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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

"You must be quite near relation. u
Just then the worthy sexton of Ken
sal Green came stumping down the
path, bent on discovering what had
happened to delay Bessie. Behind
him came the anxious chaperon, Mrs
Malcolm, who started guiltily on per-
ceiving her charge in close converse
with stranger of the opposite sex.
"My dear Bessie" she began,
severely; but Bessie interrupted il
her usual quick fashion.
"Oh, Mrs. Malcolm, what do you
think? I've found a cousin-a real,
simon-pure cousin. Let me present
Mr.. Alan Carroll. His father and
mine were on opposite sides during
the Civil War, but they were both
brave soldiers, as Mr.. Carroll has
pointed out to me, so that l think the
feud ought to be buried"
Mrs. Malcom, l fear, looked trihe
suspicious at first over this very ex
traordinary meeting of cousins in
C6l1tttIl. AS lOl tnC SCAbOh VI iAOh
sal Green. when he retired to his
lodge after seeing the party out 1.-THE
newly found relative had been asked
to lunch) he varied the monotony Of
counting an unusually fat fee bywink
ing expressively and muttering;
"Cousins Ho, yesl Hof course
Cousins"
As for General Downes in far-ofi
Roxbury, when his daughter wrote
him an account of her singular adven
ture, he replied:
"You acted quite rightly, my dear
II Alan Carroll takes after his father,
he must be a sterling fine fellow, and
if there is an occasion upon which the
differences of North and South ough
to be laid aside it is on Decoration
Day."
And there are sly hints regarding
ga Coming Reunion of Blue ant
Gray" in the Boston newspapers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

The salaries of Governors of Terri
tories are not regulated by the impor.
tance of the latter in respect TO pop.
ulation or the public revenues. The
Governor of Arizona resolves $500 n
year. The population of that Terri
tory was $4,000 by the last Federal
census. The Governor of New Mex
leo, the population of which was in
excess of 1000, gets $4,000. The
Governor Of Alaska receives $4,000.
The Governor of Indian Territory
gets $500, while the Governor of Ok
dian Territory, gets $4,000.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

The consolidation of New York made
no radical difference in the ratio
peturalized voters bear to the native
born, says the Sun. Relatively, it is
true, there are fewer naturalized voters
in Kings County than in New York,
and fewer in Richmond County than
in that part of Queens which includes
Long Island City, and which was con-
solidated with New York on the 1st of
January, but the differences are not
great. A clear majority of the male
inhabitants of voting age of New York
are foreign born, as the last national
census showed: New York, native
white male 170,997. foreign white
male 266,747 Kings, native white
male 115, 1872, foreign white male Ill.,
476; Richmond, native white male
S275, foreign white male 6S02; Queens
whole county,, native white male 49,
s1s, foreign white male 5000. One
curious result of the consolidation of
the three cities is that the present city
administration is, more largely perhaps
than any of its predecessors in recent
years, under the direction of native
born citizens, while the representa-
tives of cosmopolitan New York" are
few and far between. Mayor Van
Wyck is n New York boy, born and
reared in this city, and dating back
his local ancestry to 1850. Comptrol-
Ter Coler is native of Champaign,
III. Borough President Peters, the
District Attorney of New York County,
Colonel Gardiner, Borough President
Grout of Brooklyn, and the executive
heads of departments generally are
-e-born officials
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

Georgia has gone successfully into
stock raising, and the industry has in.
creased rapidly. During the last
eight months the farmers of the south
western part of the State have shipped
65, 900 head to Texas and the Indian
Territory, getting from $40 to $12 a
head for them, which is considered a
remunerative price in comparison
with that of other farm products.
The Atlanta Constitution says that
efforts are now being made to obtain
direct communication with the mar
kets of the North and East, thus saw
ing to the Georgia farmers the profit
now gained on their shipments by the
Western cattlemen. 1t is said that
cattle can be fattened about as cheaply
in Georgia as in the Indian Territory.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01


