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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13
ITEMS.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the noted Eng
lish temperance advocate, celebrated
bis seventy-third birthday Septem-
Der f.
Gambling devices valued at $4,000
were destroyed by the police of Rich
1nond, Va, October 3. The huge bon
fire near the city hall attracted many
spectators.
The city council OF Racine, Wis,
has refused to grant license to the
Miller Brewing company, of Milwau-
kee, 70 open saloon in a building
adjoining the Y. NJ. c. A.
About 200 young women at War
emme, in Belgium, have formed club
known as The Swallows" Each
member has given her word of honor
never to marry a man addicted to
drink.
The semi-annual report of the Chi
cago city collectors office, just COM
pleted, shows that 6,S95 licenses were
issued in the six months ending Sep
TENDER 30. During the six months
previous 6,717 saloon licenses were is
sped. This is the first time in many
years that there has been an increase
in the number of saloon licenses.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13

tells of their disadvantages.
Every city of considerab bic size has
its commuters, and the national capital
has only recently grown to that size.
OF course, even small cities have per-
centage of commuters, but they only
attain responsibility in numbers when
the city grows abnormally.
Some readers have never heard of
commuters, nor even seen any of them.
They must be informed that COM
muters are men and women who work
in cities, no matter at what occupa-
tons, while they dwell in suburban viii
lagos or away out in the country.
Henry George, or some philosopher
like him, would here stop to reel off
an argument about the wickedness and
wrong-doing of those who own prop
erty to the exclusion of others; but
that has nothing to do with this story.
1t may be wrong for certain individ-
uals to own thousands of acres of graz
ing ground for their countless cattle;
and it may be wrong for certain men to
own a major portion of the earth in
which gold is deposited. 1t may be
wrong for William a. Clark to own the
greatest deposit of copper on the face
of the earth; and it may be wrong for
few individuals to own the great coal
fields of this continent. But the right
of it and the wrong of itmust be argued
out by philosophers, scientists, politi-
clans or political economists.
D l. l.,
the limited amount of land used for
business purposes is very valuable.
The ground is of greater value than the
edifices erected upon it. Therefore,
the ground used for residences is so far
beyond the reach of ordinary wage
earners that they can never think of
owning city homes; and very large
number of them cannot even earn
enough to enable them to afford to pay
house rent or room rent. These people
become the commuters of the cities.
They get that peculiar name be-
cause of the fact that the railroad com
panies carry them from their suburban
homes to their work in the city every
morning and back again every night
for comparatively small charge. That
is, as compared with the regular
rates for passengers. They buy
monthly or quarterly communication
tickets, and it is on account of this
that they are called commuters. The
word has only of recent years been
coined and generally accepted.
The strangest thing about COM
muters of the national capital is that
they can rent houses in Baltimore at
such low rate, as compared with rates
here, that they can afford to pay their
communication rates and yet save
money. Baltimore is 40 miles distant
from Washington, but it emily takes
about three-quarters of an hour to
make the trip. Government clerks
here in great numbers rent homes in
Baltimore, Though they do their work
in this city. The offices here open at
nine o'clock every morning, and close
at four o'clock every afternoon. The
commuters read their morning papers
while coming to their offices, and read
their evening papers while returning
to their Baltimore homes.
These commuters are not known in
Washington outside of their Offices
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13
PhiIadeIphin Pntntnes

A new dish is Philadelphia potatoes.
Boil small new potatoes in their jack
cts ard let cool, then skin them and
cut ir thin slices. For three cupfuls
so prepared make a sauce with one
heaping tablespoonful of flour, one and
one-half cupfuls of milk and season.
ing of salt and pepper. Butter a shall
low dish, put in half of the potatoes,
season them, add half the sauce, then
the remainder of the potatoes and
sauce. Over all pour well-beE ten
egg and bake in quick oven until
the egg is set.-Albany Argus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13
No Wine and No Carpets tsanasurst

