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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-25

was captured at Chickamauga Sep
TENDER 10, 1863 he said. We were
taken first to the Pemberton prison.
near Libby, in Richmond, Va. On the
18th of November train load of pris-
oners-say about 7OO-were trans
ferred to Danville and quartered for
the night in a tobacco warehouse near
the river.
1--WE had not been well fed while
in Richmond. Little food was given
US the morning of the 18th, and none
at all on the night of the 18th, and
none on the 14th. We were two days
without food and nearly starved. On
Saturday, the 14th, a young man of
company C, Thirtieth Indiana, offered
through the gate. The men were des-
perate enough for anything, but 1
went to the man of the Thirtieth,
who was not more than 20 years old,
and urged him not to be rash, as there
was better way.
81 took him into a stockaded or
high-fenced Enclosure leading down
toward the river and showed him
where it was possible to tear away
some heavy boards and escape that
way. That night there was heavy
rain and it was very dark. The
guards were only few feet from US
as we went into he Enclosure, but
they had turned their capes up over
their heads to protect them from the
cold rain and were not very alert
My friend of the Thirtieth had a ra-
Zor-blade knife, and, crouching in the
dark near the fence, he cut and cut
until a part of one of the heavy
boards could be pushed outward.
"'After the board was READY to be
broken off we both went back to the
main floor of the prison, hoping that
rations would be issued before taps.
told two or three of my friends
about the scheme, and the Thirtieth
Indiana man told several of his
friends. There was to be no signal
no general movement, but the men
were to slip out one by one quietly
and each was to act on his own re-
sponsibility. In five minutes l missed
my friend and went hurriedly to the
Enclosure. 1 saw his coattail disap-
pearing through the fence Watching
the guard until he turned his face
away from the fence, l went through.
4 came out in a cabbage patch,
and my first movement was to tear
off head of cabbage and eat it. This
was the first food / had had in 4s
hours, ana it was delicious. Then /
made my way in the dark along the
river bank, and when about so yards
away l heard the sentinels call out:
"Eight-thirty o'clock and all's we'll"
] hid in the brush and on Sunday
morning came across the orderly SER
geant of company A, Nineteenth regu-
lars, and the sergeant major of the
Eighteenth regulars, Second battal-
ion. They told me that 65 men bad
passed through the opening made by
myself and the Thirtieth Indiana
man.
1.-The opening was not discovered
until Sunday morning, when there
was great commotion in the prison,
and forces were sent in every direc-
ton to recapture us. Twenty men
who stopped in the night to cut loose
a ferry boat to cross the Dan river
were captured just before daylight
Sunday morning. I was with them
until heard the ROSTERS in a neigh
boring barn crow, when / left them.
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RehectIOns of n BncheIOr.

The less a girl bushes the more she
tans.
acts of men You never would suspect
are not only married, but in love.
II is a funny thing, but there is some
thing about being too fat that makes
a man more apt to tell the truth and
treat his wife well.
There seems to be as much differ
ence between calling woman an old
maid and bachelor girl as there is be-
tween calling her a duck and an old
hen.-N. Y. Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-25

Compound, and now, thanks to your
medicine, am a well woman l can
not praise your medicine too highly
for L know it will do all, and even
more, than it is recommended to do
l tell every suffering woman about
your Vegetable Compound, and urge
them to try it and see for themselves
what it will do" -MRs. MARY A.
HIPLE, No Manchester. Ind.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-25

female trou b i e,
also liver, stomach,
kidney, and blad-
der trouble.
l tried several doc
tors, also quite a
number of patent
medicines, and had
despaired of ever
getting well. At
last l concluded to
try Lydia E. Pink
h a m S Vegetable
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-25

leucorrhoea, falling of the womb, and
kidney trouble. l also had pain
when standing or walking, and some
times there seemed to be balls of fire
in front of me, so that l could not see
for about twenty minutes. Felt as
tired in the morning when 1 got up
as if had had no sleep for two weeks.
Had fainting spells, was down-hearted,
and would cry Mrs. BERTHA OFER,
Second and Clayton Sts., Chester Pa.
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I cannot,
find language to express the terrible,
suffering l have had to endure. had
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piled, the patient seldom
in
contained
E.
table Compound is the only especially
wrnarve
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Pleasantly Locating the Distress.

