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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
CLASSES CIDER WITH WHISKY
The Unprecedented Ruling by an
Iowa Judge In Il Recent MuIct
Law Case.

Judge Remley has made an unprece-
denied decision in the case of Amana-
da Mefford against Peter Mineck. a
well-known grocer of Cedar Rapids,
Ia. Plaintiff brought suit under the
mulct law, alleging that Mineck sold
cider to her husband, who became in
tOXicated thereon, and on the hear
ing Remley enjoined Mineck and closed
his store, although the evidence
showed that the cider was sweet, be-
ing a brand sold by nearly every
grocer in the city. Four witnesses
for plaintiff were impeached, but
Judge Remley ruled that all cider
should be classed with whisky and
beer. Mineck will appeal to the SUI
preme court, and the grocers of the
city will pay the expenses. They will
also bring the case before the state
grocers' convention at Dubuque. The
effect of the decision is to make every
grocery a saloon, and every whole
saler equally liable. Prosecution I'M
der the mulct law is attracting wide
interest
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
GREAT DANGER LINE
Central America and Lesser Antilles
Full of Volcanoes.
Gigantic Crnters Along the Line of
the Proposed Nicaragua Canal
Once Fiery Now Are EN-
eraId Gems
Especial Costa Rica letter.


II ROM where the eighty-second de-
II gree of west longitude touches
the Pacific coast of Colombia,
$500 miles due south from the city of
Cleveland, draw a line straight north
westward $500 miles to where the
twenty-tifth degree of north latitude
crosses the Pacific shore of Mexico,
1900 miles from New York city, and
count the once fiery, now emerald,
gems, which jewel that belt.
Near the beginning of that line is
Mont Blanco. Its head rises $3.50 feet
above the Caribbean sea, which seems
to one who looks down from its crest
to be scarcely more than a stone
throw away. 4 mere step, say Is or
20 miles farther, along our line an
other mountain lifts its head hun
dred feet higher than that of Blanco.
Then come many mountains of little
less height. before Turrialba rises. a
majestic sentinel at the southern eX-
tremity Of that broad and fertile plain
which stretches 325 miles to the north
arn shore of Honduras, and forms the
larger part of three republics.
Across this plain flows the Rio San
Juan, draining northeastern Costa
Rica and all the basins of the great
lakes of Nicaragua. 1t is along this
river and through the larger of the
two lakes that the proposed ship ca
nal would be made. should that route
be accepted by the United States.
Turrialba is 1000 feet in height, and
standing shoulder to shoulder with it
is Irazu, 11.4So feet high. At its foot
sits the beautiful city of San Jose,
clean and provided with electric lights,
tram ears and telephone and telegraph
lines, ice plants and water supply. no.
tells and cafes, blooming parks and a
magnificent theater, with other con-
veniences, comforts and luXuries. 4
thousand feet higher, on the flank Of
Irazu, is the solid old city of Cartago,
long the capital of the republic. If
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
TOBACCO IN FRANCE.
Some Facts in Regard to the Business
Which Proves Profitable to the
Government.

An interesting though repellant de-
scription of the management of tobac-
co manufacturing by the French gov
eminent has recently been sent forth
by the United States consul at Lyons,
France, where is located one of the
largest of the 20 state tobacco factor
les.
1t is probably not generally known
that the tobacco business in France is
a monopoly of the government-no in
dividuaI having the right to make or
sell tobacco without a permit.
That the government controls the
manufacture of tobacco does not APP
pear to lessen the quantity of the
product or especially to improve the
quality. The enormous amount Of
S79,000O0O annually is received. The
expense to the state for new material,
labor, freight, etc, is only $14,5O0,000r
leaving S64,500,000 clear profit.
The government issues permits for
retail tobacco and cigar stores; but
retains control of the wholesale eS-
adjustments in the large cities called
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the French ,nini.t,,,. ,,,aars ~, increosa
in retail tobacco shops.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26

