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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
ABOUT PILLOWS.
Some Objections to Those in Use iu This
Country.

Some Objections to Those in Use iu This
Country.
The use of pillow is not matter of
mere blind usage. 1t has physiolog-
zeal basis. We sleep, for the most
part, on the side, and without pillow
| the head would be uncomfortably and
harmfully lower than the body.
1t will be remembered that Jacob,
when fleeing from Esau, took a stone
| for a pillow. He needed something
| for the purpose, and nothing better
than stone presented itself. Such
practices are common in Africa at the
present day. Bishop Taylor probably
| found it convenient, if not necessary,
| to take up with them in his travels in
that land; for on his return to this
country he rejected the soft pillows of
| his friendly hosts, and, sometimes at
least, substituted one of books.
Some people rest the neck instead of
the head on hard pillows. In Africa
extraordinary headgears make this
practice necessary, and many civ
ilized woman has been compelled by
somewhat similar couture to forego
both the pillow and the recumbent
| posture.
A consideration of the physiological
reason for pillows will suggest their
proper thickness. They should merely
bring the head to natural level. Some
pillows are much too thick. BY bend
ing the neck unduly, they interfere
with the outflow of the venous blood
from the head. The pillow that just
fills up the space above the shoulder
best suits its end.
Again, pillows of feathers are objec-
tionable While they furnish the
needed support for the head, they are
too heating, as they have a remarkable
capacity for holding and accommodating
! heat.
| 1t should be remembered that more
blood, and hence more heat, goes to
! the head than to any other part of the
body. Head-heating pillows are against
the wholesome maxim: Keep the feet
warm, but the head cool" There is
nothing better than the hair pillow.
Further, the pillow is for the head,
nor for the shoulders. To rest the
shoulders on the pillow defeats the very
end for which it is used.
Finally, special care should be taken
of infants in this matter. We have
seen their heads sunken deep in the
softest and thickest of pillows, and
their faces, as a natural consequence.
covered with great beads of perspira
ton. 1t is no wonder that children SC
treated die.-Youth's Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23

society against intenperance and
against the men who make it their oc-
cupation TO foster it.
All these facts are cheering inAica-
tions of the steady and sure, if some
what slow, growth of public sentiment
in opposition to the liquor traffic and
to drinking men. No move powerful
lever can be used to induce men to con-
troll their appetites, than to have pub
lie sentiment impress upon them the
conviction that they cannot afford to get
drunk. 1t is by strengthening this.
sentiment that the friends of prohibit.
ton must look for their most efficient
aid When you can convince a man by
the stern logic of facts that it don't
pay to get drunk, he will be very apt
to avoid the habit if he has already
contracted it, and to shun the saloon
When the masses of the people are ed
ucated up to the understanding that it
don't pay, they will be quite willing
to Join in the effort to entirely suppress
the drink habit.-Toledo Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
DRINKING MEN NOT WANTED.
The Feeling Against Them Growing
Stronger in business and Society.

The Feeling Against Them Growing
Stronger in Business and Society.
The progress of barring out from po-
sitions of trust and profit all men who
indulge in intoXicants is becoming
more widespread every year. With
some occupations it is almost an abso-
Lutte rule that drinking men are not
wanted All the leading railroad COM
panies of the country refuse to employ
men who drink, and this practice is ex-
tending even to street-car lines. A
short time ago. the Fourth avenue
street-car company, of New York city,
one of the principal ones in that city,
issued an order to all its conductors and
drivers notifying them that it would
thereafter be considered sufficient
cause for immediate dismissal for any
of them to visit saloon at either end
of the road between trips. The officers
of the road frankly said that the mott
fcation was issued to insure discipline
among the men, some of whom were
in the habit of leaving their cars
and horses unattended while they loi-
tered in saloons at one end or the other
of the line. The men themselves got
up some little excitement over the or
der, and even talked of organizing Il
strike to have it rescinded; but wiser
counsel prevailed, when they reflected
that there were plenty of men in the
city who We're perfectly willing to take
their places, and who did not make a
habit of visiting saloons.
The growth of the feeling can also be
seen in many secret societies, which
condemn the liquor traffic and exclude
liquor sellers from membership. In
this case the objection is to the mans
occupation. One who makes it his sole
employment to minister to debased
appetite among men is not considered
worthy of fellowship with the gentle
men composing the order. 1t will be
remembered that the grand lodge of
odd fellows of the state of Indiana re-
Gently decided hereafter to exclude all
liquor dealers from the organizations
Similar action has been taken by the
masonic order, and by the Knights of
Pythins, in different states. Every such
action reveals the deep-seated condem-
natiuC pm 0ng the intelligent masses Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
ATTACHING A HOLE.
The Queer Outcome of u Lawsuit in OLD
Time Rhode Island.

