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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-24
Farmers Homes

Frank u. Curtis, in his address be.
fore the New York State Agricultural
Society, said several good things in
regard 70 farmers homes, but none
more TO the point than the following
in regard 10 the location and sur.
roundings OF the dwelling "a house
on hill, with no trees about it,
looks cheerless and unhomelikc.
Have grounds around the dwelling.
Tear away the fences they cost
money, and are useless. mean
fences shutting the house up as il
there Was danger Of ii running away
Let there be not less than an acre OF
dooryard ten will be better Make
a rich lawn Of this, and cut the grass.
1t can be no waste, bu il will be $
thing Of beauty end a thing OF
beauty is Joy forever There need
not be any loss to be tasteful nature
ard beauty are synonymous good
taste and economy can therefore be
made hanimaids to each other. SET
your fruit trees in this inciosurc, and
dig around them Will & spade each
year, and top dress the whole, and
the trees will grow finely, and the
grass will grow lu1urianuy, and The
house will grow beautiful, the child
rcn will grow contcnted, the fathers
and mothers as they grow old will
grow happy, the neighbors will grow
TO emulate and excel, the township
will grow attractive, ami the young
men and the young women will grow
up TO feel that there is 20 place after
all, like Home, Sweet Home -
american Fdrmer.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-24
II Doesn't Keep

Perfectly pure butter will kccr =
very long time, like pure lard or pure
tsllow, but no butter is made, or can
be made perfectly pure, without de.
stroying the grain by melting it, A
turned out by the best makers it still
contains some Of the other elements q
the the milk, its sugar or cascine, in
corporsted with it, But to have a.
little Of these in our butter as po.si.
hlc is essential 70 even moderately
long keeping. Salt will not save b i.
ter containing much Of them. In fact.
any butter will keep SIS long vitbou,
salt as with any amount OF il that
can be used and leave the botte. mar
ketablc. Salt is put into butter for
flavor, and not for keeping. When
butter is made from perfect cream
and churned, washed, worked and
packed as perfectly as possible, it ia
in the best condition for keeping Bot
however perfectly manufactured, long
keeping can only be secured after.
ward 10y careful handling, ever remcu-
boring that butter at the best has ST.
WAYS in 1t germs Of decay which high
temperature and exposure 10 the si-
will surely develop. For the forc,gn
trade, especially TO warm counties,
carefully made butter, closely packed
and sealed in air.tight and non sb
sorbent packages, ought to and un-
doubtedly will command very high
prices. But only thoroughly skin
ed maker should attempt this.-T H.
Hosiias. " y, a. Mirror and EdTr,er.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-24
Farrn Notes

Peas should be soaked in water
tweuiy.four hours before being
planted.
The raising OF turkeys for the
market is a very profitable invest
ment At least it Is found TO be 40
by all who have tried IT, Every farm
CT should keep a flock. lie Is sure Of
two markets, one st Thanksgiving
and the other al Christmas. The dam.
age they de is bot little compared
with the good they do in the way Of
picking up grubs.
Eggs will absorb bad odors from
musty bay II the latter is used FOR
packing. IL is not generally known
that eggs are very much like butter
or cream In the susceptibility TO sur.
rounding influences Of this Kind
Eggs in q grocery where thsre is salt
tlsh, tobacco, kerosene, and such
things, sometimes become affected II
they are near ihese goods very long
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-24
Hoaling Plaster for Tree Wounds

