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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08
''of every function shorn
Except 70 act as a basis for a corn.n
Care Of Street Trees.

Street trees sometimes need pruning.
If, however, they have been originally
we'll selected a small knife will be all
that is necessary for a few years to re-
move an occasional branch that starts
out in the wrong place. There is rarely
any necessity of cutting off a large limb.
Is this necessity ever does come the limb
should be cut off close to the trunk and
the place smoothed over aud painted, so
that the wound will be ultimately
covered with healthy bark. We have
often explained that wherever a stub is
left this must inevitably die, aud as the
trunk grows about it there will be a
plug of rotted wood where the branch
originally grew, aud the disease will eat
inward and downward as the water
soaks in from without. After street
trees have attained mature size pruning
is rarely needed beyond the occasional
cutting away of dead branch or the re-
moval of one which interferes with an
other.-Garden and Forest.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

After he had waited for some time the
door suddenly opened and Jack Hobur-
ton entered.
Mr.. Merivale rose to his feet with an
angry scowl. "Young man." he
blurted out, "I cannot have you follow
ing me about like this. What do you
meant"
The Office boy stood staring at the
two men with eyes and mouth wide open
with astonishment. At a motion from
Mr.. Hoburton be disappeared into a side
room, where he sat for some time with
eye and ear alternately at the keyhole.
''Mr. Merivale, said Hoburton, "you
are laboring under a mistake; this is my
place of business. had no intention OF
following you, although, to be sure, !
expected to meet you here in accordance
with your letter of last week. Here it
is now," said he, picking out bit of
correspondence from pigeon-hole.
"D.do you mean to say that you are
Joel @. Hoburton, President of the
Arapahoe Mining CompanyY" cried Mr..
Merivale.
"Wby, yes" replied Mr.. Hoburton: |:
'T am that individual. People back
East refused to call me anything but
jack, and as thai seemed to be an i'm
provement on my right name let it go
at that"
Sand you must be rich, then2" in
quired Mr.. Merivale, rather red in the
face.
81 have been quite Fortunate" re-
piled Mr.. Hoburton, "for own the con-
trolling interest in the Arapahoe mine,
as you may learn on investigation; but
things can be evened up on the score. ]
love your daughter, and if you will give
US your blessing shall try to maintain
the family station"
Though somewhat chagrined, Mr..
Merivale made no further opposition and
the nuptials were finally celebrated amid
all the pomp and dignity opposite to
such an occasion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08
strength and Health.
WHICH WAS RIoHT1

A small, clear brook set out one day
To search for the dark blue sea;
II babbled and sparkled, IL rippled and sang.
And cried, 'Just look at me;
For have started, dear neighbors and
friends,
To find my father, the Scar
'Oh dear little brookP urged the mossy
bank,
As the stream slipped singing by
~ beg you most earnestly give it up; =;
If you'll wait, will tell you whyP'
But the brook would not listen, and ran
away
Beneath the smiling sky.
''ob, where are you going, you gurglins
brookT'
Asked a pollard-willow tree,
Which leaned where the brook formed Q
lmpid pool,
Its tresses green to see
I'm going, dear madam" sang the brook,
40 find my father, the Sea-
10 dear, small brookr' cried its pollard
friend,
Great danger will meet you this day;
There's an awful thing which will swallow
you up
Before you go half the wayl"
VI don't believe it, )" rippled the brook,
Pm going, for all you sayp'
And the brook and the pollard both were
right,
As you will presently see;
For great dark river hurried along,
And swallowed the brook, and its merry
song;
And carried it off to Sea.
Annie I, Hannah
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

The report now going the rounds, in
which it is stated that Northwestern
New Mexico has been without rain for
two years, that nearly one hundred
thousand cattle have perished and that
the water courses are dried up, is all
mistahe e, declares the New York World.
AS matter of fact, the northwestern
portion of New Mexico is one OF the very
best watered sections Of the whole Rocky
Mountain region. 1t is traversed by
several rivers and is essentially a farm
ing and fruit growing country. San
Juan County last year produced 500, 900
pounds of peaches, $500 pounds of
apples and at least 100, 900 pounds of
other fruits. This is good record when
it is considered that the orchards are yet
young. There are farms there which
produced 500 tons of alfalfa hay. 1t
has not infrequently happened that SO
great has been the rainfall that the roads
between Junction City aud Aztec have
been impossible.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

The Cherokee Commission, which has
just concluded an agreement with the
Pawnee Indians for the cession to tn
United States of 2sS, 900 acres of land,
bears this emphatic testimony to the
good influences of education among
these people; ''The Pawnee schools
are we'll attended, and the older and un.
educated Indians are manifesting an in
terest therein, not common 10 Indians
generally in that they defer to the judg-
ment OF their educated and English
speaking young men. In our councils
they would submit matters to their
Judgment and be guided by them"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08
THE cH1LD-oARpEN.

