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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
GERMAN Discomfort.
II La Fosfered by the Agrarians Who
Are Actuated by Jealousy OF
American Farmers.

The German agrarian party, which
has been strong enough in the reichs-
tag to impose conditions upon its sup
port of the emperor's naval policy, is
made up of landowners and farmers
whose land is burdened with debt. 1t
represents an agricultural interest
which is not prospecting on equal terms
with the bankers, manufacturers and
merchants. 1t is not badly off, but it is
disconnected with the meager share
which it has in the good fortune of the
Fatherland.
The agrarians, having powerful po-
litical organization of their own, are
endeavoring to secure legislation which
will promote the interests of farming
and render it more profitable. They
wish to exclude from the home market
breadstuffs and meats from America,
and to force their own products into
foreign markets by commercial treaties.
They also clamor for the enactment of
laws by which bankers and money
lenders will be injured, middlemen and
brokers suppressed. and merchants and
SIli pIClS I0SlIIClSu anu nam pGlSu III
their business.
In reality, the agricultural classes in
Germany have had more special legis.
lation than manufacturers, merchants
or business men. The sugar industry
under the bounty system has been Gre
ated and artifcially developed at the
expense of consumers and taxpayers.
| All the resources of the state have been
employed in charging the production
Of beet sugar, and in displacing cane
sugar in the markets of the world.
The German agrarians are well or
gained, and their political support
for naval votes and government meas
ures has to be secured by concessions
Every year something is done for them
and they persist in making fresh de-
mands.
Discomfort like theirs is a disturbing
:orce. 1t is based upon class jealousy
and resentment. National prosperity
can never be measured off in equa
shares to all the productive classes
There will be less, rather than more
Of that prosperity if one class array
itself in hostility to other interests
Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

o slight slant for drainage, the feed
cylinder is at a, and yard or run
way begins at y. If the location al
lows a shallow ditch, the approach,
e, may be omitted. This tank may be 2,
or feet wide or even more, according
to the supply of running water. For an
extensive duck ranch the idea is to have
the tank 300 or 400 feet long divided by
wire into sections for the accommoda-
ton of scores of fowls.
The ditch and the tank which lines
1t may be so constructed that the depth
will be just sufficient to allow the ducks
TO assume the position shown in the il
lustration, being enabled with little
effort to reach the food which has been
dropped from above into the tanks.
While searching for the food their
necks and legs will be actively en-
ployed. The author describes a sys-
tenn of cylinder or feed boards which
extend the whole length of the tank,
and by striking with hammer at one
end food is dropped from the board or
cylinder into each tank. This opera
ton, repeated several times day by
the attendant, provides ample exer.
rise
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
NOTHING IF NOT REALISTIC.
What the Present school of Writers
Appear to BE Trying to
Achieve.

The russell sparrow sat on the roof and
blinked at the setting sun. Afar down the
alley lone ragman drove his chariot slow
ly along and chanted his plaintive lay. The
wind moaned through the chimney pots,
the red sun looked dimly down through the
smoke and the russell sparrow sat on the
roof and blinked at the setting sun, says
London Answers.
The russell sparrow sat on the roof and
blinked at the setting sun. Sadly the
stray policeman in the gray distance
swiped an orange from the barrow of a
passing coster and peeled it with grimy
hand He was thinking, thinking. And
the dead leaves still choked the tin spout
above the rainwater barrel in the back
yard.
The russell sparrow sat on the roof and
blinked at the setting sun. Adown the gut
tiers in the lonely street ran murky pud-
dies on their long, long journey toward the
distant sea. Borne on the wings of the
sluggish breeze came far-off murmur of
vagrant dogs in fierce contention and life
was hollow mockery to the homeless cat.
And the russell sparrow sat on the roof
and blinked at the setting sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-Iwas sick for
two years with falling of the womb, and
Inflammation of the ovaries and bladder.
was bloated very badly. My left limb
would swell SO could not step on my
foot. had such bearing down pains 1
could not straighten up or walk across
the room and such shootingpains would
go through me that thought could
not stand it. Mymother got me bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and told me to try it. took six
bottles and now, thanks to your Won
derful medicine, am a well woman. :"
-MRs. ELSIE BRYAN, Otisville, Mich.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
NEED GOOD TREATMENT.
Unless Chickens Are Properly Cared
For They VIII Not Prove VAL
liable Nowadays.

