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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
HE "OUTSOT" THE MULE.
When 1t Came to "Sotness" the Mule
Wasn't In It

When 1t Came to "Sotness'' the Mule
Wasn't In 1t.
AS the road turned around the hill
I came upon a mule and a cart and
man. The wheels of the cart had sunk
down into a mudhole, and the mule
stood with head down and ears lazily
working to and fro. AS for the man,
he lay on his back in the shade of tree
and seemed to be taking solid comfort.
whats the matter?" l asked, as he
sat up and looked at me.
"Mewl has baked" he slowly replied.
"1ou mean that he has refused to
pull the cart out of the mud?"
"'Zactly."
But it's a big load and a small mule"
I urged. why don't you give him
some help?"
Its agin my principles. I've yelled
at him and I've licked him till I'm tired,
but I'll be dog-goned if l take anything
off that load or boost that cart. No,
sah-we stay right yere till the pesky
critter gifts up and humps hisself and
pulls that cart out o. the mud!"
Then you are not in a hurry?" l que
ried.
mo, sab, no hurry tall" he replied,
as he hitched back to get more shade.
my son Dan is plowin' out con with the
COW, the ole woman is fXin' up the
fences, and I've gallon of whisky and
pound of terbacller in the cart It's
a question of bein' sot, and if | can't
stay sot longer'n a thirty-dollar mewl
then I'd better move out of Alabamy."
Five days later ! met the man at
Greenville and asked him how the "sot-
ness" came out.
"Oh! yes!" he replied with a grin.
''Wall, l camped right thar fur two
days and nights, a-singin' hymns and
restin' up an hevin' good time, and
then that mewl, a-seein' that when it
cum down to sotness he wasn't in it
with me, took right holt and pulled that
cart outer the mud and galloped all the
way home!"-Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
Don't Kiss on tho Mout h.

Children can be trained with the
greatest ease to offer the cheek or the
forehead for the proffered caress, and
to elude the attempt to contaminate
the lips. The incubation period of any
disease may or may not be infective in
the ordinary acceptation of the term.
Upon this matter our knowledge, SO
far, is by no means certain, while,
on the other hand, recent investigations
would seem to indicate that the infec-
tion of zymotic diseases in patients is
of very much longer duration than used
formerly to be supposed, enduring, in
deed, long after convalescence has been
established
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
The Crown Princes Pigeons.

Gen. Won Verdy du Vernois tells
pleasant story about the war of 1870.
At Villeneuye-le-Koi he was obliged, for
want of time, to refuse an invitation to
lunch. A brother officer rushed out of
the house with ragout, which Verdy
ate with gusto. A few days later the
old Emperor William said to him at dim
ner: That is a pretty affair of yours
my son has told me all about it,"
"What affair does your majesty refer
to-" asked Nerdy. 1t was this: The
crown prince had received the news
that two carrier pigeons had been
caught and he had ordered them TO be
sent to Versailles. On returning home
in the evening he found the following
telegram: Lieut.. Col, Verdy has just
eaten them" They had furnished
forth the ragout at Villeneuve-le-R oi.-
Realm.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
SECRECY AND DECEIT.
The Administration of Russia Is False to
the Core.

ne OF husSid rs rdlSe W
the Core.
1t is not onlywith regard to literature
that excessive strictness of the censor
ship has disastrous effect. In Russia
it is impossible to believe what one
reads, for everything bears the impress
of falsity. Statistics, published by SUI
preme order, are falsifed, and no one
knows what is going on in the country,
whether the cholera is raging or the
peasants are famine-stricken; conse-
quently the people suffer indirectly for
want of relief during famine, while the
cholera may be spread broadcast over
the land. For instance, in the present
year the writer visited Niini-Novgorod
at the time of the great fair there and
found that the cholera was raging, and
had been for some time. Notwith-
standing this, the government pub
lished no statistics of cholera in Mini,
but gave that town clean bill of health,
at the risk of spreading the disease all
over European Russia and Asia, and
with the benevolent object in view of
not interrupting the business of the
market. Thus all this secrecy causes
material harm. Distress and famine
existing in outlying districts are kept
secret, and the wretched peasants per-
ish for want of that assistance which
they would receive from charitable peo-
pie if their requirements were made
known. Further, no comments are al
lowed To he printed on the actions If
civil or military officers, police or any
government officials, and there is con-
sequently little to prevent them abus-
ing their power-a privilege of which
they frequently avail themselves. Such
being the case, and the Russians being
an Asiatic nation in many of their char
acteristics, it is not surprising that the
administration of the country is cor
rupt to the core.-Westminste Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
She Received with Her Bonnet On.

