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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29
Causes OF Felicity.


Cold and heat play different parts in
the production and reduction OF felicity.
"A drv and sharp cold wave exerts a
gentle pressure on the surface of the
body, which fills the nervous centers
with blood and helps to felicity of mind.
A long and piercing, easterly, chilling
wind checks circulation, robs heat, and
produces even melancholic sadness.
A dry, genial warmth acts like bracing
cold, A long warmth, with moisture,
checks the vital action and produces a
degree of depression which may be as
intense as that which is induced by
long exposure to cold, The seasons of
the year which are attended with least
exhaustion of the body are those which
favor felicity. When the exhaustion of
the winter and depressing spring months
has been removed by the warmth of a
genial summer and autumn, the time is
most favorable for serenity of mind.
On the other hand the exhaustion of
winter and spring induces depression,
and is no doubt the cause of that mel
ancholy width renders the months Of
spring the maximum periods of deaths
by suicide. Purity of the atmosphere
is an unquestionable aid to felicity. The
comparison of children living under
differing circumstances is sufficient
proof of this fact. The children of an
open, well-ventilated school-room, how
different are they from those who are
immured in some of the close,
overpacked dens which are called
school-rooms, Compare the felicity
&c H.. IL 4 Al. 4.
who live out of doors, and even
of the children of the fields and
open streets, with that of the children
of the small trader, whose back parlor
is living-room and play ground, or the
felicity of the man or woman who
leads an outdoor life with that of those
who live in the close Office or work
room. There still other agencies
which bring, or which check, human
felicity and which are as purely physic-
al in character as those above re-
corded. There are substances which,
taken into the body, produce strange
contrasts in respect to felicity and de
preston. Foods well cooked, foods
carefully selected, foods supplied in
sufficient quantity to sustain the body
equally in all its parts, and SO moderate
as never to Cypress the nervous digest
i've powers, all conduce to felicity in
the most telling manner. Many com
mon foods and drinks affect the system
specially. AS . rule, all agents which
Stimulate, that is to say,relax the arterial
tension, and so allow the blood q freeT
course through the organs, for time
promote felicity, but in the reaction
leave depression, The allloloid in tea,
theme, has this effect. 1t causes short
and slight felicity. 1t causes, in a large
number OF persons, % long and severe,
and even painful sadness. There are
many who never know day of felicity
owing to this one destroying cause. In
our poorest districts, among the poor
women of our industrial populations,
our spinning, our stockingweaving
women, the misery incident to their lot
is doubled by this one agent. DR.. B.
W. Richardson, IN the North american
ReUiea0.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29

about the yard, and half-covering tbs
hen-house, so that its inmates were con-,
PEELED to content themselves with hon
ping from roost to roost, or SCRATCHING
among the dry grass-seed on the floor
for they did not dare to venture out.
Night came early down, and, tired
enough of their confinement, the fowls
were willing to tuck their heads be-.
meath their wings, as its first long shad.
ows appeared. Soon silence and sleen
reigned-but not over all. Red Can
the gobbler, was awake. His mind was
troubled, and he could not sleep. All
day he had noticed an unusual Stir IN
at the house. People coming and 90.
ing through the storm, and teams driven
into the great barn. What was going
on? .hr .f .U.
I Suddenly new and terrible idea oc.
CURED to him. Quickly jumping to the
floor, he hurried toward corner where
he had hidden certain kernels of corn.
one for each day since Thanksgiving.
Hastily he searched for them, but in
vain, With wild gobble he awoke his
friends.
"Save yourselves! Save yourselves!
Something is wrong The corn by
which was counting the days has been
eaten! This may be the twenty-fourtho of
the month! Tomorrow may be-indeed,
fear that it is-Christ-"
He was interrupted by loud banging
at the door; it opened, and by the light
of a frightful lantern the terror-stricken
Red Cap and his friends saw two horri-
BILE boys enter
1--WE are lost! We are lostr' cried the
poor turkey. Christmas has comet
Flee for your lives!"
But it was too late. Seized in spite
of his struggles, brave Red Cap was
borne away together with two of the
ducks, Dickey Daddles and another, and
five Of the hens, among them naughty
Henry Penny. Then the boys and the
light disappeared. the door was closed,
and the inmates of the house were once
again left in darkness. .'' ....
Hid, then from behind barrel in the
corner came the voice of Miss Goose,
laughing scornfully.
age is supposed to bring knowledge,
but geese are k1a0aC11 to eat cornn' she
Kissed. "M5 sorrowing friends, vanity
is not as good as experience. Had they
listened to Mother Gray and me, Red
Cap and his young friends would now
be alive and in safety, instead of hang
ing by the legs waiting to be cooked for
to-morrow's Christmas dinnerw-F. z.
Hamilton, in Ha1per'S Young People.
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For Young Readers.
4 STOCKING FOR THE CIT

