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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

The morning of Fo urth of July rose
full of sweet summer hazes, musical
with the trill of birds, and sparkling
with dew.
Leah could scarcely wait for the old
farm wagon to drive off before she be-
gan her own toilet, frizzing her hair to
look like Flora's tangled tresses, and
adjusting the newly-laundered pink
muslin gown to initiate, as nearly as
possible, the prevailing fashion.
Her heart beat restlessly; the color
came and went nervously on her
cheek; and even after she was stand
ing at the dock, with the house-key in
her hand, she began to think that the
time never would come for the excur-
sion boat to steam around the curve of
the hills.
''What viii George Annis think if
he comes there and finds it a3r- -FEhrt up
and vacant?" she thought, with spe-
cies of strange exultation.
Hush! The sound of drum and
horn and piercing fife, the futter of
bunting, the roar of paddle wheels!
The boat was here at last, and the
first object she took note of was Flora
Plimpton, waving handkerchief from
the guards.
"Come on board!" shouted Flora,
looking red and excited. ''Dave
Ferguson amt here yet. He'll get on
next landing. Hurry-hurryW
But in her haste Leah had dropped
the house-key, and stepped out of the
throng to pick it up from the trampled
grass.
With the sight of its cleaning brass
wards, sudden thought flashed into
her mind. The money in the old
Dutch cabinet at home!
Why had she never remembered
that? How had she proved so faith
less to the trust the old people had
tacitly imposed ON her?
She lifted pale, remorseful face to
Flora.
''I-I can't go" said she, huskily.
''There's something I've forgotten.
'What nonsensem screamed Flora.
''You'll be too later
"All aboardT' yelled the stout man
in the blue-and-gold uniform at the
gangplank.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

Flora, even arter they went away from
here. A girl like you can't be too
careful who she goes with. "
Leah was silent, but she shelled
away faster than ever.
There are times when advice
seems to produce directly opposite
effect of what is intended, and Mrs.
Hallidays words only served to
strengthen the girls resolve to have
her own way for once
81 shouldn't wonder, " added the old
woman, with a sly smile, 'if George
Annis were to come up this way Fourth
o. July, arter me and fathers gone"
Still the peas ratified into the pan
like miniature fusilade of artillery
Leah never looked up nor spoke.
"And don't see as there'd be any
harm in your askin' him to stay to din
ner," added Mrs Halliday. He'd be
sort O. company for you"
81 don't want any company" burst
out Leah. 'If lie says anything more
to Mr.. Halliday, ask him not to come.
I'd rather be alone"
''Why, child, what's come to youP"
said Mrs. Halliday, in surprise.
Leah made no answer. She was
thinking of Ferguson's flashing black
eyes and square chin.
George Annis was a looking
fellow enough, but George had no
style "Style" was one of Flora
Plimpton's favorite words.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30
THE X FOURTH X OF X JULY.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

Which ethical fact Leah was not suf-
ficiently posted to dispute.
"When DO they start off-at seven
in the morning?" pursued Flora.
"Good! We're not due at the dock
until nine. Therell be lots of time for
you TO tx yye'Gselfgp-qnd come down
and mind, you wear that same pink
muslin you had on at the station.
Ferguson's fairly gone ON that pinH
gown!"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

TIC "war-chest" of Germeny is kept
N the fortified city of Spandau. Here,
states Youths Companion, is deposited
gold coin equival ent to thirty million
dollars, instantly available for military
purposes. 1t is understood that Great
Britain and France are even more rich
II ~, although neither of these
- its treasure in a ''war-
chest - the other hand, has
very little, and her people are taxed
to the verge of starvation that that lit
tie may be kept untouched. Russia
has been a chronic borrower, partly to
supply fund of which no one outside
81 daussia knows the extent. 1t has
Atsn asserted, possibly with some ex-
tfaaoH, that Germany could put
1--we million men into the field, fully
quipped, within ten days after hos
nsities began. On war footing, the
eflnan, Russian and French armies
woald number, each, more than three
million men; the italian and Austrian
about two millions each, To support
such multitudes would soon empty
any ''war-chest." A country like Ger
many, whose public debt is only about
ten dollars per capita-Itarts debt is
almost eighty dollars for each inhab-
itant-eould resort to taxation, and by
1 various means withstand a long strain.
nt it staggers imagination to dwell
upon the burdens that protraeted war
would lay upon the unhappy subjects
of the bankrupt nations
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