did YOU have any trouble with your
French in Paris. Mrs Riffraff?"
No; we didn't have any trouble at all;
but the people who tried to talk with us
seemed to have an awful time. "-1ndianapo-
lis Journal
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tona CnyBan
on
VVVVV mission LYDIA E.
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The correct spelling of the name of the
Chinese capital is largely matter of in
difference The Peek In" joke is no worse
and not better than the "Peeking" joke
Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-25

Harrow school, in England, was
founded in 1871 by John Lyon, q yeo-
man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-25

Halls Catarrh Cure
IS a Constitutional Cure. Price, 75c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-25

Carriers Ink Is the
best ink that can be made. Ii costs you no
more than, poor stuff not fit to write with.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-03-02
BERMUDA LILIES.
experiments With Them Conducted
by the Department of Agricul-
ture i'm the South,

An interesting experiment is now
being conducted by the United States
department of agriculture in South
Carolina and in the southern states
with the Bermuda lily so popular at
Easter as gift and for decorative pur-
poses. Bulbs have been distributed
freely in every section of Louisiana and
South Carolina with view to ascer-
tanning if the Bermuda lily will bear
transplanting to this soil. An expert.
ment made in the Rally experimental
station in South Carolina was attended
with the most satisfactory results, and
if the same luck follows the general ex-
pertinent the home markets can be sup
piled with the native grown product.
The supply in the Bermudas is still un-
limited, but the stock has so deter
ioriated as to cause general complaint
from the receiving florists in this coun-
try, and this resulted in the action of
the department of agriculture. AS q
corrective method the british govern.
ment has established an experimental
station in Bermuda to educate the ma
tives in the more successful growth OF
this, one of their principal industries.
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clothes hung. On. either side These
chambers are lined with steam coils COW
cred with asbestos, which keep the
clothes at moderate, perfectly dry and
even temperature. .s-,. ....
Now comes the mangle or the plain
ironer or the fancy ironer, and here the
wisdom of having sorted the clothing
in advance when the starch was still
in it becomes apparent; for process
of sorting at this stage with al. the
crumpled-up wares in the drying cham
Der would be most laborious task.
The mangles are used for plain ironing;
they are of different sizes, some of them
over a story in height. and resembling
in many ways a great printing pzc:s
over series of steam-hcated rollers, il
and out and over again, until it i:
caught up at the further end, and neat
~ folded in the shape desired. Like the
press in a printing Office, the mangle is
the largest and most expensive piece
OF furniture in laundry, costing some
times thousands of dollars. Smaller
mangles arc used for smaller pieces,
though sometimes these are fed dozens
at time into large machine.
Starched goods go from the drying
room to the starcher. This is simple
machine, which takes one piece at a
time, floods it with starchy fluid, and
then presses it down with a fine gloss.
In the finest steam laundries hand work
is used in addition. From the starcher,
the shirt or collar goes to the ironer,
the moistener, the collar turner: the
button-hoie opener, and sometimes to
several other machines, which put the
finishing touches on the finest work.
Then the marks on every piece are
again examined. sorted by number, and
on Saturday night you get your bundle.
never stopping to think of the many
perambulations your shirt and your
handkerchief have taken since you last
saw them.
OF course, we should add that only
few laundries are so deliberately fur
nished as the one described above. Laun-
dries throughout the United States fig
ure their business on the basis of the
number of shirts they turn out. Ten
thousand shirts is the maximum. The
great laundries in the vicinity of Bos-
ton do the largest business in the coun-
try. New York, San Francisco and Chi
cago have several large ones, but the
concentration of the industry in the
hands Of a few large firms has but just
begun. In this direction much has been
done within the last ten years by the
manufacture of wonderfully improved
laundry machinery. Troy, n. ", and
Boston, Mass, are the great centers,
and from them machines are now be-
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New Device for shop1ifter.

