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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07

Pope, and make it a nation AMONGST
nations, and he threw himself into the
breach and led the way to victory. The
dead Gambetta did not wait; he took
the people in their hour of despair and
trained them into hope; when they were
in confusion and organized them; when
parties were plotting and dethroned dy
nasties were scheming for reinstatement.
and made France a Republic Neal Dow
did not wait for public sentiment to SUD-
port him in his demand for Prohibition.
Month after month, year after year, he
and his faithful co-workers wrought at
the business ofmaking publicsentiment.
and they did it. Public sentiment does
not make itself. Public sentiment does
not move forward of itself. When there
is vigorous public sentiment on any
question OF morals, it is because some.
body has taken an advanced position.
and educated and drawn the people nm
to it. If all who think and even say #
would be good thing to close liquor
saloons, and to put out the fires in these
distilleries and breweries, and to stay
the vast waste of strength and thought
and time and money, and homes and
hopes and lives, would only say it with
out any ifs and lands and "buts.m
and having said it would stand by it,
public sentiment on this liquor business
would swell and press on like an in
coming tide, and in little while there
would be laws looking to the suppression
OF this evil which would have in them
the force of the right hand of God.
Meantime, let no man or woman lose
heart, for in spite of backsetting eddies
here and there, and stagnant basins, the
great stream of Temperance sentiment
and conviction and purpose moves
steadily forward.-ReU. F. 4. Noble.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07
Hedge Fences.

1t makes but little difference whether
you plant Usage orange or hawthorne
for fencing in your farm. Either one
makes a good fence when properly at
tended to, and neither one makes fence
at all when neglected. The Usage orange
will make a fence in less time than
hawthorn, but it will cost more to keep
it in order, on account of its thrifty
growth, unless you let it take its own
course, as our worthy Cor unworthy
trustees do the one growing on the
burial grounds of our county seat. Said
hedge is twenty-five or thirty feet high,
and where it is thin enough for cow to
walk through they have put in boards
and nailed them to the stems of the
hedge. That kind of fence would
call a nuisance. The nice thing about a
well-set hedge fence is, you always have
surplus of material, and the brush or
trimmings will always pay to gather and
burn them; whereas. in repairing rail
fence you must always supply new rails
in place of those that have rotted out.
The hedge fence if taken care of, is an
everlasting fence. l never knew one to
die that was taken care Of. could
show you hedge fences more than a
hundred years old, and good fences yet
good enough to turn hogs or horses.
/ would advise every farm that has a
nice-laying farm to plant hedge fence
for road and line fences. 1t dom tmake
any difference whether it is hard froze,
or wet from the last big rain, you can.
trim hedge fence all the same; in fact,
winter is the time to shape up the hedge
fence. With good hedge fence around
your farm YOU can rest contented till
morning without being afraid the wind
will blow down the line fence and let
your neighbours stock in your fields of
grain. admit there are other kinds of
fence that can be made quicker and
cheaper than hedge, but they will event.
ually rot out, and then to replace makes
them the most costly of the two. Not
so with the hedge. 1t starts up every
spring and puts out its leaves and ap-
pears to enjoy life with the fresh grass
and growing grain. AS for the hedge
dying out on account of thin soil, it is
out of the question when sod is put
under and subsoil on top; the leaves from
the hedge will keep the soil rich enough.
| would rather attribute the cause of the
hedge dying to the surplus of stagnant
water poisoning the roots. -Lo'oG Home
stead. ....
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Compliments to American Organs.

