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Washington s,ock Exchange.

Pacific Mail was entirely neglected, tn
closing price being SO.
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FOR sALE-BICYCLES.

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GOVERNMENT BONDS

DISTRICT Or COLUMBIA BONDS
SIS, 1902, ''3o-ysar funding g)ld 10.
IS. 1901. water stock" currency. ....
IS, 1908. water stock" currency.
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Missouri Pacific was strong on inside
buying ard covering OF shorts. when it
became known that the insiders were
again bul!ish Oh the stock. The price ad-
vanced to 81 IA and closed at Sc 81. The
other Pacific securities were practically
neglected.
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The net earnings OF the Northwest for
the month of March show an increase OF
1896 2S9
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Leather common stock sold below II
yesterday and the bull gossipers had
nothing to say regarding the advance 10
20 that was predicted SO positively few
weeks ago.
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Sugar was doomed yesterday afternoon
apparently on a squeeze of the shorts.
There has been mucn bearishness regard
ing the stock for a day or two past and
Uncle Hayemeyer evidently considered it
time for another fleeing. The Sugar Trust
may lose money and be unable to pay divi-
dends. but Mr. .Havemeyer will probably
continue TO expand his income.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

from an attack of sunstroke while
on shore at Beyrout two days before
the disaster.
There are dozens of cases which
I have not mentioned, but in which
it is absolutely known that drunken
captains and mates caused the loss
of their ships through their follies.
l am pleased, both from financial
and Christianlike standpoint, that
within the last few weeks one of the
largest Liverpool steamship companies
has issued a circular letter to it's
employees, calling attention to the in
crease in drinking among sailors, and
warning them that they must not.
either on or off duty, imbibe, under
the penalty of immediate dismissal. A
few more letters like that and we
will have big reduction in the an
nual tribute to Neptune"
The Republican., 1900-12-13
ON THE ROCKS.

about 1000 persons, women, as well
as officers and sailors, went down
with the craft She was a battleship,
of 100 guns, and during the summer
of 1882 had just returned from a
cruise and was leaking. The majority
of her crew were impressed men, and,
fearing that they might run away if
the vessel was docked at Portsmouth,
it was decided to careen her in the
roadstead. The craft was the tallest
in the service and, in addition, she
had the squarest yards of anything
then afoat.
'At best, the task of heeling boat
to get at a leak is a most difficult one.
1t has been shown that the officers
and men had been on a great spree
the night before the craft toppled
over. Many of them were still under
the influence of spirits when the dis
aster took place. This may explain in
way the awful mistake of leaving
the lower deck ports open, and when
the boat was heeled a sudden squall
coming up threw her wholly on her
SldC, IllC ONCI " lIlt
depressed side. The sea water rushed
into the open ports, and that ended
the Royal George. The guard and
about 20 others were saved"
"The loss of the United States cor
vette Kearsarge, on Roncador reef, al
ways has been attributed to drink,
not on the part of her commander,
Oscar f. Heyerman, but on the part
of one of his line officers whom he
trusted too well. A great many of
the particulars that preceded the
stranding of this historic ship were
not brought out during the court of
inquiry CT even the court martial that
followed. 1t is known in the navy,
however, that a certain officer, on
whom devolved a portion of the navi-
cation, bent his elbow quite a little
for some days before the stranding,
but l do not think that the matter
was brought to the attention of Com
mander Heyerman until it was too
late.
"The loss of the Atlantic was an
other instance where it has been
charged that liquor played a part.
She struck near Meagher island, Nova
Scotia, April /, 1870, and of the 957
persons on board a total of 535 were
drowned. Not a woman was saved,
and all but one of the children were
| included in the lost. Capt. James A.
Williams, who commanded the ship,
had his certificate as extra master
and master taken away for two years,
| and the certificate of the fourth Of
ticer was suspended for four months.
"There are many here as well as
abroad who believe, as a result of pri-
vate information, that the loss of the
battleship Victoria, in the Mediter-
ranean, was due to 'grog.' 1t has been
shown that there was something men
tally wrong with Admiral Tyron the
day of the disaster, and it was report
! ed at the time that he had suffered
The Republican., 1900-12-13
FACT AND COMMENT.

