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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
THE CHlVALROUS KNIGHTS.
They We're without Question the Worst
Pills in the Box,

The chivalrous knights who came
over with the Conqueror, the mobiles
who fought at Neville's Cross, and
Crecy, and Agincourt, were, for the
most part, the merciless tyrants of
their serfs and dependents. Sordid
rapacity kept pace with reckless pro-
fusion. and in the arbitrary exercise of
their feudal rights they shrank from
no form of oppressive cruelty. Their
brutalities would have disgraced
Jonathan Wild, and their crimes would
seem scandalous In the Newgate calen-
dar. To do them justice, they were as
hard on their equals as on their in
feriors, though, from a point of
perhaps egotistical punctillo, they
spared their equals the dishonor of
actual torture. The captive had
neither comfort nor mercy to expect
till he paid his ransom or was rescued
by his friends. What stories of slow
misery in the very shadow of death
might be told by the dungeons that may
still be seen beneath the foundations of
such castles as Warkworth or Kenil-
worth! There the well-nurtured knight,
like Damian de Lacy in 1.-The Be-
trothed," shackled and ironed, al
though there was no possibility OF es-
cape, was doomed to solitary seclusion
on the coarsest and scantiest food.
Fettered in the damp and the darkness
among loathsome creeping things, he
drew breath with difficulty in the foul
est air; and it was fortunate for him
that, like the cold blooded toads, which
were his low-prisoners undeveloped
sensibilities saved him from insanity.
The only access to those loathsome
oubliettes was, as at Warkworth,
through the trap-door opening in the
roof. What must have been the tone
of mind of the chivalrous lord of the
castle who could feast and carouse in
the banquet hall above stairs with such
horrors and such suffering beneath his
feet! But what between hard lighting,
free feasting. and deep drinking, the
mobiles of the middle ages seem to have
kept conscience at arms length, as
they had become absolutely Indifferent
to the sufferings of their fellow-crea-
lures. There were rare exceptions to
prove the rule. Some princes and
wealthy MOBILES were piously inclined
and munifcent. They gave literally
in their life-times and made magniti-
cent ecclesiastical foundations. Black
woods Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
Orange Blossoms for Brides.


The emblem may have been occa-
sionally worn by European brides ever
since the time of the crusades; but the
general adoption of orange blossoms
for brides is comparatively modern
practice, probably at first adopted be-
cause the orange flower was rare and
costly, and it has always been the
practice to be expensive at weddings.
The orange blossoms were found ap-
propriate and suitable, the sentiment
under which it was used by the Sar-
acens was approved, and it became the
fashion for brides to wear orange bios
SONS, The orange fruit was brought
to England as early as 1890, but it was
a long time before there was really any
cultivation of the orange. The tree is
supposed by many to have been
brought into England by Sir Walter
Raleigh, and the statement is made
that it was not adopted from the Sar-
acens, but probably from India. or at
least from the far East. 1t owed its
adoption at first from the fact that it
was both rare and scented flower,
and was introduced without any refer
ence to its symbolism. Lippincott's
Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
HYPNOTISM IN MEDICINE,
Its Psychological Importance Recognized
by Leading Scientists.

Its Psychological Importance Recognized
by Leading Scientists.
The experiments made by DR.. Char
cot and his associates have been made
the subject OF discussion at congress
OF scientific men recently held at Paris.
Quite number of reports were read
indicating remarkable success in the
treatment by hypnotism of diseases
that have often baflled the most expe-
rienced physicians. Two physicians
OF Amsterdam reported the results of
no less than four hundred and four
teen cases they had treated by hpno-
tism. OF these lone hundred were full
ly cured. In ninety-eight there was a
noticeable Improvement, and in only
seventy-one were there no results.
Fifty-eight cases were not followed.
The cases included organic maladies of
the nervous system, mental diseases
and neuralgia" Other physicians re-
ported that in the treatment of the i'm
sane they have succeeded in some
cases, though it was admitted that the
difficulties were far greater than in
physical maladies. 1t seems to have
been conceded that there is more ex-
pectation of relief from treatment by
hypnotism in nervous diseases in their
various forms than in any others, and
even if this be SO it will be gain to
medical science. But the tests are only
as yet in their experimental stage, and
exactly upon what physiological basis
the Investigations of the most distin-
guished psychologists are founded does
not yet appear certain. 1t is curious
enough, nevertheless, that the methods
of Mesmer. who was denounced as
charlatan a hundred years ago, but
who has had some strong followers at
different times since among the higher
class of physicians, to say nothing of
travelling lecturers who were able to
control the will of persons who sub
mitted to their treatment-it is Curl
Gus, we repeat, that at the end of a
century Professor Charcot should come
forward publicly to show the wonderful
power of mermerism. or hypnotism, as
it has been called, since the expert
ments of DR.. Baird, Of Liverpool, and
that congress of scientific men should
take up anew half forgotten subject
and recognize by long series of expert
ments its psychological Importance.
But if there is good in hypnotism, there
Is also danger in its use, as Charcot
pointed out, if the person hypnotized
may be made unconsciously to carry
out the will of the operator even to the
corporation of a crime. Baltimore
sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
ON ANOTHER ERRAND,
A Ludicrous Incident of Vermont
Pastors Early Life.

