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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-14
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-14

Lady (applying the test)-"Ach !
what pityl The handsomest gentle
man in the company has got a splash
on his waistcoat."
All the gentlemen present look down
in CONSERVATION at their vests. West
falishes Volksblatt.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-14

''You look frightfully gloomy, Simp-
kins; are you in debt?"
''No, the trouble is 1 can't get O
chance to be. "-Chicago Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-14
AN EARLY INSTINCT.

Benevolent Gentleman-"Don't cry,
my little man here's dime for you.
Now tell me what you will do with it ?"
Small Boy-"Match yer to see if it's
two or nothin'. Life.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-14
NO CHANCE FOR ESCAPE.

"Strnnge that Emeline never got
over her infatuation for that man."
''No, you see he never asked her TO
marry him. "-Chicago Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-14

''No ticket, no wnshee." At Balti-
more Chinese lauudryman who
stood by this principle won case in
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-14

1 need hardly add that, although
there would now probably be no danger
in it, I have since paid heed to my
fathers last wish, and have never "put
foot in Sicily" again.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-14

But how about the old fortune-tell-
err you ask.
Ali l cannot explain that. She
perhaps recognized me as O Vincetti
by my features, and may have even
been consulted by the brothers Ferrari
before attempting my life, but have
stated the facts as they occurred, and
1 know no ore.-London Tit-Bits.
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-06-20
"HOW 90 you DOW
The French Lady Thought 1t a Question
to Be Answered.


An American lady who spent some
time in Paris says that she had friend
there, a French lady, who wished to
learn little English, and did so.
Among her acquisitions in the language
was the expression, How do you do!'
to which she was careful to learn the
proper response.
One day the American lady met her
French friend on the street The Amer
lean lady said, "How do you dor" with
smile, and passed on. She did not
stop to notice that she had left the
French lady standing on the street i'll
establishment.
Soon afterward she called on her
friend, and was received very coldly by
the French lady. AS she did not know
of any reason why the lady should be
offended with her, she pressed her to tell
what was the matter.
"Have l done anything to grieve
your" she asked.
Anything to grieve me!' answered
the French lady. "You meet me on the
street, you ask me how l am, you do not
wait to find out how am, you pass on,
and then you ask me whether you have
done anything to grieve mel"
| Then the American explained that 1t
is not customary for Americans to wait
for an answer to their inquiry, "How
do you do?" that they commonly utter
the words and pass on, or if they stop
to speak, at once begin to talk of other
matters.
The French lady could hardly express
her establishment. 1.-THE Americans do
many very, very strange things, she
said, "but this is the strangest Of allP'
The French, when they are of the de-
gree of acquaintance that justities in
quiry as to the health of another, stop
and hear all about it, and all about the
health of the respective families. When
all this information has been exchanged,
the two persons part with many adieux
and elaborate good wishes for each 9TH
er's continued health and happiness.
The Italians frequently embrace one
another in public places and shake
hands several times and commit one
another in parting to the care of God.
The Americans and the English are the
only people that question each other al
to their health without stopping to fine
out anything about it.-Youth's Com
panion.
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Hung For Thirteen Days.

The latest sensation in Paris has been an
exhibition at a concert hall where n man
hung with rope around his neck for 10
days on wager.
This daring individual is named Durand
and is a native of MarSellcs Some time
ago he stad on top of column for 2S days,
and as a result somewhat decreased in
stature. These lost inches, II is said, he
hoped to recover by hanging for ID days
He won his wager and with apparent ease
For 3 days and - nights he hung in the
red draped concert hail. taking neither food
nor any drink except at intervals few
drops of some sustaining liquor, the com
position of which is known only to himself.
The rope around his neck was attached to
a narrow hook and sustained him for Sow
eral days, but finally wore out and had to
be replaced by n new one. Durand was
much annoyed when the old rope was re-
moved, as he had to remain few minutes
on the ground, and urged his assistants to
hang him up again as quickly Us possible.
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A BREAK FOR LIBERTY.
Story of an Escape From
the French Penal Col
ony In Guiana.

