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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20
Our Women Growing Plump.

Europeans generally concede that our
American women are handsome, though
they say they are so fragile that they
early lose their freshness, and with it
much of their beauty. They particu-
larly remark the tendency of their wom-
en- to the accumulation of flesh as soon
as they have passed their youth, and
often before that period. While we
must allow that our women are, for the
most part, lacking in roundness, there
are few of us, we imagine, who would
not infinitely prefer the New World
slenderness to the Old World stoutness.
A medium between the two might be the
standard of the becoming, and this
medium we seem to be approaching,
slowly, perhaps, but steadily. The opin-
ion of the thinn, IS of the feminine part
of the nation is based on rather what has
been than on what is. The majority of
our women are still too lean for beauty,
but they are far less lean than they were
twenty-five or even fifteen years ago.
This factor fact it unquestionably
is-can scarcely have escaped observa-
ton. 1t is noticeable everywhere par.
is due to different causes, all of which
are easily recognized. The freshness of
a people depends largely on the age and
development of their country. Where
everything is new, and, in e certain
ense, raw, as in this land, there is very
little leisure or repose. Our entire ener-
gies are directed to our advancement;
our minds are absorbed by thought of
the future and what it promises We
hardly take time to get flesh; we think
and fret of that which we have acquired
instead of acquiring more. Our wom-
en- Go not perform so much physical
labor as our men, but they work longer
in their way and worry more; and anx-
iety or any form of mental disturbance
insures meagerness as nothing else does.
These live too much through the mind to
live quite comfortably through the body,
and the body suffers in consequence. In
the Old World everything is fixed. The
future is not likely to be different from
the present; there is small occasion for
usefulness or sollcitude. Material con-
ditions are not usually so favorable there
as here, but they are permanent, and by
their permanence, especially by the clear
understanding that they are so, they be-
get content, whence adipose matter.
American women neither work nor
worry as they used The Republic is
more developed, things are more settled,
somewhat of the European feeling is
creeping into the national mind, and
less thinness is the result.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20
Assessing the Creditors.

THE Atchison (Kan) Champion tells
this story to illustrate how the position
of creditor of bankrupt became ex-
ceedingly undesirable: "A year or two
ago cigar-house in this city became
bankrupt and an assignment was duly
made by the proprietor to a prominent
attorney. The stock on hand was not
sufficient to carry on Presidential cam
paign, and the liabilities were something
over $4,000. The assignee took charge
Of the stock, and the litigation COM
menced. Time and again the stock was
attached, and just as often the assignee
would replevin it, and it afforded many
an hour of labor for Constable to serve
all the necessary papers for an attach
ment, and then while resting from these
arduous duties to turn around and re-
plevin it all back. Then he would ad-
vertise it for sale, and the day before the
sale he would attach it again, and if there
was nothing else in the wind along in the
afternoon he would replevin it. Then
when the sale was about ready to COM
mence he would attach it all over again
and the sale would be postponed until
he had time to again replevin it. For
nearly year this game was kept up, and
now the sequel comes. The assignee
closed up things, and after everything
had been counted up he brought the
creditors of the firm out in debt to him
to the amount of about eighty dollars, and
now be is going to sue them for this
sum-"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20
A Summer ReYerie.
hummer, sweet, good. by.

Summer, sweet, good-by.
Its the last rows of summer" as
the boy said who hoed down the potato
rows on the 31st day of August.
The boy never did and never said any
thing of the kind. He was four miles
away, doubled up with the cholera NOR
bus in a strangers orchard. But if YOU
have got to confine yourself to prosy,
solid truth, what is going to become of
all the poetry?
And all the newspapers?
Don't speak of it.
Summer is gone.
We don't know where to, but it is gone :;
or at least it ought to be. Here it is past
the middle of September, and if summer
isn't gone, when is it going?
AS for US, we love the mary, mary,
sunshine, ira, la, la, la.
Sweet spirit of the sainted past. Gone,
forever gone. Gone with the long, the
silent afternoons. Gone, with the sun
crowned hill, and the glen in the somber
shadows lulled. Gone, with the song of
woodland bird. Gone, with the evening
hum of insect life. Gone, with the faded
memories of dimpling rill and yellow
stubble-tield. Gone, with the ring of the
scythe in the meadow lot, the sun
Drowned reaper and the long -drawn howl
of the farm hand with his foot in the
knives of the mower. Gone, gone, gone
Oh, tender grace of the cucumber time,
when there were sounds of cholera NOR
bus in the land. Oh, smiling dreams of
the first strawberry days, when the in
finite price for the infinitesimal mint
wrought laughter for the thoughtless
crowd. Oh, merry joke of the water
melon rind. Oh, happy thought of the
grape seed under the false tooth plate.
Oh, laughing gulp of the cherry-worm.
Oh, lithesome jest of the boy putting on
his angel plumage with both pockets
and stomach full of green apples. Oh,
sweet, blithe roundelay about the woman
chasing flies. Owe several things not
down in the bill Burning on Hawk- Eve.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20

