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

A ready, easy and discreet talker is
one of the rarest characters met with
in society. And yet there is scarcely
single other accomplishment that can
render one so charming as can this.
We are filled with admiration for him
at once, and if he be a person of fair
character we find ourselves craving his
friendship, that we may revel in the
luxury of the words that fall from his
lips. Good conversational powers give
a man an influence among his fellows
that he would never WELD without it,
and he who would help to elevate his
race can do no better than to cultivate
this rare gift. We also are in sorry
need of it in our homes. There is great
and lasting good to be accomplished by
the parents in molding the characters
OF their children and developing their
young minds, to say nothing of the i'm
portant work of perfecting their con-
versational powers, by simply convers-
ing well in the family circle. Children
are good listeners and admirable imi-
tatOrs; they will hear what you say and
note how you say it. If you allow your
table and tireside talks to be groveling
in their nature, or gossip or in any way
unworthy of you as cultivated men and
women, you need expect nothing better
of the children than that they will talk
as father and mother do. If you in
dulge in "expressive' slang, so will
they, and much also that is neither eX-
pressive nor fit for Gears polite
The ability to talk well has been said
by one of our modern writer's to be
among the lost arts. But we. cannot
agree with him fully. The professional
conversationalist, who crammed for
occasion and prepared his talk for
dinner party with as much care as the
cook her viands, has doubtless become
almost thing of the past, and no one
will be sorry when the few remaining
species of the genus shall be numbered
with their kind; but there is style of
conversation as vastly different from
this as is day from night, and that is
the spontaneous expression of truth
from a well-stored mind, or of the SEN
timents of a pure heart full of love for
humanity.
In the first case, the man crammed
to the end that he might show his su-
PcIloIlIJ VI SuSJdlu tHe reputation OF u
brilliant conversationalist, while the
other, with no ambition to crafty and
without thought of self, is careful
only that those in his company shall be
happy for the time being.
The very selfish man is never good
talker. He may have a glib tongue
and goodly store of information, but
the all-important 'I'' will assert itself
so continuously that his most devoted
admirer, if we except himself from the
list, will be wearied from the verge of
impotence with him. Here, then, we
find the true secret of good converse
tional ability to lie in the power of the
man to forget self and become inter
ested in others. But this will be found
most difficult role to assume where
the proper sentiments of heart are
wanting, and he who attempts it under
such circumstances will find, despite
his most desperate efforts to the con-
trary, that partial failure at least will
be his portion. Burlington HaWk-Eye.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
What the st. Louis Grand Jury Ascer-
tanned.

The Grand Jury of st. Louis, after
careful examination into the workings
of the dram-shops of that city, report
in substance as follows: We have taken
a large amount of testimony in regard
to the relations of these institutions,
both to the expenditure and revenue of
the city. The witnesses were those who
would give us the most indisputable
facts and intelligent opinions, unquali-
fled by prejudice. 1t was shown by Gin
contestible proofs -" that at least eighty
per cent. of the crime and pauperism of
said city comes directly from the saloons;
that in some cases the line of separation
between the proprietors of these estab-
lishments and the desperate characters
who infest them is so faint as to be al
most unrecognized; that to them as to
their most congenial haunts come the
drones and leeches of society; that in
many of them the hoodlum gangs con-
coct schemes by which idle youths, not
yet criminals, are initiated into the ways
of vice; that from some of the worst
sally forth, on their marauding mission,
the bummers and burglars who return
in the small hours of the night with
their booty to the still open saloon,
where they find certain welcome, and
no inconsiderable measure of protec-
ton.
l. The cost of policing the lower
grades of these dens is manifold greater
than the revenue derived from their i'm
mensely preponderating contribution to
the dire catalogue of crime and misery
with which the social compact of st.
Louis is burdened and afflicted.
2. The member of the Grand Jury
would be unfaithful to their deliberate
judgment, to their oaths, and with their
present light, to their duty as citizens,
if they did not at this time declare I'M
biased conviction that in this city there
is to-day no subject which so imme-
diately and imperatively demands the
earnest consideration of the tax-paying
community as the case: The People vs..
the Liquor Traffic"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
1t Wasn't a Mash.

