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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

God bless you, my children etc. How
does that strike you for plot?"
ut is simply grand!' / replied with
enthusiasm.
waiter, a bottle OF champagne!"
said Kersikes
my strong card is going to be realism.
You know we have had on the stage a
real burglar blowing open real safes,
real water in tanks for boat races and
| drowning purposes, real wine in BAN
quet scenes, etc"
YES, but not always real actors on
the stage. | think in the poisoning
scene real poison might be used in some
plays; but in what way Is your play go
ing to be so realistic?"
"Principaily N the second act,
where Union square and Broadway are
represented. There will be lifelilie
statue of George Washington holding
his new hat under his left arm to keep
it from getting wet, while he holds out
his right hand to see if it is still sprink-
ling. The statue will be pasteboard,
artistically painted. Ladies with beau
tiful blondined hair will pass and re-
pass on the sidewalk in front of tho
Morton house"
"Will the ladies be made of PASTE
board, too?"
Not much. They will be real ladies'.
They may be artistically painted, but
they will not be made of paste board.
Real newsboys will sell real newspa-
pers. real policeman will lift real
banana from the stand of the real dago,
and feed himself with it. 1t will be
just as natural as Grace church in the
old Homestead Besides all that, 1
will have a real actor who is proud of
his shape, probably Mansfield or Her.
bert Kelley, who will pose on the cor
ner, smoke real Havana cigar, and
look as grand as if he had builders
lien on the universe.
"A real sure enough actor?"
"Well it will look one to the audi-
ence"
Smoking real Havana cigar?"
"That's the way it will look from the
orchestra. All at once they will disap-
pear, like the happy naasapts in the
comic opera, and then comes the trngic
part"
whats that?"
''ExAldcrman Pilfer robbed by two
thieves, real graduates from Sing Sing.
The eX-boodler, who will be represented
by q real boodlcr recently returned
from Canada, and who has been driul-
ing, leans on the railing around Wash's
statue and says: Sure, he was great
and good man. Then the cx-convicts
hit him dull, sickening whacks with
stuffed clubs and tug at his watch.
just at this crisis the hero, Harry VAN
derhyde, who viii be unprecedented by
some such high-priced pugilist as Kill
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

ram or Slavin, will come out to the res
cue of the Doodle alderman. The hero
will wrap one of the highwaymen
around lamp post, and fight three
rounds, Marquis of Quecnsberry rules,
with the other, whom he finally knocks
out to slow music"
"KerSilles, you are genius. Your
fortune is made" exclaimed.
waiter, nuzzer bottle of wine" ex-
claimed Kcrsikcs, pounding on the table.
My friend, who had imbibed moro
than his share of wine, became a trifle
incohcrcnt, but he went on to explain
that either the hero, or eX-boodlcr, or
one of the convicts who had been
sluTged sings a comic song. The po-
liccman rcappcars now the fight is
over, so does the dago fruit seller and
the real ladies. Moreover, real Fourth
avenue car with real driver and conduc-
tor and horses drives up, the car filed
with soubrettcs, wearing abbreviated
costumes, who are going home from a
theater on the Bowery.
Their costumes, like that of a Chey-
enne bride, consist principally of a
broad grin and u few strcalls of red
paint. They dance and join in the cho-
rus of the comic song, which is full of
local hits about the uncleaned streets,
the police and other local nuisances,
each verse ending:
But, of course, it couldn't occur in
New York"
But all this never happens in real
life," remarked, eprecatingly.
Don't make diff OBJ difference" said
Kersikes, in husky voice, "thatsh
what takes in other plays. Every body
sigsh and dances in the hoshpitals, on
battle field, everywhere. Mush cater to
popular taste"
Being unwilling to trespass any
more on my friends hospitality /
started to leave, Mr.. Kersilies remark.
ing to the barkeeper: 20 shay. Charlie,
them's smine!"
Not this trip, Mr.. Kersilies, -" replied
the barkecper coming out from behind
the bar with an army-sized bungstarter
in his hand. Mr.. Kersikes' assertion
that | was Ills personal friend and "All
ri'h" seemed to impress the barkeeper
pnfavorab!y, for shook the burgstarter
under my nose and said with hoarse,
insolent glare in his tone of voice:
This ere gent pays eleven dollars
and "a quarter, or there is going to be a
call for an ambulance. See!'
The matter was finally settled with.
out detriment to the honor of either
party, and ! escaped like bird from
the hands of the fowler; but am feel.
ing far from well, and hare been
obliged 20 cancel my subscription to the
Grant monument fund, and the moral OF
it all is--"Steer clear Of tie ineJriate aoho
las little scheme"
ALEX e. SWEET.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

