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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
A WoMAN'S REASON.
She Was Afraid OF what People would
saw.

She Was Afraid OF What People would
Say.
A man and girl were sitting to-
gether in the soft dusk of a gentle
summer evening. She was trifiing with
bit of embroidery, now gently chaHng
him, now humming bar Of song;
while he sat silently watching her aud
smoking his pipe.
They were very old friends, for the
man had watched the girl grow from
childhood into womanhood. He was
but five years her senior, yet she
seemed more than five years younger
to him.
His first feelings toward her had
slowly changed with her increasing
years to one of extreme fondness, and
then another change had come, but he
had not told her of his love.
AS he watched the delicate outline
Of her face, softened into even unusual
sweetness by the waning twilight, he
felt happy beyond expression. He ca
ressed his pipe as his thoughts went
back over the long span of their friend
ship. He remembered noting every
action of hers that had bespolSen a
budding love for him. Her sisterly re-
proofs we'll he knew how sisterly they
were her anxiety about his inveterate
smoking, her little jealousies; all her
expressions of fondness for him came
before his mind
Yet sometimes she seemed to relish
the cub admiration that her youthful
neighbors bestowed upon her. But
then probably she had not guessed Of
his love, and perhaps a word was
needed to light hers
But that evening she would learn all.
Perhaps il was too soon, but--well, he
loved her. For moment feeting dread
unnelVed him;-but no, surely no one
else had talked Of love to his little
sweetheart.
He covered her little soft warm hand
with both OF his, and he looked deep
down into her gentle eyes
Dear. we have been friends 80 long
that it seemed as though no change
could ever come. But a change has
come You have always had my friend
ship, darling. but now you have taken
my heart. Can you give me yours?"
She turned her head away Bat
you must take it back, please. ] can
not give mine for it,
Then came few moments Of silence,
and his face aged as ne stared out into
the lonely darkness
He heard her voice again, Just
think what people would say"--his
face darl1cned and his brow lowered
with proud frown as he turned his
face toward her-''if it was generally
known that had tobacco heart. -
BROOKLYN Life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
,AE STUDY OF woeos.
aow to Acquire and Retain a coed vocaS-
uiary.

How to Acquire and Retain a O. cd vooaN-
uIary.
Nothing is more fascinating than the
study of words; nothing more clearly
indicates the scholar as opposed to the
mere tyro than the nice and fastidious
use of these. In words we clothe our
thoughts. Eloquent, subtle, poetical,
or thrilling as these may be, they are
intangible and invisible until arrayed
in language. Unspoken thoughts are
like unborn children. They cannot
come into the world or on the scene of
human action till they are born of the
spoken or the written word.
One way Of acquiring a good vocabu-
larry is, of course, by habitoally asso-
eating with people who speak cor
reetly, and whose choice of words is
careful and elegant. To live with highly
educated and congenial people is in
itself a liberal education in this regard.
One sometimes wonders at the singa-
lar lapses into slovenly and illiterate
blundel~ conspicuous in men and wo-
men who should know better" True,
they should, and probably do know
better, but in daily practice few people
rise very much above the ordinary level
of those with whom they always con-
verse A city-bred girl went to live in
part of the country where provincial
isms are the current coin Of daily talk.
Returning few years later to her
home, no one would have supposed her
to be the same person, so many queer
little phrases and downright forms OF
speech, inelegant and lacking in good
form, had She, very susceptible person,
picked up and adopted
If we wish our daughter to be pro-
fcient in music we take her to hear the
most renowned artists. Technique
may be acquired by constant practice
under the best instructors, but she can
gain feeling, appreciation of color and
phrasing, sincere and genuine culture
in music only by hearing 1t rendered
well; and this is true of both vocal and
instrumental performance. SO it is
true that good vocabulary is greatly
augmented by habitually listening TO
eloquent and beautiful speech, to the
polished diction of the pulpit, to the
rounded and rhythmic sentences Of
prayer and praise. The young person
who always goes to church will gain
something not included in our usual
thought of church-going- larger and
more facile vocabulary.
"For two years" said a student Of
French, Il heard no English that I
could help. I attended French
church; l went wherever French was
spoken, in public and in privateS lived
in French atmosphere"
This is equally true of English. A
vocabulary is not gained in day or a
week 1t is the slow accretion of
many days, the development of many
weeks. -IIaTper's Bazaar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
TIPPING CROW.
The Bird Is Taught to Drink and Becom
Topper.

