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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
VARIOUS NOTES.

Maltliquors render the blood shy and
unfit for circulation, hence proceed OBJ
structions and Inflammation of the
lungs-Dr. Buchan.
William Flack, of Chicago, drank
wood alcohol diluted with root beer, to
crafty a depraved appetite. He leaves
family.
All the mines in the Klondille won't
yield enough gold in the next IL
months to pay the drink bill of this
Christian nation for one year.-N. j.
Gazette.
The church and the school build up,
but the saloon tears down. Why then
should good citizens favor the saloon
or even be Indifferent as to what it is
doing ?-Leyer.
The fact that there are no snakes in
Alaska is something in its favor. And
there is not much danger that there
will be any so long as whisky is worth
$4S a gallon.-Peoria Herald.
"My native city has treated me bad.
ly," said drunken vagabond, but i
love her still" "Probably," replied a
gentleman, "her still is about all you
90 love."-National Temperance Ad-
yocate.
One person in every thousand is ar
rested for drunkenness and fined and
imprisoned every year in England.
These are termed the criminal inebriates
who are lawless whenever under the iR-
fuence of spirits.
"A falling off in the consumption of
beer in Chicago is attributed to bicycle
riding, but it would'have been more rea-
sonable if the falling from bicycles in
that city had been attributed to the
consumption of beer.-San Francisco
Call.
Some one has been visiting the sa-
looms invarious cities for the purpose of
noting the number of boys and youths
frequenting them. In 30 small cities
and towns (having IS or 20 saloons in a
place., it was estimated that an aggre-
gate of over 5000 persons were present,
and of these the majority were clearly
under age. In saloon in one city,
Wooster, O., five boys were found who
were yet wearing knee pants.-Chris-
tan Work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
PATENT COW FOR HUNTERS.
Ii Carries Them Quietly Into the
Midst of Insuspecting Gnmc.

1t is Il well-knOwn fact that birds
and wild animals know what other
animals they have to fear.
The birds that fly from a man or a
dog will hop around a COW, even walk
ing right under her.
Man has now taken advantage of this
fact to facilitate the slaughter of birds
and other game.
ANeIoraslla man has invented patent
COW for hunters, and the specifications
have been received at the patent office.
The invention presents the perfect
outward semblance of a most peace
able and amiable COW, but the forelegs
and hindlegs are, in fact, the two pairs
of legs of two men. They are armed
with guns and have a plentiful supply
of ammunition.
The patent COW moves along like an
ordinary, harmless animal until it is
Pm the midst of lot of birds, when it
comes open and the two men inside
blaze away.
The specifications state that the in
yention consists of a hollow decoy ami
NAL adapted to be supported and held
in an upright position and operated by
an inclosed hunter, for whom the decoy
forms a concealing shell or blind.
The device, in its n:lke-up, comprises
as essential elements a flexible outer
shell of canvas CT other suitable ma
terial, decorated eXteriorly to repre-
sent the animal in imitation of which
the decoy is constructed, and said shell
is adapted to be supported or held in its
distended position through the medium
of a collapsible metal framework, which
allows the covering and framework OF
the decoy to be folded into small space
for transportation.
Depending from the framework are
hollow portions representing legs, into
which are inserted the legs of the con-
cealed sportsmen, for whom there are
accommodation for two, one at each
end of the decoy.
Formed in the sides of the frame, at
suitable points, are windows or open
ings protected by outward swinging
flap blinds, and through these windows
the sportsman in the rear may dis
charge his fowling piece when the game
has been successfully stalked. For the
firing of the hunter in front Of the de-
coy there is provided a downward
swinging portion, which includes the
head and neck of the animal, so that,
by simply releasing a small catch from
the inside of the framework this re-
leases the swinging front portion, which
Immediately drops by gravity, and thus
leaves the sportsman free.-N. y. Jour-
nal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
A Keen Purchaser.

The younger portion of the present
generation may not remember the old
fashioned silver coin, once so plenty in
the United States, of the value of 1917
cents. In New England it was called
"ninepence," in New York shilling"
and it bore other names in other sec
tions of the country.
One day tall, lank, tow-headed sprci-
men of humanity, from the Mote noun
tain district, entered Sam Thom's store
in Conway, n. H. He looked around for
awhile upon the tempting things dis
played, and finally drew out from his
pocket battered ninepence, which he
clutched with an evident determination
not to part with it recklessly.
Say, mister" he said, pointing to a
box of lozenges upon the counter,
"haow much dye ask for them?"
1.-TWO cents a roll" was the reply.
oval, I'll hev roll. What do you ask
for them apples?"
1.-TWO for cent"
oval, let's SELL hev one of EN-:
that'll be half cent, and the lozengers
two cents-jest two cents and a half.
Geu ken take it aout of this ere nine
pence, and give me back ten cents"
Mr.. Thorn could not refuse. The story
to tell was worth more than it cost by
far.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Bobby-"Pa, what is an heir-at-
law" sually the lawyer, Bob
by."-Tit-Bits.
Say, pa, what kind of pans do min
ers use when panning gold?' Dust
pans, my son."-Puck.
The Only Way.-"There is only one
way to tell mad dog" ''How's that?'
"Tell him by long-distance telephone"
Truth.
Not Perfumery.-Bridget (surrep-
titiously smelling a bottle of lavender
salts)-"Och, quick! Cut aft me nose
befoor it effects tn rist av me body
Judge
The Sunday school class was sing
ing 81 want to be an angel" Why
don't you sing louder, Bobby" asked
the teacher. I'm singing as loud as
feel" explained Bobby.-Tit-Bits.
And you want to marry my daugh-
ter, do you?" said Mr.. Stockbroker.
'Well, not right away, sir" said the
timid youth; but I'd like to have an
option on her'-Yonkers Statesman.
-Fenderson-''I say, did you ever see
the sun rise in the morning?' Fogg-
$40. That's just the trouble, you know.
If it rose at any other time, | might
be able to see it."-Boston Transcript.
Somewhat Alike.-''A Frenchman
says that love is a disease that closely
resembles alcoholism" There may be
some truth in that. | have noticed that
the gold cure is frequently etfcacious
in both diseases. "-CleveIand Plain
Dealer.
An Interesting Speculation.-"My
dear" asked his wife, what are you
thinking about?'' Il was thinking"
replied the theosophst, shaking off his
fit of dreamy abstraction, which make
of wheel l will ride the next time 1
appear on earth. Puck.
First Dentist-"The fact is, I've got
gentleness down to such a fine point
that all my patients go to sleep while
I'm pulling their teeth" Second Den
tist-"That's nothing! Mine are be-
ginning to have their photographs
taken while l operate, because they al
ways have such pleasant expressions
OH their faces. Tit Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
ASK A FAvORITE PUPIL TO GO WITH
HIM.

ed" and that beer is really good thing
$50 much better than whisky or
brandy, you know"-a fact which no
one denies. Prof. So and So goes into
a saloon whenever he is thirsty and or
ders beer. Sometimes he asks a favor
tic pupil to go with him. Beer must be
all right.
But the 'favorite pupil" doesn not stop
at beer. He finds the eXhilaratiOn of
stronger fluids agreeable when he is
run down" and has lost sleep. In every
college class there is considerable per
centage who leave their alma mater
confirmed inebriates. a much larger
percentage have developed a marked
tendency that way. Her influence
pure and lofty; but for bread she has
given them stones and worse.
The pipe and the flowing bowl" are
terms of mirth and jollity. We sing the
the songs which eXtol them, songs in
spired by an earlier, a ruder and, we be-
1ieve, a wiclleder day; and then we
laughwhen we should be stern and grave
and silent. Most of us believe that college
boys should let pipes and bowls severely
alone. We believe that they could have
eXuberant happiness and loyal friend
ships without them. We believe that
unconfned joy does not consist in
smoking strong pipes and cigars and in
emptying glass after glass Of beer into
the stomach until the brain reels and
nausea ensues.
Dear friends, when a writer of stand
ing virtually atfirms in a reputable mag
azine that our college boys have not
beer enough ready to hand, we had bet
ter wake up. Has he heard the nightly
not occasionally, but nightly
screams of boys frenzied with drink,
which make the streets of New Haven
and Cambridge and other college towns
ring? They ring the knell of the break
ing hearts of mothers and the destruc-
ton of souls.
We commend these remarks of Miss
Clark to parents and guardians. Ruined
college life. Youths sent to schools for
training should find it hard, not easy,
to become corrupt. Only to such col
leges where habits of sobriety, of moral
purity and Of religion are directly en-
ccuraged in student life should parents
send their children, passing by all other
colleges, no matter how great their rep
utation for learning and gOod-fellow-
sbip.--National Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
AN HONEST ARGUMENT.
Reasons Given Many Times for the
Use of Alcoholic Beverages.

Use of Alcoholic beverages.
Most of the arguments offered in IA
vor of the use of alcohol, either as a
beverage or az medicine, are based
either upon ignorance of its physiolog-
zeal, or rather unphysiologicaI, prop
critics, or upon a desire and determina-
ton on the part of the defender of this
drug to find an apology or preteXt for
its use, no matter what the facts may
be; and, if the facts do ne+ agree, then
il is so much worse for the facts. In
the July number of the London West
minister Review A. Z. T. Longhurst, NJ.
D.. in an article entitled Scientific AS
poets of the Temperance Question"
very pithily says:
For a man to say that he takes al
cohol because he likes it, regardless of
the consequences to health which it en-
tails or the possibility of drunkard's
grave, is at any rate honest; but when
he says he takes it as a food, because his
doctor tells him it is so and is a neces-
sity, them he defies science and brings
a reproach on the profession of scien-
tifc medicine"
The doctor further says:
"If we summarize the most recent
scientific conclusions as to alcohol and
its action on the human system they
will be somewhat as follows:
at is not found in nature nor pro-
vided by her as a necessity of animal
life
"It predisposes to disease, deranges
the constitution of the blood, unduly
eXcites the heart and circulation, par
alyzes the minute blood vessels, impairs
the function of the digestive organs,
turbs the regularity of nerve actions,
lowers the animal temperature, lessons
muscular power, is not a food; the
highest health and longevity are at
tainable without it.
with so much evidence of the evils
of alcohol and such scientific express
sions against its use in the animal econ
omy, it is high time that the profession
of medicine should speak about it from
the scientific aspect of the question"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30

The English papers tell of a man who
was burned to death in a drinking sa-
Icon. The man worked occasionally
for the rumseller, and for brushing up
the floor one morning he received Il
half-glass of whisky and then adj
journed into the drinking box with
some other men. In a short time they
left, and half an hour after this man was
found lying with his head in the fire.
His whole face was a mass of charred re-
mains. Death was due to suffocation
following the burning. The coroner's
jury found accordingly, and attached
no blame TO anybody.
No blame to the truckstcr rumseller
who gave him whisky for his wage! No
blame to those in the house who let the
drunken man lie and roast! No con-
demnation of the fiendish and destruc.
tive stuff that worked the ruinl 49, Ma.
tional Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
TEMPERANCE.
BEER FOR COLLEGE BOYS.
An Cutlery Against the GOOdfeIIow-
shin Tint Rnins

snip Ihdt ruins.
In recent number of the New York
Independent, Kate Epson Clark has a
timely article opthe above subject. Re-
ferring to aplea made by college grad
uate 'for a club for college instructors
which should have in it's outfit, among
other things, well furnished wine
cellar" who deplored that the students
of a certain great university should be
obliged to travel a considerable dis
lance in order to obtain beer" Miss
Clark, among other things, says:
Why not relegate the sort of good
fellowship which can be bought only
with the pipe and the beer mug to the
slums where it belongs? Our educated
girls find happiness and elevating
friendships without smoking and drink.
ing. Why do our boys need them any
more? You say they have more energy,
more animal spirits. We doubt it; but
grant it for the sake of the argument.
Even then, you will admit that men have
work off their energies, and more
strength with which they have been
provided in order to govern their
stronger propensities. When will they
have a more favorable time for the cul-
tlyation of self-control than during
their college course? But does the
present standard of college fun" espe-
cially when reinforced by such sugges-
tons as those of the eminent authorities
now under consideration, tend to es-
tablish such self-control? Why should
we lick the boots of foreign univer-
sities2 Why not take gratefully their
sound learning and their exact science
while refusing TO accept their middle
age customs of loathsome drunkenness
and dissipation, which have been hand
ed down from one generation to another
until we foolishly forget that they need
mot be inseparable from college life?
The public opinion in our great uni
versities is asserted by thoughtful stu
dents to be already far too lax in regard
to the matter of drinking. Few are
strong enough to withstand the pres
sure to take a glass of beer"-''No
harm; do you good; "'Don't be clam"
Young men who go from homes where
wine and beer are not used learn that
their parents are marrow" and "bigot-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30

