Bellefonte, Pa., March 7, 1890. Farm Notes. There is not enough harrowing done on most farms. The land is harrowed as a rule, simply to break the lumps and level off the furrows, but the har- row is only passed over the land once or twice. The proper way to harrow a field is to keep the implement moving aniil the whole field is reduced to a condition as fine as that for a garden. But for the neglect in properly harrow- ing some fields the crops would grow better. The condition of the seed-bed largely influences the early growth of crops, and benefits the plants until maturity. Ifthe harrow could work the ground as fine as is done by the rake it would be all the better. In har- rowing a field the work should there- fore be done thoroughly. If a pasture-field is not yielding grass as it ought, try giving it a good top dressing of manure. Some farmers think thisis the best place to apply manure. Ground to be planted in corn should be manured in the fall and plow- ed in spring. The manure goes into the soil and produces wonderful results next year. It will not wash off, even on steep land. Itis the late frost—the frost that comes at a time when spring appears like summer—that damages the crops. Do not be in too big a hurry to plant seeds. Wait until the groud is warm- ed and all danger of frost is over. Peas and onions, as well as other plants that can endure a slight frost, may be risked, but it is safer not to take the the chances of loss with tender plants. It is not recommended to plant the onion seed in this section. The “sets” are better. They are the very small onions from seed grown last season, To produce sets for next season sow the seed thickly, and harvest when the tops die down. Onions are seldom grown ftom seed south of New York, the sets being preferred. Many young fruit trees are’ received that have but few roots. It is better not to plant such trees at all, but if they are used the tops should be cut back severely, in order to give the roots as little work in the beginning as pos- sible. The larger the top the less growth, as the rcots cannot nourish bat a proportion of the buds. : An open ditch across a field is a puisance. It compels the wagons to go a greater distance, causes injury to stock, obstructs plowing and soon fills up. Ditches should be covered in some way if possible, but where the ex- pense is too great they should be filled and drain tilesubstituted. Peach trees will stand cutting with- out injury, and the young trees will be- come stocky and more vigorous if cut back close to the ground. For field culture the trees need not be cut very close, or the cultivator cannot well be used, but where only a few are planted the shorter they are cut back the bet- ter Lambs are coming in this month and the season is very favorable for them. This need not lessen the prospective profit, as it is the lamb that receives the attention necessary to force it into the market ahead of others that brings the higest price. Because some plants are partial to moisture it does not indicate that such plants must be grown in a wet soil. There is quite a difference between wet soil and soil that retains only sufficient moisture to be of advantage to the crop. It early ducks are to be hatched they must be brought out in march in order to bring the highest prices. Ducks should be laying well now. Those who hatch large numbers use incubators and raise the ducklings in brooders. Dipping sheep in winter must be done at a risk, as the animals may take cold and loss in the flock be the result. A better mode is to dust insect powder (pyrethrum) in the fleece, which will instantly kill the ticks. The wet ground and mild winter has prevented farmers from getting on to the wheat field. The horses cannot draw the roller.over the ground, and any attempt to assist the wheat will re- sult in injury. Clover hay, cat very fine and scalded is an excellent ration for growing pigs that have been weaned. A mess of the cut clover once a day will promote their appetites and keep then in health. Churning without a thermometer is as difficult as steering a ship without a compass. The proper temperature must be maintained, which canuot be done without a thermometer. The potato beetle will attack nearly all kinds of ear'y plants. They must be watched closely. Egg plants are special food forthe beetles, they pre- fering them to potatoes* If you have not made preparations for putting out the onion sets there is but little time left for doing so. Thesooner they are planted(season permitting) the better. 