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The morning times., 1895-10-06
Ruried M. q. Crocker.

The remains of william G. Crocker, late
deputy warden of the District Jail, were in
tered yesterday in Congressional Cemetery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
The Riggest GnoSe.

heard the other day al amusing
tale of of certain well-known Eng
lish nobleman, who had imported two
emus with the hope of breeding from
them, and on leaving his estate for
town left also strict injunctions that
the greatest care should be taken Of
the lady emu, if she produced the de-
sired egg or eggs. The egg arrived
in due course, but, as artists have
found before now, the lady declined to
''sit." The steward, however, how
ever, was an ingenious man, and
thought of substitute but his pow.
ers of composition were by no means
on par with his inventiveness, and
he announced the interesting event to
his master IN the following terms:
"The emu has laid an egg, but we
were in a great difficulty, as she would
not sit on it. l did what l thought
was best, and in your Lordship's alb
sence I have placed the egg under the
biggest goose on the estate. Pail
Mall Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
The Cnldost Winter.

The most notable thing about the
spell of cold weather through which
we have passed is its widespread in
tensity. All Europe has been In the
grasp of the ice king, and his antics
re more talked about than those of
any other monarch. In far Asia Jap
anese sailors were frozen TO death
while training their guns on the Chi
nese forts aud fleet ut -Hai-Wei,
and even in Northern Africa snow fell
for the first time in so long a period
that grown men gazed at it with won.
der.
What does it all mean? Scientists
have been at work for years to figure
ont law of climatic and weather
changes. and their conclusion is that
it takes between thirty and thirty-five
years to get from the extreme of heat
TO the extreme of cold. just why this
is 50 they can not tell, but their delv-
ing into the old records convinces
thcm that there is some natural law at
work and that sooner or later it will
be discovered.
Five years ago a Swiss professor,
Brueckner by name, published book
called Climatic Oscillations Since
1700," and, strangely enough, his cal
culations made it appear that one of
the eliminating periods of extreme
cold would come around about this
time-perhaps in this very year-to
be followed by gradually increasing
warmer weather, which is scheduled
to reach its highest point about the
end of the first quarter of the next
century.
While we think of our sufferings,
we may, therefore, turn for consola-
tion to 1925 or 80, and revel in the
anticipation of the mildest winter
that we can secure in this latitude. -
New York News.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
Ingenious Thieves.

Thieves of Upper India are gener-
ally very smart when it comes to the
squeeze OF capture, and the care which
native burglars take in the way of
precsution against surprise is
phenomenal, writes a correspondent
of a contemporary. They are usually
most painstaking, and friend of mine
one morning Awoke to find that he
had been looted" and at given inter
walls the places of exit had been laid
out with broken bits of bottle so that
if the man had been disturbed and
pursued the glass would have in all
probability brought the pursuers up
smartly.
They, themselves, knowing its posi-
tion, would have avoided it and got
away comfortably. House burglars
all carry a wallet of fine sand, and a
handful of this thrown over the
shoulder into the face of would-be
capturer is warranted to postpone the
pursuit. In the case above mentioned
the highwaYman was a little extrava-
giant to part with his blanket. They
generally bring the enemy up with
the ample folds of the turban, which
rarely fails if the lassoing is done
adroitly. Bombay Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
Riding without a Horse.

An ingenious man has invented n
saddle machine for the acquiremen {
OF a perfect seat and self-conddence
as an equestrienne within ones own
home. II is said that many ladies
are overcoming timidity by means of
this home practice as a prelude "to
learning how to ride" the veritable
equine back.
BY a skillful mechanical arrange
ment the movements of horse in
walking, trotting, cnntering or gal
Looping are impaired to saddle, upon
which lady or gentlemen may sit
with perfect comfort and safety,
blandly confident that, although they
are enjoying to the full all the
pleasure and health-giving motion of
riding on horseback, there is no fear
of their mount rearing, or boiling, or
kicking, or iibbing or behaving like
the famous trick horse from the circus.
The motion obtained from the sad
die, as in actual horse riding, is verti-
cal, and produced by the rider rising
on the stirrups or footboards as if
seated upon a horse, and under all the
conditions, whether the motion be
gentle or that of a trot or gallop, the
rider is perfectly secure in his or her
seat, so that all the advantages OF real
horse exercise can be enjoyed with
none of its inevitable risks Chicago
Mail.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
Mhnt Cam Re pone With a Cent.

