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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26

into his life like kind, gentle friend,
has turned into a terrible tyrant 1t
drives him on with craving for more
and more. 1t destroys all the better
tastes of his early days; aud, if persist
ed in, takes away even the natural APP
petite for food. The slave of drink
Turns from everything except the one
lding that is killing him, and the more
he takes of it the sooner he dies.
But 1t is not the body alone that
strong drink injuries. Let us think a
little about what it does to the mind.
The fine and wonderful plan by which
the brain is kept healthy and is made
fit to govern our thoughts and actions,
is a most difficult thing to understand.
But it should ever be kept in remem-
brance that anything that disturbs the
brain disturbs the whole mind also.
Strong drink both disturbs the brain
and does mischief to it, and though for
time the harm may not be noticea BILE
yet every one, sooner or later, can see
that mischief has been done.
The process is this: First it makes
persons just what they call comfort
able" or Jolly" and when they are
thus pleasantly excited they will talk
little louder than usual, or rather
faster, and boast perhaps; they will in
dulge sometimes in talk that is not
quite true, and now and then slip out a
bad word which they would not have
uttered if their minds had been per-
fectly sober and steady. There are
countless little ways by which the
drinlxer shows the effect of what he
has taken, and those who watch for
these signs can tell them in moment.
They know what the bright eye, and
the red cheek, and the quick tongue
mean. There is mischief going on in
the brain. Nothing that people would
perhaps consider to be very bad; the
man is just only mot quite himself. ="
A very good thing will it be for him if,
before he goes any further, he learns
to look on drink in its true light, and
resolves to have no more to do with it.
When people go down hill, it is
obvious, every step brings them lower
and lower. Going on with a habit
which is mot quite" right, soon brings
them into something which is quite
wrong. The mischief which drink does
to the brain makes only a small change
in the mans conduct at first, but soon
it makes vast change. The use of
strong drink as a beverage is bad
habit, and remember.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
AS brooks make rivers, and rivers make seas.
National Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
SHEEP SHEARINGS.

RAPE is highly recommended for
sheep.
DON'T feed sheep on the ground. 1t 10
O wasteful practice.
SHEEP eat ensilage with great de.
light and great profit.
afford to give up watermelon raising.
and stock the land with one of the NUT
ton breed of sheep.
WERE you ever caught by the hair OF
your head and jerked lively? 1t hurt,
did it not? Never allow a sheep to be
caught by the wool. 1t hurts, and il
hurts the wool, too.
MANY consumers do not know how to
judge good mutton, but they can Judge
bad mutton when it comes on the
table; and if it is bad they do net buy
mutton again for long time.
GIVE the sheep plenty of dry, clean
bedding SO that the wool will not be-
come foul. We don't believe sheep
can be healthy that is always carrying
a dirty fleece around, and we know the
dirt does not improve its quality.
THERE is class of writer's who seem
TO think that sheep has no brains,
and say that the shepherd must furnish
the brains. The sheep has enough
brains to enable it to tell whether it is
we'll cared for or not. Don't forget
that.
ALL sheepmen will agree that the
breeder Of sheep who has been in the
business for long time and does not
let up for small prices of wool and
mutton, but keeps steadily on through
thick and thin, is the one who makes
it profitable. Spasmodic sheep hus-
bandry seldom payG-Western Rural
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
When to AnnIY Manure.

1t should be understood that only
the manure that is well made and de
composed should be carted to the fields
The straw that is used to absorb the
liquid ma lure in the barnyard must
not be taken away. We cannot afford
to keep OR yards SO clean that we lose
all the liquid manure by teaching
away. We must have straw to Absorb
it, and this should not be moved to the
fields until it is thoroughly saturated
with the liquid. "A. b. Barrett, in Chi.
cago Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
HOMEMADE ROOFS.


