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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
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VICTIMS OF DRINK.
Arc Crowding Our JaiIs and Asylums,
: Horrible Testimony of the
Saloon Evil.

DR.. T. Walmsley, superintendent of
an idiot asylum in the metropolis, says:
Half the misery and Indebtedness
of human life, with much of the crime
of the land, is but the outcome of an
abnormal state of mind and morals
produced by drink. Our asylums scream
with alcohol and our prisons groan
with its victims Taken to excess, al
cohol is in its passage through the or
ganism everywhere equally de-
stroyer. Upon the brain and nervous
tissues ii is a direct poison, leading
to formidable maniacal excitement or
to chronic alcoholism, with its long
train of symptoms betraying mental,
moral and physical degradation-the
whole man being reduced from higher
to lower plane of existence. On the
offspring the effects are disastrous.
Children come into the world prenatal
~ handicapped by hereditary faint,
bearing the stigma or brandmarks of
degeneracy, unfitted-mentally, NOR
ally and physically-to hold their own
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
A Medical Testimony,

A most important statement was
made at the recent congress on tuber-
culosis, held in London, by Prof. Biru-
ardel, who is described as the greatest
living sanitary authority in Europe
He said alcoholism was the most
potent factor in propagating tubercu-
losis. The strongest man who had
taken to drink was powerless against
it, There was a universal cry of de-
spair from the whole universe at the
sight of the disasters caused by alco-
holism, and any measures, state or in
dividual, tending to limit the ravages
of alcoholism would be most precious
auxiliary in the crusade against tuber-
culosis. Prof. Biruardel's statement is
of the utmost Importance. The med
ical practitioner has tremendous power
to stem the tide of intemperance, and
if to his influence is added that of the
sanitarium and of the scientist, we
may hope that at last enlightened
opinion will no longer doubt the evil
effect of alcohol upon the individual,
and the state may point back to it's
cause, and that the cause may bear up
on it's face the condemnation of those
high in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wcsk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
ONE OF Quotations FREAKS.
Dull Pupils Generally Win Success
in Life While Smart Ones More
Often Fail.

81 am almost discouraged by the
results of popular education" said an
old teacher. For forty years 1 have
been teaching in the public schools of
the city in which l live, and many of
my earliest pupils are now men of
middle age. What discourages me is
that so many of my brightest schol-
ars have proved failures in the pro-
fessions, in business, and in public
life, while the most successful of our
citizens were, as rule, classed
among the dull pupils.
Five of the leading lawyers in this
city were my pupils, and they were
all below the average in scholarship,
department and punctuality. Several
of our most prominent business men
belong to the same group, while
among physicians, engineers and min
listers | find that some of my dullest
pupils are in the front rank.
son the other hand, some of my
brightest and most promising schol-
ars are little better than tramps,
and most of them are below the av-
erage in the avocations they have
chosen"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
GLASS PAVEMENTS.
A French Experimen Which Is Being
Watched with Interest by
Street Builders.

Experiments are being made in
Paris with glass pavements. One of
the most frequented thoroughfares
in the city, near the Madeleine, has
just been laid in glass, which, so far
at least, has proved highly satisfac-
tory. The glass used is in small
blocks and is manufactured from ref
use glass, ground down to powder
and made into cement. The advan-
.tages claimed for the new pavement
are its sanitary qualities, particular
ly the facility with which it can be
cleaned, and it's durability. Expert
ments show that the glass wears
better than asphalt, wood or even
stone. 1t was at first feared that the
glass would prove slippery and be
dangerous in winter, but quite the
contrary has been found, horses even
in sleety weather keeping their foot
ing as well on this novel pavement as
on others.
If at the end of a year the glass
pavement just put down justifes the
bright predictions made for it all
future pavements in Paris will be of
glass, and the city, the envy of all
nations for it's clean streets, will be
more clearly in appearance than
ever.-Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
DEAN FARRAR'S TESTIMONY.
Reasons Why He Became ~ Total Alb
stainer Fifty Years Ago During
Early Ministry.

