Bellefonte, Pa., April —Do you keep your chickens, or do they keep you? —Good warm wheat makes a nice breakfast for the biddies. —If you stamp a date on your eggs, sell them before the date gets old. —Perfect cleanliness from now on will cut short the louse crop of June. —Let other folks do the fancy poultry business. You stick to practical work. —Skim-milk is thin looking stuff, but it may be put to good use in the poultry yard. —Chickens that lay around almost any- where sometimes are merely emulating their betters. —A little more clean litter on the floors. Keep the fowls hard at work. It is the price of health. —Keep your meat scraps where they will not get stale and sour. Fresh feed is what makes heavy hens. <=For hatching Susioses take the eggs from the hens that lay best. Build up; never let the standard down. —Teed little and often, and be careful | about overfeeding. This is the great secret in feeding brooder chicks. ~Kesp the broodes péstect)y clean, and always the chicks in a clean place if yo u want them to live and thrive. —Cook some beans or mix them with wheat bran and feed twice a week and see if you don’t get a lot more eggs. —Have everything convenient. Steps saved in the care try will mean that much less labor. costs mon- cy. pens. Gi A re i Yaar ve em a - ves. That is the best kind of arbitra- —A shelf, a couple of feet below the roosts, is handy to catch the droppings, and handy to clean. And don’t forget to clean it. —The baby ducks are just as well off, in fact better, without water to swim in until they have grown their crop of feathers. —Keep your hens from straying over on the land of your neighbor. partic- ular about this if he has any crop grow- ing there. —Bits of meat carried out with brine from the barrel and left on the ground will give hens serious bowel trouble. Don’t risk it. for laying next fall. —Give the houses a good cleaning, and or spade up the yards. Dirty houses vermin, and polluted soils are in- cubators for the gape worm. —Guinea fowls will now be laying, and ; a watch must be kept on their nests, as it is their nature to hide them. Theeggs had better be hatched by hens. —Give the turkey ben and her brood a coop enough for the mother to move about and stand erect in, and you won't be so apt to have bad luck. —Wheat bran, crushed egs-shells, cut bone, broken mortar and oyster-shells are fine for making eggs with good solid shells.—From May Farm Journal. —The eggs of hens that did heavy lay- ing during the winter are not so apt to be as strongly fertilized as eggs from hens that made but a fair showing. —As a rule, eggs from two-year-old A Meritea Rebuke. At the age of eighty-six Mme. Reyn- | olds still found much zest in life, | and, having retaired all her faculties, | she felt that a few of the physical dis- | abilities of her age were of small ac- count and portended nothing. Her nephew Thomas was a man of much worth, but of a certain tactlessness of . speech, which always roused the ire | of his aunt. | A few weeks before the old lady's | eighty-seventh birthday Thomas. who | had been overweighted with business | | cares for years, started on a trip round | the world which was to consume two | years. {| “I've come to say goodby.” he an | nounced when he appeared -~t his | aunt's house in a town fifty miles dis- | tant from his home. “I'm starting round the world nest week. and as I'm to be gone two years and perhaps | lonzer | thought 1 miziit not ever— | well, you understand. | wauted to be | sure to see you once not e | The old lady leaned forward, fixing | him with her beadlitie eyes | “Thomas,” she said imperatively, | “do you mean to tell me the doctor | doesn't think you'll live to get back?’ ~Youth's Companion. i Perpetual [lotion. | Little Jimmy had arrived at the | questioning age. He bad just made an | inquiry concerning perpetual motion ! of his father. i “No, said his father: “nobody has | ever discovered perpetmil motion yet.” But Jimmy was not quite satisfied. | “What is perpetual motion like, dad?” | he asked next. His father thought a moment. “Why, it's pretty hard to say. Jimmy.” he re plied. “but it's somethinz that keeps going and going forever. Here is an illustration. I once saw a woman in a train who had put on her gloves. She then tried to button her right band glove, but she found that she must take off her left hand glove to do so. She took it off and buttoned the right hand glove. Then she saw that