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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-03
VARIOUS NOTES.


THE saloonkeeper sells whisky to buy
whisky.
IT is notable fact that one tenth of
the men who die in Switzerland die
prematurely from alcohol poisoning.
THE mayor of Jaroslaw, in Austrian
Galicia, has been treated to a public
ovation for his zeal in enforcing the
law against the sale of liquor to
minors.
In London police court recently
women, some of them well dressed,
who had been drunk and disorderly ON
the street.
SAM JONES believes that the devil
does not care how many missionaries
we send to the heather as long as we
average thirteen thousand barrels of
whisky to each missionary.
ALCOHOL was invented seven hundred
and fifty years ago by the son of a
strange woman, Hagar. in Arabia. La
dies used it with a powder to paint
themselves that they might appear
more beautiful, and this powder was
called alcohol.
No MAN but a total abstainer is
allowed-under the laws of Michigan
to be employed as engineer, train dis
patcher, fireman, brakeman, or other
railway servant Any railway violat-
ing the law is liable to fine of $500
for each offense.
The price of alcoholic drinks has
risen very high in the government Of
Kharkov. The authorities have issued
orders TO stop the distilling of brandy
altogether for the present, and the ex-
port Of spirituous liquors from Kharkov
to other governments of the empire.
THE temperance question in Germany
is always interesting The greatest
hindrance to work among them is their
antipathy TO radical temperance views,
for to them temperance means modera-
ton. ee-flowing beer seems to be a
symbol of personal liberty and its con-
sumption the surest way to destroy the
sale of distilled liquors.
The following story is told of a re-
tired saloonkeeper: 81 see you are
building a new house, Mr.. BROWNE"
Yes; you are right" MADE the
money out Of whisky, | SUPPOSE"
No" why, you are liquor dealer,
are you not?" "Oh, yes; but the money
I'm putting into this honse was made
ont of the water put in the whisky.
Every farthing was made out Of watear,
sir"
A RECENT census bulletin deals with
the statistics of homicide in the
United States. OF the number of
homicides, 56.l4 per cent is charge.
able to native population, and As. Sc TO
the foreign element. Over 81 per cent
could read and write. and over per
cent. had received higher education.
More than four-fifths had learned no
trade. There were twelve hundred and
eighty-two total abstainers, three thou,
sand moderate drinkers and over twelve
hundred drunkards.
SEVEN HUNDRED school-tea chers are
interested in an order issued by the
assistant clerk of the school board at
Cincinnati. In looking up legal ques-
ton he discovered that law had been
passed by the legislature making it
mandatory upon teachers to have ev-
aminations in hygiene, physiolog,,
and the nature and effect upon the
human system of alcoholic drinks"
This law has been ignored or over
looked by fully six-sevenths of the
teachers. The clerk has notified the
teachers that he would refuse to onor
orders for salary in the future until
the proper certificates are secured.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-03

