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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

AS medical adviser to the ameer the
English physician naturally learned
much of the man. Consequently, his
knowledge of the princes private pref
udices and probable action under con-
tingency is second to none. DR.. Ham
ilton details a conversation he had
with Abdur Rahman when the latter
first heard of the proposed TRANSIT
berian railroad and realized what such
a line of communication between Rus
STA and Siberia might mean for At
ghanistan Baluchistan, Khiva, Box
hara and those other minor states
which have during the entire century
played grain to the Russian-English
millstones, and while slowly disap-
pearing between the steady encroach-
ments of both, have retained their lib
erty only because neither felt suffi-
GENTLY strong to- absorb them without
the consent of the other
What every country wants nova
days is the sea-" the ameer said on
this occasion, but a navigable sea,
not one that is icebound for eight
months out of the -. That sea, that
navigable sea, is what Russia wants.
Where is she to get it? Away south,
through Afghanistan and Beluchistan.
Chen, again, what every country
wants is bread-bread for its people.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
AMEEk COURTS WAR.
Afghan Troops Reported Ready to
Invade Russian Soil.
Abdur Rahmnn Holds the Balance of
Power in Asia and May Seek to
Ruin Russian Plans In
Northern China.
Especial Correspondence

IN LTHOUGH Europe is always
~ prepared to hear of startling
- military operations, and usual
ly pays but little attention to them,
yet every foreign office was thrown
into genuine CONSERVATION a few days
ago when the news came from At
ghanistan that the ameer was mobil-
izing his forces on the Russian from
tier.
There is no doubt that the compile
ton of the Trans-Siberian railroad,
which makes Afghanistan easily ac-
cessible to Russian troops, has
aroused the jealousy and hatred of
Abdur Rahman, the warlike ruler of
the Afghans, and the actual outbreak
of hostilities between the cars from
tier guards and the ameer's troops
may occur at any moment.
Much light has been thrown on the
causes which led to the present crisis
by DR.. Lillias Hamilton, late medical
adviser of the ameer's family, who left
Herat in June, and has recently ar
rived in London, and whose opinions,
as epitomized in the following para
graphs, are entitled to respectful con-
sideration.
DR.. Lillias Hamilton was at Abdur
Rahman's court more than ten years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
TEMPERANCE FACTS.

The American Journal of Education
says: "There are many indications of
coming assault of the combined
liquor interests upon the law compelI-
ing the teaching of temperance in the
public schools
The judges of the license courts in
Philadelphia have come to the support
OF public morals and decency by de-
claring their opposition to saloons
having side entrances and rooms up-
stairs for the accommodation of wom-
en-.
Since the decision of the United
States supreme court that the Illinois
cigarette law is valid. they will see
that it is strictly enforced. The board
of education and the Anti-Cigarette
league will cooperate in the prosecu-
ton of all violators
After long, and at times discour-
aging, campaign, the good people of
Heber, Ark, have succeeded in secur-
ing the prohibition of saloons. An
appeal was taken from the decision
ofthe county court to the circuit court
with the above result.
In Sweden, in 1920 out of o.4OO rural
parishes, the saloon has been SUD-
pressed. But under the "GothenberD''
system, according to which the gov
eminent takes the management of all
sales of intoXicants. tIe cities of
Sweden are said to be the most drunk.
en- in Europe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

