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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
nnnd From Homeslotneru.

The st. Louis papers tell this pathetic
story of how a Swiss emigrant girl liv-
ing In that city died from homesick-
nesss Pauline Fuchs lived with the
family of distant relative, all crowded
together in two little rooms over shop.
After only two weeks of America she
died. She was born near the town OF
Einseideln. Her father was q simple
peasant, whose mind was bound up in
his country and his religion. and the
girl was his only child. She was
spoiled and petted, having everything
her own way until she was eighteen
years old, when she met young man
named Henry Baumgartner, who though
only mechanic appeared q prince to
the peasant girl. OF course, she loved
him, and also, as a matter of course, her
father would not let her marry him.
In spite OF the prohibition she set her
mind on marriage, and last March had
perfected her plans TO elops with her
lover, but on the very day set her father
found her out and thwarted her. She
was closely watched after this, and the
young man was forbidden the house.
Pauline pined and was sullen.
She alarmed her father by threatening
to run away and come to America,
EQCnss uSI COuSIu anu
friend, had come a few months before.
The threat was constantly repeated,
until at last, when two months ago her
fathers cousin, his wife and six children,
made up their minds to come to New
York, he told her to go with them. She
was unwilling to leave home, but too
proud TO stay, so, taking her little stock
Of clothing and her dead mothers
crucifix, she started on her long journey
across the seas.
At Havre they took steerage passage
on the steamer Canada, arriving in Cas-
tie Garden three weeks ago; remaining
there few days they came to st. Louis,
where Mary Fuchs and her brother ad
been living since April. Mary is flaxen-
hal ed and rosy-cheeked. She was
overjoyed to meet her friend Pauline,
who seemed especially pleased to see
her, and who was tor the first week
cheerful. Then she began to long for
Switzerland, and the color left her cheek.
Mary was her room mate, both sleeping
together on "pallet" made on the door
in the room, and to her she confided her
desire to return. Il will die here" she
said, simply. When any other mem beI
of the family asked her the cause of heI
changed demeanor, she replied My
heart hurts me-"
This was all that she ever said on the
subject until Friday, when she grew SC
sick that they begged her to go to bed
She would not, persisting still that there
was nothing the matter. In the even
ing she said to Maria Fuchs, her cousin
'' ! want to go back to Einseideln;
must go back, for / cannot live here.
She went to sleep on the floor and al
| three O'c Ock Yesterday morning hpl
cousin heard her moaning. When they
went to her, sue persisted that she wa:
not sick, and so they left her.
This morning when Mary awoke, thu
girl had been dead for an hour. The
policeman told the coroner, who, a
they were toe poor to give the unfortu
ma girl decent burial, ordered the body
to be carried 10 the morgue.
"She died of homesickness, becaus,
she was out of sight of the mountains,
insists her cousin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
A Street Scene in New York.

