Bellefonte, Pa., January 20, 1905. A a ATE RE RENE. FARM NOTES. —Leaves should be thrown on the poul- try-house floor, not only because they af- ford scratching material, in which the fowls can exercise, but also because they prevent draughts of air on the floor and assist in keeping the house warm. —It is useless to attempt to keep win- ter squash that has been injured by frost. Those that are uninjured are best kept on shelves in layers, in a location where the temperature does not fall below 40 degrees. Be careful that they are not kept too warm. —Parsnips are best stored in mounds in the open air. Lay them on hoards slight- ly raised above danger from water, cover with straw after heaping them, and then cover the straw with earth well pressed to the straw.: Leave a wisp in the top to allow gases to escape. They are excellent in winter for the table and for stock, and are usually but slightly injured by frost. —One of the safest and best ways to send a few choice cut flowers to a distance is to cut slips in potatoes and insert the flower stems, taking care that they are firmly fastened in and supported by a little cotton or paper. An ordinary potato will keep most flowers fresh for two weeks or more in a moderate temperature. Potatoes can also be used in floral decorations, be- ing disguised by leaves and flowers. —There is no rule governing the feeding of linseed meal. Where an animal is un- accustomed to it, the proper mode is to begin with a gill at each meal and gradual- ly increase the quantity until as much as a pint is given. Too much linseed meal has a cathartic effect, and should such be noticed the quantity should be reduced. The best results from its use is when it is fed in connection with other foods. —The richest milk is the last drawn from the udder, and for that reason alone the dairyman should strip closely. Changes of food, when made suddenly, will also cause the cows to fall off in yield, but in the winter the cause may also he due to ex- treme cold and insufficient shelter; while in summer the use of vetting in the win- dows, to protect the stables against the entrance of flies and other insects, will serve to prolong the milking period. --Give calves a comfortable yard or pen, whether raised by hand or by the cow. Confined in close quarters the floor beneath should be cleaned often and littered abun- dantly. It is as cruel as unprofitable to keep them tied in cold, filthy places. Two calves may often be profitably raised on one cow. Always scald or cook the meal for young calves before mingling it with any kind of milk or feed, as raw meal is very liable to produce scours. Wheat flour boiled in milk is a wholesome food. —Although milk is, on the average, about 87} per cent. water, it really does not satisfy thirst when used as a drink. It may at first seem satisfactory, but as the milk coagulates and digestion begins the heat of the stomach is raised and a feverish thirst comes on. A noted scien- tis claims that the temperature in the call’s stomach often rises to 104 degrees. The young of all animals, as well as children, crave pure, cold water. It will often stop the crying of a child. —I¢t is difficult to make a proper com- parison between corn fodder and hay, be- cause the quality of either largely depends upon the curing. Bright, green corn fod- der, shredded or cut fine is superior to im- properly-cured bay; while good bay is far superior to corn fodder that was not cus down until the leaves turned yellow. If fodder is tender and juicy the animals will prefer the stalks to the leaves, as the stalks are rich in sugar, but much depends upon the stage of growth at which the stalks were harvested. —All animals on the farm prefer foods that may not be relished by some others. The farmer should take advantage of this fact and utilize all the materials that might be wasted if there were some ani- mals that would not accept them. A . jndicious use of the feed cutter, mixing a listle bran or meal with the cut food, and tempting the animals with a variety, will render serviceable even such foods as wheat straw. There are several modes of serving corn fodder that will make it ac- ceptable to dainty animals. —There is no safe method of determin- ing the butter qualities of a herd except by churning the milk of each cow separately. The bulk of the milk is not a sure indica- tion. Very often the cow that gives but a moderate quantity of milk may yield the larger amount of butter. In breeding up a herd a knowledge of the characteristics of each cow will enable the dairyman to breed for the best results, as the superior cows may be used for breeding to thorough- bred bulls. It does not pay to keep the calves unless the merits of their sires and dams are well known. —The lambs that come in February are the ones that give large profits. The earlier they come the better, as the differ- ence of two or three weeks in reaching the market may affect the value a hundred per cent. The young lamb must have warm quarters and be forced in growth. It is easily chilled if the weather is severely cold, and should such happen it will re- ceive a check from which it will not soon recover. Warmth is more essential at first than feed, but after the lamb gets a start it will grow rapidly if the ewe. gives an abundance of miik. : —When the nights are extremely cold, instead of leading the horse to the trough, breaking the crust of ice, and filling the trough with water which is near the freez- ing point, get a pail and add a little warm water to tbat which is cold, letting the animal drink from the pail. The feeling of comfort will be made