All timough the country, those who
keey poultry are troubled now and
then by the death of birds, for which
there seems to be no explanation. A
case differing from those usualy een
came to my notice last waek. A WO
year-old male was brought to an ex-
pert for examination. The bird was
moping about, “off his feed,” with
comb shrunken and appearing choked,
much as a victim of canker in the
windpipe would seem.
No canker or other sign of roup
appeared, and, as the crop was much
distended with it as to appeay’ MON
eatsn for two days, I could get no
nearer than “indigestion” to the cause
of the sickness. As it did not im-
prove, next day the bird was killed
and dissected. From his mouth to
the entrance to the glzza he was
full of barley, the stomach being SO
distended with it as to appear aimos
like a second crop. In health the
stomach is only a rounded expansion
of the tube from crop to gizzard, and
it is lined with a whitish membrane
thickly covered with little points like
pimples. In this case, the pimpy
surface was lacking, the flabby stom-
ach lining being very sticky with mu-
cus. One might jump at the conclu
sion that the barley was the cause
of the difficulty, but one can hardly
think this at all proved It wouid
rather seem that there was either a
weakened digestive apparatus or a
lack of grit. Some birds will not eat
grit when it lies before them These
will not long remain in health. No
bird lacking a good digestion is worth
keeping around the place. To learn
this to take a good step toward
=ofitable poultry keeping.
1
ra
is
THE CUCUMBER HILLS.
The cucumber bed should
spaded deeply during the fall or win-
ter, or in the early spring at
latest, at which time the fertilizer
thoroughly mixed in the soil. Com-
mercial fert ¢r, or a fine barn ma-
nure should be used As cucumbers
are a favorite harbor for bugs,
commercial fertilizer preferred.
Round up the hills several days be
fore they are planted the seed,
that they may get warmed and mel
lowed by the sunshine. Sow the sead
in a crescent shaped or circular row
in the hill, putiing them but an inca
beneath the surface and patting the
hill down well with the back of the
spade. At zach end of the bed drive
strong stakes and nail a cross piece.
‘This is for laying boards over the
bed of cucumber hills to shade the
vines from the hot rays of the after
noon sun, after the young cucumbers
appear. Many peoples wonder why
some cucumbers are so bitter. It is
the sun, and if they are properly
shaded they will always be found
sweet and tender. The cucumbers
should be picked and laid away in the
cellar as fast as they grow large
enough. The best time to plant is
early in April or May at latest. We
*have planted them in March. Early
White Spine is the best variety for
fable To have cucumbers late
in the summer, plant a few hills in
lcamy moist ground of the Extra
Long White Spine. Bugs of all colors
and kinds are almost sure to appear.
A week solution of aris green makes
a good spray for ridding the vines of
insects, as does a soap solution. —
Dennis H. Stovall fiw uuo-fwWWw
Dennis H. Stovall, in the Epitomist.
be
the
is
i
tae
is
tha
3
use.
HORSE COLIC
the
AND ITS CURE
One of most fruitful causes of
colic is the too common habit of al
lowing horses to partake of large
draughts of water immediately after
finishing a feed of oats. There is no
surer way of generating an attack of
«<olic than this, the reason being that
when a large quantity of water is
thus imbibed it has the effect of car-
rying with it out of the stomach and
into the intestines some of the fresh-
ly eaten grain. This grain, being
still in a raw and undigested condi
tion, its effoct when it reaches the
intestines ls to give rise to irritation
and inpammation, which are the im-
mediate cause of the colic. In deal
ing with cases of this kind the most
obvious course to adopt is to take
psecautions to prevent the animals
from drinking large quantities of wa-
ter under the circumsiances just ro
ferred to. When an animal falls a
victim to an attack of colic the best
thing to do is to administer a dose
consisting of oue ounce of laudanum
and two ounces of sweet spirits of
nitre, along with half a pint of whis-
key in scme hot water,
ministration of a couple of ounces of
cooking soda, diluted with water,
and given as soon as the first symp:
toms of the attacks are
Should the administration of
cooking soda fail to give the desired
relief, no time should be lost in fol-
lowing it up with the laudanum and
$pirits of nitre already suggested.
