3 Bellefonte, Pa., May 2, 1919. MERELY GIVEN LONG NAMES Decoctions Prescribed by High-Priced , Physicians Made From Familiar be Wayside Herbs. Many of the secrets hidden under the thatch of the wattle and daub cot- tages can be found in the pharma- copeia of either the allopathist or the homeopathist, observes the London Daily Express. Willow tea is but a crude form of the salycilates which have long been recognized as the orthodox anti-uric acid and anti-pyretic remedies. Common mallow, called ‘“pick- cheeses” by children, provides a taste- less mucilaginous liquid, which is worked up in various shapes and given for coughs. The leaves of the colt’s- foot, horehound and balm are all used, in liquid form mostly, for coughs and chest affections. Foxglove cordial is given to old peo- ple suffering from palpitation of the heart, and does as much good as when it is called “tinc. digitalis.” Camomile and dandelion broths or teas are sold as tonics by the wise women who would be at a loss to say what was meant by Anthemis nobilis or Taraxacum. Beautiful comfrew is used, both plant and root, as a poultice for can- cerous and other growths, and a broth is made from it for kidney affections. This has obtained efficial recognition under the name of Symphitum offi- cinale. The “cure” for measles is saffron tea. This is prepared by pouring boil- ing water on the dried stigmas of the purple autumn crocus. An infusion of flixweed cleanses and heals wounds. Self heal has cured quinsy; sage has many valuable qualities. FIRST KNOWN USE OF CIGARS Mentioned by Name in Book Published in 1740, but Were Smoked Be- fore That Time. The ' earliest known mention of cigars is in a book published in 1740 under the title of “Distresses and Adventures of John Cockburn.” It ap- pears that Cockburn was cast on a des- ert island in the Bay of Honduras, from which he swam to the mainland, and thence traveled afoot to Porto Bello, a distance of 2,600 miles. Here he met some friars who gave him some “seegars” to° smoke. “These,” he says, “are some leaves of tobacco rolled up in some manner that serves both as pipe and the tobacco itself.” Though this is the earliest date at which cigars appear to be mentioned by that name, so far back as 1498 two soldiers sent by Columbus to ex- plore Cuba told their companions on their return how the natives carried in their mouths a lighted firebrand made from the leaves of a certain herb, rolled up in maize leaves. The description of an Indian method of smoking given by Lionel Wafer, in his “Travels in the Isthmus of Darien,” in 1699, shows that they then smoked cigars made just as we make them now. The manufacture and consumption of cigars in northern Europe only dates from the close of the seventeenth century. Music and Thinking. About 1000 A. D. a monk in an Italian monastery had been thinking about the long, laborious task of train- ing singers for the church service. Ten years were required for a singer to memorize words and music of the va- rious chants and hymns used! There was no system for learning a new tune independent of the words. And while he was thinking he heard his choirboys practicing one of their lessons, a hymn that rose in pitch with the first syllable of each successive line, just as the scale series was formed. Thought flashed! And the result of his thinking was ithe use of the syllables ut (changed to do later), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si to facilitate scale learning. The imme- diate result was that Guido’s choirboys learned all their tunes—and could take new ones—in six months as against ten years in the old way. And the indirect result is that boys and girls in the schools of this country learn the scales by a process similar to that thought out by a monk in Italy nearly 1,000 years ago. Aegean islands. The Aegean islands are Thasos, in the extreme north, off the Macedonian coast; Samothrace, Imbros, and Lem- nos, near the Dardanelles; Eubaea, the largest of all, lying close along the east coast of the Greek peninsula; the northern Sporades, including Skia- those, Skopelos, and Skyros, near Eu- boea; Lesbos, Ohios, Samos, and the large group of other Sporades, such as Rhodes, Cos, and Patmos, adjacent to the coast of Asia Minor; and, finally, the large group, the Cyclades, extend- ing southward from Euboea toward Crete and including Andros, Delos, Naxos, Paros and Melos.—Literary Di- gest. Military Correspondence. “Why did you reject Col. Puffersby?”’ “Too much military efficiency.” “How was that?” “His last letter to me started off something like this: ‘From Col. Puf- fersby, To Miss Gloria Piffle. Sub- ject, Love.! "—Birmingham Age-Her- LIGHT ON UNKNOWN LANDS Explorer Added Greatly to World's Knowledge of Customs of Peculiar Peoples and Tribes. Returning in April, 1937, from one of his trips, Capt. Theodore de Booy, the archeologist and explorer of previ- ously unknown regions of Santo Do- mingo and Venezuela, who died in New York, brought with him a “swallow or regurgitating stick” from the Virgin islands. The “swallow stick” was believed to have been used in worship by a West Indian priest more than 400 years ago. It was about five inches long, and carved from the rib of a sea cow, in the image of one of the West Indian tribal gods. It was said that there were only three other such sticks in existence. Previously unknown regions in the mountains between Venezuela and Co- lombia were explored by Captain De Booy. No white man had ever before entered the high and cloud-capped mountains of that country, which &x2 inhabited entirely by Indian tribes. It took many days of difficult mountain climbing to reach the heights where the tribes live in a land of perpetual mist and cold, although within ten degrees of the equator. Captain De Booy reported that for the most part he had found the natives friendly. At the start he was chosen to lead a cam- paign against a neighboring tribe to obtain women and other booty. All the material results of the expedi- tion save the women were offered him, but he declined. Captain De Booy conducted archeo- logical investigations in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Turks and Caicos islands, Margarita, Trinidad, Martinique, Venezuela and the Virgin islands of the United States. CITY OF GREAT FINANCIERS Frankfort-on-Main Celebrated for Re- markable Men of Genius It Has Given to World. Frankfort, the famous German town on the River Main, is the birth- place of the world’s greatest million- aires. It is a wealthy commercial city, and quite disproportionately famous in comparison with its actual size. The Rothschilds, whose ancestral home is now the solitary relic of the once famous Jewish quarter of the city; the Sterns and the Speyers in England, and the Kahns, the Kuhn, Loeb & Co., in this country, would alone suffice to make it remarkable as the birthplace of international finan- clers. Even more extraordinary is the num- ber of successful financial firms which had their birth or whose founders were born on the banks of the Main. The reason which is usually given for this seemingly strange coincidence is that the geographical position of Frankfort is such that a mixture of races is fostered, and that has been proved to be specially favorable to financial genius. What Every Man Expects. Oh, yes, it is perfectly easy for any woman to learn to cook, writes Helen Rowland. All in the world you need is the “right spirit, my dear.” And a stove and a cook book, and a bungalow apron. And—the genius of a Newton, the science of a Savarin, the patience of a Griselda, the agility of a Charlie Chaplin, the judgment of Solo- mon, the skill of Ariel, the imagination of Jules Verne, the persistence of Deli- lah, the versatility of Mrs. Fiske, the sure aim of Christy Mathewson, the coolness and composure of “Central,” the calm decigion of Haroun-al-Ras- chid, the thumbs of a blacksmith, the skin of a salamander, the batting aver- age of Ty Cobb, the bluff of Cagilostro, ithe nerve of Jess Willard, the self-as- surance of a kaiser, the faith of Joan of Arc, and—the meekness of a— worm ! Happiness in Work. “Only regular, happy, productive work can give life tg full savor,” said Jules Payot in the “Education of the Will.” “That upwelling sense of en- ergy which we call the joy of living can only arise and be made part of daily life by work. He who does noth- ing at all has plenty of time to chew the cud of petty annoyances. The mind ‘gnaws itself, to use a popular French expression.” “When a soldier or laborer com- plains of the work he has to do let him be put to doing nothing,” says Pascal, and Darwin testifies to the wretchedness of idleness with the re- ‘mark, “During my stay at Maer my ‘health has been poor and I have been scandalously lazy. The impression that this has made upon me is that nothing is so unbearable as laziness.” Webster's Log Cabin. It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, raised among the snowdrifts of New Hampshire at a period so early that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney and curled over tke frozen hills there was no similar evi- dence of a white man’s habitation be- tween it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada. Its remains still exist; I make it annual visit. I carry my children to it, to teach them the hardships endured by the generations which have gone before them. I love to dwell on the tender recollections, the kindred ties, the early affections, and the touching narratives and inci- dents, which mingle with all I know of this primitive family abode.