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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
POULTRY ON FARMS,
If Properly Managed the Birds Can Be
Made to Ray the Taxes.

II properly Managed the Birds Can Be
Made to Ray the Taxes.
To make poultry pay on the farm
some attention must be paid to it.
Start with good breed. give them
plenty of food and good warm winter
quarters. Leghorns and Light Brah-
mas are good layers and make good
market fowls. l think it pays the far
mer to keep geese, ducks and turkeys
as we'll as chickens. Provide a winter
house for each kind, well ventilated.
with glass windows, and so arranged
that you can control the temperature
within. Thus equipped, there is no
difficulty in getting eggs when they
are highest in price. Poultry should
be fed three times day, regularly, and
supplied with pure, clean water at all
times. A spring brook flowing through
the yard is the best water arrange
ment. Give variety of food. l find
that suniower seed is excellent, once a
day. Coru and meat, with lime and
ashes, will produce eggs. Supply
ashes and dust to wallow in at will.
The manure from the yard is valuable
and should be carefully saved.
Turkeys are harder to manage than
chickens, as they are not so hardy and
require more care in feeding and shell
tering from rain and cold. Young tur-
keys should always be shut up till the
dew is off, and during inclement
weather. After they are three months
old they will be out of danger. Ducks
and geese are profitable for feathers
and as market fowls. Wherever pond
can be fenced in, SO as to confine geese
and ducks, they should be kept. They
bring good prices in market, when fat.
They should be kept in q yard, with
pond in it. They thrive better, if yard
and pond are not too small than when
permitted to roam over the farm.
Every farm can support the various
fowls spoken Of. without materially in
creasing the expenses, and if. properly
managed, and their products utilized.
they will pay the taxes.-Cor. Ohio
Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
How to Fight Mortgage Sharks.

A few days ago {. poor woman came
to me for advice. She had got into the
clutches of a small money-lender, and
couldn't see how she was TO prevent
her small stock of furniture being
taken from her. l looked into the mat
ter and found that she had more than
repaid the loan, but that all the pay
ments went to cover the interest,
which was five per cent. month. l
went round to the philanthropic and
accommodating gentleman office, and
soon got the matter righted by threat
ening to take the case into court. Had
l done so, the lender would have been
awarded eight per cent. interest per
annum, and would have been brought
into his victims debt. The small loan
business at sixty per cent. thrives be-
cause the bulk of the borrowers haven't
sense or pluck enough to expose the
usurer. never knew a case in which
an attorney couldn't scare one of these
sharks into coming to terms, nor do |
know of any court decision which did
not drive them half mad. Often the
law is abused because the aid of the
law isn't invoked, and because peoples
fears and ignorance are preyed upon
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
FARM AND FIRESlDE,

Glover should be cut reasonably
early, and especially so if the second
crop is to be saved for seed. When
the heads begin to turn brown, set the
mower to work.
Whenever boughs of trees or vines
become troublesome lop them off, no
matter what time in the season. Cut
smoothly; don't mangle or tear or skin
the parts that are left.
"A we'll fed pig is lazy creature,
and is disposed to lie around the build
ing and grounds where fed; but he
should not be fed so well as to prevent
exercise.-The Swineherd.
The general farmer can scarcely
raise small fruits for the market, but
he does not do his duty to his own
stomach if he does not raise enough
for his own use. And the more he
uses the better it will be for him.
Apples, pears, ounces, hard
peaches and all fruits that need soften
ing, should be cooked in water till
tender, or if thrown into boiling syrup
it will retain its shape better. Fill the
cans trimming full and add hot water
if there is not enough syrup.
-Corn-Pudding: Crate the corn
from dozen ears; season with salt.
pepper and a little sugar, add the yelks
of four eggs, two ounces of butter, a
quart of new milk. Bake in a slow
oven. When done, beat the whites OF
the eggs, pour over the top and brown.
-Woman's Magazine.
Because fruit is plenty and. con-
sequently, cheap, it can hardly be con-
sidered advisable to allow any to go to
waste. What can not be used to a good
advantage should be fed out to good
young growing stock, as By this plan q
better growth at lower cost may be
secured. Western Plowman.
To protect sheep from the attack
of the gad-ny, which lays it's eggs in
the sleeps nose, it is recommended tc
tar the sleeps noses once week
This is easily done by putting tar or
boards in the fields where the sheer
run, sprinkling salt over it, and leaving
the rest to the sheep.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
FARMERS, PLAY FAIR.
Tho Dangerous Results of Selling the Mi
of Diseased Cows.

