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Notices under this head cent per word.
 II have now in stock the best $2 Ladies' sK Kid Button manufactured d-every pair war ranted to give full satisfaction. have also line of Bows Low Shoes for 95c., equal to any $1.25 shoe made W E. Hanley, sign of the big boot, Oronoco Block.
 Bargains in Black Silks and Cashmeres at A. w Walkers.
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Stafford Springs.
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Died at the residence of her father in- law, Isaac Cady, Stafford Hollow, after a long and painful illness, Lucy A., 32 years, daughter of the late Joseph Bnrley, and wife of A. D. Cady, IT, The deceased had lived in Stafford from childhood. Though of retiring disposition and bonnd much to home by family cares, she made many earnest life be tender in years to come Her funeral on Sunday was largely at- tended. M.
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HOLLAND. tFROM ssRETsEL. ")

to our call at The Press office, may be permitted to acknowledge the corn, and say that l enjoyed a brief view of the office, composing, press, and engine rooms While very pleasantly located, it had a look of newness (as it all is) la sort of haint q hope no philologiat will pick that up) got settled appearance, that those who visited the former sanctnm will be apt to notice, but every thing seems to be handy. The Cranston Press shows that it is capable of excellent work,
 While in Stafford, among other ac- duaintances whom I called on. was Mir. and Mrs. J. M. Whitman, and although I'm not in favor of free advertising | hope I may be pardOned for this time, -and aim sure Stafford is to he congratulated on having so good bakery (anl baker, in It's l limits feel competent to judge as ssthe proof of the pudding is the eating thereof and the eating of some that was brought home, made the other side of domestic l trio wish that Mons" bakers cart includ l ed Holland in some of its trips The bread is especially worthy of praise.
 Some time last fall suggestion ap peared in The Press that the veterans o1 the late war residing in Holland county hold reunion. Is it not good time to talk the thing up? Let's hear from the ru. ral districts. The Press generously offer ed its columns for the airing of the subject
 Rev. F. M. Sprague has persisted in hi withdrawal from the pastorate of the Evan gelical church at Indian Orchard, and vii preach his farewell sermon on the 26th He has already removed with his famil, l to Magnolia tospendt the summer sprang l field Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28
WHEAT.
what 1t Costs the Farmer to Produce the
Cereal.

W nat IL costs the FARMER to Produce the
Cereal.
The present low prices of wheat have
set farmers to figuring up the cost OF
this crop. Usually the figuring mounts
up pretty high and above the value OF
the grain in the market. The cost is
put down at the estimated expense as if
every part of the work were hired and
the receipts ut the value of a minimum
Weld. Thus the Detroit Board OF Trade
has figured up the cost of crop OF
wheat at 1873 cents per bushel, taking
we suppose, the yield to be about seven
teen bushels per acre. 1t is very clear,
however, that if the estimate had been
made at thirty bushels per acre the cost
per bushel would not have been in
creased very much-perhaps twenty
cents a bushel on the whole-and would
then amount to no more shan forty-four
or fortv-five cents an acre. Instead
then, of selling his wheat at three cents
a bushel less than the market price, the
Michigan farmer would realize a profit
over and above all possible charges,
including rent of land and transporta-
ton to market, of at least thirty cents a
! bushel, which is a profit of precisely
siXty-siX and two-thirdS per cent. This
does not include the straw which is
worth enough to pay for the threshing
or some other of the larger expenses,
and is far greater than any average
profit made in any other legitimate bus
mess. 1t must be remembered that this
profit is exclusive of every part of the
cost excepting the personal supervision
of the farmer over hired help, and may
be compared justly with the ten pei
cent. of the merchant who does not in
clude in his expenses any remuneration
for his personal services.
This ought to be very satisfactory.
But it is rarely reached. That it is not,
however, is not the fault of the crop,
but of the farmer, for if well treated
and managed under skillful system
! thirty bushels per acre one year with an
other is not difficult to attain. The crop
now in the ground is the smallest that
has been sown for years, and the prob
| able market value next year will be con-
siderably higher than now. The farmer,
| then, who will topdress his wheat
now with fine manure and in the spring
with some fertilizer and give it a touch
of the smoothing harrow to freshen up
the soil will doubtless make a much
more satisfactory profit from his fewer
acres than he has done this year from
double the area-N Y Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The works of both Longfellow ana
Emerson are read in the French schools.
In the church-yard back of tho
Reformed Church in Rochester, N. T.,
is tombstone that dates back to 1896.
The American Tract Society has re-
ceived legacy of 1868 from the estate
of William Robinson, of Portland. Me.
Professor Albert Hardness, Greek
Professor of Brown University, has been
chosen Resident Supervisor of the
American College at Rome.
Rev. DR.. Cuyler says in the Eran-
geljst: ''Some of the renderings in the
revised version of the New Testament
present old familiar passages in new
light and reveal new beauties"
"A deaf mute, who is blind, at
tended a religious service for deaf mutes
in Baltimore few Sundays ago, and
was made to comprehend the entire
service by a deaf mute who interpreted
by certain pressures on the blind mans
hands.
While the theorists have been dis
cussing the prOpriety of industrial edu-
cation for children, tifty-two schools,
where girls and boys are taught all
kinds of trades, from cooking to agri-
culture, have sprung up in New York
City alone. Current.
There is a blind Baptist preacher in
Rabun County, Ga, who has finished
his 101st year. He is unable to 90 out
on duty, but his congregation gathers
around his bed in his residence every
Sunday, when he breaches TO them.
There is another thing about which
there can be little if any dispu@a, and
that is that our public school system
will yield better results if it could be
made to embrace industrial training as
prominent factor in the problem of
education. ST. Louis Gi0be-D Democrat.
Of the 5000 teachers of the Prov
ince of Ontario, the Ingersoll Chronicle
declares that One-ffth abandon the pro-
fession each year. The Chronjcle be-
lieves that the reason of this deplorablc
state Of things lies in the fact that too
many young teachers are graduated in
the model schools, and that the sharp
ness of their competition drives out the
better talent.
"A missionary of the American
Presbyterian Board who has lately Wis
tied Seoul, the capital of Corea, finds its
citizens exceedingly lazy, dirty and
given to drink. Speaking of missionary
prospects, he says: missionaries are
not at present allowed in the country,
though as physicians to the legation l
will not be molested while preparing
the way fol the work which will soon
be begun"
Hundreds of Yale graduates, "
says the Hartford Coura7H, ''old and
young, have read with a keen sense of
personal loss the announcement of the
death at Cooperstown, N. Y, of Judge
Hezekiah Sturges, of the class of 1871.
He was the last of the illustrious line of
college bullies,' fine classical scholar,
On upright magistrate, and one of the
fattest and jolliest of men, trimming
over with wit as with kindness-a
charming old-fashioned gentleman,
whose society was a treat and whose
friendship was decoration"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28

| that was changed, for her friends found
her more and more delightful, and her
house was the favorite stopping-plac for
young and old. She seemed to have spe-
cial tenderness for young girls, and many
condolences, blushing or fearful, were
poured into the sympathetic ear, and many
were the lovers quarrels healed by her
| gentle counsels She used to say sometimes
in wistful way: 81 want them to have all
the happiness | have missed" But her
sympathies were not confined to the Young:
they overlooked on all who needed them.
Discouraged men and women slouched into
her gate at nightfall, and came out with
their faces lifted and fresh hope in their
hearts. Naughty boys, who deserved and
dreaded the rod knocked meekly at her
back door for help, which was always
given, mingled with such wholesome re-
proof that boy seldom came twice on the
| same errand. Even hurt and homeless an
lmalS seemed to know by instinct where to
find an asylum, and took the shortest
route to Miss Lois door, and not one was
turned away unhelped.
80 the peaceful years slipped away I'M
til one day her friends gathered to keep her
eightieth birthday; and they said TO each
| other how well Miss Lois was looking and
that they hoped to keep her for another
ten years; and the house was gay with
| flowers and little children, and Miss Lois
| beamed on them until her face seemed
TRANSPORTED.
That night, as Polly, now grown staid
and elderly, went up to her room, she
stopped to see if her mistress was com
Portable for the night. She found her sit
ting in her great arm chair, her head rest
ing lightly against the cushions, and her
eyes closed as though in quiet Sleep But
it was the long sleep. One hand rested
upon package of yellow letters, and the
] thin forefinger of the other had stopped at
| a verse in the open Bible in her lap; and
when they raised the stilrening hand they
read the words; Gwen Christ pleased not
| HIMSELF"
| Ola and faithful friends gathered up her
treasures, and when in looking over her
| papers they came to the package of yellow
letters and read the signatures, they sud-
denly remembered the name on the stone
in the graveyard, and looked at each other
with pitying eyes, half guessing the story;
but the story was ended.-Lippiacot'S
| Hdgdziae.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28
ONE PLACE APART.

