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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
HOW TITLES ARE PLACED.
A Missouri River kerryman Explains Els
Methods.

~ MlSSOuri River ceffyman Explains T. IL
Methods.
It is rather difficult task to point
out the traits of manner and the ''ear-
marks which entitle man to be dis.
tinguished by such honorable appella.
tions as Judge" Colonel" "Cap-
tain," or one or the other titles be.
slowed in every community upon its
various citizeus. And sometimes the
reasons are not always complimentary
to the character OF the wearer.
A tenderfoot was standing watch
ing n ferrymau on the Missouri river,
which was not very wide at that par
ticular point, so that he had frequent
opportunities to converse with the
ferryman as he went back and forth
with his load. AT one of the pauses
between loads the ferryinan lighted
his pipe and prepared to resume the
conversation interrupted by the last
trip.
II notice." observed the tender
foot, ''that you address each of your
male passengers either as captain, ;
colonel or general or some such
distinguished title. Now, is it a fact
that these gentlemen you have carried
over are all captains, colonels and sc
forth?"
Laws, no." replied the ferryman,
laughing heartily.
''Then, asked the tenderfoot, "how
do you come to give all these titles to
these people?"
well, you see," said the ferry
man. lin this country people are not
all alike. There's somethin' about
each of them that's different. Now,
q man OF q certain style we call cap
tain, then there's the style we cal,
colonel, and some's general See?"
His listener responded in the afirlna
tive, though the various marks were not
distinct enough in his mind to enable
him to ''brantr' the passengs srs. Just
then an individual wearing battered
silk hat of many years vintage and
arrayed III sleek Prince Albert coat.
hove in sight. One leg of his pants
was in his boot while the other leg
was badly torn. His shirt front was
despatched with tobacco Juice, his
eyes were bleare1. His nose fairly
blossomed.
"And what would you call him?"
asked the tenderfoot as the newcomer
approached.
''Oh, said the ferrymau; that's
easy. We'd call him Judge. New
York Sun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
Tua Tua: VIII 1t Cure Leprosy?

Two dozen specimens of the Vene.
znelan plant known as tua tua have
been sent from Washington to Hawaii
for the purpose of making test of its
alleged wonderful power as a cure for
leprosy. Tho plant will be tested at
the leprosy hospital there, where the
1913 lepers will afford every facility
for thorough trial. Surgeon d. A.
Carmichael, of the Marine Hospital,
has also sent half dozen bottles of
the liquid preparation to Molokai, and
this will be usel for immediate tests,
while the plants will be set out and
cultivated, with the purpose of pro-
vlding unlimited fresh material for
further use.
Wonderful stories are current in
Venezuela about the marvellous cura-
tive properties of tina tua when applied
to leprosy, and the Government ply
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
Fruit Salads.

1t is fancy of the hour to serve as
salads the pulp of various feshy
fruits, including apples, oran yes and
bananas, and in their season feshy
fruits like apri .ots or peaches and
cherries. These fruits are now mixed
with bleached lettuce or celery stalks,
cut in bits and mixed with mayon.
naise dressing. The combination is
peculiar, and the taste for these salads
must be cultivated. They are, how.
ever, wholesome additions to the din.
ner table at this season, when fruit
acids are demanded by health, and
they offer chance in salads. When
orange pulp is used, choose a subacid
and CRATE in little of the red yellow
peel to give piquancy. 1t is fash
ionable fancy to serve such salads in
chilled cases made of the fruit rind on
bed of bleached lettuce or celery
leaves. Chill the rinds of bright,
fresh looking bananas or of oranges
by leaving them, after emptying them
of the fruit pulp, in tin pail set in
cracked ice and salt for about one
hour. These chilled rinds are also
used to pack fruit ices in. When
served as mould for salads, part of
the rind is turned back to show il.
When usel as case for an ice the
piece of rind turned back to remove the
fruit pulp and packed in the ice in its
place is again turned into place and
tel down with a tiny No l ribbon,
and the fruit so prepared is kept in
tin freezer can or pail packed in ice
and salt until it is needed. Oranges
and bananas are the fruits generally
chosen to serve in this way.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

