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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

'Jack, Jack !" pleaded Essie, hold
ing up her hands, as if every word
were a blow.
''I need detain you no longer" he
said, as he bowed frigidly and touched
the neck of his horse with his whip
lash, and the next minute he was gone.
Poor Essie dragged herself back to
the house, the tears freezing on her
cheek and her heart colder still. Was
she the victim of enchantment? What
did all this mean?
Tea was over at least, but Esther
Elmford did not know whether she
had eaten hot biscuit or cold, hasty
pudding. She had listened, with
vague, unmeaning smile, to Mrs. Nor
ris's prolonged account of little
Tommy's last siege of diphtheria and
Miss Adelgitha's proposed visit to New
York. 1t was almost rs if brain and
nerve we're benumbed, when Jessa-
mine Strikers clear, sweet voice struck
across the current of her hopeless
apathy and she found herself in a con-
fidential corner of the best bedroom
upstairs, with Jessamine eagerly har-
snguing her.
"The strangest thingl" cried Jessa-
mine. ''He found it in the maple
sugar kettle. Alice had made some
flannel cakes, and he dipped out
dipperful of the hot sirup for us to
eat with it, and Leon came within one
of swallowing the ring. Whose is
il p said he. 'Why, Essie Elmford's,
of course, said 1. Didn't 1 see the
sparkle of it when she took off her
mitten to unfasten the lid of the bas-
ket that held Uncle Peters crullers?
And it must have slipped off her
finger, said he, when she went to stir
the sugar in the kettle So he hung
it on his watch-chain for safekeeping
until we came home, and here it is. "
Esther murmured a word or two of
thanks.
81 was very careless, said she.
But even after Jessamine was gone,
she sat staring at the pretty trinket
which had so nearly been boiled down
into maple sugar. What was the use
of it now? What was the use of any
thing?"
esther Esther |" her father
called up the narrow wooden stairway.
"Here's Mr.. Jefferson wants to speak
to you ~
How strangely all these things
seemed to succeed one another, like
the dull lapses of a dream. She knew
not how, but she was standing, with
jacks arm around her, her troubled
eyes looking up into his.
"My own darling" he whispered,
"can you ever forgive me for being
such brute? I have just seen that
Striker fellow. He's not such bad
lot, after all, and everything is ex-
planned. Sweetheart, say that you
forgive mel 1 never shall forgive
myself. :"
And all the horrid nightmare feel
ing was over, and the engagement was
a secret no longer, and poor little
Esther Elmford was happy again.
''But don't think, said she, 'that
1 shall ever want to taste maple sugar
again. Not Just yet, at all events !"
New York Ledger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
CAUTION.
Something Curious.

By very simple rule the duration
of night and day can be determined
at any time of the year, All you
have TO do is TO multiply the time of
the suns rising by two AMI it will
give you the length of the night.
Multiply the time of setting by two
and you get the length of the day.
1t is easily demonstrate at the time
of the year when the sun rises and
sets at 6 o'clock and day and night
are of equal duration. 1t is Just as
true as the days lengthen and shorten.
Thus, as winter approaches, take a
day when the sun rises at $50 and
sets at $50. Apply the rule aud you
have a night of thirteen hours and
day of eleven hours. This rule will
be found absolutely accurate at any
season of the year. Atlanta Journal
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
Has a Peculiar Malady.

The fourteen year old son of a man
named Emery, at Buffalo, Ind, is af-
hected with peculiar malady. Al
though apparently otherwise possessed
of ordinary intelligence, he has always
had mania for snakes and wants to
catch and play with them whenever
and wherever found. Last Thursday
he was bitten by viper and, although
his life was saved by prompt medical
attention, he is frequently seized with
spasms in which he has the exact char
acteristics of reptile. darting out his
tongue, swapping at people, and worm
ing his shoulders about in imitation
of crawling snake, until three men
are unable to hold him. Chicago
Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
The World is Washing Awar.

