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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
RECIPES.

Hominy Croquettes-To n cupful of
small. grained boiled hominy add a
tablespoonful melted butter and stir
hard, moistening by degrees with a
teacupful of milk. Put in a teaspoon.
full of sugar and well-beaten egg.
Roll into oval balls with Toured hands,
dipIn beaten egg, then cracker crumbs,
and fry in hot lard.
Ramakins-Beat together two eggs,
one tablespoonful melted butter, one
teaspoonful anct ovy sauce, one-half
saltspoouful salt and half as much
cayenne; then add three tablespoon
fuls grated cheese, and, lastly, one
tablespoonful -four wet with cream.
Spread thickly upon rounds of lightly
toasted bread and brown lightly.
Chicken Fricassee-Keep the chick.
en- hot in the oupful of broth. Put it
into dish. Add to the broth we'll
beaten egg and tablespoonful of but
ter boil this for a moment put in a
teaspoonful chopped parsley, salt.
spoonful of salt, half as much pepper
and thicken with teaspo onful of
-four. Pour over the chicken and
garnish with hard.boiled eggs and
curled parsley.
Corn Soup-Cut a chicken into
pieces and boil in one gallon water
till tender. Take out the chicken
with one cupful of the liquid. Cut
the kernels from eight ears of corn,
put into the pot and stew gently for
an hour longer. Season with tea
spoonful of salt, saltspoonful of pep
per and a sprig of parsley. Thicker
with a tablespoonful OF rice -four and
send to the table without straining.
Potatoes Whip six hot
medium-sized boiled potatoes light
with a silver fork. Beat in four tea
spoonfuls of milk, q tablespoonful oi
butter, the yolks of two well-beateu
eggs, small teaspoonful of salt and
saltspoonful of pepper. Whip into {
creamy heap before adding, with &
few dextrous strokes, the beateI
whites of the two eggs. Pile roughly
on dish and brown in quick oven
Crumpets-Three cupfuls warn
milk, half cup yeast, two tablespoon
fuls melted butter, one saltspoonfu
salt and the same of soda. Flour t.
make a good batter, Set these in
gradients as a sponge, leaving out thu
butter and soda. In the morning bea
in the melted butter and the soda dis
solved in little water. and a hal
cupful sifted flour. Fill patty pan
or muffin rings with the mixture. lie
| them stand fifteen minutes and bake
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
Hot Baths for sleepIessness.

Suppose a person be tired out from
overwork of any kind, to feel nervous,
irritable and worn, to he absolutely
certain that bed means only tossing for
hours in an unhappy wakefulness. We
all know the condition of the body and
mind. Turn on the hot water in the
bathroom and soak in the hot bath
until the drowsy feeling comes, which
will be within three minutes; rub
yourself briskly with coarse Turkish
towel until the body is perfectly dry
and then go to bed. You will sleep
the sleep OF the just, and rise in the
morning wondering how you could
have felt 80 bad the night before. The
bath has saved many n one from a
sleepless night, if not from severe
headache the next morning.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
SOFT SHELL CRABS.

"There is no danger of eating soft
shelled crabs," observed an epicure,
''if they are fresh, but they are poison
if they are not. They should be well
seasoned, and an extra lot Of pepper
put on them as precaution, especially
if the weather is very hot when they
are eaten, or if they are eaten shortly
before one retires, 1t is the habit of
many persons to eat soft shelled crabs
at night time. do not know but
that they taste better then. It is
somewhat dangerous to many to drink
milk after eating crabs. Milk seems
to develop the collie that follows eat.
ing soft shelled crabs with some per.
sons.
"Another thing that should be re.
membered, and that is sharp thunder
storm will kill soft-shell crabs, and
even the hard-shelled crab at times.
Unless the soft .shelled crab has been
cooked before the thunder storm,
think the safer plan would be to de.
cline to eat IL. Under all other con-
ditions there is no danger in partak.
ing of them, for / do not think any
one would be criminal enough to cook
dead crab, hard or soft shell. The
proper way to kill crab is to throw
him into a kettle of boiling water. l
know that some people think this is
cruel, but it is no more cruel than it is
to stab them with aneedle or kill them
with chloroform, us / have known
some extra sensitive persons to do. -
Washington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
TO RECLAIM DRuNKARDs.

