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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21

dicating the very finely divided state OF
the poison and the extreme small guam
tity which is used to each tree, Professor
A. j. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural
College, has conducted some striking ex-
periments. A thick paper was placed
under an apple tree which was thoroughly
sprayed on a windy day, so that the drip
ping was rather excessive. After the
dripping had ceased, the paper Covering
a space of seventy-five square feet) was
analyzed and four-tenths of a grain of
arsenic was found.
The whole matter was well summed up
by Professor Riley in a recent lecture
before the Lowell Institute in Boston, in
which he said: "The latest sensational
report of this kind was the rumor emana-
ting from London within the last few
weeks that American apples were being
rejected for fear that their use was un-
safe. If we consider for moment how
minute is the quantity of arsenic that can
under the most favorable circumstances
remain in the calyx Of an apple we shall
see at once how absurd this fear is, for
even if the poison that originally killed
the worm remained intactope would have
to cut many barrels of apples at a meal to
get enough to poison human being.
Moreover, much of the poison is washed
off by rain, and some of it is thro wn off
by natural growth of the apple, so that
there Is as a rule nothing left of the
poison in the garnered fruit. Add to
this the further fact that few people eat
apples raw without cutting away the
calyx and stem ends, the only parts
where any poison could under the most
favorable circumstances remain, and that
these parts are always cut away in cook
ing, and we see how utterly groundless
are any fears of injury aud how useless
any prohibitive measures against Ameri-
can apples on this score.-New York
World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
THE pRuNKARp,s CHILDREN.

And parents, have you through drink lost
love for your offspring, for the children with
which God has blessed your marriage unionp
Yes your children weep over loved hopes,
but their tears are unheeded; they pray,
they beseech, they implore, they strive to
stay the downward curse, but they are cast
aside, their tears deiiled, youths happiness
turned into gall, hopes faded flowers strew
their young life's way; they must go out
and bear the cold worlds scorn, their sole
relief the tear of "a drunkard's child" or,
worse than that become stolidly Indifferent
to every good impulse, and continue the
vices OF the parent, and become burden
and disgrace to themselves and to society.
And finally. dare not tell you that drunk
enness, the demon of drink, can make the
son lift up his hald and deaf the blow upon
the aged mother who brought him forth
amid the travails of birth; who nursed him
at her breast and tended him in childhood,
and cheered him on against the trials of
youth Oh, dare not describe to you that
gray-haired mother sinking down to the
floor beneath the blow dealt by son rem
dered unnatural by drink. Drunkenness
renders the heart dead to every holy feeling; (;
it destroys within us our reason, our tree
dom, our love. 1t destroys within us the
image of God in our glorious manhood. 1t
destroys the welfare and the happiness of
the family, and step by step, it leads from
one sin to the other, for when reason is gone
the passions cannot be kept under control,
and they become a tax and a pauper in the
natural and in the supernatural order,
Drunkenness leads to an untimely grave.
and in death the drunkard meets with the
climax OF his woes.-Rev. II. Calmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
The Gar Rescnes a Pet Cat.

The Cars long visit in the Danish
capital, a distance from threats and fears
of the Nihlists, is said to have been
most beneficial to his health and to have
put him in a mood for less belligerent
views of the European situation. But
one fright has marred the serenity of his
life in Copenhagen and that concerned
his guards more han himself. Early
one morning guards in the park of the
castle at Fredensburg saw a door leading
to the garden burst open and the Car,
shouting and gesticulating, ran out in
slippers and shirtsleeves. An attempt at
assassin alton was the immediate conclu.
sion, and the guards ran to the rescue,
half of them fastening to the deserted
apartment and the others after the Car.
The latter found the Gar beating two
large Siberian bloodhounds and saw a
big Tom cat scooting off, tail up and
head down. The Gar explained to the
astonished guards that as he sat at his
window he saw the dogs chase the cat,
the iavorite pet of King Christian, into
corner, and, fearing delay would be fatal,
ran to the rescue.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
RahbIt.KlIInp nIndustry. "