The latest and most ingenious device
of the female shoplifter is third arm.
Beware of the woman with three arms.
The three-armed woman wears a cape
or a shawl. She affects the demure hab-
it of holding her hands-two of them
clasped in front of her. The third arm
meanwhile is stirring about deity
among the counters and drawing any
detachable articles into voluminous
pocket in the skirt, or another in the
lining of the cape. The originator of
the device is Denver woman. The ex-
ira arm is of wax and it is the delicate
hand belonging to this arm that is
clasped in the right. The bona fide left
arm is hard at work behind the bogus
one. 1t behooves all .saleswomen to
watch for this active third arm.-N. Y.
journal.
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ing shipped almost every month to Eng
land and to the continent. One day
about three years ago Boston manu-
facturer told me that he had received
an order for a mangle to be shipped to
Pretoria, then an unknown village in
the Transvaal. I understand that since
then dozens of American laundry ma
chimes have been shipped to South
Africa, to southern Europe and even to
China.
In this connection one might men
ton the many profound problems
which the simple process of washing
clothes has developed. For instance,
the study of chemistry has aided great
ly in making combinations of starches,
and to-day the American laundry
starches also are sent to all quarters of
the globe. To some extent our laun-
dry soaps are also in foreign demand.
Just now the study of tlisinfectants is
occupying attention, and the board of
health in different parts of the country
are planning to force all laundry estab-
lishments to adopt safeguards against
the spread of disease through infected
linen. e. T. GUNDLACH.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-03-02
A MODERN LAUNDRY.
Conducted Like Any Other Great
Manufacturing Plant.
thousands Of DcllErs Invested In
Costly Machinery How SOiled
Clothes Are Disinfected,
Washed and IrOned.
Especial New York letter.

Especial New York letter.
ssNTO TICKEE, no washee," says
IN John chinaman.
The customer begins to
argue, but he of the pigtail never argues,
and the customer decides to call on his
best girl wearing soiled collar and no
cuffs at all.
mo tickee, no washee" is the sum
and substance of John Chinaman's
philosophy. 1t is the secret of his sue
cess in the laundry business. Consid-
cred from Caucasian point of view his
trade is of the simplest character.
Have you ever been on the inside of a
great American steam laundry, one
that turns out, say. 5000 or 10000 shirts
every week, one with monster mangles,
gigantic ironers, washers, belts, ma
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-03-02
stead of short one must ensue before

stead of a short one must ensue before
the confederacy could be established,
the notes were issued with the inscrip.
ton: six months after the ratifica-
ton of treaty of peace between the
confederate states and the United
States" and this wording was contin.
ued to the close of the war.
In 1861 and 1862 the paper money Of
the confederacy was maintained at
par. Gen. Hinton referred to those
days as days of comparative ease for
the soldiers and for their cause. But
in 1868, when Vicksburg surrendered
and Lee was defeated at Gettysburg,
the confederate money fell to 50 per
cent. of it's face value. At the close of
that year the money was held to be
worth As per cent. of its face value. In
the spring of 1864, when Grant mobil-
lied his army in Virginia, Sherman at
Chattanooga, and Sheridan in the valley
of Virginia, the value of confederate
money deprecated SO rapidly that it be-
came practically worthless. The union
armies encircled the confederacy with
walls of steel and fire, and the financial
world would give no recognition to con-
federate promises to pay.
Then it was that the confederate SOL
diers suffered many privations, while
their families at home suffered for the
necessities of life. The women and chill
dren lacked clothing and SHES, and
often were deprived Of food. No won-
der that the old soldier and stat esman
now says that the presidential success
sion is not worth another civil war. The
old scrap book referred to containing
samples of all issues of confederate
money, has companion in the last
check book used by the quartermaster
general of the confederacy. This book
was opened January 26. 1865, and dur
ing the few remaining days of January
the sum total of $347,217 was checked
out, for transportation of troops. The
stubs of the check book show every
transaction until the close of the war.
The largest check drawn was for $780,
| 900 in favor of the Richmond & Danville
Railroad company; but marginal note
shows that the company accepted $16,-
! 900 in coin in lieu of the 5000, 900 in con-
federate checks. TO such an extent
had the value of confederate money de-
preciated.
The total amount of paper money is.
! sued by the confederacy was 81, 500 ,000,-
900. That is an immense sum to con.
| template, and all of it became value.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-03-02
TALK WITH HUNTON.
Venerable Virginia Ex-Sena tor Tells
Some War Stories.
would Cheerfully Surrender the
Presidency to Avert Civil War
federnte Bills at n Tre-
mendous Discount.
Especial WASHINGTON letter.


