-— Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 18, 1896. FARM NOTES. - while —If grees are pruned pro large young Phe necessity of cuttin limbs will be avoided. —The first month of milking will decide the question of whether the heifer should be kept in the dairy or turned to the butch- ers’ block. —The sheep can be made to attaina large size. At the Centennial Exposition in Phil- adelphia, twenty years ago, an Oxford Down ram was exhibited that weighed 425 pounds. It is not unusual to find indivi- duals of that weight now, and whole herds have been known to average 350 pounds per sheep. —A sheep which sheds its wool is one which has impaired digestion. It is most common in sheep past their prime, when taken from pasture and put on dry. hard food. The bowels become constipated and the animal feverish, and the wool is loos- ened., Nothing can save the sheep after it gets this far. '—It is the common custom to keep hay before horses continually. Besides being wasteful, this practice is injurious to horses that are large eaters. If not at work, they wi'l sometimes founder upon it. A better, safer and cheaper way is to give them all the good wheat, oats or barley straw they will eat. during the winter, with a proper ration of oats or other grain. —An ambitious farmer, with ten acres of land, says Western Plowman, can make an excellent living with a combination of dairying, swine and poultry raising, and bee keeping. The demand for gilt-edged butter will be a continual spur. A de- mand for a few hogs to consume the wastes will create itself. To the keeping of poultry and bees he should need no urging. —There is never a time when corn stalks are quite so good as when they are first cut. Even when not exposed to rains there is a gradual drying up of their juices, or else a partial decomposition that is more product- ive of loss. Hay and grain will keep with less waste, and will be better to keep for late feeding. Dry corn stalks, after being alternately frozen and thawed during win- ter, are not worth much for feeding. —American ivy, or Virginia, creeper, has beautiful digitate leaves that become a rich crimson in autumn. A very rapid grower, like the begonia and ivy, it throws out tendrills and suckers at its joints by which it fastens itself to anything it touches, and is one of the finest in vines for covering walls, verandas, or trunks of trees, and affords shade quickly. It is found along fences in the country about here. —He who follows diversified farming is usually self-sustaining, even in the poorest of years, rather than he who stakes every- thing on a single crop. He has the sus- tenance for himself, his family and his working stock ; he bas a money crop from his fields and his flocks ; he fattens his own herds from his own home-grown crops ; he has his orchard, his garden and his berry patch, and is to be envied by his richer neighbor. —-There should be no set date for storing vegetables for winter. It is poor policy to start with the first appearances of frost, as a certain amount of frost will not harm cabbage, celery, beets, ete. ; in fact, it will help them along, provided, of course, that they do not get hard freezing. As a rule, vegetables stored away before settled cold weather are apt to rot. Should they once start to decay it is a difficult or almost im- | possible matter to check the trouble. —Farming pays as well as any other in- dustry. Machinery has invaded the fac- tory as well as the farm and made it possi- ble to supply all demands. If wheat was now harvested as was done fifty years ago the crops could not be taken off the fields. As civilization advances the ‘‘wants’’ be- come greater, and it is doubtful if the in- habitants of the world could now supply themselves with all the comforts desired if machinery did not contribute the larger share of the products. —Giood beef cattle shogld not weigh less than 1600 pounds each, and as it is not dif- ficult to make every animal in a herd weigh 2000 pounds the cause of lack of profit in cattle can be easily pointed out--inferior stock. At the fairs many of the ‘‘prize”’ steers are the result of using pure-bred Southern or Hereford hulls with common cows and pushing them with liberal feed- ing. Any farmer can do the same. No prize steer has ever yet heen seen that was not a pure-bred or grade animal. —Good gardens and poor farms never keep company long. The growing of ber- ries for family use is easily done. The growing of berries largely, and selling them ir good market, requires considerable skill and a special business tact. Only those who have good location, good market and a taste for the business should attempt it. Many small farmers so situated are making a success by