A few weeks ago NJ Cochefert chief Of
the detective service in Paris, received q
visit from q man of small stature, poorly
clad and horribly emaciated, who addressed
him to the following effect:
II beg you will place me under arrest
Otherwise 1 shall have to commit some Of
tense that will compel the police to run mo
in. This ought not to be necessary, be-
cause have a right to claim the hospitality
of prison, being an escaped convict from
the penal settlement of French Guiana,
where was sent in September, 1886. My
name is Bourdet."
M. Cochefert had him conveyed to the
central prison, where he wrote the story of
his evasion. Such parts of 1t as could be
verified were found by the authorities to be
correct in every detail, and he was sem
fenced to undergo six months imprison-
ment in France as preliminary to being
sent back to French Guiana.
after q voyage of 10 days packed pell-
nell in the sitting hold of the transport, "
says Bourdet, II arrived at Saint Jean du
Maorni, the convict depot of the colony.
1t is here that am to pass the best years
of my life, here that 1 must die. No; a
thousand times no. Twill not stay. Such
was my reflection when 1 first beheld the
place"
Bourdet soon became fast friends with
q powerful daring fellow named Beaudet
and together they planned to escape. 1t
was agreed that the attempt should be
made in June on St. Johns day, the fete
day of the colony, when the surveillance
over the convicts would be somewhat re-
Taxed. They were to construct and embark
upon q raft and drift with the tide to the
opposite coast of Dutch Guiana, which,
covered as it is with an immense extent of
virgin forest, full of venomous reptiles and
wild beasts was regarded by the authori-
ties of the settlement as an impenetrable
zone, and consequently an effectual bar to
any attempt at escape.
The raft was built and hidden, and on
the eve of the appointed day it was decided
to let three comrades into their confidence
and take them along. Their names were
Coupe, Cubisolles and Mauleon. Bourdet
informed them that they must supply
themselves literally with quinine and
warned them that if any man neglected to
do so his companions would refuse to sup
ply him, and he must surely perish.
The next day the five accomplices
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FANNY HINCKLEY MILLS AT THE AGE OF ~
der her head and with from $4,000 to
$50 worth of unincumbered real estate
at her command. She contended to the
last that she had no living relative
Since that time man has appeared
from California claiming to be a brother;
a woman from Huntington, W. Va, claim
ing to be Il sister; two children from Sc
dalia, Mo-, the children of Mrs. A. Stew
art, who say they are grandchildren one
woman from Indiana and another from
Mississippi claiming to be cousins.
The story of this life as 1t has now come
to light rivals the keenest of fiction. Fanny
Sweet had a national reputation She lived
for years in Cincinnati, for years in San
Francisco, for time in Sacramento,
where she shot man named Putnam; for
q time in Aspinwall, Central Americas; in
Texas, in Mexico, in Havana, for num-
Der of years in New York city and finally
in New Orleans.
Four days after this strange death the
coroner received q message from an attor-
ncy at Sacramento which read as follows:
&C. G. Brown, a resident of this city, is a
brother of Fanny Hinckley Mills, who died
in New Orleans. Kindly inform me of the
disposition made of her estate"
Coroner A. G. Maybe replied that Fanny
Hincklcy Mills had made will few
months before her death, but had revoked
it by notary act short time afterward,
and in view of this fact her estate had been
left to the state of Louisiana.
Ten days later Charles G. Brown of Sac
ramento arrived in New Orleans and laid
claim to the estate of Fanny Sweet on the
ground that he was her only living broth
er. The case will soon come to trial.
The revoked will left by the woman is a
strange document. BY its terms she left
sums ranging from $500 to 81 900 to many
lawyers doctors and friends. To one wom-
an she left the sum of $1,000 on co9dition
that the legatee take charge of the funeral
arrangements and see that her tomb is
kept in order and her grave kept green
during the receivers lifetime.
To one of the judges of the city court she
left 81 900 for past kindnesses. In conclu-
sion this odd will said: 81 desire that all
my individual legatees living in New Or
leans shall attend my funeral, and If any
| fail to do so then the legacy that have
| given to the one so failing to attend shall
revert to the St Joscph's church. desire
that my legatees shall place flowers on my
| grave once month at least, and l desire
that they shall assist in decorating my
tomb every All Saints day, and if any
lcgatco shall fail to comply with this re-
quest the one so failing shall not be en-
titled TO the pro rata of interest every quar-
| ter. "
According TO the evidence furnished by
| Brown, which seems to be well authenti-
Gated, Fanny Hinckley Mills was one of
the five children of John X. Brown and
was born on farm at Paddy's creek,
Lawrence county, o., about 1922. In 1S4l
Fanny went to Cincinnati and there began
| her varied career.
She was dashing blond, of fine physique
and very attractive. She was surrounded
| by host of admirers wherever she went,
and most of them were men Of wealth.
| She was twice married, first to Abraham
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-06-20
WALLABlES AND KANGAROOS.
A sportsman's Glimpses of Animals Pc
culIar to Australia.


