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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
A LABOR SAVER.
irne Interesting Calculations as to tho
t Value of Household ConVeniences.

time Interesting Calculations as to tho
Value of Household Conveniences.
1T is said of some young genius, with
pofound sympathy for his own trials.
AID good head for figures, that he
calculated the inconvenient location of
the pump and the wood-shed with
reference to the kitchen door, had
caused him, in the performance of his
ariuous duties as the family chore boy,
Z. walk just two hundred and fifty
tree yards day more than was
Necessary, or more than mile week.
Whatever may have been the result to
tie boy, whether good or evil, of this
suoerfiuous exercise, the subject of
cclVenient arrangements around the
Dim and house is one well worthy
II. attention of older heads. The little
S. ing of few minutes of mans
I'll e, ten or twenty times daily,
amounts to quite a total at the
eni of three hundred and sixty-fve
DAYS, and if the loss of time be only half
All hour day, the total loss at the end
OF he year will be over eighteen days
work for the twelve months. How many
meo there are who would be much hor-
rlflad at the idea that they should pay,
wages to any one for eighteen idle days,
who are practically doing the same
thing by allowing no time to think and
plan, so as to prevent the waste of any
o GSiits time, such as taking twenty steps
55weuS5 times a day where two would
S11ff1ee and naoaScita tinO constant in
terruptions in what should be a steady
job of work, needless of the excellent
adage, ten minutes interruption
wastes twenty minutes time" In the
disposition of buildings, their interior
fittings, feeding arrangements, and so
forth, little care and forethought will
save the tine of every man employed
about the place, aggregating, as may
well be imagined, in the course of a
year, the equivalent of one mans time
for two or three months.-Nationat
Lice Stock Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
MARK TWAIN AT WORK.


His One Solacc-OverwheImin Testimony
Against Brand of Cigars.
Mr.. Clemens divides his year into two
parts, which are not exactly for work
and play respectively, but which differ
very much in the nature of their occu-
pations. From the LIST of June to the
middle of September the whole family,
consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens and
their three little girls, are at Elmira, N.
Y. They live there with Mr.. T. w.
Crane, whose wife is a sister of Mrs.
Clemens. A summer-house has been
built for Mr.. Clemens within the Crane
grounds, on a high peak, which stands
six hundred feet above the valley which
lies spread out before it. The house is
built almost entirely of glass, and is
modelled exactly on the plan of a Mis-
sissippi steamboats, pilot-house. Here,
shut off from all outside communica-
lions, Mr.. Clemens does the hard work
of the year. or rather the combining and
engrossing work of writing, which de.
mands continuous application day after
day. The lofty work-room is some dis.
tance from the house. He goes there
every morning about half-past eight
and stays there until called to dinner by
the blowing of horn about five o'clock.
He takes no lunch or noon meal of any
sort, and works without eating,
while the rules are imperative not
to disturb him during this working
period. His only recreationis his cigar.
He is an inveterate smoker, and smokes
constantly while at work, and, indeed, all
the time from half-past eight in the
morning to half-past ten at night, stop.
ping only when at his meals. A cigar
lasts him about forty minutes, now that
he has reduced to an exact science the
art of reducing the weed to ashes. Sc
he smokes from fifteen to twenty cigars
day. Some time ago he was persuaded
to stop the practice, and actually went
year or more without tobacco, but he
found himself unable to carry along i'm
portant work which he undertook, and
it was not until he resumed smoking
that he could do it. Since then his
faith in his cigar has not wavered. Like
QUIET AMERICAN SlnOheES, MT. Clellcus
is unceasing in his search for a really
satisfactory cigar at a really satisfac-
tory price, and, first and last, has gath.
cred a good deal of experience in the
nursuit. 1t is related that, having en-.
tertained party of gentlemen one win
ter evening in Hartford, he gave tC
each Just before they left the house one
of a new sort of cigar that he was try
ing to believe was the object of his
search. He made each guest light ii
before starting, The next morning he
found all that he had given away lying
on the snow beside the pathway across
his lawn. Each smoker had been po
lite enough to smoke until he got out Of
the house, but every one gaining his
liberty had yielded to the instinct Of
self-preservation and tossed the cigar
away, forgetting that it would be found
there by daylight. The testimony Of
the next morning was overwhelming
and the verdict against the new brand
was accepted, Critic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
a COMPARISON.

