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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
Leisure in Life.

The leisure which the summer vaca-
ton brings to many men and women is
as thirstily desired as it is often cheer
fully abandoned. We wonder how
many are passing through the expert
ence now of awkward use ofwhat has so
long seemed the one thing to be de-
sired. After the toll, the escape from
the city and care, and the first lone
draught of welcome freedom, there
comes inevitably to many sense of
restlessness and uneasiness, as if Gift
had been placed in their hands the
value of which they surmised but could
not apply. Is it strange that people
who know no leisure moments in the
busy months should find the sudden
possession an unfamiliar one? Thew
know, perhaps, how to fill holiday
with enjoyment, but they have not
learned how to use vacation. We
suggest to such one use of their en-
forced leisure which may prove finally
of great advantage. Let them consid-
er, now that they have time to sit down
and think. whether it may not be pos
sible to order their lives for the work
ing part of the year so as to secure
more even distribution of their leisure.
A moOth of Sundays would scarcely
compensate for the loss of thirty Sun
days at intervals of seven days each;
and leisure, rightly understood, is the
Sunday-spirit in a mans life.
Men talk about the hurry and drive
of the world as if it were something
fateful to which they must yield help
lessly, and there might easily be a fret
full protest against it, which would be a
childish opposition. But surely there
is possible a quiet independence of
mind, which guards jealousy the right
to ones self, and we insist that it is the
part of wisdom for every one to use the
utmost resolution and contrivance to
secure q part--be it ever so small-of
every day for stiffness and abstraction
from busy life.
We owe to our decorous habits of re-
ligion the enforced rest of Sunday, and
we contend that it is no unworthy use
of religion which makes it also the daily
refuge of the busy man or woman. Let
one but fence in half hour even of the
day, and guard it from intrusion, giving
it to contemplation and devotion, and
the influence of this holy leisure will so
extend itself into the day that the time
will come to many when room will be
found also for other leisure than that
which is religious-when the work Of
the day will not be a tyrant from
which the soul escapes, painting, once
a year, but an occupation which
makes room beside itself for the
higher engagements, which bring
rest and order and the sweet charities
of life. We claim for every one true
independence which will put an end to
this violent yearly reaction, with its
momentary relief and subsequent vacu-
UNI; but it can he secured for each only
by individual protest and steady resolu-
ton. We cannot organize leisure half
so effectively as by the uncombined
effort of many individual wills. Church.
man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
Encouragement to Scientists.

THE Treasurer of the Franklin Insti-
tute has in his charge the sum of 81, 900,
which has been deposited by Uriah A.
Boyden, of Boston, to be awarded as a
premium to any resident of North Amer
lea or of the West India Islands who
shall determine by experiment whether
all rays of light and other physical rays
are or are not transmitted with the same
velocity. Each competitor will be re-
quired to transmit to the Secretary of the
Institute before the first day of January
next memoir describing in detail the
apparatus, mode of experimenting and
the result. These memoirs will be sub
mitted to three judges, to be appointed
by the Board of Managers of the 1nsti-
tute, and who are to be citizens of the
United States of competent scientific
ability. Should the judges think prop
er they may require the experiments de-
scribed in any of the memoirs to be re-
peated in their presence. Every men,
DIR must be anonymous, but must have
some motto or sign by which it may be
designated, and must also be accompa-
MED by sealed envelope, Endorsed on
the outside with the same motto or sign,
and to contain the name and address of
the author of the Observation-Disclosures
Record
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28

