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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
A FOURTH OF JULY IN MEXICO.
The Texan Had Fought Against the Flag,
but His Heart Was True.

A number of old-timers were discus
sing their Fourth of July experiences
the other evening. "In 1876 l spent
the glorious Fourth in Chihuahua
Mex, and the Americans there came
near having a chance to fight for the
flag" said Dave O'Neil "Most of the
Americans were southerners and Tex
ans, and all were determined that the
Fourth should be properly celebrated.
The Mexicans at that time did not like
Americans, and there was lots of bad
blood between the two nationalities.
The day of the Fourth early in the
morning we ran up the flag of the
United States on the flag-pole in front
of the hotel where the Mexican flag
waved on fete days. Advent well un-
til about twelve o'clock.
"By that time the Mexicans began to
gather courage from liquor and were
ugly. A crowd collected around our
flag and male sighting remarks about
eur county and celebration. The
crowd increased in numbers and cour-
age, and finally someone suggested
CndJ UHcy Jcdf uoWh tHc nag i ic Suk
gestion pleased the mob and they
started to follow it out. But before
they succeeded a big Texan backed up
against the flag-pole. He drew a
couple Of six-shooters, and, pointing
them at the crowd, drawled out: by
the eternal, fit agin that flag for four
years, but the first man that touches
it I'll blow him to tophet.' The mob
drew back afraid, but became wild
with anger and reformed to raid the
pole and it's brave defender.
"The news of the Texans stand
spread like wildfire, and all the AIueri-
cans in town ran to his assistance. We
were about two hundred in number
and scattered the mob of Mexicans
without trouble and placed a strong
guard around the pole. The military
governor of the state sent for com
mittee to confer with him. We insisted
that he should send a company of
soldiers to guard the flag before we
would withdraw our guard. He had
to consent or we would have captured
the town, garrison of soldiers, and all.
The flag waved proudly that day and
for two days afterwards, and all TIE
time it was guarded by Mexican soldiers
and the Texan, VINO insisted upon see
ing that the soldiers did their duty
Denver Field and Farm.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
DRUNKENNESS AND INEBRlETY.
The Difference Between Inherited and Ac-
CURED Thirst for Drink.

The Difference Between Inherited and Ac-
quired Thirst for Drink.
DR.. James Stewart, an English sur
geon, in a recent lecture makes dis
tinction not commonly made, between
drunkenness and inebriety. The
drun<ard, he maintains, is person
who drinks whenever he finds an OPP
portunity; the inebriate is person
who, in most cases, is born with an I'M
sound brain and might even be a man
who never tasted alcoholic drink in his
life; the one vicious, the other diseased.
The following is a summary of DR..
Stewards conclusions:
l. Drunkenness is a vice, inebriety a
disease; the two terms must not be
confounded. .. The disease of inebri-
ETY. once established may be trans
mitted to the patients offspring either
in the form of the alcoholic diathesis,
epilepsy, chorea, insanity, or even ten
dency to crime. 3. The child of an
inebriate born after the functional or
structural lesion has been esta blished
is sure to inherit some nervous
diathesis. 4. The only security against
Vim olhIHeSlS ucNelOplHP do lHcDTlcty -
lifelong total abstinence on the part
of the child. >. Even the adoption of
this precaution will not absolutely
make certain that there will be no
transmission of the cachexia by the
child to his or her offspring. 6. To
prevent the development of the alco-
holic neurosis in other directions-such
as epilepsy excitement of the
emotions and sensibilities, such as
might be produced by corporal punish
ment by strangers, should in all cases
be guarded against. Z. In the prophy-
laxis of inebriety the principle to be
acted on with regard to children's
training is, that if we accentuate the
good we alternate the evil $. The
marriage of the child or even grand
child of an inebriate to a first cousin
shonld be absolutely interdicted. -
National Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07

