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How Medicine is Taken.

1t is to be feared that to most people
medicine is not an erudite science or q
learned art, but is little more than the
the commonplace administration of
physic. They cannot understand medi'
cine without drugs, and its virtue and
power are popularity measured by the VIC
lence of its operations. Its very name
Is, in ordinary parlance, synonymous
with physic. Take from it its pills
and poti0ns, and with them you take
away its whole art and mystery. They
do not believe in a scheme of treatment
however deep laid and skilful, which
does not include a cerain statutory
dosage. So that as a rule medical men
are practically compelled TO give their
patients a visible object of faith In some
form of physic, which may be at most
designed to effect some very subordinate
purpose. And it is remarkable how
strongly, even among the educated
classes, this feeling prev ais.
Cures by the administration of mix
lures, and boluses is so fixed and ancient
a tradition that it is only very slowly
that the world will give it up. The
anxiety of the friends of the patients
wants to do more than follow the simple
directions of nursing" which have
been so carefully indicated and possesses
apparently 50 little remedial power.
There is nothing of the unknown about
them in which a fiuttering hope Of
great advantage can nestle. Thus it
is necessary to educate the world into
a belief in medicine apart from drugs,
which finds its power of curing in
adaptation of the common conditions
of life and applications of physiological
| facts-a medicine which takes into its
hands the whole life, and fashions its
every detail with scientific definiteness.
1t is found In every day practice that
| this popular misunderstanding of thl
modern spirit of medicine constantly
checks the little tentative advances Of
a more scientific treatment. and it is
necessary that it should be generally
understood how powerful the various
processes of the economy may be effec-
ted by the manipulation of the condi-
| lions of common life,
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Congo.

The native races of the Congo are
born mimics, and when listening to a
missionary sermon simulate an air OF
devotion so admirably that it is ditiicult
to believe that their deep "Amens"
mean nothing whatever. A recent
traveller speaking Of n of these ser
mons says: "The king constantly took
up the end of some phrase, and repeated
it with patronizing interest after the
missionary, just to show he was at
tending, throwing meanwhile a glance
at his wives, who were not pursuing
their ayocations outside with sufficient
diligence. A short prayer concluded
the service, and when the king rose
from his knees he promptly demanded
the loan of a handscrow to effect some
alteration in his new canoe"
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women IN the Garden.

We recommend to all women who
are fortunate enough to have a piece of
land at their command to cultivate a
vegetable garden. The culture of
strawberries, raspberries. blackberries,
g~ooseberries, currants and golden yege-
tables is as delightful and profitable as
anything In which a woman a engage.
She may sprinkle her garden well with
flowers. AL the better for that, A
SNOWFALL in this corner and a rose in
that, IA dahIia bed there and a moss bor-
der here, will not be out of place. Only
let the substantial and useful constitute
the chief part. A touch of the ornate,
ike a ribbon on a good bonnet, isnot in
the least Objectionable. In all the
schools the girls study botany. 1t is
healthful, pleasing and useful. The
principles of horticulture are the prin-
ciples of botany put into practice. Far
mers study agriculture; why should
not their wives and daughters stud,
horticulture? The employment is both
beautiful and pleasant. Wbat woman
cannot raise beets, tomatoes, onions,
lettuce, and furnish her WI table with
them? What woman cannot p'aLt a
raspberry bush, or currant, or goose
berry, and attend to it well. The eX-
pertinent is both pleasing and profit
able.
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Laundry and Farm.

A number of Chinese have given up
the laundry business in New York and
gone to farming, in a small way, near
the city. All Jock claims to have made
a profit of 1000 from his patch last
e SO Lum has rented a small farm
on Staten island and has already seeded
five acres with imported Chinese vege-
tables, cabbages, turnIps, lettuce, yari-
Gus kind of beans, yams, Chinese
pumpkins, and squashes. The vege-
tables are sold entirely among the
Cinnamon
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MexIeo's Grand Palace.

