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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17

John RICHARDSON,
- Manufacturer of and Dealer in
WAGONS AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS
GRAIN era DIES A SPECIALITY.
RD- Also an Improved Hand Seed Sewer.
jall-y. Near the Depot, Oakland, Md
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17
Sc THE SUN. Sc

PUBLISHED AT BALTIMORE, Md,
1880. DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, 1880.
A PAPER FOR ALL CLASSES OF THE,
PEOPLE AND IN EVERY DEPARTMENT
OF LIFE. INDEPENDENT & CoNsERvA-
TIVE.
THE SUN is conservative in politics, inde-
pendent in tone and non-sectarian. Its pro-
prietors point to the principles that have
governed it in the past as a guarantee of its
course in the future. On all subjects il will
continue TO express its opinions, according to
its best Judgment, with view only to the
promotion of the best interest of the public All
THE FRESH EST NEWS at home and abroad
excluding only that which is purient or SEN
sational, is given from day to day in its COL
umns. In addition TO what Is furnished by
the Associated Press and bv the local report
keep its SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE that
from Europe, as well as from the Pacific
Coast, and from its Washington Bureau
abreast of the times, and to supplement it,as
occasion may re0elire,at every point to which
the current of events gives prominence
THE FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
and trustworthy accounts of all movements
and operations in the leading markets, as
well as that of Baltimore with special tele-
graph service from New York of the latest
stock and other transactions; while its re-
ports of the ruling prices of breadstuffs, pro-
and commerce, will embrace the latest intel
ligence, both at home and abroad, Of each
days doings, up to the hour of going to press.
AS a PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE, filled
with the freshest ana most varied news, THE
SUN has acquired a reputation which Is not
surpassed by any of its contemporaries while
its large circulation, not only locally, but in
many of the States of the Union, makes 10
the most valuable medium for all classes of
advertisers.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18
THE PRETTIEsT MITTEN.

A lady tells her friends how to knit a
pretty mitten as follows: This miiten is
ribbed from wrist to finger tips, and fits
as perfectly as glove. The thumb is
knit plain, and set in like plain mittens.
With seal brown, or black Saxony
yarn, and four fine needles, cast on "a
stitches, in three needles, knit three,
and seam three, until you have a wrist
an inch and a half long. Now COM
mence the thumb. In the middle of the
needle, where three stitches are knit,
make stitch (by picking up loop on
each side Of the center stitch, making
five stitches instead Of three. Widen in
this manner every seventh time around,
until you have IL stitches for the thumb.
Slip these 81 stitches off on a strong
thread, make or cast in three stitches,
join your work,and finish the hand, knit
ting three, and scanning three stitches,
until the end of the fingers is reached,
then narrow off as quickly as possible,
narrow every three stitches. Pick up
the II thumb stitches with seven other
stitches taken up where the thumb joins
the hand, and knit the thumb plain, mar
row il off as in plain mittens. Crochet
a little border around the wrist. Ihope
have made this plain, as the mittens
are so pretty and fit so nicely, | would
like some one to succeed in making a
pair.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18
THE ARABS AND THEIR sTEEDs.

