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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-09
BROKEN The COMMANDMENT.

Hove her tho she ia not mine,
Nor ever can be, more's the pityl
And yet can not1count it wrong
To worship one so young and pretty.
To look into her eyes so soft,
To steal a kiss when she will let me,
To clasp her in these arms of mine
IS, When she by chance or stealth has met me.
She's but bud upon life's tree;
My leaf is in the scar and yellow;
Tn growing old and gray and bald,
A foolish, fond and fat old fellow.
What's more, ala married man.
Yes. that's fact. You needn't start so,
Nor look so Mortified to hear
This little witch should stir my heart so.
Her very shadow on the grass,
The echo of her voice love it;
can but wish that she were mine,
Tho Scripture says, Thou shalt not covet!'
Ny neighbours wife, his OK, his ass,
For all wouldn't give quarter;
] covet nothing that is his
Except his blue-eyed baby daughter.
-Bs0t0R Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-09
Not the key-HoIe.

A citizen stood in an unsteady wav
gazing at front door on First street
the other night, and another belated
who passed that way halted and asked.
Looking for the key-hole, old fel-
lowP"
"Chee-hole!"
yes"
"No, EUR. I've goz way beyond That
sur. Pm looking for 'er door itself
Sheems to be too many Of EN- here. y
Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-09

"A Yankee tailor has invented a new
STYLE of boys trousers which is highly
recommended. They have a copper
scat. sheet-iron knees, are riveted down
The seam. and have waterproof pockets
to hold broken eggs
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
- y - : :
CLIMATE OF KANSAS.
Her People Like 1t, Hence No One Else
Has u Right to Grumble.

| Her People Like 1t, Hence No One Else
Has u Right to Grumble.
Kansaus like their climate. We
have incidentally noticed already
some Of the facts that help to consti-
tute climate. One OF two more claim
some attention. The division of the
State by the great watershed marks
two climatic districts. It is. on the
whole, cooler north of that line Vel.
lington. in the Arkansas Valley, has a
mean annual temperature one fifth Of
a degree higher than Fort Riley,
whose elevation is about the same in
the Kaw Valley. South of the divide,
peaches are more rarely injured by
FROST Along the watershed and to
the north the wheat is at its best The
rainfall decreases westerly. As fan
west as the 96;h meridian the pre- cipi-
tation is about the same as in Ell
gland West of the 1OOth meridian
there is less than twenty inches
per annum. More than half the
rain fllls in the five months, April to
August. The autumn and winter are
therefore sunny and dry. It is. how
ever, fully believed that the culture of
thirty years has modified the climate,
mainly in. the distribution of the rain
and the force of the winds. There are
fewer storms and fl ,o.ls. and more
rainy days. This modification Of rain
fall is noticed throughout the State.
as much in the west as the east. In
the West now the june uplands are
glorious with wheat the August VAL
leys rich with sorghum and corn.
The tempering Of the winds is remark
able. The gales become breezes in
the neighborhood of numerous or
chards, the planted groves, the grow
ing corn. The "American DESERT
OF the old maps, aud which early
kansans allowed" might be found
beyond the goth meridian, has been
pushed bodily from the State. Non
est inventus.
One thing more: the spirit of the
people. That has made the Safe.
All newcomers become Kansans. As
soon as they have been here a wear
they say: ''We did it. Robert Hau.
U s. G. S., IN Harper's Magazine.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
THE LIMEKiLN CLUB.
Brother Gardner Discourses on the Pecu
iiarity of Human Nature.

Brother Gardner Discourses on the Pecu-
Iiarity of Human Nature.
When the meeting had opened in
due and ancient form Brother Gard
ner looked up and down the aisles
and said:
Oar ar many strange things
about dis we're thing called human
natur'. Pay a barber double price
fur q shave to-day an TO weeks hence
he will hev de cheek TO ask fur a cash
loan. -.....
IF lend Pickles Smith dollar an
he kin conveniently pay it back he ar
grateful. If he wants to use dat dol.
lar fur sunthin' else he looks upon me
as an oppressor.
Chip in an feed an clothe poor
family outer charity an dey at once
jump to de conclushun dat de world
owes 'em libin'.
"A citizen wild a thousand dollars:
in his pocket won't walk two squares
widout hevin' his boots BACKED. A
citizen with $40. 900 house will keep
an ole picket fence standin' in front
of it year arter year as an ornament
You'll find de chap who wants
sunthin' to keep off de cold in Jinuary
CALM fur sunthin' to ward off de heat
in July, an de Gurus part of it am dat
he calls fur de saAle sort of whisky.
''When man has slandered or lied:
about you. you kin an do forgive him..
When you hev slandered OF lied about
somebody else. you wouldn't forgive
'em if dey cum to yer on Bonded
knees.
I'VE argy dat it makes no differ
ence to our pocket what our nayb bur
Arms, but if we J arm at his salary ar
greater dan ours, de least we kin wish
him ar three months sickness.
DE howlin' of my dog nebrr dis
turbs me in de slightest. but let my
naybur's cat utter one yeow' an L M
right on eand in bed an fightin' mad.
'Takin' us from top to bottom. an
from side to side, an we ar poo.
mean, onery lot, an de wonder is dat
de Lawd didn't git disguised an shet
down OH us long ago, '-DctroG free
Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
TROOPS OF BEGGARs
Tho One Great Detriment to an Unexceled
Tropical Panorama

