The Witch Finders. Three bundred years ago the busi- pess of finding out witciaes was well established and acvepted in courts of law as highly proper. In 1649 it is re- corded that the magisirntes of New- castle, England, =ent to Scotland for an expert witch finder. This gifted person to show his skill by discovering fifteen wiiches and secur- ing their conviction. One Matthew Hopkins was a celebrated witch finder of that period. It was easy to discover witches when you knew bow. The sus- pected person could be forced to weep and then detected LY the well known fact that a witch could shed only three tears and those from the left eye, or she could be pricked with pins to dis- and | cover the spot insensible to pain, which the other $140. Together with her sale price the animal brought her owner 8376 within 12 months. — ASpaHIgHS bed should be liberal- ly fertili if large, tender stalks are de- sired. Extensive Pennsylvania growers use a fertilizer composed of 300 pounds of nitrate of soda, 400 pounds of muriate of Rd acs at. ie. te ied at rate of one ton per acre. we should be applied yay ey in the spring. = In the fall, after tops have been removed, the planting should be heavily manured. —Prof. E. B. Hart, of the University of Wisconsin, says farmers need to be cau- tioned generally nst the use of wood ashes and lime with manure. The ashes and lime produce an alkaline condition, resulting in the loss of the ammonia which carries off the nitrogen. This point has not been sufficiently emphasized, and many well-meaning farmers have used ashes and lime with manure to disadvan- tage. Thelime and ashes if needed by the soil should be put on in other years tha those in which farm manure is ap- ied. —As a crop for green manuring buck- wheat a number of valuable characteristics. It thrives on poor soil. It grows rapidly. It smothers out weeds, thus helping to clean the land. It leaves hard soils in a remarkably mellow condi- tion. It decays quickly when plowed under. Buckwheat is free from insect or fungous troubles. It starts so quickly and rows so rapidly that most weeds get no chance to make headway against it. Buckwheat is one of the best crops for cleaning land by smothering out weed growths. —Butter is estimated to weigh about one-sixth more than the butter fat in the milk and cream. For instance, 36 pounds of butter fat, when made into butter, the quantity would be six pounds more, or 42 pounds of churned butter. Most cream- eries work on this basis. Whether there is fraud in computing the value of the cream at the creamery d upon the character of the men. amount of butter to be secured from the cream de- pends upon the butter fat content of that cream. If cream tests 36 per cent. of butter fat, from 100 pounds of such cream 42 pounds of butter should be churned. If cream contains but 24 per cent. of but- ter fat, from 100 pounds but 28 pounds of butter will be churned. —Peach Trees and the Kind of Treat- ment they Require.—A good soil is need- ed for peach trees, but a soil that is de- ficient in the food elements needed can- not grow the tree. The ground must be in proper condition. peach - tree no fertilizing until it has set acTop; then fertilizers should be applied freely, so that the vigor of the tree may be pre- served and that it may the most perfect fruit. Wood ashes, five to ten pounds per tree, is Yery good. Stable manure applied in the fall or early win- ter (but never in the spring, unless the land is very poor and the trees are weak) is excellent. wpeas grown in a peach orchard will be found to be a beneficial crop. They should be sown very late in the season (about now,) and are not to be removed from the land. —Trees rapidly deteriorate when the orchard is overplanted. Thisis due to an overcrowded state. Thin out the trees before the branches begin to touch. Where the soil of the orchard is too wet for the thrift of the trees, the land had best be drained or the ground will sour. Sour soil should be treated to an applica- tion of lime. Improper pruning will result in a worn- out orchard, which is shown in the un- symmetrical heads,dead or dying branches and a great growth of watersprouts. Prun- ing should be done to correct such de- fects, to allow air and sunlight to enter and to facilitate tions in cultivation, etc. Wood gro is caused by heavy pruning of the top. If trees are properly pruned, the trees will not only be rein- vigorated, but errors of former years will be rectified. —The average beginner does not appre- ciate the im of mulching the strawbe ivy) It should not be neg- lected. e straw, in mulch acts as a protection from injury by alter- nate freezing and thawing. If the plants remain frozen