Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 4, 1896.
FARM NOTES.
—My experience for years in feeding
sheep on corn fodder gave me the highest
opinion of its value for this purpose. It is
none too early to begin preparations for
saving it to the best advantage. So fav-
orable is my estimate of it that, if I had
clear timothy hay on the one hand and
corn fodder on the other, and was obliged
to feed one kind exclusively to one line of
stock, I would give the fodder to the sheep
and the other to the cattle. a
The analysis of the two does not indi-
cate any sufficient ground for this prefer-
ence. Corn fodder, according to the analy-
sis of the Massachusetts station, has 7.37
per cent. of protein or muscle-formers and
1.38 per cent. of fat; while timothy has
3.66 of protein and 222 of fat, that is, it 18
higher in both these important elements.
But this is only another of the many in-
stances in which the testimony of the sheep
contradicts the verdict of the agricultural
chemistry. There, is some element in the
fodder which is imponderable to the chem-
ist’s scales and beyond the reach of his re-
agents. Thus, for instance, I have cured a
horse of the heaves by simply taking him
off a regimen of timothy hay (a first class
article and not dusty )and confining him to
corn fodder ; that is, he was perfectly free
from tne disease as long as he remained on
the fodder diet.
"This shows that the fodder, through the
blood, had a distinctly ameliorating effect
on the lungs and the entire circulatory sys-
tem. In short, it was healthier for that
particular horse. I have found that fod-
der is better for sheep than is timothy hay.
We know that a feed-stuff which is rich in
the fatty elements stimulates the action of
the oil pellicles in the skin which causes an
undue secretion of oil or yelk ; and that
this excess presses upon and diminishes the
activity of the wool pellicles, and hence
curtails the development of fleece. Yet it
would hardly seem that the slight excess
of fat in the timothy over the fodder would
make the difference which I have observed
in feeding the two. I must therefore be
content to say that I cannot explain it al-
together. |
Fodder is coarser textured than timothy !
— more cooling and laxative to the system.
"The faeces of sheep fed on timothy are hard
and constricted ; on fodder, more loose,
approximating the condition on a diet of
grass.
The nimble, prehensile lips of sheep
strip the fodder as cattle cannot ; they
leave nothing but the bare canes, cleaning
off even the ‘‘thimbles’’ or sheaths. Aside
from ensilage or the cutting of the stalks
into lengths in a hay-cutter, there is no
other method by which fodder-corn can be
fed more cconomically and with less labor.
The pith of cornstalks is not worth enough
to pay for cutting ; and the act of cutting
a feed cvery day throughout the winter
becomes a most tedious and monotonous
one.
When the fodder is thrown into ordinary
slatted hay-racks, a little at a time, three |
or four times a day, there is little or no
waste. Sheep do not take kindly to fod-
der. They have to be trained to eat it by
being yarded and kept tolerably hungry |
for two or three days, With a little very |
bright fodder constantly efore them. !
Many excellent shepherds will sneer at |
fodder, declaring that they would not in- |
sult their flocks with such coarse pro-
vender. Clover hay is better and, even an
admixture of wheat or oat straw with the
feed is better than clear timothy. But the
we must raise the fodder |
and hel
great point is,
anyhow for its vield of grain,
fodder is practically a clear gift.
—The London (Eng.) Road Improve- !
ment association has issued the following |
rules for keeping Macadam and Telford |
pavement in repair : i
1. Never allow a hollow, arut or a
puddle to remain on a road, but fill it up
at once with chips from the stone heap.
2. Always use chips for patching and |
for all repairs during the summer season. |
3. Never put fresh stones on the road,
if, by cross-picking and a thorough use of |
the rake, the surface can be made smooth
and kept at the proper strength and sec- |
tion. |
1. Remember that the rake is the most
useful tool in our collection, and it should |
be kept close at hand the whole year round. |
5. Do not spreak large patches of stone |
over the whole width of the road, but coat |
the middle or horse track first, and when !
this has worn in, coat each of the sides in 3
turn. i
6. In moderately dry weather and on
hard roads always pick up the old surface
into ridges six inches apart, and remove
all large and projecting stones before ap-
plying a new coating.
