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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
THE TRUE ELIXIR.
Counterfeit Excitement Which Some Co
slider True Inspiration.

Counterfeit Excitement Which Some Con
slider True Inspiration.
Almost all persons who have reached
maturity are subject to depression of
spirits. Tides of melancholy, restless
ness and languor overwhelm the nerv-
GUS system. No matter why they come,
come they will. But for some fault OF
the victim or of his environment, they
could not be. But this is not faultless
world.
The use of stimulants in some form
has been thought necessary, in order to
counteract vital depression. my sys-
tenn needs toning up" is the plea made
to himself by the tippler. The mind,
like a balloon, wants to be loosened
from the trammels that tie it down to
the sodden earth.
This is the reason" says Emerson,
''why lords love wine, mead, narcotics,
coffee, tea, opium, the fumes of sandal
wood and tobacco, or whatever other
procurers of animal exhilaration. To
that end" he continues, "men avail
themselves of different means to add
this extraordinary power to their nor
NAL powers. To this end, they prize
conversation, music, pictures, dancing,
theaters, travelling, war, fires, gaming,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
A MARVELLOUS FASTER.
AFreDch Widow Who Says She Has Been
without Food For Nine Year,

without Food For Nine Year,
The little town of Bourdeilles, In
rerigord, France, is becoming famous,
says the New York Sun, through a
Woman named Zelie Bourivu, who pre-
lends to have tasted for nine years and
who is now actually undergoing a sixty
lay fast, under scientific precautions
against fraud. The woman is the widow
farmer of Paussac-Saint-V iyien
FAMED Guillane Garron, by whom she
had four children, all now dead. Tho
aeath of her husband was the beginning
her fast. She is brunette with
brilliant eyes and excessive nervous
ness. She has lived since her alleged
lasting began under the care of DIR.
.afon, who says that he visited her fire.
luently, and, while unable to say that
her story was untrue, doubted it very
much, and endeavored frequently to in
luce her to submit to systematic course
Of observations that would scientifically
test her claim.
She always refused, and this con-
nrmed the doctor in his suspicion that
the woman was merely an ordinary hys-
terical, and perhaps unconscious, fraud.
Last month, however, she voluntarily
offered to submit to the closest sur
reliance the doctor might wish to plase
Upon her, and the present tests were be-
gun. The doctor declares that he took
every precaution against trickery or de"
Iceit. For three weeks the woman has
l&mafned under guard in place where
no one is allowed to bring solid food Of
any sort. She has drank only little
water in which toast has been dissolved,
which she rejected at once, and has
sucked, once day, bit of orange to
take the bad taste from her mouth. DR..
LafOn proposes to keep her under guard
for sixty days. He does not attempt to
explain the case, but has referred it to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
A MERMAID FACTORY.
An Old Artiflcer Tells How the
Sirens Are Made.
Monkeys Bodies Joined to Fishes Tana
with Cunning and Dexterity-A
Favorite with Showmen-
Even Doctors Deceived.

"Mermaids made and repaired" Sucn
an advertisement, says writer in the
Philadelphia Times,was well calculated
to attract attention, and, as it confront
ed me one day in little-frequentea
street in a large Eastern city, de.
termined to make the acquaintance OF
the maker of these incongruities. Pu'|
ing an old-fashloned brass bell-handle,
little old man crowned with square
paper cap came to the door, and after
cycling me suspiciously for a moment
invited me in. There was the "beggar-
ly array of empty boxes;" walls contain
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
Almost Caught.

Mrs. ewmarried-James, want this
room re-papered. What is your favor
lite color?
Newmarried--O yellow, guess.
Mrs. Newmarried-That is funny:
thought it was red.
Observation-Disclosures! Where did you
get that idea?
Mrs. Newmarried-Why, in yoursleep
last night you kept saying: Give me
some moro red! want some more reds"'
Light.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
Rapid Transit Illustrated.

