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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29
A SIMPLE CATARRH CIRE,

have spent nearly fifty years in the treatment Of
Catarrh and have effected more than any spe
cialist IN the history medicine. AS must soon re-
tire from active life, WILL from this time on send the
means of treatment and cure rs used in practice,
Free and post paid to every reader of this paper who
utfers from this outhesome dangerous m disgusting
disease. This il sincere offer which anyone is free
to accept, Address, PROFESSOR
j. A. Lawrence, l Ii Wcst SID St.,New York
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29
Tugboat Goes Down with Pilot.

New York, August 24.-The tug boat
Marian of the PENNSYLVANIA railroad. sunk
at South Amboy this morning. All the
crew escaped except the pilot, James Hen
neSbY. who was drowned.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29

sent TO pay TOT IL a"
innate real estate transactloh' out '4ieio
are other claims that must receive serious
attention as soon as the peace coiiiilli,'o1ot'
ers meet In the hrst place tne . I'9' 1a,is
are not to be represented d. une
conferences, and their position 49, III coli~
sequence, a most pecuhar one, '"0iA
terests being, on the lace OF th'"es' lno
greatest of all. That Spain Will ltlslsl upoi
making them pay the Cuban debt II POSI-
BILE is one of the certain features of the
negotiations and it will look a trifle odd'
when the United States and Spain sit down
together to go over the entangled accounts
to have Cuba absent when 1t IS Cuoa
which will have to pay the mar pilnon
dollars owing If the case shouIa 80
against her. or course the Unlteu 0'a'eS
won't ana or course SPAN can l. cue 10
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29

Taught thoroughly and quickly. Positions guGran-
teed. FXpcuses Iow. Particulars free. GEORGIA
TELEGRAPH SCHOOL, Senoiu Ga.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29

Add to these things the settlement OF un9
thousand and one other claims, many al
ready on file, In which the citizens OIL
nearly every nation in the world, who nave
lost property in Cuba. clamor Tor
reparation, and one will begin
to understand that we Will need
exnert rnathematicians at Paris in october.
These claims are a tumble; some directed
toward America by the Spaniards; some to-
ward Spain by the Americans; some from
the Insurgents; some against the lhSur-
gents: some aimed, like the petition OF an
office seeker, ITO whom it may concern
Many of them are fraudulent, but a ma
iority are not and all alike Will have to
be looked into in order to reach basis OF
exact Justice. In the state department at
WASHINGTON there have been filed some
thing less than Il ton or them by American
citizens and in the same room Is SPAN
gigantic demand for damages from US be-
cause of the early hlibustcring expeditions
which made possible the progress Of the
Instruction. / think there IS also a clam
there by the iusurgent soldiers for salary
which Is the only thing necessary TO make
the circle of complications complete
A correspondent has asked for state
ment as to the population of Cuba, and 1t
Is well to give it here. because 1t furnishes
us in some degree with the Dimensions
Of our elephant At the same time II IS
not absolutely correct, for the war scat
tered the inhabitants among the provinces
and death by disease and starvation has
cut down the figures. But 1t is from the
latest census and this is the only reliable
4 10 q. f.tt
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Feeding Plants Artificial Food.

Truiffent gives artificial food to
plants III the following manner: "After
an analysis of the ash of the living
plant, the necessary salts for a given
time, such as six months, are weighed
out and inclosed in a metal cover to
form what is called a pill, which is
presumably inserted in the pot, diff
fusion of the salts taking place through
the folds of the metal, and the thicker
the metal the slower the diffusion.
As the salts dissolve and disappear
they are replaced by core which ex-
pands until it completely fills the
pill. The salts have no action on
the metal cover, which remains firm
and hard. 1t is stated that the solu-
bility of the salts can be so regulated
that pill may be made to last three
or six months, as may be desired.
By this method of feeding, large we'll
colored plants are grown in pots of
less than half the usual size"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Household Hints.

