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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
COULD NOT BE DONE.
1t Was Utterly Impossible for Thai
Boy to Respect His Fathers
Gray Hairs.

Boys" began the Sunday school super
intendent, impressivelly, Il hope none of yor
will ever get into the reprehensible habit
Of alluding to your father as the old man.
When you grow up, no matter how big OIL
old you may be, you should always look up tc
and respect the silver hairs of your father
who has grown bent and gray working for
you in your helpless infancy. Now, all OF
you who think, you can do this please raise
your right hands"
Up went every hand except one.
Sternly cycling the delinquent, the super
ntendent solemnly observed:
Why, young man, | am horrifed-abso
lutely horritied-as well as astonished at
your, behavior. Don't you wish to raise your
hand and put yourself on record as being
willing, to respect the gray hairs of your ia.
ther when you grow up to be mani"
No; No use tryin'; can't do it nohow, "
unblushingly responded the lad.
why not, sonny?"
Cause he amt liable to have no gray
hair. Dads bald" chirped the youthful
philosopher, triumphantly, and amid gen
eral litter the discounted superintendent
gave i up and passed on to something else
-Tit-Bits
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A Troublesome corn required the at
tention of Mrs. Ann Miller, aged ~, Of
Jersey City, and she proceeded to pare
it. While thus engaged she caused the
corn TO bleed. Blood poisoning result
ed, and the woman died.
Four odd marriages were recently
witnessed in St. Marie, Quebec. Two
neighbors, named NORM and Rheaume,
have eight children. Norm has four
daughters, and Rheaume has four sons,
Rheaume's four sons married Morin's
four daughters.
Twelve eggs sold by Brooklyn dairy
man had among them five that were
decayed. The purchaser returned them.
saying that he wanted the product OF
healthy hens. "These," said the pur
chaser, must have been laid when the
hens were not feeling we'll"
There was long hunt for the money
known to be possessed by William Hoey
wealthy farmer, who died many years
ago, in Shenango, n. Y. 1t escaped the
searchers until the other day, when sew.
eral thousand dollars were found con,
cealed in a tree on the farm.
Spectators amazedly watched Thomas
G. Greene, an insurance broker, as he
began eating oysters on a bet, in the
Eastern hotel, this city. In 80 min
utes he had eaten 228 Blue Point
oysters. One of the spectators said to
Greene: Tom, your legs must be hol,
low
Heroic is the heart that beats in the
breast of little Harold Thomas. aged II,
of Pittston, Pa. He ran away from
home and tried to enlist in the navy, at
Brooklyn, n. V, to get a chance to
whack the Spaniards. The officers at
the navy yard told him to go home, and
wait until he grew.
The mosquitoes of the Yukon are
more bloodthirsty than any others of
the species. From May until Septem-
Der they are engaged in a perpetual
picnic, bleeding men.and animals. In
a few hours Yukon mosquito will tor
ture dog to death, and force a bear to
seek relief by plunging into stream
of water.
To escape revenue tax for the sale 81
liquors some restaurants and hotels
serve wine free at meals, but add the
price of the wine to the charge for food
The commissioner of internal revenue
has just decided that this trick will nc
longer be effective, and that the hos
telres which serve free wine must pay
a special tax as liquor dealers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
A Place That Is Full of Exciting
Wonders and the Beauties
of Nature.

