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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
TWO MOODS.

Sometimes think the world to be
Disgustingly mundane,
With nothing beautiful or good,
But everything inane.
Why will the dust get on my shoes,
The wrinkles in my clothes?
Why must there be sad blemishes
In everything that grows?
Why is the world with shoddy flledf
Why had the mucker life?
And why must every lovely thing
Be crushed out in the strifei
Ny cultured soul, with grand ideals,
Gets shocked on every side:
I'm elbowed II walk the streets,
I'm 1olted IL ride;
I'm sickened by the vulgar crowd
That hustles night and day;
I'm bored to death TO sit around
And idle time away.
1t makes no difference where am;
All crumbles that touch,
Shocks my ideals and soils my hands,
And grieves me overmuch,
Until at last, with sickened heart
shrink away in pain;
And then I'm forced to think the world
Disgustingly mundane
But, then, again End the world
Delightfully."- mundane
The dear old world, that offers us
Its pleasure with its pain.
Ny soul grows lonesome by itself;
My shoulders fairly ache
To feel the push OF other men
In life's stern give and take
feel the blood surge through my veins
IInffl nv rnusrtra aWall
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KATHLEEN MAvOURNEEN.

Kathleen Mavourneen THE song Is still ri ring
As fresh and as clear as the trill OF the birds:
In world-weary hearts 1t is sobbing and singing
In psthos too sweet for the tenderest words
o, have we forgotten the one who first breathed
it
o, have we forgotten his rapturous art
Our need TO the master whose genius beoueathe ed
it,
o, why art thou silent, thou voice of the
heart.
Kathleen Mavourneen: Thy lover still lingers
The long night is waning-the stars pale and
few.
Thy sad serenader. with tremulous fingers,
Is bowed with his tears a. the lily with dew.
The Old harpstrings quaver-the old voice Is
shaking
In signs and in sobs means the yearniug re-
frain--
The Old vision dins and the old heart is break
ing
Kathleen Mavourneen, inspire US agaiul
james U'h{tcOm6 RiIeu.
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FOUNDING THE STATE
Hon. A. A. Denny's Recollec-
tions Of the ''Fifties."
FIRST LEGISLATURE.
When Clarke County Extended to the
Rockies. and the Northern Pacific
Survey Was just Begun.

The following paper was read by Hon.
A. A. Denny. of this city, before the State
Historical Society al Tacoma. May 81:
The first attempt at organized government in
Oregon territory was the provisional organize
ton in ls4s, aud it might be remarked here that
this organization did not include the territory
north Of the Columbia river. In 1852 active
steps were taken to secure q division OF Oregon
and the formation of separate territorial gov
eminent, which eliminated in the holding OF q
convention at Monticello, an account OF which
gave in an article in the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
in March. 1889. and although it may seem like
an oft-repeated story. in following the line
have marked out for this paper must quote at
some length from that article:
On November IS. 1852, convention was held
in Monticello, then one OF the prominent towns
of Northern Oregon, for the purpose of obtain
ing division of the territory. This convention
framed and unanimously adopted a memorial to
congress which was duly signed and forwarded
to the delegate, Hon Joseph Lane, copy OF
which, with the names, Is as follows:
To the Honorable the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentdtGrts Of the United States: The memorial OF
the undersigned, delegates of the citizens OF
Northern Oregon, in convention assembled, re-
spectfully represent to your honorable bodies
that II is the earnest desire of your petitioners,
sud of said citizens that all that portion OF
Oregon territory lying north OF the Columbis
river and west of the great northern branch
thereof, should be organized as a separate terri
tory under the name and style OF the Territory
of Columbia
In support of the prayer of this memorial your
petitioners would respectfully urge the follow
Ing among many other reasons, viz
First-The present territory OF Oregon con-
taus an area of 81 900 square miles, and is en-
tirely too large an extent OF territory to DO en-
braced within the limits of one state.
Secoud-The said territory possesses q sea-
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active part in the dancing, as heretofore.
they merely look ON, seated in comforta-
bic easy chairs, while the dancing is done
for them, not by Indian Nautch girls or
Egyptian almehs, but by peeresses of the
realm and by ladies of birth belonging to
the very smartest sets of London society.
