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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

An exceptionally favorable opportunity
for visiting the richest and most productive
sections of the west and northwest will be
afforded by the Home-Seekers' low-rate eX-
cursions which have been arranged by the
Northwestern Line. Tickets for these ex-
cursions will be sold on May Sth and 29th, to
points in northwestern Iowa. western Min
nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Man.
itoba, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
Montana and Idaho, and will be good for re-
turn passage within thirty days from date
of sale. Stop-over privileges will beallowed
on going trip in territory to which the
tickets Are sold. For further information,
call on or address Ticket Agents of connect
ing lines. Circulars giving rates and de-
tailed information will be mailed, free, upon
application to w. A. Thrall, General Pas
senger and Ticket Agent, Chicago & North
Western Railway, Chicago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

ground. She races around the light
house half a dozen times as fast as she
can go. Then she rolls over and over
with Tower, her sea dog, and throws
sticks in the water for him to swim
out and get.
Tower is a brown water spaniel,
and he has the record of saving just as
many lives as Maggie numbers years to
her life, so that the little sea girl has a
real hero for a companion and play
mate.
Frequently Maggie's uncle takes her
out in the lifeboat and lets her fish and
play in the water. Sometimes an ex-
citing event occurs. Maggie takes a
hand in great rescue" A bird, sick
or wounded, will hover over the water
or fall in the waves, and then Maggie
and her uncle row out where it is fut-
tering, and pick up the poor little thing,
and carry it to land as tenderly as if
it were human being. When the bird
gets well it is let go again; and that is
another exciting event.
One day last summer Maggie had a
great adventure. She had gone out on
the pier to set free a sea-gull which
had had broken wing. 1t had been
shot at by some sportsman and left to
die on the waves. Maggie had carried
it into the lighthouse and taken care
of it until its wing was strong. Then
as the gull seemed unhappy, she had
resolved to let it go. She freed it just
as fight of gulls swept past. In a
minute it had gone, disappearing with
the others. But only for minute
could the bird keep on it's proud course;
then it few more slowly; gradually it
sank to the surface of the waves.
Quick as thought Maggie united the
boat, and drawing long, sweeping
strokes, she pulled out all alone to the
spot where the bird lay in the water
and brought him back again to the
lighthouse. Now he has become fam
lily pet and never flies very far away.
The hero, Tower, is an excellent
bird dog. But he has an odd trait. If
Maggies uncle shoots ducks or other
birds good for food Tower swims out
and brings them in, taking care that
they do not get away from him. and he
is not always very gentle with them,
either. But let Maggie say: Tower,
there is a poor sick bird out there.
Get him, Tower. Careful! careful"
He will swim out and bring abe
wounded bird as gently to the shore
as if he were the mother bird him
self. He draws his lips over his teeth
until they are soft asSilk.
There are days when Maggie cannot
see beyond the lighthouse. ALI day
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17
weight of the board causes it to fall,
which opens the door.

weight of the board causes it to fall,
which opens the door.
The designer, Mr.. Smith NJ Evans,
Alabama, says that it works well and
Is very satisfactory. In the illustra-
ton. A is the opening for fowls to en-.
ter; B is the hole through which the
staple in the door passes to catch on
the spring catch inside; c is the spring
catch with chain D) attached to the
trap door (E), on which the fowls step
the weight of their bodies drawing
down the catch, which liberates the
staple (H), and the weight of the door
(G) causes it to fall, allowing the fowls
to come out at the opening GAY; is the
spring latch of the catch and f show
hinges. The arrangement is very sim
Pile, and can be applied to any poultry
house. Any person can make the con-
trivance, and it is given here for the
benefit of all who may be interested
Farm and Fireside.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17
THE BEAD PUZZLE.

