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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
French Farmers and Salt.

Salt is q commodity next to q neces-
sity for French farmers; yet it is so
heavily taxed, surrounded with so many
irritating conditions, as to limit its EN-
ploy. You cannot cart a barrel of sea
water to your home without permission
of the authorities. You would be sus-
pected of wanting to cheat the revenue
perhaps by manufacturing your own
salt. The tax brings in over 5000, 900
francs annually to the exchequer; bet
ter reduce that and make up the de-
ticiency on drink licenses. Mixed with
lime, salt is beneficial for all crops. 1t
is generally applied at the rate of three
to four hundred weights per acre, and
is most efficacious, according to Bous-
singault. when mixed with two-thirds
of its weight of lime or mari. Salt
exercises most favorable influence on
the formation of the ear of wheat, bar
ley and oats, and adds to the weight
of the grain itself. In the case of po-
tatoes, the action is marked, the soda
replacing the potash in that plant but
it is in COLA that salt tells with most
benefit. For feeding mangels, salt is
excellent, but it is detrimental when
beet is cultivated for sugar. 1t was
Davy first directed attention to the
value of salt in the agricultural point
of view. 1t augments the appetite OF
stock, and enables the latter to consume
acid or inferior heritage. The famous
pres sales sheep, that command the
highest price with the butcher, are fed
on the salt marshes of lower Normandy,
and the coast of Charente- Inferieure.
Mixed with guano and urine, salt pre-
vents the escape of ammonacal fumes
M. Velter concluded the ultimate action
of salt was to convert organic matter
into nitrate of soda. In any case, be-
fore employing salt, the nature of the
soil ought to be carefully studied
CHICAGO Times,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Church bells are going out of use
in every considerable American CITY,
N. Y. Herald.
According to the returns for 1888,
recently issued there were in Ireland
at the close of that year 1852 schools
under the jurisdiction of the National
Educational Commission.
-Sixty-nine years ago missionary
bore for the first time the standard OF
Presbyterianism beyond the borders of
Indiana into the wilds of Missouri.
Now the Presbyterians report in the
region then opened, ten synods, LOO
ministers, 1000 churches, and 1906
commandments Troy Times.
The Bishop of Liverpool is helping
to solve the question: ''How to reach
the masses" He breaches in the open
air; in the great ship-building yards at
the noon intermission, and among the
$4,000 carriers, with their wives, chill,
dren and babies, and to the men of the
great goods stations, oftentimes from
1000 to 5000 in one assembly.
There is an association in London.
just year old, organized to place texts
of Scripture in the street cars and ON.
nibuses. The street car routes alone
number more than 400, and it is esti-
mated that the passenger traffic, which
Is steadily increasing, is 100000 an
nually Texts have been placed in
fifty of the cars, at cost of two dollars
and half each for the year, and some
good results are claimed
just think of it. During the past
year the young ladies or Vassar College
ate "a, 1873 pounds of meat, which cost
Sl5, 556.52, and used S6,591 quarts OF
milk, worth S4,644.05 They also made
away with 80, 500 pounds of flour, A. 67
pounds of butter, 2,63S pounds of cof-
fee, 1,9O0 bushels of potatoes, $4,000
eggs, &c, 200 CLANS, 209 bottles of
pickles, and vast quantities of other
food supplies. Pancakes are a very
favorite dish, and griddle ten feet
long by three feet wide is used to bake
the 2,400 pancakes that are consumed
at single breakfast. The milk used
at the college comes from a dairy or
from 40 to so grade COWS, which are
kept on the college property.-N Y.
San.
Rev. Mr.. Beecher's recent informal
address before the Storrs Agricultural
School at Mansfield, Conn, contained
this pleasant reference to the Storrs
family; 81 had learned something about
Mansfield through my friends the
Storrses. Old DR.. Storrs, of Braintree,
was one of my earliest memories, and
his genuine eloquence was the first that
really reused and held me. His son is
my neighbor, DR.. Storrs, of Brooklyn.
Charles Storrs is my neighbor aud a
great friend of mine. And last, Au-
gustus Storrs, here, is the treasurer of
my church. All my revenue is in his
hands. When he asked me to come to
this place | knew too much OF human
nature to refuse. Our income is from
$4,000 to $50, 000-it all passes through
his hands, and that stupid man never
stole q cent of it. -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A hotel for dogs has been estab--
lished at Mount Washington, near Pitts
burgh. Pittsburgh Post.
-Keely, the motor man, has now
guarded his 'secret" nine years, and
the stockholders are getting tired. NJ
Y. Times.
Trust men and they will trust
you," said Ralph Waldo Emerson.
''Trust men and they will bust you,"
says an ordinary, everyday business
man.
-Dio Lewis says consumption is
found in every cline, but he is wrong.
The very best preventive of consump-
ton is found in mountain climb
Detroit Post.
"A man arrived in New York few
days ago with $3.50 tiddles. And yet
England makes great fuss if little
dynamite happens to go off on the
island.-N. Y Null.
Alcohol is said to be an antidote
for snake bite poison only when the pa
tent is not addicted to drink and his
system already saturated with alcohol.
Chicago Herald.
-"Mamma, is papa a bull or bear9"
"He's af--O dear, Willie, don't ask so
many questions! Go and ride your We
locipeden' "Well, l just wanted to
know whether | was a cub or calf,
'cause--."-O1 city Derricb.
Smart boy Ito Sam, the mail car
rier): .'Heigho! you've got only one
spur. How do you expect TO get the
mule along with spur ON but one
side?' "Well, honey, you see, eff |
gifts that side of the mule along, amt
the other side a-goin to keep up?"-
Golden Days.
You are very late sending your
evening male out" said the editor to
his daughter when he came home at
two in the morning and met timid,
shrinking young man between the front
door and the gate, mot at ALL"
answered the thoughtful girl, CHARLES
Henry is now morning edition."
Ut seems to me-" said Vermont
Judge to his daughter, ''that your
young man calls good many times a.
week. My court doesn't sit anywhere
near as often as yours does" 80,
well, papa" was the blushing reply,
81 am engaged to him, you know, and
that entities us to a court of special ses-
sions. -BurtingtOB Free Press.
A woman will calmly leave the
cover of q jar containing ground coffee
open when she knows the air will take
the strength out of it. But she will
never leave the stopper out of bottle
containing perfume she bought in Paris
last summer. Any one sending us a
correct solution of the whyforeness of
the thusly will receive, by return mail,
the cornet used by Washington to blow
his fire at Valley Forge.-Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
Balance in Character.

