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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
Restoring Historical Paintings.

The eight great paintings in the ro-
tunda of the Capitol at Washington
representing famous events in Ameri-
can history, are undergoing treatment
to restore their colors. The painting
of the Baptism of Pocohontas" has
just been replaced in its niche in the
wall, after being subjected to reju-
venation, which causes its companion
piecesto appear exceedingly tsrnished
by contrast. The other pictures are
to undergo the same attention. Trum-
bulls famous representation of the
signing of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence has been removed for re-
newal, Architect Clark of the Capt.
tol was given charge of the work, and
placed it in the hands of specialist
in Baltimore. A preparation is used
which removes the dust and varnish and
brings out the original colors in some.
thing like their first distinctness, but
no new paint is applied. New York
Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
CELERY CULTIVATION.

Celery planted in beds or rows will
need frequent cultivation. The cult
vator run between the rows and the
use of the pronged hoe between the
plants will be all the cultivation
needed. This work should be done
once a week. Do not allow the ground
to crust over. When the weather is
hot and dry it will form thick, hard
crust, which willstop all growth.
Celery planted in beds will require
still greater care. The narrow steel
hoe or the narrow celery rake will do
rapid and irst.class work in the hands
of competent man. Celery requires
a large amount of moisture, and one
way to get it is by frequent cultiva-
ton; the next is by giving the beds
a generous watering. When the plants
need water give an abundance. Water
in the cool of the evening. A hose
attached to barrel drawn by q horse
will quickly put it on without much
loss of water. When the small beds
are to be watered, watering can will
be all that is needed. In the editors
experience watering once q week is
enough.
The long, green celery-worm that
feeds on the leaves should be cut in
two with pair of clippers. In the
dry seasons they become very numer-
Gus, and will seriously iniure the
plants if not taken in time. The cell
cry should not be earthed up during
hot weather. Keep the soil loose and
the plants growing. The middle of
September is plenty early enough to
give the first earthing up. The self
blanching celery will need the earth
drawn up to the plants about the 10th
of September. This celery comes
into market in the early tall. 1t is
quite delicate, and is hard to keep of.
ter it is once blanched. Baltimore
American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
Age OF Niagara Falls.

Professor ]. w. Spencer says that
the first conjecture as Go the age OF
Niagara Falls was made by Andrew
Ellicott in 1890. Ellicott believed
the falls to be 55, 900 years old About
lS41 Lyell estimated the age OF the
falls as 80, 900 years. All of these esti-
mates were pure conjectures, but they
were correct in assuming that the
gorge had been oxcavated by the
river. Professor Spencer, in out
lining the progress of the falls, says
that little stream draining the Erie
Basin once fell about 900 feet from
the brow of the Niagara escarpment.
This stream was not over one-fourth
the volume of the present cataract,
and consequently excavated the gorge
at a much slower rate than at present.
During the early history of the river
the waters of the three upper lakes
emptied through the Huron Basin by
way OF the Ottawa River. The height of
the falls has increased several times.
The first episode. represented by
a small river falling 200 feet, lasted
1000 years. Then the height of the
falls was increased to 400 feet, and
took the drainage of all the upper
great lakes. At the same time there
was series Of cascades, three in all,
the lower gaining on the upper until
finally they were all united in one
great cataract, much higher than that
of to-day. Subsequently the waters
were raised at the head Of Lake On
tario, and the falls appropriated to
the present conditions after lapse of
1000 years, and another 1000 years
was probably occupied by TRANSITIONAL
changes of very gradual character.
1t is now 5000 years since Lake Huron
emptied into Lake Erie for the first
time. The land has risen about the
outlet of Lake Erie, and if the present
rate of change continues, in 5000 or
5000 years the waters OF the four lakes
will be turned into the Mississippi
River drainage at Chicago. New Or
leans Picayune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
COOKING BANANAS.

