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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
RECIPES.

London Potatoes-Ffy slices of cold
potato, about one.fourth inch thick,
till nice brown; lay them on hot
dish and place on each piece a thin
slice of hard-boiled egg, allowing two
eggs for five persons. Pour over all
the following hot;
Bean Soup-Thoroughly mash the
remaining half of the beans return
them to the liquor with small minced
onion and small handful of celery
tops, dried and saved for soups; add
water or stock if there is not enough
bean liquor season to taste.
Sauce Piquante-Melt,, "a tablespoon
full of butter; sift in two tablespoon
fuls of -four, stirring all the time
add salt and pepper to taste, and then
gradually one gill of water and one
gill of vinegar stir well until the
sauce has boiled few moments. A
little parsley may be added.
Fried Mush-Slice well-cooked mush
(stiff enough to mold nicely in creased
pan or dish) about one-quarter inch
thick. Cut in neat squares or oblongs.
Drop in smoking hot fat as you would
French fry potatoes. When delicate
brown lay kons paper a few minutes.
Serve with or without maple sirup.
Cook enough mush for several morn
ings. 1t keeps well in cold place.
Baked Tomatoes-The tomatoes
from which the juice was drained at
luncheon should be drained again if
still wet. Put thin layer of fine
bread crumbs in well-greased baking
dish, thick layer of tomatoes, Just
enough minced onion to flavor deli
cately, many tiny bits of butter, salt,
pepper and another thin layer of bread
crumbs. Repeat until the dish is full,
having crumbs on top. Bake slowly
about an hour.
Salad-Some string beans and boiled
cabbage left from yesterdays dinner,
and some beets picked last fall, coarsely
chopped; tablespoonful or more
piled on small lettuce leaves on each
of the necessary number OF individual
plates and thin mayonnaise dressing
over all. The lettuce can be raised
in a roomy window-Oox in a sunny
window, where it looks very pretty
growing. A few leaves may be cut at
time as needed, the roots left to
send up more leaves.
French Beans-Soak a pint of navy
beans over night put on to boil in
one quart of fresh water at the end
of half an hour add one teaspoonful,
or less, salt and boil again gently and
without breaking for another half or
three-fourths of an hour; meanwhile,
cook a very small sliced onion in a
oupful of tomato juice; strain or not,
as you choose; about this time the
beans are done; thicken this with
-four and butter put in half the beans,
well drained ; reheaS and serve.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
ALCOHOLISM AND ITS EFFECTS.

At meeting OF the Edinburgh Medico-
Chirurgical Society DR.. Lockhart Gillespie
read paper, entitled Statistics Concern
ing the Patients Admitted Into the Royal
Inhrmary Suffering From Alcoholism and
Its Effects During .he Last Five Years :,
During that period 1854 patients had been
admitted Ionly those were reckoned who
were suffering from alcohol and its imme-
diate effects), 9S5 males aud 329 females In
this number there had been forty-four deaths
-thirty-eight males (tour per cent. and six
females Q.S per cent? As to monthly ad-
missions, these were most in January; there
was a slight rise in April, a great rise in July
lowest number was reached in November.
There was an excess in summer, moro espe-
cially In female admis sions.
graphic chart OF the above facts closely
corresponded 10 a similar chart of the
deaths In the eight principal towns OF Scot
land for the same period. As to occupation;
Males, 46l laborers, of which 971 were out
door laborers and 19l indoor. The outdoor
workers drank most in summer, the indoor
most In winter. One hundred and nineteen
shoHkeepers, who appeared to drink most In
summer; professional classes, l0S (these
drank most in summer, and were more prone
to mental disturbances other than delirlum
tremens); liquor trade, 81, with 32.7 OF de-
lirium tremens, but only OF neurltis; cab
men, 6S, in which class drinking apparently
varies with wet weather. As to females. 1862
were housewives and charwomen, with "A
per cent. of surgical cases. These were tho
most pugnacious OF any. There were 1O1
cases of neuritis. chiefly In summer and
none in the five Novembers OF the period
covered. One hundred and seventy-seven
cases OF delirium tremens, with excess in
July. DIR. Gillespie's inference from these
facts was that drinking varied with the
holidays. British Medical Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
One Thing LEI, out.