Few persons are possessed of per-
fectly balanced nature. Availability is
apt to be allied with weakness; a vigor-
Gus, pushing character is often impul-
sive, harsh and unjust A reflective
mind is slow to act; a prompt mind is
often wrong. SO through all the ele
ments of character. All the qualities
that go to make up perfect moral ma
ture rarely appear in one person. The
physical and intellectual do not pre-
cisely conform; the mental and moral
are not evenly balanced. There are
those possessed of stronger moral than
mental natures. They constitute the
spasmodic, impulsive element in socie-
ty. There are others whose intellects
so absolutely control their moral ma
lures, that nothingis admitted that can
not be reasoned out satisfactorily.
There are persons whose strong animal
natures dominate all else, and both
mind and spirit are subservient.
To regulate all these parts so as to
attain a fair degree of equality is the
right step toward securing what may
be called balance in character. -Pht!a-
detohiG call.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
An Old Conductors Yarn.

"Talking of greenhorns, said an
old conductor to me recently, ''it's in
the older States one sees the greenest
of them. Fifteen years ago / was run
ming passenger train down in Ken
lucky. One morning when the train
drew up at a little station a chap in
copperas-dyed breaches, blue jeans coat
and vest, and homemade wool hat
addressed me as stepped to the ground.
Is you the clerk of this kyar?"
- Pm the conductor-what do you
want?' | answered him.
L" Il want to go to Louisville on this
kyar.
We'll, get aboard, | told him. He
climbed the steps and knocked on the
door. When he had raped a second
time some wag inside called out, Come
inn There were at least forty passen-
gers in the coach. He began at the
front seat, shaking hands with every
one clear to the back end, and asking
each How you do?' and then 'How's
your folks?' OF course it was regular
circus for the other passengers. He
lived thirty miles back in the mountains,
and had never been on train before.
When he stepped off the cars at Louis
vile felt sorry for him.
"Well, | left Kentucky soon after
that and came to Illinois. One day,
four years ago, while on visit to Lou
isville, a weIl-dressed, well-to do look
ing man stopped me on the street. H
had to tell me where l had ever see
him before. Would you believe it? that
greenhorn had developed into one of
the first merchants of Louisville, and is
to-day reputed to be worth 100000"
Indianapolis Sentinel
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
COcOa-Nut Culture In Florida.

