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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-15

the right man, the best man, the
only man for the place. Everything
points to him as the man. the "Ren-
Vile County Union" to the contrary
notwithstanding. The tide is flow
ing towards him and will not cease
till it lands him in the gubernatorial
chair. The people are calling him
and looking 20 him as the Moses to
lead them into the promised land.
Donnelly is our man first last and
all the time, +. Z. GREENE.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-15
New Alliances.

New Alliances.
FOREST LAKE, Mimi, April IL, '92.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
The following new alliances have
been chartered during the week end
ing to-day:
Alliance, No. 14O4, President, J. K.
Stone; Secretary, M. E. Beard, Gran
lite Falls, Yellow Medicine Co.
Millville, Alliance, No. 14O5, Presi-
dent, Thos. Cunningham; Sec'y, J. A.
DIN; Millville, Wabasha Co.
Denver Alliance, No. 14O6, Presi-
dent, S. T. Wade; Sec'y, J. W. Ander-
son; Trosky, the alliance in Rock Co.
A. l.. STROMBERG.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-15
The Campaign Fund.

SABIN, Mimi, April 9th, 1892.
EDITOR GREAT WEST.
The following sums of money have
been received by mefor thecampaign
fund since my last report.
Thos. Purves, Viola, Mimi. by
E. w. Fish. ....................$1 100
Edward Larson Benson..... 100
Grafton Alliance, 572, Mcleod
Co. by L. M. HarriDgton...... Z 90
Lake George Alliance, 512,
Stearns Co. G. K. Quill 285
Wasioia Alliance, 627, Dodge
Co. by J. L. Lang .............. 900
Sub-All., sos, Big Stone Co.
by J. E. Chase. ............... 5 GO
Belview Alliance, No. 600, Red
wood Co., by j. E. Wagner,
FER Stromberg................... 3 SO
Union Alliance, No. 2, of
Farmers All. & Industrial
Union per Stromberg......... 6 SO
Total. ....$35 IS
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-15

LOUIS HANSON.
p. S.-Ihave received some Alumni
um Peoples Party badges, and will
send them to any one who may want
them at soc. Send money order ex-
press order or draft. prepay the
postage or express on them. If we
could sell few thousand of them it
would help us to raise our fund as we
buy them at reduced rates.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-15

Where the wavy grass grows!
The plute must vamOse
Where the Salt River flows.
Jerry Simpson wears hose!
To cover his toes.
Where Liberty Crews,
It's the ballot that coco.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-15
First, Last, and All tho Time.

A. l.. STRC,iBERG, Sec'y.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
HOW TO COOK A POTATO.

The prevailing opinion is that every
one knows how TO cook q potato--a
doubtful certainty after finding a num-
Der of people who cannot, or do not,
pare one cre1Itably. Aside from the fact
that the greatest amount of "mealiness"
lies nearest the skin, the thrifty soul in-
spects half-inch parings with disap-
proval; nor will patches of skin left on
here and there atone for the waste. A
blunt table knife is not the proper in
strument to use--let it be small, sharp
ly pointed knife, to deal with deep set
eyes and awkward protuberances. New
potatoes should be scraped whenever it
is possible.
There is an art in boiling potatoes
well. To cut them il they are not of
uniform size; to have just enough water
to cover, pouring OF quickly at the
right moment before they fall to pieces /;
these are some of the small things that
insure success.
1t is claimed that certain potatoes
the later growing varieties cook better
if placed over the fire in cold water.
This can be easily tested for ones self.
Potatoes touched by the frost are slightly
improved by so doing; aud whatever
their condition, it is good plan to let
them lie in cold water a short time be-
fore cooking. New York Observer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
TAKE CARE oF Youn HAIR.