No matter what their breeding,
chickens must be properly cared for
In order to reach their highest devel-
opment. They must be Matched in
season and their wants properly sup
piled, or else they will be scrubs, al
though they can count host of price
winners among their ancestors.
1t is simply waste of time for people
to buy high-priced eggs unless they
intend to give the chicks Matched there
from good treatment. Such stock will
not stand neglect. 1t has been brought
up to its high standard by the utmost
care, not being allowed to want for
anything necessary to its we'll being.
Neglect and i'll treatment will very soon
make it over into something nc better
than the commonest native.
Chickens Matched at this time of year
do not require an endless amount of at
tention, but certain things are neces-
sary in order to keep them in health
and give a continuous growth. And if
these things are not attended to with
regularity and system, they will fall
far short of the mark to which they are
capable of attaining by reason of their
lineage. If they are permitted to be-
come lousy, are kept in close quarters
which do not permit of healthy exer-
else, or without proper variety OF
food, they will never grow up into
fowls which any body will feel any pride
IN owning. The difference in full-b.oods
very often is not so much the difference
of blood as of treatment.-Farmers
Voice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
Quick Returns from Hogs.

Here is what an Illinois feeder says
in the American Swineherd about the
hog business: l can get returns from
my crop of pigs almost as quick as if
growing grain and turning it into the
market. If bushel of corn is worth
30 cents at the elevator | can turn that
Sc pounds of corn into IA pounds of
pork at three cents a pound, which is
AZ cents, and five cents pound, which
is 70 cents, thus showing good money
in the selling of your corn at 70 cents a
bushel and improving the farm, while
the seller of grain gets only 30 cents
and wears out his land. This is my
reason for engaging in raising hogs
instead of selling grain from the farm.
There is money in it, there is profit in
it, and it is good business to do it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
Washed EGGS Not Wanted.

Many egg handlers object to having
eggs washed before shipment; not that
they object to clean eggs. Oh, no! For
the latter bring more money and are
more satisfactory to handle. But they
claim that washed eggs spoil quickly.
Without going into a scientific explana-
ton, it is said that washing renders the
shell more porous, and decomposition
soon begins. When the egg is candled,
its quality quickly shows up. A clean
egg of poor quality will sell for less
than dirty egg of good quality,
though the latter will sell for less than
clean egg of good quality. The rem
edy is to have the eggs clean from the
start, and though this is often difficult
in wet weather, there is no need for the
large proportion of dirty eggs now sent
to market-Poultry Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
Better Than n Doctor.

Palmers Lotion, if properly used, is often
physician. Under date of July 2, 1900, Mr.
Lester A. Fawcett, 80 Carleton Ave,
Brooklyn, N. Y, writes: After being
treated several days without benefit for
sore eyes and eyelids by regular NJ D.,
/ was relieved in two minutes by Palmer's
Lotion, and now, at the end of four days,
am well man." Palmer's Lotion has also
cured a number of cases of graduated eye
lids which physicians had treated with
be kept in every household as it possesses
the medicinal properties of the Lotion and
is the only soap to be used in connection
with it, If your druggist does not keep it,
send his name to Scion Palmer, 374 Pearl
St., New York, and receive free pamphlet
of testimonials with sample of Lotion or
SOAP
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
HANDLES FOR BOXES.

ring has one side fattened, and is held
by two such staples.
If one viii take the trouble to hunt up
at several grocery stores all the empty
boxes of certain size in which a GER
tain brand of goods is packed, to which
some of these homemade handles can
be added, he will SOON have a collection
of uniform boxes that will be of great
service when the potato or apple harv-
est arrives. In any large town or viii
lage a large number of boxes in which
some particular brand of popular
groceries is packed can be easily Sc
cured. Select boxes that hold about
one busheI, as these are most conven-
lent to handle. The boxes can be filed
and loaded directly upon the farm
wagon. thus saving bruising.-N. Y.
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
UnsIaked Lime for Rats.

A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman says that to keep rodents out of
oats, take unslacked lime, just sprin-
kle it over the floor or platform on
which one will put his grain, then a
layer of sheaves and another liberal
spread of lime. Continue in like man
ner, lining each layer of grain to the
last, not smothering the last layer,
an3 that is all there is to it. keep ra is
and mice out of my corn cribs in the
same way and it is invariably a sue
cess. 1 also keep large quantities OF
unthreshed oats in barn free from rats
and mice the same way. One barrel OF
unslacked lime is enough for 1000 OIL
5000 bushels of corn or eight tons o.
sheaf oats"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
The Bug Poet MT work.

o, the bugs, moths, flies and weevils,
curculios and worms; the beetles and
the borers and bacteria and germs!
The air is full of microbes, we breathe
'em and then sneeze; ten hundred
thousand million float by in every
breeze. San Josy is scaly bird; he
gets upon our trees and sucks the juice
right through the bark; he does it with
great ease. Young cabbage plants just
out the ground succumb to the black
ieas; the cutworm interviews the
corn; it drops without wheeze. The
rose bugs shells so thick he laughs
at pizen spray rebukes; and that lively
striped varmint there's the bug that
ehawes the c9kes.--Rural New Yorker.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
One on the Summer Girl.

