davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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 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 II small hall of Moor
ish architecture, with the characteristic
horseshoe arches supported upon marble
pillars, and no roof except, perhaps, a
fragment of striped awning. Around the
inside runs gallery occupied by yelled
Moorish ladies, and ornamented with
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 a living
scorpion and crunch it between the teeth,
with as keen relish as that with which n
newsboy eatsa a shrimp. All this is gone
through with (fOr money! to the harsh
tumult of half a dozen rude drums and
hnasnu Nuhfah lra fl .av,k
to these horrid remnants of pagan fire
worship.
A much more interesting, though no
less noisy recreation, is the powder-play,
q game that may take place on foot or on
horseback, for these MoOrs, as everybody
knows, are nearly as much at home in
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 rs
/ 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 a fearful din under
the name of music, and in the midst O!
the distracting medley two lines of men
that have formed opposite one another
rush together, and, throwing their bodie.
into wonderful attitudes, fire their guns
and shout and yell as though in actua
battle. The Arabs call this powder-pla,
La6-et-bdrode.-ETRSst bl9ersoH IN 81
Nicholas.
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 any 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 a plait of
grass fastened around their bodies by q
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
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 HaITodsburg 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 small
arsenal, and set about exteTminating 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, q deputy sheriff, had 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, put two 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.
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
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.
It may serve as 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 houTished.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
The "Tim Flnneganv Mines.

a far West study in nomenclature is
given by the Salt Lake Tribune. A
stranger asks miner why a series of
nineteen claims have the name of Tim
Finnegap." The reply, in the vernacu-
lar, explains the phenomenon: "Well.
stranger, it was at Prescott, an me an
Tuscan Jake was playing 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 =
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
a little. Quick as lightning a bullet
laid him at my feet. The sweat stood
on my face like cobblestones. l 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,
unbelmownst to me an the murderer,
easily an gradually drew his pistol an
sent the bloodhound to kingdom come.
/ hugged an kissed Tim, an I've named
the claims after him; an if / die before
my wife-Tim's a bachelor-I want her
to be named Mrs. Tim Finnegan."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
Rates of Advertising.
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, a 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.-BsLfalo 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 a trumpet; Chan
ning's harp.
New Haven turns out 5000, 900 corsets
annually, half of the country's supply
coming from there.
According to the French newspapers
there is general distress in the provincial
manufacturing districts.
What is the difference between an old
dame at the spinning 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 communi-
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 q verdant green.
Correct-yes correct all that you write
And let your ink be black, your paper white;
For spongy foolscap of u muddy blue
Betrays q 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 IranScri
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
a military Gordon, and as far as 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-
pears.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
TERMS, el.5O A YEAR.
The Old, Old story.

The pastors ittle daughter
Sits smiling in the sun,
Beside her on the old stone bench
The story-book just done,
And lurking in her wine-brown eyes
A story just begun,
1'or yonder, pruning the apple trees,
f. 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 n rosei
An, he thinks his blossom only bud,
Though he watches it as it blows.
) it the story of Moses
In his rush-wrapped cradle found,
Or of Joseph and his brethren :
Hethinks as he glonces round.
"Y Aave finished your volume, Amy,
Is il something scriptuEal 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;
II has been q 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.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
The First Piano.

The name first given the new instru-
ment was the hammer-harpsichord
next, its power of giving both loud and
a 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. a maker of that
day. In 1857 the piano seems to have
been introduced to thepublic in England,
for play-bill of "The Beggars' Opera
at the Covent Garden Theatre, May l6,
announced that "at the end of Act /.
from judith" accompanied by Mr..
Dibdin on new instrument called the
piano-forte." "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." Mozart, lluydn, Handel
and Beethoven wrote especially for it
and yet, although the note of the virginia.
spinet-harpsichord was called by DIR.
Buney :" a scratch with sound at the
end of it, y 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 a
suggestive curiosity in the London Ex-
position of 1862, and was thus described
+" 1t was four feet and half in length
and two feet in width, with n small
square sounding-board at the end; the
wires were little more than threads, and
the hammers eonsistedN9f a few piles OF
leather over the head OF horizontal lack
working on bridge"
In his early life an important part oi
| John Jacob AstOr's business was the inn
pOrtatiOn of London pianos to New
York. In 1900, Thomas Jefferson, in
writing to his daughter Martha, men.
/ toned that a Philadelphian had invented
lone of the prettiest improvements in
/ the forte-pianOs | have ever seen;n and
! he bought one for his Monticello house
/ 1t was an upright, and Mr.. Jefferson
said that she cOntrives to give his
! strings the same length as in the granC
! forte-piano, and fixes his three unisons
/ 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. ."-Jttliu
Wflco1, IN Hdrper's Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

me-" On the back of the quaint old
locket were the initials, "V. ID. V. :" and
below them, I'M. E." There had been
a 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 a 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 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 a corner, and said,
laconically:
How muchP"
"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-
ton 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

man, whom he had never seen before in
his life, a blonde, matronly little woman
=" that's Marie" he thought-and a
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 anamesale 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 a 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
aiolly 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
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 as 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 Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

When Neptune is in an affectionate
1ood 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
arth, and which are contained in our
sun's sphere, may be fairly estimated at
oyer 5000, 600, 600. Considering the hard
ess of the times we should say that the
ln's sphere was pretty well fixed, as re-
ards comets,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

