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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Mail bags an now be taken on and
delivered from trains running at sixty
miles an hour.
The effect of electric currents on
German silver and alloy of gold and
silver is TO render those metals brittle.
The nerves of -blooded animals,
says scientific authority, telegraph
information to their brains at the rate
of about 150 feet per second.
The greatest transmission of power
by wire rope is at Schafhausen by
means of it 600 horse power is trans
mitted to distance of mile.
Sir William Turner has compiled
table which shows that a whale of fifty
tons weight exerts 145-horse power in
swimming twelve miles an hour.
Platinum has been drawn into
smooth wire so fine that it could not
be distinguished by the naked eye,
even when stretched across a piece OF
white cardboard.
Wheat can be grown in the Alps at
an elevation ,of 5000 feet; in Brazil,
at 5000 feet in the Caucasus, at 5000;
in Abyssinia, at 10000; in Peru and
Bolivia, at IL, 900.
Fruit cools the blood, cleans the
teeth and aids digestion. Those who
can't eat it miss the benefit OF per-
haps the most medicinal food on
natures bill of fare.
A chemical torch, which ignites when
-.o4 &, n ,,o,a1 CHAIRMAN invanttnn II
is intended for life e-buoys, which are
thus made visible at night when
thrown to persons overheard.
A match cutting machine is quite an
automatic curiosity. 1t cuts 10, 900,
900. day, and then arranges them
over vat, where the heads are put on
at a surprising rate of speed.
The German Government has just
purchased an electric flag designed
for night use. The Aag is four metres
square, and the design is traced IN
colored electric lamps, which are
lighted by wire from the deck.
A process that is claimed to render
thread and fabrics absolutely non
shrinkable has been devisel by Messrs.
Mathelin, Floquef and Bonnet. The
old alumina or sulphate of alumina
process is combined with treatment
with carbonate of soda solution and
the use OF steam. To its fixing prop.
erty the steam adds the advantages o
increasing the degree of solution OF
the alumina salts, and of removing all
greasy feeling of the treated fabrics.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
The American Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is purely an Ameri-
can holiday, original in conception
and growing from a small beginning
until it has reached the dignity of n
National event. It's first celebration
was by the Plymouth colony in 1921
those sturdy pioneers whose piety
was as pronounced as their pluck, who
honored themselves by honoring their
Deity. The custom soon became more
general, spreading over all the New
England States. After the revolution
it gradually extended to the Middle
States and later to the West, growing
more slowly in the South. In 1868
Lincoln forever established it in the
list of holidays by proclaiming a day
of Thanksgiving, his action being
promptly followed by the individual
proclamation of the Governors of the
States, who named the same day.
Since then, by common consent, the
first announcement of the day is found
in the Presidents proclamation, and
the day so named is also named by the
States.
In many ways Thanksgiving is one
of our most delightful events. 1t
comes at a time when the rigors OF
winter are not yet at hand. We have
at our disposal all the varied products
OF the soil, and the time for a season
of partial rest for the farmer is at hand.
One of the most delightful features,
which has become quite general, is
the gathering together under the old
rooftree of all the scattered sons and
daughters on this day. Two, three
and sometimes four generations thus
meet around the festive and hospitable
table of the old homestead, and thus
fraternal ties are strengthened and
filial piety encouraged.
Another and not less commendable
feature of this holiday is a practical
benevolence which has become very
notable. Poor people, to whom =
good dinner is a rarity, are hunted
out, and in an unostentatious way are
helped to properly observe the day,
so far as its festive features are con-
cerned The sick and suffering are
remembered in various ways The
homeless are, for the day, made mem
bers of some hospitable household,
where they can join in the pleasures.
Altogether, this is perhaps its best
feature, There is nc pleasure so last
ing, none which affords such real joy,
as that which comes to us from the
knowledge that we have done real
kindness to some of the suffering
children of earth-in some way
alleviated their sorrows or eased their
pains.
Last, but not least, the devotional
spirit which is the impelling motive
of the day, is encouraged and deyel-
oped, we learn to be more contented
with our lot. thankful for what We
have and hopeful for the future. -
American Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27

