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Bellefonte, Pa., July 12, 1918.
the Dogs Fight
Against the Hun.
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Valiantly
Few persons realize what an im-
portant part animals are playing In
the war. Horses and mules are car-
rying food and ammunition to the sol-
diers in the trenches, thousands of
dogs, thousands of carrier pigeons,
hundreds of mules and thousands of
camels are working to save lives and
gain a victory for the Allies. The
French have five thousand dogs and
the Allies have
' ments had been delayed in coming the
helper.
<ix million horses and ‘each and are used by the Blue Cross
many mules facing death just as the
men are doing. To aid these animals |
the American Red Star society has
been organized in our country, and it
is doing for animals what the Red
Cross is doing for men. :
The dog is one of the most impor-
tant animals in the fighting area, and
so necessary are the duties that he
performs that the Red Star is train-
ing dogs and planning to send many
of them to France. Though the dogs
trained in this country are good for
work in our camps, those that will be
sent to France will receive most of
their training there, for after they
have become accustomed to detona-
tions and have been taught to be
brave and not to bark—for this at- | convalescing horses run.
tracts the attention of the enemy— |
they must learn the commands in the
French language.
The French have five thousand
trained dogs, and every man in the
army realizes how valuable these
animals are, for they are used for sen-
tinel, patrol, draft, guard, dispatch
and carrier work and in some In-
stances they clean the trenches of
rats. For instance, the sentinel dog
is stationed at the “listening points,”
and helps in detecting enemy patrols;
the patrol dog reconnoiters for small
detachments and several can hold an
enemy if so commanded. These same
dogs carry provisions and military
stores when harnessed to vehicles, and
when necessary they can pull
carts on which the wounded are
placed. The invaluable dispatch dog
is another type and occupies an lm-
portant position,
with being intrusted to carry mes-
sages between the posts of command
in the first line in the sectors bom-
barded or beaten by machine guns.
Such dogs are swifter than men an
run less chance of being shot. The
guard dog helps to reduce the number
of sentinels around storehouses and
factories. Their performances are re-
markable.
France is using many Red Cross
dogs, and many wounded soldiers owe
their preservation to them. They
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the Red Star and fifty thousand first
aid leaflets telling how to care for
horses have been distributed. When
the veterinarian surgeon at one camp
wrote the Red Star that his instru-
society at once telegraphed a supply
house to make up the deficiency. The
work in our home training camps is
broadening continually, and it is
planned that in addition to the aid it
will give here the society will work
in France and among the fighting
contingents. Already an order has
been sent abroad to furnish ambu-
lances for the American army. These
will be similar to those in use in the
French army, will accommodate two
horses and have quarters for the
Such ambulances cost $5000
of the French.
This Blue Cross, which was organ-
ized in 1912, in three months after
war began had hospitals at work in
France. Today La Croix Bleue is an
effective branch of the French army,
and injured horses. Two thousand
separate units have been assisted by
this Blue Cross and the hospital quar-
ters are clean, hygienic and with
ample light and air. Drinking water
and oats are supplied and there are
operating rooms, pharmacies and hos-
pitals for sick and debilitated animals.
Gentleness, fresh air and sunshine
are among the curative agencies, and
there are large pasture lands on whic
Owing to the care that this society
gives bleeding animals, lame, mud-
covered and thoroughly unfit for du-
ty, regain strength. Some of the an-
imals are cured so they can go back |
to work after a long period and others
are quickly built up so they return
in a short time. Horses, like men,
suffer from shell shock, overstrain
and kindred affections, and need quiet, |
and good food to fit them
to return. The Blue Cross sends sup-
plies to all units, veterinary chests,
bandages and drugs, all of which are
used before the horse reaches the |
field dressing station. The society al-
so cares for dogs, many of which are
injured in carrying dispatches. A
nch of the Blue Cross has been or-
ganized in Italy and goes under the
name of La Societa’ della Croce Azu-
It is work like this of the Blue
plans to do abroad. Like the Red
Cross, the Red Star depends on dona-
tions and the amount of relief work
of money received.
Women in the War.
