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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
HISTORY OF A HANDKERcHlEF.
How Mr.. Cough Helped to Wipe Away the
Tears from One Weman's Eyes.

How MIR. Cough Helped to Wipe Away the
Tears from One Weman's Eyes.
On the occasion of Mr. John b.
ough's funeral, at Hillside, little
handkerchief was placed over the back
of his chair, the latter being placed at
the head of the coffin. The story of
that handkerchief was told by Mr.
Cough in an address in Cooper insti-
tute, on the occasion of the fifth ami
versary of the National Temperance So
ciety, in May, 1870. We find it in the
Cough Memorial pamphlet, just issued
by the society.
Mr.. Cough said: 81 have in my house
a small handkerchief, not worth three
cents to you, but you could not buy it
from me. A woman brought it and
said to my wife: L am very poor; l
would give him a thousand pounds if
l had it, but brought this. 1 mar
ried with the fairest and brightest
prospects before me; but my husband
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10

life as it has his humber brother. Tho
cases are rare where the hard times
have deprived the rich of a single lux
ury; it certainly has not in any case
deprived him of his grog.
The liquor seller knows full we'll
that were it not for the nickels and
dimes of the ''sons of toil"-which ag-
gregate in a year many more dollars
than the spenders are apt to think
many saloon-keeper might shut up
shop, many GROCERY be turned into
a grocery. 1t is the hard-earned money
of the day laborer, the mechanic and
the clerk, which, pouring steadily in
the til of the liquor seller makes
whisky trusts and beer syndicates pos
sible.
And what does the liquor dealer give
in exchange for the workingman's
earnings of which with other mer-
chants he greedily claims shareP
Food, clothing, shelter? Happinessi
Improvement? No. He gives instead
that which robs him of all these. He
gives him that which makes him poor
indeed, in that it reduces the capacity
of hand and brain (as employers are
finding out to their cost and produces
mental and moral degeneracy which
renders labor less competent to pro-
tect itself against the autocracy of
capital"
We claim that no industry has right
to exist which does not contribute in
some measure to the general welfare
and prosperity of the nation at large
AS in perfect physical organism every
organ and every atom contribute to the
health and happiness of the body as
whole, so true economic science would
declare that every human being should
be not only consumer, but in some
degree, at least, producer of wealth,
material or moral-a contributor to
the well being of society as whole.
Now the liquor industry is not only
productive of good, but it is an
actual and an active producer of an
enormous and dangerous class of nom
producers. The saloon, the gambling
den, the brothel the jail, the poor
house, the insane asylum, all furnish
their quota to the social discord, all
add to the sum of human misery, and
all are to more or less extent the
products of the liquor traffic And still
the trade" bids unblushingly for its
share of the earnings of labor!
The hard times have doubtless taught
the wage-worker many salutary les
son. If among other things he has
learned that one fruitful cause of the
impoverished condition of the masses
is the unfairneHs of the labor and drink
exchange (of which money is the
medium); if he has awakened to the
fact that his earnings are worse than
wasted when they are transferred to
the pockets of the drink-seller, and
that if he can do without his glass of
whisky or beer when he has not the
wherewith to buy it he can do without
it always, then the hard times will not
have come upon this land in vain
Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
A STAG'S ANTLERS.
The Finest Trophy That a Deer Slayer
Can Possess.

Ene Finest Trophy That a Deer Slayer
Can Possess.
A stag and his antlers are almost as
1nseparable in the mind of the sports
man as in the mind of one to whom
deer-stalking is nothing but name.
let there are not ouly hornless varie-
lies OF the family cervidae, but not a
lew members of the great red-deer
group are found to have been denuded
by nature as well as by accident of the
browning glories of their race and SEX
Stays without horns are called Hum
ME stays, and they are far from being
the helpless creatures one might rea-
sonably have imagined them. They
nave been known to fight and conquer
heavily antlered stays of their own
weight. The appendages known as
antlers are so far from being universal
among the cervine tribes that natural
lists prefer to rely upon other char
acteristics in their definitions of the
several families and groups. But a
hornless stag is so far an exception
that the system of judging the merit of
the stalkers' spoil by the character of
the head and the number of the tines
or points is certainly the best that
could be devised.
Many years ago an antler with fif-
teen points was dug up from the Irish
bog. Assuming an equal number on
the antler that was missing, the mighty
f1 nix to which the horns belonged
Wound have been stag not of twelve
or thirteen, but of thirty points. Such
prizes are not, however, NOWADAYS
likely to fall into the lap of the Scot
fish deer-stalker, still less will they be
able to send to the suffers such mag
niticent examples as those which may
be found in many an old German
schloss. The continental deer have al
ways been more heavily antlered than
the British, fact which may partly be
accounted for by their having access to
much better feeding than they are able
to procure in Scotland. But, remem-
bering that heads of eighteen and
twenty points have been killed in this
country, it seems quite reasonable that
any head with tines in excess of the
royal" should be distinguished by a
special designation. Inere is some dlt-
ference of opinion as to what consti-
tutes royal hart. Strictly speaking,
the head should not only possess
brow" bay" and ''tay," and three
on the top, but these last three-the
''surroyals," as they are called-should
form cups in order to qualify the head
as royal" The more generally ac-
cepted proposition, that royal hart is
a head Of twelve tines, is, however, also
the most convenient in the awarding
of honors where honors are due.
There are two sides of the question
of how to procure the largest possible
number of the finest heads. The sci
ence of the stalk and the skill of the
shooter represent one side and the
work of the forester the other The
question of food is of paramount i'm
portance. Good feeding in the spring
means good heads in the autumn. The
most points are generally found in for
ests where there is the most wood, and
the best feeding and shelter.
Gentleman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
The Loss Germany Sustaius.

An abstract from the German Impe
rial statistics shows that one-fifteenth
of all the cultivated land in the coun-
try is devoted to the production of ma
terials for the making of alcoholic
drink. The liquor traffic employs di-
rectly 500, 900 men out of the 20, 500, O0C
engaged in German industries of every
kind. The loss to the country in money
through this diversion of land, capital
and labor into the service of an indus.
try which leaves the country no richer
than before is estimated at 45S, 900, 00C
marks-an average loss to every family
of eight persons of a sum large enough
to keep laborer's family of that size
for eight weeks.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
RUM POWERS GREED.

Increased Industrial Activity Leads 1t to
Hope for Greater Consumption"
In the general hopefulness which
characterizes the business outlook at
the present time liquor men are not
slow to express their satisfaction, and
to rejoice that in the strengthening of
commercial interests throughout the
country better times are promised for
the whisky trade.
Those watch towers of the rum
forces, the liquor journals, note with
fendish glee the indications of lin
creased earnings of labor" and the
consequent substantial improvement"
of the liquor business. One of them,
giving editorial encouragement to 1.-The
trade" and cautioning merchants not
to ''fritter away" unbonded ninety
cent. stocks las though they could re
place them at the same rate of taxa
ton" commends patience as the car
dinal virtue of the hour" business
in every line is steadily gaining" it
says, factories are resuming opera
tions, and with increased earnings Of Ia
Dor, consumption, the basis of demand,
rs matter of course, is bound pro-
portionately to increase.
How forcibly does this emphasize
the hawk-like character of the rum
power! How like monster bird of
prey watching its opportunity to
pounce upon its victim! The liquor
fraternity deplores the existence of a
great army of unemployed, and re-
joices at the approach of better times
for the wage-earner. Why? Because
it is inclined to humanitarianism and
brotherly love? Nay verify, but be-
cause it's own life depends upon the
earnings of the laboring man; because,
vampir-lilIe, it fattens upon the blood
of those, who, as Gen. Booth declares
are 1.-The glory of any country-its
honest, Woodworking peasantryr
For the falling off in sales corr
planned of by the liquor dealers
demonstrates that this business flour-
!sbes by the patronage of that class
which is popuisrly termed the labor
class. 1t is the wage-earner who has
suffered most from the commercial
depression of the past two years.
The stagnant condition, while affect
ing in more or less degree the carita-
ist and the employer, has not deprived
,hiHa Of the comforts and necessaries o.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
-SA KOREANS AT TABLE.
They Are Not Noted for Their Strict OBJ
servance of Etiquette.

servance of Etiquette.
One striking fault of the Koreans at
table is their voracity. In this respect
there is no difference between the
rich and the poor, mobiles and plebeians
TO eat much is an honor in Korea, and
the merit of feast consists not in the
quality but in the quantity of the food
served. Conversation is not encour-
aged at table, for one cannot eat and
talk. DR.. William Elliot Gritfis writes
of this popularity of the Koreans:
Since capacious stomach is high
accomplishment, it is the aim from in
fancy to develop one having all posi-
BILE elasticity. Often the mothers take
their babies upon their knees, and after
stuffing them with rice, tap them from
time to time with the paddle of ladle
on the stomach, to see that it is fully
spread cut and filled, and only cease
their efforts when it is physically i'm
possible for the child to swallow more
A Korean is always ready to eat; he
attacks whatever he meets with, and
rarely says Enough" Even between
meals, he will help himself to any edible
that is offered.
The ordinary portion of laborer is
about quart of rice, which, when
cooked makes good bulk. This, how
ever, is no serious hindrance to his de-
vouring double or treble that quantity
when he can get it. Dog meat is a
common article of food, and the canine
sirloins served up in great trenchers
are laid before the guests, each of whom
has his own small table to himself.
The Koreans equal the Japanese in
devouring raw fish, and uncoolled food
of all kinds is swallowed without wry
face. Even the intestines pass among
them for delicate viands. Among the
poorer classes cooked fish is rarely
seen on the table, for no sooner is it
caught than it is Immediately opened
and devoured The raw viands are usu-
ally eaten with a strodg seasoning of
pepper or mustard, but are often swal-
lowed without condiment of any sort.
Often in passing along the banks of a
river, one may see men fishing with
rod and line. Instead of bag or basket
to contain the game, or a needle to
string it upon, each fisher has at his
side a jar of diluted pepper, or a kind
of sauce. No sooner is a fish hooked
than it is drawn out seized between
the two fingers, dipped into the sauce
and eaten without ceremony. Bones
do not scare the Koreans. They eat
them as they do the small bones of
fowls Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

--Cholly Chumpleigh-''Yes gloves
are worn in bed at night to make the
hand soft" Miss Coldeal-''Indeed! Do
you wear nightcaps, Mr.. Chumpleigh?"
N Y. World.
DE greet difficulty in mos CASES
bout bein' err statesman out oh job"
said Uncle Eben, 'am de trouble yoh's
itble ter 'sperience in gittin err recon-
mend fun yoh last sitivation. Wash
ington Star
-Bacon-''What are you doing with
picture of football player pinned to
your coat?' Egbert-'O, yes! My wife
pinned that there so as to remind me
to have my hair cut. ~ onl1ers States
man.
-Post-mortem Thrusts Mrs. Glum-
leigh-'Do you believe in punishment
after death, Mr.. Bluntleigh?" Mr..
Bluntleigh-'Well, madam, must say
| have heard some pretty tough funeral
sermons. Truth.
How does Tankins manage to keep
up his eXtravagant mode of living?"
''He has credit" How did he get it?"
by pretending to be worried almost
to death over the income tax. Wash
ington Star.
-Stranger-''How is this, officer,
only twenty-five cents fine for bathing
here where bathing is prohibited?" Pc
liceman-"O, you see, we want to al
low the poorer classes a chance to en-
joy the luxury of bath occasionally.
-Fliegende Batter.
q always like the third act of
grand opera better than any of the
others, said Hicks. at always strikes
me as an act of retribution. In most
operas all the singers with second-rate
voices get killed, and leave the fourth
and fifth acts for the principals to sing
without irritating interruptions. y
Harper's Bazaar
After the Honeymoon-Time, June.
The Earl (proudly)-"I am carrying
on some interesting researches into the
early history of my family" The
American Countess Gate of the Metro
politan nouveauriche, snappishly)-
Are you afraid that the facts have
not been effectually suppressed?"-
Vogue.
I'VE women" said the severe lady
with the large spectacles, 1--WE women
should unite for the abolition of shams..
Do you not agree with me?' ''La, mel
said the fancy work woman, didn't
you know that shams went out of fash
ion ever so long ago?"-Cincinnat Trib-
une.
why, Jimmie, my darling boy,
you've got the medal for good behavior
this week." said the fond mother,
noting the little silver medal on her
sons vest. "Yessum," said Jimmie.
Tommy Roberts won it, but told him
I'd knock the head off him if he didn't
give it to me. Hampers Bazaar.
He was pretty little youngster,
with little fat legs that stuck out be-
meath clean, stiff-starched clothes
What are you going to do when you
grow to be man." asked visitor.
The little fellows face assumed an ex-
preston of earnest gravity as he re-
sponded, with a voice which was evil
IDENTIFY shaken by sad memories of the
past, Whip papa. "-Tit-Bits
II say, Jen," called little Tommy.
"What?" returned his sister. "Why, L
was just thinkin'-you've always had
to wear mas old dresses made over, an
I've always been stuck with pas old
clo'es-which of us d'you suppose'n
have things made out O mas bicycle
boomers when they get old?"-Chicago
Record
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In 1889, according to the agricul-
tural reports, there were raised in this
country SOS, 7O5, 900 pounds of tobacco.
The acreage was TAI, 1926, and the value
of the product was S43, $3.50, Cos.
In 1889, Kentucky raised nearly
one-half of the tobacco grown in this
this country, the amount raised by
that state being 2S3, 306, 900 pounds on
1928, 400 acres, the product being valued
at $21, PAT, 900.
Cancer is contagious" declared
Dr. Guelliot, of Rheims, to the con-
gress of French surgeons held recently
at -ons. THE transmission may be
d.. u from the body, but it is effected
more frequently through wearing APP
parel or table utensils; in two cases it
was through tobacco pipe"
The greatest astronomers, in specu-
lating upon what there is in space and
the distance of external galaxies, cal
culate that the nearest external uni
verse is so far distant that light from it.,
travelling at the speed of 1S6, 900 miles a
second, would take nearly ninety mill
lion years to reach us.
In soft coal we often find vegetable
tissue. masses of woody fbres and some
times impressions like fern fronds. In
coal mines we discover stems of moder-
ate-siZed trees imbedded in the shales
above the coal, and sometimes in the
coal. Is not coal of vegetable origin
and from tree-like vegetation which is
fowerless?
baking soda wet and applied exter-
nally to the bite of spider or any
venomous creature will neutralize the
poisonous effect almost instantly. 1t
acts like a charm in the case of snake
bite. Soda will also give instant relief
to burn or scald; applied either dry
or wet to the burned part Immediately
the sense of relief is magical. 1t seems
to withdraw the heat and with it the
pain.
The employment of whisky as an
antidote in cases of snake bite seems to
be nearing it's end. Experiments have
been tried with strychnine in cases of
this sort, and the results are highly
satisfactory. 1t is said to remove all
unpleasant symptoms, not only of snake
bite, but of mushroom poison. On the
principle of fighting fire with fire, the
use of this poison should be a pro-
nounced success.
-Herbivorous animals do not eat all
of natures menu. The horse refuses
the water hemlock that the goat eats
with avidity, and, on the other hand,
the goat refuses some plants that are
eaten by the sheep The tobacco plant
is avoided by all save the goat, man
and the tobacco worm. Some botanists
think that no plant is absolutely pois-
onous, but only relatively so, being
harmful to only certain animals.
Impoverished land is now wac
cinated" on the continent of Europe.
1t is generally known that land is en-
riched by planting it occasionally with
leguminous crop like clover or lu-
cerne, the roots of which absorb more
nitrogen than they take from the
ground. Where the nitrogen came
from was the problem. Messrs. He'll
riegel and Willfarth have discovered
that the absorption is due to minute
organism, sort of disease in the roots,
which, when the supply of nitrogen in
the soil begins to fail, appear as an ex-
crescence, draw nitrogen from the air
and so enrich the soil again.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10

Mr.. Stacy Marks anecdote of the
moneyinding dog, which he attributes
to Landseer, is a very prince among all
stories of the kind The dogs MASTER
in the presence of skeptical friend,
hid five-pound note in the bole of a
tree when the dog was paying him no
attention. Go, fetch!' he said, some
time afterward, while returning by an
other road, without further eXplana-
ton. The dog trotted oil, and it was
few hours before he joined the two at
home. AS there We're no signs of a
note, t.Ie slteptical friend grew satiri-
cal. Bat thu host opened the dogs
mouth, and five sovereigns were con-
cealed under his tongue. lie had found
the note, been to the bankers, anu ex-
changed il Tor gold. Spectator.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
FRIENDLY BRIGANDS.
Some of the Mildest hammered Williams
That Ever Cut a Throat.


A German lady told me that about
four years ago family of compatriots
of hers rented villa for the season
near Palermo. All the elders were i'm
peratively, and quite unexpectedly,
summoned home, but a convalescent
daughter could only leave the south at
the risk of her life. What were these
poor people to do? Everyone said that
the country was so unsafe;' life and
property We're not respected at all"
My friends friends consulted a neigh
Dor who knew Sicily long and we'll,
and they received this strange advice:
Call upon the brigands; say that you
confde in their honor; that you leave
your villa and the young lady in their
keeging-all will then be we'll" And
all was well!
Nightly one of other of the dreaded
band would call to inquire after the
health of the convalescent. Fresh flow
ers were presented on each occasion.
After a while the brigands sang a sere-
made. Judging it to have been appre-
ciated, from time to time they re-
peated their musical attention. The
girl felt that these indeed must be
1.-The mildest hammered (men) that ever
cut a throat" Needless to say, the
gentle brigands never troubled any
person and never appropriated any
property belonging to that villa. When,
two years later, the signorina tedesca
was about to be married, her friendly
outlaws sent her pretty and valuable
observation-disclosures Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
CALIFORNIA; Curse.

1t is stated that there are more sa-
looms, more criminals and more insane
in California than in any other state
in proportion to population. There are
fourteen thousand saloons, one to every
eighty-six of the population; also
twenty-seven hundred criminals in the
two state prisons, and forty-seven hun
dred insane in the five state asylums
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10

30, was so glad to hear of your
marriage." said the friend who had nos
seen her for years. Il do hope you got
nice man with no bad habits"
''lle has only one" said the youngish
woman. The mother habit"
"The mother habit?"
eyes. Mothers coffee, mothers pies
and all that sort of thing. don't be-
lieve can ever break h!Sn Of it, either"
Cincinnati Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10

A large manufacturing firm in Gin
cinnati recently made the following
statement: "A drinking man will turn
out from twenty to thirty per cent. less
work than non-drinker; and, in addi-
ton, his work is apt to be defective
and require ovcrhauling."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10

"Oh, my. oh, myl" cried out the rye,
ITO serve the drunkard shall l die?
/ hoped to bless the world with bread;
But poison must yield instead"
The graceful hor-vines quake with fear,
Lest they must help make ale and beer,
And all their heart was filled with pain,
That they should swell the brewers gain.
The grapevine and the apple tree
Grieved over what their fate might be;
Must rosy fruit and clusters fine
Fill cider casks and watts of wine?
Temperance Teacher.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
NATURES LAMENT.

Ow BOWED the
maize its tasseled
head,
And sighed: "Ah,
would that l were
dead,
Sunshine and show
err have been in
vain,
For whisky claims
my golden grain"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-01
NEW EYEBROWS.
A London Perfumer Who Will Make You
 the Real Article.

 A London Perfumer Who Will Make You
 the Real Article.
 We learn from French sources that a London perfumer has found new way of fixing up eyelashes and eyebrows. In stead of painting them in the usual vul- gar old style he puts the genuine article there, and professional and amateur beauties of the great city are f1ocking to him to be made just too lovely for any thing. The operation is said to be ex- tremely delicate, though by no means painful. He takes hair from the head of the beauty, or, if she does not like precisely the color of her own hair, he takes one of any other color that she likes, threads an extremely fine needle with the hair, runs it along inside the skin of the eyelid, sewing sailmaker's s fashion, but leaving the loops sufficient ly long to enable him to cut them after ward, so that they will form range of beautiful fringe and look perfectly nat uraL For eyebrows he does the same thing, but the eyebrow operation is of course less delicate,
 Arched eyebrows, bushy eyebrows, straight eyebrows, crooked eyebrows. all sorts of eyebrows, in any color or shade or form, this wonderful perfumer makes for the ladies of London, and it is said that his success is something as tonishing. New York Sun.