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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
"NInl1e Hens Lny.o

Such is the caption OF an advertisement
that appears not only in the local, but many
leading agricultural papers and which sug-
gests the propriety of few thoughts upon
the subject The advertisement referred TO
recommends Sheridan's Condition Powder
to make hens lay and so do we" says Mr..
Hunter, poultry editor OF the n. Il.
FARMER. "a hen to lay prolifcally must
be in perfect health, must be in condition,
and here is based the true theory of the value
of Sheridan's Condition Powder-itpromotes
the general good health Of the fowl, gently
quickening digestion and stimulating all tho
various organs of the body as well as the
ovaries, to perform their functions" At
this season of the y ear the use of Sheridans
Condition Powder is very valuable for molt-
ing hens and young pullets. By its use now
they will get to laying earlier when the
price for eggs is very high. Any person buy
ing and using Sheridan's Condition Powder
now, will get their hens in good laying con-
dition before cold weather. aud stand a
good chance to win one of the large gold
premiums to be offered later by i. S. john
son a. Co., % Custom House Street, Boston,
Mass. (the only makers OF Sheridan's Con-
dition Powder; who will send for 80 cents,
two packs OF Powder: for Sl.00 five packs;
for sl.2O large ~ 10. can, postpaid; six
cans for IS, express prepaid. Six cans will
pay good dividend. L. s. johnson 81 Co.
will also send to any one asking for it a copy
of the best poultry magazine published tree
The paper one year and large can Of Pow
der for 81 80.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06

An idea prevails among horsemen that
horse should never be watered oftener
than three times DAY, or in twenty-four
hours. This is not only mistaken idea
but very brutal practice. A horses
stomach is extremely sensitive, and will
suffer under the least interference, caus-
ing feversh condition.
Feeding horse principally on grain
and driving it five hours without water
is like giving man salt mackerel for
dinner and not allowing him to drink
until supper time-very unsatisfactory
for the man.
If you know anything about the care
of horses, and have any sympathy for
them, water them as often as they want
to drink-once an hour, If possible. BY
doing this, you will not only be merciful
to your animals, but you will be bene-
factor to yourself, as they will do more
work; they will be healthier; they will
look better; and will be less liable to
coughs and colds, and will live longer.
If you are skeptic and know more
about horses than any one else, you are
positive that the foregoing is wrong, be-
cause you have had horses die with
watering them too much, and boldly say
that the agitators of frequent watering
are fools in your estimation, and you
would not do such thing. Just reason
for a moment, and figure out whether
the animal would have over-drank and
over-chilled its stomach if it had not
been allowed to become over-thirsty. A
horse is a great deal like man. Let
him get overworked, overstarved, or
abused, and particularly for the want Of
sufficient drink in warm weather, and
the consequences will always be injuri-
Gus. Sensible hostlers in large cities are
awakening to the advantages of frequent
watering. Street car horses are watered
every hour, and sometimes ottener, while
they are at work. 1t Is plenty of water
that supplies evaporation or perspiration
and keeps down the temperature.
What old fogy methods amount to may
be seen by the change in medical prac-
tice to man. Twenty years ago person
having a fever of any kind or pneumonia
was allowed but little water to drink,
and tn en- it had TO be tepid. To-day
practitioners prescribe all the iced water
the patient can possibly drink; and in
addition, cold bandages are applied to
reduce and control the temperature of
the blood. What is applicable to man
will never injure horse. Use common
sense and human feeling. Don't think
it is horse and capable of enduring any
and all things. A driver who sits in
his wagon and lashes his worn-out, half
curried, half-fed and hslf-watered team
should never complain of any abuse he
may receive from his master or employer,
for he is lower in character, harder in
sympathy and less noble than the brutes
he is driving, and deserves, in the name
of all that is human, the punishment
of criminal. Il Chicago Clay Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