churia. Moreover, the winter season
| is drawing on in Asia Many of the
Siberian rivers freeze up in Septem-
Der. Lake Barkal and the Ameer and
Shilka rivers, important waterways
forming part of the great trunk sys-
TEN, will soon be navigable only by
great labor. If the Afghanistan troops
could push on through Turkistan and
invade -'erghana, the larger part Of
| the requirements ready for China
would have to be turned aside to meet
| them, and Russian schemes on Man
churia, for this year, at least, would
be completely frustrated. The ameer
thus holds the balance of power in
Asia, much the same as the emperor
of Abyssinia does in Africa, and is
courted accordingly by all parties con-
cerned.
Abdur Rahman has a regular army,
variously estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000 troops of all classes. The sys-
tenn is based on European models and
the soldiers drilled by both Russian
! and English officers. In addition to
this the ameer's forces are greatly sup
plemented by local levies of horse and
foot, corresponding to English and
American militia systems. These forces
have been increased 100 per cent. in
the past four years. In 1896 Abdur
Rahman introduced a levy of one man
in every seven and issued arms and am
munition for practice free of cost tc
! the various volunteer organizations.
Cannon, rifles and ammunition of the
most approved type are manufactured
in the royal arsenal at Rabul. The
Afghan cavalry is perhaps the most
formidable branch of the regular serv-
ice, as British and Russian veterans of
, former wars testify. There are so
squadrons of regular horse, drilled into
| efficiency since Roberts marched to
Kandahar by British officers. who seem
to deem it no dishonor to train possi-
BILE future enemy of their native land.
From his 100000 subjects the ameer
can easily raise 100000 effective men,
and may suddenly take such part in
the Asiatic chess game as will surprise
both the lion and the bear, both Of
whom at present watch his movements
with the keenest anxiety.
The Afghanistan troops are bar
racked in times of peace at Herat.
Mazar-i-Shorif, kandahar, Zelalabad
and Kabul. The British foreign Office
has private informa ton that these
towns are bare of troops, and that the
greater part of the ameer's army is Mt
Balkh and Faiza bod, on the Russian
frontier. The mancuver may merely
have been made for practice, after the
method of the kaiser, whom Abdur
greatly admires, and whose military
ideas and systems he endeavors to en-
ulate; but both Great Britain and
Russia have officials who know better,
and who will doubtless take action ac-
cordingly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
BROUGHT TO HIS SENSES.
Pathetic story of IA Drunkard and His
Child-HOw She Transformed
Motto.

"Suffer little children to come unto
Me, and forbid them not. for of such
is the Kingdom of Heaven"
There was little child" whose
soul passed out from under the Tween
ty-third street yiaduct last Friday,
here in Denver. writes Hal Reed. in
the Denver Times, who was suffered to
come unto Him. the gentle, loving
Saviour. You who sit in your luXuri-
GUS homes may wonder how we learn
of these things, and the answer is, by
searching among the Lowry. where
squalor is and the wolf is constantly
at the door.
Maggie" was her name; I'll not tell
you the other one. for the fathev prom
ised me to reform, and | am waiting
to see if he means it.
He has been drunkard for 80 years.
and this story is from his own lips.
He had neglected his wife beaten her.
abused her, starved her and the lit
tie one" and one day she was so tired of
life. so weary of hoping against hope, =
that she folded her hands and went
over Maggie was left to him. but
after he had seen his wife buried in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
GOD is NOWHERE.

the plain pine box. he RENE bered the
days when he had courted her and his
conscience would not let him alone;
her thin dead face kept coming up
before him. and he drank worse than
ever to drown it all out.
Last Thursday he came home to the
barren room. where little Maggie lay
sick unto death. and without crust
of bread-drunk mean, nasty drunk.
without pity. without mercy. without
one iota of humanity within his besod-
den being. Maggie pleaded:
Don't drink any more. papa; don't,
please, for your own sake. for poor dead
mothers sake-for Gods sake"
He did not notice the flush on her
cheek; he did not notice the thin blue
lines about the childish mouth; he did
not know that the dread reaper was
standing at the side of the neglected
bed. He was too drunk. The devil was
in him. He felt in his pocket for piece
of chalk. billiard cue" chalk which he
had picked up in the last saloon. She
had mentioned God. How dared she do
that-the one and only Being he was
afraid of; the One he must one day an
swer to? So he went to the blackened
wall at the side of her bed and wrote:
God is nowhere"
And, pointing at it with coarse
laugh, he walked out of the room and
into the nearest sa,oon.
1t was Friday evening when he re-
turned, and Maggie lay there dead. the
piece of chalk in her hand. He turned
TO the wall and could see where the
fever-strcken little hand had rubbed
out the 'w'' of where and had moved
it over so that his scrawl now read:
God is now here
He could have heard the gentle whirr
of angels wings if he had but listened
then.
He has said he will reform. | am 90
ing to try to help him. and | hope God
will, too.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
THE MISTAKE OF HIS LIFE.
He Was Successful All Along TIL
One Day He Was Chosen
Umpire.