The League of Love, branch OF the
salvation Army, will put into operation in
New York City new plan for saving of
drunkards. 1t is proposed TO patrol certain
parts Of the city at night with ambulances
driven by Salvation Army lassie There
will be two members of the army besides the
driver in each ambulance and whenever
drunken men and women are found on the
streets they will DO bundled into the
ambulance and taken to the Salvation Army
Shelter, where they will be allowed to sober
up. OF course, no one Will be restrained and
taken against their will The patients will,
II they wlsh be allowed to pay for their
lodging and breakfast after they have be-
come sober.
The ambulances will be painted red and
and white and drawn by white horses.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
TOBACCO DUST For BUGS.


A reader asks me whether tobacco
dust should be applied to vines when
they are wet with dew or when they
are dry, This moves me to say that
the tobacco dust, or the bone meat, or
the mixture of both, is not intended
rs a coating for the leaves, which
would make them poisonous or un-
palatable, but as covering for the
soil, that will make the atmosphere
very uncomfortable fol all insects and
worms. i like TO have the material
remain dry aud dusty as long as posi-
BILE. In that case it has more thor
ough effect on bugs and beetles that
have hard shells. The wet tobacco,
or tobacco tea, or even the fumes of
wet tobacco, are very unwholesome to
the soft bodied insects, worms, etc.
find that cucumber beetles do not like
to work in dust, and least of all in to-
bacco dust. When / put this latter
inch deep around melon or cucumber
plants, the yellow-striped beetle
promptly takes its departure, AMI will
stay away as long us it gives oil a
strong tobacco smell.
Let me repeat, too, that this same
waste material is one of our best and
cheapest general insectides. We can
use it both under glass aud in open
mir. By all means keepa good supply
OF it on hand. Possibly you can gel
sweepings from a near cigar factory
or You may buy the material by the
barrel at about S2.jl or SO. 1t wll
last you for years and help you tC
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
THE TAssEn OF corn.

The flower of the corn plant is di-
vided INTO two portions, the tassel or
male secticn, which furnishes the pol
len, and the silk, which is the female
portion of the flower, which receives
it. Each thread of silk carries some
of the pollen to the ear, and there a
grain of corn is formed. The profu-
sion OF silk is SO great that the grains
Of corn are compacted on the ear as
closely as possible. When this is not
the fact it is more likely due to the
drying up of the tassel, 80 that not
enough pollen is formed to fertilize
all the silk. If there is either a very
dry or very wet time when the tassel
should be distributing pollen, these
defective ears will be plenty. Heavy
rains in one case wash the pollen of,
and the dry weather causes the tassel
to shriyel and become worthless. The
blossoming is exhaustive. If the sea-
son is just right one-quarter of the
tassols produced would make a full
crop of well-developed ears. But as
in every crop there are more or less
defective ears, it is unsafe to cut them
out. The suckers usually tassel later,
and for this reason they often increase
the corn crop on the main stalk after
the earlier tassels have dried up. -
Boston Cultiyator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
A Homemade Wagon.

Talking about pluck and inventive
genius" said @. T.. Hooper, OF Raj
eigh, N. O., at the National, ''rominds
me OF young fellow who settled near
Tarboro in my State. He did not have
a dollar when he went to the county.
He tried TO obtain position ms school
teacher, but failed. Something had
to he done. and he rented small
form, and then borrowed plow, OBJ.
tanned credit for yoke of oxen, but
could not get wagon. This he made,
and it was the most remarkable vehi-
Gle ever in North Carolina. He sawed
down largo tree, four disks of the
larger end made the wheels, the log
split in two formed the bed, and the
cross bars and tongue he made from
the boughs of the tree. With nm axe
an da wedge, his only tools, he con.
structed the wagon, aud it was not
long before he owned his farm. The
wagon is still good; it will outwear
any of those manufactured 10y wagon
wagon makers, for the rough noun
tain country"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
Moving Hay as a Reward.