Saloon Railroad Receipts-More Money
for Poison Than for Railroad Trans
portatiOn.
The Arg0naut, of San Francisco, takes
up new line of comparative statistics.
1t is not a Temperance paper, but de-
voted to the social, educational, literary
and business world, and its conclusions
will be the more attractive to persons
who discount whatever appears in the
organs of the Temperance reform. The
railroad and saloon earnings Of two sec
tions of the country, viz, the New En-
gland and the Pacific group Of States,
form the basis for the Argondut'S COM
parisOn: 1t finds the entire gross earn
ings of the railway corporations of the
New England States to have been, in
1882, $l56, 1873, 499; in the Pacific group,
the total earnings of all the roads were
S41, 1854 $50. The total number of miles
operated in the first is stated at b,1S6,
and in the second, 5,Sl2.
The total number of licensed gin
mills operated in the New England
group for the year ending June 80,
1000, dcCOTulup 10 Iue report OF Ine
Commissioners of Internal Revenue,
was 16, 239. The number operated in
the Pacific group was 10, 1888 The Ar
gOndUt, then proceeding on the dictum
of the Brewers Congress, and various
associations of liquor dealers, that
places the average receipts of the sa-
looms throughout the country at five
thousand dollars each, estimates the
gross earnings of the saloons in the
New England group at S8l, 1873, 900; and
in the Pacific group, $75, $40, 600; and
concludes that Tin the New England
States, therefore, the saloon-keepers
squeezed 1926, 100000 more out of the
people for poison than the railroads did
for carrying freight and passengers, and
in the Pacific States they succeeded in
getting S34, 100000 more.
The number of inhabitants in the
New England group of States-census
of l880-is 400, 438, and the cost per
head, including women and children,
for intoxicating liquor is $40. In the
Pacific group, the number of people is
l,479,615, and the average cost of
whisky to them is $51 per head.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
Satisfy.
Something About Vegetable Which ia
Not Cultivated as Extensively as II
Should BE.

Something About Vegetable Which ia
Not Cultivated as Extensively as II
Should BE.
Satisfy, or oyster plant, which is
hardy and may remain in the ground
all the winter, is one of the incest and
best vegetables we have, and should be.
come better known. If they are left in
the ground, they will be good next
spring, or at any time that thaw per-
mits of pulling them up. The difficulty
with them is that everybody does not
know how to prepare them. There are
several methods. When first exposed
to the atmosphere they are milky, the
juice changing to brown color, and
they should, therefore, be quickly
scraped, removing the skin, and dropped
into water. Now boil them in water to
which little salt has been added, first
slicing them into little round slices by
cutting across them. When tender pour
off the water, and add sufficient milk to
cover the pieces, a lump of butter, and
enough flour to thicken them, seasoning
with pepper They are done when the
butter is melted, the milk boils and
mass sufficiently thickened to serve. To
use them in imitation of fried oysters,
cut them crosswise as before, and boil
them until tender. Drain and mix with
batter and fry in hot lard Do them the
same way, except mash the pieces fine
and mix with eggs and flour to a paste,
and fry them as fritters, or add flour
enough to fry them as balls. Excellent
imitation oyster soup may be made by
slicing them crosswise, cooking as be-
fore, and then boiling them in milk. 1t
is always best to first cook them in salt
and water before preparing them for
other purposes. -F'arm, Field and
StOcRcmdn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
A SERVlCEABLE GOOSE.
The Camden Which was Worth More Dead
Than Alive.

