a cellar. | When treated in this way the fruit will ripen nicely and slowly and will | be available for table use for a long | time after the plants have been re- moved from the soil. Fruit that is very immature should be removed | from the vines and may be used for pickling or in other ways. If facili- ties for hanging the vines are lacking, | the tomatoes nearing full growth will ripen satisfactorily if -vrapped sepa- | rately in paper and stored in a dark place. | Many vegetables, such as cabbage | and turnips are not harmed by ordi- | nary frost and need no special protec- dion. In fact, such root vegetables as | carrots, parsnips and salsify are im- | proved bv freezing and are customai- | ily left in the ground natil needed.— |! Pittsburgh Dispatch. ETI | Watch Your Children, School Has 1 Begun. | | School days are here. For weeks our children have been scattered in! their respective homes and in many | _ cases living in the open air. Now the days are here when they begin to con- | gregate together at the school houses ! and often under bad sanitary condi- | tions. | __ This is the season that weighs heav- | ily upon the conscientious health offi- | cer. Experience has taught him infal- | libly that the congregating of the sick | and the well will again cause the an- | nual increase of children’s diseases. | Increased deaths will occur in spite of | all that can be done by the Health De- | partment in conjunction with our edu- | cators to safeguard the health of our! children. This work to increase safeguards over the health and lives of our school children is only in its infancy. Until it is full grown we must appeal to the parents and guardians of the children to help us. We all love our children and would sacrifice our lives to save theirs, yet we do not make sufficient study of how to care for them. The first thought in the morning should be the child. We should not content ourselves with greeting our sons and daughters with an impulsive and affectionate kiss and hug, and then rush to other dutizs that the day has brought with it. Instead, the first duty is to tarry with the child suffi- ciently long to determine whether or not it seems well. Without letting the child appreciate that there is a suspi- cion of its being sick, get to see the tongue, notice how it swallows, look for any spots or rash on the skin, for congested eyes, for a hot skin, for want of usual good cheer. If the child shows any indication of sickness it should not be permitted to associate with the other children in the house, and under no circumstances should it be permitted to go to school. Its life is first, education second. . While it does not do to be pessimis- tic, it is better to consider any sign of illness the possible forerunner of some one of the diseases that children are so susceptible to. For the child’s sake it should be kept away from other children, as has been suggested, and unless the condi- tion clears up in a very short time medical aid should be called in. A stitch in time saves nine. Such pre- cautions as mentioned may not only save your own child’s life but an epi- demic of measles, scarlet fever, diph- theria or other communicable diseas- es, not only in a school but maybe in a whole community. What is asked of: mothers and guardians of children is so little and means so many human lives that certainly the warning is worth taking.—Dr. Samuel G. Dixon. Wouldn’t Stand for It. The wounded Tommy writhed and Sn as the a og with iron ngertips, massage is injured leg. At last he burst out: ! z “What d’yer think yer a-doing of ? Ow!” “It’s all right,” said the masseuse. “I’m kneading your muscles.” Then Tommy gently but firmly pull- ed his leg away from the none too gentle grasp of his tormentor, and breathed: “So'm 1.” ROMANCE OF COAL. Bome of the Products This Complex Material Yields to Man. Coal seems to be rather an uninter- esting thing. Who would imagine that the great, ugly black lumps could afford any one a subject worthy of study? And yet this same coal has given civikzation many of its greatest possessions. The beautiful pink scarfs worn by women are colored with dyes that come from coal. The gas used to illuminate and to heat our homes is a product of the distillation of coal. Val- uable chemicals, such as benzine, naph- thalene and toluene, are coal products. The tar used in paving streets and prosecting roofs from rain is also a byproduct of the commercial treatment of coal, and finally aniline, the basis of aniline dyes and coloring materials, is one of the valuable chemicals contain- ed in coal. Coal is indeed one of the most com- plex materials to be found in all na- ture. To learn what it is we must go back to the dim, geological ages. The luxuriant vegetation of these past times, untrammeled by human feet and uncut by human hands, year after year grew, bloomed, faded and decayed, forming deep beds of rotted, woody fiber. Z By degrees certain gases, such as hydrogen and oxygen, were partly lost from the mass of vegetable material Pressure and heat converted this ma- terial into what we know as coal—St Louis Post-Dispatch. MOUNTAIN CLIMBING. Joys That Come In Reaching the Pea) and Getting Back to Camp. A great deal has been written by mountaineers about the joys of climb. ing, says Waiter Prichard Eaton in Harper's Magazine. The joys of climb. ing are often a good deal like those of heavy dumbbell exercises. In Glacier park you want to sing the joys of com- ing back to cam in the afternoon and loaflng on a bed of balsam boughs, with your tent flap open wide to the view of lupines and violets in the meadow and | distant snow capped peaks beyond. You want to sing the joys of fragrant food and steaming tea, of twilight slowly gathering