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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-04
REST RIGHT ARMS
LABOR LAYS OFF AND GOES OUT
FOB A HIGH OLD TIME.

In All the Cities of the Union the
ToiIers of the Nation Parade Be-
hind Brass Bands, Picnic in the
Parks and Listen to What
Speakers Have to Say.
Frisco is an Excep-
ton - Festivities
of the Day in
Detail
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-04
MORE THOUGHT TO BE DEAD.

Laaer-Further details simply confirm
the reports received yesterday as TO the
magnitude of the Hinckley disaster. The
most conservative estimates of deaths IN
the six town of Pine county is 3d., and
from that the figures go up TO 1000.
Although the exact number Of de- d
will never be known, enough
Is known TO make this one of the most ap-
palling disasters in American history.
More have persisted, but never SO many in
so terrible manner. As To the property
loss, ali thoughts have been Of the dead.
and few could be made talk about their
business losses.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

the horses into a brisk trot. Before
many minutes a turn in the road hid
the little fellow from sight.
Little fool he'll soon get sick of
it," muttered John and thought no
more about the child.
At noon when he arrived home Billy
was not about. He had not seen him
on the way and decided that the little
fellow had become discouraged and
gone back again. But he was not
about the house, as he soon discov-
cred.
"Have you seen Billy?" asked his
step-mother, as John came in to din
ner.
He growled out a negative and sat
down to the table. His father was al
ready out hunting for the boy and
after putting the food on the table
Mrs. Brand threw shawl over her
head and went outside, too. 1t was
bitter cold and the first snow flakes of
the coming storm were in the air.
John eat his dinner moodily and ap-
parently undisturbed.
"'Riah says she thought he followed
you when you went to old Mis- Peck
hams, John, said his father, coming
in after an unsuccessful search of the
premises. Didn't you see him?"
"No, / haven't seen the brat |" re-
sponded his son, surlily.
Mrs. Brand began to cry and the
old mans weather-beaten face worked
pitifully as he said in broken voice
Don't take on SO, 'Riah. I'll got
the neighbors reused and we'll find
him, so don't you worry"
He hurried out on this mission and
John soon followed him, unable to
stand the accusing looks of his step
mother.
A half-dozen neighboTs responded
to the call for searehers and started
out in different directions, expecting
to find the child somewhere near the
house. He certainly couldn't have
gone far in the snow. John attacked
the woodpile more fiercely than ever,
feeling as though every blow of his
axe was cutting the threads which
bound little Billy to this life. The
child could not live many hours wan
dering about in this weather, and he,
John Brand, would be his murderer?
Suddenly he threw down his axe,
unable TO endure this self-torture
longer. He unclaimed Guard, and
with hasty strides started off down
the road. His keen eyes examined
every foot Of the white drifts on either
side of the beaten way. Somewhere
little Billy must have turned out of
the wagon-traek.
Not far below the house the wood
land began. Half mile through this
and he came TO the place he had been
looking for. There were the child's
footprints where he had turned aside
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

scene of Johns labors and watched the
chips 6y from the sticks with delight.
They seemed to fly all the faster the
longer he watched them but John
paid no attention to his childish prattle
and his dark, scowling face soon drove
him away.
1t was quite fortnight after
Thanksgiving Day. The weather had
been threatening for several days and
the wiseacres declared a heavy storm
brewing. John loaded up the wood
team during the forenoon with stove
wood for the old lady who did his
mending and washing. This was how
he partly paid her for the work. As
he climbed aboard and gathered up
the reins Billy came round the corner
of the house.
'Can 1 go to ride with you, please p"
he asked, doubtfully. "I want to go
to Mrs. Peckham's.
"Not on top of this load. You
weigh SO much that the horse couldn' t
draw it" growled John sarcastically.
But Billy took the reply in perfect
good faith.
"Can ride back when the teams
empty?" he asked.
John growled something which
might have meant yes, or nothing,
and drove out of the yard. Billy
started bravely in the rear, although
it was quite two miles to Mrs. Peck
hams. 1t was terribly cold and John
turned up the collar of his rough coat
and chirruped to the horses. The
wheels creaked most musically over
the hard snow and the little figure
trudged sturdily along in the rear.
Billy's short legs could not keep pace
with the strides of the farmhorses and
he gradually fell behind. John looked
back at him with a scowl and started
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

