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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-24
Miss Edith Helps Things Along.

My sister1l be down in a minute, and says
you're to wait, II you please,
And says. 1 might stay till she came, IL I'd
promise her never to tease,
Nor speak till YOU spoke to me first. But that's
nonsense, for how would you know
What she told me to say, il l didnt2 Don't
you really and truly think SOP
And then you'd feel strange here alone And
you wouldn't know just where to sit
For that chair isn't strong on its legs, and we
never use IL bit.
We keep IL TO match with the sofa. But Jack
says it would be like you
To flop yourself right down upon it and knock
out the very last screw.
s'pose you try? won't tell. You're afraid
TO Oh you're afraid they would think
1t was mean
Well, then, there's the album-thats pretty, il
you're sure that your fingers are clean,
For sister says sometimes 1 daub II but she
only says that when she's cross.
There's her picture. You know it ? It's like
her; but she amt as good-looking, Of
course
tell me, you'd never have thought
That once was little as that? It's the ouly
one that could be bought
For that was the messageto pa from tho photo
graph man where sat
That he wouldn't print of any more till he
frat got hismoney for that.
"What2 Maybe you're tired of waiting Why,
often she's longer than this.
There's all her back hair to do up and all Of
her front curls to friz.
But it's nice to be sitting here talking like
grown people, just you and me.
Do you think you'll lie coming here often Oh
do! But don't come like Tom Lee.
Tom Lee. Her last beau. Why, my good
ness He used to be here day and nj, ht
Till the folks thought he'd be her husband;
and Jack says that gave him fright
You won't run away, then, as he did2 for you're
not rich man, they ray.
Pa says you are poor as church mouse. Nov,
are you? And how poor are they?
=" Amt you glad that you met me? Well, am;
for know now that your hair isn't red
But what there is left of it's mousy, and not
what that naughty Jack said.
But there must go. Sisters coming But
l with l conld watt just to see
II The ran up TO you and kissed you in the way
that she used to kiss Lee"
Bret Hdrte in he Ildependeiu.-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-24
Curious Invention.

Some of the monasteries of Italy and
France will send curious inventions to
the Paris Exhibition. A Florentine friar
has constructed watch only a quarter
of an inch in diameter. 1t has not only
a third hand to mark the second, but a
microscopic dial which indicates the
days of the week and month and the
proper dates. 1t also contains an alarm
and on its front cover an ingeniously cut
figure of st. Francis of Assist. On the
back cover two verses of the "Te Deum"
are distinctly cut. A monastery in Brit
tany, France, will contribute plain
looking mahogany table, with an inlaid
draughts OF chess board on the surface.
The inventor sets the pieces for game
of chess, and sits alone at one side of the
board. He plays cautiously, and the
opposite pieces move automatically and
sometimes checkmate him. There is no
mechanism apparent beneath the table
top, which seems to be a solid mahogany
board.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-24
SANS JUDGMENT.

