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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
An Entcrhrislng Architect.

Adjoining one end of the royal pal
ace of Naples, which is the future
home of the Crown Prince, is the
theater Of San Carlo, which has an in-
teresting story. When Charles III.
was king of Naples he issued orders
for the most magnificent theater of
Europe to be built in the shortest time
possible. Angelo Carasale, Neapoli-
tan architect, offered to complete it in
three months, and by great effort and
energy actually did so. On the open
ing night, the king sent for the archi-
tect to come to the royal balcony, and
there publicly commended his work,
adding that only one thing was lacking,
and that was private door and stair
case leading from the palace into the
theater for the use Of the royal family.
The architect bowed low, and retired
that the play might begin. When the
play was finished, the architect again
appeared before the king, saying,
"Your Maiesty's wish is accomplished" "
and preceded the astonished monarch
to private entrance in one end Of the
theater. In the three hours that the
acting had engaged the kings atten-
ton, the untiring architect had col
lected his workmen, and by almost
superhuman effort had completed his
task. He had torn down partitions
and laid huge logs of wood for stair
way; but elegant velvet carpets and
beautiful curtains concealed the rough
floors and defaced walls, while skill
full arrangement of handsome mirrors
and chandeliers produced magical
effect, and made the whole seem the
work Of fairy hands. Afterward, the
entrance was properly finished, and
last summer I walked from the palace
through this private door, and stood in
the royal balcony where the king had
received the architect nearly one hund
red and fifty years before.-St Ntcho
| InS
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
What May Be Done With One Acre.

One acre of ground in lawn and
garden is sufficient to maintain
family COW in any village or rural
locality, says an exchange One who
knows how it is done, and has done 1t
for several years, describes the method
by which it is accomplished "A
quarter of an acre is in garden straw
berries, currants, grapes, raspberries,
blackberries and gooseberries. There
are six apple trees and fourteen pear
trees. All but the garden is in grass,
chiefly orchard grass. l am already
feeding down small piece of orchard
grass under some apple trees the third
time by lettering the cow upon it.
Some of the grass 1 have just cut the
second time, and some will give a
third cutting. Fifty rows of sweet
corn for table use are now beginning
TO yield boiling ears, and the stalks
and husks go to the COW. There are
pea vines, bean vines, beet tops, small
potatoes and other wastes to help feed
the COW luXuriously, and in this way
the family COW may be kept in abund-
ance throughout the year upon one
acre, while her manure will keep the
whole acre growing richer every year,
and will provide a liberal quantity for
the flower beds and the shrubs, and
dwarf-pears on the lawn. A very
large quantity of the best manure is
made by throwing the weeds with all
the soil attached to them. the leaves
that are raked up, and the wood ashes
from the house, together with as much
soil as may be needed, into pit in the
cowyard, and leading the drainage
from the manure into it, If a farm
were only managed as one manages
the garden, every acre might easily
pay 800 but the labor is not to bC
had, and one pair of hands cannot dc
it for more than five OF six acres. But
the time will come when it must bC
done; when the land becomes fully
occupied, and this great country hai
its 500000,000 of inhabitants, a number
which it can sustain with the creates
ease, with a thorough system Of cult
Vation."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
The Art Of Finger Nails.

Mr. Levy, the corn cutter, has been
telling me about the beginning of his
delicate art, which is now practiced so
generally. He thought that the ear
liest modern chiropodist was German
who had practiced on the queen Of
England's corns about 1874; neverthe-
less L see that Westervelt on upper
Broadway announces that he began in
1S40. Zachari started here before the
war and obtained celebrity by cutting
Mr.. Lincoln's corns. Another gener-
alton has come up paying special at
tention of the feet and reading all that
can be afforded on the subject. One
of the best known chiropodists here
began, it is said, doctoring the hoofs of
horses, and he observed in time that
men needed quite as much repair of the
feet. There are several women in this
business, and of late years its profits
have been much extended by manicure,
which brings dollars in place of dimes.
Women are often in love with their
own hands, and l have known cases
where lady has had her hand modelled
and carved by sculptor and kept on
her center table. Few men, however,
think fingers are improved in appear
ance by being sharpened and whitened
like the talons of hawk. 1t is how
ever, a pleasant, listless way of spend
ing an hour or two every day, to go to
the manicure.-NelO York Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
BLACK BIRCH.

Are there black birch trees agrowing In knS
fr-off woods, 1 wonder,
With wealth of balmy essence in thei1
branches 1.-THE and strong1
II the spring-time do the children reach with
enger hands to plunder,
While the quiet woodland arches ring VIII
laugh and shout AMI song.
can see an old gray schoolhouse with ledge
and wood beside IL,
And the rumbled, mossy pasture-land runs
close up to its door;
While away back in the greenness, with TUT
of fern TO hide it,
And q flash like purest crystal, q spring SnS-
bles and runs DER.
There's battered tin.cup hanging on droop-
ing bough close by it,,
Where the Sunlight comes in flickers and tbs
shadows gather dim.
Oh, the rush OF childish footsteps when at re-
cess time they spy it!
Oh, the flash Of cooling waterl Oh, the warm
lips at its briml
Then the pulling at the birches, the delightful
swish and rustic,
And the cracking of the tender twigs, the
noisy bursts of gleej
When the sharp rap on the window calls-on'
what a merry tussle
In the flling-out oil pockets so that no sharp
eye may see!
The dark room grows strongly cheerful as the
little smugglers gather,
And a spicy, woodsy fragrance penetrates its
dingy nooks.
All, how sly the rodents nibble, while they
make a vain endeavor
To appear absorbed in cleaning from the Wis
dom of their books!
When the daily tasks are ended, and, with
dinner baskets swaying,
All the little folks bound homeward, and the
house is left in gloom,
Then across the teachers weary face pleas
ant smile is strayng
As she brushes out The litter with her clumsy
hemlock broom.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
Chronic LaSSitude.

There are certain characteristics
connected with lazy man which are
admirable. They excite the twang-
ing, jingling breasts of the nervous
fdgety a feeling which borders on
respect and akin to awe. Your
double-geared fdgety man will spin
all day like top, and run down in
the cool Of the evening on identically
the same spot on which he started
off after breakfast. The man suffering
from chronic lassitude will keep cool,
keep in the shade, put in full days
work, resting himself and arrive at
time at sundown, cool, calm and col
lected, without having once sweat
under the collar or laid hair. The
professional lazy seems to eat, drink
and sleep with as much gusto and
sang froid as his fidgety brother with
the high pressure anatomy and patent
double cylinder, fast, perfecting, hy-
genie apparatus, who gets hot in the
box and wears and grinds and cuts
his life away like piece of misft
machinery. The fact of the business
is the man of hustle wears his life
away for want of the oil of rest.
The lazy man just soaks along like a
handful of cotton waste in the oil
cup of a box car aXle.-ScientWc
american.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
nWhen Ills Heart Thawed Ont"

One day two OF three years ago a
gruff old man, hard-hearted and given
to drink, and living alone in house
on Gratiot street, found a crippled boy
nine or ten years of age crying in front
of his door. 1t was his way to curse
children and drive them away, but In
this instance he spoke kindly to the lad,
and even sympathized with him. For
that once his hardened heart seemed
to thaw out, and men who noticed his
kind action wondered greatly.
BY and by the crippled boy, known
as jake, seemed to grow into the old
mans heart and spent hours with him
at his house. He was, so far as any
one could remember, the first and only
human being to say kind word for
gruff old Ben.
When the old man fell sick a few
weeks ago nobody missed him for sew
eral days. Indeed, no one cared much
whether he was sick or well, but some
one interested himself enough to dis
cover that the sick man was being
nursed by the cripple. The days and
nights must have been terribly lone
some to the lad, but he was faithful to
the last. The other morning he
quietly announced to the neighbors
that old Ben was dead. Those who
went in found the rooms in neat order,
the dead man lying ds if asleep, and
the money to bury him was safe in an
old wallet in the bureau. When they
asked jake about it he explained ::
"He died as easy as baby. Long
at first he used to curse and swear
about his sickness, but after while
he let me read the Bible to him, and
sometimes 1 saw tears in his eyes"
Folks thought him hard man."
"But he wasn't. When his heart
thawed out he was like child. One
day 1 brought him from the chest a
lot of old letters, the photograph of a
woman and baby, and he cried over
them. 1 guess they were dead, and /
guess he had had lots of trouble"
"Did he die easy?"
"Just like going to Sleep" answered
the lad. 1t was just at daylight.
sat by the bed and had fallen asleep
when he put out his hand and whis-
pered: Jake, I'm dyingp With that
Jumped up to do something, but ne
said it was too late. There was great
change in him. All the hardness haC
gone out of his face, his eyes had
kind look, and the boys who used to bt
afraid of him wouldn't have known
him for the same man. 1 was reading
to him from the old Bible, when all al
once his fingers let go of my hand ant
he was dead"
"And then?"
The boy turned away and wept.
From the day gruff old Ben had ad
dressed him kind word the prayer
of child pleading for a wicked MAJ
had been heard in Heaven. He haC
prayed for him in life and after death
and if the prayer had not brought tha
peaceful look to the white, dead face
what else could have done it?-Fre
Press,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
Illuminating Battle Fields.

