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Bellefonte, Pa., February 28, 1919.
“THE LADIES’ AID WILL DO THE
REST.”
Published by request.
We've put a fine addition on the good old
church at home,
It’s just the latest kilter, with a gallery
and a dome;
It seats a thousand people—the finest in
all the town,
And when ’twas dedicated, why, we plank-
ed ten thousand down;
That is, we paid five thousand—every dea-
con did his best— :
And the Ladies’ Aid Society, it promised
all the rest.
We've got an organ in the church—very
finest in the land, :
It’s got a thousand pipes or more, its mel-
ody is grand;
And when we sit on cushioned pews and
hear the master play,
It carries us to realms of bliss unnumber-
ed miles away;
It cost a cool three thousand, and it's stood
the hardest test;
We'll pay a thousand on it—the
Aid the rest.
Ladies’
They'll give a hundred sociables, can-
tatas, too, and teas;
They'll give a hundred sociables, can-
tons of cream they'll freeze;
They'll beg and scrape and toil and sweat,
for seven years or more,
And then they’ll start all over again for a
carpet for the floor;
No, it isn’t just like digging out the mon-
ey from your vest,
When the Ladies’ Aid gets busy and says,
“We'll pay the rest.”
Of course we're proud of our big church,
from pulpit up to spire;
It is the darling of our eyes, the crown of
our desire;
But when I see the sisters work to raise
the cash that lacks,
I somehow feel the church is built on wom-
en’s tired backs;
And sometimes I can't help thinking
when we reach the regions blest,
That men will get the toil and sweat and
the Ladies’ Aid the rest.
IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE
NEW INCOME TAX LAW.
Work on the collection of $6,000,-
000,000 has been begun by the Bureau
of Internal Revenue. This is the es-
sential yield of the new revenue bill.
The income tax provisions of the act
reach the pocket-book of every single
person in the United States whose
net income for 1918 was $1,000, or
more, and of every married person
whose net income was $2,000 or more.
Persons whose net income equalled or
exceeded these amounts, according to
their marital status, must file a re-
turn of income with the collector of
internal revenue for the district in
which they live on or before March
15. The collector is Fred C. Kirken-
dall, Scranton, Pa.
Here is what will happen to them if
they don’t; for failure to file a return
on time, a fine of not more than $1,000
and an additional assessment of 25
per cent. of the amount of tax due.
For “willfully refusing” to make a
return on time, a fine not exceeding
$10,000, or not exceeding one year’s
imprisonment, or both.
For making a false or fraudulent
return, a fine of not more than $10,-
000, or imprisonment for not more
than one year, or both, together with
an additional assessment of 50 per
cent. of the amount of tax evaded.
For failure to pay the tax on time,
a fine of not more than $1,000 and an
additional assessment of 5 per cent.
of the amount of tax unpaid, plus 1
per cent. interest for each full month
during which it remains unpaid.
In addition to the $1,000 and $2,000
personal exemptions, taxpayers are
allowed an exemption of $200 for each
person dependent upon them for chief
support if such person is under eigh-
teen years of age and incapable of
self-support. Under the 1917 act,
this exemption was allowed only for
each dependent “child.” The head of
a family—one who supports one or
more persons closely connected with
him by blood relationship, relation-
ship by marriage, or by adoption—is
entitled to all exemptions allowed a
married person.
The normal rate of tax under the
new act is 6 per cent of the first $4,-
000 of net income above the exemp-
tions, and 12 per cent. of the net in-
come in excess of $4,000. Incomes in
excess of $5,000 are subject also to a
surtax ranging from 1 per cent. of
the amount of the net income between
$5,000 and $6,000 to 65 per cent. of the
net income above $1,000,000.
_ Payment of the tax may be made
in full at the time of filing return or
in four installments, on or before
March 15, on or before June 15, on or
before September 15, and on or before
December 15.
Revenue officers will visit Centre
county to aid taxpayers in making
out their return. The date of their
arrival and the location of their offices
may be ascertained by inquiring at
offices of collectors of internal reve-
nue, postoffices and banks. Failure to
see these officers, however, does
not relieve the taxpayer of his
obligation to file his return and pay
his tax within the time specified by
law. In this case taxpayers must
seek the government, not the govern-
ment the taxpayer.
