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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05
A Great Writer'S Warning.

The heartrending cry OF Charles Lamb,
one Of the most brilliant writers OF his day,
should ring in every young mans ears as
warning against the first glass OF any in
toxicant. He wrote:
"The waters have gone over me, but out
Of the black depths, could I be heard,
would cry out to all those who have not set
q foot in the perilous hood. Gould the
youth to whom the flavor OF the frst wine
Is as delicious as the opening scenes of life,
or the entering upon some newly discov-
cred paradise, look into my desolation and
be made to understand what dreary
thing it is when he shall feel himself going
down precipice with open eyes and pas
sive wlll--to see all godliness emptied out
OF him, and yet not be able to forget the
time 1t was otherwise-to hear about the
piteous spectacle of his own ruin; could he
see my feverish eye, feverish with last
last nights drinking, and feverish looking
for to-night's repetition of the folly; could
he but feel the body o: death out OF which
cry hourly with feebler outcry to be de-
livered, 1t were enough to make him dash
the sparkling beverage to the EARTH In all
the pride OF its mantling temptation"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05
THE GREAT DESTROYER.
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT!
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

riie Man Who Tipped and Tippled-Great
Harm is Done by the Moderate Drink
ers-They Set the Worst Examples
Influences That Drag Men Down.
He tipped the man who took his hat.
The man who took his cane,
Tho chambermaid, the bell.boy and
The porter on the train.
He tipped his hat to all the girls.
Aud tipped to oil the men;
He tipped the beam Mt two fifteen,
Till tippin' made him thin.
He gave n friend n "iead-sure tip"
Aud when that lost the race,
His friend let fly another tip
Which found stopping place.
And then he took to .ipplng,
Was tipsy night and day;
Fl tippled right and left until
His money passed away.
And now he drives an ash-cart.
And when he makes trip,
He empties out the load SO as
To give the cart tip.
w. B. Dunlevy, in the Criterion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05
The New Dialect.

Anything new, Scratchard?" in
quired the publisher, as he toyed with
his diamond studded seal.
"Yes," said the author, eagerly, as
he drew bulky wad of manuscript
fro n much soiled newspaper "I've
got an original story here that is sim.
ply g, eat
whats great about it?"
"The dialect. It's all Boer."
The publisher slightly started.
'That seems like good thing" he
said "Let's hear little of it,
The author moistened his lips, un-
folded the manuscript. and began:
"'The bronzed young Uitlander
paused beside the spruit, which was
now little more than dusty SLUT. He
had come through the krantz, and over
the mex, and along the poort, and past
the kopie, aud straight across the level
veldt, and he was tired Raising his
bottle of dop to his lips he was disar-
pointed 30 find it was empty. He filled
the flask at the fontein, in the kloof,
close to the drift, and, moistening a
little biltong, ate eagerly. ''I wish
had some mealies," he muttered,
''but I can't expect it until reach
the next kraal. Even then doubt
the wisdom of showing myself I feel
pretty sure that the zarps wee put on
my track as soon as the voorlooper
recognized me. -"
The great publisher waved his
hand.
"Splendid!" he cried. chats
just what we've been looking for.
Well have it on the bookstanls in ten
days. Can you fill sequel with some
more OF the same rot?"
And the happy author said he
thought he could. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05
JOHNNY VISITING IN THE CITY.

JOHNNY VISITING IN THE CITY.
wished at lived here. where thing
Are all set at the door,
And where you see so many sights
You never saw before;
I'd like to ride in nice, warm cars
That whiz along the street,
Instead of in a bobsled, where
You nearly freeze your feet.
They never have no wood to chop,
Nor COWS nor sheep to tend;
They never have to carry slop
10 where the pigs are penned;
They never carry water from
A we'll that's far away.
Nor every night and morning feed
The stock "A ton OF hay.
They never have no cows to milk,
Nor other chores to do.
And every time they turn around
They look at something new;
There's always lots that's going on,
The streets are never still
/ wish that Cousin Will was me,
And ! was Cousin Will!
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05

WILLIE VISITING IN THE COUNTRY.
I wish at 1 could live out here
Where there are hills to CLIMB,
And where boy can slide down hKe
A flash, in winter time;
Where they are drifts to tumble IN
And ponds to skate upon
wish my Cousin John WAS me
And was Cousin John.
I'd like to have colt to ride
And lambs n things to pet.
With apples in the cellar, and
Drink milk that's steamin' yet;
I'd like to live where l could whoop
Around with all my might
And never have to be afraid
A cop would come in sight.
It's jolly sitting In the sled
When uncle drives to town,
And let's the horses walk up hill
And makes them gallop d)wn!
It's jolly getting out behind,
Sometimes, and hanging on
l wish my Cousin John WAS me
And l was Cousin John
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05
The Crusade in Brief.