The late Empress Augusta of Ger
many, when she received at her castle
those guests not well known to her,
invariably appeared before them in a
cloak and bonnet. Lady Isabel Stew
art, not long before the death of the
empress, called upon her, and found
her dressed as for an afternoon drive,
but the bonnet she wore shone gay with
diamond ornaments and flowers. | re-
member, too, that when our charming
singer, Nine. Albani Gye, was COM
manded for an audience, she was a little
startled, on being ushered into the
room, to find the empress lying on a
sofa robed from head to foot in the
brightest red and wearing a red bonnet.
Her majesty had singularly fragile
appearance, but her face bore the i'm
press of intellect and amiability. She
talked on this occasion of England, say
ing how much she admired the coun-
try and it's institutions. 1t was won
derful how well posted up she seemed
to be in the politics of the three king
doms. When her guests babe her adieu
the empress had a pretty custom of pre-
senting each in turn with bunch of
violets or roses.-Woman at Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31

-Torpedoes when first employed by
the Americans against the English in
the revolutionary war, were called
American turtles, and their use was
pronounced infamous and worthy only
of savages.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31

In human life there is constant
change of fortune; and it is unreasou-
able to expect an exemption from tho
common fate. Life itself decays, and
all things are daily changing -Plut-
arch.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-12-17
PeterBOn'a
FREE COINAGE DRESS-CUTTING
Tailor System.

Why pay 800 for system and
waste three weeks in learning, when
you can buy one thoroughly reliable
for $3.50, which you can learn in
single day? THIS is WoMAN's GREAT
EST FRIEND, therefore a boon to hu.
manity. The most searching criticism
invited. 1t is no "fake" but GOOD,
HONEST SYSTEM OF DRESS CUTTING
Mothers, teach your daughters to be
self-supporting. Any woman can
learn it. These charts can be had OF
Mrs. j. Lang, Elko, Nevada. Send
$3.50 and get one. Full instructions
with every chart. jy19tf.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-12-17
TREES, FLOWERS AND PLANTS.

The ''life tree" of Jamaica is harder
to kill than any other species of woody
growth known to aboriculturists. 1t
continues to grow and thrives for
months after being uprooted and ex-
posed to the sun.
IT is asserted that the leaves of
plant are always of a tone of green
perfectly adapted to the color of the
blossoms; and there are, indeed, some
plants that seem as if nothing else but
their own foliage will accord with
them-daffodils for instance.
THE rock or sugar maple is one of
the most beautiful and vigorous of our
forest trees. AS shade and ornamen-
tai tree it is unsurpassed. It's growth
is rather slow, but sure and strong. It
is cleanly, has rich foliage and may
be easily raised from the seed. The
seed planted in the fall, just in the top
of the soil, will vegetate in the spring.
CHARCOAL is beneficial to potted
plants if broken in pieces the size of
small chestnuts and added to the soil in
the proportion of one part to twenty of
earth. The application of carbonic
acid to roots gives luxuriant growth
above the soil; charcoal if kept moist
combines with oxygen and emits car
bonic acid. The best of drainage for
the pots of the window garden is two
inches deep of these bits of chorcoal.
THE Minnesota Horticulturist asserts
that there is no more desirable small
tree for the lawn in that region than
the native choke cherry, Prunus Vir-
giniana. The foliage is peculiarly rich
and healthy; the leaves appear among
the earliest in spring, and not only
when covered with it's fragrant white
blossoms, but when dropping under it's
burden of shining red or dark crimson
fruit, it is noticeable tree anywhere.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-12-17
NOTICE,