Beer All Out on May 1.
Newark, N. J.—Prediction that the
nation’s beer supply would be exhaus-
ted by May 1 was made in a state-
ment issued here a few days ago, by
Christian W. Feigenspan, president of
the United States Brewers’ Associa-
tion, announcing that the brewers of
this vicinity had agreed to pool their
supplies, “to allow each concern to
stay in business as long as possible.”
After adding that New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut would be “beer dry”
by April 1, the statement continued:
“With the country dry of beer by May
1 you can see what it will mean for
the months of May and June. The
country will be on a straight whiskey
basis. And in these days of unrest it
is dangemous to have steady beer
drinkers switch to whiskey. The re-
sults may surprise people.” .
PLANNED KINGDOM IN DESERT.
Adventurous Youths Had Great
Scheme to Make Fertile Region of
the Waste of Sahara.
Governmental authority, co-operat-
Ing with parental authority, has
thwarted a romance of youthful adven-
ture at Denver which reads like a
Stevenson or a Poe. Two boys, six-
teen and fifteen years old, had planned
the establishment of the kingdom of
Sahara. They had studied maps and
devised engineering plans, delved into
finance and perused the military art,
until the fund of their information was
astonishing to those whose duty com-
pelled them to step across the adven-
turers’ path.
The Denver youths were planning
soon to iavade the Sahara and set up
their kingdom, over which they were
to rule as joint kings. The natives
were to be organized into a powerful
army of 7,000,000 men. This army was
to dig great artesian wells, water from
which was to form two lakes with an
area of 250,000 square miles. The
Senegal and Nile were to be flooded,
shutting the new Kingdom safely in
against hostile incursion. Portugal
was to be coerced into ceding Portu-
guese East Africa to the new kingdom ;
in return for which Portugal was to be
helped to take British and French
Guiana and the former German pos-
sessions in Africa. Each of the joint
kings had figured out an income of
$14,500,000 for himself.
A dream, born of a disordered fancy?
Sure, but—
No more of a dream than that of
the German military party which start-
ed out four years ago to drive the Brit-
ish lion to his den, to clip the wings
of Liberty and tie America to their
chariot wheels. Building a powerful
kingdom in a desert would be no great-
er task than that assumed by the
Germans of laying civilization by the
heels.
Henceforth, it anyone proposes to
fly to the moon or to build a spiral
stairway to the earth’s center, he may
cite the example of the ruler of a once
great people who assumed a task sim-
ilar in its elements of romantic adven-
ture and similarly impossible of
achievement. A new standard for fool-
ish effort has been set for all time.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Work for Shell Shock Men.
The kind of employment the shell
shock man undertakes, whether he re-
turns to his old work or takes up some-
thing new that suits him better, is one
of the deciding factors in his recovery. -
The work must be congenial and it
must be something he can do without
strain or worry. And the hours, more-
over, must not be too long. A patient
whom I have known for five years does
a highly skilled kind of technical work,
which he thoroughly enjoys, and for
which he is highly appreciated by his
firm. In his zeal for his work, he from
time to time has a spell of working
over hours, with the result that he be-
comes fatigued and then takes alcohol
and for a while is wholly irresponsible.
These attacks could be avoided if his
wife were skillful enough to prevent
his overworking. For the man with
chell shock the nature and hours of
work should be given the most care-
ful consideration.—Mary C. Jarrett in
Touchstone (New York.)
More Particulars Coming.
They had been married in Novem-
ber.
“Did you see anything that particu-
larly struck your fancy when you
were looking round the shops today,
sweetheart?’ he asked, on his wife's
return from a round of Christmas
shopping.
“Well,” she replied, “I saw some-
thing extremely pretty in
glasses.”
“I have no doubt you did,” he ob-
served, “if you looked into them.”
They were married in November.
A further and more exciting install-
ment of this young couple’s adven-
tures will appear in our Christmas
number for 1919.
To Keep Your Shoes Dry.
Here is an item which the doctor
tells us to add te our long list of
things to do to keep the “ftu” away:
By standing just outside your door
in a dry place for a moment before
wading out in the snow in severe
weather you will find that the snow
does not cling to the shoes and they
will remain perfectly dry. The rea-
son for this is that the soles of your
shoes are cooled so that they do not
melt the snow through which you
walk. If you rush out of a warm
house in warm shoes they melt the
snow which sticks tc them, and the
water soon soaks through to the feet.
