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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29
Hydraulic Pressure in Wall Street.

Stock-watering has an evil sound in
the public ear and justly so by reason of
its associations. But stock watering per
sc is not a fraud 1t is nothing more,
when iegitimately done than realizing
the enhanced value of a property. 1t is
Just as proper q proceeding as that of
merchant who marks up the price of the
stock of goods he has on hand. Never
theless, it has an evil odor clinging to it,
for the operation presents such tempta-
tons TO fraud on the part of those in
control of the property, that it is rare for
the thing to be done without fraud at
some stage. Sometimes it is series of
frauds from first to last, enriching the
few men who planned and executed it,
inilicting severe losses on hundreds of
innocent investors, while the property
itself is irretrievably injured. All this
will be called a Wall Street trick, or stock
.jObbery, but in fact it is simply corporate
dishonesty. Let us take one glaring ex-
ample. Suppose that there exists large
corporation having heavy capital, and
performing highly important functions
lu relation to the public. Its Board of
Directors is composed of the leading men
of the financial world and large pro-
portion of the stock of the corporation is
held rs permanent investment.
Another company is started as rival
To the former 1t can pay no dividends,
and is not likely to, for its promoters re-
paid themselves double their original
outlay through the medium of a con
Struction company. and they propose to
make more by selling out. But this
concern can and does iniure the dividend
paying company, though not much. In
course of time the leading spirits in each
corporation come together secretly, and
ARRANGE what, in term borrowed from
the gaming table is called "deal. 7"
The dividend-paying company is to alb
'sorb the other, and to double its own
stock. An elaborate programme is laid
out, extending over many months. As
the first step in it, holders of the dividend
paying stock must be induced to sell out
&c shaken OUT the street calls it. The
corporate dishonesty begins at this
point. The Board of Directors meet, and
in their official capacity they issue a
quarterly statement of the companies
affairs, which is a carefully concocted
falsehood from beginning to end. In il
they represent that business has fallen
off to the most serious extent; that
the revenues have 50 greatly shrunk
that it would be highly impolitic to
declare the usual quarterly dividend;
khata reduced dividend must be declared
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29
The Sentimental Editor.

A few evenings ago we saw lovely
of the adage, every cloud
has silver lining" The entire sky
was dull gray, almost leaden, save in
the northwest, where there was an OBJ
long bank of billowy clouds intensely
black, each having an edge of bright
silver that deepened into gold. Around
the clouds the last rays of the sun rested
in indescribable beauty. To our mind.
ever ready to forget the practicalities of
existence and grasp at its beautiful fan
cies, the scene was typical of life and
death. The sky was life, the clouds
were the enormous sorrows that some
times darken it. the silver was the radi-
ant peace that God alone can give, and
the gold represented that happiness
merged into the perfect bliss of heaven,
while the sun but family pictured the
glorious brightness of the sun OF right
eousness" that turneth the light into day
and the shadows into light.--Cttn1n1tng
(Ga.) Clarion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29
MOnstrOus Fungi.

Visitors to ancient win e-vaults or
damp coal-pits are sometimes aston
ished by the curious fungi which drape
the walls with gruesome tapestry; but
every instance of this kind is thrown
into the shade by the extraordinary
growths which have recently been dis
covered in some of the deserted Mexi-
can silver mines of Nevada. The dank,
warm timber galleries and drifts of
these old workings abandoned to them
selves for years, have silently given
birth to monstrous brood of morbid
vegetation, which, apparently, has no
parallel in the regions of the sunlight
and the upper air. In general they are
all of snowy whiteness, and some OF
the hooded masses rise up several feet
from the ground like sheeted ghosts.
Others, in the distance, take the form
of bearded goats or sleeping owls. Here
great punches of long, white hair hang
down from the roof; and their huge,
PUPPY masses cucumber the floor like
brainstone coral The latter appear to
have sprung miraculously from some
thing spilled upon the rocks in past
days, while the former seem to have
crystallized like hoar-frost from the at
mosphere itself. Some of the rounded
masses have actually lifted up from the
floor blocks of stone weighing ten, fifty,
and even 100 pounds to height OF
three feet. In the higher levels of the
mines, where the air is drier, the fungi
are far less bulky than below and
much firmer in texture. The shapes
here are, however. more elaborate and
beautiful. One kind grows in twisted
spiral like rams horn, to length OF
five feet, and hangs from the rafters
like trophy of the chase, or rather,
like serpent suspended by the tail
Another sort sends out a stem the thick
ness of pencil to height of one or
two feet, where it blossoms into bull
bous knob something like flower.
Nothing like the toadstool or the COM
mon mushroom is to be found, and the
wondrous growths have all the aspect
of being called into special being by
the peculiarities of their environment.
-Egchdnge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29
Mans Relation to the Lower Animals.