Dwellers along the Willowemoc, in
the Beaverkill region, have lost much
poultry from their premises recently.
Two weeks ago William Shoemaker
found one of his geese dead in his barn
yard. Marks on it showed that it had
been killed by weasel Using the
goose for bait, shoemaker set trap
for future intruders. The first night he
caught weasel, The bait was still
good, and the next night a skunk fell
into the trap. The goose still held its
own, and Shoemaker set it again
Nothing was canght that night. In the
forenoon of the third day, however, two
large henhawks fell victims to the tempt
ing bait, and in the afternoon third
swooped down upon it and staid. The
fourth night the goose did service in the
trap it enticed a red fox to the trap S
close embrace. The fifth night another
skunk took the chances on getting away
with the goose, and was added to
Schoonmaker's collection. Then a
neighbours dog was weak enough to cast
longing eye on the goose, and Schoon-
maker had to call his owner over to take
him out OF the trap.
The sixth night tho trap disappeared,
but the goose, looking as though some
thing had handled it roughly, was still
on the premises. After a hunt in the
adjoining woods the trap was found in
tree, hanging to the foreleg of a
wildcat A load of buckshot recovered
the trap and increased Schoonmaker' S
stock of fur by one wildcat skin. The
seventh night the goose was still in
condition to take its old place in the
trap. That night it captured one of
Schoonmaker's own cats. The next
night it took in neighbours cat. The
ninth night one of Schoonmaker's dogs
so far forgot himself as to step up and
daily with the alluring bait, and when
his owner went out in the morning the
trap held Towser by the jaw. Then
Schoonmaker made up his mind that
the goose was abundantly avenged, and
he cast it in the sty to the pigs. The
goose was gander.
ut was kind of that weasel said
Schoonmaker, Ito select that goose.
might have killed it for Christmas and
invited lot of friends to dinner, and
wouldn't have felt cheap when l went
to carve it?"-PbilodeIDhiG Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
THE TWO MEMBRANES.
Important Parts In the Human Economy
Played by the Mucous and Serious Mem
branes.

Important Parts In the Human Economy
Played by the Mucous and Serious Mem
branes.
Two of the membranes of the body
are of pre-eminent Importance from
their extent, their work, and the dis.
eases to which they give rise. Their
chief office is to secrete fluids for the
purpose of keeping the parts soft, lessen.
ing friction, and aiding in the passage
of substances.
One is the mucous membrane, the
other is the SerOuS. The former lines
every cavity of the body that has an ex.
ternal outlet-the nostrils, mouth, gul.
let, stomach, the ducts of the liver, the
intestines, bladder, etc, and the bron,
chial tubes of the lungs.
The Serious membrane lines the cavi+
ties of the chest and of the abdomen,
and also covers-as the skin does tAa
body-the brain, heart, lungs, liver, etc.
1t also forms q sac around the heart,
which it encloses, and is called the peri
cardium. 1t moreover lines the heart
within, where it is called the endocar-
dunn.
1t may aid the memory of some Of
our readers if we add that endo means
within" and peri around -
The brain also is enclosed with a
second Serious membrane, called the
arachnoid. AS the brain substance ex-
tends down through the spinal column,
so the investing Serious membrane fol-
lows it. A similar membrane lines the
smooth surfaces of the joints.
Coryza-a 'cold in the head'--is an
Inflammation of the mucous membrane
of the nostrils; pharyngitis is an in
fammation of the same membrane in
the back part of the mouth; laryngitis,
in the larynx, or vocal box; bronchitis,
in the bronchial tubes.
So, too, the mucous membrane of the
stomach may be intlamed, causing a
large secretion of "phlegm"-mucous.
Inflammation of the mucous membrane
of the liver or gall ducts prevents the
flow of bile, causing most agonizing
pain and jaundice. A similar inham-
nation in the intestines gives inhamma-
ton of the bowels, or enteritis.
An Inflammation of the Serious men,
brane of the brain causes at first de-
lirium, and then stupor, by the pressure
of the accumulated fluid. This is cere-
5raI meningitis. When the inflamma-
ton affects the membrane of the brain
and the spinal cord, it is cerebro-SpinGl
meningitis PeurjSy is Inflammation of
the Serious membrane of the chest and
lungs; pericarditjS, that of the heart
sac; endOcarditiS, that of the inner
membrane of the heart; perjt0nitiS, that
of the abdomen Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
A STINGY MAN.


