Bellefonte, Pa., November 15, 1918. massa ——— UNDYING LIGHT. O Thou the Lord and Maker of life and | light! Full heavy are the burdens that do weigh Our spirits earthward, as through twilight gray We journey to the end and rest of night; Though well we know to the deep inward sight Darkness is but thy shadow, and the day Where Thou art never dies, but sends its ray Through the wide universe with restless | might. O Lord of Light, steep Thou our souls in Thee! That when the daylight shade, And falls the silence of mortality, And all is done, we shall not be afraid, But pass from light to light; from earth's dull gleam Into the very heart and heaven ef our dream. trembles into ~ Richard Watson Gilder. ANDREW GRAHAM'S LETTER TO HIS AUNT MARY. Dear Aunt Mary: You may remember that you asked | me to tell you all that I could find out | about your old neighbor, Mrs. Strong, | and her one and only boy, Billy. Not | that I love Billy too hard. for I used | to be everlastingly told to do this or | that “as Billy Strong did it,” with the ! invariable ending “and he is the nicest boy in Centre county.” Quite enough | to make all the boys in the neighbor- hood hate him—but we never did, and | for good reasons. I remember that | I greatly admired his unusual height, | and mother told me that that boy’s | legs grew at night, (a perfectly truth- | ful statement, but limited), and that | if 1 went to bed early, and promptly to sleep, mine might be as long as his! were, which may be the reason that | they are so. What cheerful yarns our | mothers tell us, in the years when we | take all they tell us as gospel. 1 could not find the old Quantrells, | for the excellent reason that they | went over to the “Great Silent Major- | ity” some years ago. But their neph- ew, young Jefferson Davis Quantrell, | lives in the old home of the Strong’s, | and with the help of his pretty little | wife runs the village store, where you can buy anything there is, and then some. The neighbors say that he has trained her to manage the store and that it will support her and their two children while he goes “over there” (to use his own vile slang) “to fetch the Boches a swipe.” Three nights in a week he goes several miles to drill with other men from neighboring farms and the rail- way shops, “in case Uncle Sam might need us.” : : The beanty of it is that his wife backs him, and is as cheerful over it as if Quantrell were going to a dance. ! It seems to me that women like that, are of quite as much value to the country as are the men in the trench- és. $ These Quntrells have all the household “plunder” of the Strongs, for when Billy enlisted his mother went as a Red Cross nurse. : They say that she did not tell him of her plans but kept the house run- ning as usual so that he might have only comfortable memcries of their dearly-loved little home. Then, with the help of “Pa and Ma Quantrell” she moved some chests and boxes into the garret, left others in their usual places, and went off to do her share of the vast work needed to care for our wounded men. I heard one of the Quentrells say, “now be careful Tom, or you will geratch Mrs. Strong’s bureau.” They say Billy is engaged to a very pretty girl from Tennessee, a cousin, who visited the Quantrell's last sum- mer. If so, they are silent about it. This woman and her son seem to have strong characters, and what does not always accompany strength, to be attractive personally, or to use your favorite expression, magnetic. Tt seems that the French refused, with thanks, the offer from some New York society to receive and care for any and all orphans sent over to them by the French. This society engaged to piace these orphans in good fami- lies and employ competent people to see that they are well cared for and kindly treated, with good opportuni- ties at school. After due consideration and cour- teous thanks, the French replied that as their men are being killed and dis- abled in vast numbers, and their wom- en are dying from the fearful suffer- ing entailed by this unspeakeble war, if they send their children to grow up in a foreign nation their existence as a nation will end. Therefore, they will keep them at home; but that they will be very grateful for help in clothing and food until such time as France can again supply them from their own fields and factories. While I admire their spirit I great- ly regret the privations which these poor little tots must undergo in their formative years. However, our women proceeded at once to form a society of “god-moth- ers,” I think they call it. Fach woman promises to send the child eash and clothing sufficient to care for its comfort for one year. Like all gossip, the stories vary as to