The "Palacio Del Gobemo''of repub-
lican Mexico was built by its kingly
oppressors, This magnificent struct-
IRE, occupying an entire square 675 feet
in length, built around half a dozen in
terror patlos, or open courts, were com
menced by the AZtecs and finished by
Cortez and his Spanish vice-royal sue
eessors. 1t Is situated in the east side
of the square, which is south of the ca
thedral. This square is the most beau
tiful in the city, being laid out after
the European fashion, ornamented
with Towering shrubs and eucalyptus
trees, and adorned with statues by the
unfortunate Carlotta. This is also the
place where the famous Teocali, or sa-
cred place of the Aztecs, was situated
and where at least twenty thousand of
human victims were annually slaugh.
tered. Passing In at the central en-
rance of this building, where dusky
sold ers were walking their beats, and
many others "off duty" were lounging
around, giving it more the appearance
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he knew no more. When he recovered
he found himself IN a public street, at
high noon, half clad. and weltering in
blood. Good Christians had come to
his help and brought him home, and
here he was; but he knew nothing OF
his master.
The brother no longer thought 1t
right to keep the young dukes secret,
and at once every, effort was made to
discover his whereabouts. All In VAIN.
For days search was made with every
assistance from the most powerful IN
the land, but nothing was learnt OF
the poor young man A week passed,
and despair had already seized the
hearts of all who loved the duke,
when one day a fisherman arrived at
the palace where be had lived, and
requested to speak with its inmates,
saying that he feared he could give
them a clew as to the dukes disap
peaTance,
This Is what he told On the night
of the eleventh of June he was i'll his
boat on the river not far from shore,
when be saw two men come down a
certain street look about them and see
ing no one, return as they had come.
In a few moments more, two others
came and Teconnoitred in the same
way, and then gave a low whistle
Instantly two men, mounted on the
anne horse, rode down TO the waters
edge. The horse, was white, the fig
ures dressed in rich clothes, but III an
instant more he saw that II was dead.
The horseman came as close as he
could to the water. The other four
men lifted off the dead body, which
was quite stiff, and using all their
strengthening it far INTO the river.
Instantly something dark was seen
to float on the surface.
"What is that?" said the voice of
the mar on horseback.
sit is his cloak" replied n of the
men.
The words cam clearly to the fish
erman's ears across the still water.
Then one of them threw a great stone
upon the cloak which sunk it and all
disappeared from his view. He had
said nothing of the matter because he
was afraid. What was it to him If
great people killed each other? But
since all had been called upon to tell
what they knew he had come to do so.
Fisherman and seamen from all quar-
tiers were instantly set to searching the
river. The result was the discovery
of the dukes body, with money and
iewelry about it. Nothing had been
taken from him. The object was not
robbery, and although the servant had
been robbed, this might have been done
by those who found him senseless.
The man, when questioned, swore
that he knew of no friends in mis-
masters who were not persons of posi-
ton, nor of any love affair whatever.
lie had once thought that the person
in a mask was a disguised woman, but
it might have been either a slender lad
OF All attenuated old
The dukes dead lips were sealed for
ever, and there was no letter about his
person OF in his apartments to indicate
that he had correspondence with any
stranger. They buried him in the
| tomb OF his fathers. Who killed HIM,
OF why they desired his death, was a
mystery never solved. No n cares to
solve it now. No one ever will.
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Three Centuries.

A gentleman living in RehOboth,
Mass, recently found among his papers
a copy of The Herald Of The United
States, published at Warren, Il. l., in
1903, by Nathaniel Phillips, which
continued a notice of the death of
Matthews Watson Of Darlington, who
lived in three centuries, and who built
The first brick house in that town.
Mfr. Watson was born in 1897, and
died in 1903, at the age OF lO7 years.
Probably few similar cases could be
found.
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UNFINISHED.

The day has ended and the sun has set,
Unfinished is the task | planned to do
sit and ponder DER will deep regret
The golden sunlight vanished from my
view.
Apd thus full oft at last when life doth
close,
And toll is ended for the restless feet,
And for the busy hands the long repose,
Tho cherished work Of life is incomplete
o Thou who knowcst ali from sun 10 sun,
From birthday morning to deaths eve
ming chill,
Look ON Thy children, with their task IN
done,
In loving kindness, and forgive them
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a big BOOK.

