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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14

then raised sloft and dashed to the
ground where, a crowd Of Amazons and
common people rush with tho greatest
fury upon the poor wretches, cut off
their heads, and often divide their bod
les into many pieces. Governor Bayol,
while in Abomey in 1890, was a specta-
tor of this scene. He says that he saw
an Amazon about nineteen years old rush
upon one of The victims. She was a
new recruit, and had not yet killed any
body, and It was desired to put her TO
the test. With her shsrp-edged sabre,
held in both hands, she struck the VIC
tim three blows on the neck, then
chopped off the last pieces of flesh that
still held the head to the trunk, after
which she carefully wiped her sabre and
retired to the ranks. Alligators, cats,
and other animals are also sacrificed TO
| carry messages to their kind. If Behan.
zin makes the French too much trouble
during the coming campaign, they may
possibly send him himself to interview
his ancestors.
The victims are invariably criminals or
captives Of war collected to make a ma.
tive holiday. When Europeans protest
to the Kings of Dahomey against these
terrible sacrifices, they are told that not
only does this slaughter give great salts.
faction to the gods, but also it is the
only way to make great Jail delivery.
Ii they did not kill their criminals. thew
say, it would take too many soldiers to
suppress evil doers. And yet Dahomey
is not people of savoges. Under ordi.
nary circumstances the populace are
gentle and easy to influence. Most of.
them obey implicitly all the laws and
regulations of their King. They are
ialrly industrious and have attained
sort OF standardization. They represent
one OF the finest types of the black race.
are above medium stature, have bright.
Intelligent faces aud powerful physique.
and 1t Is only in war or in the practice
OF their religious customs that they dis
play remarkable ferocity aud fanaticism.
The King is aided in his Government
by council composed of his principal
chiefs; but in spite of his ministers and
his own nearly absolute authority, he is
still submissive to the occult power of
fetch. The people to-day would rise en-
masse against their King if he undertook
to suppress their fetch doctors and
abolish the time-honored sacrifices. One
curious religious law imposed upon the
King by the fetch priests forbids him to
look upon the sea. This law was doubt
less made to prevent the King from
coming too much under the influence of
the white men who might persuade HIM
to forget the customs of his country and
overthrow fetichism. New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
An Electric Nat POlisher.

The electric hat polisher is the latest
innovation in the field of applied cleo
tricity. In the lower corridor of the
Produce Exchange Building may be seen
in daily use a practical illustration of
this process. The operation is as simple
as it Is effective. The hat is slipped
over a clutch, which holdsit firmly, and
the clutch is attached to the end of the
shaft Of a small motor. The current is
switched on, aud as the hat spins around
at the rate of 2000 revolutions a minute,
brush moistened with benzine, OF some
more mysterious fluid, is applied. After
this cleansing strips of silk or plush take
the brush, and the hat iS polished off.
Ironing is rendered unnecessary, as
the heat developed by the friction
against the rapidly moving surface an
swers every purpose of heated iron.
Not only is much time saved over the old
method, but the results are said to be
superior Silk, derby or straw hats are
renovated with equal success.-New
York Advertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
WHERE THE TREES GO,

There are many things which seem to
have had their influence in preventing an
overproduction of good fruit. In the
first place not one-half the trees planted
ever reach bearing age, and Of those
that do live and thrive not more than
half bear fruit of any special value to
the owner, because the varieties are not
adapted to the climate or other condi-
tions under which they are grown.
Blight, noxious insects, and general neg
lect all contribute to keep the supply
OF good fruit down to or a little below
the demand. Thousands may sow where
but few reap is as true to-day as in any
age of the world, and it is well that it is
so, else the truly deserving would have
less to show for their skill and industry.
The immense increase in population has,
OF course, given "a proportionate increase
in consumption, while the modern facilI.
ties for transportation of fruit from one
part of the country to another, as we'll as
to foreign ports, has helped enormously
in providing good markets. In addition
to all of these, the drying or evaporation
OF the perishable fruits of late years has
stimulated the production of such kinds,
and it is likely to continue, because there
are many foreign Nations who want our
dried fruits iu immense quantities.
Under present conditions we think there
is little danger of overproduction of
choice fruits of any kind in this coun-
try, at least not until all who attempt
its cultivation know more about the
business than they do at the present day.
New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
Burnlng cf tic Air.

