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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-12-08
THG DON MARcHH

Since Santa Claus came 10 the Bon harche
week ago Saturday. he has had ample time 10 form
an opinion regarding this new store as compares
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-12-08

Per rLaIN wilcox. Sec.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
DELUSIONS OF INEBRIETY.
Some of the Peculiarities Noted in
People Who Are Addicted to
the Liquor Habit.

There is no one symptom Of mental
change, so constant in inebriety, as
the delusive faith IN the ability to stop
all use of spirits at any time, says the
journal of Inebriety. This delusion of
free will begins from the first use of
spirits and grows with increasing in
tensity down to the last moment of
life. Continuous failures and the ex-
periencess of years, without a single
cOnfirmatory instance sustaining this
belief of ability to stop, make no i'm
pressions on the mind. On all other
topics there may be general recogni-
ton of cause and effect and the lessons
of experience, but in relation to drink
this delusion grows constantly. The
demand for spirits as a controlling
power in the organism is unrecognized
and the mind seems taxed to find rea-
sons for explaining the inconsistencies
that come from its use. This delusion
of strength, to stop at any time, is en-
couraged by the friends who believe it
to be true and condemn the patient
for failure to carry it out. No matter
what conditions or necessities may
exist for abstaining, spirits are used
and the patient insists that he cares
neither for the taste or effect of spir-
its and can stop at any moment. This
belief is sincere and emphatic, and
should free interval occur in which
no spirits. are taken this is consid-
cred evidence of the will power to stop
at any point. The use of spirits in
conditions where personal interests
and that of the patients family suffer,
and where the act is practically sui
cidal, are explained as mere lapses
which could have been prevented by a
mere act of the will. This delusive
state is unrecognized by temperance
revival movements and many reforma-
tory efforts, where the central object
is to awaken the free will, which is
supposed to be simply dormant. In
many instances these very efforts in
tensify and fix the delusion of free
will, making recovery more and more
uncertain. 1t is curious that this most
insane faith should not be recognized
from the everyday experience of fail
ures to abstain by nearly all inebri-
ates. AS a symptom of disease, this
is beyond all question, and is really
more distinct than any other delu-
sion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
RESETTLING SOUTH AFRICA.
Englishmen Are Being Rushed tn the
New Colonies to Repair the
Wars Ravages.

Even before peace with the Beers
was officially announced England had
begun to'carry out her plans for reset
Ting South Africa with her own peo-
pie. Months ago, under official
prompting, the immigration associa-
tions of London set about bearing a
hand with the settlement problem.
reports the New York Sun.
The Colonial immigration society be-
gan it by sending out a delegation of
several hundred women to Cape Col
ony for distribution at various points
where female help could command
high wages and loyal English feminine
influence could do the most good.
The Scottish Settlers association.
an organization formed in Rhodesia
under the patronage and with the as
sistance of Cecil Rhodes himself. had
taken up the work almost as quickly
and on even greater scale. Four
months ago band of 100 Scotch farm
ers and laborers was sent out to the
Orange River colony to settle there
on the land vacated by burghers.
The association was in such hurry
to get its men on the ground that it
sent them a little too soon. When
they arrived in the new colony it was
found that local conditions were hard
ly ripe for their reception, ,and Mr..
Rhodes assistance had to be sought.
He solved the problem by providing
the Scotchmen with grants of land
from his own farms in Cape Colony.
Now that peace has been declared,
preparations for extending the scope
of the work are being made. The cap
ital of the association has been raised
TO half million dollars. and English
and Scotch agriculturists are to be
rushed to South Africa to people the
new colonies, to readjust the balance
of population there and, by outnum-
bering the Beers, to render impossible
even the faintest chance of a recur-
renee of rebellion against British au-
thority.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"Will you take me 'roundif | come
take you to the roundhouse." I'm not
moving in railroad circles this year,
Indianapolis News.
A Give Away.-"No, George" said
the girl, regretfully, 'I'll not sit in
the hammock with you this evening.
Papa has attached patent device to
it that registers the weight. Chicago
Post.
First Office Boy-"What's Johnny
hurryin' fer? Looks like he heard a
fire alarm" Second Office BOy-'He
did. De boss said if he wasn't back
from dat errand in ten minutes he'd
lose his job!"-Cincinnat Commercial
Tribune
Wise Doctor.-Mrs. Fondma-"S Sorry
to disturb you at this hour, doctor, but
we can't imagine what ails the child"
Doctor-"Cold, perhaps. Did you have
him out to-day?" Mrs Fondma-"Yes,
but only to his grandmother's." Doc
tor-"Ah. oyerfed, that's all."-PhiI-
adelphia Press.
Mrs. Able-"How Mrs. Cutie did run
on about the Perkinses! l have no pa
thence with a woman who talks so
about other folks" Mrs. Cain-"Neith-
er have /; it's perfectly disgusting,
But what Mrs. Cutie said about the
Perkinses was awfully Interestingly
Boston Transcript.
A Let Down-Prof. Blinkers-"I
hope you did not find my lecture too
technical, Miss Baynes?" Miss Baynes
with pride)-"Oh, no, professor.
was able to follow it ALL" Prof.
Blinkers-"I am glad of that, as tried
to make it ineligible to the meanest
comprehension" -Punch.
Cause and Effect-Dr. Piller-"Your
husbands stomach is in a very bad
condition" Mrs. Newlywed-"Oh, my.
Do you think my cooking is responsible
for it," DR.. Piller-"Well, it's a Sc
we're case of gastritis, and" Mrs.
Newlywed-"Gastritis? Gracious! it's
that gas range he made me use this
ummer!"-Philadelp Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
NEWS AND COMMENT.

