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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
SOME DEAF ARlSTOCRATS.
The Princess of Wales Ailment Has Par
NIL in ipI,

The Princess of Wales Ailment Has Par
aIlels in High Life.
81 hear from London that the deaf
ness of the princess of Wales has of late
increased to such an extent as to render
conversation with her almost impos-
sible.' writes correspondent. sit is
an affiiction which she has inherited
from her mother, Queen Louise, of Den
mark, and from which, indeed but few
royal families appear to be exempt.
The late empress of Brazil was al
most stone deaf. So, too is the d.
minutive ex-King Francis, consort of
Queen Isabella of Spain. The duchess
of Genoa, mother of Queen Marguerite
of Italy, could scarcely hear the report
of cannon if fred close beside her, while
Prince Alexander of Prussia, the queen
of Sweden, and in particular King Leo
pold of Belgium's brother, the count of
Flanders, are almost equally hard of
hearing. The count of Flanders, who
is exceedingly tall, almost a giant, is
extremely fond of witty story, especi-
ally when it possesses the flavor which
you in this country most unlSindly de-
scribe as "Gallic," and have frequent
ly experienced the greatest difficulty in
not laughing outright when witnessing
the frantic efforts of the fat and very
short prince of Wales standing on tip
toe to communicate confidentially some
particular good thing to the count.
Nor shall | ever be able to forget
the practical joke played by Princess
Pauline Metternich few years ago at
Vienna at Il dinner which she gave.
The two chief guests were a couple of
surly old generals who We're dining
there for the first time, and who were
unacquainted with one another. To
each on entering she had whispered
that the other was extremely hard of
hearing, though very sensitive on the
point of being deaf. At dinner they
sat on either side of the princess and
being each convinced that the other was
deaf commenced shouting at one an
other in such Il manner as to absolutely
drown the conversation of the remain
der of the guests. OF course each of
the two old fellows got angry at being
shouted at by the other, and commenced
to mutter aside concerning the i'm
becility of yelling so loudly, convinced
of course, that the party whom they
concerned was unable to hear them
Fortunately neither of the two generals
realized that our ineXtinguisha BILE
laughter was caused by themselves.
Indeed, they were so angry with one
another that they needed but little else.
They remained but short time after
we rose from the table, and kissing the
princess hand on their departure, each
apologized for having been led by the
stupid deafness of his comrade to man.
fest signs of irritation - n. Y.
Recorder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
DIAMOND SMUGGLING.
How Dog Was Used to Beat the Customs
Officers.

How Dog was Used to Beat the Customs
Officers.
'Talking about smuggling reminds
me of trick saw resorted to by pas
senger on one of the big Cunarders a
couple of years ago." said a loquacious
commercial traveller. You know there
is duty on diamonds. and one of the
passengers had three large stones
worth several thousand dollars, which
he had purchased in London. The
problem of how to evade paying duty
on the stones worried him considerably,
but at last he evolved plan, and a few
days before the steamer arrived in New
York he proceeded to execute it.
THE chief officer had little skye
TERROR, and the passenger after consid-
cradle coaXing induced him to sell the
dog. AS soon as the smugrlcr gained
possession of the animal he tied him up
and gave him nothing to eat until Just
before we were to go ashore. lie then
procured some fat meat from the cook,
and cutting off piece a little larger
than walnut made Il hol. in it into
which he placed one of the diamonds.
ga dog will generally bolt piece of
fat without chewing it, and, of course, a
diamond will go down with it, The
hungry dog swallowed the meat, as his
owner expected he would, and in a
short time the diamonds were safely
slowed away in his interior. The dia-
mond smuggler had no difficulty in
evading the vigilance of the custom
house officials, and was soon on his way
up town, leading the dog by string.
II met him again few days after
ward, and asked him how he recovered
the stones. Easily enough, he replied.
AS soon as | got home | Shot the dog
and found the diamonds after short
search. OF course | was sorry for the
dog, but dogs are cheap and the tariff
on stones is high, and | never allow
sympathy to interfere with business
Jewellers Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
HONOR AMONG THIEVES.
A Case of Clever Roguery Related
by a Detective.

