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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23

liquid that had gushed from the huge
apple cheese in press.
Il just wish that uncle could see
that stuff through Prof. Alden's Won
derful microscope" Tracy thought,
watching the rotted Juice as, in a thick
stream, it guzzled from beneath the
heavy iron screw of the machine. 81
do believe he would see microbs and
bacteria in it that would scare him"
The wish so chung in his mind that a
few days later Prof. Alden received a
modest but urgent request from Tracy
for brief loan of his powerful micro
scope.
"Uncle, if you think this cider is
without germs, purer than water, just
look here" Tracy said that evening,
pouring into a plate few spoonfuls
of the ''new cider" that filled the fire
shelf pitcher.
Uncle Reuben put on his glasses,
positive that the lens of any micro
scope could not reveal a microbe in
"iust pure apple juice" but a look of
fear and horror settled on his face as
he carefully studied in a strong light
what was revealed in the plate.
Goggle-eyed dragon beetles; hairy,
pot-bellied reptiles; loathsome, writh-
ing worms and scaly snakes, and hor-
rible lizard-shaped creatures with
snapping jaws and horned heads leered
up at him as they moved through the
cider.
Uncle Reuben drew a long breath as
he pushed away the plate. eff all those
wriggling, hairy, scaly, horned beasts
really live in cider, Tn done with it,"
and Uncle Reuben kept his word
Clarissa Potter, in Sunday School Ad-
vocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
HARD WOOD FLOORS.
Keeping Them Clean Is Not Hard
Work, Provided One Knows How
to Go About 1t,

Floors that have been finished in
shellac should be kept clean, says the
National Builder, by thoroughly
brushing off the dust with soft hair
or feather brush, or by wiping with
cloth of soft texture. If the cloth
is slightly moist the dust will adhere
to 1T more readily, but wipe with
dry cloth afterward. If any dirt that
will not wipe off with a moist cloth
should be deposited on the floor, wash
it off thoroughly with clean (not hot)
water, using soap if necessary, which
also cleanse off with water as quickly
as possible and wipe dry.
When the face of the floor begins
to look worn and shabby, after
cleansing off the dirt and wiping dry,
if water has been used, rub the sur
face all over nicely with mixture
two-thirds turpentine and one-third
raw linseed oil. To do this saturate
a soft cloth of any kind with the
mixture, wiring it out half-dry and rub
the floor with it evenly. Do not use
the oil so freely as to leave it stand
ing on the surface to catch dust. To
prevent this wipe off with a clean.
dry cloth. After the shellac is worn
down to the surface of the wood.
sandpaper it all over evenly with a
No. l sandpaper and give it another
coat of shellac, after which continue
to keep as before.
Floors finished in plain oil onlv
should be kept in the same manner
as above, more soap and water being
required, and more frequent rubbing
with the mixture of turpentine and
linseed oil spoken of above.
Waxed floors can be cleansed bv
washing off thoroughly with turpen-
tine and benzine, after which thew
can be rewaxed if desired
Floors finished in "hard oil' should
be kept like floors finished with shell
lac.
A maple floor for a kitchen that
has not been finished in wax or oil
is best taken care of by being
scrubbed or rubbed with any of the
securing preparations now in the
market for that purpose.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
A WIDOWS TRIBUTE.
Eu1e Tragedy Carved in Granite and
Set Up in n st. Charles Mo.)
Cemetery.

Conventional tombstone design has
been knocked sideways by a bereaved
Missouri widow. The poor woman
had been deprived of her husband by
the sudden action of one of the
famous native mules, which, resent
ing some act on the mans part, de-
Lvered an uppercut with telling eff
feet.
This is the subject illus trated in
bas-relief on the stone, the time i'm
mediately after the kick; and the
stone stands at the head of a grave
in a small town-St Charles-not
far from st. Louis.
The stone itself is of a common
form-a straight Shaft of white gran
lite, resting upon a base of brown
stone, and surmounted by a beveled
cap, on which stands something that
looks much like haystack (prob-
ably it is-the man in whose mem
ory it was erected having been a
farmer).
But the bas-relief is the point of in
terest. 1t is IS inches in diameter.
In the background stands an inno-
cent looking, mild appearing animal,
that might be a lamb were it not for
the lack of wool and the presence of
a monstrous head and abnormally
large ears. n rope is about the neck
of the mule; the other end of the
rope is held by a maid of peculiar
architecture, who stands with one
hand grasping her apron and with
great establishment shown on her
face.
The cause of the establishment,
says the New York Herald, is lying in
the foreground. 1t is man, who APP
parently is held in the air by resting
on an elbow. He wears panied eX-
preston. What is first mis- taken for
a birds nest is on close inspection
found to be a hat.
From an artistic standpoint the
most remarkable thing about this
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
DANGERS OF ALCOHOLISM.
Real Cause for Alarm Lies in the Herr
editary faint Left by the
DrinIer.