sum needed. Some say sixty dol- lars a year, some a hundred. Each child to be with its mother, where that is possible. Let us hope many “god-mothers” will help. If I get any more infor- mation I will forward it to you. Also I propose that my good and dear old Aunt Mary is a god-mother to one of these poor little victims of this ungodly war and will let me send her an occasional tener to help out. Let us prove that we recall when Lafayette was our best friend. I remain your affectionate nephew, ANDREW GRAHAM. Sub-editor—A correspondent wishes to know why they whitewash the in- side of 2 hen-house. Tditor—Tell him it’s to keep the hens from picking the grain out of the wood. er Fear | the special process of Professor Monti, | an Italian experimenter, is a grape su- ! served fruits, marmalades, and flavor- Subscribe for the “Watchman.” New Kind of Grape Honey. The “honey of grapes” prepared by gar particularly recommended for pre- ing syrups. The juice is pressed from tation, is next frozen in a rotating cyl- inder with removal of the ice crystals, and is further concentrated to syrup of grapes by heating under low pres- sure. For honey of grapes the con- centration is continued until crystals are found. : Tender Thoughts in Will. Sometimes there are found such ten- der touches as these in the will of 2 late town clerk of Monmouth, who died in 1915, aged seventy-two. He | left to the Monmouth General hospital and dispensary, for the children’s ward, in memory of his darling child Lizzie, £500 and a framed portrait of the child, and desired the authorities | to place on her grave a wreath of flow= | ors each Palm Sunday and a wreath of holly each Christmas day. ae eee | ing to make history and geography | real to your maps is the map | himself ? | the grapes with care to avoid fermen- | history, | making, | be given exact information in simple | form, so that they can discuss world | events with their elders and thus re- | ceive the best possible kind of educa- | tion? Teaching These Times. Dear Teacher: What are you do- schoolroom ? Do you realize that the best of all drawn by the pupil Can each of your pupils make a free hand map of Europe and locate important places? Do you drill your pupils in the cor- rect spelling and pronunciation of the names of places and persons that ap- pear in the day’s doings? Are you awake to the fact that this is the most critical age in the world’s that history is now in the and that the children should Have you digested and reduced the | history of each of the countries of | Europe to its simplest form, eliminat- | ing confusing details, so that your | pupils know | nation ? clearly the story of each Do your pupils understand exactly why America entered the war? who started the war? Have you made plain to your pupils the difference between democracy and . autocracy ? Lute Out of Existence. The lute has vanished. It was one of the oldest of instruments, and had | a beautiful vibrant tone somewhat like that of the harp. But its size and complexity were against it. It had a lon tail and many strings, and while | its size increased its power and range, it also increased its weight and made | it cumbrous. The minstrel of today plays on the mandolin, the guitar or the banjo—and the lute is forgot. Being Ahead of the Times. The world calls every man that is ahead of his age a erank. here is no | disgrace in it. It may be a little hard | not to be understood and appreciated | when you know you have what the | world needs, notes an exchange. But | 1 i remember, that's the way with the world, It sometimes takes years, and | sven centuries for people to appreciate what's beyond their expericace. eet re ot Husband and Wife. Compensation for services rendered by a wife outside of the home of her | husband, with whom she is living, such | services not being in the discharge of her household or domestic duties, and not in interference therewith, is held | recoverable in an action therefor in | her own name and for her own use, in Bechtol vs. Ewing, L. R. A. 19178, 289, | California's Weeping Trees. i California has but two species of na- | +ive trees that are normally of weeping hnbit. One is Quercus lobata, the val- | ley oak, having its most southerly | range near Burbank. The other is | Picea Breweriana, the weeping spruce, which is found in a few isolated moun- | tainous sections in the northwestern | corner of the state. { | Economy and Waste. “Ticonomy is the parent of Integrity, of Liberty and of Base; and the beau- i ! ing the ings stamps, Can you not select some ringing pa- triotic sentence from among the great ‘ utterances of this day, for instance | from some speech of Wilson, Lloyd | George or Clemanceau, for the chil- dren to memorize? Do your pupils understand why we have been called upon to buy Liberty bonds, do they know all about thrift stamps and war savings certificates, ih are all of your pupils doing their it ? Have you explained foed conserva- tion, why we must save on certain foods and exactly how to do so? Do your pupils know the words of i all the verses of “America” and “The | Star-Spangled Banner?” Do they know how to salute the flag and the rules governing the dis- play of the flag? Can they name all of the Allied | countries at war with Germany? Are they familiar with the Allied flags? Do they know about the work of the | Red Cross, of the Young Men’s Chris- { tian Association, of the Knights of Columbus, and of the Jewish Welfare Board ? Do they know what an Enemy Alien ig, and what “interning” means? And what is a Neutral Nation, and | | what are its rights and duties? Have you explained to them the proposed League of Nations and why it should be formed? Do you ask each pupil to select the most important item of yesterday’s news, and discuss with them its mean- ling? Do you ask well-informed men and women of your community to make short talks to your pupils on current events ? Do you encourage your pupils to ask questions on world topics? Do you realize that you are form- democracy of tomorrow and that it is essential that the children under your care know what America stands for and what are their simple duties 2—By Dr. Frank Crane. War Savings Stamps Blue. Washington, D. C.—New war sav- to be issued after Jan- vary 1, will be blue instead of green i and will bear a portrait of Benjamin teous sister Temperance, of Cheerful- | pyankiin, Secretary McAdoo announc- ness and Health; and Profuseness i3| od, The same thrift stamps and thrift a cruel and crafty demon that gradu- cards will continue to be used and ex- ally involves her followers in depend: | changed for $5 war savings stamps ence and debts; that is, fetters them ! with “irons that enter into their souls.” —Hawkesworth. | Weavers. The arts of weaving and rope and net-making are practiced by some of fre lower forms of life, notably among caterpillars and spiders. The weaver birds of Africa and India, which are a species of finch, construct wonderful nests out of leaves by sew- ing them together. Jerked Meats. “In South America jerked or dried | meat is known variously as tassage or tassajo, and jerked venison is prepared and used by mountain dwellers in the Rockies and our southern mountain ranges. In South Africa these dried meat products are known as biltong. Many Rats Destroyed. A club in Kent, England, destroyed 16,000 rats in three seasons at an in- significant cost. Women’s municipal leagues in the United States have re- cently taken up the matter of rat eradication, notably in Baltimore and Boston. Like Getting Signatures. Sentiment is so easily molded that three or four active people, by keep- ing at ‘it long enough can convince millions at water runs up-hill in- stead of dOwn.—Atchison Globe. About His Relations. Judge—“Now, sir, tell us about your | marital relations—were they pleas- ant?’ Bilback—“Pleasant enough, your honor. But they wanted to live on me all the time.”—Life. China Big Hemp Producer. The production of hemp in China, the original home of the plant, is greater than that of any other country except Russia in normal times. She .is Like the Reed. Woman Mike the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.—Archbishop Whately. Canadian Forests. The extent of Canada’s woodlands and forests is said to exceed £05,000, 0304) acres. by the method now in use. The 1919 i series will mature January 1, 1924. “So you think Katherine made a very suitable match?” “Yes, indeed. You know what a nervous, excitable girl she was. Well, | she married a composer.” They are all good enough, but the “Watchman” is always the best. TO-MORROW NEVER ARRIVES. Always lookin’ forward to an easy-goin’ time, When the world seems movin’ careless | like a bit of idle rhime; A day when there is nothin’ that kin make vou sigh or fret; i Always lookin’ forward—but I haven't ! seen it yet. | —Washington Star. i What's in a Shoe? What's in a shoe? Whence comes the material? When you look at a shoe you see the four gornety of the globe pulled together in it. Begin with the bottom, or sole, made from the hide of a Texas steer, tanned in oak from Pennsylvania for- ests. And the heel is of South Amer- joan. dry hide, tanned in hemlock ark. It’s a kid skin shoe you have? It looks it, although one can never tell for sure these days. The vamp is made of a goat of Brazil. It is tan- ned with chrome from Caledonia, is blacked with log wood from Jamaica, and is glazed with glass