Demovric aldon
Bellefonte, Pa., July 21, 1922,
OPEN THE DOOR.
Open the door, let in the sun;
He hath a smile for every one;
He hath made of the raindrops gold and
gems,
He may change our tears to diadems—
Open the door!
Open the door of the soul; let in
Strong, pure thoughts which will banish
sin;
They will grow and bloom with a grace
divine,
And their fruit shall be sweeter than that
- of the vine—
Open the door!
Open the door of the heart; let in
Sympathy sweet for stranger and kin;
It will make the halls of the heart so fair
That angels may enter unaware—
Open the door!
SHALL I BE A PRINTER?
Never before in the history of the
United States have there been such
excellent opportunities for American
boys to learn good trades than at the
present time. In every field of indus-
try and in all lines of business, the
call is for trained men—for men who
know how to perform this or that par-
ticular kind of work efficiently. To
meet this emergency, thousands upon
thousands of bright, ambitious youths
are needed to take positions as ap-
prentices. The opportunities for in-
struction and advancement are on
every side, and substantial wages are
offered to all young men who are will-
ing to give their services.
The working conditions for appren-
tice boys in the industrial plants of
this country have changed wonderful-
ly for the better during the last few
decades. Some years ago it was es-
sential for the apprentice to work ten
hours of every business day for very
small pay. In many instances the
boys worked in shops, mills and fac-
tories which were anything but san-
itary, and in not a few cases the ap-
prentice was in danger through ma-
chinery having no safety devices. But
today, in the average industrial plant,
the work-rooms are well lighted,
cheerful, and are kept neat and clean;
the apprentice works eight hours a
day instead of ten, and, moreover, the
apprentice is paid substantially while
he is learning a valuable trade.
One of the most interesting, educa-
tional, and profitable vocations is that
of printing. It has been well said
that “the printing office is a great
school of knowledge.” Many of the
men who are renowned in American
history, such as, for example, Benja-
min Franklin and Mark Twain (Sam-
uel L. Clemens), gained their early
education in printing houses. The
knowledge which Franklin received
while he was working as a printer and
publisher was afterwards exceedingly
useful in his work as a writer, invent-
or, scientist, and diplomat. Mark
Twain’s experience in tke printing
trade contributed to his success as an
author. Many of the other great men
of the world were practical printers, !
and they were all proud of the fact.
The printing apprentice during his
course of training learns the correct
use of grammar and punctuation; he
learns how to spell words properly;
he learns color harmony, mathematics,
and a great deal of other useful
knowledge, aside from the regular
mechanical work of printing. The
compositor, or type-setter, handles
“copy” written on practically every
subject. He reads and sets type si-
multaneously. He cannot help but ab-
sorb some of the knowledge offered by
the manuscripts he works on. Op-
erators of type-setting machines in
large newspaper and magazine plants
have the pleasure of reading the lat-
est news, special articles, and short
stories before the public sees the mat-
ter in print. The compositor must
read as he sets type, whether he likes
reading or not. He must spell words
and punctuate sentences correctly,
else his proof-sheets will mark him as
an illiterate man. The average com-
positor is well read and broad minded
simply as a result of his work.
The printing pressman, too, has the
advantage of reading many different
kinds of printed matter during the
course of his work in the press-room.
When making-ready forms of type |
and plates on the presses, he bulids up
weak places in the make-ready with
small pieces of tissue paper so that
the form of type or plates will print
evenly and plainly on the stock. In
other words, the pressman’s work is
so fine and intricate that often a piece
of paper as thin as tissue will affect
it. This means that the pressman re-
ally learns considerable about engi-
neering. His experience in mixing
printing inks of many colors and tints
soon give him a knowledge of color,
which knowledge could be applied to
various kinds of work outside the
printing industry. For instance, the
expert color-printer knows that a
frame house painted pearl gray, with
the window-frames and shutters done
in darker gray, and the window-sash
painted light maroon, would be pleas-
ing to the eye on account of the three
different colors mentioned being in
harmony.
" Both the compositor and the press-
man, during their work in the print-
ing office, have to deal with figures
and measurements which may be
classed under the head of mathemat-
ics, and in many ways this knowledge
is useful to the compositor and press-
man aside from their regular work in
the printery. The point which the
writer is trying to make clear to the
reader is this: The trained printer
soon becomes an exacting man; the
great variety of fine work that he is
producing forces him to be exacting.
