Bellefonte, Pa., May 27, 1898.
FARM NOTES.
—The slightest degree of filth in a milk
can will injure the milk, and it is possible
to have portions of the former milk con-
tained in the can to be left over, despite
the greatest care.
—Milk being a liquid is not considered
as valuable as some foods, but there are 12
pounds of solid matter in 100 pounds of
milk, these solids being composed of all the
substances entering into human foods.
—The larger the top on a tree or bush,
the greater the amount of plant food that
must be supplied from the roots the greater
the work to perform. When transplanting
trees or vines the tops should be cut off as
much as possible consistent with the capac-
ity of the roots.
—A tree that has been carefully trimmed
and relieved of all useless wood can be
more easily sprayed than one that has re-
ceived no attention. This fact should not
be overlooked, as not only will a tree be
benefited if properly pruned, but there will
be a saving of labor in spraying.
—A pound of comb is said to cost the
bees ten pounds of honey. This is one
reason for always supplying comb founda-
tion. It brings to the owner of hees
double its cost in honey, besides securing
straight combs and doing away with an
overproduction of drone comb.
Ground grain will be better digested if
mixed with fine-cut hay then when fed
alone. When hay and grain are mixed
there is a division of the ground grain,
which prevents it from packing in the
stomach. The animal will also prefer the
mixed ration to one that is single.
—A writer in the New York Tribune has
no doubt that bad air in stables is almost
wholly responsible for the tuberculosis
plague, and that reform in this line is the
only cure. The modern model stable, so
called, is usually a model of deformity, a
suffocation box, a model tuberculosis nur-
sery.
—There should be no hesitency on the
part of the farmer in cutting down a tree
that is blighted, as the sooner: it is done
the less the liability of disease appearing in
other trees of the orchard. To allow a tree
to remain in order to save it by the appli-
cation of some remedy is to incur a risk.
Every portion of a diseased tree should
be consigned to the flames.
—Contrary to all former notions in re-
gard to duck raising, the thousands and
tens of thousands of Peking ducks that are
annually marketed in New York, Philadel-
phia and Boston, from New Jersey to the
coast of Maine, never saw water only in
drinking troughs. They grow much faster
when kept out of the water, and if fed
properly will average at ten weeks of age
ten pounds per pair.
—Some crops, like the grains, exhaust
the humus in the soil. Other crops, like
the clovers, replenish the humus in the
soil. A good rotation of crops that takes
out humus and puts back humus will keep
the humus in fair supply and render the
land suitable for cultural operations for all
time to come, or for so long a time as the
proper treatment is continued.
The striped bug which destroys cucum-
ber vines may be destroyed by plac-
ing a tight box over the vines (such
as a cheese box, ) and pouring a teaspoon-
ful of bisulphide of carbon on the ground.
Allow the box to remain over the vines
half an hour. The substance is very vola-
tive, hence fire must be avoided id its use.
Tobacco dust around the vines is also ex-
cellent.
—1It is not safe to manure potato ground
heavily for late crop of potatoes. After
midsummer it will surely make them rot
if there is any wet weather. The early po-
totoes are off the land so early that the
land cannot easily be made too rich for
them. Ii commercial manures are used on
the potatoes they should not be put in con-
tact with the seed. Most mineral manures,
either acid or alkaline, are caustic and eat
into the cut surfaces of the potatoes.
—Samuel Cushman says: You mark
your turkeys so that you can identify them
by clipping off one or more of their nails or
tips of their toes as soon as they are hatch-
ed. Many different brands or marks may
be made by this means. When mature
turkeys thus marked are stolen and dressed
they may be identified if found, as the
mark cannot be changed without showing
the fresh mutilation. In some towns each
raiser registers his turkey marks at the
town clerk’s office as he does the brand of
his sheep or cattle. :
In his annual address President Good-
rich, of the Illinois Horticultural Society,
remarked that it was a strange fact that
many men place fruit on the list of luxur-
ies and tobacco and cigars on the list of
necessities. In reference to the treatment
of the orchard after it begins to fruit he
considered it a good plan to put in the hogs
when the apples begin to fall, for they will
eat the fallen apples as fast as they fall and
thus destroy the worms contained in them.
