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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
VARIOUS NOTES.

THE consumption of wine in Mines,
France, averages a bottle a day for
every man, woman and child in the
city.
THE average character of boys and
young men in Kansas is said to be much
higher since prohibition of the liquor
traffic than before.
LONDON hospitals are finding less use
for alcohol in medicine; hopeful sign.
At one hospital the amount expended
yearly is reduced eighty-ivs per cent.
in ten years.
THE Leipsic Germany university
clubs have decided to drop the ancient
academical custom of morning beer
drinking on the ground that it inter
feres with work. This from Germany
is indeed news worth telling"
GERMANS are growing dissatisfied
over the enormous consumption of beer
among the Teutons. Our country
men," writes one disguised German,
have drunk during the past year 81
456, 900 literS of beer
AS THE alcohol ingested escapes from
the body in an unaltered state, it can
not, of course, be looked upon as pos
sessing any alimentarv value. Accord
ing to DR.. +. Smith, alcohol does not
increase the production of heat in the
body as a chemical agent, but by the
power it possesses of stimulating the
activity of the vital functions.
THE Westminster Gazette, whose fig
ures are indisputable, gives the proper
ton of drunkenness as one to every
twenty-siX of population in Gothen-
burg. compared to one to every two
hundred and six and one to every four
hundred and six in Cardiff and South
ampton. Surely not a convincing argu-
ment in favor of the Gothenburg syS-
! tenn.
THE minimum penalty for serving
drinks on Sunday ii western Australia
is fifty pounds. A hotel-keeper in Perth,
| the metropolis, was recently mulcted
| in the sum of one hundred and fifty
pounds for illegally refreshing party
of three on the Sabbath, the court re-
fusing to regard the three drinks as
constituting single offense. Another
curious feature of the licensing law in
western Australia is that the licensee
must not absent himself from his house
for more than twentyeight days in the
year, except by special permission ID a
stlpendiary magistrate, a restriction on
personal liberty that has long been the
source of much irritation and indigna-
ton to the trade.
The most conspicuous object in Amer
lean social and political life to-day is
the saloon. What does it stand for in
its relation to our interests as citizens?
Is it an aid or an hindrance to the
benefits which ought 20 accrue from
association together as units in one
cohesive life? There can be but one
answer. The saloon let's loose upon
our land forces which, so far from aid
ing us in the preservation of our in
alienable rights, threaten their total
destruction. The poverty, misery,
crime and desolation of our land may
be traced, in an overwhelmingly large
proportion, directly to that source as
its fountain-head. From those baleful
doors there issues nothing which tends
to the uplift of society, but rather to
its downfall and total disintegration.-
Union Signal.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
GREAT BEER DRINKERS.
Americans Becoming Large Consumers af
the Demoralizing Drink.

Americans Becoming Large Consumers AZ
the Demoralizing Drink.
In Philadelphia last year the beer
consumed aggregated one million eight
hundred thousand barrels. This fact
is conveyed in a newspaper item. 1t is
probably overstated but the fact re-
mains that the Americans are slowly
but surely becoming beer-drinking
people. In Des Moines the cOnsump-
ton of beer in mulct saloons has large
ly taken the place of whisky in prohi-
bition drug store saloons. Nine-tenths
of the liquor sold in Des Moines
to-day is beer. Beer is compare
lively harmless, compared with
whisky. Few men get drunk on
it. 1t is generally taken with a
lunch. But the use of beer
is nevertheless to be regarded with
disfavor. If it does not make
drunk, it Supplies. 1t coarsens, and
even brutalizes, if long continued.
And the worst feature of it all is that
we have not beer as drank by the Ger
mans from the time before Tacitus
lived and wrote, but an adulterated
article. At the Worlds fair tests it
was shown that modern beer is
chemical product, inste d of a bever-
age brewed of barley and hops. The
young man who begins the daily con-
sumption of beer must bravely stare
in the face increasing adipose tissue
and increasing coarseness, physically,
mentally and morally, These facts we
regard as the best temperance lectures
that can be embodied in words against
beer. Iowa State Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
RUINED BY EXAMPLE.
Young Men Led to Drinking Through See.
ing Their Elders Do 1t.

The great moral force of Satolli's
support of Bishop Watterson's stand
against allowing men concerned in the
liquor traffic to become members of
Catholic societies will do much to make
their employment disreputable in the
eyes of all good Catholics. And it
leads us to remark upon the terrible
force of example in fostering the drink
habit. SO long as wines and liquors
are allowed on the tables of fashion
able people, so long will there be
drunkards admitted into good society.
SO long as fathers or employees indulge
in the vice of drunkenness, so long
will their sons and younger employees
be in great danger of adopting the
drink habit.
Nothing is more true than that the
habit of drinking in an older work
man, or in foreman, or in an en-
ployer. may bring down to the mire of
drunkenness and poverty many of the
younger employees. The genteel tip
ping of the merchant is a danger to
his clerks. The sparkling wine upon
the table of the lady who is leader OF
the town may work ruin to hundreds.
Is there not in all these things lesson
for US all to learn? 1t will not do t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
THIS MODEL WASN'T TIRED.
She Had an Extremely Trying Pose. But
1t Didn't Matter at AL.


Good artists models are unusually
plentiful this summer, and the studios
OF the better-knOwn painters are
Hooded with applicants who want to
pose. majority of these are not pro-
feSsional models, but theatrical people,
who, being stranded in the city for the
| season, which is an unprecedented one
in the theatrical annals for dullness,
and being short of money, are very
glad to pick up few dollars in the
studio. Artists are always glad to get
this kind of models for the stage peo-
pie not only pose well and with great
patience, but there is found among
them, 50 painters say, a greater variety
| of peculiar types of faces and figures
| than in any other profession. In the
| matter Of peculiar and unusual mus
cular development especially, the
''knocllabout" actors and variety per-
formers are valuable The women,
however, have not the courage of their
convictions, as have the professional
models, and decline in almost all cases
to pose for the altogether"
The most remarkable thing about
these theatrical posers is the ease with
which they assume difficult attitudes
| and the patience with which they pre-
| serve them. A well-known painter re-
Gently employed young woman who
has been a variety actress since her
early childhood to pose for him, and
| set the model in an extremely difficult
| position He made things as easy as
| possible for her by arranging a rest for
her head. aud every few moments he
| would stop and tell her she could rest.
| TO this the invariable response would
| be:
20, I'm not tired. Go right ahead.
| Never mind me-"
| He would insist, however, on her
| resting. One day, determined to test
| her endurance. he painted steadily for
nearly half an hour, purposely omit
ting to offer her a chance to rest, and
| presently, in his interest in the work,
forgot all about the pos sible discom-
| fort of the girl. When he finally did
think of her it was with start of self
condemnation as he saw by his watch
that the patient model had held that
trying pose for more than an hour.
I'm through for to-da y, Stella" he
said to her Il forgot all about you.
You must be awfully cramped."
No answer or movement from the
model
BY Jove! She must have tainted"
said the painter. What careless
beast | am"
He went over and lifted the girl, who
stirred, looked around in a puzzled
way, stretched h erself and said:
| What? What time is it? Did you
call me? o, guess must have fallen
asleep"
II ow on earth came you asleep all
twisted awry like that?" inquired the
amazed artist.
That's nothing" returned Stella.
smiling, 81 did contortion act for
three years and that pose is a soft
| thing for me- N. Y Sun
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
WAITlN' AT THE DOOR,

I've had lot O. blessin's IN my time, but never
knowed
The pleasure Of enioyin' every violet TIA.
growcd,
An every streak o sunshine, beamin' brighter
evermore,
It'll Mandy went to meetin' an waited at the
door!
ia been a-lovin Mandy almost too long to tell;
l only know twas nat'ral, an She seemed to
like it WE'LL
But there come little GOODNESS an we hadn't
spoke before
That day she went to meetin an waited at
the door.
Two weeks-or three's more lil5e-we'd kinder
walked apart,
With her a-tossin Of her head an hidin' Of her
heart;
An I warn't first fer speakin', being proud as
well as poor,
Till that day she went to meetin an waited
at the door.
don't know why waited, fer thought the
sermOnt long,
An it did seem like the chord never finish up
a song!
An 1t 'peared like all the village knowed my
heart was feelin' sore,
An that Mandy was in meetin' an me hangin'
roun the door,
But waited-couldnt help it-in a state o
hope an doubt,
Till heard EN- sing "Old Hundred" an they
come a-trompin' out;
An here come Mandy, cryin'i Never seen her
so before,
Fer you sec, she'd got religion while waited
at the door!
She run to meet me! Mandy" an she an
swercd, weepin': John"
An We stopped behind little, while the rest
went waikiki on;
But didn't know that minute-aIl my senses
in the lurch-
II the church was on the steeple, or the steeple
on the church
80 John I've been so tria!n', but a better life
I'll live;
It was sweet in you to love me, an it's sweeter
to forgive!"
But I couldn't speak for chokin', till I said
three times or four
ats me that needs forgiveness. out here wait
in by the door"
Well! VIC went home in the sunshine-happy,
happy on the way;
An took an left ten dollars at the preachers
house that day;
An would ha made 1t twenty, an kept run
min up the score,
Fer the love that como to meet me fer that
waitin at the door.
Frank l. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20

las you will do if you use brass wlre),
but in case of stout steel wire it may
be better to heat it dull red, and
the required size. You can get the re-
quired turn with pair of pincers, or
by any other means your ingenuity
may suggest.
One reason why prefer steel wire is
that you can nicely burnish the links,
either with emery powder or by sim
ply rubbing between the hands. If you
happen to have lathe and furnishing
wheel, why, there you are.
Another reason-and an important
one-is that the steel link can be made
of finer wire than | have given, and
still retain the required stiffness neces-
sary to prevent them being forced to-
gether, in fact, no force is required at
all.
l must now call your attention to
some important points, unless you OBJ
serve which you will fail TO gain the
desired end. First, take par tticiilar no.
tice that the ends A and b overlap the
bends from which spring the straight
ends. Though not shown in the illus
tration, it must be distinctly under
stood that the ends A and B do not
touch the bends, there being a space
between them almost the width of the
wire.
You may now proceed to put the puz-
zle together. If you carefully study
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20

Fig. ? you will easily succeed; nov,
however, if you have A and b too close
to their respective bends. Also, if you
have too much space the links will
fall" together. What you wan is to
so regulate this space that you-know-
ing how it's done"-have difficulty to
accomplish the feat. 1t will then test
your friends ingenuity before they
succeed.
To take the links apart again-well,
suppose yoa exercise your ingenuity
Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
RELIGION OF THE PERsIANs.
1t Is Rather Mixed and of the Unreliable
Sort. I


Sort. \
In Persia the population is mainly
Aryan-Iranian-w some infusion of
and just as the Persian language has
been infused with many Arab words,
while retaining its own grammar and
vocabulary derived from the ancient
speech. so Islam has been engrafted on
a people who have never quite forgot
ten their ancient national beliefs. and
who have refused to abandon their
earlier customs.
Among Persians of the middle class
there are many devout Moslems, though
their beliefs are not those of the ma
jority in Islam. The upper class is
often openly intidel; and infdel litera-
ture-especially poetry-circulates I'M
checked, while European education (of
French origin, especially,) is diffused
among the higher officials. The der
wishes are disliked and despised, though
treated with respect in public. The
Mullahs or mosque scholars are re-
ported to be hypocritical. and are very
often skeptics at heart. The crueltieS
per III Jllc udIuc VI JUSTICE are
often barbarous in the extreme. The
Jews are prosecuted. The dirty and
drunken Armenians of the north are
only protected by European influence.
The Persians are a pleasure-loving
people. and the morality of the towns
is bad. Intrigues are common among
married women and secret poisoning is
the result. Gambling and card play
ing, though discoun by the
| respectable classes, are as common as
drinking, and even Mullahs drink wine
when it can be secretly obtained. The
persecution of the Babis was, perhaps,
mainly due to their attempt on the life
| of the shah. but even descendants of
the prophet were put to death and
their property seized when they were
klown to be followers of the Bah. On
the other hand, no punishment falls on
such as profess philosophic skepticism,
and the turban is often discarded by
Persian MoSlems in favor of the older
! national headdress, without reproof
SuperstitionS are rife among the
lower classes; hands and charms and
| amulets are worn to ward off the evil
eye. Spells are sold against disease,
and auguries are taken at the tomb of
lIatiz by the same people who strictly
| observe the great feast of Ramadan.
and who mourn the death of HoSein.-
Scottish Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20

Difficult to Translate,

1t was the duchess Of Gordon, clev-
er and beautiful Scotch woman, who
successfully dumfounded pretentious
dandy. He was beside her at a supper
party, and in order to gain her good
grnces, affected liking for the Scot
fish tongue, declaring there was not
Scottish phrase he did not understand.
"Rax me u sprawl o that hubby
jock" replied the duchess, without
changing a muscle Of her face.
The exquisite looked appalled,, and
then skunk away In confusion, while
the commission was performed by 3
cavalier hailing from the north of the
Tweed She wanted turkey-winC.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
The Difference In Voices,

Ones surprise at the fact that no two
persons voices are perfectly alike
ceases when one is informed by an
authority on the subject that, though
there are only nine perfect tones in The
human voice, there are the astounding
number of 1882, 1856, O44,41 different
sounds. Of these fourteen direct mus
cles produce 1888, and 80 indirect mus
cles produce 173, TAI 1923, while all in Co
operation produce tho total giveD
above
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
He Wasn't at All Gratified.

"They say a woman can't keep a
,ecret.' she said to her lover, who had
un down from the city for day to
zee her at the beach.
But you can, my darling" he said,
,enderly.
"You bet" she laughed: 81 have been
lera "a whole week and none of the
7oung men know yet that | am en-
RACED N. Y. Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
An Unfounded CIaim.

Cumso-Snooper makes the ridiculous
:!sim that he has assigned for the
benefit of his creditors.
Fangle-Well?
Cumso-Then he goes on to sag that
hey will get about nine cents on tho
iollar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
TOUCH NOT THE WINE.

TOUCH NOT THE WINE.
Children, do you see the wine
In the crystal goblet shine?
Be not tempted by its charm
Children, hate it!
Touch it never,
Fight it ever.
Do you know what cauSeth woe
Bitter as the heart can know?
'TiS that Self-Same ruby wine
Which would tempt that soul Of thine.
Children. hate it!
Touch it never,
Fight it ever.
Never let it pass your lips,
Never even let the tips
OF your fingers touch the bowl;
Hate it from your inmoSt soul
Truly hate it!
Touch it never,
Fight it ever.
Fight it. With Gods help stand fast
Long as life or breath snail last,
Heart meet heart and hand Join hand,
Hurl the demon from our land.
Oh, then hate it,
Touch it never,
Fight it ever
Union Signal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20
CLEVER LINK PUZZLE.
If You Follow These Instructions You Co
Make One Yourself.

Make One YOURSELF.
The puzzle is simply of construction.
To succeed, however, you must pay
careful attention to my instructions:
You require two pieces of steel wire
Tor brass, if you prefer 4 of an inch
thick and Pa inches long. Carefully
round the ends with file, or by rub
bing them on piece of tile or brick.
Bend the wire to the shape of A and
B respectively Fig. l. If you use steel
wire you can bend it to shape cold
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20

SMART LITTLE GIRL.
Fannie Erdofy Knows n Language for
Every Year of Her Age.

Little Fannie Erdofy is only four
years old, but she is one Of the most
accomplished young ladies in New
York. She speaks four languages
huently, and her father promises to
teach her two more before she reaches
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-20

TWIN brothers may bs eccentric, but thsy
are never odd.
The evening world., 1894-06-21
THE ELMIRA HORROR AGAIN.

The Elmlra Reformatory Commission
has resumed taking testimony at Elmira.
At yesterdays session Miss Julia 8.
Hoag. a clerk In the State Board of
Charities, gave evidence as to the result
Of her examination Of certain transcripts
of Reformatory records during the pre-
vlous investigation, from which 1t ap-
peared that the padding discipline under
Brockway had shown a steady and large
Increase. The total number Of victims
Of the bathroom torture in 1889 had been
26l. These had increased In 1898 to 6sl,
and each succeeding year had swelled
the list.
Among the most revolving features
of the inquiry yet developed are the
stories told by Inmates OF the institution,
upon whom punishment was inflicted for
having testified before the Board OF
State Charities on the first trial. What
will the people him Of a Governor by
whose action 1t was placed In the brutal
superintendent power to thus visit his
vengeance on victims who had only
obeyed the law In giving testimony
against him? A Governor whose politi-
cal interest still arms such a monster
with authority over the prisoners who
testify to-day?
The evening world., 1894-06-21
FLOODING AND PRoDDING.

The sta witness before the Lexow
Committee yesterday was old Harry
Hill, the w~ell-known dance-house keeper.
who did business for so many years in
the close vicinity OF Police Headquarters
and under the eyes, II not literally
under the wing, of the force, from Com
missioner down to patrolman.
The witness related to the Committee,
whose country members may possibly
not have heard the story years ago. all
about his establishment on Houston
street n his quarrel with Capt. Muir
ply, growing out of Harry's disinclina-
ton to give up" to the police at the
rate OF eight hundred dollars at a time.
The evidence served to show thai the
practice of matchmaking illegal resorts,
of paying for police protection of
putting up for police appointments
n captains positions is an old IL no
an honored one. and was as general In
Harry Hills palmiest days as It is to-
day.
The Committee obtained the attend.
ance of some representatives of the bet
ter, or worse. class OF disorderly houses
In the uptown districts. But unfortu.
nately the witnesses corralled were only
the housekeepers OF the establishments
n not the %proprietors, the latter hav.
Ing taken Grand Prix trips to Europe OF
disappeared in the recesses OF the rura'
districts. Hence the testimony was not
as direct as II might have been, al
though 1t went to confirm the stories Of
police blackmail and protection.
The evening world., 1894-06-21
COL. SEWARD'S TRIAL TO-DAY
To he Court-Ma rtinlled for Refus-
Ing to Parade When Ordered.

The court-martial of Col. William
Seward, Of the Ninth Regiment, who is
charged with disobedience of orders,
will be begun this evening. 1t has ex-
cited a vast amount of interest In mill
tary circles.
The officers who compose the tribunal
which Is to pass judgment upon Col
Seward are Brig.-Gen. Peter c. Doyle,
of the Fourth Brigade: Coils. David f.
Austen, of the Thirteenth Regiment:
John q. Eddy. of the Forty-seventh
Regiment: Alexis c. Smith. of the
T%wenty-third Regiment, and Lieut.-Col.
Wallace A. Downs, Of the Seventy-frst
Regiment. Major Henry 8. Van Duzer,
Judge-Advocate of the First Brigade,
will be prosecuting officer, and Col.
Seward will be represented by Gen.
Martin T.. Mcmahon, eX-Lieut.-Col:
James A. Dennison, of the Seventy-frst
Regiment, and George A. Clement. as
counsel.
The charges preferred by Brig. Gen.
Louis Fitzgerald, as specified In the
complaint, set forth that Col. Seward
refused to parade his regiment at Van
Cortlandt Par when ordered to do SC
by his superior officer.
There was a rulnor yesterday to the
effect that Gen. Fitzgerald had resigned
from the National Guard, but he denies
the story very emphatically.
The evening world., 1894-06-21

The bones Of a living being are pink
In childhood, rose color at maturity,
and. as vitality weakens, they pale to
n yellowish white. AS the bones of the
child contain more animal than mineral
matter, they are easily bent and mis-
shapen. Babies taught to walk before
their bones are strong enough to sup
port the weight of the body are apt to
have bad legs the rest of their lives.
1t Is natural for man to walk, and the
wise nurse will let the child walk on his
hands until he is ready to use his feet.
1t is much better hat he should creep
until he is five years old than walk at
eighteen months and have bow-legs for
sixty years. Fruits contain some min
erals which other foods lack. The acids
and fine seeds aid digestion, the flavor
is agreeable to the palate and the salts
and sugar are used by the system in
building UP the structure.
The evening world., 1894-06-21
ANTIQUATED oBsrRUCTIoNs.

Mr., Henry Labouchere spoke unadul-
terated truth at the anti-Lords meeting
at Leeds. England. yesterday, when he
said that self-government was a farce SO
long as hereditary legislators existed.
The resolutions adopted by the meet
ing were moderate in tone. Mr.. Labou-
chere's amendment declaring for the alb
solute adjustment of the House OF
Lords was voted down. and the meeting
advocated the abolition OF the veto
power Of h Peers by providing that
when a bill passed by the Commons
shall be altered or rejected by the Lords
1t shall be returned to the Commons,
nj II reafirmed by that body. with or
without the amendments or alterations,
IL shall become a law, subject to the
royal assent. This would be treating
the action Of the Upper House much as
a Presidents or a Governors veto is
treated here. II suggests a good way
out Of the English trouble.