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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
Universal Love of Flowers.

"Flower missions" aren't popular
with hard-headed men; they seem al
together too fanciful aud sentimental to
be of any use to the people whom they
endeavor to reach; but they aren't.
The idea that the more poorer and more
crowded class of human beings are the
less they care for anything but food and
drink, comes handy to anyone who
wishes to close his heart and pocket
against appeals from all sorts of missions;
but so far as flowers are concerned, I've
recently learned that it doesn't work.
Not long ago brought into New York
City, writes John Habberton, a great
cluster of common garden flowers to
give to friend; had to pass through
one of the worst parts of the city, and
Just at that time and near me, there was
a street fight, an organ grinder with
monkey and breakdown of a wagon
loaded with apples; yet 1 soon found
my handful of flowers the principal at
traction. Men and women looked ad-
miringly and longingly; a drunken
tramp braced up and walked beside me,
and soon l found myself followed by
scores of street children whose manners
would have been creditable to a model
Sunday-school, "Gimme flower, mis-
teri" asked one after another. In two
or three minutes they got the whole lot,
and, instead of lighting over them,
those who got none clustered peacefully
and admiringly about the lucky ones.
Then began to look around me, and in
the windows of two blocks of tene-
ment-house street l saw more flowers
than are on all Fifth avenue.-Once A
Week
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

General William l.. Cabell, OF Dallas,
Texas, sends to tho Baltimore Sun
roster of the surviving Generals Of the
Confederate Army, compiled from the
most reliable data to be had to October
l, 1892. The number of general Of.
ficers of all grades appointed and COM
missionod was 498. One hundred and
two rose to the rank of Major. General
and twenty-one rose to the rank of
Northumberland. General Joseph f.
Johnston, six Major Generals. and
twenty-five Brigadier- Generals are re-
psfted dead since January 1, 1891. One
hundred and sixty six Generals survive.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

The Hartford Conn Medical Asso-
citation has adopted resolution depre.
ciating the so&lled medical contract
system. The growth of this system,
notes the New York Tribune, has been
great during the last few years. In
Hartford alone there are twenty socie.
ties which provide their members with
medical attendance for small annual
fee, ranging from fifty cents to So. One
society got the doctors to bidding against
each other, and finally secured the SER
vices of a doctor in good standing for
37B cents per capita. Tie physicians
who go into this sort of thing claim that
it is remunerative aud that their con-
neclion with society brings them out
side practice.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

A curious scientist, who has been Civ.
ing careful attention to the matter, says
that mans sense of touch, or feeling,
resides almost wholly in the skin and in
those parts of the body, as the lips and
the tongue, that are most exposed, while
some of our most important organs, the
heart, for instance, and the brain, are
quite insensible ID touch, thus showing
that not only are nerves necessary for
the sensation, but also the special end
organs. The curious fact was noticed
with the greatest astonishment by Har-
vey, who, while treating a patient for
an abscess that caused a large cavity in
his side, found that, when he put his
fingers into this cavity, he could actually
take hold OF the heart without the pa
tient being in the least aware of what he
was doing. This so interested Harvey
that he brought King Charles l. to the
mans bedside that she might himself
behold and touch so extraordinary
thing" In certain operations piece OF
skin is removed from the forehead to the
nose, and it is stated that the patient,
oddly enough, feels as if the new nasal
part were still in his forehead and may
have a headache in his noEe.-New o..
lsans Piosyups,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

The superstition about the number
thirteen being unlucky is put to multi
piled test in the new twenty five. cent
pieces, notes the Now York Sun. On
one side of the coin there are no less
than ten repetitions of the number thir-
teen. There are thirteen stars, thirteen
letters in the scroll held in the eagles
beak, thirteen marginal feathers in each
wing, thirteen tail feathers, thirteen
parallel lines in the shield, thirteen
horizontal bars, thirteen arrow heads in
one claw, thirteen leaves on the branch
in the other claw, and thirteen letters in
the words "quaTter dollar" There
hasn't seemed to be anything uulucky in
the thirteen original States nor in the
thirteen stripes on the flag, aud now it
remains to be seen if the man who gets
bis pockets full of these new quarter
dollars will be unlucky.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
Discovered the Art of Canning.