There's grave on the far-off hillside.
A lonely, sunken grave,
Where grow the tall rank grasses
Above the fallen brave.
Where summers sun smiles warmly,
Where winters snow lies deep,
Where, DER the unknown dreamer,
Unbidden voices weep.
There's grave on the hill, o west wind;
Pass by with plaintive moan,
Bend low the grass above it,
And sigh Unknown, unknown
Stoop down, o heavy rain-cloud,
And drop plying tear,
II thou dost mourn earth's chosen,
oh, spend thy sorrow here.
There's grave on the hill, o union;
Pass not that mound o'ergrown.
For thee this martyr soldier
Gives life and name. "Unknown!"
Pass not, o wife, o woman;
Stoop low, o brother, son;
Forget not. He who sleepeth
Thy homes, thy freedom, won.
There's grave on the hill. o Father,
Thy searching voice shall yet
Rouse up the sleeping soldier,
For Thou dost not forget.
There's a lonely grave on the hillside,
But oh, before Thy throne,
The humble shall be honored,
The Unknown shall be Known
Hattie Horner Louthan.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01
HoNoRS FOR BRAVE MEN.

Memorial Day and Its Beautiful Signifi
canoe.
In thirty-fve out of forty-fve States
of the Union May 80 is legally recog-
nized as Memorial Day. Everywhere
the day is practically considered q
legal holiday, but only in the number
of States mentioned is it so by law.
Most persons consider it what is
known as a national holiday. Sur
prising as the fact may seem, there is
no such thing as national holiday.
There is no provision in the constitu-
ton of the United States that permits
such a thing. Congress has from
time to time recognized certain spe-
cial days for business purposes, but
not even the Presidents proclamation
of Thanksgiving Day makes it legal
holiday in any State unless the legis
lature of that State has so signilied by
legal action.
1t needs no Presidents proclama-
ton, no Legislative action to make the
United States observe Memorial Day.
The descendants of the 2,77S, ,304 sol
diers who constituted the federal
armies who fought from '61 to '65,
need no reminder to perform what
they consider a sacred duty. The
$40, 610 members of the Grand Army
of the Republic who followed the fate
of the Stars and Stripes-some of
them from Fort Sumpter to Appomat-
tox-do not require admonition to
honor their comrades whom wounds
or disease have taken from among
them. Thus it is that at least from
Mason and Dixon's line to the boun-
daries of the Queens dominions, every
cemetery where soldier lies wit
nesses the advent of flowers on the ap
pointed day.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

A woman in Paris has conferred
a boon on humanity in the discovery
of a new science called "Linguistol-
ogic." This is nothing more than the
delineation of character from the
shape of the tongue. A big tongue
indicates frankness, a long tongue,
generous feelings; q short one, dis
stimulation; a narrow tongue, concen-
tration of ideas. Long aud broad
tongues indicate fondness for talk;
short aud broad ones, equal capacity
to talk but not to speak the truth /;
while those that are short and narrow
show an unmistakable tendency to
Machiavelliau lying.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

