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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-05
81 uAIN'r PRAcrIcED MUCH THIS WEEK.

II HAIN'T PRACTICED MUCH THIS WEEK. y
day; it was him tibet give me flowers
fur you; forgot to tell you when |
come in"
Miss Smiths face turned the color of
the pale grass pinlls, but she said moth
ing, and the lesson went dragging on;
"one-two-three rest" she counted,
and Sallys fat fingers slowly picked
out the notes pointed by the teachers
pencil.
At last the lesson was finished ard
Sally remembered message which she
had almost forgotten. "Oh, Miss
Smith, ma and Maria tole me to be sure
and asst you if you'd come over to-mor-
row night an play; they're goin' to
move the origin into the kitchen an
have double music
Miss Smith had sometimes played
double music" with Tom Jones before;
and the little old maid remem bered
how pleasant it had been to play chords
to the lively strains of Money Musk,
with Tom Jones bending over her to
ask if he went too fast for her or if she
was tired pumping; SO she told Sal
ly that she would come.
Tom Jones was the other musician of
the village. If Miss Smiths specially
was sacred Music, his was certain ly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-05
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Miss-fortunes come to some mers
when they get married, and they don't
mind it n bit.-TeXas Siftings.
1t is explained that one reason why
more women do not get into the habit
of smoking cigars is because they begin
smoking cigars that they buy them
selves.--N. Y. Recorder.
Wished it Was.-An old friend who,
doesn't know she's married-"Who was
that l saw you with to-day? Your
lover?" 81 wish it was. That's my
husband. Pittsburgh Press.
The Time Dragged.-Mr. Crossman
isn't your clock fast, Miss White
son?' Miss Whitcson (stiffiing a yawn)
Mo, think not. The time seems to
drag on. ''-Yankee Blade.
Mr. Topnoodv-''What is the differ
encc between an idiot and a fool, my
dear?" Mrs. T. (pleasantly)-"I don't
know: but if made guess I'd say an
idiot wouldn't ask such question. -
Detroit Free Press.
The Trouble With It.-Lady Gus
toner want to look at some sofas"
Clerl-"Ycs madam; what do you think
of this?" Lady Customer-"It's too com
Portable. Some one might sit down on
it. Chicago Globe.
Shed Contemplate 1t With EXuber-
ant -Jacl1-"IIow do You think
Boston girl would regard paper knife
as gift?'' Jeweler formerly of Bos-
tOn)-''NeXt to eyeglasses she'd rather
have it than any thing else. Jewellers.
Weekly.
-Ella-''Pa says we can't marry for
ten years. But dos't look so sad,
George: you are young yet" George
"Ncs, | know | am, dearest. | wasn't
thinking of myself, but of you, love"
1t was at once put off indefinitely
Eonkers Statesman.
-Minnic-What perfect gentleman
Mr. Fits is. saw him sitting in car
yesterday, and every time Il lady came
in he raised his hat" Mamic-"But
did not he offer any of them his scat?"
Minnie not. didn't say
he was an angel, did I?"-lndianapolis
journal.
-Qucstion-"Thc tell me that Bat
tin, your baseball friend, has concluded
to adopt the ministry as a profession. :"
Jcstcr-''So am told. He ought to be
able to preach a sermon that would
please the Masses" Qucstion-'What
makes you think SOP" JcSter-"Be-
cause he's such famous short-stop"-
Boston Courier.
lie never uttered lie
| He lived to the age OF 1903.
| A man of a wonderful record was he:
| He meier wa, heard so the neighbors agree
To utter the sma lest untruth
For he lost both his speech and his hearing, you
see,
In the days of his innocent youth.
Chicago Tribune.
--"Bunko Bill" said the old settler,
was Il very wicked man." "Stcal
horses" asked bystander. "Worse'r
that said the old settler. "Cheat e.
cards?" asked the bystandcr. Worse.
that" said the old settler again. GLOW
could that be-" asked the bystander,
and the old settler replied: Got
| caught. ''-Somerville Journal.
What did that new suit of yours
cost?" Two hundred dollars" "Jeru
salem, man! How did that happen?'
EASY enough. paid SD for the suit
originally, and it looked SO well that
my wife wouldn't let me rest till had
put up 5l25 more for an outfit for her to
match it. Buy cheap clothes, old fel'
low. Buy cheap clothes "-Washington
Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-05
A suh-Treasury Girls Find.

