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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24
The LORDS REWARDS.

Trust the Lord to see you when you play a
Christians part,
Trust the Lord to hear you when you soothe
the orphans heart;
Trust the Lord to guide you through the
dangers of the day,
Rise Up in the morning always trusting
that the Lord
May be always pleased to keep you in the
narrow, righteous way
Trusting on and hoping on to gain the
sweet reward
That never is forgotten when you kneel at
night to pray.
Trust the Lord to see you when you do a
noble deed,
Trust the Lord to know it when you fill the
widows need;
Trust the Lord to watch you and to keep
you in His care,
Trust to be rewarded when it's time for
your reward,
But waste no precious moments beating
blindly in the air
Calling out for blessings and for favors
from the Lord
Just little duty done is worth a life of
solemn prayer.
S. f. Kiser. in Chicago Times-Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24
Spread of the Coffee Tree,

Some interesting facts regarding
the coffee tree have been printed re-
Gently. The native home of this plant
is said to be Kaffra, in southern Abys-
sinia. 1t was not until it had been
in use for centuries by the Arabians
that a plant was carried to Java. In
1706 tree from Java was sent to Am
sterdam, and when it lowered and
ripened seeds a young Seeding was
presented to Louis XIV. From this
plant seedlings were sent to Martin
ique, and from these plants again
seedlings were sent to Jamaica, Cay
enne and San Domingo; while from
Amsterdam plants were sent to Surf
nam. In fact, it was from the one
plant, sent from Java in the begin
ming of the eighteenth century by
Governor General Van Hoorn. that
everything in the French possessions
and West Indies sprang. In this way
have travelled the progeny of the origi-
nal coffee plant, introduced from
Arabia at the end of the seventeenth
entury.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24
KICKED OUT.
Forth a Grim Tragedy OF
the saloon.

1t was a cherries winter night. The
fierce wind from the north blew the
falling snow full into the face of the
blOated wretch who forced his way with
bowed head and bent frame against
the storm that cut to the marrow of his
bones.
In the heart of the great city, with
its hundred thousand homes. he was all
alone. No place to sleep, no home, no
friend. God, how the cold clutched at
his heart! He must be warmed without
and within, or die. There is a saloon
across the street, a warm fire and plen-
ty to drink. just one drink. How it
would warm and cheer him! Just one
He will try. No money with which to
buy, he must beg, but he will try. He
crosses the street and enters. How
cheerful. He hugs the stove moment
and its warmth cheers him on to the
attempt. He stands at the bar AL
bottles full of the liquor for which his
whole being Graves. Oh. how he would
love to clutch them one by one and
drain them to the last drop. He begins
to plead.
Mister. just one drink. l have no
money and no place to sleep. It's bit
ter cold night. just one drink, please,
sir."
"Out. you soft" The words cut like
knife to his heart. Get out! You are
a disgrace to my house,
He reeled from the counter as if he
had been struck. Again he hugs the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24
The CHANGE OF LIFE

Is the most important period in wo-
mans existence. Owing to modern
methods of living, not one woman in
thousand approaches this perfectly
natural change without experiencing
a train OF very annoying and some
times painful symptoms.
Those dreadful hot flashes, sending
the blood surging to the heart until it
seems ready to burst, and the faint
feeling that follows, sometimes with
chills, as if the heart were going to
stop for good, are symptoms of dam
gerous, nervous trouble. Those hot
flashes are just SO many calls from
nature for help. The nerves are cry
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24

