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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
AbOut Giving OfRense.

The dread of giving offense, like the
habit of taking it, says Mrs. Mulock-
Craik, springs quite as often from self
esteem as from sensitiveness. Vain,
self-engrossed people are apt to exag-
gerate the importance they are to other
people, and so to have nervous terror
of ''vexing' them; whereas man of
single mind, who does not trouble him
self much about himself, never takes
offense, and is therefore not apt to i'm
agine he has given any. He goes straight
on, neither turning to the right nor the
left, does the best thing, so far as he
sees it, and the kindly thing whenever
it lies in his power; but beyond this he
does not afflict himself much as to what
people think of him. If they expect
what they had no right to expect, exact
more than they are justified in requir-
ing, above all, take offense where he had
no intention of giving any, then he alto
gether refuses to be victimized. He
may make no great stir and present no
considers the matter too small to fight
about-but the victimizers can make
nothing of him. He calmly goes on his
way, worrying" neither himself nor
his neighbor on the matter. Life is too
short for tempests in tea-pots, or, in
deed, for any other unnecessary storms;
we must just do our duty, and let it
alone. But in this great question of
doing ones duty, l think we can not
too sharply draw the line between what
is really our duty and what other peo-
pile choose to suppose it is, probably
each person having different opinion
on the subject. We are apt to start in
life with grand idea of self-sacrifce,
and heroic sense of the Joy of it; aye,
there is a Joy, deeper than the selfish
can ever understand, delight keener
than the pleasue-loving can ever know,
in spending and being spent for our
best-beloved, or even in the mere alb
stract help of the good and defense of
the miserable-tha enthusiasm of
humanity" as a great writer once called
it, which is at the heart of all religion,
the love of man springing from the love
of God. Yet, alas! ere long we come TO
learn that there are sacrifices which
turn out to be sheer mistakes, running
ourselves and profiting nobody; that
unselishness, carried to an extreme,
only makes other people selfish; that
the 81 fear of man bringeth a snare"
and to make ones whole life miserable
through a weak dread of offending this
person, who has no right to be offended,
or of not doing ones duty to that per-
son, who has the smallest claim to any
duty at all, is-well, l will not call it
wrong, because it is failing that leans
to virtues side, but it is simply silly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
HOME AND FARM.

A LITTLE saleratus is used in making
nush, to prevent the slightly raw taste
which corn meal has when hastily
boiled.
STALE BREAD CREDIBLE CAKES
Take stale bread, soak it in water till
soft, strain off the water through a
colander, beat the bread-crumbs light
ly with fork; to one quart of these
soaked crumbs add one quart of milk,
one quart of flour and four eggs. Bake
on griddle.
CURRANT SAUCE.-Heat the currants
slowly almost to a boil, and turn into a
colander, allowing all the juice possible
to drain off without pressing. Measure
the fruit, and to each quart add one
pound of sugar, one cupful of raisins,
and water to thin the sauce. If one
prefers plenty of water, it may be nee
essary to add more sugar.
ONE of the most useful implements
that can be used upon the farm is the
field-roller. 1t brushes the clods, levels
and smooths the ground, and presses
the earth firmly around the seed, caus-
ing it to sprout and grow much earlier.
In very dry weather good rolling of
the ground will often cause seeds to
grow which otherwise would not have
terminated.
LICE ON ANIMALs.-Col.F F. D. Cur
It's commends the following mixture to
kill lice on animals: ''Melt hogs lard or
any hot grease, and in it dissolve salt
one-third of the bulk of the grease; take
as much grease as will be required to
smear the animal all over, and into the
mixture pour kerosene oil and stir it up.
Two gills of the kerosene would be suf-
fcient for COW of ordinary size. One
application completely cured the most
stubborn case of lice on an old hog. 1t
leaves the skin smooth and clean, re-
moving the scurf and healing the irrita-
ton caused by the parasites. 1t is also
excellent for gals and sores"
CAKE-MAKING HINTs.-Cream the
butter before adding the sugar. Cover
cake with paper cap when first put in
the oven. A few drops OF water in
white of eggs will prevent their whip
ping to a stiff froth. When soda and
cream tartar are used, sift with flour the
same as yeast powder. If more than
UWO gigs dI6 uSou Dotb separately. IL
secure tenderness and delicacy, the
flour measure should always be rather
on the side of scantiness. Beat fruit jelly
to paste before spreading between lay
ers. Lard is better to grease cake tins
with than table butter If lard is objec-
tionable, keep on hand a small quantity
of unsalted butter.
TEA-DRINKERs nowadays will do
well to apply the following simple test
to the tea purchased of their grocers:
Turn out the infused leaves, and if they
are found good brown color, with fair
substance, the tea will be wholesome
but if the leaves are black and of rot
ten texture, with an oily appearance,
the tea will not be fit to drink. The
purer the tea, the more the distinctively
brown color of the leaf strikes the at
tention. The mixing that is frequently
adopted to reduce prices results in two
kinds of leaves being supplied together.
1t is important to see that the leaves
have the serrated or sawlike edges,
without which no tea is genuine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

