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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
A Terrible Indictment,

The Misses Mary and Margaret w.
Leitch in Seven Years in Ceylon,' make
this frightful indictment against the Brit
ish Government. They say:
We found the liquor traffic, authorized
and licensed by the British Government,
q. great Zoe to Christian work in North
oeylon. The Government certainly does
not dream of the bitterness, of the sor-
row and despair with which many of the
natives look upon this absolutely ruinous
traffic, thrust upon them against their
wishes for the sake of revenue. In In
dia and Ceylon the liquor traffic is purely
a Government monopoly. The right to sell
tion to the highest bidder. When some
one has bought the right and promised to
give the Government large sum of money
Tor the same he does not wish to be a
loser by the transaction, so he opens as
many liquor shops as possible in the dis
trict. These are located in the towns and
villages near the tea and cinchona es-
tates, in the mining districts and the road
sides along which there is most travel
and by means of these multiplied places
of temptation nation of abstainers is fast
becoming a nation of drunkards The
religions of the Hindus, Mohammedans
and Buddhists forbid the use of strong
drink, and formerly the people of India
and Ceylon were for the most part total
abstainers Spirits were high priced and
hard to get, and drunkenness was uncom.
mon because there was little temptation
to drink. But in any country, if the facili-
Ties Tor obtaining strong drink are in
creased, the consumption is increased; if
the facilities for obtaining strong drink
are diminished. the consumption is dimin-
ished. In India and Ceyon the facilities
Tor obtaining strong drink have been alb
normally increased. The British Govern
ment, for the sake of "A revenue, has made
strong drink to be cheap and plentiful.
In Ceylon nine times as much is spent for
strong drink as is expended by the Gov
ernment for education. In the whole of
India the excise revenue has increased in
thirteen years seventy-hve per cent! 1t
has been said by great English states
man in the House of Commons that the
combined evils OF war and pestilence and
iamine are not so great as those evils
which flow from strong drink. and it has
been estimated that eighty four per cent.
OF the crime is caused either directly or
indirectly by strong drink IL this be so.
has not poor India crime enough of its
own, sorrow and poverty enough of its
own, without having this. the curse of
Great Britain, imported into India and
tostered there against the wishes of the
people for the sake of revenue. Another
OF Englands great statesmen has said.
Gentlemen, | refuse to consider a uues-
ton OF revenue alongside question of
morals and he has said again Give me
sober and industrious people. and l will
show you where to get a revenue"
What Christian Britain has done for
Ceylon and India, Christian America is
IN fair way of doing for Cuba. Porto
Rieo and the Philippines. Is it any won
der that thoughtful people are asking.
has Christianity become effete:
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
WIRE NAH Caused Apprudic,r,s.

A 9-year-old boy named Isaac Lip
son, who lives in Chelsea, Mass, was
operated on for appendicitis few days
since with a rather unusual result.
Hospital physicians found the appen-
dix in bad condition and on MI king an
incision in 1t, there was encountered
a wire nail, one inch in length. 1t
was successfully removed. From a
medical standpoint the operation was
an interesting one. Since the discov-
cry of appendicitis there have been
many foreign substances found in the
diseased organ, but this is the first
time in the history Of medical science
that such thing as a nail has been
found. The nail was badly rusted
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
vomen's Cause In Japan.

Obviously the Japanese do not agree
with Tennyson that 1.-The woman's
cause is MANS" for the Tokyo corre-
spondent vof the Nagasaki Press an
nounces that there will appear shortly
weekly paper entitled the Fujo
Shimbun (woman's paper). under the
auspices Of well-known men and wo-
men. The prospectus just issued
says that the paper will be devoted
to the promotion of interests affecting
the fair sex in Japan, and will also
conduct warfare against social abuses.
to which no quarter will be given.
Editor, reporters and other members
of the staff will consist Of women.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
whisky Not an Antido,e,

A physician connected with the Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, was bitten
by diamond-back rattlesnake the other
day while exhibiting his pets before a med.
zeal society. The only remedy applied was
instantly squeezing aud sucking the wound.
ami no i'll effects followed. Whisky is not
recommended as an antidote by the doctor
who was bitten. lie says more people die
IRON an excessive dose of the antidote
Democrat
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
A Guilty Conscience,