Reasons Why Colonel BoneIy Was Ac-
counted "ClOse."
~ don't mind man being econom-
ical, said Colonel Bonely, but | do
despise to see stinginess. You all know
John Nutwing that used to sell
soda water and grumbled when GUS
toner insisted in taking it with syrup.
Well, he was the stingiest man | ever
saw. Why, sir, he was so stingy that
he used to let his meat spoil. Said he
couldn't afford to eat it while it was so
valuable. One day cart came along
with barrel of water. Just as it was
passing Johns gate, the thing broke
down. Well, sir, John went out, caught
half the water and poured it in his well.
Said that he couldn't afford to see any
thing wasted. o, yes, he was close. l
was with him when he died. He was
perfectly willing, though he dreaded
the expense of having a grave dug.
Colonel said he, addressing me in
that anxious way that had become one
of his characteristics, cant you git
some of the boys and induce 'em to dig
the grave as u matter of accommoda-
'tionp did intend to be buried under
the pear tree, but the land is so valua-
BILE can't afford it. You don't seem
to be very sick, said l, Perhaps you
may recover %, no, I'm gone he
replied. Il took poison Just before send
ing for you. | decided that l could not
afford to live. It's too expensive. After
fellow dies, you know, and gets
settled down. the expense ceases. That
confounded druggist cheated me. l had
to pay five cents for the poison. He
should have given me two doses for that
sum- He was so stingy that he died
without struggle. Taking it all into
consideration, John was the closest man
l ever saw "--ArbdnSdlO Traveller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
HIDDEN BY THE BAIT.
Satan's Cunning Devices for Catching
Boys and Men.

Satan's Cunning Devices for Catching
Boys and Men.
He WIS seated by the little wooden
bridge, as l came near, his rod and
tishing-tackle lying on the grass beside
him. He was so intent with his hook
and his bait that he did not look up till
/ said:
''Ho, no! Tommy Tucker. So you're
playing truant to-day-are your"
Tommy Tucker looked up, his bright
eyes flashing. mo" he said, ''we
have holiday to-day; and 1 came
down to the brook to try my luck at
fishing. But seer' he went on, holding
up his workmanship with pride; isn't
that cunning way to put the bait on?
Won't that fetch emp
took the hook in my hand, and ex-'
amined it gravely. "Why" 1 said,
''you have covered the hook with bait,
so that you can't see a bit of it! You
didn't need to do that-did youp"
Tommy Tucker looked very much
as if he doubted my sanity.
"Of course | did, he sad. 'Fishes
know too much to bite, if they see the
point of the hook sticking out of the
bait. You don't know how cunning
you must be to catch fiji"
The little fisher looked very wise as
he said this, and stretched out his hand
to take the hook from me.
"Ah, Tommy Tuckern' | said, "there
are hooks for men as well as hooks for
fishes; and the hook is always hidden
by the bait. There isn't any fisher
half so cunning a old Satan; he knows
how to dress up the hook with a bait so
pleasant to see that foolish people rush
right at it, and get caught on the hook
before they know of it. Do you think
Satan would show the hook at first?
Not a bit of it. He just bangles the
bait before peoples eyes; and some re-
member that there's a hook behind the
bait, and keep away, and others seize it
grcedily and get caught.
just then a middle-aged man shufflcd
along the bridge, and went off in the
direction of the village.
He's going to the saloon;" said
Tommy Tucker. & Is that the kind of
bait that you mean, Mr. EarlstonP'
L CS, SiIV' OiidI OuG Mill
Years ago, Drunken Sam, as you boys
call him, was bright young man at
college. The Devil fshed for him.
The bait he dangled before him was a
life of pleasure. Sam began to be per-
suaded that the Bible was too strict.
He wanted to live while he lived, he
said. So he neglected his books, and
took to drink, and to other wrong
things. Then he felt the hook. He
was expelled from college. And now
you see him, drunkard, making for
the saloon, as if he couldn't live any
where else"
He didn't see the hook or he
wouldn't have taken the bait" said
Tommy Tucker. Then, after pause:
" suppose that bad companions, and
bad books, and everything that draws
people away to wrong, are bits of
Satin's bait. "
Yes" 1 said; land you'll find
lots of Satan's bats dangling before
your eyes, too, if you only keep your
eyes wide enough open to see that they
are Satan's."
I'll lock out for Them" said
Tommy. And when l feel that L
want to snatch at the bait, I'll remem-
Der the hook"
And | said: Right, Tommy Tuck
er!"-ErneSt EarlStOn, IN S. S. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
WHAT 1T COSTS.
The Drink Traffic in England-A Total
Loss to the Nation of Over $500, OOo,-
900 (SI, 900, OOO, OOO) Yearly.

