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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
HOW HE WON ROSE.
An Arxsnsaw Romance Which Had a
Very Satisfactory Termination.

An ArlSsnsaw Romance Which Had a
Very Satisfactory Termination.
"Nathan, you are married, 1 under
stand" said the Governor of Arkan-
saw. addressing hillside constituent.
eyes, sir, captured the best-looking
girl in the whole community. Old
Lige Peterson's daughter, Rose. You
knowed her, l reckon"
ayes, but l thought that she was en-
gagged to Sam Parker"
''She was, but | got ahead of him.
Tell you how it was. She loved Sam
powerful, for he is the best circuit
rider we have ever had. l loved Rose,
and was nightly downcast, for l
thought thar want no use in buckin'
agin him. Well, the day for the
marriage was set. and passul of us
come to town to see the weddin', for
Rose lowed that she wanted to be
married in town, and then take the
cars for home, thereby gittin' ten
mile bridal tower When we got to
town, 10 and behold, there was circus
with mo- horses than strong man
could shake a pole at. Rose was
mighty keen to go to the show, but
Sam says, says he: Rose, you know
it's agin my religion, an thereto we
can't go. Stay here till l go an git the
license Roses under jaw drapped
When Sam was gone | says, says l.
Rose wouldn't you like to go to tina
show?'
"'Yes, but Sam won't take me-
"'That's bad, Rose, fur they've got {
world of hosses.'
"'Tben she tuned up and began tC
cry. Rose. says |, if you marry San
you kant 90 to the show; that's certain
but if you marry me- I'll take you She
studied awhile, and says, says she: AN
let me stay to the concert after the biz
'how's over?'
eyes
Gan let me look at the monkeys al
I want TOP
"'Tibby sho'.'
can won't pull an haul me aroun'
when get intere 'ted?'
"'No, swan | won't
IAN when the sho's over will yor
let me look at the monkeys again?'
Eyes
"'Nath, said she, putin her hanC
mighty lovin ly on my arm, I'm yourn
Then l jumped up, popped my heel
together, an in less'n half hour W.
was dun married an a-lookin' at thu
monkeys. That's the way Iwon tina
jewel, Governor. "-ArkGnsGW TTd0eler
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
UTILIZING NIAGARA,
Capitalists Who Propose to Divert waite
From the Mighty Falls.

Capitalists Who Propose to Divert Water
From the Mighty Falls.
For years the study of many en-
gineers has been to utilize the I'M
limited water power afforded by the
Niagara river in the most practical and
cheapest manner. This immense power
has never been used except to a very
small extent. A Company of capital
lists and experienced men has been
organized and incorporated as the
Niagara River Hydraulic Tunnel and
Sewer Company, whose base of opera
tons is to be at the village of Niagara
Falls.
Their object is to develop the water
power of the great river at an estimated
expense of S3,0Q0,000 The main point
of the scheme is to construct tunnel
from the water level below the falls,
two hundred feet below the high bank
of the river, extending through the
rock to the upper Niagara river to
point about mile above the fall,
where a head of one hundred ard
twenty feet is attained. The tunnel
thence is to extend parallel with the
shore of the river one and one-half
miles at an average depth of one hun
bred feet below the surface of the earth
and at distance of about one hundred
feet from the navigable waters of the
river, with which it is connected by
means of coduits or lateral tunnels.
Since the incorporation of the COM
pany, March 31st last, sufficient land
along the river has been secured, sur
veyed and appo:tioned into mill sites
fronting on the river, and on the line
of the proposed tunnel, with ample
streets and dockage afordng facilities
for approach by rail and water to
accommodate $50 mills of 500 horse
each, or 10000 horsepower in all,
which is the engineers estimate
of the capacity of the proposed tunnel.
Some idea of the effect of this tunnel
may be had from the fact that it will
develop power largely in excess o;
the combined power in use at Holyoke,
Lowell, Minneapolis, Cohoes, Lewiston
and Lawrence, and it will not cost
more than one -tefltlf of the outlay for
the development of the power at these
places designated. The company ex-
poets to found manufacturing town at
Niagara Falls. The plan was made by
Thomas Evershed, one Of the State En-
gineers. -BuBG!0 IN, Y, Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25

