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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

! There is a colored church in New
York City whose leading members have.
property valued at $4,000, 000.-N z.
Times.
The Reformed Episcopal Church in
General Council at Baltimore resolved
to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its
organization December 10 next.
1--we never saw the book" re-
marked a member of the Baltimore
Board of School Commissioners, in a
discussion about introducing new
grammar Baltimore Sun.
DR.. Lyon Playfair, in recent
speech on the Scotch universities, said:
''Whereas the English universities
taught a man to spend $1,000 a year
with dignity and intelligence, the Scotch
universities taught him to makeit."
DR.. w. w. Macfarlane has offered
twelve-dollar medal as prize to the
young ladies of Hardin College, Mis-
souri,, for the best essay on any subject,
filling at least three foolscap pages and
containing no word of more than two
syllables.
Boston University has now the
largest conservatory of music in this
country, whether measured by the
number in the faculty, the attendance
OF students, or the number and excel
lence OF instruments and accommoda-
lions for pupils. Boston TRANSCRIPT.
Union Theological Sonninarv. Nav
York, has property hworth 81, fos, oe%s--
which is an increase of nearly a million
&c VIII ~
sessed ten years ago. Liberal donations
of wealthy friends and the rise in GER
tain pieces of real estate have united to
bring about this prosperous state of af-
fairs.-N. Y. San.
Rev. DR.. d. H. Wheeler, formerly
United States Consul at Genoa, subse-
quently Professor Of English Literature
and History in the Northwestern Uni
versity at Evanston, H., and for the
past few years editor of the New York
Methodist, has been elected President of
the Allegheny College at Meadville,
Pa.
"A report from the records of the
courts of France upon the relation be-
tween education and crime describes re-
suits directly opposed to those obtained
in the United States courts. OF $4,000
persons wholly illiterate, five were
criminals; of the same number able to.
read and write, six were transgressors.
and of an equal number of persons of
superior instruction, fifteen were under
the ban. Relapses into crime were
found much more numerous among
educated people.-N. Y Herald.
Nearly two hundred women of
New York, wives of some of the best.
known citizens, have petitioned the
Board of Education to make the teach
ing of sewing to girls between ten and
twelve compulsory in the primary
schools. A plan of teaching ac-
companies the petition, and pro-
vides that after attaining certain pro-
ficiency the children may bring their
own work. This is a step in the right
direction. The tendency of our modern
education is too often away from home;
it trains the brain, but does not make
housewives. But as these good women
point out sewing is of much more i'm
portance to tho mother of a. fs<-S,.- fa,,,.---
lily than arithmetic, or geography, or
history.-N. Y. Tribune,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

In my letter [ have used the word
Greaser' frequently. This title is APP
piled to the common native or Indian
Mexican. There is great and marked
difference, like a caste distinction; be-
tween the ''Greaser' Mexican and the
Spanish Mexican, who boasts of de-
scent from pure Castilian blood. The
former is lazy, thriftless, ignorant, SUI
perstitious and unstable. The latter is
usually bright, active and intelligent.
AS might be expected they, in harmony
with the white element, control most
of the wealth and commerce of the
country. In the Northern States of Old
Mexico the greatest portion of the peo-
pie are of the former class, and hence
the Governments are unstable and sub
ject to frequent revolution under the
influence of factious leaders. In the
more southerly States there is greater
diffusion of the Castalian blood, and
revolutions are more rare and difficult
On the ranch or village home of the
''Greaser Mexican everything bears
the stamp of negligence and shiftless-
ness. Their gaunt, sharp-nosed, long
legged and tan-colored hogs share with
their owners in the comforts of the fam
lily residence. No fences except brush
surround their fields. Generally there
are none. They raise just sufficient
wheat, barley, beans and chill (red
peppers) to meet their absolute needs.
They thrash their crops upon bare,
smooth ground by driving fiocks of
goats over them and washing in the
nearest stream. They often pillow
with crooked stick, and the hoe is
their scythe, sickle and reaper. Even
their hay is cut with hoe. They as
rule live in villages and cultivate small
fields upon their outskirts. Living as
they do, and possessing a soil, which
under irrigation is wonderfully pro-
ductive, they require but little ground
to cultivate. For this reason at points
between their villages there are large
tracts of unoccupied lands subject to
entry, which are being rapidly occu-
pied by Americans.
An impression prevails somewhat at
the north and east that the inertia of
this people is due largely to some ener-
waiting influence of the climate This
is an error. The climate is superb and
the air eXhilerating rather than ener-
waiting. | have been there in all sea-
sons, and know of no climate where |
can exert myself so freely with so little
exhaustion. This is the universal record
of American settlers. Rarely does the
mercury range over ninety degrees in the
hottest summer day, and the summer
heats are almost invariably tempered
by pleasant breezes. Ihave never heard
of case of sunstroke here. The nights
are always COOL requiring blankets for
comfort, and free from mosquitoes, and
sleep is sweet and restful. have never
seen mosquito-bar in New Mexico, nor
have | ever felt the need of one. As |
have said before, taken as whole the
country is not beautiful or attractive to
the eye. The mountain scenery is at
many points wonderfully beautiful and
picturesque, But apart from the
mountains and the few river valleys
the country is one vast cattle-range.
This is its greatest industry and source
of wealth, and this will make the
subject of another letter.-Nea0 Mcrico
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

