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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
DO YOU KNOW?


Do you know that bread crumbs
cleanse silk gowns?
That ammonia will clean and bright.
en- carpets?
That heated bag of salt will relieve
neuralgia?
That salt will kill weeds if applied
in quantities?
That the pineapple is valuable aid
to digestion?
That the herb tansy is sure pre-.
gentive of moths?
That the best dish cloths are made
from grass toweling?
That salt and water is the best anti
dote for a mosquito bite?
That sweet clover has the reputation
of being abhorred by flies?
That salt as a tooth powder is better
than almost any dentifrice?
That coffee and tea stains are re.
moved by boiling hot water?
That the best way to polish window
glass is with piece of chamois?
That white goatskin rugs can be
cleaned by washing, or with naphtha?
That common dry salt cleans marble
thoroughly without iniuring the sur.
face?
That nothing made with sugar, eggs
and milk should reach the boiling
point?
That oilcloths last much longer if
thin coat of varnish is applied once
year?
That flowers keep longer if cut with
a knife and scissors than they do il
picked?
That articles of plate which are not
in daily use should be put away in
green baize?
That white of egg will remove fish,
bone from the throat, if beaten and
given at once?
That two or three geranium leaves
added to crab-apple jelly will give it
delicious flavor?
That a few pieces of beeswax put up
with silk or wooden goods prevent them
turning yellow?
That berry stains on damask will dis.
appear if soaked in milk before send.
ing to the laundry?
That inkstains can be removed by
dipping the spot in buttermilk anc
rinsing in clear water?
That n pinch of cream of tartar put
in with the whites of eggs when being
beaten will make them sitter?
That if vaseline or butter be ap.
piled to the skin Immediately after 0
blow of any kind there will be no dis
coloration?
That a piece of tallow wrapped in
tissue paper and laid with furs or other
garments will prevent the ravages Of
moths?
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
POOR PASTURES.

Good pasturage is essential TO sue,
cessful dairy farming in most sections
of New England. On large proper
tion of the farms these pastures are
not and very many of them cannot be
cultivated, and, as q consequence, these
that are stocked with cows are slowly
being depleted of their original fertil-
ity, and brush and weeds take the
place of nutritious grasses.
A short time since the writer passed
through hilly town where sheep rails
ing was formerly the leading farming
industry, but after the collapse of the
Merino boom the farmers changed from
sheep raising to dairying, and for the
past ten or twelve years cheese making
has been their speciality. For a few
years this line of farming was profit.
able. The pastures furnished an abun-
dance of feed, and the cows gave
good flow of milk with small cost But
things have changed. Many of the
pastures now are overgrown with weeds
and bushes, and produce but little
good feed. Farmers are obliged to
buy large quantities of grain to keep
up the flow of milk through the suS-
mer months. The grain bills absorb
the profits and keep the farmers in
financial straits all of the time. The
only practicable way out is to try sheep
raising again for few years.
Last spring turned flock of sheep
into a pasture that was so overrun with
weeds and daisies as to furnish but
little feed for cattle. To-day not a
weed or a daisy is to be seen, and the
sheep and lambs which are long wooled,
Costwold and Leicester, have done
finely. In two or three years 1 expect
the pasture will be entirely free from
weeds and daisies and ready for cattle
again. A good flock of sheep we'll
cared for should net the owner at least
81. 80 per head in wool and lambs, and
with special care much more may be
realized; allowing fifty cents per head
for grain would give you a return of
"a per heSd of cash in hand In the
town referred to the annual average
receipts for the milk of the cows at the
cheese factory is about $50 per COW
and from this must be subtracted the
grain feed. New England Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

A good mulch keeps down weeds.
Mixed grasses make the best pasture.
Milk as quickly and quietly as pos.
sible.
The curl in the pigs tail is a sign of
health.
Small eaters are almost always poor
mixers.
Large crops are not always the most
profitable ones.
Liquid manure will force crops to o
rapid maturity.
The best quality of meat comes from
the pig, not the hog.
Bulky food should always be fed
with concentrated food.
Pigs in the orchard will consume
wormy fruit and insects.
Change the quarters and pasture OF
your sheep occasionally.
Too much wood is a prolific cause Of
the non-fruitage of trees.
A creamery should not be started on
less than three hundred cows.
Oil meal is concentrated food and
should be given in moderation.
The more flowers are picked, the
more flowers the plant will bear.
Raspberries, with the exception of
Blackcaps, can be planted in the fall.
Mulched tomatoes produce larger
crops than those that are not mulched.
A little extra work in mellowing the
soil will give n larger profit when the
crop is harvested.
Market gardeners are preparing the
land and sowing turnips and lettuce
for the late market.
Those kinds of cabbage which have
firm, close heads are the least injured
by the cabbage worm.
Turnips will produce larger crops
when weeded, but they will do well on
the average ground if not cultivated
The loss by shrinkage of vegetables
stored in cellars is very great; some
claim it to be as high as forty per
cent.
To get the best results with rasp-
berries, cut out old wood and all weak
stalks as soons as the bearing season is
over.
After the potato vines have died
down, the bugs that were on them are
apt to attack the other plants, especial
ly the eggplants, but they can be killed
by applying Paris green.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
PLANTING TIE GRAPE.

Experienced grapemen everywhere
urge deep planting and it is a lesson
one must learn sooner or later. We
may think il an absurd thing to plant
a vine a foot and half or two feet
deep, but unless we do we may us well
let grapes alone.
Nearly all planters recommend at
least the former depth, and it is a Gus
tom followed in the oldest grape
countries. Not only is it an all but
universal method, but in some of the
Rhine countries all surface roots are
cut off by thrusting the spade down
alongside the vine, so compelling the
plant to find its entire sustenence in
the subsoil.
Without a deep and thorough pre-.
paration of the soil our vines will be
both short lived and unproductive
Drainage must be secured if necessary,
for a grape will not endure wet feet,
nor will fertilizing the subsoil be of
the least use SO long AS water remains
in it.
How TO enrich the whole soil to the
depth of at least one foot is, in the
vineyard, an important matter 1t mar
possibly be done otherwise, but TO pro
mote a good healthy growth of vine
and fruit, there is to my mind no way at
all equaLto ploughing in good com
post, either of muck well dried out or
of parings OF low rich lands, including
wire grass, bushes, vines, all the small
growth. Such compost made up
with hardwood ashes and u sprinkllng
Of bone. distributed all through the
soil by repeated ploughings, will give
you wood and fruit.
Now, in preparing to plant, throw
out wide, open burrows, or dig holes nt
least three feet wide and foot and a
half deep, and put in generous sup
ply--a bushel or more-of the same
compost. Mix it with the best surface
soil, and in that plant. You cannot
fill up at first; let the upper roots be
covered three or four inches, and for
the rest successive hoeings as the vines
grow will suffice, and by the close OF
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
TaiIor.Made Grief.

According to one OF the authorities
the period of mourning for a father
in-law is twelve months, ten months
black, two months half mourning ;
Grape is seldom worn, though the
Grape period was formerly six months
For parent the period is the same as
above. The longest period for a
brother is six months, five months
black, one month half mourning; the
Grape period was formerly three
months; it is now almost discarded.
The shorter period is four months
black, no half mourning. The period
of mourning for father-in-law is
often shortened to six months when
relatives reside at a considerable dis
tance from each other. All of which
prompts the remark that the world
would be made more cheerful and
sensible if mourning" garments
were discarded altogether. New York
Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
RAISING CAVES.

A calf to each COW can be raised on
skim milk and little additional food.
A calf may be fed skim milk when one
week old, with the addition of one gill
of boiled faxseed, increasing this ra-
tion gradually to pint per day when
four weeks old, and then adding fine
middlings or corn and oats ground to-
gether, or pint to one quart of oats
unground.
Flaxseed Cruel, with plenty of skim
milk, will produce a very fine growth,
leaving the calf as mellow to the touch
as if sucking the COW. A calf two
months old will gain three pounds per
day on this ration. The oil taken of
in the cream can be replaced for one
fifth of the money value of the cream.
Butter dairymen may raise a calf to
each COW upon the skim milk and a
little additional food as indicated, and
get onefourth to one-third as much
profit ont of the butter. Selling but
ter robs the land of nothing valuable
only carbon, which has no manural
value. Mirror and Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
rAnRAGuT'S VOW.

