- Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 9, “1896. FARM NOTES. —Blackberries and raspberries should be cleaned out and grass removed before frost in order to destroy harboring places of in- sects. Later on the old wood should be cut out and the refuse hurned as a protec- tion against the borer. —Raise the bottom of potato bins from the floor, as any moisture rising in the earth will injure the lower layer of pota- toes. Allow a free circulation of air "over, under and around the potatoes, which should be in a cool place. —Mow the weeds if it is too late to turn them under, as they are now about to ripen their seed. The green weeds are worth something in the barnyard, where they will be trampled inte manure, but if al- lowed to ripen their seeds they deprive the land of fertility and become hard and woody. —If you have a horse that refuses to go when asked, take a small rope and wrap it twice around the leg just below the knee, draw it tight and tie it. In a few min- utes the horse will start. If he should show any inclinations of repeating the of- fense repeat the dose and he will be cured effectually. —The Hessian fly is so called from the fact that it was brought to this country in straw in 1776, when the Hessian cavalry were imported to fight the Americans. It made its first appearance on Staten Island, near the stables of the Hessian troops, and soon traveled over Connecticut spreading throughout New England and the west at the rate of about 20 miles a year. —A practical farmer in Massachusetts who has had years of experience in the business declares that 200 hens will by propet management yield a fair support for a small family. Of course this means that with the eggs there is a good garden from which the family may cull supplies during the growing season. If this can be done in Massachusetts, why should it not in Pennsylvania ? If it can be done in Maine, who is there who needs go hungry or with- out comforts. —Oats should be made a regular portion of the grain ration of chickens. It serves as an agreeable change, and although wheat is largely used, yet not enough oats are given. - It isnot advocated to feed much grain, but give a variety. . An agreeable mess can be provided by scalding oats and allowing it to remain ever night, so as to swell. It is a food that will be highly relished, and if given warm in the morning will serve to invigorate the hens and give them a good start for the day during cold weather. . —Put into a barrel, a weak, warm bath, say two-thirds full of eitherof the follow- ing. One part coal oil to twenty parts water. One part carbolic acid to 100 parts water. One part oil of sassafras to eighty parts water. One part oil of pennyroyal to sixty parts water. Or a strong decoction of tobacco, pennyroyal or sassafras. To mix the oils with water, emulsify first, by mixing with an equal part of hot sweet milk, or soft soap, well beaten. To make soft soap reduce hard soap to jelly by boil- ing each pound in two gallons of water until dissolved. Take the fowl by the wings and feet and souse him into the bath until he is soaked to the skin, head, legs and all, and then turn him loose to shake and dry off. Dip every fowl on the premises, then with a spray pump spray the dripping fluid all over nests, roosts, walls, ceilings, floors and every part of the buildings, coops and fences where the lice would harbor. This will absolutely clear the premises, after which occasional spraying of both the fowls and buildings will keep out the lice. : For spraying only, the solution may be four times as strong and not hurt the fowls, and will also kill the bark lice and insects which infest the garden and orchard, with- out hurting the trees and vines. In fact, coal oil is now considered the best insecticide for both animal and vege- table pests. —‘‘Corn is not so exclusively the feed of hogs at any age as 1t used to be. Instead of growing pigs on their swill with pasture, and thus stunting their early growth, itis the practice of the best farmers to begin the high feeding from birth, keeping the pigs always in condition for the butcher, and topping off the last few weeks with a clear corn diet. Many farmers,’’ according to Ameritan Cultivator, ‘‘prefer that pork for their own use shall not be thus topped off. It is sweeter but less firm in texture, containing more moisture. This, how- ever, only means that the pig killed after being fed so as to waste in cooking is by that fact shown to