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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

1t is estimated that eighteen mil
lion pairs of boots and shoes are an
nually manufactured in prisons.
The Connecticut river and its trib.
utaries furnish power to 2,29S mills,
which represent 118,026 horse power.
The foundations are laid for three
more large cigar factories at Key West.
These will employ one thousand opera.
tives.
"A st. Louis popcorn man is going
to England to introduce the great
American luxury, and will take over
five thousand bushels of corn in the
spring.
1t is claimed that the new Mann
hcher repeating rifle, now being man.
ufactured for the Austrian army, is the
most perfect perfect rifle ever invented.
1t fires forty rounds a minute.
If boys are raised in a way to i'm
press on them that labor and industry
is discreditable, luxury and idle habits
will follow and vice comes as certain
as night succeeds the day.-N. Y E9-
daliner.
Two Pittsburgh manufacturing
firms have bought land on which to
erect two or three hundred houses
which their workmen will be encour-
aged to purchase on easy payments
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
There are 555, $50 persons in Great
Britain outside of those having agricul-
tural holdings who have from one
fourth of an acre to one thousand acres.
YOf4 these 1876, 736 have from one to five
acres, and 14S, S05 from five to twenty
acres. Only 663 have over one thou
sand acres.
The New Jersey silk industry is
growing rapidly. Plans are completed
for new silk null at Paterson and for
several extensions. A number of COM
panies have decided to increase their
capital stock. In several European
silk centers the demand is chiefly for
low grades, which manufacturers do
not care to make.-N. Y Herald.
Oil from pine wood is now manu-
featured on a considerable scale in the
South. The material is subjected to
intense heat in sealed retorts, and one
cord of it is said to yield fifteen gallons
of turpenline, eighty gallons of pine
wood oil, fifty bushels of charcoal, 100
gallons of wood vinegar and a quantity
of inIlammable gas and asphaltum.
In one of the Hudson River railroad
shops there is toothless steel circular
saw thirty-eight inches in diameter
thrce-eighths inch thick at the edge,
which is run at high speed with a
stream of water pouring overit to keep
it from cracking, and will cut off bar
of railroad iron in short time. Three
thousand can be cut before a saw is
worn out. The ends get battered by
use before the body of the rail- and
when sawed the remainder can be used
on side acks.-Alba1ay Journal.
Andrew Carnegie is building on the
summit of the Alleghenies, near Ores
son Springs, house, or castle, which
will cost $1,000, 900. The entire walls
will be built up altogether of the I'M
dressed surface stone which is to be
found on the place, and they are not to
show in any place single mark of the
chisel or hammer. Mr.. Carnegie's Or
ders are positive on this point, he hav-
ing expressed a wish to have as far as
possible even the moss on the rocks
used in the walls undisturbed.-P Pits
/ 6uTqh Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The water in Lake Huron has
risen eighteen inches during the past
year.
"A poor young man out at the ell
bows does not feel like laughing in his
sleeves. -NeW Orleans Picdyatne.
1t is safe enough to say that earth
quakes originate under the sea- No
one can crawl under there to find out.
An exchange says salt is aremarka-
BILE remedial agent. So it is, indeed.
1t has been known to even cure ham,
LoWeN Courier.
An old lady in Holland scrubbed
her sitting-room floor until she fell
through it into the cellar. Excess in
all things is wrong.
-Wife-"Why, aren't you going tc
wear your dress suit, my dear?" Hus-
band-'Not much. The last time
wore my dress suit at party a young
woman ordered me to bring her cup
of coffee and be quick about tn
Y. Sun.
Charles Mathews, being one even
| ing in the front of the house and seeing
gentleman putting on his coat, pre-
paratory to leaving, exclaimed: 81 beg
pardon, sir, but there is still another
act" (which is precisely the reason, "
replied the other, why L am going"
-Husband-"You know that pretty
Mrs. F." Wife-''For goodness sake,
John, don't talk about that pretty Mrs.
f. / can't 90 anywhere without hear
ing her praises sounded, until am sick
to death of the sound of her name.
Husband-'I was only going to tell you
of rumor heard about her to-day"
Wife-''A rumor? o, John, tell me
all about it; that's a good soul. IN
Y. Sun.
-Manager-"You have not got a
proper appreciation of art, and l can
not give You more than twenty-five
dollars week" Pretty Actress
"But was getting one hundred dol
lars just after was divorced, you must
remember" Manager-"Oh! you are
the actress who was divorcedP" Act
ress-"Yes." Manager-"And eloped
with the French CountP" Actress
YES" Manager Three hundsed
dollars week. IN Y. Graphic.
Angry citizen (who has just
dropped coin in the haD-"I'm a
good mind to thrash you. Why, you're
an imposter; you're not blind. What
10 you mean by having that sign on
you reading: Help the BlindP' " Beg
gar-"By gum your right, boss.
Don't blame me. It's de ole woman's
fault. You see, can't read, and she
has put de wrong sign on by mistake.
This is my lame day; tomorrow is my
blind day. - It'd Bits.
-Werker-"H ullo, Harold; I'm sur.
prised to see you at this hour. Iheard
you had gone to work. Harold (of.
fended) NAV, old chappie, you-aw
don't mean that now" Werker-
Indeed, l heard So" Harold--'Well
--aw-you didn't believe it, did your
Werker-''No; | knew you too WELL
Harold Thanks, deah boy, thanks
Pm-aw--glad the base slandah we
ceived the tweatment it deserved. ~
RG&SksT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06
THREE GRAVES.