7. Never spread stones morethan one
stone deep, but add a second layer when
the first has worn in, if one coat be not
enough.
8. Never shoot stones on the road and
crack them where they lie, ora smooth
surface will be out of the question.
9. Never put a stone upon the road for
repairing purposes that will not freely
pass in every direction through a two-inch
ring and remember that smaller stones
should be used for patching and for all
slight repairs. !
10. Recollect that hard stones should
be broken to finer gauge than soft, but |
that the two-inch gauge is the largest that |
should be used under any circumstances |
where no steam roller is used. |
11. Never be without your gauge i
remember Macadum’s advice, that any
stone you cannot easily put in your
mouth should be broken smaller. |
12. Use chips, if possible, for binding
newly laid stones together, and remember
that road sweepings, horse droppings, sods
or grass and other rubbish, when used for
this purpose, will ruin the best road ever
constructed.
13. Remember that water-worn or
rounded stones should never be used upon
steep gradients, or they will fail to bind |
together.
14, Never allow dust or mud to lie on
the surface of the roads, for either of these
will double the cost of maintenance.
15. Recollect that dust becomes mud at |
the first shower, and that mud forms a wet |
blanket which will keep a road in a filthy
condition for weeks at a time, instead of
allowing it to dry in a few hours.
16. Remember that the middle of the
road should always be alittle higher than
the sides, so that the rain may ran into the
side gutters at onge.
17. Never allow the water tables, gut-
ters and ditches to clog, but keep them
clear the whole year through.
—Trees are not expensive, and fruit trees
pay big dividends. If the old orchard is
on the decline, it is time to set outa young
and is
Clothing an Army.
It Costs Great Britain Over $6,000,000 to Dress its
Soldiers.
It costs the British government $6,250,-
000 annually for clothing furnished its
army all over the world. Each of the
foreign possessions, however, has to pay
back to a certain extent the amount which
the uniforms of the troops stationed or sent
there has cost, and this entails no end of
complicated bookkeeping.
India, for instance, pays for the clothing
of its own troops, and also for the uniforms
of the men which England sends there.
The latter item isabout $675,000 annually.
On the other hand, when a regiment comes
home from India, that country has to be
paid back the full value of the clothes they
wear.
The government sells old and worn-out
articles to the secondhand dealers, who, by
the way, usually accumulate fortunes in a
short time. The value of castoff clothes so
disposed of is about $140,000 yearly. The
scraps remaining after the uniforms have
been cut out also bring a matter of $30,000
annually. In all the authorities receive
back about $1,500,000, thus reducing the
total cost of clothing the army to less than
$5,000,000 a year. ;
The best quality of everything is used in
the manufacture of uniforms. In fact, it
is said they are too good for durable wear.
A huge factory in Pimlico, London, makes
a large share of the furnishings, but vast
quantities of foot and head gear are bought
ready made. Boots and leggings, for ex-
ample, cost $1,165,000 and headdresses
$250,000. :
The thousands of miles of flannel, linen,
calico, cloth, velvet, etc. the millions of
buttons, the tons of cotton wool, the bil-
lions of yards of sewing cotton, that are
made into smart tunics, tidy trousers and
warm shirts cost $2,425,000. The wages
paid for making these up are over $6,000 a
week. Some of the salaries paid for this
branch are excellent for England. The
inspector of clothing receives $6,000 and
his assistants $2,750 apiece, and so on
down the long list.
But-all this vast expense is probably
much less than the annual outlay that
France or Germany makes for keeping its | 82
soldiers smart in appearance in times of
peace. In Germany, for example, every
man in the army is said to have four com-
plete suits of military clothing.—New York
Journal.
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Jeff Davis's Prison.
