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The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

UNDER the feudal conditions of society
which prevail in Missouri, Governor Crit
tenden, Of that State, is establishing for
himself unique reputation among Govern
ers. His recent message was devoted chief
ly to two subjects, his own discreet efforts
in working up vendetta between the
James family and the Ford family and in
Kilkenny fashion, allowing the two to kill
each other off, thus freeing the common
wealth from her unenviable name of the
'Robber State" and second, to sugges-
ton that the Legislature pass laws forbid
ding contracts at higher than six per cent.
The Governors must have been a back
woods education not to have taught him
that usury laws are always imperative,
and that most States have long ago abro-
gated them. The St. Louis press takes him
TO task because in point of fact the mer-
chants of st. Louis have been paying eight
per cent. steadily for year and half on
the best paper made in that market, and
there has not been more than two months
altogether out of the eighteen when the cur
rant bank rate Of that city has been below
eight per cent.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12
Hawthorne Photographed Una
wares.

Providence Cor. Salem (Alass) Gazette
Hawthorne, you are aware, delighted to sit
for his portrait and would watch with keen in
terest the growth of the picture upon the can
vas. You will remember his own account of
sittings at Washington in 1862 the last he ever
gave. 81 think" he wrote, sit will be the
best ever painted of the same unworthy sub
ject. One charm it must needs have-an as
pect of immortal jollity and well-to-do-ness;
for Leutze, when the sitting begins, gives me
first-rate cigar, and when he sees me getting
tired he brings out bottle of splendid cham
payne; and we quaffed and smoked yesterday,
in blessed state of mutual goodwill, for three
hours aud half, during which the picture
made really miraculous progress. Leutze is
the best of fellows" To sit for his photograph,
however, was extremely irksome, especially in
la ter Years, when, he has said, THE sun
seems to take an Internal pleasure in making
me venerable, as if l we're as old himself !"
j. Lo,hrop Motley, who well knew Haw-
thorne's aversion to Photographic processes,
set trap for his frif nd, in this wise; He in-
vited him to walk one day in London, and as
they were passing the studio of a we'll known
photographer, ~ otley asked Hawthorne to step
in and make selection from some pictures of
himself which were ready, he supposed, for ex-
animation. They entered chatting pleasantly
together, Hawthorne at the time being in the
best of spirits Dropping into a chair which
Motley placed for him, he looked brightly after
his friend disappearing behind q screen in
quest of the proofs. AT this moment, and with
this look of animation upon his face, the photo
graph referred to was taken, the artist having
made all necessary preparations to capture a
likeness from the unsuspecting sitter. Motley g
proofs were produced and examined, and Haw-
thorne was never told that he had been taken.
This was shortly before the family returned
home. One of the children, it seems-I think
it was the ethereal Una-had seen the surrep-
titions picture at Motleys or at Bennochs, and
on the homeward voyage she referred to it,
and said it was beautiful likeness far better
than she had ever before seen. Hawthorne, of
course, was incredulous, and assured his wife
that the child must be mistaken. After her
husbands death Mrs. Hawthorne became ac-
quainted with the facts as above narrated, and
at her earnest entreaty the photograph was
sent to her.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

On. TANNER, the faster, holding the be-
lief that beans create irritability of temper
while turnips produce pleas ing amiability,
tried the experiments necessary to test the
theory, upon his wife. The bean test
was successful, for he would allow his wife
nothing but beans for food, and at the end
Of Ave weeks, the problem was solved and
his theory confirmed when Mrs. Tanner,
Aaring up one day when he brought more
beans, threw jug at the doctor and was
about to send fatiron after the jug, when
the scientist hauled down his flag and pro-
posed to bring her back to sweetness, with
his hilarious diet of turnips. The prospect
Of another five weeks victimage was more
than Mrs. Tanner could stand, and she
called for divorce, and gotit.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

NARY Cross of CoVingtop, KY, became
snraged at the son of her employer, Robert
Hemingway, and, as the Cincinnati Ca
zette said, "shot at him five times but
failed to hit him for which she was SEN
fenced to $500 fine and years imprisen-
nent," The failure to hit appears to be a
serious ofense in Kentucky.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

who has Just returned from America is usually
in rage because he did not find the United
States a provincial England. He cannot un-
derstand why even those who have kept their
British blood untainted by foreign lntermar-
own And then there is that curious insular
lotion that anything which differs from ones
own way must be inferior.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

