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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

The year 1897 was more than usu-
ally free from great calamities. The
most notable single disaster was the
burning of great charity bazar in
Paris May 5, in which $50 persons, in
cluding the Duchess D'Alencon, lost
their lives. November 19 fire in the
central part of London destroyed
property valued at $40, 900, 600. 1t
was rumored that this great confagra-
tion was of incendiary origin. The
bubonic plague again broke out in
southern India, and, according to
some reports, caused the death of
thousands of the unfortunate natives.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

hand, but pressed it and was very ef-
fusive in her speech. She said she
would have something special to tell
me when she returned from the inter-
view, and she looked at me SO archly
that 1 jumped at the conclusion she
was going to confess a first sight love
for me.
The interview did not last over Is
minutes, and it took place just as dusk
was drawing on. When the two ladies
returned to the door Miss Lancaster
came over to me and whispered:
''He has promised to confess all to-
morrow, and every dollar will be re-
stored. am glad, not only on his
account and mine, but for your dear
sake. I know you to be noble man,
and if you would not think it unmaid.
emily in me IL
l took her hand in thine and gave
it several squeezes and assured her
that nothing she could possibly an
nounce or confess in the English lam
guage would be considered by me un-
worthy of her. She pressed my hand
in, return and was going to confess
her love, but the telephone bell rang
and put her out. She just whispered
in my ear that was an old darling
and then laughed and joined Miss
Day at the door, and I myself pulled
the lever which swung back the hinges
that let them out. Need tell you
that walked around on air for the
next quarter of an hour? I had won
that little girls love at first sight, and
when she came on the morrow should
ask her to name the day and the date.
She had said she was an heiress. I
was loving her for herself alone. I
was still loving when the deputy war
den came rushing in and called out:
"Those girls-have they gomez"
s. "Certainly-long ago."
'Then we are in for it. Come out
here, will you?'
He led the way to the west wing
and upstairs to the second tier of
cells. When we reached the one oc-
cupied by Charles Day we found
woman in his bed and his convict suit
lying on the floor. 1t didn't take five
minutes to grasp the situation. Miss
Day had given up her apparel to the
convict, and he had walked out with
Miss Lancaster. Miss Day was
Miss Somebody else, who had been
paid $1,000 to do the trick, and Miss
Lancaster was the pal of one of the
boldest robbers in America.
We raised an alarm and made pur-
suit, of course, but the fugitives got
away as slick as grease and are prob
ably yet living on the Doodle stolen
from the state. As for the girl left
behind she was sent to prison for
couple of years, but after six months
was pardoned out. AS for me, my
resignation was demanded in no gentle
tones, and l rendered it and got away
into the woods and kicked myself
around section of government land
for week without stopping to rest.
Atlanta Constitution.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

While the past year presents to
retrospection no single event of over
shadowing Importance, it is in the
sum of it's events so full of signifi-
canoe that historians, reviewing it
hereafter, may conclude that since
the Franco Prussian war and the fed
Grafton of Germany no other year has
been more remarkable or more worthy
of attentive study, observes Harper's
Weekly. A year of movements and
economic climaxes rather than of
startling events, it thursts on the
worlds attention, as the two greatest
facts of the time, the growing politi-
cal Importance of Germany and the
already transcendent commercial i'm
portance of the United States.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

In the future we may be exporting
masut instead of exporting coal, says
the Chicago Inter- Ocean, Masut is
by-product in the distillation of raw
petroleum. It is also manufactured
from cheap brown coal found in
Saxony. There has been, until re-
Gently, great trouble in finding fur
mace suitable for burning it. 1t is
now blown by steam into a special
furnace, on the principle of the Luci-
gen light, and used without difficulty.
1t is forty or fifty per cent. cheaper
than coal, and is twenty per cent. bet
ter than coal as heat raiser. Steam
can he got up quicker and kept at a
higher pressure, and more work can
be done by the machinery. From a
naval point of view these are vitally
important facts. No sign of ship
under full sail will be shown in the
sky, for masut is smokeless fuel.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

