THREE WORTHY WORDS My lad, three lessons would I write. Three words upon your heart engrave, Through all your life, to guide you right- Be true, be kind, be brave. Be TRUE, whatever may betide; Speak, act the truth at any cost; Of little worth is all beside, If trust In you be lost. Be KIND, another's feelings heed; Slight no occasion you may find For gentle word and loving deed; 'Tis noble to be kind. Be BRAVE, with courage true and strong; Mind neither ridicule nor sneer; To dare to do the weak a wrong But proves the basest fear. If you, my lad, these lessons three, These simple words, your motto make, Esteem and honor yours shall be, With fortune in their wake. —Philip Burroughs Strong, in Golden Days. ANIMALS CAN COUNT. The florae. However, In Ihr llest Cnl culutor Ainong Them, According to uu Old Observer. An ornithologist, after many experi ments on parrots, holds that they can count up to four. A Russian physician. Dr. Timofleff, extended these experi ments to birds, dogs, cats and horses. He concludes that crows can count up to ten, dogs to 24, cats only to six, but horses carry off the palm as calculators. In a village of the government of I'o kow, Dr. Timofleff studied a horse be longing to a peasant, and found that the horse always stopped at the end of its twentieth furrow. It did not stop when tired, but only after every 20 furrows. It was so exact about this that its mas ter reckoned the number of furrows that he had made by the numltr of times that the horse halted. The »ni mal counted for the man. In another village Dr. Timofleff saw a horse that calculated the versts (Russian miles) by the number of posts on the road, aryl the time by the striking of the clock. ■ One day this physician was going to 1 Valdai, when at the twenty-second verst one of the horses hitched to the troika (a three-h*>rsed carriage) stop ped suddenly. The driver got down from his seat, gave some proven der to the horse and drove on. The horse had been trained by its master when very young to get food at every 25 versts. There can be no doubt that the horse kept count by the posts along the road. It had made a mistake this time of three versts, but it was not its fault. Along the road there were three other posts besides the telegraph posts which looked very much like them. Hence the error of three versts. This same horse was accustomed to get its food in a stable near which the town clock rang at noon. Dr. Timofleff himself saw the horse prick up its ears and listen, but droop its head dissatis fied when less than 12 strokes sounded. On the contrary, it manifested all kinds of satisfaction when it heard the twelfth stroke of the bell, neighing for its provender. TINY SHETLAND PONY. Although Three Year* Old, Vet It StoniiH Hut Thirty-Two Incite* in Height. Here is the smallest Shetland pony living. At first sight one would imag ine the man on the left of the picture to be a giant in stature, but it is only "Willim," the park keeper of the pub lic park at Lerwick, who is of medium height. His relatively huge propor- Jjy "*V ..... THE SMALLEST SHETLAND PONT. tions show how very small the pony really is. The carriage to which it is yoked is a child's mail cart, and it seems big enough for it. The little lady who holds the reins is Miss Rhoda Hunter, and the pony's name is also Khoda. This small yet perfectly formed speci men of the pony breed belongs to Air. Peter Anderson, Lerwick. It is three years old, yet stands but 32 inches in height. It is black in color and is in the same shaggy condition in which it came out of its native hills. Its owner has refused a big price for this rarftv. —Brooklyn Eagle. She (iiicnnpil the Answer. A little girl, who had just entered school, jubilantly announced to her father that she had beaten all the girls above her in the arithmetic class and gone to the top. "That was clever of you," said he, encouragingly. "How was it?" "Well, you see, the teacher asked the girl at the head how much was 8 and 5, and she didn't know, and said 12, and the next girl said 9, and the next one said 11, and the next one said 14. Such silly answers! Then the teacher asked me, and 1 said 13, and she told me togo to the top. 