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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18
CASTOR Foot-Gear.

Hundreds of men, women and even
boys, in New York, are engaged in the
business of collecting old boots and
and shoes, which they take to the wall
paper factories, where they receive
from five to fifteen cents per pair. Calf
skin boots bring the best price, while
figure. These boots and shoes are first
soaked in several waters to get the dirt
off, and then the nails and threads are
removed and the leather is ground up
into a fine pulp. Then it is pressed
upon Il ground of heavy paper, which
is to be used in the manufacture of
embossed leather" Fashionable peo-
pie think they are going away back to
medieval times when they have the
walls of their libraries and dining
rooms covered with this, and remain in
blissful ignorance that the shoes and
boots which their neighborS threw into
the ash-barrel a month before now
adorn their walls and hang on the
screens which protect their eyes from
the fire. Carriage-top makers and
book-binderS also buy old boots and
shoes the former to make leather-tops
for carriages and the latter leather
bindings for the cheaper grades of
books. The new style of leather frames
with leather mats in them are entirely
made of the cast-olf covering of our
feet Utica HCrdld.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
THE ROGUlSH PUCK.

''Do believe in fairies? Yes, Master Hazel
eyes"
And the roguish face grew scornful and grave
with great surprise.
''Wel, don't" said he, firmly am tell you
why-because
I've never seen single one, not even Santa
Claus
Said I to this small skeptlc, aged seven:
Much more than Master Shakespeare did, who
lived ~ long ago.
'''For he believed in fairies-Peas-b blossom,
Mustard-seCd,
Oberon and Queen THania-and so do /, in
deed
wondrous luck;
In airy, dainty Ariel, but most of all in Puck.
SIN Puck, the rogue, the rascal, the naughty,
To torment every living thing is his supreme
delight.
-''He's always lurking near us, some naughty
trick to play;
1 come across the traces of his mischief every
day"
what here? You're joking with me-" cried
Master Hazel.eycs.
You just are talking nonsense" And he
looked severe and wise.
''Who else would throw my scissors" l asked,
down in the well!
And who would thrust poor pussy's feet each
in a walnut SHELF
To scare mamma and auntie, at nine o'clock
at night!
''Who ate the floating island from off the
cuStard sea,
When all the aunts and uncles were coming
here to tea!
''Who was it pulled the needles out with a
single jerk,
And left all those dropped stitches in grand
mas knitting work."
BY this time Master Hazeluyes had very
sober grown,
AS I wished that Puck, the rascal would let
us all alone;
And said that he was cruel, and-wretched,
heartCSS Sprite-
Delighted to set all things wrong but never
made them right.
A fairy whom no one could love, for twas his
only care
To frighten us, and bother US, and vex us
everywhere.
'Please stop" And Master Hazei.eyes
turned red as red could be.
And then, forgetting grammar, said: at ism t
Puck; it's me
you're talking of. know it is. Do stop. l
wish you would.
I'm sorry that l acted so-I'm going to be
good
81 didn't mean to be so bad, and trouble
every one;
But forgot, and eve,Uhng and then it was
such fun!
''And you pretended it was Puck But that's
just what | say
There isn't any Puck at all, nor fairies any
way"
So answered Master Hazel-eyes, whom could
not COnVinCG;
And as for Puck, the rascal, l haven't seen
him since.
But in his stead brownie comes, who, to my
great surprise,
Is always kind and helpful, and he looks like
HaZel-eyes
-EieGnOr A. Hunt r, in Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18
EDWIN M. STANTON.
Sw His Life Was Believed to Have
Been Saved.