in or- der to button her left hand glove she must take off her right hand glove, which she did. Then she put on her left hand glove, buttoned it and put on the right band one again. But she couldn't button her right hand glove with her left hand glove on. so she took off— That, Jimmy.” he said after a pause for breath, “is what perpetual motion would be like if you could get it A Remarkable Dinner Service. The remarkable dinner service made by Josiah Wedgwood for the Russian empress, Catherive 11., in 1774 consists of 952 pleces, and on each piece is painted a different view. The body is of a pale brimstone color, and the views are painted in a rich mulberry purple. As the service was intended to be used at the palace of La Gre- nouilliere (meaning marshy place full of frogs), each piece also bears a green frog within a shield on the rim. The views represent British ruined | castles, abbeys. parks, bridges. towers, | ete. Several pieces are decerated with views of Hampstead, and there are custard cups with views of Richmond and sauce boats with the scenery of Windsor park. In many cases the , views are the only pictorial records | left of the old buildings. Altogether | there are 1,282 views painted on the | 052 pieces.—Connoisseur. What Was Missing. hens give better satisfaction at this time ' Dr. Watson (Ian Maclaren) used to of the year than when from younger | tell a story about his trip to the Holy stock, and the chicks are more vigorous. | Land, to which he had been looking It's annoying, perhaps, just about sup- forward for a number of years with per time, J ope Te wash dirty pleasurable anticipation. eggs when the hen b As he was nearing the center of his. one, but this | is a task that must not be put off until! toric Palestine he met an American | who was making all haste to get away. tomorrow. —The last egg laid before a hen goes | After such greetings as two English speaking men meeting in a foreign to setting will often be so small that it will have no yolk at all. There is an old | country might exchange the Ameri notion that it is bad luck to bring these | can asked Dr. Watson where he was small eggs in the house. going. —A nest that suits the turkey hen first- | “To Jerusalem.” was the reply. rate may be made by turning a salt bar-| “Jerusalem!” exclaimed the Ameri- rel on the side. Put straw in the hollow, | can in tones of unfeigned disgust. and a nest egg, and cover the barrel over | “You don't want to go there. [I've just with brush, if you have it handy. come away. It's a slow town. Why, —One of my neighbors says thatthere’s | there isn't a single daily newspaper in no money in poultry, and that the easiest | the whole place!” way fo get a I Nl them. He i that he keeps chickens to eat the bugs in | The Flag at Haif Mast. his orchard; pays em a cent a bug. | The custom of showing the flag at lg here a place under yume Si build | half mast originated from the way at ing wi you can up the earth | sea of showing the pre-eminence one and ive it to the pep to ork at? They | ship had over the other in time of war- away hard worms that | gore The vanquished always had to Sayin init. Nothing will do themmore | | wor its flag, while the victor's would | be raised as high as possible in exul and | tation. To lower a flag is an act of not soon again, y € | submission or betokens respect to a su- heer sh hi equ aogier, |r Bs sgn of dress he to, and neither in box nor in keg will she ! hoisting of a flag half mast high came ever lay another egg. | to be used, therefore, as a sign of —1If fowls must run at large on range | mourning and respect. over a farm, by all means keep one breed | and give hem all the time, knowledge | and attention possible. You will have something of which you may be proud, | od that will profit you financially as | —When a hen lays now and then, and you can't Not Enough to Go Around. “What are you laughing at. dear?’ asked a fond mother of a little four- year-old miss who seemed to be great- ly amused. the land | “Oh, at somethinz funny that hap- do not | pened,” was the reply. “but it's no use may | to tell you, because it Isn't funny to find a bit of that kind of | enough for both of us to lavgh at.”"— Chicago News. g shells and such thi ic ngs. A Musica! Opinion. “What selection is that the orches- tra has just finished?” “1 don't know. Sounded to me like neuralgia expressed in music.”