In acrobatic, gymnastic and athletic train
ing ono thing seems to be entirely left out, q
thing which, II pmcticed, might prevent
many serious consequences and thereby be-
come the useful part Of training. How TO
iall down easily and gracefully with the
least amount OF resistance by the muscles,
might be made fine art. Why not adopt n
slide and practice feet-sllpplng with these
objects In view. Everybody knows that ut
this season the worst injuries result from not
showing how TO fall. There seems 10 be
nearly always complication OF injury In
every fall, such as sprain. bruse and often
broken limbs. Il Is true that for all these
mishaps, either separately or in complicated
form, and especially for sprains, 81. jacobs
OH Is the best known and surest cure. Speak
ing OF sprains, the very worst often result
from falls, because the muscles sustain such
violent twists from resistance But whether
there is practice OF the art or not, the hroat
remedy for pain is sure to cure.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
EXTRA.EARLY POTATOES.

The rotato is a hardy plant when it
is protected from actual freezing. In.
deed the tubers will survive without
injury when the ground in which they
lie is actually frozen. This immunity
ls due TO the TACT that tine water in the
potatoes holds some matters in solu.
tion, and solutions do not freeze at the
actual freezing point of pure water
Thus in tne South potatoes may be
planted during February OF early
March, when the ground is free from
frost and dry enough to turn a good
turrow. The seed Is put in in the
usual manner, but covered with a dou.
bic ridge as protection against the
possible freezing OF the soil. As soon
as the risk Of frost is over, the ridge
is leyeled down with the Acme mar
row, leaving the surface in the finest
condition; light, sloping tooth har-
row Is used after that and until the DO.
tatoes are too large. If danger OF n
late frost is imminent, a furrow if
thrown oycr the young plants, or this
may be done anyhow, as it encourages
root growth and certainly increases
the product. This method is used ouiy
for the early crop, the main planting
being made in May and up to first OF
July for succession. The seed may be
kept IN the very best condition and
quite dormant until July by putting
the tubers two feet in the ground and
covering them 70 exclude air. Where
the ground is deeply covered with
snow anG never frozen during the win.
ter, As in Northern Wisconsin and
Michigan, the planting may DE done
as soon as the crop IS harvested, the
seed being perfectly safe in the
ground. The yield Is increased fifty
per cent. by this method. New Eng,
land Homestead.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
A DocToR's wAnNING.

The late Sir Andrew Clark, the eminent
English physician, after saying on one occa-
owed their poor health 10 the use OF alcohol,
added II do not say that seventy in every
100 are drunkards. do not know that one
Of them is, but they use alcohol. So soon as
a man begins to take one drop then the de-
sire begotten in him becomes n part OF his
nature, and that nature, formed by his acts,
infiicts curses inexpressible when handed
down TO the generations that are TO follow
him as part and parcel Of their being. When
1 think of this, am disposed to give up my
profession, TO give up everything, and to go
forth upon holy crusade TO preach TO all
men, 'Beware Of this enemy Of the raee.'"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
TREE PICTURES.

Speaking against intemperance lately at
Montreal, Rev. Father Gafrre OF that city
gave the following powerful description Of
three classes OF drunkards. "Slavery has
been abolished in this free land of America,
and yet the army OF slaves is still innumera-
BILE. 1t Is the army of drunkards kept in
greater durance than were ever the slaves
OF ancient Greece and Rome. Where is the
liberty and will OF the drunken man? He
has left 1t at the bottom OF the glass on the
counter of saloon.
Here is man who has always been re-
spected, but he meets with friends, takes the
fatal cup, and moment after becomes the
laughing stock Of tho crowd on the street;
he has been turned into an ape
Another has always been noted for his
mild disposition, but also Ia imprudent
enough to indulge in strong drinks, and un-
der their influence he becomes cross and
angry; he is turned into bear.
"A third has always been kind husband
and an exemplary father, but alas! he is
also induced to taste the fiery fluid, and It's
effects is to unite the tongue, which then
speaks naught but fllth and pollution; he
has become-well, the name cannot be men
toned"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
DECAY oF GRASS ROOTS.

