,. " ' Forest Republican. VOL. XXVII. NO. 40. TIONESTA, PA.. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23, 1895. $1.00 PER ANNUM. THE FOREST REPUBLICAN It lHsk4 rrtrj Waa.aiar, ky J. E. WENKi Cffioa la Brctarbaoch A Co.'fe BaDdliij M1M ITJUT, TIORBSTA, T. , r; Trm, . i. IU9 ptrTttr, H rvrtpit ntrtnA fat skartw Mites' ta. tar ai.ntaa. eomiimdiiM Mlletta4 fna al carta at th fiT- N aaUoa wUI a taksa at unraoui owmiBkaUsaa. RATIS OP ADVEftriSMOt On. Ekrnara, on. inota, en tnsartfaa. , M On. Square, on. Inch, ooa montn..., IMj Ona Bquara, on. inch, tora. months. 0a Ona Hquara, on. inch, on. year.... .. MM Two Hquarav on. yaar 1 00 Quartw Column, ona yar. "0C Half Column, ona yaar BOM Una Column, ona yaar. -.- 100"q Legal adrtiaanuooi tew oat paC Iht4 aoh Insertion. I Marriage and daath nottoM mats. All bll. for t Bar It advertlsamanta quarterly. Temporary adverUseaMBBi Da nam in aavnno. Job on delivery. The population of the German Em pire is increasing at the rate of 500, OCX year, Dr. Edward Everett Hale says thai only eleven per oont. of the America! people sro illiterate. English courts have dcoided thai engagements rings are not rooovor able at law. A Vermont court hole ther wore. -' inoplo who livo beyond thoiw . ,.mw -i ij . i.i 1 1 j i Li ynjiufi their debts have been blacklisted in Vienna, Austria, by a darinff pub- mrnm ami ni. va,. in. U i- . : ' liBhojr. A book containing thoil names has met with a big sale. . The old Lincoln luimnflfAAd. nnnr " Ilodgenville, Laruo County, Ky., where Abraham Linooln was born, it to be purchased by an association oi tho citizens of Hodgonville and mado into pnblio park. Tho homestead is now known as the Creal Farm, and lies about two and a half miles south of Hodgcnvillo. An eloctrio railway is to be built out to tho farm, announces the Now York Sun, and in a general way it is intended as another Mount Vernon. Creameries scattered over many parts of tho East are making consider, ftble change in the conditions of farm ing, the Chicago Horald takes note. The dairy is becoming more and more important, and poor farms aro en riohed by tho presence of many cattle. The creamerios buy milk by the hun dred pounds and farmers like the simplioity of this wholesale trade. Meanwhile there is a constant interest in creamery prices and local news papers publish quotations from time to time as news items. Certain tables of longevity just pub lished in England by Professor Humphreys leavo the whole matter pretty muoh ii the dark. Of the 821 casos in which tho subjects -, have reached ague varying from eighty to over a hundred years, one-third were small eaters, and only one-tenth ap pear to have had robuht appetites. Physioiane, as a class, were found to fall below the average age. The usual directions for prolonging life by diet, sleep and cxeroiso are not strikingly confirmed by those tables, maintains the New York Tribune? A notable example of a big result produced by small means is found in the fact that lead penoil nsers have .whittled away several big forests of 1 - A J T . . w . neuar vrees in rmrope, ami mo supply of wood suitable for leud pencils is praotioally exhausted in "ijie OJd. World. An order has just bteri plaoedi by a notod .German firm ot.penbil makers with a California lumber com pany . for a largo quantity of soquoia wood, which is.found to be tho best wood now ovailablo for pencils. The sequoia is the big tree of California. It seems too bad to the New York Sun that the grand old giants should be sacrificed, and especially that their end should be lead pouoil shavings. The London Times eavs that the Manchester ship canal is both, a financial and commercial failure. It was onened eleven months airoitml it is not doing as muoh business now as at first. It is stated that tho gross receipts of tho cuaal for a year will be IfiRfl than 4(10.000 llit Onmirrh tn now . , B r J,J the interest on the first debentures. i The city of Manchester in building this canal, whioh has oost upward of 825,000,000, expected that ships carrying cotton and other merchandise would use the canal and uuload their enrjjocs ot Manchester docks, instead of at Liverpool ; but upon the com pletion of the canal. tha .railroad ' mediately reduce' A VOICK lPnOM THE NIOHT, O heron, from the lonely shore Dnooaalngly thy err, Ill-boding, dismal, harsh, Arises through the mist of night TW gathers deep and cold and white Upon the silent marsh. Dim, drifting shron that foldod U Around mr door. What shadow of the future's needs Dismays thy simple hnart, Poor dweller In the fog? What evil spirit of unrest Disturbs the quiet of thy nest Beyond tb tussoeked bog? Do demons even ply tholr art Among the roeds? Perhaps thy bright-eyed mats Is led Across the winding oreek, Bel oted, tired of wing. Then grieve not I Soon thy loving note As baaoon'i blaze to storm-tossed boat The wanderer will bring. O heron, oan the words I speak Recall the dead? O heron on the lonely shore, Tho east Is gray above ; Tby watch Is well nigh done, And gentle dawn will bring thee sleep, While I my endless vigil keep, Unwelcoming the sun ; For she, my light, my life, my love. Will come no more. H. Presoott Beaoh, In LIpplnoott, ON EVEN TERMS. - OU appear to forget that this fellow Vanghan has the reputation of being ono of the most des perate crimi&alsthat ever stepped. 'King of the Coiners' he is rightly named ; bnt it is chiefly because he is at the head of dangerous gang. And beoause. by a luoky chance, you have found out tLat he is living in private lodgings under an assumed name, makes it. none the less risky for ns two alone to attempt his capture." It was in a decidedly dissatisfied tone that Mr. Roche, the detective, urged upon his superior officer the hazardous nature of the business they were upon ; but Arnold Uond merely smiled good humorexlly as he re sponded: Whatever risk there mar be. Roche, I think I shall faoe. And as I expect to take our man entirely by surprise, in the very bosom of his family, I don t anticipate muoh resist ance. Still, I am prepared for it, and don't think that he will easily give us the slip. Por the rest, you will simply earry out my instructions." The two detectives knooked at the door of an unpretentious looking house in a quiet street of the east end of London. Almost immediately, a rospootable looking woman opened tho door, and, stepping back, said, before Bond could speak : . "Ah, sir. I don't believe they ex ported yon again to-night; but it's well you've come, for the poor mite is very bad, they say." With the ever ready wit of a shrewd detective, quick to take advantage ot the slightest error, Bond instantly checked, tho exclamation of surprise which sprang instinctively to his lips, and, stepping in, quietly observed : ' "Indeed I I am sorry to hear thai Our usual friend oould not come him self, but, as his partner, I thought it advisable to look in again. Let me see Mrs, Sutton, eeoond floor, is it not?" Neither of the detectives soaroe ven tured to breathe as they anxiously waited to see the result of this rather haphazard remark. "Oh, I took you for Dr. Dalton his- self, sir I Yes, eeoond floor. It's rather durk, but I daresay you oan find, your way np. Lor' I I never knowed beforp as how tho doctor had a partner. "This guutleman is merely a friend of mine. If you don t mind, he will wait for me in the passage. I don't suppose I shall ba many minutes," Bond said, inwardly chuckling with satisfaction at the luoky mistake which had, undoubtedly, saved him and his companion no little at the outset. Leaving rhis subordinate who b-' previously recoived -ixi in-" Ptt tious Arnold Bo-'a net .Does to ing a little The bed was oooupied by a little girl of about six years ot age, who, it needed no second glance to peroeive was very near to death indeed. She was wide awake, staring in mute ter ror from the dotoctive to her father and back again. Nor did the white face of the coiner's wife, who stood trembling by the bedside, express much less alarm than the child's. "Lot's clear out before you frighten my young 'an to death," said the coiner, in a quieter voice. "Never mind, Jess," he went on, turning to the ohild and speaking in such a ten der and soothing tone that Bond stared with astonishment, "Perhaps, soon, I shall come back, and then you'll be better, and we will" Vaughn's voice faltered, and he poused. "Ah, take him away, eir.ibnt don't hurry him over what he very well knows must be the last goodby he'll ever say to his child I What hope there may have been you'll take with you but to take it at this moment The wretched mother, unable to ar ticulato another word, sank into a chair, hid her face in her hands, and gave way to a sudden outburst of grief. "Is the gentleman going to take you away, then, daddy?" the child said freely. "Oh, don t go! I do so want you to-night." Then. looking at the detoctive with gseat, earnest eyes, little Jess continued, half indignant ly, half pathetically: "How would your little girl like you. to be taken away if she was ill, and wanted you to stop with her dreadfully bad?" An involuntary smile gathered for one brief instant on the stern counte nance of Bond. "it's true, worso lnek," whispered the coiner, stepping near his captor. I'oor little beggar, sue s mighty bad, and the doctor says the next few hours means life or death. More'n anything she's got to be kept particular quiet. so let's dear out and leave 'cm ; and, please Qod, I'll see her again yet. xes, my prince oi traps, you oan see what makes me such, a miserable cow ard, eh?" As if ashamed of the tremor in his speeob, the coiner turned, and, tak ing down his hat, crushed it npon his head and approached the door with a rigid countenance and twitching lips. Apparently, be dared not trust him self to take even a farewell look at his child. But, as Arnold Bond moved toward the door also, his glanoe fell for an instant upon the thin, white faoe of little Jess, who bad already fallen back exhausted.' - She was gazing steadily at her father, who, however, kept his faoe carefully averted. The pitiful, plead ing expression in the siok child's eyes struck mo detectives to the heart, for it was a look whioh expressed more eloquently than any words the bitter disappointment she felt at seeing one she evidently dearly loved about to bo- taken from her this night of all nights. The detective paused abruptly, hes itated a moment, and then the reso lute expression on his features soft ened suddonly, and he said, in a half jocular tone, to hide the emotion ha oould not entirely conceal : . "Stay, Vaughan; I can't do it after all. I oan't take such, a cruel advan tage of even you at a time like this 1 That's all and good night." "Bovtd, Bond," cried the king of the coiners, springing forward as he recovered from his momentary stupe faction, "Heaven prosper you for this ! Bad as I oinVj hope I'll be able to give you your rewaijL for this, if it's years to come. " A 'moment laterthe dete'otive hod gone. He had saericed an"-opportu-nity of adding enormously to his rep utation. ;-. . " N; It was a year later before M6 ajathor itiessuoceededin discovering the "fao tory" where Vaughau and his confed erates turned out the cleverly made counterfeit coins which had so low been passed with impunity in quarters of the metropolis But after infinite ' found out all he w" one Light he sur the oounterfei' Bond got w door, and ' neatlgja w'an " the beams whioh supported the floor ing above. The detective now reoognized to the frill extent the really serions nntnre of his position ; and, half dazed by the terrible calamity whioh had so suddenly befallen him, was giving lip all hopo of escape, when for the first time the leader of the gang Michael Vaughan himself spoke. "Leave him to me, lads, and get you along while you may. There's not a jiffy to lose. Hark I hear tht traps I They're breaking in already." "We don't go until we've choked the life out of the rat. Who's pnt 'em on our trail? Run him np sharp and have him a pleasant surprise to his friends," replied one ot the ruf fians. With these words the unfortunate officer was jerked ofT his feet, but at the same moment Vaughan matched up a formidp.blo knife and at a single stroke severed the rope above hishead. "I'm with you, Mr. Bond," ejacu lated Vaughan, with grim determina tion stamped upon his white faoe. "Aha! see how my mutinous ciew sink back from your bulldog) And by all that's lucky for us- both, hore come your men. Another minute's delay and I reckon it would have gone a bit hard for us both." Almost before he had finished speaking the long cellar-like room be came for a short space a scene of des perate struggling, the walls echoing a chorns of savage cries and shouts. Of all the msmbers of the gang their leader alone offered no resistance, but lapsed into moody silenoe. Only when the opportunity offered did he whisper in the dotcotive's ear "You see, I haven't forgotten what I once promised, sir, although yon only had a smasher's word for it. Perhaps you didn't know it, but I reckon you had tho life of my little Jess in your hands that night a year ago, and maybe you'll agree now that I've paid a fair prioe for it. As for me but there, we're on even terms once more." London Tit-Bits. A Defense of Dirt. Every few years somebody raises the question whether St. Paul's Cathe dral in London ought not to be deansed from the soot with which it is en crusted, and restored to something like its primitive whiteness. Some time ago an experiment of the sort was made on one of the porticos, which forthwith assumed a mottled or pie bald appearance. Now the matter has come np for discussion again, and the following interesting point is made in a letter to the Times by a well known arohiteet: "I have had the opportu nity, when examining some of our London stone-faced "churches,, of re moving the ooat of dirt with a view of seeing the condition ot the stone nn der it, and have found it to be perfect. The casing of dirt appeared to be made chiefly of road dust which had adhered to