Dew fad. Bellefonte, Pa., March 22, 1918. A WORD FROM HOME. By W. T. H. Salter, Boston, Mass. There's a fellow needs a letter, Will you write him just a line? It will make him feel much better To receive this friendly sign That we march in love beside him Wheresoever he may roam, Share his life, whate'er betides him, As we think of him at home. He has borne his country’s burden, Sailed away to face the fight; Will you cheer him with this guerdon— You are with him day and night? Just sit down and write a letter, Full of vim, and news, and cheer, It will make him feel much better For your thinking of him here. There are days when he feels badly In his dugout far away. Send him, comrades! freely, gladly, Tidings from the U. S. A. Stand beside him thigh and shoulder, Send your spirit with a might, It will make him fight the bolder Just to read the lines you write. Just sit down and write a letter Full of happiness and mirth, It will make some boy feel better As he burrows in the earth; Make his dugout one fine mansion, Make his night-watch bright as day. Sit right down and send good tidings To the boys who sailed away! Next Winter's Coal Famine. Bituminous coal production in this country, at the present rate, indicates a shortage at theend of the year of 36,000,000 tons, compared with the output of 1917 and of 72,000,000 tons compared with the output of 1916. Unless the production can be very ma- terially increased the United States is facing a coal famine next winter, re- gardless of whether the railroads are able to distribute the visible supply or not is an assertion of the Washing- ton Post. Figures compiled by the National Coal Association show an alarming fuel situation, which not only could be precipitated into another coal fam- ine by a few days of cold weather, but which, unless remedied, makes a coal famine next winter inevitable. The production of bituminous coal during the first two months of 1916 amounted to 91,782,609 tons, and for the same period of 1917 it was 88,- 100,198 tons. The actual figures up to February 9, added to a liberal es- timate for the remainder of that month, show a total production for the first two months of this year of approximately 85,000,000 tons. Car shortage is the cause assigned for this tremendous falling off in pro- duction. Mines were obliged to shut down because they could not get emp- ties to load. In the Central West Vir- ginia field alone, it is stated, during the 17 working days ending Februa- ry 25, an average of 6,312 men were idle every day. Another West Vir- ginia, field reports an average of 5,- 240 men idle each day for a 15-day period. Other fields suffered similar- ly. And during this time there were thousands of empty coal cars await- ing transportation to the mines, but they could not be moved because of the cold weather and because of the preferential movement of thousands of empty box cars for grain loading in the West. The situation is one which demands immediate attention and a practical solution. It ranks in importance with the food situation and the military situation. It involves the production of coal and the distribution of coal as two separate and distinct propositions. The commercial handling of coal con- templates loading the output direct from the mine to the car. Dumping the coal in piles for loading at a later time is not considered at a modern colliery, for the reason that the time ‘and labor of rehandling it would eat up the profits, and also no provision is made at the tipple for storing the output in piles. Consequently the commercial method is to load the coal on freight cars as it comes from the mine, and if cars are not available for loading, the mines must close down. With a coal famine staring the country in the face, these commercial methods must be modified to meet the situation. The mines should be kept in operation continuously and every effort made to increase the output. If it is impossible for the railroad ad- ministration to supply cars daily, some provision must be made for storing the output and loading it for shipment when the cars are available. The time for passing the blame back and forth between the coal operators, the railroads and the weather bureau has passed. The coal must be dug out of the ground. If the railroads were working at 100 per cent. efficiency in distributing fuel, the United States would still be confronted with a coal shortage next winter, based upon the present rate of production. The government should go into the coal business itself and stand as the purchaser of all coal produced which the operators cannot distribute at once. The government price of coal should be increased to a point where it will tmept men of small means to open new mining operations. The “wagon mine,” that helpful feeder of localities, must be re-established. The first object should be to get the coal out of the ground; its distribution, of equal importance, then becomes the great question. One thing the fuel administration should not forget— the country will not accept any ex- cuses for a coal famine next winter. A Lady’s Limit. Judge—How long did it last, this fight with your husband? Mrs. O’Brien—About ten minutes, yer honor. Sure no lady would kape at it any longer. ——The only place in the United States which has tropical vegetation is Palm Springs, located in a desert in the southern part of California. This place is 250 feet below sea level, and so hot that there is a riot of veg- etatien the year round. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT I think an especial Order of Merit cught to be awarded to the people who remain cheerful in all circumstances. There is no virtue which lends more to social popularity.—Lady Gordon. Prepare Now for Your 1918 Home Canning Work.—Collect all used jars. Examine each carefully. Discard all defective containers and damaged tops. Clean all useable jars and store with tops in place. Order and additional jars needed and lay in a supply of new rubber rings. Make sure that the clean wash boil- er or other large vessel that you will use for your hot-water bath are free from leaks. Examine and test pres- sure or other special canning appara- tus if you have it. If you use a wash boiler or large pail provide a false bottom of slats or bent wire. Strong wire trays with long upright handles make good false bottoms and enable the housewife to lift out groups of hot jars from the water bath. Jars and a wash boiler, boiling wa- ter and fresh products are all you need to can almost any fruit or vege- table successfully. ; Every jar filled and helping to feed the nation next fall! Aiding Farm Wives Town Wom- en’s Chance.—Only when the man and boy supply is exhausted and the fail- are of the Nation’s food production campaigns are threatened, should the United States call upon women to do men’s work on the farm. That, briefly, may be said to be the policy of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture in the matter of women as farm laborers. Badly as labor will be needed to carry through programs _ of food production this year, the Department does not believe the situation yet demands the employ- ment of women for the heavier farm- ing operations. Rather, that efforts now should be directed toward persuading able-bodied men in.the cities to do farm work and that community action should be directed | to this end. But there will be work to do for the thousands of women who are offering, to help the farmers with their big task. Helping farm women with their added duties and taking the place of men in the lighter industries, thus re- leasing male labor for the farms, are important ways in which women may aid agriculture’s war program, de- partment officials point out. Further- more, women can be expected to help, as they have in the past, with the lighter work of truck farming, In picking and packing berries and fruit and with much other light labor of food production. But if a serious labor shortage threatens the harvest of the country’s food crops the Department of Agri- culture, in co-operation with the De- partment of Labor and other Federal and State agencies, will request wom- en to help meet the situation. It has instructed its field agents to aid farm- ers in obtaining women workers when such conditions arise. Among the sources from which ad- ditional labor may be obtained on the farms are: (1) from among the wom- en already on farms; (2) from rela- tives of farmers who are living in cities and who are willing to work on farms during slack business or indus- trial periods; (3) from the foreign women who are accustomed to work in the fields under a system of inten- sivé agriculture before migrating to this country; and (4) from women In nearby villages and towns who might be employed on farms and still live at home. If in any community it becomes necessary to employ women, the prin- cipal problems to be met are to stim- ulate women to take up farm work and to make farmers realize the ne- cessity of using woman labor in or- der to maintain production. The farmer desiring woman labor- ers should indicate the kind of work which he wants done, the amount, and the probable dates and wages offered, and the woman offering herself should indicate the kinds of work she is will- ing to do, and whether she is willing to work all day and every day in the week. It should be thoroughly un- derstood by all parties concerned that the women are to receive a wage equal to that given men for performing the same amount of work. Wherever pos- sible, this can be brought about by putting the work on the piece basis. The function of the home demon- stration agent and the county agent is to see that the county exchange lists all women desiring work, as well as the farmers desiring women farm workers. If there were a sufficient demand in certain communities for women, one of the local women com- mitteemen might act as the medium of local exchange. The home demon- stration and county agents will also keep in touch with the farm help specialist, employed by the Office of Farm Management of the department. She will be ready to advise the var- ious committees as to whether the conditions under which women work on farms are satisfactory, and not detrimental to their health and mor- als. Color is introduced into dark cos- tumes in many ways. Strings of spe- cial beads are designed to accompany the gown, beads which repeat the bright shade which is used to touch the same sober creation in strategic places. Callot made a frock of heavy black silk jersey, straight as a nun’s robe, and confined at the waist by a belt of Spanish leather stamped with a small pattern in gilt. Hints of bright Yale blue broadcloth accentuated the blackness oddly. There were pockets lined with it, and a narrow band of it was set under the edge of the hem. A long string of bright blue beads went round the neck and hung below the waist in front. There was fur on the frock, too, a choker collar of it, right up to the ears. |, Catherine Breshkovsky, known as the “Little Grandmother of Russia,” deserted her husband,, home and little son to work for the freedom of Rus- sia. She is now past 70 years of age, but still keeps on with her life work. it believes. A Yankee With the Tanks. direct hit. There was a terrific crash and the old girl shook all over—seem- What it means to a soldier to beled to pause a little ‘even. But no clamped down beneath the steel sheath of a charging tank, bombarded by bul- sure thatthe Boche shells wouldn't do let and shell, as the tank crawls re- sistlessly on, pitching into a trenc tipping and twisting over the stump of trees it has demolished, can only be appreciated by one who has exper- h, us in. jenced it, writes Corp. R. Derby | Holmes in Leslie’s. “When we crawled in through the trap door for the first time over, the shut-in feeling got me,” was the way one Tommy expressed first impres- sions. This was the horror, the sen- sation of rat-in-trap drowning, of helpless suffocation that the men felt during their first experience. De- scribing the experience to me another soldier said: “We went across, you remember, at 11 and the sun was shining bright. We were parboiled when we started and when we got going it was a good deal like a Turkish bath. I was strip- ped to the waist and dripping. Be- sides that, when we began to give ’em hell, the place filled with gas and it was stifling. The old boat pitched a good deal going into the shell holes and it was all a man could do to keep to his station. I put my nose to a loophole to get air, but only once. The machine gun bullets were rattling on the outside. Tock, tock, tock, they kept drumming. The first shell that hit us must have been head on and a harm was done. After that we breathed easier. We hadn't been quite By the time we had to go to he Boche trenches we knew we hadn’t got anything that could hurt us. We just sat and raked him and laughed and wished it was over, so we could get the air.” In the first attack I marched behind a tank across No Man’s Land in_ a charge that lasted perhaps five min- utes and seemed to take hours, for the advance was made through a steady hail of lead that cut down whole pla- toons. But when we reached the Boche front a strange thing happen- ed. There was no fight worth men- tioning. The tanks stopped over the trenches and blazed away to the right and left with their all-round traverse. A few Boches threw their silly bombs at the monsters. The tanks, noses in air, moved slowly on. And then the Gray-backs swarmed out of the shel- ters and dugouts, literally in hun- dreds, and held up their hands, whin- ing “Mercy, Kamerad!” Among the first unit of the Women’s Overseas hospitals, U. S. A., will be 10 doctors, 1 dentist, 1 pathol- ogist, 18 trained nurses, 6 ambulance drivers, 4 meehanics, 1 dietician, 1 radiographer, 1 pharmacist and 2 clerks. What Do You Know About GOLDINE? We have given you many honest testimonies concerning this Marvel Remedy, but unless you try it you cannot be benefitted by its Magic Power. News has been received from Jamestown, N. Y., that the Goldine Man at the Ed. Eckard Drug Store has sold ten thousand bottles in that city and is still selling. Come this week, all who have aches and pains. RT LRAT TI SR TR. And a talk with the Gold- ine man at Green’s drug store will cost you nothing and may save you much suf- fering. -~ A NURSE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS. Read What She Says About the Gold- ine Treatmeat. Superlative praise many times fails to convince. It is the character and personality behind the praise that counts. When a person of Miss Braine’s reputation as a successful nurse for over forty years endorses a preparation, that preparation must have merit. Many people owe their lives to Miss Braine, she has been a nurse in Wil- liamsport for over forty years. Miss Braine is 74 years of age, lives at 931 West Third Street. She says: “I have always kept myself in pretty good health, but I contracted rheu- matism on a trip South about twenty years ago and haven’t been able to get rid of it, although I have doctored and tried everything I knew, but in- stead of getting better I kept getting worse and the last year it has been so bad that I have had difficulty in at- tending my duties as a nurse. «I have been taking the Goldine treatment about ten days now and I wish to say that it is remarkable the way it has relieved my pains. It is surely driving the rheumatism from my body, and I am glad to give my endorsement to a good honest medi- cine that does actually produce re- sults, and I trust that those whi know me will take advantage of my