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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
Drumming Up Trade.

Young Bummelhans has Just been
discharged by his employer, old Two
percent. The facts are as follows:
Bummelhans has just returned from a
trip over the State. His trip had been
very satisfactory to himself, perhaps,
but not SO to his employer. He had
spent great deal of money in buggy
rides, and one thing and another, and
had taken very few orders. When Bum
melhans called in to see the old man
the latter was as mad as the mischief. He
said: 81 don't pelieve you makes any
effort to sell goots. Ven wash drum
mer | always sold goots to de merchants
no matter ven dey don't want any.
made de acquaintance Won everybody"
Bummelhans came very near replying
that it was the reputation of his princi-
pal that prevented him from selling any,
thing, but he restrained himself. CHOW
did you use to manage to sell goods
when you were drummer" 81 will
show you all about dat. Schoost you
sits down in chairs. You PEGS a coontry
merchant. plays now de drummer.h
" ALI right" says Bummelhans, "I'll
be a country merchant, and I'll show
you how they do.' Bummelhans pre-
tended to be writing at his desk, and old
Twopercent came up from one side
bowling and scraping. "Goot morning.
Can't | sell you some gootsp" "Who
the dickens are your" says Bummelhans,
looking up. 81 travels for de Calves
ton house of Twopercent. "You do,
do youP So you travel for that Internal
old thief, do youp Take. that!n and to
impress upon his employer the difficult
ties of drumming up trade, Bummel-
hans kicked the old man four or five
times, pushed him up in a corner and
choked him for while, and told the old
gentleman, who was speechless with
bona tide rage, eff you ever come in
here again I'll not leave whole bone
in your carcass. Galveston News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16

And where the desert, but for the little
grains of sand? So it is that little on.
portunities for doing good, little les
sons that may at present seem unim.
portant, help materially to lay the
foundation for a great and useful life,
Our facilities for exercising an in.
huence over others are so many and 30
great that it is difficult to conceive how
two persons may sit and converse
together without exertins a mutual in
tluence; and every man who critically
examines his intellectual and moral
state will observe that, however short
his interview with another person NAV
be, it has had an effect upon him. And
thisinhuence is usually exerted when we
think little about it; but we have
probably left impressions on some
minds which will never be erased. And
this influence and constancy have often
great power; single instance of ad-
vice, reproof, caution, or encourage
ment, may decide the question of a
mans responsibility, usefulness and
happiness for life time. How i'm
portant, then, that we improve every
opportunity to make our lives a bless
ing to others. Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
Gems OF Thought.

The Christian is not ruined by Iivinc
in the world. but by the world living in
him.
THE best way to do good is to do it,
as opportunity offers, and not say or
think much about it Golden Rule.
MEN will never know us by our faith,
for that is within us; they know us by
our works which are visible to them
Church Union.
GOOD temper is like sunny day; it
sheds brightness over everything; it
is the sweetener of toll and the soother
of disquietude.
LIFE is not done, and our Christian
character is not won, so long as Goo
has anything left for us to suffer, or
anything for us to do.
How MUCH larger would life be if
men would start Alright and never let GO
the one purpose of making all they can
of themselves in the world.
The surest method of arriving at .
knowledge of Gods eternal purposes
about us is to be found in the right use
of the present moment.-F w. F'a5er.
The faith to which the Scriptures at
tach such momentous consequences and
ascribe such glorious exploits is
practical habit, which, like every other.
is strengthened and increased by con-
tinual exercise. 1t is nourished by
meditation, by prayer and by the de-
vout perusal of the Scriptures. Robert
Hail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
PITH AND POINT.

