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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-08
uoTEL WEAVER,

II r. A. WEA ' EN-, FTOpTIeIOI'
This hotel, formerly the Lawrence
House, has undergone complete change
and is now furnished with ali the mod,
ern improvements. Heated and lighted
throughout with natural gas, bathrooms,
hot and cold water, etc. The comforts oi
guests never neglected.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-08

ELM STREET, TIoNEsTA, PA.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-08
Regular Terms Of Court

Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
Fourth Monday of September.
Third Monday of November.
Regular Meetings of County Commis
sioners lst and Sd Tuesdays of month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-08

Terms, 81 90 A Year, strictly In Advance.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-08
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.

Member of COngreSS-Joseph Q. Sibley.
Member of Se,ldte-J. X. Z. Hall.
Assem6ly-J. III. Robertson.
President JHdge--W. M. Lindsey.
Associate Judges-F. X. Kreitler, +.
g. Hill.
P'othonotary, Register & Recorder, 90.
j. O. Geist.
SheriG.-A. w. Stroup.
TTeaSttrer-W. II. Harrison.
tssionerS-Leonard Agnew, An
drew Wolf, Philip Emert.
District Attorney-S. d. Irwin.
jury Con,mtsSioners-J B. Eden, J'
i. Castner.
Coroner
+. Klinestiver, S. Il. Carson.
C0u,,tv IS,trveUor-D. W. Clark.
Cott,ltv SUP erintendent-D w. Morri-
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Mystery About McDermott.

David McDermOtt, superintendent OF
bridges and building on the Mobile,
jackson and Kansas railroad. died at
Newton, aged 81 years. There was evi-
IDENTIFY something mysterious connected
with the life of McDermott, as he re-
fused to tell anything of his family
connections. He was rational up to
within two hours of his death, knew
that his end was near, and talked free
ly. but would remain silent when asked
certain questions about his kinsmen.
He said he had a brother and sister
near Springfield, Mo-, but would not
give their address or tell their full
names. He stated shortly before he
died that he had no family, as he had
never married, but he informed a men,
Der of the family at whose house he
lied that he had a grown daughter in
Missouri and wife somewhere.
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<NA1chael O'COnnOr and Robert
@ Hughes, Sons of Erin, Now
y = Roll i'm Wealth.
MONEY ACQUIRED BY DIFFERENT METHODS
ormer Prospers Through Speculation in
Neal Estate - Buys His Native Town
Latter Inherits Million Dollars and
Ancestral Castle in Ireland.