Sw His Life Was Believed to Have
Been Saved.
10 General Grant, in his biography. re-
2. to meeting at Louisville with Ed
Win M. Stanton, when the Secretary of
war had such cold that Grant expect
ed him to die. Ex-senator Learned, of
massachusetts,, relates the sequel of that
meeting in an interesting way. Mr..
Learned was at that time President of
the Ohio q Mississippi Railroad. When
stanton left Louisville he went to JEFF
1ersonville on his way to indianapolis.
lie was met there by Mr. Learned, who
had gone there to see about the trans
portation of troops. A car was set aside
1or the Secretary of War. 1t had been
used by troops and was somewhat filthy.
Inc hose was turned on to its floors,
ana 1t underwent a thorough scrubbing.
In the big stoves at either end huge fires
were built, 1t was bitter cold weather,
and the car was long time getting
comfortable temperature. Mr. Stanton,
General Arson Stager (since dead), and
MIR. Learned and his wife occupied the
car. Mr.. Learned says that he never
saw man travelling in worse condition
than Stanton, who had congestion
that was rapidly closing in on him with
q 9eath-grip. He went over and said
10 Stanton: "Mr. Secretary, | presume
as head of the War Department and
CHEZ of its allopathic medical branch,
you would not feel at liberty to accept
relief outsde?''
81 don't understand, said Stanton.
well, I've been a homeopathic for
twenty years, and [ know you are Il sick
man. If you will permit me, | think
my wife has her package of medicines
along and that can prescribe for your
relief
what would lou give me?'
81 think you should have stibium."
''What is that?'
The first preparation of tartar
emetic."
Then the Senator told the story of
old DR.. Grey, who always prescribed
| stibium, and had once said he expected
to have Inscribed on his tombstone,
HE prescribed stibium and died. "
Stanton said: 81 don't know about
stibium, but | think tartar emetic would
do me good" Mr.. Learned gave him
doses every ten minutes, finally length
ening the doses to half an hour At
Seymour Mr., Stanton was much re-
lieved, but begged Mr.. Learned to 90
on to indianapolis, Just before reach
ing that city ne got dispatch which
he told the Senator required his pres
ence at Washington as soon as he could
get there. Mr.. Learned insisted that
he would endanger his life by attempt
ing the trip in his condition. Human
life is nothing in times like these" was
Stanton's response. He asked for the
bottle of stibium and declared his in
tention of going on to the Capital. The
bottle was given to General Stager with
instructions to lengthen the periods OF
doses to two hours unless the congestion
should grow worse, when they were to
be shortened. Stanton went on to
Washington under this treatment and
recovered. Months afterwards he told
Mr.. Learned that he considered himself
indebted to Mrs. Learned's homeopathic
medicine case for his life. Chicago
| Tribune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18
VICTOR HUGO.
How He Would Have Punished Marshal
BaZaine.


At Victor Hugos house one evening
the question of capital punishment was
discussed, anent the Communication of
the sentence of Bazaine into perpetual
imprisonment Several politicians who
were present blamed this Communication
ard maintained that no one had ever
better deserved death than Bazaine.
NO" said Hugo, Il would not have
loaded chassepots for him; but if | had
been President of the Council of War.
this is what | should have done: should
have convoked to the Champ de Mars
the National Assembly, all the troops
of Paris, all the people; and there in the
presence of that crowd, in presence of
that army, in presence of the represent
atives of the nation, | should have had
Bazaine brought forward, dressed in all
the insignia of a marshal of France.
Then the President of the Assembly
would have read aloud the Judgment
declaring Bazaine traitor to his cOun-
try, and condemning him to degrade
ton. Then the senior subaltern officer
would have torn off his crosses, broken
his sword, trampled his epaulcttcs I'M
der foot, and, the ceremony over, would
have said to the degraded man: Now,
Monsieur Bazaine, 90! you are frccn y
No one can deny the grandeur Of this
conception of moral and exemplary
chastisement.-Pdrjs U0r1sjll3 Nc@3.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18
THE SUN.
A Scientist Who Believes That Its Color
Is Blue.

Is Blue.
1t may be asked, What suggested the
idea that the sun may be blue rather
than any other color? My own atten-
ton was first directed this way many
years ago, when measuring the heat
and light from different parts of the
suns disk. 1t is known that the sun
has an atmosphere of its own, which
tempers its heat, and by cutting off
certain radiations, and not others. pro-
duccS the spectral lines we are all
familiar with. These lines we custom
arily study in connection with the abb
sOrbing vapors of sodium, iron, and so
forth, which produce them; but my own
attention was particularly given to the
regions Of absorption, or to the color it
caused, and found that the suns body
must be deeply blush, and that it would
shed blue light, except for this appar-
emily colorleSs solar atmosphere, which
really plays the part of n reddish veil,
letting little of the blue appear on the
center of the suns disk where it is thin
nest, and staining the edge red. so that
to delicate tests the center of the sun is
a pale aquamarne, and its edge a gar
net. The effect l found to be so i'm
poreant that, if this all but invisible
solar atmosphere We're diminished by
but third part, the temperature of the
British Islands would rise above that of
the torrid zone; and this directed my
attention to the great practical impor-
tance of studying the action of our own
terrestrial atmosphere on the sun, and
the antecedent probability that our own
air was also and independently making
the really blue sun into an apparently
white one.-PrQt Langley, IN Science,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18
A LOST BOY.
A Fruitless Search and an Accidental Dis
Coyery.


