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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
DRINKING IN BOER ARMY.
1t Is Always and Strongly OBSCURE
aged-Splendid Results of Total
Abstinence.

The fighting Boer has always dis
couraged whisky drinking, and the
present war is no exception to the
rule, as the following, by Fritz V. d.
Straaten, in the Sud-Afrikanische Kor-
respondent, shows:
"In the Boer army liquor drinking
has been prohibited from the begin
ming, and smuggling prevented as
much as possible. The rule has worked
well. Our men have been in the sad
die hundreds of miles at stretch and
in all sorts of weather, yet none
'caved in We had no hygienic uni
forms, many had not even warm over
coats; yet the cold nights and hot
days did not hurt the men. | have
asked many medical men about the
matter, and nearly all attributed the
remarkable physical endurance of the
Beers to their abstemiousness. 1t has
been said that liquor will assist one
in bearing fatigue. Not word of it is
true. Once during the campaign on
the Tugela l, with few comrades,
reached an abandoned farm. The sun
was We udu DCeH III Une SAD
die since daybreak, without food or
drink. Nothing eatable was in the
house, but one of the men found bot
tie of Cape brandy. Everyone shared
the find except an old cattle Boer.
And the result all who took drink
were in raging fever half an hour
after. Despite all the hunger and
thirst l had experienced, l never felt
so bad during the whole campaign.
Had we met any Britishers when we
continued our ride, the old Boer who
refused to drink would have been the
only one able to fight. 1t is absolute
ly false that liquor raises the courage.
The only result it has is to make men
more careless. This may have been of
some value in the old days of hand-to-
hand fighting; but what is wanted to-
day is iron nerve, a clear eye, quick de-
cision. | will only add that the Euro
peans, on the Beers side, felt no bad
effects from being deprived of liquor"
Literary DIGEST
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
DECORATION NOTES.
Pretty Novelties That Are In Favor
in Home Ornament
tntiOn.

Never in any previous season have
there been shown handsomer lamps
and shades or globes than during this
FIRST winter of the new century, and
never were such lamps sold at such
moderate prices as now, says the La
dies World, New York.
A beautiful lamp in royal copper
finish, set in a frame of wrought iron
and banded with this refined metal,
has the shape of a classic urn with
two handles, lions heads with rings
held in their open jaws. The shade
for this lamp is ribbed and looks al
most black until the lamp is lighted,
when it sheds a deep, soft crimson
glow of light.
Another beautiful lamp is of diff
ferent material-a heavy thick opaque
glass in the style known as cameo.
This lamp has the color of the bloom
of the raspberry in its soft finish. and
is also banded with wrought iron and
framed in the same metal. The globe
of this lamp matches the body. and is
also of cameo glass.
A lovely lamp in apple-green cameo
glass is set in a frame and decorated
with bands of a dead-fnished re-
pousse silver. Another apple-green
cameo lamp is finished by bands and
frame of relief work in dead black
iron. Both lamps have globes of APP
ple-green cameo glass.
Exceedingly beautiful is the deco
rative Austrian glass of this season.
Tall fiagons of clearest green glass
deeply cut at the four corners taper
to a graceful top and have their
bases finished to represent beaten
gold. These flagons come in foNr
sixth, the largest being fully IS inches
high.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Seventy-five hundred words is the
average number uttered by public
speakers in an hour.
The guava tree bears fruit more
months in the year than any other
semitropical fruit.
Deaths of children under five years
of age in Boston last year were 32.14
per cent. of the total mortality.
Four to ten pounds of the bark
from which quinine is extracted is
the average crop of the cinchona
tree.
The time of the passage of the
Suez canal, 90 miles long, has fallen
from As hours in 1888 to about %
at present.
The daily circulation of newspa
pers in the United Kingdom rose
from 10000 copies in 1901 to 100000
in 1850. and now reaches s,5OO,OOO.
In Nerdi's viii occurs this curious
clause: in the dining-room of my
villa, st. Agata, will be found two
large wooden boxes of great antiqui
ty. l desire that neither shall be
opened, but that both be burnt i'm
mediately after my obsequies."
Hereafter the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad will not engage engineers
weighing 200 pounds or over, al
though those now in the employ of
the company will not be dismissed
for this cause. The reason for the
rule is said to be the narrowing of
the space for the engineer caused
by the extension of the boiler
through the cab of the newer types
of engine. and large engineers might
not be able to move rapidly enough
in emergencies.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
Cheap Rates to California.