The Baltimore American thinks II
about time that that city we're putting
up another monument, and thus live
up TO the name, other cities being in
danger Of stealing a march on the
Monumental City"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30
In an Om-Hand Way.

"Get move on, there" impatiently
cried the little boys fingers as they
held match down to the reluctant
giant cracker.
ooh, come Off" snarled the giant
cracker.
And in another moment the little
boys fingers did so.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

The Baltimore Sun Is asking its
readers for the names of the two most
worthy Marylanders to be honored by
statues at the National Capitol.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

The record for rapid building in
Chicago, which until recently was held
by the Fisher Building, has been
broken by the Fair Building, whose
nine steel stories were put up in twen-
ty-nine days.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

HE old wooden
clock in the kitchen
had just struck
nine.
Farmer Halliday
had long been in
bed and aseep.. He
rose at four O'Clock
every morning to
get the farm work
started bright and
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

The Presbyterian Church is the
only religious body which has minis
ters and churches in every State in the
Union, and by the statistics or 1896
consisted of 1878 congregations, 6942
ministers and 943, ZIG members.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

In the millennium you will be able
TO press button and discover your
missing collar button, predicts Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

Brown-"pd like to have my little
boys life insured"
Manager-"Come around after the
Fourth and I'll talk with you about it, 1"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

He stuffed his cannon, for he meant
To scare his little brother.
He never knew which way he went,
And he'll never see another.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

Englishmen jealous of their coun-
try's honor deeply feel the disgrace of
the Jameson raid, and would go to
great lengths to undo the unfortunate
deed. The Westminster Gazette, of
London, says; "We cannot help think
ing that the item moral and intellec-
tual damage in the little bill which
President. Kruger has just presented
has got put on the wrong side of the
account, For it is this country which
has had all the kicks and no ha'pence
in consequence of the raid. But in
any event it is the chartered company
whic' has to pay, and we suggest as
an testing problem-if the COM
pr va million to the Transvaal
{ and intellectual damage, ;
4 ought to be paid to England
n ,fdamageP A German con-
y remarks that similar feel
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

ing moves even the most jingoistic
English papers. They abuse the Beers
to find an excuse for deed which, in
their hearts, they regard as inexcusa-
H.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

Brown-"So you are sorry you put
the lighted firecracker in the minister's
pocket?"
Little Johnny-"Yes, dad. 1t was
the biggest one had, and it didn't go
OFF.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

They who wait to DO great things
neYer do anything
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30

Once more, my merry girls and boys,
'Tis Independence Day;
And cannons boom and joy-bells ring
And everyone is gay.
And Young America again
Hears Uncle Sans brave story,
OF how we won our freedom, and
Flung to the breeze Old Glory.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-30
The YersntlIe small nox.

At other times the cat he'd take
And to the floor he'd tack her;
Then Johnny used to take the cake,
While now he takes the cracker.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-14
DOG WITH GOLD TEETH.
Grand Rapids Canine Needs Dentists
Services After n Fight.

Grand Rapids Canine Needs Dentists
Services After n Fight.
DR.. Robinson, of Sheldon street,
Grand Rapids, Mich, has dog named
McGinty, which rejoices in two good
teeth. McGinty had a fight with an
other canine and in the scPimmage sue
ceeded in breaking two of his teeth.
AS soon as his contest was over McGin-
ty ran yelping into the doctors office
and jumped into the dental chair. The
doctors son took him in charge and the
dog was held in the chair while the inn
preston was taken. He even submitted
calmly to the cotton packing process
his composure being, no doubt, largely
due 70 the blissfu ignorance of dental
bills, and he neither whined nor
howled when a gold crown was fitted
ara cemented on each Of the broken
teeth. In fact, he seemed rather proud
OF it. and now he goes about displaying
tho"c two gold crowns and is the envy
Of cry dog in the neighborhood, and
ne rever fails on showing those two
long, sharp fangs to brighten all the
smaller dogs into sudden terror.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-14
COINS FOR SANTO DOMINGO
United States MintinK Silver Dollars
Worth Only Twenty Cents.

