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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
The Reform Of Our Spelling.

els REFORM practicable?" Two very
powerful forces can be relied upon for
its support. /. There is the whole body
of eminent philologists, joined by many
distinguished scholars, fully committed
and ready to lead in the movement. 2.
There is the large German and foreign
population in our country daily veXing
itself in attempts to acquire our language
Their greatest obstacle is our spelling;
this they feel. When once the matter
comes to be agitated in Cincinnati and
places like this whole foreign element
will be found energetic in support of the
refC I'm. If the influence of the great
bodyOf teachers could be added to these
other forces we would soon see the be-
ginning of change in our spelling
Why can we not throw our influence
in favor of reform? Why should we not
agitate the matter in our communities?
Why can we not take reasonable license
in the way of reform? In our own writ
ing suppose we should omit from the
diagraph ed, when pronounced as short,
and from the diagraph on when pro-
nounced as short, and thus write he'd,
helth, serch; truble, jurnal and yungT
Suppose we should begin on principle to
omit the final after short vowel, and
omit gh when silent, and write f when
gh has the sound of f. This would make
motiv, dauter, tho, ruff and enuf. By
using these forms in our own writing we
should begin the very important work of
making the eye of the community famil-
lar with the new spelling, even though
in our school-rooms we say nothing
about them. At all events it is our
bounden duty to make it certain that the
next generation shall not look with the
same superstitious reverence as the pres
ent generation upon what Max Muller
calls our unhistoric, unsystematic, un-
Ineligible and unteachable mode of
spelling Pc. 0. Yale, Of Cincinnati.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
Altar Of Roses.

PERHAPS there are few more fertile val
leys in Europe than this once tiourishing
valley on Tundja, which lies between the
great and lesser ranges of the Balkans,
and stretches east and west for upward
of 1870 miles.
AS is generally known, this district is
the most fertile in the Turkish Empire
for the production of altar of roses, and
as little is known of this curious and in
teresting process, a few words as to how
the roses are grown and how the essence
is extracted may be permitted This
district, which is called the District of
Kezanlik, produces annually more of the
essence than all the other rose-growing
districts in Turkey put together The
whole quantity produced in Turkey may
be roughly estimated at 5000 pounds an
nually, of which l 800 pounds are man
ufactured in this district, and the rest in
seven other districts, all alike in the Sand
jak, or Province of Philippopolis.
The soil best suited for the cultivation
of roses is what we find in such laroe
tracts of land in this neighborhood-
namely, sandy slopes with southern ex-
PooulC, anu VIC ulSVuOu'Ol plduLlng ana
rearing is as follows: In the spring and
autumn parallel trenches, few inches
deep, are dug in the soil selected, about
one and half yards apart, and IN these
trenches are placed short branches taken
from an old rose-tree. In about six
months small plants begin to show above
the ground, but bear no roses until the
second year, and these are of no great
value. The third years crop is fit for
the production of the essence, and by
the fifth year the plant is at its best. 1t
remains in this condition for several
years, but after fourteen or fifteen years
the quality of the roses has so deterio-
rated and the bushes grown so thick that
replanting is necessary. By this time
they may be six feet high. The frosts of
winter do not affect the plant if they are
continuous, but any sudden changes,
especially toward spring, are most fatal.
Hoar frost and fog when the first buds
are appearing are also much dreaded.
There are few industries requiring more
practical knowledge than the production
Of altar Of roses. When we take into
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
Loves OF Liliputians.

