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Farm Notes. .
—There is no need of rundown
farms where those in charge grow
clover liberally and rotate with good
judgment.
~ For a small patch of onions use the
sets, and get them in the ground as
soon as it can be done. Have the plot
well manured. -
—If the oats are covered two or
three inches deep the plants will be
eafer from a hard frost or a dry spell
than if too shallow.
—At the Canadian Experiment Sta-
tion rape was shown to be the best
green food for the growth of lambs—
both carcass and fleece.
—Carnations will grow and keep
blooming the entire year with proper
care, but must have their foliage kept
clean with frequent showering.
—If one has no experience in trim-
ming orchards there is at least one
safe rule which any person can follow,
and that is to cut out all dead wood.
—Sow the lawn graes now. If the
lawn contains bare places, scratch it
over with a sharp rake and sow the
seed. Do not be afraid of using too
much seed.
—A large crop on a small plot costs
less proportionately than a small crop
on a large plot, and also gives a profit
when the large plot may be cultivated
at a loss.
—Pruning cannot now be delayed as
the season is becoming too warm. All
work should be dooe at once, as a
week or 10 days more may be too late,
-and the warm weather will influence
the rise of sap. :
—Within the past five years a new
implement, known as the weeder, has
come into general use. As a weed kill-
er where the weeds are just making
their appearance it is unequaled, and
saves much labor later in the eeason
by keeping the weeds down when they
are young.
—The castor bean plant is one of
the most beautiful and ornamental
plants that can be grown. Raise them
in boxes or in the hotbead and plant
them in the open air after danger of
frost is over. They require very rich
soil and there is no danger of giving
. too mich manure. With good care
they will grow as high ae six feet
during the summer.
—Rape has come into general use
in those sections where sheep raising
is an industry. Two or three crops
, can be grown in a year if it is pastured
while it is young. 1t can be used in
about a mcnth or six weeks frow the
time the seed is sown. The dwarf va.
rieties are preferred. Sheep thrive up-
on it. provided they are also given a
small allowance of grain.
—Nothing is more unsightly than
to eee a plowed orchard with a clump
of grass growing up around the bodies
of the trees. Ii is worse than unsight-
ly, for it isa serious detriment® It is
true that few or none of the feeding
tree roots may be under the grass
around the trees, but its growing
makes a harbor for mice in winter and
for the borer in early summer.
—For waste space the grape vine is
always’ convenient. Along the wire
fence of poultry yards, and the arbors,
a vine here and there will prove both
ornamental and useful. There is no
fruit that can be grown with such little
space as the grape if a crop for market
is not required. Make ita point to
set oul a grape vine wherever one will
grow on almost any location but little
loes can result.
—Recent experimeots show that
a steer cannot be made to gain as much
as three pounds a day when young for
a short period, and two pounds per day
is not unusual for three months. The
cost of the food is from 10 to 15 cents
per day, which is nearly equal to the
cost of the gain. Apparently there is
no profit in steers unless prices are
bigh, but when itis considered that
much of the food consists of corn fod-
_ der and other focde that cannot be
eold except in the form of beef, the
feeding of steers is really profitable,
because it enables the farmer to sell a
large share of his produce which could
not be otherwise sold at all. A waste
of food because it cannot be utilized is
a loss of profit.
—It<ig now admitted that small
yields of potatoes cannot be grown ex-
cept at a loss, and even with the use of
fertilizers there must be sufficient
moisture to diseolve the plant food’
Should drought overtake the crop a
loss is sure to occur. Farmers, how-
ever, have been too economical with
seed, cutting the tubers into too many
pieces, and aleo in not using a suffi-
ciency of fertilizer. Every farmer has
not a field of sod land to plow under
for potatoes, and the cost in one sec-
tion may be greater than in another.
There must be a concentration of effort
by using smaller plots, and putting the
manure and fertilizer thereon instead
of spreading them over large tracts, io
order to secure greater yields. No
-doubt the low prices may reduce the
acreage this year, but experience has
demonstrated that the time to stick to
a crop is when every other farmer is
leaving it. No farmer should make
potatoes a specialty, however, unless
he is determined to greatly increase
the average vield. It will require over
200 bushels to repay a cost of £70 per
acre, and the safest plan to pursue is
to expend a sufficient sum for fertilix
ers in order to get as far above the first
cost of the crop as possible. The
cheapest mode of supplying plant food
ia to grow clover and put potatoes on
the clover sod, but where this cannot
be done for the next crop there is no
resource but a resort to fertilizers:
Eggs.
