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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1901-02-06

IrOREST LODGE, No. lsi, A. o. U. w,
L Meets every Friday evening inlA.O.U.
w. Hall, Tionesta.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1901-02-06
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

TN NESTA LODGE, No. 800, I. o. o. +.
Il Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows Hall, Partridge building.
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Thou'and' Of People Awaited Themselves
of the Kings Command That the Cere-
mony DO PublIc-Royai Family Walked
behind the Caskot to the Tomb-Placed
Beside Husbands Remains.
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The IittIe ChiprDulgnuk
WOnderedwRiat HVewOuId do.

! cousins, were not very friendly rela-
| tives, but in an emergency like this he
| felt that it was better to ask for char
! ity than to starve.
So he approached the nest Of the old
gray squirrel in the beech tree. The
gray squirrel happened to be summing
| himself at the foot of the tree.
No, no, he replied; Il have no nuts
to spare. This is to be very cold win
| ter, so the woodchuck has told me, and
I have a large family Of my own to
/ feed. I can't lend you any nuts"
Next the chipmunk sought the thrifty
| red squirrel, the most prosperous citi-
zen of the oak tree colony.
I have nothing to spare" the red
squirrel declared, for my wife's par
ents are spending the winter with us,
and her mother has a most enormous
appetite. 1 need every nut have stor-
ed away"
Sadly the chipmunk limped to the
door of the gopher and gently called in:
''Neighbor. loan me a little of your
food"
But the gopher growled:
Go away. 1 never give anything to
beggars."
Then he tried the mole. and that, too,
refused to help him.
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ely poisoned. Other matches were ar
ranged for her; but, with great spirit.
the princess refused them and insisted
on marrying Prince Ferdinand of Ara
gon.
Isabella was heiress to the throne, so
her marriage was matter of great i'm
portance to the country. October, 1869,
after romantic courtship, Ferdinand
was married to his sweetheart at Val
ladolid, Spain, and her brother, the
king, dying, she was proclaimed queen
of CASTLE Dec. 49, 1474. When in jan
uary, 1873, Prince Ferdinand succeeded
to the throne of Aragon, the two king
doms were united, and the peace of the
Spanish peninsula seemed assured. 1t
was under the reign of Ferdinand that
the Moors were expelled from Spain
and driven back to Africa. In 1892.
against the advice Of her court. the
queen pawned her jewels to help the
needy adventurer Christopher Column
bus. whose discovery Of a new CONT
nent was the glory Of her land and
reign. This good and wise queen died
at Medina del Campo. Spain, Nov. 70.
1904
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Nothing to be thankful for? o wos
man, bend and kiss the earth for
thankfulness, thankfulness for life IT.
self. with its eternal love, eternal striv-
ing, eternal Triumph Thanksgiving?
What else should all human existence
be than one glorious song of thanks
giving the year round?"
Mary Murphy laughed for gladness.
Suddenly again the low brown kitch-
en-, the unfinished work, Mary Murphy
in the rocking chair! The four eldest
children, all but the baby, stood around
her with frightened faces, olasping one
another's hands and crying. John Muir
ply was holding her hands, rubbing
them, stroking her hair, calling her.
The tears were rolling down his cheeks.
AS she looked up he let go one of her
hands, drew out great blue cotton
handkerchief and wiped his eyes
Mary Murphy laughed again.
IT was dreaming" she said. John.
dear"--she had not called him John,
dear" since the fourth child, the whin-
ing one was born--"John, dear, l will
dress Maud and Johnny and Tom, and
YOU take them to see Miss Bookman's
show. / will make potpie of old
Pickle hen and bake some potatoes and
make a bread pudding, and We'll have
a nice Thanksgiving dinner. In the
afternoon Wen make some popcorn
balls and molasses candy for the chill
5ren 4"
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ehest' professor, nom
ored and loved, with white hands and
pretty gowns and literary and artistic
people around her.
Now, now, There was the rugged lit
tie farm with a mortgage on it, there
We're the five white headed, short
nosed, freckled children that looked
like John Murphy, all except the
fourth, the one who was always whin-
ing. That one resembled her. There
they We're, there was she, with not a
dollar to spare for anything but bald
necessities, and Mary harrington so
loved grace and beautiful things. 1t
seemed as if she had to buy a new pair
of shoes for one of that pile of young
ones every week. Would anybody think
now she had ever been pretty, the
hopeless, bowed, broken down farm
wife of thirty-two, with half as much
again drudgery before her every day as
she could Go. with those young ones
whining and squabbling around her all
day, with big John Murphy coming
home at night and devouring his coarse
food like an animal, no more in touch
with what was fairest and finest in her
than the old horse Billy was? AS she
thought of it she hated him for pursu-
ing and marrying her; she almost
hated the children.
During the late autumn and winter
John Murphy had work as a teamster
at a dollar day, and that was almost
the only money they saw. He was off
duty today because it was Thanksgiv-
ing.
Miss Bookman, the childrens teach
err, lust such a live, pretty girl as Mary
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upper one, glides backward and for
ward in dating, thus permitting the
perfect gnawing of food.
Nut after nut Charlie demolished
with his busy teeth. The quantity of
food he masticated made him feel like
resting, but he knew this would never
do. Filling the pouches in his cheeks
with nuts, he limped to his burrow,
half a mile away, and then came pain
fully back again. He worked so des-
perately that he had many nuts piled
up in his little underground storehouse
long before the sun had risen on
Thanksgiving day. .....
When his work was done, he stuffed
some grass into the door of his little
hallway and curled up to rest. Charlie
spent his. Thanksgiving day in bed, and
he had earned the rest. He had plenty
of food tp supply the fat which his
body would need to keep it in working
order while he took his long winter
nap. and ne would have some left for
spring use when he awoke.
In the morning, when the boys went
into the woodhouse to look at their
nuts, they noticed the shells on the
floor, where Charlie had enjoyed his
banquet. When they examined their
store, they cried:
"Oh, mamma, the squirrels have been
stealing our nuts!"
Did you leave the door open, chill
dren?" she asked significantly.
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esty fitting Joye

