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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
A Victim of "whi.kev Bl.cuit...

An eight-year-oId schoolboy who was
taken to Bellevue Hospital last week to be-
examined as to his sanity and who was suf-i
fering from neurasthenia. according to the
diagnosis, was victim of what his mother
called "whiskey biscuits which are sold
on the sly in some east side bakeshops. The,
boys mother described whiskey biscuit
as composition of cake, jelly, and alcohol
and she said that the boy had bad dreams
during the night after eating it. man
whose work for several years has compelled!
him to spend most of his time on the lower,
east side, said yesterday that he had heard
of whiskey biscuits, but that he had never
been able to buy one.
"The people who sell these thingsto chill
dren," he said, 'know we'll enough that
they are rendering themselves liable to-
punishment, and an adult can rarely buy
them. l don't believe that the practice OF
selling alcoholic candies and cakes to chill
dren is very general, because a normal
child does not care for such things. 1t is
an acquired bat very rarely an inherited,
taste. The selling of brandy drops was
discouraged a few months ago, when sew
eral OF the sellers were arrested. The
"whiskey biscuit is the successor of the
brandy drop, and If alcohol is used instead
Of brandy, 1 don't wonder that its effects
are deadly."-New York Sun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

Not far from the final resting place
of Mr.. Gladstone in Westminster Alb
hey is the tomb of General John Bur.
goyne, who was defeated by Gates at
the battle of Saltwater, and who sur
rendered to the Americans at Saratoga
in l777. Burgoyne is picturesque
figure in history, but at the best one
must conclude Westminster honors
were less highly valuable in 1892 than
they are now. He was by no means
great general, and his campaign in
America ended with such advantage
to the patriot arms that Yorktown and
independence were assured.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

Canada has a population of 5,000,.
900 against 100000 in 1s4O), with
total trade of $3.50, 600, 600 against
$25, 900, 600 in 1S40), and with ma
tional revenue of nearly $40, 200, 900
against 500, 900 in 1S40), which in
habits adominion of seven regularly or.
ganized provinces and an immense ter
ritory now in course of development,
stretching from Manitoba and Ontario
to British Columbia, whose mountains
are washed by the Pacific ocean. This
dominion embraces an area of 3,519,-
900 square miles, including its water
surface, or very little less than the
area of the United States with Alaska,
OF a region measuring $500 miles from
east to west, and 1400 miles from
north to south. The magnificent val
ley, through which the St. Lawrence
river flows from the lakes to the ocean,
is now the home of prosperous, ener-
getic and intelligent communities, one
of which WAS founded nearly three
centuries ago.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

What may be described as ''the
business of keeping railroad accounts"
has increased SO rapidly during the
past few years as to justify the organ
ization of the american Railway Ac-
counting Association. It's tenth an
nual convention which occurred at
Atlantic City, N. j., recently, calls at
tention to the magnitude of railway
way accounts. There are nearly a
thousand railroad companies in the
United States, having mileage Of
nearly $50, 900 miles, and taking in
from receipts from passengers and
mails nearly $1,000,00 day,
and from freight nearly 50, 900, 0o0
The complicated but perfected system
of transfers, rebates, through tickets,
stop-overs, ''fast" and 'slow' freight
commutation, and long and short haul,
requires an amount of bookkeeping
30 extensive and so elaborate that it
may be said truly, according to the
New York Sun, that the operations of
the Treasury of the United States it.
self seem insignificant when compared
with the volume of these transactions.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
Dewey Not Heroic in Appearance.

