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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-12-15

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There is gold in the KionIj eand fish in the sea,
That caught and never will be-
Pearls found in Arkansas green fields far away,
They will prove but mirage to lead You asray.
Do you to be wise and lead neighbors about,
Then 60 to the RACKET and trade those folks OUT
Their stock. lis assorted and Of every degree,
From a common tin plate to arts iligree;
They keep lace, embroidery ribbons and hats
The latter assorted from the TaNs to the fats
Mems socks, ladies' hose and hose for the misses,
Pins needles and thread, and darts for the tresses,
Caiicoes, ginghams, domestic and Dixie chambray,
Cheviots, outing dress goods in coors and gray
We're headquarters for glassware, crockey and TIM
Twill pay you to buy small wares to fill ill.,
There's many lady who's married and all,
Who knows where to purchase in the spring and the tall
Many needed articles we buy from Rouss
atcan't be dispensed with when cleaning the house.
We keep shoes for tho men, ladies, misses and boys
AL sizes and prices, subject to no tariff laws
Mems pants that made SO bull dog can't rip,
With wide flowing legs to make Sambo look flip.
Mems hats 5anl mems caps-the same for the boys
We vato sell before Christmas, not forgetting the toys
Ladies' vests mems shirts of every description,
We're selling them out without any restriction
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-12-15
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04

The Wisconsin Experiment Station
is authority for the following:
l. That it seems clear that the
quantity of milk given by COW is
quite easily influenced by the amount
and kinds of food used in the ration.
2. That although there are few
notable exceptions, the weight of the
evidence seems to warrant the state.
ment that the individuality of the COW
is the main factor in determining the
composition of the milk, while the food
has very little, or at least, a very un-
certain effect upon it.
3. That the effect of the food on the
churnability of the cream is unimpor-
tant.
4. That certain foods impart to the
milk and its products peculiar flavors,
although it is uncertain how far skill
in feeding may avoid these Havors.
5. That the hardness aud color of
the butter are varied by certain
changes in the food.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
First sunday-school in the World.

In recounting the ministrations OF
John Wesley in Georgia, where the
famous preacher sowed the first seeds
of Methodism in America, the Rev. w.
j. Scott, d. D., in the Ladies' Home
Journal, claims that Wesley estab.
lished the first Sunday school in the
world, at Savannah. In connection
with his other labors, which were in.
deed prodigious, Wesley soon after his
arrival in Georgia, in 1876, began to
provide for the Sunday-school instruc.
tion of the children of the parish. His
| devotion to children at times almost
amounted to infatuation. Children
were likewise equally attached to him,
as shown in their intercourse with him.
Both on week days and Sabbaths he
gave no little attention to educational
work. AS preliminary labor on the
Sabbath, before the evening service, he
required them to convene in the church,
at which time he catechised them
thoroughly and furnished them with
additional teaching from the Bible
itself.
in the present Wesleyan Memorial
Church, in Savannah, Georgia, there
is Sunday-school room into which
hundreds of children crowd for Sun
day instruction. The original school
was less in number, but it was un-
questionably the first Sunday school
in the world, When taught by Wes-
ley it numbered between sixty and
seventy-five scholars, but from all ac-
counts there were few, if any, Indian
boys in his earlier classes. A very
high authority, Sir Charles Reed, NJ.
p, LII. D., of England, is clearly of
the opinion that this Sunday school
was the first founded in the world, and
that it antedates by half century the
secular instruction of Robert Raikes
at Gloucester, England, as we'll as the
first school in America upon Rakes'
plan, which was established in the city
of New York"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Use Color JudIcIousIy.