A cock to twenty hens will do good
mating.
A poultry farm need not exceed two or
three acres.
Feed your stock so we'll that hunger
will not be an incentive to unruliness.
If animals, like men, had salt in their
food they would require little to lick.
This should not be bad fall for
poultry. There is plenty of dust surely.
Raise as many chickens as possible and
as early as possible. They represent SO
much money.
Trials at the Vermont station indicate
that there is nothing to be gained by milk
ing COWS three times day.
The quality of the wool you sell dom
mates the price received, and good wool
will not grow on starvation rations any
more than good meat.
Sell off the surplus hens now before
the turkey season fairly opens to depress
prices. Select the young ones for next
years breeding pens.
Don't allow your dogs to run down
your flock of hens. Hunting dogs, es-
pecially, if not hunted will sometimes
worry poultry by chasing them.
Farmers and villagers who handle spe.
cial breeds usually find it profitable if
they are so situated as to keep the blood
pure and free from contact. with badly
kept fowls.
In buying breeding fowls be careful
that the flock from which selected is
free from roup or cholera. If buying
from a distance obtain q guarantee OF
these conditions.
Calves need the best attention, especi-
ally in winter. The growth they have
attained during the summer must not be
allowed to stop, nor must they be per-
mitted to become poor now.
Do not expect any breed of hens to
lay equally well in summer and in winter.
If you insist on good supply of eggs
from November till February, then select
breed noted for the ability to lay in the
winter. Do not expect everything of
one breed.
Fruit men say that when fruit is bar
relied, and is to be hauled several miles
by team before being shipped, the bar
rels should be laid down on their sides
so that they will not be shaken closer to-
gether and thus be left looser in the bar
rel than when packed.
When tomato vines are nipped by the
first frost, it is said to he of great ad-
vantage in ripening the remaining green
fruit to cut off all frosted portions of
leaves and stalks, as this prevents the de-
preciated sap from the frozen parts from
reaching and depreciating the fruit.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
DOdging Bullets.

During shooting match in presence
of the Governor of Candahar the latter
noticed to his astonishment that the
heads of sparrows were the favorite butt
of the marksmen, who but seldom missed
their aim. Whereupon he declared
that it was far more difficult to hit an
egg. Sir Peter laughed at the supposi-
ton, but the Sirdar stood his ground and
the matter was put to the test. An egg
was suspended on wall and the soldiers
fred at it, but strange to say not one Of
them hit the egg.
The Governor and his suit kept their
countenances and excused the non-suc-
cess of the firing party on the ground OF
the difficulty of the thing. At last a
ball happened to hit the thread to which
the egg was fastened and it fell to the
ground without breaking. Now the
mystery was solved the cunning Afghan
had used blown egg, and the feather
weight shell had been moved aside each
time by the current of air in front of the
ball and thus escaped being hit.-Tdg-
lsche RundSchdu.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
lightning Conductors.

DR.. Hess, who has been collecting sta.
tistics and has examined the tips of
many lightning rods, finds that fusion of
the points never occurs. a fine smooth
point receives the lightning in concen-
trated form, while angled or ribbed, as
well as blunt points, divide it into
threads. DIR. Hess considers that plati-
mum needles and tips are entirely unnec-
essary, for they have no advantage over
copper points; but as there are light
ming strokes which are capable of making
wire 0.20 inches thick incandescent, un-
branched copper conductors should never
be of less diameter than this, though in
a good Lightning rod the main point is
to secure perfect communication between
it and the earth.- Scientific american.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
THE SLAVERY oF DRINK.

The terrible domination of intemperancs
and its evil effects are drawing attention in
various parts of Europe. Our London cor.
respondent gives the following: zone of the
leading daily papers in London has opened
its columns to the discussion Of The Slavery
of Drink and twenty letters are appearing
in each issue upon the great national traus-
gression. No one has attempted to justify
the traffic, few say they know how to
drink and that moderation is wise. But the
burden of the advice is upon the remedies
OF the evil, and She Overwhelming weight of
the argument condemns drinking One
writer alleges that drinking is undoubtedly
disease, affecting the mind and the body,
while another denies it is any more disease
than smoking, and that it is the habit that
produces the disease. The drink aud its
component parts are severely handled. One
writer declares that he knows a licensed
house in London where the proprietor pays
at the rate of one dollar and twenty-seven
cents per gallon for sherry, and retails it at
six dollars and fifty cents per gallon
PresBteridn Observer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
ONE WHO GAVE IN.

