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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
EQUINE PATHFINDER.
Remarkable Instinct of Some Quadrupeds
as to the Way Home.

as to the Way Home.
Horses and mules are known by all
who have much experience with them
as famous pathfinders.
A good story of this power in the
horse tribe is told of mule by John T..
Campbell, of Rockland, Ind. In the
early days OF prospecting in Oregon a
party was in the field, and had covered
a very circuitous course, which they de-
pended on civil engineer to enable
them to retract, should they see any
objects worthy of revisit. Having de-
cided to return to the home camp by the
must direct route, the engineer, after
calculating ATTITUDES and departures,
pointed out what he believed to be the
correct direction along which they must
proceed to reach the desired point.
When night overlook them they found
that they were not at the home camp,
as they expected to be, though the ell
gineer assured them that they were not
far away from the desired point, al
though he was quite unable to say in
which direction it was best to turn.
At this stage of their wanderings the
driver of the team turned one of the
mules loose, and at once, much to the
discontinue of the engineer and the
amusement of the rest of the party, it
set off in a direction that brought then.
to the home camp. Now, this mule
had never before been allowed to wan-
der in this locality, for fear that it
would stray and become lost, nor had
it ever before been over the route by
which they had reached the pointwherc
the engineer was at fault. TWAS after
dark; there was no one at the camp TO
make any noise that its sharp ears
might detect, and the way was entirely
unknown to. it. How had it at once
taken the route that would lead to
camp?
case allied to this happened to me
in the Blue mountains of Jamaica,
been in the parish, where l was lost
in tropical storm, took me back to the
point from which we had started in the
morning, and that by much nearer
route, entirely new 10 both of us. While
/ was aware by the growth of the trees
that we were headed in the right gen
eral direction, it was at any time i'm
possible for me to see more than 100
yards ahead. At the time that | left
the main trail and got on what after
ward proved TO ts a much shorter cut,
it was impossible for me to see any
thing in the binding fury of the cloud
burst. How the pony found its way
with so much satisfaction to itself
it never for an instant appeared to fall
ter on its course-I was unable to de-
termine. 1t was more than once my
experience after that, when we had
any difference OF opinion as to the ram
flied ways in those Jamaica hills, that
the pony's Judgment was the best to de-
pend upon, to find the place where it
last had its fodder, although it was at
times annoying when that place was
not where L wanted to go.-Popular
Science News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
Dampness should Be Avoided.

Dampness in dairy houses should be
studiously avoided. Dampness pro-
d1ces fungoid growth, not only devel-
oping but increasing organic germs;
and there are, when the conditions are
favorable, countless invisible germs
boating in the air to attack the milk
and spoil it and the butter Then be-
ware of damp floors. A little lime
scattered around, or placed in box in
the dairy house, will absorb large
quantity of the moisture. But the first
important step to take is to see to the
drainage; see that it is as perfect as
possible Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
ALCOHOLISM AND INSANITY.
Important Statistics Showing Their ReIa-
tion in Franco and America.

