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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26
HICKORY DAMAGED BY sAP-sUcKER.

as the white pine, hickory, apple and
peach.
For three years past l have been
studying the bird in question. Every
spring the downy woodpeckers have
visited a small white pine within a
few feet of the window before which
spend several hours each day. The
birds, as is their usual way, go around
the tree and cut ring of holes around
it. When the wood is reached they
suck the sap, which at this season flows
copiously. With the aid of field glass
/ have observed their acting closely
and have seen them taking the sap and
soft bark, which of the white pine is
very sweet, and filing themselves with
it. By shooting them and examining
the stomachs they are found filled
with the sap and soft, pulpy bark, or,
more correctly, the alburnum, but no
traces of insects are to be seen. The
same has been the case with apple
trees, peach trees and an aspen which
is growing within twenty feet of the
window, and the same with young
hicliories in the woods.
The hickory seems to be the most
favorite food with these birds of all the
forest trees. These trees are so dam
aged as to be entirely killed in few
years. The trees are girdled by annual
openings in the bark made in the same
place. The sketch sent herewith gives
an example of the damage done to
these trees. The rings gradually form
restricted grooves around the trees,
where the bark forms thick calluses
and finally the wood dies. In time the
trees perish and break off at the rings
under any usually strong wind.
The white oaks are also damaged,
but seem to resist the injury better
than the hickories. The wood under
these rings upon some large oaks be-
comes curiously distorted in the grain,
showing how the injury in young
tree remains to the last. Thick rings
OF bark form over the wounded places
and when these trees are sawn into
boards some beautiful veinings are
found in the grain, waves and curls
being formed at times for foot in
length, and the lumber cut from such
trees makes beautiful finishing stuff for
panels and other ornamental work. If
no other harm were done we could
easily forgive these birds, but three
dead apple trees and several badly in
jured ones in my orchard prove that
the sap-sucker, at some season of the
year, is beyond question an injurious
bird. H. Stewart, in Country Gentle
man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

useless in many bGrn. Take a worn.
out section bar of moving machine
holding the knives that play in the cut
ting bar, mortise it into the under side
of the wooden sled shoe, or otherwise
attach it to the sled runner, so that it
will slide on the ground at slight
angle. as seen in the sketch. Some
fine day, when the meadow is cleared
of hay, hitch on to the sled and see how
neatly and speedily it will slice off the
bog tops. 1t is a success and a con.
queror. Put on box, and let one man
follow the planer sled with fork and
pitch on every bog as fast as it is cut
IF. Dried they make hot fire, and
should be saved for fuel for the kitchen
fire during warm weather.-American
ApricuituriSt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26
MAKING PEOPLE ALL ALIKE
What the Sewing Machine and Tsiegrapn
are Doing.


What the Sewing Machine and Telegraph
are Doing.
Some wit remarked that the sewing
machine and telegraph are rapidly
making one people of all that dwell on
the face of the earth. They are destroy
ing the national peculiarities of the dress
of men in the countries of Europe by
giving :Lem the styles of everyday
clothing from London, wEichis the greaf
center of traffic for that part OF the
world.
Ready-made garments from London
are sold the shops of Amsterdam, Berlin,
Vienna, Copenhagen, Christiana, Stock
holm and st. Petersburg, and in many
of the smaller cities, which obtain their
supplies from the great ones on the list,
or from London direct.
Formerly an English sailor could be
readily distinguished from Danish or
Swedish one, and each of these from
the other by his distinctive costume, but
at the present time all of them are
dressed alikey and quite possibly their
garments came from the same factory.
Fifty years ago the homespun gar
ments of New England differed from
those of the western aud southern
States, and these again from those of
Canada, but nowadays, says an ex-
change, the homespun has been largely
driven out by 'store Clothes" which
have found their way into the great
majority of the towns and villages all
over the land.
The business of manufacturing cloth
ing on the theory that every garment
that is made will fit somebody and find
a customer is increasing year by year,
and though the coats and trousers TINS
created are sold at price that defes
competition on the part of the weaver
of homespun, the trade seems to be a
profitable one for all concerned.
In many of the large establishments
the cutting is done with great rapidity,
the cloth being pill / in thickness of one
or two hundred layers, which are cut
by fine saw that follows metal pat
tern, under the guiding hand of a single
operator.
Thus, with the aid of machinery, one
person can do the work of fifty in the
cutting of garments, the sewing machine
follows closely and rapidly, and in this
way the whole world is clad
With our clothing of one pattern, and
the telegraph laying before us every
day all the news of the world, we are
not only dressing alike, but thinking
and talking of the same things at the
same time. IN. Y. Continent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
THE DoWNY WooDPECKER.

