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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05
Sir John Lubbock on Ants.

In his paper on ants, read before the
British Association, Sir John Lubbock
said that ants of the same nest not only
knew each other, but remembered each
other after more than years separa-
ton. In at least one case the slave
making ants are entirely dependent
upon their slaves, and would perish
even in the midst of plenty, if left to
themselves. He had kept some of
these ants, however, alive for many
months by giving them slave for an
hour day to clean and feed them.
People could find in the different
species of ants various conditions of
life curiously answering to the earlier
stages of human progress, namely, the
hunting and the pastoral, and even the
agricultural. Some species lived prin-
cipally on the produce of the chase,
and they probably retained the habits
once common to all ants. They re-
sembled the lowest races of men, who
subsist mainly by hunting. Like these
they lived in comparatively small COM
munities; they hunted singly, and their
battles were single combats, like those
of man in his early history. Another
species might be compared to the pastor
al stage of human progress. Their COM
munities were more numerous; they
acted more in concert; their battles
were no mere single combats, but they
knew how to act in combination. Sir
Johns opinion was that they would
gradually exterminate the hunting
species, just as the savages disappeared
before more advanced races. Lastly,
the agricultural nations might be COM
pared with the harvesting ants. 1t
was generally stated that the queens
alone laid eggs. This, however, APP
peared not to be the case. The work
ers did sometimes lay, but these eggs
always appeared to produce water.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05
Unfriendly Remarks About the Camel.

No human royal family dare be uglier
than the camel. He is mass of bones,
faded tufts, humps, Jumps, splay joints
and callostes. His tail is ridiculous
whisp, and failure as an ornament or
hy-brush. His feet are simply big
sponges. For skin covering he has
patches of old buffalo robes, faded and
with the hair worn off. His voice is
more disagreeable than his appearance,
with a reputation for patience, he is
snappish and vindictive. His endur-
ance is overrated; that is to say, he
dies like a sheep if he is not well fed.
His gait racks muscles like the ague.
And yet this ungainly creature carries
his head in the air and regards the
world out of his great brown eyes with
disdain. The very poise of his head
says Il have come out of the dim
past the deluge did not touch me; l
helped Shotoo build the great pyramid;
| knew Egypt when it hadn't an obelisk
nor temple. There are three of us;
the date-palm, the pyramid and myself.
Everything else is modern. Go tor-
Charles Dudley Warner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
SUMNER DONE.

Thinner the leaves of the larches show,
Motlonless held i'll languid air:
Fainter by waysides the sweet-briers grow
Wide bloom laying their gold hearts bare
Languishing one by one:
Summer is almost done.
Deeper-hued roses have long since died:
Silent the birds through the white mist fly;
Down of the thistles, by hot suns dried
Covers with pale fleece vines growing nigh;
Little brooks calmer run:
Summer is almost done.
Later the flush of the sunrise sweeps.
Shortening the reign of the slow-coming day;
Earlier shade of the twilight creeps
Over the swallows skimming away;
Crickets their notes have begun:
Summer Is almost done.
Darkened to mourning the sad-colored beech;
Empty the nests in its purple boughs lie;
Something elusive we never can reach
Deepens the glory of days going by;
Aftermath lies in the sun:
Summer is almost done.
Child! why regret that the summer must 90?
Street lies the aftermath left in the sun:
Lives that are earnest more beautiful grow
Out of a childhood in beauty begun:
Harvests of gold can be won
Only-iCiteB summer is done.
- Wide AlDdke
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05
Just as Natural"

A smart clerk in Detroit hardware
store polished up a coal stove the
other day, ran three joints of stove-pipe
up behind some shelves, and so ar.
ranged the stove that one might think
there was fire in it. Some one did
think SO. An old tramp called in to
beg nickel, and seeing the stove he
walked up to it, rubbed his hands,
elected a gill of plug tobacco juice
over the stove. and SAID;
"Well, now, this seems just as
natural as can ber'
The clerk ran him out, worked hall
an hour to renew the polish, and then
took down the pipe, sad at heart and
dissatisfied with the world in general.
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05
QUATRAINS.

If ever echo answered bulbul song
No doubt it stammered back feeble tune;
And thus answer Omar Khayyam's rune
much-belated echo, far from strong.
Where are the visions of my infant nights
And where the dreamy hopes of yester-morn
Have done anything since was born
But watch, with eyellds closed, unreal sights!
sometimes think of labors gone before
And say, Tomorrow morning resume.
The treasured flask retains the old perfume, -
Alas the treasured flask retains no more.
Because she looked upon the land with me,
Because she looked upon 1t with hef eyes,
1t seemed to me land of sweetest guise,
From savage mountain top to savage sea.
An artless artist l could paint her hair
OF gold, her azure eyes, her glowing face,
Yea, every bloom and glory of her grace
Could paint them all, upon the empty air.
/ met the child of her who once was dear
And seemed to love as in the former days;
But she recoled little from my gaze,
And said: That graybeard is the man fear
An archer shot an arrow ,S in the dark, .,.,-,
But when he sported forth at dawn of day,
He found his brother lying stiff and stark.
We totter groaning through cursed land
Which bears but ashen fruit and poison flow
When suddenly 1T turns to Eden bowers,
Because some passing seraph lifts his hand.
Unless the sun of Austerlitz arise.
In vain the chieftain's head, the heros heart;
Unless the trlcksy wind of fortune start,
We cannot reach one earthly paradise.
o wizard juice of all the vines of time
OF all the vines that Noah sent us down.
| mind me sitting i'll Tuscan town
Beside flask which turned the world to rhyme.
A bubble swan upon the hagon's brim,
And, therein drinking beheld myself.
quaffed the very substance of the elf;
/ drank destruction,- was it but to him!
- | stood in Venice on the Bridge of Signs"
And sighed to the spectres thronging
through;
But they replied; You are the captive,-you;
We have been free air for centuries
While in the Pantheon | knelt to pray,
With thoughts of Jove and Jesus much per-
plext,
A broken oxen + Hermes scoffed: What credence
And haloed saints lamented: Who can say!n
Here throned the Caesar; here beneath his feet
The gladiator bowed his pale farewell;
But, standing there l think of heaven and hell,
And worlds dismissed to triumph or defeat.
j. W. DeF0reSt in atlantic MOntIty for o.
f06er
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05

their noses in the mud, another way
they had of expressing their delight.
Punctually in the early morning the
deer came bounding toward the tor
toise, who had just returned from sta
tioning his friends on the edge of the
woods, according to his plan Of the day
before.
Good morning, Tortoise"
Good morning, Deer"
Are you still willing to racer" said
the latter.
L am" replied the former, "quite
ready" giving the deer an evil look.
"And what is MORE" he continued, 81
will not onl y race with you, but will
let you run in the open fields along the
border of the woods, while travel lust
inside through brier and brush"
This offer created no suspicion in the
mind of the honest deer, but nearly
took his breath away for minute, it so
surprised him.
"Whatn' said he, you little short
legged fellow, will you undertake to
run through the wood?"
Certainly; that's nothing" said the
tortoise, carelessly. "Tm used to the
woods. Like to keep my shell cool in
the shade of the trees. IN run in the
field though if you wish"
80, no; suit YOURSELF" said the
deer; 81 was only thinking of your well
fare
You'll think of your own," NUT
tered the tortoise to himself, "before
you get through" Then aloud he
cried, 'Time's up. Let us startp'
The deer took an easy pace; he did
not wish to discourage the tortoise at
the outset. But the tortoise far from
being disheartened, was sitting still in
the dewy grass, and laughing con-
temptuously at his companion in the
! distance.
d" Run to your hearts DESIRE" said
he; you'll have a hard enough time
before you get through"
When the deer had run hundred
yards or more he called out:
Tortoise, where are youP'
" ALREADY here" shouted the voice
of tortoise just ahead.
This surprised the deer. He took q
little faster gait, but still he did not ex-
ert himself. He did not want the tor
toise to make too painful an effort.
After running another stretch he called
pleasantly again: t.
Tortoise, brave fellow, where are
you?n .... ... ..
ALREADY here" shouted the answer,
the same as before.
"Well, well,'' said the deer to him
self. 81 shall have to bestir myself or
lose the day. And the next hundred
yards he travelled like the wind. Stop
ping for breath again he questioned
"Tortoise, how is it nowp"
ALREADY here" said the tortoise's
substitute.
The deer could scarcely credit his
senses. ..
"Never yet was a deer beaten by a
tortoise" said he, excitedly; and he ran
and ran, the foam flew from his
mouth, his head grew dizzy, and he
could no longer see. With full force
he bounded against tree, and stagger-
ing for few yards fell lifeless to the
ground, hearing in his dying moment
the voice of the last tortoise on the line,
who waddled forth and croaking cried:
" Already here"
Thus noble, honest, fleet-footed
deer became the victim of the ow-bred,
deceitful, snail-paced tortoise. The
deer committed no sin, it is true. But
anyone can see at a glance that his life
would have been spared had he kept
out of bad company.-Golden Hours.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05

Some of the boys of Carrollville,
Wis, made midnight parade, wrap
ped in sheets, and starting from the
village graveyard. Their idea was to
scare whoever saw them. They sue
ceeded. Three women went into con-
vulsions at the sight, one sick man
was thrown into relapse, and girl
broke her arm by a fall in climbing
hastily over fence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05

Old China is still much in vogue
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-04
Brokerage on Cotton.

