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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
A Word to Parents About the Teeth OF
Their Children.

IT is lamentable fact that the small
est number of parents are informed of,
Or impressed with, the Importance of
timely attention to the teeth of their
children. Every mother is interested,
and looks forward to the appearance of
her child's first tooth with mingled de.
light and anxiety. But after its first
teeth are cut, and immunity from physi-
cal disturbances assured, then all
further interest and care subsidies. The
teeth being thus unfortunately neg
lected often, during the eruptive period
OF the second or permanent set, are al
lowed to grow as may be their wont,
producing deformities that require no
little time and expense, and in some
cases considerable suffering to the VIC
tim, to regulate. 1t is an unfortunate
idea with many that the first or tempo
rary teeth require no attention-not
further, perhaps, than to brush them;
and even that care is but irregularly en-
forced or attended to. If they decay,
the parent will ask: "Who ever heard
of filling the first teeth of ohildrenp
They'll shed them in few years." And
so they are consigned to the ravages of
disease, robbing the child of mastica-
tors, which are of as much Importance
as its permanent set. This lack of
knowledge and consequent neglect, also,
is in too many instances the cause of the
sacrifice of the six-year molars, SO called
for reason they are cut at the age of six
years, which are. permanent teeth, but
mistaken for teeth to be shed, and if, on
account of aching or excessive decay,
have to be extracted, they are a per-
petual loss. Parents should teach their
children to keep their teeth free from
stains and deposits, and, at the first ap-
pearance of decay should apply to q re-
spectacle dentist for advice and atten-
ton, and he will, if necessary, fill the
cavities with some of the approved ma
terials. If it is the temporary teeth that
require attention, the operation will pre-
serve them to their use until they are
supplanted by the permanent set, and
thereby, too, avert much suffering to the
little child, and will escape them
selves much distress and Sleep
less nights. 1t is a wise plan
for parents to select dentist in whom
they have confidence and place their
children at an early age under his pro-
fessional charge, and then to strictlysen-
force and follow his directions.-A Den
ttSt, IN Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
How the United States Will Swallow
Canada.

A CHICAGO man writes as follows to
the British Empire, published in Lon
don:
"The question of reciprocity between
Canada and the United States has pass.
ed the commercial bodies, and is now
before the American Congress. The
way is being smoothed and made easy,
and the moment a treaty is made and
ratified, annexation follows. The plans
are all laid, and before England has time
TO open her eyes, Canada, as British
colony, will be a thing of the past. II
the yearly drain on the national wealth
is so enormous now, what will it be
when British goods are virtually exclud.
ed from the American continent, and
England forced to buy all her food re-
quirements from foreign countries, and
pay for them in cash? A large proper
ton of the peoples wealth is directly
and indirectly invested abroad. True,
it has hitherto paid interest to a great
extent; but large proportion of the
securities held for this invested capital
are not worth the paper they are written
on; and, with England's decline, the
oty 10 ldSt approaching WHen DOM prln-
cipal and interest will be repudiated. If
this steady drain is kept up for few
years more, land in Britain will not sell
for even 910 to f2O per acre, or equiv
alent to eighty per cent. of the landed
wealth will have vanished out OF sight.
How ridicurous all this looks, but how
often has the world been startled by the
sudden after collapse of some gigantic
moneyed firm or institution thought to
be so prosperous and rich that failure
was impossible! 1t will be the same
with England if she continues her pres.
ent fiscal policy; and before the end Of
the nineteenth century there may be a
little island named England and Scot
land, but no British Empire -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

I should make poor figure at givino
Adrienne away" and he stroked his
triSte mustache as he spoke, and looked
at me just as he looked that day when
we gathered. the laurel for Susette,s
fete-I could have sworn he did. didn,t
answer, for fear my voice would he
husky, and the tears would start.
The wedding was to be quite private
only relatives. Aunt Browne ar
ranged every thing to suit herself and
the proprieties; it didn't become q cler-
gyman's bride to make great parade.
At the church, 1 remember, nv veil
caught in the carriage door, and an or
ange blossom tumbled from my wreath.
which Cedric picked up, and wore in
his button-hole. Then he drew nv half
lifeless arm within his, and directly the
Wedding March pealed forth in great
resounding waves of melody. NV
grandmother India muslin blew out IN
abundant creamy folds behind me, and
Cedric and l were standing before the
altar, and Mr.. Amherst was reading the
marriage service!
| believe that Aunt Browne tainted.
or she would have forbidden the banns.
You see, it was impossible for me
to give you away, Adrienne," said Ced-
rio, later, when we were steaming out
of town. "Amherst is trump; and
may he find a wife as sweet as Mrs.
Browne! If it hadn't been for him. |
should have been of all men the most
miserable to-day. What do you think
he didP Why, he wrote me all that sad
little story you thought right to tell him,
and added that he would not deny he
was making sacrifice; that in renomc-
ing you he renowned all that made lsn
lovely to him, except his work; yeenl
felt it was better one should fail of {
heaven on earth than that two should
suffer; and that if l loved you, as 1 had
once said, would 1 take his place at the
marriage, and allow him to solemnize
itP 1t was whim of his to have it So
6 to avoid explanations he said.
couldn't believe in my luck, you know
Adrienne. We banded letters to and
fro, canvassing the subject. I feared
he had made a mistake, as | had re.
newed my offer some little while before,
but had received no reply; still, doz.
en- things happen to letters every day.
Yes, and something happened to
yours" 1 said.
Years after, when Susette and Anne
were married, when Adele's husband
had taken the children home to new
mamma, and Aunt Browne had gone to
"the land of the hereafter" when
Cedric was repairing the old house for
a summer residence, in ripping
away the ancient dado in the music
room, which had always warped away
from the wall in warm weather, leaving
little crack, the carpenter unearthed
my lost letter. Had it slipped down
there, or had Aunt Browne given it a
pushp We give her the benefit of the
doubt.-Harper'S BazGr.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
Restored to Sight-A Methodist Preach.
er Who was Born Blind.

