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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26

There is grave responsibility resting
onthe physician who prescribes alcoholic liq-
uor. 1t may arouse In a susceptible patient
a dormant inherited tendency to drink. He
may, by authorizing its use during the per-
iod of convalcscence, fix a habit upon n patient
OF feeble will which the latter will never be
able to shake on. No physician who real
ICES this great moral responsibility will be
willing to accept il habitually. He certainly
knows that the best medical authorities agree
that alcoholic intoxicants are rarely used as
medicine; that at best they are dangerous
remedies, and that the less they are resorted
TO the better for both the brain and body, the
better for his well-being, physical and moral.
Furthermore, every physician owes il TO
his profession to teach his patients the utter
fallacy of the common belief that alcohol is
an article of food value. II has none what
ever. The use Of intoxicants in any guam
tty whatever, or at any time, is entirely use
less and unnecessary. Furthermore, the
continued use Of them gradually induces
structural degradations and functional de-
rangcments of the great bodily organs thus
leading to the gravest physical disorders.
Alcohol is n poison, and nothing more; a
poison which exercises its paralyzing. narco-
tizing influence in exact proportion to the
quantity consumed and tho power Of the con-
sumer's physical system to resist its poison
GUS action. II every intelligent physician
would thus correct old errors and dissemin-
ate a knowledge Of the truth, there would be
a great impetus given to the effort TO pulver
ize the rum power. Toledo Blade.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
Roping a Tiger.

A tiger in Tennessee may be set
down as a decided novelty, and the ac-
count OF its capture makes an inter
esting story.
One day circus came to Knoxville,
and on the eve of departure the circus
wagons we're being loaded on the cars.
A switch engine was showing some
cars about when one Of them became
derailed, colliding violently with two
cage wagons and the cage containing
three tigers was badly damaged. The
woodwork was crushed in, leaving a
hole of sufficient size for tho tigers to
set out.
One Of the animals leaped from the
cage onto the fiat car and from there
to the ground. The two remaining
ones were about to follow suit when
the trainer and several other employees
of the circus rushed up to the cage
and prevented the exit. But one of
the tigers was at large, and as soon as
the fact became known stampede OF
the people in the vicinity occurred,
while the circus men rushed to inform
the managers.
Preparations for the capture OF the
tiger were made. One of the Texas
cowboys, and the one most perfect in
handling lasso, was detailed1o 0 make
the attempt. The man handling the
tiger was also instructed TO assist in
the dangerous duty, and the pair went
to work.
They located the tiger about n
stones throw from the cage in which
he had been confined. The huge brute
was crouched under box car between
the rails. His eyes shone brightly
and looked to his captors as large us
two full moons.
A large dry goods box was procured,
a hole bored in tho bottom, and the
box placed on its side convenient 10
the animal. Ore end of the lasso was
showed through the hole and the Texan
threw the rope. His judgment was
perfect and the lariat dropped over
the neck and left foreleg of the tiger
to q nicely. Then began the work of
landing the animal in the box.
He was pulled up to 1t slowly, and
although he resisted considerably, was
at last safely lodged in the box, but
not until he had torn off one glove
worn by the cowbow and lacerated his
hand badly. The box was then nailed
up aud the tiger hauled away, erowl
ing spitcfully. Atlanta Constitution.
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
PrImIIire Fire Engines.