The Hole in the Wall at Old Fort Monroe. +
The casement in old Fort Monroe in
which Jefferson Davis, president of the late
Confederacy, was for a short time confined
is now used as a storage room for misfit
lumber, iron scraps, ete. A sentinel stands
on guard at this entrance of the fort, and
in answer to the visitor's query points to
this dungeon, with a solitary bull’s-eye
window looking out over the morass of
brackish, ill-smelling water which sur-
rounds the high-water fort. The guard
comes toa ‘present arnts’”’ while talking
with a visitor. His duties seem to be
merely to put in time to earn his rations,
for no one is denied admission and anyone
may walk through the grounds and upon
the ramparts examining the loaded cannon
at will with no one to say ‘‘Halt.”
After being removed from the hole-in-the
wall casement, Davis was placed in a small
frame building, known as officers’ quarters.
It is now occupied by some artillery officers
beautifully shaded by willows, 2
much prettier and more habitable place
than it was in all those days. Here the
“prisoner of state’ remained nearly two
years. Beyond this the present garrison,
all new men, know absolutely nothing,
and some of them have no idea of the ex-
tent of the war, excepting the fight be-
tween the Monitor and the Merrimac.
They had not heard of the burning of
Hampton—the old borough a few miles
distant.
One of the buildings saved in that burn-
ing was St. John’s church, the oldest
church in America in which services dre
now held, and third in age of any built in
this country. The grounds are covered
with broken tombstones—a few English
quaint characters show them to have been
made before this republic was born.
Weeping-willows- shade these ancestral
tombs, which invite trespassers to halt in
the cool church-yard and learn from these
crumbled stones that “this ends all.” It
is a picturesque spot to visit.— New York
Post.
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Cleveland’s Future Home.
The Ex-President Buys a Home in Princeton and will
Make the 0ld College Town His Residence.
President Cleveland has decided to make
Princeton his home after March 4th.
President Cleveland has purchased the
‘residence of Mrs. Slidell, and will make
Princeton his permanent home soon after
the expiration of his term as President.
Negotiations looking to this end have been
in progress about three weeks, and were
consummated Saturday by the purchase of
the property. 4
“A number of reasons have attracted
President and Mm. Cieveland to Prince-
ton. The President's father was educated
for the Presbyterian ministry there. The
quiet and independent home life of the
place. its healthfulness, it convenience’ to
New York, the attractions of a university
society, as well as other reasons, have been
! influential in forming this decision.”
—— While the worst blizzard in sixteen
years was raging in North Dakota and the
State of Oregon was shivering under a cold
wave more severe than any which it had
felt for eight years or more, the people of the
East were sweltering in the grip of a sum-
mer spell, during which the mercury ran
above 70 degrees. In Colorado and Mis-
souri and the neighboring States cold
winds also prevailed, but Texas suffered
with the East. Sunday u change took place,
and as the path of the cold wave has
been straight in this direction, we have
probably bid a long farewell to mild
weather. Not many of us will regret the
change. It was Bulwer who said ‘‘for
justice every place @ temple, all seasons
summer, ’’ but the world would become a
mighty dreary place to live in if we had no
season save summer. Thesummer that we
get in winter is especially tiresome.
en ——
The Skin,
The skin not only varies in thickness in
different individuals, but also in different
parts of the same person being in some places
only 1-120th of an inch in thickness, whilst
in others it is 1-25th of an inch. A thick
skin is always developed over parts where
there is frequent pressure, as on the hands
and feet. Thickness of the skin varies
with the color of the hair and eyes. Usual-
ly, black hair and dark brown eyes are as-
sociated with a thick skin ; a moderately
thick skin is found with brown hair and
brown or grey eyes; the finest skin be-
one.
ment of auburn or flaxen hair.
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longs to blondes, and is a usual accompani- |
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Tales of the Times.
Interesting Pen Sketch of Homer C. Davenpart, the |
Great Cartoonist. : {
It is always interesting to know what
event marks the inception of a successful
career, and it seems odd that in Mr. Dav-
enport’s case his first effort should have
been at the expense of his long suffering
father. His younger sisters, possessing the
same humorous instincts, had plaited the
fore-locks of their paternal ancestor’s hair
while he was taking a nap and had tied a
red ribbon on it so that it resembled the
top-knot of a pickaninny. When he re-
moved his hat later in the evening to in-
troduce Governor Pennoyer to a large audi-
ence, the red ribbon jumped out and stood
straight up, to the intense amusement of
the audience and the consternation of the
principals. It was Homer's first motif,
and the result was conspicuous for a day
on the postoffice bulletin board.