1t is needless to enter into details
as to the consequences entailed by
oyerindulgence in the use of alcohol.
Most of us are familiar with cases
of ruined lives and wretched homes
as the result of the fatal habit, and in
these days of high-pressure living it
is becoming more and more common.
Mental worry, overwork, ill-health,
want of sufficient nourishment and
clothing tend to swell the number of
chronic alcoholists, and the habit so
easily acquired is extremely difficult
to relinquish.
The real danger to the race, how
ever, lies in the fact that the great
majority of inebriates need no in
centiye to acquire the habit; they are
born with the tendency, and it is to
this cause chiefly that we must
ascribe the increase in the number of
deaths from chronic alcoholism dur
ing the last 30 years. A reference to-
the table of statistics shows that in
1875 p persons in 100000 died as the
result of chronic alcoholism; in 1898
these figures had more than doubled
themselves, the number then being
returned as 65 per 100000 of popu-
lation.
Tn following quotations point to
the conclusion arrived at by some of
the most eminent men of the day:
"Heredity as a causation is esti-
mated to be present in nearly 60 per
cent. of all cases of chronic alcohol
ISM"
''Sur 81 enfants mes de parents al
coholiques IA settlement etaient
sains."
"There are not a few human be-
ings so saturated with the faint of
alcoholic heredity that they could as
soon turn back a flowing river from
the sea- as arrest the march of an at
tack of alcoholism"
Much that has been said respect
ing insanity applies equally to in
ebriety. Both belong to the group
of diseases of the nervous system,
showing a marked tendency to de-
generation, and both are liable to be
transmitted Observation-Disclosures
ster Review.
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work is the perspective. One is not
sure whether the mule is amusing
himself by jumping upon the man or
has retired to his corner at the call
of time. The position and length of
the mules legs would lead one to be-
Iieve it to be copy of the famous
animals that pillow on hillsides until
the legs on one side are shorter than
those on the other.
Thus, in the cold marble, is told
how this brave man met his death
Whether the widow intended to hon
or the man or the mule cannot be
stated.
When the monument was complet-
ed the children of the dead man OBJ
jected to its erection and asked the
assistance of the people in control
of the cemetery to prevent the arts
tic widow from carrying out her
plan. The authorities declared that
such monstrosity should not deco
rate the burying grounds, and in
formed the widow that unless she
would bring dire punishment on her
self the monument must never center
the gate" of the sacred place.
And it did not. She tore a panel of
the fence and had it taken in and set
up without using the gate. There it
stands, by the side of more modest
and conventional headstone erected
by the less artistic children.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
INCREASING CHURCH FUNDS.
Queer Method Suggested by an Eng
ish ParsOn for RepIenishing
His Treasury.

Clergymen in charge of small and
poor congregations frequently find
themselves hampered by want of
funds with which TO carry on their
work, but it is doubtful if even from
tier missionary, who is generally ac-
knowledged to be the most hampered
ct American ministers, would adopt
the method for increasing his re-
sources which an English parson is re-
ported to have pursued. This clergy
man is in charge of church at Mill
wall and is quoted as offering to give
any West end church a thorough
spring cleaning, Nhe payment to go to
his own church funds. In his letter
announcing his offer the clergyman
says, according to paragraph in a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
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SN1 -GgN -
UNCLE REUBEN'S CIDER CURE.
How His Little Nephew ChampiOned
the Temperance Cause to n
Successful Issue.

