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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

NIGHT's milk is richer than morn.
ing's.
WATER cows after feeding; horses
before.
A cow that has aborted should no
be allowed to run with pregnant cows.
THE pastures are more valuable than
they get credit for being. Don't let the
cattle upon them until they are hard.
Punching of the soft surface destroys
more feed than anything else.
THE best dairymen gradually take
all gram away from their stock during
the flush of the grass season and make
green crops cheaply raised take its
place as much as possible later. Still
later comes ensilage.
IT is common sight to see a milk
peddler's horse going home alone six 20
eight miles from any city the intelli-
gent animal turning out for teams, his
master asleep in the wagon. The early
rising and excessive work of this bust
ness would break down many a man
were it not for the fact that he can
doze for an hour or more on the return
trip. And this privilege he owes to hs
good dumb friend
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

dustrious hum of one of these creatures,
and on opening the left leaf l exposed
her to a strong light, which did not
seem to disconcert her. In few min
utes she flew away for a new mud badl.
But on her return, although her nest
was stuck against the red sash. in
strong contrast, in plain sight, she
seemed unable to recognize it. She had
been approaching it at a point where
the movable Stats were tilted downward
(when closed); but of course, now that
the blind was open, these all inclined
upward. On the other leaf, however,
though much lower down, were some
Stats tilted much as the others had been,
and through these she made repeated
entrances, only to crawl out into the
open light some distance from her nest,
though she always started in the same
relative direction that it lay from the
other Stats when in place. She was evil
IDENTIFY much confused and distressed.
She would fly out little further each
time, seeming to think that she had not
made the right approach, sometimes
going out from under the porch and re-
turning. At last she dropped her pellet
and began a crawling investigation,
passing often within few inches of the
unfinished cell, but appearing to have
never seen it. After much of this she
went away and came no more that even
ing, for it was getting dark.
failed to think of the incident for a
Cow dow nd O1n he
in the meantime, SO that when l again
examined it the single cell was com
pleted and sealed. On breaking it open
found within small greenish-white
spider on the side of which was glued
the single egg. l send you shadow
photograph showing, in exact size, the
relative positions. OF course, most of
your readers know that it was the
mothers provision for the young larva
when it should hatch out. / might add
that the spider showed the usual signs
of life in cataleptic state, showing the
wonderful instinct that enabled the
wasp to sting it at just the right point
and to the proper extent to allow life
enough to remain to preserve it for
food, while it was dead to all efforts at
resistance or escape. Mr.. Mivart
stresses this contrast between the want
of intelligence, in being unable to APP
proach its nest by any route but one
land exhibiting such a small amount of
reasoning wower), and the instinct that
makes it so skillful in its providence
and foresight. To his mind it argues a
wide breach between intelligence and
instinct.-James Newton Basket, in
Scientific American.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
The May Wide Awake

Has an entertaining description of
life ON a lighthouse island in the
China Seas by the U. S. Consul at
Singapore. He calls it How we
played Robinson Crusoe." Grace
Dean Mcleod has a characteris-
tic Nova Scotia story-"Petit Pere
Felix" a tale of the invasion of Acadie;
Joseph Hatton tells an exciting incl
dent connected with the coin room of
the British Museum, 1.-THE Princes Di-
lemma;" Crawford Capen writes of
STAMPS and Stamp Collecting;" Annie
Sawyer Downs tells how the young
Folks at the Eddy" dealt with the
servant-girl problem; Penelope Palmer
writes of the wonderful Welsh boy in
the Pennsylvania mines who made
marvellous Underground Music;" Mrs.
Muller has paper on the dolls of the
world; bright short stories; Hugh S.
Hart contributes to Wide Audke Athlet-
scs, Golf: the Coming Came" the poet
ry of the number is from Celia Thax-
ter, Marion Ames Taggart, Sallie Mar
garet O'Malley, and Price Collier. A
delightful account of delightful boy
is Louise Imogen Guiney's sketch OF
Hartley Coleridge, Ten Years Old,
illustrated by Wilkes portrait.
Price 90 cents number, 80. 40 a year
On sale at news stands or sent postpaid
on receipt of price, by d. Lothrop Com
pity, Publishers, Boston.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

