The ftiddleburgh fost.
TLui hilar.
Gcj l v.ig jnsEiler,
bditor and Proprietor
8u'M'riptiou $1.50 per year.
li h .'iti ii p.i' i Hi adVUM wneo sent out
side tin county.)
HATE! OF AOVf RTIilNO.
mi mUMMM advertienvnts not ut IhtwIw
SOntraotSd lor will be ObVfBd at the ran; of t
OvtiU per line inonpartel measure) (or nrtt luser
Uon linn 10 cents per Hue tor every subiuiint
Insertion.
-Daik notutf. jmlAuhed frt ; obituary yom,
mJmv, ,.t rrtptet. fe., thret cmli a ItiM.
Cow In the Cotton Delf.
In Q recent bulletin of the department
f Kfj-rieulture Prof. Ilneekerstntes that
tlie farmer of the cotton belt are un
dergoing an exjwrienee which come
sooner or later to every section of our
land. Wheat wag prown almost cx-
V clnsivoly In the north until the soil
refused to respond. .No one seemed to !
Know why, but wlieu wheat failed tfley I
began to depend more upon live stock.
As the live stoek increased the land
brought better crops, and it gradually
dawned upon them that the failure of
crops was due to lack of fertility and
that by diversified farming they could 1
restore it and secure as good, If not
better, returns than they received from
ihe virgin soil. In the same wuy the
soil of the cotton belt has been im
poverished by constant cropping ami
inadequate fertilizing. It Is not in the
OOtton nor in the oil oxtrncted from the
aeeda that the fertility is lost, but it
la ill the parting with the cotton seed
cake or maul to Europe that the loss
Occurs. If the cake and meal be fed
to dairy cows nil the fertility will re
main on the plantation. The pro
fessor's udvicn to cotton growers is,
Therefore: "Go Into dairying with the
lairy cow."
Experiments conducted by the Cali
fornia agricultural experiment station
seem to indicate that by the Introduc
tion of the Australian "salt bushes,"
hundreds of thousands of acres of hith
erto worthless land in our western
states will become valuable for grazing.
The "salt bushes" uro members of a
large plant family, to which the beet
and pigweed also belong) but only n few
vurieties have any economic vaJue.
That which has given the best results in
the west is ntrlplex semibaccata. The
plants of this family have great
drought-resisting power, and will grow
on soil too alkaline to sustain even al
falfa. They keep green all summer,
grow rupidly, yield from two to four
crops a year, nnd the root remains in
the ground for the next season. They
have great fattening and health-giving !
qualities for stock, making the best of ',
beef, and wool of unsurpassed even
in ms and strength of fiber. The Intro
duet ion of these plants is another proof
that science pays, even in farming.
Crosses at the foot of a letter are out 1
of date now that some girl has dlscov- I
cred what is said to be a far better way
if sending a kiss to her particular
gill chum. The discovery was made by
accident, and it wus quite by chance
that the young lady who claims the
credit noticed a pink impress of her
own lips just below the signature of the
letter she had Just written. It came
about in this way: She hail jus't been
out In the wind and rubbed lip salve
with its dash of rouge over her Hps,
and this was the result a somewhat
greary kiss, but n decided Improvement
upon the scratchy cross. At all events,
the lady persevered, and now it is the
fashion in certain quarters for the
girls to dust their Hps with powder,
slightly damp the paper, kiss it, and )
Bend the mark to her girl friend or !
somebody else. It works wery well, and .
the "kisses" don't run.
"Cash li." is the curious verbal dis
guiae under which, for ten years past, i
come generous person, who uses on I
Oinuha paper as his agency, has given j
many thousands of dollurs to worthy
people and deserving objects. Ko one
but the editor of the paper knows whrt
the hidden philanthropist Is. Vet hap
pily, although "Cash K." is able to give
large sums of money, he is only a type
of many who, In equally self-eiTucing
ways, ure offering help and hope to the
needy und the unfortunate.
An Aurora (III.) man has discovered
an effective way of keeping hiB neigh
Dors' chickens out of his garden, it is
not altogether new. It consists of a
reasonably good shotgun and plenty of
uinmunition bock of a good steady aim
and somo nerve. H is said to work al
most every time.
The Weekly Witness reports thnt
Evunsville, lud., has a proselyting con
stable, who has persuaded over 100
offenders to renounce their evil ways.
He has the assistance and sympathy
of the judge of the local court. lie
tried to persuade his criminals to join
the church.
At a seaside resort near New York a
village of real Filipinos is on exhibition.
