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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11
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The Hired Squirrel
A Lion to the Squirrel said,
Work faithfully for me,
And when your task is done, my friend,
Rewarded you shall be
with barrelful Of finest nuts, fresh from
My own nut-tree."
"My Lion King" the Squirrel said, "to
this do agree"
The Squirrel toiled both day and night,
Quite faithful to his hire
SO hungry and so faint, sometimes,
He thought he should expire.
But still he kept his courage up, and tugged
With might and main.
''How nice the nuts will taste, he thought
"When my barrel gain !"
At last, when he was nearly dead,
And thin, and old, and gray,
Quoth Lion There's no more hard work
You're it to do. I'll pay"
A barrelful of nuts he gsve-ripe, rich
And big but oh
The Squirril's tears ran down his cheeks
He'd lost his teeth, you know.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

Tbis heap, however, was silent only
for moment. Then, feeble cry strue-
gled up through it-a cry which, reach
ing the upper air, grew louder, doubled
itself, became two cries, and rushed out
through a window, which, having lost
its way, was where the roof ought TO be.
Then growing fast and shrill, the cry ran
toward the house, waking up the Brown
baby, who at once joined in. The roost-
er walked suddenly, and feeling that
something had happen d, thought it
could do no harm to crow, and that agi-
tatod his household to the last hen.
Then to the cackling and growing, Beppo
added bark of duty, and nearly turned
inside out, tugging at his chain, and
bowling between times. The canary
began his scales, and the scream grew
and grew and rushed into the house
through every door and window. Uncle
John was reading the paper, but, hear
ing the fearful uproar he dashed into the
yard, turned back the house with one
hand, with the other picked out from the
heap of legs all the white ones,
and dragged us from the wreck of
our residence. 1t was quickly done,
but not too soon, for a little flame,
which was hiding under the close mass
of ruins, now hoped merrily up on the
tarletan skirts of Alice Isabella, the
prettiest of the dolls.
While we were being taken to grandma
to be cried over and comforted, and the
poor old house lay on its side forgotten,
that flame finished off poor dolly, ran
up to the roof, ate up the red striped
curtain in the twinkling of an eye, and,
in fact, made short work of the whole
thing. We knew nothing of this that
night, but we're so honored and indulged
as to make us think that everything else
had turned a new leaf as well as the
house,
The next morning, grandma, coming
into the breakfast-room, was called to
the window by Uncle John, who was
looking at something in the yard. There
was forlorn little figure sitting on
log among the charred embers of the
burnt house. 1t was /, sobbing as if
my heart would break, and beside me
was Katy, who stood sadly by, trying
with the corner of her apron to dry my
tears. But her eyes were wet too, and
in the fat arms we're squeezed leg and
shoe, which was all that was left of Alice
Isabella.
What wicked eye had watched the
festivities through the window, or what
cruel heart had yielded to the tempta-
ton to turn over the house upon it all,
we never knew. 1 heard that Billy
Quinn was punished that night for
coming home late to supper, and now
looking impartially at the matter over
all these years, 1 am inclined to think it
was that very Billy Quinn, and no other,
who put out the tea-party. Nicho-
lnS
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11
A California Watering Place.

Lake Tahoe, favorite summer re-
sort of Californians, is one of the
wonders of the world. Here you have
sea of fresh water, fifteen hundred
feet deep, cold as snow and bluer than
the sky, resting in a vast mountain
basin elevated more than six thousand
feet among the crests of the Sierra.
All around it rise mountain slopes.
clothed with fragrant forests of pine, fir
and cedar. You row out IN a skiff a
hundred yards from shore, rest on your
oars and look over the side to find YOUR
self hanging, like feather in empty
space, with sixty feet of water below
you, transparent as the air. Row
farther out, and suddenly the green bot
tom falls off in a submarine precipice.
leaving the unfathomed depth as per-
fectly blue as the deepest sky (for their
color is literally all one, only shade
darker in the water, or a shade filmier
in the air.. Down in these gorges of
blue ice-water lie the great trout, look
ing up, perhaps, and seeing our skiff
overhead like a shining
speck of cloud.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11
Paris ShOns.

A Paris letter says: There is very
curious commercial feature about Parif.
L said to Dane by birth, and a cosmo-
politan by nature, +" 1 see no wholesale
houses here" He replied, "Tbere are
none," which was certainly good rea-
son for my not having seen them. He
added: "My dear sir, the Frenchman
has no idea of a rebate for a quantity.
If you are asked one franc for one bot
tie of wine you will be asked ten thous-
and francs for ten thousand bottles, or a
million francs for million bottles" In
the re tail business they look upon trade
with this solitary retail eye. Thirty
centimes for some little lace edging per
yard. Two hundred yards of it could
not be bought a centime less per yard
than was asked for one yard. The last
was personal experience, while locker
on, where three women were being
struck dumb with this monstrous idea
French manufacturers, of course, have
their agencies here, perhaps, occupy
ing little room, but in all Paris one can
not find a jobbing house, a big wholesale
commission house, or anything resem-
bling a stock of goods for sale at whole
sale prices. Paris is essentially in trade,
a city of shops.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11
A TrIed Remedy for BilIousne..,

the unruly organ so long as they use such
irrational remedies as blue pill, calomel and
podophyllin. But from the tried and popular
medicine, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, they
may expect relief with certainty OF obtaining
it. The influence of the bitters upon tie great
hillary gland is direct, powerful and speedily
felt. The relief afforded is not spasmodic, but
complete and permanent. The sallowness Of
the skin, furred appearance of the tongue,
indigestion, costiveness, headache, nausea,
pains through the right side and shoulder, in
fact every accompaniment OF the obstinate
complaint are entirely and promptly removed
by a course Of this inestimable medicine, in
behalf Of which testimony is constantly ema-
mating from every quarter and from all classes
of society,"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11
Gum Cotton and NitrO.lIycer,ne.


About thirty-two years ago, Schon-
bein, German chemist, bad occasion to
immerse cotton in mixture of concen-
trated and sulphuric acids. To his sur
prise he noticed that the cotton did not
dissolve. Taking it and washing off the
acid he placed it in a drying oven to dry.
On returning the next morning no cot
ton was to be seen. As the students in
his laboratory affirmed that they had
not meddled, he wondered much as to
what had become of it. He tried the
experiment again, and this time had the
good fortune to witness the disappear
ance of tho cotton.
He had discovered gun cotton.
This is q very curious substance, al
though it does not differ in appearance
from ordinary cotton. 1t is, however, a
triAe heavier. Strange to say, the man
ner in which fire is applied to this,
causes it to burn very differently. Touch
it with live coal or lighted cigar, and
it burns away very slowly, much like
the mixtures used to produce the
colored fires of Fourth of July nights;
apply q flame to it, and it explodes like
gun-powder, but if you fire it by means
of Illuminating cap it explodes with
terrific violence, and a rapidity six or
seven times greater.
But there is another substance which
explodes even more terribly still. It is NJ
tro-glyce rine. This is produced somewhat
similarly to gun cotton, with the excep-
tion that glycerine is used instead of cot
ton, these substances being very much
alike in chemical composition. Nitro
glycerine is a dense, oily liquid, which
has very safe and harmless appearance,
but in reality it is something terrible.
A small quantity placed upon huge
boulder and fred, will blow it into q
thousand pieces, whereas, with gunpow-
der the result would have been merely a
flash, and a great puff of wind and
smoke.
You wonder perhaps, how it is that
nitro -glycerine merely placed upon a
stone and exploded, can possibly break
it, as you think that the air will give way
80 much sooner than the stone. Now
the rapidity with which the gas formed
by the combustion of nitro-glycerine
expands is a hundred times that of a
cannon ball, and the atmosphere offers
more resistance to n body moving at that
rate than the stone beneath it, Nitro
glycerine in some of its forms is the
agent almost universally employed in
blasting. Without it many of the great
railway tunnels and other feats OF en-
gineering would havo been imposs ble
The compounds of nitro gly ycerine are
many. Mixed with tripoli or rotten
stone it becomes dynamite, or " die-in-a-
minute" as some vag has facetiously
termed it; this adulterated with nitrate
of soda or potash is known as giant
powder. When nitro glyceriue is mixed
with gunpowder, in a very finely divided
state, it is called rend-rock powder; with
sawdust, dualin. These are, however,
all adulterations, and weaken the power
Of the explosive. .-Ne,O York Tribune.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE.-Farmcru, FnmI