passes over the outer local track, de-
scending to the express tracks, which
are in the middle.
Electricity is to be the motive force
on the now proved and practical
"third-rail" plan. At frequent inter-
walls ventilating fues are to be con.
structed with powerful electric fans
to preserve circulation of air. Later
on a branch tunnel is to go under
East River and ramify through the
great Borough of Brooklyn. One OF
the most interesting and peculiar
parts of the underground system will
be where the East Side section will
go under the Harlem River. The
tracks will divide here and each will
go under the water in separate cast
iron cylinder fifteen feet in diameter.
The circular passageways will look
like gigantic water pipes and will keep
the water OF the river out quite as ef-
fectually as genuine water pipes keep
water in.
John b. Mcdonald, who has under
taken this multi-million dollar con-
tract and will be the directing head of
the great work, is native of Ireland.
He was born in County Cork fifty-six
years ago and came to this country
when he was fifteen years DID,.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

seen, the problem before the contract
OF is complex one and the various
portions of it must be met with vari-
GUS solutions.
The accompanying illustrations will
give precise notion of the relative
position of the tunnels to the streets
and rivers when completed. From the
City Hall. where the Underground"
will have its southern terminus in
great loop about the Postoffice, four
tracks will be laid directly under
Broadway, thus following the great
artery of business traffic north toward
the West Side suburb at Kings bridge,
while a branch from Ninety sixth
street will extend under the Harlem
River to the Bronx Park region. These
sections will thus be brought within
twenty or twenty-five minutes ride to
the City Hall by express train. The
two central tracks are to be devoted
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

but in this his majesty was not sue.
cessful, because the nuptial contract
expressly provides that the annuity
shall continue during Stephanie's life
time.
The tragic death of her first hus-
band, who was slain by disappointed
sweetheart of the beautiful Baroness
Vera, January 10, 1889, at an imperial
hunting lodge, near Vienna, caused
the retirement of Crown Princess Ste.
phanie for q time, but not beyond the
period CT mourning prescribed by the
house rules. When she appeared in
public again she evinced great dis
position for amusement in and out of
court circles. In this way she became
acquainted with Count Lonyay, IL
Hungarian nobleman of considerable
wealth. He is Protestant. circum-
stance which increased the dislike of
the Emperor of Austria of union
which meant the withdrawal of the
Grown Princess from court functions,
at which she has been the undispute1
ruler since the death Of Empress
Elizabeth of Austria in September,
1898, under the poniard of the anar-
chist Luchani, at Geneva, Switzerland.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

mel road will branch off at Ninety
sixth street and run across to the East
Side and under the Harlem River to
Bronx Park.
Still another branch road will start
from the main line at the Postoffice,
run under the East River and out into
the far suburbs of Brooklyn. The
main trunk line and the Bronx
division will cost $35, 900, 900 and will
be built at once. The Brooklyn branch
roads will follow in time. 1t is the
greatest engineering feat of the be-
ginning of the new century.
The method of building the new
line is interesting not only because of
These stations will be on either side
of the street, as in the case of the
present elevated stations, only passen-
gers will go downstairs instead of up
to take the trains. The passageways
leading down will be walled with white
enamel brick, and lighted by electricity
until il is almost as bright as day.
AT the Chamber street station, where
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
HotISehOld Hints