The Drink Traffic in England-A Total
Loss to the Nation of Over G2OO, OOo,-
900 (SI 900, 600, 900 Yearly.
Under the title, "How We Spend Our
Money the leading English Temper
ance Society, the United Kingdom ALI
ance, publishes a summary of facts in
connection with the drink traffic which
demonstrates that British civilization,
in this respect, at all events, is not
worthy of imitation. The document
states:
l. The money spent upon intoXicat-
ing liquors in Great Britain and Ireland
is nearly twice as great as the total
amount paid for bread.
2. We pay nearly twice as much for
Intoxicating liquors as we pay for butter
and cheese.
3. We spend four and half times as
much upon drink as we spend upon
milk.
4. We spend more than five times as
much upon drink as we do upon sugar,
and nearly seven times as much as all
our expenditure upon tea, coffee and
cocoa.
5. We spend more upon drink than
the rent-roll of all the farms and all the
houses in Great Britain and Ireland.
6. We spend about twice as much
upon drink as our total expenditure
upon wooden, cotton and linen.
Z. Beside the enormous expenditure
upon drink, we have to pay poor and
police rates, cost of insanity, crime, va
grancy, accidents, disease, loss of labor,
premature death, etc, giving at the
very least another G10O,000,000, and
making total loss to the nation of
more than E200, 200, 900 yearly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21

The total gross receipts of all the
railroads in the United States for the
year 1882 was $40, 356, ZIG. For the
year ended June 80, 1888, the number
of saloons licensed was 195,869, and
their gross earnings, according to the
best authority, was 1919, 345, 900; show
ing a difference in favor of the saloons
against the railroads of $208, 9S8, 284.-
Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21

Going hungry to bed is poor bust
ness for dyspeptic if he can command
fresh air in sleeping room, by himself,
and can get the food that always salts
fies his reasonable appetite. That ought
to make a man sleep as all animals
sleep when they are well fed. People
with weak digestons might better go to
bed without food, perhaps, than risk
late suppers in crowded rooms, and food
which often distresses them.
Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21

"A romantic young waiter-girl at a
hotel in Ontario, Canada, came near
losing her life the other day by trying a
foolish experiment. She had heard an
old saying that any girl who swallowed
a raw chickens heart would have for
husband the first male person she
shook hands with, and, believing the
proverb, attempted to swallow chick
ems raw heart, but failed The heart
stuck in her throat and would not move
either way, down or up. A doctor was
called in and arrived only in season to
save the deluded girl from an untimely
death by choking,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21

--Nevada's Governor found some of
his wife's diamonds few days since in
tin box among some rubbish. The
jewels were supposed to have been stolen
wears ago CHICAGO Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21

When Jimpkins got married for the
fourth time, and his friends leased him
about it, he said he couldn't help it. as
he d Benedicted to it for some years.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-04
PERSONAL.

was worn at the court of good Queen Bess.
GEO. C. MILN, the actor clergyman, is
about to take up another calling-that of a
lecturer.
GOV. ALBEIT acted as godfather at the
christening Of negro baby in Newark the
other night.
SENATOR SAWYER, of Wisconsin, pronounces
strongly in favor Of the high saloon licenses
for his State.
MRS. j. W. MACKAY has paid $1,000 for
tiny canvas by Gerome, the size of which is
described as "almOst as big as a pOckethand-
chief"
BoLESLAs MARKEvITCH. who, since the
death OF Ivan Turgeneif, has been accounted
the most popular OF Russian nOvelists, died at
81. petersburg two weeks ago, in his Goth
year.
MISS CATHARINE WOLFE and Mrs. John
Jacob AstOr are cooperating in an effort for
the establishment Of a college in Florence
where American women can pursue any
branch Of art.
EX-SENATOR SHARoN's estate. in which
Sarah Hili-by the decision Of the court, "Mrs.
SharOn"-will share, is put down at 81, 900, 900.
Ex-Judge George w. Tyler, Miss HIPS cOun-
sci, took the case for one half of what might
be recovered. Tyler Is said to have grown
rich taking divorce cases on these terms.
Mr.. FORSYTH and nine other American art
students, now in Munich, have addressed a
joint letter to the Chicago Inter Ocean in re-
gard to the expenses of students there. A
correspondent had said that the cost of living
was not more than $3.50. The young men say
that one must pay $500, unless he should make
up his mind to pinch himself the whole year
through.
CONGRESSMAN GEORGE WASHINGTON GED-
DEs, who is looming up as a Democratic can
didate for Governor of OHIO, il a fine Metho-
dist gentleman of the old school, but he is re-
sponsiole to the world for two sons, who are
Jesse James boys on a local scale. Their
home, about mile out of Mansfield, o. is
known far and wide as Piety Hill-because
the sons have given it such n bad reputation.