Bellefonte, Pa., July 17, 1896.
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FARM NOTES.
— Encourage - the boys and girls to fruit
growing. It has a refining influence, and
if the boy once gets interested in horticul-
ture he is, toan extent, fortified against
vice.
—Farmers who look upon farming as a
precarious business should not over-look
the fact that no business is exempted from
failures. Everything depends on the busi-
ness capacity of the farmer. :
—Cultivation for the purpose of destroy-
ing weeds also assists in retaining moisture.
The act of killing weeds also adds to the
ability of the crops to secure extra mois-
ture and plant food and make more rapid
growth. ..
— Put two men at work, one with a sharp
hoe and one with a dull implement. Thg
result will be that the man with a sharp
hoe will do more work than the other and
to such an extent as to pay for the cost of
a new hoe.
—People who scrape and scour their
trees just for the looks of it, and leaves
the loose bark on the ground where it falls,
are aiding the enemy. If there are any in-
dects among the bark they are there still
and out of sight of birds.
—Every farm should have a good cellar
of sufficient capacity to store all fruits and
vegetables for family use during the winter,
besides serving to keep milk, meats and
other foods fresh and cool during the heat-
ed season. Summer or autumn is the
proper season to construct it.
—Everything points to an abundance of
feed grains this year. The acreage is un-
usually large and crop conditions have
generally been favorable. The threatened
insect plagues have been sidetracked, and
there is more moisture in the ground than
for several years past at this time of the
year.
—Burn everything on the farm that
serves as harboring places for insects. By
so doing there will be fewer insects next
year and less to do. Canes of blackberries
should always be consigned to the flames
in order-to destroy the borer, and all dis-
eased limbs and branches of trees should be
treated in the same manner.
—1It is a common belief of farmers work-
ing small areas, and who can only make
ends meet, to think that if they had more
land they could make more money. The
facts in the case do not bear them out. If
a small farm is not made a success, the
same management given a larger one will
but increase the losses as a general rule.
—The following is recommended as an
efficient preventive in blackleg : Mix 10
pounds of sulphur, 6 pounds copperas, 3
pounds saltpetre, 3 pounds air-slacked
lime, 30 pounds salt and give to the cattle
instead of salt for a few weeks before turn-
ing on grass in spring and before changing
feed in the fall.
—There are hundreds of crops now grow-
ing on two acres, which should have heen
seeded on one acre only. Poor crops are
sometimes due to the attempt to spread the
manure over a wide surface, causing a loss
on two acres instead of a profit on one, be-
cause less plant food and more labor had to
be given the crop that was grown on a
larger area than was required.
—Buckwheat is a summer crop and may
be sown in July. It grows rapidly and
will produce a crop if frost does not appear
too soon. It will not thrive if the weather
is very warm and dry, but with good land
and frequent showers it should produce as
much as 40 bushels to the acre. Bees will
work on the blossoms, as it comes at a time
when bee forage is not plentiful.
—Cattle suffer severely from flies and
other insects at this season, the cows being
so annoyed and restless that they will fre-
quently fall off in yield of milk. The sta-
bles must be kept clean and all breeding
places of flies prevented as much as pos-
sible. It will pay to have mosquito net-
ting on every window, and the stalls should
be well littered with clean straw every
night.
—There are many remedies suggested fot
cabbage worms, such as tar water, kero-
sene, etc., but the difficulty is that the
odors of the substances used remain with
the plants. Two quarts of coal tar in a
barrel of water, the water sprayed on the
cabbages, is a remedy used to repel the
white butterfly (the parent of the cabbage
worm ), and it is said to kill the worms if it
touches them.
—A ‘good crop to plow under is weeds,
and when.this is done sow the land to
millet, no matter how late in the season,
and plow the millet under when of suffi-
cient height, and the land will be clear of
weeds next year. Rye may be seeded on
the land-in the fall and plowed under early
in the spring, to be followed by corn. It
will be adding a large amount of green
material to the soil, and if lime is applied
in the fall the land will be in condition to
produce a good crop next year.
