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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06
Brighton Cattle Markell

TUESDAY, oct. y, 1854.
Am'hut of stock al market: Cattle, 81; sheep
ail iHnn-. 500, tat swine, 23,j60 horses, l44.
Prices ot beef cattle " 100 b live weight extra
quality. 50 51g7 %, first, - BIZ al BIZ second,
81 l3a3-23ts: third, "a 60d4 621a poorest grades
Of coarse oxen, bulls, etc, 81 COG 20.
Brighton Hides, heavy, y aSc " H. Brighton Tai
low, ia a6c y b; Country Hides, light ones So a7c
y 10 heavy, l673acR b; Country Talow, 81 a4c "
ID; Calf skins, lOallc b sheared sheep skins
40aG0c; Lamb skins, 80 a Soc each.
The supply of Western cattle brought into mar
ket HE past week has been the lghtest of that in
any one week for a long time past. The demand
for CATTLE either for the export butchers trade,
has been very light. What few cattle there were
brought in from the West were Of full as good
grade as those brought in week ago, but there
were but few buyers III market and prices We're
lower upon all grades sales ranging principally
IRON 80 5096 50 per 100 weight for those sold to
butchers.
sheep and Lambs. Those from the West were
nearly all owned by Hollis & Co and are costing
from 5aj1ac per lb live weight landed at the
slaughter houses this week. Those from the Cana
das and Maine were nearly all consigned to butch
ers, few hundred head only being taken for the
export trade.
swine. Western Fat Hogs are lower this week
costing landed at the slaughter houses from 81 acc
per lb. live weight The supply brought in for the
week has Deen large, all owned by butchers and
taken direct to the slaughter houses from the cars
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The FOOLS Prayer.

The royal feast was done; the king
Sought some new spot to Danish care,
And TO his Jester cried. ''Sir Fool,
''kneel now for us and make prayer"
The Jester dotfed his cap and bells,
And stood the mocking court before;
They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore.
He bowed his head, and bent his knee
| pon the monarch's slken stool;
His pleading voice arose, 20 Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!
No pity, Lord. would change the heart
From red with wrong to white as wool;
The rod must heal the sin; but. Lord
Be merciful to me, a fool.
'Iis by our guilt the onward sweep
OF truth and right O Lord we stay,
lis by our follies that so long
We hold The earth from heaven away.
Those clumsy feet. still in the mire,
Go crushing blossoms without end;
These hard well-neaning hands we thurst
Among the heart-slrings OF a friend.
The i'll timed truth that we have kept.
We knew how sharp it pierced and ,tung;
The word we had not sense to say
Y 10 knows how grandly it had rung?
oar faults no tenderness should ask,
The Christening stripes must cleanse them a
Bot for our blunders-Oh, in shame,
Before the eyes of heaven we fall.
Earth bears no blossoms for mistakes:
Men crown the knave and scOurge the fool
Thai did his will but thou. o Lord
BE mercful to me. foolH
The room was hu>hed; in silence rose
The king. and sought his garden cool,
4 n a kpH an T. ,ipt M r,I lnu
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06
Pure Air for Fowls.

A correspondent thinks that many of
the diseases to which fowls are subject
can be attributed to keeping them too
closely confined. He tells of one of his
neighbors who keeps flock of from one
to two hundred which have escaped the
Influenza while the fowls of other neigh
bors, who keep them confined, have died
at fearful rate. "The successful fan
cier keeps white Leghorns, and they are
always supplied with plenty of gravel,
grain and pure water. He feeds them
as regularly as the horse in the stall, and
they repay him in eggs and a good roast
frequently. This man does not favor hen
houses, at least he had none that we're of
much account. The chickens roost on
the cherry, apple or other trees conven-
lent; cedar hedge was generally filled
with them. Hen houses must be used,
of course, but let them be constructed
with narrow Stats SO that the air can cir
culate freely"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06
M. Quad's Den.

