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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

They have either seen falsely or else
vaguely. Not so the farm youth who
wrote me one winter day that he had
seen single pair of strange birds.
which he describes as follows: "Thev
were about the size of chippie.' the
tops of their heads were red, and the
breast of the male was of the same
color, while that of the female was
much lighter; their rumps were also
family tinged with red. If / have,de-
scribed them so that you would know
them, please write me their names"
There can be little doubt bat the Young
observer had seen pair of red-polls,S
a bird related to the gold-fnch, and
that occasionally comes down to us in
the winter from the far north Another
time, the same youth wrote that he had
seen strange bird, the color of SPAR
row, that alighted on fences and build
ings as well as upon the ground and
that walked. This last fact showed the
youths discriminating eye and settled
the case. | knew it to be species of
lark, and from the time, size. color,
ETC., the tit-lark. But how many per-
sons would have observed that the bird
walked instead of hoped? Burroughs
IN the august ScTibner'S
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
How One Sea Captain Treated His
Crew.

Mr.. Frank H. Converse, in the cur
rent number OF Sunday afternoon,
gives a very interesting account of the
manner in which "poor jack is treated
in the merchant marine. He gives nu-
merous instances of the brutality of
officers, not forgetting to mention,
however, the shortcomings of Jack
Following is the portrait of model
captain: Capt, Christian, with whom
| made my astvoyage, lays it down as
a rule at the very beginning that no
man shall be cursed or called out of his
name by either of his officers. Every
order is quietly, and if it is necessary
to address Forecastle Jack personally,
he is spoken to like a being with some
degree of self-respect. The kindly
treatment is not of nature calculated
to encourage the slightest appearance
of familiarity. Yet, while the men
seemed thoroughly to know their place,
| think before the end of the voyage
every one of them felt that Capt. Chris
tian had sort of personal interest in
him. have known him at a seasonal
BILE time to counsel, or advise, or warn
different men in the crew, and in place
of his dignity being lowered thereby, |
fancy it was heightened. l do not as
sert that the men were made morally
better by such treatment, but | will say
that | have never before or since known
a more orderly or willing crew than
had the Guardian, at the time of which
7 write
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
\ Family of Thirty-Three Children.

Think of a father climbing out of
bed at daylight and calling to each of
his thirty or more children to get up,
and then assigning them their several
duties for the day. Such a man was
Antoine Louis Descompt Labadie. With
his father and two brothers, this some
what remarkable son of Gaul emigrated
from France and settled in Detroit in
1850. Nineteen years thereafter he
married Angelique Campau, and the
two went to housekeeping over the
river. Labadie lived happily with his
wife for five years, when she died, hav-
ing borne him seven children during
that time. He had traded extensively
with the Indians, and had treated them
with such uniform kindness and con-
sideration that upon the death of his
wife they entreated him to marry a
maiden from out their tribe. This he
did, choosing the daughter of Sauteuse
chief, as the records of the Catholic
Church at Sandwich have it. Seven
teen children his dusky bride pre-
sented him, and then her spirit fled to
the happy hunting grounds.
Aboriginal and Norman blood ming
ling in the veins of the seventeen de-
scendants of this last union helped to
build up hardy and rather industrious
community, and still Labadie faltered
not. He was welded TO Miss Char
lotte Barthe, and the fruits of this
union were nine children, the oldest
son being the father of Gregoire l..
Labadie, of this city, and IF Capt.
Charles F. Labadie, of the firm. of
Labadie & Parent, Windsor. The lat
ter still holds portion of the old home
stead in Walkerville.
Old citizens say that it was not an
uncommon thing for the old French
settlers to raise families of eighteen
and twenty children. An old resi-
dent says that Van Avery, who lived
on the present site of The water works,
was the father of twerty-three children,
all by one wife. Detroit Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
Christianity in India.

