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The Republican., 1899-07-06
A GOOD SERMON.
Gut the OvercOniident Reporter
Made Mistake in Announcing
the Topics.

A well-known Milwaukee newspaper
man, the hero of the tale, was confront
ed one Sunday evening many years ago
with problem which the reporter fire.
4uently ncounters-namely, how to
get three half-hour assignments into
one hours time. To dispose of two
within that period was not difficult, but
when at nine o'clock the task of ''cov-
ering" a sermon delivered some Is min
utes before, presented itself, the prob
iem became more involved. The minis
ter could not be reached, nor could any
Of the congregation be located, conse-
quently he chose the one alternative
open. which was to take the subject an
nOunced in the morning paper and
build up notice from that. Whether or
not this was wise is immaterial; the
fact remains that he examined the files
on his return to the office, found that
Rev. Mr.. Smith would speak on Cam
bling" and set about to flake" his
story. Now, ordinarily-that is, per-
haps-a brief notice might be made
with some degree of safety with the
material at hand, but in this instance
the stock theme of gambling proved
too great a temptation to resist. With
laudable ambition to display his
versatility, the reporter started to con-
struct a sermon of his own, picturing
the evils of the vice under discussion in
a fearless fashion, and even employing
direct quotations to lend vividness to
his account. The story when com
pleted was a gem, and the newspaper
nan turned in his copy with Icon
ider-that-a-pretty-c ty-creditable-job air.
And now comes the pathos which this
tale involves. Rev. Mr.. Smith called at
the office on the following afternoon
and inquired for the man who had re-
ported his sermon of the evening before.
Accordingly, the reporter was sum
moned, and this is the conversation that
ensued:
80 you are the young man who
wrote up my sermon, are your
''Yes, sir" not without a slight mis-
giving; "was anything the matter
with it?'
mo, young man, it was an excellent
serman, excellent, and it expressed my
sentiments exactly. But" and he laid
disagreeable emphasis on the word,
but there was one objection. My last
evenings subject was 'Grumbling,' not
Gambling"
The remainder of the conversation
and the sequel to the incident are too
painful to detail. But to this day that
newspaper man never hears the word
gambling without an uncomfortable
start. And, as has been suggested, even
reporters sometimes make mistakes.-
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
A STRIKING CARTOON.
trate Which Is the Greater Evil
Deer, the Saloon or the Bandit

The current number of LIE Bien Social
has very striking double cartoon, and
beneath it is the question, Which of
the two is the greatest evidloer?' The
one part of the cartoon shows a bandit
who has seized traveller by the throat
and is pointing a dagger at his breast
and demanding 1.-THE purse or the life.'
The other part shows the interior of
tavern, three of the tipplers turned
round with terrified faces gazing at
a man who has fallen on the floor and
now lies full length on his back; the
landlord, who has been counting his
money behind the bar, looks with a
Mortified gaze at his PROSTATE Gus
toner, while the money he has been
counting drops on the floor; and from
the door leading to the house part of
the promises the landlady peers with
staring eyes, no doubt attracted to the
spot by the noise and cOmmotion con-
sequent on the man falling. Under
meath this part of the cartoon are the
words: alcoholism demands the purse
and the life" We have said that the
cartoon is a striking one, but is it not
also a true one? The victim of the high
way robber is generally able to pur-
chase his life with his money; the vic.
tim of the drink robber has to sacrifice
both money and ife.-National Advo-
The Republican., 1899-07-06
He LOST ALL.
Including That WinsOme But Change
able Creature, the Lovely
Birdy Jones,

