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Bellefonte, Pa., June 27, 1919.
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FINALLY REACHED HIS POIN
Lawyer's Flowery Eloquence Turned
Out to Be Prelude to Very
Simple Request.
Norman Hapgood, the new minister
to Denmark, was talking about a
“whitewashing” case.
“The case reminds me,” he said, “of
Pietro Libertini, a scion of sunuy
Italy, who was on trial for a murder
ous assault. His lawyer defended him
in this manner:
“Your honor, the lawyer began,
‘my client, Signor Pietro Libertini,
comes from Italia la Bella, land of ro-
mance, art and immortal literature.
He comes, your honor, from the sun-
kissed home of the illustrious Michel-
angelo Buonarotti, of the divine Raf-
faello and the undying Dante Alighieri.
He comes from the olive-crowned
birthplace of Tasso, Ariosto and the
humorous Boccaccio. His home is
Italia, prolific mother of art and sci-
ence, progenitrix of Galvani and Gali-
leo Galilei.
“After the lawyer had gone on in
this strain for about an hour the
judge began to get impatient.
“ ‘What has all this got to do with
the case? he finally asked.
“‘My poor words,’ said the lawyer,
‘are by way of preface. My client,
from immortal Italy, home of the
painter and the sculptor, humbly
prays this court to apply to him the
very lowest form of pictorial art. He
prays, your honor, to be white-
washed.’ ”
BIRD APARTMENTS RENT FREE
Orchardists Seek to Encourage the
Woodpecker to Settle in Their
Midst, as It Were.
It may sound like a joke to speak
of the manufacture of woodpecker
nests, but there is actually a factory
in Maine that takes many orders for
such nests.
The birdhouses are constructed of
pine blocks 15 inches long and from
five to six inches in diameter. The
back of the block is squared to per-
mit of the patent adjustment being
properly attached to the tree or placed
where the house is to be located, a
canopy or top piece to keep out the
weather being made like a roof. A
perfect nest is drilled by a reamer.
Within three inches of the bottom a
corkscrew indentation is made to the
bird entrance, as the toes of the wood-
pecker are in pairs, two before and
two behind, with sharp, strong claws,
the whole structure of the foot making
it adaptable for climbing.
The houses are sold to orchard
owners, as the claim is made by the
ornithologists that the woodpecker’s
feed consists chiefly of insects and
their larvae, which the birds get by
digging into the bark and wood of
trees. The woodpecker’s tongue is an
important instrument in obtaining
its feed, as it can be extended far be-
yond the bill, its tip being horny and
furnished with a barbed filament.
Changes Planes in Mid-Air.
The daring maneuver of jumping
from one airplane to another while
in full flight was recently accomplish-
ed by a lieutenant of aviation, and
is pictured in Popular Mechanics Mag-
azine. Climbing down to the under-
carriage of the machine in which he
had left the ground as a passenger,
he reached the horizontal bar of the
landing chassis. Hanging to this, and
executing acrobatic evolutions, he
awaited the approach of a second ship
flying at a lower level. As it came be-
neath him, he released his hold and
dropped onto its top plane, landing at
a point near the middle of the right
wing. While he had estimated the
relative speeds of the two machines
correctly and judged his distance with-
out error, it still remained for him to
obtain a firm hold, or possibly suffer
the inconvenience of falling 5,000
feet.
it All Depends.
The teacher was teaching his class
in a mental arithmetic lesson. After
“tables” had been repeated he com-
menced giving a series of mental sums,
and presently asked an intelligent lit-
tle Scot:
“How many marbles would you get
if 1 gave 20 to be divided between you
and Johnny McGregor?” A
“After a moment's hesitation the
youngster answered:
“I canna tell, sir.”
“How's that?’ queried the teacher.