Soon after we left Meridian, on the
way across to Vicksburg, a solemn
looking old chap came into the smoker
and groaned and sighed and took on
like man terribly distressed, and when
we asked him where he seemed to feel
it the worst, he replied
Gentlemen, there is powerfully
good-looking young woman in the next
car, and she has fallen into the hands
of a human hyena."
No?n shouted three or four voices
at once.
g Yes, indeed. He's wicked-look-
ing wolf in sleeps clothing. If mis-
take not, he represents some New En-
gland machinery house. He's squeez-
ing of her hand and whispering of
his love, and the giddy thing has fallen
right into the trap. couldn't bear to
see it any longer and so | came in
here. Gentlemen, some of you have
daughters!"
Yes, there were three of us who had
daughters ranging from two to seven
years old, and we were honest enough
to admit it.
"Just think of your daughters being
kayjoled by a Philistiner he continued.
'He's talking and fattering and prom
Using, and she's somebody's daughter.
Gentlemen, something orter be did"
We agreed. We all lounged in and
saw that she was a good-looking, hap
py-faced girl of twenty, and we returned
and held an indignation meeting, After
fine display of eloquence and oratory
1t was unanimously agreed that if the
masher got off at Jackson, where we
were to wait twenty minutes, the good
old man should 60 in and tell that girl
what was what. Jackson was finally
reached, and sure enough the human
hyena got off and ran into the hotel. He
was not out of sight when we all en-
tered the car, and the philanthropist
took seat beside the girl and began:
"My dear young lady, my heart is
sad-oh, so sad!-for you! You are on
the road to destruction!''
"W-what do you mean?" she fall
tered.
81 mean that the villain who left you
a moment ago is seeking to ensnare
you"
''The v-villainn'
eS, ma am, Jne WOLF IN Sheep S
clothing hyena in human form
the scoundrel whose very look proves
the vileness of his heart. | warn you
to beware of him as you would of SER
pent."
"Why, he's-he's my husbandr' she
shouted at the top of her voice, and the
next instant she had her fingers playing
thrOuph his venerable locks and ayna
waiting channels down his wrinkled
cheeks.
All of us got away at last and found
hiding places in the baggage and mail
cars-all but the old man When he
managed to get clear of the bride he
slid off the car and took Decline up
town, and though he met several people
while in sight of us, we couldn't see
that he stopped to answer any ques-
tions.-Detrot Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
Strange Loss Of Sight.

In the course of recent debate on
vivisection in the Prussian Landtag,
the Minister of Public Worship, Won
Gossler, cited the following remarkable
case "a young lady, belonging to an
aristocratic family in Konigsberg; grad
ually lost her power of vision, until at
last she was entirely blind. Her eve,
on being examined was found to be
perfectly sound, whence it followed
that the seat of her trouble must be in
the brain. All treatment proved I'M
availing until the discovery was made
that she had received some months
previously a heavy blow on the head
from a falling board Professor Munck,
the famous eXperimentalist who exam
ined her, convinced the oculist and the
surgeon that the affected part must be
that section of the brain which his ex-
periments on monkeys had proved to
be the central station for sensations of
sight The blow had evidently injured
the membrane of the brain. This made
perforation of the skull necessary-a
very difficult operation-which, how
ever, in this case was comparatively
simple, because the exact locality in
the brain was known, whereas in the
case of a Prince whose skull was per-
forated for a similar reason, previous
to DIR. Munck's discoveries, the opera
ton had to be repeated thirty-two
times. The young lady recovered her
eyesight completely
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

light of the street, and the shadows
seemed to fall from her forever.
| telegraphed the western firm. They
had the cabinet and returned it at once;
so that before many days the little,
nervous fingers were searching in the
presence of the lawyer and myself for
the precious papers.
She found them! shall never forget
her face when she held them up. The
halo was there as she said, so softly:
''Thank God!'
And it seems to cling to me yet, and
to make me think how much misery our
evil passions can work through selfish
ness and thoughtleness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
HHard to Bear.0