Her-o-ry Hen-e-ry! S,yl Hen
e-ry Pine, where be ye ?"
Almira Commonly called Miry) Calk-
ins shrieked this summons from the
back-door of the farm house. The
month was April the weather, for that
day, vernal. Orocuses gilded the posy
bed here and there [; a few red binds
decked the maple branches. A +, b u
or two hopped wistfu ly about the chip
yard, keeping an eye out for aggressive
hens but as it was morning, those
danes of price were busy with domestic
cares in fragrant hollows of the haymow
or cavernous barrels half full of Rean
shavings, made ready for such ext
gences, while the cock was far afield
picking up the early worm, so the
robins were undisturbed.
Miry was embodied in spring her
self, as she stood on that rough stone,
her shining hair knotted in a golden
bunch behind her head, her face rosy as
peach, her eyes bright and cool as
gold gray eyes can be, and her trim
with striped bib-apron, while rolled
up sleeves displayed to the elbow a
pair of sturdy arms, and her strong
short hands grasped the broom handle.
What do We want ?" CHEEKY voice
responded, as handsome young fellow
lifted his dark head from behind the
wood-pile, and smiled at the girl, with a
glitter of mischief in his eyes.
" didn't know as your name was
Henery, said Miry, with sniff.
"When ye can't git what ye want, it's
sorter policy to take what ye can git, !"
returned Sam Peters, with q smile.
|" Mebbe ef ye hollered a mite louder,
Hen would hear ye."
"Hen-e.ry screamed the girl again;
and as the word left her lips, sheepish.
looking fellow came stumbling out of
the barn with hatful of eggs.
Ben a-layin' on 'em, Hen-fashion, 4"
put in Sam, in a stage aside. Mira
wanted to laugh at this rustic joke, but
she was vexed with Sam, so she bit her
lips but her eyes would glitter.
"Was you a-callin' me? ?" said Henry,
ambling up to the door.
Yes, l was don't ye know your
name yet, Hen Pine?"
"Well, naow, ye see, was up to the
top o. the NOW. / heerd We but eff I'd
a hollered back, I'd "a skeert the old hen
outer her wits"
"Maybe you'd have picked 'em up"
dryly remarked Sam, shouldering his
axe and going off to the wood-shed with
an armful of kindlings.
Mira threw an indignant glance at
him, and proceeded to do her errand to
Henry. Sam was out of her good graces
Just now. He had talked too much to
Emily Snow at last nights quilting.
And who was going to believe all his
nonsense, when he could talk a whole
hour to another girl2 1t did not occur
to Mira that she had refused his escort
to the aforesaid quilting, and he had
been obliged to go with Emily in con
sequence. If consistency is a jewel,
according TO the nhuch-Yexed quotation,
is not one that women wear perhaps
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-24

The cup of human bliss is about as
full as it can ever become without strain
ing the goblet, when the tiny, bright
eyed little toddler bids goodbye to
gowns and sashes and finds himself in
his first pair Of pantaloons.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-24

Good name for a od-cutter-Hugh.
Hens come into the world by the
hatchwav.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
Some Chinese Proverbs.

The following is a collection of Chi
nese proverbs as translated and arrang-
ed by William Scarborough, Wesleyan
missionary at Hankow, China
The Dutch proverb says of a servant,
pulled up by holding Office in a grand
establishment, ''When the mouse came
out of the tiour-sack it thought it was the
miller" and the Chinese say of a pre-
tentious underling who is greater than
his master, g The nose is bigger than
the face" The necessity of the simple
and poor to the rich and great reminds
us of the Greek, 'sGold needs bran, -
L. e., to polish it. g The poorer one is,
money one may command devils-with-
out it one can not summon a man." A
poor fellow in luck's way is described
as ''a ragged sail in fair wind The
necessity of capital is enforced: g
dry finger can not lick up salt'' And
the trader whose capital is divided in
various undertakings is comforted:
g Though boiled to ribbons, the meat is
still in the PAM Many of their SMILES
are very graphic. A stupid man is ga
leather lantern" A man with a mind
full of ill-arranged information is 4" a
waste-paper basket ''To throw a
sprat to catch whale,'' is in China
Sc To throw brick to allure q gem"
And we were amused the other day to
find our &c The pot calls the kettle smut
ty'' turn up in the Japanese as "The
sieve said to the needle, you have hole
in your tall The Chinese proverb,
like that of all nations, perhaps, except
the Jewish, is severe on womankind:
' The minds OF women are of quicksil-
yer, and their hearts of wax And
with reference to the small feet of their
females, "The tongues of women in
crease by all that they take from their
feet" The curious woman E'would like
to turn the rainbow to see what there
was upon the other side.'' The vulgar
woman is ga spider attempting to
spin sikh The cautions woman
"Writes her promises on the slate.''
The extravagant woman Burns wax
candle in looking for a lucifer match.''
The happy woman Is Died in blini,
deaf and dumb asylum years ago"
&c The broken furnace may turn out
good tiles teaches that base parents
may have good children. g Husband
and wife in perfect accord are like the
music of a harp and lute.'' 'sTo toady
is to place ones warm cheek alongside
another's cold one.' Gratitude is en-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
A Horses Little Joke.