THE PARMER'S GARDEN.
The flower element in gardening
has made people in & measure over
look the fact that there is no funda-
mental difference between the laws
which goverh In producing the best
in both farming and gardening.
The soll has to be right, or be made
til
i
WL sn 1
properly, or the outcome, nd matte’
|
|
tory.
And then different kinds of plant
best results
Many are the interesting details be
longing to this view, which detail
the progressive farmer of today is re
quired to study.
And then there is the electric ral!
road, which is fast working a might:
ized world
ago were away out in the country, ane
incapable of influencing the
of fresh fruits and vemeiables
the great cities, are now placed
supplie
8
come a powerful in all thi
influence
sort of business.
As a consequence,
more and m figure as a feature |
farming, and the farmer's c¢
and home surroundings
tably be improved
gard:ning wi
Ire
mditd
thereby.
PREVENTION OF GAPES
If there
another that
is one disease more
the
men it is gapes, which appears in t!
aid
discourages
poulir)
young chicks
with th
i
ta
We are quite familia
worms r
Hue the al
ath to y«
ter fact, it is not the
make the troubles
them, which they absorb from
that is infected Most f
trouble with gapes comes after
gone on t the
chicks
ory that
angis
ung chicks, but, as a
of worms
3
but nacteri
soil,
gr
Q grout
yops
several
hav
: most af
of gait rid of ths
re it occur ou
$ E
and thi
been for
fective way
whe is likely to
if doors is to purify the soil
§ probably beter done
than with anythin ise
JOE el
with i:
As early
spread s
where
as possible ake
r the place the
to run, an
ground
off lime
inch of the
piace
CRICK
afte
t
: out
are
the
inch de and
is «thorough dried
ep
iy
SCrape
least an
¥
WO
this and
soil
far from
sprinkie a light coat
over the soil and i
work well
likely to
with
and
some the
Then
rake
the
is
be trounie
any
chicks contract gapes in
and the remedy for
Keep the floors clean if they are o
i al them as suggested for th
of doors; if board
cover them an inch
with sand and clean this
il¥, pu in clean,
house,
sS0ii, Lr
loors ar
two de
ir Lwo deer
pilot out
used,
out frequer
dry sand
Peis or
i%
EDUCATING CONSUMERS
Recently a neighbor of
asked for some advice regarding th
selection of varieties of berries for :
nearby market, and objected to
advice given because he, the grower
did not fancy the varieties pamec
On other hand writer Knew
that the majority of the sorts recom
mended would give the grower jus
the kind of berry his market wanted
the kinds that had brought the bes
each year for a number o
the write
th
vi
hog by
wie the
prices
towns and cities is much better poster
on soll products than we grower
give it credit for being, 85 it will no
do to attempt to force our individua
preferences upon it.
If one’s soil will grow a fruit profit
ably then the thing to do is to ge
the variety of that fruit best suites
to the market demands. This applie
anything, eggs for example. |
10
for white eggs than for brown ones
we must either raise the hens to la:
white eggs or find a market wher
the brown eggs are preferred.
NOTES ABOUT HORSES.
Gentle and kind treatment
handling the colt
valuable in disposition.
In training the walking gait is th
most valuable to consider, especiall!
so for farm and road horses.
Generally it is poor economy to io
vest in good horse blood unless wil!
good care.
and under average conditions
shoulders will keep well.
All concentrated food
it.
One of the best rations
horses is corn, oats
add 1 of linseed meal.
A BEE HINT.
out swarms daily for three or fou
days. The first swarm is always the
is secured the greatest amount o
heney, and they should be well ca
for.
For several years the chief cook a
ual Boston received as much salar
as the presiden' of Harvard Univer
sity.
REMARKABLE STORY ABOUT A
GANG OF LONDON THIEVES.
