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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
lMaxims For tho Stable.

Men who handle horses should study
the mental as well as the physical con-
stitution of the noble animals, says the
Massachusetts Ploughman.
The study is not mere fad or whim
idea, for the horse is so constantly in
contact with humanity that he is sub
iected to many things that are contrary
to his nature. In domestication
the horse must depend for everything
upon those who own him or, at least,
who care for him in the stable and
drive him. Every attendant should
keep certain things in mind always.
Here are few of these things:
You can get no more power from a
horse than you give him in his food.
Yelling and jerking the bit confuse
a horse and advertise a blockhead.
The horse is mans invaluable helper
and should be treated as friend.
Any fool can ruin a team, but wise
driver maintains its value.
The best drivers talk much to their
animals.
Your horse needs water oftener than
you.
A sandy or muddy road doubles the
work.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
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sumption always start with a cold,
and that the shortest cut to a cold is a
pair of wet feet. But it's so impor-
tant a matter that we can't be remind
ed too often, especially when the re-
minder carries the weight of authority.
DIR. Wendell @. Phillips, one of the
most distinguished physicians in New
York, was recently giving lecture on
"Colds, and How to Prevent Them. ;"
1t was rainy night, and he began;
"How many persons here wore rub
bers tonight? Hands up.
met half of you. Now, that is
what 1 thought. Every one of you
should have rubbers on night like
this. To go without them is to invite
colds, bronchial trouble, catarrh and
pneumonia. 1t is astonishing how
people neglect their feet. Rubbers
are fifty cents. You can save lot of
money on the investment-perhaps a
ten-days' doctor bill, to say nothing Of
medicine"
The doctor might have made it still
stronger and said that a fifty-cent pair
Of rubbers would not only save doctor
bills and medicine bills, but often life
itself. Don't try to save on rubbers:
it's the most expensive economy in
the world, especially just now when
everybody is getting the grip.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
What Mulch For Strawberries ?

Wintering the strawberry field is
especially hazardous with us in Colo
RADIO, because of the generally dry,
open winter weather, with mostly
bright sunshiny days and freezing
nights. Mulching is necessity, but
we have no salt meadow hay or marsh
grass. Wheat or oat straw is out of
the question on account of the seeds.
We pile up stable manure, giving it a
chance to heat, which pretty effectu-
ally destroys the seeds and then
spread it on after the ground freezes
in December. Cow manure from the
dairies is also frequently resortod to
after being piled and partly rotted and
dried. But spring generally reveals
to us many spots and streaks of win
killed plants, though the manure
has been spread lightly or heavily,
has been raked off early or late. Again
the question comes up, Does the man
ure contain substances injurious to
the plants? Is COW manure poisonous,
but horse manure safer? All we can
be sure of is that the plants are killed,
and that there is nothing but man
ure to mulch with. Can you clear the
farmers best friend, the manure pile,
of so serious suspicion?-A. II. R.,
in Rural New-Yorker.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
American seame en-.

"The triumphs of our fleets in the
late war and the experience OF the
naval reserves" said Captain John T.
Lyons, a retired naval officer, ''have
done a great deal to elevate the per-
sonnel of the enlisted men of the
navy. The boys of good families and
of good education are entering the
navy, and it will no longer be said
that all sailors are toughs. His SER
vice makes him high-class machinist,
and when discharged he has a trade
which he can follow with honor and
profit. 1t was not very many years
ago that our navy was made up mostly
of foreigners, but eighty per cent. or
more of the present force of enlisted
men are native-born Americans. ]
was speaking to an officer of the
training station at Newport the other
day, and he told me that there had
been a most remarkable improvement
in the intelligence and social stand
ing of their recruits. When the war
began we had only 1000 men in the
navy. Now it numbers almost 81.
600, but we will never reduce the
figure lower than II, 900 again, and we
have fine lot of men to pick those
$4,000 from. We are going to have
the finest navy in the world some OF
these days. - Washington Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
Cooking and stea,nlng Food.

