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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-14
MY PAG E.

Long years ago Htlu Nltulu my grasp
An open page-a fair. white goodly page
Whereon to write a life. l filed it full
With love and loves sweet ministries, with
home,
And the dear hOmely cares that make most full
A woman's life-my husbands shelt'ring love
And the soft prattle of baby's voice.
And then, in very peace and restfulness,
closed my eyes and said: Il thank Thee, Lord,
For life"
A moment only, then heard:
GA happy sheltered life-but tbs not thine"
1 reached my hand to grasp my treasured page;
1t closed upon a bare, blank sheet-no more!
And still the voice said: Write"
Through falling tears
That blurred the page and well-nigh hid the
lines,
With fainting heart and falt'ring hand took
The pen. Itseemed that there was nothing more
To write l could not fill the page. One bare,
Bald word came to me as 1 wrote. That word
Was duty and | wrote it DER and DER.
And then-so tender is our God so kind
The words grew luminous beneath my pen,
And as / wrote were changed TO Peace and
Joy"
''And was it then the same fair pages" All, no I!
This had a margin, wide, and deep and bare,
With many a name erased and line left out;
But twas my own-my very own-and all
had; and clutching ii with death-liIe grip,
held it to me as l wrote once more.
A whirlwind came-a tempest, fierce and wild,
Beat on my helpless head and bore me down;
1t wrenched my page away, and beat it in
The ground; and then it passed and left me
there
broken, PROSTATE thing. And ere the surge
And roar had ceased there fell upon my ear
The same word, write"
why, Lord, 1 cried chow can
L write? My page is gone; the fragments torn,
And soiled, and beaten to the earth. One scrap
Alone hold Of all that once was miner
The voice said tenderly: Take that thou hast
And write" Awestruck, listened and obeyed
l took the scrap, so pitifully small,
Smoothed out the crumpled edges and began;
And as wrote-oh, marvel unforeseen =
A hand invisible, divine, joined on
Another scrap, and smoothed the seam, and
made
1t ready for my pen.
And thus, as days
Go on, the page still grows 'Tis not the one
L fam would have; It's scanned and tempest
stained,
ANA blurred with many tears. 'Tis not the one
planned; but as look at it, know
1t is the one my Father meant for me,
And so, because He bids me, still write
Mary Rebecca Hart, in Good HouSekeepinq
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-14

Never let the sun rays strike n
mirror. 1t acts upon the mercury and
makes the glass cloudy, which all the
rubbing in tho world will not remove.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-14
heRepublican'
JAS. A. HAYDEN, Publisher.

OAKLAND. GARRETT CO.. MD.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-14

Dudley Amerling was visiting some
friends in Boston, when the following story
in one of the New York papers, which he
had just received, caught his eye:
This personal in morning paper attracted
considerable attentions GAN who have had
businessw with person calling himself Comte
de la Mauviere, beware He is an imposter
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-14

moment only, then 7 neard:
ga happy, sheltered life-but It's not thine"
reached my hand to grasp my treasured page;
1t closed upon a bare blank sheet-no more!
And still the voice said Write"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
HASH: A ESSAY.
BY PHILEMON PALAvER,