In the vast Sierra wilderness far to
the southwark of the famous Yosemite
Valley, there is a yet grander valley of
the same kind. 1t is situated on the
South Fork of Kings river, above the
most extensive groves and forests of
the giant sequoia, and beneath the
shadows of the highest mountains in
the range, where the canons are deepest
and the snowladen peaks are crowded
most closely together. 1t is called the
Big Kings River Canon, or Kings
River Yosemite, and is reached by way
of Visalia, the nearest point on the
Southern Pacific railroad, from which
the distance is about forty five miles, or
by the Kearsage Pass from the east
side of the range. Il is about ten miles
long, half mile wide, and the stipend,
GUS rocks of purplish gray granite that
form the walls are from $500 to 5000
feet in height, while the depth of the
valley below the general surface of the
mountain mass from which it has been
carved is considerably more than a
mile. Thus it appears that this new
Yosemite is longer and deeper, and lies
embedded in granGer mountains, than
the well-known Yosemite of the MERGED.
Their general characters, however, are
wonderfully alike, and they bear the
same relationship to the fountains of the
ancient glaciers above them.-John
Muir in Century.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

is assaulted by two footpads, but is
rescued by the hero, Harry Wander
hyde, who, however, refuses to give the
old man his name, as the treatment he
has received from his father has nau-
seated him with old men,"
But how does it end?"
1.-THE last act is the most dramatic Of
all There will be pasteboard Little
Church around the Corner Gloriana's
father having heard that she is going
to wed at nine o'clock, is on hand with
blackthorn cane with large protuber-
ances on it. Harry's father having
heard the same rumOr about his
daughter is there, too. DR.. Houghton,
prayer book in hand, appears at the
door. The carriage drives up. Harry
and Gloriana descend Gloriana's father
rushes up to raise a wen on the head of
the bridegroom, but recoils. He rec
ognizes the bridegroom as the heroic
youth who rescued him from the foot
pads on Onion square. Old Wander
hyde, Harry's father, who is lifting his
boot to rebuke his son, perceives that
the bride is none other than Pilfer's
daughter, the very girl he wan 'ed Harry
to marry. Mutual explanations and
congratulations follow. with lots of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

th usiasm are upon him he 10 In ne dan.
ger of going back to his old courses,
because his will power has received a
decided accession of strength, and I'M
til that has been dissipated, which gen.
ally comes, he will be a model
member of society.
In case of the man, whatever may be
his periods of partial reformation, who
finally goes to the extent of becoming
a complete and pitiful drinker, there is
one significant thing which shows alb
solutely and completely the hold which
alcohol has acquired upon his system.
Nine men out of ten who go off on a
long debauch, extending possibly from
three days to week or two, will ac-
knowledge that during that time they
could and did eat little or nothing.
This seems incredible to people who
have not had the experience, and yet
it is an absolute fact, well attested by
the voluntary declaration of several
thousand men who have undergone
treatment under DIR. Kelley at Dwight.
When drinking heavily men can go for
a week or two at time with only an
odd scrap or two of food, an occasional
sandwich picked up at free lunch
counter, or some similar malleshift,
and even that is not absolutely neces-
sary. When men have arrived at this
stage the habit of drinking is no longer
merely a habit, but a disease. They have
learned absolutely to live on alcoholic
stimulation. They can do and do do
without the food products to which
they were accustomed in their normal
condition. Alcohol is their food, and
ordinary food is mere mal1eshift, fill
ing in the time from one alcoholic meal
to another alcoholic meal
We refrain from slletching the de-
scription of the physiological action of
alcohol on the nervous system, and
showing incidentally that that patient
for patient he isis now absolutely
uninfluenced by the question of en-
vironment of example, and that he
drinks, not because he is tempted, not
because he wants to drink, but because
he must Grink.-Evanston Index.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20
FoibIes of Men and Women.