An interesting night experiment has
been conducted on the race course at
Vienna, near the electrical exhibition.
The volunteers of the association for
the saving of life lit up an imaginary
battle field, in order to prove the
advantages of rehectors in finding the
wounded. The crown prince and sew
eral of the archdukes were present,
with number of officers. BY means
of the great reflector of Messrs. Egger.
placed above the entrance door of the
rotunda, some 90 medical st tudents
lying about, representing wounded
men. were picked up, 100 members of
the volunteer fire brigade trangporting
them to the wagons in less ihan a
quarter Of an houg
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
She Had Changed Her Opinion.

80, you dear, good mother !" chirped
Birdie McHennepin, "do you really
mean to say that | can marry Gus De
SmithY'
81 do" replied Mrs. McHennepin.
"You have my full consent"
"But, mamma, you said only yester-
day that you couldn't bear him." pur-
sued the daughter.
"Well, l have got something like an
eighty-one ton grudge against him
and for that very reason nave con
eluded 70 become bis motheT-ln-law."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
THROUGH LIFE.

we slight the gifts That every season bears,
And let them ial unheeded from our grasp,
IN our grent engerne-s TO rench and clasp
Dr. else we mourn some great good passed
away,
And In the shadow of our grief shut in,
Reluso the lesser good we yet might win,
Tho offered peace and glodness of to day.
So through the chambers of our life we pass
And leave them one by ono, aud never stay,
Not knowing how much plcasantness there was
In ench, until the closing OF the door
Has sounded through the house and died
away,
And In onr heart we sigh, "For evormore."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20

without the askingP That, young
gentlemen and misses, is something
no one may answer for any one else.
Perhaps Richard the Bear was not
so phenOmehally cool as he looked
when he said to truant and captor an
hour later, "Where the deuce have you
two been. ANYHOW ~ Orerlnnd.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

IeooI notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements collected
,rarterly Temporary advertisements must
be paid in advance.
Job work. cash on delivery
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
SHERIFF SALE.
Peter Walton, plaintiff, =

