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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-02-02
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

shall Immediately proceed 10 canvass the vote
given on the amendments at such election,
and the canvass shall be public and continue
without delay or adjournment until complet
ed. Such canvass shall be substantially in
form and manner as is now provided by law
for holding general elections in this State,
and the same shall be completed by said In
spectors and duly returned to the Boards Of
County Commissioners, as now provided by
law, within five days after the closing Of the
polls at said election.
SEC. 8, When the returns of said cleo
ton shall be received by the Boards Of County
Commissioners, they shall forthwith proceed
TO open said returns and make abstracts OF
the votes on the amendments submitted at
said election, which abstracts sha II be on one
sheet if practicable, and it shall be the duty
of said Boards, or the Chairmen thereof, 10
certify TO the correctness of such abstracts,
and within three days from the date said re-.
turns are received by them to cause the Clerk
thereof to transmit by mail to the Secretary
of State, at the seat of government, duly
csrtihed copies of such abstracts.
SEC. 9. Immediately after said abstracts
and returns shall be received by the Secrcta-
ny of State, the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court and he Associate Justices, or a major.
ity thereof, shall meet at the Office Of Score.
tary OF State and open and canvass the re-
turns and abstracts Of said election and forth.
with declare and publish the amendments
adopted by reference to the number Of amend.
men,s and the section aud article Of the Con
stitution amended, and all returns received
by the Secretary Of State shall be canvassed
on or before February 81, 1850.
SEC. 10. If the returns Of the election in
any county in the State shall not be received
at the Office Of the Secretary Of State on or
before the as,h day Of February succeeding
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

AT Auckland, New Zealand, the
Board of Education has passed reso-
luton requiring half hours temper
ance lesson to be taught each week in
all the public schools of the district.
THE lost drunkard. Lost? Who
has lost him? Humanity has lost him,
God has lost him. At the sight of a
drunkard the true human heart will
grow heavy ana bleed at thought of
its loss.-Voice.
A BAR-KEEPER says that his custom
er5 belong to the following classes
somebodies, rumbodies, scumbodies
and bumbodies. He nigh have added.
suggests the New York Tribune, that
the last three classes are recruited
from the first class.
THE use of liquor and its influences
have done more to darken labor's
homes, dwarf the energies and chain
it hand and foot to the wheels of cor
porate oppression than all other in
fuences combined. "-R. I. Travellick,
President OF National Labor Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
THE SALOON TRAFFIC.
Nothing Else in the World That Entails
Such Woe and Sin.

Nothing Else in the World That Entails
Such Woe and Sin.
"Jame5 O'Neil, of Haverhill, Mass,
went home drunk Monday night, and
shot his wife through the head"
These lines caught my eye in glanc-
ing over paper recently; only a few
words, but could we know the circum-
stances which led up to the writing of
this paragraph, it would no doubt fill
many pages. Think Of the grief and
misery that came to the wife of James
O'NeiE before he shot her in his drunk
enness; shot her through the head
the woman hehad promised before God
to love and cherish! But was James
O'Neil responsible for this awful deed?
He was at the time an insane man,
crazeG with whisky that some one had
sold him. A man can not goto drug
store and purchase poison with which
to destroy his life or that OF his
friends Great care is taken in the
sale of dangerous articles of commerce;
the supply is limited, and the sales
man has strict rules in regard to the
disposition OF such articles. But sa-
looms, where deadly poison is dealt
out, are everywhere to be found. and
it is sold in any quantity desired.
James O'Neil is but one of thou
sands who commit awful crimes when
crazed by liquor We can not look
over daily paper without seeing an
account of such deeds. The saloon
keepers are aware that they send thei"
customers to the prison cell and gall
lows; that wives and children are in
voking curses on their heads, but they
do not care q. long as they are en-
riched by the business.
There is nothing in the world that
entails such woe and sin as the liquor
traffic. 1t ruins homes, it breaks
hearts, it entices young men into
paths of vice, it takes bread from the
mouths of starving children. and even
women yield to the temptation of
drink, and virtue dies when the
poisoned cup is raised to the lips
and yet people sit quietly by, and see
this business carried on.
Let every woman join heart and
hand with the w. c. T. u, thereby
showing her adherence for the liquor
traffic, and using what influence she
has in helping to put it down.-Persis
F. Chase, in Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06