An enthusiastic New Jersey capital
list has started an extensive plantation
of cocoa-nut trees in Dade County,
along the southern coast of Florida.
The seed nuts were brought from
South Carolina. They were germi-
mated, and about 100000 plants have
been set out, at cost of nearly S40,-
600. Next winter the number will be
largely increased. Itrequires six years
for the trees to begin to yield returns,
but it is estimated that the grove will
pay ten per cent on q valuation of
100000. A full-grown tree will pro-
duce sixty nuts yearly.-M Y. COM
naerCiaL ACgUertiser.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
An Iusuiferable Authorization.

Everywhere we hear the insufferable
abbreviation of pants" for pantaloons.
Abbreviated pantaloons are breeches.
Then it is not solid English word, but
an Italian derivative, and although the
use of pantaloons is permissible the
cutting short is reprehensible. Trousers
is the correct word. | have seen in
Broadway signs reading: GENTS
pants and vests" descriptive of mems
trousers and waistcoats. In English
nomenclature, the articles known az
pants and vests are of the feminine
gender. Let Joan have thepants then,
but permit Darby to wear his OWL
trousers. Utica Observer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
A Swindling Builder OF Old.

The operations at Peterborough Ca,
thedral, England, prove that fraudu.
lent builder is no new thing. The
wall of the tower, while possessing
spacious face of good stone blocks,
had within nothing more substantial
than loose bits of stone and dry rub
bish. The supporting piers below, also,
which ought to have been solid as the
rock itself, were found precisely SINH
lar in construction, down even to the
foundations, where, to the increased
amazement of the explorers, still
more fragrant specimen of medieval
GERRY work was encountered. Cor
rectly speaking, there never had been
any foundations to these piers at all,
their lower courses having been simply
bedded on layer of loose rubble chips
and sand, these in their turn resting
upon natural gravel only. There is
rock foot or two lower down, but,
strange to say, no advantage was
taken of this circumstance, though it
must certainly have been within the
knowledge of the old builders. These
discoveries compelled the condemna-
ton of the two western piers, which at
first it had been the design to spare on
account of their seeming soundness.
The same indications of grossly SLOW
emily work were revealed in the removal
of these also, and the foundations
were discovered to be equally worth
less.-LOndon World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
EPIGRAMS.

THE LAWYER TO HIS CLIENT, MR.. MORSE.
hope | shall not fall from grace
If decline to plead your case.
No lawyer should pursue a course
Which he must docket In Re Morse.
on "A SLOW WAITER,
They call you waiter" but 1 VOW
That no mistake is greater;
So sluggishly you move about,
Ills l who am the lCditer.
A VISITOR.
A terrible rapping ! heard at my door,
And | trembled for fear of a dun or a bore;
But found that had been mistaken for once,
1t wasn't dun, it was only-d Ounce.
ON A FASHIONABLE WIFE.
Thought her a beautiful creature,
And dearly | bought her with gold;
But there's one disagreeable feature
Twas / and not she that was sold.
Ben Wood DdUiS, in The Continent,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06

-Silas Buck, of Stephenville, Tenn.
shaves with 125-year-old shaving.
brush, once the property OF his grand.
father.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06

An unlacky prospector borrowed q
pistol in Denver gun-store, slipped in
a cartridge and shot himself dead. lie
was too poor to own the means of kill
ing himself. DenUeT Tribune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06
How to Handle n Gun.

The first thing you do when you 90
hunting with another boy is to guard
yourself against accident. The best
way to do this is to shoot the other boy
before he has time to load his gun.
Then take both guns to the nearest
creek and throw them in. Throw tho
powder and shot in after them. If you
have any matches about your clothes,
throw them in also. Then start at
once and 90 home as fast as ever YOU
can. And if you are under eighteen
years young, the chances are, even
with these precautions, that you will get
both legs and section of YOUR back
filled to the brim with bird shot before
you reach home"
"HowP"
Goodness only knows, my son, /
don't. / have often wondered how it
did happen, but l never could ascertain.
| am not here to advance ingenious
theories, but merely to state cold facts,
and know it to besa solemn truth that
boy, with single-barrel gun twice
as long as himself, can manage some
how to shoot himself in more places at
once than man can do with q seven
shooter revolver. And am going to
buy you gun? Yes. | am; sometime
in the long vacation when time hangs
heavily on my hands. and l think l
would enjoy entertaining you by pick
ing shot out of your legs with a nut
pick"
''But you will be very careful with
it? So is woman very careful with
an umbrella, my son, and yet science
is unable to account for the startling
increase of one-eyed men every sum-
mer. "-BurIington HaWkeye.
There is style even in gait Every
one remembers the Grecian bend of
three years ago. Last year many
girl, after long practice, gave up in
hopeless despair the effort to catch the
very erect carriage of the body and
very peculiar way of singing the heels.
This summer the tendency is to give
the body and shoulders q motion from
side to side and by tight dressing and
rigidity of knee to show no apparent
bending of the muscles. This is sup
posed to be very graceful, but makes
girl look terribly self-conscious and
anything but at ease. Philadelphia
Times.
An unlacky prospector borrowed
pistol in Denver gun-store, slipped in
~ nrt,. L cro orI IL - l. I,nJ IL,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06

