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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

across the piteous cries of wounded
Filipino for water excited the com
passion of one of the boys, who hast
ened to give him a drink from his can
teen. AS he knelt down by the side OK
the insurgent the latter drew dagger
and tried to stab him. Several of the
American soldiers saw the attempt and,
Fastening up, took the insurgents gun
from beside him and beat his brains
out. This is the gun now on exhibition.
The weapon came into the possession
Of. Douglas YounsHsditor of the Manila
Freedom, and from him passed into the
possession OF the local exhibition. 1t is
of the breech-loading pattern made in
1876 and long since discarded by the
American army.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
Peat Bog in Canada.

A bog of 10000 acres of peat 90 feet
thick has been discovered in Canada,
which, when compressed, makes hot
ter fire than coal. The peat is cut and
dried and pulverized and put into a
hopper, and then forced through a two
inch tube and formed into three-incb
cubes, and is then as heavy as anthra-
cite. 1t is free from sulphur, makes no
SCOT, smoke, dust or clinkers, needs but
little draft and burns we'll in locomo-
tives. The owners think they have a
bonanza.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
they received their first LESSOR in mis-,
anthropy.


A New Orleans newspaper tell how a
Havana saloonkeeper bewails the pass
ing of Spanish rule on that island.
eve have not made much out of the
privates under either rule" he began.
"The Americans have forbidden us to
sell liquor to them, and the Spanish SOL
diers were too poor to buy. 1t is the Off
GERS of the two nationalities that L com
pare. In Weyler's army, drinking was
very heavy. The rebellion might have
been ended in a short time if these Off
GERS had cared to attend to it. They were
making too much money and having
too good a time"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

an absolutely independent Dutch-Af-
rican republic, should have decided to
cast its lot with the struggling Beers of
the Transvaal. Such step, however,
was but natural. The two republics
have not only been bound together by
an offensive and defensive alliance for
years, but the absorption of the South
African republic would inevitably lead
to the extinction of the Orange Free
State. The burghers of the latter COM
monwealth, after the fourth trek" de-
feated the British at Bloemfontein, in
184S, and founded republic. The Brit
ish troops then in Africa were unable to
cope successfully with the indignant
frontiersmen; and when, in 1850, the
warlike katfirs threatened to annihi-
late the discouraged English garrisons
the London government acknowledged
the complete independence of the Or
ange Free State, at the mercy of whose
troops was the life of every Englishman
in the southern part of the African con-
tinent.
England has never forgiven the de-
feat at observation-disclosures those at
Laing's Neck and on Maiuba hill-and
the Boer population of all South Africa
knows that the game played by Cham
berlain and his cohorts was not in
tended to help the ''outlanders," but
was rather the final move in a contest
for absolute control over the gold and
diamond fields of the Rand.
Ponly of Cbo larIoi,
ganized capital and organized rapacity,
fortified by military hatred and unpa-
triotic iingoism. Back of Presiden Kru-
ger lofty patriotism raises its banners.
In such struggle the sympathy of the
world-especially that of free people
is with the under dog; not because he
is an especially lovable creature, but
because he stands for liberty and self
government.
What the outcome of the conflict will
be, who can tell? Great Britain, it is
true, can dispatch hundreds of thou
sands of troops to South Africa; and
the men who wear the scarlet livery of
the queen are brave fighters, even in an
unholy cause. But they will be con-
IIOHltu ny fO,WOU uleH WnO are USHlluS
for their native land, their families and
their homes and who, although not pro-
ficient in military drill, know how to
shoot and how to harass regular troops.
OF course, should the British succeed
in defeating the Beers within the next
month the Transvaal republic and Or
ange Free State would cease to exist.
Should the Afrikanders be able to hold
out for six months or longer perpetual
independence would seem assured.
Much depends on the loyalty to the
British crown of the Dutch element in
Cape Colony. There are thousands of
them able to bear arms, and should they
conclude to make common cause with
their brethren of the north, England
would have to send huge armies to At
RIGA to hold her own.
G. W. WEIPPIEkT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
BENT RIFLE WITH A HISTORY.
Souvenir of the Battle of Manila
That Cost Its Insurgent Owner
His Life.