The largest book ever made at the
Government Printing Office in Wash
mgton has just been finished. 1t is
bound in ~sheepskin and Russia leather,
is one foot and four inches in breadth,
contains 10000 pages and weighs l40
pounds.
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A Royal GToupe.

Queen Victoria has allowed a Ger
man photographer to take a group of
herself, her daughter, the Crown Prin-
cess of Germany, her granddaughter,
the Princess of SAKE Meiningen, and
her great granddaughter, the Princess
Fedora of Saxe-Meiningen, aged five
years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
IMAGINARY DISEASES.
How People Persuade Themselves That
They are Troubled with Bodily Ailments.

How People Persuade Themselves That
They are Troubled with Bodily Ailments.
"a great deal of what passes for heart
disease is mild dyspepsia, said ayouDg
physician yesterday. Nervousness is
an aristocratic name for irritability and
bad temper and two-thirds of the So
called malaria is nothing but laziness
A fellow practitioner once told me of an
old lady he knew of in Newburyport,
Mass She had kept her bed for three
years and in spite of her physician's
assurances. she believed herself hope
lessly paralyzcd. One night her grand
son got up Il ghost to scare her and the
old lady ran half a mile before they
could catch her.
The longer an hallucination is in
dulged the more deeply rooted it be-
comes. In many cases it ultimately de-
velops into mOnomania or dclUsional in
sanity. DR.. S Weir Mitchell performs
many of his most remarkable cures OF
so-called nervous diseases simply by his
wonderful success in persuading patients
that nothing on earth ails them. Few
physicians have the ability to do this,
and still fewer have the discretion to
adopt course OF treatment adapted to
the mental peculiarities of each particu-
lar case. Sometimes persuasion is nee
essary, but frequently little tonic COM
bined with good scolding produces. the
desired result.
when q delusion is harmless it is
often the best plan to humor it, A rela-
tive OF mine, who was a clergyman,
lived for several years in my family. He
firmly believed that be could not sleep
after preaching on Sunday night unless
he was put under the influence of an
opiate. Time and again | have seen
him doze oil as soundly as a tired child
after taking teaSpOontuf Of sweetened
water which | had prescribed as NOR
phia.' Without this harmless little
dose, however, he would toss about rest
lessly for hours,
"rhe negroes indulge some very
funny supeTstitions about diseases and
theh cure. One of the things Of which
they have peculiar horror is the com
mon difficulty known as elongation Of
tllC I't.ltlLb' " IiSil L " 10 IJl li9lII
newly-tiedged student in Virginia an old
negress called on me one evening. Her
hair was pulled back from her forehead
and knottcd with q cord in q tight
bunch on the crown of her head. She
was evidently suffering from bad
cold.
MARS doctor, she said. Use afraid
Use got fallin' OBJ de palate. Use done
tied up my harr' as hard as can, but
it don't pear to make it no better, an l
'spects mebby need some pills
Il examined her throat and found
nothing the matter but slight inhamma-
ton. 4 don't think YOU need any pills,
auntie, said I. If you can only get
your hair tied up a little closer for a
day or two | have no doubt your palate
will shorten up all right She came
again in a few days and toldme she was
much better, but her ole man had tied
her hair so hard that she had to sleep
with her eyes open, 'cause she couldn't
even make wink '-Phjladelpbja
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

THE chiefs of Ashantee have asked that
their country be annexed to England.
With all the magnificent buildings that
England possesses what use she could
make Of a shanty is rather hard riddle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
Any Small Boy, with a stick,

can kill tiger-if the tiger happens to b,
found when only little cub So consump
ton, that deadliest and most feared of dis
eases, in this country, can assureily be con
qnerod and destroyed if DR.. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery" be employed early
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

1T gives us great pleasure to state that
the merchant who was reported being at
the point of d a'h from an attack OF Pneu-
monia has entirely recoverei by the use
Of DR.. WIN. HALLS BALsAM FOR THE
LUNGS. And in giving publicity to this
statement we are actuated by motives OF
public benefaction, trusting that others
may be benefited.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

You can not invest $500 better than II
one of Wilson's Hand Mills. 1t is indis
pensable for the Poultryman at this season
of the year, when eggs are high. 1t is also
valuable for the Farmer and Housekeeper.
WILSON BROTHERS, Easton, Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
PORK MAKING.
The Secret Of Making 1t ProfitabIe-some
Good Advice.

