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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Turnips are one of the best-paying
crops.
Cold storage for fruit is strongly rec
ommended.
Manure and cultivation should 90
hand in hand.
The cherry does well with grass
about its roots.
More tomatoes are used than any
other vegetable.
Thinning the fruit improves both
quantity and quality.
Out hay, with ground feed, is most
economical for horses.
Do not manure the roots of young
trees when setting them.
The loss of bees will be lessened by
keeping them in darkness.
For late tomato crop, SOW the seed
about the beginning of June.
The italian bee is generally con-
sldered the best for all purposes.
In order to keep beetles of cncum-
bers, cover the plants with netting.
To destroy dandelious, cut away the
crown of the plant with sharp knife.
Is is said that bees will sometimes
fly a distance of six miles for white
clover.
Cabbages may be fed to COWS at
night, after milking, without flavoring
the milk.
II the bee-keeper's supply Of honey
is small, he will find it better to sell il
near home.
Black bees are not considered so
liable to the "naIneless bee disease"
as the Italians
IF only the best fruits are grown
there will be little danger of OVERRIDING
the fruit business.
A safe rule to follow is to cultivate
all aowly planted fruit trees the same
as crop of corn or potatoes.
Sealed covers are not to be recon-
mondod, particularly in severe win
ter, with bees in the open air.
A succession of sweet corn may be
secured for the season by planting
different varieties the same day.
The italian is the most prolific and
best all-round bee. With its long
tongue it is able to go right to the
bottom of the flowers, as the black bee
cannot.
The successful sheepman, be he
breeder, feeder, dealer, or wool grower,
owes his success to the fact that he
keeps in closest touch with the buying
and selling markets. He keeps an eye
on sheep commercially.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
What a Simeon Is.

'Perhaps the Asiatic type of cyclone,
known as the simeon, is tho most re-
marksble phenomenon Of the earth,"
began Colonel Samuel Knoop, who is
ht the Laclede. 'In my travels about
the world have never as yet observed
any such appalling scene as that of
simeon sweeping it's course in tho dis
tance. Cyclones in this Western hemi-
spere are usually accompanied by great
masses of clouds and drenching rain
storms. The simeon Of Asia is quite
different have stood on the Arabian
desert where my eye could sweep the
distant horizon in every direction with
out encountering one object to vary
the monotony of the scene. Over this
vast sea of glowing sand it seemed as
though not so much as breath of air
was straying, In such dull, oppres-
sive moments the natives perceive the
first premonitiofi of the awful SIMEON.
Such knowledge was Of little avail. how.
ever, for on that wide limitless stretch
of inland sea, like the great bosom of
the ocean, one place was as safe as an
other.
''Tho great sand storm would come
and sweep its way without any definite
path and with no prospect of any sud
den variation from its coufse. Here
we have storm heralded by fierce
winds, clouds, lightning and thunder.
On the great desert of Arabia the 81.
moon is heralded by nothing more
than small, dark speck in the distant
sky. As this approaches the atmos
phere becomes sitting and oppressive
to an uhbearable degree. The speck
in question does not develop into sky
mantle OF clouds, but its destructive
force is none the less diminished, II
sweeps path equal to its width and
carries with it numberless pillars OF
sand that are constantly rising and fall
ing like forest of swaying topless
trees. never was in one, but l have
stood on the desert when one was pass
ing in the distance and it reminded mo
of the shadow of cloud passing ovei
sunlit plain. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
A Monster Petrifled Mhale.

