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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

Tho Welsh miners who, some years ago
were locked mp for many days without access
10 solid food. wero sustained because, for
tunatoly, near 10 thom and within their reach
was little stream which supplied them with
water. And, in the absurd feats of men liv-
Ing without food, we find they nll take water;
when sometimes. for even forty days, they
survive. many call this starvation. but Il is
really not so. The water acts as food-not,
after ALL a surprising fact when we consider
that the human body, including even the
teeth and the skeleton, is made up pretty
nearly of siXty-flve parts per cent. OF water
alone. The greatest fact, however, derived
from natural history is the magnificent one
that all animals except man. and all plants,
demand as drink nothing but water. Life,
strength activity. intelligence, are sustained
on this fluid alone. Nay, IL we take man, we
discover that IL is not all men, women and
children who use this thing alcohol. Millions
and millions never touch 1t, and yet. as our
modern experience shows us, they live just
Us well, just rs industriously, just as actively
as do they who indulge in alcohol. Most
convincing Is II, too, that men who take
alcohol take Ii with water. Brandy contains
half water, and Il has TO be diluted with
more before 1t can be tolerated, our beers
and ales contain over ninety per cent. Of
water, our wines over eighty, so that even
tho alcoholic populations are largely water
drinking communities The only drink, In q
natural sense, is water, without which we
could not live, but which many poison with
| his foreign substance, giving no credit to
| Tho water that is their mainstay and deluded
| In supposing that it is the alcohol, or spirit,
| hey have put into the water that renders
he vital servlce.-Sir b. W. Richardson.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
THEY ARE KILLING MEN.

The liquor selling establishments of the
land are killing men for gain, as certainly
and steadily rs il they were absolute retail
ers Of the plague, or of pestilential disease.
They know that they are killing men. Every
glance at the results of their trafflc demon
strates. terribly, the destruction they are
making of their neighbors. For what is muir
der? According TO Blackstone, eminent au-
thoriiy, it is ''the sacrifice Of human life from
nero sordid love of gain, supreme selfish
ness, recklessness, or any wicked state OF
the heart" Think YOU. does not the drunk
ard mdker's occupation come within the
compass of the dennition2 Let the graves OF
the victims and the sad faces Of living sur
vivors 0nswer-NationalT Temperance Advo-
cate.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
n1cYcrEs AND TIE SALOON.

The liquor dealers also complain that the
bicycle hurts their business. Young men
who formerly loafed about the saloon now
are out on the road. Money formerly
spent for drink is now spent for the bicycle.
The good rider has found out that strength
and speed on a wheel are impossible for the
drinker of intoxicants. Many young fellows
are ambitious 10 be fast riders, and hence
they quit the strong drink.-Rey. Charles b.
Mitchell
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
Arc You satIsHed MIth Mhnt Yan Know

Or would you gladly improve your stock of
knowledge You may not have 80 or $50 you
you can afford TO pay fifty cents for a Hand
Book OF General Information. You won't want
TO pay even this unless you nro desirous OF
hundred-pago book, filled with Il condensed
mass of valuable knowledge, will be read by
you This valuable Encyclopaedia VIII he sent
Publishing House. l3t Leonard St., n. Y. City.
Every person who has not n lnrge encyclopaedia
should take advantage of this great offer ai
once and store his mind with the valuable
facts cOllated In this book.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
SnrlniInr Ability Utilized.

Young Anthony Blake, one of the
prize winners in the running races at
Athens. Greece, put his accomplish.
ment to good, practical use Sunday
morning in running from Green Hill
to Nnntasket TO bring the fire depart
ment TO n burning dwelling house -
Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

The largest sheep ownor in tho world
is said to be s. McCaughoy, OF tho
Cooning Station, at Jerildorie, Now
South Wales. He has 5000, 600 acres
of land, aud lash. season shore 1000,
600 sheep.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
q GENERAL SCOTT ON INrEMPEnANoE.

General Scott was In command at Rock
Island when the cholera broke out there,
and, after various injunctions In his order rs
20 sobriety and cleanliness, he added this
curious paragraph, which was recently,
printed in the Magazine of American His
tory:
4. ain addition to the foregoing, the senior
surgeon present recommends the use Of
flannel underclothing and wooden stockings;
but the Commanding General, who has seen
much OF disease, knows that II is intemper-
nnce which, in the present state OF tho
atmosphere, generates and spreads the
calamity, and that, when once spread, good
and temperate men are likely to take infec-
tlon. He therefore peremptorily commands
that every soldier or ranger who shall be
found drunk or sensibly Intoxicated after
the publication OF this order be compelled,
as soon as his strength will permit, to dig u
grave az a suitable burying place, large
enough for his own reception, as such grave
cannot fail soon to be wanted for the drunken
man himself or some drunken companion.
This order is given as well to serve for the
punishment Of drunkenness as to spare good
and temperate men the labor of digging
graves for their worthless companions"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

Buy 81. 90 worth Dobthns Floating BoraN Soap OF
your grocer send wrappers 60 Dobhins Soap Mfg
Co., Philadelphia, Pa. They viii send you free
of charge, postage paid, u Worcester Pocket Die
tionary, s0s paSes, bound in cloth, profusely IL
Illustrated. Ofier good until August LIST only.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

Rammin, tho originator OF the
Moorish palace at the Worlds Fair OF
Chicago, committed suicide in the
forest of Kcopemck, near Berlin, not
long ago.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

Women are now responsible for
about 800 patented inventions per
year.
- Seyenty-seyen women have taken
the u. A. decree at London Uaiyersi-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

Cincinnati makers of woodworking
machinery have sold complete plant
to the Japanese Government, and a
Buffalo firm has established an agency
in Nienna.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

The Emperor and Empress o< Russia made
their re-entry into 81. Petersburg, where
they were received by members OF the no.
bility and the municipal authorities.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

Conductor f.. ID. Looms, Detroit, Mich,
says: Tho effect OF Halls Catarrh Cure IS
wonderful Writo him about it. Sold by
Druggists, 75c
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

FITS stopped free by Dr. KLiNE's GREAT
NERVE REsrORER. No fits after first day use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and 500 trial bot
tie free. DIR. Kline. G]l Arch St., Phila.. Pa.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infamnn-
ton, Rlays pain, cures wind collie. PC. a bottle
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

Plso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
ms a Cough medicinc.-F. N. ABBOTT, 3S3 Sem
eca St., Buffalo, N. Y, May 9, ls9i
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

The Grip OF Pneumonia may la warded OF
with Hale's Honey of HOrehound and Tar
Pixies goothache Drops Cure in one minute
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
NEEDLESS WOMEN.

They Pay. a Sad Penalty for Their Neglect.
If women only needed first symp.
toms nervousness, backache head
ache, lassltude, loss of appetite and
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

careless, or their physician is to blame,
and they drift into some distressing
female disease. The Vegetable Com
pound at once removes all irregulari.
ties of the monthly period infam-
nation, liberation and displacement
of the womb, and all female troubles.
All druggists have il. Write to Mrs.
Pinkham at Lynn, Mass, if you wish
for advice, which she will give you
free.
~ should not be alive to-day, if it
had not been for Lydia L. Pinhham' $
Vegetable Compound was suffering
greatly from an attack OF female
weakness, and nothing / had tried
could give me relief; when by the
advice of friend l began the Com
pound, After using it two months [
was a different girl, and now al the end
Of six am entirely cured. "--MRs. ANNIE
KIRKLAND, Patchogue, L. l.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

nDItIRR aud WHISKY habits cured. Book sent
NEbVM fREE. nr. n. N. MOOiLEN, ATLANTA, "a.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
Summer COttagers.

1t requires almost as much diplomacy
and mental work to steer a woman
through the mental intricacies of Il sum-
mer at a resort as to carry her safely
through an official Washington winter.
The appearance of informality deludes
newcomers into hoping for pleasant rela-
tions, and then they make what is known
in the vernacular as a break
At the end of the season they go away
vehemently declaring that ''Sea Rock
or "White Wave" is a 'horrid, stiff
place." peopled mainly by snobs, and vow
never to return.
The rules which govern acquaintance
making at summer resorts are lrlt1e
more lax than those which regulate town
acquaintanceship. People who meet IN
hotel dining rooms or on piazza corners
every day soon grow to know one an
other sufficiently well to permit them to
do what the Irishman calls passing the
time of day"
They may exchange magazines and
embroidery silks, to say nothing of views
on the scenery and company. But this
degree of intimacy does not warrant
calls. :,
No newcomer at hotel must ever call
on an older resident until the older one
has called on her.
Not even when the acquaintance has
progressed so far that one invites the
other to form joint picnicking or sailing
parties should this rule III regard 20 cl!ls
be infringed.
The summer boarder's room is her cas-
tie and any amount of outdoor intimacy
does not warrant intrusion into it until
after definite advance toward friend
shin has been made.
Cottagers. as a usual thing. should
take the initiative in calling upon any
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
Whence the ACORN?

The male flowers of the oak are gath
cred in distant clusters round a long,
swaying stalk; they approach much
nearer to the conventional idea of a
flower individually. Instead of being a
mere aggregation of anthers or pollen
cells on simple scales, those of the oak
are possessed of distinct starlike, hairy
calyces, each marked off into six or seven
lobes, and containing ten slender stamens
with two-celled anthers. Then the fe-
male flowers which are usually two or
three. near each other, but not CON
nected, consist each of an oyary, with
three short-curved styles, and invested
with a calyx that adheres closely TO it
and becomes the husk or shell of the
acorn. The whole, except the styles, is
held in a cup formed Of many small!
overlapping scales, which afterward lose
their individuality and shrink into mere
roughness on the outside of the cap that
holds the acorn. For only one of the six
ovules contained in the ovary develops
into an acorn. (seed or corn of the ac, or
oak GOOD Words.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
Where's Crusoe's Isle?

We have had, in the past five years,
recrudescence of Columbus, of Napoleon
and things Napoleonic; now, it appears,
there may be an infiction of Robinson
Crusoe. A learned society of London,
England, has cone to the conclusion that
readers of De Foes charming fiction
have all along been misled as to the
island on which their hero was landed
when he experienced shipwreck.
It has been hitherto assumed. much
to De Foes discredit, that he stole Cor
appropriately the story of one Alexan-
der Selkirk, who passed several years on
the island Of Jua,1 Fernandez, in the Pa
cifc ocean. But members of this socie-
ty declare that the novelist did not steal
his narrative at all. and, moreover, that
the island where the original Robinson
was wrecked lies not in the Pacific but
in the Atlantic They are going to
send out an expedition next winter, as
soon as the sickly season closes, to as
certain beyond all peradventure just
where this island is located.
In the interest of all true narratives
(of fction1 and for the benefit of all
lovers of Crusoe, it is to be hoped that
their mission will be a success.
The true island. they say, is situated
somewhere off the north coast of South
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
RARELY SEE DAYLIGHT.
They Live in Dark Caverns and Raise
Mushrooms.

The cultivation of mushrooms Cham
pignons decouche) is really matter of
''ancient history" in France. The people
are so fond of them, and find them SO
nutritious as well as profitable, that very
few Frenchmen are so poor as to be
obliged to do without their beloved vege-
table.
Notwithstanding the antiquity of the
mushroom it is even in these days of en-
lightenment, a mystery. Nobody, save
few savants, know much about it, but
everybody in France knows that it can
be made to grow in almost any quantity
desired
The mushroom loves a place that is
cool, damp and dark, and it is for this rea-
son that the mushroom is almost lnvarl-
ably cultivated in subterranean excaya-
tons throughout France.
In the department of the Seine there
are over 5000 of these caves, and in
them live about 800 people "cham-
pignonists," who rarely see the daylight.
The descent into these caves is by way
of rope or ladders.
One of the most interesting sights
around Paris is the subterranean excava-
tions where this vegetable is raised;
some of the caves are nothing more nor
less than tunnels, while others are eX-
hausted stone quarries, quite number
of them extending under the streets OF
the city. These caves have to be Spe-
cially prepared for their growth, and
great care and attention is given to their
keeping and perfect preservation. Ihe
temperature varies but little in summer,
and only climatic influences, that, is,
a very wet or very dry season, more than
one of heat or cold, tends to affect the
daily production of the beds. As nearly
as possible temperature, of q degrees
Fahrenheit is maintained. 1t is also
considered of great Importance that the
air currents move invariably in the same
direction. This should be from north
to south and never more than slightly
appreciate. The mushroom beds are
prepared by sprinkling a quantity of
dried and pulyerized wild mushrooms
over layer Of earth heavily enriched;
then. in alternate layers, the mushroom
powder and earth are put together until
a height of about three feet is attained.
In about three months from the time
the bed is prepared they begin to bear
and when once started continuously
bring forth large quantities each day,
regulated more or less according to the
atmOSnhere of the caves
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
Worship.

