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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-07-13
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
POLLYS ADVENTURE.

Dear brother Ben, take my pen
To tell you where, and how, and when
! found the nest Of our speckled hen.
She would never lay in a sensible way,
Like other hens, in the barn on the hay,
But here and there, and everywhere,
On the stable floor, and the woodhouse stair;
And once on the ground her eggs found;
But yesterday 1 ran away,
With mothers leave in the barn to play.
The sun shone bright on the seedy floor,
And the doves so white were pretty sight
Ind they walked in and out OF the open door,
With their little red feet and their feathers
neat
Cooling and cooling more and more.
Well, went out to look about
On the platform wide, where side by side,
could see the pig-pens in their pride;
And beyond them both on q narrow shelf,
saw the speckled hen hide herself
Behind pile Of hoes and ralxes,
And pieces OF board and broken stakes.
All! ha! old hen have found you now,
But to reach your nest don't know how.
Unless could creep, or climb, or crawl
Along the edge OF the piS-pen wall.
And while stood in thoughtful mood,
And flew away, as much as TO say:
For once my treasure is out OF your way"
/ didn't wait moment then;
1 wouldn't be conquered by that old henl
But along the edge of the slippery ledge
carefully crept, for the great pigs slept
And dared not even look to see
If they were thinking OF eating me-.
But all at once oh, what dunce
/ dropped my basket into The PEN
The one you gave me, brother Benz.
There were two eggs in it, by the way,
That found in the manger, under the hay.
Then the pigs got up and ran about
With noise between grunt and shout;
And when saw them roofing, roofing,
OF course slipped and lost my footing,
And trpped, and jumped, and finally fell
Right down among the pigs pellmelL
For once in my life was afraid
For the door that led out into the shed
Was fastened tight with an iron hook
And father was down in the field by the brook,
HoeiHg and wedding his rows Of corn,
And here was his Polly so scared and forlorn
But called him, and called him, as loud as
could
I knew he would hear me-he must, and he
should.
40 father! father!-get out, you old pig!
o father! oh! OH for their mouths are so
big
Then waited moment and called him again:
20 father! o father! 1 am in the pig-pen."
And father did hear, ald he threw down his
hoe,
And scampered as fast as father could go.
The pigs had pushed me close to the wall,
And munched up basket. eggs and all,
And chewed my sunbonnet into ball.
And one had rubbed his muddy nose
All over my apron clean and white;
And they snuffed me and stepped upon my toes,
But hadn't taken the smallest bite
When father opened the door at last,
And oh, in his arms he held me fast
The Voice.
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Names of Post-Omces.

Postmaster General Wanamaker
would accomplish a beneficent reform
If he would overhaul the list of the
SO, 600 post-otfices of this country, and
compel change in some of the ridicu-
lous appellations that now belong to
them. There is no particular objection
to Aquashicola, Wapwallopen, Passa-
dumkeag, Punxsutawney, Wytopitlock,
Daguscahonda, Mattawumkeag, Kisha-
coquillas, Wanepashemet, Quijotoa,
Skaneateles, Qushochontaug, Aqua
Caliente or fatigue, providing they
mean anything in this particular. And
there may be some excuse for Blue
Eyes, Dew Drop, Baby Head, Early
Dawn. Sweet Lips. Bridal Veil, Rose
Bud, Daisy Dell, Sweet Home, Dell De-
light. Keep Tryst, Prairie Queen, and
80 on. But when it comes to calling a
post-off1ce Big Shanty, Burnt Cork,
Dry Bones, Happy Jack, Hanging
Dog, Hat OF, Horse Gall, Hump Back,
Little Chucky, Mouse Tail, Negro
Foot, Parch Corn. Pay Up, Pink Bed,
Ouid Nunc, Rabbit Hash, Rough and
Ready, Rye Patch, Sal Soda. Scalp
Level, Shoe Fly and Short, there
seems to be room for reform. Boston
Herald.
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ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
1t Is Excellent, But Those Who Need Il
VIII Probably Not Take 1t.