The trouble in love affairs is that the
parties to it love too much to love long.
Some people give their confidence as
others give presents, for the sake of
what secrets they will be told in return.
Men Judge IA mans religion by his ac-
tons outside the church. and the women
judge it by the brilliancy of his prayers
within.
Men are brutes; they have better
times occasionally without their wives,
and tell them so. Women are hypo-
critics; they enjoy life without their
husbands once in a while, but they will
never admit that they were not mis-
erablc without them. Atchison Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

STRONG drink, tobacco and impurity
are the three great sifters of the human
race; and alas! how few are the sur
vivals that are in no wise married by
these relentless mills that grind out
death and destiny. Frances E. Willard.
A NEW dodge has been adopted by
some publicans saloon lleepers) in
| London-that of presenting a half
pound ofo''thc finest tea to all pur-
| chasers of half pint of liquor, thus in
ducing many otherwise temperate
people to buy the liquor and secure
two drinks for the price of one.
OUTSIDE all questions of home and of
morals, the physical harm done by
beer is appalling Even Germany has
been compelled to raise its voice
| against it. Binz, who is an advocate
for alcohol as an economic factor in
sickness, expresses his profound con-
viction of the terrible evil it is inhict-
| ing on the health of the nation.
HATE the saloon because it destroys
homes, dcgrades people and ruins
many valuable lives. / hate the
saloon because it renders women and
children homeless; and because it
poisons the body, brain and soul of
those who patronize it. | hate the
saloon because it cause murders, in
sanity and corruption in politics.
| Lever.
THE princess of Wales is forming
secret society for the purpose of sup
pressing the habit of dram drinking
now INDUCED in by women in the high
est society. The evil is said to have
spread to an alarming extent. Five
peeresses in the court circle are afflct-
ed with dipsomania The duchesses Of
| Portland, Newcastle and buckingham
have joined the princess in her cru
SADIE, and Baroness Bolsover has been
elected secretary
The African traveller, Mackay, says:
''Oh, how often will l enter in my
| journal, as l pass through many dis
tricts: Drink is the curse of Africa
| He adds: ''The west coast is ruined
with rum; it is killing the Kaffir in the
SOUTH" and he portrays in vivid terms
the wholesale destruction of the ma
tivcs by strong drink in other regions.
1t is a painful reflection that America
continues, from the greed of gain, to
contribute to this devastation and ruin.
National Temperance Advocate.
| THE number of retail liquor dealers
in the United States, according to the
official returns of the officers of the in
ternal revenue for the year ending
May 1, 1890, was 1S5,S6S, or 1 liquor
dealer to every 275 inhabitants, on the
basis of the census Of 1889. In New
York there was l retail dealer in dis
titled liquors to every $50 inhab-
itants; in New Jersey, 1 to 1T5; in
Ohio, to 23O; in Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts, 1 to 400; in Indiana, l
to 325; in Delaware, to 100, and in
California, to Is. The average in all
the states which have general license
laws is dram shop to $50 inhabitants.
In Maine there is retail dealer in
distilled liquors to every 75O inhab-
itantS; in Vermont, l to $40: In Iowa,
| to $50, and in Kansas, l to 800.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20
A Prevalent FHIlacy.

Most of the favorite arguments Of
our lager beer sophists postulate the
assumption that stimulants-in other
words, poisons of some sort or other
are indispensable to the organic well
fare of human beings and that the pro-
hibition of popular tipples will compel
their votaries to resort to other and
worse tonics--opium, absinthe or
choral. The origin of that very
prevalent fallacy is the circumstance
that all poison habits are progressive,
and that a topper, once initiated in tho
worship of any drastic stimulant, will
either increase the dose of lis wonted
. tonic or resort to more potent-and
naturally more delcterous-drugs.
Those facts, however, are wholly com
patible with the equally important
truth that longevity, health and album
dant vigor of body and mind may be
enjoyed by total abstainers from all
artificial stimulantS whatever, and that
children, exhibiting evidences of eX-
uberant vitality, may grow up with
out betraying as much as an incidental
appetency for tea, coffee, tobacco, or
any kind of alcoholic beverage. -Rapa's
Horn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20
t MIR KERSIKES PLAY.
The Most Laughable Farce Com
edy Ever Produced in America

Alex f. Sweet Tells How Some Realistic
and Spectacular Plays Originate on
Manhattan Island-The Plot Ex-
posed by Its Talented Author.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

