Bemorraiicaic
Bellefonte, Pa., April 12, 1918.
EX-CZAR IN EXILE FAST GROW-
ING OLD.
Geneva, Switzerland.—Nicholas Ro-
.manoff, who, as Emperor of Russia,
once exercised sway over the fate of
millions of Russians, leads a melan-
choly life at Tobolsk, the Siberian
“city of death,” to which he and his
family are exiled, according to one of
the sentinels stationed at his home
there.
“My life has always been that of a
prisoner,” the former Emperor is
quoted as saying. “It is not my for-
mer power that I regret. I have only
one wish and that is to return to the
Crimea and devote myself to horti- |
culture.”
Writing to a friend in this city, the ';
Russian guard said:
“The attitude of the Emperor when
he is alone is one of calm and simple
dignity, but as soon as he thinks he is
no longer observed he gives way and
walks with bent head. His hair has
become as white as snow and his face
is filled with a painful melancholy.
He is often seen at the window fol-
lowing his children with his eyes
when they go out for a walk and fur-
tively wipes away a tear.
_ “If the Emperor shows resignation,
it does not find an echo in his wife,
Alexandria Alix. Everything in her
present situation seems calculated to
wound her and make her miserable.
She was only allowed to take with her
fifteen boxes of clothing. At first
sight this may seem a considerable
amount, but it must not be forgotten
that the whole wardrobe of five wom-
tomed to their new position. Tatiana
spends much time reading French
| literature, particularly novels, as do
| others in the family. Olga is much
| interested in housekeeping and spends
most of her time in household duties.
| Alexis is busy with his studies and
desires to travel.
| Regret over her separation from
ther best friends is expressed by the
| Empress, but she writes that she and
| the entire family welcomed the news
of peace in Russia. She declares she
hopes that with peace the Romanoff
{family will be permitted to go to
some town in central Russia, where
(life is more lively than in Tobolsk.
; How to Preserve Eggs.
Surplus eggs, preserved in the
| spring, will supply the home with
| good eggs in the fall and winter,
| when eggs are hard to get and are
{ high-priced.
Eggs to be preserved must be fresh,
iand should be placed in the preserv-
ing container as soon as possible after
{they are laid. One of the best meth-
{ods of preserving is by the use of
waterglass, a pale yellow, odorless,
sirupy liquid that can be bought by
the quart or gallon from the drug-
gist or poultry supply man. It should
be diluted in the proportion of 1 part
of waterglass to 9 parts of water
which has been boiled and allowed to
cool. Earthenware crocks or jars are
the best containers, since their glazed
surface prevents chemical action from
the solution. The crocks or cans
should be scalded and allowed to cool
before they.are used. A container
holding 5 gallons will accommodate
15 dozen eggs and will require one
quart of waterglass.
Half fill the container with the wa-
terglass solution and place the eggs
in it. Eggs can be added from day
en and an Emperor is contained there-
in. Therefore, it is comprehensible |
to day as they are obtained, making
sure that the eggs are covered by
that fi wool aot sulfice Tor 20 coils | about 2 inches of waterglass solution.
of long duration. To this must be |
added the impossibility of procuring |
any kind of clothing in Tobolsk. The.|
Princesses possess in all only four!
costumes and are obliged tobe con- |
tented with those. As regards their |
jewelry, they were forced to leave it |
all in Petrograd. i
“The former Empress occupies her- |
self greatly with her children; but in-
stead of encouraging them to be re-
signed, she strives the whole time to
keep up in their memory the remem-
brance of the past. It is the impossi-
bility of corresponding which revolts
her the most. The few letters she re- |
ceives are carefully censored by the |
officers of her ‘bodyguard.’ Her con-
fidential friend is Madame Narichki-
na, a former lady-in-waiting, now liv-
ing in Tobolsk, from whom the for-
mer Empress has no secrets. {
“The princesses can move freely
about the town without any special
superintendence, but, naturally, not
without being followed step by step
by the secret police, who, however,
perform their duty as discreetly as
possible.
“The heir-apparent is closely guard-
ed, as the revolutionaries fear an ab-
duction. He is escorted everywhere
by the sailor Deremenko, a man of
herculean stature, who once saved the
Prince’s life at a hunt. He has not
the right to go into town without be-
ing accompanied by a certain number |
of officers. The Prince is in good
health but a slight limp betrays the
stiffness of the right foot, which is
incurable.
“There is little to say about the life
of the Princesses. The Great Duchess
Olga, who is of a very serious nature,
perhaps even gloomy, has become a
nurse in a military hospital for con-
valescent Siberians, to whom she de-
votes six hours a day. The Grand
Duchess Marie is learning shorthand
and typewriting in order to help her
father in the editing of his memoirs.
But up to the present the Emperor
has neither written nor dictated any-
thing.
“The ground floor of the residence
of the former imperial family is oc-
cupied by a company of soldiers, iron-
ically termed ‘the Emperor’s body-
guard.” The remaining two stories
form the apartment of the dethroned
monarch, Colonel Romanoff. It con-
sists of four large and four small
rooms, which are furnished in the
simplest manner. There is no water,
no gas, no electricity and no bath-
room. The servants are obliged to
draw the necessary water from a well
close by. The rooms arc heated by
means of primitive brick stoves. The
largest room is only five yards in
length and three in breadth.
“There is no pleasing view in any
direction from any of the windows.
Nicholas and his wife are condemned |
on printiple to a life of seclusion;
they are only allowed to leave the
house in order to attend mass at a
neighboring convent. The ‘masters
of the hour’ in Petrograd even consid-
er the authorization to frequent the
public baths once a week as quite an
exceptional! favor. On other occa-
sions they are invariably escorted by
four officers and a squadron of sol-
diers. It is these same officers who
take upon themselves the purchasing
of all small household necessities, not
wishing to intrust this duty to the im-
perial family’s four servants, a valet
and three maids.
“The inhabitants of Tobolsk do not
show any intrest in or hostility to-
ward the exiles. The only visitors
who have access to the ex-Emperor
are Baron Fredrichs and General Vo-
jekoff, who are also settled in Tobolsk,
and who enjoy his fullest confidence.”
Petrograd.—Imprisonment has af-
fected greatly the mental capacities
of the former Emperor Nicholas II,
according to a letter from the former
Empress Alexandra Alix, written
from Tobolsk to one of her former
maids of honor in Petrograd, which
has been intercepted. In it the for-
mer Empress gives a detailed account
of the royal family’s life in Tobolsk.
The former Emperor, she writes,
seems to have grown dull and very
unsociable. He does not evince the
slightest interest in current events,
has ceased to think about the crown
and only wants to be allowed to live
in his own way. His only regret is
that he cannot live in his old palace
at Livadia, in the Crimea. Nicholas
dresses in civilian clothes and spends
much of his time with his son Alexis.
He corresponds only with his mother.
The former Empress declares that
Cover the container and place it in a
cool place where it will not have to
be moved. Look at it from time to
time, and if there seems to be danger
of too much evaporation, add suffi-
cient cool boiled water to keep the
eggs covered. Eggs removed from
| the solution should be rinsed in clean,
cold water. Before they are boiled
holes should be pricked in the large
ends with a needle to prevent them
from cracking.
Limewater also is satisfactory for
preserving eggs and is slightly less
expensive than waterglass. A solu-
tion is made by placing 2 or 3 pounds
of unslaked lime in 5 gallons of wa-
ter which has been boiled and allow-
ed ‘to cool, and allowing the mixture
to stand until the lime settles and the
liquid is clear. The eggs should be
placed in a clean earthenware jar or
other suitable vessel and covered to a
depth of 2 inches with the liquid. Re-
move the eggs as desired, rinse in
Tlean, cold water, and use immediate-
y.
Farming in Mexico.
_ The American farmer and the Mex-
ican farmer have nothing in common.
The Mexican farmer, says a writer in
World's Work, is a king among mil-
lionaires, a modern survival of the
feudal lord of the land. He says:
You look across a level plain and
you see a magnificent house of stone,
cement and timber, covering some-
times as much as half an acre. Sur-
rounding it are other houses—hun-
dreds of them—but all small, con-
structed of adobe, brush or even - of
cornstalks. You are not looking at a
town, but at a ranch settlement. In
the great house, which costs more
than all the little ones put together,
lives the haciendado and his family.
In the little houses live the peons.
The typical farm in Mexico is not
of one hundred and sixty acres, but
of a million. In the State of Morelos
twenty-eight haciendados own all the
agricultural land. Twelve own nine-
tenths of it. The greatest part of the
agricultural and grazing lands of
Chihauhua is owned by one family.
The million-acre farm is mostly fal-
low. Although it is naturally a rich
agricultural country, Mexico does not
produce enough corn and beans to
feed its own peon population. Mod-
ern machinery is needed, but modern
machinery will never be used exten-
sively as long as the labor of the peon
is so cheap that his primitive meth-
ods are less costly than machine
methods.
Pennsylvania Trees for France.
Nothing that the Germans have
done in France is more despicable
than the deliberate ravaging of the
occupied country for no military rea-
son. At every point they were driv-
en back by the Allies they destroyed
whatever they could not carry off.
The spirit of malicious mischief was
especially revealed by the spoliation
of the forests and orchards. If there
was not time to fell trees they gird-
led them. The need of repairing this
widespread injury after the war will
be very great. It is a gracious act,
therefore, for the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Forestry to offer four
million white pine seedlings from the
State nurseries for this purpose. The
French government will undoubtedly
accept the gift with gratitude, seeing
in it another proof of the deep affec-
tion of Americans for France and
their keen sympathy with the suffer-
ings of the French people.—Philadel-
phia Ledger.
The Blood is the Life.
The blood is the life because it is the
nutritive fluid. If the blood becomes very
impure, the bones, the muscles and other
parts of the body are impaired and finally
become diseased. Slighter variations in
the quality of the blood, such as are often
brought about by breathing the bad air
of unventilated rooms, have equally sure
though less plain ill effects on the nervous
system.
Persons that have any reason to believe
that their blood is not pure should begin
to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla at once. This
medicine has done more than any other
in cleansing, enriching and revitalizing
the blood and giving strength and tone to
all the organs and functiens.
If you want to be entirely satisfied, in-
sist on having Hood’s. Accept no substi.
tute. 63-15
——For high class Job ‘Work come
her children have become quite accus-
to the “Watchman” Office.
WHEN THE WAR IS OVER.
When the war is over, ladies,
Just take a tip from me,
There'll be no German submarines
A diving thru the sea.
And instead of Kaiser Wilhelm
The guy we're going to lick,
We'll have a brand new Kaiser,
And the same will be a mick.
“The Watch on
We'll change the song
Rhine,”
Into an Irish reel,
And make the Dutchmen dance to it,
If so inclined we feel.
All the police in Berlin
Will be micks from County Clare,
And we'll have an Irish Kaiser,
In the palace over there.
Shure in every German parkway
You'll find a sweet colleen
And the fields of waving sauer kraut,
We'll plant with shamrock green,
No liver wurst or sausages,
When the Dutchman drinks his suds
He'll get corn beef and cabbage
And good old Irish spuds.
The heathen’s guns and gas bombs,
We'll throw them all away
And make them use shillalaghs,
In the good old Irish way.
They'll get no iron crosses,
Shure ’tis shamrocks they will wear,
Whin we put an Irish Kaiser,
In the palace over there.
* —Author Unknown.
Newspaper Advertising Best.
“I have been asked many times why
I preferred advertising in newspapers
to advertising in magazines,” said
Nat S. Olds, advertising manager of
Julius Kayser & Co., New York, in an
address before the Baltimore Adver-
tising club. “My answer is that the
newspaper is to publications what the
department store is to the retail bus-
iness. Every issue of a newspaper 1s
a department store of human emo-
tions and human experiences. It
brings to your breakfast table or to
your dinner table the news of what
people are thinking, and doing, and
feeling, and believing all over the
world, and more particularly in your
own city or town.
“The most interesting thing in the
world to you and to me is ourselves,
and the next most interesting thing
is the other fellow. The most inter-
esting section of the world to us is,
after all, our own street, and if the
newspaper in the morning tells of a
happening on our street, we read it
and talk about it with much more in-
terest than we would over a battle in
Europe or an earthquake in China.
“And, after all, the humanity in the
newspaper reflects itself in what hap-
pens to the newspaper. If I can reach
a man in his office I can sell him my
proposition easier than if I met him
on the street or in a crowd. If I can
get to him in his own home, or on his
front piazza, or in his library I can
sell him more goods than even in his
own office. The newspaper gets in to
his piazza and gets into his library
with him, and, after all, the news-
paper that carries my advertisement
is my salesman. That is the reason
why 1 believe that the newspaper is
one of the greatest advertising me-
diums in the world.”—From the Ed-
itor and Publisher, New York.
Sweeping the Sea for Mines.
The. following excerpts are from
letters received by Mrs. Charles H.
Cruse, of Bellefonte, from her son Al-
len, who is on a mine sweeper of the
U. S. Navy operating within the war
zone:
February 26, 1918.
My Dearest Mother.
Just received your letter of Febru-
ary 4th, and was glad to hear from
home. It must be awful over there
this year, so cold and a lot of poor
people suffering.
We are certainly having an excit-
ing time. The other day we were out
sweeping for mines and got four of
them.
March 2, 1918.
The weather over here was fine the
past two months, but this month it is
pretty cold and we are having our first
snow.
The excitement of catching mines
and submarines continues and I hope
to be in at the finish of more of them.
Please send me Miss Bertha Lau-
rie’s address, if you can.
March 6, 1918.
We just came in from a little trip
and I expected to find some mail but
was disappointed. We are all having
a great time over here, but I am get-
ting a little tired of it and hope the
war will end soon.
~ Did you get the pictures of the
crew I sent you? If so what do you
think of the bunch?
I was weighed the other day and
registered just 167 pounds. I have
not been sick at all, aside from a lit-
tle cold, and that is general among
the crew.
ALLEN.
A Good Story Even if it Isn’t True.
It was at one of the new army can-
tonments. A new recruit passed a
second lieutenant, but failed to salute.