ally succeed in solving the difficulty
after you have made the puzzle try and
solve it before you read up the explana-
tons.
Take piece of hard wood, an inch
wide and six inches long. At half an
inch from either end make brad-awl
hole. In the middle cut out a small
oval hole. Procure ntwo glass beads,
which must be too large to pass through
the oval hole. Take piece of Irvine
about eighteen inches long, double it
at the middle and pass the loop through
the oval hole, and then pass the two
ENDS of the Irvine through the loop.
Take bead and thread it on one of
the ends of the Irvine, and fasten that
end to one of the brad-awl holes. Do
the same with the other bead and end
of Irvine, and fasten at the opposite
brad-awl hole.
Your puzzle is now complete, and
ought to appear like the diagram. The
puzzle is to get the two beads togeth-
er. This, seeing they are too large to
pass through the oval hole, is not easy.
ExPLANATIoN.-Draw down the CEN
ter loop and pass the right-hand bead
through it toward the oval hole. Then
take the toco strings passing through
the oval hole and draw them toward
yau. The loop will be drawn through
the hole from the opposite side, but it
will now be a double one. Pass the
bead through to the left and let slack.
The bead will now be confined by a
single loop. Pass it through again to
the left. and there you are. To part
the beads again, reverse the order of
procedure.
If you wish to make more compli-
Gated puzzle, you have only to add to
the length of the strip of wood; but, in
making the holes, remember they must
run alternately - beginning with a
bradawl hole, then an oval hole, q
bradawl hole again, and SO on, finish
ing with bradawl hole.
You may form as many "loops'' as
you like, and amuse yourself by get
ting all the beads on any one particu.
lar loop. Or you may astonish your
friends by asking them how many
beads they would like placed on any
particular loop.
You retire to a secluded corner o. the
room, or place your hands under the
table, and 10! the passage" is effected.
Let your friends plainly understand
the beads will not pass through the
oval holes. By the way, if you use a
number of beads, the Irvine must be
continuous, without knots, and care.
fully Topped into each oval hole
Golden DavS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
THE LILAC.

Fhe lilac stood close to EliZabeth's window,
All purple with bloom, while the little maid
spuni
Her stint was long one and she was aweary,
And moaned that she never could get it done.
But wind set stirring the lilac blossoms,
And wonderful sweetness came floating in.
And Elizabeth felt, though she could not have
SAID it,
That a friend had come to her, to help her
spin.
And after that she kept at her spinning.
Gay as bird; for the world had begun
To seem such pleasant, good place for work.
ing,
That she was amazed when her stint was
done.
And the pale-browed little New England
maiden,
Outside Of her lessons, had learned that day,
That the sweetness around us will sweeten
labor,
II we will but let it have its way.
Mary e. Wilkins, in St Nicholas
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17


other hole for ingress to the attic was
left in the floor in the back room.
The roof was sheathed with three
fourths-inch boards, ard a cornice
fitted on caves and gable 1t was then
shingled, and a neat cresting added to
the comb. The back gable was board
ed up with vertical pieces and fitted
with small hinged door. The front
gable was finished by mailing on YER
tical Stats with pointed bottom ends,
made of one-half by three-fourths-inch
pine. A pit was dug one and one-half
by three feet in size and two feet deep,
and lined with boards around the sides.
The back part of the pen was placed
directly over the pit. Grown rabbits
could jump easily from the pit into the
front cage, and the little ones remained
in the cage until too large to get out
through the wires. Rabbits dig down
In the pit and construct their own
breeding places in burrows beneath the
pen. The pen proved to be warm in
winter, cool in summer and well adapt
ed for keeping rabbits. With a long
handled shovel all refuse could be easily
removed from the pit through the trap
door, and the pen never became often
sive. With pair of white rabbits and
their young, the pen was pretty
sight at the back Of the lawn, and
was always attractive to visitors. 1t
was painted with dark red mineral
paint and trimmed with white, which
harmonized well with the bright green
lawn and the dark green foliage of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Agriculturist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17
NICE FOR THE HENS.


Ingenious Contrivapce for Self-Openins
Poultry House.
The illustration is to show contriv-
ance by which the hens let themselves
out of the poultry house in the morn
ing, when they come off the roost. The
house can be shut up at night to pro-
tect against enemies, but the fowls
can come out at any time, so as to per-
nit sleepy poultrymen to slumber
without being compelled to get up and
open the door. The hens will be up
and out early without giving any per-
son annoyance. When the fowls wish
to go out they always resort to some
accustomed place near the door. One
may step on the platform to which the
chain of the spring is attached and her
weight pulls the spring down, the sta
pie is released from the catch and the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY q Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
West q Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
edo. o; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
tcting directly on the blood and mucous
iurfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bot
lie. Sold by all Druggists Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills, 25c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

The jaculator fish, which is found in
the lakes of Java, uses it's mouth as a
squirt-gun, and is good marksman.
If stake or pole is put in the water
with the end projecting three feet
above the surface, and beetle or fly
is placed on top of the pole, the water
will soon be swarming with finny gun
ners. Presently one comes to the sur
face, observes it's prey and measures
its distance. Then it screws it's mouth
into very funny shape, discharges a
stream of water, and knocks the fly or
beetle into the water, where it is
instantly devoured by the successful
shooter, or some of its hungry COM
papiopS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17
THE BEAD PUZZLE.