in the Boston suburb which gave her
birth. Little wonder was it that she
should have done SO; for not only had
her father fought gallantly for the
Federal cause in the war, but no less
than four of her uncles, and whole
dozens of cousins to boot, were among
those whose names are enshrined as
defenders of the Union.
Consequently no one need feel sur
prised at learning that Bessie felt a
pang of homesickness when she awoke
in unsympathetic London on this
particular Decoration Day. Outside
in the prim Bloomsbury street, where
she was staying with her friends-the
Malcolms she heard none of the
noise and hustle which would assur-
edly have greeted her in Roxbury,
Mass. Her engagement tablets boz g
no records of coming visits to ceme-
terry or mausoleum, where warrior
dead repose. The simpering maid
who brought up her coffee had prob
ably never even heard Of Decoration
Day!
cts shame" said Bessie, STIR
ring the coffee viciously. General
Downes' only daughter unable to lay
even single flower on some soldiers
grave and this Decoration Day
And surely there must be lots OF
Union soldiers buried in the London
cemeteries"
This last reflection inspired her.
She pulled the bell-rope sturdily, re-
calling the simpering domestic.
81 want a cablegram sent instantly
to my father-General Downes," she
said. The servant did not even look
surprised. Already this quiet Blooms
bury household was growing used to
the whims of Bessie Downes, million
aires heiress and spoiled child of for
tune. Within fifteen minutes the
message was on its way to the nearest
Office where cablegrams are received,
and in five minutes more puzzled
clerk was spelling out these words:
General John Downes, Roxbury, Mass.
Are any OF my soldier cousins buried In
London?" BESSIE"
Whatever General Downes may
have thought regarding this very ex
pensive method of seeking informa
ton, he answered promptly enough
Before noon Bessie. received the re
ply:
"Cousin Randolph Carroll, Kensal Green
The patriotic Miss Downes was de
lighted. "How good of the dear ole
paterr' she cried, to amused Mrs
Malcolm, over their early lunch
(early, because of the trip to Kensa
Green cemetery, determined on thu
moment the cablegram arrived)
"And oh, how delightful to find on
of my own kin buried here-one, wh'
in ddition to his kinship, was a loya
soldier of the union.
After lunch, the Malcolms' carriag
took them to a florists, where Bessi
purchased wreaths and immortelle
for the grave of her warrior relative
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

Young women who assume the title
of bachelor are considered especially
modern. Yet the term was applied
oustomarily to them in the time of
''rare Ben Jonson." The poet him
self SO used it in his plays. Bachelor
is derived from the Welsh word bach,
which means small, little, young.
The kindred Welsh word baches
means pretty little woman. There
fore the brisk bachelor maids of to-
day do not ape their brothers, but go
daintily tripping down the centuries
in the footprints of those fair bach
elors who coquetted with the gallants
Of the Elizabeth court.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01
LlFe'S MIRROR.

There are loyal hearts, there are spirits
brave,
There are souls that are pure and truel
Then give to the world the best you have
And the best will come back to you.
Give love, and love to your life will flow
A strength In your utmost need;
Have faith, and a score OF hearts will show
Their faith in your word and deed.
Give truth, and your gifts will be paid in
kind,
And honor will honor meet;
And a smile that is sweet will surely hnd
smile that is just as sweet
Give pity and sorrow to those who mourn;
You will gather, in flowers again,
The scattered seeds from your thought
outborne,
Though the sowing seemed but vain.
For life is the mirror of king and slave,
'Tis just what we are, and do;
Then give to the world the best you have
And the best will come back to you.
Madeline S. Bridges.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

Another and another wreath
We deck new graves each spring,
And smallergrows the gray-haired band
Whose hands the garlands bring.
Grave veterans, we follow slow
The dull beat of the drum;
There's one brief march before us now,
And, Comradesl we shall come
One sleep to share, and DER each grave
The starry flag we loved shall wave!
We mourn you notl The days seem far
Since side by side we fought,
And onward to the meeting-place
The way is now so shor,i
Not many May-times shall we hear
The summons OF the drum;
We wait, with unforgetting hearts,
Till, Comradel we she'll come
One sleep to share, while DER each grave,
Thank Godl the starry flag shall wavel
Marian Douglas.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

According to the official figures the
Union armies lost 359, 528 officers and
men by death; the returns from the
Confederate armies are incomplete,
but those in the Provost Marshal Gen.
erals report show that at least 133,'
S32 officers and men lost their lives.
The losses in battle were compare.
lively small IN the revolutionary war.
About 5000 persons all told were
killed, and the usual proportion of
those who die of wounds is about two
thirds of those killed. That would
give total of 10000. Then at least
II 900 prisoners died in the prison
ships; so that probably not less than
%, 900 to $4,000 persons lost their
lives during and owing to the war.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

