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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-27
A QUIET GAME OF DRAW POKER.
Jim Preston, Clerk OF the Columbia
House. Plays n Practical Joke.

FTom INC FhlIadeIphIa Times.
In the early days IN Trenton. n. j., when
the old Columbia house was running.
there was some great sport arbund the
card table, There was one room on the
third floor that was called the star cham
Der and n had an the money that has
been won and lost between its four walls
I could buy the best block Ia Trenton ana
then have money 10 burn.
Jim Preston was clerk OF the house for
good many years and he was a practi-
cal Joker from the ground up. lie came
TO Trenton from somewhere In the west
and he knew how 20 handle the cards him-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-27

"Is that the game you call draw poker?"
asked the supposed minister.
YES" replied Ham, sorting out the blue
chips and piling them up In a separate
stack: this Is what we call poker"
81 suppose" said the stranger, that
those chips represent money!"
Yes, SIR" said Ham, 'and considerable
OF It at that"
MAY trouble you to tell me-" said the
stranger, what the value of each Of those
chips tsp
THE blues are worth $40. the reds IS and
the whites ST." answered Ham.
1T must be a very fascinating game"
said the stranger.
yes, wouldn't you like to take
hand?"
Everybody looked as II they would like
10 fail under the table when Ham said
that, but they quickly recovered when the
stranger said that he would be delighted II
the other players did not object.
There was no objection and a chair was
procured for the supposed minister who.
the boys were figuring, would be a mighty
easy thing.
The stranger sat down and pulled out
pocketbook from which he took a hundred
dollar bill. II appeared to be all the money
he had and when he said that he would
spend It all for chips the Big Four looked
as II they would like TO 80 out In the hall
and laugh.
ed Ham.
Il used to play IL a little when was "A
college, but that Is several years ago." an
swerod the man.
mo conscientious scrupies against the
game. / euppose?" said Ham.
Not when a man plays for pleasure" ne
replied, but | don't suppose Il Is exactly
right TO gamble for n living"
Ham dealt the cards and the game start
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-27

The question of wearing low-cut bodices
is not one of propriety, but of collar bones,
says a writer in the Philadelphia Record.
If a girl is plump, by all means let her
bodice be cut in the prevailing mode for
evening wear, but when a young woman
is forced TO resort to subterfuge and at
tempts to hide the osseous outlines of her
throat by a revival of the "stoop" so
much affected by Josephine Bonaparte
and the ladies' of the empire, modesty may
be considered becoming virtue and to be
resorted TO for vanitys If not decency's
sake But It is a difficult thing for a wo-
man to see herself as others see her, and
she is often obstinate in acknowledging
that there are some things one had much
better keep to ones self. Still, she is call
ed a deceptive quantity-even a hypocrte-
In placing the best foot foremost. And IL
is true that there are girls who are adopts
In hiding from society their unlOvely traits
of character. They do not advertise bad
tempers or selffshness or extravaganza,
in openly confessing to these faults, and
are rarely given to self-depreciation in any
form. Now, II a girl is so careful to put
herself in a favorable light where the
question Is one of moral beauty, why
should she so disregard the keeping up OF
appearances In the case of physical i'm
projections. To keep secret ones foibles
and then acquaint society with the sharp
ness Of ones elbows is inconsistent
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-27

medicine a trial. 1 took two bottles
and was cured. 1 can cheerfully state,
if more ladies would only give your
medicine fair trial they would bless
the day they saw the advertisement, and
there would be happier homes. Imean
to do all can for you in the future.
1 have you alone to thank for my re-
covery, for which am very grateful"
MISS MARY E. SAIDT, Jobstown, N. ].
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-27