! Tracy had con to his uncle's home
to spend his long spring vacation in
helping gather and boil the sap from
his large sugar bush.
He knew his work was needed and
would be well paid, and also that the
money would be a very great help in
his own home; but he did plan that
first homesick night in his bare ell
chamber to take the first stage for
Nome in the morning.
Mamma wouldn't want me to stay
here and learn to like cider. Uncle
Reuben keeps a pitcher of it on the fire
shelf all the time, and Aunt Eunice
puts it in lots of her pies and buildings
and sauces. l shall break my pledge
if l stay here, and l am going back
home tomorrow" was Tracy's last
thought as he dropped asleep.
But the crisp March air of the next
morning gave him fresh courage.
'I'll try it one week anyway, and I'll
not hide my badge inside my jacket
where l wished it was yesterday when
Uncle Reuben and his hired men were
'quizzing me-" was his brave thought,
''but I'll keep it pinned in plain sight"
And the knot of white ribbon was
keeping its old place on the trim blue
1appet when Tracy joined the group
a the breakfast table.
THAT boy of Judith's has more grit
than 1 thought" Uncle Reuben re-
marked when Tracy and the men had
left for the sap camp. 'After the
sswoop we made yesterday on his tenn
perance notions 1 didn't expect to see
that white ribbon hoisted to-day"
"Sister Judith's nature, lire on line"
was Aunt Eunice's answer. eff she
once decided a thing was right moth
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
The Power of Forgetting

Some things are better forgotten
than remembered. The habit of over
looking family jars, of failing to see
the sour look, and not hearing the
harsh word, and setting aside forever
the disagreement is habit that
makes for family peace. 1t is throw
ing the stones in the path out of
ones way. Life is short at best and
we should make it a rule to grasp
only the pleasant things and count
only days of sunshine. Each one of
us has a pet failing. In WEAKNESS
and at times when not on guard out
comes the inpatient reply, or the
spiteful word which a moment after
we feel that we would give anything
in our possession could we but recall
it. Unforeseen and unguarded i'm
pulses may be at the root of your
neighbours peculiarities. Be patient
and forget.-Chicago Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
CIDER UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.

ing could move her. But 1 do hate to
see a little boy like Tracy set himself
against his elders, as though there
could be harm in our good, sweet cider
and in my pies and sauce"
''Now if it was unboiled milk''-Un-
Gle Reuben was quick to see a chance
to breach his favorite subiect-"there
would be danger" And he poured
into his steaming coffee cup a gener-
Gus help of creamy milk. ''All learned
folks nowadays know that milk is full
of live critters-microbes deadly as
rattlesnake p'ison some of 'em, but
cider, pure apple juice, just as harm
less as honey or sap molasses, it does
rile me, Eunice, when these temper
,ance folks cry it murder, Jumping it in
with rum and whisky"
Tracy soon learned that his uncle's
favorite topic and highest rode hobby
was microbes" and that he had set
himself to hunt them down, at least
in his own household.
All milk used in the family was first
well sterilized with boiling; the drink
ing water was thoroughly filtered,
whether from spring or well; no one
ventured to taste the naples sweet
sap until sharply scalded, for fear it
contained those mysterious, terrible
germs; the children wore camphor
bags over their chests with the belief
1t protected them from swarming bac-
terra in the schoolrcom, and, when al
lowed to visit the village shops, their
rosy faces were screened with wells
that the gauzy meshes might snare and
hold any sly floating microbe on it's
way to throat or lung; but that any
thing vile or dangerous could develop
in apple juice Uncle Reuben would not
believe.
The windfalls and culls of the or
chards in late fall had been stored in
barrels in the corn barn for lack of
cellar room.
Solid and hard as bullets with frost
they remained through the frozen win
ter, but April's thawing days found
the barrels contents a dark, slushy
mass, spongy and pungent as rotten
yeast, and oozing in thick drippings
from every crack and nail hole.
Just right for pressing!" was I'm
Gle Reuben's verdict one morning, pick
ing his way among the dark pools that
stained the corn barn floor. "The APP
pies are ripe to press without grinding,
which saves a heap of work.
Tracy looked with wondering dis
guss at the fermenting, decaying mess
in the barrels.
"You don't mean, uncle, to press
these dreadful apples for cider?" he
questioned, with nausea in his face
and voice at the thought.
''Yes. Why not?" was his uncle's
sharp retort. ''The apples were sound
when stored here last fall and freez-
ing only makes them hold more juice
and easier to press"
sound" Tracy gasped, holding his
breath as he passed tier of barrels,
with big family of worms in about
every applet"
"That will be prime in few days"
one of the men exclaimed, smacking
mis- lips over long drink from the dark
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
MISS KATE GORDON.
New Corresponding Secretary of the
WOman's National Suffrage
Association.

The new corresponding secretary Of
the Woman's National Suffrage asso-
citation, succeeding Mrs. Rachel Foster
Avery, who held the office for is years,
is Miss Kate Gordon, a young south
ern woman of remarkable cleverness
and executive ability. Miss Gordon
comes from New Orleans, where she
conducted the most unique political
campaign on record.
Under the new constitution of Louis
lana women have limited suffrage, and
taX-paying women have right to vote
on all subjects affecting taxation. A
year ago when the progressive ele-
ment of New Orleans decided that the
city must be severed and drained, and
that to do that it would be necessary
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23

Scottish journal: with the practical
experience I have acquired 1 can now
beeswax and polish floor, or varnish
floors with anybody, and my wife is
Al at painting and decorating"
The wives of some American clergy
men, particularly in frontier stations,
could and do tell tales of hardship and
trial, but it is safe to assume that
no matter how low the church treas
ury might be they would hardly be ex-
pected to aid in its replenishing by hir-
ing out to do church cleaning, even if
it were simply painting and decorat-
ing" and not the regular scrub work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23

saved himself upon Cornerstone, and
melted 100000 ($144, OOO), says the New
York Herald.
Another time bet of 100000 ($432,-
000) against 100000 .($144,OO0) was
booked between old Lord Glasgow and
Lord George Bentinck.
The marquis of Hastings bet and lost
6 100000 (S494,OOO on the Hermit's
Derby.
Bell & Co., of Wall street, in August,
1900, had S25O,O0O placed in their hands
to bet on President McKinley's reelec-
ton, at odds of 21s to 1. Their offer
was absorbed in fractions.
Lord Dudley bet $4,000 to $4,000 on
Peter in a race at Ascot with a book
maker named Morris. Peter was
beaten.
A syndicate headed by a man named
Lambert won 100000 on Don Juan in
the Cesarewitch at Newmarket in
1888. -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
KEEP BATS IN THE HOUSE.
People Who Think They Destroy Mos
quitOes and All other Insects
in the Air.

"Down in the Neck" said an old
resident of Long lane, according to
the Philadelphia Record, 1.-THE people
have no terror of bats, not even the
women folk. In fact, bats are en-
couraged just as soon as the mos
quitoes make their appearance in the
early summer.
Nov, there's Mrs. Young, who
lives in the lane. She says she is
really fond of bats. She had two
sheltered behind picture frames in
her parlor all last winter. When
spring came and she heard them
rustic, she moved the frames and let
them out of the window at night, and
recently they came back with fam
lily of three young ones. In one
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23

night they cleaned out all the mos
quitoes from the second story, and
the next night she shut the second
story windows and opened those on
the top floor. The bats came in and
devoured all the mosquitoes there.
"Old Neckers never drive bat out
of the house, for, contrary to popu-
lar belief, the creatures are quite
harmless and keep the air clear of
all insects. They are not covered with
vermin, as some people think, but, on
the contrary, have a fur as soft as
sealsllin, with a clean skin under
meath. I'd rather have bats in my
house any time than mosquitoes"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
Stamped by Its Ugliuess.