Cooked bananas make delicious des-
serts. As fritters, they are excellent.
Sliced, fried and sprinkled with pow
dered sugar they are good. Made
into a pudding by slicing them, plac-
ing in a pudding dish with alternate
slices of sponge cake, the whole being
soaked with beaten egg and baked,
they are not to be despised. Pre-
served bananas are also delicious.
Boil together a pound of sugar, half
pint of water and the Juice of one
lemon and one orange. Skim this
and when it is syrup-like put in six
peeled bananas sliced in two. Cook
for about forty minutes and serve
cold.
To bake bananas loosen the skin 50
that the fruit may be slipped out,
but do not take it out until after the
baking. Bake for half an hour. Then
remove the loosened skins and cover
with sauce made by boiling half n
cup Of sugar and half cup of water
five minutes and adding a teaspoon of
butter and the juice of half lemon. -
New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products TO
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 and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; eflectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and 'fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the 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 by all drug
gists in 50c and 81 bottles, but 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, 1894-11-14
LEFTOVER srrwrp TOMATOES.

If, as often happens, you have lit
tie stewed tomatoes left over from din
ner this is nice way of using them
Boil two-thirds of cup of rice in two
cups of water Tor steam it in the double
boiler) adding half a teaspoon of salt
at the time you pour the boiling wNte-
on to the rice. Cook until soft, which
will be in half or three-quarters of
an hour. Remove the cover and stir
the rice carefully with fork to let the
steam escape and dry Off the rice.
Heat the tomatoes which were left,
season them quite highly with salt and
pepper, using little cayenne to
highten the taste, add to the rice q
tablespoonful of butter, stir carefully
in, and when melted pour over the
tomatoes and stir that also into the
rice. Serve at once as vegetable and
you will be surprised to find it so good.
New York Advertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
He Let His Repntatlon 60.

II isn't often that one finds AMONG
the mountaineers of the Southwest
hero of the highest type, but they do
exist, and year or so ago l met one. ]
had been in his neighborhood for three
months and I knew that he had killed
man or two and had the reputation
of being the gamest man in the m oun.
tains. He was extremely handy With
a gun, too, and everybody gave him a
wide berth whenever there was q pros.
pect Of row. One day, however, he
got into difficulty with man from
an adjoining county, and when the
shooting began he cut and run like q
white head, leaving the field in pos.
session of the other party. Two days
sfterward / met him on the road and
We talked about the late disturbance.
81 was rather surprised at the way
you acted" l said, as mildly as l
could, for even then had no wish to
stir him up.
81 reckon most folks wuz," he re-
piled briefly.
81 know they were, and they don't
understand it; neither do 1.
''Well, " he said, half apologetically,
81 reckon I jist run, and that wuz all
thar wuz to hit. ="
There was more than that; you
lost your reputation by it,
"Mebbe l did, colonel" and he
swallowed a lump in his throat "but
that thar feller had seven little chill
dren dependin on him, an I kinder
had an idea iist afore pulled trigger
that rnebbe 1 could git along better
without my reputation than they could
without ther daddy, so l run.
He stopped as if uncertain what to
say next, and l took him 10y the hand
and shook it with vigor that knew
be appreciated by the look that came
into his eyes. Detroit Free Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Nothing truer than that hogs like
"roots."
Don't forget to save the best field
and garden seeds.
If you have no orchard set out at
least a few fruit trees.
Commercial prosperity has much to
DO with the horse market.
The SOW should be left quiet day
or two after she has been served.
Now get rid OF all poor scrub ani-
mails before they eat their heads off.
A very large litter of pigs is gener-
ally to their detriment in quality or
size.
1t is suggested that sweet potatoes
may be dried in the same manner as
fruit.
1t is not we'll to raise colts and mules
together, because the mules lord it
over the former.
Exercise will do the very little pigs
good; give them range as soon as they
are able to toddle.
As long as she will prove serviceable
keep the SOW which has proved herself
to be a good mother.
Extra fat sows will not breed so
surely as when their systems are in a
less feverish condition.
Darkening the rooms where nests
are placed tends to prevent the fowls
from eating their eggs.
A little honey heated and dropped
on bread is said to restore voice and
strength to sick canaries.
Destroy all poor and worthless fruit
as soon as it falls from the trees, or it
will furnish harbor for many insect
enemies.
Pick off the faded flowers and dead
caves from your plants, if for no
other reason than that they iniure the
appearance of the plant
Much seed is wasted by letting it
remain where grown after it is ripe by
falling into the ground. And it is al
ways the first and best that falls.
When only enough food is given to
support life there can be no profit, as
profit only comes from what is CON
sumed and appropriated above the life
sustaining point.
Do not water newly-potted plants
too freely. 1t is best to give a liberal
quantity of water at the time of trans
planting, aud then not water again
ultil new growth starts.
Seed of the nasturtium may be
sown at intervals throughout the en-
tire year, thus giving new plants at all
times. They make a very pretty plant
for the windows.
Do not allow withered flowers to re-
main on the plants unless you wish
the seed. They should be picked as
soon as they show signs of withering,
as they are a great drain ON the vi
tality of the plant.
Have the strawberry beds clean,
cultivate well that a good vigorous
growth may be made before the
ground freezes. Then be ready to
cover lightly with marsh hay or other
litter free from weed seeds
The garden plat should be cleared
of all weeds and rubbish and plowed
this fall, If planted in rows it can b.
plowed in strips as the crop is har
vested another factor in favor o
planting in rows rather than beds.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
WINTER DAIRYINa.

