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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01

about a year ago | was in the
county clerks Office, when Jim Welles
came in. l never saw such horrible
expression in any face; his eyes were
deep red all over, like those of a raven
ing wolf; when he spoke, instead of his
former fluent tongue, he had a hag-
Cling, harsh, stammering speech. He
seemed morose, unwilling to talk.
When he went out 1 said to the clerk:
'Woolsey, mark my words, within a
wear that man will commit either sui
eide or murder. There is blood in his
eye, he will have blood on his hands
SOON 1t was only three months before
he committed wanton murder"
"Yes," | said. followed the man to
whom ne owed money into hotel and
shot him through the head-a man his
neigh Dor, his benefactor, the friend of
his family, whose only crime had been
that he had loaned him money. and
now wanted the money paid, or at least
the interest on it. His victim, Louis
Bayliss, was a good man."
"And that cruel shot did not end it."
said Mr. Osborne. perhaps you do
not know that the eldest son of Bay
liss lay sick of typhoid fever; the news
of his fathers death occasioned q
relapse, and he died. Jim Welles'
eldest girl had been married year.
The news of the murder somehow
reached her, when her baby was two
days old. In three days she was dead,
and the baby soon followed her. That
makes four deaths from that one shot
of drunken man. When l saw him
in the clerks Office, he recalled me to
the story in the Gospel, of the man
possessed of legion of devils. ! saw
him two months ago; he has become
wasted by remorse and long imprison-
ment; cut off from drink, his life Is
divided between an agonized craving
for liquor, and a horrible agony of
memory as he recalls his dead wife,
his murdered friend, and his ruined
family"
1.-THE eldest daughter, as I told you,
died; the son is hired out as farmer, to
q neighbor; the two young girls went
to work with a cousin of their mother,
q dressmaker, the two little boys were
taken by compassionate friends; Jim
Welles sold his farm and all that he
possessed, to secure money for his law
yers, after the 8ayliss claims were sat
AAded." - 49,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
"a VICTIM OF STRONG DRINK.

Picture of a Wrecked Life and a Contrast
of What Might Have Been.
They have secured jury in thu
Welles case, and the trial will 90 oa,
said Mr.. Osborne to me.
Il can not see reason for other than
short trial and capital sentence, "
replied; ''it was most cruel, outrage
GUS murder"
Hostility to an execution is so great
in this state" said Mr.. Osborne, that
sentence will be 20 the penitentiary
1t should be for life, but l suppose
fifteen or twenty years will cover it."
THAT will be life sentence for
James Welles," 1 said; yes, and to
think, five years ago voted to send
that man to the legislaturer
How could you do it? He was a
hard drinker, violent when drunk.
When he lived by the lake he often
came home insane from liquor and
turned all his family out of doors; often
in snow and storm"
Yes; it was horrible. Fact is,
should not have voted at all, when
there was not decent candidate before
u.s. Jim Welles came of good family;
was fairly well educated; a fine, easy,
fluent speaker; popular man when
himself; man of some property, and
anxious to educate those very children
whom he drove, half naked, from the
house, when the demon possessed him.
He had them all in turn in schools or
colleges. The other candidate at
that time was just as drunken,
was ignorant and vile to a de-
gree. Still there was no excuse
for my helping to get Jim Welles into
the legislature, and I'm ashamed of it.
He went, and served his two winters.
Kept himself pretty straight during
that time, too. ! think the death of
his wife sobered him for awhile. Poor
soul, she was worn out with the I'M
rest and terrors of her life, and finally
died, leaving grown son. three girls
just on the verge of womanhood, and a
pair of boys almost babies"
I'm the care of such a father!"
And in just eleven months thor
oughly respecta BILE woman, of middle
age. married him." said Mr.. Osborne.
How could she do it, knowing the
lot of her predecessor"
ut was strange; yet Jim Welles al
ways had a way of propitiating peo-
pie, and holding friends. He is fine
looking man, of good address, and his
family, after all his outbreaks and
scandals, were fond of him. You see
it has gone in this way with Jim
years of hard drinking, but with
weeks or even months of sobrietv;
sober-time getting less and less; and
finally all his power of resistance go
ing with a rush like an undermined
like. About two and a half years
ago, he just sat down to steady drink
ing. He paid no attention to his
earm-it was a fine farm, but he left
it all to the inexperience of his son.
He had already laid a mortgage on
the farm, and now, instead of paying
the interest, he only tried to add more
90 the original loan. He sat all day
drinking and gambling; his affairs
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01
DECEIVED BY APPEARANCE.
The Surprising Result of Dog Fight ut
Sitka.

