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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-07
A TELEGRAM,
A TELLING INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF JOHN
MACKLEFREsH.

MACKIEFREsH.
"I-didn't--say--a great many words, y
said John Macklefresh, in a slow, grind
ing sort of way, shut guess it'll-cut. y
g wish ye hadn't writ so hard, John, -
said his wife, piteously. '''Twas all the
worse for bein' SO short. Your brothers
and don't never mean to believe that
Samuel. meant to cheat ye out o. that
$200.n
"What did he mean, then ~ snapped
her husband, fiercely, his square, dogged
Achin in the air as he combed his whiskers
upward, favorite action of his when he
felt particularly pugnacious.
Mrs. Macklefresh turned one of the
long stockings she was darning from heel
to toe and back again before she an
swered:
Didn't mean nothin', husband, she
answered, softly. " We're all feller-mot-
ties. Some of us is human, sometimes.
Thought he'd pay We, expect when he
borryed it. Then he couldn't that's all. y
g / dunno anything about couldn'ts,' :
Iknow about didn't, ," said John Mackle-
fresh, doggedly, still combing that per-
verse chin into the air. "This / know,
he's got the two hundred, and hain't,
and I'll never
Don't, John, DEAR" interposed his
meek little wife
"Well bein a deacon and az
'fChristian," suggested his wife, seeing
be skipped that hard word
81 s'pose can't say l won't forgive
him. But they amt no commands be-
tween the leds of that air Book about
"Twenty-five cents to pay,n said a
small business-like voice at the door.
Mrs. Macklefresh turned the rough,
brown envelope over fearfully in her
hands, trembling, as people do, at tele-
grams. wonder if the telegraph boys
ever get used to it.
Don't be bothering, Alice said her
husband, pushing her aside, not ungent-
ly, though his words were rough as
usual
This is what he read when he had torn
thin outlet at the end of the envelope
"Your brother Samuel died this morn
ing. Come at once"
The Western Union telegraph com
pany has a good deal to answer for-but
then so have a great many other people.
John Macklefresh did not swoOn away
on the doorstep, or throw up his hands
with a piercing cry, or any Of those
things. He mechanically took out a
quarter from his loose change pocket,
careful even in this moment to count the
pennies given in change, shut the door,
handed the dispatch to his wife, and
walked away to the window II was
only his heart tainted. This, then, had
come to the man he had said, but mo-
ment ago, he would neyor-no, no, not
mat; he didn't say that-Alice stopped
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-07
AT THE MILL.

What did you see, my farmer
Gray walls Of wood and stone,
A mill-whcel turning to grind your grist,
And turning for that alone.
You hear the mill-stone's murmur,
Thesplash Of the tumbling rill,
As you plod with your oxen slowly dowi
The sunny slopes Of the hill.
The heavens are blue above you,
There's sun and shade on the road;
You touch the brindle backs Of your team
And reckon the bags in the load.
You clip the heads Of the daisies,
And wonder that God should need
To litter the fields with the staring blooms
OF stubborn and worthless weed.
You're honest and true and sturdy;
Here give me your brawny hand
A singer of idlesongs, greet
The farmer who tills the land.
Plod home with your grist in the cleaning
The baby crows at the gate,
And over the hill by the pasture bars
The lowing cattle wait.
What do see my farmerl
@faN AAAAAA 0AlQ Nllt III uuU bnc NhCDAf
The moss on the shingles, the mold on the
stones,
And the floating nlists OF meal
But the poets vision is clearer,
Revealing the hidden things;
see the the rivulet flow to the sea
From cool, clear, woodland springs
see the brown fleldsquiclSen
With the green of the growing wheat,
When the swallows a-tilt at the bending
caves,
And the breath of the morn is sweet.
I soc the swaying reapers
In fields Of the golden grain;
And oxen that pant in the summer sun
Xoked to loaded vain.
sec white sails careening
On the opal-tinted seas,
When the silvery sunlight gliuts the waves,
That are stirred by freshening breeze.
see the storm-rack gather,
That blots out the evening star;
And flung in the foam of a biilows crest,
A drowned man lashed to a spar.
see in the city's shadows
figure that creeps and scrawls
give blood or bread, while the WINE flows
red
And there's mirth in the city halls.
Isee a rich mans darlings,
AS fresh as the roses bloom,
And the gaunt, white fece Of little child,
Dead, in a barren room.
Plod home with your grist, my farmer,
Nor heed how the wide world fares;
The eyes that are clearest are saddest alway,
With their burden of alien cares.
flushed is the mills.ones murmur,
The dripping wheel is still;
And over the dusky vale hear
The song of the whip -poor-will.
Boston transcript
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-07

