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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
A Life ON the Ocean Wave.

A Liverpool steam packet company
many years ago wanted to extend its
premises, aud resolved to buy piece
of land belonging to maiden lady of
uncertain age. The spinster sold her
land at very low price, and as set
Of requested that clause should be
put in the agreement to the effect that
during her whole life she and COM
panion should at any time travel free
in the company's vessels. On the
day after the agreement was signed.
she sold her furniture, let her house,
and went ON board the first outward
bound vessel belonging to the COM
pany, without troubling herself about
the destinatie n. For many years the
lady lived on ,ne ship or another, ac-
companied by some lady traveller, for
whom she advertised, and whose pas.
sage money she pocketed. She was
reckoned at her death to have made
over ten thousand dollars by the trans
action.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
A Child viii, a Good memory.

The other day lady who lives on
Morgan street took her five.year- old
son to a photographer to have his
pictures taken. She was anxious to
secure good likeness at this parti-
cular sitting because she wished to
distribute the pictures among some
friends who were then her guests.
The ch Ids idea of the affair, how
ever, did not, apparently, harmonize
with that OF his mother For when
the man with the camera began to
adjust the lens and direct it toward
little Edward that young person set
up what was unquestionably howl.
In vain did the mother call into use
her utmost forensic abilities. Ed
ward did not want his picture taken.
why, my child" she said, sooth-
ingly. ''the gentleman won't hart you.
Just smile and keep still moment
and it will be all over before you
know it..
Eyes. I know, ma-maw whim-
pered the youth, with the tears run
ming down his cheeks, but that 8
what you told me at the dentists. =
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
How Animals Rest Their Muscles.

When mi Il is tired he stretches
out his arms and legs and yawns.
Birds and animals, as far as possible,
follow the example. Birds spread
their feathers and also yawn or cape.
Fowls often do this. Fish yawn, they
open their mouths slowly till they are
round, the bones of the head seem to
loosen and the giils open.
Dogs are inveterate yawners and
stretchers, but seldom sneeze unless
they have cold. Cats are always
stretching their bodies. legs aud claws,
as every one knows who has had a
cat for pet.
Horses stretch violently when and
after indulging in roll, but not, as a
rule, on all fours. A stag when
stretching sticks out his head, stretches
his fore'eet out and hollows his back
and neck as though trying to creep
under bar.
Most ruminant animals stretch
when they rise up after lying down.
Deer do it regularly, so do cows.
This fact is so we'll known that if a
cow arising from lying down does
not stretch herself it is sign that she
is i'll.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

A cat and five kittens were found
one morning comfortably ensconced
in the hayloft of stable at Blacken.
hurst. They were not wanted there,
and so the stable man removed the
family to Il crib in stall where
broody but persistent hen had been
for many days sitting upon some
china eggs. Before long sounds of
struggle were heard, and the cat left
her young ones with a good deal OF
haste On investigation the stable
man found to his astonishment that
the hen had driven out the cat and
taken her place as foster mother OF
the kittens, nor would she permit the
cat to return. She cooed to the
kittens and did her best to nurse
them; when they became restless she
exercised maternal authority in keep.
ing them we'll within bounds. Some.
times, while attending to one side ol
her nest, kitten would stray from
the others. But the foster m other
was not to be evaded. She would at
once leave her place and search till
she found the truant, and persuade it
by pushing and other means to return
to the nest. OF course, it was neces
sary vat the cat should be allowed t.
applt, h her offspring from time tc
time, order to feed them. The hen
had theI. to be forcibly removed and
the door barred against her. Nc
sooner was it opened than the hen
wonld drive out the cat and resume
her place as the head of the house
hold. At night she spread her wings
over the little ANIMALS just as though
they were chickens, and certainly
they seemed to like the cozy warmth
of their featherd qrilt. -Everybody's
Magazine.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

There are pleasant features in the
messenger lads life that the public
doesn't generally know. One of the
most pleasant phases is the tip which
often goes into the young fellow s
pockets. Some of the downtown
brokers have their favorite boys, and
the lads get from $5 to $40 week in
tips. The brokers prefer to have a
messenger boy do certain errands in
stead of their own office boy, as the
latter are too we'll known to the people
the brokers try to do business with.
The lads are often called upon to do
strange things. One OF them caused
quite sensation year ago by walk
ing alongside wealthy woman, carry
ing her prayer book to church. The
lad didn't occupy the pew with the
lady, but he waited outside the
church, at 80 cents an hour. until she
was ready to return home.
Ladies who go to theatres without
male escorts often get messenger to
accompany them, and sometimes take
the lad into the theatre Some of
the lads tell you how the ladies made
thom eat out of their bonbon boxes
and slipped quarter or half dollar
into their hands beside. New York
Mail and Express.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

One of the stories that the late
James Payn, the novelist, liked most
to tell was about what he called an
American duel, wherein two duellists,
with ore second, met within doors
and drew lots to decide which should
shoot himself. A was the unlucky
man, and without a wcrd he retired
into the next apartment to carry out
the purpose of self-destruction. g
and the second, both very much
moved by the tragedy of the situa-
ton, remained in listening attitudes.
At last the pistol was heard; they
shuddered with emotion aud remorse,
when suddenly in rushed the supposed
dead man, triumphantly exclaiming,
"Afissed. bY heaven"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
YHE Orange Free State had no
quarrel with Great Britain.
The Transvaal's quarrel was


not her quarrel. She was a
free and independent State, living her
own life and worshiping her own
legislative and administrative gods.
Her people, however, spoke the same
tongue as the Transvaaler. A shadow
of the Anglophobia that lurked on the
north of the Vaal was also to be found
north of the Orange, and Martinus
Th. Steyn, the far-seeing and courage
GUS President of the Free State, firmly
believed that if the South African
Republic were wrested from Dutch
control, either by armed force or by
awe of Great Britain's prowess, the
next victim of the slogan ''British
pre-eminence in South Africa" would
be his own little Republic, the Orange
FREQ State. Furthermore, the two
Republics were bound by treaty
made in 1897, after the jameson raid,
which provided that if eithnr State
were attacked the other was pine
to its assistance with it's full h.. ing
force, which at that time meanta COM
bined army of about $4,000 men
$1,000 Transvaalers and $4,000 Free
Staters.
So the Orange Free State and the
Transvaal joined hands. That the
Free Staters were not the first to suf-
fer by this racial coalition was due to
one of those mere accidents of war or
caprices of fate that can never be
anticipated. Ladysmith and Colenso,
Kimberley and Mafeking chanced to
be the points where tho storm burst.
The Free Staters, while descended
from the same Dutch settlers in South
Africa us the Transvaal burghers, form
what might be termed another branch
of tho Boer family. They settled in
Natal after the exodus from the Cape,
but as that became British colony,
they fell back and established them
selves in the country lying between
the two great branches of the Orange
River, known to the colonists as the
Vaal and the Orange Rivers, and sepa-
rated from the coast by the Drachen-
berg Mountains. The Orange River
Free State, to give it its full name,
forms connecting link between Cape
Colony, the Transvaal and Natal, and
was for years called the Buffer State.
1t is vast plateau. 5000 to 5000 feet
above sea level. Its undulating plains
slope from the Maluti Mountains to
the Vaal River. In the south they are
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
Their Arms Too short.

