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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
A POPULAR AQUATIC PLANT.

There is no other class of plants so
rapidly growing in public favor as
aquatics, and there are many good
reasons for their popularity. They
are successfully raised with great ease,
and are not affected by long seasons of
drouth, such as have prevailed during
recent years. While the beauty of old
garden favorites has been impaired by
drouth, aquatics have bloomed on in
annual beauty. Aqustics not only bid
defiance to drouth, but the hotter and
brighter the weather the more pro-
fusely they bloom. The great beauty
and merit OF the flowers are the chief
reasons of thei- popularity. The homo
culture of aquatics is very simple.
Grand results may be secured by those
who have means to construct large
tanks, but these accommodating plants
can be raised TO much perfection in
tubs made OF oil or molasses barrels
cut in two. These tubs can be
grouped in q rockery or arranged in a
row, and be prepared about the mid.
die of May by filling them half full
with a mixture of loan and manure
plant the roots in them and then cover
with an inch or so of sand to give q
neat finish, as the water soon becomes
perfectly clear and pure, made so by
growing plants. These plants may al
so be planted from one TO three feet
deep on the margin of lake or pond,
and will grow and bloom admirably
without trouble or care. The true
sacred Egyptian lotus produces leaves
twenty to thirty inches in diameter Oh
stems five to six feet high. The dou
BILE blooms are frequently ovor foo
across, of novely milk white, shad
ing into clear bright pink at the edges
They are easy to grow, and most pro
fuse bloomers. The tubers should b.
planted below the ice or frost line, i
to be left out over winter. Farm an,
Home.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Tho Food Of Whales.

The food Of whales has long been
known to consist of minute sea crus-
tacea. Mr.. Gray was familiar not
only with the whales food, but OBJ
served its manner of feeding, and the
way in which II took its nap latter
meals" "No doubt" he wrote,
"whales are very particular in the
quality of their food, for they are
never to be found feeding where the
water is dirty, but almost invariably
in clean, clear, dark blue or light
olive-green water. The usual way in
which a whale feeds is TO choose n
spot where the food is plentiful, and
swim backward and forward for two
or three hundred yards, with the nose
just under water. They invariably
swim from one side of the beat back
again to where they started from,
with their mouths open. They then
close their jaws and swallow the food
caught
They will go on in this way feeding
for an hour or more; after that they
will disappear under the nearest ice,
and sleep there until they come ont
for exercise or for another meal. I'M
like other warm blooded animals, they
do not require to breathe through
their nostrils while asleep, and they
do not do SO. Whales can sloep as
well under water as they do upon the
surface, as / have often seen them
disappear under solid ice and remain
there for many hours at time. Some
times they fall asleep with their heads
down and only their tails standing
out of the water. The Spectator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
WOOD FOR SUMMER FIRES.

There are very few housewives, at
least in the country, who will be satis-
fed with coal fires in summer. They
may do well enough on washing days.
when a continuous fire through the
day becomes necessity, but for cook
ing FIRE made of well dried wood that
will heat up quickly and as quickly go
out is what is required The wood fire
also on most farms is cheaper than the
coRl. It can usually be grown on
some part of the farm that would
otherwise be of little use, and its
only cost is that of cutting and pre-
pairing for the stove. Wood can also
in part take the place of coal for win
ter on farms where it is abundant.
The coal market is controlled by great
railway monopolies that oppress not
only the miner but the coal consumer.
Happy is the farmer who can If he will
be independent of them. We are
afraid that part OF the increasing use
of coal for fuel is due to dislike of the
winter labor required to prepare the
wood fuel that might be its substitute.
This in olden times made no small part
of the winters work, and though the
fuel was burned the work saved buy
ing coal, and therefore paid enough
to make no small part of the prosperity
of old fashioned farming in the days
when the rule was TO only buy what
was necessary, and what could not
profitably be produced on the farm
American Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
A GRATIFYING FACT.