Mail by Airplane.
All mails between Europe and the
United States eventwally will be car-
ried by airplane, according to Lord
Morris, who has championed a move-
ment before a parliamentary commit-
tee for the establishment of a port
of call for Atlantic liners on the west
coast of Ireland.
Already, he says, a regular daily
mail service by airplane is maintained
between England and France without
interruption by the weather.
Always Dictates It.
Booth Tarkington tells of an old ne-
gro who appeared as a witness before
one of our committees. In the course
of his examination these questions
were put to the man:
“What is your name?”
“Calhoun Clay, sah.”
“Can you sign your name?”
“Sah?”
“I ask if you can write your name.”
“Well, no sah. Ah nebber writes ma
name. Ah dictates it, sah.”
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How Can We Keep Well?
Pneumonia and the Epidemic.
By Hermann M. Biggs, M. D,, LL. D., Com missioner of Health, State of New York,
In McCall's Magazine.
In October and November last, this
country passed through the severest
epidemic of disease which it has ex-
perienced in a century and perhaps in
its whole history. Not fewer than
200,000 deaths in the United States
were caused by influenza and pneu-
monia, but practically all of these
were really due to pneumonia. Influ-
enza itself rarely proves fatal except’
through the complications which fol-
low or accompany it, the chief of these
being pneumonia in some form.
Even under ordinary conditions,
pneumonia causes more deaths in this
country than any other disease, and
this year the usual total will be dou-
bled or. possibly trebled. For some
reason which we do not understand,
pneumonia has for many years been
far more prevalent here than in Eu-
ropean countries and is sometimes
called “the fatal American disease.”
It occurs as the most dangerous com-
plication in many other infectious dis-
eases, such as whooping cough and
measles, and is often the final cause
of death in many chronic diseases. So
often is this latter the case that it
has frequently been said that people !
suffering from chronic diseases rarely |
die directly of the disease from which ;
they have been suffering.
Pneumonia is an inflammation of
the lungs, produced by disease germs.
The air cells become filled with in- |
flammatory matter and thus the lung |
is converted into an almost solid tis-!
sue. There are many varieties of |
pneumonia, and the disease may be |
caused by many different germs, but !
in all forms the condition produced in!
the lungs and most of the symptoms |
occurring are similar. In many in- |
stances the different types of pneu- !
monia can only be distinguished by |
laboratory examination, although they
differ greatly in severity and in the
fatality which they cause.
Formerly we did not consider that
pneumonia was communicable to any
extent, but it has been shown during
the last few years, by the investiga-
tion of Dr. Cole and his associates at
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research, that the disease is in a large
percentage of cases communicable,
and that it may be transmitted direct-
ly from person to person, or indirect-
ly through the agency of “carriers.”
It is not necessary to refer to the
methods of communication because
they have already hecn considered in
previous articles 2.1 are the same in
all diseases of the air passages. There
is practically no difference between
the routes and methods of communica-
tion, for example, of tuberculosis,
which is the most chronic form of
these respiratory diseases, and influ-
enza, which is the most acute and con-
tagious, except that the former is
very slow and insidious, lasting for
vears, and the resistance to it among
while in the latter the disease is very
acute and the susceptibility of the hu-
man race to it is very general.
Ordinarily the prevalence of pneu-
monia increases gradually during the
cold weather and reaches its maxi-
mum in the late winter or early spring
months. To this a number of factors
contribute.
One of the State Sanitary Super-
visors in New York State recently re-
ported a personal experience of the
way in which the disease is spread.
He said, “My nephew, aged 35, has
recently suffered from a severe pneu-
monia. His two-year-old boy had it
mildly and his two little girls had bad
colds, so we took them to our home
while the father was sick. Then my
wife developed a severe cold, my two
children had mild colds and I had the
worst cold I have had in years. Last-
ly, my secretary, aged 25, got a se-
vere cold and suddenly developed
pneumonia. His attack and that of
my nephew began with severe vom-
iting after attending dances where
the air was dusty and foul and where
then eaten heartily.”
The same germs which in one per-
son may be carried in the nose and
throat without producing any symp-
toms, a “bacillus carrier,” produce in
another a cold of greater or less se-
verity, and in a third a severe and
perhaps a fatal attack of pneumonia.
