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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-01
FRIDAY, DECEMBER l, 1898.

The New Orleans States amuses
itself and tickles the Democratic
ribs by discOursing on the poor
sense of the Republican party in
this Hawaiian matter. The States
has a vivid Imagination, but it is
not equal to the task of picturing
the deep disgust of the country
with the Cleveland foolishness in
this same Hawaii business. The
horse sense of the man who orders
down an American flag that he
did not raise and for which he is
not responsible is open to severe
arraignment.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-01
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-01
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
THE DEATH STROKE.

Twas the sunny Syrian seq
of the coast Of Tripon
And the ironclads Of England were at
play,
While their mimic thunder rent
With its roar the armament.
As they tackled and they maneuvred IN the
bay
For our navy is the pride
OF that sea without a tide,
And our home is on the deep amid the
spray.
Something terribly amiss
In moment That or this
Man or mechanism Well. do not know ;
On the gallant flagship came,
Quick as stroke of lightning flame
Or the giant rush of tempest, such a blow
That, her harness rent, she bowedi
And mighty iron shroud,
With her Admiral and crew she sank
below
Do you deem they should have died
On fierce and Redeemed tide.
In the fury and the glory of the fight2
With the ensign shot to rags,
And with striking OF the flags
or the foemen on the left and on the
right
With brave rescue from the wreck,
And wild cheering on the deck,
That Britannia had not parted with her
might2
De such glory what 1t may,
Yet venture still to say
That these shall not lose their guerdon or
their fame,
Though they died without blow:
Well, the Highest-died He so;
And our land shall shrine their memory and
their name:
For the man who, in the host,
Is death stricken at HIS post,
1T is finished" maytriumphantly exclaim
There is grief :or me and you,
But for Tyron and his crew
Happy future as was honor in the past
Though the Admiral no more
May hear wind or water roar.
Though his sailors cannot battle with the
blast,
For. the Pilot OF all seas,
lie will welcome souls like these,
And shall guide them to fair haven-land
at last
-Jondon Athen@um.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

The trials of the rainmaker are, in
deed, numerous, remarks the Wash
ington Star. For a long time it has
been asserted that rainmaker is a
myth. People may think they pro-
duce rain, and they may make other
people think so; but, according to the
doubters, it is case of Imagination
purely. Under conditions like these
the rainmaker might comfort himself
with the thought that genius very sell
dom secures prompt appreciation and
go his way, feeling sure that posterity
would see his vindication. But now
comes grief of an entirely opposite
character. A Kansas rainmakef boast
ed that n cloudburst, which came quite
unprotected, was the result of his pro-
fessional endeavors. Thereupon a
Kansas farmer arose with claim for
damages because the cloudburst had
destroyed his crops, and the wife of
man who was killed in awashout wants
liberal damages. The dilemma is a
painful one, The rainmaker must
either repudiate his science AMI de-
clare that his assertions were empty
boasts, or else he must assume the
moral and financial responsibility for
this devastating storm. 1t is an inter,
esting problem, too, for the courts to
handle, and the public will wait with
interest for light which the judicial
mind may throw on the question of to
what extent it is possible for a rain
maker to be responsible for rain.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

They tell me you have completely be-
witched the boy, " reioined the friend.
81 must confess he seems to act very
foolishly. No matter what do or say,
or ignore him, can't scare him away.
have never done the slightest thing
to encourage him." Julia soberly re-
piled.
'What's the matter with the boy,
thon, that he hangs around you SO
much?" the friend asked.
81 don't know" Julia slowly said,
and added in wistful manner, 81
wonder whether jimmy will ever be q
man-will ever look like n man."
"He'eapretty boy, anyhow, " laughed
the friend
''Pretty rs a baby" said Julia, join
ing in the laugh.
The subject of this conversation was
not boy, but man of thirty years.
A man of full stature, yet with the ex-
pressionless face of a baby. 1t was
round and full The skin was of a soft
pink color, with tinge of darker color
in the cheeks. The eyes were large
and of light blue, and opened in an
innocent surprise when their owner
was spoken to. He had little chubby
nose and small mouth. There were
no lines or shadows on his face.
He was pretty man so pretty that
his face was repulsive to man and to
womaukind. There was nothing
about the face to counteract the seem
ingly expressionless vacuity there.
Strangers continually asked, "Who is
the man with the baby facet" The
reply was always Jimmy Ellis, The
man james Ellis was swallowed up in
the boy Jimmy.
Another characteristic heightened
the effects of his boyishness. Hisvoice
was pitched an octave higher than is
usual in men. He spoke in light,
chattering tone that went off into a
screech. He talked and laughed like
woman. All his male associates as
he became older grew away from him,
deriding the man with baby face and
woman's voice Womankind seemed
ever TO be making sport of him.
James Ellis was extremely sensitive
in respect to these characteristics. He
Nhb COubclOub OF Iue run ana sport
others were having at his expense. In
consequence ne gave humanity a wide
berth While he did so, he hated
that big baby face of his. 1t made
life miserable to him. 1t angered him
at times to hear his own voice. He
had in vain tried to coax n growth of
whiskers 70 hide the face. A tuft of
yellow hair here and there was all that
made its appearance. In despair he
had given up any further attempts in
this direction.
Notwithstanding these outward
signs, James Ellis WAS Il man of true,
honest, and honorable instincts and as
pira.ions. He delighted in the pleasures
of robust manhood. He was an all
round athlete. There was not a better
horseback-rider IN tho town in which
he lived, His mother had died when
he was a child. His father died when
he reached his minority, leaving him IL
homo in tho Pennsylvania town of B.
and tvo farms lying near the village.
An aunt hal beou installed ag house
keeper oTeI the home.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

The Southern States Magazine OBJ
serves: "There appears to be an inn
preston among those who have seen
but little of the South, particularly
during the past two years, that the
Southern planter or farmer is SO abso-
lutely dependent upon cotton that if
that single crop fails, ruin and desola-
tion to the entire farming community
will follow. While it is true that n
certain number of cotton planters still
hold to the time-honored plan of plant
ing nothing but cotton, the time when
this could be called universal con-
dition in the South has happily passed.
and new and broader farming indus
try has taken its place. In 1892 the
cotton crop of the South was valued at
about $315, 5,000,0 ,000 The corn crop
was valued at $24S, 900, 900, wheat over
$40, 900, 900 and oats about S25, 900, 600.
These three products then were of
equal value with the cotton crop. Add
ing to them the value Of tobacco raised,
over S22, 600, 900; of rice, about S1O,-
600, 900; Florida oranges, about S3,-
800, 900, and of garden truck, fruit and
vegetables shipped North, between
$40, 900, 900 and $50, 900, 900, the total
value of the products named amounts
to about $40, 900, 600. 1t was only in
the years Immediately following the
war that cotton was raised almost TO
the exclusion of other products. This
was because the people were almost
penniless and cotton was the one crop
upon which advances could be secured.
The condition of things has been stead
lily improving, and within the past two
years the lesson taught by planting too
much cotton has been 80 impressed
upon every one engagedin in it that there
has been a general effort to raise more
foodstuffs, and particularly to provide
the food needed on each plantation or
GGm. The Southern farmer to-day is
not solely dependent upon his cotton
crop for living, In western Tennes-
see, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas, while some few are follow
ing the old plan of purchasing food and
planting cotton, the vast majority are
raising diversified crops, and each sue
ceeding year will see this plan carried
out in greater degree. In Georgia
and the CarolinNs cotton raising will
soon hold second place, RS to value,
among the agricultural products OF the
States, not necessarily because less
will bo raised, but becauge of tho IA
cretse in tho production of cereals,
fruits and vegetables Through the
western part of the cotton belt such
condition will not be likely to exist.
but cotton will never again he raised
in place of food products, US has been
done in the past. "
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

Foreigners are wont to classify Aus
trin among the German countries. As
n matter of fact her German speaking
population is but limited, and annually
losing ground. The increase in popu-
lation among the German inhabitants
of Austria is but 5.17 per thousand per
year the increase with the Italians in
Austria is 8. 80, and with the Slavonic
races 1888. OF 100 marringeable wo.
men in the German districts of Austria,
forty-one find husbands; among the
Slavonic races the percentage is fifty
two. One of the reasons for this show
ing is that in the German districts of
Austria the economic management of
affairs is almost prohibitory to mar
riage among the younger sons and
daughters of the peasants. The home
stead goes to the eldest son, whose
brothers and sisters become his SER
wants. Among the Slavs the family
property is equally divided among all
children after the death of the father,
and each one is allowed to begin house
keeping on his own hook.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
Imitation American Physicians,

American medical missionaries are
now very popular in China. They are
everywhere welcome, more especially
because they offer medical advice and
medicine gratis, prefaced with re-
ligious exercises. The Chinese np-
pear to appreciate this kind of practi-
cal religion. In recent letter to the
Missionary Herald, Doctor Chaplin
tells of his missionary successes in the
vicinity of PNng Chuang, and says
con this trip l learned for the first
time that there are in this part of
China Il number of counterfeit for
eigners. was myself taken to be one
of that class because of an ability to
make myself understood in Chinese.
1t seems that one or more enterpris-
ing celestials have gone into the work
of dispensing medicines aftor the man
ner of the American physician. Usu-
ally two or three men go together.
One of these dresses in foreign cos
tune and talks a gibberish which is
not understood by the natives, and so
passes for foreign language. In
imitation of American physicians, all
medicine is given away, but, unlike
that fraternity, the bogus representa-
tive of America is quite willing to re-
ceive contributions of grain to feed the
animal which helps convey him from
village to village. In consequence
grain pours in upon him by the guam
tity. This is disposed of by confed-
crate at the nearest fair, and then All
Sin departs for fresh fields and pas
lures new.''
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

