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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
The Powder. PLAY,

Several times during the year in Mo-
rocco, the Arab inhabitants of town
hold certain half-religious festivals called
the Feasts of the Aissouia, which, in
many ways, are as revolving as the orgies
of the lowest savages.
Though the Arabs are shy of foreign
eyes at their rites, the tourist may get an
invitation to these performances, If he
happens to have n friend among the
natives. Following his guide through a
maze of tOrtuous streets, and up great
many flights of stone steps, he will final
ly be conducted to Il small hall of Moor
ish architecture, with the characteristic
horseshoe arches supported upon marble
pillars, and no roof except, perhaps,
fragment of striped awning. Around the
inside runs a gallery occupied by yelled
Moorish ladies, and ornamented with a
few flags, which alone relieve the glare
of whitewash on all sides of this queer
building. The floor is laid with Octa-
gonal tiles OF red and white, and upon
red mats, around a small "altar in the
center, sit the musicians and performers,
while the spectators find places behind.
The chosen performers will dance
bare-footed upon red-hot plates of iron
and on beds of living Goals; will
lick rods of red-hOt iron; will take
burning torches between their teeth
and hold flaming Oil-wicks until the blaze
has burned straight into the palms of
their hands; will swallow nails and
stones; will even snatch up q living
scorpion and crunch it between the teeth,
with as keen relish as that with which
newsboy eats n shrimp. All this is gone
through with (for money! to the harsh
tumult of half dozen rude drums and
horns, which make fit accompaniment
to these horrid remnants of pagan fire
worship.
A much more interesting, though no
less noisy, recreation, is the powder-play,
n game that may take place on foot or on
horseback, for these MOOrs, as everybody
knows, are nearly as much at home i'm
the saddle as afoot. The horsemen en-
gagged in the game ride at an exceedingly
rapid pace, carrying loaded guns which
they discharge as they dash about in all
kinds of positions-above, below, on
either side and straight forward. The
noble horses seem to enter into the wild
rush and noise of the fun as much as
/ their masters, and the celerity with
which the various movements are exc
| cuted is wonderful. Not only do the
| younger men take part in the sport, but
/ old gray-headed men enjoy it with keen
interest and equal spirit. Another kind
of powder-play is performed on foot.
The band strikes up fearful din under
the name of music, and i'm the midst Of
the distracting medley two lines of men,
that have formed opposite one another,
rush together, and, throwing their bodies
into wonderful attitudes, fire their guns,
and shout and yell as though in actual
battle. The Arabs call this powder-play
Lab-eL-bdrode.-Er HlgersoH IN 81.
] Nicholas.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
Words OF Wisdom.

Surely half the world must be blind
they can see nothing unless it glitters.
He who gives up the smallest part of
a secret has the rest no longer in his
power.
1t is not what you have in your chest,
but what you have in your heart, that
makes you rich,
The word knowledge, strictly en-
ployed, implies three things, viz, truth.
proof and conviction.
There is nothing lower than hypocrisy.
To profess friendship and act enmity is
a sure proof of total depravity.
The best kind of revenge is that which
is taken by him who is so generous that
he refuses to take any revenge at all.
1t may serve as a comfort to us in all
our calamities and Affections that he
that loses anything and gets wisdom by
it is a gamer by the loss,
1t is when our budding hopes are
nipped beyond recovery by some rough
wind that we are the most disposed To
picture to ourselves what flowers they
might have borne If they had hourished.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