cOvery.
Such lovely spring day! But dear
Aunt Molly, in her country home, was
among the clouds. Not that she was
at all Lifted up from this earthly sphere.
Oh! no. She was in the midst of as
dreadful fright and worry as ever had
darkened her sweet country home.
Tommy, that nephew of hers, always
into some unheard of exploration--that
child Of nine summers, who had been
left in Aunt Molly's care while his
parents took trip to Europe-this i'm
portant individual had been missing
ever since morning, and now it was long
past dinner-time. Wasn't that enough
to put conscientious maiden lady, who
knew but little about children; into the
clouds of despair?
IF that child ever gets safe into his
mother arms | never will take care of
another while my name is Mary Cheese
boro," said Aunt Molly
They searched the house, she and the
hired man, who had always been right
foolish over Tommy, giving him many
a ride on the great garden gate lux
Nl.N cbl 4Stl1 lOt DiNliCl lllC y Oullllul pop
ulation of Hawleyville. The village
doctor started in the search with his
gig; Johnny Smith whirled away on his
bicycle; Mary Perry promenaded off on
her roller skates; Felix Morton gal
Hoped forth on his pony; and, in fact,
the whole village was in arms, or more
literally, on its legs, in search of the
lost boy.
Aunt Molly wisely kept a plate of hot
dinner for the hopeful result, and then
sat down and cried heartily, assisted in
her lachrymose condition by loud bursts
of sorrow from the hired girl, who now
and then wiped her tears with her apron
and comforted Aunt Molly with such
remarks of the departed as these:
Sure, but he was beautiful b'y We
niver shall see the loiks of him again.
Little did think this mornin' when he
was attn his bread and milk that l
should niver see his swate face again.
Bridget says he, will We give me
some cookies, phase, to put in my
pocket; for ye know, good Bridget, /
might mate a hungry little by Och!
the dear child-niver. to have a
funeralr and at this, an added mis-
fortune in the lrishwCman's eyes, she
walled afresh.
By the time the doctors gig, Mary
Perry's skates, Felix's pony and the
other messengers had returned without
any news, anxiety was written more
deeply on every countenance. Aunt
Molly thought of the gypsies who had
gone by yesterday, and shuddered as
she remembered the long look that one
of the men had given Tommy, What
if Poor Aunt Mollvl
She went out again to the great barn,
hardly knowing why, but feeling that
she must continue the search some
where, although they had hunted the
barn over a dozen times, and shouted
Tommy" in dozen different keys
all around it. Peering through her
glasses in every direction, she caught n
glimpse of some bright feathers up in
the hay-loft.
''Now, | wonder" she said, indig-
nantly, ''what on airth that old hen is
pryin' around up in the hay-loft for;
she amt got no business up there-iust
as inquisitive as the roosters are, if l
must say-pryin' round as though she d
got family to bring up. And what n
time she's a maIing-acts ii she's
caught fast to somethin'."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18
When She Will, She Will:

81 thought only few men were up
to the winter bathing mark" observed
the reporter. The bath man laughed
scornfully. "When lady. makes up
her mind to battle every day in the
year he said, nothing can stand her
off. I've seen men who woAld come
here on cold mornings undress and walk
to the waters edge, but the minute it
touched their toes, race back and get
into their clothes again. Not so with
women. When they are in bathing
trim it means bathing and nothing short
of a tidal wave will stop them. Here
comes the daisy bather of the lot. Eve
seen that girl here when it was so cold
that to even look at the water used to
give me the shakes. Now, what do you
think first induced that lady to battle
all the time? For the pure love of iii?
No, sir. She was getting too fat She
tried everything-dieting exercise and
medicine, but nothing would take her
down. At last she dropped on sea bath
ing, and it fetched her She is nice
and slim now, though plump enough,
but when she came here first she was
as fat as butter ball. | wish all the
fat ladies in the city would have her
courage, and our winter business would
be worth something. "-S0R Francisco
AHd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18