The 10 natives, fresh from Manila, oc
cupy a number of bamboo huts hung
with gaudy fabrics made in the Philip
pines. Music on native instruments is
u prominent feature of the show.
It is said a German workman has
perfected a process for making coal out
of earth. This la to be regretted. The
rarth at least ought to be retained for
Good News fbr Ham Actors.
Anybody who has ever walked on a
railway track knows what an uncom
fortable thing It Is to do. because of
the absurd distance of the ties from
one another. Tbey are too near to
gether for a man of average length of
leg to step on every one and they are
too far opart for him to step on every
other one. Now that the railways
have begun to us oil on their tracks to
lay the dust there la hope of still fur
ther Innovstlona for the comfort of
travelers. It la reported that certain
western roads are laying new tracks
with the ties four Inches further apart
than was formerly the custom. The
possible effect of this on the drama
can scarcely be overestimated. In the
old days it used to be the custom for
actors returning from unsuccessful
tours to step on every other tie and
hence came the exaggerated stride of
the old-school tragedian. Recently It
baa been more the cuatom to try to step
on every tie and hence the habit of lit
tleness and trivlollty which has been
carried Into every branch of the drama.
With the ties placed at distances which
will allow of a comfortable step It is
reasonable to hope that case and grace
will be infused Into the naturalistic
school of the drama, with lasting artis
tic effect. It was an actor who was ex
plaining all this to some friends the
other day, nnd when he had finished he
noticed that they were nil gazing at!
him with silent sympathy in their
faces. For a moment he looked con
fused and then he said: "Of course
you know I don't know anything I
about this myself. But I know men
who are expert trnckwulkers, nnd they I
hae been telling me about It."
America still sustains its reputation
ns being the headquarters of the world
for eonomlo entomology. Mr. Ilunter,
In a memoir just issued from the Uni
versity of Kansas, trents of a locust or
grasshopper which is threatening to
destroy the alfalfa. "In alfalfa culture,
if the grasshopper proves an incentive
to cultivation the Insect is a blessing in
disguise. Disking alfalfa fields in the
curly spring, after the frost has left the
ground and before vegctpntlon lias well
started, increases the yield of the crop
one-third, matures the second crop ear
lier, and brings from It un equally in
creased yield ; destroys the native grass
hopper eggs placed therein, and kills
the nutive grasses, which frequently
threaten to reclaim the field."
A SMALL SPOT
MAY BE CANCER.
MOST VIOLENT CASES HAVE
The greatest care should be given to
any little sore, pimple or scratch which
shows no disposition to neat uuuer oruin
IDDClDCfl IT CIDCT IC ary treatment. No one can tell how soon these
Al I LAliLU A I NnO I AO will develop Into Cancer of the worst type.
So many people die from Cancer simply be-
UCDC PIMPI K cause they 'lo not know iU8t what the di"ea
lYlLNL niTir LLOi they naturally turn themselves over to the doctor,
and are forced to submit to a cruel and dangerous
operation the only treatment which the doctor know for Canoer. The disease
Eromptly returns, however, and is even more violent and destructive than
afore. Cancer is a deadly poison in the blood, and an operation, plaster, or
other external treatment can nave no effect whatever upon it. The cure must
come from within the last veatige of poison must be eradicated.
Mr. Wm Walpole, of Walshtown. S. D , says: "A
little blotch about the size of a pea came under my left
eye. gradually growing larger, from which shooting pain
at interval ran in all direction. I became greatly alarmed
and consulted a good doctor, who pronounced it Canoer.
and advised that it be cut out, but this 1 could not con
sent to. I read in my local paper of a cure effected by
ft S. 8.. and decided to trv It. It Beted like a cliBrm the
Cancer becoming at first irritated, and then dincharging
very freely. This gradually grew lea and then discon
tinued altogether, leaving a small scab which soon drop
ped off. and now only a healthy little senr remains where
whBt threatened to destroy my life once held full sway."
Positively the only cure for Cancer is Swift's Specific
S. S. 8. FOR THE BLOOD
because it is the only remedy which enr: ro deep enough to reach the root of
the disease and force it out of the avateui permanently, A surgical operation
does not reach the blood the real seat of the disease because the blood can
not bt out away. Insist upon S. K, S. ; nothing can bike its place.
S. S. S. cures nlso any case of Scrofula, Kczcma, Rheumatism, Contagious
Blood Poison, Ulcers, Sores, or any Other form of blood disease. Valuable
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Recording to a decision just handed
down in New York, a landlord can com
pel his tenant to come to his office and
pay his rent. He need not hunt up the
tetiuut and ask: "How about that lit'
tie matter?" but enn sit down and sue
und secure judgment against him. A
landlord telephoned his tenant last
January and asked him to come around
with the- rent, but the tenant said:
"Come nnd get it." Wore words passed,
with the result that both engaged law
yers. It has just been decided in the
landlord's favor, and it cost the tenant
$200 to find this out.
