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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
A SPUR TO FORESTRY.
The Preservation of American For
ests Has become Matter of
National Importance.

The forester, while not ignoring the
demands of his own pocketbook, works
for the remotest posterity. When he
clears a tract of the wilderness of its
century-old timber, he sows the seeds
for a new forest, although the new
crop will not mature for another CEN
fury. He seeks, even, by the scientific
direction of Natures work, to leave
for pOsterity a better forest than he
found. Surely, then, forestry is not
an art to be practiced by an individual.
The simple numbering of our fore
fathers, making the most profit for to-
day, and ignoring the morrow, is more
attractive. Since the forester cur
tails his profits by making provision
for posterity, forestry can only be
practiced by the state or by great in
vestment corporations, operating on
so large scale that the distant future
must enter into the calculations of
this generation, writes Frank HiX Fay
ant, in Success.
Strictly economical considerations
demand that the state prevent the de-
spelling of our American forests by
lumbermen and pulp-makers. The
yearly lumber harvest in this country
now amounts to more than 40.000000,
900 feet. Great tracts of virgin forest
land have been devastated and no pro-
vision is made for the future. The in
creasing demand for daily newspapers,
nd T, alitinnS Of HON &c ho viz cr
a marked effect on forests close to the
centers of densest population. a sin
gle New York newspaper consumes 140
tons of paper every day, or 00,000,000
pounds a year. Every day in the year
80 acres of timber must be cut to feed
the presses of this single newspaper.
This is an exceptionally large con-
sumption of wood pulp-the largest
in the world-but other newspapers
approach this consumption, and the
yearly cut of pulp-makers is rapidly
increasing. In consequence the avail
able supplies of spruce are diminish
ing in the United States, and the pulp
makers are moving northward into the
Canadian forests for their raw ma
terial.
By the creation of great forests and
reservations by the national and state
governments. like the 5000, 000-acre
preserve in the Adirondacks. and the
proposed Appalachian preserve, the
state intends to set certain barriers
to stay the progress of lumbermen and
pulp-makers. But the professional
foresters point out that the best in
terests of the nation are not being con-
served by the present policy of for
bidding the cutting of trees on state
lands. Alarmed by the denuding of
American forest lands, the idea has
gained ground that it is crime to
cut down a tree. "Woodman, spare
that tree!" is the cry. But it is as idle
to forbid the harvesting of wood crops,
when they reach their maturity, as
it would be to forbid farmer to reap
his grain. Man must have food from
the fields and wood from the forests.
As well stop the mining of iron ore as
set barriers against lumbermen. Tim
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
NEGRO INSANITY INCREASING.
South Carolina Attributed to Use
of Alcohol and Drugs

Physicians in South Carolina are
greatly concerned over what they be-
lieve to be the alarming increase of
insanity among negroes. Years ago
this disease was olmOst unknown to
the colored population, but it appears
to be spreading. According to esti-
mates made by DR.. Babcock, superin-
tendent of the state lunatic asylum,
this condition now is worse than ever
before.
Many reason are assigned, but it is
the opinion of leading physicians that
the common use of drugs and bad
whisky is in large measure RESPONSE
bic. Ten years ago the suicide of a
negro was such a rare occurrence that
it attracted universal attention. Now
adays such an occurrence is unno-
ticed.
There is probably more insane ne
groes in the state institution at Co.
lumbia than at any other time in it's
history. They are sent in from all
sections of South Carolina, the ma
iority going from towns and cities.
In Charleston crazy negroes are picked
up almost every day, and while many
of them are released after brief term
in the hospital, considerable num-
Der develop such violent symptoms
that it is found necessary to ship them
to Columbia. 1t is seldom that the
asylum negroes are cured, and many
of Of VII
The state authorities give the colored
people the most humane treatment,
yet it does not seem possible wholly
to restore their minds.
One of the Oldest physicians of
Charleston told the Sun correspond
ent recently that in the days of slav-
cry it was most uncommon to find
an insane negro. The spread of the
disease he attributes to rough living,
liquor and drugs. Along the coast the
opiates, cocaine being the drug which
is most commonly used. Among the
thousands of vicious negroes who work
in the rock fields, opium is a popular
drug, and almost any form of "hop"
is relished. The left arm of black
prisoner, captured recently, was fear
full lacerated by continued jabs from
hypodermic syringe.
The bad liquor is sold in the blind
tigers. The police here believe that
Bill Simmons, negro who killed his
wife and then attempted suicide sew,
eral days ago, was victim of cocaine.
He had been using the drug steadily
for days, and while under its influence
he drank pint of corn whisky, which
made him a maniac for the time be-
ing.
Usually, when a crime of this kind is
committed, the first impulse of the
negro is to escape. Simmons did not
move. He turned the pistol to his
head and fired and was still trying
to put bullets in his body when the
weapon was seized by bystanders.-N.
Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
Obtain Good Results

