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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-24
THE LEGAL PROFESSION.
To Be Successful Lawyer Must Have
the Gift of Inspiring Confidence.

To Be Successful a Lawyer Must Have
the Gift of Inspiring Confidence.
Twas deeply interested in CONVEX
sation that | heard to-day between an
old lawyer and young man who was
bent on studying law. Every young
ster who has the gift of CAB thinks he
would make his fortune as a lawyer"
said the aged barrister. but the
truth is that there is nothing that a
lawyer has less use for. or that will
bring him less money, than the ability
to make good speech. Som5-po
pie seem to think that lawyer
spends all of his time in argumentsto
the jury, but the men in Chicago who
are making the most money out OF the
profession. seldom or never see iup.
A man may make piles of moneyin
the law business without ever leaving
his Office. The most valuable, and the
only indispensable talent that law
yer can have is the faculty of inspir-
ing confidence. That gift is one of the
rarest and most inscrutable talents
that / know Of. Sometimes | think
that the less real merit a lawyer has
the more readily he inspires confidence
and gets business. If you have the
knack 81 inspiring confidence. YOU can
get all the business you want, and it
is not at all essential that you should
be able to attend to the business
either. You can hire some splendid
lawyer to do it for you for mere
song But if people do not naturally
take to you and confide in you as
counsellor, you had better jump in the
lake than to undertake to practice
law. Chicago Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-24
Southern Negro Superstitions.

Women in the North have trouble
enough over the servant girl question,
but their ways are paths of pleasant
ness compared with those OF Southern
women-except that the Southern wo-
man is less disturbed over the moro
serious situation. When Virginia
woman wants TO change girls she is
compelled to go at least three days
without any girl at all. The kitchen
help Is black, OF course. and supersti-
tious. No colored girl will go into a
house until three days after the retir-
ing help has vanished, for fear of being
''tricked''-in other words, hoodooed.
placed under spell-by the dismissed
help Whatever the colored person
doesn't understand he fears. He is full
of superstitions, believes in good luck
from the rabbit foot when in his own
possession, and in bad luck when it is
put on him." Not long ago large
number of negroes were on Virginia
railroad platform waiting for train TO
take them to a picnic ground. A Bos-
ton drummer, with face as serious as
a parsons. took q piece Of chalk and a
rabbit foot and in the most business
like way began TO make crosses on the
backs of the negroes and touch them
with the rabbit foot Tho crowd broke
for the woods in panic and there was
no picnic that day.-Milwaukee Sem
tineI,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-24
THE BISMARCK DIET.
Liberties Which the Chancellor Has TAX.
With His Constitution.

Liberties Which the Chancellor Has Taken
With His Constitution.
The local delicacies of Pomerania a 70
indigestible and deleterious enough,
but Bismarck appears to have prided
himself in taking exceptional liberties
with his constitution. In a talk during
the French war he fondly recalled the
days when he could swallow dozen
OF hard-boiled eggs incidentally at a
sitting. During a tour of several days
in fsch-reich hill country, he lived
entirely on trout and beer, although on
that occasion nature protested and sue.
cumbed. Yet it would have been we'll
had he always stuck to beer; but he had
catholic and cosmopolitan taste in
wines. Once in a wine cellar in the
Gironde he tried dozen different vint-
ages, and he used to mix his liquors in
the most outrageous manner. When
Motley was received as friend of
the family at Frankfort, in 1855, he
gave graphic account of his en-
tertainer's housekeeping. ut is one
of those establishments where every
earthly thing that can be eaten
or drank is offered you porter,
saltwater, small beer, champagne,
burgundy or claret are about all the
time. and every body is smoking the
best cigars every minute" During the
invasion of France, although black
Care sat behind his saddle. he at least
had left his doctors behind, and he was
inclined to abuse his liberty. He pro-
fessed to live by rule, but was constant
ly yielding to temptation. The number
of his cigars had been strictly limited,
but we remember hearing from his
host at Mayence. where he had spent
several days on his way to Metz, how
he would sit OF an evening in summer
house looking down upon the Rhine,
lighting cigar after cigar, slipping
the sparkling Rhine wine and specu-
lating with all his habitual frank
ness on the consequences of the
victories he confidently anticipated.
AS the army advanced beyond the
frontier OF Lorraine he laid champagne
under contribution for its choicest,
vintages, and when billeted in Baron
Rothschild's chateau of Ferrieres. when
the steward, who kept the key of the
cellars, protested there was nothing in
them better than Uin ordinaire, Bis
marck brought him to reason with the
threat of straw halter. The effect was
like that of Moses striking the rock,
except that there came gush of wine
in place of water. His grateful country
men, in their short-sighted enthusiasm,
did their best to cripple the man at the
wheel. He was like a st. Anthony
among the tempting presents that
poured in upon him, save that his in
voluntary ascetism not unfrequently
gave way.-Murray's Magazine.
"A Wheeling merchant recently re-
ceived ten cents by mali from man in
Montana, who said that he had owed
him that sum for fourteen years. The
merchant had forgotten the transac-
ton, and it was only by going over his
books that he remembered the man as
one of his former customers,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-24

"A marriage was celebrated in
Brooklyn recently, in VIII CHI both the
contracting parties were inmates OF the
Old Peoples Home. The groom was
seventy-six years old ard the bride
soventy-fiva
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-24

1t is said that women are hardly
ever stammerers. They have so much
to say that they can't stop for it.-Bur-
lington Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-24

"A Wheeling merchant recently re-
ceived ten cents by mali from man in
Montana, who said that he had owed
him that sum for fourteen years. The
merchant had forgotten the transac-
ton, and it was only by going over his
books that he remembered the man as
one of his former customers,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
Made Him Tired.

It had rained all the long, dreary day, and
little Lord Fauntleroy's golden curls were
bedraggled and wet and his nice collar hung
limp adown his slender shoulders when he
came home at 4:3O o'clock and tossed his
school books at the cat which lay by the
hearth.
Grandpa" he said, softly, as he came to
where the old man was quietly sitting, smok-
ing, and thinking, II thought all brides were
of the female sex"
'They are, my child; they are. Why do
you make such an odd remark!" -
Because, grandpa, in looking over my
geography lesson came upon the Hebrides.
Are they females, too? And if 50, why are
they called 'he's" And the little lord peered
into his grandsire's face with an anxious. eager
look in his gobelin blue eyes, which showed
how great was his desire to be informed cor
rectly.
''Go away, child; you weary me, said the
old man. And little Lord Fauntleroy crept
sadly away, and did not smile again even
once all the remainder of the day.-Albany
ExDreSs
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
Farmers Institutes.

The state board of management of
the farmers Institutes held meeting
yesterday afternoon at the office of
of w. M. Bushnell. The members of
of the state board present were
George w. Sprague, president of the
State Farmers Alliance; Wyman
Elliot, president of the State Horti-
cultural society; William NJ. Bush
nell, president of the State Agricul-
tural society; Col William Liggett,
of the state university board of re-
gents; Frank Clifford, president of
the State Dairy association. o. C.
Gregg, superintendent of thein
tutes was also present.
The board considered the ques-
ton of locating the towns in the
southeastern part of the state, where
Institutes shall be held during the COM
ing winter. The towns were partial
ly agreed upon, and the list will be
perfected by Supt. Gregg, who will al
SO fix the dates. Places and dates
will soon be ready for publication.
The board also gave authority to
A1upU. NlCSS w ely dS COllOuCUOIS
of the Institutes, DR.. William Dixon
of Litchfield, DR.. J. G. Curryer OF
Lake Crystal, Hon. John N. Jones of
Westline, Redwood county, and John
Gould, of Aurora. Ohio. C. L. Smith
of Minneapolis will render assistance
on the questions of forestry and
small fruits
We are glad to see Pres't Sprague's
name among the members OF the
Board, and the first one too. The
Farmers Alliance is moving forward
and will make itself felt with power in
the future industrial interests OF the
state.
Mr.. J. N. Jones, of West Line, is
added this year to the teachers. Mr..
Jones was placed on the Board at
the request of the Alliance His
duties embrace an analysis of the
commercial interests of the farmer,
and his relations to the great mar
kets of the world.
No man could be found more cap
able of successful management than
Mr.. Gregg. He has the confidence
and respect of all who come in con-
tact with him.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
The Girl and Her Camera.

