' Demon fac "Bellefonte, Pa., May 9, 1919, NO “BEST” MONTH Time of Birth Has Little to Do With Genius. Statistics Show That Nature Practical- ly Plays No Favorites in Her Production of the Gifted Ones of the Earth. Astrologers believe that the planets *reigning” at the time of birth gov- ern us throughout life, and that, from a literary point of view certain months ‘are more favorable than others in which to be born. Taking the hundred best British writers since the day of Chaucer, no less than forty-eight were born in the four months February, May, August and November. In February were born Charles Dick- ens, Pepys the diarist, and Thomas Moore, while of more modern date and fame are George Meredith, Israel Zangwill, Anthony Hope, Harrison Ainsworth and Wilkie Collins. Pope and Addison were both born in May, as also were Browning, Ross etti, Moore, Bulwer Lytton, Thomas Hood, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir James M. Barrie. August seems to be the birthmonth of poets, for in that month were dorn Dryden, Herrick, Scott, Shelley, South- ey and Tennyson. Apparently November is an unlucky month for literary people, for among those who were born in November are Thomas Chatterton, who, in disappoint- ment and poverty, committed suicide at eighteen; William Cowper, who suf- fered from melancholia and suicidal mania, and finally died insane; Oliver Goldsmith, continually in prison for debt; John Bunyan, who spent 12 years in prison, thereby giving us “Pil- grim's Progress ;” Swift, subject to fits of passion and ill-humor, died insane; Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from almost continual ill-health, and died at forty-four. So much for the “favored months.” Of the others, January saw the birth of Bobbie Burns, Byron and Lewis Carrol, author of *“Alice in Wonder- land,” who was also a famous mathe matician. March was the birthmonth of Smol- lett and Steele, as also of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In April was born the greatest genius the English language has known, William Shakespeare, among others born in this month were Wordsworth, Keble, Heber, Swinburne and Herbert. Charlotte Bronte and Anthony Trollope were also born in this month. June is not a very good month, Charles Reade and Charles Kingsley being the only two writers. July gave us Thackeray and George Bernard Shaw, and those interested in astrology may find a resemblance between the two satirists. September and October were both poor months, Mrs. Hemans and H. G. Wells being born in September and Coleridge, Keats and Sheridan in Oc- tober. Finally Milton, Gray and Matthew Arnold were born in December, as were also Jane Austin and Carlyle. So there is hope for most people as far as birthmonths are concerned. Reproducing the Talmud. One of the circumstances due to the war is that it has been found nec- essary to reproduce the plates for printing the Hebrew Talmud, orig- inally produced in the town of Wil na, Russia. When this city was cap- tured by Germany the electrotypes of the Talmud, it is reported, were used for ammunition. To reset the work in Hebrew would take years with an ordinary outfit. It was found necessary that the plates should be made by photo-engrav- ing, and this work is now being done in Montreal under the auspices of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the Unit- ed States and Canada. The Talmud contains 9,000 pages, 8 by 14, and it is divided into 18 volumes. The first volume is finished, and the second is in print now. It is estimated that it will take about two years be- fore the work is completed. Army Animals Bought Abroad. Not all of the animals used by the United States expeditionary forces in overseas service were taken from this country. More than twice as many were bought abroad. The total num- ber of animals purchased overseas to January 11, 1919, is 152,836. Pur- chases of borses in France amounted to 109,848; in Spain, 1,531; and in Great Britain, 11,808. The value of purchases in France was $48,122,004; in Spain, $589,160; and Great Britain, $5,314,711, or a total value of $49, 025,965 for 123,277 horses purchased overseas. The tetal number of mules purchased overseas amounted to 29, 059, with a value of $11,115,847. There were 9,341 mules, valued at $2,805,928, purchased in France; 12,941 myles, with a value of $5,619,156, purchased in Spain; and 6,777 mules, valued at $2,600,763, purchased in Great Britain. Willie's Joke. “Pa, what a funny word ‘wholesome’ is. “What's funny about it?” “Why, take away the whole of it and you have some left.”