Farm Notes.
--America provides more sources of
phosphates than any other country.
Immense deposits are being worked in
Florida. South Carolina and Tennes-
see, while the amount of basic slag,
produced during the conversion of iron
into steel, is very large, Bones also
serye as a source and the supply of
bones is still great, although they have
been resorted to for many years past.
In proportion to value received, there-
fore, the phosphates are perhaps the
cheapest forms of fertilizers that can
be procured, and as they enter into the
composition of all plants, they exert a
marked benefit on all crops. Much
however, depends on their solubility,
but as the benefits are lasting, and fu-
ture crops may procure a supply of
plant food from that stored in the soil
at present, there ie but little liability of
loss from the use of phosphates, wheth-
er they are applied in the shape of the
more soluble superphosphate or in a
finely divided condition.
FORMS OF PHOSPHATES,
The object in procuring phosphates
ie to secure the phosphoric acid, and
the farmer derives the most immediate
benefit when it is readily available, or
in a state of solubility. There are at
least three forms of phosphates, first,
the “tri-calcic,” or “three limed"’ phos-
phate, which is composed of three
parts of lime in a state of combination
with one part of the acid, and it is
mostly in this form that it exists in the
phosphate rock or natural condition,
being insoluble, but usually very fine-
ly ground. Second, is the ‘“bi-calcic,”
or two limed phosphate, in which
there is a combination of two parts of
lime with one part of phosphoric acid,
which, though insoluble in water, is
soluble in weak acids, or in water con-
taining carbonic acids, or the salts of
ammonia. Itis the “reverted” form,
which means that it bas been soluble,
but has reverted to an insoluble form.
It is considered sufficiently available
and soluble to apply for quick results
on crops. The “mono-calcic’” or one-
lime phosphate is composed of equal
parts of lime and phosphoric acid,
with two parts of water. This form of
phosphate is soluble in water. Phos-
phates are also changed into sulphates
by sulphuric acid, the phosphoric acid
being set free and thus being rendered
soluble.
USE PHOSPHATES IN THE FALL.
The fall is an excellent period of the
year for using phosphates, as they
may be applied in the finely divided
form vparticies, and slowly give off
their particles, being available in the
spring. If applied in the spring, how-
ever, the more soluble forms should be
preferred. For all kinds of grain crops
they show a marked effect, and may
be applied oz wheat land, in the fall,
with benefit. None of the phosphates
contain nitrogen or potash, except
bones, which contain nitrogen, but no
potash. It may be safely claimed that
there is no crop grown that does not
respond to the use of the phosphates,
and they are more lasting in their ef-
fects on the goil than any other class
of fertilizera.
—It is not costly to add ornamental
plants to the farin, and the farm will
have a more attractive appearance
when a few vines are grown on the
dwelling and out-buildings. A hop
vine, Virginia creeper, honeysuckle, or
even a morning glory, will make a
great difference in appearance. The
most beautiful farms are those where
all the buildings are made to appear
as if given extra care and attention.
—While the low price of wheat and
the large production is not encourag-
ing to tarmers, yet the corn crop is
usually three times as large as that of
wheat, and farmers continue to make
corn a specialty. They do not seek
new markets for corn, but sell it in the
shape of beet, butter, milk and wool,
and vet there is but little mentioned re-
garding the corn crop as not paying.
—The farmer should study how to
prod uce at the lowest cost and how to
sell to the best advantage. His mis-
takes should serve to guide him against
repeating them, and where a farmer
has had years of experience his knowl-
edge thus gained should be as valuable
as the capital. A record of the opera-
tions of each year, for reference, would
be found invaluable later on.
—A house for tools and farm imple-
ments should be provided. It is pay-
ing heavy interest on capital when
valuable instruments are exposed to
the weather. The iron parts become
rusty and the wood warps, the result
being that the implement will never
again give satisfaction. Keep all im-
plements clean and well oiled.
—Roses, trees and shrubbery will
not thrive on the edges of a grass plot.
The grass deprives them of plant food,
and prevents growth. They should be
set out on a clean location, and well
worked with a hoe several times,
—Always use lime when plowing
under green manure, as the effect will
he to more quickly decompose the
green material, while the lime exerts a
mechanical and chemical effect on the
soil.
