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Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. i4, 1902
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FARM NOTES.
—By raking the fence corners and burn-
ing the materials many harboring places of
insects will be destroyed and the farm
made cleaner in appearance.
—Eggs for hatching should be kept in a
cool place, turned half over once a day,
and should be selected for perfect shape,
uniform size and from hens that are healthy
and active.
—When the pasture contains a large crop
of garlic go over the field with a mower
just before the seeds of the garlic mature,
or cut them down with a scythe. This
method will destroy them in one season.
The nearer the seeds approach maturity
the better, but they should not fully ma-
ture before they are cut down.
—The early clover is injured when cat-
tle are permitted on the field. There isa
temptation to allow cows to use the clover
field some, but any gain by so doing is al-
ways at the expense of loss in some other
manner. Cattle do much harm by tramp-
ling, for which reason not even the pasture
should be used until the grass has made
considerable growth. Close grazing should
never be allowed.
—Peach trees will stand more pruning
and cutting than any other kinds. The
tree bears fruit on wood of the previous
year’s growth and not on spurs, as with
some other trees. Keep the young growth
alive all through the centre of the tree,
thinning the outer growth so as to admit
light and air. Some of the young growth
should be cut back to a stump, about an
inch long, that new wood may form for the
following year’s fruitage.
—Compost is a term used for designat-
ing a mixture of manure, diet, leaves or
other materials that bave become decom-
posed and are in a fine condition. Those
who grow flowers prefer compost to manure.
A compost heap should be prepared now,
using one part horse manure and four parts
rich dir, mixing well. On this heap urine
should be poured occasionally, and the
mixture should also be worked over as
may be required.
—I¢ is possible to give an animal an
abundance of food and yet not supply its
wants. It is the amount of digestible mat-
ter in foods that fixes their value. When
hogs have a desire for coal, charcoal, rotten
wood, etc., the indications point to a possi-
ble lack of something required, which may
be the mineral elements, especially lime.
The feeding of wood ashes or ground bone
would no doubt satisfy the desires of the
animals. The food should also be im-
proved by the use of bran and ground oats.
—If an orchard is given az much care as
grain crops it would prove moe profitable
than grain. There would then be fewer
complaints of blight and insect attacks,
while the trees would live longer and pro-
duce more and better fruit. There are or-’
chards on many farms that bear every year,
though neglected, but the fact that such
orchards do not fail is strong evidence that
the proper varieties for the soil were se-
Jeoted and that with cultivation there
would be larger profits. :
_ —It is claimed that for the destruction
of the curculis, there is nothing equal to
jarring the trees and spraying, but good re-
sults have been obtained’ by dusting the
trees, after the blossoms fall, with a mix-
ture of one pint of crude carbolic acid and
50 pounds of dry ground land plaster, It
should be very fine and dry, well mixed,
and dusted over every portion of the tree.
The curculis is very destructive to plums,
and the use of such a. remedy as the mix-
ture mentioned will cost but little and it
may also prove as effective as has been
claimed for it.
‘~The plauting of fruit trees in spring
should be done with care, and labor should:
not be spared in the effort to do what is
proper. as a_good beginning is everything
with a tree. Order the trees now, to be
sent at a certain time, and insist that only
the varieties ordered be sent. The ground
should be prepared as soon as it can be
done, the stakes made ready, and the trees
set out as soon as they arrive. One of the
points to observe is not to allow the roots
to become dry. Cutaway all broken or
injured roots, and leave as little top as
possible, as the more top the greater the
work on the roots. The peach trees may
be trimmed off like clean sticks, and no
trees should have too many branches. Cut
off the young shoots if they are too. thick,
0 as to first secure good root growth be-
fore allowing a heavy top.
Feeding n 26-Foot Python.
* There are twenty five genera of the boa
family, the most important of which are
the two species knowu as the pythons.