BE self-reliant; do not take too
much advice but rather depend upon
yourself.
An exchange says all the cotton fac
tories in the South are making money.
That is ''queer." Isn't the mint in run
ming order?-B~rl5ngton Ha0h-Eye.
"A mules hind leg has only one sea-
son-it is always a beautiful spring,
even if it is backward Spring in this
case is always followed by an early fall.
Some one wants to know why Nils
son announces every concert she gives
in Boston as q farewell Because
she does fare well every time. Milton
NeaOs.
Here is proof conclusive that pig
may be fish. A tautog is fish; an
educated pig is taught hog; ergo, the
metamorphosis is apparently. Y. Id
rcrtiSer.
A Venetian glass manufacturer is.
fabricating ladies bonnets by the thou
sands, and selling them, too. That
style of bonnet ought to make good
looking 'lasses. Star
Baseball fashions for 1888: Fingers
will be covered with cotton cloth, cut.
la mode, and held in place by splints;
eye-patches will be dark blue in color,
and without fringe; bandages will be
cut bias, and court plaster will be worn
on all occasions.-C Chicago Times.
"A well-meaning person gives hints.
telling Chow to live on seventy-fve
cents a week" There is such thing
as being too close, and most editors will
just keep on squandering eighty cents a
week, even if they see ruin staring them
in the face. Teas Siftings.
The Toronto Globe has found the
bane of Manitoba. 1t is the too eager
pursuit of wealth. Wehad an idea that
it was forty-eight degrees below zero in
winter and good sleighing all the
spring, but the Globe probably knows
best.-Detroit Free Press.
-"Miss Fitzjoy-aw-ar you not
fond OF etchings, -aw-you know they
are deuced clever some of them arep''
"Ah, yes, indeed, Mr.. Featherweioht.
And do you know there is something
about you that reminds me very much
of an etching?" "Whv. really-aw-
how charming" ayes. There is
about you such foggy suggestion of
something that isn't there, you know"
Hartford Post
"A few years ago two boys of the
name of John Smith were sent to the
same school where the pupils had
learned that "a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet" Hence they
were more prodigal than particular in
conterrlng new names upon each other,
but the twin name of John Smith for
time staggered them. At last, how
ever, they discovered that one of the
young gentlemen was the son of an
auctioneer and the other the son of a
waiter, so the former was at once
dubbed Going Smith and the latter
Coming Smith, names by which they
are still-distinguished. Chicago Trf6-
N7le.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
"It is terrible! tits mysterious said

