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Farm Notes.
—The way to supply lime is to
broadcast it on a newly-plowed field, so
as to retain it near the surface.
-—Mustard is a plant that farmers
consider a weed, but it can be put to
good use, however. Ii not allowed to
go to seed, it is very easily kept down.
—Cabbages are hardy. Tranpsplant
the early kinds as soon as it can be
done. Kale is a plant that also grows
early in the season, and gives a supply
of greens when other kinds are not
ready.
—Those who take prizes on vegeta-
bles at the fairs know the value of fer-
tilizers. It is seldom that the expert
growers rely on mauoure, though they
do not discard it, but they are liberal
users of ‘ertilizers and apply it at the
proper time.
— Worms in horses, says a writer,
are often caused by hard work, poor
food and general neglect. For ordi:
nary cases of worms, common salt, nu-
tritious food and pure water will prove
satisfactory. Salt should always be
kept in the stalls of horses.
—TFor many years the value of wool
ashes as a portion of the diet of hogs
was unknown, but experiments have
shown that when wood ashes are al-
lowed with the food the bones are
strengthened. Ground bone also gave
excellent results when given to them.
—TUpon the ordinary farm four cents
will pay the cost of growing mution a
pound. Good mutton is made from
good food ; ensilage is better than dry
food, but a mixed ration is best, as 1t
is for all etock. Sheep need a dry sta-
ble, though not necessarily a warm
one.
Some plants prefer a moist location,
but no crop can be grown on wet land
that is at all times cold and undrained.
Ditches are necessary, and should be
kept open and clean, or the land
should be tiled. There is much waste
land that could be made serviceable at
a small cost for drainage.
—If the lawn is sickly, get some
wood aches and apply them freely.
There will be no danger of applying
too much. The rain will carry the
soluble portions down to the roots.
After the grass begins to start out, ap-
ply nitrate of soda at the rate of 100
pounds per acre oa the lawn.
—Do not buy trees over a year old.
They do not have sufficient roots to
supply them with plant food compared
with younger trees. Cut back the tops,
80 as to give the roots less work to do.
A young tree with plenty of roots will
overtake those a year older and also be
more thrifty and {ree from disease.
—When feeding wheat to the cows
about one-half the bulk should be
ground out into flour for family use,
and the rest mixed with an equal
amount of braun ; certainly should the
bran be added, if the wheat is used en-
tire. Wheat is apt to founder if fed
in quantities calledfor, but shorts nev-
er do.
--Chicago beef would have but little
effect on our beef prices if the caitle
raised ip the East were ofa better
quality. As long as dry cows, and
steers of all kinds and breeds, are mar-
keted the Western bee! will hold the
field, because it is more uniform, and
the wants of the purchasers are better
supplied.
— Let your crimson clover grow un-
til the apple trees blossom, then turn
it under. It cannot compete with red
clover as a hay crop, but it grows oft
go rapidly in spring that it cao be made
to provide food for a crop that is to
follow. If you wish to add nitrogen
to vour soil the crimson clover will be
found very usefnl.
—The teams will soon be busy, and
with all the usual preparations for a
busy season do not overlook the col-
lars and harness. It isimportant that a
eollar on the horse should be comfort
able when the service is being per:
formed, Many poor animals labor
with pain, because of the chaffing from
the collar or harness.
—For banks or for any situation
where it is desirable to keep the earth
firmly in position, the Virginia creep-
er and the Japaosese honeysuckle are
good vines. These vines root as they
grow, forming thickets of green. In
some localities they have been found
doing the whole work alone, by their
rooting and clinging.
— There is no need of making butter
at a loss with so wide 2 demand for a
gilt edged arucle, vet plenty of people
continually suffer this loss, and do not
seem to know just how to locate nor
remedy it. It is safe to say that ninety-
nine farmers out of a hundred never
have any right appreciation of the pos-
sibilities of intelligent dairying.
—DMany plants are said to “run to
vine” on rich land. This is due to
such land being rich in nitrogen and
lacking in an abundance of line. A
well-balanced fertilizer, or the applica-
tion of potash and lime, rather than
substances containing nitrogen, may
give good results on all kinds of soils
if other conditions are favorable.