has always reason for hopefulness. De.
spondency is alien to the spirit of re-.
ligion. AS if God could not compensato
us for all earthly losses or trials. A
great many people trust they have
Christian hope enough to die by, Who
have not enough to live by. The de-.
mands of eternity exhaust all their
stock of hope. They have none to fin
time with sweet trust and content
When Christian was sinking into the
deep waters of Jordan, and was CRYING
out that the waves were going oves
him, Hopeful sustained him by callinc
out, I" Be of good cheer, my brother, I
feel the bottom and it is good" The
bottom is always firm to those who
have God, and their lives and words
and faces should show it. "The ioy of
the Lord is your strength" What
cneer the prophetic light of Christian
hope diffuses. In no way can we 50
well commend the Gospel as by show
ing it TRANSPORTED in our faces by the
light of good hope. Let skepticS live
and die in gloom. 1t is the inevitable
outcome of their logic. But gloomy
Christian dishonors the fountain Of
hope. All Heaven and earth are his,
and the combined beauty of both should
flood his life and well to his lips and
beam in his countenance. - Interior
(ChicaQo).
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
Organized Farmers.

TIE benefits to be derived from or
ganized farmers clubs, alliances or
oranges, are not by dictatorial demand
or formal resolutions. But such clubs
must by research and critical observa-
ton find out where the fault is, and
remedy the evil by rational principles.
Farmers can not expect to have their
proportional influence, or hold the more
important offices unless they are quail
fed for them. Instead of complaining
they must present themselves with
soundly educated minds, capable of di-
recting human affairs. 1t is neither the
classical scholar just from the schools,
nor the farmer who may be thoroughly
drilled in all of the operations of the
farm, that is qualified for the various
positions of public life. The scholar
and the farmer have higher, broader
and more practical lessons to learn.
The theory of the scholar is not antag-
onistic to a successful life, but most
reliable helper and guide in attaining to
the practical. Nor are the practical
lessons of the farmer bar to his pro-
;gress in attaining useful knowledge of
the applied sciences. The scholar and
the farmer must seek to know wherein
he is deficient and apply the remedy.
The farmers clubs and alliances are just
the schools for self-examination. If a
farmer feels and sees he is unprepared
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
Cost of Fences.

GEORGE M. WHITAKER, in his lecture
on " Neglected Trifles," makes the fol-
lowing statement of facts concerning
fences: In New Hampshire the original
cost of the fences is equal to twice the
value of all the stock in the State, in
Guiding horses, and the annual tax upon
the farms for repairs of fences would
nearly wipe out all the State tax in one
year.
The Connecticut farmers pay one mil
lion dollars annually for the maintenance
of fences, and farms are offered in mar
ket for less money than would be re-
quired in building the fences which sur
round and divide them. With such facts
in view, people in many places are be-
ginning to see that fences are too costly,
as well as frequently unnecessary, while
their removal often improves the ap-
pearance of the town. One of the pleas
ATTEST features of the landscape at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, is
the entire absence of roadside fences
against cultivated fields and moving
lands, and so well does the idea of dis
pensing with fences take hold of the
farmers in the immediate vicinity of the
College, that many of them are follow
ing the example set by the early found
ers of that institution, and are LAYING
their own grounds open to the highway,
thus adding much to the beauty of the
landscape, besides saving a great bill
of expense to themselves. One of the
first things which the rich feel is neces-
sary for their country homes is, that the
view should extend over the landscape
without the ugly interruption of fence.
This natural feeling is shared also by
those who are not rich, but, like many
other things which exist simply from
the prejudices of habit, it has hereto
fore been considered impossible to real
ize. To-day, however, by the slow
process of generations, civilized men
have become so imbued with a love of
order and law, that the fence should dis
appear from the landscape as the draw
bridge and moat have disappeared from
the modern mansion.
Abiding to the little patches of green
frequently seen at the centers of our
country towns and designated as the
common" he says: "But what is
more incongruous than to see a small
green surrounded by glaring white
belt of timber solid enough for q fortifi-
cation, the most snowy feature in the
prospect when it should have been the
leastp 1t shows as poor taste as it would
be to attach an elephant to a trotting
sulky. l do not believe the Almighty
ever created the delicate tints Of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
Religious.
" BELOVED, THINK 1T NOT
STRANGE"
I. PETER. ", IL.

