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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-31
Rroiled Partridge on Toast.

Partridge broiled makes delightful
course at a luncheon served on delicate
squares of toast bread. After prepar-
| ing the bird with great nicely, divide
and tlatten it with meat bat. din in
melted butter, and broil over a clear
fire. Serve with mushrooms prepared
as follows: Take pint of mushrooms,
and pare them neatly, removing tha
stalks; as they are pared drop into wa
ter, to which has been added some,
lemon juice to preserve their color.
When all are prepared take them from
the water, drain well, and put them
into a saucepan with three ounces of
fresh butter, white pepper and salt to-
taste and the juice of half n lemon.
Cover them closely and simmer for 20
minutes; then sift in dessertspoonfuL
flour, and very little cream about
four tablespoonfuls will be sufficient;
add little grated nutmeg, and serve
hot, garnished with parsley.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Queen Victoria frequently examines
her will. 1t is engrossed on Velluns
quarto size, and is beautifully bound.
While digging near blasted tree
on his farm, in Beech Grove, Tex, Samp-
son Glider found an iron pot WHICH
contained $3.50 in gold.
The taxable wealth, OF the negro
population in the United States Is over
$500 100000. There are 23,462 negro
church boSIes, with church property
valued at over $26,62G,4 48. There are
over/1 900 college-trained ministers and
2,677,077 church communicates lne
census shows that there are nearly
| 1000 900 communicates.
The gas engine, which in Europe
has now supplanted the steam ehgino
for moderate power, is beng useo III
France for ships. A new gasboat on
the Hayre- Rouen- Paris line is 100 feet
long with seven feet draught, and at
+ains n speed of seven knots. The gas
is stored in steel tubes under pres
sure of IS atmosphere. The engine Is
two-cylinder one and is of Az horse
power. --.
Only 900 persons in 100000, accord
, ing to medical authority, die from Oh
age. while 1900 succumb to govt 49,
! 400 to measles, 1900 to apopleXy, 1000
y to erysipelas, 1900 to consumption 49,
}, GOO to scarlet fever, $4,000 to whooping
cough, 10000 to typhoid and typhus ana
d 1000 to rheumatism. The averages vary
s according to locality, but these are con-
T, sidered accurate as regards the popula'
ton of the globe as awhole.
e There are some horses working II
IL cities which have never been seen u
lie down in their lives. They continue
~ 1920 ----.lr--fo, years. and always sleel
but their rest is said to pe
incomplete, and their joints and sin
ews stitfen. Young horses from the
country are liable to refuse to lie down
when first placed in stable in town,
and the habit may become confirmed
unless special pains are taken to pre-
vent it.
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jim WAS UNGRATEFUL.


sheriff Had Grown Tired OF Giving Him
Too Much Freedom.
was sitting with the sheriff in front
Of the town courthouse, when he sud
denly stood up, shaded his eyes with
his hand and looked across the street
and then called out:
"Heah, yo'. Is that yo', JIM"
A colored man, about so years old.
who was slouching along the other side,
came across the street and replied:
Eyes, Mars Renfog, dis am me-
"And what ar yo' doing heah"'
"I'ze list walllin' out, sab. l dun
thought I'd drap down and see my dai-
ter"
How did you get out?''
"Jist made a hole through the back
wall, sab"
"Look-a-heah, jim" said the sheriff.
as he sat down and picked up stick
to white on, II amt gwine to stand
this fussin' no mo-. This is nigh about
seven times yous broke out o Jail
Yes, sab, nigh bout seben times
sab, but don't be hard on me.
"You's got out by the doah, the win
dows, the floor, the ceiling and the,
walls, and you's put me TO trouble
and the county to expense. Now, yo-
can't 90 back thar no mo-
please, sah.''
"No. sab, yo' can't do it. I've given
yo' a fair show and yo' can expect no
mo-. Yo' can iist take yourself off.
but, Mars Renfog, Ize dun bin put
in Jail on a hog case, an lie got to stay
dar till de cotehouse meets. protested
} the man.
81 know Won were arrested and eN-
2mined and bound over and all that,
but I'm tired of the fussing. | ain +
5 Going to stand by and let nobody dam
: age the Jail Io's got out and come
: back and now l won't abide it no mo =
e Hist take vo'self off and don't come
| back to my Jail again unless you want
! to be hard used If l find yo breakin
in I'll shoot yo' shores yo BON"
Wont yo try me jist once MOI
T pleaded the prisoner.
NO, sab! I've drawed the line and
now yo's has got to go and take keer
u Of vo'seIf. I'm tellin' yo' to scatter be-
TO- | make yo' turn in and stop up that
II last hole in the wall"
l. The man scattered" in discour-
aged, detected way, and as he was lost
to sight down the street the sheriff
II growled:
"Durn a fellow who don't know when
o he's being used like bon gentleman
lie Detroit Free Press.
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SQUASH Pie.

Take two cups of sifted squash, add
tablespoon of melted butter and stir
well. Now take a bowl and beat three
eggs, one and one-half cups of sugar,
two tablespoonfuls of -four, one-half
tablespoonful of salt, one-fourth
teaspoonful of cassia, one-fourth
teaspoonful of lemon extract. Mix
well and add to your squash; then
gradually stir in three pints of milk.
Put in your prepared crust and bake,
This will make two large pies or three
small ones.-St. Louis Republic.
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QUESTION OF LUCK.
Citation That ClInched the other Side or
the Argument.

the Argument.
81 hate to hear people say there's no
such thing as luck" remarked the
melancholy Mr.. Dolittle.
Il don't see why" his wife rejoined.
because it isn't true" he returned,
with asperity. "a man can go on try
ing and trying, and never get along
And some other person will go ahead
and tumble into good things without
| n,alripcr or,,- a+f.---+ ~
--.--..-..,, -. tItItcTer.
Hiram, no great man has succeed
ed without hard work"
That's the kind of talk you always
hear. But nine times out of ten it is
all owing to the opportunity that pre-
sented itself. Fortune just seems to lie
in wait to kidnap some men. Look at
Sir Isaac Newton. His name is hand
I'd down from generation to generation.
Aud why? Simply because he was sit
ting under a tree and an apple hap.
pcned to drop on him. You can't pre-
tend that a man is i'll n position to claim
superior merit simply because, through
20 action or preference of his own, he
gets hit in the head with an apple, c.n
you?"
mo, Hiram"
"Then don't tell me about there not
being any such thing as luck"
at seems to me that you've chosen n
poor example in support of your argu-
ment. The case of Isaac Newton goes
to show that the difference is in the
people. If it had been some men that
| know of instead of Newton the first
thing they would have done after the
apple fell would have been to go INTO
the house and moan for the arnica bot
tie; then they would have spent two
Or three hours of precious time talking
about their bad luck" Washington
Star.
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A Curious Superstition.

I'm Scotland there is superstition
cat the complexion of the first caller
a New Years day indicates the good
r~Hl-fortune to befall the house during
be following year. If the caller is
llonde, the indication is favorable for
pod luck; if a brunette, the contrary
p much confidence is placed in the in.
lcation by some persons that families
I've been known to have blonde ready
the door to walk in the moment afteI
ye clock strikes 12.-St- Louis Gloh"
emocrat.
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WILL" she answered, pettishly. We've
all our lives to be 'spooney' in, and, be-
sides, 1 have other Obligations" She
turned and left him, regardless of the
pleading, reproachful eyes that she
knew We're following her, and for the
rest of the evening she hardly noticed
him at all. Indeed, he kept out OF the
way as much as possible, for all this
merriment was to him, in his present
mood, gall and NORWOOD.
He had Just returned from lonely
smoke in the library, and, somewhat
soothed, was returning to JON the
others, who we're gathering about the
big fireplace in what good Mrs. War
rem designated as the "sittin'-room, TO
observe that time-honored custom OF
watching the Old Year out and the New
Year in. He told himself, sentimental-
", that he would quietly take a seat al
Madge's side, gain surreptitious posses
sion of her hand, and thus they would
enter upon the New Year together.
But Madge was not in the GROUP
about the fireplace, nor was she III tht
room; and, even as he looked, the OF
fensiyely handsome and aristocratl'
Martindale rose quietly and made hi
exit through the other door. For
moment Braden stood dazed-then
with Jealous intuition he turned ant
made his way to the conservatory, am
there, not ten feet from the door n
recopnized the figure of Martindale
But the latter did not see nor hear tn
? eavesdropper. He was busy kissing IN
willing lips of some one in feminine a
tire whose face could not be seen, bu
whose dress and figure, in the OH
light, looked only TOO 1amnlar 10 poo'
Braden. Utterly crushed, the latter
turned silently and FASTENED up to his
room.
"Where's WHIP" some one asked, sud
denly, when New Years greetings had
been exchanged and the merriment had
subsidized to some extent. No one pres
ent had seen him, and Mr., Warren in
terrogatcd the servants.
NO, sir, e hain't in is room, sir, Mr..
Braden hain't," said Alfred, the butler.
Hi saw i'm go hout the front door
habout a hour hago, sir. Yes, sir, e
'ad is at an coat on, sir.
1t seemed very strange, indeed, until
Mr.. Warren, who had gone to his study
for a goodnight smoke, found on his
desk a note from viii. In it the young
man begged forgiveness for thus alb
ruptly taking his departure, minated
that Madge would doubtless explain
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81 think she has a very nice nose my /
self" said the girl in the fur cape, stiff
lv, Harold is thought to look a great
deal like her.
ooh, THAT is, by the way, l heard
that YOU bought a gold thimble the
ether day. Have you been doing much
sewing?"
"N-not very much. Oh. Elsie, if you
will never. never tell as long as you live,
I'll tell you all about it. You see Har'
old's mother has somehow gotten an
idea mat l am frivolous person, and
last week well, I decided that I'd
show her how practical 1 am"
''Well, and did you?"
at was this way-I was, of course,
anxious for her good opinion"
'M-yes; l understand that she has
good deal of money in her own right
"She wants Harold to marry a prac-
teal girl, so gave up curling my hair,
bought a pair of boots mile too long
for me and asked everybody to call me
'Margareet' instead of Daisy"
Eyes, and what was the RESULT"
"She told Harold that she hoped she
was the one. not she, who was mistaken
in NV character, and casually men
toned the fact that she thought every
Young couple should own the house in
which they set up housekeeping"
ooh. Dali mean Margaret, how per
fectly lovely!'
"Wasn't il? Then T heard that she
! =, N,,,,I,oy,c' home
I decided to become interested in it
too, I told her that l would make 10
cf garments for the orphans, and yo1
; should have seen her surprise and pleas
=. ure!"
$50 YOU really made garments TO
the children? How did you go abou
> it?"
{ 81 made one. bought lot of stuff
the people at the shop seemed to th'n
t if rather unsuitable for the purpose
" but it was so pretty that | couldn't re
- sist it. | had expected mamma to hel
t re, but she showed such a lack of il
tercst in it that I just shut myself II
alone and made little dress all by my
sclf.'
~ on don / say SO. no" lollS ui'' II
Take me? y week. When it We
finished | decided not to wait until II
Others were made, but take it at one
10 Harolds mother. When I got the
I was so proud and so excited that
could hardly open the package and no
up the dress for inspection"
"And wasn't she Surprised"
"She was. She-she held it in h
hands a long time, turning it this W;
and that, then she asked me"
"Where you wanted to live when "
we're married."
"No; she-she asked me what
earth it was! "-Chicago Times-Heral
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and requested that his luggage be for
warded to him at Philadelphia. That
was all.
THE young scoundrel!" stormed
Papa Warren, as, at most unseemIy
hour, he prepared to retire, ito go OF
like that when-confound it! l sup
pose my poor little girl will cry her eyes
out. but she's we'll rid of him, just the
same!" Which is way parents have OF
trying to console themselves in such
cases.
Near the end of the one street in
little we9tern prairie town stood tiny
one-story frame building containing
two rooms. In front of it two weather.
beaten tin shingles" swung and rat
tied in the winter winds, making dole
full music for the occupants Of the
"shacll" to listen to in bad weather. On
one of these signs was painted: NV. y.
Braden, j. p" and on the other John
Pinkham, Constable"
It was bleak December afternoon,
rapidly merging into dusk, when Mr.
| John I1nkNam cmeIStu lIOlh lllC NC"
and tobacco smoke of the stuffy little
office into the frosty outside air. He
was ruddy, corpulent man, with good
humored eyes and ready laugh that
could, it was claimed, be heard all over
the township. But this evening he
looked serious and neglected to whistle
az usual on his way up the street.
He walked into the office Of the "ho
tel" and with profound sigh seated
himself by the fire, all by himself. Pres
emily Birch Hunter, the landlord, en-
tered with a supply of firewood.
"IIullo, john"
"Hullo, Birch!"
Hunter busted himself about th'
stove for few minutes, then looked vi
suddenly and asked
Comm up t. tn New Years ball,
reckon, John?"
Pinkham shook his head and sighed
ponderously: "Nope. I got t kee,
vigil ag'in t'-night'
Hunter nodded Understandings
"Jedge havin' one o his spells?"
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"Aladge!'
Tell We what" chuclslad John -Pinb-

Tell xe- what" chnGlS.ad John Pink
ham to his crony, Hunter, as they
by the stove in the hotel office the next
night recounting the events Of the pre-
vious evening, but We jest ought t
see how chirkcd up tn jedge isl Say,
twas bctter'n Il play. Inwe comes, car
ryin' tn OIL gent, tn gyurl an 'er ma
right behind, an tn iedge turns on us
all of a student like ed bite our heads
off. Then tn gyurl an him both
screechcs, an she falls over onto is
neck like she was there t stay-an' she
is 20 t. speak.
"Ye see, it was girl-trouble, jest like
l allus allowed. TIL jedge, he was jeal-
Gus, an one night, when he thinks e
sees a4othcr Teller maxim love to 'cr,
he up an slides, 'thout sayin' word.
Come to find out, twas 'er cousin tn
teller was maxim love to, an they gifts
married later. Wa-al," he concluded,
in a contented voice, I'm glad them
wigils is over, an en- go an shake a
foot wi TIL rest of We next year. Them
wigils o. mine was a sore trial, Birch, a
| sore trial"
Down at the little shack VIII and
! Madge, hand in hand, with the old
folks looking on approvingly, had kept
their own New Year vigil, just as they
had expected to do on that night gone
by.
LESTER KETCHUM.
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It's too bad" said Willie Wishing
t i that the good old custom of maxi
il calls on New Years day is slowly
/ surely dying out"
do you like the practice?"
'Nerwy much. When you cawn't
tank Of anything else, you can say;
Apply New Year and it's the only time
wen evan feel WEAKLY at home as q
hversationalist." - Washington Star.
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near the track, to be cared for, while
the rest went to the Hotel Hunter.
viii Braden, stalking gloomily up and
down the floor OF the room occupied
Jointly by himself and PinIham, heard
not a sound, until the door was sud
denly thrown open and Pinkham and
some one else entered, supporting an
elderly man who had been cut about the
head. Behind them came two or three
other persons, and one of these, pretty
young woman, halted justat the thresh-
old with a wild cry:
"Will."
"Madge."
Then she tainted in his arms, and all
was confusion for time.
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OF CHARITAeLENESs.
After All Her Labor She Was snuDbed
for Her Pains.

care Won much interested in charita-
bIe work ," asked the girl with the eye
glasses.
81 was" returned the girl in the fur
Gene. I'm afraid that hereafter my
charity will begin at home and go no
further than next Goor."
"Ah, YOU are wrong there" said the
Girl with the eyeglasses. "Of course,
il does discourage one to have the walf
in whom she is interested pick her Pock-
atandthe destitute widow for whom she
has been prosecuting her friends crit
icise her taste in millinery; still, the
| broad principles of humanity
Look here" said the girl in the fur
cane. ficrcelv. at is all very well for you
who are engaged to young clergyman
to talk about the broad principles OF hu
manity-Tm surprised that you don
use CAPITALS in speaking of them-bu
for my part I'd like to see a little les'
public charity in some people ana a lit
tle more common humanity.
sob, if you mean in regard to pauper
ling people by"
Il mean nothing OF tne hlhu' wv
there is Harold"
II was wondering how soon Harol
was coming into the conversation
said the girl with the eyeglasse
. softly.
tit wasn't Harold, exactly" sa
: the girl in the fur cape; "it was h
: mother; she's interested in chart
u "Of course. woman with nose Iii
- that couldn't be expected to keep 1t o
- ~, ~, na0nle's affairs"
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T was a. jolly house
party at Cliyeden
during the Holt
days that winter.
Cliveden was not
an ancestral hall.
1t was merely the
country-seat OF
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"Yep. Wuss'n ever, this time. Even
tells me, awhile ago, he wish't I'd GIT
out an leave i'm alone"
I'D do it, then" said the landlord.
warmly. "'Tain't right FIR you t give
up all these we're New Years COINS on
ies' t watch him"
Pinkham shook his head again.
81 got charge t keep, he quoted
somewhat uncertainty. "F'r three Sc
ceedin' year, Birch, I've KEEP this yere
New Years vigil t keep tn jedge firm
dom ITSELF any harm in one O them
blue spells; an propose to keep them
wigils Jest s long S 'e has them spells.
Hunter shook his head deprecatingly.
He could not understand why John
should give up his enjoyment OF the sea
| son to watch another who had annual
''blue spells" EFF e wants t gitaway
with 'imself John can't help it-none
whatever" he reasoned. But he knew
there was no use arguing with the con-
! stable, who, as a matter of fact, go1
not n little mournful satisfaction out
of his martyrdom.
Hes wuss'n ever, this time" ht
repeated. "Sets by tn hour starin' a.
nothin' an muttcrin', then gifts up al
Goes walkin', walltin' up an down an
1nutterin' some more. I'm goin t
watch i'm t'-night eff e likes it r not
Say, tell tn women t put up is suppe
in a basket, an I'll take it when l g.
back. Tn Judge hain't ct all day"
, As Pinkham approached the otiic
, with Braden's supper, he almost co
= lded with the station agent, who, coat
t less and hatless, was running madly u
4 the street.
=. .sunrrv'" he nantel. Get the do'
tor. quick. Get" ia
Here, what's up?" demanded Pink
ham
"Wild engine comm down from Hill
ton-iust got word. No. already left
Chapelle-scnt jim to flag 'er, but no
use-thee1,e bound to meet about here.
If it wasn't for them cars" The agent
pointed with a sob toward a enc of box
cars on the side track-''we might save
EN-. But" 1t was all over so
nuicl<Iv that none of the citizens had
fine TO reach the scene of the collision
before it occurred The tagged eX'
press halted and had started to back to
Chapelle, but it was too late. The wild
engine bore down upon it too swiftly.
Fortunately, no one was killed. de-
spite the completeness of the wreck
xnd but few persons were injured
| These were at once taken to houses
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Before IIOf,sst--,.
So l both smile and sigh
While welcoming the year so glad and new;
And, looking backward, whisper unto you
"Old year, good-by, good-by'
Alice ]. Cleator, in Housekeeper.
The morning times., 1896-05-31

canoe as the yacht has beHn perfected. 1t
has canoe races OF three sorts. There are
sailing races when the c1noeIst puts away
his paddles. and sitting upon 4 hiking seat
at the side OF his small canoe directs the
sails and gees over a course OF three or
four miles for Il trophy OF some sort.
Then there are the half sailing and half
padding races. Here the cauoeist pad
dies one mile and sails the next. II calls
for quick work, for he must overhaul the
sails, get out his paddle and work Wig
orOusly with his arms for half mile,
then lay aside the paddle, furl the sails
ana do another half miles work. The
third contest is padding over the whole
course. OF the canoes the most expensive
are the sailing ones. 4 good Spanish
cedar canoe with sails .nd hiking seat
costs nearly two hundred dollars. But
an ordinary paddier can lie bought for 4
quarter the sum. Many very enthusiastic
paddles Df means Wi, n DuyCIe expensive
sail canoes holding it better sport To cover
the ground with paddles oniy.
IMPROVED CANOES.
The old canoes were built size and
shape that required a man TO paddle
his own canoe. Now lie need not DO so
unless lie wills. 4 good 16-fcot canoe
will hold from two 10 four perS6ns, and
the paddcr. should lie not care to propcl
u
paddle to the man in the other END aud
ask him o help.
The size ana weight of a paddle depend
upon individual preference. With a heavy
boat, settling down low in the water,
short, heavy paddle is wanted. If the
boat sets high a longer paddle is asked
for. Many canoeists go TO the meet for
pleasure alone. They take with them u
wellpolished canoe and small paddle.
With this they sit in the bow of the boat
and leisureIy pull it along IN any direction
they please, depending upon a pretty face
opposite for all the sport and anus ement
they crave. These canoeists are not the
pride OF the association, but they are
tolerated, as We tolerate all butterflies
because they are so ornamental.
The Squaw Point canocists are very
skillful. They easily paddle five mi les
an hour, and many do much better. When
the races take place they push down the
trim little canoes TO the water, launch
the canoes themselves. skip aboard, grasp
the paddle. and are off. Being light. they
fairly fly over the water, and Were they
not compelled to certain conditions of
they would undoubtedly make
records for canoeing annals. When they
We're first invited to become an auxiliary
of the canoe association the ma teriaI side
OF theciub was thought of, the pIankedshad,
the little midnight luncheons, q nd the re-
pairs TO padding suits. They would be
handy 10 have around. Now they are
as a vastly entertaining necessity.
LARGE MEET.
All the States send their canoe clubs
The New York Canoe Club, which claims