One of these girls sat in a hammock on
a Hollywood piazza when a summer boy
in a gray suit came along. He looked un-
The girl looked at him frivolously, and
spied button of a pastel shade in his
lapel.
"A new kind?' she asked inquringly.
"What is it? Have you sworn off or are
YOU SON of something or other"
No" he answered, shortly. I've joined
a Don't Worry club"
when did you john" she asked. =,
"The day after | met you," he rejoined,
cleverly.-Chicago mes-Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
EXERCISE FOR DUCKS.
New York Expert Advises a Series of
Swimming Tanks Under Feed
Cylinders.

Duck breeders often have trouble in
securing fertile eggs largely because
of the lack of exercise for the breeding
birds. The method described by H. H.
Stoddard in the New York Egg Farm
overcomes this obstacle by providing
a series of swimming tanks under the
feed cylinders or feeding boards, as
shown in the illustration.
A ditch is cut and boarded at sides
and bottom, showing the original
surface of the ground, e an inclined
plane of boards with lath tackled on to
secure foothold and d a platform with
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
She'd Do 1t.
Crash!

OraSh.
There came the sound of falling dishes
from the kitchen. The cook appeared at
the dining-room door.
"Plaze, num-" she said, ''the whole av
your besht dinner set is broken fwhoile Oh
wuz washin' it,"
The housewife wept.
"Bgee!" said her husband, "if the pow
ers could only get that, girl, the job of
breaking up China would soon be finished"
N. Y. World
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
Lanes Family Medicine.

Moves the bowels each day. In order to
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head
ache Price 25 and SOC.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
HANDLES FOR BOXES.
They Are of Great Convenience When
the Apple and Potato Crops
Happen to Arrive.

Empty grocery boxes are convenient
for many purposes, and much more
convenient if given handles. The cuts
show numerous kinds that can be put
on at home by the expenditure of few
moments time. Figures l and 3 ex-
plain themselves. In figure ? bit OF
rope has a knot at each end and tive
fence wire staples. In figure A an iron
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
Best for the Bowels,

No matter what ails you, headache to
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Casearets help nature,
cure you without grippe CT pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has c. c. G.
stamped on it. Beware of limitations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot Ease,
powder for the feet. 1t makes tight or New
Shoes Feel Easy. Cures Corns, Itching,
Swollen, lot, Calous, Smarting, Sore and
Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe
Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen s. Olmsted. La Row. n. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

What was the trouble at that house
where the complaint came from yester-
day." asked the superintendent of the gas
company. Nothing much" replied the
inspector, ri found centipede in one of
the pipes" "Ah! an extra hundred feet.
See that they're charged for that. "-Phila-
delphia Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

"What is furlough?" asked a teacher.
at means horse" was the reply of Mary.
"Oh, no" replied the teacher. 1T doesn't
Mary have book at home eo that says SAYS
So" well" said the teacher, now thor
oughly interested, you may bring the
book to school and we'll see about it," The
next day Mary brought the book, and in
some triumph opened to page where there
was a picture of soldier riding horse.
Below the picture we're the words: GO
ing home on his furlough." Pearson's
Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

First 4 Att [Ps SG furnish an. any
hmllime" Second Attorney (obiecting)-
That's not material" First Attorney
at is material" Second Attorney-"Not
material" Judge-'1 understand lime is
a building material" Second Attorney
your honor, it's the question that's not
material" Judge-"Oh!" - Indianapolis
News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

"My wife," boosted the happy young
benedict, "is an open book to me-" Mine,
too" declared the old married man. Il
can't shut her up. "-Philadelphia Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

No, Augustus, the knapsack is not so
called because it is used as d pillow.-ln'
dianapols News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

1t is one of the mysteries that man who
has given his heart unreservedly to a wom-
an, still has the heart to refuse her new
hat.-Detroit journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

A man has good luck enough when his
daughters marry, if he doesn't have to
send out relief expeditions to them every
few months.-Atchson Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds
John f. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb.
Is. 1900
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

to the widow Some brought sympathy
and good advice; others brought mate;
sial cheer, food, re;ment and the like. Still
others, and these were the most consider
ste of all, came and told her how that she
Fad aged ten years in the three weeks since
her husbands death. How good of them!"
exclaimed the widow, and wept tears Of
gratitude-Detroit journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

The Advertising Trsit.-"That actress
eyes are like diamonds" ooh, no; she
wouldn't want to lose them. '-Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

"Oh, how I delight" said the Moth, as
he attacked the very old trousers, ito be
in the thickest of the fray!'-Detroit Jour
nal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

A parlor match is often the result rather
than the precursor, of a steady fame
Indianapolis News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

Some men are so stingy they refuse to
smile except at the expense OF others,-Chi'
cage Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

The hen is liberal fowl; she gives a
peck when she takes grain.-Chicago Daily
News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

The stomach has to work hard grinding
the food we crowd into it. Make It's work
easy by chewing Beeman's Pepsin Gum.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

1t is surprising, sometimes, how man
that is way off gets on. - Indianapolis
News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
Free Dessert.