| A LudicrOus Incident of a Vermont
Pastors Early Life.
A Vermont Baptist minister who is
not too grave and dignifed to enjoy a
good joke, even when it is on himself,
narrates a ludicrous incident of his
early life. Soon after being settled
over a new congregation, he one day
received a note asking him TO be at
home that evening at eight o'clock.
The writer added that he was intend
ing to be married at that hour, and
would call at the parsonage with his
bride.
1t was but few minutes before
eight o'clock when the door-bell rang,
and moment later the servant an
nounced that a young couple awaited
the minister in the parlor.
Going down into the parlor, accom-
panied by his wife, the pastor found
neatly-dressed, intelligent appearing
young man and a bright-looking young
woman, who rose to receive him.
IL am Mr.. Homer" said the young
man. 'and this is Miss Cross"
Having another engagement for the
evening, the minister said, Immediate
ly: 81 received your note this morning,
and we will proceed with the ceremony
at once. Please join your right hands.
In great bewilderment, which the
minister mistook for natural embar-
rassment, the young couple timidly
clasped hands, and the ceremony was
about to begin when the young man
said:
'I-we-what ceremony is it?"
"Why, the ceremony OF marriage, OF
course"
"O-o-o-h" shrieked the young lady,
Withdrawing her hand, and covering
her face with handkerchief.
81 don't understand this at all, =" said
the young man, sharply. I'VE came
here simply as committee from the
Young Peoples Society of the Metho-
dist church to ask you and your wife
to be present at a public entertainment
we are about to give, and"
1t was now the minister's turn to say
''O-o-o-h!' and he said it in genuine
establishment at the very moment that
the maid ushered in the young couple
who had matrimonial Intentions
The mistake evidently started the
first young couple into new lines of
thought, for, a year later, their own
pastor being i'll, they called upon the
Baptist pastor, and did not protest that
he was going too far when he asked
them to join hands. -Youth's Compan-
ion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
New York's Woman Cobbler.

The only woman cobbler in the Uni
ted States is Mrs. Gill, who has lit
tie shop at No. 275 Mulberry street.
New York, a locality that is far from
being fashionable. A reporter who
visited it says that it did not differ
from other cobbler stale, except that
it was extremely tidy. She was born
beside the last, her father having been
a shoemaker of Northampton, England,
and when she was only fourteen years
of age she made pair of shoes for her
mother, and when her father came to
this country she worked in New En-
gland factories. She, however, got
tired of the shaving of the factory. and
when she had saved up little money,
opened up q little shop. OF late years
she has not made, but mended shoes,
and found that it could be done quicker
and paid botter.-Chlcago Shoe and
Leather Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
THE RAIN ON THE ROOF.

The threatening rain-clouds droop and spread,
And the whirling waters leap
From rocky tarns near the mountains head,
And on through the meadows sweep;
The dark grass bends and the burdocks shed
The glittaring gem from their purple wool
But low is the sound with a monotone tread
Where the rain falls slant on the roof.
apples with strealSs OF crimson dye,
And plums with :. silvery pail,
From in-whipped trees in the orchard lie,
Or dashed meath the garden wall
The rain-god drives through a storm swept sky
The pattering drops have the beat of a hoof--
But dreamy at night is the lullaby
OF the rain on the sloping roof.
Quick splashes drip from the darkened pane,
And we know the petals part
From lilies drenched with the driving rain,
And tears from the red rose start;
That fields spiked thick with the bearded grain
Have heads bent low in dumb reproof-
But soft on the ear nocturne strain
Is the fall OF rain on the roof.
linda b. Hays, in Travellers Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
ANTICS OF A LEMUR.
How the Little Creature Amused Himself
and His Mistress,