IMPORTANT NOTICE.-Farmers, FnmI-
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without H. Thousands of Certificates be at
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

The common people, in their matri-
monia rites, endeavor to ape az far al
possible their superiors, the daimios and
other great people of the land.-Jdpany
pse Times
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

Portugal has but one university.
Ooimbra, founded in 1890. 1t has
seventy instructors and 1,100 students.
There are 2, ,450 elementary schools, and
parents whose children cannot read and
write by fifteen, lose their political
rights.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

The attention Of heads Of families is respect
fully invited TO the superior quality, in every
respect, of Dooley's Yeast Powder. 1t is en-
tirely free from adulteration of any kind and
every package contains absolute full weight.
Consumers should bear in mind the fact that
a strictly pure, full weight baking powder, al
though it costs a little more than the adulter-
ated, cheap, light weight or bulk powders, is
by far the cheapest, both in purse and health.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

The blighting effects ofimpure blood are sad
to behold in those we meet day by day. This
ought not and need not be 80. Parsons Pur-
gative Pills make new rich blood; taken one
night for twelve weeks will change the blood in
the entire system,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

What is the difference between an
apothecary and farmer who reads and
knows more than his neighborsP Ans
One is pharmaceutist and the other is
the 'cutist farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

Amy Anthony, wife Of Mark Anthony, resid-
ing at No. Locust Street, Fall River, Mass,
was afflicted with severe felon on her finger
and was induced to try Grace's salve. Almost
instantly she experienced relief from the pain
which had been almost uncomfortable. Every
other remedy proved unaVailing.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

gentleman ina heighboring town who had
suffered two yeare with chronic diarrhma and
was 80 reduced that be could not walk. was
cured and restored to sound health by john
sons Ancdyne Lniment. This Iiiniment Is
worth its weight in gold
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

To cleanse and whten the teeth TO sweeten
the breath, use Browns Camphorated Sapona-
ceous Dentifrioe. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

The folly of some is fund OF wit for
others.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WINSLOWB
SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children
with never-failing success. II corrects acidity
Of the stomach, relieves wind colo, regulates
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhUa,
whether arising from teething or other causes.
An old and Mell-tried remedy. 2b cts q otLle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

OHEwR
The Celebrated
"MATcHLEss"
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.
The PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York, Boston, and Chicago.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11

To develop healthy and harmonious action
among the organs of secretion, digestion, and
evacuation, take DIR. Motifs Vegetable Liver
Pills, which BEAUTIFULLY. stimulate the liver,
give tone and regularity TO the liver, counter
act tendency to costiveness and purify the
blood. Their csthartic action is unaccompanied
bv gripping and is never violent or abrupt but
always gradual and natural. These pills are Of
the greatest assistance in overcoming scrofu-
lous tumors and eruptive maladies. All
Druppists aell H.
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JoNKBvILLE, Mich, Dec. 81, I87T-Messrs FoElos:
sent you 90 cts for two boxes Of Graces Save have
had two and have used them ulcer foot and
it is almost we'll. Respectfully yours, o. j. VAN MSS.
on receipt Of 80 cents Prepared by SETH W.
EOMLE ~ SONS, S6 Harrison Ave. Boston. Mass.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-16
Most Profit i'm High Feeding.

AN English farmer, twenty-five years
settled in this country, after speaking
of the high feeding of stock, and land
in the old country, says: "Now if
American farmers who own their farms
were to keep lots of live stock, and use
quantities of oil-cake, meal, bran, etc,
they would have rich land, and grow
threefold the crops they now do. AS
they have no rents to pay, they would
become as wealthy as the English land
owners; for they would have the same
support for their housekeeping and
families as the English farmers, and the
rent these pay to their landlords as
well. This winter, then, is a good time
to begin, but it is of no use to buy the
stock unless there is courage enough to
feed without stint, for there is no such
pitiable sight as to see a man with a
quantity of cattle, sheep, ETC., afraid to
give them a sufficiency of good feed.
Of course the animals will have to be
fed according to what it is intended to
do with them, and anyone who has not
Judgment enough to do this is not a
genuine farmer, and has to suffer loss
at first, till experience gives him prac-
teal knowledge. - Vermont Chronicle.
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The Burglary at Simpsons.

