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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
Effects of Alcohol.

The power of alcohol to cause either
temporary or permanent insanity is
well known to all of US. l have been
told that one single visit to the padded
room of the London Hospital, where
those suffering from delirium tremens
are confined, is amply sufficient to.
shake the faith of the most confirmed
alcohol worshiper in his mistaken creed.
AS regards it, relation to permanent in
sanity, we have the sta ement of form
er Bishop OF London, who has in ormed
us that out of 1,27l maniacs whose pre-
Vious histories were investigated, 648
wrecked their reason by excessive
drinking. But the most terrible results
OF this list of e lis have yet 10 be con-
sidered. Even supposing we grant that
from the moral point of view it is al
lowable that, for the qualification of a
mere animal desire, we'may risk both
our own health and reason, there can
be no doubt that, to risk the entailment
of the above terrible Affections upon
those who are to come after us, is.
among the most wicked and uniustifia--
BILE of deeds. Yet this is the guilt of all
who indulge in the fatal vice of drink
Many diseases are well-known as being
capable of transmission by Inheritance
so that the wickedness of one individu-
al may literally cause he "iniquty of
the fathers to be ''visited upon the
children, and upon the children, and
upon the children's children" even
''unto the third and fourth genera
tion>," entailing such results in future
upon the innocent unborn that even the
most hardened sinner may turn with
horror from the prospect of such
crime. To give one instance,
DR.. Howe, in his report on idiocy
to the Legislature OF Massachusetts,
says: "The ha its of the parents of
300 of the idiots were ascertained, and
145, or nearly One-half, are reported as
known to be habitual drunkards." In
the social world alcohol is equally d
source from which many evils how.
But short time since a medical man
who had large experience among the
warehouses of the metropolis, and who,
though not himself u total aJstainer,,
has taken great interest in this question,
assured me that he had never known a
teetotaler to apply for parish relief. In
Edinourg, out Of II, O0J cases of pauper-
ISL, -OIVOO WtIc lIdCCdUlG W NEuHkcn-
ness, and in London it is estimated that
two-thirds of our paupers owe their
condition to the same terri lie evil. This
is no matter for wonder when we come
to consider the amount OF money which
is squandered in drink, coupled with
the Improbable and unproduc tive.
nature Of the trade to the community
at large. During four years, up to,
1879, the amount spent in the United
Kingdom upon intoxicating liquors
amounted to E575, 900, 600, sum with
in $4,000, 900 of the total of our export.
trade with the whole world during three
years. And Judging from the number
of workmen in proportion to the money
value of the various liquor sent ont at
the large Caledonian Distillery, Edin-
burg, the drink money spent in the
country would, if more product lively APP
piled, employ nearly 2.O00,000 instead
of 100000 of our population. Science,
MONTHLY
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27

main oh ect is to express my opinion as
a professional man in relat on to the
habitual employment of fermented
liquor as a beverage. But if ventured
one step further it would be to express
a belief that there is no single habit in
this country which so much tends to
deteriora the qualities of the race, and
so much disqualifies it for endurance in
that competition which in the nature of
things must exist, and in which strug-
gle the prize of superiority must fall to
the best and to the strongest. "-Rtre-
nol0gicaL journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
THE OLD WIFE.