all winter, and in the spring gradually thaw out, there will be little damage, but when left bare, and the beds are alternately frozen and thaw- o in spri a} Suring yam weather winter, ts are partly out of the ground, resulting in injury. By mulching, too, the berries are kept clean. Mulching also conserves moisture and takes the place of cultivation in the spring, when latter is ble. g I i ; 8 #5588 ipa EPA ? : Fg was a sure sign of dealings with the devil. That women were far more likely to dabble in witchcraft than men was conceded. The reason was satisfactorily explained by a famous German text book on witches published ip the fifteenth century. It was sim- ply that women were inherently wick- ed. whereas men naturally inclined to goodness. The Coyote. The coyote is the little brother of the indian. When the buffalo vanished from the plains the Indian shot his rifle into the air, wrapped his blanket closer about him and came into the reservation to grow fat and unpictur- esque under federal auspices. When the jack rabbit and molly cottontail vanish from the plains and foothills the how! of the last coyote will sink into silence beyond the great divide. Until that far day arrives, however, hang the bacon high, for while the rab- bit remains the most skillful four legged forager the world ever knew will bay at the woon by night and just keep out of rifie range by day. The coyote knows more nbout traps than a Canadian *“voyageur,” is an expert on strychnine and never falls for the deadfall. He is rather fond of lambs and calves, but rabbits are the oat- meal of this phantom highlander, and, as “Diamond Field” Jack Davis would say. “where two or three of these are gathered together there vou will find the coyote, seeking to stow one of them into his midst.” —Philadeiphia Tele graph. When a Burglar Calls at Night. “If a burglar breaks into your bouse at night don't try fo corner him,” said an old headquarters policeman. “If the visitor awakens you make noise enough to scare him away, but don't go after him with a gun. Ten to one he'll ‘get’ you before you can hit him. It's better to lose an few dollars’ worth of goods than your life. I'm giving it to you straight. The average man. waked up in the middle of the night, always badly frightened. hasn't a chance against the man with nerve enough to break into an occupied house. Every burglar is a potential murderer and will shoor to kill if you try to catch him. And wby not? He's got a big. long term in prison staring him in the face If be's nabbed. and he'll take a chance on murder every time to get away. Leave the capture of such gentry to the ‘cops.’ They're paid to be shot at; you ain't." Kansas City Star. The Normans. The Normans were Northmen or, to be more precise. the descendants of Northmen, who had been expelled from their native Norway In conse- quence of an effort on their part to subvert its institutions and to make its lands hereditary instead of being divisible among all the sons of the former owner. A bund of expatriated outlaws and robbers, they won and held the fair province of northern France, which they named Normandy, after their parive land. When they invaded England they were French- men only in the sense that they had lived for some generations on French soll. In blood they belonged to the great Germanic breed, along with the Anglo-Saxons. Danes and other Scan- dinavian and German peoples.—New York American. Why She Was Silent. A very silent old woman was once asked why it was she had so little to say. She replied that when she was a young girl she was very {ll and could not talk for a long time, whereupon she made n wow that if speech were given her once more she would never again say anything unkind of any- body. And thus she was as they found her.—~Exchange. e——————— The Soft Question. Mrs. Nuwed, Sr. (to son after fam- ily jar)=Don’t forget. son. that “a soft answer turpeth away wrath” Mr. Nuwed, Jr.—~Well, | know a soft ques- tion of mine brought a lot of it ¢n me.~Smart Set. Generous. Tattered Terry—There goes a kind man. The last time I went to him I didn't have a cent and he gave me all he could. Weary Walter—What was that? Tattered Terry—Thirty days.— Puck. Vain M Professor—My tailor has put one button too many on my vest. I must cut it off. That's funny. Now there's a buttonbole too many. What's the use of arithmetic?—Sourire. Mostly Before. Publisher—Do you write before or after eating? Poet (faintly) —Always before unless I have some- thing to eat.—Judge. purpose; not the powers to achieve, but the will to labor.