the stone (only the outer coat of all being gray black). All the deleterious chemicals must have gone out of the lower layer, so that the dirt was a per fect protection. If it were all cleaned off, the stone would be subjeoted to the strong chemicals in our London atmosphere. It must be remembered that this dirt only adheres to the parts which aro not completely washed by the rain, and that it is just these parts, therefore, which are in most need of protection. If at some future time the atmosphere of London should be as pure as the atmosphere of the coun try is now, it might be wise to act on the suggestion, but uutil that time comes I sincerely trust that no such experiment will be made." Washing ton Star. . -By Balloon. Perhaps the North Pole mar be reached in a balloon. The a"- has been mooted and may l out ioHhanear with DECAPITATIONS IN CHINA. HOW CONVICTS ARE BEHEADED ACCORDING TO CHINESE LAW. Slfc-n of the Red Cross-Formidable Sword Wielded by the Kxectitlon cr Strangling a Prisoner. THE execution of the two Japanese spies whom we Americans delivered up to the Chinese, and the decapi tation of a mon-of-wr's captain ao cuscd of cowardioo in the sea fight off I'ing-iang, were reoent notable in stances of the nne of the headsman's sword here in China, writes Jnlian Ralph in Harper's Weekly. There have been other beheadings, for of fences growing out of the war and for the ordinary criminal offences, and these have lent a new interest to the subject, even to foreigners rosident in China, who frequently read of such punishment, bnt seldom witness them or hear them described. I h,ivr um so fortunate as to fall in with a dis tinguished European who witnessed the legal slaughter of a number of criminals in Pekin. The account he has given me of what he saw is so un like the popular idea of the methods of justioe here that I have written down the substanoe of it. "The official on duty on the morn ing of which I speak, having reached the mat shed, clothed in all the glory of a mandarin's dress button, neck lace, breast-oloth, aud all ordered the men brought before him one by one. The law says that in Bnch cases the oondomnod men shall admit their guilt, and ask that puniHhment be no longer deferred. Like almost all good law and almost all good lo.ic in China, this regulation is turned into mere ceremony and pretence. The prison ers neither say nor do anything, but a man who stands behind each one pushes him over, bumps his head on the ground and says, 'Yow.' This word, or one with that sound, means 'I want,' and the presiding mandarin understands it to have been uttered by the prisoner, and to mean, 'I want to be punished.' While the official tioks off the man's name npon the list be fore him, the man is pressed down upon the ground and a red cross is painted on his neck. This is done in order that the right head may be fitted upon the right body afterwards, if proof of the man's death it required for official entry. "The prisoner thus painted is pulled away to the exeoution ground, where the headsman is heating his swords in a great caldron of hot water. The swords are rather more like knives than swords. Each is a yard in length, half an inch thick at the edge, and an inch and a half or two inches thiok at the back. If you should weld together nine or ten of our heaviest axes, one- laid beyond tho other, you would make something like one of these knives. The victim is laid upon his face, and his legs are tied together. A long piece of whip-cord is looped under the man's jaw and tied into his pigtail. So much of its free end is left that two men go off with it to a distance and pull on it with all their might, while a third one sits on the condemned man's bock. The execu tioner seizes a knife and stands over the victim, whose neok is sceu to pall out and out and out. The knife falls, the head is severed, and fre quently the men who are pulling the whip-oord fall backward and roll half over, like tumblers in a circus. The executioner picks up the head " ' holds it towards the man'' ' looks at it oarelesslv makes a mark " front of him, he. SCIENTIFIC AfD INDUSTRIAL. ' Aluminum corrodes in salt water. A telephone line between Berlin and Vienna has been formally opened. Tho blood flows almost as freely through the bones as through the flesh of very young children. The hiccough nnt is a South African plant bearing an oblong fruit, the eat ing of which causes violent hiccough. A nartford (Conn.l man has in vented a now eloctrio motor, which he claims will run over 1G9 miles an hour. A steel ship has been constructed in Cardiff, Cornwall, with the standing rigging, as well as the hull, all of Bteel. Dr. Maxim is said