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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
TEMPERANCE.
THE SNARE OF tHE TABLE.


Its Viands and Beverages Have Proved
the Destruction of Many Soul
The snare is device for catching
prey. 1t needs be a secret and unsus-
pected continuance, else, its design be-
ing revealed, the prey will avoid it.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the
sight of any bird" If he haste to the
snare it is because he "knowesth not
that it is for his life"
Many snares are spread for man.
When he falls into any of them, he may
conclude that ian enemy hath done
this" We read of the snare of the
devil" He hath many snares and they
are not all spread in vain. AS the spider
weaves his web where the flies must
needs go, and not in some dark corner
where his intended victims do not wan
der, so the most fatal snares OF the devil
are spread where men do most congre-
gate and where they least suspect his
wiles. Hence where riches glitter,
where pleasures allure, and soft. siren
songs are sung, there are found the fire.
quent and fatal snares of the devil. So
they that make haste to be rich fall
into temptation and snare"
The table with it's viands and bever-
ages has proven snare to many who
make god of their belly" and sell
out their divine birthright for mess OF
,ttage. ut is a snare to man who
devoureth that which is holy and after
vows to make enquiry" But does the
devil make snare of the table? The
Psalmist, in one of his terrible impreca
tons, prays in Psalm 69:22: Let theiI
table become snare before Them
seeming to mean the crucifiers of Christ
for the context shows that the Psalm is
Messianic, though Paul quoting thi'
text clearly applies it to all unbelievine
Israel. He says, Romans 11:o: lie
their table be made a snare and traI
and stumbling block and recompens'
unto them"
If the table is a snare it is one of which
it may be said it is of the mans owl
spreading. He who sets the table set
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
MOUNTAIN DOG FIGHT.
When They Came Back They Would Figh
to "A Finish.

Il was out in the mountains this
summer" said departmental clerk tt
a Star reporter. AT the house where
boarded there were 90 or 30 Washington
people. One day mountaineer came
up TO the porch where we were all seated
dragging a dog that seemed very loath
70 move. 4 short distance behind him
was another man, also pulling dog
along.
Gentlemen said the first man tc
arrive, these hyar dawgs air TIL fight
cnest dawgs in tn mounting. We uns
hev bet on 'cm an we're gwine ter
hev tn fight in tn stable yander. It'll
be tn derndest bout yo' all ever seed
Only two bits ter look at it,
I'VE all went to the stable, in whics
there were door and wiadow. A
ring was madeSand the dogs throw
into it, One uttered a yelp and jumped
through the window, the other made {
| break for the door.
Thar they GO shouted one of thu
men; 'foller 'em, gentlemen, eff yo' wan
ter see the purtiest race yo' ever looked
at. They've jest takin' run fer eXer
else, an when they git back the fout'I
come off. Wen go an bring 'em bacl
W hen they git enough warmed up
Then they left; aud | guess the dog
are still running, as the fight has no
come off. "-Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
A ErIphtfuI Anomaly,

What frightful anomaly is present
cd in that beautiful city lover the Dor
der" Toronto, and one that can be
Snirrored in any of our large cities.
Over there is q famous corner which the
people call Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures Corner"
Why? Because on the one corner is
the University of Canada, on another
the handsome residence of the lieutep-
ant governor, on the third splendid
Protestant church, while on the fourth
is great saloon.-National Temper
ance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07

Etiquette is to be observed in preach
ing before the queen. No personal ref
erence to her majesty is permissible, a
pure Gospel discourse being the rule,
delivered as though she was not pres
eut. Many have tried to evade these
rules. The queen likes and enjoys a
plain, practical discourse, selected
from the lessons or Gospel Of the day
to occupy about 20 minutes in delivery
Questions of the day, and, above all, poi
itics, must be entirely eXcluded.-Cin'
cinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
Lowest Living Land IN England.

The marshy district called The
Fens," which occupies the northern
half of Cambridreshire, the southeast
ern corner of Lincolnshire, and parts OF
Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntington and
Northampton, extending 80 miles from
north TO south and 30 miles in its great
est breadth, and covering an area OF
100000 acres, is the lowest land in this
country. The surface of THE Fens' IS
on the average, eight feet below the
level of the North sea, varying from
four feet to 10 feet below the Ieve
IF hiph-water mark.-Tit-BitS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
Gladstone,s Versatility and Longevity.