be in healthy condi- tion. All animals in perfect health are composed largely of water. This is eva- porated when internal fevers evaporate the internal moisture, and the meat is then said to be firm, solid and will waste little in cooking. Whenever pork of this kind is not wanted, it should be fattened with boiled vegetables or fruit mixed with wheat middlings and bran to make the right pro- portion of nitrogenous matter. We have often more than half fattened hogs on boiled pumpkins and windfall apples; and never had pork that tasted better than that thus fattened. Even before we knew that it was unwholesome, we never much liked the pork fattened on corn alone. “It is well always to select the breeding sow early and give her the especial kind of feed and care adapted to prepare her for mission in life. of some farmers of feeding all the pigs to- gether on corn until nearly fattening time tended always to deterioration. Not but that the sow which had fattened least and had made liberal growth instead of putting on fat even with this feed was the sow out of the lot that was then the best adapted to breeding, but it was also the sow that had shown by its failure to fatten when highly fed that it lacked the especial trait that made a hog valuable. What is want- ed in breeding sows is the greatest possible ability to make use of all the food given, 80 that the tendency will always be to an excess of fat, and feed them so that this tendency will be kept in check and yet so liberally as to promote vigorous growth. This means an abundant, but not any con- centrated, ration of food adapted to make growth rather than fat. All the grains are too fattening. Wheat middlings and skim milk diluted with dish washings, with enough grass in summer or beets in winter to keep the pig from squealing, will build up a long, rangy sow that will produce more and better pigs in half a dozen years of her life than a farmer can make by any other like investments of his money.’ The old-fashioned practice Cedar Key’s Tale of Death. Full Extent of the Hurricane’'s Awful Fury Just Be- ginning to be Known. Known Dead Exceed 125. Loss of Life in Back Counties Can only be Con- Jectured. Costly Property Destruction. By courier from Cedar Keys, Oct. 3.— Great buzzards circle high above the islands off the coast and over the western fringe of the mainlands. Occasionally one of the carrion birds drops like a mallet and as true as a plummet ; the others sail down at various inclines toward the point made by the original discoverer of something below. Every tide brings in the bodies of the sailors and fishermen wrecked in the heavy wind and drowned in the greet black tide of the early week. Fifty boats or more, with crews from Cedar Keys, were out with nets and lines when the storm broke. Half the number rode it out, 25 floated ashore, dismasted hulks or as drift wood. Twenty-eight fishermen are known to have been drown- ed, although the bodies of half the number only have been recovered. Three bodies were found along the shore of the island, and one was recovered near the mouth of the Suwanee river. They were unrecog- nizable. Probably bodies will continue for weeks to wash ashore, and the same crowds of mourning women and anxious men will vainly seek to give a name to the disfigured corpses. FULL EFFECTS OF THE STORM. The full effect of the storm is just be- coming known. Telegraph wires have been down, railway communication has been broken, and the country wagon roads and trails have been impassable by reason of fallen. timber. Every hour of the day has brought fresh news of disaster. Men have cut their way through the forests to tell the first stories of suffering and to seek assistance for the injured and starving. ‘Send us food ; we are starving I”? is the cry that comes from Flannin, Judson, Clay Landing, Manate Springs and other towns along the Suwanee river The calls from these places are heard because they are, in a sense, on a line of communication. The fate of those unfortunates who live in the recesses of Alachue, Suwanee, Columbia, Baker, and Lafayette counties, which/are sections where the weight of death andde- struction fell, can only be conjectured. They are penned in by thousands of acres of pine forests, and the camps have been flattened as if by some monster leveling machine. A swath five miles in width and extending almost due northeast and south- west, has been cut into the state, and in sections the timber lies like grass in