When large limbs are cut from trees,
either as pruning or for the purpose
Of grating, the stock is very apt 70
rot in after years. The water soaks
into the wood, and although the part
may heal over apparently, and become
nicely covered with new bark. vet the
rot will be found, after many years.
70 shorten the life Of tie tree. Vari.
Gus remedies have been tried to pre
vent this rotting, such as tar, paint.
gum shcllac, ETC., but the following
We have found an excellent compost
ton Burn an old leather shoe, mix
the ashes with three times its bulk Of
bone dust, then add about an eqts I
share Of grease or fat TO some pine
tar, heat up and mix over a slow fire.
and at the same time mix in the pow
dcrCd bone and ash Of leather, till II
comes TO the consistency Of tlicn
paint. Pou. around tie outer edge T
the cut, then apply with an OLD brush
or fiat, mario. piece Of board, and
let it be well rubbed on.
The above is from Mr.. TAom.s
Bennett, an experienced planter. IN
ordinary practice q Goa, Of Goa! lar
will be sufficient A simple appl.c4
tion will make an almos .m.,,Hon.
and weatherProof covering IL odo q,
! too, drives away insects, sud it ba-
been adopted, after many and c1-Gy
experiments, by the Uucl.I, OF
Parks in Paris, as the standard coat
ing for tree wounds. Where tie
wounds are exceptionally large
second Goa, may be applied in lea
years 10 the part not yet healed over
The thicker preparations, with Torir
or wax lor base, offer obstructio.
to the new growth. of wood, which,
as it spreads over the wood. must
crowd aside the coating or break !,
up. In Professor Sargents transla-
tion Of Dcs Cars book on pruning
the fact is noted that coal tar i not
50 satisfactory as an application 10
the elm as to other trees. The ss,cr
blisters which form on the sur,.,e of
this wood prevent q firm adhesion
In such cases the coat should be J..
moved from the blstered places sud
a new application made.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-24

MILcH cows due TO cslve soon
should receive more care now than
heretofore. Extra rations Of whole.
some food with good shelter and pure
water is very important and neccssa.
ry. Bran fed now will have the ten.
dency to increase the how OF milk
when the COW comes in. and should
be given regularly each day. Dur
ing the warm days of approaching
spring a run in some high, dry lot or
Geld is desirable. DO not try 10 force
your young heifers with overfeeds of
rich food. Many promising young
animal has been ruined in this way
by parties caring more for an abund.
ant and unnatural yield Of milk than
for the health of their animals.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-24

An Ohio farmer washes his apple
trees every spring and fall with .
strong lye that will float an egg, and
flhds IT tc be sure death 10 thc borers.
lie claims that he has not lost : tree
since beginning this practice, although
he had lost several previously.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-24

Chickens, such as Asiatic, should
never be allowed 10 perish until about
six months old, or the brest bone will
be liable 10 become crooked. There
IL no cure, and 1t is 3 disqualification
for exhibition fowls.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
AN INDIAN GIRLS REVENGE.

The legends of the various Indian
tribes of South America furnish no more
terrible one than that OF. Saw-na-da-Wa,
the BERRY Hunter, : q young girl pos
sessed of more than ordinary beauty for
one of her race. The daughter of the
Chief of the Aburanian tribe of Guate-
mala, she was naturally proud of her
blood and station, and reYengeful of an
insult toivery desperation. Often had
she been Wooed, but never won. The
arrow that was to reach her breast APP
peared not to have been feathered until
Carlos Estalez, an agentfor a fur house,
took up his abode in the vicinity of her
people and filled her ears with a glow
ing account of how Pocahontas had
been respected and treated. Then her
pride awoke as it never had before, and
she longed for such q position. Her
fondness for attention was fattered by
his constant visits to the wigWam of her
father, and her love of dress pampered
by his snowy presents. She held her
head still higher above her companions
passed them with cold stare and
naughty tread, and took but little pains
to disguise her determination to become
the wife of the white man.
And, so far from other female society
that was at all attractive, it was very
pleasant, without doubt, for Estalez to
coquette with the Indian girl-to have
her watch for his coming to see that
she dressed and decorated herself ex-
clusively for him, and to feel that she
loved him. But it was very danger
GUS pastime. The fox was not more
crafty nor the rattlesnake more treach-
erous and bitter for him il he had made
either of them q companion. Yet the
girl loved him to alteration. He was
by far the most handsome man that had
ever trodden her shores; one, in fact,
that any girl would gladly have accept
ed for lover, bringing, as he did, the
charms of education and money to back
those of manly bearing and beauty.
During the entire winter he had been
attentive to the Indian girl, and with
the coming of the warmer months they
often foated over the crystal waters of
the rivers or wandered through the
evergreen woods. At first EstaIez had |
thought nothing of her save as pleas !.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