DR.. John Stainer. Organist of st.
Paurs Cathedral, London, than whom
there could not be higher authority in
regard to organs, organ music, etc, has
shown his appreciation of Ameri an in
struments by preparing an instruction
book especially for the Mason & Hamlin
organs. 1t has already been published
in London. but will be Immediately re-
published in this country by Messrs.
Ditson o. Co. Messrs Mason Il Hamlin
have also received very recently two
noteworthy compliments for their
organs from London. One is in the
sale of an organ to Her Majesty Queen
Victoria; the other is the announcement
that one of them will be used in West
minister Abbey on the 10th, 18th and
18th of this month, with full orchestra
and chorus, in the production Of
Gounod's "Redemption,' under the
direction of the Organist of Westmin-
ster, DR.. Bridge. The same organs
were used last week in the production of
the same work by the Philharmonic
Society of Brooklyn, N. Y, under the
direction of Theodore Thomas, and
will be similarly used next week in the
production of the same work by the
Cecilia Society of Philadelphia, under
Mr.. Thomas direction. - Boston Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07
FARM AND PRESIDE.

| Mortar and paint may be removed
from window glass by applying hot
sharp vinegar
Starch makes better paste to use
in papering walls than -four and is less
expensive also; little will go so much
further.
Rich Cookies: One and half cup
fuls OF sugar, one small cupful of butter,
one cupful of sour cream; one egg, one
level teaspoonful of soda, and whatever
seasoning is preferred. Flour to roll. -
| The Household.
TO prevent the hair from falling out
try wetting the head at night with salt
and water. Have the salt dissolved in
the water so that it will not annoy you
by particles sticking to your hair. Mild
sage tea is also excellent.-M Y. Post.
An excellent cement for fastening
knife-handles may be made by taking a
small quantity of Bath brick-dust and
about half the quantity of resin; reduce
to fine powder; fill the hole in the
handle with the mixture; heat the part
of the knife to be inserted hot, then put
it in the handle and let it remain until
set.-Detroit Post.
"A delicious pudding is made thus:
Sift two tablespoonfuls of flour and mix
with the beaten yelks of six eggs, add
gradually one pint of sweet cream, a
quarter of pound of citron cut in very
thin slices, and two tablespoonfuls of
sugar; mix thoroughly, pour into a but
tered tin and bake twenty-five minutes.
Serve with wine or vanilla sauce. -Er-
change.
TO prevent the hair falling off
horses name and to restore the growth
rub the skin or the part with the follow
ing mixture, viz: One pint of alcohol
and one drachm OF tincture of canthar-
ides. Give the horse a dose of salts
Twelve ounces) and feed some wheat
bran, which will allay the irritation of
the skin, to which the loss of hair is due.
--Live Stock Monthly.
Miss Adelaide A. Manter, Industry,
Me-, took the old homestead when her
brothers sought other business and her
fathers health failed, and in ten wears
has increased its grass producing ca
pacity to three or four times the original
amount, and made the farm one of the
best-paying ones in the country. A
young orchard gives excellent return,
and there is gold in the fleece and feet
of her flock OF sheep 7. Tribune.
Farmers should teach those pretend
ers who propose to cure moon blind
ness in horses by knocking out the So
called wolf teeth, that they cannot be
played upon in that absurd manner 1t
is easily seen that these teeth have moth
ing to do with such blindness. That is
disease of the eye, of constitutional
nature, and it is barbarous to pretend
to associate the breaking out of the ami
mails teeth with the cure of the diseased
eye. National Agriculturatist.
When fowl is found moping about
with an abnormal development of the
crop it should be caught and looked
after. 1t is what is called crop-bound,
which is stoppage of the diet leading
from the crop to the gizzard. If relief
cannot be given by gentle manipulation
with the hands the crop must be opened
with sharp penknife and the contents
removed. Wash the crop out with clear
tepid water and close with stitch, but
do not catch the skin. Feed on soft food
for few days and give but little water.
N. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07
Spelling and Composition.