The chief aim in winter dairying,
writes John Gould, of Ohio, in the
American Agriculturist, is to get all
the milk possible between the last of
October and the first of the following
June, and for that purpose the cows
calve as nearly as may be in Septem-
Der and up to the first of November.
have unusual opportunities for
selecting choice COWS from the
springer" droyes that are centered
here for shipment to New York and
Philadelphia, so if a COW goes wrong
her place is supplied at once with a
promising COW selected from hun.
dreds. The aim is to have the dairy
OF somewhat uniform size, and all
must answer in full to the dairy form
and type.
When the COWS come into the dairy
they are given little grain with soil
ing crops, like sweet corn and mIllet,
or oats and peas. begin to stable
the COWS early, by the tenth of Oc-
tober certainly, and if there is cold
and disagreeable weather, such as is
frequent fright off from the lake, 4"
they are kept in for two days, or un-
til the weather is warm. A COW must
not be allowed to shrink in the fall,
from either lack of feed or chilling
rains. By the tenth of November the
cows are practically in winter quarters
About the twentieth the silos are
opened, and, as a rule, from Thanks
giving Day the cows are left in the
stalls until Easter Sunday, often
three or four weeks later, according
to the weather The stable is light,
very dry, we'll ventilated, never
freezes, and the COWS are tied in pairs
with halters in half box stalls, and in
every way made as comfortable as
possible.
AS soon as the habit of eating il
the fields can be changed to stabl,
life, the COWS are put upon two feed
a day, all that they will eat up clean
and the rest of the day or night i
given to food digestion and assimila
tion. This is found by far the bes
method. Milking Is the first thing il
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

After washing never wiring worsteI
dress goods. Shake them.
Soak mildewed clothes in butter
milk and spread on the grass in the
sun.
Acid phosphate will remove ink
stains from the hands when every
thing else fails.
Milk, applied once week with a
soft cloth, freshens and preserves
boots and shoes.
Canned sardines carefully Drowned
on double-wire gridiron and served
with lemon are appetizing.
One of the easiest ways of "taking
cold' is to drop asleep without an ex-
ira wrap over the shoulders.
No receptacle ior soiled clothing,
even if handsomely decorated, should
be kept in sleeping apartment.
These are days when extra care
should be taken to keep the feet per-
fectly dry. A fresh pair of stockings
should be used every day.
Canned tomatoes are more delicious
baked than stewed. About ten min
utes before removing from the oven
spread buttered bread-crumbs over the
top.
Whiten yellow linen by boiling half
an hour in one pound of fine soap
melted i'll one gallon of milk Thea
wash in suds, then in two cold waters
with little blueing.
Calicoes, ginghams and chambrayf
cannot be properly washed with the
white clothes. They need a much
quicker process, and the long delays
of an ordinary washday would ruin
them.
Two uses of eggs are not generally
known or appreciated. A fresh egg
beaten and thickened with sugar, free
ly eaten, will relieve hoarseness, and
the skin of a boiled egg, wet and ap.
piled to boil, will draw out soreness
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
rEMpERAvcE NEWS AND NOTES.

