Democrat Yate
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Bellefonte, Pa., October 1, 1909.
MY LADY MOON.
Bo slow!y down the western sky
You sail, my Lady Moon, ;
The fleecy clouds that after fly
Will surely hide you soon.
I'd like to sail the skies with you,
And race the clouds along the blue,
Please take me in your gold canoe—
My pretty Lady Moon!
Around the woridand home we'll float,
My pretty Lady Moos,
I'd rather travel in your boat
Than in a silk balloon,
We'll look down on the rivers deep,
The lonely roads, the huddled sheep,
The woods where birds are fast asleep—
My pretty Lady Moon!
Here all the world is green and gay
Beneath the skies of June,
But oh, what wonders far away
You see, my Lady Moon!
You climb above the mountains’ crown,
You view the busy, crowded town,
The restless sea, the lonely down—
My preity Lady Moor!
Ob, let me sail the skies with you
When you're “The Harvest Moon!"
We'll choose a night when clouds are few,
And West Wind sings a tune;
When orchards shine with apples bright,
And reapers sing in waning light,
And you shine for their dance all night—
My pretty Lady Moon!
Cecil Cavendish in October 8t, Nicholas,
MY PICNIC.
1 am afraid that that title will make youn
think, gentle reader, that the picnic of
which ! az about to tell you is the only
one to which Iever went. That is far
from the truth. No, indeed, it wasn’s the
only one—and I eleven years old the ninth
of September! The fact ie, I have been
to picnics as long as I can remember,
picnics and listle picnics, nice picnics
stupid picoios, picnics on the seashore,
and picoics in the woods, and picnics upon
the tiptops of mountains. I dare say no
child was ever fortunater in the pionio line
than I have been. Bat the picnic I am
now about to tell you of was the very
nicest one I ever had, and that is why I
shall think of is ax my picnic as long as I
live and breathe. Another reason for call.
ing it ay pissie is tbat I was the only one
at it. cept, of course, Rob Roy avd lis-
tle Gamboge. But they don’t come in till
later, as you will soon see.
Io the fires piace, I bad better tell you
about my avoestiy and wo forth, and then
that will be over with. You are not a bis
soxiouser, gentle reader, than [ am to ges
at she picuic part. Bat I muss explain a
listle, firss.
My father is an artist and paints the
moss beantifal pictures in the world. Some
of them we sell, hut we have a great many
left. He is the jolliest father you ever
beard of, too, and perfectly splendid at
oorn roasts and things. Probably be would
have heen at this very pionio if he badn’t
been «0 busy painting a picture of mother
standing in the red snmacs shat grow along
she top of our bluff,
You see, what I am about to relate took
place on Turtie-Back Island, where we
spent all the summer, lass year, and all the
fall up to Thankegiving week.
It's a lovely place, and we liked itall
the time, bat the very best was alter all
the sommer people had gone away and we
bad every bit of the island to ourselves.
The day the last family except ours went
away, we stood on the biufl, father and
moter and I, and watched the steamer ous
of sight aronnd the other end of the island ;
and then we all joived hands and had a
dance of delight, and father shouted just as
loud as he conld thas poem of Robinson
Crusoe'’s aboat :
“1 am monarch of all | survey
My right there is none to dispute I"
Finally motber got all ous ol breath
daocing and laughing, avd she bad to be
fanned with father’s hat while I found ber
hairpins.
1 see 1 forgot to describe mother when I
was telling aboant ny ancestry. Ste is
something like other mothers, but nicer ;
and she knows the names of all the butter-
flies and birds on Tartle-Back Island—
spangled fritillaries and safted titmouses
aod ail those bard cues.
I think I have now got nearly to the pio-
mic part.
It was upon the thirtieth day of Sep-
tember shat she last of the summer people
went away, and after that we were all
alone and never saw a soul for a whole
month and most of another one, except old
Uncle Johnnie MacDonald, who came over
from the mainland every day in his sail-
boat to bring us milk and mail and things,
because the steamer had stopped running.
