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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
ISOLATION OF SNORERS.
Taking Care of Loud Sleepers Is a
Problem Which BOthers
Hotel Clerks.

Among group of newly arrived trav-
elers who clustered about the desk of
one of the large city hotels the other
evening was big, jovial looking man
with Roman nose and a collection of
double chins leading down to his col
lar like flight of stairs. says the New
Orleans TimesDemocrat. He nodded
to the head porter as he came in. and
before he registered he shook hands
cordially with the clerk. 1t was evil
dent that he had been there before.
"Well, my boy" he said. after he had
inscribed and blotted his autograph,
what can you do for me tonight ."
The clerk consulted the room chart.
Il can give you steen-leven." he re-
piled. Its very nice room at the end
of the corridor; plenty of light and
air and lots of privacy. Front show
the gentleman to 'steen- leven." but
hold on" protested the large man. Il
don't want that room. It's too far off
Why can't you give me my old room on
the third floor?' I'm very sorry. col
onel,' replied the clerk. but that on
the corridor is the last on the chart
Honestly. I'm lucky to have anything
for you with all the Mardi Gras rush"
well. if it's Hobson's choice. guess
I'll have to take it," said the big guest
and moved away toward the elevator.
Later on the clerk made a confession
in strict confidence to a curious by
stander. Yes. | admit | have q few
other rooms" he said. but they are all
in the middle of the halls. and this gen
tleman is the champion snorer of West
Virginia. Last time he was here I
couldn't keep anybody on either side of
him, and the result was that we had
two rooms tied up from which we were
deriving no revenue. We can't afford
such a waste of space so near Mardi
Gras, so | put him in one of our special
snorers' apartments, of which we have
four, all isolated, at the ends of the cor
ridors. The wall spaces are filled with
mountaineering packing, the transom
is nailed shut, and he can snore there
until the cows come home without dis
turbing anybody. Oh, yes; we keep
record of snorers; also of folk who talk
in their sleep and holler murder in
Nightmares. Have to do it to protect
our other patrons"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
FACT AND COMMENT.

a saloon may change hands, but it
never changes heart.-Ram's Horn.
Nicotine causes death, according to
Stille, more quickly than any sther
poison, except prussic acid.
Railroad companies in Ohio are for
hidden under penalty of 5000 to employ
locomotive engineers who are addicted
to drinking.
Canadians are manifestly not beer
drinkers. They consumed last year but
800 gallons per head. as compared with
a consumption of 1850 in the United
States.
A recent investigation showed that
% per cent. of the inmates of the New
York house of industry were sent
there for crimes resulting from the use
of Intoxicating drinks.
Those men who destroy hea,thful
constitution IS body by intemperance
and an irregular life do as maniiestly
Kill themselves as those who hang or
poison or drown themselves.-Sher-
lock.
"a wealthy brewer in Toledo, O.,
died and left block of valuable brew
cry stock to Grace Episcopal church,
of that city. The parish didn't refuse
the bequest, but regularly receives its
share of dividends, which helps out in
paying the rector's salary."-South-
west LiQuor JeurnaD.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
VICE ADMIRAL SEYMOUR.
British Commander no Leads the
Foreign Land and Naval
Forces in China.

The British commander-in-chi of
the China station, Vice Admiral Sir
Edward Hobart Seymour, is himself
leading the foreign reenforcements to
Picking. Vice Admiral Seymour is
known as one of England's fighting
commanders. He has seen much war
service, and several years of it have
been spent in the China seas. He
was midshipman of the Calcuttas
launch when it was sunk in the de-
struction of the Chinese fotilla in
Fatshan creek in 1857, and was en-
gagged in the capture of Canton in the
same year, and the capture of the
Peiho forts in 1853. For these serv-
ices he wears the China medal with
the Fatshan, Canton and TaIu clasps.
He served during the China war of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12