Mr.. William r. Stead credits Mr.. Glad
stones versatility and longevity to
the following causes: Trust in God,
wife who has guarded and inspired him,
the gift of sound sleep, regular habits
of industry, total abstinence from to-
bacco and Temperance in the use OF
LIQUOR, diversified interests and ont-of-
door life. He might have added on Mr.
GlGdstone's own authority his respect
for the Sabbath and the sane use OF the
same
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
R,Ily Wasn't Fit.

johnny" called his mother, "stoE
using that bad language"
why" replied the boy, shakespeare
said what just did"
Well" replied the mother, growing
Infatuated, you should stop going
with him-hes no fit companion for
you."-Tit-Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07

She-There is one thing about poll
tics | could never understand.
He-What is that?
She-Why is it that in making up
tickets they always use slate?
Wouldn't a sheet of paper, and pen or
pencil be more convenient?-Brooklyn
Life
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07

She-Maj. Pommelwell wears three
medals. l wonder why they were given
him?
He-He got the third because he had
the other two; the second because he
had the first, and the first because he
had none at all.-Washington Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
Keeping Rain Water.

Rain water should never be kept in
conner or lead lined cisterns, as the
COZ, tained carbonic acid and other
pfses powerfully effect these metals
Very pure rain water will remove zinc
coating from galvanized iron.-Chi-
cagC Tribune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
hut One Conclusion.
Signal.

There is but one conclusion among
economists. physicians, men Of science
and men of morals, concerning the use
Of alcoholic drinks as beverage, anu
that is that it is waste Of money, a
strain of the body and a menace to the
morals of any man or woman VINO IN
dulges therein. Rule out OF court II
gu will every man with suspicion OF
tanaticism in his attitude toward this
question, dismiss every tetotaler, and
d every prohibitionist, every teacher OF
morals in the land, and ask only the
basf balanced brains to be found among
the judicial. educational and industrial
leaders in our land. and the verdict is
practically unanimous that alcoholic
drink as "A beverage is unnecessary tc
,>be healthy, and, except under medica
prescription. to the sick.-Jenki1 Lloy&
Jones.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07

; No man who is intoxicated, or whose
breath Is even tainted with strong
drink, is allowed to take his post on q
train on the Grand Trunk railway.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-26
BUTTERWoRTH's THEORY.
His Lenient Way of Treating For Reforms
ton Embryo Criminals.

His Lenient Way of Treating For Reforma-
ton Embryo Criminals.
Commissioner of Patents Butterworth
is one of the men who believe that a
prosecuting attorney is better engaged
in side tracking embryo criminals on
the road to perdition and getting them
on the road to righteousness than in
corralling them for shipment to the
penitentiary, where they are thrown
into association with professional crooks.
Several years ago Major Butterworth
was prosecuting attorney in southern
Ohio and he had the opportunity to test
his theory regarding the discrimination
that should be used in dealing with
men newly launched into crime. A
young farmer was arrested for passing
counterfeit shinplasters, as the so cent
note was known, and the case was put
in the hands of Major Butterworth.
The young man told his story. He had
saved several hundred dollars, had left
his wife and little children and had
taken boat down the Mississippi river,
purposing to settle on a new farm he
was to buy with his hard earned saw
ings. On the boat he met an extremely
pleasant and we'll dressed stranger, who
learned Of his mission and proceeded to
make himself agreeable. In moment
of extreme confidence the stranger told
the young man of large quantity of
money he had which was made from
plates that had formerly belonged to the
government and which the government
had long since sought to recover, etc.
The young man was struck by that re-
markable method of acquiring wealth
when he had toiled and saved for years
TO get his few hundred. In burst of
generosity the stranger offered to ex-
change some of his money for green
backs belonging to his new found
friend, so that the latter should have
two dollars for every one he possessed.
The bait was tempting and the fish bit
At the next landing the we'll dressed
man disappeared from the boat and the
dupe became alarmed He became sus-
p1cious of his new money and was
afraid to offer it in payment of his pas
sage. He, too, left the boat, determined
to go back home. He started to walk
and became footsore. He began showing
the money to buy something to eat, the
counterfeit was discovered and the ar
rest was made. Major Butterworth took
in the situation.
II told that young man, he said, in
relating the story, "that if God had
made him a dishonest man he had failed
to put sign on his face. l told him to
go home to his wife and children as an
honest man. He could scarcely realize
that he had escaped the penitentiary
He went home, and a more honest or
better citizen / do not know today
That man had not the heart of crimi-
nal, but if he had been sent to the peni-
tertiary his children would have been
disgraced for life and probably he would
have belonged to the criminal class for
life st. Louis Republic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-26
WENT OUT AND HoLLERED.
How a Witness In Pension Case An
nounced Her Husbands Death.