esty fitting Jove lears were ,oiling uo"n "i'
u,o,, OIS,,,,,,, cheeks.
showed in his face, with a gentleness,
great lovingness and helpfulness that
no heather deity's countenance ever
expressed. Comely and strong as all
the men creatures were, they yet look
ed up to him as the strongest, bravest.
comelieSt of them all.
Above the tableland where they stood
rose vet other ana higher heights,
mountains towering and yet more shin
ing, with God men and God women
climbing, climbing still and never wea-
rying, heights and people more and
more radiant till all was lost in bright
| ness.
A voice which was the Spirit of Eter-
nal Truth spoke to Mary Murphy:
you have lived many lives, you will
live many more. Whatever worthy
thing the soul Graves that it will gain
in one life or another. Whatever trou-
BILE you are in power is given you to
come out of it. There are no mistakes
The things miscalled mistakes are les
sons whereby you learn. Toll depends
on how you take it. Work done in the
spirit of grudging and complaining is
drudgery Work done with courage and
aspiration is health and joy and ever
growing power You behold the origin
and destiny of man unrolled in a pic
ture before you lost in darkness at one
end, lost in light at the other. The
shining ones have Travelled the very
road Won are treading. There is none
other.
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One slim, white, tired woman animal
could hardly drag herself along. She
was finer, prettier, than those around
her, but so ill., weary and disappointed
looking, so heartbroken seeming, that
Mary Murphys heart ached for her.
She was even on the point of going
down and sliding back among the
darker, duller, more swinish creatures
behind.
Then Mary Murphy saw a strange
thing which at first she had not OBJ
served. Joined to the wan, white wo-
man animal by tiny silken cords were
a whole family of ape folk, all of them
a little behind her. 1t was about the
middle of the great procession, where
the animal folk Joined together by
silken threads stood. One of the group
behind the white woman was very
large, kind looking, but rather dull
faced, man animal, moving along slow
ly and lumberingly, head downward, as
though bordering in his stupid way
what it all meant. He studied ana
thought, looking now heavily perplex-
ed, now in sort of sulky despair,
again in a daze, but going on all the
time-going steadily on after the wom-
an animal-never stopping, never los
ing his place in the procession or let
ting it drift past him. With him were
five little animals. Some of the threads
that held them to the woman were
blue, others yellow or violet, but most
ly pink. If she stopped, they stopped,
and all fell back together into the low
er herd. Mary Murphy wanted to shout
to the woman animal:
Don't stop! For the love of God and
man. go on! Save yourself and them.
Then she saw that these animal peo-
nile ut the middle of the procession
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his storeroom, situated at the end OF
the little hallway, but for the unusual
demand for food would have been well
stored with hickory nuts, acorns, grass
seeds, grains of corn and buckwheat
for cold weather use when all outside
was covered by ice and snow. From
the little living room, which was also
his sleeping room, short passage
opened on the surface of the ground
close to the trunk of the old tree I'M
derneath which his house was followed.
The little creatures soft, furry coat
of reddish brown, crossed by longitude
nal white stripes, hung loosely over his
skeleton, owing to short rations for a
week. Limping to the door, he looked
about, wondering if he could borrow
nuts from any one, The squirrels, his
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what Won His Vote.