church in Washington. He became
very popular in his church, and inter-
ested himself in a great number of So
cial movements, all of which proved eff
fective under his care. After ten sue
cessful years as bishop of Richmond he
became rector of the Catholic univer-
sity in Washington. His administra-
ton was strong and able, and he ac-
complished wonders, financially and
educationally. Then in 1896 he was sue
ceeded by the present rector, Mgr.
Conaty, and called to Rome. He had
been identified with the liberal Ameri-
can prelates, such as Cardinal Gibbons
and Archbishop Ireland, and his enc
mics said that his removal was a sign
of the pope's displeasure. That state
ment was soon refuted by the honors
which the pope heaped upon him. He
was made titular archbishop of Damas-
Gus, canon of st. John of Lateran, and
consulter to the congregations of the
propaganda and of studies. Since then
he has been very influential at Rome.
His name has been repeatedly men
toned since then for an American arch
bishopric.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
TOWN OF LUNATICS.
Village of Ban-Keune Has Not a
Single Sane Inhabitant.
"Sink or Swim" Is the Test for Mad
ness Adopted in IndO-Chinn-PeO-
pie Are Thoroughly Salts
fled with the System

In Indo-China is the only village of
mad1nen in the world. The village,
which is called Ben-Keune, is composed
of some 800 families, is highly organ
lied as a community, is industrially
prosperous and pays yearly goodly
tribute to France. Yet, says the New
York World, it has not single sane
inhabitant.
Admission to Ban-Keune is, it must
he confessed, a trying affair. No mere
victims of melancholia, of shattered
nerves." of hypochondria or any of
the similar ailments so fashionable in
the opposite quarter of the world are
granted dwelling place in this most
exclusive of towns.
To enter it one must be downright
mad-or, as the natives call it, "pipop."
The conception of insanity prevailing
in this part of the world is not that
of disease, but of a possession"
Therefore if an inhabitant of this re-
gion, as is frequently the case, displays
Authorizations or conducts himself in
fashion not consistent with Indo-
Chinese etiquette his neighbors take
it upon themselves to determine
whether any malign spirit possesses
HMM other words, whether he is
"pipop." And this is the way it is
done:
The unfortunate person, whether it
be man, woman or child, that has
fallen under suspicion of possession
is made the subject of ceremony on
the banks of the River Namngume
participated in by hundreds of persons
gathered together from all the coun-
try for miles about. The victim's
hands and feet are first bound by the
native priest, who is the master of
ceremonies.
Absolutely helpless from this time
on, the supposed maniac, in spite of
us cries and struggles, is cast into
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
3'5f 5IAIi}'1}:Il|!|II!!!.Zl!
THE COLD WATER BARN.
Interesting "Reminiscences of Old
Days when Whisky ard Barn
Raising Went Together.

$50 you are studying temperance in
the public schools?" said grandpapa to
the boys. THAT is no new study to me.
was taught not only temperance, but
total abstinence both by precept and
example when l was a boy; 'teetotal-
ISM as it was called in those days"
Grandpapa is nearly 90, and can re-
member so much American history
that the boys regard him as mine of
information. 1t is much easier when
they are told at school to find out any
historical fact to ask grandpapa about
it than to look it up in any history or
encyclopedia. But now when ke was
asked to give temperance instruction
he said he didn't know nearly as much
of the scientific side of the subject as
is known nowadays, but if the boys
were tired of study he would try TO
make the lesson, which they found
rather dry, more interesting by little
"Reminiscences.
you know" he said, that I was
born way down in the state of Maine,
where my father was a doctor in the
ROou ola Gays When doctors gave Stl1t
doses of calomel and, quinine and bled
their patients for every ailment, from
headache to fits. But my father was in
many ways ahead of his times, and
never dosed more than he could help,
though he had to give strong physic
sometimes to satisfy his patients. He
was a great temperance man, and he
had good reason for being so, for no
man had seen more of the evils of in
temperance.
''In the little town where he lived, up
in the Maine mountains, there were no
less than three whisky distilleries, and
hard drinking was so common that it
was hardly considered disgrace for
the deacons of the church to drink all
their lives and often altogether too
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
CUNNING IN A CHURCH.
A Pigeon Killed from Near the Altar
While Many WOrshipers Were
at Prayer.