II is not rare that horses in the desert
travels from one hundred and fifty to a
hundred and eighty miles in twenty-four
hours. 1t is the Arabs idea Of the per.
fection Of the horse that he ought to
carry grown man, with his arms, his
change of clothing, food for them both,
and a standard, even when running
against the wind, and in case Of necessity
drag corpse after him, and run the
whole day without food or water. To
the Arabs stain in the pedigree is an
irremediable fault. They say it is i'm
possible to make pure horse Of a race
Of mixed blood on the contrary, they
hold that they can always restore the
primitive nobility of the pure race which
hes beeniniproverished either by priva-
tion, by excessive and Inappropriate
work, by want Of care, or, in a word,
wherever the degeneration does not
spring from mixture of blood.
Their recognized test of perfect form
is this: when horse drinks from water
at the level Of the ground upon which
he stands square on his fore legs, with
out bending one of his knees to reach
the water he is perfectly formed, all
parts of his body are in harmony and
he is of pure blood. The Arabs are
generous feeders, though, as rule, they
feed only once day, and give water
only at night. The Prophet said
"Every grain of barley given to your
horses shall earn you an indulgence in
the other world" One of his followers
added: "If / had not seen the horse
born of the mare should say that he was
born of barley" and again-"Beyond
the spur there is only barley"
General Daumas recounts many mar
velous feats of the Arab horse which he
believes to be perfectly authenticated.
The following is the most astounding,
but there are many others almost equally
remarkable: Ithaving become necessary
for the tribe Of Arban to give to Turk
ish pasha its best horse, the choice fell
on dark gray mare Mordjana, known
in all the Sahara. Her owner begged
his son to ride her far away.into the
desert. He left the tent after nightfall.
When the night was two-thirds gone, he
wound the rein over His arm and lay down
on dwarf palm tree to sleep for an
hour. When he awoke, he found Mord-
jana had eaten all the leaves Of the palm.
Mounting again he rode until day-break.
Mordjana had sweatened and dried
three times, and he rode on until night
fall, when he halted at Leghrouat, where
he gave his mare little straw to amuse
her until she was fit to be fed Closing
his account this hard rider said: "'rhese
are not the runs for your horses, you
Christians, who go from Algiers to Bid
dah I3 leagues, as far as from my nose
to my ear, and think to have made a
long trip" General Daumas says this
man had made eighty leagucs--24o
miles-in twenty-four hours. His mare
had eaten only the leaves of the dwarf
palm upon which he had slept. She had
drunk but once, midway on her road,
and he swore that If his life had been in
peril he could have slept the next night
at Sardays, forty. five leagues farther on.
-.Seylb1ey,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18
THE SMALL ARTS OF LIVING.

Hardly anything is too small to spoil
the comfort Of life, If it be misplaced.
A speck in the eye, kernel of wheat
in the boot, a pin-point touching the
skin, band too tight or needed strap
gone-and goodbye comfort. Con-
sidering how much depends on our daily
food, it is surprising how little is thought
OF the conditions under which it is tax
en-, in many families. Some people
think good deal more Of what is on
the table than what is said or done
around it; and some few, perhaps, re-
verse the order--an operation that may
do very we'll for special occasions, when
what is said is something extraordinary;
but one that we shall beg to be excused
from Gas regular Diet" even il gods
came to dine, until we are able to dis
pense with all that is implied in good
appetite.
The cookery is too big topic to touch
in this connection; though what with
cookery schools, better knowledge
among the people, and higher standards
made familiar by our best hotels and
dining places, the art has greatly adj
vanced in this country within the pres
ent generation. Good bread, proper
ly broiled steak, and a roast done to
turn, no longer excite the special won
der that once they did. By-and-by per.
haps it will not be unusual to find good
soup, or vegetables that haven't been
spoiled in cooking.
But consider the meal cooked how
shall it be best enjoyed9 BY having il
daintily and tastefully arranged and
served, in the first place. We always
mark the good housewife up notch or
two in our esteem il we see that, how
ever competent help she may have, she
always slips out to give the "last touch
es" to the table before the family or the
guests sit down. Some do II for the
guests but not for the family, but that
is an error. The artistic arrangement
Of the table furniture the skill that
avoids crowding dishes together, or
leaving space too bare ; the forethought
that looks out for flowers for the din
ner table, though the centre table go
bare the quick eye which sees that
everything is in its place-these supple
ments the fare wonderfully. Prompt
ness in each member of the family is an
other essential. II demoralizes the
group to have stragglers dropping in all
the way through the meal, and gives 4
restaurant air-a suggestion of mere
"fceding"-to the family meal, which
it should never have.-GoLfes RElS.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18
A LIBERAL EDUCATION.

