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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
Cured BY Laughter.

Laughter has often dissipated dis
ease and preserved life by Sudden
effort of nature. We are told that the
great Erasmus laughed SO heartily ut
satirical remark that he broke II
tumor and recovered his health. In Il
singular treatise on daughter, 4"
Joubert gives two similar instances.
A patient being very low, the physician,
who had ordered dose of rhubarb,
countermanded the medicine, which
was left on the table. A monkey in
the room jumping up, discovered the
goblet, and having tasted, made Il
terrible grimace, Again putting only
his tongue to it, he perceived some
sweetness of the dissolved mama,
while the rhubarb had sunk TO the
bottom. Thus cmboldoned, he swul-
lowed the whole, but found it such a
nauseous potion that after many
strange and fantastic grimaces, he
ground his teeth in agony, and in
violent fury threw the goblet ON the
floor. The whole affair was So ludicrous.
that the sick mau burst into repeated
peals of laughter, and the recovery of
cheerfulness led to health. New York
Ledger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
Saws The Boston Herald:

Says the Boston Herald: "rhe
country taverns are reported to be
getting a good deal of custom from
bicycle riders this summer, who make
long journeys into the country. put up
for day or night, and then keep on
or return home. Any town in the
rural districts that has good roads is
sure TO be benefited by this sort OF
custom, and in time it will more than
make up for the losses which the
country hotels and boarding houses
are likely to experience on account of
the prevailing business depression.
Let the town authorities bear in mind
that good roads are the prime requisite
for encouraging this business, how.
ever"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
length Of the World,s nays.

At Stockholm, Sweden, the longest
day is lSl hours in length; at Spite
bergen it is three and hale months.
At Londeu, England, aud Bremen,
Prussia, the longest day has 10I hours
At Hamburg, Germany, and Dautzig,
Prussia, the longest day has seventeen
hours At Wardbury, Norway, tho
longest day last, from May 81 to July
%, without interruption. Ar St. Pc
tersburg Russia aad Toholisk, Sibe-
ria, the lcngost day 10 nineteon hours
and the shortest five hours. Az Tor
nel, Finlanl June n brings day
nearly twenty-five hodra long, and
Christmas ono loss than three hours il
length, At New York tho Longest day
is about fftson hours; at Montreal,
Canada, il 10 sixteen hours. Chicago
Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

One of the most commendable
pensions granted by the British Gov.
ernment during the past year, the
New Orleans Picayune thinks, was that
of $500 to Miss Lucy Garnett in recog.
milton of her literary merits and to
enable her to prosecute her researches
in Oriental folklore. Other note
worthy pensions bestowed during the
year were one of 1870 to the widow OF
Professor Minto, and one of $3.50 to
t. Adolphus Trollope's widow. The
ladies, indeed, Jared very well, Miss
Margaret Stokes receiving $500 for her
researches into early Christian art and
archaeology in Ireland, and Mrs.
Cashel Hoey $3.50 for her novels. The
Rev. Richard Morris, TO whom every
student of early English literature and
philology is indebted, receives $3.50
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

The interesting fact is shown in the
emigration and immigration returns o.
Great Britain and ireland last yeal
that, while the native population il
leaving in hundred of thousands fol
this country and the British colonies,
there is considerable influx of immi
grants into the United Kingdom, com.
ing for permanent settlement. Last
year 210, ,042 British and Irish left
their home, the great majority, $50,
039, coming to the United States. In
the same period %, ,137 aliens from the
continent of Europe arrived in the
United Kingdom "for permanent set
tlement."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

If half the stories told of him are
true, Lord Cromer, the British diplo.
matte agent in Egypt, is an original
individual. He divides his leisure time
between lawn tennis and Homer in the
original Greek. During the recent
Egyptian crisis Lord Cromer ordered
the Khedive to dismiss his prime min
lister within twenty-four hours, ordered
troops from Malta and Alden in case of
an emergency and then went out and
played tennis until sunset.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
More than eight thousand persons

More than eight thousand persons
the exact number is S180-committed
suicide in Paris in 1891. The proper
tion is twenty-one to every 100, 900 of
the inhabitants, and the increase over
1881 is twenty-five per cent. What
has caused the enormous percentage
of increase in self-destruction in ten
years, wonders the New York Mail
and Express. Apparently life is no
harder and its condition no more dis
couraging than they were ten years
anO
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

The paucity of American born sail
ors in the United States Navy has ex.
cited a great deal of comment, OBJ.
serves the Chicago Herald. A record
of the seamen serving in the navy since
the establishment of this system shows
that not more than four per cent. OF
the lads who are graduated from the
apprentice training system continue in
the service of the United States. The
records futhur show that of the 1850
seamen allowed by law in the navy, less
than one-half of those who enlist at the
receiving ships are native born Ameri-
cans
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

= A novel method of meeting the
chinch bug post is being adopted in
Minnesota, where these insects appear
in such large numbers as to destroy
the crops. There is disease known
as entomophahera, which is deadly TO
the bugs. Several hundred of them
are caught, inoculated with it and
turned loose. These give it to others,
and in the consequent epizootic the
bugs disappear.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

The New York Post remarks that
"Few people have any conception of
the pressure for pardon which is
brought to bear upon every Executive.
Governor Stone, of Missouri, has at
least 800 applications before him, and
declares that it is not an exaggeration
to say that one-half of his time is alb
sorbed in listening to such applica-
tions, which are presented by mothers,
wives, daughters, lawyers, friends from
every part of the State, singly, by
twos and threes, and often in larger
delegations. Most of these applica-
tions he has to refuse, only nineteen
having been granted during the first
six months of his term; but it is easy
to accept his plea that IAN undue pro-
portion of my time is consumed with
these matters, and the strain upon
nervous vitality resulting from the pa
thetic incidents connected with them
is very exhausting' 1t is obvious that
some change ought to be made, either
by the establishment of Board of
Pardons or otherwise for it is absurd
that half of an Executives time and
strength should be exhausted IN con
sidering petitions that he will SET aside
the findings of the courts.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

A controversy is raging in St. Louis
about the identity of the last surviving
soldier of the Revolutionary War. The
facts seem to indicate, concludes the
Atlanta Constitution, that this obscure
individual was John Gray, who died at
HirNmsburg, Ohio, March %, 1868,
and who lies buried there in an almost
unmarked grave. He was 104 years
old at the time of his death, and was a
Continental soldier when only sixteen
wears old
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

Some time ago an Iowa cyclone fol-
lowed the route of railroad for sew
eral miles, and now, the Chicago Her
aid learns that there is theorist on
deck who proposes 20 steer these
storms, by means Of rails laid and
wires strung for the purpose, into open
sections of country where they can
spend their force without damage.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

Western railroad officials say that
this years corn crop viii be 800, 600,
600 bushels larger than last year s
that the oat crop 10000, 900 larger
that the wheat crop will be only
100, 900, 900 bushels smaller; that the
hog crop will be 1000, 900 larger and
that all roads will have vastly moro to
haul than in 1922. State Secretary
Mohler has issued a special report on
the corn prospects of Kansas. He puts
the area at 6, 296, 600 acres, only 600, 900
under the wonderful area of 1889, when
the yield was 273, 900, 900, and that the
condition this year promises yield
exceeded only by 1889.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
WISE WORDS.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth we'll
Self-respect-that cornerstone of all
virtue.
There is no malice like the malice of
the renegade.
The absence of temptation is the
absence of virtue.
No man who needs q monument ever
ought to have one.
No nation can be destroyed while it
possesses a good home life.
Out of clothes, out of countenance
out of countenance, out of wit.
The lowest people are generally the
first to find fault with show of equipage.
As soon go kindle fire with snow as
seek to quench the fire of love with
words.
What is becoming in behavior is
honorable, and what is honorable is
becoming.
Be thou the first true merit to be-
friend his praise is lost who waits till
all commend.
1t is vain to trust in wrong; as much
of evil so much of loss, is the fol mula
of human history.
He who observes the speaker more
than the sound of his words will seldom
meet with disappointments.
A politician weakly and amiably
right is no match for politician
tenaciously and pugnaciously in the
wrong.
Men seldom, or rather, never, for n
length of time and deliberately rebel
against anything that does not deserve
rebelling against
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

Prince Henry of Orleans, who is not
of much account in most things, has
shown wisdom in advising the scions
of French royal houses to assist in the
colonial development of France, since
they can but add confusion to confu-
sion if they take part in politics. 1t
was upon his advice that the young
Duke of Uzeo went on the Congo ex-
pedition, which proved fatal to him.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
WOULD WE RErURN7

Would we return
II once the gates which closed upon ths
past
We're opened wide for us and II the dear
Remembered pathway stretched before Z
clear
To lead us back to youths lost land at last,
When on life April shadows lightly cast,
Recalled the old sweet days of childish fear
With all their faded hopes. and brought
anenr
The far off streams with which our skies
were glassed
Did these lost dreams which wake the souls
sad yearnins
But live once more and waited our returning,
Would we return?
Robert Burns Wilson.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

A California man offers to give, with
out charge, to the city of San Fran
cisco flow of water amounting to
100, 900, 900 gallons daily and bring it
about 100 miles from the forks of
North and Middle Yuba Rivers. His
only condition is that he should have
the privilege of leasing for q period of
twenty-five years the horse power to
be developed from the water.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

The English, who are trying to
anglicize Egypt, are very much an.
noyed by recent decree Of the young
Khedive TO the effect that the Arabic
language must be used in all branches
of the curriculum of the Government
schools. The study of this language
has always been required of every
pupil, and they attain considerable
proficiency in it, in order to pass the
necessary examinations, but under the
present order it will become practi-
cally the vernacular, The English
consider this a long step backward,
and say that all the text books on the
modern arts and sciences are in the
languages of Europe, and that all at
tempts to teach them in the Arabic
have resulted badly. This, perhaps,
was due to the fact that the teachers
We're not 80 familiar with the language
as they might have been. At all
events, no one can blame the Khedive
for using all the means in his power to
keep alive the National institutions
and feelings of his people. Egypt is
almost British colony now.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
HOW TO LIVE.

So should we live that every hour,
May die as dies the natural flower.
A seli-revivlng thing of power.
That every thought, and every deed,
May hold within itself the seed,
OF future good and future need.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

A New York music dealer says that
the composer of CATER the BALI will
make $1O0, 900 out of his song. Many
other authors of popular songs have
made nothing because they failed to
take out copyrights.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
AN INTERRUPTED VERDICT.

HE lights were
turned low in
the courtroom,
and about them
slowly circled
the foul, heavy
air, adding TO
the d i'm IL e So.
Judge Green
goods had gone
to his dinner,
h av ing an
nounced his in
tention to re-
turn at 8 O'Clock
uni @ SIS sum.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

The School Board of Auburn, Me-,
has decided that il takes six children
to make a school, and they intend
closing up all schools having less than
that number.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

Western geologist snys that Kansas
can raise wheat for another thousand
years before exhausting the necessary
properties of the soil.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20

The Greek style of building, modi-
fed to modern needs, has been most
successfully used in Paris, where many
palaces are seen of this construction
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-20
They are proposing to pension teach-
ers in England.

Crime is rapidly increasing all over
Argentina. Statistics show that il has
more than doubled during the past
two years.
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25
DIED..

WILLIAMS - At Paramount, La, on
Sunday, February 19, 1893, William Will
lams departed this life, aged 4S years, 2
months and days.
"Bill," as he was called by all who knew
him, was noble colored man. In slave
times he was the house servant of Mrs.
Mary Ann Hickman. After being freed
he remained with her until about thir
teen years ago, when he became trusted
man with A. A. Dean. He was industri-
Gus, prosperous and honest, and was hon.
ored by all who knew him as good cIti-
zen. While apparently strong and in
good health, he was told by the doctor
some time since that he was bound to die
soon. His last words were: II am per-
fectly willing and ready to 60. l am
straight with the world and at peace with
all men. and am going to meet my God"
Then turning to his sister, who had ar
rived from New Orleans to see him, he
said, You are just in time" He told all
aronnd him to be straight and honest.
His last political act was to vote for
Grover Cleveland. He was buried by the
side of his father, at the israelite church,
on Tuesday, Feb. 21st, his funeral being
attended by at least six hundred people,
Bill will long be remembered and sadly
missed. And he will have share
When the mighty trumpet shall sound.
To wake from death the sleeping dead,
With Joy and gladness beaming round
Thy own triumphant head.
Fairuount Ia Feb u 1904
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25
Time Proves All Thin gs.

The editor of the New Era tries
to make it appear criminal for the
CHRONICLE to receive half rates for
honest and Legitimate labor, which
any three disinterested and compe-
tent judges will say is low for the
work performed. The amount of
personal billingsgate he has in
dulged in his insane and malicious
endeavor to create prejudice in the
matter is simply disreputable and
unworthy in any one who aspires
to journalism. He seems to forget
the old truism that any body can
be a BLACKBOARD who will allow his
natural vulgarity to crop out. -
Had we been disposed to fight on
this line we could have made sew
eral very caustic remarks about his
official and criminal neglect that
caused the last two terms of our
court to become almost null, by the
discharge of the jury, thus costing
the parish a thousand dollars or
more by his individual neglect to
perform his duty. We might also
have said something about the
double issue of scrip from his Of
fee, and the palpable overcharge
he has allowed many persons to
make for mileage, when he had
every reason to know it was wrong.
Then we might retort that If the
parish had the money in her treas
ury that he has thus caused her to
expend for nothing, it would 90 a
great deal further toward making a
creditable exhibit at Chicago than
the amount paid to the CHRONICLE
for actual labor performed. But
we have preferred to wait patient
| ly for these matters to be investi-
gated by the courts;- and, in this,
as in all other things, we are per-
fectly content for the people to
make up their verdict after calm
and considerate investigation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25

The greatest surprise that Mr..
Cleveland has yet sprung on the
Democrats of these United States
was the SELECTION of Judge Wal
ter O. Gresham as a member of his
cabinet. His prominence as Re-
publican has been of years stand
ing, and his avoyed and open es-
pousal of Cleveland's election in
the late campaign is held to have
gone long ways toward the po-
litical landslide that occurred. But
this appears to be no good reason
why he should have been elevated
to one of the most prominent po-
sitions within the disposal of the
President. 1t may be all right
from a "mugwump" standpoint,
but it is plainly against all the
rules of the party to which Mr..
Cleveland owes his election.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25

The selections of Mr.. Cleveland
for his cabinet are said to be as
follows: Gresham, for Secretary
of State; Carlisle, for Secretary of
the Treasury; Bissell, for Post
master General; Lamont, for Sec
rotary of War; Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, for Secretary of the In
terror; Olney, of Massachusetts, for
Attorney General; Hebert, of Ala
bama, for Secretary of the Navy;
and Morton, of Nebraska, for Sec
rotary of Agriculture.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25

Our aged fellow-citizen, Mr.. JAS A.
Bradford, OF ward five, has written let
ter to Town Talk, reciting that he has
been set upon, beaten and robbed by one
Pat Duke, who was arrested by Con-
stable John Clark, and then allowed to
escape, instead of being brought to Col
fax as the law requires. He charges col
fusion on the part of the officials; also
complains that the parish papers have
taken no notice OF the facts. If they are
as he alleges, it is high time for vigorous
measures to be taken for his protection.
No report of the facts has ever reached
this office. If they had Mr.. Bradford can
rest assured they would certainly have
been made public.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25
CoLFAx, La, February 81, 1s

CoLFAx, La, February Il, 1893.
The members of the Police Jury Of
Grant Parish, La, are hereby notified
to assemble at Colfax on Saturday, March
IL, 1898, to meet and consult with Mr.. j.
G. Wickliffe, Worlds Fair Commissioner,
relative to the ACCESSIBILITY of having the
Parish represented at Chicago.
Also it is imperative that consultation
and inspection be had of the work now
being done ON the new Jail, relative to
placing water pipes, tank, cistern, etc.
A full meeting is requsted..
II. G. GOODWIN,
President P.J. of Grant Parish.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25
* GRANT PARISH La, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1893.

less, we have sufficient faith in the
ingenuity of the Anglo Saxon to be-
lieve that it can and will be arrang-
ed, and that, too, without conflict
ing with the State constitution, or
that of the United States, forbid
ding restriction of suffrage ION &C
count of race color or previous
condition"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25
Let's Talk it Over.

Last week it was announced that
the extra session of the police jury
asked for by Mr.. j. G. Wickliffe,
Worlds. Fair Commissioner, to
meet him in consultation on Satur-
day, March 18th, would not be call
ed. Since then the following COM
munication has been received In
reference to the matter:
H. G. Goodwin, Esq, President Police Jury
Dear Sir-Your favor of the 14th inst.
is received and contents noted. In reply
will say that L requested the meeting
of your police jury by the direction of
Gov. Foster, who is very anxious that
/ see the police juries, In body, and lay
before them his reasons why they should
make some appropriation for the Safe ex-
hibit at Chicago. 1t is not my purpose
to ask anything for the exposition; but to
ask the police juries to make some appro-
prlation to show the resources OF their
own parishes, to the end that immigrants
may be induced to settle in them. 1t Is
impossible that you could put before
them in letters the reasons advanced by
the Governor, as strongly as / could do In
person, and therefore renew my request
that you convene the jury on the day
specified in my first letter to you. Grant
is the second parish in the State, of all to
which 1 have applied, to refuse the repre-
sentative of the State hearing, and l
hope that the refusal will not be persist
al in Vary frulv vours
JNo. G. WICKLIFFE,
State Commissioner.
Rather than appear discourteous
to the State representative, and as
it is essential to have a meeting
of the building committee to de-
eide as to the location of the water
tank, cistern, pipes, ETC., that are to
be put in the new Jail by Mr. Ba-
den, the contractor, it has been de-
cided to call the meeting for March
18th as requested, at which time
Mr.. Wickliffe can be heard, and
the necessary arrangements for
placing the new steel cages in the
Jail can be completed at the same
time.
The question of representation
at Chicago is one of great impor-
lance. The members of the police
jury should give it careful consid-
Grafton, and come to Colfax on the
18th of March, prepared to give il
due weight with reference to the
general good. See official call for
the meeting elsewhere.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Trescott are
keepers Of the Government Lighthouse
at Sand Beach, Mich, and are blessed
with daughter, four years old. Last
April she was taken down with measles
followed with a dreadful cough and
turning into fever. Doctors at home
and at Detroit treated her. but in vain,
she grew worse radidly until she was a
.mere handful of bones" Then she
tried DR.. Kings New Discovery and
after the use of two and half bot
ties, was completely cured. They say
DR.. Kings New Discovery is worth its
weight in gold, yet you may get a
trial bottle free at c. c. Nash's. 6