1t Is only natural deduction from other
facts that the drink habit is falling off, says
the Brooklyn IN. W Citizen. One Of these
is the common practice Of railroad ard other
corporations to require notimerely temper.
ance, but total abstinence on the part Of
their employees. This at once withdraws from
the saloons the patronage of a large body OF
men, most OF them young men. who are tho
bt st patrons OF such places when they pat
ronize them at all. The Christian Endeavor
movement, which has had such wonderful
success in gathering young men to its ban
ner, is another potent enemy Of drink, and
withholds from the saloons many thousands
yearly.
Still another adverse influence is that Of
society. There is plenty Of drinking done In
society, and society smiles on it, but, all the
same, when mans character is under dis
cussion in society the admission that "he
drinks a little now and then" always counts
against him. That Is really the meaning Of
the screened doors and frosted windows OF
the saloons. II is not reputable for man
to be seen drinking, and this consideration
has its influence in restraining the habit.
II is toleTably plain, then, that the use OF
intoxicating liquor is on the wane. 1t will
be long time before 1t will cease entirely, IL
it ever does, but each succeeding genera
tion is soberer than the one before it, In
time, perhaps in a comparatively few years,
drink will become the dissipation of the few
instead Of, as now. the vice Of the many.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Hoods Pills are the best after-dinnerp pills,
Washing the blood.

Washing the blood is the latest
remedy for diseases brought on by or
causing sluggish circulation and
low state of the blood. The washing
process is performed by plain salt
and water. From pint to two quarts
of water are injected into the system
by means of an ordinary hypodermlc
syringe.
A vein is opened in The arm of the
patient with the usual anticeptic
precautions, and the salt water in
iected in large doses. A profuse
perspiration and general activity of
the secretory organs follows, carrying
away the noxious matter present in,
the blood. The new remedy is rec
ommendedby several doctors in papers
read recently before the Academy of
Medicine in Paris, and has been sue
cessGully employed in numerous
instances. In cases OF anaemia,
typhoid, hemorrhoges, sudden shock,
and even in cases OF il toXicatioD, this
blood washing, it is said, works won
ders. For some years surgeons have
used a saline injection in cases of
collapse after an operation. 1t is the
most powerful tonic known, and has
saved many lives. Its efficacy in
ordinary diseases has, however, only
recently been discovered.
Modern medicine has tendency to
reeort to simple methods which recog-
nize the all curing powers oil water.
Washing the stomach, as practiced by
several New York physicians, is OF
very recent origin, and is considered
Invaluable in cases of indigestion. A
simple bath of warm water is often all
that is necessary to restore the
stomach to its normal condition, by
removing the poisonous waste products
which are not proiusely thrown off by
the secretory organs. By means of q
soft rubber tube put down the throat
water can be poured into the stomach
and siphoned out again. To wash the
blood is, of course, more difficult, as
the water has to be injected into
vein.
1t is well known that the blood OF
frog can be drawn off and the blood
of another frog substituted without
greatly inconveniencing the creature.
1t was then found that salt water
solution can be substituted instead Of
blood, to 4 considerable extent, at
least, and the frog will live and be as
sprightly as ever. This fact first gave
the scientists the idea of injecting an
artificial serum into the veins of a
human being, either anaemic or intox-
icated. The new remedy is very
simple in its action, and Gun always,
it is said, be employed with safety. -
Washington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
FALL PLowINa.

To prepare the ground for the seed,
it should be deeply p,owed in the
autumn, and cross p!owed, as the land
canrot be plowed in the spring with
out exposing a large surface to the
strong drying effects Of the Gyring
winds, and thus oecasioning the loss
frcm the soil by evaporation OF a
quantity Of water proportional to the
increase of surface exposed. BY the
reciprocal action OF the atmosphere
and the soil the latter keeps up ITS
store of available nutritiyo matters.
The silicates soluble WITH difficulty
slowly yield Glkalies, lime and mag.
nesia in soluble forms the sulphides
are slowly converted into suiphates,
and generally the minerals Of the soil
are disntegratcd and mixed under tne
influence os the oxygen, the water,
ihe carbun!e arid nud Sac nitric acid
of the air. Aaair, toe atmospheric
nitrogen l- assimiiEDie By lie soil in
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
KrrrrNa orr TIE GERMS.