AsTRANGE caseof hereditary blindness
and the acquisition of sight after being
(from birth) for thirty-siX years in total
darkness, came under the notice of a
reporter of this paper yesterday, during
a visit to the Missouri State Institute for
the Education of the Blind, on Morgan
Street. M. f. Wells is the name of the
man in whose life the happy change has
been made by the removal of q cataract
from one of his eyes. The operation
was performed by DR.. Williams, who
has the satisfaction of shedding joy and
light upon an understanding to which
the beauties of nature have hitherto
been unknown. The operation differed
in no respect from that usually per-
formed in such cases, and the interest
ing circumstances alone center in the
history of the disease, which was CLEANED
from the patient at the institute yester-
day. Mr.. Wells said that e.e resided in
Southwest Missouri and gained his live
lihood by preaching. He was connected
with the Methodist Protestant Church.
He was born in North Carolina-born
blind. His father and mother were
blind and their parents were blind. He
could not trace the disease further back
in the family. He was thirty-six
years of age and had never, until
after the operation, been able to see in
any respect. Could he see the reporter
He raised the shade from his left eye
the one from which the cataract had
been removed-and said he could, and
he gave a description of his questioner'S
face. The eye looked clear but ex-
pressionless, for the retina, from dis
use for so many years, was insensitive
except to the light, and that only to q
slight degree. Like muscle or organ
long disused, the retina must be trained
to its use gradually, and Mr.. Wells is
under instructions to be slow in eXer-
cising it. The right eye, upon which
the cataract still remains, looked a
whitish- brown color, and for all the use
it is to its possessor, it might as well be
a hazel-nut. Of course it should be
remembered that the eyes were perfect
at birth, and have been so still, and that
but for impairment by cataracts the
sight would have been natural. Be-
sides his parents and grandparents be-
ing blind, three of Mr.. Wells's children
are blind and are at present inmates
of the educational establishment on
Morgan Street, and two have their
sight. q
DR.. Williams is confident that the
acquisition of sight will be complete,
although necessarily slow. The condi-
ton of Mr.. Wells will therefore be
much like that of child, as he will
have to learn names of objects he sees.
Should he, however, close his eyes and
trust to that keen sense of feeling which
he has by years. practice acquired, he
can call the names of obiects.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
Roasted to Death by the Sun.

DIR. SCHwEINFURTH,i in alecture which
he recently delivered at the Berlin Geo
graphical Society on the subject of his
latest explorations in Central Africa,
gave his hearers thrilling account of
the mode in which capital punishment
is inflicted upon criminals by the AL
Quadjis, small tributary off-shoot of
the great and powerful Djour people.
The malefactor condemned to die is
bound to post firmly driven into the
ground in some open place where no
trees afford shade, and is there slow
ly roasted to death-not by any artificial
means involving waste of fuel, but by
the natural heat of the suns rays as
they reach our earth in its equatorial re-
gions. To protract his sufferings and
to avert his too speedy end by sum
stroke, the ingenious Al-Quadiis cover
their erring compatriot's head with fresh
leaves, which effectually shield his brain
from Phebus's darts. No such protec-
ton is, however, accorded to his body,
which gradually dries up, shrinks to-
gether, and ultimately becomes carbon
lied. One chance of salvation is open
to the roasting man, while as yet he is
not completely "done to death" If a
cloud pass between the sun and his
place of torment he is at once cast loose
from his post and becomes the object of
popular reverence, as mighty magi-
clan in whose behalf the supernatural
powers have deigned directly to inter-
vene But clouds seldom interfere with
the administration of justice on the days
chosen.for public executions by the AL
Quadji authorities; at least, that appears
to be DR.. Schweinfurth's experience of
African weather as far as it bears upon
the judicial roasting of malefactors.-
London Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

