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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
SUSIE GOT THE SAFETY.
But 1t Was Not the Kind She Had
Hoped For.


Hoped For.
Susie Simpltins lives in the little
back-country village of Concordia but
even III her childhood Susie was con-
sidered powerfully smart" and too
bright girl to waste her ability in so
small sphere. AS the years passed
and Susie budded into young woman
hood, this conviction deepened in her
mind and she longed for the things of
outside life. She felt that though
doomed to be in Concordia, she was not
of it.
Then she took queer fancy. She
would have a bicycle, and roam the
country lanes of her neighborhood
in freedom and unrestraint. The city
papers and the illustrated magazines
even the art-born bicycle catalogues
penetrated to her rural home, and the
bicycle passion was famed by each
scrap of cycling information she pc
rused
One day an eastern paper found its
way into her hands, and an advertise
ment caught her eye. An offer was
made that to agents who disposed of
three cases of a certain brand of baking
powder present would be made of a
ladies' safety, finished in full nickel,
and thoroughly guaranteed for one
year.
The next outgoing mail bore away
an order for the three cases of baking
powder, accompanied by the cash Susie
had been saving for twelvemonth
back. In the course of week or so
the baking powder arrived, but with it
came letter stating that the safety
had been ordered from the factory and
would be somewhat delayed in ship
ping owing to an unusual demand.
Susie fretted in her Impotence, for
she had told the neighborhood of the
safety she was expecting. but still the
safety came not. She haunted the lit
tie weather-beaten railway station
upon the arrival of every train, express
or freight, in anxious expectation of
her coming treasure.
n fortnight passed, and with it's end
came letter from the baking powder
concern, addressed to Susie Simpkins,
and inclosing one-twelfth of a dozen of
those useful little articles so familiar
i'll the feminine toilet. 1t was Susie's
safety.-Bearings
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
Hints Which MAY BE Useful to Busy
Women.


Very light sunshiny rooms can bear
Indian and Pompeiian reds in draperies
and coloring. They have cool effect
even in midsummer.
The green coat so fashionable in oak
may be given to it by using a satin CT
lampblack, mixed with linseed oil and
turpentine. Rub the stain well into
the grain of the wood, and finish with
| orange shellac. The shellac will change
the black to green. Ash may be stained
dark green in the same way.
A novelty in the house of a woman
who can afford TO indulge in such nov
elites is a boudoir with the walls COW
cred with rose pink crepe paper. The
covering of each panel is gathered in
the center under. large American
beauty rose, made of flower paper, but
so perfect that it looks as if fresh from
greenhouse.
The meringue on pies and buildings,
which should be a dainty foam several
inches high, is often but a crust of
leather, produced by too hot an oven.
After making a meringue it should be
spread roughly but evenly over the
surface of pie or pudding that is near
| ly but not quite cold. Turn the heat
off your oven and bake it about 20 min
utes. When finished it should be
delicate brown. Professional makers
of fine pastry dry or cook meringues
in very slow oven from half to three
quarters of an hour, and then brown
them slightly with salamander.
Dessert and tea services, or, in fact,
china of any kind that is ornamented
with gold, should never be washed with
soda in the water. The safest plan to
prevent chipping the edges is to have a
clean wooden tub with a cloth in the
bottom; in this put hot water and
piece of soap; rub the soap on brush
or with the hand to make good lather,
wash the china in the lather, and rinse
in clear, warm water; then stand it on
cloths spread on table to drain, or in
one of the wooden drainers specially
prepared for the purpose. Wipe on a
clean teacloth; then, when quite dry,
polish the gold by rubbing it well with
dry soft wash-leather.
Pretty everyday doilies are made
from those of the fine bemstitched
linen sold i'll the stores, with border
of two rows of feather stitching in
white silk next the hem. If, in addi-
ton, an edge OF fine durable lace, such
as torchon, is added, they are nice
enough for everything except state oc-
| casions.
a desirable out of door wrap for the
house-worker may be made large and
loose, reaching to the knees with big
sleeves and hood attached. This can
easily be slipped on over the dress when
there are windows to wash, clothes to
hang on the line, or other out of door
work to be done in cold or chilly
weather
The best cleanser for sponges is a
strong solution of borax, in the proper
ton of a tablespoonful to pint of hot
water. 1t will not only cleanse the
sponge, but disinfect it, destroying all
micro-germs or parasites. - Chicago
| Inter Ocean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
TEMPERANCE.
ALCOHOL A POISON.
REPORTS from Germany and France-Bad
in Any Quantity.

