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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08
THEIR MEETING.
A Chicago Incident With Moral Quite
Near the Surface.

A Chicago Incident with a Moral Quite
Near the Surface.
II Is at the union depot, Chicago A
train has just pulled in. Outside the
great iron gates is hurrying throng.
One woman, who passes westward,
attracts attention. She possesses the
remains of a patrician beauty. Her
silken gown, covered with cut jet, gilt
tiers like black mail Diamonds fash
at her throat. There is rouge on her
cheek. Her insolent eyes are artistic
ally darkened.
"Robert,''
The cry is wrung from her. A man
with hair prematurely gray has just de-
scended the broad steps He holds a
girl of six by the hand. She is daintily
dressed in snowy null. A great shirred
white hat makes background for the
smiling little face. the innocent blue
eyes, the golden curls. The man tries
to pass.
Only this oncev' the woman pleads
You may speak to her." He steps
aside.
I'VE have come" cries the child in
joyful confidence as the stranger leans
down, Ito meet mamma"
The woman pales under her paint
Not my own mamma, you know"
in sweet explanation. "She died long
ago"
DO you" low and fiercely, ''remem.
Der her?"
"A little. She was like you'll But she
had not such a shining brooch or such
pink cheeks" -
The woman shrinlss as from a blow.
DO you love this--this mammal"
"Yes; she is good, but she wants me
to. and" with wistful sincerity, II do
love my own mamma best"
There is a vibration of the rails. A
shrek. The train thunders in. The
woman leans to kiss the rose lips of the
child. She draws back suddenly. 1t
would be sacrilege. May not Gods an
gels record this moment as one of mag
nifcent expiation? The train disgorges.
The man takes the child's hand. She
looks back at the lovely lady.
'Goodby," she cries, laughingly.
The eyes that follow her are wet and
tender
why is she crying, papa, and why
are you?"
Hush dearv' He takes a sweet faced
woman in his arms.
I'VE have missed you So"
Have you, darling?" she asks the
child.
20, yes"
Her stepmother caresses the soft curls;
kisses her gently.
The woman by the stairway sees it
all.
Then they go home.-Chicago Trib-
une.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08
AN EVIL EXAMPLE.
Gifted Men Who Have Led Their Admir-
ers to Drink.

Outeu men VINO Have LED Their Admir-
ers to Drink.
More than a score of years ago, an
eminent musical composer, whose
music is heard to-day in thousands of
places of religious worship throughout
the land, was Suddenly cut down by
the reaper Death.
How sadr "How mysterious"
many people said.
One who knew him best said: "Ie
was taken away from the evil to
come" for, alas! though he had great
gifts, and was an influential member
of the church of God, he often resorted
to artificial stimulants to keep up the
strength which he felt he must have to
conduct his conventions successfully.
What harm can glass of beer do
so great and good man as -" was
said by some.
Others said: "If - can drink a
glass of beer, / can. He surely is a
good man"
How many feet were thus turned
into the way of death will never be
known. One has come under our OBJ
servation. where death alone delivered
the victim from the power of tempta-
ton. We looked upon the still, white
face but little while ago and heard a
bereaved one say: ''E. tried so hard
to resist temptation. 1t cannot reach
him now.
1T was the example of B. that
ruined my husband. l saw the danger,
and plead with him that he should not
give such an example to his admirers
Death settled that, but it was too late
for poor Z. As l looked upon the no.
bic form, and thought Of the unvary-
ing courtesy and gentleness of the de-
ceased, and of his wrecked life. ire
trievably ruined by the example of a
good man. realized something of the
power each individual exerts; for their
example lives long after they sleep the
sleep which knows no waking. Mrs
E. ]. Richmond, in National Temper
ance Advocate
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08

