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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-06-23

LONE hOCK, HIGHLAND 20, WIS,
June 18, 1875. I
Ed. REPUBLICAN,
We have been
blessed of late with large quantaties
Of rain, consequently the ground is
very wet A wind storm visited this
vicinity on the ID inst, doing some
damage. Crops look we'll here, yet
the prospect is, that the chinch bugs
will injure our wheat, as they have
put in an appearance in large quanti-
ties and have been interviewing our
grain fields with marked results.
An idea has become prevalent in
the Eastern States that there is no
timber in the West, yet this is a mis-
take. We have as nice bodies of tim.
ber here as can be found anywhere,
such as white, black and burr oak,
ash. hickory, cottonwood, blackberry,
walnut, etc. I've seen larger timber in
this State than l ever saw in Pa.
Water is plenty and, on the prairies,
good water can be found by digging
not over twenty feet, and we have a
process of sinking water tubes by
driving, that plenty Of water can be
procured in one-half days labor.
Work has again commenced on the
Wisconsin and Fox River Improve
ment. Petitions were sent to Congress
from Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and
Wisconsin, last winter concerning a
canal from Prairie du Chen to Port
age, distance of 115 miles, as the
Government had failed to make the
Wisconsin River navigable after three
years labor. One-half million dollars
were appropriated last winter to carry
on the work, and the Department put
the matter in the hands of engineers,
but in place of beginning the canal,
wing dams, as heretofore, appear to
be the order of affairs, and every rise
in the river sweeps the wing dams
away. The navigation of the Wiscon-
sin river will never be accomplished
by the channel.
notice ye editor has been enjoying
the sport of trouting. Come out here
some pleasant morning, Mr.. Dunn,
and you and your correspondent will
invade the head waters of Big Bear
where those "speckled fellows" can be
caught of several pounds in weight.
But our best sport is in hunting chick
ems; they are to be found here in large
numbers, thousand sometimes to.
gether. Sportsmen from Chicago and
Milwaukee often visit this locality
during August and September and
slaughter them with impunity. Come
MIR. Editor out West, and we will
treat you to choice dishes that would
tempt an epicure. Almost all wild
game can be found, here that the west
affords. Deer are quite plenty; bears
visit the farmer occasionally to his
cost; elk are to be found in the north
ern part of the State; wolves are nu-
merous and large bounties are paid for
their scalps. Small game, such as
geese, ducks, pigeons, grouse, wood
cock, plover, &C., are plenty.
The Western States are settled by
people of almost every nation, and as
to character we vie with any State !;
yet there is no distinction here between
the wealthy and poorer class. The
only lines drawn in society here is be-
tween the intelligent. honest class and
the low degraded character; and every
community has the last named class
Gambling is carried on in the west to
greater extent than east.
But I'll close for this time.
More anon, N. B. HooD.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-06-23
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

bills have been sent out by M.
W. Tate, Esq, for subscriptions due
to the FOREST REPUBLICAN. These
bills are not ours, but the company's,
of whom VIC bought this Office on Jan
nary 1st, 1873. We collect our own
bills. If.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-06-23