We DC not read anonymous letters and comuauli-
cations. The name and address of the writ are In
all Indispensable, not necessarily for nDica'
ton but as a guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve eom-
cunications that not used.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

To London Truths proposition that Sin
NO other country in the world do men hold
their convictions with SO much energy as in
England" Edwin Arnold replies that ''in
NO other country is so much nonsense SO
4rmly believed"
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

OF quinine pills put up by seven Of the
leading firms of Philadelphia, chem
ist who has unraveled them all reports that
he finds but two of honest quality, and
bitter controversy is in progress.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

A REPORT by the state auditor of Alabama
for the year ending Sept. 80, 1881, showed
that the value of guns, pistols and drks in
that state was $4,000 more than that of
mechanical tools and farming implements
combined.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

TEE sorghum fellows are raising cane
nova days, and find that it is worth over
$40 an acre in addition to the sugar, the re-
fuse being good for feed, vinegar, and paper
making.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12
Z s-CE1 PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 12.

EVERY regular ettsche of the PRESS is furnished
With Card certificate signed by Stanley PulleD,
editor, Ali railway, steamboat and hotel managers
Will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
u every person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

THE Mormons have been 80 years at work
on granite temple which will requi 10
years more for completion, when the gen.
tiles hope to make it servceable as State
honaa
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

IT is mistrusted that the free traders in
Congress will work to prevent any action
upon the tariff this session, SO they can go
home and growl because nothing in way of
relief was done.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

THE friends of Jay Gould say he wants
rest Guess he does. He owns only about
half the railroads Of the world, and the rest
is what he wants.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

In 1882, 525 Quaker City octogenarians,
POS men and 227 women, were subjected to
the elegiac poetry of the Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12

ONE Chicago pawnbroker has taken 1900
revolvers in pledge since May 1.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-12
INSURANCE
WHY YOU SHOULD INSURE
In THE
UNION MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
OFPORTLAND, MAINE.

IT'S AN OLD COMPANY, having been estab-
lished over thirty years.
IT y AS PASSED THROUGH EVERY GREAT
PANIC since its organization, paying every honest
loss without dispute or delay
IT is A POPULAR COMPANY having gained
an established character for liberality by many
years of fair dealing W tn its policy holders
1T HAS THE ENDORSEMENT of the highest in-
surance authorii-s and The mose pr 'minent bust
ness and professional men all over the country and
for all these is entitled to your consdera-
ton and respect.
1T is A PURELY MUTUAL COMPANY, having
no stockholders take the lions share of the pro-
fits. Mutual Companies never fail
If HAS OVER H IRTEEN THOUSAND POLL
ClES in force, and is therefore OF fair of av-
erage mortality, and cannot be seriously affected by
epidemics.
1T rs A lei . Nj E COMPANY.
INCONTESTIBLE POLICIESi All policies issued
after Nov 16, 1887 are incontestible after three
years from the date of the policies for any cause ex
cept fraud or reinstatement of ge.
ITS DEFINITE CONTRACT POLICY proyid es
for every contingency which can occur during its
continuance, and is SO simple and clear that even
child can understand it,
ITS MAINE LA " EXTENTION is the most inst
and perfect plan for protecting the interest of the
policy holders devised
ACCE Lea ATED ENDOW MFNTS! Whenever
the reserve upon the policy and the dividend addi-
tions thereto, amount to the nsul ed the poll
cy becomes payable at once as matured endow-
ment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
Neither Ill Nor Thirsty.

