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The Republican., 1900-12-20

sion of her last visit to that city she
invited Mr.. Winner to hold reception
with her after concert she had given.
Those who remember having seen
the name of Alice Hawthorne given as
the author of the song on its title page
will perhaps wonder why this name
was given as the author if it was writ
ten by Mr., Winner. The explanation is
that Mr.. Winner wrote great many
of his songs over the pen name of Alice
Hawthorne, and sent Listen to the
Mocking Bird" into the world over that
name. Another pen name of his is
'Mark Mason" Indeed, most of his
longs have been written over names
other than his own, which is proof of
the fact that modesty is one of Mr.. VIM
ner's most marked characteristics.
Soldier boys of the civil war will re-
member another song of Septimus
Winners that was the sensation of the
day when it was first put into circula-
tion, and that was sung around many a
camp fire. This once famous old war
song was "Give Us Back Our Old Com
mander." 1t was inspired by the re-
moval of Gen. Mcclellan from the COM
mand of the army of the Potomac The
failures of his successors created much
criticism and discomfort, and this fact
suggested the song to Mr.. Winner. 1t
voiced the sentiment of the thousands
of soldier boys who loved Mcclellan,
and the song made such an impression
that it attracted the attention of the
war department. Some idea of the i'm
preston the song had made may be
ad from the fact that the department
war felt called upon to suppress it,
and an order went forth forbdding the
sale of the song. Mr.. Winner was noti-
fed by the war department that he
would be imprisoned in Fort Lafayette
If he continued to sell the song. and a
public singer, Julia Mortimer, who was
singing with tremendous effect on the
stage, was informed that she would be
imprisoned if she continued singing il.
More than $4,000 copies of the song
were sold in Washington alone. and
its author became one of the most
talked-of men of the day. One may be
sure that the soldiers did not take kind
y to the order forbidding them to sing
the song, and the feeling against Gen.
Burnside, who had succeeded Gen. Nc
Clellan, was stronger than it had been
before.
Mr.. Winner is also the author of that
old-time favorite, "What Is Home With
out Mother?" He wrote also 'Whis-
pering Hope" and many other favor
ties. Indeed, he is the author of several
hundred songs and of a great many
books on musical topics, while his mu-
sical arrangements for the piano and
violin reach into the thousands
The Republican., 1900-12-20

at Waverley, Mass. His mind is com.
plete wreck and even the most sanguine
of his friends have given up hope of his
restora tion to reason.
During his entire illness Mr.. Bou-
telle's daughter has been a ministering
angel. She is beautiful young woman
and was long favorite in Washington
society. She would be gladly welcomed
back to the scenes of her social tri-
umphs, but has chosen instead to re-
main close to her father. She has sac
rifced everything to be as near the one
she loves as possible. Not day passes
but she drives from her lodgings to the
insane asylum to spend as many hours
with the patient as the doctors will al
low. By her tender and loving caresses
she seems to soothe the uneasy patient,
and if Congressman Boutelle RECEIVERS
the doctors declare the credit will be
due to his affectionate daughter.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
SAD END OF A KING.
Theodore of Corsica Died in Abiect
Poverty in London.
Lost His DOminiOns Like Mr.. Kruger,
and Also His Caste-His Epi-
tnph Composed by Horace
WalpOle, His Friend.

Mr.. Kruger has lost his country,
but, according to all accounts, he is
scarcely likely to see the inside of
debtors prison and die penniless.
Such a fate befell a less fortunate
monarch whose tombstone still stands
in the Gods acre which surrounds
the Parish church of ST. Anne, Soho,
London.
King Theodore of Corsica was born
at Metz in 1896. Invited by the gen
eral assembly of the Corsicans to be.
come their king, he was duly crowned
in 1886, but few years sufficed to ex-
haust his personal wealth. After APP
pointing a regency of 80 mobiles to
manage the state in his absence, he
commenced a pilgrimage of solicita-
tion to obtain foreign aid and money
to support his rank and style as king
of Corsica.
He was more or less Hospitality re-
ceived in several courts, but the prime
object of his mission was not achieved.
Arriving in England at last, he was
referred to the admiral of the Med
IleTTdHedn Meet, VINO WOuIu ana MIN
by order of the home government. But
when King Theodore learned that his
landing would be opposed, he returned
to England.
Having borrowed on the continent
where and when opportunity present
ed itself, he laid himself open to the
wiles of the Genoese mobiles, who
were ever scheming and plotting
against him. He was arrested for
debt of 5000 florins in Amsterdam
and thrown into prison, but subse-
quently released by subscription be-
ing raised by Jews and foreigners to
liquidate his debt. A Spanish Jew
advanced hHn 10000 forins, and in
1888 he successfully attempted land
ing in Corsica.
Back again to England, where he
received considerable sympathy and
support, he was again seized for debt
and cast into the Kings Bench
prison. In prison he affected as regal
a state of demeanor as his surround
The Republican., 1900-12-20