It Is not paradoxical, a it might
seem, to call the ending of the college
or school course commencement, says
Youth's Companion. Every ending is
also a beginning. Theory ends, prac
tice begins. War ends, peuco begins.
Life in one form ends, life in another
form begins. Night endB, day begins.
So study of books ends, nnd the appli
cation of that study to the wider study
of the world and to the tasks of life be
gins. The schoolboy ends, the scholar
ly man begins. That is the purport of
commencement, and for it no fitter
name could be devised.
The American workman is limited
only by circumstances within his own
life, Uo or bis son may rise to the
highest position in his nation withou
the favor of heredity. The highest hon
ors are attainable without the inter
vention of royal favor. This is the in
centive to American effort. Not that
every Individual American thinks of
this or appreciates the boon, not by
any means. Dut a great many of them
do fully understand what their national
heritage means and the remainder are
carried along in the irresistible current.
The Mennonltea of Pennsylvania,
whose general conference recently in
terdicted the use of tobacco in any
form, do not propose to let this prohi
bition interfere with their worldly af
fairs. The farmers of the colony keep
right on planting tobacco, getting
around it by saying that if their indus
try is so displeasing to the Lord tho to
bacco will not grow. The outlook at
present is for a bountiful crop.
A Maine farmer who raises fine traw
bcrries came to Well village with a fine
lot recently nnd commenced peddling
them at IS cents a box. He sold quite
a portion of his load at that price, when
jc found that he must sell at two boxes
for a quarter. Then he retraced his
route and refunded the difference to
all those who had paid the IS cents per
box.
During a thunderstorm in southern
Missouri the other day, lightning
struck the hat off a man's head and
tore it to ribbons, but did not injure the
roan, so it is claimed, but without affidavit.
A Watertown (N. Y.) peddler has
been aent to jail for four months be
cscae he kissed a child without pas
mlarioa being first obtained.
A great lake steamer can go up to
Hudson, 1 17 miles from the mouth; thnt
is 130 miles from the nearest point on
Lake Ontario nnd 24(1 from the nearest
point on Lake Erie.
if the. number of people dnily enter
ing the city of London were, to be dis
patched from any given station by train
1,1177 trains, euch conveying 0U0 per
sons, would be required for the pur
pose. Moreover, if all these trains were
arranged In B straight line they would
cover 221 miles of railway.
The United States geographical sur
vey bus just issued a mnp of New York
and vicinity. The map is engraved on
ropper and printed from stone. The
cultural features, such as roads, rail
roads, cities, towns, houses, etc., us well
as the lettering, are brought out in
black, and Otht r features, like swamps,
etc., are clearly defined, making a valu
able ehurt of tho territory.
More mutches ure used In the United
Kingdom than in any other one coun
try in the world. It has been estimated
that English people use an average of
eight matches each person per day, and
annually over l,700,000,Oiiu,r)QO are
burned. The largest match' factory is
in Austria, and each year it UBes 22,000
pounds of phosphorus, turns out 2,500,
000,000,000 mutches, and for the boxes
alone 160,000 feet of wood are used.
One. pound a day is said to lie the most
that an organ grinder ever takes, while,
with some exceptions, five shillings
is nbout the least, so thnt a London or
gan grinder may be regarded as n fair
ly prosperous man. An organ can be
hired from the maker for one shil
ling sixpence a day, while the price of a
new organ is 25. The cost of setting
an organ to new tunes is about four
pounds, and, since novelty is essential,
this is a frequent source of expense.
If you wish to make a fountain pen,
take two ordinary steel pens of the
same pattern and insert them in the
common holder. The Inner pen will bo
the writing pen. Between this and the
outer pen will be held a supply of ink,
when they are once dipped into the ink
stand, that will last to write several
pages of manuscript. It is not neces
sary that the points of the two pens
should be very near together, but if
the flow of ink is not rapid enough
the points may lie brought nearer by a
bit of thread or a minute rubber band.
PA AND THE PINS
HABITS OF SPEECH.
Faulty Uo(it lied la Child
hood Is Hard t Correct ia
After Life.
Why do educated parents allow
their children to contract habits of un
grammatlcal speech that will have to be
conquered in after-life?" asked a spin
ster of a mother.
"Hecause they hate to worry the poor
little things about such matters when
they are young nnd should be care free.
