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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20
A skeleton in the crrntal.

The aged bt. Collier relates the fol
lowing: In 1S42 an old and woftht
friend, of whose sttict tetatity I haven't
the least possible doubt, came from Burn.
ham, England, with a relative to trans.
act some business in London. During
the time of my absence from home with
this relative, my friend, through sheer
curiosity, took up small oval. l.mounted
crystal which stood near him on a table,
and began to examine it. After looking
at it intently for a few minutes and try
ing tc guess, as he afterwards told me,
what on earth such a novelty could be
used for, he noticed that the surface of
the instrument became olouded. This
he at first attributed to his having blown
his breath upon It. He tried to remove
the deW-like cloud with his handkerchief,
but his efforts seemed to increase the
cloudiness. Presently the cloud took
upon itself the form of the legs of an
ostrich, the toes and knee-joints being
clearly outline For second they
seemed to open and close at the joints
like pair of calipers. While gazing In
awe-stricken wonder and amazement at
this uncanny exhibition of the supernat-
ural, my friend noticed that the figure
was slowly but surely changing Its form.
The ostrich legs had become those of
ghastly human skeleton, and almost in.
stantly the final change came, which
converted the cloudiness of the upper
part of the glass into ribs, vertebT@, long,
bony arms, the whole surmounted by
hideous, grinning skull. At this iuuct.
ure, according to my friends story, he
began to feel great oppression in the
region of the chest and numbness and
giddiness in the head. He lost no time
in replacing the crystal upon the table,
and says that it was some hours before
he was able to throw off the unpleasant
sensation which his curious experience
produced.
1t was not until nearly two years after
this that he ventured to tell me of the
circumstance; even then could not in
duce him to inspect the crystal again.
In conclusion | may remark that the
dear friend, who was absent with me at
the time, died at about the time Mr..
B. saw the skeleton dancing in the
crystal.-St. Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20
THE DRINK Evil 1N SCOTLAND.

A writer in the Chicago Adrance who is
travelling in Scotland, writes:
Edinburgh is the most religious city, one
of the most drunken, in the world. When a
Scotchman sins, he sins against greater light
than the Frenchman does. He must put more
will-power into it 10 so to the bad. and so the
intensity of his evil is in direct ratio to the re-
sistancs OF conscience which he must overcome.
The fact is, when he is bad he is very bal but
good Scothman is one OF the best men in the
world.
"This is Saturday afternoon. All Edinburgh
$ enjoying its half-holiday. Along toward
evening picnic parties are returning in all
,orts of vehicles in all degrees of hilarity.
rhe streets are full of people. The dram
shops are doing roaring busiuess, and in the
back streets, far into the night are rough
orawls and drunken rows. Twice to-day on
he open streets 1 have seen women quarrel
ing. The crowd gathered about and made a
ring as they would at dog fight. There was
40 more stir about it than il it were an every
holiday occurrence, which it probably was.
And yet somebody is masking brave fight
against this disgracefu state of things. Within
block Of where am staying can count st
east dozen temperance hotels"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20
LIQUOR OR BREAD.

In connection with the temperance agita-
ton, now making y serious impression on
Germany, some curious statistics have been
compiled, as follows: The production of ma
terlal manufactured into beer, wine and
spirits in Germany occupied in 1SS9-90 just
about one-ffteenth Of the cultivated land of
the whole country, territory somewhat
larger than the kingdom Of Saxony or the
grand duchy of Baden, and somewhat smaller
than the kingdom of Wurtemberg. If this
immense field, thus devoted to the liquor
traffic, were diverted 10 the production OF
food, there might be raised on it in year 1887
millions of kilogrammes of rye, a quantity
suficient to make 3272 millions Of pounds Of
the bread on which the poorer class chiefly
live. The fifty millions of people Of Germany
would DO able to have of this bread 651S
pounds apiece, or 4 family of eight persons,
oA pounds, enough to give them their entire
food for six or seven weeks. In the direct
service of the liquor traffic-agriculture. man-
ufacture and retailing-about one and half
millions of men are engaged, ont of the
twenty and one-half millions occupied in all
the industries of the land. In other words,
about one-qusrter of the productive energy OF
the country is devoted to this business. -
Picdyline.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTE

Feathers are good fertilizers.
Keep the poultry quarters dry.
The seed of cannas ought to be planted
early.
Arrange to have the nests dark, espe-
cially for sitting hens.
Geese, turkeys, ducks and guineas
thrive best with good range.
Keep the goose feathers separate from
the duck and chicken feathers.
Pekin ducks can readily be kept on
farms where there are no ponds.
To make young ducks profitable their
growth must be pushed from the start.
When the young chickens are afflicted
with leg weakness, feed them bone.
meal.
The secret of success in the poultry
yard is not in the Matching but in the
feeding.
Generally it is not a good plan to at
tempt to keep more than fifty fowls in
one house.
The Kansas black-cap raspberry is a
new variety from the State for which it
is named.
Set out your new eurrant plantation
as soon as the condition of the ground
will permit.
The Lucretia dewbeIy is from Texas,
and it is claimed for it that it is hardy,
productive and of good quality.
If any green lice appear fumigate with
tobacco lat first sign of this pest. A
gwisstion will prevent them
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20
Evils OF c1pEn pn1NKna.

The last year, in most parts Of the country,
yielded an abundance OF apples. One result
OF large apple-crop is the increase in cider.
making. and it is to be feared cider-drinking
A recent number Of the Farm journal gives a
caution concerning cider as folowsi "lf the
great abundance OF fruit has caused barrels Of
cider TO be stored in the farm cellars for win
ter drinking, il will prove more a curse than
blessing. Empty every barrel of it into the
road that you may not regret the ruin OF Your
sons. correspondent Of that journal, Jo-
siah W Leeds. of Philadelphia. cites several
Illustrations OF suffering and ruin which owed
their origin to hard-cider drinking. The an.
pies themselves are great blessing, but the
fermented, alcoholic apple Juice is repleto with
danger when INDUCED in as a beverage Let
there be total abstinence from cider, as well
as beer, wine, and the stronger liquors.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for
any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by
taking Halls Catarrh Curs.
+. j. CHENEY IL Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known f. j.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tions, and financially able to carry out any OBJ
legations made by their firm.
WEST q TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
o.
WALDING, KINNAN &c MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, D.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
A physician recently said, probably Lydia
+. Pinkham has done more for womankind
than all the doctors combined; a woman un-
derstands those matters better than we do"
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ent upon soil and climate than upon

ent upon soil and climate than upon
manures for their growth.
The true theory of cultivating the
soil then is to economize in manure con-
sistently, and to use the other simple
methods which nature gives us. Nutri-
fication of the soil has to take place in
the spring before the plants can grow,
and this is forwarded by good blowing
and stirring, 50 that the sun and air can
work upon it. Thorough cultivation is
thus often more essential than manure.
A judicious rotation of crops, including
the three different kinds Of plants, corn
or wheat, roots and clovers, should also
be adopted, to get the most benefit from
the soil. In this way less manure will
be required, and the soil will always be
kept supplied with all the plant food
required. This is intensive farming on
an intelligent plan.-Boston Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20
now To SUPPLY PLANT FOOD.

