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Question In Mental Arithmetic.

A farmer came to market with
some peaches in a basket, tub
and a bucket His horses becoming
frightened, the wagon was soon
minus the basket and, lis peaches
core scattered. Ben. was hired to
helm pick them up for one-fifth of
,bem. while Tom, and Josh board
inc the wagon, helped themselves TO
one.half of what was in the tub, and
Dick filed his satchel with all but n
1ozen of what were in the bucket.
Josh divided with Tom so as to give
him but one.fourth as much as his
own booty, and while they wrangled
about it, Ben. stole half thei r
peaches. Toms heap had but ten
then, while Dick had one-half of Ben's
number, which was, by pay and
stealing twice as much as both Josh.
and Tom had. How much did each
have, and how many peaches in the
wagon at firstl
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WEST BEAVER.

At this writing (Mondqy) some Of
our farmers are not done cutting off
corn. Others are through husking
and have begun plowing +. d. DIR.
Wagner of Adamsburg has been
seen quite often at this end, putting
up heaters and attending to the sick
-. There has been some rumor
ahoat about our good citizens in w.
B. The matter should be investi-
gated and the guilty should be made
to suffer. ;. Another of Hoke's
friends was called to Lewistown last
week to show why he should not
have his pension reduced. This
time it was Emanuel Peter, a four
year soldier. Boys do not forget
the 9Th of November. . . Candidates
are plenty and all expect big ma
jority. -. If you are well supplied
with ''hog gravy" Fisher q Son
will furnish the buck wheat -four. 1t
can not be surpassed in the state.
No doubt the PosT will get a sample
sack. g.. Up to date no reports came
in concerning the killing of any deer,
but keep your eyes open, TT. Swine
ford is getting new gun that is in.
sured to kill on the wing every time
&c. Soldiers and Soldiers friends
you will have a chance on the sixth
of Nov. to let Grover and his Pals,
know your feeling toward the party
who has been doing you all the in-
jury they can. do not think w. b.
has one man that is in favor of such
a party. BOB.
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DIED.

Oct. 9th, Bessie j. Erb, aged u
Years l month and 20 days.
Sept. Goth, in Adams township,
Jacob File, aged 81 years, | month
and q days.
Oct. 5th, in Decatur township,
fredrick Lash, aged 6S years, I
months and Is days.
Oct. 25th at Selinsgrove, Hannah
Strawser, aged SO years, months
and 2 days. Interment at Grubbs'
church Oct. 9th.
,, Oct. 2lst near Lewisburg, George
~ iAaulnkel, aged 70 years A months and
Oct. 30th at Beavertown, Horace
u. Specht, aged SO years l month
and 30 days.
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". \. Felix,
Lewistown, Pa.
PUBLIC SALE OF
REAL ESTATE,

The undersigned trustees under the last VIII
ana testament oi Charles Rhodes, decd, win eX-
pose To public sale at the late residence Of ChaS.
Rhodes, IN the Borough Ot Selins Grove, SNYDER
County, Pa, on Thursday,
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TM citizens are invited to attend
! Demorest contest in Selinsx
ZQge Town han On Monday eve
|k. Admission 10 cents.
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surviving trustees appointed IN the last wi
his Real Estate.
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I'M citizens are invited to attend
Demorest contest in Selinsx
zZEe Town hail On Monday eve
4M. Admission 10 cents.
r A. G. Snyder of Sunbury a married
man (42) eloped with Miss Maria
Sterner 900 about a week ago. Sny-
der has a child. Nothing has yet
been heard of them.
SHINGLES SHINGLES !! 1 have Just
received 100,OOONo. l, and 3 24-inch
White-pine Shingles. Call and see
them before buying elsewhere.
f. III. Maurer, New Berlin, Pa
Strawberries in goodly quantity
and OF fine quality are still being
gathered on plantation in Curry
county, Or, which has been yield
ing steadily and heavily ever since
early in June.
On Saturday last when Rev. Rar-
lex, of this place, reached Salona,
whittier he had gone to install Rev.
Spangler, he was met as the station,
taken into buggy by one of the
brethern, and his baggage placed in
the back of the rig. When reaching
his destination, the Reverend's S
baggage was non est-it was stolen
and has not yet been recovered.
This is rough on Salona, and would
indicate that preachers are needed
over that way to correct the ways of
some. Possibly the minister's
Satchel had among its effects a pow
erful sermon, upon one of the ten
commandments, '"Thou shalt not
steal" and lead to this thief's Sal
yation.- Centre Reporter.
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Trains Leave Sel.GggTOye Junction
. 81 m. week days arriving at Philadelphia 5
0J l.. m. New York o 53 p IN, Baltimore 10 p
IN. Washington 20 pm,
b.s1 l., W. week days arriy ing at Phlladelph!a
lll5 Pm. New York 90 a N, Baltimore 1910
L. NJ,
s.a m, daily arriving philadelphia I 30 a
IN, New York 33am,
Trains also Leayc SunbuTy:
| 90 a N, daily arriving at Philadelphia 2.
90 m Baltimore goa. IN. New York 8 80 am.
Wcekdhys,lO 30 q m sundays. 1 80 m. daily
arriving at philadelphia 10 30 m., New York
! IL pmr Baltimore 90 m Washington 10
ID am.
] % p m. week days arriving ut Philadelphia
80 y N, New York . IS y m, Baltimore o 10
p, m, Washington 7 90 y m.
Trains also leave Sunbury at0iS a. m. and
and Baltimore.
For rates maps Sc, call on Ticket Agent or
address Thos. Watt, i. u. w. ID. 10 Fifth Ave
Pittsburg, Pa.
J. X. WOOD. Gen1 Pass Agent
s. NJ. PROVOST, Genl Manager.
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November 18th, 1894,


