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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
The Wild COssaeks.

The Cossack dress, the long coat and
the hat and knife are so well known in
England, from drawings in the illus
trated papers. that no description is
needed. 1t is a workmanlike dress un-
doubtedly, but not what an English cav
airy officer would call 'smart. The
horses, too, are more like rough cobs
than horses, but they are said never to
tire, and, in fact, they do look stout, use
full beasts. Our officers and men may
well take lesson from them. They are,
as a Russian officer said, thoroughly
mobile The COssack has no tent and
his horse no covering, even in the depths
of winter when on service, while our
horses are not prepared to stand out
without three heavy felts, nor are the
men prepared TO 90 on service without a
servant and pony to every two Of them
and tents 10 cover them. In short, the
Cossack is a well-armed. mounted rife
man and scout, and one can well imagine
what yeoman's service a cloud of such
horse in the front Of any army would
perform. 1t has been too much the aim
of our native cavalry officers to turn
their men into Dragons, and though
AAANN WIN IL TIC ANNAA AAANADAININAy bN
better mounted and heavier than the
Cossacks, one cannot help feeling that
the others have on their side many ad-
vantages. Ours are more for show, and
theirs more for use. A cavalry man
would answer by asking 70 see the hos
pital rolls after six weeks campaign in
winter and no doubt that is 10 US, where
men and animals cost money, a powerful
retort. for we know how the Russians suf-
fered in the Balkans from sickness. With
all that, we have a lesson TO learn from
the Cossack, and il would be well if Of
ficers would think it over. and remember
that we cannot always be al peace, and
that our next war might carry Us further
than one hundred and fifty miles from
our Indian frontier.
One of our officers, at any rate, will
remember the Cossacks as long as he
lives. He accompanied an officer out
side the mess tent to look for something
when the latter introduced him as a
brother officer of cavalry, and he, in re-
spouse. drank the health Of the Cossacks.
Before he we'll knew what had happened
he was picked up by twenty strong arms
and played ball with 10 a chorus accom-
paniment. ] am not sure that he was
not embraced before they put him down.
This seems 70 be a COssack custom. and
once year their own officers get
tossed. and it is the greatest honor
they can pay you. But think what
would happen, and how splashed they
might be, if they let fall a twenty-stone
old colonel that they did not ike
LOn1i0n TINES.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

and grasped at Il as one drowning might
grasp at a life-suving oar.
"Father in heaven thank theein he
cried, fervently, and then-Hattiel Hat
tiel The letter is found the letter the
letter."
Hattie came flying in, gave one answer
ing glance and burst out crying: "Oh,
Will And father suspected YOU"
Mr. Alcot clutched at his beard again,
took the letter and asked in a voice hoarse
with emotion:
"Where did you find it, Martha7'
'In your bed, twixt the. case and pill
low you slept on"
Goodness sakesl Have I taken to
walking in my sleep again as 1 did when
l was a youugsterf
This was doubtless the case. The last
thing before retiring he had gone TO see
whether that money letter was all right,
and in his sleep it haunted him, with the
result that caused its removal to safer quar-
ters near his person. The other two were
cast aside as unimportant.
"Bill---rm hasty old fool" began
the postmaster in awkward, self-reproach-
tul tones.
''Mr. Alcot, don't say word. Who
would not suspect, under like circum-
stances. To think that 1 should chance
to fall asleep and absent mysef-unac-
countably- naturally led on to doubts.
Beside, deserve some punishment for
returning to rob you of something more
precious than money"
''It was not the money, boy, alto
gether 1t was betrayed confidence that
panied and enraged me. Things did
look kinder black, now, didn't they?"
Indeed, father, your suspicious hit
right home about the two-legged rats"
shut up, you saucy baggage. You
sly one, you'll l saw you hugging VIII
awhile ago."
viii caught her as she was retreating,
and holding her hand, spoke up like a
man.
'If dared to hope for your approval,
Mr.. Alcot, to make her my wifeI My
patent is not of great scientific value, but
l have secured rights as an inventor, and
am already negotiating for profitable
privileges from a large bottling establish
ment for its use; hence can make an
independent beginning and offer your
daughter home"
Mr.. Alcot embraced his child with pa
thetic emotion, saying, Il suppose
must submit. The young viii mate, as
the parents did before them; but Bill
my son"-he clasped the young mans
hand. you must share my home, for 1
cannot be left alone, now that the tricks
of boybood are cropping out in the old
man.
''You dear, good, best of fathers, do
you think 1 would leave your murmured
Hattie.
'FYou see, children, need some one to
look after 'two-legged rats Mr.. Alcot
interpolated with penitent humor, look
ing into Wills eyes, there seeking and
receiving pardon for the unjust suspi
cions in connection with that registered
| letter.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
The Destructive Peepal Tree.

