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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17
THE DYING wIFE's FAREWELL.

Raise my pillow, husband, dearest
Faint and fainter comes my breath,
And these shadows stealing slowly
Must, know, be those OF death.
Sit down close beside me, darling,
Let me clasp your warm, strong hand,
Yours that ever has sustained me
To the borders Of this land.
For your God and mine, our Father,
Thence shall ever lead me on,
Where upon throne eternal
Sits his love and only Son;
I've had visions and been dreaming
Ger the past of Joy and pain;
Year by year 1 wandered backward,
Till was child again.
Dreams of girlhood, and the moment
When stood your wife and bride,
How my heart filled with loves triumph
In the hour of woman's pride.
Dreams Of thee and all the earth cords
Firmly twined about my heart
Oh the bitter, burning anguish,
When knew that we must part!
1t has passed, and God has promised
All my footsteps to attend;
He that's more than friend or brother
He'll be with you to the end.
There's no shadow DER the portal
Loading my heavenly home
Christ has promised life immortal,
And tits He that bids me come.
When life's trials wait around thee
And its chilling pillows swell,
Thou'lt thank Heaven that I'm spared, then
Thou'lt feel that ''all is we'll"
Bring our boys unto my bedside
Ny last blessing let them keep
But they're sleeping, do not wake them,
They'll learn soon enough to weep.
Tell them often of their mother,
Kiss them for me when they wake;
Lead them gently in life's pathway,
Love them doubly for my sake.
Clasp my hands still closer, darling,
This, the last, last night of life,
For tomorrow l shall never
Answer when you call me "wife.''
Fare thee well, my noble husband!
Faint not meath the chast'ning rod:
Throw your strong arm round our children,
Keep them close to thee-and God.
Memphis Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17
TEMPERANCE NOTES..
AN ABSTINENCE SONG.

Ma1dens, loving, gentle, tender,
Rally for the strife;
Swear you'll not the heart surrender,
Never be called wife,
BY the liquor dealing masses,
Nor the genteel waif,
Who from dainty little glasses
Drink, and deem it safe.
Never let the halIow'd lovelight
Beaming from your eye,
Rest on man, If e'er this soul. blight
Darkly you descry.
Never in the rosy aIbor,
At the days decline,
Never, for moment, harbor
Him who sippeth wine.
Never in the silvery moonlight
Take the t!pp.cr arm
Be it eve or glorious sunlight,
Flee in dread alarm.
Buyer, seller, .ippler, drunkard,
Dealer, great and small
Maidens, will you shout the watchward
Abstinence for all;
Or no wives to round them cluster
With fond earess-
No fair lips with ruby luster
Theirs to meet and press.
Though with sadden'd soul, and fearful,
Rally heart and mind;
Satan's bonds, tho strong and fearful,
You may yet unbind.
Then work on, the day is dawning,
Death transformed to life;
In the glorious Temperance morning
Victory is rife.
Courage, maidens, no repiuing,
Tho fond hopes it shroud;
Courage, for silver lining
Gems the darkest cloud.
Oh! what blisS shall crown the hour,
When the strife is DER,
When redeemed from Satan's power
Men shall drink 10 more.
Ohio Farmer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17

he would only speak of his old home,
and of it's beauties and end by saying
that he was going back soon.
Often when the days were clear and
warm he roamed in the woods and gath
cred wild flowers, or wandered along the
banks of the little river picking up
shells and pebbles. On such occasions
his little Cog trotted by his side, and
sometimes the old man would stop and
talk to him about the flowers and shells,
and the dog would look up as though he
understood it all.
The summer waned and the beautiful
autumn days came on. The people no
ticed that the old man appeared on the
streets less frequently, and it was sell
dom he and his dog went out to roam as
Of old. They noticed, too, that he was
growing thinner and his step was be-
coming feebler.
Then there came a time when he did
not appear at all, and when two days
mad passed, the little dog came to a
house where they had always been kind
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17