Closet to the freight sitting, {" ''.'f %
And knitting, briskly knitting, , .s,s o..
Was little Gold-LOcks busiest
OF all the busy bees; tl a.a" f.lIH
The need, no doubt, was grave for which
Her fingers toiled so. stitch by stitch, - ~
While tenderly she held her cat, . bad
Tim-Iim, upon her knees. ..si ....4.,., .
She was pretty study; H@"t b"a 81 81
The rrelight tickering, rudy, G.s ,...If. .
Made such glow upon her cheeks, a..
Such shine upon her head.
Was some one cold or in distress? 10.
Some poor child gloveless, stockingless,
That she must knit so every night
Before she went to bed.
After some thoughtful guessing,
And some discreet caressing, ~
learned her sudden industry , .....
And interest were because
Twas almost Christmas eve, and Tim
Had never stocking made for him,
That he could hang beside her own,
Ready for Santa Claus.
All, little gold-haired daughter
The Christmas time had brought her,
As 10 all generous hearts, the wish '. H.
And will to give and do.
And, since, within her sheltered home ''
No glimpse of want or woe have come,
Ttm-Iim, her cat seemed needieSt
VI any one she knew. -'t.
So, when we all are sleeping, f.... ., g.
And Santa Claus comes peeping,
l think how he will shake his sides, fi.'.
So jolly and SO fat. .... .
And laugh to see there, hanging close
10 Gold-LockS little scarlet hose, 70 -1.
Her careful, loving handiwork, .e.....
A stocking for the cat?
Clera Dotv Bates.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29
Talking With Strangers,

At another time, when riding toward
Washington, Thomas Jefferson over
took man of respectable appearance
a country merchant. The President
drew up and saluted him, as was his
friendly habit. The two then iourneyed
on together. Political topics crept
in, and the man on foot strongly cen
sured certain acts of the Administration
He then proceeded to quote some per-
sonal stories against the President.
@'Do you know Mr.. Jefferson, per-
sOnally?" inquired the man on horse
back.
mo, nor don't want to-"
-'But is it fair play to repeat such
stories, and then not dare to meet the
subject of them face to face?"
AT the word "dareh the merchant
promptly responded:
81 will never shrink from meeting
Mr.. Jefferson if he comes in my way. "
''Wiil you 90 to his house tomorrow,
and be introduced to him, if l will meet
you there?n
81 will"
The next day the stranger bravely
sent in his card at the Presidential man
sion, for in the intervening time he had
discovered the identity of his new &C.
quaintance. When he saw the Presi
dent he said: aTFl3 A aGE ns
II have called, Mr. Jefferson, tc
apologize for having said to a stranger
Here the President interrupted hin
with -"hard things of an imaginar,
parsonage who is no relation ofimine .
The merchant attempted explanation
but the President laughingly parted al
efforts of the kind, and insisted on hi
staying to dinner
Afterwards this gentleman used t.
caution young people to be guarded
when talking with strangers, but instea,
of being an enemy of the President IL
and his family became "iiery Jefler
son.ans. ~ Y. Examiner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29

