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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-03-07
STATE LEG Isl A TUREa
.TwehTx-NlNTH BIENNIAL SESSION
Tuesday. Feb. 20.


SENATE.--On motion Of Senator
Young S. r. a72 was taken from general
orders and given its final passag " IT,
Che usual seed grain loan bill to aid farm
ers whose crops were destroyed by hail or
storms in 1894. @ FL Z ss
When the senate reached general orders
and went into committee Of the WHOLE,
Senator Schaller was invited to preside.
The bill establishing normal school At
Duluth met with serious opposition IT.
calls for no appropriation at the present
time. Stevens Of St. Panl and Yale Of
Winona supported the bill and 1t was
finally recommended to pass. s,s s3.sE
HOUSE.-The session of the house was
brief and unimportant, very little business
being transacted. as. s5*53
~ A memorial to congress was passed
asking that the Olney arbitration bill, or
some other equally good arbitration bill
be made law. The vote was 70 to 3.
Wednesday, Feb ~.
The legislature enjoyed another half hol-
iday Wednesday. Both houses last week
received an invitation from the regents to
visit and inspect the university, and a.
large majority of the members OF both 1
houses came up on special cars from thess
Capital City. The party was in charge
of Mr.. Dingman of the joint committee
on the university, and arriving at the
institution about 10 o'clock was shown
around the various buildings for an hour
and half, placed on exhibition in
the chapel before an admiring audience of
intellectual young men and women for
another hour and half, hastily fed and
then shipped back to St. Paul in time for
the afternoon session at 3 o'clock. fss.3 .5.
After returning from the university
bpth house held brief sessions, bnt aside
from the introduction Of bills and resolu-
tions little was done. s &
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-03-07
STOLEN EVIDENCE.

o ON E ever
knew how it
was. first dis
covered t h q t
NJ SIS Dinker
was a klepto.
maniac; but it
was a fact, and
people made the
best of it. Old
Miss Dinker was
tolerably we'll
off, or her ha hit
of appropriate
ing other peo-
pies property
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-03-07

in woman suf-
frage, and III.
most the frat
serm on b q
preached after
reac hin g the
place W q 8 on
that subject.
Now the wom-
en- Of Ounce.
town did believe
in suffrage, and
when . pastors
first s ERIN on
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-03-07

: -Mcswatters = "When was your
wife's last hirthdar?" r!cswitters-ssA
good many years ;igo. ,-s'y racuse Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-03-07
STEW FOB THE MILLION.
BY n. A. n. ROE.

/ IF E didn't believe
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Boiled turnips are excellent for the
hens.
To keep moths out of the hives
make the entrance as small as possible.
The average farm horse suffers more
from poor care than he does from hard
work.
Cut out and burn the dead canes
from among the raspberries and black.
berries.
Save the ears from the largest and
earliest maturing corn plants for next
years seed.
The farmers who have held on to
their breeding cattle are about to reap
their reward.
A good crop of strawberries next
year depends largely on stirring the
soil now and keeping the weeds down.
The balky horse can often be cured
of this trick by any simple device
which may distract his attention foI
the moment, thereby causing him to
forget his whlm.
No large trees should be near the
aplary. Have some small, smooth trees
nearby for the bees to cluster on, but
they should not be allowed to get over
twelve feet high.
Once in the morning is often enough
to water house plants, and let the
water be about the temperature of the
room. Setting pots in dishes of water
is not a good plan, as the roots be-
come saturated and have tendency to
rot. All water should be applied at
the surface.
Buckwheat can come after another
crop very well without extra fertiliz.
ing. 1t is an excellent crop to SOW on
land where oats, barley or corn have
been destroyed by bad weather. Such
land seeded to buckwheat right away
will help the owner out of his diff.
Guilty and save him from the entire
loss Of his crop.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
BrOthorly Feeling Of Ants.

A naturalist who has studied the
ways of ants, writes Olive Thorne
Miller, found that some of them feel
friendship and pity for suffering, and
he tells it thus: zone day, watching
a small column of these ants, | placed
small stone. on one of them TO secure
it. The next that approached, MS
soon as it discovered it's situation, ran
backward in an agitated manner, AMI
soon communicated the intelligence
to the others They rushed to the
rescue. Some bit at the stone and
tried to move it. Others seized tho
prisoner by the legs, and tugged with
such forco that / thought the legs
would be pulled off; but they per-
severed until they got the captive
free. ] next covered one up with n
piece of clay, leaving only the ends
of its antennae projecting. It was
soon discovered by its fellows, which
set to work Immediately, aud by bit
ing off pieces of the clay soon liber-
ated it. The excitement and ardor
with which they carried on their un'
tagging exertions for the rescue of
their comrade could not have been
greater if they had been human
beings"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
THE VALUE OF STRAW.