An ancient Greek coin, valued at
$40, was found in lot of fifty-cent
pieces that arrived at the sub-treasury
the other day. The handsome young
lady who found the rarity was allowed
to keep it by substituting a fifty-cent
piece out of her own pocket. This is
perfectly legitimate, as Uncle Sam has
no time and no desire to make collec.
ton of rare coins. All he wants is a
strict accounting of every penny that is
handled by the sub-treasury, and this
he has always got The coin handlers
under Capt. Walters come across many
rare coin which dishonest persons at
tempt to deceive the sub-treasury into
accepting. These rare coins are never
turned back to the persons who sent
them. but are the legitimate prey of the
one who detects thc'proftable fraud
Philadelphia Record
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-05
secular and his fiddle was the life of all

secular and his fiddle was the life of all
the country dances.
After Sally had gone Miss Smith
dropped into her little creaking rocking
chair and sat quite still looking at Tom
Jones flowers. SheSwas thinking that
she was sorry Tom was going away.
They had been children together in this
same village, and when he was a young
man and she pretty girl, they had
been half lovers, but their love had
never been confessed and they had
drifted apart although neither one had
married anyone else; and now that
Tom was going it made her feel lone
some, somehow. ia
She knew where he was going; she
had heard of the farm he had bought
in a western state and she had known
that he had meant to go there to live
sometime-but she had not thought it
would be so soon.
Miss Smith was alone in the world
her mother and she had lived together
until her mother had died, and now she
had nobody to take care of but her
self-and Tom had nobody to look after
either. 1t was a lonely way to live
after all.
But Miss Smith heard another pupil
coming and she jumped up and set the
tumblcr of flowers away, out of sight
in her bedroom, before she opened the
door.
Tho next day Miss Smith fused
about a good deal, basting lace in the
neck and sleeves of her green mcrino
gown and brushing an imaginary speck
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-05

again; but there was a gay yellow
shcepslin rug laid over the worst spot
in the carpet, and the curtains were
dung SO that most of the bad places
came under the folds; and the whole
air of the place was so homelikc and
cozy that you quite forgot that the fur"
nishings were poor.
There was whatnot in one corner
with the lower shelves filed with books
and the upper ones with knickknacHs
and keepsaies.
There were some cane-Seated chairs
and two rockers and an organ with an
open instruction book upon the rack
a well-thumbed book with the finger
ing marked in lead pencil and with its
I. ., 3, 4, and mysterious looking black
crosses where you ought to put your
thumbs
The organ had two stops, 'Trcmolo"
and "VoX." Miss Smith didn't know
what 'voX'' really meant; whenever
she felt lonely and depressed she in
stinctively pulled out the tremolo-stop
and let the notes culver and culver as
they would; but when she was happy
she noticed that she pulled out the
other stop, so she concluded that 1t
must mean gladness or something like
that.
Now Miss Smith was a Swcet-faced
little old maid who had very little mu-
steal knowledge or skill, but She had
unlimited patience, and there was no
other music teacher in the village, so
she had quite u large class of pupils
young girls whose ambition it was to
play the organ in Sunday-school or to
entertain the sociables with selections
of observation-disclosures small boys and
girls who hated to practice and who
didn't like music bit, but whose
mothers were ambitious for them in the
way of accomplishments.
A little click of the gate latch makes
Miss Smith look up from her roses and
she runs to open the door before the
newcomer has time to knock. 1t is
little Sally Walters with her music
book under her arm and a bouquet of
grass pinllS in her hand. Miss Smith
grects her cheerlly: Good day, Sally,
o! them poses for me? Thank We, dear,
Ill run and get tumbler fer 'em."
Now, Sally, we will have the scales
first, dear" and Sally blunders along
with her right hand a note or two in
advance Of her left.
Here, dear, try again, and don't for
get your thumbs this time" and Sally
tries again and she doesn't forget her
thumbs for Il minute; she uses them
wherever she can twist them under and
over as She plods up and down the
scale.
"Oh, Sally, hain't I told you never
to put your thumbs on the Gidch keys.
Sally is apologize. Il hain't practiced
much this week." she says, with
charming franllness as she turns to her
exercises with Il sigh. MANDY Null is
to our house sewing this week.
"Oh! Somebody's goin' to have anew
gown, l guess"
Yes, Maria is: we're goin' to have Il
dance tomorrow night. Tom Jones is
agoin to play fer en-"
"Oh, is he? Sally, you must curve
your fingers more and keep your elbows
still
"Yessnm. Tom he's goin' away soon.
] reckon this is the last dance he'll play
for He come piece-way with me to-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-05
IMPROVEMENT IN NleHTcAPs.
RuffIed Meal Sacks and Pudding Bags Are
h.. .t 81 No Longer Worn.

