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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05

The man behind the gun has had his
day of surprising glory at Manila and
off Cuba, and the constructor. the gum
founder and the engineer are now
called out for commentator. 1t is in-
teresting to note that the deductions
of the American board of survey that
critically inspected the remains of
Admiral Cerveras battieships are in
close accord with the frequently ex-
pressed views of Chief Naval Construct
tor Hichhorn, Chief Engineer Melvillei
and other naval bureau officers of note,
These expert views have not been re-
ceived either in the service or in the
congressional committees with the fa+
vor they are now seen to have deserved
Most likely Cervera's great misfortune
and the comparative immunity of our
vessels from serious damage will give
more weight in the future to American
constructive opinions. Greater speed,
the elimination of wood in the COM
struction of battleships, the placing
of torpedoes below the water line, and
a larger provision of eight and siX-inch
guns and secondary rapid-fire bats
teries are conspicuous among reom-
mendations for the battleships of the
future.-Iouth's Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05
CONSUMPTION.
From Tuberculosis There Are Nearly
$50 Deaths Day in the
United States.

The bacillus of tuberculosis finds,
indeed, the most favorable conditions
for its existence in the squalor of
crowded slums, in the foul atmosphere
of dusty workshops, in close courts
and alleys, and in damp, dark dwellings
where the sunlight never penetrates
and where there is no through ventila-
ton. But it may thrive also in places
where sanitary science has done its
best. Even in this present age of sani-
tary grace consumption works fright
full havoc among mankind, destroying
far more lives than typhoid fever,
dipht liberia, scarlatina, measles, small
poX. cholera and all other epidemic
scourges put together. In a report on
tuberculosis recently presented to the
Academic de Medicine by a committee
appointed to study the question the
number of deaths caused in France
every year by tuberculosis is given as
100000.
1t is computed that, taking all forms
of tuberculosis together, onefourth
of each generation in France is at
tackled and one-sixth is killed by it.
According to high authority, Prof.
Won Leyden, of Berlin, the mortality
from consumption alone in the " hole
of Europe is not less that 100000 a
year. The annual mortality in the
United States from tuberculosis in its
various forms is 163, 500, or nearly 45O
day. These figures represent only
tho or+I1nl daStructioo of liFa oauSe6
by this terrible scourge. Who can es-
innate the amount of suffering for
which it is responsible besides? 1t is
needless to speak of the expense which
it entails not only on individuals, but
on the community.-For Re-
view
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The United States contains IS, 467 drug
stores.
Waltham has joined several other
Massachusetts cities in adopting cur
few ordinance.
According to a census taken by the
Maine bureau of statistics there are
1,577,252 hens in that state.
AT the Peach day observance in the
Omaha exposition 1900 baskets of Ne
braska peaches ware distributed among
the visitors.
About 5000 words in the English Ian
guage have no rhyme to them. These
include such important words as honor,
virtue, gulf, month and echo.
The whisky production in North Caro-
lima last year from the ACT registered
distilleries was 620,716 gallons. 1t is
thought that the product of the illicit
distilleries was fully as large.
1t is an inexplicable fact that men
buried in an avalanche of snow hear dis
are seeking for them, while their most
strenuous shouts fail to penetrate even
a few feet of the snow.
The duke of Cambridge, who is fond of
collecting swords, always wears on
state occasions the diamond-hilted
weapon which was presented to him by
the shah of Persia. He dislikes DOMINIC
military uniform, believing that his
stoutness is not so apparent in evening
dress.
Many sailors believe that the frigate
bird can start at daybreak with the
trade winds from the coast of Africa
and roost the same night upon the
American shore. Whether this is fact
or not has yet to be determined, but
it is certain that the bird is the swift
est ofwinged creatures and is able to fly
under favorable conditions, 200 miles an
hour.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05

The first serious obstacle that will be-
encountered is that presented by the
climate. The islands lie wholly Within
the tropics, and eXtendon the south to
within AZ degrees of the equator. The
heat is trying at the best. Personally
have found the burning sun of the dry
season less hard to bear than the
"muggy' weather, when bright SUM
shine alternates with heavy showers,
or the rain falls day after day without
interruption. One often reads of de-
lightful days and cool nights in the fall
and winter months. After spending 81
years in almost constant travel through
the archipelago. and visiting every ono
of the larger islands except Leyte, can
say that | have never seen a day when
a man could endure hard physical la Dor
without suffering from the heat. I
have experienced the hot season, the
dry season, the wet season, but never
yet have been so fortunate as to strike
the cool season.-Prof. Dean C. Web.
ster, in Century. /
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The Wyoming wool clip this yeat
weighed 100000 pounds.
The tongue of u full-grown whale
measures 20 feet in length.
Bangor manufacturers are sending
canoes of birch and canvas to Palestine,
Japan, India and China.
Exports of cottonseed products for
the first five months of this year far
exceed those of the IL months of 1896.
In the French quarries of st. Triphon,
stone is sawed with steel wire cables
moistened with wet sand, and passing
in an endless rope over series Of pull
leys.
Last year the United States export+
ed 800 locomotives, valued at about 3d.
100000, sewing machines to the valUa
of $2,5OO,OOO, and typewriters worth ST.
100000.
1t is said that the sales of looking
glasses in the United States amount to
about $S,000,000 year, and that the In
dustry gives employment to more than
1000 persons.
Cats can smell even during sleep.
When piece of meat is placed immedi-
ately in front of a sleeping cats nose
the nostrils begin to work as the scent
is received, and an instant later the
cat will wake up.
The longest plant in the world is the
seaweed. One tropical and subtrcpical
| variety is known which, when it reaches
its full development, is at least 600 feet
in length. Seaweed receives its nour-
| ishment from the air and mineral mat
| ter held in solution in the sea water.
Some cast-iron cannon balls were re-
Gently recovered from the sea near
Brest. They had been under water for
over 100 years. They could be cut with
knife. a great part of the iron having
disappeared. Exposed to the air, the
interior became quite hot, of course los
| ing the heat in short time, after the
oxygen of the air had ceased to act
| upon it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05
GLEANINGS.

The British revenue from spirits is a
little in excess of $1,000 900.
The amount of beer annually drunk
throughout the world is estimated at
1S0,000,000 hecoiters, exceeding that
Of wine by about 50,000,OOO.
A Chinaman always takes spirits,
usually rice whisky, with his meals.
but he drinks moderately and never
apart from meals.
An auxiliary to the Worlds Chris
tian Temperance union is in a flour
ishiug condition in Nagasaki, Japan, as
is also junior auxiliary.
In New York a decision has been
made that hard cider is a liquor
within the meaning of the Raines
liquor tax law, and a citizen IF Carmel,
Putnam county, has recently been
fined 5000 for selling hard cider with
gu: liquor license.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05
MINNIE'S PA.
A Child's Account of Nv. Grant, an
Unfortunate Tim
of Rum.

I'm not very big, and mamma says 1
don't know SO very much, but I'm go
ing to tel you somefng, somefing | do
know. Papa don't drink, no, you bet
he don't, cause if he did my manma
would just don't know zactly what
she'd do, but l don't know what she
wouldn't do! That wasn't what l was
going to tell you, though.
was going to tell you about Minnie
Grants pa. He just drinks awful! I
mean he drinks an awful lots of whis-
ky. And he's the meanest, worsest,
Cgliest man in town. My aunt Aman-
dy says it's the whisky that malaes him
like that. Like what l said he was--I
don't like to say it again, cause he
might be around some place-and his
little girl Minnie and Jimmie Chats
his little boy are the ragidest, worst
est little boy and girl in school. They
don't never go to Sunday-school.
Guess they haven't any clothes to
wear, or else their pa has made them
so mean that they don't never want
to go. An Jimmie, l heard him swear
the other day, and my aunt Amandy
says that people that swear don't go
TO Heaven. didn't ask her where they
did go-wish 1 had cause I'd like to
know, But Jimmie says he heard his
pa say that, and so he s'poses it's all
right.
Isn't it funny that boys think every
thing their pas do is all right, and
want to do just what they do? Well,
I guess 1 don't know so very much,
cause l can't see why, when pas know
that their little boys will do just what
they do, they keep on doing such aw-
full mean .ngs. And not so very long
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05
Soft GinEer-SnaDs.

There is no such thing as soft GIN
gersnap. A snap, as its name implies
is brittle. If you wish a ginger cake
add to quart of flour a large table,
spoonful of shortening. rubbing it well
in; add teaspoonful Of soda dissolved
in tablespoonful of water to a cupfuI
of molasses, then add tables poonful
of ginger to the flour and moisten wit h
the molasses. Roll out in soft dough,
cut round and bake in moderate oven.
ladies home journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05
Time to Awake.

