The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-21

the Efforts OF the government TO ABOLISH
or diminish the use of opium have re-
Gently been more energetic than ever.
All these efforts have been in vain, as were
those of many years previous. The Pekin |
have at last determined to |
take the final step in The business, and |
an edict has been issued, which goes into |
effect next year, making the use or sale |
of opium punishable by death. 1t is |
hard TO say how the edict will be met by
the ten million opium eaters of the Ce-
lestial Empire, or what proportion of
them will come to this country to enjoy
their fascinating custom.
There was buried in the cemetery of
81. James the Less, in Philadelphia, re-
Gently, the man who was known as the
Man of Roots-not Greek roots, but ma
ture's own. Joseph Smith was born in
the mining districts of England eighty
one years ago, and coming to this coun-
try located at Ashland, Schuyllzill coun-
ty, Pa. While he was living at Ashland
he CHANGED to find a curious root in
the woods one day.. He whitfield aim
lessly on the root for a few minutes
when, 10 it became perfect owls head.
Joseph's interest in roots was at once
excited and he began to collect all the
curious ones he could find. Hesoon had
his house filled with hundreds of shapes
that were conjured out of laurel root,
pine knot or stone, his strange fancy
growing by what it fed on.
1t is sign of the growing interest
among women in regard to the
ways and means of industrial education
that petition is being circulated and
numerously signed by women in all the
States of the Union, which will be pre-
sented to the next Congress, asking its
favorable consideration of plan for tho
establishment of national schools of de-
sign. A Washington paper thinks that
"Ghorough training in schools of art and
design will make the women and men
who receive it self-sustaining. Skilled
labor always commands its price, and
technical education underlies the sue
cess of many branches of industry, and
will help to solve the labor question. 1t
is in this belief that the petition has been
circulated and signed by professors in
schools throughout the country, and by
list of women's names from all the
States, including several hundred in this
district, and also in the hope that Con-
gress will take such action in the matter
as the Importance of the subject de-
mands."
While no new cases of the plague are
reported in Russia, European medical
Journals show that there exists, and not
without reason, the greatest fears that
with the return of warm weather it will
break out again with unabated virulence,
and that its ravages will then not be con-
fined to one distant district. but spread
lo11 ho n
adjoining countries. There is now
known to exist in st. Petersburg, Vitefsk,
Odessa, Warsaw and in other districts in
Russia bubonic affection, with which
Russian physicians are unfamiliar, (which
is very similar to, if not identical with,
bubonic disease which preceded the re-
cent outbreak of the PLAGUE in Astrachan
and previous ones in Persia and MesO-
potamia. BY some, indeed, this dis
ease is considered a mild form of the
plague itself While each new case of
The plague causes the greatest alarm
among the people, as the probable fore
runner of renewed devastations, the
medical fraternity see in this seemingly
trivial bubonic affection cause for the
gravest apprehension in the near future.
At any rate, danger ofrecurrence will not
| be passed for more than year.
Newspaper readers will remember the
trial of England's criminal phenomenon,
Charles Peace, who figured so much in
type and on tongue few months ago.
just before his execution this notorious
outlaw made it known that he had muir
dered Cock, q Manchester policeman,
for which crime William Habron, a
Young Irishman, was soon to be hung.
A clever dodge on the part of Peace, the
public thought, to provoke invesUiga-
tion and thus gain respite. So Peace was
hung. Shortly afterward the Cock muir
der was again looked into in accordance
with the suggestion of Peace. Itwas found
that the bullet which killed the police
man fitted the executed mans revolver,
and that it did not fit young Habron's
weapon. Other points were revived and
Habron was released from the Portland
prison. He was not informed OF the
pardon, but supposed he was soon to be
hung. His neck had been measured g
few days before. At last it dawned upor
him gradually that he was not to die
The relief affected his nervous system
but under good treatment he rallied anC
is now happy man. Thus after an inn
prisonment of three years and wheI
within step of the gallOws an innocen
nan is saved from martyrdom to law.
At the fifth anniversary of the Wo
mans Christian Temperance Union, o
J New York city, Hon. William +. Dodg
{ presided, and in an address he told tn
/ story of lady, belonging to one of tn
2 best families in New York, whose hus
/ banda leading citizen-was so mucl
the slave of intoXication that he woul,
e leave his business often and remain a
e home on a drunken debauch for weeks
f The wife withdrew from society, O
$ which she was a bright ornament, ant
: exerted herself to redeem her husban
/. if possible, or to prevent his vice fron
G becoming known. At length, when tn
/, truth could no longer be concealed, sh
i confided in the speaker and his wife
; and through their efforts the husban
a was induced to sign the pledge, whic
e he kept for several years. This day,
d said Mr.. Dodge, he is occupying yer