“Weel, sir,” said he, “ye see, it’s a’
accordin’. If ye gie em when we're
both here we'd hae ten each; but if
ye gie ’em tae Johnny when I wasna
present, I'd only get about five; while
if ye gie ’em tae me tae share when
Johnny wasna here, I dinna ken wheth-
er he'd hae ony at a’!”—Columbus
(S. C.) State.
Women in British Industries.
The vast extent to which British
women replaced men in industry and
commerce during the war is disclosed
tn a white paper just issued. It is
estimated that the net increase in fe-
male workers employed outside their
own homes was 1,200,000.
The number of females employed in
industrial concerns and government
establishments in April, 1918, were:
Munitions, 701,000; other government
work in industry, 774,000. The number
of females employed as permanent
work people in agriculture in July,
1914, was 80,000; in 1918 the number
was 113,000.
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LOOK FOR GRAVE AND GOLD
Two Reasons Which Actuate Explor-
ers Searching Among Santa Bar
bara Channel Islands.
Again the rugged and little-frequent-
ed Santa Barbara channel islands are
being explored for the burial spot of
Juan Cabrillo, the intrepid Spaniard
who visited the California coast in the
sixteenth century. The search centers
in San Miguel island, the property of
J. P. Moore, a wealthy resident or
Florida.
Cabrillo died on one of the islands,
it appears reasonably certain, and
San Miguel is generally believed to be
the isle where he met death. One le
gend has it that Cabrillo died of a
fever, another that he met a violent
death at the hands of a warrior from
one of the Indian tribes then inhabit
ing the channel islands.
He is said to have been secretly
buried at night in a cave, in a spot in-
accessible except at low tide.
Not all the romance that is asso-
ciated with San Miguel grows out of
the supposed tragic death. For gen-
erations Californians have heard of
the fabulous sums of gold hidden there
by sea rovers.
Treasure is said to have been buried
on the isle by Sir Francis Drake, after
he had stripped Spanish bullion-laden
ships. Drake, so the legend runs, left
hurriedly and neither returned nor
gave a key to the secret cache.
Several of the Spanish and Mexican
‘outlaws that overran southern Califor-
nia in the Spanish regime, and even
after the Americans came, are said to
have made the islands their meeting
place and to have buried there a for-
tune in gold and silver coin.
KIEV WELL WORTH A VISIT
Capital of the Ukraine Remarkable
Combination of Old and
New Cities.
Kiev contains about five hundred
thousand inhabitants, and comprises
four distinct districts, which may also
be called separate towns. Podol, the
commercial quarter, skirts the river
Dnieper, and above it, on a steep de-
clivity, is Lipki, the residential quar
ter, and an enchanting spot in sum-
mer, with its handsome villas embow-
ered in dark, luxuriant foliage.
North of that is Kiev proper, which
contains the university and the ca-
thedral of St. Sophia, a building erect-
ed in the eleventh century, but so eon-
stantly repaired and added to that it
is now a huge and towering structure
with more than a dozen large golden
domes.
Here also are the theaters, hotels
and shops. which are quite as modern
as those of Petrograd or Moscow. Pet-
chersk, the fourth district, is well
worth seeing, for it is honeycombed
with caves and catacombs that in old-
en days were used as places of refuge
and as monastic cells, and where, dur-
ing holy festivals, one can scarcely
move through the dense crowds of pil-
grims, of whom three hundred thou-
sand annually visit this ancient and
revered monastery.
Warships May Carry Mail.
Removing their side armor, protec-
tive decks, barbettes and guns would
change battle cruisers into fine mail
liners with plenty of room for passen-
gers. That is the proposal which has
the approval of the Swedish minister
of marine for application to the Swed-
ish navy’'s two largest warships. The
vessels so pacificated would have 2,000
tons dead-weight capacity with a’ dis-
placement of 4,300 tons and ‘a speed
of 25 to 30 miles an hour. Sweden’s
navy numbers 69 war craft of all kinds,
all of which are well designed and con-
structed, but rather small for actual
war purposes. This appears to be the
first serious indication of a possible
peaceful use for naval units.—Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
Foch Joins the “Pipers.”