apparent by the action of the horse, which will drink satis- factorily and not as if chilled throogh when drinking with his nose in the ice. If a few handfuls of meal are added to the tepid water it will be still more palatable and refreshing. —Do not wait until spring opens to procure seeds, but attend to that matter as early as possible. It is always better to rely on the seedsmen for pure seeds than to depend upon those grown on the place, for the reason that unless the greatest care be exercised in keeping all varieties separate no reliance can be placed on the home- grown seed. Seedsmen are compelled to pay attention to such matters, and are always enabled, by their attention to select- ing and growing seeds, to have in stock a hetter quality of seeds than can the farm- er. Parity is absolutely essential as a quality in seeds, and hy overlooking this fact farmers and gardeners often lose more than they gain by not purchasing from the seedsmen. : FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. A DAILY THOUGHT. “True worth is in being not seeming — In doing each day that goes by Some little good, not in dreaming, Of great things to do by and by— For whatever men say in their blindness, And despite all the fancies of youth There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.” Bathroom Rugs.—The latest craze, even among women of means, is to make their own ‘bathroom rugs. Many of these ruge are made on frames which come for the purpose. They are made of tin with knobs on which the warp can be stretched and through these linen threads stripes of cot- ton cloth are woven back and forth as tightly as possible. If made in a sym- metrical manner the rug is pretty as well as serviceable. The chief charm about the rug is that it is washable and will stand water, which is apt to be spilled on a bath- room floor. ~ The cloth strips are made of cotton, in various colors, cut and sewed to- gether like old-fashioned carpet rags. A fringe is netted in of linen warp. Blue and white rugs of this variety are popular, warm and do not fade. Another rug that is largely made for bathrooms is the result of cotton strips sewed together and knitted on large nee- dles. Asa rule one color is used for the body and a border of a contrasting shade is knitted in about two inches from the end. The rug when finished is three-quarters of a yard wide and a yard and a balf long. A fringe is knotted in the ends of carpet warp theshade of the principal material used in the rug. These same rugs are used for porch rugs, as if left out in the rain they are not injured. Many women bave already started this for winter work and several rugs will be used on one porch next sumwer. Yellow and white is par- ticularly pretty fora porch rug and the work is pretty pick-up work for a fall and winter afternoon. White cotton cloth can be cut intostrips and partly dyed the de- sired shade. Therugs that are made hit and miss do not soil as easily as the plain ones, but lack a certain style that a plain center with a colored border gives. In particular the yellow center with a white border is effective and goes well with near- ly all furnisure and the nickel and enamel fitting of a bashroon. ne TEN COMMANDMENTS. 1. Make your household oce harmon- ious whole, no matter how small the scale. 2. Use only what you can comfortably afford in good quality and ample quantity. 3. Let your home appear bright and sunny. It is not easy to be unpleasant in a cheerful room. 4. Treat your servants wisely and kindly, and it will be impossible for them to either impose or oppose. 5. Have time for everything and be never in a harry. 6. A certain formality is necessary to save everyday life from triviality, and freedom from looseness. 7. Do not forget that ‘‘society’’ is the death of home life—hospitality its flower. 8. Know how to talk and how to lis- ten, how to entertain and how to amuse. 9. Have many interests and no stud- ies. 10. Do not forget—your home should not ouly be a well-conducted dormitory and boarding place, but truly a home, the centre and focus of all interest, pleasure and happiness for everybody connected with it,— Harper's Bazar. Rab all rusty places on iron with ker- osene oil. Wicker seats and backs of chairs are easily cleaned with salt and water. Varnished woodwork can be easily cleaned and brightened with crude oil. Any brickwork rinsed off with ammonia and water and then carefully dried will be wonderfully brightened by the process. A few drops of alcohol rubbed on the inside of lamp chimneys will remove all trace of greasy smoke when water alone is of no avail. Dots are not dead. Indeed, one of the most attractive nov- elties is a heavy pongee with dots embroid- ered flatly in silk of exactly the same shade. These dots, while not small, are nothing so large as a dime. They look to be a half-inch in diameter and occur at in- tervals of about three inches, This fabric costs $1.25 a yard, and while it is shown with the snitings, it is as suitable for dresses. For immediate wear in the South it is desirable, It takes the most beautiful colors. There’s an exquisitely soft light blue and a faintly rosy lilac that is altogether be- witching, not to mention the colors which have already been mentioned in reference to other materials. A WoRD ABOUT HATS. Paris will push the colored hat differing { from the color scheme of the gown, a fash- ion quite diverse to the present mode here. Where the hat is of the same hue of the gown it will be either much lighter or or much darker, so that a certain amount of contrast may be secured. Colored bats will be distinctly the mode