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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Certain female insects live Ga times
IA long as the male. The females of bees
and ants are longer lived than the.
males.
DR. School, the German hydrcg-
rapher, says that there are not less
than 10000 tons of mineral matter per
day added to the store which the ocean
already holds in solution.
The Yale lock manufacturers have
proved that in a patent lock having
six steps" each capable of being re-
luced in height 20 times, the number of
changes or combinations will be sc, 400.
Equal parts of lime water and
sweet oil well mixed will form kind of
soap which is very efficacious in taking
out or removing Inflammation, as well
ns for healing wounds caused by burns
or scalds.
The increase of urban populations
is one of the most important social
conditions brought out by successive
ccnsuses. In England III per cent. of
the population were in urban districts
in 1891, an increase of 15.3 per cent. in
decade, as against an increase of 3.4
per cent. in rural population. The bal
ance of civil power has gone to the bor-
oughs.
The deepest body of fresh water in
America is Crater lake, Oregon. Only
one lake in the world, Lake Baikal, ex-
cceds it in depth, and it is only 400 feet
deeper. Until recently it was asserted
Crater lake was bottomless, but sound
ings have shown its great depth to be
1000 feet. 1t is five miles in diameter,
nearly circular, and occupies the crater
of an extinct volcano.
Cultivate the habit of breathing
through the nose and taking deep
breaths. If this, habit was universal,
there is little doubt that pulmonary
affections would be decreased one-half.
An English physician calls attention
to this fact, that deep and forced res
pirations will keep the entire body
in a glow in the coolest weather, no
matter how thinly one may be clad.
He was himself half frozen to death
one night and began taking deep
breaths and keeping the air in his
lungs as long as possible. The result
was that he was thoroughly comfort
able in a few minutes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
COSTUMES FOR CHICAGO.
How n Smart Young Drummer Made a
Clean Thousand Dollars.

A neat way of making a clean thou
sand dollars was contrived by travel
ing salesman who was idle a few
months ago. He had learned a fact in
connection with trade methods which
he resolved to profit by at the first OPP
portunity. Every house of any stand
ing is in the habit of importing one or
more Worth costumes in the course of
the season, to serve as models for their
own designers and as attractive objects
of display.
When their purpose is served they are
glad to dispose of the costumes at a
third of their cost, if this can be done
without interfering with their regular
trade. The goods are dead stock"
when they have been on exhibition for
time. No woman who could afford to
wants to wear dress which would be so
easily recognized as having been lately
on exhibition.
The bright young drummer, antici-
pating period of inactivity, quietly Sc
cured options on costumes in a number
of good stores, promising that they
would not be sold in this vicinity. Their
he secured the elite directory" OF
Chicago and addressed a number of nea.
circulars to a selected list of names in
viting the ladies to inspect number of
Worth's latest creations at the Palmer
house parlors.
This and the expense of his journey
embraced all of his expenditures. for
the houses knew and trusted him TO
make returns for the goods. In two
weeks he had sold out, the result being
net profit of 81 ,OOO.-N. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
THE TURK AS A FIGHTER.
He VIII Run When He Thinks He Is
Getting Whipped.

Col. Francis V. Greene, L. S. A., re-
tired, VINO was sent by this government
to Russia during the last Turkish war
to represent the war department at
Washington, lately told of his observa-
tons of the Turkish army while in bat
tie. The Turks are individually good
fighters said Col. Greene. They
are fine soldiers, very obedient, fanatic
in their religion and fatalists. The
Turk fights up to a certain point and
when he thinks matters are going
against him, he will run. Not for any
lack of courage. but because he thinks
fate is against him. The Turkish sol
diers are well armed. During the Russo
Turkish war, the Turks We're better
armed than the Russians. They are
well clothed. but the conlmissary and
transportation systems were fatally de-
tective. y
In numbers the peace strength is
$4,000 Greeks and 100000 Turks, and
these can probably be increased to
three times as many on each side. In
1877, the Turk put over 100000 men in
the field in Europe and over 100000 in
Asia, and they made a very much
stronger resistance than the Russians
anticipated. | think Russia put nearly
half a million men in the field before the
war was over.
Turkey is bankrupt, but so she was
in 1877, and that won't stop her from
fighting. They will probably manage
to borrow enough money to buy guns
and ammunition, and they will get food
out of their own country. The Turks
20 years ago fought ar entirely defcn-
sive campaign. No reason why they
should not do so now. Their plan was
to seize some important point and
throw up Notifications which they con-
structed with remarkable skill, and
then wait to be attacked behind their
breastworks. They collected large
amounts of ammunition and provisions
in their forts and awaited attack. Some
times their positions We're burned
They were compelled to retreat, and
then they would abandon all their am
munitions and stores and fall back on
another line of Notifications, 20 or 50
miles in the rear"
Col. Greene was asked his opinion as
to the relative strength of the armies of
Greece and Turkey. There is no ques.
ton" he said, that the Turks are more
than a match for the Greeks. But the
whole question is what stand the great
powers will take. They are all extremely
anxious to keep peace, because if the
war is once started among the great
powers it is impossible to say when il
will end."-Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20