Hero Born in a Workhouse Is Finally
Adopted by a Benefactor-—Made
Sole Heir to Fortune—Full Confes-
sion of a Plotter Ends Mystery.
The New York Globe reprints the
following “special to the Globe” un
der the date line “Loudon, June 22,
1838:" :
Through a sensational slum murder
and the revelation by it of a gang of
thieves and cut-throats, Scotland Yard
has unearthed a most interesting ro
mance and inecidently restored to his
few years, has gone through more
than ordinarily comes to men in the
full course of their lives. A quarter
of a century ago soclely was greatly
Edwin Leeford,
in his teens,
then a young man
with a lady of high po
sition several years his genier. The
marriage, which had as its issue one
son, did not turn out happily. and in
a few years Mrs
son, went to continent
Some time later intimate friends of
the family greatly troubled over
reports of a en Mr. Lee
ford and an estimable young woman,
the daughter of a reitrea r. Then
a relative died, leaving Mr. Leeford
his fortune. Mr. Leeford went to
Rome to the estate and died
while there, without leaving far
then known. a will The where
of the unfortunate young wo
became for she ft
and was supposed
AWAY h hersell
sat
workhouse
the to live,
were
Hasson betwi
ile
settle
50
as
abouts
man
her father's
to have
Now, how
died In a
having given
come to be the of tnis
causes celebde, and is to enjoy
left half of the
by his unfortunate father
: turns was
death by
wil
A mystery,
roof
made
ver
wit
Ww
it Known
county
is ae
after
birth to a son, who has
th hero of latest
what
of nis
1% estate left
whose will,
desl Osed 3h
wife
OLY
after his
Last
Spitalfields
murder
week, it | be remembered,
was greatly excited by the
ff a Woman
was her
nolorious named
murd: lover,
Bil"
was killed
pursuit
rect outcome
reference has
According
when he left
the hands of a gang of th
has existed for years
east end, under the gadership of
Fagin. Their efforts to make
of him falled, but
him in the way of ¢
own He was arrested on
of pocket picking preferre
Brownlow, a gentleman means
and discharg:d for lack of FE
evidence Mr. Brownlcw became
the boy
Sikes. The
known as
later,
elude
rer
who fow
while
a days
attempting to
The crime di-
of the romance Le
been made
to
Was a
the police, the boy
the workhouse fell
f thieves
wi
several
out
nit
Just
¥
feat
in-
and him
ater members
irdered woman and
dnapped him for fear
what he knew to
he was taken by
another thief to
the house of
melee that
badly burt
hands of the
Mrs. Mayle
and provided him
terested in took
home, but a few days
of the gang, them
rer
that
the
the
brothe
be would tell
police Later
murderer and
help them in robbing
Mrs. Maylie
followed the
Again he fell
police, but time
came to his rescue
with a home
In the meantime, it seems, his hall
brother, Edward Leeford had be
come cognizant of his existence, and
consci of fact that the
was heir to half his father’s property,
and
boy
into
this
in the
was
the
Jus the
identity. Leeford is a bad character,
and, under the name of “Monks,” has
consorted with thieves more or less,
including Fagin. He decided, there
fore, to have Fagin get hold of the
boy and keep Him, for he himself had
secured and destroyed some little
meme foes that had been taken from
| the boy's unfortunate mother by her
nurse.
In the gang of disreputable charac
{ ters into which the boy had fallen
he had found one friend, the Sikes
woman. She undertook to warn Miss
Rose Maylle, Mrs. Mayvlie's niece, of
| the conspiracy against the boy, and
succeeded In her offbrt, but Fagin,
suspecting her, had her shadowed,
{ and then told her brother that she
| had betrayed him to the police. This
{ was the cause of the murder
The developments from then on
{ were very rapid. Mr. Brownlow, the
first protector of the boy, turned out
to be the closest friend of his father
and one who for years had been try.
