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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09
Potato Culture.

saw an article in your paper recon-
mencing level culture for the potato.
make the cultivation of the potato
specially, and certainly shall have to
dissent from that mode OF culture, 1t
may be best on some soils, but not on
mine. The objection to the hilling pro-
cess was that it left the fine roots ex.
posed to the beat ofthe sun and drought.
/ will admit such 10 be the case if the
hilling is Gone foo late, say after the
roofs have made large growth and be-
come established; but | find The roots
will adapt themselves to the condition
they find the ground placed in; they
will keep Ht the proper distance below
the surface 10 obtain the proper degree
OF heat and moisture. If the hilling is
done too late, after the roots become
established, there undoubtedly will be
great damage done TO the crop. But !
find If properly hilled before there is
any appearance OF the blossoms, that
the yield will be fully double that OF
level culture.
The potato wants loose soil and cool
>sition TO expand and develop in, and
sh mode OF culture can ii best obtain
conditionsP l think we mus st al
hedge that properly constructed
loOser and the tubers are kept
han in fiat culture. If the best
ire obtainabie from fiat culture
t that all the Bliss premiums
- aimed by Hill culturep In al
es of experiments, there wa.
.erpium taken with fiat culture
" the largest of hilling, using il
1t cases all the earth between thu
VS..
As TO nly mode of planting, plant OF
summer tallow or fall blowing; mari
my ground one way; get my seed ready
have a boy to drop; take my stirring
plow; lay off the land opposite way tt
which it Is marked; plow on each LAND
alternately, while tue boy drops the on'
just plowed; drop in each third furrow
Thus l ploWr NV ground and plan
NV potatoes without any eXtri
ct beyond plowing by the service
OF the boy. / then have the SCI
in a good seed-b bed--no dryingout
When they begin 10 break RrounI
] PIT the harrow on. and thorough!
pulverize the soil This destroys al
weeds, and gives the potatoes a g0ot
start before cultivation is needed.
then plow each way with the cultivator
and the last time use a large singl
shovel plow, &C ing once in row eacl
way. then go through with hoe ant
draw in the corners CT those squares
leaviog the bill round.-J. L. Perkins
ts County Gentleman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

In the interior of Africa no native boy
is allowed TO eat chicken. A child that
bad eaten one was himself eaten as a
punishment.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

The little Swiss city Of Zurich. with
a population Of scarcely twenty-five
thousand, publishes sixteen newspapers,
with D circulation of 10000 copies per
issue: Four Of these papers are dailies,
with circulation of 25, 600, which is
more than one copy per day for each
man, woman and child in the city. No
place in the United States or England
can parallel this.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

The most wonderful ahd marvellous success,
in cases where persois are sick OF piningawav
from x condition Of meerableness, that no one
lnowsshat ais them fprohlab'e patients i0r
doctori) CD aimed by ne u-e o. Hop sitters
Taev 6cgn to core rom tho flrst desc and
keen II up un i perfect health and strength is
restored. Whoever ie nfflicted IA this way
need not suller. when they t0n Rel Hop Bit
ters See rlathsY and 'pl ovalor 10 an
other column.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

A live lizard was found by we'll
digger in New Market, Va, twenty five
feet below the surface.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

The barana r1pens in Florida du ring
every month of the year.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

Few people know how easily white
wash is made and how valuable it is
when properly applied. 1t not only pre-
vents the decay Of wood, but is greatly
conducive to the healthtulness Of build
ings, whether wood or stone. Out
buildings and fences, when not painted,
should be supplied once or twice year
with good coat of whitewash, which
should be prepared in the following
way Take clean. water-tight barrel
OF other suitable eask, and put
into it about half a bushel of lin !;
slack it by pouring water over it
boiling hot, and put in a sufficient
quantity of water to cover it five inches
deep, and stir it briskly till thoroughly
slackened; when the Stacking has been
thoroughly effected, dissolve it in water,
and add two pounds OF sulphate of link
and common salt. Those will cause the
wash TO harden, and prevent the crack
ing, which gives an unseemly appear
ance to the work. If desirable. beau
tiful cream color may be given to the
above wash by adding three pounds of
yellow ochre; or good pearl by lead,
lamp, vine or ivy black. For fawn color,
add four pounds of umber, Turkish or
American---the latter is the cheapest
one pound of Indian red, one pound OF
common lampblack.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

Here Is my method Of beheading
fowls: Hold the bird in the right hand,
by the legs and tips Of the wings; grasp
its neck with the left hand, close to the
body, and lay its head un the block; let
an assistant place carving-knife upon
its neck and give it a couple OF blows
with mallet; then slice the left hand
down toward the end of the neck, and
hold it with the left hand until it ceases
to strugele-not too tightly, but so that
It will bleed freely. The advantage oi
this method is that It prevents the fow,
from Topping around and getting th,
feathers sill bloody and soiled, and !,
can throw no blood upon the operator
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

Preparations for the coming census Of
1851 in London are being actively push
ed. It is anticipst that the returns
will reveal a striking increase in the me-
tropois, which cannot now be far short
OF 4,O00.0o0. The census will be taken
in every district of the
United Kingdom on the same day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17
NORMAL SCHOOLS.

The Constitution has fastened
upon the state a system of public
free schools, and no matter how
much some of us may think this a
departure from the purposes for
which government was established,
the schools do. exist, and taxes are
vrung from one to educate the child
of another. These are legal facts,
and therefore it becomes a duty,
probably, to make this system
as serviceable as possible. We
know how many well edu-
Gated people there are Who do not
understand how to teach. Our con-
nection with educational affairs has
shown us, that persons thoroughly
conversant with the principles of
mathematics can often hardly teach
child how to add, ..substract and
multiply. We have seen accomplished
graduates of universities signally
fail as teachers, and this comes of the
fact that they have not been taught
the science of teaching. Normal
schools have been created for the
purpose of producing teachers, and
if at any time these schools have
been used to lead pupils through 6
regular course of education in the
branches their purposes have. beer
nnisapplied. But Texas has its public
free schools, and, while the govern
ment pays out a million of money
to sustain them, it is its duty, Ger
tainly,- to make them as effectiv,
as possible. To do q this i
must supply the schools will
competent instructors, not merel,
| educated men and women, bu
| teachers, trained in the methods o
instruction approved, by the mos
perfect educators of the age. Sucl
4 teachers are the product of the nor
NAL shoots, and wherever the pubi
free school system has been es
tabIished the normal schoo
has followed as necessarily a
B light comes with the rising SUI
The United States Commissioner q
Education, in his report for the yea
1873, touching this subject, produce
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

statistics showing that the 156 nor
NAL schools reporting to the Com
missioner had 1927 instructors and
1860 students. OF these schools,
~ were supported by the various
states, 5 by counties, IA by cities,
and 65 by other agencies. .,
The number of graduates was
2671, of whom 1868 have engaged
in teaching. In the normal school
libraries were 129,SS3 volumes.
Among the largest appropriations
were $4,000 to Normal College,
New York city; $4,000 to State
Normal and Training School, Os-
wego, N. Y; $50, ,4S4 to the Philadel-
phia Normal School for Girls; $24,-
700 to Illinois State Normal Univer-
sity; $24,5OO to California State Nor
NAL School. Other appropriations
varied fro m this SUN downwards.
New York state appropriated to
normal sch ,ols. $4,000; Massachu-
sets, $75,325; Wisconsin, $5S,256;
Illinois, $47.4O0. There are Is nor
NAL schools in Ohio, IS in Pennsyl-
vania, 9 each in New York and L.
linois, each in Missouri and Ten
nessee, each in Massachusetts and
West Virginia.
With reference to the prevalent
discussion of the value of Normal
schools, the Commissioner observes
that thus far the facts indicate, that
the more thoroughly these schools
are studied and understood, the
deeper becomes the conviction of
their necessity, statement fully
supported by the facts presented in
the speech of Hon. John l. Gilbert,
in the assembly of the State of New
York, upon the resolution with re-
ference to normal schools. In con-
Guiding the subject. the Commits
sioner says: .,-s. ..
'FWe are virtually repeating the
discussion long since closed IN
Prussia, Austria. and some other
European countries. In them the
existence of :, normal schools Is
assured, and public action is directed
to perfecting them. In the normal
schools of Germany the theory Of
pedagogues is. is.expounded.with phil
osopRic breadth and scientific pre-
cision. Here students preparing for
the teachers profession are trained
in methods which become practical
guides to them in their work as
teachers of the young. The effect
of this exact training, having always
clearly defined aims in view, is seen
in all departments of elementary,
secondary and university iustruc-
ton" --r.f .-r- . ,f-. p.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

As a means of regulating the
course of railways towards those
who have to deal with them, the
New York board of trade sets down
four propositions: ''-
First. Establish aboard of railroad
commissioners in every state. to
study the workings of these modern
highways and control them Chose
within state limits) in the interests
of the people of said states.
Second. Establish a national board
of railroad commissioners Ito which
the state boards can act as auxilia-
ries) for the regulation of Interstate
commerce, and to enforce laws which
may be enacted, or the common law
rights which already exist.
Third. Enact a law prohibiting
free passes, also stringent election
bribery laws furnishing bribers only,
leaving the person who accepts a
consideration for his vote free to tes-
tify agahist the person offering it;
{experience having shown that pun
ishing both parties prevents the pro-
curing of evidence against the bri-
ber.)TsSN 40 : IS =
Fourth. Let every citizen do his
duty in establishing an intelligent
and vigilant public opinion, which
viii ostracize a man who steals mil
lions from the public under the
guise of stock-watering, and. the
brilliant advocate who becomes a
railroad lobbyist, or who, while q
legislative representative eff thepe
pie. accepts "retainers" from those
who are plotting against the peoples
| interest. e.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

AGAIN that most valued publica-
ton, the Art Amatear,T is upon our
table, and this February numberis
certainly one of the most charming
-of the. whole series. sRhe- contents
of this number are as varied las, one
could desire, covering, a field of art
rarely if ever found in the pages of
aspamphlet folio. A supplemental
sheet oforiginal designs, for outline
embroidery, and for china painting,
with other .excellently expressed
suggestions : for art = workers,
is more than worth the price
of this very elegant periodical.
This sheet contains only thirty-six
designs. The pages of the work are
filled with a multitude of engraY-
ings displaying the very highest or :
der ofartistic taste, representing the
conceptions of all. the celebrated
painters and designers. That part
of the AmateaW devoted to instruc-
ton in the decoration of furniture
is most attractive feature. 1t is
needless, as we have often said be-
fore, to urge the epropriety of fhavin g
such on educator in the family, 1t
is published by Montague Marks,
No. 20 East Fourteenth street, New
York City, at 81 year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

THE report, of the. Senate Conn
mittee on .Asylums5 showsfithat at
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum there
are 80 pupils in attendance, 80 boys
and 80 girls, while the capacity of
the institution IS 100. Itreq9ires an
expense of 1920 per capita to7sup-
port the pupils, but the annual apr
preparation, ending February 28th,
1881, is already exhausted, and
there is deficiency nfi $500. The
committee report all the buildings
out of repair and say that it will
take $4,000 to. put them in order
The COMMITTEES recommends the APP
preparation Of money: to meet the
above demands, and $500 for new
furniture. Besides this S22, 900 is
asked to- sdstaiRoae hundred pupils
for another year, making in al
$S2,500.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

As may be seen bv our Senate
reports, the bill providing for the
advertisement in newspapers OF
sales of property, under execution,
was yesterday reported upon unfav-
orably. Is itpossible that this wrong
SO long practiced against the debtor
class is to be continued? The law
allows the debtors property to be
advertised by posters,t placed at
three places in the county. 1t
provides that the officer shall post
these notices, but it does not require
that they shall remain posted, and
those interested in seeing property
disposed of at forced sale for a song,
may remove these posters, and the
public thus remain uninformed as
to the sale The posters are often
destroyed by persons interested in
there being no competitive bidding,
and when the day of sale arrives,
the debtor is sacrificed. How often
have all of us seen this occur? The
bill that was placed in the hands OF
Judiciary Committee No. 1, had for
its object the giving of information
beneficial not only to the cred
itor, who desires to ss:see prop
erty sell at thea highest figure
but to the debtor. 1t provides thai
notice of these forced sales shall bt
made in some paper published ii
the county where the sale is to taks
place. Here, then, is vehicle of in
formation which designing persons
cannot destroy, one that visits all
and tells that BIS property 10 to b
sold for the benefit of AZ
claims, and G, D., e and 81
the s rest are notified Of tn
sale, and these attend, and there j
no sacrifice, and justice is completf
4 1t IL hoped the unfarorsble report
in consequence of some defect in tn
bin, and that it may be recommii
ted. and SO just asmeasure: yet be
tcsnne a law. 'less = ss;i,;oo ! q =
II = ~ .--.-H ~ ~ :
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17
TREATMENT OF CHINE.

The STATESMAN is indebted to
DIR. Bibb, health physician of the
city of Austin, for a; pamphlet copy
of a paper on the treatment of crime,
from the pen of DIR. D. r. Wallace,
the late accomplished superintend-
ent of our state lunatic asylum. The
contents of this little pamphlet were
read before the Texas Medical Asso-
citation at its twelfth annual meet
ing, and were published by order
of the association. The learned
doctor argues. correctly that the
punishment for crime should alone
be remedial, and from Beecaria he
culls the truism, that "all legislation
which stops with the punishment of
the crime and does not aim tospre-
vent it, is imperfect" He believes
in the reorganization of systems of
penitentiary treatment, whereby
humanitarianism and not brutality
shall operate upon the mind and
manners Of the convicts; that
they shall be so dealt with
in their prison treatment, as to be
led towards reformation instead OF
towards degradation. To carry out
such purposes, he believes in prison
classification, that viii separate the
evil disposed from those who have
not been intent upon crime, the
young in crime from the old
and he holds that systems of merit
and rewards shall be adopted
whereby terms of Imprisonment
may be curtailed; and above al
things he pleads, for a public sentl
ment that does not judge man for
ever by what he has once done,and fol
which he has Iaid the penalty of OF
Tended law. We would like to re
view this paper fully, but space. pre-
vents. The Doctor takes the human
itarian view, and it looks as thougl
his plan ought to be the reformation
that is 80 much needed. The charita
bly, disposed will follow the doctor
but thereis class ofreformers, VIII
think that the only way to suppress
crime is in the. exercise OF severes
penalties. DR.. LyncicuH, a philoso
pher, held that the way TO suppress
crime, is to treat the criminal to
process that would effectually dc
stroy that power which transmit
curses to the third and the fourt
generations, but while this plan ha
its decided merits. it can never b
adopted, and hence, it is well eno9gg
| to give DR.. Wallace's theory a. tes
1t is good, and would work wonder
in the reformation.of bad people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17
The DAngerousl Alternative.
Editor STATESMAN:

Editor bTATESMAN; --
Looking on while legislators are
framing plans and devising measures
which are expected to issue in tho
form of legislative enactments, IL
seems TO me that some, not to say
many, who have become, by their re-
lation to the state, custodians Of the
highest and most sacred interests
that men have, fail TO see out upon
life and duty in way at all creditable
to their heads or hearts. Forinstance,
some men of very good talent, and
who, actuated by different motives,
would be entitled to an. honorable
place while they live, and live when
they are dead, persist in viewing the
LIQUOR traffic with special and exclu-
! sive reference to revenue TO
be paid immediately into the
Golfers. of the state. oblivious
| of the fact that no matter how much
revenue the State may derive in this
way, she is poor in the ratio Of the
amount expended by her citizens
for strong drink. They endeayor TO
reduce the advalorem tax OF the
| State from fifty cents on the one
hundred dollars worth of proper
tv, to forty cents, so that theycan go
back home and tell the people eve
have reduced the rate of taxation"
| IA labor always appreciated by the
dear peoplel, when IN fact theyhave
been trying to multiply saloons so
that every little village can have a
few, and every cross roads one, so
that upon the whole a greater amount
of license money will reach the
Treasurer's Office. Whereas, every
such saloon kept anwhere costs the
4 State great deal more money than
ever comes back in any form, not to
mention the blood shed, and the
, disease engendered, with al the un-
, ltellabIe mischief Of almost every
sort which issues. When the Treas.
: lIry receives one cent, q citizen Of
f the State gives in lieu thereof ten
: cents, and is made n worse citizen,
more ready 10 do violence, and less
: fit.for the discharge Of the duties
s which the State requires at the
. hands ef-a+ of-Aer-citizens. 1t IL
7 needless to say when the people are
I poor and vicious, the State is. poor
: and feeble.
a But, rising higher, do not the mer
. of Texas blush when they perceive
E that they are willing TO license. and
( thereby. actually legalize crime
|. Shame. that a great and Christian
n State. should put a price npor
n l.erime. and say 10 the worst man In
A the community "for such sum yol
e1 NAV blight as many homes as yor
4 IIcan, SCI your snares as enticingll
a las YOU may be able, to catch thu
q Young man and put the brand o
p Gain on him. Yea. says the State
Z wet him murder the mother that
y bore him. it matters not, If hepayI
4 his license. and helps to reduce th'
e adyalorem tax" Has pity fed for
O ever from manly breasR CITIZEN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

A WESTERN paper says a Miss
Serkle married a Mr.. Square.-ET-
change. T.. .. OK
This was a Square transaction, to
say nothing mOre.-PoSt.
Keep still, brethren. By this
transaction we may learn how to
Square Serkle."-PIeasdnton Mon-
itOr.
Yes. But did not the old man
first have to swing around SerkleF
-EIpreSS.
Does not the EGpreSs put the old
man in a wrong position towards
the Serkle.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17
THE Atlanta Phonoqraph says:

Last night eighty-five people from
the northern part of North Caro-
lima, passed through the city en-
route for Texas by the New Orleans
Short Line. This news item fur
nishes food for thought Our own
state refuses to appropriate money
for encouraging emmigration, and
should take some steps towards dis
couraging immigration. Hundreds
of the sturdy yeomanry OF Georgia
leave us every month for Texas and
other western States.
The Texas homestead law beats,
in the way of inducingimmigration,
any system yet proposed by any
State. 1t promises q man what he
can secure in no other State::-,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

"RLAcK-DRAu6HT" makes chills .nd
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

~ SENATE Senate bill: appropri-
ating $2eO,00O. for the purchase of
and erection thereon of hall OF de-
positi for government. records was
considered on motion of Yesh and
passed.tadY .-e-. ~ .f7aA a.
T Pursuant to resolution offered, by
Mr. Pendleton and adopted, Messrs.
Pendleton, Anthony and Bayard
were constituted committee TO
make the necessary arrangements
for the inauguration of the Presi-
The remainder Of the morning
hours were occupied in discussing
and passing number of private
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17

General Ben Harrison says that
the Garfield administration win be
"liberal and stalwart."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-17
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
AcUE AND FEVER.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS,

The genuine are never sugar-coated.
Each box has red-wax seal on the lid,
with the impression, McLANE'SLIVER
PILL. Each wrapper bears the sigma
lures of G. McLANE and FLEMING Bros.
ES- Insist upon having the genuine
DR.. Q. Mel ANE'S LIVER PILLS, pre-
pared by
FLEMING Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa,
the market beiRg ful Of limitations oi
tine name McLaRe, spelled differently
but same pronunciation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-10

HENRY A. DANIELS, VI. D.,
Ia Lexington-ave. 2jtnsL Hours TO / and 5;o,
Attention To aontle