—I% is not powible by any known meth-
od to make dirty milkginto clean batter.
the more
~The best of the spring crop of lamhe
should he selected for breeders; inferior
ewes, wethers, lambs, eto., disposed of.
Ewes that have not heen profitable should
also be tarned off.
—There are now 65 active heet sugar
factories located in 16 different States.
Last year 365,000 acres were given over to
beete. and the farmers delivered to she fac-
tories 3,470,000 tone,
~—It is estimated that there are over 2,-
000,000 goats in this conutry, aod all are
ily free from tabercalosis. Thous
ands of them are milk goats, and are used
regularly for this purpose.
—Do not leave stock oat in the fields on
cold nights. It is oruel, besides heing un-
rofitable. When man was given domin-
ou over the beasts of she fields he was not
gived license to practise inhumanity.
—Do you know the size of yoar various
fields, or do you merely guess at it? Yon
ought to koow exactly, not only shat you
may acourately estimate fertilizer needed
for the land, but that yon may koow she |
orop yields,
-—-Not more than one-fourth of the crop
of praches and ove third of the orop of ap-
ples will he gathered this year in Pennsyl-
vania.
State, estimated av one million dollars, is
due mostly to the coddling moth.
~=Paris green sprayed on the trees will
kill she young oaterpillars; one pound to
50 gallons of water may be n<ed, hos one-
balf pound will probably be sufficient.
Arsenate of lead may be used as strong as
2 to 4 pounds for 50 gallons of water.
—A trench dug about she tree a foot
deep, with sides sloping under, will trap
large numbers of caterpillars as they leave
the tree in search of a place to bore into
the ground an enter the pupa stage of
their life, In the trench - can be
easily killed.
—A good rotation for mixed farming is
wheat, clover, meadow one year, cow pas.
tare for one year, corn aod oats one year.
This makes a six year rotation. here
there are permanent pastares on the farm
one year can be out out by not passoring
the olover the second year.
~North Dakota farmers claim that millet
is not a good food for horses, as iv affecws
the kidneys, canses swellings of the jointe
and lameness. This might be true il the
millet is used exclusively. In conjunction
with other feeds, millet is all right, pro-
vided it is cut at the proper time.
~The largest grapevine in the world
flourishes at Sin Gabriel, Cal. It was
plauted by the San Franciscan friars and is
120 years old. The stalk is 1} feet in
diameter and eight feet high, and the
brauches aud foliage cover 5000 square lees.
Last year is produced 2} tons of grapes.
—Live stock of all kinds is now ona
high basis and fo doubt will continne so
for some time to come. There is money in
growing farm animals, both for the ani-
mals themselves and for the they do
in producing fertilizer at home. Keep all
young stock growing on pasture, and do
not be afraid to feed J
plement the grass ration.
—Hogs not living in dnsty houses that
Bave persistent coughs are, as a role, sol.
ug from worms. An excellent remedy
is to disvolve one-half pound of coppers in
warm water and mixing io the slop for 100
head of pigs. This dose shonld be given
for five mornings; then wait a few days and
repeat if necessary. For a smaller number
than 100 give a good dram to each head.
. ~The use of the separator on the farm,
ila good machine, benefits the owner by
olose skimming, makes few utensils to
wash, permits the use of the skim-milk,
pew and swees, and saves haunling a heavy
load to the each day. If a man
bas but one or Swe cows and does not
tronize a oreamery, it will not pay to
a separator. © With good, cold, deep
setting, the milk may be skimmed closely,
and just as good butter made as witha
—A combination of froit-growing and
pouiiey raising is especially recommended
a ballsin from i Pequativauis De-
partments of Agriculture. If possible locate
the poultry honses so thas the runs will be
in she orohord. The fowls will destroy
thousands of barmtal insects, thus greatly
benefitting the trees and increasing the
pr frais, the fowls will as
com!
Hie og
~<A Chester conuty lermer recently pur-
chased a horse that been worn out in
the service of the town fire department,
The horse now mistakes the sound of the
farm dinner bell for a fire alarm, and every
time is rings be whirls around in the sur-
rey or wherever he may be and makes a
bee-line for the house, taking with him the
or whatever he may be attached to.
ne day the farmer's wife started to market
with the borse bitched to a small delivery
aod the hushand, to at-
track her attention, rang the dinner bell.