Since many writers opposed to the
practice of experiments on animals have
based their objections entirely on moral
grounds, and thus made the question of
vivisection an ethical one, | have been
anxious to know what laws they have
discovered for our guidance on this vexed
subject. They discourse on cruelty, on
immortality, and on the rights of ami
mails; but these expressions are so vague
that they fail to afford any basis for legal
or public action, or, if there be any at
tempt at definition, it is with the object
of making these terms conform to fore
gone conclusion on the very point under
discussion. Thus it is constantly as
serted that psychologists feel at liberty
to torture animals at their pleasure
without regard to the ''higher dictates
of humanity" or to the claws of moral
ity." 1t is thus implied thatthere exists
among the public some principle of con-
duct toward the lower animals which has
no place among eXperimenters. They
speak as if, standing on higher plat
form and beholding all creatures from a
superior position, they could frame a
code of laws which should have due re-
gard to the rights of animals, and gov
ern our own conduct in all our relations
to them. This position is altogether
fallacious; man can not disconnect him
self from the animal world, and can not
define its rights. 1t must, therefore, be
abandoned as altogether untenable, and
the subject discussed from a totally DIFF
ferent standpoint. Our relation to the
animal world can only in very qualt
fed sense be regarded from an ethical
point of view; much in the same way as
eating and drinking may be spoken of as
questions of morality when moral con-
siderations exert their influence over the
amount and kind of food which we con-
sumo; this, however, can not hide from
us the fact that the subject ofdigestion
is Fundamentally physiological one.
The duty of man toward animals as an
abstract question is from is very nature
insoluble; it can only be partially an
swered on the grounds of expediency,
and these will vary according to age and
nation. We should, rather, ask what is
our relation to the lover animal world,
and in what place in that relationship
can moral considerations come into
force? In endeavorng to form a judy
ment OF this relationship we must take
facts as we find them, for the attempt at
an explanation is trying to solve the rid
die of our existence, and leaves us still
with ''the burden of the mystery of all
this uuintellgible world. "-PopuLar
Science MOntkly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29

which, it is true, will require most of
che surplus in the company's treasury
to pay, but by careful economy they
hope it may be fully earned in the future.
The issuance of this official falsehood
has been prepared Tor by the Industrious
propagation of rumors that the affairs OF
the company are in truly deplorable
condition. The board votes the reduced
dividend, the men who are in the secret
have previously sold their stock, and
they set to work to break down the
market by short sales, The price begins
to sink rapidly, innocent investors are
frightened at what they see and hear,
they make haste to sell, and the price
coes on sinking with every lot offered.
At last it reaches a level where the con-
spirators decide it is time to buy. They
have covered their short contracts, and
make their profits that way; and under
their buying the price rises as rapidly as
it went down, which catches the swarm
of Wall Street stock operators who had
been selling the stock short and were not
in the secret. When the men conduct
ing the deal get all the stock they want,
official announcement is made that the
rival companies have agreed to combine,
and the stock of the consolidated con-
Germ will be doubled. This being done,
the conspirators desire to sell their enor-
nous holdings of the watered stock.
They therefore meet again in their
official capacity as directors, and issue
another quarterly statement in which
everything said in the last is unsaid.
The revenues are declared to have
increased in most unexpected way,
great economies have been effect
ed and the profits of the quarter are
large enough to allow a dividend to be
declared at the full rate on the whole
doubled capital stock, while the outlook
for the future is such as to give assurance
that it will be continued and possibly in
creased. This official statement is Just
as much a falsehood as the last was.-
North american ReUietO.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29
The Way One Soldier Earned Promotion.