A celebrated physician writes the follow
ing on nagging women:
mine times out Of ten the woman who
nags is tired. One time out Of ten she Is
hateful. Times out of mind her husband
is to blame. The cases that comes under
the physicians eye are those Of the wo-
men who are tired and who have been tir-
ed so long that they are suffering from
some form OF nervous disease. They may
think they are only tired. but In fact they
a~e 49, and IL is that sort Of illness IN which
the viii Is weakened and the patient give
way - annoyances that they would ignore
" In A healthy condition. In such cases
the women often suffers more from her
naggitg q n the husband or the children
with wnoa she Ends fault. She knows she
does IT, She d.. not intend to do t. She
suffers In Aer own self-respect when she
does It. ami. IN the depths OF her soul.
longs for something to stop IL.
THE condition Is usually brought on by
broken sleep, improper food want OF some
other exercise than housekeeping and OF
enough OF Dut-of-door air and practical
objective blinking II rs often the most
unselhsh and most affectionate OF women
who fan into this state They are too
much devoted 10 tleir families 10 give
themselves a bicycle. for instance. or
enough healthy exercise and diversion,
enough Of afternoon maps. perhaps. or the
aters ana concerts. In such cases the hus
band n often 20 blame. because ne gives
nag for nag instead OF looking straight for
the fundamental Cause OF the trouble
There are MAN. cases whore such q wo-
man begins by showing a longing for "A
little more attention. a little more ten.
dcrness. on Invitation 90 tho thentcr or
coy little dinner out with her husband
The man who does not take that a.
aiEn ir fool De is not only 4 fool. bat
ne De- responsible f0r pretty much all that
follows, and sometimes 10 amounts 10
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-27
NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
a New Jersey Woman Expresses
Her Gratitude to Mrs. Pink
ham for Relief.

"Will you kindly allow me-" writes
Miss Mary E. Saidt to Mrs. Pinkham,
" the pleasure of expressing my graft
tude for the wonderful relief / have
experienced by taking your Compound?
I suffered for long time with nervous
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
Some Tricks the Eyes Play.

1t is an old and wise saying that
''seeing is believing" yet everybody
knows that very often what we see.
and therefore believe, proves to be
not really true at all. AS we grow
older, finding that our eyes have SO
frequently deceived us, we are often
not, satisfied with the evidence they
give us until we have verified it by
touch or smell or hearing or taste, or
by looking at some doubtful thing
from different points of view, or under
a different lighting.
We are not willing to believe that o
conjurer actually draws rabbits from
a mans ear or coins from the tip of
his nose just because our eyes tell us
such tales. Sometimes our deceptions
are so lasting that things must be
made wrong in order to look right,
which seems rather contradictory. If
we look at the letter S or the figure 8
as carefully as we can, the upper and
lower halves seem almost exactly the
same size. If we turn them upside
down, thus, S, s, the difference in the
size of the loops is quite astonishing,
and we wonder how we could have
been 80 mistaken; yet perhaps the
truth is that the loops are neither so
different nor SO much alike as they
seem to be, as we see when we look at
them turned upon their sides, thus,
20, oo.-St. Nicholas.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
Stout Hearts, These.

The heart is not always the delicate
organ it is generally believed to be.
DIR. William Turner records in the
British Medical Journal a few cases
which point to the fact that wounds of
the heart are seldom, if ever, imme.
diately fatal. A child two years old
was brought to him with sewing
needle driven into its heart, and the
needle was extracted without evident
harm resulting to the heart of the
child. Another case described is that
of soldier in whose heart a bullet
was found imbedded six years after he
had been wounded, he having died
from quite another cause. Several
instances are also given of persons
living for months and years after their
hearts had been terribly lacerated.
Indeed, neither gunshot iniur-
les nor penetrating wounds bring
the heart at once to a standstill; so
that this part of the animal organism
is apparently not its most vital strue-
ture
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
nUMOR OF THE DAY.