Like a fish the horse wheeled around and
dashed hack to the house, leaving the farm.
er's wife ber load of es dis-
tributed along the road: "
The loss to the growers of the |
a little grain to sup.
WORLD'S BANKNOTES.
Shape, Size and Color of Paper Money
of the Nations.
The ouly paper money that is accept.
ed practically all over the globe is not
“money” at all. but the notes of the
Bank of England These notes are
simply printed in black ink on Irish
linen water lined paper, plain white,
with ragged edges. The
badly soiled or worn Bank
note is rarely seen is that
in any way find their way
bank are immediately ca
new ones are issued. The
Banque de France are made
f
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the bills of the United States, except
that cinnamon brown and slate blue
are the prevailing colors. German cur-
rency is printed in green and black,
the notes being in denominations of
from 5 to 1.000 marks. The 1,000 mark
bills are printed on silk fiber paper.
It takes an expert or a native to dis-
tinguish a Chinese bill from a laundry
ticket If the bill is of low denomina-
tion or a firecracker label If for a large
amount. the print being in red on
white or yellow on red, with much gilt
and gorgeous devices. Itallan notes
are all sizes, shapes and colors. The
smallest bills, 5 and 10 lire, are print:
ed on white paper in pink. biue and
carmine inks.
The most striking paper currency in
the world is the 100 ruble note of Rus-
sia, which is barred from top to bot-
tom with all the colors of the rainbow
blended as when a sun ray passes
through a prism. In the center in bold
relief is a finely executed vignette in
black. The remainder of the engrav-
ing on the note is in dark and light
brown ink.
The American practice of scattering
strands of silk through the paper fiber
as a protection against counterfeiting
is naoique.—Harper's Weekly.
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POLAR PHENOMENA.
The Mirage and the Mock Sun of the
Arctic Regions.
In the spring of 1000 1 changed
over to the steamer Corwin and salled
for the Arctic ocean to establish a
trading station somewhere on the
northern shores of Alaska. Although
we went on a purely commercial ven-
ture, there was an good deal of talk
about the pole during the seven months
we spent in the aimost continuous sun-
light.
Dr. Cook relates instances of seeing
mirages above the ice fields—mountains
passing io solemn review and some-
times inverted and standing on their
peaks—but he goes on to say that there
were no forms of life. Mirage is a
common sight even In lower latitudes
than those mentioned by Dr. Cook. 1
have seen the spires and domes of well
defined buildings. whole cities, in fact,
appear above the horizon, sometimes
lingering for several minutes, or, again,
with their towers reaching up higher
and higher, attenuating apparentiz to a
mere thread. The “mock sun” is a
common phenomenon in the Bering
sea. On the evening of June 2, 1900,
perhaps 100 miles south of St. Law-
rence island, about 9:30 o'clock and
past sunset, the sun was visible as
though half an hour high, but appear:
ing as a much flattened oval. Then
another sun more nearly round emerg-
ed from the horizon beneath the “goose
egg.” rising quite rapidly until it
blended with the descending orb.
Thereupon, instead of settling below
the horizon, the light was quickly dis.
sipated in the air. This phenomenon
was probably due to the unequal den.
sity of several superimposed stratas
of air producing refraction of the sun's
rays from below the horizon.—Captain
Edwin Cofiin of Ziegler Polar Expedi-
tion in National Magazine.
Parental Severity.
The children of two centuries ago
fell on stern times, if one may believe
that the spirit of family life was ac-
curately expressed by an excellent
mother of that day who said, without
humorous intent, that her children
“loved her as sinners dread death.”
There is little doubt that parental con-
trol at that date was as rigorous as
this anecdote indicates. It Is said that
when little Andrew Elliot, afterward
lieutenant governor of New York, ob-
jected to boiled mutton his father, Sir
Gilbert Elliot, frowned.
“Let Mr. Andrew have boiled maut-
ton for breakfast,” commanded the
stern parent, “cold mutton for dinner
and cold mutton for supper till he has
learned to like it.”—Youth's Compan-
fon.
- A Bushel of Cents.
It beats all what odd yuestions reach
some of the departinents of govern-
ment in Washington. Not long ago
the treasury received a letter from a
man who bad made a bet asking “How
many cents are there in a bushel?”
