‘Semcon
Bellefonte, Pa., January 13, 1921.
AFTER CHRISTMAS.
My engine doesn’t go no more;
I just unscrewed a spring
An’ out it flew across the floor
An’ come untwisted. Zing!
It ain’t no good to play with now,
You can’t have any fun
With busted things; but anyhow,
I found out how it rum.
My new balloon’s no good to me,
I guess because I tried
To punch a hole in it and see
Just what it had inside.
it gave a sort o’funny pop
An’ dried up very small
An’ soft an’ soggy, like the mop
That hangs in our back hall.
My ’lectric flash don’t give no light;
I got it sorta bent
In fixin’ it to make it bright,
When, zip! an’ out it went!
It had a black thing in it, and
A little old glass bead
That went and busted in my hand
An’ made my finger bleed.
My Christmas drum don’t make no noise;
I cut the top to show
A bunch of other boys
The works that made it go.
1 ain’t got nothin’ left to break
An’ Christmas day is past—
I wonder why they never make
The kind of toys that last!
CANCER, THE 3
MEDICAL MYSTERY.
The newest government census fig-
ures appear to show that during the
last half-dozen years there has been
no increase in the death rate from
cancer in this country.
This, in a way, is good news; for
hitherto the cancer rate has advanced
steadily and alarmingly. At the
present time it is 25 per cent. higher
than it was thirty years ago—the dis-
ease, in other words, killing four peo-
ple for every three who succumbed to
it in 1890.
Particularly striking is the fact
that in San Francisco twenty times
as many persons will die of cancer in
1922, proportionately to the popula-
tion, as were destroyed by that mala-
dy in 1882.
The medical profession is now con-
ducting a propaganda which seeks to
persuade sufferers to have prompt re-
course to the surgeon when the first
symptom of cancer appears. It may
be a mere wart that shows signs of
growing; it may be nothing more than
a little swelling, or a hard lump be-
neath the skin with redness surround-
ing it. A person in such a case should
lose no time in seeking medical ad-
vice. The trouble may be of no im-
portance; but, i
mediate removal with the knife.
Unfortunately, persons
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from cancer commonly conceal the | creasing of the
fact, as if the affliction were shameful. |
Too often the victims have resort to | Lindi
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by unscrupulous ecent months are to be found for in
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nostrums advertised
fakirs who offer a “cure without the
knife,” thus postponing an operation
until it is too late.
A cancer is usually local and exter-
nal to start with. Later on (if it be
not removed), its diseased cells find
their way through the blood stream or
and
other vital organ, infecting it,
death follows.
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One in every twelve women NOW | epg career.
living in the United States, and one
in every twenty-one men, will die of
cancer. Appalling prospect, is it not?
The horror of the malady is, if pos-
sible, augmented by the mystery that
envelops it. Medical science today
knows mo more about the cause of
cancer than was known 1000 years
ago.
Some families seem to be immune.
In other families deaths from cancer
occur in generation after generation,
as if to show a hereditary tendency.
There are many so-called “cancer
houses,” in which deaths from the dis-
lymph chamels to the liver or some |yies ong is longer.
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MAN MAY LIVE
FOR 2000 YEARS
Longevity Peak Has not Yet Been
Attained, Says New York
Scientist.
The leader in American life today
lives twenty years longer than did the
leader of ancient Greece and Rome,
says Dr. A. J. Barker Savage, super-
intendent of the Broad Street hospital,
New York, according to an article in
the Boston Transcript. Modern man
does not reach the peak of his activity
until an age when the leader of old
was already in his grave. The inter-
val of his most successiul effort is
longer than was the case with men
who flourished in the, vears just be-
fore and just after the coming of
Christ.
Dr. Savage, in a study on longevity
which he has just completed, compares
the present ages of such men as Wil-
liam L. Douglas, John Hays Ham-
mond and William A. Gaston with the
ages at death of Archimedes, Demos- |
thenes and Pompey. He finds that the
average at death of the ancients was
55.7 years, while the moderns, all of
whom are living at the present time,
already average 63.8 years, and, ac-
cording to life insurance researches,
may reasonably expect 10.5 more
years of life. In other words, Dr.
Savage figures that the moderns will |
die at an average age of 73.3.
The doctor has taken forty-one
Greeks and Romans, most of them se- |
lected by Plutarch as the leaders of |
the ancient world, and forty-one |
Americans, selected by B. C. Forbes |
as the leaders in the business and
finance of this country today, and |
compared their life spans. He has!
reached the opinion that the struggle |
for supremacy in this country today |
is not killing off the leaders in our na- |
tional life. He has come to the belief
that Dr. Woods Hutchinson came to
about a year ago—that the pace that
kills is the crawl—that the faster |
you live, the slower you die.
