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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-04-04
BOSS sooTT's BLuSpER.

In referring to William L. Scott he
said: "Now, there is Mr.. Scott. He
is not even regular member of the
National Committee. As the substi.
tute for Mr.. Wallace, who ia a saga.
cious, conservative and able politician,
be appeared 10 the committee and as.
sumed to dictate its course. 1t was
said that Mr.. Wallace was i'll and
therefore the substitution. 1t looked
to me as if there were a more poten.
tial condition precedent to bis being
there. AT all events, be was there
He claimed to speak for and represent
the Administration and SO befogged
the real interests in view that action
was taken which was both inpolitiC
and uDwise. AS many of us thought
then-are more convinced of it now
and will be sure of it by the practical
effect of that action later, Scott is nc
politician and does not see things be.
yond his immediate surroundings.
II do not know that Mr.. Scott was
wholly to blame. He claimed to rep.
resent someone else, but he might have
know" that an s:.,v coaSSrion would
% suicidal to the interests of the
Democratic party in the coming cam.
paign. That was the sense of the
committee as shown by the defeat of
Mr.. Scott's schemes in the first instance
by fixing the date at July 4. instead of
June 5. We also remember that it
took whole night, with all the in.
huence of the Administration, to re.
verse the action taken. We all know
whence the influence came to cause a
sufficient number Of the committee to
reverse the &C ion in the first instance
and adopt the earlier date. / said
then, and l repeat now, that an early
date would not be the best thing to do.
1t would give our political opponents
q whole month for deliberation upon
our plans for the campaign, and to
take advantage of our mistakes. But
Mr.. Scott lhsught there was nothing
in that aud be had bis way. l have
no doubt by this time he feels that be
would like il some other way"
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-04-04

whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap"
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allegheny VALLEY R. R.

Most direc. route to Pittsburgh and the
East. Ouly route landing passengers at
Union Station without delays or transfer.
sSS-Trains run by Eastern TiIuc,
Time table in effect Nov. 20, 1857.
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Administrator's Notice.

AGNEw & CLARK, A,t'ys.
Tionesta, Pa, March 10, 1855.
National Republican., 1888-02-12

cant. Cocoa is Il candidate for favor, but
is likely to incuE alike ignomnous
celebrity. Nor is quinlne, now so gen
orally popular and given pretty indis-
criminately, medicine as safe and in
nocent as many imagine"
This being the case, the law in regard
to the use of these drugs ought TO be care
fully guarded, and all the safeguards
possible thrown around their use by care
less and incompetent persons.
Before the usual appropriations are
made by Congress for the hospitals in
the District this subject should be care
fully examined into, and, if possible, the
law so amended as to prevent the use OF
these drugs except by skilrul and expe-
rienced physicians, and under no circum-
stances ought they to be used by nurses,
except under the immediate supervision
of the physicians in charge of the hos
pital
National Republican., 1888-02-12

the purchasing power of money is sufficient
to politically damn any administration
which will approve it.
1t would seem that there should be no
difficulty in Congress arriving at the
conclusion, with all these facts before it,
that the bank should be deprived of the
power to issue money. The Govern
ment should resume the sovereign at
tribute it, temporarily and in an emer-
gency, surrendered.
Having done that, it should then pro-
vide, not only to replace the currency
thus withdrawn from circulation, but to
furnish better currency, more of it,
and one that will expand with the
growth of the people. To do this we
know of no better method than that sug-
gested by the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, jan
uary IS, as follows
That the Secretary of the Treasury be
authorized to issue from time to time
treasury notes to an amount equal to 50 per
capita. Estimating the population at GO,00O,-
600, this would make an issue now of $780,
900. These notes should be receivable
for public dues and rcdcemable on demand
in coin or legal tender notes at the option of
the Secretary.
A sufficient amount of these notes should
be used to retire the S1G50OO,OOO unretired
national bank notes, and to pay the differ
ence between the present value of the bonds
on deposit to secure circulation" and the
amount of bank noets issued on these bonds
Assuming, as is the fact, that the bonds on
deposit are about equally divided between
the Is and AS, the premium would amount
to 10000 600, and $25, 600 600 is the excess of
the par value ofthe bonds over the bank notes
issued. In addition TO the law
making compulsory the purchase of S2I ,OOO,-
600 in silver each year, the Secretary should
be directed to purchase with silver certificates
at the market price all the silver mined in
the United States that might be rendered
The annual output of silverin the country
is about $5O000,OOO, and will probably an
nually increase and that amount would be
added to the currency each year by this law.
The Secretary of the Treasury should be
directed to loan to any person depositing
$1,000 in United States bonds or any multiple
thereof the par value of said bonds in Treas
ury notes, legal tender notes, gold or silver
certificates, or standard silver dollars, the in
terest of the bonds while on deposit being
reduced one-half.
In addition to all this to aid in the dis
tribution and circulation of the legal tender
silver dollars, upon the coinage of which the
Government now makes profit of nearly
S6,OOOOOO per year, any national banks be-
coming silver repositories should have the
silver coins delivered free of expense and
without reduction of interest on the bonds
deposited by said banks as security for their
deposits
National Republican., 1888-02-12

