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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-05-08

Picked Up, Dished Up and Made Palata-
BILE for Sitter Readers.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-05-08

The Good Housekecper and
the Progressive citizen
"Slicks up,' outside and in.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-05-08

Paints cannot be excelled.
We have all colors and
shades, also every variety of
Brush needed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-05-08

!DdI ISdIIlS!!!
--at-
J.Eh. Couture's Store.
Germantown yarn, all shades, lOc
skein.
Remnant Dress Fannelsl worth % and
S5c all at l2 lee yard.
White Outing Flannels, &c yard.
One lot Mems Underwear. worth soc
to close at PC.
Heavy Pontiac Mittens, SOC pair.
Medium weight, l" 25c
Light weight &" l9ca l."
Children's Wool Hose, heavy, 10 l-2c
apair.
Packages Washing Powder for 25c.
Z Bars Laundry Soap, for csc.
Mocha and Java Broken Coffee Csc.
=" Screenings Coffee,
csc.
Japan Tea worth s5c, for 25c pound.
Few Horse Blankets worth S1.75 each
for Sl.OO.
Mems Heavy Socks for 25c a pair.
vestcoa;s worth sa 90 each for $500
to close out.
Uncolored fine Japan Tea for 10 lb.
Best grades of flour at the low water
mark.
Give us your trade and we will
save you money,
Terms Cash Down.
Manchester Dpnot Fob IN 1aoc
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-05-08

Stock is SO complete and va
ried that we refrain from CIV
ing any description but, in.
stead, invite you to call and
examine.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-05-08

Lock Box 81
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
TREATMENT OF GARaET.

Tho cause of garget in COWS is
usually excessive flow and richness of
milk, which, if the bag is not relieved,
soon causes Inflammation and con.
gestion or caking. 1t is always the
best COW that is troubled in this way.
The evil is made greater by feeding
too highly of what will produce a
large flow of milk. The bag or udder
of COWS should be examined frequently
for several days before the COW calves.
If it seems distended it should be re-
lleved by milking out all that can be
got from the teats at least once, aud,
better still, twice day. We have
sometimes milked ten DAYS or more be-
fore the COW calved. If the milking is
begun it must be attended to every
day, as the act of milking increases
the milk flow. Rubbing the bag after
all the milk is drawn with salye made
of garget root or poke root and cream
will do much to relieve the pain. We
have used the poke root for this pur-
pose, and have known it to be used by
others. 1t is weed that grows very
luxuriantly on newly-cleared land,
and its berries are familiar to every
boy in the country, as their red Juice
is often used to write with. The poke
root is reputed to be poisonous il
eaten, but it is excellent TO steep and
let simmer down with cream OF milk
as a salve for inAamed surfaces of any
kind.-American Dairyman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
BROOM CORN AS Al FARM CROP.

The broom corn crop requires rich
land, free from weeds and weed seeds,
to make it very profitable. 1t is very
difficult to keep free from weeds while
young, as the small seeds are slow to
germinate, and do not at an early stage
make rapid growth. In this, both the
seeds and habit of growth resemble
sorghum. Broom corn used to 1e
largely grown on the Mohawk flats,
and probably is yet to some extent, as
farmers who get into the knack of
working it up rarely abandon the crop.
10 secure a profit from broom making
requires nearness TO some populous
neighbOrhood where labor can be had
cheaply in winter. There is SO much
competition in the business that less
is made at it than formerly. Some
seasons there is enough demand for
broom corn to enable the grower to
sell it without manufacturing, and get
a good profit from it, Tho brown hurl
is the largest kind, and it is therefore
the best variety to plant, though the
brooms made froom green hurl gem
orally bring higher price, and the
price OF the manufactured product
is also higher. A farmer who has con
siderable help in his own family can
generally manufacture brooms so rs
to get u better profit than he can by
selling the crop as it is cut from the
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
This Xns Too Much.