Giant though he was in strength and
endurance he had to fight for each
step of the way. 1t was only by the
aid and direction of a higher power
than his own that he at last reached
the farmhouse and was helped inside
by the anxious men who had been
driven back from the search some time
before by the gale.
He had a very dim recollection a
to how he got there, but some time
later he found himself lying on the old
settle in the chimney corner with his
father holding bowl of some hot de-
coction to his lips. He pushed it away
and looked across the hearth to where
his stepmother, tearful and smiling,
was holding little Billy in her arms.
sis he all right?' asked John husk-
lily.
Eyes. thanks to the Almighty and
to you, my son." replied his father
reverently, and John smiled.
1t was late, indeed, but this was
John Brands Thanksgiving.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

The young wife did all she could to
win his love, but to no avail, and be-
fore a year of her married life had
passed she had something else to think
of. A little baby came to the Brand
house that John foresaw would event.
ually fill his place and possess his
rights. John had passively endured
the coming of the wife; he hated the
baby with an almost murderous
hatred.
He hoped that it would die, but
little Billy grew up a strong, healthy
boy, never having seen an i'll day in
his short life. He was the child of
Farmer Brands old age and before he
was two years old completely owned
the entire house and its contents
except John Brand. No amount of
coaxing baby ways won his heart.
John simply hated him the more for
being so pretty and sweet-tempered.
He would not even touch the child.
All the bitterness he had cherished
for these six long years filed his heart
on this Thanksgiving morning as he
stood gazing after the departing
wagon. There had been nothing to
keep him at home from the Thanks
giving merrymaking except his own
ugly feelings, for the farm work was
all finished and everything made ship
shape for winter. There was wood
enough cut already to last an ordin-
airy lifetime, but there was certain
fierce pleasure for him in forcing the
axe into the knotty sticks.
He worked moodily on till noon,
then fed the stock, and after locking
the house went down to the village
tavern and eat his dinner there.
1t was almost dark when he returned
to the farmhouse. He did the chores
and went to bed before the others ar
rived-little Billy wild with delight
over the festivities of the day, Mrs.
Brand smiling and happy, and her
husband with sore spot in his old
heart for his eldest son.
Winter came quickly after that
Thanksgiving. The snow wrapped
everything in its heecy covering,
drifted over fences and across the pub
lie roads, became crusted hard and
showed again, repeating the perform
ance uutil it lay three or four feet
deep all over the country side. Farmer
Brand shelled corn OF smoothed axe
helves and hoe handles in the kitchen
corner; John chopped wood all day
long as though he had taken con
tract to supply the whole village with
kindling; little Billy, with Guard, the
Scotch collie, played in the snow and
came in rosy-eheeked and painting
after his frolic with never a suspicion
of "croup"-that bane of children
who are brought up like hot house
plants.
Sometimes Billy stopped near the
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28
A SONG OF THANKSGIVING,

Thanksgiving Thanksgiving or yore,
In the youth of the Nation,
When the harvest had yielded its store
There was feast and obation.
Or when danger had lifted its hand,
From the lips OF tho living
There rang through the length OF tho land
A Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
Our home was a Wilderness then
With tho floods to enfold it
To- lay with its millions OF men,
We rejoice 10 behold it,
From the sea to surge ofthe sea,
We have all for a treasure
We are tlest in tho promised To-bc
In manifold measure.
War flaunts not a red pennon now,
For the olive Is regal,
like birds that are twin. on one bouoh
Sit the dove and tho eagle.
The clash OF the conflict that cleft
We in sorrow remember,
But the fire of the great fuel has left
In the ash scarce an ember.
For the fruit Of the time of our toll
For whate'er we have fought for
Whether born ofthe brain or the soil
Be the need we have sought for
For the gifts we have had from His hanl
Who is Lord OF all living,
Let there ring through the length OF the
land
n Thanksgiving Thanksgiving.
Clinton Scollard.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

M. Casimir-Perier, President of the
French Republic, during his recent
tour in the provinces, drove about in
an especially constructed carriage the
seat of which was so high that an or
binary person could scarcely reach it
from the street. Any repetition of
the Caserio incident would have been
impossible. The President was always
accompanied in his drives by large
force of gendarmes, and at the various
railroad stations the public was care
fully excluded from the platforms.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

The New York Tribune remarks:
Among recent "silly season" topics in
the London press was that of "mum'
my wheat" and its alleged germina'
tion. The discussion was, unlike most
such, of real interest, for it revealed
the fact that many people, including
some with pretensions to scientific
knowledge, actually do believe that
grains of wheat taken from mummy
cases and thousands of years old have
sprouted, grown to stalk, and borne
seed. Why not, they demand, when
frogs and toads have been found alive
after being imbedded in solid rock for
thousands of years? And that such
animals have thus been found, they
have unquestioning confidence.
Doubtless the one is as true and as
reasonable as the other. But neither
has the least foundation in fact. If
toad be found inbedded in coal, it
must have lived in the carboniferous
age, which was probably millions,
rather than thousands, of years ago.
But all animals of that age have long
been extinct, while the toads alleged
thus to have been found are identical
in species with those of to-day. So it
has come to pass that the alleged
mummy grain" which has actually
sprouted aud grown has been either
oats or Indian corn, neither of which
is indigenous to Egypt or was known
there in the days of the Pharaohs. In
the second place, it is biological i'm
possibility for animals thus to survive,
and it is also botanical impossibility
for wheat thus to grow, for the germ
is known, by actual observation to
perish in about seven years, aud final
ly, to clinch the matter, numerous ex-
periments, conducted with ali possible
care, have proven that toads thus
sealed up Immediately aud invariably
perish, and numerous test paintings
have been made of grains of wheat,
peas, beans, lentils, almonds, peach,
pits, olives, dates, poppy seeds, ETC.,
found in mummies and ancient tombs,
Of which not one has ever terminated.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

into the woods. He followed them
rapidly. Guard shifting excitedly at
the prints of the little rubber boots.
A few yards back from the road was
the log on which little Billy had
seated himself to rest. When he arose
from that he turned deeper into the
woods instead of toward the road.
John and the dog pressed on before
the blast. The snow was coming
faster now. and the footprints might
soon be obliterated.
He shouted occasionally as he went
on, but no answer reached him. The
child had travelled an astonishing dis
tance, and almost directly away from
home. Before long John reached
higher ground and found that the
boy had climbed the mountain side.
Finally Guard bounded away with a
short, sharp bark, and hurrying on
John found him licking the cold face
of his little master where he lay ourled
at the foot of a great gnarled oak.
There was strange feeling at John
Brands heart as he picked the boy up
and strode down the hillside in the
teeth of the blast.
The wind had risen to gale and
howled and shrieked through the
woods in perfect frenzy. Even
Guard covered before its strength.
The keen wind cut Johns bare hands
and face like knife, but he pressed
on determinedly, sheltering the child's
body as much as possible from the
cold.
He was cold himself. John Brand
could never remember being SC
cold in his life before; but somehow
the unconscious body Of the little
child close against his breast was warm
ing his cold heart and melting all his
hard and bitter feelings.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

The United States chronological
Commission has shown that our forest
trees are hotels, where a multitude OF
insects board and lodge. The oak
provides provision and home for 800
species of insects and lodgings for 100
more. The elm makes full provision
Tor the wants of sixty-one species and
harbors thirty others. The pine bears
the burden of supporting from its
own vitality 151 species, while twenty
more love its shady retreats.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