General Jackson adhered, even dur
ing his Presidency, to certain peculiari-
ties of pronunciation which he had
acquired in his youth. He would, for
instance, pronounce the word deUelOp-
ment, as though it were written devil
Ope-ment, with a strong accent upon
"ope." Conversing one day with a
foreign Minister who had been educated
in England, the General said ''devil-
Ope-ment. In the course of a sentence
or two, the Minister pronounced the
word correctly.
81 repeat it, Mr.. -" continued the
President, ''this measure is essential to
the devil-Ope-ment of our resources.
"Really, sir" said the Minister, 81
consider the Development of your
country" with marked accent up
on the Uel.
the President, 'you may call it deuel.
Opment, if you please; but | say devil
2pe-ment, and will say devil-ope-ment
as long as | revere the memory of good
DID Dr. Waddell!" referring to a famous
preacher.
Another man, aged and good, but
ignorant and suspicious, was once
greatly disturbed by word with which
he was not familiar He imagined his
neighbor Dillon had grudge against
him, and brooded over the surmise until
he believed Dillon to be his tterenemy.
His family tried in vain to convince him
to the contrary.
One evening, in church-meeting,
the old man arose and stated his griev-
ance. Mr.. Dillon could hardly believe
his ears. He sprang to his feet as the
old man sat down.
"Why, my dear brother' exclaimed
he ''you are wholly mistaken. Iyour
enemy! Why, such a thought never
entered my mind. Indeed! indeed! you
are under an hGllucinutiOn;' and the
surprised brother sat down, thinking he
had convinced the old man that he was
mistaken. The meeting went on, but
just before it closed the old gentleman
again arose.
Brethren" said he, in tremulous
tones, give felt bad over this, and it's
been pretty hard to bear; but when
Frank Dillon gets up in meetin'. afore
you all an declares that I'm full of
hellish notions an not a voice, not
one, is raised against it, it's-it's too
much. I've been member here fifty
years almost. but" and he Strengthened
his bowed form, 81 shall never come in
here again while such things are said
an accepted"
And it was only after much effort that
the poor old man was made to under
stand the meaning of the word hallucina-
ton. Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
THE SPRING TIME.
WHAT Is TO BE EXPECTED.

WHAT is TO BE EXPECTED.
Now the milk-man wakes us early,
With his long and mournful cry;
And the greens look fresh and curly
AS the peddler carts them by;
And the youth with mustache twirly
Sports vest whose hue is pearly,
As he goes to meet his grille
On the sly.
Now the father thinks with grooming
That the boys all want new boots,
And the mother knows with moaning
That the, girls must haze spring suits;
And the plumber
Man look GUNNER,
For he has no show in summer;
But not so the merry drummer,
Setting out with heart of glee
TO talk people deaf and dumb, or
To death, as it may be.
Now the man who owns a garden
Issues forth to view the same.
And beginS bis hands to harden
And his ok to make quite lame;
And the small boy thinks of ''hookey"
In calm, determined way
And, hiding slate and book, he
Pegs at marbles all the day.
Now the poet searches madly
In last Springs rejected verses
Searches wildly, searches sadly,
ana Win language tull or curSeSs
And the gentle maiden yearneth
For the long, long golden days,
As she, plapnInG wisely, turneth
It's fas1 summers pOlonnafse,
An0 the young mans bosom burneth
For one or two damp days
He is wishing
To go fishing
So he says.
Now the painter is most precious,
And engaged for all he's worth;
While the builders hopes are spacious,
And the rag-man's full of mirth;
And ten million schemes fallacious
In ten million brains have birth,
About this time, good gracious!
All sorts of things come forth.
Madeline S. Bridges, in The Continent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

