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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

Whence comes this epidemic of suicides
and murders? Recent discussions have
named several causes. Hon. C. II. Reeve,
OF indiana, charges it to iufidel teachings
holding that hopelessness of a future
state crlpples fortitude for bearing life's
ills. Another declares suffering from the
universal business depression the cause. A
third writer attributes it to increasing in
sanity, physician thinks much of the
tendency is inherited, while temperance
advocates lay the responsibility upon
strong drink.
Free thinkers have committed suicide,
but so have orthodox churchmen. Finan-
cial straits have beset many, but the
wealthy have also taken their life.
insanity and dissipation have preceded
suicides and family murders.
one feature common to almost every
suoh crime challenges attention. Well
nigh every report of suicide and family
murder mentions the perpetrator as having
+" for some time been subject to melan-
choly." Whence comes this? All recog-
'nized medical authorities tell us that the
fire which consumes the brain is always
kindled by arrangements of digestion; that
good digestion is impossible without pure
blood, and pure blood is never known when
the liver and kidneys are out of order.
Under such circumstances, a preventive
should be sought, and for this Warmers
safe cure is sovereign-a fact conceded by
the best authorities in the land, and it is
especially commended by the celebrated
DR.. Dio Lewis.-Rochester Demo 2rdt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
Curious Facts.

The Russian newspaper Zarya men
tions the following curious facts: Re-
Gently there has been presented to the
Kietf Archaeological Museum a complete
Egyptian mummy, about four CD YER
shoks in length Gone vershok is equal to
LIS inch.) AT Baturin, in the Cherni-
gotf Government, subterranean
chamber was accidentally discovered
under what was known as "Mazeppa's
Rampant. Here were found quantity
of clay statues. which the inhab tants
took for Slayonian gods. NJ Teresh-
kevitch, who happened 10 be passing
through Baturin at the time. forwarded
one of the statues in question to his
friend, M. SNtrogoler, one of the lectur-
ers at the KieH University, who in his
turn presented it to the museum, where
It was recognized as an undoubted
Egyptian mummy, and it has been ac-
cordingly sent to ST. Petersburg for
examination by the Psychologist NJ.
Lemme.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Small trees are the best for trans
planting as they have all their roots in
L bunch. IN. b. Farmer.
Ants may be killed by placing
teaspoonful of cobalt in three table
spoonfus of sweetened warm water
near their haunts.-Bost0n Post.
1t is well to change the cattle and
sheep pastures occasionally. Weeds
that are rejected by cattle will often be
relshed by sheep. Chicago Journal
When a cheese which has been much
sailed and kept dry, is washed several
times in soft water and then laid in
cloth mOistened with vinegar, it grad
ually loses its sadness, and if it be a
rich cheese, becomes soft and mellow
N. Y. Post.
-Cocoanut Pudding: Boil one pint
of milk with one teaspoonful of butter
in it. Pour it over a very small grated
cocoanut. When cool add three eggs,
beaten, with half cup of sugar and a
pinch of salt. Have deep dish lined
with nice pastry, pour the mixture into
it and bake until is Christian
Union.
In planting an orchard, observes an
exchange, the young trees should be
ljghtly inclined toward the direction
of the prevailing winds. All the old
orchards lean as the trees we're bent
while young, and most of these old or
chaIds were set when there was more
forest and winds were much less violent
than now.
Experiments by DR.. Sturtevant, of
the New Y ork Experiment Station, show
that unripe tomato seed will grow and
give a gain of fifteen days in earliness
over ripe seed from the same plants
He also says that peas and corn fit for
table use will grow and produce earlier
crops than ripe seed; but plants from
immature seed are feeble compared
with those from ripe seed,-N, Y. Sum-
Corn Mullins: One pint of corn
! meal, one pint of flour, one teaspoonful
of salt, two teaspoonfulS cream tartar
and one of soda one cupful white sugar,
two eggs, one tablespoonful of melted
butter, or one-half cupful of sour
cream, and sweet milk to make a batter
like pound cake. Beat eggs very
IIOIONlSHi anu lutu duu Illc OJilCI III
gradients. Sift the cream tartar and
soda both into the flour. Bake in the
oven in muffin rings or little pans placed
in a hot dripping pan.-LradianapoIjS
journal.
/ Lunch Cake: Two cupfuls butter,
two cupfuls sugar. one and half pints
of flour, one teaspoonful baking powder,
/ six pppS one tpaSDOOnful each Of extra ct
rose. cinnamon and nutmeg. Rub the
butter and sugar to very light cream;
add the eggs. two at time, beating
five minutes between each addition; add
the flour, sfted with the powder, wine,
extracts; mix into smooth batter; put
into thickly papered shallow cake pan
and bake in moderate oven one and q
| quarter hours. When cold, ice the
bottom and sides with white icing
| Phii4de{Dhta call.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
Gum-cRewing Girls in Maine.