the wake of a mower—not a tree left. KNOWN DEAD KEXCEED 125. The loss of life in the interior cannot now be even estimated. Reports from towns with which communication has been opened show the known dead to exeed 125 in number. But these reports are from considerable villages on or near established lines of travel. The result in remote places can only be feared. The seriously injured number twice as many as the dead. The loss of life is not the only serious feature resulting from the storm. The leveling of the forests has resulted in the destruction of countless millions of feet of pine lumber, that is to say, of standing timber that would have been reduced to the condition of lumber inside of three years. The turpentine producing interests have been seriously crippled. The industry is a new one in Florida. The lowest estimate of damage to this branch of trade is 60 per cent. It will run upward to $2,500,000. ‘Although the two or three hours’ gale of last Tuesday has caused Florida greater financial harm than any other disaster that ever visited the state, whose history has been one of continual hard luck. Houses wrecked, men and women drowned, busi- ness men bankrupted and industries paralyzed—it is a full tale of misery. HIGHEST TIDAL WAVE OF RECORD. The tidal wave was the highest ever known. It was two feet higher than that of 1893, when Cedar Keys was damaged to the extent of $125,000. Way Key is four feet above tide water on an average, and there was not a street through which the water did not pour as through a mill race. Men were swept from their feet and had to swim. The lower floors of such buildings as withstood the shock of the wind and water were a foot deep in water. It is al- most a miracle that there were no drowned. But the Cedar Keyans do not sink easily. The tidal wave was caused by the heavy wind just as the tide was rising. It mass- ed the waters. The Suwanee river sub- merged the country on either side between Keys and the mouth of the river a dis- tance of 20 miles. The statistics of the disaster may be ap- proximated thus : Standing timber des- troyed, $2,500,000 ; loss to turpentine -in- terests, $2,500,000 ; loss to farmers, $3,000,000 - loss to merchants, warehouse- men and shipowners, $1,000,000. These figures are not swollen. It is pro- bable they are too low. Itis likely that $10,000,000 will not cover the direct and indirect loss. The prevailing atmosphere is one of dejection. A week ago there were perhaps 300 houses at Cedar Keys ; now there are perhaps half that many. Blast Furnace Wrecked. Two Killed and Five Injured by a Building Blow- ing Down. READING, Pa., Sept. 20.—At 2 o’clock this morning the cast house of the Tem- ple furnace, at Temple station, five miles akove Reading, was blown down by the wind and nearly a dozen workmen were in the ruins. The men were pinned down by the heavy timbers and it was some time before they could be reached. | The killed are Edward Rismiller and Samuel Trout, and the following were in- jured : William Collar, Joseph Rothenber- ger, Harry Becker, William Schadler, Wil- liam Mertz. believed some of them will die. -———Among the letters received by the managers of the Bryan meeting at Tam- many Hall, New York, was the following from John Quincy Adams, of Massachu- setts : I feel that the cry of the people who have long been outraged is more to be pit- ied, and sooner to be heeded, than the wail of parasites. Therefore, as a descendant of two signers of the Declaration of Independ- ence, I cannot stand idly by and see my people struggle for the same rights that my ancestors fought for during the American revolution without lending my voice that self government may be enjoyed and our domestic and financial policy may not be dependent on and dictated by the same old enemy—England. ——There were thirty-four cases of diph- theria in Huntingdon during the month of September and three deaths: There have been no new cases since Sunday last, and all who are sick are slowly recovering. All are badly hurt and it is |- ‘might well have said, ‘The guard dies, Waterloo. The Final Charges in the Momentous Battle.