i ing to find traces of him. When he
first had the boy he suspected that
he was Edward Leeford’s son, be
cause of his striking resemblance to
! a portrait of his mother. Mr. Brown:
low succeeded after much difficulty
fa getting hLold of Edward
alias Monks, and secured a full con-
fession from him, how his mother had
| destroyed the will, how he himself
| had followed the boy up and sought
| to get rid of him without resorting
to murder, and how he had plotted to
have Fagin kidnap him again. More.
over, he gave the interesting news
that Miss Rose Maylie is the boy's
aunt. It seems that his father, over
-whelmed with sorrow and shame at
i the fate of his elder daughter, retired
! to the country and changed his name.
| At his death his daughter, Rose was
adopted by Mrs. Maylie, whom she
has always regarded as her aunt,
With the death of Sikes and his
sister, the arrest and certain convie-
tion of Fagin, the gang of pickpockets
and thieves has been fairly well brok-
en up. John Dawkins, alias the "Art
. ful Dodger;"” Charles Bates, and Toby
| Crackit, other members of the gang
are also in custody. The hero of the
romance will henceforth ba known as
Oliver Brownlow, having been adopt
ad by his benefactor, and he will soon
forget his workhouse name of Oliver
Twist. It is learned from the solic
ftors of the family that little is left
of his father's fortune, a matrer of
£6,000, but Mr. Brownlow is wealthy
and bas made his his sole heir.
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.
its Important Influence in Compelling
Neutrality of the Empire,
Secretary
the
the
of Biate Hay's proposal
powers to limit WAr area
Far East within a region con
nyrthward of Great
of China harmonizes with a
outlined weeks by
the
the
Wall
some ago
fche Zeitung (Berlin). The United
States, however, was ng credited
with the design of initiating the idea
according to the English pa
aims preveitidg a
Chinese dynasty from
flight might only
2
per, at
tha
nigh
Pekin
not play into
10 hold over the court
the masses of
agala son of
which animated
Boxers.”
According to the
(Yokohama), there
pect Russia
with
gain a new
might rouse
Chinese “to find
fanatic courage
so-called
the
Liat
the
16%
Japan Dally Mall
reason J BUS
a sort of
dowager
is
that may have
agreement he empress
he former, in
of China out
The alle
nporiancs
L
Inds
for the reason
t
relinquishing to t
all
the Great Wall
ment has some ir
ent, irding
t
(Brussels),
contingencies,
ACK tu the Pp
Belg
China does aot regard b
Wall as constitu
ing an integral fo hes
The Chinese point of view regarding
fully iz
by M
north of the Great
portion
empire
this matter is wore 3
the Empire du (Paris)
ronlier
wiaich are
noroper
propel
defenseless in spite of th
§#
out i
{¢
i
childish gigantic work
Wall
slates,
r
Know
the Great as composed of id
atory BIDRUIAr p
FIVEADCes which
gtatles
and
said hese
tonomy
are "assigned
TAS i
claiming
the whole
ii
heaven,
race
and received
the Kingdoms
yellow
the
thal
ver Wd
BOVEreign
iomage of
he
an
ther hand, the
goecgraphical situ
rough their feally,
inv
empire
eir d
pi
isputes d
# bs cow
and pravent
the
impede
of
enemies Chinese
"hey ven the offic
Fan” (barrie
p th
were gi name of
were to
ial
rs), and
nse uj energies of
i
3
Le
3 Vv
Hig arriva ipon ithe home $
were buffers cadening
fields of war to
were 1a ©
and
occupation at
a
thy
which i
Ch a ne to
avoid the
of military
ine
IaAngers the esyenss
iANEST ah pels
aome
This
na for
capable
conception saved Chi centu
ries
The' which the
Chinese regard Manchuria, Corea and
outiying regions of em
pire explains their comparative indif
ference to the progress of Russo
Japanese crisis, thinks Neue
Freie Presse (Vienna), which has the
benefit of the views of a former Ger
man minister to China. But the
strategic value of the Great Wall, we
are further reminded, is Chinese
than military in the western
“The materials of this im
fortification would suffice for
six feet high and two fest
of view from
aint
point
other their
the
the
FONge
mense
a
It will be the
aim of powers friendly to Japan, sur
mises the European press, to keep
Russians in mind of the territorial
symbolized by
Wall.
will be “on to Pekin”
Mere Coincidence.