DIR. PIERCE's GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY
cures every kind of humor, from the worst
scrofula to the common pimple or eruption.
Four to six bottles cure salt-rheum or letter.
One to FIVE bottles cure the worst kind Of
pimples on the face.
Two to four bottles clear the system Of
boils, carbuncles and sores.
Four to six bottles cure the worst kind Of
erysipelas.
Three to six bottles cure.blothces among the
hair.
Six to ten. bottles cure running at the ears.
Five TO eight bottles cure corrupt or run
ming ulcers.
Eight to twelve bottles cure the worst
scrofula.
Sold by druggists, and in half-dozen and
dozen lots at great discount
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
Why We Brag.

This is time when, as Americans,
we feel like doing little boasting. One
hundred and four years ago, when we
declared ourselves to be free and in
dependent people, our population was
less than three millions. To-day, &C
cording to General Walkers rough es-
innate, it is 4S,000,000. Boston was
then an insignificant village, so far as
population was concerned, and New
England had but few scattering
schools and two colleges. The entire
country had but thirty-seven news
papers and the best of them were not
equal to the worst weeklies printed to-
day in the mushroom towns of the
Rocky Mountain region. In 1889 we
had but seventy-tive postoflices and the
mails were carried on horseback over
1000 miles of road, at an expense of
$32, 200 per year. To-day we have 80, 900
postoffices-and new ones are being es-
tablished daily-and the mails are car
ried over 265, 900 miles of post-roads, at
an annual expense of S29,000,000. We
have nearly quarter of a million miles
of telegraph wire. We have 141, 629
school-houses, 60, 082 churches, 1872 daily
newspapers and over 5000 periodicals
of all kinds. Our farms are valued at
not less than SO, 262, S03, 961, our farm
ing implements at 1886, S7S, 1923, and our
livestock at 81, 1925, 276, 437. Our farm
products in single year have brought
us 81, 447, 1913, Sos and in the same time
we have paid in farm wages 1910, $780,
2S5. Our crops are bountiful--yes,
enormous-and our exports have
reached nearly $475,000,000 in a
twelve-month. Our manufactures are
prosperous. In cotton goods we chal-
lenge the world. In one year our 900
mills turned out cloth enough to encircle
the earth twenty times if made into one
piece, with still enough left to make
every human a suit of clothes and fur
nish each with pieces for patching
Boston Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
Sulgrave and the WashingtOns.

THE immediate ancestry of George
Washington must be sought at Sui
grave, Northamptonshire. At Sulgrave
was a monastery, and it was dissolved
by Henry VIII. at the same time as the
other religious houses. A large part of
its estates was granted to the Washing
ton family; and in the old Church Of
Sulgrave is plate of brass with Law
renee Washington and his wife incised
on it, and also his eight sons and nine
daughters. Sulgrave is a pleasant,
rural part of England, not far from Ban
bury and from Whittlebury Forest. The
mansion of the Washingtons was prob
ably at one time the priors' dwelling,
and altered for their use. Part of it still
remains, and is converted into farm
house; and in a buttery-hatch is piece
of stained glass with the Washington
crest upon it. 1t is hoped that this pic
turesque relic may at some future time
form part of the present series. John
Washington, of South Cave Castle, was
the great-grandson of the lord of the
manor of Sulgrave. South Cave Castle
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
Comedy and Tragedy.