No beast that | ever saw was more
fond of play than the little Malagasy,
not even a lively kitten. From the
moment his door was opened till he
was shut in for the nighthe often gave
his mind to a constant succession of
pranis. He scraped the beads off our
dress-trimmings with his comb-like
teeth, and he slapped or pulled books
or work out of our hands, and espe-
cially liked to frolic in one lap, lying
on his back kicking with all iours, pre-
tending to bite, and even turning
somersaults or indulging n,tssA most
peculiar little leaps. In the latter he
flung out his arms, dropped his head
on one side in a bewitching way,
turned half around in the air and
came down in the spot he started from,
the whole performance SO sudden, ap.
parently so involuntary, and his face
so grave all the time, it seemed as if a
spring had gone off inside, with which
his will had nothing to do.
A favorite plaything with the iemur
was a window-shade. He began by
jumping up to the fringe, Selling it and
swinging it back and forth. One day
he learned by accident that he could
''set it off," and then his extreme
pleasure was to snatch at If with so
much force as to start the spring. when
he instantly let go and made one hound
to the other side of the room. or to the
mantel. whore he sat, looking the pict-
ure OF innocence, while the released
shade sprang to the top and went over
and over the rod. We could never
prevent his carrying out this little pro-
gramme, and we drew down one shade
only. to have him slyly set off another
the next instant-olive Thorne Miller,
in Popular Science Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
PUNGENT PARTICIPANTS.

There is no one in the world s0
pleasant as the woman who knows she
has pretty smile.-Boston Post.
1t may be desirable to live to
green old age; but when you have at
tanned it, please keep away from the
bunco men. Puck.
--JacI-"What are you doing, Ma
bel?" Misunderstanding angel cake;
don't you want some?" Jack-"No,
thanks; don't want to be an angel"
Puck.
"A young wife can be good house,
keeper without bothering to polish up
the spare change in her husbands
pocket every time she cleans up the
rest of the silver in the house. SOM
erville journal.
If the European inventor who has
invented smokeless powder will in
vent smokeless cigarette, his name
will be embalmed in the heart of a
grateful world. -Philadelphia Daily
News.
No man ever talked OF his work
without saying something about its
great mental strain, We suppose that
even the wood-chopper thinks it is brain
work that makes him SO tired at night.
-Atchison Globe.
Husband. --"Wife, wish you had
been born with as good Judgment as l,
but fear you were not" Wife-"Y on
are right. Our choice OF partners for
life convinces me that your judgment is
much better than mine"
-Brown-"Did you hear that young
Benedict suddenly became deaf on the
very day on which he was married."
Robinson-"You don't say 80. That
shows that there is a silver lining to
every cloud, no matter how dark it
may be for time. Texas Siftings.
Some women like to be told they
are pretty, but the really pretty ones
don't care for it. They have to be told
that they are brilliantly intellectual.
George Washington's Ratchet wouldn't
stand ghost Of show now -a-days.-
Merchant Traveller
-'Professor, said the ostentatious
young man at a reception. i've heard
much talk about the anthropoid apes
approaching very closely to human be-
ings. Now, what in your opinion is
nearest to man?" You want my
candid opinion, of course?" Ger
tainly." "Well, 1 should say his
undershirt. "-Washington Capital.
Mr.. Jason-"Why amt supper
ready, want to know?" Mrs. Jason
~ was down town and got caught
in the rain without an umbrella.
| had to wait in store until the
storm was over" Mr.. Jason-''So
you did have sense enough to go
in out of the rain. Ell? Well, you
are not an entire fool" Mrs. Jason
NO; only the better half of one. y
Terre Haute Express.
How "lady friends" do hate ore
another, to be sure! The other day
two of an uncertain age who had not
recently met were having CHAT.
YES" said No. l, lit was my birth
day yesterday and my dear papa gave
me ring, as usual. He has always
given me a ring on my birthday ever
since | left school," Ever since, you
left school, darling?" re-echoed No. 2,
why, what an extraordinarily large
collection OF rings you must have, love,
to be sure"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19

Look at her, Uncle Priclsetti' said
he. See her red cheeks and her
dimples. Haven't taken your ad-
vice."
"You have" said Uncle Prickett,
land I'm glad of it. And l often think
of two lines once read in one Of lem
ny's old poetry books:
Evil is wrought by want of thought
AS well as want OF heart"
"That's as true as Gospel.n said
Jonas Aikin.-Amy Randolph, in N.
Y. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19
In Search of Novelties.

