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Bellefonte, Pa., March6, 1896.
Farm Notes.
—If the crimson clover was not des-
troyed by the dry weather of last fall
it should be plowed under when in full
blossom and before the seed heads be-
gin to turn.
—Manure that is spread out now,
even if lumpy, will be pulverized by
the trost. It would be of much benefit
to put a ehovelful around each rose
bush and shrub.
—Oats and peas on the same plot to-
gether may be seeded early as a source
for supplying the cows with green food
later on, as the combination has been
tried with excellent results.
—Spraying must not be delayed a
day longer than possible as soon as the
work is required. It is the first two
or three sprayings early in the season
that are the most effectual.
—A swinging door for the entrance
for swine they soon learn to operate,
and it keeps out snow and much cold.
It is hung from the top and rubs on
both sides as it swings in and out.
—It pays to harrow the wheat in
the spring, and it can be done without
injury. Where plants have been
thrown out by froet the roller will be
serviceable, if the land is not too soft
to permit the teams on it.
—A clay soil containing lime in
abundance is the best for apples, ac-
cording to the experience of a promi-
nent grower, and the apples from land
that has been limed have a better
flavor, better color and better keeping
qualities than thoee grown on unlimed
lands.
—It is the income which each sheep
will yield that determines the value of
the flock, whether it be from wool or
mutton. Under present conditions
scrub sheep give no profit, whether
they are kept for the one or the other.
An unprofitable animal should not be
kept nor fed one day longer.
It will soon be time to begin work
on the strawberry bed. Fertilizers
should be used before the plants begin
to make growth. Work between the
rows as 8000 as il can be done, and ap-
ply the fertilizer on the plants in the
rows, using it liberally, as the spring
rains will dissolve it and carry it down,
—Do not be tempted to plant too
goon because the weather is warm and
pleasant. There may be come severe
cold days in March and even as late as
April. Nothing will be’ gained by
planting seeds at a risk. - The ground
should be warm enough to ensure ger-
mination or the seed will rot. The frost
may in a single night destroy all the
work done in a week in preparing and
planting.
—For early green fcod rye comes in
ahead of grass, and the mistake is
often made of turning the cattle upon
it to help themselves, the result being
that they (all off in milk owing to the
laxative effects of the young rye. The
proper mode is to allow the cowson
the rye but a short time at first, and
then gradually give them wore oppor:
tunities to graze as the rve grows and
is less ‘watery.
—The breed of cows vou use should
be one from which you can secure 300
pounds of butter per year from each
cow. You may suppose such an
amount of butter to be too large, but
there are cows that have produced
1000 pounds per year. They are few,
it is true, but they are examples of
what car. be done by the use of butter
breeds. An average of 300 pounds of
butter per year from each cow ina
herd is not extraordinary.
—One of the least costly advantages
secured on the farm is the gain from
shelter. It is not nesessary to erect
an expensive building. The fact is that
cattle proses the open air, light and
warmth from the sun, and will thrive
as well under a shed open to the south
as when kept in the barn. What
they appreciate is something to protect
. them from the cold winds when out-
side of the barn, and a shed is the best
arrangement that can be had.
—Many a dollar can be saved and
much hard work avoided by learning
what other men are doing in other
places. The use of good papers, the
reading of bulletins from experiment
stations, and the attendance of farm-
ere’ institutes is to be recommended,
also tor young people, a term or a year
or a course at an agricultural college
where both theoretical and practical
instruction is received by lectures and
actual work ander the direction of ex-
perts.
—The proper time to sow grass seed
ig in the fall, for then the graes be-
comes rooted and starts off early in
spring ; but there will be grass sowing
this spring also, and it is correct to
sow the seed rather thao to allow the
pastures to die out or become thin,
The main point is to sow as early as
possible, eo that the benefit of the
spring rains can be secared. If grass
can.get 8 good start before the dry
summer season comes half the battle
will be won, as the more root growth
made the better it can endure lack of
moisture. :
—It is true that all which is con-
sumed by the fowls comes from the
farm, whether the birds procure it
themselves or receives it from the
band of the owaer, but turkeys are in-
sect deetroying birds, and the larger
share of their food is composed of in-
sects and seeds, while geese are partial
to young and tender weeds, purslaine
being one of their delicacies. Thus
they use that which is of no worth,
and serve us useful scavengers ; and all
this ‘goes to market in the end as very”
desirable meat.