1t was during the seige of Wagner.
and the Union parallels were but a few
hundred yards away from the grim black
tubes that ever and anon "embowled
with outrageous noise and air-disgorr-
ing foul their horrid glut of iron globes
A line OF abattis was to be built across
clear space in point blank range of the
Confederate gunners and sharp shooters
in 'front.' Sergeant says the officer
in charge, "go pace that opening and
give me the distance as near as possible"
says the Sergeant; (for we will let him
tell the rest of the story: 81 started
right off When got to the opening
put like ship in a gale of wind.
What with grape, canister, roundshot.
shell, and regular bees nest of rifle
balls just think there must have been a
fearful drain OF ammunition on the Con-
federate army about that time. | don't
know how it was, but / didn't get so
much as scratch, but did get power
fully scared. When l got under cover I
couldn't 'er told for the life 'er me
whether it was hundred or a thousand
PAGES. | should sooner guess a hundred
thousand. Says the Captain: "Wen,
Sergeant, what do you make of itp''
Soon's | get my wind, says 1: "Giye a
guess, Captain" He looks across the
opening second or two and then saws:
"a hundred and seventy-five PAGES
say" Thunder Captain" saws L
you've made a pretty close guess. It's
just a hundred and seyenty-onen
And" concluded the Sergeant. after
the laugh had subsidized, that's how |
got my shoulder straps. Detroit Free
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29
A Horse at the Pump,

our Dumb animals, of Boston, the
organ of the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals, is responsible for
the following story: One day last month
a lady whose home is at Portsmouth, N.
H., was enjoying ride through vii
lage near that city, when her attention
was drawn to horse at the roadside,
near respectable looking house, trying
to pump water into trough to drink
by Selling the handle of the pump with
his teeth. Owing to lack of skill or some
defect in the pump the horse was unable
to get the water. The lady gave the
reins to her sister, alighted, and drew a
bountiful supply to quench his thirst.
The horse evinced his sense of obligation
to his benefactor as intelligibly and po-
litely as gentleman could express his
thanks for like courtesy, and the ladv
returned to her carriage and resumed
her drive.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29

The Salt Lake Tribune declares that
polygamous marriages still occur in
Utah, and gives the names of several
Mormons who increased their number
of wives in the Endowment House on
one day. ...fl. ....
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29

There is to be another cable across
the ocean with Baltimore for a head
quarters. The bottom of the sea will
be an electric gridiron if this thing keeps
up, --NelO HdVen Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29

The Albany IN. w Journal de-
clares that lovely young rosebud of a
cadet at West Point is 1.-THE owner of l2O
pair Of white duck trousers"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29

Whoever heard anybody complain
that griddle cakes tasted flat!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-29
'the God of bounds,

Comes to her in His silent rounds
And says: "NO more"
But life is full of compensations. 1t is
left her to enjoy, to labor, and to aspire.
Perhaps it is left her to illustrate, as her
more fettered married sister can not, the
real capacity, the actual power of
achievement, of her sex.-Harper's
Rnznr -------
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-09-27
BRIDES rogaErruInEss.