1t will not do to keep a young and spirited he se standing in the stable too Jong without work. He must be kept in exercise, even if only turned ont on a lot. Soring plowing for corn is an old custom, and recent experience shows that it is correct. But such plowing must be done early in the season. All hinges on the barn-doors and gates will be made to work easier by oiling occasionally, a process, however, which is seldom performed. Many fertile fields have been ruined by bad plowing. Upon the plowing sometimes depends the washing of the field by heavy rains. Experienced stock growers who have tested ground and whole oats for hogs pronounce it superior to corn for pro- moting growth. ——— a —— A Touch of Spice. The foolish man goes to his daily work With a glance at the morning sky, Saying low to himself, with a happy smile: “This day will be surely dry.” Then he robes himself in his best silk hat And jauntily swings his cane; . But at night he sneezes and coughs and groans With the “grip” that he caught in the rain. The wise man looks out on the sunny sky And smiles in sarcasiic glee, Then he rolls up his gossamer overcoat— He doesn’t want the “grip,” not He. So he Jugs his umbrella and overshoes In the place of his dainty cane, And he meets all the girls that he ever knew, For there isn’t a drop of rain- —New York News. No man likes to be taken in. No doubt Jonah, after he got home, began to tell the folks that he went into the whale’s mouth of his own accord merely to get out of the wet. The first thing Stanley should do be- fore making any further African explor- ations is to send out there a full cargo of open vowels to mix up generously with the native names of people and places. No man can be reasonably expected to keep up a keen interest in the geography of the Dark Continent when it’s worth the toothache, if not a tooth, every time he attempts to be on familiar terms with any of its charaeters or provinces. He—I was glad to see you take off your hat in the theater. I do like a girl who has a thought for others. She—Yes, but did you notice the ele- gant set of gold-headed hairpins I wore ? A new Milford girl has made a wager with the young man to whom she is en- gaged that he eannot raise a respectable mustache within four months. It will tickle her greatly if she wins and more or less if she loses. A young lady who recently traveled around the world is said to have lost sev- eral days by delays. This, however, did not worry her, nor do such mishaps as a rule worry any of them. Women have been known to suddenly lose as much as ten years of time off their ages, and, if anything, they imagine they felt the better for it. “Tam from New York,” he remark- ed as he eased up on the flourish of his name in order to give the hotel clerk time to recover. “That's all right. Our detective will keep his eye on you, and the table sil- ver is only plated anyway.” This truth should everywhere be known— One swallow can’t a summer bring; But yet it can be clearly shown ‘That just one frog can make a spring. —Chieago Herald. A Domestic MoNoroLisT.—Mr. Bil- lius sat in an easy chair occupying the only available space in front of the fire, with his feet sprawled out on two other chairs, and scowled at his wife. “Maria,” he said, “with all the fur- niture we have in this house it does seem to me we might afford at least one foot- stool.” “Would the earth suit you, John?” said Mrs. Billius quietly.—Chicago T'ri- bune. Teacher-—“When boys disobey the rules of the school and refuse to learn their lessons, they grow up ignorant and lazy. What kind of men do they make ?”’ Pupil—¢I know. Jurymen.”—Dans- ville Breeze. Boarder—“Madam, Wwe want hot meals or we’ll move.” Landlady-—“Hot meals! Why, have you not got pepper, and catsup, and horseradish, and raw onion, and mus- tard | What more do you folks ex- pect ?’— Times. An exchange tells of a man who ‘choked to death while eating his sup- per at night.” He would probably have escaped this sad fate if he had eat- en his supper in the morning, right af- ter breakfast.—New York News. "Twas after the ball, ’Twas dark in the hall— Her good Sight was not very emphatic! T'was such a good chance For sweetest romance, And I lingered with longing ecstatic. "Twas:dark in the hall, "Twas after the ball. Twas after the ball, Twas dark in the hall, Such a chance for a parting romantic ! And—she was not cold, Why was I not bold ? When I think of it now I am frantie. ’T'was dark in the hall. Just dark—that was all. “Yes,” said oldest inbabitant, “this is a pretty mild winter, but I re- member a season that was much warm- er than this.” “How long ago was that?” queried his listeners. “Only last summer.”’— Norristown Herald. A Glasgow boy came home from school very wruch excited, and told his futher that he believed all human beings were descended from apes, which made the old man so wild that he replied an- grily: That may be the case with you, but not with me; I can tell you that.” — London Tit-bits. Lawyer—Did you give Mr. Skinflint your note for the amount, as I advised you to ? Young Widow (weeping)—Yes, I did. I wrote him the sweetest little note that ever was, and the very next day he came and put a mortgage on my furni- ture.-— Burlington Free ress. Edison is said to be trying to perfect a device whereby the hand organs of a city can be worked from a central office supplying electric power. Such an ar- rangement would be very convenient. By blowing up the central office the en- tire business is silenced.— Norristown Herald A sick dude called on a doctor. “What he needs,” advised the physi- cian, “is absolute seclusion and solitude, with nothing whatever to excite him-'” “Leave him alone with his thoughts,” promptly said his friends as they with- drew from the room.