Demoralic aan Pa., January 24, 1890. Bellefonte, Farm Notes. The more even the temperature in the cellar the better what is stored there will keep. It is not the full-fed cow or horse that kills itself by overeating when it happens to break loose and get at the meal or oat bin. Dairy salt stored in the vicinity of codfish, or kerosene, or turpentine, is apt to contract flavors that injure the butter in which it is used. The garden, the truck patch and the orchard should furnish the tarmer with fully one-half of his living, if prop- er care is taken with each to secure the best products in good season. During the winter there is always more or less that can be'done in the way of preparing for the ‘spring crops and by doing thiz help ‘materially in getting the spring work done in good season. There is no economy in supplying more bedding than is necessary to keep clean and to absorb all the liquid void- ings ; more than this is adding to the quantity at the expense of the quality. If a horse intends to be vicious, the tail is carried low and the ears are laid back. Ifin gook humor and eager to go, the tail is carried high. If nervous or inclined to kick, bite or strike, the tail is switched from side to side. “Buy the Best and Breed Better,” is the heading of an editorial in the Jer sey Bulletin. It is axiomatic and good enough for a motto, without comment. The man who obeys the injunction is on the great highway of progress and cannot fail to succeed. Everylanimal needs plenty of water. Water flushes out the organs through “which it passes, thus aiding to carry off the effete matter. Water, then, when given to the cow, besides aiding her in milk production, performs the other office.— Western Rural. Put white butter and yellow butter side by side and tell the consumer that one is artificially colored, and he will take the colored article 999.999 times in 1,000,000. Let nobody worry about the consumer being deceived. He is after the ‘‘yaller,”” — Western Rural. : : Securing large yields of corn or po- tatoes in competition for prizes teach the farmer how best to cultivate and the best fertilizers to use, but the mat- ter of profit is the end to be consider ed. The cost of the crap, not the yield, determines its value to the farmer. By mulching newly set trees or plants late in the fall or early winter, the damage done by thawing and freez- ing may be prevented. Anotheradvan- tage, especially with fruit, is that, it of- ten delays blossoming in the; spring, and in this way prevents the faait from being damaged. fam Minnesota has passed an act to pre- vent the practice of fraud by tree ped- dlers in the sale of nursery stock. . Ped- dlers from other States before being al- lowed to sell must file an affidavit with the Secretary of State of Minnesota that they are all right and enter into £2500 bonds to the same effect. | ; The Vermont Chronicle speaks’ of a dairyman who males 30-ct. bdtter with less trouble and expense than dre be: stowed on their product by thdse who make 16-cent butter. It is less work and costs less to make butter inthe right way than it does to do everything out of time and order and thus turn out a poor article. Lime has the advantage of being beneficial at all seasons, though its effects in the soil may not be immedi- ate. It neverinjures land if proper- ly applied, and though itsresults may be unsatisfactory at first, vet the effects are lasting, the lime applied this year proving beneficial in the future. - Lime is cheap and should Qe used (reely. The strongest wood in the United States, according to. Professor Sargent, is that of the nutmeg hickory of the Ar kansas region, and the weakest is ‘the West Indian birch. The most elastic is the tamarack, the white or shell bark hickory ranking far below it. The wood having the highest specific gravity is the blue wood ot Texas. The mainspring of farming is the seed. It is more important to secure good seed than to prepare for its recep- tion in the soil, The failure of seed’ to germinate may cost the farmer the loss of an entire crop. The seed is some: thing thatthe farmer should carefully | examine now before spring opens, by testing it in boxes of earth under glass. Chicken feathers, if properly treated, wiil make pillows which are almost as | light as those of geese. Use only the downy, entire feather, stripping all o the others from their shafts. To kill the rancid odor, wash through a warm water to which yon have added chloride of lime—a, spoonful to a gal lon of water—and dry in an open oven, —-Rural New Yorker. A good practical farmer “Whenever we feed a pig much béyond eight or nine months old we are need- less'y throwing away profit. We are very slow to learn’ this, notwithstand- ing that it has been so often demon- strated. Perhaps we know it, but are too lazy to get out of the rats in which we have been traveling for years.