The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-09-19

held In Dubois tomorrow evening at
O'Clock. The candidates before the con.
ference will be, Centre county, Clement
Dale; Clarified, A. l.. Cole; Clari IN, n
Il. Graham; Elk, A. A, Clearwater
Forest has instructed her conferees "a
support Col. Clearwater. The conferees
from this county are, DR.. N. Gildersleeve
OF Brookston, S. X. Croasinun of Red
clyffe, Gus. L. Evans of Endeavor.
Laura B. Starr, who for several years
resided in China, and who had great fa-
cilities for understanding the feminine
side of Chinese life, contributes TO the
October Detinedtor an article that throws
much light on the home life of Chinese
women. This article is illustrated with
several authentic photographs of Chinese
women various social positions. Tho
October number of the Delinedtor, in ad-
dition to Miss Starrs article and the
eighty or more sketches of present-day
styles, which are prominent features of
the magazine, contains twenty other val
liable contributions.
When we hear a man, especially a
father, slandering a girl of town or
neighborhood whom he thinks may havo
strayed from the path of virtue, we feel
like asking him to recall few acts of his
young days and see if he is not reapng
the crop OF wild oats he then sowed. Be-
cause girl is jolly and pleasant 10 her
acquaintances is no reason why she
should be estimated as one of the kind
who prefer darkness rather than light.
Even ifa man did think so it is unwise
and wicked to mention it, There is
where many an innocent lass receives
the ostracism of societv-by people talk
ing when they have no business. When
man has no good words for our girls
he ought TO keep the perambulatipg CAB
atorium he calls his mouth closed.-EL.
The postolrice department will short
ly advertise for the carrying of mails on
star routes. The advertisement will DO
so worded as to require that every sc-
cepted bidder must agree TO live on or
contiguous to the route and personally
superintend the service. 1t has come TO
the notice of the department that specu-
lative bidders will seek to secure num-
ber of routes by inducing some local at
torney or otl or person in each of the
counties to allow the use of his name as u
bidder for a consideration. The law,
however, prohibits any sub-letting of
contract without the consent of the post
master general. The local bidders can
aid the department by closely observing
who his competitors are, and if he has
reason tolbelieve any bid is made in the
interest of combine he should at once
advise the department
The following item of local interest is
taken from the San Juan, Porto Rico,
Ne,OS, of the 4th inst. Mr.. Leech is now
on the island looking after his agricultu-
raj interests, but expects 10 return to the
States later in the fall, and will move to
Tennessee where he will engage in lum-
bering: "From several districts of the
Island come reports Of agricultural ac-
tivity. A number of Americans who
have recently purchased land are going
right ahead. Mr. Chas. S Leech, for ex-
ample, who has bought a property near
Rio Piedras suitable for orange and pine
aple cultivation, has now 80 poems aud
5 Americans cleaning up and preparing
the ground for planting. Within so days
he hopes to have 60 acres cleaned and
plowed. Mr.. Allen, of the Allen News
company, has also bought land in that
vicinity and has almost completed the
erection ofa family dwelling house. Mr..
Allen intends TO cultivate the minor pro-
duets"
The editor of the Punx'y SPIRIT pre-
tends 70 know heap about game, but
we think the following admonition to
game law violators is intended more as a
scare than anything else: "Aside from
the fact that every man. and more espec-
tally one who pretends to be asportsman,
ought 10 respect the law, neither squr-
rels nor pheasants are fit TO eat this time
of year. The squirrels are sore-eyed aud
sleepy and have MARBLES in their backs
like brindle COW; and pheasants, which
have been hatching or looking after their
young, are lank, tough, and stringy"
Now, Bso. Smith may know whole lot
about being Congressman and all that,
but when he says squirrels are not fit to
eat now, and that pheosants are stringy,
we beg TO take issue with him. Squirrels
are fat and plump right now, and finer
pot-pie cannot be baked than that which
half dozen nicely cleaned squirrels will
produce, while pheasants-wel, we never
saw a stringy one yet. Nevertheless, the
ga nc law should he respected, and vio-
lalors should be made to understand
that they cannot 60 on in their wild ca
reer with impunity, nor shotgun ,either,
but we maintain that it isn't fair to scare
them off with narrowing stories of warbly
squirrels and stringy pheasants. Let us
have fair play all round
Hand Blown Off While Serenading.
While assisting in a serenade rendered
a newly welded couple near Licking
oil In iact Eri1otr ovaufnu