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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-11-12
D0RA'S LOVERS.

Dora will never forget that day of the
procession; she remembers the very airs
the bands played, the glitter of epaulets,
the splendidly caparisoned horses, the
waving flags. She was very happy on
that day-1ar happier than she was for a
long, long season afterward. Clement
had invited her to go into the city to wit
ness the pageant; he had permission
from Mr.. Oliver, director of the Bank
of Shekels, to take a window in that
building, by which the procession pass
ed. Aunt lIitty had frowned upon the
affair, and had told her she was fool to
encourage that young jackanapG 5, and so
keep better matches at a distance. "If
'he weren't going off directly, / should
forbid it, she said. "HoW can YOU
care for him, when such man rs Simon
Cleyerly is at your feet, passes me!
They're not to be named in the same
breath. Cleverly is TALL Clement Smith
ers is short; Cleverly's S eyes are dazzling,
Clements are nearsighted; the one has
fortune of his own, the other hasn' I II
sou, so to speak" AS for the question of
money, Dora felt that she would rather
share poverty with Clement than dwellin
marble halls and fare sumptuously every
day with Mr.. Cleyerly.
1t so happened that she and Clement
were the earliest arrivals at the bank,
with the exception of n clerk, and as
that person knew Clement, and dad a
sweetheart to escort from the suburbs,
he soon left them in possession. Dora
had never been inside the bank before
and while they waited and said their
tender nothings, she looked about her,
asking innumerable questions, in ordOr,
perhaps, to postpone the inevitable
question.
There's the safe" said Clement, as
they paused before door. Its built
Into the wall. II you open this door. it
rings. q bell some where in an Office in
Exchange street, and they are warned
that somebody Is tampering with the
safe, and up comes Il brace of police
men,"
"Oh, Clement, what a romancer yoI
are' laughed Dora, Wont they hear
it ut Thule2 Let's see "-and she turned
the hand lie of the door. "There! Why
doesn't the bell ringP"
''Ihe burglar doesn't hear il, | sup.
pose, or he'd make off. Maybe it's the
inner door, the door of the safe itself.
They don't lock this one, you see, and
anybody might open it by mistake.
When the bank officers want to open the
sale, they know how TO prevent the bell
from ringing, they tell me, but maybe
it's all humhug Cleverly told me about
it-he's teller here" And presently
other spectators arrived, and Clement
and Dora took their places at the win
dow. and caught far off the muflfed
tread OF feet, the beating of drums, and
the hint of martial tune. just then
the door opened hurriedly, and an irri-
tated, looking man popped in, Ike jack
out-of-a- box.
Who has been meddling with the
banks safeP" he cried.
A" don't think it has been disturbed, g
replied gentleman present. Clement
and Dora had forgotten that a safe
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-11-12
TERMS, s1.5O A YEAR.
A Legend OF Harvest.

So long ago that history pays
No heed nor record OF how long,
Back in the lovely dreamy days,
The days OF story and cf song.
Before the world had crowded grown,
While wrong on earth was hard to find,
And halt the earth had never known
The forms and faces oil mankind.
When Just rs now the years would keep
Their terms Of SHOWS and suns and showers
1t chanced that summer dropt asleep,
One morning, in Held ol flowers.
And while tho warm weeks came and fed,
In all their tender wealth of charm,
She slept, with beautcous golden head
Laid softly on her weary arm,
She did not hear the waving trees
The warbling brook she did not hear,
Nor yet the velyet-coated beos
That doomed about her rosy ear.
In many yellow breezy mass,
The rich wheat ripened tar away,
And glitering on the fragrant grass,
Her silver sickle idly lay
But then at last, one noontide hour,
A gorgeous moth, while lowering by,
Mistook her sweet mouth for flower,
And summer walked with startled cry.
She rose, in anxious wonder, now,
To gaze upon the heightened wheat,
And saw its plenteous tassels bow
Dead-ripe below the sultry heat.
Hall crazed, sho wandered east and west,
Amid the peaceful spacious cline,
Until at length, with painting broqst,
She stood before old father time.
With tears of shame she told him all,
While pointing to the wheat unknown,
And said: "What power shall make it fail
Ere autumn bitter winds have blown2"
Then father time. with laughter gay,
Bowed all his frame, and crooked his knees
And tossed his white beard like the spray
That crowns tn, erests OF wintry seas
"oh, daughter, cheer your heart !" he cried
"The wheat shall fall ere falls the night.
We two shall mow it, side bHside,
And reap it in the stars pale light !"
So summer cleared her brow of gloom,
And forth with father time she went,
And, haggard age by youth in bloom,
Above the tawny wheat they bent.
Ere fiill off night the harvest fell; A..
But since that season, fair and blithe,
As ancient annals love to tell,
Old father time has borne II scythe
-E1gar Faucet, in 81, Nicholas.
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The Sea Serpent.