Cunning for live birds in a church
situated on the principal street of as
important city as Milwaukee was one
of the recent happenings there. A local
expert in the use of the shotgun,
man who has frequently figured in
trap-shooting contests, shot at a
pigeon in Gesu church, startling the 200
worshipers who were present, but MAX
ing as clean a kill as was ever recorded,
the bird, according to the Milwaukee
Sentinel, dropping within bounds and
needing no retrieving. 1t was a long
shot, too. up to the lofty arches of the
great auditorium, and there was a bad
light, but the second barrel was not re-
quired. 1t all happened in this way:
a pigeon, few days before, alighted
on one of the open windows of the
church, and becoming frightened few
into the editice, making at once for the
highest point it could discover. The
sacristan noticed it, and made vain eff
forts to drive it out. The windows were
open and the doors left aiar. but the
bird held its ground and would not
leave. 1t was rather a pretty sight,
too, to the worshipers to watch the
pigeon as it flew from end to end of the
church, now above the altar and now
away back to the choir loft, and the
ideas it suggested were pleasing. The
sexton, however, did not see it that
way and the presence of the bird graf
ed on him. He is a hearty Irishman
with big heart and he waited as long
as he could give it chance to escape
He gave it a name and tried to feed it.
but finally became convinced that the
pigeon had come to stay. which was not
in accordance with his ideas, so he de-
termined on its death
He wanted the execution to be a
clean one and carried out without
hitch, so he betooi himself to a gun
store and asked if a good shot" was to
be found there. The answer was in the
affirmative, but surprise grew to in
credulity when the man announced his
mission. A livebird hunt in a leading
the sporting proclivities of the men in
the store, and they thought they sight
ed joke. However. they became con-
WINGED of the earnestness of the neces-
sity, and undertook the task. Several
shells were specially prepared, a good
gun was selected and the Nimrod wend-
ed his way to the church. He hesitated
when he saw the number of people at
prayer, and wanted to withdraw. but
the sexton knew no retreat and insist
ed that the life be taken. He informed
the priest in charge of what was in
tended. the hunter took his stand near
the altar of the church. and awaiting
favorable chance. fired. Down tumbled
the poor. half-starved bird and up
jumped the startled Pensioners.
The situation was readily under
stood. however, and soon forgotten be-
yond that the marksman and the sex
ton have marked it in their list of great
events.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12

1860 as lieutenant on board the Ches.
apeake, and he commanded a small
arm party of the Imperieuse at the
relief of Singapore and the capture OF
Eahding IN 1862.
Vice Admiral Seymour also served
when midshipman on board the Ter
rible, through the Russian war in the
Black sea in 1S54-55. He was present
at the bombardment of Odessa and Sc
bastopol in 1854 and at the capture of
Kertch and the bombardment of Kin
burn in 1855. In 1882 he commanded
the Iris during the Egyptian war.
He is 60 years old.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12

much. 1t was to remedy this state of
things that the first temperance move
ment in America originated, but total
abstainers, or teetotalers, were at
first so few that their neighbors con-
sidered them fanatics, or unsocial and
cranky fellows.
But everyone respected my father
in spite of his teetotalism, and my
mother would cheerfully have endured
real persecution for what she consid-
cred right, bore with great patience
the little rudeness of neighbors, who
after all would do anything for US
when we were sick or in trouble.
I'VE were always being told that this
thing or that thing couldn't be done
without rum. and in particular it was
said that it was impossible to raise a
barn withoutit. In thosedaysthe heavy
beams that supported the barns were
raised at one time into place, business
which took good deal of strength and
skill. All the men for miles around
used to be asked to help and rum and
cider were freely served to give them
strength.
"One September evening when we
were at supper there was a knock at
the door and a nice looking stranger
entered, demanding the doctor My
mother told him the doctor was out;
was he in a hurry?
''We children all stared at the stran-
ger, for we knew everyone for ten miles
around, and a man from greater dis
lance was a rarity.
L understand he continued. that
the doctor is teetotaler?'
1--WE are all teetotalers here said
my mother, modestly but firmly.
That's right said the stranger.
emphatically. I'm glad of it. come
way from Sandrocks. It's such rum
hole that Nathan Barstow can hardly
get man to help him raise his barn.
He asked them all to come last week
and got them a good dinner, but when
they saw he hadn't got rum or cider
they wouldn't one of them move when
it was time to lift; but he isn't going
to give up raising his barn. We're 60
ing to have help from all the towns
round and we thought the temperance
men in Popplefeld would come and
help u.s.
"'My husband will go if he can,
said my mother. But if he can't, l
can send four men; two hired men,
and two boys who can do the work
of men. This boy will go, too, if he
can be of any use,' she added, pointing
me out.
owed like all we can get to-mor-
row. said the man from Sandrocks
THE farm is the first on Rapid river
after you leave the Corners on your
right And off he drove as he eX-
planned he was going over to Red Hill
on his way back to raise some tenn
perance people there.
''We had no difficulty in finding Ma
than Barstow's farm, as we saw it
from the hills long before we reached
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
ARCHBISHOP KEANE.
HIS Appointment to the See of Du-
buque Approved by the Congre-
cation of Cardinals.

The appointment of Archbishop
keane to the vacant see of DUBUQUE
has been practically approved by the
sacred congregation of cardinals. 1t
is said there was unusual unanimity in
their decision.
Archbishop Keane first came into
public notice when he succeeded Car
dinal Gibbons as bishop of Richmond.
That was 25 years ago. Before that
time he had been assistant pastor of
St. Patrick's, the leading Catholic
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
Olive Sandwiches.

Stone dozen olives, chop them fine.
with a stick of celery and one small
cucumber pickle, add teaspoonful of
catsup, onehalf tablespoonful of made
mustard, tablespoonful of salt, speck
of pepper and dash of cayenne; mix
well and spread on thin slices of brown
bread lightly buttered, cover with an
other slice of bread, press together
firmly and remove all crusts. Other
bread may be used. also a slice of meat
may be placed over the dressing
Good Literature.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
Custom the Knight, Had

When a knight of old entered a COM
pany of ladies he removed his he'll
met to indicate that he considered
himself among friends, and that
there was no need 10 protect himself.
This practice has survived in the GUS
tom of raising the hat when saluting
a lady.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
Alcoholic Inheritance.

DR.. Legrain's investigations on alco-
holic Inheritance are tabulated as fol-
lows: In the first generation from in
ebriety the mental and physical de-
generates were II per cent. of all. In
the second generation o6 per cent were
detectives. In the third generation not
one escaped, all were idiots, insane,
hysteric, or pileptic.-Journa of In
ebriety.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
Silks Made Of wood Fiber.

Artificial silks are made of wood
fiber, reduced to cellulose by the action
of acids. This is dissolved in a glue
like consistency, forced through holes
In glass, and drawn out into threads,
which dry and harden in the air, just ali
those of the silkworm or spider do.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12

The three gentlemen of Constants
nople who were arrested for carrying
plans of the sultan's apartments con-
fessed, says the Omaha World-Herald
that they had not located the exact
room where the willy old monarch pre-
served his souvenir ultimatums.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
NudElnE.

my love-" he protested my love f.
you's grea' Sever"
80, yes, l suppose So she replied.
"You have preserved it in alcohol
Philadelphia North American.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12

A New Milford Comm woman pro-
poses to reform saloons by having the
best citizens visit the barrooms, not to
drink, but to form social surround
ing of high order.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
Not a Crack Shot.

Willis-Did you have any luck out
shooting?
Wallace-No; the birds had all the
luck-Harlem Life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-12
All Must BE Missionaries

One rule of the Mormon church Is
that young members must sew. tI-.~
years in missionary worA
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-09-02
CuraCi0n
del cancer

<La Nature, de Paris asegura
que acaba de descubirse 81 metOdO
para curar el cancer por medic de
<serum.s
Hericourt y Richet han diluido
un tumor canceroso y ese llquldo 10
han inyectado q algunos animales;
la sangre de estos ha sido inyectada
a su vez tres enfermos con admi
rabies resultados.
Acerca de este portant1simo
descubrimiento encontramos tam
bien 10 siguiente en- otro peri6dico:
<En la Ultima session de la Aca-
demia de ciencias, los doctores Re-
clus y Terrier han anunciado Ell des
cubrimiento de un suero para la Gu
raci6n del cancer y de los tumores
cancerosos. Sc han curadO con el
radicalmente muchas Intermediates
que Sc consideration como incura-
bles.
Ell sistema seguido para ell cul
two de los <bacilus, del cancer es
ell mismo adoptado por el doctor
Roux para el cultivo de los <bacilus
de la difteria.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-09-02

