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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
GOOD HOGS VALUABLE,

1t is difficult for some farmers tc
appreciate the true value of good hogs
for breeding purposes. This is true
as much in the ranks of the well-to-do
stock feeders as it is among the poorer
grain growers, who tremble to think
of investing a cent beyond the intrin.
sic pork value of breeding swine.
In the case of brood SOW, that has
the fattening quality, which all i'm.
proved hogs should have, that trans.
mitted to the offspring furnishes lit.
ter of half dozen with the capacity
of early maturity, the superiority
should be easily noted. The pig that
grows and fattens at $50 days of age
into $50 pounds weight at total OF
food equivalent to but four-fifths oil
the amount fed to an ordinary "good
pig, " is surely worth searching for.
The improved swine OF the country
comprise a good proportion of vigor.
GUS feeder and with disposition to ap.
propriate their food to their growth
and the storing away of fat as we'll as
flesh.
With right selection, by the exer-
else of proper judgment, the hog
breeders may produce from a single
litter of thoroughbred pigs one-fourth
more pork, to say the least, than
from the same number of the com.
mon sort. The pork, too, sells under
all conditions for fully one-tenth
more per pound. These results follow,
as rule, tie use of good sire, and
with due diligence in procuring the
best high grade or pure bred dams, a
better showing can be made.
Six litters ordinarily furnish thirty
substantial pigs. On the basis of $50
pounds weight at eight months, and
one-fifth of this as the result of using
a pure bred sire, we should have to
his credit fifty pounds per head, or
for thirty pigs in growth into ma.
turity 1900 pounds additional of pork,
worth ordinarily 81 per hundred in
the farmers yard, thus placing to the
credit of the improved sire alone 500.
Added to this conservative estimate
the gain which would accrue were
both sire and dams of the highest or
der, aud 800 would be moderate
limit to place on the increased value
of the exercise of brains, and diligent
care TO get the best, and to do the
best in every way on each lot of a
half dozen sows, bred in the modern
methods of wide-awake, thinking
farmers.
OF course, the average farmer will
attain the above results on twice the
number of litters, if he exercises or
nary care. The ordinary increased
value of boar for such results is but
SIS. Where sixty mature hogs are
grown from the use of a good sire, the
profit on this S25 sire (allowing SO
Tor commercial value) where but a
speculation of Sl5 is made amounts to
eight times, or on but thirty pigs four
times the sum ventured. The profit
net on the thirty pigs, $40, will ordi.
narily pay all the taxes and more on
the average farm. 1t will also pay foI
more than one acre of the average
farm. 1t thus follows that it pays to
think about the hogs. 1t is more i'm.
/ portant still to act promptly, and Sc.
cure good breeding stock before the
i season is passed for selecting the
pest.-Farm, Field aud Fireside.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23


Tho following good speech is nearly verb
nj report OF one heard at temperance
meeting;
81 have been thinking since l came into
the meeting tonight. about the losses I've
met with since | signed the total abstinence
pledge, l tell you there isn't n man in tho
society who has lost more by stopping drink
than have. Wait u bit till l tell you what
mean. There was a nice job of work 10 be
done in the shop to-day, and the boss called
for me.
Give it to Law, said he. He's the best
hand in the shop
We'll, I told my wife at supper time, and
she said:
"'Why, Laurie, he used to call you tho
worst. You've lost your bad name, haven't
your
"'Thats fact, wife, said l. And 1t
amt all I've lost In the last sixteen months
either. had poverty and wretchedness.
and lost them. had an old ragged coat
and n shockin' bad hat and some water
proof boots that let the wet out at the toes
as fast as they took II in at the heel. I've
lost them. l had a red face, a trembling
hand and n pair OF shaky legs that gave mo
an awkward tumble now aud then. had a
had habit Of eursing and swearing; and
I've got rid of that. | had an aching head
sometimes, and heavy beart, and worse
than all the rest, guilty conscience.
Thank God, I've lost them all"
"Then l told my wife what she had lost.
"'You've had an old ragged gown, Mary
said 1. Aud you had trouble and sorrow
and a poor wretched home, and plenty Of
heartaches, for you had n miserable drunk
ard for husband. Mary, Mary. thank the
Lord for all you and l have lost since
signed the temp rance pledgev Chase City
Progress.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
PREPARING FOR THE WINTER DAIRY.