The Brooklyn bridge was not the
only important structure of the kind
opened to public use on the Queens
birthday. On the same day the first
permanent bridge across the Indus be-
came thoroughfare. If spans the
river at Attock, and, according to the
London Globe, supplies the great want
which has long been felt on the main
road through Northern India and on
the principal trade route from Punjab to
Central Asia, and promises to be as
beneficial from military as from a
commercial point of VIEW Chicago
Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

Woman, Heaven bless her She is
always practical A Providence paper
tells of one who presented her husband,
professional man, a small fire-proof
safe for his home Office. After the work
men had spent an hour and half in
moving it into the house, she remarked,
"lf it takes you as long as that to move
it in, should like to know what we
would do with it in case of fire. y
BuBato IN. y I Express
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

The scientists, talking as if they
had been there to experiment, tell us
that a man who weighs one hundred
and fifty pounds on the earth, if trans
ported to Jupiter, would shake the
ground with ponderous tread of
40, 900 pounds, or twenty-one and a
half tons! A hickory-nut, falling
from Dough, would crash through
him like Minie-ball. Water would
weigh fifteen times as much as quick
silver, and a moderate wave would
shiyer to atoms the strongest iron-clad.
Detroit Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

"A San Francisco professor spells
potato as follows: "Ghoughphtheight-
teeau," and declares it to be correct ac-
cording to the following rule: "Gh
stands for p, as you will find from the
last letters in hiccough. Ough stands
for o, as in dough. Phth stands for t,
as in phthisis, Eigh stands for a, as in
neighbor. TIE stands for t, as in ga
zette, and eau stands for o, us in beau"
He can go to the head. - Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

An English cotton operator visiting
Fall River recently, said he would rath-
er have the value of the waste from the
cotton mills than their profits. One of
them alone figures their annual loss at
$50, OOO.-BOStOn Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

Day by day good old citizens gather
around Boston Commons and lament
railroad encroachments and the gradual
ruin of the field. -BoSton Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

"A young gentleman of an aspiring
turn of mind has been passing himself
off in Italy as the son and heir of Ma
poleon Iii. OF course, rich widow be-
lieved him, but when she found him out
he took to the road as highwayman.
At last he robbed the mails, and at the
Turin Assizes was condemned and sent
to penal servitude for twenty-one wears.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

The average number OF people
crossing the Brooklyn bridge is 1000
per day, and 5000 vehicles.--M Y.
Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23

The DRNK-DEN accomplishes won
derful transformations in society. IL
takes a boy of beauty and promise,
teaches him to carouse with gay asso-
ciates, and makes him q bloated, loath-
some, worthless man. Ittakes a young
girl, loved and lovable, and manufact4
ures her into miserable, bloated
woman, at whom passers-by point with
fingers of scorn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-23
Where the Money Goes.

The money passing into the hands of
hquor-sellers in the great majority of
cases does not benefit the public.
Instead of giving money to endow
schools, aid charitable institutions, build
churches and support the Gospel, they
squander their i'll gotten gains in "sport-
ing;" you will find them at horse races,
buying pools and betting on results.
Step into faro-banks and poker rooms,
you will find the rum-selling fraternity
well represented. In every phase of
dissolute living you will find them Lead
ing. Their money goes to build up
every class and style of dissipation. Let
any thinking man understand and know
when he favors the traffic in any way he
gives strength and power to each and
every sin which shall come as the out
growth of the traffic. Therefore the
money put into the hands of the rum
seller is public curse, is public injury,
not public good. -ETchange.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-29

