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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-04
NUMBER 49

fever.n
And so they met, and the old love
which had slept for a brief time In
the mans heart. luIIed by the charm
OF new fair face, awakened, to sleep
no more; and the woman. never
having forgotten. forgave as readily
as most loving women do, even the
lover who returns repentant from
his straying.
A month later there was a quiet
wedding at which Beatrice was not
present. When she heard it. the fair
beauty smiled trif1e scornfully.
"How can she trust him |" she
asked. "He was false to her once,
and as false to me-" she added, with
a touch of angry bitterness.
But Inez feared no rival now.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-04
The New Year.

The following are some faces about
the year 1888:
The year 1883 will be a leap year.
There will be 8 eclipses. of the
sun and of the moon.
Fourth of July will come on We'd
nesday. March 25 will be Palm Sun.
day, March 80 Good Friday, and
April 1 Easter Sunday.
Washlngton's Birthday falls on
Wednesday.
Memorial Day will come on Wed.
nesday, so that there will be 8 sue.
cessive legal holidays on that day of
the week.
Christmas, 1888. will come on Tues.
day.
The first ember day, or the day set
apart by church orders for special
fasting and prayer, will be February
22l.
Girls can pop the question in 1888.
The year 1888 will have one extra
night in which John can set up with
his darling Mary Ann.
March IL will be mid.Lent-which
is to say, that number of people
will be glad it's half over.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-04
Just Llko a Woman.

Proud Omaha Mother-You ought
to haye seen Willie speak his piece
in school. 1t was grand. He'll be a
great statesman some day, a leader
of the people; molder of human
destiny. l shouldn't wonder if he'd
be president"
Practical Husband-He may grow
up to be very good man, but he'll
never be heard In American politics.
"Why won't he ?"
"You went..and made him sign the
pledge for life. .-Omaha World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-04

1t was fine vein OF satire that Mr..
Frye INDUCED in when he referred
to the sudden and unnatural anxiety
of the Democrats as to the evil effects
of the repeal of the whiskey tax on
the cause of temperance. and he re.
iterated what we stated last Satur-
day when we said that "the temper.
ance sentiment of the country was
rapidly crystallizing into the opinion
that the sooner the tax on whiskey
was repealed, the better and quicker
the principles of temperance would
be subseryed. IN Y. Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-04

Isn't that the gentleman who paid
our fare, and was so polite the other
night? she asked in a whisper.
"Yes."
"And why does he treat us 90
coolly tonight" 2" @
"Hush ! He has his reasons. That's
his wife with him."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23

Friendship is all well enough re-
marked Downes, 'sbut if ever want to
borrow couple of dollars I'll 60 to a
casual acquaintance. ''Or, better than
that, Epson, suggested Inskip; ''go to
q strar ger. PUCK.
Championship eating matches ought
to be for large steaks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
The French snollation CLAIMS.

The action of the house committee on
appropriations in reporting adversely
upon the item in the general deficiency
bill providing for the payment of certain
OF the old French spoilation claims, natu-
rally gives rise to surprise and regret
among those who are familiar with those
famous claims.
The debt is, as the New York Times
puts it, debt of honor. A brief resume
of the story, which, though often told, is
not generally familiar, cannot fail to be
interesting. The United States agreed,
in return for the aid which France had
furnished them to win their dependence
TO aid France in any war with Great
Britain in which it might become invol
we'd. B lat the United States remained
neutral in the contest of 1898, nevertbe-
less, and GRANGE, considering the attitude
of this country unfriendly, preyed, cap
tured and confscated many Of our YES
sells with their cargoes. A demand for
indemnity was made by the United States
but after long drawn out negotiations,
this country agreed to withdraw the de-
mand, thus becoming responsible for such
losses as her citizens had sustained. The
United States by so doing, to obtain valu-
able concessions from France and it now
appears by the refusal of congress to pay
the claims, that private property may be
taken to servo a public purpose. The
United States government has acted in
bad faith both TO France and her own
cItlZ6nS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
on the table Of every one O. Ter work