—Never waste wood ashes. Save
every pound, and use them on the or-
chard land. Corn cots are very rich
in potash, and the ashes of such
should be saved carefully.
—When the new crop is harvested
do not begin to feed it out until the
whole of the old supply has been con-
sumed. There is quite a difference in
vew and old corn.
—When wheat is valued at a low
price do not forget that the straw is
also an item that is entitled to add
something to the value of the wheat
crop.
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ERS i I I RE,
Concerning Forbearance.
What should be one’s attitude to-
ward one with whom he disagrees ?
Should the hostility which one feels
toward certain practices or opinions ex-
tend to the man who embraces them ?
Not necessarily. Doubtless he possesses
some lovable traits apart from his ideas
and be usually has as good a right to
the latter as we have to ours,
Many persons cannot separate be-
tween the man and his views. They
hate the latter, therefore they hate the
man. Or they hold to their own con-
victions so tenaciously and cherish
them with such a warmth of affection
that whoever antagonizes them is pretty
certain to incur their bitter resent-
ment. Reason does not always rule,
Passion and prejudice have a great
deal to do with the conduct of life.
Those who are old enough to re-
member the bitterness that existed be-
tween members of the two great po-
litical parties during the war and im-
mediately thereafter will understand to
what lenghths passion will lead good
men, As compared with those days
the dividing line between parties has
disappeared. Then men who differed
in their politics hated each other and
often ignored the existence of the
other. Now they laugh over their po-
litical differences, which are not al-
lowed to interrupt their friendship or
to interfere seriously with any of the
gracious ameuities of life.
It is earnestly wished that this spirit
of mutual forbearance which is now to
the front in political matters would be
permitted to rule in all the affairs of
this life. None of us will pass this way
again and few of us will tarry any long
time on the way. Why should mis-
understandings, jealousies, quarrels,
resentments, lead us to attempt to in-
jure each other and thus embitter our
own lives? Why not hold steadfastly
to the views in which we believe, urg-
ing their adoption earnestly, but still
conceding to others the same rights of
free thought and free speech which we
claim for ourselves? Why not culti-
vate the art of friendship, even with
the bitterest foes of the things in which
we mostly steadfastly believe ?
The late Rev. Dr. Alexander Clark,
who was editor ot the Methodist Re
corder, Pittsburg, at the time of his
lamented death, was a man of a singu-
larly devout temper and possessed a
very sweet spirit. He believed most
heartily in the truths of the Christian
religion, which he preached in the
pulpit and through his paper. Robert
G. Ingersoll is a person of another
sort. We need not describe him. Yet
the preacher and the pagan were warm
friends, cherishing a genuine affection
for each other, and when Dr. Clark
died the pagan orator paid a beantiful
tribute to his memory and dropped an
honest tear upon his grave. Dr. Clark
hated the noxious views promulgated
by Ingersoll, but be loved the man.
Ingersoll did not believe in the reality
of the faith professed by Dr. Clark, but
he recognized the preacher's manliness,
his sincerity and his unselfishness and
was drawn to him.
Because we do not like a man’s ideas,
because we believe he holds to vicious
and erroneous doctrines, that is no rea-
son why we should hold him at arm’s
length ; why we should pass him by
with averted eye; why we should at-
tempp to do him personal injury. This
is not to say that we are to receive into
our homes or to welcome with open
arms the vile and the unclean; by no
means. Even for the latter we should
entertain a yearning and a sympathetic
pity, but we should confine them to the
moral pest-house until they can be
given a discharge with a clean bill of
health. Bat it is to say that the man
who is in other respects a good citizen,
faithfully and honestly discharging his
daily tasks, should not be ostracised
and persecuted and slandered and in-
sulted simply because he does not view
the world and all things therein
through our spectacles. As we all
need charitable forbearance, we should
fail not to exercise it.—Altoona 7%
bune.
Who are “Americans.”
“The term American to us is a very
simple thing. It means a citizen of the
United States,” says an ex-United
States Minister... “Abroad, however,
that is quite a limited sense, and one
which is rarely used except by citi-
zens of this country. If you epeak of
an American in Paris or London, and
in American society, of course, it is us-
ually taken that you mean a citizen of
the United States. But outside of this
circle of our traveling people the term
embraces Canadian, Mexican, Central
American and South American. To
merely say that you are an American
is about as indefinite in most of the
countries of Europe as it could well be.
