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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.
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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
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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.