Col. W. F. Parker. writing in the Min
nesota Journal of Education, says: We
give to spelling so much of our import
ant time! What is it? 1t is making the
form of a word. That is spelling, per
Sc. Oral spelling is the description of a
word, naming its parts. A child can
spell, 1. e, learn the letters of word,
but might merely get it from sound.
Spelling should be description, as if l
drew house, which would be describing
it, One of old Commenius' principles
is this: Things that have to be done
should be done by doing Them" The
powers of the teacher seem to have been
directed to doing thing by doing some
thing else. AS soon as the child begins
to read he spells. Oral spelling should
be put off till the second year to make
sure that he gets the form right. The
first year should be given to copying
words. Much teaching is merely at
tempted forcing out of the mind what
has not yet got into it. Never spell any
words for child unless that child can
follow with the idea, as the pencil traces
the word. He thus learns the written and
the spoken language together learns to
read and write at the same time. If
all the spelling books were piled up
and set on fire they would give more
light to the world than they ever did to
the school-room The purpose of SPELL
ing is composition. In the first wear
provide the pupil with a correct copy of
mental pictures. Give sentences, have
the children copy them, and after they
are erased have them reproduce them.
Give the thought of what is spelled. The
next year teach spelling by dictation.
Train child to know when he does
not know word. He will then never
spell wrong. All spelling can be taught
in composition. Children can be made
to love to talk with the pencil. A child
knows united thought by expressing
it. Do an act and have them write it,
or let them tell it orally. All of gram
mar can be taught in a beautiful way by
action. Put no false syntax on the board;
the wrong form is as likely to remain in
the child mind as the right. Be right
from the start. Pictures can be utilized
in the writing of compositions. The
little ones may write one, two or three
sentences only about picture, but by
the second year the child can write a
story about it. In the third year it can
write page of composition entirely
correct. Is that not foundation for
grammar? Another way of teaching
composition is to tell the child stories,
and have it reproduce them in its own
words. In object teaching there is as
much nonsense as in anything else. The
fundamental mistake is that teachers
attempt the impossible. They fail to
understand that the child cannot see
what they can see and consequently talk
above their heads.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07
S!eeplesSneSs.

Druggists tell us that there is grow
lno demand for various medicines and
preparations containing opiates in one
shape OF another. People wreck their
nervous system by injudicious habits of
life. and the result is unsound sleep.
dyspepsia and countless other evils. A
little advice TO such persons may not be
out of place. They should, of course, be
careful to abandon that method of life
which brings them into physical disor-
der. Their complaint may be fed by
| tobacco; narcotics should be avoided
One cause of their trouble may be that
they take insufficient outdoor exercise.
Perhaps they drink too much tea or
coffee or eat too much flesh meat. There
are thousand practices allowed by con-
vention which are in themselves harmful
and preiudicial to the health.
The quality of sleep may be improved
by diminishing the length of time spent
in bed. A hot shower bath at bedtime
cleanses the skin and pre-disposes to
sleep. Many toiling business or liter
airy man goes to bed tired and worn
out, only to toss from one side to an
other. His brain is hot and full of blood.
while his feet are cold. He thinks over
again the thoughts that have been en-
gaging his attention during the day, or
does over again the business that has
called forth his energies for twelve or
sixteen hours past. His night is round
of tossing to and fro. Is there any Won
der that, failing to find out what is the
true and natural remedy for his pains,
he resorts to opiates, which he knows
will give him temporary reliefP
There is one sure and safe way to REM
edy his pains. If, after leaving work, he
would take brisk walk of mile or two,
before going to bed, and then after the
walk would hold his head under stream
of cold water, he would find relief-that
is, supposing he does this when he is
first troubled with sleepless nights. But,
no; if he lives half mile or more from
his work he takes car home, and,
throwing off his clothes, goes to bed as
quickly as possible.
The want of balance between mental
and physical labor is a fruitful cause of
Many business man,
whose duties keep him in an Office all
day, would improve his health great
deal if he were to fit up his attic as car
penter's shop and spend an hour therein
after supper. This, of course, would be
beneficial only if he happened to have a
liking for mechanics; then he would find
his occupation afforded him amusement,
mental occupation and muscular effort
in just the proper proportions. Herald
of Health.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07
Temperance Reading.
TELLING FORTUNES.