More than 30,000 women volunteers
are now engaged in’ work directly con-
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search the secluded places and when |
they find a soldier bring back some
part of his clothing and lead the res-
cuers to the spot. Other dogs have
been trained never to molest the sol-
dier, but to give the sign on their re-
turn to the hospital. This sign is
usually the lifting of the strap which
hangs around their necks into their
mouths. But these dogs do not stop
at finding the wounded. They are
taught never to touch the dead and
they draw a light-wheeled ambulance
cart on which the wounded soldier
is placed. They do well at this work
and in pulling the carriages on which
the machine guns are mounted. Mas-
tiffs are usually used for this last
heavy work and when the
important part in carrying the light
guns from point to point.
Early in the war France sent over
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Germans | freedom, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Hutchin-
invaded Belgium these dogs played an | Son, of New York, has given up sing-
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and secured the services of an expert |
in Alaskan dogs,
mutes for
who purchased mala-
draft purposes - in the
Vosges. Some of the dogs
selected had taken part in the Alaskan
races that required unlimited en-
durance, and this qualification was
invaluable in the work which they did
in the army. These Alaskan dogs, ac-
customed to drawing heavy burdens,
have brought supplies and ammuni-
tion through mountain passes. They
draw carts in summer which fit on
narrow-gauge tracks and in winter
they pull sledges over the snow. These
dogs are more cumbersome than the
dispatch dogs, who can carry a mes-
sage in three minutes that would take
ten minutes for a man. These mes-
sages may be important calls for re-
enforcements or that firing should be
directed in another direction or some
equally important hint. The French
also employ dogs to carry light
lunches and they provide gas masks
for the dogs as well as for the men.
The French Minister of War has
written the American Red Star
stating just what kinds of dogs the
French desire. He writes that all
dogs must be more than one year and
less than six years old; they can be
of any color except where white pre-
dominates and must be in good health,
intelligent and wideawake. Shepherd
dogs, mastiffs, bulldogs, for terriers
and mongrels of these breed can be
employed.
There are many stories of dogs be-
ing decorated by the soldiers for sig-
nal bravery on the battlefield and the
men grow much attached to the intel-
ligent animals.
Interesting and important as is the
work of dogs and pigeons in war, the
American Red Star feéls that the
horse is still more valuable. The
British have two million horses en-
gaged in the war, and it is estimated
there may be a demand for as many
more. Horses cannot be wholly su-
perseded by motors, for they are
transports and baggage agents in this
war, as they have been in former con-
flicts. All army men know that the
services of horses are indispensable.
If a shot hits a motor and a wheel is
blown off that is the end of progress
for a time, but if one horse is injured
the other horse pulls until a fresh
horse can be obtained. The American
Red Star Animal Relief long before
we entered the war realized the me-
cessity that might face us and start-
ed to prepare plans to supplement the
work of army veterinarians and to
raise money to provide adequate fa-
cilities for caring for injured animals.
Already this society has begun
work in the training camps, and in
many ways it is aiding veterinary sur-
geons and the animals. The society
furnishes supplies to remount depots
and camps throughout the United
States, and the work ranges from first
aid leaflets to ambulances. Seventy
different camps, forts and army posts
have secured aid of some kind from
that he | treatment of dyspepsia, however much we
field.
Canadians are taking women with
children into their homes to act as do- |
mestics, single women being almost |
impossible to obtain.
The final returns from the third |
Liberty loan campaign show that at
least 50 per cent. of the subscriptions
have come in through women.
Representatives of 100 women’s or- |
ganizations in New York are demand- |
ing the passage of legislation concern-
ing women’s working conditions.
A department for the maintenance
and housing of women workers in mu-
nition plants has been created in the |
War Department and is directed by |
Miss Mary VanKleeck.
Anxious to do her bit for American
ing at $150 per concert to enter a mu-
nition plant at $11 per week.
Not Well Enough Known.
We cannot accomplish much in the
may temporarily relieve its symptoms, sO
long as the blood remains impure. It is
a fact not well enough known by people
generally that when the stomach, liver and
other digestive organs are supplied with
impure blood, the digestive process is im-
paired, so as to cause faintness and loss of
appetite and sometimes a deranged state
of the intestines, and in general all the
symptoms of dyspepsia.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is of great service
in dispepsia, because it purifies the blood,
making it the healthy stimulus the diges-
tive organs must have for the proper per-
formance of other duties. Hood's Sarsa-
parilla, especially if taken in a little hot
water, has “a magic touch” in dyspepsia.
Get it today. 63-27
A Wise Precaution.