Good Advice.
The prevailing opinion expressed by
Western New York farmers, at & recent
meeting of the Farmers Club at Roch-
ester, was opposed to the old-time prac-
tiCe of wintering our shoats and butch
ering them year or q year and half
old. The practice favored is to have
pigs Uttered in the spring by old breed
ing sows, OF improved breed, and butch
cred before the first of the next Janu-
airy. This practice is based on the be-
lief that swine feeding pays best which
keeps the animals growing rapidly from
birth to butchers block.
One member, who had practiced a
different method for some twenty years,
explained his system. He planned to
have a portion of the pigs Uttered early
in the spring, in order to have some
ready TO kill at ten months. Others
were Uttered in June, when cows milk
is plentiful on the farm and there is
good pasture. The June litter he kept
in thriving condition the first season and
through the winter. The next summer
he allowed them the run of pasture with
milk and Stops fattening in the autumn,
when they would average in weight
about four hundred pounds.
The secretary of the club, an advo-
cate for the practice of having pigs lit
tered in the spring, advised feeding the
pigs for the first six months on clover,
peas. middlings and skim milk and
other feed in which the albuminoids
predominant, the leading object during
these months being the rapid making of
muscle and bone rather than laying on
of fat. A good clover-pasture with milk
and mill-feed promotes rapid growth
until midsummer, when gleanings of
the wheat stubble, crop of field peas
and the like carries them on until the
first of October, when the final fatten-
ing process begins. At that season,
the secretary believed that no other food
makes good solid pork faster than old
oorn-meal cooked. Whether it always
pays to grind and cook the corn is an
other question.
The presidents experience had led
him to believe that pork can be made
more rapidly on cooked barley-meal than
on corn-meal. A member reported sue
cessful results with feed of oats and
barley mixed with corn-meal. His OBJ
servation had been that old hogs thrive
better on corn-meal alone, while
younger animals require a change of
food.
The members agreed that the state of
the market is an important factor in
deciding the most profitable time to
butcher and sell. The opinion was,
however, very generally expressed that
it does not pay to hold the pigs very
long after extreme cold weather begins.
Unless the animals are warmly housed
considerable loss of flesh occurs, for the
fat-formng ingredients are expended in
keeping up the vital heat.-M Y World.
An English magistrate has refused
to fine young woman for using OBJ
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

"WHAT / want" said a speaker, sis
plain, everyday sense" THAT'S what
you need" broke in a bystander.-Oa Cuy
Derrick,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

AUNT (severelY)-Don't you know its
wicked TO make such ugly faces?
Little Nee (innocently)-Wa God
wicked when he made yourS?-The Jad0e.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

As they were singing the voluntary in
church young man, 8 ting in the pew
back of gaily dressed lady, whispered to
friend by his side: Mrs. Browns bon
net is so loud that can not hear the sing
.ug."--N Y. Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

PAPA: Eyes, Harry, it is supposed the
moon is inhabited and is largely popula-
ted" Mustn't the people be dreadfully
crowded, specially when it's half moon"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

"To wHIBR is how man." said the pun
ster, who felt Of buzz saw TO see II it was
in mot. on.-N. \. journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

"WHAT is rarer than day in June?"
asks a contemporary. There are days in
November, young fellow, that are perfect
ly raw.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

A CORRESPONDENT wants to know if the
new process for making wheat is "bran
new process. "-LOlceH Courier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

To KEEP q cigar lighted one must not
talk too much This is one reason why
women do not smoke Ch{cddO Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

MEN who have National regulations with
out ituations-tramps.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

An interesting conversation oc-
CURED on Saturday between a drunken
countryman and one of Dave Siver's
dummies, in which countryman did all
the talking. The fellow told the DUNN
good morning, and as it made no reply
the drunken fellow became insulted and
rolled up his sleeves for fight, shook
his fist in its face, and said: II amt
afraid of anything that hits the grit, and
if you want anything outen me you can
gitit." As the dummy didn't want
anything the fellow walked off, saying:
"YoH can't bluff me with your town
clothes on. am a 'sumpthin' myself"
--Hancock (GG.J Bulletin,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

AN Italian jeweler has a clock made en-,
tirely OF bread. Anything viii get stale il
time Chicago Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
FARM AND FlRESlDE.