An amusing controversy has sprung
up in Paris over the gender of the
automobile" which the French acad-
envy has solemnly declared to be mas
culine. One disputatious writer would
like to know how automobile" can be
masculine, while "locomobile" is fem
mime. To this the answer is triumph.
antly given that the automobile is toe
ugly to be feminine. With this gallant
and unanswerable argument all de
bate ceases.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
ITEMS.
ster Reviey

A large lumber company has located
at Loyalton, Cal, on the stipulation
that no liquor shall be sold within
six miles of the town.
John Cahill, of Evanston, ILL.,, has
been fined $500 for keeping blind
pig" The fine is the heaviest ever i'm
posed for a like ofrense in Evanston,
and it is expected to have salutary
effect upon others who are disposed to
engage in the Illegal sale of liquor.
Dispatches from Iceland say that
the cigarette mania among boys has
become most virulent. The authori-
ties, in order to combat the evil, pro-
pose to empower any adult to chas-
tise juvenile offenders and to seize all
cigarettes that may be found on their
persons.
A movement is said to be on foot
among the Tennessee republicans to
incorporate a prohibition plank in
their platform for the next campaign.
Seventy of the 96 counties of the state
are now dry, and it is claimed that
plank of the nature mentioned will
gain the party thousands of votes.-
Washington Sentinel.
Gov. Durbin of Indiana has an
nounced that he will impeach sheriffs
who permit prize fights within their
jurisdiction. The governor proposes
to exercise his executive power
through the sheriffs, instead of the
state militia, and in case of willful neg
lect of duty will instruct the attorney
general to bring impeachment pro-
ceedings for removing the offenders
from office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
Absinthe Kills an Artist.

Peculiarly sad the other day was the
death of Comte de Toulouse Lautrec.
the eccentric young artist so closely
identified with the present craze for
the noveau in art at Paris. Much of
the vagaries he exhibited in his work
he himself attributed to the little
green goddess. 1t was absinthe that
caused his death. He was considered
the most talented of the new school
since Bastian lie Page, yet he was only
little over 80 years OF age
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23

NSOIIeSpOIullS otGItldIN NdllOLdl
frage Association.)
for the citizens to vote S7,000,000 tax,
it was found that the women voters
held the balance of power, and that
in order to carry the measure the wom-
en- would have to vote solidly for it.
This was an appalling situation.
Women are no more fond of paying
taxes than men. Besides it was the
first time Louisiana woman had
ever voted at all, and most of them
thought ballot was boomerang
that was liable to fly back and ami
hilate them.
In this emergency Miss Gordon
came to the front as woman leader.
She called mass meeting of the
women, picked out such as could talk
intelligently in public, and organized
campaign of education. Committees
went from one end of the city to the
other, holding parlor meetings in
every neighborhood, where they
preached the gospel of sanitation.
They sat up and wrestled of nights
with every taX-paying woman, and
taught'her to fill out ballot, and the
result was that on election day it was
found that the women's vote had been
cast as unit for sewerage and drain
age.
In recognition of her services Miss
Gordon was presented with a superb
medal by the Progressive Union,'' an
organization composed of the leading
business and professional men of New
Orleans
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Big American Elk Horns.

Gen. Charles w. Darling, of Utica,
N. Y, is the possessor of pair of
elk horns that measure nine feet and
three inches from tip to tip across
the skull, and they have spread of
53H inches. The beam lengths are
55 and 56h inches, and of the ten
prongs the longest are 16 and II
inches. The only larger pair known
are IL feet from tip to tip. They ara
in Germany.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23

Late in the season the gardener
plants his crop, digs them up just
before winter, and buries them.
When the potato season arrives the
tuber is dug up and renews it's youth
in bath of boiling I've appropriate
namely solution. Their appearance
is hereafter faultless, but I've solu-
ton somehow does not impart the
flavor of new potatoes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
Rejuvenated Potato,

The supercilious vegetarian, sneer-
ing at the ease with which mutton
for lamb and horse for beef can be
palmed off on persons whose intel
lect is dulled by long course of
fiesh-eating, may now be retorted
upon with the imitation new potato.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23

A tablespoonful of black pepper put
In the washing water is a favorite
method of some housekeepers for pre-
serving the color of buff, gray or
khaki-colored Stuffs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
GREAT BETS IN HISTORY.
Some of the Largest Wngers of Which
There Is Any Existing
Record.

Lord George Bentinck, in 1913, in bet
ting on his horse Gaper, for the Derby,
stood to win 915O,OO0 ($72O,OOO), but
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23

Here's an InnexibIe Rule.
Never add -four to a liquid. Add
the liquid to the -four.