RULED Meal sacks and Pudding Bags are
a, .t No Longer Worn.
Why has the old-fashioned nightcap
of former age fallen into such sad ill
repute? No one is prepared to maintain
that its successor, the modern nightcap,
has not it's possible very good points.
But because it is doubtless so eminently
satisfactory constitutes no reason for
supposing that its predecessor was all
wrong. When made OF common white
cotton or possibly of Turkey red, and
furnished with tassel at the end OF a
long point, it was, perhaps, not what
would be called an aesthetic bit of head
| wear.
1t is not to be denied that it possessed
characterwhen twas seen, as in ancient
prints, perched on the head of some
bald-pated citizen of rubicund visage,
who, roughly aroused from his slum'
bers by broil in the street, throws
open the easement and peers out, tai
low candle in hand. But character and
beauty are different things. Nor was
the female of that especial order OF
male nightcap any better. A big, ro
tund white bag, like sack of meal
with a gigantic ruffie about the edge OF
it, and two substantial white strings al
the end, securely to tie it under the
chin.
All! but there are other nightcaps
than this. There is dainty creation o.
fine, sheer muslin, all foaming with lit
tile quillings of lace, through which
runs a bit of ribbon, white or rosy OF
blue, as a turquois, ending in dcmure
Irosette, bow light as butterfly on
the wing. Such cap, but little
larger than an infants, covered the
curly head of debutante not long age
as she sat up, propped in pillows ant
tonvalescing from a fever. AdOrably
pretty was the patients face peepine
cut from such framing. And imagina
ton from this delightful starting point
took delicious flight Think of it
Gould this one example set by young
creature possessed of some originality
but be followed, what changes there
would be!
No more nocturnal visions of cur
papers, wisps of hair done up in las
months butchers bill, no more scrawnJ
females rushing out in case of fire into
hote! corridors with front hair quilted
into iron crimping pins and standing
aloft like the quilts of the fretful porch
pine. No more unlovely exposures il
like instances of thin gray locks Strag
Cling about high forehead, shorn o.
its skeleton bang or other elaborate
''frontispiece, forgotten in the terror
of the moment on the pincushion.
But demure little caps, Quakerisl
and sweet and prim, may be eloquent
of all manner of gentle, old-time ideals
of modest and dainty femininity. They
suggest vaguely the faint, old-fashionet
fragrance of lavender and dried rosC
leaves. and these quiet, decent, loving
lives that were passed, in all order ant
sobrety, in the shade of quaint greer
arbors and about the big, softly-lighte(
rooms of ancient and substantial man
sions in those streets of our moderr
cities that have now grown hopelessly
obsolete. -Philadelphia Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-05

| S S S U S A n
SMITH, music
teacher, st 90 d
at the fro n t
window of her
little p a RI O r
cou n tin e the
buds on her rose
bush.
1t was q sort
of cheerful little
room, after all.
OF course t h e
carpet was worn
and faded and
the curtains had
been d a r IL e d
and d a rn e q
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-05

Tramp-Is the boss in?
/; Lady (appearjng)-What do you want
OF the boss?
TRAMP t(grasping the siituation) -
wish to ask her for some cold victuals.
(ae got them. Jury.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-02-16
Notice of Election.

A 7 THE ADJOURNED MEETING OF
a the Waihee Sugar Co., held this day
the following officers were elected for the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-02-16
Miscellaneous Items.

DR.. Widner, of California, who
has lived among the Indians for
thirty years, says no white man
can hope to equal their physical
development. The average Indian
boy of Is can bear more fatigue
than an athlete among white men.
One of the greatest marvels of
all the rich possessions of the Ma
harajah of Baroda is q carpet,
about ten feet by six, made entirely
of strings of pearls, with center
and corner pieces of diamonds.
"The carpet took three years to
weave and cost E200, 000."
Driftwood is In great demand for
open fires among fashionable
jewellers by the sea, because the
remains of old copper nails and
perhaps chemical substances from
the sea water cause it to burn with
brilliant green fame that is very
beautiful.
Wisconsin and Minnesota appear
to be doing well in the way of the
formation of school libraries. Dur
ing the past year the two States
have established over 1000. The
books for each of these libraries are
selected from q list prepared by
the State Superintendent.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-10-16

