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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
now TO TELL GOOD nrrr.

The best beef comes from heifer or
young steer anywhere from three to
seven or eight years of age. After
this age the animal is known as a COW
or an OK, and if it has been we'll cared
for and is well fed it may for two or
three years yet furnish fairly good
meat, but not the best. According to
age the meat becomes coarser, tougher
and darker, until it is finally unfit for
use on a refined table.
Good beef should be smooth
grained, elastic and juicy, but never
wet. To tell whether it is fresh OF
not, press against it with the finger,
and If it is elastic and resumes its
place quickly it is frosh; if the dent
made by the finger remains, or if it is
slippery or wet, avoid it, for it is
already in the first stages of decay and
is unwholesome. The mistake of get.
ting meat that is too old is often made
by those who like what we call high
flavor. As matter of fact, beef that
has very high flavor has begun to
decay, and is not only poisonous and
unfit to eat, but the idea of it is dis
agreeable to people of fastidious tastes,
OF would be if it were called by its
right name.
The color as well as the texture of
beef varies with age. A good young
beef should have the lean dark aud
rather dingy red when first cut,
changing in few minutes to bright,
clear red, as red as q cherry. The
older the animal was when killed the
darker and less clear the lean meat
will be. When it is pale and pinkish
it is immature. The fat should be a
light straw-color, the suet or kidney
fat being somewhat brighter than the
fat OF the muscles.
The texture of good beef is smooth
and close-grained, and when cold
should appear marbled with fat. When
it is very leau-looking, or stringy, or
rough, it is too old. The fat should
not be solid and hard like that of
mutton, but should be faky, and the
suet fat should be so dry that it will
crumble. When the fat is oily or dull
in color, the beef is sure to be Of bad
quality. .-Demorest's Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
RECIPES.

French Mustard-Sliee an onion
and cover with vinegar and let stand
two or three days; pour off the vine
gar and add one teaspoonful of pep
per, one tablespoon of salt, one of
brown sugar and mustard to thicken,
let come to boil and bottle.
Ginger Nuts-One pound sugar, one
and quarter pounds of butter, one
pint of molasses, two and half pounds
of -four, one teacupful of strong
ginger, one nutmeg, few cloves, a
little cinnamon, four eggs. leaving
out one white, one teaspoonful of
pearlash.
Egg Sauce---Make white sauce
with one-half pint of milk, lump of
butter, salt, and flour to thicken.
Take three hard boiled eggs, remove
the shells and cut them up when the
sauce is cooked, Stir in the eggs and
serve. This sauce is delicious with
boiled fish.
Popovers OF equal proper
tions, say two cups of milk and -four,
two eggs, n little salt and butter the
size of an egg. Mix the salt into the
-four, add the eggs, mix we'll, melt the
butter and add to the other ingredi-
ents. Grease and half fill the tins.
Bake quickly.
Pudding Puffs-Nine tablespoonfuls
OF -four pour into that pint and
half of milk, little salt, nine eggs
well beaten; then butter nine large
teacups, fill them half full and bake
fifteen minutes. Serve with a sauce
of butter and sugar beaten together
with cinnamon.
French Honey-One pound ofsugar /;
put into pan the yolks of six eggs
and the beaten whites and add the
juice of four lemons; CRATE the rinds
of two add one-quarter pound butter.
Stir all together over the fire until as
thick as honey. Seal 1t up and you
can keep it as long as six months.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
How a BnlIIrog RalInms.

"Do you know how bullfrog bel
lows?' said ex-Magistrate Camp last
night as he spread out his legs and
joined in the conversation of tho side
walk group in front OF tho Willard
Hotel. "Now, most people think that
when bullGrog bellows ho is laying
upon n big log or rock just blowing
of. That's not so. When bullfrog
bellows ho is lying fiat out on the
water, this way" and the speaker
spread out his broad palm. "I've seen
EN-. You know ho has a sort of wat
tie under his throat. Well, he fills
that about half full of water and blows
out the dir through it. You've all put
water in bottle and then blown into
it?" There was no response, but Mr..
Camp continued: "You know how that
sounds. Well frog bellows in that
same way, and it sounds just like
blowing in bottle partly fillod with
water, just this way," and the
speaker expanded his own "wattlo"
and gave an imitation so natural as to
alarm the cook in the hotel kitchen.
'Do you know whero frogs teeth
areP" continued Squire Camp, en-
couragod by the absence OF argument.
'In his stomach2" somebody sug.
gested.
"No, A frogs teeth" resumed
Squire Camp, impressively, "aro just
about tho middle of his backbone, be-
tween his hind aud fore legs. Louis
villo Courier-Jo Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
lNEBRlArEs NOT SANE.