More ¢0, in fact, than in any other na-
tionality that can be named. An
“American’ is not, in fact, a nationali-
ty, because it embraces a citizen of sev-
eral nations. This is calculated to take
the conceit out of us upon our first ex-
perience abroad. It isa good deal like
one’s experience in lower Italy, the
moet traveled parts of Switzerland and
Germany, where an American is simply
“Anglais'’; that is, considered indis-
criminately with the Englishman. The
chances are it we attempt to reduce our
nationality to a more definite basis the
| foreigner will scarcely understand the
difference between the Central Ameri-
can, South American, Canadian, and
the citizen ot the United States.”
A Difference.
snub-nosed if you push the washrag up |
your face that way. Why don’t you
wash down ?”
Little brother—“I wasn’t told to
wash down, I was told to wash up.
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AN AWFUL TRAGEDY !--Thousands
of lives have been sacrificed, thousands
of homes made desolate by the fatal mis-
take of the ¢‘cld-school” physicians,
still persisted in by some, notwithstand-
ing the light thrown upon the subject
by modern research, that Consumption
is incurable. TItis not. Consumption
is a scrofulous disease of the lungs, and
any remedy which strikes right at the
seat of the complaint must and will cure
it. Such aremedy is Dr. Pierce's Gold-
en Medical Discovery. It isa certain
specific for all scrofulous complaints.
It was never known to fail if given a
fair trial, and that is why the manufac-
turers sell it under a positive guarantee
that if it does not benefit or cure, the
money paid for it will be refunded.
The only lung remedy possessed of such
remarkable curative properties as to
warrant its makers in selling it on trial.
I A.
There is a street car war on in
Savannah, Ga., and fares have been
put down to the point that people ride
even if they have but a couple of
squares to go. The charge is one cent
for short trips and three cents for very
long ones. The president of one of
the companies is threatening to make
a uniform charge of one cent.
—
——*“I know an old soldier who had
chronic diarrhea of long standing to
have been permanently cured by taking
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Di-
arrboea Remedy,” says Edward Shum-
pik, a prominent druggist of Minneapo-
lis, Minn. “I have sold the remedy in
this city for over seven years and con-
sider it superior to any other medicine
now on the market for bowel com-
plaints.” 25 and 60 cent bottles of this
remedy for sale by F. P. Green.
——=Smith-Jones — “How do you
manage to keep up your mental energy
so wel, 7”
Smith-Brown—“My wife gives me a
piece of her mind every morning before
I start to work”
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——He—If I should propose to you,
what would be the outcome ? She—It
would depend entirely upon the income.
— Press Etchings
FE —
——1It was Samuel J. Tilden’s idea
that there were two forces in politics—
“the old men, who do the grunting and
the young men who do ‘the lifting.”
The marked abatement of complaining
utterances from the New York Demo-
cracy is a sign that the lifters have gone
to the front and taken hold of the can-
vass in the Empire State.
——Irate Husband-—“I wish you
were somewhere where I could never
see you again.” Patient Wife— Well,
that’s equivalent to wishing I were in
heaven. Thanks !”-~Truth.
~— Partial returns from the principal
counties in the state show that the
Democratic nominees for judges of the
supreme court have defeated the Repub-
lican-Populist fushion ticket for judge
by good majorities.
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——If some wide-awake photogra-
would take a picture of the sun the next
time it shines he might make a fortune
selling reprints to people anxious to
know just what that planet looks like 2
it has been so long since one could get a
Business Notice.
Sechler & Co.
Saddlery.
Children Cry or Pitcher’s Castoria.
When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them
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“For fifteen years, I was a great
sufferer from indigestion in its
worst forms. I tested the skill of
many doctors, but grew worse and
worse, until I became so weak I
could not walk fifty yards without
having to sit down and rest. My
stomach, liver, and heart became
affected, and I thought I would
surely die. I tried Ayer’s Pills
and they helped me right away.
