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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-07-30
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was glad it was there, and sic had no
tnought OF rescnting its loving pressure.
She glanced up and saw vaguely in the
dusk the outline Of Bruins face. He was
leaning over her, and she fancied there
was a strange excitement in his @
and a singular, drowsy half smile which
did not wholly please her. But yet it
was he. and his breath was upon her
checks, and his voice WHISPERED with
the tenderest meditation loving assur-
ances in her ears. A faint suspicion that
she was making herself cheap, that she
was compromising her dignity, gave her
but a moments uneasiness, but it was
drowned like the humming of q mos.
quito over a cataract. The grand fact
remained that this was the man she
loved. the only one whom she ever could
love, and this was the supreme moment
Of her life, which must determine her
fate for good or for ill.
my darling. my sweetheart" he
murmured, stroking her loosened hair
and pressing her cheek against his own,
n then after a pause filled with pas
sionate caresses: How you must have
suffered, alone and misunderstood, and
you so infinitely above them all! They
are earth bound souls, cluls of %unaspir-
ing clay, and you-you are an eagle
soul-a winged thing-bcautiful, radi-
ant, welded to the light"
"You should not latter me-" she
said, pleased in spite of herself. She
gazed up into his eyes with a bright,
ecstatic smile, and there palpitated
through her being a tumultuous JOY
which sang in her ears and made the
blood dance through he" veins with q
delicious rhythm.
II am not fiattering," he protested,
toying with her hair and drawing her
more tightly up to him. "You surely
know that you are of a different species
from all these Philistine creatures who
surround you. Their only affinity is for
bread and butter, and they decide all
questions with reference to that only.
But you were born with wings. You
have an affinity for the eternal. You
have the Promethean spark, the fire of
the immortals, in your soul, and it was
because I saw this, because I admired,
nay, adored, your beautiful audacity,
the splendid wing beat Of your thought,
that l determined to be your deliverer
and free you from the power Of the
highly respectable but on that account
no less terrible ogre who had captured
you. Tho only thing which l confess l
never quite understood is how he on
trived the capture"
"Oh, Olaf, you do him injustice. He
is a very good man." she replied feebly.
eyes, confound him, and the more
shame to him for imposing upon your
inexperience. Isuppose that you fancied
that that was what o gentleman was
like among civilized people,"
II confess my acquaintance outside
of the peasants had been small. But l
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-07-30

said Brun. rising carelessly and fling
ing the stump Of his cigarette into the
stove. Eve will discuss that phase Of
the question tomorrow"
He did not mean to be impertinent,
but the pastors mildness somehow gave
him courage to assert himself. A youth
full arrogance which became him we'll
gave u certain empressement to his con-
duct and invested even his foolish &C.
tions with a certain charm.
II will bid you good night" he went
ON, rs nc one had replied to his previous
suggestion. and with q somewhat fiorid
bow he opened tho door to tho hall, and
his ~retreating footsteps re-echoed through
the empty corridors.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The brain OF an idiot contains much
less phosphorus than that of q person
of average mental powers.
IA clever Partisan has invented a
machine which can split one human
hair lengthwise into thirty-six strips.
Many of the so-called vegetable
ivory" buttons used on dresses are
made of potatoes treated with sui
phuric acid.
In fifty-six Austrian cities, with
total population of 1856, 1914, the av-
erage mortality last year was 25.8
per thousand.
A steel fly wheel twenty-five feet in
diameter and requiring $50 miles of
wire in its construction, has been
made in Germany.
Pictures have been obtained by the
Roentgen rays through eight and one.
half inches of iron plate by Herr Dor
mann, of Bremen.
lM. Maingault, the famous anato-
mist, discovered that by forcing air
into the larynx of o dead animal
sounds could be produced very similar
to those Of the voice during life,
DIR. Dawson Tucker has discovered
that the Roentgen rays exist in nature,
namely, in the ordinary glow worm,
whose light penetrates thin sheets of
aluminium and other substances.
The prime of life Of man of regu-
lar habits and sound constitution is
from thirty to fifty-fve years of age |;
of woman from twenty-four or
twenty-five to about forty years of
age.
A petrifed fish found by DR.. New
berry at Delaware, Ohio, weighed
twenty-five pounds, and is as perfect
in form, position of fins, scales, etc. ,
as though it had died but yesterday
instead of 1000 years ago.
A new and very efficient insect pow
der has been introduced in Europe.
1t consists simply of pyrethrum flow.
ers, to every hundredth part of which
is added one part of naphthalin by
weight. The naphthalin must be in
very fine powder and intimately mixed
with the py rethrum.
1t has been accidently discovered
that certain beetle has mandibles of
such strength that it can cut metal.
Some Brazilian specimens we're tenn
porarily placed in glass jar with a
pewter top, and in less than forty
eight hours they had cut holes in the
metal large enough to protrude their
| heads,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25