Speaking recently at Band of Hope
conference in England, the venerable
/ dean of Canterbury, Very Rev. F. w.
J Farrar, told of the reasons on account
of which he adopted total abstinence
so years ago, as follows:
''My parish half century ago
abounded with slums, and l used to
visit drunken sweeper and his wife.
] found that these people were accus-
toned to stay till midnight every night
drinking themselves drunk in the pub
lie houses. They had three little chill
dren. Their room, for they only oc-
cupied one room, was kept constantly
locked, and these miserable children
had to play in this miserable slum I'M
til 12 o'clock at night. On one occa-
sion the little girl rushed out of the
room and hid herself in disused cell
lar, stayed there all night, and next
morning was found, not dead, but not
far from death, perfectly cold and per-
fectly i'll. Two little boys on another
occasion ran out of the house from
their drunken parents and hid them
selves in a neighbours chimney.
snow, these things impressed my
mind so very strongly, though they
were mere items of a very long list of
horrors, that became total abstain
er. | have never for one single moment
regretted that action. What strikes
me as so astonishing is that, if the
mere sight of these miseries from one
or two instances can so powerfully af-
feet one or two minds, how is it that
the English nation is so unawakened
to the sense of their peril and disgrace?
Undoubtedly drunkenness is the sin of
the English race, and if England con-
tinues to turn a deaf ear to all these
warnings if England continues to read
day after day the story of these hor-
rors, which are perfectly preventable,
it is certain that in the days that are
coming she will suffer for this evil"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27

of obtaining livelihood, says the Lon
don Chronicle, but the very last in
which one would expect to find the
gentle sex is that which was so re-
Gently followed by Mrs. Ellington.
"Hangwoman" is an Objectionable
term, but is duly entered in the New
English Dictionary" The woman and
the word are both nineteenth century
productions. Lady Betty" as she
was called, was not ill-favored, either,
and is described in the Dublin Uni
versity Magazine for January, 1850,
''as a middle-aged, stout-made, dark
eyed, swarthy-complexioned, but by no
means forbidding woman" Ireland
was the scene of her labors, and she
officiated unmasked and undisguised
as a hangwo-nan for great number
of years, and often logged in and
through the streets, being extremely
severe, particularly on those of her
own sex.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
FACTS AND REASON

The life of the saloon depends on the
death of souls.-Ram's Horn.
1t is useless for our soldiers to fight
our foes abroad while our saloons fos-
ter them at home.-Ram's Horn.
The drunkard carries the disregard
ed danger signal half way between his
lustful eyes and his devouring mouth.
Rams Horn.
The total religious revenue of the
United Kingdom is estimated at G25,-
100000 per annum. The drink bill of
the United Kingdom amounted last
year to e16O,s91 ,71S, which is over six
times the sum raised for religious pur-
Noses.
DR.. David Paulson, Chicago nerve
specialist, declares that much drunk
enness, especially in young men. is
caused by highlyspiced food, and the
use by cooks of pepper, mustard and
similar relishes. To this also the doc
tor attributes the cigarette habit.
The New Leaf is a quarterly Just
launched by the patients of Willard
hospital, newly-opened home for in
ebriates at Bedford, Mass. The New
Leaf is issued to interest the general
public in the question of temperance
reform and inspire those who are vic
Tins to the drink habit with hope OF
rescue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27

last in the shape of lump of lead af-
fixed to the end of the mast extending
through the bottom of the boat. Sus-
pended by wooden pulleys and i'm
PEELED by the wind the aerial yacht
travels gracefully and fast up along
the kite line, to be checked few feet
below the kite by a large disk of stiff
cardboard. Otherwise there would be-
swift destruction of the kite and an in
glorious tumble of the entire outfit.
The sail is maintained in it's raised
position by a string, whose lower end
is secured in notch. On striking the
cardboard the bowsprit is pushed back,
thus releasing the string, causing the
sail to drop, and then the toy slides
back to terra firma again.-N. Y. Her
aid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
Mineral Dust CoIors Rain.