If salt is added to meat in large guam
titles it prevents the appearance of the
red color, but if it is applied little at
time, and the meat is afterward
smoked, a good red is obtained.
ENFLEURAGE as a method of extracting
the odoriferours principles of plants, is
being gradually discarded by perfumers.
Chloride of methyl is now largely en-
ployed as an extracting agent, to the great
saving of time.
FROM Cooktown in Queensland it is
announced that some Chinese have
formed company and taken land for
growing sugar, rice, and coffee. They
are thought to have good chance of
success, as the soil is very rich.
In Iserlohn, Westphalia, thin sheet
iron is plated with alloys of nickel or
cobalt and manganese. A half of one
per cent. of manganese makes cobalt
and nickel very malleable, fluid when
melted and ductile. The plates, which
are already in the market, are beauti-
fully white and brilliant.
AN exchange says that this country is
now making more than one-third of all
the paper in the world. The product
is about 1880 tons daily, amounting to
about GAO, 800 tons per year. There are
now 927 mills, representing capital of
$100,000,000. These mills employ 22,-
600 persons, who draw about SO, 100000
in salaries per year.
DIR. G. DE GORREQUER maintains
that the same poison gives rise to the
several diseases known as scarlatina,
puerperal fever, typhoid diphtheria, and
erysipels. The difference of results he
attributes to the special circumstances
of the case and to the constitutional pc
culiarities of the patient. If, on the
other hand, it is insisted that each of
the above diseases is due to a special
poison, then those who hold such an
opinion commit themselves to the hy-
pothesis of abiogenesis.
BING and Schulz have advanced an
hypothesis of a rather questionable ma
ture as to the chemical cause of the
poisonous character of arsenic. They
think that the poisonous action of ar
senic depends on its easy conversion
and reconversion within the organism
from the higher to the lower stage of
oxidation, whereby the tissues are de-
stroyed owing to the violent vibration
of the atoms of oxygen, and that the
other members of the nitrogen group
are poisonous for the same reason.
THE Electrician states that the follow
ing process for utilizing old indis-rub-
Der, of which many hundred tons are
thrown away as waste substances, has
just been patented in Germany. The
rubber waste is subjected to distillation
in an iron vessel over free fire, with
the aid of superheated steam. The
lighter oils which come over first are
separated from the heavier products.
The latter, when thickened and vulcan
lied in the usual manner, are found to
possess all the good qualities of first
class natural rubber.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
Value of Red Clover.

VERY few plants produce as much or
as valuable food for stock as red clover
1t makes excellent hay, although it is
more difficult to cure than the common
grasses. Hogs will not do well on
grass, but they will thrive in clover
pasture. They will even eat quantities
of clover after it is cured. The cheapest
way to keep hogs during the summer is
to give them the run of a clover pasture
well supplied with water. Clover bro.
duces large amount of milk which ba,
a pleasant aroma. Sheep are very fond
of clover, either in the green or dried
state. Clover affords in this region ey.
cellent pasturage for all kinds of stock
late in the season. Many of the grasses
that produce much food in the earlv
part of the season afford very little after
the drouth that ordinarily prevails dur
ing August. Glover, however, takes a
"second START" and grows very rapidly
on the occasion of the first considerable
rainfall.
Most crops exhaust the fertility of the
soil very rapidly, but growing clover
tends to render land more productive.
No plant produced by farmers takes SO
large a proportion of its sustenance
from the atmosphere as clover. 1t ap-
propriates various gases, hurtful to man.
from the air, and supplies the places
they occupied with oxygen and perfume.
The roots of clover extend deep into
the ground, and bring to the surface
substances that the roots of other plants
do not reach. On these accounts clover
is the best crop to raise for blowing
under. The cheapest if not the quick
est way to render worn-out soils pro-
ductive is to raise crop of red clover
on them and to turn it under the second
year after sowing. A somewhat slight
dressing of barn-yard manure or COM
mercial fertilizers, followed by plaster
as top dressing, will cause luxuriant
growth of clover which contains nearly
all the elements of fertility.
In many parts of Europe, and in
some sections of this country, clover
seed is sown in the fall. But our climate
is not favorable to this practice. Unless
there are timely rains during the early
part of autumn, the plants make a
small growth before the approach of
cold weather. In an open winter like
the present one they have no protection,
and the repeated freezing and thawing
of the soil causes the roots to be thrown
out and killed. Red clover seed should
be sown as early in the spring as the
soil is in condition to be stirred. Some
advocate sowing it on land prepared the
previous fall, and allow the frost and
rain to cover it. Others SOW it on late
snow, if there chances to be one. While
clover seed should be in the ground
very early in the spring there is little
gain in the matter of growth in sowing
it before the frost is out of the ground.
Chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
LOVE.

