Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, February 18, 1910, Image 3

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    18, 1910.
—Never feed cornfalone to hogs. It is
alse economy.
—Carelessness in handling pigs is a bad
habit to acquire.
~—Nowadays draft horses must be
matched to sell well.
—Even on cold days hogs should have
plenty of good fresh air.
~The idea that anything is good eno
for a pig is a mistaken one. ug
—Choose for the breeding mare a solid
color,—~dark bay, black or chestnut.
—A temper under control is an invalu-
able asset to a man employed in handling
COWS.
—The best feeds are clover hay, a mix-
ture of oats, wheat bran, linseed-meal
and roots.
—Warmth is half the feed for cows, and
remember that foul air does not keep an
animal warm.
nSome. corn stalls way be fed fo. the
porkers every day. They are sweet
do the hogs good.
—This is a good month to prune 4
vines. Do not delay. The earlier in the
month, the better.
—In countries where colts run out the
year around, the mature horses have
much stronger legs.
~The barn must bedry and well
ventilated. Foul odors and too much
heat bring on pneumonia.
—Every Sow sia je rusiig thor-
each day. Keeping n clean
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in run
a cutter to increase the power of absorp-
tion.
—Horses off color and with i
never sell so well as of
solid ; besides they are more diffi-
cult to match.
—A juicy wether h in a cold,
will a re Ta oy
y until it is used up. Don’t
to have mashed turnips and butter with
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Many 450 oad are the Hoterials p- |
tering into the manufacture of modern
explosives, but perhaps the most inter- |
esting of all these elements of destruc- |
tion as well as the simplest is gun cot- |
ton. The gun cottou manufacturing in- !
ustry is large, as enormous quantities |
used in the charging of torpedoes
similar purposes.
base of gun cotton is pure raw
cotton or even cotton waste, such as is
to clean machinery. This is steep-
ed in a solution of one part of nitric
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ing used merely to absorb all moisture,
thus permitting the nitric acid to com-
bine more readily with the cellulose of
the cotton. |
After being sonked for several hours i
in the solution described the cotton i
is passed between rollers to expel
all nonabsorbed acid, a process carried '
to completion by washing the cotton in |
clear water. This washing process is a
long one, requiring machinery which |
reduces the cotton to a mass resem- |
bling paper pulp. Should any nonab.
sorbed ucid be allowed to remain ft
would decompose the cotton.
If the explosive is to be used after
the manner of powder it is still fur-
ther pulverized and then thoroughly
dried. but if intended for torpedoes ft
is pressed into cakes of various shapes
and sizes—disk shaped, cylindrical, fiat
squares and cubes. When pot com- |
pressed gun cotton is very light, as
light as ordinary batting.
A peculiar characteristic of this ter-
rible explosive is that a brick of it
when wet may be placed on u bed of
hot coals, and as the moisture dries out
the cotton will flake and burn quietly.
If dry originally. however, the gun cot-
ton will explode with terrible force at
about 320 degrees of heat.
In general it is the custom to ex-
plode gun cotton by detonation or an
intense shock instead of by heat. In a
torpedo the explosive charge is wet,
this wet cotton being exploded by |
means of dry cotton in a tube, this |
having been fired by a cap of fulmi- !
nate of mercury, the cap itself having |
been fired by the impact of the torpedo |
against the target.—Harper's Weekly. |
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mass explosive, the sulphuric acid be- |
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| Probability at Your Age of How Long |
You Will Live. |
After we are dead it probably will
not concern us whether we died at |
twenty or fifty or ninety, but just now |
most of us are intensely interested in |
the matter, and. being average per-
sons in sound health, we can figure out
with certainly just what our chances
are of reaching any particular age,
says Harper's Weekly.
if we are just 20 years of age, our
chances of living to or beyond 30 are
nearly 12 to 1; of living to be 40, 5% |
be 50, 3 to 1; to be GU, 12-3 to
living to be 70 we have less |
1 chance in 214; to be NU, less !
1 chance in 5%. and to be 90, less |
1 chance in 100. |
we have reached 30, our chances |
to reach 40 are nearly 11 to 1: to be!
50, nearly 41: to 1; to be 60, 215 to 1;
to be 70, 4% chances in 10; to be 80, |
1 chance in 5%; to be 90, 1 chance in |
100. :
The average mun of 40 has 8%
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birthday, 27% chances to 1 of attaining
60, only 5 chances out of 10 of reach-
ing 70, 1 chance in 5% of reaching 80,
and 1 chance in 100 of becoming 90.
Having been lucky in all the draw-
ings up to fifty years. the average man
has 47% chances to 1 of becoming 60;
to become 70 the chances are 1 to 1
in bis favor; to become 80 he has but 1
chance in § and to become 90 1 chance
in 100.
If already 60 the average citizen has i
2 chances to 1 of becoming 70, 1]
chance in 4 of becoming 80 and i
chance in 66 of reaching 90.
The man of 70 has 3 chances in 8 of
becoming 80 and 1 in 50 of becoming
If one has weathered the storm until
his eightieth birthday he has 1 chance
in 17 of reaching his nineticth mile-
post.
It will be observed that as we get
older our chances of reaching 90 in-
crease greatly.
Night Eternal Reigns Over One-half
of Her Globe.
To have the same hemisphere ex-
posed everlastingly to sunlight while
the other is in perpetuity turned away
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going to the pole, or, rather, what
here replaces it, “through the dark
continent.” It exemplifies the even-
friction. It has brought Venus as a
world to the deathly pass we have con-
templated together. Starting merely
as a brake upon her rotation, it has
ended by destroying all those physical
conditions which enable our own
! which gradually feel their way forward
to make sure that the coast is clear,| —
i where I keep my diary? Ostend—Yes
Aesop's ape, it will be remembered,
wept on passing through a bumanp
graveyard, overcome with sorrow for
its dead ancestors. and that all mon-
keys are willing enough to be more
like us than they are they show by
their mimicry.
An old authority tells that the easiest
way to capture apes is for the hunter
to pretend to shave himself, then to
wash his face, fill the basin with a sort
of birdlime and leave it for the apes
to blind themselves. If the Chinese
story is to be believed the imitative
craze is even more fatal In another
way, for if you shoot one monkey of
a band with a poisoned arrow its neigh-
bor, jealous of so unusual a decoration,
will snatch the arrow from it and stab
itself, only to have it torn away by a
third, until in succession the whole
troop has committed suicide.
In their wild life baboons as well as
many varieties of the monkey tribe
undoubtedly submit to the authority of
recognized leaders. There is co-opera-
tion between them to the extent that
when fighting in company one will go
to the help of another which is hard
pressed.
In rocky ground they roll down stones
upon their enemies, and when making
a raid, as on an orchard which they be-
lieve to be guarded. the attack is con-
ducted on an organized plan, sentries
being posted and scouts thrown out,
while the main body remains in con-
cealment behind until told that the road
is open.
From the fact that the sentries stay
posted throughout the raid. getting for
themselves no share of the plunder, it
has been assumed that there must be
some sort of division of the proceeds
afterward. Man, again, has been dif-
ferentiated from all other creatures as
being a tool using animal, but more
than one kind of monkey takes a stone
in its hand and with it breaks the nuts
which are too hard to be cracked with
the teeth.—London Globe.
Discontent.
“We are never completely happy,”
sald the ready made philosopher.
“Of course not.” said the practical
person. “A boy wishes he were a
man so that he could have all the
mince pie he wants, and a man wishes
he were a boy so that he could digest
it.” —Washington Star,
No Argument.
Patronizer of the Cheap Restaurant—
Look here, waiter, this coffee is cold.
Polite and Intelligent Waiter—Quite
right, sir. This is a quick lunch cafe,
and if the coffee was hot you couldn't
drink it in a hurry.—London Scraps.
The Preference.
“My dear,” said the farsecing par
ent, “that young man may be a trifle
tedious, but he is 1 coming man."
“Perhaps he is,” sighed the weary
maiden, “but I'd rather he had more
go iu him."—Baltimore American.
Giving Pa Away.
Ma—S8o0 pa took advantage of my
absence and searched the bureav
ma, and pa said that was what he
called 2 “bureau of information.”
Chicago News.
Medical.
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The Proper Course
INFORMATION OF PRICELESS VALUE 10
ILES.—A cure that is guaranteed if you use
RUDY'S PILE SUPPOSITORY.
D. Matt. Supt. Graded Schools,
Te Shie PoR boo
Children Cry for |
Fletcher’s Castoria.
not a Classical Player, but He 8e- |
Wise Old Guard.
witched His Hearers. To a guard at a gate in the Broad
The truth is that Ole Bull was not a | Street station. Philadelphia, there re-
classical player. As | remember him, | ently rushed an excited individual
he could not play in strict tempo. Like | With this query, “Have 1 time to say
Chopin, he indulged in the rubato and | 800dby to my wife. who Is leaving on
abused the portamento. But he knew | this New York train?"
his public. America, particularly in| “That. sir’ the guard,
the regions visited, was not in the | With a polite smile, “depends on how
mood for sonatas or concertos. “Old | Jong you have been married.”—St,
Dan Tucker” and the “Arkansaw Trav- | Louis Republic
eler” were the mode. Bull played them
both, played jigs and old tunes, roused A Mean Hint
the echoes with the “Star Spangled | Miss Oldgiri-1 have been
Banner” and Irish melodies. fe play- | With Professor Plump, and he gave
ed such things beautifully, and it | me a few wrinkles. Miss Pert—Do
would have been musical snobbery to | You think you need any more, dear?—
say that you didn't like them. You | Baltimore American,
couldn't help yourself. The grand old
fellow bewitched you. The Refined
He was a handsome Merlin, with a | Tenderfoot (aghast) — You're
touch of the charlatan and a touch of
Liszt in his tall, willowy figure, small
waist and heavy head of hair. Such
white hair! It tumbled in masses
about his kindly face like one of his
nattre Norwegian cataracts. He was
the most picturesque old man 1 ever
saw except Walt Whitman, at that
time a steady attendant of the Carl
Gaertner string quartet concerts in
Philadelphia. (And what Walt didr't
know about music he made up in "is
love for stray dogs. He was seldom
without canine company.)—James Hu-
neker in Everybody's Magazine.
Bears the
Signatare of y
In Use For Over 30 Years,
The Kind You Have Always Bought,
Flour and Feed.
CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
The Kind You Have Bought
i ED TINOL oy Svar. 3
ita ao0d” ire” but Experiments Corn Meal
Hd endang Grivel a) d G 3
an Train
WHAT IS CASTORIA
Manufactures and has on at all times the
Castoria is a harmless substitute for following brands of high :
eR Phossant. 8 WHITE
conta neler Opium, Morphine nor STAR
other Narcotic substance. Its age is OUR BEST
and Wind Coli: It zolenes Teething VICTORY PATENT
Fiatlency. “If simian § Food, FANCY PATENT
Een EE
(Hiss PmcesFe Floors | Tuy hacen he county whe tha exer
Bears the Signature of SPRAY
can be secured. Stock Food
CHAS. H. FLETCHER. Ln of kinds.
All kinds of Grain bought at the office. Flour
exchanged for wheat.
In Use For Over 30 Years. 54.23821m
Insurance.
EDWARD K. RHOADS
D W. WOODRING.
Shipping and Commission
. Merchant, and Dealer in
General Fire Insurance.
Represents only the strongest and most |
Gives reliable ANTHRACITE anxp BITUMINOUS
aie
COALS
CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS
and other grains.
—— BALED HAY AND STRAW —
OFFICE AT 119 EAST HOWARD ST,
§2-30. Bellefonte, Pa.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
ne Comes the Weksat. Fire
—— NO ASSESSMENTS —
Do not fail to give us a call before insuring your
Life in position to write
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Office in Crider’s Stone Building.
43-18-1y. BELLEFONTE, PA.
KINDLING WOOD
by the bunch or cord as mav suit purchasers,
respectfully solicits the patronage of his
friends and the public, at his Coal Yard,
near the Pennsylvania Passenger Station.
1618 Telephone Cals: {Central 12...)
Saddlery.
en
James Schofield’s
+ HARNESS MANUFACTORY,
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance Co. Erbil aie 11.
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
Bexngrrrs: Manufacturer of and
Dealer in all kinds of
LIGHT AND HEAVY HARNESS
and a complete line of
Horse Goods
H. E. FENLON,
Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.
JAMES SCHOFIELD,
Spring Street 34-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
50-21.
——— nn —————
Attorneys-at-Law.
J C. Ser iene 3 Law. Bn & A.
Bellefonte, Pa.,
3-20-1y* Graduate University of Pennsylvania.
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Cards.
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~Gent’s Fi
WwW’ LARD Cape, Bic Tdeal in only the
er than Pes, Sut ad r
I would be shoddy and cheaper
D. I. WILLARD,
West High St. S5481y. Bellefonte, Pa.
ESTAURANT.
now has a First-Class Res-
Bellefonte
taurant where
Meals are Served at All Hours
ie ctr ave
the purest syrups and
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Meat Market.
(Get the Best Meats.
by bu poor, thin
use
You save nothi
or gristly meats.
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
50 uty opm th
Ee a where,
I always have
— DRESSED POULTRY ——
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP,
P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. 43-24-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
Money te Loan.
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NEED watts
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51-14-1y.
Fine job Printing.
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FINE JOB PRINTING
o—A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
Tene alm
BOOK WORK,
hal we Cf it do ind jo Sia
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Children Cry for
Fletcher’s Castoria.
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