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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
MalaprOpisms.

No malaproplsmS are commoner than
the often misused words circumstance"
and incident" both being written in
differently as signifying mere matters of
fact. Whether "a circumstance" is, in
any case, an allowable expression
may be doubted. Circumstances stand
around; and any one thing that stands
around, unless it be ring-fence or a
fog, is hardly conceivable as a posi-
bility. But the gravity of error lies in a
distinction less captious. A quarrel or
| accident in the street is not a ''circum-
stance;" but it may be explained or
excused or accounted for by circum-
stances. A fire breaks out in building
and burns it to the ground. This is not
an ''incident;" it is fact. If anybody
were to jump out of a window, while the
fire was raging, that would be properly
described as an incident. And again, if
the supply of water were to fail, if the
turn-cock were slow or quick in coming,
if the engines were early or late, any of
these things would be circumstances,
for they would surround the fact and
modify its results. "Et1luvium, with
its plural, is a noun often misapplied,
and yet more frequently restricted to
one of its many applications. By
"effiuvia" is vulgarily meant evil odors,
and, of course, an effluvium may be an
outflow of foul air. But it may just as
as well be stream of pure water. Many
writers employ the adjective ''sumptu-
ary'' as if it belonged exclusively to
dress, whereas it may relate to all mat
ters of luxurious living; and if the old
sumptuary laws should be revived they
might reach the epicures who waste
their patrimony on pate de toie graS,
opera boxes, horses, carriages, Jewels
and rare wine, as well as the eXtrava-
giant wearers of costly attire ''Deci-
mate is a verb which, with its adiec-
tive particle, "decimated, is ludic-
rously mistaken. Its original signif-
canoe was grave and often terrible; for
it meant no less than taking the tenth of
mans substance, or shooting every
tenth man in a muntinous regiment, the
victims being called out by lot. This
appalling character of defamation lay in
the likelihood that innocent persons
slain in cold blood, might suffer for the
guilty. But the peculiar horror vanishes
when we alter the conditions; and regi-
ment which has taken part in a hard
fought battle and comes off the field
only decimated, that is to say, with nine
living and unscathed for each man left
on the field, might be accounted rather
fortunate than the reverse We come
now to ''holocaust," the use of which
noun often betrays ignorance quite as
gross. Thus the dreadful loss of life by
the sinking of an excursion steamboat on
the Thames was recently spoken of as a
holocaust, by which remarkable mis-
prison of etymology the Thames was set
on fire indeed. -MacmilLa,a' s Magazine.
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spent for strong drink is probably over
S715,575,0 900. The entire amount of
church property in the United States
is valued at 1854, 100000, or less than
the Nations liquor bill for Sir months
time.
1.-The New York Evening Post saws:
In the year 1879 there was paid out
for intoxicating drinks, by the people
of Germany, some $3.50, 200, 900, and by
those of France, $3.50, OOO,OOO Great
Britain, $3.50, 200, 900, and the United
States, S72O,00O, 900; making a grand
total of 81, 730, 200, OOO.'"
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A Fantastic st. Louis Romance.