keep sober and steady. OF course [
don't mind" and then oe's mother was
fast in Joe's arms, and they were cry
ing together.
While Joe slept that night, Joe's moth
er was praying-praying as no mother
ever prayed for a son On q battlefield
before-that her son might not give in.
After this, Joe gave his mother little
purse to keep, and whenever he felt the
old passion coming back, he put in it
the money he would have spent for
drink. The purse was filled over and
over, and his mother saved it all until
such time as it could DE spent for "Joe's
flowers"
The garden being full, another sum
mer the waste ground around the
sInithy was cleared up, soil was put
there in place of cinders, and all neatly
sodded, with a great heart of flowers in
the center. This heart Joe kept filed
with blazing red flowers, and the old
foreman, who knew the story now, could
not help telling the neighbors, he was
SO proud of Joe. The neighbors who
were all fond of Joe, could not help
speaking of it to each other as they
passed and repassed many times a day,
and so it came that even the children
knew every one of these flowers meant
a battle and a victory and they used to
speak of this bed reverently as "Joe's
Burning Heart"
The old smithy hardly knows itself
any more since its foundations have
been rebuilt so square and true, its win
dOws cleaned and frightened, and its
y"eather-worn walls covered with shin
ing ivies. On the south side facing the
cottage, a greenhouse has been built and
here Joe spends every spare moment
busying himself in the care of his flow
ers or reading and studying about them,
for it is his ambition to become not only
q florist, but botanist
Nor does Joe forget his old comrades,
and when he meets one in the street, out
of work, it may be, or down-hearted, or
bound for the saloon to have it all OUT
in a spree, Joe will ask him in the green
house to see the flowers or to offer him
some odd bit of work. or just to give him
some little potted plant to take home
to the children, and what with Joe's
kindness and friendliness and the sweet
ness and brightness of the flowers and
the encouragement of it all, the poor
fellow will be tided over that hard
place and saved from the spree.
An that's the way Joe works it,"
says the old foreman to a neighboring
gossip. That's the way he lends a
helpin' hand An the boys are wilIin'
to take a word of advice from Joe-they
know what he's been through"
1t was one summers morning that J
first saw Joe's flower garden, and this
story was told 10 me- Fine blush roses
and tall madonna lilies were filling all
the June air with fragrance, and as
Joe's mother walked between them she
was singing softly but with confidence:
The prince is ever in them.
The daylight Is serene"
1t was busy morning with the sound
Of J0e's anvil ringing out Justify and
checTily, and as l stood looking and lis
tening it seemed to me l had never
heard such eloquent preachers Of tenn
perance as these lovely, innocent flow
ers opening in the sunshine-"Joe's
flowers. "-Frances Bennett Galloway,
in Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
BITS AND BREViTIES.