In New South Wales the Government
expended over 81, 900, 900 from 1888 to
1890 endeavoring to exterminate them.
Besides that greater sum has been ex-
pended In private moneys. In one year
rs, 5,230, 600 skins had royalty paid upon
them Now, there is another side to
this question of determination, and that
is the rabbit killers and the rabbit skin
dealers interests. The rabbit killer gets
two cents head royalty from the Gov
ernment for destroying the animal. He
then sells the skin at from four to six
cents. On the meat at the canning fac
tories, he averages from two TO four
cents. 1t is nice easy way Of making
money. The skins are bae-pressed ard
exported TO London. In that city there
is a general auction sale of skins every
six weeks. The sales average from fif-
teen hundred to two thousand bales, and
the average to a bale is two hundred
skins. Pasteur endeavored to exter-
inmate the rabbits by innoculation with
chicken cholera. 1t is well known to
those behind the scenes that he did not
get fair trial, and, in fact, was so hin
dered and hampered that he withdrew
his agents from further experiment. The
question has come up before the Gov
ernment again, and bill is now be-
fore the Sydney Legislature asking fol a
vote to build brick wall entirely
around the agricultural boundary of the
colony of New South Wales. Rabbits
will not burrow lower than two and a
half feet, and it is proposed to sink the
wall to that depth. The wall being once
built, general determination of the rab-
bits within the Enclosure will be COM
menced and carried through. The other
colonies will watch the experiment with
great interest, and if it succeeds will
probably all follow suit. Such course
would confne the rabbits to the great
Australian bush, in whose sandy deserts
they would soon die out. What use is
made of all these rabbit skins2 Why,
the hat on your head is made of them.
The hair is plucked off the pelt by
hand. A fortune awaits the man who
can invent a machine to do it. A fine
blue fur is then left on the pelt. The
skin is then pared away from the fur by
delicate machinery so fine that when the
last pairing is cut off the fur sometimes
hangs in one 6lmy section. This is
worked up into ielt. Ordinary hats are
made from rabbit skin. A better class
is made from kind of water rat trapped
in Buenos Ayres, and then come beaver
and musquash, obtained i'll the United
States and Canada. -Bosio on Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
THE EVILS OF INrEMPERANcE.

From the excellent address delivered re-
Gently by Rev. Ferdinand Kittle, of Loretto,
Penn, we clip the following extract:
The general physical effects of alcohol on
the individual may be briefly summarized
thus: The general tendency of alcohol on
nerve matter is to paralyze it, so that all
mental action becomes disordered. Hence
all the variety of hallucnations and aberra-
tions, moods and erratic impulses, which
lead to crimes OF all kinds, without a COM
prehensib BILE bases. The digestive apparatus
becomes impaired, the digestive organs grad
ually deteriorated, the circulatory system
more lax, .caloritication lowered, the blood
poisoned, and exertion clogged. 1t is the
eagerneSS of alcohol for saturation, and its
consequent exhaustion of much of the normal
water supply in the body which makes the
alcohol drinker SO thirsty, and 1t is his
sort, not TO water, but to alcoholic lieuor,
to quench the thirst it provokes which leads
to the drink crave. But it is observed that
these effects of general physical degenera-
tion do not, as rule, manifest themselves
in any great degree until after the higher
functions of the brain and spirit nave been
severely impaired.
1.-The effects upon society and State follow
almost like corollaries TO the problem to the
effects of alcohol upon the individual; for
as alcohol dims and impairs, in the first
place, those functions of love, modesty, ten
derness, and loyalty which form the basis of
basis of society and State, we find that the
alcoholic habit in any form is subversive of
the foundations of society and State. But
the most appalling factor in the entire drink
problem is that of alcoholic heredity; it is
proven that alcoholic degeneration descends
through the second and third, yes, the
fourth generations. And thus we lind that
by means of this poison the spiritual and
mental growth of the race is almost stopped,
while the physical powers are stunted and
weakened and impaired and hence as the
years roll on we get moral and spiritual in
erta in increasing ration; more and more
of mental impotence and insanity, more and
more of will-less creatures ready to fall vic.
Tins to all kinds of temptation and allure.
ments, thus furnishing "a steadily growing
class of criminals and detectives Such
tendencies Of body and mind every person
who drinks may, and in many cases does,
bequeath to his helpless progeny"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
BREWERS AT THE FAIR,