! 49,
Tropical Panorama,
Throughout the entire trip across
Cuba, wherever the train halted. in
poured a dismal troop of beggars, lot.
tery-ticket sellers, dulceros with all
manners of sickening sweets, of which
the Cuban ladies bought freely and
ate voraciously, and peddlers Of glow.
worms and beetles, guava, green CO.
coanuts and fresh country cheese
similar to the German schmeercase.
If one alights for refreshment, another
savage horde of "eros' with all SORTS
of edibles and refescas are to be bat
tied with; and if a meal at cafe is
taken you are unblushingly charged
from one to two dollars in gold. But all
these annoyances are as naught when
you consider the glorious tropical pam
Drama provided in this trip across the
island. The loneliness of the northern
coastwise country disappears on leav-
ing Matanzas. and of sudden your
train is whirliny through a veritable
natures garden. Great orange groves
are as common as pine woods in
Maine. V asst pineapple plantations
fill the space between. Here the view
sweeps across river, valley and vast
reaches of grounds, the last cut.
tings being hurried to the massive and
groaning machinery with the splendid
villas behind, the whole surrounded by
stately coco trees and the lordly palm.
There, for miles, stretches an
other valley, plain of puce
and yellow where the last cat'' of
tobacco is being piled by the operarios
upon the GU es or curing-racks. or car
ried from there before the dew falls,
at three O clock, to the great casas de
tabacas, where are all other noble
houses. palms and fruits and flowers
unreliable. Here and there are
ranches and herds like the shining
horned hosts of Camaguay, with
mounted vaqueros and monteros and
their wonderful dogs. in picturesque
groups, with the great palmetto
pallis AIDED coralles for the round
ups ana again by these porti-
coed houses and quintas like palaces.
Upon every stream, at the mouth
of flower-em beded canyons or set like
brown Gypsies upon mountain side
are the poor guajiros' -thatched
cabins. And every where are such
luxuriance in soil and forest, vine and
flower, that when vol reach the
splendid city of Cienfuego, as the
shadows fall, and the moon be ans
begin to glance upon its matchless bay,
one feels as though the day had been
vision of some dreamland isle where
the weird in men and the glowing in
nature have blended in magical spell
with indescribable bloom and song. -
Edgar L. Wakema's, IN Danuer Repub-
kfcG1s.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
THINK FOR YOURSELF.
Why Every Young Man Should Develop o
Mind of His Own.

I
| Mind of His Own.
| A man with out mind of his own il
the most helpless and shiftless of social
beings. His brain is mere recepta.
| Gle for shreds and patches of opinion
picked up in the streets, and the same
infrmity which leads him to look to
every body save himself for guidance,
renders him incapable of selecting
from the multifario1s counsel he re.
| ceives that which is best adapted to
his exigencies. Nay, in his weak be-
wiIderment he fails to make any Sc
lccions at all, and while he waivers
and hesitates. the golden opportunity
for decisive action slips by,
and leaves him foundering in a
predicament, from which one manly
stride in almost any direction
would extrcate him. But let the
weak of purpose take heart This
unfortunate propensity to vacillate
may be overcome. Habits of self-de-
pendence may be acquired. towards
by nature have reasoned themselves.
ere now. into phitosphic indiffer-
ence to danger and even the change
able man. whose mind has in q meas
ure lost its identity, and is accustomed
to take, for the time being, the hue of
every mind with which it comes in
contact, may learn to resolve and OK
ecute on his own responsibility: 1t
must not be supposed that we would
dissuade any one from asking advice
of the wise and experienced. or from
following it in preference to his inn
pulses. The very fact of a man seek
ing counsel in the right quarter and
promptly adopting it. is evidence that
he has a mind of his own, that his
judgment is sound, that his reason is
stronger than his vanity. 1t is not
with those who brace themselves
against q rock in time of difficulty
that we would demonstrate. but with
the leaners on reeds, the catchers at
straws. the chartless who are puffed
hither and thither by every idle bre. re.
Of all impediments to success, insta-
bility is the most fatal Every young
man. on entering the business world,
should form for himself or adopt at
the suggestion of competent advisors,
a plan of life based upon sound moral
ity, and shaped SO as to accord with
the bent and scope of his mental ca
pacity. His course chalked out, let
him take courage. and with stout
heart amid all dangers, a pure con-
science amid all temptations. and a
clear head amid all perplexities, push
forward with hope and confidence. -
Manchester (Enq. Factory Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
FULL OF FUN.

There is post-oftice In Virginia
called BLACKS and Whites.''
The great aux is an extinct bird,
undoubtedly its great auk-wardness
proved fatal.
Cats are the poets of the lower
animals. They alone cultivate the
news. Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The hotel clerk, who confdinqlv
accommodates a stranger, is apt to
find, to his grief, that he has cashed
mans cheek, instead of his check. 49,
Puck. ....
Waiter-"Have some Saratoga
chips, sah2' Wcsterner-'.Naw! /
won't have no Saratogar chips. Fetch
me Michigan saw-log and tooth
pick. ''-Critic.
Mistress Cat bre akfasD bridget,
l told you to always bake the pota-
toes, not fry them Bridget-"Yis,
mum; but it's not mesilf that can ate
baked potatys swim mornins in the
wake. IN Y Sun.
A little girl was eating green corn
by gnawing it from the cob. when her
teeth got entangled with corn-silk.
ooh, dear'' she said. impatiently, Il
wish when they get the corn made
they would pull out the basting-,
threads.'
IL see," observed Mr.. snages,
'that some eminent men think the
Garden of Eden was located in the Mis-
sissippi valley" That may be true"
replied Mrs. Snaggs. for the ark rest
ed in the Southern States.'' lit did?''
Yes. Noah came out of the Arkan-
saw land, you know" -Pttsturoh
Chronicle.
-Teacher-'.Now, children, here we
have the word Intuition; who can
tell me what it means?' Phenome-
nally Bright Scholar Intuition is that
faculty of the human mind which en-
ables person to distinguish. at a
glance. patent medicine advertise
ment from real news article. y
Judge.
Mrs. De Troit (who has just built e
new house)-''Our decorator told me
ought to have globule for the IL
brary." Dealer" Globe, you mean,
madam. Here's fine one" Mrs. De
Troit-''Yes. but want square one
to fit in a particular corner near the
fire. place. '-1td-Btts
-He-" sand so you are really at
N in al,
She (brightly-"Yes. and it is such
fun" He-'I suppose you can make
nice bread already?' She-'.No,
have nothing to do with making bread;
but l can make lovely angel cake. ]
am only taking the classical course"
N y Sun. .r. ......~
Employer" James what has be-.
come ofyo ung Jiggsby who used to be
with us?' James He has gone
We ST." Employer-'Smart young
man that Jiggsby. He'll get along at
any thing he undertakes" James--
Eyes. sir; he's bound to rise in his
present business Enployer-"What
is he in now?" james He's clerk.
ing in a powder-mill.
Stranger Qo fellow-passenger)-
From the West. STRIP Passenger
Eyes, Oshkosh Stranger
from Kalamazoo myself Passenger
so! Kalamazoo is funny
name for town. - Stranger-''Yes,
s'pose it does sound funny to man
from Oshkosh, but We Kalamazoo peo-
Pile are used to it. "-Ltfe.
-"Henry. you were talking in your
Sleep said Mrs. Jones to her hus.
band. ''What did talE aboutp' in
4uired Jones, anxiously. ''You spoke
Of 'raking in the chips. +" ''Ah, yes,''
said Jones with a relieved look
Early associations. my dear
dreamed ! was a boy again. l was
always the one to rake in the chips"
NJ
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
The LIGHT IN THE CROCK.


Each from his years OF childhood brings some
That clings and grows the more with lapse OF
time;
One story haunts me, must needs avail
Myself OF mystic spell that lies IN rhyme.
There were two sisters once who dwelt alone
In hamlet on the rugged mountain side;
Unto their rest the parents both were gone,
The rowing brothers crossed the ocean wide.
: Oh. when the household band is broken quite,
Few links of all the shining ones remain,
Shall these not then with firmer clasp unite
To form again loves old encircling chain?
Alas with years we drift SO far apart, s1
Between these two, how great a distance
layi .-r
Yet once they shared each childish joy and
smart Ey.#t. Ez . -.
And feared the separation OF day.
The elder had of gold o portion small,
That kept aloof the fear that haunts the
poor;
The younger knew each day was pledge for all
That feeble hands might toilsomely secure.
When night appeared, the elder woman rose,
And sidewise laid upon the table down
An earthen crock, from which the candle
throws
Its light on her, all else in gloomy frown.
And in the gloom, the younger sat and sewed,
And pricked her fingers oft, and strained her
sight; Ln
What marvel when the east with sunrise
gloWed,
She laughed to think no crock could hold this
light
She sang song Of greeting to the morn,
The sun that shines with equal splendor aye
To those who praise and those who proudly
scorn;
And in its beams she reveled all the day.
Then fell sense Of outlines and fear
Upon us children as we heard the tale;
And still my Nathan, Conscience. bids me hear,
Against his charge of guilt who can prevaili
, The light within the crock is synonym
To me OF all the forms of selfishness, - FIJI
Whose end is that we sit in twilight dim,
And lose the godlike power to give and bless.
Ida a. Ahtborn, in Inter- Ocean.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
NEW MEXICAN WITCHES.
The Terror of Superstitious and Igno.
rant Race of People.

The Terror of Superstitfous and Igno-
rant Race of People.
Our MYTHOLOGY is full, detailed and
graphic. Every paisano can tell you
their strange habits, their marvellous
powers and their baleful deeds. They
never injure the dumb animals, but
woe to the human being who in
ours their displeasure! Few, indeed,
are bold enough 10 brave their wrath.
If a witch asks for food, wood, cloth
ing or any thing else, none dare say
her nay. Nor dare any one eat what
a witch proffers; for, if he do, some
animal, alive and gnawing. will form
in his stomach. By day the witches
wear their familiar form. but at night,
dressed in strange animal shapes, they
fly abroad to hold witch meetings in
the mountains or to wreak their evil
wills. In o dark night you may see
them flying through the sky like so
many balls of fire. and there are COM
paratively few Mexicans in the Terri
tory who have not seen this weird
sight. For these nocturnal sallies the
witches wear their own bodies, but
take the legs and eyes of a cayote OF
other animal. leaving their own at
home. Juan Perea, male witch, who
died here in San Mateo some months
ago, met with a strange misfortune in
this wise: He had gone off with the
eyes of cat, and during his absence
dog knocked over the table and
ate up Juan's eyes; SO the unfortunate
witch had to wear cats eyes all the
rest of his life.
Before they can fly, witches are
obliged to cry out: Sin Dios, sin
Santa Mariar' (''Without God and
without the Holy Virgin.") Where
upon they mount up into the air with
out difficulty. If you are on good
terms with witch you may persuade
her to carry you ON her back from
here to New York in a second.
She blindfolds you and enjoins
strict silence. If you utter
word you find yourself alone in
some vast wilderness, and if you cry
III ,d save mel! you fall froii, fear
full height to the ground-but arc
luckily never killed by the fall. There
are several courageous people in the
Territory who have male journeys
thus upon the backs of the witches.
Al least they are ready to swear so.
and they find 10 900 believers to one
skeptic. One striking peculiarly
about New Mexico witches is that any
one named Juan or Juana (John OF
Jane) can catch them. and that no
one else can except priest with holy
water To ca CHI witch. Juan draws
a nine foot circle on the ground turns
his shirt inside out, and cries: .'Vedga.
burial (''come, witch') whereupon
the witch has to fall inside the circle,
and Juan has her completely in his
power This ability to catch witches.
however. is seldom exercised, for lei
Juan once catch a witch and all the |
other witches in the country Join
hands and whip him 10 death -Aew
Merico Cor. ST. Louis Globe Demo crat. |
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23

mingled apology and tr:umph. q
told him So
And Jerusha-wcll, she gazed in
horroz 81 the deacon and his jollity,
AID shifted out .siiialy:,
Huh, only needs some bagpipes
now, an he d look fer all the world
like Highland chief. an he deacon
in The church, too. Huh!' = Sarah c..
B. scarbo rough, IN Youths Conspau.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
The Stylish Domestic.

Wife-Pm not going to take the new
servant girl along with me any more
when I go to market.
Husband-Why not?
Because she puts on SO many airs
that people who don't knos., me think
that AM the servant aud sn. The
mistress. -1egas Sittings..
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
A diamond dealer in New York

"A diamond dealer in New York
City recently got hold of rough and
valuable gem which all the known re-
sources of art and science were insult
ficient to polish. The diamond was
kept on the polishing wheel about 100
days. the wheel making $500 revolu-
tons a minute The ordinary weight
placed upon a diamond on the wheel
is from Fl to % pounds. In this case
the weight was increased to 4 pounds.
then to s. and finally to 40, when the
diamond plowed into the wheel, throw
ing scintillations in all directions and
putting a stop to the work.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
STORE CLOS"
The Trouble Which the Dea cor
Had with the Purchase.

'.Whoap' and Deacon Smith brought
the old roam to q stand under the pop.
lar tree in the backyard.
IS pronyr'
Eyes. Josier. in a minute. Landy
sakes, Marier, stop beatin' them eggs
and run out an help your pa with all
them bundles. / didn't expect him
back for two hull hours. Pears as il
he'd bought out half of Prodville,
too.n a.
By this time she was at the door,
carefully holding her foury hands.
palms upward.
what hev you bought. Josierp'
'tWas ] thought I'd better lay in a
stock of groceries to-day. We've got
SO much ter do, calkerlated we
wouldn't none of us git ter town fer a
week agin, twan't likely:'' and the
deacon having assisted Maria with the
numerous packages. now entered with
one which he laid down with such an
embarrassed air as to awaken his
Wife's curiosity. &
what hev yon got there, Josierp"
bestowing a curious glance upon the
package. The reply not being given
by the deacon who was industriously
trying to warm himself she busted
her hands vigorously over the wood
box. wiped them upon her apron and
punched a hole in the parcel for a
glimpse of the contents. ..8
What's this. clo'sP'
.'Why,you see, Sprony. stammered
the deacon, nervously rubbing his
hands together over the stove, you
see, thought my old black panta-
looms was gettin' q leetle shiny and
Smart, down at the store, had some
new ones just from the city, and so
thought as he said they was a bar
gain. I'd just get me pair and the
old man united the package and ur-
rolled the articles to the full view of
his helpmate, anxious to have the
affair over, as he felt sure there would
be one.
Ben a-buyin' store pants, chr
was her sole ejaculation, but there
was a world Of concentration in #
and the deacon hastened 70 add anoln.
gctically: They was real chean
S'prony. only two an a half for the
pair, because they was the last of the
lot. and he said thew were ali wool
sure,
.An fidd,esticls, Tbav,re hale cot
ton. .Iosier Smith ana Smart Lnaw i
He inst knew no could 10 ,hoo, IL
Won n and sha strai ohtanad Iersslf NJ |
from the e,an;nat;en ,r;th az awrnoa
sion Of countenance which act the |
deacon to fidgeting.
But. S'prony,'' he mildly urged. |
.rhey' re cheap any way. only two an
q half. i pose thew he half cotton an,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22
$3.50 Jsexilne ExtraeF1lnry.

1 was sitting ON the ssranda Of . French
planters house in India one afternoon
when two men appeared. Their only ap-
paral was the langanti, OF ordinary cotton
cloth, about the loins. They had in their
hands an empty basket such rs grocers IN
Boston have potatoes in. They sat down
cross legg in front Of us and placed the
basket upside down before them. Then
they began, one to play vigorously upon
an instrument like fife and the other to
sing, meantime apparently not touching
the basket. After the playing had contin.
ued for some time the basket was removed
and there was an immense snake coiled up.
He was as big around as my arm and very
poisonous. In few moments he was
again coiled up and the basket placed over
him. Some more playing and the basket
was again lifted, and behold, the snake
was gone.
We sat within few feet Of the jngglers.
watched them closelyi but were unable to
fathom the mystery. / offered to way the
juggler il he wotld explain it, but he said
his father, his grandfather and his great
grandfather had all earned their living by
showing that same trick and he could not
divulge it.--BroOklyn Eagle.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22

convalescing slowly. That is you are trying to
pick up little flesh, to regain some Of your
wonted color, to accustom your stomach to more
solid nutrment than its recently enfeebled con-
dition permitted you to take How can you &C.
celerate your snails pace healthward? We are
warranted by concurrent testimony in affirming
that il you will use twice or thrice day Hos
letters Stomach Btters, an enabling tonic OF
long ascertained purity and tonic virtues, that
you will be materially aided. II promotes a
How of the gastric juices, and helps the system
TO assnilute the nourishment of which il
stands so much in need. Ii remedies n tendency
to constipation without convulsing the bowels
The liver il stimulates to renewed activity,
safely promotes the action of the kidneys and
bladder, and annihilates malaria and rheuua-
tism at the outset.