culIar to Australia.
There are wallabies and wallabies,
scrub, swamp and rock wallabies, but
all furnish lively sport for the hunter.
The wallabies are next relatives to the
kangaroos and are found i'll Australia.
+. G.. Aflalo tells i'll the Badminton
Magazine how he hunted the wallabies
10 miles up the picturesque river, called
the Rhine of the south by the Austria
lians. The hunt was failure, but the
writer had more sport after kangaroos.
"We had not, my companion and l,
gone half a mile" he says, when we
disturbed large gray kangaroo at his
morning toilet. He rose politely and
eyed us for a moment, which would
have been his last on earth, only, as
luck would have it, he stood immedi-
ately between ourselves and the other
two of the hunters. Then, while we
were bowling to each other, the kangaroo
suddenly vanished. do not pretend to
know where he went. When beast can
leap 90 feet without moving muscle,
it is useless to look for it. Here came a
streak of luck. We rammed through a
tangle of trailing underground and all
of a sudden there sat small doe wallaby
in small opening, scratching her ear.
1t is not everybody who can intrude on
female wallaby and find her scratch
ing her ear with hind foot, nor does
one often find wallaby so interested
in what she was doing as this one was.
She rubbed her ear some more, and,
shocked beyond all measure, my friend
killed her with an express ball
1.-THE ears were cut off as trophies A
little while after this about so walla-
bies and kangaroos were seen in herd,
browsing in the grass mile away, and
that was tantalizing sight though
mighty interesting. The beasts could
scent a man a mile away easily, and a
scent meant go as you please hop raee
with no finish so far as the men were
concerned.
with a good pull at the flask, we
crept forward" the writer says. ION
we plodded, and the animals began to
look troubled, warned by those vague
and inexplicable forebodings of instinct,
standing erect now and then and scan
ming the horizon with their great eyes.
The males tapped the ground to warn
the does and away they went. We got
two by luck-a buck and doe.
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little money was able to make his way to
the Surinam gold mines and thence to
Demarara, in British Guiana, where he
conceived the unfortunate idea Of return
ing to France. He was starving when he
gave himself up to the police.
He is the sole survivor of the band that
set out from the penal settlement, the
traitor Mauleon dying of exhaustion and
fever at Dutch settlement few weeks
after he abandoned his companion. Great
interest has been excited in Bourdct's case,
and everything possible is being done to
induce the president of the republic to par.
don him when he has served the term OF
six months imprisonment to which he was
sentenced.
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CROSSING THE RIVER.

