RS A ROTA ST SRR LC Bellefonte, Pa., March 31, 1905. ——————————————— FARM NOTES. —Radishes are usually ready for use in six weeks from sowing. . —Don’ trim the cherry trees now. Wait till June and then be light handed. —Cold frames are usefal for forwarding lettuce and cabbage in spring or early sum- mer. : —To Dleed the grapevines by catting during March, April or May is bad management. —Probably no other small fruit will give more weight of orop for the space it occupies than the currant. —When the implement pulverizes the ground toa great depth the warm air comes in contact with a body cooler than itself, the water in the soil condensing into drops, which partially answers in place of rain. The deeper we pulverize, therefore, the greater the amount of moisture collect: ed. —The Courts have decided that bees do not injure froit, and that they are bene- ficial in distributing pollen. The question now being considered is thas, if they dis- tribute pollen, cannot diseases also be car- ried by the bees from one tree to the others, which is claimed by many to be a fact ? —When ditches or streams are crooked they do not cause inconvenience in the pastare, bus where the land is cultivated they are an annoyance when plowing or mowing. By placing the tile or pipe In the ditches, and covering them, much valuable land may be saved and the field work ren- dered easier. —If the sapply of bay is becoming short the use of mixed hay and straw or fodder will lessen the amount of hay re- quired, but the cub foods should be rein- forced by adding a little more cornmeal, bran and cottonseed meal to the rations. All changes of food for cows should be made gradually. Much dissatisfaction may exist when cows are purchased, owing to the change made in removing the cows. The beat milkers will sometimes fall off in yield when taken to a strange place. A change in the kinds of food, when made suddenly, will alzo affect cows in tbe amount of milk yielded. These facts should also be con- sidered by those who purchase fresh cows to take the place of those that become dry. —Where a few melons, squashes or cu- cumbers are to be grown the next summer the plan of making the hills during the early spring, if the weather permits, 18 practiced. The ground is dug out two feet deep and four feet square. A mixture of one pars manure and one of dirt is filled in and well trampled, packing or trampling in as much manure and dirt as possible, then hilling up. Later in the spricg these hills are spaded and left until time for planting the seed, when they are worked over again. —It will be an advantage to have the manure heap‘‘heat’’ until thorough decom- position of the material has been effected, but the heating should not be allowed to progress until the heap ‘‘fire fangs.” By . forking the manure over, and throwing the coarser portions to the centre, the whole mass can .be gradually reduced toa fine condition, which will not only render it more available as piant food, bus also en- able the farmer to handle and spread it more easily. The cost of manure is not alone in the materials, bus in the labor of loading, hauling, and broadcasting on the land. —The potato crop is probably the most exacting in its requirements of labor at special times, of any that the Northern farmer can grow. In cultivating, destroy- ing bugs and harvesting, a little delay may involve the loss of everything that has heretofore been done. All these operations are going on while labor is needed in culti- vating corn. Hence farmers who make a specialty of one crop cannot grow the other extensively. A large orchard in bearing also interferes with success in growing potatoes. The harvesting and marketing of one is pretty sure to be nearly simul- taneous with that of the other. —Give the cow all the food she can eat at regular periods, and weigh the milk. About two pounds of milk make one quart. . If preferred, the milk may be measured. Compare the cost of the food with the the sum obtained for the milk, and the value of the cow as a producer can then be estimated. Test her also with other cows, and it there is one or more of the cows that do better than the other sell those that are lowest in the list and fill their places with better ones. No farmer who buys new cows will know what they can produce until he bas tested them, but by selling off those that do not produce as much