"BLEss your hearth responded the ma
chinist when appealed to on the subject,
you ought to see 'em at it, They
couldn't do it up in better shape if they
were grown people, and bred TO the bust
ness"
Then they do have their little love
affairs, just like ordinary mortals?"
Yes, indeed. Didn't you know that
Commodore Mutt was engaged to Miss
Jennie Quigley?" ......... ..... ...
81 was not aware of the fact"
Well, it's so. And I tell you, for so
little fellow, he can show up as mHch
green eye as one of Shakespeares char
acters." .....
Jealous, is he?"
"Jealous as Othello. He don't begin
to tolerate rivalry. Why, one night one
of those old roosters that you can always
find around theater, dancing attend.
ance ON the ballet girls or the actresses
who fancy they need attendance, brought
a carriage to take home Miss Kirkland.
You remember-the pretty one--Ameri-
can girl, she is. And he tried to play
the gallant by putting on Miss Quigley's
shawl. Up steps Mutt, as brave as if he
were about to attack the giant, and,
snatching the wrap out of the meddler's
hand, he said, with freezing dignity
Thank you; I'll attend to this young
lady myself The old fellow didn't
know whether to be amused or insulted,
but the Commodore was awfully ri!ed."
What did Miss Quigley say?"
ooh, she acted like little lady and
wasn't half as much cut up as good
many bigger women might have been"
"Was the Commodore very demon
strative in his attention to his lady love?"
"Was he? He was good deal worse
than hen is about her chicks. Why,
you might have seen it from before the
footlights if you looked sharply"
"How SOY"
ooh, why, he put in a good deal more
love business than there ever was written
in the play, and was always lowering
around where she was, showing his foot
up against the ladder when there was no
danger of it slipping and dozen little
things like that. think, too, that Miss
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
Mr.. M'Kimber's Statement.

My theory is that mothers chief
duty is the taking care of her children.
How came l by this theory? l came
by it through the newspapers. l never
took up one that did not tell of dishon-
est clerks, corrupt officials, theft and
murder. ... ...
One day l went into Mrs Fennels
kitchen, where l found the women folk
in state of great CONSERVATION. The
cakes were all fried for tea, but the salt
had been forgotten. "Sprinkle some
over them, " said l; "'twill strike through,
won't it,"
90 no" said Mrs. F., the salt must
be mixed in the dough at the beginning"
" There, thought l, that's the figure
of speech l wantl Let salt stand for
goodness, and dough for the children.
The goodness must be mixed in at the
beginning; it is too late when the dough
is baked into men and women. 1t will
be of no use then sprinkling it on the
outside; it won't strike through. Yes,
yes, mix it in at the beginning; that's it!
And mothers must do it,"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

ONE of the earliest settlers of the
country around Lake Champlain was
Col, Raymond He understood the char
acter and disposition of the redskin ma
tives of the forest, and lived with them
in much harmony, frequently employing
them to row him up and down the lake,
as he had occasion. One stout fellow,
by the name of Bigbear, had his wigwam
at no great distance from the Colonel's
dwelling, and was often there. The
Colonel, having occasion to visit some
distant shore of the lake, employed Big
bear to row him in his canoe. On their
return they passed near high yet slop-
ing ledge of rocks, on which lay an i'm
mense number of rattlesnakes asleep and
basking in the sun The Indian gave a
penetrating look at the Colonel and thus
inquired
"Raymun love fun?" .....
"Yes," was the reply.
" Well, then, Raymun have fun; mind
Indian, and hold your tongue"
So he rowed along silent and slow and
cut a crotched stick from bundle of ha-
zels upon the bank.
"Steady now, Raymun," said he, as he
clapped the crotch astride the neck of a
serpent that was asleep close to the
water. "Take um now, Raymun. Hole
fassm
The Colonel took hold of the stick
keeping the serpent down, while Bigbear
tied up little sack of powder, putting
one end of a slow match therein. He
then made it fast to the snakes tail, and
setting fire to the match gave orders to
Let UNI go" at the same time pushing
the canoe off the shore. The snake, be-
ing liberated, crawled away to his den.
The Indian Immediately then stood up
and clapped his hands, making as loud a
noise as possible, and thus reused the
other serpents, who in moment disap-
peared.
"Now look, Raymun, now look-see
fun" said he, and in about minute the
powder exploded, when there was, to be
sure, fun alive. ..
The snakes in thousands covered the
rocks, all Kissing, rafting, twining,
twirling and jumping in every way i'm
aginable. Col Raymond burst into a
loud laugh that echoed across the lake,
pleased alike with the success of the
trick, and the ingenuity of the savages
invention. But Bigbear, from the begin
ming to the end, was as grave as Judge,
not moving a muscle, and not having the
least show of visibility in his counte-
nance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