how Witness In Pension Case An
nounced Her Husbands Death.
Itwas the trial of member of one Of
Norfolk's foremost families The de-
PENDANT was woman and was charged
with forgery and completely in pension
fraud. AS the proceedings drew to a
close all the city crowded into the
courtroom. Residents from Client aud
loafers from the wharfs sat together
on one bench, and the bailiff, not to
lose so good chance, manifested his
authority by calling out "order" and
himself making more noise than all the
people in the court
The last witness was a negress, port
ly and very black. Her voice was sin
gularly mellow and sweet The govern
ment was questioning her about the
death of her husband, and her testimo-
ny was directly against the defendant.
The courtroom was consequently very
quiet and still.
You say your husband died in Nor
folk?" snarled the district attorney
"Yessah. "
You were with himF"
"Yessah. Right dere with him when
he died. "
"Tell us about it. -
81 member, sab, he got up through
the night He said he was too VAIN ly-
ing down dere with me and de little
child. 'I'ze too VAIN, he said. 'I'll go
to de winduh and lie down dere He
gen ally got up nights anyhow when he
was too VAIN.
81 don't know how long he had been
lyin by de winduh fore l heard a
rusle. generally keeps a lamp burnin
nights. hears him say, ole oman. l
started up, and he says, ole oman, get
up. And l jumped up an says, ole
man.. He says, WhatY
II jumped up and went to him at de
winduh, and he was like he was strug-
glin. says, Honey, what's de matter?
and de las wo'd he said, 4 don't know
said, Lord have mercy, what's de
matter wild you? And after said dat he
didn't say no mo- Gen men, he died
right off. said: Lord Jesus, my hus-
band gone. What am gwine to dor
No one was with me but dat child l
went out and hollered Some said l
O'Clock at night dey heard me boiler. l
went out and hollered for some one to
come, TO- my husband was dead. -
Washington Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-26
HERRING BOATS.
Their Peculiar Rig - One of Them Sail
From Cornwall to Australia.

Their Peculiar Rig - One Of Them Sails
From Cornwall to Australia.
The fleets of herring fishing boats sail
ing out Of the ports of Great Britain
are grand seagoing craft, strong and
swift, and able to stand the stormiest
weather. They are usually rugged with
two stumpy masts and carry enormous
square lugsails, which have to be low
cred and raised every time the boats
"oome about" In Scotland and the
English and Irish ports they are called
luggers, but in the isle of Man have
the local name of "nickies -
In many cases the crews own the
boats. each man having share, but in
any case the fishermen have an interest
in the amount of fish sold and are paid
according to results 1t is a glorious
sight to see these boats racing home aft
er a good haul, the first boat in having
the best market for the fish.
1t is not uncommon at Tarbot, the
headquarters of the Loeb Prone boats;
Peel, in the isle of Man; Penzance, in
Cornwall, and at some Irish ports to
see the fish taken away by carloads to
be used by the farmers for manure at
times when an unusually big catch has
oversupplied the market
In many places during the summer
there are races organized by the towns
people and visitors for these luggers,
and the interest in the events is far
more keen than in the finest yacht
races. Only recently a Penzanoe lugger
was sailed by her crew to Australia.
and made the passage in wonderfully
quick time. The large boats are manned
by from 90 to 30 men, the weight of
tho lugsails making a big crew a neces-
sity. In most cases the sails are stained
a reddish brown, and distinguishing let
ters and numbers OH the sail tell to
what port the craft belongs. - New
York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-26
HUMoR AND ITS USES.
1t Is the Sunshine of the World, but Ma
Be Overworked.

1t Is the Sunshine of the World, but May
Be Overworked.
"Humor is the very sunshine of the
world" writes Carrie E. Garrett in
The Woman's Home Companion.
Hardly any other single gift will 90
SO far to refresh and inspire one in
everyday life and keep the heart still
young. 1t steals merrily across the
workaday world, animating the drear-
lest monotony and finding place in the
most hopeless destiny. Such gay trav-
cling companion is humor for the pill
grimage Of life.
THE woman with a sense of humor
has safeguard against ennui, against
folly and against despair. She can never
be dull so long as the comedy Of life is
being played before her eyes With a
keen sense of the ridiculous she is not
likely to make fool of herself, and
she will never be hopelessly unhappy,
for she will find in the most adverse
fate something still to laugh at, and
after all laughter is your true alchemist.
However it may be with the unmusieal
person. surely the surly individual who
cannot laugh spontaneously on occasions
is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils
But this blessed gift of humor should
be used to lift the shadows of life, not
to deepen them. A joke which causes
another pang Of humiliation or makes
some sensitive heartache is not only a
cruel sort Of amusement, but it is also
very expensive indulgence. For just a
moments qualification at having made
hit the funny woman may forever
lose friend and may even arouse a
very genuine spirit Of enmity. We learn
to forgive and mayhap forget many
injuries in life's troubled journey, but
perhaps among the wounds that rankle
longest in the human heart are those
which are made only in fun. "
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-26
Ants with Pluck and Brains,