They are of great size, some of them at-
taining a length of 30 feet. and are noted,
usually, for ‘their voracious appetite, but
.oscasionally this appetite fails and drastic
measures must be employed. Some time
ago the New York Zoological Society se-
cured a 26 foot python, which was placed
in the reptile house. It absolutely refused.
to eat anything, and" while it is possible for
a snake to refrain from food for a consider-
able period there is an end even to the en-
durance of a snake. As there seemed to be
no inclination on the part of the snake to
save itself from starvation, the authorities
decided that extreme measures must be
taken. The food, which consisted of two
rabbits and four guinea pigs, was prepared.
The animals were fastened to the end ofa
jong pole. The snake was firmly grasped
by twelve men and brought ont, in the cen-
tre of the reptile house. Its mouth was
Upeued and the food pushed into it by the
aid of the pole. The snake made violent
efforts to break away, and it was only by
the combined efforts of the men that he was
held quiet enough toallow the gastro nomi-
cal operation to be performed. He was then
put back into the cage to allow the proces
seslof digestion to resume.— Scientific Amer-
jean.
The Wrong Connection.
The telephone girl, and the bill clerk, to
whom she had promised her heart and
hand, were sitting in front of the fireplace
talking about the happy days to come
when they would be one. :
From one little detail to another the
talk finally drifted to the subject of light-
ing the fires in the morning. On this point
the young man was decided. He stated it
as his emphatic opinion that it was a wile’s
place to get up and start the fires and let
her poor, hard-working husband rest.
.- After this declaration there was silence
for the space of abont . three-quarters of a
second, Then the telephone girl thrust
out the finger encircled by her Sngagemens
ring and murmared sweetly, but firmly
/*tRivg off; please. You ‘have got von:
nected with the ‘wrong number.) —Salt
Lake Herald. .
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
Isis as bad to slave at work as to slave
at pleasure. But God may forgive what
people cannot help.—Lazarre.
Peroxide is antiseptic and healing. Its
bleaching qualities make it feared by the
average woman. In the hands of those
who are familiar with its virtues and the
many uses to which it can be put it is most
excellent. Raw flesh will heal quickly
under its magic touch, and pimples will
disappear without leaving scars. A weak
solution suitable for toilet purposes can be
purchased by the ounce, but unless iv is
kept in a dark colored bottle and away
from the light it loses some of its power.
Some women prefer to buy it in sealed
packages and full strength and dilute it
one-third with water when using it.
It can be applied to any part of the skin,
but should be kept away from eyebrows,
lashes and hair about the face because of
its bleaching power. For superfluous hair
upon the skin it can be used with profit, as
it takes ous the color by repeated applica-
tion and when used often enough will
weaken the hair.
Mercerized chambreys, etamines and lin-
ens are the most popular for colored shirt
waists in linen color,blue and pink. Yokes
mark the difference between this year’sand
last’s colored shirt-waists, sometimes only
in the back, sometimes both back and
front.
A deep gray with moss-green roof and
doors and window casings white, is among
the latest color schemes for exterior paint-
ing for a suburban house, and very effect-
ive it is, too.
Two points about lamps for house use
are well to bear in mind. First, that the
correct light for a student’s table is low
and concentrated, while a higher, more
spreading lamp is best where a large room
or dark stairway is to be lighted.
. Remember not to call a room without
books a library just because it is fashion-
able to have a library. Names should be
given rooms consistent with their fornish-
ings and uses. So, too, there have been
known dining rooms without china, where
the comfort of the room has been sacrificed
to the result in looks.
The advance spring millinery importa-
tions, just from Paris, show a profusion of
Jace used in their trimming.
Narrow turn-overs arc more than ever
the proper collar finish. What may be
called narrow turn-ups are also the proper
corresponding finish for sleeves.
Redness of the nose may be due to tight
lacing poor circulation or indigestion. Teo
cure get at the cause. A temporary relief
may be had from a hot foot bath. A lo-
tion made of one drachm of boracic acid in
in two and a half ounces of water is also
considered good.