Young Smith-You didn't stay very
long at The Poplars last evening, where
you went to see the Pipps girl.
Young Brown - No, | didn't. Old
Pipps broke in on us and gave me hint
to go.
What did he say?
He opened the outside door and asked
me what thought of rapid transit.
What did you do?
gave him an immediate illustration
Of it.-Texas Siftings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

Drs. Charcot and Ball, wel1-known spe-
cialists in nervous diseases.
The opinion of the neighbors of tho
faster is divided concerning her. Some
believe implicitly that she is as she pre-
tends to be, under Divine inspiration,
and are expecting other miracles from
her in due time. Others believe her,
rather, to be possessed of the devil.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

"We had monkey at our house for a
pet, but pa gave him away, an I'm aw-
fully sorry" said Jimmy to his new
friend.
"Did you love the monkey" asked
his companion.
"Nah," said Jimmy; ''but the monkey
used to get blamed for every thing that
went wrong, and now 1 do."-Harper's
Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
NOTES FROM EVERYWHERE.


PETER ILER, the Omaha distiller, is
that absolutely prohibits the sale of
liquor on lots controlled or sold by the
company
BELGIUM is said to have a public
house for every forty-three inhabitants.
The increase in suicides, lunacy and
crime has kept pace with the increase
in the consumption Of alcohol.
AT the close of mastery Temper
ance address in Calcutta, by Canon
Wherefore, dusky Mohammedans and
Hindoos crowded to the table, and nearly
eight hundred pledge3 were taken.
WHATEVER may be ones relations to
the dram-shop, it is a robber and a
pirate upon every citizen. peril of life
and limb to every individual and gen.
eral wholesale pauperizer of the com.
munity.
THE following is from Senator Blair's
valuable book, ''The Temperance
Movement There is nothing of his
own manufacture which has such power
over the body and soul of man as that
mysterious substance to which has been
given the name-alcohol. Indeed, so
subtle and canny are its methods of as
sorting its influence, so commanding is
its control over the spiritual as we'll as
physical structure, and SO direct do it's
relations appear to be with the eternal
essence as we'll as with the material
parts of human nature, that from time
immemorial this strange drug has main
tanned personified existence in the
imaginations of men,"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

"What made you tell me lie
johnny" angrily inquired Mrs. Brown.
Because" pleaded little Johnny, y
knew you would lick mo if ] sold the
truth. Time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

The music of the waters may be a
Neptune, as is suggested by correspon-
dent, but we had always supposed it to
something Of dew-wot.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

SIS that young man gone, MatildaP"
cried her father from the top of the
stairs.
"Oh, awfullyi" returned Matilda
Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

politics, or animal intoxIeakon, which
are coarser substitutes for the true
nectar. For these are aukiliaries to
the centrifugal tendency Of man, tc
his passage out into free space, and
they help him to escape the custody of
that body in which he is pent up and
of that jail-yard of individual relations
in which he is inclosed."
For this reason the philosopher de.
clares a great number of the profession.
al expressors Ct beauty, such as painters,
poets and mnyicians, have been given to
lives of pleasure and indulgence, "all
but the few who have received the true
nectar"
But such a manner of escape from
bondage to earthly conditions is not lib
erty, only license or emancipation into
the freedom, not of the heavens, but of
viler places than those which they left
behind. 1t followed that ''they were
punished for the advantage they had
won by dissipation and deterioration.
For never can any advantage be taken
of nature by trick. The spirit of the
world, the great, calm presence of the
Creator comes not forth to the sorceries
of opium or of wines. The sublime
vision" that is the intuition or insight
which clearly sees truth, ''comes to the
pure and simple soul in a clean and
chaste body" These are words to be set
like ''apples of gold in pictures of sill
YER" Would that every youth in our
country could learn to know and to love
them.
That is not the true inspiration but
counterfeit excitement which is induced
by narcotics A high order of mind,
not one low and ignorant, is often made
victim of the drink habit through just
the desire to escape the tedium and
monotony of "the custody of that body
in which he is pent up" He has joy
full sense of freedom, followed in due
course by corresponding depressions.
Like he who drinks the salt water of
the sea instead of the fresh foun tains
upon its bank, his thirst is not Stacked
but intensified, and any succeeding
draught only produces bewilderment.
Once let the tippler feel that there is
an inner fountain of spiritual refresh
ment open to him as to all, one which
uplifts his soul into an atmosphere of
buoyancy and strength, and that this
soul power is transferable into physical
force, and he will seek only the higher
elixir. He can no more crave alcohol.
Hester NJ. Poole, in Union Signal.
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Den lists.