Cora-'Love is a strange thing, {"
Clara-"Oh, I don't think SO. I've
been engaged seven times"
Faith" said the little boy after a
weeks study, "faith is believing some
thing that you know can't be true. -
indianapolis Journal.
essay, boy, what did you kick that
dog forP" Hes mad" "No, he
isn't mad, either" "WeIl, if any one
should kick me I'd be mad. Truth.
Mrs. Pancake-'T can't see why
great big fellow like you should beg"
Hungry Hank-"Well, mum, 1 s'pose
me size helps to gimme an appetite.
Truth.
81 notice that some people claim
that a doctors whiskers may carry
disease germs" "Why don't the doc.
tors boil their whiskers ?'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Jimmy-"Would you like to go
with them fellers that goes lookin' fer
the North Pole?" Tommy Wouldn't
|, though? You bet I'd bring my
skates l"-Puck.
DR.. Powder-"Ah! how are you to-
day, Mr.. Glimp?" Glimp-"Do you
ask as an inquiring friend or as my
family physician ?" - Philadelphia
North American.
Bacon-"None of the women will
speak to Penman since he wrote his
last book. :" Egbert-"Why is that?"
"Why, didn't you hear the name of
it? Women of All Ages. ,"
"The marriage of the star and the
leading lady has been declared off, l
hear. eyes; they couldn't agree as
to whose name should be first on the
wedding invitations. Puck.
His Escape. -He-'Did you know
that our minister once had narrow
escape from the Fiji IslandersP" She
-."How?" He-"He was on the
point of going out among them as a
missionary, when he received call
from a congregation in Boston. -
Puck.
'Truly," musod the Sultan, "943
queens would make full house." 81
wonder what his game is now?" NUT
tered the Grand Vizier. But at that
moment the postman came with
number of ultimate from the great
Christian Powers, and the conversa-
tion naturally sought other channels.
Detroit journal.
"The writer's name must accompany
every communication, said the editor
to the man who had handed in little
piece signed Constant Reader" 81
see" replied the man. "You don't
want to get the world involved in con-
troversy about the authorship of a
second series of Junius letters. -
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"You women, said he, in the pc.
culiarly exasperating way n man has
of saying those two words, "you
women buy bargain things because
they are cheap" "We do not" said
she. "Wo buy cheap things because
they are bargains" The distinction
was almost too subtle for the blunder-
ing masculine intellect, but it was
there. indianapolis Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
WORTH WHILE.

'Tis easy enough to DO pleasant,
When life flows along like song;
But the man worth while Is tho one who will
smile
When everything goes dead wrong;
For the test OF the heart is trouble,
And It always comes with tho years,
And the smile that Is worth the praise oil
eafth
Is the smile that comes through tears.
1t Is easy enough to bo prudent,
When nothing tempts you to stray;
When without or within no voice o. sin
Is Turing your soul away;
But It's only n negative vIrtuo
Until 1t is tried by flre,
And the llfo that is worth tho honor OF
earth
Is the one that resists desire.
by the cynic, tho sad, tho fallen,
Who ha no strength for tho strife,
The worl rs highway is cumbered to day;
They make up the item OF life.
But the virtue that conquers passion,
Aud the sorrow that hides In a smile
1t is these that are worth the homage OF
earth,
For We IND them but once In a whio.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05

There were regrets in Emporia,
Kan, that schedules had not been diff.
ferently arranged, relates the New
York Sun, when an advertisement of a
railroad excursion to Port Arthur ap.
peared in the paper, setting forth that
"there will be no charge for births for
the trip, provided twenty-five persons
desire to avail themselves of this ac
commodation."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
An Fagle as am Alarm CLOCK.

Mr.. w. LIE @. Beard, in st. Nicho.
las, tells of tame eagle he had as a
pet in Arizona. Mr.. Beard says:
The half-breed in whose charge he
had been left told us he was far better
than an alarm clock, for no one could
sleep through the cries with which he
greeted the rising sun and his notion
of breakfast time; and while an alarm
would ring for only half minute,
Moses was wound up to go all day, or
until he got something to eat. But
his guardian treated him kindly, and
Moses grew and thrived, soon putting
on handsome suit of brown and gray
feathers, which he was very proud of,
and spent most OF his spare time in
preening.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05