A ROOM MORE LIKE MUSEUM THAN A LITER
AIRY OFFICE.
| took look into the den of NJ Quad. the
noted humori~t of The Detroit Free Press who
writes the Limc-kiln Club articles who has
made famous Biah and the Detroit Police
court, and whose funny articles as well as his
solemn ones, are all copied from Dan to Ber-
sheba. 1t was a curious room, and it looked
more Ike muSeu III than "A literary office. One
OF the smallest rooms in the building. twelve
feet long by about eight wide, should think
its walls We're covered with bracket shelves
upon which Were LAID all sorts of relies. which
NJ. Quad had gathered from the southern bat
tie hcids. There were tlattcntd bullets and
bur>trd shells, rusty canteens and old cartridge
boxes, brass buttons and big belt buckles. mi Y
ed indlscrlmlnately with the ends of tlag->taffs.
rusty pocke-kniVeS and a dozen other things
of like nature.
Hanging croSsWSe on the walls were uumer-
0n> guns and swords of various makes and in
various stages OF decomposition. That blade
there flashes as brightly now as il did when
some rebel hand swung it through the air and
brought II down on The head of Il Union man.
But The Old >aber beside it is rusted with the
deWS of many summers, and that rapier labeled
falr Oaks has lost its point, broken, perhaps,
IN human flesh On the electric light hangs an
old canteen, It's canvas cover now faded. and
its mouth filled with rust, While lust below il is
Nillainous looking blade painted red to im-
tate blood, and labeled, Never draw me with
out reason. or sheath me without honor"
There TWO rusty bayones cross each other. and
near them hangs IA pair of heavy handcuf> a
relic of the slave trade before the war. There
are few pictures in this room Of Ouad's his
taste seem to run rather to blood and thunder
than TO poetry and art.
A sketch OF the Lime Kiln club hangs where
he can look upon it as he writes, and back of
his chair there hangs Il stocking which might
have served for Goah. which some good old
grandmother in Michigan knit for Bijah after
reading one of Quads articles describing his
large feet.
| was sorry that Mr.. Lewis (for that is NJ.
Quads name) was not present when called,
bui from his desk and chair | could see that his
tastes were very simple. He writes on Il flat
table-llke desk, sitting in AN old chair cushioned
with carpet. Some of the copy for the next
edition Of the Lime-kiln club was scattered
over the table. 1t was written in 4 bold, free
band, without an crasure, and evidently caused
the writer but little trouble in its composition.
NJ. Quad is an Ohio man and he was born in
East Liverpool, little town on the Ohio river,
where they light and cook by natural gas. He
started life printers devil. and at the
breaking out of the war enlisted in Michigan
regiment In 1868 he made strike by being
blown up in an Ohio river steamer, his account
of which was his first Q, eat stroke of news
paper work. Two years later he was employ
ed AS humorous writer on The Detroit Free
Press. where he has been ever since and where
he will probably stay till he dies. Cleveland
Leader
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HOW THE MoSl TEMPTING FLN WILL FAIL.
AN EXPLODED NOTION.
To the angler the question of most common
;.,.;
ihteieS' lS WHY "oeS '''e H'h 'aNe OF refuse iht
bait or fly. writes one of the fraternity. And
the most thorough study Of trout uiyes hlt
.,,,,;,, i,
''''' '''" III ''S It, l. : sei'er"i i"''
that trout take no dfad TODD. Late III food =
essential to their taste. ana motion. which i, \
.;o,r as. .,,,..r,,,+ iif, j. ,,....a.,.,, ....
ii " " " F - '''''N
them. group of trout will sometimes lie >til
around Il baited hook. but the instant if moves
,,.h - .oi.1. i ooot;,,,.,,,.; l,i,,,
'"''' y n ''' ''ii'' - 'i'0' ~ =
necessary to induce them to attack. BAN
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06

Everything shows Us that the summer is
gone and the twilight of the year is settling
down upon us We begin to wonder whether
we had better run the furnace this winter or
take the money and buy Cuba to have Il
winter resort. Speaking about winter resorts.
military friend of mine writes me that he
wouldn't ask anything better than commits
sion to make a TRIP in search Of the open Polar
sea. He invites me to 90. | thanked him for
the invitation and asked him when he wanted
his men picked, before or after the trip.
While | would lie well enough to catch few
pickerel in the open Polar sea and breathe the
crisp, pure air of no degrees aud no minutes
longitude due west of given point, am al
most positive that will dig the clinkers out of
large base burner this winter and write
foamy, frolhy, sunny, soothfu poems for
dying world.
While no one would more cheerfuly enter
into the giddy whirl Of EsquimauX society, or
load his stomach with cod-Iiver oil and old
harnesses and saddles with vinegar, IN order
that he might crafty morbid curiosity as to
whether the north pole had hot box or not,
yet shall not avail myself of the opportunity
to go this winter
While few could more joyously contemplate
life where it would take a ninety day note
lifetime to mature, | am free to say that |
would rather, at present, climb a tall tree until
the payee gets by. Bill Nye in Denver Opin-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06
The Ocean Tramp's Harbor.