ton In France and America.
In the course of a report recently
submitted to the state department by
MIR. c. W. Chancellor, United States conf
sui at Havre, France, he gives some inns
portant statistics in reference to the
relation of alcoholism and insanity
He says:
"In France it has been found that
insanity has increased pari passu with
the increase of drunkenness. 1t is COM
puted that in 1884 the numeber of in
sane persons in France had increased
to 1873 per 100000 inhabitants; in 1885
the number had increased to 1876, and it
is fair to assume that the increase has
progressed with an equal step since
then, so that the number of insane in
rance at this time may be reckoned
at 166 per 100000 of population, the
increase being, it is said, in a direct
ratio to the increased production and
consumption of alcoholic drinks.
Comparing statistics, we are led to
infer, if like causes produce like effects,
that alcoholism is on the increase in
other countries besides France. In
1883 Italy contained 67 and Germany
So insane persons, respectively, for
every 100000 of population-a notice
able increase over previous years. The
United States in 1850. with population
OF 23,000,000 inhabitants, had 1850 in
sane; in 1860, with 100000 inhab-
itants, there were 24,042 insane: in
1870, with 3S,5OO,OoO inhabitants, there
were 81 ,432 insane; in 1880, with popu-
lation of 50,000,000, there We're 91,097
insane. Thus it will be seen that while
the population of the United States
from 1850 to 1880 had only a little more
than doubled, the number of insane
had seXtupled, and in the following ten
years-from 1880 to 1S9O-for an in
crease of 80 per cent. of inhabitants
there has been an augmentation of 115
per cent. of insane.
but it is illogical to attribute this
alarming increase of insanity in the
United States solely to the Increased
consumption of alcoholic drinks. There
are in the United States contributing
causes which do not operate to the same
extent in other countries, and one
which has no existence in any other
country. We have, in common with
other countries, morphinism, cocain-
ism, chloralism, chloroformism, the
ever-growing conflicts between labor
and capital and the excessive thirst for
wealth which exists in the United
States, and which tends to enfeehle
the mind and dethrone the reason. The
effects of our great war have also added
materially to the insanity percentage.
The theory of the French moralists
that alcoholic liquors alone are re-
sponsible for the increase of insanity
in France, cannot, therefore, properly
be wholly applied to the United States,
where there are other potential condi-
tons at work to produce similar re.
suits.
Undoubtedly it would be a great
desideratum to effect modification of
the use of alcoholic drinks in the United
States, and to substitute for them cheap
wines, as it is proposed shall be done in
France, both as to brandy and absinth;
but the question is, how can it be acy
comDliShed 2'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
Raeher Die Than Drink Brandy.

An incident occurred recently illus
trating a remarkable strength of reso-
luton. Walter Alley was thrown from
wagon, and the wagon then over
turned upon him. He was taken to IL
drug store near by, and restoratives APP
piled. Some one brought a glass of
brandy and put it to his lips. He shook
his head and murmured: Let me die
before you give me that 1t seems
that at one time in his life Mr.. Alley
would occasionally imbibe. Several
years ago he made a resolution never to
touch another drop as long as he lived,
and he has stuck to it.-N0shyille Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

The Greek nose was straight and
tolerably prominent.
The one prudence in life is concen-
tration; the one evil is dissipation
Emerson.
Among the 1000 persons making up
the population of Alfred, Me, are "a be-
tween the ages of 80 and 80 years.
Springfield, Ill, is built on 51s
square lailes of ground and has 3d.
900 population, who owe SyU2, $50 als1
own $685., i95.
Among the Mongolians, Indians
and negroes, the internal cavities OF the
hose are more largely developed than
among the Caucasians.
"A woman working in factory at
Coloma, Mich, for IS cents a day. last
week fell heir to Il fortune of 5000
through the death of an uncle in Ger
many.
The tapir's snout is an extension of
his nose. This singular animal is re-
garded by some naturalists as the inter-
mediate class between the elephant and
the pig.
The whales nose is on top of his
head, at least his nostrils are situated
there, through which he eApels the col
umns of water during the action known
as 'spouting." Whales only spout when
they are feeding.
The shovel fish uses his nose as a
tool to make his living. By means of his
nasal proturberance he turns over the
mud of the bottom of the sea and un-
earths the worms and small shell fish
on which he feeds.
The treasury circulation statement
issued February 1 gives the amount OF
gold in the United States, outside the
treasury, as $499, 11O,535. The amount
of all kinds of money in circulation is
placed at 81, $50, 720, 6O7, an increase since
January l, 1896, of $10,513, 1888. The per
capita circulation is $22.47.
Strangely enough, the city of Phil
adelphia has never had a fitting monu-
ment to its most illustrious citizen,
Benjamin Franklin. But it will have at
least two in the near future. Justus C.
Strawbridge, of Philadelphia. has COM
missioned John j. Boyle to model IL
statue of Franklin, and another statue
of him will soon be erected by the Fair
mount Park Art association.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12