A curious destroying of human works
in India, according 10 DR.. r. F. Hutch
inson, is the peepal tree. This is a kind
of ig, which multiplies beyond the power
of man TO destroy, its little seeds being
sown broadcast over the land in the drop
pings Of the birds and bats which feast
on its fruit. The peepal rises everywhere,
and its effect is the disintegration Of rocks
and buildings, the danger being 50 great
that the keepers of large structures are
constantly on watch during fig time for
bird-droppings. As an illustration Of
what the tree may do and Of its wonder
full vitality, it is stated that on the sum
NIT Of the northern minaret of the great
mosque of Bareilly, $50 feet high, a
peepal fourishes grandly beyond reach,
and its ever active roots are gradually
breaking up the cupola Of the minaret.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
Newspaper Advertising.

Newspaper advertising Is now recog-
nized. by business men having faith in
their own wares, as the most effective
means for securing for their goods wide
recognition of their merits.
Newspaper advertising comPels in
quiry, and when the article offered IS Of
good quality and at a fair price, the
natural result is increased sales.
Newspaper advertising is a permanent
addition to the reputation Of the goods
advertised, because it is a permanent in
fiuence always at work in their interest.
Newspaper advertising is the most ener-
getic and vigilant of statesmen, address
ING thousands each day, always IN the
advertisers interest, and ceaselessly at
work seeking customers from all classes.
Newspaper advertising promotes trade,
for even in the dullest times advertisers
secure by far the largest share Of what Is
being done. While the advertiser eats
and sleeps, printers, steam engines and
printing-presses are at work for him;
trains are bearing his words 10 thousands
of towns and hundreds Of thousands Of
readers, all glancing with more or less
interest at the message prepared for them
in the solitude of his Office. No preacher
ever spoke TO so large an audience, or
with so little effort, OF so elOquently as
YOU. reader, may do with the newspaper
man s assistance.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
The Lightning's Stroke.

4 person struck by lightning does not
know it, the fluid being much quicker
than thought. The nerves which convey
pain are rather slow in their power to
convey information. Stick pin in the
tail of an elephant and quite percepti-
bic interval occurs before the noble ami
NAL gives his opinion of the man or boy
at the end of the nervous system on trial.
Lightning does its work before the victim
knows anthing. Two men were struck
while taking refuge under tree. Both
were carried into the house, and laid out
for dead One of the men revived, and
after weeks of suffering and infrmity, he
got out again, and is still living. He
said he knew no more about having been
struck by lightning than he was con-
scious of having lived before the food.
1t was all news to him when told Of the
fact
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Very taking" in its way-SmallpoI.-
Hot Springs Ners.
Shear nonsense-trying to cut the hair
of a bald headed man.-Barbers' Gazette.
According to the Darwinian theory our
ancestors were all tail-bearers.-HarJoT
Times
The calcium light is ofttimes the bright
est part of theatrical entertainment
California HaCericb.
There is one thing to be said in favor
of coasters. They don't want the earth
Burlington Free Press.
A turnpike tender down South became
enamored of young woman who often
passed over his road, but he never tolled
his love-BostOn Bulletin.
Burdette says: II hold it TO be a sol
emn. self-evident, heaven-born truth that
a man who will play chess for amusement
would saw cord of wood for joke"
The bicycle rider usually falls forward,
when he falls, and stands on his head.
The skater falls backward, and doesn't
stand on anything. This allows the
amateur sport to choose the sport of
humping PicGyule.
A correspondent wants to know if it Is
proper to urge young lady to sing at an
evening gathering after she has refused
once. 1t Is proper to urge little, but not
too much, lest she should change her
mind. Pitts5Urg Chronicle.
Mrs. Lille Blake raises her voice to
inquire: who owns the babyl" From
what we have seen of that interesting
creature, we have no hesitation in re-
plving that the baby owns itself, and the
entire household in the bargain. Boston
Transcript.
\ free translation of the heraldic
motto which secretary Manning rented
for his recent dinner party, is said to be:
'sThe eagle does not catch flies. OF
course not. The American eagle is bald
headed. The flies catch him.-BIfa0
Express.
eF AGE.
Well. how do YOU ike himl Come, old man,
Better the bargain elsewhere, if you can,
He's young, and as spry as goat.
Il think said the farmer, while looking
askance
At the horse, and then at the owner a
glance
she is old enough TO vote. =
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