4 New Bicycle which the Public Likss.

New Bicycle Which the Public L1keo.
While thousands within tho last decade
have enjoyed the sport OF cycling. the fact
% nevertheless obvious that many thous.
ands more have been deferred from enjoy.
Ing il In consequence Of tho high prices de-
handed for u rally good wheel.
1t remained for The john +. DWELL Arms
Company Of Boston to change this state Of
Affairs. 1t was last year that the public first
became aware that there was . new low.
priced safety bicycle on the market wheel
strictly high grade. and equal in every par.
ticular TO any manufaci ured in America or
Europe. As previous to this oil manufac.
turers had charged q very large price for q
6rstclass wheel. the John p. Lowell Arms
Company 10 therefore the first house that
has ever offered the public such . wheel ut
price that does not place 1t beyond the
reach OF the average persons purse. The
company tia, manufactures this wheel 1.-THE
Lowell Diamond Safety is one Of the Oldest
OF all the manufacturing anil mercantile
houses in New England, having been estxb.
lishel in 1910.
Besides being now one Of the leading hi.
cycle firms in the United Stats the John
z. Lowell Arms Company is and has been
for years well-knOwn manufacturer and
dealer In firearms and sporting goods Of
every description.
On June n of last year. the firm cele.
bra:cd its half-cen!ury anniversary. The
founder OF this enterpri>ing house, MIR.
John p. Lowell. although over 20 years Of
s9e. il ftill an important and active member
Of this World-famcd house. zee
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03
foPvRleMy ~

a feeling Of dullness,
languor, and depression means that
your liver isn't doing its part. That
means impure blood, to begin with,
and all kinds of ailments in the
end.
But you can stop them in advance.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry invigorates the liver, purifes and
enriches the blood, and rouses every
organ into healthy action. 1t pre-
vents and cures all diseases arising
from a torpid liver or from impure
blood. Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Bill
iousness, Scrofulous, Skin and Scalp
Diseases even Consumption or
Lung-scrofula }, in its earlier stages,
all yield to it.
The makers of the Discovery :"
claim for it only what it will do.
They guarantee that it soiU do it.
If it fails to benefit or cure, in
any case, they'll return the money.
Nothing else that claims to purify
the blood is sold in this way !;
which proves, no matter what
dealers may offer, that nothing else
can be "just as good" Therefore,
don't accept a substitute.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

Miss De Pretty: was out riding day
with Mr.. Swellhead, editor OF the Hightone
Magazine. Poor Author rival suitOr): Did
he pay for tine rig in postage stamps?
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

You may be able to find choice cut n
the butcher shop, but you seldom fndone IN
the daily newspaper.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

We will give 800 reward for any case Of ca
ta1rh that cannot be cured with Halls Catarrh
cure. Taken Internally.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., ProprA, Toledo. O.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

"What are you doing now?" inquired tn
managing editor of the man who was writ
ing a criticism of the ballet. Roasting
chestnuts," was the reply.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

paper calling itself the Tyre is published
in this state. If the subscribers don't like its
tone they can string the editor up.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

Wishlets: think some of Dr. Winds adj
vice Is souId. Bishlets: I think it's all
sound.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

This 10 It undoubtedly. Never before In the
history Of the race did the cultivation Of muscle
receive such universal attention and encourage.
branch of calisthenics affected by the trousered
gender. This, of course. is we'll, for exercise 10
an essential OF health But TO the feeble. the
nervous and the dyspeptic, Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters affords guaranty OF primal vigor upon
which a superstruc,ure of muscularity may ad-
vantaseously be built Most genial and speedy
Of tonics, it is also the most thorough of regu-
and bilious secretion, and promoting q healthy
habit of body. 1t conquers aud prevents in
termittsnt and bilious remtteut fever. rheuma-
tism, kidney and bladder trouble. The aged,
infirr and convalescing derive immeasurable
benefit from its use; 1t inparts q hearty relish
for food and ove--omeS insomnia.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

Never speak i'll of anybody; you can d.
just as much execution with a shrug of tn
shoulders or a significant look.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

FITS-Epepsy permanently cured by new system
of treatment. TWO TRIAL BOTTLES FREE. Send TO
Treatise. Epileptc Remedy Co., As Broad ST. New York
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

There's pitch in the voice, and that's why
some singers notes stick.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

''What! arrest me for voting twice." sai6
the tramp responsibility. Don't you know
that even history repeats ITSELF"
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

"HansOm's Iaagic Corn SnlSc.'
Warranted to cure, or money refunded. ASK
your druggist for It. Price Is cents.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

81 hear you fought a duel with Parker. "
81 did," weren't you afraid TO stand up
before loaded pistol:' mot with Parker
holding it. I'm insured IN his company"
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03
The Age OF Muscle.

