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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23
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MY CHRoMATIC-NOSED FRIEND
"A Good, COmmOn-Sense Sermon from
the Pen of Robert j.
Burdette.

For a good, common-sense temper
ance sermon brought right down to
practical, everyday experience, there
Icould be nothing better than the fol-
lowing from the pen of Bob Burdette.
What he says of liquor drinking may
ibe applied with equal force to all other
Expensive habits that seem but small
items when counted singly, but which,
when figured up as a whole, amount
ITO enough to build a home in a few
wears, or to start man in business.
He says:
my homeless friend with the chro-
matte nose, while you are stirring up
the sugar in ten-cent glass of gin. let
me give you a fact to wash down with
ut. For some years you have been drink
ing a good improved farm at the rate
tof 100 square feet at the gulp. If you
doubt this statement, figure it out for
yourself. An acre contains 1850
square feet. Estimating, for con-
Nenience, the land At $43.56 an acre, you
will see it brings the land to just one
mill per square foot. Now pour down
the dose, and imagine you are swallow
ing down a strawberry patch. Call in
your friends. and have them help you
swallow that 5OO-foot garden, Get on
a prolonged spree. and see how long
it will take you to swallow enough pas
ture land for a COW. There is dirt in
it-3OO feet of good, rich dirt, worth
$4356 per acre.
Snow is a good time to look the
matter square in the face, and cut off
the expensive and useless custom of
throwing money-fve. ten, twenty. or
thirty cents at a time-into the beer
and whisky till, and save it instead, as
the beginning of a fund to buy a farm
or home. There is one thing sure as
truth, and that is, that you can't give
your earnings to somebody else, and
also keep them for yourself. The men
you give them to will neither buy you
farm nor build you home. They
may build homes with the money you
give them, but the homes will be for
themselves, and the farms they buy
will be for themselves. Wherever you
plant it, there it will grow. If you
drop it on another's soil, he will har-
vest the crop; if you plant it for your
self, you may reap the fruitful in
crease, and gather the golden grain
into your own granary; where by every
GOd-given right it belongs. Amer
lean homes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23

! Discussion about the food-value of
alcohol is closed by the Journal of the
American Medical Association with
these wise words: "Whatever may be
said for alcohol will be utilized unscru-
pulously by advocates of the liquor in
terest. Give them an inch and they
will take mile. We believe it will be
found far safer for medical men to
stand on the facts opposing the gen
eral use of alcohol than even quail
fiedly to advocate its usage, except ex-
clusively as a medicine and under med
zeal prescription" The best minds in
the profession are undoubtedly agreed
on this point, to give the saloonkeeper
monopoly of the liquor business
and to send him no customers
Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23

The duel, though prohibited by law
still exists in Switzerland, but the
practice is confined to the students in
the Swiss German universities. Even
these fire-eaters are beginning to real
ize the absurdity of the practice. for
a meeting was held at Zurich lately
at which student delegates from all
parts were present, to discuss the duel
and courts of honor. \ proposition by
the president to abolish the duel alto
gether was rejected by large major
ity. The consequence was that a large
number of duels which were previous
ly arranged and whose principles were
awaiting the result of the vote took
place at Brtmgarten, near Berne.
Many students received severe rapier
cuts, chiefly in the face, but nobody
was seriously wounded. The police,
though they know the practice exists,
and are often aware of the affair"
seldom interfere, for they look upon
the duel, as practiced by the students,
as sporting and harmless matter.
1t is certain that nobody has ever been
seriously hurt in these affairs of hon
or.-London Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23
CHILDREN INEBRIATES.
Drunkenne3s Is Common Sight in
the New Fork Tenement House
District.