- Michi- gan Farmer, In feeding and fattening hogs it is important to have Ja lot as near of the same size, weight 2hid quality as pos- sible 5 it will «ell for a better price than a lot of different sizes and weights. Tf when fatted there are a few small ones, or one of extra size, the lot will sell for mare in the average if you take these out and «ill for home use or dress for mar ct. or sell when «shipment is be- ing made of hogs that average with them, The Department of Agriculture Sta- tician says the acreage in potatoes last vear was 2,500,000, and the average yield seventy-six bushels. Did your field help to pull down the average ? The prize butter at the Bay State Fair, Boston, was made from cows fed on cat clover at night, pasture by day, and a grain ration composed of two parts corn meal and one part each of crushed oats,linseedt meal and wheat middlings, She Speculated in Oil. A Strange Story and a Sad One That Is Not Yet All Told—Ten Years of derrible Trial and Failure. There have been sone pretty big fe- male plungers in the oil market at one time and another. There are still wo- men speculators in most of the oil ex- few, if any, of the ‘high rollers” left. Oil City has had more women specula- tors in petroleum than any other town, aithongh at one time Bradford had a fair quota. The Globe-Democrat cor- respoadent learned to-day that there are but three woman who still visit the oil exchanges daily and make a regular business of toying with the oily tiger. These ladies have been familiar figures about the exchange for several years, and are all that are left out of several women speculators. These ladies do not come on the fioor of the exchange, and are not in fact, members, but are in their seats in the ladies’ gallery as soon as the exchange opens and remain tolerably regularly until the close at 3 o'clock 1n the afternoon. They deal, of course, entirely through brokers, a nod being sufficient order for a broker to buy or sell 1000, 5000 or 10,000 bar- rels of oil, as the case may be. It is not often that they go beyond a deal of 1000 barrels, as the ladies who, are; left in the exchange, to putit in the phrase ology of a broker, are “flying light.” With a few exceptions, the ladies who have entered the jungles of the oily tiger, have got the worst of it. = The three who still cling to the exchange are content to deal in 1000-barrel lots, and it is not always they can do this. A number of ladies prominent in the charitable organizations and in society here have been successful speculators in oil, and two or three of them have been interested in some large deals. They were not regular habitues of the exchange, and were frequent visitors to the gallery, which is open to the pub. All their deals in the market have been made through brokers. When there was more activity in the market than there is at present it was a univer- sal theme of fireside gossip. Everybody speculated in oil, from the minister down to the porter in the hotel, and it is no wonder that the ladies fell under the fascinatinating spell of the “bull ring,” as the pen-like place where the deals are made on 'change 1s called, Daring exciting times in the market it has been discussed quite as much in the drawing room as in the counting room. In the system of speculating in oil the persons of small capital and no capital at all have not been overlooked, and the servant girl is given an oppor- tunity to ‘take a flyer in oil” if she is so inclined.” During one big whirl in the market, following the collapse of the ‘Cherry Grove field, it was well known that a large number of ‘servant girls lost their little bundle along with the big fellows. © This was the most disastrous panic the oil country ever knew, and it marked to a great extent the end of speculating by women. So many of them lost all their money that only a limited number of them have had the courage to venture back’ into thesspeculative whirpool. The history of one woman's specula- tions in the Oil City Exchange is curi- ous. Her husband had been in busi- ness in the oil country for several years and had accumulated considerable roperty, in all worth about $16,000. e concluded to go West and went to several of the Western cities to look around for an investment. He had ef fected a sale of his property before leav- ing Oil City, and his wife remained be- hind to settle up some details, collect payments not yet due, and join him in the West, where they were to make their future home. The woman col- lected the money, and, doubt!ess, wish- ing to carry a pleasant surprise to her husband, she put the money into the oil: market to ‘make a turn.” The turn went the wrong way and she lost. In the hope of getting it back she made other investments, with the usual re- sult. Ir was not long before she lost every dollar of the money she was to carry to her husband, Iv was sometime before she ventured to break the news of her folly to her husband, and thi3 she did only atter he had written re- | peatedly for her to come on with the money. At last she told him the story of her loss in the oil market, where she says’: ! bad gone in the hope of doubling their | money. The husband had taken ¢ + enough money with him to buy a small farm, and with this he was contented to | begin the business of money-making | over again, but: his wife refused to share i his lot until she had restored to him ! the money she had lost. She declined Ito go west, bui remained in Oil City in ' the hope of recovering her lost fortune, This was 10 years ago, and the wo man is still a daily attendant in the gallery of the oil exchange. She 'has had varying luck, but has never got enough money ahead to make good the loss of her husband, or anything. like it The Globe- Democrat correspondent was told that in this time she has seve- changes in the region, but there are’ lutely refuses to do so. ral times been reduced to the extremity : ot doing the work of a servant: When she would get enough money together to buy a **put” or a “call” she would | again try her luck in the market. She | always oresses in ‘solemn black, and | evidently has but one purpose in life —namely : to recover the money she toolishly risked in oil and restore it to her husband. There is not much like: lihood that she will ever succeed. Her husband continues to urge her to aband- on her seli-:mposed task and join him on his farm in the West, but she reso- He has made two or three trips to Oil City to pre- vail upon her to give up the market, but she can not be shaken from her purpose. She says she is in it for the money she lost in her life. She lives in the most frugal manner, even when making money, but the chances are re- mote of her ever recovering her losses. Her dealings recently have been in a small way, and she barely makes enough to support herself. In contrast with this sad case several other women in Oil City have at def ferent times made considerable sums of money in the market. One lady who lives on the South Side, who had mon- ey in her own right, went into the market against her husband's protest and made a snug little fortune. It is understood she has never entirely given up the pleasuresof speculation and oc- casionally takes a “flyer.” One of the successful oil companies in the Brad- ford field was composed entirely of la- dies of Bradford and Jamestown, N. Y. This company never went into the speculative market, but attended solely to the producing part ofthe busi- ness. They struck a number of good wells in the Bradford field, and after that territory began to wane they came to Venango county and developed a good piece of property near Oil City. Have you got sait-rheum or tetter, Scrofula or fever-sores ? You will never be the better For your faith in quackish bores. Seek from nature’s store the treasure That will save you from the grave, And give blessings without measure— but to Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, the worldfamed cure for the above diseases. It is guaranteed to cure the diseases for which itis recommeded, or monay paid for it will be refunded. ——THE one convincing argument in favor of industrial education is that, whereas four-fifths of American prisoners are able to read and write, more than eighty per cent. Of our criminal popu- lation were never taught the use of tools and have no trade. ——Prof. Loisette’s Memory System is creating greater interest then ever in all parts of the country, and persons wishing to improve the memory should send for his prospectus free, as advertised in another column. Sweer Poraro Purr—DBoil and mash four sweet potatoes, and add vo them two table spoonfuls of sugar, two oun- ces of butter, salt and pepper to taste; beat untill light. Fill the cups two- thirds full ; brush over the top with a beaten egg ; bake in a quick oven until a golden brown. ‘Serve hot asa vege- table. : Carriages. ARGAINS! o st | eee o. CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, o AND SPRING WAGONS, BARGAINS at the old Carriage stand of 0 McQUISTION & CO.,— NO. 10 SMITH STREET, adjoining the freight depot. We have on hand and for sale the best assortment of Carriages, Buggies, and Spring Wagons we have fn Ly We have Dexter, Brewster, Eliptie, and Thomas Coil Springs, with Piano and Whitechapel bodies, and ean give ° you a choice of the different patterns of wheels. Our work is the best made in this section, made by good workmen and of good material. e claim to be the only party manufacturing in town who ever served an apprenticeship to the business. Along with that we have had forty years’ experience in the busi- ness, which certainly should give ug {he advantage over inexperienced par- es.’ In price we defy competition, as we have no Pedlers, Clerks or Rents to ay. We pay cash for all our goods, hereby securing them at the lowest figures and discounts. We are aeter- mined not to be undersold, either in | » our own make or manufactured work from other places; so give us a call for Surries, Phaetons, ' Buggies, Spring Wagons, Buckboards, or anything else in our line, and we will accommodate on. : : We are prepared to do all kinds of 0——REPAIRING——o0 on short notice. Painting, Trimming, Woodwork and Smithing. We guaran- tee all work to be just as represented, so give ug a call before purchasing elsewhere.” Don’t miss the place— alongside of the freight depot. «3415 S. A. McQUISTION & CO. Hardware. HH erase AND STOVES ci Af 0—JAS. HARRIS & CO.)8—o0 LAT LOWER PRICES THAN EVER. NOTICE—Thanking our friends for their liberal patronage, we desire to ex- press our determination to merit a con- tinuance of the same, by a low scale of RI, PRICES IN HARDWARE............ We buy largety for cash, and doing ‘our own work, can afford to sell cheaper and give our friends the benefit, which we will always make it a point to do. § —A FIRST-CLASS TIN SHOP— CONNECTED WITH OUR STORE. ALL OTHER THINGS DESIRABLE IN HARDWARE FOR THE WANTS AND USE ‘OF THE PEOPLE, WITH PRICES MARKED SO THAT ALL CAN SEE, o0—AT LOWEST PRICES—o For Everybody. o—JAS. HARRIS & CO.,—o 22 2 BELLEFONTE, PA. Wines and Liquors. Prospectus 1890. o—SCHMIDT BUILDING—o rps LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE WINE, LIQUOR AND CIGAR HOUSE IN THE UNITED SATES. —ESTABLISHED 1836. DISTILLER AND JOBBER OF RINE © G. W.SCHMIDT, WHISKIES, 0 0 Telephone No. 662. IMPORTER OF WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, No. 95 and 97 Fifth Avenue, PITTSBURGH, PA. All orders received by mail or otherwise will receive prompt attention. 3411 1y Printing, Printing. Fire JOB PRINTING. 2 Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. : Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. FINEJOB PRINTING} Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. Fine Job Printing. —faT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE] Miscellaneous Advs. Saddlery. A BE you one OF THEM ? IN 1890 THE HOME-SEEKER takes 160 free acres nthe famous Milk River Valley of Montana, reached by the Manitoba Railway. I'HE HEALTH-SEEKER takes the Manitoba to the lakes and woods of the North- west, Helena Hot Springs and Broad- water Sanitarium. THEFORTUNE SEEKER takes the Manitoba y . to the glorious op: portunities of the four new States. THE MANUFACTURER takes the Manitoba to the Great Falls of the Missouri. takes the Manitoba through the grand- est scenery of America. | THE TOURIST takes the Manitoba Palace, Dining and Sleeping Car line to Minnesota, North Dakota, * Montana and the Pacific Coast. i THE TRAVELER takes the Manitoba cheap excursions from 8t. Paul to Lake Minnetonka, the Park Region, the Great Lakes, the Rockies, the National Park, the , Pacific Ocean, Cali- fornia and Alaska. THE TEACHER ANYONE will receive maps, bocks and guides od . of the regions ! reached by The St. ¥aul, Minneapolis & Me sito ail- way, by writing to TL Whines, G. P. & T. A./8t./ Paul, Minn. 35 1. Fine Job Printing. ° Five JOB PRINTING 0———A SPECIALTY——0 AT THE } WATCHMAN o OFFICE There is xo style of work, from the cheapest ‘Dodger” tothe finest o—BDOK-WORK,—o but you can get done in the most satisfactory manner, and at Prices consistent with the class of work by calling or communicating with this office. GOOD RECORD. THE OLDEST HARNESS HOUSE IN TOWN, Over 18 Jeary in the same spot—no change of firm—no fires—no going back, but continued and steady progress. This is an advanced age. People demand more | for their money than ever before. We are up to the times with the largest and best assortment of everything that is ‘to be found in a FIRST-CLASS HARNESS STORE, and we defy competition, either in quality, in or ‘prices. NO SEL- ING OUT FOR THE WANT OF TRADE. VO COMPANY— NO PARTNERS — NO ONE TO DIVIDE PROFITS WITH BUT MY CUSTOMERS. I am better prepared, this year, to give you more for your money than ever before. Last year and this year have found me at times not able to fill my * orders. The above facts are worth consid- Sing, for they are evidence of merit and ur ealing. There is nothing so success- a ; 0—AS SUCCESS—o and this is what hurts some. See my large stock of Single and Double Harness, Whips, Tweed Dusters, Horse Sheets, Col- lars and Sweat Pads, Riding Saddles, Ladies’ Side Saddles, very low: Fly-Nets from $3 a pair and upwards. Axle, Coach and Harness Oils, Saddlery Hardware and Harness Leather SOLD AT THE LOW- EST PRICES to the trade. Harnessmak- ers in the country will find it to their ad- vantage to get ‘my prices before purchas- ing hardware elsewhere. Iam better pre. ers pared this year than ever to fill or ‘promptly. : fii JAS. SCHOFIELD, «Spring street, Bellefonte, Pa. EBSTER - THE BEST INVESTMENT For the Family,School, or Professional Library, 33 37 Has been for years Standard Authority in the Government Printing Office and U. 8. Su- preme Court. : ? 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