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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

ago nigh unto Jericho. But they his
own principles! They must be regard
ed Mr.. A. must be consistent, and
the poor tailor must be left to take
his own way.
Mr.. As dinner did him little good
that day; his digestion failed greatly;
appetite for supper he had none; and
on retiring to rest sleep came not near
his pillow-scared ever by voice that
continually rang in his ears: IS. A,
will you save lost soul? S.A-, will
you save a lost soul?'
Early in the morning two men were
seen vending their way together to the
Office of the teetotal society. The one
was the elder, principled in 'modera-
ton" and anti-teetotalism, the other
was the drunken tailor, on the verge
of ruin temporal and eternal. And they
took the pledge together. S. A ate
a good breakfast that day, and has
slept soundly ever since.
The tailor has kept the pledge, and
appears to be getting along nicely with
out the stimulus of spirits. Before he
SlSueu llt pIeuSt lit SuILCICb LhOlC VI
less from asthma, and used to take
whisky TO relieve him, but it only made
him worse. Now, while he has had
two or three attacks since, he has got
round all right without the usual aPpli-
ance of whisky.
Mr.. S. A. is one of the foremost
advocates of total abstinence in town.
Would that there were more like him.
Then there would be more reclaimed
tailors. Would that all would learn
of the parable as faithfully, and become
indeed Good Samaritans in obeying
the command: go and do thou like
wise"
Ny brother, are there those among
your neighbors who are suffering from
the drink habit and are they ready
to perish? Might they not, through
your example and help, have at least
a chance to escape? Oh, turn not aside
in cold neglect nor in heartless apathy,
but haste to the rescue and save those
for whom your Saviour died!-National
Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01
SNUFF INEBRlETY.
Dangers in Preparations Contain
Ing Cocaine Taken for Catarrh.

Ing Cocaine Taken for Catarrb,
1t is a well-known fact that a large
number of persons use tobacco snuff to
excess.
In some sections of the country this
addiction is very general, and promi-
nent in the marked degeneration of the
victims.
The narcotic effect of tobacco used as
snuff seems to cause profound depres-
sion of all the senses, and the body gem
orally. The higher physical life APP
pears to suffer most, manifest in loss of
pride of character and appearance, di-
minished ambition to excel in any
work, disregard of surroundings and
opinions of others. Later, decisions of
persecution and injury, with suspicion
and doubts of anything that is true.
a form of low general dementia fol-
lows, terminating in death from mel
ancboly or acute disease.
Recently another form of snuff taxi
ing in which cocaine is the central drug
used, has come into prominence. CO.
caine is given for some of the distress
ing catarrhs and nasal troubles which
are so painful Its narcotic action on
an infiamed mucous membrane is very
smarked, and is quickly followed by a
fascination to continue the drug which
is difficult to control. The possibility
of not being able to give up the drug
never occurs until symptoms of OBJ
vious poisoning appear, and then, in
many cases, the mind has lost all power
of approaching it's real condition Vol
untary efforts are usually confined to
changing to some other narcotic used
by the mouth. The effects of cocaine by
the nose, in most cases, differs but little
from that used in other ways. Yet
there is certain mental fascination in
the inhalation, as in the use of the
needle, which is hard to overcome The
delirium and pleasing relief, with mild
excitement which follows, makes this
form of inebriety most attractive.
The rapid eXhalations of the sense Of
comfort and strength and sudden disap-
pearance of pain and mental fears and
worriment, all make a powerful i'm
press on the mind and nerve centers.
This for long time is far more power
full than the depression and suffering
which follows.
There can be no question that this
form of inebriety exists to a consid-
cradle extent in all our large towns and
cities. A very sensational story Of
large number of persons in certain
eastern village affected in this way has
some foundation in fact. It appears
that a certain druggist pushed the sale
of nostrum containing cocaine used
in this way, until the demand was very
large. The appearance of the toxic eff
fects of cocaine in several persons re-
suited in an exposure of the danger
of the drug, and its sale practically
ended No doubt similar instances are
occurring in individual cases where the
drug is not abandoned, and cocaine in
ebriety or other drug taking follows.
AS a nasal remedy it is exceedingly
dangerous, and should be concealed and
}ATe. The use by inhalation is more
likely to become an addiction than by
the mouth or needle. The treatment is
surrounded with great difficulties, and
often taxes all the resources Of the
physician to the Unconstitutional of
InebrietV
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01
MAMMOTH MAINE CUSTARDS.



Unique among the organizations of
New England is the Hartford Custard
Pie association. The association start
ed in rather commonplace manner.
One cold winter morning in 1860 Will
liam b. Cushman and Charles Irish,
nelghborlng farmers of this town, met
after some preliminary bantering, dur
ing which each claimed to be able to
eat the most custard pie, and appoint
ed the following fast day for custah
pIe-eatmg contest, their wives to be
COOKS and Judges.
AT the stated time they met with
their wives and two huge custard pies
at Mr.. lrlsh's sap house in his maple
orchard, and Mr.. Cushman, who had
great hills as a sort of training for the
occasion, proved the better pie eater.
The next fast day several other farm
ers of the neighborhood, with their
families, Joined them. and the meeting
was changed from pie-eating contest to
social gathering. After this they
met each fast day, and the story of
their good times spread until almost
I'll IN A@'' iii " III 'Ai'' iOA
miles joined the association.
The last meeting of this prosperous
association was held the other day at
the residence of William b. Cushman.
About so persons attended. each bring
ing huge cuStard pie baked in
tWo-gallon nhiK pan. During
the forenoon, while the women
were preparing the dinner, the men
were passing the time rolling nine
pins, pitching horseshoes, playing
cards and in other amusements.
When dinner was announced scene
was presented such as was never seen
elsewhere in New England, and prob
ably never in the world The long ia
bles extending along the spacious
rooms were loaded with the great two
gallon custard pie, made of freshly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01
SCIENCE Af;o INDUSTRY.
A ton OF oil has been obtained fro

A ton of oil has been obtained from
| the tongue of a single whale.
"A man will die for want of air in
five minutes, for want of sleep in ten
days, for want of water in a week. and
for want of food at varying periods,
dependent or circumstances.
1t is said that the pattevns or the
finger tips are not only Interchangeable
through life, but the chance of the fin
ger prints of two persons being alike
is less than one chance in $4,000, 900 900.
1t is calculated that in every TO-
900 of the English and Welsh popula-
ton 31.4 people are lunatics. In every
10000 of the Scotch population 1886 peo-
pie are lunatics. In every 10000 of the
Irish population 4O.3 people are lunatics.
Altogether, one person in every 800 in
habitants of the United Kingdom is de-
mented.
Electricity can travel faster than 200,-
300 miles In a second, or, in other words,
instead of requiring 20 minutes to go
around the world once, like messages
recently dispatched from an American
CNlllDiblOll' II Nclll tllC JOllutJ
eight times in one second. This would
be at the rate of about 500 times in one
minute, or 10000 times in 20 minutes.
Perhaps the most powerful photo
graphic telescope in the world is that
which has been completed in the Royal
observatory at Greenwich, the munifi-
cent gift of Sir Henry Thompson. 10
weighs nearly u tons, including more
than 1000 pounds of glass. Sir Howard
Grubb, of Dublin, has spent nearly
three years in constructing the instru-
ment which can be used for visual and
spectroscopic as well as Photographic
observations.
A man-of-war is built upon paper
before single plate of steel is forged.
Not only are the length and breadth of
a ship decided upon in advance, but the
naval constructor will tell you to an
ounce how much water she will dis
place when her armour and guns are
placed upon her how many times her
propellers will revolve in a minute with
a given pressure of steam, and how
many tons of coal an hour must be
consumed to drive her at a certain rate
of speed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

The grenadiers of the famous "Old
Guard" will never be forgotten in
France as long as the memory of brave
men shall live in the national heart.
But some of them, at least, were as
bright as they were brave, as the fol-
lowing trustworthy anecdote bears wit
ness:
One fine morning, after peace had
been concluded between France and
Russia, the two emperors, Napoleon
and Alexander, were taking a short
walk, arm in arm, around the palace
park at Erfurt. AS they approached the
sentinel, who stood at the foot of the
grand staircase, the man, who was a
grenadier of the guard, presented arms.
The emperor of France turned, and
pointing with pride to a great scar
that divided the grenadier's face, said:
What do you think, my brother, Of
soldiers who can survive such wounds
as that?"
"And YOU" answered Alexander,
what do you think of soldiers who can
infict them"
Without stirring an inch from his po-
sition, or changing the expression of
his face in the least, the stern old grena-
dier himself replied, gravely;
THE man who did it is dead
Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