DR.. Paul GARNER, the French statisti-
clan, says juvenile criminality is rela-
lively increasing. and he attributes
the evil to alcoholic heredity.
Wilmington, Del, trustees of the
poor voted recently to wipe out at fu-
ture meetings the customary wine and
cigars.
Chaplain Warren, of the Missouri
penitentiary, says: eff you ask the
prisoners here how they happened to
get into trouble, four-ffths of them
will tell you they were drunk"
A committee of twelve" has been
evolved in Massachusetts, made up of
Representatives of three temperance
societies and certain men engaged in
education, to make out course of
study in temperance physiology.
The bartenders of Chicago have
formed a union, and announce that
they will proceed to enforce the mid
night closing ordinance, a problem
that has engaged the attention of the
civic reform societies since the ordi-
nance was passed.
In a former number of Ae National
Advocated was stated that in Calcutta
India, the barmaids were banished
from the drink shops. Now the magis-
trates in Glasgow, Scotland, have given
orders that there must be no more bar
maids in public houses.
In Minneapolis the $50 saloons are
limited to one-twelfth of the city. In
the eleyen-twelfths where there are
no saloons 2S policemen are found
sufficient for patrol duty. In the one
twelfth where the saloons are 147 po-
icemen are required. Do we need bet
ter proof that saloons increase our
taxes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
SELF-CULTURE AND SUCCESS.
One May Be "A Millionaire and Yet BE
Ignorant of Books, Art and
Culture,

A man does not need college edu-
cation in order to succeed in any ordi-
nary business. You may reach COM
handing position in the commercial
or political world without attaining
a high degree of scholarship. You
may be successful. in the purely ma
terial meaning of the word, without
a touch of higher culture, without an
appreciation of the nobler things of
life. You may be a millionaire, with
great influence in your community,
and yet be almost wholly ignorant of
books, art. music, or travel, writes o.
S. Marden, in Success.
But this is very narrow view of
success. Is the meaning of life not
broadened and beautifed by an ex-
pansive mind, wider horizon, and the
satisfaction of finer culture.
The glory of a sunset, the beauty of
a landscape, or the delicate loneliness
of a rose or lily is not necessary to
our mere animal existence, but it adds
much to the sum of the highest things
of life.
Pictures and draperies are not neces-
sary to a wall, oriental rugs to floor,
or delicate pieces of statuary and brio
a-brac to the furniture of a room;
libraries lined with noble books are
not absolutely essential to bare ex-
istence; knowledge of the mysteries
and beauties of science, the fascina-
ton of literature, the delights of
music and art-none of these things
is necessary to the support of life;
but how barren life would be-without
them! If we were suddenly deprived
of these things, what could we substi-
tute for them to differentiate our
lives from those of animals?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24