There are colors that are refreshing
and broadening, others that absorb
light and give a boxed-up appearance
with a bleak, northern exposure, or
with no exposure at all, appear bright
and cheerful; some that make room
appear warm, some that make it cold.
The thermometer seems to fall six
degrees when you walk into blue
room. Yellow is an advancing color;
therefore a room fitted up in yellow
will appear smaller than it is.
On the other hand, blue of GER
tain shade introduced generously into
a room will give an idea of space.
Red makes no difference in regard to
size. Green makes very little
If bright, sunny room gets its
light from o space obtruded upon by
russet-colored or yellow painted
houses, or else looks out upon a stretch
of green grass, it should be decorated
in color very different from the
shade chosen if the light comes from
only an uubroken expanse of sky.
Red brings out in q room whatever
hint of green turks in the composition
of the other colors employed.
Green needs sunlight to develop
the yellow in it and make it seem
cheerful
II olive or red brown be used in con-
junction with mahogany furniture, the
effect is very different from what it
would be if blue were used Blue
would develop the tawny orange lurk-
ing in the mahogany.
If n ceiling is to be made higher,
leave it light, that it may appear to
recede. Deepening the color used on
the ceiling would make it lower-an
effect desirable if the room is small
and the ceiling very high. Various
tones of yellow are substitutes for
sunlight. THE Upholsterer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Poisoning NTolea.

For years we tried in vain to check
the ravages of those pesky little fell
lows by the use of various vegetable
products, such as corn soaked in pois-
on and dropped in their burrows,
writes H. e. Tweed. We met little
success and now it develops that the
mole is not a vegetarian but feeds
nearly altogether on insects, such as
grubs, earthworms, etc. This conclu-
sion was reached by the examination
of the stomachs of number of speci-
mems. Hereafter we will procure in.
sects of various kinds aud after soak
ing them in solution of water and
arsenic will drop them in roads where
it is hoped that our moleship will find
his death.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04

In 1867 new shoal was discovered
in the group of the Tonga, or Friendly
Islands. In 1877 smoke was seen
over the shoal. In 1886 the shoal had
become volcanic island, more than
two miles long and 240 feet high, and
fierce eruption was taking place
within il. In 1886 the island had be-
gun to shrink in Dimensions. although
the next year its highest point was 1876
feet above sea level. In 1889 its
height had diminished one-half, and
the ocean close around it was more
than a mile deep. In 1892 the island
rose only twenty five feet above sea
level. According to the latest infor-
nation its complete disappearance, un-
der the action of the waves, will not
be long delayed.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
A Gameeock Fights His Image.

One of the gamest gamecocks in st.
Louis, No, gave a chance audience O
rare treat. He fought his image to o
finish. By chance n mirror had been
left in the back yard at the corner OF
Jefferson avenue and Pine street. The
cock was strutting about the yard
looking for trouble when suddenly he
came face to face with his image in
the glass. His fighting blood was up.
At last he had met bird that he con.
sidered worthy of his prowess. He
eyed the supposed enemy critically.
His anger grew as the image Knocked
him. The feathers began TO rise on
his neck and in another instant he
made lunge at the glass. Picking
himself up from the ground, where he
had been doubled in heap, he backed
off few PAGES. The cowardly image
also backed away aud Knocked him
He made lunge after lunge at the
glass, each time backing away thor
oughly surprised. Finally he got
tired Of retreating aud began a fierce
face to face contest with himself. He
fought until he fell from sheer exhaus
tion.-New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04

A novel insurance company has been
organized, and is already doing a large
business in this city insuring dogs
against loss, stealing or impounding.
This is done by registering the dog
with this company, with its full descrip-
ton, and receiving tag to be worn
with the city license tag.
The company has man at each
pound to release any dog bearing such
tag and return it Immediately TO the
owner. This is great advantage, as
dogs often contract diseases in such a
place. 1t also saves both dog and
owner much misery, anxiety, and
trouble, to say nothing of the expense
and tiresome travelling and red tape
which are necessary to rescue dog
from the pound.-Ohicago Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Value of Coal Ashes.