OF the four national parks of the
west, the Yellowstone is far the largest.
1t is big. wholesome wilderness on the
broad summit of the Rocky mountains,
favored with abundance of rain and
snow; a place of fountains where the
greatest of the American rivers take
their rise. The central portion is a
densely forested and comparatively
level volcanic plateau with an average
elevation of about 5000 feet above the
sea, surrounded by an imposing host of
mountains. Unnumbered lakes shine
in it, united by a famous band OF
streams that rush out of hot lava beds,
or fall from the frosty peaks in chan
nels rocky and bare, messy and bosliy,
to the main rivers, singing cheerily on
through every difficulty, cunningly di-
viding and finding their way east and
west of the far-off seas.
And besides the treasures common to
most mountain regions that are wild
and blessed with a kind climate, the
park is full of exciting wonders. The
widest gcysers in the world, in bright
triumphant bands, are dancing and
singing in il amid thousands of boiling
springs, beautiful and awful. their
basins arrayed in gorgeous colors like
gigantic flowers; and hot paintpots,
mud springs, mud volcanoes, mush and
broth caldrons Of every color and con-
sistency, FLASHING, laving, roaring, in
bewildering abundance. In the adia-
cent mountains, beneath the living
trees the edges of petrified forests are
exposed to view like specimens on the
shelves of museum, standing on
lodges tier above tier where they grew,
solemnly silent in rigid crystalline
beauty, after swaying in the winds
thousands of centuries ago, opening
marvellous views back into the years
and climates and life of the past. Here,
too, are hills of sparkling crystals, hills
of sulphur, hills of glass, hills of Gin
ders and ashes, mountains of every
style of architecture icy or frosted,
mountains covered with honey-bloom
sweet as Hymettus, mountains boiled
soft like potatoes and colored like a sun
set sky-a' that a that, and twice as
muckle's a that. Nature has on show in
the Yellowstone park. Therefore it is
called wonderland, and thousands of
tourists and travellers steam into it
enchanted.-John Muir, in Atlantic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
Coarse and Brutal,

fetal of some importance was killed one
day by a. falling tile while indulging in
parade. A young man of the family Of Hur
was charged with his death and brought
into court. The judge, after hearing the
case, turned to the prisoner and said:
| sentence you to the mines for life."
''To the mines?" echoed Ben Hur.
,. Yes, to the mines" retorted the face
tious: magistrate: there are great mining
facilities on the Mediterranean. You will
lind all the oar you want in the galleys"
AT this brutal jest it is said the attorney
for the prosecution laughed long and loud,
but Ben Hur saw no joke in the galleys-he
was not printer-Detroit Free Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26

If man is in the right he doesn't
have to get mad about it.
If woman lacks a graceful form
there are ways of making up for it.
If Il man is sentenced TO the guillotine
he is very apt to lose his head.
If everyone could have his own way
this word wouldn't be worth living in
If a man mas plenty of gold he can
put a gilt edge on almost anything.
If you have a mans past record you
can predict his future with reasonable
accuracy.
If the patient has faith in the doctor
the doctor should reciproca,e by trust.
ing the patient.
If ghosts haunt churchyards it is
probably for the purpose of finding out
from the epitaphs how good they were
during lifc.-Chicago Evening News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
THE GARDEN GATE.

Long ago in childish terror
From a fancied gnome l fed,
Casting frightened glances backward,
Longing looks toward home ahead;
Through the lane and by the windows.
Swift and sure as feet of fate,
Never stayed l till behind me
Changed and clasped the garden gate.
Blessed gate of happy childhood,
Barring harm and sorrow out:
Where the shadow of the homestead
Threw protection round about
Bles Led warders. Peace and Safety,
II Jlding watch for wanderer late,
Closing with their arms about me,
When 1 shut the garden gate.
All things fearsome lay beyond it,
Springing foe and lurking vile,
All things true and right within it
Clustered round my mothers smile;
But the years came creeping, creeping.
Years that would not bide and wait,
Till despite my bitter weeping
Foes came through the garden gate.
All! how l struggled with the stranger,
Pale and terrible and grim,
Unclasped the hands that fain would hole
it,
AS he came through the twilight dim.
"a little while! o, pallid Stranger,
A year!-a day!-a moment wait
We love him SOP Death gave no answer
Except to come within the gate.
And now know that safe no longer
Falls the cottage latch for me,
Though 1 waiting watch beside it,
With whitened head and bending knee;
Yet with eyelids closed and weary.
Quite forgetting day or date,
] dream again how bright the heaven
Whose portal was the garden gate.
IN. Y. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
GLASS SKATES.
They Are the Latest Feature In Ice Kinks
This Winter.