Mother les me wander anywhere I wavted
$0, because there was no one to molest or
make me afraid. That is how is bappened
that one beautiful morning in October I
asked her if I might take my lunch ina
basket and go around by she beach clear to
the other side of the island, where the big
mansions are thas they call *‘cottages’’ bus
that aren’s. Mother said I mighs go, but
that it was a pretty long walk and she
was afraid I would get tired. I told ber I
kuoew I shouldn't, and so she packed my
listle basket fall of lunch and covered it
what she was putting in, because I wanted
it for a surprise. Then I wens down the
steps cat in the blofl and etarted norsh
along the beach, and father and mother
stood up above in the red sumacs and
waved their bands and called good-by.
The lake was blue as blue and all spark-
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and after a while he began to make soft lit-
tle whines, and I kvew be was trying to
tell me all about it. I put my arms aroand
his shaggy old neck and bugged him bard,
and told bim be didn’s need to try to ex-
plain. 1 audessiood Pestectly Bow 10 bap.
pened. We've 4 great many sum-
mer resorts, father and mother and I, and
we know all 100 well bow
the summer people are about going
in the fali and leaving their pets bebind
They always say : “Ob, shey’ll find a bome
Some one will stake them in !"” And once
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in a while some one does, but jast as often | and a good
some one doesn’s. [t's the poor kitties that | reader, it bad been such a bappy picnic !
are the worst sufferers, and is almost breaks | —By Marian Warner Wildman in Seto
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bands bad got only a few little scratches
The rest of the way home seemed longer
than I bad expected, for I was quite sired
my heart to think bow many little birds | St. Nicholas.
they. have to eas $0 keep from starving.
I mighs as well tell you night bere, gen-
tle reader, thas afterward we learned that
Rob Roy's famil
bim sill they
boat, and that all they did when they re- | struction of boats and barges.
membered was to send word to Uncle John- | lini Company, of Italy, alter working for
pie MacDonald thas if be ever saw a black- | eight years on coucrete cnaostruction
Boats of Concrete,
The latest use to which coacrete has
been successfully applied is in the con-
The Gabel-
and-tan collie dog when he was at Turtle- | various kinds, bas demonstrated thas the
Back, to take it over to the mainland and | material is
give it to any one who would bave it, They | boats, large and small.
practical and economical for
The concrete
told bim the dog wasn’t thoroughbred aod | barges bave the following dimensions:
they didv’t care anything about it. Per-
length, filty-one feet; beam, sixteen fees.
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baps it is just as well for me not to dwell | They are bails with double bottoms, and
] unsinkable.
t00 long on what we think of such people. | are
It might spoil the story of my picoie.
We badn’s known each other more than | years of use
twenty-five seconds before we understood, | condition, M
Rob
other,
dog and thas I'd take care of him,
minate I said thas he looked at my |
basket. Poor dear, I
fore that be must be almost starved !
was more than a week since the last of the
Se Tckiculy Dusk a A
are said to be in perfect
ern barges (which cost
y and I, that we belonged to each | elightly less, ) alter five years of service
I told him that he was to be my | require repairs to the extens of thirty per
and the | cent. of their initial coss. This is due to
noh | the fact that the concrete hull bass ect.
badn’t thought be- | ly smooth exterior, thus reducing
frie-
It | tion which becomes such an important item
in boat maintenance. Although Signor
summer people bad gone away, and he | Gabellini says he bas thus far made no in-
couldn’s bave bad anything to eat since | etallations of motive er in his barges,
babit
daring shose dreadful days of hunger before
cou
innch haskes at once and
wich. It bad oold chicken in
very good
this can readily be in which case it
would seem that hie ievement would
state, Joudet tha We mark an epoch in sea-going vessels.
