The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-12-18

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finished we'll short time ago on the
farm of his neighbor, George Allio. Nc
oil was found, and the drill was stopped
at S35 feet, where fairly good vein o.
gas was tapped that will supply hal
dozen homes for many years to come, SC
that Mr.. Wagner's venture has not been
altogether Improbable, while partially
satisfying his curiosity as to the exist
ence of oil in that immediate locality.
Whatever you do, don't be gump,
says Leigh Mitchell Hodges. You know
how some folks can't rest at all until
they've passed along all the unpleasant
news they happen to know. You know
some folks are regular bluing balls,
spreading pessimistic tales with false
notions that maybe they'll have the same
effect on people that bluing has on sheets
and pillow cases. Nobody ever whitened
the world this way, unless the hue comes
from folks turning pale at the pessimis-
tic outburst. The way to whiten the
world is to make it yellow with sunshine,
The more sunshine you pass along the
more comes back to you. 1t costs you
nothing, and even 1T did you'd get it all
back again with good interest added.
According to reports emsnating from
Harrisburg the state of Pennsylvania has
at least one source of considerable reve-
nue. of which it has never availed itself,
only to very limited degree. The un-
taxed taxable exists in nearly every
county in the shape OF invested funds OF
fraternal organizations that pay benefits
and distribute charities to their members
only. An opinion given by the auditor
generals department to the York county
commissioners Wednesday regarding the
taxation of invested funds of fraternal
and kindred organizations, will have the
effect of increasing the revenues of man =
counties of the state, when 1t becomes
widely KNOWN Few of the county COM
missioners of Pennsylvania apparently
are aware of the fact that the law requires
assessors to return to county commissions
ers the moneys held by lodges ofsIl kinds
not purely beneficial, which are earning
interest.
The postal picture card craze wakes
not nor wanes, says the Oil City Blizzard.
Almost every town in the United States
now has bits of its scenery, its public
buildings and many of its homes. These
pretty cards serve good purpose. The
charms and the genuine beauty of many
small town are exploited, and a knowl-
edge of the growing taste of the American
people is effectively shown. A knowl-
edge of geography is also impaired. But
one of tue best results is the bringing
back to memory of the elderly man and
woman of the old familiar scenes ofchild-
hood and youth. The old home, perhaps
the swimming hole, the old covered
bridge, hills once climbed and slid down,
streets once trodden by those now gone
forever, but warmly remembered. The
pictures of historic places are most val
liable for the rising generation, and the
wonderful advance in the art Of picture
making is shown in these cards in re-
markable degree.
The new law governing the killing o!
deer in the state ofPennsylyania has been
a great success in the best sense of the
word and the wisdom of confning the
killing of deer to one buck to the hunter
has been we'll vindicsted by the results at
the close of the open season this year.
The purpose of the Legislation was to pro-
tect human lives at the same time that
deer life was protected, to the end that
deer might become more plentiful in the
years to come, and that fewer hunters
might be killed by reckless shooting.
The new law made every hunter look
we'll to the object he meant to shoot at be-
fore doing so, and the fear of shooting a
doe kept hunters from recklessly firing
at shaking bushes or moving objects at
long distances away. The result is that
no men were killed in Pennsylvania and
only one doe deer killed in Central Penn
sslyanis, so far as heard from. -Ridgway
Democrat. Properly lived up to and
enforced the law is undoubtedly a sue
cess, yet in these whereabouts the scarcity
of deer of all kind and sexes has doubt
less had msch to do with the paucity Of
hunting accidents or incautious shooting
of fellow huntsmen.