REPORTS from Germany and France-Bad
in Any Quantity.
j. K. Funk, of New York CITY, writes
TO the Sun of that city as follows: In
your columns teacher objects to the
Temperance education law because it
'compels her to teach her pupils that
''alcohol is poison" whereas some of
these children use wine and beer"
their parents use wine and beer" and
all are healthy" To observe accur-
sately is rare gift. / gravely DOUBT
this teachers conclusions; many insur-
:ance men would deny it. Carefully col
lected insurance statistics demonstrate
that total abstainers are about 80 per
cent. safer risks than are even moder-
ate drinkers.
The Deutsche Versicherungs-Zeitu
an insurance journal of Berlin, gives
an account of a lecture delivered within
the past year by DR.. Brendel before the
Anthropological society at Munich, the
center of beer growing and beer drink
ing in Germany. DR.. Brendel said:
"Alcohol, which apparently brings so
much pleasure to its partaker, acts as
poison, if even consumed in small doses
daily, by means of it's cumulative ac-
ton, as strikingly shown here in
Munich, the center of beer consump-
ton, by the frequent sudden cases of
death of apparently healthy men,"
According to the same paper, Prof.
DR.. Bollinger, of Munich, proved 1.-THE
prevalence of various diseases of a
definite nature of the internal organs,
caused by the universal drinking Of
beer in Munich. A normal heart or
Kidney is the exception here. This state
of affairs also Injuries the progeny in
most serious manner" DR.. Demme,
also of Munich, declares he found that
of the children of non-drinkers So per
cent. were sound, while of those of
drinkers only per cent. were sound"
The French Academy of Medicine has
recently adopted a series of resolutions,
which not only declare that the drink
evil has become permanent danger"
attacking the very life and force of the
country" but lay stress on the fact that
even ''the purest and least poisonous
alcohol is none the less always and
fundamentally poison" These reso-
buttons were brought before the acad-
envy by NM. Bergeron and Laborde.
M. Rochard, who was foremost among
those taking part in the discussion de-
clared that "alcohol is always poison,
and the consumer who can afford to
drink pure brandy may resist longer
than the unfortunates who poison
themselves in the saloons; but never
theless he will succumb to alcoholism
in a short time. y The coalition
of retailers with the habitues of the
wine shops, the union of those who live
by alcohol with those who die by it,
ought to be opposed by all interested
in public health"
On this awful subject of the alcoholic
drink traffic the conscience of the
American people is awakening slowly,
but is awakening, and when once fully
IL. awakened it will never sleep until the
evil is ended.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

the rich and gay, could turn and bite
them when he chose to charm, as we'll
as the poor and degraded among men.
Yes, he was drunk; and the secret was
discovered, the skeleton in the closet
revealed. He threw off the mask and
acknowledged he had no more power
over himself. Slowly he went down.
First in the confidence of his people,
then in the eyes of the community,
and lastly, in the eyes of his own wife,
who, while she stood by him and chung
to some faint hope, pitied him, lost her
respect for him, and finally followed
him to o drunkard's grave.
More than once have seen this pic
ture in real life. We think of the drunk
ard as among the poor and despised of
earth-ignorant and covered with rags.
1t is not always so. The wealthy, the
talented, the petted of society, if they
tamper with the serpent, will at last
feel his sting.-John E. Lightbown, in
National Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

To make friends with man requires
time; with a woman only occasion.
Experience and philosophy that do
not result in forbearance and charity
are two acquisitions that are not worth
their cost.
A well-bred woman does not fall in
love second time without allowing
n considerable interval to elapse. There
are never two accidents in close sue.
cession on the same railroad.
1t is with science and philosophy in
their search after truth as with rail.
way trains passing through a tunnel
in broad Observation-Disclosures in tbs
middle, but day is at both ends. Which
ever side we go out it is the same light
in which we entered. The same God is
at the beginning of faith and at the end
of science.
a woman has no power to efface rad
ically by the sole effort of her will an
image that has long filled the mind
She must replace it by another. She
does not destroy, SIZE superposes. When
the second image is finer or larger than
the first, so that the first is seen no
more, all goes well; this is forgetful-
ness. When it is smaller, so that the
edges of the other can be seen, things
go badly; that Is remorse. Detroit
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
VARIOUS NOTES.