1t is matter of general observation
that comedy, especially if society
play, will assemble at a theater, more
refined audience than tragedy will.
The people gathered at a tragedy are
probably not less intellectual than those
drawn together to witness a comedy,
but the latter come from higher social
level, and consist more noticeably of
our wealthy, cultured, and what are
called fashionable people. There are
several reasons to account for this
anomaly. A tragedy, to those who as
pire, who suffer, who struggle, who
have the bitterness of disappointment,
who carry passionate warnings and I'M
spoken griefs, who instead of the dar-
lings, are the forsaken of Fortune to
these a tragedy is often their own SYM
pathetic cry of pain. The tumultuous
passion of a play reflects their silent
but keenly-experienced emotions. The
grief within them that longs so often for
voice discovers adequate expression;
the very sympathy that is awakened for
the hero is a reflected self.sympathy !;
and the surrender of the troubled soul
under such conditions to the troubles Of
another becomes, not an addition, but
a transposition of sorrows. AS the
great mass of mankind carry within
them sharp discontents, those who are
imaginative and sympathetic find in the
passions of tragedy that relief and that
pleasure we have described. But our
'' best people," so called, our men o.!
wealth, success, fortune, and social Gull
ture, our men of ripe fruition, who stand
approved and crowned in mems eyes
these have no hidden passions to awaken.
They are for the most part busy with
affairs, absorbed in professional or other
duties, and are not susceptible to the in
fuence of sentiment. Trained to SUBJ
due emotion, and to experience either
disaster or success with well-bred calm
ness, they rather disdain the rant and
.convulsion of a tragedy-hero's passion.
Smooth, calm, possessed, they have no
sympathy with emotion that bursts out
into frenzy of words. All forms of
mental violence are repulsive to their
idea, opposed to their culture, foreign
to their habits. Tragedy to them is lit
tie better than a picturesque riot,
which Is scarcely endurable. If they
have sufficient literary tastes to care fol-
poetry, they prefer the classical drama
to The romantic. The smooth, polished
and elegant defamation of Talma or
Kembe might please them, but the
frenzied passion of a robustious actor
offands them tn the soul
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
PITH AND POINT.

WE meet great many warm friends
during the heated term.-Boston Tran
script.
WHEN the rheumatism catches a man
by the legs it is only trying to lay some
thing up for rainy day.-N. o. Plea.
yuaae.
THERE is no use locking the stable
door after the horse is stolen. When
you see the thunder-clouds is the time
to drink up the milk.-Dan6atry Nea0s
CONSCIENTIOUS conductor declining
a tract which was offered him with his
fare)-" Very much obliged, mum, but
we amt allowed to take any perquisites
whatever, mum !"-L0ndOn Punch.
LIFE is like pack of cards. Child
hoods best cards are hearts; youth is
captured by diamonds; middle age is
conquered with club; while old age is
raked in by the Unsuitable spade
Whitehall Times.
SEvENTY-EIGHT million lead pencils
were used up in this country last year.
All but one million were worn out by
the idiots who left their names in rail
road depots, church belfries and city hall
towers.-Detr0t Free Press.
A PHILADELPHIA clerk who is some
what smarter than his employer was
heard to remark the other day, "ThanK
fortune, the boss has stopped adver-
Using for the season! Now we will
have a rest. p Chicago Inter- Ocean.
GONG home from church, she re-
marked to her husband: "Did you notice
that baldheaded man in front of us, and
how young he lookedP l never saw any
one so young before with bald head. -
Then he shut her up by replying: "My
dear, was baldheaded before I was a
year old. ''-SyracatSe Sunday Times.
ONE hour after an " old master " had
painted the name of patent medicine
on big rock COW came along, licked
it off, and died before shutdown. When
the simple name of a medicine kills a
COW, human beings want to beware of
the stuff itself. A COW was never killed
by licking the name of patent medi-
cine in newspaper, and no other kind
can be Observation-Disclosures Her.
aid.
A MAN, his wife and daughter, went
into lawyers Office recently to arrange
for mutual separation. The man had
some education, but the woman was
evidently illiterate. The lawyer asked
what the difference between them was.
The man replied: ".Incompatibility of
temper" The wife and daughter fell
back in their chairs, threw up their
hands and exclaimed, " Good heavens!
only hear him. "-RocheSter Express.
PLANTATION PRovERBs.-One- eyed
mule can't be handled on de bline side.
Moon may shine, but lightered knots
mighty handy. De pig dat runs off wild
de year er corn gets little mo- dan de
cob. Licker talks mighty loud when it
gifts loose frum de jug. Sleepin' in de
fence corner don't fetch Krismus in de
kithen. Tween de bug and de bee
martin faint hard to tell who's gwinter
git ketched. De proudness I'm a man
don't count wen his heads cold. You'd
Sc mo- er de mink eff he know'd WHARF
de yard dog sleeps. Hungry rooster
don't cackle wen he fine wum. Trub-
bles in seasonin'. Simmons amt good
twell dey er fros-bit. Watch out wen
you er gittin' all you want Fattening
hog amt in luck.-AtlGasta Constitution.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