An ingenious girl has hit on an ingenious
means of self support. With clever little
detective camera she used to amuse herself
whenever her fancy led her about the city,
picking up here an old apple woman, there a
ragged news girl, yonder group of babies
tumbling on the grass in the park, and some
where else an Italian woman with huge
bundle balanced on her head-all full of ar
tistic possibilities Though the girl could
neither paint nor draw, she knew what would
compose well. Many of her photographs
were really pictures, and, being caught in
simultaneously, preserved all the spirit, action
and freshness of life.
An artist friend saw them one day, and, to
her surprise, offered to buy half dozen of
the best for suggestions for studio work. The
girl was in want of money and resolved to
turn what had been play into work. Now
she and her camera are out every bright day
from 10 O'Clock until 3, and an hour in a
clark room" of an evening brings out some
of the characteristic scenes of city life trans
ferred to her negatives and ready to be trans
formed into cash. Her work is quite the
fashion among the studios, and clever sug-
gestions are often taken from it. An atti-
tude, smile, an expression often serves Us a
revelation of some queer phase of humanity
and supplies the missing something that
somebody wanted to incorporate into pict-
ure. Sometimes an artist gives her a COM
mission, naming the subject he is at work
upon and asking her to bring in all the hints
upon it that she can find.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
Dress and Church.

The rectors Of most of our fashionable city
churches might take a hint from the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, who, following the ex-
ample of his great episcopal predecessor,
Paul, gave his flock some very serious admo-
milton upon the subject of dress in church,
advising them what was becoming to the house
of the Lord and to followers of the meek and
lowly Jesus. According to his views plain
and serious garb was more in keeping with
the spirit Of the place than were the glittering
furbelows of fashion. The congregation of
any one of our up town churches would fur
nish just as good a text for q sermon as did
the gayly decked worshipers in the English
cathedral. There is no better field for OBJ
serving the display of elegant toilets than
church on bright Sunday morning, and
many woman, if put upon her oath, would
have to admit that she had lost the whole of
the sermon because of the charms of her
neighbours new Paris hat. Indeed, the
churches are SO universally made exhibition
places for fine dressing that the lack of clothes
is frequently made the plea for non-attend-
ance, and in the distraction of fine toilets the
original idea of worship is almost entirely
lost sight of.-New York World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
Which Ii Best?

Discussing woman's education, writer
says: Is the education with which the aver
age American girl is being endowed the bests
Will it best fit her for the fight alone in the
battle of life or to be the helper of the oppo-
site sexi The best education for girl is that
which helps her in adjusting herself to her
surroundings in life. It is by no means GER
tain that the very highest of our SO called
institutions of learning are doing this for the
average girl. They imagine for her sphere
in life better adapted to an angel than to q
common mortal. and in seeking to adapt her
for that sphere they unfit her for that matter
of fact life in which most of girls find them
selves placed sooner or later.
This training of girls for a life they are
never to lead in this world is fast becoming
popular under the alluring name of the high
er education, while that training which fits
them to make their own way in life is regard
ed as a sort of lower education. The best ed
ucation is that which develops the faculties,
rather than that which seeks to turn out &C
colnplished ladies. Faculty is the knack of
doing things as they ought to be done; &C
complishment is submitting to have GER
tain things done to ones self. Accom-
plishment embroiders the toe of slip
per and paints daisies on the bowl of a soup
ladle; faculty neatly repairs the torn gar
ment and compounds the hunger appeasing
soup. 1t is the lower education which inn
parts faculty. Which is best?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

The farmers of Iowa have scored
another triumph. The republicans
nominated a man for governor who
has lately seemed to sympathise with
the railroads in the fierce struggle of
the Alliance. The Alliance took it
up and now the republican party are
on their knees, getting their lavender
pantlets all dirty. Yes sir, and a
correspondent says: ''By the Ho-
ky-poky, if the party don't tie
Hutchinson to the lamp-post so we
can see right through him and
pledge him tell his teeth ache, in
goes the democratic governor" The
State Alliance have the matter in
hand. If they say ''crush, tit is good
by Moses, They have said the word
too, but the state committee are now
getting up pledges to win them back.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

The Southern State Farmers Ali
ance knows a thing or two worth
telling. When the cities and villages
attempt to grind noses there as they
do here, the southerner mounts his
high horse and-the towns shed their
pin feathers at once. The boycott
placed on one town just about ruined
the place. The same weapon was
tried in another, and another, and
they wheeled into the traces like lot
of whipped ours. In every village
and city there are good men, honor
able merchants, civilized members Of
the nineteenth century, who see that
without the prosperity OF the farm
ers there can be- no prosperity to the
commonwealth; who see that build
ing great Minnewhoopolitan cities
by fraud and knavery is destruction
to the provinces But there are
towns where the souls of the Shylocks
could be shot through steel cruiser
without fazing then. We wouldn't
have to hunt around with lantern
to find the places either.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

Mr.. R. w. Chenning, OF Shakopee,
stood on the platform at the Cologne
Station. His friend Ignatius Don
nelly stood by him, with his serene
all-day look upon his countenance.
Mr. C. startled the Alliance Nestor
with these words:
CHOW, look here, sir, you've been
fighting monopolies all your life-I
want to tell you about the biggest
monopoly ever heard Of
Eyes, yes" replied the author OF
the Great Cryptogram.
"Why sir-I went and insured my
crop in that Alliance Hail Insurance
Company. Yes, sir, did, and l gave
my note for 1928 for the insurance.
"Is that sop replied the Uncon-
querable Agitator, expecting to hear
some awful revelation of Insurance
iniquity.
eyes sir, l did-and l scraped up
the money and went to the bank to
pay it-and right on the point of
paying the note, sir, like an honest
man, H."
Eyes, yes uttered the sympathetic
listener.
"Well, IL received a note from
the company saying l needn't pay
but $1S.'
"Oh!"
Eyes, and l reckon the Alliance
Hail Insurance Company has a
monopoly on that racket! Any
other company would have made it
$;3S--'
Fortunately the train came just in
time to avert bloodshed. But Igna-
titus had a seven-be-nign smile on his
cOuntenance when he landed at Stew
art.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
A Gifted Jewess.

Cremation has invaded literary London
Amy Levy, the author of "Reuben Sachas,,p
has been incinerated. Miss Levy died at the
age of q, and at the beginning of what
promised to be a brilliant professional career
She was one of several gifted Jewesses who
have, in recent years, done some strong writ
ing in the field of fiction. An even more able
writer of her circle still lives in the sister Of
James Davis, the editor and publisher, who
goes i'll for the study of medicine as fad,
and uses the knowledge she acquires at itinics
and lectures in her novels. This lady, who
writes over male pseudonym, with sharp
pen, is married and well to do She divides
the care of her family with her care for her
mental offspring, and is said to be u success
in both directions. Her anonymity in let
tiers is carefully preserved, for the best Of
reasons. One of her novels is 41is,oriccf ffoo,s
having, by its pungent personalities and
sharp character drawing, created q positive
riot in Mazda Vale, the suburban paradise of
the opulent London MISUNDERSTANDING Bull.
letin.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
Daring Girl Swimmers.

A group. from which merry voices of glad
some healthy maidens burst on the air, de-
scended from the CASTLE That group COM
prised Lord and Lady st. Levan, several
members Of their family and some visitors.
Many of these, when they had reached the
little pier, threw off light wraps and stood in
the sunshine and the breeze in the bathing
costumes they don so often in the rock hewn
privacies at the southwest front of the
mount. whose outlets look out to the
chops of the channel Lord st. LIE
van got into a boat as umpire and
guardian. Peers of the realm have seen un-
usual sights at times, abroad and at home
Take for instance the scenes Lord Dufferin
must have witnessed. But surely few men,
bers of the upper house witness in their holi-
day time the little event which followed.
One after the other plunge into the sea Lord
St. Levan's five daughters-the Hon. Eliza,
beth, Misses Audrey, Nellie Evelyn and Ma
bel St. Aubyn, Capt Michael St Aubyn,
their brother; Lady Agnes Townshend Lady
st. Levan's niece, Col. and Mrs. Knollys and
Mr.. Manver.
Splashing and dashing in sport, now at
real swimming work again, amid chatter and
laugh and occasional splutter or puff, for
there was ripple on the water, they swan
the 500 or 800 yards from island to main
over just the course the mounts dread giant
Cormorau waded and swan when he visited
the purlieus of Narration and carried back to
his granite fastness the oxen and sheep of
his smaller and honester neighbors That
distance done, the swimmers took to wraps
and boats and pulled to the mount, rejoined
Lady st. Levan, and scampered over the
level green sward and climbed the steep as
cent to castle home and well earned lunch.
The young folks at the mount are all fire.
quent bathers and bold swimmers. They
have given evidence of bravery as well as
kindness, and we may feel assured that, if
ever the chance came of doing the work of
Grace Darling or Mabel Bell, the st. Aubyns
would be ''there" From childhood familiar
with the open sea, they have made it their
confidant and playmate until they treat it in
the spirit breathed in Byron's beautiful lines
-Cornishman
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
WOmeA's LuncheOnS.

The daintiness and ;estheticism of ladies
have elevated the simple act of lunching into
a most impressive ceremony since the custom
has been established for ladies to give to a
friend a luncheon at some popular restaurant,
just as a man would give dinner to guest
The handsomely furnished private rooms
used on these occasions must be arranged to
exclude all daylight, and the gaslight is FL
tered through softly tinted shades to give a
new charm to the sweet faces glowing under
the butterfly lunch bonnets The tall candel-
abra at either end of the table wear shades Of
rose color, and the table is bright with favors
and flowers and fruit and all sorts and kinds
of dainties. A favorite custom is to use a
round rather than an elliptical table, with a
large basket in the center, wound with rib
bons and gay with bows into which clusters
OF roses are crowded, interspersed with ferns
and vines of green. There c.>e pink luncheons,
lavender luncheons and green luncheons. At
pretty yellow luncheon a yellow crinkled
rose leaf of paper mache SO closely initiating
the roses in the center of the table as to look
as if it had fallen from them, was placed at
each plate and bore the name of the per-
son to whom the seat belonged. Exchange
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
Express.
Out of his head.-Life.

The following form for the arrangement
of pictures in the family album has been
copyrighted. Persons adhering to it will
save the stereotyped explanations usually
given to callers as they turn the leaves:
No. 1-"Understood to be my father you
know, now in his 10th year. Nice old man,
but rather sot in his ways.
No. 2-"That's grandma-65 years old and
as spry as a cricket. Coming out to see us
next fall. Didn't turn gray until she was 60.
No. 3-"Oldest sister, Minnie-lives in Gin
cinnati-fve children-keeps three servants
cataract in the left eye.
4-"Thats Oh, that's my brother Ben,
taken just after he got well. He's out in
Denver now. We think he's engaged.
5-"My sister Jessie's four children in a
group. Aren't they cunning? Jessie lives in
Chicago. We don't think she is happy with
her husband, but she never lets on, you
know.
6-"My cousin Bela-lives in Wisconsin,
rather conceited and uppish. We used to
write, but don't now.
My Uncle William, of Massachusetts,.
He's rich and we expect he'll leave us his
money. Queer old duck, and we have to use
him tenderly.
Sob, yes! That picture doesn't belong
in there. That's my Aunt Sarah, but She's
dead. Been dead five years, but we kind O.
keep the picture around. She didn't amount
to much. Just ordinary, you know.
9-"One of my girl friends. She thinks
she's good looking, but she isn't. I'm mad at
her just now, and keep it i'll here for spite.
1O-"One of my fellers. The picture isn't
near as good looking as he is We were en-
gagged. but his mother broke it up.
II, 70, Is, IA and 15-"Aunts, uncles, cous-
ms and other folks who don't amount to
much, bnt have been put in to fill up."-De~
troit Free Press