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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
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Seymour Foose, an old Kansan who
resides in Blaine County, Oklahoma.
gives the Wichita Eagle an interesting
account of how difficult Il is to make
civilization stick with the Indian. A
number Of Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians have been sent from Blaine
County to be educated in the white
mans ways, most Of them to the
school at Carlisle. On their return
they carry all of the evidences of civ
ilization-dress in white mans clothes
and speak English well. A few weeks
contact with the tribe works wonders.
The first indication of their return to
savagery is the manner in which they
let their hair grow long Next they
become reticent, and few months
puts them into blankets and leggings.
The fact is the wild Indians laugh at
the educated ones aud shame them in
TO returning to the savage state. Red
Bird, chief of the Cheyennes, is n
graduate of Harvard, but he wears
blankets aud paints his face with YER
million. Kansas City Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
Noise Means trouble.

Too often we find that the term
"silent steed," as applied to q bicycle,
is something Of a misnoman. and that
rattle or noise appears 70 develop in
some most unaccountable fashion. II
cannot be too widely known that any
kind of noise in a bicycle is a clear
sign that something is wrong, and il
the rectifying of the particular ailment
be beyond the powers of its possessor
a really practical cycle mechanic
should be intrusted with the work.
The bicycle ought, when in good
order, to run as silently as a shadow,
making no noise save the crunching
of the tires upon the roadway and the
buzz of the breeze in the spokes.--
London Cycle and Motor World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

of offering different kinds of fertilizer
mixtures for different crops.
But Mr.. Henderson lived long
enough to outgrow his notions in re-
gard to the advisability of the use of
artificial fertilizers in the market gar
den, and was one of the first practical
gardeners who advocated their use,
but it took him a long time to outgrow
the idea that we must look at the food
requirements of the various crops
themselves in making fertilizer mix
lures for them.-W +. Massey, of the
North Carolina Experiment Station.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
Negligent Cultivation and Weeds.

Negligent cultivation returns to the
defaulting farmer high per cent. of
the product of his land in the shape of
worthless weeds. With the present
improved farm machinery, there is a
great improvement in the cultivation
of farms; and yet, in the face of this,
there is much very imperfectly done,
much of which could be, with will
and an effort, even with only ordinary
machinery, much better done. Take
a corn-field, for instance, that has
been poorly plowed and narrowed,
then planted, and as is often the case
wet weather or neglect gives opportun-
ity for weeds and grass to get vigor-
GUS start, it then becomes a great task
to rid the field of them; and should
wet weather follow, the work would
hardly justify the labor bestowed.
There are few farmers who, having
thus finished hard job at plowing
and hoeing would be at all willing to
turn about and go over all again, but
this must be done in such cases to rid
the field of the grass and weeds.
The proper and better way, then, is
to begin cultivation as soon after
planting as practicable, doing more
work with the cultivator and less with
the hoe. However, work that needs
be done with the hoe, were better not
done Immediately after the cultiyator,
and likewise, it is better not hastily
repeat the work of the cultivator, give
time for the uprooted weeds either to
die or to take root-hold again. Then,
after two or three days of sun, if the
cultivator be run again the effect
against the weeds will be more efiica-
cious. Let this method be followed,
which is much easier than hoeing, and
soon every green thing between the
rows will be destroyed. Then go
through and with hand and hoe rid
the hill of all weeds left in them, cast
ing them between the rows, where, if
they take root-hold, they will be torn
up by the cultivator when it follows.
Such hoeing may be done any time
when not too wet for stirring the soil
for, of course, hoeing when the soil is
wet or fresh stirred, weeds are apt to
take new start, so let few days of
sunshine intervene if practicable. If
the hand hoe be used at all in the
field, it should be to kill weeds rather
than to cultivate the soil The horse
hoe and cultivator can do this better
and in much less time
But if farmers would break and cul-
tivate their fields better before plant
ing, and then begin cultivating so soon
as the plants are up, but few weeds
would get start, and these so small
that the cultivator would quite effectu-
ally cover up.
A good horseshoe, one than can be
adjusted to suit wide or narrow rows,
and to turn the soil to or from the
hill, may be safely run as soon as the
plants are up, or even before; and it
may be ran through continuously, if
desired, until every sprig of grass or
woods be destroyed. On many farms,
however, on account of trees and
stumps, this kind of cultivator can not
be used; here the hand-hoe will have
to be accepted. L. Baird, of
Kentucky, in The Epitomist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