II EX-SENATOR EPPA HUTTON, OF
H. Virginia, is one of the most en-
tertaining gentlemen that WIS.,
Its this capital city. He resides at War
renton, only four hours ride from here,
and every session of congress brings
him to Washington several times dur
ing the winter. Those who know him
we'll always seek his society because
they find not only entertainment, but
instruction or information in his ordi-
nary conversation.
II am the sole surviving member of
the electoral commission" said Gen.
Hunton this afternoon. "There were Is
of us, and one by one they have gone
hence while I have been permitted to
live thus long and enjoy good health
even until now, although l am almost
70 years old. The electoral commission
was created by congress in order that
there might be peaceful settlement of
the contest for the presidency, in Jan
uary, 1877.
whether that commission was con-
stitutional or not has always been a
mooted question. But that makes no
difference; the representatives of the
people agreed upon the commission,
and its conclusions were accepted. 1t is
singular fact that the learned judges
and lawmakers composing that COM
mission were swayed in their conclu-
sions by their partisan inclinations,
rather than by calm, cool Judgment.
Eight republican members of the COM
mission voted in favor of Hayes. and
seven democratic members voted in IA
vor of Tilden, on ali controverted
points, and Hayes was declared elected,
and he was inaugurated.
'The people of the entire country
were greatly excited, and there was
some danger that civil war might ensue.
I don't think the presidential success
sion is worth civil war. Neither poit-
ical party should ever stir up the peo-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-03-02
When Lawton Was Scared.

Many good stories about Gen. Lawton
have come to, the surface since his
death. Maj. Putnam Bradless Strong.
was on the staff of Gen. Macarthur in
the Philippines, says Lawton confessed
to being afraid once in his life. That
was when he was riding with his ~
year-old son, Manley, past Paco GEM
etery, at Manila. It seems that Mon
tana detail had just buried a comrade
when California burying detail came
up. Somehow they failed to get car
tridges and asked the Montanas for
some. The latter had nothing but ball
cartridges. "Oh, they'll d." said the
California sergeant. Ready, fire!'
came the order moment later. The
bullets went whizzing over the grave
and over the stone wall, on the other
side of which was Gen. Lawton, his
head only few inches below the wall.
The bullets made breeze as they went
past. "That was the only time I can
remember being scared" said the gen.
eral, later, ''but my boy spoke up and
said: Papa, is this like being under
real fire? If it is, I like it, Army
and Navy journal.
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L1FEBoAT SERVICE.
Some Particulars Which Show That
the Season of 1890 Was Not q
Very Hard One. r.

