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New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

The vaudeville entertainers at Proctor's Twenty
third Street Theatre this week are led by Nc
Intyre and Heath. in THE Man from Montana" !"
Lottie ellison is also prominent in the bill Others
aIe the three Yoscarys, gymnasts; John Wilson
and Bertha Waring, Harrigan. the tramp juggler:
Newell and Shevett. bar performers; the Musical
Kleists, Charles Ulrick and Sheridan and Flan-
nigan. To-day'S continuous concert, from to
1915 D. m, lists Marie Wainwright, Biondi. Foy
and Clark John f. Camp Elizabeth Murray the
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

The burlesques Fiddle -Dee-Dee" and Arizona
are continued at Weber & Fields's Music Hail.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

he Tribune those desire To sccr. N. nest M
sreuural journals. the following splendid nducements
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

The seventh week of James ONeill in Monte
Cristo' will begin with the distribution of souve-
Mrs tomorrow night. Statuettes representing Mr.
O'Nein the Count of Monte Cristo have been
selected for the souvenirs
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02
B.AltmanAGo

On Monday. December 3d. unusually interesting values viii
be offered in the following departments.
FUR DEPARTMENT.
Fur Lined Caps. PastOs andD Driving Coats
from special measurements
Plain Persian Lamb Coats s115.OO
Persian Lamb ChnehiHa Baum Martin e. 81 M
Collars and Rsvers iO0.OO
Alaska Sable sesrs s5.75 Mink sears. 500
Dyed Brown Fox Boas $50 Dyed Brown Fox sea, IT'S
Alaska Sable Aua,. $50 Mink suHs 8.75
Dyed Brown Fox anns s1O.75
Alaska Sable Storm Collars with cluster tails 1915
CLOAK DEPARTMENT.
Evening Wraps Carriage CIoaks Travelling Coats pdetot.
Blouse Jackets Box Goats Refers
REFERS of Black ksssy or chsSiOt Black or s12 IN
Cooed Silk lnins. >O.OO
BOX COATS Of Oxford Kepey. satin lined. 1850
BLOUSEs of Velour trimmed with braid. satin Ined 1100
BLOuSES of Velour with White Rsvss. rAson o1oo
Sohdf'
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

Della Fox made such q hit Proctor's Fifth
Avenue Theatre in her recent engagement that she
has been secured for return visit this week
The Russell brothers will appear IN Broadway
vaudeville for the first time Other entertainers
George W. Monroe. McAvoy and May Alcide
Capitaine gymnast: Bnns and Binns. musical
tramps: Elizabeth Murray. in songs and stories
and the Review Comedy Four. To-day's contnu-
Gus concert. from to 1915 p. m, has Mcintyre
and Heath Papinta, Charles T. AIdrich, F. V
Bowers Juan CaicedO, Wilson and Waring, Louise
Cunning. Elsie etc.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

Peter Daley in Hodge Podge & Company" is
making a at the Madison Square Theatre,
where he is to remain until Christmas week.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

The programme for Tony Pastors Theatre for
the coming week contains the names of Hall and
Staley. in their sketch entitled THE Twentieth
Century Burglars; Jess Dandy. Stinson and Mer-
ton. Stine and Evans, Fox and Foxie tn clown
and his dog; Connors and Beatty. West and VIII
Jams, Leonard and Fulton. in ''Muligan's Mas
querade'; the Althea twins, acrobatic dancers
Larry and Annie Conaors, Frederick Bowman.
eccentric banjoist: the Simons brothers. musical
clowns: Occident and Orient. entertainment OF
travel and adventure, and the vitagraph.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02


TRIBUNE
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

bill is offered for the concerts given this after
noon and evening at Roster Balls, including
Ezra Kendall, Pauline Hall. Frederick Hallen and
Mollie Fuller, Caron and Herbert. Fisher and Car
roll Lille Western the Claren4e Quintet Laura
Comstock the lie Page sisters Grant and Grant
Judge, the ladder climber. and others. The new
bill 10 be offered fo the first time tomorrow af-
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

A new wax group was placed on exhibition at the
Eden Musee yesterday, entitled Fruits of Idle,
ness" Moving pictures will be shown hourly in the
winter garden. There will be afternoon and even
ine concerts
New-York tribune., 1900-12-02

