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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-15
HINDUS AND CHINESE.
The Former Love the Ideal, and the Lat
ter the Practical,


The Former Love the Ideal, and the Lat
ter the Practical,
Never did opposing qualities and de-
fects establish wider gulf between two
races. During the four or five thousand
years which make up her history, China
offers us the unique spectacle, as it
seems to me, of society founded upon
purely human basis-without prophet,
without Messiah, without revealeI, With
out mythology; of society calculated
for temporal wcll-being and the good
organization of this world, and for moth
ing else. India, on the other hand,
shows us not less surprising spectacle
of race exclusively speculative, living
by the ideal, building its religion and its
literature in the clouds, without any in
termingling elements drawn from his
tory or reality. The characteristic feat
ure of the Chinese mind is a negation of
the supernatural; what it can not I'M
derstand does not exist for it. India, on
the contrary, absorbed in the contem-
plation of the infinite, has exhausted her
activity in the creation of an eXuberant
mythology and innumerable systems of
metaphysics. Nor has the study of ma
ture, of man, or of history ever seemed
to her worthy to check her thought for
an instant. China is indisputably, of all
countries, that which possesses the best
ordered and the most abundant archives.
Since the twelfth century before the
Christian era she has stored up, dynasty
htrH o,oA al, l,,rx 4h,,
official documents of her history, the
DEGREES of her sovereigns, the rules of
her administration. India, so prodig-
iously fruitful in everything else, has not
line of history. She has reached
modern times without believing that the
real is ever worth writing down. This
present life is for the Chinese the only
aim of human activity. For the Indian
it is but an episode in a series of exist
ences. On one side you have bour-
geOis and reasonable race, narrow as
common sense is narrow; on the other,
a race devoted to the intinite-dreamY,
absorbed, and lost in its own magma
tons. Nor are the physical character
stics of both less strikingly contrasted.
The bright Oblique eye, the flat nose,
the short neck, the cunning look of the
Chinese, indicate the man of common
sense, well trained in the affairs of this
world; the noble outline of the Indian,
his slim figure, his broad, calm brow, his
deep, tranquil eye, show us a race made
for meditation, and destined, even by
its very errors, to provide us with a
measure of the speculative power OF
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-15

feared, raised him much higher in my
esteem.
Miss Despard,' said he, smiling be-
nignantly, "will you allow me to cali
tonight and make the acquaintance of
these troublesome voices?"
Somehow the load dropped off my
shoulders. Mr.. Bolton was so self-con-
tanned and courageous that | went home
lighter in spirit than | had been for
many a day. At eleven o'clock he
came, and in an exceedingly short time
managed to make us all feel at home
with ourselves and our sitting-room
once more. He seemed to have dropped
into our circle as if he had belonged
there for years.
A few minutes before twelve Mr..
Bolton stationed himself as directed by
me. The clock changed out again the
hour of midnight. Some minutes
elapsed without the usual manifesta-
ton, until | feared the spirits had failed
us.
But, no, in q moment more the dis
NAL groan was sounded, and the ava
lanche of hardware followed. 1 saw
Mr.. Bolton start, while puzzled ex-
preston came over his face. ! felt glad
that our ghost had indicated itself and
mel The horrid noises were supple
mented by the words "KiiL the other
one" issuing directly from the wall.
Our landlord stood aghast.
| He reflected a moment, then pulled
out his pocket-knife. With this he de-
tached portion of the wall paper, and
uncovered the orifce of a speaking
tube! This then was the secret of it all;
the sounds were conveyed from some
other place, and the tubing transformed
ordinary noises into ghastly cadences.
The next day the mystery was further
more explained, A former owner had
, connected his library with a building
some distance away. Some time after
the piping had been broken up, leaving
intact only that portion built in the
wall, one end of which was in our sit
ting-room, the other extending to the
a couple of wooden shelves. The
spoken words we heard were those of
the colored servant. who was accus-
! toned to bank up the heater fire about
midnight. The rafting of the chains
was produced by the shOveling of coal
| had mistaken some words about ''de
fire" for DE Wire" The "poison"
and managing had reference to mice,
which We're making free with articles
on the shelf That was ALI
Twas so much obliged to Mr.. Bolton
for his efforts, that l could not ''say
him nay" when he asked me to marry
him. Besides, how handy it was to
have man about the house to clay a
ghost. - G0deys LGdy Book.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-15
Too Much Study.