I'll tell you two fortunes, my fine little lad,
For you to accept or refuse;
The one of them good, the other one bad;
Now hear them, and say which you choose.
I see by my gifts within reach of my hand.
A fortune right fair to behold;
A house and hundred good acres of land,
With harvest fields yellow as gold.
I see a great orchard with boughs hanging
With apples russell and red:
see droves of cattle, some white and some
brown
But all of them sleek and well fed.
see droves of swallows about the barn door,
See the tanning mill whirling so fast;
L see them threshing wheat on the floor;
AND now the bright picture is past
And see rising dismally up in the place
OF the beautiful house and the land,
man with fire-red nose on his face,
And little brown jug in his hand.
Oh! If you beheld him, my lad, you would
- That he were less wretched to see;
FOR MS boots they cape like the mouth of a fish,
ana his trousers are out at the knee.
In walking he staggers, now this way, now
And his eyes they stand out like a bugs,
ana he wears an old coat and battered-in hat
And think that the fault is the Jugs
For the text says the drunkard shall come to
be poor,
And that drOwsiness clothes men with rags:
AND he doesn't look like man, am sure,
VINO has honest hard cash in his bags.
Now which will you have? To be thrifty and
And be right side up with your dish,
UT go with your eyes like the eyes of bug,
And your shoes like the mouth of a fish?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07
The Railway Station LOafer.

Of all loafers the railway station loafer
is the most loaferjshest. He is noisy,
obtrusive, insolent. He sits down and
compels the passenger, the patron of the
railway, to stand up. He kicks your
valise as he passes it. He is never seen
without mouthful of tobacco. and he
always expectorates in the direction either
OF your valise or your feet. He stands
in your way at the ticket office, although
he is never known to 60 anywhere. He
looks over your shoulder at the telegraph
window while you write message. He
spars and ''rastles" with other hoodlums.
He loudly calls the attention of his fell
low loafers to your personal appearance,
and makes ''stage aside"'remarks for
you to hear as you pass by him. He is
utterly useless, infinitely worthless. and
a wholesale nuisance. When he is under
fourteen years of age he should be
hogged and compelled to 90 to school,
between the years of fourteen and twen-
ty-one he should be sent to the house of
correction or reform school, and after
reaching the age of twenty-one he should
be hanged.
Off with his head. So much for the
loafeF. -Burdette.
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Making Public Sentiment.

Waiting for public sentiment! What
kind of an attitude is that for a true and
earnest man to take in the presence of
needed moral reform? Paul did not
wait for public sentiment to support
him in preaching the Gospel; he went
to work and made public sentiment.
Richard Golden did not wait for public
sentiment to be well defined and clam
Orous before he began his agitation for
Corn-law repeal; he set out solitary and
alone, and winning John Bright and a
few other able men to his side, he tray
ersed the land, planning, speaking, agi-
tating. He created a public sentiment
before which Sir Robert Peel and the
whole Tory party were only as so much
chaff before the wind. Bismarck did
not wait for public sentiment to push
him to the task of unifying and solidi-
flying Germany; he pushed the people
and brought them to his own mind.
The heroic Garabaldi did not wait: he
saw clearly what ought to be done to
redeem Italy from the thralldom of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07
Tch0utchee Habits.

Captain Berry, of the navy, who COM
manded the Rodgers on her fated Arctic
voyage, came over from New York yes
terday by order of the Secretary of the
Navy. and is at the Ebbitt House. In
conversation with an old friend the talk
turned on the Madagascar people here
and the curiosities of races.
cit is curious" said Berry, s'this ques-
ton of color. Some people have notion
that the blacks and dark-skinned people
all come from tropical countries, but the
natives of Peru were not very dark; the
natives in Mexico were light; then further
north the Indians are still darker, and
when the Esquimaux are reached they
are found to be much darker than the
North American Indians.
eyes, and, SO far as anybody knows,
they have been in their cold country for
thousands Of years." Clipped in the
companion.
''For thousands of years-yes; and
there are evidences that they came from
still further north"
''Do they seem to know anything about
their anceSGorSv'
"Not much. They care very little
for the past or for the future. | tried to
talk with them about the skeletons of
animals found in the caves, but they
seemed to know nothing about them
They were wonder-stricken at the de-
scription of the mammoth, some tusks
of which brought away from Wrangel
Island. One bright fellow saw us look
ing at book of pictures of animals, and
he would come day after day and ask to
look at the book. He was delighted to
look at the pictures of the bears of his
own climate" and would laugh immod-
erately as he returned to them"
Then they have their ideas of funny
things as well as other folksP'
go, yes. One day some of the women
of the Tchoutchees- northernmost
people l saw-were telling me about
expeditions they made to find collections
of small roots which the rats or lem
mings of that country dig and gather in
heaps for winter eating. and asked them
what became of the rats after their sup
plies had been stolen. They laughed and
laughed, thinking it very funny that any,
body should ever think of the rat in the
transaction"
"Then these people do get something
OF vegetable sort TO eatp'
g They get these little roots, which
they steal from the jennings, and they
save the seaweed they find in the stom-
ach of the seal and eat that"
Did they try to speak English
wordsa"
1.-The men-a few of them-would
try, though none of them could speak a
word which had the sound in it. They
would speak my name ccurately-that
is, the men would. But the women in
variably pronounced it as though it were
spelled Bezzy.
Zone fellow-the same one who came
so many times to see the pictures of ami
mal-learned TO speak great many
English words. but he would fairly sweat
under the difficulty of the effort when he
tried tosay flannel He would pick up
words by asking as he came across arti-
Giles new to him: What's name?' He
could say cotton, calico and all the let
fers but the rs. The nearest he could
come to flannel was to say plan
mel. using the p for as some children
do"
Captain Berry said this fellow never
tired of handling the compass and spy
glass, and he learned to know their uses
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-07