Tho Dangerous Results of Selling the Milk
of Diseased Cows.
1t has been well said that a man is a
parasite of the COW. Her flesh and her
milk enter into our diet, and on her
health hinges our own sanative con-
dition. Little do we realize how much
the minor disorders of milch animal
contribute to human ill-health. A COW
suffering from some feverish malady
superinducedb by close, unhealthy stable
quarters. or stagnant drinking water.
yields with her milk-how minute dis
ease bacteria that faint the fluid, and
ultimately corrupt human blood. A
cheese-maker or butter-maker manipu-
lating large quantities of milk and
cream every day of the season. often
discovers traces of putrid faint by the
olfactory test in the product under his
manufacturing care. The deplorable
custom is, however, extant, of reject
ing from farmers none but the most
virulent messes, and so the insidious
poison is allowed to creep in, and leav-
ening the whole lump scatter its vile
seeds broadcast. Every body is greatly
shocked because it has been discovered
that annatto paste is sometimes pre-
pared with urine, but lido not consider
this much more despicable than palm
ing off impure and unclean milk on an
unsuspecting public.
Mich cattle are often afflicted with
numerous eXcrescences and blood dis.
orders. The milk is so Immediately
| connected with the blood that the
quality of the one gauges the other
hence it is q moral crime, if no worse
to sell milk drawn from animals show
ing any permanent health defects, OF
temporary maladies. The producer il
transgressor in this way: He has
say. dairy of twenty cows, and the
cream that their milk yields is daily
gathered up by the manufacturer
wagon. One or more animals in hi
herd have gargety teats, or numerous
blood affections. When he reserves
portion for family use he does not take
it from the common mess, but is care
full to save it from the yield of one o
| the healthiest cows. The residue
good, bad and Indifferent, is turned
over to the mercy of the buttermaker
and the charity of the public. We d.
not intend this for a sweeping accuse
ton, but there are SO many of such
mercenary transactions going on, tina
they call for condemnation from homes
dairyman. The spirit of the times i
tending toward worth for the money
| and those who run the race fair anC
square will win the biggest stakes
| Prairie Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
REMEDIES FOR TREES.
Popular Notions Based Neither on Natur
Nor Common Sense.

Popular Notions Based Neither on Nature
Nor Common Sense.
Vegetable life is less understood bv
the public than that of animals and
men. 1t is no wonder, therefore, that
quacks abound who prescribe their
nostrums as sagely as if they really
knew something. One of the most
common notions of these fellows is to
bore holes into the trees, and, after
inserting sulphur or some other COM
pound, plug it up, relying on the flow
ing sap to take it into the circulation.
As we'll open mans veins and inject
medicines into them. Trees have roots
which are their mouths. and any thing
that is good for them placed in the
soil anywhere near, these roots will
find. Repulsive and even dangerous
medicines may be forced down the
throat of animal or man, but we know
no way in which tree or plant can be
forced to take any thing that is not for
its good. Its instinct as to that is
never at Tault.
There can be no doubt that coal
ashes spread under fruit trees are
often very helpful, and as they show
little or no manurial value, there is
often difficulty in explaining their good
effects. One way they help is to make
a mulch. Coal ashes are light, and
the fact that they have not much
manurial value makes them all the
better for keeping down grass, which
depletes the soil of the moisture that
the trees need. Three or four inches
depth of coal ashes spread under trees
keep the soil beneath moist and cool.
If they are spread on sod they kill the
grass, and this with the decaying sod
roots make fine feeding-place for the
roots of the trees. 1t is probable, also,
that under this mulch the soil itself
undergoes important chemical changes,
fitting its manurial elements for absorp-
ton by roots. American CultiYattor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
THE GREAT PROCESSION.
How the Long List of Humanity Is Ever
Swelling and Swelling.

How the Long List of Humanity Is Ever
Swelling and Swelling.
These life insurance tables that show
the expectation, the average, the prob
ability of life are very curious and in
teresting. In million births the males
outnumber the females $4,000, but the
girls don't die so fast, and by the time
they reach so years the females begin
to outnumber the men and outlive
them. Nine thousand more women
live to see 20 years than men, taking a
million as the basis. Two thousand
more women than men live to see go
At 100 years there are 70 men to IA
women. The males start out most nu-
merous, and this is right. for it gives
every girl fair chance for a lover and
a husband-and it certainly was in
tended by a kind Providence that she
should have one. She is entitled to
one, and if | had my way Iwou!d make
every old bachelor marry or support
one.
If he wouldn't marry according to
nature, | would make him work for
one. In youth and middle age the
males outnumber the females, because
it takes good number to defend the
country and do the fighting. But the
old women outlive the old men because
they are needed to nurse us and raise
the grandchildren. They have no bad
habits that shorten life. They do not
drink nor chew tobacco, nor smoke,
nor expose themselves, nor eat in a
hurry. They take life calm and Sc
rene. One hundred and twenty-five
thousand children are born every day.
What a squalling and rejoicing if we
could hear it all at once! just think
ofit-45, 900, 600 of brand new human
beings in year. But they don't stay
long-not many of them. One-fourth of
them die before they are sax years old.
While 1875, 200 are born in a day, there
are 100, 600 funerals going on at the
same time.
What weeping and wailing, what
grief and sorrow, if we could hear and
see it all! Verify the increase of the
human family is mixed with great trib-
ulations. Births and deaths, births
and deaths with the births only little
ahead, and sometimes when war and
pestilence and famine come, the death
rate is ahead.-Bill Arp, IL Atlanta
Constitution.
The scissors grinder is the only
man who invariably finds things dull.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
REFORM OF CRIMINALS.

Inc subject Discussed by the Dlstrict At
tOrney for Kings County, n. Y.
sFrom my experience l should say
that many criminals have been re-
formed, and for this reason: If you
convict thousand people in year, in
ten years the convictions would aggre-
gate ten thousand; you will not have
ten per cent. of those people come back
to you, so that they either cease to
commit crimes or they go to some
other part of the country. l think a
great many people who are arrested,
and justly convicted of crime feel, af-
ter they get to prison, that they have
done wrong. that there is something
else to live for and to work for, and
they become better men when they
come out.
Society does not always treat the
criminal right. When a man comes
out of prison and shows disposition
to do right, if society would take hold
of him, try and do something for him,
encourage him and not constantly show
that it is suspicious of him because he
once went wrong, there would be moro
criminals reformed than there are at
present. When man comes from
prison and is constantly reminded of
the fact that he was once convicted of a
crime and served term in prison, he
becomes discouraged and there is moth
ing left for him to do but to find conso-
lation in the society of the law-break-
ing classes.
l approve of long terms of imprison-
ment for incorrigible offenders; do
not think long sentences reform the
men, but society can only protect itself
against such offenders by locking them
up.
Many criminals can be reformed; but
the reformation depends on the man
himself. A great many people can not
make any distinction between right
and wrong; when they do wrong they
do not feel that they are breaking a
moral law; they feel that there is some
| punishment, but they do not think that
they have done wrong. You can never
do any thing toward reforming such a
| person. Take a man whose early
teachings and surroundings have been
good; he yields to temptation and does
wrong; any punishment, no matter
how small, is severe to him and the
disgrace he feels is poignant. Such a
man, think, can be reformed.
| do not believe very much in the
conversions made in prison. Whom
an offender leaves prison after having
experienced religion in prison, gets a
smell of the fresh air, takes a few
drinks and meets some of his old
cronies, the reaction is too much for
him. The efforts of religious and
philanthropic persons in and out of
prison certainly do no harm, and they
may do some good.
The question as to how the criminal
can be reformed is very difficult one
to answer. A man may come out of
prison who might, by acts of kindness
and the assistance of honest people be
kept straight. But the trouble is, So
ciety doesn't like to take hold of crimi-
| nails; man doesn't want to invite
them to his residence, and merchant
doesn't feel like employing an ex-con-
vict in his contingencies, because the
clerks there would not feel like asso-
ciating with him. | believe that So
oiety ought to be more lenient and
liberal toward the criminal; that is the
My way of accomplishing any thing
for him.-James w. Ridgeway, in N.
Y. Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
HaLRate Excursions.

The Chicago& North Western Railway
offers exceptional opportunities for an in
spection of the heap lands and growing
business centers of Iowa, Minnesota, Ne
braska, Wyoming, North and South Dakota,
Colorado and the ia, West and Northwest,
by series of Harvest Excursions, for
which tickets will be sold at half rates, OF
one fare for the round trip Excursions
leave Chicago, August 9th and Goth, Sep
TENDER 10th and oath, and October Sth. Fol
full particulars apply to any ticket agent
or address E. P. WILSON, General Passen
ger Agent Chicago g. North Western Rail
way, Chicago, Illinois.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

Be gentle in stimulating the kidneys, 9th
erwiss you will excite and weaken them
The happiest results follow the use of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters to overcome rena
inactivity. Avoid the unmedicated, fiery
stmulpts of commerce. The kidneys have
&SelS membrane easily irritated, anc
upon TN the action Of such excitants is per
nicious. AMalarial complaints, indigestion
rheumathn, neuralgia and biliousness sue
cumb to te corrective influence Of the Bit
tiers,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

"a Cedar Rapids girl had her life
saved the other day by kiss. The
fellow who did her kissing and life
saving, pulled her away from where a
beam fell just an instant afterwards;
and now all the girls in that town are
terribly afraid of beams, and are con-
tinually asking to be pulled out of the
way for fear another might fall-St.
Louis MaoaZine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

Mrs. CRAIG WADswoRTH, who lives in
to be worth $1,000, 600 Miss Sarah Hitch
cock is not only society woman, but is said
to have in her own right several millions
with which to command society. Mrs Levi P.
Morton is said to have well over 81, 900, 00C
of her own
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