The year 1899, like it's predecessors,
was all unusually fine one, months
passing without any bad weather from
4 lifehoat point of view. The few
gales and storms, however, which &C.
Cured at intervals provided the Ele-
boats and their crews with a consider
able amount of work. What may be
considered as the heaviest gales Of
the year occurred on the 18th of JAM
uary, the 30th of September and the
LIST to I'd of November. During the
first of these gales II of the institu-
TONS boats were launched on serv-
ice, resulting in the saving of 80 lives
and three vessels, in addition to which
three persons were landed from dis
tressed vessels, and several fishing
boats were assisted. While the Sep
TENDER gale was raging, 10 lifeboats
were launched and saved 80 lives, be-
side which valuable assistance was
rendered to three vessels and to fish
ing boats. Some of the lifeboat men
reported that during these two gales
the wind and sea were the heaviest
they had ever experienced.
During the third gale there were 1G
launches and two assemblies of crews
As persons being saved and nine landed
from perilous positions. The long list
of gallant services by the ifeboa+s OF
the institution resulted in the rescue
OF 1914 lives, besides much valuable
property, 10 vessels having been saved
from total or partial loss. In add.
ton, the lifeboats landed GO persons,
some CT whom had taken refuge on
light vessels. and others coming ashore
as precautionary measure, their YES.
sells Icing in danger in stormy
weather.
Great assistance was also given in
very many cases to fishing boats re-
turning from the fleets or fishing
grounds, but unable to make har-
Dor without help from a lifeboat, ow.
ing to the badness of the weather.
During the year the lifeboats were
launched 1913 times on service. besides
which the crews were assembled on
81 other occasions, when it was
thought that their services might
probably be required. Rewards were
also granted by the institution for the
saving of los lives by shore boats or
other means during the year, bringing
up the total number of lives for the
saving of which the society granted
rewards in 1899 to COZ, and to 41.s35
since 1924. The cost of maintaining
the institutions fleets of 200 lifeboats
in thorough efficiency is increasingly
heavy, and the amount received in an.
nual subscriptions and accruing from
assured income is insufficient for the
purpose. Further financial help is
therefore much needed by the institu.
tion.-Glasgow Mail.
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less. Towards the close of the war
milk brought $40 quart in Richmond.
in confederate money. Lunch at res.
taurant cost $780, Coffee was five dol.
lars per cup, and it was not good coffee,
either. Gen. Hunton says that these
conditions were brought about not only
because the confederate money of law
full issue had deprecated, but because
that money was counterfeited, and
hundreds of thousands of counterfeit
confederate money flooded the south.
The confederate government was pow.
erless to stop this practice, because the
counterfeiting was done in the north.
Northern spectators bought cotton
with this counterfeit money. Inasmuch
as it only cost them the price of print
ing, they could afford to pay fabulous
prices for the cotton, and then the
money was circulated throughout the
south by its innocent holders.
1t is not generally known, but it is q
fact, that previous to the civil war this
government had mint at Dahlonega,
Ga, where gold to the amount of about
$|,Uou,ooO was mlnted; and most OF
the gold was taken from mines in that
vicinity. But when the war began the
mines were deserted, and they have
never since been operated. Because OF
the scarcity of gold within the boun.
diaries OF the confederscy, that govern.
ment was never able to estab lish mint.
and hence was obliged to depend upon
its issues of paper money.
All these interesting facts resulted
from the brief conversation with dear
old Gen. Hunton, who, in speaking of
the electoral commission, made earnest
ard feeling reference to the war be.
tween the states which has been APPLY
termed 1.-THE Irrepressib.e Conflict"
SMITH D. FRY.
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chimes, wheels and wheels within
wheels?
1t is indeed a wonderful establish
ment. The housewife who does her lit
tie washing and ironing, John China
man with his 'no-tickee-no-washee"
system, and all those who are accus-
toned to see an ordinary sized laundry
in operation can hardly appreciate this.
The engineer, the chemist, the ply
sician and other students of science
have cooperated to bring about COM
plicated system for the most eff
cient results in nothing more than
cleaning dirty clothes.
Let us step into one of the great
steam laundries and accompany one
or two articles as they pass from room
to room. There are not many of these
great laundries in the country, by the
way, but there is one in New, York
which occupies a six-story building
heated, lighted and ventilated like a
model factory.
On the first floor front is the office
with row of bookkeepers, bill clerks
and stenographers. We pass through
long corridor and enter the laundry
proper.
The first room is the one in
which the dirty linen is received. It
is thrown in like loads of coal from
a big window that leads to the alley.
And such loads of it! Bundles and bun
dies, shirts, collars. cuffs. bed sheets,
table linen and shirts again. Five girls
are employed day after day doing moth
ing but unpacking the bundles, mark
ing each piece with it's appropriate num-
Der in indelible ink, which is refreshed
every time it fades; sorting the stock
| and throwing it into huge baskets. All
the starched goods are then placed in
baskets by themselves; the fancy laun-
dry, ladies' waists and gowns, are an
other speciality, while large, plain
pieces are again sorted out from hand
kerchiefs, towels and similar parapher-
MALTA.
snake room there!" Two burly
young fellows are coming up. They
take hold of one of the baskets, drag it
over the floor and dump the entire con-
tents into a vault, the disinfecting
chamber. as it is called. Here all the