It seems cruel to be all the time cor
recting them and keeping them on their
good behavior. Tbey will have to learn
the rules of our dreadful language all
too soon as it la."
"Yes," said the spinster, "and in ad
dition to learning to speak properly
they will have to unlearn the tricks of
speech in which they have been allowed
te indulge nil their little lives. I know,"
laughing, "that there is much ridicule
of 'old maids' children,' but I believe
that my theory in this case is correct.
It Is a positive unklndness to let your
child double his negatives and say
'ain't,' when several years from now he
will be harshly reproved for such
lapses. The child must learn to talk,
anyway, and is it not as easy to teach
him to say 'It is I,' as 'It's me 7 And is
it not as simple for the little tongue to
lisp T saw it,' as T seen It 7 I love baby
talk, and should not correct a child for
his mispronunciation of hard words.
As he grows older he will himself see
his mistakes in that line and change
them. But I insist that it is a parent's
duty to make the difficult path to gram
matical speech as easy-as possible by
never allowing the little ones to stray
from It In the beginning.'
some 'I'll I n s He Knew Abont Thess
und some Others That He Discov
ered Vety Vnexpectedlr.
Tho parlor lamp shed its peaceful
rays on a happy group of five persons.
There wus the head of the family and
tho one who called himself the bead of
the family, their two daughters, aged
respectively 1 and 8, and a boy of 11
years. The father carefully removed
a bent pin from the seut of the rocking
chair and stood holding it between his
thumb and forefinger.
"My son," ho said, pompously, "did
you ever, when you sow a discarded,
bent, little pin, pause and reflect how
long it took to make It and how ninny
different hands contributed toward
fashioning it as it is? In the first
place there were the miners who dug
the metal it is composed of; the men
who transported it to the factories; the
workmen who made the pins; the work
men who sharpened them; the men
who packed them; the dealers who
sold them to tradesmen; the men that
carried them to the stores and the sales
men who retailed them over the counters-
just think what an army of la
borers handled thnt crooked little pin.
"Yes," said his son and heir reflec
tively, "but you left out a lot, pa."
"How so?" asked the old gentleman.
1 In a tone of surprise.
"Why, there was the old lady who
bought a puper of 'em; there was her
I biggest daughter, who took one to pin
tip the rip in the wnist of her dress;
the young man that told 'em at the
office thnt it wos the cat that made
1 that railroad map scratch on tho back
i of his hand; the girl's little brother,
who borrowed the pin to make into a
fish hook; the little sister, whose straw
hat he took to keep his angleworms in,
and bis old father, who sot down on
the bent pin when his little boy got
tired of fishing. They all had a hand in
it, too."
"No," said the old gentleman, aa be
threw the pin In the fire and took up
j his newspaper. "You ure drawing on
I vour imagination, my son. I never
! found a pin that went through such a
series of experiences in my life.
"Maybe you haven't, but you will,'
remarked bis son and heir.
"No, no! Run out and play," re
plied hla father. "I am going to alt In
my "
But before he sot down be noticed
that hi eldest daughter was mending
a tear in her dress, while the little one
was wiping the stains from a straw
hat) so he pushed his arm-chair aaide
with a suspicious glance at a gleaming
point on its seat and sank wearily on to
the sofa. However, ere he bad. fairly
touched Its surface be bounded toward
the zenith with a yell of anguish.
"The old man couldn't very well have
helped finding it," said the small boy
to himself, a he stopped to regain his
breath two blocks oft, "cause there was
a pin on every blamed piece of furni
ture In that room. My, but won't ma
give it to him for awearin' like that,
though I" Harlem Life.
No l.luht Drinker.
Mudge Yes, I do take a few drinks
of an evening, but none during the day.
1 am no daylight drinker.
Yabsloy No cne ever accused you of
being any kind of a light drinker.
The Rival.
Pnlnfal llecollectlona.
Mrs. SHmdiet You don't seem to like
rice very well, Mr. Peck.
Henry Peck It is associated with
one of the most distressing mistake I
ever was guilty of. Tlt-BUa.
Anyone Onafht to Know.
Mistress (to Norah) What must be
the condition of a person in order to be
burled in consecrated ground?
Norah (In great surprise) Dead,
mum! Judge.
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1 n tbe Estate of In the Orphan's court
Henry Orubb, sr. .deed, f oi Snyder Co., P.
The undersigned Auditor appointed by the
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tbe funds In tbe hands of Henry Orunb, Jr., Ad
ministrator of the fetate o( Henr Orubb, Sr..
late of Centre Township. Snyder Co,, r'a., de
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