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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-28

to make or save a country. Is 1t
riRlH or fair to give pensions to some
since 1862, '63 or '64 and to others
oniy Since 1880 with the same merit I?
Argument in such plain matters is
o1ig q waste of time and patience.
But we hear much of fraud. No
dosDt occasionally, but.onIy OCCASION
aliy.a case Of fraud does get through
neWnsion office, and still more fire.
qui inlly cases without sufficient mer.
It, npt nearly all have some merit.
Bts1on the other hand there are a
grea many more meritorious claims
reJsqed for want of the technical and
STREE proof required by the pension
Office Because a few improper
clalaps 8 allowed is it any good rea-
son Ely just claims should not be al
Z ~ 1 ! 4 and national promises made
Iss5ar The government IS constant
" paying improper claims unknow-
lngly, and the same things taken
placein all relations of life. Are we
for this to destroy our government,
abolisl justice and disorganize socie-
ty? lrather think not. The gov
ernmett at time when its life was
in the talance offered pensions to all
volunteers who should be wounded
or disabled. Long after conquering,
armies were thus induced pro-
cured and even disbanded, congress
undertakes to deprive these same vol
unteers and their dependent kinsman
of large portion of their rights. l
submit whether this does not smack a
little of what is so often hurled at the
soldiers, freud.
Ore othelthing may be said on this
subject. in conclusion. There are
thousands f honest and proper pen
sion claims which have.been rejected
or suspended for the want of such
proof as is prescribed by the pension
laws or mole particularly the rules
of the pension office, which require
the claimants to prove by commits
stoned Officers or not less than two
comrade soldiers the time, place and
circumstances of their wounds or dis
abilities while in the service. This is
often not only impracticable but i'm
possible. | know of claimants who
can prove by abundant civilian testi.
mony that when they were dischag-
ed from the army, or soon thereafter,
they were broken down in health
with crOnic diseases, but as the law
';paY stands there is no help for them.
Such claims before a jury or court of
law would be allowed without any
trouble. Congressional legislation is
surely called for here, and now is the
time to do it under the great voice of
the Chicago convention.
DEFENDER.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
S , = = IS
PORTUGAL GRAPE WINE,

UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE.
Used IN the principal Churches for Commu-
nfon Excellent for Females Weakly Persons
and the aged.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-28
How Clothes Pins are made.

A dealer thus describes the manu-
ufacture of clothes pins to reporter {:
"They white 'em out at the rate of
eighty a minute. A beech or maple
log, foot in diameter and ten feet
long, will whittle up into 10000
clothes pins. That log won't cost
more than 50. The clothes pins they
cut out of it will be worth $96.40. It
will take them two hours and a half
to run that log into clothes pins,
which is whittleing out 4.S00an hour.
AT ten hours day they get away
with four logs and have on hand
$4,000 clothes pins worth 1885 60.
Now, the lumber for these pins has
only cost So or so. But then these
logs must be sawed up by four differ
ent kinds of saws, One separates the
log into lengths of sixteen inches :;
another saws these into boards three
quarters of an inch thick another
cuts the boards into strips three-quar-
ters of an inch square. These strips
are caught on wheel that hurries
them to a gang of saws which chop
them into clothes pins lengths. These
lengths are carried by swift NOV
ing belt to a machine that seizes
them, sets them in a lathe that gives
them their shape in the twinkling of
an eye, and throws them to an attend.
ant, who feeds them to a saw that
moves backward and forward as if it
were madder than snake. This
saw chews out the slot that the wash
erwoman shOves down over the
clothes on the line, and the clothes pin
is ready, all but kiln drying and pol.
ishing."
"The latter is done in a revolving
iron cylinder, the same as castings
are cleaned. All these processes cost
money, and when the manufacturer
comes to put up his goods for sale he
finds that his profit on the As. 900 pins,
his days work is only about Sl93.
We pay the manufacturer cent a
dozen, or a trifle more than SS a
thousand. We are compelled, in
these close times. to sell them for 4
cents dozen, or S32 thousand.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-28

