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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-16
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GEORGE MAYNARD.
Decided Stand of Young Lady
Against His Dissipated Habits
Was His Salvation.

In June, 1888, the affairs of Barnes.
Maynard q Co., wholesale grocers. were
in most prosperous condition. The
handsome seven-story block on State
street, B, was a credit to the city.
They employed several score of men,
distributed through the various depart
ments. Ba:nes, Maynard & Co were
rated at million.
james Z. Barnes, the senior partner
and main stakeholder, to whose shrewd-
ness and integrity the house owed its
existence, was about to retire from ac-
tive life. Through his generosity, his
only child George, now a young man,
had been made his successor. The 9TH
er partner, Oscar Maynard, had been
for many years his confidential clerk,
and as a compliment TO his efficient aid
Der of the firm. to which he brought but
a few thousand dollars.
At this time George Barnes was in
Cornell university. His senior year was
drawing 10 a close. Since 1882 and 1888.
which years he spent in his fathers Of
ice dS assistant DOOhheeper, he nau
given no time or attention o the affairs
of the house which he knew would soon
be his. If his father had noticed his
Discrimination to work when home for
the vacations he never spoke of it. The
reports he received from the secretary
of the university concerning his son
were entirely satisfactory to him. and
he had every reason to believe that
George would return to him as pure
and as full of noble ambitions as when
he went away.
The evening the young graduate was
to arrive Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes entered
their carriage and were driven 10 the
Central station, on Exchange street.
Both, on account of i'll health. had been
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1862 and was given his degree of D. D.
at Rutgers. His theological studies
were pursued in Union seminary, and
he spent three years in postgraduate
work at Bonn, Berlin and Paris. From
1874 TO 1879 DR.. Coe was the Street pro-
fessor of modern languages at Yale.
In 1877 he was licensed by the Manhat-
tan Congregational association, but he
declined numerous calls to pulpits ex-
tended to him. His sermons are models
of fine English ard many of them have
been published under various collected
titles as The Dignity of Human Ma
ture,' ION Growing Old" Mental So
briefly" and Duty and Love" For many
years he has been trustee of Rutgers
college and since 1896 he has been a
trustee of Columbia university. He is
likewise associated with numerous
philanthropic and religious organiza-
tions. Prof. Dwight and other friends
of Yale are anxious to see Dr. Coe at the
head of the big New Haven school.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-16
FORT HERKIMER CHURCH.
Standing, n Rare Historical
Monument.

The stone church at Fort Herkimer
was erected in 1888; the precise time
not being known, and formed part of
the stockaded defense built under the
administration of Sir William Johnson
in the year 1856. 1t was not finished
when the French and Indian invasion
of 1857 occurred.
After that disastrous event, which
brought poverty upon the people, they
applied for and received from Sir Henry
Moore, the governor of the colony, a
license to solicit subscriptions to COM
plete the church. Fort Herkimer,
which constituted an important part of
the frontier defense, embraced a large
stone house, probably erected as early
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pUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

She-"What is kiss in French Pr
He-"I can't tell you, but can show
you."-Yonkers Statesman.
1t Never Fails.-Askins-"W kind
of alarm clock have your" Cynic-'My
wife's elbow" Tacoma Ledger.
He OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES have a
bad cold" She (huskily)-''I have. I
am so hoarse that if you attempted to
kiss me couldn't even eam."-Bos-
ton Journal.
Il always believe in giving every man
his due" "Yes, but you carry it to an
extreme" How SOP" "You never give
men anything but due bills for what
you owe them. "-Cleveland Leader.
did you fall?" asked the officious
one of the man who had slipped on the
ice. Fall" roared the man withering-
ly; mo! l merely sat down to think
over this expansion question. "-Phila-
delphia North American.
And were you homesick in Porto
Rico, my son?" asked the Chicago IA
Their of his soldier son. mo, father, I
was not. AS soon as heard the island
had been annexed to the United States,
l felt as if it were, already a suburb of
Chicago. Workers, Statesman.
The Editors Denial Reporter, to
editor-"The manager of the Uptown
theater demands denial of our state
ment that rotten eggs were thrown at
the troupe that played at his house last
night" Editor-"I suppose we ought
to do it for him. Just say that the eggs
were strictly fresh. "-RoXbury Gazette.
Mrs. Fogg-"Mr. Selan preached
beautiful sermon this forenoon. So
helpful, too! He said we should make
our calling and election sure" Mr..
Fogg-Election sure! What does he
know about politics, anyway? You
never can be sure now that they have
the Australian allot."-Boston Tran
script.
Miss Strutt," said young man to an
acquaintance, with whom he was taxi
ing a walk one evening, Il hope this
cigarette will not be offensive to you?"
Not at all, sir" she replied, slowly and
with emphasis, unless you light it,
And not word was spoken for the next
half hour-Sydney Town and Country
journal
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TEMPERANCE BITS.