A CoMPOsITOR who can not agree
with his wife says he must have taken
her out of the wrong font.-Puck.
THE most entertaining writer's on
poultry are the men who look at hens
teeth to discover their age.-Detr0it Free
Press.
To check is to stop, except in case of
a travellers baggage, which is checked
to make it go.-Ne,o Orleans Picayunc.
PROFESSOR WINCHELL says that
there we're men before Adam. Let the
Professor back his opinion by giving us
their Graphic.
MORE than 1900 pupils in the public
schools of Davenport are studying Ger
man. This is all right, only we have
often noticed that public school German
is distressingly like Connecticut French.
-Hawkeye.
Sand that's where the farmer and 1
differ" said Smiley, as he submitted a
number eleven foot to the chiropodist;
"he contemplates his broad acres with
pleasure, while l contemplate mine
and swear. "-Bostom Transcript.
"CHARITY begins at home," said
Mrs. Grouse, when she bought pair of
silk stockings for her Oldest daughter,
and reproved the servant for giving stale
bread to the woman at the area door,
Boston Globe.
THE Smith family at Peapack, N. j.,
had their annual reunion Wednesday.
We congratulate them. Dynasties may
trise and fall; parties may come and go;
but the Smith family shall not fail till
humanity passes from the planet to re-
turn no more.-BoSton Post.
AMONG the effects of a New Yorker
who committed suicide were ia scarf
pins. 1t is suspected that he took his
life because he didn't own 115. A base,
craving desire for scarf-pins will wreck
a young mans character and destroy
his mental equilibrium sooner or later.
Shun the scarf-pin as you would poi
sonous viper.-Norristown Herald.
"OH, pshaw!" petulantly exclaimed
Miss Lydia Languish, looking up from
the last new novel, in response to a sum-
mons from her mother to come and as
sist in preparing dinner. "Oh, pshaw!
| am just where Edward de Courcey
Montalbert is about to propose to the
Lady Ethelinda Adele st. Claire, and l
wish dinners had never been invented!"
And the look of supreme disgust that
flashed from her eyes showed that she
meant it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16

the sash, supporting himself upon it by
his arms, and resting his feet on the
gutter that ran around the wall out
side.
Up to this time Emily had simply
watched. She had not thought what to
do. She was too frightened to run away
for help, and yet she knew that if she
would save her fathers property it must
be done now. AS he paused before
clambering over the sash, holding out
his hands, with their spoil within them.
she struck them with all her strength.
The suddenness of the shock effected
what her weak blow never could have
done. The startled mans hands
parted, and the silver rolled over
the floor. With a muttered
curse he clutched at the child's
arm as she darted from the window.
and held her like wise. Had not his
power been crippled by his dangerous
position the little girl would have stood
but sorry chance against him. Being
obliged to steady himself with one arm,
he could only use the other to hold her
with. With that one arm he held her,
and raised his knee to step into the
room. But he could not hold her, strug-
Cling violently as she was, and enter the
room, too, so he contrived to imprison
her slender wrist in his huge hand, and
grasp the sash with it at the same time,
and in another instant would have been
in the room. All this time Emily did
not scream; she felt too intense an
earnestness in the work of trying to
escape, to utter sound. Her left hand
was prisoned. In her right her cher.
ished knife was clasped. She was des-
perate at that moment, and all the
nerve and spunk within her was reused.
She lifted the knife to her mouth, tore
open the blade with her teeth, and
quick as flash she cut at the huge
wrist of her foe, as though she would
cut it through. He started back with
cry of pain and fury, lost his hold on
the window and fell. She heard the
dull heavy thud of his body as it struck
on the ground below. Her left arm was
covered with the hot blood she had shed;
as she turned to run and rouse the house,
a sick feeling overcame her, her nerves
gave way, she staggered, and fell
fainting on the bright silver money she
had saved. When she came to herself
after lying senseless for several hours, it
was with strange feeling of having
done or suffered something, she hardly
knew what, and it was not for some
time that she remembered what had
happened. 1t was still dark, but below
the window she could make out the in
distinct form of her antagonist lying on
the ground. Slowly she returned to her
deserted chamber, and passed through
it to her fathers room, where she told
the tale.
The house being reused they found
the thief alive, but so bruised and injured
by his fall as to be perfectly helpless.
The cash of the knife had done him no
serious harm-it was a bad cut, but no
more-while it had doubtless saved the
courageous girls life and her fathers
property Examiner and Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
Religious.
a QUAKER SERMON.