A Race of Dwarfs.
A Tribe of Little People Who Live in the
Pyrences. :
+ There has long dwelt in the heart of
the Pyrenees, on the old Catalonian
border of Spain, a curious race of
dwarfs, supposed by 00) be of Tar-
tar origin. A writer if a recent issue
of “Cosmos” describes them and ad-
vances a theory of their origin in con-
sonance with modern anthropology.
They inhabit the valley of the Ribas
in the northwestern part of the Spanish
province now called Gerona. They
never exceed 513 inches in height, and
have short, ill-formed legs, great
bellies, small eyes, flat noses, and pale,
unwholesome complexions. They are :
usually stupid, often to the verge of
idiocy, and much subject to goitre and
scrofulous affections. The chief town
of the Ribas Valley is Ribas, a place
of 1500 inhabitants, about 800 feet
above sea level. The mountains raise-
about the town to a height of 6000 to
8000 feet, and command an amazingly
beautiful, panorama ot mountain, plain
and river, with Spanish cities visible
upon the one side and French upon
the other. The region is rich, both
agriculturally and minerally, and is
famous for its medicinal springs. In
this paradise dwell the dwarfs, per-
bape as degraded a race of men and
women as may be found iu any civilized
community. They are almost without
education, and inhabit wretched huts
when they have any shelter. The
wost intelligent are employed as shep-
herds, and in summer they live for
months at an elevation of more than
6000 feet without shelter. Here they
see no human creature save some of
their own kind, often idiots, who are
sent up every fifteen or twenty days
with a supply of food. :
It is said that formal marriage is al-
most unknown among them. The
women in some instances are employed
in the village of Ribas as nurses for
children, and as such are found tender
and faithful. Before communication
throughout the region was as easy as
it is now it was thought lucky to have
one of these dwarfs in a family, and
the dwarfs were hired out and even
sold to be used in beggary in neigh-
boring cities. There are somewhat
similar dwaris in other valleys of the
Pyrenees, but the number is decreas-
ing, and those of the Ribas Valley are
reduced to a few individuals.
The writer in the “Cosmos” article
rejects the theory of a Chinese origin
for the dwarfs, and believes that they
are merely the degenerate descendants
of the ordinary natives, ill-nourished
for generations upon a diet of potatoes
and black bread. The fact that with
improved means of communication the
dwarfs are decreasing helps to con
firm the writer's theory, and he be-
lieves that with proper nourishment
and decent shelter their descendants
would gradually return to the normal
type. Meanwhile the neighbors of
the dwarfs look upon them with a cari
ous mixture of feelinge. The fact. that
the dwarfs drink much at a particular
mineral spring has given rise toa su-
perstition that whoever drinks of it
will become deformed, and the normal
natives are horrified to see visitors ex-
perimenting with the dreaded waters.
There is reason to believe that the
waters of the spring are beneflcial to
the stomachs of well nourished per-
800g, but injurious to those who are ac-
customed to an unwholesome diet, and
it is entirely possible that the ill-fed
dwarfs have been injured by drinking |
of the spring.
Still Had a Kick.
“Give a sailor pie three times a day,”
said an old sea captain, “and he would
still kick.” Pie is the alpha and omega
of a sailor's ideas on the luxury of food.
The sailor is naturally suspicious, and
the sea lawyer nutures this suspicion, as
may be illustrated by the following
vouched-for incident. Some years ago
the whale ship Obio was cruising in
Northern Pacific waters, and the growls
of the men against the food had been
long and deep. The siifiper of the
vessel was Capt. Thomas Ellis, and his
wife was aboard. Mrs. Ellis heard the
murmurs, and, womanlike, persuaded
the skipper to let her fix up a meal
for the men. He, however, told her
that her efiorts would not be apprecia-
ted, and might even cause trouble. Any-
how, the good woman persisted, and
with her own bands prepared a fat tur-
key and all the “fixings.” The fowl
was sent forward to the forecastle, and
Mrs. Ellis thought the men would for
once have no complaint to make about
the dinner. As a matter of fact, the
men hove the turkey overboard, ‘for,”
said their sea lawyer, ‘‘something’s the
matter with it, or it would never have
come forward.”
