SBellefonte, Pa., October 16, 1908. —The Department of Agriculture esti- mates the corn this year at 2,700,000,- 000 bushels, valued at $1,250,000,000. —To avoid danger of fistula always promptly astend to ulcers or abscesses caused by bad- fisting collars or saddles. — Nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia and cottonseed meal are the three most valuable fertilizers for yielding nitrogen. —It is a mistake to plant trees until the ground is ready, or to plant io a soil that is not thoroughly underdrained and en- riched before planting. —The dairy cow needs five times the amount of carbon in Ler food as of the protein, because she must from that pro- duce both heat and energy. —Goats’ milk is considered next to mother’s milk in valae for infants, and children brought up on it will not develop sorofulous glands or tuberculosis. —QOpce a week give the horse a warm bran mash. Do not get it too thin—jast wet enough to be moist. Add about a pint of whole oats to three or four quarts of bran. —It is said that last year the farmers of this country purchased more than $112. 000,000 worth of farming implements and thousands of shem have purchased automo- biles. —The best feed for making muscle is oats. They are not heating nor very fatten: ing. The young calves should be given oats in order to give them muscle and make them plump. —Last year Indiana's wheat area was placed at 2,391,748 acres, yielding 34,874, 726 bushels, or an average of 14.58 bushels to the acre. This year the acreage is said to be 2,056,615. —F. D. Coburn, the agriculturist, who refused a seat in the United States Senate when appointed to it by the Governor of Kansas, says: ‘An alfalfa field is said to be a hog's idea of heaven.” —Snowfalls do not in any way interfere with the goat's prosperity, for their feed is still above the snow, and if the snow does not get above the trees, the goat keeps on eating as the snow goes up. —QOne ounce each of tincture of ginger and geotian ata dose in a pint of cold water, twice a day for two or three weeks, will start the thin animal to laying oo flesh, The medicine can be mixed with a little soft feed, —Soils poorly drained, and so long hold- ing stagnant water, often in this way damage and finely destroy roots, thus causing the plants to perish. Plants sul- fer for want of oxygen when the air can- not get to the roots. —[If the hog loses the use of its limbs, feed less corn and more bran and oats. If the trouble is very bad, give eight or ten drops of pux vomica in feed twice a day. Keep the bowels open by giving an abun- dance of green food. —A mixtare of equal parts of licorice and ginger in the hog feed two or three times a day is recommended for the pig that coughs. A lamp of coal tar placed well down the throat while the pig is held op on its hind legs isalso good. —The first requisite for heaithy milk is healthy cows, 1! a herd is known to be sound take every precaution before addivg FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, Bat they, while their companions slept, Were tolling upward in the night. —Longfellow. Did you ever notice that the girl in she navy bloesuit of sailored foish always looks well ? Blues may pg blues may go—Beauvals may te Copen~ bagen, duck’s wing blue may subdue the world of fashion, but still the girl in the navy blae suit stands out. Styles, too, may change as wilfully as they please—empire may yield precedence to Directoire, plaits may become obsolete and clinging skirts may be heralded throughout two conti. nents, but still the severely tailored suit of blue carries the same old conviction of being well dressed. : Somehow or other the girl who wears navy bine always seems to possess a nice and fastidious taste in accessories. Her bat is always plain and in good taste, her gloves and veil are ever fresh, and her shoes well polished. So, thoagh, perhaps she has not one other garment in the world the girl in the navy blue suit is sure to look well, she is bound to argne you into thinking that she is consumately well groomed. Is she not, in fact, eligible for odes, madrigals, sonnets, this girl who wears a navy blue suit ? The fashion of wearing drop earrings having come in again, many women are using thew, despite the barm the pendants | do. More than one wowan remembers that as a child the ears of her mothers were fascinating because of the lobes, instead of being natural, had a slit more or less long in the middle, and these, the child was told bad been done hy earrings. Extreme | oases where the lobes had heen torn down to the edge by the