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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

Medical men say that good nurse
in difficult case is better than med
icine, but when we can get a good
nurse and good medicine, the patient
stands a much better chance of re-
covery. The few words of advice
given below by nurse Eliza King, are
well worthy the attention of all
readers:
al have constantly used St. Jacobs Oil in
the various situations 1 have occupied as
nurse, and have invariably found it excellent
in all cases requiring outward application,
such as sprains, bruises, rheumatic affections,
neuralgia, etc. In cases of pleurisy it is an
excellent remedy-well rubbed in. 1 can
strongly recommend it after several years.
use and experience. 1t should be in every
household"
Sister CAROLINA, st. Andrews Hospital,
writes: 81 have found St. Jacobs Oil most
effcacious remedy in govt also in sprains and
bruises. Indeed. we cannot say too much
in its praise, and our doctor is ordering it
constantly"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
The GrnY Hair Micrnhe

DR.. Metchinkotf, who is an authori-
ty on the microbe theory, claims to
nave discovered why our hair turns
gray. The change from red, auburn,
brown, black or golden is due, he
says, to bacillus that devours the
coloring pigment, and which he calls
the pigmetophagus. Like all in
finitesimal creatures, this microbe
psoliferates with an activity approx
mating to perpetual motion, and it
is a voracious feeder. The strong
vital resistance of youth keeps it
down; the low Titality arising from
carking care, grief, or moral shocks
and sedentary habits is favorabls to
it. NJ. Metchnikoff hopes to study it
further, in order to discover how it
may be destroyed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
Headlights for Street Cars.

A new incandescent electric lamp
has recently been brought out which
makes electric headlights for city
and suburban cars possibility. The
new lamp is known as the "stereopti-
con- and consists of a filament in
the form of compact conical helix,
with a maximum diameter of perhaps
one-half an inch, making it possible
to focus the lamp in a headlight.
One of these lamps of 32-candle pow
er is capable of lighting up straight
stretch of track to a distance of 600
feet on a clear, dark night.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
MIRACLES OF NATURE.
Some Wonderful Little Things Which
Demonstrate the Indisputable
Power of Providence

There is a certain little fly that was
observed to run three inches and make,
in doing it, 44O steps-all in one-half a
second of time. To equal this, in pro-
portion to his size, a man would have
to run al the rate of 20 miles minute.
The common flea leaps 200 times it's
own length. To show like agility a
man six feet tall would have to leap a
distance of 1900 feet. The cheese mite
is about one-quarter of an inch in
length, yet it has been seen to take
the tip of its tail in its mouth, and
then, letting go with jerk, to leap out
of a vessel six inches in depth. To
equal this man would have to jump
out of a well from depth of 144 feet.
And equally strange things are
found among the plants and vege-
tables. A well-known student of ma
ture once tried the growing force of
a squash. When it was IS days old and
measured 81 inches in circumference,
he fixed a sort of harness around it,
with a long lever attached. The power
of the squash was measured by the
weight it lifted, the weight being fixed
to the lever. When it was 90 days old,
two days after the harness was fixed
on it, it lifted GO pounds. On the nine
teenth day it lifted 5000 pounds.
The seed of the globe turnip is
about the twentieth part of an inch in
diameter, and yet in the course of
few months this seed will be enlarged
by the soil and the air into $4,000, 900
times its original bulk, and this in adj
dition to a bunch of leaves. 1t has
been found by experiment that a
turnip seed will, under fair conditions,
increase its own weight Is times in
minute. Turnips growing in peat
ground have been found to increase
more than $4,000 times the weight of
their seeds in a day.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
ENTIRELY NEW IDEA.
Pennsylvania Man Has Invented a
Process Whereby Peanuts Are
Sailed in the Shell,