If lady's hair is very thin, before she
tries any restorer, the head should be
rubbed with the fingers every night for
half en- hour. If the scalp is perfectly
clean, the pores of the skin do not be.
come obstructed, and the roots of the
hair keep in a natural state. Once
month is sufficient to thoroughly wash
the head, but rubbing the roots of the
hair once a week with camphor aud
borax wash prevents dandruf and IN
creases the growth Of the hair. The
wash is made by dissolving one ounce Of
powdered borax and half an ounce of
Camphor in a quart OF boiling water;
bottle when cool. 1t should be applied
with a small sponge, aud the hair well
brushed after.
In washing the head, soda should not
be used, but two teaspoonfuls of car.
Donate of soda aud an egg beaten uo in
the basin of water. Sufficient salts of
tartar dissolved in boiling water to form
a lather, keep the hair light as we'll as
clean. Cocoanut oil, too, is excellent for
promoting the growth of the hair. If
there is much dandruff, ,an ounce OF white
precipitate, mixed with half dram of
creosote, should be rubbed into the scalp
every night for week, at the expiration
of which time the head should be well
washed and bathed with camphor and
borax. With clean brush remove any
exfoliation which may have been thrown
out.-New York Recorder.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL.

The term cultivation, as usually under.
stood and applied, embraces the first
blowing of the soil for crop and the
care afterwards bestowed upon it in keep
ing it mellow and free from weeds.
Whether land should at first be plowed
deep or shallow, and what depth of cul-
tivstion is best subsequently, are points
on which farmers are not uniform in
practice. Usually deep blowing for
breaking up in spring is the most COM
mon custom, but its propriety depends
so much OH the character of the soil
itself that no rule can be considered
applicable in all cases.
Where deep plowing would bring up
soil poorer than that of the surface, such
plowing must maafestly be a disad-
vantage unless the design is to increase
the depth of the stratum TO be cultivated
by the use of enough manure to render
the whole equally productive. On loose
and sandy soils, with the fertility near
the surface, shallow plowing, both for
the preparation and after cultivation,
seems TO be indicated in all cases.
Again, different crops require different
treatment Of the soil, both in preparation
and after cultivation. A mellow and wei
pulverized seed bed for the reception oi
grain aud grass seeds is now considered
the most important point, and deer
blowing of far less consequence than
formerly believed, Wheat, oats snc
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
INCENDIARY LANTERNS.

"That was a costly lantern" sighed
neighbor D. as he looked dolefully at the
smoking ruins of Lis new barn. The
kerosene lantern had been set on the
floor ''just for a minute, but long
enough to get knocked over. The blaz-
ing oil made quick work with the inham-
mable material on every hand. In ten
minutes the roof was falling in; 1t was
impossible to save even the animals. A
few precautions would certainly lessen
the frequency of such disasters. Having
a place for the light, secure from long
handles, irresponsible heels and switch
ing tails, would be one safeguard, pro-
vided the rule was strictly adhered to of
always putting it in its place when not
in hand. Great care must be used III
making place for the light, so that it
will be safe from dangers above as well
az below. The heat arising from a con-
tinuous flame is considerable, and ii too
near the woodwork might gradually heat
it to the burning point, or a dusty cob
web might serve as fuse to carry blaze.
A candle fixed in q lantern makes much
safer light than kerosene, but is not
bright enough for all purposes. One
farmer who had suffered from fire planned
so as to have all his barn-work possible
done before dark; when a light was
necessary, it was never carried into the
barn but put from the outside through a
sliding window into a box made for it,
with a glass front. New York Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
STARTLING FACTS

Demme stu1ied ten families of drinkers
and ten families Of sober persons. The direct
posterity of the ten families OF drinkers in
cluded fifty seven children. OF these, twenty
five diel in the first weeks or months of their
lives, six were idiots, in five children a strik-
ing backward longitudinal growth was OBJ
served, five were affected with epilepsy,
five with inborn diseases. one boy was taken
with corea and became idiotic. Thus, of
the fifty-seven children Of drinkers, only ten,
or 17.5 per cent, showed a normal constitu-
tion aud development.
The ten sober families had sixty-ons chill
dren, five only dying in the first weeks; four
were affected with incurabe diseases of the
nervous system, two only presented Unborn
defects The remaining fifty, Sl9 per cent.
were normal in their constitution and de-
velopment From this series of investiga-
tions we derive the sad truth that among
the children Of drinkers the prevailing NOR
tality is fearful, that the survivors repre-
sent pititul crowd afil cted with unsound-
ness of mind, iiiocy, epilepsy, and other
disturbances OF their nervous system and
that only very small proportion OF the de-
cendants grow up as useful members of so
cietV.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
TOTAL ABSTINENCE WORK.