A man of temperate habits was once
dining at the house of a free drinker.
No sooner was the cloth removed from
the dinner table than wine and spirits
were produced. and he was asked to
take u glass Of spirits and water. "No,
thank YOU" said he, 81 am not ILL., ="
take glass of wine then," said his
host, cor a glass of ale" "No, thank
you," said he, - am not thirsty"
These answers produced a loud burst of
laughter.
Soon after this the temperate man
took piece of bread from the sideboard
and handed it to his host, who refused
it, saying that he was not hungry. At
this the temperate man laughed in his
turn. Truly" said he, u have as
much reason to laugh at you for not
eating when you are not hungry as you
have to laugh at me for declining to
drink when not thirsty"
He might have gone further and given
stronger reasons for not drinking if he
had chosen. The liquor would not have
quenched his thirst if he had been
thirsty. Pure water would have been
the best drink in that case.
WnaI 90 we require drink tOrP'
The answer nature gives is simple: "To
quench thirst" And when we are
really thirsty nothing meets our case so
completely as glass of cold water; and
there is this advantage about it also;
the moment it has answered the end for
which it is taken it ceases to be inviting;
as Shakespeare wisely says: Honest
water, too weak to be sinner" and if
people would be content with it there
would be fewer sinners in the world
than there are.
The animals are inwmany respects
wiser than we are. When left to them
selves, they eat and drink like philoso-
pliers. God sends the sluggard to the
ant, the inconsiderate to the crane and
the swallow. He rebuked Balaam by
an ass. We might learn from them a
few useful lessons in dietetics, and es-
pecially in drinking. They drink when
they are thirsty, and would we 90 and
do likewise we might save ourselves
many pain YOUTHS Temperance
Banner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
=" Gittin' Dad Home"

The other day a man who was stag
gering drunk navigated up Michigan
avenue to Third street, and there flung
himself down on the ground for sleep.
He had lain there about ten minutes
when a boy about nine years old, his
bare feet red with cold, and his hair
showing through the crown of his old
hat, came down the street as if in
The lad shook him vigorously, and di-
rectly the man sat up, secured q brace
for his back, and growled out:
"WhazZer want wiz me!'
"It's Jimmy, dad-it's little Jim,"
was the reply.
"Whoze lizzie Jimmy?"
"Why, dad, don't you know me! I'm
your own boy. Ma sent me to bring
you home. Can you Walk"
Il guess 'er can" mumbled the man,
and he tried to rise up. The boy gave
him all the aid possible, but he was not
half up when he lurched over and rolled
on his back.
"Oh, dad'' walled the boy, breaking
down all of sudden, 'you are drunk!'
eyes, I'm junk"
81 can't get you home, and the po-
lice will put you in jail! Oh, dad! what
made you"
"Vhaz maze me?" sleepily answered
the man.
"Say, dad" continued the boy, as
he bent over him, Little Katie's awful
sick"
"Zhas SOP Well, can't help zhas."
Cant you 90 home?"
ono. You shtay here while go 'er
sleep"
"Oh! 1 can't-I can't! Everybody
knows you're drunk, and everybody
will boot at mer'
WHAT exclaimed the man, as he
raised on his elbow.
1.-The boys are hooting at me now,
and the men across the road are laugh
ing! Oh! dad, it's awful to git drunk!
It's awful when you are ashamed to
look any one in the face.''
The boy leaned against the wall and
hid his face and cried. The drunkard
rubbed his eyes, braced to q sitting po-
sition, and by careful management
reached his feet.
Jimmy"
eyes, dad"
"Shame-perfeck shame! I'm 'er
brute, am. I'm shorty, Jimmy, you
know I'm shorty"
Yes"
I'm goin' home"
81 Il help you"
'No, shur; you go That way--T'll go
This; then er boys won't boot at you.
Cum-go long"
The boy crossed to Fourth street, and
when he was too far away to be sus-
pected Of relationship the father braced
mp and started up the avenue mutter-
ing:
I'm er brute, am, an 1 orter be
kicked, l had, an if drink any more
| hope er be shot, do."-Detr0H Free
Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
Grows Like an Evil Weed.