Since the time of Nast there is no man
who has jumped so suddenly into promi-
nence in the field of caricature. Within
four years he has acquired a reputation
which extends from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and his original drawings adorn
the sanctums of most of the prominent pol-
iticians of the country. They watch his
work as closely as Tweed and Blaine did
that of Nast.
Through a friend of his Mr. Davenport
later got an offer from the Portland Ore-
gonian to mark advertising cuts. The first
drawing was a stove, but the legs had such
a wiggle and the door such a mark that
the advertiser refused to run his ‘‘ad.” if
the cut had to go with it. He was com-
pelled to seek ‘‘green fields and pastures
new’ after this failure and finally wound
up in San Francisco. An admiring friend
introduced him to the art manager of the |
Eraminer as ‘‘the greatest artist in the!
country.’’ The faces of those around him |
fell away into a peaceful smirk ab this an-
nouncement and Homer thrust his precious
samples through the linen of his coat. He
was willing at that moment to go back to
plowing without complaint. But they
ve him a trial at $10 per week with in-
structions not to be too original. When
he eventually grew tired of copying A. B.
Frost and drawing bridges and buildings,
it was the signal for his dismissal.
After a short stay on the Chronicle he
went to Chicago, where he did some serio
comic stuff for the Herald during the
World’s fair. Mr. Hearst of the Examiner
returned from Europe about this time, and,
noticing Davenport’s work, sent for him.
He was given free scope at once, and his
successful career dates romp that period
—2} years ago. When his fine page car-
toon of Sam Rainey, the Tom Platt of the
Pacific coast, appeared, it set everybody
wild. It was as big a hit to the west as
was Gilman's celebrated drawing of Blaine,
the tattooed man, and it was the political
death of the great ‘‘boss.”’
It is hard to realize that a man who can
now make political monarchs bend in fear
and submission has been a jockey, a waiter,
an engine wiper, a clown, a fireman and a
steamboat stoker. But such is Mr. Daven-
port’s repertory of accomplishments. They
were not forced upon him through neces-
sity, of course, for his father has always
been in a position to help him. They
were merely the result and deserts of his
boyish way wardness and recklessness. He
was always a source of constant worry and
annoyance to his parents. When he ran
away with a circus during harvest time,
his father’s hair, he says, first began to
turn gray, and has been turning ever since
until about five years ago. Then it began
to return to its original color. It was the
arrival of this circus which cut short his
career at school, but his knowledge was af-
terward acquired in the manner most self
made men hoast of. He cares more for
game roosters and bull pups than he does
for books, and though he may not be able
to quote Shakespeare or Byron, he can
sign his name to as large a check as most
learned pedagogues.
When Mr. Hearst bought the New York
Journal, he took Mr. Davenport with him.
The people realized his genius at once, and
he soon created a stir in national politics.
His ‘“Eny Meeny Miny Mo” cartoon was
copied from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and when his drawing appeared of Reed
punching the bag the famous Republican
leader wrote and asked him for the orig-
inal. His success was instantaneous.
But since that time he has devoted most |
of his energies and wit and genius _to the
much abused Mark Hanna. Mr. Daven-
port has been so merciless in his attacks
upon the stage manager and press agent of |
the Republican candidate that overtures
were made to have the cartoons stopped. .
The check suit with the dollar marks |
wrought great havoc with Mark and has |
caused him many sleepless nights. But
they still continued to appear, and this!
check suit will pass into history and con-
tinue to haunt Mr. Hanna, as did the fa- |
mous money bag face of old Boss Tweed.
It is scarcely credible to believe that
this young genius had never earned a dol- |
lar from his pen five years ago. Although |
{he is the same unassuming fellow who |
| entered the Examiner office with his high |
water pants and a seedy overcoat to cover
up the patches, he is, of course, more met- |
ropolitan. But he possesses none of the
vices which usually accrue from success. SOLD TO EVERY PART OF THE GLOBE.