L
Saadhurst college reopened after
the summer vacation recently. The
total strength of gentlemen cadets
joining is $40. Two important
changes hav@ been instituted in the
domestic life of the cadets. In the
first place it has been decided to re-
strict them entirely to beer at their
mess, and to abolish the use of cham
pagne cup, claret cup, and similar
drinks, which have been allowed up
to this term. The use of carpets in
the cadets rooms has also been pro-
hibited, this being entirely from
health considerations. They will be
allowed the use of rugs, but moth
ing that is nailed to the hoors.-
Westminster Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13

Little Colds" eglected-thousands of
lives sacrificed every year. DIR. Woods
Norway Pine Syrup cures little colds
cures big colds, too, down to the very verge
OF consumption.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13

Diphtheria relieved in twenty minutes.
Almost miraculous. DR.. Thomas Electric
Oil. AT any drug store.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13

Possibly frankness would not seem so
brutal if we were more accustomed to it,
indianapolis News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.-J
u. Bower. Trinity SPRINGS. Ind, Feb. Is, 1900
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13

One trouble with the pursuit of happiness
is that other people do get in the way
Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13

Some people seem to think that industry
consists of telling other people what to do.
indianapolis News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13

1t doesn't take much gold-leaf to cover
the pupil of the eye.-Ram's Horn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13
Fnith and RenSnn-

The life of faith does not depend on
the death of reason.-Ram's Horn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13
HIGH RENTS IN CITY.
They Have Caused a Large Migra-
tion to the Suburbs.
Washington Is No Longer an Excep-
tiOn to the General Rule and
the COmmuter Has Come
to Stay.
[specia! Washington letter.

DHIS is the story of the commuters
and their advantages. 1t also
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14

She was young and nicely dressed
and fairly pretty. The car was full
when she entered it, and most of the
sitters were women. The girl looked up
and down the long lines of raglans and
fiaring hats, and then planted herself
directly in front of younglsh man
who sat near the stove. She stared
down at him in superbly scornful
manner. but he was an old bird and
evidently didn't mind.
Then her scornful stare changed TO
one of deep Indignation, and this in
turn melted into look of panied sur
prise. But the youngish man stood it
all in a thoroughly hardened manner.
The look of surprise became look
of pity, and presently the girl stopped a
little and remarked: "Pm afraid you
don't know who am
He looked astonished, but managed
to answer: "Your fear is well grounded.
May | ask who you are?"
The girl stiffened with conscious
pride.
81 am one of this seasons budsr' she
said with a superb air of superiority.
But even then she didn't get the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14
OUR CONSCIENCE FUND.
1t was Started with a Dollar In the
Year 1911.

''In the year 1S11,' says II. e. Arm
strong in Ainslee's Magazine, IAN
anonymous citizen of New York sent a
dollar to the treasury department at
Washington with an ayoval that he
had defrauded the government and
wanted to make restoration. A dollar
meant something to Uncle Sam in
those necessitous days when the coun-
try verged en- war with Great Britain,
and it was patriotic as well as pen
itent act. The contributor was the
founder of the conscience fund, and
probably he died in the odor of sane
tity.
During the preceding thirty-ive
years of the life of the republic no one
had despoiled the government, or the
private conscience was callous. This
New York man, indeed, seems to have
been the one blemish on golden era
of national virtues, for fifty years were
to elapse before there was an addition
to the fund.
"In 1861, just after Sumter was fred
on, the sum of $4,000 in bonds was re-
ceived by the treasury department,
with letter explaining that sorely
tried conscience could no longer en-
dure it's burden of guilt. The plain in
ference was that the sender, realizing
the United States would need mint
of money to carry on the war, judged
it not to be time to defer repentance.
Think of the bounty jumpers who prof
tied by his contribution!
1T was really useful to the country
in another way. The conscience fund,
which had languished for want of a
shining example, now became active
1t has been quoted pretty steadily ever
since. At the present time it amounts
to more than 100000. Indeed, restitu-
tion is getting TO be the fashion, ana
the time may come when no one Will
take advantage of the government or
do so only with the laudable design OF
swelling the conscience fund when any
emergency confronts Uncle SAM"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14
ABOUT MlSDIRECTED LETTERS.
Surprisingly Large Number in the
Postoffice at Cincinnati.

