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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-28

1t is dangerous thing TO allow the diarrh9a
or dysentery to go unchecked and there is no
need Of it. A small bottle of JohnsOn's Ano-
dyne Liniment will cure the most stubborn
case that can be produced.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-28

An American merchant in Japan says
an evening stroll through some of the
towns in that country reveals a petro-
leum lamp in nearly every store burn
ing American oil.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-28
Windsor Hotel, New York.

Since the reduction of the rate per day to
$4OO there has been an increase in numbers,
and it would appear this was most judicious
move. The Windsor was never more attractive
10 the traveller than now.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-28

fhe same backache which makes boy
when he's digging potatoes
hes his face in smiles when he slips
back way TO the picnic. Boys
qna insects. - Bridgeport Stand
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-28

The wool clip of 1873 is about three
per cent. greater than that of 1877.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-28

Take one cup OF butter and lard melted to-
gether, add one cup New Orleans molasses; stir
into this one cup each Of sugar and cold water,
aud four cups OF flour, having in II three large
teaspoonfuls Dooley's Yeast Powder. Bake In
moderately hot oven.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
The Inc0nvenice OfDying Unexpectedly.
Hartford Courant.

The habit of dying suddenly and IN
eXpectedly is not in all respects Il COM
mendable one. 1t is one which should
be strictly confined to men of Clearly
lives. Otherwise the coming of the
merciless messenger may lead to disa-
greeable revelations, may show that a
life of outward respectfully has been
whitened sepulchre hiding CHASTITY
and unclean skeletons. A terrible
warning against untimely dying is fur
nished in an incident at the Central
Park in New York last Sunday, some
details of which have already been
given The leading actor was J. Mar
shall Paul, of Philadelphia. He was
in the prime of life, under 40 years,
the son OF Il wealthy merchant,
who died few months since leaving
him half a million dollars. He had
been living in Colorado for the past four
teen years, prominently engaged in
mining and politics. Last year he de-
clined nomination for Governor and
was talked of for candidate for the
United States Senate. He was married
to an adopted daughter of the late Ad-
miral Dahlgreen, moved in the highest
social circle, and, SO far as he was known,
had lived an exemplary life. But last
Sunday evening u wOman's scream was
heard by policeman in Central Park,
and, on investigation. Mr.. Paul was
found dead with his head resting on the
lap of woman, who had tainted away
on making the discovery that her COM
panion was dead. On reviving she told
her story, which is accepted as true, as
the death was pronounced a natural
one. She was a young German woman,
not especially attractive in appearance,
and coarse in her language. She said
that she met Mr. Paul at a picnic
some three weeks ago. Since then
she had had several clandestine meet
ings with him. She kept an appoint
ment with him last Sunday evening and
they walked to the park. He COM
planned of feeling cold, and soon after
they had taken seat he put his head
on her shoulder, and a moment after
ward she discovered that he was dead.
Being unknown the body was taken to
the Morgue. Meanwhile the poor wife,
to whom he had always apparently been
devoted, was waiting at home for her
husbands return, and sent out repeated
messengers during the night to try and
ascertain his Whereabouts What her
feelings must have been in the morning,
when the sad truth and the attendant
revelations were made public, it is need
less to fancy. But the story has its NOR
al, part Of which is in the reflection that
the disgrace and sorrow must fall upon
the innocent and blameless.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
The Prevention of Terrible Disaster.

No disorders, excepting the most deadly forms
of lung disease. involve such tremendous de-
struction Of organic tissue as those which fasten
upon the kidneys. Such maladies, when they
become chronic-and none are so liable to as
sumo that phase-completely wreck the system.
To prevent this terrible disaster resources should
be had, upon the first manifestation of trouble
to Hostetter's Bitters, which experience has
proved to be highly effective as a means OF i'm
parting tone and regularity to the organs of urina-
ton, as well as to the liver. stomach and bowels
Another beneficial result of this medicine, natur-
ally consequent upon its diuretic action, is the
elimination from the o I'd of impurities which
b2get rheumatism. govt. dTopsy. and other mi /
aides. By Increasing the activity OF the kidneys,
it augments the depuratiye efficiency Of those or
gans, which are most important outlets for the
escape of such impurities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
Relics of Washington.
Correspondence New York Tribune.