The fngernail that is uncared for
now receives little more surprised
odium than the overmanicured sort.
1t is no longer any better taste to into
society or to business with the nails
glowing with the red salve Of the
toilet-table than it is to have cheeks
vivid with rouge. Neither are nails
any longer polished to the brilliancy
of isinglass. The natural gloss is
maintained, but not heightened. Mani
cure sets are, accordingly, somewhat
simpliSed. 1t has become the custom
to buy manicure pieces. One is then
ablo 10 get implements desired. In
sets one piece Is Often defective. A
pretty velvet case, pair of nail scis-
sors, fine jewelers. file, a chamois
pad, an emery board for smoothing the
under surface OF the nail, and box OF
nogaline for healing any soreness
caused by manicuring, make COM
plete set of these necessary toilet in-
plements.-Chicago Mail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07

farm boy, for whom the prince of
tempters" has set as sure a watch as
for any other class of people. To pro-
tect the country home, then, from this
enemy requires as persistent vigilance
as to protect the city home, and wives,
sisters and mothers need to be awake to
this fact.
What can you do? Why, watch the
enemy's every move and dispute every
inch of ground with him. Does he
tempt the youth with cider? Give them
scientific instruction in the schools.
where they will be taught the exa ct
| composition of cider, what consti tutes
fermentation and how the alcohol is
formed by it. Show them how to
prove the existence of the alcohol in
the cider by actually distilling the al
| cohol from it. Then teach them how
even a small amount of alcohol, when
drunk in cider or other liquid, will
create an appetite for itself, and you
will then have the child fortified
against the temptation of cider drink
ing.
At strengthening time seek to per-
suade farmers not to provide beer for
the men, but instead offer to furnish
them with some cool, refreshing, home
made drink that shall take the place of
beer Here is still field for woman's
invention. To make up home drinks,
which shall be cool, thirst-quenching
and palatable, without being in any
way intoxicating.
But sometimes the farm boy wearies
| of the dull routine and isolation Of
farm life and comes to the city to seek
his fortune. Too often his love of ad-
venture, his desire to see the sights
leads him among evil associates and
ignorant of the power OF the insidious
enemy he encounters, before he is
aware of it he is in the demons
clutches. Mr.. Paxton, now deceased,
the former active and energetic secre-
| tary of the Citizens League, in his an
| nual reports used to tell us of hundreds
and thousands of farm boys, from the
| contiguous states of Indiana, Iowa and
Wisconsin, whom he found in the sa-
looms of Chicago, some but just starting
on the downward course and others far
gone in sin and vice. Many of these
were minors and were rescued by Mr.
Paxton and returned to their homes,
but alas, many others went on to lives
of crime.
Anything that can be done to make
farm life attractive, anything that can
be invented to vary its monotony and
make the boys contented to stay on the
farm, will help to prevent this deplora-
BILE state of affairs To be loved, to be
thought of consequence, is always help
full to young people-it will hold them
and keep them together. Many young
man has been saved from entering upon
an evil course by being made much of
| at home. Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
Modern Changes In Rome.

Rome, in twenty or thirty years, has
become like any other European city
big, noisy, vulgar, overgrown, French
flied and syndicate-ridden, hardly to
be distinguished from Lyons or Turin,
except that it has in the middle of it's
streets some enormous masses of ruins,
many huge, empty converts and some
vast churches, apparently abandoned
by the church. But the ruins, which
used to stand in rural solitude like
Stonehenge or Bievaulx, are now mere
piles of stone in crowded streets, like
the Palais DIES Thermes at Paris. The
sacred sites of Forum and Roman Quad
rata are now objects in a museum. The
Cloaca are imbedded in a new stone
quay. and are become mere exhibit"
like York House Water Gate, in the
embankment. The wild foliage and
the memorial affairs have been torn out
of the Colosseum, and the AIlian bridge
is overshadowed by new iron enor-
nifty. Rome which thirty years ago
was vision of the past, is to-day a
busy Italian town, with n dozen mu-
seums, striving TO become third-rate
Paris. lbany Argus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07

Few persons would suspect how nu
merous body is that of professional
Grove, occupying the chair at the an
nual dinner of the College of Organ
lists, of which he is president, stated
that their membership was nearly 1, 100,
and it ought to be ten times as large,
considering that there are Il, 900 organ
lists in England, and that some 400 can
didates are examined every year by the
college. Sir John Stainer proposed the
Royal Academy, Royal College and the
Guildhall school of music and other
musical institutions, and the toast was
duly honorcd. London Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
NOTES BY THE WAY.