Swarms of bees are sometimes com-
I opened my | pelled to take refuge in very remarkable
ve him a #and- | shelters. A peculiar and instructive in-
it and looked | stance was observed by the writer in the
The poor dog enjoyed it so | spring of 1908. The swarm flew over a
much that I gave bim another and another | large vineyard which contained few build.
and another. There were only four, bus [
Ooe of these buildings was con-
ings.
filled bim op fairly well on cockies and | structed of hollow concrete blocks. The
snd bard boiled
eggs. There | swarm flew directly toward a small hole in
wasn’t anything else but a bottle of milk, | one of the blocks and disappeared in the
and I badn’s anything to pour that into, 80 | interior.
No doubt the swarm had rested
I had to tell him that he must wait till we | on a sree or shrub on the preseding day and
got home for more. He was very nice about | had sent out scouts to seek a home.
The
it, licked up the last cooky crumb from the | scouts found she listle hole leading into the
floor, and followed olose after me as | great cavity of the concrete block, and re
went back down the steps to the beach. | ported their discovery to their comrades.
We decided to go on around the point | This case furnishes indisputable proof that
and home that way. That is a nice thing | swarmiug bees really send ont econts, as
about an i<land : you don’t have to go back | they are believed to do, for the little hole
the way you came. If you keep on long | could nos have been discovered in the rapid
enough you get to the place you started | and lofsy flight of the swarm.
from. We walked slowly along the beach
for guite a way. Rob Roy was bunting
Oue baby in arms, a couple of others
for dead fish, and I was looking up at the | tagging at her skirts a« she moves about
big cottages along the bluff. We had just | she house, no help, and yet this woman
passed the last of them when I suddenly | manages to sweep and cook and sew.
Isis
noticed thas I was a little tired. I thooght | any wonder that she wears out fast? Is it
I would sit down for a minute under a wil- | any wonder that her nerves are racked ?
low tiee and take a drink of milk from my | Hardly a woman is exempt from ‘‘female
bottle,
Gentle reader, it was while I was | srouble’”’ in some form.
Is is apon the
in the very acs of uncovering my launch | woman of many cares, the woman who can
basket again that I heard a mysterious | not rest, that the disease falls the hardest.
sonnd. It seemed to come from thick | Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription comes to
bushes that grew all over the binff, which | every weary, working woman, vexed hy
wasn’t very steep right there.
* Tinkle—tankle—tinkle—tankle--"’
What could it be?
Once I should bave thought of fairies, | oures female trouble,
woman's ills, ag a hoon and a blessiog. It
heals ulceration and inflammation. It
dries the drains that sap the strength, Is
strengthens the
but I—well, I wouldn't for the world have | perves, and makes weak women strong and
the fairies think I didn’t love them joat ae | gick women well. ‘‘Favorite Prescription’
much, and of course there are times yet | contains no alcohol, neither opinm, cocaine
when I just do believe inthem. There was | nor other narcotic. It cannot injure the
that day lass winter, at ‘'Peter Pan,” you | most delicate woman.
koow.
“Tiokle—tankle—tinkle—"’
The sound came nearer and nearer.
I | bave ever been famous for the
~The railroads of the United States
size
fairly held my breath. Aud then, all at | and carrying capacity of their rolling stock.
once, out from nuder the buehes popped my | Nowhere in the world are such heav
little Gamboge—my dearest,
y pas-
sweetest, | senger and freight trains baaled as in this
loveliees yellow kitten that ever worea bell | conntry. Not long ago a train 3,000 feet
around ite precious neck! Of course I didn’t | long, containing 85 care loaded with 4,451
know then that it was Gamboge.
(It was | tous of coal, was hauled from Altoona to
father who suggested his vame and mother | Enola, Pa.
Trial was made to determine
who suggested Rob Roy's). But I knew | what loads could be moved over the middle
he was to be my kitten, just the way I'd | division, where the maximam grade has
known Rob was my dog.
recently been cut down to 0.2 per cent.
Gentle reader, can yon imagine a person | The train was hauled for 124 miles at an
cruel enough to abandon a poor little help- | average
of 17 wiles per hour by a
less vellow kitten to ita fate on a desert | single freight locomotive.
island ? I wish I could think the same fam.
ily thas left Rob Roy bad left the kitten.