correspondence New 1OIh 1IlDuHe.
The house committee on appropria-
tons has under consideration the ex-
pediency of purchasing a great number
or relics of Gen. Washington which are
now. and have been ever since the
death of that eminent man, in
the possession of she Lewis family,
of Virginia This family is one of
the oldest in the state, and its mem
bers are the Immediate relatives
of Gen. Washington. In common with
nearly all othe prominent families of
what is known as the g Northern Neck
of Virginia, where it resides, the Lewis
family was much reduced iii wealth
and prosperity by the devastation of
the war and the abolition of slavery, SO
that the preservation of these relics in
the family can no longer be the easy
matter it once was.
The examination of these relics and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
GOOD NIGHT.

God keep you safe, my little love,
All through the night;
Rest close in his enclrcling arms
Until the light
Nv heart is with you as kneel to pray,
Good night God keep you in his care Away.
Thick shadows creep like silent ghosts
About M head;
| lose myself in tender dreams,
While overhead
The moon comes stealing through the window
bars.
A silver sickle cleaning mid the stars
For I, though am far away,
Feel safe and strong;
To trust you thus. dear love-and yet
The night is long
l say with SObb ng breath the old fond prayer,
Good night Sweet dreams! God keep you
eyerywherei
Mary r. Highman, an Churehman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06

BIG eels seem to be very abundant up
in Hardy county, w. Va. The Moore
field Examiner relates the following: Mr..
George Dove, of the South Fork, at the
blue rock, eaughtan immense eel, that
almost scared our hero out of his wits.
The eel weighed q pounds AID had two
bass In it that weighed 1 J pounds each.
After desperate effort, Mr.. Dove sue
ceeded in landing his whale" on the
terra .fr7na, when a mighty struggle en-
sued. Sometimes his eelship would get
nearly to the water, but by hard strug-
gle he would be again thrown back, and
was finally captured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06

AN American gentleman suffering
from toothache, entered dentists of
flee in Paris, and dropping into chair,
yelled, "Take it out Out with it This
minute Never mind if it hurts Take
monkey-wrench, anything, only out
with it quick p
Dentist politely" Sir, in the course
of my long and successful career, Ihave
made it an invariable rule never to pull
a tooth until l had satisfied myself by
careful examination that it was beyond
the resources of my art to give the I'M
fortunate sufferer relief by any other
method of proceeding less extreme and
painful Permit me, then, sir, IN con-
formity with this practice, the wisdom
of which will commend itself to you at
once, to proceed 10 examine the part af-
fected."
Sufferer" Here Look Be quick
None of your Evarts' orations Ouch !"
(Howls.)
Dentist ALPHABETICALLY Il am
afraid, sir, that shall have to ask your
permission to remove it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
Wearing a Crest.

A droll story is going the rounds in
England and Scotland, and relates to
the right of man to wear what he
pleases without permission of the
government. Some months ago a mer-
chant of Leith, named Young, appeared
in the streets of that place with q
"crest" placed jauntiliy in front of his
Glengarry bonnet. The crest was exc
cuted in silver. and was thought to look
rather bold and threatening upon the
band of the bonnet, making the wearer
produce, no doubt, killing effect upon
the lassies of Leith. One day, to his
establishment, Mr.. Young received. a
notification that by wearing crest upon
his bonnet he was liable for duty on
armorial bearings. The sum demand
ed for wearing the silver crest was one
guinea, at which official demand his
Scotch prejudice was Justly aroused, and
he memOrlallzed the government upon
the subject. Of course no attention
was paid to his paper. so Mr.. Young
went to London and routed out all the
authorities bearing on the subject
Again he memorialized the govern
ment, this time submitting the crest
itself for inspection, and calling atten-
ton to certain quoted authorities. After
the usual delay, Mr.. Young was in
formed that the wearing of any crest,
whether his own or any other mans, by
way of ornament, does not render the
wearer liable to pay the duty. But
our Scotchman's sense of justice was
not yet satisfied, and he again memorial
ize1 the government, this time for re
payment of the guinea. After some
more red-tape delay, the money was
duly paid in justification OF the claim,
and Mr.. Young returned home rejoic-
ing his triumph of having, like certain
Prince, come into his own again"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06

