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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
ANECDOTES OF DECATUR
The Gallant Naval Hero's Sympathy for
the Common Sailors.

The Gallant Naval Hero's Sympathy for
the Common Sailors.
The gallant Decatur was a sailor to
the hearts core, and loved to tell anec-
dotes Of the common sailors, one OF
which follows: In one Of the actions be-
fore Tripoli, while fighting hand to
hand with the captain Of a gun-boat,
Decatur came near being cut down BY a
Turk, who attacked him from behind
A seaman, named Reuben James, who
was already wounded in both hands,
seeing the risk of his commander,
rushed in and received the blow Of the
uplifted saber on his own head. Fortu-
nately tho honest fellow survived to re-
ceiVe his reward. Some time afterward,
when he had recovered from his wounds,
Decatur sent for him on deck, expressed
his gratitude for his self-devotion, in
presence of the crew, and told him to
ask for some reward. The honest tar
pulled up his waistband and rolled his
quid, but seemed utterly at loss what
recompense to claim. His messmates
gathered around him, nudging him with
their elbows and whispering in his ear:
"He has all the world in string and
can get what he pleases;" the old man
can deny him nothing" etc. One ad-
vised this thing, another, that; double
pay" double allowance" "a boat
SWANS berth" "a pocket full of money
and full swing OIL Shore" etc. Jack
elbowed them all aside and would 6GTS
none of their counsel. After mature de-
liberation, he announced the reward to
which he aspired; it waste be excused
from rolling up the hammock-cloths!
The whimsical request was, Of course.
granted; and from that time forward
whenever the sailors were piped to stow
away their hammocks, Jack was to be
seen lettering around and looking on
with the most gentleman.like leisure.
The devoted fellow always continued
in the same ship with Decatur. ~
could always know the state of my bile
by Jack" said the commodore. "If
was in good humor, and wore a pleasant
aspect, Jack would be sure to heave in
sight, to receive friendly nod; and if l
was out of humor, and work, as Lsome-
times did, 4 foul-weather physiognomy,
Jack kept aloof and skulked among the
other sailors" 1t is proper to add that
Reuben James received a more solid re,
ward for his gallant devotion than the
privilege above mentioned, a pension
having been granted him by the Govern,
ment.
Or another occasion Decatur had re,
ceived at New York the freedom Of the
city as a testimonial of respect and
gratitude. On the following day he
overheard this colloquy between two OF
his sailors:
Jack" said one, what is the mean
ing of this freedom of the city which
they've been giving to the old MANI"
why, don't you know? Why, it's
the right to frolic about the streets as
much as he pleases, kick up row,
knock down the men, and kiss the wo-
men,"
"1Hata something worth fighting forr'
remarked the other.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
RAILROADS IN CHILL.
Operated 80 as to r"duce a Maximum
Degree of Discomfort.

Operated 80 as to r"duce a Maximum
Degree of Discomfort.
The New York Tribune correspond
ent, who is exploring South America,
writes as follows of railway travelling in
Chilli: 1.-THE Gillian capital is approached
from either Valparaiso or Los Andes by
the Quillota Valley opening between the
Andes and the maritime range. There
is railway owned by tho Chilian Gov
eminent and operated on the English
plan. The cars are square compartment
boxes, into which passengers arc
crowded until no seats are reserved for
the late-comers, who are compelled to
sprawl over the baggage littcring the
floor. There is an extra tariff of dol
lar for tho transportation of small
trunk in the baggage-car, and conse-
quently every native travels with his
effects in portable form to avoid
payment of these charges. | have
counted as many as 4 dozen pieces of
small baggage belonging to one traveller,
and the average certainly is not less
than seven. All this baggage is heaped
up in the compartment-car, so that it is
impracticable to change one'S seat or
even to gain ones footing when the last
belated passenger. with his bundles,
sachels and band-boxes, is in and the
tickets have been examined by the
guard. At the railway junction of
Llaillai, three trains are emptied into a
large refreshment room, where break
fast is served with something OF the
hustle and confusion Of an American
railway station. On returning to the
compartment-car, every passenger has
to Chamber over the baggage mounds
and to regain, by gesticulation and ar
gument, the seat which some other trav-
eler, possibly one of the previous late
corners, has seen fit to occupy in his
temporary absence. This is the English
railway service adapted to this southern
latitude, and it is operated so as to pro-
duce maximum degree of personal an
noyance and discomfort At tho end of
the journey passenger whose baggage
has been carried behind the engine,
where it has not been in anybody's way,
is compelled to employ and fee rail-
way porter to hunt it up, and possibly
another one to put it on coach.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
SELF-MADE CRANKS.
Men Who Feel Their FeebIeness In the
World Of Practical ATalrs.