United States Mintinx Silver Dollars
Worth Only Twenty Cents.
The government is now minting sill
yer dollars worth only 20 cents apiece.
Already the work has been started at
the mint in Philadelphia and within 8
few days 100000 of them will be turned
put They will be only 35 per cent. sill.
yer, the balance being copper and nick.
81. but they will circulate at full value
Happily, they are not intended for
circulation in this country. The work
is being done for the Dominican repub-
lie and the dollars will be sent to Santo
Domingo. The design of the coins was
furnished by the Dominican treasury
department and in no respect, except
Ing shape, resembles the dollar of the
United States.
It has long been the custom OF the
United States to make the money of
several South American countries, and
as an act of comfy and good will the
work is done at the actual cost of labor
md metal. The present order from
Santo Domingo also includes 300 900
half-dollars, $4,000 quarter-dollars and
10000 dimes.
The mint bureau has just filled an
order from Costa Rica for a large guam.
tity of gold coins. The government of
Costa RIGA is so pleased with the coin
age that it has ordered, through it's
minister at Washington, 10000 more
coins of gold. Estimates as to the cost
of producing them are now being pre-
pared by the director of the mint.
Costa Rica has recently adopted gold
basis and hence the necessity for gold
coins.
The first work of this kind done by
the United States was in 1876, when
100000 worth of minor coins were
turned out for the government of Vene-
Euela.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-14
THE MEXICAN PEccnRv
turns Out for Anything.
Man or Re,st

| .<,,. "A or beOSt.
me most vicious and fearless of the
~ o'o creation is the peccary, or wild
Tos "a MeNlco' said c. w. Bartlett, of
| AeA. his animal seems ut
oe'o'd OF the emotion Of fear. I
Ao.0 never seen 1T turn a hairs breadth
ou1 OK IT'S path for any living thing.
Man is its special bette noire. It dis
pays an intelligence in fighting the
nunan strangely at variance with it's
apparently complete lack of any mental
a.trloutes, save the very lowest order
Oh instinct. They are rarely found sing
~ out go in droves Of from a hundred
10 thousands. Their ability to scent
men IS particularly marked I have
known drove of them to scent a mana
mile OIL and strike as straight for him
as the arrow flies. There is no use to
try to brighten them with guns. The
cnnnonading of full battery would
nave no more effect on them than the
popping of a firecracker. The ONLY
thlng to do when they get after YOU is
70 run away from them as fast as n
morse can carry you. And then there is
no certainty that they won't catch you.
They are nearly as swift as horse, and
their endurance is as great as their
viciousness.
"A friend of mine encountered drove
OF them In wild part Of Mexico few
years ago, and his escape was miracu-
lous. He very foolishly shot and wound
Ell number of them. Then he took |
refuge in a tree. The peccaries kept |
him In the tree all that day and through |
the night. They circled around the |
tree. grunting and snuealinr their de- |
,ngnt ut the prospect OF feast. He soon
exhausted his ammunition, and |
brought down peccary at each fire.
But this had no terror for the beasts.
Along toward morning the brutes be-
gan to eat the ones he had killed, and |
when they thus satisfied the cravings
OF their stomachs they formed in line
and trotted off. If they had not had
some of their own number to devour
they would have guarded that tree until
my friend, through sheer exhaustion,
dropped from his perch and allowed
them to make meal of him. The wild
cats and tigers that infest the Mexican
wilds flee from the peccaries with in
fear, and even rattlesnakes
keep out of their path."-St. Louis Re
public.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-14
LET'S DEADLY SNAKES BITE.

