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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
THE AMERICAN HEIRESS' La
MENT,

If I could read my title clear to castles in the
air,
And could secure baronet, my fathers cash to
share,
I'd bid farewell to earthly woes and wipe my
weeping eyes,
For what's the use OF money If you can't have
what it buys?
II could drop my maiden name-the ordinary
Brown,
And call myself: MY Lady" and could wear
ducal crown,
I'd never more feel envy, but enjoy that bliss.
full rest
That comes alone from owning coat-of-arms
and crest
If could only change my friends, that everlast-
ing mob.
OF Misters and CT Misses, known as Clara, Dick
or Bob
I always would be happy. and no sinful pride
evince,
If I could hear my intimates called Baron,
Duke or Prince.
If could lose my nasal twang and Democratic
face,
And buy myself the figure of a more patrician
race,
I'd never by my carriage, or by word or look
betray
The fact that was born and bred in plain
America.
-Iife
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
TENTED FACTS.

A MODERATE drinker is worth thou
sand times more to the devil for de-
structive purposes than an out-and-out
drunkard.-Ram's Horn.
A CHICAGO college student was recent
ly committed to the insane asylum. in
Judge Prendergasts court, adjudged in
sane from cigarette smoking.
To SAY: II can drink or let it alone"
is about as wise as to say: 81 can drive
nails in lions tail and get away be-
fore he can grab me. RAMS Horn.
GEORGE BLAIKLoCK, the London Tenn
perance lecturer who is travelling in
this country, says that his city contains
10000 paupers and spends annually for
drink about $4,000, 900.
Tim DELANEY's Pump" an old sa-
loon at Worcester, Mass, where beer
had been the chief beverage dispensed,
has been turned into a Temperance
restaurant and coffee house by the local
w. c. T. U.
SEE but this one lesson-no nation,
no individual, can thrive so long as it
be under the dominion of besetting
sin. 1t must conquer or DO conquered.
1t must destroy or be destroyed by it.
Unjust strike at the sources of it or be
stricken down by it into the dust
Canon Farrar.
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THE KHOJAK TUNNEL.
A Wonderful Engineering Feat on ar
1-H Asiatic Railroad.

A Wonderful Engineering Feat on an
l.--Ts Asiatic Railroad.
An article in the Allahabad Pioneer
gives some interesting particulars con-
corning the tunnel that has just been
completed through the Khojak, on the
railroad from Quetta to Candahar. The
Khojak Pass is 1900 feet above the sea,
and about 1000 feet above the level of
the surrounding country. The tunnel
pierces the range at right angles. and
it's course is therefore due east and
west, and it enters tho hill about 1000
feet below the crest of the pass. The
tunnel is $4,000 feet, or two and half
miles approximately, and it will carry .
double line of rails. For the first half
the floor ascends about l in 1000, and
for the second half of the journey
it descends at an incline of 1 in 40.
There are two main shafts, one 31S feet
and the other 300 feet deep, which were
sunk in order to facilitate the construc-
ton of the tunnel. The chief obstacle
to progress arose from the flooding of
the tunnel at more than one point. A
large spring was cut and the water
to the depth of $50 feet.
1t took ten weeks to pump out the
water, and in the western heading as
much as 500 gallons a minute were con-
stantly rushing out of the west mouth.
In order to overcome this difficulty a
side cutting had to be made. The mag
nitude of the work is testified to by the
banks of shale and rock at the mouths
of the tunnel and at tho pitheads, which
are said to be quite altering the land
scape in places. One curious discovery
made during the progress of the work,
as the result of an investigation into
the cause of certain mysterious explo-
sions, was that it was proved that com
bustion had arisen inside case Of
blasting gelatine."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
Mr.. Francis and His Island.