The Queer Outcome of a Lawsuit in Old
Time Rhode Island.
A laughable instance of legal sharp
practice is recorded in the Rev Frederic
Denison's history of the town of Wes-
terly, r. /. 1t occurred almost a hum
dred years ago, when, it seems. lawyers
were quite as adroit at quibblng as
their successors are at the present day.
A farmer of broken fortunes hired for
cultivation piece OF land, agreeing to
pay for its use with a certain proper
ton of the crop.
He planted potatoes, and had an I'M
usual degree of success. Being without
a storeroom, he obtained the consent
of a neighboring landholder, and de-
posted his share of the potatoes in
what farmers call pota to-hole: that is,
an excavation in the earth. into which
the potatoes were placed and covered
with earth and straw in the form of
pyramid.
Shortly afterwaxd he had occasion to
20 to Connecticut. and one of his credi
;ors seized the opportunity to attach
the ''potato-hole.
Upon this another creditor bestirred
himself, and consulted a lawyer, Mr..
Cross as to what could be done to Sc
cure his claim. %r. Cross was equal to
The occasion. He secured the issuing of
second writ, by which an attachment
was levied upon the potatoes in the
ootato-hole, the document specifically
setting forth that the potato-hole should
be left upon the land where it was
found.
The warrant was promptly served.
and when the first creditor appeared
upon the scene he found the potato-hole
out not the potatoes. Youths Com
naniOn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

THERE is no hope of temperance re-
form through the agency of any pollti-
cal party or faction that carries beer
on one shoulder and water on the other.
Christian at Work
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, says: "How to
deal with the liquor question is one OF
the great problems of the century; one
of the most stupendous questions that
ever engaged the human mind. There
is nothing that can be said in favor of
the saloon"
In a recent card to the public Frances
E. Willard says with regard to the
"Keeley cure that she is friend to
DR.. Kelley and an advocate of the cure.
She admitted that some Of her remarks
in a recent speech concerning the news
papers that advocated the Kelley cure
were too sweeping in character and
said if DR.. Kelley would make the
secret of his method known the w. c.
7. us around the world would try and
supply it free to any unable to pur-
chase for themselves.
THE lack of the right kind of food is
the cause of much of the drunkenness.
| After drinking what many of our
grocers call coffee, sweetened with
what many call sugar, and eating what
many OF our butchers call meat, and
chewing what many of our bakers call
bread. many of our laboring classes feel
so miserable they are tempted to put
into their nasty pipes what the tobac-
conist calls tobacco or go into the drink
/ ing saloons for what the rumcellers
call beer. Good coffee would do much
in driving out bad rum. -Talmage.
You've men are learning the every
day commercial value of temperance.
( The good fellow" man is he who stays
at the ladders foot and his comrades
profit by the object lesson. In no walk
of life are the higher paths open as
they were, not so very long ago, to the
man who drinks. Business men, pro-
/ fessional men, look upon an employees
convivial habits as menace to them
selves! What once found ready excuse
now suffers not even liberation. This
, is plain lesson of the times. And this
is the reason common sense is every
day forwarding the cause of practical
temperance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
A DEBASING TRAFFIC.
Evils Arising from Furnishing Drink 20
the Native Races.

