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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
HUNTING THE DAUBER.
An Exciting Chase After an Escape,
Fishline Float.


Few people know what dauber hunt
is, and yet it is an exciting chase, al
though the hunters seldom start out
with the intention of hunting. For
the instruction of all who are wretched-
ly ignorant of the science of angling
it may be well to state frankly that
dauber is the mysterious name which
New York fishermen give to float,
that painted piece of cork which they
watch so patiently. 1t is said that the
word comes from the language of the
natives of New Jersey, and probably
that accounts for it's bewlldering
etymology. The strangest thing about
dauber is the fact that its charm con-
sists not SO much in its graceful APP
pearance as in its sudden disappear
ance. 1t is perfectly delightful when
it goes out of sight.
But dauber hunt can perhaps be
best described by simple report of an
incident that occurred the other day
in the Great.Kills of Staten Island. An
italian hired boat and rowed out to
the mouth of the kills, where he
anchored and began to fish. With
high hopes beaming in his eyes he
steadily watched his daub Der. 1t foated
around lazily for some time, and then
stood still suspiciously, as if hesitating
before taking plunge. In another
second it was gone. The angler
struck his game, and discovered i'm
mediately that he had hard struggle
on hand. He had hooked two larre
weaktish; but he placed too much con-
tidence in his line. and stubbornly re-
fused to give the game an inch. The
line parted just above the float Away
went the dauber at a lively rate, acting
somewhat like the duck which the
islanders cali a hell diver. The Italian
pulled up his anchor, grabbed his oars,
and started after it.
Big Joe ellis, the proprietor of the
Excelsior hotel, was near by in another
boat. He, too. broke out his anchor
and joined in the chase. Capt. Vince
Decker, well-known boatman of the
kills, also started after the runaway.
Three or four more boats started after
the game, and soon the dauber hunt
was in full blast
A noisier crowd it would be difficult
to find, at least on the water. The
wiles of that dauber were wonderful
1t would sometimes remain quietly on
the surface, and then, when some
hunter would have his hand almost
upon it, it would suddenly disappear
and bob up again probably fifty or
sixty feet away. Decker made several
GOOD attempts to catch it, but failed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In 1890 Colorado was the leading
silver state. the output of the Colorado
mines in that year being S24, 900, 900;
Montana was second, with the produce
ton of $4,000, 900, while the mines of
Nevada had almost ceased to yield, the
total output OF that state being but
S5,75O,OO0.
DR.. Alexander, the officer of health
of the poplar district, states that sever
al recent cases of typhoid fever have
been traced to the eating of watercress
which has been grown in polluted
water. Every body should see that
watercress and celery are well washed
before being eaten.
-Citric acid, the active principle of
lines and lemons, was first extracted
by Scheele. 1t is found in considerable
quantities in many other fruits besides
these, the acid of commerce being, it
is said, extracted from almost any
fruit, the cheapness being the main
factor in selection.
"A correspondent of the Scientific
American living at Denver observed
that soapbubbles sent adrift when the
temperature was about IA degrees be-
low zero Fahrenheit froze and fell to the
ground hollow spheres of ice When
the temperature rose to zero the bub-
bles would not freeze, whether from
change of temperature or change of
air could not be ascertained."
-Ninety-three was a great claret
year, not only in quantity, which was
the greatest since 1875, but in quality.
The wines are soft and sweet with
good color and body and a remarkably
attractive flavor, which will mark the
year. AS they ripen they resemble
more the wines of famous years. This
is true, especially of the Graves, St.
Estephe, st. Pauillac, and st. Julien,
but applies to nearly all the vintages.
A great deal has been bought by Ger
many, whose importations have doubled
already, and by Russia and Scandi-
navia. The originally moderate prices
have become comparatively high, and
are rapidly rising.
There were 1864, TIA punches of
bananas consumed in the United States
last year. Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras,
N'iN supply Al4OoO Vi biAC IL ulOy
and its transportation has become an
important item in the business of
various steamship companies. 1t is
within the easy memory of people of
middle age when banana was
great rarity. But now unquestionably
the consumption of this one tropical
fruit in this country has become large
enough to affect to some extent the de-
mand upon the wheat supply.-Spring-
field Republican.
The idea that children should
have some diseases when young is an
error, according to the Reflector.
"There is not one of the so-called chill
dren's diseases, except perhaps chicken
pox, but is liable to be followed by
serious consequences, besides being
sometimes fatal. In every way it is
better to avoid all contagious maladies,
and it is quite possible that in adult
life persons may escape these diseases
altogether, or, if they have them, it
may be in a lighter form. The popular
idea that grown persons have these
diseases harder than children is
fallacious. Adults are better developed
and have the judgment necessary to CO.
operate in the treatment, which is
lacking in children"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18

skin, and seems to take hold Of the
system in direct proportion to tho
activity of the assirnilatisg pro-
cesses OF the frame, which are
most rapid in youth and most
feeble in old age. Hence tho
constitution of the growing boy
may be ruined by the smoking of the
same amount and same kind of ma
terlal that could be used with i'm.
punity If the stuff were let alone till
an age which varies with the indi.
Vldual from twenty-five to near thirty
years.
2 Cheapness being an essential to
large patronage by the juvenile, the
poorest kinds of tobacco are used in
their manufacture, and the taste and
smell have to be disguised by the use
OF drugs, added to which the juvenile
appetite for sweets has to be catered
to. Hence the employment of sugar
and glycerine. perhaps harmless apart.
but forming a noxious coalition when
smoked together into the system.
Hence, also, the sprinlSling of the to-
bacco with opium infusions to an
enormous extent. while the doctoring
of cigars with opium is comparatively
slight. In the cigarette, also, the
fumes are drawn directly into the sys-
tenn, while portion is arrested by the
more closely wrapped mouth end of
the cigar and in the stem of all but
the shortest pipes of the ''dudeen"
class.
3. The peculiar fashion in smoking
the cigarette is to blow the smoke
through the nose, and whatever the
practiced adult may do, the average
boy can not accomplish this without
taking the nasty stuff into his lungs,
where it mingles with the air that
ought to be pure, and after having had
chance to poison the blood contents
of the lung cells is expelled along with
the carbonic acid gas, the formation OF
which is essential to the life of the
frame which the carbon is eliminated.
This fact may in part account for the
greater damage done by the cigarette
to the growing boy than to the aver
age man, but the whole of the greater
injury to the juvenile frame can not be
explained without reference to the
statement of the case in the first para
graph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
CONDEMNATION OF BEER.

Results of Scientific Research Give IRE
futable Evidence Against It's Use.
The highest authorities are of the
opinion that beer is an injurious drink,
and many of them think that it is
more pernicious than whisky itself
taken in what they call moderation. {"
The Christian Advocate treated a
phase of this subject editorially in two
or three articles some years ago, and
will not repeat the authorities then
quoted but Prof. Oertel, of Germany,
published a work in 1885 that sets the
matter in so clear and strong a light
rs to establish the belief that the old
idea that beer is healthful-or at least
-harmless-is utterly false Before Prof.
Oertel's time many physicians who
studied in Germany had the idea
that beer was most beneficial drink,
and recommended it in some cases in
this country, and gave testimonials
that the working people in the brew
cries who drank a great deal of beer
were robust, strong and long-lived.
But Prof. Oertel and his two friends,
Drs. Won Pettenkofer and Won Volt,
who lived where the beer is brewed
and the most beer drunk-the profess
sor having a hospital at his disposal
where post-mortem examinations ara
properly and scientifically made, ard
the consequences of the large amount
of beer consumed have been fully
studied have produced work of such
importance that DIR. Schweninger has
a1onta6 hiS commissions ao1
them in the treatment of Prince Bis
marck.
He quotes DR.. Ballinger, who exam
ined two thousand persons in the hos
pital at Munich, and found that eight
per cent. of them died of excessive
'beer-drinking. This life-insurance med
ical examiner says that while some
men in the English statistics have
reached one hundred years of age who
INDUCED in wine, whisky and tobacco.
so far as he knows none were found
who were habitual beer-drinkers. In
Munich it is not uncommon for people
to fake from six to eight pints of beer
in three hours. and during the day
from twelve to twenty. Working brew
ers take sometimes thirty-six pints,
and even forty. The strain of expel-
ling this from the system at the last
analysis depends upon the heart.
After full examination of the sub
ject this medical officer recommends
that, as the disorders in consequence
of beer-drinlSing increase every year
and shorten life, it is advisable for life
insurance companies to take the risks
of such men on short endowments, and
not to take them over fifty years of
age There are, of course, some excep-
tions to this rule, that must depend
upon the honest report of the physi-
clan and agent.
We have for years made it a practice
to converse with hospital and general
practitioners, and their uniform testi-
mony is that diseases make rapid de-
struction of the fat of the beer-drink-
er, and that they do not recover from
surgical operations easily or well.
This was also the opinion of Sir Ashley
Cooper, who said that they sank away
so often without adequate cause that
he was always afraid of the results
Christian Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
VARIOUS NOTES.

TINES have never been dull in hell
since rum was invented. RAMS Horn.
If fewer fathers were moderate
drinkers, fewer sons would become i'm
moderate drunkards. Horn.
A PHYSICIAN declares that one-half
the consumptive patients received in
to hospitals in Paris owe their condi-
ton to spirit drinking.
NEW law for the better observance
of Sunday in Russia will probably
close all the dram shops throughout
the empire on that day.
The W. c. T. U. of Bondurant, Ia
have had five acres of ground given
them for five years rent free, and will
farm it for the benefit of their work.
REV. j. HUDSON TAYLOR saws that
the number of opium smokers and
their families in China who are suffer-
ing directly from this evil is $50, oo0,.
900.
SUPT. Russell of the Ohio Anti-Saloon
league reports that over one hundred
saloons in various towns have been
closed already through the efforts of
the league.
THERE is at least one way in which
whisky has done good. 'Pins," says
Johnny's composition. "have been
known to save peoples lives by not
swallowing them.
IN London there are no less than
thirty whisky dealers who make use Of
the royal arms on their labels and
trade marks. They have been ap-
pointed "Purveyors to the Queen"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
His Big Bite.

Speaking of fishing experiences"
aid the man in the negligee shirt, Il
shall never forget the day when Bob
White and I-you know Bob?-were
rying our luck on Lake squam. We
lad fished for an hour or more and had
only caught few little fellows, when
luddenly had an awful bite"
And you pulled in your line, hand
over hand, only to lose a ten-pound
oiclSerel just rs you were about to land
him" interrupted the fat man sitting
ID the -four barrel
Il had an awful bite" the fisherman
resumed without noticing his inter-
JUPITER, land ! mashed the fellow as
Hat as doormat 1t was the biggest
nosqui;o | eN- encountered. boston
Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18

AT one time it came up almost along
side of Joe ellis boat. The big fellow
made savage grab for it, and came
near going headforemost out of the
boat
The roar of laughter which followed
his exploit brought all the old shippers
out Of the cabins of their oyster sloops,
and they soon became interested spec
tators OF the sport. AT last Decker
played mean trick upon the dauber.
He let his boat drift down toward 1t
and he grabbed it and brought in the
two fine fish. Cheers and laughter
wereA in order, and Decker presented
the fsh to the man with the first mort
gage On them, the delighted Italian
N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
Value of Family Records.

II is the omission of some of the
simplest duties in life that frequently
causes the most trouble and expense.
Among other things, the common fail
ure to keep and preserve family rec
ords is most prolific source of regret
and annoyance to many generations.
The fact that the simple dates of
births, deaths and marriages can be
found for only limited number of
years in thousands of families through
out the country bothers courts, Law
yers, fraternal societies, genealogists,
heirs at law, pension claimants and
many other classes. While the infor-
nation concerning the past can be
cleaned only in part, and then through
the expenditure of considcra BILE money,
the present and future should witness
change in this direction. Family
records should not only be kept, but
they should be preserved by all the
members, because in a few years the
nearest relatives become separated for
ever. BY slight correspondence
these records could be kept up, and the
descendants of the present generation
would be very thankful therefor. The
past neglect in this matter is ex-
cusable to large degree, considering
the vicissitudes in the lives of the set
tiers of this country, but there does
not appear to be any reasonable ex-
cuse for the present generation to
overlook it. Let such records be kept
fully, and they will be of great value
in the future, and save much needless
and fruitless outlay of money.-Boston
Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
why He Is a Strong Temperance Man.

Mr.. Froome Talfourd, now in his
eighty-eighrh year, states that from a
record kept by him till the year 1868
he found that not fewer than twenty
personal friends and acquaintance had
come to an untimely end TIL II in
diligence in strong drink. OF t.,e FIVE
committed suicide, three were frozen
to death when drunk, four were
drowned while drunk, two died in de-
lirium tremens, three who drank hard
died young and three who drank hard
died at home. Mr.. Talfourd sometimes
recites these facts to friends who ask
him why he is such a strong teetotaler.
London Christian.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
Not Fit for NIatrimony.

Beer their favorite beverage" "One-
half of the class do not intend to mar
concerning the Yale seniors in their
class book. If the first statement is
true it is certainly to be hoped the Sec
on6 is also Lever
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
ITS INJURIOUS QUALITIES.
Points About the Cigarette Which Utterly
Condemn 1t.

Points About the Cigarette Which Utterly
Condemn 1t.
The question is asked why the smok-
ng of cigarettes is so much more in
furious than the smoking of cigars or
of tobacco in the pipe, and, in reply,
the New York Tribune says:
/. The cigarette is smoked by many
thousands of boys, few of whom would
indulge in the pipe or cigar. The one
is too clumsy and the other is too cost
ly for the average boy. The use of to-
bacco in any form does Ear more harm
to the person who has not completed
the growing process than to the adult.
1t tends to stunt the growth of the
boy, even affecting the texture of the
bones as well a. Of the muscles and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18

-Five-year-old Freddy was showing
His eyes frequently glanced up at the
kind face and then rested with a look
of troubled inquiry on the pointed toes
the piccadilly boots. Finally he
)lurted out his anxiety in the question:
"Ain't you got but one toe?"-Baby-
hood.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18

California wines are making
market in many parts of Europe. Some
days ago sixty barrels of assorted wines
were shipped from one district to
Switzerland, and the California wine
people think this is an especially prom
Using point, because of the proximity of
Switzerland to the great French wine
growing regions
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18

E"Years only since o fair happy bride,
With glad promise the world all aglow,
Il stood at Thine altar, my lover beside.
How happy Thou only canst know.
But to-day doth my idol lie shattered.
Canst Thou wonder my soul is athirst
With fury of grief that seeketh relief
For my home and my life are accursed.
sand yet, oh my God, Thoult forgive me2
My brain reeled; my heart was af1ame
With that passion of love, desperation and
woe.
When, frenzied, spurned almost Thy name.
oh. forgive me, my Father in Heaven,
Thy ways are all perfect and just;
Twas in weakness 1 fed from the ways Thy
hand led,
I Oh, forgivel and once more will trust"
Nellie Hawks. in Banner of Gold.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
RAISING SPIDERS TO SELL.
A Queer Industry that Recalls the Saw,
There Are Tricks IN All Trades"

Queer Industry that Recalls the Saw,
There Are Tricks IN All Trades"
There is but one spider farm in the
United States. Here and there spider
has been made pet of by some lonely
spider farming as money-making in
dustry is yet in its infancy. The Phila-
delphia Press says: Zone has only to
go four miles from Philadelphia on the
old Lancaster pike, and ask for the
farm of Pierre Grantaire, to see what
can be fonnd nowhere else in this
country, and abroad only in little
French village in the department of
the Loire. Pierre Grantaire furnishes
spiders at so much per hundred for dis
tribution in the wine vaults of the mer-
chant and the pougeauG richie. His trade
is chiefly with the wholesale merI
chant, who is able to stock cellar
with new, shining, freshly-la beled
bottles. and in three months see them
yelled in filmy cobwebs, so that the
effect of twenty years of storage is Sc
cured at small cost" Pierre Gran
taire says: 81 ship them in a crate,
with many holes for air. Maybe 1
send two, three, four hundred spiders.
For them l ask half franc each, ten
for every hundred. In two mon tbs
you would think his cellar was
not disturbed for the last fifty years.
1t has cost him forty dollars or fifty
dollars maybe, but he may sell the
wine for one thousand dollars-yes,
more than that-above what they had
brought with out my pets had dressed
the bottles in the robes of long ago"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-18
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE SAD OLD STORY.

The demon that turks in the wine-cup-
That fury Of evil and wos,
EAash entered the portals Of one loved home
more
And fair-builded castles lie low;
zone more woman's heart hath been broken;
One more cherished idol in dust;
One more soul hath cried in its seeming great
doom.
"FallenI Shattered My faith and my trust "
H'Oh Cod In Thy wisdom and mercy,
Canst Thou from Thy Kingdom above
Look down on such anguish and misery as this,
Saying: Whom most 1 chasten, lover
Through my heart there is thrust deep, a dag
ger;
Another has crushed through my brain;
My s5y.ls in deaths throes, from the burden Of
woes
My hearts crushed v::A bitterest pain,
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-02-22
A Plain Case Of Not In.


The Office boy. with his legs wrapped
around the legs Of the chair, was tilted
back in tho corner reading q soiled copy
Of "Stump Fingered Dick. the Dandy
of the Plains" when o visitor entered.
The boy had heard his step through tho
hall and was calmly expecting him
when the door opened.
us tho boss in?" inquired the visitor.
The boy looked at him with almost .
oontemptuous expression and was slow
to reply.
II said," snapped the visitor. lis
the boss IMP"
II heard you." said the boy. with .
half sheer.
"Well, I want to know II the boss is
in"
"That's . purity question to be askin
me. amt 1t? Don't you know he ain't?"
"How should I known" inquired the
astonished caller.
by lOokin at me. jon reckon I'd be
balled up here readin this book II the
old man was in? Well, ] guess not,
hardly. Come around tomorrow" and
tho boy once more plunged into the
amazing adventures Of his hero.-De-
troit Free Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-02-22

In the District Court Of Webster O. NCA&Ne-
braska.
Union Trust Company
OF New York. Trustee.
Hugh w. uulliford ct al.
Stark brothers, The JOIl-t StrOwbridge Com
pany. The Washburn and Moen Manlfactur-
Ing Company, ID. G. HungsrfOrd, The Case
Buggy COMPANY. The Perry manufacturing
Company. iie,,rge l.. Gulhiofd.- - GulIifef6.
wife Of George l.. tiriiford. (nrst name Gr'
kIVwn). defendants, implicated with satd
Hugh W. Guliford,
will take notice that on the 23i day ri Janu-
AIRY. 1924, the Union Trust COMPANY afort sAid
plaintiff. herein filed its petition In the district
cOurt OF Webster county. Nebraska, against
said defendants, the Object aud PRAYER OF
which are 10 %f0rcclosr n certain mOrtxage exc.
cuted by Hugh w. Gui'iford and Lucy 9ulit-
and assigned To plaintiff, upon the northeast
quarter ~ section nine o. town two (2.) range
eleven IN In said Webster county, To secure
the pay mriit Of u prOmi.sory note, dated May
I'd, 1tyD, for the sum 0f sl9sI. with coupons Tor
semi-Ninual interest attached, which cOuy It's
were for $50 each: three Of which became sev.
orally due November LIST, 1893. May list, 1884, No
vember LIST. 1894; that there !. now due upon
said lrincil,a, note and coupons the sum OF
siala.1l, With interest ~ ten , er cent from Feb
ruary lst. 1898. for which sum with interest
from said date. plaintiff pfays for q decree
thxt defendSnts I've required 10 pay the came,
or thai SAID premises may be- sold to satisfy the
Yon are required to answer said petition on or
bel're the nth day Of March, 1885.
UNION TRUST COMPANY
BY wharton & Baird, Attorneys.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-02-22
Dry Creek

sec by The Belt that Fanny has
not forgotten the good old farmers
that live on the banks Of this placid.
ious little stream.
Frank Tsassnt says II he only had
the wings Of dove he would ay to
the ssaay south.
Henry Harris says he is looking for
the biggest crops this season that Web
ster county has ver produced.
Lon Dsauo 10 going into . new 10.
dustry, that il the raising Of pea.
fowls aud thea We can oil have q
feather in osr hats.
John Chaplin has . new kind of a.
falfa.
Coplin denies Fsnuy's charges, HI
says he 10 not . mixture but . full
blosded democrat.
Oliver Hedge has 6nely got th'
best OF Christ Reiher. He borrowed
Chris new buggy and with it wen
Chris new girl Dolly WARDEN.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-02-22

Elder Horizons last two greyhound
pups, . hog, . calf and . lot Of chick.
n we're lost in the blizzard.
j. NJ. Brown lost fifteen head Of
cattle.
Mr.. Shannon's have . baby girl.
We saw our old friend Mr.. Billius
in Red Cloud the other day.
They are talking Of laying . water
main along chestnut street In Judson
so as to be prepared against fire.
Mr.. Sapp said II somebody could
convince him that We would have q
good crop Re would ike to stay
another year.
Ben Williams took a load Of beef
hides to town last week.
SID.