When boy once learns that there Is moth,
ing manly in initiating the vices OF men, hC
has made long stride in wisdom. More
over, he may count himself among the for.
tunate If he learns II so early in life that the
pursuit of foolish and wicked pleasure does
not practically injure his future career
Admiral FaIragut told this story of his own
boyhood
when l was ten years old. he says, 81
was with my father on board a man-o'-wa
l had some qualities that | thought made a
man of me, could swear like an old salt,
could drink as stiff u glass of grog as II /
had doubled Cape Horn, and could smoke
like locomotive. l was great at cards and
fond OF gambling in every shape. At the
close of dinner, one day, my father turned
everybody out Of the cabin, locked the door,
and said to me:
"'David, what do you mean to bep
~ mean to follow the sea-
"'Follow the sea Yes, to be poor, mis-
cradle, drunken sailor before the mast be
kicked and euffed about the world, and die
IN some fever hospital in a foreign land. No,
David no boy ever trod the quarterback
with such principles as you have, and such
habits rs you exhibit. You'll have to change
your whole course of life II you ever become
a man.
MY father left me and went on deck. /
was stunned by the rebuke and overwhelmed
by modification.
"a poor miserable, drunken sailor before
the mast Be kicked and cuffeG about the
world, and die in some fever hospital That
Is to be my fate, thought /. III change my
life, and change It at once. will never utter
another oath | will never drink another
drop OF intoxicating liquor; / will never
gamble. have kept these three VOWS ever
since. -
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
TEMPERANCE.


ONLY.
Free from all care IN HIS boylsh play,
A face rs the sunlight, cheering and gay,
The pride OF n mother whose arms entwlne--
Only sip OF his fathers wine.
A growing knowledge with manhood's
strength,
A mind far-reaching in wlsdom's length,
smile for tho merry, for the grievins a
only-a glass OF the foaming beer.
Shining in circles OF mirth and song.
love OF the right and hatred OF wrong,
friend TO be sought for whose friendship
is gain
Only toast in the bright champagne.
In the manly face line OF care
Some silver threads in the dark brown hair
A cloud on the brow, in the eve, alas
Only an occasional social glass.
figure bent in the noon of life,
weeping mother, pleading wife,
weakened brain and n mind grown numb
Only drink Of the fiery rum.
squalid room in an attic high,
pain-wrought moan, n pitiful cry,
bundle of rags meath the rafters' gloom.
Only dying drunkard's home.
A coffin OF pine, unfinished and rude,
widowed mother with starving brood,
lonely ride DER the rafting pave
Only pauper's nameless grave.
Banner of Gold.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
MULES FOR FARM WORK.