Hash are known and ct the hull
wurld over, from North and South to
East and West people likes it.
1t are the most poplerest vittles ever
got up, and the Teller, BE- he mail or fe-
mail, wat first inventid hash shood NV
cum down to prosperity arm in arm
with B. Franklin
He or she are desurvin NV it, fun
without them bordin houses wood NV
bin falayer, and hash wood NV cum
up miniss.
II are amoosin after cOnsoomin a
plat or two Nv bang-up hash 10 rekliLe
back in your cheer and wunder what
was the ingreiints NV hash away back
in the times NV Noey.
| spact Noeys Partner put hur most
fittin foot formust, and applyed the
flaverin to SCOT Noey to a dot, but Nv
wat were it made nv.
Communtaters slys the pottidge NV
them days were most likely Il sort NV
hash konsistin NV waiter and flower
billed up and varyus yurbs throwed in.
Eslw swept OF his berthrite fur wun
mess NV it. Eycthcr it were furst klass
and hard to git or else Esaw didn't
valyou his berth nuthin.
But KNOWN minds and willin hands
has labored on q improovin tell now
we hevc got hash witch are a hash.
Wen it are put tugethcr rite thare
haint no diskount on it. It's the feed
fur me.
/ kin liv on it 3 times day, and eat
it tween mCels fur Il relish.
Furthermore never yet seen dorgs
wich woodnt fife over morcsel NV
hash.
L hev ofon thort how is it sumboddy
haint inv entid consekratid hash done
up in cans like Bordin's milk or Lew.
ises's lie.
Seems to me it wood be bully thing
fur picknicks and sich.
Only jist conserve NV Teller cartiD
aroun 2 or 3 mess NV hash in his
pockit.
Or intent it be turned out in the
form desikcated cokvnut Gums in, dry
like, so as to be carrid in paper bags.
Sum Teller with he'd on him mite
make fortyun out NV this.
Eff | were yungCr | wood go into il
eve tooth and male, purvidin | Good
borry few shackcls to push it with.
Tie idec is too sublime to be forgot
Civ us sum consehrated hash, yune
man, il 3 pound cans.
Thare is all kinds NV ways, vulgeI
and unvulger, NV dcvourin hash. Sun
puts it away with kasc-nife; uthars
uses a FORK; and verAshus pursons
spoons it down.
The hccthen Chimes transfurs il
with wooden nittin-necd i Cby the
way WIN ne del full NV their hash WOOD
he sutlishunt fur me-, and the copper
injuns eats it with piece NV bark.
Thare be lots Nv waYs Nv maxim hash.
Net evrJ wun knows the kerect methud
/ don't perfess to kno it my own self
The most pervalin plan NV pr parin it
kan oily lie obtained in q Dor lin house.
-CHicugO LeiGer
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
Proof II tier Than Assertion.

With such proof as the following letter from
". III. Dean, of No. 21S Seventh street, New
York, it is not necessary to make the bare as
scrtion that ALLCoCK'S POROUS PLAsTERs cure
lumbago. Mr.. Dean says:
Some ten days ago | was taken with a very
violent pain in the small of my back. 1t was so
severe that | could hardly breathe; every move
ment caused great agony. | finally found out
1t was lumbago. Being entirely helpless, a
friend sent out to druggist and got two ALL
COCKS Porous PLAsTERS; these were well
warmed and applied to my back, one above the
other. In half an hour, to my great delight
and surprise, l found the pain began to abatc.
In two hours was able to walk out and attend
to my business, the pain being almost gone.
Next day was all right, but continued wear
Ing the plasters for a week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

When Gen. Edward McCook WIS
chosen rs Il delegate to rcpres Mt JEFF.
ferson County in the Kansas Legisla-
ture the miners considered it a question
of personal pride that their representa-.
tive should cut as "hig swath' as any
# the members from the river dis.
tricts. 1t WAS the duty of thu hour to
array III as became his station and
the vast and glorious country he rep
resented. In those days raiment was
very tri!iing consideration, but the
wardrobe of the pioneer was not con-
2idered elaborate enough for so great
a parsonage as the delegate from the
golden Rockies. SO an inventory was
ordered, and after two weeks ride all
over the Territory the committee
brought in a bottle-9roen overcoat
with satin lapel, a plug hat of the
last century, and pair of very dilapi-
dated trousers. A stray tailor was
iouni to patch the last, and at the
proper time Gen. McCook was salts.
factorlly arrayed, and clad in his bot
tIe--Sreen coat, his plug hat polished
and glossy, AID his new trousers, he
vas accompanied out of town by an es-
'ort OF one hundred picked men, and in
oval state started upon his long Jour-
ley to the capital.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

where it is deposited. Not only one,
but perhaps fifty cells are performing
this same work at the same time, and
the number of stones brought down is
astonishing, the heap growing so that
in time it almost forms an obstruction
to navigation. One of these stone
heaps that | know of in the Saco, dis
covered by John NJ Bachelor, of Cam
bridge, is situated about three miles
from the ocean, in the ripple near the
lower fall, and in 1885 it was fifteen
feet long and from one to three feet
high.
Mr.. Bachelor writes me that he is
going to examine and measure it again
this year. Some of the stones that he
saw carried by the fishes weighed two
pounds, while yet larger ones were
transported by two fishes This heap
was the fertilization of the cells, piled
up as protection for their eggs and
young, the former being deposited in
the pile, and finding security in the re-
cesses of the curious fort, where the
young remain until they are able to
care for themselves. -Hdlper'S Young
PeODle
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
THE SAVAGE WAY,
How the Indian Treats nm Injury-<
Timn NIeIhnhn