So Simple in Construction That Any Child
Can Make 1t.
Its construction is simple, the mate
rails not costly and the only tools re-
quired a brad-awl and pocl1etknife.
Its construction is the only simple
thing about it-at least, fancy this is
what those not in the know" will
say. l fear, too, shall have difficult
ty in making myself quite clear over
the puzzle" part.
However, will do my best, though,
l doubt not, many boys would eventu-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17
LIGHTHOUSE MAGGIE.

A Little Girl Who Lives Far Away from
Other Children.
Down in Newark bay, on the coast
of the Atlantic, lives little girl
eleven years old whose entire life has
been spent out at sea. Her name is
Maggie Wood, and her home is the big
stone lighthouse one sees when at
Mariners harbor, Staten Island, or
sailing down the bay
This girl lives away from all other
children; her chief pastime is in
watching the boats pass. and in hear
ing the sounds which come across the
waves. On clear days in summer,
standing out on the stone pier of the
lighthouse, she can hear the children
of the picnic excursions sing as they
go down the bay. In winter she wraps
up warmly and stands as far out as the
rough winds will allow and waves her
apron to the sailors on the boats who
wave reply back. Sometimes they
blow their steam whistles for her, and
sometimes, fo7 they know how she
loves music, they shout sea songs or
blow upon flute.
Every udy Maggie aunU ana uncle,
with whom she lives, see that she has
her regular lessons; she has real school
books which her uncle brings home on
his rare visits to the city. She is not
at all an unlearned child. She draws
and paints a little, and her favorite
work is to sketch the old stone light
house.
AS soon as school hours are over
Maggie puts on her cloak, draws it's
little hood up over her head and hur-
ries out to play upon the pier. She has
100 feet of stone platform for a play
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17
FARM AND GARDEN.
PRETTY RABBIT PEN.
e is Easily Made and Presents an Attrae-
tive Appearance.

&C Is Easily Made and Presents an Attrsso
tive Appearance.
To encourage my boy in learning the
use of tools, designed and helped him
make an ornamental rabbit pen Gig.
y. A box of inch stuff two by four feet
and sixteen inches deep was procured,
the top taken off and and the open part
placed on the ground. Four strips each
one by two inches and four feet long
were nailed to the box, cross strip of
the same size two feet long being
nailed in across the center to complete
the framework of the foundation Gig.
D. A part of one side of the box was
removed and fitted with hinges to be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

Teacher Ito botany class)-After
bean is planted, little shoot appears
above the ground, and this soon bursts
into two leaves. Now, what comes
next?
Bright Boy-The bean-pole. Good
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

Mr.. Staylate-You look charming to-
night.
She (yawning)--Do 1? was expect
ing you to say looked tired.-Brools'
lvn Life
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

He'd always been a man of peace,
He wouldn't harm hare;
But when n dude with cigarette
Blew smoke into his face you bet
He smashed him then and there.
kansas City JournAb
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

The natural enmity to the tax-gath-
erer is said to be especially prevalent
in certain county of Missouri. A
well-to-do German farmer came into
the village of which he is accounted a
resident to pay his taxes. The bill was
handed to him, itemized as follows:
otate taX...... ................... si4. q
county laX... ...... .............-.... I'D
School taxi. ..........- ................ 4.30
Total. .s25. IS
The German scanned it closely for
some moments, and then said stolidly:
81 pays de state tax, pays de county
tax and pays de school tax, but pays
no total tax! l got no total, and l
never is had any. Dat total tax, She is
one fraud'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-17

Mrs PoPLEIGH-"Henry, are you crazyl
Take that mask off. You are frightening
baby so bad he'll not go near you" Mr..
Popleigh (complacently)-''T why put
il on '-Puck
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1894.

The common sense that is ap-
piled to business if applied to poll
tics would soon start the wheels Of
all Industries moving with in
creased celebrity. Congressman
seem endowed with peculiar ideas
as to the proper province of COM
mon sense in matters of legislation,
much in the same way that the old
preachers larded their discourses
with Latin and Greek quotations
to create an impression Of great
learning. This age does not require
any such nonsense. This country
asks horse sense legislation. Such
adaptation of means to end as will
accomplish it, that end the good of
the people.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07

The Houston Post denounces the
report Of the mental backwardness
of Ruth Cleveland as lie origin
ating from the Globe-Democrat.
Can the Post give any authority
for this assertion that the report is
lie? If it can, it is denial that
should not be withheld. There is
not decent newspaper in the coun.
try that would not rejoice in pub
fishing that denial on authority
for there is no one with the com,
mon feelings of humanity that
does not sympathize with the
parents of such child, no matter
what their station, and the more sc
the more honorable their position
in life.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Pueblo, Col, is again inundated.
Chicago Elevator men declare
war on the board Of trade.
Fort Worth wins suit against
Max Elser, obstreperous treasurer.
Miners stone passenger train at
Cambridge, o.
A. B. Chapman jailed at Tyler
for murder Of ]. d. Clark.
Federal officers hear miners
complaints in the Territory.
Hon. John T. Brown is reelected
chief of the Seminoles.
Negro hoodlums jailed for as
saulting Galveston bathers.
Arkansas Republicans will nomi-
nate a full state ticket on the 24th.
German silver commission ends
in wind.
British piety resents Rosebery's
glorification of his racing stud.
Gold reserve steadily decreases {;
present amount, $74,OO0,257.
Cherokee Indians paid over $780,
600 of their money at Tahlequah.
State bank tax repeal voted down
l72 to 102.
Seguin and Stockdale report
high winds and copious showers.
Lanham has strong hopes Of
carrying Williamson county.
Waters are falling in the rivers
OF the great northwest.
Yoakum reports another good
rain, general in that region.
Hayes county reports more rain
and splendid corn crop assured.
Yale will send a team to row
| Oxford.
Crumley, section hand, murdered
at Weimer; no clue or motive.
Deaf and Dumb institute, Austin
closes its most successful session
Miners at McKeesport, Pa, train
cannon on bridges over which
trains must pass.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07

When the sea gives up her dead
then will it be known just what
three cornered agreement was en-
tered into between Hogg and Rea-
gan as to the commissionership, the
senatorship and the governorship.
Till then it is idle to speculate, but
the public will still believe that
there was a deal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07

Texarkana Call declares solemn
ly that the nomination Of Judge
Reagan will be followed by another
split in the Democratic party of
Texas, and the Houston Post as
positively asserts that harmony is
here to stay. Nugent will hold
the stakes on the result and an
nounce it after the convention.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07

There will not be as many gold
bugs in this country in another
decade, and the silver cranks will
be equally reduced in numbers.
The shields that will be held up in
tne National Congress will have a
gold device on one side and a sill
yer one on the other, their motto
"in hoe signo."
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07

That rebuke of the Midway la
dies to Breckenridge is one Of the
severest ever dealt to a Democrat
ic candidate in that state. When a
body of 600 ladies hold themrelves
aloof from one speaker in joint
discussion and then file in to lis
ten to his opponent it cuts to the
quick.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07

Do the courts in Chicago intend
to place a premium on such an
assassination as that of Mayor Car.
ter Harrison 1t would seem SO
from the manner in which they put
off the settlement with Prender.
CAST.
Terrell's mule should take on its
load and amble towards Constan-
tinople. tits in that city of dogs,
dirt and dragomen that it was APP
pointed to find it's provender for
the coming quadrennIal.
Baker will have whole packages
Of tickets on sale for the Salt River
trip, cheap, for cash, on and after
the adjournment of the next state
Democratic convention. Excur-
sion rates low for job lots.
Terrell is doing a servants work
for servants pay in upholding the
administration end of the Texas
Democracy. Are all of the foreign
ministers expected to earn their
salaries that way?
The Democratic congressman
who persistently fought against
the influx of wild cat currency has
a claim upon the consideration of
every creditor in the country. He
is safe that far at least.
Tho Democratic city of Ell Paso
must be hard up for material when
it continues a Republican on its
pay roll, while there are SO many
of the faithful hungry for the
loaves and fishes of office.
Some of the exchanges are cry
ing out for a newspaper with a
soul in it. The demand is fully as
urgent for a newspaper with con-
science in it, not the party con-
science, bnt the individual one.
The movement to abolish the
English House Of hereditary Peers
will not be accomplished this gen.
Grafton. Labouchere will be among
the things that were and are not
before the Lords die out.
That Senate resolution knocks
Lii out of all hopes of restoring
her man Friday to the chief seat
in the Hawaiian synagogue. Lii
will now retire into her native
duskiness and perspiration.
Why is it that the courts make
it easier to defend property rights
than a good name. There is no
comparison as to the greater value
of the latter to the average man or
woman. Great country.
Sherman Register is of the opin-
ion that very little missionary
work in that county would give it
to Lanham without a struggle.
There are more counties tarred
with the same extract of pine.
That Brownsville road is making
a still hunt for that 100000. 1t is
not wise to be too modest.
Reagan's admirers deny that he
has the Populist smallpox, he only
has the varioloid.
Before you catch your bird build
your cage. Build that Tourist
hotel ; then catch your tourists.
Reverend Caves Confederate rec.
ord seems to be all right, and it is
a pity that the same cannot be said
for his common sense.
Judge Reagan has entered the
race against harmony, so say the
anti-Reagan papers. Wait and
see.