WHY should we wonder when the strongest
In love, is but as little children are,
Whose natures tremble with the slightest
lar,
Or WAIVER as the line in battle van
Why marvel that the thing beloved is seen,
The very self of excellence and worth,
In whom the nobleSt charms in all the
earth,
Concentered, shine with Loves enraptured
sheen?
For Love will glorify the thing we love,
And clothe it with beauty not his own;
As in a waveless lake the starry zone
CLEANS with reflected beauty from above.
Love throws around the loved, however frail,
robe OF artless innocence and truth;
And DER the verieSt wretch tender ruth
Conceals all defects with its misty veil.
AS through tinted glass, the silver stars
With mellow beauty gladden. all the skies,
So, holy love to glaring faults supplies
The gentle glory OF its rosy bars.
Love paints the lily with a whittier snow,
And gives the violet deeper blue;
The pinks and harebells take livelier hue,
The golden crocuS burns with brighter glow.
The tiniest flower that peeps above the sod
Becomes thing of beauty when we love;
The hawk is then as peaceful as a dove,
The rustic clown is seen demi- god.
Unfurls its countless fields of blazing skies,
So, in friend, when viewed with loving
eyes,
"A thousand unsupported charms appear.
Love reigns supreme within the prison walls,
And burns as brightly in the tented camp,
In sculptured marble, and in dungeons
damp;
1t finds home wherever virtue calls.
Love puriies the heart that feels it's glow;
Strengthens the arm and fires the sleepy
blood;
And in its sacred temple dwells flood
OF perfect bliss the lovelcsS never know.
Love is the bond, the golden chain, that
binds
Each to the other in a common good;
Strong in its strength have kings and beg
CARS stood
In one harmonious brotherhood of minds.
Love laughs at reason and disowns all law
Itself the grandest law the world hath
known,
1t stands eternal, undismayed, alone,
The only code that never had a flaw!
". c. FOrSee in Louisville Courier Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
A Gypsy's Horrible Revenge.

A FEW weeks ago a respectable old
peasant farmer in Roumelia, smitten by
the charms of young gypsy girl be-
longing to tribe that had squatted in
the neighborhood of his farm, induced
the maiden to listen to his addresses,
and finally obtained her consent to be-
come his wife. He received several
warnings from sundry of her gypsy low
ers, couched in threatening terms, but
was SO infatuated by her surprising
beauty that he disregarded these moni-
tions and married her. On his wedding
night number of stalwart gypsy
youths broke into his house, seized him
in his bridal bed, bound him to a plank,
and deliberately sawed him in two,
having previously strangled his young
wife before his eyes. On the same
night the tribe struck its tents and de.
camped, nor have the authorities as vet
succeeded in laying hands upon the
perpetrators of the crime.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
Chinese Colonies in Louisiana.

THERE are two or three settlements
of Chinese located on the shores of Lake
Borgne, who manage to exc out an ex-
istence by catching shrimps and raising
rice. In one of these settlements there
are nearly 800 of the celestials, who
have large extent of land under culti-
walton. They are industrious and en-
elrgetic workers, and try to make out of
the land every thing it will possibly
yield. They send up supplies of shrimps
to the stall-keepers at the French mar
ket, and in this way get enough money
to supply them with the more pressing
necessaries of life.-N. o. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

MUSICIANS should not drink; they
might get into the habit of wanting to
rest at every bar.-Philadelphta Neaos.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

The Sultan has three hundred cooks,
and it is unnecessary to say that his
broth is bad.
The daily gazette., 1880-01-21
Congress-.

In the L. S. Senate, yesterday, the
House bill admitting free OF duty articles
for the Millers' Exhibition at Cincinnati
was passed. Mr.. Allison gave notice that
he would call up the Bayard resolution
to-day, for the purpose of permitting de-
bate upon it. The bill to Prevent Cruel
ty TO Animals in Transit was recommit-
ted. After an executive session the SEN
ate adjourned.
In the House, bills were introduced by
Mr.. Culbersou. of Texas, to discontinue
the National Banking System by Mr..
Warner, OF Ohio, 10 provide for the pay
ment, by certificates of deposit, of q nited
States bonds maturing in $780, and
10y Mr.. Ellis, Of Louisiana, appropriating
500, 900 for the relief Of the arving peo-
pie in Ireland. Mr.. Lorng, of Massa-
chusetts, Introduced a Woman Suffrage
amendment to the Constitution. The
bill providing that half the national bank
reserves shall be IL coin was considered
The report of the Committee on Revision
of Rules was discussed, pending which
which the House adjourned.