FARM NOTES. —Save the wood ashes for the orchard. A band coru-sheller will hull walouts nicely. —A small bed of rape will furnish greens for the table. —]f trees are painted with biood it is said rabbits will not touch them. —Why not gow blue grass in the corn? It would he no more out of place than in the orchard. —Are you a member of a horticaltoral society? Yon would be benefitted and would benefit others if you were. —The heavy rains of the summer in Ok- laboma are given as the canse of a very light crop of pecans and a scarcity of wild grapes in that Territory. $1,000 AN ACRE FOR ONIONS. —Iu a little garden patch, 3 by 20 feet, Charles 8. Grimes, of Wilmington, Vt., has succeeded in raising nearly four bushels of fine onions. At this rate an acre would produce 2,904 bushels, which would bring about $1,000. —1f there are any draughts of air along the floor of the barn or stable the cause may be the openings near the foundations Bank with earth and trample it down firm. ly. Should the weather become cold, sprinkle with water and the earth will freezes on the surface and hecome hard, al- fording an excellent protection against cold dsaughts. —Discussing the German method of planting potatoes, with ample distance and with eyes under, so that the stems may grow widely apart, a foreign grower asserts thas it not only saves in seeds, but pro- | duces more and better crops. Often a doz- | en tubers are used where only one wonld be enongh, but it is difficult to make some | new gardeners believe it. 1 —Corn fodder, of all feeds on the farm, is | most abused. As much, or more, than is consumed ir trampled into the barnyard and wasted on many farms. If well enred and fed in such quantities as will be clean- | ed up, it isa better ration than is geoer- | ally supposed. Sheep may be kept in good ondit ion and he made to eat all of the | coarse stocks, and it answers well fora complete rough ration and as a subsitate | for hay. Turnip, a small ration of oil | cake, or coston-seed meal or bran, go well | with the fodder. ! —CHOPPED VEGETABLES FOR HENS. — | In preparing the vegetables for the poul- | try, use a chopping knife and a cheap wooden pail—a candy or tobacco pail—the | less flare to it the better. Fill the pail | about half full of fresh potato parings, veg- | etable trimmings. apples or small potatoes, | aud chop fine. You can do it in about one-fourth the time it would take witha wooden chopping bowl, and yon will find the hens will heartily eat of the vegetables if chopped tine, and which otherwise they would not touch. ~-While salt furnishes no food property for plant life, its effect upon the soil is highly beneficial. Culorine, which com po- ses two-thirds of the constituents of salt, is a solvent twenty times as powerful as rain water, and is the most potent agent known for breaking up the soil and freeing its con- stituents for plant food. Five bushels of salt to the acre, applied to stiff, dry ground, will moisten it and greatly change the phy- sical nature of land. The salt absorhs and holds the moisture from the atmosphere and decomposes all inert matter. —Much disappointment aod expense may be saved by placing your order for fruit trees early. Orders for trees are gen- erally filled in the order they are received by the nurseryman, and if you are late in ordering you may fail to get your trees when you are ready for thew, and you may fail to get them at all, because of the stock being exhausted by those who sent their orders in first, The later orders are more apt to be filled with indifferent trees, be- cause they are the last of the stock, or, pos- sibly, because the stock has been sold out and trees must be honght from unreliable sources to fill the order. Trees are in bet. ter condition for shipping in the early sea- gon, and you are likely to have more time then for plant’ —These are very tronblesome to get rid of, but like thistles and docks can be kept within bounds by good farming. Place rock salt in the manger, or give ta- blespoonful doses in the food three times a week. Frequent injections of two ounces of salt to two quarts of warm water, per rectum, varied by 4 per cent. creolin and carbolic solutions, and infusions of quassia and to- bacco, in proportion of one ounce to each quart. A powder every morning for a week, consisting of one drachm of santon- ine aud two of pcwdered sulphate of iron, and then a five to eight drachm physic ball, repeating the latter week of treatment in two months. This is the line of conduct to be pursued and success may be expected if it is persevered