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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Salaries of Public OnicIals.

Notwithstanding the fact that
salaries of men in official life in this
country are inadequate, it is easy to
find 10000 to accept any berth or
billet that is offered. Our Attorney
General OF the United States receives
$4,000 year; the Attorney General
of England draws a salary of $50, 900,
and, in addition, fees amounting to
S25, 900, making S60,000 year. The
American Solicitor General gets $1,000
year, while the same officer in Eng
land has $50, 900 in salary and SIS,
900 in fees, making $45, 900. Presi-
dent McKinley's salary is $50, 900 and
house free, with an entertainment
fund. The Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land receives a salary OF 500, ,00O
annually, the Governor General OF
India $3.50 with 100000 ad-
ditional for expenses, making $685.
900; the Governor. General of Canada
$50, 900. Chief Justice Fuller re.
ceives S10,5 year. his associates
$40, the Lord Chief Justice oi
England draws $4,000 and each OF
his fourteen associates S25, 900. The
Lord High Chancellor gets $50, 000.-
New York Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Orchard Wisdom.

If orchards are to be made profitable
they must receive as good care a
other crops.
Good drainage, natural or artificial
is essential to success. Trees are i'm
patient of wet feet.
Good tillage increases the available
food supply of the soil and also con
serves its moisture.
Tillage should be begun just as soon
as the ground is dry enough in the
spring, and should be repeated as Of.
ten as once in ten days throughout the
growing season, which extends from
spring until July OF August.
Only cultivated crops should be al-
lowed in orchards early in the season.
Grain and hay should never be grown.
Even home or cultivated crops may
rob the trees OF moisture and fertility
are allowed to stand above the tree
roots.
Watch sod orchard. 1t will begin
10 fail before you know it.
IIOUdulg ulue-teuluS VI tne uPPle
orchards are in sod, and many Of them
are meadows. OF course they are fail.
ing.
The remedy for these apple failures
is to cut down many of the orchards.
For the remainder the treatment is
cultivation, fertilizing, spraying-the
trinity of orthodox apple-growing.
Potash is the chief fertilizer to be
applied to fruit trees, particularly after
they come into bearing.
Potash may be had in wood ashes
and muriate of potash. 1t is most
commonly used in the latter form. An
annual application of potash should be
made upon bearing orchards, 500
pounds to the acre.
The crops well adapted to this late
sowing are few. Vetch is probably the
best which has been tested. But
everything points to crimson clover as
the ideal orchard cover and green
manure.-Professor Bailey, Cornell
Experiment Station, in Massachusetts
Ploughman,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Classification of Soils.

/. Sandy soil: such as has at least
seventy-five per cent. of sand. The
quantity of sand may be determined
with considerable accuracy by very
simple means. Dry and weigh a
pound of soil, and put it into a vessel
which will hold a gallon or two of
water. Pour clean water over it and
stir it up thoroughly, then pour the
water gradually off The sand will
sink on account of its weight. By re-
peating the washing with portions OF
clear water, until the water passes of
clear, the sand alone will be left and
may be dried and weighed, and the
quantity of sand in pound of soil
determined.
=. \ s2H ! .JIn IS So. wn.-h con-
tains fifty to seventy five per cent. OF
sand, which may be separated aud
determined as above.
3. A clay loan has twenty-five to
fifty per cent. of sand, and the re-
mainder chiefly clay.
4. A clay soil has less than twenty
five per cent. of sand, the remainder
chiefly clay. The dark red clay soils
have a large per cent. of oxide OF
iron.
8. Any soil containing ten per cent.
OF lime or more may be considered d
limy or calcareous soil, whether the
remainder be clay or sand, or both.
To determine the amount of carbonate
Of lime in the soil, heat two ounces oil
well dried soil on a piece of sheet iron
or on an iron ladle till the vegetable
matter is burnt out. Then pour ovei
it a pint of water and add huid ounce
of murlatic acid. The acid will dis
solve the lime, while it will dissolve
very little else from the mass. Wasl
the earth with clear water severa
times, take the remainder, dry ant
weigh it, and the loss will be carbonate
of lime This is bat a rude expert
Nent, but near enough for practical
purposes.
6. A peaty soil is one which con
tains twenty per cent. of dark, de
rayed vegetable matter Such soils
are common in low, swampy places
The quantity of peat may be deter
mined by burning ont the vegetable
matter and ascertaining the loss o.
weight. Florida Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Took the Wrong Widow.