Mrs. Startup-Me and Mr.. Startup
went to the theatre last night to see
Richard the Three.
Mrs. Chadband-How did you enjoy
it?
Mrs. Startup-To tell the truth, 1
was deadly bored.
Mrs. Chadband-Perhaps you don't
care for Shakespeare?
Mrs. Startup-O, amt got no OBJ
lection to Shakespeare, but do wish
he'd turn out something uew.-Amer-
lea o..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-19

Ohm" named after Prot. ohm, Of
electrical fame. implies the standard
OF resistance which substances offer to
the transmission of ga electric current.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
BREVITIES.

THE keeper of the morgue in New
York City states that four-ifths of the
five thousand bodies that reach the city
dead-house every year are sent there by
drunkenness.
AN Episcopal rector recently opened
Temperance meeting by reading the ten
commandments, prefacing the act with
these suggestive words: 81 will read the
Decalogue, every one of whose COM
mands is constantly violated in the sa-
loom"
A SHORT time ago promising young
man, or boy, of sixteen, near Oshkosh,
went to Saturday night village dance,
and after drinking heavily went homo
and shot himself, the shooting unpre-
meditated, the result of brain crazed
with whisky.
RECENTLY an Indian at Odanah, adj
dicted to drink, stabbed and killed his
brother, horribly mutilating his body,
because the latter had given informa-
ton to the authorities about taking
liquor into the reservation. Alcohol
is no respector of either sex or race.
GERMANY's own papers and statistics
refute the claim that little drunkenness
exists in that beer-loving country. Wit
ness the following current item from
the German press: Germany annually
spends 430, OO0,O 900 marks for its army,
,but not much less for it's alcoholic
drinks, which cost 400, 1000, 900 marks.
Statistics show that the Incorporate
class furnishes thirty per cent. of all the
insane, fifty per cent. of all the poor, and
seventy-five per cent. of all the Grim
mails"
THE Worlds Fair is bound to come.
perhaps half dozen of it. And what
more appropriate than that the Worlds
Christian Temperance Union should
have an exhibit" there? What a pity
that the National Protective Associa-
ton of Liquor Dealers and the w. C. T.
U. could not exhibit side by side the
fruits of their work. On one side a
wrecked home, on the other home re-
stored to happiness. On one side brawls
and murderous ARRAYS lin tableau) and on
the other hearthstones of peace and pur-
ity,with the ''cricllet on the hearthrin full
tune. 1t would be an object lesson worth
looking at; but we doubt if the Protect
i've Association would cooperate heart
lily in the proiect.-Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16

wholly to exclude, at least to restrict to
0 minimum OF space and conspicuity, the
liquor exhibit in the Worlds Fair of
1872. 1t is true that in European coun-
tries, much beyond our own, the liquor
Industry" assumes very large proper
lions, but as the French projectors of
the Paris Exhibition are understood to
have arbitrarily limited in many ways
United States exhibitors of various
kinds in matters of space and opportuni-
ty, there is no good reason why the pro-
lectors of the American Exhibition for
1892 may not assume kindred preroga-
tive as to the exhibit of alcoholic liquors
OF both foreign and home manufact-
ure. We wish such liquors might
be eliminated from our exhibi-
ton altogether. The argument Of
financial help from the brewers, distil-
lers and liquor importers and vendors
will of course be used with the manage
ment, but it would be better for our
country to forego the proposed COM
memorative exhibition altogether than
to encourage or tolerate such a liquor
display as in Paris. Congress will
doubtless be asked to extend financial
aid to the exhibition from the National
Treasury. We trust that among the
conditions which Congress may very
properly prescribe as to its use in MAX
ing such appropriation, that one will be
that no National aid shall be extended
to liquor display, and that such display,
II not excluded entirely, shall be re-
stricted to minimum proportions, and
stsst no intoxicating beverages shall be
fssSid or given away within the exhibit
ton Enclosures.
One effective argument used in favor
of holding Worlds Fair in the United
States in 1892 is that it would be largely
educational, and therefore helpful, to
ourown and other countries. Let there
be early and effective precaution by the
exclusion, or most stringent restriction,
of ntoxicants, that it may not educate
dow1wards.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
No Beer for Them.

A painter was one day putting the fin
ishing touches to the outside of a large,
handsome building, which happened to
have liquor saloon on the first floor.
He was anxious to finish it that dav and
go on to other work which was waiting
for him, and thought he would save
time by not going home to his dinner.
He hailed a little fellow who was pass
ing and asked him to go to his house and
get basket of lunch, which he in
note had asked his good wife to make
ready, and promised to pay the boy if he
did the errand we'll.
The little fellow consented readily,
took the note, started off on run, and
was soon back again with a tempting
lunch.
Now, how do you suppose the painter
proposed to pay him? In money, of
course, you think. No! He went into
the saloon and brought out foaming
glass of beer and held it to the boy say
ing: Here, boy, drink this; I'm much
obliged to you"
Did the boy drink il? No, no; he was
too surprised for moment to speak; but
when again urged to ''hurry up AMI
drink it" he replied that he had never
tasted beer in his life, and he never
meant to. The painter laughed at him
(Which was not very gentlemanly thing
to do, when he was under obligations to
the boy,) but could not move him. The
boy said: "You may laugh as much as
you please, but I've promised never to
touch any kind of liquors" and as if afraid
longer to remain, ran quickly away.
Bravo! for him. He reminds me of an
other little fellow who was always will
ing to oblige others by running errands.
He was playing out in the street one
day when lady called to him: ''Char-
ley, will you run and get me pint of
beer? will pay you two cents if you
will"
Charley replied: "No, ma'am, 1 can't
do it; belong to the Band of Hope. I'd
go and buy any thing else for you, but
can't buy beer" What do you think Of
these boys? Were they not brave?--
Temperance Banner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
ALCOHOLIC EXHIBITIONS.

The Duty of the Friends of Temperance in
This Country Relative to the Coming
Worlds Fair.
The proposed Worlds Exhibition in
1892, which there is good reason to ex-
pect, says the National Temperance
Advocate, will be held in this, or some
other American city, has already awak-
ened widespread public interest in our
own and in other countries. If held, it
will exert, inevitably, powerful inter-
national influence for good or ill. The
liquor interest, already infuentially rep
resented in the preliminary committees,
will quite certainly be on the alert to
secure ample opportunity for an ex-
tended, imposing display. There will
doubtless be strenuous efforts made to
surpass in 1892 in extent and variety of
exhibits, in all departments, the great
Worlds Fair in Paris in 1889. The ex-
hibit of alcoholics, of various kinds, in
the Paris Exposition is in the aggregate
simply enormous. In series of build
ings along the Seine one may see, from
the various countries represented, bot
ties, cases, barrels and hogsheads, and
the appliances for distilling, brewing
and manufacturing intoxicants al
most, if not quite, by the
mile! There has probably never been
in the worlds hictory so extended a
liquor exhibit as Paris has this year pro-
vided for its multitudes of visiting
guests from many nations. In America,
the birthplace of the Temperance re-
form, this great liquor exhibit ought not
to be duplicated. The friends of Tenn
perance in this country should promptly
combine and spare no effort, If not
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16

While jefferson Davis was Secretary OF
War huge engineering enterprise was
commenced; that is, the construction OF the
conduit which brought water from Great
Falls, twenty miles distance, into the city OF
Washington. Secretary Davis placed Gen
eral NJ. G. Meigs in charge of the work,
and, it is needless to say, that it was well
performed. General Meigs had a son Mont
gomery, who lost his life during the civil
war. Re was veritable wag and wit, al
ways playing some practical Joke. Well
when the conduit was completed, and be
fore the water was turned on, General
Meigs made tour along the great pipe and
wrote upon it's walls, Just above the water
line, at long Intervals IN. e. Meigs, en-.
gineer in charge" His son followed quiet.
ly at some distince and added to his father;
inscription: "And his son Monty" The
conduit was recently examined, and there
were the words, just as written by poor
Monty about thirty years ago.