Alpha Centaurii, the leading star in
the constellation of the Centaur. is the
nearest star to the earth, so far as
known. Its distance is usually placed
at from 10000, 900, 100000 to 29,000,-
900, 000,0 miles from the earth. A
star called Sixty-one Cygni is classed
as second in distance, being put at
54,7S0, 999, 600, 900 miles distance from
our globe. Most of the stars, however,
are millions of miles further away from
us than these. Light travels about
$4,000 miles in every second of time,
and yet with this inconceivably
rapid velocity, it would take light
about twelve years to traverse the
space separating us from that star.
From the greater portion of the stars
light would be many centuries in reach
ing us. That is to say, in these par
licular instances the stars which we
see are not the stars as they exist to
night, but as they existed before
Columbus sailed on his voyage of dis
covery, or even before the creation Of
Adam. ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
MOUNTAIN SANS DOGS.
Their Exploits in ROunding-Up and Capt
uring Big Horn Sheep.

An old trapper and hunter known as
"Mountain Sam" is doing a land-oflice
business killing huge mountain sheep
for their heads and horns. These he
ships to New York to fill the orders he
is constantly receiving, and there they
are mounted. Sans best customers
are wealthy Englishmen, and many an
English hall bears witness in mamrloth
heads and antlers of the mountain
sheep magnificently mounted, to Sans
prowess as a hunter.
For many years Mountain Sam"
has buried himself in the most remote
recesses of the Big Horn mountains.
Here he is in the very haunts, hidden
and deep, of the big horn or Rocky
mountain sheep. Sans way of capt
uring his willy quarry is peculiarly
adapted to his needs and deserts. He
rounds up the wild sheep of the noun
tain crag, peak and precipice with dogs.
His pack numbers twenty-five head,
and they are pure cross of the blood
hound and bulldog Mountain born
and bred, these noble animals add to
the natural strength and sagacity of
their blood strains a marvellous en-
durance and cat-like activity. No
snow depth, no roughness of trail, no
steepness of precipice, no holiness of
peak, no remoteness of locality can
stop the mountain dog when on the
track of the mountain sheep.
The pack works in an organized way
when the trail of a band of sheep is
struck. The dogs break into little
punches and wide and careful circuits
are made. The closely-pressed sheep
are hurried forward common center
and they will soon be punched with
twenty-five dogs, crests erect and tails
wagging, moving about them in an
endless and eager circle.
The pack has been known to bunch
two hundred and fifty head of sheep,
and to hold their watch aad guard for
over six hours waiting the coming of
their master, who has been kept back
by the difficulties lying in his path. 1t
sometimes occurs that the dogs bring
the game together on Il spot that is
utterly inaccessible to human feet
Then the hunter gives his dogs notice
of the fact by peculiarly shrill and
piercing shout. The pack at once
dash into the midst Of the sheep, seize
and Stay the largest, and by dint of
rolling, tumbling and falling from
crag to crag, from declivity to decliv-
ity, bring the carcasses within reach OF
their master.
These dogs trace their pedigree to a
pair brought into this region many
years ago by a rich Englishman, who
made old Fort Stambaugh his hunting
headquarters. When the Englishman
left these mountains he gave his dogs,
whose worth he had proved in many a
hard days chase, to pap Conant,
who was well known then as from
tiersman. Pap gave a couple of
pups from the first litter to his old
comrade, ''Mountain Sam," who thus
came into possession of the nucleus of
this present magnificent pack.-Lande,
| (Wy. IT, Cor. Denrer Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
FARM LABORERS.
Why They Should Be Provided With
Homes by Their Employers.