som6 trusty man, VINO sells exclusive
ly the beer of his patrons manufact-
60 boId bic .,osi+io,,
.ire' anu III oruet " ii0'" us Po'-''A
b. lngS all possible means 10 pear TO
increase his patronage. The saloon
thus becomes a most energetic mis-
sionarv in the devils cause.
One of the sixty saloou-keepers
whose nIacos are within the bounds of
G. potar,S lPomon C,tbolic) narish.
- a. oi+,- ~ prool,,,,r or heinz asked
rDh ,,' ,Laro ,rono so r,onv saloons in hat
aaa9;a,, .I,,,s a,.,I.,inad 70 =. ronortor of
49, pnooI,Irn EagIo.
I'm. -. >, ,o,,,, HIM. tho s.,,is.
tics OF the output Of malt liquor dur ng the
past five years and they will explain the in
,o,S sen ,S s ~ the siY,y o. oggeries now in
operation in this parish over thirty were
owned by brewers you wouldn't believe me,
vet such is the case. They operate in this
wav: For instance IL a man is a good fellow,
genital and popular in the section in which he
wishes TO open, he needs little or no money to
start a saloon. The funds are furnished by the
firm. who only stipulate that the saloon-leep-
err shall, as long as he is indebted to them, sell
their beer. The brewer takes mortgage, OF
the iron clad chattcl descript on, on the stock
and fixtures, and so stands to lose but very
little He always has the best Of the bargain,
as such customers pay more for their beer than
those who are not under obligations TO the
maker Of t."
This statement put the reporter on
his mettle, and he interviewed the rep
resentative of large brewery on the
subject. From him he found that an
ordinary saloon can be fitted up for
about SOU. and the finest Tor some
thing like S3'ooo' his hrm' ne SAID
has $3O,oOo invested IN saloons IN
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
THE SALOON SYSTEM.
Why and HOTy Many Drunkard Factories
in Cities Are Established.

Why and How Many Drunkard Factories
in Cities Are Established.
The saloon system is a concrete
fact in our civilization. 1t is not as
old as the drink habit. nor is it en-
tirely az outgrowth from it. The
saloon is a money-making institution.
1t exists not alone to supply a de-
mand, but to make that demand. A
most important part of its work as a
money-maker is to increase the num-
Der of drinking men, that it's revenues
shall not fail. And of late years. the
brewers of our cities have taken an
active part in this division of the
work. In order to increase their own
sales, they have set out to increase
the number of drinkers. They have
mastered the fact that the average
man is the creature of opportunity,
and that he can be led to drink if con-
venient opportunity be given. Hence
they start saloons in every available
locality, and put in charge of each
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
PLANS FOR CRIME,
Oo"1roice and Fear of burglars and Other
Law-Breakers.

Law-Breakers.
ne public hardly realizes how very
nucq OF the safety of the ordinary citizen
depends on the carefulness, the sordid-
nessi the calculatingness of crime. OF
course that is a characteristic of crime
whlcn renders it rarer and more ex-
ceptlonai, II the whole criminal class
: wiling to take what we call spot
shots at plumber and violence. when
ever II occurs to them that they have a
chance OF plumber, or chance of pre-
venting detection by violence, no po-
nee That we could organize would be
III any degree equal to their work The
reason why they are at all equal to
their work is that we can generally
count on the criminal class concentra-
ing Their efforts on reasonable chances
oil success. If they once get, as u class,
as reckless in attempting crime as the
MusWell Hill burglars, we can not con-
celVe how the police could engage sue
leesstuily skirmiskers whose tactics
would then be so incalculable. Hith-
erto the representatives of order
nave justly counted on the timid-
lty, the cOwardice, the general dis
courasement OF their foes. But if
heyshould ever be unable to count on
th4f' Il the fear CT society once disap-
peaed or greatly dwindled in the UNI
socl3class, worst OF all if ever that
= hopld be replaced by contempt
lorssoclety, the number of points of at
tack would be multiplied so cnor-
monsly thatnot all the rashness with
which the attacks might be made would
in any degree compensate for the
enormous increase OF their number and
range. Suppose that all the cheats
who are, of coufsc, criminals at heart
could divest themselves of the fear
of the law, and, in consequence, be-
came robbers, where would society be?
And yet the cheats are nothing but
robbers at heart restrained by the fear
of consequences. il the levity which
was shown by the Muswell Hill burg
lars ever took possession of the great
army of impostors and rogucs so that
they suddenly swelled the ranks of the
more violent criminals, no machinery
Of justice of which we know any thing
would be equal to the emergency. 1t
would break down as completely as the
ordinary machinery for feeding Il
country would break down in a time
of regular famine, and We should see
the meaning OF moral anarchy. That
is why we do not think any sign of
genuine levity in the criminal class IL
trivial matter. If it extended, as we
hope and trust it will not, it would be
one OF the most serious OF social symp-
toms. 1t would mean collapse as
fatal of the proper means of over
towering crime as there would be of
the proper means of conqucring dis
ease, in case the number Of sick people
were suddenly multiplied by ten, and
in case the great majority OF them
should be disposed to pay not the
smallest attention to the orders and
prescriptions of the brave little army
lpf desperate doctors. Spec
-tNc,Y,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
THE BENl-lSRAELlTES.
A Peculiar Jewish Sect Dwelling in the
Heart of India.

Among the many scattered remnants
of nations in India, there are few more
interesting than the Beni-Israel of the
Bombay side. The Beni-Israel do not
belong to the lost tribes, nor have they
any mysterious connection with the
Great Pyramid. Their own legends
aver that many centuries ago their
forefathers, flying by sea from Il coun-
try in the north, were shipwreclled
near kenery Island, and the survivors,
homeless, pcnniless, among strangers,
and without the books Of their law.
The date of this hegira is estimated
from 1000 to 1000 years ago. Since
that date the little colony of fourteen
souls has grown into dispersed COM
munity of 10000, not unlike the ordi-
nary Konkan peasantry, but religiously
observing the Jewish Sabbath and
whatever they can remember of the
Mosaical law. They have been hewers
of wood and drawers of water to what
ever King CHANGED to reign, but they
are as much Jews to-day as they were
two centuries before Christ. That they
might not be overconspicuous among
their surroundings, they took, long
ago, the precaution of Hinduizing their
names as far as might be. Thus Ben
jamin became Bunnaji; Abraham,
Abajec; Moses, Moosaiee. and so forth.
Some few, like their forefathers in the
wilderness, fell away from theirancient
creed, married daughters of Heth and
adopted idolatrous practices; but even
then many remembered always to re-
peat Hear o Israel, the Lord our God
is one God" at all their fea5ts and fes.
rivals. In process of time Cochin
Jew came up to Bombay, discovered
his coreligiOnists and set about to in
struct them more fully in the TENET
of their creed. 70 him succeeded IA
intervals other reformers, who labOrcss
for the Bcni-lsrael. The last of thcsl :
died just before the mutiny, and ''s'ndN
then" we are told, religious progres
has hccn ut a standstill. st. Jane
Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A dry humorist-One who IS
pumped out. Puck.
In 1860 the ladies of the country
wore 81, AGA, 900 worth of wire in their
hoop skirts.
Ice was artificially manufactured
by the use of chemical mixtures as
early as 1888.
"A silver pipe, on which is the in
scription: Presented by Major Cen
eral Harrison, u. S. A, on behalf Of
the United States, to the Shawaonese
tribe of Indians, 1914" has been pre-
scented to President Harrison by gen
tleman who secured the relic in the
Indian Territory.
Coughing and sneezing can be
stopped by pressing on the lips in the
in the neighborhood of the ear, or
pressing very hard on the top OF the
mouth, inside. is also means of stop
ping coughing. The will has immense
power also.
"A farmer in East Corinth, Maine,
wouldn't give u copper for a bounty on
crows. He is able to take care of his
own property. When he gets his corn
planted he carries out two coops. each
holding rooster, and sets them on the
two ends of his field. AS soon as it
begins to grow light the ROSTERS be-
gin to challenge each other and their
music scares all the crows away.
Here is remedy for crarrp. sug-
gested by DIR. r. w. st. Clair, of Lon
don: Let the patient provide himself
with good, strong cord and keep it
always by him. When the spasm comes
on let him wind this cord around The
affected part, take an end in each hand
aud give them good sharp pull. 1t
will hurt you little-it is useless if ii
does not-but the cramp will vanish at
once.
"A mechanical scarecrow has been
invented which represents man stand
ing with gun in hand, ready to fire at
the first intruder. The arm that is
holding the gun is made to move by
| clOckwOrk, which is incloscd in II strong
iron box at his feet, and at q proper
elevation it fires a shot louder than an
ordinary gun. After the report the arm
lowers. The mechanism can be regu.
lated at the owners pleasure by reg
ulator like clock, and only requires
to be wound up once day.
"A man at Allegheny recently
sawed slit two inches wide and five
feet long in his parlor floor, rugged an
iron grating so that it would shoot up
through the slit on a spring being
touched. and then invited Alice Bliss, a
medium from Boston, to give seance
at his house. When he supposed the
spirit of Little Daisy" had crossed the
line, he touched the spring. But il
turned out that the spirit was only hall
way across and she received tremend.
| Gus thump.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
INVASION OF CATS.
A Mean Joke Perpetrated on the People
of Mississippi Town.

