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NOTHING WASTED BY CHINESE
Flowery Kingdom’s Farmers Even Uti-
lize the Prolific Weeds for Fer-
tilizer and Fuel.
Nothing goes to waste on the Chi-
nese farm-——not even the weeds. Ac-
cording to the farmer's ideas, there
are good ‘weeds and bad weeds, states
a ‘writer.
into compost heaps and return fertili-
zation to the soil. The coarse weeds
with woody stems which will not eas-
ily rot are cut down and allowed to
dry until the son of the family has
time to rake them up for use as winter
fuel.
Nowhere as in China do the dead
rob the living. Millions of graves arc
scattered over the fields, their loca-
tion directed by the complicated rules
of feng shui. In some sections of the
country more than one-sixth of the til-
lable area is covered with graves of
estimable but now useless ancestors,
and sometimes when a young man
falls heir to a farm he finds that it is
a farm full of graves, and his biggest
crop is a crop of duty to dead and
half-forgotten ancestors.
Chinese women didn’t wait for the
outbreak of war to put on trousers
and volunteer for work in the fields.
They have been wearing trousers fer
many centuries and for many more
they have been helping the beans and
potatoes to do their bit for their
country. The Chinese sages have haa
a great deal to say about the inferiov-
ity of woman, but when it comes *n
digging in the fields the Chinese wom-
an is equal to any man.
HUMPBACKED MEN IN DEMAND
Affliction Proved Qualification Where
Strange and Successful Experi-
ment Was Tried in Factory.
An unusual advertisement appeared
in a Chicago paper recently, desiring
the services of five humpbacked men.
The explanation of this strange want
is even more interesting than the an-
nouncement, "says Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
It seems that a large envelope faec-
tory, unable to fill its orders, decided
to work nights as well as days. Long
experience had demonstrated that in
the use of certain machines women
were better operators than men by
reason of their hands being more deli-
cate and nimble.
The owner does not believe in fac-
tory work at night for women, and the
men proved clumsy and slow. It was
then he set about to seek men who |
were well but physically incapable of
heavy work. He decided that hump-
backs had the necessary qualifications !
of more agile and sensitive touch, and
an actual test proved such to be the
fact. Hence the advertisement.
Rubber in India.
In southern India a factory at which |
high-grade rubber is made resembles a '
dairy, the milklike appearance of the
latex adding to this illusion, as well
as the precautions taken to insure ab-
solute cleanliness, says the Family
Herald. One of two methods of manu-
facture is generally adopted. If the
estate is young and only a few trees |
are being tapped the rubber is made |
The '
in the form of biscuits or sheets.
latex is put into shallow, round dishes
or oblong pans and a certain quantity
‘of acetic acid added to it. This Is
‘the coagulating agent most generally
used. After standing for some hours
the rubber is found floating on the top
of the dish in a white, spougy clot. |
This is removed and washed and rolled
by hand and through a mangle until
clean. The biscuits are placed on racks
in a warm room or an artificial drysr
and allowed to remain there until dry.
The finished biscuits are pale amber-
colored and transparent, and for this
reason are popular on the market,
for their purity and freedom from dirt
can be judged by holding them to the
light and looking through them.
The Grant Monument.
The monument to General Grant in
front of the capitol in Washington
was contracted for on August 10, 1803.
The contract provided that the work
should be completed in five years, but
the contractors asked, and were grant-
ed, several extensions. All of the ar-
chitectural work is finished, the cav-
alry and the artillery groups are in
position at either end of the platform,
the lions and lamps called for by the
design are in place and there remains
to complete the memorial only the
placing of the equestrian group, i. e,
the figure of General Grant on horse-
back on the central pedestal, and af-
fixing the two bas reliefs which are to
go on either side of the pedestal. The
total cost authorized by congress for
the memorial is $240,000, exclusive of
$10,000 which was appropriated for use
in procuring designs.
King Has Mary Namesakes Now.
His majesty has sundry namesakes
in London now that he has adopted his
new surname, says the London Globe.
There is a solicitor in Bishopsgate and
a cabinetmaker in Dalston, to name
two. There is also a Miss Windsor,
who has a respectable business in
South Kensington. Likewise a Mr.
Cornelius Windsor lives in North Lon-
don, and another Windsor has a gro-
icery shop in Lewisham. A firm of
onmongers at Roehampton and some
lclothiers at Finsbury Park can also
‘claim the same surname as the royal
family.
The good weeds are put |
Over
Top
the
ARTHUR GUY
By an American Soldier Who Went
EMPEY
words.
before he was invalided
“Front Line Trenches.”
“OVER THE TOP” is
batant and has seen long
trenches.
means and feels like:
and rats and shells;
to get rid of them;
second’s delay mean’s
to capture a Prussian;
When the Lusitania was sunk Arthur
Guy Empey decided that he could not
wait for his country to declare war — so
he sailed without orders for England,
and enlisted as a Canadian.
