GARDEN, FARM and CfcOPf
SUGGESTIONS
FOR THE
UP-TO-DATE
AGRICULTURIST
Poultry Not a Luxury.
There are altogether too many agrl-
cultural communities where poultry Is
luxury. There Is no reason at all
but what this eating of poultry should
he a commou occurrence on every
farm. Every farm can keep fowls at
a profit for home use, and there Is
hardly one farm In a thousand where
they could not be raised at a profit
for the market. Where hens are kept
at a loss In nine cases out cf ten the
fault lies with the one who has them
In charge, and not with the hens.
Weekly Witness.
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- Make the Farm a Model,
Many people farm In a slipshod man
ner and then complain that farming
does not pay. If you have a farm why
not make it a model? Whether you
spend your days on it or not, it will
be much more easily disposed of
should you wish to sell. , Every line
of Improvement, convenience and ec
onomy should be kept in view. Don't
' go deeper in debt than your pocket
book will permit, nnd don't forget that
labor-saving machinery is as accept
able in the bouse as on the farm.
Weekly Witness.
Value of Wood Ashes.
One bushel of ashes represent
about, two and a half tons of dry
body wood. Wood fishes contains all
the required elements cf plant nutr'
Uon except nitrogen. One hundred
pounds of wood ashes contain 1G
pounds of potash, worth 0 cert?:
81-2 pounds of soda, worth 2 cents;
6 pounds of lime and magnesia, wo.ui
8 cents, and 5 1-4 pounds of phosphoric
acid, worth 20 cents. If one had to buy
in the market in the cheapest form,
the manorial materials contained in
100 pounds of ashes the cost would
be $1.16.
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travel Assists Drainage.
A somewhat gravelly soil, or even
one verging somewhat on stony, has
been found by experience to b? highly
satisfactory for apple growing, pro
viding only there is an abundance of
plant food present. The gravel and
small stones doubtless assist in the
drainage, and this fact probably ex
plains in part the superiority of such
soils. As a rule, we may say that
gravelly loam, fairly rich In plant food,
Is the ideal apple soil. The soil sur
veys now being made In various parts
of the country have in a general way
verjfled the commonly accepted opin
ion, on this point. Some of the soils
well known fts successful apple pro
ducers have now been described nnd
mapped and given names. That soil
known as Porter's black loam, which
is found in extensive areas along the
eastern slopes of the Alleghany Moun
tains, is noted for its adaptation to the
growing of apples. It Is nnon this
that the Albermarle Pippin of Vir
ginia Is grown. In western New York
the Miami stony loam may be men
tioned as a soil of well-proved adapta
bility for apples. This is widely rep
resented in Wayne County, known as
one of the best apple-growing coun
ties in America. Country Gentleman.
Dairy Products of Beef.
A thoughtful man, who is a stu
dent of economics; said to me, after,
observing certain dairy farmers who
were hauling a single can each of
fcllk two and three miles: "I can't un
derstand why these men are not feed
ing beef cattle instead of producing
milk; they have cheap pasture land,
which is worth from $15 to $25 an
acre, while Western growers are graz
ing upon exceedingly high priced lands
and the finished product is worth aa
much here as there."
Now, I must confess this argument
seems plausible, and this man is not
alone in the opinion. I believe we
should diversify our animal industry
somewhat, and produce more meat,
but I don't think for one moment that
these men who are hauling one can of
milk each will be the men to produce
beef. On the contrary, beef making
in the East, if it is In any degree to
take the place of milk production, will
fall into the bands of men who haul
full loads of milk at the present time.
Beef is not only a product of rich
pasture and cheap corn, but of a full
conception and understanding, on the
part of the feeder, of animal nutrition.
The man who hauls one can of milk
does not do so because of location, leg
islation or the economics of the case,
but juBt simply because he will not live
up to and make the most of his oppor
tunities. The facts are that we have no fancy
beef stock at hand, that corn would
have to come from- the corn belt, that
eur milk markets are constantly ex
panding and that those by-product pro
teine feeds purchased for milk pro
ductionend which really have no
ther value bear a much cheaper re
lation to milk production than corn at
average ruling prices bears to meat
production. It Is not a question of
what value each feed may have or the
relation of one to another, but what
relation, does each class of foods bear
to the product for which it is fed. H.
E. Cook in the New York Tribune Far
mer. How to Buy a Horse.