best. The cultivation is simple. The
blossoms when fertilized turn down,
pierce the ground where the pods
form and ripen. The soil should be
rich, sandy and plowed not more than
three inches deep.
The following is the mode of cultiva-
ton and harvesting.
When all danger of frost is over, the
soil is bedded up and prepared, as for
tobacco, leaving only slight furrow-
mark between the rows. In the center
of each of these beds, in a straight
line, plant two seeds, at distances Of
plants, to fill the places of those that
may be destroyed by cut-worms, etc.
The cultivation is simply to keep
down the weeds, preserving the shape
of the beds until near the time of
blossoming. A narrow cultivator is
then run through the rows, followed
by horse team to earth up the plants
The earth is afterwards leveled to
present fiat hill in which the nuts
are to form. If weeds or grass there
after appear they must be pulled by
hand.
The crop is not harvested until the
vines are touched by frost, for the
longer the vines grow the greater the
number of sound pods, except in the
farther south, where the vines ripen
fully. Hands follow the rows and
loosen the nuts with pronged hoes or
f1at-tined forks. They are followed by
others, who pull the vines, shake the
earth from them and leave them turned
to the sun to dry. In dry weather
they will be sufficiently cured for
shocking The shocking is done
somewhat after the manner employed
for beans; or they may be finally cured
as beans sometimes are on scaffolds
under sheds.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
CONTINUOUS MIXERS.
A Habit in Cows That Needs Judicious
Development.

Development.
The continuous milking habit in
cows should be developed as far as pos
sible. 1t is not source of disease and
impoverished condition of the young,
as many suppose-such instances are
more often the result of improper sup
ply of the COW with foods that lily sus-
tain all parts of the system. If the
COW is we'll fed, not starved to reduced
condition, as is often the case the few
weeks preceding calving, there is no
possible danger of milking a COW up to
within a few weeks, even days, of her
full time. 1t requires more food at this
period to sustain the COW and embryo,
but if the milking period can be
prolonged for sixty or ninety days be-
yond the usual milking period of aver
age cows, the returns will amply JUS
tify this outlay. That a COW nee DIS six
weeks of rest before calving may be
desirable, as the "freshening" may be
a great aid in bringing out udder de-
velopment While we may object,
with some force, that continuous milk
ing in some cases be injurious, yet it is
only by having COWS that have long
and profitable milking period that we
can expect to extend as we would wish
the milking periods of the cows Co be
born in the near future, for we must
rely upon heredity quite as much as
feed and handling to fully succeed
N V Trihune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
ANCIENT PLAYING CARDS.
The Curiosities Exhibited In o Collec ton
In New York.


In New York.
There is said to be on exhibition in
the Dore gallery at the Carnegie Music
hall, New York. a pack of antique play
ing cards that probably antedate the
discovery of America, and Interestingly
illustrate the antiquity of card playing.
There are seventy-eight cards in the
pack, which was the number included
In Venetian packs of the fifteenth CEN
fury, when the playing card was first
introduced into Europe.
The pack is divided into two series.
one depicting emblematically the vari-
GUS conditions and vicissitudes of
human life, and the other marked with
numerals. The emblematic cards are
picturesque in the extreme. There are
twenty-five of them in all and they in
clude representations of "the day of
judgment" death" 1.-The world" the
devil, -" Justice, magic" and the like.
Many of the designs are very odd.
Thus, death" is represented by a
grinning skeleton armed with a
scythe, bending over corpse which
lies PROSTATE on the ground. One card
depicts a knave hanging by the heel
from the limb of tree. Love is
shown by a young man with n maid
and matron on either side and blind
folded cupid with drawn bow lowering
over him. A woman tearing a lions
jaws asunder in real Samsonian style
Is supposed to be representative of
power"
An odd representation Of wheel Of
fortune forms the subject for one of
the cards and quaint idea of the
tower of Babel for another The real
symbolism OF some of the cards is diff
cult to imagine. Among these are a
picture of dogs baying at the moon,
with huge crab or lobster below, AMI
another of q woman making her toilet
on the bank of stream, while huge
stars give light from above. The am
blematic meaning of Jupiter percsed
on an eagle and brandishing thunder
bolts, is not SO hard to guess at These
symbolic cards are numbered in Roman
numerals in margin above the design.
The fifty-six cards which form tie
second series included in the set are
divided into four suits of fourteen each.
Each suit has four court Tor rather
coat cards-the king, queen, chevalier
and valet-the ten point cards being
numbered from lone" to ten" as in
the decks of the present day.-New
Orleans Picavune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
A CURIOUS OLD CHERRY TREE.

different from younger growths of the
same species that one can scarcely rec
ogniZe them. Many other curious and
interesting forms are seen, such as the
old hedge-rows formed by looping oak
trees and allowing the stumps to sprout
up only to be again Topped, until great
stumps, sometimes five or six feet in
diameter, are formed parallel with the
line, one or two at right angles with it,
and exhibiting all sorts of picturesque
forms as a result Of mutilation and
natural grating. Again, the earlier
settlers planted sprouts of some of
our smaller growing native cherries and
grated sweet cherries on them. and the
graft has outgrown the stock to such
an extent as to form a vegetable enor-
nifty. We give view of one of these
trees, it being one of a dozen similar
ones about a house in Mattituck.-W.
w. Tracy. in American GARDENING.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
Do WASPS REASON?
Interesting Observations Made by
Missouri Gentleman.
Does Instinct or Intelligence Make In
sects Skillful In Providence and
Foresight-The Opinion of an
Eminent Scientist.

Mr.. Mivart, the great naturalist, in
an article in the Cosmopolitan Maya
zine. notes that certain sand wasp of
his island, after she had concealed her
nest by covering. was able to return to
it very directly; but if it were uncov-
cred for her by some one else, she was
not able to recognize it at all. She
seemed to have no conception of it by
sight. Apropos of this, a subsequent
observation on our common mud wasp
may not be uninteresting.
Over one of my parlor windows the
Slated blinds are almost constantly
closed. Behind these l heard the in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
CURIOUS CHERRY TREE.

A Remarkable Freak Propagated In .
Long Island Orchard.
Many of the farms on the eastern end
of Long Island have been in cultivation
for from $50 to $50 years, and,as result,
one often sees there specimens OF our
common shrubs and trees to which age
has given an expression SO distinct and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

IT is a great thing for young man to get
out little and come in contact with other
people and see how they live. B. f. Johnson
Il Co, Richmond. Va, are giving many
young men a chance to do this, and at the
same time to put money in bank rapidly.
Try them and see.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

To be nervous. Starting at the slightest
sound, uneasiness by day aud fitful slumber
by night, unreasonable apprehensons, odd
sensations, constant restlessness-these are
among its diabolical symptoms. Dyspepsia
Is the fountain head Remove this with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and the food
is assimilated, the body nourished, the sleep
grows tranquil, nervousness vamoses. The
Bitters subdues malaria. constipation, liver
complaint and kidney affections.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
FARM AND GARDEN.
PEANUT CULTURE.
Not Very Profitable Crop North of the
Tennessee Latitude.

MOI very FronLaDIe Crop North OF the
Tennessee Latitude.
Mr.. Abner II. Miller writes the Prai-
rie Farmer, asking if peanuts can be
raised in eastern Iowa, for mode of
cultivation, kind of soil and variety to
plant
In reply, we say, as we have repeat
edly stated, that the peanut-gouber
or pindar, as it is called in the south
botanically known as Arachis hypo-
coca, is not profitable crop north of
the latitude of Tennessee, but is some
times grown as garden curiosity, and
in warm seasons will ripen the nuts
AS to variety, fresh nuts of the Ten
nessee variety such as are sold every
where, are, all things considered, the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

DRoPsY Is dread disease, but it has lost
its terrors to those who know that II. Ii.
Green & Sons, the Dropsy Specialists OF
Atlanta, Georgia, treat 1t with such great
success. Write them for pamphlet giving
full information.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