To Make a Lady's Short Sweater—Thiee
skeins Scotch yarn, 1 pair rubber needles,
No. 6; 1 set steel, No, 16. Begin with
small steel needles, cast on 108 stitches,
knit 2, seam 2 for about 2 inches, then put
on larger needles (rubber, No. 6) and knit
‘“‘brioche’’ 65 to 70 rows—80 if wrist ie
very long. Knit 33 stitches for shoulder,
cast off 42 for neck, then knit the other
shoulder, and when coming back cast on
42 neck stitches; continue ‘‘brioche’’ 65 to
70 rows, finishing with belt on small need-
les; knit 2, seam 2 for about 2 inches.
Sleeve—69 stitches ‘‘brioche’’ 93 to 100
rows, finishing with small needles; knit 2
seam 2 for abont 2 inches. . For the neck
take up as many stitches as possible, from
112 to 124, according to size, knit 2 seam 2
for collar as high as desired, using 4 small
needles as in knitting stockings. Sleeves
can be knit in or sewed in after they are
made. ‘‘Brioche’’ stitch in any. number,
divisible by 3, thread in front of needle,
slip 1, knit 2 stitches together. Always
keep the thread in front of the needle.
For your sumnmer tailor made gown you
could have nothing more stylish than the
“Gibson’’ suit is the most striking and
original : the back is out in a single piece,
whieh extends beyond she width of the
back a little—over the sleeves; the front.
whieh is a continuation of the back, is
brought over the shoulders, down to the
waist line, where it is tucked or pleated
into shape. It is one of the prettiest,
plainest, quietest styles imaginable and
gives the straight line from the shoulder
to the waist that is so'good just now.
' The hats of the hour ate inclined to be
small and are worn very much forward.
The prettiest spring hat seen so far isa
toque covered closely all over with tiny
white Banksia roses. The craze for Irish
lace of every description is a noticeable
feature of fashion.
Dak lines under the eyes are caused by
the congestion of the veins of the part. No
outward application will have more than
a very transitory effect. The cause of the
dark lines may be overwork, care, anxiety,
prolonged study, lack of sleep ov any
trouble which will drain the system and
deplete the nerve centers. Anaemic sub-
jects are aps to have dark lines. |
Massage will relieve the congestion, and
bathing in cold water with gentle friction
around the eyes is sometimes useful. A
little turpentine, rubbed into the skin once
daily, with great care so that it does not
touch the eye, will sometimes stimulate
the circulation and relieve the congestion,
but, generally speaking, the cause for the
dark circles should be ascertained and
treated. ; wg A
Where there is sudden inflammation of
the eyes, red lids or any irritation pro-
ceeding from cold, or due to any external
source of irritation, a simply remedy is
frequently all that is required.
‘Of these the best known is the old cam-
phor eyewash : 2
Alum Eyewash. Borax, 1 grain,
Camphor water not spirits of camphor 1
ounce.
Pour a few drops of this solution into the
eyes two or three times a day. :
Another old-fashioned 1emedy, easy to
get at any time, consists of a wash made by
pouring hot water on tea leaves; let the
leaves steep and cool, and use the liquid to
bathe the eyes. 2
An alum mixture will often relieve in-
flamed eyes. Make it thus :
Recipe for Simple Eyewash. Alum, 1
grain. Si ’
Pare water, 1 ounce.
Drop a little into the eves morning and
night. :
"But these recipes are only to be used for
temporary relief. When there is inflam-
mation, weakness or pain in theeyes, head-
aches or neuralgia, that ordinacy methods
do not releive, go to an experb oculist.
Don’t take chances with your precious eyes!
Buy Your Harness at Home.
Buy at home ; save money and see what
you are getting. Don’t buy a cat in a bag
nor from pictures ; come and see the goods.
Low prices on reliable Harness.
We fit the harness to the horse.
The habit of sending away for your hat-
pess wants is not justified, either in the
advantage of prices or better quality. All
we ask is that you compare our goods at
the same prices, and let the man with the
best goods and prices get your orders. We
do not expect that you patronize us because
we are neighbors and friends, but we would
be glad to have you at least call in and
give us a fair opportunity to convince you
that it is to vour best interest to give us
your harness business. We want your bar-
ness business, and if we can sell you better
barness for less money we think we ought
to have it.