as should be expeoted, in proportion to the food con- sumed the herd will gradually be improved until each cow will give twc or three or more quarts extra per day, the value of which will he considerable if the herd is a large one. —The hot bed should be started as early as can be conveniently done, but because the weather is now mild and pleasant for March there is no assurance that a hothed may nos be useful. The hotbed is a neces- sity where early vegetables are desired. It gives young plants an early start, proteots from frosts and prolongs the growing sea- son. The hothed may be of any size de- sired, but many persons make it of a size to accept some kind of sash that can be used for the purpose, usually about 3 feet by 6. A pitis dug and a frame set in, enough of the frame being above ground to shed water and admit the sunlight. If the pit is three feet deep and the lower side of frame 10 inches above the ground, with the upper side 14 inches high, the open or lower space facing the south or south- east, it should answer; but some gardeners do not adhere strictly to this depth, being governed by conditions and circumstances, the exposure, protection of buildings, dryness of soil, ete., being con- sidered. Horse manure that is free from litter should be used. If the manure is fresh it will sooner or later decompose, and in so doing heat is generated.’ Pus the manure in the pit and trample it firmly, so a3 to exclude as much air as possible, for the more air the more heat, and it may not be desirable to have too much heat. Over the manure place rich dirt, sifted, to the depth of six inches, the top of the ‘dirt to come about eight or ten inches of the top of the lower side of the frame. Bank around the out side of the frame with earth to the depth of the boards, trampling well, so as to protect against frost, and also to’ permit water from rains “to flow away from the hotbed. AN HERB FOR EVERY PAIN. Old Fashioned Remedies That Were Used by Our Forbears, In the village of Greenwich, England, in a quaint old street where the build- ings are so thick that they tangle them- selves together in a knot, there is a queer little shop with a sign over the door that reads, “An Herb For Every Pain.” ! On the shelves of this shop are to be found hundreds of different kinds of herbs for the cure of all bodily ail- ments. There can be found all the old time herbs that our grandmothers used to have hanging around the walls of the kitchen and stored away in the at- tic, ready to be made into teas and sirups in case of sickness. People who still have old fashioned ideas about health and sickness go there for bugleweed, sumac, winter- green, sassafras, camomile, horehound, yellow dock, catnip, cherry bark, mul- lein, extract of oats, lobelia, and so on. All these herbs have the reputation of : being good for some one or more ail- ments—catnip for nervousness, sassa- fras for the blood, horehound and bone- set for .colds, sumac for sore throat, wintergreen for rheumatism, lobelia as an emetic in case of poisoning, mullein for consumption, etc. Nearly all of these herbs are made into teas. Sassafras tea, boneset tea and catnip tea are brewed and served ‘either cold or hot. Among the many hundreds of herbs that are sold in this little shop are some that are deadly poisons, and they are labeled and sold under the same restrictions as other poisons. The good old remedies that our grand- fathers hunted and dug in the woods, those that our grandmothers planted and tended in the garden, have given way to harmful remedies, to drugs that leave the patient in a worse condition than when he began their use. We be- lieve it has been a mistake to give up the old remedies.—Medical Talk. ASTROLOGY. One of the Most Ancient Forms of Superstition. Astrology means the ‘science of the stars.” The encyclopedia calls astrol- ogy “one of the most ancient forms of superstition.” Chaldeans, Egyptians, Hindoos and Chinese were given to it. The Jews became addicted, to it dfter the captivity. It spread inY% the west and into Rome at about the beginning of the Christian era. Astrologers play- ed an important part at Rome, where they were called Chaldeans and “mathe- maticians.” Although they were often banished by the senate and the emper- ors on pain of death and were other- wise persecuted, they continued to hold their ground. Even Ptolemy the