Rockford is noted for its dashing young
ladies, its Beau Brummel young men and
its matrimonial fever. A recently mar
ried couple enjoying the pleasures of their
honeymoon. stopped at the Rock Island
house, Rock Island, on last Saturday night
to stay over Sunday. Trunks were nm
packed, when 10 and behold the bride had
forgotten her night gown. The bride rang
for the bell boy, and wrote note ito the
laL d-lady requesting night gown. comb
ticies were sent up and order was restored,
but the question that now agitates the.
minds of the public in Rock Island is,
what was the ball of twine needed for?
but it will probably never be answered,
and remain one of the dark mysteries of
the age. FreepOyf .Bauesia lnn
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-09-27
TIE EDMUNDs Law.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.--Gen. Nathan
Kimball, of Ogden, Utah. is in town, and
says that, so far as his information goes,
the work of the commissioners has been
satisfactory to the gentifes. The purging
of the election lists in accordance with the
Edmnnds bill greatly reduces the Mormon
vote He inclines to the opinion that the
Mormons will elect their candidate for ter
ritorialdelegate. Registration under this
act not only cuts down the Mormon but in
creases the gentle vote. When the cleo
toral machinery was entirely in the hands
of the Mormons, it was always possible for
them to prevent large part of the gentle
vote from being cast In his precinct in
Ogden. where Campbell got only fifty-six
votes two years ago, over seven hundred
gentiles have been registered. In Ogden
and Salt Lake City the gentiles might have
q small majority under the present registra-
ton, but in the rural districts there are
scarcely any gentiles. and there the
Mormon vote rolls up. Gen. Kim
ball says that the commissioners
appointed Mormon registrars only
where they could appoint nc. others While
the present Legislation is "a heavy blow at
polygamy, the general favors a govern
ment of the territory by commissioners
appointed by the president until the gentle
element can get control. Conviction of
polygamists, he thinks, can be procured
under the present law. Heretofore it has
been impossible to get the requisite evi
dence, but now that cohabitatior is made
the punishable offense, evidence Can be
had. It is true that leading MoFmons are
dividing up their families TO avoid the ap-
pearance of cohabitation, Eut the gentiles
are determined to do everything they can
to sustain the Edmunds law, and are keep
ing close watch over the polygamists and
their temporarily surrendered families.
Thespresent registration has developed the
fact that vast numbers of Mormons have
been voting without naturalization, and
two-thirds of them had been voting for ten
or fifteen years. The right of women to |
vote had been raised by Mormons and de-
cided in their favor and the gentiles had
raised question as to the right to vote of |
q Mormon church officer, committed by his |
position to the defense of polygamy, though
not himself practicing it. This, the general |
said. had not been passed upon, but the act 1
specially provides that the commissioners |
shall not exclude any person otherwise |
eligible to vote from the polls on account |
of any opinion such person may entertain |
on the subject of polygafny-
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-09-27
POOL NETTING CALLED.

The following call for meetings is issued
by Commissioner ]. W. Midgley, of the
Southwestern Association.
A meeting of the general managers and
general freight agents of the undermention
ed roads will be held in the Lakeside
Building. in Chicago, on Thursday, Oct,
5, commencing at 1890 a, m. The special
business to be transacted viii be to take
actions on the repertsofg the committee on
Arbitration appointed at the meeting held
in June last, and. if the report is adopted,
to proceed to the election of an arbitrator.
The roads which are expectetito be repre-
sented at this meeting are the Chicago
and Alton; Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy; Chicagns Milwaukee and st. Paul;
Chicago and Northwestern; St. Joseph;
Kansas City; St. Joseph and Council
Bluffs; Missouri Pacific: St Louis and San
Francisco, and the Wabash, St Louis and
Pacific Railways.
Immediately after the adjournment of
the above described meeting. the Colorado
Traffic Association will convene in the
same place. The special order TO be to pro-
vide for the settlement of the business
carried since June I, 1882.
After the adjournment of : the last
named association, the Southwestern Rail-
way Association will assemble for the
transaction of several items of business.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-09-27

Chas. Folger. 1t is the shame and the hui
initiation of the republican party that it
has SO completely sucesHibed to the selfish
domination of its bosses as to find itself
compelled, in this. yearof important and
perhaps permaHently decisive results, to.
enter upon ethe canvass not only bound
hand and foot, but with humiliating con
viction that defeat, if it comes, will be
richly deserved. The problem is, then, to
lay out the ground for the canvass in such
a manner as to prevent the election of
Grover Cleveland by the aid of republican
votes in reinforcement of united Fdemoc-
racy. ! tits not possiblesto make any mis-
take about the democrats; they will be true
to their candidate. 1t is the republicans
that need attention; and we anxiously wait
and shall warmly welcome any light that
may be offered onaa point that presents
difficulties far surprising any that republic
cans have had to contend with i'm any cam.
paign since the organization of the party.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-09-27
aEw YoRK. .REPuRLInans.

