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= ‘Bellefonte, Pa., August 26, 1921.
IN DEFENSE
OF
FANGLESS SNAKES.
Animals of many kinds are protect-
ed by law; but there are some humble
creatures that have not come under
the protecting wings of law—these
creatures are the snakes. Their de-
struction is tolerated. But why
should the six hundred species of
snakes found the world over suffer
death penalty upon sight because
about sixty species are poisonous?
Why should the fifty species of snakes
found within the limits of the United
States suffer death penalty upon sight
because four are venomous? Why
should the glass-snake or joint-snake
which in fact is not a snake but a liz-
ard, suffer the fate of snakes? The
reason for such ruthless killing is ig-
norance.
Gossip is a great factor in instilling
an unwarrated hatred for snakes.
Who, for instance, has not heard of
the “hoop-snake?”
But be assured, no snake ever rolls
down a hill with its tail in its mouth
or otherwise; and be assured no tree
was ever killed by a snake. True,
there is a snake commonly called
“hoop-snake,” Abastor erythrogram-
mus; it may be that on account of its
terrible scientific name some folks
would have it extinct.
_ The spreading adder is likewise con-
sidered a poisonous snake by people
who know nothing about it. This
snake is not poisonous, but it is the
biggest bluff we know. When irri-
tated it will hiss, spread its head a
neck two or three inches, coil up, take
an attitude for striking—and here the
performance ends. It is perfectly
harmless. When pressed further it
will often turn over on its back and
“play ’possum.”
There are four poisonous groups of
snakes within the boundaries of the
United States; these are: the mocea-
sin, rattler, copperhead, and harle-
quin. All are easily distinguished by
their large, broad heads, deep-set
black eyes, small neck, stout bulky
body, and short tail.
gerous of these, we think, is the moc-
casin, for it usually rests on branches
of low trees and shrubs and strikes at
a passing victim. However, it will re-
frain from striking unless irritated
and will give battle only when teased
or frightened. The rattler comprises
many species of which the diamond
back is the most plentiful. It is
dreaded by all, yet it is not the most
venomous. Death from the rattler’s
bite depends upon the activity of
the snake,
the: condition o7 the
struck, and the spot affected by the
poison. Besides this rattlers will give
the tresspasser a warning. The cop-
perhead is next in rank in regard to
virulence . of poison. It is the most
aggressive of our snakes. Fortunate-
ly it is not found in Florida. There is
also another species, a very beautiful
snake, the harlequin or bead-snake. It
is the least venomous of our poisonous
snakes.
Now having this in mind, count the
number of persons you know of in the
United States that have died from
snake bite. If you know of one, you
know of one more than I do. Yet a
ruthless warfare is carried on against
all snakes, and every creature that has
the semblance of a snake, irrespective
of its harmless and often beneficial |
character.—Fr. Cyril, in St. Leo Ca-
det.
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HOW SOLDIER DEAD
ARE SENT HOME, |
Upon disinterment of a body in Eu-
rope prior to shipment to this coun- |
try the remains are carefully identi- |
The body is |
fied and records verified.
then technically treated by expert
embalmers in such a manner as con-
forms to rigid sanitary laws. The
remains are then wrapped in a linen
sheet and medicated blanket and plac- |
ed in a metalic container. A metal
tag showing complete identification is
fastened to the body. Then the re-
mains are placed in this metal con-
tainer the body being carefully sup-
ported by cushioned pads which pre-
vent it from shifting. The lid of this
metal container is then hermetically
sealed and it is then placed within the
casket which is constructed of the fin-
est kilned chestnut wood.
An appropriate plate inscribed with
the name and other data identifying
the remains of the soldier contained
therein is fastened to the casket. The
casket is then placed in the strongly
constructed shipping case which is
properly marked and made ready for
shipment. ‘Each operation incident
to the disinterment and preparation
for shipment of the body is carefully
supervised. It is estimated that the
total average weight of a casket when
ready for shipment is from 500 to 700
pounds.
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Criminals Put to Death While They
Sleep.
As soon as Governor Eemmett
Boyle signs the “humane death” bill
passed recently by the Legislature,
condemned criminals in Nevada will
be put to death by lethal gas. Neva-
da then will be the first State to
choose this method of execution for
its prisoners.