WOMEN are employed at railway
switches and crossings in Italy because
they keep sober
WHENEVER you see a drunken man it
ought to remind you that every boy in
the world is in danger.
POVERTY never drives a man to drink
unless he wants to go; but drink drags
a man to poverty, whether he wants to
go or not
How startling are statistics. Three
million children are born annually of
drunken parents, half million born
idiots and three hundred thousand born
deaf. dumb and blind.
THE saloon is called the poor mans
club. Yes, it. clubs him out of all his
manhood; clubs him out of his money.
his self-respect. The frequenter of the
saloon is the worst dubbed man tenn
porarily and spiritually known Of
Sacred Heart Review.
The statistics of suicides last year
are startling, showing an increase of
FIVE hundred over those of 1891, the
men greatly out numbering the women:
three thousand of the former to five
hundred of the latter Three hundred
and fifteen are assigned to liquor
AT recent experience meeting"
held at one of the missions in New
York city, many testimonials were
given by reform drunkards concerning
the causes which led them to drunken
ness. They were varied, and all had
had too much or too little of something.
OF one thing, alcohol, all had had too
much. No one is ever led to DRUNKEN
ness by abstinence
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE BOBoLINKS SAID.

One afternoon young Philip Brown
was reellng homeward from the town;
His brain confessed by the flowing bowl,
That fell destroyer of tody and soul
The path where he was wont to go
Lay where the rush and iris grow.
The merry brook went babbling by,
The painted moth and dragon fly
Poised lightly DER its dimpling face,
Or darted on with agile grace
A blackbird Chartered in the sun,
The bobolinks rose one by one
From out the swayiug summer grass,
And seemed to mock him as he passed.
-'Bobolink. bobollnk. Why, we should think
A man would be ashamed to drink
Birds wouldn't do il! Chinka-chee chez;
Not We! Not we! wei we! We we.
Poor Phil, ashamed, hung down his head;
But soon forgot what the birds had said,
And began to dream in maudlin way
OF all the money he meant TO pay
From his empty pockets, some fine day.
He thought he'd inves; in a Touring mill,
And buy that handsome house on the hill,
While his cellars would overhow-"Chee!
chnk,"
Up rose another gay bobolink-
You're fooled You're fooled You stupid
you
That's not what liquor brings one to!
Twill make you poor as poverty.
Youth see! Youl see! See, see! see see.'
Then Philip muttered, "a pretty pass.
When the birds nag fellow for taking 4
glass;"
But the thought soon passed from his misty
brain,
And ne built another castle in Spain"
He giggled and chuclled on thoughts intent
OF the day when he should be president
He'd rule the roost with rigid hand,
He'd send his minions all over the land
He'd Danish the opium-smoking Chinee,
But tobacco and whisky should both be free,
And that jolly old Tum-seller over the way
shouldn't have penny Of license TO pay.
But bobolink swayed on a willow limb,
And pertly and saucily answered him.
"Bobolink. Boboink! You seem 70 think
A fool grows wise and great through drink!
Twill bring you disgrace you'll see!
Twit! Twill Trust me. Me- me- me- me-
Then Philip bewildered and stammering said
'Th-that bird must have remarkable head
But the spasm of sense was quickly gone
And the maudlin dreamer went Numbering on,
AS soon as Queen Vic,oria's dead
NY little Moly'll rule in her stead:
And as for Willie, don't you be fooled.
He's one of the heirs of the late Jay Could
They il see that their pa has money to spend!
And Ill buy their mother such gowns-no end!'
But a boblnk sprang from its resting place,
Flaun,ing reproof in his very face.
"BoDolink, Bobolink! Cheea-chce chinki
The wives and children of them that drink
Down to the lowest Level sink.
Would you have them looked up to- listen to me,
Let drink now be- be! be! be. be-"
Then Philip muttered, "Why, what's TO pay?
The birds have turned temperance cranlls TO
day,
And the worst Of it is I'm not 50 tight
But know very well they are in the right
Then tell me now. fits not too late,
What must I do TO be wealthy and create"
Then every bird from its rounded throat,
Poured forth a rolf, king joyous note;
''Bobolink Bobolink! Chee-a-chee chink!
On, sign the pledge TO leave strong drink.
S'gn it! Sign il! AS quick as wink!
Do il! Do il! Quick can be.
Aud keep it, Teeto;alee! Ice! lee"
Belle L. Barnes, in Union Signal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
PoTTERs AND DUST POISON.
Thew Snner From Respiratory Troubles
and Finally Die.