A mysterious electric phenomenon has
lately been explained by Professor
Ctookcs. When an arc is formed by an
alternating current of so, 600 to 100, 600
volts and high frequency, two steadily
burning Aames-un!ike the well.known
electric bgush-steam out from the cleo
trodes, The electrodes, however, are
not consumed. The explanation is that
the flames are due to au actual combina.
ton of the nitrogen and oxygen OF the
air, with tho formation of nitric aud nj
trous acids as products. This suggests
startling possibilities, but we are assured
That the atmosphere is prevented from
taking fire aud burning up completely,
de!uging the earth in sea of nitric acid
by the fact that the ignit.ng point of
nitrogen is higher than the temperature
OF It's combustion, the flame being, there
lore, not hot enough to set fire TO the
adjoining gas. Trenton IN. J.) Ameri-
can.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14

1.-TWO saloons have already been estab-
lished inside of jackson Park where the
great white palaces rise so grandly, and in.
toxicants are openly sold to the thousands
OF workingmen employed ON the grounds.
just outside tho entrance on Sixty-third
street, within the sacred limits of the HYDE
Park prohibition district, still other places
have been opened, and all kinds of anti-pro-
hibitory beverages are retaied over public
bars. Between five and six hundred of the
men employed on the great Manufacturers
Building are paid off on Saturday night,
and a trip through Sixty-third street grog-
geries showed how easy it is to accumulate
an alcoholic exhilaration and get rid of hard
earned wages at the same time. Ground has
been broken for Moorish palace two hun
dred feet square. 1t is a reproduction of the
Alhambra. 1t will have a capacity for one
thousand guests, and the right to sell beer.n
These manifestations are reported to us by
tne chicago press and show that the trail
OF the serpent is already over the Eden of
the Fair.-Chicago Union Signal
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
Shaving OF SCORES.

There is an old merchant in a thriv-
ing little town near Minneapolis who
scorns a paper ledger and insists on
keeping pine board account with his
customers. He planes this board off
once every five months and starts afresh.
Some time ago a customer dropped into
the old merchants store to pay a bal
ance Of forty cents Of six months stand.
ing. al guess you don't owe me moth
in" replied the old trader to a ques-
tion about the debt. The questiouer
protested that he did owe the debt; in
fact, he remembered buying the goods
some six months ago. "Oh, well, five
months alters tie case" said the
weigher of sugar and moasses. "You
may owe me forty cents for all 1 know.
You sect I've up aud started a new
board since you got your stuff and |
don't remember your debt. You may
pay me if you want to, but il you don't
it's all o. X, as I've shaved your ac.
count out" The trader got his forty
cents.-Minneapols Bulletin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
PAsTuRINo MEADOWS.

Whether Or not the quantity of feed
secured by pasturing the meadows after
it's crop Of hay has been harvested will
make up for the damage done is, to say
the least, questionable. THIS is es.
pecially the case when the summer is
hot and dry, and the regular pastures
are cropped down and the meadows
in consequence furnishing nearly or
quite all of pasturage are eaten down
close.
A fair growth Of top in summer pro.
tects the roots in summer as well as in
winter, and this is taken away, done by
pasturiDg.
Some food is, of course, secured and
the stock kept thrifty when otherwise
they would be almost certain to run
down. in some cases, when the mea-
dOws have been cut reasonably early,
there is no question but that pasturing
can be done without injury, if care is
taken not TO allow the stock to crop the
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
MAN's NATURE IN HIS CUPS.

