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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
A MESSAGE.

How little the left hand lmoweth
The deeds that are done by the right,
How little the night time showeth
It's sorrowful shades to the lighti
How few Of the hearts that are broken
Betray TO the breaker their grief;
How many harsh words that are spoken
Are the crushed souls only relief
Alas for the childlilxe gladness
We never may know again;
And alas, and alas, for the sadness
That broods like spirit Of pain
Like some spirit of pain, that will hover
Still nearer when sunlight is fed,
Until youth, and youths last changeful
lover
Grow old, and grow cold as the deadl
1t is strange that the hands that might lead
us
To heaven, refuse us their hold:
That the dear lips that whisper God speed
us,n
Are the lips that are the first to grow cold
But love, we are nearer the dawning,
Just there is the heavenly light,
And how little the glorious morning
Knows the sorrowful shades Of the night
Lola N. Deem, IN Atlanta Constitution.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

volver, and some of them, two, and there
was half dozen Winchesters stacked in
the corner.
Il reckon we'll get even with Skin
ner this time, said l, and Uncle Dick was
so tickled with the prospect that he set
up the drinks all around.
"Just as the glasses was filled, l heard
the tramp of hoofs outside, and horses
head was stuck in at the door; and over
it and beyond, l caught a glimpse of Alb
Skinner and big double-barrelled shot
gun.
".'You know me, he yelled. Il am
Alb Skinner-a white man and a gentle
man--and too good to mix with the
drunken, cowardly cut-throats that hang
aroNd. this ranch. Do you hear meP
Eyes, they heard him. Six-shooters
cleaned all over the room. The pro-
prietor leaped over the bar with a
sharp's carbine in his hand, and Uncle
and Rugged the whisky barrel closer
than ever
"Then two shots were fred-the two
barrels of Abs shot gun-in quick sue
cession, and, as the smoke filed the
room, it seemed to me that my eyes
had been torn from my head, and l had
swallowed a bushel of fire. In the midst
Of my agony listened for more shooting,
but failed to hear it. Instead the air was
filled with coughs and sneezes mixed
with loud but broken bursts of profan-
! ity. l did not know then, but l learned
afterward, that Abs gun contained, in
| lieu of shot, about sixteen ounces of snuff
and Cayenne pepper, with enough pow
der behind it to blow it into the room,
and scatter it well through the atmos-
phere. 1t was devilish, cruel scheme
to work on a fellow, and if the men of
Rawhide City could have caught Skinner
that day they would have burnt him at
the stake without dissenting voice
ga half-hour later Uncle Dick and ]
were down on Rawhlde Creek, with about
forty more tough-looking citizens, wash
ing the snuff and pepper from our eyes,
when Deputy Smith Srolled up, and
rendered us a slip of paper which set forth
in SINNERS unmistakable scrawl, that
The bearer has paid over the money
placed in his hands, and will hand you
two dollars and fifty cents to be invested
in eye-salve and blue goggles. And that
was the last heard of Ab Skinner until
got the news t'other day of his election
to the State Legislature from the same
Rawhide County, where he gobbled all
of my small change, ruined the prospects
of my return North, nearly put out my
eyes, and broke me of betting on another
mans game. Yankee Blade.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
A Detectives Detective.

In one of the well-known jewelry stores
on Broadway there is most accomplished
floor walker, whose never failing urbanity
and courtesy have won him no end of
friends among the patrons of the estab-
iishment. By no one, either in the store
or out of it, except his employer, is it
suspected that his occupation is other
than the one it seems. Yet the man s
profession is that of detective, and his
real services to the establishment are quite
apart from those of an usher. The firm
also constantly employs a dozen other de-
tectiyes, not one of whom knows the real
calling of the man, and it is part of his
duty to exercise as close a scrutiny over
the detectives as they do over the Gus
toners of the store. He is the detectives
detective, in fact, though to their credit
it is TO be said, that he has never had a
case even of suspicion against one of
them.
The jeweler does not depend wholly
upon his battalion of Hawkshaws TO pro-
tect his property. For instance, take
the trays in which the rings are displayed.
Each tray is so constructed that a ring
cannot be removed until a spring has
been pressed and a catch releases it.
The spring is at the end of the tray to-
ward the clerk, and it is part of his bust
ness to press it so that the customer can
not see the action. The reason for this
is obvious. Many customers like to lift
the rings from the tray, and if they
were permitted to do it there would be a
general displacement ard many embar-
rassing situations might follow. The in
vention is as much a protection to the
customer as it is 10 the clerks and the
proprietor --Nsa0 York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

A popularity about the blind is that
there is seldom one of them who smokes.
Soldiers and sailors accustomed to smok-
ing, and who have lost their sight in ac-
ton, continue to smoke for a short while,
but soon give up the habit. They say
that it gives them no pleasure when they
cannot see the smoke, and some have
said that they cannot taste the smoke
unless they see it. This almost demon
strates the theory that if you blindfold a
man in room full of smoke, and put a
lighted and an unighted cigar in his
mouth alternately, he will not be able
10 tell the difference.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

