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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-09-17
"entry Paced Again., M,

day at the Rhode Fl e. Sept; Ex-Governor.
witnesnst out out a crowd of 4ooOo state state fair
paced Wsr %Gi1ies r S,1s q em Rt
the the last quarter in All lle In 2os1k, doing
trial in me wss only able 10 maRe H. 1:5S
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-09-17
INVESTIGATING THE COLLEGE.
Gov. Rogers Intimates the Facts
Have Been Misstated.

Pullman, Sept. 9.-The investigation of
the affairs of the Washington agricultur-
al college, held in the regents room in
the administration building Tuesday
night, was an exceedingly interesting
one, and at times was stormy. Those
present were Governor Rogers, Ernest
Lister, secretary of the state board of
audit and control, President Bryan and
Regents Powell and Windus. Harry
Foulkes, bookkeeper for the institution,
was in an adjoining room, and was fire.
quently called in to explain matters and
answer questions propounded by mem
bers of the investigating committee.
President Bryan had insisted that the
investigation be postponed until the ar
rival OF the other members of the board
of regents, but this the governor refused
to do. The first matter taken up was
the charges against the old board, which
have appeared in certain sound papers,
that of extravaganza in the form m&
ministration being taken up first.
dent Bryan insisted that there W
deficit at the time the two new me
of the board were appointed, but
which were audited in April were
sented and the GOV ernor became
WINGED that deficit existed. MaHy
were gone over, including those fol
The committee met again WedI
morning and looked into the fin
condition of the school, then add
Afterward Governor Rogers, in
interview, said that President Br1
his published statement, had
serious and positive misstatem
facts.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-09-17

Rev. Abel Stevens, aged SO, died sud
denly at San Jose, CAL, last week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
BEAT THAT ALL HOLLOW.
He Could Lose Anything According to Hi


The man with the corduroy vest was
telling the story. He said he was there
when it happened. He has the reputa-
ton among his friends of having been
at every important event since the land
ing of the ark. Anyhow, this is what he
said:
Il was over at the theater last night
and was standing in the lobby waiting
for some friends who were going with
me to see the show. Two men, both of
whom had been drinking; came in. One
of them, the more unsteady one, wob-
bled up to the box office and bought two
seats. He lost the tickets between the
box office and the door.
when they got to the doorkeeper
and were asked for their tickets the
man VINO had bought them began hunt
ing through his pockets and looking
hopelessly into his hat. His friend en-
| couraged him with maudlin advice and
| finally the doorkeeper told them pretty
sharply to hurry up and let other people
in.
".Can't do it, replied the man who
had lost the tickets
"'Why not?' asked the doorkeeper.
81 Josh my tickets
"Why, you couldn't have lost them
I saw you buy them two minutes ago
| You couldn't have lost two little bits Of
dashboard like that so quick.
THE ticket loser was very indignant
He looked as sternly as he could at the
doorkeeper. Then rs said:
"'Oh, couldn't Josh EN-, couidnt l
couldn't Josh 'em. Thash all you kno"
bout it. l can't Josh anythin' losi
a bass drum once. -Bu1talo Express
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
EXCHANGED GRIPS.
Alsz Few Courtesles When They Dis
covered Their Mistake.

A Cleveland man tells a funny story
Of a blunder he made while on his we'd
ding tour. When he took the sleeper
for Albany, boarding it at New 1orkS
Grand Central depot, the porter acct
dentally puthim in wrong car, Later
On he recttied the mistake by escorting
thc Cleveland couple into the right sec
ton of the car ahead. When the local
man arose to 60 he picked up what he
supposed was his travelling bag and
started away with it.
He hadn't been in the forward car
but a few moments when he had occa-
sion to open the bag, This is what he
found in it:
4 black bottle, brush and comb.
pack of playing cards, package OF pa
bers labeled Bills" a half box OF
cigars, a couple of collars and a night
shirt, a memorandum book marked
private canvass" and check book
half used and an envelop full of railroad
passes.
The Cleveland man closed the bag
and put it down. Then he looked for
the owner. He didn't have long to
| look. Down the aisle, accompanied by
the porter, came a stocky man with
! hig black mustache and a shiny sill
hat. He grabbed the bag with smile
Of relief and trotted back with it. The
! bridegroom followed him and secured
MS own bag. AS he turned to leave thu
ear the stocly individual shouted afte
him:
Young man, you want to take LITTLE
BETTER care of your ruffles next TIM
YOU go a-journeying."
OF course the people in the car al
laughed. This nettled the Clevelanj
man little.
That's all right, old boy" he fire.
lack, 1.-The next time you go up to Al
bany a log rolling you'd better lock u
your glassware and your Doodle book
a little more securely"
1t was chance shot, but the Cleve
land man knew he had made hit b
the way the other passengers howlec
Then he escaped with his baggage.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07