There Is aa old Idea that a man
trading horses cannot be expected to
tell the truth. We were not aware
that it also held good in selling a
horse outright. We are not prepared
to accept this idea; in fact we know
one, and have known others In the
past, who will tell the truth about a
horse as certainly as anything else.
Still, unless you know and . are very
sure of your man, it would be ad
visable to heed the advice of the In-
land Farmer, which is as follows:
If you want to buy a horse, don't
believe your own brother. Take no
man's word for it. Your eye is your
market The weak point of a horse
can be better discovered while stand
ing than while moving. If he Is sound
he will stand firmly and squarely on
his limbs without moving any of them
the feet fiat upon the ground, with
legs plump and naturally poised. If
the foot is lifted from the ground and
the weight taken from it, disease may
be suspected or at least tenderness
which Is a precursor of disease.. If
the horse stands with his feet spread
apart there is a weakness in the loin.
Never buy a horse In harness. Un-
hitch him and take everything off but
his halter and lead him around. If
he has the spavin, or is stiff, or any
other failing you can see it. Back
him, too. Some horses show their
tricks then, when they don't any other
time. Be as smart as you know how
and you may make mistakes. A horse
may look very nice and go a great pace
and yet have fits. You can't tell It
till something happens. He may have
a weak back. Give him the whip and
off he goes for a mile or two; then
suddenly he stops. After a rest he
starts again, but he soon stops for
good, and nothing but a derrick could
move him. A bad tempered horse will
keep bis ears thrown back. A kicker
will have scarred legs. A stumbler
will have blemished knees.
Farm Notes.
A farm near Fennvllle, Mich., pro
duced last year over twenty thousand
bushels of onions and 1,300 pounds of
peppermint oil.
An Oregon ma nshipped a carload
of 1000 half-boxes of Cornice peas to
New York, which sold at miction for
$3,429. The neat way in which the
fruit was prepared for market un
doubtedly added much to the sale
price.
Nothing is better to prevent loss of
ammonia from the manure heap than
soapsuds. Keep the heap well sat
urated, and make holes in the mass,
so that the soapsuds can pass down to
the bottom of the heap. Chemical ac
tion is facilitated, but there are forma'
tions of salt that prevent loss.
To build and fill an ice-house for
homo dairy use is a cheap aqd simple
task. Ice laid on edge will keep bet
ter than when packed on its side. Use
only as much sawdust, or other pack
ing, as may be necessary, but pack
cloce, as a circulation of air between
the cakes of ice is more destructive
than direct heat.
Rye will be the first green food in
the spring. As the young rye is al
most wholly composed of water it af
fords but little nutrition and is very
laxative. When turning stock on
young rye it should be done as gradu
ally as possible. Only a small quanti
ty of of ryo should be eaten at first,
allowing cattle to graze more as the
rye grows.
As long as cold draughts enter the
stable the animals will demand suf
ficient food to create more animal
heat as a protection! If the live stock
can be kept warm, less food will be
necessary. When straw is passed
through the fodder cutter and used
in the stalls, it shuts out the draughts
along the floor and prevents loss of
warmth, aa well as serving as an ex
cellent absorbent.
For very large hanging baskets the
Maderia vine is very satisfactory. It
Is best to give it very rich soil; its
growth will not be so strong, but .the
leaves will be closer together and also
"be more attractive. Pinch it back
mercilessly until the basket or trelllg
is covered with foliage. After that.
let a few vines grow, allowing some
to droop and others train up along
the. wire or strings, suspending the
basket. Keep the glossy leaves clean
and the result will be a handsome
basket and a charming plant.
Fortune In Oil for Indian Boy.
A Dfteen-year oil lease on seven
and one-half acres of land in the.
Glenn pool belonging to Robert Pett-
man, a three-year-old Indian boy, sold
for $10,300 today.
The boy also gets 10 percent of all
the oil produced. One hundied and
fifty acres additional in the same allot
ment were sold for $39,825 bonus and
10 percent-of the oil, netting the In
dian boy $50,125 for the leases on the
entire allotment What he will get In
oil is problematical. He still owns
the land. The sale was made by the
master in chancery at auction and
there was a big crowd of oil men pres
ent, most of them bidders for the
lease. Pittsburg Press.
Japanese real estate has gone up
Immensely in some instances at Ku-
mochl, Fukiff, Kasugano and Mirume
to two and four times the former price,
and at other points to seven or. eight
times the previous values.
IP""- The Places of
rainerana moiner in ine
Home
By President Roosevelt
On one of your topics how would It do to speak ot the
" I place of the father In tho home? Now and then people
forget that exactly as
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by being a good housewife, so the father, in his turn,
if he is worth his salt, must in every way back up the
mother in helping bring up the children.
