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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A man is always wanting some or
to tell him how handsome he is. A
woman will just stand before the glass
and see for herself -SpringfeLd Regis
ter.
Scientists claim that cigarette-smok-
ing leads to idiocy. We do not know
how true this is, but are satisfied that
idiocy leads to Notwithstanding -
Texas SJtjngs.
A scientific journal says few fishes
die a natural death" That is not our
fault. Just as many die a natural
death as if we didn't 90 a-ishing. Mop
rjStOWn Herald.
The worm is not the most despiscd
thing in the world when it can sleep in
flowers, travel in peaches and rest for
the winter in the pious chestnut.-NeW
Orleans Plcayunc.
An Ohio court decides that hus-
band is the legal owner of his wife's
clothes. 1t is to be hoped that in the
future he will take of his high hat while
he and she are at the thcatcr.
Olive Logan says that the Raphael
for which the British Government paid
$3.50, 900 is a bad picture. This recon
Giles us in part TO the disappointment in
not securing it for our private collection.
oil city Derrjch.
This is the way the ladies convey
their meaning: Mrs. Brown-''How is
that dear little baby of yours, Mrs.
Smith?' at was dreadfully sick last
week; thought it would die, but it's
nearly well now" says Mrs. Smith.
80, I'm so sorry" says Mrs. Brown
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
"A New York lady wants receipt
''for making daisy mats from rickrack
braid" If this lady will tell us how to
make rickrack braid and what it is like
after it is made, we shall be pleased to
send receipt for the mat. 1t will be a
daisy. Boston Transcript.
Hadn't yet occurred:
"Will you walk into my parlor?"
Asked the tonSOr of the dude,
Who, clad in cOrSsCrew trousers
And an Anglo-maniaC mood,
Said, "Why WEAKLY | would like to,
! would upon my word;
But the beard longing wait for
Somehow hasn't yet occurred
All cACuuHSc says IHdu IHo HISJ
pure monkey ever born in America saw
the light of day recently in New York. :"
If these Italian Counts who go around
the country disguised as members of the
Handle Musical Association are foistng
an adulterated article of monkey on the
American people it is about time to cry
"Haltn There is too much adultera-
ton in our food and amusements.- Mop
riStOlCN Herald.
you should have a thermometer
to ascertain the proper temperature of
the water, ~ said fond mother to the
golored nurse who was giving the baby
bath. "Whall'or?n TO tell when
the water is too hot or too cold.
Don't need no SIGH dockerment. Ef de
chile turns blue de water am too cold,
an eff hit turns red den hit am too hot.
And now the colored lady is open to
offer. --IeTaS SttjHgS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Rev. Thomas Sturgeon, son of the
great London divine, is pastor of a
tlourishing Baptist Church in Auckland
New Zealand.
About twenty per cent. of the grad
uating class at Williams are six feet
high or over, or, to be exact, eleven in
class of sixty.-Iroy Times.
Christian, make a note of this: The
net gain in COMMITMENTS the past year
was nine times greater in foreign mis-
sions than in ChristendOm! = Christian
Union.
1t has been decided to rebuild the
Roman Catholic Cathedral at Charles
ton. S. c., which was burned in the
great fire of 1861, and at that time con-
sidered the finest ecclesiastical building
in the South.
bers in the three Congregational
churches in Scranton, Pa. Between
two and three hundred of this number
have been admitted since the LIST of Jan
uary.
The avarage Sunday plate collec-
tons of Rev. Newman Halls church, in
Westminster Bridge Road, London, is
S175, and of Rev. c. II. Surgeons
congregation in the great Tabernacle,
$345.
"A Boston Courier reporter asked
the Superintendent of Schools the other
day: "How does it happen that there
are so many old maids among the
School teachers?" and he replied ''Be-
cause school teachers are as a rule,
women of sense, and no sensible woman
will give up a siXty-doIlar position for a
forty-dollar man."
The journals of the English Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts are to be printed 1t
may not be generally known that those
journals contain the earliest historical
records of the Church in America,
Canada, and the West Indies. They
will fill five octave volumes of about
700 pages each, and the cost of the set
will be six guineas. Only $50 copies
will be printed, unless the number of
subscribers who come forward will
warrant the issue of 800 copies, in
which case the price will be five guineas
a set.
There is church in Milton County,
Georgia, that is badly split up on the
subject of cyclone pits. 1t seems that
a goodly number of members of the
church have dug cyclone pits, which is
considered by majority of the church
as fragrant violation of their doctrines
and temptation to God to wipe them
off the face of the earth. As the pit
diggers were more fearful of cyclones
than of the wrath of the majority they
have been turned out of the church.
They Immediately organized themselves
into a church, under the name of Cv-
clone Primtives. - Chicago JOlrnal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29
BABY DESTROYING.
The Many Deaths of Children Caused by
Ignorance and Neglect Of Parents or
Attendants.