green colored liquid. Then the fever left
him, but he was so weak and apathetic
that he did not even care to think.
After a time, however, he got tired OF
doing nothing and one day went and sat
beside a negress who was sewing. Her
work was very clumsily done, and Bourdet
took it from her and showed her how to
handle the needle. She was delighted with
his work and rushed off to show it to the
villagers. The next day the whole tribe
turned out with work for the white stran-
ger, who could sew better than any woman
among them, and crowded round him, ut
tering cries of wonder and delight while he
stitched.
among those who came to the door of
my hut to watch me work." says Bour-
Diet, twas young and pretty girl who
never took her eyes off me and soon be-
came bold enough to embrace my face and
hands and stroke my hair. She never came
empty handed, but brought me fruits and
other delicacies she thought would please
me. would gladly have returned her af-
fiction, but was afraid, having read In
some book or other that the negroes are ex-
ceedingly jealous, and not knowing wheth-
er they would like it reluctantly steeled
my heart against her.
Bourdet regrets now that he did not re-
spond to her advances, for instead of being
in French prison he might have lived
peacefully and happily with his dusky
Juliet, and perhaps have become chief Of
the tribe. This, however, was not to be.
A few days later some Anamites passed
by. Bourdet, who had served in the army
In Tonkin, knew little of their language
and told his story to the cadi of the band
who promised to carry him off the same
night and convey him to a Dutch planta-
ton where the band was employed. The
caid kept his promise, but Bourdet had
scarcely embarked in the Anamites' boat
ere the river was covered with the canoes
of the negroes, who were carrying lighted
torches The caid ran his boat into creek
where it remained hidden till the canoes
disappeared.
"What are they looking for9" asked
Bourdet of the caid
"They want to keep you and marry you
to the girl who took fancy to you. That
Is all, 4" was the reply.
The foreman of the Dutch plantation re-
ceived the fugitive kindly and gave him
work. In a few months he was entirely
restored to health and having amassed q
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one &c was for me-" Ihere was no help
for It, however, and they eventually houn-
dered through to terra frma.
The following days the going was easier. 3
The sun was shining brightly, and the
men were singing gayly and marching in
open order when they came to thick part
Of the forest.
II augured i'll from this gayety," con-
tinues Bourdet, land my presentiments
have rarely deceived me. Coupe was in
advance of me to the left when suddenly L
heard him give a piercing shrek. To my
horror 1 saw him in the coils of an enor-
nous boa constructor about five or six yards
long and as big round as my thigh. In
less time than 1t takes TO tell 1t Beaudet
rushed forward, saber in hand, and with
a back handed blow struck off the head OF
the serpent, which hung over our compan-
ions shoulder. With my weapon l struck
off about half yard of its tail, but despite
the rapidity with which we had acted
Coupe had been crushed and strangled TO
death. During the whole of the scene
Mauleon remained stock still, petrified
with fear-a fact that did not surprise
me-"
The frightful death of Coupe had the
effect of demoralizing the survivors. Beau
Diet hmself-the courageous Beaudet-was
attacked with a violent fever and at last
gave up. 81 can't go any farther, he said.
Let us look for some tribe of negroes with
whom you can leave me. You push on,
and good luck and the blessing of dying
man go with you"
Soon after they fell in with tribe of
very poor negroes to whom they explained
che situation by gestures, and who con-
sented to look after their sick companion.
Then Bourdet babe him an affectionate
farewell, knowing full we'll that he would
never see him again.
He was now alone with the coward
Mauleon, for whom he had never any sym
pathy. A few days later the fellow aban
doned him, making off in canoe he had
| found moortd to the bank of a river and
taking with him the little provisions that
remained. Bourdet built raft with the
intention of pursuing him, but the frai
structure went to pieces in the middle OF
the river. He had the greatest difficulty IL
reaching land again, and when he did III
was stark naked. He became deliriou:
from fever and hunger and kept walking
in circle till he fell in swoon near the
place where he had landed.
When he came to his senses, he found
negro kneeling beside him and chatting hi!
hands. The sable Good Samaritan lifted
| him into a canoe and took him to the vii
! lage of the tribe. There his rescuer CAV
him some rice and fish, and wrapping hin
in a blanket laid him on plank, which
served as a bed. For Is days he lay there
delirious with fever, for which the native
administered to him copious drafts of SOM
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launched the raft and embarked with their
provision bag and sabers they had pro-
cured. AS good luck would have it, the
rain was coming down in such torrents
that it was impossible for any one to see
beyond few yards from the bank. The
raft drifted with the tide to a group of
islands lower down. and by padding from
one to the other the Dutch coast was reached
on the evening of the second day The
fugitives were by this time pretty well
worn out, and, plunging into the forest,
reposed there for the night.
The next morning Cubisolles, who had
neglected to provide himself with quinine,
was found shivering with fever on the
ground and unable to rise. He got no
sympathy from his companions. "You
were warned" they told him. "You were
too stingy to buy quinine, and you will
get none from u.s." A hurried consulta-
ton was held, and Cubisolles was left to
his fate. He must have died where he lay,
for nothing was ever heard of him by the
authorities, although had he been able he
might easily have made his way back to
the penitentiary.
The fugitives continued their march
through the forest, and each day brought
it's incident. At one place they found the
way barred by deep and rather wide
river, and neither Mauleon nor Coupe
could swim Beaudet and Bourdet made
rope of creepers, and while Bourdet at
tached one end to n tree Beaudet swan
over and tied the other end to another tree
opposite. They then took their compan-
ions across on their backs, Mauleon and
Coupe clutching the improvised rope to
tighten their weight and help themselves
along.
The crossing was, however, not made
without danger Right in the middle of
the river Mauleon, who was being helped
over by Bourdet, shrieked that he felt
something touching his legs and became
paralyzed with fright From that moment
Bourdet conceived contempt for him that
Increased as time went on.
After passing the river the party found
themselves in a swamp, where they came
very near perishing. "We stripped" says
Bonrdet, "and waded in. The farther we
advanced the deeper we sank hesitated
to continue, fearful Of sinking In alto
gether. The mud was up to my stomach
already. was horribly frightened. No
one who has not gone through such an ex-
perienoe can have any idea what terrible
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-06-20
CHARLES C. BROWN.