city and in every little village of the
world.
Sometimes his jokes lead to murder,
sometimes to thefts and other crimes.
They always lead to disgrace of some
kind.
Once upon time, Policeman John j.
O'Brien believed that little whisky
did no harm.
A great many thousand men believe
as O'Brien did before he became a muir
derer, that a little whisky does no
harm.
The young man and the old man who
think that little whisky does no
harm ought to have witnessed the last
meeting on earth of O'Brien and his
wife and their three children.
O'Brien, sobered up, the whisky out
of his head, was filled with remorse,
and wept constantly. His grief was
so great that it was thought he would
become insane, and the district attor-
ney in charge of his prosecution con-
sented to his attending his wife's
funeral
He was taken, handcuffed, to the
house in which he lived with his fam
lily before the "devil's joke" took
place.
The murdered wife lay in a coffin
and her mother sobbed at the head of
the coffin. The three young children,
all under seven years of age, stood at
the foot of the coffin as the father
and murderer, handcuffed to detec-
tives, leaned over the coffin, his tears
falling on his dead wife's face.
At the edge of the grave later on
OBrien knelt down, and the detectives
handcuffed to him knelt also-the
handouts compelled them to kneel
The dirt was thrown in, O'Brien was
taken to the prison, and the children
went away in another direction.
The devils joke" had been played
out to an unusually successful end
n. Y. journal and American.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
ALCOHOLICS VICTIMS.
French Author Who Was a Drunkard
and Yet Who Did Not Realize
His Condition,

Not long ago NJ. Henry Fouquier,
writing for LIE Matin of the peculiari-
ties of the French character, says of
the uss of alcohol:
in certain classes, at least, there is
one alcoholic for every ten of the pop
ulation, whether they be conscious of
it or not. The devoted men who have
made themselves the apostles of the
crusade against alcohol, which l deem
one of the greatest movements of our
times, give in their pamphlets and
their lectures, which cannot be too
great in number, the eloquent picture
of the ravages that alcohol produces,
in whatever manner it is introduced,
into our economy. Only they do not
insist enough, perhaps, on disguised
alcoholism-that is, alcoholic poison
ing in subjects that possess all appear
ances of temperance and who are real
ly not drunkards. Hereditary or ac-
quired, nervousness has so developed
in our race that the evil of alcoholism
can cause its havoc in men who do not
suspect it.
81 knew literary man, who was not
only full of talent, and gallant man,
but moreover of a most scrupulous
correctness of life. He would have
died of shame to be drunkard, yet
he was one in his time. Experiencing
nervous troubles, menacing symptoms
of paralysis, he went, without reveal
ing his identity, to a great physician.
The doctor, after a rapid examination,
said, rather brusquely: You are los
ing your time coming to see me. You
know very well that if you want to be
cured you have only to stop getting
drunk
"Only those who know my friend
can imagine the indignant stupefac-
ton caused by these words of the doc
tor.
"T? I drunkard! was never in
toxicated once in my life. never en-
ter a cafe. l dine with my family
Explanations followed. My friend
drank one bottle of wine day and one
finger of chartreuse after his cof-
fee. For him that was alcoholism.
''We must understand it. Alcoholic
poisoning exists outside even of ha-
bitual intoxication. The enemy of hui
man reason can insinuate itself with
out noise. without excess, drop by
drop, one may say, and yet may take
possession of the place all the same"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
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ONE OF THE DEVILS Jokes.
New York journal and Anne rIcan Re-
lates Incident of Awful Work
of Whisky,

A few days ago there lived in the
city of Brooklyn Mr.. John j. O'Brien,
with happy wife and loving children.
One day Mr.. O'Brien, who was police
man, came home intoxicated. His wife
told him he ought to be ashamed to
appear drunk before the children.
He arose unsteadily, took his re-
volver from the mantel shelf, and shot
his wife dead. Then he went out and
gave himself up 20 another policeman.
This was his explanation of his crime:
Its the devils joke. No better
woman than my wife ever lived" His
wife is buried, and he lives in a felon's
cell, and his children are bereft.
Upon this story the editor of the
New York Journal breaches the fol-
lowing sermon:
1t was indeed the DEVILS joke that
put an unfortunate wife in her grave,
and will send O'Brien to the electric
chair or to Imprisonment for life, that
makes his three children fatherless.
The devil plays these jokes on hui
manity. 1t is the devil of whisky, and
he plays jokes every day in every big
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24