Some of our readers may be familiar with
the name of Felix Oldboy-a disguise under
which talented newspaper man wrote for
many years and gained wide and enviable
reputation. A few weeks since he died in a
workhouse-a pauperl
DRINK OF course This man of brains
could not sontrol the appetite that was born
of habit At one time he entered an estab-
lishment that treated and claimed to cure
with a specific the craving for alcohol. On
coming out he related in the great Review
of the country all his treatment and expert
ences, voiced his conviction that the craving
for drink was a disease and heralded his
cure.
ct he filed drunkard's grave. He mis-
took the cure; it is not to be bought with
money or expressed from the herbs of the
field. The cure is grit, determination, back.
bone-call in what you will. This one was
weak and incurable. Such a pity THE
Arqosy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06

SUCK 70 WI
Sometimes you may have to wait.
The troubles that have been years
in gathering can't always be cleared
away in a day. For all the diseases
and disorders peculiar to woman
hood, DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription is the surest and speediest
remedy. You can depend upon that
but if your case is obstinate, give
it reasonable time.
It's an invigorating, restorative
tonic, soothing and strengthen
ing nervine, and a positive specific
for female weaknesses and ailments.
All functional disturbances, painful
Irregularities and arrangements are
corrected and cured by it. All unnat-
ural discharges, bearing-down sensa-
tions, weak back, accompanied with
faint spells and kindred symptoms,
are corrected. In every case for
which it's recommended, "Favorite
Prescription" is guaranteed to give
satisfaction, or the money is re-
funded. No other medicine for
women is sold on such terms That
proves that nothing else offered by
the dealer can be "just as good"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Flower capotes are still worn.
The fan.shaped sachet is novelty.
Mrs. Hetty Green has $40, 600, 900.
The fur muf par excellence is larger.
Throatlets Of sable fur are in high
favor.
The sleeves of all the best gowns are
very long.
The fashionable cloak is plain aud
tight fitting.
Lace net effects appear frequently in
brocade designs.
A milk bath means a beautiful CON.
plexion and luxury.
Plaids are chiefly employed for chill
dren's costumes this winter.
The new blue is pale although most
pleasing shade called fax blue.
The amount of fruit carried on the bon
nets is something extraordinary.
Miss Braddcr, the popular English
novelist, Is now fifty-three years old.
Several ladies in Sweden have recently
gone in for dentistry as profession.
When Queen Victoria travels she
wears no jewelry and is clad simply in
black.
Miss CORVALLIS West, the English
beauty, has forty-five pairs of driving
gloves.
Brown furs are more fashionable than
any other and are even used on evening
dresses.
Mrs. Poultney Bigelow, who is the
latest New York society woman to enter
literature, is said to possess 81, 100000
in her own right.
The use of jeweled trimming in even.
Ing wear seems to have given way to
spangled nets and chiffons, which will
be used with delicate hued satins.
Miss Alice Harker and Miss Beaumont,
OF bennington, England, have been ap-
pointed joint custodians of Shakspeare's
birthplace at Stratford-on-A Avon.
A very effective aud dressy material
IS Soudan lace, which resembles guipure
aud comes in all sorts of beautiful
shades. 1t is made up over colored silk.
English boots of the style known as
The Langtry, with military heels, glace
kid vamps and cloth tops, are lined with
satin and retail at S. pair in this coun-
try.
Mrs. w. H. FELTON,, of Barlow, Ca,
while in Atlanta, was extended the
privilege of the House in the Legislature,
occupying a chair beside the Speaker
amid the widest applause.
Very light-colored and even white
cloth costumes, richly embroidered, are
seen at fashionable teas, receptions, aud
morning weddings. All are made long,
even the tailor-made dresses.
1t is said that Mrs. Sophia Braunlich,
business manager of the Engineering
and Mining Journal, knows the value of
every mine in the country, having per-
sonally visited all those of any import
ance.
Women students in Denmark have
adopted a new aud distinct students
cap. 1t consists OF a smart little round
black hat with a black ribbon upon it,
on the front of which the students en-
blem is placed.
Twenty-Five thousand ladies of Bos-
ton, Mass, have banded themselves to.
gether TO close all stores and business
houses employing female help after five
P. NJ. They have entered into com.
pact to do no shopping or trading after
that hour.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
STORING ROOTS IN PITS.

