intsa in the country town of
is reported to be at standstill
bMMM of impuss
utile roads. The
, tr foaatry. mw js so deep thnt
hauling of a loud of any kind is
lof the iUt-stioii. Farmers rn take
kinp town to sell, and if they do
...re to get to the post office ou
1"? . 1 11441- .. LI
mi m
I ;1 If stores. 1 lie name i ic ui mu ii
Mbtedly exists in some parts of
ois- for a month or more evej-y
Lyjg. the country roads throughout
Facta for Pork
Eaters.
, prairie
states are almost useless.
traffic of all kinds must either he
,.11 I ir.'U- nr f.firrtoit uti nt
Liinoiis cost to venicies una nurses.
Lould be interesting and instructive.
serves the Chicago Tribune, to know
i exact sum lost to the farmers and
luntrv merchants of the western
lies every year for want of food
uls. It would be an amazing sum.
InninU li'lfli into the millions. The
m thus annually lost is much great
i tlun would be the annual charge
Loli the building of pood roads over
states WOUld call for. Vet the
rniers arid country uwencrs gen-
illv (how little interest in the good
Js movement. .Many of tliem are
Wined 'o tight it, rather than to
Up it. i liev are nnntialiy taxed enor-
fus sums for want of good roads-
the shape of wasted time, lost op-
Irtunities to get their crops to
Lfkft, and wear and tear on their
liroals hut it is an indirect tax, not
Uy computed in dollars and cents.
hence many prefer to cling to the
mud roads rather than have to
:a few dollars of definite tax each
r for solid highways. This is mis-
ken economy. J here can be no rum
ble prosperity in rural districts
kere the roads are impassable for
leks every year. While such a com-
bnity is idly waiting for the mud to
the rest of the nation is getting
rad of it. The modern commercial
stein must run steadily and smooth-
lit all times, in order to give profit-
be results. To stop this great ma
ul with a sudden wrench and leave
Idle for weeks at a time means heavy
a kiss which takes the shape.
Le.-e bad roads are the cause, of
slier profits for the farmer, for the
Irehant, and for everybody who
Irlu in the region so afflicted.
Id these days of wonderful accora-
hments we are so given to speak-
kttrlral Wo- ln of the trn,,s-
mission of power
by electricity thnt
do not stop to consider its full
dny. Thus we consider the
mmisilon of 5,000 electrical horse
ser from Niagara falls to the Tnn-
rican exposition aa a matter of
rse, accepting it aa one of the
libiNties f present day progress.
mr, if the engineering talent of
i world was called upon to deliver
power of the falls in Buffalo by
bthcr means, it would have to ac-
vledge its inability to do so. It
probable that a shaft two miles
if would twist off before it could
turned, owing to the friction. But
means of electricity the power is
Insmittcd along the solid cables
its force so subdivided that it is
pied rijrht to the point of use for
bt, heat and power purposes. As
B. Still well nointa nnl "tlin
"er which ia transmitted silentlv
invisibly along six conductors,
I than one inch in diameter, would
kily break six steel cables of etjual
Imeter, moving at the rate of ten
lea an hour."
Some months ago the surgeoa at
the Battle Creek sanitarium had occa
sion to remove a
portion of the lip
uf a patient which
presented n small cancerous growth.
An examination of the growth was
later made by t he pathologist of the
institution, in accordance with the
asual custom. On glancing through
the microscope at the specimen-slides
which had been prepared, he was not
a little surprised to Bad. in addition
to the ordinary cancerous structure
which he expected to see, hundreds of
Sne specimens of the pork parasite,
trichinae sniralrs. It is not to be sup
posed, says (iood Health, the organ of
that institution, that the trichinae
were the cause of the cancer, for they
were without doubt present not only
in the lip, but in all parts of the body,
t least in the muscular tissues. On
Inquiry Into the patient's history, dis
tinct evidence was found that he had
once been afflicted with trichinosis.
During the attack he had suffered
pains in the muscles, but had supposed
the pain to be due to muscular rheu
matism. More than 2j years ago Dr.
Janeway, of the Bellevue hospital
medical college, asserted that the post
mortem examinations made at that
institution showed trichinae present
in one ease out of every 17, which
would he approximately six percent.