BY order of the Board of County
Commissioners OF Elko County, State
of Nevada, made this 4th day OF
March, 1895, notice IS hereby given
that all persons who are charges upon
the county must come to the County
Hospital, or all claims for their sup
port will be disallowed by said Board
eX cept in cases Of extreme emergen.
Cy.
Attest:
WEBSTER PATTERSON,
Deputy County Clerk
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-12-17

COUNT ToLsToI is at work on a new
novel dealing with the peculiarities Of
the Russian district courts. AS he has
a poor opinion of judicial methods, sale
of the book will probably be forbidden
in Russia by the censorship.
A NEW book by the duke of Argyle,
entitled ''Law in Christian Theology"
will soon be published by Murray, and
will complete the argument begun in
his "Unity in Nature" and continued in
'The Reign of Law"
In regard to Beatrice Harraden's
complaint that she only received $3.50
for "Ships that Pass in the Night" it is
recalled that the royalties on John
Hays "Castilian Days." his best book,
amounted to only $3.50 year.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-12-17
County Superintendent.

We wish to notify the Justices OF
the Peace that they can procure at
this ollice, blank Summons, Allida-
Wits and Undertakings on Attach.
mcnts, Writ Of Attachments, Criminal
Complaints, Warrants, Commitments
on Sentence and Commitments to ap.
pear before the Grand Jury, good for
any county III the State.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-12-17
GOOD FOR EVERYBODY

Almost everybody takes some laxative
medicine to cleanse the system and keep the
blood pure Those who t;.lie SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR Qiquid or powIer1
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Malaria, Bliousness, Indigestion, Sick
Headache and Constipation, and rid of
hat worn out and debilitated feeling.
These are all caused by sluggish Liver.
Jood digestion and freedom from stomach
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If these Complaints, try SIMMONS LIVER
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~-EVERY PACKAGE-SN
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-12-17
TEA ACHERS' EXAMINATION.

Persons intending to apply for
teachers certificates will take notice
that the next examination Will begin
on Monday morning, Jan. 13, 1895, at
the courtroom, in Elko, and continue
for three days.
w. a. MASSEY.
County Superintendent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-07
Ben Jonson Knew His Merits,

Among English writer's Ben Jonson
had as good conceit of himself as most,
and he was not afraid of uttering his con-
viction of his own superiority. His ego
tism was almost fierce in its intensity. For
example, he left his "Cynthia's Revels'
to the judgment of his audience with the
assurance that the play was good and that
they might like 1t if they pleased, and in
the last line of the court epilogue to "Ev-
cry Man Out of His Humor " he proclaims
in Latin that he "hunts not for the suf-
frages of the windy multitude But in
determining to maintain a high poetic
standard, Jonson overacted his part, and
laid himself open to the ridicule and sar-
casm of lesser men.
AS the late Mr.. J. A. Symonds said
He identified the sacred bard with his
own person, posed before the world as
Apollo's high priest, and presumed upon
his erudition to affect the lordly airs of an
authentic Aristarchus" And yet, when
the victims of his satire dared to put in a
good word for themselves, and to accuse
their tormentor of "self love, arrogancy,
impudence and railing" Jonson blazed
out in righteous indignation at their
amazing conceit:
If they should confidently praise their
works,
In them it would appear initiation,
which in full and well digested man
cannot receive that foul, abusive name.
-Gentleman's Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-07

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Mems aud ladies' boots both and also made TO measure
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-07
ANOTHER STORY.

"The other night ('twas after dark
I sauntered home close by the park
The moon shone full in all her glory,
I'd lust been dining out with joe
He was sent down, because you know
However, that's another storyl
owed had very festive time,
Discussing, in style sublime.
Wine, songs and women con amorel
Joe always was a trife wild
He ran away, when quite child,
With Miss = Oh, that's another story ]
ssPerhaps 70 better start again!
Let's see, where was I? Oh, Park
lane!
(The trees were white with rime and hoary.)
Alas! ten years ago twas there
asked Hypatia if she ID care
To be Oh, that's another storyl
'Well as gayly strolled along,
Chanting Bacchanalian song
Excuse the 'shopo rotundo ore
That phrase reminds me of joke
made levin now it makes me chokeD
Oh, hang it, that's another story
-"Book Of Words" by A. A. S.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-07

An ounce of prevention is worth pound
of cure. Good health is a priceless boon.
1t cannot be had with damp feet Rubbers
arc a nuisance and oftentimes when
needed are on the other end of the route.
There has been longfelt need of flexi
BILE shoe with sole impervious to water.
Such an article is manufactured by the
Metalline Shoe Co. of Lynn, Mass which
gets out some fine goods for ladies and
gentlemcn's wear They have recently
opened branch store In the Remission
store, nearly opposite the Vannah hard
ware store in this city, where an assert
ment of all grades of waterproof foot wear
can be obtained at moderate prices. With
these shoes one can walk In water and the
moisture will not penetrate the sole,
neither will the leather become hard and
stiff by being repeatedly wet and dried.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-07
Daily Keuuebse 9paraal.
CALENDAR COMING EVENTS.
RELIGIOUS.

Aug 31-Sept. 9-Lakeside Campmeeting 10
continue over two Sundays.
Aug 3O-oept. s-First Maine State Assoclation
OF Spiritualists. EtDa.
aug .2g-Sept. 7-Church OF God Campmee'ins'
Monroe.
Sept 2-7-Annual Campmeeting, East Machlas.
Sept. a-6-Christian Endesvor oonvenuon'
Sept. s-s-somerset Spiritual Association
Campmeeting, Hayden Lake
Sept. 4--Dsmartscotta Baptist AssociAoA'
Jefferson. - To.
Sept 4-5-Anson Quarterly Meeting OF FREE
Baptist Churches, Athens;
Sept s-Sorthern Aroostook Ep"ofth League
T-nion Sprapue's Mills.
Sept. G-stEsebec Free Baptist Quarterly Meet
Sept. ii|York Congregational Sunday School
sept. ii.-oGford Baptist Association, North
Sept. Ii.12-Maine State Epworth League Con-
sept. 17-l.-rree Baptist State Convention,
sept ls-- Bowdoinham Baptist Association,
Yarmouth.
Sept. N--Cumberland Baptist Association,
Sept 2i-3s-General Conference Of Maine
Congregational churches, Westbrook.
Sept. 25--York Baptist Association, Goodwin's
Mills.
Sept 2s-western Piscataquis Sunday School
Association, Center Guiilord.
Oct. 1--M.ine free baptlst Anniversary, Old
Oct. 15-1S-W Washington County Congregation
al Conference, Princeton.
Oct. l5-l7-Stste Sunday school Convention,
Winthrop.
Temperance.
Sept 5--Penobscot District Lodge Good Tenn
plar, Charleston.
Sept. 6--Somerset District Lodge Good Tenn
plar, North New Portland.
Sept. 6-Waldo District Lodge Good Templar
Islesboro.
Sept. l0-l2-Aroost ok Non Partisan w. c. T.
q. Convention, Limestone.
Sept. H-l9-Malne Non-Partisan w. I. q. U.
Convention, Belfast
sept. 2G-26-State Convention OF the w. g. L.
o.. Houlton
Oct. 2-3-semi- annual Session of Grand
Lodge Good Templar of Maine, Milo.
Nov. 7-Haucock District Lodge Good Tenn
plar, Sound.
Sept. l1-Knox Pomona Grange. Union.
Sept. 17-Waldo Pomona Grange, Waldo.
miscellaneous.
Sept. lO-Annual Reunion Of Co. D, 21st Maine
Regiment Augusta.
Sept. 2-6-Maine State Fair. Lewiston.
Sept. 4-Field Day OF knights Of Pythias OF
Knox and Lincoln Counties, Camden.
Sept 4-5-Annual Reunion Sixth Maine Vet
eran Association, Dover and Foxcroft.
Sept. 4-5-Annuat Reunion I'd Maine Cavalry
Association, Lewiston.
Sept. 6-Waldo County Veteran Association,
Freedom.
Sept. lO--Annual Reunion 18th Maine Regi-
mental Association, Old Town.
Sept. l0-l2-Pitis ton Agricultural and Trottlng
Park Associations Annual Fair.
Sept. 10 12-North Aroostook Agricultural
Fair. Pressure Isle.
Sept. l1-Polsnd Centennial Celebration.
Sept. ll--Annual Reunion Third Maine Regi-
ment, Augusta.
Sept. I2-Annual Reunion Fourth Maine In
faUtry and Second Maine Battery Assocla-
ton, Union.
Sept. l7-Annual Session of Grand Council oil
Maine, Order of United Friends, Etna.
Sept. 17-l9-Kennebec Agricultural Society's
Fair. Readfeld Corner.
Sept. 16-19- North Waldo Agricultural Sc
cety's Fair, Unity.
Sept. 2-26-North Knox Agricultural and
Horticultural Society's Fair. Union.
Oct. 9-1l-Maine State Federation. Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-07
Low Windows.

The window of n bedroom built low,
within a foot or two of the floor, is men,
ace and constant anxiety to n mother with
her young, and to avoid any accident q
pole or board is frequently placed across
the window. 1t is not an ornament and
for that reason it is adopted as last re-
sort. Some of the brass manufacturers.
however, are introducing window grilles
that are very neat, but expensive. We
have noticed of late quite a number of
schemes for the safety of children who
will lean out Of window, but none of
them has been more easily adjusted or
cheaper than the ordinary wood grille
Instead of putting the grille at the top of
the window, shift it to the bottom; this
builds up barrier that Is a great safe
guard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-07
A NEW STYLE OF MARCHING.
Captain RsouPs System For Attaining
High Speed With Little Exertion.


Captain Raoul of the French artillery,
says The Petit Parisien, began five years
ago special study of the military march.
He concerned himself especially with the
question whether the method of marching
adopted generally by the armies Of the civ
iliZed world answers the needs of war we'll.
He wished to devise a system that should
permit certain young troops to acquire
resistance to fatigue and a speed unknown
in the European armies. Very robust
young soldiers are occasionally found to
acquire by training great speed, but they
are exceptions to the rule, and in reaching
the object aimed at they are often greatly
fatigued After much study Captain
Raoul thinks he has found solution OF
the question in the method instinctively
used by peasants in their rapid walking.
II am able" says Captain Raoul ito
take the first conner between the ages of 20
and 60 years and teach him to run so long
as his legs will upbear him without his
feeling the least inconvenience in the mat
ter of respiration"
1t is found that men without the least
training are able to make by his system
more than six miles at the first trial. BY
the ordinary system of running such a
man could not, without pain, cover tenth
of that distance.
Captain Raoul's method is to maintain
the body straight, to hold the head high
and we'll free of the shoulders to expand
the chest without special effort, and to
hold the elbows a little behind the
launches. The runner begins gently, with
steps of about 1917 inches, lifting the feet
only just high enough to clear the irregu-
larities of the track, the hams strongly
bent, the upper part of the body inclined
forward as much as possible, so that the
man must run in order to maintain his
equilibrium. In fact, the man is kept
chasing his own center of gravity, which
tends to fall in advance of him.
In the training exercises the soldier be-
gins by running the first kilometer (about
1854 yards) in 10 minutes, the second in
minutes 30 seconds, and so on with in
crcasng speed. After several weeks the
soldier makes from the third kilometer u
speed of 6 minutes or even minutes 40
seconds. After the experiment had been
tried upon several regiments some years
ago, soldier made rather more than
~ $40 miles in trifle less than two
hours. AS the muscles employed in this
feat were not those especially in demand
in the ordinary method of marching, the
soldier was able at once to take up the
march in the usual step with as good spirit
as when ne left the barracks
Captain Raoul recommends that after a
little training the soldier run the first
kilo1eter in minutes 8 seconds, the sec
ond in minutes seconds, the third in 5
minutes as seconds, and from the sixth ON
each kilometer in minutes 80 seconds
He recommends that this last speed be not
exceeded