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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
Deep Setting of MILK.

At a Canadian institute the essay
list, in answer to questions, said that
deep setting of milk should continue
from IL to "a hours in winter; that a
starter should be added to the cream
"a hours before churning; that skim
milk fresh from the separator makes
as good a starter as new milk, and
that buttermilk would do as we'll as
sour milk for that purpose if perfect
ly good, but it often has developed in
furious bacteria; that if the temper
ature of cream is too high, or If the
churn is filled too full. or sweet and
sour cream are mixed just before
churning, there is liability of consid-
cradle butter being left in the butter
milk; while if cream is too thin or
pooor in butter fat, or too cold, there
is a chance of butter being granulated
and not collecting; that it will pay
to have a butter worker even where
but one COW is kept, and that when
milking eight cows they found gain
of five dollars per month by the use
of a separator; that pure cream can
be obtained without the use of
separator, but the chances are against
it; that soap should never be used on
dairy utensils, but soda may be used,
and for wooden utensils the best thing
is to dip wet brush in salt and scrub
we'll. The main points to be OBJ
served in putting up a dairy building
are to construct it so that the temper
ature can be controlled, have the
drainage perfect and perfectly
tight floor. and have the building so
made that every part can be easily
cleaned.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
The LiYinr-ROon.

Do you housekeepers realize that
one of the best ways to save work is
to have few knick-knacks about to
collect the dust. You may think your
rooms look bare when you remove
score or more of useless and often
grimy so-called ornaments. But if
you learn how to make your house as
beautiful as possible with your linn
tied means, you will learn to see that
all these troublesome articles may
best be dispensed with. If you have
q good floor. hard wood is possible,
covered with plain filling" mating,
or paint, if not, d dado of bookshelves
four feet high all around the room, a
clock, three or four easy chairs,
half dozen good pictures, two or three
pieces of really ornamental pottery
or metal and substantial table or
desk, you have enough furniture to
make your living-room attractive and
comfortable. Don't fill it up with
bric-a-brac, raperies-eXcept plain
curtains-small tables and valueless
papers and pamphlets. Remember, in
papering the livingroom and parlor,
that plain colors make the best back
ground for pictures and ingram pa
pers are cheap and durable and can
be procured in very pretty tints.
When the house is new and you wish
to wait for it to settle before paper
ing, a very good effect can be OBJ
tanned by mixing color with the rough
plaster. This is remarkably good with
a rich. deep red CT olive tint, and
saves the finishing coat. Rag car
pets, or better, rugs, are not to be
disdained. They are more beautiful
than many an expensive, gaudy new
carpet. Don't be afraid of simplicity.
but try to have things good what
there are of them.-Farm. Field and
Fireside
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
Fall Flowing Conditions.

Where spring wheat or oats are
grown, fall plowing should be done on
an extensive scale, as under usual con-
ditions it permits the sowing of these
grains from two to three weeks earlier
than is possible when the plowing is
delayed until spring. In the fall or
early winter, plowing can often be
done at the least expense, there being
no other timely work for team or men.
The team is fully hardened to heavy
work, and. Notwithstanding the short
days, more work is accomplished than
during the longer days of spring, when
the team is not Injured to hard labor
Low lands can often be plowed at this
season, which the snow and spring
rains would make quite impossible to
plow in the spring in time for a sea-
sonable crop. Upon fall plowed land
wheat and oats are often sown when
the bottom of upturned furrow is often
frozen solid and upon the earhness of
sowing these crops depends the profit
in their production.
Fall plowing can be done when the
upturned furrow looks sleek and
greasy from so much moisture in the
soil. This condition will do no harm,
as the freezing that soon follows tears
to piece the most compact clods, leav-
ing the surface soil soft and friable,
while if done under the same moisture
conditions in the spring the results
would be the reverse. Fall plowing of
a stiff sod not only causes every furrow
to act as drain to absorb the railfall,
but the upturned furrow contains the
wire and cutworms, and thus exposed
they are frozen to death. If you desire
to test the benefit of fall plowing, plow
a wide strip across the field in late fall
and the balance at the usual time in
the spring and note the result at har-
vest time. Particularly if the land be
sod, you will he surprised at the result.
L. B. Shook, in American Agricul-
turist.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
To Clean a Wooden Dress.

The following simple method of
cleaning a dress skirt has been SO
thoroughly tested that no one need
hesitate about trying it. The rule
was first learned from a cook who
accidentally had cup of melted but
ter spilled over her dress. 1t was
thought to be beyond reclaiming, but
the cook herself declared that she
could take every bit of the grease out
and she did. Since then the rule
has been applied to many less hope
less cases, and invariably with the
most satisfactory of results.
Take three-fourths of pail of cold
soft water, and add one teacup of am
monia. Thoroughly brush and shake
the dress skirt, then rinse it up and
down repeatedly in this ammonia wa
ter. After thoroughly 'sousing" it,
let it lie in the water for an hour.
Once more rinse it up and down, then
take it out, squeezing the water from
it, but not wringing it.
Put up two lines so that they shall
cross each other and hang the skirt
upon them, pinning the bottom to the
crossed lines so that the skirt shall
be we'll spread apart.
While the skirt is still quite damp
iron it upon the wrong side, ironing
till ry.-Washington Star.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
Increased Fruit Crops.