—Dairying gives better results than any
other occupation of farming, and the profit
is derived from several sources. Where
the dairyman can ship milk to a large city,
due to favorable location, hesaves the labor
of producing butter, as the prices for milk
may be a sufficient remuneration as com-
pared with butter production, but the
farmer sells the fertility of his farm in the
shape of milk also, though he likewise sells
a great quantity of water, asit enters large-
ly into the composition of the milk, the
solids being about one-eighth of the whole.
Milk pays because it affords sale for large
quantities of green food, such as pasture
grass, young fodder corn, ensilage, roots
and other articles which can sometimes be
grown at a small cost.
BUTTER MORE PROFITABLE.
Butter brings a higher price than any
other article produced on the farm in pro-
portion to its cost (eggs excepted ), because
“it really costs nothing so far as the value of
that which it takes from the farm is con-
cerned, as it is carbonaceous and the ele-
ments of its composition are derived from
the air instead of from the soil. One who
has made an estimate in that direction
states that while a ton of wheat takes $7
out of the farm and sells for $16, a ton of
butter takes less than 50 cents and sells at
from $400 to $600. The labor required to
produce the milk and the care and atten-
tion given the cows in the matter of feed-
ing Tass be considered in the production
of butter, but the milk has a value of its
own quite distinct from butter, as it may
be used on the farm either asskimmed milk
or buttermilk and does further service in
producing pork. Butter is less bulky and
can be marketed from localities where milk
cannot reach the markets in a saleable con-
dition, as it is not immediately perishable
and can be stored for higher prices.
Hon. Willis B. Bierly’s Lecture on the
Silver Question.
On Friday evening in the town hall at
Millheim, Hon. Willis R. Bierly, of South
Dakota gave a most interesting talk on the
financial question. The hall was so crowded
that many who came from a distance were
not able to get inside. The Millheim band
fornished the music and ex-representative
W. R. Alexander after alluding in. glow-
ing terms to Mr. Bierly’s brilliant careeras a
member of the Legislature, about ten years
ago, and as editor of the North West News, of
Grand Forks, South Dakota, introduced him
to the audience, who listened most attentive-
ly to the address.
“Nearly thirty years ago I attended county
institute in this very hall, but since then
there have been made numerous changes in
our country. Then the great West was the
states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, the region of
the Mississippi which is as rich as were the
ancient empires of Assyria and Rome. This
west is the home of our brothers and
sisters, ‘‘It is the cousin to the east and not
its enemy.” ‘It was the salvation of the
panic in 1873, when there was an over-pro-
duction in wealth and population,” Coloni-
zation schemes were then gotten up by the
railroad companies. Then the South—Geor-
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, etc.—were opened
up, the people invited to come and break up
the new soil and make the ‘New South.”
The money question is the great political
issue of to-day, and that of the tariff is practi-
cally settled. McKinley has been called up-
on for a declaration on the money question
by the newspapers but not a single word has
yet been said by him. He always voted for
silver while in C ngress and as early as 1888
arraigned Cleveland for dishonoring the
money question. ~ But now he is for gold in
order to become president.
WHAT IS MONEY ?
This is a question of anological and not of
demonstrative reasoning, and it is best an-
swered by showing what is not money. Gold,
silver, copper, paper etc. are not money.
Economists say that money is a medium of
exchange, but this definition is not broad
enough. International payments are made
by bullion which is pure gold, there being no
internatignal money. ‘‘Money,” according
to Mr. Bierly, ‘‘is that for which you can pay
a debt or that for which you can exchange
goods.
ITS HISTORY.
In Genesis we find the first in the form of
silver (sheckel), gold being used only for or-
naments. The ratio 16 to 1 is one of weight.
15 to 1 is the ratio used among the Hebrews,
Phoenicians, Assyrians, Greeks, Cartha-
genians and down until to what is known as
the “Latin Union’ which fixed the ratio 153
to 1. In 1792 Congress on the recommenda-
tion of Alexander Hamilton adopted the
Spanish dollar as the basis, our present gold
dollar being of recent origin. The ratio of 15}
was changed afterwards to almost 16 which
isthe origin of the present 16 to 1. This has
no reference to purity but to weight only.
Nine-tenths or 37} grains only being pure.
ITS USES.