Some years ago, says n writer in the
National Stockman, spread a number
of loads of coal ashes thickly on part
of low, wet piece of land In the
winter this land was plowed for corn,
the ashes turned under, with the re-
suit of a marked difference in yield
where the ashes were. Next year the
same field was put in corn, an addi-
tional lot being covered with coal
ashes, and the same marked difference
was noted on the two plots. After the
second crop the bottom was sown to
wheat and grass, and while it cannot
be said that any difference was noticed
in the yield of these, after the land
had been in grass three years it was
again plowed and put in corn, and the
ash-treated places could be noticed in
the yield. Before the ashes were APP
piled the soil was heavy aud soggy;
but the following summer, in tending
the crop, marked difference was
noticed in its condition. There is no
doubt that in this latitude-southern
Obio-coal ashes are beneficial on wet
or clayey lands. There may not be
much fertilizing property in them, but
they are au excellent neutralizer and
loosener of heavy soil.-New York In.
dependent
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Doesn't Realize the Danger Point.

As n rule no young man ever paid for his
1rst drink. Did you ever think of 1t, or
what that part implies? II means that your
brother, your son or somebody's son, who
perhaps has been carefully trained, had
made acquaintances who, through n SINH
lar process had become drinkers and, at
last, either occasional or frequent visitors
to get something to steady my nerves."
The ordinarily well trained young man
will resist these invitations possibly for q
long time, but on some special outing, or
under special circumstances he accepts the
proffered "treRt"-not realizing that in SO
doing he has crossed the danger line.
Once treated he feels under a social obli-
cation to return the compliment and he is
well started on the broad highway which
is certain to end in mental and physical in
jury, but with all the probabilities Of n
happy future against him.
Indeed his chances are no better than
those of thousands have seen In the rags
OF tramps-m the ranks of embezzlers, de-
faulters and forgers-or confined in our
public institutions:
In a living grave apart from men,
The mind tormented with the might have
been"
OF wasted years, mid which the striving
soul
QuaTs bitter gall from sorrows fateful
bowl.
--Bidwell's National Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Lime for Chickens.

The following letter explains itself
and also gives the cause of the unfor-
tunate results. Whenever lime is rec.
commended for the use of chickens, or
for scattering over the floor of the hen
house to destroy lice, or over the
ground in the yard, where young
chickens range in the spring, to de-
stroy the cape worm, Stacked lime is
always meant to be used. Unslacked
lime, in contact with any moisture,
easily slacks, and IN the operation
greatly increases in bulk and produces
large amount Of heat. If in contact
with a small amount of water, heat
enough is quickly produced to burn
any animals flesh, and this is what
happened to the hens which ate the
unslacked lims and the increase in
bulk choked them. 1t is a wonder
that more were not killed. Unslacked
lime often produces heat enough in
Stacking to ignite any easily combusti.
BILE material with which it is in con.
tact.
Care should, therefore, be taken in
storing it in dry place where it is
not in contact with anything easily
burnt. 1t will slowly slack when for
a time exposed to the air.
This is Stacked lime, and is now
cool and harmless. Chickens can dust
with this and eat it without harm.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
The Cider Question,

The Temperance Cause devotes consider
able space to the cider question, and gives
the testimony Of men in different countries,
all going to show the mischevous influ-
ences of the cider mill. In these are some
very strong statements, which 1t would be
well for any who have doubts as to the
righteousness of prohibiting its sale to
read. The editor OF the Temperance Cause,
Rev. Mr.. Noon, says editorially:
"We wage no war against the orchard.
The apple Is easily our leading fruit and
will be for century. 1t is healthful, and
has no substitute, raw or cooked. There
are many legitimate uses for the juice Of
apples. Boiled down into thin syrup,
say one-fourth its volume, 1t does not fer
ment, and is extremely useful for pies and
sauce. Reduced TO jelly, nothing can be
finer for a relish. The poorer fruit may be
fed freely to stock. Many farmers claim
that the fruit, properly administered,
makes excellent milk or beef, and needs no
more skill In feeding than cotton seed. 1t
is an open question whether the decayed
apples are not of considerable value as a
fertilizer particularly in sandy soil. Al
most the only decent vinegar is made from
cider"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
A Four.pollnr Cold Piece.

A curiosity in the shape of 81 gold
piece was offered at the sub-treasury
in Cincinnati. This is probably the
first time in the history of the Office
that a coin of that denomination was
ever beheld by the attaches. The
coin came from the Fifth National
Bank, to which one of the depositors
had taken it to find out how much it
was worth. The tellers at the bank
were unable to decide the question,
and the coin was sent to Uncle Sans
employees in the Federal Building, but
no one there would accept it for the
Treasury for its face value.
Coin Teller Robert Brasher, who is a
numismatist of considerable repute, as
well as Teller White, who is consid-
cred one of the most expert counter
felt detectors in the country, and
Cashier Stout, said that they had
never heard of the Government coin
ing a piece of money of that denomina-
ton, and that they would not accept it
even at its face value. The tables Civ
ing the coinage of money from the
earliest date to the present time were
lookedup but there was no record of
the Government ever having coined a
81 gold piece. The coin that was pre-
sented was placed on the scales and
was found to weigh 108 2-10 grains,
making it worth about twenty cents
more than its face value.
The description of the coin is as
follows: 1t is almost the size of So
gold piece. On the face around the
outer edge are the words: Omitted
States of America. just underneath
this, in small type, are the words; "E
Pluribus Unum." In the center is a
star bearing the following: Zone
stella, 400 cents. F" Underneath the
star, in small letters, are the words
"Deo est Gloria" On the diverse
side, in the centre, is head of the
Goddess of Liberty. Above this on
the outer edge are thirteen small stars.
Between the stars are the following
letters and figures: 6, G, 3, S, Z, G,
7, G., r, A, NJ, 8. Underneath the
head is the date-1s79. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Strange CIew TO a Murder.

A rich Russian banker had been
discovered murdered in his house in
st. Petersburg, says a writer in the
Green Bag There was no clew, but
in the room there was found cigar
mouth piece containing part of cigar
of such an expensive kind that it was
supposed the banker himself had been
smoking it just before the crime had
been committed.
On close examination the mouth.
piece was found to be worn away by
the teeth of its owner, but the dead
mans teeth did not fit the indentation.
The servants were one by one ex.
amined, and it was then found that
the hollows of the mouthpiece com.
pared exactly to the formation of the
front teeth of the cook, to whom NO
suspicion had been attached. He af.
terward confessed to the murder.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
A PhvsIcIan,a Advice.

DR.. Dash, n successful physician In the
West, returned to his old home lately after
long absence, and visited the college in
which he had been educated. Twenty
years ago." he said TO group OF students,
"I graduated in this hall There were
eighteen men In my class. or the eighteen.
six drank habitually while at college. Not
TO excess, but regularly glass or two
each day. Not one OF these men has sue
ceeded In attaining fortune, reputation, or
even respectable position. But they were
among the ablest men In the class.
"While at college l was I'm the habit OF
frequenting the daily newspaper Office
here. There were ten men in it-editors
and reporters-I knew them ala lot of
bright, jolly fellows. The work was hard,
the hours late, the meals irregular. Every
man in the Office drank but one, reporter,
Ben Perry. One ofthe reporters told me he
had seen Ben come from fire at two
O'Clock in the morning, drenched to the
skin and tired out. He would look visit
fully at the whisky bottle, but he never
touched 1t. / inquired for the boys to-day.
Three had died from drinking; six were
holding inferior positions In newspaper
offices. Habits bad, said my informant
They could not make their way, and 10 fell
lower and lower. Perry's head was always
clear. and he was regular at his work. He
is editor-in-chief of one of the principal
newspapers in q sea-board city. He had
not half the natural ability Of at least three
of the others
"These are facts" said the doctor. 81
advise you who are beginning life to con-
slider them. have not a word to say about
the moral question involved IN drinking.
But know, as a physician, that no Amerl-
can with his nervous organization In this
wearing climate can habitually take liquor
without injury to his health and without,
in greater or less degree, hindering his
chance Of success"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
SCROFULA CURED
A Military Guild.