strongly alkaline waters, in which the
dirty linen of the town is washed.
The steamer which carries one from
Managua TO Momotombo, 30 miles
along our line, skirts the point Of
Chiltepe, which has in its crater
lake of sweet, cool water. Rounding
the point one has in full view the cone
of the great Momotombo. its snowy
plume forever streaming far out over
the perfect curve of its southwestern
slope. Between the lake and the Pa
citic. and plainly seen from both, is
La Iona del Tigre; but it is insig-
niticant in size-Only 1000 feet in
height-compared with the immense,
symmetrical bulk of the smoking
giant, bearing its white banner 800
feet above the lake which laps three
sides Of its base.
History says that in days before CO.
lumbus a large town was on the shore
where now a small village is at the
edge Of the lake. But the mountain
labored and brought forth such evil
dent signs of distress or of rage that
the people fed, with goods and house
hold gods, to where Leon now stands,
none too securely, in the broad val
ley, not 50 far away that the bulk Of
the huge smoker cannot be plainly
seen from the streets. They might
have gone much farther and still have
kept in sight their one-time idol; for
one may stand on the crest of Cerro
de Hu!e. in Honduras. and look across
a valley Is miles to Tegucigalpa. the
capital city. cleaning white in the
afternoon sun; then turn his back to
the city and see in Salvador. a little
west Of south, and IS miles distant.
the smoke rising from San Miguel.
Then almost due south he will see
Coseuina, full IS miles away: and 100
miles to the south-southeaS he can
see the steam rising from the crest of
Momotombo.
Many a time MomotOmbo threat
ened the people; and they have been
afraid. On one occasion a multitude
took their way up the slope of the
mountain until the edge of the ashes
was reached. There they knelt in
earnest prayer. while two devoted
priests bore up the steep the cross
they would plant at the brink OF the
crater, to repeI whatever flow of lava
might threaten. No one ever again
saw cross, nor priests. Nor did the
crater overoflw. If human foot has
ever reached the edge of that pit no
word of it has come to of hermeO
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26

from its rocky eminence has seen I'M
Europe, and has watched the birth and
growth of new nations, compared with
which it is the yeriest pigmy. Perched
on a high rock, it is better guarded by
nature than even by its own valor;
although, with the courage of David,
it has always been ready to wage bat
tie with any giant who was daring
enough to provoke it.
Much more ornamental is the army
which forms the bodyguard of the
pope, and which outnumbers fewer
units than the rival army of Italy
counts thousands. But if its numbers
are small it is the most aristocratic
and cosmopolitan army in the world,
for its members are recruited from
every nation of Europe, and many of
them are of noble blood. This. of
course, is an army which is not meant
to fight, although there is not one Of
its soldiers who, if occasion demand
ed, would not die for his sovereign
pontiff.
The army of the prince of Monte
negro is a much more businesslike
body. for it consists of $4,000 hardy
and fierce mountaineers, who are GER
tainly among the bravest soldiers in
Europe. The number is remarkable
when one considers that the princes
subjects are scarcely more numerous
than the inhabitants of Stafford; so
that at least one in every two males
capable of bearing arms is trained
soldier.
The Honduras republic. with pop
ulation less than that of Birmingham,
has standing army of only 500 men
to protect a country almost as large
as England, although in time of war
it could easily multiply this force by
20; and the Nicarag guam republic stakes
its existence on the valor of the 1000
men who form its army of defense.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
SOME BABY ARMIES.
Diminutive Forces Maintained in
Various Parts of the Globe.
They Make Up in Ardor what They
Lack in Numbers and Are Ready
to Defy the World, in
Words at Least.