A few years ago the Episcopal church
of a small Maryland town was in want
of an aims basin. The congregation
was for the most part poor, and few
in numbers. The minister in charge
appointed young girl a committee of
one to collect subscriptions. The
amount needed was SO, for an aims
basin costing that much had been
heard of for sale by more prosperous
parish, that had outgrown the one
with which it started in life.
The young womau's first call was at
the store of a we'll .to-do merchant.
Asking something from him for her
fund, she received the following ro-
ply, spoken in q very gruil voice: "I
can give you nothing;" but as she
turned TO leave, he added: "There,
you may have that il IL will do You
any good" and suiting the action TO
the word, threw down on the counter
n cent. Mortified and abashed, her
first impulse was to leave it where he
thrown it, but better Judgment pre-
vailing she picked it up, thanked him
and left.
Without going further she returned
home and told her mother that she
would not ask for anything more and
run the chance of such treatment
second time. 'rake the cent, my
DEAR" the mother said, "and show
what you can do with it." She fol-
lowed this advice aud boughts small
china doll, and, dressing it in some
scraps which she had, sold it TO q
friend for her little daughter. HHv-
ing increased her capital 400 per cent,
she invested it in n spool of crochet
ing cotton, with which she worked
several small articles, and the sale of
these brought her in S1.2O. This was,
in turn, used to purchase cotton ma
terial, out OF which were,made severvl
dresses for small children, that netted,
when SOLD, the desired So, when the
aims basin was duly bought.
This story was told to lady of
Socialiatic views, who was constantly
complaining that she was not rich,
and saying she could lay so little by
it was not worth while to save; the
answer was: eyes, she got her So, but
what lot of work she had to do. :"
Kate Fields Washington.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
A Bank
Failure.
-
AN INVESTIGATION
DErIANDED.

A general banking business is done bv
the human system, because the blood de-
posts in its vaults whatever wealth we NAV
gain from day to day. This wealth is laid
up against a rainy day" as a reserve fund
we're in condition Of healthy prosperity
If we have laid away sufficient capital 10
draw upon i'll the hour of our greatest need.
There is danger i'll getting thin because it's
a sign of letting down i'll health. To gain
in blood is nearly always to gain in sOhole.
some flesh. The odds are in favor of the
germs OF consumption, grip, or pneumonia,
If our liver be inactive and our blood i'm
pure, or If our flesh be reduced bsloU a
healthy Standard What is required is an
increase in our PeTD7-fgAfiHP' STRENGTH DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery enriches
the blood and makes it wholesome stops
the waste of tissue and at the same time
builds up the strength. A medicine which
will rid tile blood ofits poisons, cleanse and
invigorate the great organs of the body
vitalize the system thrill the whole being
with new energy and make permanent work
OF It, is surely a remedy of great value But
when we make a positive statement that oS
per cent. of all cases of consumption can, il
taken in the early stages of the disease be
CURED with the Discovery, " it seems like
bold assertion. All DR.. Pierce asks is that
you make thorough investigation and
satisfy yourself of the truth of his assertion
By sending to the Worlds Dispensarv Med
ical Association, Buffalo, N. Y YOU can get
free book with the names addresses and
photographs of large number of those
cured ofthroat, bronchial and lung diseases,
as well as of skin and scrofulous affections
by the Golden Medical Discovery" They
also publish book of 100 pages, being a
medical treatise on consumption bronchitis
asthma, catarrh, which will be mailed on
receipt of address and six cents in stamps.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
A bog Who Was Moi to BE Dared.