February 18th and each Tuesday there
after, until and including April Goth, Special
Low Rate Colonist Tickets viii be sold via
the, Southern Pacitic's Company's "0gden"
and Sunset Routes to all points in Califor-
MIA. The rate viii be: From Chicago
$1,000, from st. Louis, Memphis and New
Orleans $3.50, from Omaha, Kansas City,
etc, $500. Corresponding low rates from
all other points east and north.
For particulars and detailed information
pertaining to the Southern Pacific Com
panys Routes, and these special rates to Cal
ifornia, call upon or address
w; c. Neimyer, G. w. A, S. P. Co.. 23s
Clark ST., Chicago, H.
W. H. Conner, c. A, S. P. Co., Chamber
Of Commerce Bldg, Cincinnati, Ohio.
G. G; Herring, c. A., 5. P. Co., III Park
Bldg, Pittsburg, Pa.
L. E. Townsley, c. A, S. P. Co., 42I Olive
St, st. Louis, Mo.
G. c. Cary, c. A., S. P. Co., 2o8 sheidley
Bldg, Kansas City, Mo.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
S 8 Eysl5as|R5laanea
HA'lHNl4zj\p7za
RESULT OF AN INVESTIGATION
1t Leads n Christian Physician to
Take a Positive Stand Against
Alcoholic Liquors.

DR. Harold Remin, ION was the son
of man so rich that it seemed who'll
ly unnecessary for him to do any
thing more laborious than to keep
track of the investments which fell
to his share. He was singularly I'M
spoiled by the money which was his
inheritance, and the forceful activity
of healthful young life had created
in him desire to make a place for
himself in the world.
Having been graduated from a CO.
educational school he had quite nat
urally selected one of his school
mates for a wife, and for reasons of
their own they had chosen this town
rather than a large city for their
field of labor.
There was little in Harold's edu-
cation, intellectual or religious. which
developed in him any sense of per-
sonal responsibility for the unfor-
tunate in life. He did his work care
fully and conscientiously, charging
up his poor patients to the benevo-
lent fund, and was in a fair way to
get used and hardened to social dis
tress, as he had to physical pain,
when something happened.
The doctor and Helen had settled
themselves one evening for the quiet
talk which was their rest and COM
fort after the days labor, when he
observed signs of excitement about
her, and persuasively asked:
"Well, what is it? l see you have
something or your mind"
so Harold! it is such a dreadful
thing. You know l told you
that the German woman who comes
to help the housemaid with the wash
dng and cleaning was such a bright
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires q
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have SO much faith in its cura.
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. j. Cheney s. Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

'No, my dear, I honestly don't, and
I've sworn off, for I'm persuaded a
Christian man can't afford to have
anything to do with it, and I've made
up my mind that l can just about do
without it in medicine, too"
Helen's eyes dilated and bright
ened, as she exclaimed enthusiastic
ally: You blessed man! l knew
you'd find way to help. And how
about the saloons; do you think a
Christian man ought to vote for
them?"
NO" said Harold, positively,
though he remembered that the
saloon had not heretofore entered
into his political calculations. In
deed, politics had never interested
him very much, but he saw that as
a Christian he had duty to per-
form there, and he was not the man
to shirk a duty when it was made
clear to him.
On another evening Harold report
ed a case from which he had just re-
turned where a baby had been born
of drunken parents in the midst of
horrible conditions, and it had a de-
preston in the skull which made it
certain it could never be up to the
average mentally.
81 tell you," said he, 81 hated to
see the little creature live. It's sure
to be curse to the world. I'm not
sure but drunkenness is response
BILE, through heredity, for the big
gest part of our defective and GRIM
inal classes"
why" said Helen, sit is what the
Bible says: The iniquities of the ia
Their shall be visited upon the chill
dren to the third and fourth genera
tion,' and you remember, Paul said:
IF any man defile the temple of God,
him shall God destroy and he says,
too, that the baby is the temple, "
and she shuddered at the thought.
holiness is Wilderness of body
as well as of soul" went on Helen.
"Glorify God with your bodies,"
said Harold, softly.
Helen laid her hand on his and said,
reverently: LET it be our work for
Jesus to make our young friends
understand this.''-Carrie L. Grout,
in Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

