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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

it is thought by his neighbors, as he
has given up living in his large home
and has just built house on the
spot where his beloved wife rests, on
the beautiful mountain side near his
home. The structure is a small but
substantial octagon of stone, and on
the iron opening into the single room
is the following inscription: Zone in
life, and one in DEATH"
In the right hand corner is the
grave of his wife, while a secondary
space near by he has reserved for
himself, where at the end he can find
repose. Around the windows flowers
have been planted, and the venera-
BILE patriarch spends the day in beau
tifying the surroundings of his
strange home.
On the anniversary of her death,
with the assistance of local pastor,
the funeral ceremony is repeated.
The colonel has turned a deaf ear to
numerous entreaties of his friends to
give up his solitary abode, as he has
expressed the desire to spend the re-
mainder of his days in this tomblike
structure.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

cine so prepared made animals immune
from distemper in any contact.
This discovery has been recognized
as of great value in England. At the
same time DR.. Copeman has not had a
chance to prove how long this immun-
ity may last, and dog breeders all over
the world are to be brought to try the
vaccine with an eye to it's lasting eff
feet.
This discovery is interesting from a
pathological point of view from the
fact that long ago the disease was
classed as variola and an incubation
of cowpoX was proved to be Intellectual
against it.
From the time of Aristotle canine
distemper has been recognized. In
1923 it almost wiped out the dogs of
Bohemia. France suffered from it in
1740, and before the century ended
nearly every part of Europe had felt
the scourge. 1t exists in nearly every
part of Europe to-day.
Time and again in recent years I'M
successful efforts have been made to
find the germ of the distemper. Now
that it is found it does not show
marked variations from several other
well-known micrococci.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
A PLANT THAT COUGHS.
The Entada. n Tropical Vine, Sneezes
Violently When Brought in
Contact with Dust

1t is now well known that the sharp
and broad distinction formerly made
between animals and plants does not
conform to the facts. The cells of
plants, like those of animals, are diff
ferentiated in functions and are
grouped to form special organs of nu-
triton, respiration, eXcretion-even
for the perception of light. The sensi-
tive plant (Mimosa) has a well-devel-
oped sense of touch.
a certain tissue in the leaves of
plants performs the functions of
liver
The respiration of plants is espe-
cially interesting. On the under side
of leaves and on green stems are mil
lions of microscopic mouths, each of
which is opened and closed by two
movable lips. These openings are the
examinations of passages which are
filed with wate", vapor, air and other
gases, produced by the chemical
changes which accompany growth.
The vine called the coughing bean
(Eutada tussiens) is native of moist,
tropical regions.
By accidental transportation of it's
seeds it has gradually spread to much
less congenial spots, especially rail
road embankments, where it endures
drought very well, though its growth
is stunted. But there is one thing
which it cannot stand, and that is dust.
When the breathing pores become
choked by dust the gases accumulate
within the leaf for a time and then
are forcibly expelled in an audible
paroxysm of coughing and sneezing,
which makes the leaf tremble violent
ly. At the same time the whole plant
becomes red in the face, so to speak,
through the sinking in of the green
chlorophyll grains and the appear
ance of particles of red coloring mat
ter on the surface.
The Eutada is sometimes cultivated
as house plant. Sweeping the room
is very apt to set the poor plant
a-coughing, to the intense astonish-
ment of persons who are unfamiliar
with its peculia-;ties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

he keeps his wagon in the city and
when the boats stop at his island
loads on Bony and his vegetables.
When the boat reaches the city dock
Bony shows of what he is made. While
the gangplank is all right for the pas
sengers and the vegetables, Bony can
not go ashore that way. He is led to
the edge of the boat, his master speaks
to him and into the deep cold water Of
Puget sound he plunges. He is en-
tirely out of sight for so long you
begin to wonder if he will ever come
up; but presently his head appears
above the water and he swims in a
straight line for the shore. There he
stands till his master comes up to him,
bitches him to the cart, packs in his
load and drives off to make his deliY-
eries.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
AN ANNUAL LYNCHING.
Spanish and Portuguese Sailors Exc
cute Dummy of Judas IscariOt
on Good Friday.

Judas Iscariot was lynched in sew
eral old world places during the recent
Passion tide season. This is in accord
ance with a curious and remarkable
custom that prevails in Spain and Por-
tugal, and which is observed in London
and other British ports by the sailors
of those nationalities whose ships hap
pen to be in those waters at the time.
A dummy figure is made of man
supposed to represent the betrayer of
Christ. This etfigy, which is stuffed
with straw, is allowed to remain prac-
tically unheeded on the deck until
after the sailors have attended morn
ing service; but no sooner are the de-
votions closed than the peace of
Judas is at an end.
With one accord the seamen rush to
where the unconscious dummy lies, the
first to reach it selling it roughly and
stamping and splitting upon it until it
is wrenched from his grasp by one of
his fellows, who subjects it to similar
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
FREEZING BACTERIA.
Fresh Experiments Prove That Long
Continued Cold VIII Destroy Even
the Livelicst of Them

Within the last year or two some in
teresting experiments nave been con-
Quoted in England, with the purpose
of ascertaining the effect of extreme
Geld on the vitality of various kinds of
bacteria. The tests were made with
liquid air and liquid hydrogen, by
means of which tempera lures were OBJ
tanned 800 to 400 degrees below zero.
In the majority of instances the mi
crobes withstood this amazing chill
and on thawing out exhibited signs of
life.
In these experiments, however, the
cold was applied for only a very short
time, few minutes or a few hours.
A different class of tests has just been
reported to meteorological congress
by DR.. w. H. Park, of the New York
health board. He employed only ty-
phoid bacilli, but in order to make the
investigation more thorough he took
specimens which he had cultivated
from 20 different cases of disease.
Thus any inequality in their hardness
was guarded against. The particular
Z VI tulS ScIcIilS was NOT Une Sc
verify of the cold, but its duration.
Having prepared lot of tubes con-
tanning his culture. DR.. Park reduced
them all to a temperature of % de-
grees Fahrenheit, only little below
freezing, and kept them there. Then
at intervals he would remove a tube
and examine the bacilli
AT the end of 3h days he found 40
per cent. of the microbes in the first
tube alive. In a week all but IA per
cent. were dead in another. In two
weeks only ~ per cent. survived, in
three, GA; in five, oil, and in seven,
90. The percentage diminished as
time went on, until in % weeks, or
fully five months, all of the bacilli
were dead. The tube opened after 10
weeks was the last to show any life
left. 1t thus appears that long win
ter will usually kill typhoid baciIii,
even if it is not a severe one.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
INSIDE OF A WATCH.
1t Is Composed of Nearly 100 Pieces,
Put Together with Marvellous
Care md Precision.

If you own a watch, open it and
look at the little wheels, springs and
screws, each an indispensable part of
the whole wonderful machine. The
busy little balance wheel alone is the
result of hundreds of years of study
and experiment. The watch l have
before me is composed of % pieces,
and its manufacture embraces more
than 1000 distinct and separate OPP
erations. Some of the smallest screws
are so minute that the unaided eye
cannot distinguish them from the
steel filings or specks of dirt. I'm
der a powerful magnifying glass a
perfect screw is revealed. The slit
in the head is $1,000 of an inch wide.
1t takes 30S,000 of these screws to
weigh pound, and pound is worth
$1,5S5. The hairspring is a strip of
the finest steel about 91s inches long,
LOO part of an inch wide and 81
10000 of an inch thick. 1t is coiled up
in spiral form and finely tempered.
The process of tempering was long
held secret by the few possessing
it, and even now is not generally
known. Their manufacture requires
great skill and care. The strip is
gagged to 100000 of an inch, but no
measuring instrument has yet been
devised capable of fine enough gagirg
to determine beforehand by the size
of the strip what the strength of the
finished steel will be. A 20-10000 part
of an inch in the thickness of the
strip makes a difference in the run
ming of watch of about six minutes
per hour. The value of these springs
when finished and placed in watches
is enormous in proportion to the ma
terial from which they are made. A
comparison will give a good idea. A
ton of gold is worth $627.915. A ton
of steel made up into hairsprings
when in watches is worth $7,SS2, 200
more than 1917 times the value of
pure gold. Hairspring wire weighs
120 of a grain to the inch. One mile
of wire weights less than half a
pound. The balance gives five vibra-
tons to every second, 800 every min
ute, $4,000 every hour, 1000 every
day and 157,6SO.0Oo every year. At
each vibration it rotates about ~
times, which makes 1877, 100000 revolu-
tons every year. In order that We
may better understand the stupen-
dous amount of labor performed by
these tiny works let us make a few
comparisons. Take, for illustration,
a locomotive with six driving wheels.
Let its wheels be run till they shall
have given the same number of revo-
lutons that watch gives in one
year, and they will have covered dis
lance equal to 2s complete circuits
of the earth. All this a watch does
without other attention than wind
ing once every "A hours.-Cincinnat
Commercial Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