The oldest known fire engine for
pumping water is probably the one
mentioned in the Spiritalia of Hero,
about $50 b. @. This engine, it is
said, was contrived with two single act.
ing pumps with a single beam piv-
oted between the two for working the
plungers. The streams of water
united in a single discharge pipe and
passed up trough having an air
chamber, and out of a nozzle which
might be turned in any direction as
desired. Fire engines appear also to
have been used extensively by the
early Romans, who furthermore Or
ganized regular fire brigades.
In the early part of the sixteenth
century, fire engine known as
'water syring" was introduced, which,
in a measure, resembled the modern
forms Of fire engines. This was
mounted on wheels and the water was
poured by levers. This form of en-
gine was very generally used in Ger
many. In England about the same
time large brass syringes were used.
These held several quarts of water and
were operated 10y three men, two OF
them holding the syringe at each side
with one hand and directing to nozzle
with the other, while the third oper.
ated the plunger. 1t was necessary,
after having discharged the water
from the syringe, to refill it from a
well or cistern near the fire or from
buckets. The syringes were later
lifted to portable tanks Of water.
The first successful fire engine was
/ probably the Newsham engine, and
this was the pioneer OF manually oper.
atei fire engines. The pumps il
these engines were built on many diff
ferent designs, but in most cases they
were operated Eby levers. Fire en-
gines similar in form to the Newsham
engine were in use up to the year 1850.
-Philadelphia Inquirer
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
c1RCuMvENrINa THE nEEs.

The way to keep the bees away from
the trough where your horses drink is
to provide the bees with water else
where, for they need this liquid just
as much as horses and cattle. Make
one or more shallow wooden troughs
for the bees, and place them near the
hives, and then see that they are kept
full of clean water. Do this now, for
the bees select their drinking places
early in the spring, and if the water
does not fail them they will not seek
it elsewhere. If you will make two
troughs for the bees and in one put
little salt in the water, so much the
better, for bees are somewhat partial
to slightly salted or brackish water
New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


The number Of hard drinkers living to-day
in the United States is estimated to be p
500, 900.
A man asked another, (Which is the
heaviest, quart OF gin or quart OF waterf'
"Gin, most assuTedly; for saw man who
weighs two hundred pounds staggering un-
der a quart Of gin when he would have car
ried gallon Of water with ease"
Between the ages of twenty-five and thirty
where ten total abstainer5 die, thirty-one
moderate drinkers die.
"Will you take something?" said a teeto-
taller to a friend standing near tavern.
''Well, don't mind If do Come, said
the teetotaler, 'then let's take walk.
French physician says that one-half the
comsumptive patients in the Paris hospitals
owe their condition TO drink. He proposes
to prohibit the sale OF such drinks as ab-
sinthe.
General Lord Wolseley is greatly inter-
csted in the temperance movement in the
British army. He says there never has been
a time when there was 50 little drunkenness
among soldiers as now.
We have a great horror of arsenic and fifty
other things. The fact Is that all these things
are mere bagatelle in relation to the most
direct, absolute, Immediate and certain
pOisonings which are caused by alcohol
Dr.. James Edmunds.
In answer 90 letters of inquiry addressed
to the wHrdens OF the penitentiaries, these
figures were received, showing the proportion
of crimes caused by strong drink; Sing Sing,
n. Y, % per cent; Boston, Mass, S5 per cent;
Jackson, Mich, 7S per cent.
From extensive acquaintance with many
lands l unhesitatingly affirm that every
where God has provided pure water for man,
aud that the wines drunk are often miserable
and dirty, 1 have found water everywhere
that have trayeled--in China and India,
Palestine and Egypt--and everywhere water
has been my beverage. Cook.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
FARM AID GARDEN NOTES.