London has discovered an evil at
tached to the motor cab. In case of
the ordinary horse and hanson, an in
toxicated cabman is unpleasant to his
fare, but he can be deposed from his
seat and the horse, which is never
drunk, will go just as we'll with
another driver. But with the motor
cab it may be more difficult to deal
when the engine driver is discovered
to be incapable. The other night in
Gray's Inn road the man at the wheel
was noticed by the police to be guild
ing his cab in very erratic fashion,
and he was stopped and taken off the
box. A constable volunteered to
carry out the contract, but he collided
with the curb and gave up the job,
leaving the motorcab standing in the
road.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

There is grave reason to doubt
whether the internal dissent and dis
satisfaction in the German empire is
entirely or chiefly political. 1t is
rather to be found in the increasing
poverty of large numbers of the peo-
Pile. Statistics taken from the tax re-
turns of Prussia reveal an appalling
condition ofspoverty in many sections.
Although the limit of taxation is
drawn at the low income of $225, but
s. 46 per cent. of the population of the
kingdom pay an income tax. That is
more than ninety-one out of every
hundred must make ends meet in
some way on less than 1926 a year.
There is only one person out of every
$50 of population who has an income
of $2400 year.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
pair of Irish wolf-hounds,

A pair of Irish wolf-hounds, i'm
ported recently, will receive syste-
matte training on a treadmill and in
other ways in Louisville, and in the
spring will be furnished an oppor-
tunity to show their ability in killing
the American wolf. The outcome of
the experiment is said to be eagerly
awaited by the cattlemen in the far
West, who suffer much loss through
depredations of wolves. Russian wolf
hounds and American deer-hounds
have been tried in vain. One of the
great difficulties in the way Of killing
the American wolf is the peculiar
thickness OF the animals neck and the
large qua 4..ty of matted hair thereon.
This renders it almost impossible for
a dog to choke wolf, and in battle
with dogs the VOLTS phenominally
sharp teeth usually cut the dog to
pieces. Then, they have such phe.
nomenal spring that they can fire.
quently jump distance of ten OF
fifteen feet and land on the dogs back,
tearing their opponents head and
face with their fangs. Owing to these
facts, Kentucky dog-fancers do not
generally believe that there is breed
of dogs in existence capable Of extermi-
mating the American wolf, or to even
interrupt him in his maranding expedi-
lions on the great cattle plains of the
West
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

The Atlanta Constitution says
although nothing may ever come of
the Nicaragua canal project, there is
still ground for hope that the two
oceans may yet be connected by means
of the Panama canal Some time ago
it was announced that wealthy Brit
ish syndicate had purchased the canal
franchise, and that work thereon
would be commenced without delay;
but since the announcement lacks con-
firmation, there is probably nothing
in it. Our consular agent writing
from Panama states that the canal can
easily be completed within the next
ten years if sufficient men are en-
ployed. Up to the present time this
monstrous undertaking has cost in
round numbers not less than $780,
900, 600. Everyone is familiar with
the long story of fraud and disaster
which underlies this enormous ex-
penditure. Suffice it to say that the
French government, though eagerly
embracing the project at the start,
would be ready to part with the fran
chise on moments notice. In order
to finish the canal it is estimated that
some 5000, 000,0 must yet be e :
pended, and France is not able to
shoulder the burden. Up to the pres
ent time the canal extends only four
teen miles. When completed it will
measure a distance of fifty-four miles.
from Colon on the Atlantic ocean to
Panama on the Pacific ocean. The
width of the canal will be l60 feet at
the top and ~ feet at the bottom. In
certain quarters it is urged that the
United States should step in at this
point and undertake to finish this
canal; but without discussing the
feasibility of this proposition it may
be observed that the completion oi
the Panama canal either by national
or individual agencies is one of the
probabilities of the near future"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
A vivid Temperance Lesson.

Robert Quail, of Van Horne street, Jer-
sey City, while intoxicated went into the
house of Mrs. Margaret Martha, at No. of
the same street, and beat and threw
Michael Lynch, boarder, down stairs.
Lynch died of his injuries and Quail was
held for the Grand Jury on the chcrge Of
manslaughter. Quail had been out OF
work and spent yesterday afternoon at the
home of his brother. He was intoxicated
when he reached Van Horne street on his
way home. The house in which Quail
lived is exactly like that OF Mrs. Martha,
and he entered that. Quail entered the
room which is in the same relative position
as the one occupied by Quail in his own
home. Lynch was seventy-fve years old,
and with out any warning was attacked by
Quail and thrown down the stairs. He died
on his way to the hospital.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

A telegram from Portland, Oregon,
states that within the next few months
a raft containing 100000 feet OF
lumber will be constructed and towed
to San Francisco by the firm of Inman
& Poulson, owners of a, large timber
interest. The raft will be 396 feet
long and 53 feet wide. Several RATS
of piling have been towed from the
Columbia river to San Francisco, but
the rafting of sawed lumber is new
undertaking.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

What compensations France may
ask of Germany in China the latter
will have to pay. Before the trouble
is over China will heartily wish that
she had let Japan have the Liaotong
peninsula rather than run into debt
to Russia, Germany and France for
the means of turning her out. The
diplomatic triumph over which Lii
Hung Chang prided himself seems
merely to have armed China's western
enemies with the means of dismem.
bering her empire.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

The German emperor ascribes his
good health and vigor to the excellent
advice given to him by his favorite
doctor, and he has learned by heart
the latter's ''rule of life," which is
as follows: Eat fruit for breakfast.
Eat fruit for lunch. Avoid pastry and
hot cakes. Take potatoes only once
a day. Do not take tea or coffee.
Walk four miles every day, wet or
fine. Take bath every day. Wash
the face every night in warm water.
Sleep eight hours every night.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
Verify. the world Moves.

: In the year 1910, n gentleman named Mr..
Robert Warner applied to well-known in
surance company in England to insure MS
life. But when the directors learned that
he was a total abstainer, they informed
him that they would only insure him on
condition that he paid more money eaeh
year than those who took Intoxicating
LIQUORS. They believed, because he was an
abstainer, he would shorten his life!
Mr.. Warner refused, and with some otneI
friends started an insurance company for
total abstainers That company is now
known as "The United Kingdom Temper!
nnce and General Provident Institution"
At the end of five years 1t was found that
during that period the death rate OF the
three most prosperous insurance companies
was 10 per 100, whle the Temperance Prov
ident had lost only - out of 1000, or at the
rate of7ls per 1000.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Red hats were first worn by cardi-
nails in the year 1245.
In Ptolemy's time any one who
killed cat was put to death.
The magnetic clock was invented by
DR.. Locke of Cincinnati in 1S47-49.
Tobacco is said to have been first
brought into England from Virginia in
1888.
The poet Barns spelled his name
Burness This family namel until the
publication of his poems in 1886.
A naturalist of eminence finds that
land birds make their journeys in the
daytime and water birds at night.
The largest printing Office in the
world is in Washington, ID. G. (; it is
for printing government documents.
The fastest railroad engine in the
world is ''the Flying Welshman - its
ia ne has extended round the globe.
Lake Erie is the lake of the 'wild
cat," the name given to fierce tribe
of Indians exterminated by the Iro-
quois.
A woman in Hope, Knox county,
Maine, still wears common wire hair
! in which she has worn for forty
years.
The largest telegraph Office in the
world is in the general postofice build
ing, London, over 5000 operators
being employed.
1t costs SIS. "A per million gallons to
pump water to Chestnut Hill reservoir,
Boston. The engines pump S93S on
one pound of coal.
The largest hotel in the world is
the Waldorf Astoria, in New York city,
a $40, 900, 600 establishment, built by
millionaires for millionaires.
The Sudbury river aqueduct in 359
days has delivered IA, S57, 300, 600 gal
Ions to Chestnut Hill reservoir, and
30, 500, 600 to Lake Cochituate.
If an Egyptian dies before noon the
funeral must take place the same day.
If death occurs after noon, the funeral
may not be delayed after the next day.
In 774Philadelphia was the largest
town in the American colonies. Estl-
mates of the population, which are oil
we have, differ widely, but it was
probably not far from 10000.
A resolution appropriating 50 TO
purchase copy of the Bible was re-
Gently introduced in the Georgia leg
islature, it having been discovered that
there was no copy of the bAok IN the
state library.
Five is the sacred number OF the
Chinese, who have five planets Mars.
Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Juplter) !;
five cardinal points (north, south, east,
west and centre J five virtues, five
tastes, five musical tones, five ranks
of nobility and five coloA- white, black,
red, green and yellow.)
| A few months ago picture was dis
covered at Copenhagen which experts
believed to be Murillo. The direc-
tor of the Paris Louvre, after examin-
ing the picture thoroughly, pronounced
it to be genuine. The owner wants
$4,000 for it. 1t represents Loyoia
kneeling before the VirGin and Child
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
It has been found by careful obser

1t has been found by careful obser-
walton that in the New York tenement
district the American family lives the
poorest and at the greatest cost. On
the contrary, the italian lives in the
most wholesome manner at the least
expense, while the French follow
closely upon the Italian. The Ger
man is economical, but the cooking is
not as dainty and palatable.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
A Child's Worth Of Drink.

While the Cabinet saloon at PRESCOTT
Arizona, was crowded with hundreds Of
customers one night recently, Mrs. Beh
entered with babe in her arms, and, piac
ing 1t on the bar, said:
.The father of this child deserted me and
my baby, caring moro Tor whisky than Ioi
his appetite NAV be gratified to the extent
of the deposit"
There was a rush for the child, seventy.
five men coming forward to ask for 1t. Th!!
Probate Judge was called in to settle thi
controversy. He has taken charge OF tns
deserted infant.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
Hard Cider.

There is probably no kind of drink that
&c more dangerous to the temperance cause
than cider after it has begun to ferment.
The combination of alcohol with the mailc
acid of the apple is especially bad for the
digestive organs. The sweet cider, for the
short time it remains sweet, is nice,
pleasant drink. But SO soon as fermentai
tion begins, it should be turned into VIM
egar as soon as possible. Warming little
of this to near blood heat, ana pouring
make it into vinegar very quickly .-Ameril
can CultiYator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

Within year or two there will be
some half dozen Arctic explorers in
the field--Peary, jackson, Nansen,
Wellman, Sverdrup and perhaps An
dree, if he be yet alive. The pole
may as well come in and surrender
and save all this trouble.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

Juggernaut's car cannot pass through
the streets of Colombo owing to the
interference of overhead telegraph
wires. Petitions have been sent to
the governor by the Ceylonese, as
twenty five people wish to throw them.
selves under the idols car.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
Use of Alcohol by EmpIoyes.

At the international congress of railroad
and marine hygiene, held in Brussels last
September, there was u discussion on the
question whether the use of alcoholic
drinks should be permitted to railroad en-
ployes and sailors. DR.. Van Collie, of
Brussels, made an address in which he
answered the question negatively; first,
because such drinks are useless; second,
because they are dangerous to the health
and lives of the men. as we'll as to safety in
operation. He would have their use limited,
and so far as possible suppressed. To this
end he would have the men instructed as
to the dangers, and have severe rules
against the misuse of liquor. Delegates
from Buda-Pesth. London and Berlin
doubted whether it would be possible to
carry out n prohibitory regulation. The
congress agreed in a resolution recomS
mending the managements to limit the usd
of alcohol by employees so far as possible;
to warn the men Of it's dangers, punish
those who get drunk and to rid the service
of them. AS there are scarcely any total
abstainers among continental railroad
men, this is a more decided step than it
would seem here.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
A Hint to wives and Sisters.

Somebody, who seems to know, says: III
wives were as careful to make themselves
and their homes as pleasant for their hus'
bands as they did when their husbanos i,nns
would not be so enticing. And II girls
made the homes as pleasant for their own
hrothers as they do for some other girfs
brother, so many boys would not go astray."
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

You Can Rise-What Americas Greatest
Educator Said-Dr. Horace Mann ON
the Ravages of Drink in Our Colleges
-TrueiWords Spoken Forty Years Ago.
Iou can rise with Gods assistance,
fou can leave the past behind;
livery time you make resistance
stronger grow your heart and mind.
flrmiy stand against temptation.
:, 10 not leave your soul to sink;
fou can rise from degradation.
You can free yourself from drink.
Sacred Heart Review.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
THE HuskER.

To the crow with an eye intent
On kernels of eight-rowed-yellow,
On ears Of crimpled dent,
The mournful corn stock bows its head
With murmuring signs of woe;
Ger heaps Of yellow and CLEANS OF red,
The whispering south winds blow.
The red sun dies
In the western skies,
Wide rises the hunters moon,
Through the lucid light
OF the silent night
Rings the chirr of the sly raccoon.
A whistle calls clear and mellow,
And the tall hound finds the scent
Unheeded the eight-rowed-yellow,
The red smutnose and dent,
The lonely corn stock bows its head,
While shadows its tassels throw
On silver dent and the smutnose red
Go wavering to and fro.
Elsie r. Egan
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
Horace Mann on Drinks Kavo,..


"Intemperance carries ruin everywhere.
It reduces the fertile farm to barrenness.
1t suspends industry in the shop Of the
mechanic. 1t banishes skill from the cum
ming hand of the artisan and artist. It
dashes to pieces the locomotive of the en-
gineer. It sinks the ship Of the mariner.
It spreads sudden night over the solar
spiendors OF genius at its full-orbed,
meridian glory. But nowhere is it so ruin
Gus, so direful, so eliminating and expul-
slye OF good, SO expletive and redundant
OF all evil, as in the school and the college.
as upon the person and character of the
student himself. Creator of evil, DESTROYER
or good! among youth, it invests its votaries
with the fulness Of both prerogatives, and
sends them out on the career of life to suf-
Ter where they should have reioiced, to
curse where they should have blest"
I'VE are in sick world, for whose
maladies the knowledge Of truth and obedi-
ence to it are the only healing. Oh! IL the
literary institutions of our land would
sanctify their ambition, and instead of an
earthly rivalry to send forth great men,
would provoke each other to the holy
work OF rearing good men, then would
they be doubly rewarded, both by great
ness and goodness such as they have never
yet imagined. Referring to the compara-
tive worth of scholarship and morals,
Montaigne says, we know how to decline
virtue, but we know not how to love it,"
"Surely, it is the most appalling fact in
all our annals, and it ought to make every
parental heart palpitate with alarm, that
the college, where the youth Of our coun-
try must be sent for the higher culture of
the mind, should ever expose them to a
deprivation of the heart. And yet 1t is an
opinion not uncommon, nor-would to God
l could say-wholly unfounded, that as
young criminals learn new lessons in crime
when sent to our public prisons, so young
men lose purity Of character and contract
habits of vice when sent to college,"
"Some of the most awful and heaven-de-
flying vices that destroy the peace of So
ciety and turn all the sweets of life into
bitterness are only college vices ull-grown
the public manhood of the academic
childhood of guilt
"On its colleges, far more than on its
Legislatures, does the well-being of a coun-
try depend-on its education more than on
its legislation. Works Of Horace Mann.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17
He breaks the leavo.

He breaks the leave.
OF the tall corn shesves
Dried crisp in the autumn rime
While he answers the hail
OF the piping quail
And the blackbirds resounding chime 81
And singing, the careless fellow,
Till the morning hours are spent,
He jingles the eight-rowed-yellow
In heaps with creamy dent,
The faded corn stock bows its head
And leans from its zigzag row;
From brown husk glimmers the smutnose red
And dent with its golden glow.
The long day through,
From mist Of blue
Faint smiles of the sky flash down
From the sun unrolled
Snarls thread Of gold
In those tangles Of curling brown.
He's calling noisy "Hello!'
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

England exultingly declares that
she holds ''the key to the East" but
whether she will use it to lock herself
in or Germany out remains to be seen.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-17

The diocese of the Bishop Of Mash.
onland in South Africa is six times as
large as the whole of Great Britain
and Ireland.