The ancient languages, with great
beauty OF structure, contain wonderful
remains OF genius, which draw, and al
ways will draw, certain like-minded
men-Greek men and Roman men-in
all countries, to their study, but, by a
wonderful drowsiness of usage, they
had exacted the study of all men.
Once (say two centuries ago., Latin
and Greek had strict relation to all
the science and culture there was in
Europe, and mathematics had a mo-
mentary Importance at some era of
activity in physical science. These
things became stereotyped as educa-
ton, as the manner of men is. But the
good spirit never cared for the col
leges, and though all men and boys
were now drilled in Latin, Greek and
mathematics, it had quite left these
shells high and dry on the beach, and
was now creating and feeding other
matters at other ends of the world. But
in hundred high schools and col
leges this warfare against common sense
still goes on. Four or six or ten years
the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin,
and as soon as he leaves the university,
as it is ludicrously styled, he shuts those
books for the last time.
Some thousands of young men are
graduated at our colleges in this
country every year, and the persons
who at forty years still read Greek can
all be counted on your hand. l never
met with ten. Four or five persons
have seen who read Plato. But is not
this absurd, that the whole liberal tai
ent of this country should be directed
in its best years on studies which lead
to nothing.--R. w. Emerson.
= -. --s------
On the other side of the street there
may be some poor soul whom all the
town shuns as vagabond, who, since
his birth, has fought desperately, and
sometimes in vain, against Inherited
weakness, fevers in the blood and brain,
which drive him to idleness, rags, hum
ger, crime. God knows the man, though
we turn our backs upon him. 1t is not
the pride of place, of righteous well-do-
ing, OF spotless garments that were
never tempted into the mire, that he
honors; it is the man who has fought
faithfully against the heaviest odds.
Many poor, despised wretch, forced
INTO pauper's grave by circumstances
or some faint of blood. has heard the
words, ''Well done, good and faithful
servant. N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29
The Brldegroom's Mistake.

An amusing incident that occurred 10
Rev. Frederick Baylis Allin, assistant
rector Of Trinity Church, is called 70
mind by the number of weddings thss
have occurred during the last week a
young couple called at his residence -
be united in marriage, and after the
ceremony had been pronounced tne
groom, taking coin from his 'ss'
pocket. handed it to Mr.. Allin ana ag'
parted. When they had gone Mr.. AZ,
lin looked at his fee and found it W.: =
a five-cent piece. He laughingly pug /,
in his pocket and thought no inylo
about it until about midnight, when 'no
door-bell was violently pulled, ana ~
descending to learn who was his nov
turnal visitor he found the bridegroom
covered with bushes and full OF apoiO
gies. He explained the amusing ms.
take and rewarded the clergyman mos ,.
Literally for his services. boston Oo"'
Ter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29

Dress, says contemporaneous phi
losopher, is but the outward and visible
sign OF character, and when all ladies
become wise they will dress according
to common sense; that is, each will
adopt the style of costume and colors
best suited to her face, figure and posi-
ton in life,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29

DIR. Siemans, the scientist, declare,
that is not gas that burns, but .@ ~
solid impurities contained in. it, u y y,
long been evident that gas ,compSnlng
We're eXorbitant in their charges NV ~,
now it is shown that their bills are ~
something for which tho public has w
use.+-iBaidqapoiIS Journal,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29
When Martha Jasner w

When Martha Jasper was SEN
fenced by New York court to five
years Imprisonment for robbery, she
sprang to her feet trembling with rage
ana declared to Recorder Smyth that
she was innocent of the crime, but that
when she came out of the penitentiary
she would come back and be the worst
thief in New York City.-N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29

Among the boasts OF the Walton
(Ga.) NeWS is young white man who,
living within hearing of the church bells
of Monroe, was never in a church, never
heard q sermon, never went to school
day in hislife, and don't know one letter
from another, but is the boss banjo
picker of the county, and can sing SEQ
long, Liza.J ane' equal to any negro
minstrel on the stage. a.-A .jy8.Ga EF
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29
The Fence-Cutters.