South Carolina has ordered its illegal
'beer dispensaries" closed.
Taking drop and taking a tumble are
not synonymous, but one may lead to the
other.
For several years forty-seven per cent,
OF the prison committals In Ireland con
sisted OF drunkards.
There are 2750 juvenile temperance So
cieties in the primary schools of Belgium,
more than half of all these schools In the
country containing such societies.
"From my native town seventeen men
went to Manila; one came home corpse
and sixteen came home drunkards," This
is the statement OF an Illinois man.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05
Sermon to Moderate Drinkers.


The understanding that the Rev. DR..
Charles Herr, pastor OF the First Presby-
terian Church In Emory street, Jersey City,
would make some allusion in Il recent SER
mon to the Jersey City Clubs cafe attracted
large attendance to the church. He had
charged the cafe with being largely re-
sponsible for the death OF William j. Nc
llroy. The charge was made while DR..
Herr was conducting Mr.. McIlroy's funeral,
In the presence OF n number of club mem
bers. Prominent members Of the club de-
nounced DR.. Herr's statements AS un-
founded and In exceedingly bad taste, and
1t was expected that DR.. Herr would make
some reply. He made no direct attack on
the club or cafe, but preached temper
nnce sermon, In which he condemned the
practice OF moderate drinking.
"When 1t was believed" said he, 'that
alcohol was food, that when taken In rea-
sonable quantities 1t aided digestion and
did good, temperance might properly be
understood rs the use OF 1t in moderation.
Now that scientific investigation has shown
that alcohol is II drug like strychnine and
has the same effect, temperance can only
mean total abstinence. Inasmuch us physi-
clans and scientists agree IN declaring that
alcohol Is injurious to the human system,
except it be in minute medicinal doses and
Tor specific purposes, there Is no alterna-
tive for Christian man. He must accept
as Il rule OF his life the duty OF absolute alb
stinence from it. The church appeals on
the ground that the body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost. Whatever Is injurious to
the body impairs the mental activity, in
jures the physical strength and Is sin.
"Who are they that sustain the fine
grocery. the gllded saloon, the sumptuous
cafe? Not the poor or the humble or those
addicted TO inebriation, but the respecta-
bility, wealtE, social position and talent Of
our country. Without them the traffic
would lose what 1t has gained. This is the
degree in which Christians, by the mod
erate use OF alcoholic stimulants, contri-
butte an impediment in the way of temper
ance reform, an obstacle in the path Of
heroic, self-sacrificing workers for the res
cue OF the lost. The church appeals on the
ground that the moderate drinking Gus
toms OF society are the influences that drag
men down. 1t isn't the inebriate, the
maudlin drunkard who induces anybody to
use liquor. The sight of his grovelllng
body and idiotic conduct alarms and dis
gusts. 1t is the moderate use of alcohol
as beverage under conditions OF respecta-
biltty that constitutes the temptation so
powerful with young men and brings for
ward ever fresh streams OF manhood to
plunge over the Niagara OF vice. New
York Sun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05
Ca..o,.Nine Tails For Drunkard..

South Carolina having abolished the sa.
loon and substituted the dispensary, she
now proposes to establish hospitals for
drunkards, where thirst will be treated as
u disease. II along with bromides and
tonics the cat-o'-nine tails should be pre-
scribed for inebriates who neglect or abuse
their wives and children, the innovation
would work wonderful cures. The one
danger Of dealing with drunkenness as o
disease is that It may be forgotten that
drunkenness is also u vice.-Philadelph phia
North American,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05
Liquor Drinking a Cause of Poverty.