IT was the First-Day Meeting,
And the group of gathered folk
Sat touched by the hush of voiceless spell
No sound the silence broke,
Until, in her place on the woman's side,
With sweet and tender face
That bore the pure and peaceful sign
Of the inward spirits grace,
A white-haired woman rose with the word
That was laid on her heart to say
The word that the gathered people
Were waiting that sunny day.
"Sister Tabitha all to pieces
My best china teapot broke, /
But kept my soul in patience,
Nor word of anger spoke"
That was all; and down with the sunshine
The silence again fell sweet,
I'LL the elder people gave the sign
That the service was complete.
Do you say that the hour was wasted?
That the sermon was trivial, vain,
Textiles, devoid of logic,
Unthrilled by one eloquent strain?
Not so; for that Gospel is sweetest
That is won through lifes fret and its pain
mat softens the jar of its friction,
And lightens the stress of its strain.
And the love that is over the erring,
The peace untouched by surprise,
Aho qu1VC lnat hccpS us sweet patlenceo
Are dear in the Masters eyes.
While many rhetorician
Might learn from this homily brief
truth that the wearied people
Would hail as a glad relief
That the lesson is most enduring
Close to life's practical lines,
And not the length but the fitness
The heart of the nearer inclines.
And we all in our plain home duties
Find the thought in this First-Day word,
That the least of our trials and triumphs
Has worth in the sight of our Lord.
Christian at Work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
The Women at the Sepulcher.

On that ominous Saturday the gates
of Heaven seemed closed The hopes
of the disciples seemed quenched by the
dark adumbration that Swallowed every
thing. Christ's body was in the grave;
His spirit gone to world untraVersed
and unseen. If ever there was an hour
when man might despair, this was the
hour. Now, to contrast with all this
our position and privilege is to empha-
size our obligation to bring a deeper,
more pervasive and inspiring love,
more loyal attachment, and victorious
Joy. He who was dead is alive again,
alive for evermore. On His head are
many crowns. He will guide us even
to the gates of the Celestial City. The
Marys brought sweet spices. We bring
praise and the joy of triumph. an adorl
ing desire to do His work such as they
could not bring.
A conservation like this makes life
truly sacramental. They did what they
could in bringing the spices and oint-
ment. Out of their small endeavor
came illustrious revelations which
changed all things. Out of our small
endeavor may come an energy which
will irradiate and crystalline all service.
so that life shall take a glory to itself
which we receive from above. Oh. Il.
S. StOYYS, IN {" Homitetic Monthly"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
The Twenty-third Psalm.

THIS Psalm witnesses how close to
the youthful heart the consciousness of
God must have been which could thus
transform and glorify the little things
which were SO familiar. We can feel.
in kind of lazy play of sentiment, the
fitness of the shepherd life to suggest
thoughts of God--because it is not our
life. But it needs both q meditative
habit and a devout heart to feel that the
trivialities of our own daily tasks speak
to us of Him. The heavens touch the
earth on the horizon of our vision, but
it always seems furthest to the sky from
the spot where we stand. To the Psalm
list, however, as in higher ways to his
Son and Lord, all things around him
were full of God, and as the majcsties
of nature, SO the trivialities of mans
works-shepherds and fishermen-were
solemn with deep meanings and shad-
ows of the Heavenly. With such lofty
thoughts he fed his youth. Alexander
Maclare1s, ID. d.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
The Chinese Queue.

A wOMAN's necklace and bracelets
illustrate the familiar saying, "Time
changes, and we change with it, They
are the survival of the era when woman,
treated as slave, was handcuffed and
wore an iron collar. The Chinese
queue, or plat of hair, coiled on the
head, was once badge of servitude i'm
posed by the Manchees when they took
the country. The origin of the append
age has long since been forgotten, and a
Chinaman now values his queue as he
values his life. To be without one is a
social disgrace.
A Chinese gentleman was once riding
through Shanghai in a jinnyrickshaw,
the two-wheeled carriage drawn by a
coolie, which China has imported from
Japan. A jolt or two caused his plat
to fall from his head and over the side
of the carriage. The end, the queue
being long, was soon caught in the
axle, which gradually wound it up. The
unfortunate man shouted to the coolie
to stop. He, thinking the shouts were
commands to hasten, went faster and
faster. just as the poor fellow was be-
ing dragged out of the carriage, an
English sailor saw the plight he was in.
Drawing his knife, he cut the queue
from the Chinaman's head. Jack
thought he had done kindly act, and
was not a little surprised TO receive
curses instead of thanks. He had saved
the mans life, but disgraced him in the
eyes of his fellows Youths Companions.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
Speaking the Truth.