No man drinks to please his wife,
Rams Horn.
Says DIR. Lvdston: wine, tobacco
and athletics mix but poorly"
A just cause cannot die. it may show
symptoms of weakness at times, but it
is bound to survive all it's opponents and
be triumphant.-Lever.
There is something wrong with the
mans head who has to have the deliri-
um tremens before he will believe that
liquor will hurt him aDy.-Ram's Horn.
The citizens OF Cam bridge, Mass, are
talking about celebrating the tenth an
niverSary of die towns exemption from
the liquor saloon, which will soon oc-
cur.
The liquor papers admit that a pub
lie sentiment has been created which is
hostile to their business. They might
also admit that it is growing rapidly
and that it will be irresistible in the
near future.-Lever.
During Miss Burnett's work in ITALIA
hassee, Fla, all the pupils in the public
schools were pledged against cigarettes
and a league was also formed in the
seminary. The state superintendent Of
public schools and superintendent of
narcotics in the W. c. T. L. will carry
on the work.
DR.. A. Monac Lesser, surgeon of the
New York Red Cross hospital, said late
ly: within the past five days 1 have
seen % new cases of grip. Out of these
% cases IS were treated without the
use of whisky, and none met with any
serious results. The other four were
treated with whisky, aud each one de-
velOped into pneumonia"
In the early days of the French revo-
luton it is said that he who set house
on fire was not punished, but he who
gave the alarm was guilfotined. Much
so now, when the saloon system that
consumes American homes goes unpun-
ished, but they who give the alarm get
pilloried before the public.-American
Outlook.
] believe that the miseries consequent
on the manufacture and sale of iutoXi.
eating liquors are so great as to COM
mand imperiously the attention of all
dedicated lives, and that, while the abo-
lition of American slavery was numer-
ically first, the abolition of the liquor
traffic was not morally second-Eliza-
beth Stuart Phelps Ward.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20

81 BROUGHT YOU A POSY, MOTHER. -
was a strange look in his eyes when a
few moments later he put on his hat
in a shamed way and walked out of the
shop.
Pm afeared Joe's goin' to give in -
muttered the foreman, with troubled
look on his face.
Coin to give in? ?" laughed a custom
er, who CHANGED to be waiting. NO
body ever expected him to hold out
more'n a week"
The old foreman turned back to his
work with something like groan. He
had known and loved Joe since he
was little lad.
The customer had paid for his worl,
and gone away before Joe's familiar
step was heard returning, and then he
went straight past the shop into his
mothers flower garden. He had some
thing in a pot which he was carrying,
and the foreman, glancing out Of the
window, heaved sigh of relief, for he
knew that Joe was all right when he
heard the lad say, in his hearty voice:
Il brought you a posy, mother. It's
a primrose"
why, Joe! What made you DO it -"
cried the little mother, putting down
her trowel with such look of surprise
and delight, and her hands tremoled
so she almost let the pot far as Joe
handed it to her.
From time to time all summer. Joe
kept bringing home flowers until the
tiny garden spot was crammed full, the
borders of the walks We're filled, and
even the porch was overlooking with
them. Mrs. Berwick, no longer sur
1>rised or delighted, began to think that
her son had gone out of his senses.
Never mind" she said. soberly, as
she put up the last hanging basket;
he'll get over it when cold weather
comes"
But cold weather came and Joe still
kept up his mania for buying flowers.
One night when he came in with great
burly chrysanthemum, his mother lost
all patience.
why, Joe, this house is so cluttered
up with plants now l can hardly find
room to set my foot down, and the win
dows are so filled up we can't see out
Of 'em--and what do you keep on buy
ing more for?"
Mother" said Joe. taken aback, for
she was a woman who never scolded. ~
hadn't noticed the house was filled up
so, and | thought you liked flowers
and the truth is. when the old cravin'
came back drivin' me most mad. l
inst took to spendin' that money for
flowers | might have spent in drink,
and the Lord knows how it helped me.
Do you mind now, mother?"
"'Ioe, my lad" and the tears were
streaming down his mothers cheeks,
you can buy flowers until we have to
gnOve out on the sidewalk IL you'll only
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
TEMPERANCE.
JOE'S "SURNING HEART"
Pretty Story of n Desperate Struggle
Against the Drink Habit.