We heartily approve Of the position taken
by the National Temperance Society in
favor of more earnest work along the line OF
total abstinence. We agree with the view
that the educational department of the tenn.
perance cause has been too much negl ected
in recent years. We must return to these
lines of effort with all and more than all the
old-time zeal and energy if we would hope
TO hasten the day of our emancipation from
the liquor power. All the advantage lies on
our side in the sphere of educational effort.
We have all truth on our slde--all the facts
OF science, of history, and of experience. We
have only TO set these facts clearly before
the minds and hearts of the people to win
them over to the truth. All this means that
there should not be any slackening of effort
in the legislative line or any other line of
temperance work. Good laws themselves
have an educational value and it is import
ant TO make as rapid progress in this direc-
tion as circumstances will permit But the
purely educational work must not be al
lowed to fall behind. The doctrine of total
abstinence must be emphasized more than it
platform and the pulpit. Sound temperance
literature should be scattered knee deep over
the land More attention should be given
to the teaching of temperance in the pu5lic :
schools. There is a law in nearly all our
States requiring that text books on certain
phases of this sub ject should be introduce
in the public schools, but this law is not
generally observed. Right here is a field of
effort which might engage all the energies
of many of our best and ablest temperance
workers for long time to come.-to secure
the enforcement of this wise law. Christian
at Work.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
A REMARKABLE LETTER.
A Prominent Professional Mans Extranr-
dinnry Statement


To the Editor. SIR-As my name and face
have appeared in your paper and the public
prints lately, and as many of my professional
brethren are wondering at It, l feel It only
just that should make an explanation. The
statement published over my name was
made ten years ago after long and mature
investigation, and l have never changed my
mind as to the facts then stated. At that time
i said, as physician, that believed Warmers
Safe Cure was the best of all known prepare
tions for the troubles 1t was advocated TO
cure, aud san so still. / known II is con-
sidered the proper thing for the medical
profession to decry proprietary and other
advertised articles; but why should they do
so? As the late DR., j. G.. Holland, writing
over his own name in Scribner's Monthly
said:
"It is fact that many of the best pro-
prietary medicines of the day are more sue
cessful than many physicians, aud most of
them were first discovered or used in actual
medical practice; when, however, any per-
son knowing their virtue and foreseelng
their popularity secures and advertises
them, in the opinion of the bigoted all virtue
went out OF themn
DR.. Holland was an educated physician,
an unprejudiced observer, and he spoke
from a broad and unusual experience. Pro
prietary medicines should not be deCried.
The evidences of their value are overwhelm-
ing. | have seen patients recover from
gravel, inflammation of the bladder and
Brights disease after using Warmers safe
Cure, even when all other treatment bac
failed.
make this frank and outspoken statement
in the interests of humanity and because
know it TO be true. | trust for the SAINT
reason, you will give it TO the public.
Respectfully,
II. A. GUM.
No. 1874 West FOrty-scueHth street, Net
York March |
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
MEASURING HAY IN STACKS.

No rule has ever been devised that
will give the exact weight of any given
number of cubic yards or feet of hay, be-
cause much depends upon the kinds of
grass or clover out of which the hay is
made. Then, again, the hay taken from
the bottom OF large stack will be more
firmly compressed than that near the top.
But there are many rules for measuring
hay in the stack, and, while they may
be satisfactory in some instances, they
cannot be depended upon further than to
give a rough approximation, for hay
varies greatly in weight according to the
way it is placed in the stack and the
length of time it has been lying, etc.
The rule used in some localities is: Null
tiply the length in yards by the height
in yards, and that by the width in yards,
and divide the product by fifteen. The
quotient will be the number of tons.
Another rule is to allow 525 cubic feet
of well-compressed hay for ton, but at
the bottom of ten-foot stack 450 cubic
feet will come very near weighing ton.
Glover hay will run much lighter than
timothy or red-top hay. An old rule
among farmers is to sell 400 cubic feet
as ton, but in buying to insist upon
600 cubic feet.-New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
BRussELs Sprouts.


