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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
,cott fell back into his reverie.

Scott fell back into his reverie. A
sudden commotion reused him from it.
He thought it was the train. But no.
Some men were running along the track.
He heard something about "signals." "
He called out to one of the dark figures.
But the man hurried on without answer
ing.
Scott went back to the waiting-room.
He saw group of banched faces. Luke
Peabody was crying.
"Dreadful smash-up at the bridge;
What was | a-sayin'l Who's with us to
90 up there2n lie was out Of the door
before he had finished the words. They
followed-an eager, breathless crowd,
gathering in volume as it ran-men
Fastening to succor their fellow beings
from the horrors of disaster whose
possibilities were too horrible TO con-
template; idle boys. one or two courage
Gus women. A few carried lanterns.
Scott never had perfectly distinct idea
of what followed. There was an un-
utterab!y ghastly, confused memory Uf
groans, of the agonized faces of the dead
and dying; of a mass of wreckage strew-
ing the bank; of burning cars. He
worked tirelessly. He had extricated a
woman whose limbs seemed hopelessly
injured from an overturned car, when he
felt a grip on his shoulder. Luke Pea
body was at his elbow with face whittier
than it had ever been in his life, or ever
would be again.
"There's mighty queer looking girl
down there sez she knows you. she
seen your face. / dragged her out from
under some rubbish. She's goin' fast.
Quickl"
Scott had already cleared the few steps
down the bank. a woman, the wife of
one of the workmen who had come with
them, was bending over another a
lantern stood on the wet earth. Luke
Peabody stopped;
''rm afraid she's gone for good this
time" lie whispered.
Scott had pushed him aside. For {
second he simply stared, then
"Caddy," he cried, recognition and
remembrance coming back.
/ 1t was Caddy.
His voice seemed to call her back from
the very brink of the dark waters. Sh,
opened her eyes. The mists were com
ing over them. The queer white fac
was more solemn than ever with tn
great change upon it.
81 was comm to see you" He hat
to bend his head to hers to catch tn
sound of the words. 81 couldn't bear
when you went away. l tried-but
couldn't 1 ran away from home. jes
wanted to be where you was"
She neve' took her eyes from his face
They had an unCharging, supernatura
gravity. Suddenly spasm contracte
the pinched features. The eyes closed
That was all.
Scott, kneeling there, laid the childis
figure back on the dank ground.
His conscience was clear. Neither b
word nor by look had he fostered til
strange little creatures wild romance
Yet he bent over her lifeless form wit
an awestruck face. .-NeD York Merca,!
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Lambkin-'rNo; a sheep-raiser is NOT
an instrument for shearing sheep. w.
Boston Bulletin.
1t is said the pet dogs of Fifth avenue
are soon to have a club. Let 1t be
heavy one.-Ne,o Haoen Nelos.
When a girl gets to be twenty-five or
more, it's lust as well not to give her
any birthday presents-7He Epoch.
'dy cup of Joy is very full" sings o
poet Well, let it be, gentle one. Don't
try to change places with the cup. -
Statesman.
81 am at your service, ma'am, as the
burglar said when the lady of the house
caug ght him stealing her silver.-Burt'ag-
TIM Free Prcs9.
A society girl says that autumn leaves
may be very beautiful, but they are not
nearly so nice as ten O'CLOCK leaves. -
Washington critic.
Maybe some of our readers know why
it is that a boy should be proud becausc
the doctor says he is going to have the
chicken poX.-L0Histd J0arR0L
" The world is growing better every day,
And honest men abound,n some people say.
But still the finest apples of the crop,
When packed in barrels, somehow get on TOP
Boston Courier.
Dumley (who has treated Featherly to
a cigar from his own private box)-"Not
a puff bad cigar, ehl" Featherly--
"N-no, not puff very bad. Mao IorS
Sun.
A Burlington teacher told one of her
bows that the next time he wrote COM
position there should be some point to
it. The sub ect of his next disquisition
was "Ncedles. Bar iagton FTes Pres.
A little boy once said that salt Spoiled
potatoes when you didn't put it on
/ Salt Ias spoiled great many dudish
| vounS men in the-same way. They are
/ altog her ''too fresh ,n--IT0ris,o'e,l
/ Herald.
Some one says that pocketbook is an
awkward thing for a lady to handle;
Ali tie same, if the pocketbook is full
she handles it so vigorously and success
fully that it feels mighty weak when she
is through with -AO.riYto9H Herod.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
California Redwood,