A political candidate on paying Sec
ond visit to the house of doubtful
voter of the laboring class was well
pleased, but somewhat surprised. at
hearing from the elector that he would
support him.
clad to hear It," said the candidate.
IT thought you were against me-"
$50 1 was at first" replied the peas
ant. When you called here the other
day and stood by that pigsty and talk
ed for half an hour, you didn't bulge
me an inch, but after you had gone
away, sir. / got to thinkin' how you'd
reached your hand over the rail and
scratched the pigs back till he lay
down wi the pleasure of 1t. / made up
me mind then that when man was so
sociabls as that wi a poor fellow crea-
ture | wasn't the one to vote against
him -
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Mary Murphy ever pictured, human
beings perfect in health, In feature, in
form, perfect, too, in Godlike express
sion of countenance. Power, the SPLEEN
did, unspeakable power of developed
manhood and womanhood, was in and
around them all. The noble thoughts
of men and women played enhancing
music that could be heard.
And again--was it? Yes, and no mis-
take. Among those near the top OF the
hill and upon the border of the beautl-
full country there they were once more
Mary Murphy. John and the young
ones. The children were little below
the father and mother and were scat
tered along the path but all bravely
moving upward and nearest the top.
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play around To perish by the tran side
them, only deep dark red and dull
brown at first, then as the tremendous
stream of animal folk flowed on there
came more and more light and more
varied tints till many hues appeared
and there were blue sky and white
cloud, with the colors mingling, blend
ing, parting and changing like dancing
rainbowS.
strange thing! As it grew lighter
Mary Murphy thought-yes, she knew
that the same animal folk, men and
women, reappeared in the procession.
repeated themselves in different places
Back where the colors were just begin
ming to show around them she saw a
hairy ape man seize a weak, crippled
little female that could not keep up
with the rest and fling it out to per-
ish by the trail side. 1t howled at
this treatment like q forsaken mon
key. Immediately a gigantic man ami
NAL who had lighter color about him
than the rest, grinning grotesquely, but
not unizindly, picked up the abandoned
female child animal and carried it upon
his shoulder, so that it was not left to
die. Mary Murphy's heart gave a great
leap, lleI dltlOSl SlOppcuJ WHGh SllS
saw in the face OF the big man animal
the look of John Murphy and in the
crippled little woman animal her own
self.
On they went, the colors growing
brighter and more luminous, the light
stronger, the animal people handsomer,
cleaner, more erect, gentler in their
ways and habits. Yet they did not go
steadily on. Many a time one dropped
out, weak and discouraged, and let the
procession go past him. But, then. he
never stayed where he fell. The trail was
a little up hill all the way, and the one
who gave up and stopped always rolled
down slightly and Joined the process
sion where the ape folk were darker
and more animallike than the ones he
had left.
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secretary of Washburn college. Topeka.
He will also occupy the chair of sociol-
ogy. DR.. Fisk was formerly a professor
at Hiilsdale college.
An inventory of the personal estate of
the late DR.. Herbert B. Adams shows a
total of 45,24415, of which about SIS 600
is in cash and the remainder mostly
well selected bonds. The Johns Hop
kins university viii realize more than
$50 OOG, which the donor requested be
made into a Herbert b. Adams fund,
the income to be devoted to the ad-
vancement Of history, political science
and education.
The death is announced from Madrid
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Star recently. The honot was conferred
on DR.. Wahlstrom by Bishop Won
ScheeIe at the command of King Oscar
of Sweden and Norway. This is the
second time the honor has been given
to any one in America.
When Lord Roberts distributed 1000
war medals at Nottingham recently. he
was ''booed" by the soldiers, who sub
seauently found an opportunity to
cheer Justify for General Butler.
DR.. d. NJ. Fisk, pastor of the First
CONGREGATIONAL church, Topeka, Kan.
has been elected to the position Of field
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TSCaFecF0W tells Charlie Cllipflglnl{ where
f0fird hist 9lan6SQlYlGlg Gglggg1egss

sod house for several weeks after.
when the steel teeth snapped upon his
limb. Charlie had given a sudden jerk
Ind fortunately escaped, although part
If his little soft left hind paw renamed
IN the trap. He had limped of to ms
purrow, curled up in one corner OF the
nest and kept away from the world un-
Iii his lame leg had nearly healed
Many nuts were stored in the burro"'
and so at first he had plenty to eat.
His last nut had now been eaten ana,
although Charlie earnestly hoped
about looking for fresh hickory nuts
and acorns. the falling leaves had hid
len any late ones several inches deep
The little chipmunk wondered what
he would do.
GA3@<c
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was granted a pension of SIS month a
few years ago for her services as nurse
in the civil war. is likely to lose it be-
cause of alleged vilification of the late
president in a speech at a railroad sta
ton at Oswego. n. Y.
A movement is on foot in North Caro-
lima. prompted by the tobacco dealers,
TO erect a statue of Sir Walter Raleigh
in Raleigh. Collection boxes are TO be
placed in stores where tobacco is sold.
Mrs. May Preston Slosson, wife OF the
vice president of the University Of Wy
oming, is the only woman chaplain of a
prison in the United States
Millions of francs worth Of damage
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Nature THE CHIPMUNK'S
2 7S THANKSGIVING DINNER
Copyright, 1901, by Elizabeth LsngsdOrf.
sAesAg@@@cAo& s~Ge%C~GAC~G~c~t