| adopted by heroes Of romance. Heroe
millions by wrestling it from the bow
els of the earth, by clever manipula
tiOns of the stock market, by war ant
conquest. But who ever heard of {
hero Of romance who made his money
in plain, prosaic real estate dealing
That is what Michael 0Connor did
and it paid him vastly more in re-
turns than more romantic money
making might have. Penniless when
he came here, he managed to secure a
clerical position almost Immediately
upon his arrival. He was industrious
and frugal, and after several years he
had managed to save up several hun
dred dollars, which he invested in a
few lots in the Bronx 1t was the luck
lest thing he could have done. He
sold them for more than double sew
eral years later and reinvested his
money in more real estate. Soon
Michael OConnor, from Leitrim town.
was worth a hundred thousand dol
lars; then the road to wealth was
easy
When prosperity had claimed him
for its own Mr.. O'Connor's thoughts
began to turn to Ireland, and one sum-
mer, some six or seven years ago, he
Journeyed back to Leitrim and mar
ried the girl of his boyhood love and
brought her to America.
1T was then that | first thought of
buying my native town." said Mr..
O'COnnOr in an interview with a re-
porter. Il suppose all men banker for
their native towns, and Irishmen
most of all. Anyway, did. used to
think when | was a little barefoot
boy playing about the ruins of the old
castle there, how much l would like,
when | became n man, to be able to
Duy it and restore it to its once ia
nous grandeur. You see, every boy in
4eitrim knows the story of the castle
md Of the kings and princes who once
eaSted in its great halls. Then there |
we're songs, sweet old Irish songs, to |
leep our memory green. l suppose |
here was not boy in the village who
lid not share in the same emotion.
We'll, fortune has been very good
o me. and it turns out that | have
een able to go back and buy not only
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New 1Ork.-Dame Fortune, that
nckIe being, has smiled on two men
VINO came to America Is years ago
treSh from the land of Shamrocks. AL
tnough both of these sons of Ireland.
Mlchael O'Connor and Robert Hughes,
are now rich, they obtained their
wealth. in ways that are greatly differ
ent. The stories of their careers and
Oh the triumphs which recently crown
cd them, are the making of two as
pretty and interesting romances as
ever were conceived
Before relating the story of Michael
Connor it will be necessary to ina
slne ones self transported across the
sea to the ancient village of Leitrim,
wnere the OConnors have lived since
time immemOrial. Leltrim is on the
banks of that much sung stream the
River Shannon, beloved of "Tom"
Moore and immortalized in his songs.
There, close upon its banks, stand the
ruins of the great old feudal castle
which was once the seat Of Michael
OConnor's illustrious ancestor. Rhod-
erick OConnor, the last king of Con-
naught, Prince of Branffny. About the
crumbling walls the little town nestles
closely. There is the white house of
the village squire, the apothecary
shop, the cObbler's shop. the wagon
makers and the village forge. In the |
little white houses between dwell the |
villagers, descendants every one of |
them of Irish kings.
The ground floor Of one of these
dwellings contains a general store. The
people of Leitrim may buy ANYTHING
In this small store from a pound of tea
to yard of gingham or a peck, of DO
tatoes. The proprietor of the store is
Michael O'ConnOr's father to-day the
most prosperous citizen in Leitrim
and the happiest and proudest man
In all the green land Of Ireland.
O'Connor Comes to America.
For his son, his first born, the boy
who Is years ago set sail for the alien
land OF America, has made fortune
beyond the dreams of Le:trim avarice |
and like a fairy prince has bought
back not only the castle OF his long
deposed ancestors, but the entire
,own of Leitrim, his native place. t
Michael, the fair haired, blue eyed, |
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Tactful Quaker.

Some time ago there lived a gentle
man of indolent habits who spent his
time visiting among his friends After
wearing out his welcome in his own
neighborhOod he thought he would
visit an old Quaker friend some 20
miles distant. On his arrival he was
cordially received by the Quaker, who,
thinking the visitor had taken much
pains to come SO far to see him, treat
ed him with great deal of attention
and politeness for several days. AS
the visitor showed no signs of 1eav-
ing, the Quaker became uneasy, ..but
bore it with patience until the eighth
day, when he said to him:
my friend, am afraid thee will
never come again.
20, yes, I SHALL" said the visitor
II have enjoyed my visit much, and
shall certainly come again"
"But," said the Quaker, eff thee will
never leave, how can thee come
again?"-London Black and White
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MISSISSIPPI MATTERS,
RAILROAD RUMORS.
The Southern Said to Be Behind q
Number of New Lines.