This is a free country sure. but
you can't get DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
free OF charge. it costs you quarter
every tune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-28

n nT n for the work ing class send 10 cents
TIL III for postage, and we will mail you
K1f ERkf free. a royal. valuable box of sample
y u UuD goods that will put you in the way
of making more money in few days than
you thought possible at any business. Capital
not required We will start you. You can
work all the time or in spare time only. The
work is universally adapted to both sexes,
young and old You can easily earn from 50
cents to 81 every evening That ali whowant
work may test the business, we make this un-
Parcllelcd offer; to all who are not well salts
ned we will send 81 to pay for the trouble of
writing us. Full particulars direction, etc,
sent free. Fortunes will be made by those
who give their time to the work. Great sue.
cess absolutely sure. Don't delay. Start now.
Address SrINsoN, & Co., Portland, Maine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-28

Why suffer torture with Corns and
Bunions, when Schroeder's Corn Sol
vent will cure them. Is cents.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23

nually in aid of the school, in return
for which we are required to admit
every deaf-mute child whose parents
have been residents of the state for the
three years preceding the application.
"Of the fifty-eight deaf-mute institu-
tions in this country there are now fif-
teen which have adopted the articula-
ton and lip-reading system, and, as all
the rest have special departments in
which the most promising pupils are
taught the system, there is every reason
to suppose that it will become general.
There are over 1000 pupils In fifty
eight schools. The last census made
35, 900 deaf-mutes in this country, of all
ages, of whom this state had 1900"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23
NO. 36.


| From the French of.Laconte de Lisle.
From those loved like sad exile banned.
WIN halting steps leave my. life's sweet
Not, twice mems eyes, see that enchanted
land.
On the high hill, whereto the pathway
strays,
| stop, as down the horizon disappears
My lone last hope; and bitter are my tears.
Sufferer, believe. thy mute. distress hath
truth;
Nor e'er shall. flower. again thy heart or
youth
At cruel memory of thy bygone bliss.
To newer anguish rather turn thy sight,
And let fall back to their eternal night
The love and luck that thou vast doomed to
miss.
Times heavenlyIpledges all are proven lies.
Thy ruins shall not bloom before thine ewes:
Give their dead ashes to oblivion's g breath.
larry not, HE thee to thy rest profound,
bethink thee, living In the shade of death,
No one who loves thee on this earth is
found.
So life must be; in vain we strive or cry.
The weak may weep, the fool may writhe In
wrath;
The sage laughs at it, knowing he must die.
n the tomb's silence where at last mans
path
Jones upon shelter, careless what may be
n earth or heaven, rest through eternity!
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23
Pay of American Authors.

The pay of authors is apparently ar
affair of private business and public
concern. What a man is paid for a
picture or book, or sketch or poem
is always a subject of speculation. A
judicious interviewing of publishers re-
veals some light on the matter. Mr.
Stedman is broker and banker, hap
PLY for him, for his poetry and prose
together would not pay house rent.
Mrs. Burnett gets $1,000 for a novel
published serially and as much again
when published in book form. Mr..
Howell gets about $4,000 for serial
and percentage on the book publica-
ton. Mr.. Marion Crawford has aver
aged about $4,000 apiece for his stories.
Mr.. Stoddard has to do an enormous
amount of work to keep the pot boiling,
and If he had not a regular salary as
literary critic on the Mail and Express
he would find it hard to get along. 81.
S. of Dale" is hard working Boston
lawyer, who takes novel-writing as a
recreation. John Burroughs is farm
er and also United States bank in
spector. Frank r. Stockton travels
from place to place finding material
for his stories and enjoying life after
the fashion of the good Bohemian. DR..
Holmes has "riches, honor, troops of
friends" besides his literary profess
sion. Colonel Higginson devotes him.
self almost wholly to writing, both in
original work, editing and compiling.
Mr.. Aldrich devotes himself to editing,
which many of his admirers rebel |
against, feeling Pegasus is put to the
plough. Mr.. Cable was formerly
oookkeeper in a cotton house, and his
public readings have already given him
more substantial returns than his nov
lis. Charles Dudley Warner is an ed
tor, his purely literary work is side
luxury. Julian Hawthorne and Edgar
'awcet write everything and every
vhere, and remind one, INTELLECTUALLY,
f those gymnasts of Barnum's who
eep three balls in the air at once with
heir hands and play football with
heir feet. Harry James had an ample
ortune to begin with, and he is nov
list made rather than born, and a very
reditable article of self-manufacture
g is.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23
The Etiquette Of Cards.