to entertain tho hope that his aeroplane will be practi cal enough for general use before the close of this century. Antomatio machines have been do vised for use on a moving train which mechanioally record tho condition of every foot of the track. Riilroad authorities say that an or dinary locomotive has 300 horsepower and burns a ton of coke for eighty miles of passenger traiu travel. If man had been limited to the nse of his natural weapons of defense ho would long since have been beaten out of the contest by the animal king dom. Professor Bonney says that a fall of fifteen to twenty degrees F. in the average temperature would be suf ficient to account for all known glacia tion in the northern hemisphere. At a recent session of the central criminal court, London, a witness who was siilTering from a virulent affection kissed the Bible in tho usual way. The judge promptly ordered the book de stroyed. Air oan be frozen at a temperature of 293 degrees below zero, and the product, which can be handled and felt, burns, so to speak, with its ex cessive cold. Frozen air can be pro duced in any quantity, but its coBt, $500 a gallon, is likely to prevent a large business. The observations of twenty-five years, made in the Hay of .Bengal by tne Indian uovernment meteorolo gists, have shown that the . average temperature rises during years that sun spots are nnmerous and sink when thoy are few. When tire number of sun (spots exceeded the average the barometric pressure was less than its average. To protect iron or steel used in pipes, roofs, bridges or other con structions where it is liable to suffer from corrosion two important precau tions are necessary ; first, see that there is no Boale on thi metal to begin with, and second, paint it with nothing bnt pure linsoed oil and oxide ot lead or graphite paints. Of course, frequent inspection and oare are also required. A foreign journal statos that by a re cent order of the Russian admiralty petroleum will be tried as a fuel un der the boilers of the two new armored cruisers Rostialaff and Russia, now be ing built for tho Russian navy. These war vessels will bo the first to be sup plied with petroleum furnaoes, and a thorough test will be made of the value of this fuel before other ves"' ' fitted for its use. Elootrolytio " tion withi'J"" sups'- DO "YOU WANT? Do you want some rctil etat, L Or a box of piper collnrs' ' Do you lack a chick "n coop Or a pockotlul of dollars? Make an ad mako an ad. Do you want a billy goat ? Would you soli a houio and lot? Want to rent slumber yard Or a tea or coffee pot I Make an at make an s i. Have you got a horso to trade, Or a stovepipe, or a bell, Or a gold mine, or a store, Or a block of stock to sell? Make an nd make an ad. Printers' Ink. nUMOR OK THE DAY. Never try to make game of a tamo duck. A long head is a great help in pre venting a long face. Put a beggar on horseback and he'll run into debt. rnck. Charity covers u multitudo of sins ; justice uncovers them. No one has as much money as peo ple imagine. Atchison Globe. Of all the sad words to scribbling eranks, The saddest are these, ' Declined with thankg." Truth. A word to the wise is sufficient es pecially if they have chips on their shoulders. She "Do yon believe marriage is a mistake?" Ho "No; I am a baoh elor." Puck. Some "jokes" are so utterly bad that they are actually good. New York Tribune. Gushing is excusable in immature girls and oil wells. Pittjburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Kitty "Oh, Mr. Flirtly is so ten dor, isn't he?" Judith "Yes pre tender." Detroit Free Press. "Do you think Elsie will take hev millionaire for better or worse?" "No; for more or loss." Puck. Never judge a man by the clothes he wears ; form your ostimate from the clothes his wife wears. Puck. The man who has attained a high position must not think himself ex empt from the foroe of gravitation. One of the sweetest things in neck ties is a true love knot made by tho" girl's own hands. Philadelphia Times. Life ! real, life Is earnest, -And tha momenta speed away, , -In a manner fur too rapid When wa have a note to pay. Detroit Free Press. The man with nobody to care for is quite as badly off as the mon with no body to care for him. Galveston News. When a man makes a suooess of any ' thing, the oonoeit of other men is so great that they think they on do just as well Atchison Globe. When man begins to ollmb too fast With all his heart and soul, Invariably he finds at last He's climbed into a hole. If you oould condense the wisdom of ages into a single short sentonr couldn't get a young ma "" it for five minute' in th"
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