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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Buttermilk will take out mildew
stains.
Bottles are easily cleaned with hot
water and fine Goals.
A dampened cloth is better Shan dry
one for dusting furniture.
If the hands are rubbed ON a stick of
celery after peeling onions the smell win
be entirely removed.
To remove rust from steel, rub with
kerosene, and soak for n day, polishing
with emery dust and kerosene.
If a cucumber is cut into strips and the
pieces put into places where ants are
found, it will surely drive them away.
A cloth saturated in kerosene oil and
dipped into whiting, for cleaning tin
ware, is much better than anything else
useo
If new calicoes are allowed 10 lie in
strong salt water aD hour before the first
washing, the colors are less likely to
fade.
Table linen should be hemmed by
hand. Not only does it look more dainty,
but there is never IA streak of dirt under
the edge after being laundried as with
machine sewing.
There should be small table about the
height of the range or stove for use as
resting place for utensils when omelets,
griddle cakes, etc, are made. 1t should
be covered with zinc.
In bottling eatchup or pickles, boil the
corks, and while hot you can press them
into the bottles And when cold. they are
tightly sealed. Use the tin foil from com
pressed yeast to cover the corks.
If the material is washable at all, black
dye can practically be rendered fast
color by the help of the salt water bath
before the general washing is commenced
upon. After such treatment faded black
caused by washing will never occur.
Nothing so quickly restores tone to
exhausted nerves and strength to a weary
body as bath containing an ounce Of
aqua ammonia to each plilfui of water,
IL makes she flesh firm and smooth as
marble, and renders the body pure and
free from all odors.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
Novel Method of Removing Rats.

Texas farmers have been almost ruined
by the depredations of rats. To get rid
of them novel expedient has come into
use. The farmer findsa burrow in which
from fifty to hundred rats reside.
Every exit save one is carefully stopped.
At this one is placed common iron tea
kettle. Opposite the spout is bored a
hole in which is inserted a piece of gas
pipe about one foot long. Over the
spout is placed another piece of pipe,
which is run into the opening leading to
the burrow. A fire Is then built in the
kettle and couple of handfuls of sui
phur thrown on the Goals. The top be-
ing closed, the fumes are driven into the
burrow by a hand bellows, the nozzle of
which is inserted in the top pipe. Some
of these burrows are fifty yards in length;
the fumes go through all its passages,
and in five minutes every young and old
rodent is dead.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

Housekeepers are often puzzled to de-
wise way to make the hard parts of a
ham palatable. But after the better por
tion has been sliced off, the remainder
can be converted into a very tempting
dish.
Cut all the meat from the bone and
chop it fine, boil six eggs hard and chop
them also. Put in the bottom of small,
deep pudding dish layer of the chopped
ham, then layer of egg. Moisten with
cream sauce, add a second layer of ham,
anQher layer of eggs, Doisten again
with bread-crumbs, dotted with bits of
butter. Bake about half an hour or un-
til the top is brown.
The cream sauce consists of one table
spoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of
-four, and cupful of milk. Melt the
butter and -four and stir in the milk.
Ladies Home Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
CITRoN PRESERVES.

Cut the citron in pieces about two
inches square, and boil it in soda water
until it is so tender that a straw will
pierce it easily, then skim it q and let
it lie in weak alum water for three hours,
and after that, in cold water for one
hour. Make syrup Of one quart of wa
ter and four pounds of sugar for every
four pounds of citron. Boil this syrup,
removing all scum, until 1t is clear, then
put in the citron and let it remain, cook
ing slowly, until the sugar has penetrated
it thoroughly, when it must be dipped
out of the syrup and packed into jars.
Boil the syrup until it becomes ropy,
flavor it with lemon or stick cinnamon or
extract of ginger, then pour it over the
cltron, sealing the jars as soon as they
are filled. Yankee Blade.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
TO BAKE DRY FISH.

Make sauce of one and half ounces
of chopped fat bacon fried in the bottom
of saucepan with one ounce of beef
suet and two ounces of carrots, onions
and tomatoes. When these nRdieos
are brown, STIR in three tablespo@nfuls
of flour, which should. also brown; add
a quart of hot watsr and season with salt
and pepper. Let this boil gently one
hour, skimming it clear When the vege-
tables are soft, rub the sauce through
sieve and add a tablespoonful of vinegar.
Clean the fish if it is a whole one, and
lay it or the cut fish in the dripping-pan
on a few vegetables, slivered. Season
with salt and pepper and pour over it a
half pint of stock or hot water. Bake
half an hour. Pour little of the sauce
on dish; lay the fish in, with boiled
potatoes aroundit. Serve the remainder
of the sauce in a boat.-New York Wit
ness.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

AN ECONOMICAL MAN.

He lived on thirteen cents day
Ten cents for milk and cracker,
One cent for dissipation gay,
And two cents for tobacco.
And IL he wished an extra dish
He'd take his pole and catch fish.
And IL his stomach raised a war
'Gainst HIS penurious habit,
He'd go and kill a woodchuck, or
Assassinate rabbit;
And thus he'd live in sweet content
On food that never cost a cent.
And, that he might lay by in bank
The proceeds of his labor,
He'd happen round at meals, the cranki
And dine upon his neighbori
And then he'd eat enough 10 last
Until another day had passed.
He bought no pautaloons nor vest,
Nor rich, expensive jacket;
He had one suit--his pas bequest-
He thought would stand the racket"
He patched it thirty years, It's true,
And then declared twas good as new.
He owned but one suit to his back,
And minus cuffs and collars.
He died, and left his nephew Jack
Nine hundred thousand dollars
And Jack he run this fortune through
And only took year or two.
s. w. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
Out r
-NeiO York Herald.
An EmperOr,s Mania fOr Uniforms.

Emperor William has developed a
mania for new uniforms and costumes
which is worthy of George ~. He has
established a new body-guard for the
Empress, which is to do sentry duty be-
fore her apartments at the palace, and is
to serve as her escort at reviews and
State functions. For palace duty the
uniform consists of white Brandenburg
coat with cherry-colored facings, and
huge shoulder-knots in black, white and
silver white waisteoat coming down
low, white trousers and ''jack" boots.
There is also black velvet, three
cornered hat, with cockade and feather
in the Prussian colors. The escort uni
form is much the same, except that the
hat is replaced by helmet Of polished
steel, crested with a golden eagle.-
Times Democrat
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
FoR MAKING GOOD COFFEE.

Most connoisseurs prefer a half-and
half mixture of Mocha and Java. To
make for family of four, wash one egg
and break into a bowl, shell and all;
beat with fork until it is frothy, then
beat in pint Of cold water, little at a
time. Add generous half pint of
coffee, mix thoroughly and pour into
the pot Set on the back of the range
where it will heat slowly half an hour,
Keeping the spout closed to prevent the
escape of the aroma. Then add about a
pint and halAof boiling water and
bring to boiH<Rirring down once or
twice as the grounds gather at the top.
Serve with plain Or whipped cream or
with condensed milk as preferred.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
IF WE KNEW.

Could we but draw back the curtains
That surround each others lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur the action gives,
Often we should find it better
Purer than we Judge we should;
We should love each other better
II we only understood.
Could we judge all deeds by motives,
See the good and bad within,
Often we should love the sinner
All the while we loathe the sin.
Could we know the powers working
To overthrow integrity,
We should judge each others errors
With more patient charity.
If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the effort all in vain,
And the bitter disappointment
Understood the loss and gain
Would the grim external roughness
Seem, wonder just the samef
Should we help where now we hinderl
Should we pity where we blameS
Ali we judge each other harshly,
Knowing not life's hidden force;
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at its source.
Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains of good;
OH we'd love each other better
II we only understood
-Womdn's Work
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

Those who spent the year 1889 in New
York will not be surprised, says the o.
serper, to learn from Sergeant Dunn,
Chief of the New York Signal Service
Bureau, that the year 1889 was the wet
test on record. The total rainfall for
that year was 5s.6s inches. Sergeant
Dunn describes it not only as the wet
test, but the warmest and wettest. A
singular incident about the weather of
the past winter is that the coolest and
warmest days of the winter were each
found in the month of March. On
March, the thermometer dropped to six
degrees. On March IL it reached seven
ty-one degrees, the maximum aud min
imum thus occurring within five days of
each other. Last year gave us the warm
est Christmas day we ever had so far as
records shows. the thermometer reaching
sixty-five degrees in the afternoon. Ser
geant Dunn argues that the conditions Of
the weather have been such as TO make
it tolerably safe TO expect a cool summer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
Carrier Pigeons and Poaehers.

General Cameron, commandant of the
Royal Military College at Kingston,
Canada, is organizing a system of mes
senger pigeon stations throughout Canada.
He proposes that the Canadian cruisers
utilize the pigeons by having stations
along the coast, and thus communicating
news ofpoachers aud fishing vessels. The
practical object in view is TO supplement
the facilities for the rapid transmission of
messages afforded by telegraph lines. He
proposes a chain of twenty-six stations
from Windsor, Nova Scotia, to Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

The irony of fate is seen in the sad
fate Of Captain Couch, the Oklahoma
boomer. After devoting his time and
energies for several years to organizing
raids into that forbidden region, aud
thus doing much to force its opening to
settlement, he was so beaten in the race
for land when the day of jubilee came
that he was compelled to jump another
mans claim, and was shot in the leg and
killed in consequence.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

"The Southern States says Dirie,
"should make grand display at the
Worlds Fair, Each State should have
an exhibit which would show the world
just what her resources are, and what
the capitalist and immigrant can expect
to find, when they seek her borders.
The Southern expositions held in Louis
vile, New Orleans and Atlanta have
been of incalculable benefit to the South,
having brought millions of dollars to our
mines, quarries, cities and manufacturers.
The outside world must see what we
have, and the Worlds Fair will be the
place 10 advertise our resources"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

The unmarried women of Massachu-
sets, according to the reports of its saw
ings banks and other institutions, have
s29, 200, 900 in deposit. Perhaps this
will explain, hazards the New York Neps,
why the women of Massachusetts, have
the reputation of being so independent,
as nothing contributes to the feeling of
independence like good bank account
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
A NOVEL WAY OF BAKING APPLIES

NOVEL WAY OF BAKING APPLES.
Peel lemon, cut it in slices and take
out the seeds; lay in a shallow tin pan
and on each slice pared and cored
apple; fill the pan half full Of water and
bake until the apples are tender. Lift
the apples into a dish and place the pan
with the lemon and water on the stove,
add half pound of sugar to every half a
pint Of water; boil for half an hour until
it jells; place a slice of lemon on each
apple, pour the syrup over them and let
them get very cold before serving. -
Washington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

Mr.. Foster, of Buckfeld, Me-, the
largest manufacturer of toothpicks in the
world, says of his make alone there are
now enough in stock to supply the United
States for two years. When running, his
mills will produce in twelve months more
than the total American consumption for
twice that time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

Poverty has driven many persons to
suicide, observes the New York Herald,
but the story from Moscow of the widow
Of an army officer and her five daughters
locking themselves in room, turning on
the gas and dying from suffocation on
account of dire want excels in horror
most cases Of the kind.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
What the Band Was Playing.

First Steamboat Psssenger-"There's
a brass band playing ON deck"
Second Steamboat Passenger-'1
don't hear ID. "
F. S. P.-"Probably not; dozen
drummers can play game Of draw with
out being heard all over the ship
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

Now that Canada has been scratched
off the list of safe resorts for American
rogues, remarks the New York Telegram,
Australia looms up as non-extraditable
paradise. The length of the journey in
volved may prove handicap in ras-
ooi;t,v
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

The pet names for four baby States are
as follows: North Dakota is the "Flick.
ertail State" South Dakota is the
"Swiuge Cat State" Washington is the
"Chinook State" aud Montana is the
"Stubbed- Toe State"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

French scientific men and engineers
are discussing the feasibility of rail-
road across the desert of Sahara. 1t is
claimed that such an enterprise is neces-
sary to confirm the hold of France upon
her possessions on the west coast of
Africa and to develop the north African
provinces that she holds.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

Apostal convenience in Mexico is an i'm
mense insurance company which guaran-
tees the senders of valuable letters and
packages against loss in the mails.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

II is an open secret, ayers the New
York Commercial Adoertiser, that the
German Army has not that affection for
the Kaiser that existed between Paul and
VIRGINIA
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
An Inrentire Genius.

Hardbake-'I hear that that chap
Dryson is somewhat. of an inventor"
Snarleigh-"Yes." !"
Hardbake--''What's he ever inyentedl"
Snarleigh-"Lies. -
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

The United States Patent Office is
more than self-sustaining. On the books
of the Treasury it has to its credit some
thing like SO, 900, 900.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

wounds and the nurses who cared for
them shook their heads gravely over the
young strangers given so mercifully into
their hands.
Richard woke to consciousness first,
but lay with closed eyes, resting and try
ing to think why he was there and what
had happened.
All at once he heard a voice he knew
and loved. It,was Eloise, delirious with
fever. "Rich&d, she was saying; ~
love you now, loved you all the time,
but did not know il. Richard, did the
horrible waters drown you9 o, my dar-
lingi"
He opened hJeeyes and looked across
the room taNafd the weak voice dying
away into silence. What he saw was
Eloise lying on the snowy cot with closed
eyes and flushed cheeks-Eloise pitt
fully thin aud changed, but Eloise still,
despite the lines of pain on her white
brow, left there by the agony of that
fatal night.
Richard, looking at her thus, loved
her all the better for these marks of sor-
row; they made her tenfold dea:er to
him; their mutual distress had welded
together their souls forever.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
Growing Younger.

Hardbake-''M Withegs seems 70
grow younger every day"
snarleigh-"Yes, she win soon have
reached her second childhood.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

More than two thousand farmers have
applied to the Agricultural Department
at Washington for seeds of the sugar
beet.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

II is understood that il will cost 5000,
600 to render the old Treasury vaults at
Washington secure.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

In Paris they arrest and punish any one
who throws banana peel on the side
walk.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
THE ROMANCE OF A FLOOD.
HARRIET F. cRocKER.


They had parted coldly.
Richard Holmes had walked rapidly
up the street to his boarding place with
white face, sternly set lips, his hands
clasped tightly behind him, and his whole
frame quivering with wounded pride and
keen disappointment.
Eloise Ellison had turned her pretty
face homeward with proud little toss,
and look of something like triumph in
her coquettish dark eyes.
That she was a spoiled and petted
beauty, every one in the village knew;
and that she was as willful and capric-
ious and exacting, as she was bright aud
pretty and bewitching, every one knew
rs well. The only child of the wealthy
mill-owner, from her very infancy in
dulged in her every wish and fawned
upon by admiring friends, it was no
wonder that she was, when she chose to
be, a most tyrannical specimen of young
womanhood
She had chosen to be such the after
noon she met Richard Holmes, her fa-
theirs bookkeeper, on the street, and al
lowed him to turn and walk beside her.
1t was raining, and she graciously closed
her own elegant little umbrella to share
the larger one he carried.
They had gone on together enjoying
the rain, laughing and chatting gayly,
gossiping in their hight way about this
and that happening in the social life of
the village.
parhano ha had obooan a., iraurn;, n; o,,a
moment to declare his love and offer her
his hand, but, inauspicious or not, he
had spoken and received his answer.
They had exchanged few hot words
and then parted in a sudden frigidity
which seized them both. She had added
such scorn and disdain to her refusal that
it was more than he could bear in silence.
She had even insinuated to him that it
was not herself he loved, but her fathers
wealth. She had wounded him cruelty
and Intentionally, and he had left her
suddenly with cold adieu.
Eloise raised her own umbrella with
a defiant little laugh, and a glance at
the retreating figure, and then turred
homeward humming fragment of the
latest opera.
Her fathers bookkeeperl Presume to
offer her his hand 1t was absurd
Thus she communed with herself as
she went on up the street to her home.
She tried to be angry at the presump-
ton of the man, but in spite of herself
she could not. She had always admired
him--yes, in a way she had quite liked
him, and it was pleasing to her vanity to
know he loved her; but, marriage-that
was another thing, indeed, and quite out
of the question:
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04

For days and days it rained. 1t grew
monotonous and wearisome.
Eloise, wandering aimlessly about the
drawing-room, looking over a book alb
stractedly; striking few chords on the
piano; going from window to window
to look out at the falling rain and the dis
NAL landscape was wretchedly lonesome
and i'll at ease.
Why did not some one come! Even
Richard Holmes would be a welcome
caller, if only to quarrel with. He used
to drop in so often to play a game of
chess or listen to her music. She wished
she had not treated him quite so badly
the other DAY. Why could she not have
said, as other girls would have said, that
she would be sister to him9 1t had
never occurred to her to say that. She
wished she had been less unkind that
day-wished she had held him off a
little longer at least-it used TO be so
pleasant TO have him drop in for an hour
OF two.
The day was closing in dark and
stormy. Eloise from the window looked
at the swollen river, and the pools that
stood here and there on the lawn.
Suddenly she stood erect, and looked
eagerly at a well-known figure coming
toward the house. It was Richard
Holmes.
The girl stood watching his progress
eagerly, as he picked his way among the
pools OF water, her lips parted, her
pretty head thrown back, her dark eyes
glad and bright.
''I am glad he is c1cling," she said,
softly to herself, as she stood, surrounded
by the creamy draperies of Aae window,
waiting for him.
She heard his firm step on the piazza.
She heard him ring the bell, and then
speak few words to the maid who opened
the door.
Suddenlya great roar filled all the air,
drowning the voices in the hall, drown
ing the silvery chime Of the little Fren III
cleck, drowning everything, swallowing
up everything in its awful volume Of
sound, There was a terror in it unlike