—~Bulwer-Lytton. What men want is not talent, it is F With Scant Allowance For Necessaries Steel Workers Have Littie Left. : (From The Survey.) Two-thirds of the stee! workers re- ceive a wage not greater than $12 a week: only one-fifth receive more | than $15. Let us see what a wage of | $12 will do in Pittsburg. Fortunately | we are able to draw upon Miss Bying- ton's careful study of the budgets of ninety Homestead families. Thirty-two | of these had less than $12 a week. | Their average weekly expenditures were $9.18—or at the rate of $477.36 a year. | How do the families fare who spend | from $12 to $15 a week? Miss Bying- ton gives us the items for sixteen fam- | ilies in this wage group, with an aver- age total expenditure of $13.32, or a scant $700 a year. These families pay | about $10 a month rent, but ten of | them live with more than two persons to a room and only five have city wa- ter in the house. They pay on the aver- age 24 cents per man per day for food, but four of the sixteen spend less than 22 cents. Clothing they buy at the rate of $81.64 a year. Fifty cents a week for insurance provides only for burial, should death occur. The only item that looks hopeful is the margin of $2.83 for all other expenditures. But | the families in this group were not self-indulgent; 20 cents paid the week- ly bill for liquor and tobacco, 47 cents went for medical service, 42 cents for furnishings and minor household ex- penses, leaving only $1.23 for car fare, papers, recreation, education and mis- cellaneous expenditures. It is no wonder that some of these sixteen families reported but 3 cents a week for recreation. i Assailing the Supreme Court. In 189s. | In 1919. Furtnermore, thee We are all per-| Chicago corvenuon|fectly tamuliar | attacked toe su. with the judges! preme court. Again (or the United this represents a States supreme | species of .itavism court), who are] —that is, of recur- perfectly honest, rence to the waysput fossilized or of thought of remind. * * * I mote barbarian an-am, however, con- | cestors. Savages do vinced, both from not like an inde-the inconsistency pendent and up-of those decisions ht judiciary. with the tenor of They want thejother decisions, judge to decideland furthermore their way, and if he/from the very fact does not they want that th are in to behead him—|flagrant and direct Theodore Roose- contradiction to velt in the Review/the spirit and of Reviews, Sep-needs of the times, tember, 1896 — that sooner or la. “The Vice Presi-ter they will be ex- dency and the'plicitly or impli Campaign of 1896."citly reversed. Theodore Roose- velt in an address to the legislature of Colorado at Denver, Aug. 29, 11910. He Made Them Come to Time. [From the New York World.] “] will make the corporations come to time,” shouted Mr. Roosevelt at To- ledo. He made the Equitable Life come to time with a $30,000 campaign contri-' bption. He made the beef trust come to. time with a big campaign contribu. | tion. | He made the Standard Oil come to time with another big campaign con-| tribution. | He made E. H. Harriman, after a| personal conference at the White] House, come to time with $260,000. These are only a few of the cor- porations and plutocratic interests Mr. Roosevelt made come to time in the 1904 campaign when he was a candi- date for the presidency to succeed himself. Turn on the light! Tuesday, Sept. 20, is the next prr- sonal registration day in third class cities. One day has already passed. HE SAE ISA Happy Women. PLENTY OF THEM IN BELLEFONTE, AND GOOD REASON FOR IT. Were you registered then? Your regis. ! tration last fall or last spring has ex-! pired. Don't wait until the last day! | Be registered Sept. 20! { William H. Berry must have been communing with Mr. Pennypacker, but | Berry goes the Sage of Schwenkville | one better. Pennypacker wishes sim-| ply to hang newspaper men and car-| toonists. Berry would burn ‘em at the stake. Mr. Longworth’s Gloomy Future. | Perhaps Mr. Longworth forgot that, he’s got to put up with Speaker Can- non all next winter until the end of the short session. What the nation's uncle | won't do to the nation’s son-in-law will hardly deserve mention.—St. Louis Re- public. i The Only Issue. | President Taft's letter clearly out- lines the Republican platform for the congressional elections—"anything to save the party.”—St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. ' Harvest of Roosevelt's Activities. The Worcester Telegram calls him “the advance agent of the poor house.” That is what he was in 1907, and that is what he seems determined to be in 1910.