Then it was ho! for Kensal Green
that quiet old world, Goods Acre, |"
so different from all of the American
burial places with which Bessie was
acquainted. There was some difficulty
at first in finding the grave of Ran
dolph Carroll, but Bessie's pretty face
smoothed matters wonderfully, and
the location was soon determined.
Mr.. Malcolm being tired, remained in
the sexton's lodge; while that digni-
fed old person escorted Bessie and
her wreaths to the tomb. Randolph
Carrolls grave was surmounted by a
very plain piece of black marble, upon
which was the inscription:
''Here lies the body Of Captain Ran
dolph Lee Carroll, soldier and gentle
man, credit to his native country,
the United States of America.
A great wave of enthusiasm surged
through the impressionable being of
this little New England maid, as one
by one she took her commemorative
flowers from the sexton and laid them
around the tomb. Then she laid her
gloveless hand caressingly upon the
exiled soldiers name-looking as
though she would have liked to kiss it
and silently turned away. The
tactful sexton said naught; and the
two passed slowly down the path.
Suddenly, however, Bessie remem'
bered that the best of all her me-
NOR ials, the little 'Stars and Stripes,
brought all the way from New York,
still remained in her hand. Bidding
the sexton wait for her, she quickly
retraced her steps to Captain Carroll's
grave.
But another person had reached the
flower -bedecked marble before her,
and now stood regarding the wealth of
decorations with evident tastonishm ent.
This was a young man good enough
to look upon, and possessed of that
attractive. litheness which told Bessie
instantly that she was not looking al
a Briton, but at one of her own coun.
trymen. He, too, carried a wreath
but it was, though charming wreath,
very simple and unpretentious one,
"Dear mel" said Bessie, regretfully
startling the young man, who had no'
heard her coming. Dear me! I'm
afraid that 1 haven't left you an incl
of space for your flowers"
He looked at her curiously for {
moment.
cit was you, then, that decorated
the grave?" he said.
eyes; it was l, answered Bessie
"You see L found myself SO far ava,
from America; and then it was Dec
Grafton day"
Decoration day?" repeated the
young man, inquiringly.
''Yes-Decoration day. Is itpossi
BILE you don't know what thatis? AND
you're an Americanl"
eyes, I am certainly an American
But have lived for years in London
and my memory has been blunted
Now remember that Decoration da,
is a sort of memorial festival for deaC
northern soldiers"
"Of course. And so, you see,
drove out here to lay few flowers ol
the tomb of this gallant fellow"
A grim smile rests for a moment oil
the young mans face.
81 fancy that you have made mis-
take" he said. "The man bdrie'
here was not federal soldier. Capt
Randolph Carroll fought for the south
Bessie gasped. Had she been show
ering her immortelles upon the grav
of a confederation of those "Johnn
Rebs" whom her training and associa
tions had taught her to abhor. An
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01
Pneumatic Painting.

Boats are to be painted by machine
hereafter at West Superior wis
shipyard. Pneumatic power is to be
utilized, pail of paint being at
tached to the machine, which deposits
the paint in fine spray on the ship,
the operator merely working sort Of
nozzle, much as though he were
sprinkling a flower garden With a
watering pot.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01
The Barber's Observance.

Don't you know this is Memorial
Day?" said the shoe merchant, thrust
ing his head inside the door of the
barber shop. "Why don't you deco
rate a little? Where are your national
colors?"
In reply, the barber in charge of
the chair near the door merely pointed
at the gorgeous pole in front of his
place of business.
Then he went on shaving his Gus
toner. He had crushed another grum-
bier. Chicago Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01

Travel on the Balwayo Railroad is
exciting. The Shashi River recently
rose four feet above the bridge tracks,
30 that engines could not cross. A
train was male up as long as the
width of the river, pushed across by
one engine, and taken up on the other
side by another. Soon after the
bridge was washed away.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01
Terms, si.OO Por Yea,