too, but was so tired that I could not
In my Fathers house are many man
sions.
''Hush! They are singing down there
now. Their voices grow stronger and
the words ring out clearer and palmer.
1t is the same song-the one | always
loved so we'll and the one Marian used
to sing-'Nearer Home Do you hear
them say it? Nearer home. Yes, we
are nearer home. We are almost there.
Now the minister is preaching. He is
telling about that other home not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens "a
is beautiful place, for as he talks
can see it. 1t is fairer than the old
home we have been looking for so long,
and its fields are green and its waters
clear and soft. Its gardens are all
abloom with beautiful flowers and the
air is filled with their rich perfume.
see it all clearly now, and | hear the
softest, sweetest music, and there are
angels coming, and as they float down
through the air they sing of the land SO
bright and fair. Be still, now, and let
me hear them before we go on. l will
rest little longer here and listen to
the songs of the angels before l go
home.'
The old man closed his eyes and one
hand rested in that of his son while the
other lay affectionately on the little
dog that had been his only friend and
companion through all the years Of
his wanderings in search of his
home. Twas thus he waited for the
coming of the angels, and in little
while he was at last sat home."-
Thomas P. Montfort, in Detroit Free
Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17
GOING HOME.
The Old Man Reaches the Fair
Place of His Dreams at Last.

E WAS an old
man and his
h @ a d W a S
whitened by
the frosts of
many winters.
His form was
bent and his
step was totter-
ing. His eyes
had long since
grown dim and
his hands were
f G e b l e and
wrinkled.
Often and
often of even
ings he sat in
the twilight,
and as he
gazed up and
away in the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17
TOO MUCH SYMPATHY.
Something About the Real Tendency of 3
Highly Sympathetic Age.

People who do not see the dangers
which beset society on every side, but
who do feel very keenly their own
needs, are far less likely to sympathize
with those who see the perils around
us, and who are not so penetrated with
want, than the latter are likely to sym.
pathize with them. The consequence il
that there is marked drift in the ocean
ofpublic sympathy toward the mood OF
the most ignorant and most needy; and,
as there is no clear standard by which
to measure, the tendency certainly is
for public sympathy to favor the desires
of those who are at once the biindest
and the most destitute. If we hear of a
particular guilty parricide, public SYM
pathy is much more inclined to pity him
than to blame him. If we hear of o
strike that is undertaken in the dark
without any clear principle, and that is
willing to plunge the rest of the com.
munity into serious trouble in order &c
win its way to success, public sympathy
at once prepares to go long way with
it. finding the sense of grievance on
that side very persistent and angry, and
the sense of duty on the other side at
best only clear and calm.
Once let the claims of sympathy be.
come those which appeal most strongly
to public feeling, and it is evident that
no class will profit so much by it as the
class which feels all the more strongly,
because so ignorantly and with so little
power to care what will be the conse.
quence of the proposed revolution to
others, the depth and intensity of it's
own cravings to be better treated and
better fed. The real tendency of a
hlghly-sympathetic age is toward I'M
certainty of feeling, pendulous vibra-
ton, now to this state, now to that, but
with very decided leaning toward the
feeling of that class which is least en-
lightened and least disinterested, be-
cause 1t has the advantage over the
feelings of other classes of being most
persistent and more vehement. To a
public opinion which veers about with
every strong expression of liking or dis
liking, hoping to find some practical
compromise among those bewilderino
fluctuations of hearts, the most useful
advice is to find fixed standard Of
right and wrong feeling, and toendeavor
to sympathize only with the right feel.
ing, and steadily to harden itself, not
only against the wrong, but against
mere vacillation, where neither right
nor wrong is clearly visible. Spectator.
The Complications of Modern So
ciety.-Clara-'I thought you had de.
cided that every thing was over between
you and Harry, and yet you've beer
sitting there for over an hour thinking
of him." Maud (dejectedly)-"Well, ]
can't make up my mind whe ther it would
be better to sue him for breach of prom.
;no or to mako nm with hin, narru and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17

What are you working at nowP"
said one young man to another. Moth
ing" ut strikes me you ought to have
had that done by this time. "-Washing-
ton Post.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-08-27
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.


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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-08-27
QUICK TIME, CHEAP RATES

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fu.Iman Palace Sleeping @ trs and
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San Francisco. Cal.
june
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
Origin of a Famous Poem.


Mr.. James E. Murdoch, the veteran
actor, recently related this story to a
party of Philadelphia friends: s.Some
time ago | was at meeting of club
or society of which DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes is an influential member. Upon
the evening of my attendance dis
cussion arose amongst several of the
party, including DIR. Holmes, in regard
to the themes upon which a poet usual
ly writes, the general opinion being
that the poetic field is limited. i do
not think that is so. said DIR. Holmes.
believe for want of a better subject l
could write poem upon basket of
chips. The other men doubted this
assertion, and one said, speaking for
the party: Well, | tell you what we
will do. There is that old chaise that
has been down at the wheelwright's
shop for many year. If you can
write poem on that we will become
converted to your idea Dr. Holmes
accepted the challenge and at the next
meeting of the club he read to the
astonished members the Deacon's
Masterpiece; or The Wonderful Ono
Hoss Shay. !" Philadelphia Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
INDECENT PEASANTS.
The Hard Struggle for Existence Among
the Poor People of TyrOl.