The fad originated about two seasons
ago, when it became the custom to invite
to private entertainments some we'll
known professional danseuse such as
Lefty Lind, Sylvia Grey or Marie Lloyd,
on the understanding that she should
volunteer pas seul. Society's jaded palate
was tickled. The cursory glimpses of fly
ing heels and swirling skirts, which we're
common enough on the stage, acquired an
altogether new significance in the draw
ing-room.
The barriers having thus been lowered,
and species of social intercourse estab-
lished between the woman of the world
and the lady of the stage, the former
quickly made up her mind to avail herself
of the opportunity thus presented to &C
quire the art of skirt-dancing, which, ow-
ing to its thinly yelled suggestiveness, APP
peared to find such favor with the mascu-
line element of society. There has always
been and ever will be kind of rivalry
between the society belle and the footlight
favorite, and the former is invariably con-
WINGED that were she TO be permitted to
avail herself of the peculiarities of dress,
or rather undress, Of the professional bal
lerina she would far outstrip the latter in
the race for masculine admiration.
Having once mastered the delicate in
tricacies of the pas seui and become an
adept in the art of maneuvering the skirt
with that mixture of coyness and sugges-
tiveness which constitutes the basis Of
the so-called skirt dance, the society
woman commenced by giving NANTES
tation of her terpischorean skill to those
of her acquaintance who belonged to her
own set, and encouraged by their praise
women always encourage one another
when there is something risque to be done
she finally determined to extend the
sphere of her audience to the masculine
element. The temptation to seize such an
opportunity of exhibiting a trim pair Of
ankles-especially in an epoch of long
skirts-was too great to be withstood
Pretty Mrs. Crutchley, whose husband
lost his leg in the Soudan and who,
therefore, cannot dance himself,
started the fashion at the annual
Guards burlesque entertainment, excus-
ing herself on the ground that the per-
Torrance was for the sake of a charity
The fad spread like wildfre. Today at
least 70 per cent. of the girls and young
married women of society are proficient in
the art of skirt dancing, and the portraits
of the Countess de Grey, the Countess Rus
sell and of numerous other high born
danes, taken in the act of finging their
feet in some picturesque pose Of the pas
seu!, are to be found in most of the Lon
don shop windows alongside of pictures of
Connie Gilchrist, Lefty Lind, Sylvia Grey
and other professional favorites of the
stage.
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FUN IN CAMPING OUT.
Easy Reversion to Savagery of
the City Bred Man.
spoRTsMeN's SPRING SICKNESS.
ne Wife's Astonishment 1t Her Hus-
hands Craving for the Woods, Where
Discomfort Is Happiness.

To civilized man there is only one
Measure which is greater than his first
nieht in camp, and that is his first night
ant of it, when he has bath and a good
bed With fresh sheets. This is enough to
establish the fact that it is only by con-
trssts that the salient points of things are
developed. If man has a good home
and good bed. and furnace to keep the
house at proper temperature at all times,
he ought to be happy. Add to that a good
cook and happy family, and he should
desire to stay in that place and enjoy it.
Even If he wants change and rest. he
could find places equally comfortable and
easy of access; but there are men who get
mn from the breakfast table and say to
their wives, Now. can't stand this sort
Of thing any longer" and the good little
woman knows that the spell is upon
him. He goes off upstairs and gets
out q trunk, and then from the
depths OF far-of closet he hauls down
some disreputable old clothes and Tugs out
1 gun and lot of rods and fly cases and
ammunition and lays them tenderiy in the
bottom of the trunk. He gets "a shocking
bad hat" and pipe which madam will not
allow in the settled part of the house. and
strange cases may be made of canvas
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busiuess and social season and deports
himself 10 the West Indies-hls oEonchlai
tubes are on strike. We OF course see
that another takes himself OF 20 Europe.
brt he goes 20 cultivate his mind ana 10
he Iezy and dissolute, but here IS THIS man
whose business ana social life call Tor MS
atrendance. whose heath is extensively
rugged and he does this strange tnlhS'
He eats the worst Imaginable fooo'
ali cooked in a disgusting iashlon' ne
slaens in a sort OF kennel like FARMER ;
Sogr-lvlrig on brush and with tae sTh01e
blowing all through and around him. ne
freezes nearly 10 perishing every morning.
he goes 10 bed wet 10 the hide ana pau
dles IN stiff currents or to'is uhasE
sixtv-pound pack all day. ana nus olis
reason seems 10 be a desire 10 STAY.