The Many Deaths of Children Caused by
Ignorance and Neglect OF Parents or
Attendants.
1t has come to be a gospel with young
married folk that the second summer is
the destroyer of the baby. 1t is fate.
kismet. That the second summer costs
more lives than it ought is not the fault
of the summer; it is the fault of the
heat and the parents. The summer
heat is dangerous to all young children;
it is in connection with the bad diet of
the second summer that it is fatal. 1t
is a well-cstablished fact that nearly all
the mortality of second-Summer babies
is from diseases of the digestive organs,
and these come from irrational artificial
feeding. Children come to the table,
eat pickles, unmashed or fried humps OF
potatoes, beets, radiShes, and the like,
and the trouble begins. The stereotyped
answer to the question; What does
the child eat?' is: 40, it eats at the
table with the rest of the family
The result is enteric diseases and
death, and the cause of death is
aScribed to the second summer" The
first summer the baby stays at home,
has its natural food, and pulls through
fairly well. But the second sammer it
must show off, 1t is trundled down
town through the heat of a July or Au-
gust day, is overheated. excited, and its
nervous system put to the strain. Keep
the yearlings at home; give them a
grass plat and sand-pile. Do not let
them come to the table, give wholesome
food-milk, oat meal ground very fine
and stirred and cooked for twenty min
utes. Put them to bed at dark with
garment they can not kick off when the
nights are cool. Battle them in tepid
water night and morning. Stay at home
with them and take care Of them your
self, for it is not 1.-The second summer
which kills the children. but the ignor-
ance or negligence Of those who attend,
or rather do not attend, them. Colds
and calves get through their second
summers quite as well as their first, and
there is no reason that the human ami
mai should not live quite as close to ma
ture and do quite as we'll. -Lndianap-
oils Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

| thought its GOODNESS was tie coldness
of death, and almost exulted in the
thought that we should die together
And then | would catch the murmur Of
the prayers she was uttering for us both
and know that life was there still, and
hope lived, too.
Well. well! Why should [ dwell ON
such horrors, except to thank the
Mercy that brought us through them
all? Day dawned at last; and there
was the shore near by, and soon rockets
were fired, ana ropes secured, and one
by one the half-dead living were drawn
from their awful suspension between
sky and sea, and landed safe on shore
They had to take Winny and me to-
gether, Just as we were, and even then
they had hard work to undo the clasp of
my stifiened arms about her. | knew
nothing then, nor for long after; and It
is wonderful that Winny was the first
to recover, and that it was she who.
nursed me back to life and reason.
And how did | ask her to marry mep
Upon my word, now you ask, l can't
remember that | ever did. That seemed
utterly unnecessary, somehow. Caste
distinctions look small enough when
you have been staring death in the face
for a few hours; and words Were not
much needed after we had been together
in the rigging that night. Somehow
was glad it was so; glad my girl had
taken me in my cap and jersey, for a
common sailor, and yet loved the old
Dick through it all; glad she never
dreamed | was owner of Indian. QfceS,
farm, and the richest man in thai end
of Ontario, and had wealth and a posi-
ton higher than Mr.. Lotus, the young
Squire at home. The people she was
with had all gone down on that awful
night; she had no one in the world but
me. We were married at Montreal
the Captain of the Antartic gave her
away-and then | brought her home to
Indian Creek To see her face when
she saw the rocking chair and the work
basket and the thimble Heaven bless
her!
There she comes with her baby on
her shoulder. Come into dinner, friend,
and you shall see the sweetest wife in
the new country or the Old; the girl |
won amid the oceans surgeS. -Bright
Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

