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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
CRIME STAMPED OUT.
Washington Now Is the Safest City
in the Country.
Once Upon a Time, However, II Was
Infested by Organized Gangs of
Negro Criminals of the
Worst Type.
Especial Washington letter.

"WHs as H MANY n nssSs on y the h pad
lice force as this city
should have" says one of the vet
.eran bluecoats; nevertheless the
force has wiped out all organized
gangs of thieves and thugs. The
epoch of such organized crime has
passed.
Nowadays in every section of the
city one can walk with perfect safe
-ty at any hour of the night without
any fear of molestation unless, per-
haps, by some drunkard reeling to-
ward his home. Even he is harmless
if not interfered with. Then, too,
there are certain alleys in the city
which are occupied by a rough ele-
ment of negroes, who think nothing
of knocking a man in the head with
a brick, but these are places of which
respectable people do not even know
the location, and consequently would
not enter, especially at night, so it
is still proper to say that person
can go anywhere in this capital city
without feeling insecure.
washington is now the safest and
most peaceful city in this country.
Here ladies feel no hesitancy in 60
ing to the theater without escorts.
We never hear of one being even in
suited by rowdy. Rowdyism is prev
alent only in certain quarters, but
even there rowdy gangs no longer ex-
list
"The element which gives our po-
lice the greatest concern is the prog
-eny of the freedmen. This class of
citizens, however, fight mostly among
themselves, and seldom modest white
persons. They are a cowardly set.
They will lie in wait with a brick,
and deeds of daring are not done by
them. Their crimes are generally the
result of drinking. When a certain
neighbochood composed of darllies
learns that an officer does not stand
in awe of them they soon view him
with the highest respect, and his APP
pearance on the scene of a disturb
,ance is generally sufficient to quell it.
But this condition of affairs was
not always so. 1t was not very many
years ago that it was worth an Off
GERS life to make an arrest in certain
districts. The 'toughs' were as thick
as bees about hive. They were or
gained into gangs, which congre-
gated at preconcerted signals to do
acts of violence or steal whatever
they could get their hands on. They
were continual menace to the well
fare of the community, and to travel
through those parts of the city after
dark was to take your life in your
own hands.
''Swampoodle, Bloody Field and
Hell's Bottom are localities which
still retain their names, but no
longer the features which character
lied them by those titles. Most of
the crimes and rows of to-day occur
in the narrow, dark and unwhole-
some alleys which lie we'll concealed
between rows, perhaps, of respect
able houses.
''The typical tough is thing of
the past in this city. The real old
timer has gone, and well he may, for
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10

his vocation in Washington is at an
end. The gangs which used to exist
have either been cleared out by send
ing the members to a life behind
prison walls or they have been
whipped and cowed into submission.
GLOW was this done? Simply by
a constant and judicious small annual
increase in the police force, super
vised by strict, efficient officers. They
made a systematic warfare on all
gangs of hoodlums. Corner loafinp
and the gathering of the rougher ele-
ment in crowds were first broken up.
1t was not unusual for ringleaders to
be brought into the station houses
and kept there in the reserve rooms.
simply that the officers might be-
come well acquainted with them. In
this way these rowdies knew that
they were known and watched, and,
being towards at heart, except when
they had a mob at their backs, they
soon became quoted.
"Now and then will be found a crowd
of youngsters with an ambition to
emulate their predecessors, but a few
dealings with the judge and the po-
lice department soon bring them to
their senses. The sentences have been
rigid, and cuIprits knew that they
would be dealt with to the fullest ex-
tent of the law. The improvement of
the city has also had its good effects.
Streets have been opened through To-
eaities that were wide commons, re-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10

The best time to do up string beans
is in the latter part of October. Sc
lect young string beans, and, after
freeing them of strings, wash and
place them in kettle of boiling waters
cook five minutes; drain and fill the
beans in glass jars. Then add to four
quarts of boiling water two ounces of
salt, and fill the jars to overlooking
with this, Close and boil them in ket-
tie of water 25 minutes; take out the
jars, open each one minute; close
quickly; return them to the kettle and
cook 40 minutes longer.-LedgsR
Monthly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
The Equal of Thirty Men.