It is easy to spoil a good horse by
On ill-ftting collar.
Always have a uniform quality, and
the berry box well filled.
The hard-working horse requires
nutritious food to repair the wear of
body and muscle.
A handful of linseod meal added to
the usual feed of horse will tend to
make his coat shiny.
A firm hand, a cool head and e
soothing word will do far more than
punishment with frightened horse.
Levelling the feet and shoeing at
the proper time will generally keep
the horse in good working condition.
The day of rubber or elastic tires
and ball-bearing axles is near at hand.
when the efficiency of the horse will
be increased.
If you would have n good market,
offer only good berries, give good
measure and always deal honestly with
your customers.
If more farmers would keep brood
mare or two and raise q choice colt
each year there would be more money
in farming for them.
The ground surface of the orchard
can be made to yield large increase
by turning it over to the chickens.
This will also help to keep the trees
free from insects.
For scratches nothing is better than
q real physic followed by two days of
rest. At the same time clip the hair
from the heels of the horse and apply
sulphur one part to crude petroleum
two parts.
Remember: 1t costs no more to
raise good berries; it cost no more to
pick and deliver good berries. Freight
and express charges are just the same,
and when sold good berries always go
first aud bring largest prices.
The hens came to the rescue in good
shape, when beef went up in price, and
many is the good meal that common
people have enjoyed from eggs at
twelve cents dozen, when high priced
beef was out OF the question.
Old mossy pastures that are to be
renovated should be plowed and a
fertilizer of two parts boneblack to one
of muriate of potash applied. Use a
sulky plow and you can turn two or
three acres per day. Any less thorough
method is time thrown away.
If your farm is all run down, and
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spair until you have tried poultry. 1t
may be you will display more en-
thusiasm, ambition and common sense
in that work than you have in regular
farm work. If you do go in to win,
you will come out ahead,
If your hens lay eggs that have
thin, soft shells, easily broken, give
them more lime in some shape. They
must have proper material in order to
turn out good goods. Go where a
house is being repaired and lug offa lot
of the old plaster and throw in the
yard. The hens will do the rest.
If you keep large breed of fowls
like Cochins, Brahamas, ETC., you
should place the roosts near the
ground, rs in jumping to the ground
their feet become sore, and corns or
punches develop on the bottom of the
feet For lighter breeds this pre-
caution is unnecessary, as they are
not SO clumsy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
TEMPERANCE.


sArAN's WANT ADJ
johnson, tho drunkard, is dying to-day,
with traces Of sin on HIS fqca;
He'll be missed at the club, at the bar, at tho
play;
wantedi A boy for his place.
Simons, the gambler. was killed in n fight,
He died without pardon Of grace,
Some one must train for his burden and
blight;
Wanted; A boy in his place.
The scofrer, the idler the convict, the thief.
Are lost; and without any noise
Make il known, that there comes TO my in-
stant relief
Some thousand or moro Of the boys
Boys from the flreside, boys from tho farm,
Boys from tho home and the school,
Come leave your misgiyings, there can -
no harm
Where drink and be merry's" the rule.
Wanted: For every lost servant Of mine,
Someone to live without grace,
Some one to die without pardon divine
VIII you be the boy for the place?
Hattie IIorner Louthan.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26

Who pays the bills? Who feeds the drunk
ards children? Who provides for the drunk
AIDS wife? Who supports the beggarly
tramps, who having wasted their money in
drink, wander about the country? Who re-
pairs the losses caused by the failure of in
temperate merchants and reckless and half
intoxicated business men? Who makes good
the damages caused by the bluuders of
drunken workmen. and the hindrances of
business caused by the sprees of Incorporate
employcs2 Who pays for the railroad wrecks
caused by drunken conductors and engineers?
Who builds the asylums where crazy drunk
ards are kept2 Who supports the idiotic
children of drunken men? Who PAYS the at
torneys and juries and judges who try drunk
en- criminals? Who pays the expenses OF
trials and commitments and executions occa-
stoned by the crimes of drunken men? Who
pays for the property destroyed and burned
by drunken men? Who builds aud supports
almshouses, which but for drink might re-
main unoccupied2 Who endures the suffer-
ing and losses and brutality, which are due
to the recklessness and insanity of drunken
husbands and fathers? Who pays for the in
quest held on drunkards found dead by the
wayside? Who pays for paupers coffin,
and for digging a gravein rotter's field when
the last glass has been drunk?
Who pays the bills? The drunkard cannot,
for he has wasted his substance in his cup.
Will the rumseller pay thom? Tho fact is,
YOU and l and the sober and Industrious
toiling portion of the community must meet
all these bills.-New England Evangelist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26

spadeful Of dirt would break hun
dreds of roots 1 am sure plowing
would injure them. 1 keep them
heavily mulched, turning the mulch
over if it gets weedy. This can be
quickly done with fork. For worms
l use Paris green or London purple,
l can save twenty bushels of goose.
berries in twenty minutes with q good
sprayer. l begin as soon as the worms
come. give my patches n good dress
ing of unleached wood ashes every
third year, and keep them constantly
mulched with coarse stable manure.
With such treatment think patch
will last with undiminished yield for
twenty-five years. - New England
Home stead.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
cuRRANrs AND aoosEBERRrs.