stove, trying to warm the wretched
rags that cover his shivering body.
Come, get away there" cries the
barkeeper. John, kick this loafer into
the street"
John, bury negro, seizes him by the
shoulder, drags him to the door, and
kicks him far out upon the pavement.
The door is shut behind him and he is
out again in the storm.
The cat purrs upon the window sill
and rubs her hairy sides against the
panes. The dog warns his cold nose
by the fire within; but there is no com
fort for him. The wind bowls and
means and tugs at his rags. as if it were
trying to tear them from him. He
draws them closer to his shiverin9
frame and wanders away into the
night.
The morning comes, clear, bright and
cold. Two blocks away from the saloon
door in a narrow, dark street he was
found half buried by the white drift in
the gutter. frozen to death.
Dead. Buried in the potter's field,
unhonored, unwept- Unwept, did l
say?
All, no. A thousand miles away in the
old homestead the white-haired moth
er weeps for her erring, wandering
boy and prays that she may be spared
to see his dear face once more. Years
ago he wandered away and she has lost
all trace of him. Every night since he
left she has prayed the good God to help
him and bring him back again to the
home he used to love so well. But he
will never come. Thank God. she will
never know that the last night he spent
on earth he was kicked from the place
of his ruin, gabond, into the street.
She will never know that with the cry
of LOST Lost. LOST" echoing
through the chambers of his soul. he
sank into the gutter, and his life cur
rents froze where he fell. God be
praised, this cup of sorrow she shall not
drink!
Young man, take your choice-tem-
perance or intemperance. Temperance
is virtue; intemperance vice. Tenn
perance brings prosperity; intemper-
ance adversely. Temperance gives JOY
peace and comfort; intemperance sor-
row, trouble and want Temperance
brings strength of body and mind, a
rugged life, hale old age; intemper-
ance a polluted body feeble mind, a
wretched life and a besotted old age.
filled with a thousand unspeakable
woes. Temperance is blooming flow
er; intemperance a piercing thorn.
Temperance is an orange tree, rich
with a crown of golden fruit; intemper-
ance barren tree withered in leaf and
branch. Temperance is beautiful vir-
gin with an angels face; intemperance
apainted harlot. Temperance is honor;
intemperance dishonor. Temperance is
divine; intemperapce brutal. Temper
anec is lovely; intemperance hateful.
The one makes the heart leap for JOY,
the other creates a hell in the human
breast.
Look upon this sad picture of
wasted life and dreadful death, and
then. young man, take your choice.
A. B. Campbell, in National Advo-
cate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24
HER COUSIN IDA
By Mrs. Moses P. Handy.

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24
KIpIinE on Drin king In South Africa.

So far as / could see in South At
lea, it did not much matter what
sort of spirits a man fancled. because
there was not the least danger of his
getting more than was good for him
On the other hand, men who could DO
without liquid, who did not fancy
that they needed to flood their
insides every two or three hours. got
on better than men who, through
mere physical incontinence and care
lessness, were always sucking at their
water bottles. In this, as in all
things, the man who is temperate, in
thu full sense of the word, survives
st. James Gazette,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24

ing out for assistance. The cry should
be needed in time. Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound was pre-
pared to meet the needs of woman's
system at this trying period of her life.
1t builds up the weakened nervous
system, and enables woman to pass
that grand change triumphantly.
" | was very sick woman, caused
by Change of Life. l suffered with hot
fushes, and fainting spells. l was
afraid to go on the street, my head
and back troubled me so. 1 was en-
tirely cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. y Mrs. JENNIE
NOBLE, SOLO keyser St., Germantown,
Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24

He-You know they say woman
can't keep a secret.
She-That's a libel. A woman can
keep a secret as easily as man can
all but two kinds. There are secrets
that aren't worth keeping and others
that are too good to keep.-Boston
Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24
A Successful Experiment.

The good condition and good be-
havior of the troops in South Africa
is recognized as largely due to the
fact that they have had no strong
drink Gen. Kelly, Z. A. g., said late
ly to newspaper correspondent:
This campaign has been run entire
ly on teetotal principles, and the ex.
pertinent has proved wonderfully suc.
pessfuLr
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24

NELL, Abby, Ida will be here
wv next week; she wants me to take
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18
Ward a Simple Appearing Fellow.
Suggested a Cure for Combines.

In so far as our present trusts depend
upon public or private privileges and
favcrs there can certainly be no ex-
cuse for delay. If the largest of all
trusts is exacting monopoly charges
from domestic consumers, and selling
it's products in foreign markets at
lower ratcs-and who can doubt that
tits is the case?-we have only our
selves to blame If we fail to apply the
simple remedy of placing iron and steel
upon the free list. And this trust is
only one of many, the powers of which
could be curbed by this course of &C
ton. II railroad rates are so manipu-
lated that they sometimes favor the
localities in which the plants owned
by trusts are situated-and what dis
interested student can deny this why
should we hesitate, in season and out
Of season, to agitate the question Of
the control Of the national highways?
If patent laws are another reliance of
the trusts, why should we hesitate to
throw open to general use, in return
for reasonable compensation, every
patent that is employed hereafter for
monopolistic ends? These remedies
would at least moderate the exactions
of many of the trusts.-Atlantic
Monthly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