ot: Louis Post Dispatch reporter
gave rein to his imagination the other
day ana started out for pleasant little
excursion. Feeling the influence of the
spring, however, his imagination soon
took the bit in its mouth and bolted,
and the reporter found himself strug-
Cling helplessly with the American Col
lege at Rome and a private yacht; with
lot OF lords and ladies in England, and
a gypsum cave belonging to Jay Gould
in 81: Louis; with an execution in Alex
andrla and Catholic priest in New
YORK. he was rescued by heroic efforts
at the end OF two and three-quarter col
umns, and is reported to be doing as
well as could be expected.
Inc result of his adventure was
story IN brief as follows: James Chester,
son OF Sir Archibald, and a dude of
the first water. Lady Alicia De We're,
sister 10 Aubrey De We're, the poet, too
lovely for anything. Young people en-
gagged OF course. James goes off for
year $ cruise in his yacht, after being
kissed by the Lady Alicia and Dante
Gabriel Rosseti in the Liverpool docks.
Incidentally he attends wholesale exc
cutlon IN Alexandria at the invitation
of his friend the Khedive, and BUYS off
one OF the criminals for $4,000. An
English man-of-war comes in and the
Captain gives James copy of the
Times, containing the somewhat extra
ordinary announcement that His Grace
themost Observation-Disclosures of York"
had married in st. Paurs Cathedral
''the Right Honorable William Law
renee Hyde, X. G. B., second son of the
Earl of Clarendon, and Lady Alicia De
Vere.n
James tainted, and on recovering
went to Rome, after which, having
called on Cardinal Antonelli (who, the
reader will be surprised to learn, lived
in ''the Palazza Borghesi'), he entered
the American College. In three
months he was graduated and was
made professor of theology. After
three years he came to this CITY and
was assigned to ST. Stephens Church,
in East Twenty-eighth Street. Among
his other duties he was chaplain to ''the
Convent of the Visitation in Forty
second Street." and the Hospital of
the AleXian Brothers in Second Ave-
nue." James (now Father Chester) is
called to the Convent of the Visitation
to see a dying nun, Sister Mary Dolores.
"James Chester!' shrieks the nun.
"Alicia De We're" yells the priest.
Lady Alicia dies and James, as usual,
faints away. 1t is all mistake. 1t
was Lady Alicia's first cousin who
married X. G. B. James goes crazy
and retires to gypsum cave belonging
to Jay Gould, on the outskirts of st.
Louis, where he died last week. In his
will he left $4,000 to ST. Stephens
Church in this city. and S25, 200 to the
Convent of the Visitation"
The cold and cherries truth is that
there never was any Convent of the
Visitation" in this city, no Hospital
of the Alexian Brothers," nor any
Father Chester connected with St.
Stephens Church. Priests who were
educated at the American College in
Rome say that there was never any such
man as James Chester in the College
N, Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
Indian StOicism.

AT an experience meeting Monday
evening an ex-Indian trader related the
| following incident:
''The novelists' tales of Indian
| stoicism fall short of the mark. When
in southwestern Colorado | was present
| when the agency surgeon cut of the leg
of an old Indian brave, who had been
terribly hurt by the fall of a horse.
The surgeon administered chloroform
and performed the operation. The as
sembled braves were thunderstruck at
the manner in which the wounded man
injured supposed agony, and the old
man was equally astonished on recov-
ering consciousness to find that his leg
had been cut off. He couldn't under
stand it, and after gazing at the stump
for long time with look of bewilder-
ment he laid down again. He was Or
dered to keep perfectly quiet, and for
twenty-four hours he never moved a
muscle, enduring the pain and fever of
the wound without a murmur or sign of
Impotence. The surgeon shifted his
position, and another day passed like
the first. The third day the surgeon
asked him how he felt. Placing his hand
vi LllC Olu lclIOW
Very sick What do you want me to
do?' asked the surgeon. Cut off here
he said, placing his finger on his leg
about three inches above the bleeding
end of the stump. But that will get
sick, too responded the medicine man.
Then cut off here, indicating the place,
which was several inches above the
knee, to which reply was made: 1T
will do you no good. The fresh cut will
get sick. Passing his hand over his
throat the old buck simply said: Then
cut off here.
1.-The other braves were filled with adj
miration at the old fellows pluck, and
several of the younger members of the
tribe tried to persuade the surgeon to
cut off their legs to see if they could
stand the pain as well as the old man.
They thought they could undergo no
test that would so thoroughly and
quickly establish their reputation for
bravery and endurance. The wounded
buck injury healed very soon, and in
two or three weeks he could be seen
astride his horse, not galloping about,
to be sure, but still riding around. In
dams can stand more pain and make
less fuss about itthan white men. There
are cowardly Indians, as matter of
course, who raise Cain when wounded,
but they are exceptions to the general
rule. National Republican.
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that none of us fell actually into the
water.
Imagine this terrible five hours strife
against Death! No, you cannot. The
widest fancy could not equal the reality.
l cannot conceive how we sustained for
five hours such a wrestle with death.
About eight o'clock we were dis
covered, ten miles from the Istrian
coast, by sailor, Anton Pazol. This
ended the witch dance. He steered his
ship so dexterously that he fished us up
after we had sprung out of the basket.
The balloon, thus lightened, rose in the
air, darted in the same direction till
it reached European Turkey, and Gas
we heard later) came down near the
town of Bihacs, in Bosnia.
Pazol conveyed us to Pola, in Istria,
where we had medical assistance.
Hands and feet were stiff and greatly
swollen. Poor Count Zambeccari had
to have three frozen fingers amputated.
That was my first and last voyage in
the air. 1 have never desired a second
one. Think of our experience. Chased
into our basket by mob which men,
aced us with death; then falling by
night from the sky to the sea; like light
ming flying up again to the region OF
ice; frozen stiff, again plunged down;
for five hours dragged along the roar
ing waves; snatched on high; sub
merged, whirled about in the ART
was diabolical as human imagination
can conceive.
1t is over 1t lies nine years behind
me and as every past adventure has its
charm, say to myself; ''For thou
sand gold pieces l would not have
missed that experience from my life. ~
But add, decidedly: "For hundred
thousand would not 90 through it a
second time. Translated for the Argo-
naut from the German by Emma
Frances DdeCSOn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
Temperance Certainies.