Among the many objects of interest
in the collection of war trophies and
curios from the Philippines that has
recently been placed on exhibition in
the Battle of Manila building on Wa
bash avenue is a bent and shattered
Remington rifle. This rifle is of in
terest because of the following story,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
During the first battles of the Amer
lean troops with the Filipinos around
Manila a charge was ordered to drive
the enemy from strong position. The
charge took the American troops over
rice field which the enemy had occupied
at the beginning of the engagement,
but from which they had been driven.
AS the American forces charged
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

completion at the Watervfiet arsenal,
and which is to be used in defending
New York harbor, will be almost q
miles. At its maximum elevation the
shot, weighing 2,37O pounds, will be
3O,516 feet above its starting point, so
that it would clear the summit of Mount
Everest, with more than 1900 feet to
spare, even if that giant peak stood on
the shore of the sea. The longest shot
hitherto made was with krupp can
non, which sent its projectile 1919
miles, the greatest height attained by
it being 81, 456 feet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
TEACHING YOUNG TO SWta
Int testing Description of How
Mother Muskrat Gave LessOnsE
to Her Offspring.

That sensible portion of the ANIMAL
kingdom which naturalists are wontlto
term the brute creation has wdn-
derful aptitude for encouraging close
acquaintance with those whom it
trusts. We're it not for terror, inherfted
through generations of abused ION
fidence and malicious cruelty, the 4nid
thrush would proudly lead us tofthe
sylvan paradise, where she has hidden
her birdlings, and the coy doe would
bring to us her trembling Offspring
that we might stroke its spottedq6ide,
says Forest and Stream.
At the pool our attention was at
tracted by a comical picture made by
an old muskrat trying to teach her
babies to swim. 1t struck us as ST pge
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
he WHIPPED WALES.
4 Californian Is Probably the Only
Man Who Ever Met IL. r.. HI. I'm
Open Fight.

There is probably only one man in the
world who can boast of having whipped
the prince of Wales with any degree
of honesty. This is not because his roy
al highness would be very hard to whip.
but it is fact that but one man, and
one woman have ever accomplished the
feat, which is impossible even for Jim
Jeffries, the worlds champion.
The woman is Queen Victoria and the
man, says the Philadelphia Press, is Mr..
James Miller.
With the woman we are not, in the
nature of things, so much interested.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

The Hollanders are perhaps of al!
the northern people those who smoke
the most, the humidity of their climate
making it almost a necessity, while the
moderate cost of tobacco with them
renders it accessible to all. To show
how deeply rooted is the habit, it is
enough to say that the boatmen of Hol-
land measure distances by smoking.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
THE WASH-RAG PLANT.
1t Grows on Vines Like Cucumbers
and Is One of OhiO's AgricuI-
turaI Products.

Ohio, which ranks first in the produc-
ton of politicians, is also proud of it's
great wash-rag crop, which is just COM
ing on the market for 1899. The Ohio
wash or dish rag is a vegetable product.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
THE WAR IN AFRICA.
1t Was Forced Upon the Beers by
Secretary Chamberlain.
Unbiased History of the Events
Which Led to the Ultimatum
of President Kruger-Eng-
lands IgnOble Part.
Especial Correspondence

