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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
A PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

Let's peep behind the curtains,
When evening lamps are lit.
And play the spy in happy homes
just for little bit:
Perhaps We'll be astonished
At what we see at night.
Discover how some great men act
When out of public sight.
Who is this very pOrtly man.
Crouched down behind chair:
Why that's a grave and learned Judge
Pretending he's a bear;
He has unbent his dignity
For his grandchildren two,
Who play grandpa is in cage,
And they are at the Zoo"
And. as we go the merry rounds.
Another peep indoors
Reveals well-known editor
A-crawling on "all-fours,'
While on his back "a laughing boy
Sits CALAMITY astride,
For papa makes a famous horse
Around the park to ride.
Here, in this room, man of trade,
In business hours though gruff,
With handkerchief tied DER his eyes,
Gropes round in blind mans bun;
On tiptoe light two fairy girls
And one small, giggling boy
Are lodging fathers Outstretched arms
In ecstasies of JOY.
But not alone in great mems homes,
Meath humble roofs as we'll,
In peeping here and there we find
A riotOus pell-mell
For papa, after Supper's Ger
Though tired in Drawn and brain.
Yields to his youngsters and becomes
A romping boy again.
All, happy men, whose hearts keep young
Thrice happy children they
Whose fathers will at eventide
Join in their childish play:
And though he may be rich in store,
And high in his estate
Who has no youthful sympathies
Is never truly great.
p. c. FoSsett, in Golden Days.
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rushed away as they heard a smothered
! sob.
Kate, were too selfish to live, said
Helen.
We're blind idiots, calculated Kate.
"What shall we do to make up for
ito asked Helen.
"Ill tell you what let's do said
Kate
Well send her to the seishore this
summer with that money, What do
You say?'
That's just the thing" said Helen.
They went out into the garden and
described the scene to Mrs ssasaha.m.
who was surprised, and yet she had
| fea red it all the time. 1t is needless to
say that she appreciated their gener-
Gus impulse and said that Mrs. Henrie
was going the first of June and would
| gladly take Bess in her care.
And so they planned it all out before
they told Bess, and when they did, she
! fatty refused
But the arrangements are all made
and you must GO said Helen. eXult-
ingly.
< wv
made you do it." cried Bess.
We'll tell you if you will forgive us
and accept this proposition, said Kate.
well, last Friday. we stood out there
in the hall and heard you and Paul
talking, and at last we saw ourselves
in a new light and want now to show
you that we are not all selfshness.
VIII you forgive the listening and ac-
cept this proposal?"
Bess readily forgave them and after
some hesitation agreed to go. She was
| delighted at the thought of having
Mrs. Hernie for companion.
The month of May passed quickly
The anticipation of the trip frightened
| Bess pale face. for she was going to
get well for Pauls sake, and she be-
gan before hand.
June came at last and little sister,
started off looking better than ever be-
fore.
Her mother and sisters could hardly
wait for letter to know how she got
along. One came in two days, how
ever, saying that she stood the trip
much better than she had expected.
And SO the days passed into weeks.
| Mrs. Henrie wrote most encouraging
! ly, saying that their little girl was
really growing strong, could now take
quite long walks, and, if all went
well, could soon go bathing.
Paul went down once to7s-v-a1 fn
ca me back with such a CLOWN ac-
count that they all knelt around her
| chair and thanked God for this bless
| ing.
| One morning IN September the train
| stopped at -, and Mrs. Henrie and
Bess stepped out or the platform.
| There was no one 20 meet them except
| a liveryman with two ponies They
had sent him word and he brought
! Dainty" and "Dimple," the best he
mad. The ladies came from the dress
ing room of the depot dressed in dark
blue riding habits. Bess wore iaunty
cap and but few would have recog-
nized the thin, pale girl of three
months before, as she rode towards
! home at brisk canter
The establishment of her mother and
sisters can scarcely be imagined.
"You See" said Mrs. Henrie gaily,
1--WE brought you new daughter"
She certainly had for Bess ran up
the steps and embraced them all again
and again, and repeatedly thanked
her sisters for her restored health.
| Bess and Paul were married on
Christmas eve, 1898, and now live a
few blocks from her mother. Their
gratitude is unbounded and Kate and
Helen will never regret the invest
ment they made.-Jane Ray, in RaIn S
Born.
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blown itself out. Mrs. Barholm anc
the girls gathered around the open
fire one evening. The wind was
bowling around the house. Laborers
were hurrying home with head and
shoulders bent against the wind.
WAS there no letter for me this
morning." asked Mrs. Barholm
"Oh, forgot to tell you that they
changed the time yesterday and he
comes in the evening now" said Kate.
There he is now; ! hear the click OF
the gate" and Helen ran to the door
as she spoke.
The carrier handed her a bundle of
papers and letters, which she dis
tributed.
well! well! WE'LL" said Bess as she
opened her letter, Paul will be home
tomorrow. This letter has been de-
layed a week. He says that arrange
ments have been made for him to be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
LvNowwHERE WAS A"
q mad Conclusive Evidence
nav Wasn't in New YORK. 4ook