weight of the oruaments were not uncommon, It is sincerely to be trusted shat nothing of this sort will come in again, and at pres- ent the likelihood seems remote, for there | is no doubt that the pendants at present | presciibed by fashion are neither extreme | in weighs nor in length. l The little fur or mousseline frill will be | quite fashionable, the latter to he worn | antil the commencement for winter weath- | er. Then we shall see the dark colored | frill with the ends of the ruffles touched with narrow rims of fur. The kind of far is generally skank, and the most fashion- able frills are as pear the shade as possi- | ble—a very dark brown tone. Common Cents. The copper cents weighed 264 grains ; the common hronze cent of today weighs but forty-eight grains. It consists of ninety-five per ceut. copper, three per cent. tin, and swo per cent. zine. The alloy gives is a better surface, and is ess brittle. A Connecticut concern takes the bronze bricks, cats them into strips, 10lls them to sheets of a proper thinness, ous of which the blanks are punched. The blanks are fed to machines, which mint them at the rate of eighty a minute, stamping by dies both sides of the coin at once, and automatically disposing of one while receiving another. The completed pennies are d into boxes beneath, and all tat remains to be done is the count- ing of the newly -made pieces, which is done with marvelous rapidity by the worker, who thinks nothing of reckoning 3,000 of them in thirty seconds. He uses a device known as the counting board, which re oeives 500 at a time This is an inclined plane with columns the exact width of a cent, separated by metal partitions, which, in height, exactly equal the thickness of the coin. The cents are spread over this board, and drop into the grooves prepared for them, all surplus pieces falling off. Ouve pound avoird upois of the cent blanks makes one dollar and forty cents’ worth of pennies when coined ; in other words, there are 140 blanks to the pound. The blanks are shipped to the mins in strong wooden boxes. The stream of copper which flows out continually from Philadelphia has a his- tory like that of many rivers in western deserts, which are lost finally in the sand. Nobody knows what becomes of the mil- lions on milliovs of cents that are minted annually (the production varies from 25,- 000,000 to 90,000,000 per annum;) they simply vanish from sight and are gone for- ever. The phenomenon seems strange, and is nos easily accounted for. People say. ‘What becomes of all the pins?’ That is easily answered. Pins soon corrode, and thas are soon transformed into nothing that is recognizable. A copper cent, on the other hand, is indestructible, comparatively speaking. But the solution of the problem seems to be that cents are subject to more accidents than any other coins; they change hands ten times as often as dimes, for example, and, being of small value, they are not cared for. Thus it is that the mint in Philadelphia i# obliged to keep surning ons pennies as an average rate of ahout 4,000.000 a month in order to keep up thesupply. The peony- in-the slot machines have greatly increased the demand for cents. It is said that a sin- gle automatic vending machine company | in New York city takes in balf a million Paris had the courage to bring ont again | cents a day. Inasmuch as there is hardly a the old-time brown linen ‘‘sausage’’ bag | cross-road village in the country that bas bound with brown braid aud worked with | not a chewing gum, kinetoscope, music, or the owner's initials in brown crewel on the | weighing machine operated in this way,the ends, and Americans have barked back to | number of coins required to keep them all their grandmothers’ days and accepted the | going is enormous. The oraze for forty- old style. This summer’s travelers have | nine- and ninety-nine-cent bargains makes been seen carrying the old-timers around | a lot of work for pennies. The penny news- with as much pride as their former owners | papers have algo increased the demand. showed. A bag of the kind for Christmas | From the treasury record of the cents would suita person who takes frequent | and nickels now outstanding and unao- journeys. counted for, one gets an idea of the num- ber of minor coins lost. Of course, this ao- : : : | count goes back to the beginning of the is- Wow A raged of Poles ile Se | sue of the old-time copper cents, specimens dye of Beanvals, but there is mach more of which ace so rarely seen nowadays, and “ yy | of which shere are extant 118,405,000. The black to the present shade. “Dusky blue | quantity of metal ementel by - Shes might best characterize it, and yet there | 308" eha Teprese y ean is great indication of the smoke color, too. Hyaaied & 188, Dearly all of which seem to The tone is universally becoming and | What bus osome of them? Nobody seems to go with anything. In the new | knows. ‘The same remark applies 10 he Yelven and velveteens it is adorable. To | old copper ball cens. of which 3.903 600 render the hais more soft in toue the | ot : : . : milliners are posting a covering of mous- Me Wiming. Rove of Shere Bali Sele nie selive the same shade of felt or silk. The | nember She copper-nickel cepts which blue is most striking in mousseline. ppe new animals. Have the later tested for tuberculosis, and bave your entire herd gone over by askiliful veterinary surgeon at least twice a year. —A well-recommended remedy for en | largements of the legs of horses is a mix- | ture of potassium iodide,ove ounce; iodine, | three drama; water, eight ounces. Mix | well and apply over the affected parts. | The application should be made at the first | appearance of the trouble. —"When the time comes to wean the pigs | the sow’s ration should be cut down toa | little grain and water. The strongest pigs should ve saken away first, allowing the weaker ones to norse for a few days. This adds an extra chance to the weak pigs, and will dry up the sow without injuring her udder, —A secret of high dairy production is the cow with an enormons capacity for as- similating food. A cow that can, in win- ter time, eat daily about 30 pounds of silage, 35 pounds of sagar beets, 10 pounds of clover hay, 21 pounds of grain mixture, will run 3 pretty good chance of carrying off the laurels in a butter contest, —The fat found in food stuffs can only serve as a fuel or energy producer, or to establish fatty tissue. Fatty tissue gives potensial energy and is a reserve fael sap- ply for the animal. Protein may also in a case of need serve as an energy producer and may be used to form fat, but the use for such purposes is uneconomical. —A dairyman says that one of the great mistakes made by some dairymen is the short rations during the winter and have them pick up on grass the next season, and make them fair profits. The cow which ie reduced to semi-starvation during the winter must supply the needs of her own system firsts before she can milk as well as ever. —Cows seldom kick unless there is some cause for it. It may be a sore, in sight or out of sight, ora swelling, or it may be long finger nails. Possibly rome previous injury, or pain makes the cow so afraid and nervous that she cannot resist the in- olination to kick. Kicking can often be cured hy finding what the cause isand re- moving it. —QOate is the ideal grain for horses. The kervel proper contains a large amount of the nutriment. The bolls sc..ounding the grain give the material bulk that tends to prevent overfeeding and at the same time makes the food light and easy of digestion hy the fluids of she stomach. ‘Where horses are hard worked one shonld use the oats ration with a great deal of caution and learn by experience whas oan not be accomplished otherwise, —Ground millet seed has a nutritive ratio of 1.5; of albuminoide, 4.1, and of cathohydrates, 5.4. This is a good fatten. ing ratio. Half millet and half corn,ground fine, will make a ore stable N on than oorn alone. especially good for hogs, the pork having a better propor- tion of lean, and the pigs will be in better condition while fattening. There is noth. ing better than ground millet for young Waist Smartuess.—Crepe de chine of | heavy soft texture is, it is #aid, to be one of | | the leading materials for fall waists for tailor-mades. Net of the same color as the | gown is also to be used. | - | The blouse en suite has to a great extent | replaced the separate blouse in the cold | weather wardrobe, and the silk waist in its | old-time guise is hopelessly out of fashion, | but many women stardily cling to the separate blouse of white or cream color. The children’s antomn clothes must now be planned, and not the least import aut point in regard to them is the color. Is is absolutely cruel of the mother to make over her own things for little girls and boys regardless of their suitability. Black, for instance, should never be used for children’s everyday clothes, though black aud white is quite allowable if the fumily mourns some near relative. A little girl may wear a black hat, particalarly if it is built on piotare lines, When selecting material for a dressy top- coat for a ohild to wear to dauocing class or to parties there could be no better choice than old rose broadcloth. Party frooks should be of white cotton or handkerchief linen. School frocks may be brown, red, navy blue or some plaid material of linen or serge. Afternoon frocks may be of challis in some dainty figure. Jewelry, excepting plain gold baby pins or a gold bar at the collar, should not be worn by children until of an age when their skirts reach the shoe tops. Veils should not be worn by a little girl under 15, excepting chiffon veils on very cold days or for motoring. Children’s gloves should be of dog or buckskin, A Furniture Duster.