OF late several burglaries have been
committed in the neighborhood in which
Mr. James Simpson lives, and, of course,
the folks are not little alarmed. In
Simpsons row alone enough firearms
and ammunition have been collected to
conduct very fair-sized war with Mex
leo, and Simpson, particularly, has
bought whole armory of weapons and
loaded them to the muzzle. Simpson
brother-in-law, George Washington
Budd, commonly known as 'Wash, y
lives with him, and for weeks past
Wash, upon going to bed, has made
such preparation and display of vari-
Gus kinds of engines of destruction that
q looker-on might have concluded that
his purpose was to conduct a kind of
battle of Gettysburg on his own respon-
sibility
The other night Wash, after recap
ping all his revolvers, running his
thumb along the edge of his broad
sword, half-cocking his gun, and laying
his bowie-knife on the chair, thought he
heard burglar prowling about down
stairs. Buckling on his artillery, Wash,
in his stocking feet, crept down the
back staircase determined to annihi-
late the thief.
Simpson heard the noise at the same
moment, and he, thinking Wash was in
bed asleep, loaded up his machinery of
death and crept softly down the front
stairs, also without his boots.
Both reached the first floor at the same
moment. They stopped and listened
Wash thought he heard the burglar in
the parlor. Simpson felt sure the ras-
cal was in the dining-room pocketing
the spoons. So while Wash trod noise
lessly frontward Simpson stepped
steaAhily to the rear. Midway in the
hall they came into collision. Each felt
perfectly certain that the other was the
burglar.
Wash grappled with his antagonist
instantly. Simpson knew that death.
struggle had begun, so he took hold
with all his might. Neither had q
chance to draw his weapons.
Wash strove to throw his burglar
down, and Simpson, perceiving the
game, made huge effort to PROSTATE
Wash. They pushed, and pulled, and
ierked, and showed, and painted, bump.
ing up against the wall, kicking up the
carpet, and making such hubbub that
Mrs. Simpson, upstairs in her room,
and afraid to come out, lifted up hei
voice and screamed with awful vehe-
mence.
After a fearful and desperate strug.
gle, during which Wash had his coat
torn to rags and couple of handfuls Of
hair pulled out, and Simpson had his
nose jammed against a chair until il
felt as if it had swelled to the size of 8
watermelon, Wash let go moment to
get his breath. Thereupon Simpson
made a rush for the front stairs quietly,
in the dark, and Wash, pretty well
scared and tired of war, dashed off up
! the back stairs, resolved to go and see
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-16
A Race With Death.