A machine that will do the work OF
30 expert mathematicians is being
constructed by the government in it's
scientific instrument shop on Capitol
hill in Washington. 1t is to be an
improvement on an instrument in
use in the bureau of the coast survey,
in charge of calculating the tides.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10

"Hey, you Teller, get off'n this
train!" shouted the angry conductor
at the hoboes.
"W'y, certainly, boss-but, say, did
you ever live in a boardin' house?"
Eyes, an what of it?'
"Nothin', 'ceptin' you might please
pass the beets. Denver Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
Beauty,s Greatest Hardship.

"Oh!" gasped the beautiful wom-
an as she fell back, clutching at her
heart and permitting the telegram to
futter to the floor.
'What is it? Has your husband
met with an accident?''
Mono" she moaned; cit is from
my son-in-law. am grandmother.s
Chicago Reeord-Aerald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10

4[VXYE HAVE never yet had
" as many men on the po-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25
HAVE YOUR OWN HOME.

Begin your married life in a home of
your own is sound advice to all pro-
spective brides. Boarding is at best a
lazy way of existence, and the young
couple who commence life in this way
will surely regret it sooner or later.
Take a house, no matter how small II
must be, make a careful selection OF
rugs. curtains and furniture, and when
the little nest has been cozily furnished
settle down to become acquainted with
each other for this is a matter of no
small account.
Living in his own house, the man at
once becomes a factor in society, while
in a boarding house he is as but grain
of sand. So it is with woman. In her
own home her interest is constantly
aroused, every womanly instinct is
called forth and she becomes more ana
more womanly and lovable
If is the woman who boards who be-
comes the triher not the woman who
has her own home. 1t is the woman
who boards who becomes flippant, not
the woman whose thoughts are center
ed on her household. 1t is the woman
who boards who becomes the gossip,
not the woman with home ties and
home cares. A woman who spends a
few years in a boarding house becomes
accustomed to the ease and comforts
which surround her without any eXer-
ton on her own part, and she becomes
more and more reluctant as the years
pass by to exert herself to make home
for her family.
Children brought up in a boarding
house lose the best part of their right
full inheritance, for they have no home
association, no happy recollection of
their home life, none of the true pleas
ures to which they can look back when
they have become men and women.
Make. then, a home. girls, in which
you can look back after many years
have passed with pleasant thoughts of
the many happy hours that were pass
ed beneath your own roof.
There are cares and trials in every
home. but the pleasures are also to be
found there rather than in boarding
house, where gossip and idleness are
among the chief features and where
home pleasures are lacking.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25

soldiers, of home crocheted mittens and
bargain counter silk handkerchief
The fruit of the tree all told is not
worth $40. yet it represents the labor
and savings and the beggings of, it
may be, six weeks Of time on the part
Of those devoted sisters. If a blessing
from the most joyous, sacred day of all
the year descends on any Christmas
benevolent enterprise, be sure 1t Will
come to theirs. Or if comforting genu-
Inc happiness be the test of real success
the country sisters Sunday school
Christmas tree will show itself illumi-
mated with a great Weakening light.
while that of many a congregation
numbering milIionaires among its mem
bers will stand, as it were, with its cleo
trio lights extinguished. Gifts make
us happy according as we have before
lacked gifts. Here and there in the
coming years an unsatisfied man or
woman who has won earthly success
will look back and smile sorrowfully to
think that the toy and bag Of candy the
world has bestowed have given far less
Joy than those of the country church
Christmas tree.
Among congregations slightly more
urban there is the wfRter holiday oyster
supper or society festival. presided over
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25

Years ago when she first came to
New York a struggling student, she
knew all the misery of being girl ut
terly alone in a great, unfeeling city.
From the little window of her fourth
story hall bedroom she could look upon
the thousands of housetops all over the
city and she used to crouch by the side
of this window during the long solitary
evenings and watch the CHEEKY lights in
other peoples homes, wondering the
while if by some means she could not
possibly make them hear the despair
ing cry of her lonely heart. Holidays
We're worse than death to her when she
would wander alone among the gay,
careless throng of shoppers and pleas
ure seekers. Then there were those in
terminable gray afternoons after the
uninviting boarding house dinner was
over and there was nothing else to
which she could look forward; those
Easter. Christmas and Thanksgiving
afternoons when every soul who had
even one single friend deserted the in
hospitable dining room to bask in the
cheer of that friends fireside.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25

