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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
TEMPERANCE BREvlTIES.

LONDON has $4,000 grog shops. How
much these cost nobody can figure up.
Never will there be any way out OF
darkest London, or the bottomless
miscries and degradation of any other
city, so long as the grog-shop curse is
tolerated.
FROM the records of Yale college dur.
ing the past eight years it is shown that
the non-smokers were twenty per cent
taller than the smokers, twenty five
per cent. heavier and had sixty-six per
cent more lung capacity. In the last
graduating class at Amherst college,
the non-smoilcrs have gained in weight
tWenty-four per cent. over the smokers
in height, thirty-scven per cent, in
chest girth forty-two per cent; and in
lung capacity. eight and thirty-siXth
hundredths cubic inches-Western
Medical Reporter.
us THIS the way to the poorhouse?"
asked one man of another, as he pointed
in a certain direction. mo, but this
is answered the other, as he pointed
to a whisky flask sticking out of the
inqulrcr'S pocket. The answer was
surely very correct. The whisky bot
tie is what drives many people to the
poorhouse. 1t makes them neglect
their business, it steals their earnings,
it gives them bad habits, it clothes
them and their children in rags, and
robs them of their daily bread. Yes,
and at last it robs them of their very
souls
DRINK is the great curse of Australia.
High wages only too often lead to in
diligence in bad colonial beer and wine
that is even worse than malt liquor or
spirits. Girls and women drink much
more in the colonies than they do in
England. This is partly owing to the
hard work, partly to the hot climate.
II shouldn't like the girl who made me
this shawl to see me in this place, :"
said a girl while unpacking her box in
a miserable Melbourne lodging house.
She looked up, and there stood the
~. >2 Ter of the SHAY wi, the daughter of a
poor but respectable Irish farmer.
Both girls had been emigrants, and both
had come to grief through drinking.
EVERYBODY respects young man
who refuses to drink, and in these days
sensible men, even those who are not
opposed to drinking on principle, arr.
giving up the consumption of alcohol
as a bad practice. They know by ex-
perience that it is one of the most
serious of the obstacles 10 material sue
cess. Hunt out the real cause of half
the bankruptcies and you would find
it in drinking. Discover the true cause
of the Inability of young mcp To get
ahead and in the majority of cases it
would be drinking. The county boy
who tries his fortune in the city cannot
afford to take that risk. He must be in
fighting trim always, with every powe,
at his full command
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
THE MEXICAN WHITE HOUSE.
Compared with 1t the Squatty Structure
in WashIngton IL Nowhere.

Compared with 1t the Squatty Structure
in Washington Ii Nowhere.
Chspultepec is the Mexican white
house. 1t is the famed hill where Mon
tezuma had his summer-h house and it is
one of the wonderful palaces of the
world. Located at the end of the Pasco,
the fashionable drive of Mexico, a park
of a thousand acres surrounds it; and
these thousand acres are filled with the
most wonderful of cypress trees. some
of which are over hundred feet high,
and many of them are five or six hun
dred years old. The trunks of these
trees are massive in size and their limbs
are gnarled and they spread outward as
they go up until they intervene with
other limbs at the top and form dense
shade. They are clothed in perennial
green, and from them hang great boards
of the beautiful gray-silver Spanish
Florida and Louisiana. A drive through
this park is like going through the
forests of fairy-land, and in the morn
ing and the evening when the sun casts
its beautiful shadows through the trees
and over the well-llept lawn, its sylvan
beauties are beyond description. Out
of the center of this park rises IL
mighty rock, going straight up for
at least 200 feet. This rock has
top of several acres, and upon
its surface is built the mass
i've castle of Chapultepec. There
is only one stairway and one road that
lead up to it, and the building is a
wonder of many kinds of Spanish
architecture. 1t is, it seems to me,
bigger than any building in the United
States, and it covers as much space as
the capitol at Washington, 1t rises in
terraces. and these terraces are of white
marble, with brass balustradeS, along
which you see lovely flower gardens,
which make you think of the hanging
gardens of one of the Aztec emperors.
The Mexican rulers of the past have
spent fortunes in improving and fur
nishing tl-is castle, and President Diaz
has rcmodcled many of the rooms for
his own use. The artists and builders
are repairing the rooms to-day, and the
palace will be finer than ever. One of
the bedrooms of the president is espe
cially fine, and Mrs. Diaz's private
reception parlor is in pink silk, with
hangings of brocade and plush. All of
the rooms are beautifully frcscoed, and
the interior of the castle corresponds in
some degree to the wonderful beauties
of nature which surround it. The view
from this castle is one of the finest in
Mexico The whole of the valley of
Mexico is spread out before you. The
capital, with its many cathedral towers
and enamcled domes, lies at your feet.
Silvery lakes sparkle like floods of
diamonds amid the green in the dis
lance, and upon all sides the great
mountains of Mexico shine out like
hills of frosted silver, and away off
under the sun you see the white heads
of the two great volcanoes, Popocate-
petl and the White Woman, which are
ever clothed in perpetual snow.-Chi-
caCoiI, Il
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
Landscape Gardening.

