I a —Corn-fed hogs haue firmer meat than swill-fed ones: six weeks’ feed on corn i$ enough to finish them if well grown. —A calf will eat oats and hay when about 3 weeks old. As it takes larger quamticies of hay reduce the ration of m —The prices for prime mutton are us- ually best in the winter after the cull stuff marketed during the fall is cleaned up; but the price in stays on a profitable level. —Green food must not be forgotten. Some feed green rye when it can be had, others give sprouted oats, others beets and turnips and cabbage, and others add cut clover hay to the mash. All of the greens mentioned are good. —Parsnips, beets and carrots are all suitable for milch cows. Parsnips should pis fie A uahel “5 a roots, a per day They should be cut or day eins fed raw, generally after milking. —Winter wheat bran furnishes a small- er quality of nitrogenous nutriments to the animal than ing wheat bran, be- cause of its inferiority in composition and digestibility. There is also a great dif ference in the protein content of brans. with moveable ideal floor for floor alone is but with ich may be there is —The cement floori slat platforms makes the hogpen. The cement too cold and damp for the h the slatted flooring on top, W taken up to clean out the place, nothing which is better. —The self-boiled brand of lime-sulphur has been used successfully in a number of places this summer toprevent the ripe rot of the cherry. The formula used is 18 pounds of quicklime, eight pounds of sulphur, slacked with flour or five gallons of hot water. This is diluted to 50 gal- lons before application is made. —Soil for peach growing should be of a good, warm, sandy loam type. The soil on which oak trees have previously grows seems to be the ideal peach soil. It isa mistake to plant peach trees in soil con- taining too large a per cent. of nitrogen. The trees grow vigorously, but rarely yield enough fruit to do more than pay the expense of production. —A veterinarian says that regarding the sense of touch or feeling almost the entire surface of the horse's body is en- dowed with corrugating muscles. The twisting of the skin all over the body to shake off stinging insects, like, proves this conclusively. these corrugated muscles only in the fore- head, and they enable him to frown. —Bees were unknown to the Indians, and they were brought over from Eng- | land only a few years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. It was more than | two centuries after the first white inva- | sion of New England before modern bee- ' keeping began. The industry of the pres- ent day dates from the invention of the morable frame hive by Langstroth in —One reason why factory milk is often delivered in poor condition is that farm- ers do not take good care of their cans. They sometimes wash them out with dirty water, then put on the covers with- out thoroughly rinsing and do not let in! the air. The only way to remedy this is to wash the cans thoroughly and allow them to drain and stand in the sun as much as possible. —The standard-bred horses have now generally lost all tendencies of the "bron- cho,” but show kindness gentleness from the beginning. By handling the foals gently they may be broken to the saddle and harness without any special effort, even before they are old enough to work. When the dam does regular work on the farm it is an easy matter to “tame” and train the colt. —Coal ashes, according to the chemists, | contain very little fertility elements, but are useful as a mulch for orchards, and should be used freely to protect the soil around the trees in winter. retain moisture, make heavy clay and silt soils mellow, and when applied while snow is on the ground sometimes retard early blooming and reduce the eminent danger of late frost. i good for mulching small fruits. —Some of the causes of tainted milk are poor, decayed fodder, dirty water, whether used for drinking or the wash- ing of utensils, foul air in the cow stable or cows lying in their manure, lack of cleanliness in milking, neglecting to air the milk rapidly directly after milking, lack of cleanliness in care of the milk, from which cause the greater number of milk taints arise, mixing fresh and old milk in the same cans, and rusty tin pails | cans. —That Australia leads the world in sheep farming is the report of Vice Con- sul General Henry D. Baker, of Sydney. The estimated value of flocks in Austra- $220,352,400, and their an- cent, of their in the coun- tries icading in the sheep industry are ven in Mr. Baker's report as follows: ustralia, 87,040,366; Argentina, 77,581, 100: Russia, 58,510,523; United States, 54,621,000; and the United Kingdom, 30, 011,833. —The