Surprisingly Large Number in the
Postoffice at Cincinnati.
At the request of the Postmasters'
Association of the United States, Post
master E. r. Monfort, of Cincinnati
has prepared paper on the subject of
"Misdirected Mail" 1t has been order
ed printed, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune, and is to be sent TO all
the postoffices of the country as the
opening move in arousing the people
generally on this matter. Capt. Monfort
says in part:
"In March, 1901, / found by the re-
ports made in the Cincinnati postoffice
that there had been handled In the
mailing division 943, ,3s5 and in the de-
livery division 33,675, making total
OF 1,476,060 misdirected letters in one
year. This appalling fact led me to
examine into methods and ascertain
cause for this condition and to seek a
remedy which might result in an i'm
proyement of the service. l found that
the newspapers were ready and willing
to render assistance and publish the
conditions and a warning to the public
to exercise more care But this remedy
seemed inadequate. addressed letter
to DR.. r. G. Boone, superintendent of
the public schools, and informed him
Of the number Of misdirected letters
that passed through this office, and
asked him If my letter, which set forth
the conditions fully, could not be read
to the pupils In the public schools, so
as to awaken disposition to exercise
more care In addressing letters. l ad-
yised him that mistakes were not con-
fined to Ignorant people, but that a
large proportion of letters which failed
of delivery were from families having II
moderate education and from profes-
sional and business men and women,
and that mistakes were largely due to
carelessness. DR.. Boone responded
promptly and effectively. He called
his 900 teachers together and read
them the letter and instructed them to
give fifteen minutes time each week
to special instruction on the question of
addressing mail. 1t is too early to
give the results Of this teaching, but
we have no doubt 1t will be far-reach-
ing and show a decided improvement
in this location If these instructions
could be given in all the schools of
the country and the children impress
ed with the Importance OF special care,
this process of education would bring
marvellous results to the country"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14
contraeted ear types Mr.. Keith discov-


cred:
THAT, taken as class, not as indl-
viduals, criminals show departure
from the sane in their physical constl-
tuition. But what does this really
mean9 1t means, take it, that the
criminal class Is recruited in undue
proportion from the group of men who
manifested the 'orang type of ear and
the women who possess the 'chlmpan-
zee type A larger proportion of indi-
viduals of these two classes is predis-
posed toward crime than those with OPP
posite types. But clearly the presence
of the orang type ear in any individual
is of itself no evidence of this predis-
position"
Mr.. Keith, however, not only studied
the variation in the orang and Chin
panzee types. but in that type of ear
which possesses an ear tip or pointed
effect on the outer edge, as well as
weak inner convolution, and he says
of the studies:
"All that can be deduced from the
present investigation Is that slightly
greater proportion of the people who
have ear tips and retrograde helices
| give themselves over to crime than
those in which these two features are
absent The evidence is just sufficient
to justify the suspicion that small
proportion of criminals are criminals
because of their physical construction,
and it is certainly the duty of every
anatomist to discover how such indi-
viduals may be recognized. AS yet all
the criminal marks we know of can
only be stated in relative terms of the
class and have. unfortunately, no ap-
plication to the Individual"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14
POLICEMAN REILLY
RESCUES A CONNECTICUT WOMAN
FROM HORRIBLE TORTURE.
Mrs. william Cotter, of Hartford, the
Victim, Tells the Story In an Iuter-
yiew-A Terrible Experience.