Pow lid he live, this dead man here,
With the temple above his grave?
tie lived as great one, from cradle to bier
lie was nursed in luxury, trained in pride,
When the wish was born, it WAS gratitied;
Without thanks he took, without heed he
gave,
The common man was to him a clod
From whom he was far as a demigod.
His duties? TO see that his rents were paid.
His pleasures To know that the crowd
Obeyed.
His pulse if you felt it, throbbed apart.
With separate stroke from the people 8
heart.
But whom did he love. and whom did he
blessS
Was the life of him more thar a mans or
less?
i know not. He died. There was none to
blame
And as few to weep; but these marbles came
For the temple that rose to preserve his
name!
How did he live, that other dead man,
From the graves apart aud alone?
As great one, too? Yes, this was one
Who lived to labor and study and plan.
The earth's deep thought he loved to reveal 4;
He banded the breast of the land with steel;
The thread of his toll he never broke;
He filled the cities with wheels and smoke,
And workers by day and workers by night,
For the day was too short for his vigor' S
fight
Too firm was he to be feeling and giving;
For labor for gain, was life worth living.
He worshiped Industry, dreamt of her,
sighed for her
Potent he grew by her, famous he died for
her.
They say he improved the world in his time,
That h s mills and mines were work sub
lime.
When he died-the laborers rested and
sighed;
Which was it-because he had lived, or died?
And how did he live that dead man there,
In the country churchyard laid?
o, he? lie came for the sweet field air;
He was tired of the town, and he took no
pride
In its fashion or fame. He returned and died
In the place he loved, where child he played
With those who have knelt by his grave and
prayed.
He ruled no serfs, and he knew no pride;
He was one with the workers side by side;
He hated mill and Il mine, and a town,
With their fever of misery, struggle, renown
He could never believe but man was made
For a nobler end than the glory of trade.
For the youth he mourned with an endless
pity
Who were cast like snow on the streets OF
the city.
He was weak, may be- but he lost no friend;
Who loved him once, loved on to the end.
He mourned all selfish and shrewd endeavor;
But he never injured weak one-never.
When censure was passed, he was kindly
dumb;
He was never so wise but a fault would
come;
He was never so old that he failed to ENJOY
The games and the dreams he had loved
when a boy.
He erred and was sorry; but never drew
A trusting heart from the pure and true.
When friends look back from the years to be,
God grant they may say such things of me.
john Boyle O'Retly. in Boston Transcript
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06