He recounts this incident in “OVER
THE TOP” in less than five hundred
In a few thousand more words
he completes his experiences in England
—and after that he is in France —for
the greater part of the eighteen months
by one of the American soldiers who
went to France, has been a real com-
Sergeant Empey tells what it actually
to be wounded seven times;
to live for a year and a half with mud
to be covered with “cooties” and never
to go “over the top” in a charge;
to grasp for your gas helmet wi a
and that it will appear in installments
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home, in the
the first story
service in the
death;
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to get tangled up in barb-wire with that machine gun working a few yards away;
to lie for thirty-six hours wounded and unconscious in “No Man’s Land.”
For a year and a half, until he fell wounded in “No Man’s Land”this American soldier
saw more actual fighting and real warfare than any war correspondent who has written
about the war. His experiences are grim, but they are thrilling, and lightened by a
touch of humor as original as the Soldiers Three. And they are True.
We take pleasure in announcing that wehave secured serial rights to this remarkable story
It Is the Real Stuff!
Shoes.
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will reduce the prices on all shoes.
This is not a sale of another store’s
stock, but a sale of my own good quality
of shoes at Reduced Prices.
NOW IS YOUR TIME
to purchase your needs in the shoe line,
even though you may not need them for
months to come.
Girls $7.00 Tan, High Top, Low Heel
Shoes Reduced to $5.00.
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OLD TOMBS OF PATRIARCHS
| Cave of Machpelah, Bought by Abra-
ham for a Burying Place, Has
Stood Ravages of Time.
The tombs of the patriarchs in Jeru-
salem, the cave of Machpelah, which
Abraham bought for “a possession of
a burying place,” is still in existence.
For forty centuries it withstood the
ravages of time and men, relates a
: writer.
It is situated in the town of Hebron,
16 miles south-southwest of Jerusalem,
and sheltered from profanation by a
Mahometan mosque that rises above it.
archal family, with the exception of
Rachel. The cave is divided into an
upper and a lower compartment.
the upper compartment is accessible to
praying.
thers of the Jewish nation, they re-
year 1862, when, for the first time,
admission.
The six tombs are arranged symmet-
rically in rows of twos; a seventh, in
the wall, is believed to belong to Jo-
seph. Abraham’s tomb, which has the
form of a coffin with a shelving ridge,
the cemented stone and marble. It is
green carpets, which are the gifts of
the emperor of Constantinople, Ma-
homet II, the conqueror of Egypt, Selim
II, and the Sultan Abdul Medjid.
CHEESE DIET IS WHOLESOME
One Pound of the Food Supplies More
Than Twice as Much Energy as
Same Amount of Steak.
Too many people use cheese merely
as an appetizer, says the Scientific
American in commenting on a recent
bulletin of the United States depart-
bulletin and to the universal practice
of Europe, cheese is one of the most
valuable of foods and a most satisfac-
tory substitute for meat.
A pound of cheese supplies more
than twice as mueh energy as a pound
of fowl or round steak and almost
twice as much protein as the same
smount of fowl or ham.
Contrary to the opinion of many,
cheddar or “store” cheese is not usu-
ally indigestible and constipating. Ex-
tensive digestion experiments conduct-
ed by the department have demon-
Strated that more than 95 par cent of
The tomb contains the whole patri- |
Only |
the priest in charge of the mosque, |
but he only enters it in times of great
calamity, and for the sole purpose of .
As to the lower comwpart-
nent, where repose the illustrious fa- |
mained completely closed until the '
King Edward VII, then the prince !
of, Wales, together with Doctor Stan- |
ley, the dean of Westminster Abbey, !
and two other friends, were granted |
is about eight feet high, and is set in
covered with three gold embroidered
ment of agriculture. According to this |
in the great cheese-producing countries |
the protein in cheese is digested and
that 90 per cent of its energy is avail-
able. Even when eaten in large quan-
tities and for long periods, no case of
indigestion, constipation or other dis-
turbance was observed in those who
ate it. One person who ate cheese as
the chief source of protein and energy,
cating an average of 9.27 ounces daily
for more than two years, did a fair
amount of muscular work and kept in
good health.
Dust in the Sweeper.
“Only last week I found Mary’s ear-
ring here,” said the experienced house-
wife to a younger woman as yet quite
inexperienced in housekeeping ways
who had wondered why the speaker
should look over the accumulated dust
that she had just shaken out of a
carpet sweeper; the Mary referred to
being the maid employed in this home.