The biggest telephone company in
Kansas City is short of operators, and
the reason OF this is that most of the
girls who have applied for positions
the present month have not been tail
enough. Hereafter a girl who does
not measure feet 8 inches in height
will not be employed.
The company has learned that short
girls have short arms and girls with
short arms cannot do the work as we'll
us those with long arms. The pres
ent in mention of the company is to get
q sufficient number of long armed
girls and then endeavor to keep them.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
AND RICHARD PENN, AND SOUTH SIDE.
BEARING ARMS OF LOED BALTIMORE.
awakening much interest. The State

awakening much interest. The State
of Pennsylvania has already voted o
like amount for the purpose.
The line between the property OF
Lord Baltimore and the Penns aroused
many disputes and much bad feeling
in early times, and the King and hls
counselors in England conld find no
way of stopping the quarrels, which
frequently ended in bloodshed. Final
ly, in 1857, two famous English astrono
mers, Charles Mason and Jeremiah b
Dixopssmade the survey and ran the
line Which established the boundary
between Pennsylvaniand Maryland.
The work cost $171, 900, but it settled
all trouble from that time to this,
The line runs along the southern
border Of Franklin County, and for
1872 miles every five miles is, OF was.
planted stone bearing On the Penn
sylvania side the arms of Thomas
and Richard Penn carved thereon, and
on the Maryland side the arms of Lord
Baltimore. The intermediate miles
were marked by stones, upon which
were cut the letters "P" on the north
side and "M" upon the southern
side.
A very few of these old milestones
are now standing. The one shown in
the cut is now at its old position at
Highfeld, along the Western Mary
land Railroad. Most of them have
been destroyed, and even stolen. A
farmer in Washington County, Mary.
land, has two of them in use as door.
steps at his house.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
Finding Out How to Begin.

Two boys had sat down together to
work out some problems in algebra.
One of them had been busy with his
pencil full minute when he noticed
his companion sitting with folded
arms and knitted brows.
''What is the matter?" he ex-
claimed "Why don't you begin.
'.Pm finding out how to begin"
returned the other, quietly, and he
went on thinking. The first speaker
covered page of foolscap with fig.
ures, found himselfin a labyrinth from
which there seemed no escape, and
looking back over the statement Of
the problem, discovered mistake III
his first equation. Long before this.
however, his companion had worked
the problem through and reached the
correct result. He had not wasted
time, because he had looked at all
sides of the question before he began.
A great many of our young folks
overestimate the importance OF haste.
They carry too heavy work in school
in order that they may graduate year
earlier. They skim through their
library books that they may return
them and take out others. They
settle important questions on the inn
pulse of the moment, because they
have not learned that there is real
economy in taking time to see all
sides before making a decision.
Now and then we meet people who
toss up penny to save themselves the
trouble of making up their minds.
But even this is hardly more foolish
than it is to follow blindly the first
impulse that comes into our heads.
To act without stopping to think is the
poorest economy in the world.
Nobody wastes time so hopelessly
is the person who decides without de-
liberation, who, because of this wrong
beginning, follows the wrong path,
and finally is forced to retrace his
steps and start again. A little hard
thinking before we begin to act would
save us not only much precious time
but many heartache as well.
tian Commonwealth.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
A Queer Church.

At Santa Clara, CAL, there is Bap
tist church which WIS built of lumber
made from single giant oak tree.
Under its branches the first Baptist
service in that region was held, in
1853. When it was decided to build
church edifce it was thought best to
use the site of the original meeting
place. With appropriate ceremonies
the great tree, whose shade covered
an acre of ground, was consecrated for
it's new purpose. Workmen then cut
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

mountain ranges in the State are the
Stall Mountains, which lie in the east
ern portion of the republic. Prncti-
cally all of the plains are we'll adapted
for pastoral purposes. On the Basu-
toland border there is a golden strip
of land, thirty miles broad and 100
miles long, which is considered to be
the best bit of grain producing soil in
the world.
Think of land that, without irriga-
tion, and with scarcely any cultiva-
tion, will raise seventy to eighty
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
was adopted on April 10, 1854, and gave

was adopted on April 10, 1854, and gave
to everyone living in the country be-
fore the date of it's adoption the right
to vote for president and members
Of the new legislature. The COM
mando law is unique. This law. which
was put into successful operation at
the opening of the campaign for the
raising of Orange Free State troorsu.
regulates the calling out of burghers at
all times of danger. Every male in
habitant of the State between sixteen
and sixty years of age is, under this
law, subject to the call of the field
cornet. The number that were found
available for the last call to arms is
said to have been 1000.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

