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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
A BABYS SMILE.

As through the busy streets pass,
Often in sun or rain,
mark some pleasant household group,
Behind a window-pane;
The mother is politely blind,
The father does not see,
But if note baby there,
The baby smiles at me.
Dear sinless soul of babyhood.
She does not coldly wait
10 ask about my bank account,
Or bonds, or real estate;
With small soft face against the pane,
And dove-like COO the WHILE
She beckons with her dainty hand,
And answers back my smile.
She does not scorn my glance because
She never heard my name,
Nor query of my social place,
Nor question whence | came:
No tedious rule of etiquette
Restraints her loving grace.
Or chllls the winning smile that lights
Her lovely wildhower face.
She knows me by that nameless sense,
That wisdom sweet and fine,
Which babies have ere time has spoiled
Their innocence divine;
That strange, unerrlng magnetism
Which some kind angel sends.
By which all sinless things perceive
And recognize their friends;
Which draws the pigeons to my hand,
Fearless and trustful still,
Which makes the social sparrows crowd
My friendly window-sill;
The silent sympathy which makes
The homeless dog meet
Forget his hungry lonesomeness
To fawn about my feet.
All! though the world seems full, sometimes
Of darkness and of dust,
The soul is not quite desolate
Which birds and babies trust;
Life is not all wilderness,
Made up of grief and guile.
While eyes so shadowless and sweet
Smile back to eyes that smile.
Elizabeth AkerS Allen, In the Youths Compan
ion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
He thought to head off the vol

He thought to head off the voluble
barber. Sitting down in chair he
said: II want a shave, shampoo, II
bath, a bottle of hair tonic, one of Flor
ida water, private cup and brush, and
a stick of cosmetique." The tonsorial
artist was staggered for an instant, but,
quickly recovering, he suggested that
he was the agent for "the new patent
flexible steel-wire hair-brush, warranted
to keep in any climate, only one dollar
and six bits" The shaver was catch
ing his breath for fresh start, but the
customer slid from his chair and es-
capped. Gold Hill Ne1OS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

Two sweet little girls sat upon the
sidewalk in front of the Elko Post office,
one of them nursing a large wax doll.
Her companion asked in tones of deep
earnestness: docs 90 have much
twouble wifi 'oor babyP" o GOODNESS,
yes" was the reply, "she cwies mos
all 'e time. She jes' cwied an cwied
ever since she was born. rs jes' dis
couraged, an | don't tink I'll ever born
any more"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
A VOudOO Doctor.

The negroes of the South Carolina
up-country have just had an interesting
experience with voudoo doctor. 1t
seems that DR.. Pinckney Wallis, col
ored, attended one Steve Brown, also
colored, in the neighborhood of Chick
Springs, and declared that his patient
was infested with frogs that had de-
posted their eggs in his heels, being in
duced to do so through a charm
wrought by four other darkies. He
charged Steve $3.50 to relieve him.
Steve was relieved and went back to
his work, the witnesses testifying that
as each egg was taken from his mouth
the frogs could be heard to croak in
his stomach. Wallis was thus estab-
lished in fame, and was for the time re-
garded by some of the colored citizens
as bigger man than Hampton. He
tried his arts, however, upon another
patient shortly afterward and ignomini-
ously failed. The case was that of a
white man who had "fluctuation' in
his stomach. Wallis persuaded him
that he contained a pilot snake and a
frog in his stomach, and that the chas-
ing of the latter by the former through
the intestinal mazes caused the tiuct-
uation." Wallis charms would not
operate and the people began to doubt.
Finally the Indignation took the form
of a mob, and Wallis, fearing his life
was endangered, fled the country. With
his disappearance confidence was re-
stored once more in the community
Louisville Courier-Journdl.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

"A bright little fellow of four years,
whose correctness the father questioned,
was asked; IF Mary should tell you any
thing that was not exactly so, what
would you say?" answered: "Pd say
she told lie." eff brother would say
anything that was not so, would you
think it rightP" "No; I'd think he
told lie" "Well, supposing you
should say something that was not ex-
actly so; what then?" "Pd say rs
mistaken"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17
HEALING RAW SURFACES.