The abundance and cheapness Of
straw do not justify its waste, for
some good, profitable use may be
found for all of it, writes ]. NJ. Stahl.
If fed in connection with cottonseed
OF linseed meal, malt sprouts, bran,
etc, which are rich in the elements in
which it is deficient, it has fair feed
ing value. The potential feeding
velue OF oat straw equals that of sixty
five per cent. and wheat straw fifty
five per cent. of its weight of average
meadow hay. But to make the poten-
tial feeding value of straw near actual
it must be cut, moistened and mixed
with such feeds, rich in protein, as are
enumerated above. Cattle fed on
straw alone, or nearly SO, cannot pay
anything for the straw, for it is so de-
fcient in the muscle formers that an
animal cannot digest enough straw
alone to grow any, or even TO hold its
own. However, if fed as just stated
with such feeds as will make a we'll
balanced ration, straw has an actual
feeding value far too great to justify
the waste of any Of it.
If it is not possible to feed all the
straw to good advantage, it has a value
for bedding and for shelters that
makes it uniustihable to waste it. As
straw is a very poor conductor Of
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
WHAT TIE nocroRs SAY.

The National Temperance Hospital has
issued n leaiet entitled ''Alcohol in Medi-
cine; What Physicians Say" which contains
some interesting information.
During the summer OF 1894, a claim was
made that alcohol was necessary as solvent
for medicines and to prepare the field OF
operations in capital surgical cases." A
letter was authorized by the Board of Trus-
tees OF the National Temperance Hospital,
and addressed to a number OF surgeons and
physicians Of high repute in the city OF Chi
cngo, asking whether they so considered 1t
necessary, and what they used rs anti
septics. The following are euled from re-
plies received:
DIR. s.-Prepares medicine without alco-
hol; does not use it rs a preserving agent,
having found it unnecessary.
DIR. Els unalterabIy opposed to the use
OF alcohol; can cover the field pretty well
without it.
Dr. B.-Sees no great need of alcohol in
Surgery.
DIR. MI never use any OF the prepara-
tions of alcohol as an antiseptic; rarely ever
prescribe tincture: the tablet form Is much
more valuable and certain"
DR.. S.-Does not considers 1t indispensable.
Has found it possible to have medicine
properly compounded without it.
DR.. w. (Pharmaclst)- ''Should a ply
sician choose to practice medicine without
alcoholic preparations, l do Lot think the
task so very great If the question Is given a
little study"
DR.. T.-Does not use alcohol. "The
patient cannot possibly get any toxic or
medicinal effect from alcohol"
DR., Sarah Hackett Stevenson, President
OF the hospital staff. says 81 do not think
it necessary to use alcohol. Tablet triturates
are better than tinctures."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
Wedding and Funeral Together.

John A. Chittenden, of Ashley,
Mich, on his death bed, requested
that his sister, Louise, and her be-
trothed, Charles A. Holmden, be
married over his coffin. The wedding
originally was to have taken place
some weeks hence, but the date was
changed to comply with the wish of
the dying man, and while he lay in his
coffin his sister and her sweetheart
Joined hands over the coffin while the
Rev. John Glase performed tue mar
riage ceremony. Then he delivered
the funeral oration, and the newly
married couple occupied the first car
riage behind the hearse. Cleveland
Leader.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
Moths.

Moths are not generally valued.
Yet there are few people who really
spend time and money to collect them.
The moth hunter goes out with net
ana bottle of chloroform. Moths are
very fond of sugar, and are sometimes
caught by what the professionals call
"sugaring."
Sugar is dissolved in beer and ap-
piled to the trunks of trees, and when
a light is thrown on the tree the moth
will drop into the net beneath. Tho
eggs of the moth are gathered by
many and carefully guarded through
all stages until the moth is developed.
Some moths lay only one egg, othes
two or three on the plant they love
best. Some moths lay hundreds of
eggs on one leaf. New York Mercury.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06

heat, il is well adapted for these pur-
poses. As litter it has tho additional
good quality of being an excellent alb
sorbent. By using straw literally for
bedding one may reduce the discom-
fort of animals in poor shelters and
avoid the waste of liquid excrement,
while giving the animals comfortable
bed upon which TO rest. Warm, COM
Portable shelters can be made out of
straw and, while they are not so dur.
able and handsome rs those made Of
wood, they are within the financial
reach of many that cannot we'll build
expensive shelters. Likely the most
profitable use to which straw can be
put is to form comfortable shelter
for farm animals that otherwise would
be exposed to the seventies Of the
winter. Finally, rotted straw has a
fertilizer value that makes it highly
profitable to save it carefully. -Ameri-
can Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
SCIENCE IN FARMING.