The methods employed by the liquor
sellers to develop and extend their bust
ness are proofs of illegitimacy.
No legitimate, straightforward bust
ness can afford to set up retailers all
over the country, supply them with
stock, with store furnishings, and even
pay their taxes when these are required
in advance.
setting up apothecary shops all over a
city, filing them with stock, providing
them with signs and fancy show bottles,
and picking up Tom, Dick. or Harry
from some other business and estab-
hshing him as manager of the new
stand.
The profits of the drug business are
popularly supposed to be enormous, but
20 wholesale drug house-no matter
what its wealth and trade-could stand
such course for year without having
to close its doors. This is equally true
of the Wholesale dry goods, hardware,
grocery, aud, in fact, all jobbing estab-
lishments. So far from establishing
stores to retail! their goods, so far from
picking up failures and do-nothings of
all kinds to set up in business, they
have to exercise the greatest prudence
in selling to those already established
in selling to men who have their own
money embarked and who have had
years of experience in that special line of
trade.
But the profits of liquor-selling are so
enormous that the liquor-sellers can
take chances that no other business
men can. They can establish a new sa-
loon anywhere, and confidently run the
risk of its being profitable. They can
put in charge of it a man who has failed
Mt everything else he undeltook-he is
certain 10 be able to sell liquor enough
to pay his way. They can put into the
saloon every dollar that is invested in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
Keep OH Drinking.

If you wish to be always drinking,
start an appetite for drink; the oftener
you drink the oftener you want to.
If you want to prevent your friends
from raising YOU in the world, keep on
drinking. and that will in the end defeat
all their efforts
If you would effectually counteract
your attempts to do well, keep on
drinking and you will not be disap-
pointed.
If you wish to repel the endeavors of
the whole human race to raise you to
character, credit and prosperity, keep
on drinking, and you will likely tri
umph.
If you are determined to be poor, keep
on drinking, and you will be ragged and
penniless to your hearts content.
fyOu wish to starve ourfamily, keep
on drinking, and then you will consume
the means of their support.
Ii you would be imposed upon by
knayes, keep up your visits to the
saloons, for that will make their task
easy,
If you wish to be robbed, keep on
drinking, and the thief will do it with
greater safety.
If you wish to deaden your senses,
keep on drinking, and you will in due
time be more stupid than an ass.
If you have resolved to kill yourself,
keep on drinking, and you will hit
upon sure mode of selfdestruction.
If you would expose both your folly
and your secrets, keep on drinking;
they will run cut as the liquor runs in.
If You think you are strong, keep on
drinking, and you will soon find your
self subdued by so powerful an enemy.
If you would get rid of your money,
without knowing how, keep on drink
ing, and you will do it eiiectually.
If you are hated by your family and
friends, keep on drinking, and you will
soon be more disagreeable.
If you would be pest to society,
keep on drinking, and society will
avoid you as an infection.
If you would smash windows, break
the peace, get your bones broken,
tumble under horses and carts, and be
put in the lookup, keep on drinking,
and it will be strange if you do not sue
coed.
If you wish all your prospects in life
" NC ClOuuCu, hctp OE utlHhlHS, anu
they will soon be dark enough.
If you would destroy your body, keep
on drinking, for drunkenness is the
mother OF disease.
If you wish to ruin the soul, keep on
drinking, and you will be excluded
from Heaven.
If moderate drinkers are told that
they stand on dangerous ground they
rcpudiate the idea with scorn, and say
that they can stop drinking when they
please, They pass on few months
and become habitual drunkards-utter
slaves to their appetites for rum. Then,
when you appeal to them to stop, they
say they can't, and clamor for prohibit
ton. Now, which class shall we be-
lieve? Does the self-reliant, strong,
stimulated moderate drinker best under
stand the situation, or is the evidence
of the experienced inebriate more trust
worthy in the matter? Who are the
most competent Judges of the relative
benefits of slavery and freedom, the ex-
masters or the eX-slaves? All drunk
ards in their sober moments favor the
entire eXtirpaton of intoXicants. All
women of refinement and intelligence
indorse prohibition.-Eaweka (Cal.)
STANDARD.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

it-even down to paying the tax and
license-they can violate every we'll
recognized law of business, and yet be
more sure of a rich return than any
other business. The official returns
show that no property in the country is
developing in value so rapidly as brew
cries and saloons. In Cincinnati the re-
ports of the revenue officers show an in
crease in the business of the breweries
of over seventy per cent. in four years,
and those years, too, were when long
established houses in that city were
going down in bankruptcy with most
alarming frequency.
The business, nurtured by the COM
post heaps of corruption and wrong
doing, grows like fungus, mold, mil
dew or noxious weeds. Unless this
growth is checked it will overshadow
and blight the land, like some poisonous
ivy sitting the life and vigor out of some
grand old oak. If the country is to
continue in prosperity this poisonous
fungoid growth must be stopped
Toledo Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
Temperance Reading.
THE GIN PALACE.