There are so many doubts and discus
slons respecting Temperance that it has
come to be labeled in the public mind
the Temperance question; and a great
many people, reacting from the dog
matiSm of a few Temperance agitators,
have come to think that it is all ques-
ton; that nothing is settled. There
are, however, more Temperance GER
families than Temperance questions;
more both in number and Importance.
For example, it is certain:
l. That distilled liquors are danger
Gus poison; should never be used as a
beverage; and as a medicine only with
the EXTREMIST caution and under the
wisest advice.
2. That wine and beer if ever useful,
except incidentally, are always more or
less dangerous; most dangerous for
those who crave them most, especially
dangerous for the young, and for per-
sons OF sanguine and nervous tempera-
ment. Every reader of this paragraph
knows scores who have been injured by
excessive use; how many can he men
ton who have been injured by absti-
nence? ...
3. That the liquor traffic, as now con-
Quoted, does more injury to society,
produces more crime and pauperism,
breaks up more homes and DESTROYS more
life than all other dangerous traffics put
together. .f -,
4. That the State has always right
of self-preservation; and that it has,
therefore, right to enact such laws
prohibitory or. regulative- expert,
ence indicates to be most efficient for the
purposes of representation. If France
has right to prohibit the sale of Amer
lean pork because there are trichine in
some pork, America has right to pro-
hibit the sale of liquor because there is
poison in great deal of liquor. .....
8. That it is the duty of society to pass
such laws as are passed, and in general
to do whatever is practicable, in the
present state of public opinion, to re-
duce the evils of drunkenness and the
liquor traffic. The free sale of liquor,
whether with or without the seeming
sanction of law, is suicide
6. That, finally, whatever temporary
relief and incidental help may be OBJ
tanned in dealing with the liquor prob
lem from Legislation or moral suasion,
the real, radical, fundamental remedy
is Christian public sentiment which
will condemn drunkenness as a sin, not
condone it as a weakness; the ultimate
Temperance Society is the Christian
Church; and the instruments for reform
are the pulpit, the press, the Sunday
school and individual example. .'r-
By the side of these Temperance GER
tatntteS the Temperance questions are of
minor Importance and significance
Christian Union.
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DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE.

When many years have rolled away,
When we no more are young,
When other voices may repeat
The songs that we have sung;
When all your youthful beauty fades,
That Time will not restore,
Some tender thoughts may come again,
OF days that are no more.
The soul but slumbers to awake
Alike to joy and pain,
And every holy thought and dream
Are sure to come again.
The youthful heart, untouched by care,
viii dream of days before.
The old heart lives on memories,
OF days that are no more.
There is Better Land to come,
Its gateway is the tomb.
o may we meet our loved ones there,
Beyond the hidden gloom
How peaceful is the sleep of death,
For through his silent door
The weary woe will never come
OF days that are no more.
Eugene J. Hall, in Chicago Inter Ocean
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
Ancient Mounds in Florida,