Liquor drinking as cause OF poverty
was the subject discussed by the Rev. Mad
ison G. Peters at the special services held
in the Ninth Regiment Armory, New York
City, recently. DR.. Peters said that the
temperance question, not rs moral, So
cial or religious problem, but as n money
question, would at some time become the
burning question of the day. He quoted
statistics to show that the money spent
for liquor exceeded the amount necessary
for the maintenance Of the National Gov
ernment more than three times. All the
proposed labor legislation would not i'm
prove the condition Of the laboring classes
AS long as they expended wages in sup
porting the two hundred and thirty-five
thousand saloonkeepers OF the country.
Open mills and open mints would not do as
much In abolishing poverty as closed sa-
looms 1t had been stated by the late Jo-
seph Medill. who had closely studied the
question, that had the money spent by the
lnboring classes during the last ten years
for drink been expended for railroad stock
the wage.earners OF the country would
own every mile of railroad in the land,
while IL 1t had been invested in buildings
every working man would now be the own
er OF his own house.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-05

London's Crystal Palace Is to have new
glass roof.
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
Ir ONLY nallY NEWSPAPER IN ALAsAma
Vermont and Maine.

Vermont, Maine and Arkansas vote i'll September, but not one of them will be a straw to show which way the politi- cal winds are blowing; for there are not three more one-sided States in the Union.
 Arkansas will elect Jefferscn Davis Gov ernor by perhaps 5O,OOO plurality. Governor Jones had in 1898 plurality of 47,S3S. The Legislature to be chosen will re-elect Sen ator Berry, there being no opposition to his reelection since the withdrawal of Governor Jones from the race. The cleo ton occurs September 3.
 On September 4 Vermont will elect not only State officers, but two members of Congress and a Legislature that will elect the successor of Senator Ross. The State gave MT. Mckinley a plurality of 4o,49O in a total vote of 63,S44 and that result will substantially be repeated in the coming election Vermont is State that is way wardly steadfast
 The election in Maine occurs on Septem- Der 10, when State officers and Congress. AAth VIII pe tiecltu MI. NcNHiley 5 Ilh- Jority in 1896 was 46,OO0, and in the State election two months previous the Repub- hcans carried the State by 4s,OOO majority Maine is possible straw for if the Re publican vote falls below 40,0OO it will go to show that the tidal wave of 1896 is sub siding. Republican spellbinders are hurry Ing into the State, disturbed over some thing, and some interest Is taken, there fore, in the news that will come from Maine
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
SHORT ON LONG HOSE

From the St. Louis Post -Dispa tch.
 The American woman who visited Eng land this season found herself short on long stockings. The British damsel and dame are contented with stockings that are too short for Columbia's daughters. And the British manufacturer is so ungallant that he makes ladies' hose with no regard for shapely toes and heels Any sort of bag for the foot seems to satisfy him and his usual customers.
 In spite of the poetic fiction that women trip along so daintily that they almost glide, ladies' hose actually wear out in one season and have to be renewed. This be- ing so American women who visit Europe next year will take with them trunks well stocked with stockings of ample length and shapely form. They can thus be independent of the brutal British manufacturer.
 By this course they can also become mis- sionaries in a small way, as they will be able to show their British friends of the fair sex that even in the humble stocking, America has the world beneath her feet.
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
CURRENT STORY DENIED
Miss Sophia Neil Was Net the Wife of
 Bresci

Huntsville, August 23.-(SpeciaL)-Co N. F. Thompson, Secretary of the Hunts vile Chamber of Commerce is enabled to deny the story extensively circulated that the wife of Bresci, the slayer of King Humbert, was Miss Sophie Neil of Shell byville, Tenn. Colonel Thompson knew Sophie Neil when she lived at Shelbyville and before she eloped to New York with Tom Owens. Colonel Thompson says that Owens lived and died in New York city under an assumed nae, the Neil woman being accepted as his wife. The woman did not marry Bresci but lives in New York as the widow of Owens, under his assumed name. On recent visit to New York, Colonel Thompson saw her and spoke with her. She is employed in the general office of the Western Union Tele- graph Company and a son of Owens, now a young man, is a telegraph operator.
The age-herald., 1900-08-25