The doors of the State Lunatic Asylum
have just been opened to admit young
lady, whose intellect has been dethroned
by the perfdy of recreant bridegroom.
The name of the demented girl is Anna
Peterson. member of one of the most
prominent families of Harder Creek
near Erie. Pa. Miss Peterson is nineteen
years old, and has been literally en-
dowed by nature with handsome form
and sweet disposition. About year
ago a young man named 2. Dullea paid
her marked attention, and in due time
she promised to wed him. Dullea is
possessed of considerable property, and
the match was generally considered a
most happy one. The 9TH of March was
set for the wedding day, and many rela-
tives and friends were invited to be pres
ent at the ceremony. The bridegroom
was very jealous in making the prepare
tons, and left nothing undone which
would add eclat to the affair. The event.
full day arrived and Anna Peterson ar
rayed herself in her bridal robes. The
morning trains brought many friends
who assembled in the handsomely deco
rated parlors as the hour drew nigh The
marriage was to be solemnized at noon.
AT II: so the bridegroom had not arrived
The minister was in waiting to perform
che ceremony and in an upper room the
bride sat among her elegantly attired
bridemaids. just before noon stranger
rang the bell, and. handing the servant
q letter addressed to Miss Peterson, hur-
ried away. This excited considerable
suspicion and not without forebodings of
evil did Mr. Peterson deliver the missive
to his daughter. She tore it open hur-
riedly glanced over its contents and with
an agonized shrek fell in q swoon. The
fatal letter was picked up and read to
the guests. twas curt heartless epistle |
and read as follows:
'MY DEAR Miss PETERSON: -Circumstances |
over which have no control compel me to |
forego the honor of wedding you today. This
morning was Informed of great necessity for
my presence elsewhere. At some future time,
If all goes WELL may see you, and then, if our
feelings for each other are unaltered, our rela-
lions can be considered the same as though this |
little hitch in our arrangements had never hap
pened. Yours truly,
"P. DULLEA.
"P. Sam going to travel
: Restoratives were applied and the de-
serted bride regained consciousness
When she came out of the faint, she as
tonished her friends by quietly readjust-
ing her wreath of orange blossoms and
taking the hands of an aged neighbor,
addressed him by her false lovers name
and announced herself ready to repeat
the words thatshould make her his wife.
Then it flashed on the minds of all those
present that the shock had deprived her
of her reason. They led her away like
poor Ophelia, smiling and chatting in an
artless way that was heartrending to see
and hear. The house of rejoicing was
changed to one of sorrow. During the
night Miss Peterson was attacked with
violent paroxysms. succeeded by periods
of insensibility. Her parents are pros
trated by the weight of sorrow. Nothing
further has been heard from Dullea, and {
the community is wild with excitement
over his periidious action.-Erie (Pa.)
Cor. Chicago Herald.