The New York Suns London correspondent
cables; The report of the Scottish Depart
mental Cc.nmittee, appointed to inquire as
to the further legislation necessary TO deal
with habitual inebriates. makes melancholy
reading for those old-fashioned folk who,
despite the tendency OF the times. cling. to
belief IN the liberty of the subject and oonse-
quent right Of any man to get drunk as often
as his purse or the liberality Of his friends
will permit
The report treats the inebrate rs a crimi-
nal or baby, or both, denies his right to ad-
minister his property, says he should not be
allowed to discipline his family, and recon-
mends legislation for him based upon the as
sumption that he is lunatic who ought to
be placed under restraint whether he liked 1t
or not.
The committee class the victims of opium
and other drugs as habitual drunkards, and
propose to give their relatives the power OF
putting them under restraint. Gold cures
and other alleged specifics are summarily de-
nounced and their use will be abolished II
the recommendations Of the committee be
carried into legislative effect, which is not
likely.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
Some Old Legal Frenks

There is said to be law in Massas
ohusetts making it au offense TO give
away an object or thing as an induce
ment to purchase other things; for
example, 70 give away a picture with
every certain amount of other things
purchased. There was once law
which made II an oiTense for n man TO
kiss his wifo ON Sunday, but was
strangely silent about kissing somo
other mans wife. Many q man still
living can remember when it was not
permissible 10 open tho theatres In
Boston ON Saturday evenings, and
there was law TO punish any dissi-
pated individual found smoking on the
street. Some of these fantastic old
legal freaks have been done awny with,
but thoro arc somo communities
which, like somo individuals, require
quito an unconscionablo time TO get
wide awake. Boston Traveller.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
wHIsKYls wAnHINGs.

Severe things are said Of whisky, and a
great many OF them are deserved but 1t
would be well to do justice even to whisky.
1t is described as u deceiver, as tempter.
Whisky Is eminently fair and above board,
and uses no deceit. 1t posts its warnings
everywhere, and II is u mans fault II he
don't profit by them. Wherever you see
rags, squalor, wretchodness, you have en-
countered one Of whisky's warnings; when
you visit the paupers' corner of the grave
yard and look upon the nameless mounds,
you will find them there. Whisky is fair:
whisky hangs its banner on the outer walls;
whisky naunts its emblematio skull and
cross bones in the broad light of day.
The man who wrestles with whisky will be
downed. No matter how strong he may be,
or how much of the GrDcO-Roman contest
he may know, sooner or later his shoulders
will go to the floor, and the referee will
award the diamond belt to whisky. But
whisky wrestles fairly; it does not gouge; il
does not strangle; 1t simply crushes its vic
tim by superior weight.
Morali Do not wrestle with whisky.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
Water on the Moon,

Somo interesting observations have
been made recently by Professor Pick
ering at the observatory at Aroquipa
concerning the possibility of water OK
isting on the surface OF the moon. 1t
has been observed that there are
some thirty-fve winding gorgcs which
are distinctly river-like in shape.
They are but few miles in length and
quito narrow at the sources and widen
ing into perfectly formed estuaries.
The observations are SO minute that it
has been determined that the rivers
are not more than few hundred feet
in width at their widest parts Tho
largest of these rivers is sixty-hvo
miles in length and lns its source in
tho lunar Apennines. New York Sun
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
Wnat Man Nav OWe tho Spider.

1t can not bo reasonably doubted
that one of the most interesting fea.
lures connected with the natural his
tory of spiders is their habit of gain
ing livelihood by spreading nets FOL
the capture of prey. II may he that
the largo share of the attention ol
naturalists that this habit has attract
ed is TO be attributed 10 the fact thai
1T appeared to be confined in the ani
nal world TO spiders and men.
This circumstance is of itself sulli.
ciently remarkable to call for specia'
comment; but its interest is not lit.
tle enhanced by the reflection that,
since spiders made their appearance
in the history of animal life vast ages
before man came upon the scene, none
of us can Justly claim that any mem.
ber of our own kind was tho first IN
the invention of the art of netting.
Possibly, indeed, the olt.repoated and
unavoidable observation of the eli.
cacy of n spiders web for the purpose
of catching otherwise unubtalnabc
prey may have reused IN the brain of
some intelligent hunter among our an
cestors the idcn of the practical utility
OF similar instrument Tor the capture
Of fish or other catablc forms of life.
But II this be SO, civilized man has
long forgotten the debt of gratitude
he owes TO spiders. For, to the aver
age individual among us, a spider is n
thing TO be looked upon and spoken
of with fear and dislike amounting to
loAthing, and to be ruthlessly dc.
stroyed when safe chance OF destruc.
tion is afforded. Mature.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
THE PIG IN AGRICULTURE.

He is found to produce a pound of
product from less food than either
cattle or sheep, and therefore the
most economical machine to manufac-
ture our great crop into marketable
meat. Our people are becoming
wiser every year, and exporting less,
proportionately, of the raw material
and more of the condensed product.
If it takes seven pounds of corn on an
average to make pound of pork, as
10 no doubt the case, the farmer be-
gins to see the great economy of ex-
porting one pound of pork, bacon or
ham, instead of seven pounds of corn.
The difference In cost of freight makes
a fine profit of itself; besides, the
pound of meat is usually worth more
than seven pounds of corn in tho for
eign market. The production of pork
should be encouraged on the further
consideration that it carries off less of
the valuable constituents of the soil
than beef. The fat pig contains only
three-fourths as much mineral matter
per hundredweight as the fat steer,
ohN OhIJ bMO-htIhb u5 IluCu nitrogen
per hundredweight, therefore, the
production of ton of pork on the
farm will carry off only little more
than half the fertility carried of by a
ton of beef. This gives in round
numbers the comparative effect of
producing pork and beef. 1t is thus
evident that the pig should have a
high place in our agriculture; should
be fostered in every way-his capabil-
tiles studied and pushed--his diseases
carefully noted and prevented, for he
is the most profitable meat producing
animal on the farm. The pig is an
excellent adjunct to the dairy, turning
all the refuse milk whey into cash.
AS he is king of our meat exports, so
let us treat him with great consid-
Grafton. st. Louis Star-SaYings.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
A PREVENTIVE OF PLANT MrIprw.

Boil pound of sulphur and one OF
lime in two gallons of water until it is
reduced TO about six pints. Put this
aside to settle, then pour it of clear
of all sediment and bottle it.
When needed for use, mix a gill of
this liquid in five gallons Of water.
Sprinkle the plants with this in the
evening, or, better, apply with q syr-
inge.
If this is persistently used on green
house plants once q week during
spring and summer they will never be
troubled with mildew.
This is used rs a remedy, but it is
particularly valuable as n preventive.
1t also has good effect in keeping
down insects, Detroit Free Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
SOIL FOR ORCHARD GRASS.

This grass will do we'll on any
kind of good fertile land, but best
on moist, but not wet, clsyey
soil. On such soil it grows with great
luxuriance, and has deep green
color not seen on lighter and dryer
land, 1t grows fully five feet tall on
such land, and makes very good hay,
but lighter than timothy. It ripens a
month before timothy, and should not
be sown with this grass. 1t is in q
good condition for cutting when the
small red clover is, and thus these two
go well together. But the orchard
grass will continue for a great many
years, and makes every year a good
hay, and pasture during the summer.
Where the winters are mild, as in the
Southern States, this grass will sup.
ply pasture during the whole winter.
The seed is light and weighs only
twelve pounds bushel. Two bushels
to the acre are usually sown.-Ameri-
can Faj mer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
THE APPLE AS A COMMERCIAL CROP.

