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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
TOO MUCH DAYLIGHT.


When the traveller gets above the
SEVENTEEN parallel he must not expect
to find things as they were at home.
Certainly Madame D'Aunet did not
find them so at Hammerfest. In the
one public house she had the best suite
of rooms-two rooms, each about eight
feet square, and so low that she could
touch the ceiling. She was obliged to
stoop in entering the door, and if she
wished to look out of the window she
had to take off her hat.
The windows had no curtains. When
the sun shines, in that country, the
people make the most of it. But as at
the time of the French lady's visit, the
sun was shining throughout the TWEEN
ty-four hours, she found the incessant
glare trouble, and hung the windows
with shawls and cloaks to shut it out.
Even with that expedient she found
it hard to get on with those endless
days. The strange experience brought
on sort of illness. Everything was
topsy turvy. All her habits of life were
thrown into inextricable confusion.
81 got up at noon" she says. 81
dined at IL o'clock at night l went to
walk at o'clock in the morning. /
knew neither when to go to bed nor
when to rise, and sleep became almost
out of the question. But for watch
and a calendar, at Hammerfest, one
might easily get to be fortnight
ahead or behind all the rest of the
world, and never suspect the fact
Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17

MEDICINE AND ALCOHOL,

Physicians Arc More and More Generally
Coming to See the Mistake of Prescribing
Alcoholic Beverages.
One of the signs of the times in the
temperance movement is the steady
growth among physicians of senti-
ment against the administration of
liquor of any kind as a medicine. The
accepted scientific view of alcohol is
that it is poison, and its admins
tration should be as guarded as that
of any other poison used as a medi-
cine. Perhaps the hardest thing q
physician finds in his effort to restore
his patients to health without the use
of liquors is the common but erroneous
belief that they are Strengthening"
and that the convalescent, by their
use, reaches recovery more quickly.
The error is in supposing that any al
coholic liquor is nousishing or strength
ening. They are neither. Alcohol
does not nourish. but it pulls down; it
does not strengthen, but excites and
exhausts; for every stimulation is nee
essarily followed by period of depres-
sion, and this is inevitably unfavora-
BILE to the patient.
There is n grave responsibility rest
ing on the physician who prcscribes
alcoholic liquor. 1t may arouse in a
susceptible patient a dormant, inherit
ed tendency to drink. He may, by au-
thorizing it's use during the period of
s4convalescence, fix habit upon pa
tient of feeble will which the latter
will never be able to shake off. No
physician who realizes this great NOR
81 responsibility will be willing to ao-
cept it habitually. He certainly knows
that the best medical authorities agree
that alcoholic intoxicants are rarely
useful as a medicine; that at best they
are dangerous remedies; and that the
less they arc zcsorted to, the better fcI
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17

both brain and body, the better for his
well being, physical and moral.
In point of fact the physician who
does his best duty to his patient
teaches him the error of the prevalent
belief in the virtues of liquor in re-
storing the sick to health. He becomes
an active temperance worker, in effect.
And he can do a noble and useful work
ia the rescue of those who are under
the control of the drink habit. He can
teach such one that he is the subject
of physical and moral disorder; that
he is a diseased man, but that he can
be cured by following proper course,
the first and essential step of which is
entire abstinence from all alcoholic
drinks; that it can not be accomplished
suddenly, but that there must be time
for renewal of healthy brain tissue.
Furthermore, every physician owes
it to his profession to teach his pa
tients the utter fallacy of the common
belief that alcohol is an article of food
value. 1t has none whatever. The use
of intoxicants in any quantity what
ever, or at any time, is entirely useless
and unnecessary. Furthermore, the
continued use of them gradually in
duces structural degradations and
functional arrangements of the great
bodily organs, thus leading to the
gravest physical disorders Alcohol is
poison, and nothing more; poison
which exercises its paralyzing, mar
cotizing influence in exact proportion
to the quantity consumed and the pow
er of the consumers physical system to
resist it's poisonous action. If every
intelligent physician would thus cor
rect old errors and disseminate a
knowledge of the truth, there would
be great impetus given to the effort
to pulverize the rum power!-Toledo
Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17

