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Beworraic Watcha,
Bellefonte, Pa., October 10, 1919.
OFFERS EVERYBODY A CHANCE
Philanthropic Seattle Man Thrcvis
Open Hall for Absolutely Free
and Uninterrupted Speech.
A philanthropic fight promoter—one
of the enterprising gentlemen who has
been in the habit of putting on a box-
ing match every week or two—is much
annoyed at the spasmodic interference
of the officers of the law in his busi-
ness affairs, and is proposing to throw
open his hall for a weekly forum of
free and uninterrupted speech, in
place of the boxing bouts.
“T want every guy that has anything
to say to come over and say it,” said
the promoter. according to the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, “and I'll give him
ten minutes to spiel, and then he must
shut his trap. I don’t care what he
is; any kind of a nut can come over
and say right out what is on his chest.
My luck has been so bad, and my
spirits so depressed, that I want a
laugh. and I believe a nut gathering
of this kind would equal anything the
Orpheum circuit or Pantages or the
best of them ever put on. You know,
nature keeps playing jokes on human-
ity all the time; she mixes together
some queer patterns in heads. and a
lof of fellows can’t help what they
think; some have a hunch for one
thing and some for another; I suppose
we could get a few startling facts on
anything from religion to chess in
these verbal tournaments. And it will
be absolutely free; I might pass the
hat around at the close of the enter-
tainment to square me on the hall
rent. but for the rest I wouldn't want
a cent to pay outside of the entertain-
ment I get out of it. As soon as I
can pull a jazz band together to fit in
with the speechmaking I will announce
the details, and we will be sure in for
a summer's entertainment, if the
sheriff don’t close us up.”
HOMESICK FOR ARCTIC SNOWS
No Affectation About the Longing for
Far North That Is Experienced
by Explorers.
If you are of ordinary health and
strength, if you are young encugh to
be adaptable and independent enough
to shake off the influence of books and
belief, you can find good reason to be
as content and comfortable in the
North as anywhere on earth.
If you remember that all of us who
have spent more than a year “living on
the country,” are quite of the Eskimo
opinion that no food on earth is better
than caribou meat, and if you have any
experience in your life as a hunter any-
where, you will realize that in the eve-
nings when we it in these warm snow
houses, feasting with keen appetites on
unlimited quantities of boiled ribs, we
have all the creature comforts.
What we lack, if we feel any lack
at all, will be possibly the presence of
friends far away. or the chance to hear
opera or see the movies. At any rate,
it is true that today in the movie in-
fested city T long for more snow
house evenings after caribou hunts as
I never in the North longed for clubs
or concerts or orange groves. And this
is not peculiar to me. The men who
have hunted with me are nearly all
of the same mind—they are either in
the North now, on the way back there
by whaling ship, or eating their hearts
out because they cannot go.—Vilhjal-
mur Stefansson in Harper's Magazine.
Prcbably Envious.
“After a few months in other states,
I was returning to Indianapolis,” re-
marked 2 traveling salesman. “and 1
don’t mind telling you I was glad to
be getting back home. As I sat down
beside the stranger I told him how
good it was to be back in the land of
cornfields.
“So we started to talk about the
beauty spots of Mother Nature. It
is nothing more than natural for any
Hoosier to tatk about his own state.
And I had to ask him whether he had
ever been in Brown county.
“The stranger looked out of the
ear window a minute, saying softly {o
himself: ‘Brown county, Brown coun-
ty.” When he looked around at me
again he said:
' “Yes, I have heen there. That's
the place where the squirrels have to
carry a lunch with them when they go
across the county, is it not? ”—In-
dianapolis News.
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Flowers of Poland.
According to an English newspaper
gorrespondent who recently reported a
journey he had made from Paris to
the Polish capital, the most impressive
spectacle that he saw was the mantle
of blossoms, clustered profusely, which
fringed the highways and byways
about Warsaw. “All the wars of Po-
fang,” he writes, “could not check the
new life that came riding through her
borders at the head of the advancing
‘apring; sprays of lilac found place in
the gray caps of Polish lancers, tulips
and chestnut leaves, tokens of the new
dawn, in the garb of peer and peasant.
