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STOCK JUDGING CONTEST.
Will be Held a Granger's Picnic
Wednesday, Sept. 18th,at10 a. m.
What is your idea of a good horse,
cow, hog, or sheep 2 In looking over
a horse what emphasis would you lay
on the feet or legs or on the body,
head and neck? Xn a hog what im-
portant points would you look for to
place that individual in first place, or
if you were buying an animal of any
kind what things would you look for
to select the best amimmnal in the bunch ?
These areall points that we wish to
bring out in the stoek judging contest
this year and to make it just as prac-
tical as we can. "This is a contest
that every boy and girl in the county
should go into. It will cost you noth-
ing and you vill learn a whole lot be-
sides winning some of the prizes if
you can beat the other fellow in the
contest. You are just as good as the
other fellow and eweryone should go
in to win. All the prizes will proba-
bly be paidin W. S. S. and the
amounts will be announced later.
We have a bulletin on judging
livestock that shows by pictures and
descriptions just how to judge differ-
ent classes of livestock and the im-
portant points to look for in a contest
like this. This bulletin will be sent
free to any boy or girl who will send
in their name and address to me with
the intention of entering the contest.
This contest is open to all boys and
girls in the county between the ages
of ten and twenty.—R. H. Olmstead,
County Agent.
Paris Mothers Cry as Americans Die.
Paris—Kour, five and in many
cases six thousand miles from their
maternal hearth, thie American dead,
heroes of the second battle of the
Marne who have succumbed from
grievous wounds im Paris hospitals,
are mourned daily by French moth-
ers, sisters and fathers, who feel the
emotions of these heroes’ kindred at
home.
Daily the funerals leave the city
hospitals for the 1ittle Suresnes cem-
etery dedicated to Americans by the
city of Suresnes, located on a hill on
the west of Paris overlooking the
French metropolis. Daily the Repub-
lican Guard, in their picturesque and
historic military attire, march forth
to the funeral to bestow France’s re-
gard upon these American heroes;
and though no volley is fired, because
it is forbidden by the French author-
ities, the American bugler sounds
“taps” with impressive toning.
A service is first held in the little
chapel in the hospital Protestant
chaplains officiate over the dead of
their faith and Catholic over theirs.
The hospital organization, such as can
be spared, including nurses, orderlies,
clerks and doctors, =attend the service.
The bodies are borne from the chap-
el to waiting ponderous army motor-
trucks. The Republican Guard and
the marines form aan escort. As each
body is brought to the conveyance,
these military units execute “present
arms.” When all the dead have been
placed upon their military bier, the
procession to the cemetery starts. At
the head are the ehaplains in motor-
cars. Then follow the motor trucks
and last the guard of honor.
The coffins are draped with Ameri-
can flags. Fach one bears two
wreaths, one given by the Republic of
France, and another by the city of
Paris. Tricolor ribbons bind the
wreaths. In letters of gold the rib-
bons are marked €¢ Aux Defenseurs de
la Patrie.”
The little procession winds its way
along the boulevards. The French
know its signficance. Without ex-
ception, as it passes, every pedestrian
stops, uncovers and bows in homage
to the American heroes.
Reaching the summit of the hill of
Suresnes, the interment of the bodies
begins. A crowd of French mothers
and sisters gathers at the graves.
They reverently listen to the chap-
Tains pronounce the last words, and,
heavy of heart, they feel the exper-
ience of those thousands of miles
away.
The American bugler takes his
place and slowly and feelingly sounds
“taps.” The assemblage is moved to
tears. Atthe final tone the command
is given and the military escort re-
turns to its post in the city. The
mothers and sisters return to their
homes feeling the heaviness of the
committal of the American heroes to
the grave. Their thoughts are carried
to the mothers and sisters back here.
The Suresnes cemetery is the gift
of the Suresnes municipality to the
American army. Xt is beautifully sit-
uated in the midst of a cluster of
trees. The city of Paris can be view-
ed from the location. The walks are
arranged in the Form of the cross.
The surveying was done by American
engineers.
Chicken Feet Soup.
Millions and mnillions of chicken
feet are thrown z=away in this country
every year, whereas they should be
utilized for their food value, accord-
ing to the views of a well-known au-
thority on foodstuffs whose name is
not usually associated with the cul-
inary art.