A pastime which obtains among the
farm classes of Korea, known as the
packing off of widows" consists of a
raid by some disconsolate widower and
his friends on some village known to
contain a young widow, the forcible
abduction of the lady in question, and
her marriage to the widower. An in.
stance of this kind has recently come
to our notice. A widower living in
one Of the villages of Kangwha with
eleven friends went to hamlet close
to the walls of Kangwha City where a
widow lived and seized and carried
of, after somewhat of battle, young
lady. 1t so happened, however, that
they had mistaken the house, and un-
fortunately got hold of the wrong lady.
Early the next morning an indignant
posse came in pursuit, but the men
who had committed the dastardly deed
succeeded in eluding them. The young
lady, however, was rescued, and after
the house of the widower and its con-
tents had been completely demolished,
she was escorted home in triumph by
her husband and his friends. Kobe
Japan Chronicle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
POultry Notes,

Freedom from lice and plenty of
range will make the growing chicks
'hump" themselves these days.
The Poultry Messenger advises
putting away some second growth
clover for feeding hens in winter.
The sooner you are rid of all the
old stock except those intended for
next seasons breeders, the better.
Too much young stock is used for
breeding purposes. The young chicks
will be harder and make larger fowls
if from two-year-old stock.
Some hens do not possess the egg
laying habit and no system of feeding
will make good layers of such hens.
Be careful how the new grain is
fed. 1t is liable to produce cases of
what you will probably call cholera.
Pure bred fowls, first, last, and all
the time. The breed does not matter
so much, provided you are satisfied
with it.
Hens that are permitted torange all
summer will not lay as many eggs MS
those in reasonable confinement and
properly fed.
Give as much OF variety as posi-
BILE. Young chicks soon tire Of the
best of feed if confined to it for any
great length OF time.
That soft feed that stands over
from morning till night is not just the
thing for the. next feed. 1t won't
hurt the hogs, however.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
A Series of Condolences. .

Superstitious people will regard the
following as something more than q
remarkable series of condolences.
Twelve months ago last April two sis
ters married two brothers on the same
day and at the same church. A cou-
pie of months since each sister gave
birth to a female child on the same
day. The children received the same
names, and were christened by the
same clergyman Subsequently each
child became unwell. The same doc
tor attended both, but, despite his at
tentions, both died and were buried
the same day and by the same minis
ter and undertaken. The writer sol.
emnly assures us that he can vouch for
the accuracy of the foregoing state.
ent.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Ingenious Woman,

No one is more prolific of clever
ideas in aiding the escape of prisoners
than an ingenious woman. The story
is told of some criminals who were
handcuffed aud with their escorts stood
waiting for the train to convey them
to Jail. Suddenly women rushed
through the crowd and looking through
heavy tears, cried ont: "Kiss me good
bye, Nedw The escort good-naturedly
allowed the process of osculation" to
be performed, and the sheriff smiled
feeliugly. The train had not gone far
when the favored prisoner unlocked
his bracelets and escaped. The woman
had passeda small key from her mouth
to his during the fond farewell. De-
trojt Free Press,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
on The Battlefield

ganization known as the woman's Relief
Corps, whose aid to the soldier OF to-day.
lighting against the world fora living. Is no
less notable than the heroism OF the early
cos.
One OF the most earnest members OF the
corps at Byron, ILL.,, Is Mrs. James House.
weart, but illness once put stop to her
active work. A year or so ago. when she
was nearing fifty years Of age, the time
when women must be most careful OF their
strength, Mrs. Houseweart was taken
seriously Ill. The family physician told
her that she had reached critical period
OF her life. and must be very careful.
Ills prescriptions and treatment did not
benefit her, and other treatment proved un-
availing.
AT last DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People were brought to her notice, with
lndisputable evidence that they were help
Iul In eases such as hers, aud with renewed
hope she tried the remedy Last March
che took the first box OF the pills. which
gave much relief. She was determined to
be cured, and kept on with the medicine,
until now eight boxes have been consumed,
and she feels like a new woman.
Mrs. Houseweart said: 81 have taken
only eight boxes, but have been improv-
Ing since l took the first dose. / do not
believe could have lived without the
pills. They certainly have done me more
good than any physician or any medicine l
have ever tried"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold in boxes
(never In loose bulk) at 80 cents a box
or six boxes for $3.50, and may be had Of
all druggists, or direct by mail from DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
An ob.sl.t. Order.

The Order OF the knights OF Ban
neret was degree of knighthood
formerly existing in England and
France, which was given on the field
of battle in reward for the perform
ance of some heroic act. 1t was so
called because the pennon Of the
knight was exchanged for the banner,
a proceeding which was effected by
rending the points from the pennon.
The ceremony of the creation Of a
Knight Banneret was very impressive.
The king, or his general, at the head
of his army, drawn up in order Of
battle after victory, under the royal
standard displayed, attended by all
the officers aud nobility of the court,
received the banneret- elect, who was
not necessarily knight previously, led
between two knights of note, or other
men famous in arms, carrying his
pennon in his hand, the heralds walk
ing before him and proclaimiug his
valiant achievements for which he
deserved to be made Knight Ban
neret, and to display his banner on
the field. The king, or general, then
said to him: advance, Banneretl'
and caused the point of his pennon to
be torn of. The new knight with his
trumpeters sounding before him, and
the nobility and officers bearing him
company, was sent back to his tent,
where an entertainment was provided
by the king. The first Banneret in
England is said to have been made by
Edward l., and the last by Charles 1.
Detroit Free Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
The Wine and Beer Cure.

There is in some papers an untiring but
most tiresc me reiteration OF the oft-refuted
statement that the tendency OF general
use Of wine and beer is to reduce drunken
ness in the community. Surely beer-drlnk-
ing Germany and wlne-drinking France
furnish no support to this fallacious theory.
The increasing prevalence Of drunkenness
in those countries begins to excite alarm,
and the warning voice OF the physician, the
statesman, and the philanthropist is raised
regarding the consequent decentralization
and physical and mental deterioration OF
the people. Alcoholic insanity Is reported
to be twice as common in France now as
fifteen years ago and the number Of per-
sons placed under restraint on account OF
1t has increased twenty-five per cent. in
the last three years.-Presbyterlan Banner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Economical Use of Water Power.

One Of the neatest aud most econo-
mical power plants in the country is
constructed on plan furnished by a
practical farmer. There is good
spring on his premises, but 1t lays too
low to be available for his dwelling
ard farm buildings. The city water
pipe passes his door and this has
been tapped to furnish water power.
A stream not larger than an ordinary
knitting needle turns little motor
that operates small pump, the con-
linual working of which fills a tank
that furnishes water for the entire es.
lablishment. When a small amount
If water is used and the tank fills to
q certain line there is an automatic
shut-off that stops the water. Re-
newed use allows the valve to open,
when the pump again begins working,
One farmer has most admirable ar
rangement for water supply based on
this principle. An enormous pipe of
iron is placed upon end in deep hole
prepared to receive it. The bottom of
this is Portland cement and through
this floor pipes pass out through which
the water is furnished to the build
ings. One length of this pipe in en-
tirely below the ground and is walled
up with stone and cement, while
above the ground is another length of
pipe similarly protected by stone
csseing. Small steps in the wall give
access to the top of the pipe, which is
closely covered. These lengths of
pipe are each twelve feet long and
about six feet in diameter, and are
placed on an elevation some distance
above the farm buildings. The city
water furnishes the power for pump
ing, and the tank is ample to supply
not only the necessary water for farm
and domestic use, but also the power
required in the barns and dairy, cut
Ting feed, working the churn and the
like. The cost of such an arrange
ment is inconsiderable when its value
as saving in labor is taken into ac-
count. New York Ledger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Grants Friendship For Governor.

When General Grant visited Jeru.
salem, he found Reouf Pacha in the
position of governor of that wonder
iul city. A strong friendship sprang
ap between the thin-lipped, taciturn
General and the sauve, courtly, and
yet most supplemented Pacha. 1t
is many years ago now, but Reouf
still loves to talk of his meeting with
Grant as one of the few truly great
men he has met in his life. And as
for Grants opinion of Reouf, un.
ierstand from a good source that,
before leaving Jesusalem, Grant as
sured him that if he were again elect.
ed President of the United States, he
would ask the Sultan to send him as
Turkish minister to Washington
Harper's Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
An Example of True Courage.

The following story of Christian courage
Is told In The Christian:
When, as a brigadier-general, Clinton d.
Fisk was in command Of the military dis
trict OF st. Louis, 1t became his duty, on one
occasion, officially to receive and welcome
20 that city an eminent major-general.
coming to take command Of the military
department General Fisk, accompanied by
an aid-de-camp, met his commander on the
east side OF the river-there was no bridge
then-and escorted him with his aldde-
camp across the river by ferry and to the
hotel in which he had engaged suite of
rooms for him.
As soon as they were within the parlor-
at once assuming the place OF host and
ready to treat the other officers as his
guests-the maj general ordered SER
want to bring four whisky punches.
"0nly three, II you please. general, ex-
cuse me" promptly and courteously spake
General Fisk.
you'll not refuse to drink with me, will
your" said the superior officer.
"If should drink now, 1t would be the
first time. You would not advise me to be-
Gin now, would you, general?"
"No; God bless you'll Long may you
wave!" was the gracious and gallant re-
SpOnse.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05

A Chinese gentleman advocates the
use of the rat as an article of diet, and
makes the following remarks on its
properties as hair restorer: "What
the carrot is to a horses coat rat is
to the human hair. Neither fact can
be explained, but every horseman
knows that regimen of carrots will
make his stud as smooth and lustrous
as velvet, and the Chinese, especially
the women, know that rats used as
food stop the falling out of hair and
make the locks soft, silky and beauti
full. l have seen it tried many times,
and every time it succeeded. Med.
ical Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05


and was able to do nearly all my own
work. / continued the use of your medi-
cine, and feel that owe my recovery to
you. cannot thank you enough foryo
advice and your wonderful medicine.
Any one doubling my statement may
write to me and l will gladly answer
all inquiries.-Mrs. NELL Hurst, Deep.
water, Mo.
Letters like the foregoing, con.
stantly being received, contribute not
little to the satisfaction felt by Mrs.
Pinkham that her medicine and counsel
are assisting women to bear their heavy
burdens.
Mrs. Pinkham'saddressis Lynn, Mass
All suffering women are invited 20
write to her for advice. which will be
given without charge 1t is an ex.
perieneed woman's advice to owomen,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Pasturlng Pigs on stubble Fields.

When grain is harvested some neces-
sarily escapes the reaper and is usually
lost While the amount may hardly be
sufficient to make it profitable to fol-
low the reaper witha rake, the scat.
tered grain may be proftably utilized
by turning pigs or other stock into the
stubble fields, and as matter of fact
the custom of pasturing stock on such
fields is quite common in many re-
gions.
Some interesting experiments have
recently been made at the Montana
Station to learn the value of this as
compared with other methods of feed
ing. Forty-one pigs from six to nine
months old were allowed the run OF
barley, wheat, aud pea stubble fields
of Is, 10.44 and 1913 acres respec-
lively. For some time before the test
they had been pastured on alfalfa and
fed one pound of cracked barley per
head daily. For ten weeks Immediately
preceding the test they made a daily
average gain of 0.42 pound per head.
While pastured on the stubble fields
they were given no grain in addition
to what they could find except on
stormy days. The grain thus fed
amounted to 24.l pounds in the five
weeks of the test.
During this time the pigs made a
gain of 22.S pounds per head, or 17.5
pounds, deducting the amount which
it was calculated they gained from the
grain fed during stormy weather. On
the supposition that 4.5 pounds of
grain are required to produce pound
of pork, the forty-one pigs gathered
1928. 70 pounds of grain, which other
wise would have been lost. The har-
vesting had been done in the usual
manner, and in the investigators
opinion the amount of peas and grain
remaining in the field did not exceed
that left in the stubble fields ON the
average farm. The scattered grain
could not have been saved in any other
way, aud represents clear profit.
The grain saved from the stubble
fields by these pigs was not all that
could have been gathered if they had
remained in the fields a longer time.
Seven brood sows were afterwards
pastured during the winter on the sta
tion stubble fields, which included o
twenty-four acre oat field in addition
to those mentioned above. They were
given no food in addition to what they
could gather except kitchen slops and
a small grain ration ON stormy days.
The sows frequently rooted down
through six inches of snow and found
sufficient grain to keep them in good
condition throughout the entire
winter.
1t is stated in recent communica-
ton from the Montana Station that
several brood sows have been pas
tured during the past season on stub
BILE fields without receiving any grain
in addition, and that they are in fair
condition. They had, in addition to
the grain stubble fields, the range of
clover, alfalfa and timothy meadows,
and the gleanings of fields where root
crops had been raised. The manure
from grain-fed stock, which was
spead upon the fields, also furnished
some grain.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Deafness Cannot Re Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion OF the ear. There Is only one
way to cure deafness, and that Is by constltu-
uonal remedies. Deafness is caused by an n
hamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
feet hearing, and when IL Is eutirely closed
Deafness IL the result, and unless the infam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Halls Cstarrh Cure. Send
:or circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the hest
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
MRS. PINKHAM'S ADVICE,
What Mrs. Nell Hurst has to Say
About It.

DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-When wrote
to you had not been well for five years.
had doctored all the time but got no
better. i had womb trouble very bad
My womb pressed backward, causing
piles. was in such misery 1 could
scarcely walk across the floor. Men.
situation was irregular and too pro
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

'what VIII You Takes"-Lady Henry
Somerset Gives Report ON the Re.
suits OF Her Crusade Against Strong
Drink In England.
What will / take?
I'll take good health,
Aud moderate wealth,
And have no chains to bind me.
I'll take the bread
Wherewith I'm fed,
And leave strong drink behind mo.
What will take?
I'll take my hll
OF right good will
And angry words not bardy.
I'll take my share
OF Gods good air
No rum, no gin, no brandy.
What will take?
I'll take my pay
From day to day,
II should chance to labor;
But through strong drink
Twill not sink,
And will protect my neighbor.
M, A, Kidder,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05

When riding a wheel, making you wonder
for few minutes whether or not you are to
get fall and broken neck2 Wouldn't you
have given a small farm just then for some
means of driving Off the beastl A few drops
of ammonia shot from a Liquid Pistol would
injure the animal. such pistols sent postpaid
for fifty cents in stamps by New York Union
Supply Co. 1s5 Leonard St, New York City.
Every bicyclist at times wishes he had one.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
Tho Two Matched.

Helen-"What do you think of
Kate's new tea-gown?"
Mattie-''It was made rather styl-
ish, but don't you think the colors
rather weak?"
Helen-"Yes; but they matched
her tea very nicely. Chicago News.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05

fuse, was also
troubled with
leucorrhea. l
had given up all
hopes of getting
well; everybody
thought L had
consumption.
After taking
= five bottles of
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegeta-
BILE Compound,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-10-05
-woman.s Heroisn, .

From the Register Gazette, Rockford, III.
During the civil war nearly as much hero
Ism was shown by the women OF our nation
IS by the brave soldiers. Many a woman,
weeping for her dead son, bound up the
wounds OF his suffering comrades, rejoicing