"a Tynesider" writes to the Alliance
News: after the death of member Of
one of our churches Ga wealthy brewer),
the relatives offered to put a beautiful
stained-glass window in, to cost several
hundreds of pounds, in memory of their
departed friend. 1 believe this offer
has been accepted. A woman who is
upwards of 70 years of age, said to me:
IF they put memorial window in, they
should have the central figure repre-
senting ragged, ill-fed children, moth
ers with lool; of abiect misery, and ia
tberslooking bloated and brutal When
I heard It, could only say that it would
be q true memorial to such traffic"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30

There is an eminent physician in
London who takes the position that the
health of the people would be, on an
average, better, and the duration of
human life longer, if there were not a
practicing physician in the world.-N,
Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30

Mrs. Callipers-Are you going to in
vite Mrs. Fowler to your little party?
She seems to be such u pleasant little
person.
Mrs. Justup - Goodness, no! She's
pleasant enough and all that, but l UNI
derstand that her husband only gets
500 month.-Cleveland Leader.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30

Old Lady-This must be a very
healthy place. Now, what may the
death rate be?
Grave Digger-Wonderful steady,
mum-wonderful steady. just one
death to each person right along. -
Sketch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30

The fines; compleNious in the world
are said to he in the Bermudas. This
IS accounted for by the fact that the in,
habitarts live chiefly on onions, of
which they export over 17,O0O,oOC
Eoupjsaunualiy.-Cinciuua Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
Tired of the Tip System.

Paris walters have Joined their Mar
seil,es brethren in demanding the abo-
lition of pourboires, They want fixed
wages, and declare that the only per-
son who profits by tips is the employer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30

While going to her home in Gran,
berry, one mile east of Hazleton, Pa,
one night recently. Mrs. Ernest Ylrich,
aged 30 years, fell INFO a mine hole
When rescued the next morning the
woman had aged apparently 20 years.
A like experience for either man or wom-
an was never recorded in mining his
tory, and that she is not a raving mani.
&C is due to her fortitude and eXtraor
binary belief in prayer. She was saved
from instant death by falling into a
lake of muck, which had formed at the
bottom of the hole. This substance
closed about her, gradually swallowing
her, until it reached to her shoulders.
1t was nine o'clock when the accident
happened, and the first human being
she saw was at six o'clock in the morp.
ing, when miner going to work heard
her moan. 1t required two hours to
reach her. She retained consciousness
throughout the ordeal, but tainted as
soon as raised to the surface. The
woman practically occupied a living
tomb during the time she was pris-
oner. The hole into which she fell is
30 feet deep and a mile in length, and
a stones throw from the village.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30

The estimate of the cost which was
incurred By the British government in
the jubilee rcjoicings amounts, it :
said, to ST., HOO.-N. y. Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-06-10