as- tronomer did not escape the infection, which in his time had been universal. Mohammedanism was well adapted to astrology, and the Arabs cultivated the “science” with great ardor from the seventh to the thirteenth century. Some of the early Christian fathers ar- gued against astrology in its earlier form and others received it modified to some extent. There is a hint of as- trology, some critics think, in the story of the visit of the three wise men from the east to Bethlehem at the time of the Nativity. Probably the palmiest days of astrol- ogy were the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. At two of the oldest univer- sities in Europe chairs were founded for its teaching—at Bologna and at Pa- dua. No prince's court was complete without its astrologer. After the renais- sance the study of astrology was vig- orously opposed, though for centuries many men continued to believe in it, among whom, at least to a certain ex- tent, was Napoleon. The merciless ridicule of ‘Swift had much to do with its discredit in England. Few Bad Fathers Among Birds. Bad fathers are rare among birds. Usually the male rivals his mate in love for their children. The carrier pigeon—in fact, so do nearly all birds— feeds his mate while she is on the nest. More than that, the crow, the most dismal of all birds, often sits on the eggs in the nest in order that Mrs. Crow may have an hour or so of relax- ation and gossip among the other Mrs. Crows of her acquaintance. The blue marten, the black coated gull, the great blue heron and the black vulture all do the same.—Louisville Post. He Won It. “Dear father,” wrote the young law- yer who had just hung out his shingle in a great city, “congratulate me. To- day I won my first suit. “And,” he continued to himself, “it's a lucky thing the cards ran as they did or I wouldn’t have had any winter clothes.” —Cleveland Leader. Fashion Note. “And what is the neatest, prettiest thing in waists for the season?” Mr. Vansant thought a moment and replied solemnly: “The tenant!”—Baltimore News, Too Expensive, “What a happy dog you are! you ever borrow trouble?” “Nope. Can’t afford it. The interest fs too high.”—Town and Country. Don’t Discouraging. He—I told your father that I just dote on you. She—And what did he say? He—That I had better find an .antidote.—Illustrated Bits. Cranky Patient. Dr. Bailey (looking at thermometer)— Hum-m! I don’t like your temperature. Sick Student—Then why did you take it?—Harvard Lampoon. f African epicures consider the tongue of a young giraffe a great delicacy. The meat of the animal is said to taste somewhat like veal, EE ee rt sar md McCalmont & Co. OLD FASHIONED. A real old fashioned woman always calls a prescription a recipe. What has become of the old fash- ioned man who “got the mitten?” ‘What has become of the old fashioned mother who accused her daughter of having “false pride?” “Along about 9 o’clock at night,” said an old fashioned man, “I get the stretches and go to bed.” The old fashioned man with his blue overcoat, which he wore in the civil war, seems to be no more. What has become of the old fashioned man who wore gray knit socks and sat around in the evening without his shoes on? There used to be an old fashioned man who inquired when you were in- troduced to him, “What part of the footstool do you hail from ?”—Atchison Globe. A Russian Baby’s Cradle. In Russia a cradle is used, contrived rudely as to both structure and motion. It is an oblong box or wicker basket, with a cord from each of its four cor- ners converging to the hook or the raft- er from which it is hung and with a looped cord underneath it, in which the mother puts her foot to swing her baby. In winter, which in Russia is long and severe, the cradles or some- times the hammocks in which the youngest children sleep are slung around the great stove, upon which the parents and other adult members of the family pass the night, wrapped in their sheepskins.—Strand Magazine. Deserted Their Towns. So late as the end of the seventeenth century the inhabitants of Ceylon were in the habit of deserting their towns. Their customs are described in the nar- rative of Captain Robert Knox, who for nineteen years—from 1660 to 1679— was a captive among them. He speaks of several towns as lying desolate ow- ing to the fact that their inhabitants had forsaken them. This they did if many of them fell sick and two or three died soon after one another, thinking that it was a visitation of the evil one. Some of them came back when they thought the evil spirits had departed. ‘The IMPOriant x ovine. Papa—What! Daughter—I wish to marry the duke. Papa—Well, I'll give up! Daughter—I knew you would, you dear old popper you, but’ the duke wants to know how much.