AS referred to at the time, CORE.
spondent wrote that his neighbors who
did not spray their fruit trees appeared
to have as good crops as he did, who
practised spraying right along. The
reply was made at the time that this
was quite reasonable to understand, as
the one who sprayed destroye the in
sects and fungi which otherwise would
have preyed on the neighbor's fruit as
well as on his own. Similar expert
ence is being recorded in various parts
of the country. Fruit crops are being
perfected from unsprayed trees where
they had been unknown for years. 1t
is simply that insects have had their
numbers greatly reduced, so much SO
that there is enough fruit which es-
eapes injury to give a good crop. In
this vicinity the apple crop has been
good for two seaons in orchards which
have never been sprayed. The danger
Will be that inconsiderate persons will
think there Is no need to spray, in
which case the enemy would soon be as
bad as ever.
A remarkable instance of the free
| uoin OF our local OfcntTuS from lHSecls
was called to my attention recently. In
an orchard embracing apples, pears,
cherries, plums and ounces were also
a half dozen apricot trees. These trees
had been planted eight years ago. This
year some OF the trees are quite full OF
| fruit for the first time in their life.
saw the fruit, and examined 1t for cur
culio marks. Very few were visible.
and what We're seemed TO indicate the
futility of the insects work. There Is
no doubt we shall hear a good deal OF
the uselessness of spraying when un-
thinking persons find unsprayed or
ehards bearing in this way. but our
own interests demand that we con-
tinue the good work of spraying. Ii Is
provoking that our work Is beneiltlng
an unbelieying or lazy neighbor, who
| perhaps derides what We are doing.
but IL IL only what Is happening every
| day In various other ways.-Practlcal
| Farmer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
rh. value of italian pees.

The Italian is the most profitable
bee Even the hybrids are much SUI
perior to the common bee. Sometimes
there ere colonies Of hybrids that are
better than the pure stock. But, as
writer correctly said, Even if it were
true that hybrids produce as much
money as pure Italians, each beekeeper
would want at least one queen ofabso.
lutte and known purity; for although a
first cross might do very we'll, unless
he had this one pure queen to furnish
queen cells, he would soon have bees
of all possible grades, from the faintest
trace of Italian blood all the way up.
The objection to this course is, that
these blacks, with about one band to
show trace of Italian blood, are the
wickedest bees to sting that can we'll
be imagined, being very much more
vindictive than either race in its pu-
rity; they also have very disagree
able way of tumbling off the combs in
a perfectly demoralized state whenever
the hive is opened, except in the height
of the honey-season, and of making
general uproar when they are COM
PEELED, by smoke, to be decent Our
pure Italian stocks can be opened at
any time, and their queens removed,
scarcely disturbing the cluster, and, as
a general thing, without the use OF any
smoke at all, by one who is fully con-
versant with the habits of bees.
good many hybrids will not repel the
moth, as do the half-bloods and the
n
several others, rear all queens from
one of known purity. If we do this,
we may have almost, if not quite the
full benefit of the Italians as honey
gatherers, even though there are black
bees all about us.-Agricultural Epit
OmiSt.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
Start With One Variety of Poultry.

Select one or two varieties of poultry
that suit your fancy and requirements,
and do not attempt to keep more, at
any rate not until you have become
Well acquainted with what you have.
One breed alone can be housed and
cared for with less expense, and you
can attain higher state of perfection.
The owner will be better able to supply
eggs when ordered for Matching, and
will be able to learn more about the
fowl that he makes speciality OF than
by keeping several varieties. And,
whatever number of breeds we keep,
why not have thoroughbreds ? There
are enough kinds for anyone to select
from. If we should cross several varie-
ties, the chances are that we would not
get anything as desirable as the breeds
already established, and to start new
breed or variety requires years of
breeding, and while we are at work in
this way no one wants any of our
stock. The probabilities are, we will
tire of them ourselves before we ac-
complish nything.-Practical Poul-
tryman.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
Cost Then and Now.

Experts of the department of agri-
culture have reckoned that 20
years ago in the United States it re-
quired just a bit over three hours to
produce bushel of wheat. Today an
average bushel is turned out in ten
minutes. In 1880 the cost of labor con-
sumed was nearly IS cents; at present
it is only three ani one-third cents.
Similar figures might be cited for
other products of the soil, but it will
suffice to say that during the year 1889
a saving of $6Sl 500 900 was made in
the raising and harvesting of the seven
principal crops in the United States by
means of machines and methods in
vented within the last half century. In
other words. the production OF exactly
the same crops so years ago would
have cost that much more money.
This gives a vivid notion of the bene-
fits conferred upon mankind by
modern agricultural invention. The
wheat crop Is increased at least
one-eighth by the use of a
single contriyance known as the me-
ehanieal seeder. Without the cotton
raise and To market the cotton crop OF
this country. which now amounts to
10.O00000 bales or more annually. The
up-to-date corn husker. which is re-
cent invention, husks the corn. and AT
the same time cuts the husks. stalks
and blades into feed. In corn.shellers
the very latest is a steam power ma
chine which will shell bushel a
minute. carry OF the eobs to a pile or
into wagon, and deliver the grain in
TO sacks or wagons Hut the most won
derful contryance OF all Is the com
Mined reaper and thresher. with which
Il Is necessary only 10 drive across the
wheatheld In order to obtain the whest
ready for transportation to the ele-
vator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Boiled Coffee Custard-Boil one
pint of milk with six tablespoonfuls
OF sugar and two cupfuls of strong
coffee. then add three beaten eggs
and one tablespoonful of corn starch
moistened with cold milk. Stir con-
stantly until smooth. Serve with
whipped cream.
Hickory Nut Cake-One and one
half cupful OF butter, three-quarters
Of cupful of sweet milk. two cup.
fuls of -four, one-half cupful OF
chopped nuts. one teaspoonful Of
cream of tartar. one-half teaspoonful
OF soda, the beaten whites of four
eggs. one teaspoonful of vanilla.
Cranberry Sauce-Stew n pound and
one-half of cranberries In a pint Of
water for 12 to Is minutes. Put
through colander or fine wire sieve
and to the pulp add three-quarters
OF pound OF sugar. Put over the
fire until the sugar is dissolved. and
after II is cold 1T is ready for use. II
is TO serve with turkey or game.
Turkey Salad-Mix together one
eupful of the white meat of turkey
cut into dice. one cupful OF celery cut
fine. and one-third OF a cupful Of
blanched almonds cut into strips:
marinate with French dressing and
let stand In a cool place for one hour;
place on bed of lettuce leaves, GOV.
er with mayonnaise and serve.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
An Ancient Visiting Card.

The oldest visiting card of which
there Is any record is TO be found in
Contarlni, professor q. the University
of Padua. sent the card in question as
n curiosity to Venetian friend, saying
that the German students who came
to Italy had the elegant and laudabic
custom of leaving such little cards,
with their name and place of origin. AT
the houses Of friends when they called
and found them absent. The card re-
ferred to bears n coat-of-arms, with
the motto "Espoir me comfort" and
beneath "Joannes Wasterhof West
pha.us scribebat. PatavIi 4 Martii
i5G0."-pall Mall Gazette.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

There is more Catarrh In this seotioL Of the
country than all other diseases put togethe er,
and until the last few years was supposed tobe
incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address F.J. CHENEY& Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, TOO.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
Corn and Cob Meal a Good Thing.

Corn and cob meal has been proved
to be of great value to farmers. Here
is what a government bulletin says of
it: "The corn and cob are often
ground together without shelling, and
where the cob is not too large and
woody the corn and cob meal has given
good results in feeding. The ground
cob is believed to be of value on ac-
count of the food and the ash constit-
uents, and on account of the beneficial
mechanical influence which it has on
the digestion of the corn meal. The
feeding of the cob and corn meal de-
pends somewhat on the relative pro-
,tion Of cob and kernels in the ear,
which differ in different varieties"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
How to Cook the Squash.

A rich, nutty flavor peculiar to win
ter squash is lost when the vegetable
Is boiled. Wash and dry the squash
and cut it, without removing the
shell, into pieces about three inches
square. Take out the seeds, brush
the inside of each piece with butter,
place in pan and bake in a medium
hot oven. Serve on the shells, brush
ing again with melted butter and
sprinkling with salt before sending to
the table.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
A Great Discovery.

The Master Mind now gave to the
world the fruit of his laborious cal
culations.
AS the shrewd reader will doubtless
have conjectured, it was an extreme
ly impressive moment.
IF you add the first two figures of
1901" announced the Master Mind
modestly, yet dignifiedly, you get the
same result rs If you transpose tue
last two figures"
OF his attendants some wrung out
wet cloths to apply to his head, while
others telephoned for reporters.-De-
troit Journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
A&BlESP6Al AwB lE|RA{ g
A Powder for Poultry Lice.

The following has been recon-
mended as good powder for poultry
lice: One quart of fine hard-coal ashes,
sifted; two tablespoonfuls carbolic
acid; one tablespoonful oil of sasafras;
one gill lime; one gill Scotch snuff.
Mix well, and bottle up. When wanted
fill small baking powder can, hrst
perforating the lid like pepper box
lid, and dust it literally over the at
fected fowl.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
To clean bamboo Furniture.

Do not use soap when cleaning bam-
boo furniture. Instead scrub with
cold water, to which little salt has
been added. Rinse quickly with cold
water, but do not make them wetter
than is absolutely necessary, and dry
in open air as soon as possible.
Clean floor mating in the same way,
but the mating should be hung over
a clothesline and allowed to thorough
ly dry before being relaid.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
A Cab Horse's Past.

Mansour. the horse that ran third
In the Grand Prix OF Paris in 1894 and
come in only a length and a half be-
hind Matchbox, who was sold for
$4,000. Is now pulling "A public cab
ia the streets of the French capital.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

A project is on foot for connecting
Rome with the port Of Ostia by n
canal, which. it is hoped, will bring a
large increase of commercial industry.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Dyeing is rs simple rs washing when you
use PUTNAM FADELEss DYES. Sold by all
druggists.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

No matter what ails you, headache to
cancer, you Will never get we'll until your
bowels are put right. CAscARETs help
nature, cure you without grippe or pain,
produce easy natural movements, cost you
Just 10 cents to start getting your health
back. CAsoARETs Candy Cathartic, the
genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab
let has O.C.C. stamped on it. Beware CT
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

The most magnificent tomb in the
world is deemed to be the Palace Tenn.
pie Of Karnak, occupying an area of
nine acres.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

A man is successful In society to the
extent TO which he forgets his clothes.
n woman to the extent 10 which sha
doesnt.--New York Press.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

nsss after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer So trial bottle and treatisefree
DR.. r. II. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch St., Phila., Pa
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Divine healers have come under the ban
of the Postoffice Department.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces nflamma
ton. allays pain. cures wind collie 2bc. q bottle
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Your storekeeper Can Sell You
Carter's Ink or he can get 1t for you. Ask him.
Try II. Car loads are sent annually to every
state in the Union. Do YOU buy Carter'sf
The style now is to make woman look
as much like a kangaroo as possible.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

him his office Street. New York City, His
skill
health write him constantly Do not of
getting right advice, You
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

If you want "good digestion to walt up
on your appetite" you should always chew
bar of Adams Pepsln Tutti Frutti.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

/ do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumptio
has an equal tor coughs and colds.-JoHN
BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

A due bill very frequently mean
"adieu bill"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

France has twenty-five organ manufac
tories.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Siberia is twenty-five times the size of
Germany.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Widows weeds are often allowed to
grow on mans grave.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

The number of suicides in the German
empire in 1899 was l0,700.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

The BEST Prescriptien for Chihs
"A Fever IA a bottle Of GROVES TAsTHLHee
HILL TONIC. 1t is simply iron and q9inineM M IN
tasteless form. No curs-no pay. Prics o0c'
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Russia has appointed three lady doctors
to its army medical corps.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Frey's vermifuge For Worms
Has many imitators. Get the genuine, made
by E. & s. FREY, BALTIMORE, MD.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03
Best For the Bowels.

The people who go to church fairs take
chances
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-03

Barcelona, Spain, annually consumes
about 100000 tons of coal.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-05-08
a Projected Lead Trust.

St. Louis lead men. says the Post Dis
patch. have watched with interst the or
ganization of the Union Lead and Oil Co. !,
which many believe to be the entering
wedge for a consolidation of the lead in
terests of the country
The Union Lead and Oil Co. has an
option on 1000 acres of land near Iron
dale. Mo-, in the Flat River district.
There has been some talk of building
white lead mills and other manufactur-
ing plants on the property. but SO far
nothing has been done except to sink a
shaft or Two.
Homer Wise of New York is president
of the company. and while he has not
stated where the capital is coming from,
keen eyes have discovered a similarity
between this deal and another in which
St. Louisians are interested.
The agency through which the plant OF
the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.. was
acquired by the trust was a corporation
styled the Union Tobacco Co. The lead.
ing capitalists behind this company were
said to be VIM. c. Whitney and Thomas
F. Ryan of New York. The agents who
secured the option and conducted the deal
were the same men who have been IN ST.
Louis since Jan. last working on the
Union Lead and Oil Co. deal.
Putting two and two together. the brok'
ers have jumped at the conclusion thai
the same process used in bringing the larg-
est and most stubborn of the plug tobacco
factories into the trust is to be utilized in
eHecting a combination of the lead min.
ing interests.
Another view taken by St. Louisians is
that the Union Lead and Oil Co. is to be
used simply as a means of making money
for its promoters when the consolidation
of the lead properties is affected.