The Baltimore News believes that
the time is not distant when the use OF
the typewriter will be taught in the
public schools, 1t says there is reason
to expect this innovation. The type.
writer has become an indispensable
appliance in the business world and as
our system of popular education is
being made more and more practical
we may lcok for it soon to embrace
instruction in typewriting. The pro.
gress of the typewriter has been mar.
velous. 1t has been only little more
than twenty years since the first ma
chine of this sort was placed upon the
market, and it was several years later
before there was any general use of
typewriters. Now there are scores of
typewriter factories in the United
States and the number of the machines
they turn out is enormous. 1t is COM
paratively easy for man or woman
who is an expert typewriter to get
employment. This invention has been
a great boon to the great and growing
number of women who have to sup.
port themselves and others. There is
now hardly business house of any
pretension which does not employ one
or more typewriters and they are
almost as common in the offices OF
professional men. The use of the
typewriter increases daily. 1t has
been found great saver of time aud
by it correspondence is conducted far
more satisfactorily than by the old
method. All the business colleges and
commercial schools of the country
each typewriting ard it may not be
png before those cities which have
the best equipped public schools will
Employ teachers OF typewriting for
those pupils who care to receive in
struetion Of that kind.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
NEW CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.


"1 was out last night doing the town, ;" said
he, ''and of all the rackets ever mad in my
life 1t beat all of theml"
"Why, l thought you had sworn of drink
ing, remarked his friends, apparently sur,
prised.
$50 have--and that's where the racket
comes in. You see, had never done such 9
thing when l was sober. It was a new sen.
sation. And, incidentally, have discovered
new cure for drunkenness. Kelley isn't IN
it-cure you in one night see?'
''No; ] can't say that do"
'Well, I'll tell you. Just 90 out with the
gang you have been used to travelling with,
and stick to soft stuff and cigars yourself all
night. Stay right with them ali night; 20
where they go and see what they see and do
and listen to them talk. In other words get
their measure of fun and see what you would
have called fun yourself II you had been
drinking. You'll then understand what a
fool you have been lots of times. s.
81 tell you thst If had had a stenographer
and taken down everything that was said,
writing in the action and background, and
showed those fellows the plain truth, they
would never touch another drop as long as
they lived.
"Of all the drivel that passed for wit, and
the lugubrious stuff that posed as humorl ,
And they were smart fellows, too-soher.
They laughed at everything-when one said
anything. They went to new bar every
ten minutes till midnight, and the most
brilliant thing uttered up to that time was
Cheer upp This created such enthusiasm
that he repeated it every now and then as
they sat about the all-night places. Funniest
thing l ever saw in my lifel Fact. I'll
never drink again. Not where l can be seer
and heard-bet your hfe!"-New York Hep
I aid.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
Where tile Deaf May Hear.

Many an old lady goes to church Of
a Sunday and sits through the service
in frame of mind devout to degree,
but never hears solitary word OF the
sermon.
There is preacher in Syracuse, Rev.
George B. Spalding, d. D., who has
changed all that. DR.. Spalding is pas
tor of the First Presby yterian Church,
a religious body made up in the main
of wealthy folk to whom money is no
particular object.
Moved at first by the lamentations
of some of his aged parishioners that
they could not hear his preachments
= DR.. Spalding was a newspaper man
before he joined the clergy, and is
practical soul withal he arranged,
for the better delivery of the Gospel
to those deaf brethren and sisters,
speaking tubes which ran from large
metal receiver-really megaphone-
Immediately in front of him on the
pulpit, down under the flooring of the
auditorium and up into the pews.
The megaphone is built into the
front of the pulpit, so that when read
ing or speaking the doctor addresses
it directly.
SO successful did the clergyman's
= device prove, that speaking tubes were
put into every pew in the great audi
torium. Any person, who is hard of
hearing and happens to be a visitor to
the church, will find means at hand of
hearing the sermon.
One deaf old lady, who went to DR..
Spalding's church the other day, hav-
ing heard of the spealSing-tube system,
burst into tears when she put the trans
mitter to her ear aud caugh tthe sound
of the preachers voice. She said it
was the first sermon she had heard for
over quarter OF a century.-NeV
York Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
HUMOR OF THE DAY,