He called attention to the fact that Califor-
nia fruit grown on the irrigated areas is
coming more and more into. competition
with our fruit in the eastern markets.
—In summer the churning should be
done at as low temperature as will permit
the cream to form butter at the least cost
time and labor. The temperature ranges
from 55 to 65 degrees, according to condi-
tions. When the cream is mostly oily, as in
summer the temperature is hetter, while
in winter the higher temperature may he
an advantage. There is no exact tempera-
ture for churning, as cream varies and on-
ly observation will enable one to arrive at
a full understanding of the requirements.
Use a thermometer and in afew days much
will have been accomplished in learning
the proper temperature.
— Apparent perfection is claimed for the
Cotswold breed of sheep. They are as
long wooled and curly as poodles. Breed-
ers have been improving the Catswold for
eight centuries at least. It was introduced
from Spain into England in the twelfth
century, and for several hundred years
guarded and confined to England by royal
decree. The Breeder's Gazette says the
fleece of a modern Cotswold ram frequently
weighs as much as eighteen pounds, and
that of an ewe eleven to sixteen pounds.
The wool is much finer than it was origin-
ally, and the sheep heavier, a large animal
of this breed occasionally tipping the heam
at 350 pounds. Owing to the heavy fleece
Cotswolds need to be well protected from
wet and storms.
-—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
About Puerto Rico.
One of the important questions demand-
ing attention is the disposition of the island
of Puerto Rico. The healthiest of the An-
tilles and admirably adapted by its strat-
egic position for an outlying naval station,
it is more than probable that its acquisition
by the United States will be discussed as
the wisest settlement of the troubles of the
island. :
The Spanish minister to the United
States, Senor de Lome, was fond of citing
Puerto Rico, now Spain’s last possession
in America, in evidence of the blessing and
content-producing properties of Spanish
rule. t
But it is neither because its people have
been happy under the Spanish yoke, nor
yet because they have not made desperate
efforts to throw it off, that Puerto Rico is
still a dependency of Spain. The Puerto
Ricans have long desired freedom with an
augmenting keenness and, furthermore,
nine-tenths of them wish to become citizens
of the United States.
In his vague references to law-abiding
and contented Puerto Rico, the Spanish
diplomat was careful not to go into a de-
tailed history of the island, much less to
give an accurate account of the blessings
showered upon it by a horde of greedy
Spanish officeholders.
Puerto Rico has been held by the Span-
ish crown since the days of Ponce de Leon,
who was so delighted with its loveliness
that he sought there the fountain of youth,
for which the island seems a fitting location.
The mismanagement of an English expe-
dition under Abeicromby, rather than the
loyalty of the inhabitants, saved the island
to Spain in the eighteenth century, and a
standing army has preserved it for her
during the nineteenth.
As early as 1820 the Puerto Ricans at-
tempted to gain their independence. This
was years before Cuba had been fired by
the touch of liberty. Indeed, at about this
time the Cubans were taking oaths of eter-
nal allegiance to the legitimate Spanish
dynasty, which they alone supported when
Napoleon had overrun Spain. This first
rebellion was put down after a short guer-
rilla war. Several abortive attempts to
drive the Spaniards from the island fol-
lowed toward the middle of the century.
But they served only as a sign of the dis-
content in the Learts of the people. It was
in 1865, the year of the great uprising in
Cuba, that the most formidable outbreak
in Puerto Rico occurred. It is significant
of Spain’s treatment of her colonies that
the leaders of the contemporaneous rebel-
lions knew nothing of the intentions of the
patriots on the sister island.
In Puerto Rico preparations were made
for a great, simultaneous rush to arms.
The Spanish government was so universally
detested that the prospective insurgents
included a large proportion of the people.