on the farm, and his complexion are Of
little account; but what he docs want
and can have is the ability to hold his
own in the contests, great or small.
that come up among free citizens. The
disrespect in which farming stands
among most other classes, is due to a
very general lack of assertion, and
that is founded on the consciousness of
mental incapacity and the need of train
ing. In manners, intelligence and gen
eral bearing the farmer should be in
distinguishable from other classes, and
then he will readily hold his own
against them all. But if illiteracy and
uncouthness put mark upon him-and
especially if he himself encourages
these as advantages-he will be the
football of politicians, and stand but a
slight chance, comparatively, TOR the
honors and emoluments of the world
Cor. Country Gentleman.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
THE ANCIENT M1NEEs STORY.

THE ANCIENT MINER' s. STORY.
oh yes, I'm fixed as solid, sir, as most of folks
you see;
At least the coyote Poverty has ceased to sniH
That mine is worth million down-that is. it
Is to-day;
What it might cost tomorrow, though, /
couldn't exactly say.
IA boy in old Connecticut-this dream used
to hold:
What if the cellar of our house should spring
a leak with gold,
And l from there at any time shining lump
could bring?-
I've got cellar in this rock that's just that
sort o thing.
The sum my father shaved himself for twenty
I've taken out of that there hole in less than
half day;
If could lead him up yOn path, I'd make him
smile, at least;
But his old labor-hardened hands are mold
ering in the East
I'd pack my mother up this hill, and open to
her view
Enough to give benefit to all the poor she
knew;
I'd pan heap O. happiness out of her dear
old face;
But mothers struck lead of gold in quite
different place.
My girl? Well. maybe this is soft; but since
the questions put
Il wouldn't tell this to any one except +" a ten
derfoot y,
We used to climb those Eastern hills (she was
charming WITCH,
and prospect on what we would do when
had ''strnck it rich -
But her old father hadn't the heart to let us
And so shook off Yankee dust and took a
Western tour.
My trip it lasted several years. The old man
grieVed, no doubt.
I sWore never would come back till I could
buy him out.
You don't know what it is to hunt and dig
TO strike a vein that almost shows, then
lodges clean away.
You do1 Well, yes; but have yon starved, and
begged, aud almost died.
With treasures that you couldn't find heaped
up on every side?
pered to an end;
wondered on it for a while, then wrote a
School-bOy friend;
And just as had struck this NINE and my
old heart beat high,
There came letter up the galch-it was my
friends reply:
"She's been a-wandering in her mind: the
other afternoon
She went within the asylum walls, as crazy as
ioo
A rush across the barren plains, snalnsn
railroad ride,
And was in the asylum, too. a-kneeling at
her side.
/ thought she knew me, Just at first; but soon
she shrank away,
And never looked at me again, whatever
might say.
She wanders round or crouches in a western |
window niche,
And says: my love will come to me when he |
has struck it rich. ;"
No word or look for me. Oh, but the Eastern
hills were cold!
And something seemed to always say: go |
back and love your goidr'
And came backs and in this hut my purpose /
is to stay
A miser, with his treasure bright already
slowed away.
I'm President. Cashier and Board of quite a /
wealthy bank,
With none except myself to please-and no /
one else to thank;
But nothing makes my heart beat fast and l
am growing old,
With not thing to love or leave except this
pile of gold.
But / have learned thing or two; know as
sure as fate,
When we lock up ourlives for wealth, the gold
key comes too late;
And that I'm poorer now than through those |.
happy days in which
owned heart, and did not know that had
struck it rich!"
-JEtU tarletc,l, h Harper's Weetln I
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

