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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
EARNING AsA BUSINESS.

Probably no occupation is carried on
with so little regard to business rules as
that of farming. The farmer requires
more education and a knowledge of a
greater variety of subjects than any of
the so-called learned professions. The
man who only knows how to turn gCed
furrow, prepare the soil for the seed, stop
the growth of weeds and promote the
growth of the plant, has not mastered the
art of successful farming. Nor has the
man who knows only how to raise fine
horses, sleek cattle or fat swine, or how
to fertilize his fields to the best advan-
tage, raise the best corn or potatoes or the
highest yield of oats or barley. The man
who to-day really makes thorough sue
elements Of knowledge and many more.
1t used to be said that any fool could
cess as farmer must combine all these
be a farmer, but at the present day peo
pie begin to realize the fact that the
farmer needs the most education. The
time has gone by when the haphazard,
slipshod, go-as-you-ple methods of
farming can be made to pay. What would
be thought of the manufacturer who did
not know to the fraction of cent the
cost Of the raw material aud labor put
into a yard of cloth, or the manufacturer
of leather who did not know the exact
cost Of the material and labor required
to make case of boots and shoes. And
yet how many farmers can tell the cost of
a pound of butter or pork, a bushel of
potatoes or corn, or a ton of hayI They
sell their products for what they can get
offered not knowing whether they are
making or losing.
The remedy is this: When farmers
come to realize that farming is a business
as well as manufacturing or banking or
buying and selling goods, and by care
full keeping of accounts learn to figure
the cost of every article they produce,
then a successful beginning will have
been made. Let them keep debt and
credit with every acre of corn, potatoes
or grain. Charge each acre with the in
teres5 on its value, the probable amount
of fe7tilizing material used by the crop,
the cost of labor in its care. Credit it
with the market value of the crop pro-
duced. The difference between the two
VIII represent the proht or loss. A like
account should be kept with the herd OF
COWS. If any one of the number entails a
loss upon you dispose of her. Keep strict
account with the orchard, if you have
one. Debit it with the labor employed
in its care and in the harvesting of its
fruit. Credit it with the value of its
golden product and learn from the balance
~ !
one of your best friends. The farmers
book is one of reference, to which he can
at any time refer for date or article
bought or sold, and price given or re-
ceiyed for the same. Having learned to
calculate the costs of the products of the
farm, the next business is to know how
to sell them. Make study of the mar
kets and learn for yourselves the prices of
those things you wish to sell.-Ne'o York
Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
The Presidents Fathcr-in.Law.

The Rev. DR.. Scott, President Harri.
sons father-in-law, keeps steadily at his
desk in the Pension Office, according to
the New York World, which also says
that "his daughters and the President
himself have asked him to resign his po-
sitioa, but he refuses to live iu idleness.
Shortly after the election, Mrs. Harrison
wrote to her father asking him to quit
work and live at the White House. Her
husband also wrote to DIR. Scott, cor
daily supporting his wife's request. But
the old gentleman sturdily refused the
temptation, and said that he had been so
long used to the routine of his Office that
he could not give it up, His compan-
ions in the Pension Bureau say that his
habits and manners have not changed at
all since last November"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

The Independence (Cal) Independent
says: 1t is doubtful if there is elsewhere
in the world more remarkable deposit
of salt than is found near Silver Peak.
The salt is almost perfectly pure, the
grade by chemical test being ninety
eight per cent. 1t is shoveled into sacks
where found, and is ready for use in that
state. II is as white as snow and of fine
grain. 1t has been proved to be the finest
salt in use for curing meat. When we
have railroad to Los Angeles meat pack.
ing will be one of the big items of Owens
valley business. There will then be use
for this fine salt. In Saline valley, across
the Inyo mountains, is another vast de.
posit of salt. Indians gather this salt,
pack it over in Owens valley and ex.
change it for goods.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