Spraying with the copper solutions
will not, alone, give an apple crop
every year, as some horticulturists
seem to think. Apples ordinarily are
a full crop on alternate years, because
when they do bear the crop is heavy
and so exhaustive that the tree tas es
the following season to recuperate. II
the fruit was thinned-leaving only q
moderate crop TO be matured-and
the tree given proper fertilization, a
crop could be grown every year. The
crying need of the great majority
of our orchards to-day, especially
those that have been in bearing for a
number of years, is potash in somp
form. There is nothing better than
hardwood ashes where these can be
obtained at fair prices.
In setting out an orchard many
points should be taken into considera.
tion-such as the market the fruit is
designed for, the varieties which
flourish best in the vicinity, produc-
tiveness, keeping qualities, etc. The
commonest mistake is that of planting
too many varieties. As rule three
or four varieties of established
Gdaptability to your conditions and
popular in market are enough for any
commercial orchard, and it is oftener
than otherwise good judgment to make
the list still smaller. Single trees of
varieties grown for family use may be
added if desired, but it is wiser gener-
ally to graft two or three kinds on a
single tree to make up this variety,
rather than to plant 80 many trees.
We should not be deferred from plant
ing desirable market varieties because
they have been badly affected by scab,
Spraying is an autidote for that
trouble and man is worse than fool
ish to-day who plants apple trees and
proposes to grow fruit without spray
ing American Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
A JupoEls TESTIMONY.

In an address before the Ministers Union,
at Cleveland, Judge Logue, Of that city, bore
his testimony to the relation Of drink and
crime. He had been Judge OF the Police
Court for four years, and during that time
10000 cases had come before him. Last
year" he said, ''of the cases brought before
me 1927 were cases Of intoxication, the
smallest number for any year during my
term of ofilce. The year before there were
1850 and previous 10 that 53SA Four-flfths
Of all tie cases brought into court were the
result Of intoXication. While the charge on
which the ofIense was examined may have
been other than intoXication, the evidence
brought out the fact that the use Of liquor Is
responsible for all but a small per cent. Of the
crime that is committed"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
RULES FOR SERVING VEGETABLES.

MULES TUX hkhNlN0 NkNhAAhl4hHs
The usual rule for serving vegets-
bles is one green vegetable and one
starchy vegetable. II q green salad is
used this often takes the place Of the
green vegetable, and at certain seasons
of the year il is difficult in many places
to get moro than one. An excess of
starchy vegetables should be avoided,
as one also has starch in tho form OF
bread and in potatoes. With fish
vegetables of delicate flavor should be
used, either potatoes, tomatoes cooked
in many ways, cucumbers or green
peas. With roast beef one may servo
sweet or white potatoes, or in their
place boiled rice or hominy, cauli-
flower, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes,
onions, okra, young beets, beet greens,
green pens and Lima beans. The
same vegetables may be served with
beefsteak rs we'll rs satisfy, asparagus
or mushrooms. With boiled mutton
serve potatoes, caulifower, young car
rots, satisfy, onions, spinach or any
kind of beans that are green. With
boiled mutton serve caper sauce, cur
rant jelly or horseradish.
With veal serve carrots, white tur-
nips, or spinach, lettuce, creamed cab
bage, young beets or beet greens.
With game serve sauce and salad.
Stewed celery with white sauce.
With goose when roasted serve apple
sauce, onions and squash. When po-
tatoes are served as q vegetable with
meat, and only one vegetable can be
afforded in addition, it is more appe-
tizing usually to have that one a green
vegetable. 1t is also more healthful,
as the potatoes furnish the starch
needed for the diet. New York Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
His Prescription.

Commenting on the general ten
dency of humanity to indulge in fan.
cied diseases, a well.known doctor of
Philadelphia says that half his pa
tients were not in the slightest need
of medicine. Some of them, he said,
were tired and worn out; but all they
needed was little rest, and if he re.
fused to prescribe he would surely be
discharged. He has a special remedy
for all such cases, and while the pre-
scription looks formidable, the
apothecary understands it as little
bread with just enough soap added to
give it flavor and to keep the bread in
the form of a pill. Philadelphia Rec.
ord.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
SAVED FROM LUNAoY.

Mr.. william Tallack, Of the Howard Asso-
citation, says, in letter in the London
Times on "Prisons and Sentences" SIN
visiting prisons have again and again been
assured that coming to jail prevents many
offenders from going mad; for II is the drink
that chiefly makes them insane. Here they
get no alcohol, and hence many are saved
from lunacy. Certainly they get better in
Jail rather than worse; and there is no danger
whatever OF cellular separation for short
terms iniuring prisoners minds"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
YOUNG SHEEP MOST PROFITABLE.

Experiments show that sheep Of
seven to ten months old can be made
to gain fourteen pounds for every 100
pounds of digestible material con-
sumed, while those of eighteen months
old will make gain of but five
pounds. 1t is difficult to get profit
from feeding old sheep; and any
sheep can be made to gain as much in
ten weeks as is usually done in five
months. New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
WILL NOT WED YOUNG MEN WHO DRINK.

There Is q merry war on in Danbury,
Conn.,, whore the young women members Of
st. Peters temperance Society have formal
ly announced that they agreed not to marry
drunkards OF men likely TO become drunk
ards, or any young man who partakes Of
spirituous or malt liquors. vino or cider
Father Lynch, rector Of st. Peters Church.
who Is urging this crusade on, kept II NOV
ing by preaching another sermon ON the sub
ject OF Marriage and Temperance" Sun
day night, says New York dispatch. This
afternoon the young, women were given
moral strength by the announced determi-
nation OF the Rosary Society to stand by the
girls. Most Of these were married, but Faith
or Lynch told them that they were In dan
ner of becoming widows at any moment.
The widows were more outspoken than mar
ried women.
The business men of the town are almost n
unit In opposing Father Lynch's movement,
because II will not stop until Il makes Dan
bury prohibition town. At the last cleo
tion license were carried by majority Of
little more than a hundred. Father Lynch
says II is impossible Tor u Danbury youth TO
strike the golden mean. lie must be q total
abstainer or become a drunkard.
Miss Maggie Drum, President of the So
ciety, believes that before long, II the move
ment spreads, all the women Of this country
will strike against marrying drunkards. "It
will be a grand lockout" she said; 'the
father will not have drunkards as fathers of
their children
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17

New York's reform Police Commissioners
declare that SALOONS are not proper places
10 frequent.
Thirty-two Irish members Of the House Of
Commons are directly and indirectly inter
ested in the liquor trafilc.
Vital force heat force, motor force, nerve
force and muscular force are all impaired by
the influence of doses Of alcohol.-Dr. N. S.
Davis
On the cornerstone of the London lem
perance Hospital, laid by Sir Wilfrid Lawson.
Is this inscription; "In humble dependence
on Almighty God for euro in the treatment
of disease.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
MIKES STORY.

A poor, ill-elad lad, miserable street
arab with an old face showing the effects of
hunger and neglect, appeared at a mission
school, and was treated very kindly by one
OF the teachers, and was enrolled as a mem
ber. He attended the meetings regularly.
One day, however, he appeared radiant in a
new suit Of clothes.
How is this, Mixer said the teacher.
"Oh, sir, " he said, father is a teetotaler. 1
coaxed him every day 10 come to the temper
ance meeting, and when he did come the
first night he signed the pledge; and look at
me now, slrl"-Y0uth's Temperance Banner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17


Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly ON the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
TO all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, kK NEW YoRK. nv
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-17
Red Cotton.

Red cotton has been raised at Alpha
retta, Ga. where a well-known planter
has quite n quantity Of that curious
stuff, every stalk of which is deep
red, even the leaf, boil and bloom.
This novel crop comes from planting
seeds obtained six or seven years ago
from freak stalk Of red cotton found
growing in Florida. New York Mer-
cury