WV WHAT would Christmas char
"a tiles and benevolent en-
ANI terprises be without wom-
an?
From the embroidering
of a pair of slipper tops
which she presents--too often, alas,
without soles-to some man to whom
she feels under obligation, to the man
agement of a fair and bazaar at which
thousands of dollars are collected for a
worthy undertaking. her nlmble brain
and fingers are busy during the first
winter month. In the cities for weeks
before Dec. % gentle sisters of charity
in their dark robes with halos of white
linen around their sweet, grave faces,
are familiar figures. They haunt the
markets to get donations of turkey and
vegetables for the Christmas dinner of
aged and pauper women and men I'M
der their care. They hover about toy
shops candy shops and bookstores.
They hunt in couples, usually, some
times in a wagon, in which to carry
home the treasures they have gathered
for their poor. Frequently they go afoot
with a healthy looking orphan girl to
help bear the burden of a generous
basket
1t is not easy to beg even for benevo-
lent Christmas enterprises, and for that
reason-because it is not easy-it is
doubtless left by man to woman as one
work, like taking care of children, GER
family belonging to her sphere Men, of
course, pay most of the money because
man is the moneyed sex, but that they
expect. Perhaps they rather like, UNI
less in case of a few old curmudgeons,
TO have a fair faced, neat woman come
at them and flatter them insiduously by
anneals to their we'll known great
heartedness in the cause of warm fan
nels for old women or tops and dolls for
ornhans. Things man considers too
small for himself to do he often rather
likes to have women do. All over
this great country the masculine sex
hand out literally of their means to
these fair solicitors of Christmas char
ity.
In the poorer rural neighborhoods a
nathos invests the efforts of woman to
gladden. with Christmas cheer hearts
outside her own home circle. l see in
INV minds eye the Christmas tree for
the children of the rustic Sunday
school. Oftentimes the region is so de-
pleted of men that a woman must even
be superintendent of the Sunday school,
yet for that reason the young ones are
all the surer of their Christmas tree,
with it's strings of white and colored
popcorn, it's few cheap waxen tapers,
its little gilt balls and tinsel paper, its
gifts of bags of stick candy and ginger
bread rabbits, of homemade dolls all
but the head, of tin trumpets and tin
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25
CHRISTMAS
q q
WomaD's Share In Its Good Work

by feminine divinities How they have
worked again, those devoted women!
They beg they cajole, they sew, they
crochet, they embroider. they darn.
they make Illuminated doiles and tits-
waited worSbaskets. all fairer to look at
than to use. They make cake and jelly.
they beat eggs and whip cream, they
work their dear fingers stiff. their slen-
der feet weary, their nerves to exhaus-
ton and come 60 the oyster supper to
serve as Mattresses and hostesses with
all their members worn out except per-
haps their tongues,
And after the great occasion is over
what? Perhaps a warm and soft new
overcoat as a Christmas present for the
minister, or maybe the minister's wife
appears next Sunday in church in a
new gown, plain and sober, as becomes
country minister's wife, but well
made and of good quality, as also be-
comes a minister's wife in country or
city. Or maybe the money they have
thus earned by hard work and good
will goes to meet an obligation the con-
gregation has taken on itself, and they
hand the lump sum over to the trustees
men, always nominating them a
New Years present of a church free
from debt. Religious denominations
ought to be very good to women. ac-
cording to them all rights and privi-
leges besides that of collecting money.
for without women no church could
live
The world is so accustomed to wom-
ans benevolent ministrations at the
holy and happy Christmastide that 1t
probably has never once considered
what the loss of these gentle ministra-
lions would mean. Woman does not
count for much until mankind tries to
do without her. At a great hospital
where | called on friend one Christ
mas day every inmate of the wards,
charity patient or otherwise if man.
received the gift of a warm. handsome
dressing gown; if a woman, of an
equally warm and extremely pretty
wrapper. These the cOnvalescing pa
tents took away with them. Doubtless
it had been many a day since some of
the battered wrecks of humanity in
that hospital had had anybody take so
much care ara thought for them.
These useful and slightly articles had
been contributed by the young ladies of
a benevolent club-mere schoolgirls
they were-getting their breaking in
early to woman's Christmas work.
Here the children of an orphans
home receive Christmas gifts through
the efforts of thoughtful ladies': there
the inmates of a blind asylum get
them; there, again, the hapless souls
waiting for death in home for incura-
bles, the saddest and only altogether
hopeless place on this earth. None has
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25