—Lon- don Tit-Bits. hatches, care hen until she Hypnotism and Marriage. A Georgian complains that his wife “has hypnotized him.” That is a habit women have; otherwise there would be no marriage.—Charleston News and Courier. There are a thousand persons in the world who can hurt you to one that san help you.—Billings. A NARROW ESCAPE. I was in Egypt before the fanatical outbreak of 1882. When a trouble of that kind is coming those who are uot in the secret either know nothing about it or have only vague suspi- cions. 1 heard some ugly rumors as to what was about to happen, but did not know how much dependence could be placed upon them. To all outward ap- pearances everything wax moving on as usual. I was obliged to go to Ismailia on business. If |] had known the condi-| tion of the people of the country | should not have trusted myself out of Port Said. where Europeans were coin- paratively =sufe. To make a journey into the interior was madness, but | did not know it. Indeed, I only real-| ized that under the circumstances || would rather not go. A matter of or- dinary gain and being murdered were the alternatives, 1 went on a night train. Being some- what finical abeut my diet, 1 took with me a hawper filled with as succulent eatables as I could get together and ou the top placed a box of cigars from which only a few of the weeds had been taken. | got into my compart- | ment, put my hand baggage on the rack and settled myself for a journey. Being in a smoking compartment, 1 lit a cigar. The compari: ut was filled with pa- tives. 1 belug the only European in it. This in itself was wot encouraging. The train had hardly got under way when an oid Arab sheik sitting oppo- site me leaned forward and calmly took my cigar from between my lips and, placing it between his own, smok- ed it himself. To have resented the insult would have been equivalent to inviting the man to stab me. 1 therefore paid no attention to bim and, taking a pews paper from wy pocket, began to read that is, 1 pretended to read, but 1 bad | no iden of what was on the sheet be- | fore me, my mind being taken up wit | the fact that 1 was in a compartmen’ with seven Arabs and utterly at the!" | mercy. My eyes appeared to be fixed | upon the paper, but | was casting quick glances sidewise at the natives and knew by their chatter and occa- sional looks at me that 1 was the sub- ject of their conversation, Then a lucky thought occurred to me. 1 reached up to the rack, got my box of cigars from my hamper, took out one for myself and handed the box to the sheik who had robbed me of the one I had been smoking. He took it, appropriated a handful of the contents and passed it to the others, who did the same, and the box was returned to me empty. Notwithstanding my peace offering I expected every moment to feel cold steel entering my vitals. Most of the Arabs wore long knives where they could be seen, and 1 knew not what | other weapons they had concealed. As for we, | was unarmed, and even if 1 had been srmed my oponeats were seven to vue, 1 cannot describe the agony of that | night, expecting, as 1 did. death at | any wowent. The Arabs in my cow | partment paid wo attention to any. | thing that vas goiug on in the rest of | the train, but 1 had a vague feeling | that something very important might | be going on, | can’t acconut for this | feeling, for 1 heard no sound to pro- | duce it. 1 only knew that 1 felt that | there was murder in the air. i Finally their ivoks and acts were so | suspicious that 1 bethought myself of | some other way similar to my offer of | cigars to placate them. Then my luncheon occurred to we. Reaching up again to the rack, 1 brought down | my hamper. opened it and displayed the eatables. Every man's eyes were on them, but not a man moved to touch any of them. I offered the ham- Medical. A —— | | The True Test. Tried in Bellefonte, It Has Stood the Test. hardest test is the test of time Pills have stood it well Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria. the man who sat next me, but turn | handed it to in the compartment;- but, all looked with eager eyes nds, not a man would ac- cept a morsel. first | was astonished at this. I remembered that no Arab will bread with an enemy. The moment this occurred to me I i : Bg in my overcoat, lay back in my seat. with my eyes closed. to await what- ever was in store for me. 1 heard a great dea! of wrangling on | the part of the Arabs, but | thought | would rather rely on my weakness than on being prepared for resistance that would be useless. So 1 did not open my eyes. Presently 1 felt a hand on my arm. Thinking my time had come, 1 looked. and there was the sheik who had taken my cigar from my mouth holding out a plece of dry bread. 