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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
A Cat Stops Board of Trade Operations.

An incident of an impressive character
occurred at the Chicago Board of Trade
the other week. The room was in the
usual uproar, it being within an hour of
the closing time, when the old cat started
to move her family. She marched out of
her quarters carrying a kitten by its
neck in her mouth. She walked very
dignifedly up the hall, and dozen or
more Of the members who saw her stopped
to watch. Then the word spread, and
when she had put the first kitten in the
new home and started back for another
there was a great crowd formed in two
lines looking at her. Then she came
forth with another kitten in her teeth,
and the boys gave her a cheer This
attracted the attention of everybody on
the floor, and in another minute the
whole crowd was formed in two lines,
between which the old cat marched
slowly and with impressive mien clear the
other end near the stairs leading to the
members gallery. The pits became de-
serted and trading was suspended. Every
time she would appear at the south end
of the line with another kitten in her
mouth the boys would give her a rousing
cheer, and, when she had deposited it at
the other end they would cry "Ah-h-hl !"
in chorus. Finally her eight kittens
were all moved. Then the old cat sat
on the first step of the stairway and
washed her face with her paws, and the
boys went back and whooped up the
market. PicayuHo.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
Humbugging an Animal Dealer.

Jamrach, the celebrated London dealer
in strange animals, picks up many bar
gains from the mates and stewards Of the
vast feet that sails or steams into the
Thames on every tide from the four
quarters of the globe. But sometimes he
gets picked up himself. A few years
ago he bought for few cents very rare
and therefore valuable animal from a
mate, just in from, say, New Guinea.
Presently the mate saw his venture in the
Zoo with great gaping crowd about
its cage, and learned that the Society
had paid a small fortune for the curl
osity. "I'H fix him." says the mate
So the next voyage he returned with the
very rarest curiosity ever seen in or out
of the London docks. "Hullo," says
Jamrach, fairly excited, "what do you
call that, now2" Dunno" says the
mate, indifferently Clocks like bald
squirrel, says Jamrach, and the mate
said HIM not nay, for certainly it did
look like the baldest possible squirrel,
and of the queerest color, too, ''sort of
no color at all, as Jamrach put it. Well,
in three minutes Jamrach had bought
that rare animal for $50 down, and in
three hours he was back on the stone
dock raging at the mate, laughing loud
at the far end Of a long hawser. ''You'vC
sold me a shaved rat, shouted Jamrach.
81 just have,' laughed the mate
"Ships doctor chloroformed him fol
fun and ships barber shaved him for
glass Of beer. Anything else in our lin,
this morning
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Prepare to give a thorough drainage.
Manure can be hauled out and applied
after plowing.
Apply sulphur at the first appearance
of mildew on grapes.
Tile drainage is best, but surface
drainage will answer.
A sun-struck COW is ruined as a mixer
for one season at least
Picking up all the fallen fruit will ma
terially diminish the number of apple
worms.
If salt is to be applied, wait until
spring, and then SOW broadcast as evenly
as possible.
Whether the propensity of bees to
swarm can be bred out or modified re-
mains to be seen.
Every man ought to be heartily
ashamed of the gall on the shoulder of
the animal he drives
To get at the real cost of beef making
the animal must be credited for the fer
tility it leaves on the farm.
If clover sod is to be plowed under
for wheat, an application of lime before
plowing will be found beneficial
One of the advantages in using wood
ashes as a fertilizer for wheat is that it
helps materially to stiffen the straw.
If commercial fertilizers are to be used,
SOW with drill, when sowing the seed,
or sow broadcast, just before seeding.
If constant supply of bloom is desired,
the f1owerbuds must be cut off as soon as
faded; never permit them to go to seed.
The medium sized animal, as to the
breed to which he belongs, is the one
which gives the owner the greatest net
profit.
A barking dog and noisy, loud
mouthed man are two things that should
never be permitted to enter a cattle feed
ing pen.
Set out celery plants as soon as they
are large enough. There is nothing
gained by growing three plants where
there is only room enough for two.
! The wheel hoe is a true missionary
doing away with some of the drudgery OF
garden work, and helping people to have
better gardens and take greater interest
! in them.
When the caulifiower plants begin tc
flower, or head, care should be taken not
to hit them while working the soil. A
little knock will sometimes kill head, OF
retard it in its growth.
A weak solution of carbolic acid and
water, says an exchange, applied to COWS
with brush will protect them from flies
The odor repels, and little carbolic acit
for odor goes a great way,
Farmers should take care of the screen
ings and the chaff from the thrashinl
machines. The chaff is worth more fol
feeding than the straw, and more than
half as much as ordinary meadow hay.
OF two colts similar in disposition anC
sense, one may develop into steady and
valuable family horse, while the Other
may be vicious, treacherous and unsafe
all because of the difference in the mer
handling them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
A Wild Turkey Scheme

The wild turkey is a bird that has
almost disappeared from the face of the
earth. But it will be comforting to sports
men to learn that there are still sections
of the country where this gamesome and
toothsome fowl abounds in comparatively
plentiful numbers. Such is said to be the
case in some parts of Mississippi. But if
the record recently made by an old
hunter down there is kept up, the supply
will not last long. The hunter in ques-
tion enticed a flock Of turkeys into a
lonely place in the woods by scattering
corn on the ground. This operation was
performed several days in succession until
nineteen nice fat birds formed the habit
of resorting to the place for their daily
BREAKFAST He then laid for them, and
one morning fired into the flock, killing
eighteen outright at one shot. The nine
teenth escaped with broken wing. His
, ,neighbors feasted on turkeys for a week.
-1fashi7igt9a Press. n
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
FEED roR rorNa CHICKS.

When chickens are first hatched small
quantity Of curdled milk pressed as dry as
possible makes better feed for them than
grain. II is like the aEbumen in the egg
that has constituted their food before
coming out of the shell, and for the first
day and night thereafter. If any meal is
given use oatmeal rather than corn meal.
The huslI of the oat keeps it from com.
pacting in the stomach, and is also less
heating and contains more of the nutrition
needed for growth. But soft foods, ex-
cept the curd of milk, should not be con-
tinued more than four or five days.
Chicks will eat whole wheat when a week
old, and the tax that this will be on their
digestive organs will make them hardy
and vigorous as soft food cannot do
Boston CUlticator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
BRUSH FOR SWEET PEAS.

Whatever may be said in favor OF
fancy trellises for climbing plants, it is a
fact that the sweet pea really seems to do
better when given brush to Chamber over
than it will on any other support that we
have ever provided for it. 1t seems to
have a decided objection to anything
formal. 1t will not cling to a string
we'll. 1t must have something which it
can lean upon rather than cling about.
If you want late flowers, be sure to keep
your plants from forming any seed, and
cut the tops back very nearly one-half in
August, giving, at the same time, a
good top-dressing of manure. We are
glad to notice that this fine old flower is
becoming favorite with those who have
hitherto thought nothing so desirable as
roses and other flowers of that class. -
american AgricuIturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
WISE WORDS.

A contented ass enjoys a long life.
Better whole than patched with gold.
Success depends upon the courage to
act
The truth travels slow but it never gets
tired.
Rough honesty is superior to a smooth
fraud.
Love is the true price at which love is
bought.
What three know will soon be known
to thirty.
Turn your tongue seven times before
speaking.
Human development is an individual
enterprise.
True faithfulness never shrinks from
duties which are the hardest.
There is infinite comfort for the small
est troubles as well as the greatest.
He is a moral hero who dares speak
the plain truth in these compromising
days.
He who would best serve the best in
terests of others must cease serving him.
self.
lie who would not be forgotten should
do something worthy of being remem-
bered.
If the thoughts of men could be read
their true character could never be mis-
taken.
That which designedly works ''ill to
its ncighbor," ," whatever else it may be,
cannot be love.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
American Alabaster.

Alabaster, or plaster of Paris, is made
in large quantities at Grand Rapids,
Mich, where there are extensive gypsum
beds, from which stone the plaster is pro.
duced. Vases and other ornamental arti.
cles can be cut from this stone and made
to resemble the finest marble, and viz
with articles of the same description from
the gypsum beds of Europe. Sienn;
produces the finest gypsum and Florcnc,
and Milan manufacture the handsomes
articles from that material. l.-DetroH Ere
Press,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
UNLEACHED ASHES.

When used in drills from 600 to 1000
pounds of unleached ashes can be used to
good advantage per acre, but in making
thorough application from two to five
tons should be used. When used in
quantities, over two tons per acre, they
should be spread on top of the ground in
the fall or early spring, when the ground
is not frozen, so that the moisture and
rains of these seasons of the year will aid
in dissolving the potash, phosphoric acid,
lime, Silica and enable them to amalga.
mate with the soil before the planting OF
seed. Otherwise the strong alkaliei
coming in contact with the seeds might
spoil the crop for that year. After SOW.
ing broadcast it would be well to harrow
in the ashes little. Should it so hap.
pen that good results did not follow the
first years application, by reason of 8
failure of sufficient rains to dissolve all
the chemicals in the ashes before hot, dry
weather comes on, let them alone; that
is, make no application of other fertil.
izers to the ground, for nothing will be
lost by their lying in the soil, and theiI
influence will surely be felt in the next
years crops. When once thoroughly
leached into the soil they are invaluable
in drought. think it would be well
for farmers who have not heretofore used
ashes to experiment for themselves by
using side by side with stable manure
and other fertilizers, like quantity in
cost of unleached wood ashes, and then
in another field apply in cost half each
of stable manure, well mixed with the
soil, and as a top-dressing unleached
ashes well narrowed in.-Nelo York H.
dependent.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
BEST TIME TO CUT HAY.

Early cut hay is far more nutrition
and digestible than late cut. Wo meaI
by early cutting that which is made into
hay when the grass is in bloom, and be-
fore the seed is formed in the head.
Every day grass is allowed to stand after
this time it deteriorates in value for hay.
Many kinds of the wild grasses growing
in low bottom land will make fair hay fol
cattle if cut early, but if allowed to stand
until mature they are only fit for bedding
stock in winter. .-NeD York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
Edible Menu Cards.

The latest thing in hotel bills of fare
is an edible menu card. You select the
dishes you want, and then while waiting
for them you amuse yourself by leisurely
eating up the bill of fare, it acting as
an appetizer. 1t is the scheme of q
London coafeotioper. He makes a thin
sheet of sweetened dough, and after il
has been baked he prints the menu upon
it in ink made of chocolate. 1t hasn't
got over here yet, but it will by and
by.-St. Louis Globe. Democrat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18

A dog, owned by Peter Flynn, of RED
Hook, N. Y, recently chewed up and
swallowed a 50 bill. AS the dog had
no commercial value, he was killed, and
the fragments of the bill, including the
piece which bore the number, were re-
covered. The remains of the dog were
buried, and the remains of the bill were
forwarded to the Treasury DEPARTMENT
at Washington. A new bill was duly re-
turned to Flynn.-Nelo York Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
VALUE OF WHEAT SCREENINGS.

The screenings of wheat as they come
from the cleaner have been analysed at
the Michigan experiment station with the
result of surprising the Western farmers,
who have been used to leaving this waste
to rot in the stock yards. This waste
contains shrunken and broken grains OF
wheat, chess, cookie, ragweed, and other
weed seeds, with some chafT and straw
When ground, the meal was found to
contain fifteen per cent. of nitrogen com.
pounds, sixty-tive per cent. of carbohy.
drates, and four per cent. of fat, and
thus worth more for feeding than the
salable wheat. When thus ground the
seed of weeds are safely disposed of and
can never stock the land with a new
crop, and by thus using the screenings
the land will become free from the too
common weeds in a short time, for there
is no more certain way of seeding the
land with weeds than by scattering the
screenings in the yards and thus sewing
the seeds with the manure. The large
quantity of screenings disposed of by the
elevator companies may be purchased by
farmers with much advantage, as they
are sold at very low price,-Neto York
Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18

This is the age of wonders, and the average
American citizen is no longer surprised at any
thing. If you want to experience thar sensa-
ton, however, just write TO B. +, johnson q
Co, 1903 Main St., Richmond, Va, and hear
what they have got TO say OF the success of
some of their agents. They have got the goods
that sell, and any one out Of empl Jyment will
consult their own interests by applying TO
them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18
what wrought the changer This wOman'u

what wrought the changer This woman's
I fnce
Is ruddy with q rose's grace.
Her eye is bright,
Her heart Is light
All, truly 'tis goodly eieht
A few brief months ago her cheek
Was pallid and her step was weak.
"rhe end Ia near
For hcr, fear"
Sighed many friend who held her dear.
I can tell you what wrought tho change in
her. She was told by friend, who, like her,
had suffered untold misery from n complicR-
tion OF female troubles, that Dr. Pierce's Fn-
vorite Prescription would certainly cure her!
This friend knew whereof she spoke" for she
had been cured by the remedy she advised her
friend 20 use Shei' enthusiastic In its praise,
and tells her friends that DIR. Pierce de erves
the universal gratitude OF womRn-kind for
having given il this infallible remedy for its
peculiar ailments. IL Is guaranteed 20 give sat
isfaction in every case or money refunded
DIR. Pierce's Pellets, ono dose. Cure head
ache, constipation and indigest on.
IT Is said that profanity is never heard In
Japan.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18

Ever since 1854 there have been women GnOre
each y5dTl who claim that there Is no soap half
as good, or as economical as Doobins's Electric.
There must be some truth in their claim. Try
Il, see how much. Your GROCER has il.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18

THE Dominion of Canada has a population
of $4,000.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18

Dr. Nansen, the explorer, says that the
ice in Greenland is 5000 feet thick.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18

A pocket match-safe free TO smokers Of
'Tansills Punch" &c. Ci-ar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18

1famicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thorn p
son'sEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bsttl 2
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-18

one on the south side, where the great
work shops are"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-01
Rather Meager as a Fee.

speaking of marriage fees" said a
prominent clergyman. ''recalls very
embarrassing blunder which was perpe-
trated upon an innocent brother
clergyman recently. The groom, who
was not a very nervous fellow. either,
carelessly poked an old plantation
negro ballad into his vest pocket with
the five dollar bill which he intended
as the marriage fee. During the
excitement which followed the cere-
mony the young man placed the ballad
in the palm of the clergyman. After a
fervent God-speed the officiating
clergyman left without inspecting the
negro song. The divine was indignant
when he discovered the nature of the
bit of paper which he had slowed
away in his wallet. However the
young man found the five dollar bill
in his vest pocket, made a hurried
examination and succeeded in allay-
ing the ire of the clergyman. Christ
ian at Work.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-01
EGAN ON PIGoTT7.

Patrick Egan DenOunce6 the London
Times Latest Witness as an Infamous
Scoundrel and Unscrupulous Blackmatl-
er and Forger, Whose Equal Has Not
Appeared since the Days Of Reynolds
and Sammy O'Brien.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 21.-Patrick Egan,
in an interview last night, referring to the
letters made public in London yesterday
-Pigott's of February q and March 8,
1881 and Egan's reply of March lin
which Pigott threatened to publish for the
government, unless his silence was bought,
certain documents against the Land
League, which he believed to be false
and in which Egan Indignantly rejected
Pigott's proposal, said: "These letters
supply the motive for and the key to
the entire London Times forgery.
Since the days of Reynolds and Sammy
O'Brien no such infamous scoundrel has
turned up in connection with Irish Nation
ality as Richard Pigott. A systematic
and inscriptions blackmailer, an expert
forger, he has been for years on the secret
service payroll of Dublin Castle. While
he was writing those letters to me he was
at the same time in connection with Fos-
ter, the Coercion Chief Secretary for Ire.
land. Mr.. Parnell and l bought out his
two newspapers, the Irishman and Flag
of Ireland, and my exposure Of
his attempt at Matchmaking cut
him off from the National ranks
and Irish Nationalism. Long be-
fore this exposure he had been secretly
assailing the National movement, and
since that he has both openly and COW
ertly carried on a warfare against Mr..
Parnell and especially against me, culmi-
mating in the "Parnellism and Crimes"
articles and the forged letters. With the
exposure of the villainous authorship Of
the articles and the forgeries the London
Times stands condemned"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-01
WHIRLWIND'S WORDS.
He Fears the Effects of the Invasion OF
the Whites of Indian Territory and
Pleads for Protection.

He Fears the Effects of the Invasion of
the Whites of Indian Territory and
Pleads for Protection.
New YORK, Feb. ola Herald special
from Fort Reno, l. T., says a delegation
of seventeen chiefs and head men of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes, headed by
Whirwind, chief of the Cheyennes, called
on Colonel Wade, commanding at Fort
Reno, on Tuesday, to submit through him
a petition to the President and Congress.
Whirlwind made an eloquent speech en-
bodying the subject of the petition. He
feared the effects of the invasion of the
whites, which will undoubtedly take place
if the oklahoma bill' becomes a law.
He asked for protection to the Indians in
their rights. On account of droughts
they are unable to support themselves by
farming, and they ask for land enough to
enable them to raise stock. If white peO-
pie must have portion of the land which
the Indians had supposed was for their
own use, let the Indians be kept in body,
and not scattered throughout the Terri
tory. They desire to be their own neigh
bors while their children are being edu-
Gated. Whirlwind feared that they will
be placed at the mercy of white men, and
that with the whites will come a traffic in
whisky, which will prove injurious to the
Indians.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-01
FLOOD is DEAD.
Death at Heidelberg, Germany, of James
c. Flood. the 'Bonanza" Millionaire CAL
ifornian.

Death at Heidelberg, Germany, of James
c. Flood. the ''Bonanza" Millionaire CAL
ifornian.
New YORK. Feb. PA special tele-
gram from Heidelberg this morning an
nounces the death at that place of Mr..
James c. Flood.
Mr.. Flood was at the head of the greatest
banking institution of San Francisco, and was
known as the Bonanza Millionaire" He was
born in New York about 1926 and received a
common school education. In 1919 he sailed
for California, making the long journey around
the Horn. He had trouble sometimes. dis
appointments and failures and plenty of
hard work until 1854, when he became
The leading partner in the firm of
Flood & O'Brien. They kept q liquor saloon
and sort of an exchange. In 1862 these
men made their first investment in the Com
stock lode. Nevada. John w. Mackay Joined
them in 1862 and James c. Fair became the
ourth partner in the mining property. Flood
projected the Nevada bank. in company with
Fair and Mackay. 1t was Just previous to this
time that he made that heavy call on the Cali
fornia bank which led to its suspension, and
&c ide ntaly to the suicide of VIM. c. Ralston.
Mr.. Floods wealth is estimated at Ss1,0o0,0O0.
he had been ailing for some time. and spent
considerable time IN Heidelberg whose waters
he was taking.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-01

DEATH OF DR.. BLISS.

The Eminent Surgeon Who Attended
President Garfield Succumbs to Paraly-
sis.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Dr. d. W. Bliss,
he well-known physician who gained
National reputation on account of his
connection with the case of President
Garfield. died here this morning of pa
ralysis followed by cerebral hemorrhage.
About ten days ago DR.. Bliss suffered a
slight stroke of paralysis, but his condi-
ton was not regarded as alarming until
yesterday. when he grew rapidly worse,
and at fifteen minutes after seven O'Clock
this morning expired.
DIR. Bliss was born August 10 1925 at Auburn.
y. Y. When a young man he moved to the
Western Reserve Of OHIO and graduated at tho
Cleveland Medical College about 1850. In 1851
ne moved to Ionia, Mich. and year later to
Grand Rapids, where he made quite reputation
as surgeon. During the war he served as an
army surgeon in charge Of the Armory Square
Hospital in this city. His services in President
Garfields case are matter OF recent history.
After the death of President Garfield, DR.. Bliss
resumed his practice here, and was actively
engaged in it up to a few weeks of his death.