The spectacle of a gang of convicts
in prison garb, each supplied with q
scythe, busily engaged in cutting the
high grass in front of Moyamensing
was witnessed one morning last week.
The men were guarded by uniformed
keepers, heavily armed, but, despite
the presence of these grim reminders
of their position, their faces were
wreathed in sYsiies, and they shifted
IN the aIrs-of freedom with evident rel
lsh,.E Strange as the sight was to one
not accustomed to it, the practice oi
selecting convicts to do the chores
about the prison is not an unusual
one. 1t is considered rare privilege
to be assigned to such work, a privi.
lege gratefully accepted by the ia
vored ones. Convicts selected to per
form such tasks are those whose sen
tences have almost expired, who are
exemplary prisoners or those whose
frequent sojourns within the walls sug
gest that they are better satisfied with
prison fare than none at all. -Phila
delphia Record,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
"WIloaY

The word whoa fused in calling on
horse to stop-is merely a variant
and emphatic form of no formerly
used in the same sense. This is easily
proved; for Chaucer has no in the
sense of "halt," ("Cant. Tales" b
9957.) When King Edward ". had
to use this exclamation, he actually
turned it into whool "Then the
kyng perceyvyng the cruel assaile,
[onset, cast his staff, and with high
voice cried whoow ("Excerpta His.
torica," p. 211.) Which stopped the
tournament and no wonder.-Notes
and Queries.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09

Fill man with whisky and he can give tho
pig points.
1t is only those who are In the power of
rum that cannot see its harm.
The man who has not decided that he will
never drink, has more than half decided
that he will drink.
The Indians of Eastern Washington are
said to have taken steps TO prevent the sale
OF liquor among them by unprincipled white
men.
According TO the National Temperance Al
manac there are oighty-lye papers published
in this country that are devoted to the tenn
perance cause.
Doctor Norman Kerr warns medical prac-
titioners against employing alcohol or anti
pyrin in the treatment of influenza.
Why is it that town, when giving q
"writeup" of its industries, never boasts OF
the number of its saloons and the genial
saloon keeper
The notion prevails among great number
Of otherwise sensible people that alcohol II
the form Of wine aud whisky Is "cure-alL
And this despite the testimony of the age
that alcohol in any form is detrimental tC
the health of the body 50 much SO that II
may well be termed "kill-all."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09

keep the premises clear of the various
pests that prey upon your crops and
animals. II You scatter tobacco dust
10y hand or with bellows over your
rows of peas, just at nightfall, you can
kill the slugs that are so often eating
all the lower foliage of and greatly
damage the crop. Or if you dust ii
in the same way over your currant and
gooseberry bushes when infested with
worms you will quickly see the worms
disappear. In the same way you can
quickly kill all the leaf-eating worms
and slugs on your trees and bushes
everywhere. The tent caterpillar and
the fall webworm, and all other cater.
pillars on trees and plants, give up
the ghost within few minutes after
coming in contact with tobacco dust
And besides all this, tobacco dust is
worth about what it costs as fertil.
izer. We can also control in a meas.
ure at least the most unmanageable
pests of our gardens, namely, the fen
beetle and the cabbage maggot. But
in order to make thorough work rid
ding the plants of these pests, We
have to be very liberal in the use OF
the tobacco dust. For instance, il
we throw a good, big handful into the
heart of the cabbage plant or cauli'
flower plant, or on a choice seeding
potato, we may be quite sure that the
flea beetles will leave for time at
least, and if we apply the snme guam.
tity to the stem of cabbage or caull.
flower plant we may be sure the mag.
gots will not flourish there for o
while. e.-Practical Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09

learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease .
that science has been able TO cure in all its
btages, and that is Catarrh. Halls C0tarrh
medical fraternity. Catarrh being n constitu-
tional disease, requires oOnsti ttonal treat
ment. Halls Catnrrh Jure is taken internally,
faces OF the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietorS have so much faith in its curative
powers that they oifer One Hundred Dollars
Tor any case that IL fails to cure. send for likt
Of testimonials. Address
f. j. CHENEY 4 Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c,
Halls Family Pills are tho best.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
OBJECTIONS TO co1oREp BUTTER.