WHO can tell what men and angels
Sc on the day a young man takes his
st drink ?-Ram's Horn.
THE greatest remedy for poverty and
disease is the Punishment of the brothel
and the saloon.-Attila.
THERE is new law in England
which came into force on New Year
day, protecting women against the
cruelty of their drunken husbands.
LET me say that never knew young
student to smoke cigarettes who did not
disappoint expectations. l have
watched this for 80 years and cannot
recall single exception to the rule
Hon. Andrew White, ex-President of
Cornell University.
1T is stated on authority that in Bo-
hernia, SO owners hold seventeen one
hundreds of the land and own 1913 big
breweries and 35 distilleries. Among
these proprietors are found many arts
tocratic names and that of the en-
peror of Austria.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
A LITTLE ABOUT TOBACCO.
Old Arabic Legend Regarding the Origin
of the Weed.

VI IHt Neeu.
The origin of tobacco is thus given
in an old Arabic legend, reported in
the Conte Arabe:
The prophet was taking a stroll in
the country when lie saw a serpent stiff
with cold, lying on the ground. He
compassionately took it up and warmed
it in his bosom. When the serpent had
recovered, it said:
"Divine prophet, listen. I am now
going to bite thee"
"Why, pray?" inquired Mohammed.
Because thy race persecutes mine
and tries to stamp it out"
but does not thy race, too, make
perpetual war against mine?" was the
prophets rejoinder. How canst thou.
besides, be so ungrateful, and so soon
forget that I saved thy life?"
"There is no such thing as gratitude
upon this earth,' replied the serpent;
land if l were now to spare thee, either
thou or another of thy race would kill
me. By Allah, shall bite thee"
IF thou hast sworn by Allah, will
not cause thee to break thy vow," said
the prophet, holding his hand to the
serpent's mouth. The serpent bit him,
but he sucked the wound with his lips
and spat the venom on the ground.
And on that very spot there sprang
up a plant which combines within it
self the venom of the serpent and COM
passion of the prophet. Men call this
plant by the name of tobacco.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
The Meanest Man on Earth.

1t is as mean a thing as men are ever
guilty of, to abandon the society of
their wives and babies, for that of boon
companions amid the coarse environ
ments of barroom. Say nothing about
the money squandered, that ought to
be spent to feed, clothe and educate
the family, the practice of barroom
loafing is low and degrading habit
that respectable men, whether they
drink much or little, should not acquire.
1t is RIDICULOUS to talk about poor
man having mo place to 60" He can
take his wife for call on congenial
neighbor. She may have such neigh
bors call on her, and the two families
may play games, discuss what they
have read in the newspapers, and so on,
all to their Improvement Chattanoo
Ga Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
NO REsPEcTER OF PERSONS.

Strong Drink Biteth Like a Serpent Who
so Is Deceived Thereby, Bio He Rich or
Poor.
The secret was out at last. 1t was a
pitiful sight. In a room where taste
and luxury abounded, where the hand
of love daily arranged every little arti-
Gle in the doctors study-and now to
find him drunk! Agnes stood gazing
in amazement. Heller husband-who
had so lately promised before God to
cherish and protect her, already so
fallen! Could she have known this she
would never have left her fathers
house and promised to be his wife.
Now what was before her? A life of hui
initiation and misery. She knew he
drank a little wine. But then he was
wealthy, and so handsome and gay,
and had a profession; surely nothing
serious could come of taste for wine"
So she had argued before their mar
riage. Now she was to learn that this
serpent, when hattered and petted by
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
THE DRINK HABIT.
long Train of Evils That Dogs the Foot
stems of tho Drunkard.

