The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-10-20
Notes BY the Way.

hitei mauy uoyS gOui tramp layo
down the wander staff and gathers up
the journalistic distaf to spin a news
letter out of stray bits gathered here
and there, caught on the thorns of
memory from the flock of common
place events driven along 10 the course
Of time.
"The hills and valleys are nblaze
and glorious with golden and red and
russet aud brown; a veritable field of
cloth Of gold on which the sovereigns
of summer and autumn meet, the one
to take up, the other tn lay down, for
awhile, the crown of the seasoDs."
That was the way we had seen it
and thought of it prior to the rain aud
wind of last Thursday. There is
beauty and gladness yet in the forest
glade and the wood crowned hill but
it is not as it was. "The purple from
the grape has been brushed away The
innocence of childhood has been
stripped rudely off" OF the beauties
Of the autumn landscape it has begun
to be written, "the glory is departed. )"
And the tramp as he plods over roads
that promise to grow muddy and bad
upon the first provocatiou of rain and
travel, erstwhile pulling his rain.
drowned, sun Drowned, promise to. be.
rimless old straw hat closer his very
cool head, wonders If there'll be plen.
ty of fodder for the cattle this winter.
From the poetic to the practical
Happy the man who can combine the
two as your tramp has often thought
when leaning over some fence be has
watched the honest farmer making
hay in the meadow overrun with daisies
The full force of the combination how
ever is felt by the fellow who buys the
above hay aud gets the above daisies
The above is a specimen of journal
istio brick without the straw. But
let's see what we have got;
CLARINGToN.
Jacob Maze is building house on
his farm just back of the old house on
a little higher ground that, when fin
ished, will be second to none in the
township of Barnett. Besides the ex.
tent to which it will enhance the val.
ue as we'll as the appearance of the
farm such improvements are a credit
to the locality. y
McClintock's s stave mill is cutting.
Mr. McClintock has bought all the
oak on the Coleman tract and will
turn it into slaves. The mill above
referred to is situated on branch Of
Coleman Run in the hollow lying
along the Tylersburg road at the foot
of the hill on the top of which the
Notion farm, now occupied by Geo.
Kuhns, lies Mr.. McClintock has an.
other mill which at the present time
is cutting near the Buckeye saw mill.
1t will be removed from there after q
while and set over on the other side ot
the Coleman tract near the Fitzgerald
school house. The capacity of the
mill in the hollow is about II cords
or 5000 slaves, per day. The stsves
will be shipped from Vowinckel on
the P. & w. R. r. Some one has es
timated the amount of slaves to be
taken from the whole tract to be not
less than 5000 cords. The Coleman
tract is to be stripped Of all the pine
still on it this winter. The same is
true of the Mckinley tract lying in
below Greenwood. The trees that are
large enough will be made into square
timber, and the rest into logs.
Robert McCloskey and wife living
at the Wilderness Church we're serious
| ly hurt on last Tuesday. They were
driving in buggy, and on their way
home, having been at Clarion proba'
bly,, and stopped at the watering
trough at Philip Gatesman's, in the
Foglebough Settlement to water the
horse. The horse had on a double
twisted wire bit. Mr.. McClOskey got
out of the buggy and took the bit out
to let the horse drink. When he tried
to put the bit on again the horse OBJ
ieeted and began to act ugly. Mr.