Enough drunken yells daily issue
from the rummies to drown the songs
and prayers of Christendom.-Nash
vile Issue.
l have rented houses for more than
30 years and can safely say that three
fourths of all my losses in rents during
that period have been due, directly or
indirectly. to the use of Intoxicating
liquors.-H. H. Faxon.
A recent copy of the Cincinnati En-
quirer had seven articles on the first
page that told of saloon murders and
crime, all the direct work of the liquor
traffic. The people will get enough of
it and have their eyes opened after
awhile.
In all the stories of army mismanage-
merit the use of alcoholic beverages fig
ures. A drunken soldier or an officer
intoxicated, or a dozen of them in that
condition, are the explanations, half
the time, of failure and disaster.-The
People.
1t is now accepted as an established,
actuarial fact that by every insurance
company in England that the average
of life of the total abstainer is nine
years longer than that of the moderate
drinker, The companies ought to make
a discount of ten per cent. on premiums
to all total abstainers.-W. c. Game.
What have the saloons ever done for
humanity? How many souls have they
saved? How many people have they
clothed, except the saloon keepers fam
lily? When we have strike the saloon
keeper often contributes more than The
dry goods man, but he robs them Of
more. l never knew one of them to
give cent that he did not expect a
dollar in return.-T. V. Powderly.
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sDUTCH TEARS"
An Old Chemist Tells About an In
teresting Experiment
with Glass.

st is a great wonder" said an old
chemist in his laboratory the other
day, why more boys do not take chem
ical experiments as an amusement.
Why, l can do things with the common
materials of everyday life which really
seem to be more magical to the uniniti-
ated than any of the wonders per-
formed by magicians on the public
stage.
Now, there are those curious little
bubbles of glass known variously as
Prince Rupert's Drops and as Dutch
Tears Apparently they are merely
little globules of glass with elongated
tails made by heating a small glass rod
in a flame and allowing the molten
drops to fall into water. After they
have cooled you may pound the thick
part with a hammer or mallet, yet you
cannot break them.
ION the other hand, if you break
little piece off their tails, or touch any,
part of them with quartz crystal, they
will Immediately disappear into the SUR
rounding atmosphere. TO the person
who does not know the reason the per-
Torrance is most astonishing.
and yet it is all vC.y simple. 1t is
due to what is known as surface CO.
hesion. Glass, when heated to a molten
state, has naturally reached a very
high temperature, and when the drops
of melted glass are allowed to fall into
the cold water the sudden change pr0-
duces stress which is really terrific.
ThiS stress, however, must be coRsid-
cred as a whole.
at is very strong when taken all to-
gether, but it is exactly as though
piece of very thin rubber was stretched
over the surface of the glass. If you
punctured the rubber its haste to re-
sumo its normal condition would pull it
off the glass.
80 when you break off the tail of the
drop or cut through the film of very
hard glass with crystal its endeavors
suddenly to resume its normal condi7
tion result in its own destruction, and
it breaks up into particles which are
really finer than the finest sand.
1T seems like a wonderful perform
ance, but it is no more wonderful per-
formance than many others which any
youngster would perform if he would
study even the simplest form of chem
ical action" Enquirer.
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cloud on his fine brow deepen and the
eyes grow red. Night after night he
was brought home in half-conscious
condition.
He surprised his parents by remark
ing one afternoon:
Il am going to call on Miss Fife Lee
land this evening. | shall ask her to be
my wife. Would you be pleased?"
More than pleased, dear George"
said his mother tears springing into
her eyes, for she loved the gentle Effie,
the only daughter of the millionaire
senator. The young people had been
close friends from childhood. What an
influence for good she would exert over
her husband! But would the girl ac-
cept him. the promising, but of late dis
sipated George?
How anxiously the loving parents
awaited his return that night.
AT IL he came; his step was steady,
and he entered the back parlor where
they sat in the darkness, and, without
seeing them, threw himself in a chair
by a window. He was silent for mo-
ment, and when he rose and fell on his
knees and raised his voice to God. 1t
was an honest, humble, hopeful prayer,
and in a moment he arose from his
knees and went upstairs, whistling
softly.
Do you wonder the father and moth
er kneeled there and then and thanked
God for the step their son had taken so
nobly.
Father, do you feel well enough to
go down to the office this morning?"
1t was ten o'clock, and they were just
rising from the table.
Yes, certainly"
From that day George was to be
found "a his office. A beautiful and tai
ented wife and two pretty children
make his home life very sweet. Mr.. and
Mrs. James Barnes are now enjoying a
restful old age. To Efiie Leland. now
Mrs. Barnes, George owes his man
hood.-Daniel F. Randolph, in Ma
tional Temperance Advocate.
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Perplexing ,Femininity.

