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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Philadelphia in area is one of the
largest cities in the world, having
129 1-3 square miles.
The butcher has 97s patents which
may be employed or not, as he chooses.
In his business. Most of them are de.
vices used in the large pork packing
establishments.
The common house fly is said to be
provided with 5000 eyes; that is to say,
his two compound eyes have each 5000
facets. By this singular arrangement
he is enabled to see i'll every direction.
| and to elude with great skill and sue
cess the many dangers that threaten
his daily existence.
Peter Dorsey, negro. who said he
was 14O years old, died at Tallahassee a
few days ago. He looked as if he might
he as old as he said, but most likely nc
was not. He was undoubtedly very
old man, however, and his neighbors
figured that he was, at any rate, far
past the century mark.
Names labor commissioner has
been gathering statistics on the cost o.
living in that state. He figures that the
average daily cost of living is 81 cents
a day for each individual in the average
family. The cost of living to single
men, boarding, is 46 cents. These fig
ures cover rent, fuel and light.
Curly hair indicates exuberent vi
tality, the curl being caused by the heat
OF electricity which pervades the sys
tenn. Straight hair mostly denotes
more evenness of character. Coarse
hair mostly accompanies large muscles
and would thus suggest physica!
strength, while fine hair denotes re
tinement, sensitiveness and effeminatc
tastes and feelings. Very sensitive PEG
pie have excessively fine hair, and their
eyelashes always correspond.
Perhaps the oldest pet man ever
had is a shark, seven feet long and
weighing probably $50 pounds, which
IS owned, in a sense, by G. w. Fife, OF
Tacoma, Wash. The shark was har
pooned in the bay off Tacoma by Mr.
Fife and lowed to his boat house. 1t
was not badly injured, so Mr. Fife
passed a chain cable round its tail and
lied it up to the pier. 1t was still alive
up to last accounts, was feeding hearth
ly, and was apparently becoming az.
customed, if not reconciled, to cap
tivity.
Some idea of the extent of the
coyote nuisance in the west may be got
from the experience of one sheepman
CT Fossil, Ore. Since last fall, when
the sheep were brought down from the
mountains, the coyotes have killed
about 100 of them. One night recently
herder left about 30 sheep out over
night, and when he went to hunt for
them in the morning he found % dead,
their Threats torn by the coyotes, and
coyotes were chasing the remaining
seven. In Crook county this sheepman
has lost $500 in three months by the
coyote raids on his fiocks.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05
THE ROOT OF THE EVIL.
Address of George May Powell on the
Cause of Hard Times.

The National Reform organization
is holding congresses on the various
branches of it's work in churches and
halls over the city, state and country,
Recently one of these gatherings was
held at the Scotch Presbyterian church
in Philadelphia, on Seventeenth street,
below Race. The subject was the
Economics of IntoXicants." George
May Powell, one of the speakers, said
| the intoxicants trade, more than all
other causes combined, was at the bot
tom of the "hard times" now vexing
capital and labor. He said no matter
| which side of the silver and tariff ques
lions was taken, the gross amount in
yolved in them both together was not .
! quarter of the retail intoxicant trade Of
| our country. Analysis of United States
customs and internal revenue returns
on malt, fermented and distilled liquor,
| showed $900,000,000 to be pretty fair
| figure. But this represents only tho
approximately pure liquor. Hardly q
| quarter of the liquor retailed, however,
is Vure. Therefore, if you throw out
5000, 100000 on the above pure liquor
total, leaving it $500, 100000, and multi
ply it by four, we have grand total
of between S., OO0, 100000 and So, O0o, 000,-
900! This trade, if put in legitimate
channels of operations of our merchants
and manufacturers, would set CONNER
| cial and industrial interests of labor
and capital moving to the tune Of
plenty of work and good pay. These
facts and PHILOSOPHERS apply to the af-
fairs of all who buy and sell, or earn
| or pay wages in honest business. When
chambers of commerce and boards of
trade see these things in their true
light they will drive the liquor traffic
from their organizations as the great
| robbers and pirates of all their equita-
| BILE interests. 1t is folly to answer
this by saying that bad business keeps
money circulating, and so prevents in
stead of creates hard times. Its circu-
lation is destructive of healthy bust
ness.
Finally foreign capital has within
the last few years bought up Amer
lean distilling and brewing plants to
a great eXtent-such an extent that the
dividends they take out of the country
every year are four times thevalue of the.
entire annual product of ourgoldmnes,
this drain alone being several times al
much as the $100,000,0O0 balance in the
United States treasury, about which
we hear SO much. This total annual
drain is 20 times as much as the present
United States bond issue.
The retail merchants sales are cut,
because their normal constituency is
expanding so much more for intox-
icants than for useful products. This
cuts down the trade of the wholesale
merchant, so of course the output of
the manufacturer is reduced. So, too,
the demand for labor in factories and
stores and in farms and in other cor
related industries has the life crushed
out of it. Outside of its religious
or of its moral reform elements, the
cold cash side of this subject needs
thorough examination by bankers and
merchants and voters and taXpayers
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05
No kissing In. japan,

The women in Japan thoroughly dis
like to see man with a. beard. Their
dislike may be reason for the uni
vcrsally clean shaven face of the Jap-
Hnese men. l think it was in Chicago,
that several young ladies warmly de-
lated the question OF boards from an
osculatory standpoint, the question be-
ing, is It more agreeable to kiss man
with beard or one without? Kissing,
however, has nothing to do with the
Jananese woman's dislike for beard.
and this for the very good reason that
a kiss, Us we understand it, is an I'M
known thing in japan; not Unknown
to the gay maiden of Toxic, Yokoha-
ma, or Kobe, the demi-morslaines OF
that country, whose business it is. to-
amuse foreigners with their dances
and songs-but unknown to the great
majority of people. a, young man
never Kisses his sweetheart, wife
never kisses her husband, mother
never kisses her chIldren,~-MupseyAs
Magazine,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05
Cheapest Coal.

The United States possesses the
cheapest coal in the world. The
census of 1890 established the fact that
the average price of bituminous coal
throughout the United States in 1889
was 80 cents per ton. The average
price of English coal during recent
years has been ~ cents higher.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05

Her Failing.-"How tedious it is
playing whist with such partner as
that Miss Gadabout!" Eyes; | believe
that girl would ask the angel Gabriel
What's trumps2' detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05

1T is a remarkable fact that 5,479
patents have been issued for devices
used in wearing apparel. Many of them
relate to the method of cutting and fit
ting, while others are concerned with
peculiar devices employed to strengthen
the material in certain parts of the gar
ment
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05

Shepard Romans, the well-known
actuary, long the president of the Prov
idence Life Insurance society, skaters
another popular superstition. He says:
at is my observation that malt liquor,
taken habitually by the moderate drink
er, tends to increase mortality, for it is
a fact that the rate of mortality is great
er among the Germans than among our
native American people"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05

Oysters are provided with eyes. but
the oysters eye is not located where
public opinion places it. What is called
the eye of the oyster is the great muscle
which holds the shells together, and
which is separated by the knife of the
opener.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05

( The pit I'd Plaintiffs lurid glare
In words of flame: "Bewarel Beware!
'Shun the saloon, the devils den!'
Who Satan serves, a denizen
OF his domain becomes. Oh, when
l- Weak ones are drifting to despair,
If / could write!
More fair-a land beyond their ken
Than sunset glow DER moor and fen!
If eye could see or tongue declare
The joys which God hath garnered there.
Longing, some souls might seek Him then,
If could write!
Anna H. Woodruff, in Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05
The Public House That All Can Close.

An English temperance orator, speak
ing on the subject of the possibility
or impossibility of closing the saloons,
said: This is difficult question, truly,
my friends; but we will do we'll to re-
member that:
There is a little public house which every
one may close:
It L. the little public house just underneath
the noso."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05

Mime. de Brinvilliers had large blue
eyes, the upper lid ofwhieh almost cop'
cealed the pupils,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05
TEMPERANCE.
IF | COULD WRITE.

1.-THE liquor dealers are now scattering
broadcast pictures of beautiful women
with alluring eyes, holding aloft glasses
of whisky or beer. If grinning skeletons
or sneering devils were substituted for the
women, the picture would be more truth
full
If I could write, my burning pen
Should move the souls-the minds of men;
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-05

uld move the souls-the minds of men;
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
LIVE STOCK.
RAISING HOGS IN CONNECTION
WITH FRUIT.

For the past five years we have
rails d hogs OF the vineyard, and the
results have been very successful, so
much so that we consider the raising
of hogs enc Of the essential character
istics embodied in the fruit and farm
ing industries. Hogs that get the
necessary care and attention cannot
fail to be profitable, not only under or
binary conditions, but to q greater ex-
tent il a farmer would watch the hog
market as carefully as he does that of
grain, Or green and dried fruit. Our
hogs also have the best care, and re
ceive as much attention as our prun
ing or cultivation. Breeding, raising
and marketing are the three important
features Of success.
Our choice of hogs to breed is the
Poland China or the Berkshire, or a
cross between the two is also advan
tageous. The Poland China produces
very fine pigs, while the Berkshires
seem to take better care Of their young.
and naturally a cross develops more
profitable results. In the raising of
hogs one has first to consider what time
of the year he is better able to give
young pigs his best care, a. it is our
experience that the correct foundation
of a hog is made during the first six
or eight weeks after it is born, and our
method is of course in keeping with
our crops.
Pigs that r born about September
list have a good start on grapes, which
make an excellent food, being health
full, strengthening and fattening. They
sre then fed on pumpkins and corn,
followed by artichokes, and in the
spring fattened on grain, and are ready
for market about June 1. On the other
hand, pigs born about Feb. 1 have also
a good start On corn harvested the pre-,
vious fall, then artichokes, continued
with grain during the summer. and
fattened in the fall on grapes, to be
ready for market about the end Of The
year.
We have always tried to avoid carry
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16

ing a large stock of heavy fat hogs
during the summer, as they are lees
able to stand the very warm weather,
and are more subject to cholera or any
other disease that may invade your
territory. We have always been very
fortunate in preserving good health
among our hogs, and if one would take
the proper precaution, there would be
considerably less danger of cholera,
which we are Satisfied is often caused
from impure water and stale food. In
the spring hogs need a blood purifier.
Small quantities Of sulphur mixed with
their food will give tone to them and
restore a fine, bright, healthy appear
ance. During the summer it may also
be well to give them very small doses
of carholic acid if you think they show
signs of being sick.
Keep we'll posted as to the demand
for hogs, also the amount Of COrD,
grain, alfalfa, ETC., being cultivated
and harvested for feed, as soma times
it pays to held over for a week or two,
end don't sell until you are satisfied
that the market is at It's best for sou,
considering your own circumstances
as we'll as other conditions.-L. D.
C~hi5tendeD, Kings Co, Caliornia, IN
American AgriculJurist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
HORTICULTURE
r R AND ROT tn.

Fruits and vegetables are composed
mostly of water.
No component part Of same is go
plentiful, yet so difficult to supply in
proper quantity.
The fruit grower should, then, know
how to guard against seasons of drouth
and preserve the natural moisture Of
the soil.
This can be done in two ways.
First-By irrigation, which is prac
ticable only in certain favored Locals
ties by bitches and canals and by vari,
ous pumping devices, pipes and drains,
necessarily limited IN extent, and then
only with considerable expense.
Success by these methods requires
about one Thousand barrels OF water
per acre for each application.
Second-By retaining moisture al
ready into the sell by mulchirg g. This
may be practiced by all.
Well prepared ground receives suff-
Gent moisture in spring to fully ma
ture the largest crop.
Tons of moisture from every acre ere
escaping daily in the growing season
The best end most practical way to
preserve this moisture and place it Just
where it is most available for plant use
is by frequent shallow cultivation,
forming a fine earth mulch,
This applies to gardens and all hoed
crops. Where soil cannot all be cult
waited, as with small fruits, then Use
manure, leaves, straw, clover, marsh
hay or any material to shade the
ground and retard evaporation.
With coarse mulch, close around
fruit plants. ard a fire earth mulch be
tween the rows, large or ps may be
carried safely through severe d%roughts.
Commence at once and continue until
products are mature.
The new strawberry plants should
not be allowed to bear fruit the fast
season.
Pick off all fruit stems as soon as
they appear.
Three methods of training the straw.
berry are in use. The hill system,
where all runners are removed, the
narrow row, where only part of new
runners are allowed to form plants,
and the full matted row, where plants
are allowed to ill all the space, except
ing a narrow path between rows.
All have advocates and all have
special merits, depending on soil, eli
mate, variety and grower.
The full matted row is most used, be-
ing easiest to manage.
Guard against too many plants in
small space. They consume moisture,
suffer from drouth and produce small
berries. Each plant should have from
four to six inches fquare space in which
to grow and mature it's fruits.
When rev cares of the raspberries
and blackberries are fifteen or eighteen
inches high, pinch eff the top about
three inches.
This will cause side branches to grow,
making well formed bushes, and great
ly increase the bearing surface of the
canes.-M. A. Thayer, in Farm News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
HONEST MONEY" HowLERs.

We have a gold standard now, and
everybody is bowling about the close
times, and yet the agents of plutocracy
are crying for the ''g Id standard" and
honest money Pity these fellows
couldn't be punched together and colo
nized on some desert island where they
could subsist upon their d~electable diet.
Mankato (Minn.) Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
How Is Your County?

Are you still loading the guns of the enemy
ny iaylng your money to Democratic county
papers Just for the county news?' Wouldn't
II oe better to spend your money for a county
1Ouu need II local Populist paper this wear,
Al your county wants such g. paper. IL can have
"a n NE can p print It for you cheaper than you
For further Information, address
our Home Publishing Co., MsrshvtIle, n, G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16

The dGte Of the label on this paper
shoes 10hen yOWr subscription 1CGs 0at.
Is yours OWtS Then reneU, please.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
For Sale. CheanI

One full blood Holstein Heifer Calf.
Three q graded HOlstein Bull Calves.
One Il graded HOlstein Bull Calf
Wi l be sold cheap. If you want to improve
your stock, by increasing them in size and duan-
.tity OF milk, cross with the HOlsteins. Write
and enclose stampf for reply. Thurman Poultry
and Stock Farm, Thurman, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
The Sf1eriffs of N. c.

Are cordially requested, when bringing prison,
ers, or wishing our city. to remember the Old
reliable $IFO-a day Hotel II; rrisop House. Ali
the delicacies or the season serve d in home-Itke
style. For reference, any Mason. Odd Fellow,
Republican POpuli-t or D. mCcrat who has ever
stopped here Cnce viii. l knOw, kindly recon-
mend it to their fr:eLds.
Thanking the above organizations for their
watchfuI care and generous bestowaI Of patron
a. e, aud begging the continuance 0f the Same. !
am, Gratefully,
1920 Mrs E. NJ. HARRISON, Prop'r.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-08-21

Many coral reef islands in the Pacific
are il the form Of moro CT less perfect
rings, or oyal5, incloslng lagoons. Re-
Gently u description was presented to the
Royal Geographical society Of the ring
island of Ninafou, halfway between
Fiji and Samoa, which is not a coral
reef but Il volcanic ring inclosing a
crater containing a lake two miles in
diameter. Toward the sea the ring is
bordered with walls Of black lava, and
on the inner side these break down in
cliffs 200 to 800 feet in height. An
eruption in 1886 formed "a peninsula on
the eastern side of the lake. While the
ocean outside is trembling and thunder
ing under a heavy wind the lake re-
mains smooth or is simply wrinkled
with ripples. Youths Companion.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-08-21

Not only hundreds of admirable Syr1-
an churches, but St. Sophia itself, had
been completed before the early Chris
tian basilica at Perigueux was begun.
When we think what this must have
been, with it's wooden ceiling and scant,
barbaric attempts at ornament, and
what st. Sophia is, with the most beau
tiful dome that has ever yet been con-
structed and a richness Of finely devised
and perfectly wrought adornment that
has never yet been equaled, can we mar
vel that any kind or degree Of contact
with Byzantine art deeply impressed
western eyes and often guided western
hands? Can we wonder that the churches
Of Constantinople were copied at Raven
ma. or that Charlemagne copied Ravenna
ut Aix-la-Chapelle and sedulously en-
couraged tho immigration Of Byzantine
artists? Or is it surprising that, in the
tenth century, the Vonetians, perpetual
~ in commercial contact with every
eastern port, initiated Constantinopoli-
tan church amid their own lagoons? Be-
tween the sixth and the eleventh centuries
western ELECTROMAGNETIC art-was not
even sure what it wanted to try to do,
while in the sixth century eastern art
byzantine art-had already conceived
and perfected some Of the most marvel
Gus monuments Of human intelligence
and TASTE M G. Van Rensselaer, in
Century.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-08-21
The TramD's Story.

A tramp appeared at the door Of a
house in 1akoma park yesterday. He
was not IN ordinary looking tramp. AL
though ragged, there was an air about
him that bctokenod good breeding. He
touched the rim Of his battered hat with
the grace OF a Chesterfield, and the lady
Of the house gave him something to eat.
"You look as though you had been a
gentleman, " she said. II am afraid you
are addicted to drink"
"No, madam, you arc in error, he
replied. "Addictcd implies Il habit. I
am therefore not addicted to either
eating or drinking. l was, however,
once a gentleman. My downfall came
from learning a trade"
"Learning a trader"
Eyes, madam. | worked at tho ma
chinists' trade for five years, and so in
jured my thumb and foretlnscr that /
could follow my profession no longer,
madam"
"What was your profossion?"
II wrote checks, madam"
And even then she did not know what
he mcant--not until her husband came
home and told her why the writing of
checks made him have to learn a trade.
Washington Star.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-08-21
madam.


7 heard a good old German giving his
little grandson u lesson IN English the
other day, says a writer in the San
Francisco Post. The old man sat tilted
back in a chair against tho sunny side
Of the house smoking his pipe, while
little Paul played On his lap and the
collie Joe friskcd about them.
"Come, Voc! Here, Yoe!'' called the
little boy.
The old man knew that Voc was not
the English pronunciation of Joe, so he
undertook to correct the little fellow.
"No, gran'pa's boy don't say him
right" laughed tho old man. "You
mustn't say Voc Say 'Yoe.'"
"Yoo," repeated TIE child.
"I'm 'traid, Paulic, you vas q Dutch
mar und can't say Voc Now look at
gran'pa und say him right. Say'Yoe,'"
The child watched the old mans
mouth and then repeated "Yoe."
81 t'ink, Paulie, your tongue vas too
tick. You vas gran'pa's little Dutch
MAJ ind can't say 'Yoe.'
Then they both laughed and the littlo
boy called:
Here, Voc! Hero, Yoc!'