It is sometimes objected that the use
OF butter color is a deception, and
therefore Objectionable on moral
grounds. The answer to this is that
butter is never colored to make it re-
semble anything that it is not. The
artificial coloring does not as before
stated, change its flavor. 1t simply
gives it what the general market pro-
nouuces a more attractive appearance,
and is used for the same purpose that
a manufacturer bleaches or dyes cot
ton goods. Markets vary in their do
mands in this respect. Some require
q very pronounced yellow, others a
pale straw color; but, whatever the
color, it is butter and only butter.
The objection to the use of color, on
the theory that it is an adulterant,
would apply with equal force to the
use of salt. Both are foreign sub.
stances. -Hoard's Dairyman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09

Hear the despairing cry that ono of tho
women OF San Francisco addressed to the
editor Of the Examiner;
Liquor keeps as where we are. The gin
holes, curse theml Their keepers, God for
give. The laws which make them possible,
curse theml curse them!! curse theml! Re
form usP How, when rum makes three
every week. Reform us2 Reform your
laws! How laugh-laugh with despair
hearted and well-meaning people to reform
us without reforming and Informing them
selves! Reform, when the greatest enemy to
moral reform is standing open day and
night in thousands of places in San Fran
ciseoP What colossal nonsense! The law
smiles and Christian lawmakers wonder
Heaven is impoverished; hell is enriched.
My hot head Is against the window pane,
my aching heart is bursting"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
GRAFr1Na oErpfAYrs.


All gardenersT know that curious
plants can bS~produced by grating,
and to the country it is no extraor-
.dlth1ry sight to see tree bearing two
kinds of plum or pear as the result of
it. Mr.. A. w. Sutton of the great
seed establishment at Reading has
lately described in the Journal of the
Royal Horticultural Society number
of interesting experiments made with
tomato and potato plants, these two
being botanically related to one an
other. A potato tuber was planted,
and when it had attained the height
of few inches above the soil, the
stem was cut off and a tomato graft
was connected to it. As result, the
composite plant produced crop of
potatoes at the roots, while the foliage
above ground bore crop of tomatoes,
nourished by the potato roots. The
process was then reversed, a potato
graft being introduced upon tomato
stalks. The tomato roots did not pro.
duce potatoes, but the potato plant
above ground first threw out potato
flowers and berries, and afterward
produced tubers from the axis of the
leaves and stems. In this case the
designation of the potato as pomme
de terre is evidently a misnomer. -
Leisure Hours.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
OId EnglIsh IdIoms RESTORED.

A writer in the Ohautauquan says
that many "eracker" idioms of the
South are simply obsolete English
idioms. "Fielding, for instance, he
says, "makes a very near approach to
the crackerism, 'He allowed he'd do
it, in such a passage as this: 'rhe
audience allowed l did your part JUS
tice, aud when Burke complains that
England is disfurnished Of its forces,
he is using almost the exact phraseol-
ogy of my cracker neighbor, who has
come to borrow a peck of meal, and
politely hopes that l am not 'disfuT-
nishing' myself for him
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
Gold in Delaware,

George Edwards, farmer living
near New Castle, Del, claims he has
discovered gold on his farm. He had
his colored man dig up part of his
garden, in the hope of discovering
brick clay. Instead, however, a rich
loan was unearthed. Foreman Allison
Truitt, OF the New Castle Brick Works,
examined the loan and said that il
contained gold. Mr.. Truitt packed
considerable of the earth and took it
to Philadelphia to have it analysed by
experts, and says the experts esti.
mated that the soil contained about
$40 worth of gold to the ton. .-Phila.
delphia Ledger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
ADVICE TO HORSE OWNERS.

