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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-23
Pntti's First Audience.

Adelina Patti once gave the follow
ing account of her first audience: At
six years of age | was prima donna
of the nursery. When | had been put
to bed on my return home with my
father and mother from the opera
used to make sure that they and the
rest Of the family were asleep, and
then would hop out from beneath the
counterpane and fancy myself great
cantatrice, bowing before the plaudits
Of a huge audience. | admit my audi
ence was Il little apathetlc, but, after
all, that is not to be wondered at, for
they were only row Of dolls which l
had ranged on chairs before me.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-23
A NATION LOCKS on
Harrisburg. Oct. %.

Just two weeks from today the vot
ers of Pennsylvania will be called upon
to go to the polls and decide whether
they shall be enrolled as members OF
the party of Republicanism. the party
of Roosevelt and the party OF Pros
perity, or be enlisted with the Democ-
racy, the party Of Organism, Hearst
ism and uncertainty and demoraliza-
ton In governmental and business con-
ditions.
The verdict of Pennsylvania, given
on Tuesday, November 5th, will be q
verdict that will be fraught with ma
tional significance, that will mean
much In its bearing upon the great
presidential contest which will begin
Immediately after the result Of this
election shall be announced. and which
win determine whether Pennsylvania
IS to be a potential factor in framing
the policies and in selecting the nomi-
nee Of the next Republican national
convention.
The greater the majority for the
nominee of the Republican party, the
greater will be the emphasis with
which the voters OF the state will her
aid to the world their continued fealty
to the administration and the cause Of
Republieanism in the natien.
While reports of the most enceurag-
ing character are being received by
Chairman Andrews at the Republican
state headquarters. II is also fact that
great danger is apprehended from a
feeling of over confidence which exists
among the great rank and fle Of the
Republican voters. The fact that tie
party is united. that there Is no fusion
movement in any county in the steie
and that the organizations OF the Lin
coin Party and other independent ele-
ments have disintegratsd, naturally
gives a feeling Of security to the coun-
ty and precinct committeeman of the
Republican party.
Dancer In Over-confidence.
But Il Is Just such condition OF af.
fairs that leads old-time campaign
managers to be concerned about the
polling of the Republican vote. TAX
inc il for granted Nthat victory wa
assured. has resulted in many defeat
A great falling off of the Republics
vote. even though the candidate 10
state treasurer shall be elected, would
from the standpoint Of national poll
tics be a Republican defeat In Penn
fylVsnia this fall.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-23

On famous rifle range there was
an important team match one day,
and the men were firing in pairs, one
for each team, side by side. The best
shot on the home team was given to
aiming so long that bets were made on
whether or not he had gone to sleep at
the firing point. Presently he with
drew his head from the stock of his
rifle, lowered the barrel and asked his
opponent in low voice.
Did l fire or did you?"-Forest and
Stream.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-23
PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL
ELECTION.

Whereas, In and by the act of the Gen
eral Assembly of the Commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to amend
the tenth section of an act, entitled 'Ar
Act to regulate the nomination and elec.
ton of public officers, requiring certain
expenses incident thereto to be paid by
the several counties and Furnishing GER
tain offenses in regard to such elections,
approved the 26th day of June, a. D..
1895, 1t is made the duties of the Sheriff
of every county within this Common
wealth to give public notice of the Gen
cral Elections, and In such to-
l. Enumerate the officers to be elected
and give list of all the nominations
made as provided in this act, and to be
voted for in such county, and the full
text of all constitutional amendments
submitted TO a vote of the people, but
the proclamations posted in each cleo
ton district need not contain the names
of any candidates but those TO be voted
for in such district.
IL. Designate the place at which the
election is TO be held.
III. He shall give notice that every
person, excepting Justices of the Peace,
who shall hold any office or appointment
or profit or trust under the government
of the United States, or of this State, or
of any city, or Incorporated district,
whether a commissioned officer or other
wise, a subordinate officer or agent who
is or shall be employed under the legis-
lative. executive or judiciary depart
ments of this state, or of the United
states. or of any city, or incorporated
district, and also that every member OF
Congress and of the State Legislature
and of the select or common council of
any city. or commissioners of any incor-
porated district. is by law incapable of
holding or exercising at the same time
the office or appointment of judge, in
spector or clerk of any election of this
Commonwealth, and that no inspector,
Judge or other officer of any such cleo
ton shall be eligible to any office to be
then voted for, except that of an cleo
ton officer.
l, Alonzo w. Stroup, High Sheriff OF
the County of Forest do hereby make
known and give this public notice TO the
electors of the County of Forest that a
General Election will be held in said
County on
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-23

What fatigues the motive power is
getting to work. Once the mind is fas-
cinated and the field of consciousness
restricted TO single object the brain
works without eXhausting itself. Let
us apply ourselves for n good time to
whatever we do and have several hours
of sustained labor. BY quitting the
task to dream, to smoke cigarette or
to watch fly one becomes exhausted.
Paris Revue.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-23
ARTICLE VIII.
st-FFRAGE AND ELECTION.

Sec L Every male citizen twenty-one
years of age. possessing the following
qualifications, shall be entitled TO vote
at all elections:
First-He shall have been citizen OF
the United States at least one month.
Second-He shall have resided IN tne
state one year, (or, if having previously
been a qualified elector or native porn
citizen of the State he shall have re-
moved therefrom and returned, then SIX
months,) Immediately preceding the cleo
tion. -,
Third-He shall have resided in the
election district where he offers to vote
at least two months Immediately preced-
ing the election.
Fourth-If twenty-five years OF age OF
upwards, he shall have paid within TWO
wears n state or county tax which shall
have been assessed at least two months
ana raid at least one month before cleo
ton.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-23
Closing Out Sale of
CARPETS AND RUGS

A Remarkable Offering to Cash Purchasers
S2OOOO.OO Worth of Dependable Floor
Coverings of Highest Grades to be Closed
Out. Actual Cost no Consideration.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-23

Mrs. Longworth calls her walking
suits "slinkers,' name that may not
be unfamiliar to women as it is to
most men.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
Motoring over the simplon.


The Swiss passes are gradually be-
ing opened to motor traffic The latest
to abandon prejudiced ways is the
Simplon, but coupled with this CON
cession to progress the authorities OF
the Wallis Conton make certain slip
ulations. including the by no means
agreeable one that when meeting pc
destrians, cattle or horse-drawn We
hicles the man at the wheel must
steer toward the outer edge Of the
road away from the protection Of the
inner curve toward the usually I'M
protected side bordering on the preci-
pice.
Considering the dangerous nature Of
mountain motoring at it's best, one
may well be excused if this rule does
not tend to alacrity in taking this way
into Italy. more especially as non
observance Of this regulation is pun
ishable by the infection of fines vary
ing from so to 500 francs on first con
viction and double that amount
afterward The permit of FIVE francs
thrifty Swiss) can be obtained at the
gendarmerie at Brig and Grondo, on
either side of the pass.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
Ether a Festive Drink in RussIa.

The habit of ether drinking is ex-
tremely prevalent in some parts of
Russia, as of East Prussia, and all
the efforts of the authorities to com
bat the evil have hitherto been almost
fruitless.
An idea of the extent to which the
habit prevails may be gathered from
reports given in the Russian newspa-
pers of a recent accident which &C.
Cured at place called Trossno.
Ether is drunk by farmers on festive
occasions, when it appears to be con-
sumed in pailfuls. A farmer celebrat-
ing his sons wedding in the fullness
of his hospitality got in two pals Of
ether. During the process of decant-
ing the ether into bottles violent ex-
plosion took place, by which six chill
dren were killed and one. adult was
dangerously and IA others more or
less severely injured.-F Doctor.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
BASED FAITH ON QUANTITY.
Quality Here Was Evidently Out Of
the Question.

DR.. ]. Allen Smith, of Seattle, ad-
vises the young not to marry until
the present era of high prices is in
some way bettered. Discussing high
prices the other day, DR.. Smith said:
"one gets for ones money now the
same value that the man got from the
druggist.
"'Give me, sir, said this man, bit
terly. ten pounds of your fly poison
Ten pounds?' said the druggist.
That is rather large order isn't ito
Ives, l know 1t is, said the man
but you see, liked that half pound
bought here yesterday extremely we'll
l gave it to fly. and he seemed to
relish 1t at first, but toward evening
1t made him quite i'll. l propose to
keep up the treatment for week, for
I think that in the end may manage
to kill him."
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
WHEN LOVE BEGINS TO COOL.
Dire Significance of Wife's Failure to
Meet Husband.

william Dean Howells," said a
magazine editor. "is one of the few
men of mark and genius who admit
that love-the love that exists before
marriage-dies after it. 1t takes
courage to admit this truth, for it is
a sad one.
"And talking rather sadly about it,
l once heard Mr.. Howells narrate a
conversation between a young hus-
band and wife of Long Branch.
"The young couple had been mar
ried in the winter in New York, and
they were now spending the summer
at the seashore. The pretty wife in
her white gown, walking on the
beach beside her husband, tossed her
head and said:
"'Well, what if l don't come to
meet you every night at the station
any0longer, what does it signify?
"The husband smiled sadly.
"That we have been married five
months, he said"
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
INSERTED BY WIFE
DOCTOR SUICIDES

,,or;dian. Miss, Sept. 15,-T. j.
.,raa aged 20, son Of DR.. 9. NJ.
+ I, If Laurel, committed suicide
4 (. room of the Southern hotel
I'm today, by taking morphine.
c1a Young mans rash act was the
rssult Of dependency, due, it is
Ia 70 the fact that his beautiful
.0nno wife of week had returned
! ber parents home, never to live
s,tb him again One week ago
rno Hide and Miss Clara Shelby,
,yvaars old, a daughter of N. B..
shslby., of Ellisville, Miss, banker
"a capitalist Of that place, and
tooun in financial circles Throughout
III section of the South, were
married in Tuscaloosa, where, it is
aid she had been sent to school by
her, narents. 1t was Gretna Green
marriage the suit of young Hyde
heinz opposed by the young lady's
family. The youthful bride and
Sroo,n are said to have gone from
tuscaloosa to Hattiesburg, where
HYDE had position as pharmacist.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
WILLIE HAD NEEDED ORDER.
Garment of His Friend Tommy Jones
Came in Handy.

There is a certain little boy who
will be known to fame as Willie
Smith, simply because his name is
neither Willie nor Smith. He has a
friend whom we will call Tommy
Jones for the same good reason.
Willie Smith is very fond Of going
swimming. and, tradition to the con-
trary, he goes with his mothers per-
mission. His. papa visited the swim
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
'WARE THE FoUR.EYgp JUNK.
Only to Be Seen at Night-Death and
Pestilence in Her Wake.


II the ghostly proa is the South sea
version of the Swimmer the follow
Ing story might be considered as the
chinese or Japanese version of the
Flying Dutchman, save that it lacks a
motive for the course. It comes from
out of the Yellow sea, where the wa
ter fairly sizzles with romance and
devilment, says the New York Her
aid. The story of the Four-Eyed Junk
IS known in the islands Of Japan. in
the Philippines, down through the
Malacca straits to India and even to
Mauritas. All Foo, the three-eyed COM
mands her.
A Chinese junk. she was originally
manned by the ghosts Of a rebeuions
mandarin and his bodyguard, who
keep watch and ward over the pearl
fisheries they guarded during their
lives. Since the advent of the white
man In those waters the crew was
changed, and now she is freighted
with crew of Malays, "Chinks,"
Lascars and what not. All the off.
scourings Of the seven seas have. in
course of time, been added to her
original complement. She is only to
be seen at night, when she floats
from moon-splashed wave to moon
splashed wave, all silently, save for
the rattle of primitive block and
tackle or the eerie flap of the great
mat sail. Death and pestilence are in
her path, so if you run across her in
those seas beware.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
MADE USE OF Her LEGACY.
Aunt's Request of Use to Ease Niece's
Feeling.

When people asked Miss Amanda
Green what she received from her
aunt in the city as a legacy, Miss
Green always smiled grimly and step
ped toward her fireplace.
aunt always said she should re-
member me in her WILL" Miss Green
would say, "and although l knew the
family traits, / did calculate on few
hundred dollars, she being worth
somewhere up in the hundred thou
sands. But what she didn't leave to
her son all went to the college where
he got his education.
1T was stated in the viii that l
was to choose any remembrance
from among the household furnish.
ings that l wished.
Il chose this pair O. bellows" and
Miss Green would lift well-worn
article from the peg where it hung
Some folks wouldn't sense the fun
I've got out o. these old things. Aunt
Rebeeca wouldn't ever let 'em be
used for fear they'd start the fire III
too much I've sat over dying blaze
in her forenoon with my eyes or
this pair o. bellows till 1t seemed as
if my gaze would fetch EN- right of
their hook!
''Now l take 'em down, even wher
'tisnt necessary, and l work 'em bach
and forth hard as / can, and it ease:
my feelings so that by the time hans
EN- up I'm ready to say: Poor OLE
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
oLD-rIME LETTER WRITgRs.
Scared to Wonderful Heights In Talk.
ing Of Plain Facts.