The resistance of the individual at the
time of exposure apparently deter- |
mines the result. If the person is
strong and well and in good condition,
the pneumonia germs in the nose and
throat may produce no symptoms or
only those of an ordinary cold, while
if one is in poor condition, or is over-
fatigued or is exposed to the weather,
a real pneumonia may develop.
Fatigue (whether it is the result of !
working too hard or playing too hard)
is one of the most common predispos-
ing causes of the development of
pneumonia, and when with this there
is a chilling of the surface of the body
by exposure to cold, and a breathing
in of foul, dusty air, we have combin-
ed those conditions most likely to ren-
der the body vulnerable to the pneu-
monia germs.
Alcohol is one of the most power-
ful allies of the pneumococus, and even
| moderate drinkers show a much high-
er death rate from this disease, than
do abstainers, while in habitual drink-
ers the mortality is excessive.
Over-crowding, over-heated rooms
and houses, and bad air are all unfa-
vorable influences and are perhaps
the most important factors in produc-
ing susceptibility to colds and pneu- |
The prevalence of this dis- |
ease in cantonments last winter was |
monia.
largely due to these factors.
The occurrence of pneumonia is al-
most unknown where people live and
sleep in the open air even in the cold-
est climates and in all conditions of
weather. An example of this is found
in the open-air institutions for the
treatment of tuberculosis.
In only one variety of pneumonia
has a serum as yet been perfected
which is efficient in treatment. This
variety is known technically as Type
1, and under the usual conditions
cases of this type form about one-third
of all the cases of the diseases occur-
ring in adults. By the use of the se-
rum the death rate in this type has
been reduced in the best hospitals
from 25 or 30 per cent. to 7 or 8 per
cent. Unfortunately the determina-
tion of the type of pneumonia can on-
ly be made in a well-constituted lab-
oratory and requires considerable
technical skill, as does the adminis-
tration of the serum.
A vaccine has been prepared for the
prevention of pneumonia and was
quite widely used in some of the ar-
my camps last winter. While it is
too early to say definitely how effi-
cient this is, the results are very en-
couraging and it may ultimately fur-
nish the method for controlling this
disease.
If you feel sick all over, with chill-
iness or aching of the bones, with fe-
verishness and headache, perhaps
with cold in the head or throat, you |
are probably getting influenza. Go to
bed for your own sake as well as to
prevent giving the disease to others, |
and until you can get a doctor, do
these things: 1.—Take a dose of cas-
tor oil. 2.—Bathe your feet in hot
water and mustard, take a glass of
hot lemonade, and cover up warmly
to produce sweating. 3.—Keep fresh
air in the rooms by opening the win-
dow at the top. 4.—Drink plenty of
water. Take only simple, plain food,
such as milk, broth and gruels. Eat
toast and butter, and any kind of ce-
real. Eggs may be eaten, but not
meat. 5.—Do not get up unless ab-
solutely necessary, and then do not
walk about and expose yourself to
cold. 6.—Do not take any medicine
unless ordered by a doctor. 7.—Do
not cough or sneeze in the face of
other people. Stay in bed until you
have no fever, and remain in the
house three or four days longer.
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$8 Shoes Reduced to $5.50
I have an accumulation of sizes--
8, 814, 9 and 10--in
Men’s Genuine Army Shoes
These shoes sell at $8.00 per pair.
You can Purchase a Pair at $5.50
Until they are All Sold
This is $1.25 less than the Gov-
ernment is paying for Army Shoes
today.
Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Lyon & Co.
Lyon & Co. ;
Reconstruction Sale
Now at Its Best
We will Continue this Sale
Until March 1st
Ladies’ Winter Coats and Suits
36 Winter Coats, all sizes and all colors,
including black, will be sold at less
than wholesale price.
8 Winter Suits, black and colors, at sac-
rifice prices.
Woolen and Silk Mixed
Dress Goods
See our table of Dress Goods—36 inches
wide, all colors—special 50c.
Shoes Shoes Shoes
Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Shoes at
special low prices.
Spring Coats and Suits
Advance showing of New Models in
Coats and Suits, here for your inspec-
tion.
Lyon'S Co ly Lyon & Co.
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