That would be better than to feel that dear
old Tartle-Back has to have two [amilies
Anions to Know,
“Yes,”’ said the doctor, “I can cure you
#0 “‘outrageous and undesirable,” as father | if you will follow my directions rigidly.”
said.
I tear, however, that Rob and Gamboge
had never met till this eventful day.
11 | take.
they had heen old acquaintances I feel sure | toxicating liquors
“All right—I'll take anythiog.”’
“I'm not going to give you anything to
Yon muss simply quit drinking in-
give up smoking for
that dear, kind Rob would never have done | at least six months.”
the dreadful thing he did do when he came
“And are you going to charge for order-
back from his lass dead fish and found me | ing me to do that 2”
cuddling and comforting Gamboge under
the willow. For before I knew what he
“Certainly. My fee is $10.”
‘Say Doc, how much would youn expect
was doing, Rob came bouncing at the kit- | to get iv advance for hitting a man on the
ten with great harks, and poor little Gam- | head with an axe?”
boge, scared half out of his wits, bad jomp-
ed out of my arms and was flying across the
beach with his tail as big an an Angora’s.
Of course Rob Roy went after him, helter-
skelter, and I couldn't do anything but
stand and scream at Rob to come baok,
One Wish Unfuifilied.
Wife—*'You promised that if I would
Hairy you my every wish would be grati-
which be didn’t. (I have always thougbs | Husband—‘Well isn’s it?”
tkat if [ bad bad a ont | him then | Wife—"‘No; I wish I hadn't married
he would have minded me, bat all I could | you.”
call him was *‘Sir,”” and of course he didn’t
mind shat.) Little Gamboge, in his blind
terror, ran right down to the water's edge,
——*'] admit,” said Cristick, ‘‘thas he's
ring some notoriety, but not fame as
gaze apoame | you call is.”
borror-stricken
good-sized wave and washed bim right | __'‘But,” said Dumley, “I don’t see the
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off hia paws and out into the deep.
Roy pluoged after, and in a minate bad
Rob | difference between
and fame.’
“You don’t? Then you wounldn’s be
the kitten in his mouth. As first I was too | able to distinguish between the odor of a
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Rob brought that kitten straight to me and
Jet ta take is aus of lig iaguih. Tuuwhe
stood, looking up (' wagging
and Tohik ve nought [ would throw
it in again for him: [fetoh.
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I found a olean clamshell and poured some | B®
rose and Limburger cheese.”
A Theatrieal Paradox.
“There is one contradiotory thing actors
seem to do.”
What is tha?"
‘The longer they are at one stand the
more they consider is a ran.”
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Not Yet, But Sometime.
ha From the City "Yon intend to
suppose
Saburbanite—“‘Some day, perbaps. At
present we are devoting our entire energies
to keeping a cook.”
Se say you are in love with Miss
1 sure am.”
“Bat I can’t see anything attractive
about her.”
“Neither can I see it. Bat it’s in the
bank, all right.”
—-—‘*Have you,’ inquired the city vis-
itor, oo moss covered buoket abous the
$ sir,”’ answered the farmer. ‘‘All
utensils are sterilized and strictly
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ns know where to get the finest
S54, fundvand dried fruits, Seohler &
Digest of Game Laws.
Within the next few weeks the bunting
season will open and hunteis should book
themselves on the revised laws which
in brief are as follows : October 1st is
will be legal to kill bear and there is no
limit on the number which may be shot,
thas
hunter. The rabbit season this year is de-
'o | layed until November 1 and will last until
December 15, thus giving cooler weather
for the captare of the cotton tails, The
following is an abstract from the state
game laws :
Bear, unlimited, October 1 to January 1;
black birds, all kinds, unlimited, Septem-
ber 1 to Jauugry 1; doves, mourning or
tartle, unlimited, ber 1, to Januar,
1 ; deer, male with ble horns, one eaoc!
season, November 15 to December 1;
English, Mongolian or Chinese pheasant,
ten in one day, twenty in one week and
fifty in one season, October 15 to December
of | 1; grouse (ruffled) commonly called pheas-
aos, five in one day, twenty in one week,
filsy in one season, October 15 to December
1 ; bare or rabbit, ten in one day, Novem-
ber 1 to December 15.