There has been considerable mis-
conception as to the value of cooking
food for stock. In Europe, expert
ments have indicated that steaming
or cooking coarse foods was advan.
tageous, not because of its making the
food more nutritious, but in inducing
the animals to eat larger quantities.
1t has been shown, in fact, that lupine
hay and certain other foods were
rendered less digestible by steaming.
The cooking of potatoes, formerly
thought to be advantageous, is not
profitable when feeding them to milch
COWS, although there are some advan-
tages when they are fed to pigs.
The Department of Agriculture has
been collecting experiment station
information on this subject. The New
York station analyzed cooked and un-
cooked clover hay and corn meal and
then determined the digestibility of
the same. The result showed that the
percentage of albuminoids and fat and
the relative digestibility of albu-
minoids were more or less diminished
by cooking. Experiments at most of
the stations have usually been made
in preparing food for pigs. At least
thirteen separate series of experiments
have reported on the value of cooking
or steaming food for the hogs. The
following grains were operated upon
Barley meal, corn meal, shorts, whole
corn, whole corn and shorts, peas,
corn and oat meal, potatoes and mix
ture of peas, barley and rye. These
cooked or steamed feeds were COM
pared with the same uncooked and fed
usually dry. In ten of these there
was no gain whatever from cooking,
but in realitya positive loss. That is,
the amount of food required to pro-
duce a pound of grain was larger whom
the food was cooked than when it was
raw. In the three exceptional cases
there was either no gain at all or a
very slight gain from cooking, amount
ing to two per cent. in one case.
Some experiments in feeding
steamed cottonseed meal are reported
by the Mississippi station. After
three years work the station con-
cludes that the milk and butter from
cows fed on steamed cottonseed cost
less than that from cows fed on raw
cottonseed and but little more than
one-half as much as that from cows
fed on cotionseed meal. The butter
from steamed cottonseed is also
superior in quality to that produced
from raw. The Texas station found
that it is advantageous to boil cotton
seed meal for feeding steers.-NeW
England Homestead.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
Glover Fails on Glover Sod.

Almost all farmers know that it is
not safe to plow clover sod. or, in
fact, any other sod in the fall, and
then SOW wheat with the expectation
of getting a clover catch from seed
sown next spring. There have been
various reasons assigned for this, the
old one being that the clover sod
while it is rotting in the soil ''poisons"
the land for clover until the rotting is
completed. But it is quite as impos-
sible to seed with clover on any newly
plowed sod, and that disposes of the
clover-poIsoning theory. The true
explanation seems to be that when a
sod of any kind is decaying under the
furrow it allows the soil above it to
fall down, thus destroying the slight
hold which the young clover plant
has, and obliging it to regain its hold
before the leaf willis and kills the root.
Glover will come up we'll enough on a
clover or any other kind of sod, but
unless there are almost constant rains
during the spring little of it will live.
Even a timothy seeding does not do
we'll on q newly plowed sod, though
in young plants the proportion of leaf
to root is much less in the grass than
it is in any kind of clover.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
Notes of the Crusade.

Intemperance defles the body, which is
the temple OF God, and sin and misery rule
within its sacred precincts.
Join temperance society and your life
will be an example to others that can not
but be fruitful OF good results.
Time and organization are two great fac
tors in correcting evil. On time and or
ganized effort we must depend for the cor
rection OF the evil Of intemperance.
1t is stated by one OF the members OF a
board OF pharmacy that the sales OF
liquor in drug-stores have decreased sixty
per cent. since the board has certified to
the fitness Of applicants for druggists IL
censes.
In Normandy, where a great deal oi
brandy is distilled from cider, and is con
sequently very cheap, there is an almost
universal custom OF putting this brandy in.
to any milk which is boiled for children, ol
even babies.
"Children OF the Future" is the name
given to a new temperance society fo
young folks In town In France. The
name Is poetic and may we not add pro
phetic. Train up the rising generation II
total abstinence and the future is ours.
The Hawaii Cabinet recently granted II
censes under an act OF the last Legislature
for one year. Saloons can be kept opei
from a. m. to 8p. m. only, and must hay
no screen doors. Only light wine, beer an
ale can be sold. The runsellers are angr
at having to remove their screen doors an
threaten to fight the matter In the courts
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
Liquor In Africa.