One can not help believing that thSrs
is variety of this gentry who are self
made cranhs-cranks because they want
to be. They seek some social dispro-
portion whereupon they can posture
with effect. The pleasures Of conform
ity are humdrum; nonconformity is
piquant and startling. Such a man is
not a crank from abundance of virtue
as he would have you believe, but
rather because he feels his feebleness
in the world of practical affairs and is
soured thereby. If he pose as All ad-
vance philantbropist, we suspect that
his love of mankind has some side
glances at personal profit II facts be
against him, he does not hesitate to in.
vent them, and visits with arrogant
abuse those who would expose his falsi.
ties. He is especially angry with those
hating disciples who accept his scheme
as something ultimately possible, and
then humbly inquire what they are to
do Professionally as a practical apuroxi-
nation to the distant good. If he be
rhetorician, he has no scruple in ad-
iAiHioOei4hS Cilo cIeCbflc SHock OF para
doX, and seeks the levity OF assent that
may be caught by the sudden spring OF
a false analogy. No doubt this reckless
shooter occasionally hits the marx.
Pope describes the talking bird who be-
rates the passers-by with epithets which
well-conducted periodicals have ceased
to print But the poet confesses that,
though sometimes struck with the ex-
treme felicity of these transformations,
he had never been able to extend his
admiration to the speaker whose entire
stock in trade consisted Of this very
limited and abusive vocabulary P.
Quincy, in Atlantic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
REVENGE IN BURMAH,
Terrible Vengeance of the Dacoits on the
Friends of Their Enemies.

Terrible Vengeance of the Dacoits on the
Friends of Their Enemies.
A headman informed me one day as I
passed through his village of the where
abouts of a well-known dacoit a few
miles off. On this information the man
was tracked and executed an hour OF
two afterward. Some months later this
headman and his brother, both we'll dis
posed to our rule, were waylaid and muir
dered by the gang to which the above
mentioned dacoit chief had belonged.
In another case a man who had been i'm
pressed to serve the dacoits as cook and
baggage-carrier escaped and took refuge
In well-defended post only, however,
to hear few days later that his old
mother, who was living in her native
village, had the night before been MUIR
dered. Some information on which ono
or two dacoits were captured was given
by man who himself lived in large
town with military station, and was,
therefore, safe. His nearest relatives.
however. mother, sister, wife, two
young children, and an infant a few
hours old, living in their own village,
were very shortly afterward all muir
dered in one night. They were be-
headed and laid out in row, from the
largest at one end to the baby at the
other. Such was the terrible vengeance
of the dacoits on the families of those
who were themselves out of reach.
Hundreds of similar instances might be
related, all showing the same system.
and only differing one from another in
the various methods by which the acts
of revenge were carried out.
Whenever the dacoits believed that
they were In no danger Of interruption
from our troops, elaborate tortures were
added to simple assassination; if, how
ever, a sudden alarm was raised, blow
of the dab from each Of the gang in
succession made their vengeance sure.
1t is astonishing how accurate the in
formation of the dacoits frequently ia.
and how carefully they watch the move
ments of every post. A district magis-
trate, accompanied by the officer COM
handing the military police and by a
district superintendent of civil police,
returning from village c. through viii
lage b. (where post was to be estah.
lished) to village A., received intelli-
gence the day after their arrival of an
attack upon b. and the murder of a
woman whose husband and brother had
both rendered us an important service.
The dacoits waited to perform this
outrage until the officers had passed
back through b. with baggage and per-
sonal escort, thus selling the most fa-
vorable opportunity for their purpose,
as any conveys would have accompanied
the party to save escort, and no patrol
was likely to pass directly after the pas
sage of a considerable body of troopa-
National Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
FUTURE OF WOMEN.
MIR. Gladstone Makes Some Eminently
Sensible Remarks.