Facts Concerning their Use Worth Knowing and
Remembering.
Pour boiling water over frozen eggs
and let them remain until the water is
cold ; they will then beat nearly as well
as fresh eggs. Keep them frozen hard
until ready for use.
To determine the age of eggs, dis-
solve a quarter of “a pound of salt ina
quart of cold water and drop the eggs
in one at a time. If a day old an egg
will settle to the bottom ; if three days
old it will float ; if more than five days
old it will rise above the- water in pro-
portion to its age.
To ascertain the quality of eggs make
a cone of stiff white paper, place the
eggs to be tested, one at a time, in the
large end and look through the small.
end toward the sun. If the contents
look clear, the egg is good, though the
shell may be discolored ; if spote are
seen it is not good.
Do not shake eggs designed for hatch-
ing. Pack them carefully as gathered
in dry sand ; when ready for incubation,
drop the eggs in tepid water and reject
those that will not settle in the bottom.
Chicks will develop in new-laid eggs
two days earlier than in those several
days old.
Walter forms about 70 per cent. of a
fresh egg. This begins almost immedi.
ately to evaporate through the pores of
the shell, and the air entering intro-
duces bacteria, which causes the con-
tents to deteriorate and in time to de-
compose. Place new laid eggs in a wire
basket and immerse the basket for five
seconds in boiling water. A very thin
coating of coagulated albumen is thus
formed next to the shell ; the pores can
then be closed by rubbing the shell
with a cloth dipped in linseed oil.
Eggs boiled 20 minutes are more
readily digested than if boiled five.
They are dry and mealy and more eas-
ily acted upon by the gastric juice.
The whites of eggs will troth more
rapidly in very cold. A {pinch of salt
added helps to cool them in warm
weather.
Eggs laid in March or April, if
rubbed with vaseline, into which has
been beaten a little salicylic acid and
packed salt, will keep several months
without perceptible deterioration.
A raw egg swallowed immediately is
very eftective in removing a fish bone
which has become lodged in the throat.
The white of an egg is an excellent ap-
plication for a burn. If mustard is mixed
with the white of an egg a blister will
geldom follow the application of the
plaster.
Hoarseness and tickling in the throat
are relieved with the gargle of the
white of an egg beaten to a froth with
a tumberful or warm sweetened water.
If the yolks of eggs are well beaten
and a little flour gifted over the top,
they will keep for a day or two, but
eave the whites unbeaten if not used at
orce.
An egg in a bottle is a great curios-
ity. Soak an egg in very strong vinegar
until the shell softens, when-it can be
gently forced lengthwise into a wide-
mouthed bottle. Pour cold water over
it repeatedly, and it will resume its
natural shape.
To restore the color to black kid
gloves, apply with a soft sponge the
white of an egg beaten with a small
quantity of good black ink.
An old but very effective remedy for
an obstinate cough’ is to place two or
three whole eggs in very strong vinegar
(boiled down to increase the strength, if
necessary). In three or four days the
acid will have consumed (he shells.
Beat the mixture well and thicken with
honey. Take two tablespoonfuls before
each meal.
When eggs are plentiful and cheap
save all the shells ; when they have ac-
cumulated, crush them very fine and
dry them* Beat half a dozen eggs and
stir the shells into the mixture, then
spread and dry quickly. Pat into a
thin muslin bag and hang near the fire
to keep the contents dry. When eggs
are high or scarce a tablespoonful of
this mixture, soaked in cold water sev-
eral hours, will settle coffee as well as a
whole egg.
The yolk of an eggisa very good
substitute for cream in coffee, and will
answer for three cups.
A raw egg beaten with a little pul-
verized sugar, half the quantity of cream
or milk, is excellent for convalescents
or elderly people. Very sick people can
sometimes eat the yolk of a hard-boiled
egg when the white cannot be eater
with safety.
The skin of a boiled egg, moistened
and applied to a boil, will cause i
ration and relieve sorenessin a few
hours. It is also an excellent applica-
tion for a sty or inflamed eyelids.
A plaster composed of the yolk of an
egg and salt will relieve pleurisy, kid-
ney and neuralgia pains. —Albany Cul-
tivator.
She Got the Place.