Never tie horse with the halter
shank in his mouth; if you do, the ami
NAL is almost sure to pull back until
he breaks his jaw or the halter, or cuts
his tongue of.
Never increase the feed of horse,
mule, OF OK for an extra days work or
n long drive. 1t is common mis-.
take, and kills many an animal.
Never allow your horses lampas to
be burned. If treatment is necessary
for congested gums, scarify them.
Never believe the man who says he
can remove a SPAWN or ringworm and
leave no blemish. Even if he calls
himself professor, do not question
his title that is what he is and all he
is. Country Gentleman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09

The Journal OF Hygiene publishes a sug-
gestive article entitled "The Greater Tenn
perance, by Charles II. Shepard, NJ. D., In
which he says; "Judging from the past ex-
perenee. there seems but little hope for the
adult inebrate, but we may at least save
some OF the younger generation" He adds:
when children shall have been taught and
thoroughly indoctrinated with the right
principles on the subject there will be a re-
generated mankind" Doctor Shepard thus
Indicates what should impress more fully the
friends OF temperance everywhere, the fun.
iamental Importance of Juvenile temperance
work.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
POLISH FOR LINEN.

A laundry polish for SHIRTS, collars
and cuffs may be made MS follows: (:
Melt together one ounce of white wax
and two ounces of spermaceti with o
large spoonful of salt. Dissolve these
ingredients over slow fire and pour
into a wet cup to cool. Make boiled
starch in the usual way, cooking il
slowly for twenty minutes, and for
every tablespoonful of dry starch used
put in n lump of The above prepara.
tion about as large as a cherry. Use
no cold starch and do not sprinkle.
When the starohed pieces are dry, lay
them in n wet towel for two hours aud
bring up the gloss by rubbing evenly
with the heel of n polishing iron. The
great secret in glazing stare he'd goods
is to use the polishing iron properly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
VALUE OF RYE STRAW.

Rye straw is thought TO be better
than wheat straw for feeding to horses,
when it is cut and wetted and meal is
mixed with it, 1t is an economical
feed and quite useful in the present
scarcity of hay. Straw may be put
into barn in alternate layers with
green clover with advantage to both,
thus making excellent fodder.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
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you can afford to pay fifty cents for Hand
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Every person who has not q large encyclopedias
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facts collated in this book.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
TEMPERANCE.


JACK sPRAT.
Jack Sprat was very fa.,
His wife was very lean,
Aud not bone for pussy cat
Was ever To be seen.
Jack Sprat had got no hat,
Hts wife had got no money,
Aud not n single little Sprat
Had ever tasted honey.
But Jack Sprat soon altered that,
Aud gave up being beery;
Then Mrs. Sprat got we'll and fat,
And looked 50 bright and CHEEKY.
Then Jack sat with Mrs. Sprat
Within their pow on Sunday,
And little feet went pit-u-pat
To school upon the Monday.
Youths Temperance Banner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09

Doctor Frank Hamilton, one Of the most
competent army surgeons in his day, once
satl; "In my own mind the conviction is
FULLY established by experience aud observa-
hon that the regular use of alcoholic stimu.
Iants by man In health Is never useful. 1
make no exception in favor OF cold or heat
or exposure and fatigue, nor in favor Of old
drinkers, when considered as soldiers"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09

II is rumored that the cost of the
banquet at which the Honorable Ar
tillery Company of Boston entertained
the Prince of Wales and five hundred
other guests in London the other
night was $40, 900,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
Diod From a Hcn,s Peck.

While buying some poultry Bernard
Matman, of Oakland, CAL, was at
tackled by hen, which pecked him on
the hand, puncturing the skin. The
next day the hand began to swoll, aud
in few days Matsran died from blood
poisoning.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09

Said Mrs. Lake in one of her late lectures
"Eyery man starts out to be "a moderate
drinker, "a man among men, as he puts it,.
tie enters into the social custom Of drln king.
He takes 1t once, twice, thrice. Gradually
he creates an appetite and he awakens to
lind that he has II terrible burning thirst
which even drink itself can not satisfy"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-09
To Cleanse the system

Effectually, yet gently, when oostlve or bilious,
or when the blood is impure or sluggish, TO
permanently overcome habitual constipation.
to awaken the kidneys and liver TO a healthy
activity, without irritating or weakening them,
to dispol headaches. colds or fevers, use Syrup
OF Figs