So common is the evil of drunken
mess among children in New York city
that the temperance societies are go
ing to petition for a law making it a
misdemeanor, punishable both by fine
and imprisonment, for parents to give
alcoholic beverages to their children
under any circumstances whatever,
unless for medicinal purposes and I'M
der the supervision of a doctor or
.apotbecary, and there is a pretty fair
chance that their petition will be
granted.
Whatever may be the underlying
cause, the amount of drunkenness
among mere children is something APP
palling to contemplate. In certain
sections of the town there are well or
gained gangs of boys, their ages rang
ing from 10 to Is, who make a prac-
tice of hopping onto weak-looking
adult pedestrians and robbing them in
order to get together the price of a
''kag" of beer, which they carry to a
vacant lot and guzzle until they are in
a state of brutalized intoXication.
AT the political clambakes and other
out-of-door affairs of the east side
population the number of miserably
drunken young girls tottering around
before the festivities are well under
way is something sad to see, and yet
such exhibitions attract little or no
attention and elicit no other sensation
than that of mild amusement from
the grown up individuals attending
such affairs.-Omaha Bee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23
Feminine Ignorance.

"It's only a matter of time re-
marked the shoe-clerk boarder. who
reads the scientific page in a house
hold magazine, until all our engines
and that sort of thing will be run
by heat drawn from the sun"
"What will become of the poor
farmers when that time arrivAs?'
asked the girl with the lemon-col-
ored hair, who presides over the rib
bon counter between meals.
1.-THE farmers?" queried the shoe
clerk. after the manner of a person
up tree.
Eyes" said the fair ribbon demon
strator. "If all the suns heat is to
be used to run engines won't it make
the weather too cold to raise eggs
and butter and such things?"-Chi-
cago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23

Coler spent about $4,000 from his own
pocket for the benefit of the city.
Coler made more money than any
other official. His salary of 900 was
augmented in one year $4,000 by the
commission allowed the comptroller
from the state inheritance tax. On the
Vanderbilt and Smith estates alone he
received small fortune. In 1901 he re-
ceived only his salary, for law was
passed cutting off the allowance of one
per cent. to the comptroller for all
funds paid to the state from the trans
fer tax.
Of the public doings of the young
candidate for governor much has been
said and written. There are other
characteristics, however, with which
even those who know him very we'll are
not familiar. For instance, some of his
best friends don't know that he is a
horse fancier and that he has a string
of harness horses with a record of blue
ribbons at various county fairs. He
didn't enter them at the horse show for
fear it would be said that he had turf
ambitions and that some might think
he was in the racing business, of which
he knows absolutely nothing. They
will tell you at the American horse ex-
change, however, that as a horse-swap-
per Coler can beat David Harum, and
judges at exhibitions in New Jersey
and on Long Island will attest to the
quality of Coler's colts.
Coler is also an art patron. He has
fancy for discovering" things and
has frequently been the first purchas-
er of the works of ambitious young
artists. The upper stories of his resi-
dence, No. Pa Hancock street, Brook
Ign, are stocked with many valuable
paintings. He has offered this home
for sale and does not care to hang his
pictures until he fits up his new home
He has also library rarely equaled
for unique volumes. He tries to attend
all private book sales and is frequently
seen haunting the od-book stores. He
has a rare collection of the records of
old New York.
Coler's ideal statesman is Tilden.
He has on his office desk volume of
Tilden's speeches all the time.
As an orator Coler has not made
much Roadway. He hasn't learned the
art of thinking on his feet; in fact, he
is slow thinker except on matters of
finance. He is impulsive and frequent
" impetuous, but the composition of a
speech is apparently hard work for
him.
As fnancier Golfer is quick and for
midable. As the floor member of the
firm of w. n. Coler & Co. on the stock
exchange before he was elected comp
troiler ne was known as one of the
sbrewdest men on the floor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23
The Air Ship a Com
mercial Possibility s
BY GEORGE FRANCIS KERR,
Prest. of the Aero Club, New York Owner
of the Santos-Dumont Air Ship No. &.

BUT POPULAR BELIEF HAS PROVED WRONG BEFORE.
IT IS WRONG NOW
SantosDumont has at last constructed aship deserving
be called In he has ccumnavgated the Eie He has
flown with the wind and against it. The machine has responded
his will in the Bay of Monaco The ship large
crude, ungan 1t still but is the best far devised
and working upon it model the ahip future will be
evolved
the airshp possibility the balloon
will be discarded and the machine will be supported
planes. But have mastered the birds secret
the present ourselves with the gas bag This
machine in the air that improvements and devices
tried 1t the inventor chance observe weak points
Never before has the public been much interested in the
subject Never before have inventors been
perfect the invention Every inventors
who have airship
The American people greatly interested and IF SANTOS
DUMONT DOES NOT SUCCEED IN PERFECTING A MA.
CHINE SOME AMERICAN INVENTOR WILL.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23

! A new and practical arrangement for
providing masons and other building
laborers, coachmen, errand boys, po-
licemen and others with cheap food
and non-alcoholic drinks has been
called into being by the Berlin section
of the German Society for Popular
Hygiene. At stated hours special carts
pass through the streets and dispense
sandwiches, bread and butter, the sau-
wages so dear to the German palate.
tea, cocoa, coffee and soup, all at the
lowest possible prices.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23
"CoHee Heart" is the Latest.

Medical examiners for life insur-
ance societies have added the term
coffee heart" to their regular CLASH
fcation of the functional derange-
ments of that organ. It's effect is in
shortening the long beat of the
heart. Coffee topers, they say, are
plentiful, and are as much tied to
their cups as the whisky topper. The
effect of the coffee upon the heart is
more lasting, and consequently
worse, than that of liquor Dietetic
and HYGIENE Gazette, London.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23

was accomplished.
Balloons are no longer TN
common. But a ship that can
really fy-with the wind and
against it, high or low, as the
aeronaut may direct-that is the
Mecca of modern inventors.
impossible! Chimericalp
has been the verdict of centuries.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23
Tho Nile Flood Decreases.

The Nile food this year will probably
be the lowest ever known.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23

For centuries people have sought fly but until
the Brazilian appeared little of practical
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-21
OUR UNIVERSITY.

The Warren Sentinel, referring to the
fact that Harvard University conferred
the degree Of doctor of laws upon Prince
Henry, says that as it reflects upon this
performance" it views with renewed
pride our own University of Virginia, the
pne American university which does not
confer and never conferred an honorary
degree, adding that ''tlle Gar of all the
Russians could not attain Its simplest
academic title without fulfilling all the
requirements cXacted Of its humolest
and most obscure matr:cuiate.''
The University OK Virginia fixed its
standard high at the start and made an
taviolable rule that those who take its
diplomas and degrees must stand the ex-
animation and show that they deserve
them. Professors have been known to
shed tears over the examination papers
OF favorite pupils who failed to reach the
standard, but never has University pro-
lessor been Known to put any man
through an examination for love or fa-
vorltism. The poor who honestly win
these honors receive them, and the ricl
with all their money, cannot buy them
for 4 price. 1t is that which has made
the University of Virginia the school OF
schools IN tho South, and honored by the
whole world.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-21
AMENDING Tie CONSTITUTION.

a number OF citizens of Massachusetts
have addressed a letter to the members
Of the State Legislature urging the sub
mission to the people of constitutional
amendment. applying the principle of the
initiative and referendum to failure con-
stitutional amendment.
AS matters stand, says the Springfield
Republican. the Legislature alone can mi
tiate specific changes in the fundamental
NV. Two successive Legislatures. by a
najority veto in the Senate and two
thirds vote in the House. must approve
pt any change before 1t goes before the
people for ratification in a majority vote.
II for any reason members of the Legis-
hture. to any considerable number. OBJ
gect to any change. they can block it for
nm indefinite period, no matter how.
large a majority OF the people may pos
sbly favor 1t.
The object OF the proposed amendment
IS 10 spen = practicable way for the peo-
~ = compel ths Submission to popular.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-21
CURRENT ,oplls.
Pneumonia

