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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
THE WORLD GOOD ENOUGH.

1 sat upon the zig-zag fence awhile last
Sunday morn
An looked about across my folds of rustlin',
dew-touched corn;
Hooked upon the browsing sheep within the
pastur green,
The cattle an the horses sleek as any that
is seen;
An further on, upon the shocks Of wheat at
spread away;
An further, an ylt further on, where rise
my mows Of hay;
An loolcin' on this scenery, I'd naught to
say, you see,
Agin the way the world is run-it's good
enough for mel
sat upon my gallery steps last Sunday eve,
did,
AS down behind the Western hills the sun.
all sleepy, slid,
The honeysuckles' fragrancy was sweet as
any flowers
That ever cleaned all red and rare about
the Eden bowers;
An over at the barn the girl was millsin' of
the COWS,
While ketydlds sent up their songs from
shrubs around the house;
An lookin' ON this scenery, I'd naught to
say, you see,
Agin the way the world is run-it's good
enough for me.
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
RECKLESS THoUGHTLEssNEss.

The Judge of a Western court, in
order to secure u safer and more civil
lized condition of affairs in the court
room, asked the twelve jurymen and
the ten attorneys present to place
their pistols in pile in the corner of
the room, but there seemed to be
some hesitancy in complying with the
request, and the Judge insisted.
'If your Honor will put his down
first" suggested the foreman of the
jury, 81 guess the balance Of us will
foller suit.
Certainly, gents, replied his
Honor, and laid his gun down in the
corner.
In few minutes all the others had
done the same, excepting the Sheriff
and his deputy, who were not includ-
ed, and twenty.three pistols were re-
posing peacefully on the floor.
snow, gents, said his Honor, sud
denly whipping out gun, "the first
man that goes near that pile gets it in
the neck.
In an instant every mans hand went
to his other hip pocket, and as his Honor
dived behind the desk twenty bull
lets went through the window back OF
where he had been sitting, and twen-
ty-two men were waiting for him to
stick his head up, but he did nothing
so rash.
"Put up them guns, he yelled +;
"put up them guns, or I'll fine every
one Of you for contempt OF court "-
New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
THE COUNTRY hoy.

Happy the boy who whistles down the glen,
And shrily calls his COWS TO HE them home;
Or lettering by the cool swift-nowing lrook,
Dips in his feet TO plash the whirling foam.
Dear boy, thy voice is ever sweet % me,
Thy cries bring back the spring again
OF my young lifc--I hear the cuckoo cry,
And reedy call of whistles down the winding
lane
The cry Of darting JOY the hum Of bees.
Bring to my mind the sense Of boyhood
days
Once more 1 roam the fields where biue-bells
hide.
Or lie meath shading trees from the suns
fierce rays.
I SEQ the dew upon the waving grass.
Tho banks where coarse sedgc-rushes grow,
And watch the waters kiss the bending flags,
As flowing on they murmur soft and low.
hear again the winds low ininstrelsy.
As through the pines they chant in solemn
tones'
Just as in boyhood when ;hey softly lullcd
Ne to the slumber which Is now unknown
Sing then my lad, ami let thy jovial cry,
Thy whistle. carol, all sound on tho air
Here I can sit and fancying be again
Happy like thee, and like thee, free from
care
Hartford Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
NippIn' Nick's Muzz!e.

Nippin' Nick ls Manayunk horse,
owned and driven by young fellow
in Manayunk who makes a livelihood
by hauling dirt and rubbish. The
animal has acquired his name by bit
ing everybody around the dumps adj
jacent to Manayunk. The other day
the horse bit a small boy and police
man recalled to Nick's driver that he
had before been ordered to muzzle
the horse. "Now, if that horse aiu't
muzzled tomorrow I'll pinch yer, "
said the officer. Nothing more was
thought OF 1T until the next day, when
the owner saw the policeman shuflling
along up the street, and quickly hang
ing an old coal scuttle on the horses
head he made it answer for muzzle
and saved himself arrest and fine. -
Philadelphia Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
Work and Weather.