That chicken feet make wonderful
soup is very well known to the chefs
serving our large hotels, exclusive
clubs, etc, but the average town and
city housewife is blissfully ignorant
of the fact,
Here is something which every
dealer—whether in a large market or
in a small town—can take up in an
educational way by passing the word
out among the customers and asking
them to tell others not to throw away
chicken feet, but to clean them prop-
erly and make soup. Almost any
woman ought to know how to pro-
ceed, but, if not, she may find out by
referring to a cook hook.
Throughout France and other coun-
tries in Europe they have reckoned
chicken feet rare tithits for soup
making,
It would seema to be high time for
our people to be learning it, too.—
National Bulletin.
— Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT
Our pleasures and our discontents
Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Women Workers.—Lady Willough-
by wife of a baronet and prominent in
London society circles, recently took
part in an “Egyptian ballet,” given
for the benefit of Charing Cross hos-
pital.
The Pennsylvania Railroad em-
ploys hundreds of women as laborers
whose duty it is to see that the bal-
last is kept in proper shape, all weeds
pulled up and the roadbed kept clean
of coal and cinders.
Mrs. Belle Ocher, of Chicago, is
called the second “Betsy Ross.” She
is an expert at crocheting flags and
the first one she completed she sent
to President Wilson. Another was
sent to General Pershing, and a tri-
colored one to General Joffre.
Not to be outdone by their fellow
men workers, two English girls re-
cently set a new shell-making record
when they worked 113% hours at night
and established a record in wave-
grooving, the recess for the copper
driving band in 18-pound shells.
For the first time in the history of
England, a woman has been adopted
by a political party as its candidate
for a seat in Parliament. She is Ma-
ry Mac Arthur, who in private life is
the wife of W. C. Anderson, one of
the Labor members of Parliament.
Thousands of women in Japan earn
their livelihood by working in the
fields or on the docks loading ships.
Over 12,000 women are needed to
fill men’s positions in the mnuition
factories in the Philadelphia district.
Hundreds of women are now work-
ing as oxyacetylene welders in a
large munition factory located in Cal-
ifornia.
On her first day as a public taxi-
cab driver, Mrs. Wesley Wood, of
Uniontown, Pa., took in $46 in fares
and tips.
Miss Frank Gray-Shaver is a can-
didate for the Democratic nomination
for district attorney in Menominee
county, Michigan.
Female elevator operators in Mil-
waukee have banded with the men of
that city and will form a union to
urge a demand for more wages.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt is busily en-
gaged in looking after Red Cross can-
teens in France, where she is spend-
ing her own money and time.
Italy is said to have a larger per-
centage of women actively engaged
in war work than any other of the
countries involved in the war.
A new process of knitting hosiery,
which inakes it possible to detach the
feet and attach new ones, has been in-
vented by a Belfast woman.
Lady Rhondda, widow of Viscount
Rhondda, British food controller, is
claiming her right as a peeress to sit
in the British House of Lords.
Fashion Hints.——A pretty collar
and one that is different is of organ-
die in folds and tied at one side with
velvet ribbon.
Many of the new fall suits have a
high necked vest of the same cloth as
the suit.with fur collar. Others have
these vests in contrasting color.
Voile shirtwaist frocks have long
sashes of self material.
Many jersey dresses are trimmed
with heavy Italian lace.
Slipons of wool, lined with foulard,
are worn inside out when the owner
wants a change of dress.
Tunics are as much worn as ever,
and are often carried out in tricot
over an underskirt of smooth satin.
The simple hair dress is the favor-
ed method of dressing the hair, and
the style most generally adopted is
that of drawing the hair straight
back from the forehead and arrang-
ing it in the simplest knot at the base
of the head.
One of the simplest and easiest
ways to remove wrinkles from a
gown or suit, whether it be of a wool-
en fabric or of velvet, velveteen or
corduroy, is to hang it up in the bed-
room, some evening while the hot
water is being run for a bath, shut-
ting the door and letting the wrinkled
garment hang in the steam.
Combinations of black chinchilly
with black silk net are frequently
encouragement of those who are in-
terested in seeing nets return to fa-
vor.
In some instances, black novelty
net laces are handsomely embroider-
ed in dull soft shades of blue which
afford a pleasing relief from the all-
black effect. Here and there a touch
of metal is introduced in practically
all the leading types of black laces,
but thus far such novelties are of val-
ue chiefly because they furnish a
sense of variety.