The Devil grows aristocratic of late.
And he wants house more grand:
So down goes the wooden shanty,
To make room for stylish stand.
He has dealt out death to thousands,
And it reaped him harvest fair;
To prove how the work has paid,
a costly house he'll rear.
He will build it of bricks that were purchased
With the drunkard's pains and fears;
He will fill it with cleaning windows
That are made from frozen tears.
And the money that at his counter
Made fathers brain grow wild
Till he beat an invalid woman.
And killed his beautiful child
Come, hasten ye merry masons,
Build up the towering wall!
Work well, work fast, good felloWsi
You shall be paid for all!
Paid in the drunkard's money
Which left his wife unfed
And sent his children weeping,
Hungry and cold to bed
Pull down the old frame building!
Make room for new one here!
For this, dear homes were mortgaged,
Or sold by the auctioneer!
No matter If little children
Stray homeless through the land,
Down with the old frame building.
Make room for the stylish stand?
Monitor Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
CA Drcp of JOY In Eyery word."

DR.. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: Three
months ago 1 was broken out with large
ulcers and sores on my body, limbs and
face. procured your Golden Medical
Discovery" and "Purgative Pellets" and
have taken six bottles, and to-day am in
good health, all those ugly ulcers having
healed and left my skin in a natural,
healthy condition. thought at one time
that l could not be cured. Although l can
but poorly express my gratitude TO you,
yet there is drop of joy in every word l
write. Yours truly,
JAMES o. BELLS, Pennington, N. j.
Discovery" sold by druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

Is entirely different from all others. 1t is
as clear as water, and as its name indicates
is q perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. 1t
will Immediately free the head from dan
druff, restore gray hair 20 its natural color,
and produce new growth where it has
fallen off. II does not in any manner af.
feet the health, which Sulphur, Sugar OF
Lead and Nitrate of Silver preparations
have done. 1t will change light OF faded
hair in few days to beautiful glossy
brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bot
tie is warranted. BENTON, MYERS 81 Co.,
Wholesale Agents, Cleveland, Ohio, and
c. n. CRITTENToN, New York.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

Philadelphia courts have decided
that Chinese cannot become naturalized
citizens of the United States, no matter
how close they may cut their hair
PHILADELPHIA Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

MILWAUKEE, WIs.-The Daily Sentinel,
which is the leading morning paper of this
State, writes: est. Jacobs Oil, the won
derful remedy for rheumatism, has been
used by a large number of people in this
CITY. and with effect truly marvellous"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

DR.. R. V. PIERCE's Golden Medical
Discovery" cures every kind of humor,
from the common pilnple or eruption to the
worst scrofula.
Four to six bottles cure salt-rheum or
letter.
One to five bottles cure the worst kind Of
pimples on the face.
Two to four bottles clear the system of
boils, carbuncles and sores.
Five to eight bottles cure corrupt or rum
ming ulcers and the worst scrofula.
By druggists, and in half-dozen and
dozen lots at great discount.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

AN agricultural paper says: "To keep
flies from horses, brush them lightly with
brush that has lately been used in petro-
leum." Bosh! You brush a fly with
shingle, or anything that comes handy,
and he'll go away.-BOSt0n Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

FROM MAJOR Downs, Military Instructor,
During the very cold weather was suffer-
ing with Catarrh. My head and throat
ached so severely that 1 was obliged to
keep quiet. Ely's Cream Balm was sug-
gested. Within an hour from the first APP
plication felt relieved, the pain began to
subside. In few days 1 was entirely
cured. w. \. Downs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

FATHER BURKE, of the Roman Cath
Ollie Church, says: "When God made
us He gave us soul and body together,
in all the activity of their powers. The
man that GnnitiJateS his oWn soul for q
single instant by drunkenness commits
an outrage against the God that has
made him, against the Author of his
nature"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

CARE you going to play the piccolo to-
nightw asked one member of the orches-
ira of another. Eyes" "Then / hope
you'll piccolo note to begin with" The
piccolo player was carried out on shut.
ter.-ETchdnge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

"YoU should never chew raw oyster.
Just place him lengthwise across the edge
of your tongue, elevate your chin trifie,
but pay for him."-Rochester Post Express.