The railroad mileage of the South has
been increased by the addition of nearly
2l 900 miles since 1880. Since that
year over $500, 600, 900 have been spent
in the building Of new roads and the i'm
provement of old ones. The assessed
value of property has increased over ST.
Sue, 900, 900, and the true valuation over
SO, 900, 600, 900. In 1880 the South
made 397, ,301 tons of pig iron; in 1888,
1,132, 900, and in 1889 the output VIII
probably be about 1900, 600 to !, 200, 600
tons.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

Portugal and Spain talk of following
the example of Brazil, but, in the opinion
Of the New York Judgs, it is all talk.
spain tried the experiment and had a
tirst-rate. Republican Government for
some time; but it first borrowed King
in order to have one, and afterward made
a King of the son of ex-Queen Isabella,
whom it detested more than any other
woman in the world. Republics do not
come from that kind of material; and
every effort In Spain looking 10 a Repub-
lie means the shedding of blood and
foolishness. without the slightest hope of
good resulting therefrom.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

In the tributes paid to Stanley the
world should not forget, as the Wash
iugton Star thinks it seems likely to do,
earlier laborers in the same African field,
and especially Captain Speke, who found
the sources of the true Nile, and David
Livingstone, who, in the purity of his
life, in his justice in dealing with the
natives, and in the true moral elevation
of his aims as traveller, was the most
remarkable man who ever trod the wilds
of a strange continent.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

The growth of the export of rice from
Japan is one of the features of Asiatic
trade. 1t has increased so rapidly that it
is now one of the three main staples of
the export trade, tea and silk being the
other two. Up to August 81, of 1889,
the export amounted to 10, 900 tons, or
S4, 900 tons more than the total export of
the previous year. At the same time the
price has gone up,so that in value the ex-
port of 1889 was more than double that
of the year before. ~
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
CRFANrFD CHICKEN,

This is usually made dish, and, like
many others, is often superior to the
original. Cut the remnants of cold boiled
or roasted chicken in small pieces; make
a sauce of one pint of cream or milk, a
tablespoonful of butter, the well beaten
yelk of one egg, and a tablespoonful Of
flour; season with salt, pepper, half
teaspoonful of sugar and a sprig of pars-
ley. Let the chicken simmer in this for
an hour. Boil half teacupful of rice
in farina boiler; season with salt.
Serve the chicken surrounded with the
rice.-Ne,o York Ne,os.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

The speaker who told the Evangelical
Alliance in Boston that he did not believe
the world is growing worse must be, says
the Philadelphia Enquirer, reader of the
newspapers and student Of human ma
ture. 1t is plain to every unprejudiced
observer that the world is not growing
worse, but bette. Vice remains here and
there in plague spots Of great intensity,
and those who look only at such places
see deprayity that causes them to despair
for the future OF humanity; but those
whose vision takes wider range and in
cludes comparison of the general state
of society now with that Of a hundred,
or tifty, OF even twenty years ago, see
such manifest improvement in public
morals that it seems 70 them as ii the
millennium might como almost any day.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
BOILED PUDDING.

Half pint of chopped beef suet, same
amount of bread same quantity of washed
currents; mix with two tablespoonfuls of
sugar, teaspoonfrl of grated lemon peel,
a tablespoonful of salt, and same of nut
meg, and a heaping teaspoonful of bak-
ing powder; whip up. two eggs with
half pint of milk; work the mixture to
light paste Scald a few small pudding
cloths; wiring them out, flour them, and
tie small portion of the mixture in
each. Put them into hot water and boil
quickly half an hour. Turn them out on
hot dish; dust sugar over them and
serve with some sauce.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

The press of Italy is discussing the
question of capital punishment, which is
at present illegal, confinement at hard
labor for life being the maximum pun
ishment bestowed by the Italian laws. 1t
is contendcd by many influential papers
that a return to death sentences is neces-
sary in view of the great increase in muir
der since.the existing laws went into
operation.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

AN oLD-FAsH1oNED LOVE SONG.

Tell me what within her eyes
Makes the forgotten Spring arise,
And all the day, if kind she looks,
Flow to a tunelike tinkling brooks;
Tell me why, if but her voice
Falls on mems ears, their souls rejoice;
Tellme why, if only she
Doth come into the companie ~
All spirits straight enkindled are,
As if a moon litup a star.
Tell me this that's writ above,
And will tell you why love.
Tell me why the foolish wind
Is to her tresses ever kind,
And only blows them in such wise
As lends her beauty some surprise;
Tell me why no changing year
Can change from Spring, il she appear
Tell me why to see her face
Begets in all folk else grace
That makes them fair, as love Of her
Did to a gentle nature stir.
Tell me why, if she but go
Alone across the fields Of snow,
All fancies of the Springs of old
Within lovers breast grow bold;
Tell me why, when her he sees,
Within him stirs an April breeze;
And all that in his secret heart
Most sacredly was set apart,
And most was hidden then awalSes,
At thesweet joy her coming makes.
Tell me what is writ above,
Ad will tell you why Hove.
H c. Bunner, in Scribner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
A PRETTY BREAKFAsT DISH.