You doubtless all know OF TINS SORT 81
men-ask him why. In all probaoiiity ne
will fold himself III his robe OF snperlolts
and simply pity your vanished Ignorance
and Will not deign 10 reply; he WIZ con
slider Won hopeless. weak-lacSlng snaIau
Ter ana sentiment-but if YOU woa-a An .ps
why he does il. go with him when sae
sneIi IS on him and find out. If you do nos
like it. YOU will at least know the reaso"
why. rkkphAie
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JAPAN.

Tangled and torn, the white sea laces
Broider the breast OF the Indian Deep;
Lifted along the strong screw races
To slackan and strain in the waves which
leap.
The great sails SWELL the broad bows shiver
To green and silver the purple sea;
And. down from the sunset dancing river
Flows. broken gold, where our ship goes free.
Too free, too fast, with memories laden
gaze TO tae northwari where lies Japan:
on. fair and pleasant, ana Soit-yoiced maiden,
You ara there, too distant o Yoshi san,
You are under those clouds by the storm winds
shaken,
4 thousand r. "a the sea-gun flies.
A. lost IS II death. rot Time, had taken
Ny eyes away from your beautiful eyes
Yet. If IL were Death, OF Friends, nv Fairest,
lie could not rend our spirits in twain;
They came too near 10 re less thsu nearest
IN the world where true hearts miugie again
But sad is she hour We sigh farewell in,
Aud FOR re, whenever they name Jsran
AL grace. sIl charm OF TIE land you dwell in
Is spoken in saying 20 foshi >aai''
Eflgip Arnojd
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over. Her husband is quiet but manly
fowl, with shoulders well thrown back,
dark, flashing eyes, is a good half-back.
and in death, with his broad, tender
bosom padded with summer savory and a
dash of onion, he makes those who clus-
ter about him ALMOST forget the sorrowful
circumstances under which they are met
together.
The hen of this species is also obliging
and CHEEKY in the matter of LAYING.
While some hens hang back and require q
good deal of coaxing, claiming that they
have come away and forgotten their notes
and that they did not expect to be called
upon, the Indian Game hen cheerily asks
what sort OF an egg you want, and while
You are getting your sherry ready she
makes the arrangements for the egg.
Sherry and egg or egg flip may be made
by very slight effort, and either will be
found nutritious to a remarkable degree
Physicians unite in the opinion that this
wonderful co-operation-hen cooperation,
as one may say of man and the hen-to
make soothing, nutritious and easily d.
gested food for the invalid is one of the
most wonderful OF natures great phenom-
ena.
The hen differs from man largely in her
failure to grow teeth. Man succeeds in
raising from two TO five crops of teeth by
natural means, and Mr.. Foster, friend Of
mine who has handled teeth all his life.
tells me that in the realm of artificial teeth
there are so different molds OF teeth 10
fit and match the mouths of those who
have outlived their original teeth. There
are twenty-five standard shades of arti-
fetal teeth and 6 600 variations in constant
use by the oldest and most reliable dental
house in America.
This is q fact. 3ad have been to good
deal of trouble TO look up this matter, as I
know that even the most careless reader
woud like to know about il. MANY OF
these shades are remembered by number
by the trained statesmen, but TO remember
the whole 600 would be out of the
question,
Ii may be Of interest also 10 know that
these large tooth works 20 Philadelphia
make perfectly black tooth for use in
those countries where the teeth are black
ened by the people who regard thensel YES
Is the sine qua non Of society. American
people lead the world in the manufacture
of teeth and supply every quarter of the
globe with good dentistry. The sucress OF
the nobility of all nations In Paris our
American minister Is brought into con-
slant social conflict with an American
dentist from Michigan. and one minister
resigned because this dentist played
against one of his receptions IN Paris with
= musicale of his own. In London, an
American dentist was the only Am
eViCan guest at the marriage Of the
Duke Of Fife and the granddaughter
os the queen. His name was
Or. Evans, and he showed me the card OF
invitation enc Sunday Upon the Thames
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which carry the charms and fetiches of the
sportsman. These he places in the trunk.