Why They Should Be Provided with
Homes by Their Employers.
Every good farmer furnishes some
sort of shelter for his domestic animals,
but there are very few who think Of
furnishing house or houses for farm
help to live in. The dependence is
mainly on hiring single men, for six or
eight months in the year, who are
turned adrift at the expiration of theil
time to find whatever they may to do,
or to remain in idleness the balance Of
the year. If there is any married help
in the neighborhood, his family is slowed
away in some old rickety, tumble-down
building that nobody else will live in,
and his family would not live in except
by cohpulsion, because nothing better
is to be had. This is not right. If a
farmer is able to hire help, to any con,
siderable extent, he is able to furnish
the family or families of such help
comfortable houses to live in, attractive
homes which will attach them to the
farm, and make him reliable help at
I'LL oCstoOlo VI biiO ,1Sti' W iuii ouNi
places for them to live in, much bet.
ter class of help can be secured than
can be picked up by chance. and than
is likely to drift out into the country
and occupy the forsaken old rookeries
for an abode. A little garden patch
in addition will cost but little, and
the pasturing of COW for the
family would not be seriously felt. BY
looking around and selecting an intelli-
gent, tidy and industrious family, with
perhaps both boys and girls coming
up, help on the farm and help in the
house, that is efficient and can be de.
pended on, can be secured regularly
and for all emergencies. If the farmer
shows an interest in the welfare of the
family, and has made good selection,
he will have in its members neighborS
and friends who, when in his employ
will understand his way of working,
and will look after his interests with
something like personal solicitude.-
National LtUe- StOcE Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
HARVESTING BEANS.
How to Stack this Important Crop to Best
Advantage.

advantage
No other crop grown requires more
care in the harvesting than beans. This
is on account of the great deterioration
in value by loss of color and staining by
rain and subsequent rotting of the pods
on the wet ground. This unfavorable
result more frequently happens with
beans grown as catch crop with corn
upon principle a most Objectionable
practice in every way-because of the
difficulty of drying them, to say moth
ing of the extra labor in harvesting
them. Beans are pulled and not cut,
the roots having but little hold on the
ground, and the only machine ever
adapted to the harvesting of beans, as
we believe, was made for pulling them
up by the roots and shaking the soil
from them, very much in the manner
done by hand.
When the beans are ripe they should
be gathered at once and stacked safely
out of danger from rain. If exposed
to rain they swell and dry and become
cracked or turn yellow and become I'M
merchantable. Perfectly white beans
may be left on the ground as they are
pulled, throwing two rows on each side
together, thus having four rows in one
long heap across the field, and as soon
as possible they should be removed to
a stage above the barn floor, or to a
dry, airy upper floor of a well venti-
lated shed and stored until they are
thrashed Otherwise it is safe to stack
them in the field.
The stacking is done around stout
stake driven firmly into the ground be-
tween two rows on each side Of the
beans as they have been gathered as
above mentioned. The beans are laid
crosswise around the stake on lnnr
sides, the pods being placed outside at
the corners and the roots together. as
here shown:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
The Age of Fishes.

Prof. Baird says there is nothing to
prevent fish from living indefinitely,
as it has no period of maturity, but
grows with each year. He is authority,
likewise, for saying that carp have at
tanned an age of two hundred years.
He also says that within fifty years a
pike was living in Russia whose age,
according to tradition, dated back to
the fifteenth century. The Russian
Minister says that in the Royal Aqua
rum in st. Petersburg there are fish
to-day that have been known by the
records to have been there one hundred
and forty years. Some of them are,
lac says. over five times rs large AS
when they were captured, while Others
have not grown an inch in length
Christian Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
SAVORY DISHES.


Useful Suggestions for Economical and
Careful Housekeepers.
Cold meat is often a concern to the
housekeeper. Meat is expensive and
no one likes to throw it away, but what
to do with it is problem. In the first
place it must be kept cool during the
warm season. We will suppose there
is quantity of cold roast lamb. Take
saucepan and put into it a quart OF
water; in this lay all the bones after
cutting off the meat. Next, peel and
cut up two onions, put in salt and pep
per and half a teaspoonful of celery
seeds. Then put the saucepan on the
fire, and when it comes to boil let it
simmer. 1t will take about an hour and
half to cook the onions and extract the
nutriment from the bones.
Meanwhile rsmove the fat and cut or
chop fine the meat. About five min
utes before you wish to serve the stew,
put the meat in the saucepan, so that
it can be we'll heated without being
long on the fire. At the same time
stir in carefully tablespoonful of
sifted flour, previously blended in half
a tea-cup of cold water. Some chopped
parsley should be put in it if conVen-
lent. When celery or celery leaves
are in market use them instead of
celery seed. The seeds give the same
delicious flavor and nutritious proper
ties as the celery, and should be kept
in the pantry when the green celery is
not obtanable. A sliced carrot may
be put in with the onions and bones, as
carrots take a long time to soften.
Those who like the flavor of a turnip
and tomatoes may add these vegeta-
bles. Most persons prefer bread with
this stew, but some like potatoes.
A second dish which goes wen with
this is a piece of boiled bacon with
cabbage. Any cold fresh meat may
be served up in this way. Even cold
roast pork makes delicious ragout and
veal-mince is very delicate, as veal is
SO young and sweet When veal is
roasted a thick jelly sinks to the. bottom
of the vessel in which the suet is poured
This jelly should be taken off the suet
and put into the mince. Of course the
| flavoring may be varied to taste. Some
like sage or allspice. Then instead oil
| flour to thicken the ragout, barley,
rice or cornstarch may be used. In fact
endless varieties may be made accord.
ing to materials and taste. 1t can be
converted into an Irish stew by boiling
potatoes in it. Peas thicken the
soup and add to the flavor. II
there is a very small quantity of meat,
use pint of water or less and small
saucepan. Proportion other ingredi.
ents to correspond. A meat pie is de-
licious il properly made. If you like
an undercrust, be sure to bake it before
| you put in the stew. Then you are
certain the underpaste is cooked. II
you make pie, put the chopped meat
on this cooked paste, pour on the SOUP
or gravy, emitting the bones, ofcourse,
| put cup in the center to hold up the
upper crust, then put on the aforesaid
upper crust and bake. If you have g
light paste you will have a delicious
dinner at little expense. Christian d
HorG.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
ALL ABOUT KISSING.
Some Definitions from Not Yet Com
pleted Dictionary of Oscillation.

Some Definitions from Not Yet Com
pleted Dictionary of Oscillation.
One of the most famous kisses In
history is that of Georgiana, Duchess
of Devonshire, when she was canvass
ing for Fox's election. A butcher said
he would vote for Fox if the lady would
kiss him, which she thereupon did,
thereby making the kiss, the butcher
and herself immortal in history. The
Duchess of Gordon, in Scotland, re-
cruited Highland regiment in the
same way.
Gilbert Stuart, the great painter, was
once met by lady on the streets of
Boston, who said to him that she had
Just seen his likeness and had kissed it
because it was so much like him.
''And did it kiss you in return?"
"Why, no."
"Then it was not like me-" replied
the gallant painter.
Tom Hood once wondered in his
oddities" if Hannah More, that prim
and very respectable maiden we all re-
member, was ever kissed by man.
Probably not. but the humorists of
1.-The Rejected Addresses" in one OF
their famous verses, say:
Sidney Morgan was playing the organ,
While behind the vestry door
Horace Twiss was snatching kiss
From the lips of Hannah More.
But the testimony is not fairly cred
ible, and we must fain conclude that
she went to her grave unkissed.
Our Puritan forefathers were not at
all in favor of kissing. 1t was not per-
mitted to young people, and even a
man could not kiss his wife on Sunday.
Winwood Reade, in his book of travels
in Equatorial Africa, says the negroes
do not know how to kiss, and he admits
that he frightened one or two maidens
by attempting it. In New Zealand
lovers do not kiss, but simply touch
noses; but the South Sea Islanders un-
derstand kissing to perfection, accord
ing to some voyagers. They may have
learned it at an carly day from the first
voyagers, and finding that it was good,
kept up the custom.
In the dictionary of oscillation, which
has never yet been completed, are
found some definitions:
Buss kiss
Rebus to kiss again.
Pluribus to kiss all around
Syllabus to kiss the hand instead of the
lips
Blunderbuss to kiss the wrong person some
times Unexpectedly pleasant.
Omnibus to kiss promiScuouSly.
Erebus to kiss in the dark
Incubus to kiss some one you don't like
Harquebus to kiss with loud smack. Pc
truchio's was bark! we bus
To kiss lady against her will is an
assault, punishable under our law by
fine and Imprisonment. SO gallants
must have care how they yield to
rosy temptation. Rare Ben. johnson,
who said
He was wishing
He might die a-kissing,
wrote also the immortal lines to Celia:
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And will pledge with mine,
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
And Dodsley's verse is almost. as
familiar:
One kind kiss before we part,
Drop tear and bid adieu;
Though we sever my fond heart
Til we.meet shall pant for you.
Cincinnati Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25

The Philadelphia Record SAYS:
twenty-five years ago there was prob
ably not woman in Philadelphia
worth $780, 900, and even a man mil
lionaire was a curiosity. Nowadays
estates footing up 100000 and more
ale being settled up almost every week
or two, and the list of women who own
millions is by no means insignificant. !"
This simply measures the growth in
prosperity Of all American cities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-08

The girl refused to speak. Then Mr..
Strangfield repeated his question. and her
lips turned pale, as under the pressure and
torment of a thousand words which they
would not part TO deliver and one most tear
full, wildered. pleading look she cast around.
Her father watched her steadily, and with
an ever-deepening shadow on his face Her
want of speech was want of honesty. he
thought and his mouth took sullen curve.
"Jane, speak to her. She may answer
theen
u have questioned her, Michae Jenny,
Jenny, answer thy father, dear heart Tell
HIM thy troubled" and she snatched at her
breast with both hands, crying: "Oh
Michael, what has come to our childg
Jenny, VIII you answer me or nots
Father, you shall be answered, but not
by me.
"Who is he that should have come and
saved you from another day of fearln
"oh, father, cried the poor girl, clasping
her hands. "have pity on me--do not qlles-
ton me now"
mot question you" returned Stronghold,
In an memorable tone. "Not question you'll
What has happened to you, that you are not
to be questioned by your fathers"
She shook her head and sighed, with low
moan in her sigh. All, that she had the
courage to speak the truth now, and intrep-
idly make herself knownl But it was her
husband that should speak for her. and he
would be here tomorrow surelyi Oh, she
might be sure.
Child, he cried, in grating voice, II
have asked you for the truth. Have it
viii, if it cost thee and me our lives!p
To say which, and in his bitter energy he
Jerked his body forward, whereat the girl
shrieked and became hysterical. ooh,
mother! Oh, motherl what would he do to
mef Oh, motherl Oh, motheri save me
from him" and with wild alternate sobbing
and laughter she backed away from the
table, until she felt her mothers arms about
her, when sho tainted, as person dies,
with horrid suddenness
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-08

Now, having done this, had he used his
heels, he would have saved himself for
he was of the build for swift running:
whereas sailors are bad runners, though de-
cent dancers. But his chivalrous courage, not
disdaining fight, for the honorable reason
that it never thought of flight, held him
rooted, with nostrils quivering and cleaning
eyes.
Thompson of the bushy whislers, gathered
himself off the road, and rubbing the bridge
of his nose, looked with q cast in his eve at
the gentleman in the cloak
1--WE want no bloodshed, exclaimed that
worthy. Thompson, Jenkins, here, three
Of you make his hands fast and bring him
along
This was an order not to be disobeyed under
pain of a whipping; willing backs must not
be bioodily plowed for boyish obstinacy So
they went with a rush; the dust scared in a
cloud as from under the heels of flying
horse. IL was a wild fight, a mad resist
ance, with the hardhitting which the age of
Mendoza and the slogster Crabbe made
free with But sudden blow must end the
unfair contest. Down went Cuthbert like a
snuff sellers Scotchman under the lurch of a
drunken man. In a moment his hands were
bound; but his legs declining to exert them.
selves, he was hoisted on to the shoulders of a
couple of stout seamen and the party pro-
ceeded smartly up the hill toward the gorge
that led to the sea.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-08
RoyaitY!

Sired by Swigert and out of Bay
Fanny, will stand at SIS for the
Season, with the privilege of return
if not in foal. The dam of this
horse is the first mare in Wiscon-
sin to produce two 2:3o trotters
(Resolute :27,andAlexander 2:2S).
Resolute is full brother to Royalty.
- In purchasing this horse, did so in the
firm belief that he is the best horse | could
get TO offer to my patrons. l had good
chance to see and examine his get at the State
Fair last Fall, and among fine lot of II
entries he was awarded the Sweepstakes for
showing the best lot Of s Colts. lie is a trot-
ter himself; and, better still, he is the sire
OF trotters: having sired one 3-year old Colt
with record Of 2:5I, and another of 2:42 in
the 5th heat; still another won the ,year-old
colt race at the Wisconsin State Fair-some-
thing no other Stallion in the State ever did.
He has four colts entered at the Wiscon-
sin Breeders Stakes TO be trottcd this
fall. | can say that / firmly
believe this horse is as good as there is IN the
State, considering his size, style, breeding,
speed, and speed-producing powers, combined
with the finest disposition ever seen in Stall
lion.