In the child-garden buds and blown
A blossom lovelier than the rose.
II all the flowers Of all the earth
In one garden broke to birth,
Not the fairest OF the fair
Could with this sweet bloom compare;
Nor would all their shining be
Peer TO its lone bravery.
Fairer than the rose, say9
Fairer than the sun-bright day
In whose rays all glories show,
All beauty is, all blossoms blow.
What this blossom, fragrant, tender,
That outbeams the roses splendor-
Purer Is, more tinct with light
Than the lily's fame Of white2
OF beauty hath this flower the whole
And its name-the Human Soull
While beside it deeply shine
Blooms that take its light divine:
The perilous sweet flower Of Hope
Here its hiding eyes doth ope,
And Gentleness doth near uphold
Its healing leaves and heart Of gold; -
Here tender fingers push the seed
or knowledge; pluck the poisonous weed
Here blossoms Joy one singing hour,
And here of Love the immortal flower.
-R. w. Glider, in the Century.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

The Vermont State Board of Agricul-
ture reports that during 1891 there were
sold in that State 1894 farms, of which
2e2 we're of the class known as aban-
doned farms. Most of the purchasers of
these farms, says the New York World,
were, as was the case in Massachusetts,.
young men born in the State who be.
lieyed that these farms properly handled
would make better homes than could be
secured in the Far Wess, and bring in a
fair living.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08
A Talking Watch.

NJ. Swan, a Geneva matchmaker, has
informed the Society of Arts of this
town that he has forwarded to Berne,
with the object of taking out a patent, a
sample of a repeater watch which speaks
the hours and the quarters instead of
striking. The mechanism of this watch
is an ingenious adaptation of the phop.
ograph.-Le Tribune de Geneve,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

The Army Gazette of Vienna an.
nounces an addition OF 5000 men to tue
peace standing of the Austrian army.
The measure is commented upon as
indicating that the Emperor Of Austria
is disposed to follow the policy of the
German Emperor.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

China has secret society to which it
is capital crime to belong. lin may
be the reason, suggests the New York
Telegram, why 1t has thirty millions of
members.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

In addition to rocking horse, tho
young King of Spain gets $3.50, 200
year as salary. 1t is fat job for the
fat little rascal, comments the Atlanta
Constitution.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

In the late Church Congress at Folke.
stone, England, one of the clergymen
said that the clergy could only fully un-
derstand the wants Of the working
classes by Irving among them, living as
they did, eating the same food, and sur
rounded by the same influences and thus
acquiring real sympathy and compassion
for tham
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

Geology predicts that IN Is, 1876 the
earth will be coated and, it might be
said, vested with ice. The cheerful
view to take of this, according to the
San Francisco Examiner, is that then
the cholera microbe will cease from
troubling and the yellow fever germ be
NJ -rest
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

The people of California are protest
ing against the drop.a-nickle slot ma
chimes as lessening the supply Of their
smallest current coin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

Tho Boston Cultivator observes that
''young men are coming to the front in
every department of business, in politics
and in literature"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

In the State Of Maine the yield Of po-
tatoes varied greatly from fifty bushels
per acre in the older portious of the
State to 250 in the fertile Aroostook
region,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

"General Dryhenceforth" is what they
are beginning to call the Government
rainmaker.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

Rudyard Kipling says Americans do
not know how to enjoy a good rest.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08
LOVE AND LUCRE,

AURA" said Mr..
Cyrus Merive!e to
his wife, as he drew
a close fitting pair OF
kid gloves over his
large, fluffy fingers,
"Jack Hoburton has
been paying consid-
erable attention to
our Catherine of
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08
nnr nersnerntn LittlO Toe.