on the table OF every one OF Ter work
men.
SHE SUPPLIED MONEY TO GERMANY
to fight Napoleon; her armies We're IN
every war, and no national question
was settled without her acquiescence.
What is her position to-day? Her army
is not considered by the leading powers
Of Europe. As a nation she IS relegated
to a secondary position among the ma
tons of the world. Al England is now
owned bv less than GOO landowners;
the roast-beef of merry old England"
is a tradition, and the starving work
men are prevented from going into re-
beiifon Dv the hopes or opening the
American markets to her manufactured
goods. So terrible has been the effect
Of two generations OF free trade on the
masses that the standard of her army
has been reduced to meet the dwarfing
effects Of free trade Of her people, 3, $780,
900 OF whom have Immigrated to pro-
tective tariff countries. In 1911 the
farms of England fed $4,000. 600 out of
the $1,000, 900 OF her inhabitants, while
IN 1884, they fed only 1900, 600 cut Of
tie 80 900, 900 Of her inhabitants.
In 1S41 the agricultural products of
England amounted to $3.50, Coo, 600, from
NulC1l tdJC IL Has BCCIl I6OUCSO
until in 1877 they amounted to only
$40, 600 900.
In 1877 Earnest Seyed informed tho
statesmen Of that country that the ma
ton had stopped IN its growth of wealth,
and the only profits it now was making
was in its foreign investments. To-day
England has to purchase So per cent. of
her food from abroad, and six months of
a blockade would leave the entire nation
on the verge of starvation. Canon Far
rar, an Englishman, who will not speak
to injure his country, said in a speech,
IN London, in 1885, that one out of three
of the working people of London died in
the poor-house or hospital, and one out
of five OF the people of the entire coun-
try died in the same places. Not a ve.y
inviting prospect for the workIngmen
Of the United States to follow.
Let us rather follow the wisdom of
all our patriotic statesmen from the days
of Washington to the present hour.
Protect our industries and keep our high
standard Of civilization, by retaining our
home market in that prosperous condi-
ton when the working man will get en-
ployment at fair wages, the farmer
consumer for his produce, and the
capitalist q fair return for the invest
ment of his capital
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
The Forests of urnne

The French ministry Of agriculture has
just lssueo'some interestin statistics re-
specting the distribution of forest in
Europe, The total area of Europe laid
out IN forest exclusive of Turkey. Bull
garia. Bosnia and Herzegovina, ssomitted
in the official statements set down at
2S6,9S9 million hectares, or about 70S,-
So2 acres; that is, about 1877 per cent of
the total area OF Europe is forest land.
In proportion to its total area Great
Britain and Ireland has Of ell countries
in Europe the least extent of forest,
amounting TO only 0.036 hectares, or
O,0S9 acres, II. e., considerably less than
the tenth Of On acre to each inhabitant.
The country in Europe next lowest IN the
forest scale is Denmark, with Is per
cent. Of forest land, 0.09 hectare 10 each
lnhabitant. That is TO say, that in Dem
mark there Is an average of between two
and three times the extent of forest land
30 each lnhabitant than there is in Great
Britain and Ireland. The third of the
countries of Europe Ia the ascending
forest scale is Portugal, with par cent.
OF forest land and OIL hectare to each in
hab1tant-I. e., an average of three times
the amount of forest land to each in
habitant of Portugal than is allowed to
each inhabitant Of the United Kingdom.
Holland has per cent Of forest land and
0.05 hectare to Zach inhabitant, or about
one and one-half times as much as to
each inhabitant of the United Kingdom.
The country in Europe possessing most
forest is Russia in Europe, with 100000
million hectares. e., 81 per cent. of its
whole area and 3.37 hectares TO each in
habitant-that is, each inhabitant of
Russia in Europe has an average of near
ly 81 times the extent OF forest land al
lotted to each inhabltant of the United
Kingdom. In its percentage of forest
land and the amount of forest to each in
haQitant, Sweden however, stands still
higher. With 1853 million hectares of
forest, Sweden has SO per cent. of its
land in forest and so 3.S6 hectares to
each inhabitant. Norway with "a per
cent. of ats area in forest, allows each of
its inhabitants an average of 4.32 hec-
tares of forest or 120 times as much as
is allowed TO each inhabitaut of the
United Kingdom. Hungarla has % per
cent. of its area in forest or 0.56 hectares
Of forest to each inhabltant. France
possesses 9,868 million hectares of for
est, III per cent. of its total area and so
allowing OPS hectares to each inhabitant
nearly seven times as much as is allot-
ed to each inhabitant of the United
Kingdom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
Some Famous Jugglers.

