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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
Obeyiug Orders,

Here is a good story which the boys
in camp will appreciate, told last night
at the Army aud Navy Club. 1t illus
trates an Irishmau's disposition to
carry out his orders. Hugh Nc, a
son of the Emerald Isle, who had vo!-
unteered in the Sixth Regiment of
South Carolina Infantry, was stationed
on the beach of Sullivan Island, with
strict orders to walk between two
points, and to let no one pass without
the countersign, and that to be COM
municated only in whisper. Two
hours afterward the corporal with tho
relief discovered by the moonlight,
Hugh, up to his waist in water, the
tide having set in since he was posted.
"Who goes there?" "Relief. 4"
"Halt, relief Advance, Corporal,
and give the countersign.
Corporal 81 am not going in there
to be drowned. Come out here and
let me relieve you"
Hugh-"Not IN inch The Lef-
tenant tould me not to lave me post.
Corporal-"Well, then, will leave
you in the water all night" (going
away as he spoke).
Hugh-"Halt! I'll put IA hole in
ye if ye pass without the eountersign.
Them's me orders from the leitenaut. +"
Cooking and leveling his gum
Corporal-"Confound you, every
body will hear it if l bawl it out to
you"
Hugh Eyes, me darling, and tho
leftenant said it must be given in n
whisper. In with ye, me fingers on
the trigger and me gun may so of. "
The corporal had to yield to the
force of the argument aud wade in to
the faithful sentinel, who exclaimed :
"Be Jabers, it's well ye've come. The
bloody tide has Almost drowned me-
Washington Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
WISE WORDS.

A wise hunter takes the first shot.
Happiness rarely comes by saying
so.
Love isn't fool--it only acts that
way.
A narrow mind naturally has a cut
ting way.
Among animals the fox is leader
OF course.
Nothing is more difficult than to
choose a good wife.
It is better to pursue a vigorous
policy-on a retreat.
Too many people in the world are
singing for an encore.
The modern martyr seeks to break
himself on the "wheel."
As q living picture, the nervous
man is q sort of hashlight.
Few men are so hardened as to not
be sorry for the other fellow.
A man has to get quite old to for
get what foolish boy he was.
The fisherman may be justified in
telling a story with a string to it.
The man who says he "has mind
to" sit on a jury may be doubted.
Prayer too often fails to. preserve
the parity between the heart and the
mouth.
Philosophy teaches us to bear with
calmness the misfortunes of our
friends.
The rudest man inspired by passion
is more persuasive than the most elo-
quent man if uninspired.
Women are happier in the love they
inspire than in that which they feel ;
men are just the contrary.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
A Dog Protector,

People who are habitual dog haters
should read with some care an incident
of life in Newark, where q pet dog led
a distracted mother to her little two
year-old, which had strayed from
home. The dog had kept near the
child until the stupid individual into
whose hands the child had fallen
started q crowd of boys of with it to
drown it, on account of its strange ac.
tions. The mother came up Just in
time to rescue the dog aud then it in
turn took her to where the child was.
The only thing the matter with the
dog was that it wantel to protect its
little mistress. Nine-tenths of the
time dogs that are simply overheated,
fatigued or thirsty are set upon by II
wild crowd of human beings, who go
into a panic every time a dog pants
and are ready to kill every innocent
animal on general suspicion. Hydro
phobia is bad enough, but it is rare
disease, while the ignorant dog hater
is ever with us. Give the dogs a
chance. Philadelphia Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
The BleYcIe LAnlp.