In the heart of the Pyrenees there is
microscopic state known as the An
DORA republic, which maintains its in
dependence among the formidable
giants of Europe who surround it on
all sides. Its nominal suzerain is a
bishop, and it has an army of 600 stall
wart mOuntaineers, ready at any mo-
ment to die for their national dig
nifty and independence. There is some
thing quite pathetic in the spectacle of
the handful of armed men drilling and
strutting in their mountain Businesses,
while on one side is Spain, which can
produce 900 soldiers against one of the
republic, and on the other side the
army of France, which outnumbers
them by nearly 5000 to one.
A still more diminutive army is that
which nominally protects the domin-
ion of the prince of Monaco. As the
principality is little more than a dozen
times the size of Hyde park, London,
it is not surprising that the soldiers
who guard it only number 1876 or that
their duties are chiefly confined to
making brave show in their uni
form and having a good time in gem
orally.
Another army whose Importance is
by no means to be gagged by mere
numbers is that of Luxembourg, which,
when every available man is sum-
mOned to arms, numbers round 500
warriors, all in gorgeous uniforms
and full of military zeal. There are. in
fact, no keener soldiers anywhere
than these few hundreds of Luxem-
burgers, who are responsible for the
safety of population roughly equal
TO that of Leicester, and there is not
man among them who is not per-
feet in drill and soldierly accomplish
ments.
There is no more interesting state
in Europe than San Marine, which
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26

But she Gould not take from her mind one
thought,
Or word, or memory of that hour,
Where first she learned the Internal power
Years passed away, and the fair young
child
Was a drunken woman with passions wild.
Her mother was dying with broken heart
That she in her drunkenness first had part.
For she saw too late that her pence had
bought
A curse for her daughter she little thought;
But she might have thought, and she should
have known
That the house of sin was the tempter's
throne.
o mothers, fathers and Christians, say
Shall the children still In this Gospel day
Be offered thus to this Moloch grim?
Nay! cry through your armies: Away
with him!"
And if his worship shall still go on,
Disgracing the world where the Christ was
born,
Though the hosts of evil may rage and
scott,
Yet over the little ones cry: Hands OFF,
William Luff, in National Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26

Strung closely along the line are a
score or more of dead little vol
canoes, Telica, Nieio and Corcovado,
pushing their shoulders high above
the others. Then comes Coseguina.
standing on or forming the promon-
tory which in part shuts in the great
bay of Fonseca. Coseguina has been
most quiet mountain ever since. in
1896, it burst and startled by its
noise even the City of Mexico, near
ly thousand miles away. Tn! ough
three days the hammering of its eX-
plosions terrified four republics, and
in that time the volcano covered
three republics with pail of ashes
that, over much of Honduras at least,
was inches in depth. Old people of
that country have told of the death
of thousands of animals. caused by
the cloak that hid all green things,
stopped the flow of water in the
streams, and suffOcated the beasts.
That was probably the most terrific
outburst ever known by civilized
man before the Krakatoa mantled
the sea with pumice and minute dust,
and for many weeks tinted the skies
of all the world by the dust into
which it had burst its rocks. So
Coseguiana also threw its dust 50
high into the sky that it hid from
the sunshine all the region within
$50 miles, and even fell upon Ja-
1t would be tedious, and useless. to
attempt to count all the volcanoes
which dot the line between Cose-
guina in Nicaragua and Colima in
MiXico, for they are too many. and
the once savagely fiery hearts Of
most of them are dead and cold. But
from Colima, now threatening vio-
lence, eastward to the shore of the
bay of Campeche is short arm of
the mighty Andean cross. the only
east and west range of volcanoes in
all America. In that arm are ser
seven great volcanoes, the grandest
being Popocatepetl, 1890 feet in al.
titude.
OF especial interest just now ia
that part of the great American vol
canic system which lies in the sunk
en- valley in which are the lakes of
Nicaragua and their outlet, for
there is the line along which will be-
the Nicaragua ship canal, if it shall
be made. Within the last century n
dozen of those volcanoes have
belched lava and steam and dust.
and earthquakes have been of almost
monthly occurrence.
Little injury has been done bv
earthquakes in that region. 1t is
true that Leon, in Nicaragua, has
been badly shaken several times: and
no longer than two years ago the
massive ornaments were tumbled
from the towers of her churches,
and wide gaps were opened in their
walls, as like seams were opened in
those of the queer, black sandstone
church of Managua, 40 miles distant
PAUL BIT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
NOT WHAT SHE WENT FOR.