1t is not generally known that the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers claims to be one of the
largest associations in the world. Ac-
cording to some of the reports the men,
bership is about 100000, which directly
and indirectly controls and influences
nearly 100000 workingmen. At one
time the organization was said to have
$4,000 in its treasury, but the strikes
of the last two years have depleted it
considerably. -PittS6urgh Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-06

The best backing a young man can
have is a good backbone of his own.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01

Judge Warren Bristol. judge OF the
third judicial district Of New Mexico.
has rendered his Tesignation Of the
Office 10 the preasienk, tie hes occupied
the Office Of associate justice of this ter
ritory thirteen wears. with honor aud
credit. His decisions have been notably
wise and impartialand his constituents
will part from him with regret. The
Santa Fe Review Is authority for the
statement that he will remain In Dem
ing and engage m the practice Of law.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01
s 4 RECOMPENSA'
1880 RECoMPENSAi
1910 RECOMPENSAi

La association de Ctadorcs dc Canad
Nacuno de Nuevo Meiicano Central por me
a de su Comislon Executive. otrcoe una n
compensu de.
QUIEIETos PESOS
Por Ell arresto y conviction de caulqmer
perHonA que iiegaimcnte arrcs, Ncudn,o q
sstru manera disponga de ~cualquiero rea.bo
tia, O muia que puftcnesca, o sra prople IA
legal dc eunlquef micubre de csta afocia
eion. \ en- earo que meas de una pefsoha
sean impiicadas en- IN mismA otcnsn, otfh
u adicional de.
pos CIESTos CISCUENTA PESOS
sera dada por cada persona arrestada y con
victada subseqaentsmente. ~ dincro -eri
pnxado cuundn pftchns de tai cDnNtcctOu
sean dadas, dlcha prusbus~ concistan de
irO, Una cirtifcado del Jucz dc District
nor quien la sentencia fuc dada
ITO, Que tai persona y persons fueron cot
virtadas pof robe dc rcscs pestihs o mulr
perteienfes a algun mtumbro q miem6ros o.
esta Hsociucton.
TambteE una recompcnsa de
DOS CIENTOs OINCuENTA PESOS
sern dada a cualquiera persona que de ARE
TO nj Gonjiccion de cuaiqutern persona
p~ersonas que prcndan Q quemen q haKhn
gun at.n ado de quetnaf ol Sacntu de cnt
xuier sierra usada como past O poF cu
quiera mienbro do csta Ascot cion.
AMAs UNA RECoMPENsA DE ClEN PES
sierra paaHda pnr 81 arresto y conviccio"
cuaiauiera persona @ pofuonns qne M
reses ) no gWaide los cucros para ser tnsp
tados, seEunl To requsisn In lyy
Mtemhfo recpnpcnsn dadn hhinsn nllti
hro de To- asSociacion
Nomhres ~ Ia comision ciecutiva
W c Druton. Alex Rogers
'ian smith, ID white,
nc Cautweli, Elw r. Feet,
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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01