cow will produce about seven times as much human food unit of feed consumed as will the steer. In fact, the cornstalks, leaves and cobs uced on one acre of good corn, if fed to a material for about 50 flies and the Man has | Coal ashes are especially jr HONORED THE MONKEY. , to Origin of the Coat of Arms of the Earl | of Leinster. Most of the wild animals have a place in heraldry, and impossible creatures, gich as grif fins, dragons and unicorns, have been and GETTING EXACT TIME. A Very Simple Matter, According This Man's Idea. There is nothing like having one timeplece to correct the mistakes of another. Those people who keep a clock in every room of the house will no doubt be glad to learn of the ex- pedient adopted by an old colored jani- tor in an office building in Chicago. | One day a man whose office was un- | der this janitor’s charge asked him if | he had the exact time. “Just a mo- | ment, sir,” he said and pulled out a battered silver watch from a vest | pocket, looked at it, put it back and | then took a pencil out of another | pocket and jotted down something on the back of an envelope. Next he produced an second silver | watel from Lis trousers pocket, looked | at it and began to figure out some- | thing on the paper. By and by he | i | sale: “When you asked, sir, it were jest | Sufowe 3 Yih Sue eatio of I ava minutes past 3—that's | Duke of Marlborough. The castle “Much obliged.” said the other, who | was 1 tten. ‘und ‘when the had been fingering his watch nervous- | ,.q % nts remembered 8 family ly. “Bat will you please tell me what | cio oq a search they found the nur- Jos ue doing all that aritiumetic | sery in ruin But on: one of the tow: a : cha was a gigantic ape, a pet o e | ionhy, You ste, said the old man. gumpy carefully holding the young this watch that 1 carry in my vest 18 | oo fn his arms. The animal, with a mighty good watch, only it gains ten | etraordinary intelligence, had orn wl minutes every day. And this one is a ed through the smoke, rescued the ' mighty good one, too, but it loses ten | | minutes every day. So I just look at i baby - carrie it to the top of ‘the them both and then strike an average. | Yhen the earl had grown to man- . i Youd be surprised. sir. to see what a | hood he discarded the family coat of ple matter it is." —Exchange. arms and adopted the monkeys for his crest, and they have been retained to this day. Wherever you find the tomb of a Fitzgerald you will see the monkeys at the feet of the effigy or under the inscription. 28 sTEfid id i I il fet 3 34k Hy ih £ H i i i THRASHING @ZRVANTS. 1 i ! | Domestic Life In England In the Time | | of Henry VIIL | In that remarkably minute chronicle | | of domestic life in England in the | _— | time of Henry VIII. Tusser's “Five | | Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,” | ers | the learned snd pious author seems | to take it for grunted that the only H d h . | way of dealing with maldservants is | WwW | to thrash them unmercifully. ee t € arning He tells us in his inimitable doggerel | that “a maid must be forced to be MANY BELLEFONTE PEOPLE cleanly” or she is to be “made to cry | DONE SO. | creak.” Mistresses are advised “to go | about with a holly wand in their hand, although they may not always have occasion to use it. and to pay home When the kidneys are sick they give un when they fight"—that is to say, | ‘mistakable warnings that should not be thrash—“but not to be always chid- | ignored. By examining the urine and ing.” As regards the laundry, the | eating the kiiseys Sphoa the first sign of domestic serfs are “warned to take | o.g EE a Se nay be heed when they wash of run in the | Smelling urine, full of “brickdust” sedi- lash and to wash well, wring well and | ment and painful in passage. Sluggish beat well, so that if any lack “beat- | kidneys cause a dull pain in the small of ing it will be themselves.” ' the back, headaches, dizzy spells, tired, As for the unhappy Cicely. the dairy- | languid feelings and frequent rheumatic maid, she is to cry “creak” —that is to | twinges. say, to be thrashed—if her cheese is | Doan’s Kidney Pills are for the kidneys “hoven” or puffed up. and if the only; they cure sick kidneys, and rid the cheese be tough Cicely is to have “a | HAVE i blood of uric poison. If you suffer from any of the above symptoms you can use crash.” If the cheese be spotted |; better remedy. Cicely is to be amended by the bayes. | Bellefonte people recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills. and If it be too full of whey the wretched dairymald is to have “a dressing.” Finally, If any maggots are | found in the cheese, “mistress is to be | Cicely by and by." ] Mrs. H. I. Taylor, 72 S. Water St., Belle- fonte, Pa., says: We think just as highly of Doan's Kidney Pills as we did twoyears ago, when we publicly recommended them. They were procured at Green's Pharmacy Co., and brought relief from backache and kidney trouble. On several occasions since then we have taken Doan’s Kidney Pills and they have always been of the greatest benefit. We think so highly of Doan's Kidney Pills that we recommend them to other kidney sufferers at every opportunity.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's—and take no other. 56-4 An Artist's Joke. i Holman Hunt, who began life as a | clerk to an auctioneer and estate | agent, was constantly drawing por- traits when be should have been draw- ing up leases, and in his chosen pro- fession he was never slow to seize the fiying moment. The windows in his room were made of ground glass, and as he had little to do he spent much of his time in drawing files upon its | roughened surface. A blot of ink suf- | . ficed for the body and some delicate | pencil strokes for the wings. and at a i distance the deception was perfect. | Day by day the number increased, and Ee one morning his employer came in, | gs ploy JOH i ! Insurance. stopped before the window and ex- N F. GRAY & SON, claimed: “I can't make out how it is. (Successor to Grant Hoover) Every day that 1 come into this room | there seem to be more and more flies.” | Fire, And. taking out his handkerchief, he | Life attempted to brush them away. | poh | i Patchwork. Accident Insurance. The idea that patchwork had its | This represents the largest Fi , origin In America is not founded on Insurance panies in the World. 44 fact. A thousand years before the ——NO ASSESSMENTS — hrist i ueen of pt t C ian ea 4 of Baym wen Do not fail to give us a call down the Nile to her last resting place under a wonderful canopy of skins that were dyed and pieced together in a mosaic pattern. Years before this work had reached perfection and ac- | quired a definite place among the arts. Then. too, patchwork quilts were made in England in the eighteenth century, as witness the lines written by Cow- per to a Mrs King upon receipt of “a kind present of a patchwork quilt of her own making.” Woman's Home Companion. Life or large lines at any time. Office in Crider's Stone Building, 43-18-1y. BELLEFONTE, PA. | The Preferred Accident Insurance Co. ns. THE $5000 TRAVEL POLICY i A Mighty Man. Topham, the prince of English strong men. had knots of muscles where the armpits are in the ordinary foal He could take a bar of iron onc Be ais kid and one-half inches in diameter and five feet long, place the middle of it 0 low ofboth hands, soot over the back of his neck and then one one foot, force the ends forward until they met 37000 loss of Sher ha before his face. On one occasion he 630 loss of one eve called upon a village blacksmith and 25 per total disability, made of him an everlasting enemy by (limit 52 weeks) cking up a number of horseshoes 10 per week, partial disability, and snapping them in two ns easily as Wimit ) if they had been pine sticks. PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR, A Bite and a Peck. ¥ and a Larger or smaller amounts in proportion. His Wife—This papcr tells of a wo- Person, male or ina me who suffered two weeks from the | b en, Joa; ects . of a mosquito bite. Her Hus- good moral amd e condition may band—That's nothing. [ know a man who has suffered for years from the effects of a henpeck.—Chicago News. Fire Insuran 1 your to my . H. E. FENLON, { oa Agent, Bellefonte, Pa. Your Vocation. i It is well for a man to respect his own vocation. whatever it is, and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves. ~Charles Dickens. before insuring your | as we are in position to write | and see that it Bears the Signatare of In Use For Over 30 Years “Well,” “Mary Stuart.” “Who wrote it?” asked Tabor. “Schiller,” said the count. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, 7 The Kind You Have Always Bought, “Is he a first class dramatist?’ ask- ed Tabor. ——————— “Surely, surely,” said the count. Flour and Feed. "He is on illustrious.” mm umph! Never heard of him,” SvmIRG Tabor. “What else does | CURTIS Y. WAGNER, : do?” . { “As You Like It’ ‘Antony and BROCKERHOFF MILLS, opatra,” ‘Macbeth’ "'— | BELLEFONTE, PA. — wrote 8 thom: Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of “How's he? Good writer?” | “Excellent, excellent” : Roller Flour “Well” sald Tabor ruminatively, Feed “those fellows may be all right as au- | , thors, but they ain't well enough known to suit the people out here. ! Corn Meal What we want Is something popular, | and Grain something that everybody's heard of. ' 1 tell you what you do—you get her to Masia shi ian on give us something of Hoyt's!” following brands of high grade Sd WH ST. Fine Job Printing. or AR oF Coie Ea Eo ah 3 HIGH GRADE FINE JOB PRINTING VICTORY PATENT ge |! Veo [ FANCY PATENT AT THE Tee ar Flour WATCHMAN OFFICE | There is no from the | SPRAY le of wo "to the and feed of all BOOK WORK, that we car: not do in the most satis- fi manner, and at Prices consist. ent with the class of work. Call on | OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET, communicate with this office. | BELLEFONTE, PA. MILL AT ROOPSBURG. 