Nine. Diss Debar's experience as a
juggler by spiritual assistance started
an old New Yorker telling me the
other night says the New York Graphic,
what he knew about coniuring. He
was quite q famous amateur in that
line once himself, and was full of his
subject. He showed me a little out-at-
elbows volume printed in Philadelphia
in 1904 called ''Hocus-Pocus; or, The
Whole Art of Legerdemain." 1t was
a reprint of an English edition, and
the author was one Henry Dean a Lon
don professor of the art of conjuring
and keeper of a shop on Little Tower
hill.
Many of the tricks that Mr.. Dean de-
scribes are still in vogue, and his little
book was quite a standard authority
in its way until Prof. Herman pub
lished his elaborate treatment on
Modern Magic"
Mr.. Dean gives some OF the necessary
requirements for a successful conjurer,
such as all members Of the craft
spiritualistic or otherwise, must sympa-
thize with.
First" he says, she must be one of
q bold and undaunted resolution, so as
to set good face upon the matter.
Second, he must have strange terms
and emphatic words to grace and
adorn his actions, and the more to
amaze and astonish beholders
And third and lastly he must use
such gestures of body as may take off
the spectators eyes from strict and
diligent beholding his manner of per-
Torrance"
Despite the information of Mr.. Dean S
book no native conjurer of any note
started off here, and Juggling was not
in any degree known here, though
throughout England in the eighteenth
century every county fair and village
was visited by Jack Puddings," with
their cups and balls and cards. It may
be that our national enthusiasm in
burning witches at Salem had de-
pressing effect on home-born talent.
In 1884 q gentleman calling himself
M. Adrien performed in New York sue
ceeding we'll with the usual stock
tricks. He was soon thrown entirely
in the shade by the arrival of Sig.
Blitz, who spent the rest of his life
here. made a fortune, and was exceed
ingly popular.
..Blitz was not much of performer. -
said my old gentleman, Though you'd
think by the way he is mentioned
generally that he was something Won
derful. Re was the best we had had
when he came, and he was a kindly,
easy going old chap that had seen a
good deal of the world and used to get
on well with all sorts of people. Prof.
Anderson came in 1851, but it wasn't
till old Hermann came along about ten
years later that America really saw
magic. Lord, what a wonder Her
mann was. The person you know by
that name, young fellow. IS the nephew
of the great original simon pure Her
mann. The nephew is very pretty
trichster, but he wouldn't be visible to
the naked eye alongside his uncle.
/ The Hermann was born in Hanover in
! 1921, but he was educated in Paris.
/ He stayed here two years when he first
came back in 1867. but he was good
enough to find room for his gifts most
of the time in Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23

only costs 6 II cents a day. With India
thus increasing her yield of wheat, what
will become of the prosperity of the
American farmer?
WHAT BENEFIT WILL FREE TRADE BE
to you in that direction? 1t would cripDle
our manufacturing interests; destroy our
home market for our goods. Now, during
the years of protection what advance have
we made? Take railroads. In 1913 we
had onIy 3 miles of railroad. In 1887 we
had us, $50 miles of railroad. How many
shining dollars has this work put into the
pockets of the American lab0rer? When
we had our financial panic several years
ago. the construction of railroads de-
creased largely. and workingmeQ failed
to get work as Consequence. Suppose
we adopt free trade. The result would be
a panic, and a decrease in railroad build
ing, and that would mean men out of
work; factories idle, more men out of
work; property sold under the Sheriff's
hand; hard earned homes lost, and the
only gamers, capitalists. Great fortunes
will be made greater; the poor still poorer.
They say you can buy breadstuffS in Eng
land cheaper than in the United States.
Why is this so? 1t is because wheat can
be carried to England at ID cent q buShel
from New York. The fact is that large
amount of our American wheat is shipped
to England as ballast; and it has happened
that vessel owners have even paid for the
privilege Of carrying it. When it gets in
TO England pauper labor converts it into
-four, and thus hreadstuffS are cheaper in
England than they are in this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
PERSONAL MENTION.

