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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
The Hoof OF the Horse.

DR.. ID. S. White, of the Ohio State
University, writes: The hoof is sep
arated into three distinct parts. First
the wall, which is that portion form
ing the front and sides of the shell.
Second, the continuation of the for
mer reflected inwardly at the heel and
extending forward in converging lines
as two strengthening bars of bone
| aud known as the "bars" Third, the
sole, which is the floor of the hoof, oc-
cupyiug the space between the wall
and the bars.
The hoof-horn is secreted by the
continuation of the skin of the body
which extends beneath the hoof and
covers the tendons, bones and liga-
ments, like the sock on the human
foot Horn is simply modified hair.
Though to the casual observer the
hoof may appear a simple piece of an
atomy, we find it to be one of the most
complex aud beautifully arranged APP
paratuses of the whole body.
About ninety per cent of the cases
of lameness in the horse find their
seat in the hoof, and as nearly one
half our horses become lame after five
years of age, it is seen that the care
of the hoof is second in importance
only to proper feeding and stabling.
The care of the hoof should begin
with the foal. In case of irregular
wearing away of the hoof, they should
be rasped into proper shape. With
colts kept in the stable the wall-horn
becomes too long (high) aud the lay
ers separate, resulting in the "hollow-
wall" The wall near the heel be-
comes bent under the sole, producing
''hoof- bound" The timely and intel
ligent use of the hoof-knife is the
remedy. The outer edges of the hoof
should be rounded off carefully to pre-
vent splitting of the horn. In pairing
the hoof we must have regard for the
natural form and position of the foot.
In very young animals irregularly
shaped legs can be improved by judi
cious pairing. Shoeing colts to young
interferes greatly with the growth of
the hoof.
The shod hoof of the adult horse
needs even more care than that of the
barefooted colt. Shoeing at best is
an evil, but it must be resorted to.
The shoe should be removed every
four or six weeks and the hoof short
ened. The popular demand for
'''plenty of foot (hoof) under the horse"
is a grave error. There may be argu-
ments in favor of allowing the hoof to
grow to abnormal length to gain in
length of stride, but such procedure
must, in time, lead to disease of the
hoof, i. e., the tendons and joints.
Moisture is very essential for the
proper development of the hoof.
Smearing the hoof with fat is benef-
cial. 1t requires no specific formulas
or patent ointment. Pure lard suffices.
Glycerine should never be applied. as
it dries it. Salves should never be
put on dirty hoof. Wash first. No
ointment can directly stimulate the
growth of the hoof, though some may
contend to the contrary. In very wet
weather add a little turpentine or wax
to the lard. This prevents the hoof
from becoming too soft Use very lit
tie oil and apply with a cloth to the
upper part of the hoof, to the sole and
frog.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08

A well known Congregationallst minis
ter, who was for many years pastor OF one
OF Boston's Congregational churches, while
addressing large meeting In the interest
OF temperance in a church, of which the
editor OF the National Temperance Advo-
cate was at the time pastor, made this thrill
Ing and impressive statement:
'You are talking like silly idiots when
you say there Is no danger in the cup. /
know from the blood OF Ave generations of
cider-drinking ancestors In my veins the
danger there is in the thing. There Is not
a scent OF liquor that is not pleasant to me,
that would not be a precious drop to my
tongue. Look at me. Do / look like a
man easy to be overcome by temptation?
Do you know my life? Go back and learn
1t, and see what have suffered: and yet
say to you, with this background of evil
dence-I declare to you, as value my man
hood, and yet my standing, and my soul-I
would not dare to drink for three weeks a
glass OF liquor day, The chasm yayns
at your feet aud at my feet. Those who
say there is no danger in that first glass Of
liquor do not recognize the peril of heredl-
tary weakness"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
Electricity For BaIkiness.

