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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19
Cultivate One Talent.

One talent, we'll cultivated, deepened
and enlarged, is worth hundred shall
low faculties. The first law of success
at this day, when so many matters are
clamoring for attention, is concentra-
tion; to bend all the energies TO one
point, looking neither to the right nor
to the left. 1t has been justly said that
a great deal of the wisdom of man in
this century 10 shown in leaving things
unknown; and a great deal of his prac-
tical sense in leaving things undone.
The day of universal scholars is past.
Life is short and art is long" The
range of human knowledge has in
increased so enormously that no brain
can grapple with it; and the man who
would know one thing well must have
the courage to be ignorant of a thou
sand things, however attractive or in
viting. AS with knowledge, so with
work. The man who would get along
must single out his speciality, and into
that must pour the whole stream of
his activity-all the energies of his
hand, his eye, tongue, heart and brain.
Broad culture, many-sidedness, are
beautiful things to contemplate; but it
is the narrow-edged men-the men OF
ingle and intense purpose, who steel
their souls against all things else-who
accomplish the hard work of the world,
and who are everywhere in demand
when hard work is to be done.-Md1at-
tGctlGrer and Builder.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19

A littlo elbow leans upon your knee
Your tired knee that has so much to bear
A cbild's dear eyes are looking lovingly
From underneath thntch OF tangled hair.
Perhaps You do not heed the velvettouch
OF warm, moist fingers holding yorrs go
tight
You do not prize the blessings overmuch--
You are almost too tired 10 pray tonight.
But it is blessednessi A year ago
did not see it as l do to-day
We are all SO dull and thankless, and too slow
10 catch the sunshine till it slips away.
And now il seems SURPRISING strange to me
That while wore the badge OF motherhood
l did not kiss more oft and tonderly
The little child that brought me only good.
And II some night, whom you sit doNnto rest,
You miss the little elbow on your tired
knee
This lispiDg tongue that chaiters constautlyi
II from your owi, The dimpled hands lad
clipped,
And ne'er would nestle in your palm again,
Ifthe white feet into tho grave had tripped--
could not blame you for your hcartache
then.
wonder that some mothers ever fret
Their little children cling to their gown;
Or that the footprints when the days are wet,
Are ever black enough to make them frown;
II / could find a little muddy boot,
Or cap or jacket, on my chamber floor
II | could kiss a rosy, restless foot =
And hear il patter in my house once more.
II coull mond broken cart to-day,
Tomorrow make a Kite to reach the sky,
TheIe is no woman in God world could say
She was more bssfully content than
But ah the dainty pillow next my own
Is never ru npled by a shining headl
NY singing bi'dling fiom its nest Inns flown
The little by used to kiss is-dead.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19

made fast to a tree above-a shelf of
rock, she thought, with swift pulse of
chagrin, that had been there all the time.
in crevice round the corner of the cliff,
and leading q narrow way up to the sod
and the saplings above, if she had only
bad the sense to turn her head and look
for it.
Mr.. Wilston did not speak word.
He was white as ashes, and she thought
she could hear his heart beat. Still
holding her aud his rope, he crept slowly
up the narrow shelf; then he set her
down before him, united Lis rope, and
slowly coiled it away, looking at her all
the time. with her downcast eye and
reddening face half hidden under all the
bright brown blowing hair.
"Now, ifyou please" he said, ,gravely,
at last, I" / will take that letter which /
saw you had addressed to me-"
"a letter addressed to your she said.
looking up then, spark of the old spirit
half eclipsing that new light which had
dawned in her face.
"Angel, how much longer"
" Longer! / wish you would tell me, "
she said, "how long | have been here
already, and whether it is to-day or to-
morrow, and what"
How much longer" he cried again,
4" do you want to torment meP Icould
claim you as my property by all the laws
of salvage" he said, stepping toward
her. But IL isn't necessary, for read
the letter as you held it in your hand
before / threw the rope over you. You
signed yourself my angel. You said
you would be a good wife to me-"
WE'LL WILL" SAID little Angelica.
And her face grew so rosy red that she
had 10 hide it, whether she would or
no, in the first shelter at hand-and if it
was her lovers arms, how was that to
be helpedP
g. 1t wasn't such bad Maying, on the
WHOLE" she said, presently, as they
went their way home together. After
all, the American fora isn't much Be
hinda the way-side hedges in Kent. |
didn't get much of anything but fright
and cold, to be sure, and some love-in-
idleness, but you got an armful of An
gelica."
"The sweetest flower for me-" he said
"that blows under heaven. ."-HdTpeT't
Bazaar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19
Questioning.