He then overhauls his Exit" He sticks
"dy hooks" up in rows in the pillow-shams
ifmadam is not looking, He puts taliow-
covered cartridges on the lace bed cover
and then carefully lays heavy pair of
very greasy and dirty cowhide shoes on
his wife's most choice piece of upholstered
furniture. In the midst of this in walks
the lady Of the house, the partner of his
joys and sorrows. In this case
the joys and sorrows do not mix.
Madam says: Now, Jack-I think it is
awful for you to put those nasty old things
On my bed-you have no consideration.
etc, ETC., and poor Jack transfers them
oil to the floor, while off fiounces the lady
to tell the maid that she must 'go through
that room thoroughly as Mr.. B has
been packing his nasty old traps and has
nearly ruined everything"
Jack is ready and is driven off to the
station. where he bids madam goodbye"
and is rolled away, happy in the knowl-
edge that in few days he will be sleeping
on brush heap with rude men and sur
rounded by mosquitoes and smoke, with
tough, soapy bread and black coffee for
food.
Madam explains to a lady friend that
Mr. b is such curious mamie goes
ofup there and lives like wild beast-I
DO not understand it,
TO develop your real sportsman the en-
vironment must be favorable at very
early age. If he is favorably situated he
becomes possessed of an unbounded en-
'husiasm and more tools of the sporting
craft than has q dentist in his. A great
many people are now growing up in Amer
lea whose tendencies are an illegitimate
cross between an English battue and an
american summer hotel-they are sort
OF arrested development" between true
hunters and fishermen and people who
are not financially able 10 buy country
pace All such are spurious and not to
0e considered seriously. The genuine
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So great indeed is the craze for skirt and
ballet dancing that by next wear no family
with any pretensions to social rank and
station will be complete without its dane
ing girl" Even little mites under u
wears of age are being taught the art, and
the professional dancing masters and mis-
tresses, instead of making their young pu-
piis acquainted with the waltz, the quad
rifle. the reel and the lancers, as hitherto,
impart TO them the art of the ballet. 1t is
quite an ordinary sight nowadays 10 and
the fashionable dancing academies
thronged during the afternoon with a
crowd of children all under the age of IA
pirouetting about in perfect time and
tune, dressed in the tights, the game
skirts and The fat-soled slippers of the
professional ballerina. They are ali the
children OF parents OF arissocratic birth
and social eIninence. What the outcome
OF these new-.angied dancing lessons will
re il is impossible 10 predict. There are
fears. however, that they viii have the
effect OF raising histrionic longings In the
minds Of the growing girls. who may,
when they attain the years OF discretion
or rather indiscretion-nnd 1t difficult to
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of supplying the metropolitan market with
eggs and broilers. Generally the metro
poltan market is kind enough to supply
me.
used to have a very handsome hennery
and a small book regarding hen culture,
and on still day, after reading extern
sively from the old Greek poets, might
have been seen temporizing with sorrel
hen and trying TO get her to try sedentary
pursuits. In the fall | had Matched, by
means of my new incubator and the aid
of friends, among them the teacher who
boarded at our house, eighty-seven dear
little downy chicks. at an expense of $l93.
had just figured up the cost and assets
when one of my incubators in the dead of
night was knocked over by a colored man
who had formerly been my butler and the
hennery set fire to. By this means lost
my entire seasons work and my buildings.
What my ex-butler was doing around the
incubator at the dead of night / do not
know. He saws that he came there to be
where he could pray by himself, but do
not believe it, and | find that there are
many others in our county who hesitate
also to accept this theory.
/ had one hen that began to sit on COM
mon humming top that belonged to one of
the boys, and other hens came and laid an
egg day for six weeks in the same nest.
so that while the baldfaced hen was striv-
ing TILL she got purple III the face to hatch
out whole toy and notion store she got a
large collection of eggs from other hens
and all of different ages. The result was
that ere long she began to turn out a chick
per day for me to be father to until I had
eighty-three of them to bring up on the
bottle, and she is still struggling with the
eggs which had been contributed by
others.
She kept on until saw change in her
countenance Her eye was entirely differ
ent. She did not know me any more.
She was mad!