Trichinosis has greatly increased since
that time. The writer feels quite safe
in claiming that at present in pork
eating districts fully ten per cent,
of the inhabitants are carrying about
with them constantly millions of the
living trichinae snugly coiled up in
their muscles. Government examina
tions made at Chicago stock yards
show that at least two per cent, of
all the hogs killed there are infected
with trichinae. There are many more
men who eat hogs than hogs that eat
men, and the longer life of man and
hence the greater number of oppor
tunities for infection are circum
stances which naturally lead to a
greater frequency of this di sense In
wen than in hogs a fact which is no
partieulur credit to human intelligence.
Triumph of
Puhllr
The great America- habit of promis
cuous expectoration has at last C rue
in conn: ;l w tii a
minion of ihe law.
"fitter. , ., . .,
disastrously for the blur-cute. i lard
, lau of civic Manners, ilis head was
broken, two of his ribs were frac
tured and his bo ly was bruised and
disfigured by numerous kicks. The
, American tpltter fell furiously upon
him for attempting to interfere with
the most precious prerogative of a
free cltlsen in a free republic. All
1 1
this happened in the streets of the
I city of St. Paul. A police patrolman
i attempted to enforce the ordinance
j prohibiting spitting on the sidewalk.
Five young men were engaged in flood
I irjg the sidewalk with copious expec
torations, of course thev knew noth
Ing of thfl ordinance, and resented the
I invasion of whut they deemed their
i personal rights with all tho muscular
t strength at their command. All of
which shows, observes tho Chicago
Record-Herald, the folly of attempting
to improve men's manners by city
ordinances. Legislation never yet
made a gentleman out "f n boor.
Wihen the lawmakers Invade the do
minion of personal decorum, they arc
treading upon uncertain ground. The
'only way an anti-spitting ordluauce
Can be justified is as ti measure of pub
lic health, to prevent the dissemina
tion of disease microbes in the sputa.
Such legislation has been enforced in
Boston) and the orders of the board of
health of Chicago against expectorat
I ing iu the street cars and places of
public assemblage have had a deter
' rent effect. But the Vile habit of ex
pectorating iu public places seems to
go on unchecked.
WASTE OF CORN FODDER
Itnnk Mlrnvasnnrr of U'r
Farmer MiriritM Tli.mulitf
Observers ttum lac Baal
Prof. S'.iaw re
greater econonn
"Going down the road in North
Carolina the other day," writes the
Washington correspondent of tin
Chicago Record-Herald, "I accosted a
bright looking little colored girl and
Inquired her name. 'Virginia Ala
bama Mississippi Benson,' she said, so
hurriedly that I had to ask her to re
peat it several times, and I failed to
! discover how so insignificant an atom
in this great universe had received
such a tremendous title. Learning
that she lived in a little cabin near by,
I inquired of her mother. 'So's to
'member th' places we've lived at,'
was the reply, and further question
ing drew out the interesting fact that
the child had been made a family rec
ord and christened so that her par
ents might not forget the names of
the states in which they had resided."
The benefit to accused persons of
having first-class lawyers was strik
ingly illustrated in the United States
' court at Wheeling, W. Ya., one day
lately. Three friendless ami money
less tramps were on trial charged with
! having robbed a country post office,
They pleaded not guilty, but had no
lawyers, so the court selected three
I leading legal lights to defend them.
One of the lawyers had been attorney
general of tho state. Witnesses for
the prosecution were skillfully ques
tioned and most eloquent appeals
were made to the jury on behalf of
the accused, all of whom were acquitted.
his plea for
inon the western
farm. Of that most palpable and use
less extravagance witnessed in W out
of every 100 corn fields, he says: "The
waste of corn fodder in the Mississippi
valley is grievous w aste. In the ag
gregate the uncut corn must amount
to millions and millions of acres. And
one acre in those states where the
season is long grows so much food!