eenSlDIe Remarks.
In the course OF brief address at n
school for girls, where Mrs. Gladstone
distributed the prizes, Mr. Gladstone
said:
That future OF society is of enormous
Importance to the world. think it is
not embarrassing to recall, if may be
allowed to do it. little anecdote, when
some words were used to me more than
fifty years ago by an eminent physician
of that date--Dr. Farr, who lived in
CharterhouSe square. | went there on
account OF some affection of the eye, but
he entered into general conversation
about the political prospects of the
country, and he said to me these words,
which, | think, were full of sense, right
feeling and wisdom; You may depend
upon it, Mr.. Gladstone, it is not the
Wings who will save the country, nor
the Tories who will save the country: it
is the mothers of England who will save
the country
II think that should be to every young
wife the most cheering. the most con-
selling, and the most stimulating lesson
that could be learned. The value and
the Importance of this thought are such
that no new addition we can possibly
make to woman's vocation can ever
stand for moment in comparison with
their vital bearing upon the formation
of character in every one OF us. And
what is the formation Of character but
that for which God sent us into the
world? 1t is the sum and substance,
the beginning and tho ending of the
whole matter, and it is tho formation Of
character which is tho pride and glory
of women as teacher, but infinitely more
rs mother, to contribute"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
"AS l ShELLED THE pEASE."

Over and over, little song
Sung in my heart the whole day long;
No matter what task to my lot did fall
The song made music, amid it all;
washed the tea-cups, kneaded the bread
my love loves mer in my ear was said;
True love is better than wealth or easel"
Was whispered to me, as shelled the pease.
And as 1 made custard or baked the cake,
a voice kept saying: For loves sweet sake!"
And when the table / sat for four,
Again heard it, DER and DER:
True love is better than wealth or ease,
True lovs rejoices in tasks like theser'
The clock on the wall with its pleasant song,
licked away though the hours were long;
AT last it was time for my loved ones three,
To gather around the board with me.
In came two, with a merry shout
The children are in, but the father is out
wondered if my True Love 'twould please
To know my thoughts, as shelled the peasel
A hand is heard on the outer door,
well -Rnown step comes over the floor,
And my Darling is here; though no longer
young,
wondered not that the tunc was sung,
For love in it's loved one true beauty secs,
When q stranger eye might see naught to
please.
The merry children make mirth for all
While the mother smiles and the father tall
Bends low to whisper loving word
That by no ear but her own is heard:
Sweetheart, what viands could taste like
these.
With love, I'm sure, you have favored the
pease"
So over and over, the whole day long,
Sung, in my heart the little song:
What matters it if the house be small,
If Love finds shelter within its WALTZ
Naught else crave but my Love to please,
Though humble my task, as 1 she'll the peasew
Maud Wyman, in Good Housekeeping
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
NEWT BLEDSOE'S WIFE.
How She Got the Drop on a
United States Marshal.

ONE days ago
an old deputy
United States
marshal sat in
a hotel corridor
at Birmingham,
Ala. , and talked
about hunting
m o on S h liners,
says a Chicago
Times CORE
spondent.
IS ON Q of
1 Sc moon
sinners" said
he, ARE as
treachcrouS as
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
DISCOVERY OF COAL.
Who WAS the First to Dig Up Pennsyl-
vania'S Black Diamonds.

Who Was the First to Dig Up Pennsyl-
vania'S Black Diamonds.
The proposition TO erect a monument
to Philip Ginder, who discovered an
thracite coal on Summit Hill, Carbon
County, in 1891, has given rise to a
number of claims for the honor of dis
covering coal In Pennsylvania. The
Wyoming valley people claim that an
thracite was known in that section
of the State as early as 1856. There is
a tradition that hard coal was burned
in tho Valley Forge about the time Of
the French and Indian war. Neverthe-
less the Mauch Chunk promoters of the
the Ginder celebration refuse to be
turned aside from their plans. They
point with pride to the fact that the
Lehigh Valley Coal-Mining Company
began practicing mining in Carbon
County in 1899. in immediate conse-
quence of Ginder's discovery, and it
was only then that tho possible import
ance of coal as fuel began to be appre-
ciated. They claim, therefore, that
Ginder is entitled TO monument, and
they propose that he shall have one, on
the just grounds that the discoverer of
anthracite is not tho individual who
knew that the ground contained black
stones without knowing their use, but
he whose discovery led to the use of
coal as fuel.
Ginder seems to be as much deserving
of the honor of being called the discov-
erer of anthracite coal in Pensylvan ia
as Fulton is of being called the inven tor
of steamboat, or Isaac Newton the dis
coverer of djfferential calculus, or
Robert Raik es the founder of Sunday
schools. Philadelphia Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03