Therefor, if a good printer would de-
sire to leave the printing trade for the
purpose of learning some other trade,
he would already be in possession of
knowledge which would aid him in
rapidly learning another craft.
Printers, as a class, are among the
highest-paid craftsmen in the United
States. One of the many advantages
of the printing business is in its being
a steady, all-through-the-year occupa-
tion. The average large and medium-
size printing plant is constantly busy
during all months of the year. The
well-trained compositor or pressman
may always feel sure of holding a
steady position. His work is intense-
ly interesting—so fascinating, in fact,
that often the day passes before he re-
alizes that it is time to go home. He
works indoors, usually in comfortable
quarters, and rains or snows never
force him to “take days off” as is fre-
quently the case with outdoor work-
ers.
At the present time, when a young
man decides to become a printing-ap-
prentice he has the choice of at least
five different branches of the business,
namely, hand composition, job press-
work, cylinder press-work, rotary
press-work, and machine composition.
There are other branches in addition,
such as imposition of forms and proof-
reading, but the apprentice should
first acquire practical knowledge of
composition before taking up either
one of the last branches mentioned.
It would require about four years for
the apprentice to learn any one of
these seven “professions.”
Hand composition means the set-
ting of plain type of various faces and
sizes, such as used for the printing of
fine books, booklets, pamphlets, etc.
It means also the setting of display
type of various sizes and faces as used
for business cards, letter heads, bill-
heads; advertising literature, such as
folders, catalogues, mailing cards, and
posters; and display advertising, as it
appears in newspapers and maga-
zines. The hand compositor who
knows how to design and set in type
handsome forms for title pages of
books and catalogues, business sta-
tionery, advertising literature, and
for display advertising, is called a ty-
pographer,” and he ranks as an artist.
Job press-work means “making
ready” forms of type and plates on
platen presses of various models and
sizes, which print sheets of paper and
cardboard of all sizes up to fourteen
by twenty-two inches. Much of the
fine color printing, such as art sub-
Jects for wall calendars, booklets, ad-
vertising folders, inserts for books,
business stationery, etec., is produced
on platen presses. Practically all of
the smaller class of job and. commer-
cial printing, such as business cards,
tickets, bill-heads, circulars and an-
nouncements, is also done on platen
presses. The job pressman must
know how to make-ready the forms so
that the type and plates give perfect
impressions on the stock; he must
know how to mix different colors and
tints of printing ink; he must know
how to manipulate the ink so that it
will properly transfer from the inked
form to the paper stock; he must know
how to adjust “guides” on the “tymp-
an” of the press so that the form will
print on the right position on the
stock, and so that the operator of the
machine will. have no difficulty in
“feeding” the sheets to register.
Cylinder presswork means making-
ready large forms of type and plates
which would be too spacious to work
on platen presses. The cylinder press
is used for printing large sheets of
stock for catalogues, books, country
newspapers, magazines, posters, and
so Toth. All op the big, illustrated
catalogues sent out by business con-
cerns are printed eight or more pages
at a time on cylinder presses. The
cylinder press-man works in about
the same way as a job press-man, with
the exception that he handles larger
and heavier forms. Both the job and
cylinder press-men are highly-skilled
craftsmen, and many of them may
rightly be classed as artists.
Rotary presswork means making-
ready curved plates which are used
for printing large editions of newspa-
pers, magazines, telephone directories,
etc. The great standard magazines
are printed from curved electrotype
plates on rotary presses, the paper
passing automatically through the
machines at high speed from rolls.
All of the big city newspapers are
printed from curved stereotype plates
on mammoth rotary presses, the pa-
per speeding through from rolls auto-
matically. The make-ready is done in
such a manner as to cause all of the
illustration and type-matter in the
electrotype and stereotype plates to
print sharp and clear.
Machine composition is done by
means of a keyboard and a casting
device. The operator of a composing
machine can produce five times as
much plain type-matter as a compos-
itor can set by hand. Practically ali
of the plain type-composition used for
the large daily newspapers and for
the standard magazines is set on ma-
chines. The two popular composing-
machines which are in general use are
called the linotype and the monotype.