81 was sort of crowded out of poll
tics" said man whose friends at
one time quoted his stock as good for
the presidency of the United States,
relates the Washington Star. 81 had
the theory of the game all right
enough, but it was the effort to prac-
tice that gradually brought about my
downfall. l lived in community
where there was good zeal of wealth
and progressive culture. This means
social pretensions and an adoption of
the popular fads as they appeared.
II believed and still believe that the
successful politician must be all things
to all men. For this reason l pro-
fessed the most profound interest in
golf, craftsmanship, yachting, diplo-
macy, baseball, music, bicycling, bust
ness, church matters, social functions,
football, good horses, bellies, beaus,
bores and everything else than any
portion of the people might favor by
adoption.
THE plain truth is that | knew
something less than nothing about
many of these subjects. | couldn't
clearly define the difference between
home run and a catboat or tell
whether allegro was a term used in
music or happened to be the name of
some new sewing machine attach
ment BY looking wise and saying
little |, however. managed to gain ia
vor as good fellow and the patron
of everything worth patronizing.
While | was at this high tide of pop
ularity there was a match game of
baseball arranged between two of the
schools, and just to add to the eclat
of the occasion | was chosen umpire.
Instead of pleading illness or an i'm
perative engagement for the day /
was darned fool enough to accept.
wore mask, danced around like a
harlequin and proved about as anus
ing as one to everybody but the play
ers. The boys became dangerously
mad at my meaningless mixing of
links, courts, wickets, wides, hard
sports, time allowances and handicaps.
was ANONYMOUSLY 1ired' at the end
of the first inning, and when the BOYS
make their kick, you have no place
in politics. you krow."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
Animals as Drunkards.

The taste for alcohol SAYS the
Revue Scientifique, is not the priv
ilege of man alone. 1t is well known
that horse will eagerly drink
quart of red wine. and that dogs love
beer The exploits of Gideon in Zola's
La Terre" attest from the standpoint
OF literature the bacchic tastes of the
animal. Now Medicine Moderne tells
us of a demonstration made by Mr..
Tut, of London, that even butterflies
may go on spree. In a public lee
ture Mr.. Tut shut up in a case male
and female butterflies with flowers
of divers species. Now. while the fe-
male butterflies qHenched their thirst
modestly by slipping a few drops of
dew in the caIyx' of a rose. the males
INDUCED in characteristic intemper-
ance. They went straight to the flow
ers whose distillation produced the
most alcohol and INDUCED in their
juices till they fell senseless where
they stood. The butterflies were dead
drunk. To further convince his au-
dience, Mr.. Tut introduced into the
case glass of water and several
glasses of brandy. The male butter
flies, without hesitation. chose the
brandy. The fact does not admit of
doubt Male butterflies in a state of
freedom are often attracted by the
carnations of a glass of gin that has
been left on a garden table, and,
having drank of it to excess, sleep the
heavy sleep of drunkenness. Trans
lated for the Literary Digest.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
What Drink Wrought I'm n Coal DrIv-
er's Family at Rochester,
New York.

A Rochester correspondent sends
us the following sad story. the har-
rowing details of which the papers OF
that city recently printed.
In Rochester coal driver. earning
Sl.J0 day, whose family consisted
of his wife and three children, two
,, girls, aged ten and three. and baby
boy of - months. Through the win
ter scarcely a dollar o. this man :
earnings went to provide for the ze-
cessities of his family.
In spite of the toll of the wife, there
has been neither. fuel for the fire nor
tood for the table. day after day
Meager crusts of bread broken into
three fragments have made the sup
pers for the little ones, while the wife
went fasting, because his earnings
have gone to swell the profits of the
saloonkeeper.
On Tuesday morning. April 3, with
neither coal nor bread in the house
the poor woman, worse than a widow.
because her husband was not dead.
listened to the cries of her children
for food, and sent the little ten-vear-
old girl to the grocer to buy a loaf
of bread on credit. The credit was
refused; she owed a bill of 81. SO there.
NO more bread without cash" said
the grocer. Driven by the cries of her
little ones, the woman herself went
to the grocery. and although the gro
Ger would sell her nothing on credit
he gave her out of pity loaf of black
bread. With that alone for food, in
the chilled, cheerless rooms of their
tumbledown home, the children and
their mother lived until noon.
Driven to desperation. the sorrow
ing woman, on the frayed tablecloth,
where lay the last morsel of the black
bread, penned this note to her hus-
band: Il had no money ana could
buy no bread, and | had nothing left
to do but to take my children and
go where the hunger could not pain
us. | was refused credit and could
no longer stand the terrible poverty
that | have endured for years. | was
weak and it was all too much for me.
hope | will be forgiven for my act.
but if my heart could be seen the ACT
would not be called a crime. | am
sorry, but | cannot prevent it now.
1t is too late"
Then taking her little ones to the
back room of their misera Bile home
she lifted the cover from the cistern.
threw them in and plunged in her.
self-and they found them there. all
dead.
Still. who cares? The saloon must
thrive.-National Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
TRACE STOLEN BANK NOTES.
Clever Work of Government Detee-
tives Have Been Rewarded
with Success.


The statement from secret service
headquarters that active search for
the thief who recently stole eight
blank bank notes from the bureau of
engraving and printing has been
abandoned calls to mind one or two
interesting incidents in this case. The
loss of the notes was discovered the
morning after it occurred, when the
! package sheets from which they had
been extracted was subjected to re-
count. Warning was at once sent out
to the national banks to look out for
eight notes lacking seal, check num-
bers and signatures. In some quar-
tiers this warning was deemed super
fiuous on the ground that no we'll
regulated bank would accept such i'm
perfect notes over its counter; but
the response was that some expert
forger might make clever representa-
tions of the seal, numbers and sigma
ture, and that in the haste of handling
large packages of money the trick
might pass muster. Only six of the
notes have since come to hand, but
y
into wel-regulated bank. Indeed,
one of the first was sent to the treas
ury by a leading bank in this city,
says the Chicago Chronicle, with
a letter explaining in tone of
premature eXultation that the note
had been found in the midst of
package of good ones sent to the bank
| nv hank in GanrrnfnNxn in In
ment of an outstanding balance.
| Hardly had this letter time to go upon
| file, however, before a second bank in
| good standing in Washington turned
in another of the notes, which it had
received from bank number one. on
which the laugh now conferred The
| treasury authorities are beginning to
wonder how much good is done by no.
! tifcation after all.
Inquiries have been many ever since
the loss of the imperfect notes as to
where the loss falls in such cases. In
this instance it would fall on the gov
eminent, as the notes had not passed
out of its custody at the time of their
abstraction. The fact that there was
| '4C SNhi' NllNNN IulibCl VI signature
counts for nothing. The government
had printed upon the notes the in
sigma of value, and innocent holders
had been deceived thereby. The re-
demption division of the treasury de-
partment is required to redeem all
| genuine notes. perfect or imperfect,
which come into it through the regu-
lar channels. 1t happens once in
a while, though rarely. that after the
| government has turned over to a bank
a parcel of notes ordered by it some
of these notes are stolen before sig
nature or overlooked in the process
of signing a large number. In all
cases where notes have actually passed
into the custody of bank and after
ward got into the hands of innocent
holders the bank is responsible and
its bond on deposit with the treasurer
are held liable as security for the re-
| demption of the notes. The theory OF
the law is that if a bank does not
wish to be held responsible for it's
notes still in an imperfect stage it
should take better care of them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

81 am he said, like a g@at in .
case, in net. l see before me moth
ing but ruin, for at each entrance to
my home there stands a foe-a wolf,
a bear, lion, all ready to devour me.
But Afghanistan viii not go down
without a struggle. and when the OPP
portunity is afforded | shall demon
strate in such manner as to 'stagger
humanity the power of the Afghans."
The ameer is up on the news of the
world. He must have read Dom Paul
Kruger's defiance of Great Britain with
interest, and doubtless had his own
reflections on the ultimate outcome
of the world-struggle now impending,
in which Asia. from the Holy Land to
Hong Kong, will probably be made the
battle ground of the nations.
The British government officinls,
adds a commentator in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, take great interest in the
ameer's attitude, as such a blow he
might deal Russia would be of far
ton. There appears to be little doubt
that the car means ultimately to
absorb all Manchuria. 1t is said that
the Russian forces in China, now esti-
mated at $4,000 of all classes, may be
increased to the fabulous number of
100000. The car and the kaiser have
openly declared war against China.
While the remainder of the powers
might be induced to withdraw, it is
certain that both Russia and Ger
many contemplate forcing large con-
SESSIONS from Ii Hung Chang. Eng
land, the United States and Japan are
openly and avowedly against parti-
ton. In the world war is acknowl-
edged on all sides to be imminent.
The ameer of Afghanistan could easily
make such a flank attack on the
Trans-Siberian railway as to prevent
reenforcements from reaching Man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
ALCOHOL FROM A TO z.

A.-AVOID ALCOHOL.
B.-Battle with IL.
C.-Call it anything but blessing.
D.-Dread it.
END its existence.
Flight it.
G.-Get away from 1t.
H.-Hate it.
I.-Intensely fear it.
join the pledge never to swallow it.
k.-Knock it over.
Look not upon it.
M.-Meddle not with it.
N.-Never taste it.
O.-Out and out against it.
P.-Prove it to be a sham.
Q.-Quaff it not.
R.-Raise money to oppose it.
Sow teetotal seed continually.
T.-Touch not tine cup
U.-Use no wine. not even home made.
V.-Vie with others to undermine Its
power.
W.-Woe follows the using of it,
X.-'Xpect no blessing in it.
Y.-YOU are wanted to seal it's doom.
Z.-Zanys keep on drinking it.-National
Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

The Army Temperance Association
of England indorses and helps to sus-
tain Temperance rooms" among Brit
ish soldiers. The greatest generals of
England advocate them and say they
are the best weapons for fighting the
ennui which coa:ributes so largely to
immoderate drinking. Soldiers can
have good time in them without re-
course to either the outside saloon or
an army canteen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
Afraid of the Question.

One of the highest officials IN the
Church of England says temperance
is troublesome question, ana minis
ters would not like to burn their fin
gers by touching it," Christian bust
ness men who want relief from the
plague are therefore left to their own
resources for fighting the evil = Rams
Horn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

Mix half pint lemon juice with one
pint sugar. one quart water and the
thin peel of two lemons. Let stand Is
minutes; then strain and freeze When
it begins to thicken add the beaten
whites of two or three eggs. and freeze
till firm. Serve in glasses.-LedgeI
Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
Cables and Their RateS.

There are now ~ cable lines across
.he Atlantic in successful operation.
yet the charge for sending messages re-
mains what it has been for 20 years or
more-25 cents a word for commercial
messages and ten cents word for press
dispatches.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

Newlywed-What is the right thing
to do when your wife asks you for
money and you haven't got it?
Oletimer-Oh! there is no right thing
to do under those circumstances Any,
thing you do will be wrong!-Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
A CuriO DiskrIbutOr

Catch me proposing to girl by let
ter"
What makes you SO timid?"
"Why, three girls in this town have
my framed proposals hanging up in
their 'dens.' detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

Hereafter saloons in Manistique
Mich, must be located at least SOC
feet away from any school building
the city council having passeu an or.
dinance to that effect
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

Mrs, Farmer-Why is it big. strong
man like you doesn't get work?
Tranquility, it's dis rabbits foot,
mum OATS all wot saves me!-Puck,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04

Illinois apples were awarded the
FIRST prize at the Paris exposition.