off the tree twenty feet from the
ground. This big stump was partially
hollow, and was allowed to stand for
the church tower. A tapering steeple
was built on top of it.
The upper part of the tree trunk
and its huge branches were sawed up
into lumber for the main body of the
church. When the church stood com.
pleted substantial building, thirty
Feet wide by seventy feet deep, 1900
feet of lumber remained unused. A
more sturdy building could not be i'm.
agined.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
CHILORENS COLUMN.
Bedtime.

Three little girls ..tu weary
Weary Of books and play;
Sad is the world and dreary-
Slowly the time slips away,
Six little feet are aching,
Bowed Is each little head;
Yet they are up and shaking,
When there Is mention Of bed.
Bravely they laugh and chatter,
just for IL minute or two.
Then when they end their clatter
Sleep comes quickly to WOO,
Slowly their eyes are closing,
Down again drops each head
Three little maids are doing.
Though they're net ready for bed.
That is their method over
Night after night they protest,
Claiming they're sleepy never,
Never in need of rest;
Nodding and almost dreaming,
Drowsily each little head
Still Is forever scheminX
Merely to keep out OF bed.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

simple, bucolic aud sincere. An infu-
sion of Huguenot blood makes them q
slightly more active and progressive
people than the Transvaalers. The
republic has an area of about so, 600
square miles. Its present population
is estimated to be $4,000 whites and
some 40, 900 blacks of the Basuto end
Barolong tribes. The capital, Bloem-
fontein, is curious, old world look
ing little city, with a railway leading
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
SCENES IN BL0EMF0NTEIN,
CAPITAL OF ORANGE FREE STATE.

Free State, for Bloemfontein. the cap
ital of the little republic, was careful
ly fortified and garrisoned for many
months before the actual outbreak of
hostilities. The accompanying illus
tration will give q very good idea Of
the Boer fort at Bloemfontein, spot
which, in view of recent events, has
an especial interest to al. followers of
the present struggle between the Boer
and the British.
The Orange Free State is like and
yet unlike the Transvaal. It's people.
like those north of the Vaal River, are
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

finai fsrugalc with the British has
been well demonstrated by the thor
oughneas OF lie preparations for war
which the Government of the crafty
Dom Paul has been making for some
time past. The same might be said of
the doughty aurghers of the Orange
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

bushels of grain to the acre! Wheat,
oats, maize, barley and Kaffir corn
can all be grown, while herds of cat
tie, horses, Angora goats, ostriches
and sheep can live and flourish on the
veldt
There are threo kinds of raonlar
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
A Squash That Lifted 5000 Pounds.

An interesting agricultural expert
ment is related in Success, from which
this picture is taken. A harness or
basket of strap iron was placed over
the squash in such manner that, in
order to grow, 1t would be compelled
to lift any weight that might be placed
on it. Harnessed in this manner, on
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12
Grenter Napoleons.

81 don't see why SO many people
envy character like Naroleon.'
'''[t's due to the native egotism of
the humanrace. Every man imagines
that if he had been in Napoleon's
pla he would have been considerably
smarter and managed to keep away
from ST. Helena. Washington Star.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

Twelve pounds only is the weight
of the new automatic machine gun
under experiment in the United States
Army. 1t fires 450 shots minute.
and can be carried by one mau.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