So, now that this woman has come
into her own and friends flock around
her and her talent has brought it's re-
ward, she does not forget those others
who are still struggling. Every Christ
mas day she holds a great feast, not for
her friends. but for those who have no
friends. You may see at her table a
merry bevy of girls who bear on their
young faces the lines of care and hard
work: girls who are fighting against
odds much too great for their years A.;
girls who. thanks to her, will struggle
and win out and who but for her would
perhaps fall prey to loneliness and de-
spair.
How does she find them? In multi
tude of ways, all tactful and delicate.
She hears of them through friends, she
sees their sad faces on the street, she
finds them in dismal lodging houses.
What do you think Of her way of
spending Christmas?
New York.
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prizes in the section of awards-that
on metals. More than 600 people attend
ed the conference. The proceedings
were carried on entirely in French and
German.
Of all the royal residences in England
Balmoral can boast of the most roman
tic history. It was there the crown
prince of Germany, the father OF the
present emperor, wooed and won the
princess royal of England, and from
this happy event it became the late
queens custom to erect cairn in the
neighborhood of the castle to celebrate
the marriage of each of her children.
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wretched French writer,
man, of course, asking the
III question, Are all women
liars?' and he goes on to Try
to prove they are. 1t makes me furl-
Gus, this way men writer's have OF say
ing mean things about women in print
so the women cannot talk back! NOW
1 know positively that / myself always
tell the exact truth or nothing. prlde
myself on it.
"And so do l." said Mrs. Jonesey.
Mrs. GREENE said, 80 do L.
Mrs. Brownie said, 80 do l."
Mrs. Blackie said, And so DO l.
And l." said Mrs. Whitley impress
sively, "for the sake of setting good
example to my servants, TO my emil
dren and to my husband make it the
rule of my life conduct to adhere to
simple fact without color or varnish in
all my statements. Simple fact is my
MOTTO
Mine, too" echoed Mrs. Smithy,
Mrs. Jonesey, Mrs. Brownie, Mrs.
GREENE and Mrs. Blackie in chorus.
AS Mrs. Brownie and Mrs. Smithy
were leaving the tearoom where they
had met the former remarked: Il don't
think YOU look quite we'll today, my
dear. You are pale, and I'm sure you
are a little thin too" Arriving at home,
Mrs. Smithy says to her husbands:
John, I'm all gone to pieces. I'm
really not at all well. Everybody is
telling me how i'll look.
who says so?" asks Smithy.
ooh. everybody that sees me; Mrs.
Brownie for one"
Mrs. Jonesey went home and had just
taken off her hat when the maid an
nounced that Mrs Summer, the Guard
ian Angel society's agent, had called.
"Ob. that horrid bore!" exclaimed Mrs.
Jonesey. Tell her I'm not at home
that I'm out and will probably not be
in all day"
Mrs. Greene had a few friends to
dinner that evening. She and her hus-
band lived with her father, an obsti-
nate. loud voiced old gentleman. At
dinner he told a story concerning his
daughter.
1T happened when Mary was girl, "
he said, and Mary is forty-tive years
old now"
IT'S no such thing, father, and you
know it. I'm only thirty-fve!" retorted
Mrs. Greene Indignantly.
Mrs Brownie at home narrated to
her young lady daughter the gossip of
the day, woman fashion. Il saw Mrs.
Creenie at the tearoom," said Mrs.
Brownie and she had on hat she
had made herself-the awfullest thing
Won ever saw. Made her look like a
crazv Jane, with her old face and gray
brown skin. She asked me how liked
il OF course I had to say it was a
beauty and most becoming to her; but
land sakes, Laura, 1 never saw such an
image as she was in my lifel"
Mrs. Blackie and some friends dis
cussed the size of American Beauty
roses over the tea and cake.
LAS truly as I live and breathe, -
ouoth Mrs Blackie. lat the last flower
show there was one American Beauty
as large as the biggest cabbage you
ever saw
/ The tearoom clock struck the halt
hour past 6. Mrs. Whitley sprang to her
feet. saying, L promised Mr.. Whitley to
meet him at Currenjellfs at to dine
Goodby.
She hurried out She reached Curren-
ielIfs at ten minutes past Z.
TT was those exasperating trolley
| cars!" she explained to Whitley. y
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25
A Present Getter.