A purely business education is always
a narrow education. 1t develops a par
ticular power and leaves the others un-
developed. 1t tends to make lopsided
men; men Of narrow horizons; men of
limited ability; that is, Of abilities limit
ed to single sphere of action. The
boy who goes into store at fourteen to
stay till he is twenty-one may graduate
capital salesman, but he will learn no
thing else in his school but how to sell
goods; and life may have some other
service for him, possible even higher
service. The boy who graduated at COL
lege at twenty-one will not know how
to do any one Of hundred things. In
community where caste determines
position, where the SON of merchant is
| preordained TO be a merchant, and the
son of shopkeeper to be shopkeeper,
apprenticing is very well. But in a
country where society is not only fluid
but broiling where the bottom is all the
time going up to the top and the top is
all the time going down to the bottom,
every father should be ambitious to give
his son an education that will enable him
to take any place and hold and fill it.
Business education makes "rut" men
liberal education makes broad-men.
A business education equips man well
for 4 single chance, il he misses that he
has no reserve. A liberal education
cquips man for hundred chances; il
he fails to get one door open he has in
his hands the keys Of ninety-nine more.
1t is the broad man who prospers in
"hard times" The man who has but
one spring on his place may 60 thirsty
in drouth; not so the man who has a
score. When times are dull, it is the
bookkeeper who keeps ledger account
beautifully and knows not how to do
anything else, who gets left out in the
cold, because there are no more ledgers
to be kept. The versatile man, who
has an adaptability to do whatever work
comes in his hand, always finds some
work to do. When college graduate
is found starving the story goes the cir
Gle of the newspapers from Boston to
San Francisco; but when clerks and
hookkeepers 60 hungry no one thinks it
strange. 1t is an appalling problem to
contemplate. What will the thousand
Of our college graduates this year find
to do? But, somehow they all do find
something. Our colleges do not furnish
the country with its beggars, its paupers
or its tramps. A well educated man is
man of many resources, and he is there
fore ready for many exigencies. There
is safety in breath.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18
LITTLE BAREFOOT.

The Christmas Is coming, the fairies are humming.
And singing and whispering son In my ear;
The bright Christmas morning, sosweetly adorning
The frost woven crown Of the poor dying year.
The bells will be Ginning their glad, merry rhym-
ing
Gay feet will be dancing, the hall, win be bright,
The rich roll In spiendor, so dainty and tender,
utpoor Little Barefoot, where art thou tonight
OH little ones docking to hang up their stocking.
Pulled out with the pressure Of dear, dimpled feet,
win rouse from their dreaming, to end them all
tceming
With treasures so costly so rare and so neat;
Bright eyes will be brighter, light hearts win be
lighter,
But OH mid the tumult Of each new delight,
Remember-forget not-that poor Little Barefoot
Hath mover stocking to hang up tonight.
Rich gin. win be lavishsd, bright eyes win be
And fashion, false goddess, 90 hckle and vain,
win bear with her sweet smiles and hide with her
The head the "Hydra" tha. turks In her train ,
Sweet lips will bepre''ing white arms soft eare's-
ing.
Rich banquets will glitter with silver and gold,
Warm garments will cover, but oh, who will hover
To shelter the barefooted ones from the coldl
Tho pale, dropping mother with love like other,
Il striving 10 warm, with her own feeble breath,
The little ones lowering, with no other covering
Than rags, oh 80 scant, freezing, starving to
death
oh, God. will thy peoples build churches and
steeples,
And deck them with Solomon's temple Of old,
And know not, care not, that poor Little Bare
foot
Is freezing and starving with hunger and cold
win Christians remember, In these days Of Dcccm-
Der,
When Jesus, the dear little Bethlehem Babe,
Was pillowed by stranger, In humbles, manger-
No fashion was there, neither pride nor parade;
No robes richly modelled around Him were folded,
Yet angels from heavens own mansions so bright
Where there In that manger by that little stranger
As poor rs the barefoot that wandcrs night.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