Frank w. Hawley, one of the gem
tlemen interested in the Niagara Flee
trio Power Company, and scientific
farmer, has model place near Roches-
ter, N. Y. Writing on the subject Of
the farmer OF the future, he says:
The new era for the farmer has Just
begun. In no domain of human ac-
tivity lies greater scope for genius
than in agriculture. No other calling
is so conducive to health, longevity,
and happiness. Science lays discov-
cries at the farmers feet and implores
their use. For him the chemist tolls
in his laboratory. For him the bot
anist CLEANS the fields. For him the
inventor has simplified labor and en-
lightened toll. For him scholars and
experts employed by the Government
are ever at work at State and National
experiment stations to solve the prob
lens of the soil. The broad. minded
agriculturist who avails himself of
these researches and discoveries is
man to be envied. We may yet attain
the art of making malleable glass, and
under such protection acres may be
devoted to the growth of vegetables
and semi-tropical fruits for our local
markets. Rapid transit and improved
refrigerator cars will enlarge the ter
ritory to be supplied. The broad
belts of the temperate zones extend
ing round the world will be explored
in search of new varieties of grain,
trees, flowers, and shrubs for our use.
The laws of animal breeding and her.
edity will be better understood and
our domestic stock be greatly i'm.
proved. America will possess the
finest cattle in the world, and the
States fitted for cattle raising and
dairying will vie with one another for
the leadership.
The electric age will materially i'm.
prove the condition of the agricul'
turist. look for the day when each
farmer will own an electric equipment
to furnish power for his creamery, for
grinding food, for pumping water, for
lighting his house, and for heating
his greenhouse and other buildings.
Electric roads will pass his door, af.
fording quick transit for himself and
his produce to the nearest market
town. His horses will labor on the
farm while he journeys on the high.
way in a wagon propelled by a storage
battery. The subtle energy can be
made to serve him in thousand ways
and perform innumerable tasks. By
its kindly aid the hitherto overworked
farmer may become largely a gentle.
man OF leisure. Then we shall expect
much of him. Then will he have lib
erty to assume that political import
ance to which he is justly entitled.
The successful farmer should be the
coming man, and future legislation
must look closely to his interests. 1t
is notable fact that many of our best
and ablest men have exhibited strong
prediction for rural life. Webster
delighted to retire to Marshfeld; the
the name of Jefferson recalls Month
cello; Jackson reminds us of Hermit
age; Clay is associated with his be.
loved Ashland; Mount Vernon has
been rendered classic ground as the
abode of the Father of his Country.
With the advance of this new era,
from our rural homes, beauti6ed by
nature and adorned by art, saving in
huences will come in the future to
guide and guard the future of the Re-
public.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
FASHION NOTES.

Mohair and alpaca are regaining
their former popularity.
Dull jet in spangles and beads is
used with Grape trimmings.
1t is announced that the headgear of
the New York girl will be enormous
this winter.
Moreen is finding increasing favor
with fashionable dressmakers and tail
ors as a skirt lining.
Nearly all the hats are overladen
with trimming, giving their wearers a
topheavy appearance.
Little stools and tables are made Of
highly finished wood, the tops and
legs painted in landscapes or floral
pattern.
Numbers of little narrow ruffles set
over the tops of the sleeves and over
the shoulders of thin dresses are pretty
and becoming.
Persian effects promise TO be popu.
lar in high-grado goods. In order to
obtain the proper rough appearance
the figures are raised in combinations
of blue and brown. black and red,
light and dark shades of any color,
the figures having the silken sheen so
noticeable in crepons.
Yokes are becoming feature of the
fashion. Sometimes they are of vel
vet or guipure with bodice of silk
shirred to them, and quite as often
they are of fine linen or null and lace.
This is of quality md variety suited to
the occasion on which the bodice is
intended to be worn.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
rENPERANcE NEws - NorEs.

AW. c. T. Z. pump in Blenhaim, Ont, is
said to be the most appreciated institution
in that liyelytowp.
When drinking leads man to commit
crime it is n serious question whether drink
ing itself be not a crime,
The saloon destroys the happiness oftha
individual, the sacredness of the home aud
the peace OF the community.
A carloa OF whisky got on fire the other
day at Peoria, aud when they threw water
on it a terrific explosion followed.
The authorities at Atlanta have refused to
grant the saloon keepers the privilege Of
keeping their saloons open after ten o'clock
at night.
The Government OF Canada has prohibited
the sale OF intOXicants among the Indians Of
Hudson Bay territory, and punishes severely
any violation OF this law.
III Il were not for drunkenness there
would be no crime in Ireland at all. As il is
there Is no crime which does not arise out OF
that evil, says Archbishop Croke OF that
country.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
BUcKwHEAT TO CLEAN LAND.