'Course it was 13." "That was nice," said the father. "I didn't think you could add so well. How did you know it was 13?" "Why, I guessed it. Kobody said 14." ORANG-OUTANG SALLY. A Simian I'et Who Liven In More Com* fort Than Mom! of Her Human Kelicli bora. Residents of the eastern town of Ban galore are daily treated to the extraor dinary spectacle of an enormous ourang-outang being wheeled through the streets like a baby. The accom panying picture, from a photograph, shows the big brute, whose name is Sally, comfortably seated in her car riage of state, with a look of wooden contentment on her face. Sally is about five feet in height and weighs about 160 pounds. She is a high ly intelligent animal and has always shown the greatest affection for her dusky attendant, whom she allows oc casionally to take her place in the wag on while she does the pushing. The orang-outang was reared from a baby by a government elephant catcher named Sanderson, and is one of the very few of the species that have proved tamable. The orangs are usually ferocious brutes, possessing in their long arms SALLY TAKING AN OUTING. enormous strength, and the few cap tured have had to be kept in close con finement. Sally seems to have heen born with a better temper than most of her kind, for so far she has shown none of the wicked traits that have distin quished other orang-outangs. She is an educated animal and eats her meals with a knife and fork, sitting at the table with a napkin tied under her chin, looking to a near-sighted per son for all the world like and ugly and very hirsute old man with a large head and an intelligent habit of bending too far over his plate.—Philadelphia Press. SNAKES CATCH RATS. Kepttlea Are Mude to Serve n Very Iweful PnrpoNe In Some of tlie Philippine Inland*. As the writer was sitting out under the broad piazza at the restaurant, tak ing coffee after dinner, his eyes hap pened to be turned-upward. About ten feet above his head there was a broad beam, probably 18 inches square, the horizontal support of the second story. Directly above, looking down at the .group below, was the head of an im mense snake, ten feet away. The end of his tail was carelessly hanging over the beam's side. The writer gave one jump, landing six feet away, exclaiming: "Good heav ens, Partridge!" (our consul then at Manila, temporarily in charge of Amer ican matters at Iloilo). "Where is it?" he asked, not moving from his comfortable American cane seated rocker. "Why, just over your head." "Sit down here," he said to me. "That snake came here when this house was put here. There are three or four oth ers of his kind here besides. Without these snakes this low-lying town would be about uninhabitable. They keep the house absolutely clear and free from rats, mice, roaches, waterbugs, an oc casional tarantula or scorpion. He scents a stranger as quickly as would a detective. He knows you are one. But as you are with me it will be all right. He and I are acquainted." And then Partridge called up some thing to him in Tagalese and in a few moments he moved away. "Bite? Oh, yes, and viciously, too. if fooled with. He can inflict serious wounds with his fine, sharp teeth. But he has no poison fangs." Two or three evenings after that I witnessed how he operated. A great coal-black rat was coming along on a beam just below the one occupied by his stiakeship. As he came opposite to me a big serpent's black and yellow spotted head shot out four or five feet away. He seized that rat as a cat would between his teeth. Next day as I passed this snake fast asleep in the hot sun I noticed a ratlike enlargement or expansion on his diaphragm. I knew where that rat was. —Iloilo Letter in Washington Post. Will I'ne "Got** Hereafter. There is a long standing dispute whether "got" or "gotten" is the preferable participle, and the recent experience of a college professor inny throw some light on the subject. He telegraphed to his wife: "1 have got ten tickets for the opera to-night. Meet me there." The telegraph operator rendered this into "Have got ten tick ets," etc. Mrs. Professor was delighted with the opportunity of entertaining her friends, and accordingly made up a party of eight beside herself, and they all met the professor in front of the opera house that evening. We may imagine the feelings of the unfortunate man, and no one knows how he ex plained matters, but wc may be sure that he will not use "gotten" again in a telegram. German Telephone Syxtem. The telephone service of Germany ii controlled and managed by the de partment for posts and telegraphs. The rates are low. the charge for a lo cal telephone being $38.55 per annum, including the rental of the instrument. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1899 vmWm. PLAN FOR HAY BARN. How to I'ut Up n Durable and Con venient Structure to Hold 100 To u». Loose. In compliance with the request of u Texas correspondent. Prof. Mumford, )f the Missouri agricultural college, fives a sketch and description of a barn estimated to hold 100 tons of loose al [alfa hay. The storage capacity needed for 100 :ons of loose alfalfa hay will depend largely on the depth of the mows in ivhieh the hay is placed. The deeper She mow the greater its capacity per cubic foot. In mows 20 feet deep and ibove it will require approximately SOO tubie feet of space to store one ton of hay. These figures are, of course, ap proximations only and will vary with « Ja INTERIOR BENT. IShowing Construction of Plank Bara Frame.) the kind of hay and its condition when itored. I suggest that