cit was horrible,n said Mrs. Cot
ter. 81 almost wished for death to
relieve me. But help came in time
and am very grateful.
"Tell you the story? Yes, indeed.
| never grow tired of telling it. Sew
eral years ago | was taken with neu-
ralgia and suffered untold misery.
tried great many doctors and sew
eral remedies with the result that
found temporary relief, but was not
cured and began to fear that | never
would be.
'Then Policeman Reilly, who is a
neighbor of ours, recommended that
| try DIR. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People and / did so. | thought
that the first box gave me some re-
lief, and my husband insisted that
keep on taking them. | did and can
truly say that these pills are the only
medicine that ever permanently bene-
flied me.
81 used to have to give up entirely
and lie down when the pain came on.
My face would swell up so that my
eyes would close. The pills cured all
this and | have had no return of it
for the last three years. | keep the
pills constantly on hand, as l believe
they are a wonderful household rem
edy.
'To Dr. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People | owe all the comfort |
have enjoyed for the past three years
in being free from neuralgia and / am
glad to be able to recommend them. :"
Many who are now tortured with
neuralgia will read with interest the
above statement, which is beyond
doubt, as it was given over the sigma
| ture of Mrs. William Cotter, whose
husband has been Democratic Regis
ter of Elections in Hartford, Conn. i,
| for over ten years, and who is we'll
known throughout the State.
| Mrs. Cotter, who lives at No. AZ
Windsor street, Hartford, is the
mother of happy family, and is now
enjoying excellent health
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People will not only cure cases SINH
lar to that of Mrs. Cotter but, con-
tanning as they do, all the elements
necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves, they have proved effica-
They are an unfailing specific for
partial paralysis, st. Vitus' dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, ner-
yous headache, the after effects of
grip, of feyers and of other acute dis
eases, palpitation of the heart, pale
and sallow compilations and all forms
of weakness, either in male or female.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People are sold by all dealers or will
| h. s.NN x@f ,.xrsa
fifty cents box; six boxes, two dol
lars and fifty cents, by addressing DIR.
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N V
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14
1T WAS A PRETTY PISTOL.
But 1t Proved Too Expensive For
the Bachelor Girls.

the Bachelor Girls.
"No, we don't keep a pistol in our
apartment any more" said the girl
who draws for the magazines and
shares a small fiat with young wo-
man who teaches in one of the private
schools; mot since an experience we
had last winter. Before that we did,
and we had a perfect beauty of n pis-
toll too" she added in a tone of regret
full "reminiscences, 'silver mounted and
handle inlaid with pearl. We spent a
good deal more than we could afford
for 1t, but we didn't like those plain
steel things. Now it's gone. though. |
had to give 1t away, and / don't sup
pose Marian will ever consent to our
having another.
"You see, this is what happened:
was the one who knew more about
handling a pistol, so l used to sleep
with it under my pillow. We were
both awfully afraid of burglars, and
after there had been a series of rob
berries in our Reighborhood we were 50
terror stricken that we were ready to
take alarm at the slightest sound. One
night, to our horror we were both
aroused by creaking noise and then a
light bump, just as if some one, tip
toeing around, had stumbled against
something For an instant we We're
simply paralyzed with fright. Then,
looking tremblingly about the room,
made out over in one corner tall, dark
figure, perfectly motionless. reached
cautiously for the pistol, aimed 1t and
fired twice The figure did not fall
and the horribly strange thing was that
it did not move or make a sound. Yet
/ felt sure | had hit it.
Although we were frightened half
to death we felt we must get up and
light the gas to investigate. By that
time people from the other apartments
In the building were rushing to our
door to find out what the shots meant.
Well, the light revealed matters. had
simply ruined Marian's new forty dol
lar coat which hung on a hook in that
corner. The noise we heard? Oh, that
was some one on the floor below who
had come In late and stumbled against
q chair."-New York Tribune.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14
ARE KNOWN BY THEIR EARS.
Criminals May BE Detected by the
Shape of Their Aural Organs.

