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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03

When spinster among Ukraine Cos
sacks feels = fancy fora certain youth
in the tribe, she Is encouraged BY tribal
custom to declare her passion. II her
love is reciprOcated. all right; IL 1t il
not, the maiden sits down In the youths
cabin and proclaims an intention Of re-
manning until he realises the error 81
HIS wayh The young man Is In I'D
straits, us the dnmsel's family would r.
sent any inclrIllty on biz part HE
only recourse is 10 take up his blanket
and his whisky and End new abiding
place. The spinster may then know
that he really does not care 70 we'd
n. Y. Ledger.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03
THE LAST INN

This Is the Inn where
Have iourneyod all my days;
] cnter-close the door-goodbyei
And the world Gun go its ways
The SOFT cool shadows round me crcepi
lay me down TO rest--to sleep.
There Is no reckoning here;
Not any noise or strife;
Nor shall one murmur Ut the fare
When Death Is host to Life.
Clean bed and board for ye that come,
But sightless eyes and lips made dumb.
Cold ice at head and feet,
Hut flowers Of colors grand.
To make the air above you sweet
And paint the roof Of sand.
What more. And when the keen winds 6low.
Sweet dreams in daisies meath the snow.
Good night, friends, and farewell.
Our lives must parted he.
'Grieve not that with Death must dwell,
For Death IL kind to me.
Tired, ] lay me down TO rest,
a child lulled on q mothers breast.
IF. L. Stanton. In Atlanta Constitution.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03

The laws Of Wyoming require equal
pay for equal work to men and women
n school teachers.
The Methodists have bought site
near Washington City, where they pur-
pose establishing q university which,
while representing the denomination,
shall also include whatever Is best In
the line OF facilities for advanced educa-
ton.
There were q, 76O white and 1s,Ool
colored children enrolled In the public
schools In the city Of Washington for
the year 1889. There were 235 colored
and 456 white teachers, and the total
cost Of instruction was S4S7, 455.52.
NEWMAN College has formed the
nucleus Of portrait gallery Of its found
ers and benefactors by Richmond's por-
traits Of Miss Clough and Miss Helen
Gladstone. and Shannon's portrait Of
Mrs. Sedgwick. Each portrait will bear
Latin inscription, and beneath it the
name and date.
The Methodist Episcopal Church Of
Canada reported for its eleven confer
ences, for 1889, membership Of 9sS, 959.
and 217,737 Sunday-school scholars. 1t
raised for missions S215, 755, and has lSg
missionaries, 500 paid agents, with re-
turns from its missions Of 1894 men,
bers. 1t has Indian, French and do
nestle missions, q Chinese work in
British Columbia, and foreign mission
in japan.
The various schools under the pat
rcnage of the American Baptist Home
Mission Society are generally in
healthy and promising condition. DR..
Morehouse gives very interesting de-
tails in the Home Mission Monthly,
from his recent visit South, concerning
Shaw University, Benedict Institute,
the Atlanta Seminary, Leland Uni
versity, Bishop College and other in
situations.
There is in London a school OF med
icine for women which seems to be in .
very satisfactory and fourishing condi-
ton. At a recent examination Of the
University of London one of the fair
medical students passed in all her sub
jects in the first division. The socie-
ties for the discussion Of topics relating
to the professions Of medicine and
surgery which are usually found In
medical schools are not absent from the
School OF Medicine for Women, nor do
they show any lack Of thoughtful re-
search or able understanding Of the
objects discussed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03
THE IRISH RANsHEE.

