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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31
The Folly OF Wearing Mourning.

Sorrow may be none the less true and
deep because il shrinks from ostenta-
tious parade-from wearing the heart on
the sleeve, for DAVIS to peck at; it may
feel that the inadequacy of outward
signs TO give it expression makes any
attempt at doing so a mere mockery,
and may prefer to conceal itself, as far
as possible, under its wonted exterior.
How can real grief be represented fitting
ly by Grape and hat bandsp And if no
real grief exist, then the whole affair is
nothing but a miserable exhibition of
humbug and hypocrisy-an appeal to the
world for sympathy and commiseration
upon false pretenses. What sort of sor-
row is felt by relatives who say: 90!
we must put the children into mourning
for Uncle So and so, he's left us some
thing in his will or else, Il shan't
trouble about black for Cousin Such a
one-he's left me nothing" as the case
may be? 1t would be surely more hon
est for such pretended mourners as these
to ASSUME some signs of rejoicing or woe,
according as they do or do not find them
selves the possessors of fresh riches.
Even when sorrow is really felt, its in
tensity and duration will not be alike in
all cases where the relationship is the
same, because no two husbands and
wives, brothers and sisters, or other
relations, will love one another
in exactly the same degree; and
on this account there must neces-
sarily be something foolish and unreal
in practice which assumes that the
depth and extent of regret may be reck-
oned on according to nearness of kin.
More or less of shoppiness and hollow
nessis almost inseparable from the wear
ing of mourning, according to the pres
ent custom; yet there is that about death
which is apt to put human nature essen
TALLY out of tune for all that is artificial
and sham.
Again, how can any one who believes
in the resurrection reconcile it with his
conscience to make everything connected
with death dark, gloomy and melan-
choly? If he has that sure confidence
which he processes to have as to the de-
parted being safe from all future dan
gers, and having passed to state of bliss
far beyond what is attainable upon earth,
why does he not rejoice in their happi-
ness. Does he think them out of reach
of sympathy because out of sight? Or
is he too selfish to let the thought of their
gain outweigh that of his own loss. In
1875 Mourning Reform Association was
started by three ladies, and has certainly
commended itself to the public mind to
some extent, Seeing that it now numbers
$50 members. 1t discourages the use of
mourning stationery, wearing of Grape,
and putting of children and servants into
black recommends that mourning should
be shown by a black band round the arm,
or by a black scarf; and aims generally
at minimizing mourning.-London Spec
tdtOr.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31

womanhoods years have been only dream
Clasped to thine arms in a loving embrace,
With thy light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep,
Rock me to sleep, mother. rock me to Sleep
l hardly dared stir lest | break the
spell, and repeated the last verse over
and over again, though there was no
need for the hand l held relapsed its
hold, and-She slept Was ever poem
sent on a more direct mission?
The sunset had fadedinto twilight. l
heard the low tinkling of the cowbells
as the herd-boy drove them slowly home
ward. Some late bird called to its mate
from neighboring tree. rose softly
to go, and turning, saw MIR. C stand
ing ip the doorway. The tears were
IN his eyes as well, and look shone from
their honest depths that was not for me
to share. AS | passed him whispered
I" She is SAFE" And she tCGS. Hope
Livingstone, IN Chicago AdCance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31
Temperance Items.

PROHIB' T ON is TO B. a prominent
issue this fall in the campaign for mem
bers of the Maryland Legislature.
The TEMPERANCE WAVE still gath
ers strength. A Masonic Lodge, to be
conducted on Temperance principles, is
about to be founded in Manchester.
England. .......
Mr.. GLADSTONE IS CREDITED with
the remark that the drinking customs of
Great Britain are bringing on that coun-
try all the evils of war, pestilence and
famine.
The New York Commercial AdUer-
6Ser says: "Every case of hanging that
takes place in this country is a CHASTITY
tribute to the efficacy of liquor, and
terrible lesson to the men who grow
rich through its manufacture and sale"
MULTITUDEs WITHIN THE CHURCH
dare not strike hard blow at the liquor
interest for fear of being hated by it's
advocates. This is weakness that is
objectionable in courageous man.
"He who surpasses or subdue5 mank nd,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
Golden Rule,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31

