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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-03-11

Boston Crackers, twenty-five bar
rels, just arrived at Robinson & Bon
ner's. 4S If
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-03-11

-Rafman's Stoves, including full
outfits at Robinson & Bonner's. 4Stf
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-03-11

January 20, 1874.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
The Agriculture of the Future.

There is a curious and very radical
article in the December number of
Frdsier'S Magazine upon farming. The
writers belief is that in the time to
come farm will be an immense food
factory, carried on by a company. The
companies will be joint-stock concerns,
issuing shares of from $50 to $3.50 each,
and working from 5000 to 10000 acres.
The buildings of the farm (such is the
scheme) must be placed upon the high
est point of land, so that water and ma
nure may be conveyed over the surface
by gravitation. Machinery is, among
other services, to shear the sheep. A
whole staff of butchers will be employed
to kill and cut up bullocks, and transmit
the meat in pieces suitable for the Lon
don market straight to the salesman,
without the intervention of dealer.
The salesman will be in the company's
employ, and will only sell their meat.
The company will make an effort to get
more than one crop in year. But the
most surprising of the results which
await the future of farming will be the
ripening of crops by means of an
electric current passed through the
plants, or by some other kind of artifi-
cial heat
One point, of which the writer makes
much, is the impossibility of profit in
England from the cultivation of wheat
Wheat is almost the only agricultural
product which has not risen since ITO.
The only sort of corn which is much
dearer now than then is barley-the
reason being that barley is used in dis
tillation and brewing. In the last fifty
years, meat and dairy produce have
greatly risen in price. Yet wheat re-
mains the same, Notwithstanding the
rise in the price of labor and the in
crease in rents. No increase of de-
mand has any important effect upon
the price of corn. A rise in wheat will
at once bring any amount of it to
England
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
The Borrowed Umbrella.

If we study closely into the matter
we will cease to wonder why more bor-
rowed umbrellas are not returned. Did
you ever undertake to return a bor-
rowed umbrella ? You got this umbrella
the night before. 1t was raining in
torrents at the time, and you could not
very well do without the shelter. 1t was
to be returned the next morning. So
you promised, and SO you honestly in
tended. The next morning breaks with
clear sky, the sun comes forth and
floods the earth with its radiance.
There is not feck of cloud visible
anywhere there is not the faintest in
dication in the atmosphere of an APP
preaching disturbance. But the change
in nature great as it is, is no greater
than the transformation in that UNI
brella. The night before in the dash
ing rain it was most appropriate COM
panion. At every step through the dis
NAL wet you thought of it with keen
pleasure. But now it is q strikingly
awkward misunderstanding with
animosity toward all out doors, and you
eye it with undisguised disfavor. The
more you think of escorting this object
down street through the bright sunshine,
of obtruding it like noisome shadow
among grateful and delighted people
the more repulsive it appears to you.
In desperation you look about for a
cloud-something that will in the eyes
of impartial men at least, save you from
contempt-but you do not find it. Then
you look about for a boy anxious to lis
tinguish himself as a scapegoat, but
don't find him. With heavy sigh you
turn your back on the obnoxious UNI
brella, and go to business. 1t needs rare
courage, indeed, to return an umbrella
in the glare of bright sun. A man
may manipulate Congresses, capture
countries, conquer disease, control the
elements, and yet lack the nerve to pro-
pei borrowed umbrella through the
ripping and dancing sunshine.-Dan-
bury NeWs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30

bee, that has wings. Sometimes il is
called the busy bee, because it buzzes
The bee does not make the doll, but the
wax. 1t goes in straight line to a
flower, and pokes the honey out with
its sting. Then you feel glad you are
not the flower, because the sting hurts
it does-that is the way it makes the
wax. But it is not good to put these
dolls III the sun or over furnace.
Some dolls are made all over of India
rubber, and you can fling them about
anyhow. They grow on a tree, the
India rubber does, in India, where they
make India rubber boots. 1t is good
kind to have because you can throw it
around like ball. But then the face
is painted, and may rub off-some
noses do.
Then there's China dolls, made of
what tea sets are but they don't come
from the China where they make fire.
works, though they do make the tea.
These might smash. if pounded with q
hammer. There's another L don't know
about, that Elsie's made of. 1t don't
matter, any way. My amt helped me
about the spelling, except murhoggany
that L knew. / shall write another
volume, telling more about trees and
bees, and why dolls should take care OF
themselves.
This is enough for once.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
Burning Well i'm Iowa.

OF n burning well in Boone county,
Iowa, the Boonsboro Republican says !:
About three weeks ago well was
bored on the farm of Mr.. John Long, n
farmer, living 6 or miles south of
Boone. The anger went down 50 feet
without finding water but it was no.
ticed that the well, 10 inches in dame
ter, emitted some sort of light fluid,
having peculiar gaseous smell. Last
Friday, at 10 o'clock a. M, lighted
match was applied to the orifce and the
escaping gas Immediately ignited, MAX
ing a brilliant, BLUSH flame, varying in
height from to ID feet. It has now
been burning for several days without
losing anything in the size or brilliancy
of the flame, and our informant believes
it supplies gas enough, if the same could
be utilized, to light quite a city. He
also gives it as his opinion that the re-
sources of these subterranean gas works
are equal to almost any emergency, and
that the supply will not run out. Be
this as it may, the burning well is quite
a curiosity, and many people are visit
ing it daily. The flame was extinguished
once, last Sunday, but shortly afterward
relighted It burns entirely above
ground, and not in the well. "
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30

chase. But it proved a wild-goose
chase ;" for after watching and poking
around the hole in the stone fence
where he had seen it go in, and "knew
it couldn't get out, he was obliged to
go back without it. Then he thought
of his fathers promise of the big bon
fire at night, and went mt his work with
n will. He had not worked long when
his father came driving up TO the door.
Johnny ran to meet him.
"Well, my son, if you have finished
the work / gave you, you may get your
coat and come with me. Your mother
and are going over to the new mills to
see the trial of the new hour-mill.
How Johnny's heart sank, and how
his face burned, as he said, tearfully,
:" But my work is not done, father. "
"Then we must go without you,
said his father. Mrs. Gray was soon
ready, and Johnny, with sad eyes,
watched them drive away. But he did
not rave and stamp his feet and cry
over this new disappointment, as he
had over the first. He was not angry
now, and could reason with himself, and
he soon saw thathe was all to blame. He
picked up the AK and went to work, re-
solving in his mind never to put off his
work for anything again.
L hope he kept his resolution but
remember, it is much easier to form q
habit than to break ones self of it, and
easier to make good resolves than to
keep them. Tile Children's Hour.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
Railway Bridges as Public Highways

Hon. w. b. Allison, of Iowa, has re-
Gently introduced into the United States
Senate bill which is of great impor-
lance to the railway interests. 1t pro-
vides "that all railway bridges now
constructed, or which may be hereafter
constructed, across navigable rivers
forming part of the boundary line of
two or more States, which have been or
may be constructed with the consent OF
said States, are hereby declared public
highways for Interstate commerce, and
shall be, with the immediate approaches
thereto, equally and ratably open to the
use of every railway having a terminus
at or near the place or point at which
either abutting pier of any such bridge
is now or may be hereafter placed, upon
the payment to the owner of any such
bridge and approaches of reasonable
compensation therefor, under the limita-
tions and conditions hereinafter pro-
vided."
The remainder of the bill provides the
mode in which it's requirements shall be
carried out.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
Moses as a Strategist-Another War
Story.


Joining an Illinois regiment 1 was de-
tached therefrom, and ordered to re-
port to Col. p. Morrison, the commander
of Camp Butler, Illinois. Who, ever
connected with the camp, can forget
him-his hatred, or rather contempt,
for volunteer officers, whom he always
designated as mushrooms" saying 1T
took him twenty-five years to get his
straps, but these fellows get theirs in a
day" Che was West Pointer his
pompous, ceremonial manner, his ter
rible voice, and awful clearing of throat?
While the Colonel was in command of
the camp he was chosen to act as chief
member of an examining board, selected
to test the qualifications of younger
officers seeking preferment. At one
session of the court, the candidate was
young Lieutenant, as full of waggery
as military ability. The old Colonel
had asked him many questions, and at
length propounded Lieutenant, you
are well posted in history, and a gentle
man of general culture please give the
court your opinion as to who was the
greatest general, and the reason for that
opinion" Wilson hesitated moment,
and then replied Moses. Moses?
Moses? HI and the ID, young man,
you are trifing with this court, i'll an
instant said Morrison, in most vehe-
ment, angry tones, at the same time
threatening to order the offender from
the room. The other members of the
court, however, interposed, and sug-
gested it would be at least respectful to
the Lieutenant to allow him to give the
reason for his opinion. The old Colonel,
becoming somewhat soothed, then said
"Well, sir, what in the ID makes you
think Moses the greatest general who
ever lived? ?" "Why, sir" replied the
lieutenant, "because Moses took five
hundred thousand Israelites over the
Red sea dry-shod, without losing
man, and without using a pontoon
bridge" Hoop Hurrah 70 shouted
Morrison. Let him pass, d-n him,
let him pass Young man, you are a
Captain. You'd make a good Major
General. You ought to be Commander
Chief "
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
fort and freedom from this by no means
insignificant annoyance.
THE KITCHEN.

EXCELLENT JOHNNY CAKES. -One cup
meal, one of flour, one of sugar, one of
milk, one egg, butter the size of an egg,
soda and cream tartar.
CRAcKERs.-Take nine cups flour, one
cup lard, two cups water, two teaspoons
cream tartar and one teaspoon saleratus.
First rub the lard into the flour and add
two teaspoons salt.
FRIED CAKES. cup sugar, two
cups sour cream, one cup sweet milk,
one teaspoon saleratus, one of salt one
egg. Season with any spice you like
Flour to roll. Cut out and fry.
MoLAssEs CANDY.-Two cups mo-
lasses, one cup sugar, one tablespoonful
vinegar, butter size of hickory nut.
Boil briskly twenty minutes, stirring all
the time. When cool, pull until white.
ANOTHER. tablespoons of corn
meal, three tablespoons of -four, one
teaspoon of soda, one and n half of
cream tartar, one cup of milk, small
lump butter, two tablespoons sugar, a
little salt.
KEEPING CIDER SwEET.-Heat the
cider until it boils, pour into the bot
ties, which have been previously heated
to prevent cracking. Cork tight, and
seal immediately, as in canning fruit.
The cider will keep unchanged for
years.
To PRESERVE GRAPES. Procure some
tin cases of any convenient size, and put
in layer of dry sand or charcoal, and
then bunch of grapes, until the case is
full seal down the lid and make all air
tight, and bury them to any convenient
depth in the ground.
To MAKE COOP BREAD.-The evening
before you wish to bake, take pan OF
sour milk, set it on the stove over a
gentle fire till the whey separates from
the milk. Drain the whey from the
milk, or strain through a cloth if you
prefer. Sift flour into whatever you
mix your bread in. Make hole in the
center of the flour, put in it one pint of
yeast to three pints of whey, milk-warm.
Stir in -four till you have thick batter.
Keep warm, in cool weather, by cover
ing closely. Extreme heat or cold will
result in poor bread. In the morning,
knead very stiff; put in warm jar to
rise. A little butter or meat drippings,
rubbed over the bread, will keep it from
getting dry, and keep away the flies in
summer. Do not let it stand too long
before kneading, and the third time you
knead make into lOaves.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30

POWDER PLE-DRIvER.-Mr. Henry
Vogler, wharf builder and contractor of
Baltimore, has invented new pile
driver which was recently tested in that
city. The advantages of the driver are
said to be that it is so arranged that by
means OF an explosive cartridge placed
within barrel rising from the center
of a cast-iron cap which fits over the
head of the pile, the force of the powder
is exerted SO directly as to give great
forcing power. The cap serves to pro-
tect the head of the pile from splitting.
The derrick rises 80 feet, and pile 80
feet in length can be easily and quickly
driven by successive explosions. The
machine is also constructed as to be
able to draw up the oldest and heaviest
piles without difficulty. 1t has been
Examined by number of engineers and
practical wharf builders, and pronounced
decided success.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30

HIPPoPHAGY.-Ane effort is to be made
to introduce hippophagy, or the prac-
tice of eating horse flesh, in Boston.
In Paris last year over LOO horses,
mules, and asses were consumed as
food, furnishing 600, 900 pounds of edi-
BILE meat. There are in Paris forty
slaughter-houses for horses, which are
regularly inspected by Government vet
Urinary surgeons. The price of the
meat is about half that of correspond
ing prices of beef. Horses fit for food,
which we're formerly worth from thirty to
fifty francs. are now sold at from $50 to
1870 francs. The horses formerly bought
by the knockers, who were not inter-
ested in giving them any care, are now
sold to butchers, who find it to their adj
vantage to give them comfortable shell
ter and food in order that they may
have sourishing meat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
THE LITTLE FOLKS.



Young Bobby, an innocent cherub of three,
With head full of wisdom and heart fun OF glee,
Had a startling adventure. and of what him beiel,
In all its grotesqueness, I'll proceed now TO TELL
One day 10 the cellar he wendell his way,
All alone he descended fearless and gay
TO get red apple, his JOY and delight,
He 'er could refuse one by day or by nighi.
oh! what a rare banquet before him was spread!
bin full Of apples, some white and some red
Lay temptingly piled way back to the wall,
And he wished IN his heart that ne hlBht eat theh
all.
He quickly runs forward and seizes his price
OF course taking one of the largest in size,
And munches away with hearty good will,
Till It's plain to be seen he will soon eat his fill.
When his mamma, absorbed in domestic affairs,
Is called 10y scream to the head OF the stars, 49,.
"What ails you, my darling?" the fond mother
said,
"Did he fan down and hurt him, did he bump his
dear head?"
But Bobby with mouth full of apple and cry,
just bellows the louder by way of reply.
So down 10 her treasure she speeds in alarm,
And carries him up then, with head on her arm,
Tries to get him to tell her the of his fright
And with signs and with tears at length the young
sprite
Sobbed out. while his face in her bosom was hid,
" A great nasty bug ma, 1t bit Inc, 1t did !"
ait bit Won? oh Bobby the place qickly tell,
III kiss it, and then it will soon be quite well
He wiggled and twisted and turned like an eel,
And seemed quite determined the bite to conceal.
IAN obstinate boy, am you will say,
To brighten his mamma in such sad Way,
Till vexed az such conduct, with tone of command,
With TOOK in her eye and menacng hand,
- Now ten me" she said "and without more ado =;
Z" 1t bit me, cried Bobby, "ri-rigM on my shoe q"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
THE HOUSEHOLD.


TRIMMING LAMPS. must keep
your lamps trimmed, if you do not wish
them to explode. The wick becoming
charred far down in the tube, the fire
creeps down to the oil below.
To REMOVE BERRY STAINs.-If you
should be so unfortunate as TO crush a
berry on book or engraving, strike a
birthstone match and let the fume come
in contact with the stain and it will dis
appear as if by magic.
RECIPE FOR BLEACHING MUsLN.-One
pound chloride of lime to forty yards
of muslin soak the muslin i'll soft wa
ter over night ; melt the lime in pot
of water then strain it in tub of soft
water; then put the muslin in for half an
hour /; then rinse three times soak in
soft water over night then hang out to
dry.
To BLEACH FADED DRESS. -Wash it
well iii hot suds and boil until the color
seems gone. If not sufficiently white
repeat the boiling, adding handful of
chloride of lime and a gill of vinegar to
the water instead of soap. Good prints
and other articles of dress are frequent
ly cast aside because they are faded !;
but they may again render good service
by this mode of bleaching.
CLEANING LACE.-Point, or any kind
of fine lace, may be cleaned easily by
soaking it i'll preparation of sapoline
and warm water. If this is not procur-
able, ammonia may be used with almost
equal effect. Let it soak till fit to rinse
in pure warm water then lay it on the
ironing board, over clean linen, and iron
lightly on the wrong side with cool
iron. Afterward pin the lace on the
linen-covered board, inserting a pin in
every open loop to keep the pattern
clear.
CHAPPED HANDS. - Take common
starch, and grind it with knife until it
is reduced to the smoothest powder !;
put it in a clean tin box, so as to have it
continually at hand for use. Then,
every time that the hands are taken from
the suds or dish-water, rinse them thor
oughly in clear water, wipe them, and,
while they are yet damp, rub pinch of
the starch thoroughly over them, cover
ing the whole surface The effect is
magical. The rough, smarting skin is
cooled, soothed and healed, bringing
and insuring the greatest degree of COM
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30

INGENIOUS. the office of the st.
Johnsbury (Vt.) Cdledonian is most
ingenious specimen of mechanism.
The article referred to is a glass bottle,
inside of which is round table very
nearly filling the diameter of the bottle.
On the table is cask made of slaves,
with brass hoops and head in each
end. In the nose of the bottle is a
wooden stopple, nearly filling the space,
and this is keyed in on the inside and
pinned. The table and miniature bar
rel had to be set up inside the bottle
and glued together. This piece of pa.
tent work was done by Nat Annis, of
Passumpsic, an employee at the scale
works.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
A Game for winters Evening.

Perhaps it is not exactly game. but
it might be easily made into one. L
don't know what to call it, unless it be
Journey by the Fireside, or it may
be the &c Home Encyclopedia" The
idea is this
Some one selects an object, any COM
mon one whatever, and questions the
others. Take, for illustration, the first
thing before me-my lamp. See what
a lot of questions may come out of this
What is the lamp made out of? What
is brass What is zinc? Where does
it come from? In what shape is it
found? What color? Does it melt
easily or not? What is it used for
besides TO make brass ? So the same
series or longer of questions about the
copper. The base of the lamp has lead
run into it to make it heavy, and whole
lot more can be learned about that.
Then the chimney and shade are glass,
and probably but very few can tell much
about so common a thing as that. The
wick-that is, of course, cotton. What
is cotton What part of the plant
Where is it grown, and all about it t?
Why is the wick made hollow, in the
form of cylinder? Then the oil
there is quite a story about that.
Here is a single article in the room
that would keep lot of bright boys and
girls proftably at work whole even
ing. Such looking-up of dictionaries
and other books before some of the
questions could be properly answered
and no doubt some of the older people
would find themselves at their wit s
ends" to answer ali the questions that
could be put.
hope some of the boys and girls will
try this, for they will find out in the
first place how little they really know
about the articles they handle and use
every day, and in the second place they
will find that these silent common
people, have history if they can be
only made to tell it, At least thinks
your-Otd Uncle, american Agricul-
turist.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30
TN CoRREsPnNpENTs.

All communications for this paper should be accom-.
oanied by nc name OF the author not necessarily LOT
publicaton but as evidence OF good iaith on the
part of the writ er Write only one side OF the paper
he parcu ary careful in giving names and yates To
have the letters and figures plain aud distinct.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30

AT recent exhibition in GAINESVILLE,
o., wedding dress worn in 1888 was
exhibited. The waist was about two
inches long but what astonished the
ladies most was that the dress con-
iained only two and half yards of
silk.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30

A poRTLY gentleman crowded himself
into a horse-car next to young man,
who said Perhaps you would not
crowd in here if you knew had just
had the smallpox "Oh, that's moth
ing," was the reply, for this is the
first time have been out since / had it
mvself"