Blankets after the winter use are never
clean, and should not be put away without
being washed. Many housekeepers in view
OF the shrinking and discoloring caused
by washing, satisfy themselves with airing
and shaking their blankets, but this Is
a great mistake, for II the work is prop
erly done the soft appearance and white
ness may be retained for years.
The most important consideration in
washing blankets is to have plenty Of
soft water and good soap. An inferior cheap
soap is really the cause Of the injury done
woolen goods in washing, as It hardens and
yellows the fibre. When ready to begin the
work, shake the blankets free OF dust, nj
tub nearly fun of soft hot water, and dis.
solve a third of a cake of Ivory soap In it.
Put one blanket in at time and dip up and
down, gently washing with the hands,
Never rub soap on blankets, or wash
on the washboard After the blankets
are clean, rinse them in warm water until
free OF suds. Add little bluing to the last
water Shake and squeeze rather than
wiring, and hang on the line until dry. Then
fold and pack away In box securely to
exclude the moth. Blankets washed in this
way will keep their original freshness and
wear very much longer than II put away
soiled year after year. ELIZA Il. PARKER.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
Criminal Fingers and Toes.

DIR. i. Penta has studied the fingers
and toes of 1900 criminals, and finds a
deficiency in the size or number of
toes quite frequent among them, al
though very rare among ordinary men.
He has also observed that prehensile
toes, marked bya wide space between
the great toe and the second toe, is a
condition quite common among crimi.
nails; also a webbed condition of the
toes. The little toes are rudimentary
in many cases, showing a tendency
toward the four-toed animal foot; but
the most common Of all the abnormali
ties was the webbed condition.
entifle American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
Farm and Garden Notes.

Don't let sprouts grow around the
trees.
A lick in time saves nine-in the
garden.
Trees should not be trimmed with
an AK; fine saw makes a smooth cut
which heals over quickly
After pouring water around newly
set plants cover the wet places with
some dry earth to prevent baking.
A sprinkle of air-slaked lime and
tobacco dust ON melon and cucumber
hills is said TO keep tho striped beetle
away.
If a young tree is leaned by the wind
get it back in line ut once, for never
again will it be so easily done. Stake,
if necessary.
1t is a pleasure to visit some peo.
ple's hen-roosts with their permission
while neighbor's roost is an eye
sore and nose-sore as well.
More fruit and less grease should be
the order of living on many farms.
The health of the Nation would aver
age much better if more fruit were con-
sumed
Many a lost tree might have been
saved by mulching, thus keeping the
roots cool aud moist, whereas, without
it they became hot and dry, and the
young tree died
The spray pump is just the thing to
whitewash with. Strain the whitewash
first, so as not to clog up the spray
pump. All cracks and crevices should
receive an extra squirt.
Burning sulphur will kill everything
that breathes. Sulphur candles can be
purchased at nearly every drug store,
or the loose sulphur can be poured on
a shovelful of live Goals.
There are farmers who grow much
fine fruit and sell their surplus at a
good profit to neighboring farmers,
whose opportunities for fruit-growing
are quite as good as their own. A
word to the wise.
If the leaf-roller appears on the
strawberry plants mix one ounce fresh
pulverized white hellebore in three
gallons of water and apply at once with
force-pump or sprinkling pot. Thus
advises Board Bulletin No. 9, Maine.
1t is especially necessary to keep the
roost clean and sweet during warm
weather, or disease will follow. The
droppings should be removed at least
once week-daily is better-and
every month give the inside a good
coat of whitewash.
During dry weather an excellent
dust bath can be provided by digging
or turning over the ground near the
roost, The fowls enjoy this moist,
fresh earth, and will be able to keep
the body lice down if they have access
to such bath daily.
The garden was, of course, well pre-
pared before planting; now follow up
with frequent light-stirring of the soil,
being particular to run over it as soon
after showers as the surface becomes
dry; this method will save moisture for
the use of the crop, instead of permit
ting it to be stolen by wind and weeds.
ooHe men lnlHh tuey Gun not auOfd
to 'putter" with "garden-sass" and
small fruits, because they are not to
be sold for cash like corn and hogs.
Well, it is in the bringing up, largely;
farmers enjoy these things as well as
other people, they know they save
cash aud preserve the health of the
family, but some were not properly
taught when young and it is hard to
take hold now. Heed the lesson, and
teach the boys and girls to take an in
terest in the "small things" of the
farm. .-Epitomist
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