The answer was not easy.to offer. If
the man had asked about pounds he
might have received a definite answer.
As it was, he got in reply a 8 from
a clerk that “roughly there is some-
thing like $320, of 32,000 pennfes.”
Stove Lifts i Hosa d
Customer—Do you keep stove lifters
in here? ie Bi dia 1TH fein
Grocer's Clerk—Not ‘the {ron ones,
madam. But we ¢an give you a pint
of kerosene.— Boston Transcript.’
¥ i 3 5 - oh i
‘Ebony Repartee. '
Mistah Cole— Whah ‘you ‘gwine at,
huh? Mistah Dusky—I1's gwifie'at whah
Ie EWigaal dat whah 1's gwine at!
~'uel i
Sided Moat 330 0 Hl Muy
A BARNUM TRICK.
Oue of I’, 1,
ful feats of bambooziement was played
upon the Cavadiap customs authori-
to take his great circus
erie through Canada
mer after the pext.
about two years in wi
bis plans,
One important item of a sho
expenses consists of
placards, and Mr. Barnum was always
lavish with these gaudy He
was aware that the Canadian govern-
went imposed a high duty on this
class of imports, and yet he wanted to
paint Canada red, yellow, blue and
green with a lavishness that no show-
man bad ever displayed in that coun-
try before.
Now, there was no printing house
anywhere in Canada that could
to turn out the kind of work that Mr.
ow
thorities would not abate one jot of
the full toll, but would rather rejoice
at the opportunity to mulct the foreign-
er who would convey so much money
out of a country,
So Barnum studied the question
awhile and finally sent on at once a
great lot of circus posters of the most
gorgeous designs whereon yellow lions
and clawed striped tigers and brow:
bears fought with blue hippopotamuses
till gore flowed into beautiful crimson
backgrounds. No agent appeared when
the posters were detained by the Ca-
nadian customs officers to pay the
duty. They were accordingly held for
twelve months, then duly advertised
for sale for three months more and
finally put up at auction with a lot of
other unclaimed parcels and were des-
ignated in the catalogue merely as
“colored prints.”
Nobody took any interest in them
when the auctioneer called for a bid,
and finally the whole batch was knock-
ed down for a song to a secret agen’
of the circus who bad been sent up by
Mr. Barnum for that express purpose.
THE CROCODILE.
Terror of the Stealth of the Cunning
Brute's Approach.
Oue of the reasons given by old writ-
ers for the crocodile being worshiped
in Egypt was the somewhat cryptic
one that it “laid threescore eggs and
lived for threescore years” but from
twenty to thirty is the common num-
ber of eggs found in a “clutch.” In
the reptile's easy code of ethics, how-
ever, its parental responsibilities end
with the act of oviposition, for, hav-
ing covered the eggs with a layer of
sand. it leaves the sun to do the rest
(whence doubtless Shakespeare's “your
mud and the operation of your sun”)
and leaves it also to the ichneumon to
do its worst. In some places it seems
that water tortoises, too, eat croco-
diles’ eggs, but the ichneumon is the
real desolator of crocodile homes,
scratching up the nests and eating or
breaking the entire “sitting” at a meal.
Crocodiles’ eggs, however, are absurd-
ly small, a mother twenty feet long
being content with an egg no larger
than that of a goose, and the newly
hatched young, hardly more formida-
ble than a common newt, are preyed:
upon by birds, which a little later the
rapidly growing crocodile would like
nothing better than to get within its
reach as well as doubtless by many
other things, including old crocodiles
themselves,
The real horror of the members of
the crocodile tribe lies in their usual
noiselessness. “hey swim with great
silence, making scarcely even a ripple
on the water,” says M. du Chaillu, and
the terror of the stealth of their ap-
proach is well conveyed in Rudyard
Kipling's “Rippie Song:"
“Wait, ab. wait,” the ripple saith.
“Maiden, wait, for 1 am Death!"
—London Times.
“The Fault of the Dutch.”
It was to Sir Charles Bagot, minis-
ter at The Hague, that Canning in the
course of a tariff dispute with Falk,
the Dutch premier, addressed his fa-
mous dispatch in verse, which, as we
have seen it wrongly quoted on sev-
eral occasions, we venture to append:
In mata of commerce the fault of the
(4
Is giving too little and asking too much.