He never touches liquor or tobacco, and |
his only hobby, as was said before, is keep- |
ing game chickens and bull pups. There |
is no more entertaining or “original talker. |
His conversation is like his drawing—full
of humor and lasting impressions. Every-
thing he does is tinged with humor. He |
cannot help it. If his drawings were only
funny, Davenport could scarcely be less
great, but they are full of serious thought
and need no letter press to tell the story.
No cartoonist can excel him in drawing, |
and when he introduces animals into his
work he is superior to all. How lit-
tle the farmers thought when they
used to laugh until their sides ached
at his early sketches at Silverton, Or., ‘that
with as much ease he could make the |
whole world laugh or frown.—Arthur E.
-| Jameson in Brooklyn Citizen: }
Doubly Fatal.
The extravagance of expression common
to certain young ladies of an emphatic
habit leads them into queer statements.
For instance, a contemporary reports this
fragment of conversation between two girls: |!
“T was just dying to see it.”’
‘Yea ??
“Yes, and when I saw it it was per-
fectly killing.
— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
| 1890.
A Briet Sketch of the Next President.
McKinley was born January 29, 1843, at
Niles, Ohio.
McKinley's ancestors on both sides of
the house fought in the Revolutionary
army.
McKinley matriculated at Allegheny |
College, Meadville. Pa., at the age of six-
teen, and soon after taught school at a
salary of $25 per month and board. i
McKinley entered the Federal army at
the age of eighteen. Hc was a member of
Company E, Twenty-third Ohio Regiment.
McKinley was made a lieutenant for
bravery shown at the battle of Antietam.
McKinley was made a major by Presi-
dent Lincoln, ‘‘for meritorious service at
the battles of Opequan, Cedar Creek and
Fisher’s Hill.”
McKinley studied law at the close of the
war, was graduated from the Law School at
Albany, N. Y., and was admitted to the
bar in 1867.
McKinley won his first suit in court and
received therefore a fee of $25.
McKinley's first office was district attor-
ney.
McKinley was first elected to Congress
in 1876. He was re-elected six times and
was defeated by 302 votes in his eighth
race.
McKinley’s first speech in Congress was
on thesubject of the tariff.
McKinley's tariff bill was enacted in
McKinley served four years as governor
of Ohio.
McKinley’s name was spoken of before
the Republican national convention of 1892
for President, but not with his consent.
McKinley was married to Miss Ida Sax-
ton, daughter of a well-known Canton
banker, on January 25, 1871.
McKinley has no children, two daugh-
ters having died in infancy.
McKinley is a Methodist.
General Weyler's Job in Danger.
If He Doesn't Accomplish Something This Trip it May
be all up with Him—Supposed to Have a Madrid
Tip.
General Weyler has again taken the field
against Maceo in response to a strong hint
from Madrid, Havana dispatches report.
It is well understood and commented upon
in Havana that if he fails to dislodge Maceo
this time he will be superseded. |
From the commotion at the Palace, and
from hints dropped by staff officers, it is
believed in Havana that the Spanish have
been defeated near Mariel with heavy
loss.
A Spanish gunboat chased a suspicious
vessel on the east coast of Cuba Thursday
for several hours, firing at her repeatedly,
but the suspect escaped. It is rumored in
Havana that the vessel safely landed on the
island a large quantity of medical stores
and dynamite.
The United States revenue cutter Bout-
well, which has been lying in the stream
here for some weeks, watching the Three
Friends, suddenly weighed anchor and
scudded seaward. It is whispered that she
| church, of that city,
had a tip that other vessels in these waters
need watching.
Rich Men and Poor Men in the Cabinet.
From the Courier Journal.
The richest man in Mr. Cleveland’s Cabi- |
net now is the new Secretary of the Inter-
jor, Mr. Francis. He has leased the beau-
tiful residence of ex-Senator Sawyer in the
Northwest and will entertain handsomely
this season. Next to Secretary Francis, |
Secretary Lamont follows as the best off in |
this world’s goods. Eight years ago he
was poor, but Metropolitan Traction stock
in New York city made him several hund-
red thousand dollars. He got in on the
ground floor and is now floating with the
stock on the roof. Attorney-General Har-
mon has sufficient to keep the wolf from
the door. So has Secretary Olney. Secre-
tary Morton, Secretary Carlisle, Postmaster !