In report of the work done by
the Manchester and Stafford Eng
lanD Women's Temperance associa-
ton the following statement is made
concerning the result of treatment in
retreat for inebriate women which
is maintained by the association:
''The rigid enforcement of total abb
stinence proves invariably beneficial.
The recovery begins at once in body
and mind. Soon change is seen in
the very countenance, and many a
woman grows five years younger
within a twelvemonth."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
Mischief Caused by Jackaaw.

Thieving jackdaws have been the
cause of much mischief, and here is
an occurrence which proves it anew.
Not long ago a man named Fergus was
discharged from the Dartmoor prison,
England, who had been imprisoned
for three years all on account of one
of these birds. He had been CHARGED
with stealing a noted diamond of
great value belonging to Lady Allon-
vale. The jewel, which was set in a
ring, was found in his rooms, in the
house next to that occupied by Lady
ALLOWABLE. 1t was charged that he had
gone to live their shortly before in or
der to be near his intended booty.
Fergus declared that the ring had
been stolen by his pet jacldaw, which
had left it on his window sill. The
man was stranger to the place, nc
jackdaw could be found about his
rooms, and he could not tell what had
become of it. So the police laughed
him to scorn and "sent him up" Two
years later the crushed skeleton of a
iackdaw was found under trapdoor
in the garnet of Lady Allonvale's
house, and Fergus was pardoned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
S : NyE'IAs|25llaaGsse
S1nlN14zl\p7ze
IF 1T WASN'T FOR DRINK.

''If it wasn't for drink said the mendi-
cant old,
While begging his bread in the wet and the
cold,
81 would not be doomed thus to wander
and weep,
A homeless old outcast, with nowhere to
sleep.
In the days of my youth l bartered my soul
For the poisonous sweets Of the wine cup
and bowl
Till by habit my letters were forged and
to-day
I'm d bondsman and slave to drinks in
famous sway"
"If it wasn't for drink" the doomed con-
Wet complains,
AS he writhes in the clutch of his shackles
and chains,
81 would not in sorrow ard agony wait
The gallows, the rope, the base murderer
fate.
1 would not be branded, like miserable
Cain,
If drink had not crazed me and maddened
my brain.
Twas wine nerved my arm for the das-
tardly blow
That caused the likelihood of another to
flow"
aft it wasn't for drink" woman declares
AS she SILKS ItdtH the DuIOtL u Sllduut
that she bears,
81 would rot be now a base creature of
woe,
Despisd and reviied wherever 1 go.
For once l was pure, once winsome and
gay,
Till l yielded to drink and then wandered
astray.
Vile juice of the still, it's you that blame
For my downfall and guilt-my-terrible
shame!'
If it wasn't for drink, oh! how many en-
shared
In the meshes of sin, would, perhaps, have
been spared.
Oh! how many Lost creatures who hopeless
ly bear
The burdens of guilt and the chains of
despair,
Owe all of their agonies, fortunes and woes
To the madness and frenzy the wine cup
bestows.
]. BELL.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28

