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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17
Roll Your Grnss Well.

The effect Of rolling is to crush down
the bigger plants that flourish among
the grass and to injure the grass itself
but little. The bigger plants are mostly
weeds, which, if allowed to grow un-
checked, would soon choke the more
slender grass.
If footpath across a field becomes
disused, it will be found that the grass
which grows up in its place is of far su-
perior purity to that in the rest of the
field. Constant pressure has stamped out
the roots of the weeds and left only the
pure grass.
Another advantage of rolling is that it
makes the grass grow more thickly. The
ground becomes intertwined with q net.
work of plants, and when this has been
going on for 80 years or more that rich,
velvety turf is produced which can be
found alone in old park lands that have
lain undisturbed by the plow for many
years in succession.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

Mr.. BRYAN is evidently finding the
anti-expansion proposition an unpopular
one. He is hedging. He is reported by
the Associated Press in an interview i'm
Minneapolis: 81 am firm believer in
the enlargement and extension of tie
limits of the Republic. 1 don't mean
by that the extension by the addition OF
contiguous territory nor to limit myself
to that. Wherever there is a people in
telligent enough to form part of the Re-
public it is my belief that they should be
taken in" This knocks the bottom out
of the proposi ion to make Bryan and
Antiexpansion the thief features of the
Democratic campaign of 1900.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

THE proposition to make National
holiday of Nav l, and call It Dewey Day,
is rightly meeting with much opposition.
1fevery achievement of the war with
Spain were to he commemorated by a
National holiday we would have aScbley
Day, Hobson Day, Funston Day, and
so on through the list. The idea is a
ridiculous one, and anyone voting to
make Dewey Day National holiday,
would be entitled to large sized and ell
eaantly embossed leather medal. Be-
sides that, we already have enough holi-
days.-Btizedrd, Sure, sure; drop the
holiday nonsense.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

THE Philadelphia Record, (Democratic)
is of the opinion Congress should inaugu-
rate navy building era which would
give the United States sea force as large
as that ofa European power of the first
class. 1T has even been suggested that
the example of France in appropriating
$l00,000,0OO for naval construction should
be followed here. There is a sound basis
for the popularity Of navy expansion. A
strong navy is needed, more especially as
the United States has taken a prominent
position among the Powers, and must
maintain it. The present navy is not in
keeping with the importance of the ma
ton nor adequate for the performance of
new and onerous International duties.
Therefore larger fleet is needed; and
there is pressing necessity which the
Record suggests should be attended to
first. The government has not enough
seamen TO man the war ships now in
commission. Secretary Longs recon-
mendation for a considerably larger
force of men should be adopted at this
session of congress. Finally, the armor-
plate filibustefers should be "sat down
ON hard.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

THE Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. has just made a stamp tax ruling
that is Of importance to notaries and law
yers. This is No 9 dated January s, and
decides that notarial certificates attached
to dispositions of witnesses to be used in
cases pending in court, do not require a
stamp. They are used in legal proceed
ings and are exempt from taxation. 1t
has been the custom to tax these certifi-
Gates with ten cent stamp.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

THE Democratic Louisville Courier
Journal gives an analysis of the expan-
sion question which is far from compli-
mentary to Democratic sagacity. 1t says !:
"The policy of expansion is the old DEM
ocratic policy, which the Republicans
have been shrewd enough to take up, and
which some Democratic leaders are trying
to get Democrats to antagonize simply
because the Republicans have taken it
nm -
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

DEMOCRATIC sta esmen and editors who
were predicting that the Dingley law
would be failure as a customs revenue
producer are dodging that question now.
The customs receipts under that law, in
the six months ending with December,
1899 were SllS, 800, ,47O, while those in the
corresponding six months of 1895, the
last year OF the low tariff Wilson law,
were but S67, ,645, 900.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

SECRETARY CAGES action in prevent
ing financial crash is looked upon by
the Populists as particularly reprehensi-
bic. A wave of disaster would have been
splendid card for them in their present
depressed and depleted condition.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

IF we had only kept to our original
thirteen States we would probaly never
have got en- into this frightful Philippine
muss. AS it is, we are quickly sinking
into Oblivion, and will probably carry
Boston with us,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

WHEN we were boys q clicking" was
seldom mentioned to parents because 1t
was usually followed by a ''lambasting"
at home.-FoREsT REPUBLICAN,.
Which illustrates the truth of the old
adsge that "silence is golden" And we
presume fun ther to say that probably not
in the entire school was there boy who
could keep "mummer' when he got
home, than the youthful Bre'r Wenk.-
Blizzdrd.
Now just listen to that, will you.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

WITH war expen- es IS per cent. less
than one year ago and the Treasury sur
plus for the last six months of 1899 over
s2l 900, 900, those Democratic soothsayers
WHO saw the Republic tottering on the
brink Of an abyss of imperial financial
ruin have quickly turned their attention
to other fields of criticism.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