as though so fair a day were | reluctant to depart. To ascend a peak, to see the tumbled world at its wildest, to sit again in camp tired and warmed with food, to hear with one ear the camp cook tell- ing bear stories, with the other the birdlike calls of the ground squirrels, to smell the resinous wood smoke and the balsams, to catch now and then the tinkle of little ice water brooks from the snowfields, to watch the sunset blush on Heaven’s peak and the stars i come slowly out above the battlements of the divide—well, that is, I fear, to spoil you for any other life. The little ice water brooks sing a siren song in the uplands starred with violets, and woe to him whose ears have heard! He can never be quite happy again east of the Great Divide. An Aged Gander. The birds that live to a great age are comparatively few. Gulls have been known to reach forty years, parrots frequently live eighty years and swans nearly as-long. Ravens and owls usu- ally die somewhat younger, but there is good reason to believe that eagles and falcons sometimes live more than a hundred years. Of barnyard fowls ducks and geese live longest. D, Mac- Lachlan of Islay, Scotland, writes to the Field that he has a gander that is now sixty-six years old. For forty-five years it belonged to the proprietor of a hotel at Bridgend, Scotland. Twenty- one years ago the father-in-law of the present owner bought it. Mr. Mac- Lachlan says that the gander looks as well and as young and seems as active as it ever did. There is no doubt about its age. Her Adopted Name. They were discussing the peculiari- ties of names, and Blobton suddenly said: “By the way, Cox, your wife's got a queer name, hasn't she—'Duty? Where did she get that name Duty?” “Oh, she adopted it,” replied Mr. Cox. “She claims that every married woman's middle name is Duty, because she is either being done or neglected.” —London Mail. . Explained. *] know a man who is very success- ful in business, and yet ali his custom- ers know his talk about his goods is chiefly hot air.” “How does he manage to fool them, then?” “He doesn’t. He deals in furnaces.” —Baltimore American. Sheer Idolatry. “Gadspur has a little white hen that lays an egg every day.” “I guess he’s proud of that bird.” “Proud is not the name for it. Why, man, he has had a phonographic record made of her cackle.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. The Cithern. The cithern, a musical instrument re- sembling the guitar, mentioned in I Maccabees iv, 54, employed by the Chaldeans, was probably introduced into Palestine by the Hebrews after their réturn from the Babylonian cap- tivity. Her Chance. He (just to make conversation)—Do Jou think opals are unlucky? She—I should prefer a diamond if it’s all the same to you,—Boston Transcript. Skeptieal. “What is a skeptic?” “A man who always puts paste on the back of a postage stamp.”’—Puck. The Making of the New Army. The difficulties confronted in con- verting this nation over night to the status of great military power are staggering in their complexity, says the Springfield Republican. Some are impossible of solution and require us simply to do the best we can under the circumstances, but others are be- ing solved daily. The comparatively simple problems of securing enlist- ments and starting the draft machine- ry in motion are known to everyone. The more serious problems of furnish- ing equipment, supplying our almost fatal lack of officers, and giving troops the proper training are less clearly appreciated. And when there is add- ed to these the difficulties to be over- come in the transport overseas of men and supplies in the face of a world- shipping shortage with the submarine menace by no means solved, the mag- hitude of the problem becomes appar- ent. The general staff in applying itself to these problems has had its troubles. For one thing it has felt cramped by the centralization of functions in the War Department. “Decentralize” has, therefore, become the cry. Other troubles have developed from the natural differences in opinion be- tween the older and the younger offi- cers. to the solution of these problems that the general staff is bending every en- ergy, and it appears that, despite mis- takes, progress on the whole has thus far been substantial. Selected Articles. (News dispatch in Boston (Mass.) Trans- cript.) Bibles for American soldiers and sailors, to be given by the Scripture Gift Mission of Philadelphia, will car- ry a foreword by President Wilson urging the troops to read diligently the Scriptures. The President has written this inscription: “The Bible is the word of life. I beg that you will read it and find this out for yourselves—read, not little snatches here and there, but long pas- sages that will really be the road to the heart of it. “You will find it full of real men and women not only, but also of things you have wondered about and been troubled about all your life, as men have been always: and the more you read the more it will become plain to you what things are worth while and what are not; what things make men_happy—loyalty, right dealings, speaking the truth, readiness to give , everything for what they think their Nor has Pershing’s recommen- ! dation in favor of general officers not over 45 years of age tended to calm the waters. There is also a question as to the | ultimate wisdom of the regulars, who | are in the saddle, in riding roughshod | over the National Guard officers, for whom they always held a rather slight professional regard. Their interpreta- tion of the coutry’s wish that they su- | pervise the expansion of the enforcement, it will mean the loss of the full abilities of many efficient offi- | cers who are in the National Guard. 