sit is terrible! 1t is mysterious" said
Mrs. Eversley, as they drove home.
at is right" said Laura. solemnly,
sorrowfully right
"But as for the business, mamma, "
said Teresa, ''now that we really need
not pursue it except to meet an old
mans caprice, you may not care so
much, socially considered. Think what
good thing it is to give employment
to SO many happy people as we do
there! We shall have unbOunded wealth
outside of it, so that we can really make
plaything of the establishment; make
it quite an ideal concern, and educate
public opinion in such matters"
'Pshaw!'' aid Mrs. Eversley.
You need not speak so. AS for
yourself, mamma, you shall have every
luxury and pleasure, and. if you choose
you can live abroad with Trevor; l will
make him my purchasing agent in
France. That is only fair; / gave Har-
old Van Duysen asituation on the books
to-day"
And Mrs Eversley went abroad with
her son. But the wealth of her daugh-
tiers was only bitterness to her, with the
gall and NORWOOD of the shop; and as
for the rest-she had seen that note as
Trevor crumpled it in his hands, and
had comprehended the whole.
1--WE had better have learned to DIG,
Trevor, " she said as they leaned over
the vessels side together, ethan to have
waited in that way for dead man s
shoes. 0, they came too late! [ might
have known they would. And now they
pinch, they pinchn'
They sometimes do" said Trevor
Harriet Prescott Spoford, in Rarper'$
Bdzar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
ThurlOw Weeds Earliest LabOrs.

In his forthcoming autobiography,
Thurlow Weed says; 81 felt the neces-
sity at an early age of trying to do
something for my own support. My
first employment, when about eight
years old, was in blowing a black
smiths bellows for Mr.. Reeves, who
gave me six cents per day, which con-
tributed so much toward the support of
the family. | stood upon a box to
enable me to reach the handle of the
bellows. My next service was in the
capacity of boy-of-all-work, at a
tavern in the village of Jefferson. two
miles from Catskill, kept by Captain
Baker, who had, remember, made a
great mistake in exchanging the COM
mand of ship for a tavern. After the
Sheriff took possession of Captain
Bakers wrecked hotel, got situation
as cabin boy on board the sloop Ranger
Captain Grant. This gratified a desire
had to see the city of New York.
was then Q806) in my ninth year.
remember, as if it were but yesterday.
after carrying the small hair trunk of a
passenger from Coenties Slip to Broad
Street, finding myself in possession of
the first shilling l could call my own.
| remember, too, how joyfully l pur-
chased with that shilling three two
penny cakes and three oranges for nv
brother and sister, how carefully +
watched them on the passage back. and
how much happiness they conferred. /"
~ Y. Post.
1T is said that decaying cabbage
! 1
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
A BEAUTIFUL CHARITY.


A summer morning, cool and fair;
A whisper soft in the sunny air,
And a sound of ripping laughter.
A distant patter of dancing feet;
A chorus of eager voices sweet,
And happy silence after.
A motley, merry crowd of youth,
With garments ragged and worn, forSooth,
But never step that fingers,
Lads and lasses in laughing bands,
Babies that hold to guiding hands,
With clinging, anxious fingers.
Faces merry, or grave, or sad,
Lit up with expectation glad
Where are the children going?
Away from dust and noise, and heat,
The busting citys narrow street,
With crowded life o'erf1owing.
To sunny fields of daisied grass,
Where cool the fitful breezes pass
Above the blossoms leaning.
Where, far from walls and boundaries,
With birds and butterflies and bees,
They learn the summers meaning.
Under the wonderful blue sky,
The mighty arms of tree-tops high,
In green woods arching over;
Where spicy perfumes lightly stray,
In breezy meadows of new-mown hay,
And fields of purple clover.
On sandy shores beside the sea,
Where roll the tides necessarily,
And dancing ripples glisten;
Where whispering shells repeat the tale
The ocean thunders in "A gale,
To rosy ears that listen.
Sorrowful, wistful, patient eyes
Grow bright with rapturous surprise,
Or soft with happy wonder,
And cheeks as white as the winter SHOWS
Blossom in tints of brown and rose,
The summer sunshine under.
Wise Mother Earth to sad young hearts
Her choicest gifts of all imparts,
Their careful thoughts beguiling;
She breathes her secrets in their ears
Their eyes forget the smart of tears,
And catch the trick of smiling.
They learn sweet lessons, day by day,
While speed the winged hours away,
In gray and golden weather;
They find, in flower or bird or tree,
Faint CLEANS of the beautiful mystery
That clasps the world together.
Perchance some serious, childish eyes,
Uplitted to the starlit skies,
Read there a strange, new story;
And dimly see the Love that holds
The round world safe and DER it folds
The mantle of His glory.
A distant patter of dancing feet,
A chorus of happy voices sweet,
Amid the summer splendor.
Glad voices rise through all the land?
Reach out, each little sunburned hand,
In greeting warm and tender,
Have lightened lovingly, for you,
Your poverty infection;
And on each helpful spirit be
For this-the lovely charity
The children's benedietion!
-Mdrpdret Johnson, in st. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

1T is said that decaying cabbage
will produce diphtheria sooner than anv
other nuisance about the house.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03
OUR ROAD SOUTH.
GreenYille Courier.