We are here to do business and, as we
buy for cash. we can supply your harness
wants for less money then any other con-
cern in the county—big or small. Come
in and let us figure with you on your
wants. x
Its not assuming too much to say, that
having an experience of forty years in the
business we are better qualified to know
your wants and to manufacture what you
want than you are likely to find in seed
stores or hardware stores. Is not the local
harnessmaker entitled to all of your trade?
Yon never think, when your harness breaks
or your collars need repairs, of taking them
to feed stores or hardware men. Why
not take care of the harnessmaker at home,
who is obliged to do your repair work?
Practice what you have taught—proteot
your local dealers.
SPECIAL OFFER.
For the next 60 days we will close out
all of oor Robes, Blankets and Bells at
cost to make room for the biggest line of
heavy and light harness we have ever
placed before the public.
We carry a fine line of men’s working
gloves and mittens. Every purchaser of
$5 is entitled to a present of a useful
piece of merchandise.
Thirty-two vears in business in Belle-
fonte is a safe guarantee. We are here to
stay. Respt. yours,
JAMES SCHOFIELD,
43-37 Pa.
Enovrmons Beds of Salt.
Rice county, Kansas, is nearly in the
centre of the State. It lies almost on the
‘border * of that western part of Kansas
where, as a well-known writer has said,
‘‘crops are very uncertain, and the farmer
must work ten days in the week and sleep
only on holidays.” Its population in
1900—14,745—increased in ten years only
994 souls. Bat Rice county has attained a
claim to distiction that is almost unique
in this country. It is mining rock salt
nearly a quarter of a mile under ground,
and bas dug out of this mineral wealth
about as many streets as there are in Lyons,
the capital of the county. a little city of
some 1700 inhabitants.
Fourteen years ago some prospectors
were searching for natural gas or oil, when,
much to their surprise, their drill, ata
depth of 860 feet, penetrated a body of
rock salt. They kept their drill at work,
but it was not until they had reached a
depth of 1100 feet that they got to the bot-
tom of the thick bed of salt. Several years
later a company was organized to work the
salt bed, and soa shaft was sunk about
three-fourths of a mile from the city of
Lyons. The shaft penetrated the bed of
salt to a depth of 265 feet, the bottom of
the shaft being 1065 feet below the. sur-
face. There were thirty or forty feet of
salt below the bottom of the shaft.
One vein of salt eighteen feet in thick-
ness and of exceptional purity was select-
ed for mining, aud it is throngh this vein
that the underground works have been ex-
tended. The bottom of the shaft is the cen-
tre of operations, and the works extending
from it resemble the rectangular streets of
a well-laid-out town. The main streets
are twenty-five feet in width, running east
and west. At frequent intervals they are
crossed by other streets of the same width,
running north and south. From these cross
streets rooms or chambers are dug out, each
baving a width of fifty feet; and. between
each room and the one next to it a pillar of
salt is left, fifty feet wide, to support the
ceiling, or, in other words, the salt roof
over the workings, which is only about ten
feet ahove the floor. As this bed is yield-
ing nearly 500,000 barrels of salt every
year it will be readily understood that the
ramifications of these streets far below the
surface have become quite extensive.— New
York Snn,
The Patrick Murder Trial.
The Patrick murder trial is dragging its
slow length along in New York City, and
incidentally revealing a criminal combina-
tion which goes far to prove that truth is
stranger than fiction.
It is alleged that Albert T. Patrick, a
middle-aged lawyer of undoubted acute-
ness and resolution, attempted to poison
one of his clients, an old millionaire Texan
—William Marsh Rice. = The poison was
administered, but failed of its effect. Then
Patrick influenced Jones, a colored valet
in the service of Mr. Rice, to make an end-
ing of his master with chloroform. He
had acquired a hypnotic influence over
Jones, who is a weak and shambling char-
acter, and has told contradiotory stories..