er and drank it, his first taste. IT was
enough. Before the others had finished
the first glass, Charlie called for Sec
ond, then in an eager, hurried way
called for brandy. The boys grew sober
and his Uncle Dan was alarmed and
tried to interfere. Charlie turned on
him fiercely.
What had aroused in the boy such
wild desire?
In little while they put drunken
boy in the carriage and took him home
home to his mother what deedt
And her-oh, let such heartbreaks be
yelled always. They are beyond tears
and telling. This was but beginning.
He still lives, but with every good i'm
pulse lost in the whirlpool of appetite.
a simple glass of beer did I.-Mary
G. Ward, IN Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31
What He Pays for Impure and POis-
Oned Water.

The beer or spirit-drinker is wont to
look with ill-concealed contempt upon
the water drinker, and as he losses off
the glass he has just paid his money for
ina ines that he has swallowed some
far more sensible. Yet. ii he would stop
but for moment to ask what he had
just taken, he might think quite differ
emily. ct us see. A barrel of beer
contains about 500 glasses. The seller
gives about So for it, an | sells it for five
cents per glass, or $25. His profit is 215
per cent The drnker drops in ten
times per day and takes his glass of beer;
in fifty days he has consumed the 500
glasses and pail $25 therefor. hathas
he swallowedP Scientific men say that
in the 500 glasses of beer there were 400
glasses of mere water, % glasses of pure
alcohol, 10 gla ses of extract and gums.
So the beer-drinker has paid 1923 for 400
glasses of water, and imp re at that.
which he could have had at the nearest
spring for nothing, and pure as nature
made it. He has had in addition. 25
glasses of pure alcohol. which isl poison
at enmity with every function of the
system, no food, nor heat producer.
and besides all this, he has taken Is
glasses of extra is of matt, sugary mat
ter, indigestible gums, etc, etc Surely,
there is no absurdity so absu d. To pay
$23 for AGO gla ses of impure water, when
he could have it pure for nothing. and
50 for 40 glasses of poison and ostly in
digestible drugs! but it pays the b ewers
and the saloon keepers to ell water at
215 per cent advance on all their trouble
of barreling and bottling it.-Prof. g.
y. Foster.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31
THREE ladies.

o sailors sailing north,
Where the wild white surges roar,
And fierce winds and strong winds
Blow down from Labrador
Have you seen my three brave laddies
My merry, red-cheeked ladies;
Three bold, adventurous laddies,
On some tempestuous shorep
o sailors sailing south,
Where the seas are calm and blue.
And light clouds, and soft clouds,
Are floating over you,
say, have you seen my laddies,
My three bright winsome ladies,
My brown-haired, smiling ladies,
With hearts so leal and true?
o sailors sailing east,
Ask the sea-gulls sweeping by:
o sailors sailing west,
Ask the eagles soaring high,
II they have seen my ladies,
My careless, needless laddies,
Three debonair young ladies,
Beneath the wide, wide sky?
o sailors, if you find them,
Pray send them back to me;
For them the winds go signing
Through every maple tree
For these three wandering ladies,
NY tender, bright-eyed ladies,
The laughter-loving laddies,
Whom they no longer see.
There are three men who love me,
Three men with bearded lips;
But oh We gallant sailors
Who sail the sea in ships
In eIf-IansL or I'm cloud-land,
Or on the dreamland shore,
Can you find the little laddies
Whom | can find no more?
Three quiet, thoughtful laddies,
Three merry, winsome ladies.
Three rollicking, frolicking laddies,
On any far-of shore?
-,JtIta Q. r. Dor, IN Christian linton,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31

In his sermon in the Boston Theater
recently, Robert Collyer said: Patrick
Henry was good for little, except to catch
a string of trout now and then, and that
is about as poor use as man can
come to. But he married bright,
helpful woman, who persuaded him to
study law, and he became one of the
leaders of the Nation. Such men as these
are of the brighter sort, but they do not
suspect their own powers. Their lives
are like COW path-all over the past
ure, into the roads and home again. But
the new birth reveals their worth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31
One of the many strange episodes OF

One of the many strange episodes OF
the recent Western floods was the find
ing of an infant near Louisville floating
in cradle in the river. A man who was
rowing around in search of wreckage saw
the cradle and on rowing up to it was
surprised to find beautiful infant, about
three months old, gazing up to the sky
in open-mouthed wonder. The little
waif was comfortably and warmly
dressed and had not received the slight
est harm. - Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31

Connecticut has discovered that
most of her towns were named by En-
glishmen and after English places, and
she doesn't like it a bit. She wants to
rive the Indian q show.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31
THE GREAT BRIDGE.
of the Proposed
Procession al the Opening.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, March 20-The
proposition to have grand celebra-
ton on the opening of the Bridge is
meeting with favor, and particularly
among the trades of the two cities.
1t has been sue gested that an i'm
mense procession representing all the
important industries Of this city from
at some point, Flathush avenue for
instance. Also, that a similar pro,
cession be organized in New York,
and at given signal-the firing Of
Il cannon-the two professions begin
moving and pass each other on the
Bridge. Each procession it is pro
posed shall be headed hv the Mayor,
Common Council and other officials,
and on arriving at the center of the
river span both professions shall halt
and the Mayors of Brook yn and
New York, with the Boards Of Alder
men and others descend from their
carriages, when a proclamation or
something of that kind pronouncin9
the structure open to public traffic
shall be read. OF course Col. Roe
bling, as EngineerinChief of the
bridge, and the assistant engineers,
the bridge trustees, and others cou-
nected with the work, will have prom
inence in the procession. The struc-
ture having been declared opon, the
procession will move on, the New
York coming to this city and making
a tour of the principal thoroughfares,
and the Brooklyn going to New
York. 1t is thought that this will
be fitting way of celebrating an
event Of such vast Importance to
the two cities. 1t is expected that
President Arthur, Governor Butler,
Governor Waller, Governor Pattison
and Governor Cleveland will attend
the celebration of the opening.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31
MOnOuOIies.

baborers and Agricultuists are now
called upon either to assume the ag-
gressiye or become the vassals Of Mo
nopoists. 1t is no longer question
of sentiment and abstract political
sensation. The facts are staring US
full in the face. Neary all the great
leading articles ofprime necessity are
in the hands of combined capital and
so managed as to extort far more
than legitimate profit to those who
control the markets. The Standard
Oil Company absolutely control the
petroleum market and while the hard
pressed producer barely earns his
bread the monopolists are pilling up
their vast millions taken wronofullv
from every mansion and hovel in the
land. The grain and provision mar
kets are constantly manipulated SO as
to cheat the farmer and rob the con.
sumner. The whole anthracite coal
region is entircl Y controlled by few
monopolists and the same machinery
is now extending over the btuminous
coal HeluS. Hc picdb lUiHDcT pro-
ducing regions Of the northwest are
controlled by combined monopolists
who, last week, agreed to stop the
mills one sixth Of the time and in
crease the price to the consumer. The
Trunk Line railroads have agreed to
stand by each other and exact their
own terms in the transportation of
freight and passengers. The Nation
al Banks have just succeeded in pass
ing through Congress bill that re
lieves them of $4,000, 900 taxation an
nually, while articles necessary for
the poor mans existence are taxed for
tv per cent and all reductions are de-
MED with a sneer. It's, therefore, as
plain as that man has present state
or future destiny that if the people do
not arouse from the present torpor
that blinds them to danger, every av-
eDue Of escape will be cut off and the
monopolists will have unlimited con
troll Of the whole country.-Reoiew
and ErumiRer.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31
STATE NEWS.

