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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Over 100000 pounds of tea is con-
sumed in England daily.
Two hundred thousand acres in Chi
huahua, Mexico, have been bought for
400 colonists from Missouri.
More than 100000 acres of peat are
said to be still available in the Cana
dian province of Ontario.
A Vermont fox, close pressed by
two hounds, dashed across a railroad
track in front of an advancing train,
which killed the dogs.
There are As states and six terri
tories in the union, not including our
new possessions. Utah was the last
state to be admitted into the union,
the date of admission being January
4, 1896.
The hottest mines in the world are
at Comstock On the lower levels the
heat is so great that the men cannot
work over ten or Is minutes at Il
time. Every known means of miti-
eating the heat has been tried in vain.
Ice melts before it reaches the bottom
of the shafts.
The practice of eating arsenic is
very prevalent among the peasantry
of the mountainous districts of Aus
tria, Hungary, and France. They de-
clare that this poison enables them
20 ascend with ease heights which
they could not otherwise climb with
out great distress to the chest.
In the Emerald isle the Murphys
head the poll with $4,000, being most
plentiful in Wexford and Carlow; the
next most frequent names are Kelly,
$4,000 (Kildare); Sullivan, $4,000 Cork
and Kerry; Walsh, 41,70O; Smith, 81
900; O'Brien, SO, 400; Byrne, $4,000
principally in Dublin and Wicklow 4;
Ryan, 80 900; Connor, 31,2O0; O'Neil,
29,10O; and Reilly, 10000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
THE ENGLISH MARCHED.
Paraded Through Streets of PretOrin
for the Blacks, But as
Prisoners.

After the defeat of ColenSo Sir God.
frey Langdon, British commissioner in
Basutoland, assembled the principal
chiefs of the country and announced to
them that the English, having just
achieved a series of victories, were or
the point of making triumphal entry
into Pretoria. The supplemented ne,
groes opened their eyes in wonder
Thereafter, they said, they could re.
fuse nothing to the vanquishers of the
Beers.
Mr.. Steyn, president of the Orange
Free State. got wind of the boast, and,
understanding the English intention
found immediate means of saying tc
the great chiefs of Basutoland that il
they could send some men on whom
they could rely to Pretoria, their rep.
resentatives would see what was really
occurring there.
The natives held a council instantly
and delegated the Oldest son Of their
most powerful chief to go az once into
the Transvaal on the mission.
When he arrived at Pretoria he was
given a place of review on the public
square, and before him, without
drums or trumpets, were marched the
English officers and soldiers, number
ing about $500, who had been made
prisoners on recent battlcfields.
The son of the chief seemed spell.
bound by the sight. He looked first as
if he thought he were dreaming, then
little by little the humor of the situa-
ton broke upon him, and ne roared
with laughter, forgetting the dignity
of an envoy, and performing one of the
dances that are the symbol of the high
est form of pleasure among the black
men of Basutoland. The news he car
ried back to his country was distinctly
"fresh. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
HIGH LIVING.
From This Account One Needs n Bal
loon to Reach Prices in n
Dawson Cafe.

