The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-10-20
TIONESTA, Pa. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20 1885.

| green-yellow eyes, and an aspect that
made stranger think of the regulation
cat that was the familiar of witches in
all history. He came from Hanover
/ TO Meriden by rail. nailed up in a
! strawberry crate Kissing, splitting. yowl-
ing and sharpening his claws on his
/ frail prison all the way, to the
terror of every passenger in the
car. Indeed, Joe was forced to carry
crate and all into a baggage-car at the
third station, and ride with it the rest of
the way, for the brakemen refused to
look after it, so daunted we're they by
the wild animal within. Tiger was sent
into solitary confinement in the cellar as
soon as Mrs. Parker reached her house,
and was subdued by hunger and dark
ness before they dared let him range
abroad in the new neighborhood.
Now Joe Parker had not been in Meri-
| den long enough 10 make much aCquaint-
/ ance there, and was very hard at work
/ the first few weeks OF his stay so that he
always went to sleep in church on Sun
| day, and missed any sight thereby of the
/ blooming damsels in the choir or in the
/ pews; he was ashamed of it, to be sure,
but there was the change Of air from Yer
mont mountains to the fat meadow
land and low-lying pastures about the
river, and then he was really overworked
for time in helping to place the new
machinery. move the old and settle his
mother in this strange place, where he
knew no one to whom he could apply for
/ help or suggestion. It was not Sunday
1 to-day when he peeDed through the fence
at Nanny, and suddenly, as if by stroke.
/ lost his honest young heart; for, beloved
reader, this is only love-story. Only
/ love-story; only a record OF the great
world song, the event of so many lives.
the fnalitE of ALL
"Love will find out the wav.m saws an
ancient song, and Joe was no exception
to the rule Of the Pathfinder He per-
| suaded his mother to send him over to
the neighbours the very next night for a
I pitcher of milk, and also to negotiate
for their daily supply. This being sue
| cessfuily effected, he went daily for the
milk before mill hours, and his pail was
/ filed by Mary Ann, blooming with the
sweet morning air, neat, trim, and lovely
at six o'clock A. NJ. as a city girl at her
late dinner Joe grew worse and worse.
/ He thought of Nanny in mill and
market; her face shone above the ma
/ chinery, her laugh tinkled with the mill
/ bell. He made friends with Peter also /;
/ for cats know lovers-wheu they are
/ lovers-just as well as children know
their friends. Tiger was still kept in
the high-fenced chicken-yard on the
! Parker premises-nOw devoid of chick
ens-as a measure of precaution against
his straying; he was too dear to his mis-
tress to be yentured at large yet. 1t is
not TO be denied that Nanny looked
with favorable eyes upon Joe Parker a
/ personable young fellow with a good
/ position does not fall at the feet of
I every farmers daughter, even if she is a
beauty. The anxious and aimless'
have IN their ranks many lovely face
/ and capable character NANNY had been
no farther than the district school for her
education. and her home training was to
hard, practical. thorough work, She
read no novels or 'story papers," the
/ Weekly Courant and the Puritan Recorder
/ helped her through SUNDAYS, but on
/ weekdays she had work to do, and at
night was tired enough to 90 to bed
early. She was simple as we'll as sensi-
/ BILE, in the best sense of simplicity, and
/ did not coguette with Joe any more than
was natural to any girl She dimpled
and blushed when he came in, pretended
/ 70 be yexed when Peter preferred his
knee to her lap. called him an lawful
/ thing, if he caught her hand in his with
i the milk-pai handle. and was always
ready to go 10 singing-school and even
| ing meeting with him, so that his true
/ love ran ominously smooth.
But, alas there was trouble coming.
Tige, the Parker cat, hurt himself
/ seriously in an attempt to climb the
palings of his jail-yard, for they were
/ old and rickety. and could not bear his
/ weight. His mistress nursed him in the
house for six weeks with great care, ana
when he was quite we'll again, and
stronger than ever with much feeding.
he was turned out-of- doors, and allowed
! to roam and ravage rs he would, ana at
once he lit upon Peter.
Dire was the conflict, but Mrs. Parker
| hastened TO the rescue with a pail of
water. and the astonished Peter. quite
| drenched to the skin, fled while Mrs.
| Parker picked up Tiger and carried him
into the kitchen, lamenting over him as
if he were a hurt child. Now Mrs Parker
was a shy and silent woman, but very
resolute; she at once made up her mind
that the MAYS cat should not intrude on
her premises to disturb Tiger. She had
the garden fence re-enforced. and even q
strip of wire netting added to its height
on the Mays side; but she could moi
cabin, crib, or coufne Tiger himself,
( circumstance that veNed her much. AnC
when Peter came home TO Mary AnT
after that first duel, dripping like
drowned rat. she too was indignant; bu
what could she dol Battles set in, howl
by night, skirmishes by day; piece wal
soon bitten out of Peters lovely waving
tail, aad Tiger lost half an ear. Nanny
made inviuious remarks about Mrs Par
keris cat every day of her life, and Mrs
Parker made Joes meals bitter to hi
soul with evil-speaking of Peter an,
Peters family meaning the MAYS Ye
they were friendly enough except on thl
cat 0upsfiOu Mrs Nav tauuht Mrs