The sea serpent is classed by some nat
uralists as reptile, and by others as an
animal, but this triflipg disagreement
has no effect on the general health of
the monster. lie is always in u Jolly
mood and the best of spirits. lie is not
quite as domestic in his nature rs an old
tOm-cat, or a boy with three stone
bruises on each foot but he is seldom
met with any great distance from home.
THERE'S abundant evidence To prove that
he knew all about this country before
Columbus did. Al least, the first one
seen in America by white men acted as
much at home as a hired man in the
pantry, and at no time during the last
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The Patchwork Spread.

The cottage stands back from the sidewalk
In front is a large willow tree,
While nesting among the morning glories
a flower hanging basket l see.
Madeira vines climb DER the window
And gay lady-slippers 80 red,
While mother, she sits in her rocker,
Busy making patchwork spread.
Tho garden is teeming with flowers,
The bright portulaccas in bloom,
With myrtle aud gay creeping Charlie
And sweet heliotrope sheds perfume.
But brighter and sweeter than any
Gay flowers that grow in their bed,
Is the dear one that sits in the rocker,
Busy making patchwork spread.
With pieces of muslin beside her,
Each one OF a different hue,
Some light and some dark and some Plain
ones,
Some well worn as we'll as some new.
How deity she puts them together,
The bright ones surround each dark shred,
So that when it is all completed
'Tis beautiful patchwork spread
The children are home for vacation,
They gombol and play in the room,
And swiftly her needle is plying,
And she bithely singing n tune.
| think as ] watch her spare figure,
Some few silver hairs in her head,
How much that our lives twined together
Resemble that bright patchwork spread.
Some days have been happy and joyous,
Aud some have had heartaches and tears,
Yet bright they appear altogether,
For now nearly twenty-eight years.
God grant when our lives are both ended
And sewn with sweet loves silllen thread,
Our children will think OF us kindly
When they look at that patchwork spread.
-OrmOnd Place.
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An Iowa paper tells the story of a lady
who took her child into n cemetery for
the first time, and upon showing him the
marble figure of lamb upon a grave was
appalled, 10 hear him eXclaim: - sup
pose an old sheepis buried there"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-11-12
Rates Of Advertising.

Legal notices at established rates. {.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements COLI
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments rnnst be paid for in advance.
job work, Cash on Delivery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-11-12

Advice to travellers. Buy bottle OF DR.. Bulls
Cough SyIup-the only thing to stop a hack
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SLAIN BY AN ELK.

How General II. G. Bull, n veteran, Met
Violent DeRth--TWO Other Men
HiIled--The Pet OF n Private Park In
6icts 40 Antler wounds tn Five
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
For the Times.
The Banner Sunday School.


Mr.. EpIroH IL will now give you tho facts
about that banner Sunday School" as promised
in my last:
The Elhcthcl Sunday School was organized in
April lSI5-J. X. Jclicrics Supcrint cndant-anl
has been discontinued only for two months,
January and February, in each year. 1t has
averaged about scvcnty-tivc enrolled scholars,
most Of whom were regular attendants. They
have studied the international Sunday school
lessons III about sixty copies CT papers ds,ribu
ted weekly, most Of which have been paid for
by the school-each pupil during the fall Of the
year dcposilng n nickel monthly to DC used the
next year.
The school is non-scctarian, although at q
Baptist church and owes much Of its prosperity
to this fact. 1t is, also, doing n missionary
work, by sending many copies of their Sunday
School.parcrs to the little Indian children Of the
far West. 1t does good to see the "l1stle
ones and the hoary head of 80 years, gather
ing on the Sabbath 10 learn of God and it
makes us feel a Simeon did when he blest the
infant Jesus.
The school has marked influence on the
ncighhorhood, for good, and will hear perfect
fruit III tho future. How to get the massos
and especially church members, connected with
the Sunday School, is and has been II problem
over which the minds Of those actively engaged
IN the Sunday School work have been porinr
from the days Of Mr. Robert Raikcs till the
present time. We will give y,u Superintendent
Jcfrcrics, last plan He asked as many as felt
disposed to do so, to join what he terms an
AL, y. Al
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
The Concert next Monday.