long Train of Evils That Dogs the Foot
steps of the Drunkard.
When drunkenness has taken fast
hold of a man, farewell industry, fare
we'll emulation, farewell attention to
things worthy of attention, farewell
love of virtuous society, farewell de-
cency of manners, and farewell, too,
even an attention to the person; every
thing is sunk by this predominant and
brutal appetite. In how many in
stances do we see men who have begun
life with the brightest prospects before
them, and who have closed it without
one ray of comfort and consolation?
Young men with good fortunes, good
talents, good hearts, and sound consti-
buttons, only by being drawn into the
vortex of the drunkard, have become
by degrees the most loathsome and
.despicable of mankind.
In the house of the drunkard there
is no happiness for anyone; all is I'M
certainty and anxiety. He is not the
same man for any one day at time.
No one knows anything of his outgo-
ings or his mornings; when he will
rise or when he will lie down to rest, is
wholly a matter of chance. That which
he swallows for what he calls pleasure
brings pain as surely as the night
brings the morning. Poverty and mis-
cry are in the train. To avoid these
results we are called upon to make no
sacrifice. Abstinence requires no aid
to accomplish it; our own will is all
that is requisite, and if we have not the
will to avoid contempt, disgrace and
misery, we deserve neither relief nor
commission William Cobbett
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
No Business to Notice 1t,

See the young woman at the railway
station.
She is waiting to meet relatives who
are coming on the train.
See her rush eagerly to meet them.
They have come.
They are her dear cousins.
See the haste with which she runs to
Kiss Cousin Arabella.
She doesn't lose an instant
But she is not in such a hurry to kiss
Cousin Jack.
When she sees him approaching she
does not hasten.
She seems almost provoked because
he wants to kiss her
She keeps him waiting while
She lifts her veil..-Chicago Tribune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
Drunken Men In London.

Scotland Yard, London, has issued an
order to the police force to the effect
that if constable sees a drunken man
approaching a public house he is to
prevent his entrance, and if drunken
man does get inside public house the
policeman is to call the landlords at
tentjon to his condition
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
SOME SOUND ADVICE.
How Florence, the Actor, Opened the Eyes
of Friend to His Folly.


of Friend to His Folly.
Florence, the actor, once gave some
advice to a friend in these words: MY
Dear -: The gallon of whisky costs
about three dollars, and contains about
65 lucent drinks. Now, if you must
drink, buy a gallon and make your
wife the barkeeper. When you are
dry give her IS cents for drink, and
when the whisky is gone she will have,
after paying for it, $6.75 left, and every
gallon thereafter will yield the same
profit. This money she should put
away, so that when you have become
inebriate, unable to support yourself
and Stunned by every respectable man,
your wife may have money to keep
you until your time comes to fill a
drunkard's grave"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

Deacon Yailerby with austerity)-
see dat yo' had chickens fo' dinnah
las Sunday, Br'er Biacliie, though yo
am so long out O. work.
Nose Blaclie-Ya.as, deacon; l got
er little job round a hen-house late
Saturday ni.ht!-Texas Siftin.s.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

Mrs. Lightpursc--Her is an article
in this paper, entitled; The Worlds
Debt to the Jews" Shall read it?
Mr.. Lightpurse-No; that's chest
nut, 1 guess. Nearly everybody is in
debt to the Jews; we all know that.
here, put this last pawnticket with the
others.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

Where lives the man that has not
tried how mirth can into folly glide,
and folly into sin?-Scott.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-07-23
f" The Governors Mercy

b. e "a s
This is the title Of a book of 1O6 pages
from the pen Of one of our fellow
townsmen, George A, Ross, which we
have just read with double interest
first because the story is OF local APP
plication, the principal scenes being
laid in the adjacent mountains, and
again because of the ''intrepidity of the
author" in venturing into the field of
fiction. But his journey was not be-
labored and his progress is easy and
natural The story is interesting, runs
smoothly and is very pleasantly sus-
tanned throughout. The characters are
not overdrawn, but are perfectly
natural and evenly balanced, and al
together there is mark ed absence OF
flrst-effort ambiguity SO pronounced in
the work of inexperienced laborers in
the realm of fiction In short, there is
not dull page in the book, and to our
hearty congratulations we add the pre-
diction that '"The Governors Mercy
will meet with the most deserving
recognition of those who enjoy "a
touching tale tenderly told" Get the
book and read it.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-07-23
Shot IN the Thigh.