rleuW0Hid
While pneumonia is to great degree.
if not entirely, a preyentable disease,
the practical difficulties involved in its
prevention are evidently considerable
When the resisting power has been
weakened by intemperance, by chronic
disease, by neglect of h:.s.enic and sani-
tary precautions, by old age and by des-
titution, it Is. very prone to succumb to
an encounter with the specific pneumonia
nicro-organisms.5 Desttution, with Its
attending wretchedness, is largely con-
tributing factor i'll the prevalence of con-
tagious and infectious diseases, and
among them to the high death rate from.
pneumonia. especially in large centers
of popula ton, ard my successful effort
towards the alienation of this condition
is so much gained for the cause of pre-
ventive medicine. as well as phiian-.
thropy. The well-being of the. poor in-.
surcs the better being of the rich;f the
sanitary tenement lowers the death rate
Of the mansion.
The personal measures for the proven
ton OF pneumonia, aside from the disin-.
lection of the pneumonia expecIoration,
are the avoidance of undue exposure to.
inolement weather and of all crowded.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-21
HOW no GET GOOD ROADS.

AT the Good Roads Convention yestcr-
day Mr.. ~. a Land, editor Of the Black
stone Courier, offered the following res
olutfon:
'Resolved, That the Committee on
Counties, Cities and Towns of the House
and Senate be requested to attend the
sessions of the convention and explain to
us the objection to the road bill, which
failed Of passage yesterday
We can answer that question for the
members OF the General Assembly. They
did not adopt this bill because they had
not been instructed to do so by their con-
stituents. The members Of the General
Assembly are not disposed to take the
initiative in matters of this character.
The MulTell bill carried with it a large
expenditure Of public money, and the
members of the Legislature are naturally
and properly very careful how. they do
this. AS a general thing these delegates.
fresh from the people, represent the sen
1frnent OF the State. If they all felt sure
that their constituents desired them to
pass the Niurren bill they would vote fer
1t. Not feeling sure, they took the safe
side.
The lesson is plain. If the friends Of
the good roads movement in Virginia ex-
pect to get a highway commission, such
as is provided for in the Murrell hill,
they must arouse public sentiment
throughout the State, and that is the
x,raof ,-orlr Toy. tl,e Good Roads ASSOcia-
ton to do. The people of Virginia rule.
They can have anything done through the
Legislature that they want done. Now
let the Good Roads Association 80 to
work and stir up the people and tho
roughly arouse public sentiment, and
when the Legislature meets next time
there will be no difficulty in getting a
good roads bill passed. This is the phi
aosophy Of the situation.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-21
ANTI.SALO0N LEAGUE.
Surprise Marriage at tsrtersvilIe-ilr. Roben'
..nyss 20 RaIiimnre


CARrERSVILLE. VA. March 2c.-Eev.
C. II Crawford, of Richmond stiperin-
teudent Of the Anti-Sntoon League of
Virginia, organized local league hero
yesterday.
DESPITE the bitter cold and piecdng
wind goodly number OF men and wo-
men gathered in the Baptist Church, eager
to hear the lecture and to participate in
the proceedings.
The following officers were elected:
President, Rev. J v Gwatkin: Ssc:e-
tary Miss Ida Fl. Rhodes. BY motion the
meeting then adiorr1eJ to meet again On
Tuesday night. March o5th, ut wh:cn
meeting the different committees will be
appointed, and the work planned for this
section of country. Mr.. Louis f. Robens.
son Of Mr. Charlie Robens. lately settled
in this county from Michigan. and Miss
Daisy L. Anderson. the efghteen-year-oid
daughter OF 1Ir. G. E. Aderson. We're mar
ried yesterday at the home of the brides
father, Rev. Hugh j. Paylsr officiating
The marriage was a surprise to all, 1t
not even being known to the young mans
parents until hours afterwards. when Mr..
Paylor retured with the marriage lies:.se.
Mr. and Mrs. Robens will reside at the
home of the brides father for the present
Mrs. Henry Robens and daughter. Runys
left this morning for Baltimore. wherc
they will make their future home. Mr..
Robens moves from the "Deanery es-
tate. which has recently been bought by
D. Paulus Irving. and has secured wock IN
Baltimore.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-21
ANOTHER VICTIM.
Coroner Taylor TO Fight Greed Of Lime.Kl!n
for Mems Lives.

The lime kiln, says Coroner Iayior, has
become the cause of an epidemi: Of Of
taiae some steps to-day to abate it, Two
n 1ers have died there since early last
mnnth. or. to be exact, one on the night
Of February 14th, St; valentines anains Day
THE victim Yesterday was Waverley
Roney. a colored man. He was asphyx-
lated, but was also burned about the
hand and arm. Coroner Taylor viewed
had gone to sleep and had breathed the
carbon dioxide until he died.
Dr.. Taylor. will see Major Howard this
Means that will put stop to the periodi-
cal deaths of persons who will congre-
gate about the kiln.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-21
POINT SCORED BY
GOOD ROADS MEN.
Bills Placed on the Calendar
BY Messrs. Lassiter
and MurreII.

Messrs Lassiter and Murrell yesterday
offered in. the House, the following road
bill, which was placed on the calendar:
Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly OF Virginia, That as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act
the Commissioner of Agriculture shall
esta blish at five or moro convenient
places in the State quarres for making
crushed stone and other suitable ROAD
material. All persons convicted OF crime.
this punishment for which as prescrloeu
by statute cannot exceed ten years con-
finement in the penitent1ary' may, uPoi,
conviction, be sentenced to be confined
a. said quarries, instead of in the peni-
tertiary, and to work, under the di-
rec ton of said Commissioner OF A3r1-
culture, in the manufacture Oh ROAD ma ia
terial, or upon the public ROADS, during
the time for which they may nave peen
sentenced to Imprisonment. oalu Ioau
cities and towns Of the State at actual
cost, and such convicts may be employeo'
under the direction Of the Commissioner
of Agriculture directly upon the pubiic
loads Said Commissioner shall estao-
lish safe and proper stockades ana p.llo.
,gs for guarding said conVlctS' anu -
practicable shall establish at least one
Of said places in each of the grand divi-
sons Of the State, known as Underwater,
Piedmont, Blue Ridge, the Valley, ana
t],a Appalachian sections. Said Com.
missioner of Agriculture, on behalf OF the
State, may accept by deeds OF gift from
counties, cities, towns or lndlvlduaiS,
suitable locations for such quarries, which
stall revert to the grantors when aban-
coined by said commissioner. The county
ard corporation courts of the state, when
notified that the Commissioners OF Az
riculture has established such quarrles,
1ray sentence all able-bodied male persons
thereafter convicted Of crime the pun
ishment for which as prescribed ny
statue cannot exceed ten years cont1ne-
,rent in the penitentiary to confinement
a. one of the said quarries; provided the
i;1ry shall have fixed the punishment at
confinement in the penitentiary for
term not exceeding ten years, or at con-
finement in Jail for term exceeding
thirty DAYS. AS a reward for good con-
duct the terms of confinement OF sucn
ccnvicts may be reduced IN accordance
with law, and with the rules OF, said
Commissioner of Agriculture previously
n, escribed and posted.
2, The sum Of 5000, or so much Thereon
a, may be necessary, is hereby appro-
nriated out Of any una appropriated money
il the state Treasury to carry out the
provisions of this act
All acts and parts or acts moon
sistent with this act are hereby repealed
4. This act shall be in force from It's
massage,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-21
FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN
Wise Women Use The Great
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