The funeral of Alexander the Great
was conducted on scale of most lavish
and overpowering splendor. The body
was laid in a coffin of gold, filled with
costly aromatics and a diadem placed
on the head. The funeral car was Gov
cred from the roof to the wheels with
ornaments of massive gold, and was of
such extraordinary weight that it took
81 mules more than year in convey
ing it from Babylon to Syria, where it
was met my Ptolemy and his army,
Its place of destination was Alexandria,
and here the body of the great conquer
or was deposited in a mausoleum,
which afterward became the sepucher
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01
TEMPERANCE.
THE SCOTCH ELDER.
Now He Took the Pledge to Save
Lost Man.

Lost Man.
An honest shopkeeper in the north of
Scotland, a worthy man and an elder
Of the church, was deeply imbued with
all the peculiar prejudices against tee
totalism, which we find even in America
beset some men of highly respectable
character. He looked upon it as a thing
unreasonable and unscriptural. God,
who gave us our reason" he argued,
desires that we should make use of it
in restraining and governing our APP
petltes, not in starving and denying
them. He who created the good things
OF this life intended us to enjoy them
IN moderation when placed within our
power. In Scripture" he said, 1.-THE
moderate use of spirituous liquors is
nowhere forbidden" And he thought
that some temperance people were put
ting reformation in place of vital god
illness. Thus the good elder schooled
himself against teetotalism.
One day, while engaged in measuring
off some yards of cloth, neighbor and
customer whom he knew to have be-
come almost wreck through the use
of Intoxicating liquors entered his
shop. The poor mans face was flushed,
and his eye excited and anxious; but
this time he was perfectly sober
Mr.. A." said he, will you save
lost man? Iwant to take the pledge"
We'll, do so; it's the best thing you
can do"
But you know it would become a
brand for the like of me, if men of re-
spectacle character such as you were
not often found to take it too VIII
you join the teetotalers, and I'll join
with you? If not, l must go to ruin.
It's my only chance. Mr.. A, will
you save a lost soul?"
The elder was staggered and star
tied; some dim recollection of who is
my neighbour" and the parable of the
Good Samaritan awoke in his heart;
and the fellow-creature before him, los
ing health, wealth, reputation, reason
stripped and wounded of the devil
did seem fully in as sore a plight as
he who had fallen among thieves long
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

1t is calculated that 81, 900 people
sleep nightly aboard the steamers on
the Thames.
Young ladies act as sideswomen in
church at Carthage, and since their
advent the attendance has largely in
creased
1t is said that the millionaire Will
liam WaldoCf Astor owns 1000 houses
in New York city, and that his annual
income is nearly 6 100000.
Asia is growing in population faster
than either Europe or America, the
gain in India alone between 1881 and
1891 reaching 33,OOO,OOO
Lord Salisbury is the holder of five
acres of land in the vicinity of Charing
Cross, which his ancestors obtained 25O
years ago for grazing land at the mod
crate rate of ten shillings an acre for
500 years.
In India there are 100000 boys and
$4,000 girls under the age of IA who
are legally married. while $500 BOYS
and 24,O0O girls who have not attained
the age of four are under marriage
bonds as arranged by their parents
Mice are fond of music, and this
fact induced a machinist in Bruges,
Belgium, TO construct trap with a
music box attachment. The music at
tracts the mice, and to get nearer the
harmonious tones, they wander into
the trap and are caught alive, five or
six at time.
The national airs of great conn
tries are short, while those of little
countries are long. God Save the
Queen" consists of but IA bars, the
Russian hymn is 16 bars, and Hail,
Columbia!" has % bars. Slams ma
tional hymn has 76 bars, that of Uru-
quay 70, and Chili's 46
A jeweler in Turin has made a tiny
boat of a single pearl. The hull is finely
shaped, and might serve as a model
for great sloop. The sail is of beaten
gold, studded with diamonds, and the
pinnacle light is a perfect ruby An
emerald serves as its rudder, and its
stand is a slab of ivory. It's weight is
less than an ounce, and it is said to have
cost E 1000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

the plague in India, near Bombay, is
the camp where 10000 persons are at
work, Among these are many women
with babies, which have to be looked
after. With nearly thousand babies
to care for. the confusion at nightfall,
when the mothers came to reclaim them.
was indcscribable, so the officer in
charge treated them on the umbrella
and coat principle. He provided each
of the babies with a string and a ticket
in duplicate, one being hung around the
baby's neck and the other given to the
mother. By this means each mother
gets her own offspring and all ara
happy.-N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