A new conference will presently be held
to discuss the liquor trade OF West Africa,
existing regulations being found entirely
Intellectual. The head OF the Congo Free
State, King Leopold OF Belgium, will take
the initiative, as before, aud has invited
the European nations most directly inter-
ested to the conference, England, France
and Germany having already accepted, He
will propose an increased duty on alcohol,
which was fixed by the Brussels Confer
ence OF 1890 at thirteen cents gallon,
though in ports under British control 1t is
already much higher. At Sierra Leone 1t
Is seventy-iive cents gallon, but even at
that rate the native manages to get enough
OF 1t to work his speedy destruction. All
merchants interested In the commerce OF
the West Coast, and all who possess any
knowledge OF the liquor traffic there, know
that 1t simply spells death to the African,
and that 1t is without one excusable fea-
ture.
II it were possible the traffic would be
abolished by general consent, but the bush
African will not work for any other induce
ment, and its abolition, therefore, would
meen practically the suspension Of all
trade with the region. Up to recent
time the African has been dependent on
outside sources for his supply of strong
drinks, but has lately mastered the secrets
Of the moonshine still, aud readily converts
bananas into avery fair imitation OF apple
Jack. The Sierre Leone police are kept
busy hunting these stills. but the African
and banana producing region is boundless,
and the Illicit practice is quite likely to
survive all present efforts for its suppress
sion. The coming convention will discuss
the subject In all its aspects, and try to
and some means Of correcting its worst
features and ameliorating 1t worst effects.
New York Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
Hoods pills cure Liver Ills. % ce
.Inhn ChinnInan,s Joke.

Allaround Chao-tung lies abundance
of silver, copper, coal and iron. But
the Chinese have very primitive ways
of getting the minerals. They admit
foreigners are the best at that kind Of
thing, because they have the power of
seeing underground.
Some years ago two Japanese came
to the city exploring for silver. The
authorities wanted to test their
powers They buried some silver
ingots on the parade ground. Then
they took the Japanese walk that
way.
SIS there any silver about here?"
they asked.
''No," said the Japanese, "this is
not the kind of soil in which silver is
found"
Then the buried metal was pro-
duced from under their very feet,
amid the loud hilarity of all Celestial
officialdom. Since which time the
Chao-tungese have had prodigious
contempt for foreigners.-Travel.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
WhisIxv Did II.

The sale OF liquor to the Indians is re-
sponsible for the massacre at Leech Lake.
Il was the occasion OF 1t, as the drunken
Indians first made trouble which required
the intervention OF the law In arresting In
dians for selling liquor to Indians, and then
the cause OF 1t, since the further debauch-
cry OF the red men fred the hearts to re-
sistance and murder.
The prohibition OF the sale OF liquor to
Indians, and by Indians In this instance, Is
imposed by white men who at other times
themselves violate the law when they seek
to drive an oppressive bargain with soma
Indian whose Grazing thirst tempts him to
any sacrifice or price IL he can but secure
drink. That prohibition Is looked upon by
the Indian as device to discriminate
against him, particularly when he sees the
white man drinking himself into the gutter
without let or hindrance.
As clear and simple as the problem Is to
others, the Indian cannot understand why
society permits white men to sell their fel-
lows all the whisky they wish, but makes
the traffic unlawful and criminal on an In
dian reservation. The Indians involved in
the recent uprising say that they have seen
whisky sold without limit in Duluth and
elsewhere, where white men drink 1t In
public as openly as they eat food. They
do not condemn that sale and consumption,
but they do most earnestly demur when the
discrimination compels the Indian to thirst.
They cannot see why the Indian Is prohib-
tied from selling the "firewater," or why
the traffic is treated as crime on or near
to his reservation. The National AdYocats.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11

expcottJ - exceed SUI. UOUl0us. The
greatest annual output since the Civil
War was during 1874, when 2147 YES.
sells of 432, 725 tons were built. OF
late years the largest addition to the
merchant feet was in 1891, when 1fI1
vessels Of 392.65S tons were con-
structed. The high tide of shipbuild-
ing in this country, however, was in
1855, when 2027 vessels Of 5S3, 450
tons were built.
During the last year the additions'to
our merchaet marine frorlaall sources
amounted to about 10000 tons, Of
which 20, 900 tons were foreign vessels
purchased by the Government for use
during the war and given American
registers. The vessels condemned as
prizes amounted to nearly 20, 600 tons.
which, however, will be included in
the reports of the next year. The
merchant fleet under the Hawaiian
flag consists OF sixty-two vessels, ag-
gregating 81, ,543 tons. The Philip
pine feet consists OF ninety-three ves-
sells of 1906 tons. but Porto Rico is
practically without shipping.
The total number of all kinds Of
merchant ships under the United
States flag on the 30th of June, was
%, 700. This was a slight increase
from the 1888 reported for the pre-
vious year, and falling off from the
22,90S reported for 1896. The tom
mage of all these vessels amounted in
1896 to 4,703, $50 tons; in 1897, A.
769, ,O20 tons, and in 1898 to 4, 749, 7SS
tons.
The geographical distribution of our
merchant marine is as follows: At
lantic and Gulf Coast ships, 16, 442;
tonnage, 1858, 739. Pacific Coast,
ships, 1854: tonnage. 496,767 Great
Lakes, ships, Is, ,256; tonnage, 1,437,
500. Rivers, ships, 1858; tonnage,
261, 720. Chicago Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
A Suggestion to Diminish Drunkenness.

A correspondent sends the Youths Tenn
perance Banner the following letter, hoping
1t may lead to the adoption OF some plan
that will lessen the evil until 1t be entirely
suppressed:
To greatly lessen the evils OF drunken
ness, without lessening the profits OF liquor
dealers and manufacturers, and without
meeting their opposition.
Arrest men that are drunk. not for pun
ishment, but for the good alike OF the COM
munity, the liquor men and the men them
selves.
Hold them till thoroughly sober, so that
they cannot drench and ruin themselves In
q protracted debauch, but give food suit
able to their state, for drink on an empty
stomach Is seven times worse than on a
full one.
When a man staggers, or his tongue gets
thick, II Is inhuman to allow him to go to
his family; he should be held till thoroughly
sober, but word sent to the family, and pay
secured IL possible for all costs, thus his
family and the community are protected,
the liquor men are saved the disgrace OF
besotted drunkenness while the drinkers
physical and financial capacity to use and
buy liquor are greatly lessened, and not
even the drunken men themselves should
protest against so beneficial method to
benefit them. Save them from a besotted
debauch whenever they get into such con-
dition as to be unable to direct their own
conduct. Drinking men and saloon keep
ers say that man should know when he
has enough.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11

cloth in his ears, or hold up his fool
and tinker with it fully three minutes,
Divert his attention, and do it kindly,
No horse should wear a shoe more
than four weeks.
The whip costs more than it saves.
Put it up.
Binders are useless aud injurious.
Cut them of.
Wide tires save much horse power.
But few farm horses really need
shoes.
Quiet and patient drivers are worth
twice as much as any others.
Your horse intends to please you,
but does not always know your wishes.
Dark or damp stables cause low
spirits and various diseases.
Axle grease pays 1000 per cent.
profit.
Good blankets are profitable and
save food, ifwisely used.
Cruelty qualities for crime; they are
close neighbors. 1t is cruel and silly
to whip horse for fright. Soothe
him with kind words.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11

"Heeling In" Trees.

