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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
Household Hints.

Never boil anything that can be
cooked by steaming.
Never wash poultry or meat. Wipe
them clean with damp towel.
To remove the smell of fish from the
hands, put little turpentine in with
the water and soap.
To remove all the grease from the
top of soup after having skinned it
with q skinner lay piece of porous
brown paper on top. 1t will absorb
every particle of grease.
After gas has been burning in a
room for some time, change the air by
opening a door or window for a few
moments. Scientists say that an
ordinary gas Jet consumes as much
oxygen in given time as four human
beings.
Tincture of myrrh dropped into
as a mouth or throat wash. 1t hardens
the gums, leaves a clean taste in the
mouth and a pleasant odor in the
breath. Ten drops of myrrh may be
allowed to a glass of water.
Boiling is the most abused branch
of cookery; the average cook boils
things that sh Juld be prepared other
wise, just through laziness. 1t is too
much trouble to learn how TO cook any
other way. Never boil anything fast,
and use as little water as possible.
Feather busters are only for orna-
fhapn TToa cOff
old cloths for busters, and begin at
the top of the piece .of furniture and
dust down. If the furniture will per-
NIT, use a cloth slightly damp. A cloth
with little kerosene oil on it is good
for all wood furniture.
Children should be encouraged to
gather and press wild flowers, ferns
and grasses, learning both the com
mon and scientific names, thus train
ing them to an acquaintance and love
OF nature. They should also become
acquainted with the birds they see in
summer, learning their names, notes
ane habits.
A hot bath is usually decried, as
provocative of colds and other evils.
/ Every one knows OF cases OF severe
illness occurring from exposure to the
/ outer air soon after such ablutions
/ And yet nothing is more refreshing
as nothing is more harmless. if pro
perly taken. This means that one
should use the hot bath as one does
that of very cold water, merely as {
plunge, followed by quick and thor
ough rubbings and massage.
After using the wringer the screv
should be loosened, that the cylinder
may not become Aattened, the cog
wiped dry and then wiped over with
cloth wet in kerosene. This will
clean them. If the machine work
hard, pour a little kerosene over tn
cog wheels and turn the machin
several times, then wipe the cogs wit,
clean cloth. After this put fey
drops of machine oil on the eogs an
work the wringer for few moments.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
Eggs That Don't Hatch.

"I have been experimenting lately
on the eggs from certain hens, to find
out if there is any great difference in
the way they hatch, their vitality, etc,
aud have been greatly interested in
the discoveries. The eggs from the
abnormally fat hens seldom hatch
The chicken usually dies on or about
the twelfth day of incubation. When
an egg matches day or two in advance
of time, one usually concludes that it
was quite fresh when put in, but 1
now find that it is the eggs from the
active and most healthy hens that
break the shells first.
Give eggs from little game hen,
which were all over five days old,
were the first to hatch. Invariably
the egg from the sleepy, lazy hen
matches late. Out of twenty-seven
hens whose eggs 1 experimental with
1 found two quite sterile. They both
lay fine, large eggs of good shape and
shell, but though 1 must have tried
a dozen of their eggs, not one has
ever had sign of a chicken. / have
even mated them with different roost-
ers, but without avail; and, strange
to say, they are the worst tempered
hers in the yard, always quarreling
and beating the others. ."-Fanciers'
Gazette
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

The kiss, we are told, was formula
of good will among the. ancient
Romans and was adopted by the early
Christians, whose 'holy kiss" and
"kiss of charity" carried the weight
of apostolic sanction.
Kisses admit of great variety of
character and there are eight diversi-
ties mentioned in the Scripture. It is
a sign of reverence and in order TO SET
sacred seal upon their vows the
witnesses in q court of law, when
they are called upon to speak 'the
truth, the whole truth aud nothing
but the truth, are required to touch
the Bible with their lips, rs also are
soldiers when they enlist and make
the oath of allegiance to Queen Vic
toria.
Men in uncivilized regions kiss the
feet of q superior or the ground in
front of him, and in ancient times TO
press the lips to the knee or the hem
of garment was TO humbly implore
protection. The Maoris have adopted
the custom of kissing, but the natives
of West Africa refuse TO do so, and APP
parently that which is a medium OF so
much pleasure TO many nations fills
them with dislike.
The pleasant old Christmas custom
of kiss under the mistletoe is n relic
of Morse mythology. Baldur, the
beautiful god of light, was slain by a
spear whose shaft was a mistletoe
twig. This was bewitched by Loki,
the malevolent god of fire, until it
swelled to the requisite size aud was
given by him to Hodur, who threw it
and unintentionally struck Baldur
when the gods were at play. Friga
had made everything in heaven and
earth swear not to harm Baldur, but
had left out the mistletoe as being too
slight and weak to be of harm. Bal
dur, however, was restored to life and
Friga guarded the mistletoe, which
the gods determined should not
again have power to do any mischief
unless it touched the earth For this
reason it is always hung from the cell
ing and the vigilant goddess propitiat-
ed by the kiss, sign of good will. -
Chicago News.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
DimcuIt Navigation,