Electricity has not only displaced
horses to some extent, but, if reports
are true, it may make some that remain
more useful to their owners. Accord
ing to the Inter Ocean, certain Penn
sylvanian owns very valuable horse
which was balky. He had offered
$500 to any one who would cure him,
but i'll vain. He then connected a
three-volt storage battery with each
side of bit and crupper. When the
horse braced his feet and refused to
move, the button was pressed; the
horse jumped, snorted and moved off.
Each day for a week he was given the
same lesson, and is now his owners
pride. Similar cases have been re-
ported in which a small amount of
electricity was considered less cruel
than whipping. Just so; and yet the
most inhuman torture can result from
the ignorant or ill-advised use of cleo
tricity for this and similar purposes.
The Epitomist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
nniier MRshlnp.

Years ago it was generally supposed
that in order to make really fine but
ter one must not allow a drop of water
to touch it. OF late years, since we
began to hear so much about granu-
lated butter, we have been instructed
to wash il in successive waters until
this was drawn off clear, or clear from
milkiness. 1t is my opinion that
neither one of those policies is the
right one to follow.
| have tested this matter of wash
ing butter for number of years, and
have come to the conclusion that
either extreme is to be avoided. To
wash it, even in granular form, until
the water runs off clear will give us a
butter that will not decay or turn
strong so soon as that not washed so
thoroughly, but it washes ont much
of the flavor. On the other hand,
while the flavor is enhanced by the
washing, the buttermilk left in after
working will tend to putrefy, for, as
we all know, there is nothing which
more quickly spoils and becomes ILL
smelling than buttermilk.
To work out all the buttermilk
breaks the grain aud makes the butter
salvy. OF course we do not want to
do this, so we will wash it in granular
form through two or three waters
depending upon quantity of water
used and also upon temperature of the
butter), work in the salt until
thoroughly incorporated, and call it
finished. Mrs. E. r. Wood, in Jer-
sey Bulletin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08

The census OF 1890 shows that I5. 900
deaths we're directly due to drunkenness.
The death OF every American was hastened
on au average seven and three tenths wears
by drunkenness. Tho earnings OF rs, 900
men at 1854 u year for seven and three
tenths years amounts to SIG, $50 900, which
Is lost TO the country through the death of
the drinkers.
There were 3, $50 900 hard drinkers at that
time, and recent Investigations show that
the number has nearly doubled.
The use Of alcohol is spreading with
alarming rapidity among women.
A total Of S9l .si1 ,4S0 is spent annually
by the state and local governments OF New
York for police courts. jnils and poor
houses for caring for criminals and pau
pers. Investigations show that seventy
Ave per cent. OF these cases are due to drink
and alcohol poisoning.
In France, where grent quantities OF
alcohol are consumed by all classes, tho
number Of deaths in 1895 exceeded the
births by 10000. French scientists hold
alcohol poisoning in a great measure re-
sponsible.
NJ. Bergeron and NJ. Laborde, OF the
French Academy of Medicine, in q set of
resolutions presented to the society in 1895,
wrote:
Science has demonstrated both by ex-
pertinent and by chemical observation that
the most impure aud poisonous alcohols
can be converted into the purest and least
poisonous alcohol, which is none tho less
always and fundamentally a poison"
Ex-Superlntendent Thomas Byrnes, Of
the New York Police Department, says
DRUNKENNESS is the prolific mother ofmost
OF the evil-doing. Alcoholism is the prime
cause of all the trouble"
Out OF 3Sl inmates Of the Connecticut
State Prison in the year 1895, 46.s per cent
were willing to admit that alcohol had
ruined them.-New York Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
WISE WORDS.

A FOOLS company is not hard to find.
Opinions never change the weather.
Honesty has never found substi-
tute
Gold loses its shine when it is got
ten by guilt.
The best safe for your money is a
prudent wife.
A giant among giants is not aware
of his own size.
The ass might sing better if he didn't
pitch his tune so high.
The man robs others who does not
make the best of himself.
No man ever gets discouraged in
trying to live without working.
Woman is lovely .dream-and
dreams always go by contraries.
Everybody says $50 up higher" to
the man who is getting there"
Call little man great and other lit
tie people will throw up their hats,
Absence sometimes makes the heart
grow fonder-of some other person.
To get the good out of the years we
must learn how to live each hour well.
A shallow man may always see the
face of fool by looking into a deep
we'll.
Love may be blind, but it can smell
the cloves on a mans breath just the
same.
Patience may roost on monuments,
but truth seldom finds place on tomb
stones.
When a man freely admits that his
wife is not stubborn, he can afford to
stop praying.
The man who figures on marrying
an heiress often finds he isn't well up
in mathematics.
Some men are like bass drum
they make lots of noise, but there's
nothing in them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
The worlds relesraphic system.


Barely more than forty years have
elapsed since America gave to the
world the unique invention of the tels
graph, and yet to-day, according to
the latest figures which can be OBJ
tained, the worlds telegraphic system
embraces in its wide and complicated
area not less than 4,90s, 1913 miles of
wire.
This enormous aggregate is dis
tributed among the great divisions of
the earth as follows: Europe, 1,764, =
790 miles; Asia, 80, ,6S5 miles; Africa,
80, 4l9 miles; Australia, 217, ,479 miles,
aud America, 2,516, 54S miles. From
these figures it appears that more than
fifty per cent. of the worlds mileage
of telegraph wire is ON this side of the
Atlantic, but in view of the fact that
the invention itself is of American or
igin, this is just as it should be. But
the fact that America outstrips the
balance of the world in the extent of
its telegraph mileage is not so much
tribute to its own invention as 1t is
to the extraordinary rate of progress
which has taken place in the Western
Hemisphere during the past fifty years.
Taking the figures as they apply to
the entire world, what higher tribute
could be offered to the genius of Pro-
fessor Samuel T. b. Morse, the re-
nowned inventor of the telegraph
Atlanta Constitution.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
Artificial Teeth,

The use of artificial teeth is of au-
cient origin. Two curious specimens
of artificial teeth from the Etruscan
tombs, dating from four or five CEN
turtles before the Christian era, may be
seen in the museum of Corneto, ON the
coast of Italy, in the mouths of two
young girls. On the jaw of one may
still be seen two incisors fixed to their
neighbors by small gold rings, while
in the other, the rings remain, but the
artificial teeth have fallen out. The
teeth, carefully cut, had evidently been
taken from the mouth of some large
animnl
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08

Experiments in grating the apple
at the Kansas Station developed tho
conclusion that whole root-grafted APP
pie trees are of no greater value to the
buyer than trees grated on piece roots
of FIVE, four or p inches in length.
Not only does exercise promote egg
production, which consequently gives
the poultryman the expected profit,
but the health of the entire flock will
amply repay the little trouble and ex-
pense of providing them with place
where they can work for their living.
1t is not so much the kind and amount
of food as it is the way it is fed that
brings the profits.
1t sometimes comes handy to utilize
row of shade trees for fence posts
land they make good ones, more rows
of trees should be planted with this
end in view) The wires should not
be stapled directly to the trees, but
laths an inch thick and two or more
inches wide should be first nailed or
bolted to the trees and the wires
stapled to the laths.
1t is very often that the nest in
which the chickens are Matched is so foul
with parasites that the chick has hard
time getting a start This is one ad-
vantage of artiicially hatched chick
ems, for they come into the world with
rarely bug or insect upon them.
This alone helps to reduce the loss by
death, and aids in building up
strong aud healthy flock
1t seldom pays to retain strawberry
plants more than two years. S. Pow
ers, strawberry specialist to the Flor
ida Experiment Station, says that
careful, energetic grower, can turn
his beds under every spring and re-
plant them outright in the fall more
cheaply than he can fight crab grass
all summer, laboriously scrape and
pick it out of the beds in the fall and
refill the many missing places. To
adopt this bold course he should make
sure of a generous provision of Wig
orous young plants early in the fall or
late summer, then he may do it fear
lessly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
Kites to BE Life Savers.