Earth mounds are common near the
river banks all along this part of the
coast. The most remarkable work of
this kind is on the south bank of Spruce
Creek-an estuary of the Halifax. Its
base has diameter of one hundred feet
and it attains height of fifty feet, with
steep sides, except on the east, which is
inclined, apparently, for roadway.
Excavations near by. reveal the source
of supply for the material in the con-
struction of this mound. In these arti-
fetal hills have been found specimens
of pottery. stone pipes, rude vessels for
domestic use, charcoal, skeletons and
ornaments. The mounds are evidently
the work of the same race of people who
constructed the military Notifications,
or canal beds, near Lake Okeechobee.
There is nothing to indicate the age of
the shell mounds or of the earth mounds
on Spruce Creek-no timber growths of
sufficient size to record the passage of
the centuries But on the Lake Flirt
works the case is different. On the
crests of these artificial upheavals the
live oak is growing in luxuriance. While
the age OF the largest specimens of these
trees cannot accurately be determined,
1t is safe to say they are from 700 to
1000 years old. And they have had
termination and continuous life since
the earth was disturbed by the hand of
man. America is called the new world
and Florida is the newest part of it, for
the polyp has not yet ceased his work
of creation here. And yet it is of such
great age that many of the important
events of the old worlds history are re-
cent when compared with what we know
has happened in the new. Barton d.
Jones, IN Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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Temperance Reading .
FIVE STEPS.

A little sip of cider,
A little sip of beer;
A taste that's rather bitter,
But what is there to fear?
A glass of foaming lager,
A choice perfumed cigar;
It's funny what fanatics
Those Temperance people are.
Say, boys, here's to our welfare
May none here lack dime
10 buy glass of LIQUOR
At any other time.
Say, can't you trust fellow?
Give us a drop of gin
10 stop the dreadful gnawing
That's going on within.
Found dead-a common drunkardl
Alas! how came he there?
1t was the beer and cider;
Beware! be,Ddre! BEwARRl!
Temperance Banner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

mo SIR" said the Colonel defiant
~. mo sir. This idea of a prayer cure
is infinite bosh; tits supreme absurdity.
Now look at me; do you suppose all
the praying in the world could do me
any good?" And the pastor, who is a
very conscientious man, sighed deeply,
aud sadly replied that he did not be-
lieye it would. And yet the Colonel did
not seem to be very happy over the adj
mission. Detroit Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

brown bread: Two pints of rye
meal, one pint of corn meal, one-half
cup of molasses, teaspoonful of soda,
mix (not too hard) with tepid water;
have baking tin or dish well buttered,
bake from two to three hours. If you
like 1T moist, cover after it begins to
brown. Please try this, sisters. l think
It healthful, - Toledo Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
- o =
Beer.

Much salt in the food says physi-
clan, makes one very thirsty. Why?
Because an excess of salt having been
taken into the blood, the kidneys
hasten to turn it out of the system; and,
in turning out the salt, they have to elm
mate large quantity of water in order
blood is left too thick, and the person
feels thirsty. Now, one reason why
beer drinkers go back so soon and re-
peatedly to the public house is because
salt is put into their beer for them;
and, taking the effect of the salt and of
the alcohol together, there is no doubt
that beer aggravates thirst instead of
guenching it. Beer drinkers imagine
that abstainers from alcohol drink
lot of cold water" But, in point of
fact, it is the beer drinkers who drink the
slot of cold water" Any beer drinker
who goes to the food department of
the South Kinsington Museum will there
see the constituents of the beer all sep
arated in visible form in their proper
proportion, and he will learn that out
of twenty pints of beer that he buys
nineteen are water Nearly one pint is
alcohol and the rest is treacly residue,
with salt and other unimportant con
stituents. The treacly matter repre-
sents the food material or residual bar
ley left in the beer. The alcohol may
be partially oxidized in the system, but
its effects are chiefly felt in taking the
edge off those Sensibilities by means of
which the system is conscious of fa-
tigue; and large part of the ALCOHOLICS
exhaled by the lungs and skin, as is
shown by the smell which eminates
from the drinker.
Beer, when taken at meal times by
those whose stomachs have been trained
to look for it., provokes q secretion of
gastric Juice, and its alcohol is rapidly
washed out of the stomach in order that
the solution of the food may not be
hindered. If stronger alcoholic bever-
ages are taken, such as wine or spirits.
digestion is more completely arrested
pending their removal, and, as is well
known, if the glass of wine be repeated
too often, digestion is altogether pre-
vented, and few hours afterward the
food has to be returned by the way it
entered. In this case it is generally
said that ''the salmon has disagreed"
Will Iue lulOIIuudue ulHeT-OuIi Dub l.
have generally observed that the ca
pacity for walking straight is as much
impaired as is the capacity for digesting
food, and, unless when wine had bee'
taken largely, never saw 'the salmonn
make man ill.-M Y. Herald. .f
For SEVERAL WEEKS the question:
"Should the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors be prohibited by
lawp" was discussed by the Belfast
Debating Society. On being put to the
vote it was carried in the affirmative by
a very large majority. This is one of
the many straws that just at present in
dictate which way the wind is blowing,
and the velocity with which it is going
The storm is rapidly rising which, in its
fury, will sweep away the liquor traffic.
T.3ah Tiaaap,A all
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