A POOR woman, the wife of laborer,
in Denmark, has received from the
king, in the presence of the royal family
the medal and ribbon for civil acts
of bravery-the first woman in Den
mark who ever won this honor. A few
months ago, at the imminent peril of
her own life, she rescued three children
who had fallen through the ice on a lake,
and the king resolved that this act of
heroism should not go unrewarded.
So room was prepared in the royal
palace, and the poor woman went to
Copenhagen, and stayed there a couple
Of days, with her family, to see the
sights, and received every attention.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06

A young Syracuse man brought a
couple of telephones and coil of rope
to Rome last week, and in the evening
he went around to house where a girl
lives, and whistled softly until one of the
upper windows were opened as he ex-
pected it would be. Then he threw one
of the telephones up III the upper win
dow and whispered into the other in
strument, Are you there, darling?"
Sharp and clear came the answer, Yes,
I'm here. and if you'll wait till l get my
boots on you'll think you have been
elected for the next world by $4,000 ma
jority." He had hit the wrong window
Rome Sentinel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06

A LONDON paper finds fault with the
pronunciation of a preacher who reads
from the Bible: 81 He that hath yaws to
yaw, let him yaw."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06

BISCUIT A LUXURY FOR ALL.-The
popular notion that people suffering
from dyspepsia or predisposed to that
oisease should not eat biscuit has
grown out OF the fact that the common
oaleratus has been used in the making
OF such biscuit. And it was right; the
article is mischievous. But light and
healthy biscuit, such as dyspeptic peo-
pie may eat with IMMUNITY and with
positive benefit, are made from d. B,
DeLand & Co.'S Best Chemical SaIeratus.
PHYSICIANS admit this.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
DOCTORS Gave Him lin

!" Is it possible that Mr.. Godfrey i ~,
aid at work, and cured by so simple =
remedy p "
" | assure you it IS true that he is en-
Trely cured, and with nothing but Hop
Bltters, and only ten days ago his doc
tors gave him up and said he must
dieW
"Well-a-day If that is so, will 60
this minute and get some for my poor
George. | know hops are good
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
Part I

As the spring wore ON and the weather got
All sultringly sulry and dad hinged hot
The late Mr.. Brown declared he'd not
Be melted to death in that dry goods store,
And hence concluded he'd wear no more
The undershirt he erst had We're.
Part III.
A little cold in his delicate lung.
A little song by the church choir sung
A little corpse to the graveyard bru g.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
The Physiology of Marriage" and
Diseases OF Youth and ManhOOd !,

Books that really self-nstructors in everything
pertaining to this speciality, and supply the want
long felt of reliable medical companion nd home
adviser, free from quackery. They chastely and
beautifully illustrated and though in plain language
easily understood, contain nothing offensive to good
taste. The two books contain $50 pages, and much
yalnablei information for both married and SINGLE
with all the recent improvements al medical treat
ment. Either work will be sent to any address on
receipt of 60 cents in stamps, or both for 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
KFlHE1 DR.. T. WILLIAMS,
10y Medical gSurgiCal Institute,

sexual troubles, both male and female than any
specialist in the West gives the results of his long
and successful practicein two popular medical works
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-31
Valuable Recipes.

BOILED PUDDING.-One cup molasses,
one cup of suet chopped fine, one cup
sour milk in which teaspoonfull OF
soda is well mixed, one cup of raisins
or currants, and four cups of flour; mix
and put IN pudding bag and steam
| for four or five hours, and serve with
sauce.
Cocoa SHELLs.-Put two tablespoons
full cocoa shells into a little cold water;
add to them a pint of boiling water, and
boil for an hour; strain, and add pint
Of rich milk; let it come to boil and
serve. This makes a delicious drink,
and very acceptable when coffee and
tea are found to be injurious.
APPLE SNow.-Put twelve very tart
apples in cold water over a slow fire.
When soft remove the skin and core
and mix in pint Of fine sugar; beat
the whites Of twelve eggs to a stiff froth
and add to the apples and sugar; cool
in glasses, with a piece of red currant
jelly to ornament the top of each.
FLAX SEED LEMoNADE.-Poura quart
of boiling water on half a cupful of
whole flax seed, add q dozen Of raisins.
| the juice Of two lemons and a little
liquorice root shredded fine. Sweeten
to taste, let all come to boil, then set
away i'll a covered pitcher for couple
of hours. This is an excellent remedy
for colds. and very palatable as we'll
APPLE JOHN. Pare, quarter and core
enough apples to fill three or four
quart crock. Make a batter little
thicker than for pancakes; put layer
of apples on the bottom of the crock,
then pour over some of the batter; then
another layer Of apples, then batter,
and SCION, until all is used; then put a
thick soda crust on the top, and bake
| for three hours. To be eaten with a
sweet sauce. Very nice. 5 - 3 + G.
Hop YEAsT.-Take eight potatoes, a
small handful of hops, boil them to-
gether until the potatoes are done, then
take outth hops and smash the pota-
toes; then add two cups of flour, one
cup of sugar, and half a cup Of salt.
Stir them as you would for paste; then
pour the mixture boiling hot and stir
well; add a cup of yeast to make 1t rise;
the above will made one gallon of good
hop yeast. .,,-,., .,.f view =
| MOSQUITOES AND RATs.-A cotempoary
says: If mosquitoes or other blood
suckers infest our sleeping-rooms at
night, if we uncork bottle of the oil OF
pennyroyal these insects leave in great
haste, nor will they return so long as
the room is loaded with fumes of that
aromantic herb. Ifrats enter the Gel
lar, a little potash thrown in their holes
or mixed with meal and scattered ia
their runaWaVs, never fails to drive III EN-
away. Cayenne pepper viii keep, the
buttery and store-room from ants. and
reaches. If a mouse makes an en-
trance into any part of yo1r dwelling,
1Tsaturate rag with cayenne, in solution,
and stuff it into the hole, which can
then be repaired with either wood or
mortar No rat or mou e will eat that
rag for the purpose ofopening commu
nication with depot of supplies.
tmyE -sa-7-- - - - % 1a]'' 5='3 =
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams is want
ed" in St. Louis.-Philadeiphia Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-31

insupportable at last. Sister Kate, who
had come SO near the solution of the
true mystery-she knew all, SO said
Sophie; perhaps she could advise her
what to do, for to give up Harry seemed
every day more and more of an impossl-
bility. >s5l,
"Will you go into the garden with
me, Kate" she asked, in trembling
voice, of her sister one day, about
month after her trouble with Harry
/" 1 have something Of Importance to
tell you" s,~ Eel N
"Going away. darling, and I will
be with you in few moments" re-
piled Kate, casting a searchful glance
at Sophies flushed cheeks and swollen
eyes.
Running swiftly along yhe garden
paths, as if from fear of pursuit, Sophie
turned aside into her favOrite aroor. and
flinging herself down on q low seat,
buried her head among the cool vines,
and gave herself up to q proxvsm OF
passionate grief. Soon she had heard
steps approaching, and an arm was
twisted tenderlY about her waist, and q
warm hand was laid caressingly on her
dropping head. i o.
30, Kate, Katen' she cried, in the
agony of her repentance, 81 am per-
fectly wretched. You don't know why,
though you have come very near
guessing two or three times. Harry
and /"
Here a convulsive sob interrupted her,
and the hand upon her head passed
over her disordered curls with a gentle
soothing motion.
Harry and T''-another sob-"quar-
relied two or three weeks ago. l was
wilful and rude, just as it was natural
for me to be, and he got angry. [ don't
think he is going to forgive me, for he
has not been here since"
Sophie felt herself drawn in a
closer embrace, and was sure Kate
pitied her.
Il would not have owned it to any
body if it had not been just as it is" she
continued, rubbing her little white hands
into her eyes; " but | think | love him
almost as [ do you and father and
mother
A kiss dropped on Sophie's glossy
head, and tighter was she held. She
| wondered that Kate was SO silent, but
still kept her face hidden in the vines.
He asked me to be his wife" she
continued, "asked me as nobody else
ever did-in such a manly way, that be
made me feel as though ought to have
been the one to plead instead of him. l
could not bear that, and | answered
him as / should not. He thought it was
because he was poor and | was rich
and all the time was thinking would
rather live in cottage with him than
in the grandest palace in the world with
any other man, only was too proud to
tell him so to his face. What can do?
Tell me, Kate, you are much better than
[ am, and you never get into trouble. 1
am sure | shall die if you don't" And
Sophie wept anew.
Look up, dear. and I'll tell you"
Sophie did look up with little start,
and the next moment, with little
scream, leaped into the arms-not of
Sister Kate, but Harry Ainslee.
Sophie declares to this day that she
has never forgiven either of them,
though she has been Mrs. Ainslee near
ly two years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-31
Journal.
CheaD Lands.