Here is what Dr. Savage has to say |
about it:
“The intensive concentration of |
American life has not brought about |
early deaths of those who had to!
struggle for success. The average |
length of human life now is probably |
about fifty years. In the sixteenth |
century the best estimate that is to |
be had of it places it at nineteen |
years; at the close of the eighteenth |
century it was a little more than thir- |
ty years, and now it has so increased
that we shall have to readjust our |
definition of the length of a genera- |
tion.
“But we have not yet reached the |
maximum in longevity. The predic- |
tion of living to be 2000 years old may |
be that of a visionary, but it is cer-!
tain that on top of our present span
of life fifteen more years might eas-
ily be added by proper attention to
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Ff it be a commencing health and the signs of illness.
cancer, the only hope lies in its im-|
«Attention to health, assisted by
medical and surgical advice, has al- |
ready brought about a lowering of
span of life. Pro-
nounced declines in the death rate in
fluenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, or-
rhage, Bright's disease and especially
for deaths from conditions incidental
to childbirth.
«The result is that not only is death
coming later, but the period of most
successful activity is coming later in!
Once forty to for-,
ty-five years was the age at which a
man was considered to be at the height |
Sir William Osler was
reported to have said that it would not |
make much difference to the progress
of the world if men were chloroform- |
ed when they attained the age of six-
ty. But such a statement will be less
likely to come from the doctor of the
future. In the group of forty-one
Americans selected for their success
in business by B. C. Forbes, only two
are less than fifty, and most of the
others would not have appeared on
such a list when they were only fif-
”
The men,
whose ages Mr.
both ancient and modern, '
Savage has studied
‘many eat
‘hurt the digestion.
"of Drug Control,
have been issued
sary, as the law is sufficiently
: serve is that no
Valera; but under the strain and the
uncertainty and the irritation of the
wranglings of the Dail it may break
and the high hopes of today become
tomorrow’s bloody dust.
England led the way in June toward
peace. She has led throughout and
she still leads. She has made con-
cessions that would cause English
liberals of a generation ago to turn in
their graves. Still the Irish lag and
fling rhetoric and hesitate while their
American support withers and the
world wonders if, after all, Ireland is
to be the victim of the incredible and
strange madness of her extremists.—
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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THE TIME TO TAKE
PEPTO-MANGAN
When You Feel a Little “Off” it Will
Bring You Back to Health.
Some people never need any medi-
cine at all. They are, as the saying
goes, “strong as a bull.” They are
mighty lucky. Most people need a
good tonic once in a while. They take
cold, or through overwork or social
activity do not get enough sleep;
improper food and thus
It is mighty wise
to take Gude’s Pepto-Mangan with the
meals for a few weeks and build up.
One cannot have too much good
health. Pepto-Mangan gives you
plenty of red blood, and everybody
knows that red blood means feeling
good and looking good all the time.
Sold by druggists in liquid and tablet
form.—Adv. 67-2
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— The “Watchman” makes the
best kind of Christmas present.
NO SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHIL-
DREN EXCEPT BY PRESCRIP-
TION OF PHYSICIAN OR DEN-
TIST.
After January 1st, 1922, Pennsyl-
vania babies are going to have more
than a fighting chance to grow up
with their rightful heritage of
strength and health.
A revision of the Pennsylvania
Anti-narcotic Act, approved April 20,
1921, amends Section 2, paragraph 2
of the Act so that it now reads:
“That no preparations, remedies, or
compounds containing any opium, or
coca leaves, or any compound or de-
rivatives thereof, in any quantity
whatsoever, may be sold, dispensed,
| distributed, or given away to, or for
the use of, any known habitual user
of drugs or any child of twelve years
of age or under, except in pursuance
of a prescription of a duly licensed
physician or dentist.”
Accordingly, after January 1, 1922,
no soothing syrup, infant anodyne,
paregorie, or any preparation contain-
ing opium or its educts, such as mor-
phine or codeine, may be sold to or
for the use of any child except on the
prescription of 2 physician.
Dr. ihomas S. Blair, chief, Burcau
State Department of
Health says “No special regulations
covering this require-
the law, nor are any neces-
specif-
ic, and all that the druggists need ob-
sales of any narcotic-
bearing preparation be made to or for
the use of children under 12 years of
age except on the prescription of a
ment of
| physician.”
A difficulty may confront some
druggists in that they have labels for
paregoric giving infant dosage. It
does not exact of the druggist that he
destroy these old labels, but in procur-
ing new supplies, the dosage for in-
fants should not appear thereon.
The Commissioner of Health asks
Pennsylvania citizens to cooperate in
enforcing this law, stating that
thousands of ignorant mothers have
been doping helpless babies with the
result that these children are stunt-
ed in growth; some of them become
mentally defiicient, and 2 foundation
for drug addiction in later life is
laid.
Jim Jackson’s Poem.
Jim Jackson, of Boalsburg, has been
touched by the poetic muse and sends
us the following which we make im- |
perishable by giving it publication in
the “Watchman.”
AS WE THINK.
Were you ever out in the Great alone?
Nay, vou need not go to the Rocky pier, |
Nor to the Ozark hills. i
Just plod your way on a dreary day
To the mountains of your home.
near
To the great and towering oak, {
And it seems to say, “you'll pay, you'll
pay,”
If you don't remember God.
Ab, it pays to remember God, my boys,
Wherever you may roam!
For remember, just remember, boys,
IIe'll decide your future home.
And it seems to me, ’tis easy to see
As you journey along through life;
‘Tis not always the great and rich man, |
dear,
God gives eternal life.
So it pays to remember God, my boys,
As you sit quite near to the oak.
And as vou journey home tonight
lot's decide to help bear our brother's
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Real Estate Transfers.
; Rebecca Snyder to J. S. Burd, tract :
in Haines township; $720. i
Peter Lose to Annie Lose, tract in
Rush township; $1.
J. K. Johnston, Admr., to Thomas |
J. Burd, et al, tract in Liberty town- |
ship; $1,300.
Frank A. Richards,
Herschell G. Parker, tract in Phil-
ipsburg; $1,100.
Julia Shuey to Edna L. Schreffler, | Cp
tract in College township; $75.
Bellefonte Trust Co. to Frank G.
Gardner, tract in Ferguson township;
$16,000.
Anna M. Bair to Harry Forbes,
tract in South Philipsburg; $1,600.
Green Decker, Admrs., to Dolan D.
Decker, tract in Gregg and Potter
townships; $125.
J. T. Decker, et al, to Dolan D.
Decker, tract in Gregg and Potter
townships; $3,400.
John C. Hartley, et ux, to B. D.
Jones, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
B. D. Jones to Annie E. Hartley,
tract in Philipsburg; $1.
Ida T. Philips, et bar, to Janet S.
Sankey, tract in Philipsburg; $3,000.
Mary L. Orvis, et bar, to R. F. Wel-
ty, tract in Bellefonte; $1,500.
Carl H. Johnson, et ux, to HOD
Yearick, et ux, tract in Howard town-
ship; $250.
D. M. Kline, et ux, to Martha J.
Markle, tract in Spring township;
$5,000.
David Atherton, et ux, to George
W. Zeigler, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
George W. Zeigler, et ux, to Emma
L. Atherton, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
P. P. Leitzel, et ux, to S. W. Gram-
ley, trustee, tract in Millheim; $235.
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Polly Williamson, et bar, to Arthur
Ridgway, tract in South Philipsburg;
$1.
Albert Owens to Mary H. Cowell,
{pact in Philipsburg; $75.
Matilda A. Henderson, et bar, to S.
R. Morningstar, tract in Philipsburg;
52,250.
Adam Baum to Simeon Baum, tract
in Bellefonte; $1.
H. B. Hering, et ux, to Susan C.
Moyer, tract in Penn township; $1.
1. G. Gordon Foster, et al, to Wil-
liam A. Fye, tract in State College;
$1,500.
Maggie B. Gates to A. S. Bailey,
tract in Ferguson township; $1,000.
Naomi B. Kerstetter to Frank B.
Gearhart, et ux, tract in Rush town-
ship; $1.
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Shoes are worth Seeing and Buying
Come and See Them
Maybe You'll Buy
Ladies’ Felt Slippers, all colors -
Men’s Leather Slippers, good quality
Children’s Rubber boots
Children’s Shoes, good quality, sizes to 11
Warm Slippers for cold feet
them,
you money.
We have so many bargains, that we cannot tell you
Mid-Winter Shoe Bargains
at Yeagers
$2.00
2.50
2.00
2.00
1.25
all
Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27
about
but we ask you to call and we can prove that we can save
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We are making January Sales
case have oseurred with such lament: | 31.’ss follows: TEE |)
able repetition as to destroy their : ahi TN | ) :
market value for selling or renting SNcIEN TS at Lae at | Soh ? the largest. This means wonder-
purposes. An evil repute attaches to Name death Name present Q i 1 .
certain well-known “cancer districts,” | 3 clon "11111 5) AE UE ful reductions of all winter and
in which the loath $e from he mal | Soo 8% Robert Dollar....T8 ! $
ady is extraordinari igh. ere is | Plato ....... 80 Jno. H. Pattison 76! 4 3 3
ady is extraordinrily NC rkehives of | Arcnimedés Ah. ropburn.. 1 3 seasonable merchandise, winter
Massachusetts; another is in the mid- BO ls Ya ire For Inf: 3 S$
Na Now York State. (A shone Sie Hie or Infants and Children; | ¢ goods must be sold now regard-
One of the many theories regarding | \¥EIUEY® oo i DB 3 I 2
the cause of cancer is that it is at- | Macius "166 Minor C. Kelth: 2) Mothe Ww $ less of cost.
tributable to an undiscovered germ, |Themistocle ..65 John G. Shed....Tl | ¢
cari ho. bedbug or some other | {they 11 Wi i, Mlb ; Cx” 13
(oaect. If that were correct, the dis- | Demosthenes ...62 J. H. I mmond. .66 | ) i
insect, IF that were correct, Hh A | to... 18 Hoorge Eastman 10. enuine Lastoria |: Coats, Suits, Dresses and Furs at
among the slum-dwelling poor than Pl 61 4 Diggentheim. 0 i i .
among well-to-do _people who enjoy | Marcus Aurelius..0% G. W. Goethals. .63 | i~ _ALGOHOL-3 ER GEN T- § wholesale, and less in many cases.
the benefit of sanitary surroundings. |FPompey .......-: 58 Wm. A. Gaston..62 | | AVoselablePreparationfeds g ways
But such is not the case; cancer is as | {ion "11111111 Be Cormick 3 | gimifatingtheFood by Regul: This pre-inventory sale of winter
common among the rich as in the ten- | Dion Y eee das, B. Dolie....0d Bowelsof | B 8
ement and poorer quarters of our Fiaujiins . . dnpes Speyer. ..60 | ears the goods means sacrifice of profits
cities sucullus ul’'s Rosenwald.59 |
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idemi pyrrhus 186 Jas, A. Farrell.!38 | { D1Zgnatur for us, and almost a seasons wear
Epidemic. ae re ego ture )
a of 3 covets Ink Demetrius "2 Jon D. i ahead.
y an, “are | Nums ilius 43 TF. A. Vanderlip..bT
required each morning, on arrival at bs Lg AC do
the bank, to register in a time book Lh Ph i 2: ML Hoynolds an ree
and, if ta18Y, » give the reason. Otho eer Ore, H Kahn. ..54 { i:
‘Now the chief cause of tardiness | Alexander ....- J. P. Morgan....o% | enna
is usually ‘delay in transportation,’ Sus iGraechus -% hey A Ail S08
and the first name to arrive late writes | Tiber’s Gracchuc 20 C. Vanderhilt....d8 Lepper il i
that phrase opposite his name and AGS ..iecreeennnes 24 John N. Willys..48 ie
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those who follow write ‘ditto.’
“One day, however, the first late
man gave as the reason ‘wife had
twins, and a number of other late
men mechanically signed ‘ditto’ un-
7 Av. nge now....63.8
Expect'n of life 10.5
We Extend an Invitation to All
Av age at death 55. en flarr |
Av. age at death 74.3
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derneath.”
Doughnut as a Symbol.
A hotel man was endeavoring to ex-
press metaphorically the difference
between a pessimist and an optimist
by employing as a symbol the humble
doughnut.
“The optimist,” said he, “sees the
doughnut, while the pessimist sees
but the hole.”
“Perhaps,” suggested some one,
“that is due to the fact that the op-
timist has mostly doughnut and the
pessimist mostly hole.”
— The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
While Ireland Lags.
Always in these later Anglo-Irish
decisions England leads the way. In
the English parliament the foes of the |
Pact of London have been swept down
and away by an avalanching majori-
ty in favor of the settlement. Lords |
and Commons alike reflected the sen-
timent of the British nation in favor |
of the new Irish Free State within the
empire.
The troubled Irish lag. The old in-
decision is gripping them. It is plain
that De Valera is trying to talk the
treaty into its grave. It would be in-
teresting to see his real objections
stripped naked and free from rhet-
oric. The truce holds in spite of De
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