a 3 %: Demon atc Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 15, 1905. FARM NOTES. — Nothing will increase egg production quicker than green hone freshly cut. —When a fowl has difficulty in breath- ing look out for pnenmonia. --When new fowls are bought quarantine them until sure they have no disease. —Select egge of uniform size for hatch- ing, especially if you use hens for that pur- pose. —When the crop is hard and unyielding there is danger of the bird becoming crop- bound. —In three years the progeny of a pair of rats, under favorable conditions, will num- ber 1,000. —Charcoal is good for hens. An ear of corn charred in the oven supplies it in con- venient form, —When the hen seems giddy and turns round and round, she is probably suffering from apoplexy. —When the joints are hot and swollen and the fowl is disinclined to staud,rhen-m atism bas taken hold. —Sunflower seed produces oil of an ex- cellent quality, and is said to be good feed "for both poultry and sheep. —OId hens, as a rule, take on fat more readily than the young ones. As the fat inoreases the eggs decrease. —When the bird bas leg weakness, with no disorder of the liver, feed lighter and give plenty of bone-forming material. —Milk is a very palatable and highly profitable pig feed, but will yield better financial results when fed to poultry. —For those chicks showing signs of bowel trouble scalded milk fordrink in- stead of water will be found beneficial. ==All experienced poultry raisers agree that wet, sloppy feed is not fit for young chicks. Most of the bowel troubles of young chicks is due to such feed. —Lime is the cheapest and one of the best disinfectants around the poultry yard | —it destroys germs, neutralizes odors and purifies the premises, if used liberally. ~—When the nostrils are clopged with dirt and the eyes water, ward off a possi- ble case of ronpby timely treatment. If the case is bad apply the hatchet and bury the carcass. —When a hen seems to droop down be- hind and goes repeatedly to the nest with- out laying, she is usually suffering from a disorder of the oviduct, and might as well be killed and eaten. —Wheun the bird seems lame and has a small swelling on its foot, remove to a house with no perches and oblige it to roost on a hed of straw. Bumble-foot is easily cured in the early stages if the cause is at | once removed. —When a fowl is dangerously sick with an organic disease it is worse than useless as a breeder. It is usually safer to kill a bad case of illness than to try to cure is. —Farmer’s Gazeite, Canada. —I6 may not pay to pasture cattle on small farms that are highly cultivated, as the land may be too valuable, but on many small farms there will be nearly always something that cannot be marketed, but which will contribute to the support of a cow or a few pigs. — Boiled potatoes with a little bran over them, a head of cabbage placed within reach of the flock, or a liver cooked and rubbed up fine, or put through a sausage mill and then mixed with mill feed, are all good to keep chickens in good health and make the hens lay at this season of the year. —Portsmouth, England, has passed an ordinance for the suppression of cock crow- ing. The chicken fanciers say it can not be suppressed, but the London News says that a partial remedy consists in placing the perch where the cock roosts so high tbat when he stands up to crow he knocks his head against che roof and desists. A swing- ing board hung over his head answers the same purpose, it says. —It is only among mongrels that you need to greatly fear inbreeding. For at least three years, with pure breed and by judicious selection of best fowls on each side, we can breed our own fowls among ourselves. The reason so many fear the effects of inbreeding is from their exper- ience running along the lines of culls. They kill and sell the best always, leaving any- thing for breeding purposes. No wonder the fowls get smaller and scrubbier each year. When you build up a good strain you must always make choice of your best among your own, irrespective of relation- ship, and one can to some extent follow this ont among our general utility flocks. —In a recent number of this paper a correspondent tells how he manages setting hens and advises othera to follow his meth- ods. He has three nests on a row and locks the hens in them with their eggs. Every 24 hours he lets them off to feed and then fastens them in again. I have tried this plan, or one practically the same, and have discarded it as requir- ng too much time, as well as for other reasons. The farm poultryman must econo- mize in the matter of labor inevery way possible. In the first place, I do away with all the fixed nesting boxes, either singly or in rows, and make movable boxes just large enough for the hen to sit in nicely, and hung by cleats projecting above the box,on two naile. These nests should be put up wherever the hens lay and should be taken down occasionally to be painted with a mixture of one part crude carbolic acid and two parts kerosene for disinfecting and rid- ding of lice. Then they should receive new filling. When a hen wants to set, give her the eggs and let the box remain where it is for a day or two. Then at night carry it, hen and all, to an apartment in the brooder house or to any other room where the hens will not be molested. They never object to being thus transferred and there is no trouble, ae there frequently is when a hen is locked on a nest where she did nos get brdody. Then too several hens may be put in one apartment and all the attention they need is to throw them some feed every other day and give fresh water. They can get off and on when they feel like it, have plenty of room and the eggs keep cleaner and hatch better than when a hen is lock- ed on a nest. Another plan for managing setters I once read of and saw pictured out in a paper, was to have a row of nests built on the ground and have an alleyway 1 foot by 6 feet in front of eaoh nest. That seemed uite plausible, but experience has shown shat it is not practicable. | FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN- A Daily Thought. Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the height of enjoyment,—Novalls, Handreds of ways of accomplishing those tiny yokes which are so definite a part of the new blouse and shirt waist styles are being on blouses and blouse- patterns already embroidered for Christmas gifts. And there’s surely no gift that the average girl, with her perfectly natural love of pretty clothes, will enjoy me: than a blouse—but that’s a digression!|, ~~ © The design of the blouse is the first step. Ninety-nine ov’ of every hundred are em- broidered, and probably fifteen out of that ninety-nine are tucked. But tucks, while they are bigh in favor, are not so necessary to the make-up of every blouse as they were some little time ago. Perbaps, though, that yoke is made by simply running dozens of fine tucks as close together as they will crowd all the way across from shoulder to shoulder, let- ting them run a couple of inches deeper directly in front, or, perbaps, letting the tucks follow, in a measure, the top ontlines of the embroidery. That’s for your simplest waists, though, unless youn use so elaborately embroidered a pattern for the rest of your blouse that it is an effective trimming in itself. Irish crochet and baby Irish lace make the richest yokes; but a bit of lace large enough to fashion one of, to say nothing of those already shaped, is pretty costly. Oue blouse bad for its main idea a our- ious scroll pattern of conventional flowers and leaves, done in a combination of blind and eyelet work. . The yoke was a departare from tradi- tions. Instead of tucks or lace orany in- sertion t7imming, there was asquoare of ex- quisitely done drawn-work, outlined by a ccuple of rows of simple hemstiiching, which were separated—and set off-—by rows of briar-stitching, so perfectly execns- ed as to seen like delicately engraved lines. Blind embroidery, eyelet work aid drawn-work are flung together apparently at haphazard, with here and there a tiny Japanese dragon laid on by way of adding another bizarre, but stunning, touch. Sometimes the yoke is of delicate blind embroidery—the sort of work that is done with the aid of a magnifying glass, and, perhaps, that is ontlined by the tiniest scalloping, with the blouse proper devided into strips by the narrowest of baby Irish insertion, or even by narrow Cluny. Valenciennes Jace makes some of the lighter yokes, and is treated in almost as many ways as there are blouses—from the square or round inset yokes of all-over lace to intricate arrangements of narrow lace used as insertion. When valenciennes is used, it is the German version, which, in spite of its popularity all sommer, still holds its own. But Irish lace is having a furore just now. As to the tiny yokes of criss-cross tucks, | they are legion, as are those of groups of three or four wee tucks. Filet lace, which was just applied tenta- tively to lingerie blouses in Paris about a year ago, has established itself as a success. Sometimes a single square medallion, with its heraldic design or conventional flower designs darned in, is enough for a yoke. And when you can get big and little ones to match, use a big one as a tiny yoke, chemisette style, just in front of the collar, and the little ones to trim blouse and sleeves, using embroidery linen in the spaces around and between the medal- lions. Russian blouse suits for small boys and girls are always in most excellent taste. They are simple and rich in design. Some of them have the hand embroidery in a mild form; tastefully put on, it is very effective. For children from 4 to 10 the red chin- chilla box coats are very popular. Far cloths also are in evidence every where. The newest thing in fancywork, like most new things, is a revival of something old. This time it is a return of Lonis XIV decoration. With the same enthusiastic appreciation which the new republic main- tains for the beauties of old France, French women have taken to copying those exqui- site ‘‘bibelots’’ that suggest in every glit- tering turn the early heedless days of Marie Antoinette. Like most things French, this work requires a deft touch, but beyond that it is simple enough;and it has its economic- al side. You can transform into the most charming little Christmas gifts many a bit that seemed only good enough to furnish the piece drawer. Old lace, embroidery, handkerchiefs, fiehus and, best of all, old brocade (or its