One of the principal members of the
"Javelins, an organization that has
recently made its appearance in South
west Texas, has revealed some of the
motives actuating the fence cutting in q
struggle that is shaking Texas to the
center. Said he: ''WS are like min
nows in pool of hungry trout. Some
big stockmen buys all the land around
on all sides, his cattle Craze on our
lands and ours on his When he makes
his rounding our cattle are driven off
to some distant point on his large
rancho with his. Our calves are sepa-
rated from their mothers, and in the
confusion are branded with his brand,
and are driven off with his cattle.h
''But if the land was not Enclosed
wouldn't this same thing happen?"
mo, not to the same extent it does
now. When the range was free every
body's cattle ran at large, and no one
thought of rounding up and driving
off every COW in sight" .... ,.
Don't you think if a man owns land
he has right to fence it if he wants
top t%"..
mo, sir, no man has right to fence
you up or inclose the grass and water.
He didn't plant the grass or have any
thing to do with making it grow
Neither did he create the springs or
rivers. God made them free, and
before these land-sharks and cattle
kings put fences around them they were
free, The grass is just as good and will
fatten his cattle Just as fast without a
fence around it as within"
''But what is the use of owning land
if you can't do as you please with itp"
''You can do as you please with it.
If you want to cultivate it put up your
fence, pillow up your land, and plant it.
We won't bother you. What you work
for and plant is yours, but grass is free,
and no man has right to claim what
does not belong to him." -.-- BIZ.
Haven't the pasture-men offered to
do almost anything you askP"
ayes, they offer us everything, but
what we want and are going to have is
free range. We are determined to
have our rights, and if it causes blood
shed we can't help it. We must and
will have free range. There are not
enough men in the regular army of the
United States to guard the lines of wire
pasture-fences in Texas. y GalUeSton
(Ter. Special.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29

A milkman, whose most prolific
source of milk was the pump, has come
to grief at last. He was New Jersey
farmer and sold his milk in the city of
Trenton. His customers, finding their
milk so transparent that it wouldn't
change the color of a cup of coffee, sent
sample of it to the State Inspector.
The latter official reported that it was
the poorest milk he ever saw, and that
it was nearly all water The farmer
was thereupon taken before magis-
trqte and convicted of selling too much
water and too little milk, and fined
$50. 25.- NetOGrk Register.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-21
Struggled Goods Seized.

New York, October 20.-The United
States district attorney filed another
Information of forfeiture, !" third with
in a week, for the confiscation of a
quantity of laces, silks, velvets and
other fine dress goods, all ladies ap-
parel, brought hither on the steamship
Republic. 1t is alleged that Mrs. s..
Thornton, a milliner of this city, and
other persons yet unknown t. the u
thorities, struggled the goods in Sep
TENDER last with intent to defraud the
customs. The FIRST information of for
fixture this week was against II. Wach-
mon, a fashionable milliner in the
west, and her goods are also in the
seizure room. Then came the informa-
ton of about $4,000 worth of fine
goods seized by the custom officers, the
Misses Partridge, of Boston, being the
claimants. Neatly concealed in the
hustle of on9 of these milliners was a
a quantity of extraordinary fine lace.
The Misses Partridge came home on
the steamer Alaska, and with them
we're several other milliners who 20
goods are at present in the customs
seizure rooms.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-21
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS IN BRIEF.

San Francisco: A fire at Tacoma, W.
t, destroyed s25, 900 worth of property.
Insurance unknown.
A conscience contribution Of $500
was received at the treasury depart
ment to-day. The letter WAS post
marked Allegheny, Pa, and signed
"Clergymen."
There is a large n growing demand
for silver certificates, coming main y
from st. Louis, the Mississippi valley,
Georgia, and the cotton and sugar
growing regions generally.
Galveston: A Corpus Christi dis
patch says Tom Blaco's store, forty
miles south of Sandiego, Duval county,
was robbed on the night of the 18th
and the proprietor and another man
killed. The murderers escaped to Mex.
leo.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-21
Quicksilver Mininu.

San Francisco, October 20.-Presi-
dent Randall, of the Quicksilver min
Ing company, stated to day that the
production of quicksilver was rapidly
decreasing and that it would soon be
Improbable to work the mines of this
country. The California production
in 1888 was 1000 TASKS less than in
1881. This years. production he esti-
mates will show a still further decrease
and quicksilver men will move con-
gress for better protection, as foreign
importation is steadily increasing. Ran
dali says there are $50. oOO. 900 invested
in quicksilver mines on this coast, en-
ploying 1000 men, and that the duty
will have to be placed at ten cents per
pound on foreign articles If the mines
here are to be worked with profit.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-21
Chicauo Cattle Market.