in. —Unclean seed has more to do with the distribution of weeds thao all other causes combined. These are brought upon our farms from garden and field seads from for- eign countries. Russian flaxseed is respon- sible for the introduction of the Russian thistle, which first appeared upon a single farm, and now covers over 40,000 square miles in the United States. Alfalfa, beet, turnip and other field and garden seeds im- ported from Europe, are the potent cause of the contamination of onr lands with farm weeds. Nor are the farmers of this country at all particular in saving their seeds, fields containing weeds often being set aside for a seed crop, insuring the foul- est seeds in many cases. And then, in the purchase of seeds, the farmer is not careful to hny pure seed only, bat plants whatever some dealers offer him. Until these meth. ods are done away with we must expect to have new, pernicious weeds constantly ap- pearing among our crops. . —A reader asks : ‘Do you think it safe to feed the milk cows the rotten corn that forms something like 5 per cent. of my orop? I live in a section where the rains came at a time to badly damage my corn, The pile of it is increasing day by day, and —well, I bate to lose it.” We bave noticed that in one of the States the farmers think of grinding up and feeding their rotien corn with cotton seed meal. While a cow's stomach can stand more of this sort of treatment than that of a horse, it can be carried too far. We be. lieve it would be better to stand the 5 per cent. loss in corn than risk losing the cows. A rotten ear now and then with the ration has heen common a long time. If no evil effects resulted, it may have been becanse the proportion of spoiled food was small— too small for any damage to have been readily observed. But feeding a great dea! of is, and feeding it constantly, is a differ- ent thing. To illustrate: The Filipinos appreciate rotten fish. A few diets way have worked no harm, bat its constant use is said to have increased leprosy in the ha ise f ly good nd © advise feeding on sound corn to stock of all kinds. i is natare to re- volt at the unsound, and as some one has | said, ‘‘Natare understands her business.” FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. 1 DAILY THOUGHT. The foundation of character is sincerity. With- out it there simply cannot ba mill anything that | will endure, And sincerity is disclosed in litle | things as well as great. Woman's Life. i Mousseline de soic raids, embroidered in gilt or in rich Oriental colors, are one of | this year’s features. Judeed, a touveh of | color introduced into almost any embroid- | ered article seldom comes amiss. i i - | The allovers and “‘strip-embroidery’’ | blouses are, on the contrary, made with | elbow sleeves, and may be trimmed and | finished as vlaborately as possible. Oune | exquisite blouse iu the finest allover em- | broidery was trimmed with Irish crochet | lace. | Tarnovers are worn as much as ever, | Cuffs that turn back are shown in the most | exquisite designs. | — i Stocks vary little in shape, the tab fronts | being still very much in evidence. There | are new desigus in the embroidery, how- | ever, and here, tuo, the touch of black or | some color is often found. Plate doilies are great [avorites just now for the woman who has ample time to give to her embroidery. The castom of vsinga table without a cioth for breakfast and luncheon is so largely on. the ivcrease that | no housekeeper can have too many of them, | A set done in colors with centrepiece to! mateh might be selected. i I { It has been truly said ‘Yi bread is the | staff of life, corn bread is the bandie sheve- | of.”” While the Sonthernmer, if ‘‘well | brought up,*’ hardly considers his table | complete without some kind of corn bread in the form of hoecakes or pones, his New | England brother rejoices no less in his home-made ‘ohnny-cake and steamed brown | bread, made from rye and [ndian meal. | Recipes that call for Sonthern mea! can- | not well be used with Northern meal, be- | canse the two are so different. The yel- | low meal requires more eggs and a little | sugar and molasses, while delicious bread | can he made from the Southern meal with | only water and shortening. Here are a few | recipes that ean be made with Northern | meal : i Corn Maflins.