: : 5 Demerath i —An inch of water on an acre of land equals 22,000 gallons, or 230,000 pounds, or 100 tons. ~The tobacco raisers of the United States realize about $87,000,000 a year from this crop alone. —The turkey crop of the United States last year was about 6,500,000 head, of Missouri produced 456.000. —Oklahoma is the only State which now has a law requiring the teaching of agriculture in all of its country schools. It is expected, however, that similar laws will be passed in other States. £ portion milk, plenty of mild water, some salt, tepperature and comfortable s generally, are —The largest farm in the world is own- ed by one man in the State of Chihuahua, It measures 150 miles from West, and contains about 8,000,000 acres. On this farm are raised about a million of cattle, 7000 sheep and 100,000 ous branches and for ing an open top for letting in the air and fio al vie pru vines al- ways cut just ahead of the bud,as the bud is the place where new growth, fruit or foliage is formed. —The Department of Agriculture is ex- petimenting with corn shipped from i Plants raised last year averaged less than 16 inches it height, with an average of 12 green leaves at the time of tasseli The ears averaged 5 1-2 inches — and 4 1.3 in greatest circum- ference, with 16 to 18 rows of small grains. | —Delaware farmers are doing some great things. At Laurel, recently, the nest lot of white potatoes ever grown | in the State were exhibited, hundreds of | which weighed over a pound each. They | were of the Green Mountain variety. Numerous sweet potatoes weighing from | 6to 14 pounds have been exhibited in | various places. —Considerable attention should be giv- | en to ewes and young lambs. A new-born | lamb is just about the most helpless thing | on the , and frequently needs a little | help to get started in life, but when fairly | EE will give the owner more satisfaction; and it will pay to have patience and do all one can to as- | sist them at first. | =wTHilgy seven Cows of ha Cornell Ex- | iment farm averaged over pounds of milk, which is 2500 po more than the average in the State. The | most interestiug feature connected with | this herd is the fact that it was started | milk per , and was raised to the pres- | bef breeding and selection, | using pure-! sires. i —As to the desirability of the use of | the wide tires there can be no question. | laden equipped sharp, rounded, narrow tires, | 3 : 1 ; ft : 1 Beaed 2s 582 2 2 2 52 £ E § 5 fe i #f : 8 Fin: i] : £ : : E t | : hi il t- i sf tH g z g - Lt Hd eek i of i fe i 78 g5% § im i i I i ing winter, taking the time of October to April. Drones very seldom live more than four or five weeks in hot weather. —Many farmers to think that be- : i : i £ i if HE i 3d f fH : | | ; f : ; 2H g i 3 : : : : i y § : § 10 73s i i sai i ff ; i work will to become ill, and in some cases to t fatally, or in disablement for sever- i Seb ! can be measured by means of an ordi | work extremely delicate thermometers ; accurate, as the pressure of air doe: ee not decrease uniformly as we ascena. | HOW A BELLEFONTE CITIZEN FOUND COM- | Record-Herald. ! ing a story of Charles Reade when the | curtain fell at the old Queen's theater in London on a pronounced failure ! shadow of a call for the author. The ¢ curtain divided the audience from the { smiling blandly and in meilifiuous ac- | cents saying: “Infernal idiots! : shall I teach you to respect Charles i stands without parallel in all history, ; pletely sinks himself, the great centra! The Drinking Orchid and ts Fruitiess | Search For Water, | A JAPANESE SPY. fi i : “The strangest orchids | ever saw,” | During the wars in Japan between said a naturalist, “live on the edge of | the adherents of the mikado and the a lagoon on the Lio de la Plaga— Shogun the mikado's troops were be- dive, 1 say, for surely no animal js Siesing a fortress which both sides more alive than they. aud among them Vaned. hohe Catton aE 1 first realized the pathos of a plant's there mpor- immobility, the cruelty of its roots tance concerning it that is pertinent to that bind it forever to one spot. this story. The mikado’s army was “These orchids had each at the cen- | Very small, and a force of the shoguns ter or axis a long stem a half inch Was coming up to the relief of the be- wide and a quarter inch thick. They Siesed. This force was expected with- grew on dead limbs overhanging the in a week. The success of the mikado lagoon, and