consideration the immense amount OF
labor and land that is required to pro-
duce very small bottle of this precious
liquid, it will not surprise one to see how
few people engage in the cultivation of
the rose. AS the crop of flowers ad-
vance toward harvest-time the cultiva,
tor has to make rough estimate of the
buds and flowers that he must gather
each day. This is limited by the amount
of labor that he can command to pick
the young, fresh-blown roses before sun
rise, and by the quantity he can distil at
one time; for the sun dispels the scent,
and the flowers must 60 Immediately into
the still. Thus, supposing that he sees
or judges that it will take ten days for
the whole crop to come to perfection, he
must in the first morning gather tenth
of his crop, and proceed to distil that
quantity, and this will explain why a
sudden burst of heat forcing the whole
crop is so disadvantageous. 1t also APP
pears that any great heat during the time
of distillation causes the quality of the es-
sence to deteriorate. The distillation is
carried on in the most primitive manner,
J
effectually as would any more complica-
ted or scientific method. The still itself,
in form, resembles huge copper bottle,
with neck consisting of smaller cham
bers. The height of this still is about
five feet. From the top a pipe passes
into receiver, through which the dis
titled water passes. Into this still is
placed a quantity of roses with ten times
as much water, and the distillation is
carried on until the amount of LIQUID in
the receiver equals in weight the amount
thrown out and fresh quantity put in,
and the process is repeated until the wa
ter is evaporated, when fresh operation
begins. The liquid thus obtained is rose
water, which is again subjected to dis
tillation, when the real essense is pro-
duced in the form of pale yellow oil.
The quantity of essence that given
number of roses will produce is very I'M
certain, but a rough average may be
taken that to produce one pound weight
of the essence it requires the astonish-
ing weight of $500 weight.
From this may be gathered some idea
OF the enormous amount OF land oCcu-
pied and labor bestowed on the cultiva-
ton of roses in this district alone, which
annually produces upward of 1900
pounds to 1000 pounds weight of the
essence. There are no large farmers of
roses. The rural population have the
manufacture entirely in their own hands,
and every man that has a small field of
roses has also his distilling apparatus.
In this way the inhabitants of the Val
ley of the Tundja passed their lives, in
that degree of ease which Turkish ex.
tortion and every kind of bad govern
ment would permit them, and in com
parison with the poor Irish or the coun-
try clod in England they were we'll Of
and happy.-Kezan1ik Cor. Of London
Times
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
COUSINS.

Had you ever cousin, Tom?
Did yonr cousin happen to singl
Sisters we've all by the dozen, Tom,
But a cousins different thing;
And you'll find, if you ever kissed her, Tom
(Bul let this be secret between us),
That your lips would have been in blister, Tom,
For they're not of the sister genus.
There is something Tom in sisters lip,
When you give her goodnight kiss,
That savors much of relationship,
That nothing occurs amiss;
But cousins lip, if YOU once unite
With yours in the quietest way,
Instead of sleeping wink at night
You'll be dreaming the following day.
And people think it no HARM Tom,
With cousin to hear you talk;
And no one feels any alarm, Tom,
Ala quiet, cousinly walk;
But, Tom, ,ou'll soon find what happen to know,
That such walks often grow into straying,
And the voices of cousins are sometimes so low,
Heaven only knows what you'll be saying.
Then there happens so often, Tom,
Soft pressure of hand and fingers,
And looks that were nodded TO soften, Tom,
And tones on which memory fingers;
And long e'er your walk is half over the strings
OF your heart are put into play,
By the voice OF those fair, demi-sisterly things,
In not quite the most brotherly way.
And the song of sister may bring to you, Tom,
Such tones as the angels WOO,
But fear if your cousin should sing to you, Tom,
You'd take her for an angel, too;
For so curious note is note of theirs.
That you'll fancy the voice that gave it
Had been all the while singing the National Airs,
Instead of the Psalms of David.
/ once had a cousin that sung Tom
And her name may be nameless now,
But the sound of those songs is still young, Tom,
Though we are no longer so.
'Tis folly to dream of a bower of green,
When there's not leaf on the tree;
But, 'twixt walking and singing, that cousin has
been.
God forgive herl the ruin of me.
And now care naught for society, Tom
And lead Il most anchorite life;
For I've loved myself into sobriety, Tom,
And out of a wish for a wife;
But OH If said but half what might say,
SO sad were the lessons 'twould give,
That it would keep you from loving for many day
And from cousins as long as you live.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