survived certain experiment upon their
tribe with the same annihlator could
also attest its efficiency as u wholesale
translator Of the truly good Equally
efficient rs a substitute, as the heirs of
Springer and Townsend of Illinois might
testify, is the Reed cXterminator of the
House, which is available at short notice,
and has an additional appliance for bury
ing its dead on the spot
On the whole, the aforementioned
phiIanthropsts should establish perma-
nent headquarters at Washington. If
reform in capital punishment is desirable,
the capital can furnish it in any quality.
And the sort of taking off here in vogue
has the recommendation of being ap-
proved intellectual translation.
National Republican., 1888-02-12
JUDICIAL SALARIES,

Several bills have been introduced
both in the House and the Senate to in
crease the pay of the Judges of the
United States District Courts to the sum
of $4,000 per annum. So far neither OF
the committees having charge of these
bills has made any report. The pres
ent pay of these judges is totally mad
equate to compensate lawyer of ability
for his services on the bench. As rule,
the gentlemen selected for the United
States bench are lawyers, not only of
ability in their profession, but of stand
ing in the communities where they re-
side. Such men can, by the practice of
their profession, secure better compcnsa
ton than is offered by the Government.
The Judiciary Committees of both
the House and Senate can do no better
service to the country than to report II
measure paying to the judges of the
District Courts a sufficient salary to ena-
BILE them to live comfortably and make
some provision for their families. These
judges are the hardest worked of any of
the almost numberless servants of the
people. They have to bring to their
work the skilled training of a most diff
ticult profession, and should certainly re-
ceive decent compensation.
Among the bills introduced is one to
raise the salaries of the justices of the
Supreme Court of the District of Colum-
bia, 1t is known to all men that the
gentlemen composing this court are able
and distinguished lawyers, men of high
character and unimpeached integrity.
1t is shame that lawyers of such stand
ing as are these justices should not re-
ceive better pay than they do.
We urge on both House and Senate
the propriety of Immediately passing the
bills suggested
National Republican., 1888-02-12
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WORKING.
Morning Star Lodge of Good TempIars In
the Temperance Cause,