In order to carry out such execu-
tions a special cell must be built in the
State penitentiary. A judge, when sen-
tencing an offender to his death, will
designate a certain week during which
the penalty is to be paid. At the open-
ing of the appointed week the prison-
er will be lodged in the special cell,
and the warden, with a physician and
six reputable persons over twenty-one
years of age, will administer the gas.
So that death may be painless, the gas
will be introduced into the cell, if pos-
sible, while the prisoner is asleep.
At present a condemned man may
choose whether he shall be shot to
death or hanged.
“Why didn’t you stop when I sig-
nalled you?” inquired the officer.
“Well,” replied Mr. Chuggins, “it
had taken me two hours to get this old
flivver started, and it seemed a shame
to stop her merely to avoid a little
thing like being arrested.”
The most dan- |
the time of the year, |
person '
PLANS CHURCH WITH THREE
ALTARS ON TRACKS.
A unique idea in church building is
about to be tried out by James R. Mel-
lon, a Pittsburgh millionaire, who
plans to erect an edifice where all de-
nominations can feel free to worship.
The unusual feature of the project
will be the revolving rostrum, which
will carry three distinct pulpits, one
each for Catholics, Episcopalians, and
other Protestant denominations.
The church will be located on the
top of the Laurel Hill mountains,
about seven miles from New Florence,
in Westmoreland county. It will be
built on Mr. Mellon’s country estate,
which contains several thousand
acres. :
The locality is composed of moun-
tain farms with families that have no
chance to attend church. My. Mellon
expects to begin erection of the church
as soon as his architect has the plans
ready.
Imagine yourself sitting in a room
60 by 60 with seats; then, at one side
in the middle is an opening about
twenty feet wide where the pulpit
should be. On the outside of this wali,
but within the building is a railroad
track with three altars, the same as
three cars; the middle one would be
Protestant, for any denomination,
that is, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyter-
ian, United Presbyterian, or the like.
[ Should it be a day for the Catholics,
i they too, would designate the time of
| their service, this train would be mov-
i ed along so that the Catholic altar
“would come in front of this opening
| where the altar shculd be. This altar
' has sliding doors which are locked up
i by the Priest and opened when he
| wishes to have services, and when his
I
service is over he locks his altar up
‘and goes away. What the Catholics
! desire is to have their own altar con-
| secrated to their own use. There
| seems to be no objection to preaching
! from their consecrated altar to their
{ members sitting in a public hall or
| church. Then should the KEpiscopa-
! lians desire to have their services,
{ their car would be run to the opening
land the Catholic car run into a room
{ which just fits it so that it would be
| entirely isolated and taken care of un-
til they wished to use it again. In
| like manner, the Episcopal altar
! would have all the necessary equip-
{ ment and could be locked up and mov-
{ed into a recess aftei being locked up.
{ But at all times, when neither the
| Catholic or Episcopal services were
| being held, the Protestant pulpit
| would be visible in the church, where
| Sunday school services, also preach-
ling of any denomination, could take
FLYING IS OLD FOR HAWIIANS.
Honolulu, T. H., Aug. 20.—
Thrills of flying were enjoyed by
Hawiians centuries before aviation
was invented, according to stories told
by natives of today. Their ancestors
got their aerial excitement by jump-
ing off cliffs into the ocean in home-
made “planes.” :
They made a regular game of it,
known as “lele pali” or “jumping
from the cliff.” It was played up to a
hundred years or so ago by natives
who lived near groves of loulu palms
near high cliffs overlooking the ocean.
Details of the game have been ob-
tained by William J. Coelho, a former
newspaper editor now an officer of the
Hale 0 na Alii Hawaii (House of
Chiefs.) This is what he says of the
vanished sport:
The game was played with huge
contrivances built of light but stout
sticks and overwoven with loulu palm
leaves. Several of these affairs were
made ready, the Hawaiian “aviators”
took their seats and were pushed over
towering cliffs at the same time. The
adventurer who remained longest in
the air was the winner.
Often through carelessness or ex-
citement a “plane” would execute a
centary airplanes. The only damage
was the loss of the game.
Old Hawaiians say that their flying
men were exceptionally skiliful. The
only means they had of guiding their
nose dive similar to those of twentieth’
crude appliances was to shift their
weight to maintain balance as they
zigzagged down toward the sea.