THE following remarkable snola
story comes from old plnetucky d,s,r,o,
near Dublin, 6a, 1t is no story. saya ~
scribe. but II Is vouched FOR by somo oS IN,
best men in the county who saw the wonder
iui monstrosity. Some time ago a. lady a,
that district desiring TO replensh her mco,.
barrel, ordered beef killed, and pointed ON,
one, which was small for It's axe, thinl,ing !,
would never be OF any size. After the hoo,
was killed, which was four.yenr-old co,v
ana the disembowelling process rone
through, one of the men noticed thnt In ora
of the larger intestines something kent nm n
continual motion; curiosity led him TO chi 4,
open, and as this was done very Iaroo
snake of the coachwhip spt cies ran oat on
the ground, but was quickly dispatched
The butchers, Mt this angular find. were con.
founded, but proceeded with the process os
butchcring, but when they opened the wind.
pipe AID lungs they were doubly confounded
by discovering thirty-seven small snakes or
the same species as the first. Each one of the
reptiles was holding on to the lungs and thus
1t is supposed, securing life. After dressing
the beef weighed eighty pounds.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-29
Mr.. I'iiden.
san Antonio Times. !

The Cleburne Chronicle, like many
other journals which seem to have Il
mania for abusing or detracting from
Mr.. Tilden, says: THE Tilden boom
has subsidized since the success of Car
Isle. Tidcn on n free-trade horse
would cut sorry figure. The old man
could not guide the animal" The
Fort Worth GAZETTE d, ais blow TO
the Chronicle that cannot be well tend-
ed or returned, when it replies: THE
old man didn't cut such sorry figure
in 1876. That year he was elected on
a platform that said, we demand that
all custom-house taxation shall be only
for revenue.'n There are some news
papers that seem to have got into the
habit of writing abusive or rdicul Gus
paragraphs about Mr. Tilden, when
they are at loss To know what to
write about to fiji up their columns.
The habit is bad one, to say the least
of it, and we are glad to note the fact
that some journals hitherto addicted
to it have given it up entirely.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-29
The Committee on Indian Affairs,

The appointment of Mr.. Wellborn
dian affairs gives promise of liberal
policy in congress toward the opening
up of the Indian Territory and the
granting of rights of way TO railroads
through that territory. The commit
tee behind him is selected from states
that are largely interes Ell in the free
dom of passage through that territory.
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and ART
IONA, in addition to the chairman
from Texas, are represented, and these
are states that feel most strongly the
blighting effects upon their commerce
of this obstacle t. railway construc-
ton. Members from other states are
known to be favorably inclined to n
policy that will advance the interests
of trade by giving direct railway CON
necticn TO points separated by the In
dian Territory. Mr.. Wellborn's we'll
known attitude upon that question is
probably seconded by his committee.
He holds that it is the duty of con-
gress, as is its undoubted right, to
grant rights OF way, under necessary
conditions and upon terms that will
infiict no Injustice TO the Indian occu-
pants, TO railroads making application
for rights of way through their
country. To quote his language. used
in speech made in the last congress,
"the right of eminent domain over
that territory is vested in the United
States, and public interests Of the
greatest Importance suffer while this
right Is dormant. II is not violation
of the rights guaranteed to the Indians
TO grant passage way through their
county for tine foreign good. In the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-29

THE Fort worth GAZETTE ought 10 know
that whether incloscd land belongs To the
man who incloses or not makes no differ
cncc as 10 the right of another man to cut 1t.
II any man by inclosing land not his own
violates the law let the legal remedy be APP
piled. The "fonce-cutter" has no authority
TO sit in judgment and decide that another
man has violated the law, and 10 take the
law In his own hands and execute the Judg-
ment he has rendered himself, The Fort
Worth GAZETTE does the governor great in
justice Houston Age.
Uncle Daniel Uncle Daniel, are you
drank or crazy? Point out the place
and the time in which the GAZETTE
ever justified fence-cutting. From the
beginning the GAZETTE has denounced
the crime. The Age does the GAZETTE
great injustice.