1t may be interesting for some people
to know that it costs twenty-five dollars
TO take a dog across the Atlantic, and
that the animal is taken at the owners
risk, unless special contract to the con-
trary is made with the steamship COM
pany. One company will not take them
on my terms, neither will it take corpses.
Goldie, the naturalist, has found in New
Guinea tribe who suggested to him the
origin ofthe rumors always current of a
race of tailed men in some corner of the
globe. These natives wear artificial tails.
They are entirely nude, except for the
caudal ornament, which is q plat of
grass fastened around their bodies by n
fine string, and depending behind to
about half way down their legs.
New Orleans is deterermined that its
filth shall not invite yellow fever to its
midst this summer A sanitary associa-
ton of citizens is backing up the board
of health, and by their joint efforts the
canals and cutters are being flushed,
garbage removed, and the cemeteries,
into which the city poor have been
crowded until the neighbors could hardly
endure the stencil, covered two feet deep
under river sand. Quarantine regula-
tions will also be more strictly enforced
than ever before.
A correspondent at HalTodsburg. the
Oldest town in Kentucky-the first cabin
was built there in l774, by Capt. James
Harrod, after whom it was named-has
been inquiring into the murderous record
of the immediate vicinity during the last
seventeen years, and has found that
forty-three homicides have been COM
mitted there, and only two persons sent
to prison for their crimes. Some of the
tragedies have been barbarous in the ex-
treme. Mrs. Tilford, a widow with
seven children, having inherited her hus-
bands estate, married again, one Scott,
younger person than herself. He deliber-
ately provided himself with a small
arsenal, and set about eXterminating his
wife's offspring. He killed three out
right, and wounded others. The motive
was plainly to enjoy the property alone
with his wife but the jury found him
insane. 1t was held that an act so dia-
bolical could not be done by man in
sound mind. Scott afterward went to
Texas and married again. One Daven-
port, a deputy sheriff, had a writ for the
arrest of Isaiah Gabbard, who armed
himself, and with friend sailed out in
quest of the sheriff, and shot him and
his brother dead. The murderers were
acquitted. Later, certain Henry Noel,
having heard that Gabbard had threat
ened his life, hunted him down, and find
ing him unarmed, puttwo bullets through
his heart. Noel was not even tried.
Timoleon Bosley was shot dead while
coming out of church, by James Lawson,
who had an old grudge against him. No
punishment followed any of these MUIR
ders. In several instances, where men
Of no social position exercised the privi-
lege of the commonwealth by shooting
somebody, the shooters were hanged by
mObs.
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The "Tim Finnegan" Mines.

\ far West study in nomenclature is
given by the SIlt Lake Tribune. A
stranger asks n miner why a series of
nineteen claims have the name of Tim
Finnega1." The reply, in the vernacu-
lar, explains the phenomenon: "Well.
stranger, it was at Prescott, an me an
Tuscan Jake was playing a game of cur
sock, jes' for the drinks, you know, when
in comes one of them crazy, bloodthirsty
bloodhounds that turns loose in mining
camps sometimes, ripped out his six
shooter and shot the barkeeper dead
then, turning on me an Tuscan Jake.
said: Now, either of you move an inch
an I'll blow the top of your heads off y
We knowd he'd do it. There was the
barkeeper dead, an thar was the pistol
pointed right at us. 1t was fearful; we
darsn't take full breath. Jake's feel
in's worked on him so powerfully that
he couldn't keep still; he hitched round
laid him at my feet. The sweat stood
on my face like cobblestones. | even
wished he would shoot me an have it
over. with. Jes' then n pistol flashed
behind the wild beast, an he fell dead
in his boots. Tim Finnegan had got too
much whisky early in the evenin', an
stretched out on some barrels in the
corner an went TO sleep. The shots that
killed the barkeeper an Jake walked
him; an bein' sobered by his nap, he,
unbeknownst to me an the murderer,
easily an gradually drew his pistol an
sent the bloodhound to kingdom come.
/ Rugged an kissed Tim, an I've named
the claims after him; an if | die before
my wife-Tim's a bachelOr-l want her
to be named Mrs. Tim Finnegan."
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me-" On the back of the quaint old
locket were the initials, "V. ID. V, ~ and
below them, I'M. E." There had been
n picture in it once, but there was left
only the marks of the knife with which
it had been pried out. 1t was growing
late, and calling n hack, Frank jumped
in and told the driver to take him to the
new courthouse. Arrived there, he told
the man to wait, passed through the
building and out the other door, walked
briskly to Simpsons, hesitated moment,
bolted in the door, and in a moment
stood in a box at the counter, where a
poor woman was pawning some clothing
for food. Frank shuddered, drew out the
locket and laid it down.
A dark man took it up, looked at it,
turned it over, scrutinized the initials,
tested the gold on corner, and said,
laconically:
How much"
"Ten dollars"
The man turned away, made out the
ticket, handed Frank the money and his
duplicate ticket, and turned to the next
conner.
With a sigh Mt the atmosphere of
misery hanging around the place, from
the dark corners of which the hollow
faces of the specters of want and starva-
tion seemed leering at him, Frank passed
quickly out the door, regained his cab,
said to the driver, "Brunswick-quickr
and rolled away.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
TERMS, s1.5O A YEAR.
The Old, Old Story.