Costs q Sailor His Vessel and His Wife
and Two Children.
I think it was Dr. Richard Newton
who related the following story. A
sailor arose in a temperance meeting.
He said:
'Afy friends, I don't know how to
make speech, but want to tell you
what one glass of rum did for me. l
had small vessel on the coast. My
brother was the mate and there were
two other sailors. 1 had my wife and
two children on board. One night it
was stormy. My brother was to keep
watch that night. The sailors per-
suaded him to take one glass of rum to
help him through the night. He was
not used to liquor. 1t overcame him
and he sank into heavy sleep. Invoke
after midnight to find my vessel a
wreck. l took one of my little ones in
my arms and my wife took the other.
For hours we battled with the cold
waves. After long struggle the waves
swept the little one from my embrace.
Before long the other little one was
swept from the arms of my wife, and
our darlings were lost from lis forever.
We battled on with the storm and the
waves. Then looked at my wife and
she was cold in death. 1 struggled on
and made my way TO the shore. Then
Ifound that my wife, my children and
all l had in the world were snatched
away from me by one glass of rum"
One glass of rum always calls for
more, for within the cup there turks Il
curse which all who drink shall feel"
as the poet says. Drunkenness destroys
both sense and soul.
A drunkard remarked boastfully: "I
can drink more liquor than any other
Yuan 1 ever heard of''-as if the shame
full fact was something to be proud of.
Perhaps he had never heard Thomas
Eandolph's opinion of such men, viz:
For he that holds more wine than others
can,
I rather count hogshead than a man."
In the time of Oliver Cromwell the
magistrates in the north of England
punished drunkenness by making the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
PUNG RIDING IN BOSTON.
A Very Unique Way of Indulging II
Fun.


Speaking of sleighs, the practice Of
pung riding on the part of young girls
seems to be alarmingly on the increase.
1t has been common enough in other
years, but recently it has, to judge
without an actual census, been I'M
precedented. The driver of grocery
wagon says that he can get along with
the boys, but that the girls beat him.
"You can lick off the boys" he says,
''but how are you going to lick off
girls?"
Certainly they won't take no for
an answer, and generally they do not
observe the formality of asking per-
mission to mount sleigh. They jump
on anywhere-on the runner, on the
rvener, oil the seat with the driver;
they tumble in backward over the tall
board, and drag screaming behind,
holding on by the tips of their fingers.
Some of the girls who thus assault the
passing sleighs are alarmingly small,
and others are alarmingIy large.
Some are also alarmingly wei dressed.
The centers of the pung riding diver
sion are such streets as Columbus
avenue, West Newton street, and other
South end thoroughfares, but the sport
is not unknown on Commonwealth
avenue, and even Beacon street! To
leave out of the discussion the question
whether the amusement is n decorous
one, it certainly should be discouraged,
because it is dangerous. In these days
Of electric ears, young children should
hardly be allowed to run at large on
the streets, especially in the pursuit
Of an amusement that often absorbs
their attention so completely that they
cannot be depended upon to look out
for passing cars.-Boston Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH.
Customs in Regard to His Treatment Ara
Slowly Changing.