Everywhere was spring yielding back
a measure of her everlasting rights.”
‘But the flowers never took much notice
of the war even “at the front.”
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' A Humorous Touch.
Father—What’s this
item, “A pair of rubbers,
That’s an unheard of price.
Son (who's been in training)—It’s
a couple of masseurs at a hundred
each, sir.
expensive
$200.”
SOME FAMOUS OPALS.
Mexican opals are likely soon to
appear plentifully on the market
again, inasmuch as mining for them
has been resumed in the districts
whence jewelers obtained supplies be-
fore the war.
From that source we have been ac-
customed to get most of our “fire”
opals, which are very beautiful and
brilliant, with flaming hues. This va-
riety, however, is less highly esteem-
‘ed than the so-called “noble” opal,
which is whitish, translucent, and shot
through with gleams of all colors of
' the rainbow.
Remarkably fine opals, many of
‘them “noble,” are obtained from the
neighborhood of Moscow, in Idaho,
| where they occur in beds of volcanic
| ashes. Apparently their material
| was deposited by water, while the ash-
| es were hot, and masses of cold cin-
| der when broken open reveal the gem
stones.
| Opals are in certain respects alto-
| gether peculiar among gem stones,
and more interesting on that account.
: Whereas other gems, such as the ru-
. by, the emerald and the sapphire, owe
their colors to mineral elements by
| gles from their edges.
An amethyst is quartz
| stained with maganese.
' quartz crystal
| containing from five to thirteen per
i cent. of water.
| the deposition of silica from water;
| and it was in this way that three
{ molluscan shells transformed into
| opal, recently given to Harvard Col-
| lege, underwent their strange meta-
morphosis. The shells were in a
rock; their limy material dissolved
out and was replaced by particle, with
water-borne silica.
The most famous gem of the kind
Opal
Both are formed by
romantically you have expressed it
is the Hope opal, formerly the proper- :
ty of Henry Philip Hope, a Dutch
banker, who owned the finest collec-
tion of precious stones ever got to-
gether. He liquidated the national
debt of Brazil, and took his pay in di-
amonds, which originally inspired
him with his hobby. Among his
treasures were the celebrated Hope
diamond and the largest existing
pearl, drop-shaped and weighing
three ounces.
The Hope opal (now owned by an
American millionaire) is believed to
have come originally from Mexico,
but in the seventeenth century it
adorned a Persian shrine. It repre-
sents the sun—an object of worship
in Persia—with full face carved on
its surface and rays supplied by an
antique gold setting. Oval in shape,
it is an inch in longest diameter.
A famous necklace of opals belong-
ing to the Empress Josephine, and
later the property of the widowed
Eugenie (who parted with it because
of a belief that it brought un isfor-
tune), is likewise owned by a wealthy
American. Its great central stone is
called the Burning of Troy.
For high class job work come
i ' to the “Watchman” office.
which the crystals are stained, the! a
: brilliant tints of the opal are due to |
| its structure, ever so many minute |
| cracks reflecting light at different an- |
| the ship pitched and tossed about in
crystal
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of another variety, |
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A'Lifo' Hoy.
They were crossing to France and
an unusually bad storm. Most of the
passengers had sought refuge below,
but little Miss Sturges, an elderly
spinster, was braving the terrors on
deck. As the gale increased in fury,
a chivalrous physician from the la-
dy’s home town, came to her.
“Pardon me, Miss Sturges, but it
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seemed to me you might be in some | has become
| The man who first hit upon the idea
SO lit eal the halen Tos | has made a fortune out of it. It was
trouble. Can I help you? Have you
chosen your life preserver?”
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dy, with a gurgle of joy, as she tum- |
bled into his arms, “How sweetly and |
—Cartoons Magazine.
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The Grass for Rugs.
The salt marshes of the New Jer-
sey catstail region produce only one
crop besides mosquitoes. It is the so-
called “salt-grass,” which in those
moist and saline areas, continually
irrigated by the sea, flourishes amaz-
ingly.