The Madras Athen9unl and Datlu
Ne10S says: The report for the past
year of the American Arcot mission
shows that Tinnevelly is not the only
part of Southern India where consid-
cradle numbers of the lower castles are
inclined to give up heathenism for
Christianity. The Madras paper SAYS:
During the last year 1--WE read) be-
tween 800 and 900 families, numbering
about 5000 souls, and residing in sixty
different villages in North and South
Arcot, have renowned their idols and
formally accepted Christianity. This
movement, although principally among
the parish caste, is by no means con-
fined to them. Pastor John states that
of the eighteen villages he has received
two are composed of caste people,
one including the monegar and eleven
families. These have broken the sacred
thread from their bodies, taken off the
lingum from their arms, and eaten
with me- In one village in South
Arcot seven families, representing three
different castles, together with eight
families of pariahs, form new con-
gregation. Although there have been
some accessions from caste people, the
great majority, it is plain, have come
from the outcast pariahs, who are as a
class the most ignorant and degraded
of all sections of the population. The
higher ethical aspects of Christianity,
accordingly, which lay claims upon
their conscience and their conduct,
they are not in a position to appreci-
ate; but the benifcent side of it, as be-
slowing, not requiring, and as bestow-
ing present temporal benefit, they can
understand and yield themselves to.
1t is a common modern objection to
Christianity that it sacrifices this pres
ent life to the future, and is more care
full to secure salvation hereafter than
to promote mems comfort and happi-
ness here. This objection can hardly
be advanced in the present case; the
very opposite, in fact, is more likely
to be brought forward. That these
poverty-stricken, degraded and de-
spised people are seeking some
thing better there can be no
doubt; that material and social
advantages is most prominent
with them, is most likely also true; but
we also believe that they recognize in
Christianity spiritual power and a
higher moral standard, to which they
are prepared to submit 1t would be
very interesting and instructive to learn
from the report what is their state of
mind, and what sort of mental process
they have gone through in coming to
the resolution of joining the Christian
society. Very little light, however, is
thrown on the matter, although it is
plain that the missionary recognizes
the presence of mixed motives. They
do not include any of the converts in
their statistical table because they wish
to test their motives before calling
themselves Christians 1t would prob
ably be a more correct impression if
they said that they wished to elevate
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
A Sleep in the Mammoth Cave.

IT was little chilly sleeping under
blankets in Gothic Chapel, in NAM
moth Cave, on a recent night. This is
not the usual way they accommodate
guests down there; it was only freak
of mine. Mr.. Miller, the proprietor
of the Cave Hotel, warm-hearted
gentleman and host, that will do any
thing to accommodate his guests, when
| asked his permission and unfolded
my plan of choosing such a bedroom
in the foundations of the earth, did not
look or say that | was mad, q was
little doubtful as to what he thought),
but he not only gave me his consent,
but cot, pillow and four blankets.
And of all the delightful novelties, to
sleep in temperature of fifty-nine de-
grees Fahrenheit! 1t was most beau
tiful chamber, an even, sanded floor,
roof supported and festooned with ala
baster stalactites, forming in one place
what is called the altar. 1t was de-
lightful. 1t is true it was trifle soli-
tary, and | might have wished that |
had not turned over while asleep, for
on awakening | felt just as though |
had been on steamboat that had
turned around in the night, entirely
confused, until lighting fresh lamp
by the Pickering one that had burned
all night and jogging on about half
mile | came to familiar point, and
was brought to the conclusion that |
had been going from and not towards
the mouth of the cave. Retracing my
steps came to the mouth. A guide
was just lighting his lamp to enter in
search of me. OF course, this hap
pened in comparatively short avenue
near the entrance, where there were
no pits and no danger of getting per-
manently lost. | wonder, when real
izing that the day is advanced, have l,
in the perpetual night of the cave,
slept more than one of natures above
ground nightsP
The cave itself is as remarkable for
its negative qualities--its odorlessness,
silence, darkness; its Interchangeable
ness-as for its grandeur and beauty.
Nothing can surpass the sublimity of
Echo River and Star Chamber or the
beauties of Cleveland's Cabinet, where
snow-white gypsum flowers perpetual
ly bloom, with petals as exquisitely
delicate as nature ever fashioned. Here
the Great Architect has planned futed
domes 200 feet high and chambers col
umned and curtained with alabaster.
The cave is an unsympathetic witness
of many merry scene which the act
ors never forget, and they imagine
that on that especial occasion the stars
twinkle, the rock roses bloom and the
scarcely less changeable jokes of the
guides are gottenup for them. Yet the
old cave smiles or frowns on all alike.
The very cascade foaming over its
mouth seems to say:
| chatter, chatter as flow
To join the trimming river;
For men may come and men may go,
But go on forever.
Louisville C0urier-Journdl.
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and purify their motives. Although
many of those who have come,' the re-
port goes on to say, may desert us
when the famine is over, yet large
number will doubtless be firm, and,
whatever may have been their ruling
motive in joining us, we believe it was
the Lord only who gave them the mind
and the courage to renounce the faith
OF their fathers and accept new re-
ligiOn. This is not the first time that
God has made famine means of sub
DUNG mems hearts, and leading them
to forsake their dumb idols to serve
Him. These people are at first, of
course, very ignorant, and catechists
must be sent to teach them. 1t is q
great step gained when men. renounce
idolatry and declare their intention TO
become Christians; but unless they are
carefully instructed we cannot hope for
any satisfactory results These SEN
fences show that while the missionaries
recognize in the movement a good i'm
pulse coming from the source of all
good, they are fully alive also to the
ignorance and moral imperfections of
the converts, and know that the main
work has to be done by regular course
of Christian instruction and discipline
But we agree with them that it is a
great step gained when idolatry is re-
nounced for Christianity, although the
latter may be at first little more than a
very vague aspiration and desire for
better things. Everything depends for
the ultimate result ON the wisdom of
the missionaries, and the moral force
and spiritual life already in the church. :"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
Sharp Eyes.