Nearly year ago, DIR. G. F. Waters
of Boston. made the discovery that the
bicarbonate of soda, if applied to burn
ed or scalded surface, promptly subdued
the pain. He performed a somewhat i'm
pressive experiment, to prove his dis
covery. He scalded himself severely,
on space seven centimeters broad, all
around his wrist. The application of
the bicarbonate Immediately relieved
the pain, and if all had gone well the
burn would have been cured in a week.
But the doctor was careless, and permit
ted his cuff button to catch and tear the
blistered skin, and further trouble of the
same sort was caused by friction on the
edge of the cuff. The result was that
while the rest of the burn was soon cur
ed, the part thus torn became trouble
some, suppurating wound. Studying
the subject, DR.. Waters thought that
possibly vegetable albumen might an
swer the same purpose that animal al
bumen is supposed to, in the formation
of dermal scales. He proposed to test
this theory by removing the scab from a
portion of the wound, drying the surface
with blottlng-paper, and then immedi-
ately applying the white juice of the
common milk-weed. Space after space
of the soft surface was thus treated, each
portion being allowed to heal successive
| ly before the next part was tried. Ac-
cording to the depth of the sore, the
time of healing varied from twenty-four
to thirty-six hours but in each instance
new skin formed completely across. The
doctor states, as to this new discovery,
that the only essential point is to dry
the wounded surface gently and thor
oughly with blotting paper before ap-
plying the milkweed juice. From the
description it appears that after the
juice was applied, aud while the healing
was in progress, piece of blotting- pa
per was also used to cover the surface.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17
THE DEAD Off, THE UNION A1MIEs

The number of the Union dead is
probably known now about as well as it
ever will be, although information on the
subject is still sought from every availa-
BILE force. By the last official reports
the total number of deceased Union SOL
diers during and in consequence of the
war is put at 316,233. Of these only
175, ,764, or about fve-ninths of the
whole, have been, or probably ever can
be, Unidentified. These figures, it is evil
dent, cannot cover by thousands the true
number of the Union dead, for in the
vast area of the contest, many bodies
were constantly being left on the field
of battle, in skirmishes and woods and
in insulated encounters of pickets and
reconnoitering and scouting parties, that
could not be recovered. Of the grand
total 36,868 are known to have been
prisoners of war. who died IN captivity.
Of rebel prisoners of war the remains of
2l,336 have been inferred. The statis-
tics Of losses on that side are far less
complete than on the Union side. In
this connection it may be stated that the
Russian losses in the recent war with
Turkey were put at little over 10000,
although the deaths of Russian soldiers
by sickness since the close of the fighting
would bring the aggregate up to 100000.
There are seventy-two national ceme-
taries for the Union dead, besides 800
and post cemeteries. The largest of these
are at Arlington, Va, the former home
of General Robert E. Lee, with l5,547
graves; Fredericksburgh, Va, with 15,-
800 graves Salisbury, N. G., with H.
112 graves; Beaufort, S. c., with TO-
900 graves Andersonville, Ca, with
1905 graves Marietta, Ga, 10000
graves; New Orleans, La, IL, ,23O graves;
Vicksburg, Miss, 1902 graves; Chat
tanooga, Tenn, 1864 graves; Nashville,
Tenn. 16,529 graves; Memphis, Tenn,
1888 graves Jefferson Barracks, Mo-,
6,601 graves. The National Cemetery,
near Richmond, Va, has 6,276 graves,
of which no less than 5,459 are of un-
known dead, mostly of prisoners. The
cemeteries are generally reported in good
condition, well sodded and planted with
ornamental trees.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17
SUM NJ Err DIET.