In a recent ride from Omaha to Kan
sas City, for more than half a day the
train steamed along through corn
fields, nearly all of which were uncut. 1
There was enough of uncut corn in
this one part of the Missouri valley '
to feed hundreds of thousands of cat
tle through all the winter. All this
valuable food will waste, and it is only
a fragmentary portion of the waste
that will take place all up and down
the Mississippi and many of its trib
utaries. The day will come when all
this will change. The day will come
when it must change. At one time the
greatest profit may thus have been
Obtained by lan e holders of land. It
may be so still, lint surely in these
days Of high priced meat anil of shred
ders, inon' money could be made by
using more of this valuable food. The
people in those areas where this prac
tice prevails will be hard indeed to
persuade to change their ways, the
force of habit is so powerful, liftTIt is
a change that ought to be brought
about." Prairie Farmer.
DOOR FOR HOG HOUSE.
one Thnt win open from Either Bids
by the IIuk Pushing II li.ii 'l
with in. Snout.
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CARPETS, MATTING
RUBS and FURNITURE.
TE
LEWKTNfl.
!T AND MOST COm
EVER DISPLAYED
Color and
pin
Marked attractiveness in (lesion and
of fabric, combined w ith the reasoiiabli
conspicuous. At this lime attention is called to
patterns of the well-known Wiltou's, Axminsti
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excellent aualitv
make our carpets
the new Benson's
luiicstrv
nin
Brussels. The latest effects in Ingrains. Rag Carpets in all styles j
ami prices.
Our stock of new FURNITURE is cs
pecially pleasine:. We also have a fine t
line of babv Carriages.
W. H. FELIX.
Valley Street,
M-l-M-l-M-t'i'M 1 1 1 l' H-H-I-H-H'M-
Lewistown,
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There are few people who have not
been occasionally puzzled to write "ei"
or "ie" in the words that so represent
the sound of the long "c." A very
simple rule, however, removes all ditli
cuky. If the diphthong Immediately
follows the letter c it is always "el,"
as in ceiling, conceive, etc.; but when
it follows any other letter It is always
"ie," as in grief, niece, friend, etc.
In s country graveyard, four miles
iiot .Nashville, Itrown county, says
i Indianapolis Press, stands a tree
It sprouted from the crude coffin
t inclosed the body of George All-
i is 1835. At a loir rolling in that
Inlty Allcorn was crushed and
I'd. As there was no coffin or un-
taker within 30 miles, the neigh
r cut down a larare tree. (Dill it
Itwain, hollowed out the halves to
e coffin, in which thev buried
korn. From this rude coffin, the
f"1 of which was still irrecn,
pK the tree, now 30 inches in
ne'er, 30 feet at widest l.oint of
Inches and CO feet high,
h senior law class at Ann Arbor
Ptriity gave an April fool dance
M-ft had some original features.
IW chaperons who sat demurely
corner were announced na Mine
fl. llui and Vaccl Nution, and it
some time before the iruests
ed that the stern-lookinir fe-
ps were only dummies. For the
dance the orchestra played
'me, Sweet Home," turned out the
M and left the hall. The mild
fcch ssrved to thirsty dancers was
?eu during the mains to col-
Bftlt and water.
"Ed" Ilowe, of tho Atchison Globe,
who had been visited by a book agent,
printed tho following Unique para
graph the other day: "Cad of Thanks
I desire to express my thanks in
this public manner to Col. A. H. Whip
ple, the well-known book agent. He
called at my office this morning with
sample sheets of 'Artists of the
World,' in 2S volumes; $140 for the
set; one volume per month. As Col.
Whipple Is an extremely clever agent,
he could have sold me tho set. had he
persisted, but he very kindly let me
off on my saying that I had been sick
and was not feeling very well."
"There are not," seys the Eldorado
(Kan.) Itepublican, "five galJons of
whisky on this town site, outside of
private houses. There is not a place
in town where a man can buy, beg or
steal a bottle of beer. And yet the
town is so full of whisky reform talk
that the election will turn on this
question."
A bill which has just become a law
: of New York makes the funeral ex
penses of a deceased person payable
from iiis estate before any other
i debts, rie.sides being a boon to un
i dertakers, this measure may have
some effect in encouraging reasonable
simplicity of funeral display.
