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Demonic Wald
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 4, 1895.
Farm Notes.
—Farmers should not depend on
seedsmen for producing new varieties,
but should experiment themselves.
Some of the best varieties of fruits were
originated by farmers.
—Any soils that can be plowed in
winter, during mild periods, will be
benefited by the frost, which will re-
duce the lumps and clods better than
it can be done with implements.
—Attempting to grow a crop by
loosening the ground with a harrow or
cultivator may save time and labor,
but the only correct way to prepare the
soil is to plow it,and then harrow it
down until a fine seedbed is formed for
the seed.
— After the ground is thoroughly
frozen is an excellent time to cut out
the old wood from blackberries. All
canes removed should be burnt as a
precaution against the borer, which at-
tacks the canes, and especially the
Wilson variety.
—1If the tops of asnaragus are left
they will scatter seed over the whole
bed. In the spring it will be found
that these seeds will germinate and
cause annoyance. It will be an ad-
vantage tof cut down the tops and burn
the whole bed over.
—A ecrub steer must be kept four or
five years in order to bring $25 in
market, while a well-bred one may
bring $40 or more when three years
old. The saving of a year’s time, and
the higher price pay tor any expendi-
ture for good blood.
—1It is claimed that a bushel of
wheat will produce seventeen pounds
of pork and a bushel of corn fourteen
pounds. The pork from the wheat
will be of better quality, possessing a
larger proportion of lean compared
with that from corn.
—1TIn keeping apples the thermome-
ter should be used. Heat destroys
more than does cold. The cellar should
be kept as near 30 degrees as possible.
The object should be to avoid alternate
freezing and thawing, as changes
cause more damage than anything else.
—There is no point in the life of an
animal when it is not making gain or
losicg, and every pound lost is two
pounds to gain- All classes of stock
should de kept growing. If the ani-
mals lose weight under favorable con-
ditions it is an indication that better
stock should be used.
—-The Wisconsin Station found by
feeding pigs that 25 pounds of cora-
meal equaled 100 pounds of skim milk.
That is, when cornmeal is worth 25
cents per hundred pounds, which
should be credited to the cow as so
much profit given by her in addition to
the butter produced. There is an ad-
ditional profit to be expected from the
pork also.
—Cheap animal foods are the best
substances for inducing the hens to lay.
Beef, hog or sheep liver will pay well
for the purpose. Hens require food
rich in albumen when they are laying,
and if fed exclusively on grain, will fail
to produce sufficient eggs to give the
owner a profit. Clover hay, chopped
fine and scalded is also an excellent
food, and assists in providing a variety.
—All kinds of small fruits and vege-
tables can be grown under glass. Itis
much cheaper to fit up two acres of
ground for the growing of early fruits
and vegetables than to stock a large
farm and engage in general farming,
while the profits from the small area
will be fully as great, or perhaps great-
er if skill and judgment are exercised
in managing the plot of early produc
tion. There is a large field open for
such enterprises.
—The farmers who believe that the
feed, and not the breed, gives the re-
sults can easily determine for them-
selves what the facts may be. Take
two animals, one pure bred or a grade,
and the other a scrub. Give both the
same care and attention, allowing
them as much food as they will con-
sume. The well-bred animal will give
double the profit derived from the scrub,
and the expense will also be propor-
tionately less.
—If farmers do not buy fertilizers
they do one thing—sell their fertility.
The soil cannot supply food for crops
except at a lose, and though this loss
may not ke apparent for a year or
more, yet a time will arrive when it
will be felt. No matter how much
manure may be produced on the farm,
the animal application of fertilizers
will not only keep thesoil up to its
normal capacity of production, but will
permit the land to produce larger crops.
—TEarly lambs will be the next to
take up the attention of the farmer, as
they will begin to come in January.
The point is to raise them. Every ear-
ly lamb lost is worth two that come
later, as the first that reach the mark:
et bring the “fancy” prices. There
should be a special place for the ewes,
and the farmer will find it profitable to
watch them both day and night. The
first two or three hours of the life of a
lamb are the most important, Under
no condition should the lambs be
chilled.