There are a great many kitchens that
are not possessed of the luxury OF a
brush for cleaning potatoes. 1t is next
to impossible to wash potatoes per-
fectly clean by hand. The use of lit
tie scrubbing brush, such as may be
purchased at from five to ten cents. will
soon make their jackets fresh and Clean
so that they will be fit to be brought
on the table roasted Roast potatoes
should always have little bit of skin
Clipped off at either end to allow the
steam to escape and to prevent their
becoming sodden before they are thor
oughly done. Such brush is also very
useful in washing beets and various
other root vegetables. all of which are
probably Just as well cooked in their
skins and peeled when they are done
the turnip being the only exception to
this rule as it acquires hitter flavor
when boiled 10 its jacket-N. Z. Trib-
une.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08

~ suppose you learned great deal
while you were ont west" remarked
Boston man TO a Boston youth VINO had
just arrived home after trip Of six
weeks.
mo, sir, only learned one new thing
'Tndeed, why not?"
because, after learned how a mine
was sailed hadn't any money left foH
further tuition. Texas Siftings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08

To get the values of things is the ar
lists greatest labor. 1t is for that his
eye is quicker to observe than his neigh
boris. 1t is for that he mixes and re-
mixes his colors; it is for that he lays
them on and rubs them of TO try again
for an effect nearer truth; 1t is for that
he is always "squinting'' at nature. In
view of these facts, values" would
seem to be an essence as evasive as i'm
postant And yet children sometimes
get at them instinctively and with as
tonishing accuracy. For instance: The
other day lady went to visit a friend.
the mother Of two little boys She had
not been seen by the lads for at least
year and half, but they had been
told she was coming After the first
strangeness of meeting was over, the
younger of the brothers warmed into
confidential relations, and said: You've
been away so long didn't know you;
couldn't tell how you looked" "You
could not" replied the lady, in tone
of assumed surprise. well, turning to
the elder child she said: "You remem-
bered me, / am sure" 80, yes" re-
turned the boy, confidently, and there
was something of contempt in his voice
as he added; why, haven't you got ON
the same Standardization Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE DEMON OF THE STILL.

The cog and wheel and belt so strong.
Was each within its place.
The still was ready now to start
Upon its maddening race.
The race to grind from food OF men
A poison, so sure and fell,
That demons watched 1t drop by dron
And loved its praise to tell
Oh taste ye of the sparkling draughtl
See here within this cup
In all We want OF earth or heaven
Aye, drink the mixture up!"
And then the tempter's gloating eye
Sparkling with rapture sees.
His victims taste and taste again,
Till sense and reason fees.
- Too slow its gurgling waters flow,
Too slow its victims make,
thirst for blood fain would now
This quenchless burning sake.
Look hither! To- see
victim toward me stride
mothers Joy he sure must be,
A fathers hope and pride!
~Come, demons, haste, and now keep watch.
With keen and piercing eye
And list your chance for warm bright blood
Not let 1t pass you by;
Aye, might not he so brave and fair
Be won by truth and right,
Be lost to US and 'soape at last
The dismal realms OF night
- Turn, engine, turni wheels, swiftly ayl
Bands and cogs and belts so strong
With winged speed go byi
Do we'll your CHASTITY part, for 1
Am standing with Q gloating heart,
burning eye. to see
The life blood of the heart 20 dry
The souls thirst through eternity"
The demon eyes watched eagerly
The awful power that bore
The unconscious youth round wheel and cog
While flesh from bone 1t tore;
But now an angel from Gods light
Hastes, in this dreadful hour.
To bear aloft the spirit bright
Far from the fiendish power.
The reelsing blood and quivering flesh,
Stake not the demons thirst,
The groans Of pain, the mothers tears,
But whet his direful curse.
snow to the still whore warm and bright
The gurgling poison flows,
Which soon will blight the hearts and homes
Where'er it hapless goes.
IS All, we'll for me, thou faithful tool
That human blood nor tears,
Can stop thy CHASTITY work. nor rouse
The deadened heart to fears.
Here meath this still the power Of death
My power, resistless. strong
Is growing steady drop by drop,
Till millions mako a throng
~Of wretched helpless creatures lost
My realm OF night to FILL
While willing servants mad for gold
Run on the faithful still
Better than tear, or blood or groan,
Than mangled flesh, ween
Are crime and suffering and woe
Now In this fluid seen"
~'Twill fill the prisons, load with chains
The maniac in his cell,
Twill blight fair homes with want and sham,
Twill sink the soul In hell;
No power SO potent, fends below
In all their cunning skill,
Could e'er devise like this that men
Have made to work my will
ALLIE Andys, in Rural World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08
WHISKY DIDN'T HELP HIM.