Judge Laporte, of Huntington, Pa,
is of the same stuff the ancients found
in their heroes. His son, accused of
numbering a friend, fled to his father
for refuge and there confessed TO the
killing. The old Judge told the boy he
had sworn to obey the constitution and
enforce the law, and taking him in his
buggy to the county seat delivered him
oyerto Justice. -Miad&lphia Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18

The die from which the Franklin
cent was made is now being used as a
paper-weight in a hardware house il
New Haven. -HaTg0rd Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18

An effort will be made to secure Il
statue of eX-President Pierce. to be
placed in the Capitol Park at Concord,
n. H., as a companion to that OF Daniel
Webster. Boston Post. -.-.,f
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

An Arizona man has stopped TAN
ing an agricultural paper. He wrotl
to the editor asking how to get rid a
guats. The answer came in the ma
issue of the paper, kill them. NV
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-26
A Persian Statue.

There is at present on view in the
Vienna Museum small bronze statue
which is supposed to be relic of old
Persian times. 1t represents a msn
astride q kneeling bull. both fore and
hind legs Of the bull being quite under
the body. Both man and bull are deeply
carved. The style of ornament and the
stiff drapery present striking likeness
to the extsnt memorials of Assyrian art.
Usually. in old Asiatic metal work. we
find unmistakable signs that gold plates
were hammered on to the bronze or
other metallic core. But in the present
instance the evidences point out that
malachite-greeD patina was employed as
the covering, instead of gold. What
the group was intended to represent
can not even be cOnjectured, but it seems
to be in any case \ monument from the
time Ut the Ach9menide Kings-N Y
Post
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-26
HOW TO ouELL MoBs.