An interesting calculation has re.
Gently been made public through the
French Academy of Sciences. 1t is to
the effect that taking into considera-
tion the wear and tear on the solid
land by ocean lashing, river erosion
and wind and weather, to say nothing
of probable volcanic action, the world
viii, by the end of the year 4, 500, 00),
be completely washed away, aud the
ocean viii roll over the present foun.
dations of the great continents. New
York Telegram.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
A PalatiaI Barn.

In ex.Vice- President Levi p Nor
tons farm at Ellerslie. n. Y, the cows
have fresh water constantly before
them in iron buckets, over which
there are wooden covers TO prevent
hay or feed from getting in. The
stalls are provided with selt-cleaning
stable grating which covers the gutter
behind the COWS and allows them to
stand on level surface. There is an
overhead trolley track with four lines
ON each floor, Carriers carry the cars
with fee 10 the cattle and also
manure to the manure shed, where it
is dumped in wagons aud then spread
upon the land. New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

Fresh finds of rich beds of gold and
silver are the order of the day. The
latest announced is in a despatch
from Manitoba, to the effect that an
immense bed of aurifereus ore, mile
wide and two miles long, in one tract,
has been discovered between Rat
Portage and Port Arthur, seventy
miles south of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, which assays an average of
Ss in gold and "a in silver to the ton
of orN
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
WHEN THE HEARTS IN IT'S PRIME

WHEN THE HEARTS IN Ir6 PRIME
The Suns on his throne, and the Wind on
his tour
Like wandering minstrel DER meadow and
moor
The day and the season are both in their
prime,
And youths at its sweetest and tenderest
time.
The buds are in bloom and the birds sing
their best.
The trees are in Leaf and the orchard is
dressed
With clustering fruits, for the years in It's
prime,
And youths at its ripest and tenderest time.
Too soon shall the clouds cover sunshiny
sky,
The voice of the minstrel be hushed to a
sigh;
Too soon shall the day and the season de-
cline,
And clustering fruit shaltabe melted to wine.
Tho petals shall fall and the songsters de-
part,
The foliage fade like the youth of the heart
For swift runs the current of pitlless time,
And always the swiftest when life's in its
prime.
The birds and the blossoms and fruit shall
appear,
With summers return and the turn OF the
year,
The breezes shall be sweet and the sun be as
fair;
Alas but the prime OF my youth Is not there.
Each month of the year has its prime, but in
truth
There's only the prime In the season OF
youth,
Though hearts love again; and shall love for
all time,
There's only one love when the hearts In its
prime.
Mary Berri Chapman, in the Century.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

There will be no nonsense about
duelling in the Russian army hereaf-
ter. The Czar has issued decree Ap-
pointing court of honor to detcr-
mine in each case whether duel is
the proper thing. The decision is to
be final, and under it any officer who
refuses to accept challenge will be
cashiered in disgrace. Officers who
are not adopts with the foils will now
have to guard their tongues.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
There are 45OO species Of bees.