''You might suppose" said man who
was in the Klondike last summer, that
with the improved facilities of travel
and freight transportation to the Klon-
dixie country prices of commodities
there would become just little more
nearly normal, but | have in my posses
sion a bill of fare | got at Healy's no.
tel and cafe in Dawson in September
last, and here are some of the prices
that one must pay for eatables. The
hotel is a wooden structure, chiefly
logs, and the conveniences are not al
together modern. and a good many of
them are lacking, but the rate per
day is $12. If one eats at the cafe a
Ia carte here's what he pays: Sirloin
steak and onions, $500; porterhouse-
plain, $3.50; with mushrooms, $500;
tenderloin-plain $3.50; with mush-
rooms, $3.50; Chateau Briant (spelled
that way), $500; with onions, $3.50;
Hamburg steak, $3.50; English mutton
chop (one), $500; (two), $3.75; bread
ed, $2.75; corn beef hash, $50; lamb,
chops, plain, $3.50; pork chops, sauce
20.HO. llNCl anu DdCOll, PI.1OS
plain, $50; ham and eggs, $3.50; ba-
con and eggs, $3.50; fried tripe, $1.50;
pigs feet, $3.50; fried in butter, $500;
kidney, fried, boiled, or saute, $1.50;
with mushrooms, $1.75; fried eggs
(two), $500; scrambled, poached or
on toast, $500; with oysters, $3.50;
plain omelet, $500; ham, oyster, jelly
omelet, or with onions, $3.50; Span
ish or rum omelet, $500; souffle, $3.50;
Welsh rabbit, $3.50; golden buck, $500,
and so on, with pie at dollar slice,
and pudding a dollar a smell, and cigars
so cents for the cheapest, and cham
payne SIS a pint, and beer dollar
split, and all drinks so cents each. As
| said. it does seem that at this late
date living would become little cheap
er, but people who have anything to
sell want the earth for it, and the hap
less consumer must pay the price or go
without. The only consolation is that
it will be as bad or worse at Cape Nome
this summer, though that will prob
ably tumble quicker because it is so
much more accessible than the Klon-
dixie"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The quicksilver finds in Brewster
county, Tex. have already proved the
most extensive in the United States
The municipality of Pasadena, Cal,
owns a 62-acre grove of English wal
nuts. Last year it yielded nearly 1907
0G0 pounds of nuts.
Perpetual motion has not yet been
discovered. Science teaches that the
revolution of the earth upon its axis
is as near perpetual motion as any
thing yet known.
In the town of Ensley, Ala, 1a
months ago there were 500 people
Now there are 5000. They were
brought there by the steel mill, the
rod mill and other industries.
Sir John Sinbald declared in a re-
cent lecture that the statistics for
Scotland showed the same preponder'
ance in the number of suicides in
summer over those occurring in win
ter as had been shown by the statis'
ties of every country in which the
matter had been investigated.
The excavations which NJ. Gauckler
is conducting at Carthage, for the
French government continues to pro-
duce remarkable finds. If the eXca-
vations keep on being as productive
as they have been in the past, we may
expect to see illustrations of ''Sa-
lammbo' which will be archaeology
ically correct.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has re-
Gently been traced to the use of
celery grown on some sewage fertil-
lied ground. AS it occurred in an in
stitution it was very easy to trace
the cause. Owing to the peculiar ma
ture of the stems it is very easy for
them to become saturated with fer
tilizinr material.
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principles and kept me from ever tAAt-
ing the damnable stuff might perhaps
have outgrown the fatal tendency, but
they always laughed at such an idea.
They always had wine on the table. 1t
seems to me now as if all the food was
redolent of alcohol in some form! 1
think that all my associates were more
or less tipsy nearly all the time. If
could have been. trained rightly! Oh, if
L could have had help before it was too
late,'
HE hid his face in his hands and re-
manned silent long time. At last he
got up, kicked the brands of the fire a
little, then asked if we had plenty of
bedding, adding, better bring it in the
tent
''We thanked him, preferring to sleep
in the open air.
''As my guesI rose, said: There are
thousands of such mothers and sons!'
eyes, indeed!'" he answered.
Margaret S. Sibley, in Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
THE PAPAL ELECTIONS.
Regarded by Catholics as the Most
Important Event That Takes
Place in the World.

The succession of the Roman pontiffs
rests on the word of God; other lines of
princes may fail, their line shall last
until the end of the world. Still, al
though there will always be a series of
legitimate successors in the papacy,
the manner OF succession has varied,
being left to human prudence, which
accommodates itself to times and
places. yet eve" under an overruling
Providence that directs to its own ends
no less the vices than the virtues of
men, writes Mgr. Seton, in Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly.
The election of pope is the most i'm
portant event that takes place in the
world. 1t affects Immediately several
hundred millions of Catholics in their
dearest hopes of religion, and it touch
es indirectly the interests of all other
people on the earth besides. In the
pope the world receives vicar of
Christ, a successor of st. Peter, and an
infallible judge in the matter of faith
and morals. The papacy was always
conferred regularly by way of election
from the chiei of the apostles. chosen
by our Lord Himself. to Leo MIL, now
reigning, who was elected by the car
dinals of the Holy Roman church on,
the goth of February, 1878. Between
these there have been pol popes, if we
follow the number given by the official
Gerarchia Cattolica, which is published
annually.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
3s'51lIAlE2i1)'!:Izl!|||.!l!Il
THE WEAK SPOT.
A Sheep Herder in the West Tells
Why He Has to Isolate Him
self from the World.