The operator of a linotype, by manip-
ulating the keyboard, sets lines of
matrices from which solid lines of
type are cast automatically. The op-
erator of a monotype also works on a
keyboard, and as he strikes the var-
ious buttons of the keyboard, holes
are perforated in a roll of paper.
Afterwards, this roll of paper is plac-
ed on a casting machine, and the holes
in the paper cause new, movable type
characters and spaces to be cast and
set in lines.
It is not the writer's intention to
present in this article a complete
treatise on the art of printing. The
intention is merely to give prospect-
ive apprentices an idea of the duties
required of a printer in the various
departments of a plant. Enough has
been written on the technical side of
the subject to point the way to the
particular kind of work in which the
reader may be interested. One youth
may prefer to learn the art of hand
composition, another may have a de-
sire for learning job presswork, still
another may prefer the work of ma-
chine composition 2nd so on. It
would be well for the young man who
believes that he would like to become
a printer to go through all depart-
ments of a large printing house for
the purpose of studying the differeent
branches of the work. He would then
be in a position to decide on the branch
of work that he would like best to
learn.
For the information of boys who
may not know of the fact, in nearly
all of the medium sized towns and
large cities of the United States are
located vocational schools whare print-
ing and other trades are taught in
EET
evening courses. The course of in-
struction is free. It should be under-
stood, however, that these vocational
schools are not capable of making
full-fledged craftsmen. This could
not be expected with the student at-
tending the classes only a few hours
of each week. The evening trade
school will, nevertheless, give the
printing apprentice preparatory train-
ing which will prove very valuable to
him when he accepts a regular posi-
tion as apprentice in a printing estab-
lishment.
Boys desiring to learn something
about printing and its allied trades
from books will find many instructive
volumes on the subjects in the free
public libraries. One of the best ser-
ies of books ever written on printing
and its allied trades is called “The U.
T. A. Typographical Library,” con-
sisting of sixty-four volumes, each
one devoted to a particular branch cf
the printing industry. These books
may be found in the “Useful Arts De-
partment” of any large public libra-
ry. The series of books by Theodore
L. DeVinne, a famous American
printer, will also be found valuable to
the student.
Any intelligent youth, sixteen years
of age, or older, who would like to
learn the printing trade, will exper-
ience no difficulty in finding a position |
as apprentice open for him in his
home town or city. Even in the small
villages throughout the land are lo-
cated job printing and country news-
paper offices which offer opportunities
for boys to become apprentices. The
country printer, as a rule, is a good
craftsman, and he is capable of hold-
ing a position in one - of the large
printing and publishing houses of the
city, but in these days even the coun-
try printer is fairly well paid, and
there is no need for him to move away
from home. While he would earn
higher wages in the city, living ex-
penses would be higher there, so he
would gain little by leaving the coun-
try printery.
In this age, so important and useful
is printing that no other industry
could hardly exist without it. Every
business, no matter in what line,
needs printed matter to keep it in op-
eration. The United States govern-
ment is one of the largest users of
printing in the world. Who has not
heard of Uncle Sam’s splendid print-
ing office in Washington, D. C? So
rapidly has the printing and publish-
ing business been growing during the
last thirty years that today it ranks
as the third largest industry in the
United States, and it is still develop-
ing and expanding in every direction.
With these facts in mind, it is easy
for one to understand why there is al-
ways plenty of work for good print-
ers, and it is crystal-clear that the fu-
ture for printing-apprentices is ex-
ceedingly brilliant.—The Watchword.
FIRST CITY RADIUM CLINIC FOR
RICH AND POOR.
A municipal radium clinic, the first
in America, was recently opened in
Philadelphia. The city purchased two
grams of the precious element for
$154,000, a bargain price, for this
quantity would ordinarily have cost
$200,000. The commercial possibili-
ties of this substance when used for
treatment of cancer are seen when it
is stated that the emanation obtained
is usually sold at $13 per “millecurie,”
the standard of measurement. The
emanation mentioned is a heavy gas,
and is the first disintegration product
of the original radium, whose power
of yielding the emanation is estimat-
ed to last for over 1,000 years. While
many radiologists use minute parti-
cles of the radium itself, properly in-
closed, for application to cancerous
areas, it is, of course, its emanation
that has the curative effect, and in
this hospital the emanation is collect-
ed and sealed, in millecurie doses, in
tiny silver tubes. As a first supply,
a quantity of 250 millecuries, salable
commercially at $3,250, was collected.