The plentiful supply of apples this
season, with its natural corollary cheap
ness, should make this healthful fruit
in common use in every household
Physicians consider apples a febrifugo
of great value in the autumn and early
winter months, when they are in their
perfection, and when the insidious
fevers are most apt to lie in wait for
their victims. For breakfast and
luncheon the fruit may be served in ltS
natural state, but at night, particular
Nv if there are children in the FAM
iiv if should be cooked. The list of APP
petiZing dishes that may be prepared
from apples runs from the homely, but
very good, when well made, brown
Betty through Il long range of cus1ards.
buildings, pastries and meringues-
Among these apple snow may be men
toned as delicate and especially con-
serving the flavor OF the fruit: leels
core and quarter u number of apples;
set them to boil with little Water~
sugar. and the thin rind of lemon;i
when quite done, remove the lemon
rind and pass the apples through n
hair sieve. Have some whites of eggs
be.ten to froth, stir them Lightly
tito the apple PURGE, spoonful at a
time. until the mixture is of the con-
sistency of whipped cream and quite
stiff Serve heaped upon dish gar
pishcd with lady fngers.--St. Louis
| Rppublic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07

the snare. If it prove snare and trap
is he not responsible for setting 1t and
being caught by it? Can he say: AN
enemy hath done this?" With less than
the caution of a silly bird he falls into
it when it is spread in his sight and by
his own hands. If such necessity as
the table for daily bread can become
snare and a trap, were 1t not well TO
know how this can be, so we may not
fall into its meshes, and perhaps, in our
non-suspicion, be destroyed? How
many wine bibbers and riotous eaters
of flesh" and others who fare sump-
tuously every day" have gone down
from their sensualities to beg for drops
of water and feel the torment of the I'M
diving fame will be known only when
the lurid light of hell shall reveal the
impossible gulf. Certain it Is that the
glutton and the drunkard cannot inner
it the Kingdom of God.
The fearful peril of the table snare is
in this, that it is spread by hands un-
suspected and every day in our homes
How easy it is to find excuses for the
pleasure OF Ine COllN ~ lai W Y e'ii~A AOA OAA
excuses o. even proper things! Ape
tite rather than reason decides, in many
instances, the question, What shall we
eat. what shall we drink" and how
much. The French have a proverb:
Men dig their graves with their teeth
1t were well if it did not need to be
added-and the pit into which they
sink beyond it. We are to live sober
w." and 'let our moderation be known
to all meu." Luxury, excess, intemPer'
ance-these have always been the snare
of man and have slain the bodies ant
ruined the souls of uncounted multi
tudes.
Oh, how dangerous is the table snare
The sins of its excuses were more eX
cusable if there We're not always ant
everywhere starving Lazaruses who arr
begging for the crumbs which fall iron
our tables. Millions there are witt
never know what it is not to go hungry
II was an hungered and we gave me NJ
meat" All, what an awful remlnde
will that be tic the pampered sons
luxury, in the last day! The snare O
4 the table!-Joel Swartz, D. D., in emo
Sippal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
BLOODHOUND TRACED A BABY.
After Searchers Had Failed, the Animal
Led Them to Its Discovery.

