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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

Money is the true king, exclaims
The Philadelphia Record. The smart
scheme of the German Kaiser to sell
the Sultan of Turkey guns and build
him war ships to be paid for out of
the Greek indemnity-thus enabling
the porte to build up its independ-
ence of European control on the basis
of late victories in war and diplomacy
has been nipped in the bud by Rus
sia and Austria. Russia has de-
manded payment of the war debt of
1873, and Austria has put in claim
for indemnifcation for later indebted
ness which the Sultan has been
forced to comply with. Thus Ger
many loses fat contracts and diplo-
matte prestige, and the Turks find their
legs tied by debt.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

handsome brother, by whose side she
shood chatting graciously with Harry
and looking coldly at us from under
half disdainful eyelids.
We said little more to one another
that night, bat we all wondered, and
wonder still, how much of that racket
she ever heard. She had come to
Co. early for her first class day,
for she had been studying abroad for
the last three years and SO had missed
her brothers. spread. But she had
wanted to see his old room, now Briar-
woods, and had stumbled upon our
joke.
No, it didn't get around the college.
I don't know whether Harry himself
ever quite understood it. You see,
we naturally did not care to have it
noised around much, for even Good
rich agreed that the joke wasn't ex-
actly on Briarwood>
Oh, yes, her name really was Rose.
Thorne had written it on the photo
because its resem blance to her was so
perfect. We saw it still more plainly
on class day, when she wore big
leghorn hat as she walked about the
yard with Harry, the lucky dog! We
hung around them anxiously, the
whole crowd of us, hoping for an in
PRODUCTION, but neither of them paid
any attention to us. That was only
Harry's freshman year. You should
have seen him at his own class day.
What's that? OF course, he did.
Harry always got whatever he tried
for, in college and out. Besides, hadn't
Thorne himself agreed that Finding
was having?" I rather think that
Harry found something worth having
on class day evening. 1t looked SO.
-Woman's Home Companion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
a TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

Wanted-Littie Tim and the New Shoe
That Came Out of His Fathers BIacI
Bottle-How Workingmen Becom.
incapable of Defending Their Rights
Wanted-a million hearty lads. What
wanted with them now?
10 win good health, tho truest wealth, t
plant, and SOW, and plow;
10 drink at healths pure fountain, tina
ripples down the hill,
AND say their nay to every way which load
them to do i'll.
To take some comrade by the hand an
he'll, him on the way;
To lead him through the night of glooI
into the light Of day,
To leave the road the drunkard goes, an
vow allegiance ever
Unto the cause of temperance, and drin
to ruin never.
Come, boys. and pledge right hearth
your lives and honor true,
That you will never be misled, whateye
others do.
A million boys stand pledged to-day the
hearty aid to give,
10 aid the cause of temperance and hel
the poor to live.
len million women join with them and Ii
their hearts in prayer,
That these same boys, and millions NOR,
may 'scape the drunkards' snare.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

The price of rice has risen so high
in various parts of China that the
natives are growing to like corn meal.
There is chance for American corn
in the Orient on the score of cheap
ness which the Middle West can profit
by when the Nicaragua canal is built.
It will then be possible to ship corn
from there to China through Gulf
port at price which will compete
with rice at average market rates and
afford our farmers steady and fairly
uniform revenue.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

An expert in educational matters
says that country children remember
longer than city children. 1t would
be well, adds the Youths Companion,
if their superior memory invariably
retained the story of failure of boys
and girls who rushed into cities when
their country home offered them sure,
if moderate success. The examples
of occasional good fortune are never
forgotten; the disappointments be-
come indistinct in the recollection,
largely because the mind wishes to
put them out of view.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