Treatment will be free in the city
hospital, however, to those patients
who cannot afford to pay. The radi-
um is contained in a lead-lined, her-
metically sealed safe in the laboratory
of the hospital. The room is protect-
ed with a fine network of burglar-
alarm wires, and every precaution
has been taken to protect the sub-
stance that is about 130,000 times as
valuable as gold.
While physicians emphasize the fact
that radium emanations cannot cure
every case of cancer, yet they believe
in its curative properties generally.
The radium, about as much as two
peas, is dissolved in water and hydro-
chloric acid, the result being an am-
ber-colored fluid. The gas emanation
resulting from its disintegration is
pumped through a glass tube from
which the air has been withdrawn. A
series of bulbs filled with mercury
prevents air from getting back in.
Tiny quantities of the gas gradually
accumulate in the tube after the mer-
cury is withdrawn from the traps.
The emanation, purified by the tube
being run over a red-hot copper bar,
is forced into a glass tube the size of
a hair. This is sealed and divided in-
to tiny fractions which are also fused
and sealed.
Each section is placed in a silver
container and put in a jewel box. The
silver tube is applied to the cancer,
the emanation burning out the dis-
eased tissues. Great care is taken to
protect the workers, the tubes being
handled with forceps, and the persons
handling the radium remaining be-
hind lead-lined cast-iron blocks de-
signed to protect them. The appara-
tus to measure the strength of the
emanation is the finest ever devised,
and cost $10,000. Fifteeen to twen-
ty persons are examined each day, by
a staff of the best physicians in the
city.—By Douglas C. Miner.
er——— ——
Exchange of Compliments.
Mr. Jones at a dinner party had
been trying to say something nice to
his hostess.
“What a small appetite you have,
Mr. Jones,” she remarked.
“To sit next to you, Mrs. Smith,”
he replied, “would cause any man to
lose his appetite.”
And then he wondered why he was
not invited to the next affair.
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! THE JOLLY BACHELOR.
| Sr ———
By L. A: Miller.
valuable space on the important top-
tal existing, simply because he is not
burdened with the responsibility of
endeavor to prove is a serious mis-
take, and will be so long as the pesky
old maid exists. As a rule the char-
acteristics of the old maids are that
they understand their business to per-
fection, and other people’s business as
well. Now, then, the question is, to
marry or not to marry. This isa
question of far more importance than
Hamlet’s: “To be, or not to be.” In
fact his is not a fair question at all,
since we are not consulted as to
whether we will be, or will not be.
The first thing we know we are, and
all that is left for us is to make the
best of it. Whether we do, or do not,
marry, is quite a different matter.
as best suits our tastes or conditions,
and mankind is justifiable in doing
either, which leaves some in a quan-
dary which to do.
Now, then, what prompted me to
, give my views on this all important
| subject was occasioned on account of |
| a pleasant chat I had some time ago
{ with a dear old friend, and by the way |
‘a happy, intelligent bachelor. 1f my
| memory serves me right his senti-
! ments as expressed to me were as fol-
| lows:
“I am a professional man, thirty
| years of age, and have an income suf-
and a wife, if need be, but the neces-
sire to refer to you for an opinion.
books and did not go into society,
consequently did not devote any
thought to the question of love, court-
ship, or marriage; and while engaged
in preparation for my profession the
same acted to prevent my seeking the
society of the opposite sex. After a
number of years of constant applica-
tion to my profession, during which
time I made a number of male
friends and formed certain bachelor
habits, and I reached the position first
stated. I am perfectly satisfied with
my prsent condition and consider my-
self far happier than the majority of
married meen.
Strange to say, my female relatives
are not content to allow me to remain
tinually bringing up the unpleasant
question of matrimony. They seem to
consider that a bachelor has no
rights which they are bound to re-
spect, and in accordance with this
view they take every opportunity to
{heap reproaches on me. They tell me
tit is my duty to get married; and I |
| owe it to society; in fact, leave my
own feelings and inclinations entirely
out of the question. Am I to become
| a martyr and immolate myself on the
| altar of matrimony, simply through a
i sense of duty, or to please others?