The family of the late E. p. Roe will
remove permanently to New York next
month.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks is the only
clergyman of the Episcopal church who
has preached at Cheutauqua.
Chauncey M. Depew sails for home
next Saturday, arriving Sept 2. He will
be given reception at the Union League
club, Tuesday evening, Sept. 4.
Walt Whitman expects to give his book
TO the printer by the middle of Septem-
Der. It will be collection of short proses
articles and verses. He calls it his "boOk-
let"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
Birth of Great Pursuits.

The first geographical map of En-
gland was made in 1920.
Handkerchiefs were first .manufac-
tured at Paisley in 1888.
The first coinage of money is attrib-
uted to Pheidon. king Of Argos. in
$50 B. G.
The first nayigable canal in En-
gland was made in 1888, when Henry
oined the Trent to the Witham.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
Grants Plan of Invasion.

New York Herald: ''Do you know
that General Grant once planned an
invasion of Spain?" said prominent
army officer yesterday to Herald re-
porter.
cit was in 1874" he continued, 'and
the idea grew out of the butchery of
Ryan, the filibuster leader, and nearly
100 of his followers at Santiago, Cuba.
'sThe execution of these unfortunate
men was a most barbariOus one, for
they were led out in a body, with pin
toned arms, and compelled to kneel in
a row in front of a rude trench that
had been dug beside wall. They
were then shot and their bodies buried
in the trench. The affair caused in
tense excitement and horror, and had
not Spain made reparation there would,
undoubtedly, have been war.
General Grant was President at the
time, and he made every preparation
for hostilities in the result of Spain re-
fusing the demands of the United
States government.
''He sent for Lieutenant General
Sheridan and rendered him the COM
mand of an expeditionary force he in
intended raising should the necessity
arise, and Major General George G.
Meade was selected as Sheridan's chief
of staff.
''The preparations went so far that
Meade offered me staff appointment,
which / accepted, and thus became IA
1niliar with Grants plans.
He intended to issue a call for fifty
thousand veterans of the civil war, both
Federal and Confederate, and the Off
GERS were to be selected from the large
number we knew would offer their
services. This army of fifty thousand
men was to be modified in the neigh
borhood Of New York and feet pre-
pared to carry it across the Atlantic in
two divisions. The idea was to pretend
it for services on the island of Cuba,
but really to land on the shores of Spain
and march inland to Madrid. Both
Grant and Sheridan deemed the move
ment feasible one, and had the Unit
ed States declared war it would have
been attempted.
''There was two reasons for carrying
the war into Spain. The American
navy could not compete with that OF
Spain, and Grant wanted to make the
war brief and decisive one. Every
general who had been informed of the
part he was to take was enthusiastic
over the programme, and none doubted
Shcridan's genius to make itsuccessful.
The English are talking of an invasion
yet it is not generally known abroad
how near Spain came to havean Amer
lean army land on its coast and push
foreward to Madrid. One of these days
such an expedition will cross the At
lantic. II it would be safer for the
United States to invade than to wait for
an invasion"
a cilGrc:i al Augusta, Ma., has in
veiss.,l tiie ilarI-hoiled egg festival.
.ls.-s.r i,e,iv 1rong.sI q bard-po;ssd e-g,
an; ~. i'riree'.S were 10 buy an nre;sh
--in q. Isl i've eos with. we snIIluse
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23

a cilGrc:i al Augusta, Ma.. has in
ve.igsrl the har.l-boiled egg festival.
stt.-s. nesiv i1rong.sI u bard-oo.sed egg,
:tsl. ~. ,ir1re,.i.S were To buy a. nrE;yh
Ito dist me e.yy.~~s with, we suppose.
= Sta (s-t4lsIscD -i3tf.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
Ten to One.

