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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
GIRLS, KEEP YOUNG.
Youth Is the Best Time
of Life.

Mother wants to keep me baby I'M
til | am q" pouted a girl of IA, whose
wise mot her wanted to have her retain
the loosely-iicwing locks and the youth
full simple garments suitable to her
years for a couple of seasons longer.
This complaint is very frequently heard
coming from the lips of maidens who
are to be enyied owing to their adorable
youth, the very thing they despise.
The rosy flush, the slight figure, the
clear eyes will never belong to them but
once. Once only can woman be
young. Do not forget this, girls. sc
anxious to put behind you the one
period of your existence when the sun
shines as it never will again. and when
the birds sing with sweeter meaning
than will be heard when the morning
has passed and high noon with the
greater heat and pressure of the bur-
dens of life has rushed upon you. Isn't
every young thing sweeter and purer
than the world-hardened, older ones of
the same specie? Look at the lambs at
play, note the tender green leaves that
shoot out in their innocent verdure from
the old winter seasoned branches. Kit
tens and chicks and young birds are
the most appealing creatures, and when
one comes to babies there never can be
in all this lovely world anything so
sweet and loveable as a dear little
dimpled baby.
Therefore, girls, stay young. You
may have to bear some inconvenience
of restraint owing to your extreme
youth, but the time will come when YOU
will long for these incidentals of the
youthfulness that will have passed
away from you forever.-Detroit Free
Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
EGYPTIAN NICE.

burrows, which are very ingeniously
constructed. The entrance is left I'M
concealed, but the exits are many and
well hidden, so that at the first alarm
they are off and away by leaps. At the
beginning of September they close the
entrance to the burrows and begin
their winter sleep, which lasts until
the following April. They are to be
found to-day only in Egypt. The in
habitants of the districts in which
they are found have little love for them,
and the shepherds are often startled to
see them leaping and dancing in the
moonlight of a bright summer night.
Some of these people think that there
is a special virtue in their tails. When
is killed or found dead, the tail is cut
off, dried and pounded up, when il is
given to any horse that appears to be
ailing- In ancient times the leaping
mouse was well known, being called
mures bipedes (two-footed mice). The
city of Cyrene had picture of one Of
them on its CONSIST. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
TWO DAYS.

Robby and Johnny and Tommy stood
Under a tree in a chestnut wood.
They could see upon the branches high
The green burrs wave against the sky.
But what are they good for. there?" they
said,
when every one is over your head.
"A boy may try as hard as he can;
The world was only made for man"
But Jack Frost heard and laughed with
glee;
Then he took from his pocket tiny key
And each green burr so closely shut
Flew back to show shining nut
The jolly West Wind heard them, too,
And thought: There's work for me to do"
So he rushed at the tree with a sudden
bound,
And shook the chestnuts to the ground.
Robby and Johnny and Tommy stood
The very next day in the chestnut wood
And I think if you'd heard their fun and
noise,
You would say that the world was made for
boys.
Ellen Sherman Corson, in Youths Com
panion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
THE LEAPING MOUSE.
Curious Little Animal Found Only
in Egypt at Present, But Once
Quite Numerous.

Many thousands of years ago, before
the great 'iee age" when the climate of
Europe and America was about that of
Africa, little mice like those in the pic
ture were jumping around here. Queer
fellows they are, with their large eyes,
long, bare tail, save for the little bunch
at the end, and legs like kangaroo.
This mouse is the color of the ground,
and at night and when it runs about
seeking food is hard to distinguish.
When the young are ready to leave
the nest the mother sticks them to her
body with some kind of clay and then
goes abroad in search for food. While
feeding the long tail is curved into a
letter IS" but when about to leap the
tail stiffens out, aiding both in the leap
and as steering apparatus. The mouse
jumps 20 times its own length at a
single leap. When near inhabited
places it becomes a pest, though not
quite as bad as our house mouse. 1t
sucks the eggs in the hen nests and digs
up the onions in the gardens with great
zest. These depredations are made at
night, for in the daytime these little
fellows lie hidden in their underground
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21

The ideal hostess is she who permits
her guests some measure of local option
or of individual liberty. She does not
insist on their accompanying her on ex-
1ursions to which they do not want to
go; neither does she remain at home
with them if she discovers they are only
accepting out of politeness. If she is
unsuccessful in ascertaining what the
isitors prefer in the way of being en-
tertained, she has the grace to leave
them TO their own devices. The sched-
lie of the day is laid out at breakfast,
f not the evening before. Those who
do not care to drive or sail are allowed
the liberty of the subject" as they
say in England. A too strenuous hos
oitality is a terror to its victim. There
is happy medium between being a
'whipper-in" and a neglectful hostess.
Baltimore News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
GIRL AND ALLIGATOR.
The True Story of Little Florida
Maids Narrow Escape While
Taking n Swim.

