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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
THE THIBETANS.
Men and Women Who Do Not Believe In
the Free Use of Water,

Men and Women Who Do Not Believe In
the Free Use of Water.
The Thibetans who live in the val
leys are not as a rule fine men physi-
cally, but the highlanders, or hill men,
such as the shepherds, etc, up in the
high Thibetan Mountains, are massive
6ea"r h0mnleS, having somewhat the
appearance of having been hewn out of
solid blocks. The people of the valleys
are more or less idle gossips, disliking
work intensely. The men do not work
in the fields except blowing, and few
who can afford to pay another to do it
for them will do even that much.
When not in repose-i. e., when not alb
solutely doing nOthing-the men occu-
Ply themselves by sewing, spinning,
looking after the mules, horses and cat
tie, but above all in attending to the
petty business of the family. The
women SOW, irrgate, weed, cut the
harvest, thrash, winnow, carry the
grain to the granary and do all the
household work as well If there are
loads to be carried the women carry
them. If a man be asked to carry a
big case or heavy load he is certain, on
seeing it, to say at once: That! that S
a women load" and of the baggage
he will select the smallest parcel he can
find as his burden. In the pasturages,
the women milk, make the butter and
look after the tlOcks when these are
grazing near the tents or encampment.
The men herd the ilocks when grazing
at distance. The women ride as we'll
as the men, and in the same fashion.
From constantly throwing stones at the
cattle the women are adopts at this,
and can and do make it very unpleas-
ant for any person who may have irri-
tated them into putting their science
into practice. Dirt is the ruling
feature everywhere in Thibetan house
holds. 1t pervades their houses and
their persons, prevails in their customs.
and gives tone to and bears fruit in
their speech. A European, an English
official in India once desiring to see
the real color of the Thibetan skin,
paid the parents of child to have it
washed in hot water several waters.
and with an unlimited supply of soap.
Every effort was made in vain, the skin
could not be reached through such an
armor plating of dirt. 1t is said with
every show of truth that it would be
quite impossible to wash an adult
Thibetan down to the skin. The beau
ty of woman in Thibet consists in her
being stout, broad, thick-set and heavi-
ly membered, and the accomplishments
to be desired are that she should be
above all things audacious, a good
hand at bargain and at repartee; in
fact, typical Billingsgate virago, il
massive enough, would pass as a Venus
in Thibet.-Ntneteenh Century.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
A LOST CHARACTERISTIC.
Shyness an Attribute of Young People
Which Has CompletelY Disapneared.

ShynesS an Attribute of Young People
Which Has Completely Disappeared.
At one time of day most children
used to be born shy. We have always
been taught this as a tradition of the
race, and, carrying our memories back
half century, we can bear corrobora.
tive testimony to the fact. We can re-
member feeling very shy ourselves even
at the age of seven. We should never
have thought of speaking till we were
spoken to, or coming without being
called, or of assaulting the central
plum cake, or asking the lady on whose
knee we sat how old she was and how
much money she had. There were
many pauses in the conversation when
we went into society at that age, and
met other shy little people. The over
lures of acquaintanceship between
children used to be very slow and ten
tative; we remember particularly ex-
changing sweets with afour-year-old in
blue sash, long before we dared ask her
what her name was, and long before
she dared tell us our hair was rough.
Children then required encouraging and
'bringing forward" But now! The
shy child has disappeared We have
bolsterous masters and misses, and we
have quiet, self-possessed ones; some
are very unruly, and some are compar-
ativelv tractable; but none are shy
Some Pied Piper of Hamelin has been
round and played all the shy ones away.
Similarly, at more advanced age, it
used to he serious eXhortatim to Young
men and maidens to overcome shvness.
1t was preached to them that bashful-
ness was bar to social intercourse and
to mental improvement, ard they were
instructed how to acquire an easy
manner; but all these exhortations
which we find repeated constantly in
Did manuals for the modelling of con-
luct read like so much sarcasm now.
You may look round where you will
among youths, but that black swan, the
shy youth, has migrated for GOOD. You
ind plenty of pert youths, and of
Sclf-sulticient youths; many aggressive
youths, and no end of patronizing
,ouths, even now and then a sclfpos-
;csSrd youth who is nevertheless
modest; but tho shy youth--never.-
L0adou G'o1c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17