The fact is not to be denied that the
Republican party is receiving daily &C.
cessions from the Democratic ranks in
all the Northern States. 1t is impossible
to know just how numerous these re-
cruits are; but there can be no doubt
that in the aggregate they exceed by as
many as ten TO one the assertions from
the Republican camp. The great NOV
ing cause, OF course, is sympathy with
the policy Of protection and hostility to
the Mills Cleveland conspiracy in the in
terest of foreign nations against Ameri-
can labor and prosperity--&. Louis
Globe Democrat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
JOB DEPARTMENT

We have in this department . complete line
of jeh Material and Type for doing hrst-class
job york on short notice and ut the lowest
living prices. We do all kinds Of Pamphlek
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-07-26
DEMOCRATS AND FARMERS.

Ohio State Journal.
The authors of the Mills bill, and free
trade Democrats generally, proceed on
the theory that the average American
farmer is a ''elump," and that he can be
made to believe anything however alb
surd it may be.
In their speeches on the tariff Demo
cratic members of Congress express
great love for, and sympathy with, the
poor taxridden farmer. They tell him
that all the money received into the ma
tional treasury through the custom
houses comes out of his pocket in the
end; that the amount of the duties paid
on fine brandies, wines, cigars, jewelry,
etc, as well as upon brussels carpets
worth So to SIS per yard, is charged up
to his account and rigidly collected for
the benefit of nabObs and coupon-clip-
perS who indulge in riOtouS living at the
expense of the poor.
And it is expected that farmers will
wax wroth because of this state of af-
fairs, and straightway go and vote the
free-trade Democratic ticket.
These Democratic orators and writers
know little or nothing of the men for
whom they express so much sympathy.
The average American farmer knows
that he purchases family supplies, i'm
plements, tools, etc, cheaper to- day than
he did under Democratic free trade thir-
ty years ago; and though the nominal
price received for his products may be
somewhat less principally owing to
prOductiOn), the money he receives
is as gold, not liable to depreciate or be-
come altogether worthless in his hands.
President Cleveland and the free
traders in Congress tell American farm
ers that if their family supplies were
imported from Europe they would not
only get them cheaper, but that England,
France, Germany, Belgium and Holland
would gladly purchase all of their sur
plus grain and meat-would, in fact,
purchase five or ten times as much of
these commodities as they do now. And
all this in the face of the fact that all
of these countries except England i'm
pose heavy import duties On American
agricultural products.
American farmers, as a rule, know
what is going on in the world-know
that the food supply Of the world has
greatly increased in proportion to the in
crease of population during the last few
years-know that European nations pur-
chase no more grain or meat than they
need, and that they purchase what they
need in the cheapest market-knOw that
when they have full crops in Europe,
very little grain is needed from abroad
know that full crop or short crop
in Russia, India, Australia or South
America affects the price all over the
and industrial world-know
that they now have formidable compet-
itors in the food markets of Europe,
which amounted to but little few years
ago. For these reasons the average
American farmer desires to retain full
control of the home market, and to en-
the increase of that market
rather than to increase the number of
food producers. He is, therefore, op-
posed to free trade and in favor of the |
American system"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-07-26
TWO WAYS. CHOOSE WHICH.

There are two usual ways doing what
Nature sometimes does incompletely,
namely, to relieve the bowels; one is TO
swallow drastic purgative which evacu-
ates prOfusely, abruptly and with pain;
the other is to take HOstetter's stomach
Bitters, the effect of which is not violent,
but sufficiently thorough, and which does
not grippe the intestines. If the first is
selected, the person employing it need not
expect permanent benefit, and he cannot
hope to escape the debilitating reaction
witch leaves the organs Us rad or worse off
than before. If, on the otner hand, he re-
sorts to the Bitters, he can rely upon the
restoration of a regular habit of body,
consequent upon arenewal of q healthful
tone in the intestinal canal. Besides
healthfully relaxing the bowels, the Bit
ters arOuses dormant liver, imparts a
beneficial impetus to the action of the
kidneys and counteracts the early twinges
of rheumatism, tendency to gout, and
malaria in all its forms. in