A fleet of outrigger canoes anchored
offshore to pick up the sportsmen and
retrieve the “planes.”
Exceptionally daring Hawaiians
often hopped off thousand foot cliffs
on the mainland, it is said.
Business will begin to expand
by leaps and bounds when folly takes
its final flight.
Read these articles with care.
Every Dollar yo
The Watchman’s
Spend in Bellefonte will ‘COME
HOME TO BOOST”
Buy-at-Home Campaign
They may present something you hadn’t thought of before.
Patronize the people whose
ads appear here. They are your neighbors and will treat you right. The money you spend with them stays in cir-
culation in Bellefonte.
If You Buy Out, of Town and I Buy Out. of Town, What, will Become of Our Town ?
Everything in Furniture.
Phonographs and Records.
NAGINEY’S
Send Us Your
Grocery Order Today
It Will Pay You.
CITY CASH GROCERY
Allegheny St.
The Latest
in Dry Goods and Ladies’ and
Misses Ready to Wear.
HAZEL & CO.
The Headquarters for Athletic
Goods in Bellefonte. Smoker Sup-
plies. Barber Shop in Connection.
RUHL’S
Under First Nat. Bank.
place. Accommodations in this pulpit
are to be provided for the Baptists,
| and a small lake in front of the church |
| building could be used if they desired |
| baptisms. i
The building would be of stone with |
‘windows of Gothic style set high in|
the wall, secure against vandalism. |
The church will be called the Church 2
oi the Wilderness. This name is giv- |
ea on account of the remoteness of the |
situation. There are thousands of |
acres back of the church several miles |
toward Johnstown, a region that has.
no roads, just the primeval forest. The
location is in the most historical part
‘of Westmoreland county and where
the Indian troubles were the most se- |
‘vere fromi © 1758 to 1763. Located |
along the Forbes route to the west |
! starting at Fort Ligonier then Fort
Palmer, which is just opposite the site
i of the church, were Finley’s Cabin,
Fort Wallace, etc., on the trail into
Pittsburgh. This valley was noted for |
the nineteenth century.—Reformatoiy |
| Record.
BOALSBURG.
The Boal troop returned from Mt. |
| Gretna on Saturday.
The corn looks fine and some of the
farmers are cutting it.
Alvah Johnstonbaugh made a bus-
i ness trip to Harrisburg last week.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wagner, of
Altoona, were visitors in town last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hazel and baby
Jane are visiting friends in New York
State.
Miss Edith Sankey, of Middleburg, |
was a week-end guest at the home of
Miss Sara J. Keller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Gilliland and
children, of State College, were call-
ers in town on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Stover re-
turned Thursday from a visit with
friends in western Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Alice Magoffin, Miss Ellen
Rhone, Austin Dale and daughters
spent part of Friday in Bellefonte.
John Fisher, of Bellefonte; William
Fisher, of Sunbury, and Frank Fish-
er, of Juniata, visited their mother,
Mrs. Amanda Fisher, on Sunday, her
birthday.
Told the Truth.
“Did she tell you the truth when
you asked her how old she was?”
“Oh, yes.”
“What did she say?”
“That it was none of my business.”
its old furnaces in the beginning of | _
Our Grocery
Line is always complete
and we invite your pa-
tronage.
BROUSE’S
High St.
Willard
is the Storage Battery of Serv-
ice. Any make battery repair-
ed and recharged.
WITMER’'S
{
Studebaker
Expert Repairing on
All Makes of Cars.
BEEZER’S GARAGE.
The House
of Service when it,
Comes to Hardware
THE POTTER-HOY Co.
Our Meats
are always fresh
and wholesome
Phone Your Order.
ECKEL’S MARKET
We Do Not Recommend
Ford parts that are not genu-
ine. Make our garage your
headquarters, Ford owners.
BEATTY MOTOR CO.
BELLE
Meade Sweets, Maillard and Louis
Sherry Candies.
THE MOTT DRUG Co.
Gross Bros.
Good Broom................ 68¢c
5 pounds Coffee....... seven 980
5 Soap....5. 0... saat ea SOC
3 Jersey Flake..... Sis 25¢
1 Large can Peaches....... . 28¢
BELLEFONTE, PA.