A Superstition Which Prevails In All Parts
OF the Emerald Isle.
A generation or more ago q certain
doctor, who practiced in County Mayo,
had been sitting up one night with =
gentleman who was dangerously Ill.
After some hours the crisis seemed over;
the patient fell into quiet sleep. and
the doctor retired into another room "a
get little rest.
He had not been there long when .
servant rushed into the room, crying
and wringing her hands, and exclaim-
ing: y
''Och, the poor masther-the poor
mastherw
Hold your tongue" said the doctor;
1.-The masters better, and will be doing
we'll enough If you don't wake him with
your keening."
''Och, doctor dear, don't ye hear the
Banshee?" said the girl, who was evil
IDENTIFY half scared out Of her wits.
''Banshee. indeedw replied the doc
tor; ''it's your own fancy and nothing
else"
But the girl would not be satisfied
until the doctor accompanied her back
into the room where the master lay,
and there, sure enough, he heard q
faint, mournful sound borne upon the
wind.
He went to the window and looked
out. Before the house, and stretching
for considerable distance, was great
lawn, bright with the moonlight, and
with not tree or shrub to afford shell
ter to any living thing; and from out Of
the midst of the moonlight could DO
heard wild, plaintive note, rising and
sinking, and rising again.
Startled out of his skepticism, the
doctor rushed to his patients bedside
and found him at his last gasp.
Unlike most most sprites and phan-
toms, the Banshee is attached, not to
places, but to persons, and will follow
member of the family to which she be-
longs across the sea to warn him OF the
approaching doom of himself or Of his
kinsfOlk. No family save these d.
seconded from the ancient Irish chiefs
can boast OF Banshee. A.certain
amount Of ignorance seems to prevail
upon this head; there are many families
of Norman or Saxon descent In
Ireland, as in most countries, who, be-
ing possessed Of some death-boding ap-
parition-no doubt q highly respectable
phantom in its way-dignify 1t with
the name of Banshee, title to which,
as we have seen, 1t has no valid claim
National Review.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03
HeIplpr HIm Ont.

The Young Man (argumentatively)-
But, don't you see, Miss Bessie, that
when you reason in that way You are
only begging the question?
The Young Woman (blushing beauti-
fully)-I am sure, Mr.. Penducle, IL
didn't intend toto beg you TOTO ask
me any question!
Sudden mastering up Of courage on
the part of the bashful Mr. Peduncle
and agitated prOpounding OF question
Miss BESSIE had been waiting 20 hear,
-Chicaro Tribune.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03

IN ALI NAo - NOIhAN
FORM
rolled away from before her face, l
could see that the eyes were fixed upon
the covering man beside me with an ex-
preston of ineffable love and sadness.
And what was that upon the side Of
her white robe. under the left breast,
that dark spot, which as the light from
the head-lamp fell upon her spectral
figure turned deep, terrible crimson?
In my horror and confusion had some
vague idea Of its significance.
SHELLY, Shelly, for Gods sake tell
me who is that woman" said, in q
husky whisper.
He raised his head, and gazing out Of
the window at the weird shape, NUT
tered, in the same awe-struck. voice, ap-
parently Oblivious OF my presence:
my wife, my beautiful wife, whom 1
adored ana whom ] falsely accused of
sin, and in my madness destroyed. For
give me! I have suffered, ever since
that awful night l have lived in tor
ment, living an hourly death. Have /
not expiated my crime? Have mercy!
Have mercy"
Was it the fancy Of my excited brain,
or did she extend her hands towards
him with a gesture Of infinite tender
ness? Shelly turned towards me and in
a voice whose calmness startled me con-
tinued:
'Dear friend, my time has come. /
must die. She has told me. See, she
beckons for me. am content, have
been very unhappy and now l shall be
at peace. See, she forgives me; she
knows / loved her. Do my memory
Justice, old friend, and run Old So to the
station"
Even while he was speaking there
was fearful shock! The engine seemed
TO leap bodily in the air, then turn over
and over in an awful plunge downward.
In the instant that hung clutching the
rail OF the cab during our mad somer-
sault saw, or thought saw, that weird
white form bending over the form Of
Shelly fallen inert upon the floor, then
came a sound like the rending Of the
sky, and all was darkness.
When / came to myself was in bed,
weak, crushed and at the very verge Of
death. In the weeks Of slow recovery that
followed / learned that we had been
wrecked upona misplaced switch, and in
the complete wreck that followed but one
life had been sacrificed, as / expected
Shelly's He had been found in the cab
of the ruined engine with the spring Of
the throttle-valve thrust through his
left breast like q knife. He had only
too surely predicted his own strange
death. But the wound in his breast,
the counterpart Of that phantom shape
how explain 1t? And how explain what
l saw and what he said before he died?
Do the dead come back and exact retri-
button from us for our crimes against
themS Did l indeed see the ghost Of
Shelly's wife slain by his jealous hand,
or was it merely the wild imagery Of de-
lirium Of the long fever which followed
my injury? Who shall say? Who in
deed shall answer any one Of thesques-s
tons which make up the mystery We
call life?-M. c. Hammond, In brakes
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03

Philadelphia has the largest num-
Der Of Sunday-schoOl attendants Of any
city in the United States. 1oa.e0a. New
York ranks next with $1,000 Brook
lyn next with lO7.2S2
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03
"OLD g."
A Firemans Wierd Adventure on
q Terrible Night.