THE members of our body never do
other than speak truth one to another.
when free from any foreign influence,
such as anodyne. The tongue never
tells the body that bitter tastes sweet;
the eye never carries to the brain an in
correct vision; the hand will not de-
clare the thing it toucheth to be other
than what it is. Thus should it be
with every member of the community
in business transactions as well as social
converse. Especially in the mystical
body of Christ-the Church-should
"speak every man truth with his
neighbor, tor we are members one of
another" So careful ought Christians
to be, because we are Every one
members one of another" that this
rule never be trangressed, that at all
times a careful watch should be main
tanned that we sin not with our tongue
by speaking any untruth of another
The Appeal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
The SailOr.Preacher.

PERHAPS the most remarkable Boston
clergyman, during the last fifty years,
was Father Taylor. He was sailor
preacher, and pre-eminently the preach
er to sailors.
Until the war of 1912 his life was
passed at sea. The vessel on which he
was serving having been captured by
the British. he was confined in Dart
moor prison. There he learned to
read.
The first book he read was the Bible
1t was with the young sailor as with the
old prophet--the word was in his heart
as burning fire shut up in his bones
He could not keep silent. Forthwith,
he preached to his prisoners.
Joining the Methodists, he became an
itinerant preacher. From the fact that
the Bishop sent him to the most I'M
promising places, he was known as the
break,ng-up plow."
At last he was sent to Boston to
preach to sailors. His natural oratory
attracted all classes of hearers. Men
of culture and ladies of refinement
jostled with Poor jack for seats in
Taylor's Bethel.
One day Dir. Tuckerman, the philan-
thropist, was lamenting that he could
not find the assistant he needed to help
him in preaching to the poor. "Why
don't you look among my people," said
DIR. Charming, land see if you can't
find another Taylor?"
"Another Taylor!' exclaimed DR..
Tuckerman; "as well look for another
Homer"
In his way, that is, in the power to
or-preacher was as rare genius as
Homer or Demosthenes. Uninstructed
in books-save in the Book which to
know is itself an education-he seemed
intuitively to apprehend the truth the
congregation needed to hear, and the
most effective way of putting it.
An incident told by Miss Peabody, in
her "reminiscences of DR.. Channing,"
sets forth the moral genius of the
preacher who could make a Jack tar
weep, and terrify Boston lawyer.
One Sunday morning, as Father Tay-
lor was going into the pulpit, some one
put in his hand a slip of paper. with the
request that he would preach from the
ItAJ WTlll0u Ou IL. oOu CICdlCl HILL
in His own image"
"This is a great text" said the
preacher. al never saw, before this
moment, how great! Man is the image
of God-bodily, mentally, heartily, po-
litically, spiritually"
He then proceeded, for an hour and
half, to Illustrate each of these Sim
ages" with richness of metaphor that
made each head of the sermon poem.
cit was" says Miss Peabody, "the
greatest outburst of human genius that
ever heard"
In the afternoon, discoursing from
the same text, he described man as
sin had made him. Each listener felt
that the orator who had exalted him in
the morning was now sweeping him
into the lower depths of sadness. ''This
evening"" said the preacher, in con-
GLIDING, 1--WE will ask if man can re-
cover the image of God, and how"
1t is not strange that DIR. Charming,
to whom the discourses were reported,
should exclaim, g But you do not mean
to say that all this was said in one
dayP"
"Yes." replied the reporter, who
had occupied all the afternoon, land
it will take me all the evening to fin
ish."
DR.. Claiming then understood his
friend Tuckerman's allusion when he
suggested the finding of "another
Homer. "--Youth's Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
Life's Opportunity.

LIFE is, in a great degree, what we
make it. We are not to sit passively to
the end of life. That will come 10
Gods own time; but we are to strivn
with a mighty strength of purpose te
make of ourselves examples of goodo
ness, wisdom, integrity and high moral
courage, so that, when the end shall
come, we shall feel we have not lived
in vain. And how shall we succeed if
we pass by, heedlessly, life's precious
OpportuBitiesF We would not enforce
upon our readers the necessity of
graspmg great opportunities alone; far
from it; for do not the little drops of
water make the broad. restless ocean?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16