In an Ohio town a saloon-keeper was
seen by a friend walking back and forth
before his saloon, as if in deep thought.
The friend asked him what was the mat
ter; He answered: oh nothing
The next day the friend saw him walk.
ing the same way, and again asked him
what was the matter.
Have the crusaders been after you?''
No; but have received a postal. signed
by three ladies. The husband of the first
Is one OF my customers, and is rapidly be-
coming a drunkard.
"A son of the second is one of my Gus
toners, and is just starting in drunk.
ards course
The husband of the third was one of
my customers, and died a drunkard. 1t
cuts close, and | can't stand it,"
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor
drink, that putteth thy bottle to him and
makest him drunken also. ."-(Hab. ii. ISL
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30

San Francisco has 30a2 licensed saloons.
This gives one saloon for every 100 inhab.
itants, men, women and children.
The London Times not long since said,
England with 500 years OF license. il the
worst hquor'cursed nation in the world
The London lEnglandl Times says
England, with 100 years Of license, is the
worst liquor-eursed nation in the world"
The Woman's Christian Temperanee
tnion ~ fully committed 10 the project OF
establishing homes for inebrates ia India.
Railroad companies ia Ohio are forbid
den under penalty oi 900 10 employ loco
driakins. '"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
Leads TO InsauItY.

While the more bosterous form OF in.
temperance in England and America leads
to private brutality and public disorder.
the system peculiar To the European CONT.
nent OF small dram drinking before meals
IN the shape OF tonics and appetzers leads
10 insanity. The same disastrous state of
things is said to prevail in industrial Bel
gum and in parts of Germany, Holland
and Denmark
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
THE ITALIAN WOMAN.
Gentler Sex of That Nationality Rea
but Eitfle.

Gentler Sex of That Nationality Rea
but Little.
The rather low standard of her cul.
ture tends to keep the Italian woman
behindhand in the march of emanci-
patton, though one comes across re-
markable exceptions among those oc-
cupied with education Of literature and
and even in society, says The Contem.
porary. The Italian has a very acute
Intelligence, which takes in with ex-
traordinary promptitude anything pre-
sented to her mind. but she does not
cultivate it: once her studies ended
she closes her books; 'adieu paniers.
vendanges sont faites!" That most
useful help to feminine intellectual
development, reading, has not yet be-
come a habit with her. There are
countries where books are more used
by women than by men; rich. they
buy them; poor, they have the lending
library; in their yearly expenditure.
no matter how small it be, literature
has Its place. There is nothing like
this in Italy. With the exception of
= small minority, the women do not
read, and have no wish to read. Their
celebrated aIcestresses of the six
teenth century must look at them with
rsproachful eyes. If the shade of the
President des Brosses recrossed the
Alps he would find no Maria Gaetana
Agnesi, called the oracle of seven Ian
guages and the servant of the Door.
and declared by him to be more mar
velous than Milan Cathedral. Benedict
XIV. granted permission to this
learned Milanese lady to take her faith
er's place as professor of mathematics
at the University of Bologna during
an illness of the father The tradition
OF feminine learning is lost in Italy:
indeed, 1t was lost iong before the
time OF Maria Gaetana Agnesi. The
Italian of to-day may yet prove her
self capable of emulating her great
forerunners, but in the meantime it is
certain that modern ideas have made
so much less way with her than with
the women of other European coun-
tries that she offers a more formtda-
Bile resistance than even the men of
her own land to any effort at reform
in favor of her sex. This inferiority
OF culture has the double effect of
greatly limiting the number of women
capable of taking any part whatever
in public affairs, and of creating an
utter want of sympathy with thu
emancipation movement in general.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30

To Cure Cold In One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BR0Mo QUININE TABLETS. All
druggists refund the money II 1t fails to cure
=. W. GROVES signature 10 on each box, 25c.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30

The very emaeiated beggar is often
case OF skin and bones.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
Round and Round the Green Box-bed.


There was Il round bed in grand
mothers garden. In the centre OF this
circular bed was Il sun-dial. All
around the bed was border of small
box-trees. Each box-tree was trim
med as round as round could be- They
sat on one end around the edge of thu
bed, for all the world like great round
each two feet high.
When my sister and | grew tired OF
everything else. why. we went to the
box bushes to look for our fortunes.
There was q round. brown hollow
down In the midst of each green ball;
and we pulled back the stf green on
top. and we peeped down In the round
there-nothing at all.
Aud we always laughed Just as
happily every time as If We had found
everything nice.
We ran round and round and round
the circular bed. while the summer
sun shone on Ills and the sun-lial
marked time; and we opened green
tDNts uHu ioohtu INTO bIuNH HoilbWs,
until We forgot which box We began
with aud whether We had been all
around. Aud 80 we had To mark
where we began 10 look for our for
tune with rose stuck into the stlff
greenness of that box. and to mark
where we left OFF with lily stuck in
to that,
And the next morning the game was
Just as fresh ana nice as ever, for they
fsncled the fairies had been out at
night. with the little nasturtlun-
leaves for umbrellas and might have
left our fortune In any one OF those
tiny box-irees.
Aud perhaps We found something
ss good a. fortunes Ia sunshine, in ex.
~rcise. In merry expectation. and
when we grew old Ia happy memories
VI the circular boI bordered bed about
grsndsetLsr's sus 'dlsi-Littie Fslks.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30

Steamers are, for travellers, fifty pei
cent. safer than sailing vessels.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
Every Boy and Girl

should learn to write with Carter's Ink. be-
cause 1t Is the best in the world Ink
nngs In Ink" free. Carter's Ink Co.. Boston.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
Some Pointers About Diving.

Almost every small boy who has
ever been in swimming knows how to
dive after fashion; but few of them
can dive properly in such a way as to
run no danger of being hurt while en-
joying the sport. If you know how to
do g GU can dive as well in two feet
of water as in 20 and with equal safety.
In various parts of the country there
are now professional divers who are
nightly making crowds of spectators
hold their breath with apprehension
while the diver drops from height
of 30 feet or more into Il small tank
of shallow water.
When you dive draw the head down
slightly toward the chest and stretch
the arms forward on level with the
breast, not raising them above the
head. Bend the knees trifie and
make an oblique plunge, taking care
not to keep the body too stiff. Don't
push too hard with the feet or you
will come down on your back or side.
After entering the water instantly
throw the head back and turn your
face toward the surface. This will
make your body assume crescent
shape. bending upward, and you will
slip to the surface like IA creased eel.
Ii you have made II deep dive. "A swift
stroke or two downward with the
hands will make you rise very quickly.
When jumping from Il great height
the legs. arms and head should be
kept perfectly rigid. A feeling of
fright and an odd sensation in the
bowels give one a desire to spread the
legs and arms or to bend the body.
Doing this will be sure to result in
disaster. Don't try to make any high
dives unless you have had long prac-
tice in diving.-Chicago Record.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20

wondrous light was gone from them;
for their spirits had fled together. and
the glare Of sunshine upon them re.
yealed that they were eve the faces OF
the dead.
And IL was even so that God dcliv-
cred them. This was His time and
place. and lie had chosen His own way
And that the vow which Jephthah had
vowed might be accomplished, the
body of the maiden Namarah was aid
upon the altar and with 1t the body OF
the young man Adina. a burnt offering
unto the Lord.
And as the fires upon the altar be-
gan to sink. an object that seemed 10
fall straight from out the sky dropped
down and fell into the flames: n 10!
1t was the body of n snow-white dove,
which had been even dead before II
touched the fire upon the altar.
(The Enid
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
PLEDGES BROKEN
Sultan Of Turkey Arouscs I'm
Gle Sans Ire.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS MOST CRITICAL
Passports to Minister May Soon be Ten
dered-Repcated Failure to Pay
Awarded indemnity Ciaims A.
ter Giving Soismn Promise.