From what we can see and hear, the Concert
Of the Union Musical Society next Monday night
will be one Of the most interesting and delight
tu! entertainments ever givon in this commuui-
ty. Some of the best adult performers in this
town have consented to assist, while all the
children of Prof. Gonzalez Musical school will
exhibit the astonishing proficiency they have at
'ained in the short time he has taught them
The programme has been carefully arranged to
suit AL the musical tastes and talent Of the COM
munity, embracing the most pleasing ballads and
the most artistic operate music. We hope the
little children will have q full house, to cucour-
age them.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
A Spread.Easle Eu,ogy.


In ~eccnt number or tho Chwrch iaion, In
an article on the next Presidential election, il
indulses in the following strain Of grotcsquc
cnlogy on its mock Idol:
Grant is still prime favoritc, and he lives
and moves and has his being. In an aurio'a of
glory which the coun,ry's gratitude has built
about him"
The only appropriate au,icla we can conceive
OF, as fitted to cncrclc the brow of such be-
sotted rum-spongc, is n whiskcy ring. When
the religious papers Of the country step aside
from their legitimate province to indulge in full
some adulation of such n pinchback military
dullard,-of whom it would be the grossest
fattery to attribute any higher endorsement
than would fit him for q dog fnancer, or q
horse jockey-the manifest tendency of such n
course is to greatly impair their usefulness,
and, Mt the same time serves to lesson in the
popular mind that becoming respect which is
due to the sacred cause which they profess to
advocate.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
Lot Us Havo a Town Clook.

We arc pleased to find our citizens arc again
talking about having n town clock. We hope
it will not end in talk only this time. We have
before cmphatically given voice in favor Of
1t but the want of money in the "city Treas
ury' was then considered an insurmountable
obstacle in the way. Now it is suggested that
the money be raised by volunteer subscriptions
from the citizens One gentleman. who employs
= number of mechanics and laborcrs, told us
that his employees were so anxious to have 4
town clock, by which they could all be governed
in their hours Of work, that he believed every
man would subscribe at least one dollar toward it,
We don know what amount would he ncccssa-
ry, but from what we hear we are inclined to
think that ut least three hundred dollars could
easily be raised in subscri rtions of one dollar
from each person willing to contribute. This
would make a good start and the Town Council
could easily make up the deficiency, if any,
without resort to extra taxation.
AS to the location: We have no doubt an ar
rangcment could be made with Mcssrs Hill &
'"lp to put stccplc to their new building for
the purpose. 1t would be good place, and add
greatly to the appearance of their building,
while the aditional cost would be trinine
rs we have said before, we have all kinds Of
time to work by, to go to ch.rch by, AMI even
for refreshments. Every man who IS the fortu-
nate owner Of watch, keeps his own time, and
the result is, no one knows what time it is with
any certainty willie those of US who can afford
to sport stem windcr have to guess when it is
time to go work, take refreshments and 20 t.,
bed. Let us have Il town clrck by all means.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
Crops in tho Stato

ioRHY.-Wc regret to report that news from
a!!parts of the county, received uuring the week,
forces us to the conclusion that the corn in IIor-
rJ VII! not he more than half the acreage of
former years. The excessive heat and drought
just in caring time has cut the prospect short
beyond redemption, to this amount at least. The
rains which fell last week were confined within
n narrow belt, n7ll were by means general or
sutticin. anywhere. Tslcphoxe.
LANCASTER. Tho drought still continues in
sono sections northwest and east of the village.
The old cora is beyond recovery, and cotton is
badly damagcl.-Leysr.
AN0cESoN.--!n many sections Of this csuntv
corn is completely killed - the extraordinary
"r'nght AMI the grass in the pastures has died
Nut.-IonrnnL
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
Cheerful Crop Prospects.