and Finally Die.
Potters are among those who suffer
most accutely from the inhalation of
dust. The atmosphere in which they
work IS charged with minute PARTICLES
given of from the dried clay and from
the ware as it rapidly rotates under
the workers tool during the process of
finishing. The evil is aggravated when
the workshops are low and ill-venti-
lated.
The visitor who finds his way to the
cherries regions of the potterics may
very likely go away with the impress
sion that the operatives are not partic-
ularly to be pitied. But the mortality
statistics of the potteries suggest that
a deaths head and crossbones would
be an appropriate trademark for the
district Statistics give but faint
and colOrless picture unless one can fill
in the gloomy shadows which are as
soGated with the region of premature
death.
The aspect Of the potteries is in
truth, funereal enough for anything;
the people pass from the white powder
of the factories out into a blackness of
street worse than that of Manchester;
the forlorn and dilapidated appearance
of great part of the streets and build
ings, tae ragged edges of grimy brick
which forms the outskirts of the series
ot-toivxs, and above all the dreary ac-
cumuiations of broken potsherds from
the factories and Stag from the adjoin-
ing mines are, perhaps, not uniting
surroundings for a district where it is
the regular thing for the people to fin
ish with this life before they have
reached two score and ten. The aver
age age Of the male potter is forty-six
and one-half years.
The dust does not kill suddenly. but
it settles fear after year a little more
firmly inth the lung, until a case of
plaster islformed: breathing becomes
more and bore difficult and depressed
and finallyeeases. Some processes are
much mor9deadly than others. The
women who scour the china, for in
stance. are opposed to perpetual cloud
of tiny particles of flint dust, the jag
ged edges of which are peculiarly in
furious, and the towers" whose bust
ness it is to put fine surface on the
revolving plate by means of sandpaper,
are exposed = the constant play of the
clay dust. Y these two classes of
workers werd isolated, the death sta
tistics wouldlbe something appalling.
1t is rare hing to find woman
who has work u for any time in either
of these depart ents free from respira-
tory troubles. Put all who deal with
the clay suffer more or less. Taking
the deaths among all classes of male
workers in the potteries, the percent
age caused by phthisis and respirato tory
diseases is three times as great as for
the rest of the adult population. Lead
poison is another of the potter's enc
mics. The glaze which glistens upon
our cups and saucers contains large
quantity of raw white lead and all the
horrors of lead poisoning by the quick
and by the slow method are suffered
by those classes of workers who handle
1t before it is fired.-Fortnightly Re.
view.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
The DiRerence.

Before nlarriage) 80, my darling,
your voice is as musical TO me as a
vesper bell, whose tones fall softly on
the perfumed evening air. Speak again,
beloved for could listen to your voice
till the stars are eXtinguished in ever
lasting night.
after marriage) 81 have had just
about enough of your noise, old wo-
man, and il you don't stop it I'll leave
the house for a week. "-Drake's Maya
zine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
TEMPTATIONS OF FARM LIFE.
How the Appetite for Alcohol Is First
ACQUIRED.