THE Public Awards the Palm to Haes
Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO, .,

Lucas COUNTY,
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he Is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Che.
NEY u Co, doing business in the City Of
Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE Hun
DRIED DOLLARS for each and every case OF
CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use Of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed IN my
presence, this 9th day of December, A 1885.
- A. W. GLEASON,
lshAhJ Notary Public.
49,
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
"a Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

" beauty draws US by single hair wha,
pull the haircloth skirt will have.-Phila-
delphin Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

TRAVEL may broaden the mind; but, oh
how it flattens the pocketbook!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

"WoRKIN' now, Peter" "Naw, l got
job in dc city ha.l."-Buffalo Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

B. F. ALLEN Co., 1866 Canal St, NewYork,
are sole agents in the United States for
Beechams Pills. 25 cents box
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

IT may have its drawbacks, but the mutes
mode Of conversing 10 certainly handy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

"THEY ought to have d little girl show as
well chicken show" said Mollie. 81
dess there's lots of people who'd like to see
me. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

THE greatest circulating medium Is the
| yummer.-Galveston News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27

THE assertion that woman can't keep O
secret is disproved by the way a spipstey
holds her age.-Boston Courier
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
1t Is q Horrid Nuisance

Iris always the fall season with the anna
teur hicYclistR
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A. W. GLEASON,
49,.

Sworn to before me and subscribed IN my
nresence. this 9th day of December, "A D 1885
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-31

No one denies that pure whiskey is
one of the best medicinal agents known
to the human race, but, like all valuable
articles, it is difficult to obtain. Fore
most among the houses who handle pure
whiskies is that of Max Klein, Of Allie
gheny, Pa, His Silver Age and Du.
quesne Ryo Whiskies have achieved a
reputation second to none for purity and
general excellence. They are cold by all
the principal hotels, drug stores and by
dealers generally ut 81 50 and 81 % per
quart respectively. Write for catalogue
and price list OF all kinds Of liquors,
mailed free, to MAX KLEIN.
81 Federal St.. Allegheny, Pa
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-31

creature Of whom Tor rather OF which,
the good Lord in His great mercy to
humanity allows but few to exist on
earth at one time. why no allows any
to live is a question for the theologians)
and this unknown assassin Of character
will probably never do anything to
make the world better until the final
act Of getting out Of it.
Mrs, kenha has not yet taken the
office, but has called several times this
week, and does not appear to be in de-
spaiE Whenever she is ready to re-
ceiVe it, the office will DO turned over to
her, as 1t has been keptin a neat, clean,
well organized condition, with q corps
OF excellent well trained and efficient
clerks and carriers, but not enough
clerks to do the business OF the Office
without oyerworking them.
trust the Washington Post, aud such
other papers as have given space to the
vile aud slanderous article, will also
give space to this, or at least say some
thing to right the wrong they have
done in publishing the same,
II, O. McWHoRTER, Postmaster,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-31
TnE BIvoUAo OF THE DEAD.