A dog story has come to the writer's
ears, which, though not within his
personal knowledge, is vouched for to
him in an entirely trustworthy way.
A certain dog, which was growing old,
was in barn one day with his master.
The two were up on a haymow from
which a sloping ladder led down to
the barn floor. The master walked
down the ladder. but the dog went
around by another way. When the
dog reached the barn floor his master
began to say to him somewhat taunt-
ingly, "Poor old fellow! Daren't
walk down the ladder any more |
Daren't walk down the ladder I"
Whereupon the dog, with q quick
glance at his master, walked clear up
the ladder to the top, and then turned
around and walked down it again.
The proceeding looked very much like
deliberate demonstration on the
dogs part, to his master, that he was
still capable of walking up and down
a slanting ladder. Did the dog under
stand the taunt. or did he merely catch
the words "down the ladder" and
take the utterance for a command,
which he dutlfu'ly proceeded to obey?
No one will ever know, probably, since
the dog himself can give no account
OF the matter. -'-Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
Home, Sweet Home.

"Home, Sweet Home," Payne's
song, was originally number in the
opera "Clari, the Maid of Milan" a
production brought out in 1923. The
opera was failure, and nothing is
now known of il save the one song,
which became instantly popular.
Over 100, 900 copies we're sold in the
first year of its publication, and the
sale in one form or another has been
constant ever since the first appear
ance of this beautiful theme. The
melody is a Sicilian folk-song, and
was adapted TO the words by Payne
himself. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

A movement has been inaugurated in
Michigan University against the liquor habit
among the students
George Plcero, of Shamokin, Penn, drank
a quart of whisky on a $50 wager, fell into a
stupor and died.
Twenty-Five thousand men, or one-third
of the entire number of British troops in In
dia, belong to the Army Temperance Society.
Hon. John NJ. Thurston, the new United
States Senator from Nebraska, recently de-
clined an invitation to a banquet in his honor
at Lincoln unless wine and liquors were
banished from the tables. They were ac-
cordingly banished.
Brigadier General John II. Broach. who
has squandered a fortune of $500, 600, has
been sent to jail in New York for drunken
ness.
Hard times IN the colony of Victoria have
had the effect of reducing the drink bill
from &c, 700, 900 in 1891, to G3, 900 in the
last year.
The Commander-in-Chie of the British
army in India says that "nearly all the crime
in the British army is directly or indirectly
traeeable to excessive drinking"
The Governor Of Syria has refused license
10 a native Of Damascus 10 establish a brew
cry in Jerusalem, out of Difference 10 the
scruples OF Jewish and Christian residents.
The Chief Of Police of Baltimore made @
startling statement when he said he "Neyer
found boys in the saloons until lager beer
was introduced and games prepared 70 en-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03

In answer to New York reporter Mr..
Chauncy NJ. Depew illustrates hereditary in
temperance by referring to the best lawyer
he ever knew.
The lawyer came from family where the
men had many generation died drunkards at
an early age.
This young lawyer had enjoyed peculiar
educational advantages. He had planned to
make a change in the family record.
His process was to give his days and nights
to the most eNhausting labor in the prosecu-
tion of his study.
When forty-hve, he enjoyed the highest re-
spect and honor Of his profession. Not a
case within two hundred miles of his home
was had without him.
A supreme judgeship was to be his at the
first vacancy. He had an interesting family.
His friends thought he had outlived the dis
ease of his family but before the age of forty
seven he gave up the long struggle and be-
came drunkard. His clients deserted him
and he deserted his wife and children. He
died in two years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03

The Chenab Irrigation Canal in the
Northwest Provinces, India, is said
to be the widest canal in the world.
1t is 10 feet broad and will be in
creased to 200 feet broad when fin
ished. The head works are at Kanki,
where a shutter dam about one and an
eighth miles long extends across TIE
river. When finished the main chan
mel of the canal will be 45O miles
long, while the principal branch
channels will have an aggregate
length of 5000 miles, and the village
branches will be about 1000 miles
long. Already $50, 900 acres are sup.
piled with irrigating water, and the
completed work is expected to bring
in u revenue of about sixty-five lakhI
of rupees per annum. New York Ad
vertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
Compliment 70 the Dog.