By the bed the old man, waiting, sat in vigil
sad and tender,
Where his aged wife lay dying; and the twi-
light shadows brown
Slowly from the wall and window chased the
sunsets golden splendor
Going down.
ats it nlght?" she whispered, waking for her
spirit seemed to hover
Lost between the next worlds sunrise and the
bedtime cares OF this.
And the Old man, weak and fearful, trembling
as he bent above her,
Answered Yves"
"Are the children in?" she asked him. Could
he tell her? All the treasures
OF their household lay in silence many years
beneath the snow;
But the heart was with them living, back
among her tolls and pleasures
Long ago;
And again she called at dew-fall, in the sweet
old summer weather,
where is little Charley, father2 Frank and
., Robert-have they Gomez"
''Ihey are safe" the old man faltered-"all
the children are together,
Sale at home.
Then he murmured gentle soothings, but his
grief grew strong and stronger,
Till it cholIed and stilled him as he held and
kissed her wrinked hand,
For her soul, far out of hearing, could his
fondest words no longer
Understand.
Still the pale lips stammered questions, lull-
abies and broken verses,
Nursery prattle-all the language of moth
er's loving deeds,
While the midnight round the mourner, left
to sorrows bitter mercies,
Wrapped its weeds.
There was stiffness on the pillow-and the old
man listened lonely
Till they led him from the chamber, with the
burden on his breast.
For the wife of seventy years, his manhood's
early love and only,
Lay at rest
"Fare-you-wel" he sobbed, my Sarah-you
will meet the babes before me;
TITS little while, for neither can the parting
long abide,
And you'll come and call me soon, 1 know
and Heaven will restore me
To your side"
twas even so: The spring time, in the step
of winter treading,
Scarcely shed its orchard blossoms ere the old
man closed his eyes.
And they buried him by Sarah-and they had
their diamond wedding"
In the skies.
Theron BrolCn, in Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
Temperance Items.

" The man who keeps himself full of
whisky is not likely to be attacked
with contagious disease. The whisky
fetches him before the contagion gets a
chance at his vitals. -Erchange.
ONE glass of beer or one cigar daily
costs the consumer for the year S1S %;
two glasses Of beer or two cigars daily,
$500; three glasses of beer or three
cigars daily, Sj4.75. Abstinence is
economy.
The liquor men are not slow to see
and use all National means for building
up their business. 1t is said that at this
very time they are laying plans to Sc.
cure an act of Congress to be capped
by Supreme Court decision, which
will sweep away all State and local
constitutional and statutory prohibition
against the liquor traffic, and will give
to the liquor crime the full license OF
the National Constitution. ~ Union Sig
nal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
BOW A BEER MUG STOPPED !
LEAK.


Uncle Timothy looked up from the
shoe whose sole he was vigorously nam
mering.
"Why, bless you, John, eff I'm not
glad to see you, man alive" exclaimed
Uncle Timothy, jumping up 50 suddenly
that his last went one way, taking the
shoe with it, his hammer went another,
while his spectacles fell into the water
pail close by.
There stood Uncle Timothy, grasping
the arm of his favorlte nephew, John,
as if he were a pump-handle, and the
day being hot, and Uncle Timothy
being dry, the pump-handle was
worked with emphasis,
"Set down, John, and tell us how the
folks are" said Uncle Timothy. "You
have come to make me visit, and have
time enough to tell me all l want to
know"
John was telling about ''the folks"
when Uncle Timothy said:
"What's that? Thunder, do believe,
ro!lin' down old Bear Mountain! We
shall catch q rain now. There it is
comm down the mountain"
Come it did, furiously. Soon the
water began to drip down from the
ceiling.
Uncle Timothy, your roof is leak
ing"
Il know it, John, know it. Twill
just put this pail under that ere"
why don't you have the roof
mended?"
"Well, John, carpenters, you know,
do charge so! La! John, they'd make
n forenoon's work of it stoppin' up
that ere hole, and don't seem to have
the extra chink. Fact is, John, it costs
suthin' to live in this world, and it
keeps Teller poundin' all the time"
Here Uncle Timothy took up his
work and began to ring out series of
responses TO the thunder rolling at
nine-pins overhead. In the course of
visit John noticed that every forenoon
Uncle Timothy would leave his shop,
step across the yard to his house, bring
out an immense yellow mug, and pass
ing to a saloon in the nelghborhood,
bring home mug full of beer.
"Ah!'' thought John, ii see how it is
that the roof is not mended."
The next day surly, growing wind
brought rain that began to pour early
in the morning.
"Uncle Timothy" said John, after
breakfast, ''could 1 borrow that mug
see in the closet?"
"Oh! sartin, sartin."
Uncle Timothy was not going to his
shop very early that day, and John
knew it, business at another part of
the town calling him away. When he
returned it was about eleven o'clock,
and his beer-gnawing visited him.
Where is my mug?" said Uncle
Timothy, going to the closet ooh!
John has it, Well, l guess I'll let my
beer 90 this forenoon"
The rain was still dripping when he
passed from his house to the shop.
John was standing in the door.
"A wet day, nephew" said Uncle
Timothy, land there is not much
hope given by the clouds"
Here he looked up, and there on the
shop-roof, covering the leak, he saw his
old yellow beer-mug! For minute
Uncle Timothy gazed in silence. Then
he broke out:
THANK ye, John; FL take the
hint"
1t was the last day Uncle Timothy
owned a beer-mug. 1t was the last day
that roof leaked, for it was soon
mended with the beer-monev he saved.
Req. EdWGrd a. Rand, in Watch
man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
How to Handle Il "Queen."

