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Arizona republican., 1893-02-04
WAS 1T THE MT. WASHINGTON LIGHT
IT So It Was Visible at Sea More Than |
Eight Hundred Miles Distant.

IT So 1t Was Visible at Sea More Than
Eight Hundred Miles Distant.
A possible explanation Of the curious
lights seen in the sky at sea by Captain
Findlay, of the steamship Missouri has
boon offered The publication Of the
carious phenomena created much inter-
ost. What the captain saw was this:
On the evening of Aug. Is, between 8
and 10 o'clock, the ship was in latitude
As degs 81 min, longitude SO dogs. 80
min, when there appeared brightp patch
in the sky 2 about 10 dogs. altitude, APP
pearIg and disappearing at intervals of
about thirty seconds, and bearing east
half south from the ship. In character
it resembled closely the northern lights,
and later in the evening the same phe-
nomenon appeared in the west south
west. On the 18th, in latitude 40 degs.
50 min., longitude 6S dogs. So min., the
phenomenon was again seen in the
northwest at an altitude OF about 80
degs and remained visible from 1850
until ll:l5 p m.
Lewis II. Rogers, Of Boston, gives the
following interesting explanation of the
lights:
There is large search light on
Mount Washington, which was started
up on the night of Aug. IL. The nights
of Aug 10 and II were clear, and the
light was running and being flashed
around the heavens between and | 80
o'clock. There is an attachment to the
apparatus by which the beam of light is
shut off and on at will, thus enabling
the operator to make long and short
flashes of light, by which method tine
Morse or any other understood alphabet
is produced.
On the night of Aug. II we had the
light pointed about 4j dogs. over Port
land for some time. The words Con
gratnlations,' Mount Washington"
Good night" were flashed and read by
an operator on the top of a building in
Portland, Me- He was not in line of
vision with the light, and the beam was
far over his head This beam of light
would continue eastward almost indef-
nitcly until itsuuck some cloud or mist
in the heavens. Thus the light, or the
reflection of the light, might have at diff
fcrent times appeared to the east. south
or north Of IN observer on the ocean.
To my mind, therefore, it is an almost
assured fact that the light seen by Cap
tain Findlay, of the steamship Missouri
cmanated from the search light pro-
jector, thirty inches in diameter. located
on the top Of tie tower on the summit
of Mount Washington. Philadelphia
prpsg
Arizona republican., 1893-02-04
A Bit of Bangor Property,

There is one piece Of real estate in
Maine which is entailed so far as such
property can be in this country. 1t is
known as Dundee, and is situated in
the town of Limington. In 1903 Francis
Small bought it with other lands from
the Indians, the original deed being Yet
preserved in the family. Having de-
Rcended from father to son fUr several
generations, Humphrey Small purchased
small section of his fathers land,
which he named Dundee, and he stout
ly affirmed that Dundee should remain
in the ownership Of the Smalls forever,
and that it should be allowed to become
a forest again. Twice he was offered
more than double its value, but although
hard pressed for money be remained true
TO his declaration.
On the 2Sth of November this proper
ty will have been in possession Of the
family 224 years, and to commemorate
this and also to celebrate the centennial
of Limington, which was organized jim
1893, the family had a reunion and pic
nic recently. Next year they propose
to celebrate their 225th anniversary with
a larger gathering, to include all of the
Small family that can be gathered to-
gether. Bangor Wing and Courier.
Arizona republican., 1893-02-04

1t seems odd to think of missionaries
going to Scotland, the home of the
Covenanters, to convert the savage in
habitants to Christianity. At Anwoth,
in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, there was found
a few days ago one of the old hillside
crosses set up by the early missionaries
who went to the lowlands from Iona,
or Ireland, to mark the spots where they
first preached Christ to the heather
Scots. This interesting cross is of red
sandstone, As inches long, Az inches
across the widest part, and 4 inches
thick. Its arms are 20 inches in length,
or were, for one is broken off. Rude in
scriptions are carved on the cross.-Lon-
don etter
Arizona republican., 1893-02-04
Do Not Desire a Monument.