that gittn' in the hay. My little Janey
eleven years old next May, usually drives
the rake for us, but she amt ben feein'
overly peart this summer an | kinder kept
her out Of the sun. So Miss Ella gifts her
self boosted up on the hOsS rake-my boy
Joe he boosted her-an' then she screamed
an fell off. Then she got on agn, hit
the boss a crack an away she went on the
dead jump out O the field into the road,
boss a gOin, dust a flynn an Miss Ella
screechin'. Some of the men headed her
off an stopped the boss. Then she tried
it agin This time she struck right straight
through the standin' grass where it was
tallest an thickest and tangledest; boss
balkin' and tuggin' away by turns, grass
holdin on or comm up by the roots, rake
teeth snappin'. We got her out of that,
and lost whole day on the rake, gettin' it
mended.
Then she tried drivin' load into the big
barn. Had to send to the house for a lad
der, an then all the men had to go clear
out of the field while she climbed up on the
load, Drivin' in she got the wagon caught
in hedge gap as wide as the Missouri
River, run over two stand of bees, upset the
load and buried herself under three hun
dred pounds of hay. 1t was the safest
place for her under the eXctin' circum-
stances; so we jest left her Their ontil the
bees got CANNED down an we got some
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
Boston's Funeral Orators.

When Daniel Webster passed over TO
the majority the choice of the city for
eulogist fell upon George S. Hillard,
who delivered the Grafton November 30,
1852. Edward Everett was the orator
on the death of the Marquis de Lafay-
cite, September 6, 1884, speaking in
Faneuil Hall. Rufus Choate eulOgized
President Harrison in the same place,
April 20, 1871, on which occasion 10.
siah Quincy, Jr., OBLIGATED as chief
marshal of the funeral ceremonies.
Judge Pliny Merrick was the city ora
tor on the death of General Jackson,
July 8, 1915; Judge Levi Woodbury.,
July %, lS49, of President Polk; Jo-
siah Quincy, Jr., on President Taylor,
August 10, 1851. The memory of Lin
coin was honored for the city by Charles
Sumner, April II, 1865, and when the
eloquent Senator died, for the first time
the city of Boston went outside its own
limits for an orator, and April 20, 1874,
listened to the eulogy by Carl Schurz.
Other eulogies were pronounced before
the city government by General Banks,
October, 1881, on President Garfield; by
George William Curtis, April Is, 1884,
on Wendell Phillips; by Edwin p
Whipple, November &c. 1867, on Gov
ernor Andrew. Hartford Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
a SCHOOL-MA'AM FARMER.

Farmer Thistlepod's Account of Her Man
ner of Running Various Agricultural
Implements - Her Departure Great
Loss to the Farm.
Editor Of the Eagle: Noticin' in your
columns quite recent a paragraph to the
follOwin':
Miss Ella Witchazel, charming young
school teacher of Villisca, Ia, finding the
close confinement and arGuous duties of the
school-room injuring her health, tried the
outdoor cure. Instead of spending her
winters salary and summer vacation in a
crowded hotel at the seashore, she went on
farm, cut twenty-five acres of prairie hay,
harvested forty acres of wheat gained
twenty pounds in weight, a coat of tan for
her hands and face, and a rugged health
that can not be equaled any where off '
farm. There's the girl you are looking rs,
young man"
Now, what | want to say: l am well
acquainted with this young school-marm.
Fact is it was my farm she spent the sum-
mer on. Nice girI, Ella is, as ever run
wild in the sun. We was glad, wife an
me, to have her come, an she did bout as
she pleased on the farm. I'd often read in
the papers bout these young women that
taught school in the winter an farmed in the
summer, but | never mad any experiences
of 'em before.
Well, sir, she farmed. First day. nothin'd
do bat she must drive the boss rake. Well,
every man an woman that comes from town
wants to drive the boss rake, an they call
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
STRAYED AWAY.

