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Delta chief., 1885-09-02
He Knows Il.

Hiram ID: HaIheld, formerly Of Silver
epr:ngr, r. l., has no doubt about the wonder
ful curative powers OF Kidney Wort. He was
90 afflicted with Kidney Complaint that be
could not stand on his feet from pain and
weakness As econ as he commenced using
kidneyWort he experienced immediate relief
and At once began 70 grow strong and Was re-
lieved Of all pain and unpleas santuess. He
says: 81 Anse have bsen cured by Kidney
WORT
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

A Captain commanding one of the British
iropclads. being at grand ball that had been
given to the officers OF the feet, was accepted
by beautiful partner, who, In the most deli
cate manner possible, limited to him the pro-
prfety Of putting on 4 pair OF gloves. 60"
was the elegant reply, "ncver mind me-
dancing
Delta chief., 1885-09-02
Cramped Financially.

Has no speedy relief, hut cramped in the
bowels has sure one in Dr.. Biggers' Huck'e-
herry Cordial, THE GREAT SOU rHERN
REMEDY for all bowel affections. an un-
doubted boon to parents who have been spend
ing sleepless nights In nursing little ones who
had been gradually wasting from drain
sge upon the system from the effect Of teeth.
ing, until given the Great Southern Remedy
BY all druggists At 50 cents a bottle.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02
IMPORTANT TRANSFER.
The Acme Insurance Company Of Des
Moines, Retires and Transfers Its
Policies to the State Insur.


Policies to tho State Insur-
snoe Company.
The retirement Of the Acme Insurance Com
pany, of Des Moines, is announced, 1t having
re insured its policies in the State Insurance
Company Of that city. The Acme was young,
strong company, but its business was unpro-
htable, and for this reason 1t retires. By the
transfer of Its policies to SO strong company
as the State the most ample security is as.
sured, for this company stands at the head Of
All others in the West, as sound and reliable
institution. It has been doing business now
for twenty years. Its last annual report shows
assets, &Si6, ,73S 45, with a surplus Of
&452, ,OO7.OO. Hon. Ira Cook, President
Of the retiring company, in circular
TO the policy holders of The Acme, says :
sIn selecting company in which to re insure
the policies OF this company, we have chosen
one OF the Oldest, and believe the soundest Of
the Iowa insurance companies" The stand
ing Of the State Insurance Company, OF Des
Noines, fully justiies this statement. The
Acme could not have placed its policies In 4
stronger or better company, or one tina. COM
mands more generally the public confidence.
Geo. II. Maish, President, and j. Z. Cum
minis, Secretary, Of the State Insurance Com
pany, have large experience in the busin. IS,
and are 6nanciers Of acknowledged ability.
Uuder their able management the State viii
continue its Unprecedented career ofprosperiiy.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02
Farmers Folly.

Rcme farmers adhere, even against the full
light OF fact and discovery to the old fashion
ed folly of coloring butter with carrots, an
natto, and inferior substances, notwithstard-
ing the splendid record made by the Improved
Butter Color, prepared by Wells, Richardson
& Co., Burlington, Vt. Al scores Of the bssf
agricultural Fairs 1t has received the hiehest
award over all competitors.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

Advocates Of prohibition need have no fears
of "PRIckLr ASH BITTERs" as It is q medi-
cine, and by reason Of It's cathartic properties
cannot be used as beverage. II 10 manufac-
tured from the purcst materials, and acts d.
recily on she Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and
Bowels. As blood purifier Il has no equal.
II is pleasant to the taste, and effective in &C
Hon.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

II there ever was specific for any one COM
plaint, then Carter's Little Liver Pills arc .
specific for Sick Headache, and every woman
should know this. They arc not only positive
cure, but sure preventive II taken when the
approach ID felt. Carter's Little Liver Ptlls
act directly on the liver and bile, and In this
way remove the cause Of disease without nrst
making you sick by . weakening purge. II you
try them you will not b disappointed.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02
~ have been am0lcre

~ have been AFFLICTED with an AZ
fection of the Throat from childhood, caused
by diphtheria, and have used various rene
dies, but have never found anything equal TO
TO FRowS's BRoScHrAL TRocHEs G.
n =. Hampton Pketo,,, Hy. Sold only In
Delta chief., 1885-09-02
Father! .

Your poor vearied wife losing sleep night af-
ter night nursing the little one suffering from
that night hene to children. and horror 10 pa
rents, cnouP, should have bottle of Tsylor's
Cherokee Remedy Of Sweet Gum and Mullen,
undouSted Group preventive and cure for
Coughs. Colds: Consumption. By all drug
Rists AT nc and q 90
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

The Revolution Cigar sold BY Harvey Par
ker, Wholesale cigar merchants, Dcnver, 10
raising .. furore among smokers. All arst-
class dealers keep them.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

A subscriber wants to know the simplest
and cheapest process to harden steel" The
best way we know Of is TO plunge the steel into
. book agents gall.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

care they htf' eagerly queries the headline
OF ubiquitous advertisement. II the adver.
tiser means the battles Of the Revolution we
unhcsitatingly reply, they are. They were fit
some time ago.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

1t Is said that water in which hsh will not
live Is not nt to drink. II will be . little incon-
venient, though, to carry live fsh about the
person and plunge 1t into giAss Of water be-
fore drinking the beverage.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

''To let TO students, a light room not far frc m
the university, ard In immediate proximity 70
pawnbroker's," is the wording of an adver.
tscmcnt tn q German paper
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

There are thirteen willows living on one
street about three hundred yards long In
Americus, Ga. The sity authorities propose
to put up At each end OF the street sign,
Dangerous Passing."
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

"Why are you like dough hrasked Burlipg-
ton womsn, ssrcastically, of her husband.
because am kneAded Al home, dear" was
the soft reply.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

eTAn Ladies' should Know
That Hoods. scaifs, ribbons and all fancy
articles can be made any color wanted with
Diamond Dyes. All the popular colors. 10c.
at Druggists. None equal TO them. Wells
Richardson s Co., Burlington. Vt.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02
Cheap Dry Goods.

We are now selling goods
at unprecedentedly low prices
in order TO mske room for
. large FALL STOCK. II you
are not coming TO Denver
please write for prices and
samples
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

WIN Baby w sick We D.vs her CastnsiA
Whsn shs w. . Child, she cried for CastoriA,
WHEN abe became Miss, she clung 70 Castori.,
WIN she bad Children, she gave them Cas.orsA
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

BLOOD relations mean near relations" sale
Widow Coshanigan to her boy. swell, then
you must be the bloodiest relation I've got"
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

II is sad and solemn thought that Frank
lin did not discover lightning until after he
was married.
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

CATARRH OF THE BLADDER,
urinary Compain:s, q RED ~ '.Buchu Paba. a
Delta chief., 1885-09-02

II AFFLICTED with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompeon's Eye Water. Druggists sell 1t. &c
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
SMALL FARMS.
The Difficulty That Lies in the Way OF
Profitable Culture.

The greatest difficulty experienced in
making the farm pay is that too much
land is cultivated. This experience
came to the writer one year age
when, by the mistake of q
hired man, heap of manure
intended for a five-acre field was all
spread over two acres and the three
acres was left untouched. The field
was to be planted to sweet corn for
market. The yield of the two acres
was better than would have been ex.
pected over the whole five and this
was, no doubt, in consequence of the
excellent cultivation given to keep down
the abundant growth of weeds. The
three acres was fortified with artificial
manure, and yielded fair crop, which
was so much gain. Moreover, the two
acres produced q heavy crop of millet
after the sweet corn was harvested,
which was so much more gain. Every.
year the writer is more and more assured
that the farmer who would have the cour-
age to work only half his land, and put
on it the manure and labor he would
have put upon the whole of it, would
find his enterprise well rewarded Itmay
be some encouragement for those farm
erS who are worrying over the problem
of how to make living on one hundred
acres of land to know that u farmer who
is well-known writer upon dairying,
and who lives near Rochester, n. Y,
makes sufficient living from five acres.
His little farm is mostly in fruit-ap-
pies and raspberries. He raises corn
and potatoes, and keeps one cow wholly
by soiling and flock of forty hens. The
fowls bring him in more than $50, which
indicates the ease with which he pro-
duces over $500 clear profit from his lit
tie farm well titled. 1t is as great
credit to this gentleman-for he is both
gentleman and a scholar-that this
moderate living matches his well-earned
competence, and that his own hands
alone support himself and his family in
comfort and the luxury of satisfied de-
sire and healthful and happy old age.
We can not refrain from adding that
this exemplary gentleman and farmeris
Prof L. B. Arnold, the acknowledged
standard authority upon dairy matters
in America and thorough scientific
scholar and student.-N. y Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
BUSINESS EXPENSES.


Steady Increase in the Ordinary Expenses
of Business Since the War.
A well-informcd merchant of Boston
recently said to a representative of a
Boston newspaper that he had been
looking back over his accounts and was
surprised to find that since the close OF
the war there had been a steady
Increase in the ,ordinary expenses OF
carrying on business. That this in
crease Of business expenses extends be-
yond the merchant to the manufacturer
and most other kinds of business is a
fact patent to most employers. Mere
office work costs great deal more now
than it did in 1860; more clerks are
needed, and, on the whole, each of
these receives higher pay. Assistance
is required in the receiving and deliver
ing departments to an extent and of
character that would not have been
dreamed of two decades ago. Then
there are a variety of incidental eX-
penses that now enter into the compu-
tation. There are telephone charges,
printing, the expense of solicitors. the
whole making up an amount sufficiently
large to eat up all that would have been
considered fair profits a quarter of
century ago. 1t is probable that the
experience in different trades varies.
and yet we fancy that in most lines of
business statements somewhat similar
to the above might be made. The ten
dency, all the time going on to lessen
the hours of service, both in offices and
workshops, of itself makes the cost of
business proportionately higher. Com
petition is sharper than it was ten or
twenty years ago, and prices are so
much reduced in most commodities
which enter into the necessities of a
household, that mechanics, clerks and
others are enabled to live much better
now than it was possible for them to do
ten or twenty years ago, when their
wages were less and the cost of living
rs greater .-Scientifc american.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
Thin Woolens.

The fancy for dresses of wooden stuffs
has resulted in the production of sheer
thin wool fabrics suitable for mid
summer dresses, and these will be worn
at all hours of the day during the
coming season. Thirty different
weavings of white wool alone are
shown in these thin materials that imi-
tate canvas, grenadine, bison cloth,
serge and bourette, some with tufted
surfaces, others with wide twills, and
many that are partly plain and partly
striped. The white canvas or twilled
woods with wide bourette stripes of
color, dull green, red, brown, or Chelsea
blue in the porcelain shades, are used
for skirts that may be either plain or
partly pleated. These are very effective
with the drapery of pure white, and the
white basque, completed by a narrow
vest, high collar, and cuffs of the striped
goods. There are also many ecru. tan,
gray and porcelain woods of this kind,
and these dresses have nothing added
to their weight in the way of trimming.
Such dress is to be worn at any hour
of the day in Newport or Saratoga,
while for evening dresses they are wool
gauzes and Grape woods of exquisite
qualities The intermediate dress for
the seaside resorts is of white or ecru
bison cloth, or else fannelette for the
basque and drapery, while a single deep
fall of wool lace forms the lower skirt.
Fashionable tailors use silk cords in
stead of gilt, silver or mohair braid for
trimming summer wooden dresses
Harper'S Bazdr.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13

"That was an act of common charity,
be almost forgotten"
mot by me-" | replied.
We saw good deal of him
that autumn and winter, and / heard
from Miss Sedgewick wonderful ac-
counts of his endeavors to find
Ernest, and if possible save him from
further disaster. 1t was comforting to
have him in the study in the evenings. |
got into the way of joining him and my
father there, and listening to their talk,
which was always enjoyable. | liked to
toel myself in the presence of such a strong,
noble nature.
He came one night and my father was
out. He entered the drawing room where
| was seated.
"Do you know have been in Stokebourne
a year," he asked.
Yes" L replied, 81 remember it very
we'll"
"You did not like me when first came"
81 did not know you; that was the
reason"
He lifted my hand. ''May I explain
now? you know l could not that afternoon
in the garden"
looked up into his honest face, and he
smiled.
''Do not despise me for my belief, but
these signs have never known to fail"
He turned my hand palm upwards, and
placed his own in the same position be-
side it.
"Now do you see anything exactly SINH
lar?"
81 can not say do" Ireplied, lau Ching;
his strong hand appeared so different to
my poor little weak one.
Nevertheless it is there" and he pointed
out two little lines, one on his hand and one
on mine, which were certainly identical.
But doesn't everybody have them?" /
asked.
Certainly not. May 1 explain their
significance"
| nodded.
"When these two lines so infinitely iden-
tical are found, one on the hand of man,
and the other on that of a woman, these
two hands will surely be joined and their
owners be no more parted"
"But-but," l stammered, ''the book said
nothing about that"
mo; 1t is an Egyptian superstition.
bdieve no other European knows of it, but
it rarely, if ever, deceives. Tell me now
Beatrice, that it shall not on this occasion:
let our handsremain always together"
He took my hand in his, and drew me
towards him; and felt that it must be so;
that all my happiness depended on the
fulillment OF that ancient superstition.
"My dear" he whispered, "you under.
stand now why | so dreaded your mar
rage with Mr.. Crofts, and why the dis
coyery of what l have shown you caused
me lsuch mingled hope and fear. Those
soft white hands of his they forced them
selves upon my attention from the first. |
had never before met with so mean type
clothed in so fair an exterior. And he in
such close connection with g0ui All
Beatrice, l was not then, as | now feel my
self to be, man greatly to be envied. Id
COSY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
BOSTON GIRLS.



Information.
Two genuine Boston girls, near whom
The writer sat the other night at a
symphony concert, knew the special
style of every man in the orchestra,
from the leader, Listeman, to dear. de-
parted Lichtenberg of happy memory;
they could tell if the oboe fell six
teenth part of half tone from the
pitch, or il the farthest kettledrum was
shared an iniiniteSimal atom too tightly.
When the andantinO OF TScalkowSky
concerto was fainting away in Il strain of
delicious sweetness that YOU Or'I would
as soon think of Analysing as an echo
from Paradise, it reminded one of that
staccato study of Rubenstein - when
the andante con fuOcO began it recalled
to the other something of Brahms.
They discussed the relative merits OF
the Lang school and the rival clique
with discriminating justice that would
not have shamed Solomon; they COS.
slipped in German and translated the
French song on the programme; they
spoke of one woman's back hair as "A
h'NNND thiii tllObilCl NOlllbu > DOlliltJ III
ga daisy'-so that they were human
after all. They knew the geneaolgy OF
every one in the hall, which is another
essentially Boston accomplishment; and
l found out in the pauses for intermis,
sion and breath that they hammered
brasswork, wrote essays, painted in
oils, read Wagner's music at sight,
went to the theater every other evening,
kept up an intimate acquaintance with
800 friends, and had their own ideas on
the subject of housekeeping. And yet
| give you my word of honor they
looked as pretty and arttess and as
quiet as if they had not two thoughts in
their two heads; and, although they
whispered a great deal, they managed
to do it without disturbing any one but
myself, who rather enjoyed it. You
think, perhaps, that have been sketch
ing an isolated type? My dear friend,
my style is as plenty as peas on the
Fourth of July, 1t is you who have
been imposed upon by a false sem
blance, a poor imitation, base fraud
upon the genuine Boston girl.-BostOn
Cor. San Francisco call.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
WHERE is CONRAD2"
An Incident of the Recent Brooklyn Ca
Iamity.


An Incident of the Recent Brooklyn Ca
lamity.
"You will tell mo where is Conrad?" said an
old man. bent and gray
While the flames were wildly dancing aud
the walls were giving way.
IL hat heard some ones was buried under
meath the ruins fell
de was in de topmost stOry-ach, mein Colt!
love him well!
"I will tell you how you knew him: he had
full and laughing eye,
And his face was smooth and smiling
he was too young to die.
Hair he had, like clouds at sunset, when
anOder day is done;
And luf him-how | luf him! and he . mine
only son.
Say, Policeman, tell me truly that this
young man you did see
And all each money gif you, such as could
bring with me.
Tell me that he anxious acted-thAt he
hunted far and long
Like as children would be calling for their
fader, in throng.
"Or he wounded was? pray tell me; in the
hospital to lic?-
1 will just now hasten to him, and l not will
let him die
Tell mech, you pust not told me--dead
you MAJ my NOuGuu seer
fe'. II dsiGesTrbout thend dhat-I did long a
"on hear @Ge BUR ., potfS ar him when we
But e hat ny boy MA way is rather
"Only-that his poor old muddef-she waits
home all full of fear.
And | can not there be going, till | take good
news from here
''Young he was when we did bring him from
the Rhine land here to be;
did lif for her and COnrad-she did lif for
him and me.
"Other ones we bring not with us; Colt, He
say: These more be mino;
And we left them all a-slecping 'mong the
vineyards of the Rhine.
"He haf not cross word gift us-he hat love
us, every day;
And if he tonight comes home not, it's the
first night he's away.
"Let me to that fire, Policeman! Icare what
for walls or brandt
May be he in there be livng-rcaching for
his fathers hand!
"Let me there, say, Policeman! Ihaf work
there to be done!
Let go me- or l will strike you, Is it that
you hat no SOM
Still the flames were like furnace, and the
walls were crashing loud,
And the old man, held in safety, tainted mid
the trembling crowd.
And the mother watched,and wondered, with
her great eyes scarcely wet;
ANA, halt-dazed amid her sorrow waits for
Conrad even yet.
-IFW Carleton, in n y. Graphic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
"A Foine Play"

A newly-landed Irishman enjoyed his
first attendance at theater shortly af,
ter his arrival in this country. The
play was of the blood and-thunder kind,
and therefore particularly adapted to
the pugnacious fancy Of the Hibernian.
In the first act occurred thunder
storm with all the stage accessories,
This pleased him much. In the second
there was an encounter between two
regiments of supcrs armed with mus
kets. Again his Celtic blood grew
warm. In the third act was represent
ed tirst-clasS free fight, and he fairly
shouted with joy. just as the curtain
went up on the fourth act the boiler in
the cellar of the theater exploded and
threw the. Irishman into the middle of
the next street. He gathered himself
up, smoothed out the dents in his skull
and went back to the ruins of the thea
ter. There he found this ticket-taker
overlooking the wreck and thus accost-
ed him:
"Begorra, sor, but that was foine
play. Az you PLACE, what are yez goin'
to play ?'-ButdlO ErpreSS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
SOCIETY IN JAPAN.
Woman's Rank and How 1t is Maintained
Freedom From Divorce.

Ishhh anu IloW III Is halnLdlneu
Freedom From Divorce.
Early betrothals have never been as
general in Japan as in other Eastern
countries, and they are now decreasing
yearly. Marriages are arranged by the
respective parents, assisted by man
and his wife (mutual friends of the
families) as an intermediary. Contrary
to the usual notion on this subject, the
wishes of the young people are generally
consulted. The statement sometimes
made that the wife in Japan is a mere
chattel to be lightly acquired or disposed
of, is absolutely false. Divorces among
the better classes are scarcely more
frequent or more frequently sought for
than IN many parts of our own country.
Our tricky divorce lawyer would starve
in Japan. If divorce is demanded the
matter must be laid before the families
OF the couple, with the Intermediary
spoken of as arbitrator, and neither
the man nor the woman can be re-
leased from the marriage VOW without
their concurrence. As divorce must
result in the sending of the wife back to
Ihe lather LOT support, separations, eN-
cept for a grave and sufficient reason.
are not easily obtained The position
of wife, and especially of mother in
Japan, is all that true woman can de-
sire. 1t is not the custom, except on
special occasions, for women to minple
socially with men who are not of their
own family by blood or marriage.
This restriction is not imposed by the
legal lord alone, it is II part of the
family organization and by the family
imposed for the promotion of morality
and good order in society. Nothing
can exceed the beauty and harmony of
the Japanese home. Disrcspect and
disobedience to parents are rare, and
we have often been compelled to con-
trast the family discipline of Japan with
that of our own, much to our mortifca-
tion.-M Y. Null anil Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13

Nine persons out of ten would say
that the actual color of gold and silver
was yellow and white. Let these nine
persons try to match these colors, and
they will be astonished to find that drab
silk matches gold, and grey silyer.-Chi-
edgO Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
A Texas Chesterfield.

Jim Vandyke, who lives on Onion
Creek, tied his pony to fence railing
on Austin Avenue. The owner of the
premises came up to him and said:
You bow-legged, frecklefaced fraud.
ifyOu don't unite that horse I'll fan the
air with your ungainly carcass
You must excuse me, sir, responded
Vandyke, but | am a stranger and did
not know there would be any chico
tom
You Anticipated outcast, don't you
suppose | know that you are stran-
ger, you loathsome ass. That's why |
talk politely to YOU YOU goggle-eyed
idiot. That's why don't talk rough,to
you, You son of gun, If you lived
here in town I'd give you piece Of my
mind. I'd talk plain to you, you bet 1
would. h-IeJ0S Si(iin1S.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13

If you have no grass runs for the
chicks, SOW lettuce, oats and whatever
else will grow quickly. Both old hens
and chicks will appreciate the kindness
and thrive under it.-Tr0y Times.