"There is a fortune awaiting the
man who can inventa really good BIZ
cycle lamp, said the instructor. "rhe
best one made is the searchlight,
which cannot be bought for less than
So ; it is the only one in which kero-
sene can be burned, sperm oil being
used in the others. The great alvant-
age of the searchlight is that it is less
liable to go out in running across car
tracks, ruts or rough places, but
sudden jerk often extinguishes the
light in this, as we'll as in the cheaper
and less ingenious lamps. The truth
of the business is ii cyclists could buy
a well perfected lamp there would be
none of these arrests of persons for
riding without lamps. Lamps cost all
the way from Sl.50 up to 81, and will
hold enough oil to burn about tour
hours. Scientific American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The Yerkes telescope will bring the
moon with fifty miles of Chicago.
1t is estimated that 80, 900 CONVEX
sations take place daily over the tele-
phones in New York City.
The "dumb piano" is new inven-
tion on which young ladies can learn
music without making any sound.
The common toad catches its insect
food by darting out its tongue so
rapidly that the eye cannot follow the
movement.
Two fine cobras, the first ever
brought alive to this country, have ar
rived at the Philadelphia Geological
Garden from India.
In an experiment with electricity
as a motive power on the Nantasket
Mass Beach Road speed of eighty
miles an hour is said to have been at
tanned.
The hygienic congress at Buda- -Pesth
brought out the fact that there are
four times as many men who stammer
as there are women who are so af-
ficted.
A Boston philanthropist has pur-
chased 5000 acres of land on which he
will erect 500 cottages for consump-
tives, who will be furnished easy EN-.
ployment.
The Manchester (England) health
officer says that he finds the death
rate OF the Hebrews living in the
slums there as low as in the healthiest
towns of England. This he attributes
to their cleanliness.
About eight miles from Benson,
Arizona, are vast lodges of silica,
which supply the Bisbee works with
several carloads week. They use it
for lining the converters. The lodges
are forty feet high and sixty feet wide,
and the quantity seems inexhaustible.
new invention has been designed
to prevent collisions at sea. At re-
cent test the force from electro-m mag
hectic coils stationed on board a YES
eel successfully influenced a chemi-
cally prepared compass stationed some
six miles away, causing it to SCI up an
instantaneous peal OF Dells.
Belladonna is a preparation from
the deadly nightshade, plant familiar
to most persons from being frequently
seen as an ornamental shrub in the
flower garden. All parts of the plant
are actively poisonous, and many fa'
tal:ties have resulted from the leave:
or berries being incautiously chewed
or eaten by children or even adults.
A blast of 100 pounds OF dyna'
mite in twenty.seven holes wa'
made recently at quarry near Pro
vidence, r. l., blowing off the face OF
a cliff and dislodging about ten thou
sand tons of stone, some OF the blocks
weighing nearly twenty-five tons. The
holes were twenty feet deep and the
work of drilling is said to have cost
$1,000, with $3.50 more for the ex'
plosive.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

The Soldiers Colonization Com
pany, of Indiana, has just bought
$4,000 acres Of lard in Wilcox and
Irwin Counties, Georgia. 1t is esti-
mated, in the New York Tribune, that
5000 families, or about 10000 per-
sons, will settle within the next two
years on the land which has been
bought. II is the intention of the col
onies to settle on farms Of sizes ac-
cording to their means. They expect
to be prepared out Of their present
savings and resources to tide over the
period between this harvest season
and the next. In addition to farmers,
the colony will include artisans, fruit
growers and others seeking more fav-
orable labor, climate and health con-
ditions. They will come from Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska,
Wisconsin and other Western States.
The company purchasing the prop
erty is joint stock organization
formed several years ago, and num-
bering about 1000 stockholders. AS
sessments have been paid in at inter-
walls, and the stockholders will con,
tribute their paid.up shares in pur-
chase of farms in the section bought
by the company.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

Report is made of a new application
of electricity which will drive a first
class ocean steamer across the Atlantic
at an expenditure of 5000, whereas it
now costs $4,000. 1t is tale of
magnitude, surprising that of the
Australian kangaroo, which is larger
than the animal it grows out of, but
there may be something in it. So
many wonders have been wrought
with this unseen, mysterious force
that the promise of new one, no
matter how great, need not excite in
credulity. 1t is reasonable to expect
it to be applied to the propulsion of
all sorts of craft, ocean or other, but
such q saving of expense as that prom.
ised is beyond anything heretofore
dreamed OF, and there may be somo
mistake about it. It's economies need
not be so extreme to enable it TO rev.
olutionize the commerce and business
of the world. One thing about the
electrical force is apparent, and that
is that its work is only begun. 1t is
to spread through the whole system of
mans activities around the world,
with influences upon his career and
destiny not yet measured or measur.
able
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
Future Singers From America.

"Within twenty-five years America
will be furnishing the singers of the
world" said an enthusiastic follower
of the divine art, with whom l was
talking, the other day. "Singers are
growing up all around US, she added,
"and the schools are full of really
wonderful voices. Our chief weak
ness is in the way of tenors. We do
not seem to get great tenor voices
Perhaps it needs mountainous couu.
try to produce them-a country like
Switzerland, which has brought out SO
many phenomenal tenors. New York
World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
UNABLE TO oBLIaE.

Excuse me, sir" said the man in
the row behind, "but would you mind
asking your wife TO remove her hat2
/ assure you that l cannot see a thing
on the stage"
'Td like to oblige you, sir, but it
is impossible" said the man ad-
dressed. "We live out of town, and
we must get home tonight.
"What has that got to do with it?"
"What has that got TO do with it?
Why, our train goes twenty minutes
after the end of tho performance, and
it iase. her an hour 10 pu. that bat
Vp, "-aarperT bGzar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
Accurate Test for Blgns Gems.

An accurate scientific method has
been discovered for distinguishing
precious gems from fraudulent imita,
tions. 1t is known that scales, how
ever delicately constructed, are not
always reliable. The new method con-
sists in floating the stone to be tested
in very dense liquid. Several liquids
used in the experiments are more
than three and half times as dense
as water. The liquids are not zorro
siye or IN any way dangerous,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
LOVE IS A GOD.