"Come, papa; know where we are.
This is the Bowery, and Canal street is
only little way up. Come on"
The speaker was a boy, about seven
years O ID. He was neatly and warmly
dressed, and as prettily spoken as any
of the children that play in Reservoir
square on summer afternoon. His
hand was clasped in the big, begrimed
palm of man in the dress Ola hard
working mechanic. The man was so
drunk that he nearly went upon all
fours, and when he lurched from one
side to another he jerkeu the little fel-
low from his feet. 1t was 3 80 o'clock on
Sunday morning.
Eyes, I'll show yer papa where to
go. Come right along with me-"
The second speaker was young man
with broad shoulders, and wearing
clothes that were fashionable year be-
fore. He spoke in a coaxing voice, and
caught the mans hand while he was
speaking, and tried to hustle the man
and boy along from the corner of Di-
vision street toward New Bowery. The
little fellow protested that he wanted to
90 up the Bowery to Cana street. He
clasped his fathers hand with both his
own, and tugged manfully in the. di-
rection he wanted to go, saying :
Come on, papa; this is the way"
What are you doin'P
The third speaker growled that ques-
ton to the young man with broad shoul-
ders. He was stout, bow-legged per-
son, dressed in coarse clothes, and he
eyed the young man suspiciously from
under the brim of slouched hat. The
young man dropped the drunken mans
hand and hurried awav.
The little boy was not alarmed at the
overtures of the man who had gone, nor
did he show any sign of gratitude to
the man who had interfered; he was
intent only on getting his father home.
They started up the Bowery, the father
staggering from one side of the walk to
the other, and the little fellow clinging
To his hand and encouraging him with
"Come on papa; know the way"
While crossing the Bowery at Cana
street the man fell, and it seemed in the
darkness to those a short distance be-
hind as though he must have fallen or
the child. rhey lay together in the
street for moment, but when police
man arrived the little fellow was up anC
tugging at his fathers hand.
Is that yer pop, sonnyP" the police
man asked.
Yes, sir; he's my father"
"Where do you livew
SIN Mott street-only two blocks
over. Come on, papa; l know thu
way
Ghe drunken man had got to his feet
and the little fellow led him away
toward home.--NeS0 York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
sudden Checking Of PerspIratIOn.

A Boston merchant, in lending a
hand" on board one of his ships on a
windy day, found himself at the end of
an hour and half pretty we'll exhausted
and persUiring freely. He sat down to
rest, and engaging in conversation, time
passed faster than he was aware of. In
attempting to rise he found he was
unable TO do 80 without assist
ance. He was taken home and put
to bed, where he remained two
years; and for a long time after
ward could only hobble about with the
aid of crutch. Less exposures than
this have in constitutions not 80 vigor-
ous resulted in Inflammation of the
lungs-pueumonia-endinR in death in
less than a week, or causing tedious
rheumatisms, to be a source of torture
for lifetime. Multitudes of lives would
De saved every year, and an incalculable
amount of human suffering would be
prevented, if parents would begin to
explain to their children, at the age OF
three or four years, the danger which
attends cooling of too quickly after ex-
ercise, and the Importance of not stand
ing still after exercise. or work, or play,
or of remaining exposed to the wind, or
of sitting at an open window or door, or
of pulling off any garments. even the
hat or bonnet, while in heat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
The sand Blast,

Among the wonderful and useful in
ventions of the times is the common
sand blast. Suppose you desire q piece
of marble for q grave stone, you cover
the stone with sheet cf wax no thicker
than wafer; then you cut in the wax
the name, date, etc., leaving the marble
exposed. Now pass il under the blast
and the sand will cut it away. Remove
the wax and you have the raised letters.
Take piece of French plate glass, say
two by six feet, cover it with fine lace
and pass it under the blast, and not a
thread of the lace will be injured, but the
sand will cut deep into the glass wher-
ever it is not covered by the lace. Now
remove the lace and you have every
delicate and beautiful figure raised
upon the glass. In this way beautiful
figures of all kinds are cut in glass and
at a small expense. The wOrkmen can
hold their hands under the blast with
out harm, even when it is rapid ly
cutting away tie hardest glass, iron or
stone, but they must look out for finger
nails, for they will be whitfield off right
hastily. If they put on steel thin bles
to protect the nails it will do little good,
for the sand will soon whittle them
away; but if they wrap piece of soft
cotton around them they are safe. You
will at once see the philosophy of it.
The SAND whittles away and destroys
any hard suhstance-eVen glass-but
does not affect substances that are soft
and yielding, like wax, cotton, or fine
lace, or even the human hand.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
LChioago JournaI.1
A Chicago Brokers' Happy investment,

Lewis II, O'Conor, Esq, whose office
is located at SO Washington street, this
city, lately related the following in the
hearing of one of our reporters as an
evidence of special good fortune.
have been suffering" said Mr.. O'Conor
g. for number of weeks with a very
severe pain in my back, believed to be
from the effects of cod contracted
while on the lakes, l had been pre-.
scribed for by several of our physicians
and used various remedies. Three days
ago, abandoned them all, and bought
a bottle OF St. Jacobs OIL, applied it al
night before retiring and to-day feel like
a new man. experienced almost in
stant relief and now feel no pain what
ever"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
Eovniian nheIisks.