Margery Brisceme finds enjoyment
in another way. She tries to see how
many presents she can get. Not that
Margery is in need of them; no. indeed.
But she wants to lord it over the other
girls the day after Christmas. There
fore, like the small boy and the Sunday
school Christmas tree, she begins her
campaign a month in advance. All her
old acquaintance are hunted up. She
is charming to them and invites them to
lunches, theater parties, etc. Likewise
she is particularly gracious to the men
she knows. They hardly recognize her,
she is so changed. Even her old maid
aunts are cosseted and flattered and all
at once Margery becomes tremendously
popular. Every one exclaims how
charming she is. The week before
Christmas Margery's efforts redouble.
Presents begin to come in. They rain
in, they pour in. Margery is almost
showed under by them. Her triumph is
assured, for not one of US can even
pretend to such a long list of present
giving friends. We acknowledge orr
defeat A fortnight after Christmas
Margery begins to slack off" on her
attentions to these numerous kind
friends. In a month her calls have
grown noticeably fewer, and by the be-
ginning of Lent her visiting list has
shrunk to it's normal proportions.
Maisie Bender by way of celebrating
Christmas does the biggest thing she
can think of. She has a house party
for the week at the Bender home on the
Hudson. Everything is carried out in
true baronial style. The place of the
retainers is supplied by the many serv.
ants. There are dancing around and un-
der the mistletoe and a splendid feast
which causes the tables to groan. The
only thing lacking is the family ghost
The Benders unfortunately were all toe
shrewd and too practical a line to har.
Dor any such romantic foolishnesa
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TELLING THE
SIMPLE TRUTH

started in plenty time to be here at or
maybe a minute or two after but the
car poked and poked till 1 thought I'd
never get here"
Among the ladies in the tearoom was
one who said nothing, but listened care
fully. She made a resolve to herself
that for one week at least she would
/ tell the exact truth. She went home
with tight shut lips, and all she would
say to her husband was yes" and no
He thought she was i'll or crazy or an
cry or something. But she was not.
She was afraid to speak lest she in
some way deviate from accurate state
ment. ALICE A. BROWNE.
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sided, and there were flowers music
songs and recitations. Mrs. Chant was
then called upon to give her address on
America Seen Through an English
Woman's Eyes"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has frequent
cause to rejoice in the honors achieved
by her children. At the biennial con-
gress of the International Association
For Testing Materials and Construc-
ton, which was in session at Budapest,
her son, Professor Henry Marion Howe,
head of the department of metallurgy
at Columbia university, was elected
president d'honneur of the committee
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25

Skating is an accomplishment most
persons possess in these days OF shal-
'ng clubs and carnivals, but lew OF Us
IAN skate as Lady Mimic can III AN an
ada even she is supreme ana an HeI
children, from her tall son uoWH "
baby, are as much at home on 'he ioe
a. on terra firma.
Miss Mary Bidwell Breed Is nov 10. ~
of women in Indiana unlVeISily az
Bloomington, position cfedteu DS e-lS
board of trustees at recent me- tI-i5 >
c. &c native of Pennsylvania and
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graver and was much beloved by
George Sand even before her marriage
in 1862 10 Maurice. Maurice died in 1889.
and since then his widow continued
TO live in George Sands old home at No
hant
According 10 statistics lately collect
ed by the medical administration OF
Moscow. Russia now has 62i women
physicians, besides a number Of women
dentists.
After five or six years Of hard work.
Fraulein Clara Ripberger OF Dresden
has reproduced in needlework RAJ
phaeIs "Sistine Madonna