There are several wealthy men in
London who are reputed to spend over
$500 per year on cigars. This is con-
sdered very large over there, but sew
eral American millionaires are said to
exceed this. One of them is reported
as spending $4,000 annually on cigars.
An English nobleman who married an
American woman, who brought a bag
of money with her, has astonished Lon
don with his extravaganza in cigars.
He pays about $500 monthly for them
and always trades with one dealer, who
posts "A sign to that effect in order to
attract customers. Several prominent
Englishmen, among whom is SAID to be
Labouchere, buy cigarettes imported
from Turkey at a cost of ten cents
each. One of them smokes and gives
away 100 in a day, which is probably
the record for expensive cigarette
smoking.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

An English physician says: "A boy
who early smokes is rarely known to
make a man of much energy of char
acter, and he generally lacks physical
and muscular, as well as mental, en-
ergy. 1 would particularly warn boys
who want to rise in the world to shun
tobacco as deadly poison"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

"Bailiff," said western judge one
day to an officer in charge of the jury,
will you please inform the jury there
will be a horse race in Merrick's field at
three o'clock?'
The jury had been out for As hours,
but in less than 30 minutes they came
into court with verdict.-Tit-Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

Excited Wife - Oh, professor. the
cook has fallen and broken her collar
bone!
rofessor-Di3charge her at once,
You told her what to expect if she
broke anything mOre.-Boston Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

She-Perfectly lovely club; isn'tit?
He-Arr you member?
NO; only married women are eligi.
BILE"
"Ah! Would you allow me to-make
you eligible to membership ?"--PeIse
sons Weekly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

II saw a rabbit run through that
hedge"
mo, dear, it was imagination"
elias Imagination got white tails ?"-
Odds and Ends.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

1t was winter, and it was midnight.
Maurice had a cold. and so had the
baby The little cherub," in fact had
touch of bronchitis" and his hard
breathing as he slumbcred restlessly
in his little cot, plainly testified the fact
through the darkness.
Il wonder" murmured Mrs Green
as she lay listening to the troubled
breathing of the child on the one hand,
and the influenza snOre of her husband
on the other-"I wonder if the little
pet is warm enough. I'm anxious about
his little chest, bless him! I'd take him
into my bed, only Maurice doesn't like
it. The little fellow kicks the clothes
off so! What could l do to prevent
him from taking cold afresh? Happy
thOught,-there's that little wooden
wrap in the spare bedroom. It's either
in the middle drawer of the DRESSING
table or in the wardrobe, know.
Poor Maurice! he would willingly
go and find it for me, but I wouldn't
disturb him tonight for the world.
I'm glad I succeeded in persuading him
to sleep in his dressing jacket. Those
nasty influenza colds need care, and
Tn 50 apt to uncover him in reaching
over to baby. III slip into the next
room myself"
Thus soliloquizing she quietly got out
of bcd-for where baby came in fear
flew out-pushed the turned back bed
clothes gently against her husbands
l,,, lnt h.,
and proceeded to feel for the matches.
The little receptacle at the bed head
was empty. Not match "Oh, dear,
dear, why will Maurice insist upon turn
ing the gas off at the meter, especially
when the baby is unwell?" she sighed,
as she slipped into her dressing gown
which fortunately was hanging on the
brass knob at the foot of the bed.
Slippers she could not find. Nil des-
pcrandum! She knew to a foot where
the wrap was, or at least she thought
she did, and she would know it the mo-
ment she laid finger on it, The lit
tie cherub in the cot coughed in a cho4t-
ing manner. Light or no light the wrap
must be found, and, without further
delay, the little mother walked ginger
ly into the next room.
No one could fail to find the wardrobe,
as it was the first article of furniture
encountered on entering the room.
When it's door opened it was possible TO
view ones self from the bedroom door,
for it consisted of three-quarter length
mirror in which Mrs. Green was wont
~. Il
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