Some OF the most conspicuous effects
that may be realized from group.
ing and placing trees are: 1. The for
nation of distinct groups of the various
species and varieties. 2. Planting ever
green's with view to forming a dis.
tinct winter scenery. 3. To gradually
blend evergreen and deciduous planta.
tions by pleasing connections. 4. To
place certain trees in conspicuous posi-.
tons. 5. To plant with reference tc
individual beauty, as also with regard
to the resulting from combination OF
forms. 8. To produce a pleasing sky
outline to all heavy masses or distinct
groups. Z. To plant with regard to
autumn coloring and the introduction
OF towering trees. All If these effects
may not be obtainable on the lawn,
but judicious selection and planting
will combine considerable number OF
them.-Orange Judd IhEmeE
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

At the Illinois experiment station
tests have been made to determine the
consistency of the amount of butter fat
in milk, and it appears that though the
general law, that the amount of milk
decreased and the percentage of butter
fat increased as the period of lactation
progressed held true, yet there were
surprising variations of almost daily
occurrence. The amount of butter tat
might be six per cent more in the
morning and by night drop off three or
four per cent From these investiga.
tions it is apparent that a single test
for only day or two can give no re.
liably correct idea of cows milk and
butter producing capacity.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
ABOUT Spoiled FIELDS.
How to Make Every Acre on the Farm
Produce Its Best.


Produce Its Best.
There are to be found on almost
very farm what may be termed
spotted fields" By this are meant
fields which have defective places in
them, where the crops have made a
poor return. In this oat field there
may be found a spot where the straw
was short and on the stalks no heads.
In that cornfield is place where the
ears failed to set and where there was
scarcely any growth of stalk. Out in
the meadows are thin spots where the
grass forgot to grow, and yonder bar
rem knoll in the pasture is evidence in
itself that it is not doing as well as it
should.
It's well to consider these significant
hints furnished by the fields and patch
up the deficient places Some one has
said that he who farms poor land
should always go about the place with
clover seed in one pocket and gypsum
in the other. This fgurative express
sion may be taken quite literally by
almost every farmer Immediately after
harvest, for the farms-particularly in
the east-are few upon which no I'M
productive places are to be found. 1t
needs not the chemist to analyze the
soil to tell what these places need.
Two things may be given as the rem
edy on nine-tenths of the farms, viz,
manure and drainage. Let the barren
spots be well covered with manure or
fertilizer of some sort, and if the opera
ton is repeated again in the spring so
much the better. Let the wet places
be drained and thus convert waste into
productive land. Tile is good invest
ment on any land that needs it, for the
land is virtually worthless without.
If intensive farming is to be the most
successful farming in the future, then
every acre and part of an acre must be
made to produce its very best. Wet
places must be reclaimed, half pro-
iuctive spots must be made to bear full
crops, and wide brier hedges along the
fences must fall before the bush hook
Rocks perhaps appear in patches. en-
langering plowshare, reaper and
mower. They should be picked up and
carted off They are commonly heaped
in some corner or along the edge of a
field, where they are still in the way,
instead of being hauled on the bad ruts
and says in the road where they are
out of the way and ltreful. American
AGriculturiSt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
MONKEY JOKERS.
How an Artists Pets Regained Their Mag
tiers Good Favor.

tiers Good Favor.
An artist in Rome was the possessor
of two monkeys. One morning the
larger of the two monkeys freed him
self from the rope by which he was tied
and then released his smaller compan-
ion. In Il few minutes an excited wo-
man rushed into the artists studio to
complain that his monkeys had been
pelting her with green figs Vrom out of
her own tree. A man was sent to ar
rest them. They ran over the wall into
an adjoining garden, and continued
their flight uutil their pursuer lost
track of them. AS evening was coming
on the artist, while sitting at a window
which opened into little court, heard
something which caused him to look
up. His runaway pets seated in a win
dow opposite, We're trying to conciliate
their master, and then get off from pun
ishment. The artist looked at them
with a grave expression though he was
struggling to keep from laughing. The
monkeys, having exhausted their re-
sources seemed to despair. Suddenly
the larger monkey had a happy thought
catching his small companion by the
tail, he began swinging him in the air
like pendulum. The absurdity of the
action, and the anxious expression with
which both monkeys watched its effect
upon their master, broke down the ar
lists self-control. He burst into long
and loud laughter, and the monkeys,
seeing that they were pardoned, joined
in with glad clatter. Humor in AMI
mails" by w, H, Beard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
BUTCHERING DEVICE.
4 Simple, Labor Saving Contrlvauce Any
one Can Make.