Every time the ground freezes and
tbaws many grass roots near the sur
face are snapped from the main stem.
1t is doubtless the decay of these which
contributes to the increase of fertility
when fields are kept in grass. Some
of the grasses, and especially the clov-
ers, run out after one or two years.
The decay of their roots in the soil
helps TO make the more hardy and en-
during varieties more thrifty. We
are apt to think that sod, so far as
its roots are concerned, is q constant
quantity from year to year. But if
we could examine it every spring we
should probably find that many of its
roots have dropped of, and will have
to be replaced during the growing sea-
son. Boston Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
KEEpING SHEEP.

Unless making a speciality of early
mbs for :he market, there is no OBJ
ct in having them come before April.
l'y that time the weather is warmer,
The grass has started and the condi.
tlons of growth are more favorable in
every way and, with all young stock,
it is quite an item to procure strong.
vigorous growth from the start.
Keep only the ewes; sell off all the
Eethers as soon as in a marketable
londition. With the average farmer
Pho is keeping only a small number
d sheep, the increase is largely the
source of profit. Market, too, the
scrub ewes. Do not keep too many,
but keep we'll.
Not for long time have sheep been
culled as closely as they are now.
From this benefit will arise in two
ways-there is decided improvement
in quality, and the smaller number
will enhance the chances for profit.
Even now real good sheep pay, and
the prospects are bright for a better
profit another season.
There is no other farm stock so
profitable as sheep for the amount of
money and care involved, excepting,
perhaps, poultry, and none so accept
able for domestic consumption. Were
it not for the multitude of dogs which
roam abroad in all places, sheep would
be kept everywhere in small Aocks, as
they were II generation ago, Wis.
consin Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
CURE FOR RouP,

A hen in our flock the past summer
was observed in dropping condition,
with her comb dark and infamed to
twice the ordinary size. She did not
eat, and lowered continually about the
other fowls, evidently in great misery.
Some investigation suggested the roup
as the cause of the trouble. A mixture
of pulverized coal, with sulphur in
proportion, a tablespoonful of char
coal from the wood in the kitchen
stove and a piece of sulphur the size
of bean in little water with corn
meal for one feed the first day. A day
or two after the dose was repeated.
The bird picked up and soon ate with
the others. She roasted in the trees,
not in a fowl.hoIse. In two weeks
she began laying, has stolen her nest
and is now sitting. We expect brood
of late chicks. New York Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
EA0n'c 0tkiN cure Liver Ills; easy to
AaSVA = ITO take, easy to operate. 25c.
Hit Him All Right.

A young woman from out of town
went to tea among the literary set
last week. She was introduced to n
whole roomful of people, and after
ward she went about trying to call
everybody by his right and proper
name-she rather prides herself on
that sort of thing you know. She
remembered an amazing number of
names, but when she came to one dis.
tlnguished looking man she paused in
despair. 81 know everybody else's
name" she said, "but when l try to
remember yours I am completely at
sea. ]" ''Then you're not far wrong, "
said the distinguished looking man.
my name is Atwater. "-Washington
Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BAKING.


A great many cooks make failure
OF baking, simply because they do not
understand the management of the
oven, and seem 60 be unable 30 grasp
the few simple facts necessary to its
successful handling. Most cooks fire
mp the range and fix the proper point
at the degree when the outside of the
oven door will hiss sharply if touched
with the wet finger. This is degree
of heat unsuited to almost all delicate
articles. 1t scorches and sears them
over things that should rise are held
in by the crust that forms too quickly,
and dsintiness with such management
is out of the question. Cakes are
crusted over and either become soggy
or burst out at the top of the dish
and run over like volcanoes. This
spoils the shape and symmetry and is
unworthy of culinary artist.
As q matter of fact, the number of
minutes an article should bake is but
very small part of the knowledge re-
quired for successful cookery. Ten
minutes in some ovens is equal to
twenty in others, and forty may make
the article as dry as a chip.
The old fashioned brick oven had
points OF grace, perhaps because bakers
knew how TO manage it.
1t has been suggested that the
modern oven should be provided with
a Thermometer and that ook-books
should have degrees of heat as we'll
as the number of minutes required
for baking. Under ordinary circum-
stances the oven is of proper tempera-
ture for plain cake when it will brown
sheet of white letter-paper without
setting it on fire. Bread ought to be
baked in an over as hot as possible
without burning, and the heat should
be maintained steadily until done.
Cakes may have the heat slightly re-
duced by putting little can of hot
water into the oven. This lowers the
temperature and should be removed
if the fire becomes at all slack. Prac.
tice, watchfulness and experimenting
are the only ways to successful bak-
ing, and will be so until our range
ovens are provided with thermometers,
and until our cooks learn how to use
them. New York Ledger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
SOMETHING ABOUT POTATOES.