Quigley used to like to tease him, for
she generally took a good deal of time
to whisper into the giants ear, and the
Commodore always seemed to get fdgety
about that interval"
&C You don't mean to say that Mutt is
jealous of the giant?"3 ....l ..
" Well, l amt sure; but it looks a good
deal like lt."-San Francisco Chronicle
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
How Gen. Butler Voted.

TUESDAY morning, while Gen. Butler
was in line for the purpose of exercising
his great prerogative of the American
citizen, he was addressed by on acquaint-
ance as follows:
" Why, Generals are you going to cast
the clean ticket-not a scratch on it
can you stand the whole LOTT"
General-Yes, yes, Pm going to put it
in just as it is, but am somewhat in the
position of the countryman who, after
having signed statement, was asked by
his attorney, in the presence of witnesses:
" Do you acknowledge this as your own
free act and deed?" ayes, sir" an
swered the countryman, Z" it is; but it
goes hard agin the will. "-BoSton Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
Household Fables.

Chow MANY thumbs?" smilingly asks
the sitting-room carpet, looking up at its
colleague, the battered stovepipe. With
wink in its disjointed elbow, the stove
pipe, riveting its gaze on its friend, re-
plies: only three, but I've raked enough
skin off the other knuckles to make a
pair of boots" Chuckling responds the
carpet: Not so well as you did last
year. got couple of tinger-nails, two
whole trousers knees, started a good
crop of hang nails on every finger in the
house, and think l have divorce suit
pending" "That's pretty good spread"
replies the pipe, and then, turning to an
exhausted tack hammer that was resting
itself ON the window-sill, asked; How
is your score?' ooh, don't ask me-"
gasped the tack-hammer; GIVE been
buster than the masters gavel on chap
ter night. l haven't missed but one
knuckle since | started in, and then !
caught the ball of thumb, plumb CEN
ter, and raised blood blister as big as
a walnut" And then the graceless trio
smiled in silent chorus, and an old rheu.
matte mop, that was standing on the
porch listening to the conversation
through the key-hole, bumped Itself
against the door in an ecstacy of delight
and fell fainting across the wheelbarrow
with one leg that was waiting on the
walk for somebody to come along and
fall over it.-Haa0k. Eye. ..
JOHN MoRRIssEY, notwithstanding the
fact that it takes ten mills to make a
cent laid the foundations of his fortune
hu nrize. fohtinr Let lis admire his frn-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

THERE is reason in all things" but
it tries mans mental strength and faith
most desperately to comprehend the
hired girls reason for backing the stove
with his shoe brush, when he finds him
self at church with pair of boots that
look like a twin bulletin Of stove-polish.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