Reina V. Wright, talented young
girl of Oshkosh, Wis, has mastered
the language Of birds in a manner
which enables her perfectly to under
stand their conversation. Miss Wright,
who is now IS, has made study OF
bird sounds since she was IL years old.
She began by talking to her feathered
friends in their own tongue, and was
soon gratified by noting her power of
calling them together and imposing ST.
lence upon them while she trilled their
songs. The BIZ DIS not only listen, but
answer her, sometimes in chorus and
again one at time. Miss Wright is
now a teacher of elocutlon at Grafton
Hall in that city. She was born in
Nebraska and come hither when
child of 8. She has been a student in
the Ralston University of Expression
and Physical Culture at Washington,
where she worked under the private
direction Of President Edgerly. She
was graduated last year and then re-
turned to teach.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18
AMONG THE PENGUlNS.

A recent visit to an island where
penguins build their nests. off the coast
of Cape Colony, is thus described by
island, which is low-lying sandbank
sparsely covered with small scrub.
and, with the exception of the light
house keepers and half dozen boys
who collect the eggs, is inhabited SOLE
ly by birds, the great majority Of
which are penguins. These breed all
over the island, and are to be seen by
thousands, and in all stages Of devel-
opment, from the grave and reverend
seignior weighed down with family
cares to the little ball of fluff just es-
caDed from the egg, and with all the
troubles of life before it. The birds
nest in holes, which they either take
over from former tenants, or, II enter
prising, dig for themselves. The total
number of eggs collected during the
year is upward of 100000. In spite of
their somewhat fishy flavor. they are
much appreciated by the Malay popu-
lation and many of the European resi-
dents of Cape Town and command a
ready market at cents apiece. The
right of selling the eggs Is leased by
the government to a private individual.
who collects them all between the
months of March, when the penguins
begin to lay, and August, when they
are allowed to sit and hatch out. In
this way the breeding season is greatly
heightened and consequently the birds
remain much longer on the island and
the supply of the guano is correspond
ingly increased. Being natives of
South Africa, the birds displayed all
the curiosity of the raw Kaffir, and
calmly and unabashed walked UP and
started us out of countenance, occa-
sionally turning to each other to COM
pare notes on our somewhat disreput-
able appearance. One, more curious.
or, perhaps, vindictive than the rest.
edged away from his fellows, and Wig
orously tried the texture of my boots
with his bill, and his venturesome ac-
ton was received with loud applause
by the crowd and its performer became
the hero Of the hour. "-Chicago News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

United States Marshal Daniel A. Ray
of the Territory of Hawaii, died In
Honolulu recently of Bright's disease.
complicated with heart failure. He
had been United States marshal for
Hawaii since the organic act took Ell
feet being the first marshal appointed.
D. A. Ray was we'll known as
politician and editor. He was appoint
ed marshal of the island possession
in June 1900, and sailed soon after FOR
Honolulu.
Mr.. Ray was born in New York, but
came west at an early age. settling IN
Chicago. From 1869 to 1873 he was
editor of the Bloomington Paragraph.
Removing from that city to Spring
field, he became secretary Of the state
senate and later assumed the editor
ship of the Springfield Stalwart. In
1880 Mr.. Ray moved to Chicago, where
he maintained his home to the time or
his death.
Mr.. Ray for four years was an in
spector in the Chicago postoffice, and
afterward was political editor and for
a short time city editor Of Chicago
daily newspaper. For the six years
preceding his appointment as marshal
Of Hawaii Mr.. Ray was Senator Gull
IONS private secretary. He was also
secretary of the Interstate commerce
commission.
He is survived by four children, .
daughter and three sons. The daughte
is Miss Lily J. Ray, who resides in
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

The sheep king of Australia is Sam
uel McCaughney, an Irishman, who
went to Australia in 1856 with prac-
tically nothing. He did not succeed
well at first, but started again with a
small fiocF and from year to year has
added to his holdings, until now he has
more sheep than any other man in the
world. He has more acres of land than
sheep, and his possessions are in the
best parts of Australia. One of his
farms, on the Darling downs, is thir-
ty-six miles long and forty miles wide.
Altogether he owns more than 1000, 900
acres, and leases about 1000, 900 more
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

Some of the English tenures are ex-
ceedingly curious. A farm near Broad
house, in Yorkshire, pays annually to
the landlord SNOWFALL in midsummer
and a red rose at Christmas. The
manor of Foston is held by rental Of
two arrows and loaf of bread An
estate in the north Of England is held
by the exhibition before a court every
seven years of a certain vase owned
by the family; another, in Suffolk. by
an annual rental of two white doves.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18
1eather.Coxered Mantels.

The very newest idea in leather
decoration is an entire mantel in a
rich shade of green, which was ar
ranged for Long Island woman who
was dissatisfied with the ugly mantel
in the dining room of her country
home and was advised to try the eff
feet of hiding the disfguring projec-
ton with leather. The result was a
complete success and several of her
friends have followed her example to
the extent of having leather mantel
drapery, If not entirely incasing the
chimney corner. For an Indian room
or a den a hanging Of leather In rich
yermilion tone, with an Indians head
skillfully etched on 1t, lends decid-
eddy bright bit Of color.-Detroit Free
Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18
DEADWOOD CRIMES.
SOUTH DAKOTA CITY STIRRED BY
RECENT EVENTS.
W. II. Ward, Now Under Arrest, Charged
with Many Murders-Kirk and Lee
Sheppard, Brothers. Aged 10 and 30,
(DeadWood Letter.)

The story of the Ward murders, that
have been perpetrated near Puma, a
town three miles from Deadwood, is a
ghastly tale. w. H. Ward, who is now
closely watched in an iron cage in the
Deadwood Jail, is unquestionably a
murderer at heart. How many deeds
he will have to answer for will prob
ably never be known. Whether he is
crazy and committed his crimes under
a spell of insanity will be determined
at his coming trial.
Two brothers Missing.
Some eight weeks ago two brothers
named Kirk and Lee Sheppard, who
resided with their mother near Puma.
suddenly disappeared. Kirk was 16,
and Lee was 20 years old. There was a
third brother named Harley. aged H..
Harley had been adopted by w. H..
Ward, Familiarity known as "Beachers. ~
AS Harley grew older he grew tired Of
Wards place. This is supposed to have
commenced the trouble between Ward
and the other brothers. When Ward
found out that Lee Sheppard was ad-
vising his youngest brother. Harley, to
quit the old man and come back to
his own home to live, it is supposed
that Ward Immediately began to lay
plans for the determination of both of
the brothers. At any rate Lee and
Kirk suddenly disappeared, and few
days later, when the searching parties
got pretty close, Ward disappeared too.
Things got very interesting when, a
few days later, one Of the searching
parties unearthed the decomposed body
of man, which Tailed in every way
with that of Lee SHEPPARD, one of the
missing brothers. The body was found
in an old water ditch, covered over
with about two feet of dirt and some
willow brush. The body was beyond
recognition, quantity of quick lime
having been placed beneath and on top
of the body to hasten the decomposi-
,tion. The body was dressed in suit
of underclothes and the hair on the
head was red, which correspondent with
that of Lee Sheppard.
Unearthing a Body.
When the body was unearthed there
was the greatest excitement in the old
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

ton; Blount, Blunt; Boisragen, Bora
gon; Boulger, Boal'jer, Bolejer; Bour'
CHER, Bow'cher; Bourke, Burk; Gail.
lard, Ky'ar; Cassalis, Cassels; Cheyne
Chay'ney; Cholmondeley, CHUNKY;
Claverhouse, Clay'verse; Colquhoun
Cohoon; Creighton, Cry'ton; Crichton
Cry'ton: De L'Isle and Dudley, Dc
Lyle; De Moleyns, Demmoleens; DE
Sails, De Sal'lia; Dumares, Doo'mer'-
rick; Dymoke, Dim'muk; Farquhar
Fark'wer, Parker; Farquharson, Fark'
erson, Fark'werson; Foljambe, Fool
jam; FOULS, Fowls; Pontefract, Pom
fret; Marylebone, Marl'bun; Pail Mall
Pei Mel.-Chicago News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