Trees are often received from the
nurseries before the land where they
; are to be planted can be properly fit
ted. In all such cases the trees should
be temporarily planted by the way
technically known among nurserymen
as "heeling in." This consists in dig
ging sloping trench, deep enough
at its lower end to allow the roots to
be entirely covered in the trench itself,
and long enough so that a consider
able part of the tops can also be light
ly covered with soil. In this position
the tree will be saved from all expo
sure to the air, and even in warm
fall there will be no danger of the
buds beginning to swell and grow. 1t
is so much better than digging hole
and planting tree in the fall that the
most successful fruit growers, though
they are careful to buy trees in the
fall, ger orally heel them in when re-
ceived, and do not transplant to the
open ground until spring. In this way
the roots will start soon enough to
keep the buds and new shoots well
supplied with sap,
But to be successful as much care
should be taken to sift soil among the
roots and pack it down thoroughly as
if the tree was to be planted. Not
only this, but soil must be ridged over
where the trees lie, and especially
over the roots, so that frost will not
get down to the roots in winter, and
they shall not be deluged with water
when spring rains begin. There will
be more or less settling of soil in the
trench during the winter. If there is
only a slight ridge, it may before
spring be converted into hollow, and
the water will run in the bottom of the
trench to the lower end among the
roots. So long as the weather is cold
this may not be an injury, but if the
winter is mild many of the roots will
become mouldy and rotten. If the
soil about the roots can be kept
merely moist it will be better than to
have them immersed for weeks and
months in water.
A common cause of failure OF
heeled-in tree is attacks of mice,
which find in the covered bark of
trunks and roots an easily secured
winter ration, protected from most of
their enemies. But if paris green is
scattered among the tree roots the
mice will usually eat this, and all of
them will be dead in the trenches
when the trees are taken up in spring,
while the trees themselves will be un-
injured. 1t is we'll to take up the
heeled-in trees as early as the ground
can be got in good condition to plant
them, for by this time some air spaces
will probably be made by sinking
away of earth from the roots, and {
new planting will be needed to keeI
the roots from drying out.-Americar
Cultiyator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11

What is whiskey Bringing?-rrying to
Find Some Means 20 Correct the Ter
rible Effects of the Rum Trafic In the
Dark Continent-It Spells Death.
Asked portly liquor dealer:
"What Is whisky bringing now1S
Well knew he meant the dollars
That 'twould sell for; but somehow
Differently the meaning struck me-
As upon his words l thought;
These, methinks, the things that whisky
Now is bringing, and has brought:
Bringing men to crimes unholy,
Aud to dismal prisoned lives;
Bringing poverty and sorrow
To their children and their wives;
Bringing pain and shame and cursing
Where sweet love and peace should dwell;
Bringing souls that might win heaven
To the lowest depths OF hell;
Bringing tears where smiles should hover;
Bringing groans where should be sing
ing;
Bringing endlesss stores Of anguish =
These the things that whisky's brlnglngl
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
opinion of a Celebrated Doctor.

ITO the temperate we need not preach
temperance" said celebrated doctor: '!t
would be out of place. aud certainly do
not feel bound to advise them total alb
stinence. am not a teetotaller myself.
As for the Incorporate OF all degrees, am
satisfied that the only safe advice that we
can give them is total abstinence. As to
advising temperance to them, or limitation
OF stimulants, l believe that we might as
we'll preach to the wind-aye, the whirl-
wind-or advise common sense to the in
habitants Of lunatic asylum"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11
Flowing Frozen Ground.

If there is thin crust of frozen
soil, or even q light fall of snow on
the ground when it is fall plowed, il
will be none the worse for the soil
next spring. The frozen soil holds
up the furrow better, even though
when turned to the bottom it is soon
thawed by the earth's internal heat.
The result will be that frost will pene.
trate to the bottom of the furrow,
giving the soil much finer tilth than
would be possible by repeatedly culti-
vating it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11

The Supreme Court OF Tennessee has rem
dered decision holding saloon-keepers re-
sponslble In damages for selling intoxicat-
ing liquors to habitual drunkards. The
law against the practice has been on the
statute books for some time, but has never
haan anf0road
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-01-11

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all I'M
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads.
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, SOC.
England has had fewer native monarchs
than any other country.