1t was the first perfect day of the
glad springtime. The warm sun bright
ened the country landscape, and the
odor of opening apple blossoms came
upon the laden atmosphere. The lazy
clouds f1oated drearly in the sky over
head, chiefly because they could not go
afoot nor on the trolley cars. The rural
roads were smooth under the hammeS
of innumerabla wheels, and Clarence
Wheeler had stolen Birdy Jones from
her naughty Soho home for ramble on
his '97 tandem among the highways of
the townships. Stopping from their
run, they rested beneath a great oak
tree which overhung a Wayside spring.
Cowbells tinbled in the wood lot below
the meadow, and little lambs with wab-
bly, legs three sizes too big for them
gamboled on the short green grass. On
a broad, fiat stone that looked down
upon the crystal water Birdy spread
the lunch they had carried in the tan
dem box, and Clarence brought water
in a romantic tin can that he had found
hard by.
The soft winds toyed with the girls
bleached tresses, which streamed over
her face like photogravure picture of
thewest wind to illustrate Longfellow's
poems Her cheeks flushed with the
vigor of exercise and robust health, and
when the young man approached her
from the spring his whole thought was
centered upon the winsome beauty of
the divine creature. He sat down by
her side. His soul drank in the charm
of the picture. She looked up from the
can of potteG beef that she was open
ing, with smile of confident approval
on her young face. Suddenly her eye
kindled and the rosy flush of young
womanhood gave way to a ghastly pal
lor. Her lip curled in scorn. Her clas-
sic head was lifted in anger. "Merciful
heaven." shrieked the young man.
Tell me, dearest girl, what is the mat
ter?"
But she stopped back, and, striking
the attitude that she had learned at the
Soho Amateur Dramatic club, she
pointed her finger at him and said, in
tones that would wither load of hay:
"All is lost, Clarence Wheeler; YOU are
sitting in the pie!"-Pittsburgh Times.
The Republican., 1899-07-06

strange to say, the dog never offers any
resistance when caught, but follows
Helen home, to be tied to a post on the
side porch along, perhaps, with three
or four more of the same kind, which
she has in readiness for hunt" Helen
possesses three dogs of her own, for
which she entertains wonderful at
tachment; and the feeling is certainly
mutual between child and dogs. She
does not go in search of the small quad
ruped of the hare tribe as the Nimrod,
with a loaded gun, but takes only her
dogs. From the time she was three
years of age, and had a rabbit ''treed"
under little rustic bridge near her
home, she has at intervals during the
season trudged over hills and through
fields with a bevy of dogs in search of
rabbits. And she gets them, too
Should she be unsuccessful during one
of her jaunts her imagination is so
vivid that in her mind she has killed all
sorts of wild animals, which is as eX-
citing as a sure-enough rabbit. Helen
left her cradle with her imagination at
fever heat, and has never allowed it to
cool. 1t goes without saying that Helen
Is "tom-boy," but a very lovable one,
possessing strong convictions as to the
right, and adhering with astonishing
tenacity thereto. Her peculiarities,
combined with nobility of character,
make Helen very attractive little girl
The Republican., 1899-07-06

The weak but adoring mother re-
turned home with her mind at rest,
and the young man tried for time to
do better, but the habit was too strong
for him, and after a little, in spite of
all warning, the Occasional glass"
grew more and more frequent, till at
the end of the third year the once bril-
liant and promising boy, who was so
confident as to his future, not only
failed utterly in his examinations, but
was suspended from school, and went
BONE in disgrace!
Even then, so insidious is the growth
of this terrible habit, he would not
see his danger. Even then he insisted
that it was not fixed habit, but wenton,
alas! needless alike of the warnings of
friends and the pleadings of his wild
owed mother, until to-day, at less than
30 years of age, that young man is a
physical and mental wreck-his once
brilliant intellect cIouded and his fine
constitution undermined by late hours
and dissipation, his mother heart
broken and his prospects for life ru-
ined. And, strangest of all, to one
who has not seen this phase of that
terrible habit, he still insists that drink
has never hurt him, and that he can
stop it at any time God pity him and
all others who have fallen into the
clutches of the terrible demon of drink,
and may these pages from a life help
every boy who reads them to decide,
if he has not already done so, to take
Christ as his friend and guide through
life, and to abstain always and forever
from touching a drop of strong drink,
for nothing less than total abstinence is
safe. But do not trust your own fam
cied strength.
81 can do all things through Christ,
which strengtheneth me-" but with
out Me We can do nothing"
Temptations lose their power
When Thou art nigh!"
Alice Miller Weeks, in National Advo-
cate.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
A TEXAS RANGER.