"lIave met with much honor in my
career?" replied an old detective to
reporters question the other day.
"Yes, honor"
What kind of honor and where?"
Among thieves"
'Oh! that kind" said the rogue
catcher with laugh. YES, have
met with good deal of that character
istic you mean when you say honor
among thieves but it's not honor, it's
only selfshness, self-interest, self
preservation, and it willis whenever it
pays better to cast it aside
But have just heard of a rather
remarkable display of this sort of
honor, which occurred in this city not
long ago.
''An elderly man, a countryman, who
had come to town to see the sights, &C
costcd policeman on the Bowery and
told him, with tears in his eyes, that
he must have been robbed of all his
money, eighty dollars, for he could not
find it in any of his pockets and he did
not know Just where or when he had
last seen it.
"IIe had been poking about in some of
the worst dives and dcns Of the city,
and the wonder was that in lis green
ness he had not met with something
rougher than mere picllpoclict Moth
ing could be done, however, SO the old
fellow was advised to pawn his watch,
all he had left, for enough money to
buy return ticket and in future to
+1n It-inlya1TnSs IF hn
metropolis.
1.-The old man set out from the police
station for the pawnshop in wild de-
spair, but in few hours time burst in
upon the police sergeant behind the
desk with the shout;
"'lve been robbed again.
"'Again, exclaimed the sergeant an
grily. Have you been into the dives
again? Did you pawn your watch?'
Ono cried the countryman, just as
was going into the pawnshop man
touched me on the arm and said that he
was a detective in plain clothes, sent by
the police to help me to get back my
money and if would go with him he
would have it returned to me"
"'And were you fool enough to go
with him" exclaimed the sergeant.
"'Of course | went
"'Then you deserved to be robbed of
your watch tool =
my. watch?'' ~
eyes, your watchp t....- --.-.--',----,. -.
"'My watch is all right
"'You said you had been robbed
again
$50 have .,@...
"'But when you left here few hours
ago you said you had nothing but your
watch
Neither had - b.
"'What in the mischief could they
steal from you then?'
my money!
YOU'RE drunk, you old idiot; I'll
lock you in the cooler for awhile1 till
you can talk sense
"'Gosh all tishhoolls, l am talking
sense, captain! Don't lock ,nnasups bug
let me tell you the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, SO he'll
me George Washington
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
The Coal of Great Britain.

It appears that about 1900, 900 tons
of coal per year is the amount yielded
by the chief coal districts of Great
Britain-Newcastle, South Wales and
Clyde country-and, assuming this to
represent the average consumption for
many years to come, it is estimated that
the British mines will be exhausted in
less than six hundred to eight hun
dred years. 1t is further calculated
that drawing upon only one of her
fields, the Westphalian, Germany will
not exhaust that before the end of the
twenty-seventh century, but that by
the beginning of the year 5000 the big
coal fields of Bavaria and the Aachen
and the Silesian districts will also be
entirely used up. What will Europe do
for fuel then? Fall back on the timber
supply, of course. But the timber will
also be thing of the past. At the rate
the woodman is now denuding the face
OF Europe, the twenty-tifth century will
find fuel tree rarity. The, Black
Forest, the chief timbering region OF
Europe, has suffered more in the last
ten years than it did in the two hun
bred years preceding. What is it to be
the fate of the last European? VIII he
freezea-St Leuis Republic. %, , ~
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
CLIMATE AND MORALS.
The Influence of the Former Upon the
Latter.