OH MORSE STONE TOWER AT NEWPORT.
plafe. A log warehouse was erected,
and many cargo of merchandise was
thdfe unloaded and stored, to be piled
latSr upon the clumsy primitive wagons
of those early days and dragged by
slovtmoving OK teams into the interior,
eithkr to the log homes of the wilder
ness jewellers, or to be bartered with
the Indians for pcltrics and game.
Ant yet, important though Gcrry's
Landing was in early days, it long since
ceased to be used and is now almost
forgotten. Few know the locality, and
the nd ar-by presence of the contagious
ward Of the Cambridge hospital serves
to keep those few away.
Relies, too, have been found in east
ern Massachusetts,, which have hastily
been set forth as mementocs of the
Norsenen, and engravings and sketches
of the articles have been published in
elaborate form.
Yet all the relics-arrows, stone axes
and other pieces-are but familiar In
dian forms, and we have in our own col
lection an Indian net-sinker of stone
which is exactly similar to the store net
sinker found at Gerry's Landing and
claimed by its finder to be Morse.
1t is a great mistake to try to actually
prove the various facts connected with
the Morse visits The facts are not sus-
ceptible of irrefragable, incontestible
proof. There is not, after all, a tangi-
Bile, visible sign on the North American
continent to show that the Norsemen
actually reached the North American
shores, and in view of this it is unwise,
indeed, to attempt to demonstrate in
disputably, what is not susceptible of
indisputable demonstration.
Yet there is another kind of demon
stration possible. There is the reason
able and natural Interpretation of the
Saga. There is the study of all the at
tendant surroundings. There is the
comparison of all that was probable,
with what was actually done, so far as
the meaning Of the Morse record may
be understood.
Such study and such reasoning lead
to the feeling of certainty that the
Morse actually reached New England,
while further study and reasoning, il
not weakened by absurd claims regard
ing chimneys and relics, lead to the
reasonable probability that at Gerry's
Landing was actually Leif's home.
There is very much which points out
the truth Of the supposition. There is
no other spot which can be pointed out
as more likely to be the very one.
Gerry's Landing is, therefore, a pro-
foundly interesting locality, associated
as it is with such a happening.
In front the river makes great bend,
slowly dragging its black and muddy
waters out of sight around the low,
wet banks of the opposite shore. A
marshy, unattractive little stream runs
into the Charles close by, adding some-
what to the dreariness Of effect.
On slightly rising ground, near the
little brook and away from the
marshes, are corn fields and vegetable
gardens, while an old cemetery shows
its white stones among the trees.
A gently-undulating country is imme-
diately behind the landing, with slight
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-03
CURED BY A JOKE.
How n Practical Joke Cured a Young
Man OF lntemperance.


Man OF incompetence.
Very few practical jokes have the
slightest excuse; but it sometimes hap
pens that a grave weakness or vice can
be rebuked in a practical" way more
effectively than by words. or even by
open disgrace. A case in point is found
in an anecdote related of the late
Prince Dolgorouki. of Russia. He had
many friends, among whom was a young
physician whose habits of intemper-
ance had grown shocking and alarm
ing to those who had his interests at
heart. Besides his tendency to intern
perance, the doctor had another strong
characteristic 1t was his hatred and
contempt of monks, who make an i'm
portant part in the life of Russia. He
took every opportunity to rail against
these worthy f-iars.
On one occasion, at a dinner, the
young doctor became hopelessly intoxi-
Gated, and, lying down on a sofa fell
into heavy stupor.
Seeing the young man in this dis
graceful condition, project came into
Prince Dolgorouki's mind for giving
him severe lesson. He sent at once
for barber and had the top of the
doctors head shaved, precisely in the
fashion of monk. He then took the
young man, still in an Insensible con-
dition, to a close carriage, and drove
with him to a monastery.
Father" he said to the friar in
charge, here is a young man who
needs the discipline of monastic life.
Take him in, l command you. Give
him very close cell, dress him ia the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-03

depressions and little ridges and clumps
of oak and pine.
Over the trees shows the tower Of an
observatory which stands on a hill
overlooking Mount Auburn, where such
a number of world-famous men and
women are buried. while nearer is one
of the most attractive home districts in
the world, distinguished for comfort,
culture ard hospitality.
What change since the centuries
when the Norsemcn, half savage,
with their wild looks and primitive
garb, sprang from their little craft and
glanced eagerly about over the oil
known landl
RoBERT SHAcKLEToN, in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-03
The Old Rubber 1rick.

'Why, you poor man! how did you
come to lose your foo:-Sn the war?'
mo. ma'am used 20 live in the
suburbs; and in running for a train on
an early spring morning ! caugh: ray
foot in the mud and left it tncce. -
Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-03

Two old wrecks met each other.
81 was happy and tried to be rich,"
said one; "now look at me-"
"And l." said the other was rich
and tried to be happy; now look at
me-"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15
MAY BE
A Divorce Colonist's Wife Unexrecte
shows Hin.