After all, the prime duties are elemental, and no amount
or cultivation, no
will make tne average man a good citizen unless mat av
erage man Is a good husband and father, and unless he is a successful
breadwinner, is tender and considerate with his wife and both loving and
wise (for to be loving and weak and foolish is utterly ruinous) in dealing
with the children. i
I think it a crime for a woman to shirk her primary duties to shrink
from being a good wife and mother. Of course, the woman should have the
same right as the man to train her mind to better herself and occasionally
a woman can, and ought to, follow some speclaj vocation in addition to
(never In substitution for) her home work.
But just as the highest work for the normal man is work for his wife
and children, so the highest work for the normal woman is the work oi
the home, where, heaven knows, the work is ample enough.
But I also feel she can do the best work in her home if she has healthy
outside iuterests and occupations in addition, and I most firmly believe that
she cannot do her full duty by her husband If she occupies a merely servile
attitude toward him or submits to ill treatment, and that she is quite as bad
a mother if weak and foolish as it hard and unloving.
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Balloon
By Ji. IV.
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. T is while discharging ballast to enter the higher altitudes
' that you get your first idea of the hair-trigger balance of
TT the giant contrivance keeping you afloat Your pilot takes
X a Bma" wooden scoop no larger than an ordinary-sized soup
? ladle, digs Into one of the sand bags, and scatters a single
"shovelful" overboard.
board lightens the
and, If you happen to be over a vacant field where you can
drop the bottle itself without rlak of killing any one, the release of this
weight will send you up another 300 feet. So delicately poised is your bal
loon, once it has struck its balance, that you could push it up or pull it down
from 300 to 400 feet with strength equal to that of your little finger.
When a mere cloud passes between you and the sun, causing Instant
contraction of the gas In the balloon, the envelope becomes baggy and flaccid
at once, and you begin to fall, sometimes at the rate of a thousand feet a
minute, although you have no warning
and no sensation except the thrill as
which the earth comes nearer you.
be necessary to sacrifice before you
moment the sun darts from behind
envelope tautens almost with a bang,
lightened load until you are forced to open the escape valve to let out gas
to prevent going up above your original level. Then it is that you begin to
understand why the bugbear of the aeronaut is alternate cloud and sun
shine, why he prefers sailing in the
out a day, he mounts high above the
volume of gas In the ballcon remains
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By Vice-President Fairbanks
E hear much said of vice and corruption, much of the
subtle means of the state and social order, but the great
heart of the people is as sound and incorruptible today as
at any hour in all of our matchless history.
Tho conscience of the people has not been seared.
Pure materialism has not achieved the mastery. All of the
forces which make for the intellectual, the moral, and the
social advancement of the people were more powerful and
never in fuller play than they are today,
lienor among men was never more regarded, and dishonorable practices,
either in public or private life, were never more abhorred than they are
today. There has been upon every hand a demand that those' who hold place
and power shall be clean men, and that they shall consecrate themselves
completely to the utmost advancement of the public welfare.
The American people are going
momentum. They are advancing in all
upright, patriotic people. They respect
relntion of life. Those who would contaminate the state or who would carry
into the business world low ideals of
tho general respect.
The American people are not to
ceptional wrongdoer, but by the generous purpose of the great body of our
countrymen. The currents which course the veins ot the American people
are essentially as pure now as' those which filled tho veins of our ancestors.
.... J? Parable . . . .
NCE upon a time there was a man who went to fish. He
bought tho finest fishing outfit that money could buy the
straightest and strongest pole, the finest line, the sharpest
hooks, the daintiest and most attractive bait When he
ronrlipri the stream, he sat down on the bank, under a
o
H I great spreading tree, and dropped his lino into a beautiful,
II calm little pond at bis feet But, though be fished long, he
'I xaniriit n nth Inc. Still, the dooI was so beautiful and calm.
and the seat was so
not regret his lack of success.
At last he grew tired of such Indifferent sport, ana longea lor oetter.
Others came to him along the bank, and gave him advice. One said, "Your
pole is not bright enough." So he polished it till it shone, but with no better
luck. Another advised, "You have only a hundred foot line; you should havo
hnndred-and-fiftv foot one." He wished
cover your hook better, and not let the fish see the point." So he carefully
covered It with some clay. SU11 he was unsuccessful.