She went for a pint of the liquid curse,
That fair small child of my simple verse:
Her mother sent her, and little thought
What more those pence for her daughter
bought.
She got her beer; but she got beside
A thousand evils that eventide;
For she saw the examples of sin ard shame,
Results Of the drink for which she came.
She heard the talk at that bar of death,
And breathed for d moment that tainted
breath;
And the pure young mind got an unknown
thought,
None knew the stain that she homeward
brought.
She saw, she heard, and she tasted, too,
The foaming draught OF that hellish brew;
And the first dire love for the drink that
night
Was bought with the money by that fair
mite.
Her mother took from her childish hand
The drink she fetched at her sad commando
But she could not take from those bright
blue eyes
The scenes like clouds upon azure skies.
She took the change that the maiden
brought;
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
MASTER OF CEREMONIES.
Time Is at Hand When Such m on
cial IL Absolutely Needed Mt the
White House,

The necessity for an official master
of ceremonies" to be connected with
the state department, and whose serv-
ices would be at the command of the
chief executive, is becoming more and
more apparent, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Every foreign WIS.,
itor's reception, every state dinner,
every public exercise participated in by
the president, and the congress en-
phasizes this necessity. The necessity
is apparent at the big state funerals
held at the national capital. The
United States supreme court is jealous
Of its dignity and rank. The diplomatic
corps is even more so. Individual MEM
bers of the corps insist that the
prerogatives of precedence be OBJ
served to the letter. The supreme
court insists that, as one of the highest
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26

coordinate branches of the govern
ment, its members should rank with
the members of the diplomatic corps.
Members of the corps believe, because
they are the personal representatives
of their sovereigns or governments,
they should rank next to the president
of the United States. Embarrassments
multiply at every state function. If a
state dinner is to be given at the white
house half a dozen officials of the state
department must give hours of study
to the relative rank of the guests to
be invited and determine in what or
der they shall be seated. 1t is even
necessary to trace the lineage of some
of these diplomats of apparently equal
rank back for two generations to dis
cover which should rank the other.
Mai. Pruden. who died a, few weeks
secretaries to the president, made
speciality of such things, but with his
death his accumulated knowledge and
experience was lost. At the funeral OF
Admiral Sampson the differences be-
tween the United States supreme court
and the diplomat corps were so grave
that it became necessary to seat them
respectively in seats exactly the same
distance from the front and on OPP
posite sides of the central aisle of the
church where the ceremonies were
held. This seemed to solve the prob
lem until they each contended that
they should be seated on the side Of
the aisle where the president and his
cabinetwere seated, Acompromise had
to be effected. The democratic tenden-
cy of the people in this country oppose
them to a master of ceremonies. The
republic of France has such function
airy, and the republic of the United
States may have to come to it some
day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
Injustice Done Britain

So much has been said of the new
British temperance act relative to the
sale Of Intoxicating liquor to children
that we hope the error that crept int o
recent contributed article was at
once corrected in the minds of our
readers. The statement was made
that the British law allows children
under Il years of age to drink in the
public houses, but the new law which
went into operation January 1 Of this
year distinctly declares that any one
selling to children under IA years of
age shall be liable to a penalty. In the
same article Miss Timing is quoted as
saying that there are 10000 barmaids
in London. She desires US to state that
she is not certain how many there are,
but thinks it Is not more than 5000
Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
VIII Do No More Sliding.

A sliding pole in the engine-house
facilitates the descent of the firemen
when they are in a hurry to reach the
ground floor. Four ladies visited an
engine-house in Yonkers, n. Y, and
one of them, Miss Sallie Eisler, who
weighs 3O6 pounds, thought it would
be a grand thing to slide down the
pole, as she had seen the fremen de-
scend. When halfway down she re-
leased her clutch, and she dropped
with such force that her leg was
broken
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
Cincinnati Teacher. Cant smoL.