of Cuba, bag and baggage. leaving the Cubans clear sovereignty The Adminis- tratIons edict plainly looks to deal with thirty-one delegates and a proteetorate or something of that sort. The constitution to be adopted by the thirty-one is not to be submI,ted to the Cubans for rejection or adoption, but is to become supreme law as soon as 1t is passed by the thirtyone.
 Salvador Clsneros, once President of the Provisional Republic. in behalf of the best Cuhans in Cuba, protests. He repudiates the entire scheme. He asks that the prom ise of Congress be fulfilled But he asks ir vain Mark Hanna and the Thirty-One wi1 present a scheme that will render Cuba dependent territory that can still be exploited by new NeeIys and Rathbones. It may be that the island will be loaded up with the cost of the war of liberation, or it may be that the country will claim suzerain rights, especially in foreign re- lations and foreign wars; but whatever form it may take, it is certain it will be not independence, fair and square. Senor Cisneros is not deceived. He did not go to Washington misunderstanding the dangers that confront his people. He was deceived in the respect of thinking that he could snatch his fair island from the hands of the exploiters. He cannot do that Only the ~oople of the mainland in November can do that
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
Cuba's Protest at Washington.

No one expects Mark Hanna to let go of Cuba. He is simply playing politics. His convention of thirty-one delegates is re- pudiated before election by Senor Cisneros and other good and reputable Cubans. They know what the edict under which the elce- ton of September is to be held means, and they repudiate the scheme altogether.
 The very wording of the edict is enough to convict it's authors of insincerity and campaign scheming They did not desire to carry an unfuiflied pledge of independ- ence to the Cubans into the campaign. and so they called convention "to frame and adopt constitution for the people of Cuba, and as a part thereof provide for and agree with the Government of the United States upon the relations to exist between that Government and the Government of Cu- ba.''
 Congress said this country would get out
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
CORpUA MUST DIE
Lord Roberts Confirms the Sentence of
 Death

London, Aug. 24-A special dispatch from Pretoria, dated today, says General Lord Roberts has confirmed the sentence of dea tn imposed upon Lieutenant Cordua, formerly of the Staats Artillery, who was convicted of being righleader in the plot to abduct General Roberts and kill British officers.
 The following dispatch has been received at the war office from Lord Roberts,
 Pretoria, Aug. 23.-Bagden-Powell res- cued 100 British prisoners at Warm Baths August 2 and captured twenty-five Boers and German artillery officer.
 '.Buller's casualties August 21, were seven men killed and Captain Ellershaw and twenty-one wounded and five missing.
 "Kitchener, August 22 had eight casual ties
 While reconnoitering in the Komati Val ley, Rundle found 140 rounds of ammuni- ton buried.
 :The columns pursuing Dewet made won- derful marches. Colonel MacKinnon covered 224 miles in fourteen days"
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
Conger and the Administration.

The country was startled by the state ments sent out this week by the administra tion to the effect that Minister Conger had been superseded by General Chaffee, who is to act as the adminstrat tion's represen- tative until Mir Rockhill, special commits sioner, arrives in China, and he is already in Japan. It was stated that the lombard ment had given MT. Conger paresis or some other complaint, and that he must perforce be relieved
 This sudden and more than strange and more than unjust action sprang from no Request of MT Conger. With unfaltering courage he passed through the long seige, coming out of it with health, physical or mental, unimpaired But he was relieved from responsibility nevertheless, although he knows more about the affairs in China than dozen RockhiIls or Chaffees
 The reasons for this strange act are not hidden very deep. In the first place Mark Hanna wants MT. Conger to serve as a spellbinder at home in the tail end of his campaign, which he admitted at Asbury Park was in a languishing condition. Apathy alias overconfidence prevails, and MT. conger is one of the last cards that Mark proposes to play.
 But this use does not quite account for the injustice of the substitution of Chaffee and Roclshill. MT. Conger had been too frank too thoughtful. He had said to correspondent of the New York Herald: '"rhe whole movement is purely govern mental one The Boxers are only pretense, having no guns" This pricked the bag of no-war pretense which the administration has hugged because of a clause in a once potential document adopted in 17sS. It let all the wind out of that pretense. Minister Conger shows that the whole affair was war, neither more nor less. It was war from the beginning. We were fighting the Chi nese empire and the Chinese empire was fighting us. And that ancient docunient be- fore referred to, hitherto in force at least to some extent says: Congress shall have power to declare war" It does not say that President Mckinley or even Secretary Root shall have power to declare War, ana yer they did 1t.
 Minister Conger goes on to state that "the confidential adviser of the Empres was tke leader of the imperial troops" that stormed with shot and shell the legations. He con- victs the administration, in other words, of usurpation, and unwArranted action wholly and absolutely outside of the constitution. His "judgment' was therefore declared impaired by the seize, and General Chaffee and Special Commissioner Rockhill were put in his place.
The age-herald., 1900-08-25