Time Methods,
! The savage is emphatically the child of ma
ture He lives close to nature, his only edu-
cat on is gained in natures school,
| When the Indian receives an injury, he
does not seek cure in mineral poisons, but
binds on the simple leaf, administers the herb
al tea, and, with natures aid, comes natural
recovery.
! Our rugged ancestors. who pierced the
! wilderness, built their uncoulh but comforta-
J bic Log Cabins and started the clearings in
the woods which in time became the broad,
fertile fields OF the modern farmer, found in
roots and herbs that lay close at hand ma
| lures potent remedies for all their common
: ailments. 1t was only in very serious cases
. they sent for old 'saddle-bags" with his
physic, which quite as often killed as cured
latter-day society has wandered too far
away from nature, i'll every way for its own
good Our grardfathers and grandmo' hers
lived wholesomer, purer, Letter, healthier,
more natural lives than we do. Their minds
were not filled with noXious isms, nor their
bodies saturated with poisonous drugs
/ Is it not time 10 make change, to return
to the mple vegetable preparat ons of our
grandmothers which Contained the power
and potency of nature remedial agents.
and i'll ali the ordinary ailments Were ellica-
cions, at least harmless!
The proprietorS of Warmers Log Cabin
remedies have thought so, and have put on
the market a numher of these pure vegetable
preparations, made from formulas secured
after patient searching into the annals of the
past so that those who want them need not
be without them.
Among these Log Cabin remedies will be
found Log Cabin sarsaparilln,' for the
blood Log Cabin hops and buchu remedy"
tonic and stomach remedy; Log Cabin
cough and consumption remedy" log
Cabin hair toniC,h for strengthening and r.
newing the hair; Log Cabin extract" for
both external and internal application; Log
Cabin liver pills. Log Cabin rose cream"
an old hut effective remedy Tor catarrh and
"Log Cabin plaSters." All these remedies
are carefully prepared from recipes which
were found, after long investigation to have
been those most successfully used by our
grandmothcrs OF ''ye olden time" They are
the simple, vegetable, eilicacious remedies CT
Log CABIN daYs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
The Origin Of Tea.

ne tea-plant grew for endless
centuries in Central Asia. and the
guileless Celestials hlandlv assert that
the drink wa' invented by Chin Fong
some i've thousand years ago. A po-
etc version makes it sixteen huudrs d
years ago, and gives the following &C.
count of its earliest appearance: an
the reign of Iuen Ty in the dyna tv of
Tsin, an old woman was accustomed to
proceed every morning ut davbreak to
the market-placa, carrying cup of tea
in her hand. The people bough5 it
caGerl Y, and yet from the break OF day
to the close of evening the cup was
never exhausted. The money rec iyad
was distributed among orphans and
begSars. The people seized and con-
fined her in pris N. At night she few
through the prison windows with her
little vase in her hand" If You care
to do so you can read this story and
enjoy it i'll the original Chinese of the
"Chl Pu," or Ancient History Of
Tea" and will no doubt find tn
translation exact.
Tea was not heard of in China again
for three centuries and half when u
U III IllcSG Is Sill W nave duNiSeu
its use as a medicine. In the ninth
century, an old begSar from Japan
took some of the seeds and plants
back with him to his native land. The
japanese relished the new drink, and
built al Osaka temple to the memory
of those who introduced it. This tenn
pie is still standing, though now al
most seven hundred years old. Grad
ual.y the people of Tartary and Persia
also learned to love- the drink, and
serve it all hours of the day.
The honor of introducing the herb
into Europe may be considered due
Cqua ly to the Dutch and Portuguese.
Early in the seventeenth century tea
Became known among persons Of
qualify" in Europe, and in 1902 some
Dutch traders carried q quantity OF
sage (Which was then used to make q
drink popular in Europe) to China,
and by some ingenious device succe d.
ed in making the Acknowledged tea
drinker think it a fair exchange for an
equal quantity of very good tea, which
was brought home in safety and with
out the loss of single Dutchman.
e. II. Libby, IN ST. Nicholas.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