The Bird Is Taught to Drink and Becomes
Topper.
81 have a crow at home that dearly
loves whisky and has constant desire
to bowl up when not already satisfied in
that direction" said st. Louis man re-
Gently. 1T all started with my son. a
harum-scarum rascal, who cooked
wheat grains in whisky and fed the
bird with them. This went on for a
long time without my knowledge, until
the bird became infatuated with wheat
prepared in that manner. l noticed
that the boy and the bird became great
friends, so much so that the latter
would acknowledge thanks and desire
for more of what thought to be ordi-
nary wheat grains by the most unmelo-
dious cav that crow was possessed
of.
81 thought to make friends with the
bird by presenting it with few grains
of wheat, but after taking one or two
it invariable turned away in apparent
disgust. l couldn't understand it at
all. My son, after judicially cultivating
the birds appetite for whisky wheat,
mixed whisky in its drinking water,
which was not i'll received. 1t was not
long until he had the crow slipping pure
whisky and getting hilarously loaded.
Then | discovered the trick one day,
and settled up a long account with
that youth. But the crow is not salts
fed without whisky, After drinking a
little it will stagger about and feebly
flap its wings, meanwhile giving vent
to a squawk which is a cross between a
bagpipe and a squeaky door hinge. 1t
will then endeavor to balance itself on
perch with the most ridiculous re-
suits. The recovery always brings a
sullen humor to the bird, and for an
entire day it will NOPE in some dark
corner and take on most vicious tenn
per. When in this latter frame of mind
it is quite dangerous to offer any con-
ISOLATION to the bird, for it is i'll received
and apparently does no good.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
GENERAL GLEANINGS.

THERE are in the United States SO, 900
more saloons than public schools
THERE We're in 1892 nearly 1000 MUIR
ders in the United States large pro-
portion of them caused directly or in
directly by strong drink.
THE town of Gojumra, Japan, is a
total abstinence place, and over each
house, it is stated, motto is placed,
reading, Frugal in all things; liquor
prohibited"
THE New Brunswick legislature has
unanimously passed a resolution re-
questing the dominion parliament to en-
act a law prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquors.
A LITTLE girl in Manchester Eng
land, attended Band of Hope meeting
and when the speaker said that the
drink stripped home of furniture, and
women and children of clothes, She ex-
claimed, That's what it does at my
home" The next time She was sent to
the public house for drink she asked
for three pennyworth of stripped
homes"
The president of the university of
Bethlehem, Pa, prohibited the stu
de1Sts bringing beer on the campus to
be used at their merrymakings. The
girls of the town have esta blished
boycott on the young men engaged in
the practice, and many families have
notified them to discontinue their
visits, as they do not wish to have any
intercourse with beer-drinking stu
dents.
THE Incorporate man bequeaths a
terrible legacy to his posterity. A dis
tinguished German authority thus de-
scribes the effect of the drink habit on
succeeding generations: The character
istics of the first generation are deprav-
ity and alcoholic excess; those of the
second, the drink mania, attacks of in
sanity and general paralysis; in the
third, science expects hypochondria,
melancholy, and tendencies to murder;
while the characteristics of the fourth
are imbecility, idiocy. and extinction of
family nited Presbyterian.
ALCOHOLISM is yearly becoming more
prevalent and more severe in France.
French savants have most accurately
deScrl Ded II IN all us eHeCuS-DuL WndR
has been done to remedy IL? During
the last year the result of the discus
sion has been that the tax on spirits
must be considerably raised and that
wine, beer and cider must be entirely
free from taxation. And before any
one can do anything further it viii be
deemed needful to await the result Of
such measure as this. Opium intox-
icaticn has been superadded to that
from alcohol; especially in Partially
ternational Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08