American women take vastly better
care of themselves than formerly. They
have more acquaintance with hygienic
laws, and hold them in far higher esteem.
The days when they exposed themselves
to dampness and wintry cold in thin
slippers and silk stockings; when they
abstained from flannel next the skin;
when they pinched their waists to semi
suffocation; when they sacrificed comfort
and health to what they conceived to be
their appearance-those foolish and I'M
happy days have gone forever, have
barely been known to the rising genera
ton. Our women now have no morbid and
mawkish notions as to themselves; they no
longer think that to be unhealthy is to
be attractive; that individualness and in
terestingness are Synonymous; that pale
faces and compressed lungs are tokens
of beauty They dress seasonably; they
wear thick boots and warm clothes in
bad and cold weather; they allow them
selves to breathe freely, and they find
their looks improved, not injured, by the
wholesome change. There are excep-
tions, many of them, doubtless, but the
rule is as we have described, and the eX-
ceptions are constantly diminishing. 1t
may be safely said that all sensible wom-
en- are becoming, if they have not yet be-
come, converts to nature, and that they
heed her behests, recognizing the great
principle that what is not natural cannot
be beautiful.
Little more than quarter of a century
ago young American women were
| ashamed to show hearty appetite in
public. They were infected with the
Byronic philosophy; they wanted to be
spiritual-as if all true spirituality did
not rest on sound physical conditions
and to look elegantly wretched. Many
of them had half their wish; they looked
wretched, but not elegant. They were
charged with drinking vinegar, eating
slate pencils, and committing other mon
strous absurdities. They may have been
unjustly accused, but such nonsense be-
longs to the past American women to-
day eat as much as they want, and more
wholesome food than they once ate; they
walk more, court the open air, cultivate
their bodies as well as their minds, be-
lieve in perfect digestion, unbroken
sleep, the glow and glory of unblem-
ished health. No wonder their proper
tions are fuller, their cheeks more bloom
ing, their eyes brighter, their steps more
elastic. The grOwto of the country and
| their common sense are serving them
generously.
The scrawny, sallow, peaked woman,
if she be educated and fairly placed, will
ere long cease to be the type of the mid
dle-aged American woman. With the
| steady growth of the Renuhlic the in
creased ease of circumstances, and their
complete health, American women will
be comelier and rounder now than they
have been. External and internal con-
ditions assure this. They are not likely
to become gross, as so many of their
European sisters are; the character of the
country, its institutions and its atmos-
phere, with their own temperament, will
preserve them from that.-HarpeT'S Bd-
| ear.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20
Duration Of the Present POpe's Reign.

THERE is, or has been till now, a su-
perstition that none of the Popes can
outlive St. Peter, and as far as the his
tory of the papacy can be traced no
Pope till now has reigned longer than the
Apostolic Founder of the Holy See. Plus
vi. reigned within three or four months
of five and twenty years; and till the
reign of Plus TX. this was the nearest
approach to the alleged pontificate of
Peter. The duration of that is said to
have twenty-five years, two months and
seven days. Sylvester l. relgned twenty
four years, and Adrian's reign fell short
of that only by about ten days. The
longest reign next these is the reign of
Plus VII. That was twenty. three years
and half. But Plus TX. is now in the
fftieth year of his episcopate, in the
thirty-frst year of his pontificate, and in
the eighty-tifth year of his age. He has,
with one or two exceptions, outlived all
the Cardinals who took part In his cleo
ton in the June of 1916; has confuted
the old belief embodied in the words
Non oidebis amos Petrt, and is to-day,
with one eption-that of Queen Vic
toria-the oldest reigning sovereign in
Europe. Her Majesty is the Pope's SEN
Tor as sovereign by nearly ten years.
But with this exception the Pope has
seen every throne in Europe change its
occupant since the triple crown was
placed on his brow in st. Peters, and
some of them he has seen retilled more
than once.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20