"Whew! you make me shiver," said
Watson. SIS not wine the symbol of
good fellowship? And the very first
miracle which Christ performed, when
He came to earth, was to turn water
into wine at the wedding in Cana"
wine made from water, good
wine, is certainly harmless" said Mr..
Gates. 1T is only when the invisible
spirit, which Shakespeare calls devil
gets into 1.-THE alcohol-that it does
so much harm.
Now you know Watson, that this
evil thing, in wine, beer, cider, whis-
ky, or rum, wherever it is found, does
more harm, produces more crime, de-
stroys more lives, than ever pestilence
or famine. AS one of Christ's follow
ers, | am committed to its overthrow.
1t is the worst enemy that Christ has
upon earth. 1t binders the coming of
His kingdom more than all other enc
mics"
well, we'll, don't profess to be a
Christian, you know
You ought to be one, just the same,
and so had every other sane man. If
he knows of any agency which fills
prisons, almshouses and lunatic asy-
lums, and burdens the people with
taxes grievous to be borne, as an hon
est man he is bound to do all in his
power to destroy it."
This wholesale destruction of spirits
took place many years ago, when the
temperance reform was in it's infancy
Mr.. Gates--that is not his real name
is still living, honored and beloved by
all lovers of truth and humanity And
his life, instead of proving failure,
financially, has been grandly success
full.
A certain college enjoys princely gifts
from him, and he is building for him
self an imperishable monument.-Mrs.
E, j. Richmond, in National Temper
ance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
ADAMS FIRST WIFE.
She Was Considered Matrimonially Cor
plete Failure.

She Was Considered fundamentally a Com
plete Failure.
Whether Lilith was one of the female
creations of Chapter l., or a demon, or
something between the two, she was,
considered matrimonially, a complete
failure. She was expelled after living
with Adam for one hundred and thirty
years, and subsequently became the
wife of Satan, by whom she was the
mother of the Jinns, so familiar in Per-
sian fairy lore.
The emphatic remark of Adam when
he first saw Eve: This is now bone of
my bones and flesh of my flesh, makes,
it is suggested, comparison between
Eve and the beautiful but fend-like
Lilith not complimentary to the latter,
while the reference, on the birth of
Seth, to him as Adams son sin his own
likeness, after his image" conveys a
painful hint of the uncanny offspring
born to Adam and Lilith.
Perhaps in revenge for this, Lilith-
the name occurs translated might
monster" in Isaiah xxxiv.-became the
sworn foe of little children, whom she
was wont to strangle with one of her
glorious golden hairs, unless the watch
fulness of their mothers drove her
away. 1t has, indeed, been gravely
suggested by an etymologist greatly
daring that our word lullaby is simply
corruption of "Lilla abb" Lilith,
avaunt! which mothers and nurses
would Groom over the cradles or write
On the doorpost.-All the Year Round.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
PUNGENr PARAGRAPHS.