and even now and here black bats are not worn save with black or white costumes or to emphasize a very light or brilliant gown; they are releg- ated to the use of the masses. The amazon hats now heing shown in Paris are of the bairy or smooth felt, the former being more appropriate for rough- surfaced costumes, while the smooth go properly with broadcloths and other smooth-surfaced materials. Nearly all are light, some are white, and more brown ish than gray are tones shown in them. Yellows and greens or trimmings the same solor as the hat are used in trimming them. Stiff felt bats with wide brimsare often- trimmed with quilled ribbon rou in at; the lower edge. the upper being spread in tiny organ plaits. This ribbon is usually of the double-faced variety with the diverse colorings, one on the inside and the other on the outside. : White ribbons are much used ip milli- nery, aigrettes, flowers, leaves or plames occompanying them, save in the fluted trimming described above. Pheasant feathers formed of tai] feathers only, and arranged in long narrow effects, are smart and appear dyed in all colors. The feather novelty of the season in Paris is the white ostrich and pheasant feathers, and a few of the white peacock feathers have been worn in New York. A new toque, the latest thing in Paris, has no brim at all at the back, hut ag the front the brim of the cuarled-up type is nearly three inches high, and the same height at the sides also, but from the mid- dle of the sides it slopes down until at the center of the back there is none left. Limit of Human Brain, It Has Been Reached, Says a Noted Professor. Professor W. I. Thomas is inclined to think that the limit of the human hrain has been reached. The human race, brain and all, he regardsas a sort of toar de force of Nature, not at all likely to be re- peated or further evolved. As to brain development in the past, which may be sup- posed to indicate further development in the fature, Professor Thomas is skeptical regarding it. According to him, the sav- age’s brain is intrinsically quite as good as the white man’s. The latter’s superiority he regards as due to the ‘‘mere dominance of incident.”” What this means will, per- haps, appear from the following paragraph, quoted from Professor Thomas’ article on - the subject in The Forum: He says: “In making the human species Nature apparently exhausted her resources. The developments of hands freed from loco- motion and a brain out of proportion to bodily weight are tours de force, and, so to speak, an after-thought which put the heaviest strain possible on the materials employed, and even diverted some organt from their original design. A number o ailments, like hernia, appendicitis and ut erine displacement, are due to the ‘fac that the erect posture assumed when th hands were diverted from locomotion to pre- hensile uses put a strain not originally contemplated on certain tissues and organs. Similarly, the proportion of idiocy and in- Fanity in the human species shows that Natare had reached the limit of elasticity in her materials and began to take great risks. The brain is a delicate and elahor- ate organ on the structural side, and in these cases it is not put together properly or it gets hopelessly out of order.’’ BRAIN WEIGHT NO TEST. In brain weight, Professor Thomas goes on to say, all races are, broadly speaking, in the same class, and there is apparently no saperiority in modern over ancient times. ‘‘Brain weight is no very good test of intelligence, any way, for brains, like timepieces, may be very small if they work well. But it does show that Nature has puehed the evolutionary prooesson the structural side to te limit of safety in all races alike; that difierences between races and historical times in this respect are slight at best, and that we must turn to the show of intelligence—the work which the brain will do —among different races if we are to find any difference in intelligence at all.” An Angel's Footprints, The following article published in the last issue of the Popular Science Monthly by David Starr Jordan: Ir the years from 1814 to 1825 Johann Rapp was leader and prophet of the religious sect of Harmonists located on the Wabash river, at New Harmony, Ind. In 1825 the property of this community was purchased by the col- ony founded by Robert Owen and William Maclure, and the Harmonists under Rapp removed to their new home, at Economy, Pa. Rapp had a way of miraculously appear- ing in the harvest field and in similar places, seemingly springing out of the ground. This he did literally, for it is said his successors found a number of tunnels leading from his house outward and open- ing in unsuspected places. Among other forms of divine guidance Rapp bad a visit each morning from an angel, who came bare- footed and stood before him on a large stone, giving him directions for the affairs of the day. This stone is still preserved. It was presented to the Museum of the University of Indiana by the late Professor Richard Owen, son of Robert Owen, of Lanark, the founder of the second colony of New Harmony. This stone in Rapp’s time showed clearly the prints of the angel’s feet, and these , a little worn, are represented on the stone as it is preserved today. Money Cost of Russia’s War. That Russia’s total expenditure for the war in the East totals $364,000,000 is shown by a statement of Russian finances farnished in connection with the approach- ing Russian war loans in Paris and Berlin. The expenses of the war up to November 23rd amounted to $238,000,000, of which $161,500,000 was for the army, $41,000,000 for the navy