In recent lecture on the cultiva.
tion of the memory, Professor A. p.
Lyon declared that after trying all the
mnemonic systems he had at last como
to the conclusion that the only secret
of being able to remember things was
attention, association and repetition.
The next most important principle is
that of classification. The lecturer
did not, however, venture to suggest
any infallible method of recalling
things, and even confessed that that
very day he had received note beg.
ging him not to forget that he was to
lecture on "Memory" in the after.
noon
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Lenenhock and humboldt both say
that single pound of the finest spider
webs would reach around the world.
Some English reporters now take
notes at night by the light of tiny
incandescent lamp attached to the
waistcoat.
Some interesting investigations
have been made on the green color fol-
which some Italian cheeses are so re.
markable. This color is not, as has
sometimes been supposed, due to the
action of bacteria, but is conse.
quence of the presence of copper iD
the cheese.
The world contains at least four
mountains composed of almost solid
iron ore. One is the iron mountain
of Missouri, another in Mexico, an.
other in India, and fourth in that
region of Africa explored by Stanley,
and there have been reports of such o
mountain existing in Siberia.
Insect life in the Arctic regions is
very limited, and to insure their at.
traction one of the genus geum IA
rosaceous plant from Alaska has q
row of large petals. This plant, also
the geum novale, is utterly unable to
fertIlize itself, and demands insect
help, as in the skunk cabbage. All
Arctic flowers are very large in com,
parison with the plants bearing them.
Unbreakable mirrors are now being
made by putting coat of quicksilver
on the back of thin sheet of cellu.
loid, instead of on glass. By laying
second sheet over the coating q
double mirror may be obtained. Com.
mon celluloid is highly inhammable,
one of its Ingredients being gun cot.
ton. But it is alleged that way has
been found to overcome this objection
by introducing a small proportion of
some other substance into the com.
position.
The late Alvin Clark, of Cambridge.
port, Mass, discovered in 1862 that
the star Sirius had far less brilliant
companion. Continued observation
for nearly thirty years proved that
this second body revolved around the
first one in an elliptical orbit, at
distance nearly as great as the planet
Neptune from the sun. But in 1890
the companion disappeared from view,
having reached point in its track so
nearly in line with Sirius that its faint
light was overwhelmed by the dazzling
effulgence of the dog star. During
the last six years it has Travelled far
enough to become visible once more.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05

The usury laws must need reform
ing in Canada. The Montreal Gazette
says; "a judge of the Superior Court
has held that there is nothing in
Quebec's law limiting the rate of in.
terest that may be charged, and has
given q decision upholding the
legality of claim of five. per cent. o
day on an overdue note. As a result
the defendant has to pay, if it can be
collected from him, some 500, 900 in.
terest for the use for two years of
Sl50,O00. This, while the most glar-
ing, is only one OF number OF cases
that have lately attracted attention in
this city, where usurious rates of in.
terest have been enforced by the
courts" The instance quoted is
simply legalized swindling, declares
the New York Observer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05

Probably never before was the sub.
ject OF good country roads more thor.
oughly discussed than in the recent
past. Not alone is hand to hand work
being done by oranges and other
'tarmers' organizations, but County,
State and even National officials are
working toward improvement in this
great question. The United States
Department of Agriculture is making
investigation through its Office of road
inquiry, under the direction of Roy
Stone. The latest bulletin on this
subject is from an address delivered
some time ago by Judge Thayer, OF
Clinton, Iowa, who succinctly remarks
that the United States annually con.
tributes 10 tho mud fiend $50 million
dollars which is a total loss. He ia.
vors borrowing money on long time
bond at low rate of interest. using the
taxes to pay the interest and princi.
pal. 81 am in favor" he said, sol
allowing the people OF township the
right to vote upon the question OF
borrowing money, not to exceed a GER
tain per cent. per year, to use in road
building. would have road i'm.
provement township matter, based
on local option. If the people of one
township want to build certain mum.
Der of miles of good road, 1 would not
permit the people of another township
or the State Legislature to prevent it.
If II majority of the people of town.
ship want good, permanent roads, at a
cost within certain prescribed limits,
/ would not put it in the power of the
minority to prevent it. l would
build good roads with the taxes now
paid. would cover the State with
network OF durable, permanent roads,
which can be used every day in the
week on which to haul full load, and
/ would do this without increasing the
present road taxation one mill"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
Tho Greatest Travellers.

