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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11
Educational Item.

Stranger, what out beyour trade?"
asked an inquisitive Austin hotel clerk,
who was new at the business, of dig
niied stranger in black, who arrived on
the evening train.
81 am professor, was.the quiet re-
ply.
80, yes; one of these slight of-hand
fellers who pulls rabbits and flowers
out of hat"
"No, sir; 1 am not that kind of a pro-
lessor"
Corn doctor?"
The stranger smiled, and gave the
young man to understand that he was
one of the professors engaged at the
University of Texas; in other words, u
pedagogue.
"a pedagogue? What's that?"
"A school teacher" responded the
stranger, rather sharply. Il hope, sir,
/ have succeeded in bringing the sub
iect within range of your comprehen-
Sion"
"Do you know what we call them in
North Carolina, where | was raised?'
II have no idea"
"Gad-swingers," was the reply. $50
you are one Of the gad-swingers at the
University of Texas? TO tell the
truth, took you for monte sharp
from San Antonio. "-Ieras SQtjfqs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11
She Popped the Question.


"Pa," said Samantha to Deacon Bod
KIM ma says, ask YOU to tell us how
you climbed the post"
600 way now, gals, and don't bother
me; I'm busy" said the deacon.
so, please do tell us" chorused
both girls.
"Wall, to git rid on We, I'll tell We.
It was afore we war married, an a lot
O us young fellers lived in a boardin'
house together. | was courtin' yer ma,
then, an all the rest was a courtn'
Yer ma lived out to Milton, an there
WASH t any way to get there then but
to walk"
"How desperately you must have
been in love, pa" said Martha
"We fellers had an understandin'
that, as we all went off courtin' Sunday
an Thursday nights, the one that got
home last must stand treat for the
crowd. Now my roommate, he would
alters get in fust, somehow or other.
He had to walk five miles to see his
gal, but he was alters in bed when cot
in; so he never had to treat | couldn't
understand it. Sometimes we felt sar-
tin he hadn't got home and watched
for him, but he alters was found in bed.
At last | told him | would give him a
dollar if he would tell me how he man
aged it, for | most alters had to stand
treat"
"Of course you did" said both girls.
"Wall, he finally showed me how he
climbed up by the corner post of the
piazzey an got in the winder, while we
were watching for him below"
"Tbat night was Thursday night and
went to Milton as usual. | wore a
brand new brown surtout. | got back
a little late, an slipped round to the
piazzey an climbed up. thought the
post was mighty slippery, but jest put
in and got up an got to bed.
''The next mornin' eff | didn't have
the darndest loollin' suit O. clothes you
ever see. They'd been a paintin' the
house, an didn't know it, for | didn't
go hum to supper, but went out to Mil
ton airly to take supper with your ma.
New surtOut an' all was covered from
top to toe with paint.
"Your ma, when | told her about it,
she says:
"Hezekiah, think you need some
body to take keer of you"
"An' says l, 'Hepzibah, sposen you
try it. "
AN your ma sticks to it that she
didn't mean nothin' by it, an that she
didn' t pop the question to me"
"Of course she did" cried the girls,
land how lucky it was for us that she
| did.-BOstOR Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11

and Woolslayer with q companion ran
to the spot. By the time they reached
the scene the murderer mad seated him
self on the railroad track and his vic
tim was fighting for his life in the
creek.
LET him die" said the one on the
railroad; che tried to kill me, but curse
him, have killed him"
Woolslayer and his friend tried to
save the man in the creek, but Gee they
could reach him he was swept away by
the water and was drowned. While
thew were eXerting every nerve to save
him a passenger train came laundering
along; The murderer heard the roar of
the cars and Ale shrek of the whistle,
but he sat like statue; an instant
more and he was struck by the loco
motive, his body hurled high in the air
coming down like great, solid mass of
clay. Woodslayer and his companion
ran to the injured man and stopped to
pick him up, but he said:
Let me die; [ have lived long
enough"
Then he relapscd into unconscious
ness and has not been able to speak
since. 1t was found that his back was
broken and that he was almost totally
blind. and thatthe man drowned in the
creek had lost one leg. The only home
these two paupers knew was the Allie
gheny County Home. The blind mans
name was John Donley and the one
legged man John Gartley. 1t was their
custom to remain at the Home until
their appetite for whisky grew stronger
than their appreciation Of the comforts
furnished by the Poor Authorities;
then they would start out on the tramp,
the cripple leading the blind man. 1t
is supposed that yesterday they had
met with extra good luck Oh their beg
cling expedition, and while flushed with
liquor had gotten into quarrel over
the spoils and that Donley had thrown
his companion into the creek. Both
men were about thirty-liye or thirty-six
years of age"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11
An Adventure in London.

John Moore, late President of the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company,
says that he had Just reached London,
and taken his seat at the table in his
hotel about Piccadilly, when he heard
the explosion of dynamite at Carlton
House. Moore, as a contractor on
large public works, had used immense
quantities of dynamite, and in a single
moment he knew by the sound what
destructive agency was at work.
SO he jumped into cab and drove
Immediately to the spot, and while he
was looking up there, the first man to
arrive, at the shattered windows along
the whole facade of Carlton House, he
fell into conversation with the next ar
rival, who seemed to be modest and
agreeable stranger.
The stranger rather stuck to Moore,
and seemed to have information, and
finally Moore said to him:
"What is your business, my friend?'
go, | am valet to a nobleman, -
said the man, ''but have nothing to
do to-day, and if | can be of anv service
to you, | will go with you, sir"
All flgnC, Sald Moore. "Wlll you
90 around with me and show me some
of the sights?"
They were together several hours,
and when they came back to the hotel
Moore gave the man gold piece.
80, no." said the man, 81 don't
want want that"
'Why, my friend" said Moore, 81
have seen nobody in this kingdom who
won't take a tip. You are perfectly
welcome to it.
go, no, thank YOU" said the man.
When Moore turned around to the
Office, the custodian said to him:
care you aware, sir, that you have
been in the company of the smartest
detective in Scotland yard? He says he
saw you so early on the ground that he
thought you might have blown up that
building. -" Gath," IN NJ Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11
The Influence Of a Distinguished Sci
enlist.

should have liked to speak to you
of those far-reaching specuations, es-
pecially associated with the name of
Maxwell, in which light is regarded as
a disturbance in an electro magnetic
medium. Indeed, at one time, | had
thought of taking the scientific work of
Maxwell as the principal theme OF this
address. But, like most men of genius,
Maxwell delighted in questions too OBJ
scure and difficult for hasty treatment,
and thus much of his work conld hardly
be considered pOnsuch an occasion as
the present. His biography has re-
Gently been published, and should be
read by all who are interested in science
and in scientific men. His many-sided
character, the quaintness of his humor,
! the penetration of his intellect, his
simple but deep religious feeling, the
affection between son and father, the
devotion of husband and wife, all com
bine to form a rare and fascinating
picture. To estimate rightly his in
lluence upon the present state of
science, we must regard not only the
work that he executed himself, impor-
tant as that was, but also the ideas and
the spirit which he communicated to
others. Speaking for myself as one
who in a special sense entered into his
labors, | should find it difficult to ex-
pess adequately my feeling of obliga-
ton. The impress of his thoughts may
be recognized in much of the best work
of the present time. As teacher and
examiner he was well acquainted with
the almost universal tendency of unin-
structed minds to elevate phrases above
things: to refer, for example, to the
principle of the conservation of energy
for an explanation of the persistent 70
tation of q fly-wheel, almost in the
style of the doctor in ''Le Malade I'm
aginaire," who explains the fact that
opium sends you to sleep by its sopor-
iiic virtue. Maxwelps endeavor was
always to keep the facts in the fore
ground, and to his influence, in con
junction with that of Thomson and
Helmholtz, is largely due that elimina-
ton of unnecessary hypothesis which is
one of the distinguishing characteristics
of the science of the present day.-Ad-
dress Of Lord Raylejgh, in PopatJar Sci
c11ce Mojttbyy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11

HARRY CoURTAINE, not long ago a.
popular American actor, is a ragged
beggar in London. Rum ruined him.
IF all the church property in the
United States We're sold at the best
market prices. it is estimated that the
entire cash proceeds would be only one
third of the sum spent by the people of
this country Tor Intoxicating drinks in q
single year.
UroN what does the success of the
liquor traffic depend? Upon debased
manhood, wronged womanhood, de-
trauded childhood. 1t holds mortgage
over every cradle; a deed written in
hearts blood over every home; q
human hell over every human life.
Shall mothers know this, and keep 81
lent? Shall fathers understand and
be indifereut?-Ndti0R0J W. c. I. y.
bulletin.
IT is said that the passengers of the
steamer Amsterdam. wrecked OFF Sable
Island some time SINCE had to face the
combined perils of whisky and water.
Certain OF TIE crew and passengers, and
even of the people on shore, obtained
access to the liquor in the ship-stores,
and confusion, misconduct, inhumani-
ty, were the result, occasioning much
suffering among the survivors who
were landed on the island.
The following card was printed in a
recent number of the Nacogdoeches
(TeX.) Star:
Look here, boys; for nine years l have
h.ar ,aI linn N ,nrfnn of lIt
right here | stop. There is no use trying to
drink all the whisky that Bud Houston, sam
Sapp and others can bring hero; we cant do
it. Lets quit right here now, and see II we
can't have more friends, moro money and
more comfort at home. My friends in future
viii! do me Il favor by not asking me to drink,
us can not honestly take one drink without
making beast of myself Yours truly,
IN. /. MAYATT.'
IT is gratifying to see how we'll the
Temperance agitation is being kept up
in England. 1t is stated that there were
6,126 petitions with more than half q
million signatures sent up to Parlia-
ment this year in favor of the Sunday
Closing Bill, and there was not single
petition against the bill. 1t will be re-
membered that Scotland secured sun
day closing law many years ago, so
that, if the English bill is passed, Sun
day drinking will be largely put a stop
to, throughout Great Britain.
If life in Russia seems to many q
Russian hardly worth living, says a
London paper, it is not because the
curse of drink presses so heavily upon
the people, as whole, as is frequently
supposed. Indeed, in the middle and
upper classes, the use of liquor is less
general than in Western nations The
drunkenness is principally among the
ignorant and degraded city and country
laborers and among them it is so uni
versal that it brings the sum total of
drink consumed very high, despite the
examples of abstinence already referred
to. Something like ten quarts Of brandy
is the rate of consumption Of that liquor
for every man, woman and child In the
empire. The proportion, in the larger
cities, of Neutrality-suspicious. to the popu-
lation is about the same as in New York
or Philadelphia-ope saloon to every
125 inhabitants.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11
People Who Do Not Eat Bread.

Baked loaves of bread are unknown
in many parts of South Austria and of
Italy, and throughout the agricultural
districts of Roumania. In the villages
of the Obersteiermark, not very many
miles from Vienna, bread is never seen,
the staple food of the people being
sterz, a kind of porridge made from
ground beech-nuts, which is taken at
breakfast with fresh or curdled milk,
at dinner with broth or fried lard, and
with milk again for supper. In the
north of Italy, the peasantry live chief
ly on polenta, porridge made of boiled
maize. The polenta, however, is not
allowed to granulate, like Scotch por-
ridge or the Austrian sterz, but is
boiled into q solid pudding, which is
cut up and portioned out with a string
1t is eaten cold as often as it is hot,
and is in every sense the Italian peas
ants bread. The modern Roumanians
are held by many scholars to be de-
scended from Roman colony, in other
words to be the cousins of the Italians;
and, curiously enough, variation of
the polenta called mamaliga is the ma
tional dish of Roumania. The mama
liga is like the polenta in that it is
made of boiled maize, but it is unlike
the latter in one important respect, as
the grains are not allowed to settle into
a solid mass, but are kept distinct,
after the fashion of oatmeal porridge
-GaTteHldnbe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11

Selling the handle of the umbrella
iocularly observed: "Hilloi is this
mine you've got?n He had lust had
time to observe that the man was a
complete stranger to him, and was
about to apologize in some embarrasg-
ment, when the unknown saved him
the trouble, by saying coolly: "G
it's yours, is it? Pardon me; | did moi
know" And he hurried off. leaving
the astonished merchant in full posses
sion.
About two years ago, constable in
business part OF London found horse
and van, about midnight, standing at
the poor of q grocer's shop. He APP
aprons apparently carrying chests ii
tea into the shop. Remarking thst
they were late at work, one of the men
replied: go yes; we're preparing Tor
Christmas" and the constable, thing
ing all was right, walked on. Next
morning it was found the shop had
been entered by thieves, who had car
ried off what they evidently took to be
twenty-five half-chests of tea, most of
which had been standing in the shop
window. The rogues had gone leisurety
to work, and being caught by the cen
stable, had employed themselves in
carrying in some of the boxes till he
should pass. The reader may Judge
the surprise and disgust of the thieves,
when they found that only one of the
chests, contained tea, and secondtea-
dust, the remaining twenty boxes bF lg
merely "dummies" filed with -.
dust, with sprinkling Of tea on the
top!- Chambers journal,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11
/" FInShAd with LinuOr.v

The Allegheny Pa.) Mail of a recent
date recites the following story, which
is startling illustration of fearful
crime brought about thorough indul-
gence in VIII sky:
One of the most peculiar, dreadful
and horrifying tragedies known to the
annals of crime was enacted yesterday
at Leesdale, two miles west of Mans
field, on the Charters branch of the
Panhandle Railroad. The railroad
winds along the Charters Creek, often
times crossing it. Last evening, about
six o'clock, man named Woolslayer
observed two men struggling on the
bank above the creek. For several
minutes they struggled, when suddenly
one of them staggered, toppled, and
was hurled by his assailant headlong
into the creek. A scream of agony
went up from his lips at the same time
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11
Temperance Reading.
4 LAMENT.

The following beautiful lines were writer
by the late Richard Siles, Esq. of Danvile
Va, Il Rentleman of genius, a fine scholar
and a lawyer of distinction. The lines speal
Of the sad experience and fate of the author
[ have been to the funeral of all my hopes
And cntombed them one by ono:
Not Il word was So
Not tear was =,
When the mournful taSh 'one.
Slowly and sadly turned me .Ound
And sought my silent room;
And there alone
BY the cold hearth stone
wooed the midnight gloom.
And as the night winds deepening ISade
Lowered above my brow,
| wept 0 eT days
When manhOOd's rays
Were brighter far than now.
The dying embers on the hearth
Gave out their pickering light,
As if to say
This is the way,
Thy life snail close in night.
[ wept aloud in anguish sore
Der the blight OF prospects fair;
While demons laughed
And eager quaffed
My tears like nectar rare.
Through helrs red halls an echo rang,
An echo loud and long,
As in the bowl
| plunged my soul
In the might of madness strong.
And there within that sparkling glass
knew the cause to lie;
This al! men own,
From zone to zone,
Yet millions drink and die.
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RAIN.
With a cadence soft and low
IN..Il-. L.

With a cadence soft and low
Falls the rain!
All the heavy grasses seem
Bowed Tith pain;
While the tender flowers droOp
To the sod,
Bent like pentents that kneel
To their God;
And the trees loom indistinct
ThrO' the mist,
While the roses red and sweet,
That were kissed
BY the sun to fragrant life,
Blanch with fear.
From each starry jasmine's cup
Drops tear
: Pure as those the angels shed
Ger mans fall;
And the dark green moss that clings
To the wall
J Drinks the rain up thirstily.
On their stalks
Lilies bend their stately heads.
Thro' the walks
Tiny streamlets, running clear,
Make 1t seem
Like some fairy island viewed
In dream.
o! my garden brings joy
To my heart,
As stand and watch the rain-
Far apart
From the throng around me there,
Who know naught
Of the healing that may come
(All unSought) 4.
From the hand of Natures God
TQ\he soul, -.s.t..s.
= when u S.nts with weary Oreatl,-
For the goal.
When of all our brightest hopes
None remain,
Life is dark and every thought
Brings but pain
Then in faint gray clouds that veil
Brilliant skies,
And in sheeted rain that falls,
Comfort lies.
When all Nature seems to Join
In our grief,
From the sympathy she yields
Springs relief;
While the flowers teach to us
Lessons sweet,
OF the soace to be found
AT Gods feet
Thus the clouds that dim our lives y
All depart
Washed away by blessed tears
From the heart.
Lee c. HdrbH in Current.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11

A traveller in South America de-
scribes q very unpleasant spider that
lives there: When a person passes near
one it starts up and gives chase, and
will often follow for distance of thirty
or forty yards. came once very near
ly being bitten by one of these savage
creatures. Riding at an easy trot over
the dry grass | suddenly observed spi-
der pursuing me, leaping swiftly along
and keeping up with my beast. aimed
a blow with my whip, and the point of
the lash struck the ground close to it,
when it instantly leaped upon and ran
up the lash, and was actually within
three or four inches of my hand when
l flung the whip from me.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11

The Studio makes the following
suggestion to those who wish to buy
pictures: ''Never take the advice of
anybody, no matter how cultivated or
educated, or how great an authority
he or she may be. " This is somewhat
startling, coming from journal de-
voted to the advancement of art, but it
has good reasons therefor. 1t holds,
and rightly, thatpeople should buy that
which they really like, and then "try it
by living with it;'' if it be really good
sit will help the purchaser to get some
thing as good or, it may be, better the
next time" The suggestion is wholly
sound, for it is in accord with the theory
that pictures themselves educate the
artistic sense. Current.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11

Drink wine when you 90 to Paris. "
say travellers; the water is seldom fit to
drink" But how good is the wines
In the last report of the municipal
laboratory, under whose scrutiny the
wines of city trade must pass, the num-
Der of good samples found among 1861
waS only 357, while 1,003 were passable,
1,709 were had, and POP positively dan
gerous. Chicago Inter ocean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-11
The Republican,
JAS. A. HAYDEN, Publisher.