With ig advantage the French are
con
So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms at twenty
Twenty per cent,
Twenty per cent,
Now Sreppitons Falk with twenty per
Ye —*“Links With the Past.”
A Real Consolation.
‘Little Molly's father can't quite see
where Molly got her information. One
day wheb her unmarried aunt was vis-
iting at their bouse Molly became im-
pressed with her aunt's solitary state.
“Haven't you any husband, Aunt Mol-
ly?" she asked. Aunt Molly's pretend-
ed grief over the fact that she was
husbandless: (was so real to Molly that
she underteok the task of cotigdlation.
“Never mind, dear Aunt Molly,
bands scold.” —Delineator. :
- His Neighbor.
“We are told, Tommy." said the Sun-
od school teacher, “that we 3
love our neighbor, Now, who is your
neighbor, Tommy” a
But Tommy I'ucker merely blushed,
hung. his bead and said rothings Ho
didn’t want to tell the little girl's,
name.—Chicago 'I'vibune.
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LINCOLN TRIED IT.
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the short exposure to the hot and bu-
mid air had almost suffocated him.
Turning to Secretary Welles * the
navy department, the president ordered
that no such inclosure as the sweatbox
should ever after be allowed on any
vessel fiying the American flag.
It was not an hour after this order
had been given before every sailor on
every ship in Hampton Roads bad
heard of it. The effect was most re-
markable on the older sailors, many
of whom had themselves experienced
the punishment of the sweatbox. Some
of them wept from joy.
But the good results of this act of
President Lincoln were not confined to
the American navy. Great Britain,
France, Germany and other European
countries heard that the sweatbox had
been abolished in America as inhuman.
One and all of these nations in turn fell
into line, and today the sweatbox is
not to be found on any vessel flying
the flag o fa civilized nation through-
out the world.
Highest Cross In the World.
The highest cross in the world is
said to be that which caps the loftiest
peak of the Harz mountains. The
cross is in reality a tower, and it com-
mands a magnificent view of the coun-
try around. The height of the tower
is 120 feet, and it stands on a moun-
tain 1.731 feet above the sea level. A
stair of 200 steps leads to the top of
the cross. but there is an elevator of
which people may avail themselves
who for any reason wish to avoid the
long climb,
An intelligent Cow.
A few nights ago a citizen went
home and found a cow in his yard.
He drove her out. He then went into
the house and later heard the animal
in the yard again. He drove ber out
the second and third times. The citi-
zen's son came home later and found
the animal in the yard and drove het
out. The citizen then made an inves
tigation and found the cow got in by
wading around the fence on the river
side. He hung up a lantern to deceive
the cow as she came in, and the pext
morning, so he says, he found the cow
in the yard with the lantern hung on
her horns, using the same to hunt out
the best grapefruit in his grove. Say
what you please, but that was an in-
telligent cow. And the story is true—
of course it is.—Fort Myer Press,
{ASTORIA
The Kind You Have Always Bought has
borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher,
and has been made under his
supervision for over 50 Yeats. low no
one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits,
Imitation and ““Just-as-good" are but Ex-
hriments, and endanger the health
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——Do you know where to get your
JH 'PDEN DANGERS.
NATURE GIVES TIMELY WARNINGS THAT
NO BELLEFONTE CITIZEN CAN AFFORD
TO IGNORE.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes from the
kidney secretions.
Tie kidneys are
pg poi thi ot Bn and
a or
. , red, ill Smelling urire,full of sedi-
ment and irr 2gular of passage.
DANGER BIGNAL NO, 2 from
back. Back
proof
Mrs. Elisa Walker, 4 Potter
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Prices consistent with the class of work. Call os
or communicate with this office.
Flour and Feed.
Bd Y. WAGNER,
Brockeauory Mins, Berusronre Pa.
ROLLER FLOUR,
FEED, CORN MEAL, Et.
Also Dealer in Grain.
Manufactures and has on hand at all
Linea the followinghrands of high grade
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The only place in the county where
SPRAY,
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All kinds of Grain bought at office.
Exchanges Flour for Wheat.
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ROOPSBURE.
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Harness Manufactory, ’
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1871. :
Manufacturer of and Dealer in all,
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