Oh, lip, beneath the grasses gray,
Beneath the dead leaves and the mold,
II you could speak to me to-day,
What strange, sweet secrets would be told!
Dear lips, that have often kissed,
Unclose, and answer me, pray;
Or is deaths silence like mist
That shuts the world and us away,
So far awayl
Oh, eyes, beneath the dead leaves hid,
/ wonder if you cannot see,
Through the soft iringes Of your lid,
The blossoms blowing for the beel
Say, can you see the grasses stir
At the warm kisses OF the spring?
Be natures true interpreter,
And answer all my questioning.
Oh, neart, true heart whene'er kneel
Between you and the tender sky,
Does not some influence make you feel
That he who loved you so is nigh!
Oh, dear, dead love! it cannot be
That you forget the things OF old;
1 know you hear and think OF me,
Beneath the dead leaves and the mold,
With love untold.
--Eben E. ReEtord, in BGidwtn's Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19
Words Of Wisdom.

He shall be immortal who liveth till
he be stoned by one without fault.
One of the best rules in conversation
is, never to say thing which any of the
company can reasonably wish had been
left unsaid.
1t is good in fever, and much better
in anger, to have. the tongue kept clean
and smooth.
Only that which we have wrought into
our characters during life can we take
away with us.
A good constitution is like money
box-its full value is never know until
it has been broken.
Taking a penny that does not belong
to one removes the barrier between in
tegrity and rascality.
Will petitions that do not move the
heart OF the suppliant, move the heart
of OmnipOtenceP
The raven is like the slanderer, seek
ing carrion TO feed upon, and delighted
when least is found.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

One of the greatest problems of life is
how to avoid running into other people.
--NetO York Ne9Os.
"I never do things by halves" said
the urchin, when he ate whole pie he
found in the cupboard.
Illinois has the largest number of
miles of railway (7,O22) of any State in
he Urion, and Pennsylvania coming
next with 6,027.
The condor of the Andes is said to kill
his prey with its bill, and the milliners
of this country are trying the game on
married meu Oa0ego Record.
The Marathon Independent says there
may be prouder planets, and there may
be brighter planets, but when it comes
to the matter of bets, old Jupiter holds
his zone.
The girl puzzle is the latest. 1t con-
sists in putting an average girl in front
Of the ribbon counter of dry goods
store and having her find the particular
shade she is after.
The Paugyet Woon, head of the glass
factories, is King Theebau's master of
ceremonies, and is one of the Burmese
embassy to England. They have DO
glass factories in Burmah, but the title
holds good all the same.
Only woman's hair,
Binding the new to the past,
Only single thread
Too trail to last.
Only woman's hair
Threading tear and sigh,
Only a woman's hair
Found to-day in the pie,
-SteubenViiie Herald.
Very little is known regarding John
Harvard, the founder of Harvard Col
lege. He was an Englishman, who came
TO this country and died in Charlestown,
Mass, on the oath of September, 1888.
He left E700 to found college. A monu-
IN mt to his memory was erected in the
burial ground at Chariestown by the
alumni of the college, and was unveiled
in 1928, with an address by Edward Ev-
erett. At the suggestion of the Rev. DR..
George E. Ellis. the late James Savage
once offered 800 a line TOR five lines
about John Harvard, and got no infor-
nation.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19
The Liber ty Cap"

The " liberty cap" takes its origin
from the ancient Phrygian cap, which
may be seen in all the representations
of the Trojans in FlaXman's illustrations
TO Homer. In ancient Greece and Rome,
slaves were not allowed to have the
head covered, and part of the ceremony
of freeing a slave was placing this cap
on his head, which thus became the
symbol of liberty and was so regarded
during the Roman republic. A cap on
a pole was used by Saturninus as a
token of liberty to all slaves who might
Join him, and Marius raised the same
symbol to induce the slaves to take
arms with him against Scylla. After
the death of Caesar the cHnspiratOrs
marched out in body with cap borne
before them on spear, and it is said
that a medal struck on the occasion
and bearing this device is sti in ex-
istence. In DIR. ZInkeisen's History
of the Jacobin Club p" we are told that
the liberty cap" or "bonnet rouge"
was introduced by the Girondists and
that it owed its favorable reception
principally to an article by BrissOt,
which appeared in the PntrtOte FToncdts
and in which he declared that the
mournful uniform of hats" had been
introduced by "priests and despots" and
proved from history that ''all great ma
tions-the Greeks, the Romans and
Gauls-had held the cap in peculiar
honor" 1t is also said that the "bon-
net rouge" was habitually worn by the
galley slaves and was adopted as the
symbol of freedom after the release of
the Swiss regiments of Chateau Vieux,
and il is very likely that this circum-
stance gave the first impulse to the
fashion, but il soon became identified
with the 4" liberty cap" of antiquity
Nel0 York World,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19

Two American inventors, working
upon different plans, are endeavoring to
perfect instruments by which it will be
possible to view persons at a distance
as we now speak with them by tele-
phone. Both claim that this is pos
sible, and they have only now to dis
cover means whereby their wonderful
inventions may be made durable and
practically useful.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19
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 he paid for i'm advance.
JOB work, Cash on Delivery
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19

Like father, like son" as the young
lady remarked when she decided 10 ao-
cept the young man for sake of the old
mans money.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-05-19
TERMS. el.SO A YEAR.

No Subscriptions received for shorter
period than three months.
correspondence solicited tromalI parts
ite country. No notice viii he take 81
synonymous communications.
, 1880-08-16
The Number Three.

When the world was created, says an
old writer, we fiud land, water and
sky; sun, moon and stars; Jonah was
three days in the whales belly; our
Savior passed three days in the tomb;
Peter denied the Savior thrice. There
were three patriarchs-Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. Abraham enter
tanned three angels. Samuel was
called three times. Simon, lowest
thou me?'' was repeated three times.
Daniel was thrown into den with
three lions for praying three times a
day. Shadrach, Meshack and Abed-
nego were secured from the flames of
the furnace.
The Ten Commandments were de-
Iivered on the third day. Job had
three friends. st. Paul speaks Of
faith, hope and charity - these
three. Those famous dreams Of
the baker and butcher were to come
to pass in three days. Elijah pros
trated himself three times on the dead
child. Samson deceived Delilah three
times before she discovered the source
of his strength. There are three CON
dltions for man, the earth, heaven and
hades. There is also The Holy Trinity.
In mythology there were three
Graces Cerberus with his three
heads; Neptune holding his three
toothed staff; the oracle of Delphi
cherished with veneratioa the tripod ::
and the nine Muses. sprang from the
three. In nature, we have male, female
and offspring; morning, noon anu
night; trees group their leaves in three;
there is three leaved clover. Every
ninth wave is grand swell. We hav e
fish, flesh and fowl. The majority OF
mankind die at thirty y-three. What
could be done in mathematics without
the triangle? Witness the power of
the wedge; and in logic three premises
are Indispensable. 1t is common for
three to be lucky number.
, 1880-08-16
A Suggestive Legend.