Marie Wainwright will be the star this week at
Proctors Palace. and she will appear in Lady
Dies Escapade." Gus williams will head the
vaudeville numbers. and others Juan Cacedo.
the bounding wire; Foy and Clark. Louise Gun
ming singer of Scotch ballads; Ferre and Starch,
Losh and Huff, the Craigs, Evans and White.
dancing experts and the kalatechnoscope. To-
DAYS continuous concert, from TO 1915 p. m in
cludes the Barrows-L Lancaster company Alcide
Capitaine James J. Morton, Bnns and Binns Can
field and Carleton, the Bunth and Rudd company.
etc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05

was no aged dog, and inquired of his
mistress, Mrs. j. Leggatt, of Church
house, Southall, the reason of these
unusual decorations for a show dog
and not performing one. She told
me that 'Artful Stockbroker"-for
that is this most excitable young bull
dogs name-is one who is always spoil
ing for a fight whenever he sees an
other canine, no matter of what breed
or size, but that when he has his spec
tacles on his nose and his pipe in his
mouth he is too much interested in
them to risk an encounter which might
cause the loss of his cherished possess
sions. Certainly, when bereft of them
in the show ring he was breathing out
slaughterings on all sides, and Mrs.
Leggattt had no easy task to prevent
a deadly battle with some brother bull
dog.
'Artful Stockbroker'' is a brindle,
who was two years old on November
27. He is by Stockton ex Merit Only,
and was bred by Mrs. Benham. He
fully lives up to his name, and his mis-
tress says of him: ''He is so artful
that he knows everything we are talk
ing about"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05

Another notable mistake on the part
of a candidate was made by Gen. Han
cock in September, 1884, when he wrote
a letter saying: 'The tariff is a local,
not a national, ISSUE" Although it
has since been demonstrated and adj
mitted by politicians of both parties
that Gen. Hancock was technically cor
rect in his statement, it was taken up
at the time by the opposition and
turned into ridicule with such effect
that it insured Hancock's defeat.
For a long time after Henry Clay's
defeat the political managers would
not permit their presidential candi-
dates to make any speeches nor to
write any letters. Zachary Taylor was
required to be as solitary as an oyster
and as silent as a clam. Only one let
ter was promulgated over his sigma
ture, and that was prepared for him by
Thurlow Weed, Willard Fillmore and
William H. Seward. Franklin Pierce
was kept in retirement, although he
had long been known as an orator of
magnetic presence. His campaign
managers feared that he might commit
some fatal error in public utterance.
When Abraham Lincoln was NOM
mated in 1860 the republican managers
were perturbed lest he might commit
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05

late at night. AS he looked forward
to hearty dinner, he requested head
man, who was with him and who was
an expert drummer, to send word to
the station, several miles away, that
dinner was not to be served until he
returned. The head man drummed;
straightway another drummer repeat
ed his message, and so the news was
flashed from point to point until it
reached the distant station. When
Five reached home at night he found
the table laid and the dinner ready to
be served. This was the message his
servants had received: "The Bula
matori governor or inspector) will be
home late in the evening. Don't eat
everything up"
Mistakes are sometimes made in tele-
graphing and telephoning, and Peter
de DICKENS second story shows that
one may blunder also in using the
drum language. Inspector Five took
several photographs during his stay
in Basoko, and on the day of his de-
parture the thought struck him that
it would be well to take a photograph
of all those natives who, from time to
time, had acted as his domestic serv-
ants. Accordingly, he ordered drum
mer to notify them that they were to
appear before him at a certain hour,
in their holiday clothes. The drum
mer at once sent message, but what
was Five's surprise to find at the ap-
pointed hour, not his servants, but all
the police of the station. drawn up in
front of his residence. The drummer,
it seems, had either misunderstood
Five or had Numbered in sending the
message. Instead of summoning do
nestle servants, he had summoned
state servants.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune.
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paroxysm of alcoholic fury has nu-