Quail, gousasnly} called Virginia par-
tridge, ten in one , forty in one week
and seventy-five in one searon, October 15
to November 15 ; weblooted wild fowl of
all kinds, unlimited, September 10 April
10 ; wild turkey, one in a day, two in one
season, October 15 to November 15 ; wood-
cock, ten in one day, twenty in one week
and fifty io one season, October 160 De-
cember 1 ; squirrel, fox, black or grey, six
of combined kinds in one day, Ootober 15
to December 1; shore hirds, unlimited,
ber 1 to January 1; snipe Jack or
Wilson, unlimited, September 1 to May 1 ;
plover, uolimited, July 15 to December 1.
Game killed in this commonwealth may
be had in possession only during the open
season for such game and for thirty daye
thereafter. The antomstic gun cannos be
No deer, ruffed grouse, commonly called
pheasant, or quail, commonly called Vir-
ginia partridge, killed within the common-
wealth can be bought or sold as any time.
No roffled grouse, commonly called phea-
sant, killed outside the commonwealth,
excepting during the open season for like
birds in the commonwealth and for thirty
days thereafter. No wild turkey or wood-
cock killed either within or within the
commonwealth can be bought or sold at
any time. All other game can be bought
and sold in season.
Non-residents who pay the license can
carry ous of the state game legally killed
in one day.
Unnvatoralized foreign born residents
cannot shoot or hoot or own a gun in
Pennsylvania.
There sball be no fishing or bunting on
Sanday.
—Do you know we have the old style
sogar syrups, pare goods at 40 cents and
60 cents per gallon, Sechler & Co.
References,
When you engage a servant, especially
in a position of tiust, you demand refer.
ences. You are not contents to just read
these references and take them for what
they say. You eoquire into sheir gennine-
ness. When you give your health into the
care of a medicine shonld yon wot exercise
equal care? Anybody can claim cures for a
medicine. But proof ia a different matter.
The closest scrutiny of the claime of Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is in-
vited. Does it cure dyspepsia, ‘‘stomach
trouble,” weak heart, sluggish liver, worn
out nerves? Doss it eurich and parily the
blood and make new life by making pew
blood ? Huodreds of thousands of people
testify thas it does. Look up the testimony
and decide whether you can afford to be
sick with such a remedy withio reach.
~Do you know that sou can get the
finest, oranges, bavavas aud grape [ruis,
aod pine apples, Seohler & Co.
Oriental Greetings.
Some of the Oriental modes of salutation
are very peculiar. For instance, in central
Tibet, the custom is for the salater to stick
out his tongue, hold bis right ear, rob his
left hip, and how deeply, all these motions
being carried on at once. Centainly the
other fellow need have no fear of personal
assault from the suhject of these carious
aotios ! Less ludicrous, hut tqually re-
assuring, is the Chinse custom rubbing
noses on bended knees. The salaam or
profound bow of India and the Mobamme-
dan countries serves a similar purpose.
—From W. R. Murphy’s ‘ ‘Salutations’ in
October St. Nicholas.
—Do you know where to get the fines
teas, coffees and spices, Sechler & Co.
A Suspicions Silence,
Howard was only twenty mouths older
than the . He had somehow come to
realize that Elwood, who was creeping, was
more likely to be in mischief when quies.
Ooe day he called to his mother with a
great deal of anxiety in his little voice,
“Mamma, I hear Elwood keeping still.”
wees 0 you know thas you can ges the
finest oranges, bavannas and grape fruit,
and pine apples, Sechier & Co.
——Do you know where to get your
garden seeds in packages or by measure
Sechler & Co.