While I have no bad habits, I know
that were I to marry I should be
obliged to give up my present mode
of life and surrender all the joys of
my existence. To give up my old
friends, my old ways, no more chats
and smokes in the evenings with my
associates; no occasional visits to the
movies; no more calm and peaceful
nights devoted to pleasant reading
and meditation; nothing of this kind,
but everything reversed. All from a
foolish notion of duty. Please give
me your advice on this question, with-
out consulting the old maids or vi-
vacious young girls.”
Here is a case worthy of careful at-
tention, as it involves the question of
duty. This gentleman is pleasantly
situated, his surroundings are to his
taste, and his life of a bachelor ap-
pears to suit his nature and disposi-
tion. Has he a right to remain there ?
He realizes that he has the means
necessary to keep a wife in good
style, and is of an agreeable dispo-
sition, as most bachelors of his type
are, yet he is not sure that getting
married would not spoil his present
comfort, besides making some woman
unhappy. From the earliest ages of
which we have any record, marriage
has been regarded as an institution of
heaven. Some nations hold it to be a
gross violation of nature’s laws not
to marry, and for that reason it was
made compulsory. During the age of
strife, when men were continually
fighting and killing each other off,
thereby leaving a large excess of fe-
males over males, the laws not only
permitted a man to have many wives,
but made polygamy compulsory. The
prevalent idea that the polygamy of
those times was due to sensuousness is
not well founded. If men had not
been permitted to take more than one
woman to wife, fully one half the
women would have become old maids,
and the world would have been very
little better for their having lived.
Mothers were what the world need-
ed then, and the laws were adjusted
to meet the demand. The whirligig of
time has carried us past the point
where polygamy is a necessity, as the
sexes are now so evenly balanced that
each man may have one wife and each
woman one husband, at a time. At
present there is a slight excess of
women in this country, but it is not
sufficient to justify even the more
modern forms of polygamy.
It may be concluded, therefore, that
marriage is no longer a necessity in
the sense it was in past ages, yet, as
a social institution it is still, and ever
will be a necessity. It is so written
in the book of nature, and so speci-
fied in the laws of economy. These do
not say that men shall marry, but
that they may. The law is not man-
Ldatory in character, but enobling.
This, however, makes little difference
as far as the matter of duty is con-
cerned. Every man owes it to
world to make himself and everybody
else as comfortable as possible, or lies
in his power, and, leaving the world,
have it said:
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him, that nature might stand
up
And say to all the world, —this was a
Man,—Shakespeare.
Marriage would, therefore, seem to
It
is something we may or may not do,
ficient to support myself in good style, !
sity of the latter is the question I de- |
While at college I was busy with my |
in this blissful condition but are con- |
the | &!
. be purely a matter of choice. The old
| maids are antagonistic. They allege
i the bachelors might be put in those
J just feel like killing some of your | positions which are attended with |
1 much danger; then if their lives were |
ic which I will designate as the jolly | jost there would be few to mourn. ugly head in Pennsylvania, 71 cases
bachelor and the restless, cranky old | They might be heavily taxed for cer- heing reported to the State Health De-
maid. Many of your readers imagine | tainly no others have as much right | partment from Canonsburg, Washing-
that the bachelor is the happiest mor- | to bear the public expense as those ton county.
. who have none depending on them.
| When drafts are made to fill up de-
providing for a family. This, I will pleted armies the proclamation might | typhoid fever last
iread: “Draw from the list of bache-
lors.” They might be made gas in-
| spectors, dynamite supervisors, or as-
' signed any position in which it would
i be dangerous to put a great and good
iman. With all these senseless abus-
| es heaped upon the jolly bachelor, if
i the old maids say please sir to him he
| goes straightway and does her bid-
| ding, or at least makes her believe he
| is doing his level best to do it. How-
| ever, if he is not a bachelor from
| choice, he may be crusty and contra-
i ry, or may fawn and splurge around
! like a youth with his first mustache.
| The good natured bachelor generally
children to look after, which he does
cheerfully, and it makes him feel good |
to be called uncle, regardless of the
age, sex, race or previous condition cf
the self-styled nephews and nieces.
Young ladies, when preparing to
entertain company or to enter society, |
like bachelors to practice on. Any
young girl is glad of the chance of
going out with a bachelor uncle, be-
cause he takes such good care of her,
and knows where the nicest suppers
and lunches are to be found. It is a
mistake to think bachelors are heart-
less. Never could they have become
' so popular with children and young
people if they were. While the ma-
this life, they have their ample share
of trials and ‘difficulties to contend
| with.