Rev. Lusher will preach in the
M. Z. Church on next Sunday morning.
. Union Sabbath School at 1000 a. nj.
"A few more suckers met with a
violent death on Monday evening. A
party was out spearing.
IS. A. Warner has put in a sub.
stantial crossing between the Forest
House and the Court House grounds.
Mr.. L. Chase has moved into the
Harlan House, just south of the For
est House, but has not yet got fairly
scged. Himself and family are vel
coined to our place.
-Remem ber the dance at the Law.
renee House on Friday evening, July
2d. McCray's band of Tidioute fur.
nishes the music. No special invita-,
tions issued.
"A delegation of Pleasantville
Odd Fellows visited Tionesta Lodge
No. 500 on Friday evening last. They
are goodly lot of gentlemep, whom
it will always be pleasure to meet.
The earthquake wave is moving
north, shocks having been experienced
in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on Fri
day last. Buildings were shaken as
by a strong wind. The damage was
slight.
Part Of the new Superior Mill has
been raised, and the rest will 60 up as
fast as possible. While this mill will
not be as large as the old one it will
answer the purpose of Mr.. Dithridge
as we'll.
&c. Jameson, at his farm opposite
the mouth of Tubb's Run, has been
indulging in a general coat of paint
all over and through his house. Mr..
Chase is still at the job, which is said
TO be good one.
ALLEN and Rookie tried to have
fight last week, but didn't meet, for
want Of money, or sand, or something.
The usual crowd was at the place
where the fight was advertised, but
we're disappointed.
Our farmers seem discouraged
about the fruit crop, next fall, believ-
ing that there will be little if any, to
speak Of The late frosts played havoc
with the blossoms and young fruit,
hence the dismal outlook.
We noticed last week that the rail-
road was undergoing repairs, the track
men laying new iron wherever it is
needed. This will be good news to
Ehe travelling public, as the old rails
were getting pretty we'll battered.
M. w. Tate, Esq, and wife, left
town last week for Clearfeld, whittier
they were called by news of the dan
gerous illness of Mr.. Tate's father. He
was stricken with paralysis short
time ago, and his family are greatly
alarmed about his condition. 1t is to
be hoped that Mr. Tate Sr. will con-
valesce rapidly, and eventually gain
his usual good health.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-06-23
BOROUGH OFFICERS.

Durgess--JoHN REcK.
CounciimeH-G. w. Robinson, S. A.
Warner, A. b. Kelly, S. IL. Haslet, A. IL.
Partridge, II. o. Davis.
Justices Of the Tweed. $. Knox, C. a.
Randall
C0Rstdbte--H. Swaggart
School Directors-D. s. Knox, II. o. Da-
Wis, s. J. Wolcott, S. II. Haslet, A. u.
Kelly, u. Clark.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-06-23
c. w. EARNEST,
SURGEON DENTIST.

TIDIoUTE, PA.
A LII OPERATIONS pertaining TO Sur
n gicM or Mechanical Dentistry per-
formed with care, and warranted. / guar
antee SUCCESS or refund the money.
Ofice in GRANDIN BRICK BLOCK.
Remember the place.
3e-ly. O., w. EARNEST.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-06-23

"A new stock of Spring hats and
caps just opened at the Hat Store, two
doors below the Post.office, Tidioute
very stylish. Call and see them. Of
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-06-23
SHERIFF's SALE.

pY VIRTUE of sundiy writs of Le-
ID vari Facias issued out of the Court
of Common Pleas OF Forest County,
and to me directed, there will be exposed
to sale by public vendue or outcry, at the
Court House, in the borough of Tionesta
on
MONDAY, JUNE 2Sth, A. D., 1875,
at II o'clock A. M, the following decribed
real estate, to-wit:
N. S. Foreman VS.. Michael Ittel Jr.,
owner and contractor. No. 8, Sept Term,
1875, G. d. No. 81, Feb. Term, 1S75,-Dan !.
iel Warters and Patrick Joyce, partners as
Walters 6 Joyce VS.. Michael Ittel Jr.,
owner or reputed owner and contractor,
No. 10, Sept. Term, 1875, G. d. No, 33,
Feb. Term, lS75,-P. d. Thomas, sugges-
ton of Geo. w. Dithridge, VS.. Michael It.
tel Jr., owner or reputed owner and con-
tractor, No. 13 Sept. Term, 1875, G. ID. No.
30 Feb. Term, 1875,-Wm. j. Shrader for
use of Robinson Il Bonner, VS.. Michael
tractor, No. IA Sept. Term, lS75.--Irwin.-
That certain Lot lying in Tionesta Bor-
ough, Forest County, Pennsylvania, be-
ing Lot No. Is in block al, ;" at the corner
of May and Vine streets; containing one
half acre be the same more or less hav-
ing front on Vine street Of VI feet and
extending back on May street 1893 feet to
post, thence north IL degrees east "a feet
to post, thence north 7s degrees west 1876
feet to post; on which is erected a two
story frame house 81 feet square, and out
buildings.
Taken in execution and to be sold as the
property of Michael Ittol Jr., owner or
reputed owner and contractor, at the suits
of N. s. Foreman, Daniel Walters and
Patrick Joyce partners as Walters d
Joyce, p. ID. Thomas suggestion of Geo.
w. Dithridge, VIM. ]. Shrader for use Of
Robinson DC Bonner.
Usual Terms
T. J. VAN GIESEN, Sheriff,
Sheriff's office, Tionesta, Pa, June l, 1875.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07
Odd Cures.