A paper in Philadelphia lately printed
tale about party of American travel
ers digging in the ruins of Pompeli and
finding jars OF figs which had been sealed
up during the first century of the Chris
tian era and the figs we're just as fresh
as when canned 1900 years ago. Prob
ably the figs were placed by some French
man or Yankee who saw chance to
make few dollars or francs out of the
gullible sightseers. Canning fruits in
Theoretically sealed jars is quite amodern
discovery, made by one NJ. Appert, of
France. In 1906 he persuaded the
French Government to test his preserved
soups, meats and fruits in the navy, aud
all were such a success in long voyages
that in 1909 he received handsome
bounty or prize for his discovery, which
was soon given out free to all who might
wish to try preserving fruits and vege-
tables in jars or cans. M. Appert's pam
phlet was also translated into English
and published in this country by book
seller in Wall street, New York, in 1912;
and this little work became the guide as
we'll as foundation of an industry which
has become of late years of immense i'm
portance and value to the people of all
civilized countries. New York Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

1t may be of interest.hmRhe supporters
OF the early closing movement to know
that, according to a little pamphlet is
sued for the guidance of commercial
travellers, 632 towns in the United King
dom recognize the early closing move
ment in some form or another. There
is no early closing day in Liverpool. In
Manchester they close on Wednesday at
two. Glasgow is marked as town
where they close daily at s.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

There are fourteen colored female
teachers in the public school service of
New York City. Two private kinder
gartens and several day and evening
schools are also supported by colored
women. These are all taught by colored
teachers. The colored women in the
public school service OF Brooklyn ap-
proximate twenty. In the other cities
there are very few colored women teach-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
LOVE MUST BE WON.

Love Is not free to take, like sun and air,
Nor give away for naught to any one,
IL Is no common right for men to share
Like all things precious IL is sought and
won.
80 IL another is more loved than you
Say not "It is unjust" but say; 'If
she
Has earned more love than I it Is her due,
When l deserve more it will come to
me-"
But If your longing be for love indeed
I'll teach you how TO win it-a sure way
Love and be lovely, that is ell you need,
And what you wish for will be yours some
day.
Susan Coolidge, in Household Companion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
A Floating Hotel.

A strange craft recently launched at
Bath, Me-, for use in Florida, and which
will shortly be in New York, is the
floating hotel, j. s. Daulorth. 1t is in
tended tor service on Florida rivers. Il
has three keels, is 125 feet long and
thirty feet beam, aud draws twenty-five
inches of water. It will accommodate
seventy-iye persons and will be the
floating home Of hunters and fishermen
who visit Florida, New Orleans
PieNyuas,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

The President has received a letter
from William Hosea Ballou, of New
York, urging him to ask authority of
Congress for the issuance of invitations
to the various marine Nations to Join
with the United States in appointing
delegates to an international conference
for the amelioration of the condition of
animal in shipment and quarantine; to
formulate and recommend international
laws for the punishment of steamship
officers for cruelty of animals at sea, and
20 make steamship companies liable to
Damage to shippers for wanton destruc-
tion of and injury to animals in transit !;
to recommend new quarantine regula-
tions to replace those which at present
require the cruel slaughter of cattle in
quarantine beforethey have recuperated
from long voyages and while still suffer
ing from seasickness; and to suggest
ways, means and regulations by which
the lives of more than ten million dollars
worth of animals now annually destroyed
At sea may be saved.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
There's Money in Turtles.

There is more money in Texas turtle
than in Texas steer. 1t costs nothing
to raise turtle, and he weighs, when
full grown, from 400 to $50 pounds,
and sells for more money per pound than
steer. The herds of turtles at Aran.
sas Pass, their principal gra zing ground,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
DING HiIIi-n DeaIhs ln a Cenlurl.