The brewers of the United States claim
the right TO have their business represented
at the Columbian Exposition, and intend to
set forth ''the development of the American
brewing industry; the status OF brewing by
States; the extent to which American
agriculture is benefited by brewing: the
effects OF the increasing consumption OF beer
upon the health and morals of COM
munities,n etc. In fact they propose to open
at the fair great school for the education
of the American people in regard to temper
ance, good morals and material prosperity
as affected by the manufacture and con-
sumption of beer in this country. We only
wish they would set forth all the fLcts in
their true light
Then the w. c. 7. U. might with ad.
vantage give them room in their building,
stlpulating, of course, that there should be
no original packages opened therel One
other condition would be eminently fitting
for the women to exact, viz, the privilege
of seating upon few of the beer kegs as
object lessons some samples of the finished
work actually turned out by the brewers
some of the men, women and children upon
whom this brewing industry" has had its
full effect financially, physically aud
morally.-Minneapoli Congregationalist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
MILK TESTS.


The relative composition Of milk gives
us an idea of the amount of nourishment
obtained from it. There is usually about
eighty-seven per cent. of water, with
about thirteen per cent. of solids. These
solids are the nutritious part of the
liquid, and they consist of fat or butter,
casein or cheese, milk, sugar aud certain
salts. Milk is thus naturally more valU-
able when it possesses greater quantities
of these solids. We often speak of the
richness of milk, and this means that it
contains a larger proportion of fat solid
than any of the other substances. Al
though this fat is the most valuable CON-
mercially, the casein has as much real
nutritious value.
The'value of milk, however, is rated
by its amount of fat or cream, and this
has been brought about largely by the
general production of butter, to which
most milk is used. The other solid
substances scarcely receive any rating at
all. Milk that will show test of twice
as much fat as another lot is valued at
just so much more. Some COWS, and
even herds, vary in the amount of this
fat produced in the milk, aud the ami
mails and breeds have come to be rated
according to the amount of fat which
they produce 10 their milk.
Dairyman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

There are IL, 400 saloons in New York and
Brooklyn.
England spends ninety-nine times more
money for intoxcants than for education.
The moderate drinker is simply a mod
crate drunkard. Think it over and SEQ If he
isn't
II the corn crop proves short, stop making
so much of it into whisky, and there will be
enough and TO spare.
One salocn in town is all the devil ever
asks for to begin with. Give him that and
he won't worry about not being able to de-
stroy boys enough.
Lady Henry Somerset will visit India ere
long, as delegate of the Worlds Women's
Christian temperance Union, and will
preach total abstinence to natives and for
eign residents IN that part of the world
Sir Wilfred Lawson, in recalling the hard
names that have been and still are hurled at
temperance reformers, reminds them, in his
usual happy style, that "fanatics are earn.
est men IN minority, aud faddist is one
VINO knows something more than the rest OF
people"
Germany IS not giving up the beer drink
ing habit. The President of the German
Brewers Exhibition in Hamburg announced
that last year Germany drank so, 3O4 OOJ
hectolltres OF besr AN increase of 2, 662, 450
heetolitres over the consumption Of the pre-
ylous year-thst is, hItsen per cent. in-
crease,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21