"A sweet little maiden not quite three years
old,
With a sun-bonnet tied over ringlets of gold;
Merry brown eyes that the sunshine turks
Two rosy checks and white dimpled chin;
Dear chubby HANDS kissed quite brown by the
And voice like the brooks, full of laughter
and fun!
She left me this morn with a kiss and a smile
And now has been gone such weary long
Oh, tell me, good folks, have you seen her
pass by
Chasing a bird, or a gay butterfly?
She carried doll and little blue basket,
Aud My name is wee Elsie" she'd say, if
you'd ask it.
She may have gone down where the chatter
ing brook
Runs round on itself with a queer little
crook,
And watching the fish in the shadows at
Perhaps she forgot she was running away,
Or it may be the fairies, by some mystic
Have lured her away to their haunts in the
dell.
If once they find out what darling she is
/ fear they will keep her to love and to kiss.
Perhaps she lay down somewhere under a
tree
Where the leaves with the sunbeams are
And gazing way up at the blue summer sky.
To watch the white clouds as they sail slowly
by.
She, too, may have sailed into dreamland
away
wonder, wonder how long will she stay?
Oh if you should see her, pray tell her from
That mammals as lonesome as lonesome can
be;
And if she has gone with the fairies to stay,
Or oil into dreamland has drifted away,
III have to adopt some poor wandering elf
Why, who was it that kissed me? Ills Elsie
herself
M K RlLcIt in Chicnnn 1drnnce
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he hid it undefthe hedge when he got out
of sight of thelouse. l told Joe he was
the biggest foo ever see.
Well, Miss Ria got along fairly we'll
after wheat hartst. Gathered some grace
full sprays, she clled 'em, of poison ivy one
day, and couldn't see out of one eye for
nigh a week. De day she took tin pail
to go out after berries, and when she went
through the COW psture the cows thought
there was salt in he pail and chased her
till she was nigh ready to drop. And she
went to the barn oce an tried to harness a
young Tuckahoe olt that had never had a
halter on him, an'hOw she got out of the
stable alive S MORN | can tell. But what
L wanted to sa is that that's about the
way the young wmen who farm so grace
ful i'll the newspapers usually farm on the
farm. But we lied her. An we hated to
see her go. An'bhC will make a splendid
but | don't knoy about your young men
comm out to lOcl after her, for when she
said goodbye to me to go back to town,
she thrOwed heIalms around my neck an
gin me kiss tat | says to my boy Joe,
standin' by the wagon to take her to town,
he was always S,mewhere around: Joe, )"
l says, You'd ave your share in the farm
for that" an joe he didn't seem to care for
anything of thekind, an Miss Ella, she up
an give me anther squeeze an kiss an
| saw her looking over my shoulder at my
boy Joe and-7law. haw! haw .-Burdctte,
IN Brooklyn EdgLe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
HOW 1T TASTED.

Che was maid of many charms,
AS lovely as the rose;
She held her poodle IN her arms
And fondly kissed his nose.
Her lover, lying at her feet,
Was envious as could be,
And said: "Oh, give kiss as sweet
As that, my love, to mel
She stopped and kissed him on the lips,
Then spraug he to his feet;
She, bushing to her fnger-tips,
Inquired: "Well, was it sweet?"
He wiped his mouth, picked up his cane,
And then prepared to jog
Remarking: Sweet? Well, to be plain,
1t kind O tastes Of dog"
Boston Courier
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17

vestip' all right Land, how tho men
laifel. And yet, we all liked the girl
But me idee of her farmin'. Why, do you
knotF' sir, one day in haydn, she went to
towr TOOK one of my best work horses
an was gone all day, an came home with
'boua twenty yards of blue and white rib
bonss and tied 'em on the mems hats and
the take handles, and wanted US all to
wearlslled shirts, with the sleeves looped
up Wstn blue ribbon, go marchin' oct to the
bayfield,, me at the head with the most ana
Longest ribbons, a singin': 1--WE merry
hayf1lkers, ira la, Ia la, lap She saw it
donsShat way once in a concert or theay-
ter thought that was the way haydn
wa'iieNays done. An she was so vexed
tina SOFT %ed when we wouldn't wear 'em.
Lalenfh 7 n put on that hat, ma laid back
and7,enl Ned till the tears ran down her
deaPs 81 cheeks. "Job Thistlepod," she
said, Elt you'll go out an work in that
rig, " II scare away the grasshoppers."
My bob Joe, he did wear his hat out, but
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17