pow and then when in depended upon how long his enemy's need of water they uncolled their Supplies would hold out. If there axial stems, lowered them three or Were emough for but a few days the four feet to the stream and when Deslegers might remain and reap the the stems up again as a tape measure Sons should last longer than that they coils up on its spool . would better be off before the relief “A strange sight that still and trop. force came up or they might be over- fen] afternoon—a silent. sun drenched ‘helmed by a superior army. lagoon, a scarlet blaze of orchids and To know what supplies the defend- here and there those slim, supple tubes rs of the fortress had would be of in- descending to drink. satisfying them- ' estimable value to the besieged. It selves, then coiling up again. | memmt a possible possession of the “But what impressed me most was a point of attack, and it meant a preven- mass of faded vrchids that continually ' tion of a possible annihilation of the and restlessly let down their tubes in ' emperor's army and the probable loss vain. for the stream had fallen, and Of his cause. hence the tubes descended upon dry ' The devotion of the Japanese people ground. It was pitiful. The orchids under such circumstances is a won- were dying. but with what strength der. It is that devotion which enabled was left to them they lowered and them to force a peace upon the Rus- drew up their tubes. They felt fever. Sian bear that had threatened to fshly and weakly for the water that “Walk all over” their little island and wasn't there. take possession of it. It is that devo- “A sad sight—a sight that brought tion that has enabled them to protect home the pathos of the immobility of themselves while cultivating the com- plants!” —Exchange. . . mercial methods of western civiliza- t—— tion. The Curious Hallucinations of We, There came a noble to the mikado and said to him: “O mighty emperor, it is on ac- count of your majesty's virtue that I William Blake, the contemporary of Charles Lamb, was a man of visions, | Blake dined with prophets and held feel impulse ri h e. converse with archangels. A friend » 3) TE ity ie: of Blake called on the poet-painter | no and smile pleasantly upon me as “and found him sitting, pencil In 1 yielq to the inspiration. I will dis- hand, drawing a portrait with all | gyjge myself and obtain admittance to the seeming anxiety of a man who iS he fortress. There I will observe for conscious of having a fastidious sitter. ! how many days your enemies are sup- He looked and drew and drew and plied, and I will return and advise you looked, yet no living soul was visible. | of the fact.” ‘Disturb me not,’ said Blake in a “I am well pleased,” replied the em- whisper. ‘I have some one sitting to ' peror, “that my virtues have produced me." ‘Sitting to you! exclaimed the in you such a worthy motive. You astonished visitor. ‘Where is he? 1! have my permission to go into the see no one.’ ‘But I see him,’ answered | fortress and observe the supply of Blake haughtily. ‘There he is. His | food our enemies have and return to name is Lot. You may read of him in me and tell me. I will request the the Scriptures He is sitting for his shades of my own ancestors to watch portrait.’ " | over you, but if you die in your at- Blake's hallucinations, however, rare- | tempt you will have the satisfaction of ly took a malignant form. One of his knowing that both mine and your an- most beautiful visitors was of a fairy ; cestors will welcome you in spirit funeral. “1 was walking alone in my land.” garden,” be said. “There was a great , So the noble prostrated himself be- t| stillness among the branches and flow- | fore his majesty and turned and went ers and more than common sweetness | away. That same day a man dressed in the air. I heard a low and pleasant | a8 a shepherd found access to the sound and knew not whence it came. | fortress and went among the grana- “At last | saw the broad leaf of a rles and found them nearly empty. flower move, and underneath | saw a There was food enough to last but procession of creatures of the size and {Wo days. The shepherd, satisfied with color of green and gray grasshoppers, the information he had gained, was beariug a body laid out on a rose leaf, About to leave the fortress when one which they buried with songs and then who had known him before the war disappeared. It was a fairy’s funeral.” came on recognized kim. The