SOME four years ago. at that season
of the year in which migratory fowls
make their trip north, wild goose
flew down in j. n. Youngs field at
Valdosta, Ga. As night approached it
came to the flock of domestic geese
about the premises, and by the aid of
hand torches was captured and its
wings cropped. 1t has remained with
the flock since, eating the same food
they eat. At the season of the year
when geese migrate it appears restless
and uneasy, and will rise and fly a
mile or two away, but always returns
to the flock again.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
A RAT-PRooF CRIB.

d" A crib for ear corn, says a Pennsylt
vania farmer, should be so constructed as
to allow free passage of air through it.,
otherwise the grain is liable to mold be,
fore it is properly dried out. The best
way l know Of to place a Slated or partly
open crib is to set it on upright blocks
ten inches square and four feet high, with
the upper ends trimmed down to six
inches square; on these ends nail sheets
of tin wide enough TO project beyond the
sills, which are to be laid on these tin
covered blocks, so that when rat climbs
up the foundation block he is met by the
projecting tin, which he cannot get over
The crib may then be finished in any form
desired, either open work for ear corn, or
entirely tight, according to the use it is
wanted for, and no mouse or rat can en-
ter it, unless by some carelessness or
neglect on the owners part. Nothing
must be left set up against it to furnish a
ladder for the vermin, and the steps should
be movable so they can be set aside or
suspended when not in use.n
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
FLAX SEED AND OIL CAKE.

The LiUe Stock Record is asked to state
the difference in the value of flax seed
and oil meal for feeding purposes. The
farmer who raises fax seed and cannot
get a satisfactory price concludes that if
oil meal is good, flax seed must be better.
1t is true that fax seed has more fatten-
ing qualities than oil meal, but taking
INTO account the difficulty of grinding
and other matters in connection we re-
gard oil meal as the full equivalent in
feeding value of an equal weight of flax
seed. One hundred pounds of fax seed
contains nearly three times as much fat as
oil meal and twenty per cent. less sugar
and starch, or to be accurate, 81. As
pounds of the elements that form muscle
and growth, whilst oil cake contains but
1895 pounds of fat and heat-formers and
thirty pounds of tlesh-formers. The oil
cake has more crude fiber, which is value
less, and nearly twice the amount of ash
Or bone material. As the protein or
desh-forming elements are the most val.
liable, it will be seen at a glance that fol-
growing stock the oil cake is worth more,
pound for pound, than the oil meal,
whilst the difficulty of grinding the seed
and the waste and danger of feeding it
raw preclude its use in fattening except
in such small quantities as may be readily
boiled and greatly diluted for calves and
pigs.
1t need hardly be mentioned that both
| these foods are very rich and should be
fed very carefully and in small quantities
at first, but oil meal properly fed is ono
of the most valuable and in proper pro,
portions one of the cheapest foods, not,
withstanding its high price. 1t is fed tc
greatest advantage to pigs and colts and
growing calves in combination with foods
which are lacking in the elements OF
which it has an excess.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
THE LoNG-coNrNUED USE OF FERTILIZERS.

THE LONG USE OF FERTILIZERS.
The following query with its reply ap.
peared in a recent bulletin issued by the
Georgia State Agriculture Department:
Question-It is fact, as regards this
section, that the unfertilized land, age
and wear considered, will not produce as
it did before commercial fertilizers were
used. Why is it9 2, Or has the long.
continued use of fertilizers made their
use a necessityl This theory is true as
to the human system, is it also true as tc
the soil and plants.
Reply-1. 1t is because larger crops
have been annually taken off the soil thar
If no fertilizers had been used. The fer
hlizer added to the soil stimulates this
plant to appropriate and the soil to yield
to the plant more of the elements of plant
food contained in the soil naturally than
If no fertilizer were applied. If the fer.
tilizer applied does not contain the ele.
ments of plant food in the proportions de.
manded by the invariable composition of
the crops cultivated, especially if the
lacking element is the one in which the
soil is most deficient, the soil will soon
become destitute of the deficient element.
at least in an invariable form as plant
food. 1t will then no longer pro-
duce as good crops as formerly,
unless the deficiency be made up. The
element most commonly applied which
exerts tins so-called stimulating effect on
the soil is ammonia, which causes a vigor-
GUS growth of stem and foliage, and thus
demands an increased quantity of the ele-
ments already in the soil and returns a
larger crop. Of course, the soil will soon
exhibit signs of exhaustion under such
treatment, especially when it is Iemem-
bered that more of the elements of fer
tility in the soil are annually washed away
by the rains than are removed in the
crops produced on the land.
2. There is no doubt of the fact that
the continued use of fertilizers becomes a
necessity when we continue 10 cultivate
the same land in clean crops, like corn
and cotton. Precisely the same is true
of the use of stable manure. 1t was &
necessity that first induced its use; il
does not become any more a necessity. i
an acre Of soil contains the necessary
plant food, mostly in unavailable form, L
produce 1000 bushels Of corn before i
will have become entirely exhausted, anC
ordinary continuous cultivation in tina
crop, without manure, would reach tn
stage of exhaustion in 100 years, woulC
it be bad policy to fertilize the land anc
cause it to yield the 1000 bushels of corr
in twenty-five years.
The soil cannot be likened to the hu
man body in "a comparison of the sor
suggested; it is the plant that sustain
that relation. The plant in the one,cas
and the human body in the other are tn
objects to be supplied with food. III
theory has no such application.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

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aid PerCes wordlmed Favore
scpo have boomed into beautiful plump hale hearty strong
Prescription" nvgotng restorative tonic and
grlood womanhood 1t perfectly remedial agent and
carefully compounded
delicate organization It Is purely
perfectly condition of the
to For overwoked
opgS mothers and feeble generally Dr
being
the only medicine for women
manufacturers, that
been printed bewrapp and faithfully carried out
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

A clergyman, after years Of suffering from
that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and saved
MIN from death. Any sufferer from this dread
ful disease sending self-addressed stamped
envelope TO Prof. j. A. Lawrence, IS Warren
St.. n. ", will receive the recipe free of charge.
Ifaffiicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp p
sen'sEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
An Indian Warrant.

In early times some of the more intelli-
gent Indians acted as magistrates, says
the Lewiston (Aie) Journal. The follow
ing is represented as the form of a war
rant issued by one Of these officers:
l Hihoudi,
You Peter Waterman,
Jeremy Wicket,
Quick you take him,
Fast you hold him,
Straight you bring him,
Before me, Hihoudi
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

The man or woman who is profitably EN-
ployed is generally happy. If you are not
persons to write TO Il. Il. johnson & Co., 1909
Main ST., Richmond, Va, and they can show
you work in which you can be happily aud
nrnliin nhlY nrnnlnNen.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
An odd Epitaph.

On stone in an old graveyard in
Marthas Vineyard is this epitaph;
BY the force of vegetation
l was brought to life and motion;
When life and motion it shall cease,
] shall return to the same place.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

To the EditOr-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease which Warrant TO cure the
worst cases. So strong is ny faith in its vir-
tues that will send free sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give
me his II. q. and Express address. Resp'y,
II. q. ROOT. NJ. O.. ls3 Pearl ST.. New York.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

JAMES STOKES, of Penn's Manor,
Bucks County, Pa, is thirteen years
old, weighs $50 pounds, and is grow
ing heavier rapidly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
SODEN
MINERAL
PASTILLES
FOR CATARRH
sold by all Druggists. soc. n box.
sODEN MINERAL SPRINGS co. Qimitedh
sole Agents,
Is CEDAR ST., NEW YORK.

THOMAS COLEMAN, n colored boy Of
fourteen, in Anacostia, ID. c., thought
he would have some fun throwing stones
at pigs in pen. One of the pigs be-
came enraged broke out and COM
menced eating the boy, first attacking
the thigh. His cries brought help, but
his injuries we're serious.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
loo Inhirs MnnIeL.

And 100 men TO call daily on any druggist for
free trial package o. Lanes Family Medi-
cine the great root and herb remedy, discov-
cred by DIR. Silas Lane while in the Rocky
Mountains. For diseases of the blood, liver and
kidneys it is n positive cure. For CONSTIPATION
and clearing up the complexion 10 does won-
ders. Children like IL. Everyone praises il.
Large-size package, 20 cents. At all drug
gists'.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

The cost of the Paris Exposition will
be $40, 900, O0O
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

Mrs. ELLIOTT f. SHEPARD proposes
to erect in New York large seven
story fire-proof structure and present
1t to the Young Women's Christian AS
sociation, to be used as a lodging house
and a home for Yorkingwomen.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

The total Indian population Of the
United States in 1886 was 247, ,761.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-12

THERE are about 100000 Americans in
Paris.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-19
He DROVE THE DOCTOR.

81 y 9 - . + ! . T
CHICAGO, June 11.-Chief of Police Hub
bard was asked in regard to the grounds on
which Mcdonald and Maroney were arrested
in New York on suspicion of being concerned
IN the Cronin murder. With regard to the
important OF the two prisoners, Hubbard
said:
sWe attach no great import ance to the ar
rest, as all the fellow had TO do with the case.
so far as we know, is this: He is q we'll
known New York crock and was absen1 from
New York at the time of the murder and we
think he was here, but we do rot know vet
He cannot or will not tell where he was on
May 4. but that does not prove that he MUIR
dered Dr. Cronin or had anything to do with
The crime"
1T is alleged that the Carlsons can identify
him as the man who rented the cottage.
3Buh! sh er nonsense"
sAnd that he was in all probability the
man who drove the doctor away
The chiefs reply, though ineleganu, was
expressive: aRa1s"
Luke Dillon of Philadelphia, on whose in
formation the arrests were made, declined
to say what the grounds of arrest were
States Attorney Longenecker would talk,
however, if Mr.. Dillon would not
sIhe men are arrested and there is noGhinp
to conceal now. Maroney is the man who is
suspected of driving the doctor from his
office to the Carlson cottage About the
other man don't know so III UGH but we ex-
pect to prove that be was in the conspiracy
Maroney is aIaborer, I think, anC Mcdonald
is blacksmith I got this Information from
Mr. Dillon, and we will learn how much
truth there is in it later on.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-19
A LITTLE SCANDAL.
1t eliminates in the Dismissal OF
Clerks in the Pension Office.

1t eliminates in the Dismissal of
Clerks in the Pension Office.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, June H.
A small but rather complicated scandal de-
veloped at the pension Office to-day, result
ing in several dismissals. The most import
ant was that Of George B. squires, Commits
sioner Tanners confidential clerk Squires
is a Grand Army man from Brooklyn, and a
personal friend of Tanners He has pre-
sumeu upon this relation to do great deal
Of important business in Tanners absence.
A dispatch in the New York Times this morn
ing accuses Squlres of giving special favors
and precedence In consideration of cases TO
a certain pension agent in the city The
commissioner denies this story, but has re-
moved Squlres all the same; that is Squires
resigned the Office of confidential clerk,
where he was receiving a salary of ST. 500,
and was appointed special agent of the gem
eral land Office at a salary of 81 200
he was assigned to Helena, Mont, wnere ne
will investigate land frauds. Squires had q
clerk named Van Brunt, who was discharged
at the same time. He was mixed mp with
Squires in the expediting business, and there
are said to be other reasons for his removal
not of public interest On July / it is ex-
pected that large number of changes will
be made in the pension Office MANY dis
missals have taken place on the leave of alb
sence plan, and others will follow In abol-
ishing the board of review, quite number
of clerks will be dispensed with, and in es-
tabllshing new board of examiners for the
increase division nEnberof appointments
may be made, some of which viii not cone
under the civil service rules
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-19
BOWERS NOT INDICTED. .
Report Of the Grand Jury Investigating tn
Rochester Insane Asylum Murder

Report Of the Grand Jury Investigating the
Rochester Insane Asylum Murder.
ROCHESTER, Special Telegram, June IL
After sitting of nearly two weeks the grand
jury has finished the task of investigating
/ The hospital horror aud was discharged The
report deals almost exclusively with the
question of hospital management in general
and the alleged murder of Combs in par
ucular, and is as follows:
We fully examined the institution as to
whether the superintendent, j. E. Bowers, or
any other persLn or persons were accessories to
the alleged crime OF Beckman and Peterson, and
find no evidence tending to show that they were
For this reason no indictment has been returned
against the superintendent or other persons con-
nected with the mana cement of that institution
The law upon the question. as we are advised is
cont aimed in section % of the Penal Code which
reads as follows: "A person who after the COM
mission of felony. harbors conceals or aids the
offender with intent that he may avoid or es-
cape from arrest, trial or conviction or punish
ment, having knowledge or reasonable ground
to believe that such offender is liable
TO arrest, has been arrested, is indicted
or convicted or has committed felony is
an accessory to the felony. AS we understand
the law, to render person accessory after the
fact. he must harbor conceal or aid the felon
with intent that he may so escape punishment
and that this int ent is absolutely essential to
constitute the crime. We were unable to find
s any evidence tending in the slightest degree to
show nat the superintendent or any one else
8 did or omitted ANYTHING in relation to the case
in question with the intent to assist the accused
TO escape punishment. We do. however, find,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-19
HAZELTINE'S MURDER.
Preparations for the Trial Of His AS
saSSinS

Preparations for the Trial of His As
sassins.
WAUPAcA, Wis, Special Telegram, June
14.-The all-absorbing topic here is what is
known as the Curran murder trial,
which set for Wednesday, June 10, in the
Waupaca county circuit court at this city,
Judge Webb presiding. The witnesses in
this noted case are now being snbp9naed.
ana it said that over two hundred persons
will be called to testify at the trial. F. B.
Lamoreux, district attorney of Portage
county, assisted by George W. Bird of Mad
ison, Neil Brown of Wausau and Joe Ray
mond of Stevens Point, will conduct the
prosecution. The defense will be conducted
by Charles W. Felker of Oshkosh. Judge Cate
of Stevens Point, Myron Reed and Irving p.
Lord of this city,. 1t is expected that it will
take two or three days at least to secure a
jury, and the prospects are that at least three
hundred jurors will have to be drawn, before
twelve unprecedented satisfactory to both
sides can be secured. The crime for which
Henry and John Curran are to be tried is
that of
THE MURDER OF W. W. HAzELTINE,
for many years a prominent and leading at
torney of Stevens Point 1t is claimed that
John Curran did the killing and that his
brother, Henry Cnrran, was an accessory
The alleged murder took place at Stevens
Folnb IN April, 1888, HaZelGlne was shot IN
the daytime whils passing along the public
street near the Curran house. The prosecu-
ton claims to be able to show that John
Curran was the author Of the deed and that
Henry Curran was an accessory. The de-
PENDANTS have not yet made known their
line of defense, neither will they until the
easel chilled. They are men widely known
in Wisconsin and extensively engaged IN the
lumber business at Stevens Point They are
politicians of wide influence and it is said
they have made and unmade assemblymen.
state sena' oss and even congressman in their
district Hazeltine is son-in-law Of
Mathew Wadleigh and is the person who
nearly two years ago shot dead Banker
ductlon Of Hazeltine's wife. For this act
Hazeltine was acquitted by Portage county
jury, the defense OF emotion al insanity hav-
ing been successfully presented in his be-
half