1t is of great advantage to farmers and
horticulturists, to understand the me-
thods by which plants take up their
food from the soil, thinks A. B. Barrett,
for it will enable one to understand the
special needs of his soil much better.
There must be an economy in feeding
plants, as well as in feeding animals, and
as the needs of plants are better under
stood the more we are enabled to prac-
tice this. A great part of the manure
that has been applied to plants has been
lost simply owing to ignorance or this
subject. The true economy in feeding
plants is to know the value of rotation
of crops. Special functions are per.
formed by different crops, and they live
on different substances in the soil and
air. The corn crop, for instance, has
the great power of growing almost con-
tinuously upon the same soil, or at least
until the nitrates of the soil are ex-
hausted. In time they carry away a
great deal of nitrogen, which weakeIs
the soil for certain other plants.
While the corn crop can grow for a
long period upon the native soil which
has not been manured, the root crop on
the other hand depends largely upon
manures well supplied with phosphates.
They also exhaust the soil of nitrates,
but not quite so rapidly as the corn.
The leguminous plants, clover especially
are said to return nitrogen to the soil,
and are great crops to follow the corn.
1t is somewhat doubtful abou, the clover
plants gathering their nitrogen from the
air, as some claim, but if not from the
atmosphere the long roots bring it up
from the sub-soil. By the ,png roots
they stir up the soil and collest nutriti-
Gus material which the OBJ
to reach. These4
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20
The Elevated Railways.

7 On the Sixth Avenue line in New
York City, there are 500 trains daily
each way; on the Third Avenue line, b04
trains; or the Second Avenue line, 272
trains; on the Ninth Avenue line, 205
trsins-each way daily. The trains are
run from one minute to eight minutes
apart, depending upon the hour of the
day. From midnight to 5 A. NJ, tifteSn
minutes apart. Fare, five eents,-Scian'
tiic American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20
TEMPERANCE.


at is estimated that the cost Of maintaining
the some 100, 600 inmates Of the various penal
institutions in this country exceeds SIS, 900, 600
annually. - Chicago Tribune.
st is safe TO assume that three-fourths Of the
100000 Of these inmates OF American prisons
are such, either directly or indirectly, on ao4
count Of strong drink. In an economic point
OF view the burden OF maintaining them is
heavy and the millions paid out an unavoid-
able outlay. Yet the Tribune is an advocate
of licensed lquor-selling, one Of the inevitable
results Of which is large and continually in-
creasing crop of expensive criminals. .-Nation-
al Temperance AdUocdte.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

is no better material for a roof
ine, cypress, or cedar shingles.
roofs are not nearly so durable as
( shingles, and these, if painted,
doubly durable. The only metal
really desirable for a roof is cop
hich is practically imperishable.
cost at present is too great as
red with shingles. In laying a
roof it is best to put the roofing
under the boards, as there is then
niger Of the gathering of moisture
onsequent decay of the shingles.
wind is kept out quite as we'll in
way. The shingles are better pre-
d by dipping in crude petroleum
te being laid, by which they are
J water proof, and the durability is
4 Increased. The frame of wood
ouse may be filed in with concrete
N brick, but this filling is no better
concerns the warmth of the
than a lining of tarred building
! under the outer covering of the
and the inner lining.-New York
pendent.
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COPYRIGHT 1881

n needy toOntnSb
the one who's overworked, nerv-
ous, and debilitated. What she
needs is DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. It's made exactly to fit
her case-an invigorating, restora-
tive tonic, and soothing and
strengthening nervine, giving tone
and vigor to the whole system. But
it isn't mere stimulant. It's a
legitimate medicine, that an expe-
rienced physician has carefully pre-
pared, for woman's ailmeAts. All
the functional arrangements, chronic
weaknesses, and painful disorders
peculiar to the sex, are corrected
o. cured by it.
\ And because it's a certain remedy,
it can be made q guaranteed one.
If it fails to give satisfaction, in any
case, you have your money back
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

The best pill costs less than any
other. Costs less, but does more.
They're smaller, too, and easier to
take. DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are the best pills. They regulate
perfectly the liver, stomach, and
bowels.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

II Is estimated that there are to-day
12,947 Jesuits. In the United States
there are 564 in Maryland, 403 in Mis-
souri,, and 1876 in New Orleans.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

slong drought of last fall and the
ny weather have made terrible in
upon the sheep which have been
!. { on the ranges in Texas.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

BEECHAM's PILLs will cure wind and pain
droWsiness, chills and loss Of appetite
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

