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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-09-24
Utica Cheese Market.

Utica, Sept. 22.
At the Utica dairy board of trade to-
day the Offering Of cheese was IS lots
Of 7,247 boxes Large white and col
ored sold at 10hc; small at 104c.
BUTTER - Creamery butter, $50
packages at 23hc.
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Smart & Si|berberg.
Showing, New Garments
as They Come.

Rapidly coming the and Dresses and Skirts
OIL C style will continue its marked aud interesting leadership
you have marved the things shown here
year the this.
while enjoying the Before this gOne the Garment Show will
be on ia
SPLENDID VALUES IN EVERY PART OF THE STORE
The fun that had beginning ending every
part of the store With all the things show for Fall and Winter
many lots special prices few mentioned but just few
We'd rather come aud look arOund-eujOy the
New Flannelettes. 3d..
hundred patterns New Fnnee of the 1892 quality
made by the AmOskeag Mills and almost equal the best
Boys Sweaters. SIOO.
All Wool Sweaters, big variety colors plain striped
the new fashion roll collars A decided bargain
New Pillow Tops, 25c.
In the new Art Department Pillow Tops designs all
stamped ready to work splendid variety osy to choose from
Mems Fleeced Underwear, 42c.
The heaviest and best qualities
you save just &c garment All sizes in shirts and drawers
IL I.2c and I5c Wash Goods. &c Yard.
1t the prudence all Goods greatly
reduced prices IN order to smooth the for
All Linen Handkerchief. DC.
Excellent quality of ladies this price
thread linen too Two better lots 0c and 25 The
IN Handkerchief ever shown counter in Oil City.
SI.5O Double Satin Damask, 9Sc.
Ten pieces of handsome grade table linen you
Sl5O Perfectly plain cloth with rch open borders
Napkins to Match, S2.9S Per Dozen.
So 90 would be the proper bought
gain and want our customers to profit thereby
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-09-24

Benson, Who Posed as Nine. PATHS
p Agent, Cheated Justice by Death.
Relentless Energy OF the Police In
Tracking COunterfeiters.
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Opium Smoking in Minnesota Capital.

Whit of the dope and buy a pipe for
souvenir and then they'd get to
monkeying with it at home and show
ing it to their friends, and the first
thing you know they were getting up
a select little dope party, just to see
what it was like, anyway
"Thatd be their finish. After one
or two dreams they'd renounce their
family or sell their clothes if neces-
sary to enjoy the wonderful effects of
the magic Chinese maboo More than
one society girl get into the habit, but
time they'd only compliment her on
her deliciously languid manner and
her dreamy eyes Oh, the dope is
great stuff, but it's bad business to
get tangled up with.
II know one swell joint not far from
the corner of Western and Selby ave-
nues. 1t was kept by a woman and
her daughter, and more than once, if
you'd watch, you'd see carriages how
ering around there. And in nine cases
out of ten the occupants were women
and girls The place is closed now
and I hear the young woman is dead
1.-THE habit knows no age and the
dreams Of a woman with a grown
up family can be just as fine as those
of a high school girl.
Pipe Disrupts Family.
There's another exclusive dump UP
on Jackson street actually kept by a
supposedly respectable man and his
wife. They keep their house up in
elegant style, and no one can see any
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shes drunk.

"She's drunk"
You don't know, she may only be
sick, poor thing"
ly remarked the old cabby, as he gaz-
young woman who floated unsteadily
up Robert street. You drummers is
off.
She's dopy. Listen to her singing
softly to herself. She don't know what
she's singing, nor does anybody else,
but she wouldn't trade the lovely
sounds that are now buzzing in her
ears for a season ticket to the Grand
opera.
You see, this amt Robert street in
St Paul she's walking on at all. This
is paradise for her just now, with all
the friIls and-what do they call them
-Eli-scene fields and the jug-of
wine-thou business.
And all for a quarters worth Of
dope"
''Well now how are you so cock sure
that diagnosis is correct about the
young lady," remarked one of the
night-owl drummers in rather an OBJ
jecting tone. For, although the wom-
an was plainly "off" in some way she
was fair enough to arouse the chival-
rous spirit in the breast Of any man.
Society People Smoke.