There Is no better known nan
known for his ability. In tie territory
than Judge Prince and the republicans
have no man In their party whom they
can come nearer eieeting as delegate 10
congress. Tie RANCE would rather
sre the republican party defeated hy
Manzanares than 10 see u succeed hy a
weak imbecile as lbs candidate Judge
Prince has brains aud the saraei,y u
use them. We need strong. live repre-
sentation and nothing less is satisfy
ing.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01

mrn In Chloride have and 4 feels cutie
positive thai not one correction I'll -
asked by a tax-psyer from this end 81
th@ county nexf Monday.
The north end Of TIE Hack nnEe
waa fuliyand fairly ASSESSED this spring
and a new assessment could not het-
ter me iot IN the least. The people
are All anrry with the commissioner
and no real esiEfe here ell pay taxes
unless the Oh hruTrs are resumed BY
the hoard without forcing the cost u =
TRIP 10 HilishorUugh from every mans
pocket Notaxrs will be paid which
cannot he collected nv law. and the SUI
preme court has decided that houses
upon government land arr not taxable.
The Taxpayers Of the county virtual
~ constitute the county and they do not
apprnve the tax upon themselves
A. individuals which saves money for
the body corporate. An assessor, ap-
pointed by tie county could assess the
iowa 81 Chloride In one day and
twenty-five dollars would he an exo
bitant figure for the work. by the
system proposed b. the board. COM
pelling each person 10 take r trip TO
Hillsborough Il will cost the town Of
Chloride $4,000 to be it's own assessor.
Where is the economy Of thaty Fur
Their. an appointed assessor might be
able 10 nhd property now unassessed
to make return Of. by the boards
method only such as have given IN
their property are affected and they
are made 10 stand all Of the burden.
But they won't stand II. The aggriey-
ed cry that went up from the people Of
Sierra county over the action OF the
board in compelling individuals to pay
the expenses Of transcribing records
from the old counties into the new was
but u prelude to that which this rails
ing Of tax valuations has induced.
The peoplebelieve that the board OF
commissioners could Eet.tle trapscrib-
ing done by contract at one-third of
the expense that the people will be put
10 for having the work performed. II
the RANGE was disposed unfavorahly
toward the board it would doubtless
JOIN In the charge that the decision ms
reached was arrived at to further the
int rest Of the recorder, his father in
law being the promoter OF it, hut the
RANGE does not believe it is true. II
cannob be denied, however. that it was
a very poor business tact ON the part
Of the board 10 compel people to trans
cribe their own records, and It was the
acme OF folly TO attempt to make every
man his own assessor, for unless they
rescind their present order and either
make n new honest assessment or let
the old one remain they will find that
they will get little or no taxes at all.
This is the exact situation, The peo-
Pile are in the1frape Of mind now thai
they care little about future action
They think that by refusing to pay
taxes upon other than just such pro
pertv as the law compels assessment
Of. they can save enough to reimburse
themselves for the cash they are com.
PEELED to squander In paying for record
transcribing, by this means they can
keep even with the county On all counts
now apparent.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01
Sierra County Republican Con.
. vcnfion.

The county convention ~ the rrpub.
lican party Of Siera CHS hereby called
10 BE- held IN Marlborough On The 18Th
day Of August. tsEtt1o o'closk r. ~
for the purpose % elerting three CO
delegates and three ca alteruaies h.
represent said county at TIM territorial
republican convention 70 L Add at
Santa Re. August 2sth. 1854
Precinct conventions ulll la held on
"Wednesday the 9Th aaJ u August.
1854. for the purpose Of eleriing dele
gates TO said county oo~nvsntion. Each
precinct viii be entitled 10 representa-.
ton "a follows;
Irecinot No 1. Lake Valley 4
Prrcinct No. :. Hillblrough 4
Precinct No. J. Kingston 4
Precinct No. 4. Palomas I
Precinct No. ., Cuchillo Negro,
2apata and AlalIocita s
Precinct No. q, Grafton 2
Precinct No. I. Canada de Alamosa 3
Precinct No. s. San Jose 2
Precinct No. o. Hefmosa
Precinct No. 10. Fairview 2
Precinct No. II. Chloride
Precinct No. u. Engle and McRea : 2
II Is earnestly urged upon all dele
gates elected TO attend tie convention
In person IL possible; but I from any
reason they be unable they nav by
written proxy appoint persons to re.
present them provided such persons be
residents Of the precinct from which
they hold proxies.
NICHOLAS GALES,
Member OF the Republican
Uent1 Com. for Sierra Co
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01

us rrpubiicnn precinct eauvtniiens
are called % meet on the en- Instant
for exciting delegates 70 = county coa-
venfinn 10 b. hid on the 18Th instant
Cor choosing delegates 20 represent SER
"a county a the territorial convention
So for the a5th instant a. santa Re ~
which Ai~epuhlican candidate fur dele
gate o. congrsss viii be chosen. Every
precinct should b. represented II Hilis-
borough ON the 10Th for NJ that time
The county organization % the repub-
lican party will be Effected.