Marshal Foch has acquired a British
habit. The French do not generally
smoke pipes. Day by day Marshal
Foch saw Field Marshal Haig and oth-
er British generals in the vortex of the
work calmly doing their work behind
good high-bowled briar pipes. Foch
asked Haig what it was like to smoke
a pipe. He bought an English one. He
filled it under careful British military
instruction. He began the attempt
with energy and purposeful determina-
tion, but at first smoked more matches
than tobacco. Now, however, he has
mastered it and thoroughly enjoys a
good briar which he has bought from
an English firm.
Many Horses Stay “Over There.”
Not all our fighters will return to
the land of their birth. Most of the
men—those that are living—will come
home, but many of the horses will not,
for there is great meed of draft ani-
mals in the reconstruction work in
France and Belgium, and there are
plenty of war-worn horses that a few
weeks or months of rest will restore
to usefulness. The Red Star animal
relief organization in New York is in-
teresting itself in the pleasant task of
getting the poor old war horses into
fresh fields and pastures green.—
Youth's Companion.
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The Victor's Homecoming.
Sir Douglas Haig's Grenadier
guard of honor at Charing Cross,
when the man of the hour came home,
was a particularly fine body of men,
and from end to end of the lines thero
was hardly a man without wound
stripes. Not a few of the distin-
guished people on the platform no-
ticed that three of the guard, standing
side by side. had 16 wound stripes be-
tween them.
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FIND LITTLE JOY IN MANTUA |
American Soldiers In Italian City Can-
not Be Accused of Indulging
in Wild Revels.
Mantua, the metropolis of the prov-
ince, is the center of the territory
which encircles it in every direction.
Hither flock the country folk from as
far as five or six kilometers away, to
gaze at the vino and stand around in
the middle of the street, impeding the
progress of the trolley car.
Equally fascinating to the American
soldier is this city, with its car track,
its air of cordial welcome, and its in-
salubrious climate, all of which com-
bine to make him think more of the
old home town than he did before he
came here, says a writer in Italy Am-
bulance Service News. It is not dif-
ficult to find things to do, for one may
always spend quite a while figuring
out when he last saw the sun, or when
he will see it again. And then one
may also look at the lake.
But it is at night that Mantua dis-
closes its true nature. With an elec-
tric light gleaming on every fourth
block, and the comradely mist always
with you, you can start out for a wild
evening. There are plenty of places
to go—all cafes. Variety is supplied
by ordering beer in one place and wine
in the next, until in a final burst of
hilarity you end up with caffe-latte
(the nadir of recklessness). By that
time it is 10:30, the shutters are up,
the waiter jingles a pocketful of cen-
tessimi and looks bored, the last pa-
tron has departed and the girl behind
the bar seems to wonder what secret
sorrow keeps you from home. So you
depart—via the back door, harking to
your footprints echoing upon the still
night air. The carabinieri look at you
suspiciously, a cat runs across the
black street, and you are all, all alone
in the wicked city. You yawn and go
back to bed, filled with excitement
and beer. One night nearer home.
Mantua has many attractive fea-
tures, but the best ome is the ten
o'clock train to Milan.
WAS DICKENS’ OFFICE BOY
And All He Remembers of Great Au-
thor Is the Peculiar Style of
His Clothes.
The perseverance with which the
unimportant lingers in memory is il-
Justrated by the sum total of what the
veteran porter who lately retired from
his post at Temple Gate, London, can
now recall about Charles Dickens.
Back in the sixties this man, it is said,
was office boy for the author, then
editing “All the Year Round.” All he
remembers is that Dickens wore a
“plack velvet coat with big smoked-
pearl buttons, and a queer waistcoat,
and trousers of shepherd’s plaid, the
biggest check you ever Saw, and a
great big deerstalker hat, as they
called them, and his hair all hanging
down, wiry like.” Also that once upon
a time somebody asked him, “Is that
a_ showman?’ And he answered,
“That's the great Charles Dickens.”
