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POLITICAL POINTS,

1t is reported that Mr.. Morgan vii
not accept the appointment Of secretary
OF the treasury on account of feeble
health. HIS appointment has beer
confirmed by the senate.
y sab committee, consisting OF Hill
Of Georgia. and Pugh, of Alabama,
have been appo nted to examine the
papers relating to the New York sena.
tors and to report to the full committee
on privileges ana elections.
y Washington dispatch says Presi-
dent Arthur intlmates that he will not
ask the senate to remain in session
longer than Thursday.
Mr.. Window only retires from the
cabinet to become senator again.
General Garfield isquoted as saying
IN letter written ten years ago to a
lawyer who had opposed The insanity
plea IN murder trial: The whole
country owes you a debt of
gratitude for brushing away the wicked
absurdity which has lately been palm
ed off on the country as law on the sub
lect of insanity. ii this thing had gone
on much further all that man would
need to secure himself from the charge
OF murder would be to rave little and
tear his hair a little, and then kill his
man. And the country now will not
have much respect for the insanity
plea IN Giteaus case. 1t is the main
dodge row Of all classes of criminals.
from common murdererS all the way
down to wife Dealers. Men who are
not unbalanced enough to work them
selves into murderous passions. fill
themselves with whisky. and then set
lp the plea of drunkenness and lack of
responsibility. 1t should be no plea.
md should be so understood.-Inter
)cean
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Address
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Pub. Common School Visitor.
kirksyile, Mo.
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4 Tribute TO General Greene.
From the Burlington Hawkcye.

If anyone can beat certain West
Hill boy on a composition, let him
stand up and be counted. The teacher
gave them all historical subjects, and
his CHANGED to be Nathaniel Greene, -
with which he startled the teacher and
whole school by responding in the fol-
lowing unusual manner and with as
much impudence as though ne we're
an old settler, instead of the stranger
in the back row: Nathaniel Greene
was one of the biggest guns in the rev.
olutlon There wa a'ant nothin' in his
name, and men by many another name
was found much greener. He never
made any sudden and startling success
like some others, but he wa'ant no
slouch of soldier. He maneuvered
with the enemy and held his own with
the best of EN-. But blood will tell,
and 1t amt SO remarkable after all when
you come to think that ne come of a
smart family. There's 'Veriant,' he
was celebrated enough in his way, and
Darius was 4 fly one. but Nathaniel
takes the bakery" And the predestin-
ed political stump speaker OF the COM
ing age took his seat amid the unre S
trained applause of the Juveniles.
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The ST. Louis Chronicle Is on the
anxious seat and asks nournfully
Have we Bible amonguS?" At this
distance O; course, one cannot speak
positively. but we should Judge not
from the general tone aud character CT
the city press.
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CALIFORNIA KIDNEY TEA

Never fails in kidney and urinary trouble
40 cents. Look for it ut Fout IL Bros. agcnt1
And j ID. lIalstead Willard, Mo.
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SCHOOL VISITOR.
A Novelty in Educational
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GEo. w. SuARr.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07
COurtsbip at a Long Range.

A comical matter has been made pub
lie in Montreal by some legal proceed
ings. A retired major of the British
army had four daughters who moved in
good society in that city. They all en-
tered into correspondence with a re-
tired clergyman of London, whose mind
was somewhat enfeebled, but who en-
joyed an income of $15, 1000. The let
ters became sentimental all round, and
at length the man proposed marriage.
But which of the four should he takep ?
He had never seen any of them, and it
was arranged that each of them should
send photograph to guide him in his
choice. Now, the oldest was widow
of forty-fve, and therefore the younger
and prettier ones were astounded when
the decision was promptly announced
that their sister was to be the bride.
The truth was that she had employed
an artist to remove the hard lines and
otherwise beautify the picture. But
this trick did not help her. When she
went to London and presented herself
to the clergyman he could see no like
ness between her and the fraudulent
portrait, and refused to marry her. He
gave her $5, 900, however, and she went
home. But she does not consider that
sum a sufficient compensation, and has
sued for damages.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07
Origin of "Ta.ta,0

For several years American para
graphers have been using the old
South ern expression, "ta-ta," as term
of humorous farewell, thus giving it q
meaning entirely different from that it
started out in life with; and how it
ever came to be applied in that way is
O little surprising to any one to the
Southern 'manner born" and espe-
cially to any one familiar with heidioms
of the South of ante-bellum days.
No one who was ever petted, loved
and spoiled by kind old black "mam-
my" can ever forget that "ta-ta," in
baby dialect, is "thank you" or, to give
an exact definition from our unwritten
vocabulary, 'thanky." They can never
forget mammy's coaxingly reproving
tones, nor her "churchy," when, in cor
recting some childish forgetfulness, the
omission of thanks for some slight IA
vor, the gift of an apple, or perhaps a
stalk of sugar cane, she would say,
''Honey, where's yo' manners Whyn't
yo' say 'ta-ta p" For a more valuable
present her words would have been
''Ten the lady you're much obleeged," "
or " Obliged" if she happened to be
little careful in her pronunciation, as
many house servants were; but for all
trihing gifts "ta-ta" was the popular
term for the little folks. OF course as
the children grew larger this pet way
of expressing thanks was laid aside with
their baby clothes; and the "churchy"
that nanny had taught them-a funny
substitute for bow, consisting only in
sudden bending Of the knees, which
caused comical dip down and up-was
put away with the iingling rhymes OF
early childhood.
"Ta-ta" belongs exclusively to the
little ones; it is as peculiarly their own
as are catty cats and "this little pig
went to market and all those other
wonderful things belonging to child
life. To the great world ta.ta' > is
nothing but a ludicrous expression;
but to many of us there is something
half touching, half comieal, in the
quaint old words that bring back so
Yiyidly the days when we planted
raisin seeds, rode stick horses, believed
in giants, knew that the fairies wers
hiding in the ferns and thatpots Of gold
were awaiting us at the end OF the ram
bow.-Plsasam Riderho0d.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07
How Much a Cow Eats.

A COW is not inclined to gluttony
Usually when the appetite is satisfied a
COW will stop eating. Any cows appe-
tite may be gagged in this way: Give
her all the feed she will eat and have
left. Weigh what is given to her and
notice what is consumed. Then make
the ration three.fourths of the quantity
eaten. No animal, not even man,
should have all it can eat, and the sur
plus above what is necessary is injuri-
GUS, and produces disease. Generally
more harm is done by over eating than
by starving. The staple ration for a
COW is fifteen pounds of hay and five
pound of neal, or the equivalent in
other food. As grass or green fodder
contains seventy-hve per cent. more
water than hay, four times as much
grass or green fodder should be given
in place of hay; that is, sixty pounds
with the meal. Some COWS will proba-
bly, require more and very few less than
this quantity.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

The saddle horse knows enough OF
arithmetic to carry one.
A man, being tormented with corns,
kicked his foot through window, and
the pane was gone instantly.
A little heat that can't be beat, the
window open wide; little breeze, a
little sneeze, and you're the doctors
pride.
The Commercial Bulletin says the man
who does not advertise has it done for
him finally, under the head OF " failures
in business"
Vassar college has one small girl who
will in the hereafter be heard of in the
woman's rights societies. She de-
scribed "straw' as being hollow thing
with ten-cent man on one end OF 1T
and twenty cent drink on the other
end.
"You can't add different things to-
gether," said school-teacher. II
you add sheep and a COW together, 1t
does not make two sheep or two cows
A little boy, the son of milkman, held
UP his hand and said "That may do
with sheep and COWS, but if you add q
quart of water it makes two quarts OF
milk. I've seen it tried"
A young gentleman who is very par
ticular about the getting up of his linen
wrote a note to his laundress, and at
tne same time sent one to the object OF
his affections. Unfortunately, he put
the wrong address on the envelopes
and posted them. The woman was puz-
zled, but not in the least offended
but when the young lady read, &C. If you
rumple up my shirt-bosoms and drag
the buttons off; the collar any more, as
you did last time, shall have to go
somewhere else" she cried all the even
ing and declared she would never speak
| to him again.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07

ominous rustic, as if then and there
Judgment must be had on those who
had lain on it a burden too heavy to be
ne.
Miss Diantha stood by the grave
until the last shovelfu1' of earth had
been lain on. then turned and walked
home, stopping for a moment at the
village store. When Miss Althea and
Lucinda returned her door was shut,
and no sound YVES heard from the room
until next morning. But as they made
preparations for tea Miss Althea saw
that the three teapots and caddies had
been removed, and that an esrthen one
and tin caddy filled with Orange Pekoe
stood on the lower shelf, and knew that
by this sign Miss Diantha had spoken,
and renounced her will once for for all.
Years followed. Lucinda fingered,
unchanged in look, and clinging more
and more to Miss Althea, who had aged
suddenly when Chloe died, and who
made continued efforts to break Miss
Diantha's silence. But though GER
tain usefulness seemed at times to
show itself. she only, when appealed to,
shook her head solemnly, and retreated
to her room. What secrets the old
walls knew, who can tellp What sor-
row and late repentance But none
knew till q morning came when,
alarmed by the long silence, Miss Althea
went in to find her with wide-open eyes,
but powerless to move from the floor
where she had fallen. In the open
drawer of the old bureau lay Miss
Chloe's Bible, the worn volume of Mrs
Hemans, and near them the broken
fragments of the three teapots, each in
a folded napkin.
A week of quiet waiting, and then IL
the hours between night and morning
Miss Diantha suddenly lifted her head
"I thought you'd come, Chloe" she
said, and with the words was gone.
When her will was opened the.
found, first, legacy of one Thousand
dollars "to Hiram Steele and wife fol
kindness to my sister Chloe" and the1
an order that on the plain tombstone
erected for her should be simply the
words: "Diantha Templeton, age(
seventy-three. Il was dumb. / opened
not my mouth for shame"
And so at last people knew that tn
scorn and indignation, never quite los
even in the long years since Mis-
Chloe's death, had been accepted a
just punishment, and that Miss Dianth
had known sorrow, and left this las
message of tacit confession and repent
ance.-Hdrper'S Bdzdr.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07
POIl's Policy.