Afarmer in Ontario, Canada, says he
stores his turnips and other roots in the
following manner: He first digs trenches
five or six feet wide and six or eight
inches deep. From the bottom of these
trenches he puts in ventilators made OF
three six.inch boards nailed together, as
often as once in eight feet. In these
trenches he piles the turnips as high as
they will stay without rolling down,
making the sides of the pile straight
and even, and the top to as sharp
peak as possible. He covers this heap
as evenly as he can with about ten inches
of dry straw and covers this with four or
five inches of earth, which he smooths
off with the shovel. Mangolds and car
rots should be covered little thicker.
For potatoes he made the pits shorter
and wider, and covers with two coats of
straw and earth in alternate layers, also
uses punches of straw for ventilators.
The roots come out fresher than those
from the cellar. in putting roots in the
cellar he runs them over a Slated spout,
so that much dirt rattles off them, but
he finds that much collects near the bot
tom of the spout, and he is careful to
move the roots back SO as to get them
out of this. A system which preserves
roots in a climate as cold as that of On
tario would surely prevent freezing in
New England.-B0StOn Cultioator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
THE POWER oF EXAMPLE,.

A well-known Christian merchant of this
city not long ago had an urgent telegram
calling him to see an old friend residing in
suburban town, says the Temperance Adj
uocdte. When he arrived ct the house of
his friend he found the latter very ILL., and
only expected TO live few hours. This
friend asked to see him alone, and when by
themselves, said
''My doctor tells me that 1 can nve at the
most but tWenty-four hours. L wanted once
more TO see you, and 20 say to you something
that have never told you In early life,
as young men, they had met in this city, in
business relations, and it was at that period
that the close bond of personal friendship
was formed. They went much together in
society, and had great happiness in each
other. The one who was about to pass away
had in his young manhood, "a cousin,
beautiful young lady, in this city, in Whose
society both these friends passed much time.
On one occasion she gave an elegant party,
at which both were in attendance. During
the evening when refreshments Wsre served,
she came TO the friend of her cousin, and
asked him to drink with her glass Of wine.
Very fond of her, the young man was sorely
perplexed, bnt finally declined, saying: II
will do anything for you that properly
can but cannot drink the glass of wine."
Turning from him with somewhat an air of
displeasure she said
"Wen l will 20 to" lher cousin), he
will drink it with me.n She crossed the
room to her cousin extended tks invitation
to him with the air of confident expectation,
but he also declined, greatly to her astonish-
ment and not a little 70 her chargin. In
this last interview many years after the
party in question, one thing which passed
between these two old friends was the state
ment of the one who was about to die which
he wished TO make as something of a con-
fession to the effect that he was at the time
an observer across the room of what trans
pired with his cousin, and though he had
never before thought of abstaining from in
toxicating beverages to the social use OF
which he had always been accustomed, in
fuencsd by the example Of his friend in de
| clining, he also determined to decline. Id
wished now TO make acknowledgement oi
| his gratitude for this eventful incident IN
his life, which he had no doubt had saved
him from excesses and ruin, which, 10 hi
case, would have almost certainly tolloweC
the continuance of the drink habit
In this incident may be seen praetiea
( illustration of the power Of right example
Its influence is sometimes more potent an'
| far-reaching than words OF Counsel ai5ne
however good they may be. May every one
young and old, realize in the light OF thi
/ dying statement of one friend'to another, tn
| great value and Importance OF the abstain
ers example to others.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
CoRYMEAI FOR COWS.