Si aa
Mrs. R. P. Monfort, of Lebanon, Warren
Co., Ohio, writes : *‘I have received the
Medical Adviser, and very much pleased I
am with is. I thiok it quite a to get
such a book for eo small a sum. Ido not
think a crisp five dollar bill could temps
me io yan with it. My husband said to me
yesterday, ‘Thas book ia worth five dollars
to you.””” Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser is
sent free on receipt of stamps to pay ex-
pense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent
stamps for the r-covered book, or 31
stamps for the cloth binding to Dr. R. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
—=-!'Look here, Jane, it seems to me
that you're asking for money all the time.”’
“That's a delusion, John, dear. If you'll
think a minute, you'll realize that I'm
spendiog it, part of the time.”
Srm——
——Little Edna gre )—Say, mam-
ma, what is a lack taste ? Mam-
ma—It is the feeling, my dear, that
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN,
DAILY THOUGHT.
Time is infinitely long, and each day is a ves,
sel into which a great deal may be poured—if one
will actually fill it up,—Goethe,
Sagar Eating.—There is too much fear
of eating Eating Sugar is fastening, but
it bas never been proved tbat the time-
honored theories of its being ruinous to the
teeth and digestion are anything more than
theories.
There are certain conditions, such as
diabetes and kiduey troubles, that make
sugar eating inadvisable. Ordivarily, wp-
less one is trying to thin down by abstain.
ing from all the joys of life, it is noneces-
sary to go withous sugar ou one’s cereal,
fruit, or in desserts and camdies, except
from motives of economy.
It bas been said that an adalt in good
healéh may eat a quarter of a pound of
sugar in 24 bours and benefit by it. This
may preclude onlimited candy munching,
but it more than allows for the average
sweetening of foods,
While some of the utterances of the
heads of the important honses savor of Del-
ic vagueness with regard to autocratic
ions for the winter, there is a decided
note which is being sounded in the wil.
linery world of Paris. It is noticeable that
covered bats are gaining favor. The cover.
ing can be confined to the crown, in orush-
ed silk or velvet. Entire large bats with
high crowns are beautifully covered with
moire and with an immense bow of
wide moire ribbon. Jost at the juncture
of the crown and brim a narrow fold of the
silk is placed. This style is most con-
venient, because any shade of a costume
can be well matched for the bat, Unuenal,
this, for the Parisienne loves her contrast.
On the surbane there is a backward ten-
dency of the bulk of the trimming. Most
of the folds of material are drawn from the
front and project a% the back beyond the
line of the hair. Velvet in black and colors
figures conspicuously in antomn millinery.
Coque feathers are extensively used. Me.
tallic figures in gunmetal tone are con-
spicnous. There is a renewed Jogiue of jes,
which appears in combination with crystal,
silver and gold. Is isalso introduced in
beautiful embroidery designs,
In some new models the waist line ie
again normal. The French woman clings
to the high line for she evening, and ber
' demand for this is answered by the upper
| line of a high girdle. Although the polo-
| paive draperies are featured, she long,
| clinging lines and the variations of the
tunic will not be completely surrendered.
The faliness of the sleeves appears at the
elhow or below, rather than at the top of
the arm. Huge oostiffened revers aud
| large pocketa are concessions to the liking
for Louis XIII styles.
Skirts of street gowns are generally de-
void of trimming, a Ia Americaine. De-
signers are relying upon clever introdue-
‘| tions of pleating to give decorative effects.
On the bodices much braiding is used in
rattail and fanoy designe.
The emphasis in street costumes is laid
on the line rather thao the trimming. This
deserves careful study, hut when mastered
it can be incorporated in many new gowns.
A raised line is the last innovation. It ap-
pears in the upward tendency of tunics, in
the line of trimming on the bodice and in
the onderarmy seam that curves upward
from the bip to the boss.
The waistcoat will play an importans
role in antomn wear, il the low-cut coats
battoning below the waist line retain their
popularity. This length of line in the
revers is very graceful and belps to lessen
any influence which is cropping out in
pleated skirts.