Look here, my boy" responded the
old jehu, patronizingly, 81 amt been
sitting up on a box around this here
town for twenty three years for Moth
ing. If 1 were mind to I could take
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COL. JACOB KLEIN,
Twenty-f1r Infantry. U. S. A

is used by the natives of the interior
to supply their Individual needs, and
it's products constitute one of the main
branches of the commerce of the cities.
Bamboo is used to a greater extent
than is cocoanut. Most of Col. Kline's
articles are of bamboo in examining
the collection one is at once reminded
of the primitive state in which the
Filipinos live, and impressed with the
have created these many articles.
With only the aid of few tools,t
from the wood of the bamboo tree, the
Filipino makes houses, rope, furni-
'ture, boats, agricultural implements,
musical instruments, jewelry, hats,
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thing wrong in the fact that they
have a great many callers among the
better class of people-that is, they
don't see anything out of the way I'M
less they are next and then they know
that every one of those swell callers
goes in their to hit the pipe.
"Oh, it's fine business I tell you,"
continued the old cabby, arming up
under the influence Of the stiff that
ranks next to dope"
Just a short time 8 go here a happy.
family was all burned up on account
of the wife having a. pipe in the house.
Her husband never knew what the
trouble was, as she used to hit the
bamboo afternoons. She was a well
educated woman and used to read be-
tween smokes about Greek mythology
and things. BY the time the main
works would get homo she'd be in
beautiful condition and would imagine
herself some ancient goddess and used
to greet her husband two or three
times an evening with a different name
and slobber all over him.
TT might have been all right if she'd
picked out one name of a god and
called the old man that all the TIM.
but he couldn't stand for the plural
game. He thought it indicated some
thing and that his wife was getting
him mixed with someone eise or he
didn't know how many others.
Business Thrives in Minneapolis.
"She's all right now though if he did
quit her. She's got q nice quiet little
dopery of her own, and she makes a
pretty penny out of it, as it's one of
the favorite ones with the swells. It's
up on Daytons bluff. She came down
town last week and got a swell pipe
from a Chink, which she had brought
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down some time before to be inlaid
with mother Of pearl and ringed with
gold bands.
There used to be a good Chinese
place on Wabasha avenue, near the
French church, but the private joints
have pretty well knocked the Chinks'
business, except with the tin-horn
gamblers and their girls.
ANY place where they can get hold
of a card of opium and a pipe is good
enough for them to dream they're mil
lionaire's only sons.
Lately, however, Minneapolis seems
to be getting most of the business.
Every night there are dozens of ST.
Paul pipe iends who singly and in
pairs sneak over to Minneapolis, where
they can get at the game more openly
and without having to be vouched for
at the door.
Creamery in Artists Studio.
There's one place over there that's
a winner, though. It's certainly got
everything in the state skinned to
death. It's in an artists studio on
Hennepin avenue.
Talk about your swell dumps, you
just ought to take a glom at it-fish-
nets hanging all around the walls,
Turkish divans, dinky couches in the
corners with canopies over them and
about fifty silk cushions on each one,
spears and guns and shields and tin
armour and all the stuff that nobody
but an artist would ever think Of
It's a warm proposition all right
He's got big black iron lanterns hang
ing all around with colored glass in
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you fellows for a jaunt that would
open your eyes.
why, that girl going up the street
there is only one of about 100 that
l could show you. And they're mostly
the kind of people that are classed as
right in that little blue dream book
of the swells, too"
well, suppose we take little ex-
cursion down the line" suggested the
other drummer, you have a little
Chinatown, I suppose"
mot on your life, stranger. Besides,
there amt in line. My business is
too good around the hop joints to go
and spoil it all by taking rubbernecks
around and introducing them. Only
to smoke ever rides to those little get
Always behind my old nag"
After a short session in which a
White-robed gentleman participated,
the old cabman shed some of his air of
mystery and loosened with a tale of
opium smoking in st. Paul and Min
neapolis, which was none the less in
teresting because of his absolute re-
fusal to be explicit as to house num-
berS.
Summing Is Dangerous.
Its not very many people knows
it," said he, ''but the pipe is still burn
ing in our midst. A few years ago
opium smoking was done more openly,
and it was not an uncommon thing
for pretty good people to own their
own pipes.
They'd go stunning and get a
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pits are regular institutions; they are
governed by the presidentes of the
village, who act as superintendent of
all the programmes, referee the fights
and arbitrate and settle all disputes
that arise. CircuseS and theatrical ex-
hibitions are often given in these cock
pits.