2 47.19 —— Groceries. Groceries. Sechler & Company —) GROCERS (— We are at this season giving Special Attention to supplying the dem of the trade in Fruits, Confections and Specialties, but we do not let go on our regular line of Fine Groceries MINCE MEAT ofs our own make is the “Hiiest it is e to produce, cents In Coffees, Teas and pure Per Pout the highest grades and at reasonable prices. Pepper for butchering purposes—fine ground, coarse ground or whole berry—all pure goods. We dle cheap spices or low grade goods of any kind. Sechler & Company, Bush House Block, - 56-1 - Bellefonte Pa, Lime and Crushed Limestone. hand at all times the flour: | can be secured. Also International Stock Food i ——— . All kinds of Grain bought at office. Flou | exchanged for wheat. the : C—O AIA IISA TOOT Attorneys-at-Law . J C. MEYER Attomey-gt-Law. Rog nN i 21 Q forte, Far Practices fonte, Pa. Practices in Room 18 Crider’s Exchange. B. SPANGLER -at-Law. N*ia Ne Crs Conveitaiion in English id smn, Office in Crider’s Exchiatige, H TA homer, 3s Counsellor at Belle- fone Fu Kil Kode of leg Dusinss ai H. WETZEL~ Counsellor at Law. yO to promptly. Consultation in English or German. ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY—Attorneys-at- TS ATLAS BUILDING MATERIAL : When you are ready for it, you will get it here. On LUMBER, MILL WORK, ROOFING, SHINGLES ; AND GLASS. This is the place where close prices A IaPmeny ot a PE v AN ESTIMATE? BELLEFONTE LUMBER CO. 52-5-1y. Bellefonte, Pa. Restaurant. ESTAURANT. Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res- taurant where Meals are Served at All Hours Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters hai shell of in any SET Jichies, Soups, Aff SyIHIE Su ad: have a e plant prepared in bottles such as POPS, SODAS, SARSAPARILLA, SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC., for pic-nics, families and the ally all of which lion a the purest syrups and C. MOERSCHBACHER, 50-32-1y. High St., ~ Bellefonte, Pa. H-0 You Famers and Agriculturists EO Your land must have LIME if you want to raise ing crops. Use Hy- drated lime (H-O) through your drill or aT you seed, for quick results, or use ordinary lime, fresh forkings, or lime for general use. BE SURE TO USE LIME Ground Lime and Limestone for all Limestone crushed to any 2 tig Works at Bellefonte, Frankstown, Spring Meadows, Tyrone Fi and Union Furnace. The largest lime manufacturers in Pennsy a. Now is the time to ‘place your orders for prom shipments. railroad * Write for literature and all SO —. send vol orders to AMERICAN LIME & STONE CO., Office at TYRONE, PA. rom The Pennsylvania State College. Bnd i A AM. Ca oa Ale Bi Al dB Bl Bl. BM AA BM 4 p . y The Pennsylvania State College 4 . y Offers Exceptional Advantages { IF YOU WISH TO BECOME 4 A Chemist A Teacher 4 An Engineer A Lawyer 3 An Electrician A Physician 4 A Scientific Farmer A Journalist h Or secure a Training that will fit you well for any honorable position in life. { TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES. ; ) 4 p 4 YOUNG WOMEN are admitted to all courses on the same terms as Young Men. 1 Fo onion coamision apr ofr camoms shine mrpnion pecs} § THE REGISTRAR, 1 i 55-1 State College, Centre County, Pa. WY YYTUYTTYYTTTYY TY Y vey WW YT TY YETTYYY vy Ww Get the Best Meats. or SA A 2 SR LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and A fresh- saa Nir. Dts. ate fo higher than poorer meats are elsewhere. 1 always have — DRESSED POULTRY — S18 35, Ege and ap binds o greg TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, High Street. 43-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa. Coal and Wood. —— EDWARD K. RHOADS Shipping and Commission Merchant, and Dealer in ANTHRACITE asp BITUMINOUS COALS CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS and other grains. —— BALED HAY AND STRAW — Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand. 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 Calls: {Entre ate pl mt Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
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