Mabel-"Why has Miss Elderly
taken up music?" Clara Because
she wants to beat time. Judge.
1t is not every bicycle rider who can
lower the record, but it is q poor
bicycle that cannot lower the rider,-
Texas Sitter.
Willie-"Are you the nearest rela-
tive I've got, amma?" Mother
eyes, love; and your pa is the closest
relative you've got. Judge.
''Helpl Helpl" cried the man who
was being robbed. "Calm yourself. "
said the highwayman. 81 don't need
any assistance. "-London TIt-Bits.
We have noticed that young girls
don't talk so confidently of what good
cooks they are when other members of
the family are around. .-Atchison
Globe.
ooh, you just ought to see our fiat, {"
she exclaimed enthusiastically. "We've
the loveliest combination kitchen and
folding bed that ever was. "-~Detroit
Tribune.
"The butcher offered me his hand
this morning." "IndeedP" "Yes'm.
He tried to sell it to me with the steak,
but l made him take it off the scales. F"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
To Please the Public: "The people
seem to be getting tired of this
brand of cracked wheat" said the
wholesale dealer. Gwen have to
change the name of 1t. Chicago
Tribune.
Hicks--"I hear there is trouble be-
tween Bowser and his wife" Wicks
--''Yes he brought home a tandem,
and they have been fighting ever since
about who shall ride in front. "--Bos-
ton Transcript.
Nudge 'If there is one thing do
pride myself on, it is my independ'
ence of character. Wickwire--
"Well, man who lives in the way
you do doesn't have to depend on his
character. ",-Indianapolis Journal.
"Ihis is the first pair of gloves
have had in a number of years" re-
mark ed the business man, on the Madi'
son cable. "And you got those, com.
mented the unshaved man in an ad'
joining seat, "iust to keep your hand
in, Chicago News.
Miss Porkback-"And now you
must speak to papa, you know" The
Duke of Mudlands Gust accepted)-
eff you mean in regard to our affair,
why, certainly; but ii you are allud-
ing TO recognizing him on the street,
] must decline. Cincinnati En-
quirer.
81 suppose, said the man in the
yellow ulster, sit doesn't hurt your
glass eye when you get anything in
it," "Does it look as if 1t would ever
be likely to have pane in it?" re-
sponded the other fri3idly. And he
gave him the CLASSY stare.-lndiana'
polls Journal.
Niece (aflectionately)-"So glad
yer've come, Aunt Gotroke. Folks
all sick in tn house-ma's worn out
sittin' up with 'em-pa's out of work
an they ain't nothin' t. eat. Tn twins
are cuttin' double teeth an some body s
pizened TIL we'll. Do come in an take
off yer things; know mall be glad
to see you l"-Judge.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25

st. Paul, MINI, has a pretty and
useful annual custom which is worthy
of imitation elsewhere. Each fall, at
the close of tho blooming sea-
son, the plants that have blossomed in
the parks during the summer are given
to those who may apply for them, and
are thus made to do duty in brighten
ing the homes of many who could not
afford to purchase such things. The
city, of course, loses nothing by the
transaction, as the plants if not thus
disposed of, would be killed by the
frost, new stock being set out each
spring. During the fall of 1896 from
the largest park in the city over 100,
900 plants were given away. In addi-
tion, the smaller parks furnished
many thousands additional. In the
principal park the employees superin.
tend the annual distribution, but in
the other parks the people are allowed
by the police to help themselves. 1t
is a flower mission on municipal
scale.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
A HOLIDAY soNo,