Rhodes. IN the Borough Of Selins grove snyder
County, Pa, on Thursday,
November 18th, 1894,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ, the following described Real
Estate TO wit:
TRACT NO. IA lot of land situate In the
Borough OF Sclin's Grove. snyder CO.. and state
OF Pa, bounded on the North by lot OF Charles
Hover, on the East by Market street; on the
| south 10y another lot or said decd and ON the
West by Union Alley; being 90 feet front on
Market 81. and 1919 feet on said Alley whereOn
Is erected a TWO story. partly log frame, dwell
ing house, plg-pen, smoke-hOuse and other out
buildings. There Is also a well OF good water
on the premises
TRACT No. 2.-Also q lot Of land situate In
the town, county and state Aforesaid. bound
ed on the North by the above described lot, on
the East by Market street, on the South by lot
OF Mrs. NJ T. Keller and on the West by Union
Alley being ~ feet In lrOnt ON Market street
and 33i9 feet ON Union Alley
TRACT No. 3-Also lot OF land situate In town.
county and state aforesaid. bounded on the
North by lot OF VIM. NOetling, ON the East by
Union Alley. on the South by lot OF VI. L. Miller
and on the West by High street, containing
Three-fourth 90 Of an ACRE more or less
whereon Is erected good ana large BARN or
STABLE.
TRACT No Also n tract OF land situate In
the town, county and state aforesaid bounded
on the North by land Of William Noetllng Geo
Fby, Norton Glover ana Daniel stonfIer, ON the
East by the sCnbury and Lewlstown Railroad
on the South by Public Alley ana on the West
OA ldlluOl Btnltlnln lillch, containing fOlR lR-
TEEN ACRES ana one hundred and twelve
perches.
TRACT No. 5.-AlsO a lot OF land situate In
the town, county ana state aforeoaid, bounded
on the North by land OF the Sunbury and Lewis.
town Railroad, on the East by High Street, ON
the West by the Sunbury and LewistOwn RAN.
road, and ON the South by lot OF Levi Fisher,
heng two ana fourteenth perches In front on
High Street and three and tVO-tenth peTches
along said Railroad, whereOn Is erected "A car
penterS Shop,
on the day OF sale.
II. f. PINE,
LUCY J..OLEWINE,
CANDACE GLOVER.
surviving trustees appointed IN the last will
and testament OF Charles Rhoads, decd, TO sell
his Real Estate.
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Philadelphia & Erie r r Division.

NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Trains Leave Sunbury daily except Sunday:
l.36 a. IN. for Willlamspurt ana Cauandaigua.
bl3 a m, For Belleionte, Erie, and Canandaigun
800 m, For Lock Haven.
80 p m, For Bollelonte, kdno and Cauandai-
qua.
iip m, For Remove and Eluira.
25p m for Willamsport.
SUNDAY l3am, Tor Erie and Canandaigua,
55am, for Lock Haven, and 25pm Tor Wnl-
Transport.
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Piles! piles! Itching Piles.