woman. I've often wondered why she
had to work so hard. This morning
she came with her eyes all red with
crying to tell me that she didn't
believe she could wash to-day. |
asked her what was the matter, but
she didn't want to tell. Of course !
knew there was some trouble, and /
insisted on knowing. 1 took hold
of her arms to make her sit down
and she cried out as if it hurt he@,
and then dropped into a chair and
cried as if her heart would break. l
couldn't do thing but wait till she
got quiet, and then she broke out
in German and told me how her man
had beaten her and showed me her
arms pounded almost to jelly"
Harold" said Helen, suddenly,
Strengthening herself and looking
him keenly in the face; you drink
wine sometimes, don't your"
Harold laughed heartily. "Why,
sweetheart, are you afraid I'll beat
you?"
Nonsense" she said, leaning back
in her chair with narrowing eyelids,
as if she were scrutinizing something
closely. you don't suppose l think
you capable of that; but what is it
about the stuff that makes such
brutes of men?"
81 don't know" said Harold, indif-
ferently. "Probably the beast is in
the man by nature and the liquor
rouses it to activity"
Helen was silent, but her stead
fast gaze remained fixed on the op-
posite wall until her husband turned
it toward him, exclaiming:
"What a brown study! Why don't
you tell me what it's all about?'
'It's the poor woman and her
trouble. 1 wish could do something
for her."
81 guess you can; trust you to
cheer her up"
''Yes, but l mean something more
than that. What can be done for
her while he is like that? Say, dear
est! let's study up alcohol. I hear
it's in the public school course, but
you and I DON'T seem to know very
much about it.''
OF course Harold could not refuse
such a pleader, but truth to tell
he did not feel any great interest
in the subject. Drunkenness was
utterly disgusting to him. 1t had
been his pride that he had never
been overcome by liquor, and he
often declared that a gentleman
ought to be above such weakness.
But Helen threw herself into the
business with a zest, getting scien-
tific opinions and verifying them as
far as possible in the laboratory.
After the investigation had been
going on for some time and the
counts against alcohol had multiplied
appallingly, Helen inquired one even
ing with roguish smile:
Harold, do you believe alcohol
ever did any good?"
Harold pulled his mustache
thoughtfully for a moment and then
replied, soberly enough:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
Is Your Mind a reservoir

No young man can hope to do any
thing above the commonplace who
has not made his life a reservoir of
power on which he can constantly
draw, which will never fail in any
emergency. 1t is only the man OF
great reserve. the man who has con-
verified his knowledge into power, who
has ground every experiment into
paint for the great canvas for life's
picture, who will make his mark in
the world. The very skill which en-
ables a surgeon to save life, in an
hour of supreme crisis, has been pur-
chased by years of preparation, of
stern discipline.-O. S. Marden, in
Success.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
Ether Drinking in Prussia.

To the evils of alcohol are now add
ed the evils of the ether drinking,
which has spread alarmingly in east
ern Prussia, where ether is sold in the
saloons, like any liquor, four or five
grams to a glass. In the town of Mem
ell alone it is stated the amount thus
sold last year was $3.50 liters, and in
reality twice this amount was con-
sumed, the rest brought in by SNUG
glers. The effect is said to be four
times more powerful than any equal
amount of alcohol, but it's continued
use produces intolerable suffering and
incurable LESSONS of liver, kidneys and
heart.-Canadian Royal Templar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
Two Bad Gases of Nervous Prosfrafion Cured.

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM;-I
was suffering such fortunes
from nervous prostration that
life was a burden. l could
not sleep at all, and was too
weak to walk across the floor.
My heart was affected SO that
often [ could not lie down at
all without almost suffocating.
[ took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and it
worked like magic. l feel that
your medicine has been of in
estimable benefit to me"
MISS ADELE WILLIAMSON,
1876 N boulevard Atlanta Ca
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
HE DIDN'T GET ANY.
story of the BOyhOOd Days of
King Louis NH. of
France.

One day, when the dauphin, after
ward Louis MIL, was five years old.
the duke of Sully came out to St.
German well supplied from the
treasury with pocket-money for the
dauphin, says Mrs. Lucy Crump in
the Atlantic. The news of the SUPER
intendent's arrival set the whole
Ehousehold astir, eager for a share
in the expected spoil. Nine de
Monglat hurried the dauphin into the
great courtyard of the castle to re-
ceive Sully with as much honor as if
he had been the king himself. To
please the great man, the little prince
put his enfants d'honneur and other
attendants through drill with their
toy harquebuses and swords. At the
end of the show NJ. de Sully gave the
Gauphin so crowns, which his mock
soldiers seized out of his hands so
quickly that he had scarce time even
to feel them. At last but one piece
remained, which he held fast hold of.
in spite of the efforts of Nine. de
Monglat's tailor to get it from him.
''He he, he's trying to take it from
mel" shouted the child. Nine. dc
Monglat took it, gathered together
all the rest of the coins from the
reluctant hands of their possessors
and kept them all. The dauphin did
not complain, but soon after he said:
'But I, too, was a soldier, and | didn't
get any money"
Herouard always maintained that
certain reluctance to both spend and
give, which characterized Louis in
later years, was the direct result of
Nine. de Monglat's teaching and ex-
ample.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
Absolutely Invaluable,