It was a vexed question in 1890
whether the Pilcomayo River, which
flows for hundreds of miles from the
Bolivian Andes to the Paraguay,
might be used as a commercial high
way from Bolivia to the ocean, says a
writer in Harper's Round Table. Our
countryman, Captain Page, settled
this question so conclusively that no
further effort to utilize the Pilcomayo
is likely to be made; and in this work,
that cost him his life, for he died of
his privntions after being hemmed in
for months by hostile Indians, he de-
vised n plan for steaming up river
when the water was so low that his
vessel was stuck in the mud He was
determined to go still further, though
his little steamer, which drew only
eighteen inches, rested on the river
bottom; so behind the boat he threw
up an embaukment of earth clear
across the channel, backed it with
palm trunks aud brushwood and be-
fore long the water had risen q couple
of. feet and the little Bolivia was able
to go on her way four miles before she
stuck again. Then another dam was
built, and this process was repeated
seven times, aud with the aid of the
dams tho vessel advanced about
thirty-fve miles above the highest
point she could reach at the natural
low water stage.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

Good celery-or we may say first
class celery-cannot be obtained with
out an abundance of water, for the
plant is naturally citizen of swamps.
1t is always best, therefore, TO set the
plants in shallow bitches, so that wa
ter can be more easily collected; and
it is also very fond of high living,
consequently no well prepared manure
is too rich for it, The quality of mar
ket celery has fallen off somewhat OF
late years, chiefly through the culti-
vators treating it to surface culture.
When planted in the latter way there
is not the same advantage for blanch-
ing as when set in trenches. II is
much easier to let down earth than it
is to raise 1.-THE Silver Knight.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

ous plants which they cultivate and
the remedies therefor.
Robbing frequently occurs at the
end of the honey season, as in swarm
ing colonies frequently become queen
less, and sooner or later they will fall
n prey to robbers. II colonies are in
proper condition in every respect rob
bing seldom occurs.
Beeswax is valuable product, and
every particle of comb should be saved
aud rendered into wax. The price of
beeswax has not fallen below twenty
five cents per pound for the last twenty
years. The solar wax extractor, which
can be made very cheaply, should
stand in every apiary.
In the planting of windbreaks the
Nebraska station has found that the
western grower needs protection chief
ly on the south and west, since it is
from that direction that the most
damaging winds come. The eastern
grower needs protection on the west
and north for like reasons.
If obliged to keep apples and pota-
toes in the same apartment, store the
apples in the cooler and the potatoes
in the warmer portions of the cellar.
Very many apples are lost every year
by being kept too warm. They are
best preserved in temperature main
tanned close to the freezing point
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

Select large smelts; they are the
best. Have them split down the
backs and we'll cleaned. Then remove
the backbone. Rub each fish with a
little pure olive oil or a little sweet,
melted butter. Sprinkle them with
salt and a very little pepper. Then
broil them in double broiler for two
or three minutes on each side. Lay
each smelt on a nicely Drowned slice
of toast; put little feck of butter on
each one. Garnish the platter on
which they are served with wreath
of parsley and serve the smelts while
very hot with tartar sauce, which
is a thick mayonnaise with some
chopped capers, little grated onion
and a dash of red pepper stirred
through it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
Farm and Garden Notes.