In fact, it was the number of versons in
the secret that proved fatal to the plot and
led to its exposure by traitors. As aresult
it was necessary that the insurrection take
place several weeks before the patriots were
prepared. After two months’ fighting the
Spanish regulars were victorious, and the
leader of the rebels, Dr. Ramon E. Betances,
now of Paris, was captured, as was also J.
J. Henna, since a New York physician,
then a young Puerto Rican eighteen years
of age.
All prisoners were sentenced to be shot
on Nov. 4th, 1868. On Nov. 3rd, news
reached the island of the overthrow of
Queen Isabella, and political prisoners were
pardoned. Later they were banished.
These exiles, dwelling in many different
countries, have formed the centers of active
movements for the freeing of Puerto Rico
that have culminated in a powerful organ-
ization. known as the Puerto Rico section
of the revolutionary party of Cuba.
The first article of the statement of prin-
ciples of the Cuban revolutionary party,
written by Jose Marti, declared that fo-
menting revolution in Puerto Rico and
helping the Puerto Ricans to their inde-
pendence should be an object co-ordinate
with Cuba’s freedom.
This led to the organization of the Puerto
Ricans as a part of the Cuban party. Na-
tives of Puerto Rico in and out of the
country are hard at work for the independ-
ence of the island. Votes were recently
taken for officers of the section. and the
hero of the rising in 1868, Dr. Ramon E.
Betances, was elected delegate-general. Dr.
J. J. Henna is the president and the head
of the movement in America. The other
directors of the section are: Senores J. de
M. Terreforte, Manuel Besosa, and R. H.
Todd, all of New York. Mr. Todd is the
secretary.
The size of the island is about 100x37
miles, and its population has reached nearly
1,000,000. The Spanish province includes
two islands to the east, one of which,
Vieque, is as large as the Danish island of
St. Croix that the United States contem-
plated purchasing.
There are two fine old cities in Puerto
Rico—St. John’s, the capital and principal
port, and Ponce, the largest city, several
miles inland. The coast is dented into five
ports of entry, where there are towns.
The vegetation of the island is exuberant
even for the West Indies, and the products
include all the fruits and woods of the
tropics. Sugar, coffee and tobacco are the
staples. The value of the exports, which
are increasing constantly, was more than
$10,000,000 in 1890. This is far in excess
of the value of exports of any island about
the Caribbean except Cnba.
Puerto Rico’s mineral wealth includes
rich deposits of gold, iron, copper, coal and
salt. Only the salt beds are worked.
Animal life is abundant and varied.
Huge herds of excellent cattle swarm over
the lowland plains, and in the more tem-
perate mountain districts the celebrated
Puerto Rican horses are bred. All things
considered, no spot on the globe is better
equipped by nature to support a happy and
industrious population.
The people themselves are superior in
blood an industry to those of any island in
the West Indies, Cuba not excepted. Of a
population of 800,000 in 1890 nearly 500,-
000 were whites of unmixed bloed, and but
77,000 were negroes or mulattoes. Of the
““mixed’’ population quite 300,000 are the
Jebaros, an uncommon people said to be of
Spanish stock with drops of the native
blood in them. They are small farmers
and laborers. The race is a fine one, show-
ing the regular features and small feet of
the Europeans. The Jebaros are revolu-
tionists to a man.
Nature has done more for Puerto Rico
than any little island could expect of her.
The people have the qualities of an indus-
trious and highly-civilized race, yet the
island’s resourses remain mostly undevel-
oped, and of 750,000 of white and Jebaro
inhabitants less than 100,000 can read and
write.
The Puerto Ricans have no voice in their
government, as it is directly controlled by
the Spanish Cortes, in which the represen-
tatives of Puerto Rico wield no influence.
There is no vestige of local self-government.
The situation is aggravated by the un-
written but nevertheless unbroken rule
that no native of the island shall hold an
official position. The ‘‘peninsulars’’ as the
Spaaiards are ealled, occupy every judicial
as well as military post. Their number,
including the soldiery, is somewhat under
35,000, and almost all of them are support-
ed from the pocket of the native Puerto
Ricans.