In the long coats there is an effort to
throw one side across the front and fasten
with a few buttons low on the other side.
If the waistcoat be not worn the space at
the neck between the rgvers can he filled
with a dainty . These are appearing
in deleotable flufly styles of lace and linen,
and for the woman who prefers a stiffer ef-
fect the plain pleated ruffle is here.
The jersey dress bas heen met with, but
it has not been carefully introduced. Tis
credentials bave not come with it and it is
wisanderstood. It is bardly to be regard.
ed as a coming fashion—it is here. Wheth-
er or nos it will be found a favorite and en.
couraged for any length of time, its place
is within the t fashion period and is
time is now. It is not put forth as a dressy
garment, but as a fairly low-priced and con-
venient one for the lover of the cuirass, or
fisted princess, and for the buyer of things
new. Its happiest expression is a beaded,
glittering surface avd a well-tied sash.
Every one bas heard of what the cooam-
ber will do for the beauty of she ekin, bat
comparatively few know how it is used.
There is a sors of natural arsenic in cucum-
ber that makes it valuable as a skin
whitener.
The easiest way—in the season—to use
eacumber is to cat it in slices and rub well
into the «kin. Let it stay on as long as you
can, over night if possible. Rinse in lnke-
warm water.
To extract she juice, out the cucumber
in fine pieces, skin and ponnd to and
bring to boiling point over a hot fire. Cool
quickly oun the ice and put in bottle with
patent 8
This juice will keep quite a long time
without spoiling it kept tightly corked.
Dilute it with twice the quantity of water
when aced night and w . A table-
spoonful of the juice to two of water is a
good proportion.
-
In a fanny paper not long a mos-
quito being asked the cause of his sore bill,
replied, “Ob, these face lotions the girls
418 using now are so fierce it is all blister-
It you want a lotion that is snre not to
be ‘‘fierce’’ you shania do a8 did yyue
mother, es y happened
a belle, and make Jou
own lotions, face washes and creams from
sowe of nature’s vegetable cares.
The tomato, for instance, is a famouse
bleach for a sunburned or yellowed skin
thas bas gotten a dark line around the
throats. Cut into thio slices and rab well
on the neck or face. Let it remain five or
ten minnses, then rinse off with hot water,
which bas been made sean} with a few
drops of benzoin or a ball tabl ful of
powdered borax to a quart of .
When using a cleaning flaid rab is gent.
ATi a gp ogi
not to ru roughly
in the bands.
The favey for drapery around ekirte is
growing every day.
The pale gray tints are worn with va-
rious shades of green. .
| FARM NOTES.
|
: : 7 peer etigtes that the cost of -
nga es on v large,
trees is 20 cente per barrel, Sle on low-
beaded trees the cost does not exceed 7
cents,
—Judge Fred Wellhouse, of Topeka,
Kau., bolds the title of ‘“‘Apple King of
America.” He owns over 1600 acres devos-
ed to apple trees,and has made apple grow-
ing a life study.
~The latest estimate is that the Ca
Cod cranberry crop will amonnt to 300,
barrels this year. Successful bogs in the
Cape Cod vicinity are valued at $1000 per
acie, although made from land which in
its natural condition was nearly worthless.
It is common swamp land, covered with
growth as wood and bashes,
—The great secret of the enormous yields
made hy the French farmers lies in the
high state of perfection to which they bave
brought their top soils. The top soil can
be enriched and built up until its possi-
bilities of production are many times what
they may be at the time improvement is
un. The capacity of the soil is limited
only hy the ability of man to enrich and
cultivate it.
—To produce the greatest return in next
spring’s crop of Asp shoots, remove
the seed berries while are yet green.
This will take time. The foliage must not
be seriously interfered with. The usual
way, however, is to out the stalks nexs the
ground after they have ripened, remove
them from the ground, mavure with com-
t manure, and dig isto the earth lightly
vo the spring.
~The hest protestion for roses and other
bardy deciduous shrubs is, perbaps, the
cheapest. They require, for the best effecs,
thas they be in such a maoner
that they will be well ventilated. Merely
put a framework of light sticks driven into
the ground around, tying the framing at
the top, and cover this with build
paper. This will protect the shrubs,
Shey will nos suffer from lack of ventila-
tion. :
~The best plan for ridding the fields
and pastures of noxious weeds is to out
all of them out thir month, before they go
to seed. If no seeds are allowed to form,
the crop will at least be reduced next vear.
Many of the weed pests are biennials,
blosroming and seeding the second year;
| hence by keeping them from going to seed
| the second year they will die and thas will
be the last of them. The Cavada thistle
helooge to this class,
~—Cattle manure contains considerably
more water than thas from any of oor do-
mestic asimals, It ferments and beats
elowly, and is ranked ae a cold manare. A
cow will produce 40 to 50 pounds of dung
or solid manure pu day, and 20 to 30
unde of urine of liquid excrement. A cow
‘ed a balanced ration will void about one-
baif of the nitrogen in the urine, about
| one-fourth in the milk, and the balance in
the solid excrements.
~The trees and shrohs will lose their
leaves as soon as the killing frost comes,
and should at once receive attention. One
of the moss particular things needed is to
go over them and destroy the coconns of
and insects which may be attached to them.
Look for them in the crevices of the bark
and high up in she limhs. Every one
destroyed this autumn will save many
thooeands next season. Do not pack the
wulching ahove the trees nntil the ground
is frozen hard. :
—A Maive dairyman bas found the
keeping of hogs and converting them into
sansage a profitable side line. He has
erected a eanitary slaughter house, with
all the np-to-date conveniences, and with
an ample supply of hoth hot and cold wa-
ter. The piggery i» aleo constructed on
plans which insore the highest degree of
sanitation, and the pigs are kept clean
aod healthy. The sausages are packed in
oiled paper in ove.pound hoxes avd in
bags and fiod a ready sale to city customers
at very attraotive prices.
~The bardy plants such as the phlox,
bollybock, peony. ete., will die down to
the ground as soon ar the heavy [frosts
come, They should he cat off, and the
tops, and all rahbish, burned. Loosen the
soil about the crowne, and merely lay a
slight covering over them at this time.
When the ground is frozen hard is the time
to put manure or litter over them, which
should stay on until the frost draws ont of
the gronnd in the spring. This conree of
treatment will prevent them from [reezing
out of the groand in the spring.
— Some fruit growers believe that the
most appropriate time to plant an apple
orchard is in the fall, from about the last
of October till the middle of November,
when the ground is loose and moist enough
to work well, but not wet and sticky. At
that time the growing season is over and
the trees will bardly be injured at all by
the change from nureery to orchard. The
roots that have been cut in digging and
preparing for resetting will callous over,
| and the ground will settle firmly about
the roots, and in the spring the trees are
ready to awaken into new life without a
check to growth.
—The coly protection that is needed by
the hardy hedges, such as the arhor vite,
privet and althea is that which will keep
off the snow, when in such a location that
the drifts will form npon them, and in case
of a mild day turn it toice. This ia fatal,
and is most likely to occur late in the win-
ter or early in the spring when the weather
ie variable. There is no better protection
i
part,
build -
bed from wiower ping. ©
~Hale, the well-known expert,
says the white-fleshed 0, eu
be in great demand wherever quality is
songhs for, and as it is more bardy than
the yellow-fleshed, it is better for the
grower in a cold climate. He farther
the Greensboro is the earliest good 3
Waddell requires rich feeding and ecevere
thinning; pion, the most delicions-
hag Be Gin, go S08:
inning; e »
i a) “El Xi te y
sare
feeding excessive shin has '
small pit, fine-flavored flesh; Hill's CBili,
late, but a fine keeper, needs excessive
feeding and good shinning. & 13a
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——Bubsoribe for the WATCHMAN,