HOLSTER Sage Suggests a Return to the
Use of Thatches.
Every few years there is an expense
for farm roofs of some sort for the old
homestead, and it is becoming monoto-
nous. Recently spent over 500 for
shingling Roofs bring greater aver
age annual expense to farmers all over
the country than most are aware of.
Shingles are not as cheap nor made OF
as good material as formerly, paper is
short-lived and tin and slate are so ex.
pensive that MANY cannot afford either.
These facts, coupled with what know
of roofs in England and Scotland, have
set me thinking. Over a large part OF
rural Europe the roof of straw thatch
is as common and evidently as durable
as the average American shingles. II
is applied by the owner, or tenant fire.
quently, with no expense aside from
the time and material - straw and
t9Sine-usually produced on the farm.
question forces itself upon me: Why
is not this by-product of our grain
fields utilized to some extent for roof
ing, at least on our smaller, obscure
farm buildings? Would it not do for
icehouses, woodhouses, stock sheds
and smaller barns? For hen houses II
might not be desirable, because liable
to harbor vermin, but this tendency
could be controlled by saturating II
from below with carbolized lime wash,
using force pump Even those who
have never seen thatching know how
surely rain runs off the roof we'll.
covered stack and how little q we'll
made cock of hay is wet by heavy
storms. Reeds and rushes are also
sometimes employed for roofs. Could
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26

the use of matching be ex-
tended in this country its value
might be acknowledged. To lay
lay it is simple art, requiring no
more skill than shingling. After the
first two hours of effort, the work will
seem more easy and rapid. The essen.
tials are straight, hand-thrashed straw
binder Irvine and a shuttle made of oak
or hickory, six inches long, an inch and
thick. The shape of the shuttle, and
also crude sketch Of building being
matched, are shown in cut. Furring
strips are nailed to the rafters as for
shingles, and cord firmly nailed to
the end of each. say firmly nailed"
because if it should loosen, the straw 1t
holds will soon slip down and be at the
mercy of the wind, when a bad leak
will appear; and matching, like shing-
ling. is difficult to repair.
The straw is laid and bound to its
place in small bundles--the smaller the
better-the Irvine being wound ON the
shuttle. A little practice will enable
the thatcher to fiatten and spread each
bundle so no cracks will show in the
roof After the cord is put over the
straw and under the Turing strip, and
while it is being held very tight, the
straw is forcibly crowded up against
the last bundle placed, that the roof
may be firm and hard. 1t is well to
secure the binder Irvine at intervals of
one foot on the Turing strip, by winding
it around a shingle nail and driving it
into the wood. None but clean thrashed
straw is suitable on account of rats
and mice. If it be stiff and strong 1t
may be exposed to the weather in
eight-inch lengths, but weak, light
straw will not bear the wind unless in
six or four inch laps. A steep pitch is
desirable, and wide, over-hanging ga.
bles will give a pretty appearance to
the smallest matched building. The
straw is here. How are your roofs?-
Hollister Sage, in Rural New Yorker.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26

Mr.. Barry is entirely opposed to
grass in orchards. He thinks that all
orchards ought to be cultivated, ex-
cept, perhaps, in some cases, say for
some special reason-an orchard may
make a rank growth and in conse-
quence have been afflicted with blight;
In such cases it is advisable to control
this growth by seeding down and re-
straining the abnormal growth for the
time. Rural New Yorker.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
VARIOUS NOTES.