The Almost Fatal Result of Depending
on q Stimulant.
saw an exhibition of nerve and
pluck the other day which ought to be
recorded in black and white. From
the cornice of one of the tall buildings
was suspended a painters scaffold.
They are raised and lowered, as you
know, by the painters pulling on a
tackle at either end Few men can
look up from the walk at the scaffold.
swaying about under the cornice and
the men coolly playing their brushes,
without feeling the flesh creep little.
The breaking of rope meant death to
the men on the scaffold and. perhaps,
Should one of the men lose his balance
and fall he'd strike the flagstone and
have every bone broken.
Three or four of US were looking up
from doorway opposite, when one of
the painters dropped his brush and
lurched about as If drunk. The other
cried out to him sharply. and he lay
down on the scaffold as if helpless.
The man had either taken sick or was
overcome by fright There was no one
on the roof. We saw the other painter
look up and around in an anxious way,
aud then he crept along the scaffold to
his partner If he tried to brace him
up it was failure. He took the slack
of the rope and passed it about him SO
that he could not roll off, and then he
began hosting up the scaffold He
pulled that end up about two feet, and
then crept down and raised the other
to correspond.
There was lift of ten or twelve
feet, and he passed from end to end of
the scaffold five or six times before he
elevated it to the cornice and could
step off. The other man lay as If dead.
and was pulled off on to the roof so
helpless that he could not stand. He
was sitting with his back to a chimney
when got up there, and no dead
mans face was ever whittier. He trem-
bled in every limb. his teeth chartered,
and his eyes seemed to have lost all
expression
whats the matter?' I asked the
other partner. who was calmly adding
q little oil to the mixture in his pail.
New man." he brusquely replied
How do you mean?"
Its his first time on a swing
scaffold," he explained. land he was
foolish enough to take a drink of
whisky to brace his nerves"
And didn't it?"
"For half an hour so; then II col
lapsed him, as it always does every
body, and he went to pieces quick as
wink"
us it your first experience?"
''Not by a dozen! Most of 'em act
this way the first time. You've got to
give 'em a sharn talk and tie 'em on or
they'll do something desperate"
"And weren't you at all rattled?"
''Shoo! Feel my pulse"
And he whistled merrily as he
stirred the mixture and waited for an
other man to come and go down with
him.
"How do you feel?" ask the other.
He tried to reply, but his tongue
seemed to have lost its power, and
after two or three efforts he began
weeping like child He was utterly
unnerved.zM. Quad, in N. Y. World.
THE money paid in one year for three
glasses of beer a day would pay the
rent for a small suit of rooms for one
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08

There's fool somewhere in thu
neighborhood
"Why?"
Hear that hornT'-Brooklyn Life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-08

THE money paid in one year for three
glasses of beer a day would pay the
rent for a small suit of rooms for one
year. 49,. sssss
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31

EDITOR THE CITIzEN:-I am glad to
notice that our representatives have re-
quested that when any change in or
city laws are asked for that a public
meeting Of our citizens should be had and
the matter fully discussed before the
changes are asked to be considered by
the Legislature. This is well; and now
l beg to suggest that meeting be called
at once to consider the propriety Of
making some important changes-and
the first is that we have an annual cleo
ton for all city officials. There will be
no difficulty in re-electing any good man
if he has shown himself worthy and well
qualified, and at the same time enable us
to get rid of any who have shown that
they are unfit for the places to which
they have been elected. The next change
is, the Board should not be allowed to
fix their own salary. 1t should be fixed
by the Legislature and should not exceed
$100 per year. The next is, we do not
need any recorder. The mayor should
be required to perform his duty and
thereby save 5000 to the tax payers.
Y
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
STRANGE EPIDEMIC.
But Cause Enough, and More
is Found For 1t.

