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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

The directors differed greatly In their
methods of counting. Some of them
performed the duty as carefully and
conscientiously as the most accurate
and loyal of employees. Others con-
tented themselves with merely watch
ing the clerks who sat opposite them
as they went through the labor for the
execution of which the directors
pocketed at the close of the ses-
sion each a bright ten-dollar gold
piece. Mr.. Hampden was notably in
different to all that transplred. Mr..
Stanhope, on the contrary, seemed to
feel conscientious scruples as to shift
ing the whole burden upon other
shoulders, and counted zealeusly.
Mr.. French, the clerk who had been
detailed to assist Mr.. Stanhope, was
a novice at the business. Bright, am
billions, conscientious, and extremely
sensitive, this young man desired to
excel in everything he undertook and
felt keenly every shortcoming, real or
imaginary. His first experience in
security counting was painful to him
self and perhaps somewhat annoying
to others, for Mr.. Stanhope, although
himself no expert, invariably out
stripped him in declaring the tally.
Each package of bonds was ticketed
with statement of number, kind
and denomination. In many cases Mr..
Stanhope divided the packages retain
ing one part for his own counting and
handing the other to the clerk
John Carver's eyes, still fastened
upon the package from which his fate
depended, saw it pass intact from, the
directors hands to those ~ Mr..
French.
The latter rose from his chair, and
bending over the package, dipped his
fingers in the wet sponge beside him
and slowly began to count.
Though no sound escaped the clerks
lips, John Carver's overweight nerves
kept him in fancy pace to pace with
the young mans arithmetical prog
ress through that bundle of crisp Sc
curitics.
"One hundred!' said Mr. Stanhope
quietly az he finished his package, and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

glanced with a comica1 expression of
expectancy at Mr.. French, who was
still struggling with his count.
The young man colored to the roots
of his hair and plunged madly for
ward.
Zone hundred!' he cried, moment
later. He had counted only ninety
nine bonds. but firmly believing that
the contents of the package Tailed ex-
actly with the ticket, and ashamed to
delay the work by his self-acknowl-
edged slowness or stupidity, he caught
at straw, unconscious that in SO do.
ing he had saved a drowning man.
At the sound of "One hundred
from Mr.. Frenchs lips the long-pent-
up emotions of John Carver burst furi-
ously Though all distractions and
flung him staggering against the rail
ing, which he gripped convulsively
with both hands in the tension of d
wise. A dark mist surged before his
eyes-a noise as of thunder was in his
ears, and for an instant he believed
that death had come to relieve him of
all earthly pain. Then slowly the
mists rolled away, the noises dwindled
to the normal sounds of subdued con-
versation, the rustling of papers, the
footballs on velvet carpet and marble
stair. Some one spoke to him com
monplace remark. He answered in
his ordinery voice. But oh! to be
alone-to think in solitude, to realize
the awful chasm across which he had
been lifted by an unhoped-for, I'M
looked-for accident.
To every agony there is an end, in
death or in life. The session was over.
The directors caressed the pretty gold
pieces that represented the pecuniary
ackn owledgment of the value of their
services on this occasion.
One and all shook hands with John
Carver as they passed out, Mr.. Car
rington remarking pleasantly that it
was indeed a sinecure to examine the
integrity of matters over which Mr..
Carver had charge.
The directors gone, the custodian
seated himself at his desk under the
pretense of writing. Thus he awaited
the moment when his staff of clerks
should also have left the premises.
When the echoes of the last footstep
in the outer hall had died away, John
! Carver closed and locked the door At
last the moment had come. At last he
was alone, free to breathe, free to
revel in the glorious sensation of es-
cape from deadly peril.
Yielding to natural impulse, this
honest fclon flung himself upon his
knees, and with hot tears of gratitude
poured forth the long pent-up torrents
of his woe. and built within his CRATE
| full heart fortress of resolves so
strong and lofty that no enemy might
shatter or scale its walls to dispute
possession with the JOY and hope that
reigned wlthin.-N. Y. Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25
Hoods Pills are prompt ana efficient. :
STAMP COLLECTING.
Large Means Required for COmplet
Collection.

COuectlOn
The immense variety of stamps with
which the market is flooded makes it
impossible for any one to have an a1So-
lutely complete collection-eXcept Cree
suses, who have as much time as money
to spend on their hobby. Most sensible
ph:latelists confne themselves to one
special branch, and it is only enthusi-
astic beginners who try to get beyond
this boundary. For instance, one man
collects only stamps, another wrappers
and stamped envelopes, third postal
cards; one confines himself to a partic-
ular continent, another to a single
country, while several close their col
lections with a certain year. Those
who confine their energies thus to d
special branch take into consideration
every scarcely perceptible difference in
the quality of paper, water-marks, out
line of stamps-whether cut, denticu-
lated, or pierced-and shades of color;
they also collect proof-sheets-that is,
stamps that are designed as models for
new issues. The slightest difference
even in the quality of the paper justi-
fies a specialist of this description in
including the specimen in his album, so
that, while an ordinary philatelist
would look on his collection as COM
plete with say thirty-seven different
stamps of the kingdom of Saxony, the
enthusiast would hardly be content
with three hundred and seventy. OF
course an ordinary stamp album would
not be large enough to hold these treas
ures, which, pasted on large sheets of
cardboard. assume the formidable d.
mansions of maps, and have to be stored
in large boxes.
The average collector, however, 10
content with large, well-indexed al
bum, generally supplemented by
miniature library of books on philately
and its various branches.-S. Pentland,
in Home and Country.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

bursts from the lips in song, shone
with equal warmth upon the solitary
inmate of the gorgeous chamber and
found him unresponsive saveSy a half
stifed groan. TO him the rising sun
meant the approach of an inevitable
moment that must wreck his whole
career, blot forever the once spotless
record OF an honorable life, plunge
him forever into an abyss of hopeless
degradation, darker, far darker and
more bitter than the grave itself. For
at the brink of the grave man plants
the flower of hope. About this spiritual
tomb there was no soil to nourish the
root of such flower.
On the raised dais upon which the
massive safe was based, John Carver
stood, his head resting upon his hand,
his elbow leaned against the open
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

other pills. Hence, their great popularity
with sufferers from habitual constipation,
piles and their attendant discomfort and
manifold arrangements. The Pellets"
are purely vegetable and perfectly harmless
in any condition of the system. No care is
required while using them; they do not
interfere with the diet, habits or ocCupa-
ton, and produce no pain, gripping or shock
to the system. They act i'll a mild, easy and
natural way and there is no reaction after
ward. Their help lasts
The Pellets cure biliousness sick and
bilious headache, dizziness, costiveness or
constipation, sour stomach, loss of appetite,
coated tongue, indigestion, 81 dyspepsia,
windy belchings, heartburn" pain and
distress after eating, and kindred derange-
ments of the liver, stomach and bowels.
In proof of their superior excellence, it can
be truthfully said, that they are always
adopted as a household remedy after the
first trial. Put no i'll sealed. glass walls,
therefore always fresh and reliable. One
little Pellet is laxative. two are mildly
cathartic. AS dinner pill, " to promote
digestion, or to relieve distress from over
eating, take one after dinner. They are
tiny sugar granules; any child will
readily take them.
Accept no substitute that may be recon-
1nended to be Just as good" 1t may be
better for he dealer because of paying him
better profit, but he is not the one who
needs help.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

with brass ratings that shcne resplen-
dent with daily Furnishing. The stair
way led from spacious chamber, com
fortab ly-nay, luxuriously, furnished,
the temple in which the shrine was
housed. The eye that wandered from
floor to wall and ceiling met every
where such startling and substantial
evidence of money spent without stint
or measure in OrnamentatlOn. that but
for the presence on two massive Oaken
tables of several commonplace ink
wells with pads and blotters, the
strong room of the {. c. company
might readily have passed as the some
what eccentric adjunct to the palace
of a millionaire. But these common
commercial inkstands, with their
homely accessories, strengthened the
theory that absolute perfection is sell
dom if ever realized, even in the har-
smonizing of inanimate objects. The
millionaire might have caused ink
stands of solid gold and silver to
be placed upon those tables. The
officers of the c. c. company consid-
cred their plain equivalent in useful
~
of the committee OF directors, which
upon this very day was to assemble in
these sacred precincts and count, os-
teusiblv with their own august fingers,
the millions of dollars worth of Sc
curities that represented in stocks and
bonds the assets of the great corpora
ton.
The hour was still early. The sun
light streamed in generous golden
rays through the huge plate-glass
windows. 1t bathed in warm etful-
gence alike the cold marble, the heavy
gliding, the shining brass, the mirror
like steel of the open safe door with
its wondrous mechanism of combina-
ton locks. The same sunshine that
glistened upon the broad ocean. but
a few miles away, that gilded church
spire and cottage roof and emerald
hilltop, and caused many an honest
heart to overflow with the JOY that
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25
A Nutritious Scum.

Everybody recognizes the nutritious
qualities of soup and it need not neces-
sarily be taken hot, though heat is gen
orally regarded as an indispensable
quality of palatable soup. clear, rich
beef soup, free from fat and well sea-
soned, makes a delicious bouillon in
cups with cracked ice. If the soup jel-
lies in cooling it wi be necessary to
melt it upon the stove without further
heating than is necessary, when it
should be poured at once upon the ice
in the cups. -Philadelphia Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25
He Could Say 1t.

THE great trouble with you, John,
is" said a lady to her husband, who
was suffering from the effect of the
night before, you cannot say No
Learn to say No John, and you will
have fewer headaches. Can you let me
have little money this morning."
NO" said John with apparent ease.
Picture Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25
ASSIST NATURE

a little now and then
in removing offend
ing matter from the
stomach and bowels
and you thereby
avoid a multitude
of distressing de-
engagements and dis
eases, and will have
less frequent need
of your doctors
service.
OF all know II
agents for this pur-
pose, DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are
the be st. Once
used, they are al.
ways in favor.
Their secondary eff
feet is to keep the
bowels open and
regular, not TO fur
ther constipate, as
Is the case with
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

Hard Heads and Soft.-The dude
in swell attire was commenting adj
versely upon several well-known men
in Washington who wore SLOUGH hats.
"Why," he said to the man next to him.
do they wear those soft hats?" For
the sake of contrast" was the reply,
Just as you wear hard one. DE
troit Free Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

"Now know why the milk we get here
is so weak said the agricultural editor e
the farmer with whom he was boardingS
II Just this minute saw you give those lows
water to drink. "-Philadelphia Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

"Why can't there be a fight without the
shedding of bloodln asks an opponent Of
war. If he will ask any prominent pugilist
he will find out exactly how the thing can
be done-N. Y. Tribune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

He that aspires to be the head of a
party will find it more difficult to
please his friends than to perplex his
foes. Cotton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

A LITTLE boy, on returning from Sunday
school said to his mother: "This catechism
is too hard; isn't there any kittychisms fos
little s2n-Tit-Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

FoGG-"Poverty is a misfortune, not a
crime" Figg-''1 don't know about that {;
at any rate poverty has been the cause of
much poetry writing" Fogg-"You mean
the writing of poetry has been the cause of
much poverty. Boston Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

Jollicus-It didn't find out he was
Jonah until then.-N.Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25
Would Have Given Up Sooner.

Scientificus-I wonder how the whale
kept Jonah in his stomach for three
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

HE huge safe
so va S I and
massive that it
might h a V e
been mista ken
for a prison
stood o p e n.
The approach
to its entrance
was by a mar
BILE stairway
The herald., 1894-01-09
DRILL AND DERRICK.
RICH OIL STRIKES TN THE NEW
HALL REGION.
rhe Golden Coast Well Completed and
Full of Petroleum-Wor ON the
West Coast Wolf to Be
Begun st Once.

Mr.. Kallerman. the oil-borer from
Newhall, was in the city yesterday. He
reports the Golden Coast well, two miles
east OF Newhall, completed. and the
pumping of oil will begin forthwith.
This well adjoins the Banner we'll which
was such a gusher last winter, spouting
over 200 barrels of oil per day until it
caved in. The Golden Coast promises
to rival the Banner as producer. 1t is
$50 feet deep, the last 20 feet being in the
oil sand. 1t is all securely cssed and
equipped with pumping apparatus. Last
Friday the oil had risen to height of
sos feet in the hole, and was expected to
flow over the top OF the we'll without
pumping. Storage tanks have been
erected and the work OF filling them
with the product of the Golden Coast
we'll is now in progress.
Mr.. Kellerman, who has also the con-
tract for cleaning and casing the Banner
we'll, had abandoned that work tempo
rarily while putting the Golden Coast in
working order, but will now resume OPP
erations on the Banner, and expects to
have it in readiness for pumping oil in
side of 80 days.
The West Coast company, which owns
a strip of oil territory (155 scres) lying
between the Golden coast and Banner
on the north and the Pacific Coast Oil
company's producing wells on the south,
has erected derrick within a stones
throw of the Golden Coast and Banner
wells, and is ready to begin boring.
The West Coast people claim that they
have even better prospects for making
rich strike than the owners of the ad-
joining properties had. Experts
who have been ON the ground are enthu-
siastic over the indications, and it is
predicted that the West Coast people will
have one OF the best, if not the best,
producing we'll in the Newhall region.
Mr.. M. r. Craig, the superintendent OF
this company, is an experienced oil
man, having been seven years with the
Pacific Coast Oil company as director OF
field work. Mr.. Craig, while conserva-
tive in his expressions, is sanguine of
the success of the West Coast company's
experimental we'll. II it pans out as
expected the company will Immediately
proceed to put down a number of addi-
tional holes on its property.
This littls group of wells is easily ac-
cessible, being only about two miles
from Newhall station, and good level
wagon road running to the grounds. 1t
is expected that the Southern Pacific
will run a spur to the wells when they
they get in operation, or else a pipe
line will be constructed to conduct the
oil to railroad.
A number of Los Angeles capitalists
who have recently visited the Newhall
oil wells expressed great confidence in
the future of the region, and quite lit
tie money has been invested in oil lands
thereabouts as the results of these
visits.
The herald., 1894-01-09
THE BRAZILIAN CONFLICT.

MeIlo and CANA still on the Offensive
and Sanguine of Success.
Rio DE JANEIRo, Jan. S.-(Copy-
righted by the Associated Press.)-It is
reported that Mello has left Santa Gath
arine to operate with General Sarava,
one of the chiefs of the insurgents, in
bard the barbor OF Santos. Admiral
CANA is still in Rio bay and confident
OF success. A serious engagement Is ex-
pected at Nictheroy, where the
government has concentrated a
considerable number OF troops. Five
fast torpedo boats purchased for Peixoto
in Germany have arrived at Las Palmas.
and will Immediately join the fleet at
Pernambuco. Peixoto is personally
directing the assembling of the feet and
movements calculated to crueh the
rebellion. A spy of the rebels lately
captured in Rio had on bis person docu-
ments showing where the insurgents
obtain supplies. After confessing every
thing the spy was taken out and shot.
The herald., 1894-01-09

British or United States chips were
allowed to go on shore. The memoran-
dunn from on board the British gunboat
which which DIR. Groesman incloses, is
as follows:
"H. B. M. s. Champion is preparing
to hoist the British ensign over Hawaii.
tuesday, December 7th, when ot&f shese,
she had gun drill, and was sighting on
the buildings where the provisional gov
ernment's troops are stationed and am
munition stored, and on police head
quarters. 1t is the intention
that as soon as the queen was restored
by the United States troops and they
may retire, the queen is to appeal to the
British minister, Major Woodehouse,
for protection. The English flag is to be
hoisted. protectorRte declared over Ha-
waii. Troops from Champion will be
landed under the protection of British
gums"
Grossman writes that such q plan
should not be surprise to any body, be-
cause it is quite in accord with all pre-
vious ideas of British seizure, and
neither more or less than the execution
OF ideas for many years cultivated by
British interests. The well known Thee
philus Fl. Davies has been intriguing for
upward of twelve months to obtain such
result, ss is evident from the
queens fret refusal to Willis to
submit to restoration to the throne un-
less sustained by force of Amer
ican arms. Her British friends have
been advising her to accept Willie pro-
posal and thue gain restoration by the
power of the United States diplomacy
nd-arms. after which, the provisional
government being out, che could
promptly apply to Great Britain for sup
port and turn the islands and depend
encies over to Great Britain. This
could not be regarded in the light of an
affront to the United States or to Great
Britain because President Cleveland
had, for the United States, Withdrawn
the treaty and rejected all overtures
looking to annexation.
DIR. Grossman states his information is
derived direct from British naval
officer.
The herald., 1894-01-09
GOSSIP AT THE CAPITOL.
Gresham Submits to an Interview-Base-
less Rumors Circulated.

Gresham Submits to an Intervisw-Base-
less Rumors Circulstsd.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-For the first
time since the arrival of the Co irwin,
and the recent alarming reports from
Honolulu, Secretary Gresham submitted
to an interview tonight on the Hawaiian
situation. He talked with great earn
estness, and his replies to questions
consisted almost wholly in denials. and
said if there was any trouble at Homo
lulu, neither the president nor the state
department knew anything about it.
He denied the report that the depart
msnt had received any dispatches from
the Corwin. but stated that dispatches
blythe regular course of mails were ex-
pected from Willis Wednesday, "and
whatever dispatches are received by
that time" said Gresham, will be
sent to congress at once"
Gresham stated neither the president
nor the state department knew anything
about the Corwin being anchored off
San Francisco, and If che was there it
was not by any order of the executive
or department OF stste.
Regarding the reports that Willis or
the queen was on board the Corwin,
Gresham pronounced them fabricstions.
The Corwin, being a revenue cutter, is
under the control of the treasury depart
ment, and any dispatches sent by Cap
tain Munger would therefore naturally
go to Secretary Carlisle.
A rumor gained circulation at the
capitol today that troops had been land
ed at Honolulu and that there had been
riot and bloodshed. 1t can be stated on
the highest authority that the Corwin
brought no such news.
Willis gave notice, pending the recep-
tion of an answer to his notification,
that if the queen refused to accede to
the conditions. that he would allow no
violent outbreak on either side. Under
later instructions sent him by the Cor
win, IL Is uuuis.fni ii ha wnr,ld saai an-
thorized to land troops, except in the
event of hostiIities between parties on
shore that would endanger the safety
of Americans.
The state department maintained
strict reticence on Hawaiian affairs to-
day. The rumor that Willis has received
his passports has every appearance OF
being made out OF whole cloth. Presi-
dent Dole undoubtedly would avoid any
act of hostility towards the United
States. 1t is also felt at the state de-
psrtment that Willis must have made
the demand upon Dole with the explicit
foreknowledge that it would be without
result and would be mere formal iol-
lowing out of the letter of his orders.
The herald., 1894-01-09
MADE READY FOR SEA.
The Mohican Receives sailing Orders.
Anxiety at Mare Island.

The Mohican Resolves sailing Orders.
Anxiety at Mare Island.
VALLEJO, CAL, Jan. 8.-This afternoon
orders were given to Commander Clark
of the United States ship Mohican to
make all needed preparation aboard his
ship for sea. Shortly afterwards the
Mohican reported she was ready, and q
navy-yard tug went alongside, taking
the Mohican in tow, towing her out to
midstream where she was moored to on
buoys. All liberty has been stopped
and those on shore leave have been
ordered to return on board. The fires
are banked and steam ia kept up ready
to slip mooring chains at moments
notice.
Considerable anxiety continues to
manifest itself among the navy officers
regarding the Hawaiian situation, and
fears are expressed that trouble has oc-
Cured. This opinion gained credence
today from the fact OF the reticence on
the part of the Washington officials.
Capt. H. G. Cochran, q. S. M. c., re-
Gently detached from the marine bar
racks at Mare island, will leave ON the
next steamer touching at Honolulu, to
take command of the marine guard on
board the flagship Philadelphia now al
Honolulu