There is ease for those far
gone in consumption-not
recovery-ease.
There is cure for those not
far gone.
There is prevention-bet-
ter than cure-for those who
are threatened.
Let us send you a book on
CAREFUL LIVING and SCOTS
Emulsion Of cod-liver oil,
even if you are only a little
thin.
Free.
SCOTT & Bovp'E, Chemists, Isa South s,h Avenue,
New York
Your du.sgis, keeps seotts Emulsion Of cod.liver
on-all druggists everywhere do. g..
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

\ successful swine breeder in Kansas
Ant once a week puts a quart of coal
md two pounds of sulphur into each
fsyin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

The good health of every woman depends
greatly upon herself; delays, through false
Vegetable Compound will cure nine cases out
of ten.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

CoUGHs, HoARsNEss, SORE THROAT, ETC.,
quickly relieved b. BRoWNs BRONCHIAL
TRoCHEs. They surpass all other prepara-
tiOns in removing hoarseness, and as a couch
remedn are pre-eminentlY the best.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

The League of American Wheelmen
will move for good roads in Illinois.
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Mr.. NJ. A. Murry, Wilmington, Del, writes:
81 had one of my severe headaches and was
persuaded to try your valuable (Bradycrotine)
medicine. l never had anything to do me SO
much good for headache"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

The canyons of Southern California
are alive with wild pigeons.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-20

Canary birds sing their best in rooms
filled with tobacco smoke.
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The worst cases of female weakness readily
yield to DR.. swans Pastiles. Samples free.
DIR. swan. Beaver Dam. Wis.
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whether | expect to like Ben Hur on read
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1T TnAcu-Selling "lSO) MILES or SIGHTSEEING" :"
Z lAOn Write lor terms. d. .Roynton. Augnsla, No
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-29
Where Vessels Capsize Frequently.

The capsizing of a vessel tied up to Il
pier is common enough in the Bay Oh
Fundy and its tributary streams. The
usual rise and fall of the tide along thai
bay is from forty TO fifty feet, and high
tides sometimes exceed sixty feet. Vita
the fall of the tide all craft are lett
high, but by TO e dry, with an area
of chocolate colored mud all about them.
This mud is too shifting to hold a vc,
sci in safety, 50 each pier is provide
with one or more strong wood frames
called shoes, fixed AT the bottom of tn,
stream or bay.
Upon these shoes all vessels rest al
low tide. 1t frequently happens, how
ever, that a vessel does not get her sho,
snugly on, So to speak, and if a strol.
wind comes when she is thus i'll Ia
anced, over she goes into the mud, to h
buried forty feet under the next risiI,
tide.-New York Sun.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-29
Big LAMPS.

Among the larger members of the
lamp family a Tarl+sh lamp more than
half as large as a -four barrel IS the
most conspicuous. Its top and bottom
are made of copper and the body Is of
linen, after the style of the ordinary
Chinese lantern. Next in size to this Is
a Japanese might lamp" used for all
night burning IN the Jap's house. 1t is
a square wooden frame nearly four feet
high, with sliding frames on tyO sides,
covered with white paper. The other
sides, to within ten inches of the bot
tom, are also paper covered. a trans
verse board half way up this light tower
holds a brass saucer, in which is burned
''brassica" oil with wicks of rush.-Me-
chanical News.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-29
Catching BOas.

TO catch a boa constructor is a diff
cult and dangerous task" says a man
who makes it his business to capture
wild animals and reptiles for menagerie
purposes. 1T is accomplished by a laby-
rinthian tangle, embracing sixty square
feet Of ground. The labyrinth is made
by joining together, end on end, pieces
of mating. This web is eight feet high
usually, and placed SO that the opposing
walls will be two feet apart. All sorts
of crisscross and diverging combinations
are made with the m~atting-it is sup
ported here and there by stakes-making,
when it is set, a geometrical puzzle that
might well challenge the ingenuity Of
man.
The trap is baited with a live pi%,
which is placed in a pen in the corner Of
the labyrinth. BY and by along comes
the boa constructor. 1t is easy enough
to get in. He scents the prey; he IS
very hungry; the pig is devoured, and
here the boa cOmes to grief. For hours
he tries to release himself, but finally
he grows tired and stretches himself ont
for a nap. Then is our time. We open
the labyrinth and catch him."-GOlden
DAYS.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-29
To Preserve Milk.