At last came a fellow down the stream, with bare feet and a pine pole,
who seeing the man on the' bank, cried out roughly: "You will never get
anything there. Wade out here into the stream, and throw your hook Into
the current where the fish are." And after a moment's hesitation, he waded
ut Into the stream, and got wet ana
the mother must helo the breadwinner
amount of business force and sagacity,
Balance
Rolker
Up darts your balloon, 100, 200,
balloon enough to send it up 250 feet;
of this other than the statoscope
you see tho alarmnig rapidity with
Three or four scoopfuls of sand may
again strike your balance, and the next
the cloud, warms the balloon, and the
and you go kiting upward under your
night, and why, it he does sail through
clouds In continuous sunshine where the
constant
Optimism
forward and upward with tremendous
of the ways which make a strong,
right and condemn wrong in every
business morality can lay no claim to
be Judged by the standards of the ex
soft and so shady, that at first he did
he bad it A mird said, "You must
muaay na nsa. -nrisuan negister.
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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Lots ot people won't fall into temp
tation unless they get a chance.
Too many virtues In a man give his
friends a big thirst for a few vices.
A girl is always afraid to be alone
with a man unless she Bays she is.
The most that Bchools seem to teach
is your children how little you know,
A girl thinks it is flirting when she
would look at a fellow if he didn't at
her.
, A man is sure to get lost on the road
to heaven unless he has a woman for
a guide.
There's no harm in giving even
bad advice, because, nobody will take
any kind.
Even when it's her own mother
coming to see her a woman calls it a
house party.
It a man could Increase his Income
the way he can his family he would
have a chance.
Imagination Is thinking you are
having a good time when you are only
spending money.
What would people do with all the
money they would have it they
weren't married?
A woman wants her children to
have their father's courage and her
brains and beauty.
A man can have a lot of ideals un
til there is a chance to put some of
them into practice.
It's a great comfort to a woman to
think how lonesome her husband
would be if Bhe were dead.
Hardly any doctor can diagnose
what's the matter with the baby as
well as its mother can guess it.
A man thinks he has an awful
kweet temper not to get mad with
his wife because his taxes go up.
A fine way to surprise your wife Is
to pretend you are enjoying yourself
as much at home aB If you were at a
vaudeville show. From "Reflections
of a Bachelor," In the New York
Press.
SADDEST FACT ABOUT GOTHAM.
It Is the Presence of the Man Always
Fawning for a Tip.
William Allen White writes of New
York City and Emporia (his home
town) in the American Magazine
Following Is Mr. White's account of
the saddest thing he Bees In New
York:
"Country dwelling American men
and most ot the women are Instinc
tively democratic. And, being demo
cratic, the cities sadden us country
people. For the city and New York
Is typical of urban America fosters
too much of the Bham relation be
tween men that one finds where class
lines are set. The eternal presence
of a serving class, whose manners
may some day petrify into servility,
the continual discovery that the man
who brings the food or sweeps the
street or drives the cab considers
wholesome conversation with him
from his patrons as a sign of low
breeding, the presence of the man
who fawns for a quarter, all these
make the countryman In New York
desire to rush home and organize a
Sitting Bull lodge ot Ancient and
Amiable Anarchists.
"It is not the extravagance of the
rich, but the Umber knees of too
many of the poor, that disgusts the
countryman in New York. The sad'
dest thing In that great city to one
who comes from the frank, wholesome
Lclean, happy faces ot the country Is
not the eyes, not the overfed, puffy
necked figures ot the lazy, respecta
ble, hotel-dwelling women, who get
no more exercise than stuffed geese,
not the besotted faces of the men
about the barrel houses though a mer
ciful God knows they are sad enough,
but sadder than they aro the loath
some wooden faces of the men who
stand decked out like human mani
kins in purples and greens and what
not of modish silliness and for a
price surrender themselves ' to be
made part of the landscape. For
years Mlckle, the painter, was the
lowest form of humanity we had in
Emporia. He was the town drunk
ard, once they fined him for beating
his wife, drink made him a loafer
and a brute. But some way one felt
down in Mlckle there was the soul of
a man; some way one knew that he
would not do certain things for mon
ey; some way one always understood
that Mlckle could always look into
depths of personal degradation below
him and tell whoever tempted him
there to go to . But, on the
other hand, some way the flunky Is
just a flunky and he seems to have
given up the right to resent personal
Insult when he assumes the miser
able part. And for a man to com
mercialize his American birthright
seems a heart-breaking tragedy."
Thimble Clubs.