There is terrible legend of Grim
Tartary, concerning very massive and
imposing ediice, which is also very
ancient. 1t is so vast and impressive
that travellers are profoundly affected,
especially those who come from conn
tries where a certain number of persons
are annually destroyed by burning
theaters and falling buildings. One
such traveller was gazing with admira-
tion upon the edIfce, in company with
his Majesty the King of the country
and ne could not restrain himself from
saying:
20 King, what is the secret of the
wonderful strength of this building,
been burned up?'
But his Majesty the King of the coun-
try was COY, AID ferbore to answer.
Being pressed more closely, however,
at length he answered, 80 stranger,
its strength is u secret of the State. y
The stranger was not dismayed. and
after much entreaty, his pertinacty
overcame the reluctance of the King,
who finally said, with solemnity: 80
stranger, when my ancestor began to
build this temple, it was laid upon in
secure foundations. Thereupon he
cent for anotker builder, and sid to
him: The present cornerstone will
be raised, and the present builder
placed under it alive. and upon the
stone laid upon the body, you will pro-
ceed to erect tie wall. Should it be
weak or insufficient, it will be taken
down; the cornerstone again raised.
you will be placed under it alive, the
stone will be again laid, and the build.
ing proceed once more My ancestor
said nothing further; and you now
know, o stranger, the secret of these
massive walls, and why this building
does not tumble down."
The stranger, says the Crim-Tartar
legend, went his way much meditating
the marvellous government which was
able to prevent himsy building .-EDIT-
oR's EASY CHAIR, in Harper's Magaa.ae
, 1880-08-16
Mistakes and Prejudice Of Relig-
ious and Temperance Journals.

Some good Religious and Temperance
journals are making the mistake of declin-
ing to advertise most valuable anti-in-
toxicating medicine, simply because it
is called Bitters," while the same jour
nails are making greater mistake by ad-
yertising some drunken whisky stuff, or
nostrum, because it has some nice, fancy
deceptive name ending with "eine,' y
" tine," printed on its label, when the bot
tie is filled with destruction, drunkenness
and death. If these good journals will
take the trouble to ascertain how many
overworked clergymen have had their
lost nerve-f force, brain waste aud tagging
energies restored by the use of Hop Bit
ters, enabling them to perform their ar
duous pastoral duties and preach the
good sermons that they would have been
totally unable to do but for this valuable
medicine, and did these journals bus
know of the host of good Christian Tenn
perance women who rely on them for
their family medicine. and how many in
valid homes they could make happy and
what glad tidings they would send to
every heigbborhood by publishing the
merits of Hop Bitters, they would adyer-
tise them without money and without
price. And did these journals but know
how many have been, and may be saved
from forming Incorporate habits by doc
tors prescribing Hop Btters, instead Of
beer, where the use of hops are needed,
(there being more actual hop strength
in one bottle of Hop Bitters than in a
barrel of beer, without any of the intoxi-
eating effects of beer) they would lay
aside their fear and prejudice against the
word bitters."
A few of the many witnesses from re-
ligious and temperance sources are given
below, who use, recommend and advel-
tise Hop Bitters.
The President and Manager Of Hop
Bitters Mfg. Co. is veteran Temp mperance
advocate and worker of forty eight J ears
service; every man in the Company is an
active Temperance worker, and the Com
pany spends thousands of dollars annu-
ally in Temperance and Christian work
, 1880-08-16
Hired Men.

When farmer hires men to help him
about tha farm, he is unwise if be treats
them badly in any way, as he needs
their services quite as much as they
need their wages. When we hear farm
ers complain of their hired help as
disrespectful, dishonest, shirking, and
teaching others to shirk, we can but
think that the fault is not all on one
side. There is much truth in the old
proyerb, "Like master, like man"
Speak to your hired man as you speak
TO dog, and if he does not sometimes S
growl he is above the average of hu-
nanity. Pinching him in his food is
worse than screwing down wages. We
must not expect full work on an empty
stomach. One of these scrimping farm
bone for his dinner, and, hoping to
make it relish, remarked: "The near
er the bone the sweeter the meat" {" II
may be SO, sir" said one of the men
fFbut were you il our place, you would
be more impressed with the thought
The nearer the bone the scarcer the
meat" There can be no question tina,
Kind and generous treatment on the
part of the master conduces to respect
and faithful labor on the part of the
man. We do not mean to imply thai
the farmer is wholly to blame, for the
men are uneasy, being ambitious te
better their condition, and especially
desirous to be landlords themselves
ana masters of other men. This il
right, and should be encouraged, wher
men are capable of running a faru
themselves. The truth is, however, the
number of men who have the capacity
TO guide and govern other men is com
paratively small. If there were more
Of them we should have less complain
from farmers and employers general.
o. trouble with help.
, 1880-08-16
The Antique Book Shops of Boston