Now that a state of actual war exists
between the South African republic
and Great Britain it behooves the peo-
pie of other nations to review dispas-
sionately the causes which led up to
the conflict.
Whatever ones personal prejudices
may be, it is always well to look upon
both sides of a great historical queS-
ton; and in this instance the impartial
observer-be he American or English
MANS compelled TO admit that the
Beers were forced into beginning hos
tilities by the hypocritical and unfair
policy of Joseph Chamberlain, British
secretary for the colonies, into whose
hands the Salisbury government placed
tbe settlement of the Transvaal diff
calty.
The original complaint, of which the
ice se3 AYwar is the result, was the al
om,e, discrimination of the Boer gov
= mt against the ''outlanders," or
foreign residents, of the republic who
were heavily taxed and yet had no voice
IN the administration of either local or
general affairs. This complaint came to
the British colonial office in the form of
petition signed by British subjects re-
siding in the South African republic;
and was made by Secretary Chamber
lain the pretext for undermining the
stability and independence of the Boer
government, in direct violation of the
convention of 1884, which guaranteed
to the Transyaal absolute independence
in the management of international af-
fairs.
A demand made upon President
Kruger to redress the grievances of the
dissatisfied foreigners resulted in a con-
ference between himself and Sir Alfred
Miner, British high commissioner to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
New Method of DIaHtinE.

A new way of blasting rock is to place
a cartridge of water into shot hole
and convert it into steam instantly by
electricity. This method is especially
applicable in coal mines
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
A Long Shot.

Maj. James NJ. Ingalls,, whose author
ity in the science of ballistics is recog-
nized in Europe as well as in this coun-
try, calculates that the extreme range
of the new 16-inch gun, now nearing
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

The king of Greece delights in taking
recreation in the fields. He can pillow,
cut and BIND corn, milk cows, and, in
short, could at pinch keep farm 60
ing single handed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23
"Rurying the Tomahawk.v

The Sioux and Blackfeet will at part
ing dig their spears in the earth as a
sign Of confidence and mutual esteem.
This is the origin of the term "burying
the tomahaWk."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

1t grows on vines which closely re.
semble in appearance cucumber vines
Each of the vegetable rags grows in'
side case which looks like a green
gourd, IS or 20 inches long The rag
proper is primarily intended as a sup
port FOR the seeds of the plant. When
unfolded it is five inches wide by foot
long. 1t is of loose and somewhat
rough texture, more nearly resembling
prash than any other manufactured
fabric. The vegetable wash cloth ID
bald to possess the desirable property
bf making the skin smooth and soft.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

But for adversely some men would
never know how little they can borrow
Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

Ellen Terry likes cats in their proper
places, but if black cat ventures OH
the stage she is in despair.
The Portland daily press., 1899-02-03

or authentication OF the same by the re-
spective official custodian Of the records
OF said several departments In the city Of
Portland shall have the same effect In
any legal proceedings as II produced. Mt
testated or authenticated by tho custodian
of the records of the department in said
Deering from which the same were
severally transferred.
Sect 3. The Deering municipal court
is hereby abolished. but for the purpose
only of closing the business pending
therein at the time of the approval OF this
act, the entire jurisdiction thereof, civil
and criminal, shall be conferred upon the
municipal court for the city OF Portland
which court shall issue all executions or
other processes necessary to carly into ef
fectinny judgment, order or decree of said
Deering municipal court court. All oom-
plants, civil suits, recogniznnoss appeals
in civil or criminal cases. and all other
processes, civil or criminal, pending in
said DeeriEg municipal court, shall be
transferred forthwith TO the municipal
court for the oity of Portland. be entered
on the docket thereof, and be heard and
disposed of as II originally entered in said
municipal court Tor the oity of Portland;
and all writs, petitions, warrants. and all
processes whatever, returnable to said
Deering municipal court shall be return
able TO and be entered on the docket of
said municipal court for the city of Port
land, and shall be heard and disposed OF
in said municipal court for the city OF
Portland as IL originally entered therein.
The judgments, decisions. orders and
DEGREES of the Supreme Judicial court, at
any law term, made IN cases orig ginating
in said Deering municipal court shall be-
certified to the recorder of the municipal
court for the city Of Portland. All records
of the Deering municipal court and the
custody of the same. shall be transferred
to the recorder of the municipal court for
the city OF Portland to whose attestat ion
of the Same, or their contents, full faith
shall be- given.
Sect. II. Until the next apportionment
of representation for the legislature, the
inhabitants of said wards eight and nine
shall be entitled TO one representative, to
! be elected by said Inhabitants meetings
held in the respective wards.
Sect. 10. All acts or parts of acts in
consistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Sect. l6 This act shall take effect up
on approval.
The Portland daily press., 1899-02-03