New YORK. Sept 26.-The following
resolution will be considered at the next
meeting of the republican sta te committee
of New York:
Resotned, That in the future meetings of
this committee no person except members
duly elected at the state convention will
be authorized to vote, and that no person
shall be permitted to appear by proxy
The republican state committee elected
John f. Smyth. chairman.
Gen. Sharp offered the following. which
was adopted:
Resolged. That the state committee ex-
presses its indignation at the attemptmade
at Saratoga to influence the decision of the
late committee by the use of forged tele-
grams and its detestation of all methods
and purposes.which such wretehed fraud
and trickery implied, and this committee
tenders its cordial cooperation to any au-
thorities or persons Investigating the crime
to the end that its authors may be speedily
ascertained and held up to the scofn of the
people.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-09-27
Gathering Pineapples.

The average life(ef the ''scarlet" pine
is three years; that of the sugar-loaf is
about five. The average weight of the
fruit in the Bahamas IS from three to
three and-a-half pounds. A field Ssgen-
orally gone over three times during the
season, affordiiig three grades of fruit,
called first, second and third cuttings
The scarlet variety ripens a month or
two earlier than the sagar-loaf. Owing
to the sharp serrated leaves of the plant
the gathering of the fruit is tedious
and difficult matter, the men. women
and children engaged in the work being
obliged to wear heavy canvas leggingS
and gloves with gadntTets to protect
themselves against the sharp spines of
the plant.
The pine4apple plants furnish but one
regular crop during the year, although
the local markets are seldom without a
few pineapples on sale. About the mid
die of April the first cuttings are made
of the scarlet pines, and the last is made
about the 1st of July. The sugar-oat
pine is at maturity during July and Au-
gust. The shipping season is one Of
signal activity in the colony, for when
the fruit is ready for. the knife it must
be cut and hurried with all speed to
market or it will be lost.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-09-27

There is possibility of Grover Cleve-
lands election, as matters now appear, but
John Kelly should be closely watched to
prevent his selling out the ticket, which
he will probably do if a favorable oppor-
tunity presents itself. The Tammany
saehem's political virtue is not made of the
sternest stuff, and the man who controls
the number of votes which he claims to
control is quite likely to have glittering
temptations thrown in his way,a 1t has
always been believed that Kelly sold out
to Arthur in 1880, and the same influences,
strengthened by the fact that the New
York republican boss is now president of
the United States, and supplemented by
Jay Gould's money, may be set at work to
induce Kelly to unload his democratic
vote ON the renublican side of the fence.
Kelly claims to be highly pleased with
Clevelands nomination. and has promised
to support him With his utmost vigor but
he win bear watching. His rehabilitation
was scarcely less discreditable to the dem
ocrats of New York than was the use of
presidential influence to the Folger repub-
licans. The Kelly machine is not so huge
as the Arthur concern, but it is decidedly
more obnoxious as far as it goes.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-09-27
A Police Officer in Paris.

Chief of Police iMeGarrigle, of Chi
cago, now in Paris, writes as follows 10
Mayor Carter Harrison: tsI shall avoid
giving youYa description of our sight
seeing, of the difficulties Of the language.
They say we when they mean YES, ;
and toot sweet for presently and har-
ry koyerr for string beans and come
ben for how mHch,s and then the cab
drivers are always trying 20 run over
people, nor is there ever policemen to
assist ladies or any one else across the
streets and houievards, no matter how
crowded or dangerous they may be.
g. .'The police are good shaped fellows,
with . AtolefHble uniform and heavy
bayonet-sword hanging over the left
hip. w hat are the precise duties OF
these officers have not vet found out
They don't seem to be doing anything
except watking about in couples
81 wrote last week to the Prefect OF
Police enclosing a. letter of EfAsfoduction
freIn the French CONSUL 90 Chieago. re-
Questing him to infern me when /
might do myself the pleasure of calling
upon him. Up to this date he has not
had the politeness to answer myIre-
quest. Yesterday howeTef, fsealled at
the americas Legation and Minister
Morton, who feoeivesi me most kindlyg4
will use the influence of his position to
put me IN the way to learn something
of the Paris police system