built a 90-foot balloon, at cost of
100000 francs.
He was then more enthusiastic
than ever, but somehow he never sue
ceeded in getting his balloon off the
ground, and he died in Vienna without
accomplishing his object. Now, this
Puskas balloon was designed on eX-
actly the same principles as the one
constructed by Messrs. Filippi and
Macler."
"The idea iscertainly ingenious" says
NJ. A. de Cunha, but at the same time
this would be very dangerous airship,
for the reason that a machine is used
for the purpose OIL keeping it in the air
and in motion, and if this machine
were to break a calamity would GER
tainly occur"
Others, on the contrary, are conf
dent that the new airship will travel
speedily and safely through the air, and
both they and those who disagree with
them are waiting anxiously for the
first test of the airship, whici, will be
made near Paris at an early date.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

as yet failed to impress Teddy with his
wickedness. Sometimes, too, he will
return to his native woods for few
days, occasioning grief and lamenta-
lions by his absence. These visits oc-
cur about once year, during the sum
mer, and last about three days. Teddy
has no excuse to offer on his return,
but wears reticent air and the sat
isfied look which suggests a good
meal of small birds.
He likes pumpkin pie, and, despite
his usual honesty, cannot be trusted
alone in the room with one when it is
cooling. A new servant, who had not
yet become accustomed to Teddy's
ways, made huge, oldfashioned deep
dish pumpkin pie the other day, and
put it on the dining-room table to
cool. Teddy was seated on the man
tel, so he saw the pumpkin pie, which
seemed to be put there for him. When
the family entered the room an hour
later he had eaten the center out of
the pie in the form OF a perfect saucer,
and, seated in the middle of the pie,
was eating around himself with the
leisurely air of person who has dined
well and can afford to be Indifferent.
A jar of maple sirup or molasses
also presents temptation that cannot
be resisted, and if he happens to fall
in when engaged in tapping it up Ted
dy simply resigns himself to receiving
a soapy bath later as punishment
He is just q type of all the coon cats
with their beautiful grace and funny
ways. Some of the cats are snow
white and others gray and white, but
they all have the silky coat of long fur
and plumy tails. The fondness for
vegetable foods is also general among
them, and 50 is the laundering after
sweets. A coon cat is so pretty and
engaging in its ways that it is always
sure of a welcome in any Maine house
hold.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
UNUSUAL HABITATION.
Grief-Stricl<en Georgia widOweI
Lives in a House Built Over the
Grave of His Wife.

Col Elijah de Board, of GilmeI
county, Ga, is probably the only man
in the United States whose home is
over a grave. This unusual habita-
ton is not due 20 eccentricity or for
the purpose of attracting notorietyI
but is simply case 81 loyal devotion
shown in visible way to the memory
of his wife.
The recent loss of his partner in
life, says the New York Herald, af-
fected him deeply, since which TINA
he has become d recluse. His devo,
tion has been carried to an extreme,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
FIVE LITTLE FOXES.

Among my tender vines 1 spy
A little fox named-By-
Then set upon him quick. say, =
The swift young hunter Right away.
Around each tender vine I plant,
fiEd the little fox-I can't.
Then, fast as ever hunter ran,
Chase him with bold and brave-I can.
No use in trying-lags and whines
This fox among my tender vines.
Then drive him low, and drive him high
" lLh this good hunter, named-I'u try.
Among the vines in my small lot
Creeps in the young fox-I forgot.
Then hunt him out and to his pen
With will-nOt-torget-2g
A little fox Is hidden there
Among my vines, named-I don't care.
Then let I'm sorry-hunter true
Chase him afar from vines and you.
Sunshine and Shadow.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
NOVEL AND EXCITING
Louisville Mans Scheme for Match
Race Between Catfish.
Planned for the Benefit of the Thou
sands of knights Templar Who
VIII Visit the Southern
City Late in August.