q Conclusive Evlder
wa" ia+eresting incident TOOK Ok
pffitt the EnI,e to a ship at the
Rno1 ow at'ae ard has been s. oping
At navy W yb he came there no
tNqthe humanity OF a n an H He at
IN. omS.eached the hotel at an har, an6
e encse@' a break for the par
nn afGd to q be assisted to oea. down
Alto s W sleep he came S;S ~o face
and aplal p%A1 the clerk behind 'n ne
the nexfrcnes and the brilliantly
.t1 ,'a COR ~ was full OF peeps %is face,
ana he appre ed the clerk IN a + n91 he
tatlng name I'd did not wanS ~ " vas
overheard ENTITY in what ne ts, m@e
going to say. I clerk good natu ret
ly stood over ne the music SO VH" ae
the sound OF the Dung officer 'o.O oa
would be drowned but even he was
startled when the m, said hoarsely'
What town am ia,,
The clerk looked at I'm sharply, anu
thought at first that he officer wa.
guying him. Accordingly he answered
| in a nOn-committal way: -.
"What town do you thinkyou are mr.
Again the puzzled look swept over
the face of the young officer, and nc
said in an uncertain manner:
81 haven't the slightest idea"
The clerk saw his eye rowing arc dne
the room as though in search of IA
miliar objects, and then seeing that
the fellow was really in the dark SAID
kindly:
Where were you last?"
The last place | remember is New
York, . said the lost one.
"How do you know you are not il
New York now?"
For an answer the man went down
in his pocket and pulled out a roll O.
bills. Then he said:
Il have had whole lot of drinks.
have had several cab rides and Turkish
| bath, not to speak of a couple of meals
and | still have that much money left
This isn't New York"
This was said in such positive man
ner and the joke was so funny that the
clerk relented and told him where he
was and the officer at once set off tc
find the day and time O day.-Wash
'ugton Times.
UninteIligible.
Two Scotch ladies of Stranraer were
one day returning from church, wher
they found the town hall placardeC
with news of the victories in Spain.
rs it no surpreesin', Kirstie,' sai6
sne, that the Breetish aye beat the
French in battle?"
Not in the least, Maggie" was the
reply. 'Dinna We see that the Breetish
aye pray before gaun into battle?"
But Gamma the French pray, too?7
"An' wha'd understand them, if they
dido was the contemptuous response.
"JaLbering bodies!''-Youth's Compan.
ion.
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The BLACK Death.

In England, during its first and
most dreadful visitation in 1889, 1t
was noticed that it carried off an
enormous number of the laborers in
the country villages, the poor and
the workmen in the towns, the monks
and nuns and friars, that is, all that
portion Of the population that were
ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-nurtured,
or, like those in the religious houses,
lived habitually upon an insufficient
diet, among whom the practice of
asceticism In various forms tended to
weakening Of their stamina and
their vital power.
On the other hand, the mortality
among the clergy was far in excess OF
that among any other class, and this
can be attributed only to their noble
self-sacriflce In the discharge OF their
ministerial duties among their par
ishioners. Breathing day and night
the pestilential air, working heroic
ally among the people in every stage
Of the disease, comforting the dying,
and burying the dead in the huge
pits that were dug to contain the
putrid corpses, the priests dropped by
thousands into the same graves In
which they had helped to lay their
people; and, before the year was out,
the supply Of clergy began to fall
short very seriously all over the land.
At Florence, Boccaccio tells us, at
became necessary to dig trenches,
into which the bodies were put by
hundreds, laid in rows, as goods
packed In ship; a little earth was
cast upon each successive layer until
the pit were filled to the top" At
Avignon, several almost as soon as
they were seized with the sickness,
@were carried of to the pit and
buried. And In this way many were
buried alive" At Vienna, -the dead
were buried In trenches. each Of
which, according to one chronicler,
contained some 5000 corpses." In
London, Sir Walter Nanny provided
q new cemetery, more than thirteen
acres In extent, ain respect of the
danger that might befall In this time
Of 80 great plague aud infection
The Athen@um-
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fore them. Tens OF thousands Of
them hope to become merchSnts,
when they have no aptitude what
ever for commercial affairs. and are
doomed to lives of bitter toll and
grinding poverty. This ought not to
be. Everybody In America is justly
entitled to a trade, and be ought to
have the chance to master one. Many
SONS of poor parents and many or
phan boys are compelled to forego
the inestimable benefits of appren-
ticeship, and these ought to be as
sisted by wise philanthropy; but very
many more fail to improve the great
opportunity OF becoming skilled
workers, and so drift into the labor
ing army, to become helpless victims
of poverty all their lives. Boys In
town or country, learn a trade. 1t
will be your surest and best friend
through life. Parents, In whatever
else you come short, don't fail to see
to this matter. You will be insuring
the happiness and comfort of your
sons, the welfare of those who come
after them, and discharging solemn
duty you owe to society and the
country. Farm and Fireside.
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COLOR Bearer Kendall is Dead.

Oscar Kendall, who died at Battle
Creek Wednesday night. was mem
Der OF the Twenty-second Michigan in
fantry. Pontiac young ladies presented
the boys with a dag. At the battle of
Chickamauga five color-bearers were
killed and several wounded, and the
beloved flag fell to the ground. "Pick
up the flag" yelled Col. La Favour.
Kendall, q young lad from Port HUI
ron, sprang forward, seized the colors
and planted them firmly in the front
and would not bulge, although bullets
whistled all about him. Finally twenty
muskets were pc inted at his heart, but
even then young Kendall did not give
in till his colonel ordered him to do SO.
The flag was lost sight of till ten years
ago, when the government took hand,
located the colors and ordered them
restored to the Twenty-second regi-
ment. Kendall was to carry them at
the coming reunion.
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ANOTHER testimony to the ener-
waiting and weakening effects OF
luxury has been furnished by the
undertakers who have been holding
convention in Chicago. The
funeral directors, like most other
people, complain of the dullness OF
trade. Not only are cheaper coffins
bought and less expensive funerals
ordered, but fewer people are dying
than In good times. Being philoso-
phical from the very nature of their
calling, the mortuary experts have
figured out that the decreased death
rate Is due to the fact that the peo-
pie, having less money to spend,
don't stuff themselves with indi-
gestible food or indulge in other un-
healthful luxuries. That is to say,
they are getting closer to primitive
nature, and are healthier and hap.
pier in consequence. Thus there are,
1t seems, relieving features in the
hard times as well as in most other
misfortunes.
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woman in the world. Out of all the
members of her household she alone
knows just how to manage her vener-
able husband, who in recent years
has occasionally manifested a dis
position to indulge in what would be
regarded as tantrums in less dis
tinguished men. On one occasion re-
Gently leading London journalist,
while dining with the Gladstones,
got into heated argument with the
sage of Hawarden over some question
of public policy. While the discus
sion was at its stormiest servant
quietly slipped card into the hand
of the daring newspaper man. On 1t
were the words written in Mrs. Glad
stones large, angular hand: "We
never contradict Mr.. Gladstone"
The visitor then for the first time
noticed that the grand old man wore
a flushed and excited look. He at
once took the hint, and after feebly
contesting the point for a few
moments longer confessed himself
worsted and peace was restored.
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THE latest fashion, in burglaries is

THE latest fashion, in burglaries Is
worthy the romance of the border.
Nothing neater was ever done In a
forest or on Robin Hoods highways
than the job performed in Chicago by
a party of gentlemen thieves who
rang door bell, politely entered the
house when the door was opened,
softly closed the door and then pro-
ceeded to business. While one cor
raled the family in the parlor under
cooked revolver, the Others ran
sacked the house. A neighbor, who
happened to ring the bell untimely,
was not permitted, Of course, to re-
ceive any response, and went disap-
pointed away, believing the family
not to be at home. They were not
"at home" at that particular time,
owing to circumstances over which
they had no control. If this fashion
of burglary is to persist, it will be
necessary to request intending callers
kindly to send their cards up by a
string from the gateway to an attic
window before doors may be prudent
ly opened.
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laid hands on Africa, and in the in
terim she has acquired an area of
considerably over 1000, 900 square
miles.
The kingdom Of Uganda is perhaps
the most advanced of all the native
African States. The country is very
fertile and lies to the west and north
Of Lake Victoria Nyanza The pop
ulation is estimated at nearly 5,000,-
600.
AS gunsmiths, carpenters, boat
builders and blacksmiths the peo-
ple-the Wa-Ganda-excel,a and they
have passionate desire for all USE
full knowledge. They have quick,
sharp minds, delight in argument,
are easily excited and are very brave.
Their king is Mwanga, who succeed
ed McTesa, whom Stanley visited
during his African explorations.
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Michlg.n Life Companies Fare weil.

Y
State Insurance Commissioner Gid
ilings issued the second part of his an
nual report for 1883, which shows the
volume OF life, caualty and fraternal
insurance business in Michigan. There
are thirty-seven regular or level pre-
MUM life companies doing business in
the State. and during the year 1853
they transacted a profitable business.
Policies amounting to s2a, a,Ue5, 24S wei Q
issued, premiums were received to the
amount of SI,0i4,312. The amount OF
the policies in force at the close OF the
year we're Sll9,941 ,568. In each OF
these items there was a healthful in
CT ease over the business of 1892. The
losses incurred amounted to $l.2I9, ,9p3,
or about $250,C less than were in
Cured in 1892. There was an increase
in the number of policies in force Of
l49,S05. Nineteen casualty companies
and thirty-two fraternal beneficiary
associations are doing busine in the
State. The receipts of the insurance
departm from taxes, fees and retail
iatory charges were S2l2,O4O, and the
expenses 81, $50.
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WITH settled mild weather the

WITH settled mild weather the sea-
son of outdoor sports has fairly
opened, and it is pleasing to note
that healthful athletics are more pop
ular than ever before. In this coun-
try we have not yet reached that
stage Of devotion to sport which the
English carry almost to the point of
absurdity, but we have discovered
that business and money-getting are
not the only objects in life, and there
is a general movement in favor of
those sports which combine amuse-
ment and the improvement of wind
and limb. Over all the country the
athletes are at work-or at play.
The baseball clubs, amateur and
professional, are racing for the
various pennants. The boulevards
and the country roads are dotted
with enthusiastic wheelmen, spin
ming along with easy grace or
falling into the fences, according as
they are experts or novices. The
oarsmen are out in their shells, the
sprinters are limbering up their win
ter-bound muscles, the jumpers are
trying to add an inch to their last
years records, and the boxers are
taking their usual exercise by die
tating sweeping challenges to their
private secretaries. The world of
sport is beginning to hum around
with a swift, steady motion, and all
its Inhabitants are happier, healthier
and better for 1t.
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THE foreign world is much excit,

THE foreign world is much excited
over speech recently made by M
Berthelot at the banquet of the Syn
dicate Chamber of Commercial Prod
uct Manufacturers, in Paris In his
address the well-known chemist pre-
dicted that a century hence such
changes will be effected in man, and
the world which he fnhabits, by the
utilization of the heat of the sun and
the central heat of the globe, that
the coming man will enjoy virtual
millennium. Such sad things as too
little food or too much drink will be
unknown; man will live on waters
applied to the tongue once a day, and
he will be too happy to intoxicate
himself. There will be no need for
factories, smoky chimneys, the
slaughter of animals or the growing
of vegetables. The coming man will
have a grand, and, above all, an easy
and economical life.
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that saIbif6s pays-uot the player,
but the man who furnishes the player
with abundant opportunities to lose
his money. Those profits Of four and
q half millions mean the wreck Of
many q fortune, the waste of hard
earned money, the loss Of self re-
spect, the end of many life. Sui
eide has followed many a nights
play at the tables Of Monaco until
now every effort Is made to suppress
the news when an unlucky gambler
puts bullet through his brain. Yet
the playing goes on, and the last re-
port from there states that the tables
were never better patronized than
they are to-day.
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Pecord of the Week.

THE old Jail at Hastings is to be re-
placed by new brick residence.
THE Ironwood, Escanaba, Champion
and Negaunee schools have been placed
on the university list
JAMES MARSHALL, an insurance
agent of jackson, was drowned at Jcl-
let, Ill. His tody was recovered.
THE Pay City Council has provided
free vaccination for all those unable to
pay for it and taken steps for rel airing
the pest-house.
HARDLY had the Chaplin mine re-
sumed operations at Iron Mountain
when additional applications for saloon
licenses began to pour in.
THE Nuaka Lumber Co., OF Grand
Rapids has sold 100, ,C00,010 feet of
standing timber on the borders of
Tenne ssee and North Carolina to Nor
ton, White q Co., OF Chicago. The
price paid was $175,CC0.
ANN ARBoR is having a street car
problem to deal with. The cars were
all burned few months ago, and the
stockholders refuse to restore them
aud operate the road. The bondhold-
ers threaten to take possession.
AT Flint, lightning struck the cupola
of the Walker school building, and Sc
verely shocked the janitor and the pu-
pills who were standing near the con-
ductor down which the fiery fluid de-
scended. The cupola burned, end the
rooms In the building were flooded.
The loss is $500, fully covered by in
surance.
A JUDGMENT for 81, $40 has beon en-
tered against George Washington, who
was postmaster OF Bay City during
legged to have been appropriated ille-
ssyi Was USED in making IMPROVEMENTS sS VEN % IL
postofice service, which he supposed
the government would allow.
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SHEPHERDS ON Stills.
How tho Frenchmen In the Sandy "Landes'
Tend Their F1ocls.

How tho Frenchmen In the Sandy "Landes'
Tend Their F1ocl<s.
On the barren, sandy "Landes" in
the south of France the sheep and
pigs do not live in clover, nor does
the shepherd fare luxuriously. The
people are full of queer notions. They
assert that potatoes cause apoplexy,
that milk is unhealthy, that wheat
bread spoils the stomach, and that
onions, garlic and rye bread a week
old in their country is the best and
most healthy diet. The shepherds
walk on stills, eat on stills, and If
they do not sleep on stills they rest on
stills for hours together by means of
q silt rest. This is long, stilt-like
stick, having crescentric curve at
the top to flt the back. Thus with
the stills stretched out to right and
left, and this stick in the rear, they
are well braced. The stilt- walkers
manage to go through the deep and
shifting sands at the rate of six and
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Residential Hotel Life.

Fifty years ago residential hotel
life was comparatively unknown,
says the Hotel Gazette. Servants
abounded, rents were reasonable, DO
litical bosses gave kindly treatment
to taxpayers, and housekeeping was
la mode. Hotel life half a century
ago belonged to the tourist, the Wis
liant and the bachelor who loved to
take "mine ease In mine own inn"
Electric bells In hotels were as un-
known as electric lights. He who
has slept In New York's luxurious
hotel temples Of to-day, who has pat
ronized hostelries In the British.
French and German capitals, and
even battled with Egyptian fleas in
the celebrated hotel at Cairo, and
who has partaken of hotel hospitality
In many other American cities, can
sympathize heartily with the usually
apathetic Briton who recently de-
clared that even the second-rate
hotels Of New York surpass in COM,
fort and menage any others in the
world.
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magnet weighs two pounds three and
q half ounces and will sustain more
than its weight.
The magnet was brought to Amer
lea about ITS by DR.. John Francis
Vacher, French physician who was
educated at the college Of Montpelier.
He joined one OF the American regi-
ments as surgeon, and served for
some time. He was a member Of the
Cincinnati, and is buried in St. Paul's
churchyard, in New York. 1t has
been the plaything for his and his
descendants children for over 100
years, and its survival shows its good
construction. 1t Is now in the pos
session of the family Of the late Hon.
Robert Gilchrist.
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Furious storms.

Throughout the whole State there
have been fre 1uent and violent storms,
which have done great damage to farm
property and crops. During a partic-
ularly vicious storm at Martin, a local
correspondent says: Men in their 7U's
and SOS dropped to their knees with
cautious rayers, believing the day of
Judgment had come. Hail broke in
windows. pieces flying about their
heads, driving them to the cellars.
Floods of rain fell, filling cellars in the
lower parts of the town; in fact, not a
dry family could be found in the town
this morning. Crops are completely
driven into the eartn, fruit is riddled
as if shot to pieces, and hailstones
measuring nine inches in circum'er-
ence could be picked up anywhere.
Bushels of hailstone s lay in the streets,
in places to the depth of six to ten
inches.