an she started. Two rod from the start
big, black snake stuck up his head-ar'
you know how slick them knives amputate
snake? Miss Ella, she gives faint little
squeak, an faints dead away. MY boy
Joe-he's always hangin' around he
jumped for the horses, took Miss Ella
down and carried her to the house. Money,
nor healthy tan, nor rugged appetite. nor
nothin' couldn't coax Miss Witchazel into
that field agin, an we got through har-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17

work done. Next load she went in on, and
then turned all of the men out of the barn
while she climbed up into the NOW, an
then she wandered around ontil she stepped
into chute and shot down about twenty
eight feet into the cow barn an lit right on
the back of jersey calf that was worth
$3.50 of any mans money an hour before.
Miss Ella want killed but she was that
damned up that she lay in bed two days,
an but for that providence we'd hev ben
wOrkn' at that hay yet. An anybody that
wants broken back calf can have one at
his own fggers.
Well, come wheat harvest, she must drive
the self-binder That was leete too
risky, but she had her own way. But she
couldn't be trusted up above the knives, so
somebody had to set up there an hold her
on. My boy joe he held her OIL told
Joe she was a maxim a fool of him-an' if
she didn't make him drive around every
poppy an every blossomin' weed she see in
that field to save it. Never mind the wheat,
but save the blamed weeds. There was
only one stump on that three hundred and
twenty acres of prairie land, Just one stump,
an | hope may go to seed before Thanks
givn' if that girl didn't run into it an break
the reaper. Lost all the rest of that day a
mendin' of it.
Next day, she was that proud an conf
dent she could drive alone. Well, we tied
her into the seat so's't she couldn't fall off
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17

"Here's strange phenomenon, hubby"
whats that, my dear?"
"This paper tells of a night-blooming
cereus in Massachusetts, that blooms in tho
daytime"
-.sYell, that is rather paradoxical."
ayes, dear, and do you know Pve noticed
lately great many evidences of night
turning into day."
my darling, l hope you will not permit
your insinuations to become personal. -
Chicago Ne,CS.
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what c. o. d. stands For.
NelOs.

"Whats the meaning of c. @. D.?"
"Collect on delivery"
"Well, l kind o suspicioned it meant
something like that"
"You did?"
eyes; l got box by express the other
day with them letters on it, and 1 had to
pony up before they'd let me take it, and
from that cphered it out that they meant
Come Omediately Down" - Chicago
Led0er
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17

Physician-YOu do not need medicine "a
all. Take plenty of exercise and mild
tonic-say bottle of claret every day.
Patient Gn alarm)--Oh, no! can't do
that. q
HIM. Temperance manP
'Oh, no! But the fact is l was in the
wine business myself once, and know
how it's made. '-FhiLddelphiG Cat
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
A deal of hrenknce amonr OIL

"A deal Of breakage among glass
and crockery can be prevented by the
simple precaution of placing lamp
chimneys, tumblers and such articles
in pct filled with cold water to which
some common table salt has been added.
Boil the water well and allow it to cool
slowly. When the articles are taken
out and washed they will resist any
sudden changes of temperature. al
bGny Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
The Early Bird Catches On.

$50, Mrs. Yamspinner, you are left :,
widow?"
''Ye-ye-yes, boO-hoo-o-o-o."
There, there, don't cry. That won't
bring him back"
Il know it, but it will excite sympathy
NelCS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17

Statistics furnished by the Cincin-
natl Chamber of Commerce for the past
fifty years show that the average rain
fall is gradually decreasing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17

A negro living on Onion Creek came to
Austin recently, and the following CONVEX
sation occurred between him and a city
friend:
"How is Pete Jackson?"
"He is done dead"
Yer don't tole me so. How did hit
come about%'
''He died wild digesshun OBJ de lungs, but
surrounded wild de bes' wishes OBJ de hu
neighborhood. "-Ierds iSiftmgS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-13
0UTRAGES ON THE CHINESE.
Resolutions of Thanks Adopted by Chinese
Merchants and Sent to the President