The pastors little daughter
Sits smiling in the sun,
Beside her on the old stone bench
The story-booS just done,
And lurking in her wine-brown eyes
A story just begun,
1'or yonder, pruning the apple trees,
g. Behold the farmers son.
Slowly adown the pathway
The pastor comes and goes,
And settles with his long, lean hand
The glasses on his nose.
Bore ever dry, brown branch before
SO beautiful rose1
All, he thinks his blossom only bud,
Though he witches it as it blows.
b it the story of Moses
In his rush-wrnpped cradle found,
Or of Joseph and his brethren :
Het thinks as he glances round.
"Y Nave finished your volume, Amy,
Is it something scriptuTal and sound p
And his little daughter bushes and starts,
And her book falls to the ground.
Go on with your walk, good pastor,
You do not yourself deceive;
It has been a scriptural story
Since Adam first kissed Eve.
And never blush, little lassie,
. The tale was written above,
No other so speaks of Heaven
AS the old, old story Of love.
London Reader.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is easy enough to make shoi OK
stall
There are more short young men than
tall ones.
To make your collar last-Make your
shirts first
The fuschia is sometimes called the
lady's eardrop.
A rod, line, and poor worm at each
end, typify patience.
Wood is often found at depth of forty
feet at Oscaloosa, Ind.
1t is said about 1000 settlers per day
boom into Nebraska"
The army Bill-William Tecumseh
Sherman.-BufdIo Express.
Eight hundred thousand base balls are
made in this country each year.
Two chunks of lead, weighing half a
ton, have been mined at Washington.
Mo.
Henry Clays voice was called band
of music; Webster's trumpet; Chan
ning's harp.
New Haven turns out 1900, 900 corsets
annually, half of the country's supply
coming from there.
According to the French newspapers
manufacturing districts.
What is the difference between an old
dame at the spinning wheel and young
urchin chewing tobacco? One sits and
spins and the other spits and sins.
The lockwood forests of the Caucasus,
Armenia, and the shores of the Caspian
Sea are rapidly disappearing under the
constantly increasing demand for this
valuable wood.
The construction of underground tele-
graph wires is going on in Germany, and
that country will soon be intersected
with a complete network of this invisi-
BILE and inaccessible means of commupi
cation, which no thunder storm can de-
strOy and no rowing enemy can readily
cut.
FOR WRITER'S TO THE PRESS
Write upon pages of single size,
Cross all your t's and neatly dot your is.
On one side only let your lines be seem
Both sides filed up announce verdant green.
Correct-yes correct all that you write,
And let your ink be black, your paper white;
For spongy foolscap OF II muddy blue
Betrays a mind of the same dismal hue.
Punctuate carefully; for on this score
Nothing proclaims the practiced writer more.
The gallant who, when a young lady
stepped on his foot while dancing and
asked pardon, said, Don't mention it;
"a dainty little foot like that wouldn't
hurt daisy" not only told the truth,
but doubtless felt more comfortable than
the boor who, when his foot was stepped
on, roared out, "That's right; climb all
over me with your great, clumsy hoofs."
boston Transcript.
The cattle plague is becoming more
and more formidable in Bohemia. Sew
eral hundred places have been attacked
by the disease. They are surrounded by
military Gordon, and as far rs possible
prevented from carrying on intercourse
beyond its boundaries. The lost to the
Inhabitants of the district is very con-
siderable, and is not totally represented
by that of the cattle slaughtered. Agri-
culture is in many places at a standstill.
the cattle which serve as beasts of burden
being locked up wherever the disease ap-
DpnrG
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
The First Piano.

The name first given the new instlu-
ment was the hammer-harpsichOrd /;
next, its power of giving both loud and
n soft note procured it the name of forte
piano.. e., loud-soft; this next changed
to pianO-forte. In 1862 Mozart PLAYED
upon the piano, at the age of six; and
his letters in TIT record his great delight
in the pianos of Stein, q maker of that
day. In 1867 the piano seems to have
been introduced to the public in England,
for play-bill of "The Beggars' Opera -
at the Coyent Garden Theatre, May l6,
announced that "at the end of Act L.
Miss Brickler will sing favorite song
from Judith" accompanied by Mr..
Dibdin on a new instrument called the
pianO-fOrte.n 1.-THE use of this kind of
Instrument" said Thalberg, "led to its
peculiar capabilities being thoroughly
studied and appreciated, and the COM
poser repaid their obligation to the in
strument by writing for it many of the
finest productions of music, and by prac-
ticing the execution of these productions
to such an extent as to be able to bring
them before the public with the greatest
possible ecldt.n Mozart, liu,dn, Handel
and Beethoven wrote especially for it
and yet, although the note of the virginal
spinet-harpsichord was called by DIR
Bmney "a scratch with sound at til,
end of it" the early piano was not much
better. The one on which Gluck com.
posed his "Armida," which was prob
ably as good as any of the great com
posers of the last century ever saw, was
made in l772. 1t was exhibited as
suggestive curiosity in the London EX
position of 1862, and was thus described
1t was four feet and half i'm lengtl
and two feet i'm width, with n small
square sOunding-board at the end; tin,
wires were little more than threads, ant
the hammers consistedRf n few piles O
leather over the head OLA horizontal iacl
working on bridge"
In his early life an important part o
John Jacob Astor's business was the inn
portatiOn of London pianos to New
York. In 1900, Thomas Jefferson, il
writing to his daughter Martha, men
toned that a Philadelphian had invented
"one Of the prettiest improvements il
the forte-pianos | have ever seen;n anC
he bought one for his Monticello house
1t was an upright, and Mr.. Jefferson
said that "he COntriVeS to give hi
strings the same length as in the granC
forte-piano, and fixes his three unison
of the same screw, which screw is in tn
direction of the strings, and therefor
never yields; it scarcely get out of tun
at all, and then for the most part tn
| three unisons are tuned at once. ."-Jttltu
! WGlcOI, IN HdTpeT'S MAGAZINE.
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man, whom he had never seen before in
his life, blonde, matronly little woman
=" that's Marie" he thought-and n
charming girl, in white, with great black
eyes, and mass of soft, black hair rolled
upon the small, clean-cut head.
For moment the situation was en-
barrassing. Then Mr.. Francklyn step
ped forward, and Frank said:
"There seems to be some mistake; /
must have n namesake somewhere.
"Oh, no; we are cousins to your late
Aunt Miranda, who has just made you
her legatee, and as you have come home
at last we mean, now that you are here, to
make you accept cousins place in our
house and our friendship said Mr..
Francklyn.
1t is enough to say that the dinner was
perfect, the hostess charming, the host
ajolly good fellow and Bessie so betwitch-
ing that Frank was in love head and
ears before the dinner was finished. -.
The letter from "my lawyers was at
the hotel when Frank returned, covered
with the postmarks of half the "New
Brunswick" in the country, among
which it had travelled while he was
waiting for it at the Hotel Brunswick.
The last murmur that he made rs he
dropped off to sleep was, Found an
uncle two cousins and-and-" and he
was dreaming of a black-eyed girl in
white in another minute.
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III.

"Mr. Van Cleef," said the man-ser-
want, opening the door of the drawing
room of No. % West 44th street, and
Frank was ushered into the cool rooms
and the presence Of tall, ine-looking
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Rates of Advertising.

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements col.
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments must be paid for in advance.
job work, Cash on Delivery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

When Neptune is in an aflectionate
hood he throws an arm of the sea around
waist of water and hugs the shore,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

Prof Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard Col
lege, says the whole number of comets
which are capable of being seen from the
farth, and which are contained in our
Bun's sphere, may be fairly estimated at
over 5000, 1000. Considering the hard
tess of the times we should say that the
ln's sphere was pretty well fixed, as re-
ards comets.
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with the postmarks of half the New
Brunswicks in the country, among
which it had travelled while he was
waiting for it at the Hotel Brunswick.
The last murmur that he made rs he
dropped off to sleep was, Found an
uncle two cousins and-and-" and he
was dreaming of black-eyed girl in
white in another minute.
The phlegmatic clerk at the pawn
brokers' turned over two lockets appar-
emily Just alike and examined them
curiously, then put them back in their
wrappers and was about to put them
away when a fellow-clerk approached
and also looked at them. They changed
them about a little and then placed them
in the wrappers and in the safe. The
next day both lockets were redeemed.
They thought it curious at the moment,
but odd things are of daily occurrence in
the Office of pawnbroker, the theater of
the daily tragedy of woe and want, pov-
erty, hunger and dirt.
Frank looked at the locket when he
reached his hotel; it was the same.
There was the little bright spot where
the pawnbroker's acid had touched the
corner of the case, but the rest was the
same exactly. No-he rubbed his eyes
whereas when he took the locket to
the pawnbroker the initials on the case
had read:
V.D.V.
ME-.
OF this he was perfectly sure; yet, here
now. they were plainly reversed, and
read:
NJ e.
V.D.V.
He puzzled over it for some time.
Then lie went down in u cab and de-
mapded of the pawnbroker an explana-
ton. The young man told him of the
two lockets, exactly alike, left within an
hour of each other on the preceding day,
each pledged for $40, each redeemed in
the morning, and explanations how they
must have been changed. The young
man hoped that there was no harm done;
remembered that the other locket was
left by "yOung woman - really didn't
remember what she looked like, and then
went back to his work. Frank returned
home puzzled. 1t really didn't matter;
it was only chance purchase of unique
tTifle in jewelry he hadn't the remotest
idea whose the initials were, but he was
superstitious about it, and it troubled
him. That the locket had n double in
New York there could be no doubt, and
so Frank resolved not to tell the story,
but to wear the locket on his watch
chain, in the hope that it would some
time attract the attention of some one
who could solve the mystery.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10
3 3Marr13geS..