Don't be guilty of the carelessness
or unbusiness-like thoughtlessness of
having cows served now or during the
next three months so they will come
IN during the flush of feed and food
Of milk. Neither cream nor butter
brings so much then, and is really
difficult to dispose of. If the cows
rest any time, let them rest then
(whlle farm work is driying), and
calve in July, August or September.
Coming in at this time they will give
more milk than they would otherwise
do when milk and all dairy products
are high, andm nearly equalize the
work OF the year. Some foolishly
fear it will be impossible to get the
COWS with calf if service is delayed,
but this proved to be a fallacy. The
cows condition should be watched
and she should be treated patiently
while in season, but the time when
she is next to calve may be controlled
as most things in business life. Ma
ture calls for ninety per cent. of the
calves in spring, when even q calf will
scarcely sell because there are so many
of them. But the sensible farmer
does not always let nature dominate.
He has the market and other artificial
conditions to meet, and must cultivate
fresh cows at the periods of greatest
profit. New England Homestead.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
POlyglOt Signs,

The array of signs rendered neces-
sary where people of various Nation
alities congregate often confuses one
not familiar with the foreign lan-
guages, especially when the person is
not aware that they all mean the same
thing. On door leading into one OF
the local sugar reinerles are the fol-
lowing inscriptions:
No Admittance.
Der Entrlt list Verboden.
Nerbodner Ginzang.
Me Wchodzic.
There is still another collection on
board the Red Star Line steamships
sailing to Antwerp. There is, of
course. no smoking, except on deck,
and each state room is provided with
the following sign:
No smoking.
Met Rooken.
Defense do Fumage.
Nicht Rauchen. philadelphia Rec
ord.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
STOMACH AND HEAD PAINS.
Women Are Subject 60 Both, on Account
ofTlrht Lncing.


Women Are Subject to Both, on Account
of Tight LRcing.
From he EDcning Ne,os, Netoark, N. j.
One OF the happiest women in this city is
Mrs. George G. Rolss, OF 20 Montgomery
Street.
"No one to look at mo now" said Mrs.
Reiss to a reporter, "would think for mo-
ment that was so III that the dootors said
could not possibly te saved. About three
years ago I began 60 suffer from terrible
pains in my stomach and It was almost Inn
possible for mo to do any work. Then Ihad
severe headaches that almost distracted me
and altogether was IN q very sad condition.
or course l wanted to be well again, and Ike
most people in such cases. consulted doc.
tor, spent money for medicine and took It
faithfully. To my infinite regret got no
better, and another doctor was called I'm.
More medicine was prescribed and this 1
took, but Il did no good. Those terrible
paths continued TO make lfo miserable for
me. The doctors bandly told me that
could not be cured entirely, IL at ALL Pleas
ant news, wasn't ~ Well, continued to
work about the house here and suffered un-
told agonies. l did not giveup hope but did
all could to relieve my misery. Nothing
gave mo any relief, however, aud | had be-
gun TO think that all hope must be aband-
oned, when. in reading the Euenihg Netos l
saw DIR. Williams Pink Pills advertised.
The printed testimonial coming from resi-
dent OF this city led me 20 believe that /, too,
might be benefited by these pills and not
without some misgIvings l bought box OF
them.
almost as soon rs l began to take them
felt relieved and the first marked indication
OF improvement was when that tired, weary,
don't-care feeling disappeared. This was In
itself something to be grateful for, but other
and more pleasing results followed after
had taken moro Of the pills. My headaches
ceased entirely and the pain In my stomach
troubled me no more. Now once In n great
white have an occasional ache or a pain,
cut know the cure. Out comes the Pink
Pills, and after taking one or two OF them,
away the pain goes. II all seems so good to
me that at times can scarcely believe that
II can be true aud yet know that II had
not used these Pink Pills l would still be
suffering agony such rs few people do In this
world"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in q con-
densed form, all the elements necessary to
give new life and richness to tho blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are an un-
failing specific for such diseases AS locomotor
ataXia. partial paralysis, st. Yitus' dance,
sciattca. neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effect OF la grippe. PAL
pitntion OF the heart pale aud sallow COM
pleNious, all forms OF weakness either In
male OF female. Pink Pulls are sold by all
dealers, or will ho sent post paid ON receipt
OF price. go cents box, or six boxes for
90. 50-they are never sold In bulk or byt
1909 by addressing DR. Williams Medicine
COMPANY Schenectady. N. Y.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
ABSOLUTELY pUE e
Colleges One Hundred Years Ago.

Dartmouth College consisted of n
wooden building $50 feet long, fifty
feet wide and thirty-six feet high. At
Dartmouth English grammar and
arithmetic were text books in the
sophomore year.
Princeton, the greatest Presbyterian
college, was huge stone edifce, its
faculty consisting of n president, vice
president, one professor, two masters
Of languages and seventy students.
Harvard University had four brick
buildings; the faculty consisted OF n
president and six professors, aud in
its halls thronged 1870 to 100 stu lents.
Yale boosted of one brisk building
and II chapel with a steeple 125 feet
hight" The faculty was q president,
a aproiessor OF divinity and three tu.
tors.
The greatest Episcopal college in
the United States was William and
Mary's. 1t was under royal and State
patronage, and was, therefore, moro
substantially favored than most OF our
American schools. At this time, it is
said in curious old State report, tho
college was building of throo stories,
"like a brick kiln" and had thirty
gentlemen students. The students
lodged in dormitories, ato at the
commons" and we're satisfied with
what we would consider prison diet.
Breakfast, a small can of coffee, his
cult, about an ounce OF butter. Din
ner, one pound of meat, two potatoes
and some vegetables. Supper, bread
and milk. The only unlimited sup.
ply furnished was cider, which was
passed in a cup from mouth to mouth.
The days were spoken of as boil day,
roast day. stew day, etc. Chicago
News.
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Why H. Was silent.

A physician describes in the Atlanta
Journala a remarkable case of patients
confidence in his physician:
When / was stu lent iu Phila lei.
phia had a patient, an Irishnan,
with a broken leg When the plaster
bandage was removed aud lighter
one put III its place, l noticed that
one of the pins went in with difficulty,
and l could not understand it.
A week afterward in removing this
pin l found it had stuck hard aud fast,
aud l was forced to remove it with the
forceps. What was my astonishmeut,
on making an examination, to hnl
tina. the pin had been run through the
skin twice instead of through the
cloth.
"Why, Pat, SAID I, "iiin't you
know that pin was sticking ia you?"
"ro be shnre 1 did, replied Pat.
Chat l Thought You kuuwel y ,-. = -.
ness, SO l hilt my tongue"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
THE SMUT PARASITE.

If smutted wheat or oats are sown,
the smut parasite grows up with the
stalks, attacks the forming grain and
causes great loss. Hence il we kill
the smut on the seed before sowing it,
the danger of smut in the crop is i'm.
mensely reduced. To absolutely kill
the smut spores, immerse the seed
grain in water at 1873 degrees F, add
ing hot water as needed to keep up
the heat, but never letting it go above
l35 degrees or below 130 degrees.
The immersion must be at least twelve
but not over fifteen minutes, when the
seed must be at once dipped into cold
water, or cold water poured over it,
then spread ont 10 dry. Professor
Arthur, of Indiana, recommends a
temperature of 140 degrees when the
seed is put in, renewing it in few
minutes when down to 130 degrees.
This does not injure the seed, as is apt
to be the case with bluestone (sulphate
OF copper treatment t.-American Agri-
culturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
pAInrlNa HANpnooK or vA1rr.

Bulletin No. 10 of the South Carolina
Station is designed to show the posi-
bilities of the dairy business Under
the conditions which prevail in the
South. In its directions how to select
and breed COWS it epitomizes the
knowledge gained by experiment at
different stations throughout the couu-
try. The value OF different feeds and
the best and most economical methods
OF using them are given in the bulletin,
which also treats of stables and fasten-
ings, milk and milking, cream and
butter, making, dairy by.pro-
ducts, etc. 1t is a simple, concise and
eminently practical handbook which
possesses considerable value and must
prove of assistance to the farmer who
is anxious TO engage in some line of
production that promises more re-
muneration than cotton growing.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
TEMPERANcE NEws 40 NorEs.

The W. c. T. u, of Camden. n. j., have
given an impressive object lesso1 by pre-
pairing a map OF the city on which they have
placed $50 black spots, each OF which repre-
sents a saloon.
Eighty per cent Of New York's saloons are
mOrtgaged Also, a thirst for drink mort
cages a man, soul and body.
A cabman OF Swansea defined a moderate
drinker in an English court rs "a man who
takes only nine pints a day"
DIR. Lanneiongue, French savant, saws
that rum kills more people in month in
France than would fan in battle.
The custom of taking glass Of sherry be-
fore dinner is denounced by Sir Henry
Thompson as "gastrOnomlcal and physlo-
logical blunder."
The Mayor of st. Petersburg has ordered
the name Of every individual who is found
drunk to be posted in hpecile public places
and printed in the Ohielal Gazette. A good
idea.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
1T CAUSES POVERTY AND CRIME.

Intemperanee is the prolific cause OF
poverty and crime. Tens Of thousands are
kept poor by drink. The money that should
be used to make wife and children happy is
squandered on liquor, and the children, in
stead OF being sent to school, are forced
into shops and factories to earn living;
girls once pure and virtuous are driven to
lives Of shame, aud boys, once good. become
street loafers, thieves and murderers.
Three-fourths OF the murders and other
crimes daily committed in our cities are
caused directly or indirectly by drink.
Three-fourths of the criminals that iii our
iails and penitentiaries have been brought
there by the demon drink. Three-fourths of
the inmates OF our orphan asylums have
been left without n parents care through
drlnk.-Rev. S. NJ. Lyons.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
A NEW CANNING ArpARArus.


A new canning apparatus that is
finding much favor with the house,
keepers, and with teachers OF cooking,
has fat vessel somewhat like a low
tin box, into which are fitted one, two,
three, or four cylinders, according to
the size of the apparatus bought.
These cylinders are each provided
with patent cover, with handle.
The fruit is placed at once in the glass
jar, and set inside the cylinder. where
it is cooked by steam. The box in
which the cylinders are placed is filed
with water, and has at the side steam
whistle and combined filter. II is
claimed for the fruit preserved in this
way that tho forcing of the steam into
the contents OF the jar, thus driving
out the air, kills all bacteria, and
gives the fruit much moro natural
flavor than that cooked from the bot
tom in an ordinary preserving kettle.
As the fruit is quickly cooked while it
is covered, and is sealed as soon as
cooked, there is no opportunity for it
to lose its aroma. Little time is con-
sumed, as the fruit has only to be
handled once. and in the case of very
soft fruits they do not lose their shape
by handling several times. Vege-
tables are also easily canned by this
process, and with II better flavor and
more likelihood of keeping than by
the old way. The apparatus can be
used over gas, oil or coal stoves. The
water and sugar added to different
fruits are heated to the boiling point,
skinned, and poured over the fruit
after it is packed in the jars, and just
before steaming. New York Post
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
PICKING AND MARKETING THE OUNCE.

AANhA-NN AM hAAhLAlNh lhE QllNNEs
The error of many growers is the
time of picking and the manner of
handling. AS ounces do not blow off
like apples or pears, many growers
pick when convenient and that may be
only after they have become yellow.
An experience of years in growing,
buying and shipping ounces causes
the writer to believe there is a right
time to pick that two days before the
time is too early, aud two days after
that right time is too late for the good
of the fruit A little too early, the
fruit Is not well colored and it does
not present its best appearance in
market; little too late, especially if
the weather be warm, and it is over
ripe, and it is just then that black
spot, where it exists, gets in its work
rapidly.
People are cautioned, over and over
again to handle fruit carefully, and
this applies more to ounces than to
any other fruit. A slight bruise, from
dropping into the basket or turning
into the barrel, in forty-eight hours
has become an ill-looking brown
patch. Slack packing in the barrel is
disastrous, for fruit carelessly pat up
this way will hardly bring freight
charges. The moving about OF speci-
mems daring transit, perhaps for hun
dreds of miles, is ruinatiou to the
whole package Another thing to be
observed is TO pack and ship at once
or as soon as they are taken from the
bushes.
The writer's own ounces, while no
better than many others. have for
many years sold for from fifty cents 10
II dollar per barrel moro than average
ounces on account of the care IN pick
ing and packing which made them
show we'll in market The proyerbinl
"handle like eggs applies very much
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23

An officer has just completed long march
from Cashmere TO Simla via Leh and Kye-
lang. He performed the journey OF 700 miles
on foot, and his average daily march was
twenty-five miles. From Leh to Kyelang
his road lay across an elevated plateau, des-
titute Of animal or vegetable life, varying in
height from 1900 to 1900 feet above the
sea level. The whole journey was performed
on total abstinence principles, and without
any detrlment to the traveller, who arrived
in Simla in q thoroughly fit condition, dcs-
pite march of thlrty-two miles on the last
day. This Is another confirmation OF the
fact that In long and fatiguing marches and
IN high attitudes the use OF alcoholic stimu-
lants is absolutely unnecessary.-Alllanc
News.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
TEMPERANCE.
TEMPERANCE EDUCATION.

TEMPERANCE EDUCATION.
Through education full and FREQ
The battle must be fought,
And In the great Redoemer's name
The victory shall be wrought.
Then drink no more shall gloat above
Its victims pinchei and pale,
1t shall no longer feed the grave,
The poorhouse and the Jail.
II shall no longer break the ties
or friendship and of love,
Nor rob men OF their home on EARTH
Nor OF their heaven above.
No longer cast the children forth,
To die before their time,
With souls all dark with ignorance,
And heats all black with crime.
The timo shalt come when want and woe
And vice shall pass away.
God says so; let us help It on
ythe best means we may.
Youths Temperance Banner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23

The reader Of this paper will he pleased 20
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able TO cure in all its
stages, and that Is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known TO the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being n constitu-
tonal disease. requires a constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly on tho blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith In its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
Tor any case that IL fails TO cure. Send FOR list
OF test monials. Address
+. J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
EE Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
Rnbber Police CInbs

The Police Commissioners, of New
York, are seriously considering the
advisability of arming the police force
with a newly Invented police club. II
Is said that this cub will knock a mar
ti,ly AS quick as the old wooden one,
without danger Of fractuying his
skuli.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
An "1NpUsrRY" IvpEEpl

There is something absolutely hideous and
revolving In the disgusting cant of this
whisky ring about their particular industry
an Industry" in which colossal fortunes
10 the worker; dog-carts and diamond rings
for the wholesale merchant, and sixteen
hours work n day and bare living for the
waiter who has TO retail the precious product
that nils our lunatic asylums with the hap
less victims of dipsomania, our jails with
criminals, our streets with unfortunates and
tens of thousands of homes with squalor,
want and misery, while 1t fills the Golfers
and the pockets Of the distillers with untold
wealth.-Michael Davitt.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23

According to NJ. Chervin, in a paper to the
Societe d'Anthropologlc, the low birth rate
in France is largely due to prodigality In
Paris and thrift in the provinces. NJ Roeh-
ard, however Ascribes il mainly to alcohol
ism, the annual consumption Of alcohol hay-
ing enormously increased Of late years in
France. Paris has wine shop for every
three houses.-London Globe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-23
DRINK SENT HIN nAoK TO JAZZ IL

Daniel Gallagher was released from Sing
Sing Prison one day recently, after having
completed his sentence Of flve and half
years for burglary. He received Sl0 from
the warden TO pay his railroad and other ex-
penses to his destination.
When he got 10 Sing Sing village he pro-
ceeded TO celebrate the regaining OF his lib
erty. He got drunk and became so noisy at
the railroad station that he was arrested. II
took four officers of the local police and Il
team attached TO tuck to convey the pris.
oner to the village lookup. Next morning
Justice Valentine sentenced him to six
months in the Kings County Penitentiary.
He had enjoyed just four hours of liberty
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When Nntnrs

promptly, but one should remember to use even
the most perfect remedies only when needed.
The best and most simple and gentle remedy is
the Syrup Of Figs manufactured .ly the Cali
fornia Fig Syrnn Go.