Money is used for the exchange ot com-
modities, payment of wages, there being but
little or no money used, only checks and
drafts, by manufacturers in paying work-
men. Since the panic of 1893 the money is
in vaults and banks which is the cause of
hard times. Coal operators have formed a
vast organization whose object is to produce
an artificial demand and compel the public to
pay the operator's price. Wilkesbarre has
already begun by discharging good men the
other day. Another useis as an honorable
commodity. The banks, however, have a
legitimate business, and the western bank-
ers are on the side of silver. The repeal of
the Sherman silver act made the times hard-
er in place of better, the repeal having been
a scheme of the New York bankers. There
are $60,000,000 seigniorage in U. 8. treasury,
which, if it had been coined would have
saved many bankruptcies. According to the
committee appointed by the U. S. govern-
ment for the investigation of silver mines
and mining, it costs $1.50 to produce $1.00
worth of silver. All certificates must be re-
deemed in gold, all mortgages, etc. must be
paid in gold. Security of private property
must now be greater than five years ago.
The amount of money invested in gold and
silver mines is greater than that of iron, lead,
coal, salt and almost equal to all put together.
Don Cameron is the only real Republican in
Congress from Pennsylvania, and on account
of his voting for silver he is very ubjustly
condemned by the Philadelphia Inquirer,
Record, Times. Japan is annually indebted to
U. S. $15,000,000 for manufactured exports,
but the exchange must be made through Liv-
erpool, through which England realizes a
gain and an account of which England is for
gold. There are $345,000,000 greenbacks in
U. S. treasury, and only $100,000,000 in gold.
These greenbacks cannot be redeemed by gold
according to the act of Congress, hence the
gold reserve is soon exhausted. The $175,-
000,000 national notes are not money but on-
ly promises. - The banks of 1893 forced the
government to issue bonds. The administra-
tion fell into the gold scheme. Markets have
all fallen to the bottom scale.
In 1891 was the great wheat year, and for
which the former received one dollar per
bushel, but last year was produced 30,000,000
less and the farmer received only 65cts. per
bushel. Our prices on wheat are made at
Liverpool on the India and Russian basis.
We should stop reading the city papers that
are published solely in the interests of the
bankers, brokers and rich manufacturers.
Many of them are owned by Jewish bankers
and others are edited by men who are owned
soul and body by rich corporations. The
Louisville Courier Journal is now run not by
Henry Watterson, who is enjoying life in
sunny Italy at the present time, but a Jewish
banker. None of the Philadelphia papers
have ever been loyal and true to a party ex-
cept when it suited their interests. James
Gordon Bennett, the millionaire owner of
the N. Y. Herald lives the year round in Par-
is. Pullitzer, who has made a fortune out of
the N. Y. World, spends most of his life in
Europe. The N. Y. Sun is most bitter against
Cleveland and yet it is now advocating the
very principles that it has opposed for ten
years. Every one of these papers are so rich
that they can easily afford to be sold at a
penny a copy as long as they keep the mil-
lioniares and monopolists back of them.
The New York Journal is the only independ-
ent paper published in that city.
“Such a county paper as the Democratic
WATCHMAN published by P. Gray Meek is
not run by, nor for the interest of bankers or
brokers, hence it cannot be bought for, a pen-
ny. But because it is a little dearer and in-
finitely better than any of your Philadelphia
papers for sound doctrine you read it the
least.
H. ELMER BIERLY.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Popular
Excursions to the Seashore.
870 for Twelve Days.
The next of the Pennsylvania railroad
company’s series of popular ten-day excur-
sions to the seashore will leave Pittsburg
on July 23. wy
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No other summer outing appeslss
strongly to the people of Western Pennsy
vania as the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany’s popular excursions to the seacoast
of New Jersey. For years they have been
looked forward to as the holiday event of
each summer, and every season has seen
them grow more popular. The reason of
the great favor in which they are held is
easy to see. The rate of $10 for the round
trip is phenomenally low, considering the
distance and the high character of the ser-
vice ; the limit of twelve days just fits the
time set apart for the average vacation, and
the dates of the excursions are most con-
veniently adjusted. There is also the wid-
est field for choice in the selection of the
resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Sea Isle
City, and Ocean City are ‘the choicest of
the Atlantic coast resorts, and any one of
them may be visited under these arrange-
ments. eg ;
The dates of the excursions are July
will be as follows : Pittsburg, Johnstown,
$9.25 ; Cression, $8.50 ; Altoona, $8 ; Ty-
rone, $7.65 ; Clearfield, $8.90 ; propor-
tionate rates from all points.