A Divorce C~oIonist's Wife Unexpectedly
shows Up.
There is a big surprise in store for
T. NJ. Mordecai, a member of the
"colony" at Sioux Falls. Mr..
Mordecai came to this city three
months ago. He recently rented one
of the finest houses in the city at 500
per month and installed three maiden
sisters. When Mordecai arrived he
gave it out that he "a a widower
from Charleston, S. G. About two
weeks ago he commenced suit for
divorce, claiming desertion. One day
last week he left for a week at
Chicago. Next day there arrived a
fine looking woman about forty, who
announced herself as Mrs. Mordecai.
She was driven to the Mordecai
residence, and Notwithstanding the
expostulations of the three sisters,
took possession and installed herself
as mistress of the house, thus refuting
the charge of deSertion. The lady is
very communicative and told a
reporter that her husband was worth
a quarter million, was a leading
lawyer of South Carolina and
desested her a year ago. She didn't
know where he was till recently.
This promises to be n of the most
interesting and bitterly contested
divorce cases tried in the state.
There arrived in Sioux Falls at
about the same time that Mordecai
came, a very pretty young woman
who gave her name as Mrs. Smith,
and her home as New York.
Mordecai has been quite attentive to
Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Grundy is
authority for the story that the two
were to be married as soon as the
divorce mill ground out the necessary
decree. Mrs. Smith is a German
lady, is a talented musician, and is a
very quiet lady who is seldom seen
on the street and is known to few.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15

magnificent building itself will have
cost when completed 81, 100, 0G9, and
there will be room for 100000
books.
The library now has ready to go
into the new structure 100000
volumes. There is no other such
library in America as this. The
Congregations library at Washington
contains as many books, but not such
valuable foreign collections. Among
these is George TicknOr's library Of
Spanish literature, the richest in the
world. There is also the Barton
collection of Shakespearean litera-
ture, one of the three noted ones in
existence. Both the other two are in
England-one belonging to the
Bodeleian library at Oxford, the
other in the British museum. Here,
too, is Theodore Packer's famous
theological library, the mathe-
nautical books collected by Professor
Bowditch, besides a famous lot OF
historical literary treasures.
All this is free to the people, with
out money and without price. There
are books for circulation which the
Bostonian, without regard to age,
sex or previous conditiono of seryltude,
may take homes and read and inwardly
digest. There is a magnificent
reference library where he may sit
all day in softly shaded rooms with
aesthetic surroundings and study,
Here is something for Boston to be
proder Of than of her 0 0.
milliOnaires.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington, Political, Foreign,
and General Domestic,
happenings of Note.
Teiegraphic News of the World
Condensed for the Benefit
OF Busy Readers.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Up TO and including the 3lst of
August the treasury department has
shipped to various points in the
United States 81, COO, GOO in small notes
to facilitate the moving of the crops.
Assistant Secretary Crounze, of the
treasury department, has rendered
his resignation to enter the guberna-
torial campaign in Nebraska. lie
will look after the work of his depart
ment until his successor has qualified.
Secretary Rusk has received through
the department Of state a copy OF a
letter from Minister Lincoln, contain
ing information that the Government
of Great Britain has removed the
prohibition on the admission of live
sheep into that country.
The secretary of state has ordered
suspension from duty of James q.
Kellogg, consul at Stettin, because OF
complaints from the health officers
at New York that Kellogg is absent
from his post and inspection OF
vessels from that port is very lax
Investigation resulted in the suspen'
SIGN.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15
A New Revolution Needed.