JAMES T. FIELDS says that an admirer
of Shakespeare discovered among his
friends Bostonian who had never read
the plays of the immortal William, and
advised him to do so at once. Several
months later the giver of the advice again
met his friend, asked him if he had read
any of the plays, and what he thought of
them. Yes, he had read them all,
and he added, with effusion: "They are
glorious, sir-far beyond my expecta-
tionsl Why, sir, there are not twenty
men in Boston who could have written
them"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20

"A convict was put into the stocks in
Willis, Tex. His cries for mercy, "Take
me down" " am dying, were not heed
ed, and he died under the torture.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20
VARIETIES.

The joker's land-All jeers.
Domestic pets-Matrimonial sulks.
j. Foote sells boots and shoes in New
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20

BABI'S RBPRO0F.
Times were hard, as Harry said;
Twas rainy morning;
Coffee seemed the least bit scorched;
Cook had given warning.
thought Harry almost cross,
Or at least provoking;
Think | only made things worse
With my careless joking;
For he rose to start down town
Didn't kiss the baby;
When asked, Be home at noon ?"
Answered, CURLY, "Maybew
Edith looked up with pout-
Hal to listen tarried:
"Husbaus is so cross" she said,
"Dess | won't Diet mahwied."
Cunning baby! Harry turned,
And there came a twinkle
In his eyes, which chased away
An anxious, worried wrinkle.
Kiss me, baby! There. you roguer'
Ard he shook her lightly;
Then kissed the and said "Good.by!"
Left us smiling brightly.
Soon heard my Edith say
To the doll she carried:
Husbaus can be very nice
Dess | will det mahwitd /"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Morning herald., 1877-10-12


The New York ''Sun" has heen utter
viewing Geaeral Toomba, and reports tba
he does not think that General Gordon, o.
Georgia, will be reelected to the Senate
"His course has been too cratic" he said
As for himself he had no political aspira>
tions, and under no circumstances would he
ever again accept public Office. But the
girls always talk in that way when they
a-e about to be married. If Gordon is
to be thrown out, it will be on account Of
his moderate and liberal course; and in
that event Toombs viii very p robably be
his successor. But it will be a bitter pill
for Toombs to ask for pardon. He has
repeatedly declared that he never will dc
The Morning herald., 1877-10-12


THERE can be but one state in the com
prehensine sense of the term-in othe
words, but one supreme authority over .
community. We have general and many
State governments; with counties and mu
inequalities; but if rightly administered
there can be no conflict ef jurisdiction be.
tween them, and they are substantially one
Government.
But the example of the United States
demonstrates that there may co-e1is,
many churches in the same community,
all enjoying their ,undisputed right to
worship God according to the dictates of
their own consciences. It is also made
manifest to the world that this perfect Free
dom Of religious belief and worship is es-
sential to peace; while the opposite exam-
Piles set by some Of the States of Europe,
Of establishing one Church, and denying
the right to exist to others, is fruitful Of
strife.
The Morning herald., 1877-10-12

the country during the past year, affecting
the safety of 90 many interests. have start
led the public mind and gone far TO shake
all public faith. I y
i Has it not come to pass that swindling
ia more banelul among ns than even the
violent firms of robbery Is it not time
that society in self-protection should turn
upon swirdlers with some of that .loathing
and hate Which it has hitherto reserved
for the burglar and highwayman? Should
not every enlightened community deal
with the dishonest defaulrer in the same
spirit in which the frontier village deals
with the horse thief, employing of course
more legal and moderate methods II
wreaking its vengeance? ?nars...
The Morning herald., 1877-10-12
- nGlSInn'S ORDER
IL REGISTERS OFFICE.
NeW Castle COllnfv

NcW SbsblC NICIODcF 4 1871
Upon the application OF John CUMMINGS.
executor OF JvhD Brown, late of Whining
ton Hundred, in said county, decea, ed. IL
~ ordered and directed by the Regi s,er
that the executor aforesaid give notice of
Sraut'ng letters testamentary upon the es.
tate Of the deceased, with the dare of
granting theraO, bv causing advert, se-
mcnts TO be posted wi hiu forty days
from the da'e OF such letters in
six Of the mot public ol .ces of
the county OF New Cas- l-, recurring ali
persou 8 having demands against ii estate
to present the same or ABIDE by an act OF As.
sembly In such case made and troy ded.
And alsO cause the sane to be Inserted
within the same period in the MORNING
He AID, newspaper published ID In W IL
minetOn, and TO be conliLued therein
three weeks (e. o. d.
Given under the hand aud seal of office
Of the Register aforesaid, ut New
EAL Castle, IL New Castle U univ. aore-
said, the day and year above writ.
ten. s.. G. BIGGI, Register.
NOTICE'---All persons having claims
agalnst the estate tf the deceased mu It
present the same duly sttested to the k,x-
ecutor m or before october 4th. .S7s. or
rbide the Act of Assembly in such case
made and provided.
JOHN UMMTNGs, Executor.
Address Wilmington, Del, ocS-eod
The Morning herald., 1877-10-12
THE AFRICAN EXPLORERS

Hitherto Stanley has been regarded.as
daring adventurer, forcing his way througl
/ a hitherto impenetra''le wilderness ane
he wing down single.handed the barriers
interposed by tribes and nation'
innumersble of savage cannitals
His latest letters, dated from Nyapgwe
Manvema on October 2s and November
| /, 1876. show hin, in new light
as the ardent and worthy successor of Da.
vid Livingstone in the relentless war
waged bv the Scostish traveller upon the
interior slave trade. His picture of the
horrors Of that Infamous traffic, az carried
m with the c,nnivsnce Of the Sultan Of
Zanzibar. cannot fail TO awaken a strong
feeling in England and compel such a
pressure as the African potentate will not
dare to resist
The second and most interesting Of the
tive letters is devoted to description Of
Manyema and to narrative of the facts
that have come to his knowledge as to the
suferings and heroism of the unfortunate
Livingstone. He tells Of the impression
which was made upon the natives Of Ma
nyema by the simple virtues Of "the gocd
white man." and tells in language fervid
with intense feeling and with reverent
admiration that is evidently sincere, the
story of the misfortunes that overwhelmed
him and how brayely they were endured.
In this connection Stanley makes sug-l
gestion which does honor to his heart, and
can scarcely fail to be adopted. He sug-
gests that the Lualaba river be named
hereafter the Livingstone river, or Living.
stones Lualaba, that it may remain forever
as memorial Of the brave old man who
discovered its source and threw away his
life in the effort te explore it.
The Morning herald., 1877-10-12
DANGEROUS CRIMES

In a Western frontier town, where horses
are the pioneers most valuable property
the horse thief is considered the worst
enemy Of society. The settler canno,
travel except on horseback g; he cannot cul.
tivate bis ground without horses, and he
cannot get his grain to market except in
wagons; and insecurity in regard to pro-
perty vested in horsefesh is therefore dan.
gerous to the very existence Of the com,
munity. Human life is held at a cheap
rate, and men may engage in street quar-
rels and shoot each other down with i'm
lunity, 50 long as they leave more peace
ably disposed citizens unmolested; I; but to
steal horse is an objectionable crime,
sure to be visited with swift and cruel
punishment.
The murderous desperate may 60 about
free, but the horse thief, after detection,
soon bangles from the nearest convenient
tree. As society becomes more settled
the crimes which affect personal safety are
Considered the most dangerous, and mur-
der is only made capital offense. The
public mind becomes accustomed to regard
deeds of violence as threatening mos,
strongly that bond of law and order which
is the security of civilized society. Hence
the man who commits highway robbery or
burglary, or larceny, is punished rigor-
eusly, while the knave who gets the pro.
p,rty Of his neighbors by breach of trust
o. false pretenses, or any Of the ordinary
m thods incident to the transaction of tus.
iness in commercial community, escape,
with slight criticism. -
Bankruptcy is recognized as . mister
tune which may befall an honest and en-,
terprising merchant or banker, and natu-
rally the swindling which brings about
the same results as bankruptcy finds pro-
lection in the charity of society for failure
encountered in the pursuit of legitimate
enterprise 1t isa serious question, how.
ever, whether a community may not be.
come 80 corrupt and dishonest in the trans.
action Of business that the cheating through
rotten savings banks, extravagant insu-
rance companies, intriguing railroad man.
ayers and defaulting trustees becomes the
dangerous element Of crime. Good faith
is really the distinguishing characteristic
Of advanced civilization, and without the
confidence of men in each others honor
and integrity al great enterprises would
become impracticable and even the ordi.
nary transactions of traffic would be para.
lyzed. The many varieties Of dishonesty
which have been discovered throughout
The Morning herald., 1877-10-12
wiLMiN0rON. Del. Oct. II, 1877.