Kites have been called upon to do
many things of late, and now they are
expected to save life at sea. With a
vessel hard aground on lee shore,
all her boats either smashed or car
ried away, aud gale of wind blowing
so hard that neither lifeboats nor life
lines can reach her, the usual ending
of such a marine disaster is the loss
of the entire ships company.
But DIR. L. w. Riehl, of San Fran
cisco, thinks he can prevent such
fatalities in the future by calling kites
TO the aid of the storm beset mariners.
He recently gave an exhibition of the
practical working of his idea from the
deck of the battleship Oregon in San
Francisco bay.
At the time of the test good breeze
was blowing, Which speedily carried
the kite well up in the air and away
from the vessel. Donning a bathing
suit, DR.. Riehl wrapped his clothing
in waterproof cloth and threw the
bundle overheard. AS it hoated down
wind he hauled in on the kite line,
throwing the slack overheard He
then jumped overheard, took a turn
of the line around his body, and,
pulled along by the kite, went to lee
ward after his bundle OF clothing. A
twenty-minute test of the device
seemed to prove that the inventors
claims were we'll founded. A report
of the experiment will be forwarded
to Washington by the officers of the
Oregon.
DIR. Riehl asserts that his kite
would take a man or a rope ashore
through breakers in which boat
could not live. OF course if the wind
was off shore the kite would be of no
use, but statistics prove, he asserts,
that in ninety cases out of one hun
dred in the event of shipwrecks the
direction of the wind has been toward
the land.-New York Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08

Efforts are being made to construct
q railway from El-Tor to the summit
Of Mount Sinai. On the mountain,
which is only accessible on enc side, a
depot will be erected near the spot
where the stone cross placed by the
Russian Empress Helena (mother of
Constantine the Great stands, and
where. according to tradition, Moses
stood when receiving the Command
ments The line will also pass the
cave in which the prophet Elijah re-
manned in hiding while fleeing from
the priests Of Baal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08

Strong drink does not make one strong,
In drinking health to others, be careful
lest you drink ill-health to yourself.
Alcoholic drink is not necessary to
health. Nor isit indispensable in the mat
tiers of wealth and happiness
Don't allow drink to obtain foothold
in your home. The seeds Of drunkenness
are easy to SOW, but hard to eradicate.
You may lessen the sum Of human mis-
cry by subscribing to funds for charity.
You may lessen II in another way by being
sober yourself, and using your influence to
make others so.
Canon Basil Wilberiorce can claim to be
one OF the most ardent temperance re-
formers in the British isles. When moving
for the first time into his canonry, he had
all the wine in the cellar poured out into
the street, and he converted the cellar into
dining room by opening out two win
dows onto Deans yard
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08

Not long ago judge in one of the West
ern communities held that when man de-
.iberately filed himself with liquor until
he lost control Of himself he was legally re-
sponsible for whatever he did while he was
intoxicated. We do not know whether this
Is good law ornot, but 1t is good sense. ANY
other rule would make Il too easy for crimi-
nais to escape punishment. A burglar
might plead that he was intoxicated when
he robbed house, or a murderer might
plead that he was mad from drink when he
Killed man; but such an excuse would not
restore the dead to life nor would it pro-
tect the community from a repetition Of
the crime. Intoxication may sometimes be
an explanation, but 1t ought not be consid
cred Enthusiastically Eagle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08

One of the largest banks in New
York makes searching examination
Of each departmental at least three times
year. No one but the president
knows when these may take place. He
summons three heads of departments
and they take charge of the clerks
books and firm assets so quickly that
nothing can be changed or concealed.
Since this system was adopted, several
years ago, no trace of dishonesty has
been found. Those clerks who get
through q year without an error re.
ceive a premium.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
Curious Cafe Customs.