We had hoped that by this time
the Cotton Exchange would have
taken some action in the matter Of
the brokerage now charged against
factors. There is really no reason
why such action should not be taken
and every reason why it should.
We doubt If u single intelligent
factor who has the interest of his
planters at heart really approves
the present. system or would vote
to continue it if the question were
once fairly brought before the Ex-
change. 1t is manifestly an in.
Justice to charge the planters with
the expenses of the person who
buys the cotton. They have al.
ready paid for planting, cultivating
and gathering it, for sending il to
market and handling it up to the
moment of its purchase by the
buyer. Surely it seems that the
planters responsibility ought to
cease at that point. The broker is
employed by the buyer, acts solely
in his interest, and is bound to re.
duce the price to the lowest posi-
BILE figure. To make the planters
bear part of the expenses in this
transaction is to do violence to ev
cry principle of right and justice
There is no charge which gives
such dissatisfaction to the planters
aud which is so eminently the in
terest of the factors to abolish, and
yet it has thus far been impossible
to engage the attention of the Ex
change for the little while that
would be required to dispose of il
conclusively. At no other export
ing point is this system in vogue
New Orleans enjoys peculiar and
gloomy isolation in the matter Of
clinging to an obsolete and assen
TALLY stupid custom-a custom
which is not bencfcent to the bro
kers and which is simply an imposi
ton on the plantcrs.-N. D. Demo
Crdt.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-04
Creole Treatment Of Yellow Fever

/. If the patient be taken with
fever Immediately Zone or two
hours) after a meal, give an emetic
of mustard, salt, warm water, one
teaspoonful each of former to tumb-
Ter of last.
=. If the patient has eaten more
than three hours previously, give
a dose of castor oil. II the attack
commences with irritable stomach,
substitute q dose Of caiomei and
soda for oil, five grains each for
children, ten grains each for adults.
3. If the skin is dry, give hot foot
baths repeatedly, until perspiration
is induced.
4. If the skin is very hot, whether
dry or moist, spuugc the arms,
breast and legs, under the covering,
with whisky and water frequently.
8. The first night of attack, give
injection of twenty drops of lauda,
nnm or Bailey's sedative. should
there be much rcstlessness.
e. If the stomach remains irrita'
BILE, apply mustard plasters; if the
irritability continues apply fly bills
ter.
Z. If the urine is scanty give
watermelon seed tea freely-half a
teacuptul every hour. 1t can be
taken iced it preferred.
8. Keep a cool cloth on head, il
hot or pain.
8. Nothing but warm or cold te;
green orange leaf or sage-at
lowed sparingly, with small pellets
of ice occasionally or mouthfnl o
cool water for the first three days
lO..Aftef the fever has entirel,
disappeared, chicken broth, bee
tea, milk, to be given in small guam
titles, gradually increasing same a
convalescence advances.
IL. The patient must not be al
lowed to sit up for week, nor TAX
any solid food whatever for ten day
after the attack.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-04

heap Of money he will detect it
blindfolded. All that is required is
to run his fingers through the mass
and in q few moments every one is
tested. This is the result of that
remarkable power of touch which
is only perfected by long practice.
Such a man is of immense value in
a place like the Treasury. Coin in
this institution is handled in large
sums and is wheeled OH trucks like
other merchandise, but in weigh.
ing bag the loss of single piece
would be noticed. The Treasury is
floOred with marble tile, but these
would soon be destroyed by the
heavy trucks that roll through the
specie department. For this reason
the strongest wooden floor is used,
being made OF maple strips set ege-
wise and fastened in the most sc.
cure manner. Even such bottom
is none too solid for the incessant
tritaration of iron wheels and heavy
burdens.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-04
The Next Legislature.

The apportionment bill offered by
the Democratic members of the last
Legislature, was vigoroasly.and ably
resisted by Warmoth, Lenard, Dink-
grave and other leaders of the Op.
position. The Radicals saw that
there was no other chance of re.
gaining their ascendency in the
Legislature in clinging to the gerry
Wandering app0rti0nment which 1t
had 80 long obtained. They even
charged that Democrats we're imi-
tating their very bad examples.
This charge was not true. The
Democrats need no gerrymander.
If they prevent it OH the part of
the Radicals they can carry the
State without any difficulty, by
using only Legitimate means.
There is not the slightest chance
of the Republicans carrying either
branch of the General Assembly if
the Democrats will half do their
duty. The Democratic majority in
the House cannot, under any cir
cumstances, he less than twenty
five or thirty. The Senate will be
even more overwhelmingly Demo
cratic. OF the holding over Sena-
tors twelve are Democrats and six
Republicans. There is no probabil-
ity OF the Republicans electing
more than four of the eighteen to
be elected this fall. This will give
twenty-six to ten, or Democratic
majority OF more than twO.thirds.
Ii is important that the Democrats
should have u two.thirds majority.
There is no certainty yet whether
the constitution will be amended or
q convention called. And it might
be, too, that the proposed conven'
ton, in providing that the Nichols
government shall serve ont its full
term, as contemplated by the late
Democratic convention, would also
be generous enough to include all
the Radical parish officers in the
same category. There are Radical
parish officials, relics of the old
Radical rule, whose incompetency
the people cannot stand until the
next election. They cannot stand
for instance, judges who guess a,
the proper decision once in eight OF
ten cases. Removal by address il
the easiest and quickest of all oper
atoms. This cannot be done with
ont two.thirds majority in thu
Senate. There will be snch ma
jority in the next Senate Shrere
port Standard.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-04
The Democratic Campaign.
Representative Blaekburn's Views on the
PROSPECTS,.

The Washington Star published
an interview with Representative
Blackburn, Chairman of the Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign Com
mittee. Mr.. Blackburn reports his
committee organized and at work.
He attaches great importance to
the fall elections, in the effect they
will have upon the Presidential cleo
ton, and is reported as saying:
1.-THE coming election, will be the
first instance of great pitched bat.
tie along the skirmishing lines. 1t
we lose, our defeat in the fight for a
President will follow" Mr.. Black.
burn said the National party would
be potent factor in the elections.
Its principles have become popular
and will not bother the Democrats
He further remarked: 'The Nation
al movement is also assuming a
communistic phase wherever it ID
strongest, that is the surest way OIL
killing it. The sending of Kearney
to the East as their apostle vii
also hurt them. In the raving Of
this fanatic the people will see the
dangerous proclivities of the party
In Kentucky their leader is Blan
ton Duncan, who never did a stroke
of work in his life. Their final des
tiny will be, after creating dis
turbance, to disappear"
The interview concluded with thu
assertion of Mr.. Blackburn tha
there had been no instance in thu
politics of this country where
party had gained control Of boil
, houses of Congress that it did no
. elect the next President.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-04
Too Hot for Him.

AS Confederate war reminis-
cences are the order of the day,
here is one too good to lie buried.
The hero of the joke we will call
jim. He was attached TO ROsser's
Cavalry, in Stuart's command. jim
was noted for his strong antipathy
to shot and shell, and n peculiar
way he had of avoiding too close
communion with the same, but at
last all his plans failed to keep him
out of the crow and he, with his
comrades, under lieutenant, was
detailed to support a battery that
composed n portion Of the rear
guard. The enemy kept pressing
so close, in fact, rs to endanger tho
retreating forces, and the troops
covering the retreat had orders to
keep the enemy in check, for a given
period, at all hazards, and the or.
der was obeyed to the letter, though
under q CALLING fire. Our friend
Jim grew desperate. He stuck be.
hind trees that appeared to his ex.
cited vision no larger than ramrOls.
He then tried lying down. In fact,
he placed himself in every position
that his genius could invent, but
the "hiss' of the bullet haunted
him still. At last in despair, he
called to his commanding officer.
"Lieutenant! let's fall back!' 81
cannot do it JIM" replied the officer.
"Well, I'll be drat if we don't get
cleaned out if We stay herem any
orders, jim, are to hold this place
and support that battery of guns,'
pointing to the artillery close by.
"lf we fall back the enemy will
rush in and capture the guns
Just at that time well directed
bullet impressed Jim with the fact
that u change Of base became nee.
essary. Jim found another appar
entity protected spot, and, as soon
as he recovered his mind, he sang
ont: "Oh! Lieutenant! what do
you think them ere cannons cost"
81 don't know, Jim; l suppose about
81, 900" "Well,". said jim, ''let's
take up collection and pay for the
Id guns, and let the yankees
have 'em."