To catch queen the operator first
puts little smoke into the entrance of
the hive, waits minute tor the bees to
till themselves with honey, which smoke
will cause them to do, and then care
fully opens the hive. Being filled with
honey, the bees are usually good
natured, and will seldom sting unless
pinched. A comb is carefully lifted
out and each side closely scanned. and
if the queen is not found returned and
another one removed. When the queen
is found she is carefully token by the
wings and put into the cage. Worker
bees are often caught or Gagged in the
same manner, it being impossible for
them to sting when taken up by the
wings. In warm weather eight or ten
workers are sufficient as an c cort, but
as cool fall weather approaches the
number is increased until it sometimes
reaches forty or fifty. The shipping of
queens by mail has been reduced to so
exact a science that they are not only
sent across the continent, but across
the Atlantic. At the time of the re-
moval of laying queen from nucleus,
or soon after, matured queen cell or
newly Matched queen is given to the
nucleus, and the apiarist may be able,
ten days later, to ship another laying
queen from the same nucleus.-N. y
heyGL&.
"A Louisville firm has made 81, 900
watch for an Indian quack doctor
JODjel,lI}o (lo7Jr5p1- Iol,.1l0L
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27

The leper quarter of Jerusalem is
just outside of Zion Gate. We first saw
a woman without any nose, who was
hanging clothes upon a line in her back
yard. Going Il little farther we came
upon sights that beggar description.
Stumps of arms were held up to us,
hands from which fingers were drop
ping away, faces wrapped about with
cloths to keep the parts together. Mute
appeals for charity gurgled through
Threats without palates. i Cor. New Or
leans Times Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
Temperance Reading.
"YOU CAN'T COME IN SIR"

Z.
If you would not he drunkard
You must not d ink a drop;
For if you never should begin,
You'll never have to stop.
The taste of drink, good people say,
Is hard in driving out;
Then, friends, in lie ting in that tast
Why, what are you about?
Out of your house to keep thief
You shut your door and lock it,
And hang the key upon a nail,
Or put it in your pocket.
So, lest King Rum within you should
His horriG rule begin, sir,
Just shut your lips and lock them tight,
And say: You can't come in, sir"
-IenDeIaMCe Record
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27

The cable car system is to be used
on the streets of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh
Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04
Franklin and Adams as Room. Mates

Here is funny old story which has
never seen print, and it is true, having
come down among the traditions of the
old families of Massachusetts,, says
Boston lady Some time during the revo-
lutionary period, or little after, John
Adams and Benjamin Franklin were dis
patched from Philadelphia, 1 believe, to
this State, on public errand, Adams
had mortal antipathy, shared by him
along with the majority of mankind at
that day, against the night air. He be-
lieved that if he kept his bedroom win
dow open even crack at night he would
surely die. franklin, on the other hand,
was disbeliever in the theory of danger
in the night air, and he had many argu-
ments with Adams thereon. Crcum-
stances and the crowded condition of
many of the taverns they stopped at ON
their journey eastward compelled them
frequently to occupy the same room.
and often the same bed. Adams
always opposed raising the window,
and poor Ben nearly sutfocated and re-
vlled Adams ON waking for his wretched
theory of the deadly effects of natures
universal medium of breath. One night
Ben slyly raised a window in their COM
mon chamber, but Adams, on the alert
for his friends little games, insisted that
it should be closed at once. Said crafty
Ben: ''Now, Mr.. Adams, we'll go to bed
with the window up, and l will show
you why it will not be harmful to us to
permit it to stay open. If cannot con-
vince you of the reasonableness of my
theory, l will myself get up and close
the window" Adams weakly consented,
and Ben began to reason with him.
Finally poor Adams was talked TO sleep,
and Ben TRANQUILITY resigned himself to
slumber. Next morning great was
Adams horror az finding the window up,
but not having died during the night,
and feeling no ill effects from having
breathed the night air, he became a con
vert to sly Benjamln's night-air theory.
The author of history of America dur
ing the colonial epoch t6ld me this anec.
dote as something amusing, which has
hitherto escaped type.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04
Amber and Its Uses.