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Wise (2) Republican Management. |
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County controller James A. Grier, |
of Pittsburg, in speaking of the fact
that Allegheny county has not yet re
ceived money due from the State, said
Thursday : “I went to Harrisburg a
few daye ago on county business, and
while there I tried to learn why the
State has not paid us $225,000, due
since the first of the year as money
collected on personal property. 1
learned that the State is short ot funds,
and could not pay the money at pres-
ent. While there, I met assistant city
attorney Catherine, of Philadelphia,
and be said the State owes Philadel-
phia over $300,000, and they are un:
able to get their money for the same
reason,’
Electricity Explained.
Farmer stopped in front of Michigan
City electric light plant and asked a
by-stander :
“What is that airy buildn’, a fac-
tory ?
“No; a plant,” came the answer.
“What do they raise there 2?"
“Currents,” replied the quick-witted
by-stander.
“What are they worth a bushel ?"
“We sell them by the shock."
Farmer pulled hie beard, soratch ed
his head and drove down town to
market his vegetablee.~—~Indianapolis
Sun. .
| The Present Taste for Romance.
Now and again we are startled to find
how the age relishes still an old-fashion-
ed romance, if written with a new-fash-
i ioned vigor and directness ; now quaint
' and simple and lovely things, as well as
| what 13 altogether modern and analytic
land painful, bring our most judicious
| friends crowding, purses in band, to the
i book stalis ; and for a while we are puz-
zled to see worn-out styles and past
modes revived. But we do not let these
things seriously disturb our study of pre-
vailing fashions. These books of ad-
venture are not at all, we assure our-
selves, in the true spirit of the age, with
its realistic knowledge of what men
really do and think and purpose, and
the taste for them must be only for the
moment or in jest. We need not let
our surprise at occasional flurries and
variations in the literary market cloud
or discredit our analysis of the real taste
of the day, or suffer ourselves to be be-
trayed into writing romances, however
much we might rejoice to de delivered
from the drudgery of sociological study,
and made free to go afield with our
imaginations upon a joyous search for
hidden treasure or knightly adventure.
A Well-Proportioned Walst,
What is a well-proportioned waist ?
Lady Harberton says : “The true pro-
portion is a difterence of 10 inches be-
tween the circumference of the bust
and that of the waist. Thus a woman
whose bust measures 36 inches should
have a waist measuring 26 inches. Bust
40 inches, waist 30 inches, and so on.
Very few corsets are made in this pro-
portion, and if they were, still fewer
people would buy them, as fashion de-
crees that the waist should measure
from 12 to 15 inches less than the bust.”
In the course of time women may
come to realize that true artistic effect
is only attained by a proper respect for
proportion and symmetry. Plenty ac-
knowledge this in most things but dress,
where they cannot avoid flying to ex-
tremes.
——~Governr Hastings in his procla
wation naming April 10 and 24 as
Arbor days offers some unanswerable
reasons for their observance by a lib
eral planting of trees. His statement
that two million five bundred thousand
acres of treeless land unfit for agricul
tural purposes are fast becoming a
desert from the effect of forest fires is
not overdrawn, and is one which should
arrest public attention and prompt ef-
fective action.
Tree planting on Arbor days will do
little to arrest this wholesale destruc:
tion of the timbered area of the Com. :
monwealth, but it will at least help to
educate the rising. generation to the
need of a revolution on the subject of
forestry. The axe and fire bave been
employed as agencies for the destruc
tion of Pennsylvania forests too long
already. Tt is time that a generation
was taught to plant and protect, not
to destroy. |
McKinley Has No Trouble in Kansas, |
Topeka, Kan., March 1.—Thirty Re- |
publican county conventions to select !
delegates to the state convention were |
held yesterday. Nearly all of the con- |
ventions instructed their delegates in |
favor of McKinley.
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——“What is Mrs. Blank's day at |
home ?”’ asked a lady of a weary- |
looking man she met at a reception.
“My wifeis an up-to-date woman, |
i and doesn’t have any day at home,”
was the dejected answer.
——When the upper lid covers half
or more of the pupil the indication is of i
cool deliberation.
——1If you want printing of any de-
scription the WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
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agent and chaperon accompany each
Florida.
Personally~Conducted Tours via Pennsylvania
Railroad,
There is no doubt but that every
oue has had at some time a desire to
viit Florida, the “Land of Flowers,”
aod that many have been deterred
from so doing by the thought of a long
and tiresome railroad journéy, great
expense, and a thousand and one other
objections. These have been overcome
by the inauguration of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company’s personally
conducted tours to Jacksonville. A
special train of unexcelled equipment
makes the run from New York to
Jacksonville in thirty hours ; a tourist
tour to look after the comfort of pas-
seogers while en route ; and the low
rates offered bring the tours within the
means of almost every one.