I. PETER. ", II.
THINK it not strange" No, over all the land
Hopes fade, prayers fail, hearts break,
And dear ones DER deaths lone and shadowy
strand
Their silent pathway take.
But when on us the blow descends, swift smit-
ing,
We cannot help moan;
As heart and nerve cry with the pain OF part
ing
Us from our own.
And strange it seems that DER our happy
circle
The speoter nand could glide,
And snatch that one whose life, whose looks,
whose loving,
All earth was naught beside.
o! fiery trial that closely folds around us,
o. furnace of Affections, bitter pain,
o! heart-sck watch beside our dead, who
never
Give love for love againl
And saddest still of all the weary yearning
Through the long, lonely months and years,
The hearts that ache though lips may keep
their smiling,
Eyes dim with unShed tears.
But still DER broken hope and grave fresh
There sounds, "Rejoice, hearth
"Wherefore?" we cry, in bitterness Of anguish.
with Christ We bear your part.
d" And when, in the full splendor of His glory,
He stands before you, Savior, King revealed,
Ye may be glad with an exceeding joy
And find your sorrow healed"
o! weary heart, take strength, through dark
aff1iction
Ye only enter on the path He trod,
And meath the crown of sorrows benediction
There waits the full and perfect peace of
God.
-EUd Thomas, in Christian at Work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28

to transact business in the club success
fully, or that he is unable to communicate
his knowledge and views freely, he can
see exactly where he needs improve
ment, and if he then fails to apply the
remedy he has no right to complain OF
being ruled by other professions. To
succeed farmers must clothe themselves
with the power to grapple success
fully with the various classes of society
with which they will be constantly
confronted in public life. Clubs if they
do not set about the work of preparing
their members for such service as pub
lie men are called upon to perform, are
of little use. If they meet with the sole
object of consulting about the process
of raising larger crop of potatoes, they
will never have the power to do good in
society, and their limited capacities will
seldom if ever be called into use. The
main object of the alliance should be to
make it school of polish in the prac-
teal lessons of life. AS the best scholars
have found, too often to their sorrow,
that they can not step from the school
into practical life, neither can the farm
err, who has been drilled on the farm in
all of the science of breeding, feeding or
marketing successfully, expect to be
successful legislator without close and
severe discipline in the address, the
tact, familiarity with the rules and the
readiness of speech demanded for such
positions. So if farmer attaches him.
self to club or alliance and declines to
take an active part in its deliberations.
or contemns all established rules and
usages in its deliberations, he is of no
use to the club, and is spending his own
time to no profit. The alliance only
wants earnest, active, Intelligent farm
ers in each county, who are willing to
prepare themselves for greater influence
in society, and the duties of higher posi-
tons in the State and Nation.-Io1OG
State Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28

grass to play second fiddle to great
coarse fence. Green roadsides, neat
flower gardens, well kept shrubbery
and shade trees are infinitely pre-
ferable, in the way of village decoration
to pine plckets. But if fences must be
maintained along the village street, let
them be built to correspond with the
surroundings. A row of rough boards
in front of nice cottage, line of posts
in all degrees of rectftude, gate that
refuses to fit the place intended for it, a
picket or two counted out, the paint
worn off, are among the little things
that give the stranger feeling that
there is something that is repulsive
about the village he is visiting" While
we hold on to our fence system let US
keep those which we have in good re-
pair, and tidy.-NeU England Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
The Charming Toilets of Saratoga
Bellies.

OF the Saratoga toilets correspond
ent of the Chicago Times says One
could easily imagine himself living at
one of the Trianons in the days of the
famous Vatican himself, so beautifully
made and so picturesque in their COM
binations are the toilets Of the ladies
who have come here, but the fabrics of
their robings are not of the antique by
any manner of means. One franc a
meter instead of the hundred is about
the cost of the majority of the pretty
vanities seen upon the young and the
youngish women of Saratoga. The
pomps are left exclusively to the 6owag-
ers, to whom in truth they really belong.
Indeed many sets of young ladies must
have made studies of the famous historic
pictures at Versailles or they could new
er have so grouped themselves in The
factors of their pretty kirtles and petit
coats, hats and hosiery, fan and slippers.
An immense, unwired soft straw hat,
bent and pinched, or dropping into
quaint outline, is tied about with o
Swiss muslin sash that is tipped at each
end with founce of lace. A bunch of
flowers, gorgeous bird, garland of
Marguerites, violets, clover or peoples,
Eliminates the head of this lasse of to-
day, and she has a score or more of
these head dresses to give variety to the
gardens and to mark the days of the
week, and perhaps of the month also.
Fans, the new Japanese doriated ones
in gold and bronze, and in silver and
bronze, with fine lacquered sticks, and
Japanese parasols, make the gardens,
verandas and the streets to glow like a
tropical paradise. Some of the ladies
have betaken themselves to Alpine
stocks with gay parasols upon them.
A GENTLEMAN never will insult any
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
A Handful OF Leaves.

Our water failed the other day. We
could see it running into the reservoir
on the hillside, and running over; but
not a drop came through the pipes at
the kitchen, at the barn or in the
shrubbery. No water here, but plenty
over there. What is the matter? We
took up section after section of the
pipe and examined it. In the section
nearest the reservoir we found bunch
of leaves. They had got in through the
filter, somehow, and, rolling together,
formed ball large enough to fill the
pipe and stop the flow of water. Moth
ing but leaves; leaves that had fallen,
sere and dead, from the trees where
once they had shimmered in the sun
and dallied with the breeze. Any one
seeing those leaves as the winds tossed
them, or as they tloated on the stream,
might have said: "Well, they are
worthless, it is true, but they do no
harm" Yet by drifting into the water
pipe, they did do harm.
There are people like those leaves.
They seem to be negative in character,
nobodies in influence. They claim that
at any rate they do not do any harm in
the world But we can not accede to
that claim. They are always drifting
in the way. By their very indifference
and inertia they obstruct the progress
of society. The Christian who aims to
be ornamental rather than useful,
whose ideal of the Gospel is foliage and
not fruit, who is. self-complacent if no
charge of gross immortality or fragrant
uncharitableness can be brought against
him, would be startled if he could see,
as God sees, how he binders the work
OF the Church and the Spirit he
ought to be one of the channels through
which the water OF life reaches the per-
ishing. But, instead of furnishing that
water, he stops its flowing. With his
withered leaves he fills up the pipe, and
he will find himself condemned in the
great day for a criminal and deadly in
efficiency! 1t is easy to float, and DRIFT
ing where the current draws is pleas
anter than breasting it. But the log
that drifts into the flume of the MILL
and into the buckets of the water
wheel, may do great deal of harm
And so may the drftwood in our
churches.-HeraH and PreSbyter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
EHnday-SchOOl Lessons.
THIRD QUARTER.

THIRD QUARTER.
Aug. 15-Abram and Melchize-
dek. 80. .............Gen. II: 1924
Aug. 22-The Covenant with
Abram. ................ Gen. 15:-1S
Aug. 29-Abraham's Interces-
sion. Gen. IS: 1888
Sept. slots Escape from
Sodom .............. Gen. 10: 1926
Sept. L2-Trial of Abrahams
Faith Gen. %: liza
sept. l9-Review of the Lessons.
sept. 25-Lesson selected by the School,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
They Wanted to Live in the Stars.

VERY near us sat two young people.
He wore the face of a man who shaves
three times day, and that white neck
tie had never seen the starlight before.
There was pearl powder on the shoulder
of his coat, and tender, dreamy look
in her lovely eyes. They sat and looked
up at the stars, and they didn't care for
any solitary thing any nearer to this
earth. Mortimer, she murmured soft
ly-"Mortimer, his name appeared
to be Mortimer, though l couldn't learn
whether it was his front name or his
after name" Mortimer, DEAR" she
said, if we could only live apart from
this busy and sordid, unsympathetic
world, in one of yon glittering orbs of
golden radiance, living apart from all
else, only for each other, forgetting the
base things of earthly life, the coarse
greed of the world and its animal in
stincts, that would be our heaven, would
it not, dearP"
And Mortimer, he said that it would.
" There, heart of my own," he said,
and his voice trembled with earnestness,
envy own darling Ethel through all the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28

If we would measure our happiness
by the condition of those below us, in
stead of above us, we should find our
selves very well off.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28

THE Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals at Charleston, S. c.,
is about to place drink-troughs for ami
mails in the various streets of that city.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28

I do
the Greenback cause, but is honest ar ~
ough to present matters in their IT
Ie light in his voluntary statements of
the State of affairs in the South. We
40
low THE STATE WAS CARRIED. sl-
rhe address just issued by the Re. fir.
blican State committee of Ala be5
ma furnishes details of the means Gee
which the Democrats have piled car
a majority of $4,000 in State trrr
ere they are in a minority, if opo,
e, fair ballot were allowed. 1t tho
ties that when the Democrats edd
ne into power in 1874 the election ane
rs in force, which furnished proper effy
eguards, were just and equitable, thu
III respect to the rights of all. The neg.
lots were required to be number Jpn
to correspond with the number op- OtLi,
lite to the name of the voter on fra.
poll list. 1t was fair law, with the
visions to correct all errors by a card
rd OF supervisors. The Democrats vie
re dissatisfied, though they carried actt
State by a meagre majority, to sec
lin which reign of terror had nn,
n instituted. In Sumter county of
lings was assassinated. The mail bril-
N on the Alabama and Chatanoo. An
railroad was stopped by band of lai5t
led men in open day and Mail ttr,e
emf Ivy was murdered for having thr
Jared THAI hat as36iIllihns psm, o,ap
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28

plane so elevated that he requires the
use of telescope when he wants to
look down at the rest of us. And if he
ever wants board at your humble table,
charge him $15 week, and feed him
lots of soup, or you'll lose money on him.
-Burdette, in the H0aOkeye.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28

A GENTLEMAN never will insult any
one, and loafer can not.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-05


CouoHs.-"Brown's Bronchial Troches''
are used with advantage TO alleviate
coughs, sore throat, hoareeness and Dron.
chial affections. For thirty years these
Troches have been in use, with annually
increasing favor. They are not new and
untried, but, having been tested by wide
and constant use for nearly an entire gem
Grafton, they have attained well.merited
rank among the few staple remedies Of the
The Throat-"Brown's Bronchial Tro-
ches" act directly on the organs OF the
voice. They have an extraordinary effect
in all disorders OF the throat and laryHx,
restoring a healthy tone when relaxed,
either from cold or overexertion OF the
voice, and produce n clear and distinct
enunciation. Speakers and singers find
the Troches useful.
A cough, cold, catarrh or sore throat re-
quires immediate attention, az neglect
oftentimes results in some incurable lung
diseases Browns Bronchial Troches'
will almost invariably give relief. Imita
tions are offered for sale, many Of which
are Injurious. The genuine "Brown's
Bronchial Troches" are sold only IN
boxes. TrhAs.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-05

ELEdANT HAIR is woman's browning
beauty. When it fades she fades as we'll.
While 1t is kept bright, her personal at.
fractions are still maintained. BY pre-.
serving the hair fresh and vigorous q
youthful appearance is continued through
many years. Those who grieve over
their fading hair turning gray too early,
should know that Ayers Hair Vigor pre-
vents 1t, and restores gray or faded hair to
Its natural color. 1t is clear and health
ful preparation, containing neither oil,
dye, nor anything deleterious, and i'm.
parts to the scalp what is most needed
"a sense OF pleasant and delightful free
dom from scuri or dandruf.-Nsw Berne
IN. C.) Timks,