Small quantities and no waste is one
good rule to remember. Have just
enough-not piece too much.
Marketing economically does not
mean purchasing things at the cheapest
rate. 1t really involves the higher
talent of selecting wisely and we'll.
mucilage that proves satisfactory
is made of equal parts of gum arabic
and gum tragacanth dissolved in suf-
ficient water to make thick paste.
Fat will not burn if it has some.
thing to do, so if it has to be left idle
for few minutes put crust of bread
or slice of raw potato into the kettle.
The cleanest way to drive water
bugs or reaches from bureau drawers
or closet shelves is to sprinkle pow
dered borax over and around the
shelves and cover with clean paper.
Never purchase the same sort of
fowl for fricassee that you would
for roasting. The former may be
year and a half old. 1t will cost much
less than the one q year old, which
will be required for roasting.
A little pulverized chalk moistened
with ammonia and applied with
brush will remove the marks caused
by the dripping of faucet in marble
basin. An old tooth brush is a good
thing to use for this purpose.
In polishing silver that has been
laid away and badly tarnished it is o
good plan to dip the portion of a soft,
oil cloth in sweet oil or soft lard, ther
in whiting, and rub the articles well,
until the black has disappeared.
Then finish with whiting.
Eggs may be kept fresh longer with
the small end downward than in any
other position, because in this way
the yolk is suspended in the albumen
and enveloped by it; whereas, if
placed for any time otherwise, the
yolk will come in contact with the
shell and decomposition would result.
Never throw away old preserve jars
which have lost their covers, or whose
edges are broken so that the covers
will not fit tightly. What are they
good for, do you ask? Why, for hold
ing pickles. All you need to do is to
fill them, tie cloth over the top to
exclude insects, and put away in the
storeroom closet.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18

The kiss was unknown, | think.
among the aboriginal tribes of Amer
lea and of Central Africa. From the
most ancient times, however, it has
been familiar to the Asiatic and Eu-
ropean races. The Latins divided it
into three forms-the osculum, the
basium, and the suavium; the first
being the kiss of friendship and re-
spect, the second of ceremony, and
the third of love. The Semites always
knew the kiss, and Job speaks of it as
part of the sacred rites, as it is to-
day in the Roman Church. The Mon
golian kiss, however, is not the same
as that which prevails with us. In it
the lips do not touch the surface of
the person kissed. The nose is
brought into light contact with the
cheek, forehead or hand; the breath
is drawn slowly through the nostrils.
and the act ends with slight smack
of the lips. The Chinese consider
our mode of kissing full of coarse
suggestiveness, and onr writer's re-
gard their method with equal disdain.
Darwin and other naturalists have at
tempted to trace back the kiss to the
act of the lower animals, who seize
their prey with their teeth, etc.
Science.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Big Pieces of String.

The largest cable of modern times is
the manila hawser which was used to
tow the drydock to Havana. II is
twenty-three inches in circumference,
but it is by no means the largest that
ever has been made, although it has
the reputation of breaking the rec
ords.
There are at least two others of a
greater circumference, but both older.
One of these had q circumference of
twenty-three inches, and was used for
the purpose of anchoring the ship
North Carolina in the Navy Yard at
Brooklyn, while the other was twenty
four-inch hawser which was used as a
sheet-anchor cable on the Tennessee
when she was stationed in the Medi-
terranean in the sixties.
Such an enormous rope was natur-
ally found to be unwieldy, fact which
was abundantly demonstrated when
the vessel encountered storm in the
Bay of Naples. When the Tennessee
returned to her native home in Amer
lea, the hawser was sent to the oakum
mills and made into oakum. Boston
Traveller.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
AIolasses Candy.

Place a saucepan with onequart mo
lasses aud one pound sugar over the
fire, stir until the sugar is somewhat
dissolved; then boil over slow fire to a
crack; this may be known by pouring
some of the boiling sugar in ice water
then take it out, and if it breaks like
glass it has boiled enough; then add
immediately four ounces butter, boil a
few minutes longer, or try by pouring
little in ice water; if it breaks like
glass it is ready for taffy; pour it into
buttered pans. For butterscotch add
some fine shaved or sliced cocoanut,
cook few minutes; and one teaspoon
full baking soda, stir and cook two min
utes, then pour it in buttered tins;
when cold cut it in squares.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Pessimistic Philosophy

A mans friends are never as sincere
as his enemies.
1t is easier to work than it is to be
always looking for job.
A girl of sixteen is as prodigal with
her affection as a woman with company
is with her jam.
This getting married is like renting a
door for the purpose of keeping wolf
from it.
Notice to those who have babies
named after them: Mothers refuse to
be grateful this year for baby buggy
that hasn't rubber tires.
1t takes so much to repair bicycle
and run a kodak that no one owning
either can hope to save enough for the
Paris Exposition.
The young college man who makes
his hair look fluffy and looks sternly at
the audience gathered to see him
graduate thinks he has solved the
problem of life. .-Atchison Globe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
YOUNG AT SIXTY.

Serene comfort and happiness in ad-
vanced years are realized by compare
lively few women.
Their hard lives, their liability to Sc
rious troubles on account of their pecu-
liar organism and their profound igno-
rance concerning themselves, all COM
bine to shorten the period ofusefulness
and FIJI their later years with suffering.
Mrs. Pinkham has done much TO make
women strong. She has given advice
to many that has shown them how 10
guard against disease and retain vigor-
GUS health in old age. From every cor
ner of the earth there is constantly COM
ing the most convincing statements
from women, showing the efficacy of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound in overcoming female ills Here
is letter from Mrs. j. G. 0rms, of 220
Horner ST., Johnstown, Pa, which is
earnest and straight to the point;
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I feel il my
duty to tell all suffering women that l
think your remedies are wonderful. /
had trouble with my head, dizzy spells
and hot flashes. Feet and hands were
cold. was very nervous. could not sleep
well. had kidney trouble, pain in
ovaries and congestion of the womb.
Since taking your remedies am better
every way My head trouble is all
gone, have no pain in ovaries, and am
cured of womb trouble. / can eat and
sleep well and am gaining in flesh. |
consider your medicine the best TO be
had for female troubles"
The present Mrs. Pinkham's expert
ence in treating female ills is unparal-
lelled, for years she worked side by
side with Mrs. Lydia L. Pinlzham. and
for sometime past has had sole charge
of the correspondence department of
her great business, treating by letter
as many as hundred thousand ailing
women during a single year.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Russia In the Business, Too.

Speaking of Gland grabbing" it is
amusing to find a Russian journal de-
nouncing the process. Russia owns
over one. seventh of the habitable
globe. 1t is twice as large as all Eu-
rope and three times larger than the
United States. She has obtained all
this territory by land grabbing. She
has seized large portion of Turkeys
territory in Europe, and appropriated
the portion of Asia from the Ural
Mountains and the Black Sea to the
waters of the Pacific, and north Of the
Himalayas, Thibet and China, where
she has recently continued the land
grabbing begun blythe willy Count
Ignatieff few decades ago, and has
practically added Manchuria and the
important port of Port Arthur and Ia
Lien-Wan to her Pacific Coast acqui.
sitions, and has a strong grip upon
Korea. Minneapolis journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
HOrse-POMer.

Watt, the great improver of the
steam engine. introduced into the vo-
cabulary of machinists the term horse
power. When he first began the
manufacture of steam engines, he ex-
perienced much difficulty in ascertain
ing from his distant customers what
sized engine they required, and they
were not less puzzled how to commu-
nicate to him the information. He
was frequently guided, however, by
their mentioning the number of horses
which the engine ordered was designed
to replace. Acting upon this hint, he
ascertained by experiment that the
very strongest of the London brewers
horses animals of wonderful size and
strength), could exert force equiva-
lent to raising 1000 pounds one foot
in minute. This force he called one
horsepower, and adopted it as the
standard in regulating the size of steam
engines. Now, not one horse in hun
dred is able to exert that degree of
strength. A steam engine of ten horse
power can, in reality, do the work OF
about twenty horses.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
TIE LIMIT oF HUMAN LEE.
Authorities Differ on IL and Centena
rians Are Uncertain Quantities.

Authorities Diner on IL and Centena
rians Are Uncertain Quantities.
How may man prolong his life in
definitely?
This question is discussed, but by
no means settled, in an article by
Langdon Kain, NJ. D., in the North
American Review.
The writer points out that author
tiles disagree by over century as to
the utmost limit of the human life,
and are widely divergent as to the
means for prolonging it.
Where one instance is found of q
centenarian who has lived abstem-
iously and kept regular habits an
other springs up of an equally aged
man who has been noted drunkard
and smoker all his life.
Authorities on the subject have
been puzzled to note that in countries
where prosperity, intelligence and
general civilization are highest, GEN.
tenarians are fewest.
DR.. Kain explains this by saying
that among such persons the death
certificates are more rigidly kept,
while among people of less education
the exact age is left in doubt and wild
guesses are made as to every old man
or woman's years.
This would seem to discount many
of the tales of persons who claim to
be $50 or $50.
This theory is borne out by the fact
that nearly all alleged centenarians
belong to the poorer, less educated
classes. Hiram Lester, said to have
been the oldest citizen of this country,
died in an almshouse in 1896 at the
alleged age of 12S. Noah Raby, an
other pauper, celebrated what he said
was his 126th birthday at Piscataway,
N. j., recently. A German statisti-
clan claims to have found- an African
named Bruno Coburn, now living at
Rio de Janeiro, at the age of 100. Jo-
siah Field, of Red Bank, N. j., died
last year at the fairly authenticated
age of l04. He remained bachelor
until he was seventy-five, when he
married and became the father of
three children. Margaret Kasiocona,
Pole, was similar case, having
married her third husband when she
was ninety-four, and bcariug him three
children. Ireland holds the prize as
q centenarian producing country, Of
its 5000, 900, 57S are said to be CEN
tenarians. England, with a popula-
tion of %, 900, 900, has but 146, while
Germany, with $4,000, 900 inhabitants,
boasts only seventy-eight centena-
rians,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Orange LAYER Cake.

Half cup Of butter and one cup
powdered sugar; stir to a cream, then
add the grated rind yellow part) of
half an orange, the whites of three
eggs beaten to a stiff froth, half a cup
of sweet milk and one and half cups
of -four in which you have sifted tea
spoonful of baking powder. Bake in
two large jelly-tins, spreading the bat
ter evenly. When done, turn the
cakes on the pastry board to cool
while you make the filling. Put the
beaten yolks of the eggs in Il small
saucepan or in double boiler, add
teaspoonful of butter, two teaspoonfuls
of lemon juice and the grated rind of
the other half of the orange. Set the
saucepan in pan of boiling water and
stir the mixture till it thickens, then
take from the fire, stir in a half cup
of sugar, spread on one cake, put the
other on top and dust with powdered
sugar. These are two excellent varie-
ties of the genus layer cake, and both
are best eaten the day they are made,
though the chocolate cake is not badly
off the second day.-Detroit Free
Press,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Woodpeckers Eat Poles,

Redheaded woodpeckers have de-
stroyed, during two years, a carload
of the poles which support the wires
of the Kansas City and Independence
electric line. The busy little birds
bore into the poles and SCOOP out a
cavity, where they lay their eggs and
raise their young. In this way the
poles are weakened so that they break
under the weight of the wires.
The wood of the poles is the soft
white cedar, aud Is easily penetrated
by the sharp bills of the woodpeckers.
The supports for the wires last usually
ten years, but now there are many
that must be replaced at once at a cost
of about S15 apiece. Last year scores
of the redheaded pests were shot by
employees of the electric railway COM
pany.-Kansas City Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Tonato Omelet.

Place pan with half tablespoons
full of butter over the fire. Add one
cupful drained canned tomatoes, sea.
son with one-quarter teaspoonful Of
salt, the same. of pepper and sugar.
Cook ten minutes. In the meantime,
separate three eggs, add to the yolks
three tablespoonfuls cold water, a
pinch of salt, and mix together. Beat
the whites to stiff froth. Add the
yolk mixture to the whites, while
beating constantly. Place a frying
pan of medium size with one table.
spoonful of butter over the fire. When
hot pour in the egg mixture, and bake
light brown on the under side, shaking
the pan now and then to loosen the
omelet. When brown on the under
side set the pan for few moments in
the oven or under gas flame to cook
the top. Care should be taken not to
leave the omelet in too long, as that
would toughen it. Remove from oven
and put two spoonfuls of the tomato
over the omelet, fold it double and
slip on warm plate. Pour the re-
naming tomato around it and serve.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
Alcohol I'm Medicine.

The report Of DR.. A. Monroe Lesser, the
executive surgeon, gives the results OF OBJ
servations in regard to the use OF alcohol,
and points out in detail the bad effects pro-
duced by ii. Leading German, English
and American Psychologists, " he says, ''ac-
cept it as a fact that alcohol In small guam
titles, by exciting the energies of the body,
may increase the capabilities during the
short period which is sometimes required
in diseases, but that this provision is al
ways gained at the expense Of some vital
ity and n later relaxation" SO in cases
where 1t might be useful in relieving in
hammations, this advantage is offset by
the fact that while producing this effect, II
has q deleterious influence on the other
tissues. He also points out that alcohol is
not good thing to enable the body to
withstand cold or fatigue, and quotes Nam
sen, the Arctic explorer, to the effect that
those who drank alcohol could not bear the
Northern cold, and that no one Of his staff
was allowed TO Rartake OF It, This fact
was noticed, however, long before Nam
sens time. We distinctly remember that
in the time OF the old stage coaches which
piled between Philadelphi" and New York,
that during periods OF Lold weather ex-
perienced drivers refused TO drink alco-
holic liquors, but confined themselves
strictly to water drinking while on their
journeys, for the reason assigned that the
use Of alcoholic drink rendered them less
able to withstand the exposure they were
subjected to.
As an evidence that 1t does not preserve
the living tissues or furnish staying quail
ties, DR.. Lesser notes that Sin the English
army, in its Soudan campaigns, number
OF regiments received certain quantities OF
alcohol, while other regiments received
none, the result showing that the latter
could bear the strains Of long marches far
better and were better preserved than those
to whom alcohol was given" In the same
way he finds its effects injurious TO diges-
tion and deleterious in septic conditions.
One of the first questions a surgeon asks
nowadays when person sustalns dan
gerous injury, is whether he has been ac-
customed to the use of alcohol, holding
that the chances for recovery Of one so ad-
dicted are largely decreased, as compared
with those OF one not accustomed to its use.
So, too, athletes in training for some event
are required to abstain entirely from the
use of alcohol, experience showing that It
greatly lessons their powers OF endurance.
Trenton On. j y American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
A Judge Killed by a Turkey.

The fashion by which Judge Samuel
Ashe of the First North Carolina
Supreme Court came to his death must
have been extremely mortifying to him.
He was killed by turkey gobbler.
One day, after he had become very
old and intirm, he was placed in chair
under the shade of tree in his yard.
Aired cap protected his ancient nod
die from the attacks of flies, and his
comfort was SO well provided for In
every way that a sweet slumber stole
upon him, and caused him to nod. A
large turkey gobbler, which patrolled
that precinct, mistaking this for a
challenge, Immediately gave battle.
On a sudden the Judges sweet slum-
bers were broken by the flap of hostile
wings, and ere he could collect his
scattered senses a we'll directed spur
smote him in the temple, and he fell
down and gave up the ghost. t.-Law
Notes.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-05-18
An Astonishing Comparison.

The world was recently thrilled with the
news that Great Britain had appropriated
almost S120, 100000 for her naval expenses
for the coming year. The sum, when
compared with our own expenditures,
seems enormous, but, according to the
figures OF DR.. Dawson Burns, recently pub
lished in the London Times, the drink bill
Of the United Kingdom Is more than 6.3
times that great appropriation, or $780,
i0S,6l5. The new American battle-ship,
the Illinois, which when finished will be
the most powerful vessel OF our navy,
will cost almost 81 900 900; but the British
drink bill would build 200 such vessels.
But why go across the seas? The m oney
that we, the American people, spend for
drink in years time would build an Il
linois every working day in the year.