Colonel Dulier, q Belgian officer,
has discovered thet steam precipitates
the SCOT of which smoke is composed.
He has invented chimney with two
connected fiues, into which two steam
jets are passed. By this means he
purifes the smoke. The SCOT is
passed into the drains, where its dis.
injecting qualities are specially val
liable. This invention can be applied
at small cost to any building, and
has been introduced with success in
Glasgow. The London County Coun-
Gil is favorably impressed with it, and
sanguine people hope it may be the
means of delivering London from
fogs,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

seemed, in fact, to have made him
dumb. He only looked his scorn,
anger and contempt, and from that
day was changed being.
His sociability and wit had enliv-
ened almost every gathering of young
people in the region since his arrival
at manhood. These gatherings knew
him no more. He refused every invi-
tation, retired within himself and
brooded over the wrong which he
fancied had been done his mother 3
memory and himself.
He would not even attend his faith
er's wedding and when Mr.. Brand
brought his bride home all traces of
his former wife-those little things
which had become as familiar to him
as the old house itself-had disap-
peared. Her picture which had been
taken in her bridal dress and had hung
over the high mantel in the parlor,
her work table, the "cricket," on
which her feet had rested during the
long evenings when she sat and sewed
or mended-all we're gone and nothing
but heap of ashes and charred wood
in the great open fireplace was left.
Mr.. Brand had never taken John to
task for this. He felt somehow as
though he had no right to complain.
The things had been more Johns than
his, for John was the one who had re-
mained entirely faithful to the dead
At first this new wife tried her best
to gain Johns favor; but the young
man repelled all her advances and
never spoke to her unless he was alb
solutely obliged. in fact, he spoke to
no ono unless forced to. He even
carried his clothing to an old lady in
the neighborhood to be mended,
rather than have Mrs. Brand touch his
garments.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

One needs only to turn to the rec.
ords OF the Pension Office in Washing
ton to realize how rapidly the men
who fought in the Union Army thirty
years ago are passing away. The
latest report of the Commissioners OF
Pensions shows that the number of
applications for pensions has fallen
from 363, 100 in 1891 to 40,14S in
1894, while about 81, 900 were dropped
from the rolls during the last fiscal
year because of death.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

The assassination of President Gar
not has made the fortune OF the hard
ware dealer in Cette, where Caserio
bought the knife with which he COM
mitted his crime. The mans name is
Guillaume. Since the origin of the
knife became known, no day has
passed without Guillaume's receiving
orders for the "Carnot poignard. "
These orders come not only from
France, but also from foreign ooun-
tries, in such numbers that the dealer
cannot fill them. One house in Brus-
sells alone ordered 800.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28
Thankful.

81 don't see what makes people go
to football games on Thanksgiving
Day." remarked his wife. SIT hasn't
anything to do with the spirit OF the
occasion.
"Oh, yes,i mas, was the reply; 81
never went to football game in my
life that l didn't feel tremendously
thankful that l wasn't one of the
players
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28
Giving Thanks for Turkey.

We're thankful for the things we eat,
The oysters with the turkey meat,
The health we have. the sweet content
With blessings which to US are sent
The golden, glorious pumpkin pies,
The hope of heaven beyond the skies
The sweet potatoes, piping hot,
The clustered blue forgotmenot
The celery crisp and cold and white,
The chicken gravy, seasoned right
The royal pones OF sweet corn bread,
The righteous sleep Of all our dead
The yellow beet, the parsnip brown,
The cross that must precede the crown
The butter served in pots of gold,
On pancakes of heroic mold
The wide expanse of all things good,
Nowlse less toothsome, ,thoughthey're rude
Aud last Of all, our dinner done,
We hasten to give thanks as one
Who feels that thanks are more than due
For medicine to pull him through.
w. j. Lampson.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28
Those who have theories about the

Those who have theories about the
necessities of beginning literary
career in early youth will find no con-
venient illustration in the biography
of Mr.. Du Maurier, muses. the New
York Tribune. When "Peter Ibbet-
son" was published the author was
already fifty-seven. Years have not
destroyed his freshness of feeling.
One of the most delightful things in
"Trilby" is its atmosphere OF vital
energy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