—1It has been said that the corn
fodder from one acre is worth more for
feeding purposes when properly pre-
pared, that the ears (rom the same
acre, and this is a matter of test. The
butis contain much valuable food, ard
will be eaten by cattle when cut and
crushed ; they will eat practically all
of it.
—It seldom pays to hold grain for a
rise:in the market, Often thie rise does
not come, while a thousand bushels of
coro, when dried lose 115 bushels in
weight by evaporation. That which
brings 50 cents pow must bring 57
next year. Add to this interest and
insurance, and itis hard to figure a
profit in any case.
.gians.
Disappearance of Western Big Game.
In 1870 the buffalo ranged from the
British line through Montana, the
Dakotas. much of Wyoming and Ne-
braska, Kansas, Colorado, the Indian
Territory, and Texas: They were
enormously abundant and tairly black:
ened the prairie, the published ac-
counts of their numbers being not ex
aggerated- People traveling through
the buffalo range scarcely troubled
themselves to carry provisions. At
night, just before camp was made,
a man would ride out, kill a heifer, and
bring in enough of the meat for two or
three meals. The buffalo were tame
and paid little attention to travellers
so long as they did not catch their
scent, but the buffalo to their
leeward would be likely to take the
alarm.
There are now practically no wild
buffalo left, the last of tha large
Northern herd having been killed in
1883 on the Dry Fork of the Missouri,
though there was another small herd
further south that was killed a year or
or two later by Indiavs and whites, on
or near the Sioux Reserve. The buf-
falo now living wild, except for two
little bunches, are not the plains form,
but the mountain-buffalo, commonly
called “bison” by mountain men.
There are however, believed to be a
few plains buffalo on the head of Dry
Fork and Porcupine creeks in Mon-
tana, and another liitle band in Texas,
near the Rio Grasde, and crossing
into Mexico. These last are survivors
of the old Southern herd, last known
in the Panhandle of Texas. This
Texas band is supposed to number on-
ly thirty or forty, and those in Montana
are even fewer.
The mountain-buffalo which lives
among the timber is of course, more
difficult to find, and so more of this
form have survived. In the timbered
region about Peace River and to the
south a few buflalo still exist, though
how many no one can know. Men
who should be well informed tell me
they are few in number, not more than
five hundred, though scattered over a
vast territory. There ie believed to be
a little band of a dozen or more buftalo
in the Big Hole country in Montana.
These were seen a few years ago by a
well-known sportsman, and 1 have
heard rumors of them since. In Col-
orado there are two little bands in the
neighborhood of North Park. These
may number seventy-five. Besides
these, there are the protected buffalo
in the Yellowstone National Park,
which through the inaction of Con-
gress have been preyed upon by skin
and head hunters, until now they are
said to number not more than two
hundred.—Harper's Weekly.
Did Not Blame the Japanese.
A pretty and lalkative little girl, evi-
dently her mother’s pet, was riding in
a Sixth avenue **L” train the other af-
ternoon. Her mother accompanied
her. The child often set the passen-
gers laughing at her droll and ingen-
ous remarks. Presently a remarkably
fat Chinaman, in full Chinese costume,
entered and sat opposite the child.
She looked at him in apparent
amazement, and then turning to her
mother, with an air that showed she
had “given it up,” asked :
“Mamma, what's that opposite ?”’
“Sh! That's a Chinaman, my
dear,” answered the mother in a low
tone,
“The same kind of Chinaman papa
says the Japanese are killing ?”
“Yes, my dear. Don’t talk
loud.”
The child meditated 2 moment and
then said :
“Well, I don’t blame ‘em.”’— New
York Herald.
SO
Two Rings Enough.
Declined to Moke of His Wife an: Up-to-Date
Circus.
She may have been a little new to
matters ot etiquette, but, says the
Washington Star,” she knew what she
wanted.
“William,” she said, ¢“you’ve got me
an engagement ring.”
“Course I have,” replied William,
“and it cost $4, too.”
“Well,” she answered, “as long as we
are only going to get married once, we
might as well do the thing in style.”
“Ain’t we a-doin’ it in style ?" he in-
quired suspiciously.
“Y-g-e-s. Upto the present time.
But you ought to give me another ring,
for a guard to this 'un; as a kind of
keeper to this ’un, so’s it won't get
lost.”
“And after that a weddin’
That'll be three rings.”
“Certainly.”
“Well” (and he drew a long breath).
“I ain’t a-goin to do it. You kin make
a show of yourself if you want to, but
I’m blest if I’m a-goin’ to help you to
be a three ringed circus.”
ring.
Scotch Morals.
A story is told by Russell, of the
“Seotsman,’’ concerning the Glaswegi-
One of them remarked that a
young townsman of his who had migra-
ted was “a truly moral man.” “Well,
Nothing Like It.
Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy Males Another
Remarkable Cure.
——
Four years ago, Mrs. Markham, who
resides on First Street, corner of North
Swan, noticed & sensitive spot on her
left imb. It was apparently nothing
serious, but soon develoyed intoa zore,
and before long the limb was a mass of
ulcers, Mrs. Markham emploped some
of our best physicians, but obtained no
relief. 1n fact, was told that nothing
could be done for her, so for four years
she suffered with these dreadful ulcers,
which had eaten their way to the bone.
A little less than a year ago, an &c-
quaintance told her about Dr. David
Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy, and that
he believed she would find relief in using
it, Mrs. Markham’s four years of suf-
fering had made her skeptical, the more
so, as she had obtained no relief from
any of the physicians who had attended
her.
The friend offered to send her a bot-
tle of Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
if she would try it. He did so, and
there was such a decided improvement
that she concluded to give the remedy a
fair test. To-day, not quite a year after
taking the first dose, the ulcers have dis-
appeared, all that is lefl to show what
she has suffered, is a swelling on the
ankle of the left limb, which is fast dis-
appearing.
Mrs. Markham is naturally strong in
her praises of Dr. David Kennedy’s Fa-
vorite Remedy, and feels that but for it
she would now be a helpless cripple, if
not a corpse.
Such a straight forward endorsement
needs no comment, Dr. Kennedy's Fa-
vorite Remedy cures diseases when taken
according to directions, it acts lively up-
on the kidneys, liver and blood. In
cases of nervousness, dyspepsia. rheu-
matism, uleurs, old sores, blood poison-
ing, and Bright's disease, it has made
pronounced cures, after all other treat-
ments have failed.
Windfall for the Colonel.
“Think you’ll run for office this year
Colonel ?”
“Sure to !”’
“What's your chances ?”’
“First-class. The price of cotton and
the general shrinkage of values have op-
erated to bring votes down to where an
honest man kin getat ’em.”’-—A#lanta
Qonstitution.
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
Castoria. 38-43-2y
A Prominent Educator Dead.
Henry Coppee, L. L. D., acting presi-
dent of Lehigh university, died March
21 of neart disease, aged 74 years. He
was in the class of ’39 at Yale and
graduated at West Point in 1845. He
was brevetied captain for meritorious
conduct in the Mexican war. He was
professor of Euglish literature at the
University of Pennsylvania from 1855
to 1866, and was then elected president
of Lehigh university. He resigned in
1875, and® has been acting president
since Dr. Lambertson’s death. At the
time of his death he was regent of
Smithsonian institution, having been
first appointed in 1874.
——A severe rheumatic pain in the
left shoulder had troubled Mr. J. H.
Loper, a well known druggist of Des
Moines, Iowa, for over six months. At
times the pain was so severe that he
could not lift anything. With all he
could not get rid of it until he applied
Chamberlgin’s Pain Balm. “I only
made three applications of it,’ he says,
“And have since been free from all
pain.” He now recommends itto per-
sons similarly afflicted. It is forsale by
F. P. Green.
Medical.
{ou HARDLY WALK
ON ACCOUNT OF
R-H-E-U-M-A-T-I-S-M
—P. H. FORD—
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Quachita City, La.,
—AFTER—
Two Years Suffering is Cured
By the use of
—AYER'S § SARSAPARILLA —
“For fully two years, I suffered from rheu
matism, and was frequently in sucha condi-
tion that I could hardly walk. I spent some
time in Hot Springs, Ark.,and the treatment
helped oa for the time being; but soon the
complaint returned and I was as badly afflict
ed as ever. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla being recom.
mended, I resolved to try it, and, after using
six bottles, 1 was completely ‘cured.’—P. H
Ford, Quachita City, La.