The object in canning fruit is to
find some chemical that will prevent
the development OF bacteria and yet
be safe when used in a strength neces-
sary TO accomplish this end. Salicyllo
acid, one part to 1000 part of water,
will prevent the development of bac-
terra, and in this proportion no i'll
effect can come from eating what sauce
one would ordinarily take at q meal.
First of all, sugar is not necessary to
preserve canned fruit if they are put
up air-tight, though the favor of some
is improved by the addition of it.
The writer has found the following
method of canning the cheapest, east
est and most satisfactory, and would
recommend it to others: Thoroughly
heat the fruit, but do not allow it to
boil. Fill the cans and leave them
open fifteen to twenty minutes to give
the fruit time to settle. Then fill up
again, put the covers on and screw
down tight. In this way fruit will
keep for years, and if kept in the dark
will retain its original color and form.
One can make cupboards of dry
goods boxes for the fruit cans, and
these may be kept closed in the cellar.
A word in regard to the closing of
cans to prevent the entrance of germs.
When M. Pasteur advanced his theory
that all fermentation was caused by
organisms so minute that they float
about in the air, he very soon an
nounced that according to his expert
ments these in6nitesimal objects would
not pass through cotton. Many peo-
pie use cotton to tie over the boiled
fruit while it is still hot, and have
found that it keeps the germs out as
efficiently as the rubber ring, or any
amount of wax. The writer has also
tried this experiment with tomatoes,
corn, lima beans and other vegetables,
and the results were perfectly satisfac-
tory, not even particle of mold form
ing in the can. In most cases the
cotton was simply tied over the canful
of hot fruit; in some cases there was
piece of white paper put on first to
prevent the cotton from dropping
down and becoming juice-soaked. The
latter way is preferable. Take the
COTTON just rs 1t comes off the roll,
the thickness being about it as it un-
winds, then tie down with strong
cord. This will be found an all-sufi-
cient method of preserving fruit for
winter use.-AmeIican Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The best time to buy sheen is usually
in the fall.
Black pigs usually have tougher skin
and are less liable to skin disease than
white ones. ]
Be inclined toward the sheep that
appears to be better every time it
cat:hes your eye.
Never take an ill-doing sheep, even
if it is cheap, with the expectation
that 1t will become right.
In purchasing ram get one fully
developed, strong in bone, straight
shaped, and thoroughly typical of his.
breed and sex.
The purchaser will find it to his in
terests TO select sheep from the field,
and thereby shun those that have been
fitted for show.
Do not purchase sheep that you
have to trust in for proper develop
ment. 1t is only the experienced
breeder that can forecast develop
ment.
There is no sheep that ,embodies
perfection IN sneep QUALITIES. Juetg-
ing between different sheep is o check
ing of weakness and a balancing OF
qualities. -
Most diseases among swine start
from filthy pen. Undoubtedly hog
cholera started there. Disease germs
live and grow in filth, and the sick
ness of one contaminates the whole
/ herd.
In selecting sheep, If possible handle
/ them, so that you may know how much
Of their form is due to themselves and
/ how much to the shears. Select as
critically as you can to q chosen type.
Uniformity is cheap feature for you
to buy, and yet valuable one in a
hCek.
Not only on trees is the sprayer use.
ful, hut it Is good for preventing OF
destroying vermIn on stock. A kero
sene emulsion TINS used will reacI
every portion os the body, md but 1
small quantity is required. 1t doe
not irriJate the skin, Us viii the kero
se2c UuGdullerated.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
"HARMLEss CIDER.

A few months ago two boys rode TO eoun
try store. One of them bought and drank
four glasses Of "harmlesS cider" They then
went to a country church, disturbedthe con-
gregation, who were holding social and
starting home. overlook others.
The boy, only nineteen years old, who had
frank the cider began 10 quarrel with an
other young man. and before the others
realized what was taking place, had killed
him; and he was n son of widow. The boy,
only nineteen years old, was sentenced to
the peniteutiary for twenty years. SO two
homes are made desolate by iorr glasses Of
cider.
mothers heart as she sat listening for the
bounding step OF her boy aud heard instead
the tread of those who bore the lifeess form
OF her boy, can be estimated, can we know
the cost OF four glasses OF cider.-Watch
tower.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Insanity Durable.