OAKLAND. GARRETT CO.. MA.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-21

WASHINGTON, OHIO AND WESTERN E. R.
AA - C: -; 60 s g

ENE S5S.=@ssz# -; IS r. 80
SUMMER ARRA NGEMENT
TWO TRAINS DAILY (EACEPT SUNDAY Be
TWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND ROUND HILL
Leave Washington at 9 % a. m. and % p. m.
and Alexandria at 8 80 q. m. and 30 p. N. Pass
Leesburg, going westward, at II 35 a. m. and
35 p. m and arrive at Round Hill at II 21 d.
m. and 20 p. N. Leave Round Hill at 5 27 g..
m. and 90 p. m. Pass Leesburg, going east.
ward, at s Is a. m. and O5 p. M, aid arrive 3:
Alexandria at 8 % a. N. and Is p. H., and at
Washington at s 80 q. m. and Z 25 p. nj.
SUNDAY TRAIN leaves Round Hill 5:27 NJ,
arrive at Alexandria 1922 and Washington $50.
Leave Washington O5 p. NJ, Alexandria SID
p m, pass Leesburg, going eastward, 6:1b a. H.;
westward 1881 p. m.
Passengers from Washington will take the
Wash, Ohio and West'n. cars at the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad station at 9:25 a. and ABS p.
m and go through to Round Hill without chang e
of cars.
The 9:32 q. m train from Alexandria and 12:2l
pm. train from Round Hill connect ut Round Hill
with Daily Line of Coaches for SIickersville, Ber
ryvile and Winchester also with Line of Coaches
which leave Leesburg daily for Aldie and Middle
burg.
Both trains, Westward, make close councillors
1T Vienna with Sisson's Limo of Stages for Fairfax
Court House.
One thousand mile communication tickets, bear
ing two names 800; one thousand mile tickets,
bearing ali the names of family or members of a
firm, $25.
Alexandria April 1s, 1884.
ap1S SIN BROPHY. Supt.
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Afexauaria Oazftte.
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 81.

low Pp1crs FOR JERSEY CATTLE.-Ihe
low prices realized at the combination SAFE
of Jersey cattle, which closed Thursday
need excite no surprise. Neither can they
be explained on the theory that the sale was
held at the wrong time of the year to attract
bidders. While it was undoubtedly illtimed
there were other causes which contributed
to the partia! failure of the sale. The most
important of these is growing recognltlon
of the real value of cattle. This value Is
and has been fictitious, and nobody knoWsl IT
better than the importers and sellers Oh
these cattle. ,.us
A cow is actually worth what her milk and
butter will bring in the market and no more.
1.-THE milk of one cow will make more DuI-
fer than that of another she Is worth more,
and her progeny, of course, are more e, Vacu'
able Than those of an inferior COW. The he
titious value placed on the cow, it of course
follows that an equally fictitious value Will
he placed on the progeny. But because IL
;s co il does not follow that the value Is any
thing but fictitious. Breeders have been
and Still are willing to pay thousands OF dol
lars for a cow because they know that she
will more than pay for herself in her oil
spring. It is good business investment
but, like many other Investments, 1t has
hcan overworked ed.
When it became the fashion to own Jer-
SANS the business of importing AID breeding
.iin received an impetus such as that Of no
liner breed Of cattle has ever enjoyed.
,hc-.u.libred Jersey cow was valuable De-
....,l<:. me wa: !. Jersey and because she was
,s..,l IA -. Extensive breeding and i'm
.,.,-.n..-g l.u< deprecated the latter element
ii .aiue aud common sens, is .x'lngu!sh-
Ing the former AS butter-maker the Jer-
s-y will probably always remain at the
head and will always be actually worth
more than like animal ofany other breed;
But it is extremely doubtful if $4,000 will
ever again be paid at an auction sale for a
Jersey cow. Y Times.