cooking, while for the tables, "the in.
dividual buffers" and salt-cellars, paint
ed and vanished, are very nice. Mats
for the table, easily kept clean, can be
made by gluing strips Of smooth wood
on flannel cut the right size and shape.
A set should contain six mats, two of a
size, and be graduated from fourteen
inches in length down to seven.
There are good many odd corners
in the house where 4 shelf would be 4
great convenience for many things. A
strip Of old red flannel, tackled around
the edge with brass-headed nails makes
a very pretty finish.
MATS AND RUGS.
|. Mats and rugs are always serviceable,
as sell as pretty, to cover worn places
Il tht carpet, or prevent its being worn.
If you have any burlap in the house
the coarse brown material used for cof-
fee-bags and sacking for furniture--or
any heavy brown or gray linen, cut it
the required size. Then work simple
pattern around the edge, with the cheap
Germantown yarn, which is ju.t as good
as worsted. Line it with some of the
same, or some old carpet, and you will
have very satisfactory rug. Fasten
together the outside and the lining by a
buttonhclc stitch around the edge, and
into the stitches tie pieces Of worsted
for fringe.
Old stools and hassocks which have
become faded and ragged can be nicely
covered with burlap, worked in some
pretty pattern.
Mats can also be made out of old
cloihes-line, sewing it round and round
into an oval shape. Perhaps you can
find some old carpet witha border which
has not worn out. Cut or rip this off,
and sew around a new piece of carpet,
and you will be surprised at the transfor-
nation.
APRONS, CAPS, TIDES.
An old Swiss muslin dress skirt can be
converted into a variety Of articles /;
handkerchiefs, hemstitched, with an in
itial worked in the corner; little fancy
rufiled aprons caps for grandma; tides,
which can be trimmed with lace, il you
find on the dress, and whole box Of
ruffles for neck and wrists-all useful
and acceptable things.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18
A CAMPAIGNING ANEcpoTE.


An incident ofcamp-meeting life, de-
tailed by a clergyman on 4 Baltimore
steamboat, is thus reported in Forest ana
Sfysam:
An old couple had supplied them.
selves with bottle Of pennyroyal oil
with which to keep off the mosquitoes.
They extinguished their light and retir'
ed, forgetting the antidote.
The mosquitoes were very bad, and
after standing It as long as they could,
the old lady got up and got well-filled
ink-bottle instead Of the oil, and gave
the old gentleman thorough lubricatine
with the liquid, face, hands and feet
she then anointed herself in like manner.
They again assayed to court the drowsy
god, but could only get an occasional
nap. Finally the old lady got up and
struck light. Giving glance at the
bed she had just left, she beheld, to hel
horror, a colored person, as she sup
posed, stretched in the place OF her
spouse.
She quietly got the poker, and beat
the old fellow over the head before dis
covering her mistake. Later on in tn,
night, we found the old couple on board
the boat with us, he with his head near
ly as big as bale Of hay, and she car
ing for him with the greatest solicitude
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

D@rA girl just returned to Hannibal,
Mo-, from a Boston high school said,
upon seeing fire engine work: "Who
would eva dweamed such very dimin-
utive apawatus would hold so much wat
fah ~
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

r6-It would never do to elect women
to all Offices. II female sheriff should
visit the residence Of handsome man
and explain to his jealous wife that she
had an attachment for him, there would
be a vacancy in that Office in about two
minutes.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

s0::"See," said a sorrowing wife,
show peaceful the cat and dog are. -
EYES," said the petulent husband, ''but
just tie them together, and then see how
the fur will fly."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

p9-A Dutchman, who married his
second wife soon aher the funeral Of the
first, was visited with two hours sere-
made in token Of disapproval. He ex-
postulated, pathetically, thus al say,
poys, you ought to be ashamed Of your
self to be making all dish noise, ven dere
vas a funeral here so soon."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

B@-It is not what we earn, but what
we save that makes us rich. II is not
what we eat, but what we digest, that
makes us strong. tits not what we read
but what we remember, that makes us
learn. It is not what we intend, but
what we do, that makes us useful. 1t
is not few faint wishes, but a lifelong
struggle, that makes us valiant.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

sara colored man, whose wife had
left him, said: "She would come back
il frowed her some sugar; but ] amt
frowin' no sugar, do you heah ."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

p1-"Will you fly with me. dearestf"
he WHISPERED in her ear. "Oh, Charles, "
she softly replied, "don't you know l
cantaloupe until after the melon sea-
son."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18
THE RELIABLE MAN.