FRANCE will soon say" write. M.
Gambelta, "what she thinks of the per
sonal policy of the Chief of the State"
Ohio has already said what she thinks Of
the personal policy Of the Chief Of the
State. ..f se,.- .-sg WA. rs..... .ga -. .
The Morning herald., 1877-10-12

NEW CASTLE COUNTY SS.
THE STATE Of DELAWARE
10 THE sHSKIFF OF New CASTLE COUNTY.
i 1GREETING.
WHEREAS, Jane Sullivan, by her next
friend, James A AtwelI, by her petition to
the Jut utges of our Superior court, filed in
the office of the Prothonotary of the said
Court II and for the County OF New Castle.
~ for the eau of complaint tn rein
{ alleged, has made application to
( SEAL our said Judges that a decree m ay
be pronounced dissolving the mar
~ riage existing between the petl-
toner and her husband John sullivan.
we therefore command you, as you have
been hereinbefOre commanded, that Won
summon 10 IN Sullivan, so that he be and
appear before the said Judges of our said
superior court of the next term thereof. to-
ne he'd al New castle in and Tor the Coi,n-
ty OF New Castle. on Monday the 26t h da
u the sa petl ion, and also to show cause
If any he has, why decree of The said
Ourt should not be made dissolylnp the
marriage existing between him and the
said Petitioner, according to the act f AS.
sen bly, in such case made and pr yided
and also to do and receive what the q Id
Court shall then and there consider concern
ing him IN this behalfas to the Court shall
seem meet and consistent with the proyi.
Witnes. the Honorable joseph p, Come.
gvs. E. O., at New astle the 18th fay Of
May, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy.
seven. CHARLES BEAoTON
Issued Aug. 25 ls77. Prot honotary.
The sbnve Is true copy OF summo.. as
ans Att ISAAC GRUBB. Sheriff.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-12-07

The long struggle for party supremacy in
the Senate closed last Friday night with the
seating of Kellogg over Spofford from Louisi-
ana, and Butler over Corbin from South Caro-
lina-the Democrats having been finally fore
cd to accept the proposition made by Mr.. Ed
munds to vote on the Kellogg case first and
the Butler case second. On the question of
admitting Kellogg. Conover and Patterson
both voted with the Republicans and Davis of
Illinois with the Democrats. On admitting
Butler, Patterson and Conover voted with the
Democrats and Davis did not vote Mr.
Davis either lodged or voted with the Demo
Gratis on every motion made during the weeks
contest. This issue of the struggle virtually
amounts TO n compromise or drawn battle as
it leaves the parties balanced precisely as they
We're before, that is with two majority for the
Republicans $50 Republicans and 81 Demo-
Gratis. when Conover and Patterson vote with
the Republicans, as they are likely to continue
to do, now that they have secured the admis-
sion of Butler
The extra session closed shortly before
noon on Monday, nothing of special impor-
lance transporting beyond the confirmation of
several executive nominations by the Senate.
The regular session convened at noon, and
the Presidents message was read in both
branches, an adjournment being taken there
after. in the Senate until Thursday, and in
the House until Tuesday. when that body
passed bills, without opposition, repeating
the ''iron-clad oath" and the section of the
revised statutes which makes participation in
the rebellion ground for challenge of jurors
in United States courts.
In the seven weeks of the extra session
nearly 1900 bills were introduced in the
House and referred to the committees, The
only bills that passed both houses and became
laws were the army appropriation bill for the
current year and the naval deficiency bill
The bills TO remouetze silver and to repeal
the resumption act were passed by the House
and sent TO the Senate but received no con-
sidention by that body. The Paris exposi-
ton bill and the general deficiency bill We're
passed by the Senate with amendments, but
the amendments were not acted on in the
House. All unfinished business however,
holds its place in the regular session which
opened on Monday.