There is no longer any question that
the diplomatic relations between the
United States and Turkey are in II crit
zeal state, growing ont Of the Sultan's
had faith. says Washington special of
Wednesday. lie promised to pay the
indemnity claims of the American mis-
sionarics for the destruction of eight
buildings of the Euphrutcs colleges at
l%larpOot. and several buildings belong
ing To the American missionaries at
Marash during the Armenian maSSa.
crcS of 1898. Mir. Straus. the United
States minister to Turkey. is NJ pres
cut in the United States on leave Of
absence. A. has already been an
nuunccd he presented his resignation.
but the president regarded the ser
vices Of Mr.. Straus rs indispensable.
definitely extended his leave, subject
To- the call of the secretary of state,
whenever circumstances may ucccSsi.
tate his return,
Diplomacy appears to have exhaust.
ell itself at tun>tantinoplc. the sultan
having promised to pay the indemnity
claims. amounting to some 10000.
which promise was again renewed
prior to Mr.. StrauN departure and al
though sixteen months have elapsed
! since the promise was first made. that
promise still remains unfultilcd. What
action the government will now take
to enforce the sultan's promise Is not
definitely known, but ~ tn" ~Situatior
l., critical, il may result in Secretary
Hay sending the Turkish minister al
Washington hi, passports. The qucs-
ton involved between the two coun.
tries is no longer one resting upon
disputed points Of international law
but upon the sultau's brokcn faith.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
REGARDS IT AS AN INSULT
spanish Minister Replies to the Dewey
Committee.

Mayor Harrison of Chicago received
from Duke D'Arcos. the Spanish min
lister at Washington, the following re-
ply to an invitation to attend the
Dewey celebration in Chicago:
Washington. u. G., April li.-Sir:
| return to YOU here incloscd an invi-
tation from the city of Chicago,
for the celebration of the second
ann ivcrsaiy of the battle of Manila,
which. | take it for granted has been
sent to me by mistake. for 1t is the
first d~iScnurtcSv | have met with since
| am in the United States.
1T is impossible for me To believe
that YOU have adviSedly asked me. the
representative Of spain. To go To your
city and rejoice with you on the de
struction of the Spanish ships and ON
the death of SO many brave sailors, my
compatriots. That would have been
simply an insult: and as ] do not de-
serve il, and il cannot have been your
intention. | am perfectly sure a. ] say
that all this is the result of an error.
Il have the honor tn remain, sir
very respectfully yours, ARGOS
In reply Mayor Harrison has writer
the minister. explaining that the invi
tation was sent through the careless
ness or ignorance of "A clerk. and OK
tending sincere apologies for the I'M
intentional discourtesy.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20

each time our hearts have breathed 1t,
and the answer doth somewhere await
us"
She spake these words In solemn
whisperings, more tender than the COO
ing Of doves, more murmurous thar
the ripping of the brook.
No eye saw the parting, when at last
Adina wrenohcd his heart away from
hers. They two were alone in the 81
lonce with God. Even the dove came
not near them tonight. but remained
apart and alone. as If 1t had knowledge
of all and forbore to come between the
beating of their hearts and the COM
munion of their souls.
At the rising Of the sun next morn
ing, the altar was made ready in the
heart of a deep wood, and by 1t stood a
priest respondent in the robes of his
office. The wood wa In readiness, and
the fire prepared, nor was the Offering
for the sacrifice wanting. She stood, a
pure virgin, clad in stainless white, and
on her left, the young man Adina. And
the face Of the maiden Namarah was
calm and peaceful. and her eyes trust
full and quiet as be the eyes of children
when they know their parents are close
by. And her face. for all its paleness,
was more beauteous to look upon than
ever it had been before, for the light
that shone upon it was not wholly
that cast by the rising sun, but, as 1t
were, a light from within her soul.
And Adina's face was radiant, too, 80
that il seemed as II one light illumined
them from within, even as the same
sun from without. And Namarah's
voice, as she spake, was tranquil and
assured.
Make ready thy fire, O priest of
God" Namarah said. FOR ali is ready
And she turned and kissed her father
Jephthah full tenderly. Then, speak
ing once more unto the prie,t she SAID:
81 pray thee, while that the fire Is
kindling, suffer us to kneei and say one
prayer and the young man Adina.
And they knelt together, both in vir'
gin white, their hands clasped close
and their faces raised to heaven, anC
the prayer of their hearts, even as thu
fire blazed and cracked, IL the knit
cleaned sharp and threatening nea'
by, was that the God in whom the!
trusted would deliver them in His owl
time and way.
And they knelt so long In silence
that the priest, who wished not to in
terrupt their prayers, was fam at las
TO speak to them, lest the sacred fire
should burn too low. But there cam
no answer to his words, and when h
turned and looked into their faces, tina
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
CHAPTER XI.-(Continued.)

CHAPTER Xl.-(Continued.)
And when Namarah and her maid
ems reached the house of Jcphthah, be.
hold Ii was hung with mourning, and
though the doors were wide, there was
SO Namarah entered silently, and took
her way toward the apartment OF her
father Jephthah; and as she came unto
his door, she turned and spake unto
the maidens, bidding them stay with
out in the hall while she went In alone.
And as she thrust open the door and
came into the presence of her father
Jephthah, behold he to was dressed in
mourning garments, and he leaned
upon the breast Of the young man
Adina, who was also clad in sackcloth;
and the faces of both men were white
as be the faces of the dead, and Adlna
had grown gaunt and hollow-cheeked
and lost his ruddy color, while
her father Jephthah was as one grown
old before his time.
And Namarah spake nc word, but
shutting close the door behind her, she
went and put her arms about the neck
Of her father, but her eyes she gave
unto her lover.
Her hood had fallen backward, and
her white face rose from out its SOL
emn mourning draperies as a fair
flower springing out of earth; and her
eyes, made large and luminous through
HASTINGS and vigils, seemed as the very
Windows nf Inp Cnirit. and in their
depth Adira read a love unspeakable,
unquenchable and not to be surpassed.
He understood her tender thought in
clasping first her father before her
touch sought his. for it was by reason
of her father that this blow was come
upon them, and she felt he had great
need of comfort and the assurance of
her deep, unchanged affection; but in
that long, deep look into her lovers
eyes, she gave him her whole self. For
a moment they rested in that look,
quiet and calm as the deeps OF ocean,
and then the maiden spake:
Il pray thee leave me now, Adina,'
she saith, softly, as the voice of Jeph-
than her father brake into great sobs
while she smoothed his snow-white
hair, and stilled him as a mother nigh;
her babe. IL would be with him alone
that my courage fail not; for he hath
more need of comfort than either thou
or |. Return to me an hour after moon
rise in the garden"
And Adina bowed his head and went
with never so much as a touch of hel
hand to feed the mighty hunger of hi:
love, howbeit that look in her eye!
which rested on him still, even as HI
left her presence, was as a draugh
divine wherewith the thirst of his sou
might be quenched.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20

In the kitchen of a Boer farm at
Harrismith two brothers, Paul and
Hendrick Hoopstad, sat in earnest con-
versation.
will you come, Hendrick?'
81 cannot leave, Paul; there Is Eng
lish in our veins, and, besides, to join
the commando against the British
would be taking up arms against the
woman l love"
THE woman we love, Hendrlck, for
God knows that ! think OF her every
minute OF my life. You and l have
been all in all to each other ever since
we were born; but this mutual love for
Nancy Martin seems likely to divide
us. Even %supposing We put our chances
to the test, II | win her you Will hate
me. and II you were successful my
thoughts would turn to you In anger.
Let us then take our rifles. join the
commando, and for the time forget her,
and perhaps when the war Is over one
OF us may gain by death what the
| other could not give in life"
II will no fight against the Eng
lish, Paul"
Think well, Hendrlck. Nancy Mar
tin has been in England for the last
four years-is it not possible that she
may have an English lover?"
1--WE are being enticed and threaten
ed into a foolhardy war by those who
have their own ends to serve, ! will
take my rifle and fight, but it will be
with the English"
Then, Hendrick, W. must part,
though we part in all affection. God
bless you, my brother, and the woman
we love"
Farewell, Paul, and God grant that
we may not meet on the battlefield
Paul turned his horse toward New
castle, while Hendrick rode in the OPP
posite direction, with the intention OF
making his way to John Martins farm
which lay on the banks OF the Caladon
river, between Basutol and Natal.
Hendrick Hoopstad's love for Nan
cy, the only daughter OF John Martin
OF the Caladon farm, was the one
the lght that engrossed his mind. HI
loved her, and was willing to lay dowr
his life for her without thought OF re