1t will probably curdle the blood OF
the aesthetic reader to learn that the
superb and leonine sunhower is grown
out West for fuel. They have been
raised in Russia and Tartary for centu-
ries for that purpose, but their intro
duction with us is of recent origin. Out
in Dakota they are planted like corn.
They are harvested in two parts, the
seed heads being cut off and put away
in corn crib, and the stalks piled in a
shed. When cut in the right time, the
stalks when dry are hard as oak, and
make good hot fire, while the seed
heads. with the seed in, make a better
fire than the best hard coal. The seed,
being very rich in oil. will burn better
and longer, bushel for bushel, than
hard coal. The sunflower is also OK.
tensively cultivated in certain sections
for the seeds, which are used to feed
fowl. Scientific american.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
ABOUT BOYS.

A hesitation.
" A boy in the house is a nuisance"
One often hears people say;
But L want you to know,
That it's not quite so,
SO speak to you to-day.
That boys have faults, i own is very true,
But not any more than girls l think,
And really now, do you:
Now, if any one has an easy time,
In this world of push and pull,
1t is not the boy of the fam ly,
For his hands are always full.
I'd like to ask, who fills the stoves?
Where is the girl that couldl
Who brings in water, lights the fires,
And splits the kindling-wood?
And who is it that cleans the walks,
After hours of snowing2
In summer, who keeps down the weeds
By diligently hoeng?
And who must harness the faithful horse,
When the girls would ride abouty
And who must clean the carriage Off?
The boy, you'll own, no doubt.
And who does the many other things.
Too numerous to mention?
The boy is the general utility man."
And really deserves Il pension!
Friends just praise the boy sometimes,
When he does his very best;
And don't dllCGilS want the easy chair
4. When he is taking little rest
Don't let him always be the last
To see the new magazine;
And sometimes let the boy be heard,
AS well as to be seen.
That boys are far from perfect
is understood by ALL
But they have hearts, remember,
For men are boys grown tall"
And when boy has been working
His level best for days,
1t does him good, tell you,
To have some hearty praisel
He is not merely a combination
OF muddy boots and noise.
And be likes to be looked upon
AS one of the family joys.
And / think, if it were known
That by certain hour to-day
Every boy on this great globe
Would be spirited away,
There would not be single one
Of those whom I'm addressing,
But now would say, very heartily,
A boy in the house is a blessing!
E. L. BrOWn, in Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06
GlRLlSH DELUSIONS.
Fond Hopes Which Are Destined to BE
Most Rudely DispeIled.

Most Rudely Dispelled.
There Is something very pitiful in the
way clever American girls of limited
means persist in belief that they can
do something or other to earn living
abroad, and to have a chance at for
eign study in music or art or language.
Every now and then we hear of some
young woman, more ambitious than
prudent, going to Germany or France
with very little money, but with sub
lime confidence that she can at least
teach English if all else fails. Now the
simple truth is that it is next to impossi-
bic for an American teacher to get pu-
pills on the continent. No matter how
correctly you speak your language it is
not English in the opinion of the par
ents who want governesses for their
girls, and though you may be decidedly
superior in cultivation and courtesy,
tact and knowledge, to an English gov
erness competing for place, the En-
glish girl will get it because she never
heard of your Americanisms and says
jug" instead of pitcher" Il
fancy" instead of 81 guess" and
ollC ChJOJo uCIStll llSlGdu Oh - nav
ing good time"
Another fond delusioD of many am
bilious young women without any Jour-
nalistlc training is belief that they can
write foreign letters for the American
papers, and so earn fame and a living
at the same time. 1t is hard to con-
vince them that such plan is almost
wholly impracticable. They will quote
Kate Field and Helen Hunt, and ask if
they were not successful, quite forget
ting that these women wrote before the
details of foreign life were known by
heart in this country, as recent facili-
ties of intercommunication have made
them known, before it became custom
airy to cable over the new styles from
Paris and the chit-chat of London
drawing-rooms.
A young high-school teacher from
village near Boston went not long ago
to Paris with every chance in her favor
for succeeding, so far as there is ever
chance for an amateurs success, in for
eign correspondence. Her mother was
Partisan born, and the daughter spoke
French quite as well as English, per-
haps with more strict correctness. She
went with several good introductions,
and boarded in the family of an aunt
in Paris. And she tried with might
and main to get into foreign CORE
spondence, only to have her years
work fail completely. She sent at least
fifty manuscripts home across the
water, and she had only seven out of
all that number accepted by American
journals. OF these, only four were
paid for, and those all counted brought
her about thirty dollars. She worked
hard and she was plucky, and she
wrote rather good little things, but she
failed as ninety-nine in hundred
would fail if they should try to accom-
plish that which is practically an i'm
possibility. Boston Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06