The Mohammedan population of the
Turkish Empire has been very aptly
compared to an immense religious con-
fraternity; it is, in fact, vast military
guild or brotherhood, according to the
author of the Sultan and His Subjects,
bound to obey the commands of its su.
preme chiefs, the Sheik-ul-Islam and
the Sultan. Every Turk ought, in q
certain sense, to be priest and war
rior. Remembering this fact, we can
readily understand the ease with which
the spirit of fanaticism is reused in
those portions of the empire where the
Turks are in the majority, and the fe-
rocity with which an otherwise docile
and somewhat Indifferent natured peo-
pie will behave under the influence of
what 1 may call religious intoxication. "
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Rcnl Rcst md Comfort.

There is powder TO be shaken into the
shoes called Aliens Foot Ease, invented by
Allen S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y, which
druggists and shoe dealers say is the best
thing they have ever sold to cure sore and
tender or aching feet. Some dealers claim
that il makes tight or new shoes feel easy.
II certainly will cure corns and bunions and
relieve instantly sweating, hot or smarting
feet. 1t costs only quarter, and the invent
or will send a sample free to any address.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
steam Pilot Boats.

.ne pilots Of Sandy Hook are about
TO adopt the use of steam for the first
time. They have always a prejudice
in favor of sailing vessels, although
several of the Southern ports have had
steam pilot boats for many years. The
new steamer being built for the New
York pilots at Wilmington is entirely
of steel, 155 feet long, nineteen feet
seven inches deep and twenty -five-foot
beam, with Accommodations for twenty.
five persons. She will be able to make
twelve miles an hour.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
ExnerIments WIth AIeohoi on Ikittens.

A series of experiments by @. +. Hodge,
described before the American Physiologi-
cal Society is reported in Popular Science,
Alcohol In moderate doses was given 20
pair Of kittens. At the end OF ten days they
contracted severe colds, while the other
two kittens were in good condition. The
alcoholic pair attained only thirty nine per
cent. and sixty-three per cent. of the weight
Of the non-alcoholic pair OF two pairs Of
spaniels the alcoholic pair weighed less,
and, as tested by the pedometer, developed
only seventy-one and 1fty-seyen per cent.
of the activity of the normal pair. In
chasing after and bringing balls the etii-
ciency Of the former amounted to only
thirty-tWo and forty-four per cent
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Bermuda Lily Bulbs.

In 1896, Bermuda lily bulbs were
exported to the United States to the
value of over 100000. The quantity
shipped in 1896 fell but little short of
that shipped in 1895, but the value
was only half the business of the for
mer year, when a syndicate was in
control of the situation putting up
prices to an abnormal level. The
population of Bermuda is 10000
American Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
Caught Mink and Trout Both.

A few days ago Mr.. and Mrs. Cum
ningham, of Kineo, Me-, went in 0
canoe fishing ON the Moose River,
where Mr.. Cunningham hooked a big
trout. After considerable effort he got
the fish to the side of the boat and
Mrs. Cunningham slid a net under it,
aud just as she did so a mink leaped
from the shore after the trout and
landed in the net, in which the trout
and mink became badly entangled, re-
quiring over an hour to separate them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
oERMANs use OUR eIcYcLEs.
Manufacturers in That Country Are WOr-
ried by the Competition.

Charles De Kay, our Consul General at
Berlin, states in letter to the State De-
partment that bicycles of American make
are selling so extensively in Germany that
badly worried.
The League of Industrials at Bochum, a
manufacturing centre, has petitioned the
German Government to raise the rates on
American wheels.
The reason given by Mr.. De Kay for the
big sale OF the American bicycles is that
they are the strongest, lightest, soundest
and most elegant in shape They have
quite taken the field, he says, from Belgian,
Austrian and British wheels.