—Chicago Globe. Doliver— What a peculiar book re- viewer Razzle is! Did you ever notice how confused his ideas seem to be—how rambling and incoherent ? noticed it. Pompous—Yes; I've Perhaps he (Struck with an idea.) ! reads the books he reviews |—Lippin- cott's Magazine. A man aroused his wite from a sound sleep the other -night, saying that he had seen a ghost in the shape of a don- key. “Oh, let me sleep!” the irate dame rejoined, “and don’t be frighten- ed at your own shadow.” — Texas Sift- ings. Cantwaite—‘How dollars you owe me?’ Van Gall—“Oh, hang that five dollars! I'm sick and tired of hearing about it. Say, can’t you make it ten ?'— Washington Star. about that five Beauty Without Paint. “What makes my skin so dark and muddy ? My cheeks were once sofsmooth and ruddy ! IT used the best cosmetics made,” Is what a lovely maiden said. “That’s not the cure, my charming Miss,” The doctor said—* remember this : If you your skin would keep from taint, Discard the powder and the pains. “The proper thing for all suck ills Is this,” remarked the man of pills : “Enrich the blood and make it pure— In this you'll find the only cure.” Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will v8 hes without fail. It hasnoequal. All drug- ¢ ists. Choice Selections. Good thoughts are blessed guests.— Spurgeon . Trust in God does not supersede the employment of prudent means on our part. To expect God’s protection while we do nothing is not to honor, but to tempt, Providence.— Quesnel. Of all religious things we should speak hopefully, hoping even against hope, because of the faith we have in the promises of God. Theend must be good, for He has so decreedi— United Presoy- terian. ‘When Dr. John Manson Good was on his death-bed he said: “I have taken what unfortunately the generality of Christians too often take. I have taken the middle walk of Christianity. I have endeavored to live up to its duties and doctrines, but I %ave lived below its privileges.” The democracy of pain and the demo- cracy of sin are co-eval and co-exten- sive with the history of man. All men share in both. That which will cure the latter will largely cure the former, even in this world, and perfectly so in the next world.—N.. ¥. Independent. A wise man carries all his treasures within himself, what fortune gives she may take, but he leaves nothing at her mercy. He stands firm and keeps his ground amid all misfortunes, without so much as changing her eountenance:-— Sencea, after Sir Roger L’Estrange. The blessing we long for can come in this world, sudden and wonderful, writ- ten all over with the manifest tokens of God’s hand ; or, if it may never be ours here, it carries the standard of hepe beyond the gulf to plant it on the shezes of the eternal.-—-Dr. J. Ker. How grand is the Rible! It is the wreath into which are twisted all gar- lands; it is the song into which are struck all harmonies; it is the river into which are poured all the great tides of halleujah ; it is the firmament in which suns and moons and stars and constella- tions and universe and eternities wheel, and blaze and triumph.—Talmagein N Y. Observer. Sunday work of every kind should be reduced to the elear necessities, and how few those really are would surprise the most liberal. As to the Sunday postal work, times change. Sunday letters haven't necessarily a tithe of the im- portance that they had a quarter of a century ago. Communication is much quicker, the telegraph isso universal, that the necessities of the case are few and far between, indeed. The great principle of everybody’s right to one day’s rest in seven ought to be recognized everywhere, and every stroke of merely convenient or desirable work in the pos- tal service should be abolished.—In- dianapolis Journal. S—————————— ——There are more things in heav- en and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Of coarse! ‘Why, those old duffers suffered horribly with aches and pains, and didn’t and couldn’t know that Salvation Oil would || cure them. Hardware. I JA2P7aRE AND STOVES AT o——JAS. HARRIS & CO.\S—o0 —AT— 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 sresesuerers PRICES IN HARDWARE............ 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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 us the advantage over inexperienced par- ies. Inprice we defy competition, as we have no Pedlers, Clerks or Rents to ay. We pay cash for all our goods, A securing them at the lowest figures and discounts. We are deter- mined not to be undersold, either in our own make or manufactured work from other places; so give us a call for 2 GOOD RECORD. THE OLDEST HARNESS HOUSE IN TOWN, Over 18 Jos 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 uality, uantity 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 monoy than ever before. Last year and this year have found me at times not able to fill m orders. The above facts are worth consid- ering, for they are evidence of merit and fur ealing. There is nothing so success- un 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. 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Sold only by sub- scription, EDWARD KREAMER, Agt. and Canvasser for Centre Co, 35-6-4f DMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.