from Aus- ria. The top is of a skin tanned in Al- geria, brought to Peabody and there returned and finished. The tongue is of sheep leather. The sheep was raised in Argentine. The leather lin- ings are of skins of sheep raised in Australia. The sheep skins were tan- ned in sumac from Sicily. The leather of which the shoe is made is fastened together with thread of Irish linen or Georgia cotton. The lacings are of Egyptian or long fibre Sea Island cotton, tough and strong. The buttons are of bone, pearl or pa- per, American or European. The eye- lets are of brass, coated with cellu- loid. The brass comes from munition factories, when they are willing to give any up. The celluloid comes from the gun-powder factories. The tacks are made by the millions, in Massachusetts, of steel from the United Steel Corporation. The same is true of the heel nails, and of the shanks in the arches of the shoes. If a person prefers wooden pegs he may get them at a New Hampshire shoe shop. The welt may be of pigskin. The pig was killed in Chicago, Ill.,, and his pelt was tanned in Peabody. His bristles were saved and made into brushes for cleaning the shoes. Between the outsole and the insole of the shoe is the “filler,” a composi- tion of rubber from Ceylon cut with naptha and mixed with ground cork from Portugal. The insole, perhaps, is of good bark tanned leather. But it may be of fibre, coated with a sheet of leather. But more likely it is of felt, filled with shellac, to make it stiff. But still more likely it is oil leatherboard, or of celluloid, or scraps of leather pasted together with flour paste and compressed. The felt is made of waste woolen, perhaps old coats. The shellac is from the lac tree of India and the leatherboard is made down in Maine of shredded leather, hemp and jute from India, and other things too nu- merous to mention. Yet a few more things are used in the making of a shoe. The last, is of maple, from Michigan. he edges of the soles and heels are burnished with a wax, which comes from Brazil, and the shoes are blacked with a blacking of which wax is a chief part. T at Must Make ood (C) 1918—Stroust & Bros, Inc... BALTIMORE. Mo. E ASK one question in stocking an overcoat W model—will it make a friend or keep one ? This care in selecting is a guarantee of sat- isfaction in wearing. When your purchase bears the label of High-Art Clothes MADE BY STROUSE & BROS., INC., BALTIMORE, MD. your eye will tell you that these handsome over" coats more than maintain our reputation for correct style. And the same excellence in tailoring and trimming is obvious when you examine the seams and lining. Why not come ‘in today and see these selected coats? Better nct postpone it. Our stocks are now complete in designs and sizes. A. FAUBLE Allegheny PA. There are forty-seven other things in a shoe.—Ex. Pennsylvania Heads Casualty List. Washington, D. C.—Pennsylvania leads the nation’s honor roll in the to- tal number of casualties suffered by her boys overseas. The Keystone State is represented by 6752 names on these official lists. From May 4 to October 24, inclu- sive the total casualties of soldiers of our armies, as reported by the War Department and sent to the press of the United States for publication, was 45,754. Of this number twelve south- ern States contributed 6671. Children C ANNAN idr ry for Fletcher's AUNENNRNNAN RHIAN rRedete i Er The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. ceNuiNE CASTORIA Always Bears the Signature of and has been made under his per- sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and * Just-as-good” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Drops and Soothing Syrups. neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Paregoric, It contains Its It is pleasant. In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY, Hop Success Jr. Potato Digger Potato Diggers The late crop of Potatoes promises to be good and with the labor question very unsettled, there will be a demand for efficient Potato Diggers. The is efficient. It not only lays potatoes on the ground but every potato on top of the ground and in plain view of the pickers. The price is right. Supply is small so let us have your order early. They are extensively used in this vicinity and have given satisfaction to every user. If you are in need of an elevator machine, we can fix you up. WIARD PLOWS PERRY HARROWS NEW IDEA MANURE SPREADERS BROOKVILLE WAGONS FERTILIZERS MISSOURI GRAIN DRILLS. Dubbs’ Implement and Seed Store, DUNLOP STREET 62-47 BELLEFONTE, PA. WILL DO ALL YOUR HAULING 3-4 Ton for Light Hauling Big Truck for Heavy Loads “Greatest Distance for Least Cost” GEORGE A. 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