The second lieutenant wheeled and
said:
“You, there, halt! Don’t you know
enough to salute an officer?”
The rookie gazed at him dumbly at
a loss for a satisfactory explanation.
“Now, you stand there and salute
me fifty times,” ordered the lieuten-
ant.
The rookie obeyed. A major, com-
ing up, stopped to watch the perfor-
mance to its completion. At its end,
he said:
“What’s this?”
The lieutenant explained.
“Don’t you know that an officer
must return the salute of a private?”
inquired the major. “Return the
fifty.”
The second lieutenant did.
——Cavalrymen have a supersti-
tion of their own. A mounted man
firmly believes that he will come
through the deadliest charge unscath-
ed if he carries on his person the tooth
of a war horse, the only condition be-
ing that the horse itself has at some
time been through a charge unhurt.
Weak, and Proves
Seldom, if ever, in Centre county,
have people had the opportunity of
‘| buying such superior remedies as
Goldine and Goldine Alterac. Made
from sweet, clean and carefully select-
ed herbs which are scientifically com-
pounded under the most exacting con-
ditions, so that in buying them we sell
them to you on their merit alone.
The experimental stage has been
passed years ago and “the proof of
the pudding is in the eating.”
Our personal representative now at
GOLDINE?
Gives Hope to the Run-Down, Strength to the
its Genuine Worth
Over and Over—Day After Day.
Green’s Bellefonte, Pa.,
will be glad to refer you to a number
Pharmacy,
of people right here in your immedi-
ate vicinity who are improving daily
after giving Goldine and Goldine Al-
terac a trial. See him today.
Goldine for stomach and heart
trouble, indigestion, physical decline,
$1.00 bottle.
Goldine Alterac for kidney, liver
and bladder trouble. The blood, rheu-
$1.00 bottle.
nerves, debility.
matism.
Haven, and Bowersox’s, Millheim.
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CA
Prices Range from
North Water St.
The Goldine Remedies can be purchased at Cramer’s Drugstore, Lock
RS
Series 18 and 19.
12 DIFFERENT BODIES
$895 to $1,800.
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GEORGE A. BEEZER, AGENT,
61-30
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Shoes.
MEN'S
Dress Shoes
5.00
Five Dollars to-day will not purch-
ase a pair of Men’s Dress Shoes
that can be guaranteed to give
satisfaction.
I have been very fortunate to se-
cure a limited amount of Men's
Dress Shoes, made of a good quali-
ty of calf leather, with a top of the
same kind, the soles are NEOLIN
with Wing-Foot rubber heels. If
you are in need of a pair of Dress
Shoes, here is an opportunity to
purchase a good pair at the price
of a poor pair.
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
YEAGER'S SHOE STORE
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
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LYON @ COMPANY.
We start this month with exceptional values in
Ladies’, Misses, and Children’s Suits
and Coats at note-worthy reductions. Gaps made by intensive
Easter buying have been filled up with brand new merchandise.
Tailored models, braid or buttoned, trimmed with ripple peplums
or plaited from the waist. Many other new and exclusive mod-
els are here for your inspection.
NEW SPRING WAISTS.—Just opened a new line of
White and Flesh Colored Georgette Crepe Waists, handsomely
braided and beaded in contrasting colors, pearl and crochet drop
buttons ; fegular prices $8 and $10, our price $5.50 and $6.50.
A large new assortment of Voiles, Tub Silks and Taffeta Waists
at greatly reduced prices of present wholesale price.
NEW SPRING SILKS AND PONGEES.—Pongees in
plain and figured Foulards, in figures and dots, plaids in all the
new colors and designs, all colors in combinations, stripes, shad-
ow blocks and shaded stripes from $1.50 up.
SPECIAL SILK SALE.—Still all colors in Taffetas, Mes-
salines and Poplins, one yard wide; quality $1.70, our quick
sale price only $1.25.
Georgette Crepes and Chiffons to match all colors.
WASH FABRICS.—Everything that is new in Embroider-
ed Voiles, plaids, figured and corded striped Voiles, 36 and 40
inches wide—all the new colors, specially priced 50 cents.
Voiles in different qualities and designs, prices from roc. up.
GINGHAMS.—1200 yards of fine 27-inch Dress Ginghams
in plaids and stripes at the unusually low price of 20c. per yard.
LACES. —Still a large assortment of 10 and 15c. quality
laces at 5 cents,
SPRING GLOVES.—New Chamois Finished Gloves in
black, white and gray, from 50 cents up.
RUGS, LINOLEUMS AND CARPETS.—Bargains in
Rugs, Carpets and Linoleums.
SHOES, SHOES.—Ladies’ and Misses’ Shoes in white,
black and russets ; high and low shoes, at prices less than cost
of manufacture.
Men's Dress and Work Shoes at prices that will be a big
saving.
Lyon & Co. «us Bellefonte.
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