— Letters of administration on the eés- tate of €. C. Meyer, deceased late of Harris towns hi; having been granted to the under- signed, he requests al} parsons knowing them- selves indebted to said estate to make pay- ment and those having claims to present them duly anthenticate for settlement. P. H. MEYER, 35-6-6t Linden Hall. DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.— Letters of administration on the es- tate of Major John W. Roder, 4th Artillery, U. S. A, having been granted to the undersigned, she requests all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate to make payment, and those having claims against the same to pre- sent them duly authenticated by law for set- tlement. MRS. MARY AUGUSTA RODER, 35-4-6t Bellefonte, Pa. EN WANTED ON SALARY— To reliable men we will give steady employment and liberal salary paying their traveling expenses. We grow our own stock exclusively and guarantee it to be strictly first-class in every particular, true to name as ordered. Ful instructions :urnished. Experi- ence unnecessary. Apply at once,stating age. Address E. C. PIERSON & Co., Maple Grove Nurses, Waterloo, N.Y. (Establ’d over20y’rs.) -9-16w. XECUTORS NOTICE. — Notice is hereby given that letters testamen- tary have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Jacob McCauley, late of Marion Township, deceased. All persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make payment and those having claims against the estate are requesteg to present them duly authenti- cated for settlement. JOHN MCAULEY. Executor 35-5-6t Hublersburg, Pa. HRESHING MACHINES.— A specialty. Simple, most durable, economical, and perfect in use. Wastes no grain ; cleans it ready for market. . THRESHING ENGINES and Horse Powers. Saw Mills, Shingle Ma- chines, Hay Presses, and Standard Imple- ments generally, Send for illustrated Catalogue, A. B. FARGUHAR CO., Limited Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, 35-7T-3m York, Pa. DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. — Letters of administration on the es- tate of Nancy Cochran, late of Ferguson town- shin, deceased, having this day been granted to «he undersigned, by the Register of Wills in and for Centre county, all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immedi- ate payment, and persons having claims against said estate are requested to present the same duly authenticated for settlement. CHARLES SNYDER, 35-7-6t* Administrator, HASTINGS & REEDER, Atty’s UDITOR’S NOTICE.—Notice is hereby given that the undersigned an auditor appointed by the Orphan’s Court of Centre county to make distribution of tho bal- ance in the hands of Geo. P. Hull, Adminis- tration of &c., of the Estate of Fredrick Harp- ster deceased will meet the parties interested, at his office in Bellefonte on Wednesday the 19th day of March A. D. 1890 at 10 o'clock A, M. for the purpose of his appointment. When and where all parties interested must present their claims or be debarred from coming in on said fund. J.C. HARPER, 35-9-3t. Auditor. UBLIC SALE OF HOUSE AND LOT.—Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell at public sale at the Court House in Bellefonte on Saturday the eighth day of March 1890, at eleven o'clock A.M. all that certain house and lot situated on How- ard Street in Bellefonte Borough, bounded on: the south by Howard Street, on the east by an alley and on the north and west by lot owned by Dr. E. W. Hale, being 8014,feet in front on Howard Street and 50 feet in depth and being the eastern part of lot No. 110 in Bellefonte Borough, being the property recently occupied by the late Mary A, Sankey, deceased. Terms oF SALE. Ten per cent. in hand when the property is knocked down, the balance of one-third upon execution and delivery of deed; one third in one year and one-third in two ears. The deferred payments to be secured y bond and mortgage on the pre mises with Insurance Policy as collateria and said defer-. red payments to bear interest from date of sale JACOB SANKEY, JOHN SANKEY, JAMES W. SANKEY, JOHN REIGARD, 35-7-3t Exrs. of JOHN SANKEY, deceased Miscellaneous. I reroaby 1st 1890, THE ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS & MANI- TOBA RY. and its branches became the GREAT NORTHERN RY. LINE. IF YOU ARE GOING TO THE FREE FARMS OF THE MILK RIVER VALLEY, TAKE THE GREAT NORTHERN RY. LINE. TO THE GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, IRON AND COAL MINES OF MONTANA, TAKE THE GREAT NORTHERN RY. LINK. TO HELENA, BUTTE, SPOKANE FALLS AND THE COAST CITIES, TAKE THE GREAT NORTHERN RY. LINE. TO FARGO, CROOKSTON, GRAND FORKS AND WINNIPEG, TAKE THE GREAT NORTHERN RY. LINE. TO ALL MINNESOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, MONTANA, IDAHO, OR EG ON, WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIA AND MANITOBA POINTS, TAKE THE GREAT NORTHERN RY. LINE. For tickets, maps and guides, apply to your home ticket agent or write to F. I. WHITNEY, Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent, GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, St. Paul, Minn. A%-The GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY LINE runs its own Magnificent Dining Cars, Palace Sleeping Cars, Special Apartment Cais and Free Colonist Siepers on Daily Through Trains. 359 1y