A baby clasped its hands and slept;
Across its eyes, like gentians blue,
The yeined white eyel:dS downward cTept,
The red lips took paler hue.
They raised it from its cradle low
And laid il in harder bed
Amid soft laceS, and the glow
OF blossoms at its feet and head.
They hid it from the mothers sight
The mother with the empty arms
And, oh, the sun was binding bright,
And all the field flowers lost their charms
And night came on with stars and dew
And clear, calm moonlight, and the smell
OF moistened fower-cups and the few
Dark MOSES by the unused well.
And, 60" the mother thought, chow bare
The earth can be of sweets and still
The stars shone straightway through the air
The asters nodded on the hill.
But all the world was narrowed down
To her-for whom it was so wide
And crowded in the hilock brown,
New-rounded on the meadow-side.
And then she saw one star that grew
OF separate luster from the rest;
Its glorious radiance shimmered through
The frozen sorrow in her breast.
"Perhaps," she said, sit is the star
That led to where the Christ-child layl
And |, oh. | am very far
From Him who took my child away.
81 will arise and go to Him,
m And pray for peace and righteous grace
To light the dGatbly shadows grim
That hover oermy baby's face"
And peace descended from its height,
And earth rcganGd its wonted charms;
The mOthcr-hCart shed warmth and light
On other children in her arms.
But still she kept one place apart
And none but God could enter there,
The sacred corner of her heart,
Where her dead child was shrned in prayer
-Jdmes Berry BenScl, in Youths Companion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Poison ivy leaves grow in clusters
of three. The five-leaved ify is harm
less.
Between chicory, scorched peas and
poison, the average coffee drinker leads
hard life.-BoStOn Globe.
Many writers of original poetry APP
pear to have been left over from last
year. Perhaps 1885 will be more sickly.
Detroit Post.
Mrs. Newgood (n the picture gal
lery): FThis, Aunt Eunice, is real
old master" Aunt Eunice: "Well, |
shouldn't care if it was; it's just as good
as some of the new ones"
Eight days, it is said, are required
to cut diamond, but after young
lady gets the diamond it does not take
her more than three days to cut all her
poor acquaintances.-B0 Globe.
In advertising the greatness of this
country, one of the largest manufact-
urers says the total production of cigars
in the United STATES is about 3,000,O O0,-
900 year. This is quite a puff for us.
Troy Times.
Science:
A girl who could spell Deuteronomy
And had stndied domestic economy,
Went to skate at rink,
And as quick as wink
She sat down to study astronomy.
Boston Sunday Courier.
The most fashionable bridal neck
lace just now is a string of pearls. How
thankful we bachelors ought to be that
leap year is past, and that we are safe
for three years. BY that time the style
may change to something that will fit
our salaries better.-LOWeU Citizen.
"a man never knows" says q Bos-
ton writer, ''when an idea is going to
strike him. OF its arrival he has no in
tellectual premonition. That's fact,
and the majority of men never know
that an idea has struck them. Prob
ably it is because they are so unaccus-
toned to the habits of an idea that they
don't know when it has arrived
ArkanSGl0 Trdveler.
1T would take wise man to pene-
rate the subtle and intricate processes
Of young woman's reasoning. Il
don't like Mr.. L" we heard one say
to another not long ago. ''Why?" asked
her listener. 80, to begin with, he wears
lavender gloves" was the response, and
to both these petticoated critics the
matter seemed sufficiently discussed and
satisfactorily settled.-N Y. Graphic.
"A gentleman who was going to take
his family to see dramatic performance
the other day was surprised to see his
wife packing a large trunk and filing
two large baskets with eatables Just
before starting. What are you doing
that for?" inquired the husband.
why returned the wife, ''it says on
the bill that six weeks elapse between
the first and second acts. Chicago
Tribune.
--Friend-'T should think you would
know the price of all your drugs by this
time" Druggist-"Why, / do, of
course" Then how does it happen
that after you filled that prescription fc,
that gentleman you spent such time
looking over that book before you could
tell him the price? You were trying to
find out the cost of the drugs, weren't
you?' 80, no. | was looking over q
commercial directory to find out how
much he could afford to pay. n-Phila-
deLphia Cali
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
The Work 1t Has Done and How 1t Is
Underrated.