The ChrjStian-dt- Work thinks the cur
rent boy and girl study too hard, and it
calls for less intellectual food and more
digestion. 1t says:
with our school children bending
over school benches the first week of
September, not to stand up straight
again till July blows her hot furnace
blasts; with the teacher, almost APP
palled, addressing herself to the years
work that lies before her; with the Sc
we're demands that our modern educa-
tional processes make upon one side of
the boys nature, leaving his other side
severely alone,-we are bringing up a
race of abnormally developed children,
sharpened at one corner and rounded
off at all the others-the beginning of
the school year may well carry the
measure of terror that it does Tor so
many. We need TO give less time to
mental cram and cerebral culture, and
more to rounding or developing the
boy or girl; and so education would be-
come less the awful task that the young
student finds it to be, and life would
lose nothing of importance and high
purpose in adding to the sum of its
zest,"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-15
Two Very Smart Cats.

We hope none of our readers, who
pride themselves on their skill as fisher
men, will indulge feelings of jealousy on
reading the following story of cat that
belongs to a lady ia Vermont:
A few mornings since she was called
to the front door of the house by the
strange actions of tabby, and discoy-
cred an eel over two feet in length on
the steps. After few words of aston
ishment and appreciation from her mis-
tress, the old cat started for the brook
again, and soon arrived with another,
but smaller, eel. A third journey to
the brook was made, and large dace
was brought back. Hardly day passes
but the cat brings in one or more fish.
Another Windsor cat has developed
singular method of hunting birds.
Thomas climbs a certain tree and seats
himself on a limb overhanging another,
at place where the way to the ground
is clear OF branches and boughs If
bird happens to light on the lower
branch, Sir Thomas makes dive and
catches the bird in his mouth on the
way to the ground, and dimes at his
leisure. His movements have been
watched several times, and he has not
yet been known to miss his prey. He
invariably catches the bird in his mouth
while making the flying trip Vermont
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-15
THE MAUD OF THE PERIOD.

Maud Parvenue one summers day
Went to the stable bright and gay.
While standing by the open door
The rich man passed in coach and four.
He glanced at Maud with loving air
Her father was millionaire
And Maud she gently moved her head,
And to herself these few words said:
'Tn not be by a rich man won;
My pa can cover him ten to one"
Into the stable then walked she
To hear sweet words from the coaehee.
The eoachman did not have much cash,
But oh he was lovely mash.
Down they sat on a bale of hay,
And this is what Maud heard him say:
"'Will you fly with me, my pretty miss,
To land that's far remote from this?
''You know that time and time again,
I've told my love in the shady lane.
''when driving, darling, by your side
I've often asked: Win you be my brdeT"
Then Maud made up her mind to slope
And said to the ceachee, wen elope."
One moonlight night they skipped away;
Maud father raved and ragged, they say.
But Maud was happy with her coachee,
As happy, as happy as girl could be.
Time passed on and the rich man wed
A vixen with carmine head,
And often he has groaned and sighed,
Because Maud would not be his bride.
Mauds father drove her from his door,
And by and by grew very poor.
For they played him well in wild Wall Street
The coachman bought him horses and hacks
And for Niagara Falls made tracks;
And in a year or little more
He counted his millions by the score.
And when Maud's father heard the news
He had an awful fit of blues.
Then he tried to make the matter straight
But got kicked over the coachee's gate.
CT all sad words from tongue of flesh,
EAe saddest are these: I've been TOO fresh.
II. ". Jackson in Cleveland Ledoer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-15

"A scientific man writing from Flor
ida, speaks of the great advantages
houses have there, as well as in South
Alabama, in being built upon pillars
and having no cellars. The cellar at
mosphere is prolific source of disease,
and increases seVenty-five per cent. the
risk from malaria. With the houses
upon pillars there is always free eircula-
ton OF air beneath.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-15

The State of Kentucky has 1927
Baptist churches. In these the baptisms
during the past year numbered COPS,
and the net gain in members was 6,053.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-15

About 10000 Jewish immigrants
land at our ports yearly, and they have
been coming at that rate for ten years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