The Canandaigua On. " Journal
tells the following; Along the sidewalk
leading from the Globe Hotel to the no.
tel stable is high board fence. North
of this fence is yard where Mr.. Deck
er frequently turns his horse loose for
exercise. The ground in the yard next
to the fence is foot or two higher than
the sidewalk The morse occasionally
stands there with his head over the fence.
On Tuesday last the man who runs the
Naples stage was passing along the
walk. Just as he passed, the horse
reached down his head, seized him by
his, coat-collar, lifted him foot or two
from the ground, and after shaking him
a little dropped him in the snow by the
fence, and then scampered away, kick
ing up his heels.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

joined in "When you drink from the
stream, remember the SPRING"
John Chinaman has evidently a good
deal of humor in him, and many of
these sayings are racy: ''The man who
holp Is the ladder at the bottom is fire.
qudptly of more service that he who IS
standing at the top of it, ssBetter be
the cat in philanthropist family, than
a mutton-pie at a Kings banquet. :"
The top Strawberries are the first eat
en-" In a frigid, conservative nation
like the Chinese, his keen sense of the
ridiculous, which comes out strikingly in
these popular maxims, shows their hui
maneness has not been altogether sti-
fled. "There is dew for every blade of
grass -" Repentance is the spring of
virtue;'' GO Imperial Heaven will never
slight men of sorrow; sc The ripest fruit
grows on the toughest wall" And the
transiency of human glory and happiness
is expressed " The bright moon is not
round for long" g Better not be than
to be nothing;'' "Man may bend virtue,
but virtue cannot bend to men - ''Great
souls have will-others only feeble
wishes )" sc Kindness is greater than
law" "Heaven responds to man as
quickly as shadow to form or echo to
voice. Mr.. Scarborough gives US near
ly 5000 of these "jewels of the multi
!
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
THE MARKETS.

ST. LOUIS, March 4, 1878
BEEvEs-Choice to Fancy, $i.65N5O0; Coco
to Prime, $4.3O64.50; Native Cows, $2.4Og $50
Texas steers, $2.+ g 400.
HoGs-Packing, $3.6503.S5.
SHEEP-Native, $3.O09 500.
FLOUR-Choice. $5.9O06. 10; xxx. $5.405 $50
WHEAr-Red Winter, No. ?, $l.25 q l.26; No
3, Sl.l91z q 1.20.
CoRN-No. Mixed, AK 042c.
OATs-No. 2, 267< a27c.
RYE-No. 2, 50 q 56c.
ToBACco-Dark Lugs, $l.9OG25O; Medium
Dark Leaf, 5000 500.
HAY-Choice Timothy, $ll.5O@l2.5O.
BUTTER-Creamery, $500
EGGS-Fresh, 1873 l0&c.
PoRK-Standard Mess, $lO65a 1912
WooL[Tub washed, Cholce' 5'05oc; Oh
washed Combing, 20031c.
CoTToN-Middling, 1O}fc.
NEW YORK.
BEEvEs-Native Steers, $s.25@1O-5O; Texan
and Cherokee, None.
SHEEP-S4.759 $50.
HOGs-Live, $4.5O
FLOUR-Good to Choice, $5.2006.0O.
WHEAT--No. Chicago, $l.259 126.
CORN-Steam Mixed, 81 a 653c.
OATs-Western Mixed, 35636c.
PoRK-Mess, Sos 1890.
CoTToN-Middling, 1OzSc.
CHICAGO.
BEEvEs-Common to Choice, $e.5o0525
HOGS-COmmOn to Choice, S36OG4.l2a
SHEEP-Common to Choice, S2.50d5.23.
FLoUR-Choice Winter. $6.5O07.eO: Choice
Spring, $5.5006.OO.
WHEAT-Spring, No. 2, $1.10Z0l.10H; Spring
No. 3, S1.0361 .C5.
CoRN-No. 2, 3G43hc.
OATs-No. 2, "a 24kc.
RYE-No. 2, So SEC.
PORK-New Mess, Sl0.O501O.1O
KANSAS CITY.
BEEvES-Native Steers, $3.50 "a 40; Native
Cows, $1.5O 92.75.
HOGS-$3 2O03.30
FLOUR-XX to Patent, per sack, $l.7563.OO.
CORN MEAL-Per cwt., 75GS0c.
WHEAT-Ne. Winter, SI.061< 0l.O6%.
CoRN-No. Mixed 305< 931c.
NEW ORLEANS.
FLoUR-Choice Family, $6.25G675.
CoRN-White, 53054c.
OATs-St. Louis, 37037Kc.
HAY-Choice, $16.5O9 IL co.
PoRK-New Mess, $l1.2561l.50.
BACoN-iX d6Hc.
COTTON-Middling, 1GKc.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
Myth. Are But Symbols of Truth.