A Mean Joke Perpetrated on the People
of "a Mississippi Town.
r''When I was living in q steamboat
town on the Mississippi" remarked an
old man in a BARRIERS shop few days
ago, there was fellow who put up a
very neat job on the inhabitants,
against whom he must have had some
terrible grudge. He came into the
town one day and distributed handbills
right and left, taking special pains to
put as many of them as possible into
the hands of farmers who had come in
to sell their grain.
That was before the railroads came
to take business away from the river
towns, some of which had an immense
trade. The place was in had 5000
or 5000 inhabitants, and was the
shipping port for all the grain raised
for miles around. as well as the place
where the farmers obtained all their
supplies. The last time / was there it
had dwindled down to a village of 1000,
and perhaps by this time it has no
existence at all, even on the map.
These bills that were so freely
scattered about stated that the adver-
tiser had u contract with certain
steamboat company for furnishing a
large number of cats to destroy the rats
and mice that were very numerous
about the warehouses at different land
ings along the river. He, therefore,
offered So for each full-grown Tom cat,
81 for each female puss, and so cents
o head for kittens old enough to get
their own living. All the cats were to
be delivered at a certain place in the
town on a Thursday evening - the
night that particular boat was due.
well, that Thursday afternoon came
and the streets of the town were just
crowded with people. They came in
wagons, on foot, and on horseback, and
every person carried sack, some A
them several.
"By evening between 5000 and 400 I
cats had been brought into that d. !
fenseless city. They were left in AM
about vacant building near the lane
ing. The man who was to purchas /
the cats was nowhere in sight. Th 1
country people were making inquiries
for him everywhere. A crowd of boy
attracted by the caterwauling went 70
the old building and began to amuse
themselves by untying the bags and
letting out the cats. OF course the
cats began fighting and raised noise
like 10000 demons. Suddenly STAN.
pede occurred and the animals rushed
pell nell into the crowd, crawling over
people, jumping and fighting, and
climbing walls and roofs in mad
race for liberty. The boys took after
the cats, and the men joined in, de-
tcrmined to rid the town of the feline
Invaders. The next morning there
were good many stray cats seen about
in back yards, and a good mnny dead
ones lying i'll the streets and alleys.
One boatman said he counted over 4OO
dead cats in the river. The man who
pcrpctratcd the joke was never seen in
the place, luckily for MIN. "-PittsturgD |
Dispatch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
A CURIOUS TIME-PlECE.
Nicholas Cratzer's AstrOn pmical Clock in
Hampton Court Palace.

Nicholas Cratzer's Astron omical Clock in
Hampton Court Palace.
The most interesting timc-piece in
England is the astronomical clock of
Hampton Court Palace. An inscription
shows that it was made for Henry
VIII. in the year 1910. The designer
is not known, but is supposed to have
been the famous German astronomer,
Nicholas Crater.
This venerable curio was only dis
covered about four years ago in shed
adjoining the palace. 1t was restored
by the secretary OF the Board Of Works.
The dial is made up of three copper
disks of different diamcters, with a
common center. The smallest disk is
feet 3! inches in diameter. Its spaces
represent the quarters of the moon and
the hour for crossing the meridian.
nine spaces, numbered from right to
left, which represent the moons age
in days. The third. or outer, disk is z
feet 10 inches in diameter and bears
several sets of concentric circular
spaces, showing the names of the
months and days and the signs Of the
zodiac. Each zodiacal space is divided
into thirty degrees and an outer circle
divides the days of the year. {;
The weights which are used have a
drop of 60 feet and take half an hour
each week to wind. The clock is set in
q stone frame about Is feet square.
with the badge OF Henry VIII. above
the portcullis and Aeur de lis, with the
initials "H. R." below. - jewelers.
Wnak1v
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
COMMON ERRORS.
Concerning the Effects of the Use of AlcO-
hole Drinks.