1t Is stated that back of the New Or.
leans and Great Northern railway,
which is being constructed from a
point near Covington,. La, to Jackson,
Miss, is the power of the Southern
railway, which road is seeking a line
from New Orleans to Memphis. In ad-
dltion to this it is given out as fact
that the Southern is now constructing
a line from Greenyille to Yazoo City
and that it might enter Natchez.
The line from Greenville has already
been started and iron is laid over one
third of the distance. At the same
time the New Orleans and Great North
ern Is pushing its road as rapidly as
workmen can do it. The entire route
has been surveyed and the grading is
more than half completed.
1t is the intention of the Southern
not to build any farther south than
Jackson. Here it will tap the Great
Northern, and trains will be run into
New Orleans over that road and the
New Orleans and Northeastern.
The Southern already has line from
Birmingham to Greenville, with
branch from Itta Bena to Webb, Miss.
The present Yazoo Cityl line will extend
from Percy, Miss, in a southeasterly
direction to Yazoo City. From the
latter city, it is understood, another
Inc will be built that will connect with
he branch from Itta Bena to Webb.
This part of the road will eventually |
De extended to Memphis, running di-
'ectly between the Illinois Central and |
azoo and Mississippi Valley routes.
oy this move the Southern will have a
ilrect line from New Orleans to Mem
'hls, and penetrating some of the rich
st cotton country in the South
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golden windfall from heaven, houses
and lands and three million dollars in
cash. A poor silk weaver, toiling all
day long, and barely keeping the wolf
from the door these many years past,
Robert Hughes is to-day one of the
landed proprietors of Belfast For ten
years he has lived with his little fam
lily in a plain little wooden house in
the mill village of Lodi. near Pater-
son, N. j. In future he may If he
wishes live in one of the finest man
sions In the most aristocratic quarter
OF the Irish capital
Until a few weeks ago Robert
Hughes never dreamed that he would
be other than hard working silk weav-
er. The widest dream he INDUCED in
was that of an era which would know
no strikes and lockouts among IL silk
mills in which he has been earning his
livelihood ever since he arrived, which
was just three weeks after Michael
O'Connor, of Leitrim, had stepped off
the gang-plank. For Robert Hughes
has suffered bitterly from the privations
incident to the frequent labor troubles
among the factories of Paterson.
Inherits Fortune from Relatives.
Hughes fortune he inherits from q
distant relative, John Hughes, Esq.
of Belfast, recently dead, leav-
ing fortune of $3,OOO,OOO in cash and
much valuable real estate in Belfast and |
the surrounding country.
Hughes is 3S years old, three years
older than Michael O'Connor. He |
earned to weave silk in the factories of |
Belfast long before he left Ireland. He |
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the castle but the old town. Every
stone and stick of the dear old place
is my property to-day, including, to be
sure, the homestead where my fore
fathers for generation upon generation
have been born and lived and died. I
have been able to buy the dear old
place and know that my father and
mother will live there for the rest of
their lives"
Mr.. OConnor and his wife and
daughter expect to take formal DOS
session of their feudal town and castle
early in the coming summer.
Story Of Robert Hughes.
Robert Hughes story is the very op-
posite to Michael O'Connor's. Wealthy.
too, he is to-day, to be sure, wealthy
beyond the dreams of avarice, but, un-
like the brother in good fortune, he
did not earn it. 1t came to him like a
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merry mouthed boy who sailed away
13 years ago, is master of the town
and its castle to-day. He it is VINO
owns the long village street, the forge,
the apothecary shop, the cobbler shop
He it is, little Mike O'Connor, who
owns the squirc's white house, and the
brown rectory, and ah! even the pret-
ty little church and the chapel stands
IN Michael O'Connor's freehold
ground.
= Formal announcement Of the pur-
chase of the village was made recently
IN the Leitrim Observer, published at
Carrick-on- he-Shannon, and the same
;ssue contained a detailed story of
michael O'Connor's adventures in the
land of his adoption.
fortune Made Through Real Estate.
strangely enough, he did not make
his fortune after the manner usually
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think | shall not go further than Pater-
son. There Is beautiful place, white
mouse in green hill that looks down
over the town, which | have always
coveted. And now | have made up my
hiihd | will buy that very house. No
mouse II the world, not even the great
mansion in Belfast which the letter
leiis me now own, could mean the same
10 me as that white house on the hill
overlooking Paterson. And now will
tell you why.
In the mill where used to work I
could see that house all day long every
time looked up from my loom and al
lowed my eyes to wander across the
moor toward the window. Paterson. or
that region of the town where the mills
are located, is, as you know, a black and
ugly place, and this white house on the
green hill always looked so beautiful
ana serene and peace giving.
always rested my eyes upon the
green OF that hill when they got tired
Ioiiowlng the pattern of the silk web.
lhere Is nothing like green to rest the
eyes upon when they are tired, you
know. used to look at the hillside and
at the white house, and built castles in
the air about what l would do and say
and now should feel if that white house
and that green hillside were mine.
Dream Finally Realized. !
And now, all of a sudden something
mas happened which makes it possible |
for me to live in house much grander |
by far, and with green gardens much |
more beautiful, perhaps, than the hill |
side at Paterson. Or could buy a much |
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Mississippi LegisIatuTeI
SENATE.

The senate receded from its action
providing an amendment prohibiting the
district attorney from appearing before
the grand jury to advise what course it
should pursue in presenting persons
whom it might be investigating.
Senator McLaurin called up the bill to
empower the board of supervisors of any
county to appropriate money for screen
ing cisterns and taking other steps to
destroy the stegomyia and prevent the
introduction and spread of yellow fever.
The bill was passed with one or two
amendments increasing the Jurisdiction
OF the board of supervisors in certain
matters pertaining to the enforcing of
health protective measures.
The bill requiring railroads to provide
separate places at which the white and
colored races may purchase tickets and
so avoid trouble that exists now was
passed.
Mr. Houston called up the bill to au-
thOrize the erection of monument to
the gallant Confederate soldiers who fell
at Prices Cross Roads in Lee county.
The bill fail jed to pass owing to the lack
of just one vote.
The bill to place all of the State
schools under the control of one board
was postponed indefinitely.
Senator Belk' called up chapter 81, on
dram shops, and asked that it be taken
up for consideration, as several senator's
wanted to argue amendments to the pro-
vision requiring towns to have 1000 in.
habitants in order to be in a position to
secure liquor license. Senator Brandon
sent up an amendment to strike out
1000 and insert in lieu thereof 500. Mr..
McLaurin of Sharkey fought the propo-
sltion, as did Mr. Heidelberg, while
Messrs. Glover, w. X. McLaurin, Bran
don and others supported it, as it was
only a side entrance to a system of
statutory prohibition, and the State .of
Mississippi is not yet ready to adopt
that policy. The amendment was
adopted after brief debate.
Mr.. Dunn introduced a bill to reim-
burse the board of trade and cotton ex-
change of Meridian, for expenditures oc-
CURED in carrying on the suit of the in
terstate commerce commission against
the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Com
pany.
BY Mr.. Yarbrough, bill to encourage
cotton raising and the establishment Of
cotton factories in the State.
By Mr.. kendrick, providing a salary
or the expenses of the field officer of
he State board of health.
The senate passed the bill to prohibit
'anks and similar corporations Liable to
axation on. capital from permitting the
lse of its name by any person Toaninc
money secured by mortgage or deed Of
rust, and to prohibit the use of such
erson using the bank as a place of de-
osit. The bill passed by a vote of 20
o IA.
Senator McLaurin attempted to secure
onsideration of his bill to differentiate
ynching from murder, and to provide
hat mob work, or those participating
herein, shall be guilty of misdemeanor
My. This bill has been considered oy
he Judiciary committee, and came back
the senate with an adverse report
lr. McLaurin argued in vain for the
,nate to take up and consider his bill,
hich it seems he had introduced at the
st session, and motion to indefinitely
ostpone was adopted on yea and nav
)te of 10 to II.
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New Law Will Be Enforced

Hon. HI. L. Whitfield, State superin-
tendent of education, is preparing to
enforce the new law requiring the emu
meration of all educable children bv
the tax assessors of the different coun.
ties. The act provides for the enumer-
alton of all "educables," or those be-
tween the ages of 5 and 81 years, white
and black, male and female, and ac-
cording to this enrolment the school
funds will be apportioned to the re.
Spective counties.
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more elegant house here But l wan.
neither. What l want is the house OF
my years of dreaming and the green
hill it stands upon. That is all my wife
and | and my little girls want. We feel
we can be happier there than in any
other house in the world, and believe
we can"
Yes, | am sure it is as my husband
says, remarked Mrs. Hughes, who had
been darning stockings while her hus-
band talked. Il want the house on the
HILL We are plain people. We have
been plain people all our lives, and it
would not be becoming for us to put on
the airs of fine folk now that we have
been lucky enough to inherit old Mr..
Hughes money and lands Besides we
should not be happy to depart too much
from the way we have been used to liv-
ing. The white house on the hill is Just
large enough, and If lived there am
perfectly sure l could not be happier
this side of Heaven.
oh! it does seem to good to be true.
And the white house on the green hill!
To think that l, Maggie Hughes, can
dare to think seriously now of ever liv-
ing in that beautiful place! Oh, it does
seem like a dream! l am afraid to go
to bed at nights for fear wake up some
morning and find that after all it is only
a dream.
But the lawyers of Paterson and Pas
hn CT I, & e.
that it is very substantial fact, and |
that they need have no fears of waking |
IN the morning.
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Bill Against Lobbyists.

Representative Sample has intro
duced bill in the house making lob
bying for special interests a misde-
meanor The bill defines lobbyist to
be person having a special interest
different in any respect from that of
the public or the community in which
he resides, in the passage or defeat of
any measure. The bill provides for a
fine of 800 or Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding twelve months, or both.
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State Teachers Association.

All arrangements have been made
for the State Teachers Association
meeting to take place at Jackson on
May 3, and next. Prof. T. P.
Scott, of Brookhaven, secretary, states
that all the railroads in the State will
give the usual reduced rate of single
fare, plus % cents to defray the cost of
preparing the round trip slip and Of
registering the same. 1t is estimated
that there will be 1,50O teachers in at
tendance.
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Will Not Be Accepted.

There is no likelihood of any action
being taken on the bill to accept from
the municipal authorities of Vicksburg
the Vicksburg Charity Hospital prop
erty. The majority of the house COM
mittee on humane and benevolent insti-
tutions was in favor of it, but that ma
jority was not large enough to justify
reporting it to the house, and so the
measure died in committee.
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HOUSE..

The effort of Chairman Eddins of the
house committee on education to have
the school book commissioners, for the
| term commencing after the expiration Of
| those of the present incumbents. ap
pointed by Gov. Vardaman instead of
the governor who would follow him into
office, was voted down by the house
Other features in connection with the
chapter on education which the house
considered were salaries of superintend-
ents, principals and assistant teachers.
Amendments were passed providing for
an increase in salaries all along the line:
the minimum salary for a county SUPER
intendent will be $3.50, while it NAV 90
as high as ST, 800. A strenuous effort on
the part of Representative East to have
section placed in the statute prohibit
ing any one from being a teacher who
was relative to any of the school di'
rectors was voted down, and the law
was allowed to remain as it is at pres.
ent.
After the most dramatic debate in th.
history of the present session of the
Legislature, the house adopted a new
law for the old. Under the present law
corporations, except banks and manufac-
turing companies, cannot own more than
$250,O00 worth of property. By the
amendment adopted in the house there
is no limit to the amount of personal
property all corporations can hold, and
they may, in addition, hold and own
land to the amount of 81, 100000, while
manufacturing corporations may own as
much personal PROPERTY as they please
and land to the amount of s2,Ooo,O0O.
Although 200 ladies, led by Mrs. All.
Longino, the wife of former governor
of Mississippi, swooped down on the
house and did some lobbying OF the leoit-
innate kind that would have driven
railroad lawyer to shame, the house bv
a narrow margin defeated the senate
bill to appropriate $4,000 for the Old
Woman's Home to be established in
Jackson. The measure had already
passed the senate with but one dissent.
ng vote.
Another senate measure that was
lilled by the house was an appropria.
ion of $4,000 to build science hall NJ
he State University.
A bill appropriating the sum of s1e4so
o deIray expenses In connection with
he entertainment of Judge Parker On
10 'ioi1 was passed on the rec
of the committee on con.
ingent funds.
When the proposition was made to the
ouse, backed by the Endorsement of the
judiciary committee, to raise the sal.
rles OF the members of the lower BODY
rom $400 to $500 for regular session
representative Errington made a three,
minute speech against it that drew from
iembers convulsive shrieks of laughter
fter he sat down vote was taken ana
he proposition was defeated, the lec;s.
!tors deciding that they were not en-.
tied to the change.