Carlyle ar d the immortal Jane Welsh, the poor dear. dead Jean" of the philoso phers grief. Carlyle and this only sweet heart of his life. notwithstanding scandals to the contrary, were walking in the High street of Edinburgh. looking into the shops, which must have been poor enough as measured by the splendors of our show windows nowadays At one shop Carlyle almost sighed as he quoted the illustrious Greek:
 Lord, there are many things of which Diogenes hath no needr"
 Lord, there are many things which Diogenes can't get!' was Jane Welshs quick rejoinder.
 Hon. William Shaw, of Greensboro, is at the Morris He came to town yesterday to escort Mrs. Smaw, whose health is so un- satisfactory as to make advisable her re- moval to private inhrmary here, where she will remain for treatment Mrs. Smaw's ailment is nervous, and not alarm ing.
 Mir. Smaw was one of the ablest and most senstively conscientious legislators Alabama ever had, and is one of the tru- est and best men in the world. The best man who eyer knew him delighted most to honor him.
 The distinguished Dr. I. D. Morgan, of Eutaw, MT. Smaws cherished lifelong friend, came to town with him and Mrs. Shaw. Dr. Morgan says there is more ma- larial or intermittent fever in west Ala bama this summer than he ever before en- countered during his more than fifty years experience. the extraordinary epidemic be- ing due to the intense heat that followed the six weeks of rain that ceased July B. But fatal sickness is rare.
 W. J. Bass, of Chattanooga, who was several years ago a greatly esteemed resi- dent of Birmingham is at the Morris.
 Colonel Francis Gordon Caffey and Cor don Mcdonald, of Montgomery, are at the Morris.
 Senator-Elect Fred BIackmon, of Annis- ton, is in town.
 Dr. E. T. Parker and J. H. Loveace, of Brewton, are at the Morris.
 Robert F. Gould, of St. Louis, "one of der bes' men on der road" is at the Nor ris.
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News. :,
 The divorce judge speaks the parting word.
 The man who has but one shirt is short on change. tf
 The demand for good advice Is not seuaI to the supply.
 Loud laughter Is always low but low laughter is never loud. Az Tormenting a child in fun is tine worst possible form of joke. .&a"Y About all some men are willing to do fsf a living is to breathe regularly.
 The man who indulges in too many esse- openers is blind to his own interests.
 A long-suffering wife says her husbands income is anywhere between 1 and a. m.
 Tell the truth and let others say what they will. You are responsible for but one tongue. O Is the most charitable letter in the ale phabet; it is found oftener than any other in doing good.
 When a married woman goes forth to look after her rights, her husband usually stays at home and nurses his wrongs.
 When there Is an office for each seeker the millennium will be in sight, and it will not be necessary to wait for the lion and lamb to lie down together.
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
THE BACK TAX LAW
From the Anniston Hot Blast.

From the Anniston Hot Blast
 A great many of the papers of the State are speaking out against the iniquitous baek-tax law, since the Advertiser sounded the note of warning and urged it's repeal. The Hot Blast has had a good many com- pliments passed on 1t in coming out boldly and advocating its repeal The Mobile Her ald is equally explicit. There are many oth- CT papers in the State yet to hear from, and we have not the least doubt but that many more will fall into line and call on their representatives to vote for the repeal of this law, which is a stench in the nostrils of an honest people.
The age-herald., 1900-08-25
THE CENSUS FIGURES
Population of Rochester, Indianapolis
 and St. Louis

Washington, August 24.-The population of Rochester, N. Y., was made public to- day by the Census Bureau. It is 162, 435 an increase of 2S,539 since 1890.
 The population of Indianapolis, Ind, as just made public by the Census Bureau is 169, ,164 an increase of 63,72S since 1890.
 Washington, August 2.-The population of St. Louis, according to the count of the twelfth census, just completed is 575, ,23S.
 In 1890 the population of St. Louis was 451, ,77O. The increase during the past ten years was 123, 46S, or 27.33 per cent.