L
Underrated.
The political services of the House of
lords are vastly moderated. Violent
party measures like the Irish Land Acts
apart, the Education Act is almost con-
essedly the last valuable achievement
If the Commons. The great legal
reforms of late years have emanated
rom the Peers. They have given lis a
vastly improved law of landed property,
and reforms in the law affecting married
women, which | distrust and dislike,
out which Liberal opinion strongly
approves They would, but for the
House of Commons, have given us a
criminal and perhaps a civil code.
Their Committees on private business
are much more respected and trusted
than those of the Lower House.
Their judicial functions are said to be
Of the highest value. Our judges are
and must be excluded from the House
of Commons. The presence in Parlia-
ment of such men as Lord Cairns, Lord
Sclborne, Lord Coleridge and Lord
Bramwell is invaluable-I might say in
iispensable-to sound and judicous
legislation. As judges they are kept in
touch of the practical working of the
law; as legislators they can amend with
out fear of confusing its practice or
tampering with its principles. The
authority they WELD in the Upper House
may ere long be needed to arrest Par
Iiamentary Interference with judicial
questions; danger which, after our ex-
oerience of the Orion and Maamtrasna
cases, can hardly be exaggerated. Yet
they neither could nor ought to sit by
popular election, or in chamber
chiefly occupied with mere party poll
tics. "--Fortnjghtly RevieU.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28
EVARTS AND DAVIS.
How the Latter Beat the Former i'm
Foot Race.

How the Latter Beat the Former in a
Foot Race.
William NJ. Evarts, who has Just been
elected to the Senate from New York, is
probably the thinnest man in public life,
and speaking of David Davis reminds
me of an old story which they tell here
which well illustrates the physical pro-
portions of the two. 1t is said that Da-
Wis one night made some inyidious and
sarcastic remarks on Evarts' weakly
form, and pointed to his own immense
proportions in contrast. Mr. EvartS
replied that the race was not always to
the latest, and from this came box of
Mumm's extra dry from Davis that he
could beat Evarts on a race of one hum
dred yards distance, provided Evarts
would let him choose the ground and
give him five yards start Evarts, who
has a frame made up Of steel springs
and who is as active as a cricket, con-
scented, and the two started out to make
the race in the moonlight. A number
of friends accompanied them. Evarts
leading the way. At last they came to
a narrow alley not more than five feet
wide, and Judge Davis told Evarts this
would be the race track. He then took
his place fifteen feet in front of Evarts.
The starter said Co.. and the big fat
man and the little lean one began to trot.
AT the fourth jump Evarts had about
reached Davis, when the latter, putting
his elbows out so that they touched the
sides of the alley looked back and said:
There, Evarts! take your time and
don't overhead YOURSELF | am bound to
beat you" and of course he did
"Cdrp," IN Cleveland Leader.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28

The editor of the Dangerfield Herald
has an Office, and he intends to magnify
it. He says: IF the Lord is willing
and nothing happens the editor of the
Heraid will give the road upon which
he is overseer a thorough working. We
expect to work the road until we get it
in good condition, and if the paper fails
to get out next week orr readers can
set it down that we will have good
road if we don't get out the paper" =
Galveston Neps.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-20

J. =. LhUCk,
Nttorney at Law. wichita. Kansas
T. e RCGoIEs,
Attorney at-law Office over No g. Maiu
street wichits Kansas 81
W. T. WALKER
Att"rnsy at Law. ofiie. over kansas Ma
tionsi bank
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-20
ABOUT THE SIZE OF 1T.