Queensland is Offering land at three
pence an acre, an estate of 400 acres for
SIS. .-.- .-.-.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01
A Midnight Encounter.
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" ERNAL CHOICE was pretty and

" ERNAL CHOICE was pretty and
commodious villa, and Dovecot-
tam a select and salubrious suburb. To
the happiness of Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
Green-lately made almost complete by
the arrival of the veriest cherub that
ever came down from Heaven-there
were but two drawbacks. The first was
OF Maurice'S making. He had a ride
uious fad about gas fittings. He be
HeYed them to be in chronic state of
leakiness. He told his long-suffering
wife almost daily that more gas escaped
through unsuspected cracks and defec-
tive joints than served to illuminate the
coy rooms of Nernal Choice.
Mrs. Maurice Green's bugbear was
burglars. Nothing could shake her con-
viction that when a burglar took his
dark suburban way" his objective
would be by decree of fate, Vernal
Choice. Thus it came to pass, that,
nightly, while Maurice was turning off
the gas at the meter-he would on no
account allow anyone else to do it, as
gas is such a tickle thing''-his little
wife was on her knees in the bedroom,
not, as might be supposed saying her
ayers-thOugh she made the same
kneeling serve both purposes-but tim
idly peering under the Powered terra
'otta valances for the burglar thatnever
came.
Sometimes it would happen that the
gas popped out just as she was in the
act of raising the curtain that might
reveal the tragedy of her life, and then,
with little scream. she would seek the
matches-she never could put her hand
readily on the matches-and light the
delicately shaded candle on the dress
ing table, ere proceeding with her
search and her devotions At such
times, when Maurice assembled from the
underground regions, where the gas
meter meted out its dole, to the com
pany of his wife above stairs, she would
rate him, right soundly for so gentle a
little body, for what she styled his lab
Surd fad about turning the gas off.
What do a few extra feet of gas sig
nifty, when three precious lives might
some night be sacrificed for lack of
light?" she would exclaim, with as
much dramatic fervor as if she had been
before row of footlights and a crowded
pit, instead of a blue-tinted corrugated
candle and a mildly scornful husband
When Maurice wished to be wither-
ing, he was always studiously allitera-
tive in his choice of words. He never
failed to pooh pooh the burglar notion.
He said it was the merest moonshine,"
and that there were "crowds of cost
her cribs to crack than Vernal Choice,
YOU bet!"
Mrs. Green, as a rule, deigned no an
swer She hated slang and wondered
how Il man of Matrices sense-except
upon the meter question-could stoop
to its use. She generally refrained
from saying So however, like the sensi-
bic little woman she was, and, resigned
Iy filing the baby's feeding bottle, and
tucking the little cherub with sundry
croonings in its bedside cot retired for
the night, leaving Maurice to blow out
the corrugated candle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-05-26
A Budget
OF Suggestions.

The supreme enjoyment of COM
fort in summer is we'll worth the little
expense it entails. Think of the cool,
comfortable times that can be spent
on those porches and lawns Just
the slight expense of few pieces of
rustic furniture, porch rockers, etc.
Hundreds of different kinds of porch
and lawn furniture here at the hum
blest of prices.
The Reed Furniture.
Here's where step into art furniture
foi summer. You Immediately think Of cool
sitting rooms The styles in Reed Furniture
we show are practically unlimited We
ST, nd one of the biggest dealers 10 the
Dfvans. Coucbes. etc.
Rattan Couch-$5.5o.
The Rafia African fiber goods go hand
In hand with the reed goods. The goods
shown this year far superior to last
dnced in the new fores, green shade. and mot not
and much more durable.
Double Swings-S6.oo and $3.50.
The famous Columbia and Adams
unlimited healthy amusement for the chill
Princess Hammocks.
The Art Hammoeks, beautifully designed.
Made of crocheted cord. with tassel val
Hammocks from GOO. to $500.
Water Coolers.
Oak and Walnut Porcelan-lined Coolers
GAINESVILLE Stone Water Cool G, ~ ,,,>
and Filters combined, from P<.<o up.
The Latest
Newport Fad
For the lawns is the Sprague Lawn I'm
brella, q veritable canopy, large enough to
shade dozen more people Has a spread
Of about feet. Strong and slightly Can
be put up anywhere without injury to the
bestkept lawn
". B. MOSES SONS
Storage. Hauling, Moving, Packing Cold Storage