At Some Seasons of the Year He Ii an In.
furious Bird.
The downy woodpecker, Picus pubes
Gems, is the sap-sucker, although the
small red-headed and yellow-be
woodpecker (P. carius) is equally given
to this nefarious habit of boring through
the bark of various trees in the spring
and early summer to feed upon the
inner bark and sweet'sap which flows
abundantly at this season. Varying be-
hefs exist in regard to this birds hab-
Its, as also to those of the mole whose
ways are dark in double sense. Or
nithologists believe the bird or birds
eat only insects, just as other natural.
lists insist that the mole is only a car.
nivorous beast The majority of farm
ers and gardeners, however, think 9th
erwise-with good reason, unquestion-
ably, and l must maintain that they are
right; for, as to the mole, l have de.
tected the remains of sweet corn in its
stomach and have proved the existence
of starchy food in it by the unerring
test of iodine. And as to the downy
woodpecker, have equally good evil
dence that it does really feed upon the
soft inner bark and sap of various trees,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26
MEADOW SMOOTHER.
Any Farmer Can Make One Without Go
iug to Any Expense.

ANY Farmer Can Make One Without Go.
ing to Any Expense.
The man on the moving machine dis
likes to jolt over the boys, and to run a
mower on rough land soon spoils it.
Aside from this, to leave meadow full
of boys looks shiftless, and is poor
farming. Bog grass is fit for nothing
but bedding, while the clean meadow
fescue, bent grass or redtop would
make fragrant and nutritious hay.
Those who have tried it know that it is
next to impossible to dig or pull out the
good-sized meadow boys, and the old
slow, laborious way of cutting them off
with bog hoe is an expensive process.
Yet the remedy is a cheap one, and lies
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

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 effectually, 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 its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
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 FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. NV
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26
Startling Dairy Figures.

The American Analyst makes the
dairy industry an immense one, and es-
Inmates that So, 600, 600, 600 are invested
in it, and that 100000 cows are re-
quired to supply the people of the
United States with milk and its prod
ucts, and that to feed these cows co.
100000 acres Of land are cultivated.
The agricultural and dairy machinery
is valued at $500, 200, 600, while $50, 900
persons and 100000 horses are en-
ployed in the business. The average
cow yields $50 gallons of milk in year,
which gives total product of $780,
300, 900 gallons. At ~ cents gallon
which is fair price-the milk is worth
$50, 900, 900 a year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26
scourred to their Graves.

So subtle and tenacious is the poison Of
malaria, that many persons afflicted with it
never, through life, get rid of the venom in
their systems. Such people are not to be
found among those who use Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, which completely eradi-
Gates it. Most benign Of anti-malarial spe-
cities, it is also a sovereign remedy for bill:
iousness, kidney troubles, costiveness and
dyspepsia.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

Mrs. Figg-"Tommy, Tommy! That
is no way for you to talk. Even if your
little playmate is wrongi in what he says
you should not call him liar" Tommy
why not, ma? l can lick him easy
enough, an he knows it."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

VISITOR with a gun)-"Is there any
small game about hereF' Resident-"How
would twenty-fve-cent limit strike YOUR
Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

>eCRIBBINs takes good deal Of interest
In his business" "Never less than ten per
cent" replied Charlie Cashgo, with
sigh.-Washingto Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

NEVER loan your watch to musician. He
has too strong prediction for keeping
time-Boston Courier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

Shows What He Thought of Her.
She (delicately plaintive)-'I am so I'M
fortunate as to possess the gift of
divining exactly what every one thinks
of me-" He Observation-Disclosures
that is unfortunate, by Jove!'-West
Shora
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

THE time is coming in which the man
who earns his bread by the sweat Of his
brow need not work very hard in order 70
do it.-Eichmond Recorder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

ALL disorders caused by bilious state Of
the system can be cured by using Carters
Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping or dis
comfort attending their use. Try them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

WOMAN used to sweep everything before
her, but this spring she sweeps everything
behind her.-Elmira Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

"DEAR me-" said old Mr.. Boggs, hesitat.
lngly, ~ know I've forgotten something,
but, for the life Of me, can't remember
what it Is, -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

A FARMER near Mexico, Mo-, sold a
DAD of hogs at two, three and four
cents per pound, and then went into a
store and paid thirteen cents per pound
:or sugar-cured ham. If he thinks the
packers use too costly sugar to cure
hams he had better home cure some and
save the expense of five profits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

A MAN down in Indiana is so lazy that he
won't labor under an impression. Detroit
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

"IAM not stuck on my shape" said the
porcupine, "but others are."-Boston Her
aid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

"SPEAKISG of work. said Bloggs, III
takes a blacksmith to make felloe tired"
Columbus Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

THERE is no place like home, and some
unhappy wives are glad there isn't.-Som-
erville journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

CARRIES all before him-The man with g
wheelbarrow.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

PARE you in favor Of cremationi" he In.
qui1red, in the hope Of stimulating talk.
"Y est she replied. "ice-creamation."-
Washington Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

DoN'T be mulish. Never kick simply be-
cause people talk behind your back.-Rich-
mond Recorder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

A SHORT stop-"Five minutes for refresf
ments."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN subscriber
rubbed his cattle all over with ouions
md killed the lice On them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

A FELINE orchestra ought not to complain
of a high purr critical audience.-Buffal(
Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. CSC.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

GREAT jags from little corn Juice grow
Binghamton Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26
GREAT PRIvAIIONS.
Sad Conditions Which Surround the Lives
of Laboring Men.

of Laboring Men.
One of the greatest trials of our work
ing classes of to-day is privation of
taste and sentiment. There are me-
chanics who have their beautiful homes,
who have their fine wardrobes, who
have all the best fruits and meats of
the earth brought to their table. They
have their elegant libraries. But they
are the exception. A great mary of the
working people of our country are
living in cramped abodes, struggling
amid great hardships, living in neigh
borhoods where they do not want to
live, but where they have to live. do
not know of anything much more pain
full than to have fine taste for paint
ings, and sculpture, and music, and
glorious sunsets, and the eXpanse of
the blue sky, and yet not be able to get
the dollar for the oratorio, or to get a
picture, or to buy ones way into the
country to look at the setting sun and at
the bright heavens. While there are
men in great affiucnce, who have around
them all kinds of Injuries in art them
selves entirely unable to appreciate
these misunderstanding their books by
the square foot, their pictures sent to
them by some artist who is glad to get
the misera bic daubs out of the studio
there are multitudes of refined, delicate
women who are born artists and shall
reign in the kingdom of Heaven as
artists who are denied every picture,
and every sweet song.-T. Dewitt Tai
mage, in Ladies' Home journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

IT is bard for the young man who is Just
learning 70 ride the bicycle to lead an up
right life.-Somerville journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

No SPECIFIC for local skin troubles equal
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
HIPS Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

~ TELL you, old man, j." said the detective,
''you ought to consult physician. You
don't seem like your old self" 'Hush"
was the reply "Big case. pm in disguise"
w Washington Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

NOTHING but a fabrication-An oriente
rug.-Mail and Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

INTENDED for striking article-The whip.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

Flossie is little girl whose ideas of
creation are yet crude, but she is very
curious.
"Is all of us made out of dust,
mammal she asked, the other day.
Yes, Flossie.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-26

The child was silent for moment.
mamma" she said, Heaven must
be drefful dusty place. Free
Press.
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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-26
BALLOUrS WARNING.
The Novelist Writes a Letter to
the President.
A MENACE TO NATIONAL PEACE

He Urges the Need OF Stringent
Immigration Inspection and tie.
Striction As a Protection Against
Those Hostile to Our Institutions
and Owning Foreign Allegiance.
WASHINGTON, March 28.-The follow
ing letter addressed to the president by
William Hosea Ballou, the novelist,
and who has been residing in New Or
leans for several months, has been re-
ceived ut the executive mantion:
= "Your attention Is directed to the
menace to this country Of large ele-
Inent of foreign born people appealing
to foreign sovereign for revenge by
arms or diplomacy on account of an
act Of the community of New Orleans
Il submit that the presence of an i'm
mense body Of foreigners within the
United States. not in sympathy with us.
our customs and laws, who, whatever
the provocation, call upon foreign
country for aid, cannot be depended
upon in times of national danger and
war and are a constant menance to our
peace and safety. Washington is the
place and You alone are the representa-
tive OF the sovereign people, to whom
appeal should be made by all claiming
allegiance to this country.
SIN view Of these facts suggest the
need Of stringent immigration inspec-
tion and restriction, Otherwise foreign
countries, hostile to us prospectiveIy,
will plant large bodies Of men and
women on this soil, who will breed
others Of their kind and who will rise
against us whenever called upon by the
government from which they came,
while protesting quasi allegiance to the
United States. While we may regard
with pride all foreign American pa
trlots, the time has come to dIstrust all
who look to foreign country for pro-
lection while claiming loyalty to this
country"
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-26
NUGGETS OF NEWS

Tho premium on geld at the close of tho
Buenos Ayres bourse yesterday was e55 per
cent.
The Pittsburg baseball club sta rted taday
for Florida, where they will indulge in few
weeks practice.
The treasury department has decl'ed that
piano witch Is used as a means Of livelihood
can be imported duty free.
In the baseball game at Philad clphia yes
terday between the Athletics AMI the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania the former won by a
score of to l.
AT New York number of tailors' judg-
ments against delinquent creditors were sold
by auction. The largest amount, bill for
sls9 10. sold for s..
The treasury department yesterday paid
out over 500 of French spoliation claims,
The largest was to j. T. Breuii, administrator
of Francis Breuil, for Sl4 9J9.
Tho Covlngton, KY, pool room men won
their test case before a magistrate and the
rooms will continue to do business. Tho
prosecution abandoned the case.
Gen. Count George Frederic Alfred Won
Fabrioe president of the council of the min
istry of Saxony, and minister of state, war
and foreign affairs, died at Dresden yester-
day, aged H.
The California legislative committee ap-
pointed to examine Into tho alleged brlbin 2
Of Legislators In the late senatorial election
reported that they found no evidence TO sus-
thin 'he allegations.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-26
ONCAROLINA'SCOAST
Wreck Of the British Steamship
Straithairly.,
NINETEEN SAILORS DROWNED

Those Who Were Rescued Owe
Their Lives-to the Heroic Efforts
of the Life savers-Oniy One ON.
Ger Escaped-The Vessel VIII BE a
Total Loss.
NORFOLK. Va, March 26.-The Larn
line steamship Straithairly went ashore
Tuesday morning at 4:40 O'Clock during
heavy north northeaster, one and a
quarter miles south of Chicamicomico
life saving station, on the North Caro-.
lima coast, twenty-one miles north of
Hatteras.
The crew consisted of twenty six
men, and only seven remain to tell the
tale Of the terrible trip through the
breakers i'll raging storm. Among
those lest are all the officers of the
steamship except the second mate.
Rescued by Life Savers.
Those who were saved owe their lives
to tho brave life savers, and it is
thought that all could have been res
cued il they could have remained on
the wreck, but the heavy sea washed
them away before the rescuing crew
arrived. The vessel is fast going to
pieces, and little will remain of her
when the weather clears away.
She is wooden vessel and was built
in Newcastle, England. She is schooner
rigged, and was engaged in the trade
between Baltimore and the West
Indies.
tiago, Cuba. This is the most serious
yvt.a nn Oh ha
ship Elizabeth and her crew were lost
about four years ago.
Where the Wreck Occurred.
A more desolate coast than that upon
which the vessel struck it is difficult to
imagine. 1t is strip of land cast up
from the sea and separated from the
main land by many miles of broad salt
sounds. At times when the water is
low it broadens to u width of few
miles and then shrinks to a thread of
gray sand.
There arc but few inhabitants, and
their only means of communication
with the outside world Is had through
an occasional sloop or fishing boat that
may cruise along the sounds. They
obtain their livelihood from the sea-
On the sea side long sand bars run ont
and reefs abound and a vessel that hap
pens to be wrecked is sure to strike
long distance out, where she is
speedily smashed to piocss by the tre-
mendous Hatteras seas which have been
the dread of sailors for many hundreds
of years. p.
The bones Of many a ship and crow
lies bleaching on the white sands.
There is well organized system of llf.
saving, but owing to the character of
the coast the most useful of their appli-
ances, the life line from gun, can sell
dom be used, and the crews are forced
to depend on their surf boats, whIcn
they handle with great skill.