There is great deal said in praise of
French cookery, but the demands of the
intense life Americans lead cannot be
met by mere favors and simulated dish
es. Our palates may be cheated by the
cuisinier, but he cannot cheat our stom-
achs. Food we must have-food that
on analysis gives fibrin and glutin and
albumen, and puts such restlessness into
our muscles and our brains that we cam
not choose but work and think. The
hearty worker is invariably the hearty
feeder. While it is right and proper to
utilize everything edible, and wrong to
waste what may serve useful purpose,
there is no economy SO unwise as that
which leads us to defraud our blood by
filling the stomach with what seems to
be food, but is lacking in the essential
elements of food. In the summer time
fruits and vegetables naturally form a
large part of our diet. When neither
underripe nor overripe nothing can be
more wholesome than fruit. But there
are no articles of food more deranging
to the system than unripe fruit, or that
verging on decay, in which the fermen-
tations of decomposition have begun. Sc
far as possible fruit should be eaten
without sugar. Sugar is carbon in q
saccharine garb, and carbon is heat
Curds are very delightful articles Of
food For breakfast on sultry morn.
ing in June and July nothing can ex.
ceed cream cheese for delicacy and
satisfaction. The habit once formed Of
eating cold dishes in summer, and the
American idea that every meal mus
taste of the fire being discarded, large
comfort ensues to the cook and the eatel
no less. Cold tea and cold coffee. i
rightly made and cooled, are as refresh
ing and stimulating as the same bevera
ges at 2l2 degrees Fahrenheit. Colo
meats are as nutritious as warm meats
and many vegetables are as palatabl'
when they have been half day from
the fire as when first cooked. Salads o
all kinds are specially grateful in warm
weather, and should form part of ev
erY dinner.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17
THE FORTUNE TELLER'S
ALMANAC.

To dream of a milestone about your
neck is sign of what you may expect
if you marry an extravagant wife.
1t is very lucky to dream that you
pay for thing twice over; since, after
wards, you will probably take care to
have all your bills receipted.
For person in embarrassed circum-
stances to dream that he is arrested is
very fortunate for it is warning to
him on no account to accept bill.
To dream of fire is sign that-if
you are wise-you will see that all the
lights in your house are out before you
60 to bed.
To dream that your nose is red at the
tip is an intimation that you had better
leave off brandy and water.
To dream of having great number
of servants is-madness.
To dream of bear foretokens mis-
chief, which your vision shows you is a
Bruin.
When fashionable young lady
dreams of filbert it is sign that hel
thoughts are running upon the colonel.
If you dream of clothes it is a warn
ing not to go to law for, by the rule o.
contraries, you will be sure of non-suit
When q young lady dreams of a coffin
it betokens that she should instantly
discontinue tight stays, and always g
warmly and thickly shod in wet weather
If you intend to do mean thing
wait till tomorrow.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

Tuneful lyre-The music teacher who
broke his engagement
"What are the wild wives saying 2"
Why, simply this: you'll get nothing
but a picked up dinner till this house is
cleaned from turret to foundation stone p
Edison has perfected a fog-horn that
can be heard ten miles, but when it
comes to an invention for getting his
hired girl up in the morning he smiles
sadly and falls to musing on the infinite
A Florida negro mistook a mule for a
ghost. and poked it with stick. The
verdict returned was that he came to his
death by using too short a stick in prob
ing the unknowable for evidence of
future existence.
$50 there's another rupture on Mount
Vociferous," said Mrs. Partington, as
she put down the paper and put up her
specs. 1.-The paper tells all about the
bursting lather running down the
mountain. but it don't tell how it got on
fire."
Mark Twain told newspaper reporter
that he was going abroad in order to find
quiet place to write, where he would
not be disturbed once a day. 1t is sin
gular it never occurred to him to remain
at home and secure desk in store
that doesn't advertise.
In a recent case for assault the de-
fendant pleaded guilty. 81 think l
must be guilty." said he, because the
plaintiff and l were the only ones in the
room; and the first thing knew was
that 1 was standing up and he was
doubled over the table"
The eccentric genius who delights in
statistics says every man eats on an av-
erage eight bushels of wheat in the
course of year. We can point out men
who consume at least twenty-five bushels
of corn in the same time, but they don't
take the trouble to chew it.
The fashion reporter who wrote with
reference to belle, "Her feet were en-.
cased in shoes that might be taken fol
fairy boots" tied his wordrobe up in 9
handkerchief and left for parts unknown
when it appeared the next morning
"Her feet were encased in shoes tha
might be taken for ferry-boats."'
A woman who had spent the create
part of the day in going to auction sale
concluded she would attend service at
fashionable church in New York on he
way home. Wearied and worn out, sh
soon became oblivious to her surround
ings. and was only awakened by tn
rustling of the congregation as the
arose to receive the benediction. Seein
the minister's hand raised in the air. sh
waved her Handkerchief at him and said
I in q firm, clear voice, "I'll take the gree
washstand if you'll throw in the bow
and pitcher"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