The number of Americans who spend
much money in travelling for pleasure
only, writes Lewis lddings in Scrib-
ner's, is we'll measured, us has already
been suggested. by the number of
Americans who visit Paris yearly.
offer the following figures, which were
obtained through the courtesy of the
chief of police of Paris, as a pertinent
contribution to the discussion. Exact
statistics of visitors in Paris have been
kept by the police, under the present
detailed system, only from 1898.
Since then all arrivals in that city
have been carefully reported at the
Prefecture by the proprietors of hotels
and pensions, under pain of fine for
neglect, and they may be in part tabu.
lated as follows:
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
Pictured History.

The lively optical instrument with
many names, but known in England
as the animatograph, is to be used to
preserve for posterity living pictures
of Princess Maud's wedding, the
Derby won by the Prince of Wales,
the coming jubilee of the Queen, and
several types OF London street scenes.
The celluloid films bearing the views
will be inclosed in several tubes, aud
ought to be good for many reproduce
tions a thousand years from now
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
Our First Republican Goernment

Between 1870 and 1860, 100000
people came to the Carolina shores
from Ulster County, Ireland. They
we're pure Scotch people-all Protes.
tant.
The first Republican Government in
America was inauguruted by these
early settlers. 1t was called the
"Watauga Association, taking its
name from the Watauga River in
North Carolina. It's date is between
1869 and l772. "Like all the govern.
ments formed by Anglo-Saxons, it had
no theories, no distractions, but was
adapted to the actual needs of tho peo.
ple." Its legislature consisting OF
thirteen, had chairman, clerk and
district attorney, with stated sessions
Among the committee were TO be
found the names OF Brown, Carter,
Robertson, SEWER, Smith aud Jones.
New York Observer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
A Peculiar ComnlnInt.

Duke George, of Saxe-Meiningen,
who II year ago met with a serious ac.
cident in Italy, has in consequence
become the victim OF a peculiar COM
plant. His hearing has been partially
destroyed in such manner that he
hears some notes higher, Others lower,
than they really are. Music OF every
kind, therefore, has become torture to
him, as 1t seems to him horribly dis
eordant. The physicians say that this
can never be cured. -Chiolgo Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05

An announcement in the English
papers causes hutter of eager antici-
patton. 1t is stated that there has
been found in Egypt a manuscript
text of the Logla, perhaps that of
Papias. Now of all the lost works OF
the Apostolic Church Fathers, the one
which is most wanted is the Logia OF
Papias, as TO which so much doubt has
been raisel whether it ever existed.
These Logia have been believed to bo
the original document from which the
sayings OF our Lord in the Synoptic
Gospels were compiled. It is almost
too much to hope that the report is
true; but, If true, it would make an
epoch, il not a revolution, in the study
of the Gospels.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
Making FancY Rnttons.

The handsome buttons one sees on
ladies' costumes are, as a rule, import
ed from Germany and France. The
making of these fancy buttons is really
an art these days, such quaint and
beautiful designs are shown and such
exquisite workmanship is displayed.
Metal buttons showing special
device or initial on the face require a
die, and have to be made very carefully
by machinery. Some of the finest
workmanship isshown on bone buttons,
where the carving is done by hand and
is very delicate and artistic. New
York Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
This Cow Dieted on Nails.

NJ. II. Reynolds, of Faetorvile,
Penn, few days ago sold a COW to a
butcher, who killed it for beef. When
dressing the carcass he noticed
something very hard in the
stomach, and, upon investigation,
found over a quart of assorted
nails, from stub OF horse nail TO a
ten-penny nail. Strange as it may
appear, the COW never suffered any in
convenience from the nails being in
her stomach,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-05
AN APPREHENsIvE FATHER.

81 think, said Mr.. Blykins, "that
I'll sond a note to Willie's teacher and
tell her to stop his geography lessons
till next term"
81 don't see Why" replied his wife.
''Ihe class has just started in on the
map of Europe; and the higher he
passes in his examination the harder
it will be to start in and learn it all
over again when King George and the
Sultan get through with what they are
going to do to the boundary lines. -
Washington Star.