1t Is we'll known that lunaticS are
distinguished by the peculiar develop
ment of their ears. "The insane ear"
can be detected at glance by an ex-
pert alienist. 1t is now claimed that
criminals may likewise be picked out
of a crowd by the distinguishing marks
upon their ears. A new investigator In
this field of work, Arthur Keith, pre-
sents some interesting facts regarding
the significance of the variation of hui
man ears. Mr.. Keith, In the first place,
points out how seldom the ear is de-
scribed in literature as compared with
the space devoted to other features.
He roughly divides the extremes of ear
types into two classes, the small, com
pact ear and the large, broad ear that
often stands out from the head like
.'wind sails from the portfolios of a
steamer The compact ear he calls
the ''orang type" and the broader ear
the "chlmpanzee type" According to
his classification the 'tshell-like ear of
noyelsts, supposedly an indication Of
high birth, is nearest the orang type,
and he notes that "of eight peeresses
five have ears of this type, which GER
tainly lends some support to the popu-
lar supposition. On the other hand, of
Eve leading lady singers only one
shows this type of ear" AS the broad
type figures very little In fiction there
seems to be no popular conclusion re-
gardlng its significance, so Mr.. Keiths
investigation has a marked element of
novelty.
In examining the criminal, the insane
as well as the normal classes, in order
to find the ratio Of prevalence OF these
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14
tMeSCienCe7
s, s ||ss,sI7lventiOn|


France has now the deepest well in
the world. 1t Is 1909 feet and the tenn
perature at the bottom is III degrees.
The largest artesian well In the
world is fourteen inches in diameter
and 6S4 feet deep. 1t is at Cerritos, in
California.
II Is the most common letter In one
thousand letters L occurs 1877 times III
English, 1S4 times i'll French, 145 in
Spanish, 17S in German.
In three hundred years the average
length of human life has been doubled.
In the sixteenth century it was between
eighteen and twenty years; at the close
of the eighteenth century it was little
over thirty years, and to-day 1t Is over
forty years.
The internal heat of the earth Is
survival of the time when it was
glowing ball and was turning on its
axis with velocity four times as
great as at present. 1t was slowed
down principally by the action of the
tides, internal and external, these being
one of the results of the moons attrac-
ton.
The rotation of the moon In such q
way that it shows to us always the
same face was shown to be the conse-
quence of the tides in the molten moon
due to the attraction of the earth. The
earth has not surrendered itself to the
tides caused by the moon because they
are relatively so feeble. 1t will, how
ever without doubt, ultimately present
always the same face to the moon.
Gunnar Anderson, a Scandinavian
botanist, makes a speciality of the
study of plant growth inside the Arctic
circle. The total number of Towering
species so far identified is about nine
hundred, of which 49, are in Iceland,
2S6 in Greenland, and the rest mostly
In Spitzbergen. The Arctic summers,
though short, are often hot and dry,
and the lack of moisture keeps plant
life dwarfed. Many of the species are
the same as in larger forms in southern
lands.
The resistance of cedar wood to de-
cay has long been famous, and cedar
fence-posts often last for generations.
remarkable instance of the indie
structibility of cedar has been noted In
the State Of Washington, where a for
est of hemlocks, near Acme, has grown
up over an ancient buried forest Of ce-
1aPc Tho tf11rl-c nf nadQT a1fhnIInh
lying in moist soil, have been almost
perfectly preserved for at least $50
years, the length of time that the rings
of growth show the hemlocks to have
been growing above their fallen prede-
cessors.
Inpointng out ways to increase Amer
lean trade in China our consu, at Much
wang, Mr.. Miller calls attention to
some interesting peculiarities of the
Chinese people. 1t Is one Of their traits,
he says, to handle the things they use
very carefully, and for this reason they
make cheap and poorly made articles
last much longer than do other people
They make things in what seems to us
a fiimsy way, and are very economical
Large quantities of old scrap iron are
imported into China to be worked over
into cheap, useful articles in the small
blacksmith shops scattered throughout
the country. The intense love of the
Chinese for pictures and artistic orna-
ments causes them to buy cheap arti-
cles Of that kind, such as in our country
can only be distributed gratis for ad-
vertising purposes.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-03-14

The limbs of the Glove tree being
very brittle. a peculiar four sided lad
der is used As fast as the buds are
collected they are spread In the sun
until they assume a brownish color,
when they are put into the storehouse
ready for market. A ten-year-old plan
tation should produce twenty pounds
of cloves to "a tree. Trees of twenty
years frequently produce upward OF
100 pounds each.