Since the advent of the currant
worm these fine fruits have been much
neglected, writes w. L. Anderson, of
Indiana. No others are SO highly
relished. They come early when there
is no substitute for them. For can
ming they have no superior. They
can be raised easily anl cheaply, are
q sure crop, will come into bearing
the second year and always bring a
good price on the market.
l came past a number of gardens to-
day. In all of these were currant and
gooseberry bushes, but not single
hill that would produce even fair ber-
ries. The grass and weeds were
abundant and some of the bushes had,
| think, 200 canes in the hill. 1
never saw currant or gooseberry
bush thinned enough unless grown by
n specialist. Ny finest fruit Is gath
cred from those hills that have a sin
gle stalk, and If planted three feet
apart will outyield any other method
Of thinning.
1 raise from cuttings, roofing them
in leds aud Planting nothing but well
rooted p,nuts. Iplant four ieot apart
and plow them two years. No sucker.
are allowed 10 grow. When the busL
is formed the new growth is wei
clipped each year. I would as soon
think of leaving my hair unclipped u,
my bushes. 1t will take but fifteen
minutes to clip enough for one family
use. it makes finer berries, easier
picking, and the bushes look 80 mucl
neater, Some plow their bushes every
year, but / do not after tho second
Yesterday tried TO dig into patel
i've years old, aud, though thobushe
are four feet apart, to force up {
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
A use Ior Condcmned Gnns.

Last week we mentioned that tho
Lebanon Penn. Bolt and Nut Com
pany had received two car loads OF
condemned cannon from the United
States II was the purpose TO break
them up and use the metal for mer-
camille purposes. Since thon the firm
has rece ived inquiries from all over
the State from Grand Army posts, ask
ing the privilege of buying the guns
for decoration purposes. The de-
mand from this source created con-
siderable surprise, and the firm has
decided to let the Grand Army people
have them rather than melt up the
metal. The Manufacturer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
THE SALOON r1.ouRIsuEs ALWAYS.

When labor is most disturbed, when the
demand for advanced wages is the loudest,
when strikes are the most frequent, when
hunger and misery are most rife in the homes
OF the poor, the saloon flourishes still. There
may be no bread at home, but there is always
beer and whisky at the bar, and the men
VINO consider themselves the victims Of cir
cumstances or the "thralls" of capital,
squander their earnings and spend their saw
ings in these dens. Can there be a serious
labor question while this state of things con-
tinues? Can working men talk gravely of
their wrongs while it is plain to all the
world that if they only saved the capital
they earn they would be comfortable?-At-
lnntic Monthly
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
KEEP AHEAD OF THE WEEDS.

There is only one economical way
to fight weeds-that is to keep ahead
of them. When they are just break
ing through the ground they can be
slaughtered with less labor than at
any other time. That is the time to
take them in hand. A little later and
the work will be doubled. Too many
overlook this fact. In many towns
five per cent. off is allowed on all
taxes paid before certain date, and
men hustle to pay their tax and save
that FIVE per cent. A much larger per
cent. off is secured by the man who
takes the weeds in season. One can
go over garden with an iron rake
when the weeds are just breaking
ground, and in an hours time ac-
complish wonders. A week later he
will have to take his hoe and labori-
ously cut, cut, cut. And even then
he doesn't destroy half as many of the
roots of weeds as he would have done
a week before with the rake. Neglect
ing the weeds is something one sim
ply cannot afford. American Agri-
culturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26

Mr.. Froome Talfourd, now in his eighty
eighth year, states that from n record kept
by him up till the year 1868, he found that
not fewer than twenty personal friends and
acquaintances had come to an untimely end
through indulgence in strong drink. OF
these five committed suicide, three were
frozen to death when drunk, four were
drowned while drunk. two died in delirium
tremens, three who d,ank hard died young,
and three who drank hard died at home.
Mr.. Talfourd sometimes recites these facts
to friends who ask him why he is such u
strong teetotaler.-LondonC Christian.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
HOW TO JUDGE WOOL.