Deacon Bledsoe, who was 'sot on the
Bible, with Mocnshiner Newt Bledsoe.
I'm response to my hellos a tall, in
nocent-looklng old countryman came
out to the gate, and by the light of a
pine torch which he carried in his hand
he looked me over. BE you uns the
new Methodist circuit-rider?' he asked
decided to play preacher for once and
answered in the affirmative
Light, parson. I'm hard-shell,
but you're welcome. 1 never lays it up
agin a man cause he don't belong to my
church. and the deacon received me
with true mountain hospitality.
AT bedtime Bledsoe broLg ht out q
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
What Could ne Have Meant.

ETHEL" said fond mother to her
daughter, as the fair young girl sat
down at late breakfast in her morning
gown, did George leave any package
for me last EVENING""
Ethel blushed ami said: falteringly:
"Why, no, mamma! What made you
ask?"
20, nothing; only heard him say
at the door as he said goodbye: Now,
here is one more for your mother and
didn't know but what it was that
pattern for lace-edging that his mother
promised to send me-"
Ethel said nothing. Rare BIS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
They Could Never Find It.

Husband-Say! you'd better take my
pocket-book.
Wife You surprise me! don't un
derstand it!
Husband-I noticed = sign just now to
'"Look out for pickpockets," and
thou htit would be Safer in your pocket
than in mine.-Lowell Citizen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03

ITbdCutEOuS DIS
Indians, and will shoot at an officer
from ambush, but they are poor marks
men and seldom hit nan. l have boon
shot at dozen times without receiving
a scratch. 1t is this shooting from
ambush and the pranks tho moonshin-
ers play on Il revenue officer when they
catch one alone in the mountains that
makes hunting thom exciting sport.
Il have often spent night at the
home of an innocent-loolIing noun
taineer and next morning found my sad
die and bride cut to pieces or my horse
turned out of the stable and driven
away. Up in De Kalb County once l
spent tho night at the house of a man
who was supposed to be good citizen
and not in sympathy with moonshiners.
l slept in a shedroom, and there was nc
lock on the door. The next morning
my pants were gone. Every thing had
been taken out of the pockets and left
in the room, but the pants had been
spirited away. My landlord expressed
much sympathy for my loss, but charged
me five dollars for secondhand pair
Of his jeans trousers that were probably
worth one dollar when new, and had
to pay him the money before could get
out of bed.
The wives and daughters of moon
sinners as rule, are smarter than the
men and much more suspicious of a
stranger. was over in Clay County on
raid once and was in locality where
almost every man owned a still. In
such place it is hard to locate a still
and almost impossible to obtain evil
dence against the owners unless they
are caught in the act of making the
mountain dew l introd uced myself
as land agent prospecting for mineral
lands, but the natives did not all be-
lieyo my story and was regarded with
more or less suspicion. 1 was after a
noted moonshiner named Newt Bled-
soc, who was known to have been oper-
ating still in that locality for two
years. | had trouble in finding place
where they would let me stay all night,
but finally a native suggested that try
Deacon Bledsoe.
"'Ther deakin's sot on 'ligion, the
Bible, and SIGH, an q allus takes in
Strangers said the native. | was di-
rected to the deacon's house, two miles
down the valley, and arrived there an
hour after dark. did not once associate
, 1890-04-12