counterfeit) are invaluable. Exquisite lamp shades, pillows, picture frames, bags, pincushions, screens may be evolved with the addition of a little an- tique braid, spangles, ribbon or quaintly tinted transparent prints. Gauzy gold braid—dulled as if by age— is drawn into graceful bow knots. Tiny chiffon roses, in soft pastel shades, form festooned borders; or a well selected bit of paillette passementerie is arranged to gar- nish the brocade which is used as founda- tion. Everything, except, of course, span- gles, should be dull or soft in tone. These must be nothing garish—a purely antique effect will mean your artistic success. Tiny roses, puckered from a couple of shades of chiffon, with leaves fashioned in the same way from narrow green ribbon, all bound by green sewingsilk to the finest of wrapped wire, are the most difficult pars of the work, and the most characteristic. They are everywhere, in combination with bow knots—framing the printed pictures, or outlining a brocadsd design. Be careful to tack or sew lightly, avoid- ing a tight look as strenuously as you do a bright color. In selecting the thin silk which ia gathered on your wire lampshade, for instance, get paless, softest pink or yel- low. Usea dull gold thread to knit the light mesh forming your pincushion top. And, above all, select for covering only shapes of the period. BEAUTY AND ATTRACTION. Attraction and beauty are two very dif- ferent things. Who bas not seen the mere- ly pretty woman come off a very poor sec- ond best to the plain, fascinating one. Of course, magnetism and the mental quoali- ties that fall under the heads of tact, viva- city and wit have much to do with the final fact of fascination, but it has also many other minor ingredients, powerful amoung them being femininity, which is in itself a complexity—a subtle perfume, delicacy of dress, hands and complexion, a careful coiffure an? a hundred and one other things going to make up its alluring charm and refinement. Hicks For DECEMBER.— The second storm period is central on the 11th. By the 9th the barometer will be falling decid- edly in western parts, the temperatuie will rise, cloudiness will increase, and marked storms of winter rain and wind will appear in most sections. As these storms advance eastward they will turn to general snow storms and blizzards in all northerly direc- tions. Watch the culmination from about 11th to the 13th. The last stages of these storms will be attended aud followed by a very high barometer and a sevére cold wave. The third storm period is central on the 15th, 16th, 17th. Sudden changes to quite warm often followed by winter lightning and thunder, are natural results at these storm periods. Hence the present period, as well as other December periods, is apt to commence with decidedly rising tempera- ture and falling barometer. Rains will quickly follow and these in turn will end in snow and a severe and sudden revulsion to high barometer, high northerly gales and the cold wave, The fourth storm period is central on ihe 22nd, extending from the 20th to the 25th. Beyond reasonable doubt, this will prove one of, if not the most general and severe storms period of the month. It will come in during a time of unsettled and threat- ing weather, but greatly increased storm conditions will appear about the 21st. The barometer will be unsettled and falling all over the western section. A warm spell for December will follow the low barometer resulting in general rains from Friday the 22nd to Monday the 25th. Not far from Christmas day the storms will culminate in heavy rain and wind with thunder storms in the southern States, turning to snow and blizzards immediately behind the storms of iain, winding up with a. very high barom- eter, fierce northerly gales; and a sweeping cold wave. This cold wave will be felt in greater or less severity to the Gulf of Mex- ico. Should a very low barometer exis$ over the extreme southern States over the progress of, these storms, at their conelusion frosts and freezing will reach the gulf. The fifth storm period is central on the 27th, 28th, and 29th. The indications are that generally unsettled weather, with desultory storms and storminess, will fol- low the regular period, through this reac- tionary period, and that cold, clearing weather will prevail as the month and year goes oat. mama Prospectus. IMPORTANT MINE DECISION Part of Certificate Act Declared Un. constitutional. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 12.—The decis- ion in the Shalen case, handed down by the superior court, while it sus- tains the mine certificate act, declares unconstitutional that portion of it which requires that an applicant for a certificate must have had two years’ experience in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. The attorneys here for the operators claim that this is all that they really contended for, and that the decision is a complete vic- tory for themni. Practically it means that a coal miner from any state who can pass the examination is entitled to a cer- tificate. New Trial For Twining. Philadelphia, Dec. 12.