At dawn the mathis have begun,
The song birds waken one by one,
Now low, now sweet, now distant Tar,
The pensive tone, the Jocund bar.
Awake! Arisev sounds from the grove;
Swell every. breast with JOY, and lover
Repent and seek a home abOVeE'
MournS the contrato of the dove.
Hear me! Hear mey' the pee-.wees ring;
we usher in the welcome spring"
Il, too, will join the glorious choir;
'tGive praise!' exclaims the bird of fire. "
Upon a bough of elm thatssways,
A song-thrush rolls his roundelays;
From topmost waving branch on high
He pours his music to the sky:
"Look up! Look up! To God give praise!
Sing hallelujah, and then raise
Your voice unto a stronger thrill
Glory to God! to man goodwill
Sing! until every heart shall hear;
Sing! without doubt and without fear!
Sing! till with glorious rhapsody
The song shall die in ecstacy!
Then come thou, Silence, over all;
The hush Of Peace benignant fall;
Into the heart come thou, Calm,
AS Love pours out its healing balm!
And to the spirit of the air
Infinite Presence everywhere
The soul goes out in silent prayer,
Grateful, contrite, aspiring, bare.
Oh thou who doest all things well,
Thou who dost in the tempest dwell,
Thou in the blade of grass which springs,
Thou in each feathered thing with wings;
Thou in the rolling planets curve,
Thou in the stars which do not Swerve
From their fixed place in yonder sky
Majestic, omnipresent tie
Which binds me unto all that is,
Which makes part of all that lives,
Which puts me into nice accord,
And swift obedience to Thy Word
Place me in wider sympathy
With Thy great mandate, LET there be!'
Enter Thou, Presence, into me,
To swell Thy marvellous symphony!
Midland Monthly.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
The City House of Today.

The ready-made dwelling-built to rent
in the first half of the century, COM
pares with the ready-made dwelling OF
today as the fail of Franklin;s time
chine. In nothing that is outside the
line Of the revolutionary inventions of
the age has progress made such strides
as it has in ministering to the comfort
Of those who dwell in cities. The rented
house of the first half of the century
was larger than it has become, but it
was mere empty box, after all-usually
1t was part of a monotOnOus row OF
such boxes. Now such dwellings are
tastefully designed, and an effort is made
to give each an individual character.
Within they are illuminated by great
plate-glass windows, decorated with a
liberal finish of ornamental hardwood,
fitted with sanitary safeguards in the
plumbing and ventilating fixtures, and
completed by modern improvements of
many useful kinds. In each is house
telephone, with mouthpieces and electric
buttons in every room The dumb-Waiter
of such a house reaches to the first bed
room floor, if not to the top Of the build
ing.
The mantel pieces have cabinet tops,
and are built above crate freplaces that
contain gas logs, or false but snowy fuel
made Of asbestos veined with perforated
gas pipes. The doors slide into the walls,
SO as not to take up any of the too little
space in the small modern rooms. A
snowy china cabinet is a fixture in the
breakfast room, and refrigerator is
built in one of the walls near the kitchen
In madame's bedroom and in her parlor
is cheval glass. An apron of iron over
the kitchen range promises to rid the
house of the smells of cooking, and good
draughts for the fires are guaranteed by
fues of iron piping instead of brick.
r6r xuh
cts, with great doors, are fixed IN the
walls, and for the clothing of men the
closet drawers of old are turned into
shelves fronted by doors that drop open
upon hinges at the bottom thereof. The
dining room has moved upstairs into the
back parlor, and is one-quarter furnished
by having a pretentiOus sldeboard built
in niche in the walls. Stationary tubs
are housed in an annex OF the Kitchen,
and the fin de steele bathroom has be-
come a beautiful chamber lined and
walled with brick, ventilated by an air.
shaft and skylight, and fitted with tubs
and other equipments that are either
porcelain-lined or made of crockery.
Electric lights are distributed through
out the house, and all doors to yard and
street are doubled, to save coal and the
internal heat of the dwelling.
Thus the modern Cornelia is provided
with what we may cali fixed comforts.
But she is not content with these. There
fore with the modern dwelling goes the
man who keeps the street clean by an
arrangement with the householders Of
each block With it also goes he who at
tends to the furnace and rolls the ash
barrels out to the curbsbtone. The pri-
vate Waterman gives first aid to the in
sufficient police, Or the automatic burglar
alarm stands in that relation to him.
Harper's Weekly
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
HORSE MEAT IN BELGIUM.
Enormous Quantities of it Are Eaten
with No Bad Effects.