We do not wonder that Senator Vest
wanted TO suppress Gen. sherman
estimate of jeff Davis. for the follow
in9 summary of The history OF Davis
by Gen. Sherman must have made the
little senator from Missouri sick at
heart: And since the name of Jetler-
son Davis has been used universally rs
anonymous with treason. and the
cause OF the rebellion. with its hts of
of hundreds of thousands of The bray
cs; ouths OF our land drad or mangl-
ed: with the necessary waste and de-
vastatiop of property; with an awful
national debt. and with pen
sion of 500 .O00.o00 at this
very date. IL am prejudiced against
him personally, il arises from the very
fact that he, more than any other liy-
inc man. has brought reproach on the
military academy and regular army,
with which he was associated from
1924 to 1882, by impairing the fair
fame they had earned for fidelity to
their oaths, 10 recover which we have
had to battle with an adverse public
opinion ever since While he was
cadet and an army officer he must have
taken the customary oathS TO sup
port, maintain and defend the cousti-
tuition of the United States against all
her enemies aud opposcrs whomsocver
and whilst secretary of war and scna-
tor in congress he must have taken a
similar oath: vet he did conspire
with others Is early Il January. 1861.
after Mr.. Lincoln was fairly and con
slitutionaliy elected president of the
United States, to destroy the very
which he had sworn TO
defend. and he did set up another gov
eminent necessarily hostile to it. of
which he became the head, and did.
while president of the southern con
fedcracy, change his states right prin-
cipie. the very doctrine on which he
had Justified secession from The nited
States. aud then opposed state sover-
eighty. These are plain. palpahlc
facts. NOT likely to be forgotten by the
present generation, or the next, if ever
| say. therefore. with full knowledge
of the consequences. he enrolled his
name with those of Arnold and Burr,
instead OF. as he might have done with
WASHINGTON ami Lincoln.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-20
Last Tale oil the Trio.
New Yors Times.l

That ni.,ds NE o some sboo;in' vot dill
onset remarked Johnny r, ~" Thru
hunter
Hoa was that Johnny
Wal. van day I was daown 0u;sT the
. be., / try-B 20 XII some - them dowitcle-
W.T. used ter trade w an daoT.n thar
sd i,;s % birds, but they y-oaidn't come IN
ter The stools, cause e.sry time ans On 'em
started ter 10 that a dUrEei big fan tail gall
~ wsT iiy.n' round. Is. out Vel an skeert
me hull Iassel away. Wei. patty soon
-: mad an wen that gull opened his teak
Ter sell ! a. and blazed away at him. ]
"a med rlsh; s'iUar foE h. head. an knovyci
I ihin mis- him. but he didn't pear 20 car \
tlErUc,i bit Wen he cum rcun1 a..in L..
drive al h!u a-in Jist a. he started ter yell
h shut Up mighty quick. but be cIrclesi
ar md without stoUpin' Then sot as mad IA
I Saew baow. an very tine he cum around. I
D., hiEi have II. Was Sure EaS hi;tiH' him.
NJ he didn't pear 70 think - HowSu.Is-
ever. srfer while HI. reared tsr l. hevin'
m;rhty hard work ter fy ar ksp a sitlin'
lover an lower. give him another. az h
cum dGovn kinder slow ! run-ter pick him
W. and. BY gum, b. var lost as much alive
- ever. | couldn't see n blood cutter kim
noyhar. and his eyes war hrigh; AMI his
~.ass G7F...n, tui be never moved
srzhbod TIN by the feet an PICKED him up
| beers. II tie. an saw sbog; a guar. q
shot rIn out o has mouth, ar the next thing
kno7vsi he war fyln' away Is fas; as be
coslld burned ef / hadn't bern . sho.o.ln'
dsovu tie blamed birds throat ali the time p
AMI then the hos Of the boa; grated ca
ras saDd with sad asd rrproachful crunch
tie sun sank down behind he fertile sso-ies
q RuHrsns Neck. and the thr-e mighty
Hunters took their way seuth~sri IN siIence
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-20
COWARDlY.

\ gang OF fcaihtr-head boomers are
converting every now and then in To
peka and passing resolutions intend d
To brace up The oklahomaites. Those
fellows, nine out of zen of whom are
intere ted in some speculative WAY III
the settlement of the territory, urge
those who have gone down there, 10
stand up for their rights, TO never
Yield, and If necessary. 10 shoot down
the soldiers under Gen. Hatch. Why
don't these brave fellows who are urg-
ing Others 10 commit an act that
would inevitably wind up their career
A. boomers, 90 down and do the
shooting themselves? The highest lc-
gal officer OF the government has de-
clared that the laws of the country
does not permit settlement there,
and the chief executive of the nation
has issued his proclamation warning
all citizens alike. that until the COM
greSs shall take the necessary action
no enc will be permitted to occupy
said lands, but what does all that
amount to. or the United II atcs army
under Hatch. when these fellows as
sembled in squads, al night, hundreds
of miles on the safe side OF the line, re-
solve that blood must be shed and
that they Will >tand-with buucombc
rcsolutions-by the fellows who are
thus encouraged to do the shooting.
The men who, in ihe iace OF the pre-i-
dents proclama,iops and the decisions
of tine courts. would thus encourage
others to imbuc their hands in blood,
are worse than towards.