The BIBLE AND IT'S CRITICs.-There
has been no time during the past eigh-
teen hundred years when there have not
been men who doubted and men who
disbelieved the inspiration of the Bible,
men who disregarded and men who
spurned its teachings. The Bible has
in each generation had an increasing
number of readers, and each year adds
to the number of those who believe in
its teachings and seek to make it their
guide while the men who have sought
to bring distrust upon it, and denied its
Divine authority, have failed to shake
the faith of the nations that have been
foremost in elevating mankind and civ
ilizing the world, and although in sue
cessive generations they have manifest
ed the same spirit. and hurled the same
weapons. they have gained neither in
numbers nor in power.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

The impurities that make water in
furious to health are organic matters,
such as are abundantly supplied by barn
yards, drains and cemeteries, where the
decay of animal and vegetable substance
is going on. Some families who live on
farms, and who fancy they are drinking
the best of water, are, in fact constantly
imbibing poison that will appear, per-
haps, in the dreaded form of diphtheria
or typhoid fever.-Scientifc american.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

Postmaster General Key, in CONVEX
sation about his letter to the people of
the South, is reported to have said: 81
have written nothing but what I honest
ly believe. The idea of the managers of
this affair is to secure control of the next
house of representatives The Democrats
will control the senate. Congress will
refuse to receive messages from Mr..
Hayes, and they will receive them from
Mr.. Tilden. If that will not precipitate
civil war do not know what will. 1t
is perfectly clear to my mind that Tilden,
Blair and perhaps Conkling are engineer
ing this movement. Southern Democrats
were whipped into support of the resolu-
tion. Not even a caucus was held, and
it is part of the scheme to so compro-
mise Southern men that they will be
compelled to support whatever steps the
leaders of this movement may see fit to
do. l read Mr.. Potter's letter this morn
ing and it confirms my belief that this
investigation is for revolutionary purpos-
es. If [ had been in the house when
that resolution passed l should have
been with Stephens. Our people did not
want this investigation. They were
roped into it, and it won't do for them
to 60 too far
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

jected that it would be impossible. he
replied that it would be still more diff
cult to gather up and destroy all evil re-
ports which she had circulated about
others. Any thoughtless, careless child
can scatter handful of thistle seed be-
fore the wind in moment; but the
strongest and wisest man cannot gather
them again.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

The story is told of woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal of
others, and made confession to the priest
of what she had done. He gave her a
ripe thistle-top, and told her to go out
in various directions and scatter the
seeds. one by one. Wondering at the
penance, she obeyed, and then returned
and told her confessor. To her amaze
ment, he bade her go back and gather
the scattered seeds; and when she OBJ
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17
Probably the surest and quickest W

Probably the surest and quickest way
to make child a liar is to let him
know that you think he is one. Of
course, teach your children to speak
and act the truth, but lure, not drive
them into it. Compulsory morality has
ever been considered a poor article, and
a charitable leniency for the slips and
accidents of childhood, even for
the willful wrong doing, since it is gen.
orally the result Of lack of knowledge.
lis not only the part of mercy but of
justice. I believe it often happens that
children are driven into falsehood to
protect themselves from really unjust
treatment on the part of those in author
ity over them. Again, confidence be-
gets confidence, just as love begets love.
The pupil who finds his teacher trust
ing him, will be far more likely to de-
serve that trust than one who sees his
teacher receive his statements with
words or looks of suspicion.-Am Old
Schoolm0Ster.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17
A GREENLAND HOME.a