"A Polish novelist has written $50
stories. No one thought so man stories
could be put on one pole.-N. o. Plea
y1t1;e.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

ALCOHOL INJURIES THE BLOOD by
changing the color and chemical com
position of its corpuscles. Joseph Cook.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-03-01
Vick's Floral Guide

Esor 1883 is an elegant book of $50 pages, 3
l. Colored Plates of Flowers and Vegeta-
bles, and more than 1000 illustrations Of the
choicest Flowers, Plants and Vegetables, and
Directions for growing. 1t is handsome enough
for the Centre Table or a Holiday Present.
Send on your name and post office address
with 10 cents, and I will send You copy
postage paid This is not quarter of its cost
1t is printed in both English and German. II
you afterwards order seeds deduct the 10 cents
Yieks SEEDS are the best in the world The
Floral Guide will tell how to get and grow
them.
"Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden" l75
pages. 6 Golored Plates, 500 Engravings. For
80 cents in paper covers $l00 in elegant cloth
In German or English.
"Viek's Illustrated Magazine Pages, a
Colored Plate in every number and many fine
Engravings. Price 81 IS a year; five copies for
$500 Specimen numbers sent for 10 cents;
trial copies for % cents
JAMES WICK, Rochester, N. Y.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-03-01
Succession Sale,

Succession of Hannah P. Dickson, deceased
Dy virtue of writ of sale issued from the
- Honorable End judicial District Court in
and for Bossier parish, La, and to me directed,
Il will proceed to sell at the Court house door,
in the town of Bellevue, La. on Monday,
the End day of April, 1883, the following
described land belonging to the succession Of
Hannah p. Dickson, deceased, to-wit:
West half of northeast quarter, and east
half OF southeast quarter of section thirty
five t35l, and west half of northwest quarter
of section fifteen u.s., township twenty-five
C22l, range fourteen "a and west half of north
east quarter of section one ~, and northwest
fractional quarter of section fourteen 14,)
southeast quarter of northeast quarter
and southeast quarter of section eleven (ll),
and west half of section one tl) !, and west half
OF northeast quarter, and northeast quarter of
northeast quarter of section twelve tI2) and
west half of section twelve (l2) in township
twenty one t2ll range fourteen t14), and the
west half of east half of section one ~ town
ship twenty (20) range fourteen tl4) and the
east half OF northeast quarter of section thir-
ty-one f3I J township twenty two (22l, range
thirteen u3), and lot 6, and south halt of north
west quarter, and north half of southwest
quarter and north half of southeast quarter,
and southwest quarter of northeast quarter of
section twenty-eight 1881, and south half of
southeast quarter Of section twenty-nine f29l
and west half of west half of section ten 10l,
and west half of west half of section Is, in
township %, range IA, containing 1850 acres,
more or less.
Terms of Sale-Cash, if appraisement or
two-thirds of same be bid; otherwise real estate
will be re.advertised and sold according to
law, OF aeredit of twelve months, for what ii
will bring-credit purchasers to execute IL
months bonds, with approved personal seeuri-
ty, with mortgage and vendors lien retained
and bearing 8 per cent. interest from day OF
sale &. E. WYCHE, Sheriff
and ex.oficio Auctioneer, Bossier Par, La