gave me dollar to fetch one in, so kept
it in the boat They'll shock you right
through the net. When / was hauling in
the tinker seine this morning, knew 1
had shockfsh from the jerking of my
arms. The shocks come right up the wet
cording, so that sometimes you can't hang
on anyhow. I've seen a man who struck
one with an iron harpoon, thinking it a
skate, knocked down so quick he never
knew what hit him."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-07
Taking IL Ont In Trade.

doctor" said a man to his physician,
who had just presented bill of $50 for
treatment during recent illness, ~
have not much ready money viii you
not take this out in trader
"Oh, yes,n cheerfully answered the
doctor; 81 think that we can arrange that
but what is your business4
q am cornet player, 2 was the start
ling rcply.-HarPel's Ba2gr.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-07

The ashes of Columbus, which have
been shifted about repeatedly, and are
now in the cathedral of st. Domingo,
are to be taken out of their resting-place
and inclosed in plate glass urn. This
urn is to hold the caslZet containing the
actual ashes in such manner that the
remains viii be plainly visible.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-07

A Southern entertainment is guessing
at the seeds in a certain watermelon, aud
one contest in Knoxville received 4, 700
guesses from fourteen different States,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-07
RATES Of ADVERTISING.

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements collected
quarterly. Temporary advertisements must
be paid in advance.
job work, cash ON delivery.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07

left in England. He uttered some ex-
clamation and fell down in a swoon, in
which state he was found by the servant
who came to call him for the hunt. He
was, of course, unable to join his hunt
ing friends, who, when at breakfast, on
their return, rallied him as to the cause
of his absence. In the midst of the talk,
he suddenly looked up, aghast, and said
IN trembling voice: els it possible
that none of you see the woman standing
there?" They all declared there was no
one. II tell you there is; she is my sis
ster. I beg you all to make note of
this, for we shall hear of her DEATH"
All present, sixteen in number, of
whom Sir John Malcolm was one, made
an entry into their notebooks of the oc-
currence aud the exact date. Some
months after this, by the first mail from
England that could bring it, came the
news that the sister had died at the very
time of the vision, having on her death
bed expressed strong wish to see her
brother, and to leave two young children
in his charge,
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07