Vitising cards play so large part in
the social life of our cities that It'll well
to understand their use.
1t is not crime to turn down wrong
corners of visiting cards, but it is at
least better to turn them rightly. A
young girl from a western city, making
a visit to lady in Boston, sent up her
card with the corner turned downs
thing that should never be done when
the person called upon is at home. This
mistake, made by refined young lady,
suggests the desirableness of little
technical information for girls brought
up in parts of the country where card
etiquette is less understood than in our
large cities.
When call IS made with the hope to
see the person called upon, inquiry
should be made at the door if the lady
is at home, and if SO, card should be
sent up, that there may be no mistake
as to the VISITORS name.
When it is regular reception day,
on which the lady Of the house has given
out that she will stay at home to see her
friends, no card should be sent up to
her, but the visitor should leave one
upon the hall table.
When the person visited is not at
home, either the whole right-hand end
or the upper right-hand corner, of the
card may be turned down, as token
that the visitor has called in person.
The best way to make what the French
call the "visit of DIGESTION" after
dinner, or the call after an evening
party, is-except in cases of real init
macy-to leave turned-down card, as
it would be too great a tax ON the time
of hostess if she were compelled to
receive each guest again, separately.
Cards may be sent by post, on arriv-
ing at place, to notify friends of ones
presence in town, and may also be sent
on departure, marked "P. P. CO.
pour prendre conge-to take leave.
A married lady who is strictly pune
tilious about social observances leaves
her husbands card with her own.
The Euglish style of gentleman's cards,
which is being widely adopted in Amer
ica, is small card, not much more |
than half the size of lady's. But |
Frenchman still uses cards as large as
his wife's as was formerly the American
custom.
1t is much better never to turn a card
down than to turn it down not accord
ng to the rule, for not to turn it is of
40 consequence, while, for instance, to
send a card to lady who is at home
loes betray ignorance of the social con-
one is attempting to observe.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23
"LIFE ON THE OCEAN wAvE.n

GA Life on the Ocean Wavep'
The man who wrote 1t was green;
He never has been at sea,
And storm he never has seen
He never has seen a wave
As it dashed o'er the VESSELS deck;
He never has seen fire at sea,
Or been floating upon wreck.
He never has been aroused
From his mornings gentle doze
By the sound of the splashing water
AS it fell from the horrid hose.
He never has heard man
Scrubbing right over hislhead,
With q noise sufficient to rouse
From the grave the slum5ering dead.
He never has seen fat woman
Growing thinner day by day,
And leaning over the VESSELS side,
Throwing herself away.
While people look carelessly on,
Though in tears the woman may be,
And unfeelingly say it is nothing at all
Only the roll of the sea.
Seasick he never has been to his toes,
And crept into bed In his coat,
While every motion increased his throes,
And his feelings were all in his throat.
This man may have sailed in boat,
In some puddle, or on q sound;
But If he has been to sea and wrote
Such song he deserved to be drowned
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23
A SORROWFUL STORY.
A Young Girl Induced by a Soldier to
Leave Her Parents, at Dubuque,
and Come to Omaha.