Satan's Wants-Intcmperance Docs Not
Anect Mans Physical Nature Alone
But Destroys Self-Respect and All
Sense of Personal onor-DrinIt's Slave
Johnson, the drunkard is dying to-day,
With traces Of sin on his face;
He'll be missed at the club, at the bar, mt
the play,
Wanted-a boy In his place.
Simmonds, the gamble, was killed in fight.
He died without pardon or grace;
ONE one must train for his burden and
blight.
Wanted-a boy in his place.
The scoiTer, the convict the idier, the thief,
Are lost, and without any noise,
Make II known, that there come TO my liz
stant relief
Some thousand or more Of the boys.
Boys from the flreside, boys from the farm,
Boys from the home and the school,
Come, leave your misgiving, there can be
no harm
Where drink and be merry" is the rule.
Wanted, for every lost servant OF mine,
Some one to live without grace,
Some one to die without pardon divine,
VIII you be the boy for the placer
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

Since 1868 the United States has i'm
ported 1900, 900, 900 worth of cut dia-
monds, with duty of ten per cent.
The rough stones could not have cost
more than one-half, and had the cut
ting been done in this country 5000
men could have been employed at a
yearly salary of $1,000. 1t may be
noted that the United States is the ulti-
mate home of from one-third to one
half the worlds product of gems.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
Alcohol and self.NIurder.

At the recent international congress Of
Psychology DR.. Muller gave an interesting
historical sketch of the etiology Of self
murder, and, by means of an elaborate
series Of statistics, traced to alcohol the
primary cause of its marked increase of late
years. The author estimates the number
Of suicides in Europe Mt so 900 year thus
showing that the evil is increasing at q
greater rate than the population. The
largest number of suicides take place in
June, the smallest in December Early
morning is chosen in preference to the night
while the mechanic class furnishes the
largest number of subjects and the peasant
the least. DR.. Muller considers brandy the
most pernicious form Of alcohol, and traces
to its influence the bunting of those
weapons which in the struggle for life are
the most necessary to sustain the conflict.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
Doe-whips nm Ar,rotor.

That-n dog may best an alligator APP
pears by the experience of Hon. d. b.
Stuart, of Victoria, Fla. His dog was
swimming in lake there, when Mr..
Stuart, seeing gator coming, called
to the dog to come ashore. The dog
started, but the alligator was gaining,
when the dog turned and seized it.
Both went down, but the dog came up
unframed, and the alligator with a
lacerated lower Jaw.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
A Drummer's Testimony.

One OF the highest-salarled travelling
men making Kansas was talking with a
Wichita reporter the other day OF the
prohibition law OF Kansas, and said: 81
make all the towns In eastern Kansas and
western Missouri, and l want 10 say that
all this talk Of prohibition hurting bust
ness is all farce. L sell more goods and d
better quality In Kansas towns than dc
In Missouri, and my patrons are better
pay They need not tell me that the peo.
pie Of a town have to guzzle beer in order
to have prosperous business. When the
people Of a town spend their money foI
beer, they don't have 50 much TO spend IN
nv line"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
The Pig in summer.