little launch steamed up the river on the
morning of October 26th, and its crew of
fifteen men, howitzer, q number of
small arms and the torpedo, which was
to rob the rebels of their floating mon
ster. The daring little craft failed to
find the big one on the morning of Octo-
Der Goth, and, to avoid discovery, was
compelled to return to the feet. That
night the launch again steamed up the
stream. Some of the rebel sentinels who
were stationed along the banks OF the
stream had seen the little vessel in the
morning, Notwithstanding the precau-
ton of Lieutenant Cushing, and had re-
ported it to their commanding officers.
They feeling that the ram was threatened,
REINFORCED the troops guarding it,
besides placing heavy, guns in position,
SO as to sweep the river on all sides Of
the ram. In the darkness of the night
the launch steamed up above the ram,
and in turning bend in the river came
into the glare of q large bonfire blazing
on the rivers bank. The rebel sentinels
saw the little craft, and shouted out,
"Who comes there?" Lieutenant Cush-
ing returned the memorable answer,
yankees, d you" A hot fire was
opened on the visitors, who came about
and steamed down the stream. The ram
was surrounded by boom of logs, which
consisted of a number of logs chained to-
gether from its bow to its stern. Lieuten-
ant Gushing, finding he could not get
near enough to explode the torpedo an
der the Albermsrle because of the logs,
ordered the engineer of the launch to
give the little craft its full speed. He
then steered directly for the logs. The
impetus was so great that the launch
jumped the logs and hoated in the clear
water between them and the ram. To
the calls from the ram the Lieutenant
answered, "We are Yankees, who have
come to blow you up" The rebels sent
in reply fire and lead. The launch was
in dangerous position. as the logs pre-
vented its getting out of the way Of the
destruction which the exploding of the
torpedo would cause. Every man ON
the small boat realized that the destruc--
ton of the ram would, in all probability,
cost him his life, yet not one finched.
The duty of exploding the torpedo was
intrusted to brave Dan. He was equal
to the occasion. When Lieutenant Cush-
ing said. "Let her rip-we'll all 60 TO
HI together" he exploded the torpedo,
and the great rebel ram sunk, with hole
in its bottom. The launch was also de-
stroyed, one of the crew killed. and
seven others, including Dan. were
taken prisoners. Lieutenant Gushing
escaped by swimming down the stream
to his friends Boston Globe.
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Brave Dams Deed.

Daniel G. George. of West Hamstead
N. H., was introduced to an audience,
which partially filled fremont Temple,
a war hero, his great exploit being the
blowing up Of the rebel ram Aibermarle
in the Roanoke river on the morning OF
October n, 1864. The hero, Q stubby
man of about forty five years Of age, had
. seat on the platform facing the audi.
ence, while Rev. s. A. Fuller told the
story Of his daring deed.
The rebel ram was anchored about If
teen miles from the mouth of the river,
where the United States gunboats how
cred, when the expedition was fitted out
under the command Ut Lieutenant VIM.
B. Cushing, which was to destroy the
formidable war vessel. There were Rf.
teen chosen TO man . small launch.
There wore only few volunteers among
the small crew, and one OF these was
Brave Dam" Lieutenant Cushing. 70
try HE men. placed them eli bsfore .
loeded cannoa with the gunlock %
placed That By The alightsst accident
thsy might I'll b blown 70 pisces. The
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07
: Saved BY Sallie.

Not long since young man in Carson
got married and started for California
with his young wife. As he boarded the
train, his father babe him goodbye and
gave him the parental blessing.
my son." said the aged sire, shaking
with emotion, etc.. remember these
words if you never see me again: Never
60 into place where You would not take
your wife.
The couple settled in Mariposa county
and last week the old man went down 70
visit them. He proposed bear hunt.
and they we're fortunate enough to track
grizzly to his lair among some of the
powders in the chsparral. As the two
approached, the bear reused up and sent
forth howl of defiance which shook the
trees.
go in there and kill inn" said the
old man, excitedly.
The son held back; further acauaint-
ance with the bear seemed in some re-
spects undesirable.
Count me out" he said.
Have l crossed the seas and settled
in America to raise coward?" shouted
the old man, brandishing a gun.
II but recollect your advice when
left Carson" was the reply. How can
forget your sage precepts? Didn't you
tell me never to go where couldn't take
my wife? How would Ssl look there
with that bear?"
The man clasped the dutiful son to his
bosom. and. as the bear issued forth, ex-
claimed:
Speaking about Sallie, let us hasten
home; our prolonged absence might
cause her needless alarm"
In about fifteen minutes they had
reached the ranch, the old man little
ahead, and the distance WAS about four
miles.-Carson New APR cal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07

One of the stockholders OF a new
western railroad was Q farmer who had
accumulated his money by hard toll, and
when he had put in an appearance at the
meeting to elect board Of directors he
felt 1t his duty to remark:
Gentlemen, as / understand this
thing We elect the board and the board
elects the officers"
Some one said he was right, and he
continued.
II don't go o cent on high salaries,
and l want that understood. l am in
favor OF paying our president good
living salary, and no more"
how much do you call good living
salary" asked one OF the crowd.
well. two dollars day 10 the going
wages, but"
Here the meeting began TO roar, and il
was two or three minutes before the ora
tor had chance to conclude:
But OF course we want 4 man Who
can run An engine. switch train, handle
freight. keep books. and lick ANYBODY
who won't pay fare, and 90 shall not
shall not object to two and half Q day. -
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07