Leon del Mar, a Frenchman at
tached to the surveying corps CON
nected with the National Museum, San
Jose, Costa Rica, reports a find of
equal or greater value than the Mon.
tezuma (Col), fossilized monster.
Leo's find is not "Dinosaur'' or other
half mythical creature which the lapse
of ages has transformed into stone,
but common everyday whale, ZIG
feet in length, with bones mineralized
until they are as hard as jasper and as
heavy as lead. The "Museo" officials
are in quandary, and are debating
MS to which would be the cheapest, to
move their museum buildings over onto
the mountain range where the petri-
fled monster lies, or to try 10 transfer
his flinty remains to the Costa Rican
capital
The point selected by this antedi-
luyinn giant when he concluded to
give up the ghost, along about the
time of the close of the cretaceous or
some other geological period, is a rift
between two mountain peaks, seventy
two miles from San Jose and $500 feet
above sea level. There must have been
a season of high waters in that section
st one time. Either that ~ Del Mars
specimen was a regular mountain
climber. st. Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28

grow tomatoes Is to throw out the soil
to the depth of two feet, with an equal
diameter. Put six inches of we'll rotted
manure at the bottom and fill the hole
with the material thrown out, made
rich. Where there is sufficient ground
the hills should be eight feet apart.
Plants treated in this way will yield far
more fruit than if planted closer. The
plants when set should be short and
stocky. Those frequently sold in the
markets, and set in the usual way, will
not produce as much fruit, or as quickly,
as would the plants from seed sown
where they are to grow. Tall leggy
plants can be planted to advantage by
inserting the plant little distance from
the center of the hill prepared for it,
then bending the plant down and COW
ering il with earth to the depth of an
inch, leaving the top out more than
two inches. The plant will Immediately
commence throwing out roots thickly
the whole length Of the buried stem,
and make astrong rapid growing plant.
The same plant treated in the usual
manner, seems to grow smaller, instead
of larger, for some days or weeks. If
the plant has plenty Of room to spread,
it does best when trailing upon the
ground, the influence of the warm earth
being very beneficial upon the ripen-
ing of the fruit. But in wet seasons
there are serious objections to this
plan, as the fruit is quite liable to rot
if lying on wet ground. Yet in average
seasons the chances are in favor of "ne
care" in training the plants. The num-
Der of first class sorts is now so great
that in the selection of varieties, one
must be guided by individual prefer
ence. A medium sized fruit, perfectly
smooth, of bright red color, ripening
evenly clear TO the stem, without
hard center, and with rs little seed as
possible, is the nearest approach to
perfection. Yet under different con-
ditions the same seed produces very
different results. For late crop it is
advisable to SOW some seed where the
plants are to grow, about the first of
June, or at any time before the 10Th.
The plants will come into bearing when
the carly set plants begin to fail. The
cutting off of the first fruits that set is
strongly to be urged. These early
fruits rarely make good specimens, as
the plant at that time has not sufficient
strength for their development.
American Agrtculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
FERrnrz1Na TIE oRcaARn.

The question is often asked, would
you manure just around the tree or the
whole surface OF the ground2 The
most approved practice is to manure
the whole surface of the ground. II
has been iound that potash is one of
the constituents that our fruit trees
draw most heavily from the soil, and
we must, therefore, in order to keep
the balance even return this to the soil
in larger quantities than other fer
tilizers.
The most convenient and cheapest
way of applying this element is in the
form of wood ashes, in a bushel of
which there are sbout three pounds OF
potash, worth four cents per pound, or
tweleve cents for ths bushel. Then
We have about one pound Of phosphoric
acid, worth four cents, which will give
us total of sixteen cents for these
two constituents alone. Both OF these
are very valuable agents for orchard
use.
Besides these in wood ashes are limo,
magnesia and iron, olso important fer
tlllzers. This makes very valuable
and almost complete fertilizer for
orchards. But in addition we need
nitrogen, and this can be supplied by
a dressing of barnyard manure every
second year. That gives a complete
fertilizer for the orchard.
a good artificial fertilizer, according
20 Professor James, for au acre OF
gr2nad would bs Gs follows: Wood
ashes, forty bushels; crushed bones,
to give phosPhoric acid, 100 pounds;
anG srlphate of ammonia, TO give us
the nitrogen, lOO pounds. This woald
cost $500 an acre and be very con-
plete fertilizer indeed. 1 would not
advise that this should be used at once,
but spread over tho FIRST part Of the
growing seosou in two or three pppli-
cations.-Farmera' Advocate.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. Tho many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 70
the needs Of physical being, will attest
the value to health Of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing aud truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
atiye effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and 'fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction TO millions and
met with tho approval OF the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale bv all drug.
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, out it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28