“Hehry,” asked Mra. Penhecker
how many cigars do you smoke a
day?”
“Only
Henry
“And what does it cost you?”
“Ten cents.”
“Hum! Do you
one, my love,” answered
know that
PENNSYLVANIA R. R.
and Northern Central Ry,
Time Table In Effect May 29, 1904,
TAs A.M. Train 64. Week days for Bunbury
Harrisinirg, arriviug st Philsdelphis, 11.458 a. w,
Now York 2.08 p. m., Baltimore 12.15 p. m., Wash
ingron L200 p m,
to Philadelphia.
8.20 A. M.~Train 80
Wiikesbarre, Scranton,
modinte stations Woesk
telton, and Potwvilie
daltimore, Washington
couches ty Philadelphia
124 P M ~Train 12 Week days for Bunbury
Wilkesbarre, Scranton, Haselton, Potwville, Har
rishurg and intermediate stations, srriving af
Philadeiphla at 6.25 p New York, 9.30 p.m
Bi 6.00 p, m., Washington at 7.16 p. m
Parlor car through ww Philadelphia, and passen
ker coaches Ww Philsdeipnia, Baltimore and
Washington
FP MM ~Trmain 32 Week
barre Hazelton, Pottsville, and dai
for Harrisburg and intermediate points, arrivin
al Philladuiphia 10.47 pm. New York 2.98 a m
Baltimore 4.48 p.m Pawsenger couches 1 Phils
delphia and Baitlmore,
10 P.M. ~Trulr
rishurg, sud all
Dally for Banbury
Harrisburg snd lotr
days for Seranton, Ha
Philadelphia, New York
Through
m
Limon
days for Wilkes
soranton,
5. Dally for Bunbury, Har
yd inate stations, arriving = t
, New York at 7.188. mu
Washington, 5
= ad
a timors, a m.,
man sleeping cars from Harrisburg to P
aiphis and New York, Philadelphia passenger
can remain in sicepers undisturbed antl 7.30 a. m
WESTWARD
0
®
65.38 A. M Trains
Bldaigus, Hochs
intermediate station
3 std Roohosts
« and
Pi
Dally) For Erie, Can
Buffalo, Niagara Falls and
wilh passenger oosi bos 1
Week days for DuBois
On sundays
ee
M. Trdn 31
rinedinte
mrfieid, Pail
ih Larough
For Lock Ha
i week days
Pitsburg and t
rone
Mim a
PRtTE,
wre tol
Rar
n £4 ydny {
intermediate stations
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Waoek Days
WESTWARI
STATIONS
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with
rom
traiss at
Trains
nas RR
Nob 2
Ar PM PM
LEFONTE s
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(reneral Superintenden
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-
WESTWARD
AND TYRONE RAILROAD
Week Days
EASTWARD
PF AM STATIONS A
i 5 40 Montandon
Lewistaurg
wieh
Vicksburg
Miflinburg
Milimant
fsiem iron
i% 0 | Paddy Mouulain
3 Coburn
i Zethy
i Rising Springs
in iil | Penn Cave
53 i8 | Contre Hall
Gre
3 Linton Hall
i | Oak Hall
§ 00) Lemont
§ 4 i Dale Summit
: i
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Papel E REF Ww
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5 AXemann 0
| Beliefou te 0 |
Additional tins leave Lewisburg for Moutan
MMR RE RE NE RI PE NS
| 8
{8
wi i6
lars and fifteen cents in a year?”
it out.”
better if you
your reckless extravagance.”
had been looking over
brought
huge
when
up the cigar question.
display advertisement
A
that Linnen & Co. wore offering
choice of their best tailored suits for
thirty-six dollars aad ffly cots —
Life.
i
The Mother Doubts,
Miss Georgia Bulst of
Kan, said her mother was too slow
would show the old fogies how to do
it. So Georgia bought a nice new
{nocubstor and set it up in the barn.
The first night the inoubator caught
fire, burned up the most of the barn,
a lot of furniture
ealf, and all of mother's setting
sons. And mother says the young
things of these days are not half so
amart as they think they are.~Kan:
sas Clty (Mo.) Journal
and 7.56 p m., retuming leave Montandon fo
Lewisburg st 7.40, 9.37 a. mm. 1008 a. m., 45, 0K
pm. and £12 p.m.
burg 9.258. m., 10.08 a. m. and 4.48 p. m.
W. W. ATTERBURY, J. RB. WOOD,
General Mabager Pam. Traffic \
GRO. W, BOYD, General Pac, Hi:
BOTH DIED ON FATEFUL DAY
Coincidence in the Passing of Adams
and Jefferson.
July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary
of the signing of the declaration of in
dependence, was a joyous occasion ir
the United States. Two distinguished
signers were still alive—John Adams
and Fhomas Jefferson. Twenty-five
years had elapsed since Adams was
president and seventeen since Jeffer
son left the white house. “On that
day,” says Charles Francis Adams ip
his biography of his grandfather
“from one end of the country to the
other, wherever Americans were gath
ered together, the names of Adams
and Jefferson were coupled in accents
Party pas
slong were completely drowned in the
flood of national feeling which over
spread the land.” Says Sir George
Otto Trevelyan: “Al day long Ad
ams was sinking rapidly and without
pain. His last andible remark is sai
to have been, ‘Thomas Jefferson still
survives," But such was not the case
Jefferson died at noon on that Fourth
of July and Adams shortly before sun
set, There are few more striking cir
cumstances and no more remarkable
toincidences in history.”
——w
A summer girl's idea of economy Is
{
i
ing Mills Rotel
BPRING MILLS, PA.
PHILIP DRUMM, Prop.
First lees aorommodetions st a! times for both
wen ard beast. Fiee bus 10 aod from all
tisins Freellmi Livery stisched. Table
board frstcloss. The best liquors and
wi.es si the bar.
Cet Hall Hotel
JAMES W. RUNKLE, Prop,
Newly equipped. Ber sand table supplied
Healthy iocailly Beautiful scenery
Within three wil s of Peuts Cave, & most beauth
cavern; sulrancs by 8 boast
Well located for hunting snd Sebing
Heated throughout Free carriage to all trains
0d Fort Hotel oi
ISAAC GHAWVER, Proprietor,
8. Location : One mile South of Centre Hall
Accommodations fretclam. Good bar. Parties
wishing 0 enjoy an evening given special
slention. Meals for such oocasions peg
pared on short notice. Always prepared
for the transient trade,
RATES: $.50 PER DAY.
Penn's Valley Banking Company
CENTRE HALL, PA,
W. B. MINGLE, Cashief
Receives Deposits . .
Discounts Notes . . .
BELLEFORTE, PA.
F. A. NEWCOMER, Prop.
Heated throughout, Fine Babiing
EATES $1.90 PER DAY.
Special prepasstions for Jurors, W
and sny persons coming to town on special
cesions. Regular bosrdess well caved for,
ATTORNEYS.
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QEvis, BOWER & ORVIS
ATTORNEYE-AT LAW
BELLEFONTE, Pa.
ato in Crider's Exchange building on second
roe
E L ORYD
DOT.
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FosTSEY & WALKER
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BELLEFONTE, Pa
Ofoe North of Court Bouse. trol
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ATTORNEY AT-LAW
BELLEFONTE Pa.
Office XN. W. corner Diamond, two Goo from
Fire Nations! Bank. re
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ATTORNEY AT-LAW
BELLEFONTR Pa.
All kinds of lege! busines sticnded to prom pely
res
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