en- dorsement and give this wonderful medicine a trial.” “] HAVE DOCTORED FOURTEEN YEARS FOR STOMACH TROUBLE.” SAID THIS LADY. Mrs. Rosa Reinhart, who lives at 333 Jefferson Street, says: “For 14 years I have suffered with stomach trouble and have doctored and taken medicines galore, but without results. I was bloated all the time with gas. Could not eat any solid food without having severe burning, smarting pains in the pit of my stomach. Naturally, I was weak and in a rundown condi- tion and you can imagine that life was anything but pleasant for me. “It is three weeks since I began the use of Goldine. The help it has given me has been wonderful. In three weeks I have changed from one of the most miserable to one of the most happy of women. After doctoring and trying everything I heard of 14 years, your Goldine is the only thing that ever helped me. Think of it. Do I recommend it? Let people ask me personally if they have any doubts about it.” “No achievement in the history of all the proprietary medicines paral- lels the record of Goldine. The New Marvel Medicine. Never before has the success been so rapid, so definite, so sweeping.” GOLDINE is used in the treatment of stomach, heart, nerves, indigestion, phys- ical decline and debility to build you up and create strength. Liquid. Price $1.00 per bottle. GOLDINE ALTERAC is used for ca- tarrh, kidney, bladder, liver, blood, rheu- matism, weak back, eruptive and skin dis- eases and to purify the entire system. Liquid. Price $1.00 per bottle. GOLDINE LAXATIVES, are used for constipation, costiveness, liver gall troubles, congestion of the liver and for cleaning the organs of digestion and excretion. 25¢ per box. Goldine or Goldine Alterac will be ex- pressed to any address in the United States at $1.00 per bottle, six for $5.00. Laxatives mailed at 25c¢ per box. GOLDINE COMPANY, N. C, (Eastern Ohio Division) Youngstown, Ohio. The Goldine Remedies are made from roots, herbs, barks and berries, and are as pure as nature and scientific chemistry can make them. rum conse mpenss— DAIRY FEED A Balanced Ration and a Milk Producer Consisting of Cotton Seed Meal, Wheat Bran, Alfalfa Meal, Molasses, Gluten Feed, Fine Ground Oats and Salt. GUARANTEED ANALYSIS : Crude Protein Crude Fat Carbohydrates : s 2 Crude Fibres 17.50 % 3.00 45.00 . 15.00 TRY IT AND BE CONVINCED. WASTE PAPER BALERS—Save waste paper. Waste Paper is worth more money than you have an idea of. Get a BALER to-day and save BOTH. Soon pays for itself and is a constant source of profit. DON'T feed 6 cent milk to calves. Sell the milk and feed the calves “RYDES” CALF MEAL. Is less expensive and better for the calf. BEEF SCRAP—55% Protein, 10 per cent. SCRATCH FEED—Lay or Bust.. Grit, Oyster Shells, Charcoal, Linseed Meal, Old Process Oil Meal. Wag ' ons, Sleds, Sleighs, Pumps. Etc. Dubbs’ Implement and Seed Store, 62-47 BELLEFONTE, PA. trouble, | Shoes. MARCH SHOE SALE a) AT (— YEAGERS SHOE STORE A Li ne the month of March I 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, months to come. Girls $7.00 Tan, High Top, Low Heel Shoes Reduced to $5.00. I YEAGER'S SHOE STORE THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN BELLEFONTE, PA. Bush Arcade Building 58-27 Come ta the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. LYON ® COMPANY. EXTRAORDINARY SALE of Women’s and Misses ~ Easter Apparel Probably the most complete line of Coats and Suits for Ladies, Misses and Children that was ever shown in Bellefonte. Many exclusive models that are worth from $5 to $10 more today than present values as these were contracted for months before the last advance. We feel we can suit the most fastidious. We invite your inspection. I,adies’ Coats from $10.00 up to $50.00. Ladies’ Suits from $15.00 up to $45.00. Children’s Coats from $2.50 and up. An Easter Display of Shirt Waists. Everything new in Waists in Georgette, Crepe de Chine, Taffeta and Voile in White and Flesh and all the other new shades. Plain and Satin Striped Taffeta Waists. Gloves and Neckwear. New Spring Gloves in cotton and chemois finish— White, Black and Gray. Neckwear in all the new shapes in net, silk and wash satin. Collar and Cuff Sets in the new shapes. -SILKS.—Our silk department is most complete. All new shades in Messaline and Taffetas, Georgette and Crepe de Chine, Silk Poplins, Fancy Plaids and Stripes at greatly reduced prices. One special lot of 36 inch taffetas and messalines, all colors: quality $1.65. Sale price $1.30. LLACES.—We have placed on sale Laces and Inser- - tions, Torchen and Cluny, from one to three inches wide. Values roc. and 15¢.; all to go at 5c. per yard. GINGHAMS.—Still have a large assortment of 25c. and 3oc. quality ginghams at 20c. per yard. SHOES.—A most complete line of Men's, Women’s and Children’s Shoes, at prices to save big money. SPECIAL.—One lot broken sizes of men’s and wom- en’s shoes. If we have your size you can save from $1.00 to $1.50 on present prices. DRAPERIES, RUGS, CARPETS AND LINO- LEUMS. A complete line of House Cleaning requi- sites at prices to suit the economical House-Keeper. i Lyon & Co. --. Bellefonte. even though you may not need them for | nd wk
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