Lately several white boys, who could
have found better employment had they
so desired, came to the conclusion TINT
they had control of the town and pro-
ceeded to disport themselves in a man
ner not calculated to secure for them
even the slightest respect of the we'll
behaved, peaceably-inclined citizens of
the community. Among other weighty
matters that engaged their attention
was the fact that the colored population
was conducting itself in too orderly
and peaceable manner, and that some
thing should be done to break the mo-
notony of this good behavior They
accordingly decided upon a plan Of
action which resulted in the serious
wounding Of an innocent party and the
narrow escape of several others.
Their plan of attack (for such it was)
was to fill their pockets with stones and
lOiter about the depot until the $3.50
train had passed up, after which they
would saunter down the street, demean-
ing themselves pretty much as they
pleased. If one or more negroes came
in sight they also came in for a shower
of stones, without having offered the
slightest provocation other than that
furnished by their presence.
The negroes submitted to this very
uncalled-for treatment for two or three
nights, and when "longer forbearance
had ceased to be virtue" they natu-
rally prepared to resent these assaults.
Saturday night the colored people
gave supper in the old Fishback
Hall" and the would-be regulators
concluded that it would be good time
to "get in their work" as they termed
their foolhardy conduct About $50 a
young white man, John Davis, and two
or three friends were passing through
the public square when John Hale, 6
tough negro, brushed against young
Davis and applied to him very uncom.
plimentary epithets which were indig-
nantly repealed. The wrangle resulted
in the negro pulling his gun and firing
at young Davis. The first shot wen
wide of its mark, the second struck q
beer sign on the front Of O'Boyle't
saloon, and glancing off passed UNI
pleasantly close to the heads of two
passers-by. The third shot took effect
in Davis's right thigh, and he has beef
confined to his bed ever since. He il
getting along exceedingly well, how
ever, Notwithstanding the ball has mo-
yet been located. The negro escaped
and is still at large.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-07-23
A Hospital in Knoxville,

AA.. q y ttt Nes FL Fl
DIR, s. r. Miller, son of our esteemed
townsman, DR.. E. S. Miller, ST., at pres
emit located at Knoxville in the employ
of the Southern Railway as surgeon, is
out in a two-column letter to the
Sentinel ably advocating the establish
ment of charity hospital in the city of
Knoxville.
The need and benefits of such an in
stitution in growing city like Knox
vile are unquestioned, and no one is
more capable of advocating such step
or giving advice pertinent thereto than
DR.. s. r. Miller, who has had unlim-
tied opportunities for practically ac-
quainting himself with the workings of
the best institutions of the kind in the
country. He but recently returned
from New York where he had occupied
the responsible position of staff surgeon
in one of the leading and most thor
oughly equipped hospitals in that city,
and while thus employed he availed
himself of the exceptional advantages
presented to one in such position for
closely studying the most successful
plans of conducting institutions of this
kind.
Not only the people of Knoxville, but
those of East Tennessee as well should
take such interest in this matter as will
make certain the successful termination
of this most praiseworthy undertaking.
The blessings and benefits will be man.
fold and lasting, and DIR. Miller de-
serves much credit for his manifest in
terest in the matter, and for humanity's
sake, if nothing more, we earnestly
hope his efforts will be crowned with
the fullest measure of success.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-07-23

I will, ON Thursday, August 8, 1896,
open and hold an election at the regu-
lar voting place in each civil district in
Washington county, Tennessee, for the
purpose of electing the following named
officers: Judges court of chancery
appeals, sheriff and trustee, also tax
assessors, constables and school di-
rectors for each civil district in said
county, for which purpose l appoint
the following named persons to hold
said election:
First District, Jas. E. Deaking ; Sec.
ond District, John Beard Third Dis,
trict, W. A. Hancher, Fourth District,
Mat Lloyd; Fifth District, W. G..
Propst; Sixth District, Sam Strain
Seventh District, A. R. Moulton
Eighth District, J. T. Carr Ninth Dis.
trict, W. Hodges-N., Jas. Syra-S.
Tenth District, J. P. McNeal /; Eleventh
District, l. H. Hamilton Twelfth Dis
trict, j. M. Gresham Thirteenth Dis
trict, Jno. M. Mitchell; Fourteenth
District, Will S. Squibb; Fifteenth
District, 7. P. Britton Sixteenth Dis
trict, S. d. Bowman Seventeenth Dis
trict, P. d. Reed /; Eighteenth District
Ed Mitchell.
w. A. HANCHER, Coroner.