The Rev. Thomas Craven, who has
been Methodist missionary for nearly
twenty years in India, is visiting Chi
cago. He says, reports the New York
Tribune, that almost the only news
cabled from this country to India dur
ing the last few months has been that
relating TO silver. ''Even such i'm
portant matters MS the election of
Cleveland, he says, "might reasonably
have been expected TO be have been
ignored in the telegraphic dispatches
to India. These dispatches did not
even let MS know whether Cleveland
was elected or not. But, on the other
hand, every little motion or resolution
and every interview with well-known
public men on the silver question was
at once telographed TO u.s. This
showed the keenness with which we
were observing the action of this coun-
try on the silver question.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
BOOHl

On afternoons. when baby boy has had a
splendid nap,
And sits, like any monarch on his throne, in
nurses lap.
In some such wise my handkerchief hold
before my face,
And cautiously and quietly move about the
place;
Then. with a cry. [ suddenly expose my face
to view.
And you should hear him laugh and crow
when say "Booh "
Sometimes that rascal tries to make believe
that he Is scared,
And. really, when first began he stared
and stared and stared
And then his under lip came out and farther
out Il came
Till mamma and the nurse agreed It was
"cruel shame
But now what does that same wee todling,
lisping baby do
But laugh and kick his little heels when
say "Booh"
He laughs and kicks his little heels in rap
turous glee, and then
In shrlll, despotic treble bids me "do It all
aden -
And I--of course 1 do it for, as his progen-
itor,
1t is such pretty, pleasant play as this that I
am for
And it Is. oh. such fun and am sure that
shall rue
The time when we are both too old to play
the game Of ''booh -
Eugene Field, in Chicago Record
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

could for him, that it was for him now
to grow in strength. 1t was not until
that time that James fully realized
that n great change had taken plec0
Jimmy" with the baby face was d
thing of the past There was an ugly
scar on the forehead, another on the
chin and one on the cheek. There
we're red patches where he had been
burned. He was no longer pretty.
He was ugly, yet not repulsively so
no uglier than many other men. With
the fever had also gone the woman's
voice. It was now like that of other
men.
1t was four months since that day in
February that he decided to venture
out He waited until ii was dusk.
Then he made his way to the home of
Julia. He was ushered into the parlor,
where n half-light burned. In mo-
ment julia came, coming quickly to
see her Jimmy much-ta talked of
and admired hero of the night of the
fre-and to congratulate him on his
recovery. She rushed up to him, and
taking his outstretched hand, ex-
claimed:
ooh, jim" stopping, startled as
she looked in his face, then stammer-
ing, continued: 'Beg-pardon-Mr.
Ellis--I'm so glad to see you T.
The man was surprised into formal
ity. "Mr. Ellis !" Julia had never
addressed him thus before. What did
it mean?
As the evening passed they talked of
the events of the past months. As he
spoke in that low, tender, pleasing,
manly voice, Julia listened enraptured.
There were chords in her being that
were touched, and responded as they
had never done before. There was
something in her being that went out
to the mantle sacred hero. At last,
in low, passionate tones he pleaded
"Julia, darling, [ have come for the
answer promised, that can make life
the sweetest thing on earth to me. !
| have come now to know whether l
dare hope for happiness. I'm disfig-
ured now-ugly, but 1 love you-lo 7e
you, if possible, more than ever have.
Can you love me?'
As he held her in his arms, Julia,
tenderly caressing the scars with the
tips of her fingers, whispered:
"These don't disfgure you, denr.
You are not ugly TO me. Frank Les
lies Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

The Government of Japan has in
hand plans for the construction of
fourteen new railway lines. At present
the railway mileage of the empire
reaches some 1900, of which 1874 be-
longs to various companies. These, it
is said, will be taken over by the State.
Formerly the lines were built by
British contractors, with material sup
piled by the United Kingdom, and
were operated by foreign engineers,
but now the State and private COM
panies have their own japanese en-
gineers, and a great part of the railway
material and rolling stock can be fur
nished from the National shops at
Shinbasi, although there is still room
for considerable foreign importation
in this line.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

At a meeting of railway employees in
Chicago recently Eugene V. Debs, long
connected with labor movements, snid
that out of !, 200, 900 railway employees
in the United States but $50, 600, less
than one-sixth of the entire number,
were members of the various existing
unions of railway employees. Probably
this is about the proportion of union
and nonunion men in other trades and
employments, suggests Public Opinion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

Says the New York Independent on
the subject of irrigation: The earliest
agriculture of Europe, Asia and Af-
ricn began in arid lands. Turning to
America it is discovered that this fun
damental art began everywhere under
like conditions of great aridity, on
sandy plains and hot deserts. In the
southwestern portion of the United
States, the very last district of the
country to be settled by white men, in
some portions of Utah, Colorado,
Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and
California, where natural vegetation is
80 rare that it scarcely gives character
to the landscape, where sandstorms
drive over the country, where naked
plains spread under lurid sky, and
where the landscape is often one of
naked rock, and where adnmantine
forms stand in groves, and the trees
are fossils buried in the rocks, the
most ancient agriculture is found. For
in the country thus described, the In
dian tribes in centuries lost to history
cultivated the soil by artificial irriga-
tion, and developed corn, cotton, po-
tatoes, and other vegetables useful to
man, while the rich valleys to the
north and east were yet untouched by
agricultural labor.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
The Great Game of the Chinese.

Weichi is the greatest game of the
Chinese, especially with the literary
class, and is ranked by them superior
to chess Like chess, this game is of
general military and mathematical
character, but is ON much more ex-
tended scale, the board containing 261
places and employing nearly 200 men
on side. All of the men, however,
have the same value and powers. The
object is to command as many places
ON the board as possible. This may
be done by inclosing empty spaces, or
surrounding the enemy's men. Very
close calculation is always essential in
order that n loss in one region may be
met by gains in another, thus employ
ing skillful stragey when the contest
ants are evenly matched. The game
has come down from great antiquity,
being first mentioned in Chinese writing
about 625 b. @. It was in all proba-
bility introduced by the Babylonian
astronomers, who were at that time in
structors of all the East. Chicago
Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
An Educated Snake.

A COW belonging to John II, Snnve-
ly, farmer living two miles south of
Sharpsburg, was observed to stop and
below regularly Mt large tree in the
lane, while the cattle were being driven
from the field. Some boys watched
her one day and observed a large black
snake approach and milk the COW.
Driving her home they told Philip
Lumm, who works on the farm, who
got into the tree with a gun and waited
for results. When the COWS came from
the field this particular COW stopped at
the tree and beloved, when the snake
appeared and was shot by Lumm.
Antietam Valley Gal Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

Count Tolstoi, the Russian philoso-
pher, declares that he entertains a
great dislike to all poetry, because it
prevents one from giving ''clear, in
telligent and comprehensive expression
to ones thoughts and ideas." He says
that verses are generally the produc-
tion of '1iterary wantonness, literary
frivolity and literary insolence.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

One of the scientific sharps has an
nounced, notes the Detroit Free Press,
that if the funny little bean from which
castor oil is squeezed be grown around
the windows and doors of dwellings,
instead of hop vines, hollyhocks, bur
docks, fennel or sunAowers, flies will
keep so far away that you can't hear
one buzz. The small boy will easily
believe this.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
BOOSTERS VS.. Weasel.

A weasel sneaked out of his lair near
SHoudsburg Wednesday and gobblod
up one Of Mrs. Joseph Frymire's little
chickens. Two bantam roosters wore
near by and they set upon the thiey-
ing beast with such vigor that both his
eyes were picked out, and he died soon
afterwaTd. Philadelphia Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
One Hundred Years Old, suniu Practice

Doctor DeBossy, of Hayre, France,
has passed his huudredth year. He is
still in active practice, and at a dinner
given in honor of his hundredth birth
day, he made a speech in which he
stated that his father had lived Il hun
dred and seven, and ne intended to 90
the same.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
A MAN WITH A BABY FACE.
aY WILLIAM A. MCLEAN.

-NIMY ELLIS ia
indeed a funny
boy, laugh e d
Julia Costello to
a friend.
They say he
is head over heels
in love with you
follows you, is
to be found some
where near you
most of his time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

The financial crisis in Spain has Sc.
tiously reduced railroad traffic, 30 that
nearly all lines are badly crippled, and
some have been forced to offer new is
sues Of bonds on the market
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

More than half of the marriages in
Kansas last year we're of colored peo-
pie, although this race constitutes only
one-twentieth of the population.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

France has the distinction Of being
the most carefully cultivated agricul-
tural ceuntry in Europe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

II is estimated, from the census Of
1890, that the insect pests cost the
fruit growers of the United States
about 81, 900, 900 d year.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

English farmers furnished the
United States last year Sl,OO&0OO
worth of pickles,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-06

Edison thinks that the railway speed
OF the future will be 100 miles an hour.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-30
THE YEAR'S RECORD.
A Backward Glance at the
Past Twelve Months.
STORY BRIEFLY TOLD.
CHRONOLOGICAL ARRAY OF
IMPORTANT EVENTS.

The Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred
and Ninety three VIII BE Prominent IN
the History of the World-Its Changes,
Fraught Largely with Prosperity Dut
Drought, Disaster, and Devastation Were
Not Escaped Concise Review of Current
Events.