Show would you like to see cat
fish race?" asked tail, gaunt
stranger of Mr.. j. T. Gathright, of
Louisville, KY, as he entered the lat
ter's office in the Louisville Trust
building. 1--WE got pair of good uns
that I've been working double, but L
think l could get 'em in shape to run
single an pull you off a good, square
race. Excitin'! I'll bet my shanty
that theirs never been q boss race
out here at the Downs thatd give
one-tenth the enjoyment"
%eB0re the stranger proceeded any
further, says the Courier-Journal, he
gave his name as John Sebree, said
that he was a shanty boatman, and
that he had heard that Mr.. Gathright,
as chairman of the committee on ho-
tells and accommodations for the
louisville conclave, had been looking
around for some little attraction that
might be of particular interest to
the visitors who stop at the Tented
city in Fountain Ferry park during
the celebration next August.
thought L might interest you III
them fish, an l dropped in" con-
finued Sebree before Mr.. Gathright
had time to tell him that he believed
the Knights Tempiars would hardly
find it convenient to devote their at
tention to a contest between channel
cats.
Eve named EN- Billy and Teddy"
the visitor went on. They're as gem
tie as lambs an easier to manage
than a Jetfersonville ferryboat. Billy
and Teddy are both about four years
old, reckon, and 1 trained EN- over
a year ago to draw a boat.
'How'd l do it? Well, harnessed
'em to the skiff, of course. A catfish's
well-nigh the strongest animal on
earth for its size. Maybe you didn't
know it. Them two can easily pull
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

a skiff with me an my wife an the
four young uns in it.
"NCw, here's what I've got to pro-
pose: l see by the papers there's 60
in to be a lot of people here this
summer to attend this big time the
Knights of the Templars are goin' to
have. A fellow was tellin' me you
wanted to get up something little
out of the ordinary 30 give the folks
you'll have at Fountain Ferry lit
tie divershun."
This is quite out of the ordinary,
L must say" Mr.. Gathright here
found opportunity to sandwich in.
''Well, that's right, an I'm your
man." went on Sebree. "Now, you go
ahead an fix your seats for the peo-
pie along the bank of the river an I'll
do the rest. I'll take Billy an Teddy
an hitch 'em to light skiff apiece.
I'll fix up the skiffs with flags an
things to make 'em look like these
fancy gondales-ain't it?-the Italy
uns have. Then my two boys will
drive 'em in race. You understand
there won't be anything seen by the
audience but them two boats speedin'
along the surface of the water with
maybe little foam ahead of 'em an
the two boys a-hollerin' an the peo-
pie a-shoutin'.
''For the crowds that can't see from
the shore we might arrange it to get
boats down there. I think we could
-sget Capt. Billy Devan to keep the
lack clear. Now, I know you're
wantin' to know my price for this at
traction, an I'll add that I'll bet
there won't be bigger attraction
here at this conclave. Well, sir, it'll
take quite a little time to get the fish
in training to work single, an I'm
frank to say I want to make little
out of the thing, so I'll agree to put
you up rafting good show for $780,
81 will be glad to take the matter
under advisement," said Mr. Gath.
right, as he bowed his visitor to The
door with politeneSs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
Announces Chnnge of Policy.

''Now that the warm weather is
upon US" wrote the editor of the Hick.
DRY Ridge Missourian, ''we take coca,
sion to say we don't need no more
.corncobs on subscription. But we dc
need something TO Pacify our temper.
It's pretty ugly just now, for we have
Npt our regular spring bile. It's on
ne back of the neck this time, and it's
a blamed bad one. When we are If:
this condition nothing but real money
ever does US any good, and If our best
friend should walk into the office and
try to get us to take garden truck or
salt porl; on subscription he'd get int1
trouble. Bring in the cash. and bring
IL right now, or we won't be response
BILE for anything that happens in this
community for the next ten days."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
FAITHFUL OLD HORSE.
pose of His Garden Truck Quick
Iy I'D Probably.