Germany is putting tax on inn
the new warships.
A mans duty to his country never
requires him to drink whisky or loaf
around the saloons or streets.-Atch-
ison Globe.
Resorting to the use of stimulants to
secure strength is like placing a mort
gage on ones property. 1t provides
ready cash for the present, but sooner
or iater the mortgage must be fore
closed.-Good Health.
Alcohol does not give force it is not
force producing. The seeming exciting
impulse which it produces is but a
heeting eXaltation of the organism,
after which comes the period of fatigue,
weakness and paralysis. The consump.
ton of alcohol neither augments the
physiological energy nor the muscular
work. Alcohol does not warm the or.
ganism. Alcohol does not favor diges.
tion.-Prof. Bunge.
In a paper read before the national
coHlSIelCe VI CHARITIES anu corrections,
the superintendent of the Illinois state
reformatory declared that 92 per cent
of the boys in the reformatory under
the age of Is were in the habit of smoll.
ing cigarettes at the time they CON nit,
ted the crimes for which they were
sentto the reformatory, and that s5 per
cent. had become so addicted to their
use as to be classed at the time Us
Cigarette fiends."
The Republican., 1900-12-13

constitute reigning family, though
their principality is small.
Queen Wilhelmina celebrated the
twentieth anniversary of her birth
day on August 81, and it was then
expected that she would announce
her choice at the banquet given in her
honor at Amsterdam. She only prom
ised that she would do so before
Christmas.
Not since Queen Victoria ascended
England's throne, 62 years ago, have
so many princes sued for one lady's
hand.
1t is absolutely imperative that the
queen should marry without delay.
The security of Holland, the perma-
nence of the dynasty and the contin-
uance of the country in quiet, mon
archical ways depend upon this event.
She is the last preventative in Hol-
land of the ancient and illustrious
house of Orange, which is forever en-
deared to the Dutch people by the
services of William the Silent. All
her near relatives are descended on
the paternal side from some German
house and there is nothing the Dutch
fear more than absorption into the
German empire.
The young queen early showed
symptoms of independence in the
matter of choosing husband. She
rejected her cousin, Prince Bernard
of SaXe-Weimar, because he was so
ugly. Nevertheless. it was confidently
expected that she would finally marry
a man indicated to her for reasons of
state.
1t was reported some time ago that
she would certainly accept the suit
of the German crown prince. 1t is
an open secret in court circles that
she was deeply in love with Frederick
William, fact which was substan-
tiated during her recent visit to Ber-
lin, where they were always together.
When Kaiser Wilhelm stopped at
Schweringen after his visit to Queen
Victoria it was rumored that a match
had been arranged. 1t is believed
that the queen declined on account of
the deep-rooted antipathy of her sub
jects to the Germans and their fear
of being absorbed in the German en-
pire.
The Republican., 1900-12-13
QUEEN WILL MARRY.
Girl Ruler OF Holland Has at Last
Found a Bridegroom.
The Happy Man Is Duke Henry OF
MecIlenburg Schwerin An
nOuncement Was a Surprise
TO Court Society.

Queen Wilhelmina has proclaimed
her betrothal to Duke Henry of Neck
lenburgSchwerin, a dashing young
officer and a special favorite of Kaiser
Wilhelm.
Duke Henry is tall, bright-looking
and German in appearance. He is a
lieutenant in the Prussian Life guards
and is also attached to tho Mecklen-
burg fusileers.
The marriage will take place next
spring.
The duke is scarcely known in Am
sterdam and not particularly well at
The Hague. 1t was rumored that the
queen had selected his elder brother,
Duke Adolf.
By betrothing herself to the duke
of Mecklenburg-Schw Queen Will
helmina disappoints all the schemes
of royal matchmakers. The name of
the bridegroom selected has at no
time been coupled with hers. The
news of the engagement will bring
disgust to a dozen or more highly
eligible princes of royal families.
Here are a few of them to whom she
has actually been reported betrothed
at one time or another:
Prince Frederick William, oldest
son of the kaiser.
Prince William of Wied.
Prince Bernard Henry of Saxe-Wei.
mar.
Prince Harold of Denmark.
Prince Nicolas of Greece.
Prince Eugen. of Sweden.
Prince Alexander of Teck.
Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia
Prince Adolph Bernard of Schaum.
berg Lippe.
Prince Louis Napoleon.
Prince Max of Baden.
The queen, in choosing the duke for
husband, has fulfilled the require
ments of the law which demand that
she shall marry Protestant and that
ne shall be a prince of reigning
house. The Mecklenburg-S -Schwerins
have been devout Protestants from
.he time of the reformation and they
The Republican., 1900-12-13
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SHIPS LOST BY DRINK.
Many Disasters and Fatalities on the
Sea Directly TraceabIe to
Ala DhOIic Drinks.