There are 1900 species of bees.
A locomotive lasts fifteen years and
earns about 100000.
The Earl of Dunmore proposes to
cross Bering Strait on the ice next
winter.
Steel barrels, made from sheets
ranging in thickness from one-six-
teenth to a quarter of an inch, are
coming into use.
Leuenhoek says that 4,000,O 900 webs
spun by young spiders when they first
begin to use the splnneret are not, if
twisted together, as great in diameter
as hair from human head.
The fibre of the nettle hemp is
claimed to be four or five times as
strong as silk and not inferior in lus-
tire. The production of a nettle hemp
thread as fine as No. 100 is now re-
ported.
No science, unless it be that of the
electrician, can boast such a wonder
full growth in the past quarter century
as that of bacteriology, which has de-
NOlOD6u Wlbu I6uudI hhDlb IdDlulbJ
since Pasteur made his initial investi-
cation.
A company formed some time ago
for the purpose of constructing an
electric railway on the Jungfrau,
Switzerland, now propose to establish
a scientific observatory at the upper
end of the line, at height OF about
$4,000 feet.
The latest theory concerning the
cause of the aurora borealis has been
deducted from careful analysis of
that light thrown through a spectro-
scope. This unique experiment clear.
ly establishes the fact that it is caused
by an electrical discharge among the
particles of meteoric iron dust con-
tanned in the atmosphere.
Harvey Beiim, medical student in
Ann Arbor, Mich, has succeeded in
joining two living dogs together, like
Siamese twins. 1t was done by graft
ing strips of flesh from one body to
the other and retaining them in posi-
tion for forty days When one dog
barks it appears to give his companion
intense pain, and vice versa.
An English company is introducing
a new method of horticulture. Glass
houses are mounted on wheels running
on rails in such a way that the houses
with or without heating apparatus
may be moved in succession over
crops to be forced, protected or
ripened. 1t is claimed that the work
of the hothouses can be greatly in
creased by this plan.
For the lighting of Antwerp the
novel plan is proposed of distributing
water from steam pumping stations at
pressure of IT'S pounds per square
inch, and using it at small district sta
tions for driving dynamos by means
of turbines. These stations would
supply local consumers through low
pressure. two-wire circuit system.
The cost of coal per sixteen candle
power per hour is placed at only 2i
cents.
George Jimson, of Jimson's Grove,
Wis, astonished his father, mother
and seven guests by eating and swal-
lowing in rapid succession thirty-one
spheres of what appeared to be thin
glass. Old Mr.. Jimson was about to
send for a physician, when his son
showed that the spheres we're merely
frozen bubbles of water, made after
Professor Dewar's method. The elder
Jimson was greatly relieved by the
discovery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

Says the Boston Advertiser There
is growing strong public opin-
ion that the law In It's modern opera
ton has been abused so gravely thata
good, shrewd lawyer with no case at
all can save a client from proper pun
ishment for months and even years al
though it is patent to everyone that
no valid reason exists why justice
should be delayed a day. Legal
"pleading" is now such an intricate
and many-resourced art that plain,
old fashioned justice must stumble
and grope through wearisome and de.
vious pathways before she can clutch
an offender who has sharp-eyed coun.
sci to guide him.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
A SmOkeless Locomotive.

Recently in Austria a most success
full and satisfactory trial was made of
smoke-consuming apparatus to loco
motives and doubtless suitable for all
other steam engines. A number of
practical and scientific guests made
the trip between Vienna and Znaim, a
distance of about sixtytwo miles, be-
hind an absolutely smokeless locomo-
tive. Open cars were used and even
at speed of over forty-fiye miles per
hour, nothing but clearwater steam
was emitted, and no smoke, sparks or
cinders, and even the guests riding on
the locomotive, found at the end of
the journey that their coats, linen and
hands were as clean as when they
started. This apparatus is an auto
matte device, attached to the outside
of the boiler, which supplies the fire
with Just enough air to consume the
smoke and gas. Over the fire steam
veil whirls aud mixes the air and gas,
and this burned gas is forced against
the boiler and every particle of heat
is utilized. 1t is claimed that a saw
ing of from ten to twenty-five per
cent. is effected in heat-giving ma
terial. This device has been in con-
stant use for over two years and has
been found entirely satisfactory. The
invention is astonishingly simple in
construction and operation and soon
saves its cost. A special advantage of
the apparatus is that it can be readily
attached to any locomotive or station
airy boiler without the slightest alter
alton of the general system used in
either. Atlanta Constitution.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

The miners who 60 to the new camps
in West Australia and New South
Wales will, in the opinion of the San
Francisco Chronicle, earn all that they
get. No mining in this country is at.
tended with such dangers and hard
ships except in a few places on the
Moiave and Colorado deserts, At
Coolgardie water is so scarce that it
commands twelve cents a quart and all
provisions are extremely dear. oamels
are used for transport, as the desert
heat and drought prove fatal to horses
and mules.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
The RacIIIns Of the Inlluenrn.

The microbe of the "grip," other.
wise the "inAuenza bacillus" was
discovered by DIR. Canon, of Vienna,
who first detected II in the blood of
one of his patients. 1t is a euriously
shaped organism, many times smaller
than the mierobe of any other known
germ disease, and was only revealed
TO the human eye by using a micro.
scope with a magnifying power OF
1000 diameters. St. Louis Republic,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
Engineers Fight.

