The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-03-12

fingered and saw the good man
fall on his knees and with his stream
ing eyes turned to heaven murmur,
"Father forgive them for they know
not what they do" He was roughly
collared by two ushers and hurried
away. 1 followed but lost sight of
him and all my questions failed to
elicit any information concerning him;
no one knew who he was or whence he
came Cor. oil City Derrick.
Rev. DIR. Cuyler talks in this wise:
If the father generally talks money,
money, at home, he generally rears
family in worship of the almighty dol.
lar. If he talks mainly horses, games
aud races, he breeds batch of sports
men. If fashion is the family altar,
then the children are offered up as
victims upon the altar. If q man
makes his own freside attractive, he
may reasonably hope to anchor his
own children around it. My neigh
Dor @ makes himself the constant
evening companion of his boys. The
result is that his boys are never found
in bad places. But if the father hears
the clock strike eleven in his club
house or the playhouse, he need not be
surprised if his boys hear it strike
twelve in the gaming room or the
drinking saloon. If he puts the bot
tie on his own table, he need not won
der if drunken son staggers in, by
and by, at his front door. When the
best friend that childhood and youth
ought to have becomes their foe, the
homes become the starting post for
moral ruin.
A neighboring exchange relates this
of girl in its locality who knowing
her rights dare maintain them. The
fair damsel in question had been re-
ceiving attention from young man
for some time. The leap year had
almost expired and she began to grow
desperate. The other evening he visit
ed her. Twas the evening of the last
day of TO After the usual saluta-
ton she said to him: "You know what
this is, Henry?' "Oh yes" was the
fippant reply, "its 1872" That's
so, was her further remark, "and in
less than four hours it'll be gone. He
smiled sickly smile and murmnred,
"Yes." "Well, l want to know when
you are gning to marry me?' was her
startling question. "I-marry-why,
you don't mean it?' ooh yes l do.
When's it going to be?" 81 never in.
tended anything of the kind" was his
trembling response. She didn't say
another word, but taking up the coal
scuttle knocked him fiat, and then set
on his head, and wouldn't let him up
until the day for the wedding was ap-
pointed.
The presence of mind of some men
is most remarkable. Now there is
that man who dined at the Atlantic
hotel recently. He mistook the horse
redish for some other toolhsOme dish,
, and plunged into it with an avidity
. cheerful to behold. After having ap.
!, propriated a spoonful to his own use
, he suddenly paused, and seemed to be
deiberating profoundly upon some
subject or other. Then he gave q
! snort and remarked, in a sort Of in
! tense manner; Blaze, d-n you.
Few men would have had the pres
! ence of mind to make that speech.
5 1t is no uncommon thing fer bird
to teach themselves new notes quite
different from their own. A tamt
crow, owned by a gentleman, haC
!, been brought up with the chickens
= and as his little adopted brothers be
q gan to try their powers Of growing, h
" concluded to do the same. Tho resul
- was the crow outcrowed them all
He was so proud of his accomplish
- ment that he was given to practicinl
! it all hours of the day, to the grea
g surprise and amusement of stranger
4 who passed that way.
II A few years since there resided il
l one of the counties Of South Caroin
(, two resectable citizens. They were o
It the same surname; they also wer
v cousins. They were members Of tn
e same religious denomination thei
wives were sisters. They we're bot
n nullifiers when South California too
t. the lead in this political adventure
:. Each one was the father of thirtet
y children each of these men had thre
d sons and ten daughters. Where ca
N parallel TO this be found2
- Seventy-fve car loads of bone
= gathered from the plains of Wester
= Kansas, the flames Of dsfunct buff:
a. loes and Texas cattle, have been shil
70 ped East during the. past seasol
- - The best are selected for combs, knit
" handles, DC. ; the next best are groun
! into dust and used for refining sugar