While a citizen of Abilene, Knn,
was out giving his hounds exercise
the other day the dogs started a rab
bit nud gave chase. Runny ran
straight for a tennis court, dodged
beneath a wire screen with which the
ground is surrounded and got away.
I The dogs did not see the screen and
crashed into it, one animal worth
$o50 being killed and several put out
of business. Meanwhile "Hr'cr liab
I bit, he lay low."
A Richmond (Me.) man who has
been corresponding with a Providence
(I!. I.) woman with a view to matri
mony, recently informed her by let
ter that if sho would send him a
check he would go on and talk the
( matter over with her. A stay ofiro
ceedings has been granted.
At a historic place not far from Al
bany, N. Y., a certain young man who
is fond of having his. name appear
whercver it will be seen, carefully
carved his initials, which happened to
be "A. S." Some mean person wrote
directly under it, "Two-thirds of the
truth."
At least one cooperative colony -that
located In Dickinson county,
Kan. seems to be thriving. It was
formed three years ago and has made
! money from the start, clearing $1,8 IS
' last 3-ear. The colony has a ranch, a
' general store, a bank and an insur
ance feature.
The writer of an obituary notice in
a Kentucky paper warmed up to hit
work as he proceeded and closed with
this gushing sentence: "She was
wafted into the gloom of eternal night
t six o'clock in the morning."
If you are looking for culture you
can find the real thing right here in
town, says the IJogard (Mo.) Dis
patch. We heard a lady pronounce
"blanc-niange" the other day without
so much as batting an eyelid.
Under an act passed at the last ses
sion of congress the Virginia-Tennessee
boundary line has been fixed in the
j middle of the moin street of Drislol,
1 Tenn. There is a car line In the street
' ami passengers on opposite sides of n
car now ride in different states. The
marriage of minors, forbidden in Yir
A bog house door should be on every
hog house in winter to keep animals
warm. One can be easily made that
hogs can open uiul .--hut at will. Make
the doorway at least six inches higher
than the pig. The door should be of
matched flooring placed crosswise and
nailed together with battens, b b, run
ning up and down, placed even with
edges, thus making the door edges
two Inches thick. Make the door four
inches shorter than the doorway. Get
two pieces of band iron two inches
wide. One-eighth inch thick, three
inches longer than the door, round
REFRIGERATORS
REFRIGERATORS
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M a s I!
Numbers and assortment to satisfy mo auy taste.
Wo have geoured tin agency fur the celebrated
BALDWIN DRY AIR BOX
It is tlio original "scientifically built" refrigerator.
Their poi it h of superiority overall other boxes, making
it the best and cheapest refrigerator on the market.
Everything fan be removed, making it easy t
clean.
Patent "Lip Cnjv' preventing any warm air from
reaching the ice compartment,
Every one is guaranteed to give satis
faction.
Prices rause from 8 to $17.90 with or without water
tank.
Screen Doors, Window Screens, Lawn Mowers, Garden
Tools, Water Coolers. r
W. H. HEIM, Snnbury, Pa. J
uoi; iiulse doou.
off one end and drill a hole for a 40 D
.spike nod nail on 1 he edges of t he door
as at c in small figure. Make a half
round block, ii, from a piece of 4x4
wood long enough to nt loosely be
tween the projecting ends of the irons.
Drive the spike through the holes into
the ends of the block, as at d d. Spike
this, block in the top of the doorway
and you have a banging door that will
open from either side by the hog push
ing it with his snout. He sure the
block is put in square so the door will
swing free tind be a close lit. If the
house is a new one to the hog, bane;
the door up for n, time, then prop it
partly open nnd chase the hoc; t h rough
it and in ft few days hi' vtill soon learn
how to open nnd shut his bedroom
door. Such a door also protects the
pen from wet and ice. It. 11. Taylor,
in Farm and Home.
I MAIS DO 101 THINKING!
Timet Word of autton.
In feeding skimmilk great care
must be exercisel. The most common
mistake made in feeding separator
skimmilk is to feed too much of it. A
vouiiir calf from a week to two weeks!
old should not have over one to one
and a half gallons a day, and larger
calves two gallons a day. The skim
milk should be warm and sweet. We
add to the skimmilk a mixture of bran
and ground oats in equal parts by
weight, l'ut it into the milk for young
calves and as soon as they will take it
dry, give meal to calves in a separate
box in dry form. We ulso give them
some nice clover hay and keep the
calves as dry and comfortable as pos
sible. Prof, H. H. Dean, Ontario Agri
cultural College.