Apropos of a statement touching the
manner in VIII. h this country has per.
formed it's duty towards Spain in the
matter of preventing filibustering, we
have made inquiry for the exact de-
tails from the navy department, states
Harper's Weekly. The government
has maintained patrol fleet on the
coast of Florida for the last two years,
consisting of the following vessels ):
Raleigh, Cincinnati, Amphitrite, Maine,
Montgomery, Newark, Dolphin, Mar
blehead, Vesuvius, Wilmington,
Helena, Nashville, Annapolis, and De-
troit. Most of the time three vessels
have been on duty, and the cost of the
service hos ranged from $15, ZOO to
$50, 900 month. The best witnesses
to the effectiveness of this patrol ser.
vice are the filibusters themselves
If Spanish troops and warships had
been as efficient against the insurgents
as our navy has been againg filibus-
tiers, the insurrection would have been
conquered long ago.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

1t would seem to the New York
Times that Americans are rapidly re-
verting to old types of the Indian and
the Asiatic, with slight difference
in dress, and are also going back to
Greek sobriety of manner, with some
attempt at sobriety of life, although
as yet the latter is not SO successful
as the effort to build up superficial
soberness of manner.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

There have been thirty fatal termin
ations of prize fights since 1882.
Seven out of every eight loaves of
bread eaten in London are made from
foreign wheat.
The number of shops dealing exclu-
sively in horsefesh in the Belgian
ports exceeds thirty.
Sea weeds do not draw nourishment
from the soil at the bottom of the sea,
but from the matter held in solution
in sea water.
In spite of the closest espionage,
the diamond mining companies of
South Africa lose, it is said, 81, 000,-
900 year by theft.
Woman is subject never mentioned
in Morocco. 1t would be considered
terrible breach of etiquette to ask q
man about his wife.
One of the stations of the railway
which is to be built from the Red sea
to the top of Mount Sinai will be on
the spot where it is supposed Moses
stood when he received the two tables
of the law.
The Congregational church in Gill
sum, N. H., completed 125 years OF
existence the other day. The damask
linen cloth, woven on hand loom,
about 1880, is still used to cover the
communion table.
According to the premier of New
Zealand, homing pigeon flew from
Victoria to New Zealand in three days.
The distance is about 1000 miles, and
the bird must have flown without rest
at speed of about fifteen miles an
hour.
In one consignment a feather dealer
in London received 5000 birds of para
disc, $50, 900 birds of various kinds
from the East Indies and 400, 900 hum
ming birds. In three months another
dealer imported 800, 1898 birds from
the East Indies.
A large sunfsh weighing 4SS pounds
was captured off the south side of
Nantucket, r.. T., by party of fisher
men and brought into town, where it
has been on exhibition, attracting
large numbers to see this wonderful
monster Of the deep.
The Manx cat is not the only tail.
less variety. In Crimea is found an
other kind of cat which has no tail.
The dolnesticated Malay cat has a tail
that is only about one-half the usual
length, and very often it is tied by
nature in kind of knot which can
not be Strengthened out.
Herr Marpmann has found microbes
of various kinds in seventy-seven
samples of ink-red, blue and nigro-
sine-supplied to schools, and some
of the microbes were deadly enough
to kill mice inoculated with them. He
recommends that ink bottles should
not be left open to the air in schools.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

There seems to be no question
about prosperity in Chicago. Accord
ing to the Inter Ocean, the number
of people in the poorhouse is less by
800 than it was year ago. The num-
ber of applications for outdoor relief
in November was the lowest on record
for many years. The estimates of
the county agent for the poor fund
are $1O,0 less for 1898 than in 1897.
No public appeal is likely to be made
by the A sociated Charities. These
facts go to show, as the Inter- Ocean
says, that there has been general re-
vival of work.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