Rum is made from the refuse of sugar.
Do you drink it?
mo MEMBER will be permitted to
drink the white mans grog," is the
pertinent regulation of newly-formed
Zulu church in Africa.
THE Indians in eastern Washington
have themselves taken steps to prevent
the sale of liquor by unprincipled
white men on their reservation.
A LAW was passed in England In 1850
to the effect that at parties 'ladies
must not get drunk on any pretext
whatever, and gentlemen not before
nine o'clock"
IN face of the fact that there were
over one hundred thousand arrests for
drunkenness in Ireland last year, four
hundred and fifteen new licenses have
been granted.
NEW YORK and Missouri are the ban
ner states in temperance education and
were so recognized at the Woman's
Christian Temperance union conven-
ton in Denver.
DR.. CHAPLIN, superintendent of the
department for the insane of the Penn
sylvania hospital, in his last annual re-
port for 1892 gives an aggregate of 96S
cases among the inmates as caused by
intemperance.
1T is said that one of the severest
liquor laws ever passed is that of the
dramshop act in Mississippi. A liquor
dealer can only do business in the front
of his shop, and it is counted misde-
meanor to put up screen. There are
many and heavy fines for any infringe
ments of the law.
AMONG the gross vices of the Russian
peasants is intemperance. Raw brandy
is their favorite drink, and they will
give their last piece of money for a
drink. The Sundays together with the
holidays, constitute one-third of the
year; aud the peasant does not think it
a true Sunday or real holiday unless
he is carried home dead drunk
THE United Kingdom temperance and
general providence institution of Lon
don proves by it's experience from 1866
to 1891 that the actual claims in the
temperance section if calculated on pol
icies are about seventy per cent. of the
expected claims; while in the general
sect ion out of which tC al abstinence is
left, the actual claims are about nine
ty-seven per cent. of the expected
claims. The temperance argument is
here in a nutshell form.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
PROPER VENTILATION.
Subject which Is Not as Well Undel
stood as 1t should he.

q Subject Which IL Not as Well Under
stood as 1t should BE.
So far as the dairy house is con-
eerned, ventilation depends somewhat
upon the method followed in setting
the milk. If deep cans are used, and
the room is kept clean. there can be
little if any, need of ventilation in
hot weather. The air of the room
should not be allowed to get at the
milk, and surely the dairy room ought
to be cooler than the outside atmos-
phere while the sun shines. There can
be no need of ventilators that stand
open all the time, as if the milk was
set out in the open air. If ventilators
are insisted upon. then they should be
shut in the day time, and left open only
at night.
In the COW stable over-ventilation
does still more harm. Our forefathers,
in the dairy, were thoroughbred venti.
lators. They thought that nature took
charge of warming the COW by giving
her an extra thickness of hair in cold
weather, while it was their duty to see
that she utilized that hair to it's full
capacity. To accomplish this they kept
her out of doors all winter long, even
II her hoofs froze off. BY degrees, we
are getting over that notion, and have
learned that If the cows are kept warm,
they will give milk all winter, aud,
what is more, we are finding out that
more heat makes more milk. Just
where TO stop the heat without cur
failing the supply of milk may easily
he ascertained.
There Is nothing that frightens the
average person so much as bad smell.
He scents danger in the air immediate.
ly, although the bacteria which lib
crate odors are not those which cause
disease. After all, bad sWells are only
| relative. The man who works in a
bone factory or shovels manure all day
is not sensitive to the odors, and is gen.
orally model of health. 1t is proba-
bly, safe to say that the cows do not
mind. If the stables are cleaned twice
day, and tho wide doors opened in
the warm part of the day, even though
there be no bedding and no ventilators
used, no harm will come to the cows,
though it certainly would not do to let
the milk stand any length of time in
such an atmosphere. | have seen q
hundred cows kept all winter in one
room with ceiling seven feet high, and
not only no ventilators but every crack
stopped with rags. This was city
dairy, and the cows came out healthy
in the spring 1t is not necessary to
take such radical views. as both profit
and humanity suggest the liberal use
of bedding for the cows. But it is
gross foolishness to ventilate all the
odor out of the COW stable at the ex-
pense of the comfort of the cows and
at the certain loss of milk. The prob
abilities now all point to a winter cow
stable being made not over seven feet
high from floor to ceiling, and so near
ly air-tight that the heat of the cows
bodies will, in zero weather, keep the
temperature in the stable above sixty
degrees, so that the hair will not grow
longer on the cows body than it is in
summer. OF course the water they
drink should be warmed proportionate.
ly.-American Agriculturist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
THE DANGER UF STRONG DRINK.
All Better Instincts Are Numbed by the
Use of Alcohol.