SO marked is the induence of the
weather on certain temperaments that
the employers of large numbers of
men are beginning TO take this into
account in promising to ill large or
ders. In some establishments, it is
said that in very gloomy and what is
called depressing weather from ten to
twenty-five per cent. less work is done
than on bright, clear days. A little
investigation showed that accountants
are much more likely to make mis-
takes in bad then in clear weather,
and scientists sometimes decline to
pursue their investigations when the
atmospheric conditions are uncon-
genial. This being the case, there is
little wonder that foggy, dreary,
chilly days have frequently been called
"suicide weather. New York Led
ger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

Says Harper's Weekly; There is a
cry now and then for cleaner paper
money, and not long ago there was
rumor that the Treasury proposed to
do better by us in the way of provid-
ing us with clean bills. Whether it
tried or not does not appear, but Ger.
tainly our money is not clean yet. The
owner of big department store in a
Western oity took a notion the other
day that he would give his customers
clean money in change. So he bought
two thousand one-dollar bills, and one
morning he filed the money-drawers
of his cashiers with them. The money
had not been in use half an hour be-
fore the head cashier applied for help
in making change, and said he would
have to have another assistant if clean
money was used. The new bills, it
seems, are stiff, ana it is slower work
to handle them than to handle old
bills that have been fabricated by use.
Bank of England notes, which are al.
most always clean aud fresh, are so
thin that it is probably easy to handle
them even when they are new. But
it would seem that there are practical
objections to new greenbacks, even il
they could be furnished.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

shorter of the two took his com.
panion's arm and they walked along
in evident peace and amity.
"They haven't found it out yet, T"
the young man whispered.
Judge Weston assisted his daughter
TO alight. Catherine" said he, "this
is General Strong, the father Of our
young friend"
The General bent low in an old
fashioned obeisance, and Miss
Catherine instinctively made him q
courtesy out of the minuet.
"Father |"
"Dick, my dear boy?"
.,'See here" exclaimed the Judge
suddenly. "You we're mistaken, Rich
ard, in whit you told me about old
Ebenezer Strong"
The young man braced himself for
a struggle.
"And to think, Dick" cried the
General, reproachfully, "that you
never once mentioned to the Judge
that your great-great-grandfather,
Hezekiah Strong, married Weston"
'And that brings us even nearer than
we had supposed" added the Judge.
Fourth cousins instead of fifth"
SIT was stupid of me to forget that"
said the young man, huskily.
"And now that 1 have seen Miss
Catherine" said the General, taking
her hand and passing his arm about
her waist, "my only regret is that the
relationship is not several degree
nearer yet"
Then Catherine looked at Richard,
and he told what had happened on the
way to town. Straightaway there was
a great amount of handshaking and a
good deal of kissing done in broad
daylight under the palms. The Land
of Sunshine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Music relieves muscular fatigue in
man.
With an ordinary breeze the height
of waves is from four to six feet
If tho earth's surface were level,
the water of the ocean would cover it
to q depth of 600 feet.
Monszite, a rare mineral, which
neither melts or burns, is found in the
rich metallic heart of the Appa-
lachian Mountains that lie in North
Carolina.
Epidemics of typhoid fever have
lately been traced in Calcutta and
Bombay, India, to the use of water
cress which grew in soil polluted by
sewerage.
San Francisco papers think that the
problem of transporting fruit TO the
East might be solved without ice by
using the chemical refrigerator, car
bon dioxide.
DIR. Louis Pasteur has refused, on
patriotic grounds, German decora-
tion rendered him in recognition of
his discoveries in the line of curing
hydrophobia by incubation.
A marble medallion portrait of
John Couch Adams, the discoverer of
Neptune, has just been set up in West
minister Abbey, London, close to the
memorial to Isaac Newton, Darwin
and Herschel.
Among the different varieties OF
seals caught, the hogasrock is consid-
erably the largest, and will weigh
probably 500 or 600 pounds. Tho
skin of this variety is mostly used for
covering the boats of the Eskimo.
The tattooing on the faces and bod
ing of savages is heraldic in its origin.
Ellis says that the New Zealand chiefs
tattoo their faces with the armorial
bearings of their tribes, which are as
distinctive as the plaids of the High
landers.
A new invention has been designed
to prevent collisions at sea- At re-
cent test the force from electro-mag-
netic coils stationed on board YES
sci successfully influenced chemical
ly prepared compass stationed some
six miles away, causing it to ring
bells.
The ''eohippus, whose skeleton is
one of the treasures of the American
Museum of Natural History, is the or
iginal tour-toed horse. 1t was hardly
larger than fox, but fanciful Eng
lish scientist says it possesses all the
characteristics of the full-grown horse,
including the space for the bit at the
end of the lower jaw. "
A medical journal says that in the
continued use of the eyes in such work
as sewing, typesetting, bookkeeping,
reading and studying, the saving
point is looking up from the work at
short intervals and looking around
the room. This practiced every ten
or fifteen minutes relieves the muscu-
lar tension, rests the eyes and makes
the blood supply much better.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