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-08-26
NOTICE.

HAVING BOUGHT OUT MR.. w. H.
IL Page in the Honolulu Carriage Manu-
factory, at 12s Fort Street, | am prepared
to continue the above business under the
old name of Honolulu Carriage Manufac-
tory, and being an old experienced carriage
builder | solicit the patronage of my old
friends and the public in general, and with
my thorough knowledge of the business
and with experienced workmen and using
only the best material l guarantee general
satisfaction. Please call and see me before
going elsewhere.
(Signed) GIDEON WEST.
Honolulu Oct. %, 1889. l03-tf
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
THE VILLAIN OF FICTION,
A Lament for the Disappearance
of Familiar Figure.

Amid the universal grayness that
has settled mistily down upon English
fiction. amid the delicate drab-coored
shadings and the half-lights which re-
quire we are told. so fine skill in
handling. the old-fashioned reader
misses, now and then, the vivid color
ing OF his youth. lie misses the slow
unfolding of quite impossible plots, the
thrilling incidents that were wont
pleasantly to arouse his apprehension,
and, most OF all, two characters once
deemed essential to every NOVELETTE,
hero and villain.
But the villain! Remember what we
owe to him in the past. Think how
dear he has become to every rightly
constituted mind. AND now we are
told, soberly and coldly, by the thin
blooded novelists OF the day
that his absence is one of the
GROWING triumphs OF modern genius;
that we have all grown too
discriminating to tolerate in fiction a
character whom we feel does not exist
III iIiO. MAIL, we are Is
complex, subtle. unfathomable, made
up Of good and evil so dexterously in
termingled that no one element pre-
dominated coarsely over the rest. He
is TO be studied warily and with mis-
givings, not classified with brutal
ease into the virtuous and bad. 1t is
useless to explain to these analysts
that the pleasure we take in meeting
character in a book does not always
depend on our having known him in
the family circle. or encountered him
in our morning paper; though judged
even by this stringent law, the villain
holds his own. Accept B&lzac's rule
and exclude from fiction not only all
which might not really happen, but
all which has not really happened in
truth, and we would still have studies
enough in total depravity to darker
all the novels in Christendom.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
Newspaper and Journals,

Russia publishes but 800 journals,
200 of which appear at st. Peters
burg and seventy-fve at Moscow. An
infinite number of languages are rep
resented in the Russian press.
England issues 5000 periodicals,
S07 of which are dailies. France fol-
lows with n number nearly equal,
which, officially, is 2,9l9, of which
only a quarter are published daily,
bi-weekly ar tri-weekly.
Italy holds the fourth rank in pub.
fishing 1,400 journals, 200 of which
appear at Rome, 240 at Milan. 12S
at Naples. "a at Turin. and sixty-nine
at Florence. OF these 10 are dailies.
The Oldest is the Gazette de Genes,
established in 1897.
In the United States and Canada
%, 22S, 100 papers are printed every
week. enough to supply two copies to
every family in the land. Besides these
there are 6, 653, $50 dailies issued every
day. which may show the immense in
tiuence of newspapers in informing and
influencing the minds OF the people.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26