A few years ago Jim Chessley was
one OF the best all.round athletes on
the coast, but no made a speciality OF
baseball and sprinting. One night,
after being out with the baseball
crowd, he suggested that they go up
to his lodgings and look at new suit
he bad bought to sprint in. Though
1t was two o'clock in the morning,
they accepted his invitation.
Chessley put on his new running
shoes and trunks. While he was still
prancing about the room before his
admiring friends q commotion was
heard out in the hall and cries of
'tStop thiefl"
Chessley threw open his door in
time to see man darting down the
stairway. He dashed after the fellow
and after q sprint of half block
caught him. When Chessley took him
by the collar he whirled around as If
he intended to fight, but when he had
sized Jim up from the top of his head
to his spiked soles his jaw dropped,
he shook his head hopelessly and
said:
81 give up, partner. When they
keep a man ready in runnin' costume
to chase a fellow at o'clock in the
mornin' they're too many for me. -
San Francisco Post. ..~-.-,.,-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
THE ASPARAGUS ned

When the asparagus is done with,
those stalks that arc left to grow
should be selected and only the male
or. staminato ones kept. The worst
weeds in the bed are the surplus plants
that grow from seed, rs they are most
difficult to eradicate, and crowd tho
plantation. So that as soon rs tho
seeds are seen to be forming the fe.
male plants are to be dug out, or al
least cut down, so as to prevent tho
seed forming.
A good method is then to cover tho
bed with good manure, clean of weeds
aud well rotted. 1t may be covered
three inches deep with benefit to tho
next years growth. When the big
stems are seen occasionally, it is sup,
posed that these nre of some new and
improved variety. This is not tho
case any more than the fat steer is a
different variety from its half starved
brother. The big stems, like tho big
pumpkins of the fairs, are made so by
the most liberal feeding. The flower
garden needs quite us much generous
care as that devoted to the vegetables.
Manure is indispensable for the how.
ersr and should be given generously,
while the cultivation of the soil should
not be spared. A large supply of seeds
may be procured for few cents, 50
that the cost of it will be very small
if good judgment is used.
The seeds should be saved when ripe
for next years supply of the annuals.
The perennials should be reproduced
by cuttings or division of the roots,
and the bulbs should be taken care of,
so that after the tirst year this part of
the garden will bo self supporting.
The perennial bulbs and such plants
as lilies, cactuses, and others whose
habits are to flower early in the sum-
mer, und then take season of rest,
which they naturally get in the dry
summer of their native places, should
be kept dry after Towering. If in
pots these are laid on their side in q
sheltered place until September, when
they should be repotted in fresh soil
and the new growth encouraged. And
by and by it will bo q good thing to
make cuttings of the common flower
ing plants to get rooted for the will
dow garden in tho winter. In this
way geraniums, chrysanthemums,
fuchias and roses may sbe propagated
without much trouble and without
any cost. Indeed, the young people
may very easily, by enlsrging the out
fit, make a profitable business by sup
plying those neighbors with plants
and seeds who will not take the pains
to do it for themselves. New York
Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
RAISING RHupARp SEEDLINGS.


People often would be more ready
to set q patch of rhubarb if plants
were near at hand. If they have to be
procured by ordering from a distant
plantsman, the job is only too linble
to bo put of from year to year, the
same as With asparagus. 1t is n good
plan, therefore, to raise a few seed.
llngs every year or two, which is easily
done. a five cent paper of seed will
give hundreds of plants. Prepare the
ground for your close planted yego.
tables, onions, carrots, lettuce, celery
plants, ETC., in the usual manner, and
when you SOW your parsnips or car
rots SOW little row or part of q row
with rhubarb, just as you would
parsnip seed. and cover it In the same
manner. Tho plants will soon be up,
and should have tho same care, thin
ming and oil, as the parsnip plants.
Rhubarb seedlings vary quito consid-
erably, and it is interesting to note
these differences in size, thrift, leaf,
color, etc. Leave the most promising
plants when thinning, and remove
those that appear to be less desirable.
In fall or spring following, the plants
will be ready for their transfer to the
permanent bed.-Americap Garden
ing,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
AID FOR THE cows