En- una balsa de Godellta (Valen
cia) ha perecido ahogado un anciano
de 70 amos, ]lamado Tomas Ramon
Caballero, que estando bafandose
fue arrastrado por la corriente, sin
que nadie le pudiera prestar 5000
rrO.
En- Turegano Segovia dos We
cinos de dicha villa han matado q
palos a Rufino Cabrera. Atrib 1ye-
Sc Ell crimen a resentimientos perso
males que mediaban entire la victima
y los agresores.
Estos han sido puestos q disposi
ci6n del juzgado y estan va conv:c-
tos y confesos.
<La boda de la princesa de AS
turias con ell conde de CaSerta, en-
contraba obstaculos nuy serios =
Estos, por 10 visto, han desapa
recido, y ell enlace Sc verifcara 81
timos de este af1o q principles del
pr6ximo:
D1cese que el sef1or Silvela con-
tnuara en- ei poder ha sta que la prin
cesa contraiga matrimonio:
Los hortelanos de dos Alfredo.
dores de Madrid, en- ndmero de unos
300 SO han declarado en- huelga, pi
diendo que el descanso de medic dia
sea de tres horas, que4a jornada ter
mine un cuarto de hora despues de,
ponerse ell sol, y que les sean retri
builos los trabajos hechos on horas
extraordinarias;
En- la iglesia parroquial de San
Luis Sc celebraron el martes las
diez de la maf1ana, solemnes exc
quias por ell eterno descanso de los
individuos de los distintos cuerpos
de la Arm ada que fallecieron en- el
combate de Santiago de Cuba:
Asistieron ell Sr, Silvela ell
personal de Marina resjdente en-
Madrfd:
El Nuncio, el Arzobispo Obispo
de Madrid 'Alcalay y ell vicario gene
raj castrense han concedido indul
gencias:
EN- "a iglesia de la Gale de la
Flor Baja de la Companfa de Jesds,
Madrid celebr6 su primera misa ell
padre Lacaze, coronel que ha sido de
'Estado Mayor:
Al acto asisti6 corcurrencia muy
distinguida entire ella muchas sef1o
ras Sc 1oritas; y Ell el presbiterio
estaban los padres de la Compaf1fa
cue residen en- Madrid, ell general
Azcarraga y muchos jefes y ofcia,es
del ejercito hallandose en- mayor1a
los procedentes de Estado Mayor:
En- Villanueva de las Minas
(Sevilla) ha sido muerto de un bala-
20 por la Guardia civil un criminal
llamado Antonio Castro, que inten
to escapar cuando la benem6rita ira
t6 de detenerle.
En- Pilas Sevillal Sc ha come
lido un horroroso fratricidio, que
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-09-02
El or1gen
de la raZa. n6gra.

Ell gran explorador africano, sir
Henry M: Stanley, dedica Ell cl nu
nero de Mayo del sNorth American
Revieu, un al tlculo de mucho inte
res al eorigen de la raza negras
La cuna de esta raza, como la
de muchas otras, dice que ha sldo Ell
Asia, de donde los negros emigraron
al Africa en- cuyo continents uueda
ron privados de relaciones con ell
resto del mundo por los inexorables
y egoistas Egipcios y por las barre
ras geograficas del Sahara y 6el Me
diterraneo por el Norte y el Atlanti
co y Occeano Iudico por ell Oeste
Est9; Sir Henry Sc csfuerza en- de
mostrar los efectos que han product
do en- los atrlcanos, ma, de 1000
amos de falta de cruce, cuya conse
cuencia ha sido su aislamiento:
<NO hay necesidad, dice el escri
<tor, de buscar los trazos de un cont
<nente sumerjido, para situar 81 orr
<gen del primer negro de lanudo Pc
<lo, nj del Bushinan, de color de ba
<rro del mas oscuro enano: Asia
<posee bastante amplitud para que
econ 500 que nos tOmemos el traba
ejo de considerar sus va-iedades de
<clima, nos expiiquemos las mas ex
<tra11as divergencias de la raza hu
<mana, que alIf se'han desarrollado:
eel cont:nente que exhibe ell Mongol
ode ojos almendrados, ell circaciano
<de ojos azules, los negros tintos
<Gondas y Bahillas, los triguenos
ePaharias, los enanos Aeta, los ia
<dios de nariz de gancho, y e] tartaro
sde nariz chiquita, puede seguramen
ste haber producido tales ccntrastes
<como ell negro de pelo lanudo y ell
<Ayano de sedoso cabello: Pero en-
<todos mis- viajes no he visto NADIA tan
<maravilloso como esto, y es, que en-
<cualquier forma en- que he visto al
<hombre, existe algo en- el que pare
<ce justificar la creencia de que to
<dos somos hijos de un mismo pa
<dre>: