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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
IT is THE ALCOHOL WE FIGHT.

call me what you will, hate alcohol.
pray uod 70 give me an everlastingly increas-
ing capacity TO hate with burning hatred any
agency under heaven that can enslave. i'm
orute and take away the best part of a mans
life, and give him nothing but an awful.
black and fearful recollection 70 pay for it y
John b. Cough
Alcohol is the one evil genius, whether in
vine, ale or whisky, that is killing the race
OF men. ."-Dr. Willard Parker.
Since Noah got drunk, and all down
through the ages TO the present time, it is the
alcohol that does the mischief, first taken in
moderation, and in almost every instance the
commencement was with beer, cider and
wine, pronounced innocent by men and
women who ought TO have known better, be-
cause the evil results appear on every hand
Nine-tenths of the drunkards of to-day COM
menced on beer and light wines, but the al
cohol which they contained nourished the
appetite until it mastered its victims There
can DO no compromise ON beer It is the
deVlfs kindling-wood. In every State where
discrimination has been made between
"nat are called the stronger and the lighter
drinks, drunkenness, disease and death follow
with sure and certain tread until it has TO be
abandoned. The prohibitory amendment
now before the people of the State of New
York includes brewed and fermented as we'll
as distilled drinks, because all are alike had
and evil in their results. The prohibitory
laws OF every State include the so-called
lighter drinks The State of Iowa tried the
discrimination awhile, but was compelled
Tor self-preservation TO prohibit all alike. 1t
Is the alcohol that kills, and hence it is the
alcohol that we fight TO the edeath.-,NGtionaL
Advocate
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
TEACHING A HORSE TO PACE,

In answer to the question of O CORE
spondent as to the best way to teach colt
to pace, the Breeders Ga1ette says:
Forty years ago almost every farmers
boy in Ohio, Kentucky and Southern In
diana considered it indispensable that he
should have pacing saddle horse, and
nearly every colt that would not pace
naturally was forthwith taught to assume
this gait. This was done by the use of
''hobbles." A strap was buckled around
each fore leg and connected with the
hind leg on the same side, so that when
the colt was forced to move he could
make but little progress without moving
the fore leg and the hind leg on the same
side at the same time. These hobbies
should not be too rigid at first: that is,
the colt should have little freedom of
motion, but as he becomes accustomed to
them they may be shortened so that To-
comotion will be impossible excepting
by means of the lateral or pacing gait
BY this process, patiently aud persever-
ingly adhered to, almost any colt can be
taught to pace.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
SAVE THE BONES,

Poultry can digest bones as readily as
does dog, if only given the chance to
do so, and they will return more profit
than will that self-same dog. There are
always more or less bones come from the
kitchen, and instead of these being care
lessly thrown away and wasted they
should be saved, in some convenient box,
under shelter, where they can be left
until they have become well dried out.
They can then either be crushed on a
large, fat stone, with heavy hammer,
or else run through one of the small and
comparatively cheap hand mills made for
the purpose. Granulated bone aud bone
meal can be readily procured, and cheaply
as poultry food, but this does not make
use of the bones which accumulate around
the house, and which are generally suf-
fered to go to waste. The hand process
of reducing them is very slow and labori-
Gus, yet it is much better than not to
supply the birds with this very desirable
food, kind of food which in a great
measure takes the place of meat diet
during the winter when insect food is
not obtainable. There is not much use
of trying to reduce them by hand, and
but few hand mills will do it either, when
wet or fresh, but they must be first dried
out by exposure to the air, or else more
quickly dried in an oven. Cooked bones
dry out more quickly than uncooked
ones.--Poultry Bulletin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
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The fact that drunkenness is disease and
n species OF insanity is rapidly becoming
understood, and has been under discussion
for some time by the British Medical Asso-
citation. One of their late meetings brought
out some interesting proofs of the awaken
ing of physicians throughout Europe and
America on this point There is growing
opinion among medical men that the inebri-
ate should be subjected to compulsory deten-
tion and treatment in restorative homes sus-
tanned tpublic expense, and that victims of
alcoholism entering such asylums volun-
tarily should be received without the humilia-
tion of being first brought into court. Pro
posals embodying these ideas have been in
dorsed by many eminent bodies Of prac-
titioners in England, Scotland, Franco and
other continental countries, also in the United
States. In England the Government has
been memorialized for a parliamentary in
quiry into the working OF existing laws con
corning inebriates with view TO getting the
ompulsory-treatment scheme crystalized
into law.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
WHY HE DECLINED WINE. .

In declining wine man said recently: 81
have no prejudice whatever against the use
Of liquors, j think the question is purely per-
sonal, and l decided for myself years ago l
had always been in the habit of drinking,
and had never found that ! allowed liquor
to interfere with business or duty. But once
when was in Salt Lake City, that was years
ago, | made speculation in eggs. / bought
up all could, equipped wagon train TO take
them to mining camps in Idaho, and prepared
to start. 1t was fall and had decided to
start on n certain evening in order to lose nc
time in getting beyond the mountains, where
there was danger of getting in a storm and
losing all my eggs. But the prospect of a
long wagon journey was not cheerful one,
and in bidding farewell TO comfortable
quarters, / solaced myself with drinking.
did not become drunk. l have never been
drunk in my life but | came TO the conclu-
sion that one day more or less would make
little difference. 1t made all the difference
in the world was caught in a storm which
should have missed had / started on time.
lost every egg, was forced to abandon a
valuable train, and when l again landed in
Salt Lake City was broke Drinking had
interfered with my business once. In fact It
nearly ruined Inc, when l should certainly
have turned pretty fortune. 1t has never
cost me cent since that time."-AtIanta
Constitution,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
AN OLD MANls REASONS.

There Is an old man living In the State OF
Maine who is said TO be nearly one hundred
and thirty yea rs old. Just think Of IL How
many changes he must have seen during his
long lifel How different things must be from
what they were when he was young. He has
had good health all his life and enjoys 1t
now. He must have had simple, healthful
habits, and what is very telling fact, has
never used strong drink. Some one asked
him what he supposed was the reason for his
living so long, and he replied; ~ believe It
is because have always worn woollen clothes
both in summer and winter. and have left
all Intoxicating liquors alone" Somebody
for medicine, but he shook his head, and re-
piled, that "wormwood was much better
and was always safe Youths Temperance
Banner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08

throughout this country aud the Old
World. The injury resulting from It's
attack varies from fraction Of one per
cent. TO more than half of the crop. Ex-
perimenters differ in their opinions as to
its harmfulness when eaten by cattle, but
IL is certain that it is not an active poison.
The black powder of the smut consists
of the spores, which are simple, seed
like, reproductive bodies. These repro
duce smut much as seeds reproduce Or
dinary plants. Smut spores may grow
in manure and liquids in the barnyard
for an indefinite period. The smut enters
the corn when it is very young, pene-
trating the soft tissues of the lowest
joints and root of the plant. Smut
does not pass from plant TO plant in the
cornfeld. Outward applications to the
affected corn plant will do no good, for
the fungus is inside, and no application
will reach it. Great care should be taken
to keep the ground from becoming filed
with spores. BY a rotation OF crops the
increase of smut may be prevented. Do
nestle animals should not be allowed to
eat the smut in the field, for they will
distribute the spores in their droppings.
Care should be taken not to contaminate
yard manure with the spores. Infected
stalks should be removed from the field
before the smut balls open, and then be
carefully destroyed. Plant none but seed
that is perfectly free from smut spores.
The spores adhering to seed corn may be
killed by immersion in strong solution
of blue vitriol. In general way the
may be given as follows, viz.
Use as many pounds of blue vitriol as gal
Ions of water. The immersion should
not last longer than fifteen or twenty
minutes. If the wet corn is placed upon
sloping boards the liquid may be drained
off and used over again a number Of
times. Courier-yjorndl.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
How 10 Walk East.

Persons who have never been trained
to walk fast generally quicken their gait
by bending forward and lengtheniug
their stride, at the same time bending
their knees very much at each step. 1t is
pretty safe to say that no one can pos
sibly adopt this style and keep a fair
walk at faster gait than six miles an
hour. The fast walker must keep him
self erect, his shoulders back and chest
thrown out. He must put his forward
foot and heel first, and the leg straight.
He must take strides so quick that they
look short. He must, if he expects to
get good stride, work his hips consid-
erably, overcoming the sidewise tendency
of the hip movement by compensatory
swinging of the arms.
The length of stride in fast walking
is astonishing to those who look at il.
A little figuring will make it clear why
this is so. There are 1850 yards in a
mile or 1850 strides three feet long. To
do mile in eight minutes walker must
cover 22O yards a minute, or eleven feet
a second. Now 220 steps a minute
nearly four a seconds pretty quick
work, as any one may discover for him
self. Even three steps second, OF $50
to the minute, seems quick. The chances
are that your eight-minute man, although
his legs move so quickly that his steps
seem short, is not doing as many as 200
steps to the minute, and, consequently
that the stride is at least three feet six
inches. With a little practice man six
feet high can easily MAINTAIN a tour-foot
stride for half a mile.-LoadOa Society
| Times,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
HOW TO SALT STOCK.

Experience has proved, and many
farmers have acknowledged, that to force
salt upon ANIMALS is to commit fault of
which we have often reason to regret the
effects. In the distribution of salt, we
leave the cattle to themselves and their
own judgment as to quantity, and they
have never deceived us.
We simply place in the manger aud at
the door of each of them a lump of rock
salt, which contains, mixed with common
kitchen salt, suitable proportions of soda
(Glauber salt and sulphate of magnesia
Epson salt), substances digestive and
slightly laxative, and very favorable to
the functions of the stomach and very
important for ruminants. When an ami
NAL feels the effects of indigestion pain
full he licks at discretion his morsel of
salt, and Tecurs to this means of relief
every time he feels the need oft. l have
very often seen animals whose digestion
operated painfully rise, lick the salt for
time, longer or shorter, according to the
need they feel, and surely guided by their
instinct, then lie down and again rise,
lick the salt again and so continue till the
rumination takes place again, and thus to
administer themselves the remedy for the
disorder.
The good effects of this modeof distri-
buting salt to the animals have been
proven to us many years ago in aimanner
which has led us to attach still more i'm
portance to it. In consequence ofthe in
undation of the mines from whence the
salt is procured that we make use of,
they have been deprived of it for some
time; and every week we have had to
treat some of them for disordered diges-
ton, of which the least consequences
were thelos of the labor of the oxen, of
milk of they cows, and their falling away
in condition. But as soon as we have
been enabled to give them this condi-
ment, the indigestion has been removed.
In the absence of rock salt, we could al
ways incorporate with the rock salt en-
ployed sulphate of soda crystalized
(Glauber sal), and which is sold at low
price, and which all salts contain in the
proportion of from three to four per cent.
We consider it TO be the best reactive,
and perhaps the only one against the in
convenience of an excessive consumption
of salt.--Aark Lane England E1press.
CORN SMUT.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Oats are excellent for young pigs.
Keep tomatoes trained to trcllises.
How about building cheap slot
For the silo-corn too late TO ripen.
Secure some clover hay for the colts.
Teased colts often make vicious horses.
Always use a sprinkler to water plants.
Don't let suckers crowd out spring
gratis.
Secure superior seed wheat for fall
sowing.
There is pork in grass as well as beef
and mutton.
Keep your eyes open for the comforts
of your horse.
When you buy farm machinery, buy
the best--and take care of it.
There are said to be fifty failures to one
success in the poultry business.
Thoroughly air-dried shelled corn con-
tains about eleven per cent of water.
Begin to Gull out the best pigs, both
sows and boars, for breeding purposes.
There are but few horses that are not
tractablo and docile if they are treated
properly.
Do not expect any farm animal to
"pick up" its living and put much meat
upon its bones.
II you have any old sheep-scrub hogs
or Improbable cows-get them ready for
the butcher as soon as possible.
If the pastures in which the colts are
kept get short this dry weather use bran
and oats to make up the shortage.
As soon as an animal is matured it
ceases to be profitable to keep, unless it
is work animal and possibly sheep.
A frequent change of pasture for
sheep, say every week or ten days,i is con-
ducive to thrift, and should be regularly
attended to.
Prices for good horses are high enough
to encourage breeders. There appears
to be no immediate danger of over-pro-
duction in this line.
1t costs less to produce q pound of
lamb than pound of mutton. A pound
of lamb sells for more than a pound Of
mutton. See the pointl
In dry weather sheep will crop a good
pasture too close, but at such times they
will scarcely allow shoots of blackberry
bushes, brambles or brush to show them
selves in the pasture.
Education does more for poor farm
er than fertilizers. 1t grows better
| crops and breeds better stock. What
many poor farm, with its scrawny cat
tie and foul acres, wants is happy ap-
plication of brain.
Horses chew no cuds, but cattle have
stomachs C'paunches') which they use
as storehouses for storing cold vituals,
and then remasticate them between
times at their leisure. For this reason,
horses need feeding oftener than cattle.
Some farmers consider certain marks
in COW as Indicating her quality as a
mil1er, but far better guide is to
weigh her milk regularly. That tells
the story without any guesswork, and
tells exactly what every owner ought to
| know.
The Michigan Farmer says; "When
you kick COW just pause and think
that you are kicking dollars out of your
pocket; and when you pound her with
the milk stool that you are robbing
your wife and children of the necessa-
ries, and you probably won't do it."
Cooperative creameries are of great
benefit to dull, backward, unenterpris-
ing neighborhoods. 1t infuses life and
thought into them, and sociability to
some extent. 1t incites to greater care
of live stock and also TO keeping more
stock. 1t relieves women of vast deal
| Of drudgery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
A Marvellous CItr of the Dead.

A map by Padre Marchi shows that
one of the Roman catacombs occupies an
area of nine furlongs in greatest length
by seven in greatest width. A recent
calculation from this map places the area
OF the entire series Of catacombs at sixty
times this amount, and the total length
OF the subteranean streets at not less
than 900 miles. This agrees very closely
with Padre Marchi's estimate by differ
ent method. He conjectured that there
may have been twenty confraternities of
diggers, and that these might have ex-
cavated about seventy feet of road and
100 graves every day; aud this, taking
two complete centuries as the time which
the catacombs continued to be used as
Christian cemeteries, gives a total of 72O
miles, and 5000, 900 graves-hgures,
however, that Padre Marchi considered
much too small. 1featoa IN. j. Am,
srieGR.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
UTILIZING OLD CHARCOAL AND AsHr

UTILIZING OLD CHARCOAL AND ASHES.
The best use to make Of the refuse
materials left in burning charcoal is to
haul out and spread it upon land for a
fertilizer. The small pieces Of charcoal
will absorb ammonia and moisture during
rains and release them for the use Of
plants in dry time, while the potash in
the ashes is an excellent and valuable
fertilizer for all kinds of crops. Wood
alcohol, pyroligneous acid, and similar
products in the distillation of wood are
not obtained from charcoal, but from the
freshly cut timber. You could leach the
ashes, but the potash obtained therefrom
would scarcely pay you for the cost of
erecting the necessary vats.-NeD York
Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
TEMPERANCE.

CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS"
Christian men Oh, rouse youi
Can you idly stand
Whilst this evil traffic
Prospers IN the land,
Killing men by thousands
Causing woe and SIM
Meni Be not half-hearted,
Cowards never win.
Christian womenl Rouse you,
Smite this deadly foe;
Let not Satan conquer.
Up, and smite him nowl
Women, for your households
Dare TO take stand,
Dare TO sweep the liquor
Wholly from tho land.
Mothers Little children
Perish every day;
Children, like your loved ones,
Cast by drink awayl
Can you, idly sitting,
Lot this curse he strong,
While from drunkards' children's
Cries rise up "How longF
Christian womenl Sec thom,
Little children, pale
Trembling, cold. and weary
Can your courage failf
Fighting such a battle
Can you weary be-
When our Saviour told us
"Do IL unto Men1
Chrstiansl God is with us,
Right must soon prevail;
Right the day must conquer,
And we cannot fail.
Fear no foe OF evil,
Fear no blacklist night
Day Is dawning DER us
Soon will all be light.
National Temperdnce Advocate.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
Light Without Fire.

To obtain light instantly without
the use of matches, and without the dan
ger of setting things on fire, is according
to the Mining and Scientific Press, an
easy matter, Take an oblong vial of the
clearest of glass, put into it a piece of
phosphorus about the size of pea
upon this pour some pure olive oil heated
to the boiling point, the bottle to be filled
about one-third full; then cork tightly.
To use the light, remove the cork, allow
the light to enter and then recork. The
whole empty space in the bottle will then
become luminous, and the light obtained
will be good one, As soon as the light
becomes dim its power can be increased
by opening the bottle and allowing q
fresh supply of air to enter. In very cold
weather il is sometimes necessary to heat
the vial between the hands to increase
the fiuidity of the Gil, and one bottle will
last all winter. This ingenious contriv-
ance may be carried the pocket, and is
used by watohmen of Paris in all maga-
zines where explosive or inhammable ma
terials are stOred.-PaH A'aH Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08
SELECT SIFTINGS.

The value OF ton of pure gold is
$602, 1920.
The Bible contains no word Of more
than six syllables.
The smallest division of an American
State is the township.
Illinois and Wisconsin have passed
laws against boycotting.
Mr.. OF, the New York picture framer,
has the shortest surname in that city.
During the middle ages ornamental
writing was included among the fine
ats.
A Nevada City (Cal.) man catches
lizards for cages--a la squirrel-with a
pin fish-hooS baited with fly.
A boy in Peeksville, N. Y, is said to
have hooked in succession two eels whose
combined length was seventeen feet.
The late Pope Plus TX. occupied the
Papal throne from 1S46 to 1878. This
was the longest reign of any Pope on
record.
What is known rs hash in England
Americans call a stew, and what Ameri-
cans call hash is known as mince in
England.
American wheat is called corn and
American corn is called maise, or some
times Indian corn. Pigs feet are called
trofters.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
system operates more mileage than any
other single corporation in the United
States.
The largest American tunnel is the
Hoosic, which is four and three-quarter
miles long, about half the length of the
st. Gothard.
Sixty-fve years ago Emmons Rudge
was arrested in Hartford, Conn, for
selling ice, as the doctors had decided
that it was unwholesome.
The highest altitude reached by any
railroad in the United States is on the
Denver and Rio Grande line, at Marshall
Pass, which is 1882 feet above the
level of the sea.
The chimes of st. Patrick's Cathedral,
in New York city, will consist of fifteen
bells, weighing 80, 900, and cost SIS, 900.
They are not yet in place, but are to be
finished by Christmas.
1t is reported that El<anah Watson, of
Albany, N. Y, was the originator of
cattle shows and agricultural fairs. Tho
first was held under his direction at
Pittsfeld, Mass, in 1910, where he then
had farm.
The tolling of bells at funerals is
relic of the pagan idea that the sound of
bells frightened away evil spirits. 1t
was kept up until watches and clocks be-
came common to apprise the worshipers
of the arrival of church time.
Until this year r. II. Barham has
held the distinction of being the only
person of his name enrolled in the Bos-
ton directory. He came there in 1912,
aud since then no other man named Bar
ham, which isa common name IN Eng
land, has been resident of Boston.
The following notice is posted in the
main stree. or Athens, Ga: "To my
neighbors; If my spring chickens are
disturbing your garden kill them and
eat them. Don't pile them out in the
alley to become a nuisance.
JOHN EDINGToN."
Prince Bismarck is. the only prominent
political parsonage in European state
craft who carries scar received in an
other field-that of battle. He was shot
through the thigh in the memorable
cavalry charge on the afternoon of Mars
la-Tour, in which he rode as a private
draoOon
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08

In England the tea is stepped fully ten
minutes, and is taken with cream and
sugar. Black teas are always stepped.
But Oolong teas should be only suffused
and poured off. Tho lighter colored
oolong teas are, the choicer they are re-
garded.
Tea has literature Of its own since
Pepys wrote, "I did send for a cup of
tea, a China drink of which 1 never
drank BEFORE" and the most celebrated
of tea drinkers was DR.. johnson, "whose
kettle had hardly time to cool since with
tea he amused the evening, with tea So
laced the midnight, and with tea well
coined the morning. "--NeD York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-08

The seat of sick headache
is not in the brain. Regu-
late the stomach and you
cure it. DIR. Pierce's Pellets
are the Little Regulators.