commencing moderate- ly and increasing acreage from season to season as experience warrants. —There is no better way to make manure soluble and quickly fitted to give its fer- tility to crops than to throw salt on it. Salt hastens decomposition when used in small quantities, and its attraction for moisture helps to keep the manure from firefanging. Applying salt and land plas- ter in equal proportions to manure heaps is an excellent plan. The ammonia liber- ated by fermentation will be absorbed by the plaster, making a sulphate of ammonia, which is a very powerful and quick-acting fertilizer. —Milk is sure to absorb any odors with which it is brought in contact. Cream and butter, having a greater proportion of fats, absorb odors even more quickly than will milk. This fact emphasizes-the necessity of keeping both milk, cream and butter out of reach of foul odors of any kind. This can hardly be done while the milk is kept where the odor of cooking vegetables of all kinds can reach it. Almost-any kind of odor from cooking, when combined with butter fats, scon becomes exceedingly of- fensive, 2s in the fat the character of the odor is greatly changed. —A ton of butter sold from the farm de- prives the soil of about 50 cents’ worth of fertility, while a ton of wheat costs the farmer ten times that sum. When the farmer sells an article that does not take a large proportion of fertility from the soil he is just as much the gainer as though he had gotten his price for the same, as the plant food in the soil is always prepared and stor~d as so much raw materials for pro- ducing the next crop. In fact, when a farmer sells the ferlility of his soil he is really selling the farm itself, as he is com- pelled to supply in some form to the farm that which he takes from it to he sent to market. Tours to California. California has been most fittingly term the ‘Italy of America.”” All the delicious balm, the cloudless sky, and the rich ver- dure of the great European peninsula are duplicated in thissunny land of the Pacific. Here nature basks in the sunshine of her own beauty ; and here she has established her own sanitarium, where eternal spring inspires everlasting youth. With the snow-mantled peaks of the Sierras upon the one hand, the calm Pacific with its soft breeze upon the other, and a veritable paradise of flowers, fruits, and plants be- tween, man can find and needs no lovelier land. To visit such a country isa privi- lege, a blessing. The Pennsylvania railroad company, recognizing the need of » more comfortable and pleasant way of crossing the continent, inaugurated a series of annual tours to California, running a through train of Pull- man palace cars from New York to the Pacific coast, and stopping at the principal points of interest en route. The great popu- larity of these tours demonstrates the wis- dom of the movement. For the season of 1897 three tours have been arranged to leave New York, Phil- adelphia, and Pittsburg, January 27th, February 24th, and March 27th. The first tour will run direct to San Diego via St. Louis and the Santa Fe Route, and return from San Francisco via Salt Lake City, Denver, and Chicago, al- lowing five weeks in California. The second tour will run via the Mam- moth Cave and New Orleans to San Diego, stopping at the ‘‘Crescent City’’ during the Mardi Gras Carnival. This tour will re- turn via Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, and Chicago, allowing four weeks in Cali- fornia. The third tour will run via Chicago, Denver and Salt Lake City, allowing pas- sengers to return by regular trains via dif- ferent routes within nine months. All of these tours, either going or re- turning, will pass through the famous Colorado region, Glenwood Springs, Lead- ville, and the Garden of the Gods. Rates from all points on the Pennsyl- vania railroad system east of Pittsburg : First tour, $310; second tour, $350 ; third tour, $210 round trip, and $150 one way. For detailed itineraries and other infor- mation, apply at ticket agencies, special booking offices or address George W. Boyd, assistant general passenger agent, Broad street station, Philadelphia. 41-48-1m. Reduced Rates to Washington on A¢ count of the Inanguration via Pennsylvania Railroad. For the benefit of those who desire to at- tend the ceremonies incident to the in- auguration of President-elect McKinley, the Pennsylvania railroad company will sell tickets to Washington March 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, valid to return from March 4th to 8th, at the following rates : Irom New York, $8.00; Philadelphia, $5.40; Baltimore, $1.60 ; Harrisburg, $5.06 ; Williamsport, $8.79 ; Buffalo, $11.20 ; Rochester, $10.48 ; Altoona and Pittsburg, $10.00 ; and from all other stations on the Pennsylvania sys- tem at reduced rates. This inauguration will be a most interest- ing event, and will undoubtedly attract a large number of people from every section of the country. The magnificent faculties of the Penn- sylvania railroad make this line the favor- ite route to the national capital at all times, and its enormous equipment and splendid terminal advantages at Washington make it especially popular on such occasions. 