Graham, the once famous quack, was
wont to exhibit himself plunged to the
chin in mud, mud bath taken regu-
larry being his specific for insuring a
century of health, happiness, and hon
or. Every physician at the time treat
ed mud bathing with ridicUle, but in
the present day the celebrated mud
baths at a certain German watering
place are among the recognized means
of ameliorating several disorders. Ora
ham was not wrong; he only took
quackish way of announcing his theo-
ries. There is apparently a curative
power in earth. Not long ago, man
employed at some iron works near
Melksham managed to get himself
fixed in the narrow part of an iron
tube, and when he was extricaled, was
to all appearance dead. His mates dug
a hole in the ground, put the uncon-
scious patient into it, and filed in the
earth, leaving only small hole for him
to breathe through, should he draw
breath again. In a very short time
he showed signs of returning life, with
his own hands cleared away the earth,
and dram of brandy set him once
more on his legs, little the worse for
his mishap. joaquin Miller's earth
cure experience had a more ghastly
ending. Travelling with mining party
in California, six of them were sudden
ly struck down with sculvy, and there
being none of the usual remedies at
hand, an old sailor suggested the trial
of one, which had saved ships crew
in some land in the tropics. This was
simply to bury the men upright as far
as their chins. until the earth drew the
poison out of their bodies. Six pits
were quickly dug in the warm alluvial
soil, and when the sun went down, the
men were placed in them, and the earth
shOveled in around them. It was a
beautiful moonlight night and the
operation completed, the invalids chat
ted Raily together; their shaggy heads
just bursting through the earth in the
ftful moonlight, made them look like
men coming up to judgment their
voices sounding weird and ghostly, as
of another world. After a while, one
by one they fell asleep, and all was still.
Their comrades then stole away and
sought their cabins. When they rose in
the morning, and went to see how the
buried men Jared, they found that the
wolves had come down in the night, and
eaten off every head level with the
ground
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07
The Boy on LabrOsse Street.

When a Lacrosse street boy is play
ing "hop-scotch" on the walk and his
mother comes to the door and asks him
to split some wood, he replies that he
will be along in Just one minute. At
the end of ten minutes she opens the
door and says:
" Wilyum, I want that wood p
"I'm coming right now," he replies,
and then goes on hopping here and
there on one leg.
Another ten minutes flies away, and
she opens the door aud says
Wilyum, if you don't get that wood
you know what your father will do -
I" Just ten seconds !" he calls back,
and he enters upon a new game.
The next time she calls she says:
young man, it's almost noon and l
can't cook dinner without that wood ~
ct know it-I'm coming now," he
replies, and he stands on one foot and
holds long discussion with the John
son boy as to whether the game of
"hop-scotch" is as good game as base
ball. He has just started to hop when
a boy whispers
eli, Bill there's your old dad -
"Great snakesl" whispers Bill, and
he goes over the fence like q flash,
grabs the ak, and during the next two
minutes he strikes two hundred blows
per minute. He gets into the house
ahead of his father, and as he drops the
wood he says:
Mother, the boys were Just a sayin'
that had the handsomest and best and
coolest mother on Lacrosse street, and
1 want to kiss you !''-DetrOt Free
Press
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07
Funny Men of the Press.