hole Drinks.
Many persons have imagined that
drinking liquor will enable them to do
more work than they can do without
it. But DR.. Parkes, a distinguished
English Psychologist, by systematic
experiments, showed that Il man can
lift considerably more before taking
two or three glasses of spirits than he
can afterwards. Sea captains have
found that, when their men undergo
excessively hard work, hot coffee or
tea does them good, while whisky
would do them harm.
Similarly. it has been thought that
splrit-drinking would lessen the
danger to life of those exposed to ex-
IRENE cold. But abundant evidence
shows that, under the same circum-
stances, drinking men will freeze to
death, while those who abstain may
survive. By lulling sensibility alco-
hol lessons the perception of cold
only, not its depressing effect upon
the body. Sir John Richardson, DR..
Kane and other Arctic explorers have
fully confirmed this observation.
Against the heat of tropical
climates, also, liquor has been sup
posed to be a protective; but the ex-
perience of British physicians in the
East Iudias contradicts this alto
gether. Nowhere does the use of al
coholic beverages prove so destructive
as in the tropics. Moreover. in Amer
lea, the greatest number of deaths
from sunstroke occur among the in
temperate.
Formerly, it was a popular idea
that alcohol might render the system
less liable to endemic and epidemic
diseases, such as ague. yellow fever
and cholera. But those who have
seen the most of these diseases assert
that this is entirely a mistake. The
use of liquor affords no sort of pro-
lection in any disease; and when an
Incorporate person is attacked, es-
pecially with cholera, he is almost
sure to die.
Conclusion: If the question be
asked: What is the influence of the
use OF alcoholic beverages upon the
system, when taken in health? the
summary answers of physiology and
sanitary experience must be that it is
injurious. in proportion to the amount
of alcohol used, the frequency of its
inbibation, and it may be added, the
youth of those who indulge in it.
Many examples prove that the earlier
in life the drinking habit is formed,
the more rapid and certain are its
destructive effects. The Guide.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
OVERWORK ON RAILROADS.
A Practice Which should be Prohibite
by State Legislation.

A Practice Which should be Prohibited
by State Legislation.
If we are to accept in evidence the
figures of contemporary, the minds OF
railway directors do not seem to feel
severely their responsibility for the
overwork of their employees. A state
ment lately published by this authority
informs us that during last month al
most all the signal-men, engine-drivcrs,
fremen and goods guards on one line
longer than the usual period. rrob-
ably as much might be said of the men
employed by many other companies.
On the line in question thirteen or
fourteen hours appears to have been
quite common term, fifteen and even
eighteen by no means unusual. Ii is at
the least very doubtful whether the
practice of working overtime should be
permitted in the case of railway Off
Gals. The conditions of their calling
are very different from those Of other
workmen. The responsibilities, the
need of alertness and vigilance, and the
perplexities of their position are much
greater, while at the same time the diff
culties and risks interposed by changing
weather, fog and darkness are increased
also. In these circumstances most I'M
prejudiced persons will admit that Il
working day Of twelve hours, with lit
tie or no interruption of duty, must
Try materially the senses and energies
dlany ordinary man. If the teaching
dI repeated and disastrous mistakes
Hitherto attributed to fatigue is of any
yalue, there is danger to public safety
ben this limit is much exceeded. We
are well aware that pressure of busi-
ness, weather and the like may occa-
sionally necessitate overtime work, but
such apparently systematic excess as
that above mentioned is not to be ex-
planned by merely accidental circum-
stances. The very prevalence of such
a condition is proof that a department
is doing its work short-handed. What
is really needed is larger staff of en-
ployes. The lack of these may, in
deed, effect present gain to the divi-
dends, but this might prove too dear q
saving if it were secured at the cost of
a railway disaster, and experience
teaches that this contingency is not an
one.-Loudon Lancet.