All Better Instincts Are Numbed by the
Use of Alcohol.
Persons who make a habit of taking
a little beer or spirits because they find
it cheers them up for the time unfortu-
nately often go on to become fond of
strong drink and take too much of it.
They become its slaves and get less and
less able to govern themselves. They
become noisy or silly, they quarrel or
cry or fight for the smallest cause
Their very faces alter, and by and by
get the miserable look of the scottish
drunkard. The whole body becomee
discolored. From the crown OF the
head to the sole of the foot the poison
of drink is doing it's fatal work. Dis
eased liver, diseased lungs, sdiseased
heart, diseased brain-these are the
fruits of a habit which, when it was
begun, was not thought to do any
harm.
When a man gets so bad as this it is
with great difficulty that he can be
saved from the effects of his folly and
brought back to health. 1t is not often
possible to save him, even if he wishes
it. But alas! he very seldom does wish
it.
The seductive drink, which crept
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26

Drinking beer will spoil good cheer
Who boozeth over grog will soon be
in a fog.
Where strong drink enters folly
centers.
Small beer gives small cheer.
The biggest poorhouse is near Gin
Lane.
Dictionaries declare gin is snare.
Strong ale makes the strong all
-Spurgeon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
GRAIN For LAMBS.
An Explanation of the Best Method OF
Headline

An Explanation of the Best Method OF
Feeding 1t.
To feed grain to lambs it is best tc
have a pen in the corner of the field
fitted for this purpose so that the lam bs
may have a special place to feed. In
the pen a corner may be easily divided
off and sheltered place where the
flock is in the habitof gathering should
be selected. The simplest way of max.
ing lamb creep which will keep the
sheep out is given by the Wisconsin ex-
perimental station in Bulletin 32, as
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
The Most Pleasant way

or preventing the grippe, colds, headaches,
and fevers is to use the liquid laxative rem
edy, Syrup Of Figs, whenever the system
needs q gentle, yet effective cleansing. To
be benefited one must get the true remedy
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only. For sale by all druggists in SOC.
and Il bottles.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26

"WHAr are you thinking aboutp' he
asked. 81 was wondering" replied the
precise girl, whether the plural Of foot
ball should not be feetballs. "-Washington
Star
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1893-12-01

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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1893-12-01
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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-01-13

In Washington coulee is a ravine
that river has worn for Itself and
then abandoned for another course.
The coulees of the Col Imbia River
are immense rayines worn out of the
basaltic rock with perpendicular walls
on other side from 1000 10 1900 feet
high. Thl ough this region the Great
Northern Railroad runs. Not long
ago an Indian approached gang of
railroad laborcrs working in Salmon
Coulee with great piece of ice
wrapped in blanket, which he Of
fered for sale. The workmen insti-
tuted a search in the direction from
which he had come and soon found q
cold stream trickling through the shell
rock, and further up the ice beds were
found. They were formed among
tho masses of shell rock by the melt
ING of snow in winter, the water run
ming down am ,ng the rocks and freez-
ing at night. Ice remains there per
petually and in large quantities. The
most singular feature is that the spot
is only 500 feet above the sea, and the
sun beats with intense heat upon the
rocks upon the ice, which is also ex-
posed to warm draughts of air through
the creyices, yet the ice never melts.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-01-13
shouldn't Let His Place Get Afire.

The night Steve Bishops bakery
burned up, when he saw that it was
bound to go. he said, said he:
"Boys pitch in; help yourselyesI
Would you believe it. my friend,
David Harkins stepped up and said
he, "steve," said he, ''is there any
angel cake left?"
"No, Dave" said Sieve, 81 sold it
all out yesterday"
"Well. then, Steve said Tave,
"just show me where you keep your
nut cakel"
And all the time the flames kept
a-coming closer aud closer.
"WelI, Steve Bishop" said Dave
Harkins, said he. "this is to mean for
hvman nesh to bear. What on earth
have yoG gOt7"
"Nothing but jumbles and ginger
nuts" said Steve and al the time the
fire kept a-coming closer and closer.
"Well, Steve Bishop" said Dave
Hakins, laid he. s1et EN- hurn up
I'm not going to run two miles acros
lots and wind myself for plain jun BILE
aud ginger nuts. You had no busi
ness TO get afire when your stock wa
so low.-TNew York Mercury.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-01-13
Witnessing French Executions.