--Tho potatoes from whole seed ri
pened nine days earlier than those from
cut potatoes at the Ohio governmental
station. CLeyel0nd Leader.
t,.,ou1 c,1.o. rL,o. $500
Guns n,, o''n1 ,, I miGo ,ISss, t"o
1Po o 'E Gi' o ("P 5 'oH mn num- - ohu to
o0lil,5I 80 DI'-.,'''' 20" u oHt'Gi'
nie-tin-yoledo gl9dp,
D..-,-..,.,.........,
..,.--t ~ o3ol a'u pun plVs Sho'uu no1 De
P IahIeu IN Ine L'II; as many Oh Jhem
WIN getil'N'ye II aI.o"eu 70 remain OUT
an "'li'or IL ~ peIlpr 70 hJep Iilein ~
uool' uiC' 'I'J.uS' , 5lcn CRACK anu Pl"hV
very cary lr0y I'"'e$'
An exchange says that rocky forest
ana had os'Jer De kept IN woods until
resi- oi the farm IS IN the highest
'oie STATE OF cultivation. Ihere are
Us o. acres OF poor lana party
ought never TO nave been
lHaC "hiGh Is proved
$ mace TO produce
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

TIE eternal fitness Of things-Crayats are
not popular N a stock yard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

THE end of the world-the letter sd. y
Boston Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

IsN'T it queer a white man always feels
blue after painting a town red.-Peck's
Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

A VOLUME has lately been published on
"What to wear.n Now what we want is
sequel, entitled How to procure it,"-Bos-
ton Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

A GOOD REASON: mamma why II papa
bald:" ~ am his fourth wife, darling"
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"THE plays the thing,

"THE plays the thing,
Wherein m reach the conscience of the king"
And equally true is it that DR.. Pierce's
- Pleasant Purgative Pellets'' (the original
Little Liver Piils) are the most effectual
means that can be used to reach the seat Of
disease, cleansing the bowels and system,
and assisting nature in her recuperative
work. By druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

SQUASH is responsible for good deal OF
alleged pumpkin pie.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

1T isn't always the man with the most
gas who throws the brightest light on dark
subjects
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

A landslide is the most significant
movement in real-estate.-N. D. Ptcdyune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

WHEN is iron the most irouicalY When
it's railing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

The result Of twenty,
five years catarh:-
the bridge. or division
of my nose, was about
half gone. ! obtained a
bottle OF Ely's Cream
Balm; have used four
bottles, applying 1t TO
the affected parts with
q Bwab, which has about
cured up the nUEuils. J
had previously tried all
other remedies on the
market without pcrml-
NATURALIZATION,
96 North High Street,
Columbus Ohio.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

81 HAVE BEEN AFFLICTED with an Afrec-
ton of the Throat caused by diphtheria,
and have used various remedies, but nave
never found anything equal to BRowN's
BRONCHIAL TROCHEs.-Rer. q. FHump-
ton, Piketon, Hy. Sold only in boxes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

An English magistrate has refused
to fine young woman for using OBJ
scene language, because 1.-The woman
had really used no worse language than
be had heard magistrates who sat on
the benah use at their clubs of an even
ing"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

MoTTo for crazy-quilt manufacturers:
blessed are the peace makers. D. Chicago
S,ta
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

E3- None genuine without q bunch OF green
Hops on the white label. Shun ull The yilc,pois.
onous stuff with Hop or" Hops in their name.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

RAIsINs are sometimes like prophets
for instance, when they are stoned.-LOW-
ell Courier.