The Longfellow Memorial garden in
Cambridge Goes not attract many Wis
itors, and there is talk of putting up
some monument there to draw the at
tention of strangers, so that they may
understand its purpose. The committee
in charge wish to put up a statue of
Longfellow, or some monument with re-
hefs illustrating his works, but the
Longfellow family does not approve Of
this idea, preferring to let the garden,
which is the open lot opposite the Long
fellow mansion, remain unmarked.
Arizona republican., 1893-02-04
Run by Iiuuid Fuel,

An engine fitted with liquid fuel has
been running on the Great Eastern rail
way, England-one of a class of ten
similar express engines-and, as COM
pared with the other nine engines doing
the same round of duty, is reported as
doing efficient service-that is, the oil
burner has consumed about one-third
the weight of coal per mile and about
as much oil as coal in weight, her total
fuel being thus about two-thirds by
weight what it would be if all coal, and
and practically giving an efficiency of
double its weight of coal.-New York
SIM
Arizona republican., 1893-02-04
A Nine Cent English stamn.

A new stamp is to be issued in Great
Britain of the valuo of fourpence half
penny-nine cents-to be available for
all postal, Geographic and revenue pur-
poses. 1t will be the first stamp issued
of this value, and its issuance is called
for by the new features of telegraph and
parcel post business.
Arizona republican., 1893-02-04
A Bad Color for One Family.

Edmund Russell, of Delsartean tend
encies, loves red, but warns people
against too free use of it. IL know d
house" he says, with a red room that
gives the whole family the color of raw
beef. They are rather highly complex
ipnod people-high livers probably-and
Abe strong red of the walls brings out the
Arong reds of their cheeks so that they
ieok like butchers. New York Time.
Arizona republican., 1893-02-04
U. s. MAIL And STAGE LINE.

Passengers from Globe, San Carlos, For1
Thomas and all points below will please take
the stage at solomonville for Duncan on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays at O'Clock a. m
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20

period Of bloom can be greatly length.
ened by picking the flowers as soon as
they begin to fade. The pods, though
smaller, resemble those of the culti-
waited pea, and the seeds have much the
same flavor
Vicia Americana is one of the native
food plants of the large, brilliant
western species of blister beetle,
known to science as Cantharis Nut.
tall. Whole patches of wild peas
are denuded by these insects. Un.
fortunately they have also acquired
a taste for cultivated beans, and as soon
as wild peas begin TO get hard the
beetles turn their whole attention to
the gardens and bean patches, where,
on account of their large size and inn
mense numbers, they make sad havoc.
This is only another instance of a
change in the food habits of an insect
by which it discards the plants which
afforded subsistence to it's ancestors,
to become an enemy to the tender and
more nutritious cultivated species.
There are at least fifteen species OF
Vicia native to the United States, be-
sides the two species naturalized from
Europe. These latter are the troub BILE
some weeds found in grain fields and
known by the common name of vetcb
or tares. Prairie Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
THEORIES AND REMEDIES.
Education as a Means of Keeping Men
From Drink.

He was beardless youth, and he was
not. even working against intemper-
aace. but he stated its remedy author
itatively like most neophytes, You
must change the diet of the people" as
if that would be easier than to change
the drink habit. Others have their one
remedy which they state with the same
confidence. One says make wine and
beer plenty and cheap so. that they will
take the place of brandy and whisky.
Another says doctor the drunkards,
while Others prescribe education or re-
ligion, or amusements, or the ballot, or
civilization. All these theorists pro-
coed on the assumption that there is
some one remedy which will certainly
prove etficacious. They seem to forget
that man is complex creature, and
that therefore the remedies for intern
perance may need to be not one alone
but many.
Suppose we examine some of these
theories. 1t is urged by many that
education" using the term as popu
larly accepted, does not prove an effec-
tive remedy because educated men
there are still many drunkards in ma
tions having the best methods of popu-
lar education. But how is it with ma
tions that have no education? They
go down in the presence of abundant in
toxic;,nts like dry grass before prairie
fires. We need only specify the North
Amer lean Indians. the Sandwich
Islanders, the Australians and the
Africans. When his wiser neighbors or
the missionaries try to reason with the
savage he replies: Me want gin! Me
like it. Makes um feel good" He
know little about the vital organs and
the necessity of their normal action to
his life and well-being; and still less of
the injury dOEe them by the, coveted
cir
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
THE FETTERs OF DRINK.
A Duty That Devolvcs Upon Every &C
Citizen.


A Duty That Devolvcs Upon Every Good
Citizen.
Archdeacon Farrar, speaking recently
in the Royal Victim hall, London,
said:
"For every victim of the slave trade
there We're thousand who were bound
in the strong letters of drink. When
ever any effort was made to redress a
wrong, to remove curse, or fight
against an evil, the forces of the world,
the flesh and the devil put on their ut
most possible strength, and by lies and
sophistry and bribery tried to check
the efforts for good. And this being so,
all those who desired the good of their
country must, in this instance, rally
their forces and amalgamate in every
possible way to combat this unscrupul-
Gus antagonism. If any man desired to
act as good citizen, and was only con-
WINGED that there was in the midst of
US a burning evil it was his duty as a
man and Christian to fight to his ut
most against this terrible evil. If there
were any who had not seen the evil
if that were possible-there were
only two ways to be convinced
one by the evidence of competent
witnesses, and the second by the evil
dence of indisputable facts. In both of
these branches they had proof which
was utterly unlimited. 1t came from ev-
cry age. and rank, and cline, and every
century since time was, since man APP
peared on the surface of the earth. In
our own country, looking at that alone,
we had the evidence of all the judges,
of all the philanthropists, of all the
poets, of all serious writers, of all the
clergy. and of all persons who had at
heart the good of their country, from
the highest rank to the lowest, down
to the humblest honest policeman who
walked the streets, or the humblest
missionary who visited the homes of
the poor. They had the evidence of the
archbishop of Canterbury, who stated
that until the work of temperance re-
form was done no other work of the
church would be .etfectually carried on.
They had the evidence of the great
est man in the world, Mr.. Glad
stone. whom in March, 1850, he
heard utter these memorable words
words that sent a perceptible thrill
through the house of commons: The
evils produced by drink are worse, be-
cause more continuous, than those pro-
duced by the great historic scourges of
war, famine and pestilence combined"
At time when they had the claims of
the unemployed constantly before them
= it was well to remember what the earl
of Sllaftesbury had said-and he rec
commended these words to all meetings
of the unemployed; 1T is absolutely
impossible to do anything permanently
or considerably to relieve the poverty
until we get rid of the curse of drink.
The one solution of the social problem
lies IN the hands of the working classes
2. themselves. They may uplift them
selves into plenty and happiness out of
, their presctt position if as class they
will get rid of what drags them down
For any nation to neglect the warnings
of such men was worse than ignorance
was worse than folly. "-National
Temperance Advocate
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
We need not only spnsral education.

, We need not emily g9heral education.
but a physiological education. True,
the doctors have that, and they some
times become drunkards, but then they
are educated to believe that there are
many virtues in alcohol. Our school
physiologies do not or ought not to
teach this They should teach that
alcohol is a poison to the nerves that
feel and to the brain that judges,
and therefore, that we can not judge
correctly by our feelings about the eff
fects of alcohol We may know like
the savage that it makes us''feel good"
but our education should teach us that
it hurts us every time we take it. .
Here we bring in the religious or con-
scientious element. We will not pur-
chase this good feeling at the expense
of such grave injury. We will be brave
to bear pain, we will be jealous of any
injury from intoxicants to the high
gifts with which we are endowed, this
brain and these nerves with which we
are able to learn about God, and
through the right use of which we
serve Him.
Here then is work for the teacher,
the minister, the physician and the
parent. The children must be taught
and trained so that they will never
come under the fascination of intoxi-
cants This will soon break the link
of heredity. save the individual and
provide workers. This is putting edu-
cation with religion, and we must see
that social and other helps are added.
Science and Christianity working
thus together on this soil of freedom,
have generated the modern temperance
movement which we hope will bring its
delightful fruits to perfection here as
well as in other lands. We conclude,
then, that we need not only one remedy
alone, but many, and the joining of
wise hearts and earnest hands in their
nistration.-National Temperance
Advnoafa
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
NOTES BY THE WAY.

GREAT BRITAIN's drink bill is attract
ing worldwide attention. -.3
IT is said that forty=ive thousand
scholars from the Sunday-schools of the
old country drift into intemperance ev-
cry year.
LAST year, New York city paid four
million dollars for schooling, seven mil
lion dollars for amusements, and sixty
million dollars for drink. - '.'.
GoUT is largely caused by the intro
duction of stout as "A beverage. 1t is
also stated that from fifty to seventy
five per cent. of the cases are heredi-
tary.
Four hundred thousand men are re-
ported as under the influence of the
railway mission, where they are being
taught the principles of total absti-
hence. ..
ALCOHOLIC insanity is twice as COM
mon in France now as fifteen years
ago, and the number of persons placed
under restraint on account of it has in
creased twenty-five per cent. in the last
three years.
THE Grand Army Mission is doing an
excellent work. under the pension bu-
reau, in shielding old soldiers from the
saloon sharks of the vicinity. when re-
ceiving their pension checks and the
money therefor.
THE ruler of Benares in India is con-
Quoting a great temperance work
among his people. He is an enthusiast
81
ance addresses to the thousands of pill
grims who flock to the holy city are
very remarkable in effect.
In the catalogue of harmful habits
there is nothing more merciless in its
grip as the drink habit, and therein is
the terrible wrong of enticing young
men to adopt it by the deceptive soph
istry of moderation" Is this state
ment extravaganza? We answer: Think
of those eighty thousand youths annu-
ally sent to drunkards graves, most of
them led thereto by deceptive repre-
sensations. and then, if your conscience
will allow you to condemn us, we will
listen to your argument.
A PLACARD has been ordered by the
Belgium government to be hung in ev-
cry school-room. 1t reads as follows:
''Of one hundred and twenty-five thou
sand deaths, as many as twenty-five
thousand, or one-fifth, are the result of
alcoholism. In a period, during which
the population has increased by four
teen per cent, the consumption of al
cohol has been augmented by thirty
seven per cent, cases Of madness by
forty-fve per cent, crimes by seventy
four per cent, suicides by eighty per
cent, and Migrants and beggars by one
hundred and ffty-six per cent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
AN APPALLING RECORD.
The Awful Prevalence of the Drink Habi
In Large Cities.

In Large Cities.
There is, at first, something very APP
palling in the record of the drink con-
sumed. in large cities. For instance.
the statement was lately put forward
at the London Mansion House that the
city of London drank every year 45, 000,
600 gallons of malt liquor, 5000, 600 gal
Ions of wine and 100000 gallons of
spirits The announcement startled
the public until an optimist mathema-
tician brought a little arithmetic to
bear on the figures and forthwith al
tered their significance. He found that
London has population of close
upon 5000, 900. About 2,000.00 of these
are children, who, for the purpose of
argument, may be classed as taking no
alcohol at all, Also, for the purpose of
argument it may be assumed that of
the remaining 1000 900 100000 are to-
tai abstainers, leaving the drinkers of
the city numbered at 1000, 600. This
would give an average annual consump-
ton per head of twenty-five and a half
gallons of malt liquor, four gallons of
wine and two and quarter gallons of
spirits. Twenty-Five and half gallons
a year is almost exactly half pint
a day: four gallons year would be
very small wineglass daily; two and
one-quarter gallons a year would bare
ly suffice to fill the smallest liquor glass
3G5 times So that the inquiring stat
istician reached the conclusion that the
terrible drink bill of London resolved
itself into the fact that the average
Londoner takes one glass of beer with
his dinner, and a very small glass of
wine after it, and that before he goes
to bed he takes the meerest toothful of
whisky, or some other spirit, as night
cap.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
TEXAS TO THE FRONT.
The Excellent Road Law Passed by the
Lone star Legislature.

The Excellent Road Law Passed by the
Lone star Legislature.
The agitation begun some time age
for the construction of country roads
that will be passable at all seasons OF
the year is not to be allowed to die out
without having produced any practical
results. 1t is now bearing &uit in some
sections of the country where the need
of good roads has been most severely
felt. The Legislature Of Texas, which
has recently adjourned, passed an act
for the beginning of the work of road
construction in the state which, If 1t
should prove effectual in its working
will doubtless be given wider scope at
subsequent sessions of the lawmaking
assembly until its provisions are wide
enough to embrace every portion of the
state and furnish good roads in all di.
rections
AS yet the law applies only to .coun.
ties that contain cities and towns Of
considerable Importance, probably be.
cause the imposition of tax suffi cient
to meet the expense of the construction
would be more than the sparse popula-
ZION III Quiet COuuJiCo COulu 10y
the act passed the counties are author
lied to issue bonds for read construc-
ton. The amount of these bonds is to
be governed by the assessed valuation
of the property IN the county issuing
the paper No larger amount may be
issued than tax of fifteen mills on the
assessed valuation. The bonds may not
be redeemable in less than ten or ren
more than forty years, and they may
not be sold at less than their par value.
Care is taken in the law to provide
safeguards for the proper expenditure
of the money Money thus raised may
not be expended for any other purpose
than the construction of roads and
bridges. These must be built under
the supervision of a competent engi-
neer and after proper survey has been
made for them. They are to be built
in a substantial and permanent way Sc
that they will be passable at all sea.
sons of the year and in such a way that
they will be easily kept in proper re-
pair. Should the act be administered
in the spirit in which it has been
passed, it is probable that Texas will
soon be ahead of most of the other
western states in regard to good coun-
try roads.-Chicago Evening Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
FARM AND GARDEN.
rrHe ,vIctA AMERICANA.
Some Interesting Information Abcufs -
t-. ni. Wild Pea Vine.'' "a

Some Interesting Information About stne
lees ni. Wild Pea vine.'' 90 -
American vetch, or wild pea vine
grows commonly on the prairies @
Minnesota, South Dakota and vest
ward. 1t is very pretty little plant
from one to three feet in height, sup
porting it's slender form by clinglng
to the surrounding verdure with its
delicate clasping leaf-tendrils, the
flowers are beautiful, of a brililane
blue or purplish color, and, We're tne
plant less common, it would be an &C
QUESTION in any flower garden. Few
flowers can be arran ged in such man
ner as to make a handsomer bouquef
than these wild pea vines and blossoms.
Where the land has been broken and
lies idle year these little plants spring
up in great profusion and nearly
through the months of May and June
create lovely natural flower garden,
spreading a rich mantle of blue over
the brown earth. When cultivated the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
ONlM,

Free from all care in his boyish play,
A face as the sunlight, cheering and gay;
The pride of mother whose arms enrwine-- d.
Only sip of his fathers wine.
A growing knowledge with maphood's strength,
mind far-reaching in wisdom's length;
Asmile for the merry, for the grieving tear
Only glass OF the foaming beer.
Shining in circles Of mirth and song,
Above of the right and hatred OF wrong;
A friend TO be sought for whose friendship Is
gain
Only a toast in the bright champagne.
In the manly face line Of care,
Some silver threads in the dark brown hair1
A cloud on the brow, in the eye, alas
Only an occasional social glass.
A figure bent in the noon of life,
A weeping mother, pleading wife,
weakened BRAIN and a mind grown numb
Only drink Of the fiery rum.
A squalid room in an attic high,
A pain-wrought moan. pitiful cry;
bundle Of rags meath the rafters gloom
Only a dying drunkard's home.
A coffin of pine unfinished and rude,
A widowed mother with starving brood;
lonely ride DER the rafting pave
Only pauper's nameless grave.
Charles Eugene Banks, in Banner OF Gold.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-20
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
IN the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feyers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with. the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in Soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.