An expression of opinion from the con-
sumner of any article is always superior to
William Cady, of Columbus, Mississippi,
wrote: During the past two years | have
had frequent occasion to use Palmer's Lo-
ton in my family for curing letter and
Ringworm, and for healing obstinate little
sores about the face, head and hands it is
invaluable" Of course it is invaluable be-
cause it is the greatest known cure for
every form of disease that can be reached
by an outward application, If your drug
gist doesn't have it, send to Scion Palmer,
374 Pearl Street, New York, for samples Of
Palmer's Lotion and Lotion Soap.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
speltz. the Richest Food Ont

The articles in the John A Salzer Seed
Company's catalog, La Crosse, Wis, on
Speltz, Bismarck Hog Food Pea, Billion
Dollar Grass, Victoria Rape and Bromus
menus are worth $4,000 of any wide-awake
farmers money, particularly the one on
Speltz is remarkably interesting on account
OF the wonderful richness of this productive,
should get Salzer's catalog and read about
SpeltZ TX
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
HOmeseekers Excursion.

On the first and third Tuesdays of each
month the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway will sell round-trip excursion tick
cts from Chicago, Milwaukee and other
points on its line to great many points in
South Dakota, North Dakota and other
Western and Northwestern States at about
one fare. Take trip west and see the won
derful crops and what an amount of good
land can be purchased for a little money.
Further information as to rates, routes,
prices of farm lands, etc, may be OBJ
tanned by addressing F. A. Miller, General
Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

81 had nervous prostration
terribly, caused by female
weakness. l suffered every
thing; was unable to eat,
sleep, or work. After a while
+ | was induced to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and I really began to
improve on taking the first
bottle. l continued to take
the medicine, and am now
better in every way, and feel
like a different person. ] am
simply a well woman"
Mrs. DELLA KEIsER,
Marienyille. Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your grocer to-day to show you pack
age of 'GRAINO, the new food drink that
takes the place Of coffee. The children may
drink it without injury as well as the adult.
All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that
rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is
made from pure grains, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress. the
price of coffee. l5c. and 25cts. per package.
Sold by all grocers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
There Is a Glass of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re
Gently there has been placed in all the gro
Gerry stores a new preparation called
GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes
the place of coffee. The most delicate stom-
ach receives it without distress, and but few
can tell it from coffee. 1t does not cost over
as much. Children may drink it with
great benefit. Is cts. and 25 cts. per pack
age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
Best for the Bowels.

No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has c. G. G.
stamped on it, Beware of limitations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Couldn't Give Less.-"Oh, Miss Stone!"
the undesirable sutton pleaded, IF YOU
would only give me the least encourage
ment. That's what l am doing, Mr.. De
Trow, replied the naughty beauty Good
day. '-Philadelphia Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Certain of the Spartan women, it is re-
corded. hesitated. I'll we cut off our hair
and give it to the soldiers to string their
bows with, how are we to get along?' they
protested. "Why we can string our beaux
with false hair!" exclaimed the others
warmly.-Detroit Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
The Crusade Spreading.

"The Kansas crusade is spreading"
NO"
Eyes; we have an old hen sitting on one
egg and trying to hatch it."-Ohio State
Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Kemps Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a
sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 5(
cents. Go at once: delays are dangerous.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

81 am nervous! suffered as I do! There
are diseased, my chest pains me So but have no cough
am weak at my stomach and have indigestion terribly and
paptaon of the heart; losing flesh; and this headache
and backache nearly kills and yesterday had Mysteries
down all the time, with pains in my groins and thghs-I
can't sleep, walk sit, and blue oh goodness simply
the most miserable of women"
This is most vivid description Of suffering with
prosration caused by inflammation other
diseased condition of the womb.
No should allow herself to reach such perfection
of misery when there need of it, Read about Miss
Wilamson's and how she was cured
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Noble Child.-'It was very noble of you,
Willie, to plead that your brother be spared
a whipping Il guess | know my business.
Every time he gets licked he turns around
and icks me. ''-Philadelphia Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

1t was a Boston girl who described her
faithless lovers mouth as stretching across
the wide desolation of his face, the sepul-
of falsehood kansas City Star
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
New Legal Term

A Georgia colonel had a man arrested for
Cooking mean" at him. The man was
fined five dollars for rubbering with intent
to scare-Minneapoli Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Gobbled the Cash-Reporter-" am
told that your trusted cashier has left the
bank" Bank President-"Did he? Thank
heavens, we have the building to start with
again !"-Ohio State Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

The Judge-Your husband is entitled to
a little respect. madam.
The Wife-Well, that's what he GETS
Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Friend-I heard story about wicked
man who played golf on Sunday
Golfer-And what happened to him?
"He fooled Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Diligence is fair fortune and industry
good estate.-Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Fact is stranger than fiction and almost
as strange as fiction founded on fact.-De-
troit Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Always remember that your employer
is anxious to pay you more money, if you
will earn it.-Atchison Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
To Cure a Cold I'm One Day

| Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
| druggists refund moneyifitfails to cure Csc.