cred her up in his arms and carried
her to a chair, and told her TO never
mind; he knew she would find it some
time"
"But il is a good long walk from
the Grandma Ellis place down to Chris
Chaffee's farm, isn't it?" said I.
"Seven mile" said Dock. "You
see she found it along late in the af-
ternoon. Grandpa Ellis had been
dead a good many years, and she was
hiring q man to work the place for
her, and she couldn't leave home till
she had got his supper. And he didn't
want the horses to go out till next
morning, because he had been haul
ng wood all day. He offered to take
The thimble to Ohaffee's for her, but
the wouldn't let him. She said she
must take it herself. She never could
eat or sleep till she did. But she was
crying a good deal, and he thought
she would put it off till daylight, and
then he would give her a horse.
''But she couldn't wait, and after
supper she started out and walked
every step of that seven miles, and
cried herself to sleep in the spare bed
at Chris's house and slept there till
next morning. She didn't live long
after that-four or five years-but she
worried over the thimble till she died.
1 guess she left Chris some money,
but don't think he has ever used it.
He had all he wanted when they took
that stain from his lip. They elected
him township trustee the next year.
Yes, 1 guess he was trustee when he
died, when Belle, here, was pretty
near young woman"
"Well, we're done with the red
quilt" called CHEEKY voice from the
parlor, and here camo Mrs. Harvey
Belle Chaffee that was, with fair
blonde face and laughing eyes, and
lips like cherries. and large, fine
figure, with a grace of movement and
charm of speech that are rare among
women.
"Where's your cat, Dock?" she de-
manded, brimming with mischief.
"We must toss the cat in the red quilt.
1t wouldn't be a complete quilting if
we didn't toss the cat"
'I'll get the cat if you'll show me
your thimble, said Dock.
And she handed him rather large
but thin and much worn thimble, made
of gold and marked on the inner rim
with shallow traces of what had once
been the inscription: wedding gift
ELLA Ellis-1S45."
She looked in my eyes and knew l
had heard her fathers story. And
she took the thimble again and said /:
sit was my birthday present from
Grandma Ellis Thanksgiving night
oh, ever so many years ago."
And then she carried her smile and
her laugh and her gracious presence
among the women again-a perpetual
Thanksgiving wherever she went.
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boarded at Hi Ranks place and cleared
house there, and furnished it, and
folks ioked him good deal about a
housekeeper ; but he didn't seem to
find wife. He always said he wasn't
in hurry, but we all knew it was the
women that wasn't in hurry.
"Of course he was respected and
trusted and all that. His credit was
good at any of the stores in town, and
if he went bail on q note it was good
anywhere. He was quiet and orderly
and good farmer; and of course no
one had anything but kind words for
him. Only that old matter of the
thimble would keep coming up. You
know a country neighborhood don't
change very rapidly. And when a
story fastens once on a man it hangs
there as long as he lives.
81 know he used to try and get bet
ter acquainted with the women, but
when one would go with him time or
two she would hear that story, and
hear it from SO many that she would
/ quit him. And he was thirty years
old when he finally married. Oh, yes,
he married right here in the neighbor-
hood, and a woman that had known
him all her life. She knew the story
as we'll asanyone else did. They made
sure of that. But she said she didn't
care. She didn't believe it anyway.
And they said she had made her bed
and she might lie in it.
But 1 bet you there wasn't wo-
man in West Township had a better
home than she had. Why, he was a
model husband.
"And the next year his baby was
born-Belle, that's now Mrs. Harney
in there. Lal I've heard my mother
tell time and again about that night.
Mother was over at Chris's house, and
so were two or three other women.
The baby was born Thanksgiving even
ing, about o'clock, and along about
s my mother was sitting in front of
the fire holding that fat little girl on
her knees, and talking with the wo-
men abont people being rich if they
are born late in the month, when they
heard the front gate open. You al
ways could hear that front gate at
| Chris Chaffee's house.
"And the dog barked and the women
sat still and listened, and they heard
stumbling walk along the path, and
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
Ingenious Advertising.

A citizen with n swollen jaw was
Fastening along one of the principal
streets of the city, when a sign in
front of tall building caught his at
tention. 1t was as follows:
"Painless Extraction OF Teeth Free. !"
He stopped long enough to note the
number of the floor on which the
business indicated by the sign was car
ried on and then hurried inside and
made his way to the dental parlors.
''Is this the place where you pull
teeth without pain free?" he inquired.
eyes, sir" said one of the painless
extractors on duty.
"Well, I've got Il grinder that's been
giving a good deal of trouble. | wish
you'd yank it out. "
The sufferer took his place in the
chair aud openel his mouth Toe
operator, after applying to the swollen
gum puugent lotion OF some sort,
speedily relieved him Of the offending
molar.
"Thanks, said the caller, climbing
down and picking up his hat
"That will be fifty cents, remarked /
the dentist.
Fifty cents?" echoed the other.
al thought it was free. That's what
you told me II minute ago, and it's
what you say on your sign"
"Iust so. Did it hurt you any?"
"Yes, it hurt little.
"rhat's right. We do our painless
extracting free, exactly as we claim.
When it hurts we charge for it. Fifty
cents, please. "-ChicGgo Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27