The Cincinnati board of education
has taken the initiative in a most i'm
portant matter of tobacco and its use
by teachers and pupils. The chairman
of joint committee, DR.. Culbertson.
who is an eminent scientist. has made
report concluding with the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted
unanimously: "No teacher or princi-
pal shall smoke, in any school build
ing or upon any school grounds, dur
ing school hours. Infraction of this
rule shall be deemed sufficient cause
for dismissal" Agreat trunk line rail
road has recently issued private cir
cular advising that superintendents
caution engineers and signalmen not
to use tobacco in any form during
working hOurs.-Journal of Inebriety.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
American Leather the Rest.

American kid feathers are growing
in favor abroad, especially in Aus
tralia. Recently one of the largest mo-
rocco manufacturers in Lynn, Mass,
made a shipment to that country OF
$500 dozen skins, which shipment is
said to be the largest ever made from
there for foreign parts. 1t is not so
very long ago when the best kid shoes
were made from shoes imported from
France. Now France is buying large
quantities of kid from this country.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
Long sitting of Parliament,

The longest recorded sitting of the
British house of commons was in 1881.
On Monday, January 3D. 1881, the house,
having met at 3:45, continued sitting
until Wednesday at 9:3O-a continu-
Gus sitting of upw9rd of 411a hours.
The next longest sitting occurred in
1877. On Tuesday, July 81, 1877, the
house, having met at 3:45, continued
sitting until Wednesday afternoon at
6:15, period of 26A houra.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
4 Sad Cnac.

A sad case has just occurred in Chi
cago. After years of faithful service
fireman named Garrich drank so
heavily some days ago that he could
not be around when an alarm of fire
sounded. For this offense he was dis
missed from the force, and. failing to
obtain work, he committed suicide.
This seems to be hard, but what were
his superior officers to do? A man
who renders himself incapable of per-
forming his duty is not fit to be fire.
man, and cannot complain if it seems
he IS harshly treated.-Albany Jour
aal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26

Berlin as delegate to the internation-
al shipbuilding convention. He is one
of the most distinguished officers of
the navy, and since 1897 has been chief
of the naval bureau of ordnance. The
admiral entered the navy in 1861 as
masters mate on the Cumberland, and
was present at the capture of Forts
Hatteras and Clark in August of that
year. He fought in Che famous engage
ment with the Merrimac in 1862, and on
that occasion rescued Lieut.. Morris
from drowning. He was promoted to
the rank of rear admiral in April, 1901.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
CATHEDRAL AT MANAGUA.


canal; passes through the volcano of
MADEIRA and the perfect cone of the
volcano of Ometepe, then through Ell
Zapatero and that vast ruin which, in
a sudden rage, hurled its entire roof
nearly or quite ten miles, to fall in
fragments and make in the lake a reef
of islets, some of which afford farms
for those who dwell in contentment on
those proofs of the power of the most
prodigious and destructive force this
world has known.
Following the line one sees to the
left the south wall of another volcano,
a vast low crater, burnt, desoIate,
lying south of the ancient Indian town
of Masaya which dreams away its hot
and dusty days at the edge of another
crater. in which is a lake of pure wa
ter some 200 feet below the level of
the town \ dozen miles westward is
the capital city of Managua, nesting
ike a hen in a hot and dusty roadway,
at the edge of Lake Managua. and at
the foot of the tiny volcano of Tiscapa.
Behind the wall of the crater, only
200 or 300 feet high, is a deep pool OF
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-26
REAR ADMIRAL O'NEIL.
American Naval Officer Who Has Just
Been SiGnnlly HOnored by the
German Emperor

Rear Admiral Charles O'Neil, who,
upon the personal invitation of En-
peror William, will visit, with a spe-
cial escort, all the shipbuiIding yards
and arsenals OF Germany, is now in