— Napoleon's Old and Middle Guard Fought Un- til Only a Handful Remained—Steadiness of the English. Before the combined armies of Welling- ton and Blucher the French could not stand, but, in spite of inferior numbers, and the manifest signs of defeat, General Bonaparte might have conducted an order- ly retreat. The case was different with Napoleon, the Emperor, even though he were now a Liberator; to retreat would have been merely a postponement of the day reckoning. Against this army Napo- leon despatched what was left of that force which was the peculiar product of his life and genius, the old and middle guard. Most of its members were the children of peasants, and had been horn in ante-Revo- lution days. Neither intelligent in ap- pearance nor graceful in bearing, they nev- ertheless had the look of perfect fighting- machines. Their huge bearskin caps and long mustaches did not diminish the fierce- ness of thei aspect. They had been se- lected for size, docility and strength ; they had been well paid, well fed, and well drilled ; they had, therefore, no ties but those to their Emperor, no homes but their barracks, and no enthusiasm but their pas- sion for imperial France. They would have followed no leader unless he were dis- tinguished in their system of life ; accord- ingly, Ney was selected for that honor, and as they came in proud confidence up the Charleroi road, their Emperor passed them in review. Like every other division, they had heen told that the distant roar was from Grouchy’s guns ; when informed that all was ready for the finishing stroke, that there was to be a general advance along the whole line, and that no man was to be de- nied his share in certain victory, even the sick, it is said, rose up, and hurried into the ranks. The air seemed rent with their hoarse cheers as their columns swung in measured tread diagonally across the north- ern spur of the cross-line elevation which cut the surface of the valley. Wellington, informed of the French movement, as it is thought, by a deserter, hurried orders to the centre, ordered Mait- land’s brigade to where the charge must be met, and posted himself, with Napier’s battery, somewhat to its right. While yet his words of warning were scarcely uttered the head of the French column appeared. The English batteries belched forth a wel- come, but, although Ney’s horse, the fifth that day, was shot, the men he led suffered little, and with him on foot at their side, they came steadily onward. The British guards were lying behind the hill-crest, and the French could discern no foe—only a few mounted officers, of whom ‘Welling- ton was one. Astonished and incredulous, the assailants pressed steadily on until within twenty yards of the English line. ‘Up, guards! makeready !”’ rang out the Duke’s well known call. The British jumped, and fired ; about 300 of Ney’s gal- lant soldier’s fell. but there was no con- fusion ; on both sides volley succeeded vol- ley, and this lasted until the British charged. Then, and then only, the French | withdrew. Simultaneously Donzelot had fallen upon Alten’s division ; but he was | leading a forlorn hope, and making no im- | pression. As Ney fell back, a body of | French cuirassiers advanced upon the Eng- | lish batteries. Their success was partial, and behind them a second column of the guard was formed. Again the assault was renewed ; but the second attempt fared worse than the first. To the right of Mait- | land, Adam's brigade, with the 32nd regi- | ment, had taken stand; wheeling now, | these poured a deadly flank fire into the ! advancing French, while the others poured in a devastating hail of bullets from the front. The front ranks of the French re- | plied with spirit, but when the British had completed their manceuver, Colborne gave | prising blacks, blue, worsteds and cheviots. The Tropical Cyclone. The first hurricane of the season, while somewhat behind time, has been far more disastrous to property than the terrible tropical cyclone of August 27, 1893, which devastated the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, sweeping several thousand people to death by its huge cyclonic wave, which washed over the low-lying sea islands. Along low coasts the waves raised by the furious cyclonic gales are more disastrous to life and property than the winds them- selves, but when the cyclone moves inland, as did the storm of Tuesday, its greatest damage is done by the winds that rush in toward its rapidly shifting center. These winds rotate on so great an axis that at any one place they are straight gales, blowing from different quarters in different places as they happen to be to the east or west of the storm center. As the hurricane winds easily reach eighty and ninety miles an hour for brief moments, and blow for hours ! at lesser hut still relatively