The Hard Struggle for Existence Among
the Poor People of TyrOl.
The struggle for mere existence with
these poor people (the Tyrolese) is a
fearful one, something that an Ameri-
can farmer has never even dreamed of.
The summer days are so few and so
rainy that the hay can be made only by
tying the grass around poles to dry, free
from the ground, and they may often be
seen moving in the rain, hoping that
the sun will come out long enough to
partly dry out the grass when cut.
The men, when moving, generally
have on white aprons, looking much like
lot OF BARRIERS or walters pressed into
service. This is due, probably, to the
fact that the women do the most of the
moving. and when man has to do it he
wishes to look as much like woman as
possible, SO as not to be recognized.
Throughout the most of Europe the
peasants, or farmers, live in villages,
and go every morning and evening from
two to four miles to their land and back.
at great loss of time and thought.
1t is rare thing to see separate
houses in the country. In Tyrol and
Switzerland the houses are more scat
tered, and one may often see houses
perched so far up on the mountain side
that it would seem impossible to get to
them, and frequently hamlet of dozen
or twenty houses will be found living up
almost in the clouds, nearly at the tim
Der line in the most unexpected places.
Cor. Chicago Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
Destroying Moths with Salt.

For moths salt is the best extermin-
ator. The nuns in one of the hospital
converts have tried everything else
without success, and their experience
is valuable, as they have SO much
clothing of the sick who go there, and
strangers, when dying there, often
leave quantities of clothing, etc. They
had room full of feathers, which
were sent there for pillow making, and
they were in despair, as they could not
exterminate the moths until they were
advised to try common salt. They
sprinkled it around, and in a week or
ten days were altogether rid of the
moths. They are never troubled now.
In heavy velvet carpets sweeping them
with salt cleans and keeps them from
moths, as particles of the salt remain
in the carpets and corners. Salt is not
hurtful to any one, and has no bad
smell. Here is a little hint | add,
which, perhaps, every one does not
know: For cleaning wash-basins. baths,
ETC., use the same thing, common dry
salt. Rub little of the salt with your
fingers on the basin. Often sort of
scum is noticed in the basins in a
marble washstaud in the bathroom;
the salt takes it off easily, and leaves
the basin shining and clean.-Philadel-
phia Press
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21

He unsettled the business, bought
back the house and furniture, induced
the stone mason to take back, at sllght
reduction. the shaft which marked the
grave of the poor drowned tramp who
had been identified as Mr.. Cassidy ana
had the satisfaction of restoring ms
friends to their old quarters as by magic.
And so, one evening, as the two sat
together IN their little parlor' Mr.. CAS-
dy said to his wife:
s.Selina, we haven't had these oysters
vet. If you'll see to the frying-pan III
90 and get some. And l swear III not
mvsteriously disappear this time"
He did not. And as they ate the init
tiers Mrs. Cassidy declared that 1T was
all exactly like a dream, a horrible
dream, that she could not bear to think
about. Mary Kyle Dallas, in n. Y.
Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
Witchery of Candle-Light.

There are so many women who have
passed their first youth who appear at
the balls in New York and receive the
devoted attention of men for whom they
must entertain a most grandmotherly
interest, that the question of light has
become most important one, so these
foxy caterers to the female complexion
have taken leaf out of French books
and lighted their rooms with candles,
the silver candelabra being set in the
walls so that the light falls from the
side, not from above, while pretty little
futed petticoats of rose silk shade the
colored candles. A side light, especially
if it is rose-tinted, takes ten years from
woman's age. No wonder we are in
favor of abolishing the deadly electric
lamps, and the flaming gas, if wax
candles are such thieves of time-Chi-
cagO Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
The Varied Value of Silver.