Evils Arising from Furnishing Drink 20
the Native Races.
A member of a naval lodge of good
templars on board one of the British
naval vessels on the west coast of
Africa, in letter read at the late an
niversary meeting of the Drink and
Native Races association, writes:
We are out here on the spot and can
see for ourselves the immense evils
arising from this devilish traffic. In
the steamer which brought us out TO
the Cape of Good Hope to join our
ships were two missionaries with cases
of Bibles, etc, to bring the glad tidings
of great JOY unto the poor benighted
heathens, and down in the hold of the
same vessel were twenty-one hundred
gallons of Holland gin and fifteen hun
bred gallons of rum intended for
the selfsame heathens. Now, my
brothers and sisters, please ask
yourselves what good is it send
ing out missionaries to enlighten
the negro when we allow the devil
and his agents to send out that which
utterly destroys the good they may be
aDlG 10 QoI we SSdlncu, although,
as it WERE on the scene of battle, are
helpless to do anything in this matter
except to urge the poor blacks to alb
stain from the drink; but when we
speak to them on the subject they tell
us: ''White man bring it, white man
drink it, and black man drink it" And
black man does drink it and dies in
consequence One of the objects for
which our ship is stationed here is the
suppression of the slave trade, but the
ships of all sorts that pass in and out
of the rivers have on board that which
binds the negroes with worse chains
than those which Wilberforce broke
asunder, which holds them in stronger
bonds than braham Lincoln united in
America, and which binds them in
slavery more degrading, more debas-
ing and more damning than any for
which the brave men of the northern
states went to war with their southern
brethren to abolish.-National TEN
perance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
Alcohol In Influenza.

In England. as in this country, the
influenza disturbance has seriously af-
fected the health of many who were its
victims At the late meeting of the
British Medical association Dr. Nor
man Kerr read "a paper on alcohol in
Influenza in which he expressed the
deliberate opinion that the mortality
in Influenza had been considerably
heightened by the free administration
OF intoNicants. Though he occasional
ly in his professional practice pre-
scribes alcohol, it is with the strictest
limitations. and he protested most en-
phatically against the misuse of medi-
cal authority in the recommendation
in non-medical journals. of the medic
inal use of Intoxicating liquors. He
affirmed that by their narcotic action
alcoholic intoXicants added to the deep
depression of the obscure poison pro-
ducing influenza symptoms, the fur
Their depression from the alcoholic poi
son. "Alcohol," he declared, was
not stimulant, but an anesthetic; not
tonic, but paralyzant. National
Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
THE POWER OF EXAMPLE.
A Practical illustration of Its Beneiicent
Influence.

A Practical illustration of Its Beneiicent
Influence.
A well.known Christian merchant of
this city not long ago had an urgent
telegram calling him to see an old
friend residing in suburban town.
When he arrived at the house of his
friend he found the latter very i'll and
only expected to live for few hours.
The friend asked to see him alone,
and when by themselves, said: MY
doctor tells me that / can live at the
most but twenty-four hours. l want
ed once more to see you and say to you
something that have never told you"
In early life, as young men, they had
met in this city in business relations,
and it was at that period that the
close bond of personal friendship was
formed. They went much together in
society, and had great happiness in
each other. The one who was about
to pass away had in their young man
hood cousin, beautiful young lady
in this city, III whose society both these
friends passed much time. On one
occasion she gave an elegant party,
WHICH boIl NClS III
During the evening when refreshments
were served, she came to the friend of
her cousin and asked him to drink
with her a glass of wine. Very fond
of her, the young man was sorely per-
picked, but finally declined, saying:
Il will do anything for you that l
properly can, but l cannot drink the
glass of wine.' Turning from him
with somewhat of an air of displeas-
ure, she said: "Well, will go to"
cher cousin, ''he will drink it with
me-" She crossed the room to her
cousin, extended the invitation to him
with the air of confident expectation,
but he also declined, greatly to her as
constituent, and not little to her cha
grin. In this last interview, many
years after the party in question, one
thing which passed between these two
old friends was the statement of the
one who was about to die, which he
wished to make as something of Il con-
fession, to the effect that he was at
that time an observer across the room
of what transpired with his cousin, and
although he had never before thought
of abstaining from Intoxicating bcver-
ages, to the social use of which he had
always been accustomed, influenced by
the example of his friend IN declining,
he also determined to decline. He
wished now to make acknowledge
ment of his gratitude for this eventful
incident in his life, which he had no
doubt had saved him from excuses and
ruin which, in his case, would have al
most certainly followed the continu-
ance of the drink habit.
In this incident may be seen prac-
teal illustration of the power of right
example. Its influence is sometimes
more potent and farreaching than words
of counsel alone, however good they
may be. May every one, young and
old, realize in the light of this dying
statement of one friend to another, the
great value and Importance of the alb
stainer's example to others.
Temperance Advocate.
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in dispatching the panthers and cap
turing the silver gray-and doubtless
for avcnging the sncaking theft of his
dearly earned pelt.
"The Indian council decreed that the
only penalty which Turkey should pay
for his assassination of Whipped Dog
was to keep within certain limits,
which gave him a hunting ground of
some miles in extent. Within these
limits he was safe. To go beyond them
was death.
"He was known, far and near,
throughout all western New York as
John Turkey, the prescribed man, who
killed the panthers. And few men
stopped for any length of time in the
little town from which Rochester
sprung without hearing John Turkeys
story. 1t was town attraction"
FORREST CRISSEY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23

A new and attractive couture is the
Greek fillet. Thick hair of medium
length is most suita BILE for this style of
nairdressing, but it can also be made by
adding false locks. The hair is not
parted but combed back, small tuft
eft for the curls in front, and tied tight
on the top of the head as seen. The
hair strand is then braided half the
length, the ends arranged in five or six
curls, and the braided part pinned up
in knot from the middle of which
the curls fall down and are pinned in
place. Should the hair be too short and
too thin, false curls may be pinned on
at the back and over the forehead. A
treble string of beads gold fillet, or a
handsome necklace, put on as seen,
completes the distingue Greek coiffure.
The Season.
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tured to put TO him, on the occasion of
his first visit to my fathers home, at a
moment when father and mother had
left the room. Father had often told
me the story ''second-handed," but
had longed to hear it from the Judges
own lips, and therefore improved my
first opportunity to draw it out.
AS mother entered the room, bearing
a big pan filled with cleanly-wiped
Northern Spies" Rhode Island
Greenings' and "Russets," followed by
father, with basin of cracked butter
nuts, the judge said:
james, you've heard me tell about
John Turkey, the prescribed man,
haven't you?''
Yes, years ago, but I've forgotten a
good deal about it." replied father, as
he and the Judge settled back in their
rockers, and were helped by mother to
plate of apples and nuts.
well, you see it was in a very early
day, when Rochester was a mere vii
lage, and the country around was a
wilderness, full of big game and In
dams. l was the first judge who ever
held regular court in that district, and
it was a far different thing to make the
rounds of my circuit then than it is
now, can tell you. 1t was question
of getting a thin horse and thinner
saddlebags between thick trees, while
now, with a good many judges, it's a
question of family railroad passes
more's the pity
up to that time the whole popula-
ton, Indian and all, had, so TO speak,
been law unto themselves, and,
naturally, it sometimes came a little
hard for them at first to take their law
from statutes and decisions. But they
all had to come to it-that is, all eX-
cepting John Turkey!
"You see he was half Indian. his
father being white trapper and his
mother a squaw. the daughter of the
chief of the most powerful tribe in that
part of the country.
ole was a quiet fellow and was sell
dom seen in the settlement save when
he came to market his furs and buy
provisions and ammunition. A
straighter or more powerfully built
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23

fox in it, although a collection of sill
jaws. To Turkeys skilled eyes, the
ground about showed signs of moe
casined footsteps. He mistrusted that
Whipped Dog, as the Indian who was
spying upon him for the Jealous white
trappers was commonly called, had
just robbed his trap of the silver gyay.
This fired every savage and venge-
full instinct in Turkey and he set out in
search of the supposed culprit.
I'm less than half an hour he over
took Whipped Dog, who had the fresh
pelt of the silver gray in his hand.
Whipped Dog at first drew his gun
as if to fire, but evidently changed his
mind and concluded to try the strength
of bold denial.
Give me that pelt; it's mine Tur-
key demanded.
Z" It's mine. / shot it, growled
Whipped Dog.
Turkey was in for no arguing.
''Seizing the Indians gun, he dealt
him blow that crushed his skull and
shattered the gun stock.
Taking the silver gray's pelt he
hastened to town, presented himself at
my court and told his story in a
straightforward way.
81 placed him in charge of the sher-
if and sent out citizens, who found the
dead panthers and dead Indian, as he
had described. 1t was a perpleXing
case and l was studying what to do
when the old chief and a posse of In
dams came to me and asked that lrn
the man over to them to be dealt with
according to Indian law and tradition,
urging that he had killed an Indian and
! that he was himself us much Indian as
white.
II took the same view of the affair
and turned Turkey over to the chief and
his council of braves.
They despised Whipped Dog as
thoroughly as did the white trappers
who used him as secret tool; and they
evidently admired Turkey for his skill
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
A CHILD OF SORROW.

Out IN the street, with naked feet,
saw the drunkard's little daughter;
Her tattered shawl was thin and small;
She little knew, for no one taught her.
Heart broken child, she seldom smiled;
Hope promised her no brighter morrow;
Or, if its light flashed on her night,
Then up came darker clouds OF sorrow.
She softly said: I'VE have no bread,
No wood to keep the fire a-burning"
The child was ill; the winds were chill,
Her thin cold blood to ice was turning
But men well fed and warmly clad.
And ladies robed in richest fashion,
Passed on the side where no one cried
To them for pity or compassion
That long night fed, and then the light
OF rosy day in beauty shining,
Set dome and spire and roof on fire,
And shone on one beyond repininS.
Asleep-alone-as cold as stone,
Where no dear parent ever sought her,
In wlnding-sheet of snow and sleet,
Was found the drunkard's lifeless daugh
ter.
N Y. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
THE MOTTO IN A WEDDING RING

A lover gave the wedding ring
Into the goldsmith's hand.
"Grave me-" he said "a tender thought
Within this golden band"
The goldsmith graved,
With careful art:
It'll death us part"
The wedding bells rang gladly out,
The husband said: ION, wife,
Together we will share the grief
The happiness of life.
give to thee
My hand. my heart,
Till death us part"
Twas she that lifted now his hand
20 love, that this should beJ
Then on it placed the golden band,
And whispered tenderly:
It'll death us join,
Lo, thou art mine
And ] am thine!
sAnd when death joins we never more
Shall know an aching heart;
The bridal of that better love
Death has no power to part.
That troth will be
For thee and me
Eternity"
So up the hill and down TIE hill,
Through fifty changing years,
They shared each others happiness,
They dried each others tears.
Alas! Alas.
That deaths cold dart
Such love can part!
But one sad day she stood alone
Beside his narrow bed;
She drew the ring from off her hand
And to the goldsmith said:
Oh. man who graved
With careful art
Till death US part
Snow grave four other words for me:
Till death us join" He took
The precious golden band once more,
With solemn. wistful look,
And wrought with care
For love, not coin:
It'll death us join"
Dublin Freeman'S Journal
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ELL, child, |
should think !
ought to know
John Turkeys
story. Th ere
isn't a man liv-
ing who knows
it better an
swered Judge
Hardy, in re-
Spouse to the
tinid question
which | ven
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23

young fellow l never saw; and he bore
the name of being the most successful
trapper and hunter in that section.
That fact, together with his Indian
blood, no doubt made the white trap
pers very jealous of him. At any rate
there sprang up a lively strife between
Turkey and the leading white trappers
as to who could secure the most val
liable and largest number of pelts
AS time went on they drew the lines