Cut cold toast into squares or rounds.
II it is buttered toast, so much the bet
ter; if not, butter it with cooking but
ter. Lay a ring of tomato on this, and
some flakes of cold, cooked Goldfish on
the top, cover with plentiful supply Of
parsley sauce, put it into the oven to
Varm, and serve hot. The dish is very
Economical, end serves to use up any
stale bread, toast OF fish and sauce which
may not be sufficient to present at table a
second time. Garnish with parsley and
lemon rings.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

II is said that at least six novels by
popular writers of fiction are to be writ
ten this year, based, like General Lew
Wallace's "Ben Hur," on scenes and in
cidents of the Bible. Joshua, David, St.
John, st. Paul, and other Bible worthies
arc to figure in these novels.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

< Dom Pedro has definitely refused to
accept large sum of money which has
been offered to him by the Revolutionary
Government as a retiring pension. He
declines to accept any sum beyond that
authorized by the laws of Brazil.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

F The Sisseton Indians of South Dakota
have signed, by handsome majority, an
agreement to sell about $50, 900 acres of
their surplus lands to the Federal Gov
.ernment. Such agreement will become
a law as soon as it is approved by Con-
gress. The terms of sale by acre are
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
Not This Year.

What is your favoTite fiowery she sighed
as il mignonette, lily, or red, red rosey'
And that man OF iron nerve replied;
My favorite -four in a barrel grows"
lThe marriage is on
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

! North Carolina has 5000 acres Of
swamp land to sell for the benefit of the
education fund.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

During last year the London oabmen
aud omnibus and tram-oar conductors left
%, 1S7 unclaimed articles, some Of which
were of considerable value, with the
metropolitan police. Only 10,3SS Of
these were returned 10 owners.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

Bread riots have occurred recently in
eeseral sections of India.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-28
SEAL FISHING.

The last shot in the seal-fshing contro-
yersy was the reply of Lord Salisbury to
Secretary Blaine's letter, in which Mr.
Blaine took the ground that the neglect of
Cree. Britain to claim rights at the present
time which had not been asserted or exer-
cised while Russia held possession of Behr-
ing Sea or since American possession I'M
til about 1886, constituted an abandon
ment of such rights if any ever ex-
listed. MI. Salisbury replied that he
would not admit that the right to fish
and catch seals in the high seas can be held
20 be abandoned by nation from the mere
fact that for a certain number OF years it
has not suited the subjects OF that nation to
exercise that right. 1t might puzzle the
British Minister to define the certain
number of years" during which it has not
suited the subjects Of Great Britain to ex-
ereise the right of fishing in Behring Sea.
IDey certainly did not exercise that right
"hile Russia held the sea. AT what date in
Inc GIN past they exercised the right does
hot appear IN the recently published CORE
spohQence. Mr. Blaine contends that the
brlllsh nave never exercised the right and
feFieWs correspondence when John Quincy
Adams sustained the American position in
support of that claim.
The Victoria vessels are reported to have
secured about the usual number of seal
Skins this year, and there is no news vet of
seizures. The company which has leased
the sealing grounds of the United States
viii, with difficulty, secure its limit of Co.
coo seals and not far from 10000 will be
taken by poachers. Ii the number taken
by poachers could be limited to 10000, or
even 10000. there would not be much dan
ger of seal extinction; but whenever the
right TO promiscuous sealing is admitted
the restraint now placed upon poaching
would be removed. Fear of seizure keeps
men from engaging in the business and the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-28
Is 1T ABsUkDq