A little way from work-a-day,
Down the small slope Of mild desire,
There swings a gate to bar the way,
With roses and sweet brler,
While you and 1, when time is ripe,
Upon his fragrant threshold stand,
And look across the harvest fields
In fruitful Leisure-Land.
In Leisure Land the breath, like balm,
Sighs from the moist lips easily,
The eyes shine clear, the brow is calm,
The heart beats full and free.
There Is no sound of fret nor strife
Ofurging call nor harsh command,
One drinks fresh, sweet draught Of life,
In blessed Leisure-Landl
The birds sing soft, the cushats coo,
The breeze just whispers to the flowers,
Deep-lined with autumn. as they fade,
To mark the peaceful hours.
The dancing brooklets wider sweep,
All voiceless where the blue flag stand
Rocking the drowsy bees to sleep,
In restful Leisure-Land.
Then come, while harvest moon is full,
Sweetheart, adown the sloping why,
And whisper secrets to my soul,
Too dear for common day,
A little space, for thes and me,
Which, heart to heart, and hand In hand
Apart from weary Work-a-day,
Wen spend in Leisure-Land!
Grace E. Denison, in Massey's Magazine
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
An Idea I'm Parachutes.

An italian aeronaut named Copazza
has invented two balloon attachment,
which are said to have fully realized
the expectations formed of them. The
oneis an enormous parachute stretched
over a balloon, and the other a folded
parachute hanging under the basket.
If the.aeronaut finds that his balloon
is rising too fast he opens the folded
parachute, which Immediately acts as
a huge air brake and effectually re-
tards progress.
On the other hand, should the air
vessel explode through expansion, fire,
or any other cause, the top parachute
come into action and descent may be
made without the slightest ineonyeni
ence,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
Tacks.

The smallest article in the hardware
trade is tack. 1 find that "tacL" is
a small nail, fastening. The word
is found N Celtic speech, though
Nrooted in Aryan. 1t is really a "stack,"
but somewhere in the shuttle the as"
got lost. 1t is met with in such COM
mon English words as "stack, " "at-
tack" "stake," 'take," etc. You
"tack" carpet on the floor; and at
times 'attack" an enemy. Ii you do
not live in a prohibition State, as l do,
you may sometimes 'take" a drink
"tackle" big watermelon at night
when the moon goes behind cloud F;
become "attached" to some fellows
sister; "stack" your arms; "stake"
your money on populistic candidate
for President; swear out an attach
ment" on a delinquent subscriber to
Hardware, and in each of I'll words
the busy little iron stack" is in it for
blood. If you go sailing you "taclS"
your boat by attaching" Il rope that
is attached" to the lower corner of a
square sail, to the windward side of
the boat the rope Is called ''tack, ."
and 1t is the attaching" of the "tack"
that causes the boat to "tack" and go
on another "tack." Turn it about as
you may, that busy little fastener
keeps getting in its work. k.-Hardware.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
Detecting Diseases.

A Manchester photographer relates
that he recently took a photograph of
a child who was apparently in good
health and had clear skin. The neg.
atiyo showed the face to be thickly
covered with an eruption. Three days
afterwards the child was covered with
spots due to prickly heat. The camera
had seen and photographed the erup-
tion three days before it was visible to
the naked eye. IL is said that another
case of similar kind is recorded,
where "a child showed spots on his por
trait which wers invisible on his face a
fortnight previous to an attack OF
smallpox. ---z -
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25

Not long ago, says the National Temper,
ance Advocate, several employees on the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail.
road attached their names to petitions foJ
liquor licenses The matter was brought 10
the notice of General Manager W. f. Hall.
stead at Scranton, Penn. Mr.. Hallstead is
not Prohibitionist, but he has no sympathy
whatever with saloons nor with drinking,
and during his life has done great work for
the advancement of the temperance cause in
thousands of different ways. Well, he sent
for all the "petitioners, who were Informed
that he would give them just twenty-fouI
hours 10 get their names of the saloon
petitions Did they obey orders2 Well you
should have seen how those railroad men
scampered up to the Court Housed They
will never do IL again.
As reason for his action Mr. Hallstead
said:
"When We engage men on the D., L. and
W. We not only hire muscle but also clear
brain, and man has no more right TO In.
dulge In that which would becloud or duh
that brain than he would have of taking
drug that would weaken his museles. a
railroad may adopt the most perfect system
Of railroading in the world, but it takes
clear brains TO carry out the system, and
that is the reason the D., l.. and W. insists
on having men that have nothing 20 do witt
saloons"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
How Deaf and Blind Girl Talks.

The hundreds of personal friends OF
Helen Keller, the totally blind and
totally deaf girl, whose development
and whose attainments are nothing
short of marvellous, and the tens o.
thousands who have become interested
in her will be pleased to learn of the
remarkable progress she has beer
making within the last year. Mo-
only does she use her voice constantly
in communicating with those aboul
her, but she has reached that stage
where those vine wish to talk with hel
speak to her as they would to any one
in full possession of all his senses.
Miss Keller no longer uses her fingers
to talk to others. She uses them nov
in conversation simply to listen tt
others who speak to her. By placing
her fingers on the lips and throat Of
those who are talking to her .she moi
only almost instantly shears" wordl
that are difficult topronounce clearly,
but she is also enabled to detect the
various shadings of vowel sounds that
many persons even with a keenly de
veloped ear, cannot pronounce after I
teacher. Dem orest's Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
Dredging for Pearls.

A look at the map of the Bay o
Panama will show, some forty mileI
from Colombia, the Pearl Islands, or
the east side OF the bay. On the west
side of the bay pearls are found al
the way to Ohiriqui and Yeragua. The
latter beds may bo dredged, and they
are poorly dredged; but no dredging
is allowed at the Pearl Islands, where
pearls now are only secured by divers
-Philsdelphia Ledger,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
INEBR1ATE MoRGur.

Topeka, Kan, has an inebrlate morgua
This is place where drunkards, while In .
comatose state from too free indulgence
in liquors, can be properly laid out so thai
they may be identified by their friends oJ
by their wives or children. This was tbs
idea Of Commissioners Holiday and Rodger
The Commissioners, upon studying the
police statistics Of Topeka, were panied to
lind that large number of citizens were in
the habit of lapsing from the way Of sobri.
ETY. at regular intervals. This was espee.
cially so on Saturday nights.
The police Of Topeka were put to good
deal OF trouble by these "regulars," as they
were called, as well as by ''transients, who
come into their net from time to time. II
was bother to take people from cell Ia
cell for the purpose of identifying "drunksT
when the cells were utterly useless in re,
straining the prisoners, who could not have
broken out of jail II they had tried to-
II was obviously absurd to put them IN
the regular morgue, stretched out among
corpses. Then the commissioners conceived
the happy idea of setting aside q separate
room at Police Headquarters for an inebri.
Gtes morgue.
Here the citizens Of Topeka, who have
temporarily lost control Of themselves, are
laid out in formal rows, and gentlemen in.
quiring Tor lost friends, or wives who do not
know what has become of their husbands,
can make leisurely inspection OF th'
bodies.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
The Book He Wanted.

Illustrative of the old saying that
certain class of intelligence can ask
more questions than wise man car
answer in a long time, a man abou
Concord, Mass, recently met DR.
Emerson, son of Ralph Waldo Emer
son, and asked him if he might Dor
row some of his books. Certainly,
said the doctor; "any you like" A
day or so after the man called. "You
said / might take a book" he began.
"You may have any you like, replied
the doctor. "Well, kinkly loan IN,
your mileage book over the Fitehbure
Railroad. "
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25
OTHER DAYS,

Alasl alas! for the days gone by,
or the flaming cheek and the flashing eye;
OF the timid touch Of the finger tips,
OF the petals blown from the poppy lipsl
When days were dreams. and nights we're
long,
And life flowed on like a rivers song,
Under June days golden sky
Alas! alasl for the days gone by.
Alasl alasl for the days gone by,
And, alas, that our youth should ever diel
Good fortune may come, and evil may go,
But nothing can WOO back youth we know.
Youth with its fragrance, charm and flush,
Goes, like the lyric Of last years thrush.
Youth will laugh when it hears age sigh
Alas alas! for the days gone by.
John Ernest McCann.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-11-25

The Volkssten records striking
mark of sympathy conferred upon DR..
Leyds, Secretary of State OF the Trans.
vaGl republic, by his colleagues.
Hearing that he has been forbidden
by his doctors to touch cigar or pipe
or to drink glass of wine, the mem
bers of the Chamber, headed by their
President, have unanimously resolved
to leaves their pipes at home, and
smoking has been equally forbidden
in the Government offices.