II We lon &
since given up
trying to under
stand it, and
have put it from
my mind rs
much as posi-
BILE. There was
q time when /
thought alb out
IL TOO mucn, anu
when it seemed
to rest upon my
brain like q
black, impene-
trable cl gu =,
darkening my
whole life with
its horror and
mystery. Some
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03

Female Reporter ~ seem to use
twice as many pencils as you" Male
Reporter-"Well. you must remember 1
don't underscore every second word. =
n. Y. Epoch.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
ASK your dealer for Ed. D. Huntley Z; Ce

@nH7lSS In ordering Suits or Overcoats observe
MD4 strictly following rules for measure
ment: Breast measure over vest, close up un-
der arms Waist measure, over pants. Inside
leg measure, from crotch to heel
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03

ED. L. HUNTLEY & CO., Manufaci-
urers and Wholesale Dealers in Clothing
for Men, Boys and Children, 122 and 124
Market st Chicago, III. P.0. Box 66z
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
merit wins.

We desire to say TO our citizens, thai
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New Discovery for Consumption, DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen'a Arnlca
Salve and Electric Biiiers, and have never
handled remedies that sell aa WE'LL or thai
have given snch universal Satisfaction
We do not hesitate to guarantee then,
every time, and we stand ready TO refund
the purchase price, II satisfactory resn
have won their great popularity pnrely on
itiieir merits. A. r. Champney, Druggist
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
THE PaRIsKH MFG. CO.,
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TEES STENoGRAPIIY and TYPEwRIT-
EnEEa ING FREE. First class facilities and
best Of teachers Address. with stamp for return
postage, THE PARISH MEG. co,
PARISH. N.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
KIlISsls| S 3 :g|iI5a| Si{s
GREEK e 5;11}sHXI AN
West and Southwest excursions.

A series of one Fare Harvest Excur-
sions" have been arranged as follows,
via the Toledo st. Louis & Kansas City
r. r. and its connections. Tickets will
be sold to almost the entire territory
West of the Mississippi River on the
following dates, viz: April 22d, May
Goth, September 7th and 23rd, and Oc-
tober 14th, 1890. Tickets good to return
30 days from date of sale, or earlier if
desired. Stops-over will be allowed, not
withstanding the large territory cov-
cred, the principal stations of the Toledo
st. Louis & Kansas City r. r. are fully
equipped with through tickets and bag
gage checks to destination.
For rates of fare, tickets, ETC., call on
their nearest agent, or address,
G. G. JENKINS, Gen'l Pass. Agt.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03

RefeFenoee-Firs National Bank Of Chi
cago. capital $4,000, 600; Continental National
Bunk OF Chicago, capital 100000.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05
Chaplains Of the Navy.

When chaplain receives his commits
sion from the Government he begins a
career which, with ordinary prudence and
good conduct, will terminate only when
age has made him grizzled and gray. In
the navy he ranks as lieutenant, and
for the first five years of his service he is
paid $1,000 per annum while on shore,
$500 year when he is preaching at sea,
and $1,000 year If some complaisant
Secretary of the Navy will give him a
leave of absence or let him roam around
the country in that delightful condition
which is known to officers of both the
army and navy as "waiting orders"
The last report of the Navy Depart
ment shows that out of the twenty-four
chaplains six were in that deligkt ktful con-
dition of "waiting orders, and had been
for several months past, and of the others,
two fortunate ones were practically in the
same situation, for they had been granted
leave of absence by the department,
and had hied themselves away to foreign
shores. The luckiest man among those
who are ''waiting orders" is Dominic
William H. Stewart, who by the way,
ranks as a captain in the navy and draws
a salary of $4,000 year when at sea, and
$1,000 on shore duty, and S2S00 while
"waiting orders. ."-Neio York Netos.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05
ACity of the Unknown.