high velocities, they can do a good deal of damage. ’ On the whole, however, it will probably be found that the storm of Tuesday blew down in its path buildings that were either badly built, or which by nature, such as train sheds, covered bridges and ware- houses, were particularly vulnerable to high wind velocities. Philadelphia and New York have had worse blows from the autumn hurricanes than the storm of Tues- day, and the well built structures have stood the test. The hurricanes are no worse now than in the past. This autumn the coast states have been particularly favor- ed and these cyclones that have been noticed in the West Indies since. early Au- gust have passed to the northeast far out at sea. The storm of Tuesday in its move- ment was another example of the fact that the weather bureau has to indulge in gen- eralizations as to storm movements, as the storm did not take the direction toward the northeast that was assigned to it. And vet, of all of our storms, the movement of the tropical cyclones should be more easily foreseen and forecast.—Philadelphia Press. * — Lieutenant Peary’s return from Greenland is announced from Cape Breton much earlier than had been generally ex- pected. Only about two months have elapsed since he set out in the Hope ; but that trim bark-rigged whaler is both a strong and a swift sailer, and veteran Cap- tain Bartlett was on deck. During even the short period of sojourn in the frozen north the two separate scientific parties who accompanied Lieutenant Peary have doubtless had an opportunity to make a number of interesting botanical and other finds. As for Peary, he is expected to bring back the big forty-ton Cape York me- teorite which he was obliged to leave be- hind in ’94. He then brought the two aerolites which now grace the American Museum of Natural history in New York. The Care of a Plano. | | | When the keys of a piano have become a permanent yellow, it is said nothing will bleach them but strong sunlight. Follow- ing is advice from the New York Tribune : Leave the piano open and allow the bright sunshine to fall upon it for a consid- erable time, being careful to protect all parts of the varnished case. Ftis a good plan to rub the keys thoroughly with a cloth dampened with half alcohol and half water before exposing to the san. If this treatment is of no avail, it is probable that the keys are permanently discolored. No piano should be kept shut all the time, but should be frequently opened and aired during the day, when it is not in frequent use. The piano should stand in a corner of the room well isolated from the stove or register. 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. New Advertisements. ANTED — SEVERAL FAITHFUL men and women to travel for responsible established house in Pennsylvania. Salary $780, payable 815 weekly and expenses. Position per- manent. Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. The National, Star Building, Chicago. 41-39-4m. Jinest Roasted Coffees, Rio, Java, Fresh Roasted. SEC HLER & CO Santos and Mocha. Montgomery & Co. Ar THE NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS NOW IN AND THE ENTIRE STOCK IS UP TO DATE. Lower prices for better goods will be our keynote. We now have the handsomest line of made up Clothing ever shown by us—com- Fancy plaids and stripes in Scotch goods, the order, his men cheered in response, and | and a superb line of Overcoats for dress and storm. the countercharge began. ‘Vive I’Emper- | eur !”” came the responsive cheer from the | thinning ranks of the assailants, and still | they came on. But in the awful crash | they reeled, confusion followed, and al- most in the twinkling of an eye the rout | began. Two battalions of the old guard, | under Cambronne, retreated in fair order to the centre of the valley, where they made their last gallant stand against the overwhelming numbers of Halkett’s Ger- man brigade. They fought until but 150 survived. From all sides the despairing cry of ‘‘Sauve qui peut!’ rang on their ears. To the final summons of surrender the leader assented, and they filed to the rear. This occurrence has passed into tra- dition as an epic event ; what Cambronne but never surrenders,” was not uttered, but it epitomizes their character and in the |- phrase they and their leader have found immortality.