The newest feature of interest in the
New York ice Kinks is the use of glass
skates. 1t is found that skates with
glass runners are far better, both for
speed and ease in gliding for pleasure,
than are the skates with metal runners,
and several pairs are now being used in
one of the metropolitan Kinks. The in
ventor has succeeded in reducing the
glass to a hardness that insures an edge
which practically never becomes blunt.
The tempering process remains a secret,
but it is fact that severe contact with
hard ice does not fracture the glass. To
look at these skates one would not sup
pose they were made of anything else
than metal, for the runners are always
colored in order to disguise the sub
stance of which they are made. The
coloring process is arbitrary, and tints
in the case of ladies' skates are always
made to correspond with the colors of
the wearer's costume. The runners Of
these glass skates are attached directly
to an especially made shoe which laces
from the heel up the back. The combi-
nation not only gives skate which is
perfectly easy in motion, but the high
shoe stiffens the ankle to an extent
which greatly aids in the enjoyment
and adds to the safety of the exercise.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
Many People Cannot Drink

coffee at night. 1t spoils their sleep. You
can drink GTain-O when you please andsleep
like top. For Grain-O does not stimulate;
it nourishes, cheers and feeds. Yet it looks
persons, young people and children Grain-O
Is the perfect drink Made from pure
grains. Get a package from your grocer to-
day. Try it in place of coffee. Is and 25c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
Not Very Encouraging,

Mother-Well, professor, do you think
you will be able to make musician of
my daughter2
PROFESSIONALISM! madam, fear not.
why do you say that, professor?"
"Threescore and ten is mans allotted
number of years and | am now IS years
old. The time is too short, madam.
Chicago Evening News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26

Aliens Foot-Ease, powder for the feet.
It cures painful, swollen, nervous, smarting
feet and instantly takes the sting out Of
corns and bunions It's the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Aliens Foot Ease makes.
tight or new shoes feel easy. 1t is certain
cure for sweating, callous and hot. tired, ach-
ing feet. TRY it to-day. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26

Crawford-What makes you think
your wife isn't so much of a new woln-
an as she used to be?
observation-disclosures since this war
scare | haven't heard her say how sorry
she was that she wasn't a man.-JudRe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
EnhuInua Wenlfh.

The "incalcuable mineral wealth" of new,
" found mining regions largely run by SYM
dicates and promoted by transportation.
companies is in too many instances really a.
fable. The products of industry in legiti-
mate fields of enterprise nearer home are far
surer and promise more stable rewards. No,
proved health who use regularly Hostetter g.
Stomach Bitters for malaria, dyspepsia, con.
stipation biliousness. &c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26

Amy-So your father rebuked you for
reading that novel, Ell? Did he burn it?
Mamie-Oh, no! He-he put it in the ice
chest-Up to Date
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26

When a woman tells of a cute saying BY
her baby we always think the woman in
vented it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26

The baby in the cradle evidently thinks
this is a pretty rocky old worid.-Chicago
News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26

We have noticed that the man who i,
lucky says nothing about the proverbia
luck OF fool-Atchison Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
Experience
And Not Experiments, Should be
Your Aim in Buying Medicine.

Let others experiment; you should be
guided by experience. Experiments are
uncertain in result; experience is sure.
Experiments may do you harm; expert.
ence proves that Hoods Sarsaparilla will
do you wonderful good. Thousands gladly
tell what Hoods has done for them. They
want you to know and they urge you to
try it. That is what is meant by the vast
number of testimonials written in behalf
of Hoods Sarsaparilla. They give the re-
suits of experience and Drove that
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-26
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure 25c.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-14
ARRESTED FOR TlRDsPAss.

Yesterday MIR. Luther Channel, who
conducts Il furniture store on the corr
ner OF Armstrong and County streets,
procured key and went,,.o the house
l626 King street, formerly occupied by a
man named Price, and entering took
from the premises one bedroom suit OF
furniture and carried 1t to his place
of business.
Mr.. e. S. Andarton. who has charge
or the property, was notified of what
had happened sind informed Mr.. Cham
mel that the furniture must be returned
at once II having been left in the house
by Price as security FOR two months
rent. Failing 10 comply with the re-
quest of the agent warrant has been
Issued charging him with tresp 1ssing
and will be heard by Justice Rustic to-
day
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-14
LOST DAUGHTERS HOME.

Years gone by the city and coun:
autnorities had considerable trou
with q gang of negroes living in CrabA j
street In the city and Sweet Canaan in
the county. Both places have been
broken up, but another place much
worse than either has sprung up, and Is
more dangerous than either Of the 9TH
ers. 1t Is q den for lewd women, both
W'1dte and colored, and for thieves who
sleep there In the day and ply their vo-
cation at night. II Is situated on King
strees, just outside the city limits, and
covers over two blocks, and Is common
~ called the Lost Daughters Home
lhis place COSTS the State more money
than the balance Of the county COM
plned. a petition is being circulated
and Will be presented to the city author
tiles asking that it be broken up. The
owners of the property will be glad OF
It. Iihey injdre all the property in that
locality, besides keeping the place in a
turmoil all the time.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-14
sUPr. DICKE dosoN RESIGNS.