A NEW fashion is said to be holding sway
this summer among the fair bathers at the
sea shore. Light channels skin masks are
worn, entirely concealing the features.
This is not done for modesty's sake, but to
preserve the complexion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
Save That Sweet Grill

Don't let that beautiful girl fade and
droop into lnvalidsm or sink into an early
grave for want of timely care at the most
erlglcal stage of her life. DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription will aid in regulating her
hearth and establishing it on firm basis
ana may save her years of chronic suffer
ing and consequent unhappiness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

MRS. JAMES P. KERNoCHEN has $1,000, 00G
By the same apportonment Mrs. John G.
Green has at least $3,000,0O0, and Mrs. Ma
son Jones, so often called by queer old peo-
pie 'Lady Mary Mason JONES'" she has ST.
10000 of her own and is contesting the
Hammersley will besides.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
Heirs Wanted.

Information is wanted of the whereabouts
Of Johanna Wilson, daughter of Mark
Sweeney, wife of Thomas Wilson, born in
Limerick Co., Ireland. She is, if living,
heir to an estate. II dead, her children or
next of kin are wanted. Address, w. j.
CovIL. Webster CIV Iowa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

WHEN cream is colder than the surround
ing air it takes up moisture and impurities
from the air. When the air is colder tEan
the cream it takes up moisture and what
ever escapes from the cream. In the former
case the cream purifies the surrounding air
in the latter case the air helps to purify the
cream. The selection of a dreamer should
hinge on what is most desired, highest
quality or greatest convenience and econ
omy in time, space and labor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

"PENNY wise and pound foolish" are
those who think 1t economy to use cheap soda
and rosin soaps, instead of the good old DOB
bins Electric Soap; for sale since 1854. Try
it once. Be sure. Buy genuine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
Half Fare Excursions.

In On Tuesdays, Aug. 9th and Goth, Sept
lUt1 and oath and Oct. Sth, 1889, the Chicago
81. raul & Kansas City Railway will sci
harvest Excursion tickets to all points in
southern Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and
NEBRASKA, exclusive of the Missouri River
gateways, and all points in the Indian Terri
tory, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyo
ming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Arizona anC
western Iowa ~ and Minnesota. tennessee s e
Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
Tickets will be sold at rate of one fare fol
the round trip and will be good returning
thirty days from date Of sale. For full par
tlculars call on ticket agents of the Chicago
st. Raul & Kansas City Railway.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

Mrs. W. E DODGE is worth $4,000 600,
much of the income of which she sends to
the heather. Mrs. Robert Goelet is worth
$3,0O0,0GO, and Mrs. John C. Green, the
widow of the Princeton College patron, is
reputed to be worth S1O,000,0O0.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

A CITIZEN of Hagarstown, Nd, claims that
the inside of a box in his possession was
made of part of the Penn treaty tree. and
the outside of part of the original coffin Of
Washington.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

positively hurtful to use ointment for
skin diseases. Use Glenn's Sulphur Soap
Hills Hair and Whisker DYE, 50 cents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

You hardly realize that it is medicine,
when taking Carter's Little Liver Pills; they
are very small; no bad effects; all troubles
from TORPID liver are relieved by their use.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

THE two elderly Misses Rhinelander have
SOo9, 900 between them, and bid fair to leave
tito collateral heirs with wonderfully fat
accumulations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

Mrs. MARSHALL o. ROBERTS, who is often
pointed out as the most desirable part
among fashionable widows, has a life in
terest in 81, 100000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
A more pleasant physic
You never will find
Than Pierce's small "Pellets,"
The Purgative kind.

A LATE New Hampshire paper advises
Young men net to 60 West to make their
fortunes, but to stay at home and earn
money to loan the people out West on their
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

To BE the friend of sovereign you must
be without passion, without ambition, with
out egotism. clear-sighted and far-sighted !;
in short, not a man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

PAIN in the Side nearly always comes from
adisordered liver and is promptly relieved by
Carter Little Liver Pills. DON'T forget this.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

THAT virtue which requires to be ever
guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

CHfss-so named from it's principal piece
RipE=was one of the earliest inventions
OFF Andoos, being devised by Brahmin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

THE man who boasts that he is ready &c
shed his last diop of blood is apt to be par.
ocular about the firsL drnN
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

TIE Russian Government proposes to
take steps Tor rendering the rivers Of
Siberia navAble and connecting them by
canals,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

IT will pay to shake off large proportion
of tbs fruit from trees that are overloaded.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

TIE coding moth does not lay its eggs
till the blossoms fall, and the spraying
should not be done till the fruit is the size
Of small peas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

AsKyour druggist for ''Tansill's Punch
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
JOhnStoWn Horror !

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

The scissors grinder is the only
man who invariably finds things dull.
Burlington Free Press.