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CALIFORNIA LETTER.
SOME CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

SOME CHklSlMA PRESENTS.
The pastor of our church. Rev. W. M.
Jones and bis good wife. received $1,000
as Christmas present from a dear old
parishioner of Columbus, Ohio. Such
a remembrance shows how the higher
work of true pastor lives after him,
though he is called to distant fields. 1t
shows also that the faithful pastor is
appreciated in many and enduring
ways.
The Pasadena church is prospecting in
all lines of its work, and was never in a
better financial condition.
AN HISTORIC GIFT.
Mr. E. o. Gale, so long and so favor
ably known in Chicago business circles,
and for so many years prominent III the
Oak Park church, has presented to our
school one of the oldest and probably
one of the rarest pictures of Father
Ballou. The accompanying note ex-
plains its significance.
DEAR BROTHER CoNGER In pfesen,-
ing throngh you to the Uniyersalist Sunday
school o: Pasadena. the eagravin. Of Hosea
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MISSOURI.
ORDINATION ATlLA CROSSE.


December 81, Maurice, G. Linton, of
Lombard Divinity School, and pastor of
our churches at La Crosse and Elmer,
Mo-, was ordained to the Universalist
ministry.
December &c, the examining council
in full attendance met at La Crosse, in
the Hastings Memorial Church, and
conducted the examination publicly be-
fore large and interested audience.
Many and searching were the questions
pronounced and Bro. Linton met them
with prompt and decisive reply. There
was no attempt to evade the point but
every question was squarely, fairly and
clearly answered to the satisfaction of
the committee.
Dec. q, 1895. the ordaining council
proceeded with the ordination gservice
as follows: Scripture lesson by Rev. @.
III. Shinn. DID,; Prayer by Rev. Jas. A.
Baldridge (recently received into our
fellowship from the Presbyterians); Ser
mon by Rev. @. II. Shinn; Ordaining
prayer by Rev. E. Manford Clark; de-
livery of the Scriptures and charge by
Rev. J. A. Baldridge; Scripture SEN
fences by the several ministers; prayer
by Rev. M. G. Linton; Right hand of
fellowship by Rev. E. Manford Clark;
Benediction.
The service was impressive throughout
and was witnessed by large congrega-
ton notwithstanding the very bad con-
dition of the roads.
FROM PREsBYTERIANIsM TO UNIvER-
SALlSM.
In this day of change and progress we
are not surprised to hear that there are
sturdy thinkers within the orthodox $50
called) churches who think themselves
out of their limitations. And yet, while
it is no surprise, while we look for it and
expect it, it is good news when it comes
and we love to tell the news and to hear
it told.
The caption above indicates another
slide into Universalism. Rev. James A.
Baldridge of TAO Armstrong Ave., Kan
sas City, was for years minister in the
Presbyterian church. He was faithful
minister and Christian gentleman in
all things. But, he was thinker also,
and as Solomon says, "as man thinketh
in his heart 50 is he." Bro. Baldridge
found that his heart thoughts were not
in line with his creed limits and sought
for other church relations where his
creed limits should be as broad as his
heart thoughts. This he was not long
land yet, it was long, for it took him
some years to climb to the top of Pisgah
where he could get above the fogs and
see the land of promise clearly in find
ing in the Universalist Church. And,
after due investigation of his record and
satisfying ourselves as to his character
and worthiness of so grand faith as
ours, he was duly licensed by the Miss
ouri Convention to go forth in the
Masters name and preach the glad It'd
ings of great joy to all the people. Bro.
Baldridge comes to US with clean rec
ord and thoroughly equipped for the
Masters work. He understands our
faith and believes it with his whole
heart and we bespeak for him the con-
sideration of our people throughout the
State. Let the friends of our faith with
in reach of him rally to his support and
give him work. E. MANFoRD CLARK,
Chairman Committee r. O. DC D.
LA MONTE, Mo.
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audiences at the morning service re.
main about the same: at the night serv-
ice they have steadily increased until
we have comfortably filed church.
G. L. BALL
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- CHURCH AND PARISH REGISTER. Il

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Nor1cEs AND appointments published
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
CENT-A-DAY HELPERS.

Pledges on the Cent-a-Day plan, duly
signed, were received at the Office of the
Financial Secretary during the two
weeks ending January 18th. 1896, as fol-
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MAKE
YOUR
BOY
GLAD.

The mothers as
well as the boys
aredelighted with
the wonderful line
of Combination"
suits that we are
now showing.
The fabrics are
strictly all wool
the finest Droduc-
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lions of American and foreign looms,
and every suit is handsomely made
and trimmed. The Combination in
cludes: one full suit, one extra pair
OF pants and Stanley cap to match.
They are for boys to Is years of age
and are unquestionably the finest
garments ever put on the market,
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NO matter who advertises Combination Suits,
you VIII find ours best by comparison. We are
tne orlginators of this popular outfit and have
sofa more than sixty thousand of them.
- We will ship suit to any address, by Express,
y. y. ID, with pr vilege of examining before
paying. Write for samples of cloth and rules
tor measuring the boy Our new catalogue will
De sent free upon request.
The Putnam Clothing House
CLARK & MADISON STs., CHICAGO.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28
Source Of Ailment.

Most of the ailments which are COM
monty called "bilious, "are caused, says
the British Medical Journal, by too
much food of rich nature, and too
much drink of sweet or alcoholic
character, combined with far too little
exercise in the open air. Theliver at,
tempts to get rid of the superfuous
materials thrown into the circulation,
and, being overworked, rebels and
gout, rheumatism, gravel, dyspepsia,
headache and constipation are the on.
ward and visible signs of its inaction
in those who live too well and live q
sedentary life.
The prescription of bicycle aud
the Recommendation to use it wisely
and well works like charm in such
cases, and in all the symptomatic all.
ments which arise from too much
"ncid" in the system. 1t is interest
ing to note that cycling sometimes
has the effect of thinning the obese
and fattening the thin, and this may
partly be explained by Murchison's
observations that excessive leanness,
as well as excessive corrulence, is often
caused by inaction of the liver, and the
stimulus of regular exercise setting
the function of that organ right, causes
the disappearance of what was only o
symptom.
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The Chlnnmnn and the Indian.

Where the American Indians came
from is problem that has vexed eth
nologists. One overzealous clergy
man has written book to prove that
they are the lost tribes of Israel. Other
writers have attempted to classify them
with the Malays and the Celts.
One of the latest comers into this
field of research is DIR. J. y. Thoms, of
No. 1880 Herkimer street, Brooklyn,
who has an office in "a Pell street. He
is q ChinamaD, who came to this coun-
try about twenty years ago, and who
was graduated from the Long Island
College of Physicians and Surgeone.
DIR. Thoms is writing a book to
prove the identity of the Indian and
Mongolian races The habit of smok-
ing and the styles of pipes which have
existed in both races for many CEN
turies are part of his argument. He
calls attention to the fact that Alaska
and Northern China are less than
thirty miles apart zone point.
There is an Indian living in China
town. His parents were killed in a
massacre in California when he was a
child. A Chinaman adopted him and
brought him up to the Chinese GUS
toms. He wears queue, a blouse and
clogs, and it is safe to say that not one
person in hundred would know from
his features that he is not Ohinaman
by birth. New York Herald.
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wal d's widow or no Oswald's widow"
Nevertheless, she could not Ia elp
feeling little apprehensive when her
husband came in to tea. For when
Abel really was angry, his anger signi'
fed something. But to her surprise
he entered oil smiles, and rubbing his
palms, gleefully.
$50 Plume has gomez" said he.
eyes" said Mrs. Piercy, pretending
to be busy with knot in the second
child's shoe. 'She has gone. But
how did you know it?"
cyan Orden stopped at the store to
tell me-" answered Mr.. Piercy.
"Strnnge, wasn't it? And quite ro.
mantle, too"
"What on earth is the man talking
about ?" eaid Mrs. Piercy, aroused at
last into something like active inter.
est.
"Why, didn't Plume tell you2 1t
seems that those last investments that
poor Oswald fancied he had beggared
himself with, have turned up trump
cards after all. And Van Orden tells
me that Oswald's widow is worth
hundred and fifty thousand dollars"
Mrs. Abel Piercy turned first green,
then crimson. Alas for the fatal blum.
der she had committed Alas for the
ruined chances of her three little girls
to inherit their aunt's money She
made some trivial excuse about for.
gotten pockethandkerchief, and went
up stairs to weep the bitterest tears
she had ever shed.
1t was a lesson to her, but it was an
expensive one. For Plume Piercy, al
though she always remained on the
most excellent terms with her kind lit.
tie brother-in-law, never crossed Mrs.
Abels threshold again. She had been
too deeply stung-too bitterly insul
ted there.
"And it's all my own fault" sadly
reflected Mrs. Abel. ooh, dear oh,
dear why can't we see little way into
the future 2"-Saturda Night.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28

Mischievious persons in the West,
whose idea of fun consisted in frighten.
ing timid people by circulating false
predictions of approaching tornadoes,
have learned that the issue of counter.
felt weather predictions is punishable
under Federal law as is the issue OF
counterfeit money. The counterfeiter
of Government weather reports is q
misdemeanant whose crime subjects
him to a fine of $500 or Imprisonment
for ninety days, or to both fine aud
imprisonment. The law was intended
to prevent speculators from affecting
the prices of agricultural products on
the exchanges by spreading spurious
representations of the weather. II
has been invoked for tho first time
to suppress the wild Western "hum
orists."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28

Lord Russell's visit to America re-
minds the London Chronicle of On an.
cient story. 1t says that during Lord
Russell's previous tour in this country
with Lord Coleridge he came in con-
tact with many members of the bar,
including Ex-senator w. NJ. Evarts
1t was while walking with Mr.. Evarts
Que day along the banks OF a stream
that his attention was called to point
at which Washington, according to q
tradition, had thrown dollar right
across. The water was wide, an1 Lord
Russell looked doubtful. "You know
a dollar went further in those days
thah il goes now," the American law
yer blandly insinuated. "Ah," said
Lord Russell, quite equal to the oc-
casion, "and it may have been easy
enough to Washington it is well
known that he threw q sovereign
across the Atlantic.
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A Hydronhohia HosnItaI.

The projected Buisson Hospital, for
the cure of hydrophobia, has air eady
been opened near the Crystal Palace,
in London, and when 1 return to
America 1 shall very much wish there
was an institution of the kind there.
The system of cure is by vapor baths,
and is taken up in opposition to the
Pasteur treatment by persons who are
largely and intensely anti-vivisection'
lists, and who believe that the torture
of large numbers of dogs incident to
Pasteur's germ cure is brutal and
inhuman practice. However, humane
though l claim to be, that does NOT
interest the world at large as keenly
as the fact that these men INCLUDING
some very eminent ones, indeed,) de-
clare that hundreds and hundreds OF
cases of hydrophobia treated in the
Pasteur manner have resulted in the
death of the patients. In other words,
they allege that the Pasteur cure is nc
certain cure at all, whereas the cure:
by vapor bath treatment have beer
very wonderful, and almost, if not
quite, invariable.
The discovery of this process is at
tributed to French provincial prac'
titioner, who is stated to have been,
some fifty years ago, infected with the
virus of a mad dog by wiping his hand,
on which was Il skin liberation, with q
towel impregnated by the saliva of the
diseased animal. There is no special
poison in the too h fangs themselves,
but the contamination is in the secre'
tions, and NJ. Buisson Is recorded TO
have cured himself by three or four
applications of the vapor bath.
What have read on the subject has
deeply impressed me, and If l were
bitten by dog, supposedly mad, and
were in the wilds of Canada or Africa,
away from all medical aid, would
confidently set about to cure myself by
merely boiling water in a can Or dish
and sitting over it well enveloped in
blankets; Quite as simple as that have
been some of the methods resorted to
by those who believe that poison in
the system can be sweated out of the
body. The new hospital in Norwood,
London, is in the charge of man
skilled in the use of the Turkish or
Oriental bath and the modern hot va
por bath. Treatment there is given
free, though if the patients have to
stay for q course of treatment they
must pay their way for board and
lodging somewhere in the neighbor
hood. -Philadelphia Ledger.
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Lighting a Cigar with Ice.

Recently prominent lawyer arrived
in Washington for consultation re-
garding some patent cases. During
the conversation a match to light a
cigar was lacking, and the Washing
tonian remarked that piece of ice
would do just as we'll. The lawyer
laughed and was incredulous and a
wager was made. The Washingtonian
took piece of clear ice about an inch
thick from the water cooler, whitfield
it into the shape of a disk, and with
the palms of his hands melted its two
sides convex, thus giving the form Of
a double convex lens or burning glass.
With it he focused the suns rays on
the end of his cigar and lastly set it
on fire. Science News.
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now HE HAD THE LAUGH.

A Afacetious lawyer had under cross-ex'
animation a simple.looking youth who
rejoiced in the name of Samson, and
resolved to raise laugh at his ex'
pense.
"And So" questioned the legal
light, "you wish the court to believe
that you are Il peaceably disposed and
inoifensive kind Of person?"
eyes "
"And that you have no desire to
follow in tho steps OF your illustrious
namesake and smite the Philistines|' %
"No, Pgo not" answered the wit
ness. "And il had the desire, l
amt got the power ut present" "
"Then you think you would be un'
able to cope successfully with a thou.
sand enemies and utterly rout them
with the jawbone of an ass?"
"Well," answered the rulled Sam
son, 81 might have try when you
have done with the weapon, Tit
Bits.
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THE FALL o, THE LEAF

The star o. Love in the evening sky,
The crescent moon like silver boat
In q sea Of rose and gold a6oN.
Under the naples, you and
Lean on the old, gray llchened wall,
While soft on our heads the dead leaves fall,
Why do you sigh2
My sweetheart princess with frosted hair
Blown from your face in a shining mist
Like thistle-dowp in the air sun-kissed.
Silver or gold, dear, what do we care2
Gold or silver, It matters not,
SILL it's theme for the poets thought,
Still the old lovers heart is caught
In its silken snare.
The dropping tlnls o. the autumn tree
Are richer than roses In their day,
Sweeter than vlolets in tho May
For rose or violet wnat care wei
The wide, fair sunset O. the year
Is lovelier than its morning, dear,
For you and me.
The star O. Love dips low & the sky
The moons white boat is cast on the hill,
The shadows gather more dense and chill,
The deep wood thrills with the owls sad
cry.
lonesome cricket croons in the wall
Taster the leaves on our bowed heads fall
As the wind walls by.
Give me Your hand. Is it growing cold2
Let 1t lie on heart that is warm;
Lean on the strength OF a faithful arm.
Love like the dead leaf still must hold
Sweetness and song when It has missed
The fire OF opal and amethyst,
Purple and gold.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

II is said that soft wood under pres.
sure becomes considerably harder than
hard wood under pressure.
When the British sparrow hawk il
flying toward its dinner it cleaves
space at the rate of $50 miles an hour.
An electric boat has been constructed
for the inspection ofthe famous sewers
Of Paris. 1t pulls itself along by
chain lying in the bottom.
About thirty thousand lamps, gas,
electric and naphtha, are now utilized
in Illuminating the streets, avenues,
parks, docks and bridges of New Yorb
City.
A serum cure for the bubonic plague
has been discovered by Gersin Of the
Paris Pasteur Institute. He made his
frst experiments at Annoy, just after
the plague of Hong Kong, China, in
1894.
An English motor car manufacturer
is building two.story steel house to
run on wheels, propelled by a motor
under it. The top story is collapsSole,
80 as to enable the house to pass un.
bridges.
The micro organisms thus far dis
covered in the water supplied to the
citizens OF Brooklyn are said to be OF
the non-poisonous variety, but they
are just the food on which the poison
Gus microbes thrive.
Four cakes of manufactured ice
averaging more than 5000 pounds each
were taken from the vats OF an Orange
(Texas) company. One weighed 5000
pounds and measured sixteen feet by
eight and was fourteen inches thick.
A method OF purifying water is in
use in certain continental towns. II
is to pass it through revolving vessels
containing scraps of iron. The iron
forms a Igelatinous precipitate with
the impurities them "settle. ,
United States Cousul Steiner, al
Munich, Bavaria, informs the Depart
ment of State that second exhibition
of power and labor machines will be
held there in 1898, and American man
ufacturers are invited to participate.
A recent report of the State Geolo-
gist says that the total production OF
oil in Indiana was 1880, 900 barrels in
1895, valued at SO, 100, 800. The proba
bilities are that the area of territory
productive OF oil will continue slowly
to spreld to the West and South untl
it finally embraces the greater part o
the area yielding natural gas.
The cause of sound in a steam
whistle is the same as in any form o
of whistle or an orgNn-pipe, viz, vi
bration of the atmosphere induced by
a vibration set up in a steam jet dl
rected against the edge of the bell
the vibration of the air or steam col
umn IN the bell influencing the toni
according to its length and diameter,
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1t seems that the X-rays, gen orally
regarded as SO benefcert in action,
are to be pressed into the service OF
mutilating as we'll as of mending hu-
manity. A London dealer offers for
sale cartridges tested by the obliging
Roentgen rays to make sure that they
have been carefully loaded. To such
multifarious use does busy-brained
man put every new invention as soon
as elaborated!
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A GARLAND.

Dropping harebells. white and blue.
Nodding on your slender stalks.
Turn her thoughts to where ye grew
Mind her Of our woodland walks.
Rushes, bring before her eyes
Marshy moorlaud, boulder strewn
Where the loug-billed curlews' crieg
Break the drowsy calm Of noon.
Heather, wait the scent to her
OF purp!e-sheeted hills;
Willow branch, bring sound and sti'
OF innumerable rllls.
Azure-blue forget-me-not.
Askest thou thy message mrct2
Nathess thou full we'll dost wot
What to whisper to my sweet.
Elizabeth Gibson. in ST. Paul's.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28

Thrift and melody do not seem to
go together, exclaims Hsrper's Week
". The author OF "Kathleen Ma
vourneen," who died few weeks ago,
had his share of prosperity during his
career, but came to want long before
the end of it. A few weeks after, died
Percy Gaunt, joint author with
Charles Hoyt of that famous
and familiar song, "Ihe Bow
cry" and he too outlived his means
of support. Yet "The Bowery" was
immensely profitable to some one, and
was reported to have paid its authors
$37, ,OO0; and Gaunt wrote great
number of other songs, some ofwhich
were popular. But probably with
song writer's, as with persons in other
lines OF industry, it is one thing to
make money and another to keep it.
The obituarians, who dwelt at gener.
GUS length upon Crouch, told one
amazing story about him that he
had been married four times, and had
been the parent of thirty-three chill
dren. There was certainly no thrift
about that. but the story was printed
without afidavits, and possibly it was
not true.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28
Queer Relig ious Sect.

The Muggletonians were a religious
sect that arose in England in the mid
die of the seventeenth century, being
SO denominated from their leader,
Ludovic Muggletou, iourneyman
tailor, who, with another impostor,
named Reeves, asserted that they were
the two last witnesses of God that
should appear before the end OF the
world
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nIs Deduction.

"Mamma, what is heredity?" asked
Bobby, shedding few tears aud labor
iously tripping over the syllables Of
the long word.
"Why, it isis is something you
get from your father or me-" replied
the mother.
Silence of two minutes, and moro
tears.
"Theu, ma" he asked, sis spanking
hereditary ?"-rexas Sitter.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28

Argentina means to get ahead OF tho
European Powers in taking possession
of the South Shetland Islands on the
lge of the Antarctic con tinent. An
expedition will be sent out for the
purpose this year. The islands may
possibly be of come use as a sealing
aud whaling station.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28
Testing Arrows.

In Japan archers test their arrows
by balancing them on the nails of the
second and third fingers Of the left
hand, aud rapidly twirling them by
the feathered end with the fingers OF
the right hand. Ii the arrow makes a
whirring sound it is crooked aud must
be Strengthened. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28
A Remarkable Man.

Marshall Fergerson, who lived in
Gwinnett County, Georgia, near
Stone Mountain, and who died two
weeks ago, was a remarkable man,
says the Savannah News. He had
reached the age of eighty-six, and he
and his wife had lived together for
over sixty years. He made forty-two
crops with two horses, having plowed
one for twenty and the other for
twenty-five years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28
Nnnsen and Ills WIZ

DR.. Nansen, it is said, is about to be
remarked to his wife, in consequence
Of the fact that prior to his departure
on his last voyage in search OF the
North Pole he divorced her, in order
to permit her to marry again in case
of his disappearance or death without
going to the trouble of proving his de-
cease.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-10-28
Pnmnniinn SOan.

In the unearthed city of Pompeii.
the preservation of which has been the
means OF revealing many antique GUS
toms, there is to be seen a soap manu-
factory, with all the kettles and para
phernalia pertaining to the business.
Also a quantity of soap, evidently the
product of this ancient "soapery. -
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.