paroxysm of alcoholic fury has nu-
merous points of resemblance.
Francotte says he has examined sew
eral accused persons who, having acted
under the influence of alcoholic deli
rum, affirmed that they had retained
no memory of the discriminating act.
Their recital, and the circumstances
surrounding the deed, tended to DEM
onstrate their sincerity.
In the case in point, the phenomena
of drunkenness and the symptoms of
alcoholic delirium are a proof, or at
least an exterior manifestation, of
psychic trouble which has given place
to forgetfulness.
Among the chief causes of alcoholism
are:
Bad health, principally when it is
accompanied by insomnia and neuras-
thenia.
Overwork, when the patient resorts
to alcohol to stimulate his failing en-
ergies.
Anxieties and cares, which he seeks
to forget temporarily; influence of en-
vironment, and bad example, and her
editary predisposition.
The cause of the difficulty must first
be discovered. Attention to the gen.
eral health, freedom from care, change
of associates are sometimes sufficient
in themselves to effect a cure. In cases
where something else is necessary,
hypnotic suggestion may be moral
and mental tonic.
In cases of hereditary dipsomnia hyp-
notism is perhaps the only remedy
which has any chance of success.
Of 10 dipsomaniacs treated by meth
DDS other than hypnotic, not one was
permanently cured. Of 65 cases in
which hypnotism was used, IL were
completely cured, SO temporarily cured
or greatly benefited, and in ten cases
no result whatever was obtained.-Ar-
thur Macdonald, NJ. D., in Journal OF
Inebriety.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05
THE MEADOW MOUSE.
By Using Its Dainty Little FOrepaws
| in SkillfuI Way 1t Secured
| Meal.

One day naturalist lay motion
less on a fallen log in the forest,
and silently watched an animal at
play on the grass near by. This was
large, brown-backed mouse, a mead
ow mouse, that had come out from his
home under the log and when tired
of play had sat up to make his toilet.
Using his forepaws as hands, the
mouse combed the white fur on his
breast and licked himself smooth and
sleek. Satisfied at length with his
appearance, he began to search for
food
He did not have far to go, for few
stalks of wheat grew among the
thick weeds near at hand. The mouse
was so large that he could probably
have bent the stalk down and
brought the grains within reach. IL
not, he could certainly have climbed
the stalk. He did not try either of
these plans, however, for these were
not his ways. Sitting up very straight,
he bit through the stalk as high as
he could reach.
The weeds were so thick that the
straw could not fall it's full length,
and the freshly cut end settled down
upon the ground with the straw still
erect and the grain out of reach.
The mouse again pit the straw in two,
and again the upper portion settled
down. In this way he bit off five
lengths of straw before he could
bring the grain within reach of his
paws. These forepaws were very
skillful little hands, and he deity
erect and holding it to his mouth as
naturally as a boy would hold an
apple.-Our Animal Friends.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05

!M!l|gEse:'};2eqpe
sGS ssG- y
RUDE TELEGRAPHY.
The Odd But Effective Means South
Africans Have of Sending News
and Messages.

Much surprise has been expressed at
the quickness with which the natives
of South Africa have learned the re-
suits of the recent battles between the
Beers and British. These natives know
nothing of our method of telegraph
ing, and yet, when victory has been de-
clared for either of the contending par
ties, the news has been flashed with
amazing celebrity to remote parts of
the country. The manner in which the
news is carried is novel and most in
teresting. Throughout Africa the ma
tives are expert in the use of what is
known as the drum language, and they
use it as we use the telegraph and the
telephone, namely, for the purpose of
sending message from one place to
another.
The most important events, as well
as the daily occurrences in every vii
lage, are transmitted in this way. In
the Congo region, near Stanley Falls,
some of the natives are so skilled in
the use of the drums that they can
carry on a conversation with one an
other at great distance, just as cas-
lily as though they were standing side
by side. The chiefs or head men of the
various tribes converse daily in this
fashion, and thus each quickly learns
what has occurred in the surrounding
districts during the past "a hours.
The drum used for this purpose is
fashioned, as a rule, out of hollow
tree trunk, which is covered with the
skin of an antelope.
In regard to the quickness with
which news is transmitted in AFRICA,
Peter de Deken, the famous traveller,
tells two good stories. While Inspector
Five was in control of the station at
Basoko, he visited one day a distant
outpost and found that it would be
impossible for him to reach home until
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05