'The sun was shining hot" said my
guest of night. ''We were crossing
Montana, on our way to Oregon, two
years ago, and we were only too glad
to see, as we crossed the divide the
white CLEAN of a sheep herder's tent
away off in the distance; but it was
farther off than it seemed to be, and /
began to think that we would never get
there. We did, however. We found
the tent beside large corral, but both
were untenanted.
I'VE unlocked our team, gave them
water from hole nearby, and securing
them with picket ropes, left them to
Craze, while we threw ourselves on the
soft cushion of buffalo grass in the
shade of the tent, for we were very
tired.
at was very hot, with no breeze
stirring, and the shade was only de-
gree better than the sunshine, but to-
ward sunset il became trife cooler,
when we rose and proceeded to replen-
ish the camp fire, so that we might boil
our coffee ana fry our bacon. We bad
not finished when the herder arrived
with his sheep. which he drove into the
corral.
"As he came towards us, and saluted
us with a curt nod, we saw tall, we'll
formed man of perhaps 80 or IS. He
carried himself well, as if he had been
used to city streets and parlors. But
the wonder was not so much to see a
distinguished-looking person as a
sheep herder (for the occupation need
degrade no one). as that he was so
dirty and unkempt. Inever saw herder
nor COW boy look so badly.
His clothing was not only soiled,
but ragged. He looked neglected, as
well as discouraged, and yet, under the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
AN EXCELLENT START.
How Sardinia Taught Archie the
First Lesson in Submission When
the Proposal Was Made.

A vivid blush dyed the cheek of the
young girl.
Archie Psoft was about to propose.
Sardinia he said, 'may-may-"
"Well, Archie?"
"I-l-was going to say, Sardinia
was going to say that"
"Yes, you were going to say that"
"Ies," he broke in, eagerly, 81 was
going to say that THAT /"
well, what were you going to say?"
why, | was-I was"
Young Mr.. Psoft clutched at his col
lar to loosen it, cleared his throat and
tried it again
''Why, the fact is"
Eyes, Archie, the fact is"
THAT him! h'm-I-!-"
Eyes. You-you-"
Il have forgotten what L was 60
ing to say"
'Oh, Archie, how could you?"
mo, l haven't" said the poor fellow,
desperately. 81 remember now. l was
going toto ask"
YES, Archie, you were going to
ask"
That's it; was going to ask-Sar-
DINA, don't you know what 1 was go
ing to ask?''
Il am not mind reader, Mr.. Psoft. y
Don't mock me, Sardinia. Try TO
read my heart!"
Il think | can, Archie" she said, soft
ly. You want to ask me"
That's right" he said, encouraging
ingly. $50 ahead"
ITO be"
Eyes. yes-'to be'-go on! Go on!"
''To be your"
That's right-'to be my"
"Your-your-"
eyes. 'My-my'-why don't you GO
ahead? You are the bashfulest girl ]
ever saw"
II can't say it, Archie!"
eyes, you can. TO be my'-what's
the rest of it? Don't let little thing
like that fluster you. Be brave girl,
Sardinia"
Il can't say it,"
"Oh, yes, you can. Speak it right
out!"
You wanted to ask me to be your
wife. Archie"
''There!" he exclaimed, in triumph
you see how easily it is done" And
he patted her head majestically. "All
you want is a little courage"
WAS that what you wished to ask
me?"
'Of course it was!"
Then why don't you do it. sir?"
''Me? Great Christopher! You know
what I"
Eyes, sir, l knew it all the time. I've
known it for six months. But you've
got to ask it. Get down on your
knees!"
why, Sardinia! What's the use OF
my"
Down on your knees!"
He Topped down, and the imperious
young beauty made him repeat after
her the necessary question. She
promised to take it under advisement
and give him a favorable answer il
she found upon inquiry that he had
always been good to his mother. AND
then she permitted him to rise, the
most thoroughly humbled young man
in America.-Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17