These alien office-holders drain the col-
ony of its public money. Their domineer-
ing manner and high-handed actions have
brought upon them the hatred of the na-
tives. They come to the province with the
single object of making money, and their
venality has corrupted the public service
to such an extent that bribery is now nec-
essary in procuring a decision in every
court of justice.
The taxes which are burdensome, are
raised by duties on exports as well as im-
ports, and by a series of petty personal
taxes such as none but a spiritless people
would willingly stand. These include
stamped paper, a toll on railroad passen-
gers and freight, and even on the consump-
tion of food. The total revenue collected
in a year from this little island is $3,947,-
875. Of this $3,297,255 goes directly for
maintaining the standing army and navy,
whose sole purpose is to keep in subjection
the people who support them. Of the re-
maining $650,000 but a small share is de-
voted to public purposes that will benefit
the people of the island, as the largest por-
tion goes to employes of the public works,
all of whom are Spaniards.
The regular military force in Puerto
Rico under the command of the captain-
general numbers 4,500 men, including two
batteries of artillery and two squadrons of
cavalry. They are well armed and disci-
plined, and were recruited in Spain. There
is also a corps of 500 police and fourteen
battalions of volunteers, containing about
6,000 men. The volunteersare not natives
of the island. Since the last uprising,
when a battalion of Puerto Ricans went
over to the insurgents, the natives have
not been called upon to serve.
The naval station consists of two small
gunboats with rapid-firing guns.
The fortifications of the island, while
impotent before modern ironclads serve as
formidable obstacles to a revolution. At
St. John’s there are three fortifications on
whose bastions are mounted some ancient
cannon and sixteen Krupp guns of four
and six caliber. These defenses have been
strengthened during the last few weeks,
but Morro Castle, which guards the en-
trance to the harbor, is an old stone and
plaster building, no stronger than it was a
century ago. In Ponce and Mayaguez
there are old batteries, while small forts to
overawe the populace stand at frequent in-
tervals along all highways-
It is not to be wondered that the people
of Puerto Rico, carrying, like Sinbad, the
weight of a Spanish old-man-of-the-sea,
have little surplus energy ‘to expend in in-
tellectual or commercial activity.—Chicago
Daily News.
Class of George Dewey.
Of His Annapolis Companions but Five are in the
Navy.
It was 44 years ago tkat Rear Admiral
Geo. Dewey entered the naval academy
with 71 other boys, each anxious to he a
naval officer. The members of his class
represented only 31 States of the Union.
The “Army and Navy Journal’’ says of
Dewey’s class.
“Before the termination of the four
years’ course at the academy 49 of these
novitiate officers had resigned and one had
been dismissed. Only 22 of the class re-
mained to graduate and receive their first
commissions as officers of the navy. Soon
after six others resigned and before they
had advanced a single grade in rank. One
resigned later on, two were killed in bat-
tle, and three others died. When our war
with Spain opened seven of these officers
remained in the navy, and two of these,
Allen V. Reed and Joshua Bishop, were
and are still on the retired list of the navy.
The five officers on the active list are Com-
modore John A. Howell, the inventor of
the torpedo that bears his name and now
commanding the Northern patrol squadron;
Commodore Henry L. Howison, Commodore
Albert Kautz, Commodore Norman H.
Farquhar, and Admiral Geo. Dewey.
“By such process of evolution and se-
lection it is that we obtain our heroes.
The foundation for the victory at Manila
was laid in the section room at the acad-
emy ; in the experience gained in lonely
watches at sea ; in the crash of battle at
New Orleans under Farragut, and in the
sincere discharge of the multifarious duties
of the faithful officer during long and weary
years. It is only thus that such results
can be obtained ; yet there are men foolish
enough to imagine that we need no pre-
paration for war, or, at least, who talk and
legislate as if they so believed.”
Cuba to Be Invaded at Once.
Invasion to Occur In Spite of Spain’s Dodging Fleet.—
The Movement Will Be 8o Secret That Blanco Will
Know Nothing Until Troops Appear.
WASHINGTON, May 22. — No possible
contingency can now arise, according to the
war department officials, to prevent an in-
vasion of Cuba during the present week.
Those in direct control of affairs insist that
climatic conditions will have to be ignored,
and they can see no other reason for further
delay. Iam told that a few weeks ago the
entire army which is to go to Cuba had
only 10,000,000 rounds of cartridges at its
disposal = This amount of ammunition, con-
sidering the size of the army, will be suf-
ficient to carry on a long campaign. At
the present time, however, thearmy is well
supplied with both arms and ammunition.
It is believed in the navy department
that Admiral Cervera’s fleet will be either
completely destroyed or driven away from
Cuban waters within the next week. Sec-
retary Alger, going upon this theory, is
making every preparation to have about
70,000 men ready to leave Key West for
Cuba upon short notice. I understand
from the best authority that if the Ameri-
can fleet does not meet the fleet of Admiral
Cervera within the next seven days the ad-
ministration will no longer delay the army
of invasion.
The greatest secrecy is to he maintained
in the war department when it is decided
to make the move against Cuba. The gov-
ernment wishes to feel assnred that the first
intimation that Spain will have of troops
leaving Key West will be when Gen. Blanco
sees the Americans on Cuban soil. Iknow
that Secretary Alger and Secretary Long
have agreed in regard to the convoys that
will accompany the transports carrying the
troops.
Admiral Cervera’s action in permitting
the battleship Oregon to reinforce Rear
Admiral Samson’s squadron without at-
tempting her destruction L.s aroused a
great deal of curiosity and not a little
anxiety as to what his plan of campaign
really is.
The authorities do not believe that Spain
will send her home squadron to the Philip-
pines. The sailing orders which it is said
it received require it to come west, it is
believed, and join forces with Admiral
Cervera’s fleet if this be true, then the of-
ficials expect that Admiral Cervera will
carry on a waiting policy, avoiding battle
with the armorclads of this government, as
he can do in view of the speed of his ships,
preventing the dispatch of an army of in-
vasion by menancing the troopships, and
appearing at points where necessity will
compel the dispatch of armorclads. and
playing in general a hide-and-seek game
until he is reinforced.
So far as officials can learn, the only ef-
fective reinforcements he can expect are
the battleship Pelayo, the armored cruiser
Carlos V., the protected cruiser Alfonso
XIII., and torpedo boat destroyers Audaux
and Proserpina. On account of the incon-
venience or convoying torpedo boats, those
in Spanish waters will probably be retained,
with the second-class battleships Vittoria
and Numancia, for the protection of the
coast.—Jaimes Gordon Bennett.
Help for the Wounded.
How to Stop Hemorrhages.— the Blood Vessels,
Cuts and Rough Lacerations—The Way to
Work Expeditiously and Effectively.
The fourth lecture in the course (to those
who have offered their services as
war nurses to the Red Cross Society, was on
‘Blood Vessels and Hemorrhages,” a sub-
ject with which the ‘‘aid’”’ must be famil-
iar if wounds are to be treated. Blood it-
self was first dwelt upon, as our nutritive
fluid, as supplying oxygen and heat, and
also as carrying off waste. As for the cor-
puscles, the red ones are the smaller, one
thirty-five thousandth of an inch in diame-
ter, in fact. What they lack in size they
make up in numbers, there being 50,000,-
000 of them, enough to girdle the earth
four times. The white ones are slightly
larger and less numerous, and pose as
fighters. They’re nurses in miniature, in-
deed, for even they fight the deadly germ—
give up their little lives right bravely, too.
The dead of this microscopic battlefield we
call pus. All listeners were interested in
learning that the bluish red (venous)
blood turned red as it met the air for the
very same reason that it does in the lungs,
purification.
THE HEART.
Our circulation, it seems shows our con-
dition just exactly as that of a newspaper
shows its condition. The heart is the cen-
tral power station ; and—elocutionists to
the contrary notwithstanding—this valu-
able organ is in the centre, simply inclin-
ing a bit to the left. Sad to relate, men
have the largest hearts by two ounces, the
masculine organ weighing eleven ounces.
Let us hope the quality of the feminine
heart more than makes up the disparity.
The impure blood enters at the right and
having gone to the lungs returns, and
makes exit at the left side ; veins lead to
the heart and arteries from it. There are
60 to 80 pulsations a minute. The capil-
laries as far as the present class are con-
sidered are not of much importance. All
veins have valves save those in the brain,
the chest and the abdomen. Hence vari-
cose veins occur only in the limbs.
HEMORRHAGE.
Hemorrhage is simply an escaping of
blood from the body. Blood from an
artery spurts. If you're too late to see
that, note if it is sprinkled about, as this
amounts to the same thing. If it is
smeared and of a darker, bluer tint, it is
venous blood. Blood from a capillary
simply oozes, comes out all over the wound
and is dark red. Hemorrhages are ar-
rested by both natural and artificial means.
That of a vein stops easily, because it col-
lapses, while the air alone will stop that of
capillary. Tears are better than clean
cuts ; and even the fainting of the patient
assists, as less blood is pumped and it clots
more easily. Of the artificial aids pressure
is the most important. Use the thumb
preferably, either at the wound or along
the course of the artery toward the heart.
During this time someone else must be pre-
paring a compress to be placed either on the
wound or above. A cartridge, a potato,
even a big knot in a bandage or rope
should be placed on the artery and tied,
when a cane, bayonet or the like is stuck
through and twisted, till it is tight, when
it is tied to the limb. This is the tourni-
quet, or Spanish windlass, as we now pre-
fer to call it. Of course, a suspender, or
the like does.
GOOD TO REMEMBER.
A good point to remember is that most
men who die on a battlefield, or in ordin-
ary crowds, die of hemorrhage. While we
have about one and one-half gallons of
blood in the body, it being about one-tenth
the weight, it is estimated that only about
three pints may be lost. Heat and cold
are useful—hot water or ice—for stopping
a flow from the capillaries. Patent medi-
cines for this purpose were discouraged, as
most of them injure the tissues. While
alcohol and turpentine are painful, they
are helpful, though alum was ranked as the
best styptic. Haste may make waste in
some cases, but with a hemorrage the
lack of it means death to the sufferer as a
usual thing.
LOCATION.
Proceedings were demonstrated on a
small boy. If the wound is on top of the
head, simply press it until the bandage can
be put on. If it’s in the temple, press the
carotid artery—the carotid on the side of
the wound. Not both, in pity’s name, or
the patient dies. To stop a hemorrhage of
the arm, press (even dig), right behind the
middle of the collar bone. A surgeon
ought to attend to the aided ones in ten
hours. To stop a bad hemorrhage of the
leg press the thumb over a point two
inches below where the bigartery passes out
of the abdominal cavity at the middle of
the groin. In every case the clothing
should be cut away, cut up the outside of
the limb. For a varicose vein in the leg
bandage the leg from the foot to the knee.
Plenty for young nurses to study, eh ?
Rank in the Army.
The highest grade in the Federal navy
at present is that of Rear Admiral. The
rank of Vice Admiral was created by Con-
gress in 1864 and bestowed upon David G.
Farragut. On July 25th, 1866, the rank
of Admiral was given to Farragut and on
the same day David D. Porter was made
vice admiral. Admiral Farragut died in
1870, and Vice Admiral Porter became ad-
miral. Upon the death of Admiral Porter,
in 1891, the rank of admiral and vice ad-
miral became extinct, leaving the grade of
rear admiral the highest in our navy.
It is highly probable that both of the ex-
tinct grades will be re-created during or at
the close of the war and the number of real
admiralships will be further increased to
give proper recognition to commanders
who shall have displayed exceptional skill
and prowess, says the Philadelphia Record.
in the present exultant mood of the Amer-
ican people the country over it is safe to
say that they will regard any distinction
which may be hereafter conferred upon
Admiral Dewey as brilliantly deserved ;
but we must wait until the war is over
before we can apportion all the honors won.
Cuba Must Have Freedom.
The Insurgents Urged by President Masso to Pre-
pare for a Decisive Blow Againt Spain.
The text of a proclamation issued by Bar-
tolome Masso, president of the Cuban re-
public, has reached Tampa Fla. Masso
strongly urges the autonomists, guerrillas
and Cubans leaning toward Spain to come
over to the Cuban ranks.” He assures them
that, with the aid of the United States
troops. a decisive blow to Spain is soon to
be struck and that the Cuban cause will
soon be won. He points out that all who
fail to join the Cuban forces before it shall
be too late must seek a home in some other
country.
Kingston, Jamaica, May 22.—Senor Dom-
ingo Mendez Capote, vice president of the
Cuban republic, with three companions,
arrived on Friday at Falmouth, Jamaica,
in a small boat from Santa Cruz, Cuba.
Senor Capote goes to Washington to com-
municate to President McKinley the views
of the Cuban government. He said that
the Cubans were thankful for the resolution
of the United States to free them from
Spain, but when the war was ended they
wonld insist on obsolute independence in
their own affairs. He added that the Cuban
commanders are waiting some definite step
by the American army and that if they
were given arms and supplies they could
clear the Spaniards out of Cuba.
The Charleston Sails.
Big Cruiser Passes Through the Golden Gate for
Manila.
The Charleston is well on her way to
Manila. The big cruiser passed through
the Golden Gate at San Francisco at 8:20
Sunday morning, after having been an-
chored in the stream all night. She ad-
justed her compasses at an early hour and
then passed up the bay through the Rac-
coon Straits and passed the docks on the
northern frontage of the city. Every
steam vessel in the harbor blew an au re-
voir to Captain Glass and the crew. None
of the forts in the harbor saluted the vessel
but the demonstration made hy the 6,000
soldiers gathered at the Presidio was tre-
mendous.
When the vessel was sighted coming
down the bay the soldiers gathered on the
beach to bid her bon voyage. They lined
the beach for a mile and cheer upon cheer
rang out from the men who-are to soon fol-
low the Charleston to the scene of admiral
Dewey’s triumph. The Charleston’s big
siren answered the boys on the beach time
and again. The whistling was heard from
one end of the city to the other.
The Oregon’s Great Record.
After a 13,000-Mile Journey She Needs no Re-
pairs at All
The navy department is proud of the rec-
ord made by the Oregon from an engineer-
ing point of view. The reports to the de-
partment from the ship show that she does
not need five cents worth of repairs to her
machinery after her 13,000 miles of contin-
uous run. The record issaid never to have
been equaled since the building of the first
iron warship. The Buffalo, which comes
with the Oregon from Brazil, is to he over-
hauled at Newport News, furnished with
armor, given a good battery of five-inch
guns, and, altogether, made a very effec-
tive modern cruiser. This will take about
two months.
——Clearfield Monitor : Work on the ex-
‘tension of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts-
burg railroad toward Butler is progressing
rapidly. The grading on the first eleven
miles will be ready for the rails within a
month all except the tunnel which it is ex-
pected will be finished by January 1st.
Preparations to attack the second contract,
secured by A. E. Patton, are going rapidly
forward and as soon as the grading on the
first section is completed several of the con-
tractors will move their men and outfits on
to the next job. As an exhibition of rapid
modern railway building, the work is well
worth visiting, and it reflects great credit
upon all concerned.
New Advertisements.
WALL PAPER.