General Wilson, and Secretary Herbert are
compelled to ask for their ‘‘halance’’ in |
bank several times a month. The Presi-!
dent is a millionaire.
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Useful as Well as Ornamental.
Daughter—Mother, where shall I stand
when the count enters ? !
Mother—Oh yes, dear, stand over that |
spot in\the carpet. >
— Tho Bre str check has. stiff- |
ened the forelegs of more nice horses than |
all the work they have done, says an ex-
change. This instrument of torture in- |
jures the muscles of the neck and the fore-
legs are affected. Often the shoer is or |
ed when it is the check.
% —The girls that work hardest getting
up a church social aren’t always the ones
who wash the dishes at home.
| ered with school-boy hieriglyphies. !
The Way They Received it in Wilming-
_ tom.
Would not Listen to a Political Harangue Under the
Guise of a Thanksgiving Sermon Members Walked
Out.
The political parson was fittingly re-
buked in Wilmington, Delaware, on
Thanksgiving day. The Rev. Charles E.
Murray, rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal
preached a political
sermon, in which he referred to the de-
feated party in the last election as repu-
diationists, and said. that the country
“should be thankful that. repudiation had
been defeated.” Judge David T. Marvil,
lawyer James W. Ponder and a number of |
other prominent Democrats arose and walk-
ed out of the church. While one or two
of those who left the edifice did not vote |
with the Democrats this year, they left be- |
cause they desired to show their disap- |
proval of political denunciations from the
pulpit. We donot believe a clergymen
realize the harm he does to religion hy
preaching politics. He invariably wounds
the feelings of some of his congregation
who may hold different political views
from his own. Besides the pulpit is no
place for politics. Religion should not be
dragged into politics, nor politics into re-
ligion. A clergyman has the right to talk
politics, if he chooses, but he cannot be
justified in talkingit in a house of worship.
—Doylestown Democrat.
—It is just now the fashion to abuse |
the state of Kansas because of her splendid
majority for Bryan and freesilver. The
papers of New York city and Chicago are
conspicuous in this ungracious work. Itis
reported that Kansas maintains her schools
better than either Now York or Chicago ;
that there is four times more church-going
in Kansas in proportion to population than
in the two imperial cities ; that there is
four times as much moral cleanliness and
four times as much sobriety. If the people |
of Kansas want more money they have
not developed ‘‘financiers’” who: became
millionaires by railroad wrecking like the
Goulds; or who added to their millions by
plundering the government, as the Mor- |
gan gold syndicates have done. ‘While
New York and Chicago are controlled by
the foreign elements of their population,
and have thousands who sell or are scared
out of their votes, the majority of the vot-
ers of Kansas are of patriotic native stock,
know their rightsand dare maintain them.
Goodbye to the slate. Not to the
slate political, but to the slate upon which
the struggling youth are wont to do
‘sums.”’ It has been decreed by those
who know that the slate is a source of dis-
ease contagion and at the same time a
clumsy and noisy piece of school apparatus. |
Hence it must go particularly since paper
has come to be so cheap that the use of the
slate does not appeal to economy. The
slates are said to carry microbes. Pro-
bably the paper also has microbes. In |
this microbe-fearing age nothing worth
having is without its microbes, from the
tender kiss of your sister to the slate cov-
|
It will bea nice time of day when |
the fragment of the Democratic party that |
| voted for the gold bug candidates, attempt |
to reorganize the party. The only thing |
those gentlemen ought to ask in the future
should be the privilege to vote with honest
Democrats who held the people’s interests
to be above that of persons.
‘po discontinue an advertisement,”
says John Wanamaker, Philadelphia’s great
merchant, ‘‘is like taking down your sign.
If you want to do business you must let
the people know it. I would as soon think
of doing business without clerks as without
advertising.”
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Business Notice.
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorla.
When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she eried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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