—Daniel Webster. Army Chaplain Says the 28th is the Finest. Rev. John S. Zelie, former pastor of the Plainfield, N. J., Presbyterian church, who was a Red Cross chap- lain and served with the 28th charac- terizes the Keystone division thusly: “The finest body of men in the world, smiled, fought and won.” The chap- lain arrived in Philadelphia I Ey and in a newspaper interview spoke as follows: “Three days after I was assigned to the Twenty-eighth division I dis- covered that I was inthe midst of the finest bunch of men in the world. Every one of them was a fighter, a hero and a man. Pennsylvania i every reason to be proud of them, and I hope that the division will receive an appropriate welcome when it ar- rives. The War Department owes it to the men as well as to their friends and relatives. “The only thing I regret is that the folks at home were not at the front to see Jhess men going into action with smiling, determined faces and a song upon their lips. “Day after day and night after night they bested the Hun. They fought for weeks continuously while other divisions on either side were sent into action and relieved. Their deeds at Chateau-Thierry, at Fismes, in the Argonne and at Metz will be recorded in the annals of the war as We Will Buy Notes of the Victory Liberty Loan, within one year, make their subscription through this bank, and who may be forced to sell The First National Bank. 61-46-1y among the greatest achievements of all times.” ——For high class job work come to the “Watchman” office. Wealth of Methodists Rated at Many Millions. “The wealth of the Methodist con- stituency in the United States is ap- proximately twenty-five billions of dollars and it is increasing at the rate of a billion a year,” declares Dr. Ed- gar Blake, who is active in the Cen- tenary campaign. “The income of the membership of our church at present is Jour and one-half billions of dollars “Our church now contributes for all her work about forty-nine ions a year. This sum includes about three millions to the present Centenary ask- ings. So we only need to add to the forty-nine millions, we are now rais- ing, about 13 millions more. This means that where a person is now giving a nickel to the work of the church of Christ we ask him to give six and one-fourth cents.” Methodist Episcopal membership in Western Pennsylvania and West Vir- ginia is four to six per cent. of the to- tal population, according to the fig- ures compiled by surveyors for the Methodist Centenary campaign. ——Subseribe £ for th the , “Watchman.” from those who Bellefonte, Pa. Your Banker The institution with which you main- tain banking relations can be of service to you in many ways. does not consider that its service to its pa- trons ceases with the safeguarding of their funds. It keeps in personal touch with all of them in such a way as to be of assistance very often when other matters develop affecting their interest. It Invites You to Take Advantage of Its Unusual Service. The Centre County Banking Co. B ing inferior Dairy Feeds as is expended in feeding your Milk Cows a Good, Wholesome BALANCED RATION. The difference is in production. pure ; is composed of Cotton Seed Meal, Wheat Bran, Alfalfa * Meal, Gluten Feed, Molasses, Fine Ground Oats, Etc., Etc. ; is high in Protein, isa GUARANTEED MILK PRODUCER and at the RIGHT PRICE. Ryde’s Calf Meal A substitute for milk ; and not nearly as expensive. good, rich milk substitute. Every pound makes one gallon Beef Scrap, 55 per cent. Protein Brookville Wagons, “New Idea” Manure Spreaders Pumps, Gasoline Engines, Roofing, Etc., Etc. Dubbs’ Implement and Seed Store The same energy and money is expended in feed- Our Dairy Feed is 100 per cent. better for calves and pigs DUNLOP STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA. Yeager’s Shoe Store A Beautiful Spring Display of Fine Pumps and Oxfords FOR WOMEN YOU will need a pair of Oxfords or Pumps for Spring. Our line is complete. All the new styles: Patent Kid, Vici Kid all the shades of Tan, all the new lasts and heels, all sizes and widths We have made a special effort to get all the styles in large sizes, so that the large woman with a large foot can secure just as good looking shoes as the dainty miss. 3 Come and examine our line before you purchase your Spring Shoes Yeager’s Shoe Store THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. ne Tpemen on | Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co. Special Prices For May We expect to make this the banner month by reducing the prices on all wanted merchandise. Cotton and Silk Georgette Waists Voile Waists from 98c. to $2.50. Tub Silk Waists now $2. Georgette Crepe Waists $5 to $7. Wash Goods One lot of fine Plaid and Stripe Ginghams, regu- lar ssc. quality, while they last 25c. Light and dark 36-inch Percales, best brands only, 25¢. Fine white Lawns, 50c. quality, while they last 25¢. Silk and Cotton Crepe de Chine, 36-inch only, soc. Dolmans, Capes, Coats and Suits We never had as big a season in this department, and we are stronger than ever. We are replenishing every week. Rugs and Carpets All sizes in Rugs. ‘Tapestry, Velvet, Wilton, Ax- minster and Rag Rugs—the best values and lowest prices. Rag and Ingrain Carpets at less than cost of manufacture. Shoes Shoes Men’s, women’s and children’s Shoes at prices that will suit the moderate purse. Lyon & Co.
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