Places are reserved for gambling,
which is authorized by custom, mas
much as the entire population INDUCES
played, and all classes of people, from
the highest to the lowest, play it.
Mix Business With Pleasure.
These cockpits are not entirely given
to amusement, as there are stalls
where all classes of goods are sold,
and there are lunch counters to pro-
vide refreshments for all. At one side
of the Enclosure is a gate at which all
must enter, and on the other side is
one of exit. A ticket Office with win
dow, is built in the fence, and a small
charge is made for admission. Great
numbers congregate at the cockpits
and enjoy themselves in temperate
manner, though not without an occa-
sional disturbance.
1t is amazing to see the great vari-
ETY. of uses to which the inhabitants
put the wood of the bamboo and cocoa
nut trees with which the islands are
covered. The cocoanut trees grow very
thickly, and the natives supply them
selves from them with a large variety
of domestic necessities.
They take the cocoanut and use the
hairy ibrous coating for making cloth
and brushes. This fiber is also used
for fuel and matching roofs. The shells
are used. for dishes.
The spoons made from cocoanut
shells are unique articles. Part of the
shell is carved into an oval shape with
a small elongation at one end, which is
firmly bound to handle carved of
wood, by bamboo splint. The meat of
the nut is used for eating purposes.
Oil Has Many Uses.
Oil is extracted from the meat, and
this oil is put to many uses. 1t is used
as a shortening, like lard, it is worked
into butter and into soap. The cocoa
nut soap is used extensively and is an
important export Of the islands.
The cocoanut oil is compounded into.
hair oil which was much appreciated
by the soldiers. The water in the in
terror of the nut is distilled into liquor
and becomes powerfully Intoxicating;
the sap of the scocoanut tree is also
used for this purpose. a-> s41
The liquor, known as "bino," is so
powerful that it will drive one insane
If used too freely. The eocoanut tree
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similar to that produced by a metal
lie tewsharp.
There is a Boon boon" resembling
Indian tom TOM, which is made of
joint of bambo about foot and a half
long and three inches in diameter.
The sound produced by this is louder
and clearer than that of a drum.
Flutes, violins and organs are made of
bamboo.
The miniature wagon has box
made of bamboo poles, bound together
with bamboo splint; two stout poles
extend in front for shafts, the axle is
solid cocoanut beam, and the two
wheels are solid spheres of the same
wood. The wheels are obtained by TAX
Off a. narrow circular block. The Fill
pinos use small ponies for hauling these
semi primitive vehicles.
Still Use Bows and Arrows.
The Filipinos in the remote dis
stricts still use bows and arrows. Sew
eral specimens Of these are in the col
lection. The bows are made of cocoa
nut wood, and the arrows of bamboo.
Cannon are also made of bamboo.
They are made of logs bound about
with strong network of bamboo
splint, and they are said to be serv-
iceable.
In the war the insurgents often set
traps made of bamboo for American
soldiers They were clever combina-
lions of springs, which, when touched
by the approaching soldiers would dis
charge arrows. An arrow from such a
spring trap in one case went clear
through a mans body, and in another
case penetrated eight thicknesses of
blanket on pack horse and lodged
an inch below the horses skin.
The bamboo tree grows wild upon
the islands; they reach an average
height of 40 feet. 1t will be seen that
the natives use it for all conceivable
purposes. They even gather the sprouts
when shooting up from the ground,
and eat them as asparagus is eaten
here.
The principal diet of the natives is
fish and rice, which they mix together.
Snails are a fancy dish.
Grasshoppers DeIcacy.
s'See this" said the colonel.
''Do they play ping pong with that?"
"Oh, dear no; this is a miniature of
a net they use for catching grass
hoppers. At certain seasons the grass
hoppers get So thick that they liter
ally swarm. The Filipino then goes
out with this net, swings it in the air,
and gets it full of grasshoppers."
but what do they do with the grass
hoppers r.
"They eat them. They dry them and
cook them into a soup which they
highly enjoy
Observing a smile of derision, the
colonel continued, why, that's all
right; didn't John the Baptist live on
locusts and wild honey ?-Grasshop
are 1ocusts.'' That made the taste of the
Fflipinos seem not so bad after all.