ibid Jones find the horse he bought
of Brown all that he had expected"
"Great Scott no; he was perfectly
sound. "-Newton IN. j. Herald.
-He-"She has very handsome
teeth" She-"Why shouldn't she,
when her brothers dentist Roger
vile (Tenn.) Review.
Only One Gets It.-She-"It takes
two to make a bargain, you know" He
Yes, but only one gets it."-Bur-
lington iowa Gazette.
The First Requisite - Mr.. Della
wanna--"Are you regular plumber"
McCarthy-''Well, 1 guess can fill the
bill, boss" Mr.. Humph!
You're not not much one if you can't. :"
brooklyn Life.
Big Gum Contract. -"Say, mister"
said d little Fresh Air child, as she
watched the cattle enjoying their cud,
do you have to buy gum for all them
cows to chew?'-Mt. Holly On. j. Mir
ror
Henry, Jr.-'Father, amt a rug
always level and event." Henry, ST.
Eyes. Why do you ask" Henry, Jr.-
Nothing much, 'cept was just Won
dering why they called a jagged old
mountain rugged. Atlanta Journal.
That Confident Air.-''He doesn't
behave as if he belonged to the best
society" said one young woman. mo"
replied the other, she behaves as if the
best society belonged to him."-Wash-
ington Cd. c. Star. W.,
Mrs. Benedict-"Now. what would
you do, Mr. De Batch, if you had a
baby that cried for the moon?" De
Batch (grimly)-''I'd do the next best
thing for him, madam, I'd make him
see stars. Newton IN. j. Herald.
20, yes, you are success now,
but in winter you'll cut no ice at all. "
won't -" retorted the summer girl.
Gust you wait till you see me with my
skates on. "-Woonsocket Or. ~ Re-
porter
-Bob-"What did the lecturer say
when you threw those cabbages at
him." Dicll-"Oh, he said he had hoped
the audience would be pleased, but he
really hadn't expected they would en-
tirely lose their heads-Dallas (Texas)
Herald.
The following story about Oscar
Wilde and plagiarism dates from 4
Whistler breakfast in Site street, Chel-
sea. Whistler said some witty thing
in which Oscar delighted, and said he;
so, Jimmy, | wish | had said that. d
To which Whistler rejoined: "Never
mind. Oscar, you will"
Didn't Want Two Pairs.-Sammy-
Lets take this basket back to grand
mas now" Danny-"%o, sir. It's
raining terribly out. l just came in
and I've got one pair of wet feet, and
I'm not going out and get another pair
of 'em. Wheeling CIV. Ya.) Register.
Big Bug, Small Potato.-A young
man, fresh from college, wore as a
scarfpin a jeweled gold potato bug.
One day he called the attention of an
old German bookseller to it, asking;
isn't that pretty, Dutchy?" ga, ia, >
was the reply. Dot ish der biggest
pug on der schmallest potato | hat efeI
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
AN ANCIENT SPORT.


The History of Falconry Antedates the
Mnmmies of Egypt
In these days of various amusements
and pastimes one rarely thinks of that
most ancient sport of all, falconry.
The date and place of its introduction
is shrouded in obscurity, but it ante
dates the mnmmies in Egypt, was
known to have fourished in China
earlier than 600, b. c., and was intro
duced into Europe before the Christian
era. Its introduction into England
occurred before the ninth century, and
it was for eight hundred years the
leading sport of Great Britain, France,
and many other countries. 1t is diff
cult to realize what an important fea-
ture of life this sport was, unless one
searches the ancient laws and finds
records of the heavy fines and impris-
onment imposed for destroying the
eggs of the falcon, hawks, or the more
ordinary birds of prey. The use of
these birds by people of different caste
was also regulated by law. The king
alone was allowed the use of the gyr
falcon, the earl the peregrine, the yeo-
man the goshawk, and the priest the
sparrowhawk.
Kings had hundreds of birds in train
ing, and the master of the hawks in
England as well as the corresponding
office of grand falconer in France had
but three superiors in precedence at
court, and were men of almost unlim-
tied political power. Hundreds of va
rieties of birds were used, but to the
falcon belonged the place of honor. Of
the fifty species of true falcons the gyr-
falcon is the leading bird. Its home is
in Scandinavia, but the young often
emigrate to Holland and Germany. It's
color is dark blush ash, almost black
on the head shading lighter toward
the tail. Itnests in January and builds
it's home on bare edges of rocks and
exposed tree tops, and is hardy bird
1t gained name for laziness, for it is
such sure hunter that only when de-
sirous of food will it search for game
/ The legs are short and strong and it
uses it's feet in killing prey, rarely
using its beak until it's victim is dead.
1t is swift flyer, its speed being almost
two hundred miles an hour. In pursuit
of food it rises spirally to an enormous
height and hurls itself arrow-lixe,
upon its prey.
The description of falconry would be
so long and the terms so technical that
a glossary would be needed for the
comprehension. The training was done
by handling with much use of the
voice, and the birds were kept con-
stantly hooded until set free to pursue
the quarry. Jesses-small straps of
leather-were kept around the falcons
legs and the bird was held upon the
wrist of its master. When fully trained
it was left entirely at liberty during
the day and given enough food to salts
fly the hunger The falcons of the
royal household were each taught the
pursuit of different kinds of game; one
for hares and rabbits, one for grouse
and cartridges and one for heron and
water fowl The most difficult prey
was the kite, and it was called royal
game" as only the swiftest and surest
gyrfalcon was successful in its defeat
! --i7hna0o Herald. q
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
A GENUINE REFORM.