with No Bad Effects.
Official figures have been recently
quoted to show that the number of horses
imported last year from England exceeds
$4,000, instead of 5000, as stated in the
Belgian Chamber. / visited Antwerp
with the object of finding out approx
mately what proportion of this enormous
total is actually slaughtered for human
consumption.
From information placed at my dis
posal by the director of the city abat-
toirs, it appears that the bulk of the ami
mails arriving from England find their
way direct to the slaughter house. Al
though the greater part comes from Lon.
don, the trade is by no means confined.
to this quarter, the imports in last
weeks official list showing that no less
than seventy-six were brought from Hull
to Newcastle. One dealer in Antwerp
alone ian Englishman) disposed of up
ward of 5000 horses last year to the local
butchers.
On the other hand, it is positively de-
MED, as far as Antwerp is concerned,
that any of the meat finds it's way back
to England either in the form of "'tinned
beef or soup. Not single meat-pre-
serving establishment exists in the city.
Ny informant, who is q stanch adherent
or horsefiesh as a wholesome and nu-
tritious Diet for the workingman, con-
frmed the measures about to be taken
IOF SudfUluS dSd1uSl tUDCTCu1OSlS anu
CHAMBERS A further experiment is 70 be
tried at Rotterdam by subjecting all
suspicious" meat to treatment in steam
chambers heated to ITO degrees Cent?
grade Ga temperature which has been
scientifically proved sufficient to kill the
bacillus,) and to sell the meat so steamed
at prices ranging from If SOC per kilo
about Cd per pound,) the residue of the
broth included.
There are in Antwerp about thirty
shops devoted entirely to the sale of
horsefesh. | visited several of these es-
adjustments; but, with the thermometer
at 80 degrees in the shade. the meat, of
which the bulk had been slaughtered at
least two days previously, did not present
the appearance which was calculated to
make converts. Still less so were the
sausages of dusky hue which appear to
form the staple delicacy when the laeat
is untitled for sale in its natural state
The prices run from 415sd per pound for
''prime cuts" to about I'd for scraps
When it is remembered that, apart from
the government ban laid upon imported
horsefesh, there is in Belgium a duty of
nearly I'D per pound on all other i'm
ported meat, it is easy to understand
why Australian mutton is yet practically
unknown here, and why among the
poorer classes horse is the only flesh food
available-Brussels Dispatch to the Lon
don Chronicle.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
From the Inside.

The ethics of the difference between
the professional opinion of paid adyo-
cate and the honest conviction of q
learned man were set forth by we'll
known English barrister who died recent
client and counsel were closeted together.
Smith," said the barrister, 'of course
know you didn't murder the man, but
as matter of fact, did you do it with
the butt end of revolver or with
stick?' "Sir," said Smith, 81 swear I
am innocent" 81 know that perfectly
did it with revolver I shall say to the
prosecution, produce the stick!'' and if
you did it with a stick / shall say, pro-
duce the revolverv +" The client paused
and scratched his head meditatively.
cit was with the butt end of revolver,
SIR" That's right!' said the counsel;
Il think / can get you off now.''-Ar-
CrAnant