There are many ways OF preserving
milk SO IS to keepit sweet. but one of
the most satisfactory is that which is at
present practiced at an establishment in
Texas. The milk. fresh from the COW.
is subjected TO a boiling heat, ard after
the air has been expelled from it thu
cans are hermetically sealed. When tn
process vas first invented, about fifteeT
years ago, several dozen bottles wer'
sealed up. Every year some OF these ar
opened, and after fifteen years keeping
the milk has in every case been found
perfectly fresh.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-29
Cats Among the Egyptians.

The tutelar deity of cats was Diam,
and according to Plutarch the cat WIS
not only sacred TO the moon, but was /
emblem of it.. Hence cats were treat.
with peculiar consideration in the laL.
of the Pharaohs, the death of one BEN.
regarded as Il great family misfortune,
Egyptian cat funerals We're celebrate.
with the greatest pomp and ceremony
their late owners showing respect /:
shaving off their eyebrows and weariu.
sackcIoth for nine days. In the time
Moses ii was a capital crime to kill =:
cat. and we are told by Diodo-us how
Roman soldier who killed one was triej
sentenced and finally put TO deaths.
Louis Republic.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-29
WHY CHINESE NEVER SAVE LIFE.
They Regard 1t as Interfering with the
Intention of the Creator.

" "UB1 ~ 81 interfering with the
Intention of the Creator.
Much has been written Of the peculi.
arities and eccentricities of the Chinese,
lat IT is not generally known that the
people of the Celestial empire will not
rescue II another from accidental
death.
at a fire in San Francisco several
years ago six Chinese were imprisoned
In a by three half inch iron bara,
which could easily have been broken
away. There were two or three ladders
in the neighborhood which coRd have
been placed at the windows and the IN
fortunates easily rescued from a horri-
bic death. There were hundreds Of
their c~ountrymen looking Oh at their
frantic efforts TO escape. Yet they Of
fered no assistance and gave no evidence
of sorrow.
A man who has saved many lives, in
speaking with a Chinese once said they
were very heartless and cited this San
Francisco fire, as an example, where
upon the Celestial exclaimed:
Il tell you. You sabee Joss! Col
Almighty, allie samee. Chinaman call
him Joss; Mclean call MIN God. Call
him anything. ALE samee. Now Won
say Col Almighty make e~bleting?'
Yes, everything"
make allie men,
Yes"
KNOW ebleting:"
Yes"
Now, do you think you know mort
thar Col Almightv::"
No, / do not
HE makee alice men. He see one
man. He think him no good. He say
You n use; go die You think you
know bette Col Almighty. You go
swim; you no let mar die. Col Al
mighty he say: He velly smart. He
catcbee man | tell 60 die. Velly well,
that mar begin new. He cally that
mans life all him sins, all him troubles,
all him bad luck. You hab heap good
things?'"
No"
No hab much houses, much money.
much land?"
No; not much"
'All light, you nebbe hab much luck.
How many you save:'
About fifty"
'.Oh. You nebber get out. You cally
all fifty life. Ebleting you do, no fin
ish, work alice time heap trouble. You
nebbe get old; you live long time. Sabee
fifty life. You live bundled years-had
bad luck alice time. Col Almighty he
sabee best.'-Fire and Water.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-29
CaStoria.

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
I recommend IL rs superior TO any prescription
known to me-"
II. 4. ARCHER, u. D.,
III So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
"Our physicians in the childreu's depart
mcnt have spoken highly OF their expert
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although We only have among orr
medical supplies what is known rs regular
products, yet we are free 20 confess hat the
merits Of Cas,oria has won Us to look with
favor upon it,"
UNITED HosrITAL AND DIsPxEsARY,
Boston, Mass
ALLES c. Smith, Pres,
lrray Street, New York City.