II EFAULT having been made in the condi
~ lions CT certain mori gage with power
of sale made by The sprlng BIZ ok t1eamt nv -
a corroration, of St uk ent,e, Stta'ns oil n
ty, Minnesota, mortgagor, to ~. ma Griff-
it'll mortc aete, dated September 2st, 1892 ard
recolded in the flee of the Reeiste of Deeds in
ard scI ST. arr s, Tn y. Minnie ota. Septt mber
Path, 1872 OF O'Clock a. M ara Gully lee.ro. q
in Book Az of me- rteages en- page "2h. and
signed to M C.Ktkey of Stesms CcrI ~ by
said M Elna Griffith on February goth, 1857
which ass enm, mt was duiy rccided IN the
Office # tie Rteis;tr CT Detcs in and for
Siearps 70, nty. Mil neso,a en- Marc b 24th, 1897
at y :o'cl, ok a m end duly Iece I'd. d in Book
'I' of assignments en- page uo, upon wnicn
+ ftv-fiye ard 5500 dollars as interest and
Five hundred dolla,s principal, which is de
clared by the assignee Oh sala mortgage 20 o.
ty.fyt and 9s-100 dollars taxes paid, less credit
Seventy five dollars cash paid by mortgage on
chattels sold, making me sum Oh rive an, nunorea
date Of this notice, upon said mortgage, which
said mortgage will be foreciosed by sale OF
the mortgaged premises SITUATED IN slearns
County. Minnesoa, oesoiioeu 40 'eio"s' W
wit: ...,.,oa o,,af oo,..;,,a1s.
within the following described x boundary. com.
nnmber Five. 90 in Block number Twenty
eight t2Sl in the original TOWNSHIP OF Sank
Cant,a according to the recorded plat thereof
IN the Office of the Register of Deeds of said
Stearns county, r, ming thence East on the
South line of said lot five t5) one hundr' q and
six dO6) feet; Thence Moth 10 The centre OF
Sank River Thence " said rive, %iong omt
dine North of the place of beginning, thence
South to the p ace. Of beginning
Which sale will be made at the front door of
tha nos, Office IN the city of Ssuk Centre in
Stearns Comfy, Minnesota ON Saturday the
10th day OF June A. ID. 1897 at ten o'clock IN the
foreno0n to pay SAID debt, interest and taxes
and twenty five dollars attorneys fees stpu-
lsted in said mortgage to be paid in case of
Foreclosure, and the disbursements allowed by
law.
1''' 'e NC, KELSEY,
Assignee of Mortgage
L. M. DAVIS.
Attorney for Assignee,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-06-10
MINOR ITEMS OF NEWS.

Mystic Shriners Of the United States
are in session at Detroit, Mich.
Paul Griggs won the Detroit derby,
Cogmoosey second, Goose Liver third
John Gibbs, an old resident of North
field, Mimi, persisted i'll a burning
shed.
General Miles has left Rome for Lon
don to participate in the jubilee cere-
monies there.
South American delegates to the COM
mercial congress at Philadelphia spent
Tuesday in Washington.
The 37th annual convention of the
United States Brewers association is in
session at Buffalo, N. Y.
An English syndicate has options on
all the coal mines and lands in East
Tennessee and Southern Kentucky along
the Cincinnati Southern road.
Formal application has been made by
the Western Union Telegraph company
to list $4,000, 900 stock on the New York
exchange. The stock is issued against
improvements.
In courtroom at Junction City, Ark,
J. X. Sheppard of Eldorado shot and
killed w. B. Coffee of the same place.
Both men were lawyers and became in.
volved in a dispute.
One hundred crack amateurs from
Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska and
Minnesota are in attendance at the
third annual tournament of the Sioux
City Ga. Gun club.
Fire at Cairo, Ills, destroyed $4,000
worth of property, including the new
Baptist church and annex, the Halliday
warehouse and contents, Glynn's trans.
fer stables with ,26 head Of horses, and
several dwellings,.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-06-10
REPORTS TO MEINLEY
Commissioners Calhoun Calls at
the White House and Sees
the President.
Latter an Interested Listenertc
a Description of Affairs
on the Island.
Expected Action Of Some Kind
Will Be Taken in the
Near Future.

WASHINGTON, June 9.-W. j. CAL
houn of Illinois, the special commits
sioner sent to Cuba by President Nc
Kin1ey, arrived from New York during
the afternoon. He went Immediately
to the state department., where Judge
Day, the assistant secretary OF state,
was awaiting him, and together they
proceeded to the White House. They
were shown into the cabinet room,
where President Mckinley and Judge
Day listened to Mr.. Calhoun's descrlp-
ton of the situation i'll the war-rlddcn
island to the conclusion reached by him.
Judge Day declined to be interviewed
on the subject Of the conference further
than TO say it was very interesting. Mr..
Calhoun has an appointment to meet
the president in the morning, when he
viii again go over his impressions. 10
reporters Mr.. Calhoun talked with less
freedom than characterized his inter-
views while lin New York. He com
planned that some of these had been e.
aggerated and had made him say what
he had not uttered. The Commissioners
carefully refrained from expressing any
opinion as to the probable policy of the
president in acting on the Cuban ques.
ton, declaring that he had begn to the
island simply to learn facts and to re-
port what he had seen and heard. This
he had done. If he has formed any
opinion regarding the Ruiz case Mr..
Calhoun politely declined to indicate
what it was.