An American has made great
deal of money by training two beauti-
full white horses to dive into the wa
ter from a great height. He travels
and exhibits his horses, and people
gladly pay to see them. This is all
very wonderful, but on Puget sound
there is a plain, homely, bony, brown
horse who never was trained to do any
thing in his life, but who does just
as wonderful things and thinks moth
ing of it.
Bony's owner is a rancher, who lives
on one of the wooded islands where
the boats stop once a week for vege-
tables to be taken to the city. The
rancher can make more money by TAX
ing his own produce to the city and
peddling it on the streets than by
shipping it to the wholesale men. SO
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

treatment, and so on all around. From
one member of the crew to another
the effigy is tossed and pitched about,
excavations being leveled at its head.
Presently somebody produces rope,
which is instantly seized upon and tied
round the neck of the dummy Judas.
For hours after that the effigy is
dragged up and down the deck, being
constantly reviled, spurned and spat
upon.
Finally, when everybody has had
enough of it. and is thoroughly winded,
the dummy is hoisted to the masthead,
being left there until the following
morning.
Whenever a sailor comes on deck
throughout the whole of Good Friday
he looks up towards the swaying eff
fgy, splits at it and utters curse.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
DISTEMPER IN DOGS.
Been Isolated and Vaccination
Is Now quite au Fait.

Vaccination of dogs as preventive
of distemper has just been announced
in England by DR.. Copeman. He re-
centlyisolated the coccus of distemper
and through experiments with the Gull
tivated germs has prepared a vaccine
that renders animals immune from the
contagion.
DIR. Copeman discovered that the lab
oratory cocci, injected into dog, was
universally fatal. But when treated
with diluted carbolic acid at temper
allure of go degrees centigrade the vac
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
Fast Trolley Car Service

In Philadelphia a fast trolley car
is being tested. 1t takes newspa-
pers in the early morning to Chest
nut Hill, 14A miles away. 1t runs
at rate of 35 miles an hour. includ-
ing a stop at least every three-quar-
ters of a mile. Occasionally it has
run a mile in minute and an eighth
and it has made the entire distance
in 25 minutes, including stops. which
is the same time as the express
trains make for the same distance.
1t maintains its schedule time reg
ularly, but on one occasion it was
late ten minutes, owing to the wreck
of hay wagon which was on the
road
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

A novel and curious test for deaf
ness or approaching deafness has
just been described by Paris spe.
cialist. If the handle of vibrating
tuning fork be applied to the knee
or other bony portion of the human
frame the sound cannot be heard by
the person who possesses an uniu-
paired ear, but if the ear be attacked
by disease, then the note can bs
heard distinctly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

"Weuld you like me to give you
quarter, grandpa" asked fve-year-
old johnny. Certainly" replied the
old gentleman. Every WELL" said the
little diplomat, then you should do
unto others as you would hat others
should do unto you"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23
Cats In NeapoIitnn Churches.

In Naples there exists a race of
cats which live in the churches. They
are kept and fed by the authorities
on purpose to catch the mice which
infest all old buildings there. The
animals may often be seen walking
about among the congregation or sit
ting gravely before the altar during
time of mass
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-23

One of the smallest parishes in
Wales is the historic parish of Sher in
the Bridgend union. 1t has only pop
ulation of eight or nine souls. Nash
and Stembridge, two other parishes,
only number IA inhabitants between
them.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-29

ATIlELsTONE
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-28
SUNDAY SCHOOL EXERCISES

Held Yesterday in St. Paul's, St. John's S
 and Trinity Churches.
 The Christmas celebration of St. Paul's Sunday school was held last eve- ming in the parish house and it was largely attended. The usual Christmas singing and recitations were enjoyed, and many presents were exchanged among the teachers and scholars of the primary department
 In St. Johns P. F. church the Christ mas tree celebration started at seven o'clock and a fine programme of caro!s was given by the pupils of the school.
 At the Trinity parish house on Tenn pie street the primary department ex- ercises were held at o'clock in the afternoon, and in the evening the Christmas tree celebration for the elder scholars of the Sunday school LOOK place. There was a remarkably large attendance and the programme was greatly enjoyed. A fine musical p'o- gramme arranged by Choirms ster Read was rendered and was very bright. The entertainment in the evening lasted un- til 10 o'clock.