A small boy of my near acquaintance
stood the other day taking lesson in
feminine human nature-not his first
lesson, but bitter one-with quivering
lip and deeply perplexed face. He ex-
claimed, having reference to his still
smaller sister:
Dolly cries because l don't do a
thing, and when | do it then she cries
because | do it,"
This was true and natural, but the
boys remark was not so profound as
was an anecdote which once read in
French. a wife, so this story related,
was Weakened by her husbands weep
ing and bowling in the middle of the
night. He was evidently having a
dream, and she woke him and asked
what was the matter.
"Oh, my dear" he said. rubbing his
eyes, II dreamed that you were dead"
Hal" she said, bitterly, and turning
away from him, great griefs are
mute. boston Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-16
LIQUOR IN CANDY BILLS.
Growth of Drinking Custom with
Women shoppers of New
York City.

The alleged liquor tipping habit of
women shoppers was considered by the
Demorest Women's Christian Temper
ance union of New York city at its
meeting.
THE growth of the drinking custom
with women shoppers" said Mrs.
Emile d. Morton, has been a matter
of observation with us all for some time
past. 1t calls for our immediate inves-
tigation and such radical measures as
may be found possible"
1T shows" declared Mrs. E. p. Prem
tice, that practical work and personal
service are needed from each one of US
when the drinking habit has made such
inroads upon our womanhood."
Cases were quoted of women drink
ing in department stores, of bottles
dropped under chairs and in toilet
rooms.
us it true" demanded Dr. Ellen
Miles, that liquor is to be had in de-
partment stores?"
Yes" came a chorus of voices.
There is law against It," avowed
Mrs. NJ. A. E. Carter.
But the women can buy it just the
same. and they run it in on their candy
bills" answered Mrs. c. Z. Latimer.
Il am perfectly aware that liquor is
to be bought over any confectioner's
counter" said DR.. Miles.
Il heard two young women ask the
other day for cocktails, and got them,
in well-known shop on Fifth avenue"
Il move" said Mrs. Martin, that
every member consider herself person
ally bound to make inquiry into this
affair"
This was adopted.
And when we have thoroughly sifted
it, what will follow?" asked Dr. Miles.
Legal redress" replied the presi-
dent. las well as personal work among
the women"
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The Vitality of snaiIs.

The snail is blessed with great pow
ers of vitality. A case is recorded of an
Egyptian desert snail which came to
life upon being immersed in warm
water after having passed four years
glued to card in the English museum.
Some species in the collection of GER
tain naturalist, revived after they had
apparently been dead for Is years; and
snails, having been frozen for weeks in
solid blocks of ice, have recovered upon
being thawed out. The eggs are as hard
to destroy as the snail itself. They
seem perfectly Indifferent to freezing,
and have been known to prove produc-
tive after having been shriveled up in
an oven to the semblance of grains of
sand
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as 174O, and three other stone build
ings, one of which was the church still
standing. The church was surrounded
by an earthwork by Sir William John
son in 1856.
This was a fertilization of consider
able pretensions both as to size and i'm
pregnability against the arms of those
days. The other two buildings farther
east were probably similar in their con-
struction. Into these the inhabitants
fed and found refuge when attacked,
or before expected attacks by their
foes. Such course was followed in
1857, and the lives of many of the in
habitants We're thereby saved, to wit
ness the burning of some of their dwell
ings and their mills. The French COM
mander showed discretion in not at
lacking the fort
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unable to go to Ithica on the day of
graduation.
How proud they felt of their hand
some, brilliant son as they rode up
Main street. and then up Delaware av-
enue to their residence.
As they sat out under the trees on the
lawn in the moonlight that evening Mr..
Barnes questioned his son as to his
plans for spending the summer.
-Four of US are going on a boating
trip up in Maine; we have planned to
start On the second of July-neXt Tues
day"
We are glad to have you with US,
even for so short time, l suppose you
will tire of sport and be ready to come
back to us in August or early il Sep
TENDER, eh p
Yes, it seems good to get home after
four years of hard work"
After that night George was invari-
ably out until late at his club or visiting
with his old friends, SO that the fam
lily did not meet after dinner until
breakfast at tea the next morning.
One morning Mr. Barnes noticed
George was nervous, and there were
dark lines about his eyes. He forgot
this. however. in the hustle of his de-
parture which followed so soon.
One day few weeks later he received
a bill of four dollars for carriage hire
for George, which his son had evident
ly overlooked
He was about to write out a check in
settlement when he noticed the state
ment read between "Main street. No.
4. and 1881 Delaware avenue" The
latter was Mr.. Barnes residence. The
distance was less than a mile, and the
father. always frugal and careful him
self. began to consider the charge eX-
orbitant. So, that afternoon. when he
rode out, he ordered the driver to stop
at the carriage company's office at -
Main street.
II have a bill from you. The charge
is four dollars between" and he
named the points. THE charge is too
heavy"
Just a moment; the man is here"
From him he learned that Mr.. Barnes.
.Jr., called him and gave his order. He
was in an intoxicated condition and the
man had considerable trouble with
him. being obliged to assist him to bis
room at home.
Here's your money, but don't be-
lieve your story And the father de-
parted, considerably troubled in mind.
He said nothing of this to his wife,
and as time passed t,lt less inclined to
credit it.
At last young Barnes came home
from his outing. His face was burnt,
and he seemed greatly improved phys.
icaly.
Mr.. Barnes Gid not, however. like the
restless eye and nervous hand, and I'M
consciously became watchful Of his
sons movements.
His open dissipation during the next
week could aot but attract attention,
and TIE sorrowing parents saw the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-16
An Honest King.

Whoever reads the following must
own to feeling of respect for an honest
king. Frederick VI. of Denmark, while
travelling through Jutland, one day en-
tered village school and found the
children lively and intelligent and quite
ready to answering his questions.
swell, youngsters" he said, what are
the names of the greatest kings of Den
mark" With one accord they cried
out; "Canute the Great, Waldemar
and Christian "" Just then little
girl, to whom the schoolmaster had
whispered something stood up and
raised her hand. do you know an
other?" asked the king. Yes" she re-
piled, Frederick VI" What great
act did he PERFORM" The girl hung
her head and stammered out: 81 don't
know" "Be comforted. my child" said
the king, cheerily. Il don't know
either. "-Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-16

1t has hitherto been supposed that in
Egypt the practice Of embalming the
bodies of the dead and forming them
into mummies was the most ancient
method of sepulture; but Prof. Film
ders Petrie, the well-known Egyptolo-
gist, has, by recent excavations, thrown
quite new light upon this question
of the ancient method of disposing of
the dead. AZ Deshasheh, place about
so miles south of Cairo, he has discov-
cred series of tombs in the coffins Of
which he has found complete skeletons
from which the flesh has been carefully
dissected, evidently previous to burial.
The collins are of admirable workman.
ship, are made of sycamore and are in
perfect preservation, notwithstanding
their $500 years burial in the sand,
1t remains to be proved by further ext
cavations whether the mutilation OF
the bodies was performed as cere.
monial rite or whether this removal OF
flesh from the bones points to cannibal,
ism on the part of the ancient people.
Chambers journal.
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1t was very smart carriage and pair
and when it stopped near the cab rank
the driver of an ancient growler was SC
interested he got down and went across
TO get closer look at its glores. To
him the coachman said sharply: Come,
Ivy man, take your rags out of that!'
The cabby turned, and, with wither.
ing glance at the coachman's livery, re.
ltorled; "Me rags? Me rags. They're
me own, al any rate, my man!"-Lon.
don Answers,
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Acquitted "A Dead Man.

In certain RIGHTEOUSNESS of Judi.
cial procedure the Germans seem ID
come very near the Chinese. In 1891
a high-class schoolmaster, Herr Englep
was condemned by the criminal cour.
of Offenburg for an act of immortality
A short time ago he died insane, and {
careful postmortem was made of hi,
brain. The physicians reported that hi
was undoubtedly not responsible fol-
his act at the time his o1fense was
committed and the court has retired the
case and acquitted him.--LondoI
Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-16
EDWARD BENTON COE.
The Probable Successor of DIR. \
othy Dwight as President o
Yale University.

Rev. Edward Benton Coe, who p3
tically has been chosen to succeed II
othy Dwight as president of Yale u
versitx. is an old Eli man, and for
years has been at work in the II
istry as senior pastor of the colleg
church. He was born in Milford, Com. :,
in 1912 and is a descendant of old RIB
ert Coe, who came from Suffolk in 1894.
This distaff side of his family is Dutch
and as ancient as the paternal branch.
DR. Coe was graduated from Yale In
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-16

If any saloon keeper would dare tc
give a horse liquor and make the ami
NAL reel and unfit him for labor such a
saloon keeper would suffer at the hands
of every person to whom such conduct
became known: but what does the pub
lie do when he perpetrates such mis-
chief to a man, also known as an Amer
lean citizen ?-The Editor
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Two % n Kind,

Husband lat the breakfast table,
Oh, for some of the Biscuits my mother
used to make!
Wife (sweetly)-I'm sorry you
haven't got them, dear, They would
be just about stale enough by this time
to go well with that remark. Chicago
Evening News.
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The Fall of n Hero.

Piper Findlater, the hero of ''Dargai
Ridge" who has been appearing in Lon
don music halls with his Victoria cross,
has been offered $50 for tie decoration
by a Birmingham firm, with the advice
to get rid of it at these terms and thus
rave himself and the order further
degradation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-16
Chinese Grnuse NYnnteh.

United States Consul-General John
Goodnow, of Shanghai, is overwhelmed
by letters from American sportsme4
asking him to introduce Chinese grouse
into this country.-E. Y. Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-01-17
FATHER CnINCIQUAY DEAD.
Famous the World Over for Remuneration oi
Roman Catholic Religion.

Montreal, Jan. 16.-Father Chinciquy
died. this morning. He died in the Prot
estant faith.
Charles Chnciquy. the Apostle of
Temperance was born in kamouraska
Que. July 80. 1909. He was ordained to
the priesthood in 1898. In 1851. he visited
Illinois and in the following year the viii
lage of St. Anne was founded Father
Chinciquy and his superior. Bishop Ore
gan. became involved in long-drawn dis
putes. leading to legal action. in which
the former was defended by Abraham
Lincoln. The quarrel was also carried to
Rome and laid before the Pope.
In 1858 the entire village of st. Anne,
with the exception Of Is families, with
drew from the Roman Catholic church
and the dissenters later decided to be-
come members of the Presbyterian
church. On April Is. 1860, the Presbytery
of Chicago adjourned its meeting from
Chicago to St. Anne. where Father Chin
ciquy presented the names of nearly 1000
converts who were received into full
communion.
Father Chinciquy then embarked upon
a career which made him known around
the world. In 1878 he visited the Western
states and afterwards spent two years
lecturing in Australia and the Antipodes
In his lecturing tours he experienced
many exciting incidents and narrow es-
capes. For Is years he was kept a pris-
Oner under bail as a criminal.