AS the scholar sees in the vain but beautiful
mytnolOgleS OF the ancients the embodied eX-
pressions of the hungry human soul Ulindly
gropIng after the Infinite, so the physician
sees IN that popular myth of the sixteenth
century tine fountain OF perpetual health and
youth-an expression of the longings OF suf-
1er1ng Humanity Tor a remedy that should for
ever prevent the 1ncurslOn of disease. The
Whds OF Europe were ransacked for this Won
derful fountain, and Ponce de Leon sought for
II In the cypress-swamps and tangled ever
glades OF our sunny Florida Men have
searched Tor it everywhere and anywhere but
where 1t really is-in the human body itself.
The blood is the real fountain OF perpetual
health and youth. When this source is
rupted, the painful and sorrow producing eff
fects are WISH lie in many shapes. The multi
farious forms in which it manifests itself
would form subjects upon which might write
volumes. But as all the varied forms of dis
ease which depend upon bad blood are cured
or best treated, by such medicines as take up
from this fluid and excrete from the system
the noxious elements, it is not of practical i'm
pOrtance that L should describe each. For in
stance, medical authors describe about fifty va
r1eties OF skin disease. but they all require
Tor their cure very similar treatment, it is OF
no practical utility to know just what name to
apply to certain form of skin disease, SO you
know how best to cure 1T. Then again, might
go on and describe various kinds OF scrofulous
sores, lever sores, white sweliings, enlarged
glands, and ulcers of varying appearance;
might describe how virulent poison may show
Itself in various forms of eruptiOnS, ulcers
sore throat, bony tumors, etc; but as all these
Various-appearing manifestations of bad blood
are cured by uniform means, deem such d
course unnecessary. Thoroughly cleanse the
blood which is the great fountain of life, anu
good digestion, fair skin, buoyant spirits,
vital strength, and soundness of constitution,
will all return to For this purpose DR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Purga-
tive Pellets are prominently the articles
needed They are warranted to cure letter,
salt-rheum, scald-head, st. Anthony's fire,
rose rash or erYsipelas, ring-worms, pimples,
buncles, sore eyes, rough skin, scurf, scrofu-
lous sores and swellings, fever sores, white
dwellings, tumors, old sores or swellings, af-
fections OF the skin, throat and bones, and
ulcers Of the Liver, stomach, kidneys and lungs.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