The influence OF the FORMER Upon the
Latter.
The world is tolerably well mapped
out as to diseases. The colored charts
show us where we may most probably
dwell with malaria, with consumption
or with general debility. We study
also the adaptability of plants to diff
ferent climatic conditions. But our
knowledge of the relation of man to
climate is still far from scientific
that is to say, of the influence of eli
mate upon character and conduct. To
come to detail, what, for instance, do
we know of the effect of climate upon
veracity? There are portions of the
earth's surface where the inhabitants
regard truth as a luxury seldom to be
INDUCED in; in others the mind seems
rather inclined to truthfulness. Whcth-
cr the difference is owing to race or
climate our observations do not yet
enable us to determine. There is a
popular notion that the habit of pre-
varication goes along with warmth or
with facilitating atmosphere, and tha'
cold is u tonic, a sort OF Stimulant for
truthfulncss. We indeed have in the
phrase 1.-The cold truth recognition
of this. We say that the northern lati-
tadcs nurse the rugged virtue of vcraci-
ty. 1t never occurs to us to expect
vcracity in Egypt or in any part of At
RIGA. We should never think of saying
that an inhabitant of Malta was I'M
truthful; we should simply say that
he was Maltese. The name Levan-
tine carries with it the same idea. The
Levantine, the African, the oriental
habit of indircction is sometimes eX-
planned by the amiability of the people,
their desire to say that which will be
agreeable. Whereas the Englishman
pridcs himself on his blunt honesty
and on speaking the truth, especially if
it is disagreeable. But plant the Eng
lishman, or any man whose moral fiber
is hardened by a frigid climate, in
! Egypt, and how long viii he continue
to speak the truth? How, is it about
the northern travellers in Africa, who
never agree with each other about any.
thing and habitually accuse each other
of misrepresentation? Is this due to
climate or to the contagion of Il bad
moral example in an atmosphere of du.
plicity?-Charles Dudley Warner, in
Harpcr's Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
AMERICAN WORKMEN.
Their Productive Power rs Compared
with That of Englishmen.

Their Productive Power as Compared
with That of Englishmen.
Every one agreed that the American
skilled artisan puts forth more physical
effort and produces more work in a
given time than the English workman
or the workman of any other manu-
featuring community. This fact struck
me and many experienced directors of
works most forcibly. Before concluding
our tour l had the opportunity of veri-
flying and strengthening this first i'm
preston. After watching the American
worllmen at Pittsburgh and elsewhere
| arrived at the same conclusion as to
their efficiency. Their productive power
Is greater than that of the English
workers in the same time, and their
working hours are longer and their re
enumeration is greater. | met one of my
old workmen at Mr.. Carnegie's works
in Pittsburgh, and he indorsed my opin-
ion. Speaking from his own practical
experience:
81 am quite different man here" he
said, from what | was in the old
country; | don't know why it is so:
whether it is that live in stimulating
atmosphere or whether it is the exam
pie set me; but know have got the go
in me here. l can do more work; feel
that have it in me; but ! also feel and
l know that it won't last. l shall be
done in ten years"
No, it wont last. The extreme physi.
cal effort put forth results in greater
production, but it saps the vital ener-
gies and cuts short the career. The
continental work at high pressure does
not pay in the end. sit won't last
and the remark applies with equal
force to the employers as well as to the
workers. Competition between manu-
facturers is keencr than in this country.
They work their business at high pres
sure. There is terrific struggle be-
tween them for possession of the mar
lets. They put forth their utmost
energies, and when they succeed their
reward is great; but all cannot be the
leaders in industry. This fierce compe-
tition reacts on the men. We were sur
prised to find in democratic country
like America that the worLmen had so
little power and were to such large
extent the docile instruments of ener-
getic employers.
The bosses" as the foremen and
managers of factories are called, drive
the men to an extent that employers
would never dream of attempting in
this country. There are trades unions,
but they do not seem able to protect
the men in this respect. The bosses
have the faculty of driving the men
and getting the maximum amount OF
work out of them, and the men do not
seem to have the inclination or power
to resist the pressure. American manu-
facturerS thus get the greatest possible
service out of their plant.-Sir James
Kitson, in Contemporary Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
THE BRAVE FIREMAN.