ing until he reached a condition of
frantic excitement, brandishing a
pistol in a manner dangerous both
to himself and me.
I'm June, 1899, we moved into my
fathers house at Edgewater. One
evening shortly before we moved out
of the cottage we were sitting on the
cottage porch, when Mr.. Rice sudden
ly became unreasonable and devilish.
He said | should not sleep in the
house that night. He ran in and
locked the door. / took refuge in the
hammock, expecting to spend the
night there, as l saw he was too I'M
reasonable to let me in. He looked
out of the window, and was infuriat-
ed to find me comparatively comfort
able in the hammock, and threw a
pitcher of cold water down on me,
and threatened to throw another if
l did not move.
81 was sufficiently familiar with his
mode of behavior to realize that he
would do so and took refuge in the
woodshed, where he permitted me to
remain in my wet clothes until five
o'clock in the morning. | did not
care to take refuge with my neigh
bors, as / did not want them to know
OF his behavior. AT about five o'clock
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
Would Tax Kisses

Certain legislators in France are
talking of imposing several new
taxes, and a political opponent sug-
gests that they put kisses on the
schedule of the articles to be taxed.
A statistician, he points out, has cal
culated that 70, $50. 4O7 kisses are
given in France every day, and if
these figures are correct, the national
treasury would receive large
amount annually even though only a
small tax was imposed on every
kisser. He claims, however, that
children who kiss their mother
should be exempt from taxation, and
that ten times the ordinary tax
should be imposed on men who kiss
married women.-London Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28

moisture on = plate, and wiping them
dry, you will find + remains full of
liquid, even if you displace the brim
the least bit, so as to leave visible lit
tie thread of water, whose function
we shall presently perceive.
On the foot of b now place a smaller
glass (C) full of red wine, and you
are now ready to make the wine in C
pass into the glass B without drop
of it entering A.
The operation, we shall see, is
double; first, it is necessary to get
the wine out of the small glass CO.;
second, to cause it to penetrate into
the upside down glass, B.
A fiber of tapesty wool is dipped
into the wine in the upper glass CO.,
and the two extremities are left to
hang outside. Soon at each end of the
wool we shall perceive trickling drop
of wine, which will grow larger and
larger till it drops upon the foot of
B, then overlooking down the sides of
the glass.
Thus the wine will gently creep to-
ward the brims of the two larger
glasses, and there, strange to say, in
stead of continuing its descent under
the action of gravity, we shall see it
creeping upward and sideways be-
tween the rims of the glasses, until
all the wine has left glass c and gone
to the top of glass B, replacing an
equal quantity of water which has
been forced out and dripped on to the
plate.-N. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
ICE WILL FORM INTO ALUMP

not bend. Should we visit a glacier
or look at a good photograph of
glacier, we would observe that the
valley may be very crooked and that
the sohd river of ice bends and twists
about as if it were so much soft
dough. How can a river of ice turn
sharp corner when ice is a brittle
solid that will not bend?
If we want to know anything about
nature the best plan is to perform an
experiment. Get pail or basket
and about yard of stove wire. Pass
the wire through the handle of the
pail and twist the ends together to
form loop. Then place two tables
of the same height side by side, leav-
ing space nine inches wide between
them. Ask the iceman to cut a block
of ice twelve inches long and six
inches thick and wide. Rest this on
the two tables to form a bridge be-
tween them. Now lift one end and
slip the wire loop over it, resting it
on the middle of the block. The pail,
supported by the wire, will now hang
under the ice. Place a pan under it
to catch the drip from the ice and
put tiatiron in the pail for weight.
Presently we shall see the ice be-
have in the most surprising manner.
Gradually the wire, pressed on the
ice by the weighted pail will sink
into the ice. AS it sinks deeper we
feel sure it will cut the ice in two
pieces, and pail, ice and all will fall.
AS the wire sinks deeper we make a
discovery. The ice is being cut, but does
not break. At last the wire passes
clear through the ice and the pail
falls. The block of ice appears to be
as whole as ever, the two parts hav-
ing frozen together. 1t recongealed.
Place the ice in a pail, and with a
hammer break it into small pieces.
Shake the pail to prove the Jumps are
loose. Then lay plate on the brok-
en- ice and place a flatiron on the
plate. In twenty minutes take the
plate off, and the broken Jumps of
ice will be found frozen recongealed
together into an irregular mass of
ice. These experiments are the key
to the winding glacier.
Years ago many people did not be.
lieve a glacier flowed down a valley
To prove that it did a man of science
in Switzerland set up a row of stakes
on a glacier in a straight line across
the top of the ice. In few DAYS the
line of stakes was bent down stream
proving that the solid ice did flow
down, and that, like so much water
the middle moved faster than the two
sides next the edge of the valley. The
top of glacier is always full of deep
and dangerous cracks. Many travellers
have lost their lives by falling into the
cracks in the ice. The cracks tell us
that the ice continually breaks as it
slides down the valley and recongeals
again. 1t is this continual breaking
apart and freezing together again that
enables the apparently solid and con-
tinuous stream of ice to pass around
the corners of the valley. Sometimes
two glaciers meet and CONCEAL to-
gether and form new, larger and yet
solid glacier. The immense weight OF
ice in a glacier that is a hundred feet
deep also helps to press and squeeze
the ice around great corners.-Chas.
Barnard in n. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28

IN the morning he came out and said
l could come in the house
For the year and a half that we
were in my fathers house, from No
vember, 1898, until October, 1900, when
l left him, Mr.. Rice did nothing to
maintain the house. l constantly sat
up with him all night, and his con-
duct was as barbarously cruel as be-
fore.
Il got worried because he did not
come home one night, and slipped
downstairs in my nightgown to look
for him, and found him in the ham,
mock on the porch. He jumped up
quickly and ran into the house and
locked all the doors. l remained
there in my nightgown for an hour.
Then L rang the bell. He opened
the door, apparently thinking it was
some one else, and l slipped in. 1t
was about one o'clock in the morn
ing.
He would get violent at meals.
Sometimes he would fling all the
dishes and food on the floor.
HE was constantly trying to ag
gravate me, and if he knew | was
fond of an ornament or piece of fur
niture he would smash it and then
say: Now, are you angry? He
broke a handsome cloisOnne vase and
one lockwood and an old colonial
chair i'll that way. My composure al
ways aggravated him, and one night
he said with an awful oath: L will
make you mad And he poured a
quart bottle of whisky down my neck
and in my hair. If he found me read
ing book he would snatch it from
me and tear it to bits. He used to
kick me out of bed, and several times
forced me to sleep on the floor.
while in my fathers house at
Edgewater, n. j., Mr.. Rice drank two
quarts of whisky a day, and took
one with him to bed and drank it be-
fore ne got up in the morning. One
night in October. 1900, he kept me
wandering all night from one room
to another trying to escape him. He
pulled me out of every bed 1 got into
and threatened to throw me out Of
the window He said if | locked a
door he would break it down. As he
once broke a screen door in a fit Of
anger, [ knew this was true. He end
ed by kicking me till l was bruised
and sore all over my body."-N. Y.
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
SIMPLE NATURE LESSON.
Interesting Home Experiment. which
Demonstrates How Ice Rivers
Are Made.

Snow falling on top of high noun
tains may accumulate into heavy
drifts. More snow continually fall
ing may press upon the old snow,
and it will gradually turn into ice.
In time, as more snow falls, the ice
slips down the mountain side and
forms in the valleys great rivers of
ice called glaciers. Such a glacier,
forced down by the weight of new
snow behind it, may fill a valley sew
eral miles long, till at last it reaches
warmer air in the low lands and
melts as fast as it advances, flowing
away in a stream of white ice water.
Get piece of ice from the refrig-
orator and examine it. We can break
it into irregular fragments having
sharp edges. If we try to bend a
piece we find it will break, but will
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
BRUTALIZED BY DRINK.
Drunkard in Prosecuting and
Abusing His Wife

That young wife will sometimes
endure incredible torture for years
at the hands of her husband rather
than seek freedom through the
courts, has been made pathetically
apparent in the case of Christine
Wetherill Rice, who has Just been
granted a divorce from her husband,
John V. Rice, who is an inventor of
some prominence in Philadelphia
She was 10 years old when she mar
ried Rice in 1897, and was the daugh-
ter of Samuel Price Wetherill, a
wealthy manufacturer living on Wal
nn+ straet, and yet almost imme-
diately after they were married the
husband was in the habit of bringing
workmen into the house, drinking
whisky with them and forcing his
wife to play the piano for them early
in the morning.
In her testimony the abused woman
said: after my marriage | found
Mr. Rice to be an habitual drunkard.
That is, he was, under the influence
of liquor more or less every day and
generally drunk by night time. He
absolutely refused to come home to
his meals at the regular time. He
always cursed me violently when 1
told him meal was ready, and often
told the servants to take it off the
table and not put it on again without
his permission.
when he came home in the after
noon he would fall into dead sleep,
which lasted until midnight, from
which it was utterly impossible to
awaken him, or he would go on drink
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
PRETTY PARTY TRICK.
Changing Water Into Wine Now Is
an Accomplishment Within
Everybody's Reach.

Take two drinking goblets of equal
size, which we will call A and B, and
plunge them into pail of water, hold
ing one upright, the other upside
down. AS soon as both are completely
full of water and not a bubble of air
remains in them, put them together,
brim to brjm; now, with their axes YER
teal, A below (the right way up and
B above upside DOWN, remove them
carefully from the water. Having al
lowed them first to drip the outside
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
Poison in the
Modern Novel
BY REV. JOHN N. MILLS,
Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Evans
ton, III.


secretly but openly rush Tell what YOU read
and will tell you what you are"
In the majority of the modern novels the criminal
These books breed intellect avoided az ono
would avoid the devil Fiction value can never take
the place of good solid books.
French noves depict all the brutality e and is called
realism THIS SO-CALLED REALISM IS A DELUSION AND
SNARE 1t is snowshoe teraure-arge and little weight
1t wicked with in literature as in
life These books should be banshed bookstores and L.
braries by general law If it right depict villain
book why is right hang photograph villain ON the
walls of homes?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28

Der must be had, and millions of trees
must be felled every year. What is
demanded is not prohibitive legisla-
ton but scientific sylviculture, so
that new wood crops may be raised to
provide for future demands.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28

They are as bad and as dam
gerous as yellow fever or small
pox. | am astonished at the lit
tie care that is taken in selecting
the books of the Libraries in most
homes OF to-day. These books
and newspapers are molding our
lives, and we do not know it. The
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
Japanese Cooks Are Cruel.

japanese cooks are the most cruel in
the world. They cut the living fish
piecemeal before cooking it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28

Modern authors think the novel of consist of
mixture of murder and to slight thread Of story
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-22
MINISTER UNFROCKS HIMSELF.
Dramatic Ending Of Trial OF M. e
Minister, IN Iowa-Refused
to Live With Wife. -..

Keokuk, Ia. Sept 22.-The case OF
Rev. P. J. Henness. before the Iowa
conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, came very dramatically to an
end early yesterday. After the trial
committee, appointed by Bishop Ham
ilton and composed of Is divines, had
been in session far into the night,
Mr.. Henness himself took the stand.
He said it was evident to himself
and to his attorneys that he was not
to have a fair trial, and handed the
parchments of his ordination. to the
committee, following with his resig-
nation from membership in the church
as well as from the ministry. Turn
ing to his wife, who was present, the
self-unfrocked minister exclaimed:
Woman, behold the wreck Of a
man you have made"
His wife broke down at this dra-
matte exhibition The committee on
the trial Of Mr.. Henness Immediately
closed its session, having Loot Its
jurisdiction of the case by his action
in placing himself outside the pale OF
the church.
Mr.. Henness, after maintaining 81
lence stubbornly for year, said yes
terday that the reason he left his
wife was because of her continual
"nagging," which broke down his
health and rendered it impossible for
him to do ministerial work. The
charge against him before the con-
ference was separation from his wife,
whom he agreed to support, but re-
fused to live with. No question OF
immortality was involved.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-22
Lets
You
Down
Easy!

Insurance cannot prevent
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1t lets you down easy-sus.
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I represent a score of the
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am giving very low rates just
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ger Better take out sui.
fcient insurance without de.
lay.
AS every Company now
charges exactly the same
rates why not have your prop.
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that Is well known In this
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nd will pay all Its losses
promptly Here Is my list
and everybody knows that
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