When a beggar asked Philadelphia
stationer the other day for help the
latter offered him two lead pencils
saying: with half the effort re
CURED in begging you can easily sci
these for five cents apiece" The beg
gar gazed at the pencils scornfully.
Who'd give me five cents fol
them?" he demanded.
why, anybody" said the stationer
go out and try it."
Would your" asked the beggar.
"Why, certainly" was the reply.
A smile of triumph spread over tn,
grimy features of the mendicant
Here you are, then" he said. Gin
me the ten cents. You can't go bach
on your own words"
1t took the stationer several minute,
to recover his breath, but he finally
entered into the deal, and hereafter
he will adopt other tactics.--St. Loui.
Republic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
UNCLE SAM CAN'T LOSE.
With Honolulu and Manila He Com
mands the Gates to the
Pacific.

If it be westward that the star of en-
pire takes its way, Uncle Sam owns the
upper and perhaps the best, and France
the lower and less useful, gateway into
this new world. At Hawaii, says Aims
lees Magazine, is the natural midway
between the warm and genial Pacific
coast and the hot and luXuriant dis
tricts of the tropics wherein most of
the Pacific islands lie. At Tahiti is
the radial place below the equator, a
little less removed from the center of
heat and farther from the origin of
travel than Hawaii. Both abound in
beautiful scenery, in temperature al
luringly equable in life and habits half
indolent, half Industrious; in products
both tropical and semi-tropical. Both
form an admirable preparation for the
things beyond. The soldier boys who
stopped in Honolulu on their way to
Manila had their first taste of bananas
and pineapples as they come directly
from the field. They wished that they
might stay in the soft and luscious air
forever; that is to say, those who did
not remain long enough to be down
with the fever or to be sent home in
the hearse ship For there are fevers
in Hawaii, as in almost all of the is
lands of the Pacific.
On the other hand, travellers who
have passed the exquisite locks of Ia
hiti harbor have fingered in the rhap-
sody until little of the English Ian
guage was left to them with which
to extol the virtues of Samoa and New
Zealand
If civilization is to work backward
from the east to the west, as the Chi
nese and the Russians seem inclined
to force it to do, Holland and Britain
divide with the United States in own
ing the gateway. Dutch Sumatra
closes the portals to the passengers
from India; British and Dutch Borneo
and the American Philippines close it
to the passengers from China and Siam.
And in these territories there is even
more apt and conclusive introduction
to what lies beyond than there is in
Hawaii or Tahiti. In Sumatra and in
Java are footsteps of the ancient civ
iliZation which entered the Pacific is
lands centuries before European navi-
gators went in quest of spices and jew
els. In the same islands are the crude
savages who have never yielded to the
advance of the civilizer; and in the ex-
IRENE northern point of Sumatra are
the Achinese. who are still the pi-
rates they have always been, preying
upon the shipping and wealth of the
more cultured nations across the Ma
lacca straits. In Borneo-although
driven far into the interior now-are
the head-hunting Dyaks, the most
typical of the many head-hunters of
the Pacific. In Sarawak, on the east
ern coast of Borneo, are the compare
lively independent natives that have
been held in control for more than two
thirds of century by the lone and ex-
traordinary Britisher, the Raiah
Brooke and his nephew. These are
types of numerous rugged fellows who
have immured themselves in marine
wildernesses, and practiced such cum
ming and strength as might belong to
their nomadic and curious natures.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17