"In person Dewey is not the naval
hero of popular imagination, says L
A. Coolidge in McClure's. "He is
slight, OF medium height, with finely
chiselled face, and hair sprinkle d with
gray, while his firmly set lips anc
clear eye would mark him as a gentle.
man and man of the world. While
in Washington he was clubman and
fond of society, one of those who rarely
appeared after dinner except in even
ing dress; just the kind Of fellow, in
short, that some have in mind when
they inveigh against the dudes of this
navy who are pensioned on the
government and .,aunt the drawing
rooms of the capital. He is quiet in
manner, sparing and incisive in
speech, courteous in bearing and de.
cisivs in action"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

The American school teacher is bet
ter off than any other. In Italy con-
ditions connected with the schools
have become such that the better
classes have taken the matter up with
q determination to reform them. In
vestigation has brought some deplora-
ble facts to light. For instance, out
of $4,000 schoolrooms, 10000 were
reported to be in ''tolerable" condi-
tion only, while 10000 "do not de-
serve to be called places of public ed
ucation." In thirty one provinces tho
teachers are never regularly paid, and
large sums are owed to them which
they see no prospect of getting; 34S
communes owe their 1045 teachers
312, 900 lire 1862, 400 arrears of salary.
The mass of the people, whose chill
dren should so to the schools, take no
interest in them whatever. Com munal
and political squabbles absorb them
to the exclusion of everything else, and
the rising generation is left to rise
without the aid of schooling, OF,
though attendance is nominally COM
pulsory for all children between six
and nine years of age, the law is no.
where rigidly enforced, and the peo-
pie everywhere are nearly as indiffer-
ent as the Spanish to tho modern me-
cessity of knowing how to read and
write, and are nearly as illiterate.
The proportion of illiterates for north
ern Italy is 40. So per cent; for mid
die italy, 64.61; for southern ITALY,
70 4f. apd for the other islands. so 81.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
what Temperance Brings.

We love to see young men with noble
carriage, and with blooming health. We
cannot bear to see young men, that have
every reason for building up noble man
an unwholesome skin, which are signs OF
intemperance. Perhaps there is nothing
more dlsreputable than for a young man
to present himself miserable wreck OF
what he might have been, and q burden to
the state and to the age in which he lives;
and perhaps there is nothing more credita-
BILE to a young man than to present himself
to the state and to the age in which he
lives a monument OF health and vigor and
true manliness. Temperance brings you to
this higher and nobler condition of man.
hood, and intemperance takes you from II.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
ON THE MARCH.


Now the marching men have passed;
We have watched them to the last,
Till the column disappears
In a mist of sudden tears.
Loves and hates before ulguessed
Tremble in the troubl I'd breast;
Loves and hates and hopes and fears,
Waking from the sleep of years.
At our country's calling come,
To the rolling Of the drum:
Rika-tek, rika-tek, rika TEX TEX tex,
Rika-tek, rika-tek, rika TEX tex tex.
Rika-tek TEX TEX,
Rika-tek TEX tex,
Rika-tek, rika-tek, rika-tek tex TEX.
So the night comes on apace,
Settles on each solemn face;
While we pray with hearts OF fire,
While wistful, wild desire
Follows where the dangers are,
Where the battles blaze afar-
Till our heroes homeward come,
And we hear the victor drum:
Rika-tek. rika-tek, rika TEX TEX tex,
Rika-tek, rika-tek, rika tex tex tex,
Rika-tek tex TEX,
Rika-tek TEX TEX.
Rika-tek, risa-tek. rika-tek tex tex.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
The Army and Alcohol.

Captain r. G.. Woodson, the Government
expert on tropical diseases, who for years
has made study of yellow fever and kin
dred diseases at Atlanta, Pensacola,
Loredo, New Orleans, Savannah and Tam-
pa, has just made special official report
for the guidance of troops. especially those
to be sent to Cuba. DR.. Woodson has re-
Gently been acting assistant qaartermaster,
and will be in charge OF the ambulance
train OF the Fifth Army Corps of the army
OF invasion. In his report, DR.. Woodson
has this to say about the use of alcohol in
an army campaign in the tropics:
yellow fever is certainly the greatest
danger that confronts us. 1t is to be rem en-
bered that the mortality of this affection
among the troops from Northern climates,
who possess absolutely no contra-immun-
ity, will be exceedingly greater should the
disease gain access to our midst. Yellow
fever, being disease which attacks essen
tally the liver and kidneys, will prove
particularly fatal to those whose habits Of
life have reduced the vital resistance OF
these organs. Especially is this axiom
applicable to soldiers with cirrhotic liv-
ers and kidneys from alcoholic excesses,
and those with lithemia from over-indul-i
gence in highly heterogeneous foods. The
term lithemia Is intended to define that
condition OF men ordinarily spoken of as
full habit
$50 firmly convinced am of the predis-
PoSihS ihhu'siCcS VI tticOuouC lHuuiSeHceS
toward this disease that / would strike all
such beverages from the dietary OF the SOL
dier and even from the medical supplies of
the department
'In this connection wish it understood
that l am not discussing this question
from moral standpoint; and to those who
Insist that the habitual drunkards require
their accustomed stimulant, would reply
that such men should be left behind, or, If
carried, should be sent up daily for q hypo-
dermic injection Of strychnine or digfta-
lne.'
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