Flnt and finest Of the Decoration Day poem
TheO O'lIuTu'S "bivOuuC OF the Dead"
u been read In connection with Memorial Hel
ices thousands oi times and Il bids fair 50 last
lng as the memory OF the great war lIst4I' II
J follows;
The muIlled dFum's roll has beat
The soldiers last tltlo;
No more on llfe's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few,
On Fumes eternal camping ground
Their silent teurs urG spTeAd
Aud Glory guards, with solemn round
Tue hlvou0e Of the dead
No rumor OF the foes advance
Now HWells upon the wind;
No troubled thought NJ midnight hGunts
OF loved ones left behindi
No vision Of the mOTTOw's strife
The warriors dream alaruls,
No braying horn or screaming tite
Al dawn shall call to arms.
Their shiyered swords are red with rust
Their plumed heads gre b0Wedi
Their naughty banner tTpled IN dust,
IL now their mHTtiul shrOud;
And Plenteons funeral tears have washed
Tho red stains from each browi
And tho proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now,
The ueighlng troop the flashing blade,
The bugle stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful CannOnade,
The din and shout are passed.
Nor wlss Wild noto, nor glory's peal,
Shall Thrill with hoTce delight
Those breasts that neYGrnore may teGl
The rapture Of the light
Like the fierce Northern Hurricane
That sweeps the great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Comes down the serried foo.
WhOheard the thunder OF the tray
Break O'0r the field beneath,
Knew well tho wAtChwOrd Of that day
Was, Victory or death.
Pull many Eorthers breath has swept
Ger AngoStura's plain,
And long the plying sky has wept
Above It's mouldcred slain.
The ravens scream or eagles flight
Or shepherds penslve lay,
Alone aWakcs the solemn helghtA
That fr0Wued upon the fnlY
Thus meath their parent turf they rest,
Fur from the CORY field,
Borne to Spartan mothers breast
On many d bloody shield,
The sunshine Of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them hero,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
Tho hero's sepulchre'
Rest on, cmbalmed and saluted dead;
Dear us the blood y0guvo,
No impious foolstep here shall tread
The heritage OF your grave,
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record Keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where ValOr proudly sleeps.
Your marble mInsrel's yoIceIoss stone
In deathless song shall tell
When many avaaIshed year hath flown,
The story OF how 20 fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winters blight
Nor Times remOrSelGss doom,
Can dim one ray OF holy light
That gilds your glorious tomb.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-31
RE1lGloN AND CRIMINALS,


A Prison Able Gives His Experience of
Men Who Were GulllOtlned.
PARIS, May 80.-The Able Faurc, OK
chaplain OF Roquette, from which post
he was removed because he did not
please the free thinking governor, is
about to publish his memoirs, which
promises to be interesting from many
points Of view, He has obtained the
consent OF the archbishop Of Paris, who,
IN the presence OF o number Of CONVEX
sions made among the criminals con-
demped to death, considers that "the
book will DO useful to the interests Of
religion, the Statutory influence and
consoling power OF which it will fully
demonstrate" The able, who is one OF
the we'll known figures of Paris, was
born at Clermont- Ferrand in 1888, and
was ordained priestin 1857, While at
La Roquette, where no ofiiciated for
many years, he conducted no fewer than
nineteen convicts to the guillotine,
among whom were several OF the most
remarkable criminals OF modern days,
such as PranzIni, Gamahut, FEedo and
Eyraud. With tho exception OF three
or four, all died with excellent senti.
ments; ono = jeantroux - even went
through the ceremony Of confirmation
six days before he was executed.
Prado and Eyraud were tho most Gym
ical. The latter, while he was being
prepared for the guilotine, said;
Don't bother me about religion; tell
my wife and daughter to do the best
they can; that is all l wish to say"
Pranzini wrote at the last moment:
"The consciousness OF my innocence in.
spires me with the desire to have re-
course to your functions in order to
console myself for what is called the
Justice OF man" Duval, the anarchist,
said he should like to shake somebody's
hand before no died, and that was all,
but his sentence was committed, and he
then, says the able, laughed at me,
AS q rule, tho convicts do not protest
their innocence, neither do they nc;
knowledge their guilt When pushed
into O corner and hard up for an an
swer they get out Of their dilemma by
saying, ''1f you don't mind, Monsieur
PAbbe, we Will change the subject
As regards the mysterious Prado,
whose identity was never established,
the able knows no more than anybody
else. All he could get out OF him was:
~ was born in Madrid. After finishing
my studios at the Jesuit College Of Bor.
deaux entered the Polytechnique
School. then fought on the side of
the CQrliata, That ia all l can tell you T;
the rest ! keep to myself" And he
died with his family secret. The able
is convinced that the majority do not
tremble when they see the fatal knife
before them they are electrified" and
appear unconscious. One woman, how.
ever, distinguished herself by skipping
up to the shimmering blade and kiss.
ing It. She had to be dragged away by
brute force and strapped on to the bas.
Guile, being livid with rage Mt tho inter-
ruption OF her osculatory devotion.