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Before Your Buying
ome Silver-Ton trued
1 I I O ' I
nay Irj to ninke ymi lielleve flN
iii'ooii Is tcrreii -lu-ee," iiiiI II iln-
mi mutter mnrii whether tt la v
nat, hiii when n roMc i
BUYING FARM TOOLS
Dou't trust him too far.
Do BOme thinking liefore you buy.
I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU
the OSBORNE LINE
YOU CAN YOURSELF SEE- THE SUPERIOR POI NTS
Reno H- Walter,
JWDDLEBURGH PE NN,
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The Itlral IIK Itcttiiril.
The prettiest hog is the one that is
the most profitable; the one that
makes the most pounds of pork from
a hundred pounds of dry matter; the
one that makes the largest contribu
tion to the family necessities and to
the interest on the mortgage. If a
hm fMvfnraiftd nn th south breeder depftrta from this Ideal, he
pi 1 j i - j ...
Missouri paper publishes this
the business man of this city
18 in the habit of h
N girl had bett
I11!) his name." The next dav 2.-,
1 called at hn office, naid ui. their
rcril'tions and told the editor not
W attention to foolish stories.
"itafro loses e.r.OO nmbrellno
F- 3,500 purses, 1,200 overcoats,
WW and jackets, 500 canes and 14,-
uriicles th
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tt of mutton chops and running
I "mond brooch worth $1,500.
A mountain goat farm is a new
business in Center and Tioga coun
ties, Va. A pioneer in the business
opens with cleared mountain land
and a consignment of 1,000 white
goats costing $18 n head. There is
a chance for a good crop of buts.
Our agriculture, which amounted to
j 100,000,000 100 years ngo, is now rap
' idly approaching $3,000,000,000 a year,
' snd the value of the farms of thecouu
, try is almost $; 5,000,000,000.
Cures of leprosy are said to have
j been effected by the use of small
doses of arsenic, a liberal diet, aud
abstinence from Hah.
sid of a car. A Virginia criminal on
the south side of the street is safe
from arrest, should he so insist, until
requisition papers can be obtained
from Tennesseee.
j A magnificent oak tree at Athens,
(la., not only owns itself, but possesses
ther property. It was owned many
years ago by Col. W. H. Jackson, who.
in his childhood, played around Its
massive trunk, and iu later years grew
to love it almost as he would his own
, child. Tearing thnt after his death
, the old oak would fall into the haml
i of persons who would destroy it, he
! recorded a deed conveying to the tree
i "entire possession of itself nnd of nil
j land within eight feet of it on all
aides."
makes a mistake, for sooner or later 1
the common-sense farmer will de- T
maud a common-sense hog without
preference as to curl in the tail, it
or drop of the ear. There arc breed- ' "j
ers who will disagree with us on this Pr
point. Hut wait nnd see! Midland j 3
Tanner. T
Wntrh the llnre' Mionli.-r,
Don't let the horses get sore shoul
ders. See that the collars lit. Just
because a horse's collar was all right
last season is no sign it will tit this
season. You owe it to your teams tc
work them iu comfort and in no other
way will you get the best out of them.
It is the greatest cruelty to work a
sore-shouldered animal and in nine
cases out of ten it is the owner1
fault negligence or carelessness
Ohio Farmer.
1 flsTKe'
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PERSONS to buy a bed
room suite, consisting of
seven pieces for flo i
We iln in it deliver these
town lor th if
Slllls llllt dl
PRICE.
Tlu oftVr if t
ptMcnt itook
t. i i good until tht
- exhausted.
Others will quote you
s;i:nc grade of suite from
to $23.
tin
S20
Our complete line of bed-room suites are ex- t
traordinary value. Yncvs 'tct piy cut ami
worth your while ( consider.
Very respectfully,
W. A. SHIPMAN,
439 Maiket St.
TJndertakin c a Specialty.
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