SYMrToMs--Molsturc; intense Itching and sting
ing; most at night; worse by scratching. II al
lowed 10 continue tumors form, which often bleed
ana ulcerate, becoming very sore. SwAYSEs
OISTNEST stops the itching and bleeding, heals
liberation, and In most cases removes the tumOrs.
Swayne son, Philadelphia.
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q m, For Catawissa and Ha2oltOn.
, - a M, 1000 m, and 5i7 . IN, For Wllkesharro
! 10 m, 1920 m, IS m, 60p m, For Sha
mokin ana Mount Carmel
sunday l0uO a N. for WIlkesbarre.
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MARRIED

On the Goth Oct, in Centerville, by
D. /, Sheary, j. p, Isaac Yerger
ana Miss Annie Deobler, both of
Alifllin Co.
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selinsgrove Accommodation.

tponnecting with tralnson n, &. RyJ
ave Sellnsgrove. Jc. Arrive at Selinsgroye
5.ib Il. NJ. 562PM
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Trains Leave Lewistown Junction:

II. m, 10 20 a m, II 2 N, 8 - p n, Tsp m
for Altoona,Pittsburg ana the West.
727am, ,936lm,l +6p m,2iO I 3s p m, S 20 p m Il 10
p N, For Philadelphia New YORK, Baltimore
and Washington.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-08-30
The Grape Root Worm,

Yhe entomologist of the Ohio Expert.
nent Station has been investigating
the ravages Of the new grape plague in
the vineyards of Cleveland, and finds
that the bark has been eaten from the
grape roots, sometimes partially, but
in many cases almost wholly, by num-
bers Of small white grubs, as many as
sixty-five having been found in the
ground about single vine. These
grubs have been reared in the Station
insectary and found to produce Il small
brown beetle not rose bug),a little over
|, quarter of an inch in length and COW
cred with very short whitish hairs.
The beetle feeds upon the foliage Of
the grape, emerging from the ground in
June, and probably feeding until Au-
gust or September. This beetle has
long been known to eat the leaves of
the grape in Kentucky, Southern Illin-
OILS and Missouri, but up to the present
time nothing has been known of the
habits of the grLbs. A number of these
beetles were reared in The insectary
and placed on vine that was kept for
that purpose. A small portion of the
vine was sprayed with Paris green, one
ounce to twelve gallons of water, and
this application was found to kill them.
In the vineyards bisulphide of carbon
was placed in the ground about the
roots of the vines, about three ounces
to each vine, and after three weeks all
of the worms about the vines where
the application was made were found
to have died.
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THE FISHERMAN LIKES 1T.
The Hook Hurts the Fish Despite
Cant to the Contrary.

rhe Hook Hurts the Fish Despite
Cant to the Contrary.
There is little doubt that The talk
the conclusion that it must be eX-
o. s1uIod GSoIBup NV 4ueo fUeTVo 81 'lsoI
pug pe4ooQ 10 psIT!4 pup peHoou eIe
Gsp u9uM u!Bd eplH Su!IeeJ usU 4noqo
tremely unpleasant for a fish, however
cold blooded a creature he be, to be
caught on a hook and dragged out Of
his element At the same time it seems
to be an established fact that fish In
many cases soon forget the wounds in
flicted by hook A pike struck hard
be a many-hooked minnow has been
known to come again at the bait in
few minutes; and Mr.. Halford, in one
of his books, tells us that he once left
wickham in grayling Of about three
mounds, which about a quarter OF an
hour later he hooked and killed with
another fly. An autopsy having been
performed the wickham was discovered
i'm the stomach of the grayling, to-
gether with great mass of partially
digested natural flies. A treacherous
hook broke in the mouth of a Wye
trout the other day. Yet the fish rose
again in about an hours time, and was
duly brought into the creel-a beautiful
healthy FOUNDER, with a wound in the
mouth caused by the broken hook,
which it had managed to dislodge.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
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Bran VS.. wheat.