and $35,500,000 for various military requirements, making about $22, 500,000 per month. The outstanding credits up to the same time were $126,- 000,000, of which $83,000,000 was for the army, $31,000,000 for the navy and $12,- 000,000 for miscellaneous expenses. That makes the total war expenditures for the year $364,000,000. The statement then shows shat the Treasury possesses $149,000,000 and that there is a stock of gold amounting to $620,000,000 to secure the note ocircula- tion. A Nation Without Rhenmatism. A writer in France de Demain, Paris, says | that rheumatism is practically unknown in Japan. This condition “is explained by the extraordinary sobriety of the race, the members of which scarcely ever touch meat and live practically on rice and dried fish. Add to this a passion for water under all of its forme, for not only do the Japanese take two or three daily baths in all seasons, but they drink such a quantity of pure water that there is a resultant lavage of stomach and kidneys.’ Satisfaction. Mrs. Upmore—Yon found a house to suit you at last, did you? Mrs. Highmus —Yes. I found one yesterday morning, and I amused myself the rest of the day by going around among the real estate agents and asking them if they had an eligible flat to rent to a family with four- teen children. You don’t know hew =zch fun it was to watch them go into connip- tion fits.—Chicago Tribune. The White Elephant in Japan, Formerly the Man Who Discovered One Was Made a Noble. The day was in Siam when the lucky man who discovered a white elephant was raised to the rank of nobility, and in case of capture, very likely was given one of the king’s gross of daughters in marriage. In the old days the catching of such an elephant was a signal for a general holi- day-making and feasting: nobles were sent to the jungle to guard it, and ropes of silk were considered the only suitable tether for an animal entitled to such deferential treatments. When My Lord the elephant had rested at the end of his silken tether sufficiently to have become reconciled to his encom- passed condition and respectful man, he was taken in much glory to Bangkok, where, alter being paraded and salnted, be was lodged in a specially prepared palace; he was sung to and danced before, given exalted titles, shaded by golden umbrellas and decorated with trappings of great value. In fact the white elephant was once made a great deal of, but never really worshipped, as some writers have t declared. It is still very highly prized by the king because of its rarity, and though capture is unusual enough to create ex- citement, yet popular rejoicing and honors for the catoher do not nowadays attend the event. But the white elephants continue to stand unemployed in the royal stables at Bangkok, where western ideas are becom- ing evident in electric lighting and trol- ley cars. There were four in the royal stables at the time of my visit, leading lives of luxurious ease. The real local consequence of the white elephant rests in it being to Siam what the eagle is to America, the lion is to England—the na- tional emblem. On a scarlet background it forms the Siamese imperial flag, and gives name to one of the highest orders of merit in the gift of the king. Deaths From Violence. Statistics gathered during the year 1903 show that the loss of life in the United States from violent canses was as follows: In railroad accidents, 4,090; in marine disasters, 1,935; from fires, 1,792; by drowning, 2,471; from explosions, 736; from falling buildings, ete., 474; from electricity, 156; from accidents in mines, 788; from cyolopes and storms, 487; by lightning, 139. Altogether no less than 13,068 persons met with a violent death by acoident. Among those enumerated as having been burned to death were the 576 victims of the fire in the Iroquois theatre, Chicago. This by no means completes the list of casualties. Daring the same peroid there were 8,970 cases of murder and homicide; 4,952 persons were killed during quarrels; highwaymen killed 406, and fifty-three of the robbers were killed themselves; strikes led to the death of thirty-five, and riots to thirty-eight; seventy-eight were killed while resisting arrest; self-defense led to thirty-three deaths; jealonsy was the cause in 228 cases, and 254 infants were killed because not wanted in this world; 302 per- sons committed homicide while 1n a state of intoxication, and insane persons killed 140; in 3,451 instances the circumstances which led to the homicide are not known. Of the murderers, 123 were legally execnt- ed and forty-seven were lynched. In the city of Newark, N.J., during 1903, the deaths from other than natural causes were: Asphyxia, twenty-three; burns, thirty-one; casualties, 128; drown- ed, nineteen; accidental poisoning, five; wounds, one; suicide, sixty-seven, making a total of 274. ¥ Wasn't Wise. 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NASAL TATA {unr Y. WAGNER, Brockeruorr Mis, BELLeroNTE Pa, Manufacturer, and wholesaler and retailers of ROLLER FLOUR, FEED, CORN MEAL, Fie. 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, VICTORY PATENT, FANCY PATENT—formerly Phos- nix Mills high grade brand. mms The only place in the county where SPRAY, an extraordinary fine grade of Shring wheat Patent Flour can be obtained. mp ALSO: INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD. FEED OF ALL KINDS, Whole or Manufactured. All kinds of Grain bought at office. Exchanges Flour for Wheat. OFFICE and STORE, - Bishop Street, Bellefonte, MILL =f. ROOPSBURG. 47-19 AN NA TATA TAI TA TASTY
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