An Irish domestic once obtained a
situation by the use of her national wit,
under somewhat unpromising condi-
tions. She had applied to Mrs. Van
Nobbs for work as a cook, and Mrs.
Van Nobbs asked : —
“How loug did -you live in your last
place ?
“Three weeks,
Bridget.
“Why did you leave it eo soon ?"’
“Oi cuddent git along wid the lady ;
she was go old and craky,
“But I may beold and cranky, too,’
said Mrs. Van Nobbs. ;
“Cranky ye may be, ma'am,” said
Bridget, promptly, ‘‘for faces is some-
times desayvin’, but old, nivver |"
She was engaged on the spot.
ma’am,’” answered
The Young Mens Democratic
club is an organization that has for its
purpose the advancement of Demo-
cratic principles and the success of
party in the country. There are hun-
dreds * of young Democrats, who
do not belong to the organization. It
should be the desire of every young
Democrat to advance the interests of
his party, and ore sure way of doing
this is to become a member of an or-
ganization whose existence means
benefit to the Democratic party. Every
young Democrat should become
a member of the Young Mens Demo-
cratic club.
4 it in the muscular tissue.
Her Safferings Were Intense.
The Dreadful Disease Which Caused the Death
of Mrs. H. E. Doebler.
Dr. F L. Moyer, who attended Mrs.
Harry E. Doebler, of Williamsport,
during her long illness of tri-
chinosis gave a brief history of the
case to a Williamsport Sun reporter
He sn:d : “Mrs. Doebler was taken ill
on Friday, Jsnuary 81, with a violent
chill, rapidly followed by a high fever
and intense pain, radiating all over the
abdomen. The next day the patient
was attacked with a violent diarrhoea,
kBewn as the rice water discharge,
which lasted the day following by vom-
iting of everything taken into her sto-
mach for the ensuing thirty-six hours,
this having been the stage of incuba-
tion of the parasite. These symptoms
having subsiding the stage of migration
of the parasites now quickly! followed
into the muscular tissue. Up until this
time I was at sea as to a correct diagno-
8is, but could not associate the symtoms
with any other disease than trichinosis,
and consequently I called Dr. C. W.
Youngman in consultation. He was
also of the same opinion, and later our
diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. Nutt.
After the stage of migration of the par-
asite into the muscular tissue, I have
not the power to describe the.intense
suffering of tho patient, and only those
who had the care of Ler can conceive of
what her ¢suffering must have been.
The parasites, after penetrating the mus-
cles, caused them to contract so that her
arms and lege were so distorted that
they could not be moved or straighten-
ed.
‘‘About the twelfth day the parasites
bad entered the eye balls and rendered
her blind, never after being able to see
the least ray of light. On the fifteenth
day of the suffering an abcess developed
near the left elbow joint which was
evacuated and a portion of the pus con-
taining the parasites examined under
the microscope. This dangerous para-
site is found in two-form, as the intesti-
nal trichina, which is sexually mature,
and as the muscular trichina, not fully
developed or sexually immature.
‘The name given, trichina spiralis, is
based on the hair-like appesrance of the
parasite and the spinal form assumed by
Itis a very
small hair-like worm having a head
smaller than the rest of the body, while
the caudle extremity is rounded. The
females are three or four millimetres
long. The muscle trichina are not fully
developed until after the parasite has
entered the intestinal canal of the host.
It is viviparous and discharges about
100 embryos a week.
“The mode of entrance of the parasite
into man is by the injection of the
flesh of the hog, which is infected
with the disease. It is especially fre-
quent in this country in the great west,
because of the enormous extent of the
pork traffic. The proportion of hogs
infected in the west is variously stated,
but itis probably not an exaggeration
to say that about 20 per cent. contain
trichine. It is estimated by Dr. Sutton
of Aurcra, Indiana, that a piece of pork
of onc cubic inch contains at least 80,-
000 trichinae, and in a fatal case of his
he removed a small piece of gastroene-
mious muscle and found it swarming
with triehine estimated at more than
100,000 to the equare inch ; and they
were in active motion, coiling and un-
coiling.
“Now to return to our patient.” said
the doctor, catching himself wan-
dering from the subject. ‘‘After the
foundation of the first abcess her course
was glow but sure. Pus formed in the
cellular tissue of both arms, burrowing
its way from elbows to the finger ends.