—Carrote are highiy relished by
horses. /. few carrots, fed raw, after
being sliced, will prove a delicacy to
cows, and fed once a day they will pro-
mote the appetite and keep the ani-
mals in good cordition when other
foods may not be acceptable, Carros
are used by some dairymen as regular
food for cows, in order td give a deeper
color to the butter, and are highly es
teemed by them for that purpose.
Cooked and thickened with bran they
make an excellert mess when fed warm
on a cold day.
Ex-Senator Fair Dead.
San Francisco, December 30.—Ex-
United States Senator James G. Fair,
who was worth $40,000,000, died at
the Lick house yesterday morning.
He had been iu poor health for some
time. The death was a surprise to the
community, the seriousness of his ill-
nees having been kept a secret. Fair
bad been in bed since Monday. For
several hours before the end came he
was unconscious, The doctors said
that death was due to diabetes and
Bright's disease.
When it became obvious that lite
could not last long frequent bulletins
were sent to Mrs. Hermann Oelrich
and Miss Virginia Fair, the daughters
who are in New York, his only son.
Chailes G. Fair, whom he disinherited
about a year ago, was with his father
at the time of death, a reconciliation
having been aftected a short time ago.
FAIR'S CAREER.
James G. Fair was born in Clongh-
er, County Tyrone, Ireland, on Decem-
ber 3, 1831. He was brought to this
country by his parents in 1843, and re-
ceived a common school education in
Geneva, Ill. When the gold fever
broke out in 1849 he, with a number
of other lads, started for California, set
to work at mining and met with vary-
ing fortune until 1860. Meanwhile he
had accamulated a vast amount of
valuable information, and was recog:
nized as possessing engineering and
mechanical skill of an uncommon or-
der. In the year named the Washoe
silver mining excitement occurred, and
Fair, who migrated with others into
Nevada, discerned at once a field for
his peculiar abilities. Hesoon became
prominent as a designer and builder of
quartz mills and chlorinizing furnaces,
and in 1864 assumed charge of a mine
in the Comstock.
In 1867 be becama associated in
partnership with James C. Flood and
W. S. O'Brien, of San Francisco, and
John W. Mackay, of Virginia City,
and the firm soon obtained control of
Hale and Norcoss mine, which was
the beginning of the good fortune that
made its members among the richest
men in the world. A big find in the
Hale and Norcross, attended with
gome judicious stock manipulations,
gavethefirm a capital which enabled
it to purchase other mines, among
which was the Consolidated Virginia
and California, in which was the “Big
Bonanza.” The discovery of this
tremendous prize was due in no small
degreeto Mr. Fair's experience and
shrewdness, and the energy which led
him to make a close personal inspec
tion every day of all work dove under-
ground. There was, indeed, no part of
practical mining with which he did
pot have an intimate personal ac-
quaintance.
In 1831 he made up his mind to go
into politics and became a candidate
for the seat in the Senate held by Wil:
liam Sharon. of Nevada. The Demo-
crats had control of both branches of
the Legislature and he was elected.
The part which he played of a law-
maker was not conspicuous. It was
in the early part of his Washington
career that his wife procured a divorce
from him.
Rheumatism Prevalent.
Caused by the Sudden Changes of Temperature.
Rheumatism is more prevalent here
than ever before. When this disease
fastens upon an individval with its sore-
ness and pain, swelling the joints, ren-
dering bim helpless in his movements,
he is indeed an object of pity. The
slight pain in the back, joints or mus-
cles, is a warning indication of an im-
provished condition of the blood, and if
not attended to at once, means rheuma-
tism.
Since the introduction of Dr. David
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, there
have been fewer rheumatic sufferers.
Favorite Remedy drives out rheuma-
tic poison from the blood, restores the
circulation, strengthens the nerve pow-
er. The best proof of its value, is the
good it has done.
“] was afflicted with inflammatory
rheumatism for fifteen years,” writes
Mr. E. P. Tayer, of East Nassau, N.
Y., “so severe that I was supposed to
be a cripple for life. Under physicians
treatment I grew worse. Dr. Ken-
nedy’s Favorite Remedy helped me
from the time I first used it, and en-
tirely cured me.”
The beautiful daughter of James
McFarland, of DeMoines, Ia., was
helpless for months with sciatic rheura-
tism. After a few doses of Dr. Ken-
nedy’s Favorite Remedy, she began to
grow better, and continuing its use was
cured.
Mr. G. Lansing, of Troy, N. Y., had
rheumatism so bad that he had to be
tarned over in bed. After using Dr.
Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy for a
short while, was restored to health.
Why then suffer with rheumatism or
neuralgia 7 This medicine will belp
you,
Full of Glory.
“0, mamma,” cried 5 year-old Doro-
thy, “I'm just as full of glory as I can
be |" :
“What do you mean?" inquired her
mother, with natural surprise.
“Why ee,” said Dorothy, ‘there was
a sunbeam right on my spoon, and I
swallowed it with my oatmeal, mam-
mal”
——Willie, “Why Maude, what's
happened your dress ? Itlooks as if it
had been through a paint shop.”
Maude. “It you won't laugh I will
tell you. Lillie and I were going up
Garden Street, and right in front of
that honse I got all spattered with
mortar. I felt awfully mortarfied.—
Harper's Young People.
: Not Always.
“Don’t you think four-leaf clovers
bring good luck ?”
“No; I found one once, and that |
very day my wife accepted me."
——— Mrs, Grannis says that the dec: | heated.
colleie corsage must go.
gone far enough already ?
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Scientific Miscellany.
Unclaimed Wealth of the Vegetable World and
of the Ocean- Electricity the Modern Cos
metic—Insect Vision — Mapping the United
States — Wonderful Prehistoric Surgery —
Cryostase and Its Unique Property—A New
Safety Boiler.
Though Emerson suggested that every
weed is a plant whose use is not yet
understood, the number of plants that
have been brought into service by man
is very small. Edson S. Bastin finds
authority for the statement that 1192
species have been atsome time cultivated
as food, and that the total known to
have been used as food is 4090. But
many of these are of little value, and
‘Smith’s Dictionary of Economic Plants’
gives only 515 species as those impor-
tant for any purposes. For medicine
some 3000 plants have been employed,
of which the United States Dispensa-
tory enumerates 1300, while only 244
are given in the Pharmacopoeia. The
| plants not yet investigated offer great
possibilities, which however, can only
be developed by long and extensive
government experiment. The named
species may be taken as about 175,000,
and possibly as many more remain to be
discovered, while many species are cap-
able of great variation through cultiva-
tion. The apple had yielded about
1500 different varieties up to a few
years ago, yet some other species of the
genus may be quite as capable of use-
ful development. The different varie-
ties of wheat are believed by some to
have had their origin in an unimpor-
tant forage grass, and a wild plant still
growing on English and French coasts
has given us the white and red cab-
bages, cauliflower and perhaps even the
common turnip. From the little ex-
plored fields of bacteria and fungi may
be expected many useful products.
x 0%
By its tonic influence upon the heart,
blood vessels and general circulation,
electricity tends to maintain the nor-
mal nutrition in the skin as well as
in other tissues. Tt is therefore largely
employed to improve the complexion,
states Prof. J. V. Shoemaker, in a
variety of cases that are not actually
disease, but are on this border line and
probably due to faulty nutrition.
Among the defects so treated are mud-
diness ot complexion, yellowness due to
disordered liver, oilness from relaxed
sebaceous ducts, redness
pigmented spots and patches, including
freckles.
ono
That gold should exist in the ocean is
an induction that Dr. Henry Wurtz
claim to have presented in 1866, and
in 1872 the discovery was made by E.
Sonstadt. Assuming 0.9 grain for each
ton of sea-water, it is computed tbat the
entire ocean contains over $80,000,000,-
000,000,000 of gold. One of the pro-
blems of the future, Dr, Wurtz now
predicts, will be the getting of some of
this gold by electrolysis.
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That incccts do not see well, especial-
ly to a}distance, is a conclusion reached
by A. Mallack from observation and
calculation. Their composite eye, how-
ever, hus an advantage over the simple
eye in the fact that there is hardly any
practical limit to its nearness of vision.
The best insect eye examined would
give a picture about as good as if exe-
cuted in coarse wool-work, and viewed
from a foot’s distance.
* %
The United States Geological Survey,
established about 14 years ago, is doing
work not suggested by its title, about
half 1ts energies and annaal appropria-
tions, according ‘to Marcus Baker,
being devoted to making a topographic-
al map of the country. More or less
work of this kind has been done in all
but 4 or 5 of the 49 States and Terri-
tories. The total area mapped to date
is nearly 600,000 square miles, or about
one fifth of the United States, and dur-
ing the last few years the areas sur-
veyed have been from 40,000 to 50,000
square miles per year. Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut and New
Jersey are already completely mapped
on the largest scale, their Legislatures
having co-operated to hasten the work.
The various sceles are 1:250 000 (about
4 miles to an inch), 1:125,000 and
1:62,500, the contour intervals ranging
from 250 or 200 feet to 10 or even 5
feet in flat regions. The sheets on the
sme]lest scale, which is no longer used,
cover one degree of latitude by.one de-
gree of longitude. The entire work is
designed to be accurate to scale, which
means, if it is assumed that a hundredth
of an inch is the limit of visible error on
the published map, that each point on
the largest scale must be located within
53 feet of its true position in nature.
The total cost thus far has been some-
what over $2,000,000, with recent an-
nual expenditures of about $250,000.
®: ® ¥
One of the remarkable accomplish-
ments of the ancient Peruvians—who
excelled in engineering agriculture,
mining, weaving, and about every
other art of civilization—was trepan-
ning, which is so difficult and hazardous
that recovery follows only about a
fourth of the modern operations. The
great Muniz collection, temporarily in
the custody of the Bureau of American
Ethnology, contains about 1000 speci-
mens of prehistoric Peruvian skulls, of
which 19 are trepanned, and 8 give in-
dications of subsequent recovery. A
young female seems to have survived
a series of operations resulting in an
operture in the skull 4 inches long an
inch wide, which was covered by a
silver plate.
p * *
A new substauce having the remark-
able unique properiy of solidifying
when heated and remaining liquid at
temperatures below zero has been re-
ported by a German chemist. It has been
named cryostase, and is obtained by
mixing together equal parts of phenol,
camphor and saponine, and addiug a
somewhat smaller proportion of essence
of turpentine. Certain substances, like
the albumens, harden on heating, but
{ this is the product that again liquefies
on cooling.
* *
The novel safety boiler of M. Chate-
nel, a French engineer, consists of a
nest of horizontal tubes placed over the
surface. Waler is injected into this
nest as spray —never in solid bulk—and
is instantaneously evaporated and super-
The steam producing power
Haen't it is remarkable, and the tubes, it is claim-
"ed, do not burn out.
circulation, |
dryness and roughness of the skin, and |
—— There is good reason for the
popularity of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy. Davis & Buzard, of West
Monterey, Clarion Co., Pa., say: “It
has cured people that our physicians
could do nothing for, We persuaded
them to try a bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and they now recom-
mend it with the rest of us.” 25 and
50 cent bottles for sale by F. P. Green.
First Fruit Peddler—Have ye had a
good day, Mike ?
Second Ditto—Naw! Had the div-
il's own toime av it. Had to stop ivery
two minutes for people pliwat wanted
to buoy.— Boston Transcript.
—— No other sarsaparillajhasiequaled
Hood's in the relief it gives in severest
cases of dyspepsia, sick headache, bil-
iousness, ete.
Books, Magazines Etc.