Gold frames may be cleaned by wip-
ing with cloth dipped in sweet oil.
If you have to iron silk, place
pie OF cheese cloth over it, and iron
on that.
Quaint little china-topped corks are
to be had tor use in bottle after it is
opened.
A piece of rare beefsteak LETT over
from breakfast makes and excellent
sandwich filling for the lunch basket
if sliced thin or chopped very fine and
seasoned with salt and pepper.
Knitting wool can be made fast
color by soaking it in strong SOU
tion of salt and water, taking it out
after few minutes immersion and
hanging to dry in the open air.
A novelty in the stove line is one
made OF tiles in the old Dutch fashion,
for gas. This is intended primarily
for tiled bath rooms, but is quite ar
tistic enough for any room with whose
color scheme it would harmonize.
If you do up your own shirt waists
you will Ind a shirt waist board
convenience. On such a board the
+ Neves may be ironed without leaving
Gre, it should be covered with
at lex thicknesses of flannel and
then w,.l white cotton.
In cookih 'es it is we'll to
remember that III, that grow I'M
der ground, such as >eets, potatoes,
onions and turnips, should be cooked
covered closely, while all green vege-
tables, like cabbages, should be I'M
covered to keep the odor good.
When your umbrella is wet stand it
with the handle down so that the
drippings may not rust the framework,
and when you are ready to put the
umbrella away carefully wipe the han
die, go over the silk part with soft,
dry cloth, and satisfy yourself that it
is quite dry.
1t is we'll worth remembering that
when brasses have been brightly pol
ished they may be brushed over with
little brass lacquer or shellac, that
may be procured at any paint shop
In this way the fine condition of the
ass may be preserved for some time,
thus obviating much laborious work.
A point too often lost sight of even
by experienced housckeepers is that
in using sour milk the proportion of
soda should be lessened as the acidity
of the milk increases. Newly soured
milk which is thick requires level
teaspoonful of soda to each pint of
milk, while thin and quite sour milk
needs but saltspoonful OF soda to
pint
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

Cut one half OF medium head ol
rabbage fine; heat two tablespoonfula
of vinegar in double boiler. Beat
two eggs, and add to them one half o
cup of cream and level teaspoon,
iul of butter. Add the mixture to the
boiling vinegar. Cook until it boils.
Season with one half of satspoon.
ful each of pepper and salt. Pour
over the cabbage and stand in a cool
place. One-half of cup of cream
whipped stiff and aided after it is
cold is great improvement.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
For a Good Cup of Tea.

ga perfect cup of tea can never be
made in tin teapot" says dem.
onstrator for tea house ''Scald the
earthen teapot the first thing you do.
Measure ont the tea, all half tea.
spoonful for each cup of boiling wa
ter. Have fresh water that has come
to boil for the first time. Put the
tea in a cloth strainer and pour on the
bubbling, boiling water. Cover close.
ly with a tea cosey, and let the tea
brew on the back of the range or at
the table from three to five minutes.
If the tea is to stand for some time
remove the strainer with the tea leaves,
else the fragrant aroma is wasted and
the tannin extracted.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
FOR THE HOUSEWIVES.


Stew an entire chicken ;use the white
meat for salad. Grind the remain
der fine, season with small teaspoon
full OF salt. four shakes of pepper. Q
tablespoonful of good sauce; add
slice of bread soaked in tepid water
and squeezed dry. Bind with beaten
egg aud tablespoonful of melted
butter. Shape like .croquettes. roll in
flour, egg and crumb and fry in deep
boiling fat. Drain and serve with
chicken gravy.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

the distance it traverses and the fact
that 1T runs beneath crowded city
streets, but because it will include in
one part or another of it's course al
most every form of underground
work. Although popularly known as
a tunnel, it will be constructed as q
tunnel proper through only small
portion OF it's extent, and for another
small distance it will be viaduct or
elevated structure. Throughout the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
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! New Yurk's undsrgrOund3
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i Rapid Transit Systsm i:
Greatest of City Tunnels. :
Observation-Disclosures

Three years from now New York IS
great underground rapid transit trunk
line will stand completed. From the
Postotfice at Broadway and Barclay
street New Yorker will go home to
dinner under Broadway, under Elm
street, under the Boulevard to Harlem
in fifteen minutes.
This will be the ''main line" of the
uew rapid system. But this is not all.
From the "main line" another tun-
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

greater part OF its course, however,
the new road will be built in an open
trench, which afterward d will be covered
over and will form a subway. Be-
tween City Hall Park and Kings
bridge and Bronx Park-the three
termini of the line-almost every form
of soil will be encountered. Sand
and silt, mud and water, coarse gravel
and solid rock must be removed.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

The Emperor, Stephanie 8 father
in-iaw. was not present, but his ma
jesty wired his congratulations. I'm
mediately after the ceremony the i'm !.
perial flag of Austria Hungary, which
has waved over the chateau, was
hauled town in token that the Grown
Princess had ceased to be member
of the house OF Hapsburg.
The question OF Stephanie's reten.
tion of the title of royal hiohness. to
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

During the United States btleship Kear
purely put the
The the
magnificent almost
world boadid the the ship threw Of chilled
steel from the rifles battery aegang $3.50 with
muzze foot At each discharge the four in the
double velocity OF
2100 the other aft
13hch
rifles of which are II broadsde
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

A curious test for deafness mas been
brought before the Paris Academy OF
Medicine by DR.. BONNER. On apply.
ing s tuning fork to the knee or other
part of the bouy structure, nothing is
heard by the sound ear, but the note
is distinctly audible to an ear in
which disease has begun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
Comprehensive

On tombstone in an old Now Eng,
land churchyard there is an epitaph
which never fails to bring smile to
the face of the reader:
''To the memory of Ann Sophia and
Julia Hattie, his two wives, this stone
is erected by the grateful widower,
James B. Rollins. They made homo
pleasant. Woman's journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

Of her father, King
Leopold Of Bel
GUM, was married
recently at Miramar
Castle, near Trieste,
to Count Elemer
Lonyay. By com.
mand of Emperor
Francis Joseph the
ceremony was strict.
~ private. It was
performed by the
court chaplain, Bis
hop Mayer, in pres.
ence of six wit
ueSSeS.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

which she was
bore, is still unan-
s W Q r Q d. Her
father endeavored
to stop the pay
ment of his daugh-
ter's 'appanage of
so, 900 an c s
($l0, ,000), which
was settled on her
at the time of her
marriage W i t h
Grown Prince Ru-
Iol~h ae A,,okr;o
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
A Need Well Met.

German scientists are advocating
that physicians take practical lessons
in cooking, in order that they shall
know the value of every kind of food
from a hygienio and medical stand.
point.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The Russian form of salutation is
brief, consisting OF the single word
'prascha, said to sound like sneeze.
The Otaheite islander will twist the
end of the departing guests rooe and
then solemnly shake his own hands
three times.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
showin~ ortbe House.

This is our library
"What love'y room. But where
are the books?"
''Oh, Harry hates to have people
come in when he's reading. so / make
him keep them in back room up
yairs.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

Sewers, gas and electric mains and
street car tracks must be moved into
new positions, and the work must go
on with as little interruption to street
traffic as possible. Thus, it will be
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
TRANSACTION FoUR-TRAcK TUNNEL UNDER BROADWAY.

to through express trains, the outer
ones to local traffic. Stations will
occur at about the same frequency as
those of the present elevated railroad.
The entrances will be at the level of
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

According to the Paris Gaulois, NJ.
Arboin, the newly elected deputy for
Troyes, is literally incapable of sit
ting in the F ench Cham ber, although
legally elected. He is so extremely
corpulent that none of the seats
allotted to the deputies is large enough
for him, and one will have to be espe,
cially made to measure.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
THE TUA TUA PLANT OF VENEZUELA, SAID
TO POSSESS WONDERFUL CURATIVE
PROPERTIES IN CASES OF IEpRosY.

sicians attach considerable Importance
to the evidence given them. 1t is
proposed also to test it in the island
OF Guam, that tiny spec of Pacific land
that came to us with our other Span.
ish war acquisitions.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

the four-track system OF express and
local tracks begins will be a commo-
dious aad well arranged station. To
board local train uptown ono will
tako car on the outer track. To take
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
CROWN PRINCESS sTEpAANlE wgos
She Formally becomes the wife OF Count
Eiemer Lonyay.

Crown Princess Stephanie OF Aus.
tria, despite the persistent prohibition
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

In Seoul, Is orea, bell is rung a,
sunset, and when the golden orb has
sunk beneath the horizon every man
must be safely housed. TIA man should
be found in the street after that time
he Is liable to the punishment of a
hogging; but oddly enough, women
are allowed to go about as usual, Wis
iting their friends or strolling about
according to their pleasure.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

the street, consisting of neat iron and
bronze framework, with glass roofs
covering the descending stairways.
an express train passengers will go
along an intermediate gallery, which
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

Very young lambs are as like as
peas i'll pod to everything, except
the noses of their mothers. A hun
dred ewes at pasture. with lambs of
the same size, will make no mistake
about their children, that is, if the
children have once be. accepted as
their own. Sometimes it happens
that for no visible reason eve re.
jects her lamb an cannot be induced
to own it. If she has twins she may
,wn one and re. ect the other.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

Charlestown was settled in 1920 and
was annexed to Boston in 1873.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

One of the most difficult and pecu.
liar surgical operations ever attempted
in Maryland was successfully per-
formed at st. Joseph's hospital in Bal
timore, when Professor Louis McLane
Tiffany, assisted by DR.. Cary Gable
aud other surgeons of the hospital,
removed from the head of Chas. c.
Barker a steel chisel four and one.
half inches long, one inch wide and
one-qnarter of an inch thick. The
operation lasted only little over half
an hour, and there are good chance
If the mans recovery.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03

Sir William Walrond, the chief min.
isterial whip, is mysterious Junction.
ary, who has many duties, but his
chief one is to watch the attendance
in the House so as to know whether, il
division comes, he will have enough
men to give the government major
ity. There is big corps OF attend
ants and clerks in the inner lobby OF
the House. Each has list of the
members of the House, each ticks off
member as he goes i'll or leaves, and
acts as sort of living barometer, as
it were. And from these the chief
ministerial whip is able to tell the
temperature of the House.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-25

everything is wrong. Could he, murs
dered man, do that? Away with such
an ideal Herbert Lathrop, be mani"
He closed and locked the house and
proceeded to the dock Of the Sunshine,
which he boarded for home.
He was seated in the cabin when
Capt Harper entered.
You are not looking well, Mr.. La
throp. A planters life can't agree with
you. Come, try the brandy on the side.
board here"
Thanks, captain, believe will. I
have been having chills."
Whisky and quinine, and plenty of
It, is the only remedy know Of for
Cape Fear ohills. By the way, Angus
Bruce seems to be giving the whole
coast chills. suppose you read+of his
latest cxploits?"
"Yes, read of them. You must see
his mother and sister sometimes?"
Seldom, but sometimes meet them
on the street."
u suppose they are in great distress"
"etrange. but from appearances one
would not imagine that they were
crushed, though of course they are In
trouble; but they bear up we'll. They
will not speak of their troubles with
anyone. lobe, the Niger cook. is
around as lively as ever; one would
think that the course of Angus was not
so much of surprise to his own FAM
ily."
Strange" thought Herbert, "and q
large sum offered for his head. think
i must send Mag to Smithvflle."
Herbert left the Sunshine at Orton
landing and arrived home Just at dusk.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-25
CHAPTER XVII.
GOULD HE, COULD A MURDERED MA,


GOULD HE, COULD MURDERED MAN,
DO THAT?
1t was fully two hours later than
usual when Herbert Lathrop descended
the stairs the next morning, after hav-
ing informed Mag of his coming mar
riage with Miss Hill, nor did he appear
much refreshed.
slumber had not closed his eyes until
the night was we'll spent, and then his
sleep was of that nature that it rather
exhausted than refreshed, for it was
troubled with fttul dreams in which
his murdered uncle, Angus Bruce, Clara,
his intended. and Aunt Mag, all played
their parts.
He had been at the old home in WILL
mipgton-he was down ut the bank, al
tering his uncle's will.
what, but $4,000 to your nephew?
Make 1t so, uncle, make it 5o-another
cipher will do it-now change that
five to 60-there, It's done.
"Holdl let me look. to the windows
and doors, no one must witness this.
The witnesses names are attached to
the deed already-who are they?
Strange and Blight Why! they were
both lost at sea-what! no admlnistra-
tor named? the space left vacant, and
no bond required? Herbert Lathrop,
you were born In luck-there, now, the
names filed In, put the papers back