' “Mary came to me,” the speaker con-
tinued, “and said she had lost one of
her earrings and she had looked every-
i Where for it, but just simply couldn’t
i
| find it; but I knew the likeliest place
to look for it, and there I did find it,
in the dust of the carpet sweeper,
where many a jewel has been found be-
i fore this, and where, no doubt, many a
I always look
; over the dust out of a carpet sweeper
Yefore throwing it away.” Upon hear-
«ng which the inexperienced young
woman registered a mental resolve
that when she went to housekeeping
she would do the same. ;
! jewel has been lost.
Out of His Range.
A young man stepped into a sporting
‘goods store recently, relates the Indian+
apolis News, and asked to see some
{ ‘guns. HIS remarks indicated that he
| was a sportsman of a decidedly ama-
‘teurish sort. The obliging salesman
‘brought forth all manner and varieties
of weapons, from a .22-caliber rifle to
latest model “pump” gun, but nothing
brought any response of satisfaction
into the young fellow’s face. Finally
the salesman handed him a high-power
rifle, used for big game, with the re-
just what you want, I believe. It kills
‘at 3,000 yards.” The young man shook
this head, more in doubt than ever.
| “No,” he said, “I am afraid I couldn’t
use it at all. You see, I have to get
much closer than that.”
Increasing Use of Rare Metals.
“Among the remarkable industrial
{ developments to which the European
war has given impetus has been the
enlarged use of the rare metals,” says
Maj. William A. Mensch of San Diego,
mark, “This beautiful little gun, sir, is |
: Cal. “Tungsten, vanadium and molyb-
denum, used in making steel, seem to ’
i $1,076,200,000, or 45 per cent over the
| be the leaders. Of these three perhaps
the least familiar to American steel
makers is molybdenum, which, though
well-known to Europeon forge mas-
ters, has but comparatively limited
. ‘use in this country.
HEALTH THAT MAKES WEALTH
Nervous Energy Which Enables One
to Think New Thoughts and Initi-
ate New Plans Important.
Probably the majority of men do not
know what real health means. It
means more than the capacity to sit
up and eat, to walk, to board a ear and
to bend over a desk. Real health
means more than the real ability to do
the same thing day after day. Real
health means a degree of stirring, nerv-
ous energy that enables one to think
new thoughts, conceive new plans and
initiate new enterprises. Supera-
bundant nervous energy is back of ex-
ceptional mental activity. It is the
basis of all those qualities which are
most essential in the struggle for suc-
cess.
It is not sufficient to have health
that will enable you to do a common-
place day’s work, Hugo Masters writes
in Physical Culture. The right kind
of health should give you the energy
with which to perform far more than
a day's work, if necessary, even from:
a quantitative standpoint. It is com-
monly the man with an unlimited ca-
pacity for work who gets on. He is
able to work long hours without tiring.
Successful men invariably enjoy the
possession of this degree of nervous
endurance or working endurance.
But it is not this that is most im-
portant. The possession of energy is
essential, not so much for the sake of
the capacity for long hours of work,
but on account of the quality of work
which it enables one to perform.
Quality of effort is more important
than quantity of work and the greatest
value of unlimited energy lies in giv-
ing one the capacity for concentration,
the capacity for an intensity of effort
that is beyond the average man.
Ski in Land of Summer.
Californians are not denied the win-
ter sports of tobogganing, ski-running,
sleighing and skating, but in order to.
enjoy them they are obliged to ascend
into the Sierra Nevadas, a mile above
the coast and the central valleys.
There, amidst the fragrant pine for-
ests of the highlands, they enter into
keen out-of-doors recreation with ail
the zest of people who see snow usu-
ally from a distance. The winter
sports seasen at Truckee, near the:
summit of the Sierra, has become well
established as an annual event.
Record Droken.
The total value of the mineral pro-
duction of the country in 1916 was
more than §$3,470,000,000, increasing
$2,393,800,000 recorded for 1915, and
exceeding the former record year
(1913) by more than $1,000,000,000, ac-
cording to the geological survey, de-
partment of the interior.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
LYON @ COMPANY.
Spring Coats and Suits
We are showing the latest styles in
Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats and Coat Suits.
Every week something different and ex-
clusive in this department.
Spring Goods.
We are receiving every few days a
large assortment of new Dress Fabrics in
wool. silk and cotton.
Owing to inventory of stock, we are
. making big reductions on Shoes for men,
women and children.
Winter Coats and Suits.
Our entire stock of Winter Coats and
Suits must go now. Save money and get
the best values. This season’s goods at
less than cost of manufacture.
9 handsome Plush Coats, 12 Cloth
Coats in all colors, 7 Black Kersey and
Chiffon Broadcloth Coats, all this sea-
son’s styles and all sold at sacrifice prices.
A cordial invitation to all. The best
styles and qualities always sell first.
Lyon & Co. --. Bellefonte.
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