The tour, allowing two weeks’ stay
in Florida, will leave New York and
Philadelphia March 3, 1896. ‘ The
rate, including transportation, meals
en route, and Pullman berth on special
train, is $50.00 from New York and
$48.00 from Philadelphia ; proportion:
ate rates from other points.
_ For further information apply to
ticket agents, or address tourist agent,
1196 Broadway, New York, or room
411, Broad street station, Philadel-
phia, to whom application for space
should also be made.
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As It Should Be.
Jack (at the table)—Mamma, will
you please look at Maisie punching me
with her sharp elbow? Shes the
youngest, too, and ought to be sitting
Bt my elbow instead of me. sitting at
ers, ;
A TR —————
--Young and middle-aged men suf-
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memory, premature old age, as the re-
sult of bad habits, should send 10 cents
in stamps for illustrated book offering
fure means to cure, sent securely sealed
in plain envelope. Address, World's
Dispensary Medical Association, Buf-
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SAID THE SURGEON, BUT DR. DAVID
KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY WAS
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The Union and Advertiser of Rochester, N.
Y., recently published the following interest-
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South avenue. that city was saved from a pain-
fuloperation by the use of Dr. David Ken-
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Mr. Adams said: “Three years ago I was
taken with kidney dicease very badly; at
times I was completely prostrated ; in fact
was 50 bad that the day was set for the doctors
to perform an operation upon ‘me. ButI de-
cided I would not submit. I hag been putin
hot water baths, and, in fact, hearly every
means was tried to help me. Upon the day
set for the operation I commenced the use of
Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, and from
that moment began to gain, and it .was not
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In speaking to Mrs. Adams, she said “About
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mg to take Dr. David Kennedy’s Favorite
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Hundreds of men and women with that
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In cases of rhedmatism, kidney, liver and
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SECHLER & CO’S OPEN LETTER.
As the Holiday
ner is within the reach of all.
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 1st, 1890.
Season is now over we wish to remind our friends and
the public, generally, that we are well prepared to supply all demands in our line.
_ Almost all kinds of goods are now so low in price that a good American Din-
While giving careful attention to securing a fine stock of fruits and luxuries we
have not overlooked the every day substantials.
We have Pillsbury’s ‘‘best’”” Minnesota Flour and the leading brands of home
manufacture.
Bradford Co., pure Buckwheat Flour, new kiln dried Corn Meal, extra
fine sugar cured Hams, breakfast Bacon and dried Beef, whité, fat, new-Mackeral, rich
mild Cream Cheese, genuine Maple Syrup, pure-sugar table Syrups, fine roll dairy
and creamery Butter.
We have just received a lot of bright clean New York state Beans that we are sell-
ing at the low price of five cents per quart:
The entire lot of twenty-two bushels will
go at that price (no advance) but we can hardly get any more as good as these to sell
at the same price.
Don’t miss them,
They are fine.
One of the most - satisfactory lots of goods we have to offer is our own Mince
Meat. Every ounce of material in it is sound, clear and of the finest quality, nothing
equal to it has ever been obtai nable. Price, ten cents per pound.
It has been almost impossible to get satisfactory Oranges this season, but we have
secured some fine Floridas, also some Mexican fruit that is equally as fine as the Flori-
das and quite reasonable
in price.
Our stock of Cranberries, (at 10cts per quart,)
white Almeria Grapes, New York Catawbas, (2, baskets for 25cts), Lemons, Bananas,
and Sweet Potatoes have received careful attention. Also Raisins, Prunes, Citron,
Figs, cleaned Currants, California evaporated fruits, fine mixed table Nuts at r5cts and
2octs per pound, soft shell Almonds zocts per pound, finest Princess paper shells at
25cts per pound, finest Java, Mocha and Rio Coffees, Extracts, Sauces, Pickles, Capers,
Mushrooms, Truffles, Etc.
, but we cannot enumerate further.
We keep a large and well selected stock. It will pay any house-keeper to visit
our store once a week. The first principle of economy is not alone in saving, but in
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house, in the horough of Bellefonte on
+ TUESDAY, MARCH 24th, 1896.
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