THE SAFETY OF ARsENIcAL SPRAYING.
Farmers bulletin No. of the Depart
ment of Agriculture treats of the prac.
tice, methods and effects of spraying
fruit trees for insect pests and fungus dis
eases. The fact that the compounds as
generally used are slightly poisonous in
their character has led some persons to
express apprehension lest their applica-
tion should injure the fruit for consump-
tion. When freshly mixed, either Lon
don purple or Paris green may beapplied
to apple, plum and other fruit trees, ex.
cept the peach, at the rate of one pound
to $50 to 200 gallons of water, the latter
amount being recommended for the plum.
If used on the peach, lime water should
be added at the rate of about two gallons
to 100 gallons of the poison, otherwise
the foliage will be injured,
In the use of Paris green or London
purple the only danger lies in having the
poison about a farm or plantation in bulk.
In the case of spraying apple orchards fot
the codling moth there is scarcely pos
sibility of injury to the consumer of the
fruit. A mathematical computation will
quickly show that where the poison is
used in the proportion of one pound to
800 gallons of water (the customary pro-
portion) the arsenic will be so distributed
through the water that it will be impos-
sible for sufficient quantity to collect
upon any given apple to have the slight
est injurious effect upon the consumer.
AS matter of fact careful microscopic
examinations have been made of the
fruit and foliage of sprayed trees at varI-
Gus intervals after spraying which in
dicate that after the water has eyaporated
the poison soon entirely disappears 3,
either through being blown of by the
wind OF washed oil by rains, so that after
fifteen days hardly the minutest trace car
be discovered.
IN the las Of actual experiment as iu-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Feed your table refuse to the laying
hens.
When leghorns want to sit they are
too fat.
Good pulets lay when six months old,
if not too fat.
In hot weather the poultry quarters
need attention every day.
The roosts aud nests should be washed
with kerosene once a week.
An open shed on the side of the poul-
try-house will be found convent ent.
Young chickens that are in a good
condition will bring better prices than
matured fowls.
1t is quito an item with all young
fowls to give them good feed just be.
fore they go to roost at night.
See how the poultry seek the shady side
of fence or building. How they must
suffer where there is no shady side.
Do your best to keep the sitting hens
free from vermin; it is not pleasant to
be eaten alive while trying to do ones
duty.
When confined one of the cheapest
and best green feeds that can be supplied
is lettuce; it grows quick and gives a
good yield.
Some one remarks that deal of calcu-
lation is required to make a dollar from
poultry. The same remark applies to
any business.
Generally if matured fowls are to be
marketed the sooner they are sent to be
marketed the better, as often prices get
very low in summer.
When you plant those fruit trees this
fall trim in the top to correspond with
the roots. 1t is great mistake to leave
a big top and small bottom.
Cut docks and all other weeds that are
very tenacious of life in August close
down to the root. Very few can sur
vive such treatment at that season.
Pasturage is the basis of sheep hus-
bandry. 1t may be grass, and there be
very little grass about it, but as it is SO
are the sheep in every characteristic.
This is the whole secret OF breeds.
A flock of sheep were attacked by dogs
in Monaghan County, Ireland, with great
destruction of life. Some that wer
bitten, and some that did not show signe
of being bitten, developed unmistakable
evidences of rabies.
The value of pure bred and registered
sheep will be apparent and appreciated
only when the condition is kept up to
the highest notch. Otherwise all the
time and money put into good stock is
total waste. Keep this in mind.
II is the habit of the apple borer to
make his way into the trunk OF the tree
just below the ground. Therefore it is
a good plan to mound about each tree in
the early spring, and later, to rake away
the earth. If they are in the tree they
can then be easily destroyed.
After a young orchard has begun to
grow attention should be gwen to the
shape which the heads assume. A SYM
metrical form can be preserved by rub
| bing off the needless shoots when an inch
or two long, as this is much easier than
to cut of limbs with saw after they
have grown large.
When trees are frat set out they are
naturally weak, and if they are placed
in the way of a strong wind, the chances
are that many of them will be blown
down. For this reason, it is obvious
that the trees should be protected. II
they are sheltered by building, we'll
aud good, but if they are in the direct
path of the prevailing winds, a wind
| break should be erected.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
For nIOuiting Hens.

Many people have learned by experience
that Sheridan's Condition Powder given
once daily in food will supply the needel
material to strengthen and invigorate sick
chickens or moulting hens and get the
young pullets to laying earlier than any
thing else on earth.
Mrs. Edwin Brown, East Greenwich, r.
l., says; II could not do without Sher-
idan's Powder when hens are moulting.
use it when chickens are small, as they often
droop and die when young. To a pint OF
clabbered milk add a teaspoonful Of the
Powder, mix we'll and let the chicks eat all
they will once a day; it does seem to be just
what they need; they soon become vigor-
ous.'
1. S. johnson & Co., Boston, Mass, will
send further particulars to any one free.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
The Dog Market Of Paris.