The clowns of journalism are now
legion, and recognized constituent of
the fourth estate. Every now and then
new one Jumps into the ring with a
here [ am cap, bells, and motley 7"
and proceeds at once to the prosecution
of his department of "funnyman of the
staff" He performs by dint of every
abuse of language, by every distortion
of phraseology, by every perversion OF
the true line of thought, by every con-
ceit of fancy that suggests itself TO an
imagination warped by malpractice i'll
his line of business. He'll catch
quaint idea roaming loosely through
his hair brain, and set it agoing for the
amusement of his readers, as If 1t were
Il cur with tin kettle at his tail. He'll
set off fire. work of an idea, swapping
and sparkling on its way, to be seen
and wondered at for a moment, but to
end in smoke and fzzle-played out
and forgotten after its transient mission.
Sometimes his cur won't perfOrm-wont
run with the kettle; and sometimes his
firework doesn't sparkle: in fact, his
fun falls fiat, and he's miserable he is
disappointed artist, and feels that he
is a failure, and everybody considers
him failure, especially his employer
or his subscribers, if he is publisher.
Our clown is become an essential to the
press as the Jester is in the plays of
Shakespeare, to relieve their darker
shades; as the lights contrasting the
shadows of a picture, that both may
stand out in clearer relief. His jokes
come into the column as the neigh
Dor paragraph to the chronicle OF a
murder most foul. He airily disports
his rattle brain fantasies on the same
sheet that sets forth the conclusions of
the grave and reverend seignors of
church and state in the journalistic
record of events. His Jest is in the
interlude, like the sardine in the sand
wich. that comes between the more
bulky and substantial; that relieved
the iabored, artistic feats of the hip
pOdrOme.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07
Insects and Flowers.

In the ninth of a series of valuable
papers, communicated by Hermann
Muller on the fertilization of flowers
by insects to nature, he shows that
butterflies effect the cross fertilization
of Alpine orchids. It seems that from
II to Is per cent. of the orchids of the
lowlands are fertilized by Lepidopters,
while from 60 to 80 per cent. of Alpine
orchids are fertilized by the same kind
of insects. This corrobOrates, he says,
his view that the frequency of butter
flies in the Alpine region mus have
been Influenced by the adoption of
Alpine flowers.
Muller has also shown the wonderful
modification brought about in the legs
and mouth part of bees by their efforts
in fertilizing flowers.
Lubbock's charming little book on
'tBritish Wild Flowers Considered in
Relation to Insects" has Just appeared.
He SAYS that while from time immemo-
rial we have known that flowers are of
great importance to insects, it is only
Comparatively late that we have realized
how important insects are to flowers.
"For it is not too much to say that if,
on the one hand, flowers are in many
cases necessary to the existence of in
sects, insects on the other hand, are
still more Indispensable to the very
existence of flowers, There
has thus been an interaction of insects
upon flowers, and of flowers upon
insects, resulting in the gradual mod
ifcation of both"
In another place he adopts the start
ling and probably correct view that to
bees and other insects "we probably
owe the beauty of our gardens and the
sweetness of our fields. To them flow
ers are indebted for their scent and
color-nay, for their very existence in
their present form. Not Cnly have the
present shape and outlines, the brilliant
colors, the sweet scent and the honey
of flowers been gradually developed
through the unconscious selection ex-
ercised by the insects, but the very
arrangement of the colors, the circular
bands and radiating lines, the forms,
size and position of the petals, the
relative situation of the stamens and
pistiI, are all arranged with reference
to the visits of insects, and in such
manner as to insure the grand object
which these visits are destined to
effect"
Lubbock has also continued his OBJ
servations on the intelligence of in
sects. He confirms his conclusions
presented last year to the Linn@an
society that the bees can distinguish
coIOrs. He then recounts some expert
ments on the sense of smell possessed
by bees, on the power of recognizing
their own companions, and on the diff
ferent occupations of different bees,
mentioning observations which seem to
show that the bees act as nurses during
the first few weeks of their life, and only
subsequently take to collecting honey
and pollon. He also records number
of experiments on ants, which certainly
seemed to show that whatever may be
the case with bees, ants do possess the
power of communicating detailed facts
70 oOa ouOthar
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Sham Houses.