There is one kind of a woman's club
against which there have been made
no objections and no criticisms, and
that Is any kind of a "sewing club."
These are generally the first clubs
that the conservative type of women
join, and are the kindergartens from
which they graduate to clubs organ
ized for the broader purpose of altruis
tic work. One of the most interesting
of thimble clubs has just been heard
from in faraway Mexico, where Mrs.
E. Leon, in the town of Aguas Callen
tes, brought together over three hun
dred women experts in that beautiful
drawn-needle work for which the Mex
ican women have become so famous,
&nd enlisted their united efforts to
produce the most beautiful gown made
from needlework and embroidery that
the world ha ever tsea. Pictorial Re
view. '
BUSINESS CARDS.
JUSTICE OP THE PEACE,
Pension Attorney and Ronl Estate Agent.
RAYMOND E. BROWN,
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ATTORNEY AT LAW, t,
Brookville, Pa.
(, m. Mcdonald,
attorney-at-law,
Rent estate anent, patents secured, col
lections made promptly. Office in Syndicate
building, Ueynoldavtlle, Pa.
SMITH M. McCREIGHT,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, .
Notary public and ronl estate agent. Ool
leetlous will receive prjmpt attention, Ofllca
In the Reynoldsvllle Hardware Oo. building,
Ualu street Reynoldsvllle, Pa.
DR. B. E. HOOVER,
DENTIST,
Resident dentist. In the HooTer building
Malu street. Gentleness In operating.
DR. L. L. MEANS,
DENTIST, ,
Office on second floor of the First National
bank building, Malu street.
DR- R- DEVERE KING,
DENTIST,
Office on second floor ot the Syndicate build
Ing, Main street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa.
HENRY PRIESTER
UNDERTAKER. ' -
Black and white funeralcara. Main street.
Keynoldsvllle, Pa.
HUGHES & FLEMING.
UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMING.
The U. 9. Burial League has been tested
and found all right. Cheapest form ot I'M.
surance. Secure a contract. Near Pub).,
Fountain, Keynoldsvllle Pa. 1
D. H. YOUNG,
ARCHITECT
Corner Grant and Fiftn sts., Reynolds
vllle, Pa.
JOHN C. HIRST,
CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER,
Burveyor and Draughtsman. Office In Syn
dicate building, Malu street.
WINDSOR HOTEL,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Between 12th and 13th 8ts on Filbert St.
Three minutes walk from the Reading Ter
minal. Five minutes walk from the 1'enn'a
K. K. Depot. European plan 11.00 per day and
unward. American Dlan 82 00 oer duv
DR. GREWER
Medical and Surgical Institute, Rooms
7 and 8, Postoffice Building,
DUBOIS, PA.
DR. E. GREWER, Consulting
Physician and Surgeon,
Dr. E. Grewer, a gradmte of the University
of Pennsylvania and one ot the leading spec- '
lallsts of this State, Is now permanently lo
cated at the abovo address, where he treat
all chronic diseases of Men, Women and
Children.
He makes a specialty of all forms of Ner
vous diseases, Blood Poison, Secret Diseases,
Eplleptlo Fits. Convulsions, Hysteria, St.
Vitus Dance. Wakefulness cured under
guarantee.
Lost Manhood Restored.
Weaknesses of Young Men
Cured and AH Private
Diseases.
Varicocele, Hydrocele andRupture prompt
ly cured. without pain and no detention from
business.
He cures the worst cases of Nervous Pros
tration, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Old Sores,
Blood Poison and all diseases of the Skin, Ear,
Nose, Throat, Heart, Lungs, Stomach, Liver,
Kidneys and Bladder.
Itching Piles. Fistula. Stricture. Tumnra.
Cancers and Goiters cured without cutting.
special attention paid to the treatment of
Nasal Catarrh.
He will forfeit the sum of $5,
000 for any case of Fits or
Epileptic Convulsions
that he cannot cure.
Consultation free In English and German
and strictly confidential. Writ if ion
cannot call.
Office hours t From 9 a. m. to 1.30 n. m. O.
Sundays S to 12 a. m. only.
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Leech's j
Planing Mill j
West Reynoldsville J
Window Sash, Doors,
Frames. Flooring,
STAIR WORK J
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Etc., Etc. j
Contract and repair workiglyen !
prompt attention. Z
Give us your order. My prices J
are reasonable. S
w. a. L.KECH. Proprietor. S
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Knlcker You can't paint the Illy
Subbubs 'Never got a seed cata-l.
lofue, did you T New York Sun.