One of the best marine underwriters
of this country, in discussing the ques-
tion of how many vessels are lost an
nually through carelessness that is
due to intoXication, said to a New
York Mail and Express reporter:
1T is impossible to say how many
ships are lost because of drunken Of
fcers. If we could but know it would
be to learn that HUNDREDS of the fine
vessels that have been posted as miss
ing in the last ten years turned into
Davy Jones harbor as a result of
drink. In commercial life there has
been for years a tendency to encour-
age temperance by doing away with
employees who are given to splicing the
main brace. But there has been no
such disposition among those con-
trolling vessel property. Looking
through glass other than tele-
scope is now more common on foreign
ships than half century ago. | do
not think that sea song has been
written within the last decade with
out the word 'grog' in it. Within my
recollection as an underwater and
during the time 1 spent at sea as
master mariner and mate, l saw many
instances of befuddled brains being
responsible for the loss of well-found
craft. It's all right enough to deal
with a certificate when carelessness
in stranding or some other marine
disaster is shown, but it seems to me
that greater attention should be paid
to the drinking capacity of the apph-
cant for a license.
Zone of the greatest wrecks in the
history of the English navy was in
directly due to drink. Cowper has
sung of the capsizing of the Royal
George, but his account of the sad
affair is not exactly accurate. In all
The Republican., 1900-12-13
A Trine Too Aesthetic.

An aesthetic English vicar at Wem-
bley will not allow the word "died''
to be put on the tombstones of the
people buried in the cemetery. He
insists on phrases like departed this
life" or passed away" or entered
into rest" and says that "died" is a
denial of the Christian teaching of i'm
mortality.
The Republican., 1900-12-13
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The Republican., 1900-12-13

They came face to face-she had
planned it so-and her slight gesture
of surprise was perfect. ''Mr. Maxwell
you? Is it possiDle?"
"How do you do, Mrs Jernyngham.
/" He was going to say he was
pleased to meet her, but decided
not to.
81 did not know you were in Dieppe.
Have you been here long?"
Il have been here, with my wife,
about a month";" he answered.
with your wife? Really!" She
gave faint smile-a smile he remem-
bered very well. $50 you are married
am | to congratulate you?"
"Thank YOU" he said; you are very
kind Your husband is"
Hes dead; so don't inquire about
his health. You were always making
blunders of that sort" She laughed.
81 used to correct you in that fashion
long ago, didn't 1? You see, 1 haven t
changed. Well, well, well, and so
you're married? I told you you'd
marry-you didn't believe me then!"
'Ah, but you were right"
"Of course / was right. Shan't we
sit down?-or won't your wife let
you? l say, are you henpecked? You
used to be the sort of boy who'd be
henpecked. Perhaps you've improved
since those days"
She leaned forward, and fixed her
eyes on him in just the manner he
used to find so irresistible. Somehow
it seemed less distracting now. The
eyes had not altered perhaps, but her
face was older, and that expression
looked out of place on it. There was
even sadness to him in beholding
the change that time had wrought in
her. The woman whose memory had
thrilled him so was gone. He had
thought about her so much, and now
she did not exist. 1t was pathetic,
this wreck of Nora Jernynham could
not join with him in mourning for
her. He wept alone.
"You are not glad to see mel" she
said.
He was not; he was sorry. His very
soul was full of regret, of sympathy.
But he could not tell her so, and he
listened for ten minutes courteously
to her distressing provocations, her
disheartening pleasantries. Then he
rose.
She would not make a conquest of
him again, she knew it perfectly; he
had escaped from her chariot wheels
for all time.
Then. suppose this is the last time
you will be likely to see me? ?" she said,
shaking hands in goodby.
81 suppose So" he answered. But
to himself he said that the last time
he had ever seen her had been nine
years ago.
Mrs. Maxwell looked up inquiringly
as he returned to her.
"Amuse yourself, dearest?" she said,
innocently.
81 shall be amused tomorrow" re-
piled Maxwell, "when l can laugh at
myself! Tonight, somehow, l cam
not"
And Mrs. Maxwell, understanding,
was content.-Black and White.
The Republican., 1900-12-13
Best for the Bowels.

No matter what als you, headache to
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without a grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. c. G.
stamped on it. Beware of limitations
The Republican., 1900-12-13

She had never been more bewitch.
ing or coquettish in their courtship
than she was during that evening.
Far more plainly than the man HIM
self she realized that she had rival
though it might be only a memory
and she put forth all her forces to
annihilate her. Beautiful, doubtless?
Jack would never have been captured
by woman who was not good look
ing. And woman of the world also?
Jack hated schoolgirls! 'Neverthe-
less" mused Mrs. Maxwell contem-
plating her reflection complacently in
one of the mirrors of the gaming
rooms, 81 think ought to be capable
of holding my own against the lady,
I really dol"
The wrong horse came in again, and
again, undeterred by i'll fortune, she
drew ticket from the bowl.
As she lifted her head she felt her
husband beside her give a galvanic
start. The next instant, following
the direction of his gaze, she knew
the woman.
Plain" she meditated; "evidently
fallen off! Now, l wonder if she has
charm of manner enough to make him
lose sight of that, or if l dare venture
on heroic course?"
MY darling, don't you think we've
played this idiotic game long
enough? ?' said Jack in strained
voice. Let us go into the terrace"
So he could not even trust himself
in the same room with her, couldn't
he? 1t was too bad; really, it was
humiliating.
"You go, dearest" replied Mrs.
Maxwell, sweetly. Il know you hate
to be here, and I am much too in
fatuated to leave off yet myself. Go
and smoke your cigar in peace and the
fresh air, and come back for me when
you've finished it. 1 shall be perfect
ly safe, and l mean to break the
banki'"
Jack departed obediently, and out
of the tail of her eye his wife watched
the other woman take note of it.
Now, will she follow him or not ?"
she asked herself. Not just yet,
suppose-it would be too marked.
Patienzan
1t was ten minutes later when Mrs.
Jernygham sauntered carelessly from
her place at the table out through
the glass door, and Mrs Maxwell
clasped her hands in her lap with sud-
den nervousness. After all it was a
heroic course. Had she been rash and
foolhardy? There was moonlight out
side, and the tapping of waves. Fatal
adjuncts to such a matter! In the
moonlight, too, the creatures appear
ance would be softened and refined.
She had made a mistake, perhaps
she had placed him in temptation she
would have avoided. Should she join
him-rescue him, while there was still
time? No! She would not she would
stand her chance. Moonlight or no
moonlight, she would risk it. y 4
Two francs more-and the devil take
the hindmost!
The Republican., 1900-12-13
STARTLING ARRAY OF FACTS.
Evils of the Business of IntOxi-
eating Liquors.

A startling exhibit has been made by
Alonzo E. Wilson in a carefully pre-
pared table which shows the compara-
tive expenditures for different purposes.
For instance, the yearly meat bill of
the United States is $915, 600 900; iron
and steel, 5000 .G0O,O goo; sawed lumber,
$530,0O0 GOO; tobacco, $525, ,000, 900; flour,
S370,000, 600; public education, $175 ,OGO,-
900, all church expenses, $150,000,000;
foreign missions, $5,OOO,OO0. Greater
than any of these expenditures is the
amount paid for liquor, which aggre-
gates over 81 ,O0O, 900, 900.
Three beers a day for year would
buy one barrel of flour, 20 pounds of
corn starch, ten pounds of macaroni,
ten quarts of beans, four 12-pound
ht-ns, one bushel sweet potatoes, three
bushels Irish potatoes, ten pounds of
coffee, ten pounds of raisins, ten
pounds of rice, 80 pounds of crackers,
100 bars of soap, three 12-pound tur-
keys, five quarts of cranberries, ten
punches of celery, ten pounds of prunes,
four dozen oranges, ten pounds of
mixed nuts, four big barrels heaped up!
and in the bottom of the last barrel
purse with two pockets. In one pocket
a tive-dollar gold piece marked 'a dress
for MOTHER" in the other pocket
ten-dollar bill marked Ito buy shoes
for the children
The Republican., 1900-12-13

An iceman was the only person who pos
sessed sufficient GOODNESS to meet and dis
patch a mad dog on a Pittsburgh street the
other day
The Republican., 1900-12-13

Nothing tein-"Vot's der
news, oldt man?' Flamski with paper)-
ooh, nodding to speak of; two felse alarms
undt sefen small fires. Town Topics.
The Republican., 1900-12-13
Halls Family Pills are the best.

'They say" remarked the phlosophic
man, that the darkest hour is Just before
the dawn" ''Jimminy!" exclaimed Lazi.
bones, that's one of my brightest hours,
for Pm always sure to be asleep them
Philadelphia Press.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

No man appreciates poetry unless he has
4 little of it in his make-up.-Chicago Daily
News
The Republican., 1900-12-13

Like Oil Upon Troubled Waters is Hsle's
Honey of Horehound and Tar upon cold.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

PUTNAM FADELEss DYES are fast to sun.
light, washing and rubbing. Sold by all
druggists.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

Other people don't amount to much when
you use yourself as, standard of compari-
son.-Chicago Daily News.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

Returns-''Does he get any returns from
his poetry?" ''Al he does get."-Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
Is cough cure.-J. W. O'Rrien, 800 Third
Ave-, N, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 6, 1900.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

To Cure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money ifitfails to cure. 25c.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

Experiments carried on in the French
army show that under all circum-
stances the French soldier is 40 per
cent. more efficient when subjected to
a regime of total abstinence. Officers
declare that great advance toward
temperance in the French army has
been made by controlling the canteens,
and replacing them with refectories
where coffee, tea, cocoa and other bev-
erages are furnished.
Many distinguished Indian COM
manders have testified in favor of
tea as a thirst allayer when on long
march in equatorial lands. The men
under the leadership of Gen. Sir Her
bert Kitchener during the recent cam
paign in the Soudan, who were allowed
10 alcoholic stimulants whatever, per-
formed their long journey through the
desert on cold tea, and fought splen-
didly at the end of it.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

Twenty-Five millions of dollars spent
in drink last week! Out of that 5S,666
men engaged in the manufacturing of
the drink received only four per cent.
of that amount in wages, at the rate of
$15 per week, making total of $780,
900. If the S22, 10000 had been spent in
legitimate manufactures, the labor
ing men-mechanics, artisans, etc
would have given employment to 440,-
900 men for one week at SIS each. By
spending the $22,OOO,OO0 in drink $751;
334 men were deprived of the opportu-
nifty of earning SIS each last week.
The Republican., 1900-12-13

Careful inquiries made by Edward
Page CASTOR show that there are more
than 81 miles of saloons in Chicago,
and less than eight miles of churches.
The liquor drank last year in Chicago
would float the biggest ship on the
lakes, and if put in a mammoth vat
would completely immerse the Mason
ic temple, 20 stories in height The
more than $4,000 arrests for drunk
enness would make procession in
close lock-step marching order of more
than 20 miles in length, and nearly a
quarter of this number were women.
If the 6,373 saloons of the city were
planted solidly together they would
much more than fill the entire central
business district, requiring over two
square miles and stretching from Lake
to Sixteenth street and from Michigan
avenue to Halsted street.