In New York city a few days since
100000 acres of land in Mcdowell
county. West Virginia, were sold at auc-
ton in lots of / 900 acres Or more, suit
able to purchasers. They were repre-
sented as heavily timbered white oak
and mineral lands. One-half of the
tract was knocked down to g. P. Bon
ner & Co., at one-half cent per acre.
The balance was sold mostly to Ger
mans in lots Of from 1000 to 10000
acres, at from one-half cent to a cent
and half per acre. The average price
realized for the entire tract was one
cent per acre. This is almost as cheap
as "squater sovereignty" Anybody
can, owna farm OKLA homestead at such
fabulously low figures.
=, - - = - y 6Tre
THE Keramic," bathing suit is the
latest. 1t is made of gayly-igured
cloth and makes the bather look like
collection of foreign postage stamps.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-31
Shoes.

Shoes date from very remote perioc
and the shoemaker is relic Of antiquity
who lived and had his being in very
early times. The Jews wore wooden
shoes long before the age of Augustus
and sometimes leather shoes are men.
toned. The Jewish soldiers covered
their feet with copper or with iron The
shoes of the Egyptians were of popzpus;
the Chinese and the Indians manufac-
tured theirs of silk, of bark, of trees, OF
brass, gold or silver, according as their
| fortune permitted Or their fancy die
tated. AT Rome, as in Greece, leather
was the material which covered the
feet Of most every one In classical
times the Romans wore cork soles in
their shoes to secure their feet from
water, especially IN winter, and as high
heels were not then introduced, the
Roman ladies, who wished to appear
taller, put plenty Of cork under them
selves. The Roman ladies wore white
shoes; the common people wore bla ok,
and the magistrates and those of exalted
rank set their feet off with red shoes
and employed the crescent as an orna-
ment-tney were often very costly.
| The custom of making shoes right and
| left was common in classical times.
Only one instance is known of an ancient
monument exhibiting shoes with sepay-
ate heel pieces. The streets of Rome
in the time of Domitian were block
ed up by cobbler's stalls, which he there
fore caused to be removed.
The fashion Of boots and shoes has
undergone innumerable changes. In
der William Rufus, son of the Duke of
Normandy, who conquered at Hastings
IN 1866, fashion was introduced of
wearing long, pointed shoes with up
turned toes curved like a rams horn
and stuffed with tow. In the fourteenth
century they connected these points
with the knee by chains of gold and sill
ver-they were called cracows. Buckles
were also worn in this century, The
labOrng classes wore them of copper.
Other persons had them of gold and
silver. Not long after shoe rosettes
came in fashion. In the last century,
the high heels of ladies' shoes became
monstrosity. In our day the general
disuse of the shoe proper, and the in
PRODUCTION Of short ankle-boots, form
| the Chlef change or fashion.
Among the Anglo-Saxons the trade of
the shoemaker was somewhat compre-
hensive. He manufactured and sup
piled ankle leather, shoes, leather hose,
bottles, bridle-thongs, trappings, TASKS,
boiling vessels, leather neck pieces, hal
tiers, wallets and pouches.
| In the United States the manufacture
of shoes has attained the highest per-
lection, chiefly in Massachusetts, and in
Philadelphia, also, the shoe manufact-
ure has attained considerable import
ance, and the sole leather and the
morocco Of Philadelphia are far-famed
The antiquity Of the art Of leather-dress-
ing dates far back. The seventeenth
book of Iliad speaks of tanners pre-
pairing skins to make leather of them
Over three hundred years ago the tan
ners composed very important body
IN England. An account is given of a
furious quarrel which broke out in
Queen Elizabeth's time, between them
and the shoemakers