In future years many a man who
claims to have been where the battle
was hottest in the war with Spain will
prove it by showing that he stood in
front of the bulletin board, the New
York Mail and Express predicts.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
Temperance News and Notes.

Remorse is linked with rum.
The pledge in time saves many mar.
The happiness caused by drink Is oflvery
short duration.
People who "brace up" on whiskey are
liable to break down on 1t.
Avoid the occasions Of sin. Keep away
from drinking companions.
Educate the children in temperance mat
ters and you begin at the right end.
Two colonies, commanding regiments
encamped at Chickamauga, have absolutely
prohibited agents of liquor houses from
entering the camp and trying to dispose Of
their wares.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

The transportation of merchandise
is feature of the ng-distance trolley
lines to which little attention has yet
been paid, but which has great possi-
bilities, comments a writer in Harper's
Magazine. These lines offer remark
able opportunities for the develop
ment of convenient express and par
cels-delivery service between cities
and their suburbs, and even far out
into the country. Freight could also
be cheaply carried in this way from
town to town, and large business
might be built up in the transportation
of market produce and of milk from
the country into the city. Platform
cars might be arranged SO that heavily
loaded wagons could be taken bodily
for long distances at material saving
in time and expense. The relief OF
the highways from heavy traffic might
thus be very great; it would also save
the community large expenses for re
pairs and renewal of roads, for there
would be corresponding reduction
in the wear and tear of the way from
heavy teaming, and the destructive
ehopping action Of steel bnrsesbnea
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

The old expression "Hobson's
choice will henceforth have new
meaning. It will be the story in two
words of man who chose to risk his
life for his country's sake and there.
by gained his country's praise and un.
dying fame.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

There is an element of reserve, Of
thrifty limitation, in British hero-wor.
ship. Mr.. Gladstone has been easily
the most popular man in Great Britain
for a generation, yet this did not sell
his literary works. Indeed, he had
to pay his publisher, Murray, about
800 loss on one of his books.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

The bicycle is the poor mans horse.
It is now SO cheap as to be within the
reach of every person who enjoys reg.
ular employment at a decent wage.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

The fact that juvenile crime in.
creases by about fifty per cent. in
summertime is potent argument in
favor of vacation schools.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

From all the telegrarhic talk about
mules in the campaign one Is forced
to think that the humble kicker is to
the army what coal is to the navy.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-26
PREMIUM ON BONDS
The Question Of Liability to Taxa
ton Raised.
II. l. Hospital Trust Co. . Case Against
. Board Of Tax Assessors.

A very interesting question is involv-
ed In the case of Rhode Island Hospi-
tai Trust Company VS.. Arthur III. Arm
ington and the other assessors OF taxes
I'm this city which was submitted to
the Appellate Court today. The ques-
ton was whether the premium on
United States bonds is liable TO taxa
tion or not.
The Rhode Island Hospital Trust
Company as administrator on the
Newcombe estate situated in this city
made a return to the local assessors OF
taxes that all the Newcombe estate
was in United States bonds OF 1870.
These bonds then were at a premium
and the assessors claimed the right to
assess the estate for the premium. The
treasurer OF the trust company refused
to make any return OF the amount Of
the premium so the assessors assessed
the estate for the same amount as IL
had been previously taxed for, that, is
before the assessors were notified that
the estate was all in bonds.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-26
CHEAPSIDE ESTATE.
Application Made For Commission
10 Sell ,hs Property.
The Providence Institutions For Savings
Is the Moving Party.

Application was made TO the Appel
late Court this morning for the appoint
ment of a commissioners to sell the
Cheapside estate with buildings on
North Main and Canal streets. The es-
tate is divided into four principal parts
and some of these fourth parts are
many times divided. Some OF the shares
have come into the possession Of the
Providence Institutions for Savings
and the bank is the moving party in
the proceedings, it having filed a bill
in equity against William Ames
trustee. There is cul de sac between
the buildings and the disposition of this
blind alley is a source of difficulty. AS
the consent of all the parties in inter-
est had not as required by the statute
been obtained in relation to the pro-
posed disposal of the way made by the
decree IL was proposed to enter w. II.
Tillinghast, who represented the bank
asked leave to enter il at a later time
William II. Herrick was named as
commissioners i'm the decree to make
sale and partition of the proceeds.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-26
BROCKTON'S STRIKE
Both Sides Remain Firm-Threat
Made by the Unions.

Brockton, Mass, Sept. 26.-Today the
big strike of the lasters enters on its
second week. Both sides profess to be
satisfied with the developments since
the Inauguration of the contest on Mon
day last Some manufacturers have
yielded TO the demands OF the union,
while others are as firm today as ever
in asserting the impossibility of their
acceptance. The union insists that all
must pay the same advance, and is
daily expecting additional settlements.
Since the trouble began a new ele-
ment has been introduced. The lasting
machine companies have taken a hand
by supplying men to run the machines
i'm some shops abandoned by the
strikers. The union now declares with
an air that seems TO mean business,
that unless the companies take their
hands off entirely. every shop under the
control of the union and i'm which a
lasting machine is run. whether in this
city or any city in the United States,
will be struck and the 1asters ordered
to quit work.
While the company profess TO be
amused at this threat, IL is easy to see
what a tremendous setback would be
given the trade here and elsewhere If
the union should take such step. The
matter will be decided soon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-26
AGUINALDO'S AGENT.
AgeucilO Now on the Way Il
Washington.
VIII Appear For Representation on the
Paris Commission.

Chicago, Sept. 26.-The Tribune's
staff correspondent on board the Over
land Limited. telegraphs from Carroll,
Iowa, that Felipe Agencillo. the first
accredited emssary OF Aguinaldo's rev.
olutionary government to any foreign
power with his secretary and interpre-
ter, will proceed direct to Washington
to lay before President Mckinley the
appeal of the Filipinos for representa-
ton on the commission at Paris If Of
fetal representation on the commission
cannot be granted he Will urge that the
administration at Washington. in JUS
tice to the people OF the Philippines,
should secure for him the right to be
heard by the commission i'm order that
any unjust charges or false accusations
against the Filipinos which the Span
ish members of the commission may
set forth shall not go unanswered.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-26
MIR. STONES
HEAVY FINE
Seeking Relief Through
HabeaS Corpus.
HE HAD 18 PARTRIDGES
During the Close Season and Was
Arrested and Finei.
HE HAD 1S PARTRIDGES
POINTS RAISED BY COUNSEL

Allen Stone. who some months ago
was sentenced to pay a fine of 1850 for
having IS partridges i'm his possession
during the close season had hearing
on petition for writ of habeas cor
pus. Franklin Il. owen. counsel for Mr..
the application for a discharge from
the payment OF the fine and costs. They
were first that there was no finding of
a jury as to the number of partridges
Stone had in his possession, its verdict
being guilty simply; second, that the
fine was unduly excessive and hence
not in accordance with the constitution
OF the state.
Attorney General Tanner, who op-
posed the granting of the relief sought
said that the verdict of the jury was
guilty as charged in the indictment, that
is OF having Is partridges in his pos
session. AS to the second point Mr.. Tan
ner argued that the fine was not an
excessive one and instance case
where a dollar fine was imposed on
man who had rotten smelts which fine
amounted to $1,000 which fine was not
held excessive.
Mr.. owen said that the form guilty
as charged in the indictment was the
common one and was used where all
of a charge was not proved. There had
been no judicial determination of the
number of partridges Mr.. Stone had in
his possession.
The case was held by advisement,
one OF the counsels being gwen per-
mission TO file statement or author
tiles.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-26
STILL IMPROVING. /.
Colonel Abbot's Condition Growing
Better, but Very Slowly.
Assistant Surgeon Harvey's Resignation
Accepted BY War Department.

The latest advices from Camp Meade
are TO the effect that the health of the
camp is good and the men Of the First
Rhode Island Regiment are well satis-
fled with their treatment, although they
are somewhat anxious to learn whether
the regiment is to be ordered on foreign
service. The condition OF Col. Abbot
continues to improve, although his re-
covery is necessarily slow, and IL is
doubtful whether he will be able TO re-
turn TO the command of his regiment
for a long time.
Lieut.. n. Darrell Harvey. one of the
assistant surgeons OF the First Rhode
Island, has resigned, and his resigna-
tion has been accepted by the war de-
partment. Gov. Dyer-ha under con-
sideSation the appointment Of a sue
cessor to DR.. Harvey, but has not yet
arrived at any decision. Lieut.. Young
OF the United States artillery, who has
charge of the regular army recruiting
station on North Main street has been
authorized by the war department To
grant extension of furloughs TO sick
soldiers now i'm the local hospitals in
all cases i'm which he deems it neces-
sary to do so.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-26
A REVISION
DECIDED ON
French Cabinet Will Re-
open DreyfuS Case.
MINISTER'S ARE CHEERED,
ROchefort Accuses Esterhazy OF
Having Been Bribed
BY THE DREYFUS SYNDICATE.
MINISTER'S ARE CHEERED,
BY THE DREYFUS SYNDICATE.

Paris, Sept. 26.--At a meeting of the
being present, a decision was taken in
favor of a revision of the trial of former
Capt. Dreyfus, and the documents in
the case will be sent to the Court of
Cessation.
The crowds of people outside the min
istry of the interior, where the cabinet
council was held, loudly cheered the
ministers, and there were shouts of
"Vive Brisson!" "Vive la revision!"
The cabinet ordered the minister of
justice, NJ. Sarrien, to lay before the
court cessation the petition OF Madame
Dreyfus, wife of the prisoner of Devils
Island, for a revision OF her husbands
case. The court, therefore. will decide
the legal question as to whether the
first trial of Capt Dreyfus was vitiated
by the forgery committed by the late
Lieeut. Col. Henry, who was a witness
before the court martial and who con-
fessed TO having forged a document in
the case. The minister of justice has
announced that he has given instruc-
tions that the proceedings are to be
taken Immediately against any one at
tacking the army.
Henri Rochefort. in his paper. the In
transigeant, today accuses Maj. Ester
hazy OF having been bribed by the So
called Dreyfus syndicate TO cover him.
self with dishonor by confessing To
forgery. of which charge he was twice
acquitted"
NJ. Rochef1rt adds that he paid Ester
haZy 1000 francs for copies Of all the
documents in the case, and that in
addition to two other newspaper
l., Yla1 kkrhn kkFn
orally without a centime, 300 francs
monthly to prevent him from dying OF
hunger while waiting to obtain pen
sion.
Continuing. NJ. Rochefort says RE
Gently. without any apparent incentive,
Esterhazy mysteriously went 10 Lon
don, abandoning his 300 francs monthly.
Why this emigration? Who paid his
journey? With what money has Ester
hazy paid for his meals?"
The Figaro today says: THE gov
ernment may safely decide I'm favor of
or against a revision. but it's duty is TO
come TO a prompt determination"
NJ Clemenceau, i'm the Aurore. re-
marks: France is divided into two
camps-those who conceive that the In
terests of the country depend upon the
conceament of facts by lies, and those
who have a sufficiently high esteem Of
the country not to separate patriotism
from the aspirations OF justice and
truth"
The Libre Parole asserts that Maj.
Esterhazy has telegraphed to the min
lister of war protesting against the
story published in the Observer of Lon
don purporting to be q confession made
by the major. the substance of which
was that he was the author OF the Bor-
dereau. a document which is said to
have furnished proof of the guilt Of
Dreyfus.