I continued their use and am now
entirely well. Idon’tknow of anys
thing that will so quickly relieve
and cure the terrible suffering of
dyspepsia as Ayer’s Pills,’—Jonnx
C. Prircaarp, Brodie, Warren Co.,
N.C.
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than to consult this specialist. The happy re-
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FINE GROCERIES, TEAS,
SPICES AND FRUITS
IN TEAS we have Oolongs, Gun-Pow-
der, Imperial, Young Hyson, Japan
English Breakfast, and our Fine Blend.
ed Tea is something that will please any
one who appreciates a cup of Royal Tea,
IN SPICES, Cinnamon, Cloves, Al
spice, Nutmeg, Mace, Ginger, Cayenn
Pepper, Mustard all strictly pure goods,
IN COFFEES AND CHOCCLATE,
Mocha—genuine, Java—Old Govern
ment, Rio— Finest Brazilion. All ex-
cellent quality and always fresh roasted.
Baker's Premium Chocolate and Break-
fast Cocoa, Van Houten's Cocoa, Wil:
bur’s Chocolate, and German Sweet
Chocolate.
IN COOKING EXTRACTS we keep
a line of Joseph Burnett & Co's, (Bos-
ton) goods, they are the finest we can
find, also a line of Knight's extracts.
BEANS, California Limas, New York
Marrow and Pea Beans, dried Green
Peas.
RICE New Crop Carolina Head Rice.
DOMESTIC CANNED FRUITS
AND VEGETABLES, ToMATOES
Cottage, Home and Worthington Brands
—CorN Persian and Mountain Brands,
—CoRrN Granules, Lima Beans and
Succotash, Dew Drop brand. GREEN
Peas, Early Junes, Scottish chief and
Cecelia brands. PINE APPLE sliced and
grated, Strawberries and White Cher-
ries, Dew Drop brand. Boston Baked
Beans.
CALIFORNIA CANNED FRUITS,
Yellow Crawford, Lemon Cling, and
White Heath Peaches, White Cherria
and Apricots.
IMPORTED VEGETABLES AN1
FRUITS, French Peas and Mush- |
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berries, Brandy Cherries and Crosse
Blackwell's Jams all in glass.
MISCELLANEOUS, Pure
Syrup, Honey strained and in combs,
Plum Pudding, Armour’s Corned Beef |
Potted Tongue and Ham, Condensed
milk, Dunham's Shred Cocoa nut.
Rich Mild Cream Cheese, Small Family
Cheese, Bradford County Dairy Bui-
ter.
Buckwheat Flour, Corn Flour, Gluten
Flour, Vienna Flour.
Fine Confectioners and Cut Loaf Sucars
Eztra Fine New Crop New Or eans
Syrups, Pure White Sugar Table
Syrup, Pure Cider Vinegar.
NUTS, Princess Paper Shell, Califor-
nia and Bordan Almonds, Assorted
Nuts, English Walnuts, Pecans extra
large, Cream Nuts, Fresh Roasted
Peanuts, Cocoa Nuts extra quality.
IN CONFECTIONARY, we haw
Fine Mixtures, Cream Chocolates
Lioast Almonds, Cream Dates, Ros
and Vanilla, Jordon Almonds, Frencl
Glace Fruits, Fine Chocolate Caramels
Chocolate Marsh Mallows, } Cocoa Nui
bon bons, Chocolate Madridos, Lozenges,
Clear Toys, and a large assortment of
fine goods in this line “all carefully se-
lected.
FRANOO AMERICAN SOUPS,
French Bouillon, Consomme, Oz Tail,
Mock Turtle, Mulligatawny, and
Terrapin.
OLIVE OIL, S. Rea § Cv.’s } Pint,
Pints and Quarts. The finest ana-
lysts in the Worla pronounces it pure.
PICKLES IN GLASS, Crasse §
Blackwell's Chow Chow, Gherkins,
Mixed, White Onions, Cauliflower,
Picalilli, and Walnuts.
CEREAL GOODS. Oat Meal, Rolled
Oat, Cracked Wheat, Pearl Barley,
Breakfast and Dinner Hominy, Ma-
caroni and Vermacceli.
MEATS. Fine Sugar Cured Hams,
Breakfast Bacon and Dried Beef,
White Rose Lard.