Omaha Bee.
One of the many thousand instance.
which manifests mans perfdy, anC
illustrates the manner in which many
| young girls and women are led astray
was brought to light in this city last
week.
1t will be remembered that when the
encampment was held some weeks ago
in Dubuque, Iowa, it was attended BY
some of the soldiery from Fort Omaha.
Among those attending it was then
member of one of the infantry COM
pani.s, but who is now on detail in an
other line of duty. While in that city
he formed the acquaintance of young
and simple minded girl, named Mary
Sebec, who is not yet fifteen years old
and the daughter of a respectable tailor
in that city. Before departing for his
post of duty he wrested promise from
her that she would come to Omaha as
soon as he could return and send her the
necessary amount to pay her railroad
fare. A short time ago the remittance
was made to her by him and on Tues
day last the girl started for Omaha.
On the train she attracted the attention
OF a commercial traveller by her simple
ways, to whom she told the object of
her visit to the Gate City of the west.
The drummer related the girls story
to the conductor of the train who took
her into his keeping, and when his
charge arrived in Omaha turned her
over to Capt. Payne, the policeman at
the U. p. depot. Within half an hour
afterward the nations protector ap-
peared and the girl seemed overjoyed
TO see him. Miss Sebec was allowed by
Capt. Payne TO 60 away witch him and
soon they both disappeared. He took
her to a house ON lower Sixteenth |
street, where he represented to the
andlady that the girl was his sister.
He remained with her for some time
and finally returned to the fort. In a
couple of days afterward he came to
zee her and quarrel ensued between
hem. When he had left, the sobs of
he girl brought the landlady to her
DOM TO whom she told the pitiful story
# her wrongs and expressed strong
lesire to return beneath her fathers
oof. The unfortunate young girl had
10 money and ways were to be devised
y which she might return. The sym.
'athies of the government employees
we're enlisted, who sue ceeded in secur-
ng pass for her and yesterday morn
1g she started for her home, whi ch
he had so foolishly deserted.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23
The Departing Mother Hubbard.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
There is strong probability that tn,
flamboyant and grotesque Mother Hub
bard gown will have to go. 1t came il
as sort of protest against the aesthetic
close-fitting style of dress which turned
so many feminine heads and accentu
ated so much of feminine anatomy 6
few years ago; and having served its
purpose it seems to be gradually giving
way to kinder and more coherent infiu-
ence. Nobody ever called the Mother
Hubbard a graceful or pretty thing, we
believe, nor has anybody attempted to
justify preference for an article so
glaringly out of harmony with present
conditions of progress; and yet women
of all ages, stations and varieties of
| physical outline have boldly taken it
upon them and made it regnant and
familiar. 1t has certain merit of
comfort, we may be sure, particularly
in hot weather, and under circumstan-
ces that do not need mentioning; but
the fact remains, all the sam ,, that it is
in general sense manifestly and dis
tinctly preposterous.
The woman does not live, we take
leave to think, who thoroughly respects
herself when inside of a Mother Hub
bard gown. She can not help feeling
that she is more or less of a deception,
and that at best men are bound to won
der if she wonld be worth considering
were she clothed in candid and COM
prehensible manner. To state the
case little differently, she must |
know that it is impossible for an
intelligent observer to make her out in |
a garb so crude and confusing, and that
in not being made out, she is very apt
to be estimated lightly and unapprov-
ingly. In short, the Mother Hubbard
has an air of premeditated imposture
about it which an honest woman, anx-
ious not only to be good at heart, but to
be esteemed both good and handsome,
must find it difficult to endure with
patience and self-satisfaction. A good
deal is to be pardoned, of course, to the
tyranny of fashion; but it still remains
true, and women certainly understand
it, that no weight of authority can ever
make a Mother Hubbard sincere and
garment.
1t was Montaigne, we believe, who
that clothes were invented
to mask and palliate human ugliness.
Tested by such theory, the Mother
Hubbard is notsimply a casual mistake,
out a positive and wanton assault upon
,he very philosophy of dress in the alb
'tract, since it unquestionably dees not
hide ugliness, but "gives it away" so
20 speak, and renders vague and impal-
oable all claims that the form might |
otherwise have to reasonable admira-
ion. There is harmony in folds, to be
ure, and the mere fact that gown is
oose and free does not condemn it; but
he Mother Hubbard has no folds, and
is looseness and freedom can not be ,,
econciled to any rule of art, nor any
ound view of the common fitness of
hings. 1t is in every sense a misfit,
nd appears to be concocted for the ex-
ress purpose of setting all healthy pre-
epts at defiance. Emerson's woman
7ho said that she felt serene peace of /
mind in being we'll dressed that religion
ould not afford would have hung her
cad and fed to the attic had she been
aught in a Mother Hubbard.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23
Women i'm America.