In warm weather sows and pigs
should be given wider range. When
grass starts, the pen should be open
upon a yard where fresh grass and ac-
cess to fresh soil can be had as freely
as the pigs desire. There is nothing
like roofing, aud the roots and grubs
that pigs get thereby, to keep them
in good health, aud if well fed they
will not do more roofing than is best
for the soil to clear it of insect enc
mics to all crops, either in the orchard
or in the pasture field.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
A Medical Expert on Alcohol.

DR.. A. Baer, a royal medical counsellor
and admittedly 1.-THE best informed man on
alcohol" says: "Alcohol is not food in
the sense that il gives one the power OF
endurance or preserves strength and
health Instead of being preventive OF
malaria, cholera, and other diseases, alco-
hol actually predisposes one to those evils.
The mental and moral effects OF alcoholism
are beyond description terrible. alcohol
destroys the individuality of men, para
lyzes energy and makes the individual q
slave OF his passions.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
Fenthered weather Prophets.

A wet season is predicted by many,
based on the action of the robins in
selecting a covered or sheltered place
for building their nests The birds
have sought localities under piazzas,
caves and in buildings rather than in
trees this spring, and people who have
watched such things in the past assert
that the birds make no mistake, and
that every year when they have built
nests in covered locations there has
been an excess of wet weather. Pine
Hill Optic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

The saloon is sims chief agent, the DEVILS
head servant.
The licensed liquor-seller Is a legalized
disturber Of the public peace.
The butcher kills meat for fool, but tho
saloonist sells drink TO xiii man.
Drink is the great curse Of modern
civilization. II blocks the way of every
thing that is good.
SaloOn-keeping is a leading industry. II
leads its victims TO the grave and to hell,
and their wives and children to disgrace,
poverty and misery.
The grog-shop is the pirate Of commerce,
the destroyer OF industry, the robber OF
every legitimate business, and should be
opposed by every worker.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

In Paris the houses are very high
and the streets narrow. In London
the houses sre low and the streets
broad. The Paris cabman turns to
the right and the London cabby to the
left. The former sits always on the
box in front of his vehicle. The latter
is often perehed behind it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

Gunpowdnr was invented by Berth
oldus or Michael Schwartz, a Cordelier
monk Of Goslar, south Of Brunswick,
in Germany, about 1920. But some
maintain that it was known earlier,
Some say the Chinese and Hindoos
possessed il centuries before.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

The new electric fire truck which has
been made for Springfield. Mass, has
been given q practical test and was in
every way a success. It required one
and half minutes TO load and one and
quarter minutes to unload steamer
from the truck and il is expected that
this time will be improved upon.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

Aliens Foot Ease, a powder for the feet: It
cures painful. swollen, smarting feet, and In
stantly takes the sting out Of cOrns and bun.
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery OF
the age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tght-ft-
ting or new shoes feel easy. IL is n certain
cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired. ach-
ing feet. Try IL to-day. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores. BY mail for PC. in stamps.
Trial package FREE Address, Allen :. Ohm.
stcd, lie Roy. n. Y.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

An italian peddler from whom
New York policeman demanded a IL
cense showed confidently certificate
Of discharge from Sing Sing Prison,
which he said he bought, believing it
vas n license.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

The annual consumption of sugar
per head of the population is eighteen
pounds in Germany, twenty-six in
France and Switzerland, forty-four in
the United States and sixty in Eng
lnnd
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

1t was in 1747 that German chem
ist named Marggraf discovered that
sugar could be made from beets; but
the beet sugar industry did not begin
till half q century later.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use Of DIR. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free
DIR. II. II. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch St. Phila., Pa,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

To stayt an ostrich farm in Cali
fornia one needs capital of at least
$l5.0
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