Evening is the liveliest time In the
Greenland hut. Then the FRIGHT lamps
are burning, the kettles and pots (made
of soapstone) all steaming and boiling
over each lamp, the women busily chat
ting at their work, and half-naked chill
dren running about on the warm REIN
deer SKINS on the ledge behind them.
This is the scene going on before US.
The seal-hunter has just arrived home
from after his days toll upon the sea,
and while he is hanging up his lines.
his water proof gloves and other para
phernalia, piece of skin is drawn forth
from beneath the ledge and spread be-
fore him. Its contents-the small, dried
fish called "angmagsat" or capeling-he
eats in silence, weary as he is. This is
only preliminary meal, an appetizing
pastime, while the more substantial
things over the lamp are getting ready
and it does not take long to boil seal
flesh. After the fish he takes draught
from the water-pail behind the door.
The skin curtain of the ledge, hiding
the mysteries of the lower regions, is
once more drawn aside, and the skin,
with the remnants, disappears behind it,
to join host of the most heterogeneous
articles. A good deal of talking in the
relating line, or in the chatting, pratt
tling, merry-making style, is generally
going on. What l remember most dis
tinctly from my many visits and stays
in the Greenland huts are the stories
and descriptions of the men relative to
their sea adventures, accompanied by
the most animated gestures, showing
how the seal had first appeared, and,
then again dived down on his approach
ing it; how he (the hunter in his turn
had fingered behind till the animal,
made incautious by the ensuing silence,
again rose to the surface; and now the
hunter. leaning back with graceful
movement, shows how he resolutely
swept across a long surge, and came
within reach of his mark, took aim, and
threw his harpoon and bladder afoat
how the wounded animal dived and
again came to the surface, and so forth.
In fact, he paints the scene with the
most lively colors, as we all listened in
wrapt attention. My brother, who had
a lively comprehension and great tai
ent for mimicry, had in after years, in
Denmark, often to act the part of the
seal-hunter, and it strikes me that had
myself part in play representing an
unsuccessful whale hunt. Certainly We
. had many an hour of amusement in the
Greenland cottages. No doubt we were
very unpretending, and easy to please
in the extreme but why criticise the
means when the result is happiness
And happy We undoubtedly were, alike
in the dark, frosty days, with the moor
shining down upon us at noontide, an(
in the calm, delightful summer time
with its light, sunllt nights.-Ih
Field.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

A Cobb county school teacher says he
never felt unequal to any demand in the
line of his profession. excepting on one
occasion, when farmer brought his
ffteen-year old daughter toa>the school,
and walking up to the masters desk,
said, That's my youngest gal, and if
you ketch her a-slidin' down the hill
with the boys, just want you to trounce
her."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

A FAMINE IN LABRADoR.-Sad ac-
counts are received at Quebec of the
sufferings of the people at Labrador.
The fisheries failed them last fall, and
the traders, who give them provisions in
barter for their fish and oil, abandoned
the territory, not caring to let the
wretched people have goods on credit.
Thus before the winter set in the whole
population was left to starye or subsist
until summer on fish offal, for crops are
impossible on that sterile shore. Whole
families have lived through the winter
on rotten, half frozen carcasses of seals
driven ashore by the ice foes. Others
have kept body and soul together BY de-
vouring the nauseous flesh of the black
loupsmarin, species of seal which in
prosperous times would be stunned even
by the dogs. Many deaths have occur
red from sheer starvation. Of five fam
lilies containing forty souls, in one set
tlement, only five survive. Scurvy is
epidemic. The women haunt the shore
like spectres, picking up the dead seal,
while the men and boys gather sea moss
or shell fish.-Bostoa Journal