In the Irish elections they pole tho eyes
and nose before the vote is taken.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

FITS.-Al Fits stoppeu " bH. kLINk'S GREAT
Servc RestOrer. No Fit after nrst day use Mar
yellOus Treatise and Sc trial bottle free to
Fit cases. Send to DIR. KineR Arch St. Phtla-. P3
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

When Europe opens her doors to American
pork she goes the whole hog:
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

''They say Robinson has water on the
BRAIN" "Wherc did ne get it?'' what
the water?" ''No-tbe brain.''
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

The shepherd ran to the city with q
piece of that stone, which revealed a
quarry from which the temple was built,
and every month in all ages since the
mayor of Ephesus goes to that quarry to
offer sacrifices to the memory of that
shepherd who discovered this source of
splendOr and wealth for the cities of
Asia Minor. In removing the great
stones from the quarry to their destined
places In the temple, it was necessary,
in order to keep the wheels, which were
twelve feet in diameter, from sinking
deep into the earth under the unparal-
leled heft that frame Of timbers be
arranged over which the wheels rolled.
To put the immense block of marble
in its place over the doorway OF one of
these temples was SO vast and difficult
an undertaking that the architect at one
time gave it up. and in his chagrin in
tended suicide, but one night in his
sleep he dreamed that the stone had
settled to the right place, and the next
day he found that the great block of
marble had by its own weight settled to
the right place. The temple of Diana
was 425 feet long by 900 feet wide. All
Asia was taxed TO pay for it 1t had 1877
pillars, each sixty feet high, and each
the gift Of king, and inscribed with
the name of the donor.
Now you see the meaning Of that pass
age In Revelation, just as king present.
ing one Of these pillars to the temple of
Diana had his own name chiseled on It
and the name Of his own country, so
says Christ. Him that overcometh will
/ make . pillar In the temple Of my God
and will write upon him the name of
my God and the name Of the city of my
God. which Is New Jerusalem, and |
will write upon him my new name"
How suggestive and beautiful!
Pnul, In the presence OF this TemplN |
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
POOR ACOUSTICS
Somewhat Mar the Fine Glee Club
Concert.

Somewhat Mar the Fine Glee Club
Concert.
The concert given last evening at the
Peoples church by the University of
Minnesota Glee and Banjo clubs was
one of the most artistic entertainments
of the kind ever heard in st. Paul. The
necessity for giving concert of this
kind in an auditorium so large as that
of the Peoples church is regrettable,
for the reason that, with but part of
the vast space occupied, the acoustics
are by no means suited to the
uses of a glee club, singing
without accompaniment of any
sort. While there were no defects
in the glee singing, it became apparent
in Messrs. BirdSall and Gearhart'S YER
sion of Romeo and Juliet" that they
had failed to recognize the difference
between the Peoples auditorium and a
fair in speaking of the solo work to give
Mr.. Waite every praise for his tenor
solo. The Drowsy Woods" The har-
moniZing accompaniment by the glee
club added to its success, but nothing
was needed to impress his hearers with
the fact that Mr.. Waite'S voice was one
OF no ordinary power. He sang the
serenade with an ease which betrayed
the scope of his voice, and made his lis
teners wish to hear him in something
that would exhibit the range of his
voice IN more satisfactory
manner. He was recalled sew
eral times, but evaded the encore.
The banjo clubs opening number,
don Caesar ct les Fleurs WaltZes,"
captured the house, and MIR. Gales
march banjo solo won him deserved
laurels. The latter gentleman is really
an artist and brilliant leader. His
lingering of the instrument was simply
admirable. The guitar quintette's
"Memories of Minnetonka" was eX-
| quisitely given. The dreamy beauty Of
the strains carried the listeners thus
| early i'll the season to MinnetOnka's
| bosom-to the moonlit deck Of 4 white
sailed yacht. and ali the silver-tinged
| glamor of the summer nights with
which just such music is associated by
| those who have heard it at its best.
| The entire programme was creditably
| given. Ii. S. Woodruff's Whistling solo
was clever, and the university men are
| to be congratulated on the success of
the event. After the concert a recep-
| ton was held at the residence of DR..
and Mrs Stone