kentucky leads the Southern 81
IN the production of tobeaar had suffi-
crop Of 221, $50, 600 pnom his trance 60
--==-----------when the sheik pointed
urazier, he thrust his hand
20 1t, seized some of the live Goals,
blew them until they emitted sparks,
bit of pieces of them, rs one would
bite an apple, and eagerly ate them up.
lie then went to large prickly cactus,
which was standing on the platform,
plucked q leaf armed with strong
spines, bit of n piece, and swallowed
1t. With equal avidity he crunched
and consumed thin sheets of glass
fragments of the cactus and the glass
were handed to the spectators, who ex-
amined them and convinced them
selves that they were really the sub
stances they were represented to be.
An attendant brought in n shovel, the
iron part of which was red hot. so that
bit of paper thrown upon it flashed
at once into flame. The fakir took the
wooden handle of the shovel with the
right hand, placed his left on the glow.
ing iron plate, which he also licked
with apparent relish, and then stood
upon it with his bare feet until it be
came black This last exploit
filled the air with faint odor of
burned horn. A sword, so sharp that
1T cut piece of paper in two when
drawn across the edge, was handed TO
the fakir, who thrust it with all his
force against his throat, his breast and
his sides. The sword was then held in
a horizontal position about three feet
from the ground with the edge up
ward, by the servant who took hold
of the point, which was wrapped in
several folds of cloth for the protec-
ton of his hand, and by another
.Aissaui, who held it by the hilt The
faklr placed his hands on the shoulders
ot the two men and, leaping up bare
foot on the edge of the sword, stood
there for some seconds. He then
stripped and, resting his naked alb
domen on the edge of the sword,
balanced himself in the air without
touching the floor with his feet. the
shelk meanwhile pressing down upon
the fakir's back with the whole weight
OF his body. - Popular Science
Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND Norrc.

TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTEc.
Pomona, Cal, charges $1,000 for liquor
license.
In the world there are 81 200 breweries.
nearly 10000 OF them being In Germany.
Pittsburg liquor dealers must promise on
oath that they will not serve free lunch in
order TO get license.
II the drinking mans love for his family
was as strong as his breath, there would be
more domestic happiness In the world
In 1892 New York City paid for its school
Dlll, "a 4,OOO,O for its amusement bill e.
OOOOOO, and for its drink bill, go, 900 900.
Baron Liebig, the German chemist, saws
that as much flour as will lie on the point of
table knife contains as much nutritive con-
stltuents as eight pints OF the best beer made
Catholic paperin Philadelphia prophesies
that the time will come when a paper with a
rum advertisement in it will be excluded
from the mails just as lottery advertisements
are.
lie Petit Journal, of Paris, lately began
leading article with the assertion that, "Of
all the dangers menacing our agricultural
population at the present day, the gIavest
ana most difficult TO fight is alcoholism"
1t is said $4,000 persons die prematurely in
Great Britain every year by the indirect in
huence of intoxicating drinks, from destitu.
ton, accident, violence or disease, and that
$4,000 are killed annually by the direct in
huence Of intemperance.
The Tageblatt, of Leipzig, Germany, as
serts that II Will not be possible to produce
any law adapted to really put stop to the
great evil OF drunkenness without relinquish
ing some OF our popular National conceptions
about interference with individual liberty
The London Vegetarian says the OVERLAPPING
81 infants furnishes material of the utmost
value to those engaged in opposing the sale
oi alcoholic stimulants. out Of 1000 deaths
30 attributed, 2sO occur ON Saturday night
I'O on Monday and then a gradually de
creasing number until Saturday is again
Teached
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
MAKING FLOWERS PROFITABLE.