Mr.. Malcomb Dickerson, who has oc-
cupied the position of superintendent
of the Portsmouth, Street Railway since
the line was made electric on June LIST,
rendered his resignation to take effect
on the 18th instant. The superlntend-
ency has been consolidated with the po-
siticn of general manager, ana Mr.. w.
NJ. S. Selwyn Will fill the vacancy.
AIR. Dfckerson tod the Vi,gini?n req
re5antatlve that he was undecided just
where he will go. He has two or three
offers. but is III no hurry':o accept them.
IIe has made quite number of friends
since he came here who will regret to
see him go. He was popular with all
the employees.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-14
A DAY TIME ROBBERY.

Yesterday morning about 10 o'clock
Mrs. Willie Jenkins, VINO lives with her
mother on King street, between Court
and Dklwiddie streets, was in the kltch-
en- talking to her mother. when n negro
boy stole in the house, went up stairs
and took a jewelry case belonging to
Mrs. Jenkins, containing a watch and
s;pns other jewelry. Mrs. Dunham's
Jewelry, some of which she had had
FOR over fifty years, was also taken.
The ladies, hearing some one walking
III the house, went to see who 1t was,
and mot n negro hoy about IL years
cld coming down stairs. They asked
nm what he wos dG!nS. rllere, and he
replied thapt it was none OF their bus
mess and walked off. The ladies went
TO see w!iat he had blen after. and
discovered their loss as above stated.
MI Charles, a brother CT Mrs. Jen-
fhns, was sent for He Immediately no
tihi'd the police, giving chem n dcscr:p-
ZION or The boy. There is little doubt
put that he is the game boy who was
IN MI. John Hodges house "Wednesday
night.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-14
A RAILROAD PROBLEM.

y man came In and said: 1--WE got a
problem for ,75r."
'Be careful. This Is not the puzzle
department"
"Oh. understand. This isn't puz-
Zle. It's a good thing. You've studied
mechanics, ] suppose. You know that
1t always requires the same amount Of
energy 10 transport given weight n
given distance. Now then. n conductor
on n cable train starts forward from
the rear platform just rs the car starts,
To collect n nickel from man on the
front end of the grip. Do you under
sinnd?"
Perfectly.
Gle arrives n. the front end of the
car lust as the train has travelled the
length Of itself Say the grip and trailer
are sixty feet long. Well. the train
has moved sixty feet VIXEN the conduc-
the front end of The grip. The conductor
jumps Off waits Tor the rear platform,
swings on and walks forward again
repeating the operation and keepine
1t up until the train has reached thu
downtown loop. Now. then, he has
ridden all the way downtown. yet the
Grain has pulled him hut half of the
time. Isn't that right?''
We'll he was walking forward in
the car part Of the time"
Yes. but he was riding. too. wasn't
he? The question is: Did it require but
half the energy to bring him downtown
that 1t required to transport a man
who sat quietly In his seat all the tlme?"
1T required only half as much en-
ergy, certainly. The Conductor rode
only half the time"
"Well, then, wouldn't it be a good
idea to have all the conductors do that :?
II would be saving of power. unuues-
iionapiy And If the passengers could
be induced TO step forward ana thnn
drop back to the rear platform woul1n't
there be an enormous saving In power
which means n saving of fuel and ma.
chinery and a consequent increase of
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-14
CRUISE OF THE NORTH ATTAIN
TIC SQUADRON

After many delays in getting ready
me North Atlantic fleet will BEGIN It's
southern cruise next Saturday, under
orders issued by the naval authorities
"Wednesday afternoon The ilagship
New York and bat;leships Iowa and
INDIANA leave Hampton Roads on that
GAZE Tor Key West, where they will
iind the Maine and Terror. The Mas
sachusctts and Brooklyn arc Mt New
York aud will not proceed South until
early next week. The Puritan and
Texas will arrive about the same time.
other ships attached To the station will
be on hand not many days later, so
mat by the end of next week Admiral
Slcard viii Nave under his command
the full strength of the fleet. with
which lie is to begin the extended
series of maneuvcrs arranged by the
Navy Department for The vessels this
winter
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-14
PORTSMOJ d Z II N T,YXS
say that they know nothing of It and
Will take no part In the matter. They
acknowledge their defeat 90 80. s5-f's'1'i

say that they know nothing OF 1t and
Will take no part In the matter. They
acknowledge their defeat S.
MT. Lumber, the contractor for .he
Dick work on the new Catholic
enurch. WIN begin work on, the foundn-
ZION on Monday next. 1t will take
some time to get 1t ready for the other
work. 1t will be a concrete one.
ihree men. one of them we'll
dressed, respectful-lookng gentleman,
VINO had satchel, We're arrested for
trespassing on the Southern railroad
property at Primers Point Wednesday
night. They were all locked up
Rev. q. S. Fariand Is expected to de-
liver lecture before the Y. NJ. c. A..
tS.ple Class Tuesday night next. Sub
1ect, The Value of the Bible as Lit
erature." The Board Of Directors Of
the Y. M. c. a. held their regular
monthly meeting last night.
"a negro boy named Woodland, who
was with Robinson and Pratt when
they robbed Mr.. WIN Colds Stall, was
arrested yesterday; also negro store
keeper on Goodwin street. who bought
the meat from them. knowing 1t to be
stolen. They will all have a hearing
to-day.
A white man created some uneasi-
ness on Washington street wednesday
by acting In q suspicious manner. He
would peep and pry around peoples
lots and went to several places and
begged for bread. proba bly, under a
pretext to find out If there was any
man around.
~ report was current on the streets
that the New Bay Line steamer Chur-
lotte. which was due i'm Norfolk at Z
a. m. yesterday from Baltimore, had
sunk In Chesapeake Bay and her pas
sengers We're all drowned. The boat
arrived yesterday afternoon at ITO.
having been delayed il the Bay by Cog.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-14
loNGLAND's WHEAT FIELDS.
Many of Them are More Than Ten
Centuries Old.

Centuries Old.
Some very competent writer's, fright
ened by the disproportion between the
wheat grown in England and the guam
tity needed for our daily bread, have
recently urged the establishment of
public granaries for use in time of war,
says q writer In the London Weekly
Country Life. The only wonder Is that
the figures which impress them have
not made more impression on the pub
lie. But while hundreds of thousands
of acres OF good wheat lands lie un-
cultivated In England, the proposal to
buy and hoard foreign corn Is rather
too previous. Our best public granaries
are the wheat fields of old England.
which have fallen into partial ruin and
premature decay.
The WHEAT fields Of England nave two
special claims to consideration, based
on their merits, and apart from sem
timent though we have lately begun to
apprehend that national sentiment in
great concerns may be as valuable as
public spirit in small ones. But the
fact remains that the wheat fields of
England are the oldest national indus
tries in this country, and the most
productive In the world.
a wheat field 1000 years old Is quite
a common sight in this country. or
course 1t has not grown crop of corn
every year IN lRc ten centuries, nut
during that long sequence of ages, in
the fixed and abiding order of this an
Client country, that particular area of
land has been cultivated, with the pro-
duct!on of wheat as its main objec.
and 1t has remained as part of the
English granary from the days of Ed
ward the Confcssor until those OF Vic
tora. Many OF the wheat fields are
far more ancient than this. but the
record Of '.DoomsGay Book" is n p:ac-
Teal voucher for period Of / 900 years.
The custom of the Saxon cultivators
and the evidence of local names are
proof of n still greater antiquity of
cultivation on some Of the best corn
land; and beyond the days OF The Sax
ons lie the last two centuries Of Roman
occupation, when England was the
great wheat growing country of the
west and supplied the population of
Rome with daily bread.
Perhaps the most interesting feature
OF our ancestral corn lands is the small
degree in which their appearance can
have changed in the course of ten or
twelve centuries. Their area is much
greater than in the old times. when
villages were separated by wide wood
lands and only grouped and contIg
unuS in naturally open country The
early Saxon times were not days in
which men cared to lay field to field.
There was plenty of ground available
and Of this the villagers cultivated
and sowcd with corn as much as they
needed for their years supply.