There is no room for doubt that the
construction of good roads pays in the
end, says the New Jersey Forester.
In wooded districts roads serve as fire
breaks. A road is always an excellent
point of vantage in fighting a fire.
Were the sides of roads in forests dis
tricts kept free from compustible
matter there would be much less dan.
ger from forest fires. The value of
timber is rated mainly by the nature
of the road over which it is. necessary
10 haul it, In Germany some roads
for transporting timber are mac
adamized and one is mentioned in the
report OF the Chief of the Forestry
Division for 1898 which saved its cost
in two years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

"There is no such thing as law, "
was the surprising and comforting
piece of information given by Cover.
nor Clarke. OF Arkansas, to the last
graduates of the law department OF
the Arkansas University. The Cover.
nor had but just presented diplomas
to the young men, which the recipi.
ents might naturally suppose we're
evidence that they knew some law, as
a result of several years of study.
Governor Clarke explained that there
were rules accepted as law, but these
were SO complex in principle as to
render the law myth. Ninety per
cent. of appealed cases could be
decided either way, he avorred, and
lawyers on the bench very frequently
divide on the question of what is tho
law
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
The welding Process Like Freezing.

In paper by T. Wrightson, rea |
before the Royal Society recently, evil
dence is brought forward to show that
the welding of iron aud steel is simi-
lar in character to the regulation Of
ice. Iron has been found to expand
in passing from the liquid to the plas-
tic state and then contracts to the
solid form. Experiments at the Mint
have also shown that at the welding
pointiron eools under pressure. Weld
ing differs from melting pieces togeth.
er in that in the former case the union
takes place below the temperature OF
fusion. Engineering and Mining
Journal
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
FIFTY Thousand Trnants.

The Board of Education of New
York City has received summary Of
the school census recently taken by
the police. According to this report
there are l6S,02 male aud III, 1856
female school children III this city.
The table shows there are 90, 0G9 tru-
ants, which means an expenditure Of
between s., 900, 900 and So, 600, 600 for
new schools before these deliuquents
can be taken care Of There is now
SO, 800, 900 available for the erection
of new school buildings, and it is esti-
mated that twenty-five Of them will bo
required. Scientific American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