DR.. Warren L. Babcock, of st. Law.
renee IN. Y. State Hospital, has for
five years been conducting highly
scientific experiments to discover the
cause of insanity, and at last has the
supreme satisfaction OF not only To-
eating the germ of this disease, but by
marvellous surgical operations, saving
deranged minds. DIR. Bacbock has ex.
tracted the germs of insanity from a
lunatIo and by inoculating rabbits
made them crazy. This insanity germ
the doctor destroys by first draining
the spinal column of its watery fluid
and then injecting aseptic or salt solu-
tions into the spinal opening, thus al
laying the brain pressure and remov'
ing the cause of this heretofore i'm.
pregnable malady. DIR. Babcock is q
scientist of acknowledged ability and
standing, and SO far, his operations
have been uniformly successful.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
A Tree of Iron.

At the meeting OF the Academy Of
Natural Science of Philadelphia, Pro-
fessor Oscar @. S. Carter, of the Boys
Central High School, was the princi-
pal speaker. In his address he referred
to q so.called iron tree, which was
discovered about one mile from Three
Tuns, Montgomery County, Pennsyl-
vania, imbedded in n sandstone
quarry, about ten feet below the sur
face. The tree is about eighteen feet
long, and the trunk is about eight
inches in diameter. 1t has been COM
pletely turned to iron and is composed
mostly of brown hematite, an iron
ore. A portion of the tree is of i'm
perfect Ignite, which greatly resem.
bles charcoal. No doubt exists among
scientists that the article referred to
was real tree, because knots were
found, many of which had also turned
to iron. Atlanta Constitution.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
FARMERS WHO SUCCEED.

Farmers are divided into three
classes; First, those who take up with
everything new in grains, vegetables,
fruits and machinery without stop
ping to think or studying the demands
of their market, the possibilities of
their soil and peculiarities of the eli
mate. Invariably they make failures.
The second class are those who never
buy or produce anything new in the
way of grains, ETC., use the same i'm
plements their fathers did, irrigate
only when the spirit moves them, let
their cattle run around the straw pile
in winter, feeding them few nub-
bins, mako all their butter in the sum-
mer, and use tho old dash churn. They
are homely likened to a cows tail, in
asmuch rs they are always behind.
The third class are those who think,
study their market and soil, begin on
a small scale and experiment until the
problem is solved. If a new fruit is
being advertised and trees sold at
enormous prices they buy but one and
see if it suits their soil and climate.
They will not set out peach orchard
in swamp or q cherry orchard on an
alluvial soil underlaid with gravel.
This class is the one that is making
money at farming-the other two are
in the background. One and two are
both bound for the same place, but
seemingly travelling in opposite direc-
tions.
One acts without thinking; the
other thinks without acting. One is
extravagsnt in buying unnecessary
things; the other extravagsnt in not
buying necessary articles. One has no
fixed method of labor; the others
method of labor fixes him. These two
classes are an anomaly, and, as lamar
tine said to Robespierre, are "shad-
owy, undefined-mixed." Not SO with
those designated as the third class.
They have an aim in farming, and, as
result, have o we'll defined plan and
combine brain and muscle, theory and
practice-know the old way, Dut
adopt the new and are q success. In
the new agriculture of the far West
these farmers are legion, and are rap
idly coming to the front. They be-
lieve in tine modern theory of advance
ment as applied to agriculture, and
or bsttering their condition by work
ing along these lines. The methods o.
tho past generations will not do for
them, and they are reaching out for
the improved order Of things that
mark the pathway OF other men VINO
are great success in this world
Denver Field and Farm.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
EXTRA FEED For YOUNG PIGS.

There are comparatively few largo
mixers among sows, though there is
considerable difference in this respect.
The sows that were set to breeding
early aud in the intervals of breeding
were kept growing and not fattened,
give much more milk than those that
were already fat when set to breeding.
1t is, however, hardly worth while to
encourage the breeding of sows to be
extra large milkers, as tho pigs can
easily be satisfied with other Feed
that is equally good for them. Skim
milk from the dairy is the best, with
the addition of some cooked wheat
middlings, of which very small
quantity will thicken when cooked so
as to fill large pail. If one or two
tablespoonfuls of linseed meal are
cooked with the middlings the feed
will be nearly or quite as good for the
pigs as that which the SOW furnishes,
and there is no limit to the amount
that can be made. There is, there
fore, no excuse for letting young pigs
grow unthrifty because their dam
does not furnish proper supply OF
milk.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
RECIPES.