Peter Hartz and Henrietta Hartz, defendants.
To be sold al sheriff 9 sale, at O'Clock p. m,
Saturday, January 18th, A. D.. 1884, in front OF
the Court House door, il the town Q. d county
of Deer Lodge, Montana Territory, under and
by virtue of All order of sale in the above ent-
tied cause, issued fom out the District Court OF
the Second Judicial District of the Territory of
following property described in said order of
sale as follows, to wit:
That certain tract and parcel of land situated
and being in Deer Lodge County, NJ. r., and be-.
ing the southeast quarter of the southwest quar-
ter the south halt of the southeast quarter
and the northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of section number thirty-two (32) In
township north of range nine (Y west Of the
pr1ncspal meridian. containing one hundred
and sixty acres. Also that portion of the south
west quarter Of the southwest quarter of Sec
Of range nine (D west which liesw of the
middle OF Deer Lodge river containing about
thirteen acres. Said land above described lies
on the west side of the Deer Lodge River, and
opposite the town of Deer Lodge in said county
and Territory.
Also lots number one two three, four, five and
SIX in Block numner tWenty-eight, and lots
numbers eleven twelve. thirteen and fourteen
III, u, IL and 14) in block number twenty seven
Of and in the town of Deer Lodge Deer Lodge
County, Montana Territory. according to the
official survey and plat of said town, together
with all the Improvements, and rights and PRIV
scrlbed, or pertaining thereto, and all water
rights and privileges bitches and water belong
ing thereto or needed in connection Herewith.
Dated this 10Th day OF December, 1888
JANE Il. McMASTER. sheriff.
By THos McTAGUE, Under Sheriff.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Weather Reports.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 5-The weather
moderated slightly during the day
but the mercury is falling tonight.
1t stood at three below at II o'clock.
One man was takeu to the hospital.
He will probably lose his feet. He
had frozen in q sled. where he took
shelter last night. There are great
many cases of frozen ears, noses and
fingers. Business is much neglected.
MADISON, Ind, JAM, 5 5-Twenty-
below here this morning, and iat
Elkheart, Ind, % below this morn-
ing. No abatement this evening.
+ Coolest ever known here.
NEW ALBANY, Ind. Jan. g.
Coolest oay in 36 years, % below. 1t
is now 10 below. At 8 o'clock this
evening it was IL below. Fruit grow
! rs say the peach crop is destroyed.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-The thermome-
ter at IL tonight registered - BE-
low, indicating the weather has MOI,
Grated very slightly as compared
with last night. Reports from the
west and northwest however, lndl-
cate that the cold wave has in q
measure spent itself.
DEs MoINEs, Jan. 5.-Seven below
tonight with 4 change OF "A degrees
in q like number OF hours. On the
Mississippi river bridge at Rock
Island at 6 a. M. it was 81 below, at
q d. m. 20 below. An Inter Ocean
special from southern Illinois indi-
Gates peach trees have been injured
and in soMe instances killed. Ihe
western railway lines are not yet
heard from.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Ben Hogan.

Mr.. Hogan will hold no afternoon
meeting to-day, but this evening he
will speak in the Reform Club
Rooms and a number of reformed
men will make remarks. The Sun
day meetings have generally been
crowded and no doubt the public
will turn out in force tonight, as it
will be the great reformer's last
appearance at the Sunday night
meetings for some time. He de-
signed leaving for Deer Lodge and
Helena on Monday, but has con-
cluded to remain in the city until
Thursday, in order to meet his
friend, John L. Sullivan. During
Mr.. Hogan's absence the club rooms
will be in competent hands and the
meetings and organization will be
kept up with unabated interest. 1t
is expected also that the clergymen
of the city will alternate in holding
Sunday evening meetings at the
rooms.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Suicide at Helena.

Herald, Sd: William Swift, or
"Swift Bill" as he was called, died
last night by dose of morphine ad-
ministered by himself. He had been
known here but short time, and
vas seen about his apple stall hob.
fling around on stumps of legs trying
to make an honest living. About all
that is known of him is that he was
a stage driver on the Yellowstone,
where he got lost in a snow storm and
had both his legs so badly frozen
that they had to be amputated. In
this condition he came from Miles
City. After lingering all day yester-
day from the effects of the heavy
dose, he died last night. Coroner
Steel called a jury last night about
9 o'clock, which returned verdict
that the deceased came to his death
by an "overdese of morphine taken
with suicidal intent"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
The Lottery Case.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 5.-Judge
Pardee, of the u. S. C'rcnit Court,
TODAY rendered an opinion in the
case of the New Orleans National
Bank against Postmaster W. b.
Merchant. The case came up on
motion to dissolve the injunction
against Postmaster Merchant from
Interfering with mail matter ad'
dressed to the bank, such action hav-
ing been taken by Merchant in one H.
ence to the Postmaster Generals Or
ders. on the ground the letters were
intended for the Louisiana Lottery
Company, who have been denied the
use of the mails to carry on the iot-
terv business. The court held the
scheme denounced by law is that OF
the distribution OF moneys
through the mails by hltans
of false and fraudulent representa-
tions. The facts found against the
New Orleans National banks are out
side the law, but the defendant can
not be held responsible for obeylng
the orders of his superior officer.
The court decided in favor of the
bank, decreelng tnat it is entitled to
the free and full use of the mails and
further ordered that the motion TO
dissolve the injunction be denied.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Salt Lake News.