Valley into Santa Barbara, and for the
first half hour after the event they
met no one.
1t was what the inhabitants of the
Channel City call genuine Santa
Barbara day." The sun shone warm
and bright, and a soft perfumed
breeze came out of the west. There
was June in the air, although the cal
endar was set for mid-winter. The
birds sang in the trees above them,
the squirrels chirped from the hill
side, and their horses, wandering at
times from the road, sank to the knee
in waving sea of flowers.
"First of ALL" she said, breaking
the silence of q whole minute, "you
must tell my father"
Certainly" said the young man.
"Who's afraid?"
''You have never seen papa do the
role of the cruel parent" said the
girl; she can be quite a dragon. AS
you are kinsman, however,"
"a fifth cousin" cried the young
man, with laugh.
"Well, fifth cousins are better than
nothing, aren't they?"
"rruly how else should we be here
to-day?"
Then the young man added with
peculiar and significant emphasis;
81 am inclined to pride myself on
that little scheme"
The girl brought her horse to
al
brown eyes, half opened under their
long lashes, upon her companion.
"That little scheme" she repeated,
slowly. 81 don't understand.
The young man laughed uneasily.
"Why, Catherine" said he, "you
don't mean that you have believed in
the entertaining fiction about our
great-great-et'cetera-grandfather?"
"Old Ebenezer Strong?" exclaimed
the girl. "How dare you call him
fictitious, when ! saw his portrait at
my own grandfather's" F"
As your ancestor, my dear one, he
is an undoubted reality-but us mine,
regret to say, he is merely fgment
of your worthy fathers imagination.
In short-I would fain break it 10
you as gently as possible-we are not
fifth cousins at all, but just plain or-
dinary-"
"Not fifth cousins !"
"No, darling; and if you are going
to faint, please fall on this side. with
your head right here on my shoul-
der"
81 won'tl Wretched boy, how
could you deceive poor papa 500"
81 didn't deceive him. He deceived
himself From the very beginning of
our acquaintance he seemed determ-
ined to locate me somewhere on the
Weston family tree, and you aided
and abetted him in the attempt"
'Richard Strong, how can you'll"
81 have a sweet and gentle disposi-
tion and when he asked me if was
not descended from Ebenezer Strong,
of West Brighton Centre, aud you
looked at me SO appealingly-"
81 didn't any such thingl"
"Why shouldn't assent? l have
doubtless had several hundred ances-
tors named Strong, and 1 took the
chances that some one OF them re-
ioiced in the prenomen of Ebenezer.
1t is just the sort of name that my
forbears were given to putting upon
themselves.
"You may laugh, if it pleases you, "
said the girl, severely, "but if papa
had known you were not relative We
should not be riding alone together.
He generally disApproves of the East
ern people who spend the winter at
the hotel.
"lf you really feel that have been
guilty of false pretenses, said the
young man, drawing his horse little
nearer, suppose we begin all over
again.
''Keep your distance, sir /" ex-
claimed the girl, steering for the op-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

1t is said that there are in the State
of Kansas twenty well-built towns
without a single inhabitnnt. Saratoga,
in that State, has $4,000 opera
house, large brick hotel, $40, 900
school house, and number of fine
business houses, and yet there is not
single person to claim that city as
his home. At Fargo herder and his
family constitute the sole population
of what was once an incorporated
CITY.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

Newest wrinkles in dining-cars are
to be found on the Chicago and East
ern Illinois, where, according to a
Western paper, the passenger who
dimes on the train now has his atten.
tion drawn away from the high prices
on the bill OF fare by music from a
Swiss music box. Each box has three
cylinders, and each cylinder plays
eight tunes.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
A "Mam Rooster,

Ed II. Duguy, proprietor of the
Jackson Square Bird Store, has.
among other freaks aud curious things
at his store, "mau rooster, SO called
by the faucier, which ho has named
"Picayune. The bird stands IN
straight, with body perpendicularly
poised, something after the manner OF
a penguin. The bird is lighter, and,
standing up straight as he does. will
do some tall growing if the next cleo
tion goes right. -Aew Orleans Plea
yunc.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
A FaiIhlnI Dng

Rufus NJ. Merrill, aged seventy
nine, well-known ship builder,
while walking on the Portland and
Rochester Road at Portland, Me-, was
struck by an engine and received in
iuries from the effect Of which he died
two hours later. His dog, his con-
stant companion for many years, tried
to drag his master from the track, and
had both hind legs cut of. Mr. Merrill
seemed more concerned about his dog
than himself, Trenton IN. J. Am eri-
can,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
A YFARNING.

'Do you not sometimes have soulful
.yearnings which you long to convey
in words, but cannot?" asked the seDti-
mental girl.
"Yes, indeed" replied the young
man. 81 was once dreadfully anxious
to send home for money, and didn't
have the price of telegram. Read
ing PENN Telegram.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

The Agricultural Department is
making arrangements to have CORE
spondent in every township in the
country to make reports on the condi-
tion of the crops. 1t will make the
crop reports much fuller and more ac-
curate than heretofore.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
IS A MEEK SPIRIT.