But Cause Enough, and More,
Is Found For 1t.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Dec. 31.-Four-
teen deaths occurred recently at the PEN
itentiary. The fourteenth died yester-
day in intense agony. The coroner's
jury found that he died from "some epi-
demic disease unknown to the Jury"
Coroner Bond filed a report with the
Board of Penitentiary Commissioners in
which he stated that the sanitary condi-
tion of the place was horrible in the ex-
treme and calculated to breed an cpl
demic in its worst form. Filth in enor-
nous quantities was piled up in different
quarters of the enclosure.
Commissioners consisting of the Secre-
tary of State, the Attorney General and
Private Secretary Tiles, representing
Gov. Eagle, Immediately made an ex-
animation. That contagious disease
in its worst form has taken hold of the
inmates row admits of no doubt. The
poison theory is fast fading away. The
man who died yesterday had not been
outside Of the walls for many days. He
was in perfect health yesterday at din
ner. and was we'll until within an hour
Of his death.
Arkansas Medical Institute students
are scared and refuse to handle the dead
bodies sent to the Institute from the
penitentiary.
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
against Prof. Briggs, and the result
were in his favor on all counts.
THE UMBRlA ALL RIGHT
She ARRIVED EARLY THIS
MORNING.

Her SHAFT is Broken ana She
Came I'm SlO WHY. Rut Under HeH
Own 0tOam-AM Passengers
well.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The long-over.
due Umbria of the Cunard line arrived
off the bar at $50 a. M, today. All
were reported well on board. As the
last report Of her was on Monday, when
she was repairing her shaft off the New
toundland banks. and as four days had
gone by without further news from her.
there was considerable anxiety as to the
safety of her large list of passengers.
A message from. the lookout at Fire
Island, announced that she had been
sighted few minutes after midnight and
that she was proceeding slowly under
her own steam toward this port. She
arrived off the bar in company with the
Britannia, of the White Star line, and an
oil tank steamer. Both her escorts left
at the outer lightship, and went up the
bay at rapid pace compared to that
Of the Umbria. She was steaming nine
miles an hour. The slow rate was main
tanned probably as precaution against
luther damage to the shaft.
Captain Mckay had brought his fine
steamship and all on board safely
through the terrific gales, and when his
vessel entered the harbor he was con-
graduated and thanked by many pas
sengers who had waited up all night to
see the welcome lights OF New York
again. 1t is IL days and a half since the
steamer left Queenstown, and the trip is
the longest on record for the crack ocean
racer.
The Umbria proceeded slowly up the
bay, burning her signals at Sandy Hook
and blowing her whistle in response to
the glad salutes OF the tugs in the Lower
Bay.
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Edward Parker Deacon has sued for a
divorce in New York.
Thomas Nelson, Mayor of St. Charles
City. Va, has absconded after squander-
ing about $4,000 church and trust
funds.
deacon" S. V. White failed on Septem-
Der %, 81. owing 1,750.0OO. Yester.
day he paid off the last dollar Of the in.
debtedness.
The proposition to hold a constitu.
tional convention in Michigan was car.
ried by majority of 600 votes at the
November election.
By the death of Mrs. James c. Gam
mon, OF Batavia, ILL.,, the Methodist Sem.
mary at Atlanta, Ca, comes in posses
sion of an endowment of $3.50, 900.
The South is already prospering under
the prospect of Democratic rule. The
Chattanooga Tradesman reports that
the holiday trade of Southern merchants
was 25 per cent. larger this wear than
has been customary.
Attorney General Miller has received
letter from United States Marshal
Walker, at Topeka. Kans.. saying:
"William Dalton does not now nor has
he ever held commission an deputy
United States marshal for this district
under me"
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
FRESH CABINET GOSSIP
CARLISLE CERTAINLY HAS A
PORTFOLIO.