VIII Probably Not Take 1t.
Don't mistake notoriety for fame.
DO not let others spend the money
you earn.
Don't do work unworthy of you il
you can avoid it.
Don't say Il am gentleman" it is
never necessary.
Be loyal to death to those who have
befriended you.
When you assist the needy don't do
it ostentatiously.
Silence is the best weapon to use
against vulgar and spiteful tongue.
In ninety-nine cases in hundred the
man you wish dead outlives you.
Don't introduce lady's name when
you wouldn't introduce the lady.
Don't count much on friendships
formed in cafes. They never turn out
well.
Remember impertinence isn't wit,
any more than insolence is brilliancy.
If young men will not believe in
themselves, no man or woman can be-
lieve in them.
Don't indulge in the luxury of strong
opinions in the presence OF your elders
and betters.
If you haven't the moral courage to
laugh at sneerers, then you are another
of natures mistakes.
Don't talk abont what you are going
to do; then, if you fail to accomplish it,
nobody will know.
If you learn that people say spiteful,
wicked things about you, and untruth-
full things at that, be silent.
1t isn't very nice thing for young
man, or any one for that matter, to
smile in superior way at ignorance.
Do not be afraid to go near your
enemy. The nearer you get to kick
ing horse the less damage will result
to your person.
Never let day pass without think
ing seriously, if only for moment, OF
death. 1t will rob it Of more than hall
its terrors.
Treat all men and women consider.
ately and you will be surprised at the
dividends that will come to you daily
and yearly.
The man wLo does a generous act
and lets the world into the secret shows
the world a peach after rubbing the
bloom from it.
Cultivate cheerful frame of mind
and the mind will mold the face and
the tongue and the voice into some.
thing irresistible.
You never want to listen compla.
Gently to injudicious or extravagant
praise nor to ''funny" stories at the
expense of women.
If you do good piece of work in
finance, journalism, politics, art, music
or literature, do not spoil it by volun
tarily speaking of it complacontly; and
on the other hand, do not speak of il
disparagingly.-Once Week.
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"You are a brave girl. Show

"You are a brave girl. Show THU
paper to each teacher in the building
as quietly and promptly as you have
done the rest, and all, trust, will be
we'll" go.
She then turned to the desk and gave
the signal for closing work. The
pupils, who were porting over their
problems in fractions, were surprised,
but were too we'll drilled to give other
than prompt obedience. The imple-
ments of work were put by. the pupils
rose, filed out, and in five minutes the
building was empty, Miss Elvo. her.
self. as principal. moving softly about
and quietly helping matters along.
When the last pupil was gone, her
thoughts reverted to Bertha. She
looked in the dressing-room belonging
to the division. Yes, there hung the
well-known gray pussy" hood with its
blue trimmings, and the long warm
sack that belonged with it, but where
could Bertha be?
"She has proved that she could take
care Of herself" was Miss Elvo's con-
solatory thought, and as she had pri-
vately told the teachers to assemble in
the lower hall when the pupils were
gone, she fastened down to meet them.
They were all there, and the story OF
the sudden suspension of school duties
was soon told. .-'
1--WE must do something" said the
first assistant, looking vaguely about
and wringing her hands, but at that
moment they heard the fire-engine roll
up. The chief alighted from his horse,
and was met in the hall by the bevy OF
teachers. When, after a respose to his
inquiries, he started for the basement
they followed him.
There, smeared and wet, and sur
rounded by the now decreasing smoke,
stood Bertha throwing water upon the
burning woodwork and joists. 1t had
caught from defective fue leading
from the furnace to the register above.
the temporary closing Of which had
prevented the escape OF the smoke into
the hall. She had carried the water,
in large tin pail, from the hydrant in
the yard, but few steps from the door
leading down to the basement.
Although she had not succeeded in
quenching the fire entirely, she had
prevented it from spreading by keeping
the surrounding woodwork wet, and
with very little effort on the part of
the firemen it was soon entirely ex-
tinguished.
Much praise was showered upon Ber-
tina for her bravery and wisdom. but I
think her first wise step was in giving
careful attention and picking up new
scrap of knowledge, for without it even
her bravery would have been useless
perhaps. -ClaraJ. Denton, in Christian
at Work.
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sWEET.scENrEp NOTES.
Glance Into Some of the Secrets of the
Perfumer's Art.

A Glance Into Some of the Secrets of the
Perfumer's Art.
The export of find perfumery is prin-
cipally from Grasse, Nice, Cannes and
Bremen. The business is divided into
two parts. The manufacturer extracts
from the flowers their essential oils.
The perfumer buys these oils, pomades
and extracts, and compounds them in
several ways. Only about a dozen of
all the fragrant flowers in the world
are used in the manufacture of per-
fumery, viz: The violet, rose, orange
flower, jasmine, tuberose, cassia, laven-
der, thyme, rosemary, geraniums, jon
quill and fenuel. The rose and the
orange are the most valuable. Of the
numerous varieties of the rose, only
one is used-the Provence rose, single.
pale, pink, the most sweet smelling of
roses; not hardy. Picking for per-
fumery occurs in almost every month
of the year.
1t is paradoxical fact in the bust
ness that the bitter orange yields the
best blossoms for perfumary. One ton
of blossoms yields two pounds, eight
ounces of Gil neroli. The fruit of the
bitter orange yields very fine essen
tial oil, bigarade. 1t is used in many
scents. The orange tree, cultivated
for its oil, lasts, with care, over
two hundred years: One ton of
the distilled leaves of the scented
verbena geranium yields from twenty
four to thirty ounces of the essential
oil. The flowers of the jasmine are
picked just after sunset in July, and in
the morning, as soon as the dew is off,
in August. The jasmine is peculiarly
delicate flower. Its essential oil is so
volatile that it can not be extracted by
distillation, the heated water decom-
posing it so that only faint tinge of
the perfume is left in the water that
passes through the refrigerant. Like
the jasmine, the oil of the tuberose
can not be extracted by distillation.
The perfume of the cassia is much
used in compounds. The process of
manufacturing perfumes is in itself
very interesting, especially to the
ladies. A ton of roses yields only two
ounces of the altar, ottar or otto. If
kept at temperature below 600 altar
crystallizes; If kept open to the air and
light it is easily volatilized. Perfumed
oils are made by putting fresh quanti-
ties of flowers into the finest of virgin
| olive oil, from twenty to thirty differ
ent times. The essential oil of flowers
has strong affinity to lard or grease.
The latter, rendered as white as snow,
is perfectly saturated with the flowers.
The process is repeated many times.
In this way we have pomade of rose,
orange. cassia and violet. The affinity
of the perfume of flowers for alcohol is,
however, stronger than that for grease.
Pomades, immersed in alcohol, are rem
dered into extracts, the grease leaving
the perfume. IN. W Times.
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JAY COOKE RICH AGAIN.
vicissitudes of Fortune in the Career of tn,
Noted Banker.

Noted Banker.
Among the pushing throng of Broad
way to-day was an old gentleman clad
more in the garb of countryman than
that OF a great financier. His clothes
were plain, and his white SLOUGH hat
with its broad brim gave him the APP
pearance of well-to-do-farmer. The
hair and beard of Jay Cooke is now
snow white, but he still moves along
as if contented with life. No one
familiar with his everyday appearance
would think he was the famous banker,
the man who has handled more mil
lions than any other private individual
in America; failed for more money
than any other, and finally has grown
rich again after he had grown old.
While he is by no means as familiar a
figure as he used to be, and does not min
gle in the uncertainty of ''the street"
as of yore, he is more frequently seen
among the hustle of business than al
most any man OF his age.
Jay Cooke has had singular career.
When the war broke out he lived out
along Lake Erie, at Sandusky, and Sal
mon P. Chase, while Secretary of the
Treasury, first gave him a big start in
life, which he followed to disaster, and
then built anew from nothing. Mr..
Cooke never forgot or neglected his
home in Ohio, and one of his charities,
is a beautiful home on an island in
Lake Erie, few miles from Sandusky,
which he bought and named ''Gibral-
tar" He had it laid out in wild,
romantic walks, and built commodi-
Gus stone castle upon it. He provided
the house with every imaginable COM
fort and put into it competent house
keeper. To this retreat he would in
vite each summer ministers of the gos-
pei of different denominations who
could lily afford to take summer
vacation.
Mr.. Cooke lives with his son-in-law
now, Mr.. Barney, who does business
near the famous old clearinghouse on
Third street, in Philadelphia, over
which Mr.. Cooke once presided, and
where the Northern Pacific railroad
was projected. In many respects Jay
Cooke will go down to history as one
of the remarkable men Of our time. In
a little church out at Frankfort, near
Philadelphia, he has son preaching
to congregation who can hardly af-
ford to pay him salary enough to liqui-
date his horse hire. So the curious
turns of life are again illustrated in
Mr.. Cookies career and in that of the
family he has raised. IN. Y. Letter.
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"a STILL ALARM"
A Brave Little Girls Presence of Mind
True Story.

A Brave Little Girls Presence of Mind
True Story.
Bertha's dull pencil left awkward fig
ures in its track across the slate. This
would not do, for Miss Elvo insisted
upon neatness as well as accuracy in
the work of her pupils. Bertha. there
fore. with distressed little quicker be-
tween her dark eyebrows, raised her
hand.
"Well," said Miss Elvo, looking at
her.
MY pencil is very dull-may 1 go
out and sharpen it?" she said.
1t was the custom within this great.
brick school building, known as mo.
4" to have the pencils put in perfect
working condition before school was
called in the morning. Then they were
passed around in a neat box, and each
pupil took out her own. In some mys-
FERROUS way Bertha's pencil had es-
capeG the sharpening process. and its
hard-worhed point of the previous day
was unfit for use. Miss Elvo looked
a rare CONFERENCE.-The box was empty.
She therefore granted somewhat I'M
willing consent to Bertha's petition.
Bertha tip-toed across the floor, shut
the poor softly and went through the
long hall to the back door and into the
chill winter air. Standing in shell
tered corner on the back porch. she be-
gan to sharpen her pencil. While
working away busily she took her eyes
a moment from her task and immedi-
ately discovered thin curl of smoke
issuing from one of the basement win
dows. 1t could mean but one thing
the hui ding was on fire! Her decision
was Immediately taken. Only the
night before she had heard her father
explain to her brother how to give a
''still alarm" How glad she was that
she had listened attentively to his in
structions. for it was now, above all
things, necessary to have the fire COM
pany arrive quietly without alarming
the pupils. There was telephone in
the store on the corner, and in less
than five minutes the message had
reached the chief of the fire depart
ment and Bertha was speeding on her
way back to the school building. She
paused few moments in the hall, near
the door of the room where she be-
longed. to quiet her rapid breathing
and calm her frightened face. When
she entered her room, instead of going
to her seat, she went straight to the
teachers desk. Miss Elvo admired
and loved her; she was one of those de-
lightful children who are always heart
lily in earnest in heir undertakings.
There was nothing unusual in her ap-
pearance now save CLINT in her dark
eyes and small red spot on either
cheek. From these signs Miss Elvo,
who was keen observer, allowed her
to step upon the rostrum unchecked.
She turned her back upon the school
and said in low, but distinct, whis-
per: 49,
Miss Elvo. there is fire in the
basement; l have been to the corner
and sent in still alarm. &c..
Miss Elvo's cheek paled little, but
she took a pencil Immediately and
wrote on scrap of paper:
D smiss your pupils quietly, but as speedily
as possible. Mis- ELvo."
She handed this to Bertha, saying in
Low voice:
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ENGLISH DESERTERS.


The Causes Inducing Them to Abandon
Military Service.
Pure and simple dislike to the service
seems to be the common cause for de-
sertion, but it is interesting to note the
reasons given by deserters themselves
for the extreme course they have
adopted. The chaplain OF London
prison some time ago made an attempt
to find out from the GIG men confined
there for desertion the causes which had
induced them to abandon the colors.
Of this number 161 informed him that
they had left the army because they
fervently hated the life which they
found themselves obliged to lead; ia
confessed that drink had been the cause
of their misbehavior; 100 that they had
deserted Ito better themselves" Y
urged that they had allowed themselves
to be influenced by the persuasions Of
bad companions; 81 had gone on the
spree, had overstayed their leave, and
had not been able to pluck up courage
to return to their regiments, through
fear OF the consequences of their indis-
erection; 4S had been so badgered by
their comrades, or had found the treat
ment f,the non-commissioned officers so
harsh, that they had been driven to
seek a refuge in flight; Al had absented
themselves for some cause or other,
and disclaimed any real intention of de-
sorting; debt had driven 16 to take the
fatal step; dozen had run away because
leave had been refused them; and. fin
ally, one had absconded because he had
been foolish enough to get married
without leave. All The Year Round.
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USES OF MIRRORS.
Flashing Light Into Dark Nooks by Means
of Looking Glasses.