serve for two years, and thereafter the
electors In each Of said wards sh' ii elect
n mem ber Of the school committee for two
wears.
Sect. 4 The ward meetings In said
ward eight shall be held at the present
ward tive wardroom of Deering. and the
meetings In said ward nine shall be held
at the present ward two ward room of
Deering, until the city council shall
otherwise provide.
Sect. D. The warrants for the first ward
meetings in said wards eight and nine
shall be MADE returnable by the constable
posting the same, tn some voter In each
of said wards designated by the municipal
officers of Portland. who shall call said
ward meetings to order for the election by
open ballot of "A warden to preside at said
meeting, and ward clerk, and the
warden and clerk so elected shall qualify
and perform all the duties devolving up.
on the warden and ward clerk under the
provisions OF law. The necessary ballot
and election clerks for wards eight and
nine shall be appointed according 10 law
hy the municipal officers of the city of
Portland.
Sect. 6. From the lists of voters now
registered In the several wards of Deer
Ing the board of registration of Deering
shall prepare two new lists, one to con-
tain the names of all voters whose
registered residence is within the limits
of said ward eight which list shall be the
list of registered voters for said ward
eight, and the other to contain the names
OF all voters whose registered residence Is
within the limits of said ward nine,
which list shall be the list of registered
voters for said ward nine, and shall de.
liver said new lists together with their
records to the board of registration of
Portland at least twelve days prior to the
next municipal election, and thereafter
changes therein may be made as in the
lists of registered voters In other Portland
wards
Sect. :. Upon the approval of this act
all the city property of Deering together
with all city moneys in the hands "f the
treasurer thereof, or under his control,
becomes the property of the city of Port
land, and the city of Portland shall as
sumo all obligations Of the city of Deer
ing then existing. and all Indebtedness
both temporary and bonded, and shall
provide for the payment thereof according Z
to the terms under which said indebted
ness was contracted.
Sect. S. Until the inauguration Of the
The Portland daily press., 1899-02-03
WHAT a SMALL BOY Old.
He Told a story to the Police While n
Led to His Mothers Arrest.

Sometime yesterday afternoon, Daniel
Wormwell went to the house of Thomas
and Ellen kearns ON Clark's colrt to
make call. When he went into the
house he was sober and had SS5 in his
inside pocket. few hours later he
came out OF the house nlled upon with
beer and minus the money. When he
recovered himself somewhat he COM
planned TO the city marshal that he had
been robbed The marshal sent an officer
to the house Of Mrs. kearns who told
her If she didn't give up the money she
was supposed to have belonging to Worm
we'll she would he arrested. Mrs. kearns
denied any knowledge of the money and
claimed she had not seen it.
The city marshal turned the case over
to Deputy Marshal Sterling who sent
Officer Thompson to the house with or
ders to investigate the case The woman
told the officer that she knew nothing
about the money but shortly after he had
left the house Mrs Koarns came run.
liceman that her little boy had fonnd q
$40 bill by the side of rocking chair
In the kitchen. Deputy Marshal Sterling
ordered the woman to be arrested and Mr..
kearns and the little boy We're also tax
en- 20 the police station.
The little boy then told the deputy that
he had been told by his mother. when he
came in from sliding after the officer had
been to the houst the second time, to say
that he had found the $50 bin in the
Kitchen by the side of the rocking chair.
The boy said that his mother had thrown
the bill on the floor by the side of the
chair aad he had picked it up as she told
him to do
The Portland daily press., 1899-02-03
REPUBLICAN cAucusss.
VIII he Held In Portland and Deering
ON Feb. 20th.