AN Oil City man went fishing Saturday,
and he came home with nothing but a little
half pound bass. rs that all you caught?"
asked his friends. "Thats ALL" replied the
None" exclaimed the fisherman, and the
whole crowd cried, "He's found he's
found Here is the honest fisherman He'd
have had fifty invitations to drink in ten
minutes If a small boy hadn't broken
through the crowd, and said: I" See here,
mister, yer gave me'a bogus nickel for that
air fish" And now that crowd has no faith
in human nature.-Derrick.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
Peoria dll.) Evening Review.l

1t pays to be kind to everybody; but be
kind to yourself all over, and especially to
your stomach, which promptly resents i'll
treatment. Mr. Joseph Pfeiler, Chicago, ILL.,,
writes: 1 suffered with Indigestion and Con.
stipation for long time. After spending a
large amount of money for doctors bills
without obtaining relief l used the Hamburg
Drops, and was entirely cured thereby.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

WALL-STREET CYNIcIsM anxious
father was consulting one of the Wall-Street
magnates as to what business he should put
his son to. "My boy, sir" said he, "has had
a flrst-rate education and is remarkably
truthful 81 don't sec much gool in that, y
said the WallStreet man, jingllng the double
eagles in his breaches pocket; "none of the
successful men know are truthful. Better
make your boy an apothecary; that's the only
business l know of where deceit does not nav
In the long run. "--Hour
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

A YOUNG lady who has a Sunday -school
class of rather bright boys, averaging be-
tween seven and nine years, requested each
some passage of Scripture bearing upon love-
The lads obeyed her wish and in turn recited
their verses bearing upon that popular topic,
such as Love your enemies" "Little chill
dren, love one another" etc The teacher
said to the boy whose turn came last, "Well,
Robbie, what is your versep Rising, he
responded, "Songs of Solomon, second chap
ter, fifth verse Stay me with fagons, COM
fort me with apples; for l am sick of love-"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
A PATENT medicine advertisamo,

A PATENT medicine advertisement
reads thus: when lethargic feel.
ing pervades your system; when YOU
have Discrimination to move about:
when you have an adherence to exer-
else, your liver is inactive" This will
be glad tidings to many people who
have always thought they were law
when they felt that way. Now they
will know that it was only their liver
that was law
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

A NEGRO family near Montgomery,
Ala, were taken i'll, and a voudou doc
tor was called in. He said that snakes
were the cause of the trouble, that their
eggs were in the air and water about
the place, and that he would destroy
them for 800. His price was deemed
too high. Then the doctor made pass
in the air with his hand, and showed two
toy "Egytian snake eggs" of the kind
familiar to children at the North. These
had been floating imperceptibly in the
air he said. He touched match to
them and uttered some gibberish, while
the " snakes - we're rapidly extending
themselves. This was satisfactory PROOF
of his knowledge and power, and he
was paid the 500.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