When Her Back Aches
A Woman Finds All Her Eenergy and
Ambition Slipping Away.
Bellefonte women know how the
aches and pains that often come when
the kidneys fail make life a burden.
Backache, hip pains, headaches, dizzy
spells, distressing urinary troubles,
are frequent indications of weak kid-
neys and should be checked in time.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are for the kid-
neys only. They attack kidney dis-
eases by striking at the cause. Here's
proof of their merit in a Bellefonte
woman’s words:
Mrs. Edward Sunday, 244 Lamb St.,
says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney
Pills when suffering from kidney trou-
ble and have always been greatly ben-
efitted by them. I can not speak too
highly of Doan’s after what they have
done for me.” :
Price 60c, at =2!! dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Sunday had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 66-33
LAUDERBACH-ZERBY CO.
Wholesale Grocers
YOUR HOME OPTOMETRIST
Fitting glasses for 15 years.
Satisfaction guaranted.
CASEBEER’S
Registered Optometrist.
The First National Bank
invites your patronage.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF BELLEFONTE.
‘| for a man to risk his future in one
DEAD TGWN VERY |
| be
SELDOM RECOVERS
Community That Is Not Prospe:-
ous Cannot Attract Mw
Residents.
S UKE BIE CORPORATION
People Are Stockholders and Wher
They Spend Their Money Away
From Home They Deplete
Its Capital.
(Copyright.)
There is nothing deader than a dead
town. Try as hard as it may to con-
ceal the facts, the truth is written all
over it so that he who runs may read.
No camouflage of bluff and bluster can
conceal the true situation from anyone
who comes within the limits of the
community. A dead town is dead and
that’s all there is to it.
The worst of it is that once a town
dies it stays dead. There have becn
exceptional cases in which dead towns
have been revived, have taken on new
life and prospered, but th=se are mere-
ly the exceptions that prove the rule.
The fact that a town can seldom
“come back” is easily explained. The
growing and prosperous town today
is the one that can attract new resi-
dents and new capital. It is one that
can offer attractive inducements for
the locatioz of new industries. The |
dead town offers no attraction to out-
pide capital. A man lovking for a
place to launch a new business or a
new location for an old industry, is
not geing to pick out a dead town. |
He is going to select a town in which
money is plentiful, a town whose busi-
ness men are progressive and whose
residents, as a whole, are prosperous
and contented. There are too many
live and thriving towns.in the world
that is dead. This is the reason that
a town, once dead, almost always re-
inains dead.
5 Town Like Corporation.
There is just one thing, ordinarily,
that kills a town in the first place and
that is a lack of money. A town is
just like a corporation and the money
possessed by its inhabitants is its cap-
ital. If this capital is depleted the
town will fail just as the corporation,
whose capital is depleted through poor
management or other causes, fails.
And just as the corporation which has
once failed can seldom retrieve its lost
fortunes, the town which has failed
cannot often ‘come back.”
The capital of a community is de-
vleted when its money is spent away
0m aome in a way that brings no
return benefit to the community. It
takes no great amount of thought to
» able to realize that the town, like
| the individual, cannot last long if it
tis paying out more money than it
takes in. That does not mean that a
i brosperous town is one in which the
people do not spend any money. On
the contrary, a prosperous town is
one in which the people do spend mon-
ey but it is one in which they spe:
the money at home. As long as tle
money is spent at home, the town
gains by having it kept in circulation,
but when it is spent away from home,
either by being sent to the mail order
houses or by shopping trips to other
cities, the town’s capital is impaired
to that extent and if enough money is
spent away from home in that way,
the town collapses and virtually goes
into barkruptey just as does the cor-
poratio® which dissipates its capital.
The people of a community are apt
to overlook the fact that they ard
stockholders in their town and that
their fortunes are bound up with those
of the community as a whole. They
do not realize that if their town fails
they will fail with it, They—or many
of them at least—send their money
away to the mail order houses in thd
great cities, without realizing that they
are impairing the capital of their own
corporation and that if enough of them
pursue that course they will force their
corporation into certain bankruptey.
Merchants Not Only Ones Hurt.
Many customers of mail order
houses say that they are under no
obligation to trade with their home
merchants and this may be true. They
overlook that facet that the business
men of a town do much for their com-
munity and are entitled, in return for
what they do, to the support of the
‘people in the community, but leaving
this out of consideration, they over-
look the fact that they are bringing
| about their own downfall when they
drain their town of its money—its
capital.