"ReSistance to tyranny is obedience
to God" and thereis certainly a most
relentless tyranny stretching its iron
rule silently over civilization at
present. The tyrant is fashion.
The fact is we are breaking down
under our load of fashionable civil
ization. There is a too muchness of
everything that is driving us into
insanity and nervous inyalidism.
There are too many dishes, too much
dressing, too much cooking and too
much fuss and feathers about every
thing. Look at the most richly and
f~ashiOnably dressed ladies in society.
Their dresses are magnificent; not
Solomon's robes were equal to the
wonderful creations of modern dress
making artists. But the ladies' faces
are withered and gray by the time
they are t~hirty-fve. They look ready
to drop with fatigue, and the set
lines about their mouth, the fiabby
folds of skin around throat and chin
tell of suffering to which the japanese
woman and the wild Indian squaw are
strangers. 1t is a suffering that is
all useless too.
There is not a spark Of true human
progress in this elaborate clumsiness
of eating and dressing. The highest,
healthiest, sweetest civilization is
simple in all its clearly, artistic
details. a dinner of three or four
courses at most is enough. Have it
elegant and dainty, the more so
the better, but stop at a few dishes.
More than that is barbarism and
dyspepsia. Simplify and grow strong
and beautiful, and have time for the
higher tastes of the human being.
Dress for women is the most hideous
tyrant of all. In the true civil
ization which one hopes fervently the
race will have sense enough TO take
on finally, women will have a dress
for outdoor wear that is comfortable
and artistic, and will not change its
fashion essentially, though it NAV
often in detail. Two things are
certain: /, Women of good figures
and out of doors never look so well as
when they are wearing a gymnasium
or bathing dress. 2. Every woman
under a hundred years old NAV have
a good figure if she will take the
trouble to get and keep it. Perhars
some convenient and artistic modi-
tcation of the present
dress will in time be adopted as n
permanet style of woman's outdoor
costume. When that day arrives the
contrast between a woman's rich and
gay dress and her sallow, suffering
face will no longer be so marked.
1t ali depends on whether yon are
accustomed to a fashion whether
1T looks pretty or not. Soft. broad
soled shoes would look as well as
high heeled, toothpick pointed patent
feathers, and an easy, convenient
outdoor costume would be lust nc
pretty as the uncomfortable and
inconvenient one, if we were used To
IL. DO not the present loose, flowing
sleeves look as agreeable and artistic
to us as the skintight me of five
years ago, in which, if a woman
wished to raise her arm to her head.
she a to make a special stipulation
with the dressmaker to have the
sleeve cut accordingly?
In any case, simplify living. That
is the cry that goes up from tortured
millions. 1t is the secret of health
n happiness. We have too many
modern Improvements to carry.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15
WHY COAL WENT UP.
Readings President Explains the Recent
AdNancA.

Readings President Explains the Recent
Advance.
The New York state senate coal
investigation committee is in session
at the Murray Hill hotel. President
Mcleod, of the Reading system,
regarding the coal question, said
that there was an error of comparing
prices of January, 1892, with those
that have ruled since, as the prices
then were abnormally low. This he
gave as a reason for the advance in
coal for the past three months. The
average of 1891, however, was shown
to be less than the present year.
As to restriction, he said that the
market will take but 40, 900, 900 tons,
and it is evident something must be
done to keep this limit. 1t is
involuntary restriction that has been
forced upon the coal men.
He gave details of the delivery of a
ton of coal at Jersey City at 1896 per
ton, showing an actual loss in doing
this. He then explained that the
loss of so cents on small sizes must be
added to the cost of the other and
more valuable sizes. The smaller
sizes must be sold at a loss or thrown
away.
Since his connection with the road
there has been a reduction of 10 cents
average per ton. On the 1st. OF
October, he said, there was to be an
increase of 10 cents on broken, q
cents on egg and % cents on other
sizes. After questioning him at some
length on the production and advance
in the price Of coal the committees
adjourned.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Several severe shocks of earthquake
were felt in Greece on Saturday.

