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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
The Sheen7Ynrd.


1t does not require much more time to
take care of hundred sheep at this
season than it does for one or two COWS.
yet they need TO be looked after everv
day. They need fresh water where they
can go to it when they please. Sheep
drink but little at time, but drink
often, when not feeding upon green
grass or eating roots. They need fresh
bedding frequently. They need shed
that will protect them not only from
snow and cold lain, but from drafts of
cold air. The sheep shed should be open
upon the south side to admit the sun.
light and TO allow of the escape Of the
effiuyia from the manure under them,
but 1t should be protected by a board
fence high enough to shelter them from
the wind when lying down.
They should also be looked after each
day, and if there are any weakly ones,
or any that are not doing well, they
should be separated from the main fock
and given little better care aud better
food. No domestic animals are more
cruel to a sick companion than the
sheep, and when one is unable to make
its way good among the rest, i. will
be kept away from the feed rack, and
made target for the butts of Its COM
paniOns, until death releases it. They
should have exercise every day, when
they can take it without getting the
wool filled with snow or rain. 1t is not
the cold that Injuries them, so much as
the extra weight they have to carry
when they get wet through to The skin.
Sheep also seem to dige.t and obtain
nutriment from frost-bitten grass and
from browsing bushes, and thrive better
when they have a chance to do this
every day than they do upon hay alone.
Many sheep farmers make it a practice
TO supply them with pine or spruce
boughs when they are confined to the
shed by heavy SHOWS and such browse
is much relished by them, and seems to
do them good. But they also need good
food with this. If there are not roots
enough to give them a few every day
from now until after lambing time, it
will be better to give little grain each
night, and reserve the roots until later
In the season. Roots are almost an abb
solute necessity to successful sheep
growing about the time they drop their
lambs. The grain may be either oats,
barley, corn or wheat bran. The oats
are best as a steady feed, but the bran is
almost equal in value and costs less.
When culling out the feeble ones,
examine them 10 see if they have ticks
upon them, and lull all that can be found.
The sheep tick, like all other parasitical
yermin, seem to especially like TO swarm
upon a weakly, sick or poorly fed aui-
nal, and it is not unusual TO find more
of them upon sick sheep than would be
found upon all the rest Of the flock. Nor
is the sickness result of the presence Of
the tick, as some have imagined, as they
will be found always upon a sheep that
has been in Tor any time Boston Culti-
Gator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06

Ominously Significant Facts.

Commenting upon the magnitude of the
Criminal Problem of this country, the
New y orl tribune invites public attention
to some ominously significant facts and esti-
mates lately given in a sermon by Rev. f. H.
Wines, Secretary of the National Prison AS.
scciation. 1t appears that the census of 1850
showed nearly 10000 prisoners in the various
prisons of the United States. To these are to
lie added 1000 inmates of reformatories.
virtually prisoners, making an aggregate
prison population ten years ago OF about
10000 persons. Mr.. Wines estimates that
the next census will show 1900 to 50, coo
prisoners and 5000 inmates of reforma-
tories, or total of $1,000 to 10000 men.
women, and children, under legal restraint
and in prison confinement 1t is estimated
that the cost of maintaining these prisons is
fully Sl5, COO 600, and that the cost OF the DO
lice departments is an added SIS COO 900 an
nually; to which must still be added the
cost of all the judicial machinery and of the
litigation requisite for the prosecution and
conviction of this enormous criminal class
il is safe TO assume that seven eighths of the
crime Of the country owes its origin directly
or indirectly to intoXlcants. Waving the
moral aspect of the problem, does the legal
ized liquor traffic. at high or low rate of
license, payt-Ndtionat Temperance Adro-
,ota
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
A Farmers Curiosity Saves a Train.

A terrible accident on the San Fran
cisco and North Pacific Railroad was
providentially avoided by a farmer living
near the track. 1t had rained heavily
during the night, and Russian River was
rising. The morning train coming south
from Cloverdale was nearly due as the
farmer started down the track with no
object particularly in view. He thought
he would see how the new filling of
earth from the caved-in tunnel affected
tbe7y 7yufch and the stream at the south
side of his ranch. Reaching the trestle-
work, some thirty feet high, he saw the
track in position, level and to all appear
ances undisturbed. A hand car and sec
tion men had passed over not long be-
fore. As the farmer stood on the middle
of the structure, looking down, he noted
the great piles of ''slum gullion' dumped
in yellow piles on either side from the
new track above town.
a narrow rivulet poured through the
tortuous channel below, and his sharp
eyes saw something else, overlooked by
the section men. The water had under
mined the sils and loosened the immense
weight of mushy clay on the steep sides
OF the gulch, so it had slid In, crushing
and swapping two of the supporting red
wood piles at the bottom, but Still in
place under the bridge above, which was
merely held in line by the rails. If the
engine Of the south-bound train had at
tempted crossing, the train would have
been doomed, together with the people
on board. No time was lost in tagging
the train, and the company ought to lose
20 time in acknowledging the service
Santa Rosa (Cal.) Republican.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
w. G. T. u. COLUMN,
Conducted bg the Tionesta Union.

The W. @. T. U. meets the od and 4th
Tuesday OF each month, at 8 p. m.
President-Mrs. Eli Holeman.
Vice Presidents-Mrs. J. @. Dale, Mrs
w. j. Roberts.
Recording Sec'y-Mrs. L. A. Howe.
Cor Sec. and Treas Mrs. s. d. Irwin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
The Hot.Red Snsh-

Ihose living in the close neighborhood
OF the city have some excuse that thew
have no need for hot t-beds to advance
crops ahead of the usual time, as every
thing is brought to their doors. But the
farmer, and those not so accessible or
who have not the money to nav ont
daily for everything that may be in the
market, had better make use of this old.
fashioned help to the gardener-the hot
bed. There are very few vegetables
that will stand days of travel and ey.
posure, and be as tasty as those grown
on ones own grounds or in ones own
neighborhood They answer a good
purpose for the million, and TO those
who know no better, are satisfying; but
those who have the facilities to grow
something of their own, or who live
away from the general markets, may, if
they so elect have something better.
In the South, the hot bed time will be
at hand it will gradually travel North.
and TO be in time when it does come,
those who have hot-beds should paint
up and get ready. Those who propose
to begin their use should be looking out
for ways and means. The sash part is
now very cheaply made by manufactur-
ers; the box itself any handy man can
make. The only other article wanted
for starter is the horse manure for heat.
A couple of sashes can be made to grow
large quantity of things, such as early
cabbage, lettuce, caulifower, tomatoes.
eggplant and peppers. Room should
be left to propagate a few slips from
the window plants for the flower garden
in summer; and there should be a sow.
ing of the choicer kinds of flower seeds
for the same purpose. .-Prairie Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06

. Seventy-hve per cent of the readere Of thi
article, either FOR health, pleasure or perma
nent homes, expect TO 20 South In the near fu
ture, and are anxious for reliable Information
concerning that favored country. The ILL
NOIS, CENTRAL Rajrpad, the Home-ssekers
friend, reaching from Sioux City, Sioux Fall.
ana Ohloago, TO New Orleans, passes through
western Kentucky and Tennessee, Mississippi
0nd houisiana, making q direct line TO all
NOhlHhkN as well rs Southern markets
for TINS reason hundreds Of Northern families
arc settling at jackson, Tennessee; Holly
springs, jackson, Terry, Bropkhaven and Nc.
1omb City, Mississippi; and Kentwood, ,Afeola,
Ante Clty, and Hammond, louisiana lfyou
undersigned at Manchester, Iowa, for n COPY of
the pamphlet recently issued, entitled "Pros-
porous Northern Settlements in Tennessee,
of visiting and investing In the South before
prices are greatly advanced, YOU bnhnot make
the trip too soon. J. +. MERRY, Gen. West
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06

And each day and night during tho week you
can get at all druggists Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs, acknowledged to be the
most successful remedy ever sold for the cure
OF Coughs, Group, Bronchitis, Whooping
Cough, Asthma, and Consumption. Get n bot
Tie to-day and keep it always in tho house, so
you can check your cold at once. Price 5Oc
and 81. Sample hnttlcs free.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
The Worthless Parent Of Our Wheat,


We have good evidence that the wild
plant from which has sprung all our
varieties OF wheat is still extaut-the
Aegilopsovata Of the botanist a wild
and worthless grass Of Southern Europe
and Western Asia. 1t is most un-
promising plant in appearance, remark
able chiefly for furious awns or beard,
starved kernels and its habit of shatter
ing the moment it is ripe. But the
English experiments reported in Lind.
ley's Treasury Of Botany (Which con
sisted, first, in sowing a plant which
self'seeded grew year after year up-
changed; second in giving good culti
walton 10 seeds selected each season.
showed such improvement in three or
four sowings as to make it evident that a
few seasons more would result in a
variety of true wheat.
Besides, the aegilops is sub ect to the
same rust and blight as wheat. and its
bruised leaves have the same smell.
Thus evidence goes to show that here is
the ancestor Of our grand ce cal. Did
the prehistoric farmer have the eve to
see the wheattields hid within the rough
aegilops' Hardly. Aside from the pos
sibiity that native varieties existed
which came nearer being wheat than the
wild grass Of to-day, it IS more probable
chat change first arose from its culture
as hay or forage through long ages; the
more so as herdsmen preceded plow-
men, or seem 10 have done so. How
many good grains disguised as grass are
waiting now for US to speak their names
and call them forth}-Ns0 Y0rt IrHune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06

Woe unto him that gircth his neiqhbos
drink, that pUtteSt thV bottle TO him, and
mdkeSt him drunken diso.-Hab. II, Is.
The wicked worketh deceitful work; but
to him that soweth righteousness shall be
true reward.-Rev. II, is.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
Value OF Corn Fodder to nnirrmnn.

Nalue OF Corn Fodder to Dairymen.
OF course no more can be in the silo
than is put in, and analyses of ensilago
so far show that there is little, if anv.
gam in the digestive value of food from
sllolng. The feeding experiments and
analyses made at the New Jersey. Wis
consin and other agricultural experi-
ment stations show that siloinp vcrv
slightly, if at all, increases the palatabii-
lty or actual value of corn fodder nc
food. If equal quantities of corn fodder
are taken and one well cured and tho
other slIoed, they are equally well
eaten by cattle, and the products are
OF substantially the same value. Hence
the popularity OF the silo and of siloinp
largely rests on the more economical
preservation of the fodder; and the de.
gree of that popularity shows plainly
that our methods of dry curing corn
fodder were so waSteful that we realized
only a traction of its value. Professor
Henry has found by actual trials that n
good Wisconsin yield of fodder from
ono acre Cl2, 2j0 pounds) with 375O
pounds OF bran and 2950 pounds of corn
meal, will make 500 pounds of butter
with cows capable of making $50 pounds
OF butter per year. The prices of meal
bran and butter will vary with tbe TO-
callty, but in few cases they will be sucb
that computation on the basis of the
above statements will not show that the
lodder has surprising value. If the
sllo has shown us the real yalue of corn
FODDER, the study and money put in silos
ana siioing have been well spent. and
the information gained worth its cost
american Agricuturit.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
CONNECTICUT capitalists have put line Of
stenmbnnts ON The Innnnssnn RlNcr.


TO tbC Editor-please inform your readers
that have n positive remedy for the above
named disease which warrant TO cure the
worst cases. So strong is my faith In its vir-
tues that Will send II sample bottle and
valuable treatise 10 any sufferer who win give
ne his / u, and Express address, Resp'y,
u. q. ROOT. Nj. Q l. 1S3 nnnrl ST. New York.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06

The latest statistics from Persia give
its dimensions 20, 0S6 square geographi-
csl miles and s popSlation Of 6, 900, 900.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
A gents wanted, 81 an hour. % new articles CatTgu
N and sam les free G 4. Marshall. Lcckpoi MY
THIS MEANS YOU.
This Beautiful $i25.OO Organ
Positively GIvep ANyav.

Positively Given Away.
To the first person sending MS : for 25 packets OF
SecI-, 10 pnctcts most beautiful Flower
seeds, ) packets OF the cho cost Vegetable seed
bngC, uniog, Turuip, Beet, Musk Melon, Gu
Cumber, Celery, Pepper and Lettuce, one packe
each. Kemcmbrr, We ms you present Of tn
Organ AZ you get the worth Of our money in seed
Weuo this to yet every one rrading his "Ad." /,
hay their seeds OF Us. The on' sending the nrr
nearest guess 10 the nLml tr ui grains or korne
in u hall pound a. tOtlce cts the Org an, whicl
viii he sent by freight, ccuielN pRcked. MAJ lst
lss9 Write to-day. send pp.tnt uOtc, mt ne, or e
or resist r,d letter We will not compute with firm
sailing old trashy seeds at cut rnIcs. We sell onh
iHA NJ y, S%WlAl$, sccdsmnp, Bloomin,
tnciItt- aud one gut~~, so cts, send guess &
Iaate piece of IRTer, size ct posta card Mrnt o.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
The Craving for Drink.

No man or woman could invent tale that
would surpasS the facts as far as the awful
craving for liquor is concerned. A telegram
from san Francisco, Cal, informs us of a man
by tie name of Edward w. Homan, a skilful
engineer, who occasionally gees on long
sprees, pawns everything he owns borrows
what he can from his friends, and then
hands all over to the saioon-keeper. On
the 18th of January all his usual methods to
get ten cents failed him, and the craving for
liquor became so strong that he proposed 10
sell his body to a saloon keeper for "A glass of
WHISKY. Pens and paper were procured, and
the following contract was signed;
JANUARY Is, 1889.
This is to certify that l, Edward w. Ho-
man, of the city and county of San Francis
co, for the consideration of one drink Of
whisky, do agree, after my death, TO leave
my body to he disposed of as Albert White
may think fit 1t is my express wish that
said Albert White, at my death, shall sell my
body to the highest bidder.
edward w. HoMANn
Several witnesses signed their names to
this ghastly document, and then the poor
wretch snatChed glass of VIII sky from
Whites hands before it was half filled, and
drank it at one gulp.-Ne,C York Witness.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06
To-NIuht and To-NTorroy, Niri,.

onruoN raised four crops of strawberries last
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-06

Enf Live athome and make more orkH foru tan
Hth8I AZ anything else in world Iithcr - f afct
VEkK lerms flrE Address IHrE Co. Araaa, Aiat.s
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
THE BUNDLE PERIOD.
Lady Buyers Burdened These Days
With Parcels and Packages.
LIVELY SCENES AT THE DEPOTS.
How Can Frail Women Garry Such Heavy
Weights is the Problem.
FLIGHTS OF HUSBANDS AND BRAKEMHS

The various depots Of the city are ad-
mirable places just' at present for the study
of 'tbundle-ism. Entering the Union
Depot yesterday afternoon from Liberty
street the panorama Of bundles that greeted
the eye was for the moment almost over
whelming, but taking courage from the fact
that the bundle is harmless, inanimate
object, except in anarchistic times. the re-
porter meandered down the general waiting
room.
From behind and between the massive
column of bundles ranged along the seats
human head or a fragment of a head,
such as an eye, could occasionally be seen,
or some unusually perpendicular feather
waved triumphantly from a fair damsels
hat or bonnet, and signaled that by long
and continued digging among the debris at
that POINT a woman would eventually be
found.
But wait until the man, who, in stentorian
tones makes periodical speeches to the
people in the depot, puts in an appearance
and informs the waiting public with linger-
ing phraseology long drawn out that
certain train is in waiting for passengers.
The bundle column is broken Immediately,
and in sections at adiversifed speed reaches
the waiting train. A careful observer can
detect the Dropelling power underneath or
behind each section of the column, and the
patient, enduring brakeman, become skill
full by long practice, almost always assists
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
three mlIea ahead q be des-

buquerque three miles ahead of the des-
peradoes.
Hyatt smen had Just received his message
and were preparing to carry out his orders.
Getting together and securing the services
Of q man named JEFF Grant, who also col.
lected men and horses and allowed them the
use of his barn, they went into it and
awaited Allison's arrival. With field
glass the officers finally saw the desperadoes
riding slowly down the valley, and little
later observed that the robbers stopped
they lost sight Of the party and determined
to send a man out to them.
DANGEROUS DUTY.
Grant was selected for that duty and he
rode out and came suddenly in sight of the
fugitives. He rode up to the party and
commenced talking with them. In the
course of the conversation he asked them
where they were going, and was told that
thew were bound for the South. Grant said
that he was going down to Lincoln himself
in a dav or two; that he had beef contract
down there, and was going down on horse
back. Continuing the conversation he drifted
into horse talk and spoke in high terms OF a
race horse which he had and which be
would ride down the country when he went.
This captured the robbers. Visions Of cattle
robheries and sales OF beef to this new con-
tractor and the race horse threw them of the
track, and proposition was made that all
go down together. Grant consented, and
proposed that they ride to town and put mp
at his barn.
This was consented to and four men rode
into the barn, led by Grant. He dismounted
quickly and took Allison's rife in order to
get it out OF the way. This done, Grant
stepped back, threw the gun on Allison and
demanded that the desperate give up. As
he did so Hyatt's men, who were secreted in
all parts of the barn holding their guns
upon the prisoners, made the same demand.
Allison, taking in the situation at once,
surrendered. walking up TO the stage rob
Der Hyatt said in jocose sort Of way:
'WelI, Charlie, 1 took breakfast with you
this morning"
"Yes, - you, and I was on to you all
the time, replied the desperate. 81 had
a notion to take you prisoner then, and I
was fool for not doing it; but I watched
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22

He told the deputy that he had held one OF
the stage horses while Allison and the other
men robbed Sauderson's coach near Pagosa
Springs, which robbery occurred some time
in May, 1881. "Little Tommy" told the
Deputy Sheriff that Allison had gone South,
taking the valley OF the Rio Grande river,
and that ii the officers would take the train
they would overtake the robbers at Albu-
querque. Acting upon this information,
Hyatt engaged three men, named, respect
lively, Miles Blair, S. Alton and h. G.
Doris, and started for the South.
At Santa Fe they received permission
from Governor Sheldon to capture the rob
bers without waiting for a requisitlon.
After leaving that place they went to Al
buquerque, arriving there day in advance
of Allison. The following morning Hyatt
determined to 90 to Bernalillo and ascertain
whethero or not he could hear anything in
regard to the movements of the desperadoes,
arriving at Bernalillo early in the morning.
Hyatt went into a public house there and
sat down in the dining room, where he began
talking with some one whom he happened
to know. He had been there only few
minutes when he heard some one who had
spurs on enter.
AT CLOSE QUARTERS.
Looking up Hyatt saw Charlie Allison,
followed by two men. Allison walked
around the room and took seat just oppo-
site Hyatt. Allison pulled his gun and laid
it in his lap. Hyatt weakened and thought
his time had surely come, as he believed AL
lison and his men could get away with him
there. No effort was made to capture him.
The deputy thought Allison did not know
him, and be renamed at the table talking
to his friend. All ate breakfast at the same
table, and neither party appeared to recog-
nize the other.
After the meal was eaten, Hyatt hired
two horses and Mexican, promising to pay
the latter 500 to ride with him to Albu-
querque. In the meantime, Allison and
his men had ridden out of the town in the
direction of Albuquerque, and had quite a
start. As Hyatt and the Mexican neared
that place, the former became uneasy as he
failed to find his men, whom he telegraphed
to be at certain point. He therefore de-
termined to push ahead, and crossing the
river, rode around Allison, arriving in AL