41-49-2m. Now Kiss Me. A funny incident occurred in a neighbor- ing city, saysan exchange, a few days since, and one too good to be lost. One of our celebrated composers has written a pretty song entitled, ‘*A7ss Me.” A very pretty, blushing maid, having heard of the song, and thinking she would get it, with some others, stepped into a music store to make a purchase. - One of the clerks, a modest young man, stepped up to wait on her. The young lady threw back her veil, say- ing : “1 want ‘Rock me to Sleep.’ ™’ The clerk got the song and put it before her. Now,’ ‘The Wandering Refugee. “Yes, ma'am,’ said the clerk, bowing, and in a few minutes he produced the *‘Re- fugee.” “Now, ‘Kiss Me,” 7’ said the young lady, of course meaning the song above men- tioned. The poor clerk’s eyes popped fire almost, as he looked at the young lady in utter astonishment, for he was not aware that a song by that name had been published. ‘*Wh—what did you say, Miss?’ ‘Kiss Me,” said she. “I can’t do it ; I never kissed a young lady in my life,”’ said the clerk. And about that time a veil dropped, a! young lady left in a hurry, clerk felt sick, | and the dealer lost the sale of his music. said the young lady, “I want, 71) Methodists Against Foot Eall. Want the Game outlawed ard Prohibited to the Students. The North Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Church, meeting at Greenville, Miss., Bishop Galloway presiding, has adopted the following resolutions : ‘‘Re- solved, That gs inter-collegiate football, now so extensively played, is proving de- trimental to the morals and intellectual training of our boys at college, we, the North Mississppi Conference, especially advise all schools under the supervision of our church to outlaw such games and to forbid their students to engage in them.” INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM. — “My brother had a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism and he also had enlargement of the liver and kidney trouble. I sug- gested that he try Hood’s Sarsaparilla and he did so, and when he had taken a few bottles he was able to go to work.”’—Mary M. Norton, Moshannon, Pa. j Hood’s Pills are the best family cathar- | tic and liver medicine, harmless reliable, sure. ——He—*‘As our engagement is cancel- ed, of course you will return that diamond ring 2’ i She—*‘Mr. Styles, you said I was a peach the day when you gave me this ring. Well, if Iam, I am a peach of the cling- | stone variety. Therefore, I’H- keep the | diamond.” ——Tenant—*"If you don’t have that | roof patched we will be drowned out.” Landlord—“I’11 send you down half a dozen life preservers. Anything else ?” ——When a widow gets to heaven thé first thing that she will ask is what the | { men angels like best to eat. | More Precious Than Gold. Gold is commonly considered the most valuable of metals, because itis the most precious metal produced in sufficient quan- tities for general use. There are many metals, however, that are far more costly than gold. Gallium, for example, is quo- ted at $2,000 an ounceavoirdupois. Traces of Gallium are in zinc ore, tons of which must be worked over to obtain a small quantity. Gallium is a very odd metal. At the ordinary summer temperature of 86 degrees it becomes liquid like mercury, the latter becoming solid at 38 degrees be- low zero. Geranium comes next in its cost. It is quoted at $1,125 an ounce. Numerous other metals range down in price till palla- dium is reached. That is worth $24 an ounce and is about equal in value to gold. Most of these metals mentioned have no commercial value, but are curiosities of the laboratory, having been originally dis- covered by accident. It has been suggest- ed that some of them might be coined, but the supply is so uncertain that the plan is not feasible. That was the difficulty with platinum, which the Russian government mined in the first part of the century. Iridium is used to some extent to make instruments that must not corrode. It is obtained from an extraordinary natural mixture of iridium, osmium, rhodium, platinum and ruthenium. This mixture is a pure white and much of it is found in washing for gold in the beach sands of Ore- gon. It resists the action of all single ac- ids and its only important use is for tip- ping gold pens. For this purpose the grains of it, which are flat, like gold dust, are picked out with magnifying glasses. It makes a great deal of trouble at the mint, hipre it has to be separated from the gold nst. —— “Mamma,” said little Mary, ‘‘what does amen mean ?’’ “It means that you join in with what has been said, dearie—that you approve of and believe it.”’ ‘Oh, yes, I know,”’ said the little girl. “It’s the opposite to nit !”’ ——He—‘‘How is it that a woman never learns to sharpen a lead pencil ?”? She—*‘She doesn’t have to. There's al- ways a man round.”’ ——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. 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 Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. New Advertisements. ANTED.—Good homes for two boys, i i dred air and eight years. piso twins— oy and girl, aged eleven years. Apply to MRS. H. ir KURTZ, Pres. of Children’s Aid Society, Bellefonte, Pa. ANTED — SEVERAL FAITHFUL men or women to travel for responsible es- tablished house in Pennsylvania. alary 8780- payable 815 weekly and expenses. Position per, manent. Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. The National, Star Building, | Chicago. 41-39-4m. (GFT AN EDUCATION and fortune go hand in hand. Get an i education at the CENTRAL STATE | NorMaL ScHoor, Lock HAVEN, Pa. First-class accommoda- . tions and low rates. State aid to students. For circulars and illustrated cata- logue, address JAMES ELDON, Ph. D., Principal, State Normal School, Lock Haven, Pa. 41-47-1y {\BARIYS NASH PURVIS ? WILLIAMSPORT, PA. COLLECTIONS, LOANS, INVESTMENTS. SALES-AGENT AND REAL ESTATE. PRIVATE BANKER AND BROKER. Deposits received subject to Drafts or Checks from any part of the World. Money forwarded to any place ; Interest at 3 per cent allcwed on de- posits with us for one year or more ; ninety days notice of withdrawal must be given on all inter- est-bearing deposits. 41-40 1y New Advertisments, DMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE. — Let- ters of administration on the estate of Samuel Brickley deceased late of Howard borough, having been granted tothe undersigned he re- quests all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate to make payment and those having claims against the same to present them duly au- thenticated for settlement. ORVIS W. BRICKLEY, 41-49-6t. Howard, Pa. XECUTOR’S NOTICE. — Letters tes- tamentary on the estate of the late Philip Ww. Barnhart, of Boggs township, Centre county, Pa,, having been granted the undersigned they request all parties knowing themselves indebted to said estate to make immediate settlement and those paving claims to present same, properly 2) authenticated, for payment. Address Bellefonte, Pa. H. O. BARNHART, J. K. BARNHART, 41-47-6t Admins. TUES PAILS, WASH RUBBERS, BROOMS, BRUSHES, BASKETS. ‘ SECHLER & CO. HERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a writ of Fi Fa, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas and to me directed, there will be exposed to public sale at the court house, in the borough of Bellefonte, Pa., on SATURDAY, DEC. 19th, 1896. at 10:30, o'clock a. m., the following real estate : All that certain messuage or tenement and tract of land situate, lying and being in the Boro. of Philipsburg, county of Centre and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows to wit: Beginning at a point on the north line of Pine street 101 feet south 60° west of N. W. corner of Pine and Front streets, said point being locat- ed by an iron pin being driven into the ground and being the point where the west line of a pri- vate eleven foot alley intersects or cuts the north line of Pine street, south 60° west 84.35 feet to an iron pin, said pin being the southwest corner of this lot and the point where the east line of a pub- lic alley cuts the north line of Pine street, thence along the line of said public alley north 30° W 43.67 feet to an iron pin, thence further along the same north 21°23 W 50.55 feet to an iron pin, thence further along the same north 20° 29’ east 42.31 feet to a point on the south side of the pub- lic alley between these premises and property of I. 0. O. F., thence along the last mentioned alley north 60° east 44.2 feet to a point on the west line of a private alley between these premises and lands owned by L. C. Brinton and others, thence along the west line of raid private alley south 30° east 120.45 feet to an iron pin on the north line of Pine street and place of beginning Thereon erected a large two story frame building and a two story brick addition, stable, ice house and other outbuildings, known as the Hotel Continental. ; Beized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Tattersall Ingham. Terms—No deed will be acknowledgod until pur- chase money is paid in full. Sheriff's Oftice, JOHN P. CONDO Bellefonte, Dec. 1st, 1896. Sheriff. RDINANCE NO. 1.