IA true incident, the lines being sug-
gested by the brave act OF Fireman Meal
haitian, of No. 49, west-bound accommodation,
In rescuing a little child from death, near
Dimmock station. Pa.
With his hand upon the throttle as the train
swept round the bend,
The engineer stood ready the signal forth to
send;
His eye alert and watchful as he scanned the
iron way
That between him and the station in the gleam-
ing sunlight lay.
All alone he kept his virgil, save for one who,
true and tried,
With spirit never failing. shared each danger
by his side
His fireman, brave and dauntless, with his
nerves like tempered steel,
But, with heart of gold within him, prompt to
act and quick to feel
Like u fash of summer lightning, onward
dashed the fiery steed,
Never pausing for moment in its rush OF
headlong speed,
When suddenly the whistle sounded shrill up
on the air,
And the engineer grew pallid with look of
wild despair;
For there before him standing, not hundred
yards away,
Was tiny blue-cyed baby, from its mothers
arms astray-
fairy little figure. with its bright hair float
ing back,
All unconscious of it's danger on the curving
railway traclIl
From the throttlevalvc his fingers in a nerve
less trenor fell;
But only for an instant-quicl as thought he
rang the bell,
And reversed the flying engine, but alas, in
vain, in vainl
For with terrible momentum, onward sped the
rushing train.
''lou stay! III save the baby9' all at once
rang in his ear;
And almost before the meaning OF his COM
rades words was clear,
From his cab had lCapcd the fireman, OF the
danger thinking naught
Driven onward by an impulse that with gen
Crous love was fraught
Like deer before its hunters like an arrow
through the sky,
Sped he on his noble mission the dread mon
ster to outViC,
While from every door and window of tho
scarcely slackenCd train
Anxious eyes his footsteps followed as he
strove the goal to gain.
On he dashed, the score OF watchers gazing
with suspended breath
At the contest so unequal, in the very jaws Of
death;
Every voice to whispers sinking, direst fear in
every face
Lest the brave man, speeding onward, should
be conquered in the race.
1t could last but little longer, and a GREATNESS
silence fell,
When suddenly, like thunder, rose a wild, tri,
umphant yell,
That, echoing and recchoins, seemed to pierce
the very skies,
For the fireman was the victor, and the baby's
life his pr2el
All! the smiles and tears and praises showered
on him everywhere
AS he placed the bluc-eyed baby in its moth
ers tender care;
Then to his post up-springing, as the train
again moved on,
Mid the sound of cheering voices, in moment
he was gone.
Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
A New One to Him.

A man from one ofsthe back counties
of this state, who is filling some sort of
an easy job about the. National mu
scum at Washington as testimonial
of respect for his political services, was
home not long ago on q vacation. He
wasrtallfing to a group one evening"
when one Of them said:'
81 understand You've got sinecure
down there. ~ : - St'.|
Nv mot that l know of" he replied, in
NHocehtly; ''but they're getting in new
animals every day or SO, and maybe it's
come in since | left. What paper did
You sect in?2s 4syE19Eb
Then everybody laughed, and the
man wanted 80 know where the JOKE
came in.-Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21