—For corn mauflios of the | finest quality the ingredients are two large | tahlespoonfuls of batter beaten to a cream, with four tablespoonfuls of sugar, three eggs, two cups of milk in which a table. spoonful of soda has been dissolved, a cup | and a half of floar and a liberal cup of corn- meal sifted with two teaspoonfals of cream of tartar. Separate the yolks and the whites of the eggs. Mix the dry ingradients with milk and the volks. Then fold in the whites very stiffly whipped. Pour the mixture into muffin pans or timbale moulds and bake. Good Muffins. —Other good muffins, deli- cious for breakfast with hot coffee and whipped cream, are the following: Mix one-half cup of sugar with one tablespoon- ful of butter and ove egg. Add wwo cups of sour milk,in which a teaspoonful of soda is dissolved. Sift two cups of cornmeal and one of flonr. Stir them into the other mixture and bake the maffiny in a brisk oven. Johnny Cake.—A real, old-time johnoy cake calls for three cups of yellow corn meal, three cups of sonr milk, half a cup of flour, two tablespoonfals of molasses, one beaten egg, a teaspoonful of salt and a lib- eral teaspoonful of soda in a very little milk. Soak the three caps of sour milk with the Indian meal over night. In the morning add the other ingredients and pour the mixture into shallow, greased baking pans. Bake it in a quick oven, It should be only about an inch anda hall thick when done, and shounld have a crisp orast. Another Johnny Cake.—One housewife who bad tried every imaginable recipe she could find for a johnny cake gives the fol- lowing as the only one which could satisly the palate of ber husband, who remembered with much devotion the johuny cake of his childhood : It calls for one cup of Indian meal, one cap of white flour, half a cap of sugar, two capfuls of hattermilk, two tea- spoonfuls of soda and one-balt teaspoonful of salt. This cook considered the superior- ity of her johnny cakes as due to the use of sour milk and soda instead of the usual sweet milk and baking powder, she latter adding more or less ‘‘dryness’’ to recipes in which it is used. This same housewife also gives the following recipe for what she calls “company johnny cake.’’ Mix togeth- er two capfuls of tour milk, one-fourth capfal of bolted Indian meal, one-fourth enplul of flour, two eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, one large tablespoonful of sugar and one teaspoonful of soda. Bake it in a shallow pan in a hot oven for twen- ty minutes. The cream will he found in the middle of the cake in streaks. This cake is eaid to be delicious when properly baked. It one inquires at any of the smart shops for the latest ideas in table appointments, she will be told that simplicity is the key- note, especially in linen, aud this is quite true, bat it is the most expensive kind of simplicity, that of intricate and exquisite band work. Never hefore have table appointments been so beautiful or in such perfect taste, und especially true is this of table linens, which one would suppose were bardly capable of many new effects, nevertheless new effects are achieved every day through the exquisitely artistic work and combina- tions used. Laces, embroideries, drawn work, and in fact every conceivable com- bination is now employed to enbance the beauty, and naturally the value, of table linens. All white appointments are the fashion- able ones this season, and all sorts of em- broideries and laces are used to attain bean- tiful effects. Both in luncheon aud dinner cloths there are a number of new [eatures introduced this year. In the latter, designs and size have changed somewhat, the all aver pat- tern so louy in great vogue, havinr given place to a plain centre with a donble bor. der or the satin damask with no design whatever, As to size, it is essential that the cloth should fall at least eighteen inches helow the edge of the table. All the latest dinner cloths are sold by the pattern, the ends to be hemmed, as hemstitched cloths are considered quite . Oue of the newest designs in dinner cloths shows the plain damask centre with the double border. In each of the four corners there are designe that correspond with the pattern in the borders. The border de- signe are most all in bold eonventionalized flowers, or copies of the scrolls that are a feature of Renaissance desigos. LIST OF JURORS. The following have been drawn as jurors for the coming February term of ruary 25. 1807 and continuse for two weeks : GRAND JURORS—FEB. 25. Beightol. Thomas P., farmer, Marion Bigelow. R. D. marble cutter, Phil'g Corman, Emanuel, carpenter, Spring Dom, L. G.. plasterer, Philipsburg Gerberich, C.T., gentleman, Bellefonte Hackenberg, C. E., laborer, Gregg Hess, N. E., farmer, Ferguson Hull, T. F., carpenter, Haines Hoffer, Harry, clerk, Philipsburg Hoy. Jacob, farmer, Benner Herd, A. B., hotel keeper. Philipsburg Loraine, C. D., coal operator ** Markel, Samuel, laborer, Rush Munson, James H., clerk, Philipsburg Meek, D."G.. merchant. State College McMullen. E. B., miller, Millheim Royer, John B.. gentleman, Spring Spitler David, laborer, Rush Schenck, William, farmer, Liberty Schenck, Frederick ** Howard boro Solomon, Chas. S., clerk, Philipsburg Sheasley, C. B., merchant, St. College Weaver, James 8 , farmer, Haines Young, Philip, laborer Worth TRAVERSE JURORS—FEB, 25: Brugger, Jos, E., farmer, Unionville Bowersox, Floyd E., blacksmith, Gregg Bradford. Geo. W., farmer, Potter Beezer, Joseph, butcher, Bellefonte Ertie, D. A., farmer, Gregg Eby, N. W., distiller, Haines Ferguson, Wm. miner, Philipsburg Fry. W. H., farmer, Ferguson Fortney, John B., farmer, Potter Fulton, W. T., merchant. Milesburg Fisher, George, farmer, Burnside Goodhart, J.C, ** Potter Harper, Jared. gentleman, Bellefonte Heckman, J. C., farmer, Gregg Hamer, George miller. Philipsburg Housman, J.W.O,, carpenter, Millheim Houser, Thos laburer, State College Herd, John, merchant, Philipsburg Hoy, Josepk F.. farmer, Ferguson Johnson, Edw. merchant, Milesburg Kerstetter, J. W,, Penn Kennelly, Thos, stone mason, Lyons, John, laborer, Howard boro Lukens, Arthur,carpenter, Philipsburg Miller, John B., farmer, Huston Mingle, A. C., merchant, Bellefonte Musser, F. P., editor, Millheim Miller, Daniel, laborer, Spring Mark, Henry, farmer, Gregg Musser. Emanuel, ** College Martz, George, gentleman, College Moore, Charles, teacher, Harris Owen, E. R,, clerk, Spring, Pletcher, Shuman, carpenter, Howard Pritchard, Josiah, liveryman, Phil'g Patterson, William, farmer, Taylor Port, G. W., laborer, Bellefonte. Ripka, Bruce W., merchant, Gregg Reed. David, gentleman, Ferguson Schofield, james, sadler, Bellefonte Simler, George, drayman, Philipsburg Schenck, Hayes, J. P., Howard boro Williams, James, tinner, Bellefonte, Wert, L. W., laborer, Haines Woodring, Jesse, farmer. Worth Williams, Abednego ** [Huston Young, Israel, gunsmith, Harris Zettle, Jerre, carpenter, Gregg TRAVERSE JURORS—MARCH 4TH, Adams, Wm., H , farmer, Armstrong, Isaac, gentleman, College Barthurst, Bert, laborer, Bellefonte Beightol, Chester, ** Burnside Breon, Benjamin, lumberman, Gregg Bowes, A. C.. laborer, State College Condo, John P., salesman, Haines Carper, joan, farmer, Harris. Carson, H. P., * Patton Cox, George, gentleman, Spring. Dailey, John A., * Curtin Decker, J. Homer, agent. Ferguson Eskridge, J. H., ** Philipsburg Garbrick Harry, merchant Spring Gephart, A. ]., farmer, Millheim Getz, John, tinsmith College Glenn, W. H., farmer, Ferguson Greebe, William, clerk, State College Gates, Joseph laborer, State College Hoffer, Tyson, clerk, Philipsburg Hazel, M. F., farmer, Spring Hoy, Samuel C., * Walker Johnson, Elmer, laborer, Rush. ennelly, Gates, mechanic, Gregg Lingle, Bruce, farmer, Boggs Lyon, Shuman, laborer, S ng eyer, Geo. C,, grain dealer, College Meyer, T. F., merchant, Millheim Mensch, Geo. E., liveryman, Millheim Mothersbach, Charles, laborer, Harris Mensch, R. W,, merchant, Haines Pletcher, A. A., teacher, Howard boro Roush, James, blacksmith, Haines Rishel, William, farmer, College Sharrow, Abram, nter, Rush Stover, Geo, B., laborer, Miles Smith, F., farmer, Rush Scholl, Geo. W., farmer, College. Wagner, J. I, farmer, Liberty Walker, Stine, farmer, Ferguson New Year's in Other Lands. In some conutries New Year's day is celebrated even more joyous!y than Christ- mas, and France is one of these. There ‘‘le jour de 'an’ (the day of the year) as is is quaintly called is a time of much greater fun and merrymakiog than Neel (Christ- mae) which is kept almost entirely asa religious festival. The little French chil. dren give and receive their presents at New Year's instead of at Christmas, while the rown-ups call at each others’ houses to eave gilts and to exchange good wishes with theic friends for the year that bas just begun. In Scotland, too, New Year's day is the greatest day of the year. y Queen of Scots, of whom you have read in your histories—the unhappy queen whose head was cut off, you remember, because Queen Elizabeth, her English cousin, was jealous of her—went from the sunny land of France to reign over bleak and cheerless Scotland, she took with her the custome of the country she loved so well; and there many of them are being followed to this day, though that bappened nearly four handred year ago. Don't Walt, Don’t wait if youn are showing symptoms of “lung tronble,'* hat get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and be. gin ite use. Where there 13 weaknese, obstinate cough, or spitting of blood its remedial action is marvelous. Mr.Cor- nelius MecCawley, of Leechburg, Arm. strong, county, Pa., “had eighty-one hem- orrhages, sometimes spisting five pints of blood at one time’ to quote from his let- ter. He was perfectly cored by the use of ** Golden Medical Discovery.” When there is constipation the action of the ‘‘Dis- covery '' is assisted hy the use of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. ——-Kunooker: In the newest apartments doe, parrots and phonographs are forbid- en. Booker: Yes, the only thing you are allowed to keep is a dairy. Gregg A Native African Food. | The native food of the Malunda coun- | try, in southern Africa, comprises ma- | nioc and that alone. It is a plant par- | court which commences on Monday, Feb- | ticularly adapted to wet, marshy soil, says the author of “In Remotest Ba- | rotseland.” It takes two years to arrive | at maturity and while growing re- | quires very little attention. The root | when full grown is about the size and has very much the appearance of a German sausage, although at times it grows much larger. One shrub has several roots, and the extraction of two or three in no way impairs the growth of the remainder. When newly dug it ‘tastes like a chestnut, and the digestion of the proverbial ostrich can alone as- similate it raw, but when soaked In water for a few days until partly de- composed, dried on the roofs of the huts and stamped it forms a delight- fully white soft meal, far whiter and purer than the best flour. Then It is | beaten into a thick paste and eaten with a little flavoring composed of a locust or a caterpillar, which the na- tives seek in decayed trees. Another way of eating this native luxury is by baking the roots after soaking them and eating it as you would a banana, Buttons in China. In China, we are told,a button is a thing | of real importance. Chinese mandarins all | wear one on their caps as a mark of the "rank which they bold. Fist in import- | ance is the red coral batten which is re- | served for members of the imperial family. | Next in importance is the sapphire blue | button. Next comes the light blne button | which is used by military field officers. | The remaining buttons in the order of their | importance are the crystal, the jadestone, | the embossed gold, the brass and last of all | the silver button. So if you will notice { what kind of button a Chinese mandarin | wears, you will be able to tell his rank. { Corn Cobs Yield Alcohol. {In the manafacture of alcohol from corn | cobs and corn stalks at small cost the De- | partment of Agriculture at Washington is developing a new industry that the de- | partment says is likely to be of large com- mercial valne, Investigations which the department is making in Illinois bave prov- (ed that the large quantities of corn cobs | which heretofore have gone to waste can be | converted into alcohol in sufficient quoan- | ] tities to justily the erection of a distilling | plant in connection with a corn cannery. | em | What Balzac Sald of Women. | The man who can govern a woman can govern a nation. A man who can love deeply is never | utterly contemptible. A woman full of faith in the one she loves is hut a novelist’s fancy. When a woman pronounces the name of a man bus twice a day, there may he some doubt as to the natare of her sentiment— hat three times ! —— Popular snperstition that the gronnd- hog retires to his abode under the ground when the first blasts of winter ocour and that he does not emerge from his hibernat- ing quarters until February, better known ns ‘‘groundbog” day, has been shattered at Cranberry. John Zell, of Grant street, fire boss at the Cranberry Colliery, in Hazleton, while going to work suw a live groundhog in the woods along the path leading to the mines. As groundhogs are supposed to be good judges of the weather it may be that the appearance of the cranberry earth-rooter foreshadows a mild winter and an early spring. It’s a great deal easier to spend money than to get 1t. It's a great deal easier to lose the health than it is to recover it. It is not reasonable, therefore, to expect that a few doses of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- scription Will undo the results of years of disease. But every woman who uses ‘‘Fav- orite Perscription’’ can be sure of this : It always helps,it almost always cures. Wom- en who suffer with irregularity, weakening drains, inflammation, ulceration, or fe- male weakness, will find no belp