A very delicate compliment was
lately bestowed by a dog lover upon
the intelligence of his Skye terrier.
The owner of the dog was sitting in
his office apparently alone, when an
acquaintance entered.
"Glad to find you alone" said the
visitor, "because l have n confidential
to make to you, which
no one else must hoar."
"1old on a minutel" cried the
other, checking him. And then he
called out:
"Here, Spot ~
A small terrier crawled out from
under the table, wagging his tail.
go out Spotl" said his master.
The dog went out.
"Now then," said the owner, "you
may go on with your confidential
communication. Now we are alone. +"
Detroit Free Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
STRONG PLEA FOR TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

What difficulties lie in the way of total
abstinencep None others than the pleasure
of palate, and the exhilaration of animal
spirits which the alcoholic potion produces.
These, we repeat, and none Others. Strange
weakness of men-I speak particularly of
men to whom position and responsibilities
counsel total abstinence-strange weakness.
where so little is to be lost, and so much to
be gainedl The most skilled medical science
afiirms that alcoholic drink Is by no means
required by mans physical organism, that,
indeed, alcoholic drink beyond hghtest
doses is injurious 10 it. The so-called
moderate drinking of social customs does
harm TO mind and body-a harm which is
none the less real because a strong constitu-
tion overcomes it. or years are needed 10
bring II TO an observable degree. The
momentary excitement from alcohol is an ap-
peal to the body's reserved forces, and the
penalty exists in the reaction which is sure
TO follow. The most untiring soldier, General
Wolseley testiaes, is the total abstainer. The
total abstainer, Sir John Ross writes, best
endures the cold of the frigid zone. Life in
surance companies more readily issue
policies on the lives OF total abstainers than
on those OF moderate drinkers.
How much money is spent in the pur-
chase Of alcoholic beverages It is so much
money thrown away; so much money en-
plOyed TO purchase for ones self weakness
and hurt of body and soul. This money
would bring comfort to loved ones at home;
it would be a safeguard against the days Of
sickness and old age; poured into channels
Of benefcence it would call down upon the
giyer blessings from men and from God.
How far will total abstinence, preached as
preach IL, be serviceable in removing from
humanity the terrible drink-plague2 1 am
not an unreasoning optimist. / do not
account total abstinence the sole method
which is to be preached; nor do expect from
it, however much it may be preached, a
millennium OF sobriety. / know mems pas
sions and prejudices. But am certain that
in practicing total abstinence am myself
safe, and that bring others 10 be safe; and
1 cheertully practice 1t. / recommend II TO
Others for the motives upon which base my
own prediction for il. The number OF
those practicing il is large, aud II is daily
increasing. The total abstainers exercise a
salutary influence beyond their own ranks.
by forming public opinion in favor OF
temperance. and reducing even among the
drinkers the indulgence in drink. The more
extended and the continued growth of total
abstinence depends in the largest measure
upon the conquest to its reign of men Of
position and social influence, and especially
of the ministers of religion. History, it is
objected, does not show the practice of total
abstinence to have been a normal condition
in the life Of peoples. do not discuss its
history. / stand to-day in presence of a
dreadful evil, before whose pestilentia
breath multitudes Of men and women are
going down TO ruin and sin. That the power
OF total abstinence is waging war against
the evil is undoubted and / invoke at once
its aid. Archbishop Ireland.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
SAVED BY KINDNESS.