The Surprising Result of Dog Fight at
Sitka.
up in Alaska" said Col. Ainsworth,
1.-THE Indians have native dog, large,
savage and shaggy, which goes by the
name of coyote. These dogs are much
larger than the prairie wolves of that
name and look much more like the big
wolves of the plains. They are, how
ever, and very plainly, nothing but
dogs, and you can see hundreds of
them around any of the Indian vii
lagos. IN the duilness of Alaskan life,
every method of amusement is resort
ed to. Dog fights are common, and L
might say very popular. Every body
but the chaplain always goes to a dog
6ght, and the mere intimation that
dog fight is pending is enough to hurry
everybody through his business, so
that he may be foot-loose to attend.
On one of the steamboats, which used
to ply up and down the Alaskan coast
the officers had a bulldog that weighed
about thirty-five pounds, and whose
mission it was to drive away dull care.
Whenever the boat stopped they would
let Jack-that was the dogs name-out
of the wharf, and Jack would tackle
the first dog he came to, and then there
would be fight Jack was a great
warrior and won all his battles. And
so fond was he of these martial affairs
that whenever the steamer began near
ing its pier Jack always crowded very
anxiously to the front at the gangway,
and was the first one down the plank
and onto the wharf Jack was always
looking for fight, and if he couldn't
find one he felt panied and discon-
tented.
Zone day 1 was lying asleep in my
stateroom. The boat was at Sitka.
One of the officers came down and
awakened me.
There's dog out on the wharf
that looks like a wolf, he said. One
of the deck hands has tied him up and
as soon as the work is over we're going
to turn Jack loose and let him lick
him
This was very inspiring as informa-
ton, and l at once arose to be present
at the ceremony. Jack was aboard the
boat and hadn't yet heard of the foe.
| took look at the victim, which the
men had roped up, and found him a
sad, taciturn dog; in fact, one of those
Indian dogs which we called coyotes
There were no preliminaries when
Jacks time came. When he was turned
loose he started in at the coyote with
the greatest ardor. The battle didn't
last over thirty seconds, but was the
most savage thing of the kind | ever
heheld. At the end of thirty seconds
that despised SLOUGH of a coyote had
simply cut the bulldog to pieces, and
ne was too dead to skin. The boat
almost went into mourning about it.
Some of the bereaved officers who had
been warm friends of Jack wanted to
nete out death to the coyote. But a
fairer sentiment prevailed. He had
won his battle on the square, and
there was nine-tenths vote in favor
Of his being liberated. He was thrown
loose and iurked off with a sort of
hang-dog expression, with his tail be-
tween his legs, as if there wasn't an
ounce of real fight in him. But we
looked at our dead comrade and knew
better. w Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-"Ah, old man! What are you doing
these days?" "a street car company"
rejoined the corporation lawyer, abb
sently,-Detroit Tribune.
I'll suppose said the fair Gus
toner hesitatingly, you can warrant
this hammock?" Yes, ma am" brisk
ly replied the salesman. Its built
for two. Chicago Tribune.
-He-"Tm tired of sitting here fam
ming you and getting none of the cool
ness myself" She-''We might put
our heads together and find way out
of the culty."-Scribner's Maya
zine.
o He (meaning to be complimentary
How becoming that veil is to you,
Miss Fannie. Why don't you wear it
oftener?" And now he is trying to tell
why she treats him so coldly. N. Y.
World.
Practical Aid.-"Frau Mockel, why
do you always play the piano when
your husband is busy writing?"
There's no help for it. He is at work
on tragedy, and have to make him
savage. Allerlei.
The Way You Take It-Heardso-
They say every hearty laugh adds
day to ones life" Saidso-'That de-
ponds; | had at least week kicked
out of me for laughing at a man who
fell in the mud. "-Pearson's Weekly.
Mrs Neutrality-suspicious., l am go
ing to the dentists to have tooth
pulled out You mind the baby while
I'm gone" Mr.. L. with alacrity)--.
You mind the baby, Jennie; I'll go
and get tooth pulled out. Tit
Editor Well, did you interview
Mrs. Twaddle, of the Woman's Rights
club?' Reporter-"I saw her, and she
said she had nothing to say" Editor
well, squeeze it down into a col
umn; we're crowded to-day. "-Yonkers
Statesman.
-Farren-''How much wealth do
you think man ought to accumulate
before he can safely ask a girl to marry
him?" Kooler inspecting him)-''lt
depends on the man. You will proba-
bly, have to accumulate million
Chicago Tribune.
Magistrate-"And why did YOU
AOiih uoOuC Ill Olic SJICcGS turing Jne
night?" Defendant-"f was afraid to
go home" Magistrate-"Arey you mar
ried?' Defendant Goyfully) - "Oh,
your worship, l suppose you know
what it is, too. IT it-Bits.
-He-"That's just like a woman.
She can't view any question impartial
~ All on one side, just as she is on
horseback" Shelves, John, and
haven't you been on every public ques-
ton the same way you ride horse
back?'-Boston Transcript.
Pleasure Under Difficulties -
Gosh" said Mr.. Jason, stopping on
the corner and turning to get another
look at the woman passing by. Kiss
ing girl with them sleeves on must
be nigh the same as funneling into a
bingham sunbonnet, like fellow had
to do when l was boy.
lis Journal
Its a great pity" said Mrs. Hun
immune, as she turned from the, door
with sigh. Things do not seem to
be evenly regulated in this world"
whats the matter?" inquired her
husband. Il was thinking of how
nice it would be if the berries we get
were as fresh as the men who sell
them Was ptOn Star
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01