A remarkable case is soon to be
heard at Longtown. George Glen
denning, q stoker on the North Brit.
ish Railway, has summoned John
Blythe, an engine driver, for assault,
and Blythe has taken out cross sum
mons for Glendenning for a similar
offense. The two men were in charge
of a passenger train to Carlisle, They
quareled and while the engine was
running at the rate of fifty miles an
hour they fought on the foal plate.
dlendenning asserts that Blythe
knocked him to the engine floor and
battered his head against the lever,
On the other hand, Blythe maintains
that Glendenning was the sggressor.
This new peril to the safety of passen-
ger traffic is attracting much atten-
tion, and people who write TO the
newspapers are suggesting various
means for the prevention Of quarrels
between engine drivers and the stok-
ers. New York Advertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

Buffalo, N. Y, has 10000 Poles,
living chiefly in a quarter of their
own where English is little spoken,
and many business signs are in Polish
or Russian. The colonists retain many
of their native characteristics and
slowly conform to American ways.
The colony is one of the largest for
eign elements to be found in any
American city of the third class.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

Mulhall estimated that the agri-
cultural earnings of the United States
are SO, 400. 900, 900; the earnings from
manufactures, S4,990, 900, 900; from
mines, $3.50, 900, 900; from transporta-
tion, 81, 155, 900, eOOy from commerce,
s16O, 900, 900; from shipping, $50, ,OOO,-
600; from banking, $3.50, ,O0O,0 900.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

By irrigation $4,000, 900 acres are
made fruitful in India alone. In
Egypt there are about 9, 900, 900 acres,
and in Europe about 100000 acres.
The United States have just begun the
work of improving waste area and
have already about 100000 acres of
irrigated land.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
To Get Rid Of Files.

Flies are the pest and worry of all
tidy housekeepers, and how to rid
room of them is an unsolved problem
to many. This is quite easily accom-
plished by taking advantage of the
flies habit of flying to the window or
place from which light is admitted,
and to accomplish this, darken all the
windows with heavy shade, or any
material, cutting a hole in one of the
shades, over which is firmly pinned
sheet of the common transparent fly
paper, and, if possible, have this
located at one of the east, south or
west windows, from which the most
light may be obtained. 1t will be but
a short time ere the flies in the room
will be sticking to this paper in their
effort to be near the light, This is
far easier and more cleanly tLan plac.
ing paper about the room for them to
accidently light upon, or killing them
with poisoned liquid or pyrethrum
powder. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

The Baltimore Sun calls attention
to the fact that wheat sold for cent a
pound in the Baltimore market the
other day while oats sold for a cent
and half pound, oats selling for
fifty per cent. moro than wheat. The
Sun remarks that this is probably
unprecedented.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

Secretary Morton, in the interest of
farmers, urges better protection for
the birds at is a melancholy fact,
he says, "that our women and our
boys are the birds most destructive
and relentless enemies"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

DIR. Dale, of London, who has been
been writing book reviews all his life,
says that he believes most books are
written by people who are not quite
right in their minds. He thinks that
this is about the most harmless occu-
patton for such people.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

The British and Continental press
generally agree that the election of
M. Casimir-Perier to the French
Presidency is conservative and
moderate republican victory over the
radicals and socialists.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
ITS ORIGIN.

There was poet who would sing
In light, bewitching rhyme,
Otany man or anything,
At any place or time;
And whe1 an editor one day
Had caught him unawares,
He wrote a verse about the way
He
Went
Down
Stairs.
And ever since that time. the bard.
When inspirations flow
Is said to find II very hard
To keep from writing so;
And every poet, young or gray,
His tribute fondly bears,
To him who wrote about the way
He
Went
Stairs.
Washington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

A newspaper man, who recently
took stroll across the Brooklyn
Bridge, heard ten different languages
on the way, besides profane Ian
guage.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
In all of Persia there are only
twenty miles of railroad.