Dr. Joseph Thompson, Jr., Expert
mcnts with Venomous Reptiles.
DIR. Joseph Thompson, Jr., and his
collection of precious snakes will soon
be removed from Edgewater, Staten
Island, n. Y. There is joy accordingly
among thsz3octor's neighbors, not be-
cause they dislike the doctor, but they
really don't care for snakes. On sew
eral occasions they have been scared
half silly because they escaped. The
doctor has been appointed assistant sur
geon of the navy.
There is in the snakes a scientific
charm for DR.. Thompson, and his expe-
riments with his "pets," in which he has
made himself subject for their pois-
oned fangs, are startling. The doctor
not only handles the reptiles uncon-
eernedly without gloves, but has al
Owed one of the most poisonous of his
pets to sink its fangs in the flesh of his
lore arm, and all for the sake of science.
w the prompt administration of anti
notes DR.. Thompson has prevented seri-
BUS results.
ne has worked with poisonous snakes
IN and on for about five years, begin
ning with North American RATHER,
sMcn he captured on Tongue noun
.aln' near Lake George, by which snake
nc was bitten on the knuckle of the in
ueX niger OF the right hand.
- ! was away from the village" said
s .ae doctor, land my only hope was to
p'ee the poison out, which did" Then
!. exhibited the hole in the knuckle, at
~ .ne same time taking down a large rat
. ner from the wall, saying: THAT is
~ NC oVercoat of the fellow that bit me.
.aN, are only three very poisonous
lux aAes IN this Countrywide rattler, cop
ps, m and moccasin. None of them
~ .l nave any effect on person proper
h, mea1ed with antivenene, the antidote
r,usne out by the French scientist
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-14
Her Advice.

A sweet girl graduate Of Kansas
City's high school recently reproved a
young man for his lack Of knowledge
about he Puritans, and advised him ia
go and get Bunyan's Pilgrims Prog
rcss" if he wanted to post up.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-14

Windsor Has Age.
Windsor has been used as a roy ii
residence for 7s6 years.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-14

gher positions and broader or-
s. Ss sunitles bring larger rewards. or
". penalties, according as duty in
r- M new sphere is well or i'll done-S. S
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-19

guide, were standing. Then I saw that
the keeper of the Saints House, the
half-distraught creature whom I had
just observed, was splitting out at them
some bitter and venomous words.
Clearly they all heard him, and most
of them laughed derisively and pushed
on. But one of the number--a young
Berber with eyes of fire-drew up sud-
denly and made some answer in hot
and rapid words. The man of the
Saints House spoke again, showing
his teeth as he did so in a horrible
grin; and at the next instant, almost
quicker than my eyes could follow the
swift movements of his hands, the
Berber had plucked his long knife from
his belt and plunged it in the keepers
breast.
I saw it ALL The man fell at my
feet, and was dead in an instant. In
another moment the police Of the mar
ket had laid hold of the murderer, and
he was being hauled off to his trial.
Come" whispered my guide, and he
led me by short cuts through the mar
row lanes to the Kasbash.
(To be continued)
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-19
HALL GAINES VIEWS.

The Humanitarian for October has a
careful interview with Mr.. Hall Game, the
popular novelist, in which his opinion is
asked about the questions of the day. With
out a motive, which he considers very DIFF
ferent from a purpose a story is not a
novel, but only a yarn. He does not hold
that there is no escape from heredity be-
cause Christianity in its essence supposes
the possibility of an absolute and it may be
instantaneous regeneration. He is abso-
lutely opposed to the marriage of conven-
fence. Girls should be taught the truth.
the bloom of her modesty than her happi-
ness. But this is an evil that will grow
less as the freedom of women purifies the
life of men. The first generation of the
emancipated always have to pay for their
emancipation. Thus, the daughters of our
generation will have to pay, but our
daughters daughters will reap the bene-
fit. They will have the bloom of modesty
with the safety of knowledge" He ex-
presses himself as in sympathy with the
Woman Movement" and as considering
that woman suffrage works admirably in
the Isle of Man; with regard to the social
evil he would have boys taught that the
only act of chivalry which is left for the
manly to perform in this nineteenth CEN
fury is to turn the back to those who
abuse the weakness of women for their
own vile and selfish ends. Countess Anna
Kapriste writes a sketch of Sonia Kova-
lensky, and Anna Hvoslef an account Of
the Scandinavian women. The trait of
character common to all Norwegian wom-
en-, the writer says, is love Of freedom,
hence, the majority of them try to gain
their own living, or at least, each their
own pocket money. The average Norwe-
gian woman takes a livlier interest than
even the British woman in the topics of
the day. She has a thorough education,
industrial opportunities, social freedom.
and woman suffrage is with her a burning
question that will be settled in ''probab-
ly not remote future"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-19