Among the queer institutions Of Paris,
OF whose existence the ordinary Ameri-
can visitor with all his zeal for explora-
zion has no notion is the Dog Market,
which is held every Sunday in a corner
of the Marche aux Chevaux. 1t is duly
authorized market that brings into the
exchequer of the city an annual sum
equivalent to $500. This, says a corre-
spondent, proves that a great deal of
business is done by the sale of dogs in
the course of the year. A tax of fifteen
centimes is levied upon the head of each
animal that is brought to market. The
number of entries averages IA, 600 annu-
ally, but the exhibition is said to have
injuriously affected the dog business, for
there was a marked decrease last year.
The market is also said to have suffered
from the competition of those who sell
dogs In the streets and take large
families of them every Sunday into the
Champs. Elysees and the Bois dc Bou-
lognc under the preext that they need
air and exercise, but really in hope of
negotiating their sale.-New York Tri'
hume.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21

If possible, every field used for pas
ture should have a shade tree in it. The
trees may produce fruits and nuts as well
as shade. At the proper season plant
two or three trees in the field aud build
permanent fence about them. Fertil-
ize and cultivate WE'LL The fence can
be removed in a few years. If intended
for horse pasture the lower limbs should
not be less than eight feet from the
ground. Never put barbed wire near a
shade tree frequented by stock. The
animal droppings about these trees cause
them to grow far more vigorously than
those not visited. Cut the top back
every two or three years, to mako the
tree spreading. The shade will not
greatly retard the crops growing near.
American Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
WISE WORDS.
Cupid has no brains.

Cupid has no brains.
Most old maids are heroines.
A woman can lie with her eyes.
Few know fame when they see it.
Ambition outgrows its possessor.
They always talk who never think.
Ideas are often choked up with words.
Friendship is more reliable than love.
Poverty may be useful, but it's not or
namental.
Lack of air aud lack OF thought keep
mans mouth open.
sa The luxury of doing good surpasses
every other enjoyment.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make
happy, the true empire of beauty.
Few people disparage distinguished
ancestry except those who have none of
their own.
A babe in the house is wellspring of
pleasure, a messenger Of peace and love,
resting place Of innocence and love, a
link between angels an men.
When a man sits and looks dreamily
out into the night, it is not near so
likely that he is thinking of his girl as
that he is calculating something about a
dollar.
Love exalts foibles into excellences
and blemishes into ornaments; envy
turns admiration into animosity aud
pleasure into poison. Thus the trans
formations made by virtue beautify and
ennoble, those made by vice befoul and
degrade, what they change.
Once woman had taste and a tact
for discriminating the incest shades OF
personality ald character; and they en-
joyed nothing more than the employ
ment Of their ample leisure in gratifying
this faculty. But now they are victim
lied by the same distracting buzz of am
bilious hurry aud worry as the meu, and
in their eager attention to the differ
ences of social rank seem scarcely to
notice the differences of spiritual rank.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-21
pnuNKrNNrss AMONG 1oNpor woMrN.


There is marked increase in drunkenness
among women in England. DR.. Norman
Kerr, President of the Society for the Study
of Inebriety, declares never within his
recollection had he .. % many drunken
women about the s au % ondon as dur.
ing the Whitsuntide i. days. He had fre
querSly seen groups OF four or five, SOME
quite young, all in more or less intoxicated
condition. One of the coroners of London
asserts that he has held of late an increas
ingly large number of inquests upon women,
many comparatively young, whose death
was clearly due to alcoholic excess. A medi
cal committee is now sitting in London to
devise more effectual means of dealing with
drunksrds than treating them as criminals
Sending them repeatedly to prison has nc
reformatory effect. A case is cited of
woman who recently died in Marylebons
Workhouse at the age of forty-eight whS
had been convicted Of drunkenness 30 times
1t is proposed TO put chronic cases under
compulsory detention and to treat druSken.
ness as a disease rather than a vice. Special
provision will be made for those who are
not able TO pay for treatment and mainte.
nance. Chicago Times.