On the 11th and 18th Of March a
blood red rain fell in northern Italy.
The color was caused by fine particles
of dust. Some of it was examined by
the scientist, DR.. Thomas Lamb Phip-
son, who gives as his opinion that it
is not desert sand nor volcanic dust,
as many believe; but the mineral dust
left far in the air by the explosion of
meteors. He says that particles of
this dust are from two one-thousandth
to five one-hundred thousandths of a
millimeter in diameter and many, far
from being red, are white, gray, green.
yellow and brown, a few being true
ruby red.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
Freezing Cure for Fever

A new cure for typhoid fever-in
fact, for almost every fever-has been
discovered and experimental with sue
cessfully. The patient is put in spe.
cially constructed refrigerator and
the fever frozen out. The discovery
of the new method is DR.. Lester l.
Roos, of New York. The refrig-
orator itseh is nothing more than
long rubber bag with what
are called auxiliary pockets" for
ice. After the patient is in the bag
DR.. Roos' treatment consists in wrap
ping him in a wet sheet and blanket
the temperature of which is gradually
reduced from 20 to 40 degrees. In ad.
dition to this, ice is closely packed
about the patient, who is kept in the
refrigerator until nearly frozen,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
TEMPERATE ISLANDERS.
No One Uses Intoxicating Liquors or
Smokes in the Pitcairn
Islands.

There is always spice of romance
about the Pitcairn islanders, and the
report printed recently of the COM
mander of his majesty's ship Icarus,
who lately visited the lonely settle
ment, is very interesting. In someTe-
spects, at all events, the islanders seem
to be model community. A parlia-
ment of seven manages affairs. Men,
women and children are described as
in robust health; indeel, disease
among them is almost unknown.
Whether this is due to the fact that
1.-The leading people prefer to continue
as hitherto without medicines of any
Sort we cannot say. Then, no one
smokes or uses intoxicating liquor;
food and water on the island are album
dant; the adult males give all their Ia
Dor from five a. m. until two p. IN. to
works for the public good; and all but
general content, if not great prosper
ity. seems to prevail. The only thing
that appears to be troubling these vol
untary exi.es is surplus of females.
Perhaps, however, when the trade
which it is intended to open up between
Pitcairn island and Tahiti gets in full
swing the balance of the sexes may be-
come more nearly adjusted. We stmin-
ster Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
BICYCLE AMBULANCE.
new Machine That Can BE Manipu-
lated by the Rider without Any
Outside Aid.

Bicycles are such a convenient means
OF transportation that it is nothing
extraordinary thatinventors should ap-
ply the idea of the carriage to an am
bulance for emergency cases.
The picture shows a machine fitted
with an ambulance which can be
manipulated by the rider alone with
out the aid of any other person. 1t is
the invention of Hiram L. Getz, OF
Marshalltown, Ia. 1t is intended pri-
marily as a means of reaching the in
jured as soon as possible, rather than
providing a rapid means of transport
ing the sufferer to q hospital.
The bicycle is provided with curved
bar at the front and rear, which are
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
BICYCLE AMBULANCE.

clamped to the frame and provided
with sockets to receive the sides of the
frame. The latter is of light tubing, and
has braces to stretch the canvas when
the stretcher is opened.
When not in use the braces are fold
ed in line with the frame, and the
whole may be rolled up and attached
to the bicycle without interfering with
the rider sufficiently to impede his
progress. To steer the wheel when the
stretcher is in use, an elegant handle
is clamped on the front fork, extend
ing nearly to the level of the canvas,
the operator using one hand to steer
the ambulance and the other to steer
the bicycle.-N. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
poper Gloves and Hosiery.

be put seem numberless. The latest
announcements are of paper gloves
and stockings, the latter having been
in course of manufacture several
months. They are not thin things you
could wear through in dag, but quite
tough. Paper Irvine, which has long
been known, is roughed by machinery
so as to seem fuzzy, like wool, and it
is then knitted to shape just as if it
were warn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
NoN-AlcoHoLIcs In MEDICINE.
ence of Thirty-Four Years in
the Medical Profession.