—New York World. can be secured. Also International Stock Food Put none but Democrats on guard at Harrisburg! The state's funds will then be conser®d by the legislature and graft and extravagance will end. Castoria. ! i CURTIS Y. WAGNER, BROCKERHOFF MILLS, BELLEFONTE, PA. | Attorneys-at-Law. ] C. UEYER EALtomey-t-Law. Ross 20 a1 Ke, Tac Practices tn ah “courts, Ofice Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of Room 18 Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-ly. B. SPANGLER— Attomey.at Law. Rolla Flour |. dmc Fe S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Corn Meal |W. fiEnfatigs and Grain ] H. WETZEL—Atomey and atlaw Office No. 11, C 's fo salior . second Manufactures and has on hand at all times the to promptly. Conaultacion n English or Geran. following brands of high grade flour ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY—Attorneys-at- WHITE STAR Law,Eagle Block, Bellefonte, Pa. OUR BEST the COU an in Facies HIGH GRADE VICTORY PATENT M. KEICHLINE—Attorney.at Law. Practices FANCY PATENT An pS German. Office south of count house. 5 aye The only place in county where that extraor- ————————— ainacily fine a the of spring wheat Patent Physicians. 5S P R AY S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Su: a and feed of all kinds. Dentists. All kinds of Grain bought at the office. Flour | — SE exchanged for wheat. D* LE YARD. D. D. S., office door to OFFICE and STORE~BISHOP STREET. |iog teeth "so Aduituarer oF Paluicabe Prices BELLEFONTE. PA. 47-19 MILL AT ROOPSBURG. R.H.W. TA Money to Loan. ae | aap Jears of experience. : work of quality i ONEY TO JOAN on good security an Veterinary. J. M. KEICHLINE, TIER Attorney-at-Law 51-14-1y. Bellefonte, Pa. RS. M. NISSI Ems ry VETERINARY SURGEON, Insurance. on . Bellefonte, Pa., of Children: Castoriais a harmless substitute for i | | | it : Bears the Signature of | CHAS. H. FLETCHER. | In Use For Over 30 Years. 54-36-2lm Fine Job Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING o—A SPECIALTY—o0 AT THE | WATCHMAN OFFICE There is no of work, from the cheapest ** " to the finest | BOOK WORK, that manner, and at Prices consist ent the class of work. Call on or communicate with this office. JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successor to Grant Hoover) 3.20-1y* Graduate University of Pennsylvania. Fire, Restaurant. Life ESTAURANT. Accident Insurance. |’, Belifonte now hasa First-Class Res- This resents represents the largest Fire | Noa] are Served at All Hours —— NO ASSESSMENTS — Steaks. Chops, Roasts, Ovaters on the Doust fail to give us a call before ipsuring your | inaelt ve i any sivle.d Sud. Life or Property as we are in position to write be had in a few minutes any time. In ad- large lines at any time. dition I'have a complete plant prepared to — furnish Soft in bottles such as Office in Crider’s Stone Building, i 4318-1y. BELLEFONTE, PA. | POPS. . SODAS, ARILLA, SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC., Ba i ei the purest syrups and properly carbonated. C. MOERSCHBACHER, The Preferred Willacy Accident Insurance Co. THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY BENEFITS: 33000 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, 25 pet week, disability, (limit 52 weeks) 10 per partial disability, pavable quarterly if desired. Larger or smaller amounts in proportion. person, male or in a over eighteen y age of moral and condition may under this , Fire Insurance 1 invite your attention to Fire - J enon re. terre Tne fo Eompants rprent H. E. FENLON, 50-21 Agent, Bellefonte, Pa. Niagara Falls Excursion. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS . —— NIAGA SEPTEMBER 21, RA OCTOBER 5, 1910 . Round Trip Rate $7.10 from Bellefonte, Pa. SPECIAL TRAIN of Pullman Parlor Cars, Dining Car, and Day Coaches run- FALLS PICTURESQUE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ROUTE. Tickets good Going on SESH DATS: a Coe en ation ot Dafislo returning. | Illustrated Booklet of full information may be obtained from Ticket Agents. §5-26-13t. Ceraay Pon BOYD esi. Meat Market. Get the Best Meats. You save by bu poor, thin or gristly meats, I useonly LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE I always have « DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, High Street. 43-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa. Coal and Wood. EDWARD K. RHOADS Shi; and Commission +i Ag Rg eg ANTHRACITE axp BITUMINOUS COALS CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS and other grains. —— BALED HAY AND STRAW — Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand. 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. 1613 Telephone Calls: {Central tal om PIES 7A ne hat 5 arated oh, 0s RUDY'S PILE SUPPOSITORY. EATER Bn SE 52.25-1y. MARTIN RUDY, Lancaster Pa. 0 Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
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