There will come time when our peo-
pie will wake up to the enormities of
this insidious devil, or our government
will disintegrate and die. 1t was
through RIGHTEOUSNESS and debauch-
cry that ancient Rome found its decay
and death. And however much NE
may attempt to hide the unwelcome
truth from our eyes our own nation
is marching on in the path that led
Rome to its slaughter. righteousness
e&alteth a nation. but sin is a reproach
to any people."-J. B. Cranfll
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05

Once in awhile Mark has taken a
hand in politics. On one occasion, be-
Ing invited to speak in the interest of
his fellow townsman, Gen. Joseph
Hawley, who was a candidate for re-
election to the United States senate,
he said in the course of a droll adj
dress: Gen. Hawley deserves your
support, although he has about as
much influence in purifying the senate
as bunch of flowers would have in
sweetenlng a glue factory. But he's
all right; he never would turn any
poor beggar away from his door
empty-handed. He always gives them
Something-~almost without exception
letter of introduction to me, urging
me to help them."-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05
A brave Man.

"Fenwick must have supreme conf
dence in his wife"
why so?"
HE bought her rolling pin for her
wooden wedding present."-Chicago
Evening News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05

Bacteria multiply rapidly and they
do it in a curious way. A single one
breaks itself in two, then each half
grows until it becomes as large as the
original.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05

Customer want pair of boots.
Merchant-Yes, sir. Canned or
resh detroit Journal.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21

pie who pay the taxes. Even slight
knowledge Of history wonld tell us what
TO expect under such circumstances.
The groups, or the states, or the
countries that will not keep step get
their heels trodden on it is as inevitable
as the coming Of sunshine to dispel
darkness.
Let US be fair to Great Britain. She
has huge task all over this world stan
ding out bravely, even more bravely
than we Americans do, for an equality
Of chance. Where the English flag goes
there goes commerce, and she makes no
unpleasant inquiries as to where goods
are manufactured. She wins peace with
the sword and progress with her Max
inns, and then holds the door wide open
for other nations 10 benefit by her Prov
ess, which is certainly more than we do,
and let us not forget that That sturdy
little land whose men never know when
they are defeated is almost the only
nation that stand for "the open door"
She is an advance agent for American
products and she is the best friend that
America has in foreign fields and mar
lSets.
Yet when struggle comes on that is
essential 10 the carrying out Of her pro-
gram we who are the nearest 10 her
among the nations OF blood and Ian
guage, and literature have been cry
ing out about her d-grabbing.and her
greed and her lustful cruelty She de-
sires no more land; every square mile
that she adds increases her responsible
ity and her burden yet she turns
neither 10 the right hand nor TO the left,
but goes forward in the grim realization
that one nation among all the nations
must lead lirmness and for progressive
generosity, and that she is called 10 be
that nation. She stands for the things
that are dearest to us-freedom from
equality Of all before the law, fair dis
tribution Of the burden. Of taxation, the
abolition OF unwilling human servitude.
She stands also for more than We do for
we are not slow to take advantage of an
open door, while we think it wise 10
partly close our own. II is not there
fore timely, nor kind, nor generous for
us 10 call her marauder when in mat.
ters OF force she has done sand is doing
just what we have done; nor TO call her
selfish, when our whole policy toward
commerce is the most selfish at present
existing in the world.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21

selfish or unworthy motive on the part
Of the council in the matter.
And as matter Of fact, the fire de-
partment is as efficient now as 4 ever
has been under push management, even
when the expense was enormously
greater. Had this council seen fit TO
spend as much on the fire department
as was ostensibly done under some push
administrations, the push would have
called IL extravaganza, though every
dollar Of the cost had gone toward inn
proving the department, and none to-
ward campaign fund for the next cleo
tion.
The gist Of the matter is that the push
politicians, and all who got into office by
their help, try 10 give the people an adj
ministration just good enough so that
they may not be turned down at the
next election, but, beyond that, turn
every trick for private or machine profit
whereas the citizens Servants" have
been responsible 10 no partyno clique or
machine have had no private or party
interests 10 serve, and have been free 10
follow the impulses Of honest men and
honorable, public spirited, American cit
liens, aud gave the city the best ad-
ministration of her affairs that lay with
in their power.
The push politicians laugh at the
idea Of being "in politics for their
health" The change wrought In one
short term, by kicking them out OF of
flee, ought to open the taxpayers
eyes TO the drain on their pockets nee
cessitated by converting the city into
push sanitarium, or turning the offices
into health resorts for them aud their
friends.
II any of these people havo valid
claim on the city for u bounty or
pension for past services let them be
recognized ~ objects Of charity and
put them ON the retired list as paupcrs
but keep them in private life.
Let the government OF the city be
regarded M public trust aud kept in
the hands Of those who will 80 admin
lister IL, The only test OF an alder.
manic candidate at the coming election
should be made ON this issue, does he
favor continuance OF municipal adj
mlnistration solely for public purposes,
or does he favor putting the city back
into the Gnancial quagmire ol party
pull and private graft,
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21
The Ordinary Sleeper--A
New Feature in Western
Travel.

The Pullman Company now operate,
two grades of sleeping cars via the RE
GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY. The ordi.
nary sleepers are entirely new, and the
berths, both upper and lower, are
fitted up complete with mattresses,
blankets, sheets, pillows, curtains, etc.,
with stoves arranged for making tea,
coffee, etc., requiring nothing to be
furnished by passengers. Uniformed
pullman porters are in charge Of the
cars, who are required TO keep them in
good order and attend 10 the wants and
comforts OF passengers. The cars are
very handsome and commodious, aud
while not 80 elegant, are just as com.
fortgble ~ standard or palace sleepers
Both first aud secOnd-class passengers
are permitted 10 occupy these cars on
payment OF the Pullman berth rates,
which are less than half of the rates
charged in the regular palace sleeping
cars.
The ordinary sleepers are carried
daily on trains via Rio ORANDR WEST
ERS RAILWAY between Denver and san
Francisco and Portland. On five days
in each week the sleepers are run
through between Los Angeles and San
Francisco, or Portland and Denver,
Omaha, Chicago aud Boston.
For additional details write for copy
OF folder TO j. ID. Mansfield, 253 Wash
ington ST. Portland; or Geo. w. lleintz,
Acting General Passenger Agent, salt
Lake City,
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21
Mrs. vanderyort's Trip.

Mrs. +. NJ. NanderyOrt took the ore,
gon express on the 18th, and arrived in
In Frisco ON the evening OF the 10th.
She writes; "l had pleasant trip
Came down the beautiful Sacramento
valley by daylight. The splendid view
OF Mi Shasta and the Sacramento river
canyon will pay one for the trip. A
fellow traveller called my attention 10
the wearing OF the rocks by the water
and | said surely Il the water can shape
those great rocks by its constant run.
ming, surely iaithfullness In the temper
anoe work will some day relieve us ol
the curse OF the saloon. One of our
passengers was wealthy man with a
large family going 10 Riverside. Cal,
because there were no saloons there, 10
have safe place 10 raise his family.
My father, n, n, i.use is very much inn
proved in health"
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21
rupAYY MARKET.

PORTLAND, Nov. 81. - Wheat valley
81 a 81 Walla Walla, SOC. to 81.
Flour-Portland, $500 TO 1926. Super
fine $2.l5 per bbl.
Oat-White 3I@35c, grey 33 TO 3ic.
Hay Timothy-$9@$ll 90 per ton.
Hops-7@llc; old crop 61 &c.
Wool-Valley. l2@l3c: Eastern Or
egon, SG1l4c Mohair, "a q 80.
Millstuff-Bran, $l7yshorts, $lS,
Poultry--Chickens, mixed, $500 to 400
Hens TO 4.50, turkeys, live, l2%@l4c.
Eggs-Oregon, 2l TO 221Sc per doc.
Hides-Green, ,salted60 lbs, S@9c. .undef
80 lbs, 716@S16; sheep pelts, l5@20c.
Onions / to lac.
Butter-Best dairy, 25@35; fancy
creamery, 50c TO 55c per roll, store 3719
and 40c.
Potatoes-50 TO 60c per GENITAL.
Hogs-lleavy dressed &c 10 6l6c
Mutton-Dressed ,8l6c t0 7c per pound.
Beef-Steers. $3.50@$I.0O; cows, $500
@f3.50 dressed, beef 6y9 to "a
Neal-dressed, S@sl9c.
SALEM MARKET.
Whcat-5S pounds and over lie.
Wool l6c, Mohair 30c.
Hops 10 l0c.
Barley l5to 5hc.
Oats--26 and 2Sc.
Hay-Baled, cheat 500, Timothy
$3.50 too
Eggs--25c.
Flour-ln wholesale lots $500 retail
So. 10
Millstuffs-bran $1,000 shorts $500
Ilogs-dressed, 5Rc.
Live cattle-Stcers 3l1cows pa To 3
Sheep-S2. .50@t3.
Dressed Veal-GI8c.
Butter-Dairy l6s5ccreamery 22c.
Poultry-llens To & cents.
Potatoes 20c.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21
Daily, One Year $500. IN Advance
Daily, rouI Months 81 90. "a Advance
Weekly. One Year Gl.00, In Advance
THE ONLY ISSUE AT THE CON-
mo CITY ELECTION.

There was time in the history Of our
country when the theory OF the public
service was something like this; Every
citizen felt IL TO be his duty, when
called upon, 10 serve his fellow citizens
IN public Office even at some personal
sacrifice 10 himself, just ~ he felt II 10
be his duty TO render military service at
a sacriil 20 II the country called for IL.
That is the true ideal Of public life, as
opposed 10 getting Office for private
emolument
II isa cold fact that the latter theory
predominates In the mind Of many pol
iticlans, and In state capital, the
younger generation are corrupted there
by. Tie choice between these two
theories Of practical politics is squarely
in issue at the coming .city election.
Shall Salem voters encourage the old
ideal that "Publlc Office Is public
trust, )" or shall they throw their inau-
ence in favor Of the later paraphrase;
"Public Office is private snap?"
This is one Of the questions, In fact
the main question, To be decided at the
coming city election.
The Salem citizens movement put in
set OF city officials In 1893 who have
managed the affairs OF the city strictly
on tho lines OF the older maxim. They
have not allowed private appetite or
ambition or party bias to control their
actions, but have looked at all matters
strictly from the standpoint Of the pub
Nc good. II il needless TO rehearse the
separate good things they have done.
Citizcns Of Salem have not forgotten the
financial Slough OF Despond In which
the city was wallowing whom this council
took hold, nor the hopeless pessimism
with which the men who were respon-
sible for 1t viewed the situation, II is
true, the Hayseed council has not spent
aa much money on haysecd as It's pre-
decessor, but they have made great
deal more hay for the taxpayer.
The business.like manner in which
this Hayseed council has picked up the
city out Of the financial gutter, busted
her on, clothed her in rcspectability and
sol her upon her feet has astonished
even chose who hoped the most from
the change decrced al the last city elec-
tion.
Ii any mistakes have been nude, il
Is hard 10 find them, and even taking
Tor granted the truth Of the worst in
dictment that the push crowd can bring,
that the matter Of economy has been
carried somewhat too far In the case OF
the fire department even II We grant
the truth OF that charge, We must still
acknowledge that by no possible distor.
iion Of reasoning can We find place for a !
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21
An Importan, Difference.

To mike 10 apparent o. thOusa nds
the system simply needs cleansing, is
&C. bring comfort home 10 their hearts,
as costive condition Is easily cured
by using Syrup OF Figs. Manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co. only,
aud sold by all druggists.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21

To Cure a Cold In ono Day
Take Laxative hromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists Ielund the money IL 10 falls to cuie
y, w, HroNee signature II on each hox. 2ic.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21
Corvallis \ Eastern Railroad
TIME CARD

O'O uHu W. CUHUtCJ HG a Jimmy nnd
Corvallis with Southern Pacific t;oIa duu
giving direct service t) and from NaS' NSS'
port and adjacent beaches. 'e"'
No. 9 runs from Albany to Corvalu,
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fr,Ssys a,s
only, "aSs
No. 8 runs from Corvallis TO Albar,
on Tuesdays, Thursdays aud SSiur
days only. '"Vur'
Trains for the mountaips arrlvo n,
Detroit at noon, giving annie ,i,ao ~
TO reach camping grounds on Ill.,
Breltenbush and Santlam river th, M
same day. '"9
II. l.. WALDEN, EDWIN s,,oNp
Il r. a =. A. Nh'
J.TURNER Agent Albany, Ole @'''R''
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21

Rev. DIR. Warrell, OF Louisville, Ker-
lucky, will conduct services at the Rap
tist church today at $50 =, m. and to-
morrow at 2'S0p. m. and $3.50 p. m.
Entrance to the church through the
south doors off Marion steeet.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21
A Dangerous Practice.

While the North Commercial street
bridge is out OF repair many farmers
and others are making practice Of
driving through the stream. That is u
treacherous place where several lives
have been lost and the practice should
cease hs matter of safety.