In q bulletin issued by Professor
Snyder, of the Minnesota State Agri.
culture College, he makes a point Of
interest to the housewife. He shows
that where potatoes are peeled and
started boiling in cold water there is
q loss of eighty per cent. of the total
albumen, and where they are not
peeled and are started in hot water
this loss is reduced TO two per cent.
A bushel of potatoes, weighing sixty
pounds, contains about two pounds Of
total heterogeneous compounds. When
improperly cooked one-half Of q pound
is lost, containing six-tenths of a
pound of the most valuable proteids.
1t requires all of the protein from
nearly two pounds Of round beefsteak
to replace the loss of protein from.im.
properly boiling bushel of potatoes.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
THE GREAT QUESTION.

At meeting in Exeter Hall. London,
Cardinal Manning eloquently said concern.
ing the liquor trafflc:
"What are all our politics compared with
this great question. We want a good helms
man ut the wheel, and we want sober crew
on board! And If there be one thing which
demoralizes a people more rapidly than any
other, 1t is that which makes the brains OF
men to reel and their hearts TO be passion
ate and infiamed, and the wills Of men TO be
unsteady and weak. in the hour of tempta-
ttoni and when l know that Intoxicating
drink is doing all this. and that in the great
centers of our industry, just there where the
people are crowded together where the Ma.
uonal life is intensified, as il were, into a
foeus-when l know that the evil is spread
ing itself with the greatest intensity, ask,
what are we about? How Is II that men who
profess TO be statesmen and politicians,
waste their time and the time OF the Legis-
lature before they take this subject in
hand?hs
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
TEMPERANCE.
rnr wfrr's NEW sronY.

TuE wfrE's NEW STORY.
Tho story, ma'am2 why, really now,
haven't much 70 saw
II you had come year ago, and then agar
to-day,
No need Of any word to tell, for your owl
eyes could see
Just what the Good Templar Order has dont
for John and me-
A year ago hadn't flour to make batch O
bread
And many night these little ones wen
hungry TO their bed.
Just peep into the pantry maam. There
sugar, -four and tea.
That's what the Good Templnr Order ha
done Tor John and me.
The pail that holds the butter he used 10 M
with beer.
He hasn't spent cent for drink for two
months and year.
He pays his debts, he's well and strong, ant
Kind rs man can be.
Teats what the Good Templar Order ha,
done for John and me.
He used to sneak along the streets, feeling
so mean and low,
And always felt ashamed to meet the folk
he used to know.
He looks the world now In the face; he steps
OF bold and free.
That's what the Good Templar Order ha,
done for John and me.
The children were afraid OF him; his coming
stopped their play.
Now, every night when supper's done and
the table cleared away,
Tho boys will frolic round his chair, the
baby climb his knee
That's what the Good Templar Order has
done for John and me.
Oh, yes; the sad, sad times are gone, the sor
row, and the pains
The children have their father back and
my John again.
Don't mind my crying, ma'am; indeed, it's
just for ioy to see
All that the Good Templar Order has done
for John and me.
Scottish Good Templar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
A Terrible Punishment.