_. Do you expect todo any paper-
ing? We will send you free a large
selection of samples from 3c. per
roll up, all new colorings and nov-
elties u to date. WE PAY
FREIGHT. We want an agent in
every town to sell on commission
from large sample books. No capi-
tal required. For samples or par-
ticulars, address
S. WOLF,
747-733 Ninth Ave., N. Y. City.
43-0-3m
Plumbing etc.
(moose
YOUR
PLUMBER
as you
chose your doctor—for ef-
fectiveness of work rather
than for lowness of price.
Judge of our ability as you
judged of his—by the work
already dene.
Many very particular
people have judged us in
this way, and have chosen
us as their]plumbers.
R. J. SCHAD & BRO.
No. 6 N. Allegheny St.,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
42-13-6t
AR tod olds :
Roofing.
NV IS THE TIME TO EXAMINE
YOUR ROOF.
During the Rough Weather that will be
experienced from now until Spring
you will have a chance to Examine
your Roof and see if it is in good
condition. Ifyou need a new one
or an old one repaired I am equipped
to give you the best at reasonable
rices. The Celebrated Courtright
in Shingles and all kinds of tin and
iron roofing.
W. H. MILLER,
42:38 Allegheny St. BELLEFONTE, PA.
Fine Groceries
JFINE GROCERIES.
Fine Teas, Fine Coffees,
Fine Spices,
Fine Syrups, Fine Fruits,
Fine Confectionery,
Fine Cheese,
Fine Canned Goods,
Fine Syrups,
Fine Dried Fruits,
Fine Hams,
Fine Bacon,
Fine Olives,
Fine Pickles,
Fine Sardines,
Fine Oil,
Fine Ketchups,
Fine Oranges,
Fine Lemons,
Fine Bananas,
But all these can talk for them-
selves if you give them a fair chance.
NEW FISH,
Bright Handsome New Mackerel,
New Caught Lake Fish,
Ciscoes,
Herring,
White Fish.
Lake Trout,
New Maple Sugar and Syrup,
Fine Canned Soups,
Bouillon, Oxtail,
Mock Turtle,
Vegetable,
Consomme, Mulligatawney,
Tomato, Chicken, Gumbo,
Queensware,
Enameled Ware,
Tin Ware,
Brooms and Brushes.
Best place to bring your produce
and best place to buy your goods.
SECHLER & CO.
421 BELLEFONTE, PA.
Saddlery.
> 000 $5,000 $5,000
——WORTH OF——
HARNESS, HARNESS, HARNESS,
SADDLES,
BRIDLES,
PLAIN HARNESS,
FINE HARNESS,
BLANKETS,
WHIPS, Ete.
All combined in an immense Stock of Fine
Saddlery.
sierte NOW IS THE TIME FOR BARGAINS......
To-day Prices
have Dropped
THE LARGEST STOCK OF HORSE
COLLARS IN THE COUNTY.
JAMES SCHOFIELD,
33-37 BELLEFONTE, PA.
Insurance.
[A COIDENT iE ol
HEALTH
INSURANCE,
THE FIDELITY MUTUAL AID ASSO-
CIATION
WILL PAY YOU
If disabled by an accident $30 to $100 per month
If you lose two limbs, $208 to £5,000,
If you lose your eye sight, $208 to £5,000,
If you lose one limb, $33 to $2,000,
If Fu are ill $40 per month,
If killed, will pay your heirs, $208 to £5,000,
If you die from natural cause, $100.
IF INSURED,
You cannect lose all your income when you are sick
or disabled by accident.
Absolute protection at a cost of $1.00 to $2.25
per month. leh
The Fidelity Mutual Aid association is pre-
eminently the largest and strongest accident and
health association in the United States.
It has $6,000.00 cash deposits with the States of
California and Missouri, which, together, with an
ample reserve fund and large assets, make its
certificate an absolute guarantee of the solidity of
protection to its members.
+ For particulars address
J. L. M, SHETTERLEY,
Secretary and General Manager,
42-10-1-y. San -Francisco,Cal,
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