The home merchant will not be the
only one that will be hurt when the
town “goes broke.” The merchant
can reduce his stock and cut down his
expenses and get along some way or
he can sell out and move to some oth-
er town which has not been so blind
to its own welfare. It is the great
body of the people of the community
including all those who have sent their
money away to other cities instead of
spending it at home, that suffers most
when the hard times come.
The time for all the people to pull
together for a live town is while the
town is still live and not after it is
dead, for when a town dies it is a
long time dead—if not forever.
Learns His Faults.
A man never realizes how many
faults he has until he gets morried—
then hic wife tells him,
Books, Stationery and Post
Cards. |
The Index Book Store
Everything in Electric Sup-
plies.
THE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. |
i
Firestone, Gates’ super tread and |
Mohawk Tires. |
Atlantic, Mobiloil, Soncco and Wa- |
verly oils. :
Mobiloil tractor oil a specialty.
BELLEFONTE STEAM VULC. CO.
|
NEW GROCERY |
A full line of groceries at reduced prices. |
A full line of foreign and domestic fruits |
in season. Klink’s bacon and ham, fresh |
from the market. Cream cheese a specialty.
With every 50c. purchase we give free a
Soupen for Rogers silverware.
em.
High St., opposite P. R. R. Station. Suc-
ALTERS & STOVER
cessors to Sechler & Co.
{
The Variety Store
SPIGELMYER & CO.
When You Want
Hardware of any description
call and see us. We invite
your patronage.
BELLEFONTE HARDWARE CO.
Everything in Hardware
for Farm, Dairy and Home.
GLENWOOD RANGES,
SCHAEFFER'S
Ask for |
Special This Week
50 1b. Cotton Mattress, $10.75
50 1b. Cotton felt Mattress $13.75
BRACHBILL’S.
This Market is now under New Manage-
ment and we Solicit Your Patronage
FRESH MEATS DAILY
KLINE’S
Formerly Lyon’s Market
The Home of
“Dutchess” Trousers,
“LaSalle” Caps,
“Monito” Hosiery.
The Mens’ Shop
WILLARD & SON
HABERDASHERS.
The Grocery Store of
Wholesome Goods and
Prompt Service
HAZELS
Shoes for the entire family
at right prices
YEAGER’'S
The Rexall Store
and that means quality.
Special attention given to
prescriptions.
Runkle’s Drug Store
The Home of the famous
Butter Krust Bread.
Confectionery and Baked
Goods.
The City Bakery
Everything in Lumber,
Sashes, Doors and Blinds.
The Bellefonte Lumber Co.
The Home of Hart, Schaff-
ner and Marx Clothing for
Men. Also a complete line of
Men’s and Boy’s furnishings.
MONTGOMERY & CO.
The Edison
is the peer of Phonographs.
Come in and hear one today.
Records, Pianos, Player-
Pianos.
GHEEN’S MUSIC STORE.
We Are Still
in the Hardware business
at the old Stand. Every-
thing complete always.
OLEWINE’S
Wholesale and Retail fruits and
produce.
A complete line of imported Ol-
ive Oil.
CARPENETO & CO.
When In Town
See the best in Motion
Pictures at the Scenic.
SCENIC THEATRE
Weaver, Grocers
Bellefonte, Pa.
The Best
in Dry Goods and
Ladies Ready to
Wear. :
SCHLOW’S
The Bellefonte Trust Co.
Courtesy. Safety. Service.
The Bellefonte Trust Co.
COHEN’S
Bring the boys and girls here for
their school shoes—solid leather shoes
only, at rock bottom prices.
COHEN’S
FREE!
30x301-2 Norwalk Cord
TIRES.
Find out particulars at
WION GARAGE
Clothing of the Best
for men who are careful of ap-
pearances. A full line of
Men’s and Boy’s furnishings.
SIM THE CLOTHIER
The Watchman
has always advised buying at
home, and it
buys at home itself.
W. S. Katz
DRY GOODS
Ladies Ready to Wear
Queen Quality Shoes for
‘Women :
Regal Shoes for men
We fit the Youngsters, too,
MINGLE’S SHOE STORE.