There are thirty ofthem at the present
time scattered over Europe. Rome has
eleven, four of which are higher than
our New York obelisk. The highest of
the Roman obelisks, which is also the
highest in Europe, stands before the
Church of st. John Lateran. The
obelisk in the piazza of st. refers is
eighty-tWo feet nine inches high. Both
ofthese were mounted on high pedestals.
The pedes al of the st. John Lateran
obelisk is torty-four feet high. making
the entire height of obelisk and pedestal
$50 feet. The pedestal of the st. Peters
obehsk is a trihe less than fifty feet high,
making the whole height OF the monu-
ment lS2 feet two inches.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
A Brave OLD Woman.

There was q runaway on Broad way
in New York and lady and child were
in great danger. One gentleman seized
the lady and drew her in safety to a
doorstep. Another grabbed the child
and carried it out Of danger but nobody
apparently thought of stopping the
horse except an old Foman, who sprang
forward and with both hands seized the
horse by the bit. The beast reared and
lifted the lady clear from the ground,
but she held fast to her hold and
finally brought him all painting to
standstill. Then she released him
to the charge of some men, and while
contemplating ruefully the glove she
had torn by her effort a gentleman
begged the pleasure of the brave
womans name. . What for ?" she
queried. "In order that your brave
action may have done it the honor it
deserves, was the answer. oh, that
is it," replied the practical and nervy
woman. "Well, / am Mrs. Robert
Lanier, and live in Philadelphia. My
husband was a soldier in the regular
army-the caValIy-and l was with him
on the plains" Then, after pause, and
glancing about half apolOgetieally, she
added "I know how to break mus
tangs.n With this she hailed a down
town car, and, acknowledging with a
grave courtesy the lifted hats OF the hall
dozen of gentlemen who had come mp,
disappeared
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

The moat wonderful and marvellous suooosP,
In caaea whore poreOna are sick or piningaway
from condition Of mserabloneas, that no one
knows what aiis them (rrontable patients ton
doctors), is obtained by the use ol Hop t,itters.
They begin q. cure from the nrst desc end
keen IL np until perfect health aud strength Il
restored. Whoever "a nfHicted ia this way
need not suffer, when they can got Hop Bit
ters. See Truths' and Proverbs" In an
other column.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
amman uonsr nrpprCrrr.

m. TOBIAY VENETIAN HORSE IINIhHNT IN
pint bottles q so centsi 81 years established th she
best In the world for The cure OF coils old soTes
Bruises, Sore Throata etc. TOBIAS OONDiItON
POWDERS are warranted to cure Distemper, Fever
Worms tsi give ine coat increase the hppeut9 ana
Mcdaniel owner Of OF the fastest running horses
In the world and 900 others rs cents Sold by drug
rists Depot-42 Murray Street. New York.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

PURE Con LIVER OIL made from selected
ivers, on the seasnoie, by Caswell, Hazard
Co., New York. Il is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken Il pre-
sc to all others. Physicians have decidedit
superior to any OF the other oils in market.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

that remedy made OF such common, nimpIe
plants as Hops Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion,
etc, should make 30 many and such marvel
GUS cures as Hop Biuers do, but when old and
young, rich and poor, Pastor ard Doctor,
LAWYER and Editor, all testify to having been
cured by them, you must believe and try them
yourself and doubt no longer See other
column.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
An Aching Void.
A troubled young man begins poem
in the Breakwater Light as follows:
cannot love another now,

cannot love another now,
Since thou hast proved untrue,
Another's lips upon my brow
Cannot this aching void subdue."
1t is an awful pity for the young poet
that he has to carry an aching void y
around in his head. Nothing is more
distressing than an aching vOid," par.
Cicularly in ones head, and the dis.
tressed young man ought to fill it will
"subdue" it he might try mustard
plaster MtdCtletosOn TRANSCRIPT.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