In view of the very low price OF
wheat and the probable doubt in which
many farmers find themselves as to
whether to sell or feed their wheat, the
results of a test ] made last winter
in which bran and wheat were com.
pared, may be of interest.
On Feb. 10 two lots Of ewes with
lambs averaging five weeks old were
selected, making the lots as similar as
possible. Each lot contained nine lambs
and their mothers. They were confined
in stalls, given what mixed hay they
would eat, and were watered from
pals. For their grain ration one lot
was given half corn and half bran by
weight. the other half wheat and half
corn. The. lambs were fed by them
selves twice day what they would
eat up clean, of the same ration. The
bran-fed lot weighed at this date 173
IL pounds and on March Ii 22O
pounds, gain of 46 IL. Those fed on
wheat weighed at the beginning of the
experiment 16S IL and at the close
229. a gain of 81 IL pounds.
Dropping out of account one from
each lot that made very little gain, ow-
ing to the fact that their mothers were
very poor suckers, those fed on bran
made an average gain of lbs. and 10
o.; those fed OH wheat an average
gain of z lbs. and 8 or. So far as this
experiment goes it shows wheat to be
the cheaper feed at the present relative
prices, AZ cents per bushel and 70 cents
per hundred. No trouble arose from
constipation among the wheat-fed
lambs, as was feared.
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"Ialks to Him All the way"
rs can be when he is doing anything
to help the old woman, and going to
market with the eggs IS his special de-
light. Nancy talks to him all the way
to town as they trudge along together.
OF course he can't talk back, but he
shakes his tail and blinks his little
black eyes to let her know that he un-
derstandS.
when they get to the store where
the woman sells her eggs she puts
down the empty basket and Bill crawls
up and puts his head N it. Then the
old woman catches him by the tail,
stands him on his head, he gives a
wiggle of his body and out roll the two
dozen eggs just as fresh as when the
hens laid them.
II call that the most wonderful trick
ever done by a trained snake There
is no dish these reptiles like better than
fresh eggs. Just think of the self-con-
troll of Bill. He carries two dozen fresh
eggs down in his stomach for an hour.
He must be able to taste them every
time he wiggles his tail, yet when he
gets to market he gives them all up
without so much as asking for O bit
you can train Jersey snake to do
a lot of useful things, and they can be
trained to work together with just as
much sense as horses. Some ten years
ago old 81 Abercombie had a ferry on
the Shrewsbury river, five miles above
Red Bark. He poled fiat boat until
he got too old and then he trained a
lot of snakes to take the boat over for
him
1.-The river at that point was full OF
big black and yellow water snakes, and
for long time Abercombie had been
tanning and petting a lot of them.
HE took some forty of them, and
tying short pieces of Irvine around
their necks, he taught them to swim
across the river and draw the boat af.
| ter them. They could take it across in
| half the time it took the old man to
pole it over, and they soon got so they
seemed to enjoy their work. The thing
| got talked about and folks would &C
miles out of their way to cross the
river at Abercombie's ferry, just to see
| the snakes pull the boat over. The ole
man was making money right along
FINALLY his boat sprung a leak, and
| it kept filling with water until one day
when he was going across with an ex
ira heavy load it began to settle down
fast, and the old man knew it was go
| ing to the bottom.
"The old man cut the strings thai
held the snakes to the boat, for he had
no idea of letting them drown When
| the reptiles saw that the boat was go
ing down what do you suppose they
| did? Why, they got as close together
as possible, and ais they were all big
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1t is not only the Spectator, investor
and merchant who are interested in the
condition and prospects of corn, but
also the railroad interest, for as the
financial article of the New York
'Times" states it, if the corn crop west
Of the Mississippi is failure this year
it will be necessary to bid goodbye to
the present dividends on the roads
which draw their traffic from that sec
ton. It will be a sheer impossibility
for these roads to earn dividends. Con-
sequently the corn crop, says the
'pTimes," is vastly more important at
this time than the senate bill or the
sugar schedule of it, which is not likely
to affect the dividends of these roads
any way it is fixed.-Omaha Bee.
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the Day"
brown mouse snake in the house out
at my farm that had a great soul for
music and learned to play the piano.
Fact! 1t was the greatest reptile in Its
way that I ever heard of.
Zone night we were sitting in the par
lor, when the piano began to play soft
and slow, apparently of its own accord.
My daughter had locked down the
cover of the instrument only little
while before, and the playing or the
closed instrument frightened her al,
most to death. None of us thought OF
the snake at the time. The little rep
tile was a great pet about the house
but he usually went into his box and
went to sleep early in the evening.
1.-The mysterious playing went on Tor
some time-soft, low music that reach
ed the soul. All of us felt bit shaky