The Stockton Mail is not pleased with
the suggestion that aspirants for the nited
States Senatorship should be selected from
men who have been before the people Tor
some elective Office. Our contemporary
says that the very best and ablest men in
the State may or may not have held office.
1t is quite true that some of the best men
in the State have never held public office
The fact is not against them as citizens,
but is as legislators. The high places in
all professions are best filled by men whe
have acquired experience in the lower
ranks No man begins at the top OF the
profession of law or medicine. The knowl-
edge that enables him to hold the first place
is gained by many years of practice. Even
in the profession of which our Stockton
friend is so bright an ornament the first
places are not filled with apprentices. The
men who perform the duties of these re-
sponsible positions have worked their way
up. Why should the Senate of the United
States be an exception to the rule? The
leading men in that body hold their places
by virtue of long experience. They are
not men who have made money in some
other business, and taken notion to wind
up a successful mOney-maklng career by
buying a seat in the United States Senate.
There is no instance OF a new man In the
Senate being of any particular use. BY
new men" we mean new to the business
OF legisating The new man may occupy
seat in the Senate on great occasions. but
the men who do the work of the Senate re-
gard him as a more or less honored guest.
He is sitting in a reflected light. A body
of such men as himself would enjoy no
distinction. He has thrust himself among
men who have attained greatness, and he
imagines himself great because greatness
is associated with the title he bears. The
requirement that an elector to be eligible
TO the Senatorship must have been sue
cessful in a contest for some elective
office must of course be enforced by
kind of unwritten law. No one pro
poses to amend the Constitution in
that direction. But public opinion can
make law without inScribing it on the
statute-books. In these days, when so
many useless men buy their way into the
Senate, 1t seems fitting that a public opin-
ion should be created which will protect
the highest legislative body in the world
from men who are not qualified by mental
training to perform the commonest duties
of the office. The trouble in California is
that too many of the men who have held
Office have proved themselves unworthy to
hold Office
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-28

THE TRIAL TRIP.

The first trial trip of the San Francisco
will doubtless be accepted as a tinality.
The steamer made shade over half knot
above requirement, thus securing for the
contractors 100000 and over in premium
money A second trial might result in
twenty-knot record, but as there is always
a chance for small accidents in trial trip
the contractors will probably be contented
with the record made. The record is in
fact astonishing. When Mr.. Scott bid for
the Charleston three years ago the general
feeling in the East was that the California
ship-builder had put in a bid as an adver-
tisement, not expecting or desiring to get
the contract. But doubters were soon con-
viuced that the bid was bona fide, though
there were still people who thought the
Californian had overestimated the capaci ty
of his works. The Charleston set these
doubts at rest, and now we have a finer
steamer than the Charleston and perhaps
the finest of its class in the American navy.
There is no ship-building firm in the United
States with a better record than the Union
Iron Works of San Francisco.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-28

census year 1870, 2.O52, 1921 tons. In point OF
production Pennsylvania OF course always heads
the list. Ohio coming second and this year Ala.
bama is thru, her product reaching $780, 432
tons. The product of pig iron is an Indication of
the increased OUTPUT of American iron works,
rolling mills and various manufacturing estab-
lishments, the new navy, railroads and their
equipments, machinery and structural iron con.
suming vast quantities of the raw material.
The census discoses the fact that in the next
President ial election the West and Northwest
will be more important factors than In any pre-
vious contest. Ii Is calculated that the Electoral
College will have 443 members, an increase of
AZ, the represent ton Of the new States being:
Washington aud South Dakota each, and
North Dakota Montana, Idaho and Wyoming 3
each. 1t is calculated that California Colorado,
Nebraska, Kansas aud Illinois will each gain
vote, and that Minnesota VIII probably gain 8.
Michigan is In danger of losing 2 and New York
/. The South will gain but three or four out OF
the 40.
During the eight months ending August 1st
Congress enacted and President Harrison APP
proved 81 9 public acts, 80 joint resolutions and
5o4 private resolutions During that period
IL. 626 bills and 207 joint resolutions were in
troduced In the House, the score of the Senate
being 429S bills and 119 joint resolutions.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-28
ONE OF BUoKLEY's cANDIDATEs.

The Examiner, one of Buckley's organs,
after trying to smooth over the extraor-
binary expenditure of the last Legislature,
which was composed largely of Buckley
lambs, publishes the following paragraph
editorially: docs any man in California
believe that with Z. B. Pond at the head of
the State Government the Treasury could
be plundered?"
Mr.. Pond has been at the head of the city
government while it was being plundered
by Buckley's lambs, hence We see no rea-
son why the State Government would not
be plundered in the same way. were Mr..
Pond 10 be elected Governor. If Mr.. Pond
Lad done anything of Importance to save
the city from a plundering gang, there
might be an excuse for voting for him
again. out We cannot point to a single act
OF his for long time past which was Of
much benefit, except to Buckley and his
lamls. MI. Pond has occupied position
where he could have done good service for
the people. lie could at least have warned
his associates against permitting all of the
polling-places at elections in the city being
located in situations where fraudulent
practices would be uf difficult detection. A
Mayor Of San Francisco should have been
OF service to the public, but Mr. Pond has
been OF no use whatever, except to the
plunderers. Buckley has recently placed in
nomination ticket for State officers He has
got the machinery of the Democratic party
in his hands. and as long as he can make
nominations for the party and short-sighted
persons Will vote for and elect them, we
may expect to be plundered. Buckley, it is
said, has accumulated a large fortune by
running the city government He is now
trying TO run the State Government, and he
expects our citizens to be such fools as to
assist him