There is no provision made in the hui
man economy for the liberation of al
cohol. 1t is an irritant poison of great
magnitude, from which no one can es-
cape, because it aggravates the condi-
ton which it is given to relieve, besides
creating an appetite for itself which
otherwise would not exist
Alcohol is not acted upon by the gas
trio juice, but is carried through the
system unaltered in its character by
contact with the various secretions of
the body 1t cannot, therefore, be as
simulated, consequently does not enter
into the constituent properties of the
body.
That which is not assimilated can
not be counted as food, because it does
not repair waste, and is lacking in sus-
tanning power. Alcohol may generate
:, fitful energy, but the value of energy
IS estimated by its enduring quality.
The spirit of strength which alcohol
gives is devitalizing, leaving the sys-
tenn weaker than it found it, being
based upon that law of physics which
declares that action and reaction are
always equal.
Alcohol can never be a medicine be-
cause its mission is to consume sub
stance, harden tissue and pervert func-
ton, possessing no compensating bene-
fits in its malignant nature. Only the
unscientifc mind will prescribe al
cohol, there being neither sense nor
science in expecting a salutary action
from its administration. Alcohol may
temporarily palliate pain; it never
cured diseased conditions. Palliatio
is always followed by reaction which
introduces complications foreign to
the case and more taxing to the vitality
than the original trouble, adding fuel
to the fire.
Alcohol is a false friend; even in
emergency it never revived patient
that there was not something better
adapted to the case. Something more
permanent in its power for good could
have been given, and to which no after
effects would be attached, because res
toration to normal balance is not it's
province. The system has less to con-
tend with during suffering when TAX
ing nothing, than it has when taking
the wrong thing.
The doctor who prescribes alcoholin
any shape demonstrates his ignorance
of the nature of disease and the nature
of cure. sick person is in more or
less of defective state of health, has
less resistance to unfavorable infu-
ences, and should be tenderly protected
from baneful risks. Alcohol is aggres-
sive, inflammatory and intolerant in
its effects on the human body. Make
too hot fire under a defective boiler
and we all know what happens to the
boiler!
The doctrine of total abstinence
from alcohol under all circumstances,
is not the product of sentiment or be-
lief; it is based on scientific truth
borne out by accumulated facts
through experiment and extensive OBJ
servation. All assertions to the con-
trary spring from either a willful mis-
Interpretation of the truth, or a gross,
culpable and ineXcusable ignorance.
After an experience of "a years, unbi-
ased by prejudice, seeking only SUBJ
stantial facts, I am compelled to say
that alcohol occupies no legitimate
place in medicine.-Alice 3. Campbell,
NJ D. in Union SiUna1
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
INDUs1R&@SA1
: M2zNECakHSs
ARTIFICIAL RUBBER.
Three Austrian Inventors Claim to
Have Invented n Really Serv-
iceabIe Substitute,

Three Viennese inventors, c. and R.
Paulitschky and F. Wueste, have
patented a new substitute for rnb-
her. Sole leather is disintegrated by
machine until the material is reduced
to partially connected fibers. BY
soaking and agitation for a consid-
cradle time in tanners dressing
(bruised barley, leaven and water)
these fibers are softened. After dry
ing, the mass is STEPPED for some
time in train-oil freed from acid by
treatment with warm water Oede-
rceD. Cork in pieces as large as
,hazelnuts is boiled in the thickened
root-sap of the Landolphia plant to
make it elastic and durable, then
dried slowly. In moderately-sized
lafhps the waste rubber is boiled for
16 minutes in one or two per cent.
solution of caustic acid. Rubber
linseed OIL is then prepared by dis
solving about 95 parts of rubber in
five parts of linseed oil at a tempera-
ture of 40 to 60 degrees c. These
materials, together with asbestos,
are mixed together in proportions
which have been established by the
inventors. The product is placed in
calenders having adjustable heated
rollers, and is finally treated with
sulphur chlorate diluted with carbon
5isulphid for the purpose of vulcani-
cation. The finished material is said
to possess greater elasticity and dur
ability than the rubber substitutes
which have been hitherto manufac-
tured
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
AERIAL KITE VESSEL.
Opportunity for Quite Exciting
Races in the Air.