Kansas is famous for boy orators,
boy preachers, boy fnanciers and
youthful prodigies in almost every
walk in life. There would seem to be
no longer any need for giving years
to the study of any profession how
ever learned and intricate it may be,
and as to experience, that does not
count for anything in this age when
there is so great disposition mani
tested to throw experience overheard
as not being applicable to the present
race of men. The latest boy wonder
that Kansas has produced is an
nounced in a dispatch from Topeka,
to the effect that boy lawyer, only
seven years old, has passed success
full examination and has been awarded
certificate by the supreme court of
that state. The story, is as related in
the Trenton IN. J.) American, is that
the boy, accompanied by his father,
two ago, and satisfactorily answered
the most intricate questions in law,
without hesitation and without Stun
bling on single question. The father
of the boy, who is also lawyer, says
that his son has for some time dis
played an aptitude for legal subjects
and has devoured profound legal
works with eagerness. The chief
justice at the close Of the examination
jokingly remarked that the boy was a
better lawyer than his father, which
might very we'll be true, and it might
also be true that he was more familiar
with law than the chief justice who
ordered the certificate to be issued to
him. Lawyers and judges are made
of queer timber sometimes, even out
side of Kansas. If this thing keeps
on, however, there will soon be no
use for men. The boys will fill all the
responsible situations in life, and the
men can go fishing.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

Southern cotton mills are running
double time and increasing their
plants, while those in New England
are limiting production and reducing
wages and inviting strikes as pre-
text for closing. Here are plain signs,
observes the Trenton (N.J. American,
of great migration of industry
which will have an important effect
on the history of civilization in Amer
ica
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

While the government is appropri-
ating money for the relief of the Klon-
dixie sufferers" hosts of other ad-
venturers are still flocking to that in
hospitable country Are they deliber.
ately counting on b0ng similarly re-
lieved and brought home at the ex-
pense of the American people? asks
the New York Tribune.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

Train robbing appears to have be-
come permanent and prosperous in
dustry in the Transvaal, the last ven-
ture in that direction having netted
the perpetrators upward of $50, ZOO.
Thus, even in far-away South Africa,
the wild western method of money
getting is making steady progress.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

The latest project of the Danish
government is to introduce an income
tax of / IA per cent. a year, those
having less than 700 crowns of in
come being free.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
No Liquor at Sea.

Whatever the deep-water sailors incl
tions and habits may be ashore, says
New York Sun, he gets no liquor to d.
at sea, unless it comes from aft and is
out to him. When the men that max
the crew go aboard, which they do just
fore the ship sails their traps are scare
and II whisky is found 1t goes usually
the side. 1t might be possible for n 81
to smuggle aboard u little whisky, enc
to last for day, but after that he W
be most likely total abstainer until
ship reached port
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
Work OF English Temperance Reform

Canon Hicks, of England, declared
Gently in public address that temper
reformers were doing more than to re
individuals, since they were fighting
the liberty of the people, whose bodies
souls, and whose homes and happi
we're virtually bought and sold by the {
brewer capitalists. This is seriou.
dictment, but there are facts which
be cited to support it.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

Oats form one of the principal Bel
gian crops, with an average annual
value of about $16, 900, 900. Yet large
quantities are imported from the
United States, Canada, Russia and
southeastern Europe.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

It is estimated that in Paris one il
eighteen of the population, or 150,-
600, live on charity, with tendency
toward crime. In London this class
is one in thirty.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
Te,nperance News and Notes

Temperance helps to remove .~npta
Body and soul are benefited by abstii
from liquor.
scientific temperance is taught in
boys and girls colleges at Concef
Chill, and the young people are great
terested.
Temperance reform is one OF the
urgent OF national remedies, becaus
temperance is one OF the most dang
of national evils.
Ones own self-interest demands ter
ance: besides which, the good exc
shown to others will undoubtedly inf
some in the right direction.
Why should man be discourage
cause in the battle with his appetites
made cognizant OF his weakness?
not the weapon OF prayer TO overcom
enemies Of his soul?
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
The Greedy Bottle.

A poor, understood boy, named Tim, 81
ting by bottle and looking in, said,
wonder If there can be pair Of shoes /
1t3' His mother had mended his clothe
but said his shoes were so bad he must
barefoot. Then he took a brick and brol
the bottle. but there were no shoes in
and he was frightened, for it was h
fathers bottle. Tim sat down again IN
sobbed so loud that he did not hear ste
behind him, until voice said:
well! what's all this?" He sprang U
IN great alarm; it was his father.
Who broke my bottle?" he said.
Il did, said Tim, catching his breat
half in terror and half between his sobs.
why did you?" Tim looked up.
The voice did not sound as he had e.
pected. The truth was, his father had bee
touched at the sight of the forlorn flgur
so very small and so sorrowful, which hi
bent over the broken bottle.
Why" he said 81 was looking for a pc
of new shoes. / want n pair of new sho
awful bad-all the other chaps we.
shoes"
How came you to think you'd find sho
in the bottle?" the father asked.
"Why, mother said so. 1 asked her f
some new shoes, and she said they III
gone in the black bottle, and that lots
other things had gone into it, too-coa
and hats, and bread and meat and thing
and I thought il broke it I'd find 'em u
and there amt a thing in it! I'm re
sorry broke your bottle, father. I'll nev
do it again"
''No. I guess you WON'T" he said, layir
n hand on the rough little head rs he we
away, leaving Tim overcome with astonis
ment that his father had not been ang
with him. Two days after he handed II
a parcel, telling him to open 1t.
New shoesl New shoesn' he shoute
80, father, did you get a new bottle, III
were they in it?"
mo, my boy. there amt going to be
new bottle. Your mother was right; t.
things all went into the bottle, but you
getting them out is no easy matter:
God helping me, am going to keep the
out after this"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
Generally Admitted.

"The evil OF intemperance is gene
admitted" says the Rev. N. J. McMan
the G. T. A. U. Convention In Scral
Penn. last summer. economically IL
poor investment. Socially it is an int
able nuisance, condemned alike by pr
and public opinion. Unified public OPT
the law of the state, has adiudged dl
enness crime punishable by fine ant
prisonment, and justly so in the inter
mn hlic m uorals."
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
Workingnen and the Saloon.


'The serious difficulties surrounding
wage-earning classes suggest practit
work to our tot II abstinence societies
says Father Cleary, of Minneapolis. ''T
sacred rights Of labor were never in mo
serious danger than in our day. The
tresses of the poor combine to dispel fr,
their minds earnest convictions on the
ties Of the laboring classes. Working n
besotted by drink are easily robbed of tn
rights. They forfeit in their folly tn
due share of the advantages that mode
invention and industrial progress have W
for them. Men whose faculties have b.
weakened by excessive drinking are in
pable of defending their rights and una
to preserve them. The victims of sale
environment become easy victims of {
delusive sophistries Of socialism and
archy. Slaves to the drink habit ems
become unconscious slaves of unscrupul,
masters who deceive and mislead them Il
believing that the avowed enemy of wea
is the poor mans friend. Working II
whose earnings support the saloon
never be capable of maintaining IL
rights nor of performing their duties. I
solute habits will infallibly consign
people to debasing bondage, depend
poverty, degrading slavery and self-c
tempt. Sober men are at least capable
receiving salutary lessons, Of giving in
ligent consideration to the vexatious pr
lens that arise between organized wei
and organized labor. There is always
couraging hope that men who are not
sotted by drink can be guided safely in
fence of their right and in performance
their duties"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

Professor Edward Hull, an English
scientist, estimates that about 58,-
275, 700, 900 tons of coal will remain
within depth of 1000 feet by the end
of the century.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

II the world seems cold to you,
Kindle fires to warm 1t,
Let their comfort hide from you
Winters that deform it.
Hearts as frozen as your own
To that radiance gather
You will soon forget to moan
''Ah the cheerless weather"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03

A sponge with the great circum-
ference Gf five feet six inches has
lately been taken from the waters Of
Bissayne Bay Florida.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-03
SOMETHING.

If the worlds "vale of tears"
Smile till rainbows span it.
Breathe the love that life endears-
Clear from clouds to fan it.
OF your gladness lend a gleam
Uato souls that shiver;
Show them how dark sorrows stream
Blends with hopes bright river!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-27
TRIBAL SYSTEM CONDEMNED.
Mission Workers Say 1t Is a Bar to
Progress of the Indian.

CONCORD, N. H., Oct. 26.-The fifty-sec-
ond annual meeting of the American Mis-
sonary Association was continued to-day
The first address was delivered by Rev. w.
B. Thorpe, of Binghamton, N. Y, on
"Chinese Missions" The Rev. w. H. Pond,
d. d., of San Francisco, delivered mis-
sionary address on Chinese Missions" The
report Indian missions was presented
by its chairman, Rev. J. C. Merrill, of
Portland. Me. The committee presented
resolutions. which were adopted, declaring
that I'VE believe that no solution of the
Indian problem can be reached until the
present tribal system be unrecognized. gov
eminent reservations be abolished and the
present appropriations for the material sup
port of the Indian be discontinued. Recog-
nizing that our government bears friendly
attitude towards these reforms we would
recommend both that a committe be APP
pointed to visit the President of the United
States, secretary of the interior and others
who may have part in the administration,
to urge immediate action that the policy
now theoretically held by the government
shall be put into execution" DR.. Merrill
framed his report with an address on the
Indian question and Indian uprisings.
A debate on Indian affairs followed. All
the speakers thought that President Nc
Kinley should be asked to promote civil
service reform in the Indian department
and TO replace incapable with efficient Off
Gals.
The report Of the finance committee APP
pointed at last years meeting in Minneap-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-27
WOMEN'S NATIONAL COUNCIL
Gallantry i'm Street Cars, Chewing
Gum and Tobacco Discussed.

OMAHA, Oct 26.-The sociological use of
secret societies engaged the attention of the
National Council of Women at its public
session to-day, reports from the Ladies of
the Maccabees and the Rathbone Sisters be-
ing submitted, respectively. by Mrs. Lillian
NJ. HOLSTER, of Detroit, president Of the
former, and Mrs. jeanette b. Sneubert, of
Kansas City Kan, president of the latter,
both the organizations being identified with
the council. The main paper had been pre-
pared by Mrs. Nina n. West, of the Macca-
bees, but as she is attending convention of
her order in West Virginia, it was read by
Mrs. Holister. There was also an interest
ing paper from Miss Gertrude Beeks, of
Chicago, president of the National Associa-
ton OF Women Stenographers. on the BUSH
ness development of women in her reaching
out in various vocations. The claims of
WimodaughSis were presented by Rev.
Anna Shaw This is the Washington or
ganiZation which helps women through
civil-service examinations. Mrs. Minnie J.
Snow of Salt Lake, told of the work OF the
Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Asso-
citation. Mans gallantry III street cars,
the tobacco and gum chewing habits and
the ideal home were discussed before adj
journment- Rev. Anna Shaw said quite as
many men as women chew gum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-27

trouble. Ny stomach was distressed, and 1
was very short of breath. especially when
tried to walk. Then came palpitation or
fiuttering of the heart, irregular pulse, OPP
pressed feeling in the chest bad dreams and
smothering spells. / was unable to sleep
on my left side. and frequently had to sit
up part of the night to get my breath
had severe pain in left side and back I
grew so bad that doctors said l could not
live long, and it was then l began taking
DIR. Miles New Heart Cure. The first bot
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A lady prominent in missionary and edu-
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ago a lady friend recommended that 1 try
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-27

When the heart action is slow
and the circulation retarded, the
blood flows through the body in
weak, pale stream, causing weak
ness and disease alike OF body and
brain. The digestion becomes i'm
paired, the blood impure, the lungs
weakened, the nerves exhausted,
and the brain, from lack of nour-
ishment, is unable to act with its
natural vigor, causing indifference,
tlmidlty, exhaustion, melancholy.
The whole life is made miserable.
Dr. Miles New Heart Cure changes
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Mr.. I. n. Beddow, Dapville, KY, is sixty
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