deavor to rid the body of the poison.
The liver kidneys, lungs and skin are
all over stimulated in this effort.
We hope we have made it clear in
this brief resume of the action of alco-
hol that it is absolutely and entirely
poison. 1t is in no sense food. 1t in
jures the brain, the nerves, over-excltes
the heart, irritates the stomach. liver
and kidneys; never does any good, but
always harm. There is no reason
against and every reason for putting its
sale and use under the same restric-
tons, and precautions as the sale of any
other poison.
Why, then, is this not done? Simply
because ,there is too much money in the
business of selling rum. 1t is the gain
that comes to those whose occupation
it is to manufacture and sell it. that
has thrown together for mutual protec-
ton all these people. They use their
influence and their wealth and the
power they have over the besotted vic
Tins of drink, to prevent as far as pos
sible any interference by the state with
their debasing and soul-destroying oc-
cupation.
There is vast amount of ignorance
among the people as to the real nature
of alcohol. 1t is the fewer number of
our people, even at this date, who are
convinced that alcohol is a poison; and
this ignorance of the masses is one of
the bulwarks of the traffic. We need
more education, especially in the fam
lily, in the church, and in the common
schools, as to the real nature and effect
OF this potent poison. When the masses
of the people understand its true ma
ture, tremendous impulse will be
given to the effort to pulverize the rum
power.-Toledo Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
A LIKELY STORY.
The Old Hayseed Was Not to BE Fooled
by a Conductor.

The Old Hayseed Was Not to BE Fooled
by Conductor.
On board a Baltimore train pulling
into Parkersburg was a man whose de-
meanor conveyed the impression that he
was matter-of-faet all the way through.
No foolishness, no trifling with or in
the everyday affairs Of this busy old
life.
Mr.. Conductor, what time do we get
into Parl1ersburg?'
"Ten-twenty," replied the official POI
litely.
Eyes. Well; what time can | get a
train on west?'
"Nine-twenty."
Tomorrow.
Tonight"
Conductor, don't take me for fool
because my beard grows the wrong
way and my clo'es suggest whip-poor-
wills and penny-royal. I'm serious"
so am |, my good friend. You can
make it all right"
wal IL, now, howe"
''Just keep your seat"
And leave town an hour before get
into it?''
That's the idea, my good friend"
Look h'yer. You may be good
conductor, an know all the stations
an the spoilers, an how to knock
down forty per cent o the receipts,
but when you claim to have a reversin'
lever on the sun, you're off, decidedly
off"
"But the time changes an hour at the
river"
Then, at this rate. if go on to San
Francisco, IN get there some time last
week. / guess IN get OFF and wait till
catch up with myself Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
AFRICAN JUSTICE.
An Open Court Trial by ordeal Among
the Negroes.

An Open Court Trial by ordeal Among
the Negroes.
OF aN central African customs trial
bv ordeal, which is universal. is that
which is most revolving to a European,
brought for the first time into contact
with savage life. When man is
accused of any crime, as theft, arson,
murder, witchcraft, or the like, evil
dence is brought against him in the
way common throughout the whole
continent. This, however. is never
final The accuser's witnesses swear
to anything required of them without
the slightest compunction of con-
science, and as the prosecutor must
produce his evidence first. the defend
ants witnesses are ready to swear,
and do swear, the opposite of all that
has been said. Trial is invariably in
open court, and nothing said by the
witnesses for the prosecution can be
concealed from those that are to fol-
low. There are no affidavits, thus
making contradiction at once simple
and safe If rebutting evidence were
allowed, the most paltry trial would
be interminable. For a witness to be
called liar is, in such case, a COM
Ttiment. 1t proves that his evidence
told, and that he, by inference, is a
very clever fellow. If the same man
were accused of bewitching he would
regard ii as a foul libel and demand
the poison bowl without an hours de-
lay.
To remedy the defects of trial in
court, that by ordeal is adopted in all
kinds of causes, both civil and criminal
AS the case proceeds before the council,
the accused at intervals demands the
mwai. and this demand his friends. IL
they believe him innocent, persistently
press. Theaccuser resists the demand
As unnecessary, knowing that should
the culprit. even If caught red-handed
recover. he viii be placed in difficult
position. He will in that case have no
claim to compensation for an injury
and NAV in turn be successfully sued
for willfully seeking to destroy another
mans reputation. The belief in the
absolute certainty of trial by mwai is
universal. and the beginning and end
OF reasoning is thus: IF he is guilty,
he dies: if he does not die. should the
stolen property be found on his person,
he is not guilty: another pat it there,
or he vas bewitehed. james Mac
donald, in Popular Science Monthly.
The area devoted to the cultivation
Of tobacco in Ceylon shows a steady
and considerable increase from year to
year, the average product now being
IN the neigh bOrhOOG Of 10 900 600 pounds
yearly, Of which 35o, 900 pounds are ex-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
How to serve Strawberries.