Several severe shocks of earthquake
were felt in Greece on Saturday.
United States Minister Patrick
Egan has sailed from Valparaiso for
home.
1t is reported that 1000 Afgans
were killed in the last battle with the
revolving HaZaras.
,Lhe steamer Campania, built for the
Cunard Steamship company's New
York and Liverpool service, was sue
cessfully launched at Glasgow; The
Campania is the largest steamer in
the world,
The London and General bank
Qimted) has suspended payment.
The bank was founded in 1882 with a
capital of CT, 600, 900. To Sept. 10,
1891, GAIT had been subscribed to
the capital.
There may shortly be another
cabinet crisis in Germany in which
Baron Won Scheliing, minister of
justice, will chiefly be concerned.
This minister has identified himself
so closely with the Progressist party
that his position is not considered
tenable.
The Spanish government now seems
disposed to satisfy the demands
recently made by the United States
for the revision of the new Cuba
tariff on the grounds that it does not
contain those concessions for Ameri-
can imports which were agreed on
in the convention of 1891.
A most horrible murder was COM
mitted at the Schuvalova barracks,
near st. Petersburg. The murderer
was a bandsman of the Imperial
Guard, who was actuated by jealousy
of his victim, who was a comrade.
The murderer stole up behind his vic
tim while the latter was at mess, and
dealt the unfortunate man a terrific
blow with a sabre, which completely
beheaded him, his head falling into
his plate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15
THE BOSS HERDER MOSS THIEF.
Clever Rounding Up of Cattle Thieves Re-
called by a Sentence.

called by a Sentence.
John Little, who was convicted at
Deadwood last week for Conspiracy
to commit a felony" was formerly
boss herder at Rosebud agency and
was instrumental in the running off
of Y head of cattle from Rosebud
last February. Little was sentenced
to two years confinement at Sioux
Falls p~enitentiary in addition to a
fine of $1,000.
The crime was an unusually bold
one, and its details were given in
these dispatches last May. The
cattle were rounded up from the
government contractors herd at Rose
bud agency, and their absence was
first noted by a herder at the e
who at once notified the Indian agent.
Search was at once instituted, and
resulted in fastening the crime upon
Little, a man named George, living
across the reservation line in Nebraska
and two cowboys, who soob after the
stealing left for Texas. One of the
government contractors fastened the
crime upon these men, doing it in
very clever fashion. Little was
under suspicion from the start. so.
watching his opportunity, the con-
tractor succeeded. in getting him
drunk-in Valentine, Neb., n day
and bluntly charged him with the
crime. Little at first denied all
knowledge of what had become of
the cattle, but upon being pressed by
the contractor finally admitted that
he was guilty and had received about
$500 for the cattle, but had been COM
PEELED to pay out,about all of it for
hush money"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15
LOST CABIN MINE.
A Deadwood Man Claims to Have Dis
covered It.

A Deadwood Man Claims to Have Dis
covered IT,
It is believed at Deadwood that the
celebrated Lost Cabin mine has been
found. VIM. S. Dany, a prospector,
has returned from a long prospecting
tour and brought with him several
thousand dollars worth of gold mug
gets and number of specimens of ore
fairly Dristling with particles of gold.
Dany's story is that some weeks
ago, while hunting in the western
part of the Black Hills, he stumbled
into what he first supposed was a
small cave, but which, on subsequent
investigation, proved to be a room
thirty by twenty feet and of an aver
age height of seven feet, rudely hewn
out of solid rock by human hands.
This room he first discovered to CON
tain the skeleton of a human being,
which, exciting his curiosity, induced
a search that was rewarded by find
ing gold nuggets Of an aggregate
value of 5000. The place was many
miles from settlement, and he
remained until a week ago searching
for the mine from which the nuggets
came.
He clains to have found it, and
says that tie ore he has was taken
from it. The fact Danny has so much
gold with him lends FEASIBILITY to
the story, which is creating a great
deal of excitement, and will cause
numerous prospecting parties to start
ont. 1t is not probable that they will
find the mine, however, as Dany
refuses to located 1t any more definitely
than by saying it is about fifty miles
from Deadwood, in the western part
of the Black Hills.