Judge--"Prisoner at the bar, you
are charged with breaking into the
complainant's store and carrying away
a large amount of goods. What have
you to say in your own defence?"
Burglar-'I did it, your Honor, out
of compassion. He had sign up that
he was selling his goods less than cost,
and by taking them saved big loss
--see?"- Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
A MODEL HUSBAND.

Friend Perrichon, accompanied by
his wife, took trip to the outskirts of
Paris. Very tired and hungry, they
entered an eating house, The pro-
prietor declared that he had nothing
but chop to offer them.
"Only one!" exclaimed Perrichon;
"then what is my wife to have. -
Paris Gaulois.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
A New sOrl Of Champion.

There seems to bo no end to tho op.
portunities for person to aohiye
fame as champion. A painter in
Sac), Me-, sucked three dozen eggs in
seven minutes and ffty-iiye seconds, "a
few days ago, and is now ready to
suck eggs for the championship with
any one of his class in the country
New Orleans Picayune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
A SAVING INSTANCE.

"Tell me honestly" said the novel
reader to the novel writer" did you
ever see woman who stood and
tapped the floor impatiently with her
toe for several moments, as you de-
scribe?"
"Yes," was the thoughtful reply T;
81 did once"
"Who was she?"
"She was clog dancer. Wash
ington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE MISSED.

Young Mr.. Callow-"Yes, Miss
Jump, the woman 1 would marry
must in every way realize the highest
ideal in beauty and mental qualities.
Miss Jump-"Oh, Mr.. Callow This
is SO sudden !''-New York Mail and
Express.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

Three-tenths of the earnings OF
Belgian convict are given to him on
the expiration of his term of impris-
onment Some of them thus save
more money in Jail than they ever
saved before.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
MONEY Is FFMININE.

Teacher What is the gender of
money"
Scholar Feminine.
Teacher (severely)--"Why"
Scholar-'Because money talks. -
Detroit Free Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

A Gentle Hint-Needless Cruelty
Another ObJection-An Opportun-
ity Not to BE Missed, Etc, Etc.
She wore a locket round her neck,
A locket OF shining gold;
The shape OF a heart and large enough
A picture petite to hold.
opened the locket to ascertain
Who was her particular pet;
But instead Of miniature photograph
Was sign which read ITO Let.
Spare Moments.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
BAD HABITS.

She" "There are 10000 people in
Chicago who smoke opium.
He-"That's nothing. just think
how many there are who smoke hams"
Detroit Free Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
ANOTHER OBJECTION,

Dick Singleton-"Does your wife
object to your going to the club of an
EVENING""
Benny Dictus-"No, but she OBJ
jects to my coming home from it in
the morning. Harlem Life.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

DIR. Leslie Phillips, well-known
scientist, warns tho new woman
against wearing her hair short, and
says that the cause of badness in
man is due to the fact that he cuts his
bos.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
GOT ALL THEY WANTED.

Pennuck-"A gang of burglars
entered the House of Correction
short time since"
Dullyer-"Did they get anything"
Pannuck-"Yes, five years apiece" "
Boston Courier.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
NOT CONFINED To REDSKINS.

"All the good Indians, they say, are
dead Indians"
80 are all the good white people.
Go and read the epitaphs on the tomb
stones, will you?" Chicago Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

Sir Edward Braddon, new author
ity on big game, says that the elephant
is revengeful and treacherous, and is
an arrant coward.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31

The police census reveals the fact
that there are more than 80, 900 chill
dren in New York City who are with
out school facilities.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
THE NARROW WORLD.
BY CHARLES DWIGHT WILLARD.

OMEIHlNG had
happenedi
There was such
a rosy flush on her
cheek, so bright a
CLEAN in her eyes,
and on his face
such an utter
abandon of Joy,
that any one
even a man
G o u ! d h a v g
guessed the truth.
Fortuna { oil v
they had chosen
the hill road, the
least travelled of
all the ways that
lead down from
{ h q Montecito
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
NEEDLESS CRUELTY.

He-'1 can tell woman's age, no
matter how old she is.
She-"You must be q brute p
Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-31
The Germans number 1900, 900 OF
our population.

Out West they are said to be turn
ing their wire fences into telephone
lines.