Little individual side dishes that
have so long accompanied the usual
dinner set, making twelve Of its one
hundred and forty-four more or less
pieces, are no longer suitable for use in
really tasteful table service, either
tor fruit or vegetables. Vegetables
are to be cooked sufficiently dry, so
that they can be placed upon the plate.
and fruit-that is, berries-are dished
ap into larger saucer-shaped dishes,
varying somewhat in shape and size;
II, still better, they are passed around
The table, each person helping himself
upon an ordinary dessert plate previ-
ously placed before him. eating them
with either a fork or dessert spoon,
both of which have been placed at his
lisposa and for his choice. according
% whether he prefers his berries with
cream or without it. If berries are
served with their hulls on they are
-aten with the fingers. each one dipped
separately into sugar on the side of the
plate. y. Y. Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE CAUSE OF 1T ALL.

What brings man from station high
Down to the gutter-there TO lie
With fellow tramps and meanly dief
Whisky.
What takes his self respect away
And makes him poorer day by day
And causes health to soon decay!
Whisky.
What wrecks his happy home so sweet
And turns his family on the street
To beg and starve in woe complete2
Whisky
What makes his loving wife to moan
And weep heart broken and alone
To pray for one who strikes her pronef
Whisky.
What makes his children hang in shame
Their pretty heads and hate the name
OF father who when drunk, will maimf
Whisky.
What makes him loose all friendship dear
While strangers shun hts presence drear
And children from him fly in fear?
Whisky.
What makes his body reek with slime
And sleeps his once pure soul in crime,
w 10 Tue dtNll goes III lliilt'
Whisky.
What makes him carry on his nose
The horrid sign drunkard shows,
And wear old, dirty, ragged clothesf
Whisky.
What makes him as with palsy shake
And with delirium tremens quake
In torment worse than hades' lakei
Whisky. M
What makes him in the poorhouse dwell
Or fill prisons lonesome cell
Or on the gallows hear his knell?
Whisky.
What should each youth who sees 10 shun
These self-cursed human wrecks undone
Refuse to touch, lest he be one?
Whisky.
And what should everybody seek
To rid the world of, so the weak
May not be crushed by tempter's sleek'
Whisky
H. c. Dodge, in Goodall's Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08

-.er the return of the drummer from
his tfay..1 MS young wife explored his
grip with an cXpeetant face Falling
10 find that Of which She was apparent
" in search, She turned 10 him and
said:
where is the jag?'
"1'hc what?" he asked in astonish-
nent.
The jag. Mrs. Baces says her hus-
band saw you in Chicago with lovely
jag on. Whatever il is, you are not
wearing it, and it isn't in your grip"
20. that's all right. left it at the
office. BY the way saw a handsome
spring hat in milllner's shop down
town. If you care we viii 90 down
town and you can look at it and If Won
Ike il you can have it."---N. Y. Prenn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08
Giving Hls sister Away.

A.fred-Say, sis, did Mr.. Cumofti0
bring my umbrella back?
Angelina-Why, Mr.. Cumoftin did
not have your umbrella, Alfred. What
made you think that?
Alfred Why, / heard him say last
night that he would just steal one
more, and didn't see my umbrella 70
day.-Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-08

The area devoted to the cultivation
Of tobacco in Ceylon shows a steady
and considerable increase from year to
year, the average product now being
Ii the neighborhooG OF 10, 0OO, 900 pounds
yearly, Of which $50, 900 pounds are ex-
ltor-ted.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-08
ABOVE THE HARLEM.
Where the Battle Was Won i'm New
York State.