Since our last there has been an astonishing
Improvement in the crops throughout this coun-
ty. Corn that was supposed to be too far gone
to recover has, in many instances, commenced
to silk and give promise of fair yield, since
the rains of last Thursday and Friday. Since
those rains we have had the finest kind Of
growing weather, and on Wednesday another
heavy rain fell. In nothing is the change more
marked than in the faces Of the Farmers, who
arc now quite confident that they will "make
enough to do them next year." which was very
doubtful two weeks ago. Cotton, Of course,
looks better, but there is no telling what effect
the rains will have upon the bloom and squares
on the stalk. Al things considered, the pres
cnt prospects arc good for fair crops.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
Robertson, Taylor & Co.

We call attention TO the advcrtisemcm cmt Of Mes
srs. Robertson, Taylor & Co., successors of Geo
W. Williams, & Co., Of Charleston. The new
firm retains all the business advantages which
made the house Of Geo. W. Williams & Co..
so widely popular and reliable, with the
further incentive Of young men ambitions
to win an honorable distinction among the
largest and most highly respected mercan-
tile firms in the country. We arc glad to find
that our genial an esteemed young friend, f.
}. Gage, has been retained by the new firm, to
represent its interests through this part of the
state. lie is ono Of most gcntlcmanly and per.
sevcrinS young men Of all our acquaintance
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Tho State Sunday School Convention

This holy will meet in Spartauburg. Wclncs
day and Thursday, August 20 anl u. A pre-
liminary meeting will be held Oh the evening Of
the 10Th The programme will be published at
"n early day. Meantime we would suggest To-
county organizations ~ make arrangements to
elect their delegates as soon as possible. y full
representation Of active, earnest sunday school
workers is desired. If there he q county with
ont an organization, the leading Supcrin,cnlcnts
OF schools will hold informal meeting and
appoint delegates. Let us have some one from
every county.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
BIG IKE.
For the Times.
Tho Crops.--Religious Meetings.
JoNEsvILLE, July :,Oth 1877.

JoNEsvILLE, July 3Oth 1879.
MIR. EpToR Il thought | would withhold
my pen awhile from newspaper correspondence,
but You request some one in each Township to
give you statement of the crop prospects, &C.,
and for one that has not travelled over the Town
ship and seen for himself it is n difficult task
for you may enquire Of your ncighbors AMI their
statements will all be different; but will try,
from what can gather, to make an average Of
the statements rnd frame n report
In the FIRST place, every one knows this has
been an exceedingly dry year, until few days
SINCE and corn on upland in many places looked
as it it could not make anything. The tasscls
were dead, and very often the top, but since The
rains set in it has revived beyond all expecta-
ton and it may yet make at least n half crop
or, perhaps, more. That OH the bottom lands
is, of course, in much better condition, but in
many instances it has suffered for rain an il would
not be safe to count on more than twothirds of q
crop from that; so, all together, corn must be
scarce in this ncighborhood next year. Cotton
IL smaller than at the same time last year, but
1t Is well hllcd with fruit to the TOP, and it has
eakcn on powerful growth since the rains, and
if it holds on to what it has got and grows and
nils as it grows ii may yield full crop, but all
farmers know that it is hard to tell what cotton
Is going to do until il is maturo3 ana oponed
Gardens gave ont entirely, but they are re-
covering somewhat. Fruit is very scarce and
sorry.
Times arc really hard just now, but next year.
1t must certainly DC worse. Some men predict
the hardest year we have seen for many, but as
w q ire In yin ,h,
for the better.
The baptist denomination ut this place hcl,i
series of meetings last week and closed with
three additions to the church. The Rev. James
Mcndcnhall, from Grccnvillc, was with them
and labored faithfully. lie delivered two SER
mons each day, except one from Sunday urtil
Friday. Rev. VIM. Foster and the pastor, G.
). anderson, were present only part Of the time.
The MeihodistS began n meeting on last Sat
urday and 1t is progressing yet with feeling of
some interest. The Rcvs. Mcssrs blanchard
Of Charleston, g. VI. Boyd and j. B. Wilson,
have all been lal'Oring with the pastor in thia
meeting, and on tomorrow }. W. Carlisle, tho
J.. H., Will hc present to lend his help. VIA
knows hut Joncsvlc may yet be place noted
for its pcty So mote it he. II.
Cotton is indeed no longer king. The sio-
iISti's for the eleven months, ending May 80.
SHOW that for the first time in the history ur
the country the expectation Of brcaostuils has
eNc"c'ci in value not only ill, of cotton lr, or
cotton anl tobacco combined
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THE DEVIL RISES TO ExrLAIS.-The editor
looks so handsome in the picture MIR. Clark
took, that his friends thought he had got hold
of the editor of the Union Times valisc by mis-
take. at the press convention; swappcI coats or
got EN- mixed up somehow. But the devil says
the editors wife didn't write the local, either :;
that he was about when that pictur was taken.
-NcwbeTry .Ncws.
Natural thought for his friends but we took
good care not to let any ''sccdy- y-looking' Editor
got hold of our valisc, n,that occasion besides
the Editor Of the Nc~s is almost as good looking
as we are. It's our hat-cithcr of the four
that adds beauty to the phiz, and we sincerely
regretted that we had not taken them all with
us on that mountain trip, to supply the three
Ncwberry Editors with one each after the noun
tain brcezcs blew theirs all among the leaves
and trccscs. Clark must be an imaginative pho
tographcr TO make any one Of the South Carroll
na Editors asgood looking we arc; but there's
no accounting for the freaks of taste and science
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A Cure for Pinafore.

IL may not be generally known, but il is ncv.
crhclcss, fact that tho musical talcn, OF this
town is now under severe training TO render the
world-tsmcd comic Opera, Pinaforc. during the
days Of our County Fair, and almost every clerk
travcrScs tho store with his part in the perform.
ancc in his pocket, so that in his spare moments
and they arc many just now--ho may | c seen
in some secluded part Of the store intensely alb
sorhed i'll study. few days ago a somewhat
notorious character from the country called at a
store and found clerk thus absorbcl--his cl
bows on n table and his head resting between
his hands. Going up to the young man, he said
whats the matter, C.?' To which the clerk
replied, ooh. nothing. I've just got Pinarorc
and I'm studying it Pinaforc," rcplicg our
country friend. ail, that's bad had il once
very severe, but | soon got riI of it," The
clerk, who is somewhat Of n wag, AMI always
on thealcrt for joke, Immediately put on a pain
ful lock and begged his friend to give him his
remedy for the pimaforc disease Wen, SAYS
'hc latter tho way cured it was, barhcd my
heal IN cold water aud put mustard rlastcrs 10
my feet, then went Ia bed, AMI when cot up the
n"Nt morning f"li well ~ ever, AMI ain (
hhl an attack of il since
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
Town Appearances.


1t cannot be denied that the general appear
ancc Of the streets Of town make dccp i'm.
preston upon strangers passing through it rs
well as visitors. If the streets arc unclcan, it
indicates great neglect Of the health Of tac
place; if the streets and cutters arc lined with
weeds, il conveys the idea that no business is
dosc the town is "going down" and "thc grass
has taken the streets These impressions have
much TO do with the general prosperity Of the
town No ono will move 10 it who is thus inn
pressed, and the idea that the town is in n decay.
ING condition is waited all over the State
We are led 10 these thoughts by noticing tho
bad condition Of the boxing around the shade
trccss and the long weeds growing in the cutters
of our streets. few nails, gool hoe and the
labor Of one man for two days, would remove
these objectionable features and give our town a
thrifty and attractive appearance. The present
Town Council would end their term of Office
with great cclat hy putting this finishing touch
to the excellent work they have already done.
DR. John FISHER, aged AMI highly res
pcctcd citizen orColumhia, and TX Senator i ,hp
{. Hope, Of Lexington, liel few lays nao.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
CHARLES PETTY,
Chairman Executive Committee.

THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAw.-Trcnton y
j., July 26.-Ihc Court Of Errors and Appeals
this morning reversed the decision Of Justice
krapp, OF the supreme Court, in the Smith
Hcnnctt case. Chief Justice Bcascly read an
elaborate opinion reviewing the whole case
and came TO the conclusion that the charge Of
judge Oh trial n mislrcction Of testimony
Four Of the judges voted for reversal, on the
ground that the charge in reference to the letter
was erroneous. This reversal makes the trial
and its results of no effect, and if the State
desires to move any further i'll the case there
must h0 u now trial.