alertly and mysteriously expectant."
Into the heart of this wood Kirstie
Craig, with her little girl, Miranda,
goes to find home and to escape the
gossip of busy tongues. A savage
place for home, these Canadian
woods, especially for an unprotected
woman, but ''Kirstie Craig's got grit
enough for ten men" and she proves it,
too.
The reader follows WITH close inter
est the education of the child, who
comes on good terms with the shy ami
mails about her Her pet is a great She
bear, that had once rescued her from a
panther. AS Thorsan had power over
the denizens of the wood, and even over
the fish of the stream, so this child
finds strange companions and mar
velous control over them.
Love that never halts at bolts or bars
finds his way into this ancient forest as
the child Miranda grows to woman
hood. Her lover is a young hunter and
he antagoniZes the beasts that are so
friendly with Miranda. Naturally a
collision follows and this serves as
plot for the story. The girls love for
the man is greater than her love for
animals and his love for her is greater
than his love for sport. Together they
leave the heart of the ancient wood
One gets very close to nature in this
prose poem. Evidently the author has
himself lived in the forest, where the
silence is audible. Like Henry James,
Howells and Stephen Crane, he has an
eye for closest detail, an advantage to
the reader, who may find in Mr.. Rob-
erts far more than he is likely to find
in the ancient wood. not because it is
not in the wood, but because, unlike Mr..
Roberts, he has not the eyes to see it.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
TEMPERANCE FACTS.

Corkscrews have sunk more people
than cork jackets will ever save.-Chi.
cago Daily News.
In the London temperance hospital.
during 25 years, alcohol has only been
used in 81 cases out of total of more
than 81 900.
Legislation against drunkenness in
Belgium dates from 1887. 1t deals
with the drunk and disorderly. sup
plying liquor to a drunken person or
to child under IS.
There are 6,OOO.OOO more total alb
stainers to-day than so years ago, and
yet there are 20 per cent. more drink
ers. The increase in population ac-
counts for this apparent contradic-
ton.
In the New York Central service 90
years ago the aggregate proportion
of men discharged for drunkenness
was 20 per cent, but now, with 30O,-
coo men in the employ of the company
less than one per cent. is dropped
from the rolls for that cause.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
A FALLACY REVEALED.
statement of the Case Which Shows
That Alcohol Is Not
Food.

1t is claimed that alcohol is a food
because it is oxidized in the body.
The fallacy in this argument will be
clearly seen if it is stated in the form
OF syllogism.
All foods are oKidized in the body.
Alcohol is oxidized in the body, there
fore alcohol is a food. Let us take
some other substances that are known
to be oNidized in the body. Phosphorus
is oxidized in the body, therefore phos-
phorus is food. Iron filings is oxi-
dized in the body, therefore iron filings
are food. In the decay of meat and
other proteids, certain compounds are
formed as ptomaines. Some of these
are deadly poisons and are oXidized
in the body, therefore ptomaines are
food.
Again, it is claimed that alcohol is
q food because it decreases tissue
waste. Apply the syllogism and see
how this will bear the test of logic.
Morphine, when taken into the body.
reduces tissue waste, therefore NOR
phine is a food. Arsenic diminishes >
tissue waste, therefore arsenic is 2
food. And so we might multiply by
going through the whole list of mar
cotic poisons.
What can be said in defense of such
sophistry? Is it not an insult to the
common intelligence of school chill
dren? To say nothing of the audacity
of attempting by such argument to
overthrow the combined testimony of
the highest authorities on physiology!
journal of Inebriety.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
NOTED SONG MAKER.
Septimus Winner, Author of ellis
ten to the Mocking Bird"
Little known to the World, Although
His Music Has Been Sung by
ThOusands-Hale and
Hearty at "a.

At Philadelphia an old man, who cele-
brated his seventy-fourth birthday last
May, is busy just now correcting the
manuscript of a new song. At the
same time that friends gathered about
him last spring to congratulate him
on his birthday they also congratulated
him because it was the forty-fourth
anniversary of the publication of the
song, Listen to the Mocking Bird"
This song, says the st. Louis Repub-
lie, has gone all over the world. The
greatest of singers have sung it, street
urchins have whistled it, and the great
est of musicians, as well as the hum
blest, have played it. The name of the
author on the title page of the music
is Alice Hawthorne. This is an as
sumed name. The real name of the
composer is Septimus Winner.
Mr.. Winner has always made his
home in Philadelphia. This is Mr.. VIM
ner's account of the circumstances un-
der which he wrote the famous Listen
to the Mocking Bird" as he related it
recently to few friends:
'At the time wrote the song there
was a lively merry-hearted little col
ored boy running around the streets
of Philadelphia. The boy was always
whistling or singing to the accompani-
ment of guitar, and was fond of lis
tening to him. One day asked him If
he would sing a song if l would write
it for him. He said that he would, and
| wrote Listen to the Mocking Bird
set it to music myself and taught it to
the boy. 1t at once became popular
and every one was whistling the air or
singing the words, and when l pub
lished it there was great demand
for it,"
The song was sung all over America
and in many parts of Europe. Many
of the most noted public singers of the
day sang it on the stage, and one such
singer in particular, Miss Emma Ne
vada, has sung it in all parts of the
world. She is so fond of the song that
she sought out the author when she
was in Philadelphia, and on the oeea-
The Republican., 1900-12-20
L..
FOR LOVERS OF NATURE.
Life in the PrimevnI Woods POeticaI-
ly Described in Charles C. ID.
Roberts New Book

If one chooses to enter the forest
primeval by proxy, or if he would be
tempted to go himself into wilds and
thickets let him read Mr. Roberts ''The
Heart of the Ancient Wood" just is
sued by Silver, Burdette & Co., of New
York. On the very first page the sweet
calm of the forest steals over the read
er. There is no desolation, for the
wood is "populous in its reserve"
Every dell, every nook, every crevice is
instinct with life. Even the silence is
mot indolently soft, like that which
sifts in green shadow through the leaf
age of a summer garden, but tense,
The Republican., 1900-12-20

With strength that comes to evry faithful
wife,
And in return, drunkard's gift gave
But God was kind, and offered her grave.
Not much to live for, boys-I know tbs sad
ly true.
But somehow up in Heaven think see
My lost ones looking down and watching
all do,
And maybe they are praying there for me.
And if in Heaven they cry, know there's
tears of joy
On mothers cheeks, to see once more her
boy
Living as he should live; and she my angel
wife
Weeps joyful, happy tears, at my new,
better life.
l cannot preach, but let my ruined years
Be as a sermon strong as preached upon
the mount.
Turn back from DRINK-with shuddering.
loathing fears
And all the bitter costs and sacrifices
count.
Turn back from that saloon-you know as
know well,
'Tis but arr open door to ruin and to hell.
Turn back, say, while yet there's time and
room,
God shield you from the curse-a drunk
ards life ana doom.
L cannot predcn-but mad tongue of flame
I'd rear my warning words upon the very
air,
I'd call upon the Father in His name
So loud that farthest Heaven should hear
my prayer
That drink should cease-that from earth s.
towers the knell
OF the saloon should toll, as it sinks down
to hell.
Would I might stand upon some housetop
high,
And tell in burning words the sin and
curse of drink;
Would that my words might reach as far as
earth to sky,
AS far as Heavens gate, down to helrs
seethng brink
This would 1 say: men and brothers all,
Drink is the curse, the wormwood and the
gall,
or human kind. and venomed is its breath.
It's but another name for sin, and shame
and death.
S. B. McManus, in Rams Horn.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
MISS GRACE BOUTELLE.
Famous Maine Belle is DevOting All
Her Time to Taking Care
of Her Sick Father.

Although the reelection of Charles A.
Boutelle, of Maine, to seat in congress
will probably never reach him, it is a
source of great satisfaction to his
daughter, Miss Grace, who is devoting
her life to his comfort. As is well
known Mr.. Boutelle has been for many
months an inmate of private asylum
The Republican., 1900-12-20
WHAT IT COSTS.
Net Loss to the Nation of $2,53! ,5O4.-
377 Yearly Through the
Drink Evil.

To give the exact total money cost
of the drink traffic to the nation is
a very difficult if not an impossible
t4ing, so many are the elements which
enter into its consideration. All that
we can do is to enumerate some of
the most important of these. AS dur
ing the last decade of years the retail
cost of Intoxicating liquors has run
all the way back and forth from $780,
100000 to $1,1OO, 100000, we place the
annual retail loss at 81 200, 100000.
The waste of grain used in the man.
ufacture of these liquors is direct
loss. That loss is as follows:
The Republican., 1900-12-20
The Census of 1000.