In December, 1895, there was treasury
deficit of $500, 900, and in December, 1899,
asurplus of S,6lS,OOO. A Republican ad-
ministration can keep ahead with a war
on its hands.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

SENIOR SILvELA is at work on friendly
Stats. The war with Spain has left no
ranking enmities and that is one of its
most valued results.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

New cures for old ailments are being
discovered every day, but people con-
tinue to die Of the latter just the same.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

The officials of Korea wear upon their
hats the figures of various birds and ami
mails.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

WHAT Senator Beveridge saw in the
Philippines made him more of McKin-
ley man than ever.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

A person walking at the rate of fon
miles per hour consumes 2,3N cubic
inches of air per minute.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

GEN. LAwroN's soldierly qualities and
devotion to country we're a larger fortune
than he dreamed Of
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17
TIME TABLE, in
effect Jan. 10, 1900.

Trains leave Tio-
nesta for Oil City
and points west as
follows;
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17

have educated people along different
lines, and the beautiful pictures OF to-
day have become possible to everyone
in their simple passepartout frames.
There is a restfulness and sweet
peace in simply furnished room,
where the walls are not overloaded
with pictures of an incongruous ma
ture to annoy ones sense of the fitness
of things. All stages of furnishings
have had their day, even to the enor-
mously enlarged photograph of some
member of the family upon an easel
in one corner The wise woman every
year will weed out something that can
be dispensed with, and introduce some
thing else.
The branches of the different pine
trees, stripped of the needles and var
nished, may be made into very attract
i've frames for photographs, and deco
rated with the cones which belong to
them. They can be fastened together
with short pins or brads. The cones
mantel lambrequin by touching them
up with varnish and gliding if desired,
and strin9ing them about two inches
apart upon a double thread fastened
TO strip of tape. This can then be at
tached to whatever material is used for
the lambrequin.
There is something very homelook-
ing about a room furnished with home
made articles that betollen thrift and
economy, and many have it in their
power to make many comforts and
things of beauty out of that which
lies at their own door. "Despise not
the day of little things. Farm and
EireSide
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17
THE ART OF IRONING.
How to smooth out Delicate Fabrics,
Such as Linen Nnpery, without
Sprinkling Them.

This is not the old-fashioned meth
cd of not ironing them at all, or Of
folding them and putting weights
upon them. 1t is real ironing and it
looks well when done. Sometimes it
happens that the ironing might be
done, but the sprinkling has been
overlooked; in this case wet a sponge
and press nearly dry; take the gar
ment to be ironed, a dress skirt sup
posedly rather particular one, per-
haps. Rub over with the sponge, a
small piece at a time, iron it and re-
peat until entirely done. You will
find that clothes ironed in this way
will lool, very smooth and nice, often
nicer than as though they had been
sprinkled, for, unless this is done
evenly and the clothes folded some
time, they will not iron smooth. The
sponge process insures smooth and
even surface if the irons are hot.
This is an excellent method to use
in case of delicately colored materials,
which one fears may run" if left
sprinkled some time. The immediate
ironing prevents such disaster, for
the garments do not need to lie damp.
1t is well-nigh impossible to iron Ia
BILE linen and such things smooth
when once thoroughly dried; there
are countless fine wrinkles dried in
that it takes skillful laundress to
press out The sponging process acts
like magic upon these. Indeed, it is
safe and easy for the general ironing
and often superior for all starched
things. These often lose their stiff
ness from lying damp, but with the
sponge method all the stiffness is re-
tanned and gloss and smoothness
not found in other ways.-Ladies'
World
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17

They are of bullock's hide, and thongs
attached at the side are tied around
the ankle.
Women wear a short, open jacket of
cloth, profusely braided with gilt or
silver, a buttoned corselet and an
apron of India null. Their skirts are
wide, just escaping the ground. The
harris twisted into a garland or crown;
it is interlaced with ribbon and COW
cred with shawl of embroidered null.
The women wear numerous jewels, and
are coquettish and fond of amusement.
A pretty sight is Corfu fete beneath
the pale green olive trees. Men and
graceful movement wind in and out in
the mazes of their national dances, to
the music of violins, tambourines and
guitars.
The swallowis an ever welcome guest
in the simply appointed household, fly
ing in and out at will, and perching in
all security about the walls. It's pres
ence is considered a good omen. The
many cisterns and fountains are gath
ering places for the young people, who
laugh and chatter as they fill their
pigs"
There is much superstition about
marriage, and any person is severely
censured who tries to prevent happy
union, but friends are expected to as
sist in making matches. A bridegroom
would not think of returning with his
bride from the church the same route
he came, and the bride would be sure
that her trousseau was in odd num-
bers. Her mother always waits at the
door of their new home to give each a
piece Of pomegranate and a spoonful
of honey, that their lives may be as
Initeda as one and as sweet as the other.
A Greek funeral is a grewsome sight.
The body is carried to the grave in an
open coffin, the face being visible to
every passer-by. At the house walters,
some of them gifted at improyising, re-
cite in prose or verse the virtues of the
dead and the sorrow of the friends
n. Y. Tribune
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17
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THE PEOPLE OF CORFU.
Their Manners and Customs Are
Quaint and the Dress They Wear
Is Extraordinary.

Corfu is one of the most charming of
the Ionian isles. Notwithstanding its
surroundings the inhabitants are
neither good sailors nor fishermen, but
given instead to athletic sports and
target shooting.
Superstitions and legends abound,
and a long rock is always shown to
strangers with the explanation that it
is the ship of Ulysses, turned to stone
by Neptune as it was returning from
Ithaca.
With a climate equal to that of Sic
ily and much like that of Malta, the
town of Corfu is popular as winter
resort.
Careless as the natives are about
gathering the olives, these still yield
goodly quantity of oil, which, besides
salt, is their only export. a traveller
marvels to find the most primitive APP
pliances still in use. The ovens are
mere domes of brick or clay, and on
their doors, which are only rough
stones, red cross is painted. This
same sign is found on many of the
and silver, or of bronze with open res
ervoir, and in the most fantastic and
graceful shapes, are still in common
use. Bread is baked and clothes are
washed in the fashion of hundred
years ago, yet the former is palatable
and the latter are redolent with lemon
peel and laurel leaves.
The patron saint of Corfu is Saint
Spiridion. His body is preserved in a
richly ornamented case in church
called by his name, and several times
each year is carried through the town.
Converts abound, and if a girl does not
marry she usually enters one.
More attention is given to dress in
Corfu than in the other lonian isles.
The men wear short, collarless jackets,
with wide sleeves, richly ornamented
with gold and silver braid. a braided
waistcoat is worn beneath this jacket,
and the trousers, full and wide. like
those of the Turks, are of native linen,
and fastened by a cord knotted at the
side. Sandals are the general foot
gear, the simplest kind being in one
piece, with a seam from toe to instep.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17
SLEEP, LITTLE BABY, SLEEP.

Sleep, little baby, sometime maybe when
the morn shall break,
Birds and bees shall sing to greet you just
as you awake;
Rest IS sweet when soft night cometh, dark
and downy, too,
Made that fierce light might not Wakeh
little mites Ike you;
Babies, too, get tired at evening just Ike
men and maids,
Sleep, for wells of night have fallen DER
the glens and glades.
Just outside your open window mods a
lovely rose,
Keeping watch with breath Ike, incense
Ger your sweet repose;
Nightingalcs sft liquid music through the
leaves near by,
Boftened by the soothing distance comes
the OWLS shrill cry;
Leaves bend low to laugh and listen as
they watch your face,
Whispering softly lest they wake you rom
that pose Of grace.
Surely never mlghtlest monarch had
sWeetcr nest.
Never thoughtful love more loyal watched
the couch he pressed;
Flowers to glad you when you waken with
their bliss and bloom,
Clarifying every corner Of the humble
room;
FalthIul FlGO CTOuChluB TcduJ At ypui '4iiJ
feet,
One Of many hearts which guard you in
your snug retreat
Surely sleep must needs be perfect for
babe like you,
SoU so void OF leaks and lying that no
sins creep through;
Heart as innocent of hatred as Of vicious
thought
Face on which no evil fancics hendIsh fres-
Goes wrought,
Sleep without rcmorse to write It's record
in black dreams,
Mite to which all faith aud fullness means
Just what IL seems.
Would that we could sleep as calmly In
untroublcd rest.
No rcmorscful recOllections branded in our
breast
Sleeping tranqu.. as the nowerets waiting
for the morn,
Nothing to distract our slumbers, like the
babe new born;
Thou shalt wake to love and laughter
though thy face be hid
Meath the flowers which veil with splen-
dor thy white collins Id
l. EDGAR JONES.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17
HOUSE WAS OUT OF COAL.
How Buffalo Bill Regulated n Red
Lodge (MontD Hotel One
Cold Morning.

"Bill' McCune, we'll known as one of
Buffalo Biil's firm friends and chief
lieutenants, tells a story in the Omaha
Bee, Of how Col Cody regulated a coun-
try hotel. at was at Red Lodge, Mont,
last winter" said McCune, land the
weather was just about as cold as it
ever gets. He arose at five o'clock in
the morning, MS is his custom. Going to
the hotel Office he found a man-of- all.
work engaged in scrubbing the floor.
There was not particle of fire.
Got Cody wanted to know how soon
there would be some heat. The scrub
Der told him it was an indefinite propo-
sition as the hotel had suddenly run out
of coal. Meanwhile Cody sat in chair
shivering. The man who welded the
mop stick scrubbed away rs though it
were summer time and coming close to
Cody, he gave wide swath with his
mop, completely enveloping the
colonel's feet. A moment later that
man was kicking about in a snow drift
in front of the hotel. The colonel had
thrown him out.
Cody was mad. lie bolted out of the
hotel like a whirlwind, and finding a
coal dealer woke him up and ordered
ton of coal sent Immediately to the
hotel. When he returned he went into
the dining-room, thinking is might be
warmer than the hotel office. He was
veXed TO find that the man he had
pitched into the snowdrift had picked
himself up and had meantime scrubbed
the dining-room. The water froze on
the floor until it was like a skating rink.
| A timid little woman, who was nervous
for fear she would miss a train, got up
early and, failing to find a fire in the
Office, peeped through the dining room
| door and asked: rs there no fire here.
either?' Fire replied the gallant
colonel, mo, madam, there is no fire,
| These people seem to be running a
/ skating rink, and before you venture in
here you will do w"!l to buckle on a
/ pair Of skates After awhile the coal
arrived and Cody did not cease until
he saw a red-hot blaze in every stove
in the house"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17
HE MADE HER TIRED.
Ard She Gave Him to Understand ns
Much in n Most Emphatic
Manner,

Anything wrong?" asked the hotel clerk
of the New York drummer who had Just got
home from the west, relates the Buffalo
Courier.
II was thinking" was the reply II rode
from Toledo to Buffalo with the prettiest
but that didn't hurt you Who was
she?"
Cant tell"
"You didn't introduce yourself and get
her card in return?"
"No particular trouble, eh?' solictously
"Well, it was this way" replied the trav.
eler, as he braced up for, the explanation;
"She sat opposite me, you know, and tried
for an hour to catch her eye. She simply ig-
uored line and gazed out of the window. Then
/ rose and handed her a magazine, but she
declined with thanks. Ten minutes later
bought the latest novel out, but she said she
didn't care to read. Then | bought some
fruit but she would accept none. She also
Ignored, me when tried to draw her out on
music"
But you persisted?'
ooh, yes That is, I was about to make
another attempt to enter into conversation
when the tram came to halt at a town and
the girl beckoned me over. | was there IN
an instant, and with the sweetest smile you
ever saw she asked me if would do her a
slight favor"
with all my heart" fastened to say.
"Well," she said, smiling even more
sweetly, Suppose you leave the train here
and take the next one that follows, for you
have made me dead tired, and | feel like
taking nap"
Good gracious" whispered the clerk
eyes, sir, said the drummer as he reached
for a cigar, "and | want to 60 up TO my room
and sit and think and try and figure it out.
Perhaps it's time / left the road and settled
down at home"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17
HOUSE DECORATION.
Home Products Can BE Utilized to
Advantage by Women with
Sense for the Beautiful.

We often wander far afield in search
of something rare to decorate home,
and scorn what lies right at hand I'M
til some one else opens our eyes to the
beauty of our own home products.
House decoration is apt to be oveRdone,
and year by year accumulations are al
lowed to remain. How much better to
send sentiment to the winds and de-
stroy by fire things that have become
dust-soiled and useless. There are few
houses now where the front room has
in evidence the case of wax pond-lilies
that used to be found on every parlor
comfortable or the framed worsted
flowers or hair wreaths. Reading.
books, magazines and family papera
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17

sofa and Michigan, there are hundreds Of
the most charming Summer Resorts await
ing the arrival of thousands of tourists
from the South and East.
Among the list of near by places are Fox
Lake, Delavan, Lauderdale, Waukesha,
Oconomowoc, Palmyra, The Dells at Xii
bourn, Elkhart and Madison, while a little
further off are Minocqua, Star Lake, From
tenac, White Bear, NIinnetonka and Mar
quette on Lake Superior.
For pamphlet of Summer Homes for
1900" or for copy of our handsomely illus-
trated Summer book, entitled In The Lake
Country" apply to nearest ticket agent or
address with four cents in postage, Geo. II.
Heatford, General Passenger Agent, Old
Colony Building, Chicago, III.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-17

Every woman has furtive desire to
keep her youthful looks as long as pos
sible. and the secret of eternal youth"
is very simple thing to accomplish.
Interest in life, excitement, something
to do which keeps the mind active and
a certain carelessness of temperament
are the leading essentials beside which
careful eating and drinking and regu-
lar habits are of very little Importance.
Activity accompanied by late hours
and irregular habits of living is bet
ter than listless, stagnant life, if
there is any virtue in this theory of
wont f.