CooKIEs.-2 eggs, II cups of sugar.
cup of butter, 2 tablespoonful of sour
milk, teaspoonful of soda, flour to
mix soft; bake in quick oven.
LADY-FINGERs. of 5 eggs,
beaten light, with 1 cup white sugar, l
teaspoon baking powder; mix flour, roll
thin, cut in strips size of finger; flavor
to taste.
GINGER CooKIEs.-3 cups molasses,
cup lard, J cup sugar, 1 tablespoon
ginger, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in
little hot water, flour to mix. Roll thin
and bake quickly.
GINGER sNAPs.-1 cup of sugar, cup
of molasses, 1 cup of shortening, ia
blespoonful of ginger, 1 tablespoonful
of vinegar, l tablespoonful of soda;
knead very stiff, roll thin, and bake
quickly.
VARIETY CAKE.-1 cup of butter, 3
cups of sugar, l cup of sweet milk, 4
cups of -four, 6 eggs, 2 teaspoons of
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, all
spice, and cloves; bake in tin-pans put
frosting between.
CHULLERs.-2 cups of sugar, of a
pound of butter, eggs, scant cup of
milk, ! teaspoonful of saleratus, a little
salt and nutmeg, flour enough to make
stiff roll very thin, cut in squares of a
! finger in width, the square cut nearly to
the edges inside, in strips of half an inch.
/ A great deal depends on the cutting.
CHICKEN SALAD.-2 large boiled
chickens, heads of celery, hard-boil-
ed eggs mashed with ] pint salad-oil,
pint of vinegar, gill mustard (mixed)
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, teaspoon
salt, 2 raw eggs beaten, cup cream
Bone and chop the chickens, then add
the celery and other ingredients.
BIsCUITs.-1 quart of sifted flour,
teaspoonfuls of Royal baking-powder,
tablespoonful of lard, / small teaspoon
full of salt; mix the powder dry will
the flour; add the other ingredients, ant
then sweet milk or water (milk is best)
enough to make a soft douglas soft a.
you can manage it. Be expeditions
knead as little as possible; roll thin ant
bake in hot oven.
BEEF SoUP.-Take a shin-bone o
beef, put it into pot, and cover wei
with cold water; when it boils put in
can of tomatoes, 1 large carrot and
small turnip; 1 onion cut in thin slices
! teacupful of rice, and a little parsle!
cut fine Cover the pot and let it boi
slowly for hours. The meat can theI
be taken out, and leave thick soup, O
strain it and put in some vermicelli TO
thin soup. The thick is the " old
fashioned kind"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
"TOO Late"

sit and sip my sherry wine,
Beside the blazing fire;
TITS very old, it's very fine,
A vintage to inspire
Such fancies as a Poe might weave,
And, weaving, strike his Tyre.
1 sip the wine, but would you think
To hear the glasses rhythmic clink,
Pm grumbing even while drink?
1t comes too late, too late, muse,
This sherry rare and mellow.
Why did relentless fate refuse
To smile, when yet fellow
Was young and strong and lusty- hmbed,
Before his face grew yellow
With indigestion2 All, the wine,
The envied nectar now is mine,
But gone the taste that made it finel
know this velvet covered chair
Is wondrous soft and easy,
But what of comfort can share
Grown corpulent and wheezy?
All, could thus have stretched my limbs
When life was fresh and breezy:
But nOw-well, now Eve learned to doubt
If any body's yet found out
A chair that's easy for the govt.
Woodcock and turtle, quail on toast,
These things of feasting SAVIOR;
And yet the game, the fish and roast
Have lost for me their flavor.
could have reltshed these things once,
Had fortune smiled with favor;
But now, with dainties spread in sight,
With all the palate can delight,
I've lost the sauce of appetite.
Because drive my coach and four
The girls are proud to meet me,
They come unbidden to my door,
And with a kiss they greet me;
They throw their arms about my neck
Yes, that's the way they treat me
But passions flames are all unknown;
The lips to kiss are mine, OWN
The nectar OF the kiss has flown!
And so 1 sip my sherry wine,
Beside the blazing fire,
And, though tits old and very fine,
Sad thoughts it doth inspire;
For sitting here in luxury's lap,
OF fortunes smile l tire;
And l would give my broad estate
For any boon bestowed by fate,
Which did not come too late, too latei
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
England as a Military Power

Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley
contributes to the Century significant
article, entitled ENGLAND as Military
Power.'' The following are his conclu.
sions:
AT no former period has England
been so strong in military sense
Were war to be declared 400, 900 drilled
men would fall into line, supported by
372 field guns, manned and horsed by
royal artillery. That number would be
roughly made up as follows: Standing
army at home, $4,000 men; army and
militia reserve, 10000; militia, $4,000;
volunteers, 10000, and second-class
army reserve, 10, Zoo; total, Ala 900. In
this calculation have put the figures
very low, and have left out altogether
the 10000 yeomanry, who would be liza
BILE for home service. l have not taken
into consideration the number of regu-
lar troops that would be available for
war when the Mediterranean garrisons
were relieved by the militia. Thus it
will be seen that we could at once take
than 10000 soldiers each, leaving a
similar force of the regular force at
home for reserve. When l compare the
military strength of England now with
what it was in 1854 am as amazed at
the condition of the military weakness
and helplessness in which we were when
we began the Russian war of that year,
as am at the ignorance of those who
are now croaking over our supposed
want of strength and alleged consequent
inability to fight
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
The Lily.

l saw the lily pale and perfect grow
Amid its silent sisters in the mead
Methought within its chilly depth to read
4 maidenly severity, as though
a cool young life lay slumbering in the snow
Of its frail substance. In that chalice white
Whose fairy texture shone against the light
An unawakened pulse beat faint and slow,
And 1 remembered, love, thy coy disdain,
When thou my love for thee hadst first di-
vined;
Thy proud, shy tenderness-too proud to
feign
That willful blindness, which is yet not blind.
Then toward the sun thy lily-life turned
With sudden splendor flushed it's chalice
burned.
H. II. BOyesen, IN Scribner for March.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
READER, ARE YOU AFFLICTED 2

and wish to recover the same degree OF
health, strength, and energy as experienced
in former years? Do any of the following
symptoms or class of symptoms meet your
diseased condition? Are you suffering from
ill-health in any of its many and null fari~
Gus forms, consequent upon lingering, nerV-
GUS, chronic or functional disease? Do you
feel nervous, debilitated, fretful, timid. apd
lack the power of will and action Are you
subject to loss of memory, havespells OF faint
ing, fullness of blood in the head, feel listless
moping, unfit for business or pleasure, and
subject to fits of melancholy? Arc your kid
neys, stomach, or blood, in disordered con-
neuralgia or aches and pains? Have you
been indiscreet in early years and find your
self harassed with multitude of gloomy
symptoms? Are you timid, nervous, and
forgetful, and your mind continually dwell
ing on the subject? Have you lost confidence
in yourself and energy for business pursuits2
Are you subject to any of the following symp-
toms: Restless nights, broken sleep, night
mare, dreams, palpitation of the heart BASH
fulnesS, confusion Of ideas, aversion to society,
dizziness in the head, dimness of sight piun-
pies and blotches on the face and back, and
oiher Respondent symptoms? Thousands of
young men, the middIe-aged, and even the
old, suffer from nervous and physical debil-
ity. Thousands of females, too are broken
down in health and spirits from disorders
peculiar TO their sex, and who, from false
modesty or neglect prolong their sufferings.
Why, then, further neglect Z subject so pro-
ductive of health and huI l,IncSs when there
is at hand means of restoration
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
VEGETINE.
Kidney Complaints.

Diseases Of the Kidneys Bladder etc. are always un-
pleasant and at times they become the distressing
and dangerous diseases that affect human sys
I- Most diseases Of the Kidneys from impurities
b the blood, causing hunors which these parts
NDGE11NE excels any known remedy in the whole world
for cleansing and purifying the blood thereby causing
healthy action to all the organs of the body.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
Homo. sweet Home.

observation-disclosures or bread and the tea-rolls or
mullins are nice, light and enjoyable Always
use DOOLEY's YEAST POWDER in the produc-
ton of these articles, and, other things being
equal, home will always be sweet and happy.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

THE Turkish capital has had many
names-Byzantium, New Rome, Con.
stantinople, STEAMBOAT. For the time
beng it may properly be called by its
Russian name, Tsargrad.