| Mr. A. W. Smith, prominent mer
chant and member OF the Yves
Virginia Legislature. died mt his HON,
in Greenland, West Va, March 10Th
Of consumption.
The Hinton Herald says that few
! persons have ali idea of the immens,
quantity Of fuel required 10 run tn,
! locomotives on the &. d. O. r. r. A
faint idea of the vast amount of Goa
consumed by these Iron horses" may
be gathered from the fact that a
Hinton, sixty thousand bushels o
coal, ard twenty five cords of Woo
are used each month. For one yea
this amounts to seven hundred anc
twenty thousand bushels.
ANOTHER GIRL LIGHTS THE FRI
WITH KEROSENE AND WILL DIE An
other horrible fatality, caused by
pouring oil on the fire. occurred nigh
before last in stoekyard hollow. just
east Of Fulton. Louise Shaffer, g
seventeen year-old daughter Of F
Shaffer, a daryman, undertook tc
light the fire, and finding the task
not easy, had recourse to the fataI
kerosene can. She took up the can
and poured the oil on the flame
Next moment there was fash and
report and the girl, wrapped in a fame
from head to foot, was screaming
aholt the house. No help was at
hand, and not until the last vestigc
of clothing was burned from her
body, did the flames die ont. The
unfortunate girl was frightfully
burned. Nothing but one hand and
one foot was left untouched by the
flames and her bod was fairly baked.
DR.. Stifel was called out from this
city and did all in his power to allcvi-
ate her sufferings. Last night at
latest accounts she was hanging
between life and death, and the
physician had no hope of her recov-
cry.
When will the friohtful array of
these burnings he lesson to girls?
Not day passes but in some local
ity a horrid catastrophe Of this kind
occurs. Could Girl but witness the
agony Of one Of these sufferers, she
would never pour oil upon the
troubled fire, though it never lighted.
-Register.
FOUND DEAD.-Menis Whitehair,
who was doing some clearing for Jas.
Evans on Horse Shoe Run, did not
return to the house as usual last
Thursday and about 8 o'clock Mr.. f.
becoming alarmed, and others, institu-
ted n search for him. They went to
the place where he had been at work
and there found his lifeless form. He
was lying on his back with his hands
crossed on his breast, apparently hav-
ing diel without a struggle. He bad
for several Years been subject to ap,
poplexy. The deceased was about 80
years old and married. - Tucker
Pioneer.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31
A Cheap Wav to get into Con.
SreSS.

Prior to the last Congressional lee
ton it was ascertained that in mum
erons districts in the South, Republi-
can candidates were put up in hope
lessly Democratic districts solely FOR
the purpose of making a contest, and
with the expectation that the House,
if Republican, would seat thegn. AS
the Democrats obtained the majority
notices of contest in all of these cases
were not given, but in almost every
instance where there was a plausible
excuse the notice Of contest was serv-
ed upon the member returned. Mum
erous contests for seats were also in
stituted from districts in other parts
of the country. There are expected
to be from forty to fifty contests be
fore the next House. The secret lies
in the assurance that a contestant
whether successful or not, will re-
ceive Naturalization for the cost, OIL
the alleged cost. incurred by him in
prosecuting his claim. Beside this,
if successful, the contestant receives
the salary for the entire Congress, al
though he may be sworn in Gas in the
case of two Missouri members) in the
dying hours of Congress. This is
admi tied to be all wrong, and the
committee on elections Of the last
House were convinced by their own
experience that there should he q
charge in the law and customs with
reference to election cases. As it is
now, Il premium is actually offered
for unscrupulous, defeated candidates
to bring contests, which have nc
merits whatever to rest upon
Independent
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31

A few courageous men have I'M
dertaken to build railroad to Nor
gantown. Their efforts should be
heartily seconded and should receive
substantial encouragement from ouI
people. Instead of our unanimous
support they are met in some sec
tions with jeers and curses, and pre-
dictions of their failure are openly
made. Suppose they do fail! Fail
ure is incident to all human enter
prises, and if they should fail, let us
give them credit for their efforts. Il
seems to us it would look better Oh
our part to resolve that they SHOULD
succeed and contribute good will anC
money to help them. The compile
tion of the work will do more fol
Morgantown in one year than ha:
been done in any ten years Of he
existence.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31

When William Sprague was rich
he was good enough and great enough
to be elected by the Republican par
ty of Rhode Island 10 the Governor
ship of his State and 10 seat in the
United States Senate. Now, when
William Sprague is n poor manSdis-
ciplned and strengthened by many
and great sorrows, we think him good
and great enough to be supported by
Democrats for another term in the ex-
ecutive office. In accepting him as
their candidate, the Democrats of
Rhode Island have acted wisely.
They have compromised no principle,
for the sole issue of the canvas is the
grand old Democratic doctrine Of
equal rights.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31
The New South.