(While our correspondent devotes
‘his energies to defending the jolly
| bachelors a Hazleton minister upholds
| the bachelor girl, as witnesseth the
| following :—Editor).
{ Hazleton, Pa., July 16.—Jokers call
| bachelor girls a disgruntled set, said
Rev. Dr. C. A. Smucker, pastor of St.
| Paul’s Methodist church, tonight, in a
special sermon to young women,
whereas he claimed the facts show
they are a happy group, as well as a
ed God made more women than men,
which the preacher took as an indica-
tion of the Divine plan that all of the
fair sex shall not wed. The majority
! of the bachelor girls remain single, he
declared, because the offers made of
marriage were not satisfactory.
senses fesse
Agricultural Course a Desirable One.
There are perhaps a number of boys
in Centre county who would like to en-
{ter a two-year or a four-year course
{in agriculture at The Pennsylvania
: State College but they feel that such
{a course fits them only for the suc-:
! cessful management of a farm.
| of these boys desire a college educa-
| tion in order to follow some occupa- |
{ tion other than actual farm practice
after graduation.
attention is diverted from the agri-
! cultural school because of the wrong
impression they have of the field of
work for which an agricultural course
prepares them.
The fundamental purpose of the
school of agriculture is admittedly to
send out graduates that are equipped
to operate a farm efficiently and with
some measure of success. That Penn
State is fulfilling its’ purpose in this
respect is amply testified by the fact
that more than one-third of its grad-
uates are today engaging in actual
farm practice. The majority of the
remaining two-thirds are in profes-
sional work for which they prepared
while in college.
It may be generally understood that
courses in agriculture, in addition to
training men in farm products, also
prepare graduates for professional
services in fields of work essential to
agricultural enterprise; fields in
which the country boy will discover
his early farm experience to be of im-
measurable value. The demand is
steadily increasing for graduates that
have trained themselves for service
as agricultural instructors and inves-
tigators, extension specialists, for-
esters, landscape architects, plant pa-
thologists, agricultural engineers, and
for other specialized lines of service.
Penn State aims to train this type of
skilled workers also.
Americans Becoming Drinkers of
Milk.
A dispatch from Washington says
America is fast becoming a milk-
drinking nation. In 1921 every man,
woman and child in the United States
consumed an average of 49 gallons of
milk, or nearly a gallon a week per
capita. In 1920 the per capita con-
sumption was 43 gallons.
The Department of Agriculture has
been delving into dairy farm statist-
ics to ascertain just how much milk
and cream the 25,061,000 cows produc-
ed last year, and its distribution.
Production of whole milk, which in-
cludes milk and cream, for household
purposes in 1921 was 45,153,000,000
pounds, 5,000,000,000 pounds in excess
of 1920. The whole milk represents
46 per cent. of the total quantity pro-
duced. Butter, cheese, condensed and
evaporated milk, ice cream and other
products consumed 46,483,408,000
pounds.
Conducted “Experience Meeting.”
Dr. J. M. Buckley, the Mehtodist di-
vine, was asked one day to conduct
an “experience meeting” at a colored
church in the South.
A colored woman arose and bore
witness to the preciousness of her re-
ligion as light-burner and comfort-
ver.
“That’s good, sister!” commented
Dr. Buckley. “But how about the
practical side? Does your religion
make you strive to prepare your hus-
band a good dinner? Does it make
you look after him in every way?”
Just then Dr. Buckley felt a yank at
his coat tails by the colored preacher,
who whispered ardently: “Press dem
questions, doctor; press dem ques-
tions. Dat’s my wife!”
has a dozen or more other people’s'’
jority of bachelors seem to enjoy!
most useful one. Dr. Smucker claim- |
Some '
Consequently their |
TIMELY INFORMATION FROM
| STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
| TYPHOID AND TETANUS.
Typhoid fever has reared again its
This town, with a population of
1 3891, had 40 cases and 5 deaths from
summer. The
' source of infection proved to be a well
, used by many of the townspeople de-
i spite the fact that they have a clean
! borough water supply. This well was
‘ ciosed but the present epidemic has
| been traced to another one which was
‘closed by the State Health Depart-
| ment on May 22nd.
| Department of health engineers are
' now inspecting all the wells in the
| town, and the local board of health
i will compel owners of properties
along streets that are sewered to con-
| nect with the public water and sew-
| erage system, closing outside privies
i and wells.