One of the most remarkable trips on
record has just been made on the Atchi-
son, Topeka Il Santa Fe Railroad, from
Kansas City to the Rocky Mountains.
A gentleman named w. S. Dunn, of
Columbus, Ohio, arrived in this city On
Thursday morning, on his way to visit
his sick wife at Manitou Springs, Col
On his arrival here he received a teIe-
gram stating that his wife was at the
point of death, and that she could
not live many hours. The husband,
who was a middle-ag ed man, seemed
to be much affected by the news,
and at once made inquiries for a
special train. He offered large
sum of money for special engine to
run to Pueblo ahead of the regular
train, but could not obtain one here.
He took possession of the telegraph
wires between here and Topeka, the
headquarters of the road, and offered
$3.50 for a special locomotive to run at
special speed across the plains. His
offer was accepted, and at three O clock
on Thursday afternoon the devoted
husband started from Topeka on his
break-neck errand of love and duty.
Away went the locomotive and. car,
with its solitary but sorrowing passen,
ger, over the prairies of Kaw Valley,
down into the valley of the Neosho at
Emporia, then off again over the high
divide between the Neosho and the
Arkansas Valley, which was reached
before night had closed in. Then, after
taking water, the impatient husband
and his tireless iron horse started up
the great Arkansas Valley to the base
of the Rocky Mountains.
He reached Pueblo, Col, about 1886
o'clock ON Friday morning, and then
only waiting for locomotive on the
Denver q Rio Grande gauge
to be got ready, started up to Manitou
distance of fifty miles. He reached
Manitou, at the base of Pixies Peak, il
time to see his dying wife, and was wei
satisfied with the result of his fast triu
The fastest time made on the route was
fifty miles per hour, the average time
about thirty-five miles. 1t is the fastest
time ever made across the plains from
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mount
ains.-Kd7aS0S city Times.
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why Simpson didn't come down and
help wipe that burglar out
As Simpson got to the landing, ne
saw Wash form, by the dim light from
the bathroom, in the back entry.
"Who's that?' shouted Simpson
neryously, feeling for his revolver.
"Me-W ash, y replied his brother-ln'
law.
Simpson went to him, and said:
Thunder and lightning, Wash
Why didn't you come down sooner"
"Sooner! Why, where've you been!
I've had the most awful time you evel
heard Of
"So'veI, i" replied Simpson. "There
q burglar in the house, and I've beer
tearing him to pieces
"You don't say? Why, my gracious
I've had a fight with one, too; and
think laid him out!''
"You did? Where?"
"Why, downstairs, there, in the
front entry"
Not in the entry, you don't meanF
eyes" said Wash, in the entry
nearly banged the head off of him
Where was your man?"
"Why, in the entry, too. Queer
didn't hear your
1T is queer" replied Wash; "be
cause | hammered his nose against
chair until it must be mashed fiat"
"Whose nose?"
"The burglars, and he tore my coal
to rags and pretty near scalped me-"
"Who didP''
"The burglar -
Simpson was silent minute and the
he said:
"Come in here to the light
They entered the bathroom an(
Wash looked at Simpson and Simpson
looked at Wash
"Wash!" said Simpson.
"What?' said Wash.
"Wash, you're the biggest idiot in thu
State. Hang me if | don't believe you'v,
been fighting with me! Look at m,
nose.n
"No! You don't say? Did you pull
out your burglars hair and splinter "
his coat?''
"rm afraid l did," said Simpson.
"Mr. Simpson, said Wash, calmly
" if there IS a bigger ass on the cont
nent than | am, l think / can lay m
hand on the mana party by, the nam
of Jim Simpson"
Just at this juncture Mrs. Simpson
flew from her room, down the hallwa'
and into the bathroom, where she fel
on her knees, clasped her hands ant
shrieked:
"Save me, James! oh, save me
Washington, save me! save me! DON
let me be murdered! Don't! don't! oh
dom
Simpson looked sheepishly at Wash
then, without saying a word, he seize
Mrs, Simpson by the arm, ran her owe
to her bedroom and slammed the door
Then George Washington Budd wen
sadly upstairs, disgorged his murder
Gus apparel, locked his bowie-knife il
his trunk and went to bed.
Both cOmbatants swore secrecy; bu
Simpson couldn't help telling his wife
and she spread it, of course, and S
here it is.-M0r AdeIer.
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81 planted when / was thirty-two
years old all the land | could buy for
the purpose, and if | had retained the
land and cared for the trees as | have
for those | still own | should have
abundance from them alone to keep
two families in all that comfort in life
requires. The secret of any success
have had in orcharding lies in judicious
pruning, shallow blowing, and manur-
ing; plenty of tar in April, May, and
June, and as many Brahma chickens as
will eat up the insects that prey upon
the vitality of the trees. keep in my
orchard at the rate of fifty fowls to the
acre. Brahma fowls will not 90 over
ordinary stone walls, and they pay well
for feeding, besides the work they ac-
complish in the orchard. Vino will
plant apple trees and keep them well
cultivated and tarred in the worm sea-
sonP'-N. Y. Commercial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-16
SANKEY'S History.

Henry M. Stanley, whose original
name was John Rowlands, was born
near Dinbych, Wales. in 1910, his ia
theirs name being John Rowlands Cor
Reliant, as then called by the Welsh
people,. Having received early educa-
tional advantages to greater extent
than was generally accorded to children
of his time, we find him, when only a
youth, occupying the position of assist
ant teacher in the public schools of
Llanelwy, then of Tretfynon, and still