The Saratoga Sun says: John
She1man's outrage committee has
found q talented liar in the person OF
Violet Keeling, but she is hardly a
match for the late lamented Eliza
Pinkston after all. There is either a
falling off in capa city among the
outrage witnesses or else their train
ers are losing something of their
cunning In the meantime there
would seem to be some work on hand
for John and his "bloody shirt
hunters IN his own State. A negro
family was murdered in the very
suburbs Of Cincinnati and their bod.
les sold to the medical college in that
city. Johns committee should be
impartial and not refuse to work up
a blood curdler just because it hap
pened on this side of the Ohio.
Especially if there should happen to
be any Democrats in the faculty of
the college which received their vic
Tins, would it furnish a choice speci-
men of outrage. We don't charge
John anything for this "tip."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

Mr.. Dorsey's present stay in Wash
ington is being made very pleasant.
During his last visit he was suffer
ing from an affection of the eyes
which prevented him from seeing all
of the beautiful sights, but a verdict
of not guilty has so far improved
his optics that he is now able to OBJ,
serve Mr.. Arthur, Mr.. Logan and
other distinguished Republican
statesmen when they cali to pay
their respects to the late Secretary
of the Republican National Com
mittee. Mr.. Arthur courts him,
Logan bows gracefully before him,
and the friends of MI. Blaine are
particularly careful not to tread on
bis coras. II is understood that
Mr.. Dorsey has a chest full of very
interesting correspondence, and
pretty much all the Republican
possibilities are hoping that he may
lose the key.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

Senator Logan desires to make
very short work of the public lands
of the United States. The bill he
has introduced into the Senate pro
vides that:
E: cry person entering the SER
vice of his country during the late
war, either in the army OF navy, and
honorably discharged therefrom, for
any period of service less than n
year, shall be entitled to eighty acres
of public land, either for himself or
heirs; for service between one and
two years, 120 acres; and over two
years service. 160 acres"
This would settle the public land
question very effectually. The whole
amount of public lands which have
been surveyed up to this time is $751;
600, 900 acres. What portion of this
has been sold or given away is not
accurately known. The Government
has received from the sales of public
lands $224,00O.O0O and it has given
away in homesteads, timber entries
and to railroads two or three times
as much as il has sold. the Inference
is that a small amount comparatively
of the surveyed lands remains. Th'
whole number of troops enlisted If
the Union armies in the civil war
as shown by the reports of the wa
department, and upon whom it i
proposed to bestow this bounty, wa
2,850,132. If the term of service o
these should on the average entitl
them each to 100 acres, the amour
of the public domsin which would b
thus absorbed would be 224, 000, 00(
1t is likely the surveyed lands woul
not meet the requirements of thi
bill. Of thoce who are available 70
settlement, and have any real value
{ it is certain there are not enough
4 There are to be sure about 1000
100000 acres ~unsurveyed publ
lands, but one third of them are i
Alaska and far the greater part
a the balance is desert and mountain
Senator Logan is setting the coulte
pretty deep. The people would
course much rather see the soldier
get the lands than allow them to pa
into the hands of railroad companie
But there does not appear to be ar
5 pressing demand for putting tt
9 entire domain out Of the ownershi
of the government at this time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

The proposition of a Western
paper that Montana and Dakota
should be admitted simultaneously
to the Union because one is Demo
cratic and the other Republican, and
thus neither party would be a loser,
moves the Rochester Post Express to
note this melancholy illustration of
the effects of politics and partisan
ship upon tie mind of the average
man of intelligence" 1t remarks
upon tie fact that this proposition
takes no heed of the only essential
question, which is whether the terri
tories have the requisite population.
Thereupon the Buffalo Courae, com
ments as follows: "All this is truly
edifying, but as u matter of fact in
the early history of the country new
states were usually admitted in pairs,
q Northern and Southern one 10
eether, that the balance of power
might be maintained. Thus Yer
mont Joined the Union in 1871 and
Kentucky in 1892, Mississippi in
1877 and Illinois in 1918. Maine in
1920 and Missouri in 1921"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

Representative Springer has intro
duced for reference in the House the
proposed Constitutional amendment
making the Presidential term six
years and rendering the President
ineligible to reelection for the next
succeeding term. 1t provides for a
direct vote for President in each
state and abolish the electoral col
lege. Each state shall have a mum
Der of votes equal to the number of
it's Representatives and Senators in
Congress 10 be given to each cardi-
date in proportion to the total votes
cast for each. The term of the Rep
resentatives in Congress is fixed at
three years, and Congress shall meet
each year on the first Wednesday in
January, the first session to convene
in the January succeeding the No
yember election.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06
The Aspirants i'm this District.

A Columbus correspondent of the
Ttnes-.Star, in speaking of this con-
g%ressional district and those who as
pire to congressional honors within
its borders, says that the first idea
of the reader is that Durbin Ward is
now for the first time in a Demo-
cratic district, and should be given a
chance, anyhow, to go to Congress.
But l am afraid that the same evil
spirit which attended the Old Roman
in his wrestles for Governor and
Senator will hover around the new
district. Warren county will, OF
course, be for Durbin, but Butler
county has forty politicians anxious
to be statesmen. Jim Campbell
now claims to have beaten H. L
Morey in 1882, and is c%ontesting his
seat. is expected to receive the nomi
nation. Then there is General Van
derveer and Judge McKemy, boil
congressional quantities. Besides
there Is Jim Neal, ex,Speaker of thu
Assembly. Clermont county haI
DIR. Myers, now serving his secont
term in the State Senate, j. G. Ban
croft, of Batavia, and Mike Davis,
merchant of New Richmond. Il
Preble there is Judge Gilmore, O
Eaton, Marcus L. Holt, attorney, ant
G. H. Edison, of Eaton. Howeve
much all these men may want til
nomination it is now being fixed u
f, r Jim Campbell. If the fixing pre-
cess goes ON all right there will be n
use for any one else to apply. Con
+ gressran Morey may expect q re
nomination with the chances NOR
against him this time than before
Old Dr.. Scott, of Warren count,
may be trotted out for the Republ
can place, and he could make a goo
, run. Preble county has Col. Harri:
ex-probate Judge, Colonel Robel
Williams, ex-C Collector; of Intern.
Revenue, and 1. E. Craig, a smaI
lawyer, who has always refuse
nominations of any sort heretofore
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

The pluero-pnumonia bill passed
the House of congress last Thursday.
II provides for a bureau Of animal
industry, to be organized by the
commissioners of agriculture, with a
chief whose duty it shall be to report
number, value, and condition of
domestic animals in the United
States, the causes of contagious
diseases among them, and how to
cure or prevent such diseases. He
may appoint two agents to report
upon treating, transporting, or caring
for animals, and the means for ex-
tirpatlng pleuro-pnumonia. The bill
prohibits the transportation from
one State to another of animals
affected with any contagious disease,
and a~ppropriates $25O,O00 to carry
its provisions into effect.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

In most of the States a belief in
the existence of a Supreme Being is
necessary to constitute q person q
competent witness in a court of law.
How far a witness religious faith
a be inquired into became a ques-
tion recently decided by the Supreme
Court of New Hampshire. The
Court said there was no error of law
in q referees refusal to allow a man
to be asked, on cross.examination,
whether The spirit of Daniel Webster
a present aiding him in the trial,
and whether he had been assisted by
departed spirits in obtaining inform.
alton. MOI would it have been an
error of law to allow those interroga.
tories. 1t was a question of fact how
far the proposed inquiry could use
fully go for the purpose of discover.
ing the credit of the witness. ga
man is competent to testify who be-
lieves in the existence Of God," he
said, land that divine punishment
either in this life or the life to come
will be the consequence of perjury
| No judicious tribunal is bound to in
quire whether a witness be q Protest
ant or Romanist, Norman, Jew o.
Gentle, a Spirtualist or a Material
ist."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

The bill providing for the new Cir.
cult Courts 10 be established under
the constitutional amendment adopt
ed last fall, to take place of the pres
ent District Courts, has been intro.
duced in the Legislature. 1t pro
vides for ten Districts and three
Circuit Judges in each, to be elect.
ed next October, one for two, one for
four and one for six years. There.
after one to is to be elected every
alternate year for six years. The
salary is $4,000, and the new courts
begins February 8, 1885. The dis,
tricts are equally and fairly appor.
toned with q population of from
3OS, 900 to 324, 900 each. These
courts are concurrent with the Su
preme Court, supersede the dis
tricts and have final Jurisdiction in
all matters of fact, being established
under the judicial amendment. The
circuits are constituted as follows:
First-Hamilton County.
Secoad-Brown, Clermont, Butler,
Preble, Montgomery, Warren,
Greene, Clinton and Faye:te.
Third-Darke, Mercer. Augliaze,
Shelby, Miami, Clark, Champaign,
Logan, Hardin, Marion, Union, and
Madison.
Fourth-Van Vert, Paulding,
Defiance, Williams, Fulton, Henry,
Putnam, Allen, Hancock, Wood and
Lucas.
: Fifth-Adams. Highland, Ross,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

Pike, Sciota, V%inton, Jackson,
Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, and Athens.
Sixth-Pickawav, Franklin, Della
ware, Licking, Fairfield, Hooking,
Perry and Mu. kingum.
Seventh-Morroy, Knox, Coshoc
ton, Holmes, Wayne, Ashland, Rich
land, Huron, Seneca, Wyandot and
Crawford.
Eighth-Ottawa, Sandusky, Erie
Lorain and Cuyhoge.
Ninth-Waslington, Morgan. No
BILE, Monroe, Belmont, Guernsey,
Harrison, Carroll, Tuscarawas ant
Stark.
Tenth-Jefferson, Columbiana
Mahoning, Portage, Summit, Me
dina, Trumbull, Geauga, Lake an
A~shtabula.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

The Stark County Democrat puts
it in this light: Labor has no pro
lection, and cannot have. The in
exorable laws of supply and de
mand govern labor. The tariff never
put n dollar in a workingman's
pocket, but takes plenty out. As a
rule, employers buy their labor where
they can get it cheapest. The i'm
portaticns of mechanics and labor
ers from abb Dad prove this"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

There is likely to be some peppery
proceedings growing out of the latest
revelations in the Star Route cases;
no wonder the Postmaster General
hesitated to give the documents out.
There is some indication also that
the Sun was able to get a peep at
them while Congress had the door
shut in its face. Now that the whole
bushel basket full of scandal has
been dumped into Mr.. Springer's LAP
we may expect some stirring work
from that sprightly Investigator
though it may have dampened his
ardor to find, as q starter, that al
most all the new names s!urred by
the evidence are Democrats. 1t may
be that, as in the case of the Potter
Committee and other examples, TIE
kick of this investigation will be
more fatal than the discharge.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-06

the way is an impossibility, would
require more than all the tonnage
In the world for its transportation,
and it would then cost in the yard
more than twice what it does now.
Here then we have an annual deficit
Of $1,000, 00O, 900. to say nothing of
the loss from the Gripping of manu-
features depending on working wood,
and the arrangement of the water
supply. In Michigan to day good,
standing pine, bought of the United
States Government for $3.50 per
acre, is valued at 5000 per acre, and
yet the remorseless slaughter of our
remnant of pine timber goes on at
increasing speed; and the cut of last
year was the greatest ever known.
One out of the eight years supply is
thus entirely taken away, and the
end is therefore close at hand un.
less we begin to economic. These
are cold facts to VIII CHI Congress
should apply remedical legislation.
Hon. John B. Alley and family, Of
Massachusetts, and Col. Bob Inger
soil and family left Washington {
few days since for New Mexict
where they have gone to take pos
session Of the Bolser interest in Dor
! sey's ranch, which is 60 miles Ions
. and "a miles wide, and watered b,
the Chico Springs River. There ar,
i now on it $4,000 head of cattle ont
600 horses, divided into small herds
each one of which has its corral an,
herdsman's house. Dorsey mortgae
,, ed one-half interest in this estate t
the late MI. Bosler to raise the read.
:. cash necessary for his defense whe'
> he stood his trial in the Star rout
cases, and the death of Bosler place
him in an unpleasant pecuniar
= position. Col. Ingersoll extricate
. him by convincing MI. Alley that
. was a good investment, and NJ
Alley drew his check TO- $780, 600
= clinch his bargain, following in
I. few days by 100000 MORE. NJ
a Alley may, after all, have the Sc,
in the United States Senate whic
= his friends have claimed for hin
coming from New Mexico, howeve
- instead of Massachusetts.
PHoNo.