the plains, and they could ride like the
devil, shoot to kill, riding or standing,
and endure any hardship. They feared
neither God, man nor devil, as has been
well said of them, and each had lot of
notches in the butt of either his carbine
or his revolver, generally in both, as
proof of the individuals they had killed
in the line of duty, each notch indicat-
ing a life taken. 1t was generally the
life of a man whom the community
could well spare. They thus marked
the passage to their last account of
horse thieves, smugglers, Indians or
bad men, who were the worst, as they
were the most cowardly and treacher-
GUS of the whole bunch.
'Of late years the rangers have
rather lost caste, and they have dwin-
died down to about so in ALL drawing
pav from the state. The country has
become so generally settled and the
tough element so well subdued that
there seems now no longer any place
for them in the police scheme of the
state. am not the only old Texan that
is sorry to see the rangers go, for, even
though they have of late lived rather
in the imagination of the people than
in fact, they We're SO thoroughly feared
by thieves and ruffians that their past
reputation has served to keep these peo-
pie on their good behavior. We all fear
that with the passing of this body there
may return frontier troubles, and per-
haps the old-time thievery and SNUG
Cling But l suppose the state officers
and legislators know best about the
matter, and we will have to accept their
dispersion whether or no. But one
thing l do know, and that is that the
women who have to live on the ranches
will regret the passing of the rangers.
They rarely had any use for them, but
when there was any trouble, and the
rangers were around, the women folks
knew they were safe. Many a woman
owes her life to the timely arrival at the
ranch of one or more of these members
of our frontier police. They've been
mighty good friends to the Texans, but
as they have outlived their day in help
Ing along the scheme of civilization
suppose they must go. They will be
nightly missed by the early settlers
of the state, these men who aided to de-
velop the big ranches, some of which
are bigger than the states up east here"
The Republican., 1899-07-06
Only Religious Daily Paper.

Canada lays claim to what is believed
to be the only religious daily paper in
the world. The Montreal Daily Wit
ness has been in existence more than 30
years, and in its pages no advertise
ments have ever been inserted of thea
ters, public houses, or tobacco manu-
facturers, nor is general printing ac-
cepted for these trades. No dramatic
criticisms ever appear, racing results
have no place, and prize fights never
find mention in its pages. There is no
Sunday edition. The price of the Wit
ness is a half penny, and it consists Of
12 to IA pages, the Saturday issue hav-
ing sometimes 80 pages.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
DeViIed Toast.

Use whole wheat or brown bread
which is at least one day old; cut in
thin slices and toast slowly until a
golden brown. Spread with butter, to
each tablespoonful of which has been
added one-quarter of teaspoonful of
dry mustard, one-quarter of a tea
spoonful of paprika and ten drops of
onion juice. Dust with little Par
mesan, and set in hot oven for three
minutes. If a sauce is desired, prepare
one cupful of cream sauce, using one
tablespoonful of butter, one table
spoonful of flour, one cupful of milk,
and a slight seasoning of salt and pep
per. Stir in one teaspoonful of beef
extract and pour it over the toast
Philadelphia Press.
The Republican., 1899-07-06

All sorts of fanciful open-fronted
jackets and basque-bodices are to pre-
vail this summe'' and the dainty sleeve
less blouse vests, tucked and lace-edged
pinafores and shirt waists provided to
wear with them cannot be counted.
Wash silks, silks in India and China
weaves. foulards, shepherds checks,
polka-dotted liberty silks and satins,
hair-striped and plaid tatfetas, surahs,
etc, are all so reasonable in price that
they are really more economical pur-
chase than the cottons and linens that
go weekly to the laundry. They are
cooler also, cling less in sultry weather,
are undeniably smarter, and are suit
able for more occasions than wash
waists, however tempting and pretty
in color or pattern.-N. Y. Postt.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
THE FRISMUTH KITE.

the silk bag is fastened. The circles in
the experimental kite are 12, IS and "a
inches in diameter, and the cones are
"a, 36 and AZ inches in length each, with
a two-inch outlet at the end. A little
protuberance at the bottom of the
outer bamboo hoop shows where a
small lump of lead ballast is attached.
The weight of the entire construction
is seven ounces. The kite at height of
1000 feet registered pull of 1G pounds.
1t seems to be an easy form of kite for
boys and amateurs to construct.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
RANGERS TO DISBAND
Famous Texas Force TO Be Legis-
lated Out OF Existence.
The Older People of the Lone Star
State Regret the Passing Away of
an Institution Inaugurated in
the Early Days.