In judging of wool as to fineness,
commence at the shoulders, as there
tho finest wool is always found. This
may DO taken as the standard, and
compared with that from the ribs,
thigh and rump, aud the nearer the
wool from these various portions of
the animal approaches this standard
the better the fleece is.-New York
World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
MILTON on DRUNKENNESS.

All manner of drunkenness should be
banished from the Commonwealth. What
more foul and common sin among us than
drunkenness? And who can be ignorant
that, II the importation and use of all strong
drink were forbid, il would both clean rid
the possibility of committing that odious
vice, and men might aiterward live happily
and healthfully without the use Of those in
toxicating liquors2-John Milton, 1644.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
CALF-PAIL HOLDER.

Here is simple device for holding
n pail when feeding the calves: First,
make frame ont of plank foot wide
and long enough to accommodate the
number of calves to be fed, leaving
the bottom open. Take board one
foot wide; with keyhole saw cut
holes large enough to take a pail in
half way up the sides, in number equal
to the number of calves. Nail this on
the top of the plank frame. Fasten
the whole to the side of the barn, or,
if to be used out of doors, to the
fence, go that it cannot be moved
away. When the time comes to feed
set the pals along in the holes and
pour the milk in. By this means you
give each calf its own mess, and the
pals cannot be tipped over.-Con-
necticut Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
DISSIPATION IN TIE ARMY.

The Globe of Council Bluffs, Iowa, says
that dissipation in the army has greatly In
creased since the canteen was established. as
nearly every post or fort being located at
some distance from the town in its locality,
where liquor was TO be obtained. the de
bauches of the soldiers formerly occurred
only on occasion Of periodical visits to
the town; now they are an every day oc-
currence.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26

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 efiectually, dispeis colds, head
aches and feyers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
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, kE Rsw Y0Rk. M
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We Gei ihe Resi Inmnns.

Considerable information about
lemons, which are now coming into
the market in large quantities, is con-
tanned in letter from Louis II. Bruhl,
United States Consul TO Catania, Sici-
ly, and published in the United States
consular reports for April Lemons,
Mr.. Bruhl says, begin to ripen in Sep
.tember, and are picked from Novem-
ber to April. The November crop is
the hardest and best. 1t will keep
until early summer, and is stored un-
til late in the spring, and then shipped.
The lemons are picked green, but
turn yellow in the boxes. Before the
fruit is shipped abroad it is taken out
of the boxes and repacked. That which
is bruised or specked and which would
probably rot in transit is either peeled
and the juice pressed out or cut up
with the peel in halves or quarters and
packed in barrels with brine (sea
water, generally, with some salt ad-
ded) and shipped to London or Liver
erpool for confectioners' use. The
best of the crop comes to this country.
The next best goes to England.
The small, greenish tinged lemons
that are sold here early in the fall are
secured as follows: The trees are al
lowed to suffer for water during the
summer months. About September l
plenty of water is given them, and the
soil around them is thoroughly culti-
waited. The trees put forth small
dwarfish flowers, which during the
following summer will bring forth the
small lemons that sell in this city fire.
quently twenty-five for a quarter"
This crop is harvested in June and
July, and stands expectation even bet
ter than the choice November fruit.
There is no such practice as curing
lemons. They are gathered ard packed
in boxes. After fifteen days they are
repacked and held until shipped.
Boxes of winter fruit hold about 800
lemons, while from $50 to 400 of the
smaller summer fruit is often packed
in one crate. New York Press.