— ENTITLED, AN ORDINANCE. To authorize the CENTRAL PENNA. TELE- PHONE AND SUPPLY COMPANY to erect and maintain poles for telephone lines in the borough of State College, Centro county, Pennsylvania. Wek as, The Central Penna. Telephone and Savy Company has applied to the authorities of the Borunigh of State College, Penna., for permis- , sion to crect poles and run wires on the same, | over or under tho streets, lanes and alleys of said borough as provided by the 4th section of an act entitled, “An Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations’ as amend- ed by an act approved 25th June, 1885. THEREFORE be it ordained and enacted; the Town Council of the Borough of State College College, Penna., and it is hereby ordained and enact- ed by the authority of the same. 8ecrion 1. That the Central Penna. Telephone and Supply Company, its successors or assigns, its { or their agents, servants and employees are per- mitted to erect and maintain in the streets, lanes and alleys of the borough of State College, Penna. and over or under the same, a line or lines of poles and wires, with all such necessary and usual fixtures therefore as may be necessary for the successful prosecution of a telephone or signal business by means of electricity. : Section 2. That the polls shall be reasonably straight and with the fixtures so to be erected shall be put in a safe and substantial manner and shall be as neat in appearance as may be and shall be located by the street committee or the street commissioner under their direction in such manner as notto obstruct said streets, lanes and alleys in their ordinary and customary use and shall be erected, maintained and cared for at the costand charge of said company. Section 3. That said Telephone Company shall, ' at such time as it may be requested, by resolution . of Council, provide, place and maintain in the office of the Burgess or other designated official : ofthe borough, a {olophona connection, the use ! of which telephone shall be restricted, free of ' charge, to the official business of said borough, within its Telephone Exchange District. : Ordained and enacted into au ordinance this fifteenth (15) day of October, A. D., 1896. : GEO. C. BUTZ, President of the Council. Attest : L. RAY MORGAN, Clerk. Approved this first day of December, A. D. 1896. THEO. S. CHRIST, Burgess. | 41-49-5t Schomacker Piano. HOMACKI NE THE RECOGNIZED f 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 oxtraordinary power and durability with great beauty and even- STRINGS ness of touch. 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Other strik- ! ing noveletts by American authors. Short stories | oy Mark Twain, Thomas Nelson Page, Richard ; arding Davis, Owen Wister, John Kendrick Bangs, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Octave Thanet, Mary E, | Wilkins and other popular writers. } Science : Story of the Progress of Science during : the Nineteenth Century, a series of Jipers by Dr. Henry Smith Williams, supplemented by confribu- | tions on spacial subjects by expert scientists. Articles on the relations of curious psychological ! manifestations to physiology by Dr. Andrew Wil- son. AMERICAN FEATURES: Tur Mexico or To-Day, a series by Charles F. Lummis, splendidly illustrat- : ed—the result of a recent visit to Mexico under- | taken for HARPER'S MAGAZINE. Mexico is | pre-eminently a silver-producing country, and its | monetary operations rest entirely on a silver | basis. 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ALL NEW FEATURES The Century will continue to be in every respect the leading American magazine, its table of con- tents including each month the best in literature and art. The present interest in American his- tory makes especially timely A GREAT NOVEL OF THE "AMERICAN REVOLUTION its leading serial feature for 1897 and the master- piece of its, author Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. The story, ugh Wynne, Free Quaker,” purports to he the autobiography of its hero, an officer on Washing- ton's staff. Social life in Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution is most interestingly depicted, and the characters include Washington, Frank- lin, Lafayette, and others well known in history. It is safe to say that the readers of this great ro- mance will obtain from it a clearer idea of the people who were foremost in Revolutionary day and of the social life of the times, than can be 1 from any other single source. 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