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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-12-20
FIGURES THAT LIE.

Ea1lacy OF u Statistical Statement Issued
by the British Medical Association Clear
ly Proved.
Some curious figures have been given
out by the British Medical association
as the result of certain investigations
into the question of longevity in con-
nection with the use of alcoholic bever-
ages. Deaths to the mum Der of 4. 234,
taken at random, show the everage age
of temperate drinkers to be 63 wears !:
careless drinkers, 80 years; free drink
erS, 81 years; Incorporate drinkers, SO
years; total abstainerS, 81 years. The
analysis in the case of those who
reached the age of so or more shows
that - per cent. were total abstainers,
10 per cent. heavy drinkers, and "a sper
cent. moderate drinkers. OF those who
lived more than 80 years, 10 per cent.
were total abstainerS, per cent were
hard drinkers, and rs per cent. moder-
ate drinkers.
These results are being seized upon
to bolster up the theory that the ad-
vancing, vigorous and progressive races
are those which consume the largest
quantities of alcoholic beverages, while
the decaying or non-progressive races
consume the smallest amount: there
fore it is argued that the degree
of vigor in any race is in proportion to
the quantity of alcohol consumed, and
on the other hand the degree of de-
crepitude is in direct ratio to their So
briefly and abstinence.
But it will not do to assume that in
diligence in liquor is the cause of ma
tional vigor on the one hand, nor that
sObriety causes racial decay in the
other. Tho reasoning must go deeper
than that 1t is far more correct to
say that the same causes, whether
climatic or racial, which produce
great physical and mental vigor
and superintendent vitality, in certain
races or nations, also create strong
desire for the pleasures of alcoholic
stimulation, and give the capacity for
resisting the evil-effects of this in
diligence; while on the other hand a
feeble race can not use strong drink
and still continue to exist.
With regard to the figures of the
British Medical association, it is GER
tainly fair to assume that the reason
there appears to be a greater number
of moderate drinkers who reach old
age in that country than of total alb
stainers, is because OF the fact that
out of any number of persons selected
at random, at any age past manhood,
but few total abstainers will be found,
and also that the moderate drinkers, in
England as elsewhere, as a class, are
very likely to DO the most virile
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-12-20
BITS AND BREVITIES.

CLEVELAND, o., has one saloon to
every 175 inhabitants.
Stop moderate drinking and we will
soon have no drunkards.- RAMS Horn.
THE saloons would have to stop to-
morrow, if the devil had to tell the
truth.-Ram's Horn.
UNDER the 'mulct'' or tax law passed
by the Iowa Legislature last winter,
there are over 1000 open saloons in the
state already.
The w. c. T. U. of the District of
Columbia have passed resolutions high
ly commencing Mrs. Cleveland for her
firm stand against drinking.
SOME one commencing Phillip of
Macedon for drinking freely. THAT"
said Demosthenes, lis a good quality
in sponge, but not in king. y ohm
son.
THE Wesleyan Methodists of Great
Britain have 1,154 temperance societies
with a membership of 6S, 79S. Their
Bands of Hope number 4,222 with a
membership of 435, All.
ACCORDING to'the statistical abstract
of the United States the total cost of
liquors consumed in this country an
nually is over sixteen dollars per capt.
ia, twice as much of the total amount
of the federal revenue.
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and vigorous, and for that very reason
the appetite for alcohol strongly de.
veioped, and the drinkers strong
enough to control it. 1t can not be
argued from these figures that the
moSerate drinkers would die sooner if
they entirely abstained, nor that the
Total abstainers would live longer if
they INDUCED in alcohol in moderation.
on the contrary is it not more reason
able to assume that the average age of
the moderate drinkers would have been
greater had they been abstainers?
There is too great a mass of direct
medical evidence as to the harmfulness
OF Intoxicating liquors used as bever-
age. 1t will take better evidence than
the figures above quoted to make any
temperance man abandon his princi
pies and give up the struggle to pull
verize the rum power.
Leader
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WHISKY AND BEER.
Appalling Figures Showing the Average
Amount Consumed by the American
People.

appalling Figures Showing the Average
Amount Consumed by the American
People.
Americans are accounted a fairly
sober people in the hurry burly of ma
lions, but the figures of the internal
revenue commissioner for the last year
are enough to make temperance crank
stagger without drop of whisky or
beer, says the Atlanta Constitution
We distilled last year 81, $40, SS4 gallons
OF liquor, not including 1,43O, 353 gal
Ions of brandy, making in all S8,777, 1877
ssallons of alcoholic spirits. Expert
bartenders estimate SO drinks to the
gallon. Therefore there were $500,
O62, sol drinks produced in this coun-
try. A conservative estimate of how
much was imbibcd across counters is
about 37,00O,000 gallons of whisky,
brandy and other distilled spirits or in
other words we drink 5000, 900, 900
glasses of whisky, for which we paid
over the bar 5000, 600, 900, or s., 900, coo
more than all the annual appropria-
tiOns of congress com bined. This
represents consumption of 100 glasses
of whisky each year for every man,
woman and child between the rock
bound Pacific and the stOrm-tOsSed At
lantic, or, counting only the male
adults, 800 glasses per week each. Of
beer the figures are equally astound-
ing. The consumption was 81, 962, 943
barrels; that is 12,7S5, 100, 200 glasses,
representing the expenditure for this
mode of Teutonic hilarity of $617,25S,-
400, or about 10 cents for each inhabi-
tant. In the neighborhood of 30
glasses are charged up in this calcula-
ton against each of us as our annual
allowance. Therefore. if we do not
average our daily glass we may be
sure that our neighbors are getting
the benefit of our abstinence. BY esti-
mating this years internal revenue re-
ceipts from spirits on the basis of last
years product, with the increased tax
of LILO per gallon, the internal revenue
receipts will be S97,674 9O5.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-12-20

The girl with pompon in her hat
met the girl in the mink cape.
IN wager anything" said the
pOmpon, that Charley HAYES pro-
posed to you last night
"H-h-how do you lsnow?" hesitated
the mink cape, with blush.
"Oh, little bird told me So
"Well, don't care who told you,
said the mink cape, desperately; lit
was just too lovely for anything, and
he did it beautifully and didn't get
"a bit embarrassed"
"Of course, of course" admitted
the pompon, spitefully. "And why
shouldn't he do it nicely? He's been
practicing all summer Detroit Free
Press.
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Il want to tell We, though, that it
hain't no pleasure to me to hef to salt
down that bar an that sheep an that
pig all together in one bari. I'd
rether put 'em in three bar'ls, but
| bar'ls is slleerce an high, an times is
| hard. So I'll hef to do it. If We know
| where Honey Bee Rock Hole is, on
| Kittle creek, then We know where that
| bar had fixed up place fer winterin'
I'd had my eye on him fer better'n a
month, an thort I'd let him save till
the weather got threatenin' an he had
| got all the rib fat on him that he could
carry fer lastin him through the long
snOOze that lay efore him soon ez the
threatenin' weather started him for
the Honey Bee Rocll Hole | had sold
al my sheep but that one eve, an |
had got her in the ch'icest kind O.
shape to be corned mutton fer me an
the OF woman. She were nippin
away in the pastrr' yet, an t'other
day me oil woman says:
Balaam,' she SAYS, we better be
fetohin' that eve inter the barnyard,
fer she's gettin' bout fat enough to
suit Reub Shane, says she.
"Reub Shane is a neighbor of our'n,
an | kin give We an idee o Reub's
standin' over our way by tellin ye
what the regular sayin' is 'mongst us.
For instance. mebbe I'll say to my
neighbor, or mebbe my neighborll say
to me-
elbows yer sheep gointer come
out?'
Then I'll say, or my neighbor'll say,
just accordin' ez to which it mowt be:
wall, if the snitles, or the foot
rot, or Reub Shane don't get 'em,
they'll do first ella S.
so | says to my OF woman:
"'All right, Hammer. III fetch the
eve in tomorrow | says.
That Berkshire shoat O. mine were
ia tern butter, bout then, an | sot
the day fer butcherin' of him the same
day l had laid out to fetch the eve in
from pastur'. l KEEP him in that
kivered shed o. mine, and allus lef' the
door open SOS he could git out in the
straw yard an mummix around if he
wanted to. Early in the mornin' o. the
day | were gointer butcher him Joe
Been come over to help me do the bust
ness.
"'Fust, says l to Joe, let's 90 over
and fetch the eve in from the pastur'
1--WE went over, an the eve wasn't
there. She were gone, slick an clean
"'Ding my biscuits says l. 'Reub
Shane kin jedge a sheep better'n any
Teller | ever see. He know'd that eve
hadn't orter be out another day, an so
he's took her in
Joe Been he looked around a bit
an shook his head. But he didn't say
nothin' for quite a bit Then he says:
ebbe it We're Reub, an then
ag'in mebbe it wasn't, says he.
THAT were all he said. Then we
went back to butcher the shoat. The
pig wasn't in the yard an the shed
door were shet.
By jeeswax!' says 1. That's
funny says l.
Mebbe it is says Joe, AN mebbe
it hain't, says he.
II went up an opened the door, but
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-12-20
THE TRANSATLANTIC MAILS.
Needless Expense Imposed by Interna
tional Postal Laws.

needless Expense Imposed by Interna~
tional Postal Laws.
A letter, however i'll spelled and
blotted, from a mother in Galway, is
certainly luxury when delivered in
New York; but as man can have only
one mother, no American interest is in
iured by its arrival. And how many
millions of American citizens have rel
atives in Europe, not only in the EN-
erald Isle. hut in crowded English
towns, on bleak Scottish braes, by the
''castled crags" of the Rhine, along the
stormy fords of Norway, on snow
mantled Russian steppes, high up the
sides of Swiss and Hungarian mourn
tains-all of whom welcome a letter
from America as Noah welcomed the
dove that brought an olive leaf to the
Ark. Thought is free" Nevertheless,
correspondence with foreign countries
is subject to direct and needless taxa
ton by the United States government,
in common with all the governments
which have adhered to the postal union.
As is well known, the postage on a
letter weighing one ounce, sent $500
miles from New York to Vancouver. a
foreign town, is , cents; while the
charge for sending letter of half that
weight 3, $40 miles to another foreign
town, Liverpool, is cents What is
the reason for this difference? 1t can
not be the cost of conveyance, for rail
way freightage is higher than sea
freightage. 1t cannot be that the let
ters sent to Europe prejudice American
interests in any way. 1t cannot be the
favorite Though, as will presently be
seen, unsound,) argument of British
postmaster general, that the cents
have to cover not only the cost of put
ting one outgoing letter on board ship,
but of delivering free return letter,
the postage on which has been received
by a foreign government. For the
postage to Canada land | believe to
MeXico) is but . cents, though letters
coming from the Dominion Tor MeXico)
are equally delivered without charge.
The real reason is that the majority
of the postal union consists of poor,
greedy states, which are not advanced
enough to recognize the wisdom of ia
cilitating international correspondence,
and have therefore fixed the common
union tariff as high as possible, 1t is
intolerable that the voice of a mighty
continent should count for no more
than that of Servia or Siam. Yet at
the last postal union conference the
American proposal to establish com
mon international stamp was rejected
chiefly by the votes of insignificant re-
dictionary states, with small interests
at stalse-J. Hennil1er IIeaton, NJ. p,
in North American Review.
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
SERMON BY FIGURES.


The Direful Conditions That Prevail In Dis
tricts Where the Saloon Is Rife.
The accompanying diagram taken
from pamphlet issued by the Church
Temperance society of New York city
brings wildly to mind the sad condi-
ton prevailing in parts of all large
cities, and shows the terrible burden
which the liquor afic puts uppn a
class of people least able to be'I' it.
The diagram show the section which
lies east of the Bowcry and north of
Houston street. It contains Is b Ocks,
and IS pre-eminentlr the German sec
ton. In these Is blocks live 16, 391 per-
sons, of whom 6,531 are German, 1909
native, sos polish and Russian Jews,
331 Irish, 155, Italian, 135 British, and
LOGS miscellaneous. Among the ma
tive" are included all persons born in
this country, and about One-half the
whole number are children of German
parentage. Of these 1G, 1891 persons, T.
S37 are parents, 1854 sons, 3,23S daugh-
ters, and 1,7S2 dodgers. They are in
3,942 families, of whom 30S families
live in suites of over five rooms each at
an average rental of SAG. So; 2G2 fami-
lies in five rooms each, average rental,
$40. II; 1,O04 in four rooms each, aver
age rental, SIS. 10; ,407 in three rooms
each, average rental, 513. 1G; 927 in two
rooms each, averge rental, 50. g., .aU
81 families in one room each, AVERAGE.
ntal, S5.43.
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PLAGUE SPOTS ON A CITY's LIFE.

ilAbiE SHOIS ON A CITY > LIFE.
AS to church af1iliation, ITO persons
are Jewish, 5,041 Roman Catholic, SAL
Lutheran, 1903 Protestant Episcopal,
$50 belong to other Protestant denomi-
nations and l,510 are unknown, having
no belief at all, or refusing to state
their utilization.
The diagram shows for this section
lat liquor saloons, an average of near
ly 10 per block, and one saloon to every
% families and to every 112 of popula-
ton. Allowing the amount taken in
by one saloon at $500 per annum,
which is about the average for the
whole United States, each of the 81
families supporting one saloon would
eXpend $l3.S9 per month, which is
larger than the average rent of the
families occupying three-rOom apart
ments (S13.6D and would, on the aver
age, if spent in rent, increase the num-
Der of rooms by about three per fam
lily. At 1850 to a saloon. the whole
amount squandered in year by these
16. 391 people in the lat saloons is S67O,-
500, or over $40 each to every man,
which is two and one-half times the
average amount spent for liquors in
the whole United States.
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A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION.
How Doctor SiIenced Patients Plea
for the Use of Alcoholic StimuIants.

How Doctor Silenced a Patients Plea
for the Use of Alcoholic StimuIants.
patient was arguing with his doc
tor on the necessity of his taking a
stimuiant; he urged that he was weak
and needed it. Said he: But, doc
tor, must have some kind of stimu-
liant, am cold and it warns me-"
Precisely" came the doctors crusty
answer, ''see here; this stick is cold, ."
taking up stick of wood from the box
beside the hearth, and tossing it into
the fire. Now it is warm, but is the
stick benefited"
The sick man watched the wood
frt send out little puffs of smoke, and
then burst into flame and replied:
'Of course not; it is burning itself"
And so are you when you warm
yourself with alcohol, you are literally
burning up the delicate tissues of your
stomach and brain. RAMS Horn.
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l slammed t too ag'in durn student,
you bate yer boots.
BY jeeswax, joe says I. 'Tha's
bar in the shedr
That's what | thort,' says Joe
An yer sleeps in there, too, says he.
An we won't hef to butcher the shoat,
neither says he. All we got to do
now, says he, is to gether in the bar.
Tha's been lot O work took off O. yer
hands, says he.
81 went to the house an gotmy gun
When I got back Joe opened the door.
Opt sprang the bar; a. - looked ez
big ez heller, an he were buIged out
at the sides like hog full O new
grass. He showed n couple rows o.
teeth that loo ked like double-blanll
dominOes sharpened at one end. He
pounced right fer me, but | give him
nine bucllshot out o each barl o my
gun, an he laid down in the yard an
The pig were gone.
The Sleeps layin' on one side o
that bars innards, says Joe, an the
shoat's on t'other side says he. Yer
days work has been short, sharp and
decisive, says he. All We want now,
says he, is a bari to salt yer bar
down in, an then yen hev the b FAR an
the sheep an the pig all sailed down
together, says he, an reckon they'll
be prime, says he, an he went home.
$50 l guess I'll go an buy that bar'l
now an do the satin, though it hahn t
no pleasure fer me to know that kin
git that bar an that sheep an that pig
all in the same bar'l."
But the man from the back districts
went away griuning.-N. y. Sun.
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the sheep an the pig all inter it to-
gethcr.'
Inter one barl?"
Inter one bar'l."
"Yer bar must be a durn scraggly
runt, them
Pattern goslin', an weighed four
hundred if he weighed an ounce'
"Golnter pack suckin' pig in with
him, them
"A two hundred and fifty poun'
shoat, by jeeswaX! An ez fer the sheep,
tina never was nicer an fatter eve
ever riz fer mutton"
"Ye mean yer gointer git hogs
head 10 salt EN- down imp"
II mean I'm goin:cr git a bar'l to
salt EN- down ia! Jist one bar'l! That's
what ! ocau'
Then yer lynn Eastern boss kin
trot That's what ] mean, by hen"
The wise-loolling old woodsman was
excited. The man from the back dis
tricts just grinned. After he had
grlnned awhile he looked solemn and
Saidi
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-12-20

cit has been the custom among
cavalry troops TO stimulate the horses
with whisky" said Col. A. D. Cate,
land / have always thought it the
right thing to do. In fact, have done
it great deal myself and with seem
ingly good results, but l have been
reading some reports of experiments
made in Germany, where the custom
has been followed for long time, and
they seemed to prove that horses SO
stimulated are much more apt to die
from overeXertion than those that are
not treated in any way. 1t is a fact
which l have noticed myself, that
horses frequently become drunkards,
the appetite growing until it becomes
uncontrolla bic. = Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-12-20
AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.

A wellspring of pleasure
He was so helpless, he was strong.
The fouT-year-old
All things unto the king belong
Of flock and fold;
The waving Of his tiny land
VIII summon all unto his stand;
No mighty monarch of the land
Is half SO bold.
HIS was a toddiing little lad
So full of play,
And such a cunning way he had
To pass the day.
He was so winsome ard so shy,
With such big and lustrous eye,
just like slice of azure sky
Both blue and gray
The Saxon and the Celt combined
A lusty strain;
The fervor tempered, cooled, refined,
And sure to reign.
The gurgling laughter gushing free
AS bells that chime their revelry
When Christmas comes with gracious Slee
And glad refrain.
The ruler OF the house and home,
Although so small,
A face as sweet as honeycomb
He beams on all
Close clasped unto his mammals breast,
Snug as a pigeon in the nest.
He sinks to sweet anc soothing rest
While shadows fall.
james E. Kinsella, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Not One Redeeming Quality.

The dictionary tells us that temper
ance is total abstinence from all bad
things and moderation in all good
things. Experience, science, and COM
mon sense tell us that alcoholic drinks
are bad without one redeeming quail
ty. And the mighty army of total abb
stainers of all the great temperance
organizations and churches have ac-
cepted the definition as the only true
one to adopt.-National Temperance
Advocate
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winter" replied the man from the
back districts Didn't s'pect I'd be
saltin' of him down for mex summer,
did YEP"
''iev We got bar to salt?" asked
the wise-loolling old woodsman
IF 1t were coon or a grOun' hog"
said the other, do we s'pose I'd be
astin We ez to how bar would salt
DOWN."
rs yer bar dead?" asked the wise
man.
Course not" exclaimed the man
from the back districts. Pm goin ter
salt him down alive, hide an taller,
claws an gizzard, an all his fixin's,
from the top OF his snout to the end of
his tail! Any durn lunkhead knows
that saltcd live bar orter be better
chawin, long in the winter than salt
ed dead bar"
''How old is yer bar?''
81 didn't canine his teeth ptic'lar
close when he fust showed 'em to me,
but from the glimpses l got of EN-
think he can't be a day less n four
year old, come spring"
wall, if yer got a bar, an he's
dead, an hain't more'n four year old. ="
said the wise-loolling woodsman,
hell salt down better'n anything We
ever socked yer teeth in, don't keer
whether it's fish, flesh or fowl, But
don't salt down the head. Make head
cheese outen it. Ye hain't got no idee
how much better bar head cheese is
than any other mess O vic tuals that
ever was put together An the grease
that We skim often it when it's coollin'
ye can't put no price on that's big
enough, fer it haInt got its ekal for
hair oil, or fer griddle greasin', or fer
curin' the roomytis. An don't salt
down the bars feet. Pickle EN-.
Picked bars feet sets better to a fell
ler's ribs than menny in the wilder
nest did to the children o Israel, time
they run short o fodder. VIII a bar
salt down any way nigh proper? Huh!
Mebbe he won't! If we don't think he
will send him to me an I'll resl it,
That's all l want to know" said the
one who was seeking information. II
don't llecr nothin' bout making head
cheese outen him nor picklin' of his
feet. l jist want to salt him down.
III go buy bari an salt the bar an