The Secretary of ~" Treasury mas pre-
pared pamphIctin regard to the volume
OF money in circulation. 1t shows that
the amount in circulation July 1, 1865,
was $7l4,702,995. OF this amount
$685. ,7o2, 995 was paper money. During
the calendar year 1855 the average mar
ket price of gold ives 157. So it re-
qulred sl57 in currency to purchase as
much of any commodity as could be pur-
chased with 800 in gold. The $714,-
7O2,s then in circulation was, there
Tore, equivalent as an average for the
year to only S646, ,3O1, 27O of the money
which has constituted the currency of
this country since January 1, 1879. This
wss an amount per capita of $13. 36. The
s blowing is recapitulation of the tables
Ifeferred to.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-10-16
COLD WEATHER
In the Southwest---Frost in Half a
Dozen States.

III tu6 6OutnW0BC---frOSt In Half a
Dozen States.
The Weather Bureau furnishes the fol-
lowing special bulletin to the Press:
The weather reports from the South.
west including the States of Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian
Territory, Southern Missouri and
Southern Kansas, show an occurrence
there Wednesday and Thursday of the
coldest weather of the season of which
the &sashsS es Aaa FsGahaG& hlAiadm ,em.
peraturcs with their relation to the low
est previously observed during the a..
decade OF october, viz: On the 7th,
Oklahoma 80 deg, degrees below.
Springfield, Mo-, 30 deg below, Fort
Smith, "a deg, G deg. below.
On the Sth: New Orleans, so deg, Q
deg. below. Corpus Christi, SO deg :, g
deg. below. Shreveport, 3S deg, 4
below. Galveston 56 deg, 1 deg.
below.
Killing frosts occurred Wednesday
morning in Missouri, Kansas and Arkan-
sas and light frosts Thursday morning in
Northern Louisiana and Central Missis-
sippi.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-10-16
A Healthy Industrial Growth Based
on Natural Advantages.


The Manufacturers Record of October
10th, says:
1.-THE steady improvement previously
reported in the South becomes more pro
nounced every week, and, while there are
some complaints of inactivity at special
points, due to local causes, the general
advancement of the whole South shows
that this section is fast recovering from
the troubles brought on by the late finan-
cial strngency. New enterprises of great
magnitude and of far-reaching impor-
reported r. this weeks EsssleM issue u The Man.
ufacturers' Record. OF vital in.c--csss.. ~
iron and steelmakers everywhere in the
signing of contract by Mr.. G. p. Hunt
ington to build railroad to the great
Besscmer ore district of Llano, Texas.
which will open up a district that is pro.
nounced by experts to be far ahead of the
Lake Superior region in abundance Of
ore and in cheapncss Of mining. At JEFF
fcrson, in the same State, the owners Of
furnace now in operation will build steel
works; at Ashland, KY, large Bessemcr
steel works have just been completed; at
Principle Furnace, Nd. an old furnace
property, including 5000 acres of miner
al land, has been purchased by a 81, ,OOO.-
900 company, which will build rolling
mill, pipe works, &c. bricks are being
made for the steel and tinplate works to
be built at Savernake, Va, and which arc
to cover about Is acres of ground; an Of
fer has been received to move an entire
plant from Wales TO Savernake, and is
now under consideration: n 1,0o0, GGG
ore and coal mining company has been
organized to operate in East Tennessee
Among other enterprises reported for the
week are 100000 lumber company in
West Virginia; fertilizer factory. Alex
andria, Va; $30,000 granite company.
Virginia; 100000 clothing factory,
Texas; $4,000 numbering company,
Kentucky; the improvement Of water
power property at Embreeville, Tenn, to
furnish 5000 horse power for factories;
the building OF a dam across the Gun
powder river. in Maryland, at cost of
$3.50, 900, to develop IS, 900 horse power;
$500. 600 lumber company and $2O,-
900 paint company in Virginia; n $25,-
600 company for distlling rum from mo-
lasses in Louisiana; n manganese grinding
company at Save'nakc. Va; $50, 900 i'm.
provement company, Camden. Ark
tannery at Morganton, N. Ga 100000
flour mill company. Wcatherford, Texas;
100000 glass works company, Alabama;
three phosphate companies, Florida. etc.
This summary covers some Of the
more important cnte priscs, showing
how general is the improvement extend.
ing from Maryland to Texas aud how
widely diversified is the development
that is now going on. including almost
every line OF manufacturing from the
making Of rum out If moIasses TO the
utilization of Southern timbers for wood
working enterprises of all kinds, and of
Southern iron ores for iron and steel-mak-
ing and of Southern tin ores for tiDplate
manufacture There is no speculation in
any of this growth. but simply steady
substantial development based on natural
resources"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-10-16
NORTH CAROLINA.

Winston's free mail delivery system
was put into active operation Friday
The Forsyth county Farmers Ali.
ance met at Winton last week.
The contract has been given for the
erection of taunery in South Nor.
canton.
Two sharp shop-lifters were captured
in Winston Thursday. They were
bro hers named Burgess and were
strangers
The Gastona Cotton manufacturing
Co. has completed its new mill, and start
ed operations this week.
Sam Jones began a meeting in Will
mington Friday. He goes to Charlotte
Nov. 1st.
The trial of the Motz brothers at Lin
colnton was rcmanded to Cleveland
county. and they will be tried for their
lives at Shelby on Tuesday of the term.
BY vote of 30 to 90 the Presbytcry of
Associate Reformed Presbyterian church
in session at Statesville decided to rec
opmend the introduction of instrumental
music in their church service.
bihoiS SioiphSeI ,CudIScu WlJn wreck
ing the train at Bostian's bridge, was
tried at Statesvillc Thursday and was
committed to Jail without bail.
The cOroner's jury at Roxboro in the
case of the murder and burning of Will
liam Dixon and wife, duplicates Badger
Lawson,a young negro with hard char
actcr. Dixon's son ssore out variant
for his arrest and he was placed in Jail at
RoxboIo.
The Farmers Cooperative Maufactu-
",'6lnv-<.s--Ae,nnlatas- the establishment
cottonseed-oil mill at Tarboro. --'.-
w. b. Glenn, of Winston, once of the
Drainiest lawyers and rinest orators
IN the state, is reported dying Mt the
Morganton Asylum.
Hon. Wharton j. Green, of Fayette-
vl''c ex-member OF Congress accented AN
invitation To deliver nm address on nnh,;n
roads of North Carolina some time durino
the Raleigh Exposition.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-10-16

Y
will there be dazzling array Of dia-
monds, opals, emsraids aud other gems,
and of the precious metals, bat most ex-
tensive collection OF iron, copper, lead,
other ores, and of their product; of coal,
granite, marble, sandstone aud other
building stone; of soils, salt, petroleum,
and, indeed, of almost everything, use
full Or beautiful, belonging to the mineral
kingdom. How extensive the mineral
exhibit from other countries will be, it is
yet too early to know, but the indica-
tions are that it will surpass any that has
heretofore been made. However that
may be, there is no doubt that the mineral
resources and products, not only of this
cou itry as whole, but of each State and
section, will be of the most complete and
representative description. Chief Skiff,
Of the Department of Mines and Mining,
is confident that this will -bo tho ra-
suit OF the plans which he is pursuing.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-10-16

Mrs. Potter Palmer has called upon
women sculptcrs to send designs in the
form OF miniature models of the sculp-
turo work for the women's building.
The designs must be delivered to Mrs.
Palmer's Office before November Is next.
One is group Of figures in high relief
to fill the pediment over the main en-
trance forty-five feet long at the base
line and seven reet IN Jne center. Tho
second design of groups of statuary
stands free above the attic cornice, rest
ing on the base, five feet long, three feet
deep and two feet high, sixty feet from
the ground. These groups consist of a
central winged figure, standing about
ten feet high to the tip of the wings, and
supported by smaller sitting figures. The
compositions should be typical of woman
and woman's work in history. Each de-
sign submitted must be accomplished by
an estimate Of cost, with full-sized plas-
ter models, delivered at Jackson Park,
aud the authoress of the design accepted
will receive the contract for the execu-
tion of these full-sized models,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-10-16

Two new Atlantic liners, to bs 900
feet long and tester than anything aaoat
are guaranteed by the builders to be
ready for sea carly in the spring of 1898.
They will be almost as long as the Great
Eastern, though not nearly so wide.
They viii have quite as much engine
power as that unfortunate steamship had,
but it will be so compact and econo,
mized that it will not occupy one-third
as much space nor be one. quarter the
weight of the old paddle and screw
engines.