date. The most noted instance of in
judicious utterance was that of Rev.
DIR. Burchard in October, 1884, when he
referred to the democratic party as the
party of rum, Romanism and rebel
lion." That remark caused Mr.. Blaine
to lose many thousands of votes. there
by defeating the ambition of his life.
During the campaign of 1896 Maj.
Mckinley not only carefully prepared
every speech which he delivered at his
home in Canton, but he carefully read
every speech which was to be made to
him before it was delivered; and many
of those speeches were revised by the
major before he permitted his visit
ing admirers to be heard. Very few
speeches were made to Mr.. Bryan in
that campaign, as he preferred to do
most of the talking himself.
The first notable political mis-
take in the history of our repub-
lie was made by Henry Clay, in
1914, when he wrote a letter con-
tanning use of less than a doz-
en- words that sealed his defeat. There
WAS pIopdDIy never more popular
politician than Henry Clay, and his
election seemed foregone conclusion
He had been nominated with enthusi-
asm and with unanimity. His party
was splendidly disciplined, and abso-
lutely sure of success. But, unfor-
tunately, Mr.. Clay wrote a letter to a
friend in Alabama, in which he made
some ill-considered allusion to the adj
mission of Texas; and that single sen
tence caused him to lose the cleo
toral vote of New York state, and this
to fail of election to the presidency. II
was called the alabama letter." and
was used upon the hustings everywhere
with great effect to the detriment OF
Mr.. Clay. Politicians of that day all
declared that nothing else could have
comprised Mr.. Clay's defeat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05
where the Swallows Go.

The swallows all spend the winter
in Central America asd the south part
of Mexico. They appear in the south
ern states as eSriy as the middle of
February. but seldom get as far north
as New England until the month of
May. The robins winter in the south
ern states and in northern Mexico.
They are to be seen in hocks the
winter through in the gulf states, and
are often killed in great numbers
there, as they are in very good condi-
ton in the winter season. The migra-
toey instinct is not so strong in this
bird as in some others, and as far
north as Ohio it often remains in
sheltered places all winter. Its at
tachment to familiar spots is very
strong.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05
FUNNY YOUNG BULLDOG.
He Wears Spectacies, Smokes a Pipe
and Is Very Properly Named
"ArtfuI StockbrOker."

A writer in London Sketch says: 7
was looking round the charming
grounds of the Dayton Court hotel a
little time ago, when strange object
appeared before my astonished vision
a handsome young bulldog wearing a
most unmistakable pair of spectacles
and holding a short pipe between his
teeth. 1 had heard of such aids to the
sight of aged dogs, and at different
shows had seen one with set of false
teeth and another with an artificial
knee joint and lower portion of left
foreleg. 1 soon discovered that this
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05
ALCOHOLIC HYPNOTISM.
Criminal Tendencies Developed in
Drinkers, of Which They
Seem Unconscious.

Of all diseases which have the most
effects, none perhaps is more conspic-
uous than alcoholism. 1t weakens the
normal resistance of the body to most
diseases. We used to hear a we'll
known Paris surgeon say to the stu
dents: Gentlemen, this man has
been drinker, which complexities his
chances of recovery"
But alcoholism is still greater evil
on it's sociological side. The police
court platitude, Ten dollars or 80
days." is most often pronounced upon
the poor. If the unfortunate wife
struggles to furnish the ten dollars,
it signifies taking from herself and
children their very life bl BOD. If her
husband is imprisoned, she loses his
support for so days; this means less
food and raiment, where already there
may be criminal deprivation; in either
dilemma the innocent mother and chill
dren almost forfeit the rights of eX-
istence.
But alcoholism also develops Grim
inal tendencies in certain individuals,
which they seem to be unconscious of.
We refer to criminal acts committed
in condition OF alcoholic hypnot;sm
or somnambulism.
Somnambulism may be one of the
deeper stages of hypnotism; it may be
regarded as auto-hypnotism, where the
subject is acting out his dreams.
Somnambulism may be defined as the
condition of an individual who seems
to act in normal manner, who per-
forms acts relatively complex, but has
no knowledge of what he does, or at
least does not preserve any memory
of it. AS everyone knows, this state
is met with either under color of an
accident in some sort of idiopathic con-
dition, as natural somnambulism, or
one is under the influence of hypnotism
or hypnotic somnambulism.
Alcoholic somnamDulism is impor-
tant from the legal point of view.
That alcohol, in certain quantities, can
produce at least fleeting oblivion, an
eclipse of memory, is a fact demon
strated by daily experience. Everyone
has heard it said, if he has not proved
it himself, that when intoxicated a
y man goes home, opens the door and
fgoes to bed-all this without the least
consciousness or slightest remem-
.orance of it. This same forgetfulness
lis shown in alcoholic delirium. The
khenomena of amnesia are much more
pmmon than it is thought. Vetault
yes number of facts to show that
his is the rule under the influence o!
rofound alcoholic intoxication. When
lere is violent delirium or an ap'
roach to noisy alcoholic frenzy, when
amicidal impulses of irresistible
utality have sway, there is, upon
alSing. no remembrance of the
S. The forgetfulness is as com
ste as that which follows the parox
n ct epileptic fury, with which the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05
This boy WINS ImpnrtinI.