The mule is used much more than
the horse in the South, probably in
part because Southern laborers are not
to be trusted with the more spirited
and valuable animal. A Southex
planter mentions as advantages of
mules over horses: Their feet are
smaller, so they iniure the crops less
when working in them, and can be
used in closer rows than horses; they
are less liable to disease, nre better
feeders, being less fastidious as to
what they eat, endure hardship better,
are not SO easily injured and are
steadier to work at the plow. The
experience of most Northern farmers
with mules is that, however serviceable
for work on the farm, it is less pleas
ant and less safe to work among them.
Good horses are none the worse for
the farm, because they require better
care than the mules will put up with.
Boston Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The new county of Riverside, Cal, has
voted against granting liquor licenses.
The Surgical Instrument-MakersA Union
requires that its members be total abstainers
The w. G. Il. u, of Hartman, Tenn, has
built Temperance Temple at a cost of
$4,000.
The distilleries of the United States used
the last fiscal year 26, 1s9 gu bushels of grain
In liquor making.
The supreme council of the United Com
mercial Travellers has decided to prohibit in
toxlcating liquors at all its banquets..
The applications TO the Boston Associated
Charities last year show that twenty-five per
cent. OF the causes for sickness were intem-
perance.
Fifty per cent. OF the young men OF Switzer-
land are Ineligible for military service on ac-
count OF physical deterioration produced by
excessive drinking.
The five weeks series of temperance
meetings inaugurated by Mr.. Moody in Chi
cago have been drawings large audiences and
hundreds signed the pledge.
Mr. Victor Burton. OF the celebrated brew
ers firm in London, has become teetotalleT
and withdrawn from the firm, forfeiting
thereby his right in S35 900, 600
South California w. G. 4. U. is reported
to have done, in the eight months between
its last two conventions. more than double
the work Of any preceding full year.
The Belgians seem TO excel all the rest Of
Europe in their devotion to alcohol. There
are 900 ''schnaps" houses in Belgium and
only 5000 schools that is to say, there is one
inn or ''estaminet" to every thirty-nine Bel
CLANS and only one school to every 1776
In France the Constitutional, a Paris
paper, admitted that the habit Of drunken
ness has increased year by year since the be-
ginning OF the century. Men begin with
wine then alcohol is taken. In forty years
the consumption OF alcohol has tripled In
France"
Congress of Army Chaplains, held re-
Gently in Chicago, declared that the post ex-
change system "dOes not meet the alleged
needs OF the army as regards its drink de-
partment," and the hope was expressed "that
the time will soon arrive when ii will be made
TO disappear.
In India certain regiments with 56lO men
We're placed under observation They were
divided into free drinkers moderate drinkers,
and abstainers Ii was found that the deaths
of the former were "A per 1000, OF the mod
crate drinkers % per 1000, and of the alb
stainers only IL per 1000
Miss Jessie Ackerman, President of Aus
trdlia W. G. T. o., offered a prize Of a gold
medal 10 members OF the Unions throughout
that country who secure twenty-five or more
members, fees paid, during the year ending
Aprill 1864, Organizers and public workers
are excluded from the offer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
ruRorE's B1o BEER CONSUMPTION.

The Paris Temps publishes some interest
ing particulars with regard to the quantity
OF beer which is now brewed in Europe, the
figures, which may be taken as approx
mateiy correct, representing the average fol
the last five or six years. The total quantity
brewed is 5,l05, 900, 900 gallons, Germany
coming first with production of 1,071 ,O6G. :
100 gallons, OF which GA, 752, sos gallons are
brewed In North Germany, 94+> $50. .3O5 Gal.
Ions in Bavaria. 20, 953, $50 gallons in Wurtem.
berg, 56,445,9i0 gallons in Baden, and II, :.
0S3,3O5 gallons in Alsace-Lorraine. Great
Britain comes next with total Of S74,lg2,-
275 gallons while Austria Hungary is third
with total of 9GS, ,ss9,675 gallons. These
are the only countries in which the produc-
tion reaches 100 900, 900 gallons ;but relatively
to their population, Denmark, with 40, 1s9,
200 gallons brewed, and Norway with 49,
S04, ,999, have much larger production than
most OF the others. But Russia, with its
vast area and large population, produces
only 65,s92.-W. @. T. U. Bulletin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
TEMpERANoE 1NcnEAsrNa.

Miss Frances L. Willard furnishes the In
dependent with an outline OF the growth OF
temperance principles which she thinks Is
likely to be realized in this last decade of
the nineteenth century or by the end OF the
first decade of the twentieth at farthest.
First she believes that the true nature Of
stimulants and narcotics will be taught in
all our schools, and increased attention be
given to temperance topics in Sunday
schools. The Worlds Women's Christian
temperance Union will fully justify its name
by spreading from the thirty countries where
1t now exists all over the world. Distlllerles
and breweries will not be allowed to exhibit
their products at fairs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
DELICIOUS SUGAR COOKIES.