]. J. Francis, b. C. of Hong Kong, can
be, like Defoe's immortal creation,
monarch of all he surveys when he lands
upon the island of Balambangan, off the
coast IF North Borneo. The island was
conceded to Mr.. Francis during holt
day visit which that gentleman paid to
Borneo last year, and is described as
being close upon fifty miles in circum-
ference, and lying about ten or eleven
miles off the extreme northern point OF
Borneo. tits $50 miles from the port of
any trace of any. The northern half of
the island is sandy plain, we'll suited
for .pasturing cattle or for cocoanut
planting. The other side consists of a
dense jungle of large trees, something
after the style of the dark forest which
30 impeded Mr.. Stanley in his last jour
ney acress Africa. The shore, as is
common in the tropics, is fringed with
mangroves. There is an abundance of
fine limestone on the hills, the highest
of which reaches over 400 feet, and in
the valleys is soil evidently very suita-
BILE for coffee planting. There are two
good harbors. Wild cattle are appar-
entity abundant, and there are three
species of deer, and plenty of wild pigs,
but no crocodiles. So far Mr.. Francis
has formed no definite idea as to what
he shall do with Balambangan, but he
intends to send competent man down
20 examine and report upon the place.
Colonies and India
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call on them before buying elsewhere.
does not look as if l was being boycotted.
1t is also fact that some officials are
very sociable with the public money.
There seems to be good deal of cor.
diality among the people, and it is not
confined to our sex. If you go to
Coney Island in summer, and come
back on the last steamboat, you see
much to convince you that naughty re-
serve is not cultivated to any great ex-
cess. never saw people more sociable
in my life for the time being. From
what read in the papers here, infer
that some New Workers are very
sociable with other mems wives.
In fact, the population of New York,
being composed principally of men and
women, is not very different from pee.
pie in Texas. There are about ten
thousand saloons, more or less-prob-
ably more-on Manhattan Island, and,
Judging from the tableaux of returning
jewellers seen on the streets after dark,
the whisky produces pretty much the
same genial brand of conviviality as
in Texas.
New York inebriates become con-
fdentlally drunk, festoon each other
with their arms, and walk on both sides
of the street just as they do in less
favored localities. Sometimes people
are so sociable that there is only one
handkerchief between them. Still,
Jim, don't want you to go to the ex-
pense of coming to New York and then
go back and say that you were not APP
preciated. The people are not as
neighborly as in Texas. They do not
borrow parched coffee Of each other,
and usually the nearest neighbors are
the most distant, which may sound
strange, but is fact nevertheless.
In Texas, out on the frontier, mans
nearest neighbor on the bald prairie
may be five miles distant, and yet those
neighbors are very familiar. They know
all about each others affairs, call each
other by their Christian names, and
swap lies and chewing tobacco.
Now in New York the nearest neigh
bors are not five miles apart. My near
est neighbor, for instance, is only eight
cen inches distant. There is nothing
but brick wall between us, and yet we
have never spoken to each other. For
all know he may be a Doodle alderman.
He is probably under the impression
that am counterfeiter, or something
of the sort. l have never tried to bor-
row quarter from him, and he never
sees me when we look at each other. We
have been intimate this way for the last
two years.
If we were as friendly in proportion
to the distance between US as neigh
bors are in Texas who live five miles
apart how thick we would be! Damon
and Pythias would be deadly enemies by
comparison.
But must close, James. You can de-
eide for yourself whether tho people in
New York are sociable enough to suit
you. / think you might stand it for a
little while. There used to be a great
deal of sociability in Now York. The
old Dutch burghers were in the habit Of
sitting on their stoops in summer, drink
ing and smoking, and saying: WE
gehts" to every body that passed, but they
are dead. They, too, have passed. Yours
truly, ALEX E. SWEET.
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A New Sort of Inebriety.

Dr. Mendel, a noted nerve specialist
OF Berlin, in pursuit of the origin of
certain form of nervous disease, has
hunted down form of inebriety, not
before recognized. He terms it coffee
inebriety," and says it is rapidly increas-
ing in that country, especially among
working-women. He has found large
numbers of them who consume more
than pound each every week. The
effect is manifestin frequent headaches,
insomnia, great depression of spirits,
trembling of the extremities, irregular
action of the heart with all the accom-
panying distress. These symptoms
constantly grow worse and are relieved
by increasing quantities of coffee; some-
times the tincture is used Dyspepsia
in aggravated form is usually present.
as well as blotches and pimples on the
skin. A bruise or slight injury proves
the starting point of Inflammation, cry
sipelatous in character. Melancholy
and fear Of death accompany this form
of inebrietY in all cases.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
WHAT ALCOHOL DOES.
Let the Fallacy as to the Necessity Of
Moderate Drinking BE Removed.

Let the Fallacy as to the Necessity OF
Moderate Drinking BE Removed.
Il had once no thought of alcohol ex-
cept as food. l thought it warmed us.
l thought it gave us strength. thought
it enabled US to endure mental and bodi-
ly fatigue. l thought it cheered the
heart, and lifted up the mind into
greater activity. But it so happened
that was asked to study the action Of
alcohol along with a whole series Of
chemical bodies, and to investigate
their bearing in relation to each other.
And SO took alcohol from my shelf in
the laboratory, as 1 might any other
drug or chemical, and l asked it in the
course OF experiments extending over 3
heightened period: What do you do?'
I asked it: DO you warm the animal
body when you are taken into it?' The
reply came invariably: i do not, except
in mere surface excitemenS; Then l
turn around to it in another direction
and ask it: DO you give muscular
strength?' 1 test it by the most rigid
analysis and experiment l can adopt
and its reply is: 4 give no muscular
strength. turn to its effect on the organs
of the body and find, that while it expe-
dites the hearts action. it reduces to-
nicity; and, in the nervous system,
find the same reply, that is to say, 1
find the nervous system more quickly
,weSn out under the influence of this
agent than if none were taken at all. 1
ask it: Can you build up any of the It's
sues of the body? The answer is again
in the negative: 4 build nothing. If
do any thing, l add fatty matter to the
body, but that is a destructive agent,
piercing the tissues, destroying their
powers and making them less active for
their work. Next l turn around to the
facts of experience. l think: Well, as
l have come to the above conclusion,
will experiment on myself do so.
gave up that which l thought warmed
and helped, and declare after consider
ing the whole period in which 1 have
subjected myself to this ordeal, l never
did more work; l never did more varied
work; never did work with equal
faculty-with so much facility; / never
did work with such complete sense of
freedom from anxiety and worry, as
l have done during the period that 1
have abstained altogether. Let this
fallacy, then, as to the necessity of
moderate drinking be removed. B.
w. Richardson, M. D., in Temperance.
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CAUSES OF POVERTY.
When a Man Drinks His Family Is on
the Road to Destitution.

Tic hOau 10 DesUlJuUlOn.
Edward Atkinson, the political econo-
mist, on being asked by the New York
World on the causes of poverty said,
concisely: Ignorance and incapacity."
Chauncey Depew replied as follows:
'There are good many causes of
poverty" he said, after rejecting mo-
ment, land they are by no means per-
fectly clear. There are hundreds of
men whom have helped, and am help
ing continually. They seem to be ut.
terly unable to earn living for them
selves. | never could discover why.
They have had the same advantages
and opportunities as have had.
Lack of self-confidence is often the
cause of failure. Many men seem to
have no faith in themselves. conse-
quently no assertiveness, no independ-
ence, no pluck and no push. They seem
to be afraid to stand up and speak for
themselves, and prefer to lean on
others. Poverty in such cases is in
evitable.
Another cause of poverty very prev
alent in this country to-day is that
many young men are wanting in decis-
ion and tixity of purpose. If they get
into good place at the start they
should stick to it, knowing that by per-
severance, industry and ability they
win promotion in due course as vacan-
cies occur. But they see or hear of some
one making fortune in Wall street or
in ranching or mining, and away they
go to try their luck. When they lose,
as they do in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred, that is the end of them; they
can never settle down to ordinary ways
of earning a living after that and their
descent is rapid.
Rum is the greater cause of poverty;
it is the cause of more poverty than all
the other causes put together. When a
man drinks to excess he Jets go Of
every thing. He loses his position and
is unable to secure other employment.
A drunkard can not be trusted with
work or responsibility. He and those
dependent upon him, if he has family,
become paupers. They have to be
helped, first by the neighbors and then
by the town. In my own personal ex-
perience / have known about fifty thou
sand men who have been ruined by rum.
These causes account for the failure of
men who are willing to work, but are
unable to secure and keep regular en-
ployment. There is vast amount of
poverty caused by men who would rath-
er loaf than work. When a man finds
his mission in the world he should re-
main constant to it and not leave one
trade or business to engage in another
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
LIQUOR ADULTERATloNS.
Confession of a Dealer in Fusel Oil and
Other Adultcrants.