''During frequent visits 1 have made
to Mexico" said a mining engineer of
Philadelphia the other night, ~ have
come in contact with many of the
Indians resident there and have heard
some very singular stories. One, which
all the Indians unite in telling, is that
far in the interior exists an enormous city
never yet visited by white men. 1t is
described as peopled by race similar to
the ancient Aztecs, who are sun wor-
shippers and offer human sacrifices to
their diety.
''The race is said to be in a high state
of civilization, and the Indians say that
the city is full of huge structures which
are miracles of quaint, but beautiful
architecture, and are situated on broad,
paved streets far surprising those of the
City of Mexico.
"0ne Indian, recollect, assured me
that he had seen the city and its inhabi-
tants with his own eyes, but had been
afraid of being captured and had fed.
OF course, did not believe him, but, all
the same, it is not little strange that
the accounts of the Mexican Indians
relative to the mysterious and magnifi-
cent interior city agree perfectly. -
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05
What Dynamite Can Do.

Shooting a candle through two-inch
solid plank without disturbing it in the
least is being done by dynamite, which
is SO quick in its action that tender
green leaf can be compressed into the
hardest steel before it has time to flatten.
One of the experiments of the United
States torpedo works was to place some
leaves between'two heavy, fiat pieces OF
iron, set them on firm foundation and
see what gun-cotton would do in forcing
the iron pieces together. The reaction
was so great from just being exploded in
the open air that one Of the iron pieces
was driven down upon the other quick
enough to catch an exact and complete
impression of the leaves before they could
escape. 1t is also singular fact that
the gun-cotton itself should sink deep
into the iron when it explodes, showing
the points of the letters stamped into the
cartridges. This novel method of en-.
craving by gunpowder is one of the
wonders of this century OLeesEand
Plain Dealer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05
Talmage,s EncOmium on Books.

A good book--who can exaggerate i'll
power2 Benjamin Franklin said that hi
reading of Cotton Mather's Essays tC
Do Good" in childhood gave MIN holy
inspiration for all the rest of his life
George Law, the millionaire, declared that
a biography he read in childhood gave
him all his subsequent prosperity. Oh,
the power of good book But, alas,
for the influence of a bad book Johr
Angel James, than whom England never
had holier minister, stood in his pulpit
at Birmingham, and said; "Twenty-fv'
years ago lad loaned me an infamous
book. He would loan it only fifteer
minutes, and then l gave it back; but
that book has haunted me like a spectre
ever since. / shall carry the damage OF
it until the day of my death" The assas
sin of Sir William Russell declared thai
he got the inspiration for his crime by
reading what was then a new and popu
lar novel, "Jack Sheppard" Homer'i
"Iliad" made Alexander ,.she warrior
Alexander said so. The story of Alex
ander made Julius Cesar and Charlel
XII. both men of blood. Have you il
your pocket, or in your trunk, OF in yom
desk at business bad book, bad pam
phleti In Gods name, warn you t.
destroy 1T De Witt Talmage.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05
Wears His Girls Hair.

A young man Of many good points,
but with none on his head, was for five
years, writes Clara Belle, victim to the
promises of the tonsorial artist, who
guaranteed to bring out hair on his shiny
pate, but who did not keep his word.
Some men confde their love affairs to the
tailors, Others to their doctors, aud still
others to the men that mix their cock
tails. This young man, upon losing his
heart to sweet and promising maiden,
confded his passion to the barber. That
worthy sympathized with him deeply,
and redoubled his exertions to lure the
downy fringe upon the head Of Romeo,
but without effect. Finally both the bar
Der and the lover lost hope together, and
itwas then that the young man made a
trembling proposition.
"Louise does not like bald head"
said he, "although, Of course, mine is
not unpleasant to her. Nevertheless, she
prefers to have it covered, and SO we have
reached conclusion. always said, you
know, that l would never wear a toupee;
but Louise has placed the matter in such
light that have acceded to her desires
and will have one made. Louise's hair
is just the color of the fringe over my
ears, you see, and it hangs away down
below her waist. She is going to sacri-
fee enough of 1t to make me toupee,
and then, by Jovel shall be wearing
the same hair that my girl does. Louise
was awfully tender about suggesting the
thing. Sweet of her, wasn't it2 Oh, l
tell you, there is nothing so beautiful in
life as good girl when she is in love-"
Romeo now appears in public adorned
by q fine head of handsome chestnut
hair
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05

Congress has passed an act for the
preservation of the big trees of Tulare
County, California, which are regarded
by the tourists as among the greatest
ruriosities of that wonderful region. OF
Iato they have been in danger of de-
struction by the insatiate lumber inen,
and the act was the result of represen-
tatiens to Congress that they would soon
disappear unless measures were taken to
restraiu the busy woodman and his ak.
The bill provides for the conversion OF
the region containing the famous trees
into q public park, to be under the care
and protection Oi the Government.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05
AN AuruMS MoRNINa.