Veterans Hall, + street, was packed with
ancient and youthful members of the Morn
ing Star Lodge and Good Templar Order at
its meeting last Wednesday evening. This
was an open celebration of the twenty-sec-
ond anniversary of this excellent lodge. the
first but one instituted in the District
Among its ancient and former members
present were Brother and Sister Frear
Brother and Sister Chambers, Brother ]. F.
Bolton, Sister S. Brookfeld, and Past Grand
Chief Caldwell. OF Grand Lodge officers
present as visitors were Grand Chief Ma
honey, Grand Vice Emma f. Bishop, Grand
Superintendent of Juvenile Templars Rus
sell, Grand Secretary Dony, Grand Chaplain
Mace, Deputy Grand Marshal Annie X.
Bond, and Deputy Grand Templar Whitney
Among Others as visitors were Past Grand
Counsellor, and now Right Worthy Grand
Deputy, VIM. +. Switzler; Past Grand Temp
lar Babcock, of Pennsylvania; Sister Carrie
Brookfeld and Hattie Wood of Persever-
ance Lodge; Sister Dony, of Fidelity Lodge;
Lodge Deputy Bond and Sisters Bond, of ID
r r; Holloway; Chief Templar Bishop, Past
Chief Iemplar Cole, and Deputy Marshal
Mamie Bishop, of Friendship Lodge; Sister
Mahoney, of Clements, and Brother Potter,
Sisters Whitney, and others. of Monumental
Lodge.
Chief Templar Merton presided, and an
nounced the literary and musical pro-
gramme. The opening address was m ade
by Brother StetsOn. A piano solo was very
aagreeably rendered by Carrie Brookfield; DR..
Norton made very felicitous address in
which occurred many happy hits and quaint
concerts. sprig of verse was contributed
by the Grand Superintendent, as follows:
Some grandly-pictured scenes there are,
unbounded, universal,
And that was one, o, Morning Star
Dame Natures first rehearsal.
And mong the poets mageries
Can there be one more clever
Than this "All of the morning stars
Sang rapturously together!"
And bright as were these stellar orbs.
ANA sweet as was their singing
In that great anthem, still they shine,
Ihelr songs rs sweetly singing.
Thus may thy light, thy gladstone songs,
., Morning Star, keep flowing
And the sweet influence of thy life
Throughout all time keep growing.
Sister Gourlay and Miss Miller gave a de-
lightful vocal duet; Sister Florence Perry
gave charming recitation, and Sister Clark
read an original poem of rare grace and
merit. Brother and sister Freer sang, very
aacceptably, several tavorite songs. Interest
ing addresses We're made by Sister Chambers,
Grand Chief Mahoney, Right Worthy Grand
Deputy. Switzlery and Past Grand Templar
BabcOck
Refreshments were bountifully served by
members of the Lodge
National Republican., 1888-02-12
CARE OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS.

Abuses exist and practices prevail in
some of the hospitals in the District sup
ported in part by funds received from the
Treasury of the United States that ought
to be corrected and no doubt would be il
the facts were fully known.
Patients possessed of ample means and
influential friends need but little pro-
lection of the law, but in many of the
hospitals there are numbers OF patients
that require all the protection that wise
and humane Laws can afford them.
Experience has proven that men as
nurses are failures and often are absolute
nuisances in the sick room. Most of them
are entirely without sympathy for the
unfortunate sick and are lacking in all
those qualities of heart that are so essen
tial to sick and suffering humanity. Not
few Of them are coarse, rough, and Of
tentimes even brutal in their treatment
of those under their charge.
No one who has been patient in the
Garfield Memorial Hospital and been at
tended by one of the excellent, careful
and gentle trained female nurses en-
ployed there would allow himself to be
waited upon by male nurse if he could
prevent it.
Too much care can not be exercised in
giving powerful and deadly drugs to pa
tients, and careless nurses often use these
drugs without proper caution to save
time and trouble in waiting upon the pa
tients. OF these drugs high medical
authority said lately, ." 1t may be well to
remark that certain drugs in use not only
tend TO derange the functions of the body
and will produce paralysis and even sim
ulate death, but they also unfit the body
and brain for their offices as instruments
of the mind. Few of these can be used
to any considerable extent without en-
failing an injury upon the body and
nervous system from which recovery
often does not occur. Whether chloral,
which now seems TO constitute perma-
nent article in the pharmacop9ia of hos
pitals, can be recovered from, after hay
ing been taken to any considerable ex-
tent, | do not believe, The endeavor
made by the physicians Of some hospitals
to convince the public that they make
very little use of it appears very signif-
National Republican., 1888-02-12
JOHN MoREHEAD BROwER.

One of the promising young members OF
the House Of Representatives is the Hon.
John Morehead Brewer the Republican
member from the Fifth North Carolina Dis
trict, Mr.. Brewer is only AZ years old, and
has been in active politics for fifteen years.
He is a native of the historic town of Green's
boro Guilford County, but has resided since
childhood at his present home, Mount Airy,
the county seat of Surrey county.
Mr.. Brewer is farmer and tobacco man
ufacturer, and has been leading Republican
National Republican., 1888-02-12
THE MEMORIAL BRIDGE AND MOUNT
VERNON AVENUE.