"A young man at Neche, d. T., mean
the Manitoba line, wanted to marry a
girl at Gretna, on the other side. Her
parents forbade her leaving town. SO
she stood on the Manitoba side and he
in the United States. and the preacher
stood with one foot in the Queens
realm and the other in Uncle Sans and
the marriage ceremony was preform-
ed. The couple have since had appre-
hensons that the wedding may not be
legal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06

The best drug for poultry Is car,
bolic acid. Get pint of the crudest
for fifty cents, put one ounce in one
gallon of water, and sprinkle it with a
broom all over the chicken-house and
its furniture once a month, Albany
Journal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
The Effect ON Business.

PITTsBuRG, March % COL Fred. n. Know
land, of New York. general passenger agent of
the Pacific road. passed through this city en-
route to New York from Chicago. In speaking
of tae strike on the Gould system. he said II
fear the strike will extend eastward, though /
have no positive knowledge of the plans of the
men. 1t ia most serious crisis-a crisis which
threatens much larger interests than Mr.
Gould's. In New York the merchants are ship
ping literally nothing to the West. Business is
more or less affected everywhere, and with the
present prospect Of thickening complications and
extended strikes, do not see how much improve
ment can be expected in the near future. Rail
road men generally would not be surprised to
see the strike extend"
ATcHIsoN, Kan, March 25.-The Champion
has specials from forty y-six towns on the central
branch, giving statements of supplies on hand
Twenty-four correspondents report not pound
of coal and several no kerosene. -four or grocer
les With few exceptions the coal supply in the
remaining towns is almost out Prices of every
thing have doubled. Many of the towns are
from thirty to fifty miles from other railroads
It is believed in business circles here that the
strikers win abandon the Martin Irons wing
within the next forty eight hours. There will
be a meeting Of the Knights of Labor tomorrow
evening" when it is confidently expected that
pronounced action will be taken against the
strikers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
proclamation by Governor Martin.

Topeka, Kan, March 25-Goyernor Martin
issued a proclamation to-day addressed to the
peace officers of the State, recting the evils ex-
isting under the present railroad strike. and
calling upon them to protect property, and see
that the commerce Of the State is not interrupted
by violence or lawless acts, and to apprehend any
such offenders. The support of citizens is in
voked, that the commerce Of the State may be
resumed. All the lawful authority Of the State
will be exerted to support the local officers in the
discharge of these injunctions and all persons
are warned against obstructing the railways In
his proclamation the Governor says the people
are now in the third week Of the greatest busi-
ness disaster that has ever befallen the State
The interests of third Of its people are in
volved. Supplies of food and fuel are cut off in
many localities, and the business and industry
Of great masses of people are suspended The
strikers, he says. may have grievances. but this
does not justify forcible stoppage of transporta-
tion. The State Legislature, at its last session.
passed q law with the object OF arbitrating dis,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