Herr Hager, a wealthy and absent.
minded banker, frequently had watches
picked from his pocket. At first he
had recourse to all kinds of safety
chains; then one fine morning he too6
no preeauhon whatever, and quietly
allowed himself to be robbed.
At night on returning from his bust
ness he took up the evening paper,
when he uttered an exclamation of
delight. A watch had exploded in a
mans hands. The hands of the
victim were shattered, and the left
eye gone.
The crafty banker had filled the
watch case with dynamite, which ex-
Dloded during the operation of wind.
ipg, -Pearson's Weekly,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
DON'T NEGLECT THE GARDEN.

If well cared for, it will pay for the
time and money invested in it. In
planting it, get only the best varie-
ties. 1t costs no more to grow the
best variety than it does an inferior
one. If you have not a good supply
of fruit on your farm for use in your
family, make arrangements to remedy
the evil this spring, The seed and
nursery firms are now sending out
their catalogues, some of them are
very fine and will well repay a careful
perusal. While it is well to expert
ment with new varieties of vegetables
and fruits, it is best to go slow on nov
ties.-American Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08

Francis Murphy, the famous temperance
orator, has been holding a series of meetings
in Chicago. As a result over 1000 have
signed the pledge. Concerning the temper
ance outlook, Mr.. Murphy says ''The tenn
perance cause is making more rapid progress
now than ever before There is a demand
for men of responsibility and worth. and the
man who drinks his only u glass will fall
behind. The street railways and steam rail
ways aud other corporations will hire only
sober men. The great need of the hour is
a great revival Of pure, undefled religion. "
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
Cnn Write ON Hnr Fnnn

Mrr. d. A. Jones' of Carmel, eau
trace letters anywhere on her arm or
face, and they Immediately appear in
raised characters, which last for an
hour or so, and are plainly visible from
across tho room. Moreover il one
pinches her or she hits against any
thing in walking about the house the
affected part at once becomes irritated
and begins TO rise. This remarkable
phenomenon is nscribed to a peculiar
condition of the blood for which many
physicians have treated her, thus far
lneffectually.-Baugor tMe,) Com.
mercial.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08

A comfortable home often saves man
from the habit of frequenting saloons, re-
marks contemporary. Some poor men do
not know how TO enjoy themselves in a legit-
innate and proper manner. They think it is
a fine thing TO be among boon companions in
a ginmill talking lot Of nonsence about
the most trivial, commonplace and some
times unsavory matters. II in their earlier
years these same men had been taught TO
cultivate love of books and OF music and
had been brought up in an atmosphere OF
true Christian refinement, the saloons would
not be so much visited by them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
BOILED FOOD FOR HORSES.

1t is not worth the trouble to boil
oats for horses, except occasionally,
when the grain is stepped in boiling
wafer for some hours as a sort of med.
icinal treatment, when the animal
needs some simple medicine as a laxa-
tive or to help failing digestion. Then
with the oats some hnseed--a quart
or so-may be added to increase the
effect. New York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
An Anxious Night.

A physician of Pocahontas County,
Virginia, tells story of a patient wi
one night recently swallowed two thir-
ty-two calibre cartridges in mistake for
two five grain capsules of medicine.
No serious harm resulted, though the
patient had an anxious time for some
hours.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
500 Rcwnra. 300.

The reader OF this paper will be pleased 90
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mcnt. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood and mucous SUR
faces OF the system, thereby destroying tho
foundation Of the disease, and giving the pa
tent strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature In doing its work. The
prOprietors have 40 much faith IN its curative
powers, that they otfor One Hundred Dollars
for any chse that it fails TO cure. Send for llst
OF testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENRY & Co, Toledo, O.
tB- Sold BY Druggists, 75c.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08

February and March are two Of the best
months TO visit Florida. The climate is fine
and tho social features Rt their height Of
Interest. When you have made up your mind
as possible and in the most comfortable man
nor. II you live In New York, Boston or
Buffalo, you can take one OF the Magnificent
Trains of the "Blg Four Route" from any one
OF these cities 10 Cincinnati, and with only
one change of cars continue your journey to
Jacksonville. Direct connection made In Cen
trnl Union Station, Cincinnati, with through
trains Of all lines TO Florida. Address e. o.
Mccormick, Passenger Traffic Manager, or
u. u. Martin, General Passenger and Ticket
Agont Big Four Route. Cincinnati. Ohio.