At a meeting Mt the office of Pres
ident Burt at New York City, last
Saturday, two routes in particular
we're considered, one or the other of
which will be taken. The Company
intends to build a separate and in
depedent line to Cincinnati, and will,
go owe the line south in ii e forepart
of May. The routes now in their
minds eye" is first. from this place
by way of Eldorado to Eaton, thence
south west to Oxford and down In
dian creek to Venice, following the
old Cincinnati and Chicago air line
to Mt. Healthy, and thence over the
Ii: k Run road to Cincinnati.
The other is the Twin Valley or
old Mackinaw route from Greenville
to Castine, Manchester, Lewisburgh.
Lexington, West Alexandria and
Winchester, IN to the city.
Now to your tents, Oh! We Isreals
Of Preble. Fight it out on your re
spectedtive lines, but don't let it be
a summers Job. The eight mile link
between this point and Ansonia,
north, was welded this week, the
last rails being put down on Thurs
day, which calls for the first Install
ment of the subscription money.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03
A colored man has been discover.

A colored man has been discover
ed at Happy Hollow" in Clermont
county, this State, who shows incon
,rovertible evidence of being the old
est man in the country. His name
is John Long and he was born in
Wlliamsburgh, Virginia, in 1855,
and is therefore 12S years DID,
Strange to relate the patriarch is in
possession of all his faculties and
seems no older than men half a cen
fury his junior. He relates with
pride what his mother afterwards
told him about seeing Braddock's ex
petition set out from that point wher
he was a little shaver of two months
old. When q young man he served
three years in the revolutionary war
as body servant to his master, Cap
tain Peyton, q brilliant officer under
Washington. This antique person
age is well cared for by the colored
people of Happy Hollow" as is held
by them in almost idolatrous vener
alton. The most remarkable thing
of this s'oldest inhabitant," is that
be is a full fedged Democrat!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

The Cincinnati News fully express
ses our sentiments and the position
of the Democratic party in regard
to the liquor traffic, when it says:
THE Republican assertion that
Democracy has no policy as to the
liquor question is not true. 1t has
no such hypocritical double faced
policy as that with which the Repub-
lican party hopes to deceive and
catch the votes of men of opposite
views. 1t holds the same broad view
of that question which it holds of
other questions. 1t believes the
business Of making AID vending Ii
quors in obedience to q demand for
them a legitim ate business; one
which must be subject to some reg
ulations for the maintenance of law
and order, but otherwise left to the
same freedom and to be governed by
the same laws which govern other
business. 1t believes in licensing
and taxing it justly according to the
business done, just as is done as to
other business. This is a very sim
pie and easily understood policy. II
cuts with directness and frankness
square through the web ofdeceit and
hypocrisy in which the Republican
party has hidden its head, leaving
its ugly feet sticking out, the cloven
foot foremost"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

The terrible destruction If life and
property by the Southern tornado
was not exaggerated in the early ac-
counts of it. Forty-tllrec persons
are now said to have been killed in
Beauregard alone, while about dou-
BILE that number were killed and
about three hundred Neundcd In the
State Of Mississippi rs a whole
Eighteen persons are reported to
have been killed in Georgia and
many injured. Altogether it seems
certain that mole than a hundred
lives were lost in that terrible series
OF storms, and hundreds of people
were mangled. This outdoes all the
slaughter by the foods that lately
excited SO much sympathy, and the
destruction of property can only be
rerkoned In millions.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