The value of amber, familiarized as the
substance is in smokers requisites, is
far greater than the majority imagine.
Small pieces of indifferent quality suffice
for the mouthpieces of pipes and for iso-
lated ornaments, and though the prices
charged for even such specimens as these
are far above their actual worth, they are
comparatively cheap. In necklaces, how
ever, where every bead has exactly to
match its fellow, or in the larger articles,
requiring to be cut from a single piece of
considerable size, the cost and real worth
of the fossil gum rises so rapidly that in
certain cases it deserves, if the money
charged for it be any criterion, to rank
with the ''precious" minerals, and many
pieces of amber in the rough state are
worth more than their bulk in
gold. Yet even this does not A
proach by long way the esteeV
which antiquity held electron; fd4@l
only was amber the oldest of gems, and
therefore, in a measure, magnified by
traditional reputation, but it was sup
posed to possess amazing occult proper
ties. 1t was worn all over Northern Italy
as a preventive of goitre, just as it isworn
to-day by the people of Arabia as tails
man against the evil eye. More power
full than sorcery and witchcraft, it was
an amulet that made poisons harmless /;
ground up with honey and oil of roses,
it was specific for deafness, and with
Attic honey, for dimness of sight. Nor
is the claim of medicinal virtue alto.
gether without foundation, in fact, for
''its efficacy as defence of the throat
against chills"-owing probably to
''the extreme warmth when in con-
tact with the skin and the circle
of electricity so maintained"-has
been tested and substantiated. The
ancients, however, were not content with
mystic curative powers in the solid sub.
stance, for they ascribed valuable prop
critics to it in combustion, admiring the
perfume that resulted not only for its re-
sinous fragrance, but for its healthful-
ness, thereby innocently detecting in the
fossil pine gum the same virtues that
modern physic attributes to the living
pines. In many parts of the East, es-
pecially in China, where prodigiOus
quantities of Prussian amber are con.
sumed, this substance is preferred to all
others for insense; and thus the Buddhist
shrines in the palaces of Pekin and the
holy palaces of Mohammedan Mecca
alike owe the fragrance of pious fumes
to the same strange, beautiful source
the dead fir forests of prehistoric Eu-
rope. Nevertheless the chief charm,
both for the past and present, lies in the
positive beauty of mineral.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04
JUDGE NOT.


Judge not; how much Of wrong Is done
How many hearts with sorrow wrung
Purer, perhaps, than thine;
Because suspicion, like a blight,
Has changed their hope to gloomof night
Though brightly hope did shine.
Judge not; how many a soul has been
Driven by scorn to deeds Of sin,
Which had been pure without
Believe not oil reports as true,
But give to them what is their due.
An ever-honest doubt.
Judge not; what right have We to say,
"Our brother meaneth harm Away
But let us rather give
That Christian grace Of charity,
Which we would were given, If we
Under reproach should live.
Our Judgment, what hasty thfngl
And OIL how deadly is its stingl
The one it strikes must bear
Perhaps for years the wound it gives;
And still the scar the wound outlives.
Oh, let us then bewarel
The Guilds.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04
RATES or ADVERTISING.
THE COMING OF THE Daisies,