Mrs. Merve Creger Tells How
Goldine Helped Throw Off
the Effects of LaGrippe—
Will do the same for you.
«] was taken with a severe attack of
La Grippe and was unable to leave
my bed, thought I would have to call
in help, but hearing of Goldine
thought I would try it, and was sur-
prised after quick results. In a few
days I was enabled to do my work and
throw off the disease so completely
that I felt no bad effects from it, in
fact, I feel better than before taking
ill, can do my work with ease now,
which I was unable to do before.”
Goldine acts directly on the stom-
ach and after taking a few weeks the
result is often permanent.
Try Goldine just once and find out
what good health really means.
Goldine remedies are made from
Roots, Bark and Berries, and are as
pure as Nature and scientific chemis-
try can make them. .
Goldine is used in the treatment of
the stomach, heart, nerves, indiges-
tion, physical decline, and debility, to
build you up and create strength.
GOLDINE ALTERAC is used for
the kidneys, bladder, liver, blood,
Shenmaiisny purifies the entire sys-
em.
GOLDINE LAXATIVES for consti-
pation and costiveness; a mild and ef-
fective cathartic.
Our local representative, Green’s
Pharmacy, has the above remedies for
lica has done since the war put a stop
{did their German prototypes.
DYE SITUATION IN AMERICA
PROMISING.
is now being erected that will be able
to supply at an early date at least
half of what the whole country will
Tests Said to Have Established Fact need. Another real achievement is
That D Made in th . the production of alizarine red, from |
at Dyes Made in the United which the familiar turkey red is ob-
States are Fully Equal to
the German Products.
tained.
ufacture of dyestuffs in this country
New York, N. Y.—“The entire dye
situation in the United States looks
very promising, and there is every
reason to believe that the industry
will be permanent,” said Dr. Louis J.
Mates of the National Aniline and
Chemical company, who had charge
of a large and interesting dyestuffs
exhibit at the recent textile show in
this city. “These revolving cases
here, with their specimens of 130
dyes manufactured from American
raw materials—from the bottom up—
is a satisfactory answer, it seems to
me, to queries concerning what Amer-
the dyes that we made
from imported intermediates.
the war began, however, and we were
cut off from foreign supplies of this
sort, we have been obliged to build
up an intermediate industry of our
own. Our chemists have been oblig-
ed to devise processes for makin” in-
termediates which had never before
been made here. Nor have we had the
trained chemists necessary for this
industry. Nevertheless, during the
past three years men skilled in or-
ganic chemistry have bobbed up on all
sides. The result is that we have now
to her importation of dyes f - J
b y Yon: (jor 2 number of intermediates of our own
many,” he continued in an interview
with a representative of the Christian
Science Monitor. “Dye manufactur-
ers have absolutely duplicated Ger-
man dyes, type for type, strength and
working quality. Parallel tests have
been made of materials dyed in Amer-
ican products and in the German;
side by side these have been exposed
for 30 days out of doors to the com-
bination of light and weather, and it
was found that the American colors
faded only in the same proportion as
This
disproves the claim that German dyes
are necessarily fast. It has been
found that the American dyes have
the good qualities of the German ones
and also their defects.”
The exhibit included samples of
cotton and woolen materials in pairs,
one piece dyed in the American, the
other in the German product. Dr.
Mates pointed out the fact that where |
the American dye showed imperfec-
tions, the German showed precisely
the same fault. + He explained that if
imperfectly dyed American goods
were put upon the market, people
would at once say that the trouble
was that they were American, failing
entirely to realize that goods dyed
with that same dye which had been
prepared in Germany were by no
means necessarily fast. Some dyes
that are not fast, he pointed out, are
eminently suited to certain purposes.
“One distinct accomplishment of
American dye manufacturers,” he
continued, “is the making of synthet-
ic indigo; that is really a great
achievement for this country. A plant
the truly fast dyes that we are get-
ting out.
that we still lack, among them toluol,
which may be obtained from illumin-
ating gas.”
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A Woman's Job.
Fifty-five women deputy sheriffs
are now doing scouting and patrol
work for the War Department Com-
mission on Training Camp Activities.
They work in the vicinity of camps
in all parts of the country under the
Girls’ Protective Bureaus that have
been established by the commission.
The women chosen for this work have
large experience in work with girls.