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GATHERS RARE RELICS IN THE PHILIPPINES

E&An important collection of relics
from the Philippine islands is in the
possession of Col. j. Kline, of the
+ Twenty first infantry, at Fort Smelling
Many of the soldiers who have served
in the islands have brought home rel
les, but undoubtedly the finest collec-
ton is that of Col. Kline. He has
been in the Philippines three years
and he has campaigned In all the
p. provinces that have been penetrated by
the United States army.
He collected his relics from all parts
he visited, they being given to him by
the natives. Col. Kline is naturally
proud of his collection, and each piece
reminds him of the place at which he
received it, He made thorough study
of the people while among them, and
as he took up each article, told of the
many characteristics 1of the people.
The collection easily fills a large
room. There is a miniature specimen
of the Philippine cockpit, miniature
rice and sugar mills, plows and har-
rows, three miniature houses, repre-
senting the styles of houses occupied
by the rich, the middle class and the
humber classes. There is a vast ar
ray of small articles, many of which
have been in use on the islands. There
is also a collection of hats, which has
been gathered from all over the ISL
ands. Each province wears an indi-
vidual style of hat, and there are pc
culiar styles that are worn by the peo-
pie to indicate their position and con-
dition. For instance, the girl who is
engaged to be married wears a large
circular hat, slightly concave, with a
red tassel on the top.
il A Philippine Cockpit.
Probably the most interesting in the
collection is q miniature reproduction
of the Philippine cockpit called. in the
native language "Simborio." This fur
nishes an Illustration of the most strik-
ing of the Filipino characteristics.
The miniature cockpit in Col. Klines
possession is about six feet long and
two and a half feet wide. The entire
structure is composed of bamboo as
are the originals in the islands. A
high fence encioses an oblong area,
within which are booths, tables,
benches, stalls for the cocks and a
square elevated stage enclosed with
railing, about which are ranged rows
of benches for the spectators of the
cock fights. The cockpits, of which one
may be found in every village and
several in the cities, are the principal
resorts Of the people for amusement
and recreation.
They may be compared to the coun-
ty fairs held in this country, except
that the cockpits are resorted to at
least two times a week. These cock
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..4r
This" said the Colonel, as a sui
pacan,' or fire lighter exhibiting a
small black cyclinder three inches
in length and three quarters of an
inch in diameter, carved and notched.
ut is cut out of caribou horn" He
then jerked out small cylindrical rod,
about two inches in length and one
quarter of an inch in diameter, which
fits closely into the interior of the sui
PAGAN.
1T Is out of order now, but when
it works you have just to jerk out this
rod quickly and the pressure will ignite
the oil with which it is fabricated, and
you will have a little flame at the end
of the rod which you can apply to this
punk" taking some light brown sub
stance from small hole in the bottom
of the sulpacan. These sulpacans are in
use in the interior Of the islands
While on campaign in remote
province we ran out of our supply of
matches, and we had to use these sui
pacans altogether. The little thing is
very cleverly made and it is a credit to
the race that produced it,
Another way of getting fire." con-
.tinued the colonel, lis more laborious
They take good-sized piece of BAN
boo, which is hollow, cut a notch in it.
fill it with dry cocoanut leaves, and
then take a stick and rub it on the
notch, and soon the friction on the
leaves produces blaze"
Make Fine Cloth.
Some of the finest cloth in the world
is made in the Philippine islands. The
weaving industry there, however, is
very badly conducted. They have looms,
of which Col Kline has a miniature
specimen, which are in some respects
similar to the hand looms in use in
this country.
These looms, called "hobbies," are
owned by the rich, who operate them
with the labor Of the children Of the
poorer classes. When a man becomes
unable to provide for himself and his
family he takes his children to a loom
owner, and mortgages them to labor
for a term of years for the price Of
Is cents day. The cloth they weave
is from the fbers of pineapple, and is
considered the finest in the world.
There are three grades of this cloth,
the first is called pima" the second
from the fiber of eocoanut is also WOW
en- in these looms.
Gift From 'Pino.
The relic most priced by Col. Kline
is a novel loving cup, which was given
to him by a Filipino. 1t is made of
a bamboo ~log,s four inches in diameter
and about two. feet in height. The
Filipino carved many delicate de-
signs upon the cup, and an inscription
in the native language which inter-
preted signifies, my Colonel"
Two finely carved handles are at
.tached. This loving cup was produced
with great pains and labor, as the out
side of the bamboo is extremely hard.
