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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08

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COVER FOR HAY STACK.

best to let stand a few days, then re-
top and cover. Cover is made of boards
one by twelve inches, ours were IA feet
long. Bevel the edge of one board and
nail it and another together in the
form of Widespread triangle, using
ten-penny nails. If not spread suff-
GENTLY, nail well and jump up and
down on top of it. Have an attendant
take one end, you take the other, carry
up on ladders and lay on center of
stack. Carry another board up in the
same manner; or, better, have some
one pass it up to you, slip edge under
first board, tapping two inches or less,
and nail. Now move around TO oppo-
site side of stack, put one up there, and
so on till roof is wide as you want it,
Pass wires over top and weight down
heavily with rocks. Don't leave it any
time without weighing, for the wind
ran remove a roof of this kind in much
less time than it took to put it on.
Watch the stack closely and don't let
it get started tipping, for if it does the
weight on top will pull it over rapidly.
George T. Petit, in Agricultural
EDitOmist
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
WOMEN ON FARMS.
Extent of the Help Which New Eng
land Wives Give.

"
The women are true helpmeets. Not
only do they do their own work, but
they are able and willing to milk the
COWS and assist with the hay-getting
and in other ways lend a hand out of
doors i'll emergencies. Some of them
even exc out the family income by lit
tie ventures of their own, such as rails
ing hens and bees and gathering and
marketing spruce gum, beechnuts and
blueberries. There is no servant girl
problem, because there are no servants.
When sickness or some other real dis
ability necessitates female help in the
household a neighbours daughter is
called in. She is, of course, regarded.
and in every minutest particular treat
ed, as member of the family; it could
not be otherwise. The children are
trained to bear their share of the fam
lily burden, so far as it can be done with
out interfering with their schooling,
and the very school terms are arranged
with view to conflicting as little as
possible with farm work. When the
children grow up many of them go out
into the world to seek their fortunes
(that, within reasonable limits, is a
law of nature), but there is nothing
like an exodus of the rising generation,
no approach to a depletion. Plenty of
ambitious, vigorous young men stay
behind to arrange themselves in life as
their fathers did before them, chopping
in the woods winters and tilling the
few acres they have been able to pur-
chase with their winters savings sum-
mers. Furthermore, there are plenty of
desirable young women happy and
proud 70 cast their lots in with the
young men and do their share of the
drudgery necessary to establishing
home. Thus new farms are cleared out
of the woodland and the old farms are
Kept up.--Atlantic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
ROOTS AND ENSlLAGE.



If roots and ensilage improve the
health of animals, and cheaper the cost
of the food, they will do the same for
fowls. 1t is too expensive to feed
grain exclusively, when the winters
are long and severe, and as the hens
prefer a variety, they should have it.
A quart of corn meal added to half
peck of cooked turnips, will provide a
better meal than can be procured
from either the cornmeal or the tur-
nips, if either is fed alone. 1t is the
mixed food-the combination, of vari-
Gus elements-that enables the hen to
provide the different substances that
make up the combination called an
egg. Lime, phosphate, nitrogen, mag
nesia, and even water, are elements
that are absolutely essential, and
many foods contain an excess of some
kinds and deficiency of others.
When a mixed food is given, there is
a partial balancing of the needful ele-
ments, and the several varieties as
sist in digesting each other, thereby
avoiding waste of indigested food.
Finely chopped ensilage or clover,
potatoes, turnips, carrots, or any sue
culent bulky food, served with an adj
mixture of a variety of ground grain,
will provide the hens with a larger
supply of egg elements and entail
less cost for food than when the hens
are compelled to subsist entirely on
grdin.-Poultry Keeper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
Queen & CrPRcent,

During the Tennessee Centennial and In
ternational Exposition at Nashville, Tenn,
low rate special tariff has been established
for the sale of tickets from Cincinnati and
other terminal points on the Queen & Cres-
cent Route.
Tickets are on sale daily until further no
tice to Chattanooga at $6.75 one way or 81 20
round trip from Cincinnati, the round trip
tickets being good seven days to return;
other tickets, with longer return limit, at
$3.50 and at $3.50 for the round trip.
These rates enable the public to visit
Nashville and other Southern points at rates
never before offered Vestibuled trains of
the finest class are at the disposal of the
passenger, affording a most pleasant trip,
and enabling one to visit the very inter
esting scenery and important battle-ground
in and about Chattanooga, Lookout Noun
tain and Chickamauga National Military
Park. Tickets to Nashville to visit the
Centennial can be repurchased at Chatta-
nooga for $40 round trip. Ask your ticket
agent for tickets via Cincinnati and the Q.
& c. Route South or write to
W. C., RINEARSON, Genl Pass'r Agent,
Cincinnati, q.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
ENTHUSIASTIC WORK.
II Is Usually n Source of Much Profit
and Pleasure.

One cannot be a close observer of
farm practices over any considerable
territory without being forced to the
conclusion that there has been far
greater advancement in the average
quality and efficacy of farm machinery
than in average methods of using the
same; and that in very many cases the
injunction to ''let all things be done
1ecently and in order is sadly disre-
garded. There is, however, a vast diff
ference in localities with regard to
this. In some we find much friendly
strife as to who shall run the straight
est burrows and fences, do the neatest
job moving or reaping, and in many
other lines of farm work; and wher-
ever this condition of things exists we
will find attractive, well-kept farms and
home surroundings; with public prop
erty, as roads, schoolhouses and
grounds, etc, well looked after by an
intelligent and enterprising COM
munity.
A display of good judgment and
skill in laying the foundation for crop
is not only commendable and profitable
in and of itself, but it is an incentive
to better work throughout, while at
harvest time these count in the better
saving of crops. Besides, these things
are contagious, to some extent, their
influence favoring a general improve
inert of farm practices in the neigh
bortsooa, and through these a more
prosperous people. Oh, it pays to put
skill and enthusiasm into our work,
Of whatever nature it may be, for in
ferior, half-hearted work is seldom
source of much profit or pleasure
Agricultural Epitomist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
PORPOISE HUNTING.
Dangerous sport Followed by the
PassamaquOddy Indians.

In the northern part of Maine and in
Nova Scotia there are still many
Indians of the Passamaquoddy tribe.
and these Indians follow pursuit that
IS almost unknown to the outside world.
They shoot porpoises. Everybody ia
miliar with the sea has watched these
queer creatures. They are less shy
about showing themselves than any
other inhabitant of the ocean; but to
see them tumbling over themselves in
their odd regular way is all the world
in general ever has to do with them;
the Passamaquoddy Indians, however,
not only shoot them. but make their liv-
ing mainly out of porpoise, and living
well earned it is, too, for there is no
occupation in the world that calls for
more bravery, skill and endurance.
The money is obtained by sell
ing the oil, and pure porpoise
oil brings the Indians about 90
cents a gallon; the oil obtained
from the paws sells higher; it is tried
out by itself because of its superiority,
and is valued by watchmakers and
others, who want an oil of very fine
lubricating quality. The Indians eat
the porpoise fesh-it is very much like
fresh pork and many white fishermen
around the coast like it well enough to
give the Indians fresh fish in exchange
for it.
There are no game laws to protect
porpoise, and the hunting goes on the
year around, though the blubber is
something like two inches thick in win
ter. against one and half in summer;
but then the danger and suffering to
the Indian. not the fish, are far greater
in cold weather.
Make a guess as to how long a big
porpoise is. He does not look, when
seen from shore or from a steamers
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
HOW sugar Is Made White.

The way in which sugar is made per-
fectly white, it is said, was found out
in a curious way. A hen that had gone
through a clay mud puddle went with
her muddy feet into a sugar house. 1t
was observed by some one that wherever
the tracks were the sugarwas whitened.
This led to some experiments. The re-
suit was that wet clay came to be used
in refining sugar. 1t is used in this
way: The sugar is put into wooden
jars shaped as you see the sugar loaves
are. The larger ends are upward. The
smaller ends have hole in them. The
jar is filled with sugar the clay put over
the top and kept wet. The moisture
goes down through the sugar and drops
from the hole in the small end of the
jar. This makes the sugar perfectly
white.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
HER LIFELIKE STATUE.
Signnlized Her Departure from the
World of Artists.

Before her marriage she pad been a ia
nous sculptress. She had made several por-
traits of wel-known men, and everyone pre-
dicted for her a still more brilliant future,
when she suddenly set all predictions at
naught by marrying a wealthy man who dis
approved OF her keeping up her professional
work. She was very quiet under this re
striction, but was supposed to rebel inward
ly. Therefore when, at a dinner party one
evening, she asked her old friend, Gen.
Bashar, to come and see her on the follow
ing evening and inspect her last piece of
work, which she thought the best and most
hfelke she had ever executed, he sup
posed he was to use his influence to prevail
upon the husband to permit her to resume
her place among the working fraternity Of
artists.
Il am sure you will like it, general" she
said, with a winning smile. ut fairly lives
and breathes. | confess | am in love with
it myself"
On the appointed evening the general,
with some misgivings over the delcacy of
the task intrusted to him, presented him
self. Instead of inviting him to the studio,
his hostess, to his surprise, offered to bring
her last bit to him.
oh, it's a statuette, is it," he asked.
"Well, yes, you might call it so" she an
swered as she went out of the room In a
few minutes she returned, bearing in her
arms-a baby!-Chicago Times Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
BEAR THIS IN MIND.
Some Day the Advice Here Given
May Keep You from Drowning.

May heep 1Ou from Drowning.
The human body weighs pound in the
water, and single chair will carry two
grown persons-that is, it will keep
the head above water, which is all that
is necessary when it is question of
life or death.
One finger placed upon a stool or
chair, or small box or piece of board,
will keep the head above water, while
The two feet and the other hand may
be used as paddles to pFopel the body
toward the shore. 1t is not at all
necessary to know how to swim to
keep from drowning. a little expert
ence of the buoyant power Of the water,
and faith in it, is all that is required.
We have seen Il small boy, who could
not swim a stroke, propel himself
back and forth across a wide, deep
pond by means of a board that would
not sustain five pounds weight.
Children and all others should have
practice in the sustaining power OF
water In nine cases out of ten the
knowledge that what will support a
pound weight is all that is necessary to
keep ones head above water will serve
better emergencies than the greatest
EXPERIENCES as a swimmer.
A person unfamiliar with the buoy
ant power of water will naturally try
to climb TO the top of the floating OBJ
ject on which he tries to save himself
If it is large enough, that is all
right. But generally ii is not large
enough, and half struggling group is
often drowned in the desperate sCram-
BILE of a life and death struggle TO climb
on top of piece of wreck or ether
floating object, not half large enough
to keep them all entirely above water.
This often happens when pleasure
boats capsize. All Immediately want
10 get out of the water on top of the
overturned or half-flled boat. and all
are drowned except those whom the
wrecked craft will wholly bear up. If
they would simply trust the water to
sustain ninety-nine hundredths of the
weight of their bodies and the disabled
boat the other hundredth, they might
be saved under most circumstances.
An overturned or haf-flled boat will
sustain more people in this way than
it will carry. 1t would keep the heads
of as many people above water as could
get their hands Oh the gunwale.
These are simple facts, easily learned,
and may some day save your life
Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
ALL AROUND THE FARM.

Few crops ask so little outlay as the
honey crop.
There is little danger in cultivating
corn too much.
Mulching with straw is a good way 20
manage late potatoes.
Cultivate the strawberries as soon as
they are done fruiting.
If good care is given the horses hard
work will not hurt them.
The temperature of the water for the
horses is not so important as the purity
of it.
Before the weeds and briars get
too good start clean out the fence
rows.
During the summer at least the work
teams should not be compelled to rest
with their harness on at noon.-Farm-
er's Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
EnIarginS "a Girls Skull.

in a Georgia town lives girl of II,
with the intellect of an infant. She
was bright enough until she reached the
age of seven, and then she began to
lose memory and speech. The case Yves
q puzzle to physicians, until a yourg
member of the profession announced
that her skull was too small to permit
the brain to grow. This suggested the
idea of enlarging the skull, and, such
are the triumphs of modern surgery,
the operation was performed, the girl
survived it, and now, after the lapse of a
month, she is physically as well as ever
and the mental improvement is most
marked. Perhaps, some day, we can
have our heart and lungs made new
again as surgeons grow still more
clever
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08

As she stood upon the top stoop and
kissed him good-by before he went out to
battle with the cold, cold world he thought
that she mad never looked so winsome even
in their old counting days
'And now my bad boy must have as many
slaps as years he has lived, for to-day is his
birthday" she went on, beginning the
Christening situations
"Why, so it is, he said. with that mo-
mcntary sensation of years passing helpless
ly away which middle-aged men experience
upon these occasions
And what lovely thing shall his darling
wife get him for birthday present this
year" she went on you already have d
smoking cabinet and a card table, and my
diningr lamp, YOU know, was one of
my birthday presents to you. And then"
I'D go kind of light, my dear" he an
swored, somewhat moodily. Get me some
little cheap thing. | haven't been able to
pay for my last years birthday present
yet"-N. Y. journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
THE METRIC SYSTEM.
Its Introduction Would simplify All
Farm transactions.

Farm transactions.
A time-honored absurdity is found in
the British corn (grain) markets, says
Texas Farm and Ranch. All kinds of
grain are sold in quarters. If the quar-
ter meant any particular quantity, the
same at all times and with all sub
stances, we could learn to realize what
the term meant. But the weight of
the quarter depends upon what kind
of grain is intended. If it is of wheat
from California 500 pounds is one quar-
ter; if the wheat is English grown 504
pounds make a quarter; if it should
be Russian barley, ago pounds are one
quarter; Russian oats are sold in quar-
tiers of 504 pounds. Oats from elsewhere,
800 pounds make one quarter; English
and Scotch oats 60 $50 pounds per quar-
ter. Schoolboys are taught that 112
pounds make one hundredweight, 20
hundredweight one ton, and that four
quarters equal one ton. Hence the quar-.
ter should be 500 pounds. Much confu"
sion results in this country from read
ing the English corn markets, and no
wonder. And yet we have a similar
custom: For instance, bushel of corn
is sc pounds, bushel of oats is 80
pounds and a bushel of wheat is 60. The
English paradox is easily explained on
the same principle; the quarter varies
with the specific gravity of the sub
stance weighed. Let us get the beam
out of our own eyes before we make too
much ado about the mote in that of our
neighbor, John Bull.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
Treasure Hunt In Texas.

Eighty thousand dollars in gold and
silver bullion is the sum which band
of fortune hunters in Texas are looking
for; or, at least, obey think they are
looking for it. The story which started
them on their search is that some years
ago a wagonlOad of the precious metals
was thrown into a deep spring near
Garlic, Tex, to prevent its falling into
the hands of brigands. Only one man
who was aware of the hiding plate sur
vived the fight with the robbers, and
the present searching party was organ
lied by him.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
LOUsE-PROOF ROOsT.

sides being of 1y2-inch material. If
preferred, weights may be suspended
at D d D to steady the continuance. If
it does not swing too much, the fowls
can easily get off and on the roost All
that is necessary is to keep the rod at
the top OBJ well oiled, and lice cannot
get to the fowls. The roost can be
taken down during the day, if desired,
or may be swung in any direction to adj
mit the attendant TO the floor. The
cost is but a nominal sum.-Farm and
Fireside.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
A BIRD OF LETTERS.

"ABC, abe. ABCw
The parrot cried, proud as could be.
I'VE birds who know letters
Are surely your betters,"
He called to the birds in the tree.
But the birds in the tree-top at play
All chirped in the jolliest way:
We don't know ABC's,
But we're quite at our ease
In these higher branches" said they.
H. L. Bridgman, in st. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08

forms the pin on which the swing re-
wolves, and should fit loosely in the
socket, a hole in the top of the post
which has been set in the ground SO as
to project about II inches.
At the top of the post a similar pin is
inserted and passed through a tri-
angular piece of iron, which any black
smith can make for you. At each
corner of the triangle the metal is
drawn out and curved upward into a
ioop, from which chains or wires pass
70 the trees at a little distance
American Agriculturist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
Grass Is Good for Pigs.

Grass is an important pig food
Breeding sows never do better and
never throw stronger or better itters
than when they get the run of grass
field. The roadside sow produces the
best filters, because she is leading a
natural life and her breeding functions
are more vigorous. Corn stubbles are
useful as pig runs. Not only are the
pigs benefited by the food, but great
many weeds are prevented from seed.
ing.-Dakota Field and Farm.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08

Aliens Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet;
It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery
OF the age. Aliens Foot Ease makes tight or
new shoes feel easy 1t is certain cure for
sweating, callous, hot, tired. aching feet;
Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and
shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE.
Write to Allen S. Olmsted, LEROY, y. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08

and Pat m rsgpef 5 from L4Rd0n 5 after so h2a y
tell his adventures.
"Now, of all the sights you saw, what OBJ
ject struck you most-in fact, left the deep
est impression on you| asked the priest
Faith, it was brick from a scaffold as
struck me most and left its deep impression
on me-" said Pat, showing cut on his fore
hetd.-Spare Moments.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND.
How the Boys and Girls Can Make
One of Their own.

Sometimes we see merry-gO-rOund,
or revolving swing for children, made
by simply pivoting a strong board on
a post. A better arrangement is that
shown in our illustration. 1t revolves
with greater ease and does not neces-
state the children sitting on opposite
ends to balance each other.
Let the board be at least 16 feet long.
and at the center attach. by mortising,
a four-inch post eight feet long. which
is .braced in an upright position by
means of wire or small iron chains
passing from near its top TO a point
well out toward either end of the board.
In the base of this post a one-inch
rod should be firmly set, and project
several inches below the board This
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
HAY STACK COVER.
1t Keep the Hay Bright Clear Up to
the Boards.


Herewith is presented sketch of a
stack cover which we saw neighbor
using and afterwards used ourselves
with very satisfactory results, for upon
removing the cover the hay is found
nice and bright clear up to the boards.
There is usually little damaged hay
at lower edges of cover, but the loss
here is slight.
The stack is made in the form of a
rick of any desired length, as several
lengths of boards may be used. 1t
should be well balanced; the hay
should, if possible, be pitched on to
stack from both slices. In topping out,
bring up to sharp ridge and tramp well
along center. In good weather it is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
From Shakespeare.

''Ball this evening, dear" inquired Des
demona of Othello, when she saw him load
ing up his old revolver.
NO, not this evening, love; smother
pillow, and wedged it softly down her
oesophagus -Un-to-Date
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
She Missed Him.

A poor woman who kept shop in north
ern village, and who was troubled with a
husband who could scarcely be considered a
credit to the family, one day found herself
a widow through the sudden demise of her
spouse. A lady, who frequently made
small purchases at the shop, called to see her
and to offer her sympathy, though knowing
that the mans death must in a certain sense
come as a relief, as the wife had often suf-
fered from his violence. She was not, how
ever, quite prepared for the stoical way in
which the wife took her bereavement.
Said the lady:
Il am sure, Mrs. C., you must miss.
your husband.'
well, mum, it do seem queer to 60 into.
the shop and find something in the till!''-
Tit-Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08

Prof Standardization was a great
philosopher. By observing the mere fall of
an apple he discovered the law of gravity.
Smithers - That's nothing BY simply
biting an apple Eve discovered the gravity
of lawn Y. Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08

"I took tramp in the woods yesterday"
said Miss Frocks to the new arrival at Deer
Park Did you: Oh, well, suppose that
men are so scarce that even a tramp is pet
ter than nothing Life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-08
LlCE-PROOF ROOST.
1t Costs But IA Few Cents to Make
One of Them.

The design is of roost that can be
made of any size, and which is in use.
A is the roof of the poultry-house, and
B shows where the roost is suspended
from a hook, either with wire or a rod.
The roost Co is 2x3-inch scantling, the