Another wonderful thing about the
letter writer's, especially the female
letter writer's, of this engaging period,
is the wealth of hyperbole in which
they rioted. Nothing is told in plain
terms. Tropes. metaphors and SMILES
adorn every page, and the supreme
elegance of the language is rivaled
only by the eiusiveness of the idea,
which is lost in an eddy of words.
Marriage is always alluded to as the
'hymenial TORCH or the "hymenial
chain or "hymenial emancipation
from parental care" When Mrs. Mon
tagu writes to Mr.. Gilbert West, that
miracle of the Moral World" to con-
dole with his govt, she laments that
his writing hand. first dedicated to
the MUSES., then with maturer judg-
Solyma, should be led captive by the
cruel foe" If Mr.. West CHANGED not
to know who or what the Nymphs of
Solyma were, he had the intelligent
pleasure of finding out. Miss Seward
describes Mrs. Tighe's sprightly
charms as "Aonian Inspiration added
to the cestus of Venus and speaks
of the elderly ladies of Langollen" as
lin all but the voluptuous sense, Ar.
midas of it's bowers" Dueling is
to her "the murderous punctillo
of Luciferian honor" A Scotch
gentleman who writes verse is "a
"Cambrian Orpheus;" Lichfield
gentleman who sketches is "oul
Lichfield Claude;" and a budding
clerical writer is our young saeerdo
tai Marcellus." When the Swan
wished to apprise Scott of DIR. Oar
wins death, it never occurred to hel
to write, as we in this dull age should
do: Or. Darwin died last night" or
Poor Dr. Darwin died last night.
She wrote: "A bright luminary in this
neighborhood recently shot from his
sphere with awful and deplorable sud
denness," thus pricking Sir Walters
imagination to the wonderpoint before
descending to facts.-Harper's
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
TWENTY
ARE KILLED

White River Junction, VT. Sept.
ia fearful head-on collision be-
tween the bound Quebec ex
press and a north-bound freight
train on the Concord division az
Boston and Main Railroad oeeurre,
fonr miles north Of Canaan Static
early today due to mistake ia
train dispatchers orders and from
"A demolished passenger coach there
was taken out twenty -four dead and
dying and twenty seven other pas
Esenfers, most of them seriously in
joured, Nearly all of those who
We're in the death car We're return
ing from a fair at sherbrooke. Que.
bee, sixty miles north.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
FELT HE HAD KICK COMING.
Shoppers Complaint About as Reason.
able as Many Others.


While we were going down in the
Subway the other morning we met a
friend, says writer in the New York
Times. He was standing before an
advertisement with rapt expression
on his face-no, gentle reader that is
not Teddied spelling for rapper-and
the only greeting he vouchsafed us
was Read the last line Of this adj
vertisement." 1t was an advertise
ment for certain make of rubber
heels and the line which had, igura-
lively speaking, caught our friends
eye read as follows:
"For sale at all good stores; 90
cents attached"
well, what about it?" we asked.
Nothing, except that it's an abso-
Lutte, downright, disreputable fake"
was the response. Il found that out
the other day when bought a pair
Of them on the strength of this adj
ve-tisement."
~ ed was the matter with themY
was ~ next query.
"oh, there was nothing the matter
with the heels themselves" answered
our friend, cheerfully But the Of
cents wasn't attached"
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
searehIlahts at Niagara.

Effective use has been made from
time to time of searchlights at Nj
agara for Illuminating the gorge, etc.
Citizens of Niagara Falls now propose
to make a regular installation for the
purpose, and an Illuminating expert
is giving his attention to the sub
ject At night Niagara is not seen
except under moonlight, and it is be-
lieved that some very beautiful effects
can be obtained by throwing artificial
daylight on the scene, with color
transitions.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
unfIatterlnn Impreaalona.