! "Will you do me favor?" said
young Brooks to his wealthy friend, Si-
mon Hanson. Il wish you to lend me
G1o. ''Call at my counting-house, -
>rejoined Hanson. George was not long
in paying his respects. s.What security
can you give me, young gentleman9'
''My personal security, sir" every
well, get in here, said Hanson, lifting
up the lid of a large iron chest. Get
in herer' exclaimed George, in aston
ishrzent; .what for?'' why, this is
where always keep my securities. y
George did not press the loan.-Bufa5o
GTpreSs.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

To unite broken glass take a small
quantity of isinglass and dissolve in
spirits Of wine, BY the aid of heat. This
viii unite broken glass SO as to leave
the crack nearly imperceptib'e and is
equal to the best glass cement sold at
the stores. -E9chGnge.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

The New York District Messenger
boys have been ordered to wear clean
clothes. standing collars and short hairs
IN. \. Sun.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-17
Good Men Make Good Horses.

We saw farmer the other day with a
fine looking team passing our residence.
One of the horses in his team had famil-
lar look. Hating the farmer, we said,
on looking closely at his horses "Whv
your off horse is the cour terpart Of neigh
Dor IS balky horse the one he had
so much trouble with a year or two ago."
"Why," said the farmer, ''this is the
same animal, After few days never
had any trouble with him." GLOW did
you break the balky creature ," we in
quired. by Kindness retorted the
farmer: "the same way that have broke
lots of other horses in my lifetime that were
considered unsafe, either in saddle or
harness " Well, well, this proves what
some one said, that horse is never vic
iou> or intractabie without a direct cause
II a horse is reStVe or tmorouS, YOU may
be sure Ihlt these faults arise from de
tects in his tducation He has been
treated either awkwardiy or mutually
Commcuca the education Cf a horse at
his htY;h; accustom him to the presence,
voice and sigh Ot man speak and act
gently; caress him, AL chastisement or
cruelty cuntuStS the animal and makes
him Wild. They are good men who make
good horses. We do not now remember
ot ever seeing an uncertain, unsafe,
balhN horse belonging to Il man Of this
character They make the horse good.
Farmers Tribune
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-17
Taste in Dress.

1t has been said that a true lady is
known by the fit OF her gloves and boots.
This we do not accept as the rule, for
many real lady would take nothing
from the scanty purse for choice fitting
gloves and would put on her weary feet
only such shoes as are large and easy
Still arefned taste would not choose such,
and the whole selection of lady's under
wear should be nice in quality and fitting
as neatly as the outside dress. Cheap
hats, loaded with feathers and flowers,
silk dresses, cheap and tlimsy, made
heavy with trimmings; earrings, chains,
lockets, rings, with perhaps no gloves
for the street--awaken suspicious that
the money is all on the outside. There
should be consistency in dress through
out, and whatever one is able to spend
for dress should be so divided that the
under clothing will be as good as that
exposed to view. Formerly ladies made
their own undergarments, stitch by
stitch now, the sewing machine relieves
many aching backs and heads. When
undergarments can be bought ready
made, at little more than the cost of the
material at retail, and in any style and
at any price, according to quality and
trimming, it seems a waste of time to
make such articles at home. Fine French
embroidered garments are very handsome
and cheap; night-gowns and chemises
each from two dollars up, and drawers
from one dollar upwards. Ethel Stone,
in American Agriculturist for January.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-17
Games for Winter Evenings.

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to III '''' ie! Nv W. 'ia, lr,i iiS
',, -0i,' ,,,,.I ,t+ln atIar honna+h
4., L h "i' 0 DG '''!,' ',s Ds' 0ra.n ', -
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-17
The Rat and the Cheese.

There was once a sleek old Rat who
had worn himself gray by long and hard
work gnawing hole into the Pantry,
where all the food was kept. When he
got the hole done he would sit in it all
day long and shrek:
"lhe Cats are eating all the cheese in
the Pantry. The Cats must GO
The simple hearted man Of The house
could never find any marks of the Cats
teeth or claws on the cheese, but he
thought what was said so often must be
true, 50 he drove all the Cats away.
When the man of the house came into
the Pantry the next day, he found that
the bad old Rat had eaten hole clear
through the cheese and destroyed more
in a night than all the Cats in the country
would in year.
Moral-A Democratic "RetoImer" is
no more to be trusted within arms
length OF the taxpayers money than a
full grown Norway Rat is to be put in
charge Of a Western Reserve cheese.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-17
What 1t Is.

on one of the Mississippi steamboats, a
party OF eminent ministers returning from
general convention were in high dis
cussion about orthodoxy, and the old
faith and transcendentalism. a layman
who enjoyed their conversation felt lit
tie puzzled about what transcendentalism
meant, so he ventured to ask the minis
ter in whom he had the greatest conf
dence, II hear you use the word tran
scendentalism; now, what does it mean "
"Well," said the doctor, "that is more
easily asked than answered. Do you see
that bluff on this side of the river p
yes" "Do you see how it is pierced
with swallows holes?" Eyes, see that"
"Well, now" said he, ''you take away all
that bluff, and leave nothing but the
swallows holes, and that is 'transcen-
dentalism'
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-17
Grown Old IN the Service.

Anthony, Dawes and Sherman boast 20
years in Congress apiece, each having
been III the House before going to the
Senate, while Morrill, leads with D years
service, writes a correspondent. The ag
gregate number of years in Congress of
the members OF the Senate is 81, while
the aggregate service of the House mem
hers is over 500 years, making a total Of
congressional experience in the House
and Senate of nearly 400 years. Besides
this, fully half of the members have serv-
ed in state Legislatures before coming to
Congress, and their aggregate experience
there has been nearly 600 years, making
a grand total of legislative experience in
both branches of Congress of 200O years.
And yet they talk Of this as ''new Con-
gress," and one with little legislative eX-
perience to guide it.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-17
Murder and Robbery.

The argument of Attorney General
Cleaves iii the Wilkinson murder trial, in
favor OF the conviction Of the prisoner
for premeditated murder, was sound and
will be acQuiesccd in by the public The
argument was that Wilkinson prcmedi-
tated murder when he started out from
Portland on his mlrautling expedition.
In that city he armed himself with weap-
ons to Kill anybody who might oppose
him in his efforts to steal and escape
with his booty This shows beyond a
doubt that murder was in his mind at
that time. He intended when he sup
piled himself with q revolver that he would
kill whatever person came between
him and his criminal purposes. The
victim was officer Lawrence OF Bath, a
faithful policeman endeavoring to defend
the property OF citizens of that place.
1t is a fact that robbery is much near
er akin to murder than it is usually con-
sidered to be. Robbery in its very in
ccption includes the element Of murder.
There is not a burglar who when he de-
termines to break, enter and rob. does
not at the same time make up his mind
to Kill if killing be necessary to the ac-
complshment of his purposes. He is a
murderer at heart as We'll as robber.
He lays his plans for one as we'll as the
other. With his burglars tools he pre-
pares his revolver, knife or club. He
considers the weapons of death as neces-
sary in the tulfiment Of his wicked plans
as the implements necessary to force
bolts and bars. 1t is not only the bank
burglar, armed to the teeth when he
makes his iorays upon the strong safes
and walls of banking institutions, who
premeditates murder; it is every man
like Wilkinson who attempts to enter the
store, shop or dwelling house, and stea
from them whatever he may find to lay
his hands upon. Every citizen will de-
tend his house and property from md
| night robbers, at the peril of his life, and
| the desperate who goes about breaking
locks and stealing prepares himself fol
| the deadly encounter and the commission
| of murder as early and as etfectually as
he plcts robbery.
If the facts could be ascertaned We
have no doubt it would appear that few
burglaries are planned without including
within them premeditated murder. Ii
the State Prison the robber convicts loot
down upon with contempt and will no
associate With those confined for murder
but careful analysis of what goes tt
make up burglar will prove him mur
derer in intent, and only saved from be
ing a murderer in fact by accidental an(
tavoring circumstances. kennebec Jour
nal.