We don't mean that the farmer who
grows flowers should vie with the flor
list in selling what he produces to the
public. 1t is possible that the flowers
produced by the farmer would come
mostly at times when such flowers we're
abundant, and brought low prices.
But they are worth just as, much to
beautify his home and give pleasure to
the farmers wife and family as if they
sold at winter hot house prices. It is
because farmers do not realize the
pleasures and comforts they get from
the farm that they think farming don't
pay. Few rich men can deck their
tables with flowers half the year at
least as can the farmer if he tries. He
can with some hardy perrennials begin
about as soon rs snow is off in spring,
and decorate his rooms with these and
their successors until snow flies in the
fall When farmer does this one or
two years he will probably try hard for
a greenhouse, and thus get more pleas
ure, though of course with some addi-
tional work. 1t is not easy to gain
honest pleasure in this world without
working for it, and it is always the
work that precedes that makes the
pleasure more welcome and enjoyable.
Boston Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28

Among those who have given testimony
before the Canadian Royal Commission now
engaged In investigating the LIQUOR prob
lem Is f. w. Campbell NJ. D., Dean OF the
tacuity OF LenoX College, attending physi-
elan oil Western Hospital, and Medical Ref
cree Tor the Canadian Life and New York
insurance Companies He testified that
great proportion OF the cases he had to
deal with in his hospital practice was caused
by drink. He would say at least seventy per
cent. directly, and from ten to fifteen per
cent: indirectly. Closely questioned by the
Shalrman, he repeated his statement that
lully eighty-live per cent. of the hospitni
cases were the result Of drink. He further
volunteered the statement that after nine
years experience OF dealing with 100 sol-
ulers Ia st. Johns Infantry School. he was
prepared to state that ninety-nine per cent
OF all the trouble with tho men in that insti-
tuition was caused by liquor Some trouble
came from the canteen in the school but
more from liquor facilities outside"
None nave better opportunities than medi-
cal men to know the evil effects OF alcohol
upon the human body and brain. Such ties.
tlmony as the above ought to have much
weight with Intelligent, thoughtful people.
In the light of ii total abstinence becomes
the only wise and safe rule Of conduct
National Temperance Advocate.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
The Oldest Merchant Vessel.

Among the many ancient coasters
that regularly visit the port of Bangor
is small craft which has the honor o,
being the oldest merchant vessel in
actual service in the United States.
There are vessels which are said to be
older, but they are not in service noi
registered in the record of the Bureau
of Navigation. This is the schooner
Good Intent, Captain Watson Ward
well, of Rockland. The Good Intent
is twenty-three tons register, and was
launched at Braintree, Mass, in 1913.
making her eighty years old. She has
been repaired and rebuilt, with hun
dreds of spars and acres of canvas, till,
like the Irishman's jack-knife, she is
the same original, and her skipper
claims that there are still i'll the hull
two or three white oak planks that were
in her when she was launched. Lewis
ton Me- Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
ORANGE noxrs roR MN NFsrg,

Orange boxes make good nests and
can be bought for a small sum, or got
for nothing oftentimes from a fruit
dealer. If You have well-planned
poultry house it would be neater and
more convenient to have row of NOV.
ablenesting compartments, each hooded
together so that they may be quickly
separated and cleaned when necessary.
Earth, under layer of hay or straw,
is considered a good material for a
nest of sitter the moisture from the
earth is distributed in moderation over
the eggs, making them hatch more
easily at the proper time New York
Independent.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
MILK As MEDICINE.

In the long, trying days of summer,
men who work as hard as the average
dairyman docs will be weary with the
strain that they undergo. Mind and
body will be tired, and night finds
them nervous and out of temper. When
this condition is reached, there is moth
ing so useful to work cure as glass
Of milk. 1t should be heated to about
nlnoty-nine degrees and slipped little
at time, and nothing in the way of
food taken with it other than very
small piece of bread and butter and
eaten slowly. Such treatment will
more quickly restore man with nerves
unstrung and temper ready to explode
to normal, mental and physical con-
dition, than anything elsu that is
known. 1t will work with women
equally we'll, and as it is always in the
house q daily trial of it according to
directions will result in improvement
of nervous troubles that are often,
when left to grow, the fore runners of
protracted illness. Physicians in the
search for remedies for diseases that
drugs cannot cure have taken up milk
and are surprised at the results. Il
has brought health where their knowl-
edge had decreed death must occur.
a western exchange tells rs of case
o. woman, where the physician had
pronounced her incurable, getting well
and staying SO on few ounces of
cream used daily with the addition of
some sponge cake. Sip warm milk
when you feel out of sortS 1t will re
lieve your nerves and fortify your
stomach, and the world will look
brighter to you after you have taken
it-American Dairyman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
YOUNG MAN. AHoYl

wine in, wit out. Angelica Every Week.
And Yet that old saying Ia only true after n
certain stage OF the game has been passed,
Many men, and even most men are more
witty and facetious after a drink or two OF
wine than before II doesn't take Young
man long to find out that he can say more
funny things, and raise more laughs at his
wittieisms when he is a trine cooked than
wnen he is his own natural self When he
nnds himself in company with others, and all
are trying to be cute, it is perfectly natural
that he should avail himself OF every means
within his reach, to "keep his end up" as the
saying is. SO he hoists In few drinks and
in his revised shape he finds no difficulty in
raising laugh at will. In fact, he is more of
fellow drunk than he is sober, and he knows
1t But he goes on and forces the machinery
too hard, until instead OF being funny. be gets
either idiotic or ugly, and then the very fel-
lows who admired and applauded him call
him hog, and want the bar tender to fire
MIN. This sort of thing goes on night after
night, until the fellow grows to be a regular
irunken bum, and don't amount to ANYTHING
drunk or sober Young man look the matter
over, and see If this doesn't hit your case.
See II you don't take more drinks to make
you funny than for any other reason.-Dap-
vile IN. Y. Breeze.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
wuO pAYs THE nils.

Who pays the bills2 Who feeds tbo
drunkard's children2 Who provides for tbe
drunkards wife2 Who supports the beg.
carly tramps, who having wasted their
money in drink, wander about the country
VINO repairs the losses caused by the failure
OF Incorporate merchants and reckless and
half-intoxicated business men2 Who makes
good the damages caused by the blunders OF
drunken workmen, and the hindrances of
business caused by the sprees of intemperate
employes' Who pays for the railroad
wrecks caused by drunken conductors and
engineersF Who builds the asylums where
crazy drunkards are kept? Who suppor1s
the idiotic children of drunken men? who
pays the attorneys and juries and Judges who
try drunken criminals? Who pavs tho cx
penses of trials and commitments and
executions occasioned by the crimes of
drunken men2 Who pays for the property
destroyed and burned by drunken mem
Who builds and supports almsbonses
which but for drink might remain un,
occupiedP Who andures the suffering and
losses and brutality, which are due to the
reeklessness and insanity OF drunken bus-
bands and fathers7 Who paws for the in
quests held on drunSFrds found dead by the
Naysiue' VINO pays Tor paupers coffin,
and for digging a drunkard's grave In
potter's field, when the last glass has been
drunk? 'S'A
Who pays the bills2 The drunkard can
not, Tor he has wasted his substance in bis
cup. VIII the rumseller pay them? The
TACT is, you and l, and the sober and indus
tnons tolling portion Of the community must
meet all these bills. The drunken rowdy.
wounded in the street fight, is cared for In
the city hospital at our expense ;the drunken
beggar is fed from our table; his hungry
children come to our doors for bread and we
cannot refuse assistance to his suffering wife
and when at last having wasted his sub
stance In riotous living he comes TO the
almshouse, the asylum, the hospital, OF the
prison, honest, sober temperate men pay
the bills for supporting him there. There Is
no escaping 1t. We may protest, we may
grumble at the taxes and find fault with beG.
gars, but ultimately and inevitably we must
foot the bills.-New England Evangelist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-28
rrrntNn YotrNa rA1.rrs

II should not be forgotten that milk
has much solid substance, and does net
supply all the water young calf needs
may often suffer from thirst while
being fed wholly on milk. A drink of
water should, therefor he given to
the young calves daily, especially dur
ing the very hot weather. American
a ARricnltnrist.