Confession OF Dealer in Fusel OIL and
Other Adultcrants.
The American Analyst reports deal
er in liquor adulterants as saying:
Our largest business is in the liquor
line. With French spirits and color as
basis, l can make you any liquor you
want with our extracts. Here are the
essences of Old Tom, London Dock,
Swan, Holland, and Schiedam gins, the
extracts of Otard and Cognac brandies,
rye, bourbon, appleiack, Irish and
Scotch WHISTLES, Santa Cruz, Jamaica
and Medford runs, not to speak of the
fancy. cordials and liquors. To make Old
Tom, | take teaspoonful of French
spirits, one of water, three drops of glu-
cose syrup and two drops of the extract.
That makes the Old Tom you have
drank in dozen saloons in this city.
There are some funny things about this
part of the business Most people like
their whisky and brandy aged and free
from fusel oil. But there are great
many, especially among manual labor.
ers, who like it fresh and harsh. They
want it ''to cut as it goes down" To
supply this demand we sell fusel oil to
rectifiers and even retailers. They mix
barrel of whisky, of spirits and one
of water with a gallon of fusel oil. That
makes 1o-cent rye which beats a torch
light procession. It's cheap, too, and
stands an intelligent dealer in only 81
a gallon. That's 20 cents bottle, and
less than ] cent drink on an average.
No wonder rum-sellers grow rich and
become aldermen or go to Congress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
Loss of Appetite.

If one has lost his appetite and can
not think of any thing that he wants to
eat, the best remedy is to stop eating
entirely for twenty-four hours and then
it is safe to guarantee that he will find
his appetite much improved. While
fasting he must not neglect copious
water drinking to dilute the blood,
which has become sluggish. 1t does
not do any harm to go without an occa-
sional meal, for what we eat to-day does
us good tomorrow. 1t requires about
fourteen hours for meal to be fully
digested and absorbed.-Dr. j. Ii. Kel-
logg.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
EIRESIpE FRAGMENTS.

Cocoa shC"ld never thicken in the
cup: if it does it shows the presence of
starch of some kind.
Hash Roll: Take rich biscuit
dough, roll into e long sheet and spread
it we'll with butter and finely hashed
ham or beef already cooked. Roll up,
place in deep plate and steam nearly
three hours. This needs good brown
gravy in serving, and it makes an ad-
mirable supper dish.-Western Rural.
To avoid the odor which too often
fills the house when cabbage or other
green vegetables are boiling, follow
these simple directions: Put your
cabbage in a net, ami when you have
boiled it five minutes in the first pot of
water, lift it out, drain for a few sec
onds, and place carefully in second
pot, which you must have full of fast
boiling water on the stove. Empty the
first water away and boil your cabbage
till tender in the second.-Boston Bud
get.
Blackberry Tapioca: Wash cup of
tapioca through several waters and
cover with cold to stand several hours.
hOu SOU ONSI Il0 lEc, duu d plllO Vi
boiling water and let simmer slowly
until the tapioca is perfectly clear.
Sweeten a quart of blackberrios, stir in
the tapioca, take from the fire, pour in
dish, stand aside to cool and serve very
cold with cream and sugar.-Farm and
Fireside.
Cucumber Fritters: Peel and CRATE
full grown, tender cucumbers. Press all
the juice from the pulp, and add to one
quart of pulp half teacup of rich,
sweet cream, half pint of -four, one
gill of melted butter, salt and pepper to
taste. Beat four eggs separately, very
light, and add to the butter which
should be very thick. Have ready ket-
tie of boiling lard, and drop in one large
spoonful at time, removing as soon as
crisp and brown. Serve as you would
fried oysters, which they very much re-
semble.-Ladies' Home journal.
Did you ever notice boy whose
father always treated him as if he were
man, talking to him sensibly, putting
confidence in him as if he were much
older than he is? If you have, you have
seen boy that was very manly even at
six or seven years of age. Now all the
difference in the world between boy
and young animal, in the matter of
training or education, is in the boy
susceptibility of higher degree of edu-
cation. Both are pliable when young;
both can be readily molded.-N. Y. Wit
ness.
Curry of Spring Chicken: Cut up a
q young chicken; put two ounces of
butter in frying pan, cut small onion
in slices, and add it with the chicken to
the butter, and fry golden brown; take
up the chicken, put it in saucepan
with a little water, season with salt and
let simmer gently for fifteen minutes,
then add teaspoonful of sugar, and the
juice of small lemon. Mix table,
spoonful of curry powder and one of
flour with little cold water, and add to
the chicken. Stir until it boils. Serve
with boiled rice.-Ladies' Home Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
Not Unlike the Hilton Case.

Excited Man (entering lawyers Of
fce)-You're a lawyer, amt you?
Lawyer-Yes, l am lawyer. What
can do for you?
81 want you to sue the New York World
for fifty thousand dollars damages, and
want you to set about it right away. l
am bound TO have vindication."
what has the New York World done
to you?"
SIT has INDUCED in no end of abuse.
1t said that was Judas Iscariot."
''Do you want to sue the World for de-
flaming your character?"
OBTAINING my character? Not at all.
1t is the memory of the dead that
want to vindicate. 1t has slandered
Judas Iscariot!''-Texas Siftings.
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there are quite number CT very nice
people in New York that Go not permit
q stranger to feel as if he was being
neglected. A gentleman, who is de-
seconded from one of the old Knickcr
booker families of New York, called on
me regularly, about the first of the
month. He owned the house in which
/ had rented fiat. knew of gentle.
man from Texas who was visited every
day for whole week by landlord who
was worth hundreds of thousands OF dol.
lars. He took a great deal of interest in
tho exile from Texas.
l get letters and circulars almost
every day from some of the most promi'
nent merchant princes, asking me to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25

Old Coupons lin his office)-What ali
outrage it is to drive tho poor old blind
newsman out of the Fulton ferry, where
he has sold papers for fifty years.
Confidential Clerk-That's so. The
avarice of these grasping corporations
is positively disgusting.
Old Coupons docking out of the win
dow)-There's that lame banana peddler
in front of our building again. John Ito
the Office boy), go down and tell the pc.
licemaa to drive Lin off.-TOVas Sift-
incA
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SOCIABILITY.
Sweet Discusses the Subject In an
Interesting Way.
Life.

Not long since received letter with
. Texas postmark richly embossed on
the envelope. 1t was from an old-time
friend whom / had not seen for many
years. While he avoided in promulgat-
ing his esoteric cogitations, superficial
sentimentalities, or physiological OBJ
servations too much platitudinous pom
derosity, he did not punctuate any bet
ter than mere fly. A portion of his
letter reads:
"deer click ime: thinkin Serusly about comm
too new. York but furst; i wanter no air The
pcaple. sosniabul. Air they gladd, to hev
straingurs. cum End stay for. wud not keer to
stay in toun wheur was Not. wantid trooly
course
JIH: MCSNIFT1R;
The question: care the New Workers
sociable?" is not as readily answered as
one might suppose before thinking it
over. Besides giving the subject con-
siderable thought myself, l have con-
suited with number of Southern gem
tlemen who have resided in New York
for years and obtained their views,
which, however, differ widely. Some
who lost their watches while mingling
with the crowd on holiday on Broad
way were of the opinion that there was
too much sociability in New York.
Under the circumstances, / have con-
cluded not to express any decided
opinion, but merely state facts that
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25

"A small boy, anxious to help support
his widowed mother, applied for a posi-
ton as errand-boy in the shop of fish
dealer. NO" said the man: 81 want a
boy stout enough to carry bushel of
oysters on his shoulder. You are too
small to do that" YES" answered
the boy, "but 1 can go twice" The
ready answer carried the day. The boy
rot the place, and with tia good start in
the world. -Urited Presbyterian.
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A SoCIABLE YOUTH.

have come under my observation and
thus enable Mr.. McSnifter and others
who may contemplate visiting New
York to form their own conclusions.
If, after reading the following reply
to McSnifter's inquiry, they see proper
to come to New York, and find their
surroundings not what they expected,
there will be no moral or legal obliga-
tions on my part to supply them with
railroad passes to return to their native
lairs. This may appear to be cold and
unfeeling on my part, but I will not be
misunderstood by those who have had
any experience in working New York
railroad magnate for a pass.
THE REPLY.
James McSnifter,
Calaveras Canyon, Texas.
DEAR SIR: In regard to the people Of
New York being addicted to sociability
some of them are more so than others.
When first came to New York. some
years ago, although my boarding
was not more than twenty minutes
walk from the houses Billy Vanderbilt,
"Wally" Astor, Jay Gould, ct al, none
of them called on me for six months.
don't know how much longer they would
not have called on me, for became dis
gusted and moved out of the neighbor-
hood. l have given them the cold
shoulder ever since. At the same time,
there were other persons in that vicinity
who did not put so many frills. A nice
gentleman, who was letter carrier,
used to call every day, and the janitor