may be suppressed, however, the
foregoing is worth knowing.
With moving day, the first of May,
close at hand, there are hardly any
signs visible of the annual migrate
ry feeling which annually seizes up
on New Workers on that day. On
the houses one sees fewer bills ITO
let" than for years, and truckmen
to whom moving tide brings a veri-
table harvest are respondent. The
fact is that landlords who have at all
desirable tenants will sooner yield a
point than have them go. 1t is evil
dent that the value of real estate
property reached its high-water mark
last year. 1t has held itself thus far
almost q twelve month, but now a
downward tendency is m~anifesting
itself. The prices obtained for first
class property at the Real Estate
Exchange fully show that, and the
transactions made by brokers at pri-
vate sales bear it out.
The day for opening the Brooklyn
btlOSc W IfdlllC HIS dL ldSb UCeu uA-
ed for the oath of May, when the
President will come on from Wash
ington and all the great men of the
State will assemble to land the en-
terprise and the genius which
prompted and executed the work Of
binding the two cities together. Blu,
will the Bridge prove of practical
value? Hardly, except on rare oc.
casions. When people,can ride over
the East River in a ferry boat in the
same time that they will have to walk
over the Bridge, why should they
pay toll for tie latter? 1t will prob.
ably prove a very pleasant prone
made and a curiosity for visitors
from out-of town, but further than
that it will prove nothing but a mon
ument of the deaths of hundreds o,
workIngmen and engineers, and O
the modern science of swallowing NJ
millions and showing nothing for it
JOHN.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

The Iowa people do not applaud
the be~neyolence of the New Workers
who are sending paupcr and reform
school boys and girls to that State.
Judging from the statement of the
Des Moines Register, they rather
resent the business. The Register
says such immigration is a "stream
of poison" and it notes the fact that
the wealthy and selfish Gothamites
have already thrust over 1000 pau
per youth from their vicious popula-
ton into Iowa, whose people object
to the infection. The Registers pc
sition is justified by the facts. The
New Workers should take care OF
their own pauper population. They
are certainly able to do-so.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

Growing wheat in Ohio and In
diana has shown a marked improve
ment within the past two weeks. 1t
is now expected that the crops III
Ohio will not fall below that Of last
year more than from 90 to SO per
cent, and that in Indiana, where the
crop last year was 47,000 ,0GO bush,
els, it will reach 100000 bushels
this year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

The New York World in an arti-
Gle headed Let our great Industries
alone" claims that the larger cotton
spinners and other large manufac-
turers of the New England states,
do not desire any congressional in
reference by regulating the tariff,
but that inv ested capital is safest
when Independent Of the caprice OF
party maiorities.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

The Chicago Tribune wants to
know who owns the $40, SIS, 900 bonds
of the United States now past due,
and on hich interest ceased long
ago, and why are they not forthcom
ing for redemption? The Treasury
answers this question with the sug
gestion that they have probably been
mislaid or accidentally destroyed
About SIS, 5000 of the $49, O00,-
600 fractional currency used during
the war, and some $26, 900, 900 of
greenback notes issued since 1868.
have been lost. The loss would be
healthy for Uncle Sam if the Repub
lican party had not SO many Star
Route thieves in power.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

The new road law, as passed by
the Ohio Legislature, makes radical
changes in the system of road work
ing in the State. The trustees OF
each township are required to su
peryise the work in the whole town
ship, the district supervisors merely
experimenting the road workers.
The place and time to be selected by
the trustees, who also designate the
kind of work to be performed. Road
taxes are no longer to be worked out
and receipts given by the supervi'
sor, but must be paid in the treas.
ury, and expended by the township
trustees aud county commissioners.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03
OE

Time nor tide waits for no man, but
the sands of life continue to flow on
and on, year after year, never stop
ping, rever hesitating in its work of
waste, unless occasioned by a Cough,
Cold, or some Lung Afft ction where
DR.. Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup
arrests it and makes the span of life
its allotted three scores and ten. Go to
Webb 81 Coover, the Druggists, and
ask them for n free trial bottle of this
medicine. They have them to give
away. mar29-1y
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03

Here is the frank admission of the
Cleveland Sunday Sun, a Republi-
can paper: "The reason tie Repub-
licans of Cleveland were whipped cut
of their boots at the recent election
is simply because Cleveland is and
has been since the last State cleo
ton, a strong Democratic city. And
what is true Of Cleveland in this re-
spect is true of the State Of Ohio
Ohio is no longer a Republican State
it is no longer a doubtful State. 1t
is a Democratic State; a Democratic
State by a large majority. 1t was
made such by the present Republi-
can Legislature"