The mystery of the skill of some ami
mails seem to resist all solution. The
word instinct" Lord Brougham de-
clared, was a mere term for our ignor-
ance. The parrot at time astounds the
mind with its mischievous cunning. A
lady friend of Cambridge, Mass, had a
parrot that, on a mouse climbing u p
and entering his case, made for the
little intruder. He hastened down
his chain, and searching all around,
eyed the stranger under the bookcase.
But the parrot could not get at him
there, but cried in its gentle voice,
"Come take a walk with pretty Poll
Come take walk with pretty Poll !"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07

j.
In arching woods of pine and oak,
Through which the cheerful sunlight broke,
A pond long lay, by soft winds swept,
And on it's bosom lilies slept.
A story Of this pond I'll tell,
OF Ofhomely frog and lily-bell.
II.
'Twas in the summer month of June,
When robin chirped his merry tune,
That lily spoke to frog 30 free:
"Oh, could only leap like thee
But here am so still and lone, ist
And dull as any old white stone
III.
The frog then said to lily fair:
"Just see me jump so high IN az
But down he eauts INTO the y
And stopped not till he reached the mud.
".
The day was fine, the sky serene;
A boat upon the lake was seen.
A man caught froggy by the throat
And threw him in the fatal boat.
The lily plucked by maiden fair,
Was placed upon her golden hair.
MORAL.
The richest man may lose his gain,
The poorest one may rise to fame;
Be not puffed up with self-deceit,
The boaster always courts defeat;
Nor proudly say what you can do,
But be modest, gentle, pure and true.
E.H.F.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07
A Thanksgiving.

] bring my hymn Of thRnkfulness
To Thee, dear Lord, to-day;
Though not for joys Thy name bless
And not for gifts pray.
The griefs that know not mans redress
Before Thy feet lay.
Master thank Thee for the sin
That taught mine eyes to see
What depths Of loving lie within
The heart that broke for me;
What patience human want can win
From Gods divinity.
thank Thee for the blank despair,
When friend and love forsake,
That taught me how Thy GROSS to bear,
Who bore it for my sake,
And showed my lonely soul prayer
That from Thy lips take.
thank Thee for the life of grief
share with all below,
Wherein learn the sure relief
Ny brothers heart TO know,
And in the wisdom taught Of pain
10 soothe and share his woe.
thank Thee for the languid years
or loneliness and pain,
When flesh and spirit sowed in tears,
But scattered not in vain;
For trust in God and faith in man
sprang up beneath the rain.
thank Thee for my vain desires,
That no fulfllment knew;
For life's consuming, cleansing fires,
That searched me through and through
Till could cay to Him: "Forgive
They know not what they do"
What fullness Of my earthly store,
What shine of harvest sun,
What ointment on Thy feet to pour,
What honored race TO run,
What joyful song Of thankfulness,
Here ended or begun,
Shall mate with mine, who learn so late
To know Thy will is done
Rose Terry Cooke.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07

The coming holidays viii be more generally
observed than any for many years, and we
would remind our readers that bottle OF pr.
Bulls Cough Syrup will prove most accept
able holiday present
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-12-07
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

legal notices at established rates.
Marriages and death notices gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements collected
quarterly Temporary Advertisements must DO
paid for in advance.
job work, cash ON delivery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-04
IrOGuOfs.
uonGon Punch