The whole history of the organism
bears testimony to the marvellous per.
slstence of parts in spite of contumely
and disuse. Take, for example, the pres
ent position of the little toe in man. We
know not the condition of this digit in
prehistoric man, and have but little IN
formation as to its state among savage
tribes at the present day, but we do
know that in civilized peoples, whose
feet are from infancy subjected to con-
ditions of restraint, 1t is an imperfect
organ
'of every function shorn
Except 10 act as a basis for corn"
In one per cent. of adults the second
and third joints have anchylosed, in
three per cent. the joint between them
is rudimentary, with scarcely trace of
cavity, in twenty per cent. of feet the
organ has lost one or more of its normal
complement of muscles. But though
shorn of some of its elements, and with
others as mere shreds, the toe persists,
aud he would be a bold prophet who
would venture 10 forecast how many
generations of booted ancestry would
suffice to eliminate it from the organiza-
tion of the normal man.-Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-08

A Gigantic Image Of the sun-spi.
ders' Webs for Telescopes-sup
plying a Nation with Time.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-11-25
LATEST in ENGLISH SLANG.

lawfully Chastity and lawfully
pressiOns. ~ -" 49,. .
There are fashions In speech as well
as fashions in clothes, says the Pail
Mall Budget. Everything in society
just now Is either lawfully CHASTITY or
lawfully charming, don't you know"
II your new bonnet isn't aWfullY ghast-
Il # must be aWfu4lly charming, md
II Miss FoArsthars' singing at the Local
concert the other evening wasn't aW-
fully charming, then, 1t must have been
awfully CHASTITY. Pretty is no longer
pretty, but pooty. Y, the famous
man mlliner, has caught the trick
from his duchess customers. You hear
him talk glibly of pooty gowns. and
;pooty, gals. Gorgeous or deadly are
the correct adjective to use when
speaking Of the weather. Nowadays
it is quite customary for educated peo-
pie to talk Of the dock. In quite arts
tocratic circles the final 6 is dropped In
many words. They talk of ridin',
shootin', talkin', sing.n'. I suppose the
next thing we shall hear will be that
they have ceased to aspirate their his
for the excellent reason that it has be-
come SO common for ordinary folks to
do so. But, after all, these examples
Of affectation, ridiculous though they
sound, are not quite So bad as the
mincipg' style OF anectation fashiona-
BILE iii days gone by. 1ff4cing IL now
chiefly confined TO did maids Or young
girls under twenty. pther folks don't
seem to get time Tor It. In these days
| of push Side" seems to 50 further than
mihcing manners.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-11-25

Turning around, I saw the veile3
lady with the bandage ready for my
eyes.
lis It necessary 7" I asked.
1T must be; I dare do no other" she
answered. \
Then I submitted to be blindfolded
once more, but my hands were left
free. ~
Here is Your fee--a hundred gum
cas-" said the yelled lady.
"A hundred %guineasv I exclaimed;
1t Is too much-ten would have been
sufficient
You are welcome. Remember, we
have bound you by an oath, but not q
word to a living soul Of what you have
seen and done! I should be sorry to
be your enemy!"
MADAM, I am silent as the gravew
I need not prolong my story by re-
1ating the return journey. I was taken
back alone in the strange conveyance
used to convey me thither
Everybody old enough win remem-
Der the startling discovery made by
the police, some twenty years ago, Of a
band of female housebreakers. The
whole country was reused to intense
excitement by the revelations then
made. The newspapers for weeks pro-
vided the most thrilling accounts Of the
depredations the gang had committed,
dressed in mems notwithstanding gen.
tlemen'S mansions and the better-class
houses. Only three of the gang were
captured, an elderly woman and two
younger ones; the rest escaped, and
nothing could persuade those captured
to betray their companions in crime.
The elderly woman was said to belong
to a Continental family Of title, and
it was supposed that she was the lead
er Of the gang. '
On the day Of the trial I went to the
court, for a strong suspicion had taken
possession OF me that my strange cpl
sode some years back had a connection
with this gang Of female burglars.
When the prisoners were brought into
the dock I at one recognized the form
Of the yelled lady! Casting her eyes
round the court they fell upon me. I
saw she recognized me. She gave a
faint smile, put her fingers to her lips
and waited me a kiss. So artfully was
this done that even the lynx-eyed re-
porters failed to notice the action, and
so missed what might have been a
very romantic bit Of news for the mil
lions who read an account Of the trial
next day. She. and her two con1pan-
ions were sentenced to long terms of
Imprisonment, and so ended the great
female burglar case.
IlAve often wondered what became
Of the fair creature, whose cheek my
lips pressed for the first and last time.
Did she die Of her wound? If living,
win she read what I have written? If
she reads my narrative, I hope she will
pardon my giving to the public what
has been locked up in my own breast
81 many years, the telling Of which
cannot bring harm to the gang Of
thieves who practiced their unwomanly
calling more than a quarter Of a cen.
tury ago.-Tit-Bits.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-11-25
roR ALL ETERNITY.

Love of my heart, "
Do You e'er think.
OF that chill night q
When on the brink
OF cloves last hope" I STOPPED to
drink
And deeply, too-of life's despair,
In your cruel words, Tonight we part?'
Love of my heart,
I often think
OF that dark night
When 'Love's last link"
Was loosened, severed, cast aside,
Upon that fateful eventide,
When caprice bid you break my heart!
Love of my heart.
I e'er shall think
OF that sad night
When I did drink,
With trembling hand and quivering lip,
The dregs of woe-thou bad'st me sip;
That cast DER flower of youth a blight;
Turned life's bright day to deaths dark
night,
And famished heart to, hopeless, yearn
For its rcdeemer, Loves return"
Love of my heart, my enscs wane:
] soon shall pass life's last dark brink
To where sad hearts arc free from pain
Where God will bind the broken link
And reunite thy soul with mine,
For all eternity and time.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-11-25


Moving stones are located in Long
pond, Maine. On the easterly side Of
the pond Is a cove, which extends
nearly a hundred rods further east
than the general course of the shore.
The bottom II clay and very shoaE.
On. the bottom z stones Of various
sizes, which, it is evident from various
circumstances, have an animal motion
toward the shore. The proof OF this
ID the mark or track left behind them,
and the bodies Of clay driven up before
Them. Some Of these stones are two
or three tons weight and have left g
track Of several rods, having at least
q cartsload Of clay before them. The
shore Of this cove 4 lined with these
stones, which. It would seem, hare
craNied ont of the Wster.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-11-25
Henry Tux1le,

They were Actually afraid Of the few
ruffians who perpetuate the vendetta,
for their blood is hot and there's no
telling what they would do.
Indeed, things have come to 9 sorry
pass in Homer, the pretty parish seat
Of Claiborne, these late years. Long
before the war it was a rich town, and
the plantations around it were well
kept and prosperous. The master and
mistress were highly respectable pco-
PIE, with big mansions and pretty
daughters and q courtly hospitality.
But now there is nothing but ruins to
remind one Of the old regime-the
stately house half .tumbled down, with
pigs on it's veranda and decay staring
out Of its doors and windows. The ''po'
white trash" are found where the
wealthy planter nee f1ourished, and
among them the feud began it's san
culinary existence.
The Ramsey and the Tuggle families
lived not far from Homer, on the Tren-
ton road.
The Tuggle Family.
The Tuggle family consisted Of five
boys and their mother. OF the five
boys Joe was the NEST notorious char
OSSCAS OANu W AAo SSVuA AS A<tAu IOC
origin Of the ferd. He was striking
Ing In appearance, more than six feet
tall and we'll proportional, with rather
interruptions In bis disposition. He
lived In Q house by himself and first
grossly offended the moral of tn,
community by openly keeping a negro
mistress. His reputation for reckless
hess and hot temper prevented any In
tcrference until he suddenly took a
fancy to a young niece and brought
her to his house to supplant the negress.
Popular Indignation at such a proceed
ing was very strong, but the girl evil
IDENTIFY loved her desperate husband,
as attempts were made to induce her
to leave him without success. Critical
remarks came to the ears of Joe in con-
nection with Billy Maddax's name as
their author.
Joe. then took occasion to quarrel with
Maddax about a dog, in which quarrel
John Ramsey sided with Maddax.
A few days later q drummer travel
ing the Trenton road came upon a dead
body lying in the load with a charge
Of buckshot in his back. Investigation
showed it was the corpse of Billy Mad
dax, and that he bad been shot from
an ambush. Death must have been in
Simultaneous, as there was found
clinched between his teeth a plum seed,
and some others In his fingers. Tracks
were found leading from the ambush
toward Joe TIggle's house.
The state offered $1,000 for the ap-
prehension of the murderer.
John Ramsey and Tom Kinder set to
work to find evidence enough to war
rant the arrest of Joe Tuggle.
About this time Joe Gladney. a weak
minded associate of Joe Tuggle, was
jailed for drunkenness, and while in
Jail John Ramsey wrung a statement
from him that Joe Tuggle had paid him
$50 to kill Billy Maddax. The authori-
ties would not accept this rs evidence,
SO when Gladnsy sobered up he went
Free and told Zoe Tuggie all about his
Interview with Ramsey.
lmmsiiately after this Ramsey was
shot at from ambush, ard places where
some one had lain concealed were
found around his house. Men dressed
as women had been lurking near it.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-11-25

IA 8 d az the Rafnseys could flakA
arrar rements to move they lett tho
narsh. and again the hope Was enter
tanned that all the bad blood was emp
tied.
Some months passed and nothing was
heard Of Hamp Tuggle. His brother
Henry was a peaceful and Industrious
citizen. One morning he was picking
cotton In his field when q shot from the
woods near by MORALLY hlna,s
He lived long enough to say that ne
sw 81 !, Fiader shoot him.
l>.au~r got wind of the statement.
and when the officers went after him
he lad disappeared. Soon after Mrs.
Hamp Tuggle began receiving anoIly-
nous letters, telling her to leave tho
parish or her O n would be killed.
they were boys Of nineteen md fifteen
wears. Her husband, Hamp, had never
been seen since the murder Of John
Ramsey.
Murray Tuggle, the younger son, was.
shot in the leg n night as he was
returning to the house from the stable.
Afraid to expose her elder son to the
assassin, the mother mounted q planta-
ton mule and rode to Homer for q
surgeon and officers. The bloodhOunds!
were brought, but again refused to
follow the trail.
Fugitive Murderers.
Public Indignation had another spasm
at this outrageous attack on q boy,
and the local papers printed scathing
editorials on the weakness Of the law.
This seemed to have no effect, m not
more than three days after John Fer
guson, a friend and neighbor OF the
Tuegles, was shot from ambush, and
two letters he had on his person for
Mrs. Hamp Tuggles were taken. He.
was returning from Homer, where he
had called for the Tuggle mail. 1t IL
believed that Tom Kinder killed him
to get the letters, by which he taB5ed
locate Hamp Tuggle.
The ~coroner's jury returned
dict that John Ferguson came to -.
death from q gun In the hands
Thomas D. Kinder. This murder d
Cured the last Of August, and nothinI
more has happened.
Tom Kinder and Hamp Tuggle are
at large and looking for each other.
Hamp Tuggle's two sons are at home,
but stand in hourly dread OF Tom Kin
der's unerring bullet. &ts.s'ss>sss
Kinder is the last Of the Ramsey.
faction, and Is said to be the most cum
ming. He Is a dead shot and per
fectly desperate. Hamp Tuggie Isl
equally as good a shot, and II possible
more desperate.
These two men are both fugitives
from the law and each stalking the
other in the swamps.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-11-25
A Mystery In Plapt x.afs.

A correspondent aska whsther plants
can see Or not and suggests that ID
plants will turn their tendrls IN the
direction Of something to cling to. that:
may Indicate that plants can possibly.
see. II u certainly 4 fact that ne.
proximity Of something to cling Is vim
make parts Of plants turn il that di
rection. There ID evidently some ats
traction, but as for seeing - We gem
orally understand hy sight, this Il, 81
course, entirely out OF the question
a very Drettys experiment may hoa
made by placing stakes ii among \
mass OF garllc. The leaves W.T. III
many cases be found TWISTING around.
the stakes. occasionally cllnsinx tight
", to them, but, as generally seen. the
garlic would. be the last tAtna No would
think Of a. having q twining habit
and yet we see by this that when there
- . chance to Irvine they evidertiy3
know that the chance Il. there. n M
not sight, but It some femafkahly atAl
tractive power. What the n6tnrea
that power III has not yet hean dcter-
mined.-Meehan's Monthlr.