Delicious sugar cookies that are so
rich that they will keep some time are
made by beating cupful of butter
and two of sugar to cream. Beat
the yolks of four eggs until light, and
add them to the butter and sugar,
then add the beaten whites. Mix
thoroughly and quickly, and add just
enough flour TO make a stiff paste
Roll out as thin as possible without
breaking, cut and bake in a moderate
oven. Cookies are more tempting
when baked delicate brown than
when white. Jumbles made with sour
cream are also excellent. Cream cup.
full of butter with two of sugar, and
add a cupful of sour cream to which a
teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in lit
tie hot water, has been added. Sep.
arate the yolks and whites of two eggs,
beat both until light, then mix them,
and add to the other ingredients. Add
enough flour to make as soft paste rs
can be rolled, not a particle more
Roll as thin as you can without break
ing and bake in hot oven. The
grated rind of lemon added to either
will improve the flavor. New York
Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
Chief Magistrates OF Ancient Grecce

The chief magistrates of Athens were
called archons. At first the Office was
lifelong and hereditary afterward for
ten years, finally annual and elective.
There were nine annual archons, and
none were eligible but citizens who
could prove three generations of free
ancestors. Every candidate must also
prove that he had no physical defect;
that he had been dutiful to his pa
rents, had served in the army and
possessed property TO support the dig
nifty of the Office. Bribery was pun
ished by compelling the one bribed TO
dedicate TO the gods a statute of gold
equal in weight TO his own body.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
MEASUREMENT OF NAY IN A STACK.

Hay settles in the stack quite slowly
on account of the elasticity of the
grass stems. II is matter of guess
work wholly how much it may settle,
but in month it may settle one-tenth
in the height of the stack and more
slowly after until it stops. New hay
stacked twenty-four hours only will
weigh more than a ton for 1000 cubic
feet; after a month the weight Of ton
will be about 900 cubic feet. New
York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
pAKrp CHICKEN.

An appetizing way TO cook chicken
is TO cut il in pieces, as If for a fricas-
see. Dip the pieces in beaten egg and
then in fine bread crumbs. Season
with salt, pepper and minced parsley.
Put them in the dripping pan with bits
of butter over them, and little water
in the pan. Bake slowly until they are
done. Put the chicken upon a hot
dish, make a rich gravy of the con-
tents of the pan and pour over them.
Garnish the dish with parsley. Boston
Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
THE CHILDREN OF pRuSKARps.

M. Ch. Fere, the French savant, has re-
Gently shown that II the eggs OF fowl ar,
exposed, while Matching, TO the vapor o
alcohol for twenty-four TO forty-eight hours
not only is the Matching enormously de
layed but the chick, when Matched, is found
TO be q monstrosity. This, it is thought,
throws light upon the tendency to the pro-
duction of human monstrosities from parents
who are victims of the alcohol habit, as Il is
well known that children OF drunkards are
usually misformed in body as well as in.
tellectually deficient.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08

by local applications, as they cannot reach tho
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way TO cure Deafness, and that is by constitu-
tional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have a rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when Il is entirely. closed
nation can be taken ont and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness (caused by catarrhl that cam
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
+. J. CHENEY s. Co., Toledo, 0.
e1E~ Sold by Druggists 75c.
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Most Costly of Hnhitatlons.

The largest and most costly private
mansion in the world is said to be that
owned by Lord Butte, known as Mount.
stuart. 1t is described rs follows: 1t
covers nearly two acres, and is built
in Gothic style; the walls, turrets and
balconies are built of stone. The i'm
mense tower in the centre of the build
ing is 100 feet high, with balcony
round the top. The halls are CON
structed entirely of marble and ala
baster; all the rooms are finished in
mahogany, rosewood and walnut; the
ireplaces are all carved marbles OF
mtique designs. The exact cost of
his fairy palace is not known, but it
estimated at more than 50, 500, 900.
The greatest naval action in Greek
istory was that at Salamis, r. c. 4SO.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08

II is said that on an average every
champagne cork is utilized for three
separate bottles before it gets broken
or thrown aside rs useless. English
walters get abont fifty cents pail
for them from the manufacturers and
twenty-five cents pail for soda water
corka
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08

Needs assistance it may he best 10 render Il
promptly, but one should remember touse even
The best and most simple and gentle remedy Is
the Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali
fornta Flo g,-rt,,, 70
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08

The defensive armor of the Assyri-
ans consisted of metal helmet, a
leather coat of mail and shield the
weapons were spear, sword, bow and
dagger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08

the first season the ground will be
levelled up.
Don't forget TO get the vines down,
down near the bottom of the prepared
holes, for most of the failures in grape
growing result from surface prepsra-
tion and shallow planting, Florida
Agriculturist.