of brick, of course, and with an arched
roof, plastered and whitewashed, and
she was proud of it, And she had a
right to be, for the bread she made
there was tho best in the country.
"Chris went to split the kindling
and Grandma Ellis went back to her
sewing; but she couldn't find her Thin
BILE. No, sir; she couldn't find it any
where, high nor low. That gold thin
blel Why, it wouldn't have troubled
her much more if the house had
burned down. She could have lost all
the COWS or the horses, or could have
borne a drought that destroyed the
crops. But that gold thimble, made
from her husbands So piece and pre-
sented to her on her wedding day !
Why, it almost broke her heart.
"Of course she called Chris, but he
said he hadn't seen it. She didn't like
to suspect him, but she could hardly
help it. And when she had looked
everywhere else made him come in,
and she searched him; and no cried
and so did she. And they didn't have
much fun out of that Thanksgiving
Day.
"Well, the neighbors heard of it, ol
course. They all knew of the thimble,
and they all said Chris might have
taken it. Some of them said they al
ways had heard he was light fingered.
And he left Grandma Ellis along about
holidays, and then the neighbors were
sure had taken the thimble.
''But he didn't go out of the neigh,
borhood. He got another place to
live, and he worked there that winter
and the next summer-worked there
four or five years, guess. He was q
mighty good hand. My father used
to say Chris was the best GRADER in
West Township. Just before the war,
when he was grown up, heard man
say one time if Chris Chaffee hadn't
taken that gold thimble of Grandma
Ellis's he would be a model citizen.
Oh, yes; it stuck to him. 1t followed
him. You see it's a serious thing in
the country for boy to get caught
stealing anything. They never forget
it.
"GraDdma Ellis was awful sorry.
She always would say Chris was q
steady boy, and willing, if there ever
was one. And she would have done
anything for him. Lots of times she
tried to be friends with him, but he
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
PeenIlarIly oil lhe MoskIns Bod.

The most remarkable thing about a
mocKing bird is its way Of laying out
n range. In the autumn it goes South
and establishes itself ON a piece OF
ground that will yield berries and
other food enough TO last until spring.
The tract is determined with as much
accuracy as u mining prospector would
use in stalking out claim. Perhaps
it may be only fifty yards square, aud
it may have Il length and breadth of
as much as 100 yards. The space de.
pends mainly upon the food supply in
sight, but the mocking bird is great
glutton and wants ten times the guam.
tity that would be necessary to keep
him alive. Having laid out his range,
the owner will defend il with his life,
and no other fruit eating bird is al.
lowed to enter it.-Chicago Times
Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
She Owned tie Falls.

George Forbes, the engineer of the
Niagara Electric Company, says he
once lived in house belonging To ono
ot the Porter family, who have lous
owned most OF the properly near the
falls. A Miss Porter WAS once travel
ing in Europe, aud at tine table d'Aote
her neighbor said so, il you are ap
American / suppose you have seen n
agara False She turned 90 her in
quirer and fixing h!m with her eyes sho
said 'I own them l'-S san Francisco
Argonaut.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
Turkey.

The day Of feas ~ ing draweth nigh,
Aud scores OF i urSeys soon must die.
Get one that's 20 / r ng and sweet and fat.
And stun it L II Of this and that.
With fruits and be ID ries sauces mako
And add prese IL yes and pies and cakes.
Ask friends and IL inbred all 10 come
And spend Than N saiying at your home
Let not the ear L Of life distress,
But MI each gu II st with happiness.
Revive I h e 10 " of youthful days,
And tor tn i blessings offer praise
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