Love is no bird that nests and flies,
Nor rose that buds and blooms and dies
No star that shines and disappears,
No fire whose ashes strew the years;
Love Is the god who lights the star,
Makes music Of the lark's desires
Love tells the rose what perfumes are,
Andlights and feeds the deothess fire.
Love is no joy that dies apace
With the delight ofdear embraces
Love is no feast Of wine and bread,
Red-vintaged and gold-haryested;
Love is the god whose touch divine
On hands that chung and lips that kissed
Has turned life's common bread and wine
Into the Holy Eucharist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

According to the New York World
the farmer who has hay to sell this
year will find it a paying crop, and
generally through the States east of
the eAlleghanies there has been enough
rainfall to bring the yield nearly to
the average. But in the valleys of
the Ohio, the Upper Mississippi aud
the Missouri a deficiency of from six
to eleven inches in the rainfall during
the spring months has made the grass
crop unusually short, a large proper.
tion of the meadows being scarcely
worth cutting. The hay crop of last
year was nearly eleven million tons
less than the crop of 1898, and the
prospect of another and much greater
deficiency in the marketable surplus
has put fancy price upon the avail
able supply out West. Farmers can
generally provide for home use a sub
stitute in the form of corn fodder, or
exc out deficiency of clover and tim
othy by turning under winter wheat
stubble and sowing millet. But q
shortage in the hay crop is big loss
to the country. The farm value OF
this crop of 1898, according to the
statistican of the Agricultural De,
partment, was $3.50, sS2, ,s72, or moro
than twice the farm value OF las
years wheat crop and s16, 200. 900
more than the value Of list years carr
crop
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
UP oARRET.

What a world OF fun we had,
You lass and l lad.
Up garrett
In the sweet mysterious dusk,
Redolent of mint and musk.
With the herbs strung overhead,
And the peppers" stiff and red,
And, halfhidden by dangling corn,
Grandpa's flask aud powder-horn!
Such store OF treasures rare
We were sure Of finding there,
Up garret.
Hats and coats OF pattern quaint;
Dark old paintings blurred and faint;
Spinnlng-wheels, whose gossip-whlr
Might have startled Aaron Burr;
Old lace caps Of saffron hue;
Dishes splashel with villas blue.
You in trailing silk were dressed.
wore grandpa's figured vest,
Up garret.
Sc we stood up, hushed and grand,
And were married, hand in hand,
While the tall-cased clock beheld,
As 1t doubtless did Of old,
When at great-grandfather' sido
Stood his blushing Quaker bride.
Furnished really to our hand
Was the cozy home we planned
Up garret.
Chairs that any modern belle
Would pronounce "antique and SWELL y
Chests and dresses that would vic
With the grandest you could buy.
All! they didn't know It then
Save the little maids and men.
All day long in childish wise
We spun out life's mysteries,
Up garret.
In the fragrant. spicy gloom
or that dear old raftered room.
Oh, that life in very truth
We're but sweet, protracted youth,
And we all might play our parts
With unwearled, happy hearts!
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
Polish Way Of Expres.iag Grl.Ilalc.

In Buffalo, n. Y, the oti p day,
Pole whose life was saved by Alderman
Jonn Sheehan expressed his grateful
ness to the Alderman by ollliug az his
place of business and offering his res
cuer one Of his baby sons Iua alder
man declined the proffered gift with
thanks. The Pole said that was the
only way he could tittingly express
his gratitude, but the Alderman was
firm, aud the grateful man returned
home With his infant son.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

Recent statistics show, especially in
European countries, that the number
Of horses used in cities and towns in
creases every year in more rapid
proportion than the population of the
same, and is owing, no doubt, to the
greater number of public conveyances
and the traffic steam and electricity
bring.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
Buffalo Crossed Win galloway Cattle.

In crossing the buffalo with the
Galloway cattle, a splendid coat is
produced The hides of Galloway
cattle of pure breed are excellent for
all purposes for which buffalo hides
were aforetime used, but some breed
ers are of the opinion that by careful
selection and breeding an infinitely
better grade can be produced than
even the primitive buffalo at his best
estate was able to furnish, New York
ledger,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
UNFLATTERIN5.

Little Johnny-"Mrs. Talkemdown
paid big compliment to me to-day"
"Mother-"Did she really? Well,
there's no denying that woman has
sense. What did she say2"
Little Johnny-"She said she didn't
see how you came to have such a nice
little boy as 1 was. Good News.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
COULDN'T BLow II OUT.