eve are going to lose what has al
ways been to me the most characteris-
tic of the men of Texas if a bit of legis
lation now pending manages to pass"
said Frank B. Lamar, of Austin, in that
state.o THE proposition is up to do
away with the Texas state rangers,
body of rough and ready fellows, who
were a cross between the gentleman
cowboy, the policeman and the tough
man of the plains. AT one time there
was a bunch of these fellows who liked
the rough and careless lives they had to
lead. They were the most irregular of
regulars, but they were a very efficient
police force for the state, and they have
a record of very many good deeds per-
formed in the line of duty, as well as
one of some pretty rough fun.
They came into being just after the
war as a sort of mounted police for our
frontier, to guard the then sparsely
settled country from the 'greasers' who
came over from Mexico to steal cattle
or smuggle goods from one country to
the other. They hated greasers, In
dians and squaw men as his satanic
majesty is said to hate holy water, and
would rather kill one than eat a square
meal or kill a rattler. They had sort
of uniform, but the principal feature of
it was the saddle of their horses, and
whenever one had made good bit of
money it was a saddle that he first
thought of purchasing. Some of these
were gorgeous in the extreme, all COW
cred with silver ornaments and filigree
work of all sorts. Each of them carried
q navy revolver, carbine, a lasso and
blanket when he was on duty. Their
ponies were the tough little bronchos of
The Republican., 1899-07-06
How Hi. Ear, Must Tingle.

-.ne sultan of Turkey is most inquisi-
tive as to what is said and written
about him abroad. Every day transla-
tions are laid before him from the news
papers of the world, and these are all
closely perused. His majesty, by the
way, is bad hand at suffering. At one
time he wanted to have an aching tooth
removed, and dared not. Eight slaves
had molars drawn out in his presence
that he might have an opportunity Of
judging the extent of suffering entailed,
and finally the sultan decided that he
would rather bear the pain than under
go such an ordeal.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
Shirt Waist Puners.

Rufllettcs are the latest shirt waist
''puffers." a bright girl invented
them. and told another girl. and she
told some one else, and so it has come
to be a fad with everyone who knows
how to make them. The first shirt
waist puTer was made of some horrid,
stiff crinolige or other hard fabric, and
made the front of the waist pout out
too much With this new rufflette it is
a simple matter to make the most limp
and detected of silks or muslins stand
out in the proper way. Take a founda-
ton piece, and over that stitch three
rows of ruffles about long enough to run
across the breast from arm seam to
arm seam of your shirt front. With
two of the latest gold safety pins fasten
this to your under bodice securely, and
you have KS dainty a device as you
would care r. have for warm weather.
1t does away with padding and inner
Innings. Starch added to the ruflles
will make them stand out more firmly.
IN. Y. Hell aid.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
(! +
NN .-kS&1&
IN HIS OWN STRENGTH.
Sad, Untime1y End of a BOY Who
Spurned the Thought That He
Needed Christ's Strength,

"Oh, yes, religions all right for
some people, but 1 don't need it! I'm
strong enough to do what's right with
out being helped. OF course, for fel-
low that's weak, religions a good
thing, and for some people it's the only
thing that will keep them straight.
But you needn't worry about mel"
These words were spoken by young
man just at the outset of his college
career. A friend had suggested to him
his need of a strength beyond his own
to help him resist the many tempta-
tons incident to college life. The
friend sighed when he found his kind
Iy remonstrauce useless, and went
home with a sad heart.
Let US follow the young man for a
few years.
An exceptionally brilliant scholar, he
soon won the regard of the faculty,
while his social proclivities and un-
failing good nature made him favor
ite with his companions at school.
This was at first. AS the months
went by, the boy who didn't need help
began to find the freedom of college life
a different thing from the wholesome
rstraint of the life at home. He learned
easily, so his studies did not occupy
all his time, and he fell gradually into
the habit of going ''out with the other
fellows occasionally, and even drank
an occasional glass of wine.
He would have scorned the sug-
gestion that this could lead to anything
worse. He stood at the head of the
class in his studies, and little mild
dissipatioA of that sort wouldn't do
The Republican., 1899-07-06

Make a plain, thin pancake batter and
pour it into large buttered frying pan
SO hot that the batter begins to bake
Immediately. AS soon as it begins to
spread cover it with layer of stewed
pineapple, not too juicy, and sift pow
dcred sugar over. Set the pan in -.-,t
oven and let the pancake bake for eight
or ten minutes. When nicely Drowned
cut it into triangles and serve it hot.
This is guaranteed to be delicious
Housewife.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
Telephone Wire Thieves.