4he popularity of good music is
that it seldom sounds so.-Puck.
Steam is an insolent servant, for it
often blows up its master. The
Waterbury.
He lin the drnpery line) e)-"Er-
haven't we met'before?" She-"Yes,
on the lastremnant day. st James's
Budget.
She who can successfully manage Il
hired girl is better than she who al.
dresseth the multitude. West Unior
Gazette.
Mamma Johnny, why don't you
eat your oatmeal?" Johnny (who
has been visiting) it tastes SO
economical l"-Puck.
Take away woman" shouted the
orator, "and what would followY
"We would" said a mau at the back
of the audience, promptly. -Tit-Bits.
When people fall in love to-day,
Aud all is rivalry and mirth,
It's two hearts with a single thought;
Oh, how much is the other worth?
Puck.
Watts-"Did you ever know of auy
one dying for love?" Potts-"Oncs
l knew fellow who starved to death
after being refused by an heiress. -
Indianapolis Journal.
Mamma-"Willie, where are those
apples gone that were in the store
room?" Willie -"Hhey are with the
gingerbread that was in the cupboard "
-Pittsburg Bulletin.
"How vain you are, Efie, looking
at yourself in the glass" "Vaiu,
Aunt Emma? Me vain? Why, l don'5
think myself half as good looking rs
really am. Punch.
Daughter -"Mamma, if l must
J write to Mr.. Bray about his extortion-
ate bill, should 1 say Dear Mr..
Bray'?" Mamma Certainly, un Ter
the circumstances. Tit. Bits.
"Hello, Jasmun, where are you liv-
ing now?" "With my wife, of
course" "And where is your wife
living?" "Oh-er why-with her
father. ."-Cincinnati Tribune.
From each the solemn statement comes
On highway and on byway,
| There's but one way to run this earth,
| Aud that, Of coarse, is my way.
Puck.
An Important Point; The Deacon's
Wife-"I hope you have been careful
about the new ministers qualitice-
tions?" The Deacon-"Yes, we made
him define exactly what he meant by
"a few words. ''-BrooSlyn Life.
81 want to get out at Fletcher
street, said small boy to street
car conductor the other night. "What
do you say?" asked the conductor,
not understanding what he said.
"Please," responded the youngster,
flushing slightly. Citizen.
Said an ancient spinster belle, =
As she with her escort stood
While the rain in torrents fell:
"rhis reminds me Of the Hood.
"Oh," said he, in accents brave,
"What memory you have
Detroit Free Press.
Elsie-"Ycs, dear, my husband is a
doctor, and lovely fellow; but he is
awfully absent-minded. Ada-'In-
deed !" Elsie-"Only fancy Dur
ing the marriage ceremony, when he
gave me the ring, he felt my pulse
and asked me to put out my tongue.
Ada-"Well, he won't do the latter
again. "-Tit-Bits.
Smith is walking around to-day as
if he were walking on eggs. He
needs to- " "What ails him?" "Why,
last night after he had gone to bed he
remembered that he should have taken
somo qulnine capsules. He got up in
the dark and took 'em. This morning
ho discovered that he had swallowed
three twenty-five caliber revolver
| rartrilnns n-Chinnnn Rnnnrl
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
A Kings Irresistible Argument.

Frederick the Greats father was in
the habit of kicking the shius of those
who differed from him in argument.
One day he asked courtier if he
agreed with him on some discussed
point
"Sire," he returned, lit is impossi-
bic to hold different opinion from "a
king who has such strong convictions
and wears such thick boots "-Argo.
naut.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27

'1 would like to make your last
hours comfortable" remarked tho
Humorous Man TO the Thanksgiving
Turkey "whGt can do for you?"
Thanks, awfully," answered the
Thanksgiving Turkey; 'if you will
furnish the ehestnuts, I'll do the
r-st. Detroit Free Press
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
Thanksglylng Dan ExereIse.

Perley-"Hullo, Jinx going to
take Thanksgiving Day off?"
Jinx-"Yes. Going to devote it to
athletics"
Perley-"Good. What kind? Colt
or football?"
Jinx-"Neither. 1 going to carve
20 aiurseg ! rliscl myself, for ten people.
There's exercise Tor you?'- Hurg-i .,
6aZar,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
THANKSGIVING.

THANKSGIVING.
That fields have yielded ample store
OF fruit and wheat and corn,
That nights Of restful blessedness
Have followed each new morn;
That flowers have blossomed by the paths
That love has filled us with deligh
We offer heartfelt praise.
What shall we say OF sorrows hours.
OF hunger and denial,
or tears, and loneliness, and loss,
OF long and bitter trlal2
Oh, in the darkness have not wo
Seen new, resplendent starsP
Have we not learned some song Of faith
Within our prison bars?
Not only Tor the earth's rich gifts,
Strewn thick along our way,
Her looks OF constant loveliness,
We thank our God to-day.
But for the spirits subtle growth,
The higher, better part,
The treasures gathered in the soul
The harvest OF the heart.
Mary F. Butts.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
THE LOST THIMBLE.
"DocK's" THANKSGIVING DAY STORY.
MAN is consid.

erAbly out of
place at q
quilting bee.
OF course, all
the Nv o m e n
were good to
me, and the
hostess made
n special effort
at entertain
ment, but it
seemed all the
time as Just
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-11-27
OMNIA MUTANTUR.