DIR. Briggs, when quartsred in the
Hill country, used TO meet once o week
with the officers and others, the custom
being TO breakfast at each Others houses
after the sport was over. On the day for
DR.. Briggs turn TO receive his friends he
avoks 1t dawn. and saw figure stand
ing 1t his bsdsids. Having rubbed his
eyes 10 make sure that he vas awake, he
got up. eroassd The room and washed his
lass IN cold water. He then turned and,
sssing the same Agurs, approached IL,
aod recognised sister whom h had
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07
SMILING PEAS.
BY AN OLD CONTRIBUTION,


I'm no longer young and fair,
And the gray within my hair,
With my anxious brow of care
Well agrees;
And memory holds her sway,
As / sit alone to day,
Doing work that seems like play
Smelling peas.
How the shining pods of green.
With their emeraids set between,
Bear me back to sweet sixteen
And its joys;
When beneath Penobscot pines,
We stripped we'll the fruitful vines.
To be offered at home shrines,
Girls and boys.
And l well remember, too,
When a bash full swain did WOO.
That he seemed as lovers do.
Ill at ease,
Till dear mother. with smile.
And manner void of guile,
Set US both to work the while
Smelling peas.
Then our busy hands became
More acquainted. and the shame
Turned to something else in name
Whaty you please
While the tender pods they popped
And the pretty peas they hoped.
Till the last came, then we stopped
Smelling peas.
Then mother would declare
That she heard . sound somewhere
On the earth, or in the air.
Like kiss;
When, demure as he could be.
John would say, and look at me:
TWAS the popping of pea,
Only this"
That was years and years age.
when the days brought not woe
To my rosy life below.
Full of ease.
Ayel memory holds her sway,
As I sit alone to-day,
Doing work that seems like play
Shelting peas.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07

Tailor-made costumes in tweed. pepper
and-salt mixtures, cheviots, in heather
mixtures. melted cloths, and unds0ned
stripes and plaids are selling IN laree
quantities for fatigue costumes.
Ansnoa win ssnd az paiatings 70 u
forthcoming art sxhibitioa e Munich.
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Vancouver Independent.

OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNTY.
Vancouver. Clarke County, Washington
Territory.
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THE PROFESSORS STORY.

Taking tea the other evening with an
old acquaintance, now professor in q
New England college, the conversation
recalled some of the friends Of our
younger days, and he surprised me with
the remark: "a woman's sympathies lie
nearer her heart than her love, unless her
love is born of them" But he surprised
me more by the story he told to prove
il.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07

at last, her hands resting upon his head
which some way or other had found q
place in her lap-''you are just as much
mine as if had not done all the wooing
myself"
The Merdon mansion had never seen
such a storm AS followed Charlotte's
avowsl of her betrothal. Her mother
insisted that she wonld never consent,
never in the world, and the girl who had
always honored her wishes above every.
thing else was in distress.
But you did not marry . rich man
yourself, mother; why should you want
me to?" she urged.
II married q man who WAS great
whom everybody knew; why, if you we're
to marry the man, whoever he is, who
will I'LL his chair, / should be happy
foeever, but this fellow"-apd her indig-
nation almost overpowering her she left
the room.
1t was late in the evening wien Char.
.lotte went upstairs. Passing her moth
ers room she saw that the door WAS
partly open. She knew what il meant.
Women, even among themselves, make
their reo0nciliations gracefully, gradual
". She pushed the door vide open, -
her mother had intended abe should, and
went in. The lady sat by her vrising.
table; hse bed rsstsd % her had, and
she vss svidsatly sIssping. 4 litGls
pns Of lsetsrs hy bsGoce her. . pistass
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-21