Intemperance is the worst enemy to nome
virtues and home happiness.
Tho saloon burns up S2S,0O0, 900 OF oui
national resources every week.
Eight OF the aldermen OF Chicago arc said
10 be proprietors OF gambling houses and
saloons.
Tho drunkard may be q good workman,
but It is his intemperance which makes him
conspicuous and not his handiwork.
Recent medical statistics In Switzerland
show that fifty per cent. OF the young men
Wno would otherwise be eligible for military
service arc rendered unfit by excessive
drinking.
Let us all DO apostles In the temperance
cause let tho old persevere let tho young
enlist. Then will life be worth living. Let
total ahstinence always be upliite1, praised
and blessed.
The W. c. T. u, of Colorado Springs
Colorado, conducts u Home and Employ.
ment Bureau, which is doing untold gool
among homeless working girls AID all classes
OF wage-earning women.
Charles Dudley Warner says: at is no
80 fnuch for the sake OF women IA for the
sake OF men that women need the ballot
Men have made bad mess of governing the
world they have fllled it with drinking
saloons and standing armies"
The Wine and Spirit Gazette estimates
that there arc l9s, 1856 voters in the State OF
New York directly dependent upon tho
liquor traffic, and says, "a little mutually
among this vast army would enable them Ia
absolutely control any election IN the State "
The best remedy we have heard OF lately,
to prevcnt drunkenness is 10 refuse to drink
liquor that you do not pay for at the timl
the drink Is taken. Seven out OF every ten
mon who get drunk are made drunk by
drinks which they "have set up" to them.-
MoDtezama Record.
Mrs. Ada NJ. Bltteatende a lawyer Of
Nebraska, and her husband have incorpor.
Rted tho "Uncle Sans Antl-Drunkard Fac.
tory Concern" The object OF the concern
Is to circulate and dramstize a book prov.
ing rum to bs demon, which Mrs. Bitten
bender is writing, and the capital stock is
S5Q0,000.
In India certain regiments with 55l0 men
wore placed under observation. They were
divided into FREQ drinkers, moderate drinkers
apd abstsinors. il was found that the deaths
OF the former We're forty-ono per one thou
sand Of this moderate drinkers, twenty-five,
per oas thousand, and OF the abstalners only
eleven DER one thousand.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
" Please, father, don't Gor
a. Hold your tonuuO I said
coon nusnANps poN,r nn1Nr.

have studied the laws OF heredity, prao.
licRlly, and with hundreds OF living illustra.
lions, right here In this ONCE, for twenty,
Two years md have reached firm convic.
lion that no man is worthy TO become hus-
band or father who Is not always sober and
clean. By sober, mean man who is not
familiar with the red cup; by clean, one
whose body Is puro and healthful.
/ must make the startling statement that
we are at present developing race OF drunk.
ards. Statistics show that, leaving out the
children, there Is one drunkard to every
iorty-two persons. This means that nearly
one -halfthe adult people in the United States
drink something else than water.
As there are twenty-five million children
in the United States, and as they are all un.
der the care Of this society, have sufficient
evidence to encourage me In my belief that
any man who tipples cannot be good
father; not that the greatest wrong Is 20
himself, but because OF tho wrong done his
children. l find that nino out OF every ten
men who drink had drinking fathers or a
drinking family before them. The father
says, "Oh l only drink little, you know
1t never affects me-" 3ut the father never
knows what terrible effects OF Just drinking
ga little" may be revealed in his offspring
what awful influence It may have upon tho
mind and habits Of the child.
You cannot enervate the mind and body
and have strength and intellect remain. II
you are father, as you SOW strength and in.
tellcct in yourself, so shall you reap strength
and intellect In your children. II you art
generating u drunken race, then we are pro
ducing at the same ,time an unclean race
There is room here, regret to say, only fol
the crucl, hard facts. Let thinking mer
and women consider them and, above all,
let the wives bring all their loving infiuenci
to bear upon their husbands to restrain those
very husbands from drinking. And the
woman who can keep her husband from
strong drink will have the very best hus-
band.-Demorest's Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
TO PREVENT FLANNEL SHRINKING.

A good old Scotch housewife says
that her fannels never shrink, and it
is because she washes them in cold
water. She puts them in clean, cold
soapsuds and washes them directly;
then she puts them through a second
suds, and rinses them in cold water
and hangs them out to dry without
wringing them at all. She never
washes flannels on rainy or cloudy
day, but always waits for sunshine
New York Advertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
Big Record with the New Army nIne

The principal feature OF the army ride
competition OF Fort Sheridan, Chicago, was
the remarkable score made by First Ser
geant NJ. J. Murphy, Company d, Thir-
teenth Infantry, with the new Kragg-Jor-
gensen thlrty-calibre rife. Murphy shot on
four ranges, 200, 800, 500 and 600 yards, and
made total score OF l79 points out OF pos
sible 200. The best scores made by Murphy
were on the 800 and 600 yard ranges, and II
Is apparent that the new rife is very efec-
tive at long-distance firing. Murphy's scora
Is two points below the army record forthose
distances. Given Burlington sight. the ex-
perts say, the Kragg-JorgenseA gun Is the
best IN the world.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
CARE nF TIE MEADOWS.

It will pay we'll to run the mower
over the meadows and cut down the
weeds before they seed. There are
daisies, ragweed, goldenrod, and other
flowers that are not in their proper
place among the grass, and all now
maturing seed for seven years weed
ing in the future, as the proverb goes.
These should be destroyed at once,
and it will be a small job to do it,
American Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
TEMPERANCE.


QUEER, ISN'T fT2
T"The saloon burns up s28, ,000,00 OF ou
national resources every week--and yet ",
are excited over few forest fires. Ed
lorial noto In the Voice.
10, q Northern forest burns,
And the startled nation turns.
Vlews with wonder and with fear
Desolation far and near;
See the homeless people fee,
Counts the loss OF property,
Shudders at the ruin rife,
Sad bewails the loss of life
Then toward the stricken land
Stretches prompt and helpful hand.
There's a wilder, hotter FIRE,
Sweeping farther, leaping higher,
Round the nation, through the land,
Each saloon burning brand.
Loss OF life there Is, and home;
Women, children, hopeless roami
Lo there follow in the glare,
Ruin, madness, grim despair.
She may count, ifloss she seek,
Twenty million every week
But the nation only slghs,
Folds her hands and shuts her eyes
Hattie Horner Louthan, in tho Voice.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14

strong, plump, round and rosy. Moth
ing so effective as a strength restofer
and flesh maker is known to medical sci
ence; this puts on healthy flesh not the fat
of cod liver oil and its filthy compounds.
II rouses every organ Of the body to. ac-
tivity, punhes, enriches and vitaiizes
the blood so that the body feels refreshed
weak too nervous, II may be that the food
assimilation Is at fault A certain amount
of bile is necessary for the reception of the
fat foods in the blood. Too often the liver
holds back this element which would help
digestion. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery stimulates tones up and invig-
crates the liver, nourishes the blood, and
the muscles, stomach and nerves get the
rich blood they require.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-14
FEED, rF YOU WANT EGGS.

Do not be afraid of the feed if you
want eggs A poor feeder is never a
good layer. Again, not what is eaten,
but what is digested and assimilated
is what tells in the egg basket, so that
everything which tends to better diges-
tion tends toward better returns in
eggs, and indicates that plenty Of
shells and grit should be furnished,
and if possible charcoal, which absorbs
the gases, sweetens the crop, and many
times prevents an attack of indiges-
tion.-Americsn Agriculturist.