The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-02-07

scarf. Will the finder kindly leave at
this office.
Central Passenger Association Mile
age tickets will be accepted for passage on
trains of the Nickel Plate Road on and
after Feb. 10th. lS-lt
Central Passenger Association Mile
age tickets are good on the Nickel Plate
Road between Buffalo and Chicago and
intermediate stations on and after Feb
ruary 10th. l9-lt
Eli Perkins is all right. He lectured
to very fine audience at the court
house last night and kept his hearers
happy from beginning to end.
The Bazaar which the w. G. T. U.
had contemplated holding next Tuesday
evening has been postponed to some fu-
ture date, which will be made known in
due time.
The slush in the river stopped run
ming just long enough Monday afternoon
and night to make it a matter ofrecord
that the river had closed here for the
second time this winter.
The Clarion R,puJlicdn sent out
very pretty and altogether unique calen-
dar last week to its subscribers and
friends. 1t is one of the prettiest of the
season and reflects credit upon the office.
and printer from which it eminates.
The school house at Star, this county,
was on fire last Wednesday, and but for
the prompt arrival and efficient efforts of
r. G. and Archie Heath, who live near
by, would have burned to the ground.
| The fire caught near the flue. The dam
age was slight, Sl5 or $40 will cover it.
"A farmer way out in Oregon, writing
to the publishers of Horse Book, adver-
tised in this issue, says: 81 have read a
number of books on the horse; some OF
them were large and of high price, but
Bicycle Horse Book did me more real
good than any of them" The price is 50
cents. Address, Wilmer Atkinson Co.,
Philadelphia.
An exchange says: 1.-THE merchants
who want newspaper men to roast gro
Gerry peddlers, cheap John stores and the
like, would make newspaper men feel
more like doing so if they would quit
using free letterheads of soap firms and
wholesale gargling oil envelopes, baking
powder statements, sidewalk ADVERTISE
ments and rubber stamps, and patronize
| hop,a nrintino offioas -
1T is very probable that the good luck
story concerning the horseshoe will have
but little weight in the future with the
four Bethlehem, Pa, boys who stole
nearly a ton of horseshoes from a black
smith shop and were compelled to carry
them back, one by one, through the main
street of the town. The lads travelled 81
miles apiece and were then publicly
spanked by their parents.
The Little Blue Beok" is neat, COM
pact pocket volume containing the time
tables of all the railroads in Pennsylya-
MIA. Should be in the possession of every
travelling man, hotel, business man and
business firm in the State. 1t ispublished
monthly, with all corrections up to date,
at one dollar per year. Single copies
ten cents. Mailed on receipt of price.
Address, Little Blue Book, Milton, Pa.
"A county in Ohio has a lady road SUI
pervisor and an exchange says she has
ordered all the hills in her district to be
"cut low neckeH" and "scsllcpped" at
the foot, the valleys gathered in, ,'creeks
"hemmed in" all the culverts "set bias"
a double row of tucks run around the
skirts of the hills, the bottom to be ruff
fled and the hillsides to be embroidered
with daisies and fringed with golden rod.
The annual report of the Trustees of
the State institution for feeble-minded of
western Pennsylvania, at Polk, Venango
county, is at hand and shows a very
healthy and prosperous condition OF
things about this great institution. AT
the end of last September there were 595
inmates in the institution, "a having
been discharged improved in mind dur
ing the year. Forest county has three
boys ana one girl In Ine lnsHtutlon.
The young man who committed sui
eide because he couldn't quit smoking
cigarettes, did well, and set an example
that is worthy of emulation by thousand:
of others. Any cigarette fiend who has q
particle of grey matter left will admit
that it is much more desirable to be dead
than to undergo the daily and nightly
} sufTerings that are the inevitable result o
excessive indulgence in the nasty, nause
ating, Indian hemp-poisoned things
: called cigarettes. Yes, he'd better bt
dead than keep on living and suffering
, and setting an example for lot of Other
young fools that are continually growing
up. P. S.-The foregoing gratuitou'
} opinion having been left on the editoria
desk, it goes for what it's worth, but
coming from an EXTEND, we suppose th'
feeling is correctly portrayed.
J Hopkins sells the clothing and shoei