special train of Pullman parlor cars and
day coaches will leave Pittsburg on above-
mentioned dates at 8:55 a. m., arriving at
Altoona 12.30 p. m., where stop for dinner
will be made, and reaching Philadelphia
7:20 p. m. Special train will leave Broad
street station, . Philadelphia, at 7:30 p. m.,
via Delaware river bridge route, for Atlan-
tic City, arriving at that point at 9:30 p.
m., making the run from Pittsburg to the
seashore in twelve hours. Passengers may
spend the night in the city, and proceed to
the seashore by any regular train from Mar-
ket street wharf the following day.
Tickets will be sold from the stations at
the rates named below :—
Rate. Train leaves.
Altoona (stops for dinner)...8 00 12.50 P. M.
Martinsburg.. ..8 00 10.25 A. M.
Hollidaysb 11.08 *¢
Bellwood 1.02 P.M.
Curwensy 9.15A. M
Clearfield 931 -=
Philipsburg... 10.14
Houtzdale.. 83 ¢
Osceola... ) 023
Tooe vyaspis van 1.13P. M
Philadelphia Arfive....., 0 ©
For detailed information in regard to
rates and time of trains apply to ticket
agents, or Mr. Thomas E. Watt, district
passenger agent, Pittsburg.
A Tribute to the Dead.
WHEREAS, It has pleased God in his all
wise Providence to remove from us our
brother and friend, John B. Mattern, there-
fore be it
Resolved, That we, the members of the
Epworth League of Gray’s church, do here-
by extend our heartfelt sympathy to the
family in the sore bereavement which has
overtaken them in the death of the husband
and father, and commend them to Him who
alone can comfort and sustain in the hour of
affliction. It is also
Resolved, That we suffer a grievous loss in
the death of so faithful a Christian and so
useful and helpful a citizen ; one who labor-
ed hard for the advancement of the best in-
terests of both church and community, and
who was always found at the place of duty.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to the bereaved family, and also
printed in the county papers.
EsTHER K: GRAY.
} Com.
H.W. HARTSOCK,
Jas. V. THOMPSON
——The New York Sun says that the Un-
ion Republican club, 150 strong, of Phila-
delphia, which attended the Republican na-
tional convention, had a proper fear of
drinking water of St. Louis, and so were
provided with forty cases of champagne
and 200 quarts of whiskey, and the club’s
trip cost $25,000.
——Some shepherds give the most care
to the fattest sheep.
There are no vacations in the devil’s ser-
vice. :
——Indecision destroys more souls than
love of evil. : 7
Business Notice.
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.
When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became a Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Castoria.
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FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
Castoric promotes Digestion, and overcomes
Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhea
and Feverishness. Thus the child is rendered
healthy and its sleep-patural. Castoria contains
no Morphine or other narcotic property.
““Castoria is so well adapted to children that I
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me.” H. A. Anche D,,
111 South Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
From personal knowledge and observation I
can say that Castoria is a excellent medicine for
children, acting as a laxative and relieving the
nt up bowels and general system very much.
Many mothers have told me of its excellent ef-
fect upon their chiidren.”
Dr. G. C. Osaoop,
Lowell, Mass.
“For several Youre 1 have recommended ‘Cas-
toria,’ and shall always continue to do go as it has
invariably produced beneficial results.”
EpwiN F. Pagpeg, M. D.,
125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City,
“The use of ‘Castoria’ is so universal and its
merits so well known that it seems a work of su-
ererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent
who do not keep Castoria within easy
reach.” Carros Martyn, D. D,
23rd. August; 6th and 20th, and the rates |
Cottolene.
New Advertisements.
QCRAMBLED
41-15.
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Take a small quantity of Cottolene and a little cream ; warm in a fry-
ing pan. Break six eggs in it and stir until slightly cooked. Serve hot.
Use not more than two-thirds as much Cottolene as you would butter and be sure thatzyou do not
overheat it before dropping in the eggs. This is always essential in coooking with Cottolene.