A subscriber sends to the Orange
Judd Farmer the following simple de-
vice for elevating beef, or any car
cass, when butchering! Spread apart
the hind legs of the butchered and
.resscd carcass, and keep them spread
oy stick put across above the gam
brel joints. Through the gambrel
joints run a strong pole, or iron rod-a
crowbar will do-letting it extend a
foot or two on either side. Attach two
ropes to the beam overhead, branch
of a tree, or whatever forms the sup.
port, as far apart as the carcass is wide,
as shown in the illustration. To the
low ends of each rope, which should
hang to within about three feet of the
ground, attach stick two or three
feet long, at its middle point Place
the rod, running through the gambrel
joints, on the ropes next to the short
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE FIRST GLASS.

Glass number one, "only in fun"
Glass number two, 'Other boys do"
Glass number three, "it won't hurt me;"
Glass number four ''only one more"
Glass number five, before drive"
Glass number six, brain in mix;
Glass number seven, stars up in heaven;
Glass number eight stars in his pate;
Glass number nine, whisky, not vine;
Glass number ten, drinking again;
Glass number twenty, not yet plenty.
Drinking with boys, drowning his joys;
Drinking with men, just now and then,
Wasting his life, killing his wife;
Losing respect, manhood all wrecked,
Losing his friends, thus it all ends.
Glass number one taken in fun,
Ruined his life, brought on str fe;
Blighted his youth, ruled his truth;
Gave only pain, stole all his gain;
Made him at last friendless outcast.
Llght-hearted boy, somebody's JOY,
Do not begin early in sin;
Grow up a man brave as you can;
Taste not in fun glass number one.
Central Baptist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
FARM AND GARDEN.
SIMPLE MILK TESTER.
Valuable Information from Prof. j. R.

Valuable Information from Prof. j. r.
Hutton, of Connecticut.
One of the prime elements of success
in dairying at the present day is
knowledge of the commercial value OF
the milk handled. 1t is generally con-
coded that the value of milk for near
ly every purpose is in proportion to its
percentage of fat, and many attempts
have been made to devise satisfactory
method of testing milk on the basis of
the fat contained. To be of popular
use such method must be rapid and
simple, as well as accurate and com
paratively inexpensive. The principal
methods that have been tried are lack
ing in one or more of these require
ments.
The machine and method here de-
scribed are the result of an effort to
cheaper and simplify still further the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

sticks. Revolve the sticks about the
rod. This will wind up the ropes, and
raise the carcass from the ground. Any
boy sixteen years old can do the work
with ease. When raised high enough.
second rod or board should be
placed between the ropes and the ends
of the sticks. as shown in the engrav-
ing, to prevent unwinding. Both ropes
should be SO wound that the sticks will
tend to turn the same way.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
G45Ala e.

work of testing milk. The method,
similar to those now in use, consists in
mixing a measure of the milk to be
tested with enough alcohol and sui
phuric acid, and rapidly whirling the
mixture to separate the fat. Fig.
represents only one of number of
very cheap and simple machines, which
anyone can make, and only one way of
attaching it. In this the test bottles,
while being whirled, are supported in
a piece of 2X4-inch Scantling, fifteen
inches long. conferred on the upper end
of the shaft. This is made of five
eIghths-inch rod iron, eight inches
long, with upper end squared and
slightly tapercd to tit into a square
hole in the center of the whirler. The
shaft turns in block at the side and
through a hole with tin bcaring) in
the top of the table. A small pulley on
the shaft is connected by band wit h
the wheel at the left, turning on bolt
through the leg of the table. One turn
of the wheel makes about ten of the
whirler, which should make about 500
per minute while testing. The capaci-
ty of the whirler is easily increased by
making two crosspieces, and still
further by a continuous wheel. The
cost of the machine is about fifty cents.
The work of making a test is brief
ly as follows: ANVIL alcohol is added
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
Not the Right Kind of stream.

"Look at this beautiful river that lies
at our feet, my SON." said the aged
father, as he laid his trembling hand on
his youngest sons head and sent him
out into the cold world IF you grow
up in the right way, my son, your life
will flow like this lovely stream
Tie boy grew up to be confidence
man and thief and is now in the
peni!entiary. The beautiful river he
had taken as his model was crooked
one.--Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
Buck wheat for Sheep.