True Account of n Saloon-Keeper's Con-
version Many Years Ago.
What on earth are you doing
Gates?" exclaimed young Watson, as he
came across his friend standing in front
of his store, watching the mingling of
spirits in the gutter, where he had
poured them. Beside him were broken
casks, demijohns and wine bottles,
where the red wine was still trickling
down to the plebeian liquors in the gut
ter.
Black spirits and white, blue spirits and gray,
Mingle mingle mingle, while you may,
quoted Mr., Gates, with tragic air.
but seriously, Watson, shall tell you
why do this?"
If you can give any sane reason for
this abominable waste, do so. Why,
that is real French brandy which you
have poured into the gutter. Haven't
l sampled it? If it were the vile de-
coctions of fusel-oil, sugar and log
wood, everywhere so common, one
couldn't blame you, but that brandy
and old port, to say nothing of the
genuine bourbon whiskyw
Have you got through?' said Mr..
Gates, with a pleasant smile. well,
then, gurgling along in that foul gut
ter, just aohere they belong, are the in.
citives to murder, impurity, theft, all
crime in fact And they are false
traitors. They promise good, and give
only evil. Did you know that have
changed leaders, Watson? Ihave chosen
Christ for my King. Love for Him
and humanity make me remember
Gods command: Look not upon the
wine when it is red, when it giveth its
color in cup, when it moveth itself
Alright AT the last, it biteth like q
serpeut and stinpeth like an adder"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
RESULT OF DRINK.
Sad Record of Former Fellow-Appren>
tice of Geo. NJ. Pullman.

Sad Record of Former Fellow-Appren>
tice of Geo. NJ. Pullman.
Before the war, and back in New
York state, Charles Gardiner and Geo.
M. Pullman were fellow apprentices at
the cabinet-maker's bench. When Pull
man came to Chicago and engaged in
the house-raising business Gardiner
came with him, and when Pullman
started to build his first sleeping-car
Gardner was his assistant and conf
dant. subsequently Gardiner was the
foreman of Pullman's first shop, and
many of the early patents and improve
ments, it is said, were the result of his
suggestion and creation. Drink was
Gardeners only enemy. Through it he
lost his place with his old companion and
fellow-apprentice. Time and again he
would be taken back to the shops only
to be discharged for drunkenness.
There has ever been a kindly feeling
for Gardiner in the Pullman works.
He has lived at Kensington and Pull
man ever since the towns were built,
and daily went into the shops and
looked at the men working, begged a
few dimes and went to the nearest
saloon, where he spent the remainder
of the day. He talked but little and
preferred to sip his glass by himself.
The other morning, when arraigned
for drunkenness, he stood before Justice
Robbins, his hands trembled so from
the effect of drink he could not sup
port himself, and an officer had to hold
him up. He pleaded guilty to habitual
inebriety and was sent to the Wash
ingtonian home. -Inter-Ocean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
Playing Postum.

She held herself so still to catch what
he was muttcring in his dreams that
she hardly breathed.
MARY"
That's me" she thought to herself,
as there was no occasion for her to
think of any one else.
"Mary must have that new wrap,
even though do have to take it out of
the boolikeeper's salary. 1t is too bad,
too. He is the only support of wild
owed mother
All was still again. She lay there
and thought some more.
"He's just as mean Is he can be-" she
murmured. Il don't believe he was
asleep at all. "-Indianapolis Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
Evidently a Brutal Game.

Hobbies (reading paper)-Heres re-
port of three football players killed.
Knobbes (the football hater)-There,
that just shows! 1 knew itwould come
some time. That game has at last ter
minated in the bloody tragedy that
have been expecting for years.
Eyes, of course. The players, by the
way, were killed in a railroad acct
dent. Chicago Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17
Must Have II Majority Vote.