so with the popular belief that the real
nature of man comes out when he Is In his
cups. Sometimes it does, but quite as often
the real nature of the man is not simply OBJ
scured, but it is absolutely obliteratei. or
as completely changed as il the man had
ssuuHen.y received terrible injury to the
brain through physical violence or disease
Nine men out of ten, when in their cups,
are silly or lugubriously tedious, no matter
how robust in understanding or vivacious
IN intellect they may be when sober. IL the
truth comes out in the wine, then Stiffness
and opacity of mind is the natural state of
mankind. The truth is that the truth no
more comes out in the wine than the truth
comes out when any other form of transient
insanity or partial paralysis of the mental
powers is produced by another agent than
alcohol.-Seattle (Wash. J Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
WHOLE AND PIECE ROOT oRAFr1Ne.

A study of whole and piece root graft.
ing has been begun at the Illinois Station.
For this purpose more than 1000 gratis
were put up and set, though many of
them failed to grow. Advocates of the
whole root method claim as its greatest
advantage that the graft is set on the
collar of the seeding tree, that there
alone is the natural place for union be-
tween the trunk of the tree and the root,
and that to put the graft on any other
part OF the root must necessarily make a
less perfect union and consequently a
poorer ttee in the nursery and less en-
curing and perfect orchard tree. MANY
OF them do not advocate the use of the
whole root, as one would naturally be
led to suppose, but what is usually
called the upper cut, five TO six inches
long, from the collar down.
AS reported by Messrs. Burriu and
McCluer, station horticulturists, they have
used roots in various forms, from whole
roots ten inches long, to roots cut into
pieces of different lengths, with cions
set two inches above the collar, on the
collar and two inches below the collar.
The conclusions from one years work
are: The whole root has no advantage
over piece root Of the same size. (Size
refers to both length and thickness.)
Roots with small side branches left on
gave better results than roots of the same
size with the rootlets cut away.
Roots five inches long gave better re-
suits than roots four inches, two inches
or one inch long.
Roots five inches long, not trimmed,
gave nearly as good results as roots ten
inches lOng.-New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
A srRIKINa CONTRAST.

In Mendocino County, Wis, there Is
numbering village of HOO population, and
there are thirteen saloons. The pay roll of
the mill company amounts to $4,000 a month.
And Of this sum it Is estimated that $4,000,
or moro than one-half, is spent at the sa.
looms. On the other hand, at another vii
iage a Few miles distant, the pay roll Is
1920 month, and not a cent of Il Is known
TO go for liquor, The mill company own
the town site and allow no saloons. The re-
sponsibility of corporations and companies
for safe guarding as much as possible the
men in their employ though obvious
enough, is too little regarded.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
MANURTNa MEADOWS.

Meadows win be much helped by a
liberal dressing of manure Immediately
after getting off the hay. The sudden
change from dense shade and ample
moisture to bright hotsuu and scorchIng
dryness by the moving is very trying to
the grass roots, and undoubtedly is one
reason why our meadows are so short
lived. To top dress the grass with ma.
nure is thus most effective help, and
without it is hardly possible to maintain
the grass in permanent good condition.
The manure should be fine and well
rotted, so that it may not choke the
grass,-New York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNocENTs.


The Herald of Health gives the following
startling result of study of the posterity in
ten families of drinkers and ten families of
non-1rinkers:
"The direct posterity of the ten families of
drinkers included tfty-seven children. OF
these twenty-five died in the first weeks and
months of their life, six were idiots in five
children a striking backwardness of their
longitudinal growth was observed. five
were effected with epilepsy, five with Unborn
diseases. One boy was taken with cholera
and became idiotic. Thus of the fifty-seven
children of drinkers only ten, or 17.5 per
cent, showed a normal constitution and de-
velopment. The ten sober families had
sixty-one children, five only dying in the
first weeks; four were affected with durable
diseases OF the nervous system; two only
presented inborn defects. The remaining
hfty-Sl.9 per cent-were normal in their
constitution and development"
This is striking revelation. Out of fifty-
seven children in ten families of drinkers
only ten showed a normal constitution, the
rest revealing epilepsy, idiocy, Unborn di9~
eases of various kinds, while out of sixty
one children of non-drinkers there were but
eleven that did not show normal develop
ment. Think of what this means for the
nation, for the world We do not need TO
assume that these statistics, cleaned from a
comparison of twenty families only would
hold precisely true If a careful investigation
were made on an extensive scale; but we
know that the conditions revealed in this
comparison do hold true. In an appalling
degree, wherever the drink habit has fixed
itself.
If there is living outrage anywhere up-
on Gods green earth it is a child born with
such heritage. 1t is an affront to nature
libel upon God. Nothing more pitiful no
injustice more cruel, is known among the
among the children of men. Tbs custom of
HlndOO woman w n fhraty tbaif. .ok,f
into the Ganges TO be devoured by croco-
diles was almost like a harmless civilized
pastime compared to this widespread cus-
tom of transmitting epilepsy, idiocy and
general constitutional depravity TO the chill
dren of Christian America The Voice.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
SWEET CORN.

" Sweet corn has many uses besides ft-
ness as table delicacy. Animals like
1t much better than field corn, even as
men and women do. Sweet corn will
be useful to feed cows when the grass
begins to fail in the late summer, and will
make milk and butter equal to that pro.
duced by June grass. 1t is also the next
thing to milk for fattening young pigs.
Chickens are very fond of it and do well
on it. But it will not do for the silo.-
American Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
TEMPERANCE.
rnr WATER nn1rrrn,a n,r

In the old days total abstainers were
scoffed at and we almost had TO apologize
for drinking water; now we find constantly
people murmuring something like an apology
for drinking wine in our presence. The
change is coming slowly and steadily, and
when we are beginning to be disheartened
in our individual effort we must look to the
change that is taking place all over the
world, take courage and thank God.--Canon
Wilbarforce
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
August.
Flower

My wife suffered with indigestion
nd dyspepsia for years. Life be-
came burden to her. Physicians
failed to give relief. After reading
one of your books, purchased a
bottle of August Flower. 1t worked
like a charm. My wife received i'm
mediate relief after taking the first
lose. She was completely cured
COW weighs los pounds, and can eat
lny.hing she desires without any
deleterious results as was formerly
the case. c. II. Dear, Prop'r Wash
ingtou House, Washington, Va. o
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
INroxIcANrs. povrRrY. WOE Ann rn1ur

like to put myself on record also as say.
ing that all the poverty, all the crime, AMI
all the vice which attract public attention in
Boston among what we call the poorer
classes, may be ascribed TO the free use of in
toxicating liquors. have said a hundred
times and am willing to say it again that
II anybody will take charge OF all the pow
erty and crime which results from drunken
ness the South Congregational Church, of
winch have the honor TO be the minister
WIN alone take charge of all the rest of the
poverty which needs outdoor relief' in the
city OF Boston, IL that church could satisfy
It's conscience with as small work as that, it
would certainly relieve its visiting forces
and its treasury Of very considerable part
OF the demands now made upon them.-Ed-
ward Everett Hale,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14

The loco weed, which is abundant In
Western Kansas, has peculiar fascina-
ton for cattle, upon which it exerts an
Intoxicating effect,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14

:. How pleasant, but how dangerous, unless Dr.
HoXsie's Certain Group Cure is at hand This
an absolute prtUcHtiuc a, irc a. cure of Group,
Pneumonia, Diphtheria, Bronchitis and Con-
sumption. sold by prominent druggists. 50c.
Manufactured by A. p. lloxsie, Buffalo, N. Y.
A blonde is said to have about ten
years the advantage of a brunette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14

VIM. A. Lehr, 10 my great JOY,
when began with HOODS gSARSAPAR-
lila the sores soon decreased. kept taking
1t Tor year, when was so well that / went to
work, and since then have not lost one day on
have good appetite." WM. A. Lem, No.
Railroad Street. kendallyille, Ind
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14

NJ. L. Thompson 81 Co, Druggists Couders-
port, Pa, say Halls Catarrh Cure Is the best
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
Druggists sell IT, 7jc.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
Pure and Wholesome QUALITY

Comments to public approval tho California
liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. 1t is
pleasant 10 the taste and by acting gently on
the kidney, liver and bowels to cleanse the
system effectually, 1t promotes the health and
comfort of all who use it, and with millions it
is tho best and only remedy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14

THE evils Of malarlal disorders, fever, weak
ness, lassitude and debility and prostration arr,
avoided by taking Beecham's Pills.
II afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomn
son sEye-water. Druggists sell at 2jc.per bottle
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
King

or Medicines Is what
! consider Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. For 9 years
i was confined to my bed
with white sweIlings
and scroftIla sores.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
PLAYHOUSE PARAGRAPHS.

"All the Comforts of Home" must now
give way TO Madame Fayart.'
Nels Roberts, who was i'll this city last
week heralding the coming of ''All the Com
forts of home, is sick at the Ryan hotel ST.
Paul
Shenandoah" Bronson Towards cele-
brated war drama, which holds the pennant
as money maker of ali things on the Amer
lean stage. will be next weeks attraction at
the Grand.
Fritz Morris, now ahead of "She nandoah. :"
is one of Mr.. Frohmans oldest en-
ployes, having been with that managerial
last summer in Europe.
= Misses Annie and Margaret Rob inson, the
Minneapolis girls who now adorn the forces
i'll the employ of Al Haymen and Charles
Frohman, will be here next week with the
Shenandoah" company.
William Blaisdell, one of the comedians of
the Pauline Hall company. was one or the
fellows who engaged in that sham dnel on
the stage of the Grand last winter during the
McCaull Opera Company engagement.
Francis Wilson hoped down from his
throne on "Wednesday evening, Dec. 30, as
the Merry Monarch. and picked up the
cudgel of the Lion Tamer.'' The fete was
witnessed by one of the. largest audiences
ever witnessed in New York playhouse
Wilson smiled. the audience laughed. and
the lion roared. ~
Extra storm doors and locks are being put
on several of tue local newspaper offices in
contemplation of the early arrival in this city
of John w. Mckinney, who is whirling
through the larger cities IN advance of De
Wolf Hopper and his merry company pre-
vance III many things pertaining to the
atrnA1S
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
HINTS ON HAPPINESS.
Something for the Consideration
of Dutfful Wives.

Perhaps you live in quiet way. You
keep no servant. Your husband is a
dear good man. and he sometimes as
sists you in your houSeworh, says the
New York Recorder. Because he is
kind enough to do this, never impose
upon his goodness. When he puts coal
on the fire look to it that he does not
find the stove handle in red-hot stove
lid. He won't know it is hot. in which
case the result is UNPLEASANT.
Perhaps he prepares the kindling
wood for you. There is no fruit of his
toll whose abundance he esteemS more
highly than he does his kindling wood.
Therefore, when he makes enough to
last week, never try to burn it all up
in one day.
If he has been out all the evening,
never allow him to walk the floor with
the baby. A man cannot work all day
when he tramps around a billiard table
One-half of the night. and walks the
floor with the baby the other half.
If he is generous enough to wish to
wait upon you inscountleSs, loving little
ways never send him to find your port
monnale or ANYTHING which is in the
pocket of your brown dress hanging in
the closet, or in the further left-hand
corner OF your upper bureau drawer.
Columbus discovered America. But
that was different.
When he is not ready for church as
soon as you are, learn to wait patiently
for him. When he does not begin to
arrange his toilet until the church bells
are ringing you cannot reasonably ex-
pect him to be ready as soon as yOu are,
who have devotad The entire morning to
YOUR toilet