A girl l know said: "I'm grea,
one for making friends" 1t sounded
as if she ought to be very happy, but
when | had moment to reflect won
dered if she were good at keeping
them, says II writer in the Ladies' Homo
journal. Making friends is easy to
the girl who is bright and happy
whose society gives pleasure and who
is genial. But the keeping of them
demands more than this.
If you want to keep a friend don't
get too intimate with her.
Have your own thoughts and permit
her to have hers.
And do not be too aggressive -want-
ing to know why she hasn't done this
and why she doesn't think as you do.
1t you think your friends style of
dress isn't beautiful, don't tell her;
you only offend her, because deep in
her heart she is convinced she knows a
great deal more about it than you do.
Do not find fault with your friends
friend. and do not expect to be the on
ly one given d corner in her heart.
Be us considerate of her feelings as
if she were a stranger, and remember
that politeness is an everyday gar
ment and not ono intended only for
high days and holidays. To sum it up
in one sentence, preserve the courtesy
OF the beginning If you wish to keep
your friendship to the end.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26

Boston (Mass.) Record, June Q.
Golden fruitage has fallen from The
Louisiana State Lottery Company plumb into
the pocket Of n well known citizen of Boston
1t is Alfred A. Marcus this time, and the
plum struck him 100000 worth. Alfred
Marcus is a familiar figure on our streets,
having had extensive dealings in real estate
and he is generally conceded a very shrewd
business man. In religious circles he figures
as one of the strictly orthodox Jews. He
not only has built two synagogues, but in
one of them on Church street he is the rabbi,
and there is seen every Saturday conducting
the service and reading the sermon. One
day last week he pa off the mortgage on
one of his churches, which, 1t has leaked
out, was due to his good fortune in securing
the plum from The Louisiana State Lottery
pie. 1t seems that few days previous to
the drawing Of May 18th, lie bought a whole
ticket No. 80, s25. He paid s2o for the ticket,
a on the May ID drawing found his was the
LUCKY number, (3?, s25) and had drawn the
entire second capital prize OF 100000 The
Eext morning going to c. H. Allen of the
Central National Bank, the money was sent
for and received on Friday, May %.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26

Northern farmers should realize the
important fact that first-class roadsters
are likely to be a scarce commodity
for years to come. Nearly every
breeder in the country is trying to
raise record breakers or stake winners
at least. A large proportion of ami
mails bred from the most distinguished
families are deficient in some of the
essential qualities of first-class road
sters.
We have long thought, and are
stronger in the belief to-day than ever,
that there is more sure money for the
breeder of limited means in producing
roadsters than there is in trotters. By
this we mean that more money can be
obtained at maturity for every 100
animals raised in The North, bred from
the best of 70 d stock, than from an
equal number taken unfortunately,
bred from the best of trottino stock.
1t should be borne in mind however,
by carriage, fine style, speed enough
to show from three minute to 2.25
gait on the road, and pull two men to
buggy cheerfully from eight to fifteen
miles an hour. He should also be "A
fast walker, and aboveev cry thing e lse
must have u good disposition, level
head and sensible brain.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
A Model detective Camera.

The perfect detective camera should
be all that the name implies, and the
name manifestly becomes a misnomer
when the camera is incased in yellow
wooden box. There are certain kinds
of satchel cameras made that to all
outward appearances are simply
grips" but by far one Of the best of
the late inventions is a camera in the
shape of book. 1t has three COM
partments. each supplied with a lens,
and when a roll of gelatine film is
placed in each section the capacity of
the book reaches 800 exposures.
Carried under the arm camera of this
description has such an Innocent ap-
pearance that no one gives it glance.
1t could be carried among gang of
thieves, exposures could be made, and
the operator could depart without
suspicion of the real use Of his book.
New York Evening Sun.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
An Illustration.

A little man asking how it happened
that many beautiful ladies took up
with but Indifferent husbands, ate r
many fine offers, was thus aptly an
swered by mountain maiden: A
young friend OF hers, during walk.
requested her to go into a delightful
canebralSe and there get him the hand :
soonest reed: she must get it in once
going through, without turning. She
went, and, coming out, she brought
him quite a mean reed. When he
asked If that was the handsomest one
she saw. "Oh. no. replied she, II
saw many finer ones as l went along
but | kept on in hopes OF much bet
ter, until | had gotten nearly through,
and then was obliged to select the best
that was left. New York Ledger.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
Garfield Beach on Great Salt Lake,
Utah.