Genuine Cottolene is sold everywhere in tins with trade marks—*Cottolene”
and steer’s head in cotton-plant wreath—on every tin. Made only by
THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, CHICAGO and 132 N. Delaware Ave., Philadelphia.
sme, 5
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SCHOMACKER PIANO-FORTE MANUFACTURING CO.,
WARERG@OMS: 1109 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
12 East Sixteenth Street, New York.
145 and 147 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
41-14 1015 Olive Street, St. Louis.
5 Fauble’s
FOR THE MONTH OF JULY
we ONLY.
7 To enable us to make room for our Fall
Stock we will sell you ANY SUIT IN OUR
STORE
MENS’ BOYS’ or CHILDRENS’
—at—
14 OFF THE MARKED PRICE.
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When you consider that the marked price
on our Stock is fully 30 per cent. less than others
ask, you will realize what an immense reduc-
tion this I{ off realy means. It will pay you to
see us.
FAUBLES’,
Bellefonte, Pa.
40-10
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BROOMS, BRUSHES, BASKETS.
SECHLER & CO.
ur COAST LINE TO MACKINAC.—
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DETROIT
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Furnishing, Decoration and Effic ent Service, in-
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COMFORT, SPEED AND SAFETY,
FOUR TRIPS PER WEEK BETWEEN
TOLEDO, DETROIT axp MACKINAC
PETOSKY, ‘‘THE 800,’ MARQUETTE, AND DULUTH.
Low Rates to Picturesque Mackinac and Re-
turn, including Meals and Berths. -¥From Cleve-
land, $18 ; from Toledo, $15; from Detroit, $13.50.
EVERY EVENING
BETWEEN DETROIT AND CLEVELAND
Connecting at Cleveland with Earliest Trains
for all Pome East, South and Southwest and at
Detroit for all points™North and Northwest.
Sunday Trips June, 2) August and September
nly.
TO
EVERY DAY BETWEEN
CLEVELAND, PUT-IN-BAY AND TOLEDO
Send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Address
A. A. SCHANTZ, G. P. A., DETROIT, MICH.
THE DETROIT AND CLEVELAND STEAM
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DRESSING, MUSHROOMS, TRUFFLES,
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S USUAL
THE CANADA ATLANTIC AND
PLANT LINE
is in the lead and commencing
SATURDAY, JULY 11th,
DIRECT FROM BOSTON
—to all points in the—
— ppg e—
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA,
HAWKEYSBURY, C. B,
CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. L,
with the following schedule
SS. “HALIFAX” SAILS—
——EVERY TUESDAY
at 12 o'clock noon, for Halifax, N. S., Hawkesbury
C. B., Charlottetown, P. EL
-
Sit §S. “OLIVETTE” SAILS......
Every Saturday, at 4 p. m.
Every Wednesday, at 4 p. m.,
direct to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
All Sailing from the North Side of Lewis Wharf,
20 Atlantic Ave. Boston, Mass, All Steamships
connect at Ports named with Rail and Water
Lines for all Points in the Maritime Provinces,
and afford Tourists the Best Service to the Land
of the Acadians.
—DON'T FORGET—
JULY 28, 29, 30 and-31.
the Canada Atlantic and Plant Line will Carry
Thousands of People, and you will be wise if you
make your Reservation Early.
For Rates, Tickets, Staterooms, Berths, and all
other necessary information, call on the Railroad
and Steamship Lines in all “the principal Cities.
The Tourist Agents, 201, 211, 296 and 332 Washing-
ton Street, Boston, Mass.
“E..N. MILLS, City Passenger and Ticket Ag't,
207 Washington St.
RICHARDSON & BARNARD. Agents, 20 Atlantic
Avenne.
B. F. BLAKE, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, 207 Washington Street. e
41-27-4t BOSTON, MASS.
Saddlery.
000 $5,000 $5,000
——WORTH OF——
HARNESS, HARNESS, HARNESS,
SADDLES
and FOR SUMMER,——
BRIDLES -
—NEW HARNESS FOR SUMMER,—
FLY-NETS FOR SUMMER,
DUSTERS FOR SUMMER,
WHIPS FOR SUMMER,
All combined in an immense Stock of Fine
: Saddlery.
To-day Prices
have Dropped
THE LARGEST STOCK OF HORSE
COLLARS IN THE COUNTY.
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33-37 BELLFONTE, PA.
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