For the average dining-room, with
its usually somewhat limited space,
it is best to choose light and well-
proportioned furniture. Slenderly
proportioned furniture, used consist-
ently, has a quite miraculous way of
creating an illusion of greater spa-
ciousness—a most desirable quality
in the dining-room, for it enhances
both its dignity and the feeling of or-
der. Many massive pieces, crowded
into the dining-room of ordinary size,
have an overpowering effect that is
peculiarly depressing.
Speaking broadly, dining-rooms
may be classified as formal and in-
formal, and one of the first things,
before a piece of furniture is bought
or a curtain hung, is to decide which
of these two impressions you wish to
create in your own dining-room.
For the formal dining-room, the dig-
nity of the matched suite will, of
course, be used as the basis of fur-
nishing, setting the keynote of the
room, and in large measure dictating
the choice of the other furnishings.
The entire suite usually includes a
large sideboard, a serving table, an
extension dining table, a china cabi-
net, one arm chair and a number of
side chairs. Linen and silver cabi-
nets, or more interesting, a silver
chest, wagons and muffin racks, are
sometimes included in the more elab-
orate suites, though such pieces are
usually considered incidental, to be
purchased separately if desired.—
Christian Science Monitor.
noted in the new gowns, much to the |
FARM NOTES.
—Save the “makins” for apple! for packing purposes.
pies—add the sugar later.
—American dietitians have made
excellent bread by substituting as
high as 25 per cent. of rice for wheat
flour and have obtained a white yeast
bread of excellent flavor.
—The Virginia Bunch and Virgin-
ia Runner are the only varieties used
to any great extent as roasted pea-
nuts, and these two varieties consti-
tuted only 44 per cent. of the total
crop in 1916.
—The loss of cattle and sheep due
to poisonous weeds is very great. On
the United States national forest
ranges alone the loss in 1916 amount-
ed to 6,648 cattle and 16,273 sheep,
besides a number of horses, goats,
and other animals.
—As the corn crop begins to devel-
op toward sound grain, farmers
should watch the fields and prepare
for careful seed selection when the
grain is mature. Mark the good
stalks early and be ready to store
away sufficient seed corn in a safe
place for next year.
—There should be 100 hens on each
farm in the United States. Each hen
should produce at least 100 eggs.
With approximately 6,000,000 farms
that would mean 600,000,000 hens
and 60,000,000,000 eggs per year.
That number of eggs constitutes a
military resource not to be ignored.
—The average novice can reasona-
bly expect to get an average of at
least 10 dozen eggs per hen per year
from his small flock in the back yard.
There is nothing difficult in the care
of the small flock if the important
things are done at the right time and
in the right way, and the system in-
volves nothing too hard for a child
given proper directions.
—Peanut butter, according to spe-
cialists of the United States Depart-
ment. of Agriculture, contains 13
times as much protein, over three
times as much fat, and three times
as much fuel value as round steak.
Also about 17 per cent. of peanut
butter is carbohydrates, mostly
starch, while steak contains no car-
bohydrates. These figures show that,
pound for pound, peanut butter has a
much greater food value than round
steak.
—Corn syrup may be used in can-
ning and in making jellies, jams, and
marmalades and fruit butters. Vary-
ing amounts of corn syrup are used
with sugar. The syrup gives a modi-
fied flavor to products, and should be
tried out in small quantities at first
to suit the family taste. It combines
most satisfactorily with strong fla-
vored fruits such as pineapple and
cherries. The amount used must be
determined by the kind of fruit and
the strength of the syrup.
—Geese hold a sector in the line of |
the poultry army that makes war
against waste. When the facts are
taken into consideration that the de-
mand for geese is strong, steady, and
extends over practically the whole
year, that geese excel all other kinds |
of poultry as producers of fat, a thing
of which the world stands at present
in dire need, and that their value as
egg producers is considerable, the im-
portance of an adequate number of
geese in the poultry scheme becomes
apparent. Geese take their living in
large part from grasses of the pas-
ture, and need range of this nature
to be kept at a profit.
—Plenty of apple pies are guaran-
teed for Americans next winter in
spite of the sugar shortage. House-
wives are going to save the windfalls
in piefilling canned without sugar,
according to specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Apples canned by this method will be
available later on when the sugar
may be added or pies may be sweet-
ened with syrup and other sugar sub-
stitutes.