tan and dirt there were regular fea-
lures and look of keen intelligence, al
though greatly marred by the unmis-
taxable signs CT dissipation.
What, however, most attracted me
was his great command of language,
with unusual felicity of expression, as
well as the extent of his information.
He had evidently been well educated,
and had read much, and he had also di-
gested his reading. Here was fine ma
ture in ruins; good citizen lost to his
country, and the race through some
ones fault!
After supper, as we sat around the
camp fire, enjoying the cool evening
breeze, while the quiet stars shone in
the clear sky above us, he became more
communicative, and after some refer
ence to the various mishaps and mo-
tives which sent men out on the range,
he said:
81 suppose you may think it strange
that I should be here all alone for
weeks in sheep camp, when 1 should
be out in the world taking my place
among men. The simple truth is that
1 am safer here!
"I might as well make a clean
breast of it. I cannot let liquor alone
when | am in town. ] was born that
way!' He paused a moment, swallowed
hard, then resumed: + am compare
lively happy here. | am saving my
wages, for | shall never go home again.
I am trying to accumulate a fund suffi-
Gent to support me in my old age, if
should live to be old, but it is hard work
to save, even here, for | go 70 town once
a year and blow whole lot I'M Life is
monotonous here, but have books and
Il am safel
my people sent }ne to college, and
read law awhile; out l had inherited
this accursed appetite for liquor, and
my parents bling wealthy, and hav-
ing large connection and acquaint-
ance among society people, | was con-
stantly tb*own in the midst of tempta
tions. ] strove to resist them, l made
God l1nows--how many resolutions
but had no Er!p, no sympathy from
my friends. At last even my own peo-
pie were ashamed of my weakness and
!. folly. was born strong, both physical
u ly and mentally-save for this one
weak spot.' He gave a short and bit
: ter laugh.
I" i am like n strong bridge with only
one flaw, and, like that, may end in a
sudden smash Oh, if parents could
only see and know what they are doing
when they foster such Unborn, inherit
ed weakness.
aft mine had only trained me right
ly. / am no fanatic. Alcohol has its
uses like other poisons, like them it
should be placed under restrictions
strong enough to protect the weak and
young. True civilization demands it.
IT will be done-but l shall not live to
see It.
"'In my case. and that of thousands
Of others, it is poison! If my parents
had given me the safeguard Of right
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
The Drug Habit.

A study of the use Of drugs in Phil.
adelphia made by one of the daily
papers revealed the fact that only
four per cent. of the cocaine sold in
the market was used in known and
legitimate ways. Of opium, no def
mite trace could be found of a large
amount which was called for beyond
the natural demands OF hospital and
medical practice. All the druggists
interviewed asserted that the demand
for opium was increasing, also that
for cocaine. Customers came regu-
larly to the stores and purchased NOR
phia for periods of two or three years,
then dropped out. How far this ir-
regular use of opium and cocaine was
called for by physicians either in pre-
scriptions for others or for them
selves. could not be determined. One
physician claimed that no more than
one per cent. of the profession used
morphia or other drugs, either openly
or secretly. Another medical man,
equally confident. claimed that ten
per cent. was a small number of the
actual known cases of this addiction,
and that the secret taking of drugs
by doctors far exceeded this amount.
journal of Inebriety
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
Liability of street Car Companies

The supreme court of Minneapolis
has held in a recent case that street
railway company is liable because of
injury to passenger caused by eX-
posure to danger from overcrowde6
cars. The case in point was that OF
man who was pushed off crowded
platform and injured.-Chicago ChroA.
icle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17

Mrs. Crimsonbeak-So you've been
to see the phrenologist?
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-That what l
have.
well, what did he tell you?"
"As soon as he felt the bumps on
my head he told me I'd had trouble
at home. "-Yonkers Statesman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17

Her question was dictated by the
thought that possibly there might be
a field for her on the vaudeville stage.
IF you played the guitar as do"
she said, what would you suggest ~
I'D try some other instrument
was the prompt reply.-Chicago Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
Whye

He-Why are women afraid of mice;
the little things can't hurt them?
She-Why are men afraid of pink
dragons and green snakes that they
think they see in their boots some
times? The things are only imagin-
airy and they know they can't hurt
thcm!-N. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17

The best crop of wild oats usually
grows on the poorest soil.-ChicNC1
Daily News.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-15
SEMI-MONTHLY v
Transportation Facilities to Manila
to BE Radically Increased.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Acting upon
the recommendation of Quartermaster Gen.
eral Ludington, the secretary of war has
ordered the establishment of a semi-month-
ly transport service between San Francisco
and Manila. Philippine Islands. This action
is due to the heavy traffic between the two
points caused by the active military opera
tons in the Philippines, and is prompted
by a desire to leave nothing undone that
will contribute to the health and comfort
OF the troops in the islands The service
will be started by the troop ship Sherman,
which will leave San Francisco for Manila
on the 18th or 18th, to be followed at regu-
lar intervals of about fifteen days by the
ether largo ships of the Pacific transport
feet. including the Sheridan, Grant, Logan,
Thomas and Meade.
The authorities are also considering the
advisability of establishing a monthly serv-
ice on similar lines between New York and
Manila over the Mediterranean ana Suez
route.