NEW YORK, Nov. 12-The Chinese merchants
of this city have sent to President Cleveland the
following address:
ITO His i.xcelency. the Hon. Grover Cleveland
President of the United States of America:
sat meeting of the Chinese merchants of
this city held Nov 10. 1885, the following resolu
tions were unanimously adopted;
After many outrages have oeen committed
upon our elow-countrymen In the lawless dis
tricts by desperate, ignorant and wicked men, it
gives US, the Chinese merchants of New York
great and unspeakabe pleasure to learn thu the
President of the United States and the Ameri-
can people has issued official proclamation to
protect people, redress the wrongs done
to the injured, punish the malefactors and
prevent, by his great power, repetition of the
actions which have caused SO much suffering and
death.
1--WE desire to express our gratitude, and to
his courage and love of justice We assure
him that he has increased our ad-
miration and generation for his fearless
ness and wisdom. and our respect and obedi
ence to all his laws. We also assure him, re-
spectfully. that our countrymen in the United
States endeavor to be good peaceful, honest,
and law-abiding citizens. and that they are
always anxious and eager to obey and enforce
his laws, and SO promote that prosperity and
peace which are as dear to them as to the great
officers and writer's of this land We instruct
our scribes to interpret this into English and to
send the same with all expression of our esteem
and veneration. to his Exceency, the President.
''Glven at our municipal chamb ers the 9Th day
OF the ninth moon of the eleventh year of the
reign OF the Emperor Kwong Suey."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-13

the manufacturer, that they alone were in po-
stion to understand the intricacies of the tariff
question. Mr. Beecher declared that he was in
favor Of no tariff at all. Though the best policy
to follow was to place a direct tax upon the peo-
pie 10 detray the expenses OF government the
innate sefshness of the people, born of their
ignorance, would make the operation of such
policy impossible until the arrival of the mil
lennium. Mr.. Beecher created great APP
plause aud laughter by saying that pro-
lection was the "juggerv Of the devil;' that
IF politicians were statesmen, protection would
die a natural death in spite Of the devil, but
politicians were not statesmen; they were vote
moneers." Mr. Beecher spoke in most uncom-
pimentary terms of the custom. houses. and SAID
he believed, from personal observation. that if
there was such thing as a profane oath 1T
could invariably be found in the cCstom-houses
Quoting the secretary Of the National Labor
Organization, he said there were now IN TINS
country a million of laborers unemployed. After
referring to the rivalry among capitalists IN de-
velopng the profits in newly discovered indus
tries, which. resulted in inevitable overproduc-
ton and the ultimate effect Of throwing laborers
again out Of woIk, Mr. Beecher remarked that
there was no tariff on men, and wondered if the
protectionists were thinking of lettering the
situation by placing tariff on imported pauper-
labor. This was intensely amusing to the audi
enee, and its suppressed laughter increased
to a roar when the speaker remarked that this
country was a large exporter - 'of religion"
this country sent millions Of dollars to heather
countries to nstill the principles of Christianity
into the minds Of unbeljevers, while the article
went begging at home This country was liberal
in exporting religion for the benefit of the
heather, but when those benighted individuals
came to this country to be nearer the fountain
head of such teaching they were met with
stones and curses and only allowed to remain at
the peril of their lives.
Though Mr.. Beechers short address abounded
in cutting sarcasms, he closed in an earnest and
impressive vein, with old arguments in dress
SO new and attractive that his audience listened
with the most strained attention. The speakers
closing words were tribute to the liberty that
had founded the government that had freed the
slave, and which would remove every bar to its
commercial grandeur.
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TIE MCCULLOUGH OBSEQUIES.
The Services in st. Georges IIall-Eight Thou
sand People View the Remains.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. PA guard of honor,
composed of members Of the Philadelphia sec
ton of the Benevolent Order of Elks watched
over the remains of John Mccullough during
the highland this morning ct o'clock, the doors
of st. Georges Hall, giving entrance to the spa
cious room in which the body lay were thrown
open and the public admitted. Amongst the
throng were many faces familiar to the patrons
of the theater, but there were enough men in
other walks of life to demonstrate that John
Mccullough counted as many friends out of his
profession as he did in it. The small stage
was hidden, almost by the floral offerings, which
were lanked with ferns and palms. The coffin
rested upon a catafalque Immediately in front of
the stage. SIEVE raj floral pieces rested upon the
casket lid, the most affecting Of which
simple bunch of white flowers and smilax, left
by little girl whom no one knew. This was
the inscription on the plate of the casket lid: