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Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-01-28

A,Ok kENI-ahEAP, 10 foOD MI
y sponsib etenan,s, houses vt d, %, 81
g. 60, Sl2 per month. Some have ali the
uOaerp improvements; front porticos and
var =, bot and coid water and bath. Rented
only b, the year. r. J FORD 9Th and Rod
nsy, or 90 TalnalI street.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
LEGUMINOUS PLANTS.


Their Popularity of Adding Largely to the
Fertility of Soil.
The term leguminOus is derived from
a Latin word meaning seed which
grows in a pod. This essential char
acterstic is made the type of a large
family of plants called by botanists
leguminous, and in this class are in
cluded all such plants as clover, peas.
beans, lentils, and lupins, and such
trees as locust, cassia, acacia, labur-
mum, and many others, whose pea
shaped flowers, hanging in large and
beautiful clusters, are cultivated in
ornamental plantations. 1t is n
peculiarly of this family of plants that
they gather from the soil in some way
or other large quantity of nitrogen
which they store in their roots and leaves.
and leaving these in the soil
add largely to its fertility. The plants
of this kind which are grown upon
farms as crops are clover peas, beans.
lucern and some others of less note. 1t
has long been an experience with prac-
teal farmers that these crops clean the
soil of weeds and leave it in the finest
condition for a succeeding crop of
grain, which thrives better after such
crop than by any other preparation.
The reason for this was not known I'M
til the long continued Investigations
and experiments Of DIR. Lawes, of En-
gland, showed how it was that wheat
following crop Of clover produced a
much better yield than if it had been
grown even upon summer fallow. 1t
has been the experience of farmers that
peas have this same result, and a crop
Of beans even leaves the soil in better
condition than if the land had lain idle,
~ T. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
REMOVING THE SIGNS.

Heroic and Faithful Wife and Mother
a New England Incident of Fifty Years
Ago.
In the old, historic and beautiful
town of Lexington, Mass, more than
fifty years ago, there might have been
seen across the front of a large, sub
stantal-Ioolling building on the princi-
pal street, sign bearing these words
civilian Simonds, Inn-keeper." That
this house was the resort of sleighing
parties and merry making generally,
needs not be told nor that the hot mugs
OF flip, egg-nog and other drinks, were
the chief attractions of the place. This
same Willi1m was alert for the pennies
Of his customers, hoping thereby to re-
plenish his excneluer,
Now, at the head of the family was o
woman of sterling character, a Chris
tian and a mother, with noble boys
growing up to manhood surrounded BY
these communicating influences, for
whom she felt the most active interest.
Having eXpostulated in vain with the
good husband and father in regard to
this business and implored that the
sign be taken down, and the legitimate
products OF the farm constitute their
support, she took the opportunity one
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

A new secret political organization,
called the "Knowsomethings," was
gotten up in 1854, by some German Re-
publicans, to Offset the "Knownoth-
,ngs." The founders were Germans,
and their constitution opposed the ex-
tension of slavery, stringent Sabbath
laws, and the Maine liquor hypocrisy.
1t was short,ljved, but upward of six
thousand members were enrolled. and
for some time an organizer" made a
good living 10y going about the country
and urganj4lng lodges, each one Of
which paid him twenty-five dollars for a
charter. Boston Bud1eL
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
A Bright Boy.

Colonel Percy Yerger has got a boy
named Sam, who has never been
tra.ned to habits of obedience He gives
all manner of impudence to his parents,
who, having become desperate, put the
boy in the grocery store of Mr. Sid Blu
ford, who has the reputation of being
very severe, and is one of the heaviest
retail grocers in Austin
Now, sammy" sad Mr.. Bluford to
the incipient tradesman, when YOU see
me waiting on customer and clap my
hands, you come to me right off. Now
mind, | don't want any nonsense"
Il don't want any nonsense, either"
retorted Sammy, when you are wait
ing on a customer and clap your hands,
if you see me shake my head you may
know I'm not coming till get ready"
TEXAS Settings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

Electrical experiments on the heads
Of guillotined murderers have been too
much the fashion of late, says the Paris
correspondent of the London Times
Sensational accounts of the results have
sometimes been published, and only re-
Gently at Caen a doctor protested to
have produced movements of the tongue
by electric action on nerve. 1t is sat
isfactory to find that II. Paul Bert, who
has been held up to odium by English
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., denounces these
practices The distinguished physiolo-
gist and Deputy holds that such expert
ments have no scientific interest and
that they ought to be prohibited. If
they succeed in making the murderer
live again for an instant, which, how
ever, he regards as impossible, the law
Of 1871, which forbds the torturing of
criminals, would be violated in its
spirit, if not in its letter. Such expert
MEETS may, moreover, be made under
better cond tions on animals. M. Bert 9
colleagues in the Academy of Medicine
coincide in this view,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

day, on his absence in distant part of
the city, to say to the boys: THE sign is
coming down."
That the magnitude of the work may
be more apparent. we will say that the
sign covered nearly the entire front of
the house in length, and was of con-
forming width, the thickness being such
as in those times was deemed proper
for substantially.
Assembling her forces on the front
piazza. with ladders and ropes, the old
est boys mounted the ladders, and soon
the obnoxious object was swinging in
midair on its way to the ground. Be-
ing safely landed, the next thing was to
get it up in the garnet. Where there's
a will there's way" 1t was pushed
up the first flight OF stairs without
much difficulty, but the second fight
was narrower and winding, which
caused it to stick fast A call to the
mother was readily responded to, and
with cheering words and her deter
mined Now boost, BOYS, for your
lile!' up it went, with the aid of her
sturdy shoulders; the good woman say
ing: There let it stay, boys
CDOu lllt ItIVlI VI lllt ltlliltI III HlOuI
all was as serene Is though nothing had
happened, the boys having been in
structed to say, when asked where the
sign was; go to mother" Not hav-
ing occasion to pass the front of the
house for two days the loss was not
discovered by the father until on the
third day, when, on coming from the
barn with a wheel barrow, his Young
est son. a lad of ten years, helping, he
looked up, and turning to the boy with
a face liyid with rage, he said:
You villain, where is that sgn?n
Quaking with fear, yet full OF laugh
ter, the urchin replied:
'Ask mother"
Dropping the barrow, with hasty,
nervous strides, he made his way to the
/ house; from whence, after the lapse OF
about ten minutes, he came forth with
the pleasantest look upon his face,
look which he continued to wear as
long as he lived.
What was said is not related. but the
n10ther'S lore conquered Through the
many changes of occupants of the old
tavern, that sign has remained where
/ it was placed at that time, until little
NhlC dSO' WITCH IL was gwen III Keep
ing Of the Historical Society of Lexing-
ton.
This faithful mother reared these
boys to noble manhood the youngest,
now at mature age, giving the facts
of this history. Mrs. Simonds was a
sister of Cyrus PIERCE, Esq, teacher Of
The first normal school, then at LeXing-
ton, subsequently at Newton. The spirit
of this worthy woman is such as the
soil of Lexington abundantly produced
/ during revolutionary times. and such
as should be cmuIated during all time.
\ granddaughter, OF this city, active
in Temperance reform and works of
charity generally, is proof incontro-
vertibLe that true worth descends even
to the third and fourth generations
/ Cambridge I3ijUne.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
The Curse of Our Era.

The drink habit is beyond all ques-
ton the greatest curse of modern life.
Social drinking ruins more homes and
destroys more young men and young
women than all the social habits COM
bined. The drink traffic does more to
corrupt politics, perpetuate and multi
ply poverty, to incite to violence and
brawls, to keep the poor poor, and
to make them poorer, than all other
curses combined. 1t costs the Nation
more in life and money than war, pesti-
lence and famine. 1t more urgently
demands quarantine than the cholera;
it is a more serious menace to nat ;onal
weil-being than armies and fleets of
foreign powers. it is the obstacle to
all moral and social progress.
1.-The temperance cause" says Rich
ard Golden, lilies at the foundation of
all social and poiticaI reform" How
shall we lay out this foundation? How
shall we establish Til, quarantine? How
shall we decrease this awfal expendi-
ture? How shall we check, restrain,
regulate or eXtirpate this drink habit?
This is the immediate question which
addresses itself to every citizen, every
parent, every social reformer- Chris
t!an Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

A remarkable instance of the waste
of valuable product is afforded by the
fact that out of IS, 32O tons of flax fibre
grown last year in the United States
only 500 tons were utilized for manu-
facture. At the same time 5000 tons
of fibre are imported yearly. This
waste, no doubt occurs because farm
ers have given more attention to grow
ing seed than to the fibre. Seed and
fibre cannot be grown together. For
seed, thin sowing and stout stalks are
required, and this produces coarse fibre;
for fine fibre, thick sowing and slender
stalks with few side shoots are desired:
moreover, for the fine silky fibre the
stalks are cut before the seed is ripe
The ripe stalks. however, are exceed
ingly valuable for Irvine, but unfortu-
nately this fibre is driven out of use by
a substitute made out Of paper.-N.sK
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
THE CARE OF THE HAIR.
1t Should BE Washed But Once in 81
Weeks With CASTLE Soap.

The care of the hair is an important
branch of fashion at all times. though
often fashion dictates an injudicious
treatment and prescribes modes against
all rules of health and reason. Such
Importance has been given to the hair
that some philosophers make the CHG
non, coils and puffs the index of civil,
cation. and show how eccentricity in
head-dress and couture marks the
degradation of the time. 1t is well I'M
derstood that masses of false hair iniure
natural growth, but freak of fashion
which seems harmless may be made
equally hurtful. This apparently limo
cent fashion is that of iluttiness ant
lightness of the hair produced by con.
tinual washing. The best specialists Oh
treatment of the hair say that the hair
should be washed once in six
weeks and not oftener, and thai
CASTLE soap and not borax. soda or
any other drying material should be
used. After washing it is well to ruiz
the scalp with some reliable ointment.
uc MAUI al OH, WHICH W SOlllt dDptdES
Objectionable, is the life-giving ONT,
ment of the hair and should not be de-
stroyed. Dry hair has dead appear
ance, the ends split and growth is re-
tarded. The fine comb is most hurtful,
but soft brush, used judicously, gives
vigor to the scalp and keeps it in a
healthy condition. The practice of cut
ting the ends of the hair is useful, and
can be accomplishedo3asily by braidng
the hair and then cutting the ends. The
care of the hair is certainly as impor
tant as that of the teeth, but is much
more neglected. The rules of its pres
ervation are simple and important
Vigorous brushing, cutting the ends
when necessary, washing with CASTLE
soap once in six weeks and the desira-
bic avoidance of false hair should pre-
serve and strengthen. the hair. But if
the hair comes out az becomes lifeless
and thin in spite of this treatment, the
best remedy is to seek reliable special
list on scalp d seases, and to submit to
thorough professional direction.-B0s-
ton Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
THE ORIGIN OF 20. K"

A Suggestion That jackson Got His
Famous AbbreviatIon From tito Chloe
taW.
In the language of the Choctaw
Indians, one of the most frequently re-
curing expressions is the emphatic oke,
with which an affirmation or denial is
concluded. This oke pronounced with
strong accent on the last syllable) is
one of the substitutes for the copulative
verb to be, which is wanting in Choc-
taw. Oke, as pronounced in Choctaw,
has exactly the same sound as the
alphabetic pronunciation OF the letters
o. X, in English.
The meaning of expression, as nearly
as it can be conveyed in English, is:
That is true; That is all So A few
examples, out of many that might be
cited, VIII illustrate this. The Chloe
taw Indian is a good fellow" is ex-
| pressed thus: Halifax api huma Chahta
achukmah oke. in which halifax api
huma means Indian Literally, man
body-red,) achukmah means good, I"
and oke is the copulative expression, ''it
is So" In the Rev. Cyrus Byington's
Choctaw New Testament the first SEN
tence of Matt. 5, 10: Eye are the salt
of the earth, is: gakni in huppi huch-
CHA hoke, literally: the earth is salt
We; that is So
To General Andrew Jackson is at
tributed the Introduction of the Choctaw
word into our Anglo American speech.
Before the war of 1912. in VOYAGES up
and down the Mississippi and in trad
ing expeditions overland from Nash
vile, Tenn, to Natchez, NJ SIS, through
the ChOctaw Nation. he was brought
into frequent communication with the
Choctaws.
General Jackson, as everybody knows.
was prone to the use of downright and
energetic methods of assertion. Hear
1 ing this emphatic oke 50 frequently
uttered by the Choctaw people, ne
. learned the meaning conveyed by it to
the Choctaw mind and appropriated it,
out Of hand to his own purposes. From
him it passed over to the multitude
This account of the origin of o. X. has
been current in the South for many
years, If not true, it is, to say the
| least, ben troUatO.
No one who has ever road on onto.
graph letter of General Jackson's will
| easily credit the story that he was in
United Stapes Of indors,ng in tnlta,,,
Bi,lfe. annljcations for ofiico w;,b tbo
letters q K nnder tho baiief tbo ~ ttbo e,,o
were the nronnr initials fo. ..oII I, oor
rect" Jackson was No scholar Init he
was not 60 rossIv i+noran 'ol nf E prJ b
ort6ooranbT as To- nj INTO ,'' binndSr .'5 Of
that sort He NAV have indorsaJ doo,1.
ments with the letters q x az q i ioc,I.
lar symbol Of his fovorito e CboJr Go, "
eynrcssion The etory tba+ tboso i Iott"r y"
We're seriously intended bv him eS'c on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

at PanSOtkee, Fla. 1t measured twenty
-four inches in circumference one way
twenty-five inches the other, and
weighed four pounds and thirteen
ounces.
During trial in London it was de,
velOped that the plaintiff, woman,
had been divorced from her former hus.
band because of her misconduct with
her present husband, who had been di,
vOrced from her sister.
Milton Miester formerly OF Lancas.
ter County, Pennsylvania and now of
Utah Penitentiary, remarks in letter
to a friend: II am serving out six
months sentence for loving, cherishing
and caring for my dear families, con
sisting of three of the best, noblest and
loveliest wives in the Union and twenty.
three just as good and pretty children
as ever came from Heaven to Soiourn
for season on this mundane sphere
Chicago Tribune.
The yield of grain in Texas for the
present year has been the greatest ever
known in the history of the State. The
Galveston NeUS, commenting upon the
fact, says; with no uutoward disaster
to the cotton crop the State is on the
eve of the grandest period of agricultural
prosperity she has ever enjoyed. The
commercial and general business situa-
ton may naturally be expected to sym
pathze with this prosperity"
As an evidence of the ignorance
which prevails through Wales. the vicar
of large district writes that he Gave
to poor woman. whose dauohter was
i'll. a little lar OF extract of meat. tellino
her to boil it with certain seasoning.
The woman complained there was some.
thing wrong with the thino. She had
boiled It for hours, and could ret no
charm out of it. The fact was she had
left the jar unopened.
-"IIow can Tavor,,ar wong, ..Dor,,
try" Don't tryp,, NO ifvon reojlT
wish 70 do me a favor >, 81 don,t M,
derstand." SO Ionr rs know yo,,
never can nay nm Won will he vain obIe
TO me in another wav Whenever hi
is presented that 7 can NOT convenientIy
meet I will simnIv saw that baya NON
cv dine me tbat must he collected before
Icon nov, nv, c,nd;to,s No ,,o,, ano o..
..Yeo. aTd % soa"iaI fo,,o,. o,;,,o ,,o,,
nv, vol ond ~. III -. go
Won - Horner,e Ragor ' P"'
Horo ;s hot ,vootbor oo,ud,,
A gentleman remarked tho Other Jar
tba7 Is he ynro IN on oloro+or ' I'D "a !,
dronnoJ from tho fiftb stor,, bo , ,r-o,,Ij
hrelk fine force Of tha fail nv i,,,,r o;,, -
fonr or five foot in tbo ON, i,St Idfn,.1
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

THE hotels in a district of New Yea
land having been closed by the action
of the people, the police officer writes
to his brother as follows: 81 am the
happicst man in the village. There has
not been one case of drunkenness be-
fore the court since the licenses werO
taken away
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05

IL all of the teachers of the country
were to bring before the youthful minds
intrustcd to their care the Temperance
question in its hygienic and moral bear
mgs, the seed thus sown would soon
bear fruit well worth the trouble. En-
gland has, of late, awaited herself with
extraordinary success of this preventive
means. She has found among teachers
the most Jealous furtherers of the good
cause. A Temperance Lesson-Book"
is in the hands OF the scholars Us well as
the teachers of Great Britain and the
Colonies, and in Il translated form in
foreign countries. -- CoHSHl- General OPP
pe1hejmer Of germany, IN La10 and
Order
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-17
LOCAL lots.

THE Occidental saloon building dis
played bunting to-day in honor of st.
Patrick
GREEN badges were quite numerously
displayed by the loyal sons of Erin
to day.
ARCHITECT MoNHEM has completed
plans for an addition to the Chateau
d. Flint on Second South Street, to be of
the same size and style as the recently
erected edifice.
In the TdweH murder case at Provo
yesterday, instead of making a motion
for new trial Arthur Brown asked for
and was granted an extension of time
until the 9TH of next month in order to
prepare his exceptions, and sentence was
postponed until that time.
A PROMINENT and we'll informed rail-
road man now in this city states that ne
gotiations are now pending between the
Central Pacific roads for the establishment
of fast freight line between Chicago and
San Francisco, whereby the trip will be
made in eight days.
Mr.. Cope was asked by DEMOCRAT
reporter this morning if any conference
rates had been determined. "No ar
engagements have been made yet" was
the reply. " In fact, don't think many
people will attend conference. We have
not yet decided whether to give regular
conference rates to this city.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-17
A PROVO ENTERPRISE.
The Capitalists of that Burg Organize
a Manufacturing Company.

The enterprising citizens of Provo have
just perfected the organization OF the
Utah Valley Iron Mining and Manufac-
turing Company, for the purpose OF con-
Quoting general mining business in Utah
and Juab counties, the mining and pro-
duction of iron ores and the manufactur-
ing of iron and steel in their different
branches, and such other business as
may be necessary in connection there
with.
The capital stock of the company is
fixed at 100000, divided into 10000
shares, but the articles of agreement pro-
vide the capitalization may be increased
to 100000. Following are the names Of
the incorporators:
Alonzo A. Noon, A. J. Noon, Thos.
Beesly, Samuel r. Thurman, A. d. Hold
away, David Evans, A. O. Smoot, jr.,
Walter r. Pike, VIM. H. Brown, w. III.
Dusenbury, John c.. Graham, John f.
Booth, Geo. M. Brown, John w. Turner,
Provo, and Jonathan S. Page, Payson. A.
d. Holloway is president, and j. S.
Page, vice-president of the company.
The company has purchased, and pro-
poses to operate, the following mining
claims, situated in Tintic mining district:
Grey Eagle No. 2, Iron Boom, Jam
Up, Black Fawn, Iron Queen; Black
Hawk, Black Bird, Red Chief, Cross
Lead, Flower of the West, Black Chief,
Young America, Old Vulture, Old Raven,
Old Tubal Cain, Vulcan, Iron Star, Ray
mond, Melbourne Hill, Sidney and Param-
malta. The company also owns what
is known as the Puyne stock ranch and
springs, situated upon the wagon road
leading from Goshen to Silver City.
A certificate of incorporation was
issued the company by Secretary
Thomas to-day. The Office and principal
place of business will be at Provo, where
it is understood works will be erected i'm
mediately.
1t will be seen from the above that the
stockholders comprise quite a large por-
ton of the leading citizens of that town,
while the company must own pretty
large slice of the Tintic Mining District.
AS some of the finest iron properties in
the Territory are included in their list OF
mines, there seems to be no reason why
their enterprise should not meet with
success, and Provo may become quite a
lively manufacturing city. 1t is a matter
of surprise that the iron resources of the
Territory have been allowed to lie dor
mant for so long time.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-17
PERSONAL.

F. S. RICHARDS, Esq, left on the mar
row guage this morning for Chicago.
THOMAS ORCHARDS, of the railway mail
service, came down from Ogden this
morning.
O.P. ARNOLD, the street car superin
tendent, will leave on the D. & R. G.
train for Denver tomorrow.
A. F. Brown. representing the Vulcan
Powder Company, of st. Louis. will leave
for that city on to-morrow's Rio GRANGE
train.
Mr.. GEO. w. ARNOLD came in from
Pleasant Valley last night, after spending
three months in the coal dust of that
region. He is well and hearty, but
doesn't think Of purchasing that county
to live in.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-17
The Mountain Chief Company.

Mr.. w. B. Pace, of the Mountain Chief
Mining Company, is in the city, and last
evening gave DEMOCRAT reporter some
interesting information concerning the
fine copper properties of that company,
located about twelve miles west OF st.
George. Mr.. Pace states that since the
company's smelter was closed last win
ter, only six or seven men have been
employed at the mine, but tine works
will be started up again the latter part of
next month, and the force on the mine
greatly increased. The mine " shows
up well, and the prospects are good for
a prosperous season.
Mr.. Pace states that since the Noun
tain Chief smelter closed down, st.
George has been about the quietest and
dullest village in the Territory. The in
habitants find absolutely nothing to do,
except to consume the immense stores
of wine and sorghum manufactured last
fall.