Bellefonte, Pa., October 14, 1927.
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RODDY’S PRIZE BROWN.
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“That trout was a ringer for this |
one he has entered in the contest, and
I'm entering a formal protest against
his receiving the prize wil due 1nves-
igati ave been made.”
He mused Sam Pruting rub-
bing his nose reflectively. Some-
thing to that, p’rhaps. The fish Jee:
ed fresh enough, though being 1n he
fresh water would check qosar or
a while.” . He tuurned to Pete ia :
kins. “What you got to say abou
this, Pete? Was anybody Ja you
when you caught this trout?” 4
“1 say 1 caught % ll oir ni
n a spinning J )
{Ja Td with some heat. “Won't
e my word for it? .
Yop ik Bevin stared at Hankins
with a gaze so direct that the fellows
shifty eyes wavered before it.
“1 “wouldnt take To word fos
ing, Pete,” Mr. Pruting
fhe hing: amiable frankness. “To tell
the truth, right now I'm a pile inter-
ested in Fred Ames’ remarks. He's
ot me intrigued, sort of.”
“That’s all a bunch of flap-doodle,”
is a
Hankins said sourly. “Ames
sorehead. That's all.” ;
Here Fred spoke up again.
«I don’t say positively that this is
Rod’s fish, but there’s no percentage
in arguing the matter. All the proof
we need is inside the trout. Cut it
open. If the fish was killed by a num-
ber four Kirby hook with a split buck
shot on the smell, and if the bit of
line attached to the hook match:s this
piece I fortunately saved from yes-
terday, which, in turn, as I can show
you, matches the silk on Rod’s reel—
why then the trout and the credit of
catching it belongs to him—or to no-
body. If the fish is O. K. inside, I'll
apologize to Pete and withdraw my
protest against his receiving the
prize.” !
“Rip him open Sam!” exclaimed one
of the interested bystanders. ;
But Pruting was already on his
way to the show window after the
trout. At the start of the dissection
process Pete Hankins modestly faded
away from the picture, not venturing
to await the outcome of Sam’s ex-
plorations.
“] sure made a mistake not clean-
ing that fish,” was Mr. Peter Hankins’
vindictive regret.
The group crowded close around
while Sam plied his knife, and very
quickly all doubts were definitely set-
tled. The unfortunate trout had met
its end as a result of Rod’s number
four Kirby hook.
_ Pruting straightened up, wiping his
knife on a piece of newspaper.
“Where's Pete Hankins?” he de-
manded harshly and indignantly.
“Gone!” was the reply,
“He’d better be gone!” Pruting de-
clared feelingly. “And he'd better
stay gone. I'm not hankering to see
him inside this store again. Not while
I'm running it. Any rough stuff like
‘this he tried to slip over makes me
downright peevish.”
Muttering and mumbling to himself,
telling the world just how peevish
he was, Sam grabbed a pencil and
proceeded to alter a portion of the ex-
hibition placard. It finally read as
follows:
Caught bv Rod Ames.—From the
Reformatory Record.
Medical Value of Calamus Root.
A belief handed down by people of
ancient Asia Minor is that the chew-
ing and swallowing of bits of cala-
mus root acts as a prophylatic or a
tendency to preserve health.
There is considerable medicinal
value in the practice and naught of
.superstitution with which this Kol-
mus Wutzel of the Pennsylvania Ger-
man has been credited.
On account of the leaves possessing
a delicate, sweet fragrance the en-
tire plant has long been known as
.sweet-flag.
Centuries ago the Greeks applied
little sacks of moistened calamus root
to the closed eyes to scatter cataracts.
The seeds of the plant resemble hol-
“low canes.
And thus came its botanical term
—Agorus Calamus—form the Greek
words Kore (pupil of the eye) and
Kalamos (a reed or tube).
Calamus, as employed, is not a true
root. It is a rhizome or underground
stem, and contains a pungent princi-
ple similar to horseradish—a charac-
‘teristic of decided worth in restoring
jaded appetites and overcoming dys-
pepsia. 1
_As seen in the drug market it is
peeled and whitish—due to being
dusted with lime powder. It loses
most of its strength by age, and
should be discarded if it fractures
easily. The plant is a member of
the Araceae cr Indian-turnip family.
It thrives profusely in swamps and
‘requires much sunshine for full devel-
opment.
A 10-quart bucket of peeled, dried
calamus is worth about $3 at present
market prices. The demand is often
greater than the supply.
Other names for the entire plant
are myrtle-flag, bee-wort, swamp-
root, sedge-grass, sweet-cane, sweet-
root, cane-rush, sweet-grass, hot-root
and calamine-leaf.
Marriage Licenses.
Clyde R. Hollenbach, of Kratzer-
ville, and Bernice E. Weller, of Win-
field. Jo
Russell L. Fleisher and Melda
‘Swisher, both of Julian.
Robert F. Hockenberry and Han-
nah E. Roan, both of Bellefonte.
Herman G. Chaapel, of Rochester,
N. Y., and Lulu A. Dunkle, of Syra-
cuse.
Preston F. Dobson, of Mingoville,
and Virginia L. Strunk, of Howard.
——The “Watchman” is the most
readable paper published. Try i __
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Old Pharaoh Giant
of Financial World
Herodotus, Diodorus and Plutarch
glve us a few dazzling glimpses of
wealthy men in antiquity. First of
them, almost lost In the mists of leg.
end, was the Egyptian Pharaoh Ra.
meses III—also known as Rhamp-
sinitus—who reigned about 3,000
years ago. He surpassed all prede
cessors in the wealth he possessed
and in his fondness for its accumu
lation. Diodorus estimates this pha.
raoh’s fortune at 400,000 talents,
which would be about $500,000,000 in
actual money today. In the purchas,
ing power of that period it wag
equivalent to twenty ‘times this
amount. Rameses, therefore, was
worth $10,000,000,000 in the buying
value of his day.
To show how far money would ge
a thousand years before Christ, it is
only necessary to mention that a fat
ox could be bought for $1 or less;
that a bushel of wheat would bring
12 cents in the market; that a day's
wage was from 12 to 20 cents.—New
York Times.
How Vanderbilt Earned
First Hundred Dollars
Cornelius Vanderbilt, later to be the
commodore, was a strong, big, healthy
boy who worked on the farm and
tended his father’s boat. He was a
great lover of horses and when he was
six years old raced bareback with oth-
er boys. He played truant to go sail-
ing and swimming and gallivanting
across the countryside and sometimes
he talked of running away to sea.
On May 1, 1810, he sought $100 from
his mother, to buy himself a harbop
boat, a piragua, and become a boat.
man. She promised him the money if
he would plow and plant a certain
rocky eight-acre field by May 27, his
sixteenth birthday, He persuaded the
neighborhood boys to help him and on
the morning of his birthday he got
the $100. About seventy years later,
he had increased the $100 to $100,000,
000.—Meade Minnigerrode, in Collier's
Weekly.
A Walk With Thoreau
To take a walk with Thoreau, one
must rigidly adhere to the manners of
the woods. He could lead one to the
ripest berries, the hidden nest, the
rarest flowers, but no plant life could
be carelessly destroyed, no mothe»
bird lose her eggs.
First he would give a curious whis-
tle and a woodchuck would appear—
a different whistle and two squirrels
would run to him. A different note
yet and birds would fly and even so
shy a bird as a crow would alight on
his shoulder. The children must be
mute and very motionless till each
pet was fed from his pocket and had
departed. Thus the children were in-
troduced to (his family, as he called
them, — Mary Hosmer Brown, in
“Memories of Concord.” !
The Insult
The old lady entered the room where
ner husband lay on his bed of sick-
ness. She was trembling with sup-
pressed wrath and indignation.
“What's the matter?” asked the old
030,
“Why,” she said, “I just went into
che vicarage to tell them you weren't
any better, and they wanted me to
bring you a bottle of wine.”
“Have you brought it?” asked the
sick man eagerly.
®No, not me, indeed,” was the in-
dignant reply. “I heard the vicar's
wife say it had been in the cellar since
1900 and when she offered it to me I
just walked off without a word. We
don’t want the nasty stale stuff.”—
London Tit-Bits.
Conscientious Borrower
One morning Mrs. R—— answered
a knock at her kitchen door. There
stcod Helen, three years old, who
lived in the other half of the duplex.
*] want to borrow a match for
mother; she said that she would bring
it back when the grocer boy eomes,”
announced the child.
In a few minutes Mrs. R—— was
summoned to the door again. There
stood Helen, holding a burned match
between her thumb and finger.
“Here is your match. Many thanks
Mother did not use it all. She was
busy, so I thought I might as weil
bring it back to you.”—Indianapolis
News.
Persians Fond of Tea
Tea drinking is a universal social
habit in Persia. One of the social
institutions of great attraction is the
teahouse, some of which are furnished
quite elaborately, while others are
rude in their surroundings. Business
men often make appointments here,
and it is very common for loafers to
seek out these teahouses. The com-
mon pipes, cigarettes and the kalean,
or water pipe, are much used. In
the water pipe the smoke passes
through the water and is drawn into
the lungs, Lemon juice and other fla-
vors are sometimes mixed with the
water.
Ancient Stone Unveiled
The “Brus Stane,” which dates
fram 1304, and was lost for 150 years,
was recently installed permanently in
the staircase of the town hall at
Annan, Scotland. At the ceremonies
the unveiling was by Sir Robert
Bruce. The stone was originally
part of the ancient “Castle of Brus”
at Annan. After its disappearance
for a century and a half it was found
ten years ago in a North Devon
garden,
tr
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Have You Called Mexico?
It is announced by the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
and the International Telephone and
Telegraph Corporation that telephone
communication between the United
States and several of the principal
cities of Mexico opened Friday morn-
ing, September 80, at 8 o'clock. It
is now possible to talk from any Bell
system point to Mexico city, Pueblo,
Tampico, San Luis, Potosi, Victoria,
Saltillo, Monterry, and Nueve Laredo.
The total length of the circuit between
Washington and Mexico City is 3357
miles.
This new service will bring Mexico's
capital city, her principal seaport,
Tampico, and the capitals of some of
her richest and most progressive
States within the range of American
telephone communication. The charge
for a three minute station-to-station
call from Bellefonte to Mexico City
will be $12.75.
The Bell System has made arrange-
ments to connect at Laredo, Texas,
with the newly completed lines of the
Mexican Telephone and Telegraph
company, a subsidiary of the Inter-
national Telephone and Telegraph
corporation. At this point the line
will cross the Rio Grande which there
forms the International boundary.
The Mexican long distance lines
have practically all been built within
the last year or two and are of thor-
oughly modern construction. Tele-
phone repeaters have been installed
at intervals to strengthen the voice-
carrying currents as they become
weak from covering long distances,
and the lines have been designed with
a view to providing such additional
circuits as the growth of the traffic
may require.
O—————— tee ——
Free Trip to Philippines.
Regular Army authorities have just
opened recruiting for the Philippine
Islands. It has been rare during the
past five years for any vacancies to
exist for enlistment of men in these
parts for the trip to the Philippines.
This is regarded as an opportunity
which will only be open for seizure
for a very short time.
The Philippine Islands have always
been a land of romance, appealing to
the imaginative. Those who have
been there before want to go back.
Those who are there are content to
stay—over 10,000 miles from the land
of their nativity. All the charm
that you have seen portrayed in the
movies of south sea island plays is
to be found in the Philippines. Beau-
tiful, glassy, inland seas and straits
glistening in the moonlight! Native
sail canoes drifting lazily in the
mild, warm-scented breeze! Flying
fish skimming along and lighting up
the wake of their course with vhos-
phorescent glow! Palmy glades. dusky
maidens! The whole thing is over
there in the Philippines.
—Subsecribe for the Watchman.
"Real Estate Transfers.
Leroy C. Smeltzer to Clyde L.
Smeltzer, tract in State College; $1.
William F. McKinney, et ux, to
Frank P. Philips, tract in Potter
Twp.; $3200.
Lincoln Miller, et ux, to J. Herbert
Finch, tract in Unionville; $1200.
B. V. Moore, et ux, to W. R, Ham,
tract in State College; $1400.
Charles B Steel, et ux, to W. R.
Ham, tract in State College; $1250.
William A. Roberts, et ux, to A. E.
Roberts, tract in Boggs Twp.; $1200.
Martha C. Greist to Mary G. Mud-
gett, tract in Unionville; $1.
Samuel O. Wright, et ux, to Oscar
M. Bowersox, et ux, tract in State Col-
lege; $9,000.
J. W. Henszey, et al, to Beta Alum-
ni Association of Theta Kappa Phi,
tract in State College; $4500.
Fanny E. Beezer, et bar, to G. M.
Remley, tract in State College; $1
Harry A. Mechtley, et ux, to James
A. Bierly, tract in Miles Twp.; $50.
Israel Bierly, et al, to James A,
Bierly, tract in Miles Twp.; $60.
Mary Jane Weaver to Verna L
Gehret, tract in Bellefonte; $2800.
W. L. Foster, et al, to Francis J.
Mallory: et ux, tract in State College;
——One of the independent candi-
dates for Mayor of Philadelphia an-
nounces that in order to be true to his
friends he will stand as the Washing-
ton party candidate. The friends he
will serve are Vare and Mackey.
P. L. Beezer Estate.....Meat Market
34-34
HOW TO PLEASE HIM
They say that the way to a man’s
heart is through his stomach, If
this is true and you want to win his
affection treat him to one of our
roasts every now and then. Our
meats are of the highest quality.
They are juicy and tender because
they are from young beeves and
lambs. Try one of our choice cuts
today for real enjoyment.
Telephone 450
Market on the Diamond
Bellefonte, Penna.
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traveling Cred
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with Bath $3.00" Pe
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and Booklet
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(§ hd a few years ago when
you lifted
WERE THEY
«GOOD OLD DAYS”?
to make an out-of-town call, the
procedure was something like
this:
*Number, please?” said the op-
erator.
“Let me have Long Distance.”
The Long Distance operator
came on the line.
“This is Long Distance.”
“I want to get Doeville 1234,
etc., etc.”
“Thank you, the operator will
call you.”
A little—perhaps quite a little—
your receiver later your bell rang.
“Ready with Doeville.”
And your conversation started.
TODAY —
Number, please?”
“Let me have Doeville 1234.”
And—practically as quickly as on
a local call—you are connected.
That’s the kind of service we are
giving on out-of-town calls to the
places most frequently called.
And the area covered by this
new-era service is constantly be-
ing expanded.
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
OF PENNSYLVANIA
J. H. CAUM, Manager
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices im
all courts. Office, room 18 Crider’s
Exchange. ¥ a 51-1y
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at=
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt ate
tention given all legal business em=«
trusteed to hiis care. Offices—No. 5, Bast
High street.
M. KEICHLINE, — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pro-
fessional
prompt attention.
of Temple Court.
3. RUNKLE. — Attorney-at-Law,
Consultation in English and Ger-
man. Office in Crider’s Exchan
Bellefonte, Pa.
business will receive
Offices on second floor
49-5-1y
PHYSICIANS
R. R. L. CAPERS.
OSTEOPATH.
Bellefonte State College
Crider’'s Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldg.
8. GLENN, M. D.,, Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his resi-
dence. 35-41
D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regls-
tered and licensed by the State.
Eys examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Frames replaced
and lenses matched. Casebeer Bldg., High
St., Bellefonte, Pa. 71-22-tf
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed by
the State Board. State College,
ever day except Saturday,
Bellefonte, in the Garbrick building op-
posite the Court House, Wednesday after-
noons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9
a. m. to 430 p. m. Bell Phone 68-40
Feeds
We keep a full line of all kinds of feeds
at the right prices.
Wagners 22% Dairy Feed $50.00
Wagners 32% Dairy Feed $53.00
Made of cotton seed meal, oil meal, glut-
en and bran.
Wagners Scratch Grains .......... $52.00
Wagners Poultry Mash .......... 60.00
Wagners Pig Meal ................ 56.00
We handle a full line of Wayne feeds.
Wayne 329% Dairy Feed ......... . $57.00
Wayne 249, Dairy Feed ........... 53.00
Wayne Horse Feed .........co00000 52.00
Wayne Poultry Mash ............ 64.00
Wayne Pig Meal ..........cco0000 58.00
Cotton Seed Meal 439%, ............. $52.00
Oil Meal 84% .v.covvvenrsnnrrnnsans 58.00
Glutton 28% .ecvcernscrvevecernonnes 48.00
Ground Alfalfa ...... ....ccooveen 45.00
BPI cosuesniecsssssssssossvsssnensee 36.00
MIdARNES. ....hoivevnniccsvrennencss 45.08
Standard Chop ........coeevenvnsee 45.00
Meat Meal 509% per H.............. $428
Digester tankage 60% ............. 4.23
When you want good bread or pastry
Use “Our Best” Flour.
We are the exclusive agents for the
GOLD COIN FLOUR. A high grade of
Spring wheat.
G.Y. Wagner & Go., ln¢
66-11-1yr. BELLEFONTE, PA.
Caldwell & Son
Bellefonte, Pa.
Plumbing
and Heating
Vapor....Steam
By Hot Water
Pipeless Furnaces
A a a atata
Full Line of Pipe and Fit-
tings and Mill Supplies
All Sizes of Terra Cotta
Pipe and Fittings
ESTIMATES
Cheerfully and Promptly Furnished
66-15-tf.
Fine Job Printing
at the
WATCHMAN OFFICE
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
BOOK WORK
that we can not do in the most sat-
isfactory manner, and at Prices
consistent with the class of work.
Call on or communicate with this
office
Employers
This Interests You
The Workman’s Compensation
Law went into effect Jan. 1,
1916. It makes insurance compul-
sory. We specialize in placing
such insurance. We ins
Plants and recommend Accident
Prevention Safe Guards which
Reduce Insurance rates.
It will be to your interest to
consult us before placing your
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON.
Bellefonte 43-18-1yr. State College.