The overhead trolley has succeeded
in providing itself more deadly than
the underfoot banana peel, remarks
the Washington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15

but I do love you, oh, so muchl"
The little bit of love making took
place under the frost bound apple
trees of the Back Orchard, where
Esther Elmford was standing, with
white wooden hood wrapped tightly
over her curls and black and scarlet
plaid shawl enfolding her, mummy
fashion. She was tall, rosy-cheeked
girl, with complexion born of noun
tain breezes and eyes that shone with
ruddy health-no ideal sylph, but
rather rosy, wholesome, dimpled
human girl like Wordsworth's hero
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
THE MAPLE SUGAR CAMP
BY AMY RANDOLPH.

DIAMOND, Jack ? A
real diamondl Oh,
how bright it is, like
a spark of white fire !
Like a star \ dropped
down out of the sky |
1 never saw a dia-
mond before /; and to
think that it is mine !
ID ear J q c k, 1
couldn't possib l y
love you any more
than 1 did before,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
"Not TO sweet or good
-. L..-... ..-A...N. IL -

For human natures daily food"
And as she looked at the tiny, glitter
ing stone. the sparkles under her eye
lashes were dead match for it.
'But you must not wear it every
day, Essie, you know" said John JEFF
ferson.
''Why not?" Her countensnce
fell.
"You wanted our engagement kept
a secret" you know"
$50 l did. Anything but the gos-
sip of the whole combined neighbor-
hood !" cried Esther, with moue of
distaste, Well, anyhow, can put
black velvet ribbon through it and
hang it around my neck -
"But you haven't paid me for it
yet"
Paid you, you mercenary fellow I"
zone kiss. Essie don't often get
q chance to claim it, you know"
She poised herself on tiptoe to ac-
cord the demanded royalty, and then
ran, laughing, away toward her home.
''How generous he is she kept re-
peating to herelf. "a real diamondi"
When she got back to the kitchen
of the roomy old farmhouse, where
Mrs. Elmford was frying crullers in an
atmosphere of fragrant blue smoke,
that lady cast a discontented glance at
her.
''Seems TO me you've been a long
time gettin' that spotted calf into the
barnyard," said she.
''Was long, mother9 But he got
clear down the lane, and the orchard
gate was Open," equivocated Miss
Esther.
''The Striker gals stopped here for
you. They was goin' up to the Ma
pie Sugar Camp with lot o. fresh
baked bread and pies for Tom and
Leonidas, and they waited for you till
they was clear ont o. patience" added
Mrs. Elmford, fishing another tin
skinner full of crisp brown beauties
out of the bubbling mass of fat and
landing them in the blue stone jar,
afterward to be literally sprinkled
with white sugar.
"Oh, mother, can l go?" said Esth-
er, eagerly. 'I'm sure 1 could over
take them in five minutes.
'I'Ye no objection" said Mrs Elm
ford. =" And you might take basket of
these ere crulls to your Uncle Peter.
He's dreadful partial to fried cakes,
and he thinks there are amt none like
them make arter Mother Elmford's s
receipt.
Esther was right. In less than the
specified five minutes she had man
aged to overtake Alice and Jessamine
Striker. with their baskets of fresh
provisions to the dwellers in Maple
Sugar Camp, on Giant Hill, where the
supreme process of 'sugaring OFF, was
just then in full blast. But in the
two minutes during which she put on
her fur bOrdered hood and fleece
lined mittens upstairs, she had slyly
slipped the diamond ring on the first
finger of her left hand.
81 shall be wearing it, she-ssid4o
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-01
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

a fair sized audience greeted tie
appearance Of "My Aunt Bridget"
at the Grand last night. There is
hardly plot enough about it to
entitle it to the name of a comedy
farce. 1t is in fact a pure vaude-
vile performance, and a genuine
ly good one at that. Those who
enjoy a presentation of that kind
were delighted with the evenings
fun. The company has some very
clever people in it.
Mademoiselle Rhea opens two
nights and matinee engagement
tonight, presenting Josephine for
the opening play. She is booked
! to draw crowded houses.