back, ~ oi LIE
snd his colors were cleaning with cherry and
black. anu
He ras he'd to the front and the British Star paIed
AS the held died away and the favorite failed
Like the leaves OF the summer when summer is
green, "
The faces of Peregrine's hackers we're seen.
Like the leaves OF the autumn when autumn is red
led, $1,000 ~
Iroq49is!l; then the shoutirgs shook heavens
blue dome,
As the legs OF the Tinman safe lifted him home.
On, was an Archer, at this fun,
ana was American, too-and won,
And was the Britain who, ready to melt
sort OF Je ne sails Uro)-quois felt
10 see his blue ribbon to Yapkeeland go
u too, none the less, was the hearty .siSraTo."
"hlcn per Pnnch, he dispatched to 'tour kin DER
M,ho for not the first time, got the pull of J. B.
Ihe brokers' of Wall street are loud in delight
AID the bellies of New York grow more beamingly
bright;
IlZz creams like the foam of the storm beaten surf
% joy than's triumph on Johns native turf
And Pun Oh briHs his Deaker in sparkling cham
payne,
Your health, Brother j.! Come and beat us agains
Al q cold grudge at victory honestly scored
Il e!ts away Ike the snow when the wine is out
pOul ed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-04
Shall Walters Wear Boards
From the Walters and Cooks Week.

tR1O1h4 tIfc 0.tCIb anu OOUhh
proprietor has an undoubted right to en-
gage man con0tt1Onally, upon shaving. No
man Is forced to accept; it is solely a question
between them. for them to settle, without the
10 ridiculous extremes. One well known up-
town house actually require their men TO shave
everything clean. IL Is said that guest, to
whom nature had denied any hirsute append
ages whatever, and who consequently lacked
that manly appearance which those ornaments
alone can give, was waited upon by waiter
WHO possessed handsome beard The Gus
toner noticing the difference between the
waiter and himself, announced his intention
of not using the house In future unless the
walters shaved, which from that time has been
a lule OF the house. 1t may not be generally
known, but the proprietor OF one OF our leading
up town restaurants Invariably shaves when Ia
the city. This Is consistency. This gentleman
would doubtless, scorn to ask man TO do
what he would not do himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-04
GIL Was Presidenf.O
detroit Free Press !


Now, if was President" began Mr.. But
terby tie other morning, as he passed his cup
over for second cup OF coffee, iii was Presi-
dent OF the United States"
(which you arena, you know" broke In Mrs
B. In an argumental and confidential tone.
AND Lot likely 20 be-" added Mrs. B.
mother. with contemptuoUs toss OF her head
NO." assented Mr. b. pleasantly, but | was
just surprising the case"
"Then suppose something In reason re-
torted Mrs. B. snappishly. "You might as well
suppose GU was the man I'm the moon or the
Man In the Iron Mask or"
so might, my dear, SO / might" asseuted
MT. b. still pleasantly smiling, but that has
nothing to do with it. l was merely going 70
ID" '1o = --''0N . - %
MY" burst in Miss Gertrude, aged eighteen.
wouldn't it De splendid if you was. pa? Just
char ge their tune when meet them, instead
OF throwing out their insinuations about peo-
PIE 40 consider it Christian Like to turn their
more to give to charity! But they might turn
gr en- with envy before would ever
Yes, ana wouldn't / warm it TO Sammy
Dugan, Jl5f," chlrped in Master Thomas, aged
Twelve. I'D go up to him an smack MIN or
The lose with u brick fore he knowed where he
was, an he dasSent hit me back then eos fr
uo ne treason, an they'd hang him; AMI Ii
slide on the sidewalk an shy snowoa at the
pIeecemap. an sass Miss Ferule an play
hookey every day when it d.dn't rain an I'd"
Yes, ch1med Ia Mrs. g., catching the In
Ia be the first LADY In the land, let the next be
Who she would. and Governors wives would
peg 10 ce Introduced ID NE. ana I'd nave
pals twice a week. and bang Iets every day.
and" ''
And Id have the management OF the
White House. and run things ;" remarked Mrs.
b. S mother, her eyes sparkling with the pros
pect.
Not much you wouldn't" from Miss Ger
truoe hot much If | keep my health and
kIoW myself you wouldn't, not as long as |
was the Presidents daughter and
YAH" calculated Master Tom, 81 guess the
PRESIDENTS son would be the biggest plum Ia
that dish? Wouldn't be the Prince of Whales
ih'n-say? Whatud you know bout"
shut up-an OF you" commanded Mrs. B.
81 reckon the Presidents wife Is the highest
authority Ia the land. Anyhow, thera'd be a
dusty old time If anybody questioned it, and
DIT when the exercises were fi0iShed the sur.
geon would not ask for any electoral CON-
mission 10 decide IL over again! Ny! I'd Ike to
see any body-but, by the way. Mr.. Butterfly,
what was 1t you was going 10 say you would
DO II you was the President OF the Uniued
StaIes?"
"Resign as soon as the Lord would let me-
sale MI. Butterfly, calmly but determlnedly.
And then medltatiye silence fell upon the
famfly and remained there until the meeting
arose.