REV. DIR. HAUGHToN, of Trinity Col
lege, Dublin, has completed an ex-
haustive discussion of the law that regu.
lates fatigue in men and animals, when
fatigue ensues as result of work. He
concludes that at the time when fatigue
stops the work, the product of the total
work done, into the rate at which it il
performed, is a constant quantity. In
other words, the result of muscular ex-
ertion is inversely proportional to the
rate at which it is accomplished. Also,
the quantity of work done varies as the
square root OF the time occupied in Der
forming it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
Moline Qll.) Review.l

This is to certify that used st. Jacobs Oil
for Rheumatism, and after three days appll-
cation was entirely relieved. consider it
meritorious medicine for all forms of Rheu-
matism. R. H. MOORE, Proprietor
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

NAV not be improper here to add that health
is accumulated, the sick made well, and
large interest of comfort and happiness Sc
cured by investing in Warmers Safe Rene
dies -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

IF men would weigh their words well before
talking there would not be so many heavy
speeches. Orleans Picay,sae.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

HERE, now, in favor of velocipedes, it is
said man has never been seen coming home
drunk on bicycle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

A SERMON should never be so short, in the
opinion of the New Haven Register, that the
women will not have time to take fashion
notes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

WILHoFT's Fever and Ague Tonic, the
old reliable remedy, now sells at one dollar
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

CONSERVATIVES gain in fesh strength and
spirits under daily use of Malt Bitters.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

THE Frazer Axle Grease is the best and
only Genuine. We know it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

In the height of the season, queen
bee lays from 1000 to 5000 eggs in
twenty-four hours.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

ASK your druggist for Redding's Russia
Salve. Keep it in house in case of accidents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

JONES finds drinking like fish makes his
head swim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-26
THE EVENING STAR.
Gen. Grant i'm the Campaign.
HIS SPEECH IN UTICA, \. Y.

his SPEECH N UTICA, \. Y.
AZ The republican mass meeting In Utica YES
ttioay Gen. Grant was Welcomed nv ar i'm
me- Se concourse OF people, estimated AZ 60 O0o
az lLesldtd over one OF three mass meetings.
ano 10 MS opening speech gave as a reason fnr
enitting into politics at this time thsr ..this
coui Try has suffered Sd much In hl1oi and
ueasuIe 10 uphold the flag OF our Union ana
lbHLlaln The best form OF government thai has
eStr been devised for man that II scanned 70 ma
that could not bear the Idea of seeiny tho
country, In its legislature and all its branches
IsrLed over 10 party composed in a great part
OF those who so recently tried 10 destroy a.
tArplause.l We do not advocate the principles
oil The republican party because we believe they
are Tor the good OF the republican parry alone
ara 10 The prejudice or the interest OF the oppo-
ste party, but We proclaim them al this time
because we believe they are the best for all par
ues. lAppaus3l We believe that the demo-
CIals are Just as much interested to-day In the
success success OF the republican party as the repuo-
ncans or The nited states are. We believe
iultner, that the southern states that were
l Is,g IN ieoelnon are Just as much inter-
es'to ana more interested, In the success
OF the republican party. We all know
Ihal 'Eefe Is 40 man In the south who Is not
pINltsed 10 come and settle among us IN
,ne bolth ln any section and retain his Do.
nEcal views, ana az the same time nrosecnta
bis business, whether n De professional NOR
cantlle or what not. Tie Northern man has
not the same privilege In the south After he
gees there TO prosecute his business no n,nsf ma
quiet on political questions OF great W, iorht In
other words. the carpet haygeris not n welc,rne
CUE ainchg Them See the result OF carpet
bag settlement In the northwest. See tho proS
perfty and the thrift that has been brought IN
these new states by cSrpet-baggers They
Quit up our cincinnati. our Chicago. our De-
troit. our Indianapolis, our cleveland and hun
dreds of smaller towns OF great praSnaritv
With the same privileges extended TO carpet
baggers, the growth that has been seen IN the
northwest would have been seen ere this in the
southern states. We claim that no great pros
perity can overtake these until every citizen of
any state Is regarced SIS citizen or the United
privilege or proc!2lmlng his political principles
without molestation. lie then introduced Sens-
tor Conkling, who addressed the meeting
MeSSrs. Banks. Boutwell, Tour.ee and others
ad0nSSed the other meetings