—‘“The Eclipse of Napoleon’s Glory,” by William M. Sloane, m the Oc- tober Century. Back to the White House. President and Family Will Leave Buzzard's os This Week. President Cleveland expects to leave Buzzard’s Bay Mass., for Washington with his family on Tuesday or Wednesday. In all probability they will go by the steam yacht Oneida, which is now here. While Mrs. Cleveland and the children expect to visit Mr. Benedict’s family at Indian Hill, the President will undoubted- ly go through to Washington, possibly re- maining over a train or two in New York City. It is said he is very desirous of be- ginning on his annual message to Congress as soon as possible. ‘The family will go to Woodley for a few days before returning to the White House for the winter. . More Glass Fires Kindled. CLAYTON, N. J.,Sept. 28.—Moore Bros., at Clayton, have put two of their glass fac- tories in operation and have placed fires in another which will be put into operation in afew days. The fourth factory will not go into operation for some time yet. ——The story of the formation of a great pig-iron pool or trust, in which John D. Rockefeller is to take a prominent part, bringing to bear the peculiar skill he has acquired. through his long experience in the infamous Standard Oil manipulations, perhaps, according to the reports going the rounds of the press, seems to be pretty well confirmed. - —Boy—If you please, sir, I should like a day off. Brokerly—Grandmother dead ? Boy—No sir, I want to go to the hall game. Brokerly (with emotion)—You are an honest boy, and such truthfulness shall not go unrewarded, I myself will come back to the office after the game and tell you the score. Boy’s suits were never so pretty nor serviceable, and there is also a fine line of | Boy’s Reefers in all qualities. School pants in profusion. All the latest styles in hats, Guyer, Dunlap, Knox, Miller, Youngs and all the leading blocks in derby and soft. Everything up to date. Full line of cloths to make to your measure. 41-22-tf MONTGOMERY & CO. BELLEFONTE, PA. Schomacker Piano. cH THE RECOGNIZED——} OMAGCK ER=——— STANDARD PIANO OF THE WORLD, ESTABLISHED 1838. SOLD T0 EVERY PART OF THE PREFERRED THE GOLD GLOBE. BY ALL THE LEADING ARTISTS. Emit a purer sympathetic tone, proof against atmospheric action extraordinary power and durability with great beauty and even- STRINGS ness of touch. Pre-eminently the best and most highly improved instrument now manufactured in this or any other country in the world. ——HIGHEST HONOR EVER UNANIMOUS ACCORDED ANY MAKER. —— VERDICT. 1851—Jury Group, International Exposition—1876, for Grand, Square, and Upright Pianos. Tustrated catalogue mailed on application, ¢ SCHOMACKER PIANO-FORTE MANUFACTURING CO., WAREROOMS: 1109 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 12 East Sixteenth Street, New York. 145 and 147 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 41-14 1015 Olive Street, St. Louis. Miss S. OHNMACHT, Agent, BELLEFONTE, PA. New Advertisements. TUBS: PAILS, WASH RUBBERS, BROOMS, BRUSHES, BASKETS. SECHLER & CO. HE COAST LINE TO MACKINAC.— TAKE THE— D. AND C MACKINAC DETROIT PETOSKEY CHICAGO 2 NEW STEEL PASSENGER STEAMERS. The Greatest Perfection yet attained in Boas Construction—Luxurious E uipment, Artistic Furnishing, Decoration and Efficient Service, in- suring highest degree of COMFORT, SPEED AND SAFETY, FOUR TRIPS PER WEEK BETWEEN TOLEDO, DETROIT axp MACKINAC PETOSKY, ‘‘THE §00,”” MARQUETTE, AND DULUTH. Low Rates to Dloturosgus 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 points East, South and Southwest and at Detroit for all points North and Northwest. Sunday Trips June, Jas; 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 NAV. co. 41-20-6m JFUINEST TABLE-OIL, MUSTARD OLIVES, SAUCES, KETCHUPS, SALAL DRESSING, MUSHROOMS, TRUFFLES, CAPERS. 38-1 SECHLER & CQ. Castoria. (CHILDREN 0 CRY 0 FOR PITCHER’S A S T oD iI & cC A 5 7T 0 RB 1 X C A 8. TT 0B 1 XK e A 8 T 0 B TX 4A 8 72 6 Bb } CC¢ A Castoria promotes Digestion, and overcomes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrheea and Feverishness. Thus the child is rendered healthy and its sleep natural. 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. Arcusr, M. D., 111 South Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. “I used Castoria in my practice, and find it specially adapted to affections of children.” Arex. Rosertson, M. D., 1057 2d Ave., New York. THE CENTAUR CoO., 41-15-1m 77 Murray St, N. Y. Saddlery. 5,000 $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. JAMES SCHOFIELD, 33-37 BELLFONTE, PA. 2 oo]
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