Several Names mentioned" for
This ana That Position, hut
very Little That Is at All Ger
tain-Departments
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-All the execu.
tive departments closed today at noon.
They will not open again for business
until Tuesday morning, January 3, 1898.
Most of the politicians in Washington,
interested in the gossip relating to Cleve-
lands cabinet choosing, have settled
down into the belief that Senator Carlisle
is to be Secretary of the Treasury in the
next administration. They are perhaps
most inclined to this from the fact that
the choice of Carlisle would prove salts
factory to every one.
Among the guesses for the other de-
partments are that of ex.Minister
Phelps of Vermont for Secretary Of
State. He divides with Don M. Dickin-
son in the Washington mind the best
chance for that portfolio.
Representative Herbert, of Alabama,
and ex-Secretary Lamont, are both
talked of for the Navy Department.
Gen. Pat. Collins, of Boston, is talked of
for Secretary of War. For the Department
of Justice the names most generally
mentioned, are those of Representative
Culbertson, of Texas. Martin F. Morrill,,
of this city, Representative Wilson. Of
West Virginia and Randolph Tucker, of
Virginia. Representative Blount, Of
Georgia, who has served for many
years on the committee on postotfice
and postroads in the House OF
Representatives is talked of for
the head of the postoffice de-
partment, and may get the place
if Herbert, from an adjoining State. does
not get the Navy Department. He might
be appointed anyhow, though it is
thought to be more probable that,
in the event of the selection OF
Herbert, western man like ex-
Governor Campbell of Ohio, who,
however, says positively that he is not
Cabinet possibility, may be appointed
for the Interior Department. Morrison
of Illinois, Gray of Indiana, and other
men from Western and far Western
States are talked Of. The Agricultural
Department, it is said, will 60 to Hatch
of Missouri, or to some Democrat from
States.
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
THE PANAMA SCANDAL,
The Orleanists still Have HOpes
of Running the Republic.

LONDON Dec. 30.-The Orleanists have
by no means abandoned hope of regain
ing the throne Of France through a
revulsion i'll republican sentiment caused
BY the revelations in the Panama affair.
Some project, it Is believed. is contem-
plated by them that is intended to lead
to the oyerturning of the Republic and
the establishment of monarchy. The
Count Of Paris has telegraphed
to his son, the Duke of Orleans, who is
now travelling in China, to hasten his re-.
turn in order that he may take part in
the deliberations of the Orleans party.
In English circles it is believed that
there is no chance for the Vaccinations
OF the French Royalists and Imperialists
proving successful. 1t is thought that
the French government by pursuing
those implicated in the Panama scandal
to punishment, will establish the Repub.
lie on sounder foundations than before
and will render such an evil as the Pan
anna affair hereafter impossible.
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31

ALBANY, Dec. Ex-senator Hill was in
his rooms on the third floor of the Ken
more tonight, busy opening letters,
when reporter called to ask for an in
terview on Mr.. Cleveland's expressions
regarding Edward Murphy. Jr. Senator
Hill paused only long enough to glance
over the contents Of the letter he had
opened, and then said:
"You may say have nothing to say
on the Senatorial question, or the inter.
view. ."-New York Sun.
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
LEASE FOR CHARITY.

But the Kansas Talker Will Rum
For the Senate Anyway.
TOPEKA, Kans., Dec. 31.-Goyernor-
elect Llewelling announces that he has
decided to offer Mrs. Lease position on
the State Board of Charities. 1t will be
one of the first appointments he will
make. It is reported here that Mrs.
Lease has manifested her willingness to
accept the position, but it is to be well
understood beforehand that, in accept
ing this position, she does not in any
way relinquish her claim to the senator
ship.
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
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Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
Bought. OF One Husbant for m.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y. Dec. 2S.-Dora
Curry recently married Charles Madder,
and later Fred ellison, for whom she
once kept house. The matter was COM
promised today by Gilson paying Mud
der $25 and taking the bride, who 10 the
daughter Of an old country hotel man.
N. Y. World.
Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-31
New Organasts.

Beginning tomorrow Prof. c. A. Gar
ratt, who has for some time been tn,
efficient organist at the First Baptist
church, will act in a similar capacity il
Central M. E. church, South. Prof
and Mrs. H. E. Crouch will, beginning
tomorrow, have Charge of the organ ant
music at the First Baptist churh, sue
ceeding Prot. CARAT.