A gentleman of Virginia of very high
standing, an officer of the celebrated
Confederate battery known as the Rich
mond Howitzers," son of one of our dis
tinguished naval officers who died many
years ago in the service of his country,
who has, serving in Congress from
another State, a near relative, recently
wrote to this relative the following letter:
81 trust you are going to work, as well
as vote, for the bill now in the Senate to
erect grand memorial bridge over the
Potomac to Gen. Grant, and lay out and
build grand public highway from it to
Mount Vernon. 1t would help solve that
much vexed question of What we do
with the surplus?' and give employment
to thousands. We have no great public
work of this kind. Rome had her APP
plan Way, Paris has her Boulevards 4;
why should not we have great national
work like this, which we could point to
with pride and hand down to posterity
as the work of restored Union. And
what more appropriate or symbolic selec-
tions could be made? noble memorial
to the great chieftain who restored the
Union and a grand highway, handsomely
decorated, connecting it with the home
and last resting place of that greater chief
tian who first established it. | write as
Virginian, who stood by his State in
her hour of trial, but also as a patriotic
citizen of our grand Union, and l voice
the sentiments of all with whom / have
conversed on this subject"
National Republican., 1888-02-12
"LET OLD ACQUAINTANCE BE FOR
GOT"

Daniel" said the President, in pain
in-the-stomach tone of voice, "Duniel,
have you observed that some of the OPP
position newspapers are reprinting my
former views about the pernicious activ-
ity of oflice-holders in politics?'
Aroused from a reverie, Daniel irrev-
erenlly calculated, eyes, and by -
He bit off the remainder of his thought
and sullenly chewed it up.
"By-what, Daniel? | trust you are
not provoked to profanity by apprehen-
sions of harm to me in consequence of
those publications."
perhaps not, sir. But they are very
meant"
Daniel Daniel! You don't think
the sentiments are mean, hope?"
"No, sir. But the spirit which resur-
rects them"
"Ies, yes; to be sure; but don't YOU
think the mischief they are expected to
do may be offset by the pleasure this re-
vival may give our Mugwump friends?"
"Oh! | forgot them. Possible. But"
with an effort to control his feelings.
"But what, Daniel?"
"Don't-dOnt write any more undem-
ocraIic sentiment. The boys are trying
to forget that you ever did write it,"
daniel" with a sigh that belongs to
the Dpriol of fiill n,ournipr. .n,n;ol
you are always right. There is an old,
sweet song, one line of which runs, Let
old acquaintance be forgot, It's music
is soothing, and you may at our next re-
ception instruct the band to play it with
emphasis"
National Republican., 1888-02-12

MR. HENRY HERr, president. of the
Washington and Georgetown Railroad
Company, is entitled and should receive
credit for the very elegant cars he has
placed upon the line from the Capitol to
Fourteenth street. The new cars inst
completed by j. w. Stephenson, the we'll
known car builder, for this line are the
most complete and elegant in their ap-
pointments of any street cars ever built :;
in fact, it would seem that they are per-
feet and no further improvements could
be made. One of the greatest of the i'm
provements in these cars is the springs
upon which the body of the car is set.
and another the fact that by lowering
windows, they can be turned at once into
summer cars. Mr.. Hert has done well in
placing these cars upon this line and in
creasing the facilities for tray eT to Mount
Pleasant by putting on more cars and
making better connections at the Bound
ary, both of which improvements have
been insisted upon by THE NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN, which now gives credit for the
work done. We would suggest to Mr.
Hert that the cars to Mount Pleasant
should be increased in number.
National Republican., 1888-02-12
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY II.
TIE nIRTH.pAY OF LINCOLN.