—Houston Post. Castoria. A'S T OO B I A cC A'S T OO BR 1 A c A'S MT O0'R XA C A.8.T 0. .B 1A c A'S T 0 R.1 A cco For Infants and Children BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF CHAS. H. FLETCHER. THE KIND YOU HAVE ALAY3 BO UGHT In Use For Over 3) Years. CCC A Ss T 0 R 1 A c AUS PORT A C A. 8 .T OO. B I A c A gp og ReUaTHQ c A § T.0. RR 1.23 CCC A 8 T7o 'R'1!};a 8-4-2lm The Centaur Co., New York City. New Advertisements. —_ D® J. JONES VETERINARY SURGEON. A Graduate of the University of London has permanently located at the PALACE LIVERY STABLES, Bellefonte, where he will answer all calls for work in his profes- sion. Dr. Jones served four years under State Veterinary Surgeon Pierson. Calls by telephone will be answered promptly day or night. 50-5-1y F YOU WANT TO SEL timber, sawed timber, ties, and chemical wood. standin railro; IF YOU WANT TO BUY kind worked or in the rough, White Pine, Chestnut or Washington Red Cedar Shing- les, or kiln dried Millwork, Doors, Sah, Plastering Lath, Brick, Ete. 0 to P. B. CRIDER & SON, Bellefonte, Pa. lumber of an 48-18-1y VIN-TE-NA for Depressed Feeling, Ex- bausted Vitality, Nervous Debility and Diseases requiring a Tonic Strengthening Medicine. It cures quickly by making Pure Red Blood and replenishing the Blood Supply. Benefit Guaranteed or money re- funded. All druggists. Saddlery. FTER 34 YEARS The wise buyer is ‘posted’ in what he buys and where he buys. 34 years of unquestioned ascendency. 34 years of steady improvement in quality and workmanship. 34 years of constant increase in sales and still growing. ——This is the Record of— SCHOFIELD’S HARNESS FACTORY. Are there any who will deny the above. Three first-class workmen kept busy all winter making HEAVY AND LIGHT HARNESS OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE IN FARM, TUG, BUGGY, SPRING WAGON AND LIGHT DOUBLE DRIVING HARNESS. OUR CHAIN HARNESS THIS YEAR ARE CHEAPER AND BETTER THAN EVER. We have a large assortment of ——FINE TUG BRIDLES— made in different styles. We invite you to call and examine our goods and get prices. Don’t pay the price for old harness when you can buy new for the same money. Don’t ask us to compete with infer- ior made goods,as we use only the best material and employ first-class workmen. We have over S8IX HUN- . DRED DOLLARS WORTH OF COLLARS, ranging in price from $2 to $4. Don’t fail to see these goods before buying. Yours truly, for your trade, JAMES SCHOFIELD, Spring street, 7-87 BELLEFONTE, PA. Williams’ Wall Paper Store YOU, INTEND Certainly you do and we wish to call your attention to the size and quality of our stock of It consists of 50,000 rolls of the most beautiful and carefully selected stock of Wall Paper ever brought TO BELLEFONTE. ———SPECIALTIES——- Our specialties consist of a large line of beautiful Stripes, Floral De- signs, Burlap Cloth Effects and Tapestries. Are right, ranging in price from 5c. to $1.00 per roll. We have a large line of Brown Backs at 5c. and 6c. per roll with match ceiling and two band border at 2c. per yard. Also a large assortment of White Blanks at 6c. to 10c. per roll and matched up in perfect combination. Our Ingrains and Gold Papers are more beautiful than ever before with 18in. blended borders and ceilings to match, in fact anything made in the Wall Paper line this year we are able to show you. 0 . weriaies «...8KILLED WORKMEN............ Are necessary to put on the paper as it should be put on. e have them and are able to do anything in the business. We do Painting, Graining, Paper Hanging, House Decorating, Sign Writing, Etc. ate TRY US AND BE CONVINCED... Also dealers in Picture and Room Moulding, 0il Paintings, Water Colors, Window Shades, Paints, Oils, Qlass, Ete, S. H. WILLIAMS, 50-11 High street, BELLEFONTE, PA. Typewriter. PIriseuse VISIBLE TYPEWRITER. THE ONLY PERFECT MACHINE MADE. VISIBLE WRITING ; STRONG MANIFOLDER ; UNIVER- SAL KEY.