The goose lays a score or two OF eggs
in year.
From thirty-fye to forty ducks and
brakes are allowed in pen.
Eleven dozen eggs a year is the
average estimate given as the produc-
ton Of hc len.
Du"klings are marketed at five
pounds weight, which they should at
tain in ten weeks.
The secret of large honey crops is,
strong colonies aud plenty of room for
the bees to store honey.
Each frame of comb in hive should
occupy one and half inches of space,
and in spacing the frames it should be
done with exactnSss.
In 100 parts of the yolk, fifty-two
per cent. is water, forty-fve per cent.
is oil and fat, and one per cent. each
of albuminoids, coloring and mineral
matter.
Peach trees may be examined fol
borers as late as the weather hold.
good, and ifnot yet attended to Should
not be neglected longer, Do not per
init these grubs TO winter in the trees.
If two or more swarms cluster to
gether, do not hive them thus, bu
hunt out the queens aud divide them
/ especially if they are first swarms anC
large ones. Valuable queens are thu
saved by so doing.
If properly kept and iudiciously ap
piled to land, poultry manure is wortl
One-half the cost of the food the fow
gets, and yet little account is taken o
the droppings when an estimate i
made of the profits.
A very profitable field of investiga
ton for farmers the coming winte
will be to learn all they can about th,
] insect and other enemies Of the yari
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
The Old Farm.

The following beautiful composition
is from the pen of Jean G. Wiley, in
the National Stockman and Farmer:
''What a cherished spot in the
memory Of vast multitudes is the old
farmi Men who have climbed to the
topmost round of the great ladder of
fame; men who have achieved by in
dustry, self-reliance and perseverance,
success in life; many of these look
backward DER the long years to the
happy days of childhood spent on the
old farm.
"a memory fingers DER this
cherished spot, the loving face of a
good mother, the cheerful countenance
of a kind father, the bright faces of
brothers and sisters gathered round
the old freside, soften the heart and
bring tears to the eyes of the strong
est men.
"a sweet influence of such home
is like flower that never dies, but
sheds its sweet perfume all through
life, aud reblossoms anew in eternity.
''It is said that in order to be sue
cessful in any pursuit one must first
learn to overcome difficulties. 1t was
on the farm where most statesmen en-
countered and overcame difficulties.
A boy on the old farm has an oppor.
tunity to learn this important lesson
without meeting many of the tempta-
tions incident to the life of city boy. As
we live in an age of progress, the farm
of to-day bears but little resemblance
to the farm of fifty years ago. 1t now
requires an educated man to make a
prosperous farmer.
Zone who has spent his happy
childhood on the old farm, received
an education and went abroad, plunged
into cares and hustle of city life, in
after years revisits the old farm. All
the old familiar spots, as the meadow,
orchard and old-fashioned well, with
its covered bucket, recall scenes
which seemed long since forgotten.
Pictured on memory's wall are the
faces of loved ones, those of father,
mother, brother, sister and dearest
friend, as they were in boyhood's
days. They are all gone. Some are
! dead, others are toiling or roaming il
different parts of the world; and as h'
sits and meditates upon the past, h,
longs once more to be that free-from
care, light-hearted boy, roaming ovel
the meadows and woodlands of the ole
farm, that he once was. He nov
realizes, more fully than ever, how
vain are the hopes of life.
''The old farm house is filed will
strangers, and he, feeling wiser an
better by his visit to the old farm
returns to the tolls and cares of cit
life. "
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
TAUGHT BY TOUCH.
A Little Blind Girls Wonderful Ability &c
Do Many Things.