A NEW THEORY ABOUT FooD-A Ger
man physician maintains that both the
vegetarians and the meat eaters are on the
wrong track. Vegetables are not more
wholesome than meat nor meat than vege-
tables, and nothing is gained by consuming
a pound of both. Whatever nutritive quail
tiles they may possess, he says, are de-
stroyed in a great measure, and often. by
the process Of cooking. All food should be
eaten raw. Ii this practice were adopted
there would be little or no illness among
human beings. They would live their
apportioned time and simply fade away,
like animals in wild state, from old age.
Let those affected with govt, rheumatism
and indigestion try for time the effect of
a simple, uncooked diet, such as oysters
and fruit for instance, and they will find
all medicine unnecessary and such rapid
improvement of their health that they will
forswear all cooked articles of food at once
and forever. Intemperance would also, it
is urged, no longer be the curse of civilized
com nunities. The yearning for drink is
caused by the unnatural abstraction from
what are termed "solids Of the aqueous
element they contain-uncooked beef, for
example, containing from 20 to so per
cent, and some vegetables even a larger
proportion of water. There would be less
thirst, and consequently less desire to
drink, if our food were consumed in its
natural state without first being subjected
to the action of fire.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-21
A GOOD WORD FOR TIE GIRLS.

That the young woman has taken new
fields of work is very true, but she has
done 30 in spite of the competition of the
young man of the period, and thus earned
her place by the survival of the fittest.
While she has done this the native young
man has left the pillow and the workshop
and has sought what he supposes is more
genteel employment, until these useful
branches of industry are now largely filled
by persons born and trained in other coun-
tries. While the general spread of educa.
ton has opened up many new employments
for girls, and they have taken their places
in them bravely, the young men have
drifted into clerkships or speculation or
into the small politics, most ruinous of all.
The same is true in matters of the higher
culture. The young man has become list.
less or idle or has gone undisciplined, while
the girls have organized book and music
clubs, attended lectures, and otherwise
fitted themselves for the more exacting
duties Of our modern life. It is often the
case that while the rich young man goes
rapidly to the dogs by reason of his bad
habits and worse vices, his sister is en-
gagged in the exacting duties of church or
charity, or in other work which cultivates
the humanities and does the world some
good. The real truth is that, the country
over, there are not enough earnest, deserv-
ing, ambitious young men to marry the
honest, sensible, well-meaning girls who
are ready to do true woman's part in
building up good and happy homes. Our
family training. defective as it may be in
many respects, has still kept the rein on
girls while it has given the apur tn bovs
and If the grumblers are sensible they will
try to devise some way to overcome this
inequality, and thus bring the young man
up to such standard as shall fit him to do
something else in life than to stand off and
rail at the follies or the frivolities of young
women II Philadelphia Times.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-21
OREGON,
Advices from Portland.

PORTLAND, April 2Oth.-The OregOnian's
Roseburg special says: Yesterday evening
about dark James A. Beckley killed Henry
Levins with 24-caliber pistol at Elkton,
fifteen miles west of Drain, Douglas county.
in quarrel about cattle and range. It was
the result Of an old grudge. They were
neighbors, but never on good terms. Levins
killed COW Of Beckleys. They met at
Elktop, and words followed. Beckley says
Levins called him q id rebel s. of alb,
struck him and had his hand on bis pocket.
Beckley then shot him. The ball entered an
inch above the left eye. He died instantly.
Both are old residents. Beekley is Al years
old, and has wife and two children. Levins
is 28 years old. and has wife, but NO chill.
dren. Beckley came to Roseburg and gave
himself up to the Sheriff. There will be an
examination tomorrow at 10 o'clock at Elk
ton.
A Ysquina special says: The schooner
Phebe Fay came ashore last night four miles
south of Yakima Bay. The crew were gone.
The vessels hold was full of lumber, the
mainsail reefed and the small boat on board.
A Eugene City special says: The trial of
II. w. Abrams, indicted for murder, has
been postponed until May 11th, when spe.
cial term of Court will be held.