—The U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Albert C. Twining, convicted of making false entries in the reports and in the books of the First National bank of Asbury Park, of which he was a director. Twining is now under sen- tence of six years in New Jersey. When tried in the U, 8, district court at Trenton Twining was charged with having, as a director, over-stated the amount that was due the bank from loans and discounts, including in his schedule a promissory note said to have been worthless. Gov. Warfield’s Wife In Runaway. Annapolis, Md., Dec. 12.—The wives of Governor Warfield and Secretary of State Tilghman, of Maryland, had a narrow escape from death in a run- away accident. The horses could not be stopped, and the negro coachman took the chance of driving them into a telegraph pole. All escaped without serious injury, though the carriage was broken to pieces. nf AR bee TH cn BAS Yo 45 Big Pension Her Christmas Gift. Marshallton, Del, Dec. 11. — Mrs. Araminia Vaughan, an aged colored woman, is overjoyed at receiving word from Washington that she is to re- ceive a Christmas present in the shape of $1000 back pay and $8 a month pen- sion because of the services of her hus- band as a Civil War veteran. ——Take Vin-te-na and the goud effect will be immediate. You will get strong, you will feel bright, fresh and active, yon will feel new, rich blood coursing through your veins. Vin-te-na will act like magio, will put new life in you. If not benefited money refunded. All druggists. WEY BUY McCLURE’S? 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We have some very good California Walnuts but not equal to the Marbots. Fine Almonds and Mixed Nuts. EVAPORATED FRUITS. Peaches 10o., 120., 150. and 18c. per pound. Apricots 150., 180. and 20. per pound. Prunes5e., 8c., 100. and 12. per pound. Raisins 10c. and 1%o- per poiid, either seeded or unseeded. Currants 10¢. 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 Minté Meat 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 is a sucoess, and at 12}c. 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 ab 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. Green’s Pharmacy. ill. cot tft oe. At, ole Bl, off. tlle i... Mtl ug —- eet. aye, alt ap go atl, Twelve years ago ground black pep- per was selling here at 40c. the Ib,— and not the best at that, We thought we could save our customers money ‘by buying in large quantities, direct from the men who imported and ground it—packing it in pound pack- ages ourselves—we did se, buying Singapore Pepper, and for five years sold it to you at 15c the Ib.—then it ad- vanced to 20c. For the past three years we have sold it for 22., itis sifted free from stems and dirt before grinding and is just what we repre- sent it. PURE SINGAPORE PEPPER The price is still 22c. the pound—we invite your trade for pure spices. weitlfte silt... gg: ci, 1 witli on. ntl, ail a cotlliv. it. gs yr hoiin.. gg tll gr stl tlc. conti slut re gpg ng ili, ote Htn.ooifl YT i tlt al, GREEN’S PHARMACY Co., Bush House Block, BELLEFONTE, PA. 44-26-1y flatft. eg oils alle... alvin. a § A Mg =a egg Prospectus. 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS, DESIG, COPYRIGHTS, ETC. Aayone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an in- vention is probably Patoniable, Communications atrictly 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, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. PATENTS. 43-18-1y MUNN & CO., 361 Drotoway, NEW YORK, BE OFFICE, 625 F Br, WasmiNeton, D 4, JOHN F. 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FIRE INSURANCE Linvite your attention to my firé Institaice Agency, the strongest and Most Extensive Line of Solid Companies represented by any agency in Central Pennsylvania. H. E. FENLON, 50-21 Agent, Bellefonte, Pa. NA/ A/a a da Saddlery. 10 PER CENT. REDUCTION ON ALL GOODS SOLD—WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT THE COUNTY FAIR You can combine business with pleasure, and make the trip pay for itself. You will save more than your expenses by calling at SCHOFIELD'S HARNESS FACTORY and purchase bargains that we will offer during the Fair week. This offer is good while the Fair 18 in blast, as all leather goods are advancing in" price. Why we make this special offer to you is that you make special offort to come to the Fair, so that this year’s Fair shall be the greatest in the history of the county. If wouldn’s be a success unless you come and bring your friends along. Make Oct. 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th, 1905, the greatest of all. We have now in stock a very large assortment of . HAND-MADE HARNESS—LIGHT AND HEAVY— at all prices. Our stook of Blan- kets and fine Robes is complete— and nicer patterns than we have had for many a year. We can supply you with anything in the horse line, Axle Grease, Harness Dressing, Harness . Soap, Stook Food, Chicken Food ; the best in the market. Money refunded on all goods if not satisfactory. Very truly yours, JAMES SCHOFIELD, Spring street, 7-37 BELLEFONTE, PA. Flour and Feed. {EIR Y. WAGNER, BROCKERHOFF MrIL1s, 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 Phee- nix Mills high grade brand. The only place in the county where SPRAY, an extraordinary fine grade of 8) Spring Wheat Patent Flour can be ine 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 .iiit ROOPSBURE. 47-19 LATA TST TIA WTA TASTY