Reason had deserted its throne. She no
longer recognized friends. The mental
strain was too much for her We bound
her and took her away and put her in a
cell with another hen who had lowered all
summer over hot croquet ball while eggs
were 3712 cents per dozen, and there she
shrieked the hours away
The two lived on for month or two,
but afler short visit from a man who
came to our house to obtain much needed
rest in accordance with the advice of his
physicians. it was noticed that they had
gone somewhere, and the cook tells me
that they figured on the menu one even
ing while he was there.
| noticed one evening that the table
seemed TO groan more than usual under
its load of delicacies, and perhaps that
was the time.
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to see her friend. the wife of the first man,
and says: .'Iour husband has been with
the doctor great deal of late, aud am
afraid that he will entice him away this
summer or fall, and did SO want him to
go with me to Mount Desert"
well, you know l have no influence
with Mr.. b. He insists on going off to
these strange places-he always has and |
sigh TO think that he probably always
will, condoles the little woman.
II am sure then that can do nothing
with the doctor-he, too, will go-it is SO
unfortunate to have such tastes"
From that time on the doctors health
begins to fail. A brother physician recon-
mends the woods" and while it is so un-
fortunate to be compelled to leave his
patients, yet his health demands it, and
one inc morning the man and his friend,
the doctor, are missed from the haunts of
men.
In few days the trim, well-groomed
city men are no longer recognizable. They
sit in the forward end of the canoes with
a stumpy beard and a bulldog pipe,
dressed in dirty, greasy clothes, while be-
hind the pans, blankets, packs and guns
sits strange, dark-skinned, beetle-browed
half-breed, with seraggy hair and bristl-
ing beard The canoes cleave the mir
rored waters while the yellow reflections
mix with the Vandyck shadows of the
overhanging forest in the lake. They are
happy.
If they are not here then they are on
little scraggy points herding other scraggy
ponies bearing packs and all following an
uncouth and piratical man who is just
ahead urging his own horse over logs and
up the stony bed of dry stream. As
though not satisfied with travelling by
night and by day for week, away from
their coy homes in New York, they are
now making desperate haste to go up a
bleak mountain range in far off Idaho as
though in search Of the jumping OF place
of the world.
It would be interesting to understand
this man so prone To these iapses OF
savagery. We readily comprehend one
who at times becomes awtully drunk for
DAYS at a time and call it nervous disease
and give it scientific name which clears
il of mystery. We know why the man
leaves his native city in the heights of the
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and afterward gave me bite OF the we'd
ding cake When tell you that Minister
Lincoln and | stood outside making will
low whistle in the church yard and wait
ing for DR.. Evans to come out and give us
points on the wedding. and when | tell
you that Mr. Lincoln. Consul New and /,
three men whose names are household
words, stood at the gateway with our din
ners in a large tin pail and saw DR.. Evans,
our American dentist, coming out ana
leaning on the arm of the queen, even CO.
ing SO far as to unhitch her team from the
fence and drive il around to the front door
and help Victoria in, you will agree with
me that the dentist OF our own fair land is
no SLOUGH.
For certain Asiatic countries this big
dental house makes pure white tooth.
This is really as odd looking as the black,
for no human tooth Is pure white. 1t Is
as CHASTITY as perfectly white skin. The
factory makes one grade of blue white. or
pearl white, in this country for use among
the people who dye their hair dead
black or wear fawnskin wigs. Elderly or
phans wear these teeth, and smite them
together while smiling on those they love.
1t is sad to see these trosted-cake teeth
nesting away among the deep-dyed whis-
kers Of decayed old bachelor or new
made widower These teeth are also used
tor crashing purposes.
Teeth made recently are filled with gold
in order to make them look more life!ike,
and SO artificial teeth can be made to fool
the closest scrutinizer. A dentist does not
listen very closely To what you say, but as
you talk he watches very carefully to see
what sort of teeth you wear, just as the
bootblack keeps his eye all the time on the
feet of the people who go by him.
Mr.. Foster was very polite to me while
was in Atlanta and rendered me the hos
pitality of his horse. He has horse that
has outlived eleven grooms. He came
very near OUTLYING me.
The hen is biped, indigenous to all
temperate countries, and often tempts peo-
pie who wish to make livelihood with
cat heavy work to go into the egg BUSH
ness. Also into the growth of broilers for
the New York market. Do not try to
raise eggs and broiiers in fiat, for the
other tenants might not like it. Hens
need room. If you crowd your hens they
will die off by the score.
This is nv third effort in the direction