Pus bad also formed in the roof of her
mouth around the teeth, some of which
came out. Abcesses also formed in and
around the knee joints and other parts
of the body, and after suffering forty-
two days of the most terrible agony,
death intervened and closed the
scene.’
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He Quit Talking War.
“John !”
“Yes, dear 7’
‘Are you in earnest about going to
war if there is one 7”
“Why certainly. Hope my little
darling won’t be too lonely.”
She was as one in a great strug-
gle.
“I don’t think our government does
right--"’
“Certainly. it does. We all ought to
go.”
‘‘But it does seem that—?’
“Well, that what, now ?”
“That $8 a month, isn’t that what
they allow a widow? is enough
”
John has quit talking war.
A —————
——An exchange tells the story of a
boy who was sent to market with a sack
of roasting ears, and after lingering
around town all day went home with-
out selling them. When his mother
asked him why he had not sold his corti
he said no one had asked him what he
bad in his sack. There are many mer-
chants like that boy. They have plenty
of goods for sale, but they fail to tell
what they have in their sack. If they
expect to sell goods in this day and age
of the world they must open up their
stock in trade.
——The largest contribution ever
made to the conscience fund of the
Treasury department was received by
Secretary Carlisle Monday. It amount-
ed to $14,225.12, and came from some
unknown person in England, through
the Anierican consul general and Rev.
Prebendary Bariff, at London. The
amount was forwarded by bill of ex-
change and is several thousands in ex-
cess of any previous contribution.
——A little fellow who had his wits
about him when the contribution plate
was passed at church, administered a re-
buke to his mother who on her way
home was finding fault with the ser-
mon : “Well, mother,” he said, inno-
cently, ‘‘what can you expect for a pen-
ny?” :
Er ———
Mr. Between-the acts--Ezxcuse me for
a few moments, dear. ['ve got to go
out and see 8 man,
Mrs. Between-the-Acts—It isn’t nec-
essary, Charles. I brought a pound of
chocolate brandy drops in my plush
opera-glass bag.
Grewsome Discovery.
Mystery of the Disappearance of Four Men
Clearcd Up,
A recent find in W. Va., it is claimed,
clears up a mystery of thirty-two years’
standing—the remains of four human
beings having been discovered in an
abandoned con! mine a tile east of
here.
David Snyder has explored the old
wine, which has not been worked since
the ’60’s, and discovered human bones.
One of the skeletons was sitting upright
against a ledge. Beside this skeleton
was found a flask containing a note that
explained the mysterious disappéarance
of John Ewing, “Ben’” Ayres, “Tom
Ackelzson and “Joe” Obney, thirty-two
years ago. The notes ware written in
pencil, but well preserved. They read
as follows :
“November, 2, 1863.
“Should this ever reach the outside
world let it be known that we (giving
names) ara prisoners here, owing to the
caving in of the mine. We are desert-
ers, and were hiding here when the
mine caved in: Food and water all
gone. Weare doomed, as no one out-
side is aware of our whereabouts. This
is about the eight day of imprisonment.
November 4.
“John Ewing and ‘Tom’ Ackelson
have just killed ‘Ben’ Ayres and are
eating him. I have already eaten my
boot leg. The weather in the mine 1s
terrible. Our oil is getting scarce, air
becoming foul. I only know the day of
the month by my watch.
November 6.
“Ewing has just killed Ackelson.
Cut off one of his feet and is eating it,
and dancing around and flourishing his
dirk knife like a maniac.
November 7.
“I am now alone with the dead. I
had to kill Ewing in self-defense. I
have just eaten my other bootleg. Am
sleepy. Good-bye. I inclose this note
in this flask to preserve it it possible, so
that if ever found our sad fate will be
known.
“JosErPH OBNEY.”
Several of the old residents hereabouts
remember these men. It was generally
believed that’they had been killed in
battle. - As no relatives of the deceased
men could be found, their remains were
given in charge of Andy Lister for in-
terment.—Colliers (W. Va.) Corres-
pondent of the hiladelphia Press.
At a cent a mile it would cost $930,-
000 to make a trip to the sun, and ata
speed of 40 miles an hour it would take
265 years to get there.
New Advertisements.
Is vy TROUBLE CURED.
The importance of knowing just what to do
when one is afflicted with kidney disease or
troubles of a urinary nature, is best answered
by the following letter which was recently
published in the Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Nows.
Press : »
; MiLLerToN, Duchess Co., N. Y.