1895.
A drowsy drone;
A garden sweet
And, all alone.
In llirtle neat,
So deft and prim,
To guide the reel,
With sunshine in her dove-like eyes,
The maid Priscilla daily piles
Her wheel.
1895.
A noisy str-et,
Or lane or park,
Where cyclists meet,
BY day or dark;
In bloomers clad.
From head to heel,
And resolution in her eyes.
The modern maiden deftly plies
Her wheel.
Monroe II. R0senleld.
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RArxs or ADVERTISING

One Square one inoh, one insertion, y
One Square one inch, one month";. gW
One Square, one inch, three months. koO
One Square, one inch, one year....., ~ "
Two Sauar,s one veer r......,..,.... 10 o.
Quarter Column, one year ........ss ~ ~
o.. Colun,r one ysar - 100 70
Legal advertisements ten cssta per ttnA
sach insertion
Marriage and death notices gruAis.
All billsfor yearly advertisements coossaaS
quarterly. Temporary advertisements hsase
b. paid in advancs.
Job work-cash on delivery.
The record-union., 1895-10-18
THELos Angeles Times says:

The Sacramento Valley Press League has
passed resolutions favoring good roads. But
the time for resolutions has long since gone
by in California. What is needed from Siski-
you to San Diego and from the Sierras to the
sea is system, backed up by goodly array Of
shovels and road-scrapers and the men to
run EN-.
That is all right so far as the demand
for "system" is concerned, but not a sys-
tenn back ed by the shovel and the scraper
These two Implements have done more
injury to the good road cause than any
thing else. 1t has been the plow-up,
hesp-up-with-the-sc and shovel
over-the-dirt system that has swallowed
up forty millions of money in California
in making bad roads and keeping them
in poor repair. No, what we want is
brains back of authority and system sp-
proved by engineering science. The wise
and economic use of road funds on the
line of the experience of good road build
ers, the use Of the best road machinery
and the employment of men to do the
work who are possessed of an idea above
that which esteems good road heap of
loose earth scraped up into long drawn
hillock, are what We want.
The record-union., 1895-10-18

The dispatches from Bogota state that
the Government of the United States of
Colombia has put forth the strong arm
aud crushed the conspiracy against the
official heads of the Government, by
backing the military officers concerned
up againat a wall and shooting them
without any hesitation whatever. On the
heels OF this orders have been given to
proceed with The utmost vigor against all
other conspirators. 1t is rather brutal,
this executing without trial, priest or
candle, but it must be confessed that they
10 suppress disorder and disloyalty down
in Colombia with vigor that is full of
suggestion for other parts where the laws
delays breed discomfort, lynchings and
auarchism.
The record-union., 1895-10-18

ONE dispatch states that the Pope for
bids Roman Catholics TO have any part in
in another Worlds Congress of Reli-
gions. Another and later dispatch says
that the Pope simply advises that Catho-
lies had better hold their conventions by
themselves and not mingle with heretics,
and advice by the Pope is command.
But it is added that the Pope advises that
Catholic convocations be open for any of
other religions to attend and ask respect
full questions. Now that is gracious.
The Pope's churchmen may not sit in
a Worlds Congress, but the members of
the congress may sit in the conventions
of the Pope's churchmen to ask ques-
tons and drink in invincible truth, ETC.,
etc. The world moves, but the Pope
stands still. We venture the assertion
that there is not a high-minded Ameri-
can Catholic Bishop who sees any often SO
or IMPROPERLY in sitting in a Worlds
Congress OF Religions, such as that held
at Chicago three years ago. For il the
church of the Bishops and the Pope is
the truth and right. it has nothing to fear
from any debate, or expressions made in
a congress of learned men. But then, the
Pope is master OF his religious dominion
and it is the duty of his subordinates to
obey. All the same, we are convinced
that many Of his robed servants are Of a
mind that if expressed would not be re-
spectful Of the Pope's judgment in this
matter