Slowly Changing.
The southern people say that a north
ern man, after living south few wears,
is fierce negro-hater, far outdoing
the southern man in his antagonist
to the negro race, much more intoler-
ant of the Negroes inherent character
istics. 1t is, however, the northern
people who are helping ehe negroes to
educate themselves. This is not said
in criticism Of the southern people,
for conditions were made for them long
ago, and their feelings and opinions
IL regard to the whole negro question
are the result of hereditary environ
ment, which will in time be changed
by the new conditions.
1t is simply impossible for them to
look at the negro as we do. Illustra-
tons of this are constantly met in
going about the city. One morning,
when starting for the fair grounds,
Il bus driver on his way back fro4
the grounds drew up his horse to tbs
walk, where several We're waiting for
the car, and said if we would mel Ike up
load he would turn around. When
we started off there was room for two
more in the bus and room for one on
the seat with the driver. | sat next to
the driver on the inside, and we had
gone only few rods when a neatly
dressed very respectable young COLI
ored woman and a boy, also WELL
dressed, sgnifed by a slight gesture
that they wanted to ride. The driver
did not see it, SO L said: "There are
two passengers" He drew up to the
walk and the woman and boy got in.
The driver looked around at them, and
then, utterly regardless of their feel
ings, said in loud voice: If / had
known it was niger wouldn't have
stopped" But he did not turn them
out. A few rods further an Italian.
dirty and ill-kept, stood with his harp
by his side, as if he also were waiting
for ride, and our driver pulled up his
horses and pointed to the seat beside
him; but the harpist was not ready
to go, so we drove on.
1t is simply a confiction of ideasp
not personal antipathy. A young
southern woman was shocked because
we two northern women went to lunch
in the negro building. She acknowl-
edged that colored cook always pre-
pared her meals, and a colored waiter
always served her, but to go to a res
taurant where a colored mans brain
managed the business, and colored
man or woman might occupy table
next to you--that she could not con-
ceive of white persons doing.
The negro has, however, made q
great stride by this exhibition. Not
so much by the simple showing what
they can manufacture as by the fact
that they are allowed to do it in such
peaceable and even friendly way,
and have brains enough to manage
their department, and to manage it
so well. 1t seems there was some mis-
understanding at the outset, for their
are notices put up all through ;he ne
gro building stating that colored peo-
pie are not restricted to their own
building, but are at liberty TO go wher-
ever they please inside the grounds,
enjoying the same privileges as their
white neighbors.-Springfield (Mass.l
Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
A Startling Illustration.

The people of the republic spend for
liquor 5000, 100000 annually. A silver
dollar is nearly one-eighth of an inch
thick. Pile dollars up as many as would
pay our bill for strong drink, and you
would have column 1878 miles high.
A silver dollar is about two inches wide.
Lay them down, and they will make.
a chain 1904 miles long, which would
measure the earth's diameter one and
one-half times. Our liquor bill, made
into an equator of silver dollars, would,
in two years, girdle the globe. How
would "In God we Trust" look on that
zone, repeated millions of times?-
Rams Horn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
Dram Drinkers Argument.

The dram drinker is apt at saying
tea and coffee are stimulants, and tha@
those who use them are on par with
the liquor consumer. But, did coffee
or tea ever make a husband beat his
wife, stain his hands with blood, or dis
honor his own name? Docs the mayor
have to issue proclamation on election
Gay, closing the coffee houses, from fear
of riot ?-Ram's Horn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
EXPLAIN THE FIGURES.



The total amount of the bids re-
ceiyed at the United States treasury
for the last government bond issue was
$56S,000,00 This amount of money
would make a block 10 feet square by
IA Id feet high.
The total imports of the United
States for 1875 were valued at 1871, 969,-
965, which would make gold block
10 feet square by 1872 feet high.
The total exports of the United
States for 1895 were valued at $780,
392,599 which would make a block of
gold 10 feet square by 10 2-3 feet high.
The production of wheat in the
United States for 1894 was AGO, 267 ,416
bushels, the value of which, at 60 cents
per bushel, would make gold block
10 feet square by feet high.
The assessed valuation of all the tax
able property in Chicago, real and per-
sonal, for 1895 was $244, 476,S25, which
would make a gold block 10 feet square
by feet high.
The assessed valuation in 1890 of all
property, real and personal, in Mon
tana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico,
Idaho, Utah and Nevada was, in round
numbers, $56S,OOO,OOO, the amount of
the bond bid.
The amount of the bond bid, coined
into $50 pieces, would make pile of
gold containing, approximately, 1850
cubic feet. The amount of cash on
deposit in the country's savings banks
alone, in 1895, was $1,S10,5 1923, or a
fraction over three times the amount
of the bond bid.-N. Y. Mail and Ex-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12

kentucky has had on her statute books
for nearly three years law requiring
that the effects of alcoholic drinks on
the human system shall be taught in
the public schools, similar to the law
now stirring things in New York pub
lie schools. But the law has been prac-
tically ignored, perhaps from feeling
among Kentucky teachers that it in
some way implies libellous or disloyal
suggestion concerning the sour mash
state.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12