—Boston Tran- euctipt. : WHY HE QUIT “THE ROAD” Ex-Drummer Voices Regret for the Disappearance of Oldtime Boni. face and Clerk. “Oh for the old-fashioned hotel clerk, smiling, accommodating, always friendly, who never forgot a face, obliging and always making a fellow feel lize he was at home,” sald Frank Whitsell of Portland, Ore., ac- cording to the El Paso Herald. “What a difference between the old profes- sional hotel clerks of 25 years ago, even up to 15 years ago, and the au- tomatic, mechanical clerks who never try to oblige—I might call them auto- matic grouches—of the present day behind the hotel registers. If you ask one of them a question he or she, nowadays, intimates that you get your room and meals, just exactly what you pay for, and not a thing more, please understand that. I was a com- mercial traveler for a quarter cen- tury up to six years ago, and I know. Why, we old drummers, as they used to call us, felt at home in those old hostelries of the western states, just on account of the clerks. Say, they were God’s noblemen, those old-timers. They seemed to anticipate a fellow’s wants and would go to all sorts of trouble to accommodate one. The milk of human kindness flowed in their hearts. And it made business, too. I have stopped at an inferior house, many a time, because I had been treat- ed so well by the clerk. And I can say, too, the proprietors were much the same way in those days. Hotels were made homelike, not a big box with compartments, where you are to be tucked away at so much per. That was one of the reasons I quit the road, the chilly, purely mechanical hotels of the present day.” CANNOT BE TAKEN ALIVE Gorillas WIll Fight to the Death, and Are to Be Feared, Even When Mortally Wounded. The most perilous job that any one can undertake in the jungle is the cap- ture of a full-grown gorilla. It is said that no gorilla has ever been captured alive after he was full grown. He would be a bold man who would at- tempt such a feat. Gorillas fear noth- ing. Even when mortally wounded they show an agility, strength and fe- rocity which fs astonishing. A famous traveler once stated that it would take 150 men to hold down a gorilla with any degree of safety. On the other hand, all other apes are said to be pathetically easy to cap- ture. The usual method is for a trap. while | per to seat himself where he is certain | to be observed hy these creatures and pretend to drink -from a bottle of ! When he is sure that | | he has been observed, he leaves tha! | crude spirits. | bottle and goes away. The moment his back is turned the monkeys rush to appease their curios- | ity concerning the contents of the bot. | tle. They like the taste of the spirits, | and quarrel among themselves for it | till the bottle has been emptied. They | are soon overcome by the intoxicant, | and the trapper returns and gathers i them in. | : Change of Fashion. Indeed, so completely have fashions and materials changed in a century | that the articles included in the fol | lowing advertisement of goods to be sold on Fishbourne’s wharf, “back of Mrs. Fishbourne’s dwelling,” have scarcely any meaning for us. Among the numerous articles to be disposed of were: “Tandems, isinghams, nuns, hag and gulixall shirtings, huckabacks, quilted hum-hums, turkettes, grassetts, single allopeens, children’s jumps and bodice, whalebone and iron busks, men’s Newmarket caps, allibanies, dickmansoy, cushloes, chuchloes, cut- tanees, crimson dannador, chained soosees, lemonees, byrampauts, moree, maffermany, saxlingham, prunelloe, barragons,” etc. Humhums was a sort of towel made of coarse Indian cotton cloth; cutta- nee a kind of piece goods of silk and cotton, also imported from India; bar- ragon is the barracan of today, a fabric made of camel’s hair, used wide- ly in the Levant for robes and man- tles; but for the most part the ar- ticles named in the advertisement have long become obsolete. Length of Arms and Legs. According to many measurements made at the Anthropological labora- tory in London, the right arm in human beings is in a majority of cases longer than the left arm, while, on the contrary, the left leg is longer than the right leg. Sometimes, however, the relative proportions are exactly reversed but seldom does perfect equality exist be- tween the two sides. The tendency of the right arm to exceed the left arm in strength is sometimes greater in men than in women, while equality of strength in the two, s occurs almost twice as frequently with women as with men. Time to Reform. The sajlor, returning a trifle fud- dled from a peace celebration, found his hitherto respected and respectable ship newly camouflaged in the most modern cubist style. Running his eye over the whole mess of conflicting squares, triangles, lines, circles and sundry other name- less blobs of paint which graced the sides of his “home,” and blinking stu- pidly at the hideous screaming color scheme, he slowly raised his hand while the tears coursed down his cheeks and murmured, wearily: DIDN'T KNOW CURLING IRON Easy to Understand That Youthful Member of Chicago Jury Was Not a Married Man. Every man knows what a curling fron is, but does every man know whether or not a curling iron is a deadly weapon? The question was raised in Judge Guerin’s court in Chicago recently in the Otto Mathis murder trial. Otto sgid he stabbed his brother, Edward, when Edward attacked him with a curling iron, which he thought a dan- gerous weapon. The judge ruled a de- scription of the implement was unnec- essary, as everybody knew what it was. “Sure, I know,” one spectator whis- pered to another. “A curling iron is one of those hot things that burn your fingers when you are fumbling around among the things on your wife's dress- ing table.” “It looks like a pair of scissors with wooden handles,” s#id the other. “And it’s deadly, too,” a woman whispered. “Mazie got hers too hot the other night and the way it killed a lot of her hair was a caution.” “Fortunately,” another woman an- swered, “the curling iron hath no mis- eries that peroxide cannot cure.” Assistant State's Attorney Daniel Ramsay insisted there might be single men on the jury. The judge glanced knowingly at the jurors. The young- est looked bewildered. So Judge Guerin ordered a description of the weapon supplied. The youngest juror Erpearsy relieved when he heard what t was, WORK FOR HIGH EXPLOSIVES French Scientist Suggests Their Use in the Reclamation of War Devastated Orchards. The vigorous growth of wild plants about shell holes has suggested to M. Andre Piedallu a novel plan for quick- mm — sn ly restoring war-devastated orchards. The vigor of the weeds is attributed partly to the fissuring of the soil by the shell-fire and partly to nitrogenous substances introduced, and in the pro- posal to the French Academy it is concluded that an ideal orchard soil could be produced by breaking up the rough surface with dynamite in such a way that fertilizing material would be driven into the soil. The fertilizer would be compressed in paper or celluloid cases around cylinders of the explosive, which would be fired by a fulminating charge. Holes for the cartridges about two feet deep would be bored with a stick or iron rod, and in the spherical cavity about 30 inches deep produced by the explosion, the young tree would be placed and cov- ered with the fertilizer-charged soil. Perhaps some of the enormous stores of high explosives left over from the war could be utilized in this way. A suggestion already made is that the United States could put to use some of its 50,000,000 or 100,000,000 tons of TNT for reclaiming arid deserts, irri- gating ditches being dug and roads graded by firing trains of the explo- sive placed along the surface. Special Naval Uniforms. Uniforms having distinctive insignia have been designed by the shipping board for the young apprentices now in training at the various school ships. An embroidered aiichor under the na- tional shield. worked into the cloth of the Hlouse pocket, and two broad white stripes on collar and cuff, in- stead of three narrow ones, as worn by tee navy, will coustitute the insignia ty which one may discriminate be- tween the men of the merchant ma- rine and resembling those worn by the regular men of the navy. Right on the Job. “Dncle Sam is no bully, but Be can take care of himself.” “Eh?” “When they chucked rocks at his plug hat they soon found him in a trench helmet.”—Kansas City Journal, The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been aN in use for over over 30 years, has borne 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 trifie with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. age is its guarantee. It is pleasant. It contains Its S 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. GENUINE CASTORIA ALwAYs Bears the In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of * THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY, The same energy and ing inferior Dairy Feeds Dairy Feed money is expended in feed- as is expended in feeding your Milk Cows a Good, Wholesome BALANCED RATION. The difference is in production. Our Dairy Feed is 100 per cent. 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 and not nearly as expensive. good, rich milk substitute. “Never aggin!” \ . - A substitute for milk ; better for calves and pigs 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 DUNLOP STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA. Shoes. Shoes. LR 5 oh : 1 | Yeagers | Te of i ue : Shoe St g oe Store & il i= Uo i i CA bh A Beautiful Spring Display of i. i LH L Fine Pumps and Oxfords g i FOR i; | WOMEN gl Ch YOU will need a pair of Oxfords or Fi i: Pumps for Spring. Our line is complete. 5 5 All the new styles: Patent Kid, Vici Kid 18 = all the shades of Tan, all the new lasts 2 : 31 i and heels, all sizes and widths i Ug rl Sh We have made a special effort to get i i all the styles in large sizes, so that the i I g = it large woman with a large foot can secure oh 0 just as good looking shoes as the dainty > i. miss. 2 =n Come and examine our line before i Lo . = 0 you purchase your Spring Shoes gl iT: il i a Uc 9 i i Yeager's Shoe Store gg i THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN o 0 Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. I= A RRR RE Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANAAAAAS | Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co. Special Prices for May We expect to make this the banner month by re- ducing the prices on all wanted merchandise. COTTON 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, reg- ular 55c. quality, while they last 25c. Light and dark 36-inch Percales, best brands only, 25¢. 5 Fine white Lawns, 50c. quality, while they last C. % Silk and Cotton Crepe de Chine, 36-inch only, Cc. Dolmans Capes Coats Suits We never had as big a season in this depart- ment, and we are stronger than ever. We are re- plenishing every week. ~ Rugs and Carpets All sizes in Rugs. Tapestry, Velvet, Wilton, Axminster and Rag Rugs—the best values and low- est 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. « Lyon & Co.
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