IA meeting Of the Republican city COM
mittee was held last night and was very
largely attended, the ward delegations
being present TO almost their full
strength. A pleasing feature of the
meeting was the attendance of Mr.. Hutch
ins of Deering, who is chairman Of the
Desring city COMMITTEES. Mr.. Hutchins
attended the meeting ut the Invitation of
the Portland committee and what he
had to say WINS very pleasing to the Port
land Republicans He represented the
Deering oomplttee and spoke to the meet
ing In their behalf and made n very good
impression.
The committee voted that the Republi-
can cauouses In Portland aid Deering
should be held on the evening OF Monday
February goth. This date was perfectly
Mr.. Hutohins said.
I 1t was voted that the caucuses should
be orened at 4 O'Clock in the afternoon
and remain open until O'Clock. In
Deering wards and 9. the Deering COM
mittee will decide when the caucuses
shall be opened and closed.
The committee voted that check lists
should be used In every ward in Portland
and that no one who was not marked u
Republican should be allowed to cast
their vote for the Republican candi-
dates. In Deering the committee there
will decide how the caucuses shall be
conducted
1t was voted that In the Portland wards
Official ballots for the various candidates
city committee and supplied to each ward.
| The candidates may use their own bal
lots II they wish to in all of these wards
as long as they do not use ballots similar
to the official ballots.
| 1t was voted that the may oralty conven-
ton shall bs held In the reception hall
City building on the Wednesday afternoon
at O'Clock following the caucus on Mon
day Eight Mr.. Allan. chairman of the city
oommitteee announced that candidates
should have their names or their list OF
delegates put in the hands OF the chair
man of the city committee by noon on
Saturday before the caucuses on Monday
II they desired these names to be placed
on the official ballots.
MIR. Hutchins, chairman of the DeeriDg
Republican committee, made q very
graceful speech in which he said that
the Deering Republicans would work
shoulder to shoulder with their brothers
In Portland and could be relied upon to
do their share OF the work also. He e1-
plalned the condition of affairs in Deer
ing and was assured by vote Of the Port
land commit ttee that whatever the Deer
ing committee decided was the best way
to conduct the caucuses in Wards and
would be acceptable to the Portland
committee.
The Portland daily press., 1899-02-03

Sect. /. The city of DeerinP is hereby
annexed to and is part OF the city OF
Portland, and the inhabitants and terri
tory of Deering are subject to the charter
and ordinances of Portland, and to the
acts smendatory there Of and supplemental
thereto, except as herein otherwise pro-
vided.
Sect. 2. The city of Portland as herein
enlarged shall be divided into nine wards,
and until the city council shall have re-
vised the ward lines in the manner pro-
vided by law, ward eight shall consist OF
that part of the city of Deering lying
westerly Of the following described line,
viz. beginning on Back Bay at "A point
where the center of Pearl street in said
Portland if extended would intersect the
present boundary line of Portland; I;
thence In a straight line across Back Bay
to the centre Of Chenery street In the city
of Deering; thence by the centre of Chem
cry street 10 the centre Of Ocean street;
thence by the centre OF Ocean street TO
the centre of Forest avenue; thence by
the centre of Forest avenue 20 the centre
of Pleasant street; thence by the centre
of Pleasant street to the centre OF Stevens
Plains avenue; thonce by tho centre of
Stevens Plains avenue TO the centre of
Spring street; thence by the centre of
Spring street to the centre of Brighton
street; thence by the centre of Brighton
street to the Westprook city line; and
ward nine shall consist of that part of
the city of Deering lying easterly of said
line. Each of these wards SO constituted
shall have the same form of organization
and the same representation in the city
government and in the school committee
of Portland as each of the other war is of
said city, so that hereafter the number
constituting the board Of aldermen shall
be nine. the number constituting the
common council shall be twenty seven
and the number constituting the school
committee shall be ten.
Sect. 3. On the first Monday in March
in the year of our Lord. one thousand
eight hundred and ninety nine, and there
after annually, the qualified electors Of
each Of said nine wards shall ballot for
mayor, ons alderman, three common
counciImen, q warden and clerk, and
two constables, on one BALLOT IN the man
ner provided by law. At said election for
1899 the electors of ward eight shall like e.
wise ballot for a member OF the school
committee to serve for one year; and the
electors of ward nine shall likewise ballot
for member of the school committee to