An electric hen has recently been in
vented, which is claimed to be superior
to the natural article of flesh, feathers
and blood except that it capnot lay
eggs. When the electric incubator
has produced the chickens, an electric
:oster-mother takes them in charge.
The upper part is devoted to the fresk-
ly Matched, while the bower part is So
arranged that the young can run
around on the ground and at the same
time find heat and protection when
they require it.--Chicago Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12

An Englishwoman, by name Mrs.
Bygrove, made Il flying visit to WASH
ington last week. She appeared at the
patent office clad in an improved gar
uent, comprising bifurcations and
skirts. just what it was technically
called isn't told yet. Mrs. Bygrove
had made a number of imp ovements,
on which her attorneys here filed APP
plcations for patents. Mrs. Bygrove
gave an exhibition to the authorities
of the working of the patent bifurca-
lions, then announced that her bust
ness was done, and she would return to
England on the following day. 1t
then came out that she had only ar.
rived from England day before, and
had come over here simply to patent
her dress reform improvements and
rush back. There's a sample of the
modern woman.-Chicago News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-03-12
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
ONE GLASS OF RUM

Costs q Sailor His Vessel and His Wife
and Two Children.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-17

The formal notification OF Bryan
and Sewall Of their nominations, viii
take place at Madison Square, New
York, July Il, and Mr.. Bryan will
open the campaign then and their in a
great speech. He proposes to keep
the Republicans busy east of the Al
leghanies during the campaign, but
he will make series of speeches
throughout the country. Mr.. Bryan,
who has made many speeches in many
States the past year, is perfectly con-
fident from the demonstrations he
has seen, that the people, with the
platform that has been given him, will
rise up and elect him.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-17
EarnA for Sale.

If not sold privately before that time, will
on Monday, September eth. 1896, sell at public
auction, at the Court House door, in Hopkins
vile, KY, for the purpose OF a division Of the
estate,
:0l acres of fine farming land, situated in
Todd county, KY, 81 miles south of Fairview,
and miles from the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, at Pembroke. and being the farm Tor
merry owned by B. Downer, deceased.
This farm is in high state of cultivation,
over 200 acres OF 1t being good tillable land,
balance in timber. 1t has large, good dwell
ing house on II. well, cstern, two barns, stable,
corncrib, and all other necessary out-houses,
all being in good state of repair. Title perfect.
Possession to be given January LIST, 1897,
with the right to the purchaser to seed crop
of wheat this fall.
Terms: 0ne-Shird cash when deed is deliv-
cred; for balance purchaser to give two notes,
in equal amounts, due respectively January
list, 1913, and January LIST, 1899, bearing per
cent. interest per annum, from January 1st,
1897, until paid, wtthlein retained on the land
TO secure the payment of same. Purchasers
will be prepared to comply strictly with these
terms - tC HHG Sissy
For further information apply to
J. w. DowNER,
Executor of B. Downer, decd. Z
e Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-17

DR.. Clardy's friends all over the
county should realize that vote for
Bishop is vote against his interests.
Deny this as they may, the Bishop
men cannot change the facts in the
case. The primary conventions in
four of Judge Yeaman's counties will
be held on August 1st, while the ju-
dicial convention is in session here in
DR.. Clardy's own home. If Chris
tian county slaps Judge Yeaman in
the face and instructs for a man in a
distant county, it simply invites TIE
opposition of Judge Yeaman's friends
everywhere. 1t is worse than bad pol:
itics to fool with Bishop at this time.
1t is willful disregard of our own
candidates interests. .... o..
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-17
slaves In New York.

The climax of slave Importation
into New York must have been
reached between the years 1870 and
1735, According to a report made
by Gov Hunter June %, 1712), the
population of the colony in the year
1903 consisted of Christians, 1851;
slaves, 1901" and in 1712 of Chris
tians, 1851; slaves, 1,775." Col
lector Kennedy's figures 1726) show
importation only, and not until we
come to the census of 1871 do we
find total of the slave population,
then amounting 1902.