your correspondent build a barn 40 by 60 feet and 24 foot posts. It will be convenient to place ;he bents 12 feet apart. The cheapest »nd strongest construction for the en lire frame will be of 2 by 6 and 2 by 8 planks, spiked solidly together. The accompanying sketch will indi cate how the interior bents are con structed. This method of framing is peculiarly adapted to hay barns. The entire floor space is left free and no posts or beams interfere with the work ing of the horse hay fork or slings. It will be convenient to provide wide doors Bo that hay wagons can be driven into the barn when being filled or for shelter for wagons, etc., when bays are empty. These driveways may be filled with hay nfter the other bays in barn are all full. There should be large doors in each gable for the hay fork or slings. The siding for this barn can be of second grade material. The roof should be built of good, durable material, shingle, slate or iron. By all means your cor respondent should have a track in the gable running the entire length of barn upon which is to run a hay car carry ing hay from the load by fork or sling. There are many outfits now sold which are very cheap and efficient and their use in handling 100 tons of hay will more than pay for the outfit In one sea son.—Journal of Agriculture. SALT FOR STOCK. A Supply of It Should He Kept I* Every Field Acceaaible to All Kinds of Anliiinls. Some experiments made in France showed that stock having a regular sup ply of salt were more thrifty and made better use of the feed they ate than those deprived of salt for a consider able time. Salt is one of the necessities of animal existence and even wild animals travel ,ong distances to seek salt in the shape of salt springs of brackish water. Salt is the great cleanser of the blood and perforins an important mission in ani mal economy, and as it is very cheap it should be supplied to all live stock in liberal quantities. A supply of salt, should be kept in every pasture field and accessible to the animals at all times. The common cus tom of salting stock once a week is a very poor way to supply the needs of the stock. The strongest ones will get enough, possibly, but the weaker ones, and these are the ones that need it most, will be. kept back and never get a full supply. One of the best ways to supply live stock with salt is to buy rock salt and place slabs of it in places conven ient for the stock to get at it. The weather has but little effect on it and stock can get all they need by simply sucking the salt slab. To feed it to horses put a piece in the feed box where they can get it at any time. This does not interfere with feed ing the horses and at Ihe same time a little of the salt gets on all the grain given them. Even pigs w ill lick a block of rock salt, although a good many people never think of salting the pigs —Farmers' Voice. When Horses Catch Cold. It has been noticed that horses that have been out on pasture for some time will frequently seem to take cold oi develop a ease of ffcisal catarrh when taken up and kept in the stable. If the stable is very close and warm and nc protection is given to the horse to pre vent him from taking cold whei brought out, he is liable to be affectec by the change during very cold weather, Sometimes, also, the stable is too open and lie has to stand in a draft *.vher brought in warm from work. In such cases cold may frequently follow the neglect. In many eases, however, tht mtarrh or cold may be prevented bj seeing that the stable is free from lilti and impure air.—Furmera' Review. 2& SILKWORMS IN IOWA. The Kxp«* r linen In of nn Itnlinn nt Dei .HoiiM'M Have Proved Suernui ful So I*'Hl'. Mark Chiesa, an Italian, is success fully raising' silkworms at Des Moines, la. The eggs were brought from Italy by a relative. Two years ago lie made the experiment first, but. the person who brought the eggs carried them in his pocket and they hatched on ship board, so the worms had to be thrown into the sea. This time the person to w bom the eggs were intrusted suspend ed them on a string so that they got cool air on the ocean and on the railway trains. Arriving here, they were put into colli storage until the mulberry leaves were ready for them. Then, upon being put into a warm room, they hatched in one day. Of the supposed 8,000 eggs from ten silk moths about 4,000 hatched, which result, Mr. Chiesa says, is better than the average in Italy. The greatest diffi culty has been to find mulberry leaves for the worms. They eat about three wagonloads a day, and never stop eat ing for a minute, but eat all the time, day and night. The worms, in devour ing the mulberry leaves, make a noise like rain on the roof. By lively hunting the food for the worms has been pro vided. and they are well developed and kealthy, about three inches long, and »re just beginning to weave their co coons. There seems to be no reason why the industry should not succeed here. Mr. Chiesa has brought a wom an from Italy who has had 30 years' ex perience with silk worms, and she says they are doing as well as any she ever saw. The experiment is the first that is known to have been made in the west, and is certainly the first that has been successful. It has attracted as much attention as a circus in this city, and 1 he number of visitors is very large. Tin owner is a good-natured man and lia cheerfully and proudly shows the in dustrious 4,000 to all who care to sefc them. If they turn out as well as they promise to. Mr. Chiesa will buy a large farm near this city, plant it to mulber ry trees and go into the business of rais ing silkworms and producing silk on a large scale. From the experience he has had in America and Italy, where his father is a silk producer, he sees no rea son why the industry should not be eifr tirely successful in lowa.—X. Y. Sun. MAKING A DERRICK. Far Stlirklne liny the One Here De ar r i IM-(1 ami Illustrated 1k Hfulily Recommended. The material for the derrick, as il» lustrated, is as follows: If the pole can be secured in the near-by woods, only the labor in securing it stands against it. The base is eight feet square, built on runners; frame, ten feet high. The pole for sling use should be .'JO feet long; long boom, 17 feet —short end, -four iiM DERRICK FOR STACKING HAY. feet, long end, 13 feet; short brace, seven feet long, brace, 14 feet. Top of frame should be five feet square. The whole should be bolted together, so that it can be taken to pieces and stored in shelter when not in wse. If built to use a sling, the long end of the arm should be 35 feet high. Lumber needed to construct is as follows: Feet. Fourteen pieces 2x4 Inches, 10 feet !>4 Runners—two pieces 2xK inches, 8 feet.. 26 Base of pole, one piece, 2xlo inch 8 feet.. 17 Bong arm 2x5 inches, 17 feet long 14 One piece 2xt> inches, 10 feet long 30 One piece 2x4 inches, 8 feet long 5 One piece 2x4 inches, 15 feet long 10 Total 176 Here this lumber can be bought, hard wood, first-class, for S2.GO. Five dollars could cover the cost of the whole, ready lor the pulleys.—Rural New Yorker. FACTS FOR FARMERS. The medium-sized potato, smooth, even-shaped and free from scab, is the best to plant. A peek of common salt to 100 hills of asparagus will increase the yield, im prove the quality and prolong the sea son. A deep, fine soil is not so easily nf fected by drought as one that is rough hard or lumpy. Fine tilage jiays, either in the field or garden. A dollar's worth of paint well rubbed in, will save five dollars' worth of farm implements. Bub the handles and wood work of small tools with linseed oil. Mixed gardening is what will bring a sure revojtua to the farmer. Be sure to plant enough of everything for home use, and as much more as you have land for. Run your farm to make a'living from it, and you are almost sure to gel a good one and make some money besides. If you farm to make money alone it is doubtfui if you get either. Concentrate your working capital, labor and fertilizers on one-half the :*-rcs you are now tending and see if farming does not pay better dividends and cost less trouble.—Western I'low tuuu. 131V:) Rrrlifd Proverbs. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, if soma other fellow happens to possess it. You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink, but when you suc ceed in getting a man up against the bar he loses his horse sense. It's a long lane that has no turning when the treasure you are in search of is "just around the next bend." Fortune knocks at many a man's door when he i« out chasing the growler.—Chi cago Times-Herald. Compnrinjt Note*. "My husband," said the little lady, with pardonable pride, "bought me a season seat in the highest-priced theater in the city." "A mere trine," sighed the imposing call er. "My husband bought a seat in the United States senate and it cost more than the whole theater you're talking about."— Detroit Free_ Press. J How to Ileneh Two Famoui Reaorta. An Outing Hint from "Outing." Fast, safe, superbly equipped and most carefully governed, one need not wonder at the great popularity of the New York Central. No other line affords such facili ties for through travel between the East and the West as this wonderful four-track sys tem. In the possession of the Grand Central Station, located in the heart of New York City, and within trilling distances of all first-class hotels, this railway offers greater advantages tlvan competing lines. Spring, summer, autumrt and winter, it has attrac tions irresistible. The great Northern \\ il derness, the playground of the State, now beckons its thousands. As autumn falls, America's scenic masterpiece, far-famed Niagara, will claim its annual host of pil grims with its majestic power, the fierce turmoil of the Whirlpool and all the pic turesque surroundings, the awesome Cave of the Winds and several other minor attrac tions of the vicinity. And when winter comes, then the entire scene transformed to what seems a fairyland of marvelous frost dressings, of icy forts and snowy palaces; of gleaming crystal prison barrier* vainly striving to bind the roaring, foaming plunge of water —will present a spectacle of weird, mysterious beauty which is not duplicated in the world. —Outing. The One Exception. He-—To hear you tell it, one would think I never told a single truth before we were married. She—Well, you did prevaricate to a eonsid erableextent, but I'll give you credit for hav ing told me the truth once. "Indeed! And when was that, pray?" "When you proposed. Don't you remem ber you said you were unworthy of me?"— Chicago Evening News. Ciin Wear Nliofl One size smaller after using Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen IS. Olmsted, Le Hoy, N. Y. AKdlnM Slan,-f. "This slang is very annoying," said th« solemn gentleman. "You remember that time my house was entered by a burglar? Well, I yelled 'robbers' with all my might, and the people thought 1 was yelling 'rub ber' and refused to pay any attention."— Indianapolis Journal. Lime's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 25 and 50c. She Cnrrletl Him Oft. Huntley—Funny thing, that elopement of Miss Longwaite and young Snipper. Author— Elopement? That was an ab duction!— Philadelphia North American. To Core a fold la One Hay Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Inference. Barnes Tormer—He who entertains the fickle public, sir, leads a dog's life. Stranger—You don't mean to tell me you are the barker for the show?—lndianapolis Journal. Hall's Catarrh Cure I* a Constitutional Cure. Price, 75c. The only people who have any excuse for having the big head are those who have never had it.—N. Y. Journal. Piso's Cure cured me of a Throat and Lung trouble of three years' standing.—E. Cady, Huntington, Ind., Nov. 12,1894. A cynical bachelor says Adam's wife wai called Eve because when she appeared his day of happiness was at an end.—Chicago Daily News. An amateur editor has made a fortune by his pen. Jlis father died of grief on. read ing one of his editorials and left him $150,- 000.—Nauvoo Independent. If wives could get away from their hus bands as easily as other women the men would cling to them so hard that all the di vorce lawyers would die of starvation.—N. Y. Press. Gadzooks—"Does your minister believe in the policy of expansion?" Zounds "1 should say he does! His text yesterday consisted of two words, and he made a ser mon out of it that it took him an hour to deliver."—N. Y. Tribune. Managing Editor—"Don't you think we had better have a shorthand man at the Ministers' association meeting this after noon?" City Editor—"Don't see how we can work it. It will take every shorthand man on the force to handle that woman's convention."—Ohio State Journal. "Rehouse meh proffered love, proud gerrul," cried the heavy villain, "and by meh nalidome I'll dash yeh over yondeh beetling cliff." The girl' gazed in the direc tion designated by his grimy forefinger. "Huh!" she said, "that's only a bluff." For she was up in topography as well as some other things.—Standard and Catholic Times. A business house of Aberdeen, Scotland, recently engaged as office boy a raw country youth. It was a part of his duties to attend to the telephone in his master's absence. When first called upon to answer the bell, in reply to the usual query: "Are you there?" he nodded assent. Again the ques tion came, and still again., and each time the boy pave an answering nod. When the question came for the fourth time, however, the boy, losing his temper, roared through the telephone: "Man, a yeblin'? I've been noddin' me heid aff fort* last hauf 'oor!" Mirth. For Infants ffftirty Years # The Kind You Have Always Bought PS l |T»ig | a ifa|l W How is this? Mfc ■| Perhaps sleepless nights M ZJ caused it, or grief, or sick- Ix ■X ness, or perhaps it was care. #8 |3 No matter what the cause, P| Pr vou cannot wish to look old V5 Gray hair is starved hair. 14 The hair bulbs have been Iv deprived of proper food or a* proper nerve force. the circulation in jfa the scalp, gives more power to the nerves, supplies miss- 13 ing elements to the hair bulbs. £« Used according to direc- ffirj tions, gray hair begins to A show color in a few days. £ Soon it has all the softness and richness of youth and ; the color of early life returns, 112 Would you like our book i on the Hair? We will gladly 1 | send it to you. Wrtto cisf r E3 If you do not obtain all the • J* benefits you expected from i psl the Vigor, write the doctor t KJ about it. He may be able to '* suggest something of value Kz to you. Address, Dr. J. 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