Public executions in Paris prove
yerv profitable TO the owners of
houses commanding the scene. VIM
dows are let out for the occasion, the
landlords watching for the first sign
of the execution and then al once
sending word to the persons who have
hired the room. IL an ordinary GRIM
insl is executed the charge is usually
about "a per place. but should thu Of
fcndco have committed any remarkR-
BILE crime the price runs up TO $50. -
[Chicago Times,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-01-13
Took His Measure.

A very Observation-Disclosures x,uuv
man, in exquisite moustache, loud
plaid clothes, red necktie, ,low-crowned
hat, straw-colored kids, and knitting
needle cane, walked into tobacco
shop, and, throwing down a half-dol-
lar on the counter, said
well, this is the worst town ever
saw; gentleman can't get ANYTHING
in it satisfactory, and | am utterly to
see how person OF fastidious taste
can live here. l say, Mr. Shop-
keeper, can you sell fellow a decent
cigar?"
Yes, SIR" said the cigar-maker
meekly.
"well, then; fly around lively, and
do it, Don't you see that half-dol-
lar?"
Yes, sir What kind of cigar
do YOU wish, sir?"
What kind?"
"Yes, sir"
why, look at me, sir, a moment
and see for yourself what kind of
cigar would suit me-" and he draw
himself up grandly and gazed down
/ upon the shop-keeper The shon-
keeper looked, and then took In the
half-do,lar, got out a cigar, handed il
to the man with forty-nine cents
change, and said:
IL owe you half a cent. sir, hut r
can't make change unless Won tsla
/ another cigar" The nice young man
, looked at the shop-keeper and then at
himself and. without single word
| walked out of the shop.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-01-13
Jay Gould and the Farmer.

al remember once stop in Builcl
County, Kansas says railroad EN-,
ployee of the late Jay Gould. "The
aflernoon was asawfuly hot. but as thai
always-present breeze was blowino
over The prairie, Mr. Could stepped
out for some air. lie stood in The
shade at one end Of the depot talking
with an old farmer. The farmer
looked longingy at the private car
and finally said to Mr.. Could:
" BE You ridin' IN that carp
"'Yes,' replied Mr. Gould.
"Course you see Jay Gould, then p
Yes, sometimes,
al s'pose he keeps puriy select and
don't mix much. What kind Of
lookin' feller is hep
''Mr- Gould evasivcly inquired il
his qnestioner had not seen JAY Gould.
ms he had been through there several
times.
"'No, ! never seen him, )" continued
the farmer. But Id just like to.
Dye s'pose he'd give a feller chance
to speak to him? Amt he stuck upP'
"Thc anxious man was assured that
Mr.. Gould often talked with citizens
along his road.
"'Can't yer fix It for mep' earnestly
inquired the man.
''AIr. Gould smiled a little AT this
but he did not have the disposition 10
carry out the joke and reveal himself.
Our train was ready to leave, and lie
excused himself and stepped on tue
platform. He shook hands with his
new acquaintance.
"Thc station agent knew Mr.. Gould
and as soon as the train moved he told
the man TO whom he had been talking.
Mr.. Gould disappeared in the car with
Just a faint smile on his face.
the station. never saw
more dunbfounded man than that
farmer. He stepped into the centre of /
Inc track, and with both hands in his
pockets, legs sspread apart. mouth |
'pen aud hat on the back of his head. /
ne gazed in amazeulent at the depart
ng train.
"The station agent afterwards told
ne that for miles around that mans
ak with Jay Gould was household
tory.