NEW YORK, Nov. THE Indications
are that the Republicans elect their State
ticket by from 10000 to $4,000. 1t is
claimed that Bartlett's majority over May
nard will exceed $4,000.
One hundred and eighteen out of 1878
districts outside of New York and Brook
lyn give Palmer 1858. Meyer 9192. The
same districts in 1891 gave O'Connor
Il. O40, Rice 1855
One hundred and forty-one out Of 1878
districts outside OF New York and Brook
lyn give Palmer 1876. Meyer 10, 929. The
same districts in 1891 gave O'Connor
16, 463, Rice 1868.
Two hundred and forty-eight districts
outside of New York and Brooklyn give
Palmer 27,48l, Meyer 1885, the same
districts in 1891 gave OConnor S.66I, Rice
25,6O3.
Two handred and five dis tricts outside
of New York and Brooklyn give Bartlett
%. .341. Maynard 1898. The same districts
gave Palmer "a, $50, Meyer 1S.07S.
Forty-ive elect ion districts In Albany,
Erie Onandago. Monroe and Westchester
counties give Maynard 5414. Bartlett 5741.
One hundred and siXty-six election dis
trlcts in all the counties above Harlem
give Maynard 16, 988, Bartlett q ,492.
Three hundred and ninety-fve districts
outside of New YORK and Brooklyn give
Palmer 44,213, Meyer 1924 The same
districts in 1891 gave OConnor 45. 725. Rice
40479.
Five hundred and two districts outside of
New York and Brooklyn give Palmer
&C. 269. Meyer 42,915
Returns from One-sixth Of the State out
side of New York and Brooklyn, give Pal
mer. Republican. for Secretary of State. a
majority over Meyer of 15,60S
OswEGO. n. Y, Nov. 7.-Oswego City,
which usually gives Democratic majority.
has gone Republican by "a votes. for the
first time since 1888.
ROCHESTER, n. Y. Nov. THE Repub-
Iicans made clean sweep in Monroe
County.
BUFFALO, Nov. THE News claims
that this city has gone Republican by a
clean sweep, the Democrats having only
an occasional Alderman
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-08
FEW DEMOCRATS VOTED.
There Was Not a Heavy Poll in
Bleeding Kansas.


KANSAS CITY. Kans.. Nov. Tn Wyan-
dotte County. the most populous locality
in the State. the entire Republican ticket.
with the exception of Surveyor and Regis
ter of Deeds, is elected. However. thro gh-
out the State not more than half the regis
tered vote was polled. On account OF q
split in the party few Democrats voted.
Topeka, Kans., Nov THE Austria
liam ballot system was used in Kansas TO-
day for the first time, and though there
was some friction in localities where the
law was not thoroughly understood. the
vote was not nearly as large as In 1897,
when 1924, 1856 votes were cast In the fret
place it is an off year, and thentit is esti-
mated that fully 25 per cent of the
voters in the western part of the
State have emigrated on account of the
failure of crops, and besides there was a
considerable exodus from all sections 10
the Cherokee strip. Finally many voters
through ignorance or tmldity would not
venture nto the booths under the new law.
BY common consent the vote to-day was
compared with that of two years ago. when
the same county officers were elected.
The CapitoPs dispatches up to o'clock
from all parts of Kansas show Republican
gains. Twenty-seven counties have been
heard from and are all Republican, includ-
ing the most populous counties of the
State. many of which were Popullst dur
ing the past two years. 1t looks like
clean sweep of the State for the Republi-
cans.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-08

OF things prevailed in the colonized elec-
ton districts here. Colonizers have been
put where they will do the most good, and
some or the roughest-lnokirg men that the
slGms of Buffalo and New York ever pro-
duced were permitted to crowd around the
polls. enter the booths and run things to suit
themselves. A correspondent counted
twenty-five of these ruffians in the crowd
pressed close around polling-place. In
the Fourth district of the Fourth Ward the
door was guarded by BILLY" Baker and
"Reddy" Strauss, two professional pugi-
lists from Canal street. At one time, early
this morning, the line of regular voters was
held in check by Sheehan men at the
head, while a number of machine voters
were rushed in through the doors from the
opposite direction. The police were stand
Ing by without interfering, and special
deputies were keeping guard to prevent
the anti-machine men from making resist
aDce. Election inspectors had.Dee elected
from the several booths and heeers inside
openly instructed voters as to which ballot
to use.