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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
The Sandbagger's Advice.

''1'll never forget my first experience
as footpad," said "Soaps" out at the
workhouse the other day. 'Tm not a
professional footpad or robber, but once
in Chicago thought I'd go out and get
in my work with stuffed club. Well,
who do you suppose picked out as my
first victim9 A man with plug hat.
Did you ever hear of such thingl" and
Soaps, who never washes, fairly over
flowed with laughter.
"Why, what is funny about thatp
"Well, a sandbagger-that is, pro-
fessional-never tackles a man that wears
a plug hat. 1t don't do any good"
"Why notl"
"Well, you are green. A sandbagger
attempts to strike either Just in front of
or behind the hear. Those are the most
effective places. Well, plug hat is so
constructed that no blow can be got in on
the points on the head it covers. The
rim is very stiff aud breaks the force OF
the blow, and before second can be
given the man has cried out for help and
your attack has been in vain. Now you
know what to do when you are going
out at night-wear plug hat. It's a
complete armor against sandbaggers. -
50. Joseph (M0.) Castle
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
CnriOsities of Gnessing.

Some curious facts bearing on the
"Eccentricities of Guessing" were COM
municated to the American Association
by Professor 4. o. MendenhalL The
author had formed standard probabili-
ty curve which could be applied to any
form of guessing, and which represented
the law that governed the occurrence
and recurrence of purely accidental
things. This standard was seldom de-
waited from to any considerable extent.
He had frequently tested the accuracy
OF the probability curve by experiment.
A large number of persons guessed at the
number of nails of various sizes con-
tanned in a carboy. The lowest guess
was 43; the highest between 5000, 600
and 4, 600, 600. Eight guesses came with
in one of the actual number, six falling
short, and two exceeding it, while vast
majority came within few hundred of
it. 1t was 1851. Many terminated
their guesses with the figure 2; then 3,
then came in the order of preference.
Odd numbers occurred three fourths of
the time; and the number of the year
was frequently chosen. .-Populdr Science
M0nth2V.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Barberry Hedges.

Since the general introduction of barb
wire fences the Importance of hedge has
greatly diminished, but for both orna-
ment and utility they may still be en-
ployed to advantage. The most perfect
and really substantial are a union of wire
and hedge plant. Formerly, the honey
locust and the Usage orange made the
best barriers; but the honey locust re-
quires much and frequent cutting back;
and the Usage orange as much so, with
the additional drawback of winter kill
ing in regions of severe winter. The
buckthorn and the barberry are both
hardy, and both have a hedge like
growth, but neither are stiff enough alone
for farm barriers. But with two or three
barb wires included with them, stretched
successively while the hedge is growing
in height, they lecome perfect-re luir-
ing but little cutting back, forming a
stiff hedge and presenting a fine orna-
mental appearance when kept in good
shape. The purple barberry is as hardy
as the common sort, and makes as good
a hedge, and when in bloom early in the
season, or in scarlet berries later, is an
object of great beauty. The plants are
easily raised from seed, and are very
readily and safely Implanted The
privet has naturally a hedgy growth,
and is often recomma led for hedges,
but it is not perfectly hardy, and is
liable to die out in patches. - Country
GentleludR.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Mixing Fertilizers.

Many farmers are not sufficiently care
tul to have their fertilizets thoroughly
mixed with the soil, SAYS an agricultural
exchange. Three hundred or four hun
dred pounds per acre is very small
quantity to go over AZ, $50 square feet :
1t IS about one ounce to eight or nine
square feet. An ounce is a very small
handful, and if this small quantity is
not quite evenly spread over a square
yard, the effect of the fertilizer is more
or less missed or diverted from its pur-
pose. We have seen fertilizers so care
lessly spread that large handful was
thrown in a solid lump here and there
without any regularity. Having given
a pailful to an incredulous ueighbor to
try in his garden, this man applied the
whole to one row of peas, and, of course,
Killed every plant. But the adjoining
rows more than made up for the loss, and
the result taught a most useful lesson,
and this farmer now uses several tons
yearly in his market garden and farm.
The safe plan is TO spread one-half the
iertlllzer directly before the narrowing
on the plowed ground-this is for spring
sown crops-and the other half on the
surface as soon as the seed is narrowed in
or planted. Hill fertilizing is open to
several objections and risks. Never use
superphosphate, or other mixed fertilizers
OF which this forms part, when the
land has been lined, and on limestone
land only when the crop is able to make
the most use of it. Lastly, it is better tc
use 400 pounds to one acre than 2OC
pounds per acre on two.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
WISE WORDS.

Without hearts there is no home.
Faults are thick when love his thin.
Do what thou ought, let come what
may.
Better be poor and live than rich and
perish,
Small ideas and big words make a
painful combination.
A mans part is to bear prosperity or
adversely in a right spirit.
The majority of people are most gen.
erous when they have nothing to give.
Education begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company, and reflection
finish him.
Woman is the Sunday of man. Not
his repose only, but his JOY. She is the
salt of his life.
Look up, and not down; look forward,
and not back; look out, and not in (;
and then lend hand.
He Is rich whose income is more than
his expenses, and he is poor whose ex-
penses exceed his income.
A good book is commendable for two
reasons, because of the thoughts which
II contains, and because OF the thoughts
which it suggests.
A man without discretion may be COM
pared to a vessel without helm which,
however rich its cargo is in continual
danger of being wrecked.
No mans life is free from struggles
and notifications, not even the. hap
piest. but every one may build up his
own happiness by seeking mental pleas
ure.
One of the commonest of illusions is
to imagine that the present hour is not
the critical decisive hour. Write it on
your heart that every day is the best day
in the year.
Il is no great matter to live lovingly
with good natured, humble and meek
persons; but he who can do so with the
frowaId, wilful, ignorant, peevish and
perverse, hath true charity.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
A Southern "In MemorIam. y

One day in 1862 Sidney Shivers, of
Webster, Ca, then eli hteen years of age,
entered his fathers house, and, divesting
himself of his hat and clothes, dressed
himself in the uniform of soldier in
order to enter the Southern army, in the
meantime hanging the hat and clothes
that he once wore upon peg in his
room. From that day to this the hat
and clothes have hung in that same
place, not hand having been allowed to
touch them in ali that time, for they
have been held sacred to the memory OF
the young Southern soldier who placed
them there. The life of Sidney Shivers
went out soon after he entered the army,
but these mute IN MORALS of the boy who
once wore the gray still hang where they
were placed by h m twenty-six years age
untouched in all that time - Chicdgc
Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Inherited Diseases.

In the realm Of disease, the facts Of In
heritance are most numerous, and are
daily accumulating. Here they are no
longer, alas, curious and amusing, but
terrible, fateful, overwhelming. No fact
of nature is more pregnant with awful
meaning than the fact of the inheritance
of disease. 1t meets the physician on
his daily rounds, paralyzing his art, and
filing him with sadness. The legend
of the anciei Greeks pictured the ma
lignant furios pursuing families from
generation to generation, and rendering
them desolate. The furies still ply their
work Of terror and death; but we have
stripped them of the garb which super
stitution threw around them, and they
now appear to our eyes in the more intel
ligible but not less awful form of hered-
itary disease. Modern science, which
has cast illumina into so many dark
corners of nature, mas shed new and
still more lurid light on the words of the
Hebrew Scripture: 'The sins of the
fathers shall be visited upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation. I"
Instances of hereditary disease abound on
every hand. Fully fifty per cent of
cases of gout are inherited. The proper
tion is not much less in that fell destroyer
of families, our national scourge, con-
sumption. Cancer and scrofula run
strongly in families. Insanity is hered-
itary to marked degree; but Unfortunately,
like many other hereditary diseases,
tends to wear itself out, the stock be-
coming extinct. Nearly all defects of
sight are occasionally Inherited. Sir
Henry Holland says truly that ''no organ
or texture of the body is exempt from
the chance of being the subject of hered-
itary disease Probably most chronic
diseases which permanently modify the
structure and functions of the body are
more or less liable to be inherited
Popular Science Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Use of Coal Ashes

On the subject of the use of coal ashes
New York Iri5atEe correspondent saws:
Probably coal ashes have little other than
mechanical effect. They render clay
more dlvisible, and so more permeable
10 the air. But the air must not enter
the soil In storms, but have, as it were,
only slow but constant iniiltration.
sandy soil is apt to admit it with its
caustic qualities more freely than the
roots can endure. The fine sifted ashes
correct this by filling the intersticles; :;
and so benefit IN both cases.
Every thing grows well under mulch
OF coal ashes provided that the plant
leaves are not covered, and that the ashes
be stirred after rains during the growing
season. Without this they pack so as to
exclude the air too much. In planting
the seeds, we cover them with soil
that is open and friabe or with leaf
mould, as our soil is heavy and
soon packs. We have tried coal
ashes several times, thinking that the
young seedlings might easily push their
lumpy heads their cotyledon0 through
the easily broken inch of ashes. But the
effect has always been bad; very rarely
plant appeared through such a cover
ing. The cause is apparently too close
an exclusion of air, viii is indispensa,
BILE at the moment of termination in free
supply.
Coal ashes are great benefit to grass
when strewn on very early in the spring,
They allow the sharp points of the grass
sprouts to pierce through and largely
preserve GOODNESS and moisture 10 thu
roots, while they effectually smother al
fat-leafed intruders and MOSES. In fact
so many are the uses and real value o
this material, which accumulates abou
all our houses during every winter. tha
one secs with regret so much of it wheeled
away in the spring to be dumped int,
any hole or corner where it will be out o
sight 1t should be sifted as taken iron
the fires, both TO save the half-burn
Goals for night fires, and the exhauste,
cinder for path and road making, and 70
the manifold beneficial uses of the fine
siftings.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Youthful Wisdom i'm a Blizzard,

1t is related of two little girls of II
and - years Of age, that they were late
in going TO school, and when about half
way the storm arose and they turned
back. After wandering about for time
they came to straw stack. The older
girl dug out the straw as far as she could.
She then put her sister in ahead of her
and crowded in after her She took oil
their shoes, and when their feet grew
cold she rubbed them briskly. The
younger girl iell asleep, but the elder
kept awake and continued the rubbing
process when necessary. The parents
gave up their children as lost, but next
morning, after the storm had subsidized,
the girls, none the worse for their expe.
rience, made their way home, and it is
needless to say there was great Joy and
rejoicing in that house. A wise head is
sometimes found on very young shoul-
ders. Minneapolis TriJuHs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28

Much has been written and said about how
10 make home happy. Tho moralist and the
preacher have haokneyed this theme until u
would seem nothing more remained TO be said.
But the philosophers have gone far out of their
way 10 account for the prevalence of ill-sorted
couples and unhappy homes, and have over
looked tho chief cause. Most of the unhappi-
ness of married life can he traced directly to
thos, functional arrangements TO which wo-
mon are suject, In nine cases out OF ten the
irritable, dissatisfied and unhappy wife Is
sufferer from some "female complaint a
trial of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Will
produce more domestic happiness than MILL
Ion sermons or philosophical treatises. ltcures
all those peculiar weaknesses and ailments in-
cident TO women, IL Is the only medicine sold
by druggists, under q positive guarantee from
tho manufacturers, that It will give satisfac-
tion in every case or money will he refunded.
See guarantee printed on wrapper enclosing
bOttlp
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
FARM AND GARDEN.
Wormy Apples.

The cause of apples falling off while in
sn immature state is the presence of the
Goblin grub or larvG Of the Goblin moth.
This insect is becoming far more de-
structive TO the apple crop in this coun-
try than even in Europe, of which it is
supposed to be a native. The moths us
ually appear soon after the apple trees
have blossomed in the spring, flying
about the trees in the evening, and de-
posting their eggs one by one in the
blossom end Of the fruit The eggs soon
hatch and the grubs bore their way into
the young apples thus causing them to
fall off. No practical mode of prevent
ing the attacks of this insect has yet
been discovered, but if all wormy fruit
is gathered up and fed to hogs or other
wise destroyed during the summer, the
pest will rarely become so abundant as to
cause all the fruit to drop off before ma
turing -Ne,o York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Lost HIS Legacy.

A French provincial lawyear recently
died. In his will he directed that an
annuity OF S40O year be paid 10 the SER
want who should "close his eyes" When
this clause was read the servant who had
performed the office jumped with joy,
but his delight was speedily dampened
by the nephew and heir of the dead man,
who reminded the servant that his mas
ter only had one eye, and the servant ae-
tually failed to get his legacy on this alb,
surd technically. .-Ne,0 York Graphic,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
The Destruction of NToles.

A correspondent of the Southern
Planter writes: The last number of your
journal contains letter from J. II. Riley,
Esq, Of Onancock, asking for a mole
remedy.
If Mr.. Riley will insert in the mole
tracks or burrows sufficient number of
bits Of raw beef soaked in a solution of
strychnine he will never see another
track.
Five years ago was much annoyed by
them and poisoned them as above, since
which time have never sign any sign of
them on the place.
There is no doubt about the mole being
useful animal. 1t subssts mainly on
grubs and worms, destroying vast mum.
bers of cutworms and other enemies to
vegetation. They may have taken a
little toll from MIR. X. 5 potato field, but
/ expect the greater damage was done by
ground mice using the tunnels of the
moles to get at them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
An Idyl.

Know'st how love thee, little maidfa
Said Mark to Isabel;
The hours passed and yet he stayed,
His yearning love to tell.
As sat they thus meath lowered light
A fOOtstcp neared the door;
Then came upon the Silly night
A crash-and all was DER.
"Oh, pa what have you done She cried
Her gaze grew dim and dark.
Fear not, my girl, her pa replied,
1--we merely 'toed the Mark
--NeW York S1lR.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
The Handsome.t Lady in Town

Remarked to friend the other day that she
knew Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs was a superior remedy, as It stopped her
cough instantly when other remedies had no
effect whatever. So TO prove this and con-
vince you of its merit, any druggist will give
you n Sample Bottle Free. Large bottles 90
cents and 81
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
When Nature Weeps.

Ii is said that nature shudders
When a woman throws a stone,
And that when she sharpens pencils
Then all nature gives a gToan.
But there's nothing that gives nature
More keen anguish and distress
Than to see "a struggling father
With "a babe he tries To dress.
The Judge.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28


This is especially true of IA purge. The aver
age man or woman does not precisely banker
for il, as rule, but when taken, wishes IL TO
be prompt, sure and effective. DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets leave nothing 10 be
desired in point of efficacy, and yet their action
is totally free from any unpleasant symptoms,
or disagreeable after-effects. Purely vegeta-
BILE, perfectly harmless.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Farm and Garden Notes.

water all animals before feeding
meal and not after, recommends one
authority.
Corn is the only crop that can all be
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28

A medical journal has an able article
on "How to Stop Bleeding What
most people want to know is how to
stop being bled. oil CHy Derrick.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28

MODERATION Ia the silkcn string running
through the pearl chain of all virtues.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Man wants but little here below,

THE brave man is an inspiration 10 the
weak, and compels them, as it were, TO follow
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
Hoods SarsapariIIa

For many months I sun red greatly. My whole
system seemed 20 be be entirely run down, my am
btion gone. had pains in my back and feeling
OF lassitude which l could not throw on. l was
treated unsucce sfuly for kidney trouble. one day
at by brothers saw bottle Of Ho d's Sarsap lrilla
and determined 20 try It, Before the hra bottle
taken canddly was relieved. have used the
medicine on and on since and recommend it
for kidney or liver complaints" MRS. W. II. STRANG
sS7 Atlantic Avenue. Brooklyn, NY
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28

A.HANpFUt of common sense is worth
bushel of learning.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28

It's thousands Of cures are the best advertise
ment for DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28

The cost of compiling and publishing
the reports of the Challenger expeii-
tion has already exceeded 1000, O0O.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
:, Cep.umptIou surely Cured.

HE is only well made man who has a good
dcterminn Ion
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
March April May

Are the months In which TO purify the blood for at
no other IS the body susceptible TO benefit
from medicine. The peculiar purifying and reviv-
ing qualities OF Hoods sarsaparilla are neede 20 cN
pei disease and forfy the system against the debi
tatlng effects OF mild weather Ever year increases
the popularity OF Hoods sarsapariua for IL is just
what people need at this season. IL is the ideal
spring medicine II you have never tried it. do so.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
PuriHes the Blood

"seven years az D, while my little boy was playing
in the yard, he was bitten by spider. The poison
entere his blood. and soon broke out about
his bolyi they iched terribly caused him intense
suffering Several timeswe succeeded In healing the
sores up, but in spite OF all could do they would
soon break out again Finally We tried Hoods sarsa
parilla, and he took one bottle and oneth rd OF
other. when the sores disappeared He has not a
spot on him now. and consider him perfectly
cured" WN. II. b. WARD. Downlngton, Penn.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28
A WORD OF WARNING.

There white represented "s or
they ARE MOT but like all ounes lack the peculiar qualities Of
the genuine. Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist getting
y oCte Gamble
, 1888-02-24

To lift 1000 pounds on the health lift
is no very remarkable feat for a person
of average strength, giving sufficient
time daily for a few months to practice.
Mr.. Blaikie learned in this way. at the
age of II, to lift 1000 pounds after only
six months practice. Those who pref"r
to lift an actually measured weight will
find it necessary to adopt some such plan
as was employed by Topham, preparing
a framework to bear the weight and
standing in its midst, so as to lift the
weight by means of symmetrically at
tached straps. For the body cannot,
when at all aslant, bear such a weight as
1000 pounds.
Whether such exercise is good for the
body rs a whole depends n good deal on
the opportunities which a man has for
correcting an abnormal development of
the lifting muscles by means of other *
e~rcises, increasing the development of
other muscles and giving activity as well
as strength to the frame. -Richard A.
Proctor.
, 1888-02-24

The Georgian has a beauty quite differ
ent from that of the C~ircassian. The Cir
cassian is dazzling, queen like and stately.
She has a fair skin. She is elegant in
form. She is kindly and gentle in voice,
but lazy in movement and without spirit.
One of her own sex has said: There is
no soul in a Circassian beauty; and as
she pillows her pure, pale cheek upon her
small dimpled hand, you feel no inclina-
ton to arouse her into exertion; you are
contented to look upon her and to con-
template her loneliness" The Georgian
is a creature with eyes like meteors and
teeth almost as dazzling as her eyes. Her
mouth does not wear the sweet and I'M
ceasing smile of her less vivacious rival.
But the proud expression that sits upon
finely arched lips accords SO Well with
her stately form and lofty brow that you
do not seek to change its character. =
Home Journal.
, 1888-02-24
Origin of Color blindness.

That the origin of color blindness lies
in the brain, and not in the eye, has been
suggested by Professor Ramsay. While
engaged in teaching in Brooklyn some
years ago, the principal of n school in
sisted in treating every case of the sort
as dependent on the will of the pupil.
His remedy was the rod. This certainly
seemed q tyrannical and unwarranted
treatment, but the result was favorable
to his theory. Is it possible that a thor
ough examination will ultimately demon
stratc that the fault lies very largely in
the shiftlcss methods of observation
which have grown up under the old
classical system of education, and which
have to n large extent become hereditary
Science,