To the intellectually of ants, which
men like Sir John Lubbock have always
delighted to point out, new proof has
been added by the observations of a
well known scientist, Professor Bona
tell, who has communicated it to the
Venetian institute. He noticed that the
ants used as bridge the twig of tree
which touched house they were desir-
GUS of reaching. He accordingly cut off
the end of the twig SO that it was i'm
possible for them to get across and then
watched
After the lapse Of half an hour, how
ever, he found that the procession
which he had stopped had reformed
itself. He proceeded to investigate the
matter, and he found that the little ants
had discovered that there was another
twig which, when it was blown by the
breeze, touched the wall now and then.
The army of ants had formed up in
line to this twig, and whenever the
breeze blew it against the wall the fore
most members Of the band took advan-
tage Of the opportunity to get across
Man, with all his boosted genius,
could do nothing more, for not only did
the operation require clever timing, but
absolute confidence in making what,
under the circumstances, must have
been venturesome leap. STRAND Mag
azina
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-26
WE FIRST SNOWFALL.

The snow had begun in the cleaning
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.
Every pine and fir and hemlock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
From sheds new rooted with Carrara
Came chanticleer's muffled crow,
The stiff rails were softened to swansdown
And still fluttered down to snow
l stood and watched by the window
The noiseless work of the sky,
And the sudden fiurries of snowbirds
Like brown leaves whirling by.
thought of mound in sweet Auburn
Where a little headstone stood;
How the flakes were folding it gently
AS did robins the babes in the wood
Up spoke our own little Mabel,
Saying, Father, who makes it snow"
And told of the good All-Father
Who cares for us here below.
Again looked at the snowfall
And thought of the leaden sky
That arched Ger our first great sorrow
When that mound was heaped so high.
remember the gradual patience
That fell from that cloudlike snow
Flake by flake, healing and hiding
The scar of our deep plunged woe.
And again to the child whispered.
1.-THE snow that husheth all,
Darling, the merciful Father
Alone can make it fall"
Then, with eyes that saw not, kissed ner
And she, kissing back, could not know
That my kiss was given to her sister,
Folded close under deepening snow.
james Russell Lowell
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-26
How They Wash.

The hardest worked washerwomen
in the world are the Koreans They
have to wash about dozen dresses for
their husbands, and inasmuch as every
man wears pantaloons or drawers so
baggy that they come up to his neck
like those of clown they have plenty
to do The washing is usually done in
cold water and often in running
streams The clothes are pounded with
paddles until they shine like shirt
front fresh from Chinese laundry.
The Japanese rip their garments
apart for every washing, and they iron
their clothes by spreading them on a
fat board and leaning this up against
the house to dry The sun takes the
wrinkles out of the clothes, and some
of them have quite luster The Jap
anese woman does her washing out of
doors. Her washtub is not more than
six inches high and is about as big
around as the average dishpan. She
gets the dirt out of the clothes by rub
bling them between her hands. She
sometimes uses Japanese soap, which
is full of grease, and works away with
her bare feet The Chinese girls do
their washing in much the same way.
The washing in Egypt is usually done
by the men. The Egyptian washerman
stands naked ON the banks of the Nile
and slaps the wet clothes, with noise
like the shot of pistol, on the smooth
stones at the edge of the running water,
and such fellah women as wash pound
the dirt out of their clothes in the same
way.
Frenchwomen pound the dirt out with
paddles, often slamming the clothes up
ON stones. as the Egyptians do.-Ex-
chanpa
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-26

DR.. Holmes wrote half century ago,
Don't, let me beg Of you-don't say
how for what, - and ''Please don't
say how for that y is the wall of the
sensitive reader of today If an Ameri-
can, he is likely to ascribe the reigning
fancy for the sin to Mr.. Howells, who
has taken to it with his usual ferocity,
possibly because long practice on his
own signature makes the adverb easier
for him to write than the conjunction.
Lately the word has begun to infest
the writings of English politicians, pos
sibly as result of association with the
Irish members of parliament, for che
said how he was going is literal
translation of the Gaelic equivalent Of
che said that he was going. But the
worst instance Of its use appears in a
letter written by the Hon Auberon
Herbert to the editor of the London
News, and, misusing the word 16 times
in 40 lines, Connemara' S self could do
no more. New York Times