"'Go on, then said the sergeant,
threateningly, but cut it short; I've
wasted more than enough time over
you already
Then the old fellow told how he had
followed the bogus detective, by devil
GUS ways and dark alleys, into a room
on the top floor of crowded tenement
house. There his conductor intro
duced him to another fictitious detect
i've, who appeared to the old man to
be of higher rank than his guide, ow-
ing to the bullying way in which he
spoke, and the Difference paid him.
This fellow produced the old mans $50
from drawer and counted it out slow
ly to him.
There's your money, old man. he
said, and the vigilance of the finest
police force on earth is once more at
tested. No other power could have re-
covered it for you. Now tell me, is
that every cent you lost? BE particu-
lar and do not trine with me, as you
value your liberty. We're you robbed
of one cent more than the SS0Y
No, replied the old man, trembling
with delight at the recovery of his mon
ey. That is all, captain, $50
Take it and GO said the fellow.
and be careful to let the same officer
who brought you here conduct you to
the railway station. Speak to no one
but him till you are safe again on your
way to your country home, and leave
the wicked city to city folk and the all
watchful police
"Thc old man and his guide bowed
| themselves out and departed. They
had not gone far when burning thirst
| seized the conductor, and the overjoyed
old fellow was not slow to appease it.
More drinks followed, and the way to
the railroad station began to grow tor
tuous. Presently the countryman
missed his guide altogether in u crowd
and no efforts on his part awaited to
find him. The old man got on horse
car, and when he put his hand in his
pocket to pay his fare he found that
his money was gone again.
"He did not understand at all, even
then, and it took the police sergeant a
long time to make him see that he had
been played for a sucker of the ranllest
kind. Finally he took it in and then
he exclaimed: We'll, gosh darn it all.
| dunno which is the slicllest, the
rascals that done me or the police that
can sec through their tricks.
you Sec" added the detective, by
the way of explanation, lone of the
organized bands of criminals had spot
ted the old fellow the minute they set
eyes on his toggcry ard his guileless
manner. They set one of their light
fingered members, the one who played
the guide aftcrward, to ROB him. The
'swag, eighty dollars, was much less
than they had expected to get and they
suspected the man who had robbed
him of a lack Of honor among thieves
and accused him of keeping back part
of the plumber. He had undertaken to
show them that he was square and
you have heard of the clever way in
which he led his simple old victim to
! assure the captain of the gang that
eighty dollars was all he had lost and
honor among thieves was once more
excmplified, without costing the
thieves anything as the plumber was
soon back again in the gangs treas
ury. IN. y. Tri bune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
THE GREATEST MEAT-EATERS.
They Are to BE Found Among the Aus
tralian COlonists.

tralian Colonists.
Vegetarians may be interested to
know that the Australian colonists
are the largest consumers of meat in the
world, the average being 276 pounds per
annum for each adult. The average
consumption in the United States is 120
pounds, and in the United Kingdom 1O5
pounds, and among the continental
nations the average is lower still. There
is said to be moral in all this for the
Australian meat eater 1t has been held
that animal food in excess is not slim
ulator of the intelligence nor sharp
ener of the finer faculties Social OBJ
servers are given to pointing out that
the population of the Australian colo
MES is already assuming larrikin type
beef fed and given to violence of Ian
guage and behavior, and with no re-
oeeming virtues. 1t is also said that the
colonies are developing a type addicted
to sport and horse racing. and incapa BILE
of taking any sustained interest in art
or literature or public affairs. Prophetic
hints are given of future Australia
peopled by excitable dyspeptics with
characteristics tempered by love of
outdoor sports. All this will be due to
an overindulgence in meat diet.-The
EngliShman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
Salt not a Germici,ie.

The idea entertained by many persons
that salt meat must be necessarily free
from disease infection is shown by ex
periments to be erroneous DR.. Frey
tag, of Amsterdam, has shown that the
germs of typhoid fever survived five OF
six months when exposed to the con
centrated solution of common salt, anc
that the germs of tuberculosis, or con.
sumption, were still alive after three
months. The diphtheria germ was
alive after several weeks. - Good
Health. .+
Miss Antiquet-"You, sir do not
know what woman's sphere is" MIR.
Snartleigh-"Don't 1? What's the mat
Ter with old maidenhood being woman {
fear?"-Washington Star. ..y, a.;
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
The Banker Poetiet.

A well known author has bright
son about Is, who is in a bank and who
also writes Il verse occasionally which
he submits to his father. Not long ago
he handed him one which was returned
with the remark:
THAT is positively bad"
The boy looked at him questioningly,
You will have to change it," con.
tinued his father -
' But can't change it. if it is bad, i" he
said with a twinkle in his eye and the
father suggested that possibly he knew
more about banking than he did about
poetry, Detroit Free Press So .y.l