Miss Emily Faithful has carried back
with her to England from her last visit
to the United States n high opinion of
the position filled by women in this
country. According to statement
made by her and published in the Lon
don newspapers, America is far in ad-
vance of the old world in realizing the
ideal of equality in the sexes, so far as
occupation is concerned. She points
out that by degrees women are taking
positions in almost every trade and pro-
fession, while, on the contrary, in Eng
land there are but very few into which
they can find an entrance. She attri-
butes this success to the fact that in
America the old prejudice about work
ing for living, which is still strong
obstacle in England, has been very
largely overcome, and seems to init
mate that with its complete overthrow
the avenues open for the two sexes in
classes of work fer which the two are
alike fitted will not greatly differ. In
her opinion, America is unquestionably
the paradise for married women; in
fact, she seems to think that American
men spoil their wives, taking upon
themselves uutleS IN tne way OF mousse
keeping which no married women in
would think for moment of
imposing upon her husband. Alto
gether, Miss Faithful puts the American
several degrees higher in the
social and industrial condition than her
in the old world. But,
lone the less, she insists that for single
english women to go to the United
States, except under friendly auspices,
md with some definite end in view,
would be to assume risk which could
lot be contemplated with any degree of
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23

THE wealthiest man in Kalamazoo,
Mich, was approached in the street by
an excited little boy, who said: @Mis-
ter, my sister is in the fume, over there;
if you'll get her ont I'll give you ST."
The man rescued the imperiled child.
A few days afterward the boy entered
his Office and put on his desk 81 in small
coin, having broken open toy bank
and sold hobby-horse to raise the
amount
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23

and De Long, of Hayes and Greely, as
the stories of shipwreck and rescues in
the days of Robinson Crusoe read like
those of the days of Enoch Arden.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23

A little four-year-old said to his
mother last week: 'Mother, believe
God thinks I'm dead" "WhyP" asked
the mother somewhat astonished at the
remark. "Cause 1 haven't said my
prayers for week."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23

The summers sport at Block Island
is swordfishing. Frequently the game
shows fight, and in such cases the ex-
citement is intensh. The swordfsh
caught in those waters weigh from 200
to 800 pounds, and the swords are from
two to three feet in length.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23

The best way to keep sacred the Sab
bath is to use it as a day of rest, recre-
alton and amusement Lucretia
Mott.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-21
Failure of P. d. Kimberlv 3. 20.

SHARON, Pa, Dec. 20.-The firm of P. L.
Kimberly e. Co., operating the Atlantic Iron
works, suspended payment at noon to-day
1t being pay day, probably from $4,000 to
$780, oo were required to pay the hands, and
This amount could not be raised. When run
ming full turn 500 men were employed, and
the failure is serious blow 10 the town. At
the present time no definite reports, as to the
assets and liabilities, can be obtain ed- Brad
streets report the firm valued at $4,000, 0OO
with credit very good. Inquiry at local
banks elected the answer that they were not
hurt by the suspension. Late this afternoon
no papers had been fled against the company
at Mercer. This firm was thought to be the
statanehest in the valley, and the failure was
am entire surprise. The suspension is sup
posed to be due to the extreme dullness of
trade The mill shut down this afternoon,
but it is the general opinion the embarrass-
ment will only be temporary, and that the
employees will agree 10 an extension, and
work win be resumed probably next week.