All grocers in town are giving free pack
age of Burnham's Cream Custard, which
makes two quarts of Ice Cream or ten cups
of Custard, no cooking or baking; with the
purchase of a package of Burnham's Hasty
Jellycon, the finest prepared Jelly Powder.
Order to-day. Jellycon comes in six deli
cious fiayors
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

The good Samaritan does not carry oil
in his cruise and vitriol on his tongue
Rams Horn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

PUTNAM FADELEss DYES produce the fast
est and brightest colors of any known dye
stuff. Sold by all druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

"What kind of house did you succeed
in getting, Howard" "Oh, it's the kind
of a house which has windows that won't
stay open and doors that won't stay shut. "
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
Did You Ever Run Across

an old letter-ink all faded out? Couldn't
have been Carriers Ink for it doesn't fade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

The dear departed Rec.
ord
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16
To Cure n Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. 4
druggists refund money if tfails to cure. 25
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

Halls Catarrh Cure
Constitutional Cure. Price. 75c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-16

better. "-MRs. MARY SMITH, Arlington,
Iowa,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-11
Warner a. q HumOrist.

When Wagner's energy was not ex-
pended in his art work, says Gustav
Kobbe, in 'Wagner's Personality" il.
the Forum, it found vent in many hui
morous sallies.
He once quoted his teachers remarl:
that he would never learn to play thu,
piano. But" he added, II play great
deal better than Berlioz." The wag-
gissness of this remark lies in the
fact that Berlioz could not play at all.
During a rehearsal of the "Rienzi"
overture in Dresden, the trombones
were too loud. Instead of rebuking
them angrily, he said with laugh:
Gentlemen, we are in Dresden, not
marching around the walls of Jericho"
After "Tannhauser" was brought
out, German composer of little note,
named Chellard, said that the ''Song to
the Evening Star" was wrongly har-
monized," and suggested certain har-
monies which should be substituted
for those employed by Wagner. When
Wagner was among friends it was one
of his favorite diversions to seat him
self at the piano and sing the "Song to
the Evening STAR" a la Chellard.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-11

THREE PL0W ATTACHMENTS.
ground. Some prefer to fasten the
chain farther back on the pillow beam,
or at the standard. In turning un-
der very heavy corn stubble, the chain
is sometimes found too light to do its
work we'll, and an extra device, CEN
ter of cut, is added. This is round
stick of wood, one foot long and two
inches in diameter, one end pointed and
the other flattened, and wired to chain
at point chain leaves furrow to fasten
to pillow beam. The earth as it leaves
the moldboard falls on the stick, and
causes it to hold the chain always in
the right position, drawing to the
bottom of the furrow the heaviest
cornstalks or weeds. A device used in
place of a chain is shown below this.
1t is round stick of heavy wood, about
four inches in diameter, and one and
one-half to two feet long, which is at
tached with rope swivel to pillow beam,
about two feet in front of the standard,
where it rolls along on edge of fur
row, and acts like the chain.-1eural
New Yorker.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-11
SOME POINTS ON PIGS.

Don't breed from an irritable, Vi
cious tempered SOW. Her bad quail
tiles are liable to be repeated in an in
tensified degree in: her offspring.
The developed hog is 50 artificial an
animal that it cannot safely be left
to what some swine-growers call mat
ural conditions" that is, conditions
similar to those in which the wild
or neglected hog lives and thrives.
Ten months ought to be a good
average length of time 20 take the
pig from birth to the market. If much
more time is spent in bringing the pig
to market size and quality, there will
be small profit when the carcass is
sold.
The savage, fleet, vicious, nervous,
pugnacious "razorback'' cannot be
confined and fed and fattened as the
domesticated hog can be. The wild
brute would promptly die if subjected
to the care and feed which make the
tame hog fat and healthy.
In northern regions the pig can be
made to put on lean meat by pastur-
ing, with it's implied exercise, and by
a feed of skimmilk, wheat bran, soy
beans and cowpeas. This food is far
cheaper than the rations generally
used in northern localities.-Journal
of Agriculture.