she is glad when he leaves the wretcheu
home, and sorry when he returns. She
is compelled, for the sake of the chill
dren, to keep them away from theiE
father, and so she has to carry her own
load and his, too, his being trebed in
weight by the debasing influences that
have possession Of him. What is there
in life for her? A dreary journey day
by day, bare-toOtcd, over sharp rocks,
with the certainty that at the end she
shall fall and perish, leaving those she
loves behind her, helpless and hopeless.
Their father will drink l am so heart
broken
And all this time the brewer brews,
and the seller sells. There is Il profit of
one dollar and fifty cents on each bar
rel to the brewer, and nine dollars to
the retailer. What care they that the
money the poor wretch pays down upon
the bar is bread taken from the mouths
of children and clothes from their backs?
hat difference does it make to them
that this Internal appetite is not only
dragging down the father to death and
a hell afterward but is k llinga mother
and making thieves of four boys and
ou Il,' OF thrre girIs' nat differ
ellce uoeS II make TO ihem that the COM
MUMMY must IN ume bury the poor
hlolner' ana pear the expense OF the
q whit. There is the brewers dollar
and a half, and the miserable retailer )
nine dollars, and the piteous MOAB.
Ihtir iaIher Will drink am SO
near near pLoheh mas no more eject upon
Iheni Ihail Woulu paper Wad against
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

w. colored BARRIERS, one an OLD man
and the other young one. Theyoung
one took off his apron and started out
of the door.
"Yo's gwan to get a drink, Jim?"
asked the elder.
'Dats what rs gwan to do"
600 and Git yo' drink. | yoost ter
do de same ling when | wuz Young.
When wuz fust married dab was a
gin-mill next to the shop wha' | wicked
and | spent fifty and sebenty cents
a day outer de dollah Il hqlf / earned.
Wall, one mawnin' | went into do
butchah shop, and who shood cum in
but de man wat KEEP de likker shop.
"Gib me ten or twelve pounds
po' terhouse steak he sa d.
ale got it and went out | sneakcd
up to de butrhah and looked to see
what money had lef'.
"'What do you wan'?' said the
butchah,
"'Gib me ten cents wuf of libber,
wuz my remark.
1T wuz all could pay fur. Now
yo' 90 and cit yo' drink. You'Il eat
libber but de man wat sells yo'-de
stuff will hab his pc tcrhouse steak. De
man benin de bar eats po' terhouSe- de
man in front eats libbcr, | ain t
touched the stuff in thirty ycahs, and /
am eatin' pc terhouse myself. "-F0G-
dorO Reporter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29
MY WINNY.
How I Won a Wife Amid the
Oceans Surges.


C4no,o.o,, J., l,.,,.,a- r.:-,---.,o
40, '''i9 ~ >,,''''''.' 'n,nN ." saul
IrSV WISH 10 OhIarIo' NeII' you re
heartily welcome to Indian Creek. Take
chair on the piazza till dinners ready
we dine early in these new-worId
narts
H., f.-.o W.,
w. 0'' inU'"" DIeeN
IS NICE Place' Il 90 own It, ALL as
far as you can see-grass land, corn
fields woods and creeks-all belOnp TO
it. Stock too-thev call if tho hast
stacked farm, i, O,torio lo1ia,., o,,I
~. u ''i',
l ''L' Say '"'A IL IISlll' All hIhei ana
yet came to Canada twelve years ago
without even the traditional half-crown
in my trousers pocket. You look sur-
nrised WonId won lilo 20 boon n,o
l4o,.,.g ,rLona,- I ''''
o'ol9 AI'lo Soou Hail-hour 10
uIhher-tlme yet and 1t Il story Inever
'Ire Oh IeIlln9' somehow.
began me as the son or village
carpenter III inc Noutho OF England. You
MO" .haI CLASS preIty well ! dare say
anu WhaI gun was hNed between me
anu Ihe wear OF Jhe parish. And yet
anu yet-Iron the time she was seven
years olu ana / eieVen' ana she fell
uo"h III the dusty road outside the
carpenter ShoP' ana cred, and |
picked hGr up ana Smoothed the little
crumpied pInalore' and Kissed the dust
out OF her golden curls, loved but one
SiII III inc Wofld, ana mat was the
Vicar InnN kInnsrnn1n
MauileSs' you Il say. WE'LL perhaps
So ana yet man IS but man, and a
woman woman; AND love comes,
W W. one may DO; There no class
ulsVlhcl'oh recognized by childhood, and
we were PiayinaleS ana friends till she
went 10 poaru'hg-School' II Miss Win
ny nau hau mother' no doubt things
"oulu nave oeeh very dlHerent; but we
were a,lKe IN never having known
v woman care, ana the ora wear was
plIhu 10 everything Dut MS theological
'iG@lISeS;
puI "HGn She came PACK from her
Lohuon ooarulng-School' beautiful
young Iauy' all smiles anu IaceS and lit
tIe IoNely "ayS-'hen knew. had
lrleo my peSt 10 study ana work and
MAKE myself more ike the men she
Mou,u meet puC What can lad IN an
adro ,,,ti 't 20 Io JuS' l"u enough
L''Iio'on W l'''No esJ'{ oUler Iau III
eII pr''Go , ni'1'T llio' anu oe'.'e tile men
% Iiui %DiI't suPPo2G tHv raIher an
,Ia,oll,itn,, ny u oiI e. .n' IoFe Oh hGr
homoI" o 10y o"T' t al. e9e 7" Lne; lnav MAD
noasIg S,', %S lJ't IT, hou no power
G ~, aoI, "mo INC lIl5v U'lle cauShi
nol I'ong III ','e NoouS-She AVOIDED
llio' saw 4Ii / Lau 10 "a'ch lot
Um%hv g.. toiu ien lne "noIe story ana
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29
Why He Didn't Go to Dakota.

$50 you've given up the idea Of
going to Dakota to settle down?' said a
Gotham bachelor to a Brooklyn Bene-
dick.
Eyes, forever" he replied with q
sigh.
"What's the reason?'
"Shm he Kissed, as he glanced
nervously at his wife, but seeing that
she was occupied he whispered:
IL am told that out there the atmos-
phere is so dry and clear that talking
can be heard for more than q MILE
". Y. Journal -.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

PEorLEnced not tell me that am ex-
cited on these questions. l know that
| am. | should be ashamed before God
and man if was not In my ministry
| meet the horrid fruits of these whisky.
shops. see that men and women are
pershing in these pitfalls The num-
Der of the victims is SO great that it
oycrwhelms me, My brain is burning,
my heart is breaking. The church is
asleep, and the world, too; and they
are huggiug each other. | am weary
with holding in, must cry. would
rather be counted singular in the
Judgment of men than be unfathful in
the Judgment of God.-ReU. DR., AyW0t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

! NY utdIJ gave OuC alCdU lSip NAAClI
heard that. And Miss Winuy? 0, she
had gone governessing with some peo-
pie who were Just off to Canada. and
the ship sailed tomorrow from Liver
pool.
The Liverpool express never seemed
to crawl so slowly before. | got there
to find every berth taken on board the
Antarctic, and the captain raging at
the non-appearance of two of the crew.
| Without seconds pause | offered for
one of the vacant places. | was as
strong as horse. and active enough,
and though the Captain eyed me rather
| aSkarce-I had been to a West End
tailor on my way through LOndOn-he
Wa; too glad to get me to ask any ques-
tons. SO | sailed on the ship with my
| girl little as she knew it. | saw her
| the first day or two, looking pale and
| thin that she was like the ghost of her
old self, and yet swceter to my eyes
| than ever before. The children she had
charge of were troublesome little crea-
lures, who worried and badgered her
| till | longed to cuff them well. But
there was a gentleness and patience
| about her quite new to my idea of Miss
Winny, and | only loved her the more
| for it. After the second day out the
wind freshened, and | saw no more of
| her.
We had an awful passage. 1t was
lale I'D NoVemoer-a an carry winter ana
! the cold was intense. 1t blew one con-
| tinuous gale, and some of our machin-
cry was broken-the screw damaged
and we could not keep our course As
| lontio wa o-of NOVA and moro ont Of
onr bcorings and ot Iosf tha fogs toIJ
us we wnre somewhere off the Ranks If
Newfoundland bnt where no ono yyag
ouite surn If seemed to mo if had al
hapncnnd before or had road if ~,
dreamed it. At all events if was LordIv
\ SUNRISE to me whom on tho tontb
nioht inst after midnfoht fine awfnI
crash and shock took place sensation
which no one who has not felt it can
imagine in the least-and we knew that
the Antarctic had struck.
It's a fearful thing. if YOU come TO
think of it. a great steamer filled with
living souls in the full flow of life and
health, and in one moment the call
coming to each of them to die. Before
you could nave struck match the
whole ship wasin panic-cries. terror.
confusion, agonv-O. it was awful! |
trust never to see such scene aqain.
made my way through it all as if / had
neither ewes nor ears and rot to the
stateroom | had lone ago found out was
the one which belonged to NV oirl.
knocked at the door with heavy hand:
even at that awful moment a thrill ran
through me at the thought of standing
face to face with her again.
"Wlnny." | cried, come out! make
haste there is not a moment to lose"
The door opened as spoke, and she
stood Just within, ready dressed, even
to her little black hat. The cabin light
had been left burning, by the doctors
orders, and it fell full on me as | stood
there in my sailors Jersey and cap.
wondered if she would know me.
forgot the danger we were in-forgot
that death was waiting close at hand
forgot that the world held any one but
just her and me.
Dick" she cried-"O, Dick, Dick"
and she fell forward in dead faint on
my shoulder.
All my senses came back then; and
fhrnyIy bor O,-o,, INV ~, ~ I'd nov, Co.. 4l,o
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

The tribal government of the Cher
okees is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an upper
and lower house of representatives.
The judiciary is also elective, and Grim.
mails are punished after the manner of
the whites chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

The last blow to the roller-skating
rink has been given by Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
enlarges the feet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

A deaf mute was recently ordained
a clergyman of the Church Of England
by the Archbishop of Canterbury. ~.
Milford chronicle., 1885-02-20
About BEING Good.

u0or, ON suntbin' bout bein' good
,,,,,;cb rows fifty cents on de doliali,
wa Wiz Brother Gardner, of the Lime Am
Club. as the triangle sounded. l cou5o ~
name a thousand instances |nar .,ao oo
Good hev bin puriected in Jst as s'ia1se
9avs rs dis one. De odder maWhIn "a ~
T az ayose . from de couch in which 5ao
a,ont ont ss gonnd as a bar'l o pork, ! as
IiJerad tracks all around de house IN uS
srow While 1 slept an dreamed u
IO on0eis q burglar sneaked up an ioce9
In da kitchen doah. Muffin prevented
IN from enterin' my bedroom an IoD'
In, In; Too Of e6 in cash, hoss plstol, a
i1-rr mower an a duebill on leaulI
hardware store for sixty-seven cents ~
roreed ,,1',ls in his mad career. DE ole Wo, w.
p,,17 i,,or7 ,1rohablv turned ober IN bed u.s.
den. an de follow slid out INTO &c eui'''
darkness. ,,- 7;sLi,,er do
If am better to do good dan to go aLouIi \,
Ike n raein' lion. In de fust place, u,
GOOD man hain't afraid to sass back Oh !
8UyIeeceman. He doan' hev to DO an
9odoin' or hidin'. When anyDoui
GnoSIrs ON his doah ne am ready 10 ye3l
sCSnoe in = instead of hidln' under q !
hed No officer lays for HIM on q d
eo'ner, an nobody frows brleko"IS d
him as he passes de alley. l. uood-
at am my advice to you to be go2}H5z1 % !
,oi5iin' Good Doan' be so good dat all d
tro,,,ns in town will feel at liberty,
roost ON your front steps O nlgh's, p'
be good 'nuff to gin Providence iiTa Gn"nD VIZ
, to watch your wood-piies "hiIe y
! sIunber. ."-DetrOit Free Press
Milford chronicle., 1885-02-20
How a Goose is Fatted.

The foie gras, which makes the ceie' 9:
brafed nate, is nothing more than q qls-
case that of a large liver-hke an In,
dian official. The birds are imprisoned
1,',I IN small apartments where they cannot
IN tnrn only room being left for taer
loads and tails to protrude. Before
them is a trough, filed with water r., IN
wbicb ,li powdered charcoal is mixed. Inc
birds are literally stuffed with food 9i
1vbicb Tili, maize. moistened with poppy oil,
is The base. Pending the last day w. OF d
Sotfino ali liquid il suppressed. Ine
,,,yesI6 nrese5ce Of a ball Of fat undeT eacn i
WING indicates that the psychologist
NON ent has arrived-to extract tne !,
liver The bird is then so obese that y y
respires with the greatest difficulty. l.
IS killed; a goose weighing twenty
y rounds will yield six pounds OF tat anS an,
Z liver of two or two ana ohe,nal al
nounds. The price Of liver--that @ es
ieemed luxury in old Rome by C9esa 39
sSt and tCrispiusEvaries from two to thre.
fnT Sroncs S- This special liver fattening in
creases the size of that organ tVe-ioio
Milford chronicle., 1885-02-20
Sharp Scheme Of a Swlndler.

The ST. Joseph (AIo.) Gazette says:
, nan nmT % has lust been captured in DeKalo
conni9 ma9 nps psaotoing new and P9Sai2E %oBs9
n5i which may be described as follows; S:o5 Be, =
fore re- leaving one town he addressed tha
iot otter to himself at the post office oi tae
town toHn at which he next wished to opeLa1e Sa.s
in in The letter would purport to Del De Ifo5m e90
his son and usually incloseq IS hogDs D9S family I
bill; in it he told a lO5 sbS oi bo9e DUS that he
ma1i5is, a,,Id soon 6nd employment and refer
fo %Otle tbe money mon inclosed The letter was was
soT eIse in the Office who was asked ed. to FTaa TSd
it. he being very poor scholaIi sI5a .5or IIe re
pnIs5 pppa:5ted to change the bogus bill or Z Z
Introduce him to some one that IaooSoI Go9iu
and AM the swindler generally sueceeoeu'
Milford chronicle., 1885-02-20

Mr.. James Brunt, Deputy sherln
Baltimore, Maryland, writes; In .s- an eA-
nerience Of thirty years I have become t
ACQUAINTED with numerous -calleu calico
snfc,fcs I for coughs and colds, but never We
before experienced such surprising EN-, ein
cecv coc9 os was obtained from the Red Stm
@ Co1gh Cure. I was attacked with
severe S deprecated cold and cough.
snffpred for some time, and tried thli
yainablo remedy. was completely
cured by the use Of one bottle.