spy was —Chicago News. seized nnd hurried before the shogun. “This man,” said his captor, “is a no- ble who supports the mikado for the position to which your majesty is en- titled. He has been among us in this raiment of a shepherd and knows just how many days' supply we have on hand. What shall we do with him?” “Crucify him,” said the shogun. With that they were leading the spy away to crucify him when the sho- gun called to them to bring him back. “If you will go to the wall,” he said May Be Measured by Means of an Ordinary Thermometer. Heights of mountains or of airships nary thermometer. The greater the pressure of the atmosphere on the sur- face of water the greater temperature it takes to boil it. As we rise in the air less and less pressure of the air, occurs, and water will boil at a lower temperature than 100 degrees C. (212 pe F.. It has been figured on to the spy, “and tell your people that that for a few miles up for every “Ve have supplies to last several weeks thousand feet of ascent water will! wil spare your life.” boil a degree lower. Thus if at the That 1 will do” sald the other. bottom of - mountain water boils a. My ancestors call to me to stand firm 99 degrees C. (210.2 degrees F.) and at | and they will receive me at my death the top at 98 degrees C. (208.4 degrees joyfully, but I have a wife and chil- F.) the mountain is a thousand feet| dren in the mikado's camp, and I am high. ! loath to leave them for my ancestors, In government and other scientific' Whom I reverence greatly, but have are used. They are long, so that the scales may be divided into fractions of a degree. The entire instrument for | the work is termed o thermobarome- ter, or hypsometer. It consists of | Medical. . small metallic vessel for boiling wa-! ter, on the inside of which are placed | these delicate thermometers. Ganot | says that the accuracy of the height! of a mountain can be obtained withi” | ten feet by means of these instru. ments. It is probably not quite that Cured to Stay Cured. | Nevertheless it is a good adjunct to, PLETE FREEDOM FROM KIDNEY the Jusvesor taking largely Yarblel 1f you sulfér RR profiles. : From urinary disorders Of course the ordinary instrument; From an disease of the kidneys, for taking heights without actually | cureC $0 measuring them is the barometer. This is open to the same objection as the thermometer, for its height de- pends on the pressure of air, which does not decrease uniformly. How- ever, it cai be graduated to an em- pirical scale to tell the heights and in that case shows accuracy.—Chicago A Story cf Charles Reade. Charles Mathews was fond of tell: called “A White Lic.” ‘There was no author. who stood on the stage shak- ing his fist at the invisible foe, still When Reade? Washington's Farewell. The farewell address of Washington, the military chieftain, to his soldiers He does not refer to his own sacrifices or achievements. He simply and com- figure, out of sight. He sees only his Children Cry for country and thinks only of her wel: fare.—Magazine of American History. Fletcher's Castoria. * 1 am so weak as to pre- fer my wife and little ones.” “Go, then; tell them what I have said to you, and I will in time return you to those you love.” was conducted to the wall g fy led the besiegers to come t he might speak to them. all drew as near as they the family of the spy coming the others. The spy stood look- at them benignly as they drew r and saw his wife and little ones up at him anxiously, knowing t he must have been discovered by the besieged people and that a great crigis was at hand, The shogun sat in the center of the fortress, rejoicing that he had found a means of deceiving his enemies and sending them off when near the ac- complishment of all they had been so long striving for. About him stood his soldiers waiting to hear the spy tell his people of the abundance of sup- plies there were in the fort. Then the spy raised his hand for silence and said to them: “0 my people, 1 have examined the supplies that there are in this for- tress, and there are but enough to last two days.” A thousand spears were hurled at him, and he fell on the wall. Castoria. fee CASTORIA FOR INFANTS ano CHILDREN. Bears the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. The Kind You Have Always Bought. In Use For Over 30 Years. CASTORIA 54-35-21lm The Centaur Co., New York City. Insurance. D W. 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