A French paper amuses its readers by
employing the services Of distinguished
arithmetician, IN order TO discover the
number of persons who die in a century;
his celebration embraces the whole
world. He has taken a. basis the
number now living, and thus arrives at
the conclusion that the number of deaths
in the whole world during century
amounts to i,S47, 800, 600. Pretty ig-
ures these, but only within the means Of
RothschiDds 20 take into exact eousiders-
uon "a to their meaning,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

The demand for Percheron horses for
export is so great that the purity ofehe
breed is threatened, and q stud book has
been started IN France by which the
pedigree may be preserved and the race
kept up to the standard.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

About the last logging that will be
done in Michigan, Wisconsin and other
numbering States, according to the
Woodworker, will be that of reclaiming
the millions of feet Of suuken logs which
now lie in the streams of those States.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
HUM0R OF THE DAY.

In the soup-Meat.
Pretty well off-The leaves.
A blind man-The shutter manufac.
turer.
A man of might is too often a man Of
wont.-Puck.
Horse sense seems to consist in the
ability to say "Nay."
All work and no play makes Jack
dull old millionaire. Puck.
The spur of the moment is about as
dangerous as the pistol that isn't loaded.
Truth.
"What makes Rustler so round -shoul-
dered9" "Oh, he's trying to make both
ends meet"
"Eyes operated on at two dollars a
week." as the cook said when she was
pairing potatoes. Breeze.
If strict ideas ever come,
That Boston lady had 'em.
She never said "chrysauthemum"
She said chrysanthe-madam."
Life
"She is very distant in her manner"
"Distant! Why, her disposition is so
freezing that she is constantly taking
cold from It,"
Old Lady-"If had your face do you
know what 1 would do2" Beggar-
"No'm." Old Lady-''Td wash it,
New York Herald.
at is dreadful, Maria, that you always
will have the last word" "Please,
ma'am, how am 1 to know that you have
nothing more to say2"
By the way, isn't 1t a little late for Lieu
tenant Peary to start for the North Pole7
Is it generally understood that the poles
are osed.-Boston Herald.
Is he a business man? OF course;
And constant are his labors;
He in a village lives, and tends
The business of his neighbors.
Yankee Blade.
He-'Is this the first time you've
ever been in love, darliug2" She (thought-
lesslO-"Yes, but it's so nice that
hope it won't be the last l"-Tid. Bits.
BARRIERS, it can not be denied
Are honest fellows-5ut
Wnene'er they chance to cut your hide
They try TO hide your cut.
Puck
"There, mamma" said the small boy
as he gazed at the dromedary, "that
must be the camel that had the last straw
put on its back. Washington Star.
Knowitt-"Animals are naturally of
quarrelsome disposition. AS the poet
says, dogs delight to bark and bite"
Howitt-"Yes, and even the oyster Of
ten gets into broil."
"I've been working hard all day."
said the music teacher, as he entered the
paror of his boarding house. "Well,
now you can play a while, replied Cub
bison as he vacated the piano STOOL
Judge.
The Husbaud-"You're not economi-
cal" The Wife-"Well, il you don't
call woman economical who saves her
wedding dress for a possible second mar
riage I'd like to know what you think
economy is. is."-Mercury.
He wrote a story, very short
Accepted. Quite a hit"
But it was very, very long
Before they printed it.
Detroit Free Press.
suitor-"M Madam, love youp Wild.
ow-"That's an old story" Suitor-
al adore your Widow-"A hackneyed
phrase" Suitor-'I cannot live with
out you aud wish to marry YOU" Wild.
ow-."An original idea at last; yes, /
like that. Mercury.
Mr. Wade, husband who deserves
once mentioned to his wife
a tragic circumstance that he had read
that day in the newspaper, A passenger
on transatlantic steamer had fallen
overheard in mld-ocean, and had never
been seen again. "Was he drownedl"
asked Mrs. Wade. "Oh, no; Of course
not, said Mr.. Wade; "but he spraned
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