The Attorney General of Colorado
has decided that no law in that State
requires woman upon marriage to as
sume her husbands name; indeed, he
thinks that, in view of the advent Of
women as office holders, it is prefera-
BILE, under certain circumstances, for
a married woman to hold on to her
maiden name.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01
HER DECORATION DAY.
ooooocoooocoaoccccoocS

L was Decora-
tion Day, an d
Miss Elizabeth
Downes found
herself in Lon
don - far away
from her home
and the graves of
her forefathers.
n Now, Bessie
Downes had OBJ
served Decora-
ton Day e yer
since she was
n littla tn1dlar
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-06-01
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-28
OIL N E VS..
IMPORTANT MATTERS IN COURT.
Special to the Register

IMPORTANT MATTERS IN COURT.
Special to the Register
Parkersburg, w. Va, December 81
The case of Gill & .Pievs VS.. the Eclipse
Oil Co., from WetZel county, was up be-
fore Judge Romeo H. Freer here to-
day An order was made diSsolving
the injunction and allowing the de-
PENDANTS to proceed with the work on
condition that bond of $4,000 be filed.
DISPOSITIONS will be taken in the case
tomorrow at Wheeling, and final
hearing of the case will be held at New
Martinsville, January oath. The case
is of much Importance, as some valu-
able oil land is in question. The de-
PENDANTS took leases on the 600 acre
Yoho farm, in Wetzel county, which is
the farm in dispute in May, 1897. On
account of non-payment of rental and
fulfillment of the contracts set out in
the lease, Mr.. Yoho claimed that the
lease was null and void, and in May,
1898, leased the farm to R. r. Gillespie
After Mr.. Gillespie had completed one
WELL and was starting a other, the
Eclipse people came in and rendered
back rental and started rig on the
Yoho farm. Gillespie at once got their
work stopped by an injunction and
brought ejectment proceedings against
them.
The case of Nicholas VS.. Franchot ct
al. VS.. J. T. Thompson ct al, was up
before Judge Jackson in the Federal
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-28
A BIG DEAL
In Copper Mines Completed in New York
City.

In Copper Mines Completed in New York
City.
New York, December 27.-One Of the
largest deals in copper properties ever
effected in this city has been completed.
Fourteen claims adjoining each other,
and adjacent to the great copper mine
of W. A. Clark, passed into the hands
of Eastern capitalists.
Frapktin farrell, of Ansonia, Conn,
and l.. J. Greulich and w. H. Coe, of
this city, are the principal members of
the syndicate of purchasers. G. w.
Hull, of Arizona, was the principal
owner of the properties sold He was
represented by James Shirley, mining
engineer of Prescott, Arizona.
The property is located in the town
of Jerome, Yavapi county, Arizona. and
is known as the United Verde Exten-
sion.
Mr.. Clark's property, the United
Verde. is regarded as one of the great
est copper mines in the world, as it
pays its owner about 100000 monthly
The property transferred here is of
about the same extent, and is said to
carry copper ore of equal value.
1t is the intention of the purchasers
to convert the ore into crude copper at
the mine, and ship the product to cop
nor rpfinino establishments at Rridpa
port and Ansonia, Conn, to be refined.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-28
NINE. PAUL MIER

Acquitted of the Charge of Wounding NJ
Olivier.
New York, December PA despatch
from Paris says: Nine. Paul Mier has
been acquitted of the criminal charge
of having wounded NJ. Olivier, secre-
taire de reduction of La L.anterne, but
condemned to pay fifteen thousand
francs damages on the civil charge of
the material injury sustained by NJ
Oliviere.
Nine. Paul Mier touched the aud
fence deeply by her impassioned refer
ences to her daughter, for whose sake
she had taken the law into her own
hands with the abominable article ap-
peared in La Lan.Ane rejecting on her
honor As fortthe author, Henri Tu-
rot, he took all responsibility for the
consequence OF his defamatory article
upon himself, and said be vas going to