An English clergyman who was sud-
denly called on to preach to congre-
cation of college students was unable
to speak without notes, and had only
me written sermon with him, which
was on the duties of the married state.
The topic was hardly one that he
would have chosen for the occasion,
but he hoped that it would pass muster
as being appropriate by anticipation.
But unfortunately he did not read the
sermon over and so before he knew it
he had uttered this appeal: And now,
word to you who are mothers. IN.
Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

I'm the year 1891 there were circu-
lating in the United States 81, IT'S, 0O0.-
900. The gold, silver and currency
held in the United States treasury at
the same time would increase the
nominal sum to over So, 900, 200, O00
The first in the list of wheat-pro-
ducing states is Minnesota, having
1872, 697 acres, which yielded Sc, 300, 247
bushels of the grain; next comes Cali
fornia, with $40, SO7 acres and 40, $780,
337 bushels; the third being North Da-
kota, with 2,709, 42l acres and &c, 403, 365
bushels.
AS a result of suit the Dennsyl-
vania Railroad company recently paid
Sl2, 532 damages allowed for failure to
furnish cars to transport grain. In this
case the grGln was delayed at initial
point, but the offense would not be
different if it had been delayed in
transit.
The days of chivalry were not
really days of profound respect for
women. Young women were kept
locked up in convent until they were
married, and locked up in their hus-
bands castles the rest of their lives,
with severe duennas to watch every
movement.
Medieval penauce is performed
under difficulties in Rome NOWADAYS.
Two women, Hungarian and a Span
lard, undertook lately to cross the
square of st. Peters on their knees
kissing each stone as they advanced
The street boys gathered about them
and hooted at them till the police had
to interfere and take the women to
the ponce station. They were sent
home as religious monomaniacs.
"A famous old steamer, the Forest
City, which was built in 1854, and
with the exception of some stirring di-
versions during the war of the rebel
lion has piled between Portland, Me-.
and Boston during forty years, made
her last trip recently. She went from
Portland to Boston to be turned over
to the junk dealers. She was used as
a transport in the union service. and
was the boat armed by Portland
citizens for the pursuit of the rebel
privateer Tacony, which captured the
Caleb Cushing just outside of Portland
harbor
Among the Armenians living in
New York there are some very sharp
traders. In Asia Minor it is saiA that
the Armenians are the only ones who
are sharper than the Jews in trade
Here is an old saying that is current
there: IF you bring twelve men to-
gether, one of them an Armenian and
all the rest Jews, the Armenian will
have all the money of the eleven Jews
IN his wallet before he parts from
them, and not zone of the Jews will
have plaster in his pouch" A New
York Armenian declares positively
tAas this statement is not always true.
-Adulterated Cheese. ago we
found ont that many of our food prod
ucts were made with cheap and I'M
wholesome materials, and now the
readers of an English publication are
told that cheese has been examined
and found to be filled with a compost
ton in which oleomargarine PLAYS a
prominent part The mania for substi-
tuting cheap articles for good, with an
enormous profit resulting therefrom,
has extended to almost all sorts of pro-
| auctions. Butter is adulterated: milk.
unless one knows exactly where it
comes from, is scarcely safe to drink.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01
THE PARENTS WE'RE DRINKERS.
Statistics Showing the Effect of Intoxicants
Children.

Children.
A distinguished specialist has care
fully noted the difference between
twelve families of drinkers and twelve,
families of temperate persons during
twelve years, with the result that he
found the twelve drinking families,
produced in those years fifty-seven
children, while the temperate ones
were accountable for sixty. one. Of
the drinkers, twenty five children died
in the first week of life, as against six
on the other side. The latter deaths
were from weakness, while the former
were attributable to weakness, con-
vulsive attacks, or oedema of the brain
and mem branes. To this record is
added five who were idiots; five were
so stunted in growth as really to be
dwarfs; five when older became cpl
leptics; another boy ended in idiocy:
five more were diseased and deformed,
and two of the epileptics became by in
heritance drinkers. Ten only of the
fftyseven showed during life normal
disposition and development of body
and mind. Fifty of the children of the
temperate families were normal in
every way.-American Practitioner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01
AN UNKNOWN HEROINE.
her Nerve Was Not Lacking at the RICH
Moment.

s
A gentleman who has travelled all
over the world says that the coolest
sact of heroism that he ever witnessed
was performed by a woman. He was
surlvlng on hot summer day up a road
Out from the side of a mountain. On
one side of him was a wall of rock; on
the other side precipice falling off to
valley, which was perhaps half a
mile wide. Across the valley another
road wound up another mounta in, and
on 1T, toiling upward. he saw another
team with solitary occupant-a wo-
man. Such mountain paths are not
only steep, but are rarely wide enough
Tor two teams to pass, except in care
fully prepared spots
The two teams were crawling slowly
upward. In the peculiar clearness of
the atmosphere and the utter stiffness
of California canyon, both sight and
sound carry far.
All at once the gcntleman's ear was
struck by strange noise falling upon
the quiet-quick and sharp. He list
ened; it came from across the canyon;
and turning, he saw to his horror,
tearing down the steep ascent at full
gallop, pair of powerful horses at
tached to heavy wagon, such as the
Mexicans use to draw wood in.
Down they came, straight in the
path up which the woman was driving
"a moment more and sudden destruc-
ton would be upon her.
The gentleman opened his lip to cry
out Half mile of valley separated
him from the woman. He could only
sit frozen with horror, and with eyes
glued to the opposite hill awaiting the
end
The woman had stopped her team,
and sat as if petrifed. 1t was impos-
sible to turn round, or even to turn
out If she did nothing, it was be-
cause there was nothing to be done.
Suddenly, to his unutterable amaze
ment, the watcher saw the woman
rise deliberately in her seat, raise her
arm, and fire. There was a flash, a
puff of smoke, report, and stimuli
taneously the outer of the two fren-
zied horses stumbled, fell, and pitched
headlong, dragging his companion
and the wagon over into the gorge
below.
All this had passed in flash. The
watcher, stupefed and gasping, sat
gazing at the valley, into the depths
of which the mad vision had disap-
peared.
Then he looked at the mountain op-
posite. The narrow road was perfect
ly free, the air was still as before, the
silence unbroken, and the team with
the solitary woman was quietly wind
ing up the road again.
The man, too, resumed his climb, but
with an indelible picture burnt in
upon his brain. Who the woman was
he never knew. A pioneer and a
mother of pioneers probably, whose
frontier life had made her familiar
with danger and swift in emergencies.
An instant's indecision, the trem-
bling of a hand, would have been fatal;
but both brain and hand were under
absolute control. In nine cases out of
ten it is not the danger which kills us,
but, we, who-cowardly commanders
of ourselves-lay down our arms and
succumb without struggle. Youth s
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01
Evil Use OF Photographic.

A friend of purity warns against the
wandering photograph operator who
has cylinders containing obscene
stories and songs, which are ground
out into the ears of our boys when oc-
casion for such corrupting entertain
ment is offered.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01

SIN recent table made from per.
sonal investigation it was found that
fifty-fve per cent. of boys between the
ages of ten and twenty-one used to-
bacco thirty per cent. used liquor and
forty-three per cent. used profane, vul-
gar or indecent language"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01

-Machinists, including under this
rs those who man ufactured ma chimes,
wandered 1Ol, 1870 when the tenth CEN
Sus was taken.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01

We can get out Of certain rrors
only at the top; that is, by raising our
minds above human things..-Joubert.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02

The following challenge appeared in nearly
all the Philadelphia newspapers of to-day
Shenandoah having claimed the non
collegiate foot ball championship of Central
Pennsylvania, Shamokin is prepared to
dispute the statement. The local eleven won
six out of seven games played and the contest
lost was one in which the team consisted of
nearly all substitutes. sum of $500 has
been raised here for the purpose of backing
Shamokin against Shenandoah. The game
to occur ON any neutral field" Manager
tahey, of the local team stated this after
noon that the Shamokin management had
not communicated with him. but, to the
contrary, had ignored offers for game. He
says that if the Shamokinites will put their
challenger in business-like shape they will be
accommodated with game ON neutral
grounds for $500, or any other amount.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02

ObitnaFv.

Philip II. Weaver, at one time a resident of
this town and who has number of relatives
hero, died at his home in Allentown on Sat
urday, of apople1y. He was 50 years old
and was a veteran of the rebellion He en-
listed in Co. d. 10th Regt., Pa Vol, and
served throughout the war. He is survived
by his wife and three children. The latter,
Riley, Arthur and Gordon, are employees of
the Allentown Chronicle. The funeral will
take place at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
at Allentown.
Frederick Simmons, aged 90 years and re-
siding at the corner of Chestnut street and
Huekelberry alley, died at the Polytechnic
hospital, at Philadelphia, yesterday and the
remains arrived here this morning. Under
taket Evan J. Davies took charge of them.
The cause Of death is given as plumbisim or
lead poisoning. The deceased had been i'll
about three years and went to the hospital
about two weeks ago. He was member of
Washington Camp No. 1888, p O. S. of A.,
and Henry Horncaste Camp No 40, Sons of
Veterans. The funeral will take place at ?
p. m. on Wednesday.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02
PERSONAL.

George Mayer, Of Ashland, was town
visitor yesterday.
Miss Florence Setzinger, of Tamaqua, is a
guest Of relatives at Ellangowan.
Edward Danlls of South West street, spent
yesterday visiting relatives in st. Clair.
John d. Trezise returned Saturday evening
after spending several days with relatives at
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fred. Folk, formerly of town, who is now
operating stone quarry in Beaver Valley,
is a town visitor to-day
Misses Mollie Ferguson, Mary Haughney
and Miss Mcguire, of Mahanoy City, visited
friends in town yesterday.
Ike Orkin, the ieweler, is in New York in
search Of practical matchmaker and is pur-
chasing line of holiday goods.
Messrs, G. W. Neiman, John Price and w.
c. Baird have returned to Philadelphia to
resume their studies at the various colleges.
Mrs. Thomas Bolin, of West Coal street.
returned Saturday evening from Philadel-
phia, where she spent two weeks under med
ical treatment She is much improved in
health.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02
shamol,in Mines WIN bs nusr.

SHAMoKIN, Pa, Dec 2.-All of the Read
ing mines in this district will work nine
hours per day during December. The col
lieries Of the Union Coal company will run
Uhree-fourths time, and all other opera
tions will continue on full time. The
Reading mines in the Shamokin fields
have already exceeded their shipments of
last year by 900 tons up to the present
time, while the workings of the Union
Coal company have increased their output
10000 tons during the same time
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02

Baltrus Wellakofsk didn't go home when
he got his pay on Saturday, but started in to
have,a "a good time. About midnight he
arrived home loaded internally with oysters
and beer and ordered his wife to get him
some custard pie. He was told he could have
nothing until he turned over his pay, where
upon he lacerated his wife's scalp in a terri
bic manner with an oil can and beat her with
his fists. He was committed in default Of
$500 bail
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02

Mike Berdin, a Pole residing at Mahanoy
Plane, suffered the loss Of his right leg be-
low the knee on the track of the Schuylkill
Traction Company at Mahanoy Plane Satur-
hospital. The motormau in charge Of the
car says the victim deliberately jumped in
front of the car and evidently intended to
commit suicide. The victim denies this and
the physician who attended him says the
man was perfectly sober.