The hard-worked expressmen who
handle so many huge trunks during
these busy fall days, says Harper's Bd-
gar, might be glad to know the secret
of two wealthy young ladies who trav-
eled in Europe. With the aid of sim
gle shawl-strap they condensed all their
baggage during a five months tour into
one hand parcel, and always, at table
dhote or in travelling, were particularly
well dressed and presentable. Exact
ly how it was done it would take lady
to describe, but it was done, and the
fact that the tour of Europe can be
made by lady, always we'll dressed,
with the aid of only one shawl-strap and
light hand bag, is worth knowing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
WITH LOVE.

with LOT IL
SWEET are the days
With love,
The summer days
With love;
All heaven and earth do move
In sweet accord with love,
And prove
TITS only wise to love
With love.
Trill! trilli bright bird,
With love,
Trill, gentle mate,
With lovei
The air is quick with song,
In which the whole day long
They prove
',Tis only sweet to live
With love.
AL skies are bright
With love,
All cares are light
With love;
For faithful loves sweet sake,
All burdens that we take
But prove
1t is q Joy to live
With love.
ID. II. r. Goodale, in ChristiGn Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16

There is one man who has perfect
confidence in his wife. DR.. Ruth, the
celebrated California shot, allows his
wife to shoot glass balls out of his
mouth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16

They were twins. The parents
christened one Kate and the other Dupli-
Kate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
International Sunday School Lessons.

FOURTH QUARTER.
Oct 3-Isaac's Prosperity Gen. 20: 1925
Oct. 10-JacOb and Esau. 500. Gen. "a: 2240
Oct. 17-Jacob at Bethel. :. Gen. 20: 1912
Oct. 4-Jacob's Prevailing Prayer
........................G Gen. 80: 9-2; go
Oct. 31-Joseph Sold into Egypt
............ .. ........ Gen. 81 Is 1888
Nov. 7-Joseph in Prison ... Gen. 80 81; 40:1-S
Nov. 14-Joseph the Wise Ruler Gen. Al: 4l-57
Nov. 21-Joseph and his Breth-
rem. Zen. "A: 1884; As :l-S
Nov. 2S-Jacob and Pharaoh. Gen. AZ: liz
Dec. 5-Last Days of Jacob. .. Gen. 48: S-22
Dec. 12-The Last Days of Joseph Gen. so :14-26
Dec. 19-Review of the Lessons.
Dec. 26-Lesson Selected by the School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-12
Strength of the Russian Army.
lPalI Mall 6azetta

An interesting history of the DEVELOPMENT Of
the Russian army during the last quarter OF a
century has been lately published in ST. Peters
Dufg. On the lSt OF January 1853, the Russian
army comprised 27,716 officers and 96S, 3S2 men.
including reserve, local and auxiliary troops
war the strength of the armed forces of the EN-
plre was, Of course, largely increased, and. ac-
cordlng TO official returns, included on the 1st of
January, 1856, no fewer than al SIT officers and
2,25l ,45l men. How many of these were how.
ever, actually present with the cOlorS or
we're available for service In the field can
not be even approximately ascertafned. The
active army numbered, 1t Is stated, "a, 654 OIL
GERS and ,l!O, lS4 men; the reserve troops, 1876
officers and 572,15 men; the Irregular forces
3,640 officers and 16s, 691 men;the opolt scheme or
militia, b,64I officers and 1854 42l men, and the
COsSack troops. BAL officers and 1856 1926 men.
out very large deductions would probably have
70 De mace TO arrive at the actual strength of
each or these several bodies In 1863. for In
STANCE. When, according to the returns of the
minister OF war, the Russian army numbered
sos wv regular troops. 1t was calculated, after
carelul examination OF the strength OF
the several units OF the army. that the probable
real strength OF the regular troops did not
exceed $50 GOO men. Cn the 25th OF November
1919, the Russian army comprised 90s pener as
81 ,4l4 OmcerS ana $50, 1875 men, while on the
Sane CATE the reserves numbered 742 IA man
ana tne CosSack troops 1872 officers and 81 1859
men, with l05 946 men more on flrlough: but
whether like the Aforementioned number of
moment IS again very doubtful it was. in
lacC, lately snow by German mill ary writer
Geat the revenue annually devoted TO military
purposes In Russia VIC uld NOT even if thu army
was ADMINISTERED 10 the m ,St e ,onOmteai m m.
ner, suhce 70 maintain such large forces