81 am the Cheerful Idiot, remarked
the new arrival.
az am sorry, sir" said the hotel
clerk; "but we are lighted with cleo
tricity throughout. >"
"NeYer mind" rejoined the other,
as he registered; 81 shall manage
some way. Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
A CHANCE For A pARK HORSE.

Sister MOy-"I think if you should
propose to Grace she would accept
you"
Brother Jack eagerly --"Do you2
Has she said auything?"
Sister May-"No; but l know she
was deeply in love with Harry Max
well, and his engagement has just been
announced. - Brooklyn Life.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
NO LONGER A CRIME.

Tourist lin Oklahoma)- -"Horses are
pretty cheap here nowadays, aren't
they"
Alkali Ike-"Cheap? They are SO
blamed cheap that when we capture a
horse thief we send him to the lunatic
asylum instead of lynchin' him. -
Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
A RETURN FIRE.

Conceited Dude-'I am looking for
Farmer Huckleberry's. Have you
sense enough to tell me where he
lives?"
Irish Boy-'It's mesilf who has
since enuf ter tell yez; but it's
moighty doubtful be whether yez
have since enuGf ter understand. -
Harper's Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

The fruit and market garden busi-
ness of the South now brings into that
section $50, 100000 year and the
Atlanta Constitution predicts that in
the next few years it will be doubled.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
THE DIFFERENCE.

Mistress Ito her domestic)-'T sup.
pose you girls talk about each other
just the same as we ladies do about
persons in our set ?"
Domestio-"No, mum, we mostly
talks about the mistresses. Boston
Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

visitor-"Got anythin' worth seein'
in your show?"
Museum Manager got the
man what never rode bicycle. L"
Visitor with excitemenD -"Gimme
a ticket "-Chicago Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
HOMER GILBERTS LUCK.

\ the little town of
Puente, CAL, lives
Homer Gilbert, u
queer old man, who
ekes out q living
by growing garden
truck for Los An
geles. No man in
that section lives a
more modest, quiet
life than he, and
hardly anyb b o d y
who sees him
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD.

Brace-'I like joke, but printing
fellows death notice is carrying a
joke too far"
Bagley-'Didn't you say you would
pay me Saturday night that five you
borrowed, if you were alive ?"-Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
A IoNELYwooD SURE THING.

Jonesley-"Where do you think
this ere new we'll you want me TO dig
ought to be, anyhow"
Mr.. Commuter Confidently "In
the cellar. 1 know we can strike water
there. Judge.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
WHAT SHE NEEDED.

Madam-"No, we do no cooking in
the house here. 1 only drink milk. 1
take a cup of milk every two hours"
The Newly Hired Servant-"Well,
madam, 1 do not see why you need
me. What madam requires as cow"
La Vie Parisienne.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
A VICTIM OLE c1RcrrMsrANcEs.

Mrs. Jones--''It is strange that
strong man like you cannot get work. 1"
The Tramp-'Well, yer see, mum,
people wants reference from me last
employer, an he's been dead twenty
years. Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
AN OBJECTIONABLE ERROR.

Miss Gotham-"I believe she is very
highly educated"
Miss Backbay-"She can't be why,
she pronounces the ! in golf, Brook
lYn Eagle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
EXPLAINED.

Sympathetic Friend-"How did
you come to be so horribly mangled ?"
Victim-"The trolley car that hit
me was equipped with the very latest
improvement in tenders.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
NOT FREE ENOUGH.

Wobbley Wiggles --"Do you believe
in free silver? ?"
Wiggley Waggles-"Yes, but I
don't see much of it; wheneverI I make
q brace on do street de most ever
gets is nickel. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

In the Loo Choo Islands in the
Pacific, though there are neither We
hicles nor public lighting, tho inhab-
itants have letter boxes and tele-
rhopae
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

Colonel Waring, of New York, states
that he can clean asphalt for two
thirds the cost of cleaning granite
blocks imperfectly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

A Pastoral-A Victim of Circum
stances-An objectionable Error
-1005, A. d., Etc, Etc.
The fishing season safely yields
A joyful, restful calm
And the city dog takes tc the fields
To catch a mess OF lamb.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

The New York Sun wants the namo
of the city changed to Manhattan,
which, it thinks, would mean some
thing.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

Our colleges have at least 800, ,000,-
600 whence they derive the income
for their support.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21
RAT1s or ADVERTISERS,

One Square, one inch, one insertion. = l@
One Square one inch, one month"; gW
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One Square one inch ons year r.,,..s Mgl
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Legal advertisements tsp cs7ta per Afns
each insertion
Marriages and death notices gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements cdtaaepe
quarterly. Temporary advertisements hsasl
b paid in advancs. =
Job work-cash on delivery. III
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-21

had reached the mountains with con-
siderable money in his pockets, but
had met with hard luck, and when
picked up by Gilbert he was dead