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Forest Republican.
VOL. XXVII. NO. 40. TIONESTA, PA.. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23, 1895. $1.00 PER ANNUM.
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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
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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
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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"