The laws for the sale of liquor in
Norway on the Gothenburg system
have been amended with the hope of
iessening the sale. One feature is that
license can not be given in town
except by majority vote of all men
and women over twenty-five years of
age
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-17

He (disagreeably)-What the mischief
is the matter with this dinner?
She (mildly)-I cooked it, dear
swell, l was wondering what made
IL so much better than usual. Detroit
Free Press.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-11-20

The white winged angel Of peace
oyershadowed Columbia Monday eve
ming of last week, but met an un,
timely death by being drowned in
whisky, champagne and other drinks
at the banquet given by the citizens
of that city to the members of the
constitutional convention, 1t was a
yeritable love feast with open doors,
popping corks at which the spirits
flowed freely and everybody got happy
and embraced each other all around.
Ais well that ends well.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-11-20
VOLUME XVI, NUMBEg

The Dispatch has passed another
mile stone on the journey Of life,
and starts towards another with re-
newed vigor and hope. For a quar-
: ter Of a century the name Of him
who stands at the head of this col
umn has dictated the policy Of the
paper and moulded It's opinions on
all issues touching the religious, po
litieal and civil liberties of the peo-
pie, sand without egotism we are
proud to say that this paper has ez-
erted such an influence over its read
ers as to be of great benefit to them
as we'll as source of instruction
and enjoyment.
We, like other newspaper pub
fishers, have had our ups and downs.
We launched our frail bark on the
rough and uncertain sea Of journal
ism with fear and trembling. not
knowing whether it would be able
to safely ride the billows Of financial
storms which we knew must over
take us sooner OF later, or go down
amid the wreck of ruined hopes. We
have weathered the storms. We have
stood besides the smoking embers of
home eud Office, and saw the accn-
mutations of life tine in ashes at
our feet and turned away from the
sad sight with the determination to
make the Dispatch better and more
infuentisl paper than ever before.
How we have redeemed that prom
ise is for our readers not US to say.
We have faithfully striven to dis
charge our every obligation to the
public, and have discussed all issues
before the people in calm, dispas
sionate and fair manner. we have
never written one sentence that We
would recall if We could.
We have large amount of money
due us. The fire necessited US to
create debts which we would not
otherwise have done. They are
pressing us, and we need every cent
due Us to met them with, therefore
We earnestly appeal to those who
are due US on advertising or sub
scrption accounts to come forward
Immediately and pay them. Remem-
Der that every little helps; that it
takes cents to make "a dollar, SO don't
stand back because your indebted
ness is small.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-11-20

:ndex to the temper of the conver-
ton, although the increase Of age
from so to 60 years has caused much
talk unfayorablc to The change.
There are only two sections of the
legislative article-the homestead
and inter marriage sections-yet TO
be acted upon. This makes the third
article nearly completed, and the
eleventh that has been considered,
except in the two particulars nam ed
This leaves but two articles which
have not received any consideration
at all as yet, those on the judicial
department and on eminent domain.
The latter will occasion no discussion
to amount to anything. Thus it is
that the convention is getting to-
wards the end Of its work. There is
no reason now, with proper work and
discretion in the matter Of talk, why
the convention would not complete
its work by the end of the first week
in December at the outside The
only matters pending now outside Of
those referred to above, is the ordi-
nance about The Greenvilla railroad
bonds, which is ready for a third
reading; the ordinance to be pro
posed relative to the payment Of the
January interest, and the committees
report fixing the pay of the members
and employees of the convention,
which was finally settled last night,
voting themselves 81 per diem. This
will likely come in for unfavorable
comment by some, as it was under
stood the pay was fixed at 81, before
and during The campaign.
The ordinance postponing the time
for the meeting OF che general assem-
bly, until January 1896, was adopted.
A provision was put in the article
cop orat;ons for State bank ex-
aminer.
It is now Clafin college, and in
the future it is to have negro teach
ers and the college is to be divorced
from the university.