The latest aerial vessel, invented by
German youngster, sails the ether
blue quite satisfactorily, and has been
received by young and old quite en-
Enthusiastically, because it gives oppor-
tunity for the Inauguration of quite
exciting races. The hull is formed of
two pieces of cardboard, shaped like
a half moon, the mast and spars being
whitfield out of pine and the sail con-
sisting of tough tissue paper.
The maintenance of the equilibrium
is secured by proper amount of bal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
HUNTS WITH TRAINED WOLVES
An Illinois Man Uses Two with MIch
Success in Capturing
Rabbits.

Bert Decker, young sportsman
of Tuscola, ILL.,, has succeeded in tam
ing two wolves, and they are very
valuable as hunters, says a Charleston
Qn) correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer. He captured them
when young. raised them as kittens"
and now, though they are as large
as shepherd dogs, they are quite tame
and playful. Decker says the wolves
can outrun dogs on the hunt, and are
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
Cremation n, Not PopuIar

In spite of the efforts of well.
known people-Miss Kate Greenaway
was the last-to popularize crema.
ton by leaving directions for the dis.
posal of their bodies by this means
cremation in London does not ad.
vance very quickly. When the so.
ciety started work in 1885 there were
three cremations, in 1850 the mum.
Der at Woking was 81, and last year
it had advanced to 3O1. The total OF
1924 as a record of IS years is not
financially encouraging, but the so.
ciety does not relax its efforts to
pepularize v hat it believes to be the
most sensible and sanitary means Of
disposing of the dead.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27

very long-winded. Their favorite
way of catching a rabbit is to run
alondside of him, put their nose I'M
derneath Mr.. Cottontail, and throw
him ten or twelve. feet in the air,
catching him in their mouths as he
falls. The wolves always return to
their master when called.
Decker's success has caused other
sportsmen to undertake the training
of wolves to supplant dogs in hunt
ing. and it is probable that wolves
will find a place in future kennels.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
RATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
A Matter That Interests More People
Than Do Many Subjects of
National Importance.

Since the report became current that
the white house was overrun with rats
there has been large increase in mail
for the executive mansion. AS judged
by this index of public sentiment, Sec
rotary Cortelyou says that the people
of the country are great deal more
interested in the white house rats than
they are in the repeal of the war tax,
the purchase of the Danish West In
dies, the reciprocity treaties or the
visit of Prince Henry. To one letter
that has been received regarding any
one of these four questions, says a
Washington report, there have been
rats. Letters have been received from
the presidents of national banks as
well as professional rat catchers who
desire to free the white house of the
pests in return for generous slice of
the contingent fund. AT first Mr.. Cor
telyou and the assistant secretaries
thought the rat correspondence very
funny, but when they had opened over
a thousand letters about rats they be-
gan to see the serious side of the SUBJ
ject. Everybody in the white house
now, from the president to the door
tenders, becomes ill-tempered when
rats are mentioned. 1t is said one Iowa
congressman who tried to Josh" the
president about rats while Mr.. Roose-
welt was considering the appointment
of one of the Iowan's constituents not
only received a short reply from the
chief executive, but failed to get the ap-
pointment
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
WHERE WHISKYS VICTIMS ARE
FOUND.

in the struggle of life. Of all diseases,
insanity is one of the most preventable,
and, in the present state of medical
science, one of the most incura BILE. =
Scottish Reformer.