Flashing Light Into Dark Nooks by Means
of Looking Glasses.
The use of a mirror for rejecting the
sun seems to run from the extremes of
boyish ROBUSTNESS in flashing the suns
rays upon the eyes of some companion
or even older persons, if the distance
be sufficient -and then reaches to the
other extreme of using it to flash the
SUMS rays for heliotrope signals in the
coast survey or army service, or to
measure the detection of a galvanom-
eter needle. But there is vast middle
space of practical usage of mirrors,
apart from that Of individual vanity,
which is rarely thought of.
A gentleman in Boston, calling at an
Office in the upper part of building,
stated his intention of calling upon a
man in distant part of the city. and
was told that his party had recently
opened an Office on the other side of the
same street, and in the upper part Of a
building of the same height.
On looking across to the opposite win
dow. the gentleman was seen hard at
work and too busy to look up. How
ever, a large mirror was unhung in the
toilette room, and the suns rays flashed
upon his face in a manner that startled
him and dazzled his eyes, first causing
him to jump and binding him.
At first he was indignant at the i'm
proper liberty taken with his visual
organs, and looked out of the window
as fierce as forty-pounder, threaten
ing and breathing out slaughter upon
the youngster should he be in sight.
A few gesticulations. however, soon
made the party across the street under
stand that he was to be called upon.
In the boyhood days Of the writer he
remembers looking into new pump
which had been thoroughly spiked the
night before it was to be placed in the
well, by means of some rocks which
were pushed in about midway and
wedged against each other. l.....
Various plans for their removal had
been suggested, the most practicable of
which was to saw the pump in two and
join it together again somehow. The
writer suggested that a mirror be
brought, and the sunlight flashed in to
reveal the position of the stones. A
bar of wrought-iron was bent to a
hook, suitable to the condition of af-
fairs, and extricated the stones one by
one, the mirrow showing the openings
of light so that the person could work
efficiently and intelligently.
Objects lost in wells have been dis
closed by means of the suns rays
thrown down upon them by mirrors.
Dark easements in cities are lighted by
means of mirror surface of total re-
flecting prisms, made out of decidedly
cheap glass, and held in proper posi-
ton in racks placed in alleyways, under
gratings forming part of the walk
Electrical Review.
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NORWAY,s ThRALpoM.
a condensed Historical Review by the
Greatest of Norwegian Poets.

O'o"IesC OF norwegian fOeIss
During the long period that Norway
was united with Denmark (1450-1814)
all official positions in the country were
almost exclusively held by Danes, and
1t frequently happened that they were
totally unfit for their post, and did not
even understand the language Of the
peasants.
Less than the many errors and the
lnsolence of these officials was needed
70 arouse the Independent spirit of the
Norwegian peasantry, who during the
long union with Denmark never for a
moment had allowed any encroach-
ment upon their independence, which
the feudal right to their farms, in
nerlted from their forefathers, had
Tor generations-nay, for centuries
maintained.
An attempt to bind Norway more
closely to Denmark was made by in
ouclng some of the sons of the old
peasant families on the large farms to
stay for some time in Denmark. Most
OF these farms are found in the heart OF
the country, and INT the Throudhjem
district, and many are found on the
coast as far up as Nordland. These
sons We're to be made noblemen-which
they, however, thought they already
FL tHlhi They were at first to go through
: todrse of military discipline and to
learn "good manners" but the attempt
proved miserable failure, for the lads
gave the officers and their teachers a
sound thrashing, and got up a mutiny,
and had at last to be sent home again.
An attempt to organize Norwegian
corps Of Lifeguards, in attendance
upon the King at Copenhagen, was just
as unsuccessful, and terminated in the
same way. Such occurrences, how
ever, tended to strengthen the claim of
the country for national independence.
What was Norwegian could not be
made Danish; this was gradually being
understood.
Thus the yearning for independence
developed quietly, and soon found a
mouth-piece in the Norske Selskab (the
Norwegian Society, a literary gather
ing of Norwegian students at the Co.
penhageu University; their victorious
isticuffs with their Danish brethren
became in time spiritual alliance for
the welfare of the father-land. The
ancestral pride of these Independent
odel-peasants had long been the nat
ural foundation for this awakening
patriotism; now it also became the
historical-legal ground for their claim
for political self-government. In due
time it attained its end, when Norway
in 1914 became an independent king
dom.
Then the people entered upon new
era, which quickly discovered them
from their old barbarous customs, and
in which the natural strength and abil-
ity of the people reached to attain
ments which united what hitherto had
been disunited and hostile.
Under this gradual growth, with self
made laws, and with municipal as well
| as national self-government, with an
increasing enlightenment and good
schools, with newspapers, with liter
allure, with lectures, meetings, political
and social movements, the people have
made astonishing progress, and under
this newly awakened life the old-fash-
Toned religious intolerance has become
an archaism. -Bjornstjerne Bjornson,
in Harper's Magazine.