How the Appetite for Alcohol Is First
Acquired.
There is widespread fallacy among
the residents of rural districts that
their children are absolutely safe from
the temptations of the drinking saloon,
and hence, it is not necessary to IN
struct them thoroughly against the
evils of intemperance.
That Gods beautiful country is not
frequently married by the foul blot of
saloons along its wide, smooth roads
and beautiful meadows is a cause for
profound thankfulness; nevertheless,
farm life has its temptations which can
not be ignored.
In the autumn, when the golden and
russell fruit is being garnered into gran
aries and cellars when farm neighbors
work more or less together gathering
in groups now here and now there,
there is always the cider mill with its
deceptive allurements and promises of
gain.
The young man of the family is sent
to the mill with a load of apples and
he meets other young men on the same
errand. They stop for awhile, perhaps
to await an opportunity to unload,
perhaps to gossip over the crops and a
new horse that one of them has pur-
chased. Cider is all about them in
watts, tubs, kegs and barrels in all the
different stages of fermentation. How
easy to take drink every now and
then as they talk.
Now it happens that cider ferments
at . much lower temperature than al
most any other sweet liquid. The
cider-mill is always a fairly warm place
and often the liquid can be seen fer
menting in the tub into which the
juice pours from the iuill The tiny
white bubbles which show that alcohol
is forming gather in groups and rows
about the sides of the tub and can be
seen by any one who pauses to exam
inc. This same sweet cider, still with
the little bubbles in it, is brought to
the cornfield where the huskers are
busy and often put in the cellar to be
used at any time during the autumn
work.
Although the percentage of alcohol
is very small in this new cider, varying
greatly according to the manner in
which it is made and the length of time
it stands. yet there is always u sufii-
Gent quantity to create an appetite for
itself if it is drunk persistently. AS the
winter comes on the cider grows hard
er, that is, more alcohol is formed in it.
yet still it is used as a beverage by
many families.
The craving for alcoholic stimulants
is thus formed unconsciously, while the
boy is still on the farm, to be developed
later when he comes in contact with
stronger drinks or perhaps to be fos-
tered by homemade cider and beer I'M
til it has mastered him.
Another dangerous temptation in
farm life is the strengthening 1t is
then that the neighbors and friends are
gathered together in one place. 1t is
warm weather, the work is arduous
the workers must have something to
drink and in too many places beer is fur
nished by TIE farmer whose sheep are
being sheared. Often young men who
have never used this beverage, drink it
for the first time at & strengthening.
Threshing day and trips TO the mar
kat. Fourth of July and the county
fair have also their temptations to the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
To Keen Ont Flies.

Flies may be used as scavengers, but
we have no use for them in the parlors,
and it is said that they have no use for
sweet clover or the fragrance that
comes from it, SO that few sprays of
this plant, or cluster Of the sweet
tassel-like heads as a bouquet on the
center table will keep them out. Fly
traps probably draw more than they
catch. Foote'S Health Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
AN EXPENSIVE ROADBED.
Mahogany Used as Ties, but Found II,
Costly.


Costly.
1t is not often that one hears of the
employment of mahogany as cross ties
in the construction of a railroad, but
such an occurrence actually came to
pass. In the winter of 1864 a railroad
was in course of construction from
Fort Smith, Ark, to Little Rock. Funds
were low with the promoters of the
enterprise, who finally found them
selves forced to surrender the property
to the creditors. The road, which was
graded part of the way and a portion
of it in readiness to receive the rails,
was purchased by two English CAPT
talists for mere song. Shortly after
making the acquisition the English
buyers set out to make an inspection
of their property.
To their great amazement they dig
covered that the cross ties laid upon
the bed awaiting the rails were hewn
from solid mahogany logs, rare and
costly hard wood. Great ranges of
these ties, of the same material, lined
the grade awaiting to be put down.
The shrewd English purchasers chuck
led with delight on making the dis
covery, and set to work at once to have
the ties conveyed to Little Rock. Those
which had already been laid down
were taken up and added 10 the stock
of the mahogany timber The ties
were forwarded thence to New York,
from which place the timber was
shipped to England and sold. The sales
of the ties alone Melted the spectators
a handsome profit, and in lieu of ma
hogany ties a cheaper wood was sub
stituted by the Englishmen in the sub
sequcnt construction of the road.-N.
o. Times Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
The Force of Habit.

Wife-Good-by, hubby; take good
care Of yourself.
misunderstanding, and write me Q
curtain lecture every once in while;
otherwise | may not be able to so to
,leep.-Texas SiftingS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07

Farmer Plantain--Philo Hay has gone
out Of his mind.
Joblots-You don't say so.'
Farmer Plantain-Plum crazy. Don't
know his neighbours hogs from his
own.-Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07

Friend-Have you dropped any flesh
since you bought bicycle?
Puffer-Gad. / dropped exactly one
hundred and ninety-six pounds the arst
time | straddled it-Truth.