“Dr. David Kennedy, Dear Sir :—For more
than eighteen months I was so badly afflicted
with kidney trouble I could scarcely walk a
quarter of a mile without almost fainting. I
did not gain any until I began to use Dr David
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. After using the
first bottle I noticed a decided improvement
which continued, and I know that
DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S
FAVORITE REMEDY
saved my life, for I was in a miserable con-
dition up to the time I began to take it—my
friends thought I would never te better.
My sister also has been very sick with blad-
der trouble for over a year, so bad that quanti-
ties of blood come from her. She suffered at
times most frightful pain,and aothing seemed
to help her until she began the use of Dr.
David ‘Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. She is
' now using her third bottle, and is like a
different person.
41-13-m* MRS. THOMAS DYE.”
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ABEL OF EARLY SPRING GOODS _
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New Percales Galatea cloths, best
fabrics for dresses and shirt waists.
DRESS MATERIAL FOR LADIES
AND CHILDREN.
Beautiful dress dimites in all colors.
——FOR YOUR FLOOR.—
New carpets, table and floor oil
clothes.
——FOR YOUR WINDOW.—
New window shades in all the new
colorings: A big line of lace curtains.
=—--FOR YOUR HEAD —
Juet [opened a big line of Men's
Misses’ and Childred’s Golf, Tam o’
Shanter and Yacht caps.
We still keep on the same tack that
we have pursued the past two seasons.
The best stock of clothing and shoes
in central Pennsylvania.—Prices lower
than any other store in the country.—
Prices to compete and to beat the larg-
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CLOTHE YOUR BODY
——AND—
SHOE YOUR FEET.
In shoesiwe shall handle only good
and honest solid leather and the best
make. In clothing the best makes
both in style and sewing, while our
prices at all times shall be the lowest,
the qualites shall be the best that the
money can buy.
We have just opened a very band-
some line of men's and boy’s laundered
Percale shirts, collars attached or de-
tached, 49cts. T4cts. $1.00. They are
beauties and full size.
Boy’s and children’s suits all new
spring goods—good suits $1.24, $1.34
and $1.64.
Boy's strictly all wool suits $1.74,
$1.98, etc.
Boy's school suits and young men's
suits, cheviots in black, blue and mix
ed $2.74, 3.00, 3.75, 4.00, 5.00.
The strongest kind of working shoes
$1.00, $1.24, $1.34, $1.39, $1.45, $1.68.
Men’s good wearing dress shoes all
the new makes the needle toe and oth-
ers $1.24, $1.34, $1.48, $1.68, $2.24 and
$2.48. If they dont wear well we will
est cities in the country. & make it right.
LYON & Co.,
41-9 BELLEFONTE, Pa.
- Cottolene.
\
Is the making of & pie. The making of a crisp crust depends
CRISP
argely upon the shortening. Use COTTOLENE, the new vege-
table shortening, instead of lard, and sogginess will be an un
known element in
your pastry. Cottolene should always be
economically used—two thirds as much Cottolene as you would
CRUST
’
ordinarily use of lard or butter, being ample to produce the most
desirable results. The savingin a year represents a considerable
item. There are many imitations of COTTOLENE ; you should
herefore be careful to get the genuine.
Sold everywhere in tins, with trade -marks—*Cottolene” and steer's head and cotton plan
wreath—on every tin. Made only by
THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, CHICAGO and 132 N. Delaware Ave , Philadelphia
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Sechler & Co.
Sechler & Co.
LETTER.
; Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 1st, 1896.
As the Holiday 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-
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“ner is within the reach of all.
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, white, 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.
s
. 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, clean and of the finest quality, nothing
equal to it has ever been obtainable.
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 1octs per quart,)
white Almeria Grapes, New York Catawbas, (2 baskets for 25cts), Lemons, Bananas,
Also Raisins, Prunes, Citron,
and Sweet Potatoes have
received careful attention.
Figs, cleaned Currants, California evaporated fruits, fine mixed table Nuts at 1 scts and
zocts per pound, soft shell Almonds zocts per pound, finest Princess paper shells at
z5cts per pound, finest Java, Mocha and Rio Coffees, Extracts, Sauces, Pickles, Capers,
Mushrooms, Thuffles, 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
making a good investment. Trusting you will act on the suggestion.
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We remain yours very respectfully,
SECHLER & CO.
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