Tue Corumeia Desk CaLExpAr.—For ten
years the desk calendar issued by the Pope
Manufacturing Company has held a unique
place among business helpers. Each daily
leaf during that time has taught its quiet les-
son of the value of better roads and outdoor
exercise, and especially the benefits of bicy-
cling. The calendar for 1895, which is just is-
sued, is even brighter than its predecessors
in appearance, as clever artists have added
dainty silhouette and sketch to the usual
wise and witty contributions that have hereto-
fore given this popular calendar its charm.
It can be had for five-2 cent stamps from the
Pope Manufacturing Company, Hartford,
Conn., or from any Columbia bicycle agency.
It is said that no less than seven of the Na-
poleon pictures reproduced in the last two
numbers of The Century were unknown to Na-
poleon collectors. The care that has been be.
stowed upon the writing and illustrating of
this Life is shown by the fcllowing story.
The French artist Myrback was given a com-
mission for a picture illustrating a scene in
which Prof. Sloane represented Napoleon as
closing in person the great club of the Pan-
theon, which was a rallying point for the disaf-
fected. Myrbach said he could find no au-
thority for such an episode, and he referred
the matter to thei eminent Napoleonic stud-
ent, Frederick Masson. The latter had never
heard of it, but, becoming interested, he
probed the matter, found the documents justi:
fying Prof. Sloane's statement, hitherio un:
known to French historians, and supplied
Myrbach with necessary details.
Business Notice.
/
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
——A Milesburg seamstress care-
lessly left a needle in the back of a
voung lady cnstomer’s dress, and now
a particular friend of the family has
his arm done up in a bandage.
Medical.
H+ RESTORED
ALL RUN DOWN
NO STRENGTH NOR ENERGY
MISERABLE IN THE EXTREME.
HANDS COVERED WITH SORES.
-—~CURED BY—
AYER'S SARSAPARILLA
“Several years ago, my blood was in bad con-
dition, my system all run down, and my gen-
eral health very much impaired. My hands
were covered with large sores, discharging all
the time. I had no strength nor energy and
my feelings were miserable in. the extreme.
At last, I commenced taking Ayer’s Sarsapa-
rilla and soon noticed a change for the better.
My appetite returred and with it, renewed
strength. Encouraged by these results, I
kept on taking the Sarsaparilla, till I had used
six bottles, and my health was restored.”—A.
4 Jowsa prop. Harris House, Thompson, N.
ak.
AYERS
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Saddlery.
{J CHORIELD'S NEW
HARNESS HOSUE
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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 occupiea
by Harper Bros., on Spring street. It has been
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
elegant room has been refitted and furnished
with glass cases in which the harness can be
nicely aisplayed and still kept away from
heat ana dust, the enemies of long wear in
leather. Our factory now occupies a room
16x74 teet and the store 20x60 added makes it
the largest establishment of its kind outside
of Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
Weare prepared to offer better 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
Jou will buy. Our profits are not large, but
y selling lots of goods we can afford to live in
Bellefonte. We are noi indulging in idle
philanthropy. It is purely business. We are
not making much, but trade is growing and
that is what we are intarested in now. fits
will take care of themselves.
When other houses discharged their work-
men during the winter they were all put to
work in my factory, nevertheless the bi a
houses of this city and county would smile
we compared ourselves to them, but we do net
mean to be so odious, except to venture the as-
section that none of them can say, as 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
.00 to $15.00 and upwards, LARGE
STOCK OF HEAVY HARN r
set $25.00 and upwards, b00 HORSE
COLLARS from $1.50 to $5,00
each, over $100.00 worth o!
HARNESS OILS and
AXLE GREASE,
$400 worth of Fly Nete cold cheap
$150 worth of whips
from 15¢ to $3.00 each,
Horse Brushes,Cury Combs
Sponges Chamois, RIDING
SADDLES, LADY SIDESADDLES
Harness Soap, Knee Dusters, at low
prices, Saddlery-hardware always on hand
for Sale, iarets Licarhet as low as 25¢ per
pound. e keep everything to be found ina
FIRST CLASS ARNESS STORE—no chang-
Ing, bye a years in he same room. No two
ops 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 protection 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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