Fish Ia Maitre d'Hotel-Remove
the skin and bones from three slices
of fresh Goldfish and cut each slice in
two pieces; season with one teaspoon
full of salt and one.half teaspoonful of
pepper; dust with flour; dip the
pieces in beaten eggs, cover them with
cracker crumbs and fry.
Stuffed SIuash-Choose a small
summer squash with tender skin, wash
it, cut out the stem end, remove the
pulp and seeds without breaking the
squash, mix them with sausage meat
or cold meat chopped fine, season very
highly, replace in the squash aud
bake about three-quarters of an hour,
Dried Corn---Put the ears into boil
ing water two or three minutes, score
the Kernels and cut from the cob,
spread upon sheets of wrapping or
MANILA paper, and cry in the sun or n
warm mot hot) oven. 1t can be stored
in paper bags. When wanted for use
put to soak over night and cook very
slowly for about two hours.
Tomato Toast with Poached Eggs
Place three sliced ripe tomatoes in a
saucepan over the fire; add one-half
teaspoonful salt, three dashes pepper,
one teaspooniul sugar and same of
butter boil ten minutes. In mean
time toast five slices of bread, butter
them and place on hot dish. Pour the
tomatoes over the toast and on each
slice place one poached egg.
Potato Ribbon-Pare aud lay in
cold water one hour five medium-sized
potatoes; then remove from the
water and wipe dry. With c small
knife pare round and round in ono
continuous strip Il think there is a
small machine for this purpose) F;
handle with care and fry few at a
time in fresh cottolene. Remove to a
hot dish, sprinkle lightly with salt
and serve.
Breakfast Biscuit - Slit together
one scant quart flour, two heaping
teaspoonfuls baking powder, a half
teaspoonful salt; mix half teacup
melted butter in rather less than a
quart of sweet milk add to the -four,
beating we'll, until the batter is still
enough TO drop from a spoon into q
luttered tin, like drop cakes the oven
should be very hot or the biscuits will
not be light and puay.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
BEER AND ATHLETICS.

Beer drinking in Germany is being discred-
tied by competitive athletes, says the Ma.
tional Temperance Advocate. 1t is stated
that three clubs OF Leipslc students havo
abandoned the "morning drinking bout, d"
and that several additional university clubs
are about to take the same step. A desire to
excel in athletic sports is said TO be the i'm
pelling cause of this action on their part.
This practical Acknowledgement that beer
drinking is inimlcal to the best physical cou-
dition aud to the highest degree of athletic
success would be significant in any country,
but it is especially so in Germany, the great
beer country Of the worldl We have some
times feared that many students were dis
posed to give relatively too much attention
to athletics, but il these athletic sports should
lead them TO abandon the use of intoxicants
we should rejoice and account 1t great
gain, even II they were less brilliant in
scholarship. May their athletics prosper
and beer be oyerthrown!
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

the shape of ammonia, nitrades and
the amide like matters OF humus.
The rate of disinteGration, as well Os
that of hitrifcation, depends in part
upon the chemical and physical
character of the soil, aud partly upon
the temperature and meteorogical
conditions.
Moreover, the soil lying in rough
interfurrows has been subjected to the
action of frost; it is in its upper layers
so broken up and divided in all direc.
tions by the powerful expansion of
the water when converted into ice, as
to be reduced to the condition of the
greatest possible fineness, recognized
and so much desired by the farmer
under the term mellowness.
It has consequently attained that
degree of pulverization and porousity
which, with an adequate degree of
moisture, affords n solid standing
ground for the young plant, while at
the same time enough air for the de-
velopment of the germ can penetrate
the sufaco soil, and in the upper
layers nutritive material for the young
plant dissolved by the moisture of
winter is always present 1t is, there
fore, in accordance with reason not
to plow the land at all in the spring,
but to put in the seeds without further
preparation than previous harrow
ing.
The vigorous development of plants
depends far less upon the weight and
size of the seed than upon the depth
to which it is covered with earth and
upon the stores OF nourishment which
it finds in its first period of life -
Farm, Field and Fireside,