The following recital was recently made by
q stalwart temperance man;
II had been n drinking man for twenty
years, had ruined my chances IN life and
made my family wretched. 1 did not believe
in God or humanity. whisky soaked brain
is not adapted to any noble form of faith
either for this world or that which is to come
One day about seventeen years ago, when l
returned from the shop to my little home,
which was bare of almost every comfort to
say nothing of luxuries my wife told me
that a lady had been to see US and left an
orange apiece for the three children and
some pretty cards, with Merry Christmas
for us all.
Nobody ever came to our house those
days, and was surprised, for this lady was
the wife of one of the trustees in the great
university, business man who stood very
high, and she had plenty of money, position,
education and occupation. Indeed she had
everything that we had not. So 1 sat my
self down to try to reason out some bad mo-
tive for her coming. as ii was my custom
then TO look for bad motives in people
rather than good ones.
But as her husband was not in politics
and could not desire my vote, and as he was
not in any business where l could by any
means be of service to him, and as neither
he nor she could gain anything from us. al
though / racked my brain to find something
that they could gain, was Obliged to saw TO
myself; 1T must have been what Christians
call the ''love OF God,"' and when | had
come to this conclusion my heart melted
little, and l said to myself; If it is true that
there is such thing as the love Of God,
shall REFORM and from that day 1 have
never tasted intoxicating Liquors. Union
Signal
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03

Is so important that you should be sure
TO get THE BEST. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla has proven its unoqualled merit by
it's thousands of remarkable cures, and
the fact that il has larger sale than
any other sarsaparilla or blood puri-
fer shows the great confidence the
people have in it. In fact IL Is tho
Spring Medicine. II cures all blood
diseases, builds up the nerves aud
gives such strength to the whole system
that, as one lady puts it, at seemed to
make me anew"
II you decide to take Hoods Sarsa-
parills for your Spring Medicine do
not buy any substitute. Be sure TO get
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03

There Is more Catarrh in this section OF the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced IL incurable.
Science has proven catarrh 20 be constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, man
ufactpred by +. J. Cheney a. Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is theNonly constitutional cure on the market.
IL Is taken internally in doses from lOdrops to
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
andlmuoous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case IL fails TO
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials
free. Address
+, J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
.EB- Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
To Clean Clothes.

According to the American Analyst
the proper way of restoring old clothes
is as follows: Take, for instance, n
shiny old coat, vest or pair of trousers
of broadcloth, cashmere OF diagonal.
The scourer makes a strong, warm
soapsuds, and plunges the garment
into it, souses it up and down, rubs
the dirty places, and if necessary, puts
1t through n second time; then rinses
it through several waters and hangs it
up to dry on the line. When nearly
dry he takes it in, rolls it up for an
hour or two, and then presses it. An
old cotton cloth is laid on the outside
of the coat and the iron passed over
that until the wrinkles are out; but
the iron is removed before the steam
ceases to rise from the goods, else
they would be shiny. Wrinkles that
are obstinate are removed by laying a
wet cloth over them and passing the
iron over that. If any shiny places
are seen, they are treated as the
wrinkles are-the iron is lifted while
the full cloud of steam rises and
brings the nap with it. Cloths should
always have a suds made specially for
them, as in that which has been used
for white cotton or woolen cloths lint
will be left in the water and will cling
to the cloth. In this manner we have
known the same coat and trousers to
be renewed time and time again, and
have all the look and feel of new gar
ments. Good brcadcloth and its fell
low cloths will bear many washings,
and look better every time because of
them
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03
Spring
wi edicine

'1 was all broken down in healths
so weak and nervous 1 was hardly
able TO be up. / had severe pains in
my side, and headache. | would often
have TO stop when going upstairs on
account of palpitatiou of the heart.
had no appetite and distressed feel
ing in my stomach. l resolved to try
Hoods Sarsaparilla. book two bot
ties aud have not had a spell OF sick
headache for four months, feel well,
work all day aud eat heartily. My
friends remark how we'll i am looking.
l think all nervous, run down people
ought to take it, especially nursing
mothers" MRs. s. AsHwoRrH, Eaton,O.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-03

DR. BENJAMIN Ward Richardson Is nclncwl-
edged TO be one Of the best medical authori-
ties in England on the nature and effects Of
alcoholics and he says: "a man may becon-
sidered by his friends and neighbors, ms well
as by himself. TO he sober and temperate
man; he may truthfully say that he never
was tipsy in the whole course Of his life; and
yet it is quite possible that such man may die
of disease caused by the alcohol he has taken
and by no other cause whatever. This is ono
Of the most dreadful OWLS Of alcohol. that II
kills insidiously, as II II were doing no
harm, or as if It were doing good while Il
was destroying life