—For carved farni- ture there is no better duster than a new paint brush just large enough to work nice- y into the orevices. All buttons are now made of the same material as the dress, or to match the revers collar or their facings. They are large for the coats, hut nos of such great dimensions when adorning the skirt. Large flat buttons are to be seen on the latest hats. They are made to appear as though fastening the wings or other trim- ming in place. The effect is very smart aud novel. Sour Milk Cake.—One and one-half caps of sugar, two thirds cup sour milk, one egg one-half cup butter, two and one-half cups flour. Mix well and bake in a loaf. Cream Waflles.—Beat two eggs light and add a pint soar oream, into which a tea- spoonful soda has been beaten. Add half a teaspoonful salt and flour to make a thin batter. Pour in weil greased waflle irons, which must be piping hot. Tarn the iron the minute it ia filled, shat it, and in a few minutes turn again. When the waffles are brown on both sides place in layers and serve very hot, outting through the layers to serve. Eat with plenty of butter and | body ever sees one now. | women. | pages, is sent free on receipt of stamps to were marked with a flying eagle, hat no- There are mil- lions of them ont somewhere ; but no one knows where. Long ago, the coinage of the bronze two cent pieces was discontin. ued, and yet today there are extant some. where 57,578 450 of them.— [New York Tribune. How to make the most and best of life, how to preserve the health and increase the vital powers, how to avoid the pit-falls of disease ; these are things every one wanis to know. It is the knowledge of these things, taught in Dr. Pierce's Com- mon Sense Medical Adviser which makes the work practically priceless to men and This great book, containing 1008 pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one- cent stamps for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for cloth binding, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. No Place for Her. Towne.—* “There are some hot games np at the ball grounds these days. Why don’t you take rour wife to one of them ?"’ Browne.— "Gracious ! I don’t want to be a widower. She’s too tender hearted and sympathetio."’ Towne.—*‘What has that it? Browne.—'‘Why, it would be jusé like her to spmpathize with the umpire.” to do with Castoria. CASTORIA FOR INFANTS and CHILDREN, Bears the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. The Kind You Have Always Bought. In Use for Over 30 Years. CASTORIA The Centaur Company, New York City. pie, giving them a larger and more mus- frame. honey. . MAKE WEAK EAK KIDNEYS BODIES, KIDNEY DISEASES CAUSE HALF THE COM- MON ACHES AND ILLS OF BFLLEFONTE PEOPLE. As one weak link weakens a chain, so weak kidneys weaken the whole body and hasten the final breaking down. Overwork, stralus, colds and other caus es injure the kidneys, and when their ac- tivity is lessened the whole boty suffers from the excess of uric poison circulated in the blood. Aches and pains and languor and nrioa- ry ilis come, and there is an ever increas ing tendency towards diabetes and fatal Bright's disease. There is no real help for the sufferer S2ept kidney help. Doan's Kidney Pili- act directly on the kidneys and cure every kindey ill. Belle- fonte cures are the proof. Mrs. John Fisher, liviogon8 Water St., Bellefonte, Fa, says: *‘I have often heard my husband speak of the great ben- efit he derived from the use of Doan's Kidney Pills, Atthe time he began us- ing them he was suffering severely from a Iame back which laid him np from work for days at a time. He had sharp, shoot. ing pains through his loins and suffered acutely when beading. His kidneys also gave him much trouble as they were ir- regular in action. He procured a box of Doan's Kidney Pills at Green's drug store, and after using them wu short time received relief. Doan’s Kidney Pills ban- ished the lameness in his back, stopped the headaches and regulated the action of the kidneys, and he gives them the credit for his eure.” Saddlery. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY MADE Reduced in price—horse sheets, lap spreads and fly nets—for the next thirty days. We have de- termined to clean up all summer goods, if you are in the market for this class of goods you can’t do better thao call and supply your wants at thie store. We have the largest assortment of SINGLE axp DOUBLE DRIVING HARNESS in the connty an. at prices to suit the buyer. If you do not have one of our HAND-MADE SINGLE HARNESS you have miseed a good thing. We are making a special effort to sup- ply you with a harness that youn may have no concern ahout any parts breaking. These harness are made from select oak stock, with un high-grade workmanship, and A GUARANTEE FOR TEN YEARS with each set of harness. We have on baud a fine lot of single harness ranging in price from $13.50 to $25.00 We carry a large line of oils, axle grease, whips, brushes, corry- combs, sponges, and everything von need about a horse. We will take pleasure in showing you our goods whether you buy or not. Give us a call and see for yourself, Yours Respectfully, JAMES SCHOFIELD, Spring street, 34-87 BELLEFONTE. Flour and Feed. oun Y. WAGNER, Buockenuory Minis, Beiueronte Pa, Manufacturer, and wholesaler and retailers of ROLLER FLOUR, FEED, CORN MEAL, Also Dealer in Grain. Manufactures and has on hand st ail times the following brands of high grade flour WHITE STAR, OUR BEST. HIGH GRADE, VICTORY PATENT, FANCY PATENT—{ormerly Phee- nix Mills high grade brand. The only piace in the county where SPRAY, an exiraordinary fine grade Spring wheat Patent Flour can obtained, of be ALSO: INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD. FEED OF ALL KINDS, . Whole or Manufactured, All kinds of Grain bought at office. Exchanges Flour for Wheat. OFFICE and STOKE, - Bishop Street, Bellefonte. MILL = + + ROOPSBURG. 47-19 . OFT DRINKS The subscriber having put in a com- lete plant is prepared to furnish Soft Drinks in bottie such as SELTZER SYPHONS, SARSAPARILLA, SODAS, POPS, ETC., te pe Fou: of the purest syrups and properly carbo. The public is cordiaii. nvited to test these drinks. Deliverie.. “ill be made free of charge within th. (imits of the C. MOERSCHBACHER, | PRUNES. The prune crop is abundant this season and the quality is fine. We have them at 3, 8, 10, per pound. MACKEREL. We have a fine late caught Mackerel that will weigh about one pound at 15 cents a piece. Our trimmed and boned mackerel are strictly fancy fish—medium size at 25c. per pound, and exira large size at joc. per lb. These are the clean meat with practically no bone. TEAS. Fine Blended goods of our own combination. only clean sound stock of fine cup qualities. These goods are giving splendid satisfaction and are good steady winners. SUGAR SYRUP. We have made quite a find in a genuine old fashioned Pure Sugar Graining Syrup of fair color and a fine, smooth flavor—not sharp, in a regular way and can be found only occasionally. It 1s a good value at Go cents per gallon. Other good grades at soc. and 40 cents per gallon. MARASCHINO CHERRIES. These goods now come within the legal requirements of the pure food laws. Bush House Block, -. - YTV wv Tw Te 4 We have them in all the sizes. SECHLER & COMPANY, 12, 15 and 20 cents We use These goods cannot be had Bellefonte, Pa. 52-1 Plumbing etc. A E. SCHAD, Fin: Sanitary Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Furnace, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Slating, Roofing and Spouting, Tinware of all kinds made to order. Estimates cheerfully furnished. Both Phones, 12-43-1y Eagle Block. BELLEFONTE, PA Coal and Wood. J oWAkD K. RHOADS Shipping and Commission Merchant, woes DRALEY IN w—— ANTHRACITE axp BITUMINOUS LLTEid ~=CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS = COALS. snd other grains, —BALED HAY and STRAW— BUILDERS and PLASTERERS SAND KINDLING WOOD by the bunch or cord as may suit purchasers. Respectfully solicits the tronage of his ee friends and the xy at Central 1312, Telephone Calls { oor areia! 082, near the Passenger Station, 16-18 50-32-1y High Street, BELLEFONTE, PA ACETYLENE The Best and Cheapest Light. COLT ACETYLENE GENERATORS.......... GIVE THE LEAST TROUBLE, THE PUREST GAS, AND ARE SAFE. Generators, Supplies and Fixtures. . . . JOHN P. LYON, Water Street, opposite Bush House, General Agent for Central Pennsylvania for she J. B. Colt Co. 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