The reliable man isalways there when
he is wanted. You do not have to send
to twenty different places after him il
he is not at home his wife can tell you
where he is. The reliable man always
tells his mission to his wife. He is not
fool enough to marry a woman he can
not trust. He is not much Of talker,
but he thinks great deal. He looks
at a subject in all its bearings. His
judgments are unbiased. II he should
be elected governor he will carry State
Affairs with 4 just and firm hand. In
private life he always has plenty OF
kindling wood ready in the morning.
No running round in the cold for him
before he has made his toilet. He won't
be likely to whip the children when they
don't deserve it. He can bear illusions
or political belief which does not accord
with his own without going into tan
trams. He can give advice and keep
his temperi il it isnot taken and followed.
He knows there are people in the world
beside himself. He believes that the
planet will continue to be run with a
moderate degree Of success after he shall
sleep with his fathers. He never tells
what he would have done "if he had
only been there" II he makes you
promise you know he will keep
it unless he dies before the time
for its redemption. If he states fact
for a fact you know that you can credit
the statement. If he sells you horse
and warrants him "sound" you need not
look for SPAWN or ring-bone after
the first days hard driving. His word
is as good as his bond. He is honest ;
you can trust him to do as he agrees
You need not watch him, he will do
just as well without it. He has respect
unto himself, and would be ashamed to
have his own soul convict him of dis
honesty. If you are in trouble, you
know that you can expect help from him.
II you are "down in the world, he will
stand by you. If other friends have for
saken you, he will uphold and support
you. In society the reliable man is
worth his weight in gold. In the church
he is invaluable he will pass the con-
tribution box when the wardens are laid
up with hard colds; he will take care OF
the minister's house when he goes away
for days pleasuring ; he will help the
ladies put down the new vestry carpet,
and he is ready to stir the oyster stew,
or tend the elevator from the kitchen,
when the society have an old folks
supper. All the girls like him, all the
boys respect him, and his wife lays great
emphasis on what "my husband" says
for she knows he is reliable. And We
dcvoutly wish there were more like him.
p0-T say, boy, whose horse is that
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

b@-A gentleman will never insult any
one, and a loafer cannot.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18

p0-T say, boy, whose horse is that
you are riding 2" "Why, it's daddy's."
'"Who is your daddyl" "Why, don't
you know 9-he's uncle Peter Jones. |"
$50 you'er the son of your uncle; how
do you make that out, young man F-
"Well, you see daddy got to be wild
over, and married mothers sister, who
is aunt Sally, and sohe ismy uncle any
how"
The Republican journal., 1880-09-23
The Songless Bird.

The sparrow comes from a good family,
having a host of representatives in Eu-
rope, and Il full list in North America !;
but, strange to say, it is the only scion
ofthis large division Of the bird tribe from
which the gift of song seems to have been
wholly withheld. Everybody who has
strolled in the country during May and
June has listened to the sweet love carols of
our chirping and song sparrows, butno one
ever heard the sparrow in question utter
single sound that possessed the faintest
melody-nothing but that incessant COM
planning chirp and distressful chatter from
one end Of the year to the other-no inter
mission. no rest. If it could sing like our
catbird, or even the clumsy robin, for in
stance, the opposition to it which now eX-
lists would, it is safe tosay, never have been
aroused, because in all fairness, waving
the question of song, the sparrow can not
be called any better or worse than the
rest of its kind, which are all plumb,
sober, dull-plnmaged birds. Hmper's
Magazine.