A few days ago Bertha, the pretty
four-year-old daughter of John c. Put
nam. of the little settlement of Mill
Village, VT, disappeared. All the neigh
bors Joined in the search for her. Night
and day the hunt was continued, Due
not a trace Of the little one could be dis
covered the parents were in despair.
1t was feared that the child had been
Kidnapped. Finally the father, in des-
peration, suggested that the state blood
hound Pilot could find some trace.
Anxious to do anything that would IN
the least relieve the fathers mind, the
officials took the dog to Mill Village.
The dog was then given tiny shoe
| that had been worn by the child the day
before she disappeared. This he held in
his mouth for minu Then he dropped
| it and shifted the air He seemed puz-
zled, and the knowing ones were begin
ming to remark that they knew ths
hound would not be of any use.
1t really seemed as if the animal
understood their words, for he sudden
w put his nose to the ground and was
off like a shot, dragging his keepers
after him. On he went, crossing roads,
fields and timber stretches, until he
reached Devils Camp" point about
a mile below Rutland, where there is
small mill stream. Here the animal
suddenly brought up at the edge or
the water, gave one long bark, and re-
fused to further.
Then the men got to work. They pro-
cured hooks and poles, and the bed OF
the stream was thoroughly searched.
All this time Pilot stood by the water
side, though attempts were made to
drag him away. For the first time since
he had been in the state he refused to
obey the voice of his keeper. Toward
night the body of the missing child was
, found. As it was drawn to the shore
Pilot sprang forward, took the Shiny
dress in his mouth and, raising the
child as tenderly as though it had been
a in its mothers arms, trotted back to
the house. the long line of searchers
, following.-N. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Lord Roberts, commandments
Of the army in Ireland, has become an
interchangeable cyclist. He may be seen
sny day careering through the Dublin
streets.
During his entire career Stradi-
varius made from 5000 to 1000 violins.
Few of these were sold for more than
S25 during his life. Now some of them
command $4,000 each.
In certain parts of China the young
women wear their hair in long, single
plat, with which is interwined a strand
of bright scarlet thread, which denotes
them to be manageable.
A wealthy gentleman of Vienn"
stipulated in his will that an electric
light must be constantly burning in his
tomb, and another inside his coffin, for
II months after his death.
BY an Italian law any circus which
does not perform every act promised i'll
the printed programme, or which mis-
leads the public by means of pictures, is
liable to a fine of 900 for each otfense.
1t is said by philologists that there
are 10 original languages - the Greek,
Latin. German, Slavonic, Welsh, Bis
cayan, Irish, Albanian, Tartarian, IL
lyrian, Jazygian, Chaucin and Finnic.
The secret marks on Bank of Eng
land notes by which forgeries are st
rapidly detected are constantly being
changed. The microscope will revea
many such pecularities to an observant
eye.
People often find a difficulty il
keeping their sheiled eggs from crack
irg while boiling. This can be rem
cdied by throwing a small quantity .
salt into the water before putting in thu
egg.
AT public meeting of citizens
held under the presidency of the lort
mayor at Belfast, it was decided to cree
statue of the queen in commemora
ton of her maiesty's reign. The cos
of the statue will be $4,000.
An auditor in japanese theater
allowed for small fee to stand VI
and the unfortunate individual benin
him has no right to demonstrate or
rise and get peep at the stage. H
may hear, but he cannot see.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The asparagus served at the Elysee
banquet in honor of the czar cost three
francs a stalk, or 90 cents a bundle,
and there were 200 guests.
The first railway in Corea is to be-
built by an American, J. r. Morse. IL
will connect the port of Chemulpo with
the capital, Seoul, which is only 25 miles
distant. The cost is estimated at ST.
$4,000.
The vast mahogany forests Of MIC
aragua are almost wholly controlled
by Boston firms by contract Nth tho
Nicaraguan government. The eNporr
trade in the expensive wood has be-
come very extensive, it having reached
G,OOO,OOO feet in 1893.
Analysis of food is enlisting the
services of Roentgen rays for the discov-
cry of adulteration. In pictures so Oh
tanned of powdered materials thinN
scattered on sheet of glass the pres
ence of any of the mineral adulterantS
commonly used is plainly visible on ac-
count of the rays not being able to PEN
citrate them.
The Berlin Academy of Sciences
proposes, as the subject for the Goth
enius prize: Experiments and OBJ
servations on the Origin and Behavior
of New Varieties of Grain During the
Past Twenty Years" The paper, which
may be in Latin, German, French, Itai-
ian or English, mus: be presented be-
fore the beginning OF the year 1899.
M. Fleurent, a French chemist, has
discovered purely chemical standard
for determining the bread-makinS
properties of flour. In a paper pre-
scented to the Academic des Sciences
he asserts that flour containing one
part Of glutenine to three parts of gli-
adine produces the best results for dl-
cestion of the bread and for bakers
purposes.
Electric railways are spreading
over Europe almost as rapidly as over
the United States, while the use OF
electrically propelled carriages on
ordinary roads is increasing much more
rapidly there than here. Last year the
number of trolley, or storage lines, liz
Europe, grew from 70 to Ill, while the
total amount of rails used went up from
437b>miles to 564. Germany heads the
list with a total of 255 miles and S5l
> automotor vehicles.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
THE CARNIVAL OF BLOOD.
Victims of Rum Far Outnunber tho Ar
menian Martyrs.


This is the way the papers speak OF
the sultan's fiendish work of eXter-
minating the Armenians; and to pro-
test against its continuance Indignation
meetings are being held all over the
country, in which all classes of the peo-
pie have joined.
To hold such meetings and to enter
such protests is all right, seeing how
all hearts are wrung with awful records
laid before them, and we'll might they
literally gnash their teeth at their in
ability to stop these horrible atrocities.
But they see how impotent they are
even to arouse those nations who with
ample knowledge of the facts have so
long stood by and permitted these
atrocities at the hands of 1.-The great as
sassin," which they might have stopped.
Let the American people turn from
what they could not do to what they
could do.
One hundred thousand victims of In
temperance are recloned as having died
last year; many of them died drunk,
| and all died prematurely in consequence
OF drinking. Every six minutes, there
| fore. the gate of death was opened to
admit some poor victim of strong drink
J to the bar of God to receive sentence
from that Judge who has said: The
drunkard shall not inherit the Kingdom
of Heaven" AS we do not bury by
night, but only through about eight
hours of the day, the grave was opened
last year every minute and half to adj
nit the mortal remains of some poor
wretch who had been slain by strong
drink. And who regards it?
Suppose we could have witnessed the
departure of these tens of thousands as
some writers witnessed the massacre
of the Armenians; could have gazed or
their squalid poverty, their bloatec
forms, their plunge in the rapid stream
hanging from the beams, bleeding or
the floor, burning on the hearth, tum
bling over the precipice, thrown from
spurred and maddened horses, flung oil
the rails over which dashed the thunder
ing locomotive, or shouting and tight
ing like fends; could have listened t.
their shrieks of agony, their curses
despair, their untold horror in deliriun
t1emens; or could have looked into tn
homes where these victims of alcoho
were each in his vileness linked by tic
tender and indissoluble to other beings
and often to beings of the purest viz
tues, of the liveliest sensibility, and tn
Hottest aspiring: ah! could we hav
seen them thus, what rule could meas
ure the extent or arithmetic sum up tn
amount of misery conprehended in on
field Of vision!
Angels are amazed, nature groan'
Jesus weeps, as they look upon the viz
tins of alcohol piled up, the mangle'
the ghastly, the wounded heaps of mo-
tally! While 10000 demons shriel
these are doing, strong drink! Ma
alone passes on, drinks daily, and for
few pieces of silver licenses men to col
| tinue this carnival of blood" year aftt
year! How long, . God! how long
2 National Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
NOTES BY THE WAY.

Two-thirds of the members of the
Ontario government are total alb
stainers.
The juvenile temperance force in
Great Britain is authoritatively esti-
mated at 2,S13,SOO members, nine
tenths of whom are in Band of Hope
unions.
The Union Signal calls attention to
the fact that Chicago's city council has
seen fit to reduce the license of whole
sale liquor dealers, and then significant
ly adds: Meanwhile the tax on water
remains the same"
Capt. Virgins, q well-known explorer,
testities to the benefcence of total alb
stinence to Arctic travellers and never
carries anything alcoholic with him on
his voyages save what the board OF
trade compels him to take.
Human nature is a cheerful study
Dig out spring bi the roadside, fix 1t
I'D with nice half barrel to hold the
water, place a nu tin dipper by the side
oy it, and see how long it will be before
the weary traveller, after slakeinS hlz
thirst, will steal the dipper.-Josh Bill
| lings.
The surgeon in charge of the troops
of Vancouver barracks has stern and
effective treatment for drunkenness,
the main features of which are, iii brief,
the stomach-pump, stomach cleansing
with strong solution OF Soda bowl
of hot beef extract with cayenne pep
per, an hours rest, return to work
The malady is said to be on the decrease
The barroom is a bank. You deposit
your money-and lose it. Your time
and lose it. Your chaIacter-and lose
it. Your health-and lose it. Your
strength-and lose it. Your manly in
dependence-and lose it. Your self
control-and lose it. Your home com
! fort-and lose it. Your wife's hap
piness-and lose it. Your children''
happiness-and lose it. Your owl
ssul-and lose it.-Nettie Kerr, in On
tario Mirror.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-07
HATE THE ENGLISH TONGUE.
Indians Grow Hostile Through Rigid
Rules at School.


For years government instructors
among the Indians have been troubled
by the fact that the red men, after learn
ing English at the schools as children,
invariably return to their own tongues
and seem positively to hate the white
mans language.
The Superintendent of Indian schools,
w. n. Mailman, in report just made To
the commissioner of Indian affairs, says
that the Indians were actually taught
to hate the English tongue, because OF
the rigid rules against the use of any
Indian conversation by pupils. UntI
lately the great majority of Indian
teachers have labored under the delu-
sion that they can hasten the acqulsl-
ton of the English language on the part
OF the pupils by compulsory measures,
visiting more or less severe penalties
upon the unfortunate children who were
caught in the use of the Indian speech.
| The unreasonableneSs of such pro-
ceedings, which are always punished
with more or less serious failure, APP
pears when it is considered that ar
idiom that is forced upon child by
means of penalties and other appeals
to fear is necessarily hateful to him.
Then, in his own heart, he turns away
from it and uses it only under more or
less pronounced protests. ms pc
| comes quite manifest as soon as the
children are removed from the restraint
of the school, when, for instance, they
return to their parents for visit or
more or less permanently after gradua-
ton, and when, on meeting their
former teachers, they will either re-
fuse to speak English altogether or an
swer with shame-faced reluctance.
Prof. Mailman says: There is nc
doubt in my mind that the unreaSoh-
ableness of the offensive warfare made
in the Indian schools against Indian
yernacular is largely to blame for tht
apparent stubbornness with whlcf
older Indians refuse to learn English
or to use the little knowledge thereof
which they may possess. Ii 1t is argue'
that with liberty to use the Indian YER
! nacular the Indian children Will engage
, in conversation, possibly improper
{ which the teacher can neither under
stand nor control, the fault lies no
| with the child's knowledge and use
: his own idiom, but with the teacher
ignorance of the same, and the remed.
e will be found not in the represslv
t measures, which must, because of thei
4 unreasonableness, fail of their purpose
b.. but in the determined effort on tn
t teachers part to acquire knowledg
|. of the child's idiom.
Y Probably the traditional hostile a.
= titude of certain schools to the India
3 vernacular is responsible for the fac
l. that in number of instances teacher
', and other school employees continue
l. the same school, working with the sam
# tribe of Indians, without acquiring an
= appreciable knowledge of the languaa
g spoken at the homes of their childrel
o This ignorance frequently extends
lie the customs, habits of life, ana the HI
IS torical development of the tribe
ar question. They seem to treat the
s. dians as outcasts, and the outcome
their work corresponds with this att
lie tude."- Chicago Tribune.