The seeds of Brussels sprouts should
be planted in the house, hotbed OF
greenhouse during the latter part OF
March or by the first of April, for it re-
quires long season to perfect this ex-
cellent form of cabbage. Market gar
deners find that it is one of the most
salable vegetables that can be grown,
and whether planted in large quantities
for the market, or simply for home usa,
the seeds should be put in the hotbed
very early. If planted thus early the
young plants will be ready for trans.
planting as soon as the soil and weather
are warm enough. If the spring is
backward the young plants should be
kept in flats of earth, but not so that
they will be crowded, until they can be
planted in the open garden.
They should be planted two feet apart
in the garden, and should then be cul-
tivated about the same as cabbages. The
soil must be strong and rich, for in the
early part of the season they have to de-
velop great quantities of leaves and stalks.
Those leaves near the ground will wither
up aud fall off, leaving places for buds
to form, and the more of these buds the
plant has the better it IS for market. In
September the early paintings will be
ready for gathering, and the later plants
will furnish succession for the winter
table that will be very agreeable. For
winter keeping they should be harvested
before severe freezing weather is here,
and kept in the cellar, as cabbage and
cauliHower. The Brussels sprouts arc
quite hardy, and they are easily grown
in most of our Northern and Western
| States.
The two most conspicuous varieties are
the Dwarf and Giant. The former usually
attains height of eighteen to twenty
inches, and it is somewhat earlier than
the latter. The dwarf stems produce
heads and buns which are more tender
and juicy than those obtained from taller
plants. The Giant variety reaches a
height of nearly four feet, but it pro-
duces innumerable small buds and a
small crown. 1t is more productive than
the dwarf on account of its size, and is
generally considered harder.
In order to obtain seeds from Brussels
sprouts it is necessary in tho fall of the
year to select several of the finest speci-
mems. These should be kept in the Gel
lar during the winter, and in the spring
they should be set in the open ground
two feet apart. The top shoot should be
cut off, and from the small heads on the
sides of the main stem branches of pods
will shoot out. These should be saved.
A great deal of the seed obtained in the
market will often produce other varie.
ties than the one desired, aud it is often
necessary to raise the home seeds from
fine specimens. Boston Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08

1t is impossible to examine any subject
connected with the progress, the civilization,
the physical well-bsing, the religious con-
dition Of the masses, without encouutering
this monstrous evil, says the New York Tri-
buue. IL is at the centre Of all social and
political mischief.
1t paralyzes beneicant energies in every
direction. II neutralzes educ ltional agen-
Cies Ii silences the voice of religion. 1t
battles penal reform. 1t obstruots political
reform.
1t rears aloft mass of evily-inspired
power, which at every saliant point threat
ems social and national advance: which
gives TO ignorance and vice a greater potency
than intelligence and VIRTUE can command /;
which deprves the poor Of advantages of
modern progress; which deoauches and de-
grades millions, brutalizing and saddening
them below the plane Of healthy savagery
and filling the centres OF population with
creatures whose condition almost excuses the
immortality which renders them dangerous
to their generation.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Fresh eggs sell readily throughout the
year.
Sell spring chickens as soon as they
are large enough.
Leave the mulch around the small fruit
plants until after fruiting.
Keep the roots of all plants from dry.
ing out when transplaniing.
Young goslings and ducks require
about the same management.
Eggs for market should never be
washed when it can be avoided.
Pick the geese regularly. The feath-
ers are the principal source of profit.
Kenilworth ivy is useful as a basket
plant as well as climber for old walls,
1t is good plan to mix radish seed
with the asparagus, carrots and parsnips.
Clean culture and a rich, mellow soil
are necessary to grow good crop OF
onions.
Cabbage plants can readily be set out
in the open ground now; set them to the
first leaf.
Young turkeys must be fed sparingly
at first, and care must be taken that the
feed is fresh.
The sooner the cultivation is begun in
the garden the more easily the weeds can
be kept down.
The cucumbers for the main crop oi
pickles should not be planted until the
middle of June.
Nine. Ed Pynaert is the name of a
summer Towering carnation of unusua
size and attractiveness.
1t is not profitable plan to allow q
hen to stroll around six or seven weeks
with four or five chickens.
Guineas are noisy, but their noise
often helps to brighten away many OF the
enemies of the poultry yard.
With hogs especially, young animals
give a better return for the food con,
sumed than those that are matured.
A German apiarist recommends plant
ing gooseberry bushes in every spart
corner and waste place, as honey plants
Ducks can be picked much oftene
than geese because their feathers ripe
faster, but they are not quite so vasua
BILE.
The peach rosette, which has gainer
considerable foothold in Georgia, differ
from the peach yellows in several partic
ulars.
The wise dairyman lets the cows in hi
herd come in every Gay in the year, bu
keeps an accurate record of the time the
are due.
Can any one tell how to color butte
anu at the same time not to color tn
buttermIlk? Blood-red buttermilk doe
not look nice, aud we saw some of it tn
other day in the most swell dairy in tn
city.
The experiment stations are scientif
cally proving it to be fact that there
more digestible matter to produce 4
, pound of milk solids when roots are fe,
J than when ensilage is fed, Score on
for ensilage,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
EXCESSIVE USE oF LIME.

Lime may be used to excess very
easily. This fertilizer has not only one
effect Of supplying some plant food, but
Others by which any organic matter that
may be in the soil undecomposed is acted
upon and made available for additional
food for the crops. 1t also cxerts an eff
feet on the mineral parts of the soil, and
makes some of it soluble. Aud, more
over, it has the effect of fastening the
change of inert nitrogen into available
compounds which may be taken up by
plants. Thus it is seen that if the lime is
used to excess and without supplying
materials upon which it may work to
produce these results, the soil soon be-
comes deprived of all its available plant
food and will be wholly exhausted. Con-
sequently lime is to be used with judg-
ment, and only in such quantities and
at such times and intervals as will do the
most good and avoid any harm. In good
practice lime is ued once in five years,
and at the rate of twenty-five to forty
bushels to the acre.-New York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
RECIPES.

Graudma's Cookies-Two cups OF
sugar, one cup of butter, one-half cup
of cold water, three eggs, caraway seeds
or nutmeg, flour enough to roll without
sticking and two teaspoonsful of baking
powder. Sprinkle with sugar when
done.
Cherry Pie-Line the dish with crust,
fill with fresh, pitted cherries, sprinkle
over it half a spoonful of flour. Some
like the flavor OF few cherry pits scat
tered among the cherries. In using
canned cherries, which are nearly as
good, drain through colander to sep
arate the cherries from the juice, sprinkle
we'll with sugar and add little of the
juice, cover with thin crust and bake in
a hot oven.
White Sponge Cake-Beat the whites
of six eggs to a stiff froth, then add one
cup of granulated sugar, sprInkling it in
slowly and mixing it lightly, add half a
teaspoonful of cream tartar to two thirds
cupful of flour, sift it twice, then sift
it into the cake; mix the cake quickly,
but carefully, add one teaspoonful of
almond havoring, turn it into an un-
CREASED pan and bake in a moderate
oven thirty minutes.
Ragout of Lamb-Slice the meat and
put in saucepan with a large onion,
sliced, and add a dessertspoonful Of vim
egar. Cover tightly, aud when it be-
gins to cook set on the back of the stove
for three-quarters of an hour, stirring
occasionally. Then take the meat out,
dredge little flour, stir and add cup
full of gravy or broth, little Worcester
shire sauce aud pepper and salt to taste.
Let it stew gently for a couple of min.
utes, strain and put back the meat into
it to get hot. Serve garnished with
triangles of toast aad chopped pickles.
Tomato Preserves-Choose perfectly
ripe tomatoes, small and yellow, wipe
them first with a wet cloth and then with
a dry one, aud prick each one severa
times with a large needle; for eacE
pound of tomatoes allow pound Of
sugar and pint Of water; put the sugar
aud water in a pre- erving kettle over the
fire and let them boil together, remov-
AhS az 9SAhA a. ~ lAoN9a NACu VIC oll "a i
is clear put in the tomatoes and .et them
boil for ten minutes; take them from the
sirup with a skinner aud cool them
put into the sirup for each pound o
sugar half an ounce of green ginger
root, scalded and scraped, the yellow
rind juice of one lemon, and one blad,
of mace; as soon as the tomatoes ar,
quite cold return them to the sirup auC
boil them until they are clear; en- coo
them in the sirup aud put them up a
any other preserves.