GREEN FRUITS, Florida Oranges,
Messina Lemons, White Almeria
Grapes, Catawba Grapes, and Jersey
Cranberries.
CURED FRUITS. Evaporated Cali-
Jornia Pared and unpared Peaches,’
and Apricots. .
RAISINS, Imperial Cluster, Fine Lay-
ers, Ondaras, Valencias, Sultana and
California Seedless and Loose Muse
catels.
FISH. New Mackerel very fine, Qodfish
boneless and evaporated, SALMC1
Magnolia, Astoria and Glacier brand
Hoeg’s Spiced Salmon, Shrimps, Leb
sters, Crab Meats and Spiced Oysters
Sardines, French }s, and }s Boneless.
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38-1 BELLEFONTE, Pa.
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SEHOFIELD'S NEW
HARNESS HOSUE
—
We extend a most cordial invitation to our
patrons and the public, in general, to witness
one of the
GRANDEST DISPLAY OF
Light and Heavy Harness
ever put on the Bellefonte market, which will
be made in the large room, formerly occupied
by Harper Bros., on Spring street. It has n
added to my factory and will be used exclu.
sively for the sale of harness, being the first
exclusive salesroom ever used in this town, as
| heretofore the custom has been to sell goods
in the room in which they were made. This
Sagan room has been refitted and furnished
with glass cases in which the harness can be
nicely displayed and still kept away from
heat and dust, the enemies o long wear in
leather. Our factory now oecupies a room
16x74 feet and the store 20x60 ho makes it
the largest establishment of its kind outside
of Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
We are prepared to offer better bargains in
the future than we have done in the past and
we want everyone to see our goods and get
prices for when you do this, out of self defense
ou will buy. Our profits are not 1 e, but
y selling lots of goods we can afford ry in
Bellefonte. We ‘are not indulging in idle
philanthropy. It is purely business. We are
not making much, but trade is growing and
that is what we are interested in now. fits
will take eare of themselves.
When other houses discharged their work.
men during the winter they were all put to
work in my factory, nevertheless the bi Q@
houses of this city'and county would smile
we compared ourselves to them, but we do not
mean to be so odious, except to venturs the as.
section that none of them can sa: , 8 We can
say “NO ONE OWES US A CENT THAT WE
CAN'T GET.” This is the whole story.
The following are kept constantly on hand,
50 SETS OF LIGHT HARNESS, Ye from
$8.00 to $15.00 and upwards, LARGE
STOCK OF HEAVY HARNESS per
set$25.00 and upwards, 500 HORSE
COLLARS from $1,50 to $5,00
each, over $100.00 worth of
HARNESS OILS and
AXLE GREASE,
$400 worth of Fly Nets sold cheap
$150 worth of whips
from 15¢ to $3.00 each,
8 Horse Their I
Iponges, amois IN
SADDLES, LADY SIDESADDLES
Harness Soap, Knee Dusters, at low
prices, Saddlery-hardware always on hand
for sale, Harness Leather as low as 26¢ per
5a We keep everything to be found in a
IRST CLASS HARN STORE—no chang.
ing, over 20 years in the same room. No two
shops in the same town to catch trade—NO
SELLING OUT for the want of trade or prices
Four harness-makers at steady work this win-
ter, This is our idea of protéction to labor,
when other houses discharged their hands,
they soon found work with us.
JAS. SCHOFIELD,
33 37 Svring street, Bellefonte, Pa.
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It has a High Fire Test.
It does Not Explode.
It is without an equal
AS A SAFETY FAMILY OIL.
We stake our reputation as refiners th
IT IS THE BEST OIL IN THE WORLD.
Ask your dealer for it. Trade supplied by
THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO.
Bellefonte Station
Bellefonte, Pa.
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Miscellaneous Advs.
Hey MAN whose watch has
been rung out of the bow (ring), by a pick,
pocket,
EVERY MAN whose watch has been dam.
aged by dropping oat of the bow, and :
EVERY MAN of sense who merely com-
pares the old pull-out bow and the new
INON-PULL-OU'
will exclaim: “Ought to have
been made long ago!”
It can’t te twisted off the case,
Can only be had with Jas. Boss
Filled and other cases stamp-
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