NJ. Hinckley at Aspinwall and next to
William r. Mills prominent lawyer Of
New Orleans, now deceased.
Her numerous victims paid literally for
her smiles, and the money which came SO
easily was lavishly expended. The scram-
BILE that was made for the remnants of her
fortune is shown by the bills filed against
the estate after her death.
The undertaker's bill amounted to 81
O0S; six doctors attended her and claim
professional service to the amount Of s3,-
1903; Attorney Lucien Adams puts in o
claim for professional services TO the
amount Of $12, 900; four other local attor
neys put In bills for services said to have
been rendered during her lifetime amount
ing to %. $40: various notaries public claim
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-06-20

GEoRGEPAYZANTA AND WEBSTER PARKHURsT.
induce them TO return to school; in fact,
the boys claimed exemption from parental
control on account of their close communi-
cation with the Lord. Now the pastors of
their respective parents are endeavoring to
make the lads see the error of their way.
But both boys steadfastly refuse to re-
sumo their studies. They say that educa-
ton cannot possibly do them any good, as
the millennium is due in 1898. Itwould be
lust so much time wasted.
Payzant bases his belief in the near ap-
proach of the millennium on certain pas
sagcs of the Bible 1T may be 312 years,
and it may be T." said the young man,
"but that Christ will come know, That
does not necessarily mean the destruction
of the world. 1t is rather the fOrerunner of
the millennium, when all that Bcllamy in
his Looking Backward prophcsics will
come to pass, only that was in socialistic
sense, while this will be in spiritual
-
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A BELLAMY MILLENNIUM.
What n Pair of Enthusiastic College Stu
dents Are Looking Forward To.

University students who calmly go about
the serious business of getting ready for
the millennium in this intensely practical
day and generation are not to be found in
cap and gown in every quad. SO when
it was learned that Webster Parkhurst and
George Payzant, students of the Cniver-
sity of California, had given up their
studies and were devoting all their time to
preparation for the millennium there was
something of sensation in the classic
town of Berkeley.
Both students are quite popular, and
Parkhurst has won local fame rs an ath-
lcte Neither lad has reached his majority
The boys experienced" religion during
series of revival services held short time
ago in the Berkeley Methodist church, The
impression made upon them was great.
Upon the development of eccentricity their
parents made every effort to change their
views, but without avail They could not