town of Deadwood and at Lead, and
the entire population turned out to
hunt for the man who was suspected
of committing the crime. Hundreds OF
people went over the little garden
patch with iron bars, thrusting them
down foot or more, in hopes of strik-
ing the soft burial place of the second
brother, who was still missing. But
Ward had made good his escape. The
searching parties went through the old
mans house, peeked into every old
we'll and tunnel for mile around the
place, plowed the potato garden and
tore up the rotting floor They found
every day some clue, not only to the
crime of the murder of Lee Sheppard,
whose body had been unearthed, but
to other murders that are believed to
have been committed by him.
All of the clothes worn by Lee Shep-
hard were found in the house, except
ing suit of underclothes, which were
on the dead body when found. In an
old barrel wrapped in dirty cloth.
was also discovered the suit Of clothes
last worn by Kirk Sheppard, the Sec
ond missing brother. But where the
body of Kirk had been laid by Ward
is still mystery. Bones were found a
few days ago in natural cave near
the house, and sack of fish and bones
was dug up in the garden, but the
coroner has thus far been unable to
tell for a certainty whether they are
human or animal. Some of the bones
found in the cave looked like the arm
and leg bones of a man. The sack OF
flesh is claimed by brother of Ward
to have been buried where 1t was
found by butcher from Deadwood.
Capture of Ward.
Ward was captured near the DEVILS
tower, 80 miles northwest of Dead
wood He had gone there to look after
a ranch, so he states, which he owned
in part with another man. He was
found asleep in the bushes early in the
morning and was taken without any
resistance. He feigned surprise at be-
ing taken into custody. He stated that
he had not read any of the newspapers
containing reports of his disappearance
and that of the Sheppard brothers, and
ne did not see why he should be taken
to Jail.
Ward went tothe Black Hills about
IA years ago. He built a house at the
mouth of Little Strawberry gulch,
south of Deadwood, and but little has
been known of his daily life. He was
not friendly to visitors, who might
chance to call on him at his house,
but on the street or anywhere off from
his premises he was sociability itself.
He was strong Odd Fellow, and was
known as a friend to the sick brothers.
How he lived is mystery. He never
worked for any one. but owned some
mining ground Of his own. Frequently
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18
RockefeIier's PROBATE 6Uire.

John d. Rockefeller occasionally
uses the long-distance telephone when
away from his New York Office, but not
for important business. For such pur-
poses he never uses the mails. There
is private wire from the office to his
mansion at Forest hill, Ohio, and the
Standard Oil millionaire, when at the
latter point transacts business just as
though he were in New York. He
never writes message, but talks to a
trusted and reliable operator.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

tory and English literature, they are
here offered to the American school
girl for her study and observance
Abergavenny. Abergen'ny; Acheson,
Atch'eson; Adye. Ay'dy; Alcester,
Awister; Abingdon, Arlington; Ays-
cough, Ask'ew; Bagehot, Bag'got;
Beauchamp, Bee'cham; Beaulieu, Bew-
'ly: Bellingham, Bel'lingjam; Belvoir,
Bee'ver BERTHE, Barty; Bethune, Bee
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18
At Her Last Place,

Mistress-I'm afraid you will not
suit. Honora. And yet Mrs. Ranger
said that you always gave perfect sat
isfaction at her house.
The Cook-Yes, mem, we always got
along first rate. me and Mrs. Ranger.
Mistress-But did you have great
deal of cooking to do there?
The Cook-Didn't have any; lived on
can stuff. Thought that was the way
all real ladies did.-Chicago Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

F. Abreu, Filipino merchant from
Manila. travelling in this country to
gain a knowledge Of American meth
DDS, has presented President Roosevelt
with a handsome cane and several
pieces Of cloth Of insular manufacture.
The stick was mounted in gold mined
In Luzon and was the work of native
artisans.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18
Mrs. RooSevelf'S Church.

Church, as his ancestors had done, and
he has kept up the connection as
matter of course. Mrs. Roosevelt was
a Carew, and she is an Episcopalian
by birth and training. She has always
contributed literally to the church of
that faith in New York, Washington
and Albany. The President and Mrs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-18

Mrs. Roosevelt's determination to at
tend st. Johns Episcopal Church while
the President is faithful to the little
chapel of the Dutch Reform Church
has given rise to some misconception.
and people who do not understand the
facts have assumed there was some
radical difference of opinion in relig-