An incorrigible gourmand has for the
thirtieth time been before the correc-
tional tribunal of Paris for swindling res
taurateurs out of dinners. Our Paris
correspondent says hat he has been thir-
teen times locked up in asylums as n
kleptomaniac. and as often escaped.
His last offense was ordering a copious
dinner at a cafe, and when he had dis
patched it asserting that he had not II
farthing in the world. A week previously
the cost of a dinner which he ate at the
Maison dor and could not pay for came
to fi~fty-three francs. Some years ago he
squandered u fortune of 81 400 n year.
According to DIR. Motel, who was asked
to examine linn, he lisa hopeless case,
wholly deficient in moral sense, and dan
gerous. He has, however, a genius for
getting away from asylums. The pris-
oGer was rcmanded. A letter was found
Oh him to the Due d'Orleans, hailing him
AS a fellow trencherman, who knew how
to do honor to the skill of the French
chef.-London News.
, 1890-04-12

Not long g the British bark Omega
arrived at Vancouver, b. c., on n voyage
from Shanghai with a crew made up
exclusively of Chinese. Her command
or, Capt. Brown, wrote home to her
owners that the total expenses of the
trip were some 60 per cent. less than
they would have been had the craft been
manned by an English crew. Capt.
Brown said he paid s. per month TO each
of his Chinese anne Instead of eat
ing thirty cents worth of food a day, as
does the average English sailor, the Mon
golians pulled through on five cents
worth a day.
Shipping men down town say hat if
the Chinese continue to spread them
selves on the sea, the English, Scandina-
Wan, and even the cheap Italian sailor,
will have no chance against them. No
European sailor can live ON n mess Of
five cents Il day and take his trick at
everything that comes along in the way
of work.-New York Mail and Express
, 1890-04-12

Reading in the newspapers about the
carnival battle OF the flowers at Nice re-
minded me that n year ago the American
baseball tourists were in Nice and par
ticipated in the battle of the flowers.
Crane, the pitcher, got hold Of a beauti-
full, compact bouquet just as the Prince
Of Wales drove by in an open carriage.
See me give his nibs n high ball, "
said Crane, and lie shot that bouquet
with one Of his swift twisting incurves.
The bouquet caught his royal highness
full in the nose. and it is fair TO presume
that his royal highness was vastly aston
ished; but he took the bombardment
good naturally, although for the next
half mile he rubbed his nose continually,
rs though he feared it had been hope
lessly disiointed.-Chicago News.
, 1890-04-12

a large sized cat, long the pet Of the
branch custom house at Castle Garden,
disappeared some time ago. Charlotte
was her name, and she returned after
an absence of several days, but h didn't
seem herself. She was not sociable, and
when the inspectors tried to approach
her she bit at them and glared. Rounds
man Martin Conlin, Of the Garden squad,
was sent for to end her once happy tx
i~stence. Before he arrived Charlotte
darted out of the office, ran madly to the
lock and leaped overheard. She never
came to the surface. She was mourned
for a few days and then forgotten.
4 few weeks later several of the in
spcctOrs were seated on the stringpiece,
close by their office, when they were
startled by a cats cry coming from be-
meath them.
They waited until low water, when
they searched under the pier, but could
find no cat. They gave up the search,
but no sooner had they returned TO the
Office thar the cry was repeated. From
that day the cry has been kept up at in
tervals of half an hour. Persons whose
business called them to the dock were
aunoyed by it. At last heroic measures
were determined upon, and the whole
end Of the pier wac torn out and several
of the men made a search. While they
were looking the cries continued, but no
cat was seen. Every place where a cat
might be was searched without avail.
The boards were put in their places
again, but the cries still continue at
regular intervals. The custom house
men are of the opinion that it is the
ghost of the unfortunate Charlotte that
is haunting the place.-New York Star.
, 1890-04-12

Many n snug fortune was made in tho
ic. business in Maine last winter, but
perhaps zone have beer luckier than two
young men who have been operating IN
the Kennebec. a few years ago these
youths hired out with "A man who was
engaged in the ice business winters and
in farming summers. They proved faith
full workers, and last fall their employer,
who is growing old, proposed to sell
out his ice business 10 them for 81, 800.
They had saved 81 900, and, after some
consideration, they accepted the offer,
giving security for the 81, 500 they could
not pay, Last week they sold their ice
10 New York parties for $lG, 900. Lewis
ton Journal.