There are several reasons why the
buckwheat crop is q good one to de-
stroy weeds. 1t requires plowing and
fitting the land at midsummer, when
weeds are most easily killed by plow.
ing. 1t grows so rapidly that it very
quickly covers the surface soil, shad-
ing it so that few weeds can start un-
der its broad leaves. It is equally
good to rid land of insect enemies.
Wire aud cut worms fnd its roots dis.
tasteful to them, and for land that is
filed with the wire worm two crops
OF buckwheat will rid it of most of
them. Yet for all this buckwheat is
not a popular crop with neat farmers.
Its habit of seeding the ground with
buckwheat, which will appear in the
next grain crop, makes it q trouble
some weed, though as it is only an an.
nual one year suffices to get rid of it.
American Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
rnrE IrYcn IN sALooNs.

"Free lunchesl" exclaimed Chauncey NJ.
Depew to q New York Sun reporter. "Well
| did say something about free lunches. didn't
|? Aud II I'm not mistaken l referred to
them as ingenious preparations too. Well,
they are. Now, seriously, although these
poor people have twisted my remarks into
all sorts OF shapes, l meant all that l said
about young men becoming slaves to drink.
IT'S terrible thing, and / think the free
lunch Is largely responsible for it. It's u
most ingenious contrivancc. and do you
know that It's simply put in place to make
a man thirsty Yes, sir tell you that the
free lunch is composed OF food OF such q
character that II keeps a man thirsty, and
forces him to buy liquor to keep himself com.
Portable. 1t is made up OF picked herring,
corned beef, fish cakes, salted potatoes,
pretZels, cheese, smoked beef potato salad,
and dozens OF other dishes the main ingred-
lent OF which is salt. And as sure Rs a man
eats free lunch, Just so sure will he be a
drinking man. unless he Is possessed Of rare
self-control. Why, tell You the free lunch
is more to blame for the number OF drunkards
around than anything else. A man takes a
drink aud bite. the bite makes him thirsty,
and the drink makes him hungry, and many
q man who would leave saloon after bav-
ing imbibed one drink will stick all day as
long as the free lunch Is there. 1t isn't the
drink that keeps him. but the ingenious
makeup Of the free lunch. and that's why
say it's blotch on civilization and should be
wiped out.
"Perhaps you wonder how know all this.
I'll tell you. / travel n great deal, and
wherever l go l always make II point to
talk with the man next to me. Task him hin
business and make him tell me all about it.
Now, among others, have talked with many
hotel men and liquor dealers, keepers of FASH
ionable cafes as well as German saloon keep
ers, and as the free lunch is a sort Of hobby
OF mine. l always make them tell me about
what they spread ont for their customers in
the eating line 1 used TO wonder how they
could afford TO spread free lunch, but all
liquor dealers tell me that it's the most pay
ing investment they make, and 1 believe it
is"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-06
WSM SMySs'2as5AoTEs1
FoFS oFS9fNEgINIIE3|N.


The bnyonet was invented by a wo-
man, in 1928.
Women letter-carriers may be seen
in parts of France.
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, has
large collection of dolls.
Books on social etiquette continue
to multiply year by year.
Women act as stationmasters on
some of the Austrian railways.
Many society women are quoted as
suffering from tea intemperance.
Governesses able to cycle will soon
be in demand in Paris, such is the rage
for cycling among girls.
Several of the New York hospitals
have been presented with ambulances
by Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt.
At the age of fourteen years Anna
Dickinson, the lecturer, was con-
tributor to leading periodicals.
Mrs. Temple, wife of the Bishop of
London, acts as his private secretary.
She is an expert shorthand writer.
A Vermont man cured his wife of
the new woman fad by clothing every
on the premises with pair of bloom
ers.
Americans are the only women in
tho world who do not by their dress
indicate whether they are married or
single.
Yachting is the only form of ath-
letics in which the Princess of Wales
indulges. She disproves of bicycling
for women.
Mrs. Richard King, one of the larg-
est land owners in this country, holds
title to an entire Congressional Dis
trict in Texas.
Mrs. Cleveland rarely fails to attend
the regular church services and is
scrupulously exact in being present on
all special days.
One result of the Tory victory in
the British elections is the loss OF
strength in the Commons by the advo-
Gates of woman's suffrage.
Queen Victoria saves her dining
room carpet at Balmoral by covering
tho space around the table with strips
of drugget that will wash.
Queen Victoria is a great tea drink
er, and is so particular about her fav-
orite beverage that, when away from
home, she always makes it herself.
Mrs. Thomas @. Platt. wife Of tho
political leader, and owner of sue
cessful orange grove in Florida, is the
inventor of an improved packing case
for oranges. ..-- ,--
Tulare, CAL, boasts of a woman en-
gineer who has charge of the great en-
glne in one of the largest lumber mills
near there. She is not obliged to call
upon q man when the machine is out
of order, as she is fully able to repair
it herself.