Nothing seems to bother it. An
amount of salt that would kill any
other plant is just what it needs in
its business. Diseases do not appear
to afflict it; insects do not care to at-
tack it.
Tough—that is the word best de-
scriptive of the salt grass. It grows
tall and thick. So tough are its
leaves that they are broken with dif-
ficulty. Its fiber is strong and harsh.
A rough and tough and useless plant.
But stay! It is no longer useless—
not by any means. A very important
and valuable use has been found for
it. Within the last few years it has
come into such wide utilization that
we should find it hard to get along
without the salt grass.
This was all one man’s idea. He
saw that the grass was long and
tough and green; also that unlimited
quantities of it were to be had for tlie
cutting. It must be good for some
vurpose. Surely, yes. Why not try
it for weaving rugs?
There was the notion. Rugs. A
few rugs woven of salt grass were put
on the market and they sold like hot
cakes. Partly, of course, because
they were a novelty. But they were
pretty and trial proved that they
wore remarkably well. Also they
were cheap.
Alas! They are cheap no longer.
What is there that is cheap nowa-
days? But the manufacture of them
an enormous industry.
a case of discovering value in a thing
regarded as worthless.
——Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
Paree.
Panama.
beach of Waikiki.
world. See the world.
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YOMANCE is calling to you!
Strange and smiling foreign
lands are beckoning to you. Shove
off and see the world!
Learn to “parley-voo” in gay
See the bull-fights in
See surf-riding on the
Learn the lure that comes with
the swish and swirl of the good salt
sea. Eat well—free; dress well—
free; sleep clean—free; and look’em
all straight in the eye—DBiritish,
¥rench, Chinese, Japanese,
Spaniards, Egyptians, Algerians
and all manner of people.
Come! "Be a real man of the
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Navy.
Look ! Here is the globe spread out flat be-
fore your eyes.
star shows where a U. S. Navy ship was on
September 2nd, 1313.
the Sevea Seas.
See those stars? Every
The Navy travels
Don't you want to see the World ?
the red-blooded, hard-working,
hard-playing men of the U. S,
Pay begins the day you join.
learning.
On board ship a man is always
Trade schools develop
skill, industry and business ability.
Thirty days care-iree holiday each
year with full pay. The food is
nished free.
limited for men of brains.
can enlist for two years and come
out broader, stronger and abler.
good. Ifirst uniform outfit is fur-
Promotion is un-
You
Shove off—Join the U. S. Navy.
If you’re between 17 and 35 go to
the nearest recruiting station for
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Shove off !-Join the U. S. Navy
all the details. If you don’t know
where it is ask your postmaster.
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B rear wheels track.
and rear axle.
on. Chain-Driven Excluswely.
t@~Just received a carload of Conklin Wagons.
Wide-tired wheels.
Positively not a worm or cog gear on the machine.
levers. The lightest, easiest running and most practical Spreader.
No moving parts on rear axle.
All sizes and for all purposes. 62-47
Solid bottom bed with heavy cross pieces, and supported by full width of sides.
Axles coupled together with angle steel reach ; coupled short, dividing load between front
Front and
Ax'e not used as a bearing for gears to run
No clutch. Operated by only two
Dubbs’ Implement and Seed Store.
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In Every Town 8
there are a certain number of men who
are looked upon to set the pace for style.
These men don’t wait for the procession;
they know the value of early buving. They
are buying Fall styles— now.
And this additional distinction isn't costing them a
bit more than the chap who waits till the last horn blows.
FALL STYLES IN
High Art. Clothes
Made by Strouse & Brothers, Inc., Baltimore, Md.
ARE READY—ARE YOU?
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ss Allegheny St., BELLEFONTE. PA.
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Your Banker
The institution with which vou main-
tain banking relations can be of service to
you in many ways.
The Centre County Banking Co.
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.
WILL DO ALL YOUR HAULING
3-4 Ton for Light Hauling
Big Truck for Heavy Loads
“Greatest Distance for Least Cost”
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BELLEFONTE, PA. 61-30 DISTRIBUTOR.
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