-BOARD; LIGHT TOUCH RAPID ACTION. | Price $75 | } It Reaches the Demands of Business. [ Unexcelled for billing and tabulating. Send for catalog and proposition to dealers. PITTSBURG WRITING MACHINE CO, 49-44-10m 5 PITTSBURG, . PA. , wuld their own new or 2nd A. C. McCrLisToCK, uct. 1 s 1 5T ANNUAL PUBLIC SALE ——AT OQUR— BELLEFONTE WAREHOUSE & YARD, SATURDAY, APRIL 1st, 12 o’clock noon. BOTH NEW AND 2ND-HAND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Machinery, Grain Separators, Clover Hul- lers, Farm Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, and a long line too numerous to itemize here. See the big sale bills. A rare opportunity for farmers to buy at rice, on long credit, either and goods, The Annual Public Sale being a good thing for the seller and buyer alike, the big dealers have adopted the system. McCALMONT & CO., 1905. BELLEFONTE, PA. 50-11 Groceries Jewelry. SECHLER & CO. PURE FOOD STORE. We carry a fall line of all goods in the line of Foods and Fine Groceries. MANHATTAN DRIPS A fine Table Syrup in one quart, two quart and four quart tin pails, at 12c., 25c., and 45c. per pail; try it. Maple Syrup in glass bottles and tin cans. NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES The finest new crop New Orleans—a rich golden yellow and an elegant bak- er. That is the report our customers bring to us. Fine Sugar Syrups—no glucose. MARBOT WALNUTS. These Nuts are clean and sound, heavy in the meats and in every way very satisfactory. We have some very good California Walnuts bu not equal to the Marbots. Fine Almonds and Mixed Nuts. EVAPORATED FRUITS. Peaches 10¢., 120., 15¢. and 18¢. per pound. Apricots 150., 180. and 20c. per pound. Prunes 5e., 8o., 10c. and 120. per pound. Raisins 10c. and 120- per pound, either seeded or unseeded. Currants 10c. and 12c. per pound. Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel. Dates, Figs and fine Table Raisins. All tbese goods are well worth the prices named on them and will give good satisfaction. MINCE MEAT. The foundation of our]MincejMeat is good sound lean beef, and{all other ingredients are the highest grade of goods. It represents our best [effort and our customers say it isja sucoess, and at 12}¢. per pound is very reason- able in price. FOREIGN FRUITS. We are now receiving] some of} the finest California Naval Oranges and Florida bright and sweet fruits. This fruit is just now reaching its very fin- est flavor. They are exceptionally fine and at reasonable prices. Lovers of Grape Fruit can be nicely suited on the fruit we have. Lemons for some time past have been a difficult proposi- tion, but we now have some fine fruit. SECHLER & CO. Pure Food and Fine Groceries. 49-3 BELLEFONTE, PA. Prospectus. 50 YEARS’ * EXPERIENCE JPATENTS: TRADE MARKS, COPYRIGHTS, ETC. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an in- vention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on patents sent free, Oldest agency for securing patents, Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circu- lation of any scientific journal. Terms $3 a year; four months, §l. Soid by all newsdealers. MUNN & CO., . 361 Broaoway, NEW YORK. Bain OFFICE, 625 F Sr, WasamNerox. D. C. -1y Fe THE NEW YEAR °. Our stockis now complete and awaits your inspection. STERLING SILVER TABLE AND TOILET WARE, Fine UMBRELLAS, - POCKET BOOKS. GoLp, JEWELRY, WATCHES, DIAMONDS. F. C. RICHARD’S SONS, High Street, BELLEFONTE, - = =- = 41-46 PENNA. EOE Green’s Pharmacy. ali incurs el er, ect mt, 5 i PEAcTIcAL THINGS : FOR EVERYBODY F ] Comb and Brush Sets, Hair Brushes, ; < Military Brushes, Cloth Brushes, & Nail Brushes, Perfumes, Pocket Books, Traveling Cases, Medicine Cases, Card Cases, Cigar Cases, Pass Cases, Shaving Sets, Manicure Sets, Shav- ing Mirrors, Work Boxes, Match Holders, Ash Trays, Soap Boxes, Hand Bags, Tea Bells, Nut Picks, Paper Knives, &e., &c. We know the quality and price will suit you. will tll, Ah. PT GREEN’S PHARMACY CO., Bush House Block, BELLEFONTE, PA. 44.26-1y lin.. taser I Sg Flour and Feed. Ens Y. WAGNER, BrockerHOFF Minis, BELLEFONTE Pa, Manufacturer, and wholesaler and retailers of ROLLER FLOUR, FEED, CORN MEAL, Ete. 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 Phe- nix Mills high grade brand. mnie The only place in the county where SPRAY, an extraordinary fine grade of Spring wheat Patent Flour can be obtained. 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 4 + ROOPSBURG. 47-19
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