The chewing of gum appears to be
another favorite occupation among
women of this part of the country.
Most of those whom l have thus far
met are addicted to the practice, and
the effect of the proceeding upon the
observer unaccustomed to that sort of
thing is somewhat peculiar, to say the
least, especially when he comes across,
as did tie other day, party of four
young women, all of whom were busily
engaged in extracting comfort from the
operation Imay be doing the females
of the up country an injustice, but |
have seen just thirteen of the tender
sex since L left Skowhegan, and eight
of them were chewing gum.-Cor. BoS-
tom Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
FEEDING MOVING LAND.
Better to Suffer from Short Pasturage-
Why the Practice liz Injudicious.

Better to Suffer from Short Pasturage-
Why the Practice IL Injudicious.
There is no general practice among
farmers that is SO injurious in its effects
as that of the close feeding of moving
lands.
After the crop of hay is removed and
the aftermath has made good start,
when the feed in pastures becomes
short, and with COWS the flow of milk
begins to diminish, tho temptation to
get benefit from the moving lands over
comes any thought of what the final
consequences may be.
After the removal of crop of hay,
especially if the field is not unusually
rich, to allow the removal of the second
growth by close feeding will very soon
tell in the continual diminishing of sue
ceeding crops. 1t is not to be under
stood that all aftermath is to remain
upon the soil, because it might be so
heavy as to njure the grass by lying too
closel y upon the ground, especially
upon rich soil. 1t is upon fields of
average fertility, such as many farms
possess. where a second growth suitable
for cutting would hardly be expected.
that shere should be an avoidance of
feeding. Such a growth of aftermath,
if left from year to year, will have a
tendency to enrich the soil, and increase
the crops that follow from year to year.
This conclusion has been reached
from practice and careful observation.
When, in one case. moving fields are
fed but very little, if fed at all, and
there is very gradual increase of the
annual crop from year to year; while in
the other case, where fields are fed
close, down to the very roots of the
plants, and the annual crop diminishes
very rapidly and requires reploughng
every four years in order to get fair
crop. with a natural character of soil
about the same in both cases, it is very
reasonable to attribute results to the
mode of procedure, and it becomes an
exceedingly difficult matter to prevent
the conclusion that feeding moving
lands may be carried to decidedly in
furious extent. 1t would be better even
to suffer from short pasturage than to
inliict an irreparable injury upon now
ing lands. Rather let a supplemental
feed be provided to meet emergencies in
the shape of fodder corn, sorghum or
something similar.-Prof. Yeomans, in
Boston Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
Among the immigrants of Il

Among the immigrants of the
steamship Elder who landed at Castle
Garden the other day was Fanny
Wiskochillowa, young woman who
would be bearded if it were not for
the fact that she shaves her face three
times a week. Her chin appears like
that of the ordinary man who shaves.
Fanny, who is twenty-five years old,
appears masculine in other respects.
She has two sisters with the same pccu-
liarities. She is on her way to Chicago.
She says that she has no intention OF
placing herself on exhibition. ~ y
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
THE TABLES TURNED.

he Story of Little Boy Who Went Fish
ing.
A little boy, one pleasant day,
Toward Il creek pursued his way;
He kept the school-house out of sight,
Looking behind ofttimcs in fright,
And in one hand as on he stole,
He clutchcd a willow tishng-poe.
Down by the meadow swift he passed
Until he reached the creek at last;
Then, with no thought to mar of school,
He cast his line into Il pool,
And, with a smile of calm delight
He waited for the fish TO bite
The moments glided swiftly by;
The sun o erhead was getting high;
But not fish would deign to look
The while at his seductive hook;
Though hungry insects Ger his head
Bit condesceudingly instead.
A frog upon Il lilv-pad
Kept grinning at the luck he had.
The smile contracted to frown;
The little boy be sat him down,
And there, upon the streams soft brink.
HIS drowsy eyes began TO blink;
Till, with his head upon his breast
He sank back in the sedge TO rest;
When suddenly he heard "swish."
And from the water rose a fish
A fish of such prodigi6us size
That it would make thousand fries
A fish off which troop might dine
With a gigantic rod and Incl
And in gruff tones the monster cried,
The while the little boy it eyed:
=" BY no barbed hook can we be caught;
We're not so foolish as you thought;
"The tables have been turned on YOU
And we can go a-tishing too!
"Th's very night shall all enjoy
A chowder made OF little boyP'
And. looking hideously grim,
The creature cast its line ut him.
The truant watched the hook descend,
While every hair stood up on end;
TIL. with twist expert and neat,
1t caught him by his trousers seat;
And then, with juvenile despair,
He d2Rgled wildly in the mir!
And while, with compliment grin,
His scaly captor drew him i'll,
A piercing scream the silence broke,
And theu-the little boy awoke!
And. though of fish there was no trace,
Fresh danger threatened in its place;
With look foreboding little good,
Before IN his stern father stood!
-IQlcOj1n Douglas, in Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

"A gentleman informed us recently
that on one occasion he was out fish
ing at Barrow's Pond when the pond
was so low that it was impossible to
run the mill. After looking around
the pond for some time it was djscoy-
cred that all of the snakes had crawlcd
out of the water and had caused it to
fall several feet. To remedy this they
drove them back into the pond, when
the grinding of the mill was resumed
without further trouble. - Jackson
ga. NemS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

Japan is feeling very keenly the
commercial depression which prevails
throughout the world, and there is
great misery among the people. In
some provinces they are obliged to live
in caverns, while some are dying of
starvation. 1t is popularity of the
japanese that they do not save for
periods of emergency but spend their
earnings as fast as they are received.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
"sHE tried her prentice hand on man,

"What is woman's worth?' asked fair
damsel of q crusty old bachelor. He did
not know, so she said: w. o. man double
you o mani. But q woman feels worth
little if disease has invaded her system and
is daily sapping her strength. For all fe-
male weaknesses, DR.. R. V. Pierce's Fav
orite Prescription" stands unrivaled. 1t
cures the complaint and builds up the sys
TEN. Send two letter stamps for pamphlet
to Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

The late Commander Gorringe
cherished among his other treasures
fragment of coal marked distinctly with
fern leaves, which had been found in
the Arctic SHOWS by polar explorer
Boston Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

THE "Soft Answer" She Gmpatiently)
-'Oh, George, dear! How you do smoke I!
Do you buy your cigars by the hundred
weight, or by the ton~ He lever patiently
1.-THE former, love, l suppose, as l buy
them by the hundred, and the man waits
for his money. "-London Punch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
THE FAMOUS ALBERT LEA ROUTE
HAY-FEVER.

i can recommend Ely's
Cream Balm to all Hay
Fever sufferers, It being.
In my opinion, founded
upon experience and a
sure cure. / was afflicted
with Hay-Fever for TWEEN
ty-1ye years, and never be-
fore found permanent re.
lief.-WEBsTER II. HAS.
KIEs, MarEhfeld, vt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

CATS are expert climbers. Teas Sift-
tngS. So they are, but we wish they could
be ansported to some other clime.-BoS-
ton Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

JAPANESE fans sell from three cents up
to $500. The former are the best for use.
1t is easier to "raise tho wind" at that
price.-NOrriStOtcn Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

A WELL. KNOWN New York tailor recent
ly attempted to kill his wife, and subse-
quently committed suicide. This is evil
IDENTIFY not case of the survival of the
"itUsst "-Life
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

TIE extreme depth of misery-a small
boy with pair of new boots, and no mud.
pudddle.- Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05


Positively Popular; Provoke Praise; Prove
Priceless; Peculiarly Prompt; Perceptibly
Potent; Producing Permanent Profit; Pre-
Guiding Pimples and Pustules; Promoting
Purity and Peace. Purchase. Price, Pet
ty. Pharmacists Patronizing Pierce Pro-
cure Plenty.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

"a DOLLAR pound for tea," said the
careful buyer. as not, that too steep?"
And the truthful grocer answered: Eyes,
sir"-BOSton Commercial Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS cure In minute25 CSC.
Glenns Sulphur Soap heals ard beauties. 25c,
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns s BunionA
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

"TnIs is my golden wedding" remarked
an impecunious man when he married
woman worth 500, 900.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

IT is not hard for man to mind his own
business, bus it is the monotony which he
can't stand
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

"CAPIrAL punishment" as the boy sain
when the schoolmistress seated him with
the girls.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

A WOMAN and a fiddle are something
alike. They always como out strongest
when there is woman about.-Boston
BudQet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

PoRT is the best thing to quiet the stom-
news, but it is fact.-Hdrper's Bdzar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

son, il only had a neck like that, what
collar l could wear" said the du lie, W lille
looking at an os trich. -ArkanSdlC Traveller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

PATIENT-"Brain faver, is it? Oil doc
thur, it's proud man am the day! The
ould oman schwears Oi niver had enough
fur cockroach !"-N. Y Herdld
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

No MAN can carry feather bed and
look graceful philadelphia call.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

THE grandest performance out-Niagara
In her great cataract.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

THE flour mission-to make good bread.
Boston Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

CANDoR in an advertisement: "Board
ers taken in for the summer"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

1LL-HUMoR often comes, like chemical
preparations, from retort.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

USE the great specific for cold in head"
and catarrh-Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
FOR
Man and Beast.

Mustang Liniment is older than
most men, and used more and
more every year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

JOB was the first doctor-hs had pa
tience.-ROSt0n Budget.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

WHEN WRITING TO IDTERTIsERS,
please say 20" sG'0 the AdverttsenISsaS
ga fhtS paper.
The Washington critic., 1885-09-18
WASHINGTON, D. G., SEPT. IS, 1885
AL QUIET AT AUGrsrA.

Whatever difficulty there may have
been about the poslmastership at Au-
gusta, Me, and the whole question has
been unduly magnifcd, it is at last ami.
cably and honorably settled.
1t will be remembered that Editor
Morton was the foremost applicant for
the place. and the choice of the leading
Democrats of the State; but it was oh.
jected to him in certain quarters that in
his zeal for the election Of Mr.. Clcyc.
land he had allowed himself to drift
into the scurrilous mode of warfare
initiated early in the campaign by the
friends of Mr.. Blaine These objections
proceeded, Of course, from parties who
had no moral interest in the matter,
but rather desired to encourage the
idea that while Colonel Morton was the
man of all others whom the President
should appoint, in view of his effective
political services, he was the man Of
all others whom the President could
not appoint without serious embarrass.
ment to himself and the probable
alienation Of many friends whose sup
port was worth retaining.
How well taken may have been the
points against Colonel Morton is not of
much consequence He is an earnest
and impulsive man, and when the bat.
tcries of indecent personality were
opened upon Mr.. Cleveland, it may
have occurred TO him as it did to many
Others, that the best way to silence
Them would be to reply in the same
kind of ammunition. This is human
nature, the world over
But Mr.. Cleveland stoutly protested
from the outset that no such recrimina.
lions should be INDUCED in He would
not descend to them himself nor did he
desire it on the part of his friends.
Consequently he could not afford to
make an appointment which even by
implication might be construed as the
reward of course Of action which he
had never ceased to condemn
In justice to Colonel Morton il should
be stated that, numerous and persistent
as his indorscrs were, his course has
been marked by dignity and manliness
throughout. AT no time has he sought
10 force his claims on the President or
made himself obnoxious to the appoint
ing powers. He is said to be as well
satisfied, in fact, with the appointment
of Mr.. Fowler, as though his own name
had been sent in. The Maine Demo
Gratis generally are satisfied. The Pres
ident is thoroughly vindicated.
If, at the same time, it is an apparent
concession TO the Republican Senators
from Maine, that instead of selecting
Colonel Morton Mr. Cleveland selected
one of Colonel Morton's friends, they
are welcome to all the comfort they can
extract from the result.
The Washington critic., 1885-09-18
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

Full soon the maiden forth will go
Through autumn fields 90 roam,
To gather parti.culOrcd leaves,
And bear them 10 her home.
Hour after hour she'll pick them up.
Until She weary grows.
And In her back there comes % crcak
And windnippcd Is her nose.
Then she the leaves will press between
The pages Of some book,
And nt them, from that time hcncoforth,
VIII never take "a look.
-lBoston Gazette.
STATE TREASURER GIrTISGs Of Mary
land has started for the far West ON a
buffalo hunt
\ DAUGHTER Of Senator Teller will enter
MS q student at the female college at
Wellesley, Mass, this fall.
CoNcHEssMAS BOYLE Of Pennsylvania is
said to Ire pushing his brother, John d.
Boyle, for the Pittsburg Pension Agency.
NIslToR.-And your funny man has com
mittcd suicidc2 Edtor-Yes. V.-Poi-
sony Editor-No Cut his iocular vein.
- Boston Courier
In Is ANNOUNCED at Albany that Senator
Evaits will, under no circumstances nc
cept the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor Of New York.
lfsN"' 'HNtlNiaTFNNN la'N Alkb llNltil vi
New York died at his home in Westchcstcr
on Wednesday. lie was Democrat, and
served in the lower House from 1861
to 1868.
H. ID. HOWE Of Atchison, Kan, editor
Of IA Country Town. recently returned
from Europe, and will complete n new
novel upon which he has been en-
gagged.
DR. ESos b. LouD, after long residence
in Paris, is on his way across the Atlantic
to visit his old home in Ohio He comes
back us Il Chcyalcr, and covered all over
with decorations.
TnE veteran William Warren of Boston
and Joe jefferson arc cousins, and there is
a rumor out that Warren will return to the
stage for twenty-five weeks and play in JEFF
fcrson's Company.
4 CLERGYMAN Mt Mount Desert is said to
have recently closed his prayer by saying;
so Lord, now that our summer visitors
have departed, wilt Thou take their place in
our hearts. " Boston Commonwealth.
LoRD TENNYsoNs latest poem deals with
home rule in ireland, and he is dramatizlng
the work for Henry Irving. As the poets
health is breaking II is not improbable that
this will be his last literary composition.
THE board bill Of Ferdinand Ward in the
Ludow-street Jail is estimated ut $40
week, including the wines and
quail on toast. Now we see where Gen
elal Grants money is going to.--[Chicago
journal.
SIR ARTHUR SUIIIyAN's visit to South
en California has resulted in suitable pro-
vision being made for the maintenance and
education Of the six orphan children of his
brother, whose wife also had died some
months ago
WHEN Bismarck made the acquaintance
Of his present doctor he was sick, and pee
yishly declined to answer questions "As
you like" said the doctor; "then send for
veterinary surgeon, as such practitioners
treat their patients without asking them
any questions. The chancellor was cap
tured.
c. c. LANGDON has succeeded Ellis Phe-
Ian as Secretary Of State Of Alabama the
latter having resigned. The Montgomery
Adrcriiscy says it is a singular coincidence
that Colonel LangdOn was born within nine
miles Of Waterbury, Connecticut, and that
Mr. Phclan resigned his position in order to
move to that city.
The Washington critic., 1885-09-18
MIR. RANDALL IN nnIxIr.,

If Mr.. Randall's version of the story
be the correct one, the Southern mac.
azine which lately published what
purported TO be an elaborate presenta.
lion ofhis views Oh the tariff, as Il con
iribution from himself, has been guilty
of fraud on the public and dis.
courtesy to Mr., Randall
Yet the trick, while admitted to be
dishonorable, is pronounced by some
of our contemporaries to be something
new and smart in journalism. 1t was
certainly not honorable, and equally
true Is ii that there was neither novelty
nor shrewdness about It. We have
seen in some of the same contempora-
ries referred to very able interviews
that were prepared by their Washing.
ton correspondents in the identical
manner that Dirie built up its Randall
article, The able correspondent would
take the Congressional R6cow contain
ing the speech of the Member whom
he wished to interview, ask that speech
certain questions and let it answer for
itself. Instead Of being novelty in