THE COMING OF THE Daisies.
There's no life without It's winter,
There's no year without its sleet,
For the picture must be shaded
'Tis the bitter makes the sweet.
And even in stern December,
Trustful hearts can hear this strain
At the coming Of the daisies,
We shall oil be glad again.
Unto the happiest being
The sad touch Of grief will come,
And Nature must have her season
When the woods and streams are dumb,
But hearts were not made for sorrow,
The meads win their green regain,
And the coming OF the daisies
Shall make us all glad again.
Obi despairing hearts that murmur,
Hope has happy dreams for you:
Darkness cannot rest forever
In the bosoms Of the true.
Hear thisyhisper, in the breezes.-
In the beat Of the warm rain
At the coming Of the daisies
We shall all be glad again.
Have faith when life is sorrowful
With memories of the dead;
Remember there is O summer
Where the leaves are never shed.
With face to that better country,
Find hope in mySong's refrain
At the coming of the daisies
The earth shall be new again.
--William Lyle, in Rochester Democrat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04

vivors, and ran into Portsmouth, Eng
land, October 4. 1nere shc scattered
the news of the dire fate that had over
taken the majestic Blue Field fleet. The
news was speedily waited across the
channel to France, and the French priva-
teers swarmed forth to waylay the un-
protected incoming victims of the gale,
and captured a number. So that after
escaping the jaws of the hurricane many
fell into the prisons Of France.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle telegraph.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04
How to Preserve the Voice.

Emma Abbott, the singer, says
"There is only one way to preserve the
voice that l know of and that is so sim
pie that it should not be forgotten. The
secret is, don't force it. Don't force it
at any time, but especially do not force
it into practice. l know it used to be
the custom to teach a singer to below
everything, but to below is not to sing,
and l am not an artist because l rush
at everything with all the wind of a
blacksmiths forge. used to imagine
that it was necessary TO howl in order to
show that could sing, but know bet
ter now. And who have taught me so,
you would ask2 My answer is only three
other women, but those three are Jennie
Lind, Alboni and Adelina Patti
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04

France of all European countries has
the largest percentage of electors to the
population, 26.S5 to every 100 inhabi-
tants; Switzerland, with 22.55, stands
second; Germany third, with 2O.0S, Den.
mark fourth, with 1916; England fifth,
with s. SO.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04

Krupp is building hammer that
weighs fifty tons aud viii cost over two
million dollars. No doubt such ham
mer will come handy during house clean
ing, but we shouldn't like to hold the
tack. PHILADELPHIA Gall.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04

Georgia now has a law requiring hotels
that do not use real butter to display
sign conspicuouslyi 'This house uses
oleomargarine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04

A frontier settlementp is frequently
made with shotgun.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-10
Celebration at OIeta.

EDS. REcoRD-UN For the first time
in twenty-nine years the Fourth of July
was celebrated at this place, and an
enthusiastic occasion was enjoyed.
Large delegations were present from the
surrounding towns of Plymouth, Drytown,
Amador, Fairplay and from this section
generally. There was procession in town
and a march to Yates Grove, about half a
mile west, where exercises appropriate to
the day were held. The brass band from
Plymouth enlivened the day with soul
stirring music, and patriotic. songs were
rendered by a good choir of voices. An
able Grafton was delivered by Mrs Ida Z.
Andrews NJ D.. which was closely listened
to and received with frequent and prolonged
applause. Short speeches were also made
by John Egan, F w. Knapp and others,
all of which were warmly cheered. Mr..
Egan was speaker at the last celebration
at Oleta twenty nine years previous, and
old-time memories were Interestingly re-
ferred to. A free dinner, gotten up by the
ladies of 0leta and vicinity, was served in
the grove following these exercises, and all
seemed to highly enjoy the day. Some
good fireworks were sent off in the evening,
and alerward a dance was held at NOtaW 5
Hall, where large attendance joined
Good music was furnished, and the floor
was occupied with fifteen set at a time
until the morning hours closed the natal
day festivities.
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