There is no danger of drying up
COW by giving cornmeal to her for the
improvement of the milk. But it is
quite possible that the COW may be given
to make fat rather than milk, as is the
habit with some cows, and in such a case
there might be danger of the amin al fat
tening instead Of milking. In such
case any kind of good feeding would
have the same effect. The writer has
been feeding cows for making butter for
over thirty years, and has never found
any difficulty in this way, the cows be-
ing fed from eight to twelve pounds of
the meal daily, as they could digest it
proftably. If the COW fattens instead of
milking, it might be good thing to let
Ter get fat and sell her and get a milk
ing one instead. Shorts is not good
food for milk-it would be better TO
give ground oats with the meal. Apples
in any way arc beneficial to COWS that
are milking. g.-Neto York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06

HOW To MAKE CHICKENS GROW RAPIDLY.
There is no reason and very little profit
in allowing chickens to be slow in COM
ing to maturity. The small biped starts
into life all ready to grow rapidly, and
only lack of proper food will keep it
from foraging ahead. Whether chicks
are reared in brooders, or by hens, they
must have plenty of warmth, pure water
and cleanliness, and when these are Sc
cured we come to the important matter
of 1ood, which is one of the chief factors
in rapid growth. This should contain
just the elements that growing chick
requires, in such shape as to be readily
digested. Raw eggs beaten into bread
crumbs are excellent for the first few
days. For this purpose the sterile eggs
that have been removed from the incu-
bator, or from under the hens at about
the tenth day, will serve very we'll. The
chicks will also delight to pick at rolled
oats (Which are steam-cooked), and this
is excellent for growth. Very soon they
may have boiled wheat, and one can al
most see his chickens grow while they
are eatingit. A little cooked potato, or
cooked vegetable will not come amiss
occasionally as they grow older. What
ever is given them should be Thoroughly
cooked until the chickens are eight or
ten weeks old, if the most rapid growth
is to be secured. When they can run at
large upon the ground they will obtain
an abundance of tender grass and other
green stuff, but if confined, there is moth
ing better than bruised clover Leases,
scalded or cooked into a little bran or
middlings. Some bulky food is neces-
sary, or indigestion will ensue. Glover
provides both bulk and growth material,
and where milk cannot be obtained the
liquid in which clover hay has been
stepped will be a most excellent substi-
tute. Lean meat is good to feed occa-
sionally, but il is best cooked until 1t will
readily fall apart, while fresh ground
bone is one of the cheapest, and prob
ably one of the best foods for growing
chickens and for laying hens that can be
found. Any one who keeps a consider
able number of hens or raises chickens in
large quantities will find a bone-cut
almost invaluable. Feed very little corn
meal to growing chicks until it is de,
sired to fatten them. Corn is essentially
a aheat-producing and fat-producing food
There is one other essential to rapid
growth and that is exercise. Chickens
will get this if allowed to run with :
hen, but If reared IN brooders they mus
be made co scratch, or good food vii
avail them but httle.-AmerieaH AgrieuE
tUrist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
An Ernmnla or MIll.Ponar.

John L. Wooders on, the clever actor
who has been long associated with
Stuart Robson, and who was best man at
the latter's wedding, afforded a peculiar
illustration Of will-power. He has a
natural impediment in his speech, and in
private conversation it is very marked.
But when he steps before the foot-lights
the excitement of the occasion, the force.
full knowledge that it will not do to
stammer, loosens the letters from his
tongue and he is as glib as Robson him.
self.-St. Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-06
One of the Rare Metals.

Those with only an elementary knowl.
edge of chemistry are aware that there
are more than forty recognized metals.
A large number of these can only be
regarded as curiosities of the laboratory,
for there is no specific use for them; in
deed, they are found in nature IN such
minute quantities that some of them are
far more precious than gold.
Among these rare metals is wolfram,
or tungsten, use for which has been
found since guns of enormous calibre
came into vogue.
1t is unfortunately a matter of COM
mon knowledge that these guns are
liable to fracture; but it has been found
that by adding very small percentage
of tungsten to the fine steel of which the
inner lining is made an elasticity is con-
ferred upon the metal which it did not
possess before, so that it will bear ex-
pansion and contraction under heavy
discharges without giving way.
Tungsten is a white metal Of very
brittle quality, and its specific gravity is
only a triae less than that OF gold.
Chambsrs's Journal.