Experiments made in Berlin by Dr.
Loefiier seem to show that the germs
of malaria and cancer cannot exist to-
gether, and that we may be able to
cure the latter disease by inocufating
the patient with the former. DR.. Koch
believes he has shown that, by exami-
nation of the blood of a malarious per-
son, the proper time may be selected
to effect complete cure by the use
of quinine, so that physicians may yet
be in a position to cure cancer by first
substituting malaria for it, and then
dragging the malaria germ to DEATH.
Success.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24

~, riding some distance ahead of my
infantry, l got in sight of the fo-tifica-
lions of Washington, into which a
force of the enemy's cavalry had re-
tired before mine. The works were APP
parently feebly manned, though they
appeared to be strong in themselves.
| sent word for the leading division
(Rhodes0 to be brought up as rapidly
accessible, and for the other divisions,
-cept one to be left as a guard to
the trains, to be moved out of the col
umn to the front. This was the work
of time. Gen. Rhodes was ordered to
have his division brought into line as
1t came up, and to move at once
against the works. While his brigade
was coming up he and l were in front
examining the works, and before his
first brigade could be formed into line
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24

Gov Mount, of Indiana, among 9TH
er practical suggestions concerning
the training of boys, once had this to
say regarding the principle of tenn
perance: eff greater energy were ex-
pended in teaching the principles of
temperance to the youth in the schools
and in the home there would be less
demand for temperance laws and
fewer victims to the drink habit. The
increased consumption of tobacco, and
the widespread Indulgence and the
evil effects of cigarette smoking, are
assuming alarming proportions"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24

of the almost empty defenses, ready to
rush them with the ~rebel yell"
There were few old soldiers in the
defenses, several hundred feeble con-
valescent soldiers from the hospitals
having been required to go on duty.
But the rifle pits were poorly defended
by raw recruits. Gen. Early knew
this, and he was anxious to take Wash
ington before the arrival of tn. union
veterans, whose coming had been told
him by telegraph from Richmond.
Government clerks, under command
of a few veterans, had erected barri-
cades along the streets and avenues
leading to the treasury and white
house, and had placed artillery there,
but they could not have withstood the
onset of the veterans. 1t seemed that
nothing but an act of Providence
could prevent the capture and looting
of the national capital. Why, then,
did Early hesitate? Why did he waste
precious hours, when he knew the
need of haste?
In his official report Gen. Early
Says: "a short time after noon (July
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
Rum ShOps Forced to Close

Within the last few weeks 25 rum
shops have gone out of business in
Cheyenne, Wyo., because of an order
issued by the Union Pacific railroad
forbidding employees to frequent bust.
ness places when they are Off duty.
The order is being rigidly enforced and
railroad men will now have chance
to pay grocery bills, buy new dresses
for their wives and to invest their sur
plus e. rpin~S in rAaI eS4at~>
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24

city and in every little village of the
world.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-24
killing Christians in Turkey.

A recent report shows that 1859
Christians were murdered in 1901 by
the Turks. In only 81 cases were the
murderers punished, and then with
not more than four years imprison-
ment.-N. Y. Sun.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
That Burned Stake.

The Riverside Independent criticises that burned stake statement recently published in the Press:
 The town of Imperial has another sensation. X short time ago the first one was supplied when it was an nounced that an old fort evidently built by some ancient and previous race. had been discovered in the won derful land of alkah and long barley and now comes the news in the shape of breezy telegram telling of the discovery in the same old fort of the skeleton of some one who was evi- dently burned at the stake by the ancient people who are supposed to have inhabited that section and whom it is believed built the fort in question. The story is spoiled so far as to it's ancient character by the ad- mission in the yarn that an old thim- ble skein for a wagon had been also discovered close to where the charred bones were unearthed. It is a long stretch of the imagination to connect an ancient race with a Yan- kee thimble skein wagon.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
Rent of Alfalfa Fields.

Dr. Payton says that alfalfa fields in the water belt are worth $15 an acre, cash rent; the tenant to pay for pumping. It is claimed the doctor has the best stand of alfalfa at Et- hanac It, therefore, ought to bring a better rent than other similar prop erty. It is also announced that alfalfa land at Ethanac rents for $20 an acre, when the land owner delivers water to the highest corner of the field.
 Many land owners are willing to put down wells and put in pumping plants, but do not wish to farm. Just as soon as land with a pumping plant and ample water, rents readily for a fair cash rent, then the prosperity of the water belt is assured, for there is abundant capital seeking that kind of nvestment.-Perris Progress
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
The Road to Yuma.

The easiest grades of any trans continental road" just reported by Chief Engineer Richards of the San Diego-Eastern line, is certainly cheer ing news for everybody. It assures the realization of the long-wished-for line to Yuma, and the substantial growth and development of San Diego city and county which must follow the work of actual construction, now happily in the near future. For the railroad to Yuma, like the isthmian canal. is going to be built and San Diego will be counted in at the chris tening of both-San Diego Tribune,
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
THE IMPERIAL BOOM.
Ten Dollar Land Producing Fifty Dollar
 Crops.
From the Santa Ana Herald,l


 The conversion of the Colorado Delta into a successful farming community by means of irrigation is one of the wonders of Southern California development The wonder consists in the rapidity and the magnitude of the work.
 Less than one year ago the first water was delivered to the Imperial Settlements, within a year from the commencement of actual construction work on the canal sys- tenn.
 Today it is estimated that there are fully 2000 people located under that system, and before the present season is closed there will be from 15,000 to 25,000 acres under cultivation with more than 150 miles of canals constructed, ranging from to 70 feet in width besides smaller ditches to deliver water to ,O00 acres of land.
 As a sample crop one rancher has twenty acre barley field where the grain stands over five feet high, on the average, and for this crop he has refused $40 an acre, as he considered it worth from $60 to $70 per acre. The land on which this crop is growing, with water right, cost but $10 per acre.
 Today the town of Imperial has popu lation of 200 It has a First National Bank with over $20,0O0 on deposit by over one hundred depostors.
 Today two railroad companies are sur veying lines through the settlement and one of them will be running trains into Imperial before the close of the present year
 Imperial has a weekly newspaper, hotel, a telephone line, several stores, several brick blocks in process of construction, a church and parsonage, and no saloon, as the sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited by deed within the limits of the town.
 This is a wonderful development The soil is as fertile as any in the world. The water is abundant and cheap. The irri- gaton system is the largest in the United States, and the development is the most rapid ever witnessed in Arid America.
 Rapid development makes rapid advance in valuations Land that will produce such crops as above stated is worth $100 acre. It can be had now for $15 acre. Hence the conditions found there today.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
Thrifty Class of People.

Dr. w. T. Heffernan, one of the directors of the Imperial Canal Com pany, arrived in Yuma last Friday The doctor says everything is moving along in prosperous channels in the Imperial Settlements and the country fast settling up with a thrifty class of people. The crop prospects, es- pecially for barley, sorghum and al- falfa, are very fine. The doctors many friends in Yuma were pleased to meet him again and to know that he is rospering.-Yuma Sentinel.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12

ing resolution and moved its adop- ton:
 RESOLVED, That on and after this date no person, firm or corporation shall be permitted to take appropriate or use any water out of any ditch or ditches owned by the company. unless such person. firm or corporation is the owner of water shares in said I'm perial Water Company No. 1, and then only by the authority and order of the superintendent; that any per son violating the provisions of this resolution will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
 The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12

MT. Gleason presented bill for eX penses of his trip to Imperial as chairman of the committee appointed by the president, MT. Heber, amount ing to $16.65
 Mr. Chaffey moved that the bill be allowed and the treasurer be ordered to pay the same as soon as sufficient funds are on hand. MT. Paulin sec onded the motion. Motion carried. There being no further business to transact, the meeting then adjourned.
 R. D. MPHERRIN,
 Secretary.