This would never have happened if
I had been able to get about" he sigh
ed. Il wonder why the man giants set
their cruel traps? 1 do them no harm.
and dead and in trap could be of no
use to them"
The man giants, as he called human
folks, were a great problem to the wood
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has been done in central Spain this
summer by grasshoppers. They eat up
every green plant in the fields. and all
the efforts to fight them with fire and
other means have failed.
While the war in South Africa has
diminished the number Of English tour
lists in Switzerland. it has benefited that
country to the extent Of an increase of
about 5.75OOO0 francs in the sales of
chocolate and condensed milk.
The sale OF boxes at the New York
horse show netted $4,000 this year.
which is an increase Of 5000 over last
year.
There are twelve large automobile
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3. 4.-S-s.1-i.H.s-(-l.1.i.N.i.1
KEEP TRYING.

If boys should get discouraged
At lessons or at work
And say There's no use trying"
And all hard tasks should shirk
And keep on Sinking, Sinking,
Till the boy became a man,
l wonder what the world would do
To carry out its plan.
The coward in the conflict
Gives up at first defeat;
il once repulsed, his courage
Lies shattered at his feet
The brave heart wins the battle
Because, through thick and thin,
He'll not give up as conquered:
lie fights and lights to win.
So, boys, don't get dishcartened
Because at first you fail;
II you but keep on trying,
AT last you will prevail.
Be stubborn against failure;
Try, try, and try again.
The boys who kept on trying
Have made the worlds best men. r
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Harrington had been, was going to tell
her pupils at the schoolhouse of the
first Thanksgiving day in America and
show them pictures of Indians, of cab
ms, OF bearded men in peaked hats
going to church with muskets over
their shoulders that they might at once
give thanks and be on the lookout for
redskins. The three older children
were Wild to go John had not offered
to take them, but merely nodded stu
pidly ia indication of his willingness to
do so when Mary asked him if he
would. Little things like these were
what made him so eXasperating some
times.
But now Mary was too tired to dress
the young ones, too tired to get dinner,
too tired for anything, so she just lop-
ped down in, the kitchen rocking chair.
Thanksgiving day? Oh, that wretched
MARRIAGE God forgive her for being a
focl-the direst, bitterest fool in his
universe.
What have to be thankful for?''
she muttered. mot thing-not a
thing in Gods world. I wish 1 was
dead wish 1 had never been born"
Thanksgiving? The only Thanksgiv-
ing to her would be death-sweet death
which comes not to the life weary. II
John or the children had come near her
at that moment, she would have spo-
ken Grossly to them, which was unusu-
al, for Mary was gentle and sweet tenn
pered even in her WEAKNESS and all
through those clouded years.
But nobody came, not soul. On the
contrary, the children's voices in the
ward grew fainter. She no longer
heard even the whining one, who was
the fourth. The low brown wooden
kitchen raised its ceiling, widened its
walls. then disappeared altogether.
Mary Murphy was outdoors in space.
procession that seemed to be as
long as the universe was passing. Liv-
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drawn breaths
like the dying,
and the past
came back to
her as it does to
the dying. Oh,
that silly mar
riage! If she
could only get
out of it, only
go back ten
years and live
her life as she
had planned it.
She saw herself
the handsome,
brilliant young
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were herse If,
John Murphy
and the five
young ones.
Yet again she
looked on and
on through a
vista of meas
ureless distance.
The procession
passed upward
to a shining Ia
bleland, but the
a animal people
had becom e
be autiful and
happy. There
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The boys hung their heads and made
no reply.
DO not grudge the hungry little
wood creatures their share of your
good things for their Thanksgiving din
ner," she said.
But the little boys never knew how
sincerely thankful Charlie Chipmunk
was for the open woodhouse door.
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Bishop Henry C. Potter has accepted
membership on the advisory board % %
he League For Political Educatlol ~
Sew York. The league now proposes 70
AXE UP practical district work .,,o
General Greedy. the meteoroioslsl' WIZ
las been seeing the London logs, e es,.
presses the opinion that, with proper
lata. it would be quite possible TO lore
asst them. 20
DR.. Matthias Wahlstron. president u
sustavus Adolphus college. 81 6e ....L.
Idian.. received the high honor OF pens
veated a knight of the Order OF North
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and grayness
millions of bill
lions of miles
away, and they
were all going
somewhere and
never ge tin g
there. w he n
they EN- ge d
from the clouded
beginning place,
to w hich it
would have TAX
en- Mary Muir
ply millions of
years to travel,
these creatures,