Since mahogany and the more expen-
sive woods ha grown scarce, the red
wood of California has been extensively
used, not only in building, but also in
the manufacture of furniture. 1t is des-
tined to take the place of walnut, cherry
and mahogany, on account of its great
supply and cheapness. When highly
polished it is just as handsome as any of
the more expensive woods. When rose
wood went ont of use on account of the
extinction of the supply, house decorators
for long time were at loss as to what
they could use as substitute, and
at last they have discovered it in the Cal
ifornia redwood. 1t is suited for any
kind of decoration, and there is an
illimitable supply throughout the Golden
State, where extensive forests abound.
The redwood trees grow to an immense
size, and the timber made therefrom is
very large. -DemOreSt
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
A Vivid Contrast.

Five thousand boys, waX-faced, hun
gry-cyed, hollow checked, shouting,
pushirg, fighting on tho sidcwalE,
struggling against each other, each hop
ing for an overcoat for twenty-five
cents.
Twenty thousand clerks unemployed,
overcOats in pawn, tramping the streets
looking for work. wives hungry, babies
crying, cold weather coming, the doctors
bill unpaid.
Twenty thousand gin-mills in full
blast
White slaves fighting the wolf at their
door with needles that net them thirty
cents day.
That's one side.
Miles of blocks of houses, each costing
from $50, 600 to $500 000 TO build, in
which families live, each spending from
$40, 600 to $50, 900 year.
A hundred capitalists, each with con-
vertible assets estimated at from 81 600,
600 to $3.50, 600, OOO
starvation on one hand, waste and ex-
travagance on the other.-"Hopdrd," " m
Mo York Graphic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
SOMEBODY.

Somebody thinks the world all wrong
And never has a word in its praise.
Somebody sings the whole day long,
Likes tho world and all its ways.
Somebody says its queer old place,
Where none Of the people do as they should
Somebody thinks it full of grace
And wouldn't change the folks II he could.
Somebody calls IL cruel and cold,
Full of sin and sorrow and pain,
Where life is but search for gold,
And souls are lost in selfish gain.
Somebody merrily laughs, and cries:
"Hurrah for such dear old earthI
Success shall crown the man that tries
To make his mark by honest worth"
Somebody groans and shakes his head,
Calls his lot wretched one;
Somebody wishes that he were dead,
For somebody else has all she fun.
But somehow notice you generally find,
In good or evil, pain or care,
To one thing sure, you may make up YOU
a mind:
Somebody ditodys gets his share.
Peari Eytinge, ia Demorest's.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
Protecting a Great Bank,

The Bank of England doors are now
so finely balanced, that clerk, by press
ing knob under his desk, can close
the outer do)rs instantly, and they can
not be opened again except by special
process. This is done to prevent the
daring and ingenious unemployed of the
metropolis from robbing the bank. The
bullion department of this and other
banks are nightly submerged several
feet in water by the action of the ma
chinery. In some banks the bullion de-
partmcnt is connected with the mana
gers sleeping room, and an entrance
cannot possibly be effected without
shooting IL bolt in the dormitory, which
in turn sets in motion an alarm. II a
visitor during the day should happen to
knock off one from pile of half sover-
cigns the whole pile would disappear, a
pool of water taking its place.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
Good Fishing With Clubs,

Big Lake is in Mississippi county,
Ark, near Osceola, and about hundred
miles from Memphis. Ordinarily it is
an imposing sheet of water, its dimen-
sions being forty miles long by eleven
wide, but the almost unprecedented
drought restricted the limits of the lake
to less than two miles Of water, and
that so shallow that man in rubber
boots can wade it from shore TO shore.
quartet of NashvilliJns returned from
the lake Yesterday with 40 trout and
20 drum fish. which weighed 31l pounds.
They f,hed by providing themselves
with stout oall sticks, about three feet
long. and wadiug about the lake, killing
the h-h as they came TO the surface.
They slaughtered the iinuy tribe right
and left, con.'niug their victims to drum
and trogt The "buflalo' was found IN
amazing abundance, but was not desira-
ble. and so was left unharmed. = ores
of other parties were. at the lake, and an
active trade set in, tons Of fish being
sent every day to dealers in distant cities.
Fish became q drug, and finally the
Nashville delegation left for home
Na,hCUc 1MertcaA.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
Surprised by a Panther.

A heavy freight train on the Burling-
ton and Nj souri, road, near Minden,
Neb., came TO q standstill the other
night owing to the engine slipping an
eccentric, aud Engineer Markham and
his fireman got out TO repair damages
AS they were working they heard ter
ri.icyciI. and then q panther sprang on the
engineer Knocking him down. The nre-
man struck The animal ON the head with
a wrench, and il quit Markham and at
tackled the fireman. This gave the
engineer time to draw his revolver, and
he nut bullet through the brute's head
killing it outright 1t was six feet long
and weighed 200 pounds, Both men
were badly scratched
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
Canals in China,

In reply to the question: "What are
used on the Chinese canals in place OF
locks2n which recently appeared in thsa
New York Oh errer, the Rev. j. II. Rigassr
of Bergen Point, n. j., writes: MANY
of the canals in China are so constructed
along level ground that no locks are
needed, but in others where inequalities
must be met in some way, the old fa-
miliar principle of the inclined plane Is
made to furn sh solution. The boat
is not floated up, but dragged up. 1t
is not done on a very large scale, hoy
e or. as the boats are not G .uai luis in
tonnage; and, furthermore, the plane
is not an ingenious piece of mechanical
engineering like those on the Morris
Canal, New erSey, but Il very primitive
sort of mud slide On the Morris Canal
each boat is drawn into a crib, standing
in the water, aud then the whole, boat,
crib and all, is drawn on a railway up
the plane. and let down gently into the
water of the second level. But in China
no rails are used, and the boat is simply
dragged up on wet surface, the enor-
nous friction of the bottom being some
what reduced by letting little water
TICKLE down the plane, so making Shiny
surface. This is better than nothing, yet
posit yism as Il working system has its
serious drawbacks
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
tfnw to Choose Rnast Beef.


If possible buy the meat Of butcher
personally known to be an honest man.
If the meat has reasonable proportion
of fat upon the back and running in lit
tie lines through the lean, and if the
color is fresh and not very dark red, the
meat is good; if the butcher has kept it
properly for week or ten days it may be
supposed to be reasonably tender. Most
butchers are willing to keep meat the
right length of time for customers if they
take it at its first weight; it loses little
weight by keeping. When this is the
intention have some of the bone trimmed
off, and the fat which is not needed for
cooking, and let these trimmings be sent
home with the days marketing, the bones
for the soup pot, and the fat to be tried
out, to use in the form of drippings.
These small economies are not at all
despicable; on the contrary, they are OF
considerable consequence in the aggre-
gate. After the meat is trimmed let it
be hung in the butchers refrigerator
until he pronounces it tender, but not
long enough to spoil. In this connection
remember that meat which has been kept
on ice is very susceptible to changes Of
temperature, and should be cooked as
soon as possible after it is taken from the
ice, and cooked at a very hot lire, because
a slow heat might taint it at the begin
ming of the cookery. -Americaa ANALYST.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
RetributiOn.

The shades OF night were falling fast,
When through our sinctum sanctum passed
4 youth half clad in snow and ice
Who Scorned the placard's bold device;
shut the door
The presSman in the cellar dim
A midnight dark discovered him,
Our chief the elevator shaft
Himself had opened the draught,
Nor needed there the legend trim;
Shut the door
There in the gloom all cold and gray,
Lifeess but beautiful, he lay;
While far above the legend shone,
Close by the sanctum telephones;
Shut the door!
Mason Telegraph,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

Where the trunk of fruit tree grows
near the boundary of field and the
branches hang over another mans land,
Mr.. Browning, of the Connecticut Board
of Agriculture, decides that the fruit al
belongs TO the owner of the land wher,
the trunk grows or enters the soil. He
says that no one has right to appropriate
the fruit because it falls on his land. The
owner of the tree may pick up the fruit
on the neighbor's land if he cause nc
damage in so doing. The neighbor has
right to cut off the hanging
branches even with the line. But if he
allows them to remain and the fruit &c
ripen and drop, they are not his.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

Dairy farming, says the Ameriean Cul.
tiV7tor, 'has been more profitable the
last year than usual, and much of the
improvement is due to enforcement OF
the oleomarganne law, more or less rig
idly observed in the several States. Now
let the farmers be vigilant and on the
alert, for their old enemy, the manufac-
turer Of the bogus butter, is bestirring
himselfHor the repeal or modification of
the law during the session of Congress.
The profit is immense in palming oil
filthy grease upon the public as butter,
and the dealers in oleomargarine are
wide awake for the main chance. Let
every Senator and Representative under
stand fully the wants of the great agri-
cultural classes. Keep oleomargarine in
the background, and supply the con
suming public with pure, well made,
healthful and palatable butter
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

The command to let slip the dogs oi
war will soon bring literal as well as
metaphorical Specification. Some of the
uScrman garrisons have for long time
Used watch dogs as assistant sentinels,
'and now the Austrian troops in Bosnia
have found the animals so effective that
the War Minister oontemplates making
decided military feature of them. 1t is
thought that by training them carefully
in patrol and outpost duty during the
winter they may be ready to take a
prominent part in next years autumn
manruvres. Nothing seems to come
amiss for army purposes nowadays. Ri
cycles, snowshoes, pigeons and dogs are
already relied upon for military work.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
BEST OF ALL

The baby Erasps at the empty air,
And SOS wonderful sight;
For the great old sideboard over there
Is shining with silver bright.
The grandfather bangles his watch OF gold
And she hears the wheels go click,
And she tries in her pincushion hands 70 hoii
That "bulTs-eyen round and thick.
They are wonderful things that the baby Sec
But, when she is tired Of all,
And they wrap her up from the eyeniA2
breeze,
When the shadows begin to fall.
She is tired Of the noisy and busy world,
ITO tired to go to sleep,
And she won't sit up, and she won't STAY
curle1
And she only wakes to weep;
And she's suddenly caught in tender hob
Where she even forgets to stir
And what to baby are silver and gold,
When her mother smiles down at herr
H c. Bunner, in So. Nicholas
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Globe declares that for several
months Professor Bell, of telephone fame,
has been going deep into his researches
on the subject of hereditary deafness.
He has conducted wonderfully large
correspondence with people in all parts
OF the world to hunt up every scintilla of
evidence necessary to trace ont genealo-
gcs. He will eventually make public
his dis overes, showing hereditary deaf
ness in the same line of descent for 200
years The professor has also constructed
valuable machine for talking with deaf
mutcs. 1t is something like the type
writer in theory, having a keyboard
which turns up big plain figures in such
way as TO construct word, and so ia
cilitate conversation. Professor Bells
vie j. deaf; hence his special interest in
the matter.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is
travelling about California making con-
vcrts to his theory that beet-sugar can be
made in that State to a sufficient amount
10 supply the country. lie has prepared
lecture on beet. sugar culture which he
delivers free of charge. The Sandwich
Island newspapers ridicule spreckels's
project, but his energy and wealth are
feared at Honolulu. The great question
in Kalakaua's kingdom is, Will his beet
sugar beat Hawaii Z
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

The New York O'serrer thinks 'It is
certainly very creditable to the third city
in the Union, Brooklyn, that it has until
recently been protected by less than 900
policemen. 1t now has but 200. Such
facts are an offset to much that is dis
couraging in the workings of free gov
ernment in large cities"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

Three thousand dollars is offered by
Mr.. Ellis Lever, of England, as a prize
to the inventor of a miners safety lamp,
and it has set to work the wits of the in
genious. Electricity, it is said, is most
likely to solve the question and take the
money prize first and lots of profit after.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

Kansas is trying to encourage silk pro-
due, and has by act of Legislature
cstabh|5,l a station where eggs will be
distributeSNnd reelcrs educated. Ten
acres have been set out with mulberry
trees, and fifteen reels are now running
producing, it is said, excellent silk.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

One of the railroad men at Dunkirk,
N. Y, who has cons derable spare time,
has in the last five months, out of $50 diff
ferent pieces Of wood, whitfield perfect
model of locomotive and tender.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
Terms. $3.50 per Yoar.

Portions of the West have been flooded
with counterfeit dollars made of cast iron
heavily plated with silver. Ordinary
acids fail to effect them and they can only
be detected by their ring.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

Geo. NJ. Pullman, Of the Pullman
Palace Car Co., and other capitalists,
representing in the aggregate, it is said,
over 5000, ,OO0,O 600, were in Alabama re-
22ay Eating the advantages OF
that State with view of investing. The
Pullman Company, it is claimed, will
establish branch works at some point in
the South
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
Amerlca Renresented.

Husband; This country seems TO be
well represented abroad, just now
Wife: In what way, JOhn2'
Husband: "Wei, there is Buffalo Bill
and Indian Chief Dirty Dog, who rep
resent the wild aud woolly West, while
Mr. Lowell and Mr.. sullivan personify
the culture and reinmeut Of the enlight-
cued East. "-Ej0b,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

The number of sheep in the United
States rose from nineteen millions IN
1S40 to fifty-one millions in 1854, and
declined to forty-fve millions in 1881,
In 1850 our woolen product reached
Sl64, 600, coo and the imports S3l 600,
OOO. Our products increased nearly
sevenfold from 1873 to lS'0, while our
imports only increased about sixty-two
per cent.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-25
The Cheap Fuel Problem.
From the Milwaukes WISCONSIN


The arrival of Chicago's oil supply di-
rect from the wells at Lima, O., through
pipeline, NAV lead some people to
imagine that there is to be revolution
III the fuel trade. The convenience and
cheapness of natural gas as fuel has
everywhere strengthened hope that
some day substitute for coal will re-
leye the people from the dominate on
OF coal rings and the hearrless exac-
TONS OF the mlne-owners.
Petroleum is good heating SUBJ
stance, and it is being successfully used
IN the production of power on land and
sea. In Russia petroleum is used on To-
ComOtlyes, and the mineral oil is also
being burned on one or more naval yes
seis; but lis success there and else
whe-e Is no indication that petroleum
VIII ever supersede coal as fuel, for the
reason that the supply would not meet
the demand for universal consumption.
Experiment on the Pennsylvania rail-
road has shown that, all economics con-
sIdered, one ton of oil equals two tons
of coal. There are from six and one
half to seven barrels in every ton of oil.
which at thirty cents a barrel, the Age
OF Steel, says would aggregate 90 per
cent. more than the Pennsylvania road
pays for It's coal; but as other railroads
are not SO fortunately situated in regard
To coal, this argument as 10 cost is i'm
material. The vital fact educed bv the
investigation was that with the best pc
troleum burner vet devised the Penn
sylvania road, which now consumes
5000 tons of coal a day, would on the
basis of one ton of oil TO two tons of
coal, require 20, 900 barrels of oil day
for iuel purposes. With this tremend-
Gus draught upon the oil wells from
one consumer, the Age of steel saws it
would take but few consumers of like
requirements to completely exhaust the
supply.
If oil cannot solve the problem of
cheaper fuel we must continue the
search for natural gas and direct energy
toward the manufacture of gas from
coal for fuel purposes. Inventive genius
may be relied upon to take the people
from under the thumbs of the coal
barons, but it evidently must do it with
retorts and appliances for the ready and
cheap manufacture of artificial fuel gas.