1 land | forces is so rigid that, if allowed free | That the guard is resentful is but nat- ural, and this feeling may become ev- ident after the emergency. Even now there is discernible on the horizon a cloud no larger than a man’s hand duty, and, most of all, the wish that they may have the real approval of the Christ, who gave everything for them—and the things that are guar- anteed to make men unhappy—sel- fishness, cowardice, greed, and every- thing that is low and mean. “When you have read the Bible you will know that it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happi- ness, and your own duty. (Signed) WOODROW WILSON.” Here is a Rival for Santa Claus. A writer in the October American - Magazine says about a great circus : executive: that eventually may assume consider- | able size, to the chagrin of the regu- lar officers. well illustrated in the discussion over the reorganization of the army divis- the present system, which is the pro- duct of their own studies and labors, with the assertion that it had suffi- a majority of the younger officers fa- vored the change to the British and French system. A general officer per- haps unconsciously reflected the feel- ing of the older chiefs for the whole business when he recently termed the fighting on the west front “sewer war- fare.” Yet his concern over our “changing horses in mid-stream” was natural. That it has become necessa- ry is only one more illustration of the difficulties inherent in the situation. The delay in properly training our troops, through this reorganization alone, will probably add somewhat to the time before our troops enter the trenches. Furthermore, warfare has become almost an exact science, through the developments of the last three years in bombing operations, the control of barrage fire and the general employment of machine guns and au- tomatic rifles, both in direct and indi- rect fire. Troops cannot attain profi- ciency in the time they once prepared to fight Apache Indians or to pursue Villa. Experts differ as to the time neces- sary for this training. All agree that it will be much shorter in France, near the battle lines, than in this country. It does appear, however, that the esti- mate of four months as given by some officers is unsound. But training in France of any considerable force is complicated by the shipping situation, which may become more serious as the submarine campaign continues. It is “When Henry Gentry was fifteen, he had three dogs that he had taught to do tricks. Today he is the president end general manager of a three-ring 2 . ol i cireus. The difference in opinion between ! the older and younger officers has been ' 7 LSS , ed dogs at one time, cient elasticity to meet present needs; | “He gets what is said to be the larg- est salary paid to any circus execu- tive in this country. And, besides t | that, he has developed and sold at an ions to the continental standard. The older heads quite generally defended | immense profit the world’s greatest ‘dog and pony show,’ out of which he has made a fortune. He has owned as many as one hundred and fifty train- three hundred Shetland ponies, many elephants, cam- els, and all kinds of other animals. He has given away hundreds of dogs and ponies throughout the United States and Canada. He has run as many as . four shows all at one time, all dog and ' pony shows, which have given laugh- ter and delight to millions of children. And among the children of this coun- try he has gained a national reputa- tion as ‘Santa Claus’s only rival.’ ” Fencing a Continent. Since 1891 the State of South Aus- tralia has erected 29,148 miles of ver- min fences, enough to encircle the world and with the remnant build a double line of fence along the south- ern border of the United States. New South Wales has spent more than twenty-seven million dollars for rab- bit extermination and has within its borders ninety-eight thousand miles of fence. Of late years, says the Nation- al Geographic Magizine, the rabbit has been paying his board. He goes to swell the total of food exports from the Commonwealth. Along the coun- try roads rabbits may be seen hung on the fences awaiting the rabbit carts that convey them to the packing hous- es, to be prepared for shipment as frozen meat and hides. During 1913 Australia exported frozen rabbit and hare to the value of one million four hundred thousand dollars and skins to the value of three million dollars.— The Youth’s Companion. CASTORIA. CASTORIA. 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The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALways §9-20-e.0. Bears the Signature of @ In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY, * HAS NOT GONE UP IN PRICE EVERYTHING | 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 25c¢, 28¢, 30c, 35¢c 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. {EAGERY SHOE STORE “9 I HAVE A FULL LINE OF LADIES SHOES to sell at $3.00. Made of Gun Metal and Cabaretta leather (Cabaretta meaning sheep skin). The styles are lace and button, high and low heels. Many of them are on the English walking shoe style. These shoes are not of a quality that I can conscientiously recom- mend to wear, for honestly speak- ing $5.00 will not purchase a pair of Ladies Shoes made to-day, that is absolutely solid. I have these shoes for the people that do not have the money to purchase a good pair. Yours for a square deal, YEAGER'S, ~The Shoe Store for the Poor Man. Bush Arcade Bldg. 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. Y; I dl) \/ XOX pC Present Your Wife With a Check Book! You'll be surprised at the system you'llsinaugurate 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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