An exchange says: There proba-
bly, never was q time when the peo-
pie of the South, as a whole, were
more prosperous than they are, to
day, and it is a prosperity built upon
a solid foundation-that If industry.
Hard years of experience have learn
ed the people that success is attaina-
BILE only through labor, and to-day
they are laboring with hand and
brain. They are but beginning to
find out the vast resources of coun-
try which for climate and variety of
products is nnexcelled in the world,
and they are going to work to devel-
OPP and utilize those resources. They
are learning to he independent; and
instead of shipping grain and hay
from the North. they are turning the
tables. and within few years they
will be shipping food to the North
indeed, it has already begun. The
time WAS when the South was ex-
clusively agricultural in it's pursuits,
but the past few years have seen fac
tories springing up all over this sec
ton, and they having proved profit
able others are rapidly following.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31

The star route lawyers have been
holding out danger signals to Brady
ever since he went on the stand.
They evidently feared that his desire
to pose before the jury as bluff out
spoken man, who confessed to possible
errors Of judgment in administering
the star route service entirely in the
interest of contractors, but whose
heart beat proudly for his native land,
would get him into trouble. The
disaster occurred, as they feared it
would occur sooner or later permitting
the faithless official to swear to his
own honesty, and indeed to give him
self the best sort of character rs q
public servant, Mr.. Bliss finally fore
ell him to confess his intimate rela-
lions with that wicked man Walsh
This good man Brady frequently met
Walsh, conversed with him, and even
condescended to afford him an oppor-
tunity to lend to the pure minded
Assistant Postmaster General money
or railway stocks in the form Of gin
ger" Brady's lawyers must have
ground their teeth and groaned in
spirit when their client-witness fell
headlong into the the pittall dug for
him, and thus turned to naught their
nights Of wearing thought and days
OF anxious vigilance. But unfortu-
natelv for his case, Brady could not
deny his associations with Walsh.
Their relations were set forth in a
letterin the witness own handwriting
and though counsel for defence
struggled to suppress this dalnning
document it was admitted by the
court, as it "tended to show the bust
ness relations between Brady and
Walsh" This was the one thing
above all others that the defence did
rot want to appear. 1t measurablv
established, by Brady's own letter,
the truth of Walsh's testimony,
which they have all along been striv-
ing to overthrow. In accomplishing
this point, counsel for the people
scored very important success.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31
Beauty

at is claimed that New York wo-
men look younger at so than Boston
women do at 40, or Chicago women
at 80, for the reason that they have
been taking Peruna for the past three
months, but Boston and Chicago wo-
men are coming up in fine style-en-
tering upon the home stretch on
Mdnaln. got one of your books
on the ILLS of Life from your Drug
gist as a present, and, as it directs,
have been taking Pe,una and Mana
lin. MY bowels are in excellent con
dition, and the lungs and heart are
improving finely" j. M. Walker
Lawas. Pa.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-31

1t is possible occasionally to get
hint that is useful to the Democratic
party eTen from SO unfair 4 paper as
the New York Tribune. Referring
to the tariff and the talk Of further
tariff legislation when the next Con
gross comes in, the Tribune says:
''Were it any other party than the
Democracy we should feel no doubt
in predicting that ordinary political
sagacity would prevail and they
would leave the subject severely alone
till after 1884; but judging their ca
pacity for blundering by past achieve
ments, we are inclined to think they
will take the question up promptly
upon the reassembling of Congress"
The capacity for laundering" was
on tile other side, to a phenomenal
extent. during the Forty seventh Con
gress. The Democratic record on the
tariff during both sessions is all that
the most sagacious Democratic poll
tician could desire. The deep-land
scheme of Kelley & Co. to do nothing
and to make the Democrats appear
to have defeated legislation, was foil
ed hy superb management The Re
puhlicans we're compelled to pass
bill, and the obligations of Republi-
can Senators and members to various
monopolies required them to make
| the bill just what it is-a load that
the party cannot carry. The sagaci-
ty that prevailed in Democratic
councils during the last Congress is
not likely to be wanting next winter,
and the desire of the Republican
managers to have the Democratic
House rush into a tariff struggle will
not, we confidently believe, be gratfi-
| ed The Democrats will wait till
! they can do something before making
an attempt to do anything on the
great question of tariff taxation
WASHINGTON Post.