There is a great difference between
the business of an ordinary book store,
where new publications are sold, and
that of the antique or second hand
bookshop. There is rich, moidy,
literary flavor about the old, worn and
dusty books in the latter place which is
lacking in the gaudily bound new vol
ume just from the press of the publish
er. Many Boston people, who have
lived for lifetime in this city, do not
know what an extensive trade IN old
and second hand books exists here. In
Cornhill there are seven or eight an
tique book-shops. and at least two of
prominence are found liz other streets
not far away. The traditional book
worm is not stranger to the Cornhlll
book-shops. Tho dealers smile when
they speak of an old clergyman who
used to sit for hours gazing at the
portrait of famous early English di-
vine in well li-thumbed volume of SER
mons, because he cherished the idea
that he resembled the great man. The
collector is not always a book-worm,
nor the book-worm a collector. The
collector is almost always q specialist,
and values books not for g. themselves
alone" but simply for the material
they contain bearing upon a certain
subject. He brswses around at an
tique book -shops'and auction-rooms for
whole days, without buying anything,
! but, when he finds q volume treating
of his speciality, he must have it, cost
what it may; and although as a rule he
is close buyer, often spending hours
in haggling over the price of book,
yet, when q rival collector begins te
bid against him for precious tome
he will go to unheard-of lengths to Sc.
cure the prize, not seldom paying more
than the market price.-Poston Herald
, 1880-08-16
NOT A BEVERAGE.

They are not beverage, but medi-
cine, with curative properties of the high
est degree, containing no poisonous
drugs. They do not tear down an al
ready debilitated system, but build it up.
One bottle contains more hops, that is,
more real hop strength, than barrel OF
ordinary beer. Every druggist in
Rochester sells them, and the physicians
prescribe them.-Rechester Ecening Ec-
press on Hop Bitters.
, 1880-08-16

The diligent striving to accomplish
any task worthily reveals new fields to
conquer and protects US against self
suficiency. The study of the lives of
great and good men, the contemplation
Of natures wonderful works, the search
INTO her mysteries, the culture of the
iaculties-all tend to the same result.
Whatever opens up new fields and
higher views, whatever broadens our
minds and deepens our thoughts, what
ever raises our ideal of what We may
be, also sobers our opinion of what we
we are.
, 1880-08-16
One Experience from Many.

| had been sex and mi >erable SO ing and
had caused my husband so much trouble and
Expense no one seemed 10 know what allied
me, that | Was com .'lete;y disheaI ten aud
d.scouro ged. In this frame of miud | got o
bottle Of Hop BIT ers and used III IN un-
known to my family. soon began 10 i'm.
prove and gained SO fast that my hu b nd
aud ianily thought it straug and unhaturaI,
but VIII tpld them what had helpe me,
they said. Herran for H>p Bitter5 Long
mag til, y pro-p for they have made mother
well and us happy."-1he Mother.
, 1880-08-16
The Robertson Process

For working rebellious ores is rem irkable
for its simplicity and cheapness. N, other
method is known which SO completely re-
duces rebelli us gold and silver ores t. the
same condition as free milling ore. Parties
who have the machinery fer puIverizing and
amalgamating can erect a suitable furr ace
for using the Rob rtson Process at cost of
from $1,000 to 81 ,5)l accO ding to capacity
required. For full particulars address John
A. Robertson, the patentee, P. .. box $50,
Oakland Gal