Stern Resolution ut the Very beginning
the Best Way 70 Control Excited
Crowds.
Mobs are towards at first. Crime
always enervates. They only gain cour-
age as they find that those whose duty
it is to suppress them are themselves
towards. A mob is not to be feared
when it is first aroused. 1t is only Is its
passion for carnage is whetted BY the
taste of blood or its greed for pillage is
gratified that it becomes dangerous.
Upon whomsoever devolves the duty of
suppression, let this be his first effort:
Check at the very beginning; allow no
tumultuOus gatherings; permit no de-
lay; few stern. resOlute words; It
these be not needed, then strike resO-
lutely, boldly; let there be no hesitation;
if necessary, take life at the outset. 1t
will be more merciful to take one life
then than to suffer the mob to take the
lives of many or to he compelled to
sacrifice the innocent with the guilty at
the point of the bayonet or in the dis
charge of musketry or cannon. But
the necessity to take life will not arise
unless there be inactivity and indecision
at the outset on the part of the authors
ties. Before the time shall come when
it will be necessary to use musket ball
or bayonct the opportunity will be
afforded to suppress the riot; perhaps at
the sacrifice of few broken heads or
by the Imprisonment of some of the
leaders. In every large city, in fact in
every city where a police force is em-
ployed, perfect drill should prepare
policemen to meet the exigencies
arising from any tumultuous assemb-
lage of the people; SO that, at q
moments warning. these conservators
of the peace will be ready to act and to
act Understandings and promptly. 1t
will be found that few determined po-
licemen, placed in the field at mo-
ment's notice, will prove one of the best
and most direct methods of quelling
mob. These, by flank, or in rear, or in
front, if necessary, and so employ them
selves and their clubs that almost before
the mob would know what was impel-
ling them they would be driven from tho
field of action. This drilling, advised
~ uC uSCu Will PoiCCuCu' S"u "iSO 10
used to excellent advantage with the
militia of every State, SO that in case of
emergency they can be used with as
good effect as policemen. 1t has often
been found, in the history of riots in this
country, that when the sOldiery have
been brought in the face of Il mob even
the officers were SO unaquaintei with
their duties as to evince the most ridicu-
lous ignorance of what was required of
them and of their men in the eXigency;
and they and their troops have been
driven ANONYMOUSLY from the field.
They would have known what to do,
without hesitation, had they been in the
face of an enemy; but. surrounded as
they were by a frantic mob, they failed
and for lack of the necessary drilling
Gen. Fitz John Porter, in North Ah.eri-
can ReUieW.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-26
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A university is to be erected at
Athens. Tenn. BY colored people.
1T is stated that not over fifty per
cent of the children in New York attend
school.
California has two separate Presby-
terian churches of Chinese and one of
Japanese.
The New York Baptist City Mission
Society raised and expended in mission
work $4,000 during the year just
passed.-N. Y. Tribune.
When completed the spire of tho
Roman Catholic cathedral in New York
will be 1870 feet in height. and will cost
$4,000.
1t is said that BROOKLYN. so long
known as the City of Churches. now
stands only fifth in the number u
churches relative to population.
Ono thing is certain. the church and
the Sunday-schoOl, all the cOun:ry over,
were never before SO closely Unidentified
as at present.-Sunday School Times.
C-The Baltimore Methodist Protestant
says: 1--WE were not aware until re-
Gently that we have in Philadelphia, at
guess. say 10000 Methodist Protest.
ants in the NJ. E. Church"
-PrOportionally, the Lutheran Church
has increased more rapidly of late than
any other denomination in this country.
One statistician puts the growth at Co.
600 members and 800 congregations
each year. N. y. Times.
OF seven voting men who graduated
from an Eastern college few years
ago, four are teaching school, one is ed
iting q newspaper, one has been elected
to Congress, and one is curve pitcher
for a professional baseball club.-Chi-
cago Times.
Nearly eleven years ago st. Pat
rick's Church, the largest Catholic
/ Church in Connecticut, was destroyed
by fire. A new edifice mas been COM
pleted on the same spot, costing $780,
OOO. The report of the conservation
services states that the altar enclOses =
bone of st. Timothy.
The Minister of Public Instructions
has issued certificates concerning the
public libraries in France, from which
it appears that the Departmental Lii
braries contain four and a half million
volumes, and those of Paris 1.6OO,OOO,
not including 5000 in the hospitals and
100. $50 in the % municipal libraries.
In the public school at Lansdale.
Pa, lad having refused to join the
other pupils in concerted recitation OF
the Lord prayer. the school board de-
cided that, while they would not attempt
to control the conscience of the pupil.
or make him repeat the prayer. lie must
ut least rise and assume a respectful vt
titude while it was in prOgress.-Paita-
delphia Press.
The art school established in Co
lumbus, Ohio, six years ago. has so far
been attended by nearly 1,4OO students.
Mechanics and others, who find it nee
essary to have some knowledge of the
principles of art in their daily work.
have diligently attended the evening
classes in drawing, including freehand.
architectural and machine drawing
Cleveland Leader.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-26
MAGNETIZED WATCHES.
Timepieces That Are Anec, ed by the Moods
of Their Owners.

OF Their Owners.
Some very curious things concerning
watches come under matchmaker s
observation at times. I remember 3
lady who used to bring me her watch
sometimes as often as once week-it
was either too fast or too slow with her;
while it hung up in the shop it ran as
steady as the State House clock. stud
led that watch and one day I
came across something in an
English neurological magazine that
opened my eyes. 1t was SIM
ply little item saying that sometimes
delicately adjusted watches were affect
ed by the temperament of their wearerS
affected by personal magnetism. The
whole thing flashed upon me in mo-
ment The wOman's watch was affect
ed by herself. found out that she was
of a highly nervous temperament, but
would at times suffer from at
tacks of dependency. The watch
only recorded her tempera-
ment. When she was vivacious it went
fast. but when she was in low mood it
went slow. Very often it is impossible
to regulate watch for some men by
keeping the timepiece in the shop.
There is some physical popularity about
the man; it may be his gait, his tempera-
ment. or an excess of bodily electricity.
In these cases l let the man wear the
watch continually. and then regulate it
to his peculiarities. Bodily electricity
is very marked in certain persons. 1
knew young matchmaker in whom it
became so strong that he was obliged to
give up that branch of the trade because
it was found that he magnetized the
delicate hair-springs. - Christian at
Work.