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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
THE SOLITAIRE HABIT.
According to This Testimony 1t Is
One to he Avoided by
Married Men,

"Take my advice" said a married
man to friend who is engaged, land
never contract the solitaire habit. 1t
is fatal to domestic happiness. You
seem surprised, but it is the truth.
Apparently nothing could be so inno-
cent and harmless as sitting in ones
own home, with pack of cards play
ing solitaire. But the habit grows on
one so," says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. "The victim eventually finds that
he is losing his will power. He be-
comes an unsociable fiend. He cannot
concentrate his mind on anything
else. He loses his taste for reading
and conversation bores him. His wife
cannot get him to go out with her, and
she regards him as disagreeable old
bear. He may make up his mind to
leave the cards alone, but his will is
gone. He is restless and irritable, like
a topper without his drink. l know
what I'm talking about, because I'm a
slave to the habit. That's why l warn
you"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
CHASTISED THE BULLY.
Slab-Sidcd Capt. bunker Took All the
Badness Out of the Terror
of the Ship.

The officer commanding the naval
station at Newport, Capt. j. j. Hunk
er, is long, slab-sided and lanky, and
his chest looks cayed in, but he is the
strongest man in the navy and can
whip his weight in wildcats, says an
exchange. In wardroom mess with
bunker once was one of the worst
DULLES who ever disgraced the Amer
lean navy. He was six feet tall,
Hercules in build, and could put
longboat on his back and pack it
ashore. For the first week that he
joined the ship he made it hot for
everybody on her. On the seventh
day, when breakfast was over and
he got up to go out of the wardroom.
Hunker asked him to sit down again.
He requested all the other officers of
the mess to go on deck and stay
there till he sent for them. They
could see in his eye what he intended
to do, and it was a pity; he was thin
as rail and stoop-shouldered-bent
as if with a cough. But they went
out and left him with the. giant.
Ten minutes later Hunker invited
them in again. The bully looked as
if he had been through a meat chop
per. He went to bed and stayed
there for three weeks. To this day
he is an angel of grace and courtesy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
HAVANA STREET CARS.
The Natives Derive Much Pleasure
from Riding on the New
Electric Railway.

One of the principal features of the
Americanizing of Havana has been the
Introduction of electric cars. There
were formerly about six miles of track
in the capital, but the equipment, con-
sisting of little, bob-tailed cars and
scrawny, understood mules, did not
combine to make a service worthy of
enthusiastic mention. When the track
was heightened out to "a miles and
Wizard Edison's big electric flyers put
on, all of Havana's 100000 inhabitants
wanted to ride at once. One of the
peculiarities of the service is the ten
dency of the motormen to run ahead
of the schedule. They tear through
the narrow, crooked streets at rate
that is exceedingly dangerous. The
frequency of fatalities does not seem
to have the desired effect. These yell
low fellows are strangers to the auto
matte brake. They have been so ac-
customed to driving steeds that have
to be urged by the constant applica-
ton to whip and spur, that they seem
to have no fear of one that will run
away. AS consequence, the Havana
street cars put the island express
trains to shame.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13

Several years ago an agitation was
started to do away with the govern
ment printing office. There is no
doubt that lots of the stuff printed at
public expense is not worth the paper
wasted upon it; but the critics fail to
take cognizance of the fact that if the
same stuff were given out to outside
printers, under a government con-
tract, it would cost fully 25 per cent.
more. AS long as congressman will
talk, they will insist upon seeing their
names in print, and government sci
enlist and experimenters consider
themselves entitled to a general circu-
lation of their bulletins. A great
country like ours cannot afford to be
stingy in the printing bill, nor can the
government give too wide publicity to
the utterances of its statesmen and
the essays of it's men of science.
There may be lots of chaff, but occa-
sionally a grain of wisdom is scat
tered abroad by means of government
reports which enlightens the public or
brings prosperity within reach of
farmer, trader or manufacturer.
The printers of America are Justly
proud of the government establish
ment. First, because it reflects credit
upon their honorable craft; second,
because the hints they receive from it's
management are helpful to the con-
duct of even the smallest shop. There
is not government on earth whose
printing equals ours; not single blue
book which can be compared to the
most ordinary department report is
sued at Washington. Everything
about our public printing is perfect:
The type is clean and clear; the press
work is just right; the margins re-
spectacle; the binding neat and SUBJ
stantiak maps and diagrams correct,
and drawings artistic.
A famous European royal lady once
said that she judged a woman by the
stationery she used. Should the same
discerning woman judge nations by
their printing she would pronounce
the United States of America the neat
est, cleverest and most powerful coun.
try, which, we know, it is.
G. w. WEIPPIERT,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13

of inquiry upon the destruction or
the battleship Maine in Havana
harbor. This publication consisted
of POS pages of text, "a full-paSe
engrayings and one Autograph in
colors; and although the originals
of the illustrations were not in the
possession of the Office until three
o'clock p. m. of March 2S, and the
manuscript of the text was not re-
ceived until six p. m. of the same
day, complete printed copies, in pa
per covers, were placed upon the
desks of senators and representa-
tives by ten o'clock the following
morning.
In planning the new printing office
the architect, by the advice of the pub
lie printer, has paid particular atten-
ton to light and ventilation. Light is
supplied by thousand windows, many
of which face a spacious inner court,
with additional ventilation from
complete exhaust system. Heat is
supplied by the latest system of di-
rect-indirect steam.
Alphabetically the building is one
of the finest specimens of the steel
skeleton class. The metal framing,
which represents a weight of 5000
tons, is completely covered by fire
proof material. The brick is of the
best variety, including a large guam
tity of the white enameled kind, to be
used for dadoes around the room walls
and for lining stair and elevator wells
and toilet rooms. The edifce will con-
tain $4,000 square feet of granolithic
and asphalt pavement and 14,500 yards
of concrete. All the "baseboards" will
be cast iron, and this metal will also
be employed for door and window
frames. The roof framing is of steel.
and on this will be placed covering of
glazed tile, to produce a harmonious
color scheme. The building will be
seven stories, with storage rooms in
the basement
Lieut.. John Stephen Sewell, of the
United States engineer corps, who has
charge of the construction of the new
printing Office, reports that it will be
finished during the present year, and
within the authorized limit cost. The
last sentence is a powerful argument
for those who advocate the erection
of all public buildings under the SUI
pervision of army engineers and de-
nounce the employment of profess
sional contractors.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13

light extending up and own the house
front. The light game from a glass
tube and it made the street nearly
as light as day for hundred feet in
every direction. 1t was the invention
of young Peter Cooper Hewitt. The
meeting hall of the building was
lighted by four other tubes similar
to the one in front and the inventor
was even then within explaining to
the society members the nature of
his discovery. The four tubes which
hung in the hall illuminated it with
brilliancy equal to 500 candle pow
er, and photographs of the assembled
members were taken with the new
light.
The Hewitt lamp, however, is so
thoroughly adapted to present day
conditions that no special wiring is
required, no special dynamo is neces-
sary to operate it. 1t may be at
tached to any incandescent light cir
cult now in use and it will glow as
readily as an Edison lamp, only with
many times the brilliancy. And yet
the perfected lamp is such simple
affair that one wonders some of the
brainy men of the scientific world
have not hit upon the idea long ago.
1t is actually a fact that many of
them not only experimental with
this style of lamp, but even tried
lamps of the very size, shape and
contents of those used by Mr.. Hewitt
and failing to produce the desired
effect, discarded the idea as impos-
sible The lamps used by Mr.. Hewitt
are in the shape of glass tubes, from
four inches thick. There is small
amount of mercury in each tube and
the current acting on the mercury
generates a gas which yields an in
tense white light. 1t is only neces-
sary to attach tube to an ordinary
incandescent lamp circuit and it will
light up. Mr.. Hewitt encountered
the same difficulties as the other sci
entists.
The tubes would not light up at
first, but he thought there must bS
some underlying principle which,
could he but discover it, would solve
the difficulty. He finally put it to the
test of mathematics and worked it
out algebraically, just as Prof. Pupin
worked out the principle of ocean
telephony. 1t took him four years,
but the result was triumph, for the
tube lighted up in the end.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
A Nineteenth Century Martyr.

A touching story of the early days
of the mutiny is told of the Allahabad
massacre. Seven cadets just out from
England were murdered before they
had time to join their regiments. The
eighth, boy of 16, was left for dead,
but survived, in spite of horrible
wounds, for four days, hiding himself
In a ravine. On the fifth day he was
discovered, dragged to the native lines
and thrust into hut as a prisoner.
He found there Christian catechist,
who had been formerly a Mahom-
etan. and who was being tortured by
the Sepoys to make him renounce his
faith The catechist's courage had
given way, but the gallant English lad
himself only 16 years of age-urged
the unhappy catechist: Don't deny
Christ! Never deny Christi" Neill
reached Allahabad in time to rescue
both catechist and ensign. But the
ensign, Arthur Cheek, died of HIS
wounds four days after Neill's AZ.
Siyal."-"The Great Mutiny." !,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
FRIEND WORTH HAVING.
vast Amount of Money Failed to TzR1
Lord StrathcOnn Against Chum
of His Youth.

Lord Strathcona and Mount RoyaL
now high commissioner for Canada
at the English court-and still young.
though his snow white hair tells a
story of more than so years of life
was one of the principal partners of
James j. Hill when the great north
western railroad magnate built the
old st. Paul & Manitoba railroad, after
ward to be a part of the Great
Northern system. Lord Strathcona
was plain Donald Smith then.
Upon the advice of Mr.. Hill Donald
Smith invested in the Northern Pacific
railroad as it was built up. In time
these holdings of Northern Pacific in
the hands of Canadians aggregated
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
MODEL PRINT SHOP.
Located at Washington and Con-
Quoted by Uncle Sam.
Soon 1t VIII BE Housed in a Magnifi-
cent New Homework Done at
the Government Printing
ONCE.

nERHAPS the most complete
4 printing and binding plant in
the world is the government
printing office at Washington At
present this grand establishment is
housed in an antiquated structure,
with branches in the various execu-
tive departments, but before the
close of the present fiscal year it
will occupy one of the finest build
ings in the capital city, with a front
age of IT'S feet on North Capitol
street and $50 feet on G street, and
a height of IT'S feet from curb to
cornice.
Before entering into detailed de-
scription of the new edifice, it might
be well to consider the Importance
of the government printing office
and the amount of work done by it.
According to figures supplied by
Hon. F. W. Palmer, public printer
of the United States, the total floor
space occupied by the office and its
branches, at the present time, is
242,5 500 square feet. The new build
ing, now nearing completion at a
cost of $2,OOO,OOO, will increase this
area $4,000 square feet. The num-
Der of employees is, in round num-
bers, about 1000, divided as follows:
Executive officers, AZ; main compos-
ing room, s24; bindery, SS5; main
press room, 217; job press room, 100;
job composing room, LOG; electro.
type room, 90; specification room,
271; folding room, Cos; congression-
al record room, 100; chief engineers
division, SIS; branch in treasury de-
partment, 81; branch in library of
congress, 81; branch in department
of interior, 80; branch in navy de-
partment, 81; branch in department
of state, SO; branch in war depart
ment, 81; branch in department of
agriculture, II; public documents di-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
CRUSADERS AT WORK.
Use object Lesson in Cruelty to STOP
the Fashion of Docking the
Tails of Horses

A novel yet vigorous war against
the docking of horses tails has been
begun in Baltimore by the Maryland
Society for the Protection of AMI
mails, and the methods used to edu-
cate the people regarding the enorm-
ity of the offense has aroused the ire
of every "chappy" who considers
himself a whip.
On sunny afternoons, when the
shopping district is crowded with
women, an agent of the society leads
sorrel horse up and down the
streets, and lest it shall fail to be re-
marked that the animal has been
shorn of his tail, a blanket is
strapped about him, on which is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13

vision, 40. The rest is employed in
miscellaneous divisions of the serv-
ice.
The number of presses in use is
1877, the output of which is 100000
impressions per day of eight hours.
Among these presses is wonderful
piece of machinery, capable of print
ing cards on both sides from a web
of bristol board at the rate of 65,-
900 cards per hour. Equally interest
ing are four envelope presses, whose
output is 10000 printed envelopes
each per hour.
The total horsepower of the en-
gines is $500; of the boilers, 2,400.
The sizes of the electric generators
are one of 300 kilowatts, one of 1877
ki!owatts and two of 600 kilowatts.
There are Psi electric motors in use.
having an aggregate of S27 horse
power. The quantity of type used is
about 100000 pounds, or $50 tons.
The aggregate expenses of the Office
per year are 100000, nearly three
fourths of which is paid to en-
ployes for labor.
The quantity of raw material used
is almost beyond comprehension. In
one year the Office consumed 5000
tons of paper; $4,000 pounds of glue;
1000 packs of gold leaf for titles
and decorative purposes; $4,000
square feet of imitation Russia
leather; $4,000 skins claw Sheep"
$500 gallons lubricating oil; 1850
pounds molding wax; $500 pounds
plumbago for electrotyping; 10000
pounds printing ink; 5000 pounds
sulphate of copper; 1000 pounds
read; 5000 pounds tin foil; 1000
tim leather skins; 1000 turkey
morocco skins; 5000 pounds anti
mony and tin; 100000 pounds bar
lead; 10000 pounds bar tin; 1000
gallons benzine; 100000 pounds bind
ers' board; 5000 pieces book muslin;
$500 yards canvas for covering
books; 5000 pounds cast-iron filings;
$4,000 pounds copper battery plates;
10000 yards muslin; 10000 pounds
cotton waste. and 5000 tons of coal.
Number of pages of matter issued in
one year is nearly 100000.
Under the management of Mr.. Pal
mer the government printing Office
has maintained its reputation of be-
ing the best-managed print shop in
the world One of the striking illus
trations of the capabilities of the Of
fee for executing orders-and one of
which the officials may be justly
proud-was the printing of the mes
sage of President Mckinley trans
mitting the report of the naval court
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13


ident Bank of Montreal)
some 10000 shares. They were held as
investments and the stock market
knew little of their whereabouts.
Whenthe strenuous fight for control
of the Northern Pacific was in prog
ress last spring, says the New York
Times, the interests opposing the Hill
Morgan syndicate sent an ambassador
to London to offer to Lord Strathcona
$20,000,000 for the shares he held-ten
times their par value. Possession of
these shares would have turned the
tide of battle. But Lord Strathcona
in his inimitably courteous manner
rejected the proposition, saying:
when l was young and with little
money James ]. Hill was one of my
best friends. His railroads have been
my best investments since. No amount
of money would tempt me to turn
against him now"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13

painted in big red and blue letters
this inscription:
Tail locked. Mutilated for life,
for fashions sake"
But the society, not satisfied with
it's efforts to arouse public sentiment,
has forwarded to the general assem-
bly, bill, which will be Immediately
introduced, making it unlawful in
Maryland to even own a horse with
locked tail, and providing pen
atty of from 500 to $500 fine, or two
years in the penitentiary, for each
offense.
Another bill which the society will
urge is the one prohibiting live bird
shoots within the state.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
FELLOW Creatures

A tender-hearted youth was once
present at an Oxford supper, where
the fathers of those assembled were
being roundly abused for their parsi-
mony in supplying the demands of
their sons. At last, after having
long kept silence, he lifted up his
voice in mild protest. "After all,
gentlemen" he said, "let us remem-
Der that they are our fellow-crea-
lures. "-Argonaut.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
Colds in the Hend-

An Austrian scientist has discovered
that cold in the head is due to the
presence in the membrane of special
bacillus, which he has called the mt
cococcus catarrhaliR.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13
Fortune in n Hat,

A hat made of diamonds valued at
s2,5oo,OOO, perched on tibet op being a
$2,500,000, is perched on the top being a
jung Bahadur, the king of Nepaul's
prime minister.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-13

picture
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tracks Chicago The invention attracted much attention that W designer
has appIe 70 patents -:
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-04-19

creek, | spent : most reatfuI night
there and In the early morning, after
a delicious breakfast, with my horse
quite refreshed, resumed my jour
ney. had dinner at the Secesh
summit and made the Warm Springs
that night in time for good re-
freshing bath and a warm supper.
Next day l reached Warren IN good
season and the following day reached
Skaters at South Fork There l
left my horse and walked on to
Smoke House, from where l en-
countered no more difficulties in
reaching Thunder Mountain l write
this so those unaquainted with the
route will have q good pointer If
they should conclude to take the trip
by easy stages, which will always be
an adjunct to this road.
A PILaRIH.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-04-19
Rural Mail Route No z.

A petition containing about seven
ty-fve signatures has been addressed
to the postoffice department asking
for the establishment of a Rural
mail No. 2. The proposed route will
run up the Weiser to the mouth of
Mann creek, up Mann creek to the
present post office, thence back
10 Weiser by way of Monroe
creek. 1t would serve two OF the
most populous small valleys of the
state, whose inhabitants have the in
teIligence to properly appreciate the
benefcent purposes served by thu
daily rural mail delivery system
The Signal trusts those living aloni
the proposed route will make ever.
possible effort to secure its establish
ment.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-04-19
RichOre.

r j. Conroy came out last week
and he had in his pocket some re-
markably fine specimens of Thunder
Mt. ore. One of these showed gold
in quantity. 1t came from a claim
about ten miles from the Dewey
mine. Mr.. Conroy was not at liberty
to disclose the location from which
his rich ore was secured, as those IN
terested wished to make come more
locations. The men who made the
locations sunk the usual hole, pu'
some ore in sack and brought 1t ou
with them, without making cios'
inspection of it. When they looked
it over after reaching the outsio'
world they we're astonished to INIT
gold showings. Some specimen
would run more than $1,000 ton.
Mr.. Conroy said the Belle o
Thunder Mountain company ma
purchased a forty stamp mill and D
was going east to ship it. The mi
is at North Point, N. G.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-04-19
BRITISH POST AT CHALAETTE
Report will Find it is Not Violation

Chicago, April 14.-The United
States governments investigation OF
tue big British stock camp at Port
Chalmette has practically been COM
pleted Officers at New Orleans,
saws the Tribunes correspondent,
contend that the finding shows thai
the post is in violation of the neu.
trality laws, and that the admissions
of the British officers in charge are
sufficient proof Of this fact.
Evidence collected privately by
Colonel F. N. Crowder, investigating
officer, assigned by Adjutant den
eral Corbin, and by secret servic'
men and the army officers now sta
toned at jackson barracks, consti
tutes the final report, which will D
forwarded to Washington within
few days.
There will be no public inquiry
Army officers at jackson barracK
who supplied part of the informa'lo
70 Colonel Crowder contend, accorc
;no to the Tribune's special. that tt
nlace. on the evidence given by IL
E,o,;sh officers themselves, ca
stand as nothing else than Col
. tinuous supply post for the Britls
q army
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-04-19
FULL OF DELEGATES
VIII Probably Close the Session
Tonight.

A meeting of much importance to
the Masonic fraternity was in session
at Weiser yesterday Delegates from
the various local chapters of the Or
der OF the Eastern Star were here to
decide whether or not IL was advis- !
able to organize grand chapter in
Idaho In the past neither the Royal
Arch Masons, Knight Templars nor
Eastern Stars have maintained state
organizations and worked under the
direct supervision of the grand lodges
of the United States.
The Weiser chapter took the initi-
alive in securing call for the pre-
sent meeting. AS most Grand
Worthy -Matron, Mrs. Laura B. Hart
is on tour of the west, she was able
to honor the occasion with her pre-
sence.
The delegates present from the
various towns of the state are:
Pocatello-James Criswell.
Idaho City Mrs. Theresa Nc
CIintock.
Salmon City-Mrs. Anna B. Nc
Caleb.
i, Mountain Home-Mabel L Payne
Belview-Mrs. May Flood.
Boise-Helen Coston, Mrs. Jennie
, Randall, W. b. Davidson, Chas +
Neal.
, AIbion-Mrs Grace Sears.
Idaho Falls-Lulu M. Barclay.
: Harrison-Mrs Grant.
g Edward L. Liggett, Lib
a bic Switzerland.
Payette-Mrs. Emma F. LareI
Mrs. Sarah Driscoll, w. l.. Rider.
8 Lewiston-J. D. .McConkey.
n Most Grand Worthy Matron, Mr.
i Laura B. Hart, of Texas.
e After meeting and discussing tt
e matter Yesterday forenoon it was d
n cided to organize the graud chapte
l. At the afternoon session the TO
h lowing officers we're elected:
Mrs Louisa M. Rhes, OF Welse
Grand Matron; MIR. Edward Ligge'
of Wallace, Grand Patron; MI
> Lulu Barclay, of Idaho Falls, Ass
g ciate Grand Matron; Mr.. CharI
g. Feal, of Boise, Associate Ora
e. Patron. The remaining officers y
H. he elected at the forenoon session
80 The order held semi-socia' 81
sion last evening at which refres
% ments were served.