Here is the story of a brave little girl.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Fields, who
lives on Lake Gibson, near Lakeland,
Fla. The country is wild, and the child,
among other accomplishments not COM
mon with the fortune-favored daugh-
tiers of our own section, is an expert
swimmer.
A few days ago she was standing by
the lake side. The day had been hot
and the water looked invitingly cool.
So in she jumped, as she had often done,
and struck boldly out.
She was scarcely in deep water, how
ever, before she felt a violent pain in her
leg and a great tug that drew her below
the surface. She struggled hard and
came to the surface again. She did not
know what it was, but suspected an al
ligator.
Now, this little girl must have been
very different from most little girls, for
she did not stop to scream. She turned
shore ward and struck out with all her
might. She did not feel any pain just
then. Perhaps she was too frightened
to notice it.
She reached shoal water all rieh.,
when there was a swirl of water beside
her and a great black nose came up
from below. She felt a great pair of
jaws close over her side, between hip
and ribs, and again she was pulled be-
low. Struggling with all her might,
she again come up, and in two or three
strokes found bottom and began to
run for the shore, screaming now and
making tremendous splashing.
There was more splashing alongside
of her and, as she ran out on the land,
she glanced back and saw her foe, an
alligator, near her.
You may be sure she lost no time
getting home, where she sobbed out
her story to an unbelieving family.
But her mother removed her clothes
and there were the bleeding wounds,
and ugly wounds they We're, too,
Now here, mark you, is another diff
ference between this little girl and
many other little girls we all know.
What chance this was for ten-foot
alligator story to make all the coun-
try stare! But, no. Little Miss Fields
declares very positively that she had
a good look at the beast, and it could
not have been larger than five feet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
TEMPERANCE BITS.

III habits gather by unseen degrees.
AS brooks run rivers, rivers run to
seas.
have never known lazy man or
selfish man or coward to earn a mar
tyr's crown as a ADMINISTRATIONS
Advocate.
No prohibition law anywhere. how
ever poorly enforced, ever failed to give
enough of beneficent result to Justify
its eractment.-National Advocate.
Good citizenship" means conflict
rather than repose; the activity of men
rather than the seclusion of hermits;
battling with public iniquity as the
erer-implacable foe of good govern
ment.-National Advocate.
The question of expenditure upon
stimuiants in the Belfast union inflrm-
airy Qreland) was brought up by Dr.
j. Stewart, a guardian, before the board
at a recent meeting. DR.. Stewart is
medical officer of the Jail, and said they
could DO without stimulants there, but
in the workhouse they spent G 1868
upon them. The infirmary committee
reported that too many patients were
getting stimulants, and that some were
getting too much. They recommended
duction, and that in future fewer chron-
ic cases should be put upon the list for
2timulants
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
HOME POISONING.
The Ordinary Pantry Is Il Prolific
Source of Danger to
Good Foods.

1t is very desirable that the condi-
lions under which food may become
poisonous should receive more prac-
teal consideration than they do. A
well-known physician has called at
tention to some glazing defects in the
location of food storerooms. which are
worthy of attention. In house con-
struction the position of the pantry
is too often treated as of minor impor-
tance. In some houses the space I'M
der the stairs or some equally I'M
suitable and inadequately lighted and
ventilated place is thought good
enough for the purpose. In a great
number the pantry is a small offshoot
from the house, the ceiling, floor and
walls often being damp, owing to
faulty constructions; in some of these
matters are rendered worse by the
water taps being placed therein with
out any provision being made for car
rying away the droppings from the
tap or overflow, from vessels into
which the water is run. One of the
most frequent entries in his inspection
notebook is defective yard pavement"
permitting of soakage of filth into the
soil underneath. Not only is the soil
thus rendered a good breeding ground
for pathogenic microbes, but it also
supplies those conditions requisite for
increased Virulence.-Cincinna En-
uuirer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
TEMPERANCE AND LONG LIFE.
IN the Light of Facts 1t Has Come
to he Realized That the Two
Go Hand in Hand.

The Sunday school story of former
days was hardly considered complete
unless it taught that the good die
young" The climax of the writer's
skill and of the readers sympathy cen
tered about the deathbed OF some an
gelic Eva, and scarcely question was
raised but that this was as it should be
to make literature true to life.
1t is true there is something incon-
gruous in sending a hero or heroine
out into the future unprepared. But as
a matter of fact, though in those days
of piety did not include temperance in
all things" and the ascetic lives usually
portrayed were quite sanctitied i'll many
things, and the stories were therefore
true to life as it was, yet they were
quite imperfect in their obedience to
the natural Jaws of God If they
had been in harmony with all tho
laws of Life, it would have been
a contradiction of cause and eff
feet to have portrayed the early demise
of the good. For we now know with
certainty that the abstemious, tenn
DSldlSs pulCs liz
will not be the shortest but the longest.
This hcientific fact has by no means
gained II thorough foothold in modern
literature, and a great many good
Christian people still have Il lurking i'm
preston that no amount of physical
care will keep the large eyed, overly
wise. unselfsh child out If Heaven I'M
ti1 r,notnri+yr nt,ita fnl Of 20
plain Gospel statement: at is not the
will of your Heavenly Father that one
of these little ones should perish" they
also fail to match this with 1.-The Divine
whisper of to-day prevention. And
especially when the inevitable is but
the reaping of their own sowing, it is
but natural that parents should be
greatly relieved by an appeal to Provi
dence. This may sound severe, but is
it not true? AS it becomes more APP
parent that intemperance is not merely
a matter about which we are to pity the
inebriate and scold society, but a thing
that applies to all our eating, drink
ing and living, il is evident to all intel
ligent people that long life is largely q
matter within our own control.
To the modern world, the problem of
longevity should not be a matter of
magic or mystery. With our present
knowledge along the lines of life sci
ence, the average term of human life
ought to be both greater and more
definitely known. Without attempting
to wrest from Providence the destiny of
man, we may yet determine the approx
innate length of life in any given case
by the immutablc laws Of cause and eff
feet. To say, as many do, that ''we will
all die, anyway, when our time comes"
is to express both skepticism and SUI
perstition. AS if it made no difference
whether we obey the divine laws of ma
ture. Such 4 statement is but an appeal
TO blind fate, and an ignorant disregard
of scientific facts concerning the way
we ought 70 live. That long life de-
ponds upon The Liver" is true in more
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
TOMS GREAT MISTAKE.
ceeds Must Use His Head as
Well as His Hands.

On the station platform two men
stood waiting for their train. Another
man, with a pick and shovel on his
shoulder, was passing, on his way to
work
He was not more than so or So years
old, but his gait was stiff and labored,
and there was a pronounced stoop in
the figure. His overalls, once brown,
were lime-bleached and faded to a soft
"old rose" and bagged dejectedly at
the knees. The face under the weather.
beaten cap was stolid and listless.
AS he dumped along in his heavy
cowhide boots, he apparently embodied
that most persistent and most pathetic
figure which medieval Europe called
the serf, and more modern Europe calls
the peasant, and the census enumerator
of free America to-day sets down as
"unskilled labor"
As he crossed the track, the elder of
the two men on the platform pointed
him out to his companion.
THAT man and l." he said, "were
schoolmates. He was not dull at his
books, and ought to have made better
condition for himself in life"
whats the matter with him? Does
he drink" asked the younger man.
mo. Nothing of that kind has him
dered him. When he was about IL
years old he was offered dollar day
to dig on a cellar. This seemed large
wages to him, and he left school and
took the job. He was proud of his size
and strength, and this offer made him
feel so independent that he rather
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21

While the future lies before her destitute
of hope and cheer.
Husbands time engaged in saving from a
drear and awful fate
This beloved young republic as he blows
away the foam
In the grogshop on the corner, till the hour
is growing late,
While The Wife Behind the Washtub"
earns the grub for those at home.
She keeps bacon on the table and small
supply of "spuds,"
And her labors keep the children from
appearing clothed in rags;
And her constant weary toiling in the hot
and steaming suds
Never seems to feaze her husband, who is
full of bluffs and brags
OF his leadership of party, and his knowl-
edge of the ways
Which alone can be awaiting our great
ship of state TO save;
So It's time to lift our voices in a wild out
burst of praise
For The Wife Behind the Washboard'
she's the bravest of the brave.
Omaha WorldHerald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
Daby's Hair.

Sometimes a few hints are worth
untold millions to a poor, perplexed
young mother, with no fond and ex-
perienced grandmother within call to
cut the gordian knot of an unexpected
nursery problem. In consequence baby
may often suffer inconvenience and
pain while the doting mamma is doc
BRING the soft, silky down with which
is little head is covered. As every
ne of experience knows, baby's scalp
S very sensitive, and the bones of
the skull are not completely closed
up until baby is almost two years old,
md when any wise woman advocates
he use of alcohol for the purpose of
promoting the growth of the hair or
keeping the scalp free from all baby
ailments, alent scurvy should appear
IN the head, despite the care and
Tally washings, do not rub it with
alcohol or use a fine-tooth comb fol
'oosening it, but apply frequent and
homeopathic doses of vaseline until
the trouble has all disappeared and
the little head is free from all disfig
uTements. Vaseline will also pro-
mote the growth of the hair and make
it come in thicker and more silky
n. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21

looked down on the rest of us boys. He
never went back to school. He found
work to do that required no skill or
technical knowledge, only muscle used
under an overseer's direction, and he
kept at it.
Il remember Judge Haines, one of
the school committee, met Tom-his
name is Tom Mahan-and said to him:
My boy, you're making mistake and
doing a foolish thing. If you must
work, why don't you learn a trade?
I'D have 10 give my time for three
or four years for nothing. What would
be the use of that? I'm as strong as a
man, and I'm getting mans wages
now said Tom.
"'Strong?' said the judge. Are YOU
as strong as one of my horses? They
work for their keep, but l have to pay
the man that drives them $50 a month
besides his keep; and the man who
shoes them gets three dollars day. If
strength counts for so much, wonder
the horses don't strike and look for &
job laying brick or carpentering.'
But Tom thought the judge was only
joking with him. He couldn't see why
he should give his time to learn trade
or some profitable business, and work
for nothing, as he said, when he could
work for wages, and so he went his own
way"
There are thousands like him." said
the other man. "They never learn to
DO any special kind of business, and
never seem to realize that the reason
the trained blacksmith or the skilled
carpenter or the salesman gets higher
wages than they do, is because he has
given time TO learning to use his head,
as well as his feet and hands.
''lf boys would only keep the impor-
tant fact in mind, that muscle-merc
physical Strengths always one of the
cheapest things in the labor market.
and that so fan as price is concerned it
matters little whether a man furnishes
it or horse, there would be fewer men
to be classed as 'unskilled labor -
Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21

A bright woman with an inventive
mind has taken two old spring beds
which have done duty in their intended
roles until old age has broken their
wires and reduced their Stats to a pitiful
state of tecrepitude. fastened them
against her back fence, and already
trained vines are beginning to creep
about thejc unsightliness and peep
through the Stats, with a promise of
blossoms later on which will turn the
old spring beds into glory of crimson
and gold; and it is safe to say when the
time comes no one who is rut initiated
into the secret will be alb. to tell the
foundation of the trailing vines.-Pitts-
burgh Dispatch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
This Is "a Harmless Joke.

Place spool of cotton in the inside
pocket of your coat, and, having thread
ed a needle with the beginning of the
cotton, pass the needle through the
front of the coat, unthread the needle
and leave about two inches of the cot
ton hanging as if it were only a stray
piece. The first person you meet will
be sure to pick it off for you, and his as
constituent when he finds there is no
end to it will give plenty of innocent
fun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21
WIFE BEHIND THE wAsHBoARD.

We have heard in song and story of THE
Man Behind the Gun"
OF THE Man Behind the Shovel" and
THE Man Behind the Pick"
And were growing very weary hearing of
what he has done,
Which is why we take occasion to pre-
sent a healthy kick.
Now, The Man BEHIND is worthy of a
rightful need of praise
For his work behind the shovel, and the
gun and pick and hoe,
But there's stil another worthy of the
poets tuneful lays
IT'S The Wife Behind the Washboard,"
who deserves to have a show.
She is toiling late and early FER the steam
ing, soapy suds,
Rubbing, wringing, twisting, turning in
the murky atmosphere;
Making clean vast collection of bedrag-
gled, dirty buds,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21

Friend-How did you fellows come
to decide against Lawyer Roorback's
client? All the testimony was in his
favor and Roorback's address was
mastery effort
Juryman - Huh! He began his
speech by sayin' that a word TO the
wise was sufficient and then talked
two solid hours.7Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21

Take a quart of cold turkey chopped
fine, add two tablespoonfuls of butter.
one cupful of milk, salt, pepper and
parsley to taste, rub to smooth paste,
then add the whites of six eggs beaten
stiff, bake in custard cups for half an
hour, standing the cups in par of
water.-Housewife
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21

Socialists will hold at Paris next year
the largest congress in their history.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-21

Robby and Johnny and Tommy stood
Under a tree in a chestnut wood.
The daily sentinel., 1899-07-08
What It Means to Us.

To SUMMARIZE: The complete devel-
opment of the sugar industry means for
the people OF the United States:
1st-The cultivation Of over 1000, 900
acres OF land per annum, now either un-
occupied or grown to crops which are
over produced for the requirments Of
this country, putting money into the
pockets OF our farmers. laborers, etc,
which is now going into foreign coun-
tries.
2nd--A distribution at present of
over $sO,OOO,OOO among the farmers
yearly
3rd-An investment for factories of
over $3OO,OOo.oOO.
4th-A dist ibution for factory labor
and supplies of nearly $5O,OOO,OOO.
6th-To capital. safe Investment and
fair return.
6th-Nsarly all other industries would
benefit by these vast sums Of money be-
ing put into circulation.
7th-The value Of all lands would in
crease, ~ has already been demonstrat-
ed in the districts where factories are
now located.
sth-Our government would not bo
shipping vast sums Of gold to foreign
countries for commodity which we can
raise ourselves.