S. X. Coburn Mgr. Clarie Scott, writes: 81
find Halls Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy"
Druggists sell it, I5c
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

After physicians had given me up, was
saved by Piso's Cure.-RALPH ERIEG, VII.
Transport, Pa Nov. - 1Sg3.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

st. Vitus' Dance. One bottle DR.. Fenuer's
Specific cures. Circular, Fredonia, n. Y.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

Ifahlictedwith sore eyesuse DR.. Isaac Thomp-
son'e Eye-water Druggists sell at25c. per bottle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21

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to Mrs. N howsh vase cured:
A8s&#fsA 81 have taken Lydia vegetab
pound and think it
the world 81 thought
could not live had
MRkf - lapus uteri leucorrhea Twas
- ing into consumption fan thought
SGfHa~ would die Ihad dragging pains back
@ :: !: s.
NHSME sensation down
MLMH&f$I but
Nk%E$JSA when heard OF
EMHA-A got bottle. did not but
NJ - thought would try it, u ncww womano Of
could land
could do'MRs Bakers
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-07-21
THE HEAT PLAGUE OF AUGUST, 1896.
Mrs Ptnhams Explanation of Number of Deatl
Women

bASNAN hS"V PiHEuO VI mug uoOs 1o5O
lesson. One could not fail to notice in
the dead throughout this country, that Sc
the victims were women in their thirties,
women between forty-fve and fifty.
The women who succumbed to the pro-
tracted heat were women whose energies
were exhausted by sufferings peculiar to
their sex; women who, taking no thought
of themselves, or who, attaching no inn
portance to first symptoms, allowed their
female system to become run down.
Constipation, capricious appetite, restless
forebodings of evil, vertigo, languor, and
ness, especially in the morning, an itchi
sensation which suddenly attacks one
night, or whenever the blood becomes
overheated, are all warnings. Don't wait
too long to build up your strength, that
is now n positive necessity Lydia e.
PinlShams Vegetable Compound has spe-
cifc curative powers. You cannot do better
than to commence q course of this grand
nf fircf
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-08-29
THEIR WORK DONE.
Pleasure Will Occupy the Remain
ing Time of the Pharmacists

The pharmacists held their last gem
eral session yesterday at Hotel Lafay-
cite. Odds and ends of business, such
as the installation of newly elected Of
ficers and the selection of the date Of
the next years convention at Balti-
more, consumed considerable time, but
in Importance yielded to reports from
two committees not yet heard from, the
committee on national legislation and
that Of the delegates to the last years
national convention of the American
Medical association.
The report on national legislation was
really the work of a special committee
of three of the most prominent mem
bers Of the national organization, DR..
Stewart, of Detroit; Prof Ebert of
Chicago, and w. S. Thompson, of Wash
ington. These three men planned and
carried on the campaign which defeat
ed the proposed tax on wood alcohol
in the senate, and their report told the
story.
Wood alcohol is not a beverage, but
serves very useful purpose in COM
merce and the arts and in certain
processes of chemical manufacture 1t
is quite as valuable for these objects as
grain alcohol, and of late years has
almost entirely supplanted the latter.
This invasion of what they Were
pleased to consider their own particu-
lar territory by virtue of prior occupa-
ton led the distillers of the cereal prod
Uct to back the attempt to bring wood
alcohol under the internal revenue
laws. Facing such opposition the com
mittee went to Washington, and after
most stubborn resistance won out
The committee on>legislation reported
also in favor@of dismissing liquors and
all alcoholic beverages from the United
States pharmacopoeia, but this sugges-
ton was not accepted, for the conven-
ton in it's sessions the other dav de-
clared that it would be foolish to de-
prive valuable agencies of their place
in the pharmacopoeia, even though
viewed as dangerous in character.
The third point was Of special sig
nif1cance, that of trademarks and pat
ents. The suggestion of the committee
was that congress be petitioned to
make some amendment of the present