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or two of thase blameless youth. “Nay”
said the other. “I was na thinking of
drink and the lasses, but of gamblin’
and sic things as yon make money by.”
——The Pittsburg Dispatch says:
“Greenville is to furnish the lens for
the largest telescope that has ever been
constructed. The Rev. John Peate, D.
D., a Methodsst minister of 74 years has
assumed the task. He has just complet-
ed arrangements for handling the rough
glass that is to be transformed into this
great lens at his home, in Greenville, |
and will probably begin work in a few
days. This lens is to be used in a teles-
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——HEAD QUARTERS FOR—
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, Cayenne
Pepper, Mustard all strictly pure goods,
»IN COFFEES AND CHOCCLATE,
Mocha—genuine, Java—0Id Govern:
ment, Rio— Finest Brazilian. 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 con
find, also a line of Knight's extracts.
BEANS, California Limas, New York
Apres and Pea Beans, dried Green
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AND VEGETABLES, ToMATOES
Cotiage, Home and Worthington Brands
—CorN Persian and Mountain Brands,
—CorN Granules, Lima Beans and
Succotash, Dew Drop brand. GREEN
Pras, Early Junes, Scottish chief and
Cecelia brands. PINE AppLE sliced and |
grated, Strawberries and White Cher |
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Beans.
CALIFORNIA CANNED FRUITS,
Yellow Crawford, Lemon Cling, and
White Heath Peaches, White Cherrie |
and Apricots. |
IMPORTED VEGETABLES ANA
FRUITS, French Peas and Mush-
rooms, Preserved Cherries, Stra.w-
berries, Brandy Cherries and Crosse
Blackwell's Jams all in glass.
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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 But- |
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Buckwheat Flour, Corn Flour, Gluten
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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 Nuls, Fresh Roasted
Peanuts, Cocoa Nuls extra quality.
IN CONFECTIONARY, we haw
Fine Mixtures, Cream Chocolates
Roast Almonds, Cream Dates, Ros
and Vanilla, Jordon Almonds, Frencl
Glace Fruits, Fine Chocolate Caramels.
Chocolate Marsh Mallows, Cocoa Nw
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, 8S. Rea & Cos} Pint,
Pints and Quarts. The finest ana
lysis in the World pronounces it pure.
PICKLES IN GLASS, Crasse §&
Blackwell's Chow Chow, Gherking,
Mized, White Onions, Cauliflower,
Picalilli, and Walnuts.
CEREAL GOODS. Oat Meal, Rolled
Oat, Cracked Wheat. Pearl Barley,
Breakfast and Dinner Hominy, Ma-
caront 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-
fornia 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, Codfish
boneless and evaporated, SALMG
{egnelia, Astoria and Glacier brand
Hoeg’s Spiced Salmon, Shrimps, Lab
sters, Crab Meats and Spwced Oysters
Sardines, French }s, and 4s Boneless.
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38-1 BELLEFONTE, PA.
bl CHOP NEW
HARNESS HOUSE
We extend a most cordial invitation to our
patrons and the public, in general, {0 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 been
added to my factory and will be used exelu-
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 aispleyed and still kept away from
heat and dust, the enemies of long wear in
lesther. Our factory now occupies & room
16x74 feet and the store 20x60 added 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
Wwe want everyone to see our goods and get
prices for when you do this, out of self defense
you will buy. Our profits are not large, but
by selling lots of goods we can afford to live 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. Profits
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 big (?)
houses of this city and county would smile if
we compared ourselves to them, but we do not
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, prices from
88.00 to $15.00 and upwards, LARGE
STOCK OF HEAVY HARNESS per
set 325.00 and upwards, 500 HORSE
COLLARS from $1,50 to $5,006
each, over $100.00 worth of
HARNESS OILS and
} AXLE GREASE,
$400 worth of Fly Nete sold cheap
£150 worth of whips
from 15¢ to §3.00 each,
_ Horse Brushes,Cury Combs
Sponges, Chamois, RIDING
SADDLES, LADY SIDE SADDLES
Harness Soap, Knee Dusters, at low
prices, Saddlery-hardware always on hand
for sale, Harness Leather as low as 26c per
pound. We keep everything to be found in a
FIRST ‘CLASS HARNESS STORE—no chang-
ing, Sy in the same room. No two
shopsin 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,
IMuminating Oil.
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