Compressed peat in London, and,
indeed, in almost all the towns of con-
siderable size throughout Great Britain,
is rapidly coming into use. On one
of the most important railroad lines,
too, compressed peat has for some time
been used, and with entire satisfaction,
the fact appearing, from the engineers
report, that tWenty-one pounds of peat
will raise steam for a mile of transit,
while the number of pounds Of coal
required to do the same work is twenty
six. It's cost is less than one. half that
OF coal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

The famine in Russia, it is predicted,
will assume proportions altogether be-
yond previous estimates, and no steps
are taken to meet it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16
[Cleveland Penny Press. /
See tine COnuuerlng Hero. etc.

Among the most wonderful articles
of the period is st. Jacobs Oil. The
Hon. Leonard Swett, of Chicago, pro.
nounces it the most thorough conqueroT
of pain that he has ever known.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

Scientists have declared that the Blue
Hill range of Massachusetts is older, in
a geological point of view, than the
Alps or the Pyrenees Of Europe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

All should recollect that with the loss Of
health. loss of enjoyment and happiness soon
follows, A Cough or Cold quickly under
miHes the health an should be checked by
the prompt use OF DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
For sale by all druggists. Price 25 cents.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

josh Billings says when feller gets
agoin' down hill, It duz seem as tho
everything had been creased for the
ekaShun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

There is woman in Lancaster, PennN
who has not lived in vain. She has had
nine sons, and every one has entered the
ministry.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

When a man has to hang TO a street.
Car styap for nearly an hour he realiSes
how trying is the position of the upright
mar, Philadelphia Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

According to Kolb's Universal Statis-
tics, " the average length Of life among
those In comfortable circumstances is
any, among the poor thirty, among
Histen sixty-hve years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

Shot glace silks are fashionable for
demi-toilets.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

Never try to go to sleep with an old
coat for pillow. There is no such
thing as getting a nap on it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

As the sled IS bent 80 is the boy in
olined; as the slipper falls so is he made
10 mind,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

The Cause OF Sctence
has received an important addition IN the eie-
gapt Observatory which Mr.. II. fl. Warner,
,roprietor ol the valuable Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure, has erected at Rochester.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

Agents Wanted for the Handsomest and
CHEAPEST BIBLES EE. xs5 ISnsa'a T.s sD5 AgsasS
FoRsGHs dneianas' ao1AKiN' 3 CASH PREMIUMS.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-16

"A LLEN'8 Brain FOOd-curss Nervous Debility
"A Weaanel Of GeneIative Organs, 9I-ail druggists
Benz TOT OLlI y Anens PhaImafy 9l3 First Avs,R.Y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-16

upon the statute-bOOk which have been framed ior
the protection of life and property. He Is urged 70
make hi mself q candidate for the gallows or Sfate
Prison He is expected TO disregard the interests ana
the happness of his wife and children. He is urged
TO give up the citizenship of which ne Is lnsuy
proud and to become fel0niOus outlaw, Without
Government to obey, a country to love, home to
CHERISH church to pray ill., or the friendship OF nom
orable and peaceabe felOw-citiZens In short ne IS
a contemplate wretch unless he yindicates his man
hood by shooting somebody. by setting lire to some
bodys house, BY destroying factories, and by tearing
up railroads IF he works in machne-shOp, he must
ruin the machinery If he Eabors in a mine. he must
destroy or its owner; in short whatever his voca-
ton, he must renOunco it, and content himself with
starvation and windOw'd raggedness tempered by
the delights Of unjusfable homicide. and the sweet
consultations of arson and malicious mischief
Such mad suggestions as these might be alarming
in some countries in which those who should make
them would be speedily shut no, either as unatlcs
or criminals Here, an agitdtor, in ordinary times,
who has sense enough left to cOnfne himself to hot
words and peppery phrases, may indulge In his Dll-
iOus amusement without molestatlon. When ne
tries deeds Instead of words, he usually does not
find the pastime quito so pleasant The present ls
particuarlyba time for the beer man and his berry
political ethics Freedom has neither disturbed the
ntellects nor hardened the hearts of the citizens OF
the United States, whether native or adopted. The
murder of the Emperor has awakened here general
feeling of indignation and sympathy. We love lib
erty, but it must be liberty protected by law and
whoever undertakes to apply NIhlist notions, even
to the government of O village or city ward Will
need the consolation of beer indeed, and all other
consultations whatsoever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-16