Women are certainly driving men
from many fields, notes the New York
Tribune. In the town of Fieber-
brunn, near Innsbruck, Tyrol, few
weeks ago, there was wrestling
match for women. Six representa-
tives of the fairer sex showed their
strength and agility before 400
spectators, who cheered the victors
Justify. 1t was a disgusting exhibi'
tion. A visitor, in describing the
struggles, says that the women quickly
lost their temper, and pulled out
handfuls of each others hair.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

A new monument to Garibaldi, and
the finest in Italy, is to be erected in
Rome soon. 1t is said that there is
not a town of any considerable size
in Italy which has not statue of
Garibaldi and one of Victor Emmanuel.
A monument TO Victor Emmanuel
now in course of erection at Rome is
to cost 50, 600, 600.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28
Practically Considered.

whats the good of Thanksgiyin'
Day, anyhow !" exclaimed Flooding
Pete in discontented tone.
"What's the good of it?" echoed
Meandering Mike in dismay. "Honest,
Pete, some times you talk like reg
lar heathen. Don't you know thet
Thanksgivin's one of the biggest free
lunch days in the whole year?"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28
The Students Movement is Low or

The Students Movement is low or
ganized in more than 400 colleges. 1t
was started in Philadelphia five years
ago, and its purpose is defined as fol-
lows: "To organize the students in
the universities and every great pro
fessional school, SO that each college
shall have suitable rooms for social
and religious advantage, that young
men coming as strangers to the city
can be introduced into good homes,
to attendance upon church, and to be
surrounded by healthful, social and
religious influences, and that the social
and spiritual side OF the students life
should be looked after as carefully Is
{ y intellectual.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

Census returns of the Indian Ter
.itory show that out of IFS population,
l7s,097, only 25,055 are Indians,
these belonging to the five civilized
Iribes-.O Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choc-
Jaw, Greeks and Seminoles. There
ire 109,8 whites, and out of the
Sotal population 82,724 are women
and girls.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

The adoption of a universal postage
tamp, which can be usedin any coun-
Try, will be the most important pro-
,osal at the '97 Postal Congress in
Washington, announces the st. Louis
Star-Sayings.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

1t is said that seven suicides is the
normal daily average in New York and
vicinity. Facts collated prove that
poverty, which is usually considered
prime cause for self-murder, does not
figure as the motive in the majority of
these suicides, for most of tho persons
are those in comfortable circum-
akancas
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

A Western health officer is interest
ing himself in the cultivation of
mushrooms. He says: al suppose
that thousands of tons of mushrooms
so to waste every year in the State of
Ohio alone, while hundreds of pounds
of the same edible are imported into
the State from France"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

The statistics of life insurance
,eople show that within the last
twenty-five years the averagejoflman's
ife has increased Ave per cent. tor two
Ehole years, from Al. 8 to 49. 81 years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

Brazil has long been having q revo-
ution. Now the bill has been pre-
Iented. It is for $40, 900, 600, and, ac-
,ording to the San Francisco Exam
ner, Brazil cannot helptbut wonder
.hriftily if she got enough fun for the
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

China has only 200 miles of railway
in actual operation. Japan's total
length of railway lines, for which con-
cessions are granted, is $500 miles, of
which 1912 miles arc in actual opera
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

In Australia horses and cattle are
now being branded by electricity from
storage batteries. The temperature
is uniform, and the brand safe and ar
tistic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

Farm land in the northern tier of
counties of New York hrings less
money now than il did fifteen years
ago, AYERS the Mail and Express.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

In times Of war the armies of Euro
pean nations can be raised to 9,366, 600
men. and the daily expenses viii be
nearly $40, 900, 900.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28

Experiments are being rnade with
compressed hay soaked in Ia drying
,il for paving blocks.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-11-28
BRANDS THANKSGIVING,
by W. BERT FOSTER

ELL, as long as
you won't go with
us, l s'pose You'll
look after things, +"
said FarmerBrand
halting beside the
woodpile where
his eldest son was
at work.
Farmer Brand
was a man of sixty
and much broken