Chicago, October 20. = Cattle-Re-
ceips $500; receipts for the week, g.
500, the largest on record; market
steady; good to choice shipping,
So. 5O@6 90; common to medium, 81. 90
@5. 40; s~tockers, 50. so; feeders,
SO 70@4 80; range steady; 252 Indian,
1900 pounds, So; 800 Wyoming, 1850
pounds. SO. 95; 100 Wyoming, LAO
pounds, s4,65; $40 Texans, 900 pounds,
SO %; 343 Texans, 900 pounds, SO. so,
1853 Texans, 800 pounds, 49, {.
Sheep-Receipts, 1900; market steady;
inferior to fair, SO. O0@2 rs; medium to
good, s3.00@3.75; choice to extra,
$4.00@4.3O; lambs per head, st(93.4O;
Texas sheep, 80. OO(93. so.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-21
The Steamer Dispatch Meets
With a Mishap.
The Commissioner of Patents
Visits Washington.
Report of the Commissioner of
Pensions.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Washington, October 2o.-The
United States steamer Dispatch left
Washington navy yard this morning
for Mt. Vernon with Lord Coleridge
and a large party of distinguished gen.
tlemen on board. When about half q
mile from the navy yard the steamer
ran aground on the mud shoals and at
last accounts had not succeeded in get
ting afloat.
The secretary of the interior to-day
declined to reopen the case of the
Pueblo lands of San Francisco and re.
voked the suspension of the decision
of July 18th last, which included Mis-
sion creek in the grant to the city.
That decision, however, has been modi.
fed in the finding of special facts SO as
to allow the parties who appealed to
maintain their case in covrt.
Gen. Dudley, commissioner of pen
sions, in his report takes up the ques-
tion of the practices of claim agents
with pensioners and says that evils of
which complaint has been made haye
greatly increased. and that the present
situation calls for Immediate action by
congress. He says the business has
attracted to it many ignorant and un-
scrupuluus persons, whose only object
seems To be TO procure applications
from pensioners aud then assiduuusly
dun the claimants until a $40 fee is ST.
cured and thereafter practically aban-
don the case like a squeezed orange.
The following circular, approved by
Secretary Folger, was issued by the
register of the bureau to-day: The pres
ent regulations of the department re-
quire that if registered bonds be issued
to a corporation or company the official
CHI tracter of the person executing An
assignment thereof, and the authority
of such person to dispose of the bond or
bonds in question, should be duly veri-
fed by vote or resolution OF the board
of directors of the corporation or COM
,pany, certified under its sea In all
'such cases the copy of the resolution
furnished this department must be GER
titled by some officer of the corporation,
company or institution other than the
one empowered.
Hon, Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio,
the new commissions of patents, made
a short visit to the interior department
to-day. Mr.. Marbles resignation takes
effect November l and Major Butter
worth will enter upon his duties about
that time. He leaves for Philadelphia
tomorrow night.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-21

San Francisco. October 20.-Christian
Monico, a Swiss passenger who arrived
yesterday Oh the steamer Granada from
Panama, died this morning. The body
will be buried with the same precau-
ton taken in the previous fatal case of
yellow fever brought from Mazatlan by
the steamer Newbern. All the other
passengers have been transferred to the
old steamer China, now used as a sort
of quarantine hospital. The mails,
cargo and everything else aboard the
steamer was f%umigated before being
brought ashore.
w. W. FELTON,, a resident of Mazat-
Ian, now staying in this city,
the receipt of letters from his brother
saying hat although the fever is now
abating in Mazatlan, fully fifteen hun
bred people had died from it in that
place alone. He also confirms the
news already telegraphed of the destruc-
ton of Altata by a hurricane.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-21

London, October 20.-The Irish Ma
tional league here has passed a resolu-
ton expressing surprise and pleasure
at the tenor of the speech of Chief JUS
tice Coleridge at the reception by the
N ew York bar association. The reso-
luton expresses the hope that the prin-
ciples enunciated in that address will
be applied by the British government
to Ireland. Also that the American
tour of Coleridge's will serve to enlarge
his views and enable him to advocate
self government for Ireland.