A vivid picture, and this is probably
why, plaid trousers and all, it still
sticks in the former office boy's mem-
ory; but one wishes he could now re-
call some of the other things he must
have observed in his remarkable chief.
“passing” for Insurance.
A Philadelphia physician, Doctor
Gaillard, who has examined great
numbers of men for life insurance com-
panies, informs me that “the popular
styles in physique have changed,”
Girard writes in the Philadelphia
Press.
When I asked him to elucidate, he
replied:
“Not so long ago life insurance com-
panies made a great ado and scanned
with care all applicants who were un-
derweight. Now underweight is pass-
ed over as of little consequence, while
overweight is reckoned as the stum-
bling block.”
In other words, the thin man was
once regarded as a poor risk, whereas
now he is preferred to the stout man.
When I asked the doctor to tell me
the reason for this switch around in
the popularity of the two types of the
male form divine, he said tuberculosis,
once the dread of the thin man, has
been far outclassed in fatality by other
organic diseases, especially of the
heart. which are apt to affect the more
rotund.
Truly, every Gog has his day.
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What Did He Mean?
The minister had eaten a very good
dinner and was getting ready to leave
for a long time. He happened to
glance at the eighteen-year-old daugh-
ter.
“Well, well,” he laughed. “I sup-
pose that pretty soon I'll be coming
back to marry this young woman to
one of the interesting young men of
the congregaticn.”
The irrepressible eight-year-old son
spoke up:
“Oh, no, you won’t,” he offered.
“Mary is going to be an old bachelor.”
The family’s laugh told him that he
had used the wrong word. So straight-
way he started to make it right.
“J mean an old witch,” he asserted
more positively than before.
About Eggs.
Ontario, Canada, now has an egg
“circle.” This egg circle has been or-
ganized for the purpose of eliminating
the wholesaler and middleman. Its
idea is specifically to prevent any per-
son or persons coming between .the
farmer’s supply of eggs and the con-
sumer. More and more as the cold
storage warehouse has come between
the consumer and his egg, has the con-
sumer suffered from the separation.
“Most every one” will wish the egg
circle wel’
COAL SHORTAGE
ON WAY; GOVT,
SAYS BUY NOW
May Be Repetition of 1917-18
Conditions Next Winter Says
Geological Survey.
MINES IDLE WITHOUT ORDERS.
Those Who Delay Ordering
Longer May Not Get Their
Fuel Later On.
The United States Geological Survey
announces from Washington the prob-
ability of another general coal short-
age next fall and winter. The an-
nouncement is based, the Survey
states, upon a nation-wide study of
conditions in the bituminous field.
Unless steps are taken at once, the
Survey says, to place the mines upon
a basis of increased production there
is every prospect of a repetition to
some degree of the situation that pre-
vailed in the United States during the
winter of 1917-18.
The only way production can be stim-
ulated at the present time, it is said, is
by placing orders with the mines for
coal which will be needed later on.
“Production during the first five months
of the year,” reads the statement, “fell
57,292,000 net tons, or approximately
25% below production during the first
five months of 1918. Mines are produc-
ing coal now at the rate of from 8,000,
000 to 8,500,000 tons a week. An aver-
age output of 10,700,000 tons a week
must be maintained from June 1 to
January 1 next if the country’s esti-
mated needs of 500,000,000 tons this
year are to be met.”
Evil of Delayed Orders.
At no time during this year has the
rate of production approached the re-
quired tonnage. The tendency on the
part of buyers to hold off placing their
orders is limiting production, as the
mines cannot store coal at the point of
production, and when the rush of
orders for the winter's needs comes
next fall there is grave danger that
the mines, with depleted labor forces
and the probability of less adequate
transportation, will be unable to meet
the demands. The result of such a sit-
uation woyld be an insufficient supply
for the requirements of domestic con-
sumers, public utilities and industrial
users generally.