n
DO Many Things.
Deprived of her sight, hearing and
ability to speak, little Ruby Rice is
able to do many things that other chill
dren do, and she extracts much enjoy
ment out of life. She is ten years old,
and lives with her mother in the vii
lage of Wyatt, Ellis County, Texas,
She owes her unfortunate condition to
an attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis,
complicated with spotted fever, which
nearly took her life when she was two
years old. The same epidemic of
fever made her mother a widow and
carried away one of her brothers.
As is usual with blind people, the
child has q wonderful sense of touch.
She also seems to have sixth sense
which enables her to know stranger
is in the house, or when any one is
about to depart. She can find things
readily and moves about the premises
with ease.
Ruby can thread a needle almost as
rapidly as a seamstress whose sight is
good. She is fond of children and
dolls, and makes her own doll-clothes.
She not only cuts them and stitche
them together, but she sews on the
buttons and makes the buttonholes.
She will examine the clothing and
trimmings of lady visitors, and shows
wonderful faculty of copying the
style when making apparel for her
family of dolls.
Ruby can also run a sewing machine
with skill, aud she delights in thus
helping her mother. She can pick
cotton in the field, and though she
works slowly, she picks the cotton
clean. She is very fond of chickens
and can catch them without any
trouble. She takes care of her own
clothes, and quickly discovers if any
one else disarranges them or places
anything in her trunk that does not
not belong there. New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
Earning a Bequest.

Under an old bequest half a guinea
is left for an annual sermon at Ter
rington, in Norfolk, England. Ac-
cording TO the London Christian
World, nobody went to hear it last
year and the vicar took the sermon
home unpreached. The trustees
refused thereon to pay him the half
guinea. This year the sermon was
duly preached, but the trustees still
held back, protesting fear lest, tho
vicar himself being a trustee, the pay
ment might be illegal. The vicar
sued for a guinea, both for last years
sermon and this, in the Kings Lynn
County Court, and the Judge ordered
the money TO be paid. He only al
lowed half a guinea costs, however,
on the ground that the vicar ought to
have preached last year, whether
there was anybody to hear the sermon
or not.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

Cut fine well-oleaned young chick
en- of two and half or three pounds
into ten pieces. Put them into large
saucepan of boiling water for three
minutes; then drain in colander and
instantly plunge into cold water. Let
them remain five minutes.
Take out the chicken, place the
pieces in clean saucepan over the
fire; cover with boiling water. Add one
tablespoonful salt, two white onions
and bouquet. Cover and boil slow
ly till tender, then drain off the broth
and strain it. Melt two ounces of but
ter in a saucepan, add two heapiug
tablespoonfuls -four, stir and cook two
minutes. Add the chicken broth,
cook fifteen minutes, remove all the
fat from the sauce. Mix the yolk of
three eggs with half pint cream, add
ing it slowly to the gravy, and lastly
the juice of half lemon. Arrange
the chicken on hot dish, pour over
the sauce and arrange with small
croutons in q circle around the dish,
with sprigs of curled parsley between
them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
Popular Justice in bavaria.

A debate in the Bavarian Diet re-
Gently shows that in some parts of
Bavaria kind of popular justice, a
relic of the Middle Ages, is still exer-
ciscd by the people in the case of
offences which do not fall within the
pale of the ordinary law, such as usu-
ry, hagrant immortality, arbitrary con-
duct of officials, and the like. This
method of procedure, which is called
Standardization" is practised by
people who assemble with blackened
or masked faces before the offenders
house, and there create horrible din,
bowling, firing rifles, and beating pots
and kettles. Then q mock sermon,
in doggerel verse setting forth the
offence of the person concerned is re-
cited in the hearing Of the misde.
meauant. Neither person nor property
is, however, injured.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
Largest Fountain in the world.

The Anaconda Mining Company has
acquired rights to all the water in
Hearst Gulch and Lake, at Anaconda,
Montana, which are fed by the melt
ing SHOWS that exist there the entire
year. This lake lies up against Mount
Haggin, 2900 feet above the level of
the street in front of the Montana
Hotel. The company will raise the
bank about Lake Hearst so as to make
it a reservoir with capacity of nearly
a billion gallons and giving a daily
flow of four million gallons down a
slope of 5000 feet into the city.
A steel pipe line will carry this
water down six miles to Anaconda,
where another immense reservoir will
be built to receive it. This reservoir
will be 800 feet higher than the bust
ness centre of the city and quarter
of mile long. It's short line will be
irregular, lying against the hills, and
it will be beautiful sheet of water.
As a further means Of adding to the
beauty of the spot, the supply main
from Lake Hearst will terminate in q
fountain in the centre of the reservoir.
Only a portion of the enormous pres,
sure will be used. but a solid jet oi
water over three inches in diameter
will be thrown 800 feet vertically il
the air, while around the base of the
fountain will be a fringe of sprays
consisting of rows of jets rising tC
varying heights aud at different angles
The fountain, when completed, viii
be, without exception, the largest il
the world.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
now chinese raper rheIr Houses.

The Chinese at Annoy do not paper
their walls much, but they often paper
ceilings, partitions, ETC., so that a
large quantity Of paper is consumed
in that district. This paper, besides
being used for artificial flowers, is
used for clothing the human effigies
that are burned at funerals, and this
practice being general throughout
China, the amount of it consumed is
considerable. This paper is also used
for covering cardboard boxes for toys,
Jewels, medicines, buttons and sun
dries. Chicago Sunday Chronicle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

Four eggs, three pints of cream, one
box Of gelatine, six ounces of sugar,
half pint of fresh milk, flavor with
vanilla. Put the gelatine to soak in the
milk, and when ready TO make the
Charlotte de Russo, put it on the back
of the stove where it will dissolve and
keep milk-warm. Then whip your
cream and set il to drain, beat the
eggs separately, add the sugar TO the
yolks aud beat well, stir in the whites
aud add the vanilla Now as rapidly
as possible pour in the gelatine, stir
ring all the time, and dash in the
whites, still stirring Pour at once
into a mold, as it sets rapidly. When
ready to serve, decorate with whipped
cream. The secret of success lies in
the rapid mixing.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

Tam surprised to learn of Professor
Hiuebaugh's adverse experience with
millet as horse feed noted in American
Agriculturist of Move nber 13, as mine
is just the opposite. 1 fed three
horses millet from October, 1896, till
about the last of June, 1897, together
with grain ration. must say l never
had my horses do better. In fact
they rather lost flesh after feeding
timothy hay with the same amount of
grain. I am now feeding the same
horses millet aud grain and expect to
do so as long as the millet lasts, which
will be all winter at least 1 have
seen and talked with one man in this
county who has fed millet longer than
have. He raises more and more of
it every year and feeds it to all kinds
of stock. l have cut the millet quite
green, before it is all headed out
William Dougall, Schenectady County,
N. Y, in New England Homestead.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
A Good stimulant.

Yes, / admit that whisky is stimulant.
1t stimulates abnormal and vicious appe-
tite.
II stimulates unholy passion.
1t stimulates the death dyed traffic in
human virtue.
1t stimulates poverty.
1t stimulates disease.
1t stimulates depravity.
1t stimulates crime.
1t stimulates divorce.
1t stimulates the scarlet life Of the social
pitfall.
II stimulates idleness.
It stimulates indifference to wretched
surroundings.
1t stimulates profanity.
II stimulates barbarity.
IL stimulates assassination.
1t stimulates fncendiarism.
1t stimulates the animal and strangles
the human.
1t stimulates the coarse and smothers the
lne.
1t stimulates insanity.
o, Ruml thou art traitor,
A villain foul and black,
That smiles upon the victims face,
Then stabs him In the back.
w. X. Staley, in Christian Soldier.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19
A Town without a Maxor.

According to the st. James Gazette,
at Bury st. Edmunds Town Council
the deputy mayor said he had to an-
nouuce with regret that up to the pre-
sent no suitable inhabitant of the
borough had been found willing to
undertake the important duties of
Mayor for the ensuing year The
meeting would therefore be adjourned
for a month IN the hope that some one
would be forthcoming during that
time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

DR.. e. J. Puckett, Of Muucie, Ind,
has in his possession an apple that
was plucked by him thirty years ago.
Before the doctor went into the army
he planted an apple tree on the grave
of his mother, in the cemetery at
Teetersburg, Upton County, this
State. -Four years later, when ho re-.
turned home from the war, the tree
was bearing fruit, and he pulled off
one of the apples and has preserved it
ever since. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-01-19

Some people will never wake up till the
last horn blows, and then they'll ask il
that's the horn for dinner. Delays are dan
gerous and ruinous. Thousands can say IL
they hadn't put off an opportunity, they
would have been rich and happy. Some
never know they have rheumatism until
crippled by it, and all the while in pain,
thinking it will pass off. But st. Jacobs
Oil never delays, and is always wide awake.
It goes straight to its work OF cure In a
business way, and cures rheumatism in any
form and at its worst stage. It's live
remedy.