There are crimson clouds and feather
forms
In upper air.
And bright shapes tinged with varying hue
Stretched everywhere.
Some seem to swell and then unfold,
Like blossoms rare
krom out dim space, and then, like dew,
Dissolve in air.
Below them rise up weightier clouds
And misty banks
And here and there tall specters rise
In serried ranks,
Although the sky is azure-hued
Above them all;
While on our heads boundless wealth
OF sunbeams fall.
Was ever sky more beautiful,
Or breath more sweet2
Or greener boughs, or softer mat
Beneath our feetS
We thank Thee, Father, for the earth,
So beautiful;
We thank Thee for Thy gifts 30 us,
So bountiful;
For bud and bloom, for ripening fruit;
Each benison
Is fair to see. Lord, bring our hearts
In unison
With Thy dear self, May this new day
Be spent Alright.
And every busy day that glides
Into the night
Until their dawns for us are DER,
And we at last
Into yon haven moor our bark,
All tempests past.
-Vichss Mdodzine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05

Professor shaler, the eminent geolo.
gist and magazine writer, notes it as an
extraordinary fact that while the New
World has contributed to civilization a
long list of valuable plants, cereals, fruits
and vegetables, it has made only one adj
ditiou to the animals in domestication,
and that is the turkey. That was a
contribution worth thanksgiving, how
ever, and now there is a prospect that it
may be reinforced by another American
product, the prairie chicken. Numbers
of these have been introduced in the
meadows about Bradenburg, Germany,
and their propagation is believed to be
practicable
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05
To Prevent DrOughts.

DR.. Felix L. Oswald asserts in the
Voice, that the substitution of perennial
for annual food plants would have the
incidental advantage of preventing the
ruin of crops by summer droughts,
Forest trees, especially such leaf trees as
oaks aud elias, undoubtedly help to
equalize tho humidity of the atmosphere,
1. O., to prevent droughts as we'll as
winter floods. Large plantations Of
fruit trees would have similar effect,
while cereals or extensive vineyards seem
to have no more influence on the annual
rainfall than the dusty sage-shrabs Of our
western pFalries.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05

AsoNo FOR rHEPRrNrrNc PRESS.

A Song for the Press; the Printing Press,
That has ruled the world alone,
Since the finger of God first gave His laws
On the tablet of senseless stone;
Since spark Of His wisdom down sent
Woke the slumbering Thought to birth,
And the Press, as meteor, flashed thro' the
gloom,
The darkness that lowered DER earth.
A Song for the Press; more potent far,
Than the fiat of crowned king,
Than the cohorts Of war-than the steel-clad
men
Than the mightiest can bring.
Kingdoms, and tower and palace wall
That have braved a century's might,
Crumble IN ruin, and totter-fall,
When the Press wakes the giant might.
A Song for the Press; lever long sought,
The world to sway in times olden,
To check the power of expressions hand,
Break the rule of the scepter golden,
Pierce the gloom of the dungeon, the cap
tive free.
Rive oak door and iron rod,
And sent broadcast DER q sin-bound world,
The words Of the living God.
A Song for the Press; the angel that lines
In light on its record page,
Each glorious thought and each noble deed
Each act of passing age;
The historians pen, and the poets wand
Each triumph, each God-born rhyme
Is recorded there, and forever lives,
Defying the touch of time.
A Song for the Press; like the armed men
That rushed DER Rome's ivied wall,
When Liberty, swayed and trampled In
dust,
Cesar's pride and Judgment hall;
So its step awakes the downtrod one,
Mid his traldom, his fear and doom,
And thunders in wrath round the crowned
king, -
Foretelling Of death and of doom.
A Song for the Press; the East-born star
OF religion--of liberty-power-
Untrammeled by wealth-by passion unN
swayed;
IT'S the index--the scribe of each hour,
And still shall remain-still the slender
type
Shall 'click," and all nations bless,
And the last star from earth that ever fades
out.
Be the God-moderd Printing Press.
William II. Bushnell.