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Bellefonte, Pa., October 12, 1917.
NEW GOLD FIELDS IN RUSSIA
Rich Platinum Deposits Have Recent-
ly Been Found on Tributaries
of the River Lena.
As in everything else, the old regime
of Russia had its strangle hold on the
gold industry. Siberia and the Ural
could be considered the classical parts
of the world where deposits of precious
minerals abound and under a free and
progressive government they could
easily lead all the other parts of the
world. The Russian press is full of
news items chronicling new discoveries
‘of gold and platinum deposits, as well
as other rare metals.
So from Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia,
came the news that in the northern
and southern Enisey mountain districts
the gold seekers have lately washed
gold to the amount of about 8,280
pounds. From the Lena, well known
as a gold-bearing river, comes the
word that new rich gold and platinum
deposits were discovered on her tribu-
taries, Wily and Markha.
With the laying of the tracks of the
Amur railroad there is almost a con-
tinuous procession of discoveries of
new deposits of precious metals, espe-
cially on the rivers Burea and Khara;
all the deposits are not far from the
‘new-laid tracks and offer all the op-
portunities for a successful develop-
ment of the newly discovered deposits.
—Russian-American Journal of Com-
merce.
WHAT FAMILY SHOULD EARN
Figures Given by Auditor Will Prove
Interesting to Average Head of
a Household.
In a story printed in July American
Magazine, an auditor says to a friend:
«¢You admit that you, as a busi-
ness, with your $1.60 cash, and your
coal and your furniture, and your wife,
and your children, are worth $259,000,
and then you say $2.080 is enough in-
come to expect from the lot! About
eight-tenths of 1 per cent per annum!
And they ought to bring you 4 per
cent at least—$10,000.
“Dix opened and closed the blue-
covered document.
“ ‘You mean—you mean I ought to be
earning $10,000 a year? he faltered.
“¢you and your family are one con-
cern—one business” said Markley.
‘You are the business manager. Your
assets are $250,000. If assets can't
earn 4 per cent they are not worth
having. It looks to me as if you had
said to yourself: “I and my family
are a one-horse concern; the family
is no good, and I'm not much better.
Tm the only decent asset and I'm
cheap and my family is cheaper. I'm
getting $2,080 a year, and I ought to
be glad I'm getting it—I doubt if I'm
worth it.”’”
Speaking of Flags.
A young man walked into the office
of J. H. Houk, clerk of the Bartholo-
mew circuit court and also clerk of
the Bartholomew county exemption
board. He asked whether he had been
drawn in the draft and was shown that
he would be among the first called up
for examination. Then he called for
a blank on which to file a claim for
exemption. He said he would claim
exemption because he is married. He
has no children, but he believes his
first duty is to support his wife. On
each side of the front of the young
man’s collar big American flags were
pasted.
“The next time a man comes in here
with flags on his collar and says he is
going to claim exemption,” declared
Clerk Houk, “I am going to refuse to
give him a blank until he hauls down
his flags.”—Indianapolis News.
Bomb Spares War Motto.
One of the buildings wrecked in a
recent enemy airplane raid on London
was a branch office of a religious
printing organization, which had its
show window filled with illuminated
mottos sold for wall decoration.
The shop and its window was com-
pletely wrecked, but one motto,
pinned to a pillar which remained
standing, stood out in striking promi-
nence. It bore this verse from Mat-
thew:
“And ye shall hear of wars and ru- |
mors of wars; see that ye be not
troubled, for all these things must
come to pass, but the end is not yet.”
Developing Human Powers.
Great persons are such an asset to
the world that it is strange the world |
has not deliberately tried to cultivate |
them, as it cultivates flowers and
fruits, producing new and surprising
varieties. Perhaps after this war,
which we all hope is going to bring |
such marvels in the way of compensa- |
tion, it will bestir itself in this regard. |
Making the world safe for democracy |
may lead to the developing of the lat- |
ent powers in humanity that offer the
material for the highest kind of aris-
tocracy and that make sure the con-
tinuity of progress.—Exchange.
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Hadn't Seen It All.
“I'm so dissatisfied with my shabby |
little home after seeing hers.”
“Yes, but you saw only her house
and furniture. You didn’t see the rest
of the family.”—Life.
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More Atrocity. |
He—I see they are cutting down the |
supply of gas in Germany.
She—Isn’t it just awful? I suppose |
they want to use more of it against the |
allies’ soldiers in the trenches.
VIRTUES OF FLANDERS MUD
Many Men Have Saved Their Lives
by Flopping Into It When Big
Shells Come Their Way.
Mud in Flanders is awful stuff, but
it has its uses. Who that has tramped
the three miles or so from the walls of
ruined Ypres to the line that stretches
from Hooge, in#front of Zillebeke, to
Hill Sixty and beyond, has not blessed
the mud? All across the muddy fields,
slipping, sliding and plowing along, we
used to follow no pathway, avoiding
when possible fields where enemy
shells were falling. Then came, soon-
er or later, the inevitable droning,
rushing sound, to grow into a shriek
as a big Boche shell came over, writes
Frederic Coleman in the Saturday Eve-
ning Post.
One was thankful for the mud, then,
for the advice I will give to a man
under such circumstances, unless his
job is such that delay must be avoided,
is to go down flop! quick! into the
mud. The quicker and the more flop
and the more mud the better. That is
my way of looking at it. Once you are
down all your worries are over. Let
her come! If the shell lands on you
there will not be enough of you left
to do any worrying with. If it does
not land on you the odds are over-
whelmingly in favor of your escape
from all injury.
Many a lad has lain flat in the mud
when a big “Black Maria” landed near
and dug a hole into which you could
put a couple of taxicabs, and never
been a bit the worse for it. Yes, the
mud has its uses.
MISTAKEN FOR GRAND DUKE
“God Forbid, | Am an Honest Man!”
Replied Russian Army Leader, in
Reply to Salutation.
An amusing story is going the rounds
in Petrograd just now concerning Gen-
eral Brusiloff, who can be very direct
and brusque in his manner when he
chooses.
The army leader happened to be in
the capital on business—this was be-
fore the revolution—and was mistaken
by an officer passing for a certain
grand duke of notoriously pro-German
sympathy.
Coming smartly to the salute, the
officer, who probably, judging from his
manner, had some petition for pre-
ferment to present, led off with the re-
mark:
“Pardon me, sire, but I believe I am
addressing the Grand Duke So-and-
so?”
“God forbid!” replied General Brus-
iloff, “I am an honest man.”
And saluting gravely in his turn he
passed on.
Politely Searched.
A well-dressed man leaving a Wash-
ington theater recently, absorbed in
reflection on the performance he had
just witnessed, noticed a crowd of
theatergoers lingering at the entrance.
The W. D. M. did not flatter himself
that he was the center of attraction,
although he had been somewhat
prominent in his home town, and,
glancing backward, saw a party leav-
ing the theater, of which the president
was the center. This was the cause
of all the commotion. At this junc-
ture the W. D. M. lost his equilibrium,
stumbled and fell in a heap in the
president’s path. An alert corps of
ever-present secret-service men, in-
stantly on the job, lifted the prostrate
W. D. M. to his feet and courteously
brushed him off, handing him his hat,
cane and glasses. The W. D. M. later
confessed to friends that he had a
faint suspicion that in the brushing
process he had been systematically
and incidentally ‘frisked” for con-
cealed weapons.—Indianapolis News.
How Deaf Mutes Feel Music.
According to teachers of deaf mutes,
musical instruction is more important
as an educational factor for the deaf
child than it is for the hearing, says
the Popular Science Monthly.
The parts most sensitive to vibra-
tions are the chest, head, lungs and
feet. “An exciting feeling comes up
through the floor,” is the way one deaf
boy describes it. “Without music I
would be lonesome,” wrote a little
Italian deaf mute. “It gives me a
strong shock through the feet to the
head,” stated another. Others, wlren
asked to explain their sensations, said :
“J feel it in my temple and in my legs.”
“I feel it through my whole body,” and
«I feel it in my chest and lungs.”
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He Picked Up a Living.
Sir John Kirk, who recently cele-
brated his fiftieth anniversary of work
in connection with the Ragged School
union, tells an amusing anecdote of
how he once questioned a London waif
whom he had befriended as to his
method of earning a living.
The young fellow’s reply was typical
of the London street arab.
“Well, guv’nor,” he said, “it’s like
this. I picks strawberries in the sum-
mer, I picks ’ops in the autumn. In
the winter I picks pockets, and, as a
rule, I'm pickin’ oakum for the rest of
the year.”
Korean Gods Under German Influence.
. Koreans are great rumor mongers.
Some stories they spread are fantas-
tically absurd. One recently prevail-
ing among the country people, because
no rain fell for many days, was to the
effect that the long drought was due
to German influence with the gods, in
revenge for the part Japan has taken
in the war, says East and West News.
Predictions of famige were current
among the Korean farmers and recent
heavy rainfall has not altogether re-
moved the anxiety felt among that class
| of people on the peninsula.
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HOOVER'S LATEST PLEA TO FARMERS:
“HOGS, MORE HOGS AND STILL MORE HOGS”
Deficiency in Fats How More Serious War Factor Than
Bread Grain Situation—Tells Public Safety Men
Pennsylvania Has the Best Organization
Country.
To the assembled representatives of
the county organizations of the Com-
mittee of Public Safety for the Com-
moenwealth of Pennsylvania, in session
at Philadelphia, Herbert C. Hoover,
Federal Food Administrator, gave his
latest and most important message to
the people and more particularly the
farmers of the United States.
“Hogs, more hogs, and still more
hogs,” is the slogan of his new ap-
peal.
Mr. Hoover's address came in the
midst of a food supply conference,
arranged by Howard Heinz, chairman
of the Department of Food Supply.
The attendance of Public Safety Com-
mittee chairmen, food supply repre-
sentatives, and executive secretaries
numbered about 250 and came from
practically every county in the state.
Governor Brumbaugh, Lieutenant
Governor McClain, Auditor General
Snyder, George Wharton Pepper, E.
T. Stotesbury, and many other men
of prominence heard Mr. Hoover join
in the assertion that in point of or.
ganization and accomplishments Penn.
sylvania’s Safety Committee had prov.
ed to be the most efficient in the
United States.
A striking analysis of the food situ-
ation was presented by Mr. Heinz,
who, in his capacity as Federal Food
Administrator for Pennsylvania, has a
prominent part in the shaping of na-
tional food programs.
Mr. Heinz pictured the world meat
supply as being short 115,000,000 meat
animals, with a shortage of 7,000,000
meat animals in this country alone.
The wheat situation is just as bad, he
declared. Exemption, ie said, ma:
apply to the physical side of the m'l
tary problem, but there is no exemg
tion for the food forces. Every o.
must help in insuring supplies for cu
own armies abroad and for our alie
in the trendhes.
Conservation and production are th
problems to which Mr. Hoover gav
special emphasis. He said:
“Barly in the month of June, whe:
I was asked to undertake this pa
ticular task, I and the men whom
assembled around me at the momen
made a short survey of the situatiir
by way of organization througacu
the United States. We came earl
to the state of Pennsylvania in ou
wanderings, and after making a shor
study of the organization of the state
we determined that if we could annex
the Committee of Public Safety to the
Food Administration we wculd have
no further anxiety as to Pennsylvania
and also that we had settled the quz"-
tion for tem per cent of the peopl
of the United States.
“We were in no uncertain mind a
to that because of the character o'
the organization and the way that it
was completed. We were confiden
that it was sound, sane and woul
carry the mesage and carry out the
work. ;
“Qur first and most important prob:
lem is production. Production and
conservation are both impelled by the
same cause, by the same food shor -
age.
Europe's Diminishing Production.
“In addition to the maintenance of
a normal supply, we have the very
disastrous condition of continuously
diminishing production. It is impossi-
ble to take forty million men from
productive labor and devote them to
war without cutting into the vitals of
food production itself. That deficiency
has been contributed to by stoppage
of cereals and the diminution of ani-
mails, until on cereals alone this year’s
roduction falls below last year’s by
25 million bushels. Therefore we
have a load of over a billion and a
uarter bushels of grain to preserve
e normal food consumption of our
allies.
“This is a load that is beyond our
capacity, beyond the combined capa-
city of the United States and Canada.
There is no way of meeting that situ-
ation except that after we have ex-
ported the last grain that we can ex-
port, they must reduce their consump-
tion to a point where the two ends
meet.
“It is physiologically possible to Te-
duce the food consumption by forty
per cent, but on the other hand, sol-
diers in the trenches, men in the
shops, working over-time, and mil-
lions of women put to physical labor,
actually require more food stuff than
in times of peace. The net result is
that all privation by the reduction of
consumption operates upon the most
helpless class in the community—
that is the old and the women and
the children.
Farmers Should Right-About-Face.
“The problem of animals is one that
becomes a problem of practical char-
ter to us this very day in the Unit-
ed States. Europe with a shortage of
fodder and a shortage of imports has
first cut her fodder imports rather
than her bread grains. The result has
been the ruthless killing of animals
and out of that has arisen an annual
reduction in their animal products.
The is burning the candle at both
ends.
“It means from the fat point of
view that we must increase our fat
imports into Europe. We may dimin-
ish our meat imports for the moment;
but when the war is over we will have
a call upon us or upon our farmers
for enormously increased animal pro-
duction.
“FKurope has practically always pro-
duced her animal products. Compared
to the total consumption she has im-
ported a comparatively minor amount
of fat products. But with diminished
animals she will have less demand for
fodder and therefore more particu-
larly for the production of bread
ains.
“The people will of necessity turn
their agriculture from the production
of fodder to the production of bread,
and we, in the meantime, must be
prepared to take a like turn; in other
words, we have exported in the main
bread grain, whereas the demand upon
us after the war will be for animal
products.
“Therefore, we must turn the face
of our agriculture—we must turn the
face of our farmer from the produc-
tion of bread grains to the production
of animals. This becomes not only a
probiem of the future for the nation,
but it also becomes an immediate
roblem, and our immediate problem
is acute.
“ During the last year we have
slaughtered in hogs alone a large per-
centage of the hog population. In
other words, whereas we annually
slaughter something like 60 per cent
of our total hog inhabitants, this year
we have slaughtered over 100 per cent.
If we take the three pre-war years as
100, we can see that during the last
twelve months we have slaughtered
179 hogs, we have exported 215.
“This means but one thing. It
means that as we have increased our
exports of animal products, largely
pork products, from 500,000,000
pounds pre-war average to a 1,500,000,
000 pounds in the last twelve months,
that we have over-exported the capaci-
ty of this country.
“Today about 60 per cent of the
normal arrival of hogs is reaching the
markets in this country, and we are
faced with a shortage in fats, and we
are faced with that shirtage at the
very moment when we must be in-
creasing our exports to our allies.
“We are facing a large feed crop
this year—a crop, in fact, as we calcu-
late it, twenty-five per cent greater
than the animals we have to eat it.
We will, therefore, have a fairly low
range of prices for food stuff, and we
will with this situation, have a high
range of prices in animals Therefore,
it must be in the immediate interest
of the farmers of this country to raise
hogs, more hogs. and still more hogs.
More Hogs Needed For Years Ahead.
_ “And it ic not only an immediate
interest, but it is an interest that will
last, not only for the period of the war,
but for many years to come, and the
greatest help we can obtain from our
farming population today, is to get a
quick response in animal products.
“I have believed that if we could go
nrough the state of Pennsylvania,
il the farmers of the state that this
ountry should raise three more hogs
5 against one of last year, that is
hree to one—if they will do that sort
t work, it will be serving the country
nd be a benefit.
“The differemce between democracy
nd autocracy is a question of whether
yeople can be organized from the bot-
om or from the top down. If, in
>ur defense, it becomes necessary to
Jeanie from the top down I trust we
will do so. But the moment we have
jone this, we will have undermined
‘he individual, and our own people are
-educed to an autocracy. It is, fhere-
ore, worth our while to make the ef-
ort to carry this thing through on a
volunteer basis.”
ALLIES CANNOT WIN
WITHOUT OUR AID
~od-Given Opportunity For Service
Here, George Wharton Pepper Tells
Safety Committee Men.
Addressing the county representa-
ives at the opening of the Public
safety conference in Philadelphia
George Wharton Pepper, chairman of
the state committee, made a stirring
appeal for efficient effort in every dis-
trict. Mr. Pepper said:
“The efficiency of the work that we
are going to do for the cause of Pub-
lic Safety in this commonwealth is
going to depend almost entirely upon
the appraisement which we as individ-
uals make of the seriousness of the
situation in which our country finds
itself at the present time.
“If a man believes that this war
will be over in ninety days, if he be-
lieves that it is going to end without
serious inconvenience on our part; or,
if not that, that at least at the first
approach of our advance guard the
kaiser is going to state his readiness
to come down; if that is the state of
mind of a man, I am quite sure that
to him the Committee of Public Safety
is a quite unnecessary organization;
he is not going to spend much time
or much energy in its service.
“On the other hand, if a man has,
as I have, a livisg and burning con-
viction that we are in for a long and
bloody fight, and that upon the issue
of that conflict depends the very ex-
istence of the idea of democracy in
government among men—if that is
the man’s conviction, then he will
look upon the work of this Committee
of Public Safety as a God-given op-
portunity to express the patriotism
that is welling inside of him.
“It seems superabundantly clear
that the allies cannot win this war
except at the price of the life-blood of
our mothers afad daughters. We must
keep on because without our aid the
allies cannot win the war, and unless
this war is won by the allies the
things that we stand for cannot sur-
vive or prevail.
“There are many of us, I know, who
wish to God that we could exchange
chairmanships and secretaryships for
the more active service on the line;
but if we can’t, if they won’t have us
on any terms, at least let us consti-
tute ourselves an effective support to
those that do go to the front, and be
the guardians and custodians of the
homes that will be waiting for them
when they come back.
“I speak with a degree of intensity
which only faintly indicates the way
I feel about the matter. My convic-
tions about it are so deep and so
burning, and I seem to see the situ-
ation so clearly, that I tremble when
I ind so many of my fellow-citizens,
even in this commonwealth, who do
not seem to be aware of the predica-
ment in which the world finds itself,
and who are unwilling to make even
slight sacrifices to the end that Amer-
ican ideals in the end may be su-
preme.
“If we, my friends, of the Commit-
tee of Public Safety of the common-
wealth of Pennsylvania and its affiliat-
ed organizations through the state—if
we do not busy ourselves with the
effective - organization of this com-
monweailth so that we may adequately
support the lads that go, and preserve
the homes for those of them that wii
come back, then we do not deserve tc
be called Americans and we are n~
fit to be the representative of th
Keystone state.”
! Bush House Block, -
HAS NOT GONE UP
IN PRICE
EVERYTHING
All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing
this time last seascu. :
shim a—
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¢, 30¢c, 35c¢ 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,
57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
Shoes.
SL Gen.
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-
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.
Centre County Must
Not be a Laggard.
Centre County has a brilliant record for men sent to the
front in the cause of a World Democracy.
We must not permit this record to be denied because of our
failure to provide our share of the funds to maintain them
comfortably there.
THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
is now ready ror subscription. Centre county subscribed
$600,000.00 of the First Loan and our duty will be to sub-
scribe for approximately $800,0c0.00 of this Loan.
Will You be One of the Subscribers ?
A Government Bond is the safest investment you
can make. :
We will receive your subscriptions now. Two
per cent. must be paid when application is made.
18 per cent. will be due about Nov. 15th and 40
per cent. on or about Dec. 14th and Jan. 15th.
This Bank Offers Safety for your
Savings and every possible service.
ANNE NOAASS A A A
CENTRE COUNTY BANKING CO.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
mend to wear, for honestly speak-