The startling decrease in the numbers
of many of our birds, brought about Of
late years by the unceasing persecution
waged for the sake of fashion, has aroused
the OrnitholOgists' union 10 a recognition
of the necessity for instant and decided
effort in behalf of our birds The OBJ
jeets Of the committee are as follows: I.
The gathering of all possible information
bearing on the subjects of the destruction
and protection of North American birds.
.. The diffusion of information among
the people in respect 10 the extent of the
slaughter of birds for millinery ard other
mercenarp purposes; the wanton killing
of birds in sport by men and boys; the
robbing .of birds nests; the destruction
of the eggs Of rails, terms, gulls and other
birds for food: and the marked recent de
crease Of many species resulting from this
general destruction; the spreading Of in
formation, also, in respect TO the utility Of
birds as a natural check upon the increase
of insects injurious 10 vegetation, and
with reference TO their interest and value
from an aesthetic point Of view. This
with the object of developing a public
sentiment in favor Of the rigid protection
of our native birds, a sentiment that will
naturally spring up strongly and widely
As soon as attention is called 10 the sub
iect. The headquarters Of the committee
are at the American Museum Of Natural
History, Central Park, New York city,
where the officers or any Of the members
may be addressed,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
The Ambulance.

This Is a modern invention of French
origin In ancient times the wounded
were left 70 die on the battlefield. but
war now has the ameliOrating influence
Of surgery. There are two kinds in use.
The heavy ambulance is left with the bag
gage, while the light one moves over the
battlefield in order TO convey the wounded
20 the rear. Each ambulance Is attended
by seven surgeons, and the largest are
drawn by four horses. A surgeon on
horseback guides the others TO some place
where a field hospital is established. A
yellow flag is then displayed, which pro-
tects the spot from the fire Of the enemy
Baron Larrey who reached distinction in
surgery during Napoleon war, organz ed
the ambulance system with a great per
lection, and II is now in use all over the
civilized world. Rochester Chronicle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
Ingenious Girl SQuattera

A woman, unmarried and twenty-one
years old, has the right to take up land,
and in Dakota many have availed them
selves Of this privilege by acquiring pre-
emption or tree claims. Bethrothed
couples from the East sometimes take up
adjoining claims and then marry and
conditions Of the law, however, is that
any one taking up claim shall live on
it for six months. -Four girl pioneers,
who wanted to take up claims, adopted
a good plan to meet this requirement.
Taking up section Of GAO acres they
built a cabin on it containing four cor
ner rooms, the center Of the house being
just over the point where the four sec
tions met, as shown by the following dis-
gram:
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

High priced singers are out of favor
this year, observes a writer in New
York T0loa Topics. Even dear Madame
Patti is having hard work to barter her
exquisite voice for the fabulous sums Of
former seasons. Heretofore, when she
found the effete audiences Of Covent Gar
den reluctant in pouring their shekels at
her shrine, she simply packed up and
came to the outstretched arms of enthu-
siastic America, OF went TO Russia. This
year she decided to hazard a less remote
continenta. tour She was recently an
nounced TO sing in Amsterdam, and in
order to reimburse her manager for the
large sum he was TO pay her, the price of
tickets was placed at a figure which eYi-
IDENTIFY shocked the prudent and ecOnom-
ical Hollanders, for when the hour ar
rived only two tickets had been sold. 1t
is needless TO say that she did not sing,
and that the first train bore away a very
indignant and probably wiser prima
donna.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

A farmer of Kimbles, Penn, put strych-
nine into the carcass Of an old horse that
had died, and placed the body in a spot
where foxes, who have been overrunning
the vicinity, would get at it. The result was
that ffty-eight dead foxes and fourteen
worthless dogs were found near the
house of the farmer. Two Italian
quarrymen also partook Of the poisoned
horse, fried and had narrow escape
from death.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

DIR. Edison, of the New York Health
department, has had the dye of some
bright red stockings, which were made
in Saxony, examined, and the analysis
discovered that it contained arsenic
and antimony. Both poison the skin,
and what is known as antimony rash is
produced by underclothing the dye of
which is fixed with antimony. Children
are the worst sufferers from antimony
rash, as they are the most likely to wear
the bright colors which contain the
poison.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

The Old Worlds watches are no
longer what they used to be in the esti-
nation of the American public. The alb
solutely accurate and unvarying work of
machinery which has attained almost to
perfection here has crowded out the for
eign made watches, no two of which are
alike. There are various reasons for this,
one being that the American watches are
better, and another that they are much
easier and less expensive to repair.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

Justice Field, Of the supreme court,
takes deep interest in the electrical in
ventions of Mr. Edison. Il would not, ="
be is reported as saying, "be surprised
any day to hear that he had discovered
the secret that the alchemists searched
for so long, and invented some method Of
keeping the vital spark alive forever.
The vital spark is nothing but electricity,
sitter all
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

An "anti-plumage league" has been
formed in England TO check the destruc-
tion of birds, caused by the present
fashion of wearing bird and feather orna-
ments. The league receives additional
strength from the fact that Queen Vic
toria is in strong sympathy with its OBJ
iects.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
Dennltlons of DE Dar.

A taking title-Pick-pOcket.
A dead imitation Catalepsy.
Within an ace Of 1.-THE king.
Slaves of the weed-Gardeners.
Always on ice-The polar-bear.
Come 10 stay-Your poor relations.
Badly stumped-The legless veteran.
Out on the fiy-The escaped convict.
Poetical Justice-Killing the bad
poets.
Old rounders-The hands OF the clock.
A German count-Eins, zwel, drei,
etc.
A pair Of nippers-A cyclone and a
blizzard .-PEck
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

A statistically-inclined sportsman has
figured out that there were in the United
States, last season, 1924 fat, Ali heat
and 1876 steeplechases and hurdle races,
and that the different jockey clubs put
up 1913, O1350 in purse and stakemoney.
Those who dance must pay the fiddler
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

Mr.. Yahashi Of Toxic has invented and
patented a method Of weaving carpets
with feathers. According to his method
feathers are reduced 70 a silky state by
the action Of chemicals, and then woven
like ordinary cotton STUFF.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

A prominent Pennsylvania coal oper-
ator mas noted that the great majority Of
coal-mine disasters occur between mid
night aud 3 P. n.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

The leaves Of a species Of fig Of Zanzi-
bar are used in that part of Africa for
polishing wood, just as we employ sand
pipeF They impart a fnish, however,
which sandpapeF does not.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

Each woman then moved into the room
located on her 100 acres and yet enjoyed
the society Of her companions. They all
provided themselves with revolvers, but
as a rule women on the prairies are as safe
as those who live in large cities.-All-
tcdukee Sentinel.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
OH, SILVER CLOUD.

Oh, silver cloud, a moment white
Thou gleamost fair within my sight.
Then of beyond the mountains blue
I lose thee in the darkening hue
OF comrade-clouds whose ranks unite.
Are thou a snow-clad neophyte,
Attendant on the Queen Of night,
HurryiDg TO join her retinue,
Oh, silver cloudl
Mayhap, oh, truant, by her might
Eos demands thy service-right
To bind her golden locks, OF WOO
Her rosy face to smile anew
Or dost thou follow Phpbus' fight,
Oh, silver cloudl
Edgar Irving Brenner, IN the Current
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31

Krupp' gunworks AZ Essen have turned
out more guns since September than are
usually produced IN twelve months time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-31
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Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
TOLL.

Alas, for the young hearts awakin9.
To the hopes and the SIN and the breaking
And the prodigal tears
OF the burdensome years
That glow bright in the future with promise |
Alas, that the dreams which we cherish
In the fires Of fruition should perish;
That 10 darkcns the sun
When the real is won
And we Danish the ideal from usi
The story Is ever repeated
OF Youths aspirations defeated
We battle and dream
Of achievement supreme;
But, ah the decetful tomorrow
Is forever its promise belying,
And the tear drops forever arc drying
On hopes fallen leaves
Where humanity grieves,
Clad about with the mantle of sorrow.
The goal where we thought that the burden
Would fall, and the coveted guerdon
OF rest would be found,
Is the desolate bound
Where demon Of restless endeavor
Rises up In the bosom to taunt us
With tasks that still lure and dsunt us
Till we turn once again
To the battle with men
In the glare Of the pitiless Never.
Aye; but labor is manfully human.
Toll, toll Is the test of the true man;
Though success yield him light,
Though he reel in the fight,
Though his pathway be sunless and dreary,
Still he feels for his burden-bent brothers,
And shrinks from the goodness that smothers
The feeling divine
OF the heart-throb benign
That would hold up the hands of the weary.
W. T. Talbot, in Chicago Current
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
LIFE In A FLAT.
BY EMMA A. OPPER.

When the Harrisons decided to move
from their pretty, suburban-looking
cottage in the upper part of the city
into q Hat downtown. because it would
be nearer to Mr.. Harrison's business,
several reasons why they should not
have decided were Immediately discov-
cred
Mrs. Harrison was certain that there
were no ministers downtown who could
compare with Doctor Barron, and that
she shouldn't enjoy them if there we're.
Ollie, the elder daughter, was afraid
that Charley Matson, who lived around
the corner, could not continue to call
five evenings in a week, as was his
present habit; and her father was fear
ful that the rather small parlor of their
new abode would not take the place of
their pleasant little porch for smoking
and ruminating on warm spring eve
nings. -
But Jessie, who was barely out of
school, was eagerly enthusiastic con-
cerning the fiat. She was positive that
OF all the charming places to live, fiat
must be the most charming; and she
could hardly wait to get into one.
Had it not been for Jessie's contagi-
Gus good spirits, the Harrisons would
have been inclined. at the end of their
first week of flat-life, to move back up
town without further ado.
They had begun to despair of ever
becoming accustomed to fiat. Mr..
Harrison, being forgetful, was freshly
startled every evening when the door
opened by apparent magic in response
to his ring. But Jessie, by repeated
explanations, convinced him that, so
far from being spiritual manifestation,
1t was the direct result of small brass
handle attached to the kitchen wall.
Ollie, whose hour of rising was not
of the earliest, was disturbed every
morning by the whistle of the ianitor
up the dumb waiter shaft, and the con-
sequent sending down of ashes on the
part of the girl But Jessie grew elo-
quent over the extreme desirability of
this arrangement.
Mrs. HARRISON, whose tastes were
quiet, was annoyed at meeting people
in the hall, and hearing them on the
stairs. But Jessie defended these sights
and sounds as being remarkably plaes-
ant and sociable.
She herself, however, had one cause of
disturbance. She drew Ollie close to
the hall door, one morning, with her
finger raised.
"There-listenr' she whispered. cts
the gentleman on the floor above. It's
just the same every morning"
A quick step was coming down stairs.
AT their foot it paused. while feminine
voice called down sweetly:
"Good-by, Willy. Be home early-be
sure"
And a manly voice responded cheer
fully:
"T'll be on hand. Good-by!" and the
han door closed upon the speaker.
They 60 through with all that every
~" said Jessie disgustedly. "And