Seventy-nine years ago to-day one OF
the most remarkable men of this country
was born in Hardin county, Kentucky.
1t was in u log cabin, not palace, that
Abraham Lincoln first saw the light.
His childhood was passed in the midst
of hardships and toll, but it was that
hardship and toll which developed the
man who was to be, when he arrived in
the prime of manhood, the greatest in
strument in the salvation of his coun-
try.
We do not propose to recount the we'll
known story of the life of Abraham Lin
coin. The people of this country know
it well. They know that in the hour OF
need Divide Providence raised up man,
with all the elements that were necessary
to constitute him the guiding spirit in
the great contest which determined that
the United States was a Nation, and not
q mere segregation of small powers with
out unity and without cohesion.
Coming from the people, Abraham
Lincoln was man of the people and he
knew the people whom he was called
upon at Il most difficult time to lead
Calm, self-contained, ambitious as the
great arch-angel who fell from Heaven,
yet with an ambition only for good, he
was Of all men whom the public know
the best calcul ated for the position to
which he was called in 1850
All the great leaders of the Republican
party at that time, aside from Lincoln,
had some peculiarities of temperament
or education, which untitled each of them
for the position of President. In Mr.. Lin
coin alone it seemed that the qualities ne
cessary forthe position were concentrated.
Firm in conviction, devoted to duty,
honest because honesty was right, clear
headed, cool, yet with the kindly heart
of u woman, Abraham Lincoln was of all
men most fitted to control and govern
and lead the people of the country in the
great struggle provoked by the aristocracy
of the Southern people.
His kindly heart moved him to almost
womanish tears at the thought of the
dire distress, the terrible destruction
which war with all its horrors would
bring upon the country. But his undy-
ing love for the institutions of his coun-
try, his firm determination to secure their
perpetuity, his clear vision as to the needs
of the occasion, his almost intuitive
perception of men enabled him to adopt
such measures and to select such men as
We're best calculated to car"y out the
great work of saving the Union.
.--ILhereis~n no more instructive reading
for the young of the country than to
study the life and the sayings of Abra-
ham Lincoln. This man of the people,
almost without education, raised amidst
the toughest surroundings, ready at all
tl~es for jest, delighting in the frivoli-
ties of life, left to the world, not only
most wonderful record, but some of the
most wonderfully terse sentences ever
spoken in the English language.
National Republican., 1888-02-12

in the politics of his native State, and so pop
ular that the Democratic Legislature gerry
wandered IL to defeat him for Congress.
but failed in the effort. His business habits
and abilities will make Mr.. Brewer u val
liable working member of Congress. lie is
assigned to two committees, "War Claims"
and Expenditures in the state Department" !"
and from the former has already submitted
fifteen reports.
Mr.. Brewer has now before the propcrcom
mittccs several important bills for the in
tcrest of the people of his State, one being
for the repeal of the tobacco tax another to
remove the tax on fruit brandy, and Il third
to give federal aid in support of the common
schools.
Coming to Congress, vigorous man in the
prime of life, well equipped by former ex-
pcrience as a legislator (having served in the
state scnatc), and with settled concvitions
and good business habits, Mr.. Brewer will
prove most valuable Member for his State
and section. lie is toerably well assured of
long service froW the fact, that with n Demo-
crat, Grecnback, and Prohibition candi-
date in the field in 1885, all canvassing TO
bring out full vote, Mr. Brewer received
more votes than were cast for all the other
candidates combined, and the vote was larger
than that cast in the Presidential year.
As Mr.. Brewer is the representative of the
people of his district, though elected by the
Republicans, he makes no distinction as TO
parties in sending out public documents,
seeds, etc. We predict for the North Caro-
linian Il successful Congressional career
National Republican., 1888-02-12
AMUSEMENTS. A
NEW NATIONAL THEATER.

NEW NATIONAL THEATER.
THIS SUNDAY EVENING, AT 8 O'CLOCK.
FIRST GRAND CONCERT
WASHINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
so, go performers).
MR.. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA... .,Conductor
MIR. RORERT G. BERNAYS... Concert Master.
- Assisted by
MADAME LOUISE NATAL, Soprano
MIR. GEORE lSEMAN, Pianist.
- Admission % and 30 cents
SECOND CONCERT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Assisted by
MADAME MlRAIME BRANDT, ,Contralto. Metro
,, politan Opera Company.
NIX; i HERMAN RAkENlAN ................ Violinist
THIRD CONCERT SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20,
, Assisted by
Mk' MAN ALVARl, the Famous Tenor of the
NJ, Metropolitan Opera Company.
MIX. HENRY XANDER. R....,..,. Pianist
Subscription tickets, emitting holders to three
on sale; price 50.
BOX OFFICE OPEN TO-DAY FROM l to5.