On the day following the death of Rice,
with whom Patrick had maintained some
sort of intimate relations, a check for $25,-
000, signed by Rice in favors of Patrick,
was sent to a banking house. In'the body
of this check Patrick’s first name was put
down as ‘‘Abert,” while in the indorsing
signature it wasspelled correctly as Albert.
ben the check was returned to Patrick
he indorsed it with the misspelled name
and returned it to the bank. The Teller
began to have suspicions and telephoned
to Mr. Rice’s residence. Jones answered
the call and said that his master was ill.
On being questioned more closely, however,
he admitted that his master had been dead
for twenty-four hours. Meanwhile, on
the Saturday before these events, checks
amounting to $100,000, with signatures
resembling the check for $25,000, bad been
cashed by Patrick withont exciting any
alarm. The Coroner immediately set about
an inquiry, and the case assumed an even
more serious tone when, after Patrick had
presented a will made by Mr. Rice in bis
favor, three other wills were produced and
litigation began. The millionaire seems
to have had a purpose to devote a part of
his millions toa Texas educational institu-
tion, but the will Patrick presented made
him the inberitor of the money.
The theory of the prosecution is that the
weakling Jones, Rice’s valet, got his ‘'mas-
ter out of the way by deliberate chloroform
murder, being hynotized by Patrick. This
accomplished, Patrick forged and put forth
the will making himself the inberitor of
Rice’s millions designed for an educational
bequest. VRE iY
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We have rare bargains in 2 New Top
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1 New Open Buggy, with or without
rubber tires.
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Flour and Feed.
(ors Y. WAGNER,
BrockeeHorr MiLrs, Benueroxts, Pa.
Manufacturer,
. and wholesaler
" and retailers of
ROLLER FLOUR,
FEED, CORN MEAL, Etc.
Also Dealer in Grain.
Manufactures and has on hand at all
times the following brands of high grade
flour
WHITE STAR,
OUR BEST.
HIGH GRADE,
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nix Mills high grade brand.
i, The only place in the county where
SPRAY, :
an. extraordinary fine grade of
Spring wheat Patent Flour can be
obtained.
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FEED OF ALL KINDS,
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All kinds of Grain bought at office.
Exchanges Flour for Whest.
OFFICE and STORE, - Bishop Street,
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Just a few words to let you know that I
am still in business and better prepared
than ever to serve you.
1 will be found
at the old stand, with the same old methods
and fine workmen that have been so satis-
Jactory lo you in the past. :
Remember, that Robert H. Montgomery
is ‘the successor to Eckenroth & Mont
momery and is in business and solicits
yours patronage.
Yours :
ROBERT H. MONIGOMERY,
Crider's Stone Building,
47-3 ad
BELLEFONTE, PA:
G=r THE
| BEST MEATS.
You save nothing by buying, ; , thin
‘or gristly meats. 1 use only A int iv
LARGEST, FATTEST, CATTLE,
‘and supply Iny customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, best blood and muscle mak-
. ing Bteaks.and Roasts. My prices are
no higher than poorer meats are eise-
where ‘ SE :
* always have
~ ——DRESSED POULTRY,——
Guwe in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want. in
Tay My Suor.
P. L. BEEZER. ':
High Street, Bellefonte.
43-34-Ty
AVE IN
YOUR MEAT BILLS.
There is no reason why you should use poor
meat, or pay exorbitant prices for tender,
juicy steaks. Good meat is abundant here-
abouts, because good cattle, sheep and calves
are to be had.
WE BUY ONLY THE BEST
and we sell only that which is good. We don't
romise to give it away, but we will furnish you
Boop MEAT, at prices that you have paid
elsewhere for very poor. :
GIVE US A TRIAL—
and'see ‘if you don’t'save in the long run and
have better Meats, Poultry and Game (insea-
son) than have been fu lahed OW pic ics
" ve Deen GETTIC § KREAMER,
« ©" Bush HouseBlock
Bruixronre, Pa.
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