1 took it and. biting from it, chewed vigorously. A flood of relief and joy seemed to have been poured over me. 1 knew from that moment 1 was safe. Reach- ing up for my hamper. 1 took it down and handed it to the sheik. He helped himself, ther: passed it around to the others. each man partaking plentifully of the contents. Now that they had broken bread with me and | having no more to fear I again leaned back in my seat and this time slept. 1 knew that 1 was as zafe from my Arab companions as if | were in my own bed at home. But 1 did not reach Ismailia that aight. In the morning | found that the natives had murdered the engineer, stoker and every European on the train. Bears the Signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. In Use For Over 30 Years. 54-36-2Im Insurance. JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successor to Grant Hoover) Fire, Life Accident Insurance. Brea le —— NO ASSESSMENTS — Do not fail to us a call before insuring your Life or 5 as we are in ion toh wie The Preferred Accident Insurance Co. THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY BENEFITS: $3000 death by accident, 5,000 loss of feet 5.000 loss of both hands, 5,000 loss of one hand and one foot, 2,500 loss of either hand, 2,000 loss of either foot, 630 loss of one eye, 3 fisnipitity. Pe iimit weeks 10 week bartjal disability, P limit weeks) plained. “Feet that incline to flatness are a sign of meanness, Cuthbert.” Cuthbert looked down at his No. 10 tans and sighed. “A hurried yet silent walk.” she con- tinued, “is indicative of criminal in stints. "Your walk is so hurried, so noiseless, Cuthbert.” “You are speaking of only one of my styles of walking. Ethel” be answer ed brightly. “I have another. | used it this afternoon to walk into a jew- eler’s shop and buy a $150 engagement ring that I had hoped”— “Oh, Cuthbert!” she cried, and the next minute the pedomancy expert and a splay footed youth were crowded into one saddlebag chair, and the gas was turned down into a little blue bub- ble.—S8an Francisco Chronicle. important to Mothers. Esamine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, & safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it te CTs Signatare of ; 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 Feed Corn Meal and Grain hand at all times (olin Deans of high grade four: Te he WHITE STAR OUR BEST HIGH GRADE VICTORY PATENT FANCY PATENT The only place in the county where . a Le at. SPRAY can be secured. Also International Stock Food and feed of all kinds. 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LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE EE—————eee and supply my customers with the fresh- , choicest, blood and muscle - FINE JOB PRINTING oa er higher than poorer meats are elsewhere. o——A SPECIALTY—0 I alwavs have — DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE Don i the TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, BOOK WORK, High Street. 4334ly. Bellefonte, Pa. that we can not do in the most satis- mane a 0 er EL eae | ____ Sodland Weed, communicate with this office. = me ~~ Sgpadiery. EDWARD K. RHOADS 50 SETS OF SINGLE HARNESS REDUCED IN PRICE To the Buyers of Harness in Cen- tre County : CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS and other grains. Ei Of on rieavy — —— e EE BALED HAY AND STRAW sets of Harness in Imita- : tion, Genuine Rubber and Nickel, Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand. running in prices from $13.50 to i of leather afford miss this a KINDLING WOOD your wants'in Heavy and Taght by the bunch or cord as mav suit purchasers, ness. : respectfully solicits the patronage of his oa ee, {05 Sele wl ust friends and the public, at his Coal Yard, Give us a call before Bea the 4 see for yourself. Goods cheerfully shown whether buy or not. g JAMES SCHOFIELD, DEALER IN Harness, Saddles, Blankets, Robes, Nets, Bells, Whips, and Horse Furnishing Goods. Spring Street 34-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. ILES.—A cure that is guaranteed if you use RUDY'S PILE SUPPOSITORY. D. Matt. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria. }
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