At Norfolk, Juno 90, hy the Rev. John F, Gleason, Frank L. Weldon of Torrington, and Lucy Johnson of Norfolk
 At the residence of the brides brother, Col. A. H. Fenn, in Winsted June %, by the Rev. L. s, Griggs of Terryville, Samuel A. Her. man, formerly of Winsted, and Miss Augusta Fenn. .s
 In Thomaston, June 26th, Daniel Webster, Esq, of Waterbury, and Miss Lizzie Fox, of the first named place. .5#
 In Thomaston, June 17th, by Dr. Minor, D.. D., of New Jersey, c. R. Smith, Esq, to Miss Liella Minor, daughter of Pierce Minor both of Thomaston.
 In Bridgewater, July 1st, by Rev. Mir. Col. burn, George Toussaint, of New Milford. and Miss Nancy Ceslen, of Bridgewater.
 In Roxbury, June 22nd, Captain Levi Smith and Miss Julia A. Andrews, both of Roxburv
 At Amenia, July 3rd, by the Rev. J. N. Ramsey, Mir. Adolph Cribley, of Sharon, te Miss Nora Turbarg, of Wassaic, N. Y.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10
De2.thS

-
 At Morris, July 30, John Flynn, aged 60 years.
 In New Hartford, June 25, Mrs. Hannah Woodruff, aged 83 years
 In Watertown, July 4, George Wadsworth. son of D. B. and Jennie M. Candee, aged IA months.
 In New Milford, June 21st. William Jones, aged A years st
 In New Milford, June 22d, Mrs. Annie E. Murphy, aged 39 years. In New Milford, June 18th, Mrs. Abigail Hoy, aged 80 years.
 In New Milford, July 1st, Jane E., wife of Oliver s. Hartwell, aged 47.
 In Bridegwater; July 2d, Polly M., widow of the late Abijah Miner, aged 79.
 In Kent, June 27th, Ira Danes, aged 80.
 In New Preston, June 18th, Harriet D., wife of Adrian Hegeman, of New York, and daughter of the late Henry Hall of Bridge port, aged 35
 In Harwinton, July 7th, Mrs. Orville Bar Der, aged 59.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10
Clubbing Rates.

ss-z-y sElsz -sbe-S se o1Ie- the following perl
 = zs.. ssse .-ss-z-er, =E ike folio SiIg yearly
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10
Ellsworth.

The Fourth was observed by ballplay. a dance and picnic in the Maple Grove near Daniel Halls, and the usual family picnics.
 MT. Clark skiff has returned from Glcvers- vile, IN. r., where he has been at school for several months
 Having has begun and the crop is good.
 Rev. Mir. Barclay, of Kent, preached at the Congregational Church on Sunday of last week.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10

nus is now the only bright star in the West, and Mercury will soon be seen down in the North west coming towards Venus. Herschell cannot now be seen by the naked eye but, on the 30th, Mercury will be close by it, very near Regulus, ths brightest star in the Lion. There is no danger of mistaking Regulus for Mercury. H. N.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10

2bLa REMNANTS OF Sllks, l.H...t -#f.l.t,astl Black Cashmeres, Dress Goods, cnyga White Goods,
 Mourning Goods, Laces and Edgings, Cloths and Suitings, Linens and Damasks, etc. Prints, Cambrics, Lawns, Everything in the Dry and Fan .41 A ' cy Goods JLine.l 3>4
 4UE Ff
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10

Messrs. W. B. Hall & Go. have already acquired an extensive reputation for the supe- riority of their Suits, cloaks, and shawls. MT. Drake the general manager and Mrs. Harts horne the designer and filter are both possessed of the highest artistic skill in getting up all goods adopted to Ladies Outside wear La- and children should not fail to visit the New Dry Goods House of W. B. Hall & Co.,, Bridgeport.