The English Government some time
ngo took up the matter of the proper
supply of pir to COWS. 1t Is regarded
as part of the work of the public health
officers to inspect oil barns and see
either that the buildings are we'll VEN
tilated or that they are large enough
to permit of being shut for some hours
without detriment to the health of the
COWS. 1t is said that the execution of
the law has occasioned q great deal of
friction in the country districts of
England. The medical officers make
specifications as to how q barn shall
be ventilated, or in the absence OF VEN
tilation, how many cubic feet of air
may be given to each animal. Most
of the barns are found to fail far bo-
low the requirements. It is very likely
that investigation would show the same
condition of things to exist in this
country, though in less degree.
In fact, some of our barns are so
poorly built that they need neither
ventilators nor air space, since the air
has free ingress and egress through
the cracks between the boards. To
such as have tight barns the question
is pertinent. Of the two ways men
toned, giving the COWS more breath
ing space would appear better than to
ventilate, since by the former method
all draughts may be shut off. When
an animal is not in the best of condi.
tion, draught of cold air too fire.
quently proves the beginning of seri-
GUS and sometimes fatal disorders. -
Farmers Review.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
WISE WORDS.


Honest men are the gentlemen OF
nature Bulwer.
The present moment is a powerful
deity Goethe.
No peace was ever won from late by
subtorfuge. --Ruskin.
There is no malice like the malice of
the renegade. -Macaulay.
To be proud and inaccessible is to
be timid and weak. .-Massillon
Magnificent promises nre always TO
be suspected. Theodore Parker.
Rashness is the faithful but unhappy
parent OF misfortune. Fuller.
Political men, like goats, usually
thrive best among inequalities, Lam
dor.
Pleasure soon exhausts us and itself
also; but endeavor never does. -
Richter.
Distinction is the consequence, never
the object, of q great mind. Allston.
We use up in the passions the stun
that was given us for happiness. -
Joubort.
He who knows right principles is
not equal to him who loves them.-
Confucius.
Every one of his opinions appears
to himself to bo written with sun
beams. Watts.
The instructive feeling OF q great
people is often wiser than tho wisest
man. .-Kossuth.
Philosophy, when specifically
studied eXcites doubt when thorough
ly explored, it dispels it. Bacon.
There is nothing so likely to pro-
duoe peace as to be we'll prepared to
meet the Washington,
Youth fades love droops; the leaves
OF friendship fall; "a mothers secret
hope outlives them all. - Holmes.
Do what good thou canst unknown (;
and be not vain of what ought rather
to be felt than seen. William Penu.
We want fewer things TO live in pow
efty with satisfaction than to live
magnifcently with riches. st. Eyre
mond.
Not because raise myself above
something, but because l raise myself
to something, do l approve myself. -
jacob.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
sTEoNG DRINK EVERY YEAR
TEMPERANCE NEws AND NOTES.

new version of the three RS is "Rum.
ruin, and regret"
Every man who drinks a little drinks n
great deal too much.
Isn't it strange that the man who can
drink or lot 1t alone never does, queries
Rams Horn.
France has appointed q commission 10 in
quire into the relation that the LIQUOR traffio
bears 70 tho increase OF insanity In that
country
Eminent physicians. such as Laquean ana
LaneereauX, consider that the abuse of al
eohol is increasing the amount of phthisis
Ia Paris.
When man is too poor TO buy o home.
he Is generally liberal enough to chip in a
part OF his wages to enable saloon keepers
10 build themselves houses.
The Scientific American declares "tlat
beer drinking in this country produces the
very lowest forms of inebriety, closely allied
to criminal insanity. Toe most dangerous
class OF tramps and rualansin large cities are
beer drinkers"
The brewer, the distiller, tho saloon keep
er want your money. Why should you give
them your money and make thom rich, and
enable them 10 live In splendid houses, ard
to dress in broadcloth. silk, and line linen,
while you and your family are kept poor
ana needy, ana suffering for tho actual
necessaries OF life IN vast multitude Of
cases. - .
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
POULTRY POINTERS

1t is very easy to improve flock of
common fowls by using pure bred
males, and the cost of q male is so lit
tie, compared with the increased gain
in size and prolificacy in q flock, as
well as uniformity of color, that there
is nothing to prevent oil from discard
ing the mongrel male.
If clover is finely chopped, boiling
water poured over it, and the mess al
lowed to remain over night, until the
next morning, a strong decoction of
the clover is obtained, known as clo-
yer tea. This water off the clover is
the best of all liquids for mixing
ground grain, especially for chicks.
The clover may be fed to the fowls
with benefit. 1t is an excellent and
agreeable change for the fowls if it is
thickened with corn meal and bran,
and it may be used for ducklings or
young turkeys. I
1t may happen that some have not
Matched out the pullets for next year
as early ns they desired, and if SO they
should use Leghorn males with their
hens. The reason is that as the Leg
horn natures early, a pullet that is a
cross of Leghorn and some other breed
will grow rapidly, and thus gain in
growth in a short time as fast as a
pullet of large breed in a longer
time, and the Leghorns are also excel
lent layers.
A ma and twelve hens, selected
and placed apart from the other fowls,
will produce oil tho eggs desired for
Matching on the majority of farms,
and it will consequently be a saving
of room and feed if all the coekeiels
are sold. There are too many useless
and expensive members of the flock to
allow q profit when the males md non
laying hens are retained. Reduce ex-
penses by getting rid of them before
winter comes.
The poultry man who uses stale eggs
for nest eggs at this season of the year
invites lice and low prices. The stale
eggs become broken and fill the poul-
try house with fifth and disagreeable
odor. The proper method is to use
no nest eggs at all. The hens that are
accustomed to laying in certain nests
will always resort to them, needing
no invitation; in fact, they will not
change their laying places if they can
avoid it. Stale eggs are sure to break
and scatter their contents over the
nests sooner or later.
zone teaspoonful solution of car
bolic acid given in two quarts of water
is an excellent preventive of most dis
eases among fowl. One tablespoonful
OF chlorate Of potash in one quart of
water for roup; for little chicks that
are weak in the legs, one teaspoonful
of sulphate of soda in one quart of
water. For worms, give ten drops of
aloes or spirit of turpentine in a pint
of water. For gapes, add few drops
OF spirits of camphor or turpentine to
the drinking water. For cold or
catarrh, put ten drops OF aconito in a
pint OF water. For sneezing or run
ming at the nostrils, put about one
tablespoonful Of kerosene oil in one
quart of water. Asaloetida tied up in
a rag and placed in the drinking water
for the fowls will be a good remedy
for roup, also a preventive a most DIS
eases. The Poultry Keeper.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
TEMPERANCE


ouR STRUGGLE.
When freedom on her natal day
Within her war rocked cradle lay,
An iron race around her stood.
Baptized her infant brow in blood;
And, through the storm which round hcl
swept,
Their constant ward and watching kept.
Then, where our quiet herds repose,
The roar Of baleful battle rose,
And brethren OF common tongue
To mortal strife IA tigers sprung,
And every Gift on freedoms shrine
Was man for beast, and blood Tor winei
Our fathers 20 their graves have gone;
Their strife is past--thelr triumph wont
But sterner trials awnit the race
Which rises In their honorei pluco-
Amoral warfare with tho crime
And folly Of au evil time.
SO lci II be. In Gods own might
We grid US for the coming fight.
Aud, strong IN Him whose cause Is ours,
In conflict With unholy powers,
We grasp the weapons He has given
Tho light, and truth, and love OF heaven.
John G.. Whittier.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
Accuracy Of Finger Prinis.

Tho accuracy of "hnger prints" as
q test of personal identity is well
shown by somo recent photogrnp hs of
Francis Galton. In the case of twins,
their photographs and measurements
were closely alike, but the minuti@ of
thor finger prints wero quite different.
An enlarged photograph of the print
of the hand of child eighty six days
old shows the development of the dis,
tinctive little ridges on the skin even
at that early age Current Literature.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17

=, Ihc New York Nation, commenting upon
the labor question and drinking habits of
many workingmen, says:
improvement in the laborer's condition
Is impossible without cutting down his drink
bills. No social arrangements which man
can make can benefit people who get drunk.
NO matter what wages you pay a drinking
man, neither his condition nor that OF his
family can bo improved thereby. There is
no use IN providing extra holidays for men
who use them to get drunk. There is no use
IN cutting down the days labor from ten to
eight hours If the two hours gained are
spent In rum hole There would be no use
IN making arbitration compulsory if one of
the parties was likely to be kept from obey
ing the decision by liquor. There would be
no use IN handing oy,r all the property in
the world to laboring men If they drink as
they do now. They would soon dissipate it
and add nothing 70 the store"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17

The mechanism of the human body re-
minds one very much Of the mechanical con-
struction of fine watch the wheels, cogs
and screws answering to the muscles, and
the delicate springs are what may be likened
TO the nerves. One cannot move without
the other, and yet the action of each is sepa-
rate and distinct 80 II is with the nerves and
muscles OF the human body. The ailments
OF the muscles are distinct from the ailments
OF the nerves, and, like the mechanism of a
watch, II exposed to sudden change Of heat
and cold. they get out of order and for the
time are useless. Especially is this so at this
season OF the year, when from exposure,
negligence or want OF care, the nerves are
attacked and neuralgia in its worst form sets
in. But like oil to the works OF a watch so
Is st. Jacobs Oil to the nerves thus deranged.
1t Is acknowledged by thousands to be the
best and most permanent cure for this most
dreaded disease; hence il is well TO look after
the human watch as well as the one in the
pocket.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
A Texas Ranger,s Bat Story.

l.. t. Harper, an ex-Texas ranger,
gives an interesting account OF how
he discovered the rear entrance to
bat cave on the Colorado River. 'Tt
was in the summer of 1876" he said.
81 was sent by Major Jones to hunt
up an outlaw who had escaped from
tho penitentiary guards. While feed.
ing my horse before sunrise in a skirt
of woods q mile from the river / saw
bats returning from their night skir-
mishing, entering hole in the bough
of tree. The bats came in countless
numbers and entered in regular order,
as if each hat knew just when to ar
rive to take his turn, to q second. For
moro than an hour they swarmed into
the tree in numbers sufficient to have
packed it full if it were hollow from
tho tip top TO the ground. l know
the habit of bats, that they sleep
hanging by their hind feet, head
down, in rows, and it made me won
der how SO many could get lodging in
O tree not particularly large. l men
toned it when l got to the town Of
Burnet, and it set one of the Deputy
Sheriff's to thinking. He suggested
to me to return. We cut down the
tree and there was not bat in it,.
Next we pushed hole into the stump
and found an opening going into
fathomless depths. Tho young eff.
Ger, whose name have forgotten,
lighted piece of paper and dropped
it into the hole, and at once we un.
derstood the situation. The tree grew
in the ceiling of cave, and its hollow
trunk had been a tube through which
the bats made their exit and entrance.
1t was two years afterward before the
cave was explored. Dallas (Texas)
News,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
X tc Flying Encouraged by Science.

Z Boston Aeronnutical Society, organ
lied 1895, has chosen Professor Will
jam II. Pickering, of Harvard Obser-
vator, President. For several months
fortnightly meetings have been held,
and at these meetings papers treating
of neronautical subjects have been read
md discussed.
Preparations are being made for
interesting experiments. The objects
of the society are to encourage exper-
iment with aerial machines and to
disseminate knowledge concerning the
great problem of aerial navigation.
Among other things, the society has
undertaken to encourage the fascinat-
ing study of scientific kite designing
and the delightful sport of kite flying
Tho society wishes to circulate its
notices and reports from time to time
and it therefore requests all who are
in any wny interested in this subject,
whether as eXperimenters, students or
general readers, to place their names
on file, addressing thee Secretary Of the
Boston Aeronautical Society, box 1897,
Boston, Mass. New York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
Trio n Night Thief breads

A reformed burglar, who has no
further use for the knowledge himself,
says there are three things n night
thief breads. One is o baby, the Sec
ond is q little whifTet dog that can
sleep with both eyes open and barks
whom n needle falls, and the third is a
newspaper. Almost always tho paper
rattles or crackles when q foot touches
it. Unless n burglar is so desperate
that he will risk las own life, lie will
leave the moment he strikes O house
strewn with newspapers,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17
REMOVE DEAD 11MRs.

There is some evaporation going on
even from limbs that have ceased to
put forth leaves and are actually dead.
They should be cut off down to the live
wood and q plaster be put over the
wound, so as to exclude the air and let
nature form new covering Of bark
over the stump. Moro OF less limbs
will be found dead in orchards even of
thrifty trees, every spring, when new
leaves put forth. Unless the dead wood
is promptly removed the trees are sure
to become unthrifty, and the dead por-
tion will spread to other portions un-
til it embraces the entire tree.