representatives, Greenbackers and Others, with
themselves. In most cases the persons so cassl-
fed practically surrender tc the Democratic
claim, as did that powerful statesman MI
David Davis, who, claiming to be Republican,
votes with the Democrats. But it is quite posi-
bic for our Democratic friends to carry this busi-
ness too far. That seems to be the present case.
Senator Malone appears to have one bond OF
sympathy, at least with Republicans in his op-
position to the hide-bound Bourbonism oil
Southern Democracy and the buildozlng policy
of She party so beautifully illustrated by Sena-
for Hill. 1t does not strike us as being at all
strange, under the circumstances, that he pur-
sues the course he does. We are sorry, OF
course, to see our Democratic friends in such
plight; sorry they are so little able to bear dis
appointment, and are so reauy to make an eX-
hibition of themselves. But it really seems to
us that they ought TO take lesson from it, and
learn hereafter to be a little more reasonable in
their expectations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-16
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

TO the EDITOR Of The TrfbUae.
SIR: Please allow ono of your readers to
dissent most earnestly from the tone OF your editorial
Practical Civil Service Reform Surely leaders OF ths
people can go further than that Do you unierras
the popular appreciation Of che evils Of the spos syS
tem md the opposition 10 Graptsm which stands an
the popular Republican mnd for that systemf Surely
more than "one In ten" will prefer Mr.. Peafson 'or
POSTMASTER In hts town, whatever may he his pot
ties likely be the best Postmaster II the bess
party papers can say no more what are we TO
the wOfstf TENTH MAN
qhOmaston, Conn. March 10. 1881.
Tins is vague complaint. What Is 1t that dis
tresses our excellent correspondent Whatever may
be his theories respecting civil service reform no
can have no fault to find with the practice OF fne
new Administration in this instance. The new POST
master satisfies not only the Tenth Man" and sno
other nine. but the full hundred as woll.-Ed t.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-16

fortunate. He comes back to find that the
busy world has not missed him, and that
his former place and influence cannot be re-
Gained without O struggle. When lie Went
abroad he was, perhaps, an important wheel III
the social and business machine when ne re-
turns he discovers that another wheel equally
good has got into his old place and the ma
chine is going on very well without him.
The five hundred applicants who have al
ready sent in their papers and the five nun
dred more who are no doubt getting theirs
ready will scarcely be deferred from prosecut-
ing their quest by any sermon we may preach
No doubt they all hope to get one OF the DIG
places on the Consular list. How few such
places there are will be seen by the following
figures taken from Mr.. Sp0iord's valuable
" American Almanac" The salaried Consulates
are divided into seven classes with specIlc
fixed compensation rs follows, all teeS
having to be turned into the Treasury: Five
at $4,000, two at $4,000, one at $4,000 SIX
at $4,000 eight at $500, twenty-one at
$4,000, sixteen at $4,000, thirty-seven at
$4,000, forty -seven at $1,000, twenty at
$1,000. Living in most foreign countries
we may say in conclusion, is dearer for an
American than living in the United States
II may be cheaper if one lives as the natives
live, 5ut few Americans are willing to prac'
tice the petty economies and frequent selt-de-
malls which make household expenses modcc-
ate in Europe.