For some time past Parisians have
had occasion to complain of defects in
the telephone service. Blame was
officially thrown first on the influenza,
and subsequently on the disturbance
caused by tunneling for the Metro
politan, but third explanation is sug-
gested by the arrest of gang of men
who have been stealing telephone wires
for months. Their occupation gave
them access to sewers, and armed with
insulated nippers, they helped them
selves daily to as much copper wire as
they could carry away.
The Republican., 1899-07-06
BABY RABBIT HUNTER.
Little IllinOiI Girl Possesses All the
Instincts and Cunning OF Sure
Enough Trapper.

Salem, ILL.,, claims the youngest rabbit
hunter in the state; and a girl at that
Helen McAIacllin, 51a years old, says
Leslie's Weekly, is certainly prodigy.
To see her snugly nestled on the couch
in the library, looking intently at the
pictures in some book, one would never
imagine her either a hunter or a dog
fancier; she is both, and the champion
dog catcher Of the town. She can lasso
any strange canine with the dexterity
of a cowboy lassoing a Texas steer; and,
The Republican., 1899-07-06
NEW FORM OF KITE.
ff'Is Scientifically Useful and Can Be
Constructed Easily by Anna
teurs and Boys.

Scientific kite flying has made great
progress in recent years. The Youths 3
Companion has frequently noted the
achievements at the Blue Hill observa-
tory in Milton, Mass. Mr.. G. A. Fris-
muth, of Philadelphia, has borrowed an
idea from the balloon fly, or 'telltale." ="
used on ships to show the direction of
the wind, and has constructed kite
consisting of three cones, one within
the other. The mouth of each cone
consists of a bamboo circle, to which
The Republican., 1899-07-06
He HAD A REASON.
Why the Cautious Juror Didn't De-
ieVe in CircumstantiaI
Evidence.

A good story is being told about a
juror who was drawn for service in
the criminal court recently on a mur-
der case. He was one of those men who
was willing to do his part as a good cit
izen, but he had a prejudice against
circumstantial evidence which was so
strong he could not dispel it from his
mind, and it finally became necessary
to excuse him.
He answered the questions put to him
by the prosecuting attorney to qualify,
but when the attorney for the defend
ant got down to where he asked him if
he would convict a person on circum-
stantial evidence he hesitated
"Why do you hesitate?" asked the
judge.
''Well, I'll be frank with you," re-
piled the juror. Il don't believe in it,"
''If the evidence was so overwhelming
that there could be no doubt about the
guilt of the prisoner, wouldn't you vote
to convict?"
"No'
"Why?"
Judge, can I whisper to you?"
YES"
There was a three-minute CONVEX sa-
ton between the judge and the juror,
at the conclusion of which the judge
smiled, and then he said: Juror, you
are excused"
The attorneys did not forget the in
cident, and at the end of the days ses-
sion they asked the judge what the
trouble was with Mr.. -, naming the
juror who was excused.
The judge said the man told him he
was the owner of a farm in Cheektow-
aga, and among his live stock was a
handsome pet calf. One day while he
was out in the barnyard chopping at
a fence with an AK this calf made
break to get out of the yard. With the
AK still in his hand he ran after the
animal and caught him by the tail.
Just as he was dragging it back from
an opening in the fence a member of
the family happened along, and, see
ing him with the AK in his hand, con-
cluded he was suffering with an attack
of senile dementia, and in his fury was
trying to hack the poor beast into veal
outlets.
Judge, was perfectly rational, and
Iprotested I that l was attempting moth
ing of the kind" said the juror, 'but
appearances were against me, and to
this day l am unable to convince my
family that I was not crazy and was
not trying to murder that calf That's
the reason l am against circumstantial
evidence" ce."-Buffalo News.