Almost everybody likes sailed pea
nuts, and many claim they are not
only en- aid to the digesti on, but a
valuable food for those troubled with
certain stomach troubles. There is
one objection, however, to their use,
the liability of becoming stale and
strong by continued exposure after
sailing. Horace D. Meyer, of Halle
ton, Pa, has now invented a process
by which the peanuts are to be salt
ed in the shell, the apparatus shown
In the illustration being used to in
ject the brine, each peanut in turn
being subjected to the treatment
By reason of the fact that the nut
is in its fresh state it will be more
susceptible to the action of the sale,
but the skin which surrounds each
meat will prevent such direct action
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

of the strong solution as would serve
to harden and incrust the surface of
the nut. In one aspect this treat
ment of the nut constitutes the COM
plete process, because the product
will be nut having the salty flavor
and remaining incased, and there
fore capable of being kept fresh for
a considerable period. A further de-
velopment of the process, however,
comprehends the subsection of the
peanut to the action of heat in a
suitable drier. This evaporates the
surplus moisture and promotes the
final roasting of the nut, which rem
ders the kernel crisp and palatable
so that the final product will be a
roasted peanut having the salty
flavor which has heretofore been OBJ
tainable only by submerging the bare
nut in a strong brine, which usually
results in the formation of an in
crustation over it's surface.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
ELEGANTDINING CARS.
New Service Inaugurated on the Iron
Mountain Route

The Iron Mountain Route has inaugurated
a new dining car service on its fast daily
trains from St. Louis, Memphis and inter
mediate points to Texas. These cars have
just been turned out of the Pullman shops
and are models of skillful workmanship
They are handsomely fitted up, thoroughly
equipped with the latest appliances and
lgated with electricity. They are also sup
piled with electric fans.
Meals are served a la carte from dainty
Haviland china, Libby cut glassware and
elegant silverware
This is the only line running dining cars
from st. Louis to points in Southern Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Texas 1t has triple
daily service between st. Louis and Texas
and double daily service between Mem.
phis and Texas of Pullman sleeping cars
appliances.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
;Si,liifi:N!!{1EES;['S3Ille!!!5.
AaSSig4s& INI>Als'!ss
INDIAN SMOKE SIGNALS.
phone Fairly Well in the Dark
as Well as the Light.

The Indian had way of sending up
the smoke in rings or puffs, knowing
that such a smoke column would at
once be noticed and understood as a
signal and not taken for the smoke of
some campfire. He made the rings by
covering the little fire with his blanket
for moment and allowing the smoke
to ascend, when he instantly covered
the fire again. The column of ascend
ing smoke rings said to every Indian
within 80 miles: Look out! There is
an enemy near!" Three smokes built
close together meant danger. One
smoke merely meant attention. Two
smokes meant Camp at this place"
Travel the plains and the usefulness
of this long-distance telephone will at
once become apparent.
Sometimes at night the settler or
the traveller saw fiery lines crossing
the sky, shooting up and falling, per-
haps taking a direction diagonal to
the lines of vision. He might guess
that these were the signals of the In
dians, but unless he were an old-timer
he might not be able to interpret the
signals. The old-timer and the squaw-
man knew that one fre-arrow, an ar
row prepared by treating the head of
the shaft with gunpowder and fine
bark, meant the same as the columns
of smoke puffs-"An enemy is near"
Two arrows meant Danger" Three
arrows said imperatively: This dan
ger is great" Several arrows said:
The enemy are too many for us"
Thus the untutored savage could tele-
phone fairly well at night as well as in
the ddytime.-Star Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
Model street Car system.

The street car system of Budapest
is considered the best in the world,
and has been initiated by several
American cities, including Washing
ton. The underground railway is
also model. The stations are built
of porcelain tiles inside and out The
cars hold AZ people, they run by the
electric third-cell system, and the
fare is four cents, the stations being
ut intervals of quarter of mile.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
HOW Heat Affects Rocks.

Heat exercises a powerful! influence
on rocks deeply buried below the
earth's surface, chiefly by means Of
heated water and steam. In this way
rocks have been very much altered or
''metamorphosed." The crystalline
schists have thus been brought to
their present state by a series of chem
ical changes due to heat, and there ia
no doubt that they were once ordinary
deposits of clay, sand, etc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
A Boarding-House 2.70s Years oId.

is the motif of the story of "The Proph
cts Chamber" in the Four-Track News
for May. This little story will prove in,
tensely interesting to every farmer, and
particularly to every farmers wife, in New
York and New England. The Four-Track
News will be mailed free to any address in
the United States on receipt of cents in
stamps, or it will be mailed for year for
30 cents, by Geo. II. Daniels General Pas.
senger Agent, Grand Central Station, New
York
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
Other side of the Story.

The Fsh-There are 26 men. about 46 feet
tail, up there on the bank trying to catch
me. | got hold of the line of the biggest
?ne in the bunch and almost hauled him in.
but just then the line broke.-From "Vest
Pocket Condolences" in Four-Track News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

Fits Permanently Cured. No fits after
first days use of DR. Klines Great Nerve
Restorer. Free 50 90 trial bottle. DR. K. H.
Kline. Ltd, 93l Arch St, Philadelphia, Pa
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

This would be far more desirable world
to live in were it not for the fact that too
many people are always doing their best to
do their worst hicago Daily News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

til the doctors fairly gave me up, and
l despaired of ever getting well again
Il noticed your advertisement ana
the splendid testimonials given by peo-
pie who had been cured by Peruna, and
determined to try bottle. felt but
little better, but used a second and
third bottle and kept on improving
slowly.
at took six bottles to cure me, buf
they were worth 8 kings ransom to
me. talk Peruna to all my friends
and am true believer in IFS worth. >"
---Mrs. Col E. j. Gresham.
Thousands of women owe their lives
to Peruna. Tens of thousands owe
their health to Peruna. Hundreds of
thousands are praising Peruna in every
state in the Union. We have on file a,
great multitude of letters, with writ
ten permission for use in public print,
which can never be used for want of
space.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co.,.
Columbus, O., for book written espe-
cially for women. instructively illus
trated, entitled Heath and Beauty"
Sent free to women.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

Its very seldom" said Uncle Eben. "dat
gittin' de best of an Argument will pay fob
de time you has to put in dom it."-Wash-
ington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever
lsed for all affections of the throat and
lungs.-Wm. o. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind,
Feb. 10. 1900.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not
stain the hands or spot the kettle lex
cept green and purple.)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

There is far more eloquence in silence
than there is IN some long winded speeches.
Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

Don't mix the cream of your charity with
the pickles of your pessimism. - Rams
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

Paradoxical though it may SEEM it is
hard to touch a close man.-Chicago Daily
News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

Marriage is often a successful coeduca
tional institution.-Chicsgo journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

MRS. COL. E. ]. GRESHAM, Treas
wi urer Daughters of the Confeder-
AVA acy, and President Herndon Viii
lage Improvement Society, writes the
following letter from Herndon, Fair
fax county, Virginia.:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

The Peruna Medici

The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, o.:
Gentlemen-"I cannot speak too
highly of the value of Peruna. l believe
that 1 owe my life to its wonderful mer-
its. l suffered with catarrh of the
head and lungs in its worst form. I'M
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
Ask To-Day for Aliens Foot-Ease.

1t cures swollen, aching, tired feet. At all
Druggists and Shoe stores 25c. Sample sent
FREE. Address A S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund moneyifi fails to cure. 25c
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-09
The Gummed Flower.

You may buy upon the street flowers
which to the eye are of bloom as
fine and growth as fresh as any
which could be procured at the mos
costly establishment. You buy then
for song and bring them home. when
10! to your establishment and dismay
they fall to pieces at breath like g
cardboard house. They have been sub
jected to one of the ''tricks of the
trade" 1t is known as the cumming
process" A single drop Of gum is in.
serted with sharp pointed instrument
into the center of each calyx, and by
this means the conformity of the bloom
is preserved until the flowers are sold
The composition Of the gum is such as
to dry up and set Immediately, becom-
ing invisible even to the closest scru-
tiny.-Everybody's Magazine.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-09

In Greece it is the custom for the
man of the house to 60 out early in
the morning and not only to order the
days food. but to send along with the
boy who delivers it explicit orders how
he wishes to have it cooked. In this
connection it should be remarked that
any man of Greece can cook any Greek
dish. Grecian women seldom 60 to
market and often do not know how to
cook as well as their husbands.
These people eat very lightly in the
morning, the meal consisting of fruit.
At noon comes the first real meal,
the breakfast. From noon until
o'clock they sleep. This is the mid
day siesta. TO call upon Greek at
this time were quite as rude as to call
upon an American at corresponding
hour in the morning. At o'clock an
other light luncheon is eaten. The din.
ner, or hearty meal, IS not eaten until
late in the evening, sometimes as late
as or 10 o'clock.-Good Housekeep-
ing.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-09
peWltrs Little cary RISERS
The famous little pills for cons tipstioA
A Normandy Injunction.

A strange old world privilege, dating
back to the time when the Norsemen
eame to Normandy, was exercised last
year in the island of Guernsey. 1t is
called the Glamour de Haro." By the
ancient law Of the island a person who
thinks his land rights are being in
fringed upon has only to draw up a
statement Of the case, which he swears
to before two witnesses. This he then
presents to the bailiff Of the island and
dropping upon one knee, cries out in
French: "Oh, Rollo, my prince, succor
me! am wronged"
This proceeding acts as an injunc-
ton, and the person complained Of as
trespasser has to stay his trespass I'M
til the matter has been adjudicated up
on by the courts. This right of issu-
ing ones own injunction by calling un-
to Rollo was given to the people Of
Guernsey by Rollo or Hrolf, the Nor
wegian pirate who made himself the
first Duke of Normandy in 911, and
there is probably no example of legal
procedure Of like antiquity which is to.
day carried out in the same way as
that in which it was first instituted.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-09
|GOBIN ) MEN ARE BUSY
Cavalry Makes Demonstration In tho
Vicinity of Turkey Run.
STRIKERS TURBULENT THERE
situation In the Shenandoah Region
Remains Unchanged, There Being
No Signs of Any Preparations
to Resume Mining.

Shenandoah. Pa. Aug. 9.-Rrigadiei
General Goblin during the day sent q
platoon Of cavalry to the mining set
Element of Turkey Run for the purpose
Of making a demonstration in that vi
entity, which is populated mostly by
foreigners. The general had received
information that the families of non
union workmen are constantly annoyed
by strikers and their houses stoned.
| The information received by Genera!
Goblin was contained in letter from
a woman whose husband is working in
the mine at Gilberton. She says her
life has been threatened every day,
her home has been battered with
stones each night. and a large rock al
most struck her little girl who was
asleep in bed. the missile resting on
the pillow against her head. The wO-
man also declared the neighbOrs annoy
her by gathering in front Of her house
| jeering at her and hanging Grape OF
the doorknob She concluded by say
ing that one night some one fired at
| her, and she asked General Goblin to
send her protection.
The cavalrymen while in the neigh
borhood visited the home of the wO.
man and, finding her in delicate health.
escorted her and her child to the rail-
road station, where she was placed on
train with an escort and sent to the
pottsville hospital. Her husband closed
up the house and moved his furniture.
Foreigners Jeered the Troops.
Provost Marshal Farquhar, who ac-
companied the cavalrymen, said the
foreigners did not take kindly to the
visit of the troops. While going along
rough trail at the base of the noun
tain a crowd some distance up on the
ridge, out of reach of the troops, jeered
and called the soldiers hard names
horsemen came to stop, and the
crowd fed through the brush.
The firing of pistols and rifles during
the night continued. but the firing new
err occurred in the neighbOrhood in
which the guardsmen are stationed,
are unable to locate it. General Goblin
says there is a great number OF mis-
chievous people prowlng around the
region at night who probably shoot off
firearms for no other reason than to
scare some one.
The strike situation in the Shenan.
doah region remains unchanged, and,
despite all reports to the contrary,
there are no visible signs of prepara-
ton being made to resume work in the
idle mines. The strikers hereabout
say they have not heard Of any coal
company asking it's men to return to
work.
Joseph Paluwicz, the butcher, and
Matthew Paularkas, the one armed
saloon keeper, who are charged with
the murder of Joseph Beddall in the
riots of last week, have been given a
hearing and formally committed with
out bail to the county pail at Potts
vi1la
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-09
THE FEMININE MIND.
Some Men Think They Fathom 1t,
but They Are Mistaken.


"A man can very seldom tell what is
passing in a woman's mind. He talks
with another man, and he can follow
his processes; he gets his point Of
view; he can read between the lines;
he can make a shrewd guess as to
how he came to say that or why he
refrained from saying the other, says
the Waterman.
But woman's mental processes are
not those of a man. Her mental ma
chinery is geared differently. You hear
what she tells you. You can make in
ferences from it. They will be wrong
because you do not know how she
came to say what she did; you do not
have the clew. Try to guess what she
you are all at sea.
The man who says that he under
stands woman is himself a woman.
No man can understand a woman. He
may love her. There may exist be-
tween his soul and hers that indie
Enable and celestial sympathy which
is the sweetest thing on earth, but he
does not understand her.
Her mental operation, her ways Of
thought, her point Of view will always
be as inscrutable to him as the mental
processes Of an angel. Whether wOm-
en- understand each other Is not quite
certain. A greater part Of the delight
that men find in the companionship of
women arises from their inscrutability.
You cannot measure or exhaust them.
Their charming inconsequence, as
It seems to you, will never cease to
puzzle you, and every fresh conversa-
ton reveals a novelty of attitude or
opinion.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-09
SHREWD VICTOR HUGO.
The Quiet Way In Which He Bullted
the Theatrical Managers.

Here are the methods which Dumas
the elder and Victor Hugo employed
when they had a new play to offer to
the theater. Dumas would write to the
director of the Porte St. Martin:
My Dear Friend-I shall bring you on
Monday play in five acts. l shall need
Mile Georges, Nine. Dorval Bocage,
Lockroy, Provost and five new scenes.
This extravaganza would alarm the
director, who would put off the produc-
ton of the play till better days.
Then Victor Hugo would appear and
shyly draw a manuscript out OF his
pocket. He would agree to everything.
The stock company would play MS
piece admirably, since all he wanted
was a good ensemble; no new decora-
tons would be needed nor any change
at all.
So the piece would be read, and as
the roles were distributed Hugo would
say musingly, "Dieu, how fine Freder-
lex would be in that part!' "That IS
true" Horel would murmur, and few
days after he would announce that
Frederick was engaged. Hugo would
then demonstrate that this destroyed
the eQuipose of the cast and Raucourt,
laferriere and Nile. Georges would be
engaged. Then Hugo would attack the
stage setting. Old scenes, that the pub
lie had tired of, were almost an insult
to these great artists. If Horel showed
reluctance at this. Hugo would threat
en- to withdraw his piece. Ana SO tne
game would go on, till, little by httle'
Hugo had obtained everything ne
wanted, even to changing the paper
hangings in the stage boxes.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-09
THINGS WE
LIKE BEST
Why IS It They SO Seldom
Agree With Us?

What's the reason tho things 10 lin
best 20 seldom seem to agree with uae
Maybe it, because We overeat of them
Then follows 1t Of indigestion.
Only lasts . day or two perhaps. But
10 . most uncomfortable day or two
we don't mean to abuse our stomscho
but We al do 1t more or less. We ~
things We want and can't resis0
the longing for them. When it, to-
late We regret our rashness. But
there's . way to escape the consos
Quences Of such indiscretions. A dooo
OF . good digestant like Kodol Dye.
pepsia Cure will relieve you 1T onoA
Indigestion is always due to the
same cause. Your stomach 10 too weak
70 digest what you eat. 1t needs rest
Yo9 cant rest Il by going without
1000: That would mean starvation
But KOdol Dyspepsia Cure will restiA
1t does the stOmach's work. In The
mean time the tired organ is gaining
fresh strength. Before long It will b
- strong as ever. You don't have 70
diet. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will d,
gest any kind Of wholesome food.
II hsd stomach trouble four ysare: eaye
% bad that At times I was forced 70 remain
p nv oso; A. Last was INDUCED g ~ Kodel
s .sd1sss .s1is, and few bottles effected
kodol Dyspepsia Cure
Cures All Stomach Troubles.
e.sps.sd only By e. D.WIEr o.. ohiceeS