We should not feed the buckwheat
alone to the sheep, but when mixed
with corn and rye it will make whole.
some food. We should mix the three
grains in equal parts and feed whole
with good clover hay if possible,
Bucllwheat alone is very "heating"-a
diet of buckwheat cakes in the human
being is only advisable in the coolest
weather. Mixed with corn and rye,
you will obtain Il ration that is more
digestible and better balanced. AS O
rule, it is better economy TO sell the
bucl1wheat ground into -four, and buy
bran or linseed meal with the money
thus obtained. The same is often true
of rye. Rural Ne& Yorker
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tenn efiectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in ita
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend il
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIe SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

IN the mouth. FIG. 3. FIG. 2.
and the bottle shaken vigorously until
the curd is dissolved, and the contents
become a hot solution of light brown
color. The neck p then nearly filled
with weak acid equal parts of strong
acid and water), the bottle placed il
the whrler and whirled for about half
a minute, or until all the fat appears
as clear yellow oil within the gradua-
tions of the neck, from which its per-
centage is read at once. The time re-
quired to make a test is about two
minutes, and the cost for chemicals
about one-fourth of cent. Cream,
skimmilk and buttermilll are tested in
a similar way, if fair sample can be
obtained with the pipette. For cream
a pipette delivering - grains is used,
and the reading multiplied by three for
the per cent. of fat. One hundred tests
require about one-half pound of alco-
hol and five pounds of acid, both of
which may be obtained from any drug
gist. The pipette costs twenty-five
cents, the bottles fifty cents each. An
accurate milk tester of some kind
should be used by every farmer who
has much milk to sell or butter to
make. It's use will enable him to form
an intelligent idea of the dairy value
Of his cows American Agriculturist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

WHILE we wouldn't reject COW be,
cause of the color of her hair, yet we
would demand that more of the other
good points should be there. In short,
brindle is a scrub coior.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

to a test bottle
Gig. p to a
depth of one
f 0 u r t h of an
inch; the pip
cite Zig. - is
then filed with
the wcll-mixed
milk, and its con-
tents delivered
into the bottle.
Strong sulphuric
acid is added up
to the neck of the
bottle, a small
cork held firmly
In thn n,nnAl.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
THE SALOONS WORK.
Two Lives Pay the Penalty of PamperIng
:. 7nsta tor Rum.

10 you ask me why I hate the
saloon? l will tell you. once had a
dear sister Mary. We were constant
companions. Mary was a conscieu-
tious girl, and anxious to i've good
lie. She used to say: anna, when l
Arizona republican., 1891-04-16

professional tuners and the deception is not learned until they have disappeared only to repeat the trick in other places. Florence has not been exempt from their presence but the owners of pianos are learning lesson they will likely re. member and they will hereafter await the stated visits of A. Redeuill, who is a permanent resident of Arizona and the possessor of credentials that fully attest his skill and ability. He did a lively business in Florence this week having sold six pianos and tuned nearly two-thirds of the instruments in town.- Florence Enterprise.
 MT. A. Rsdeuill is now in this city having come at the request of many prominent piano owners. His reputa- tion as a piano tuner is as wide as the Pacific coast, over which he is we'll known for the excellencies of his work. He represents the leading piano manu- lecturers in the United States, is a skilled workman and absolutely re- liable.
Arizona republican., 1891-04-16
LOS ANGELES, CAL.
Manufacturers and Dealers in Super
 phosphates, Bone Meal. Etc.

LNOR SOME TIME GREAT WANT HAS
 II been felt by the orange grower of southern California for fertilizer adapted 10 this fruit
 We have been successful in finding just the food, and now offer to the orange grower our "OHnge Tree Fertilizer" It Is an article thoroughly adapted to this tree, consisting of bone, potash, phosphoric acid, ammonia and other ingredients, and is a complete manure for growing trees, from time of setting out to iull maturity. Gophers will not work where this fertilizer Is used, on account of their distaste for the phOsphoric acid, which is very helpful to the tree-either orange or lemon. In the growing of other citrus or deciduous fruits fin California the use of superphOsphates, according to Prof Hilgard, will be found much better adapted to the purpose than either barnyard or stable manure, in that they contain the neces. sary constituents of which the soil has been de. prived by its long continuance m the cultiya- tion of such crops. In setting out trees, one pound per tree should be used, thoroughly mixed with the soil before irrigating The quantity used on old trees cordIng to the age Of the tree tree years otd, 5 pounds; 10 years old 10 pounds. II the trees are 20 feet apart or more, and the soil be very poor, greater quan- tity may he used to good advantage The fer tilizer may be applied at any time before a rain or irrigating. Price, s36 per ton.