A booklet giving the population of all
over according to the census of 1900 has
just been issued by the passenger depart
ment of the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 ST. Paul
Railway, and a copy of it may be obtained
by sending your address, with two-cent
stamp to pay postage, to the General Passen-
ger Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway, Chicago, H.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
$l4l,000, fS7


Net loss .........................$ 50 537 504 81;
In the foregoing tables the items
charged to the liquor traffic, except
the official figures, are moderate esti.
mates, and many things which might
properly be included are omitted, be.
cause of the difficulty of putting them
into dollars and cents. One can scarce.
ly grasp the awful significance of the
above figures.
Surely it is the part of all good
citizens to see to it that such fright.
full source of waste and destruction
is dried up.-James B. Dunn, DID,.
General Secretary National Temper.
ance Society.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
s 8 RESsiasZ25llaaG1ee z Y
anl144(
A CASE OF MURDER.

You can call me any name you care to call
me,
Along the line of Coward" "cad," or
'chump,"
But if all the cruel things that might befan
Were punched and put in one big wicked
lump,
They'd just be simply nothing 60 what
would happen if
I'd go into that saloon and take one little
sniff
AS you urge me; an coward, I'll admit.
But I've fairly fair good cause for being it.
Yousee killed my mother-why, you start!
All the same l killed her just true
AS I'm a standing here-I broke her heart;
And that's what drinking and saloons for
some folks do.
She loved me with her great true mother
love,
And from her Heaven home with angels up
above
/ hope she knows my constant, bitter tears
Atonement are for all her sorrowing years.
killed my wife; you start again. see
I've learned to call things by their proper
name:
OF all in life I'd hoped and tried to be,
Nothing was left, but sorrow, sin and
shame;
She loved me as she loved her souI and life,
The Republican., 1900-12-20
Coughing Leads to Copsumption.

Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a
sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 80
cents. Go at once: delays are dangerous.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

There was 56 times as much liquor
exported to Porto Rico in 1899 as in
1898; So times as much to the Philip
piIe islands, and 1000 times as much
as the average to the Philippines for
the last ten years.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
What Shall We Have for Dessert,

This question arises every day. Let us an
sswer it to-day. Try Jell-O, delicious and
healthful. Prepared in two minutes. No
boiling! no baking! add boiling water and
set to cool. Flavors:-Lemon, Orange, Rasp-
berry, Strawberry. At your grocers. l0c.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

OF this amount it is safe to say
that at least rs per cent. is due to
drink. making a loss from this source
of $6S,SS1,1 ,110. But this is only the
cost of the state or local governments
for the courts, of police, jails, poor
houses and other methods caring for
the criminals and paupers, and does
not include the private losses due to
these causes. They may be safely es-
| timated at as much more, another $6S,
SS1 ,11O, making the cost for poverty
and crime, $137 7,762,22O.
Loss of Labor.-The nation loses a
great deal because of the prevention
of the production of w,o,th on ac-
count of persons being in jails, hos
pitfalls, asylums, or in any way idle
through intemperance as hard drink
ers. 1t is estimated that this number
is over 100000, and as the average
| yearly wages are 1854, this would
show loss of $1,77O, 100000, but we
are safe in placing the figures at one
half this sum, 1886, 100000
Then there is the loss of others la
bors occasioned by these hard drink
ers; as not infrequently the working
of a gang of men in a factory is inter-
fered with by the absence of one or
more through drink. We put this at
one-fourth, 1921, ,25O, 600, making a to,
tai of 81, ,106, $50, 900.
Shortened Lives-Tt is estimated
+ba+ 10O 0On do ax,ar1, ,-oor +bo ,,;o
Wins of strong drink. But put the
number at 10000. Each such death
robs the nation of at least an average
of seven years labor, some English
parliamentary reports say ten. Put
the number at seven. This would
make loss of $147, 100000.
Msdirected Work-There is the loss
which the nation suffers by having
about 100000 men engaged in max
ing and selling Intoxicating liquors,
not actually adding anything to the
wealth of the country, but creating
c'Sditions which increase public bur.
dens. If rightly employed, these men
would add to the country's wealth
1854 900, 900.
We do not overlook in this connec.
. ton that proportion of the nation
al, state and municipal revenues is de.
rived from the liquor traffic. This is
what the liquor traffic pays for the
privileges granted it. 1t is right that
this amount (Which will be found be.
low should be set over against the
items of loss and the various expendi.
lures caused by the traffic.
Direct and indirect cost of the liquor traf.
fic:
Amount paid for liquors by con-
sumers 81, 900 900. .Ooi
Value of grain, etc. destroyed. 33, ,497, 81
Cost of crime, insanity, pauper-
ism, etc, chargeable to liquor
traffic ........................... 1877, ,762. .2N
Los OF productive labor .......... ,106 $50 0W
Shortened lives Observation-Disclosures. 147 900. .UN
Misdirected work .............. 354 GOO OW
Total ....: 81, ,67S, ,5O4, Sc
Revenue from liquor traffic
GS90):
Internal revenue ....... $107, ,695, 80
customs ....-........... S,5lS,OSl
State and local revenes "a, ,7S6, 1856
SIA1 nOO sc7
The Republican., 1900-12-20
Excursion sIeepers via NJ. K.&T.Rx.

Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave st. Louis
via Katy Flyer on. X. & T. Ry.) every Tues
day at S:l6 p. m: for San Antonio, Los An
geles and San Francisco.
Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave Kansas
City via the NJ. X. & T. Ry. every Saturday
at 9:05 p. m. for San Antonio, Los Angeles
and San Francisco.
The Republican., 1900-12-20
Genuine Jordan WATER.

An American has erected number
of steam pumps on the Jordan, and is
now supplying churches in the Unit
ed States and in Europe with genuine
Jordan water.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

Mr.. Isaac Brock, of McLennan county,
Tex, has attained the great age of Ill years,
having been born in 1888. He is an ardent
friend to Peruna and speaks of it in the
following terms:
During my long life l have known a
great many remedies for coughs, colds, ca
tarrh and diarrhoea. l had always supposed
these affections to be different diseases, but
L have learned from DR.. Hartman's books
that these affections are the same and are
properly called catarrh
AS for DR.. Hartman's remedy, Peruna.
l have found it to be the best, if not the
only reliable remedy for these affections.
PerUBa has been my standby for
many years, and I attribute my GOOD
health and my extreme age 70 fhHs
remedy. IL exactly meets sH nsy
requirements.
Il have come to rely upon it almost en-
tirely for the many little things for which I
need medicine. l believe it to be especially
valuable to old people, Issac Brock.
Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age.
A person entirely free from catarrh is sure
to live to hale and hearty old age. A free
book on catarrh sent by The Peruna Medi-
cine Co., Columbus. o.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

1t is said that an artist at work on a BibIi.
cal history undertook to make sketch OF
",Rebecca at the well, but he couldn't draw
the water.-Chicago Daily News.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

Yer no thrue an patriotic AmuricanI"
mo more are you!" "Thot Oi am! / got
me papers Jest befure iliction an voted loiks
a mon. n.'-Indianapolis News.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

A Real Patriot-Friend-"D Won love
your ,country?' Politician You bet / do.
I've held a government job for II years. -
Syracuse Herald.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

1t is hard to do, of course; still, you can
be fooled.-Atchison Globe
The Republican., 1900-12-20

Twice year, in the first week in
April and October, the Chinese carry
food to their dead
The Republican., 1900-12-20

knowledge comes with what we learn:
wisdom, with what we unlearn.-Judge.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

To Cure Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund money if itfails to cure. 25c.
The Republican., 1900-12-20

Aolai 300 oft
Cost of Jails, Asylums, Almshouses.
The following is the expenditures.
state and local, largely due to the
drink traffic (1S90):
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-06-21

II propose never to guess what ]
can know" This motto was rigidly
adhered to by the author, whose love
OF accuracy was so great that he spar
'ed no pains to verify every statement
he desired to make in any of his nov
els, grrdging no amount of labor which
he expended in the accomplishment
of this result. He was an inuefatirable
collector of newspaper clippings from
all nations. which lie carefully classi.
ned and arranged in many scrapbooks.
reports OF many institutions, police
SaZcttcs accounts of trials and acct
dents and manifold descriptions of all
sorts were filed away for future refer
encc. The contents of these scrap.
books were indcXcd with great care,
and from them Charles Reade derived
great satisfaction. Ii over any of his
statements We're questioned or his
facts denied, he would turn trium-
phantly to his classified scrapboolls and
refute the objections with some posi-.
tive proof contained therein.-Miss
Ticknor in Truth.