The New York sun prints list of
names of tifty-two men, all Of whom
have exceeded in years the allotted
are still actively engaged in the routine
Of daily pursuit for bread. The ages
range all the way between seventythrec
and a hundred and two. The oldes5 is
NJ. +. Cheyreul, a chemist, who still
daily haunts h laboratory; the young
est the Iron Chancellor of the German
Empire. The illustrious list is worth
r1Deating:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

"Ycs, Lizzie. like to do fancy work, but |
haven't felt like trying that pattern-or any
thing clse-for week. These awful dragging
down pains are just killing me-" Il know how
you feel, and can tell you where to look for
relief. DIR. Piercc's Favorite Prescription is a
certain cure for all those peculiar weaknesses
and distressing ailments. Why. it even cured
me of prOlapsus, and many of my lady friends
culiar 10 our sex by this wonderful medicine"
1t is the only medicine sold by druggists, under
positive guarantee from the manufacturers,
that it will give satisfaction in every case, Cy
money refunded. Real Garantec on bottle
wrapper.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

l vENERATE old age; and l love not
the man who can look without emotion
upon the sunset of life, when the dusk
OF evening begins to gather over the
watery eye, and the shadows of twi-
light grow broader and deeper upol
the understanding. -L0nUeli0w.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
TIE LITTLE FOLKS.
Master Squirrel.

Master Squirrel, blithe and CAV,
ZONE and live VITA me, pray
Nuts bave for thee to crack
Gngerbrea1 thou 1t never lack;
Srgar-plums and popcorn sweet
r'or thy pleasauce shalt thou eat.
Agilded cage shall be thy nest
bed of down thy place of rest;
a life of ease thy lot shall be-
If thou wilt come and live with me,
Nay, my winsome lit 10 maid,
prefer the glen and glade;
IN the tree have my home,
Il Throu III the woods Pm free TO roam.
Nuts have | aud exc to spare,
Fruits and cora and berries rare.
When the sp3rtsman's gun | hear,
Many hiding place is near.
a golden cage and wealth to me
Are no exchange for liberty.
III. L. FClcOtt, in 81. Nicholas.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

Translated from the French: Tell
me- he said to the doctor. tell me
frankly, is there any hopef Yes. sir:
a great deal. The statistics show that
one ont of every hundred with your dis
ease recoveis' 'WonF You are the
hurdredth enc have treated for the
ma ady, and | did not cure one Of the
ninety -nin3 others. st. Louis 'Maga-
nj
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
His Cup Mns OyerfoMing.

Don't fret, John" said Mrs. Wig
gins, You've lost nearly everything
You Lad in the world, | know, but re-
member you've still got me-"
"l es, !" said John, with another heart
ielt gioa9. That's just what l was
thinking
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

That catarrh will in time wear out. The theory
is false. Men try to believe it because it would
be pleasant if true, but it is not, as all know;
remain unsubducd. II Is liable to develop into
catarrh. You can rid Yourself of the cold and
avoid all Glance of catarrti by using DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. If already afflicted rid your
self of this troublesome disease speedily by the
same means. All all druggists,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
For Rickets, Marasnus, and Wasting Dis.
order. Of Children,

SCOTr'S EMULSION of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosrh;;cs is uncqualo' The rlpidity
with which oh ldlel gain FISH and strength
upon il is v'ry wo darful. Reld the o low
ing 81 have use SCOTS En- lsio in cases of
Ricketts, AMI Mara muS of long standing and
ave been mo g than pleased with the rcsu IS.
as in every Cle the Improvement was
mavked."-J. VI MAIN, D., New York.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

Augustine Birrell, the author cf Obs
ter Dicta, in his essay On Matthew Az
nod. which WI apl ear in G Novem-
Der 'Scribnel's, asserts that Mr.. Arnold,
to those who Gaze for him at al, was
the most useful poet of his day
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

AGE craeps along on all. Only few
years ago and TyEdall and Huxley
we're the sci nitic polemics of the times.
Now tits announc Il that they have re-
ired, desiring tho rGpose Of old age,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
No Time TO Waste

Clerk--"Gloves, did you say, Nissi
Something with six buttons."
Country Girl-"Without buttons. ]
amt got time to fool away half m hour
every time put 'em on.-LYe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

In Japan the old-schoOl physicians are PER
mlted TO wear only wooden swords. This is %
gently sarcastic way OF expressing the opinion
that they kill enough people without using
weapons. But the druggist who introduced
DR. Picrcc's Golden Medical Discovery into the
Empire carries Il fine steel blade. 1t was found
that all who tried this wonderful remedy for
coughs, Gods, Consumptvc tendencies, blood,
skin and l!reI troubles, WERE without cXccp-
ton, greatly benefited. The Mikado himself is
said TO have toned up" his system by its use,
and the importer was therefore permitted
the exceptional honor of wearing the sword Of
the nobility.
Forest Is axe springing up o. the aba idon
mines ard mi ilg towns in California.
If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
ThoIrpsun's Eye water. Druggists sell at c
ner hOttlr.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

\ GIRL in Omaha has sued railroad
company for 81 500. From the looks of
the figures it has been suggested that
she must have been clerk in 99-cept
store.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
DIGNITY.
by THOS. 7. CRANE.

! "V"' ~ cildnce lo
smile. Dig
nifty is often assumed by people of very
ordinary intclli .ence, who are continu.
ally laboring under the delusion that
they are exceptionally cute or knowing
Individuals of the ape tribe have a nat
Itral tendency to assume wise and
Gignitied expression of countenancc.
can only account fer this tend ancv to
wear a dignitied look by the fact that q
monkeys mind has never been able t.
grasp or comprehend the witty or hut
morous side of life. The most palpable
CT transparent humor, so to speak, is
too deep for their comprehension. SO,
not being used t. the habit OF
smiling, their countenancos naturally
retain a dignihcd and grave appear.
anc2. If an ape could only be induced
to comprehend little of the humorous
or iuJicrous, he could shake off that
grave and digniti'd aspect. He would
then appear less stern and forbidding,
and more congenial to the community
at large. There are many other ami
mails who hlbitually retain dignificd
countenancc. [ will not cnumcrate
them, for their name is legion-o1
words to that effect Their principal
excuse for being dignified is that they
cannot help it; it is natural for them
to be So 1t is natural for us to suppose.
then, that all dignifed people are not
wise or learned. There is nothing
necessary to success in life rs much as
a self-confident and dignified APP
pcarance. A young man with
plenty of pluck and dignity in
makeup will succeed where q shrewder
but less confident and energetic one
will fail. Dignity is, therefore, quite as
much a necessity as anything else.
Some people are IN the habit of con-
tlnually wearing sour, unsympathetic
and chilly visagc. Nothing seems to be
able to disturb their equilibrium or dis
place their hGbitual chilliness. A
great many people who are in the habit
of being cheerful and warm by nature
mistake this sourness for dignity, and
have, therefore, no idea of what true
dignity means. They think that dig
nifty means GOODNESS. Let us be earn
est and sincere while attending to bust
ness, and let us find time for smiles and
fun occasionally when nature seems to
call Tor 1t. l have seen persons who
We're never known to relax their dig
nifty, even on the most mirthful and
ludicrous occasions. 1t seems to
me that people who will mot laugh
when nature seems TO call for laugh
are not in their normal condition. If
man refrain from laughing to pre-
serve his dignity, let him remember
that a COW is also Il very dignified per-
sonagc, and will not smile on the most
mirth-provoking occasions. She does
not think it is good form" to smile
In nine instances out of ten, when II
person refrains from laughter when it
is time to laugh he is too oEtuso and
unsophisticated TO SEQ the point Of tho
joke. There i great deal of hypoc-
r.sy, pride, and cgotism in much of the
false dignity that we meet with and
mistake for trlln DIGNITY
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. Do Not Think for n Moment

The pre- eat session of Congress is the loHg
est in t @ history of tn, R'pu l'c
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Very Sensible /" .JapS."

f Sc ker, of II lin Pa, las collected
over eight hu red boxes of bIttcril es,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17
E.f's ,.CATARRH
CREAM BALM s:;z:;s

I SUFFERED iron
cdtdr1h II years
The droppings int
the throat WcTe ndt
seating. MynoScbiet
almost daily Sin"
frstddys useoCEly'
Cream Balm hdr
hat no bieeding
soreness is Crtirei
gone. ID. @. Daricl
son, cith BoStO,
Budget.