Prof Chamberlain. the great Eng
lish authority upon all things Japan
ese, says; From hints dropped by
several educated, and from the still
more interesting, because frankly
naive, remarks made by Japanese
servants whom have taken with me
to Europe at different times, l found
that the travelled Japanese consider
our three most prominent character
istics to be dirt. laziness and super
Etitfon"
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
WAYS or THE sPENDrHRIFr.
Peculiar Means of Purchasing Immu.
nifty from Boredom.


An epigrammatic Frenchman once
said that God showed His contempt
for wealth by the kind of people He
gave it to. A number of young spend
thrifts have startled New York this
season by new forms of folly in the
waste Of money One young man Gre
ated passing furore by tying So bills
to the tails of dogs. Evidently he did
not realize when he began the extent
Of the canine census in the metropolis
and he was compelled finally to dis
appear.
schoepenhauer dwells upon the two
great torments that afflict mankind
the fear of want among the poor and
the dread of boredom among the rich.
The fantastic expenditure of money is
one way Of purchasing immunity from
ennui.
On one occasion New York clerk,
unaware of the resources of the seem
ingly plebeian guest, demanded pay
ment in advance for the room, as the
visitor had no trunk.
In that case" said Coal Oil Johnny,
TIL have them sent around"
Then he went to a railway ware
houae, where unclaimed trunks were
stored. He bought 300 of these, had
them loaded on trucks and returned
With them to the hotel.
Here is my baggage" he said to
the astonished clerk, take care Of IT"
A new field Of usefulness might be
opened to men of imaginative minds If
they would devise for people more IA
'Qred with money new forms of spend
lasit-Harold Bolce, in Uncle Remus'
Magazine.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
zE SPICE OF DANeAIRE.
Polite Frenchman Ready to Accommo-
date English Guest.

nc" said the self-assertive English
man. I must say the foreign idea of
sport Is something / cannot under
SAND You are all right in ballroom
on the tennis lawn, but my idea of
zeal Enjoyment is something with a
spce Of danger in it. All, when l was
y Africa, after lions and tigers and
aspnants, that was time of real, I'M
aanlerated bliss for mel"
On said his exceedingly polite
french host, monsieur prefers the
'plce Of danger-is it not SOP
most decidedly do; the more dan
sst The better | like it.'f
men think l can oblige m'sieu.
'0morrow you must come out wiz me
7 snoot The danger is great--it is
%ssn'neent. Re last time l fire l did
.auot mine prudder-in-law in zevatyou-
III. = petite Maryi" - Parsons
" '~Nhlls
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19
LOYALTY THAT is REAL.
True Friendship One of the Most
Sacred of Earthly Things.

What is more sacred in this world
than our friendships? One of the
most touching things know of is the
office of real friend to one who is
not friend to himself-one who has
lost his self-respect, his self-control
and fallen to the level of the brute
All, this is friendship, indeed, which
will stand by us when we will not
stand by ourselvesl / know man
who thus stood by friend who had
become such slave to drink and all
sorts of vice that even his family had
turned him out of doors, says a writer
In Success Magazine. When his fa-
Their and mother and wife and chill
dren had forsaken him, his friend re-
NAMED loyal. He would follow him
nights in his debauches, and many a
time saved him from freezing to death
when he was so inebriated that he
could not stand. Scores of times this
friend would leave his home and hunt
in the slums for him to keep him from
the hands of policeman and to shield
him from the cold when every one
else had forsaken him; and this great
love and devotion finally redeemed the
fallen man and sent him back to de-
cency and to his homea Can any
money measure the value Of such de-
votion?
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-19

something of a Comet on the Way.
those Of us who live three years or
Y onger may expect to see comet
IMPAIRED with which our present Wis
Aaat is scarcely worth mentioning.
This wonder of the skies is "Hal-
wy Comet" which, after its mighty
e'cult through space, has for CEN
a'les paid US regular visits at an
~1eryal of about rs years. On its last
appearance, in 1895, its brilliant disc
'aa naming tail, spanning the heav-
'us like an arch of fire, created the
Greatest excitement.
smother remarkable comet of last
1n'ury was that of 1911, which for
s'eral weeks blazed brilliantly in
HI northern sky. This comet, which
~ credited with tail 100000, 600
Flles long, more than long enough to
Aelrcle the earth 5000 times, mar.
'.pgiy escaped collision with the sun,
faces ''si '
ne comet of 1861 was chiefly re-
s.a'kaple for the fact that the earth
s'sseo--without anyone being a whit
'-s Eorse-through its tail