Mayor Baker. of Houston, Tex has offered a
reward of 81, 600 for the apprehension of the man
who attempted to assassinate him on Tuesday
night
In street-quarrel at Chicago last night, Dan
iel Kilcrain. a gas-ftter. was stabbed in the
throat By Thomas Twohey, rolling mill hand.
Kilcrain bed to death in q few minutes His
slayer escaped.
The sale of controlling interest in the North
Chicago street-railway, as announced on Wednes-
day, was to q Philadelphia syndicate supposed
to be headed by Mr. Drexel. The amount paid
was 81, ,750, 900.
Information has reached Omaha that A. b.
Matthewson, the defaulting bank president of
Norfolk, Neb is in Canada. His affairs are in
bad condition, though in all mis- speculations he
protected his bank.
Gustave Mercier, the forger and defaulting
clerk OF the Banque Rationale, of Montreal, was
arrested in New York city yesterday. He will
be held to await the arrival of Canadian officials
with extradition papers He was without money
when arrested, and is but twenty three years old.
The boiler in q saw-mill belonging to the Calera
Land Company, at Calera, Ala, exploded yester-
day, and William Fletcher and James Robinson
were instantly killed. Berry Robinson and j.
NJ Thomas were fatally injured Several other
men were seriously wounded The mill took
fire and was burned to the ground. Loss, $40, 000.
At the sale of trotting stock yesterday, at New
York. A j. Alexander, of Kentucky, bought the
pay mare Elite, seven years olu, Dy messenger
Duroc, out of Green Mountain Maid, for SO, 100.
The noted stallion Smuggler. whose record of
2:154 stands at the head was sold for 81, ,090, to
f. G. Babcock of Hornellsville, N. Y. He is
now twenty years old.
The Polish church troubles at Detroit have
been settled for time. The suit for eiectment
which had been brought by the Bishop against
Father Kolasinski, the deposed priest, resulted
in verdict against the priest However, the
attorneys got together and patched the matter
up by getting the consent of all concerned to
have the matter referred to the Pope. Until he
decides, Father Kolasinski will remain in the
parochial residence but the church remains
elnand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
Ready to Return to work.

KANSAS CRY, March 25.-A special to the
Times says: 1.-THE local assembly, Knights Of
Labor, embracing strikers and other employees of
the Missouri Pacific, at Holden, Mo-, passed res
clutions to-day declaring that they have no
grievance against the Missouri Pacific company,
denouncing the train -wrecking at Sedalia, and
signifying their readiness to return to work on
terms existing before the strike. A public meet
ing is being held tonight to commend this action.
Holden is division point, and about two hun
dred and fifty men are employed there, including
some shopmen for repairing The strikers num-
bered over one hundred
SEDALIA, Mo-, March 25.-No freight trains
were moved to-day, but an effort will be made to
start one tomorrow morning. under strong
guard. The strikers are weakening hourly, and
the officials are in constant receipt of kilograms
from the men at different points, that they are
ready to return to work The knights of Labor
held meeting to-day and committee APP
pointed to visit Mr. Hoxie as employees, to make
a proposition to return to work. The committee
left at midnight, and there is general anticipa-
ton here that business will be resumed early
next week.
FoR1. WORTH, Tex, March 25.-District As
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
Action Of Governor Hughes,

LITTLE Rock, Ark, March Ex-Governor
Hughes to-day issued proclamation expressing
the regret Of all good citizens at the condition Of
affairs precipitated by the strike, which has
caused suspension of freight traffic over the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railroad
throughout Arkansas. He says the people have
waited patiently two weeks for an amicable set
Element. They have an interest in the regular
running of trains, ard the commerce, good or
der and peace of the country should not be jeop-
ardized by longer suspension of business on
the great public highways by common carrier
whose duty it is to regularly operate trains for
the convenience and welfare Of the country
Therefore the railway is required to proceed at
once to regularly run trains over the road. under
the penalty of being proceeded against at law
for further failure to do So In order that the
corporation may freely and without hindrance
discharge its duty to the public. all persons are
notified to refrain from any interference with
trains, tracks, motive power and appliances,
undcr penalty of the law, and sheriffs in counties
penetrated by the railway are charged specially
with the execution of these commands and all
good citizens are expected to preserve order and
refrain from acts calculated to lead to breaches
Of the peace, and from all trespasses on or in
reference with the railway or the operations
thereof