There is said to be distressing
amount Of lunaoy in Ireland, the number
Of cases per 100, 600 of population hav-
ing increased from 249 in 1880 to 355
in 1891
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18

Sir George Trevelyau, Prime Minister
Gladstone's Secretary for Scotland, says
we may read books, but we must read
newspapers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
THE WAX FLOWERS,
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

oW beautiful, Lily |
It seems as if l could
almost smell tn e fra
GRANGE. l wish we
could afford to keep
them.
And little Mary
Melbrook stood glee-
fully on tiptoe to ex-
amina tha delicate
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27

are the most reasonable-the best
remedy for the unfair treatment of
laboring people, and we are glad,
rather than otherwise, that the
scene of war between employers
and employees is to be shifted to
other fields of operation. Doubtless
the war will go on, but the heavy
firing from this time on will center
at the ballot-box.
Law for the employer as well as
for the employee
The rule Of right. must take the
place of might, and decisions must
be had against the employer as well
as against the employe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27

are forced to the bottom; yet, we
are bound to believe that if that ter
rible anxiety resulting from the un-
certainty of gaining livelihood
was removed by certainty of en-
ployment at living wages, mankind
would bound forward and upward,
morally, intellectually and physical
ly, with long and rapid strides.
To-day, in the United States (say
nothing of the old worldly, poverty
is lettering the minds and bodies of
men and women in large numbers,
who, were they relieved of the ter
rible strain of struggle for life,
could, and would, vastly swell the
volume of intellectually, besides
adding greatly to better moral and
physical conditions. Briefly, ex-
IRENE poverty { we mean the lack OF
shelter and wholesome food) is
curse to the human race, and con-
stantly retards and menaces the adj
vancement Of civilization and, in
solution of the problem, how to
abolish extreme poverty, is wrapped
the future Of mankind.
Poverty, ignorance and vice are
the triplets that destroy nations,
and ignorance and vice are often the
progeny of poverty.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27
Read "The Golden Bottle. "

NOTWITHSTANDING the Mckinley
tariff, our imports exceed our ex-
ports, which goes to show that high
tariff does not protect the American
laborers by furnishing more employ
ment at higher wages. The more
foreign goods consumed by Ameri-
cans, the less employment for Amer
lean operatives.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27

If you have never seen the sug-
gestive picture printed by The
Road, Denver, Colo, entitled, "The
English Octopus, call at this office
and see it. Every Populist or ALI
ance man ought to have one. It's a
great educator. the price is only
rs cents reduced price in connec-
tion with this paper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27

The National Spectator, of Fres-
no, CAL, grows better each week.
Those veteran reformers, M. w.
Wilkins and Job Hartman, will
make things lively on the Pacific
coast. By the way, why not send
"a dollar and get the Spectator a
year? You'll always be glad you
did it. At any rate, send a quarter
and try it three months.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27
WAsHiNeroN dispatches on

WAsHiNGToN dispatches on the
position of the secretary OF the
treasury ON the issuing of gold
bonds are contradictory. One day
we are told that the secretary has
prepared bonds, and if the drain of
gold continues, will issue them.
The next day we are told that the
secretary will not issue bonds, but
will fight the Wall street spectators
to the extent of even drawing on
the 500, OOe, 900 gold reserve +; but
the report seems to be confirmed
that no more gold certificates will
be issued at present.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27
STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.