The new duties are intensely person-
al in character. They are chiefly con-
cerned with the individual girl who is
getting into danger. They wear no
badge or distinguishing mark, though
they co-operate closely with the mil-
itary police and local authorities.
To make the artificial eye prac-
tically indistinguishable is the aim of
2 British army surgeon who is exper-
imenting with a ball made of cartil-
age as a substitute for a metal or
glass one. A sphere of such construc-
fion when put in place establishes con-
nection with blood vessels and the sur-
rounding tissues. When thus fixed in
the cavity it is supposed to be capa-
ble of movement corresponding to
that of a normal eye, and furthermeore
fills the space so that there is no de-
pression.
CASTORIA.
CASTORIA.
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GASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
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Shoes. Shoes.
(EBGER'S SHOE STORE
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Shoes Shoes
Reduced Reduced
All my stock of Ladies’ Low Shoes
at cost and less than cost.
On account of labor shortage and other
conditions the firm from whom I purchase
my stock of Ladies’ Low Shoes for spring
could not deliver the shoes until this last
week—they should have reached me on
March 1st.
Realizing that the season is far advanced
I am going to sell these shoes at cost and
less than cost. These shoes were purch-
ased to sell for $6 and $7. They are
made of the very best leather that can be
put in shoes and in the very latest styles.
These shoes will be put on sale at once for
$4.85 Per Pair.
Here is an opportunity to purchase your
needs in low shoes at a saving of over $2
per pair.
nea. EY Maa
YEAGER'S SHOE STORE
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
LYON & COMPANY.
WE ARE ADDING
SPECIAL BARGAINS
Fach Week to the June Sale.
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THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY,
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FINE GROCERIES
A LL GOODS in our line are thirty
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to sixty days late this sea-
son. Prices are somewhat, but not strongly above the lev-
el at this time last season. It is not safe to predict, but it
does seem that prices are just now “passing over the top” and may
be somewhat more reasonable in the near future.
e Have Received
New Evaporated Apricots at 95¢ and 30c a Ib. Fancy Peaches 20c
and 22c 1b. Very Fancy Evaporated Corn at 35c a 1b. or 3 cans for
$1.00. Fancy Selected Sweet Potatoes 5c a Ib.—some grades at 3c
to 4c a lb. Very Fancy Cranberries at 18c per quart or pound.
Almerin White Grapes, Celery. New Paper-shell Almonds, California
Walnuts, Finest Quality Cheese.
INCLUDE OYSTERS IN YOUR ORDERS
we will deliver fresh opened, solid measure at cost with other
goods.
WE MAKE OUR OWN MINCE MEAT.
No item is cut our or cut short on account of cost—it is just THE
BEST WE CAN MAKE and is highly recommended by all those
who have tried it. If you have used it you already know—or try it
just now.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bush House Block, - 57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
sale.
BARGAIN NO. 1. Ladies’ Summer
Vests, low neck and sleeveless ; valve 25cC.,
sale price 14c.
BARGAIN NO. 2. House Dresses,
sizes 34 to 44 ; while they last $1.48.
BARGAIN NO. 3. Splashed Voile
White Shirt Waists, all sizes; value $1.75,
sale price g8c.
BARGAIN NO. 4. Ladies’ White
Pique Skirts; value $2.50, sale price $1.98.
Also Plaid Skirts, white ground and combina-
tion of colors in the over plaids; value $2.50,
sale price $1.50.
BARGAIN NO. 5. Ladies’ and Misses’
Middies and Middie Coats, all sizes and all
colors: value $1.50 and $1.75, sale price g8c.
Coats and Suits.
Reductions on all Coats and
Coat Suits. }
Corset Bargains in Bon Ton and Royal Wor-
cester. One lot of good models in corsets
which the manufacturer has discontinued, will
be sold at less than cost.
Shoes. Shoes.
Shoes for Men, Ladies and Children.
T,adies’ white high canvas Shoes, real value
$3.50, sale price $2.49.
Ladies’ white low canvas Shoes, real value
$3, sale price $2.00.
Special price
Ladies white low canvas Pumps, real value
$3.50, sale price $2.49.
Ladies’ low black Pumps, real value $3.50,
sale price $2.49.
black Shoes, real value $7.50,
Ladies’ high
sale price $6.00.
Men's and Children’s Shoes at special prices.
Lyon & Co. we Bellefonte.