A man has sharper eye than dog
or a fox, or than any of the wild crea-
lures, but not so sharp an ear or nose.
But in the birds he finds his match.
How quickly the old turkey discovers
the hawk, a mere speck against the
sky, and how quickly the hawk discov-
ers you if you happen to be secreted in
the bushes, or behind the fence near
which he alights. | find l see almost
without effort nearly every bird within
sight in the field or wood L pass
through Ga fit of the wing, firt of the
tail are enough, though the Pickering
leaves do all conspire to hide them),
and that with like ease the birds see
me, though, unquestionably, the chances
are immensely in their favor. The eye
sees what it has the means of seeing,
truly. You must have the bird in your
heart before you can find it in the bush.
The eye must have purpose and aim.
No one yet ever found the walking fern
who did not have the walking fern in
his mind. Nevertheless, the habit of
observation is the habit of clear and de-
cisive gazing; not by first casual
glance, but by steady, deliberate aim
of the eye are the rare and characters
tic things discovered. You must look
ihtently and hold your eye firmly to the
spot, to see more than do the rank and
file of mankind. The sharp-shooter
picks out his man and knows him with
fatal certainty from a stump, or a rock,
or cap on pole. The phrenologists
do well to locate not only form, color,
weight, ETC., in the region of the eye,
but faculty which they call individu-
ality-that which separates, discrimi-
mates, and sees in every object its es-
sential character. Persons frequently
describe to me some bird they have
seen or heard and ask me to name it,
but in most cases the bird might be any
one of dozen, or else it is totally un-
like any bird found in this continent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
The Garden OF Nassau.

A lady gives this incident of her
visit to Nassau, in the West India
group:
"Besides the surf and the shells, and
the lighthouse and the blockade run
ner, and the bathing, there is not much
to see at Hog Island, and visitors are
soon ready to re-embark and skim along
the bright waters to the Sea Garden
where the boat is moored, and if the
waters are calm enough, the white
sand of the sea-bed may be seen glim-
mering up through the waves. But
presently Sampson produces his water
glasS'-a square box, one end open, the
other fitted with a pane of common
window glass; this end is thrust into
the water for a few inches, and the OBJ
server looking into the open end is dis
posed to think SIMPSONS simple-look-
ing apparatus is the veritable magic
glass of the old stories, for through it
a new world is opened.
"Upon the white sand of the sea-
bed there grow as in garden such
marvellous shapes of form and beauty
as one never sees in upper air, for, like
many another lovely thing, to pluck
the flowers of this garden is to destroy
them-to make them ones own is to
lose them forever. Sea-ferns or sea-
fans wave their delicate foliage, tinted
of every shade of yellow and orange,
from white to the deepest of gold, of
dusky red and brown, and all but black;
the sea-anemone, that wonderful hybrid
of flower and animal life, blooms or
breathes in ever varying tints; sea-weed
of every rare shape and color floats
idly in the marvellous water; coral and
sponge grow year by year to forms of
beauty and use, and in and out among
the foliage of the subterranean grove
glide the birds of this fair garden, the
dainty, shining blue-ish, and many
another finny aristocrat who seems to
find this his fitting home.
1.-The boatmen always carry, among
other furniture of the boat, boy or
two, clad in diving trousers and not
much else, who is here ready, for a
modest compensation, to dive and bring
up any special specimen of sponge,
coral, or sea-fan which the voyager
may point out, and it is rather pc
culiar sight to watch one of these sable
mermen Juggling with both hands at a
toughly-rooted specimen, his feet wav-
ing tin-like in the air, and presently re-
turning breathless to the surface, bring
ing his spoil in triumph
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
Paragraph Profits.

A newspaper item, headed Profits
of Authors, " says the majority of book
makers are VIGOROUSLY poor This may
be the case, but it is entirely different
with newspaper paragraphists They
are independently rich, and give large
sums in charity. Mr.. Bailey, of the
Danbury NeaoS, is worth $780, 1896, and
owns two dogs. He would now be
worth the round sum of 100000 if he
had not taken the advice of enemies,
and published a book. Mr. P. l., of the
New York Herald, whose name was
Goldsmith before he welded the news
paper profession, has laid up S500,0
for rainy day and owns meerschaum
pipe, formerly the property of the Duke
of Norfolk, Va. He never published
book, and his other habits are good.
Lewis, of the Detroit Free Press, has
acquired S400,975 and double barreled
gun. He has published book. He
has also experienced a pair of explo-
sions, but he is not proud. Mr.. Croffut,
of the New York Graphic, has no faith
or money in banks. He had $500, Clio
out of bank. The 100000 was made
by paragraphing, and the $40 by writ
ing poetry. No book. Mr.. Burdette,
of the Burlington Hatcb-Eye, has sayed
up the snug little sum of $780, 1915 and
a bull s-eye watch. He has published
book and caused his family pain by
mounting the lecture platform. Mr.
Catlin, late of the New York CONNER
cjdL AdUertiSer, and Consulate DIES Etats
Unis d Amerique a La Rochelle, France,
also president de la Photographers As
ISOLATION DIES Etats Unis d'Amerique,
and membre de la Presse Association
de New Jersey, etc, has bank account
of $500, 900. As he contemplates visit
ing the Paris Exposition, he may be
worth only 100000 a month or two
hence. Rewey, of the New Haven
Register, has Photographed S400, 900 and
fame out of journalism. No book. The
report that he sunk 100000 on the
! Worcester Press is a fabrication-a cam
paign liza gross eliperkinsism. He
only lost 100000 in that venture.
Eugene Field, of the st. Louis Journal,
has acquired 100000 and a lovely
mustache in the paragraphing business.
No book. Writes poetry, but has no other
small vices. The Photographer of the
Philadelphia Bulletin has 100000 hid
away in an old stocking, and can rec
ognize strawberry short-cake by the
strawberry mark on its left arm. He
says SO. No book and no lecture.
Puck has CLEANED shekels to the extent
of S500,005. The fact that he wears
nothing save an ulster and hat, winter
and summer, will explain those odd
dollars. Mr.. Holden, of the Yonkers
Gazette, enjoys a fortune of S500,00C
and one of the handsomest papers in
New York State. No book. He pos
sesses many other good traits. wilkins,
of the Whitehall Times, by liberal
economy and doing " credit business,
has pocketed 500, 900 of the dollars OF
our daddies. No book. The salary he
receives as collector of canals he gives
to the poor. Fact. We might 90 on
and name dozen more photographers
who are worth 100000 apiece, but we
think that-that we have lied about
enough for one day.-NorriSto,on Her
aid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
about Consumption.

After taking into account all the in
fluence of heredity, which is made much
of in treating of the cause of phithisis,
insufficient nOurishment is responsible
alike, in most instances for the deposit
of tubercle, and the inflammation to
which it naturally gives rise. There
are many men who, by a change of
living, render the tubercles already
deposited in the lungs harmless. vi
tality becomes so high in its power
that it dominates these evil influences;
and they live out u fairly long life with
enemies in their lungs that are rem
dered powerless by the strength of the
fluid that fights them. We have seen
consumption cured again and again by
the simple process of building up the
forces of vitality through passive eX-
ercise in the open air, and the
supply of an abundance of nutritious
food; and we have no doubt that it can
be prevented in most instances by the
same means. No human body can
long endure the draught made upon it
by cold climate and constant labor,
unless it is well-fed, well-clothed and
well housed. Somewhere deterioration
will show itself, and in New England
nay, all over the kingdom of Great
Britain it is the same, where the peo-
pie are worse fed than herc-the poverty
of blood shows itself in the deposit of
tuberculous matter in the lungs. There
should be by this time some i'm prove
ment in New England, in consequence
of the increased intelligence of the peo-
pie; but solong as so many of them are
running westward, and their places are
taken by an ignorant foreign popula-
ton, it is not likely that the statistics
will show much improvement for many
years to come. If our physicians could
only be paid for preventing disease,
and could be permitted to prescribe for
each family its way of living, there
would be but little difficulty in routi,
from its stronghold that most fatal
persistent enemy of human life v
we call consumption.-Scrjbner' Mag
Qzine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
DIR. Caryer's Great Feat.

EVEN riheman's eyes and ears can
not stand everything. DR.. Carver was
as good as his word; he shattered /, 800
glass balls inside of 500 minutes
most remarkable feat of craftsmanship
on record, and hardly less remarkable
as feat of physical endurance. But
in performing it he nearly blinded him
self, and is not at all sure that one of
his ears will ever be available for hear
ing purposes again. The glare of the
sun in his eyes became intensely pain
full before the first thousand balls had
been broken, and he can only account
for his success in breaking the last
thousand by referring it to the force of
habit; he did not fire at glass balls, but
at little spurts of fire. The Doctor has
sensibly resolved not to touch a rifle
again until rest shall have fully re-
stored his eyes to their normal strength
and clearness. N. Y Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
Just Like a Man.

"Now, Leander, my dear, l want
you to be sure and not forget to bring
these few things when you come down
tonight" said the young wife, just be-
fore the kiss and goodbye at the
summer-hotel, in the morning, as the
gentlemen were starting for the city.
Certainly not, my love-"
And this is the way the bill ran:
1.-Two yards of blue barege.
2.-Three yards of Hamburg edg-
ings.
3.-My new braid from the hair
store.
4.-Half a dollars worth of main
sock.
Box of pearl powder from my
upper drawer.
g." Modern Minister from Lor-
ing's Library.
Arriving in town, he forgot all about
the list till late in the afternoon, and
then couldn't find it in any of his
pockets; but hadn't he read it over,
and didn't he recollect it all? OF
course he did, and this is what he
brought home to his expectant wife:
1.-Two heads of blue cabbage.
2.-Three yards of handsome netting
mosquito).
3.-Some blue braid.
4.-Half a dollars worth of canned
soup.
Book of seidlitz powders and a
pair of drawers.
6.--Loring said he hadn't got any
such book as 1.-The Mug and Canister
in the library.
Exclamation on receiving the above:
go, Leander, Leander, you must have
been dining at that horrid club again,
or you couldn't have made such a mis-
take. n-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

SOME of the "poor white" families
of the Far West become exceedingly
toughened by their exposures and hard
ships. A lady travelling among them
took shelter in hut during rain
storm, and one of the barefooted
daughters of the family coming in, who
had been hunting for the cows, stood
on the hearth to dry her clothes, to
whom her mother said: "Sal, there's a
live coal under your foot" The girl,
whose soles were as hard as horn,
merely turned her head and drawled
out: (Which foot mammyP"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The coal area of Illinois is estimated
at $4,000 square miles, which is three
times as extensive as the coal area of
Ohio and Pennsylvania. 1t comprises
one-fifth of all the productive coal fields
of the United States,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

GA FLOWER show was recently held
in Whitechapel, England, where all the
competitors were women who had been
rescued from habits of intemperance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

BEACoNsFIELD has garter new title.
VIII the demand for carriers now af-
feet the stock-in trader