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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-24
WATER GOOD ENOUGH.
"Reminiscences of Lincoln's First Nomina.
tiOn for the Presidency.

n "Reminiscences of Lincolns First Nomina-
tion for the Presidency.
The nomination of Lincoln for presi-
dent of the United States was quietly
received at his home in Springfield,
Ill. When the committee from Chi
cago arrived to appraise Mr.. Lincoln
of his nomination, his two boys Will
lie and Tad" were perched on the
fence before the house Tad" stood
erect, and welcomed the committee by
shouting "Hooray." Charles Carleton
Coffin describes the reception of the
committee.
Mrs. Lincoln will be pleased to see
you in the other room, gentlemen.
You will be thirsty after your long
journey. You will find something re-
freshing in the library"
In the library were several hundred
volumes ranged upon shelves, two
globes, one terrestrial, the other celes-
tial plain table, a pitcher of cold
water and glasses, but no wines nor
liquors.
You did not find any great spread
of liquors, take it," remarked citi-
zen OF Springfield the next morning.
No" l replied.
Thereby hangs a little story: When
we knew you were on your way, nun.
Der of us called on Mr.. Lincoln and
said that in all probability some of the
members of the committee would need
some refreshment, wines or liquors. 81
haven't any in the house." he said.
'We will furnish them Gentlemen,
can not allow you to do what l will not
do myself was the reply.
But that was not the end of it. Some
of our good democratic citizens, feeling
that Springfield had been highly hon
ored by the nomination, sent over
some baskets of champagne, but Mr..
Lincoln sent them back, thanking
them for their intended kindness. -
Interior.
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TRAFFIC IN DRINK.
An Estimate of the Enormous Cost of
Drink to the United states.

An Estimate of the Enormous Cost of
Drink to the United States
There is no doubt that the evil is
firmly fixed among the people of this
country. The facts, which every man
may study for himself, give little
ground for joyfulness. The traffic is
profitable one, and men pursue it for
the gains it brings, regardless of other
results As the number of sellers is
large, rising to nearly 230, 900, the num-
Der of drinkers must be reckoned. not
by thousands or hundreds of thou
sands, but by millions. We can not es-
cape the inference that this nation is
nation given to drink. For the year
ending June 80, 1898, according
to the report of the United States
commissioner of internal revenue,
more than III, 900, 900 gallons of liquor
We're withdrawn for consumption.
This allows nearly 10 gallons to every
man, woman and child in the United
States. Estimating the number of
women who do not drink and the num-
Ger of children too young to drink, at
So, 600, 900, we have left about %, 900, 900
of men and drinking women. But in
this mum Der are included all men who
are total abstainers, Making allow
ance for these the population of drink
ers is reduced to perhaps, 10000, 900.
This would raise the amount consumed
per capita, not taking account of the
quantities diverted to mechanical,
medicinal, chemical and culinary uses,
to somewhere between 80 and so gal
Ions. Nobody knows what the exact
figures are, but it is certain that they
are large Somewhat more than eight
per cent of the total gallons consumed
is of distilled liquors.
The revenues on distilled and malt
liquors, collected by the government
last year, amount to nearly one hun
bred and twenty-seven and quarter
million dollars. This consumers paid,
together with the cost of distilling and
brewing and the immense profits of
the wholesale and retail dealers. The
great bulk of the enormous aggregate
thus expended annually is worse than
wasted. The economical loss is some
thing frightful to contemplate in these
hard times; but it is as nothing COM
pared with the moral and physical dis
asters involved. Every body knows
something of the monstrous evils, I'M
equaled by any other agency known to
men; but nobody half realizes what
they are. Figures can not illustrate
them; they can only at best give
faint idea of them. Y. Indepen-
dent.
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which 644, 1852, sos gallons are Jrewed in
north Germany, 344. $40 9O5 gallons in
bavaria, 10, 953, $50 gallons in Wurtem-
berg, 56,445, $40 gallons in Baden and
lI,oS3,305 gallons in Alsace Lorraine.
Sreat Britain comes next with total
OF s74,192,275 gallons, while Austria
hungary is third with total of 30s
eeS'675 gallons, and France fol,
lows with about 225, 100000 gallons,
Ihese are the only countries in
which the production reaches 10O 0O0,-
QUO gallons; but relatively to their
population, Denmark, with 40, 1S9, 00C
gallons brewed and Norway with S..
1890, have much larger production
than most of the others. But Russia,
with its vast area and large popula-
ton, produces only 90, s92, $40 gallons,
while the quantity of beer produced in
other countries is: Switzerland, 26,-
o94'495 gallons; Spain, 5000, 500 gal.
Ions; Turkey, 3,15O,OO gallons; Italy,
S,O99,665 gallons; Roumania, 2,225, 900
gallons; Luxembourg and Servia, ., O92,
500 gallons each, and Greece, $50, 34s
gallons. The average quantity of beer
orewed out of Europe is $50, 66S, Sis gal
Ions in the United States, IS, 25S, $40 in
Australia and 1896, O20 in Japan. -
temperance Bulletin.
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
LESSONS in TEMPERANCE.
Missionary's Experience Among the Chill
dren of Drinking People.

Wv" VI ~ copic'
Miss II. was missionary in chapel
belonging to city church. One of the
first problems she met there was of
course the mischief done by the drink.
How could she solve it, for truth to tell
she was not sure of the sympathy OF
the church members nor of the fire.
quenters of the chapel. But the chill
dren were not prejudiced, SO she began
IN the sewing school. She told how
girls were tempted to sip beer when
they We're sent for it, but that many
would not touch it because they saw
the mischief it worked in their homes.
Then she told how it hindered chill
dren in the studies at school.
When they had beer for break
fast orr at lunch, it made them
so stupid that they could neither
study nor recite, and sometimes they
even went to sleep. She told of one
little boy made so drunk by wine at
lunch that he could not climb the
stairs to the school-room, and he had
to go home again.
These things repeated in the homes
made the mothers anxious about their
boys, and this was shown in the moth
ers' meetings and produced temperance
talks there. Then the mothers begged
to bring their boys along. This easily
opened the way for a band of hope to
and to which the children could come
direct from school. The mothers re-
manned with them and took them
home. few temperance chrome
cards and illustrated tracts and
papers helped secure their at
tendance until they became thor
oughly interested in hearing the truths
about alcohol, and being shown the
strange things it did right before their
eyes every day. Then they were taught
what drinks contained alcohol, and
how it came there. They We're shown
its color, and the color of its flame
when burning; and they repeated in
concert list of the most common alco-
holic drinks:
Ale, beer and porter, I must shun,
And stout and wine and cider too;
Strong whisky brandy, gin and rum.
And all the punch and toddy crew.
When the question was asked what
they should do when told to go for
beer, they We're told to say: Excuse
me, for l fear it would not please God"
In German family the little chill
dren We're SO much impressed with
what they learned about beer, that
they declined to drink it at the break
fast table at home. The father began
to scold them, but the mother said
Lets see if they can give any rea-
sons" So she gently questioned them
and drew out the stories of the chill
dren too stupid, through beer, to study
in school, and when they added that
they wanted to be good scholars and
make their father proud of them, his
anger died away entirely. A few days
later he said to his wife: The chill
dren make me ashamed. I'll drink no
more beer" Very soon that man and
his wife became regular attendants on
the services at the chapel, and finally
they We're converted and admitted to
church membership. -Julia Colman, in
National Temperance Advocate.
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A HAPPY DIVERSION.
who Knows Bnt 1t May Have Prevented a
Tragedy.


On Hastings street the other day a
young colored man about 20 years of
age sat on doorstep browsing in the
sun. Many passed him by, but after a
time along came another young man
of about the same age carrying cane.
Of course he stopped and polsed, and of
course there were results. The sleeper
awoke and angrily demanded:
''Who dat pusson who kept tetchin'
me all de time?'
81 'spects yo' am lookin' right at
him, sah," replied the one with the
cane.
Julius lie mind to broke yo' in
two fur dat"
''Shoo! Yo' couldn't hurt nobody"
Couldn't Ell? let yo' know, sab,
dat l killed man ober in Chatham so
dead he nebber breathed agin.'
'Doan' yo' go fur to threaten me,
Moses, kase l won't stand it. Mebbe
some of yo'r friends dun tole you bout
de way l knocked dat man to pieces
at Toledo. Jist reached out fur him
an he died.
''Hu. Look out fur me, boy. lie
gettin' mad, an when de madness
comes nobody can't dun hole me. lie
list a drove of nevis runnin' away, |
ar"
'Ize heard niggers talk afo' dis, but
l didn't skeer"
Niger! Who yo' calm niger?
Yo' is niger yo' self an yo' stole chick
ems"
What! Yo' say dun stole chickens?
Why, boy, I'll crack yo'r ribs in a min
ute l doan' low no common trash to
talk dat way to me-
"Shoo, niger. If I war jist to reach
out my han yo' would fall dead. lie
sorry fur yo'r po' ole mudder, an dats
why | doan' reach"
Now lie mad. I'll gin yo' just one
mint to flee fur yo'r life.''
"Nigger."
Chicken thief ,.-
They stood facing each other, breath
ing hard and were seemingly on the
point of rushing at each other, when a
small colored boy came around the
corner driving an old ash wagon. 1t
was happy diversion. Both realized
it, and advancing to the curbstone to-
gether one shouted:
Look heah, boy, doan' yo' be drivin'
around as if yo'r fadder owned dis hull
town, kase he don't. Yo' jist keep
mighty quiet around heah or I'll make
your heels crack de atmosphere"
And as the boy seemed frightened
and tried to make himself look as small
as possible, the other one added:
''An' if your ladder makes any fuss
bout it lie gwine to drive him right
frew de airth-yes ar. Drive on, boy.
We is two desperit men an jist achin'
fur blood. Detroit Free Press.
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| you like; but get me out of this, and
I'll love you forever. (Flies out of the
room by a side door as the servant
enters by another and announces Mr..
Fortesque. Marion. rises.)
Mr.. Fortesque-Miss Harcourt!
Marion-Mr. Fortesque
Mr.. Fortesque-You here! II had
no idea you knew the Trelawneys.
Marion - Yes, Kitty and 1 are old
schoolfellows
Mr.. Fortesque with some emotion)-
never thought to see you again. And
Miss Trelawney, has she told you all
about me?
Marion-She told me she was engaged
Toto some one very nice.
Mr.. Fortesque-Ah why did she run
away as l came upstairs?
Marion will go and ask her to
come back
Mr. Fortesque-Please tell me first
why she ran away.
Marion-She shall tell you herself.
Mr.. Fortesque-Then there is some
thing to tell me. What is it? She has
changed towards me. I half guessed it
from her letters of late. She is afraid
to tell me herself, and has left you to
do it for her Isn't it so?
Marion-Yes
Mr.. Fortesque-And she loves some
one else?
Marion-She must come and speak to
you herself I'll fetch her (Goes to-
wards the door,.
Mr.. Fortesque-Stop-did you tell her
of our previous acquaintance?
Marion-No. but must noe.
marion retires, and in few minutes
Kitty enters in rather shame-faced
manner)
Mr.. Fortesque-How do you do.
Kitty?
Kitty-O Godfrey, I'm so sorry; are
you d'eadfuHy angry9
Mr.. Fortesque-Do look angry?
Kitty-N-no, can't say that you do.
! thought you would be. 1 think you
ought to be. You ought to look-well
"a little unhappy.
Mr.. Fortesque-You want me to look
unhappy because you love some one
else.
hltty-l mink IL would nave Deen
rather nice of you
Mr.. Fortesque - But supposing I
love some one else?
Kitty (eagerly)-But you don't, do
you, Jeff?
Mr.. Fortesque-My dear Kitty, what
can 1t matter to you now?
Kitty (doubtfully)-N-no. OF course,
it oughtn't to matter. But 1 didn't
think
Mr.. Fortesque-That 1 could be as
faithless as yourself?
Kitty-How horrid of you!
Mr.. Fortesque-No, I'm not, and
haven't been faithless. l have been
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true to you, Kitty, and would have
married you. You wish to be free
Well l give you your freedom.
Kitty-Oh! l never thought you'd
take it so coolly. You want to be free,
too?
Mr.. ortesque-Naturally.
Kitty-To marry some one else?
Mr.. Fortesque-Tm sorry if the idea
hurts you. Yes, wish to marry some
one else. You want to do the same,
understand What could be better?
Kitty-Ohl but l didn't think you
would be SO glad to get rid of me. IL
jeff, who is she? Is she pretty, and
young. and clever? Is it any one l
know?
Mr.. Fortesque-Yes, it is your old
schoolfellow, Marion Harcourt.
Kitty amazed -Marion! Why
you've only known her five minutes!
Mr.. Fortesque-No, we met on the
way home. She and her father joined
our boat at Colombo.
Kitty-Then you are the man she has
been telling me of-who was engaged
to some one else and with whom she
parted forever
Mr.. Fortesque-We thought we had
parted forever.
Kitty-I should think so-when you
were engaged to me.
Mr.. Forteslue-Don't you mean,
Kitty, when you were in love with
some one else?
Kitty-I'm not sure that am, now.
Mr.. Fortesque - Good heavens!
What Complication L
Kitty Oh! it's all right as far as you
are concerned, Mr.. Fortesque. Don't
mind mel
Mr.. Fortesque-Kitty, you can't pos.
sibly be such "a
Kitty (coolly)-Dog in the manger
are you going to say? AT any rate, !
am dog with two strings to my bow,
and know now l never loved you It's
nice to have ones mind made up for
one, so send for Marion at once. and
I'll wish her joy. And 1 must send a
telegram!
Mr.. Fortesque-Whom to? Oh! beg
your pardon.
Kitty-You'll see. You may hand it
in for me if you like. You pass a tele'
graph Office, don't you?
Mr. Fortesque-Certainly, with pleas.
ure.
Kitty (sits down and writes)-Therei
Mr. Fortesque-Can you be polite in
ten words?
Kitty-Read it, and see! watches
him.
Mr. Fortesque (reads)-To Trefusis
- Club. Please come congratulate
me. kitty. Who is Trefusis?
Kitty-Why the other one, Of course
Go and hand it in, quick.
Mr.. Fortesque going out)--Littls
minx!-Society.
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BITS AND BREVlTlES.

EVERY whisky barrel contains long
and deep river of death.
ACCORDING to the last report of the
commissioner of internal revenue there
are 215, 434 retail liquor dealers in the
United States.
AN English physician says that in his
treatment of two hundred cases of
scarlet fever without alcohol there
WIS mortality OF two per cent as
against the six per cent in hospitals
where alcohol is prescribed.
The Bonars of Scotland were saint
ly men, and it is interesting to know
that Andrew, spending siXtythree of
his eighty-three years in the ministry,
was ever an ardent friend of temper.
ance Among his last efforts was an
appeal to his countrymen on the I'm
trustworthiness of Moderate Drink
ing"
THE American consul at Cope nhagen
reports to the state department that
the relation of intoXicants to poverty.
immortality and crime in Denmark is
very marked, when with a population
icating drinks per head of the popula-
ton is five gallons of distilled spirits
and eight gallons of lager beer.
THE British register general has pub
lished table of comparative mortality
of men, 25 to 65 years of age. in diff
ferent occupations, the inquiry Gov
ering period of three years, which
bears significant and emphatic testi-
mony against alcoholic beverages as
related to health and longevity. The
standard of 100 was taken as the low
est or most healthful. Innkeepers and
liquor-dealers represent mortality of
274; inn or hotel service, 397; and brew
ers, 245; while farmers are put down at
ia, gardeners at los, and ministers at
100.
THE good people of Manchester, N.
H.. are rejoicing over a partial tri-
umph gained in contest with the
saloons of that city. Imperative orders
have been issued from the police de-
partment that every saloon, including
hotels and eating-houses where wines
and liquors are served, shall close their
doors at ten o'clock p. m, and refusal
to comply with these instructions
means that the proprietors will be
turned out of business. Dining-rooyns
where liquors are served will not be
permitted to open on Sunday, and
screens and partitions which obstruct
the view of the interior of saloons from
the street are to be at once removed.
THERE has been organized in Munich,
which is known as the beeriest city in
Germany, branch of the National AS
ISOLATION Against the Abuse of AL
coholic Drinks. Privy Councillor Won
Pettenlxofer has been elected its presi-
dent and professors Doctors Volt and
Bollinger are the vice presidents.
Noted ecclesiastices, including the
Arch bishop Won Thorna and high mill
tary officers are among the promoters.
The leader of the movement en-
phasizes the fact that the use of beer
when it reaches point such as it has
in Bavaria gradually undermines the
resistibility of the body and the men
tai energy, and that therefore both
from an economical and humanitarian
point of view the consumption OF beer
ought to be restricted
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LET US TALK QUIETLY. "

Kitty-Poor thing! Marion, it's four
o'clock, and you've never helped me out
of my fix one bit. He may be here at any
moment, and what am to say to him?
Marion (bewildered)-You're speak
ing now Of
Kitty-The-theo original one. Don't
you understand? He returned from
India yesterday. have to tell him
love some one else, and | can't. Hank!
there's the bell Marion, can't see him
Il won't Suddenly you must Rises.
Marion Don't be absurd. l can't see
a perfect stranger
Kitty making for the door)-Say
you're friend of the family, and I'm a
silly, hare Drained girl who doesn't
know her own mind. Say anything
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true to you, Kitty, and would have
Well, give you your freedom.
Kitty-Oh! l never thought you'd
take it so coolly. You want to be free,
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SoENE-A drawing-room.

lTTY dumping
up from the pi-
a n o a S NJ | S S
Harcourt is an
n gu n C e d. %
NJ a ri on, it is
you. w h at a
relief!
Marion-A r e
you expecting
anyone else?
Kitty-Yes,
and | was afraid
but it's you
and I'm glad.
Did you get my
last letter? And
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nave you come pack Tor SOOQ from your
travels-nearly two years, isn't it2
And is your father better? When did
you get back? And can you guess
what wicked girl am, and how mis-
cradle this unhappy secret makes me-
at least, part of it, for some of it's hap
Ply, you know; but l do so want your
advice and sympathy and
Marion-O my dear Kitty, stop! Sit
down and let us talk quietly. want
sympathy, too.
Kitty (open-eyedl-You! You want
sympathy! l thought you were above
that weakness.
Marion-Not a bit l want all you
can give me.
Kitty-Oh, do tell me; but you must
hear me frst-my troubles are more
pressing. I'm in such a fix! I've got
letter from him to say
Marion-Him? Whom?
Kitty Gmpatiently) - The him, of
course. There's only one him-at least,
there ought to be only one. That's
just it.
Marion-What do you mean?
Kitty mean-that-there are two.
Marion-You are engaged to two men
at once?
Kitty-Well, you see-they overlap
for the moment
Marion-You take my breath away
Explain,
Kitty-You remember my writing to
tell you about my engagement to an
awfully nice, clever fellow. lawyer,
Dh a: VI ,,1n,,thc orI bay
he had to go to lndia-to take evidence
on commission, they call it, l thinh-a
few weeks after we were engaged?
Marion-Yes, and you were to be mar
ried as soon as he came back. Hasn't
he come back?
Kitty oh, yes; he's come right
enough. I'm expecting him here now
Immediately -any-every moment; and
I don't rant him!
Marion-Explain Explain
Kitty-Last summer, went to stay
at Mrs. Fairlight's place on the Hud-
son, and, of course, there was lots of
boating, tennis picnics and-(hesi-
tates) moonlight walks.
Marion (gravely) oh, my dear Kitty!
Kitty-The situations got to be
faced. l know I'm wicked t1irt, and
ali that; but oh, Marion, he is such
darling, and | really, truly want to be
his wife.
Marion-Then why weren't you true
to him?
Kitty-Which him? I'm speaking of
the-the-well, the new one.
Marion-Kittty, you are dreadful
You never can have loved truly, deeply,
seriously, for true love is constant-it
lifts one out of oneself, and
Kitty-Thanks; I've read all that in
novels
Marion-But you have never felt it
not deeply, I'm sure.
Kitty-You're in love, Marion. You
never talked about it like this before.
Who is it? Tell me, quick
Marion latter a pause)-I don't feel
that | can talk to you as freely as |
could once have done.
Kitty--Oh, shall get it out of you.
You met him abroad. " here was it?
Who is he, and when were you en-
gagged?
Marion-We are not engaged
Kitty-Broken off, Oh, Marion, I'm
SO sorry, dear.
Marion-No, not broken off. He was
engaged before we met
Kitty whistles And he fell in love
with you and told you so?
Marion-No.
Kitty He never told you he loved
you?
Marion-No, not in so many words.
Kitty-Well, when shall you see him
again?
Marion-I do not expect ever to see
him again.
Kitty-And you love him very much?
Marion-I could love him very much.
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EUROPE'S BEER OUTPUT.



Following are some interesting par
ticulars with regard to the quantity of
beer which is now brewed in Europe,
the figures, which may be taken as APP
proximately correct, representing the
average for the last five or six years
The total quantity brewed is 5,1O5, 000,-
900 gallons, Germany coming first with
production of 1,07l, 066, los gallons, of
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Britain's Big Army.

The physique of the British army
may not perhaps be all that it ought
to be, but so far as numbers are con-
cerned our military forces are in a very
satisfactory condition. In case of
need we could put into the field for
service at home force of 1872. 900 men,
exclusive of the militia reserve. We
have $4,000 militia, 10000 yeomanry,
and nearly 22s, 900 volunteers The re-
gular army numbers close upon 900 900
of all ranks, and these could, on an
emergency, be supplemented by so, 600
reserve men and 3d. militia reserv-
lists, ma king in all total of $50, 900
men for service abroad. We have thus
grand total of 662, 900 men available
for service at home and abroad. At no
time was there so large force of en-
rolled men ready to be called upon for
service should occasion arise.-London
Court Journal