From his father, Joe Berwick inherited
5he blacksmith shop, his trade and love
for drink. The smithy, a weatherbeaten
Old brick building with bleared, cob
Nebbed windows and crumbling fouH-
datlons, stood in an open lot near the
center of the village. This lot was COW
sTed with a bed of black cinders, the
accumulation of 20 years, and on top
Of the cinders all manner of rusty
wheels, tires, plows, farm implements
and broken-down carts which had
been collecting there for about the
same length of time.
Joe, a great swarthy, stalwart fellow,
was splendid workman, and when the
ring of his hammer made the sparks
tly cheerily from the anvil, how his
mother in that little cottage next to
the smithy listened to The music of it
and all the neighbors could tell you how
she used to sing. But the days and days
when Joe was off on a drunk and the old
smithy was dark and silent-only the
Lord knew how his mother used to
pray.
Joe had been away to a cure for
months, and when he returned he was
cured, as they all hoped. But poor Joe!
he no sooner entered the smithy than
the old temptation, which seemed still
lurking about the smoky walls and the
Olear-eyed windows, all leaped upon
him whichever way he turned, and no
man ever began a drawer fight with the
powers of darkness than did Joe Ber-
wick that day.
just month Joe had been at home,
and the old thirst was on him that morn
ing with something like madness. To
resist it was like trying to stand i'll
the way of a lightning express train.
Joe found himself trembling and Civ
ing way. He threw down his hammer
and went to the open window feeling
faint and sick. The strip of dooryard
by his mothers cottage lay fresh and
green in the April sunshine, and robin
lighting on an apple bough bursting
with buds, was whistling joyously.
Joe's mother in her sunbonuet, with her
skirts carefully pinned back, was weed
ing out her bed of grass pinks in the
garden.
Joe loved flowers and sunshine;
7e loved this peaceful home;
more than all he loved his mother. He
Leaned his face heavily on his hands
oh, how the battle was raging! There
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
FORMER TRADE MONOPOLiES
When Corporations Were Much
Worse Than They Are Now.

Apprentices became no better than
serfs and slaves. They were not merely
pitilessly fined and brutally punished;
they We're often left in ignorance of the
craft that they had purchased the right
to learn. In that frightful social and
moral revulsion following the long amt
devastating wars of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries the corporations
became more determined than ever to
maintain their industrial aristocracy
and monopoly. They refused to admit
any trade less ancient and honorable
than their own to the lights and priv
ilegeS Of the law; they soiled themselves
by contact with no person of illegit-
mate birth; and in their savage and re-
lentless pursuit of persons engaged III
unauthorized traffic they invaded TIL.
homes of the contraband workmen, con-
nscating both their tools and the hidden
products of their toll, leaving them and
their families destitute and starving.
70 such absurd lengths was the crea-
ton of corporations carried for the pro-
ductiOn of new taxes and new places for
court favOrites that occupations like
teaching of dancing, the selling of flow
ers and the catching of birds were or
gained and homogeneous occupations
like the hatmakers' and carpenters
were divided and subdivided beyond the
comprehension of the modern mind.
But despite the ingenuity of lawyers
and the vigilance of armies of inspect
ors, the lines of demarkation could NOT
be drawn so sharply as to avoid con-
ficts of interests. The makers of felt
hats quarreled with the makers of cot.
ton hats. The spinners who had pur-
chased the right to use hemp quarreled
with those who had purchased the right
to use flax. The shoemakers fought
with the cobblers that reproduced more
than two-thirds of an old shoe. The
cutters that made the handles of knives
fought with those that made the blades.
The relations of the makers of wooden
porringers and the makers of wooden
spoons were equally belligerent.-Pop-
ular Science Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
1t ShouIJ Have Passed.

Senator Keller, of the Minnesota leg
islature, recently introduced bill pro-
viding that all retail liquor dealers
should keep a transparent glass in the
front doors of their places of business.
this glass having inscribed on it the
word saloon in letters eight inches
high, and under that, in letters of sim.
liar size, the word dangerous and
each TO occupy a horizontal plate not
less than two feet long" The sign was
to be made visible by an electric light
back Of it. The bill did not pass, but IT
received a good vote.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20

ThegraveOf Thomas Watt at Bryant's
chapel, near Centerville, Ind, was bur.
rowed into by ground hogs and several
of his bones dragged to the surface.
The discovery of the above facts makes
interesting a prophecy uttered years
ago. Thomas Watt was the neighbor-
hood drunkard. His children ran wild
as colts and but little more clothed.
His sllessness and depravity
aroused the indignation of his
neighbors, and particularly of an
old woman, who, it is said, had the
gift of divination. She demonstrated
with him, and upon his failure to heed
her advice pronounced a curse upon
him. She prophesied that he would die
of violence and his bones would not find
repose in the grave. Thomas Watt was
drowned while in an intoxicated condi
tion in attempting to cross a swollen
stream. Now that t4e latter part of the
dismal prophecy has received literal
fullfllmcnt the old woman, VINO is vet
alive and in the divination business, il
greatly feared and her power as a for
tune teller receives much credence.-
Chicago News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
Practical TheOSODhy,

WARWICK can% help thinking
about old p. NITROUS studying theoao-
ply. He's wonderfully enthusiastic
over the idea of being able to separate
soul from body.
Wicllwire--I don't doubt it. That
fellow would go through a meat chop
per if he thought he could save car fare
when he goes to ais office Up-to- Date.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
Sucn n High Wind.

81 saw you out on your wheel the dag
of the high wind"
yes; | punctured both tires before
l got home"
Have to walk?"
NO. You see, the wind was so strong
it kept both tires filled through the
punctures, and never found they were
busted until next day" - Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20

Mrs. Watts-Isn't it good deal ofan-
noyancc to get your meals at such ir-
regular hours
Hungry Higgins - The irregular
hours amt so bad as The irregular DAYS.
indianapolis journal.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-02
Destructive
Japanese
Beetle

Previous to four years ago the gar
dens in and around Honolulu present
ed picture to lovers of flowers and
fine shrubbery; in fact, it was a very
common remark by tourists that the
residences of Honolulu were without
rival from a plant-life standpoint.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-02
and probably never will be fit for State

and probably never will be fit for State
hood
Alaska was our first step in expan-
sion over sea, though we escaped mar
rowly almost simultaneous acquisition
of territory in the West Indies, and
with our restless political and CONNER
cial ambition. are likely before long to
find ourselves saddled with islands in
both oceans. This will bring many
strange and new civil, military and
social obligations, not the least of
which is to frame some form of pro-
vincial government for communities
not fit, and never likely TO be fit, for
the duties and responsibilities of Am
erican Statehood"
We recall again, as we did sever
al days ago, the strange incident or
conjunction of affairs by which the
revolution in Cuba, the revolution
in Hawaii and the gold discoveries
in the Klondike, continue at the
same time to force the American
people to take up seriously the
question Of colonies, and intelli-
gently dispose of it.
If Congress should settle down
to debate on the merits of a colon
ial system, which will embrace not
only Hawaii and Alaska, but all OF
many islands of the West Indies
group, it will be one of the most
important debates of the latter
part of the century.
The United States have reached
the Pacific with their institutions
and laws. The next great move
will be southwark. Within fifty
years, many of the Spanish-Ameri
can States will ask, as a security
against internal revolution, the pro
lection of the United States, and il
will be given, probably in the form
of colonial government.
The question of the annexation
,of Hawaii may possibly involve the
relations of the United States t.
IOther lands.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-02
A GREAT MUNICIPAL ELECTION

The LARGEST municipal election
ever held in the United States,
takes place today in Greater New
York. The noticeable feature
about it is the failure of the Re
publican party and the Citizens
party to agree on candidate tor
Mayor The candidate of each
party is good man. But the Re
publicans prefer the rule of Tam
manvto the rule of Seth Low, the
Citizens candidate, because with
his election, there must be civil SER
vice rule, and with that comes the
decentralization of both Tammany
and the Republicans. With the
election of the Tammany candi-
date, the Republicans will secure,
as they have secured from. the De
mocratS tor many years, lou OF
good local offices in the city. Al
though Mr.. Low is one of the lead
ing scholars, business men and adj
ministrators of public affairs in the
States, with magnificent RECORD
behind him, Ex-Governor Foraker
a leading Republican. attacked
him with much bitterness in f;
stump speech, to which the Repub
lican crowdreplied: "Give it to him
Hit the traitor" All this is an i'll
ustration of the mission of the poll
tician to deal with expedients an'
not with principles.