The Commissioner of Health states
' that not one case of typhoid fever last
summer developed from any properly
controlled public water supply. They
all were traceable either to springs
; and wells, or to milk infected by a ty-
i phoid carrier.
| He said, “properly pasteurized milk
carries no active typhoid germs, but
i there is no surface water in Pennsyl-
| vania that is absolutely safe, though
{it can be made so by boiling; by ade-
i quate and complete filtration; prefer-
anly by sedimentation and chlorina-
. tion.
| Wells in limestone districts are all
dangerous. There are safe wells in
, sand stone formations. There are also
' safe springs, but communities depend-
ent upon well water or springs should
take measures to insure their freedom
from sewage contamination. Tour-
ists should not drink from wayside
springs or wells.
“The laboratories of the State De-
partment of Health are at the service
of any community in the State, though
| they can be used only exceptionally
| for the test of a well used by a single
| family.”
The Commissiner of Health states
that torn, bruised wounds, particular-
ly when deep contaminated by street
or stable dirt, and all wounds caused
by fireworks are dangerous.
He advises first aid treatment of
these wounds by washing with water
which has been boiled and applying
over the wound a clean boiled cloth,
preferably linen, wet and kept wet in
this boiled water, until the doctor
comes.
“Antitoxin for such cases should be
administered at once—the sooner the
better. The dose is fifteen hundred
units. It will prevent lockjaw,” he
said.
“In bad wounds which show no ten-
dency to heal in a week, the dose
should be repeated.”
Tetanus antitoxine stations in Cen-
M. B. Runkle, Belle-
: fonte; Miss Mabel Arney, Centre
Hall; Troutman & Co., Philipsburg;
| Ray D. Gilliland, Sate College.
, tre county are:
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
BOALSBURG.
Miss Eleanor Glenn spent Saturday
night at her home on the Branch.
Frank Crawford, of Bellefonte, was
a business caller in town Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meyer transact-
ed business in Bellefonte Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mayes and fam-
ily, of Milton, visited among friends
in town recently.
Misses Mary and Rachel Segner
spent Friday at Linden Hall, guests of
Mrs. Robert Gearhart.
Forester Ludwig, with his wife and
two sons, of Johnstown, are visiting
at the home of Mrs. Barr.
Miss Nelle Holter, of Howard, re-
cently spent a few days at the home
of Mrs. Charles Mothersbaugh.
Jacob Meyer, Frank Ream and Wil-
liam Brouse have improved the ap-
pearance of their residences by paint-
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. John Weber and
grand-daughter, and Mrs. Lutz, of
Centre Hall, were guests of S. E.
Weber and sister on Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Showers and family
and Mr. and Mrs. Miller and family,
of Madisonburg, were visitors at the
home of A. J. Hazel on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Coxey spent sev-
{eral days in Altoona. Mrs. Harriet
i Koch, of Aaronsburg, and Miss Cath-
erine Koch, of Pine Grove Mills, were
in charge of the Coxey home during
their absence.
Mrs. E. R. Tussey and children, of
Arch Springs, spent several days at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. William
Goheen; Mrs. Tussey coming to at-
tend the funeral of her aunt, Miss Lu-
cretia D. Goheen.
MEDICAL.
The Weary Way
Daily Becoming Less Wearisome to
Many in Bellefonte.
With a back that aches all day,
With rest disturbed at night,
Annyoing urinary disorders,
"Tis a weary way indeed.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are especially
for kidney trouble. ;
Are endorsed by Bellefonte citizens.
Ask your neighbor!
Mrs. Howard Shuey, S. Water St.,
Bellefonte, says: “I had a severe at-
tack of kidney trouble. My back
ached and pained so I couldn’t get a
night’s rest. My work tired me out
and I often had to neglect it. There
was a steady, dull aching over my kid-
neys and I was hardly ever free from
headaches and dizzy spells. My kid-
neys didn’t act right. I used Doan’s
Kidney Pills from the Parrish drug
store and they helped me right away
by stopping the backaches and other
signs of kidney trouble.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t sim-
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Shuey had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 7-28