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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14
FOOLED HIM.
The Thin Man Was Professional Trunk
Smasher.

Smasher.
A thin man with distressirg cough
was inspecting some portmanteaus and
trunks in front of a West End shop the
other day, when the proprietor of the
place appeared and asked:
Looking for a portmanteau, SIR?
Eyes
"Here's the best thirty-shilling bag
ever made, and l am the only one that
sells 'em less than c 80
''No good" replied the man, with a
sorrowful shake of his head. "One of
these trunks wouldn't stand the jour
ney from here to Bradford"
What! I'll warrant 'em to go round
the world. Take hold of one and bang
it about and convince yourself"
do you give me leave to test it's
strength"
"Of course I do! Take hold"
The man with n distressing cough
drew in full breath, called out: by
your leave, there!" as if warning plat
form full of passengers, and then took
hold of the trunk. RIP" went the
handle, bang went the lock. and as he
stood it on one end and upset it and
topped it back again. one hinge broke
loose and it split in two.
With a twist of the wrist he gave the
two halves slam-bang, which COM
pleted the wreck, and with bow to the
seller of portmanteaus he joined the
crowd and disappeared.
Upon my soul" gasped the pro-
prietor, as he viewed the ruins, "but |
made a mistake in him! He's a rail-
way porter, instead of a dying travel
er!"--Shetlield (Eng.) Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

dropping head and shaking TANKS, stood
where he'd pulled him up.
"How about the Cheyennes? was
Stantons question to those who came
to him.
"'They left the reservation eight
hours ago and have started to join the
Sioux, was the reply.
Send me Fox, the interpreter
said Stanton. and bring me pencil and
paper to write dispatch to Gen. Mer-
rift
when Fox came up, Stanton or
dered him to take a couple of the
agency Indians with a lead horse
apiece, and be ready to start back to
Merritt at once. Then he wrote his
dispatch as he reclined on the door
steps.
stanton told Gen. Merritt that the
Cheyennes were on the warpath; had
started to find the Sioux over what was
known as the Great Northern Trail,
and suggested that if Merritt would
throw loose from his wagons and take
only the Fifth cavalry, he could push
up the War Bonnet and head them off
at the crossing.
Fox and his Indians with two horses
each were ready and started with Stan
tons dispatch at half-past twelve
o'clock; just twenty minutes after Stan
ton came in. With lead horses they
had an advantage which Stanton and
his four half-breeds didn't possess. So
well did they use it that they rode in on
Gen. Merritt at twenty minutes past
eleven the same morning. They had
put the one hundred miles under them
in eleven hours; an hour better than
Stanton.
That's all there is to the story. 1t
was simple case of dispatch bearing;
case where two hundred miles over a
trackless waste was covered in twenty
three hours; half of it in the night.
How's that for perishing flesh and
blood?
About the Cheyennes? That part is
soon told. In fifteen minutes after
Stauton's dispatch reached Merritt the
Fifth cavalry was in the saddle lined
out for the crossing pointed to by
Stanton. Merritt got there in time
The Cheyennes came up and the bat
tie of the War Bonnet was fought. 1t
was the last fight the Cheyennes ever
made. They were whipped and driven
back to Red Cloud. Their effort to
make junction with the Sioux and
get in on the war, thanks to Stanton's
rough riding, was frustrated. Many
man and woman combing their hair
these September mornings owe that
privilege to Stanton. They may not
realize it, but they do."-Washington
Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14
Best Surface for Bicycles.

Wheelmen are by no means unani-
nous in considering asphalt an ideal
pavement. In fact a majority of them
probably vote it failure, so far as pro-
viding desirable path for bicycles is
concerned. Asphalt laid on concrete
base is dead" and unyielding as gram
tie, and the eXertion required to propel
bicycle over it is considerably greater
than over most other forms of roadway.
A new cedar block pavement is better
than asphalt, and a good smooth dirt
road, or, better still, well-founded
path is superior to any pavement what
eyer-eXcept in muddy weather, where
in lies the rub. Asphalt not only
lacks the quality of being elastic, but
is dangerous to life and limb when rid.
den on with a bicycle, because it is or
dinarily kept so wet that it is fearfully
and wonderfully slippery.-Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

the wild, unbrol1en country just west
of the Black hills; while the chief per-
former is Brig. Gen. Stanton, just now
paymaster general of the army.
This drama Of the saddle is told Just
as it came from the lips of the army
officer who knew all about it and was
there at the time.
THE Fifth cavalry, ten companies
this was before the days of troops
under Gen. Merritt, was keeping an
eye on the Cheyennes.
1.-The Sioux were on the warpath,
and busy standing things civilized on
their heads over to the north, and the
Cheyennes were getting the fever
Good judges of Indians, with their
thumbs on the Cheyenne tribal pulse,
said they were liable to break out at
any moment into war spirit, join the
Sioux already out, and unite their en-
ergies to Sitting Bulls in topping over
the paleface of the northwest.
so, as Ihave already said, Gen. Mer-
rift was watching the Cheyennes with
ten companies of the Fifth cavalry He
was to hold them in check.
thine went on, and the Cheyennes
were still quiet. Gen. Merritt and
everybody else began to believe they
would remain at peace. One morning
Gen. Merritt concluded that all danger
from the Cheyennes was over, and be-
gan to move north and west with his
command.
''He got as far as the War Bonnet,
when couriers overlook him with dis
patches from Gen. Sheridan-at Chi
cago or Omaha Sheridan waS-telling
Gen. Merritt not to leave the Cheyenne
vicinity until he was absolutely sure
they were quiet, and that all danger of
a Cheyenne outbreak had blown by.
Sheridan's dispatch said further that
he had just received word from a
worthy, trusty source that the Chey-
ennes at the Red Cloud agency were
painted up for trouble, and about to
leave the reservation and join the
Sioux. The truth of this must be dis
covered, and the Cheyenne uprising
were any on the carpet, must be
checked. At all hazards the Cheyennes
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14
Napoleon and Other Rulers of Europe

Napoleon and Other Rulers of Europe.
He also understood the dynastic eX-
clusiveness of Europe. In a sense the
houses of Hanover, of Hohenzollern and
of Savoy were parvenus in the councils
of royalty; yet they were ancient
princely stocks and their accession tc
supreme power had not shocked an
Gent prejudice; the dubious and blood
stained title of the car did not dimin-
ish his influence, for his succession was
of his predecessors on the semi-oriental
Russian throne. But to substitute for
the Bourbons, the oldest divine-right
dynasty of Europe, and in the enlight-
ened west, citizen king of low descent,
who based his claims on popular suf-
frage, and successfully to assert the
place Of plcbeian among the Olym-
plans, was to brave the Infested preiu-
dice of all conservative Europe, and to
hurl defiance at the old system, than
which to millions of minds none other
was conceivable. To reach the goal
fighting was not a voluntary choice,
but an absolute necessity; for the
French must be left in no doubt but
that their popular sovereign was quite
as able to assert his peerage among
kings as anyone of royal lineage and
ecclesiastical JUNCTION would bc.-Prof.
w. NJ. Sloane. in Century.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

noon, their horses the pick Of the Fifth
cavalry.
This outfit of five pointed straight
for the Red Cross agency; what farm
er would call cross lots. There wasn't
the shadow of path or trail. 1t was as
rough stretch of country, bar some
regions in the rockies, as ever slipped
from the palm of the Infinite
But Stanton and his half-breeds
knew the direction to Red Cloud, and
they kept it as straight as the flight of
bullet both in the daylight and the
| dark.
Down hill and up, across hollow
and over divides, they never slackeneo
| or swerved. They never paused for
| food for themselves or fodder for their
horses. Lives might be heavily staked
on the game, and man and mount must
go through at any cost.
1T may be that somewhere in the
pigeon holes of his inner consciousness
Stanton had aconviction filed away that
Sheridan's line on the Cheyenne inten-
tiOns was correct.
And it may be for this reason that
he dug the incessant spurs into his
horse all the more deeply and rode all
the more tiercely and grimly toward
| Red Cloud that day in the northwest.
The cavalry could better spare horse
than a settler could his scalp.
Thus concluded Stanton; and taking
what they call out west "a road gait, he
never drew bride rein nor slackened
stride all of the long one hundred
miles from the War Bonnet to the
agency of Red Cloud
Strung out behind him came his
quartet of half-breeds, running mute
as foxes and bringing their horses for
ward as inveterately and as remorse-
leSsly as Stanton himself. They didn't,
being Indians, care so much about a
settlers scalp as did Stanton But, be-
ing Indians, they cared nothing at all
for horsehesh: and so came as obdu-
rately on as their leader.
AN Indian has no more sympathy
for horse than for the buffalo grass it
treads upon; and the moment the spur
fails to stir the animals tagging ener-
gies, will stick knife in him as
bracer as readily as he would into his
sheath.
stanton left Merritt's camp on the
War Bonnet at noon. Covered with
dust and foam, reeling bit from very
WEAKNESS of body, Stanton and his
four scouts came surging up to the Red
Cloud agency at sharp midnight. The
last mile of that rough one hundred
was behind them, and they had made
the trip in just twelve hours by the
watch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14
Severe Test on Compilations.

Among flowers the lily seems to be
the most severe test of woman's lowell
ness. In reality, it is too stiff, too I'M
yielding, to be quite suitable for tuck
ing into the belt or for wearing in the
rorsage. But the form usually chosen
for the lily as personal decoration is
to be seen in pictures, where fair young
persons hold sprays of them. The ac-
lnowledged beauty and the actress are
peculiarly prone to this bit of posing.
And the effect is usually unsatisfying.
Possibly the cause lies in the formality
OF this flower; in the fact that it is not
adaptable, and is stiff and uncompro-
missing. But there is, perhaps, deeper
reason. The lily has come to Symbolic
for us the spiritual, and though this is
but a convention, it yet influences us.
us if it were really belief. From this
arises the effect of unsuitability felt
when the stately white sprays are used
for personal adornment. 1t seems too
frivolous a treatment of them, and,
moreover, few are the faces in which
spirituality is so predominant that the
lily seems to belong to them.-Chicago
Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

Bridget (applying for a situation)-
Oh, yis, mum. Oh lived in my last place
tree weeks, mum.
Mrs. Van Nobbs-And why did you
leave?
"Oi couldn't get along with her> she
was so old and cranky"
But l may be old and cranky, too"
Cranky ye may be, mum, for faces
are sometimes deceiving; but ovid,
niver!"
And Bridget got the place.-Pemson'
Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14
TO THE MOUNTAINS.

Sing me song of gladness
o strong and glorious hills!
My harp, attuned TO sadness,
Would sound thy laughing rills-
Would echo OF the voices
That sing in rocky glen,
Till harmony rejoices
! The weary hearts Of men.
Sing me song Of sweetness
In cadence soft and low,
From nature grand completeness
Let gentle music flow;
Her soul dwells in the mountains
Beneath the bending blue,
And chants beside the fountains,
And all her songs are true
Sing me song OF duty,
OF courage in repose,
of hope and strength and beauty
Amid enclrcling SHOWS;
Unchanged by wild winds blowing.
Untouched by fevered pain,
unlocked by bright flowers growing,
Undimmed by loss or gain.
Sing me of love eternal
o hallowed mountain sodi
Thy bosom sweet and vernal
Hath felt the touch OF God;
And when thy forests kindle
In autumn's glowing fame,
Where red and russell mingle
l read Jehovah'S name.
For this, o mountains hoaryl
Ring out in melody.
Till Heaven repeats the story
OF earthly harmony:
Sound from each rocky fastness,
Sound from the highest crest,
Till all life's desert vaStness
Is lifted up and blest
,dlah Quincy Hawks, in Springfield Repu
can
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

nUst be prevented from effecting a
junction with the Sioux.
when Merritt got this dispatch he
at once pitched camp. This camp on
the War Bonnet, was just one hundred
miles from the Red Cloud agency, as
crows fly. Between lay a rough coun-
try without a trail or track. Yet
somebody must go to the Red Cloud
agency at once.
"'You go, Stanton said Gen. Mer-
rift to Brig. Gen. Stanton, who had
then climbed as high up the military
ladder as the round of major. You go;
you know the country better than any
man bere.'
stanton took four half-breed scouts
with him and started. The hour was
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

HIS S I o + Y
should in
terest the
fox hunt
ers, thepa-
pc + chas-
ers and all
t he other
f e + V i d
hard riders
of t h i S
ity.
Its time is
that of the
last Chey-
enne war;
the scene,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14
He Would Die with aer..

In Archdeacon Groome's reminis.
cenccs there is story of a well-known
Suffold doctor who had great con-
tempt for homeopathy. "An old LADY
who pinned her faith to Hahnemann
one day took five globules by mistake
for three, and, her own doctor being
absent, DR.. Belman was sent for post
haste "He came, looked grave, shook
his head, said if people would NEEDLE
with dangerous drugs they would take
the consequences. But, madam he
added, 4 will die with you, and lifting
the bottle of globules to his mouth
swallowed its entire contents. The
Princess.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

in 1903 an English gentleman
named Wise invented steel pen. lie
adhered to the quill shape rendered IA
miliar in England by long use. His pen
had long barrel, and was provided
with bone case that the pen might be
carried in the pocket without injury.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

PEACE AT LAsT.-''There is nothing now
to ma our happiness" as Bass remarked
when his wife's mother took her departure.
Boston Transcript
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

King Bombas executioner has just
died. He was Sicilian named Gaetano
Impallizieri, who was condemned to
death for a murder, but pardoned on
agreeing to become executioner. When
Garibaldi entered Naples he had to flee
to avoid lynching, and had lived ever
since on small island near Palermo.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14

NEARLY every ugly dog is known as
"Beauty."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-14
STATIONS RIDE.

%EMExxsgIHIS S tory
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT
Butter Making.

To make really good butter in Florida
during the summer months is somewhat
difficult, but it can be done if the fol-
lowing directions are closely followed:
Set the milk in shallow pans in cool
place, skim before the milk sours, being
very careful to skim no milk into the
bowl with the cream. skim the nights
milk the next morning and the morn
ing's milk at night, which leaves the
milk sweet for drinking or cooking.
Set the bowl of cream in a pan of cold
water and keep covered. Change the
water each time cream is added to the
bowl, and stir the cream well. Churn
twice, and in very hot weather three
times week.
Be sure the water around the cream
! is quite cold the night before the chErn-
ing is to be done in the morning, and
churn as early as possible. If it must
wait until after breakfast change the
water again.
When the butter comes pour off the
buttermilk and wash the butter in cold
water, changing it often, until it looks
clear after the butter is washed in it.
Salt literally, mix well, set in a pan of
cold water and leave till the next morn
ing, changing the water at night. In
the morning work out the water, add
more salt, if needed, and set in water
again to harden.
Butter made in this way will keep
sweet long time as there is no milk in
it to sour and the trouble is not as great
as it sounds.
If you have not enough cream to put
in the churn, do not add milk to increase
the quantity, but take an egg beater or
spoon and stir it in the bowl until the
butter comes.
Try this way and you will have no
more sour, frothy butter, MRS. M.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14

about three thousand plants are required
to the acre. If the plants are set by
hand, only about half an acre is days
work. Where the transplanter is used,
four acres can be planted and In a bet
ter manner, in the same time There is
no special need Of haste, as we have am
pie time here to get our crops into mar
ket ahead of other truck growing locali
ties. Where the transplanter is used
two men sit on the machine and drop
plants In furrow made by the pillow on
the forward end of the planter At the
same moment valve opens and drops
gill of water and the rollers firm the
plant in the ground. Where the ground
is clear the planting is superior to hand
work.
When transplanting by hand, open but
a few burrows at time. Make holes
for the plants with a short stick. put in
the plants, water and tramp the earth
about it. Large, well-rooted plants re-
quire more space, more water and more
care. The tomato plants will bear
much abuse and still grow and thrive.
When once esta blished, the super
fluous growth is to be kept constantly
pinched out so as to increase the size
and perfectly develop the fruit. When
the crop reaches maturity, then comes
the ruth of work. The tomatoes must
be picked before they become fully ripe,
in order to bear shipment to northern
markets. They are dumped out Of the
picking basket onto the packing tables,
and carefully sorted into firSts and sec
onds, and separately wrapped in paper
and packed in one half peck fruit bas-
kets. Six of these baskets are packed in
a slat crate and are then ready for ship
ment, where they frequently bring as
high as six dollars crate. Generally
speaking, the proper time to gather and
pack is when the tomato is full grown
and beginning to color, or is partly
colored, depending, of course, upon, the
length of time the fruit is in transit
Farm and Fireside.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14

These calculations were made especially for tn
BERLIN III. WRIGHT,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14
Tomato Culture in Florida.

growing and shipment of winter tOma
toes to the northern markets. They
were carefully gathered, then wrapped
in brown paper and packed in seven
quart boxes. These usually sold for one
dollar box, often more, but seldom less
The season usually commenced about
January 5th and closed about the mid
tomatoes have now taken the place of
the Bermuda product in the early spring
markets of the leading northern cities.
In South Florida there are stretches of
what are called frost-proof lands. They
are the elevated sand hills or ridges
which retain the MONDAY heat. A great
number of lakes of beautifully clear and
excellent water are common in the To-
caltY. These afford water protection
against frost. This proved to be the
case in Polk county during the preva-
was the case in the Indian River district,
also. Frosts will come yearly and kill
the tender vegetation on the lOwlands,
but the high sand hills are measurably
secure from destructive frosts. The
arctic weather of last winter came on so
unexpectedly that hundreds Of growers
who went to bed trusting that there
would not be much of frost, after
all, ''were d I'm bounded on awakening in
the morning and seeing the vast amount
of damage that had been done.
In the vicinity of Winter Haven the
tomato growers commence operations
early in the fall by blowing, narrowing,
and hauling the various fertilizers that
are needed. The soil is thin, and it is
necessary to apply commercial fertil-
izers. The best plan is to begin still
earlier and dig out a number of cords of
muck and compost this with the chemi-
calls and all the stable manure that can
kind, if frequently cut down and well
mixed, soon becomes thoroughly decom-
posed and a most valuable m anure.
A crop of twelve or fifteen acres is the
mOSU COM mon one lOr OdCu
and he can do most of the work neces
sary until the crop is ready for picking.
From eight to fifteen seeds are usually
planted as early as the first of October,
in hills three by three and one half, four
by three and one half or tour by three
feet, much as the northern farmer plants
corn. Where the land is comparatively
new it is only necessary to furrow out
and cultivate one way, but on old lands
both ways. Considerable hoeing is also
required, although most of it is done by
horse power.
The bulk of the seed usually comes up
IN a weeks time, and the rake or hook
is used to hasten the growth. If the
land is old and somewhat grassy, the
grasshOppers are quite destructive.
Paris green, mixed with flour and busted
over the plants as rapidly as man can
walk, is the usual method. If the win
ter is a comparatively warm one the
plants usually begin to blossom about
Christmas time, but ON the other hand
they may get about hand high and so
remain for month or six weeks. The
plants are rarely injured by suspended
growth in ordinary seasons.
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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-08-08
THE BUSINESS MANS LUNCH.
Hard Work and Indigestion go
Hand in Hand.

Concentrated thought, continued in, robs
the stomach of necessary blood, and this is
also true of hard physical labor:
When a five horsepower engine IS MADE
to do ten horsepower work something IS
going to break. Very often the hard
worked man coming from the field or the
office will "bolt - his food in a few min
utes which will take hours to digest. Then
too many foods are about as useful IN the
stomach as a keg of nails would be In
fire under a boiler. The i11-used stomach
refuses to do its work without the proper
stimulus which 1t gets from the blood and
nerves. The nerves are weak and ready
to break,'' because they do not get the
nourishment they require from the blood,
finally the il1-used brain is morbldly wide
awake when the overworked man at
tempts to find rest in bed.
The application of common sense in the
treatment of the stomach and the whole
system brings to the busy man the full en-
joyment of life and healthy digestion when
relieve a bilious stomach or after too
hearty meal, and DIR. Plerce's Golden
Medical Discovery to purify, enrich and
vitalize the blood. The Pellets are tiny
sugar coated pills made of highly concen-
trated vegetable ingredients which relieve
the stomach of all offending matters easily
and thoroughly. They need only be taken
for a short time to cure the biliouSnesS,
the liver; then the Medical Discover" "
should be taken in teaspoonful doses to in
crease the blood and enrich it. 1t has a
peculiar effect upon the lining membranes
of the stomach and bowels, toning up and
strengthening them for all time. The
whole system feels the effect of the pure
blood coursing through the body and the
nerves are vitalized and strengthened, not
deadened, or put to sleep, as the so-called
celery compounds and nerve mixtures do
but refreshed and fed on the food they
need for health. If you suffer from indi-
gestion, dyspepsia, nervousness, and any
of the ills which come from impure blood
and disordered stomach, you can cnre
yourself with DR.. PieTce's Golden Medical
Discovery which can be obtained at any
drug store in the country