Silver, in its relative value to gold.
has varied greatly at different times. In
the days of the Patriarch Abraham it
was to 1; b. C. 1000 it was - to 1: b.
Z. 500 it was ID to 1, and at yhe COM
mencement of the Christian era it was
to l. In the year 500 A. d. it was 1s
to l; in 100 it was to l, and in 400 il
was IL to l. In 1454 gold was only six
times more valuable than the precious
white metal, silver, and within the next
hundred years two pounds of silver
could be exchanged evenly for one
OF gold. In 1000 gold was again worth
ten times as much as it's paler brother.
In 1725 gold was thirteen times more
valuable than silver, just as it was 500
years b. c. At the beginning of the
present century it had risen in value to
higher point than at airy time since
500 A. d., being fifteen times more val
liable than silver. In 1876 the ratio of
silver to gold was 20 to l and in 1886 it
was at the highest point ever known.
since which time it has gradually de-
cllned to 20 to 1.-SJ. Louis Republic.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
looKlN' BACK'ARDs.

Iwisht wus at school again,
A-rompin like uste to do
18th Matt an George an Johnny, too.
An all the rest o. that young crew
AT uste to play an laff all day
1wisht wus at school again.
Instid o. climbin' on to ten
An two-score years, 18th hair as gray
AS nor'east clouds sum winter day
cat sort o. gives chap away,
1t seems 10 me I'd ruther be
A trottin' of to school again!
The school house with it's gaberl end
A-pintin to the road jes' seems
To raise afore me now, when CLEANS
O. them ole days Gums back in dreams
Wot seems to keep me wrapped in sleep
An trottin' off to school again!
Gether your slate an books, an then
Mother 'ud take to work an spread
A slice err two of ole-time bread
18th cranbry jam, an then red
Apple er two fer me an you
wisht wus at school againl
An then the time we uste to spend
When school wus closed out In the wood
A-getherin the nuts at strewed
The ground afore Jack Fros's pale hood
Had kivered all like es pail
wisht wus at school again!
The years is big with change since when
We walked together down the road
From school-ah little then knowed
What rs to hev fer a heart-load-
So happy we 'ud romp 18th glee,
An mex day trot to school agalnI
Iwisht wus at school again.
IT seems amos a hundred years,
A cenchery O. signs an tears,
Sence that girl-sweetheart dropt her kcef
An breathed sigh an said goodbye!
IL wisht-I wus at school again.
X. c. Tapley in Judge
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

For severe sprain, take the white
Of an egg and tablespoonful each Of
vinegar and spirits of turpentine. Put
all in bottle, shake it thoroughly,
then battle the sprain often, beginning
as soon as possible after the accident.
Canadian Dat Cake: Two eggs and
one teaspoonful of salt well beaten, and
three cups of sour cream; thicken to a
batter with oat meal in which one and
One-half teaspOOnfuls of soda have been
mixed, drop into a hot buttered bread
pan and bake quickly for fifteen or
twenty minutes; to be eaten ot.-House-
hold.
Apple Tarts: Line round patties
with paste, in each one place the half of
tart peeled apple fuse only those you
are sure bake quickly, tablespoonful
of sweet cream, butter size of hickory
nut, tablespoonful of sugar and pinch
of nutmeg. Put core side of apple down,
and sugar, etc., on top. Bake until the
apples are soft.-Albany Journal.
Jelly from Apple Parings: Take the
parings, cover with water, let them boil
till the substance is out of them; strain
through fine sieve; place the liquid in
pan, boil until reduced one-half, then
add sugar enough to make jelly, ada
juice OF lemon to one quart of jelly, or
without lemon if apples are tart, put up
in jelly glasses nice for jelly cakes.
The only medicine a man needs is
the right kind of food, prepared in the
arfo Of OF 10 MIC
time and in necessary quantities. 1t is
because these and other physiological
rules are not observed that nature rebels
(gets sick), under which circumstance
man, instead of stopping his faults and
correcting them, resorts to drugs, which
are not food. but poison.
They Were Differently Struck
PARENT visited our district school
this morning and was simply delighted.
The order was perfect; the Rotations
excellent" Caller-'sThen you like
that dudish young teacher?'' Parent
He did not impress me as being at all
dudish. He struck me as being model. !"
Sammy quitting in)-ssMa, if you'd
stayed till after recess you might have
seen how he struck me.''-Drake's Mag
azine.
-'Weel, John, how are you to-day?"
said Scotch minister to one of his par
ishioners on meeting him on the road.
''Gey weel, sir-gey weel, replied John,
cautiously, 'sgin it wasna for the rheum-
atism in my RIGHT Leg" "Ah, weel,
John, be thankful; for there is no mis-
take, YOU are getting old like the rest of
rs, and old age doesn't come alone. !"
"Auld age, sir, replied John; 81 won'er
TO hear We! Aud age has naething to do
wit. Here's my ither leg, jist as auld,
an Its quite sound and soonle yet"