blankets, barefooted girls, boys with
shaver polls, water carriers with their
tinkling bells, snake-charmers, story
tellers, jugglers, preachers, and then
donkeys, nosing their way through the
throng, mules lifting their necks above
the peoples heads, and camels MUNICH
ing oats and f1ghting-it was wilder
ness of writhing forms and babel Of
Shrieking noises.
With my loquacious Moor l pushed
my way along past booths and stalls
until I came to a white-washed ltruct-
ure, with a white flag floating over it,
that stood near the middle of the mar
ket-place. 1t was a roofiess place about
fifteen feet square and something like
a little sheep-fold, but having higher
walls. Through the oren doorway
saw an inner enclosure out of which a
man came forward. He was Wild
eyed creature in tattered garments, and
dirty, dishevelled and malevolent Of
face.
''See," said my guide, ''see, my lord, a
Moorish Saints House Look at the
flag. So shall my lord know Saints
House. Here rest the bones of Sidi
Cali, and that is the Saint that guards
them. A holy man, yes, holy man.
Moslems pay him tribute Sacred place,
yes, sacred. No Nazarene may enter
it. But Moslems. yes, Moslems may
fly here for sanctuary Life to the Mos
lem, death to the Nazarene. So it is"
My soldier was rafting on in this
way when 1 saw coming in the sun
light, down the hillside, of which the
Sok is the foot, company Of some
eight or ten men whose dress and COM
plexion were unlike those of the peo-
pie gathered there. They were band
of warlike persons, swarthy, TALL 1.-THE,
sinewy with heads clean shaver save
for one long lock that hung from the
crown, each carrying gun with barrel
of prodigious length upon his shoulder,
and also armed with a long naked
Reefian knife stuck in the scarf that
served him for a belt
They were Berbers, the descendants
of the race that peopled Barbary before
the Moors set foot in it, between whom
and the Moors there is long-con-
tinued suppressed but ineradicable en-
nifty From their mountain homes
these men had come to the town that
day on their pleasure or their business,
and as they entered it they were at no
pains to conceal their contempt for the
townspeople and their doings.
Staggering along with long strides,
they whooped and laughed and plough
ed their way through the crowd over
bread and vegetables. spread out on
the ground, and the people fell back
before them with muttered curses I'M
til they were come near to the Saints
House, beside which l myself, with my
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-19
THE LAST CONFESSION.
By HALL GAME,
(All Rights Keserved.)

Author Of The Scapegoa "The Bondman, "The Deemse &c.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-19
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Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1897-11-12

The new Colorado & Northwestern
railroad bridge on Fourth street was
finished this afternoon and the construc-
ton train will be started at once. While
and switching the narrow
guage fiat cars, this morning, in the
Northwestern yards, two of the cars got
away and started down grade. After
running but short distance they collided
with box car and one of the flats was
badly demolished. No one was injured
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1897-11-12

A tele gram was received yesterday af-
ternoon from Secretary Moody of Golden
notifying the Boulder foot ball team that
If Schaeffer were to play in the line up,
Golden would not come over. To settle
the matter Major Fulton and Arthur
Nye went to Golden this morning and it
is hoped that the difficulty will be ar.
ranged amlcably.