In canning apples for pie filling
slice them immediately after paring
into slightly salted cold water. Pack
or tin cans until full. Use a table-
spoon, wooden ladle, or table knife
Pour boiling
{ hot water over the product in the hot
jar. Place rubbers and caps in posi-
tion, not tight. If using tin cans, seal
completely. Place in the sterflizer,
vat, or canner, and sterilize for the
length of time given below according
| to the particular type of outfit used:
| Minutes
| Hot-water bath, home-made or com-
in 1 RE i 30
| Water seal, 214 degrees.......c.ceessaer 20
! 5 pounds steam pressure
10 pounds Steam PresSSUTre ........e.... 10
I After sterilizing remove the filled
| containers. Seal jars; invert to cool
| and test the joints. Wrap in paper
to prevent bleaching and store in a
dry, cool place. If tin cans are used
it will be found advantageous to
plunge them into cold water immedi-
ately after sterilization to cool them
quickly.
—Grow alfalfa, rye, soy beans, pea-
nuts, cowpeas, or velvet beans to pro-
vide home-grown protein feeds for
winter use. This is advice to hog
raisers by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
Shortage of tankage, shorts, mid-
dlings, oil meat, and other commer-
cial protein feeds may continue dur-
ing the coming year. A good wheat
crop may increase the available shorts
and middlings, but to be on the safe
side hog growers are advised to make
every effort possible to raise protein
feeds on their own farms. Every hog
grower is urged to study conditions
in his own locality.
Alfalfa is recommended for as
much use as possible where it is
grown or obtainable at a reasonable
price. It can be fed as whole hay in
racks or in the form of thick slop
after grinding. Probably the best
practice, according to specialists, is to
feed it both ways. Rye can be suc-
cessfully grown in nearly all sections
of the country. This crop sown in
August or September makes a good
fall feed. As soon as itis3or4
inches high it can be pastured until
snow covers it. It is one of the first
pastures ready in spring and can be
used until the middle of April or
about May 1, when the hogs can be
taken out and the crop harvested.
Soy beans are valuable as feed when
thrashed or ground and fed in the
meal form. Soy bean hay should be
cut early enough to prevent the seeds
popping out. In the southern States
peanuts, cowpeas, and velvet beans
may be successfully used.
More Sheep for Cenire County.
Through the efforts of the Farm
Bureau a carload of Merino ewes
were brought into the county recent-
ly from Greene county. They were
all distributed in flocks of 15 to 25
sheep to farmers who had ordered
before the car came in.
These sheep are all mature ewes
ranging in age from 3 to 6 years and
sheep that will clip 8 to 10 pounds of
wool. These ewes will be crossed
with a Shropshire or Hampshire ram
{ in order to get a little more size and
growthiness in the lambs to put on
the market.
It is the intention of the Farm Bu-
reau to get in another carload of
these ewes if there is a demand for
them. The next carload will cost
about $12.00 (twelve dollars) per
head laid down at Bellefonte, and will
all be strong mature ewes that have
raised at least one lamb. We have
orders for part of a carload at the
present time and if anyone is inter-
ested get in touch with the Farm Bu-
reau at once. We will be glad to
talk the proposition over with any-
one and show you some of the sheep
that we have got in. Several car-
loads of these sheep were brought in-
to the neighboring counties last year
and they are going back after several
carloads again this year. In the ma-
jority of cases the lambs and wool
more than paid for the sheep the first
year.—R. H. Olmstead, County
Agent.
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—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
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arriving daily. You will find
an excellent assortment ready
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| FINE GROCERIES
A LL GOODS in our line are thirty 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.
We Have Received
New Evaporated Apricots at 25c and 30c a Ib. Fancy Peaches 20c
and 22c 1b. Very Fancy Evaporated Corn at 35c a lb. or 3 cans for
$1.00. Fancy Selected Sweet Potatoes 5c a 1b.—some grades at 3c
to 4c a Ib. Very Fancy Cranberries at 18c per quart or pound.
Almerin White Grapes, Celery, New Paper-shell Aimonds, 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.
Protect Yourself
Against Illness!
You may be enjoying the best of health today. There may come a
siege of illness. ARE YOU PREPARED FOR IT?
Doctor's bills and enforced idleness are expensive. When you have a
bank account you-are prepared to combat illness.
Can you conceive of anything more tragic than a long period of illness
without any funds?
Therefore, if You Haven't a Bank
Account, Start One Today
THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
60-4 BELLEFONTE