SALT LAKE, Jan. 5.-This morn
wife of tue late prophet Brigham
Young, died at Salt Lake of blood
o ,iscning in her ,rtieth year. Six
teen mourning widows still! survive
the prophet, fourteen OF whom i've
in Sat Lake.
At the monthly meeting of the
Mormon priesthood held this morn
ing Bishop John Sharp SAID
"While in Washington recently ne
had seen enough to convince MN
no power but the Almighty could
save the Mormon people If God did
not pilot the ship it would 90 down" "
Apostles Thatcher and Richards
are now on their way to Washington
to attend to Utah affairs.
Kate Fields il in Salt Lake study
ing the Mormon question quietly but
thoroughly.
Sullivan and sluggers are giving
exhibitions in Salt Lake to crowds OF
saints and sinners.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
From the Daily of Sunday.
Finding the Coeur d'Alene
Diggings.

The Kootenai Courier gives an in
teresting sketch of \. J. Pritchard
and his discovery of the Ceur d.
Alene placers. He is an old pros
pector and has mined in nearly every
!! camp from Mexico to Alaska. He
started for the Kootenai country in
the fall of 1877, and finally finding
himself on the old MHllan road after
crossing the Bitter Root mountains
he began to notice mineral bearing
quartz. He left the road and followed
several ridges and on some of them
found good groupings, yet discovered
no signs of any former prospectors.
he come down to Fort Cpur d. Alene
to winter, and the next fall (1878)
commenced work On one of the leads
near what is now known as Evolu-
tion, being the name he gave his
lead. He built a cabin, but having
no means to develop his claim, post
poned operations until the following
spring and then commenced pros
pecting for placers. He very soon
discovered gold ina gulch near Evo-
luton, called Prospect gulch. It
being small gulch, the water soon
gave out, and then the surrounding
country was more carefully examined.
The general formation is hard slate
and in many places shows mineral,
and there are stratas CT granite from
6 to 20 feet wide running through
the slate. Eight miles easterly from
Evolution there is q granite vein
from 2 to 4 miles wide and still
further east the formation changes
to lime, porphyry, slate, etc. Good
placers were found at every hand.
Mr.. Pritchard next crossed over the
divide to the head waters of the St.
Joe, and even as far as the divide be-
,ween the st. Joe and Clearwater,
md good prospects were found in the
gravel on several streams. The spring
If 80 he crossed Pritchard Creek,
hence across Eagle Greek near the
lead and over to the north fork of
he Coeur d'Alene, towards it's head,
nd found considerable gold on many
title brooks emptying into it. The
now started him back, and on his
eturn he prospected point of rim
ock just above what is now called
be "Widow" claim, on Pritchard
'reek, and in two and a half days
'ok out $45 in coarse gold with pick
nd pan; it being the first gold taken
ut of that creek. The next spring
1e creek Was carefully ,prospected
nd trail route looked up. Pritchard :
reek was prospected for a distance
fourteen miles and gold found in
aging quantities all the way where
yer the bed or rim rock could be
en and in the deep holes in the bed
the stream, often taking out sew
al dollars to the pan. Taking out 4
hat gold he needed and se1ding it
California in order to create an ex-
tement, he in June, '82, viewed
1t the trail to the mines.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
New York Notes.

NEW YORK. Jan. 5.--Edward II.
KaLbe, clerk for Sperry q Barnes,
VINO absconded after eezzsl,ng 1ae,arI
5000 belonging to his n,,aht e%psoyeas
him by the firm for the recovery OF
the money. Bail was fixed for $780,
900. -;
sion to day in an action brought by
Annie E. Higbee to compel ). wal
ter Vaughn to support her, on the
ground of mock marriage at a
Church sociable at Flatbush and that
she was his wife. The judge dis
missed the complaint, holding the
marriage not legal and Miss Higbee
not the wife of Vaughn.
The trial of the suit of the wife OF
Fred. K. DE Hellevile, the well known
actor, for annulment OF marriage,
proceeded today notwithstanding
the absence of the defendant. Tht
c. urt reserved its decision.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
The OsbOrnes.

The Osborne combination arrived
in the city night before last and will
give one of their pleasing entertain
ments at Renshaw Hall next
Wednesday evening. the 9th inst.
Mrs. Osborne is, without doubt. the
finest elocutionist that ever appeared
upon Montana stage. Possessing
a magnificent voice and a true con-
ception of her subject, she never fails
to please the most exacting AS an
actress, she is versatile, and as a
vocalist, she occupies high position.
Her "Shamus O'Brien" is well worth
the price of admission. The com.
bination should meet with an en-.
courag1ng reception at the hands of
Butte theatre goers,