and dreamed of ghosts that night, for
we were afraid to open the piano.
Next day / had man come to tune
the piano, but did not tell him anything
about the mysterious playing. When
he opened the instrument we found
the little snake coiled up among the
uoACOP' AhSAA w
he had been playing the music we
heard the night before.
MY daughter took him in charge
then and taught him to play all the
popular airs of the day. He could play
the instrument by crawling swiftly
back and forth and striking the keys
with his head and tail. He grew SO
fond Of music he seemed to live on it,
and wanted to play all the time when
he was awake.
Zone night we took him up to the
village to concert, where Blind Tom
was to play the piano. Well, you may
not believe it, but when that snake
heard the wonderful music by Blind
Tom he went into a trance, from
which he never recovered. We did
everything we could for him, but he
died next day-just fioated away on the
music.
Eyes, New Jersey is great country
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"Liyed ON Spring Chicken for
Thirty Days"
fellows, eight or ten feet long, their
bodies made a good raft. The passen-
gers on the boat all stepped out on this
live raft and the snakes swan ashore
with them, landing every man safe and
dry on the bank.
after that old ST could have sold
those snakes for small fortune, but
he refused to part with single one of
them.
1--WE have a lot Of snakes out our
way" said the man from Railway,
land some of them are just as smart
as any of those trained reptiles in the
side shows. Down on my farm last
spring / had an experience with a
chicken snake that had great head.
One Of my hens was carried off by a
hawk early i'll the spring, on the very
day she began to set on a nest of fif-
teen eggs. The next morning big
black chicken snake crawled out of, a
hole in the ground near by and coiled
up en- that nest full of eggs.
'.He looked SO sick and hungry that
I did not have the heart to kill him, al
though expected he would swallow
every one of the eggs. But he did moth
Ing of the sort; had too good a head
for that. Hungry as he was, the eggs
would have made him only one square
meal.
",rhat snake lay curled up on those
eggs for three weeks without leaving
them for a moment. Then fifteen as
fine and healthy young chicks as you
ever saw were Matched out. I.expected
the snake to swallow them all the first
day, but he only broke his fast with
the egg shells that were left in the
nest. Then he watched those chicks
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The following Is taken from n paper
read by DR.. g. l.. Shepard before the
Sedalia Poultry club, Sedalia, Mo-:
Poultry raising for profit may be di-
vided into three distinct branches, each
with special object in view, viz:
Raising for the general market; for egg
production (eggs to be used as food,
and the raising of pure bred poultry to
srpply the demands Of market breed
ers or other fanciers. Doubtless the
most pressing demand for the use Of
the incubator is from those engaged
in raising broilers for market, to whom
1t is almost necessity. TO other poul-
try raisers it may prove convenience
or hindrance, with the chances large
ly in favor of the latter result. The
conditions absolutely necessary for sue
cess are such that few will be likely to
attain them, without large experience
In the way of labor cost, patience tried
and a general condition of affairs cal
culated to dishearten any but the most
persistent character.
About the most sensible and practical
advice have yet read in poultry pa
pers on this subject is to the effect
that If person does not wish to raise
more than three hundred chickens he
would better trust the old hen than an
incubator. We read in the circulars,
catalogues and recommendations re-
garding incubators the most fiattering
reports of success, almost outdoing ION
paper the hens best efforts, but these
reports should generally be taken with
an allowance of very wide margin.
Reliable and practical men of large ex-
periencc state that a hatch-of so per
cent of eggs used is satisfactory and as
good as can be depended upon. Again,
some writer's claim to have but little
difficulty in Matching chickens, but find
it exceedingly difficult to raise them.
Doubtless this department Of the work
would be greatly modified by circum-
stances and surroundings. If the
chicks-always tender during the first
week or two of life, should be especial
ly feeble, and the season of the year
be cold and changeable, much greater
difficulty would be experienced. Great
er care and more frequent attention
would be required than in mild wealth
er with plenty of genial sunshine. With
fairly vigorous chicks when Matched,
suitable warmth and ventilation and
proper food at right intervals, this in
Guiding, of course pure water and n
good supply Of grit to aid digestion, /
believe larger per cent of chickens
can be raised without than with hens,
and, too. with less trouble. Your fowls
will grow up also much tanner and
more gentle, which is a most desirable
feature. My own plan would be (and
it is followed by some very successful
breeders) to set as large a number of
hens at one time as may be practicable,
and take them from the hens to q
brooder as soon as Matched.
One especially valuable feature of in
cl bate r-hatched chicks is, that they
commence life absolutely free from
vermin, and they can certainly be kept
free from this great pest much easier
in brooder than when running with
hens.