In many continental cafes of the
cheaper order it is the invariable
custom to print the daily menu ON the
napkin provided for the guest, so that
when the latter desires to study the
bill of fare he has to raise his serviette
from his knee in order to do so. Most
people, it is to be presumed, would
prefer the ordinary napkin.
But perhaps the most extraordinary
custom in connection with restaurant
life is that which obtains in a certain lit
tie cafe in the suburbs of Paris, where
every customer whose bill amounts
to frances Us. Sd) or over that sum
is entitled to receive a kiss from the
very attractive young lady who acts as
cashier to the establishment SO used
has the damsel become TO the oscula-
tory routine that she goes through it
without the slightest reticence, look
ing upon it purely as a matter of bust
ness, and it is reported that the pro-
prietor of the restaurant is more than
satisfied with the result of his curious
device for attracting patrons.
Another enterprising restaurateur
has instituted the practice of making
a present of a box of Havana cigars
every New Years Day to those
patrons who have been pretty regular
in their attendance at his esblishment
during the preceding year. The
cigars are, so the writer is given to
understand, of excellent brands, and
naturally 'run" to something, but
doubtless the long g-headed proprietor
knows his business very well and con-
siders that it pays him to reward his
supporter in this generous manner
London It'd Bits.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
CURED HIS CATARRH
An Incentive to Early Rising.

A good story is told of the Rev. W.
L. WatkinsOn at Plymouth. Some
time ago he was staying with a good
lady who was yearning for the good
old times and mourning the degener-
acy of modern Wesleyan ministers.
On being asked for the grounds of her
ieremiade she said that the Wesleyan
ministers of the earlier part of this
century rose early in the morning,
and that dear Mr.. Wesley was in his
study at 4 o'clock in the morning. "It
is not to be wondered at" was Mr..
Watkinson's dry reply; "were Mrs.
Watkinson anything like Mrs. Wesley
l would be up at 2 o'clock. West
minister Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
Remembered by the Man She ,JIIted.

A representative of Mrs. William
Amsbury has just returned to Osce-
ola, Mo-, from Denver, where he went
to inquire about legacy.
Many years ago Mrs. Amsbury was
engaged to be married to man
named Smith, but owing to quarrel
she married Amsbury the day before
the wedding with Smith was to take
place. All parties were then resi-
dents of Jefferson City. Mr.. Smith
at once left for the silver mining
camps of Colorado, and Amsbury is
now laborer in the Osceola lime
works. Fortune smiled upon Smith,
but he never married. A few days
ago he died, and by the terms of his
will his former sweetheart inherits
half the estate, mostly in mining
stocks, and variously estimated at
from $4,000 to $40, ,000.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
Pats Bargain with tho saloon Keeper.

Al temperance meeting, where several
related their experiences, humorous
Irishman who spoke was acknowledged to
be the chief speaker. He had on pair Of
line new boots. Said he: "a week after 1
signed the pledge l met an old friend and
he said; 'Thems a fine pair of boots You
have on They are says l, and by the
same token twas the saloon keeper who
gave them to me- That was generous Of
him, says he. 1T was, says /, but made
a bargain with him. He was to keep his
drink and was to keep my money My
the best Of the Bargain, aud I'm going to
stick to II ."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
STATE OF ONO, CITY or TOLEDO,

FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner Of the firm Of +. J. CHENEY a
Co., doing businessin the City of Toledo, County
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of CATARRH that cannot be
cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
- presence, this 9th day OF December,
( SEAL A ID. 1886. A. w. GLEASON,
t-N N1tdTU Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, free
+. J. CHENEY q Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family pills are the hest
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08
Games of Ancient origin.

Most people are we'll aware that the
popular Canadian game of lacrosse or.
iginated, goodness knows how, many
centuries ago among the North Ameri.
can Indians. When you come to look
into it, il is quite astonishing how
many games were originally invented
and are to-day practiced by peoples
we are accustomed to think of as saw
ages. Wallace tells us how in Borneo,
one wet day, he thought to amuse his
Dyak boys by showing them cats
cradle. But he found that they not
only knew it, but knew more intricate
figures than he. The Maoris of New
Zealand actually have sort of pic
torial history in cat's-ci adle figures of
twisted fiber. The Sandwich Islanders
play a kind of draughts; the South
Sea peoples nearly all are adopts at
kite-hying. Polo comes from Persia,
and is played magnifcently by wild
hill tribes from northern India. Back
CANNON and parchesi are both eastern
games, fiat tamarind seeds being used
as ''lots" in the latter. Harper's
Round Table.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-08

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THE Burning Of the Sarah Sands" is its
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