“It is believed that requirements for
this year,” reads a Survey statement
to Fuel Administrator Garfield, “will
be about 530,000,000 tons of bituminous
coal, of which approximately 30,000,000
tons have been used from stocks accu-
mulated last year, leaving 500,000,000
tons to be produced. Of this 500,000,
000 tons 178,000,000 tons were produc-
ed during the first five months, leaving
322,000,600 tons to be produced in’the
remaining 30 weeks, or an average of
10,700,000 tons a week.
“Thus far this year production has
been at the rate of 8,200,000 tons a
week. In 1918 production was at the
rate of 11,300,000 tons a week.
“This production will be difficult of ac-
complishment. The capacity of operat-
ing mines at the present time with labor
now on the payroll is about 10% lower
than it was last year. This deficiency
may be made up in part or wholly if
the mines have orders sufficient to run
them five or six days a week unless the
threatened exodus of foreign-born labor
occurs.
May Be Car Shortage.
«Present wage agrements between
operators and miners expire with
the proclamation of peace by the Pres-
ident. A suspension of mining oper-
ations while a new wage agreement is
being negotiated would, of course, seri-
ously interfere with the production of
coal and if it should occur during the
fall would cause a panic among buyers
and consumers of coal.”
There is no use in gambling upon
this or any other contingency, fuel ad-
ministration officials say. The firm or
individual who wants to be sure of an
adequate coal supply next winter can
be certain by buying coal now. There
is ne other way . such assurance
can be obtained, Transportation also
promises to be a limiting factor if the
flood tide of demand comes at a time
when the country’s record crops are
being carried. In some districts it
would appear certain that, notwith-
standing the utmost endeavors of the
Railroad Administration and the util-
ization of its experience last fall, car
shortage will be a cause limiting buti-
minous coal production, and for that
reason it is problematical whether the
expected production of 500,000,000 tons
can be attained this year.
' Shortage of labor already is a fac-
tor that is cutting down the output in
some coal producing sections, accord-
ing to the Survey's report. The opera-
tors report that from 36,000 to 40,000
foreign-born miners expect to return to
Europe as soon as they can get pass-
ports and that many have already re-
turned. If continued this movement
will be capable of producing but one
result—a reduction of the amount of
coal mined in districts where the mine
labor is largely foreign-born, and there
are many such districts.
He who needs coal should hesitate
no longer. Now is the time to buy
Coal,
Yeager's
Shoe Store
Pumps and Oxfords
$5.00 $6.00
Before you purchase your Low Shoes,
call and see what we have to offer for $5 and
$6. Patent Colt and Vici Kid Pumps, French
heels with Aluminum heel plates.
Our $6 Pumps and Oxfords we guaran-
tee to be just as good as shoes can be made,
nothing could be made of a better quality,
hand sewed, long arch counters that keep
them from spreading at the top.
We have many bargains to offer on all
kinds of summer shoes.
Call And See
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.
Lyon & Co.
Lyon & Co.
JUNE SPECIALS
Reductions in
Summer Dress Goods
Just the things for these hot days
to make cool dresses.
Figured Voiles from 10c up to 50c
Flaxons, all colors, from 25¢ up.
Ginghams from 25¢ to 75c.
Silks
Georgettes, Crepe de Chenes,
stripes and plaids, all colors,
at summer reduction prices.
Dove Undermuslins
Night Gowns from 75¢ up.
Drawers from 26¢ up.
Petticoats from 50c up.
Specials
75 dozen Ladies’ Gauze Vests,
regular value 35¢; special, 3 vests
for 54c,.
Half Hose
Black, tan and all colors; fine cot-
ton; all sizes—9 1-2 to 11 1-2;
regular value 25c.. 4 prs for 60c.
Coat.s and Coat Suits
Special prices this month on all
Coats and Coat Suits, for Ladies,
Misses and Children.
Lyon & Co. «= Lyon & Co.
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