.hey were delightful ard amusing
creatures. their ears ever alert, their
bright eyes always OH the look out, and
their sharp little noses shifting the air
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

from the south into the town and again
starting north. Unlike Kimberley and
Johannesbur the visitor gets no i'm
preston of mushroom growth from
Bloemfontein, for the city is rich in
statuary and public monuments and
possesses a national museum and a
we'll stocked public library. The
Bloemfontein raadzaal, or council
chamber of the legislature, is hand
some edifce, designed in the Greek
style and costing almost quarter of
a million dollars. The buildings in
the city are substantial and prepossess-
ing, for near by are great beds of free
stone, admirable for building pur-
poses. The presidency, where Presi-
dent Steyn resides, is also very pa
latial building.
The Orange Free State is not for
est country, for, like the Transvaal, it
is very sparsely wooded. The only
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-12

August 81 the squash lifted sixty
pounds; August 81, 500 pounds; Sep
tember IL. HOO; September 81, 2015;
October 18, 3120, and October 81.
5000 pounds.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

uoo chas E. Littoned on the Roberts case
speech o. +,.so Of Representatives, Jan 49, 1900
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
An Editors Life saved by Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy.

During the early part OF October, 1896,
I contracted bad cold which settled
on my lungs and was neglected until
feared that consumption had appeared
In en- incipient state | was constantly
coughing and trying 10 expell some
thing which / could not. ! became
alarmed, and after giving the local doc
tor trial bought bottle Of Chamber
lains Cough Remedy and the result was
immediate improvement, and after
had used three bottles my lungs were
restored to their healthy state.-B, s.
Edwards, Publisher Of the Review Wy
ant, Ill.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
CHAPTER FROM AN
OLD MANS LIFE.
CcontInuea from pase nInel

In circumference and eighteen feet In
height, and as II makes about eight
complete circuits each day II Is COM
puted that 1t travels during the year
distance Of forty-four miles and an
eighth The position OF the cells are
changed daily, so that 1t would be a
difficult matter for any prisoner to
make successful attempt at escape
By filing the lars, or any other way, and
as q means OF further protection, the
rotary could be Kept on the move con.
tinually, which understand Is the case
IN some eastern prisons. As there are
eleven windows 70 this room every cell
Is we'll lighted during the day, and after
sundown until o'clock electric lights
illuminate them.
On the left, as you enter he room
there IS fourteen feet by twelve for ex-
ercise and on the right similar space
where meals are served and which Is
furnished with two long tables and
benches.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
THE SOUND OF BELLS.

All the movements Of the prisoners
are regulated by the sounding Of
gong. Four bells summons them 90
rise, make their beds. sweep out their
cells and wash Three bells warns them
that the rotary viii be put ia motion
for them % get out for exercise, the
prisoners emerging from their cells as
they reach the opening In the cage, a
gate being slid % one side, directly OPP
poslte the entrance to the room, and
outside Of which sits the jailor, behind
another enclosure. SO complete Is the
mechanical arrangement that the prls-
oners enter and leave their cells with
out coming near or within reach OF the
jailor, which precludes the possibility
OF an attack II such were contemplated.
Two bells Is signal to march, single
file, through a gateway 20 meals on
the other side Of the room Not q
word Is spoken. the utmost decorum be-
Ing maintained az the table. The meal
finished all remain seated until the one
bell is sounded when they march back
TO the recreation grounds" for another
fifteen minutes exercise. where every
freedom Of conversation Is allowed
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17

Children who are troubled with
Worms are pale in the face, fretful by
spells, restless in sleep, have blue rings
around their eyes. bad dreams, varia-
Bile appetites. and pick the nose.
WHITES CREAM VERMIFUGE viii
kill and expel these parasites. Price Is
cents. z. c. NJ. l. DRUG Dept.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17

cullah Of go eye when 20 talk 20 me
dat way 20 rapscalIon; ! break yo'
back | clare dem deere TRUSTEES think
OF nuiiiink but eat eat Even the cor
pulent and rotund keeper Of the keys
relaxes before the awful gaze Of the
queen Of the kitchen when she flourish
IS the great horn spoon. But after all
she's a good old soul, and when the
storm Is over, she coddles the TRUSTEES
with some little extra dainties, and her
cooking Is irrepr0achable.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
nopportupl,y /. the cream Of Time

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