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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29
Drink and the Brain.

The fact is really moderate quantities
Of spirituous drinks diminish the work
power of the brain, fact that has been
demonstrated by modern scientific appa-
ratus. Alcohol never makes man wiser,
It only lowers a mans demands on himself
lntil at last nothing is too silly or boorish
to satisfy him. This temporary injury to
the brain, if the use of alcohol is contin-
1ed, leads innumerable people into perma-
aent brain disease. Alcohol is to-day one
Of the most influential sources of mental
disease. 1t has come to such pass that
in some years more than half of the men
who go to the State insane asylums of
Southern Austria owe their insanity to the
ase of alcohol. And this enumeration
1oes not even include the insane by rea-
son of the drinking habits of their ances-
tors. Neither does it take into account
the epileptics, idiotic and defective chill
1ren obliged to suffer for the want of un-
aerstanding and the crime of drunken
OarentS.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29
The Road to Prison.

Alcoholic injury to the brain does nor
always lead to the insane asylum. Very
often it becomes the road to prison. Seven
to eighttenths of all the unlawful trans
actions, from breaking windows to break
ing heads. conscientious officials attribute
10 the influence of alcohol. Countless ac-
,idents, especially on Mondays, are also
nothing but the after effects of alcohol,
making people foolhardy and blind to dam
ger of every sort.
The very worst effect of alcohol upon
the brain is the change of character it
produces. Sometimes people of the very
best disposition are permanently changed
through alcohol and become irritable, vul-
gar, abusive and quarrelsome. Thousands
On thousands of marriages have become a
hell for both husband and wife on account
such cases the children suffer most, are
badly brought up, neglected, treated with
cruelty.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE-
Pledge Tor the Intemperate-A Burlesque
Declaration Which Shows the Pen
alties a Man Pays Who Becomes Sot
"A Double Barreled Card,

alties a Man Pays Who Becomes u Sot
"A Double -Barreled Card.
We suggest that double-barreled pledge
card to be kept in the pocket for distri-
button, says the editor of the Brotherhood
declaration on one side and the following
inscription on the reverse:
l hereby agree to drink all the beer and
liquor l can get by each or credit or treat.
l agree to drink in all hours and weather.
I also agree to keep this pledge if in so
doing my brain, stomach, liver and kid
neys are permanently injured, my repu-
tation lost, my family impoverished and
myself damned forever.
l also pledge that / will not murmur as
I look upon the palaces of the liquor deal
ers, their fashionably-c families
and superb "turn-opts," or when l make
the comparison with my dirty, squalid
quarters, my rag-covered family and my
frequent "turn-outs' on the street for nom
payment of rent.
| further pledge myself to advocate rum
and beer, and always to vote as my mas
ters direct. This | subscribe to with a
clear view of all the penalties that come
to man who makes himself sot to sup
port syndicate that does more to make
hard times in the billions of dollars used
to supply the drink habits of its custom
ers, the expenses of lawsuits, supporting
paupers and criminals than all other
trusts combined.
clSilGu.
w illness.
When signed please hand over to the
nearest saloon-keeper and pass it on to
the brewer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29
The Crusade i'm Brief.

The statement is made on medical au-
thority that more deaths are due in Eng
land to alcoholism than to diphtheria or
typhoid fever.
for cutting out booze = year." but
the workman who gets it \ N Millionaire
Schwab will be more than hundred
ahead in twelve months.
Mrs. Vina Peeters, of TiptoL, ind, has
been given judgment for $500 against
w. S. Cough, saloon keeper, who sold
her husband liquor while he was in state
of intoxica'ion. Mrs. Peeters has four
similar cases pending againat other saloon
men.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

Scientists are now declaring that
the idea of signals between the earth
and Mars is eXtravagant. However,
there was no prospect of any practical
advantages to be gained by such com.
munication, and there are opportuni.
ties for neighborly amenities here be.
low that are still awaiting improve
ment.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

Professor Willis Moore, chief of the
weather bureau declares that after a
careful examination of all that has
been published in the last two years
he is convinced that the idea of pro-
tecting orchards and vineyards from
hailstorms and frosts by cannon fir
ing is popular delusion, like that Of
the effect of the moon on the weather.
Mr.. Moore says that the great pro-
cesses of the atmosphere are on too
large a scale for any man or nation
to control them, and that it is useless
for mankind to attempt to combat
them.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29
Drunkenness In England.

what was the matter with England l
should reply drunkenness" What causes
this drunkenness? l will not venture to
declare, but from it spring practically all
the ills to which the British social organ
ism is heir.-London Interview with Miss
Mcdowell, of Chicago.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

Florida, according to the last census
returns, has greater amount of land
under water than any other state of
the Union, while Wyoming has the
least 1t also appears from this cen
sus that New Jersey, within the past
10 years, has gained 70 miles in area,
as in 1890 she was credited with only
7455 square miles, while in 1900 she is
given 1925.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

London Lancet impresses all old
lesson by saying man should not dine
alone. 1t is not good to think much
while eating, so the great medical au
thority advises conversation because
most people do not think while talk
ing This sage conclusion must have
come from much listening to dinner
table remarks"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

a New York leader of fashion has
invented a new way of Misunderstanding.
A man who devotes his talents to such
purposeless ends ought to be afflicted
with softening of the brain.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29
Dies of Alcoholic Diseases.

Ability to endure much liquor does nor
indicate that the organs of the body are
protected against injury from alcohol but
only the power to conceal its effect on the
brain. Men employed in the manufacture
and sale of liquor are seldom seen drunk,
but the statistics of mutual benefit asso-
Citations show that greater majority of
such people die of alcoholic diseases than
people in other employments.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

M. De Bloch. the peace apostle and
friend of the czar of Russia. says that
the Boer War has shown what undis-
ciplined troops can do with modern
weapons, against superior forces, and,
he believes, the reduction of the terms
of military service in Europe is immi-
nent. Even at The Hague conference,
M. De Bloch remarked in a recent
speech at Vienna. the Italian military
delegate stated that Italy would no
longer be able o keep pace with the
new ornaments in prospect. That
statement was stricken from the off.
cial nj inutes, and was never published.
But, it is well known that Italy can
no longer bear the financial burdens
imposed on her by the triple alliance,
and public opinion is clamoring to
bring about dissolution of that op-
pressive arrangement
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

Lord Wolseley pays the American
Army a clever compliment. He says
It is the best of its size in the world
He might also have mentioned that
its size is whatever the emergcn
requires.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

The recently deceased son of an
English earl was regarded as having
disgraced himself because ne earned
his living as a Snowman. Neverthe-
less he earned his living
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

1t would be relief to many utilita-
pians if some arctic explorer would
come back with a plausible falsehood
to the effect that he had discovered
the north pole and that it did not
amount to enough to be worth bother
ing about in the future.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29
Twas Her First Love.

On a corner stood little barefoou
girl in her rags. Her soiled, pulgy
little hands hugged another bundle
of rags caressingly to her stained
dimpled cheek, while she enjoyed all
het joys of young motherhood. The
bundle was her baby" Tied with
a string near one end, the rags formed
into a head. Another string about
the middle produced the effect of a
waist line A young man saw the
happy little mother. Whats that?'
he asked, resting a hand on the un.
kempt hair of the child.
my dolly" she said, hugging the
rags closer.
"Your dolly. eh? What pretty
dolly. And what do you call your
baby?"
20 tails it-I tails it tails Ii
Bum Annie.'-New York Times.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29
Joseph Ladue got great deal OF
money in the Klond-ke, and lost his
health. 1t was a bad trade.

There are about 10000 musicians In
the German army. 1t is, however, un-
ierstood that under emergency each
one of them shall drop the instrument
and take up the rife.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

The only two six-masted scnooners
afloat came in collision off Cape Cod
recently. This presents the sugges-
ton that those who are fond of mon
keying with problems of averages can
figure out what the chances are for
their doing this again.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

The number of schools in Cuba has
multiplied 10-foli in a single year.
That West Indian invasion of New
England has been followed by results
of the largest practical value.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

The way in which American anthro-
biological museums are growing is a
source of envy in England, where
there is a lamentable Indifference to
the subject.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

Illinois is adopting drastic means TO
put down hazing and kidnapping. The
maximum penalty for the former is
fine of $500 or six months in the
county Jail. Kidnapping for ransom is
made a capital offence.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

Seventeen years ago, Germany, un-
der Bismarck's lead, established the
state system of accident insurance and
old-age pensions for workingmen. 1t
has grown to be a vast machine, and
it's payments to disabled, sick and
aged wage-earners average $25O,000
year.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

The rapid increase in the suicide
rate in the United States, and partic-
ularly in Chicago, has led to an inves-
tigation by Health Commissioner Rey-
nolds of that city to ascertain whether
grip has had something to do with
the case. Commissioner Reynolds
says: Grip, or influenza, has been
more or less prevalent in this city
since the fall of 1889, and was espe.
cially prevalent in 1891. 1t is claimed
that this disease profoundly affects the
nervous system, causing all grades of
mental disturbances, from simple me-
lancholia to acute insanity. 1t is quite
possible that the great increase in the
number Of suicides in 1893 was due
to this effect of the grip epidemic of
1891 and that the general increase dur.
ing the whole period, 1S96-1900, is due
to the same disease" Accordingly,
the commissioner has requested the
coroner to make special inquiry into
the circumstances attending suicides,
with reference to attacks of influenza.
Grip has been especially prevalent in
Chicago during the last four or five
years, and from 1896 to 1900 the per-
centage of suicides was 23.S per 1OO.-
600 of population. 1t will be interest
Ing to learn the result of the commits.
soner's investigation.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

The hope is held out that We may
yet be able to dispense with elaborate
cooking. Several chemists are said to
be at work on the problem of com.
pressed food, and they expect to com.
pass "in the capacity of a small vial
elements which will sustain life for
days. One enthusiast predicts that
science will yet be able to extract the
life force that is in the heart of the
corn, the kernel of the wheat and the
luscious juices of the fruits.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

The red spiders of California that
have inflicted the orange groves to
such a fearful extent are in process
of being exterminated by a new in
sect. which has made it's appearance.
This latest visitor devours the eggs
of the spiders. AS long as the eggs
hold out the new insect will be all
right, but after they are gone no tell
ing what he may take a notion to de-
YOUR.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

The Boston Herald takes occasion
to analyZe some of the statements
concerning the amount of money paid
by Americans to foreigners for the
service of ocean transportation. 1t
derides the assumption that the sum
reaches $150,OO000o to 100000, 900
annually, but it does not attempt to
make a close estimate of the actual
expenditure. One percent OF the cost
of the goods shipped. it says, would
about size up the business. If this is
the case. $24,000,O00 would pay for
the transportation of our imports and
exports. Perhaps the insignificance of
the amount accounts for the fact that
Americans have not in recent years
made any great efforts to secure the
oversee carrying trade.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

A Nebraska physician keeps in com.
munication by means OF carrier doves
with patients livln- over a circuit of
SO miles.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

There is some probability that quar-
rymen and stone dressers will gradual
ly be crowded out of their occupation
by the use of artificial stone In the
manufacture OF this stone the sand is
heated and the cement added to the
amount of IL percent of the mixture
The steel molds are filled with the dry
material and run upon a tramway into
an immense cylinder, which is closed
and bolted. Boiling water is then
turned in under pressure sufficient to
force it all through the sand in the
molds. The cement slacks, but the
steel molds do not permit any expan-
sion to occur, and the stone is formed
and dried under an immense pressure.
The result is a very hard stone. which
can be supplied in shapes desired much
cheaper than the natural stone
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-29

1t is to be regretted that America
has not Launched upon the flood OF
time" productive intellects of the very
highest order. But there is nothing
extraordinary and discreditable in tho
fact, observes the New York Tribune
1t was an amazing piece of good for
tune for England that Shakespeare
was born on English soil to speak the
English tongue. Goethe fortuitously
conferred unfading lustre On the Ger.
man name. 1t woul,, be cause TO,
profound pride and JOY il another
Shakespeare or Goethe should appear
in the United States with indubitablc
credentials. But in the meantime we
cannot admit that we should hang
our heads in shame. 1t would be al.
most-indeed, for aught. we can see,
quite-as reasonable to disparagc Eng.
land because she has produced only
one Shakespeare in a 1000 years, or to
blush for the human race because
within tnat circle none burst walk
but he"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-05-18
THE OCEAN SCORCHER.


re w no RbouI no" huuy
Times He Has "Crossed."
The ocean scOrcher, the woman or
man who was forever Dragging about
how many times he had 'croSsed,' is,
thank heaven, on the decrease. Fash
ion has at last set the seal of her dis
approval on him, and he is rapidly he
coming obsolete. The fashion is now
never to mention the number of times
one has been to Europe. The last time
l was over" is the way to refer to an
over the water experience if you wish
to be in the vogue. OF course you may,
if you truthfully can, say the time be-
fore last | was over" or the tenth time
l crossed or during my seventh trip
through Europe" but great majority,
you will find, say "the last time | was
over" 1t is safer-whcn one has been
over but once.
Pin many of these travellers so fond
Of relating their European experiences
down to the figures, and you will find
that "the last time | was over" bears
close relation to the little boy who said
he was next to the head of his class,
" h'iN L IL ldltl tilhl lHc CldSS
consisted of himself and Il little girl.
'The last time | was over may, like
as not, have been the FIST. Still any
thing is better than the ocean scorchCr
and his Dragging. To him it didn't
matter where he hadn't been or what
he hadn't seen or anything, but simply
how many times he had crossed.
The one time on record that any one
was known to get ahead of these
scorchers was when lot of them were
sitting swapping lies on Il certain
steamship deck and nOnscorchcr, hav-
ing learned that the star scorcher's rec
ord was 1SS runs, remarked, "There's
man on board who has crossed 5G6
times" Then, as the excitement caused
by the news somewhat subsidized: lies
never been anywhere except to the two
ports Liverpool and New. York. Hes
never seen anything, he's never done
anything, but just cross the ocean 5G6
times-he's the ships barber."-New
York Sun
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-05-18
ILLINOIS HIGHWAYS.
Money Annually Wasted Would Soon
Build Good Roads.


Hard roads statisticians have figured
that Illinois now spends and has been
spending for years more than $1,000
600 annually on its road work - more
than it is proposed to raise from both
state and township taxation under the
Curtis bill. This money goes for the
pay of the county and township and
road district officials, for roadmaking
tools, for labor, and where farmers
work out their road tax the allowance
to them is figured In.
This sum, it is estimated, would be
sufficient in a dozen years to equip ev-
cry township in the state with n north
and south and an east and west mac
adam road of first class quality, yet
this enormous sum is annually spent
for nothing-dumpcd into the mud, lit
orally as well as tgurativcly, through
lack of scientific skill applied to road
building.
Advocates of good roads legislation
are not all sticklerS for macadam
which is usually meant when "hard
roads" are mentioned. Gravel, Stag,
'gumbo" and many other cheap mate
rialS can be used. 1t is even admitted
that fair quality of road can be made
of ordinary prairie soil, but it must be
scientifically constructed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-05-18
Crashing mt n Sunbeam.

It's a common enough thing for chill
drcn TO try to pick up sunbeams. but
the rarneStncSs with which this at
tempt was made by small boy in an
elevated ear attracted the attention of
the other passengers.
He was a very small boy, not more
than 81. years old and still in dresses
The seats in the car were all taken,
and the small boy stood up with his
mother
There came into the car over one of
the blinds slender sunbeam, which
fell diagonally downward across the
little fellows dress, and when his eye
fell upon this he reached down and
carefully closed his hand over it and
then raised his hand to his face and
opened his fingers. But there wasn't
any sunbeam there
The passengers who saw this were
as much Interested in it all, in their
way, rs the small boy was in his, and
presently they saw him try it again.
Looking down, he saw the sunbeam
still there, just where it had been be-
fore when he had tried to grasp it, and
he made that effort again.
Reaching down, he closed his fingers
around it once more, and once more he
raised his hand and opened it and look
ed inside for the sunbeam, once more
to ind-nothing there.
Then taller buildings cut off the ray,
and the small boys mind was diverted
into some other channel.-New York
Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-05-18
Advantages of broad Tires.

We see much talk OF good roads, but
they will never be made permanent I'M
til wide tires are more universally
used. 1t is not, however, on the public
highway that wide tires are most ad-
vantagcOus. 1t is on the fields, through
the lanes and about the barnyard where
they prove of the greatest value. The
State Agricultural College of Missouri
found that on blue grass sward 3,24S
pounds pulled as easily on three inch
tires as 1000 pounds on lie inch tires.
In part of New York state wide tires
reduced the cost of hauling 90 per cent,
but the saving of draft is not the only
advantage of the wide tires, for mar
row tires cut ruts that can be seen
across the fields for whole season,
and each one of these ruts serves as
ditch. which after each rain carries off
the soluble part of all manure and 9th
er fertlizers.-National Stockman.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-05-18
ROADMAkING MACHINERY,
II Has Diyested Highway Building of
Mnny DilicnItIen.

Road building in many sections of the
country has never got beyond the
gravel wagon and the farmers shovel.
In most states the farmer works OUT
his road tax on Il day that Is most con-
vcnicnt to himself and when there is
lie runs scraper up and down the
highway, throwing the dirt in mounds,
hauls few loads OF gravel, scatters it
nbout promiscuouSly and the job Is
done for the year. 1t is this kind of
road building" which makes many
country highways impossible for Il
good portion of the year.
In no department of mechanical in
dCStry has greater progress been made
than in the perfection and manufac-
ture Of roadmaking machinery. The
use of this machinery under the direc-
ton of experts reduces road building in
any kind of soil to very simple prop
OsitiOn. A wider knowledge of mod
ern roadmaking machinery among the
agricultural classes would divcst the
problem of many apparent difficulties
in the minds of those to whom legiSla-
lures must look for the initiative in
this matter.
Modern steam power rOadmaking
machinery, combined with state aid
under state engineer of highways,
furnishes the practical solution of the
good roads problem in this country.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-05-18
The Nick In the LRnel.

You who have been wearing coats
and vests since childhood have per-
hapS never stopped to consider the nick
in the lapel a controversy is now in
progress on the other side of the At
lantic as to how this originated. The
following ingenious explanation has at
length been offered:
1t is said that when Napoleon first
felt the sway of ambition he tried to
implicate General Morcau in Piche-
gru's conspiracy. Mofeau had been
Napoleon's superior and was exceed
ingly popular. but under the circum-
stances, with the man of destiny in
power, 1t was not safe to express pub
licly sympathy with Moreau. His ad-
mirers and supporters quietly agreed
to nick their coat lapels TO show their
fellowship. the outlines of the coat,
after the nick WAS made, forming the
letter NJ. Morcau was eXiled by Ma
poleon and lived in Morrisville, Pa.