A Baptist and Methodist minister
were by accident dining at tn, same
house. The hostess was embarrassed,
not knowing how to ask one minister
to say grace withoue offending the
other The small son quickly grasped
the situation, and, half rising in his
chair, moved his finger rapidly around
the table, reciting:
"Eny meme miny mo,
Catch niger by the toe"
He ended by pointing his finger at
the baptist minister and shouting:
"You're it," The reverend gentle
man accepted the decision.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05

l'ROPERLY defined, politics is the
science of selfishness. Men who
engage in politics, young men
who have political hopes and aspira-
tons, may as well understand that
only those who are selfish and self-seek-
ing can achieve success.
There are exceptions to all rules, but
men who have had long experience in
dealing with politicians will tell you,
if they tell the truth, that there is no
notable exception to this rule, but that
absolute selfishness is a prerequisite
to success in the political world
All living political leaders have their
followers who believe in them implicit
| ly, and who would not for the world
suspect their idols of selfishness. They
pose as the friends of the dear people
and assure their hearers that they are
laboring by day and by night to pro-
mote the welfare of the poor and OPP
pressed. 1t may be easy for the peo-
pie of the present day to believe that
Buchanan, Pierce, Van Buren,, Jackson
and other long dead presidents were
politicians; but the people would not
! like to have mention made of their liv-
ing leaders in that manner.
These reflections and the following
statements are timely because the peo-
pie of this republic are soon to be
stirred to fever heat by political lead
ers in great struggle for the control
of the government. When the candi-
| lo+a &c, Sc, 1a e1a+
and for state offices are shouting and
ranting before the people it may be
| just as well for the calm and consider
ate citizens to realize all the while that
the candidates are not working them
selves into frenzy without hoping for
their own preferment, primarily.
1t has been truly said that "the world
is self, and self alone, from surface to
foundation stone" But selfshness in
business and in all other walks of life
appears but slightly in comparison to
| it's exhibition in the field of politics
Men rend and tear each others reputa-
tons, as wild beasts rend and tear their
prey. Every man endeavors to build
himself up, and in so doing often deems
it necessary to pull down those about
him who aspire. For this reason
young men of real ability, worth and
forcefulness of character find it diff
cult to receive recognition. The older
men who manage political affairs in
their districts and states will not per.
init those young men to rise who mani
fest superior ability. Only those who
dissemble or sincerely truckle to the
leaders are permitted to come to the
| front.
No class of men exercises greater
care and precaution in political cam
paigns than the candidates for the i'm
portant offices. They not only prepare
their speeches carefully, but they scar
and criticise the speeches of those who
are permitted to address their con
stituents. The uttcrance of a single
sentence has often married the fortune:
of ambitious men, even when Spoken
sincerely in the interest of the candi
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05
How Bats Catch Insects.

In a recent number of the Zoologist
is to be found an interesting paper on
the method used by bats in capturing
insects. This animal when walking car
ries its curved tail downward and in
ward, so that the membrane joining
it to the hind legs forms pouch or
bag, into which large insect can be
pushed after it is snatched. This is done
oy slightly spreading the folded wings,
bringing the feet forward to increase
the capacity of the tail pouch, and then
bending the neck and thrusting the
head beneath the body. In spite of
violent struggles, the insect rarely es-
capes, and somewhat similar method
is employed by the bat when on the
wing, as it has been noticed to always
bend up its tail so as to form a recep-
tacle for its prey.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05

The commissioners of the District
of Columbia have decided that the
druggists of Washington cannot sell
malt extracts without the prescrip-
ton of reputable physician. This is
in line of the police court that all
such liquids come within the express
provision of the liquor law.-National
Advocate.