"Alr. Van Cleef" said the man-ser-
want, opening the door of the drawing
room of No. % West 44th street, and
and the presence of tall, fne-looking
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

We demand the repeal Of all laws imposing a
tax upon the circulation Of state banks.
10. That it is the sense of this Convention
that all bonds and obligations of the National
Government should be paid in the legal tender
Greenback notes of the United States, except
where it is otherwise provided in the original
law under which they we're issued. We fur
Their demand the repeal Of all laws passed sub
scquent to the original law creating the public
debt by which the obligations of the country
have been made more onerous, and we RECON-
mend that United States Treasury Notes shall
be receivable for all dues, public and private,
including custom duties.
IL. That it is the sense and Judgment OF this
Convention that the Legislature of this State
at its next session should provide for the call.
ing and assembling of Convention at tho
earliest practicable time thereafter, to frame
and to establish a new Constitution OF tho
State of Louisiana.
H. That in flvoring call for Constitu-
tional Convention it is not purposed to dis.
place or interfere with the incumbent officials
i'll the State Government.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
FOR JULY

TTNhe opening number of the eighth volume
l. of this deservedly popular magazine is
one of the most brilliant yet issued. The arti-
cles are by some of our ablest writer's, are of
great interest and replete with information
and instruction. "Prlncely, Royal and Impe
rial Weddings by w. S. Chase, has twelve
admirable illustrations; this, and the following
are articles of peculiar excellence THE Pro
gress of New York, by Hon. Erastus Brooks;
"Religious PROFESSIONS Three Continents in
Three Weeks" Great Guns, >" Labor Past
and Present" by Frank III. Norton; etc. The
department of fiction presents unwonted at
fractions The admirable serial, "A Gilded
PILL is concluded; and there are a number of
short stories by Annie Thomas, Jane G. Austin,
C. d. Beebe, and other ia, orite writer's, well
written and deeply interesting The poems
are not numerous, but they have the ring of
true poetry, and are beautifully illustrated
There are innumerable paragraphs and brief
articles various subjects of interest; in fact,
the miscellany is so comprehensive, and of
such varied character, that NO one can fail to
find something to entertain or instruct. Each
number of this publication contains l28 quarto
pages, and the present one is embellished with
over 100 illustrations, and beautiful chrome
frontispiece, THE Bedouin and his Dying
Steed.' The annual subscription is only 50,
and a single copy is sold for % cents, postpaid.
A specimen copy will be sent on receipt of that
sum. Address, Frank Leslies Publishing
House, So, SIS and 81 Park Place, New York.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24
Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine.

With the July number, this beautiful and
w and very interesting work commences
the sixth seminar volume; and both pub
Usher and editor seem determined to spare no
effort to renderit superior to any similar pub
LEGATION. The 1913 pages sparkle with literary
and artistic gems of peculiar briliancy; the
illustrations number nearly 100. The opening
article. by A. III. Guernsey, is on 1.-The Ten
Primitive Prosecutions" and should be read
by all the Christian families in the land A
thoughtful article, 1--WE Seek the Truth" an
impressive one on idle words; a sprightly
one, "Around Rio de Janeiro,' and many
others, will well repay the reader. The de-
partment of fiction is usually attractive
david Fleming's Forgiveness is nearly con
cluded, and the short stories are by popular
writers, and very interesting and instructive.
Mrs. Preston, Paul II. hayne and others con
tribute original poems. There is an excellent
cermon, and the Populrr Exegesis, by the ed
itor, who also, in his editorials, discusses time
ly topics; and in cat Home and Abroad
trustworthy view is given of movements in
the religious world This miscellany is exceed
ingly comprehensive, entertaining, and replete
with instruction. The price of this valuable
magazine is 50 year; six months, $3.50; four
months, 81. Address, Frank Leslie, 50, So;
and 81 Park Place New York.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

The earliest authentic account of
the public funds being used to assist
railroad enterprises that we can
find, was in March, 1927, when the
Legislature of Maryland granted a
charter modelled upon the old turn-
pike charters, to the first railroad
company in America authorized to
carry on the general business of
transportation; its capital stock was
100000, with permission for it's
increase, and both the State OF
Maryland and the city of Baltimore
were authorised to subscribe, and
did purchase the bonds of the road.
Exchange.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

The Detroit News man reoards
the Fourth of July, and it's attend
ant train of rockets, racket and
rows, with much disfavor. He saws.
sit is the fiction of custom that
these mad practices are INDUCED in
osIehsioly as an expression of iov
for the political severance of these
States, one hundred years ago.
from the mother country, and their
erection into sovereign Independent.
cles, and for all the political bless
lngs that followed in consequence
OF that separation; but it has be.
come a question of grave doubt if
the physical and moral evils. the
deaths, maimings and mutilations
the destruction of property by fire.
the drunkenness and violence, the
vapld oratorical nonsense of cele.
brating demagogues, which have
scourged the whole broad surface of
our territory on each recurring ami
versary for these hundred and
three years, do not constitute a
greater aggregate of evils of all
kinds than could have been in
filcted upon US in that period by
the successive tyranny of George
LII, George ", William " and
Victoria L.