JOHN MoRRIssEY, Notwithstanding the
fact that it takes ten mills to make a
cent, laid the foundations of his fortune
by prize-fghting, Let us admire his fru-
gality.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-03

tors for President and Vice-President.
Consequently it may properly authorize
such tribunal in case of the election of
Presidential Electors by the people, to
count the votes and decide and declare who
were entitled to seats in the Electoral
College"
As matters stood on our arrival here, the
legal title of the respective claimants to the
office of Governor depended upon the ques-
ton we have stated. There was no judicial
tribunal acknowledged to be authority by
both parties, by which it could be
solved, for reasons already given. The only
hope of practical solution was by the union
of so many members of the rival Legislatures
as would make a / legislature with a constitu-
tional quorum in both the Senate and House
of Representatives whose title to their seats
is valid under either view of the law. With
a Legislature of undisputed authority set
tlement of the other questions could, as stated
in the letter of instructions to our commits
sion from the Secretary of State, be grad
ually worked out by the prevalent authority
which the legislative power, when undis-
puted, is quite competent to exert in COM
posing conflicts in the coordinate branches
OF the government.
Withiu the last three days this first great
step in restoring peace to the State has been
accomplished. In consequence OF the with
drawal of members from the Packard to the
Nichols Legislature, the latter body has now
eighty-seven Returning Beard members in
the Senate. SiXty-one members constitute a
constitutional quorum in the House, and
nineteen in the Senate. 1t is proper that we
should say in conclusion that it was
| in view of the foregoing facts, especially the
consolidation of the Legislatures, and our
knowledge of the condition of Louisiana,
derived from personal contact with the peo-
| pie, that we were induced to suggest in our
| telegram of the Goth inst. that the immediate
! announcement of the time when the troops
would be withdrawn to their barracks would
| be better for the peace of Louisiana than to
postpone such announcement to some dis
| tant day.
The Commissioners, holding various shades
of political belief, can not well concur in any
sketch of the past or the probable future o.
| Louisiana. We have foreborne in this re
port to express any opinion on the lega
questions arising upon the foregoing state
ment of facts, because our letter of instruc
tions seemed to call for a statement of fact
rather than an expression of opinion by th'
commissioners. We all, however, indulg,
in the confident hope of better days for al
races in Louisiana. Among the reasons TO
the Sc hopes are the resolutions of the Mich
oils Legislature and the letter of Geverno
Nichols, herewith submitted, and whicl
have already been given to the public, witt
an earnest hope that the adjustment whicl
has been made of the political controversial
of Louisiana will be of lasting benefit to tina
State, and will be approved by the patriot
people of all sections.
We have the honor to be your obeCieG
servants,
[Signed.] CHARLES LAWRENCE,
Jos. z. HAwLEY,
JOHN NJ. HARLAN,
JOHN C. BROWN,
WAYNE MACVEIGH.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-03

IT is singular, the fascination and the
desire to jump that comes over a person
on high eminence. An unknwn young
man of thirty precipitated himself on
the Oath of March from the column of
the Bastile in Paris. The fall was ar
rested by projection, but when the
body was obtained, it was found to be
lifeless. The next day man jumped
from the top of the Arc de Triomphe
under peculiar circumstances. He as
cended the building in high spirits with
friend, and, ON reaching the summit,
said, as he approached the edge, "Sup-
posing were to jumpr' His compan-
ion told him to stop such nonsense, and
the young man retired and began dis.
cussing the scenery. A few minutes af
terward, he again approached the brink,
saying, calmly, "Look, Pm going to
jump" He did SO, and was taken up a
mass of unrecognizable flesh.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-03

Miridite district. The Turkish Budget
shows a deficit of 12,O0O, 900 pounds.
An official dispatch from Batoum, April
%, says: The Russians, having renewed the
attack, were again repulsed with heavy loss.
The Turks have not arrived at the Danube.
The occupation of Giurgevo by the Russians
is denied The Sultan proceeds next week
to Schuenda. His brother Eschad goes to
Kars.
On April 29, fire broke out in the Nov
city Works at Sturbainst, Canada. During
the conAagratioD, the poorly constructed
walls of the building fell out upon the
crowd, and nine men were taken out of the
debris dead, and ten seriously wounded.