An old British sea captain said to reporter
haven of delight for ocean tramps-those wan
derng steamships that cruise about from one
signal station to another, uncertain and restless.
The miscellaneous nature of their cargoes ad-
mits of all kinds of Irregularities. Rarely do
their manifests show the quantity of cargo, for
all sorts of goods are carried as ships stores.
The number of seamen required to navigate a
tramp steamer is another mystery. While it
is difficult to find more than twenty or thirty
men about the vessel, the ships company is
perhaps set down at treble those numbers The
sailors on such ships seem to require Il great
deal of brandy and fine wines. | have known
hundred pipes of brandy put aboard at the
London docks as ships stores These are
traded in all over the world. Some of the voy-
ages of such ships last for year or more.
They will sail from London or Liverpool to
Sandy Hook; there orders by cable will send
them to Baltimore to load for Rio Janeiro
thence they will be teegraphed to proceed to
Calcutta, and their next voyage may be to San
Francisco. A load of wheat will be cleared for
England, but may be sold at Santiago or Fun
chal, and the vessel started on cruise to India
or into the Mediterranean. Look at the Della
ware Breakwater! There is no sort of custom
house supervision. 'Bumboat dealers ought to
get rich there. Do | know that smuggling is
carried on? Well, should say | did,
The coming holidays will be more generally
observed than any for many years, and we
would remind our roade rs tia J., a suttle If Dr.
Bulls Cough Syrup will prove a most accept
able holiday present
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her arms inviting us to tea. We all stood
there in the late sunshine watching the
cattle as they came slowly over the pra-
rie, stopping to nibble the grass here and
there until urged on by the boy, who rode
a spiteful little pony As they came up
Mr.. llerder paused in his work, and, see
ing us, waved his hand, let down the
bars TO the inclosure and stepped back,
holding in his hand the hay knife with
which he had been working,
The cattle passed in one after another,
and only the biz Durham bull-Mr Her
ders special pride-stoppcd 10 sample
the straw Mr. iierder struck at him
with the Hat side OF the knife, and the
next moment horrible thing was hap
pening. The enraged animal turned
upon him, and, catching him on his cruel
homs tossed him high in the air. | saw
the boy dashing away across the prairie
for the help which it would have been
madness for him to have attempted to
give. / heard Mrs. Herders cry
"AIy God, the brute will KIN him p as
She sank on her knees with IA look of
agony on her face, the like of which |
pray | may never see again. Thompy
stood Is if turned to stone, till, at a cry
from the defenceless man. out there all
alone, she turned, and snatching the re-
voIver from the wall where it had been
avoided 50 long, she dashed by us to his
help.
"Arabcla Thompson :" cried, clutch
ing at her as sho passed me, 'haye you
lost your senses =
She was gone sank down on my
knees, and bufying my face III my hands,
lost all consciousness save of a horrible
sckening pain in the place where my
heart used to beat. believe knew
something Of the t"rturcS of the lost in
that space do not know whether it
was long Or short, it seemed for ever.
The first thing Of which became con
scious was the noise Of voices in excited
question and answer. ! raised myself
from The ground and saw George Bradley
and several others about the PROSTATE
body Of Mr. Herdcr. He still lived,
though badly hurt, and they soon had
him On the bed waiting for the doctor to
come from the town.
lhtl lound ID"npy unconscious not
far from where the bull had died; the
revolver was some distance beyond,
where she had thrown it after shooting.
George Bradley brought her in, in his
arms, and we could none of US make
enough OF her.
How dil You ever do it, You, who are
50 much afraid Of firearms n asked.
"Ihele va, nothing else to do" she
answered simply.
"floW d!c You aim = asked some one.
Il DIDN'T aim; ! just shut my eyes and
prayed and then shot and threw it as far
as ! could
| believe she was more afraid Of the
revolver than She was Of that horrible
beast
After hat the two families cot sort If
mixed up. Mr. IIerder, nursed by us all,
struggled slowly back to life. Mrs. Her
der could not do enough for Thompy,
and DIS for that George Bradley, be acted
as though She belonged to him.
began to realize about this time that
tho prospect of oui model Old maids hall
VAS growing beautifully less. 1t did not
improve my temper when the cold wealth
er began to threaten and We With a whole
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06
FARM. GARDEN ANU HOUSEHOLD.

IF or this department brief suggestions, facts
AMI experiences are solicited from hou>ekcep-
ers. farmers and gardeners. Address Agri-
cultural editor. journal Office. Befast Maine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06

Mrs. Spriggins on Maud s.: Il don't see
how them miIliners as they call 'em like Van
derbilt. can be so ignoramus about the English
langwidge. The idea of calm that there hoss
Maudess Why wouldn't plain Maud hev
showed she was lady boss, just as well?"
fife.
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Literature.

The premium engraving issued by Peterson's
Magazine for 1880 is called The Lion in
Love" 1t is capital picture, engraved in the
best style.
Mr.. Will Carleton is called by the Pail Mall
Gazette Il poet to whom it has been given ''to
impart to American poetic literature something
of the native color and vigor which have been
wanting in the works Of other American
poets"
The November number of the Popular Sci
ence News treats of Shell fish as food, the
Turkish bath for horses, kerosene lamp eX
ilosions, the sef-purifcation of water, aud
other topic, of interest. Popular Science
News Co., Boston.
Mr. Ayres, the author of The Mentor"
The Nerhal>t,' The Orhoepst," ETC., has
been appointed to the chair of EIocution, Or
thoepy English, French, aud Germany and
Rhetoric, in the new "Lyceunl-Theatre School
of Acting" New York.
The October number Of the American j our
naist mas the following table of contents: Au-
thors and Journalists. Wealthy New York
Journals 5. Bookmaking and interviewing.
Insurance Of Printing Offices. Editorial. Press
Cluos and their Membership. Newspaper
Notes. National Editorial Directory. Amcri-
can Journalist Co., ST. Louis.
Our best magazines are supplanting the Eng
lish periodicals in their own homes. Our Lit
tie Ones, tlr magazine for Juveniles, now pub
fishes London edition, and in England, as in
,I,;
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Another disagreeable habit is that Of
going about singing, humming, or whist
ing Tie man that habituaIly does eth
er Of these, either in the street no mat
ter what he hour in the halls of hotels,
as he goes up and down stairs, or in bis
own apartments, when there is any one
within hearing, has The manners of a
boor, and deserves the calaboose for dis
orderly conduct
KEEP AWAY FROM BAR-RooMs.
If you would preserve your health,
never drink any thing but water between
meals.
If YOU would preserve your good name,
keep away from bar-rooms.
Ifyou would preserve your self-respoct,
keep away from bar-r0oms.
# YOU would preserve your good man
ners, keep away from bar-rooms
If you would preserve your good looks,
keep away from bar-r0oms.
If you would keep out of the clutches
of the devil, keep away from bar rooms.
From "The Mentor by Alfred Ayres.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06

Over 10000 copies of tile Bible have been
printed every day for the last thirty-four years,
and vet you have to look out for he man who
borroWs your hoe or asks the loan of a lawn
mower.
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Ger all the wide, extended plain
Shines one eternal day!

shall never forget one day about the
middle of the month. Mr.. Herder had
been at the sheds near the house stacking
corn for the winter use of the cattle We
could hear him singing about the place
all the drowsy afternoon, and now and
again his wife would call to hil1 in her
high, sweet voice. George Bradley was
in town, and just about six the boy came
driving the cattle before him. Mrs.
Herder was at our door with the baby in
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06
JUDICIAL GEMS.

Forty-two ladies and gentlemen We're refresh
ing themselves in two stale beer dives in Null
berry street when two squads of policemen put
an end to the entertainment and escorted the
festive jewellers to the lookup. Yesterday
morning they presented company 'front.' at
the desk in the Tombs Police Court. Justice
Duffy looked down at them and said. Good
Lord!' Then His Honor took fresh dip of
ink and kept time to the scratching of his pen
i'll this wise:
"Mary Hogan, you're nice specimen of hui
manity to be in that sort of an Eyetalian, Irish
American crowd, ten days"
''John Murphy, you look like stale beer
drinker. When men drink stale beer they get
saffron coored, one month"
YOU'RE a fine Irishman. Michael Gillgan.
Do you want to make an Eyetalian of yourself,
ten days"
"You ought to be dubbed for going into a
stale beer dive, Thomas Smith. | guess a turn
on the Island will do you good, thirty days"
"Couldn't you find somewhere else to 90 be-
sides that, Joseph Moran, to fill your stomach
with dirty, filthy beer that's taken out of empty
kegs? five days.
''Willam Baxter, you've been working the
stale beer route for some time, | know, by the
look of you, one month";"
"YOu ought to be ashamed Of yourself Mary
Morarty, a big strong woman like you. You
should be washing or scrubbing, ten days"
IT'S at church you ought to be saving your
prayers, Ellen Hoolahan, instead of drinking
such nasty stuff in hole like that. five days.
1t took sixteen minutes to dispose of the for
oy-twoA Then Sergeant CahiIl said. 'Tbahk
God,' washed his hands and directed police
man to open all the windows.
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Cure Yourself.

"tl work and no play makes Back iull boy,
what the iad rrmartpt to hi- father y hp ret used
h L.Ln. uLu- NJ LMA lMo.LIu-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-09-20
1t Wasn't q Boulevard.

An Austin darkey raised large crop
of watermelons. but the cropis so large
this year he has had difficulty in getting
rid of them, the market being over
stocked. He felt like the castaway on
the de .ert island. for '.he saw no sale
from day to-day" He attributed the
dullness of the season to the fact that
the superior quality Of the fruit was not
sufficiently advertised. SO he procured
long tin horn with which he startled
horses several blocks distant.
Look here said an exhausted
policeman, who had been almost run
over by u fugitive team; .'you can't blow
through the streets that way"
WHO is blowing fru any street. Tse
blowing fru dis heah musical impli-
ment. Yer don't call dis heah baSsoon
a boulevard, does yer. Ta-ra-ta-ra.'-
T.rGs SiftiHgs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-09-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Since the war over six hundred
colored Baptist churches have been es-
tablished in Texas Chicago Times.
Samuel Noble, of Admission. Ala.
has given $4,000 toward founding
free high school at that place.
The theory that a boy may be
popped into a school, like corn into y
mill, to come out, after = time. ready
for use, has been exploded by the sad
experience of nearly all that have tried
it.-Freeman's Journal.
The study of the Irish language is
becoming popular among many Irish
men in this country. In most of the
large cities there are classes organized
for the purpose. The Philadelphia
classes, for instance, number fifty pu-
pils.-Pitadclphia Press.
Among the regulations Of newly.
formed church among the Zulus in
South Africa was the following: mo
member of this church shall be per-
mitted to drink the white mans grog.
or native beer, nor touch it with his
lips"
1t is proposed to organize, under
tuc sttSpICcS Vi TIC hIucTlCdu OOClol
Science Association, during its next an
nual session at Saratoga, an American
Historical Association, consisting of
professors, teachers. specialists and
others interested in the advancement Of
history in this country.-ALdaay
Journal.
The New Haven Register saws:
'.Dudley Buck has politely declined the
degree of Doctor of Music conferred
by Yale College. giving it as his opin-
ion that American colleges cannot con-
fer such degree. This should convince
Yale College authorities of the utter
absurdity OF continuing their generos-
ity in this direction"
MIR Charles G. Leland gives some
interesting facts in regard to the prac-
teal utility of the Philadelphia Indus
trial Art School, for which he has done
so much. II have ascertained by ex-
pertinent" he SAYS, ''that under real
ly first class, highly intelligent artist
teacher, school-children, while main
tanning high averages in other studies.
can, every one, earn from three dollars
to even five dollars by ood-carying
two afternoons in the week. Any pupil,
after from fifty to one hundred lessons,
can do this in several branches"