The famous health and pleasure res TT,
Garfield Beach, on Great Salt Lake, Utah,
l. miles from Salt Lake City, and reached
only via the Union Pacific 1.-THE Overland
koitto is now open for the season.
This Is the only real sand beach on Great
Salt Lake, AMI IS one of the finest bathing
and pleasure resorts in tie west Great salt
Lake is not a sullen, listless, sheet of water,
beating idly on the shore, but ON the con-
trary is as beautiful q sheet of water as can
be found anywhere. 1t is 81 per cent salt,
While the ocean is only per cent and the
water is so buovant that person is sustained
on its surface indefinitely without the least
effort ON his part Experience has proven
its great hygenic effects. Owing to the slim
ulating effect of the brine on the skin, or the
saline air upon the lungs, the appetite is
stimulated, and after bath the bathers are
ready for hearty meal, and feel greatly in
vigorated.
Fine bath houses, accommodating 400 PEG
pie, have been erected at Garfield Beach, in
connection with which there is first class
restaurant and large dancing pavilion
built out over the lake all of these are run '
the Union Pacific, who guarantee first class
resort in every respect.
The Union Pacific has made low rates OF
fare for those desiring TO visit Salt Lake City
and Garfield Beach.
For complete description OF Garfield Beach
and Great Salt Lake, send to f. L. LoMAx,
Gen'l Pass. Agent, Omaha, for copies oil
"Sights and Scenes In Utah." or "a Glimpse
Of Great Salt Lake"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
Handsoms } Women.

Handsome women are frequent
theme of conversation where men
gather in groups. A n. Y. Press
writer was with party comprising
some six or eight persons who had
Travelled widely over the world. He
asked the question where they had
seen the most beautiful women. One
replied that the North of Ireland girls
were more beautiful in features, COM
plexions and figures than any he had
met elsewhere. and this was the iudg-
ment OF the entire party, although one
of them added ''The girls of Italy
are beautiful too, but somehow nlture
has not not done for them physically
what has been done for the North
OF Ireland lasses You may think it
strange. but | have seen women in
Egypt and in southern Mexico whose
beauty in features and form was
marvellous, and only wanted white
skins to make it perfection.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
New Gem ,nting Process:

BY new method of cementing iron
the parts cemeuted are so effectually
joined as to resist the blows even OF
sledge hammer. The cement is COM
posed of equal parts OF sulphur and
white lead. with proportion of about
one-sixth of borax. When the COM
position is to be applied it is wet with
strong sulphuric acid. and thin layer
of 1t is placed between the two pieces
OF iron, which are at once pressed
together. In five days it will be
perfectly dry, all traces Of the cement
having vanished. and the work having
every appearance ct welding.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
1h1 Foreman's Supplement.

Aroostook (Me.) Star: We are
obliged to omit our supplement this
week. Our foreman is a capable man,
but u five-column supplement and ten
pound boy are more than he can man
age both together, and inasmuch as he
can drop the supplement with less
damage than he can the infant we trust
our re ders will appreciate the gravity
week. Such condolences do not often
happen in our establishme and when
they do they call for some leniency on
the part OF our subscribers.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-26
A Matter Of Interest TO Travellers.

Tourists, emigrants and mariners find that Hos.
letters Stomach Ritters is a medicinal safeguard
against rnheathful influences; upon which they
can implicitly rely, since 1t prevents the effects
that an unhealthy climate, vitiated atmosphere,
unaccustomed or unwholesome diet, bad water, OF
other conditions unfavorable to health would
bv land in ATTITUDES adjacent TO the equator 1t IL
especially useful as a preventive of the febrilo
complains and disorders of the stomach liver and
bowels, which are apt to attack natives OF the
temperate zones sojourning or travelling in such
regions and Is an excellent protection against the
influence of extreme cold, sudden changes of TEN.
peraturs exposure to damp or extreme fatigue. II
not only prevents intermittent and rernittent
fever, and other diseases of a malarial type, but
eradicates them, fact which has been notorious
for years past in North and South America,
Mexico, the West Indies, Australia and other
countries