Charles Warren Stoddard writes !:
There are houses in Florence, many of
them, that look as if they were built of
| the stage scenery of some dismantled
theatre. / saw one this morning,
snug modern affair as severely simple
in its proportions as packing-box, yet
it was so touched mp by the brush of
some scenic artist that a balcony with
six pillars seemed to start out from the
front of it. There were two doors and
four windows introduced to complete
the harmony of the facade. Yet these
were all deceptions the house pre-
tended to be of stone, with a plaster
that had peeled of in spots, exposing
the rough-cut walls. In an attic win
dow, a mere picture, cat summed her
self, and little way from her sat two
pigeons billing, but not coOing, for that
was beyond the art even of a Florentine
house-p painter. rake leaned against
the wall, and cast a palpable shadow
that unfortunately ran against the sun
for it was late in the day, and the
shadow was stationary two towels hut-
tered from the balcony pail was
turned over in the corner part, and
bush that might bewilder botanist
bloomed forever in blossoms OF yellow
and red-blossoms as gross and I'M
savory as cabbages. Was this all No;
one of the fraudulent windows was
open fair and most substantial virgin
leaned forth, and with her arm extended
like a statue she waves night and day,
year after year, a handkerchief TO the
passer by, be he friend or stranger.
This sort of thing is often seen in Flor
ence. Sometimes two lovers "spoon" "
unblushinglv in sham window. One
is half inclined to ask if the inmates sat
for this picture, but the questions of that
nature would be too frequent. l have
almost lost confidence in everything !
Florentine. 1 am never quite sure that |
it is house see before me, or only !
the rear wall of somebody's garden. l |
am quite convinced that | shall some |
day find myself knocking at false door |
and waiting impatiently for the descent |
of the fiat. faced young woman who sits |
week after week smiling upon the world |
from the window overhead.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07
LEXINGTON.


Slowly the mist DER the meadow creeping,
BRIGHT on the dewy buds glistened the sun,
When from his COUCH while his children were sleep
ing,
Rose the bold rebel, and shouldered his gun.
Waving her golden veil
Over the silent dale,
Blithe looked the morning on cottage and spire;
flushed was his parting sigh,
While from his noble eye
Flashed the last sparkle of iberty's fire.
On the smooth green where the fresh leaf is spring
Calmly the first-born of glory have met;
Hsrk the death-volley around them is ringing!
Look with their life-blOod the young grass is wet
Faint is the feeble breath,
Murmuring low in death,
mTell to our sons how their fathers have died"
Nerveless the iron hand
Raised for its native land,
Lies by the weapon that CLEANS at its side.
Over the hilI-sides the wild kneIl is tolling,
From their far harnlets the yeomanry come:
As through the storm-coud the thunder burst roll
ing,
Circles the beat Of the mastering drum.
Fast on the soldiers path
DarKen the waves of wrath,
Long have they gathered and loud shall they fall
Red glares the muRket's flash,
Sharp rings the rifles crash,
Blazing and changing from thicket and wall.
GavIy the plume Of the forseman dancing,
Never to shadow his cold brow again;
Proudly at morning the war steed was prancing,
Reeking and painting he droops on the rein;
Pale is the lip of scorn,
Voiceless the trumpet horn,
Torn is the silken-fringed red cross on high;
Many beted breast
Low on the turf shall rest,
Ere the dark hunters the herd have passed by.
SnOw-girdled crags where the hOarse wind is raving
Rocks where the weary floods murmur and wall,
Wilds where the fern by the furrOw is waving,
Reeled with the echoes that rode on the gale;
Far as the tempest thrills
Over the darkened hills,
Far as the sunshine streams over the plain,
Reused by the tyrant band,
Woke all the mighty land,
Girded for battle, from mountain to main.
Green be the graves where her martyrs are lying!
ShrOudess and tOHnbless they sunk TO their rest
While DER their ashes the starry fold flying
Wraps the proud eagle they reused from his nest.
Borne on her northern pine,
Long DER the fOaming brine
Spread her broad banner to storm and to sun
Heaven keep her ever free,
Wide as DER land and sea
Floats the fair emblem her heroes have won