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sleen In InstaIIments.

Only those who are troubled with in
somnia, and have experienced the sleep
less fatigue of night after night Of tossing
upon the bed. are in a position to wonder
how it is that, during the days -tFs.tt IN
tervene, the brain seems able to do its
work without showing undue signs Of
fatigue.
Sir James Crichton Browne, the ex-
pert on brain diseases, holds that insom-
MIA is not attended with such disastrous
consequences as is commonly supposed.
Of the sufferer. He suggests that the
brains of literary men. who are the most
frequent victims, acquire the trick Of the
heart, which takes a rest of fraction
of second after each beat, and so man
ages to get six hours rest in "a.
Some brains, in cases of insomnia, sleep
In sections, different brain centers going
off in turn.-Detroit News Tribune.
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clothing, baskets, cooking utensils,
sbrooms, beds, wagons, rat traps, weap-
ons and many other things too numer-
Gus to mention.
Descriptions of all of the articles in
the collection would fill a good sized
volume, but some of the most curious
specimens may be mentioned.
Jewsharp Of Bamboo.
There is a jewsharp made of bam-
boo. 1t is a thin piece of wood about six
inches long; one end serves, as the
handle, the other is cut to a point to
be struck by the Hand; a narrow spIin-
ter is loosened,, and this plays back and
forth when the point is struck. The tone
produced by this instrument is exactly
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seem to have been better in recent bridge
building work at Munich. Paper car
tridges- were filed with a spongy absorb
ent and provided with defamation. When
ready for the blast, the liquid air was
brought to the spot in a vacuum -jacketed !
vessel, and the cartridges were plunged
into it until the absorption was thought
to be sufficient. The cartridges were
then quickly placed, and fired by electric
ity or other means The effects seemed
to equal those of dynamite, and cartrfdg- 4
es failing to explode became harmless in
10 minutes from evaporation of the air !
posed discovery of Herr Arendt, of Posen. (
These elevations appear to project
through the clouds from time to time. and
the observations thus far made tend4to
prove rapid rotation in about twenty /
four hours. nj
America is supposed to have shifted con-
siderably since its discovery by Ross in I
1881. Taking with him seven companions
| in a small schooner, Amundsen, the Nor
! wegian explorer, expects to make OBJ /
from 1898 to 1895. s,''''--'
On one Of the most important English
canals, at Foxton, difference in level
of rs feet was formerly overcome by a
series of ten locks. Through these
more than 80 tons, could pass in rs min
utes. The upper and lower canals are
now connected by an inclined plane Of
l in 4, and two docks are moved side I
ways up and down on this incline, one
descending as the other ascends. Each
dock is an iron trough so feet long, Is feet
gates at the ends. This novel elevator
can pass 200 canal boats in twelve hours, /
is managed by three men and cost about
5000, 900.
The weights of 1,173 human brains have
been collected by NJ Marchand, of Mar
bourg. AT birth, the average weight is
found to be SO ounces in boys and 9.5
ounces in girls; at the age Of 1 year,
pounds LIS ounces and / pound 11.5 ounces
respectively; and at the end Of three
years the weight has trebled Increase
is then slow. Full growth is attained at
10 to 20 years in men and 16 to Is in
women, the mean adult weight being 8
pounds 1 ounce in males and pounds
rophy begins in man at about As years
and in women at about 20. Turgenef, .
the Russian author, had one of the heav-
lest brains on record, weighing Al pounds;
and Gambetta's, scarcely 20 pounds, was
one of the lghtest.
Evidence that the moons attraction
has an influence upon volcanic eruptionS
and earthquakes has been found by Rev. 7
T. E. Espin. A period of between eight {
and nine years is traced in the records ;
of these phenomena. and this agrees with /
the period of revolution Of the moon $ 4
perigee Further investigation indicates
that the greatest volcanic activity takes
place when the perigee occurs at its
maximum northern defamation. 81
Adding fine sulphur to the dissolved
material, then heating. preferably with I
pressure, is found by Isidor Kitsee to /
more than double the resistance of cell !
lulose as an insulator for electric wires:
FIexibiIity varies with the percentage OF
sulphur, and resistance to acids and motS- +
turs is increased.