"there are two kinds of competition
i. e., the struggle for life and emula
ton" The struggle for life ma.
be likened to two hostile armies. |
the one gains, the other loses
Where, in the struggle for life, on
man becomes a millionaire, thou
sand men lose the comforts of life
and gradually descend lower ant
lower in the scale of poverty ant
degradation to the utter extinction
or burden upon society. In war
the victor is nearly always loser
In that state of society which pro
duces multi milionaires, the very
rich are losers in all the nobler attri
butes of humanity, and society gen
erallv suffers from the burden of ;
multitude of very poor people.
War is unnatural in that it gives
vent to the worst passions of men
cultivating, oftentimes, all that i
superlatively bad in human nature
to even an intense desire for the
blood of our fellows ; and gain, il
the struggle for life, increases will
each new accession of wealth in the
gamer, and embitters the life of the
loser.
The struggle for life, in which
the big fish eat up the little ones, is
not only not christian, but unnatural
while emulation is natural, and the
guiding star of progress. 1t is the
farmer who emulates that advances
agriculture-not by over-reaching
but by himself producing something
excellent. 1t is the inventor tina
emulates by inventing something
useful to his kind, even though, az
is often the case, it be done in long
years of poverty and trial. And Sc
of the laborer or mechanic wh(
aims at excellence--or in the pro
fessions. A true teacher (and there
are many of them aims to make
scholars of his pupils--not alone TO
gain, but for love of his kind ant
the glory of his vocatiod. A true
preacher of the gospel aims to ad
vance religion and morals, and il
happiest not over the inflow o
shekels, but the outflow of wicked
ness. The physicians delight is il
healing.
And, while all these occupation
are made the means of gaining
living, and in the struggle that mus
ensue under present conditions, som,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27
THE LABOR QUESTION.

bearing upon the quesC'ohS %
strikes and boycotts have at
tracted more than usual attention
from the general public. In the
Ohio case, Judge Kicks has decided
that laborers working in the employ
of railway corporations may not
quit such service at pleasure. The
following language is employed
"You can't always choose your own
time and place for terminating the
mountaineering the relations OF
employee to employer; and as we
understand the sentence, and as
other parts of the decision imply, a
railway employees organization may
not order and enforce strike if due
notice has not been given the com
pany, and the company's consent to
quit work has not been obtained.
In the New Orleans case, Judge
Billings, in rendering decision on
a strike of warehouse men, uses the
following language in his decision
against labor organizations that
went on a strike in November and,
for time, paralyzed business:
"When lawful associations take on
unlawful purposes and do unlawful
acts. the associations themselves be-
come unlawful"
AS we understand the above Ian
guage, strike is unlawful, and
when labor organization engages
in strike, the organization becomes
unlawful.
These two decisions settle the
utility of labor organizations as
means of redressing grievances by
strikes. for the whole thing in a nut
shell is that labor organizations may
not quit certain employments with
out leave from employers or, IN so
doing, becoming unlawful organiza-
tions.
Now, we do not propose to dis
cuss the question of whether OF not
the decisions are in accordance with
law. further than to express our
opinion that the Sherman anti COM
bine law was intended, as was fore
Swallowed at the time of its passage,
to cover just such cases as the ONO
and New Orleans cases, and IT the
decisions are in accordance with the
law, the judges are not to blame,
but the lawmakers. Courts are the
creatures of law, and any court de-
cision that creates an evil can be
easily remedicd by legislation.
Surprising the decisions referred
to are sustained by the supreme
court of the United Stases, and be-
come the rule in dealing with labor
organizations, the only power that
will save the laborers of this coun-
try from serfdom is in the halls of
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27

IT is reported that one OF the
great railroad kings has AL aunt SO
poor that she earns bare living for
herself and her invalid husband by
knitting. The aunt belongs to the
common herd" and the king
would rather let her suffer and die
Of want than assist her, and thereby
let the public know that he has poor
kinsfolk. Dickens describes this
excresence of humanity in his
"Hard Tines" Old Bounderly,
rich IN stolen gains, was ashamed to
own his mother, and would not own
her publicly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27

READ "The Golden Bottle" lgna-
thus Donnelly's newest book. 1t is
so intensely interesting that when
one begins to read it, it is difficult
to stop until the last page is finish
cd II is a book of our times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-27

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