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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

Remedy for Modern Pessimism
By REV. CHARLES L. KLoss.


m HE American unqualified boaser There much justify
him. He has the figures What nation has such tall buildings
E such trade such mechanical ingenuity such
living? We the biggest nation of DOORS but have
commensurate problems.
The total number of murders and homc
1902 1884 about thousand preceding year
with only legal executions There despite grow
ing facilities rapid increase suicide, and other forms of
abnormal disease
Whatever of the counrys greatness
boast of achievements and progress
that there has doomed the horizon
oversadowng Our breeding problem
The high pressure of modern civilization placing great upon
energy Nerve exhaustion produces depression depression
S the mother of pessmism.
1t remarkable fact that when
succeeding generations for the sins of the fathers
ably that the of chiefly accountable
the and insanity There club called
the Restless club whose motto is Anywhere but where
About nine Americans of evidently belong this
The who goes around shifting for evil who discounts
negbors actions and msnterpres his motives the pessmst
life who gives trouble
The remedy be found health healthy mindedncs This
be secured by the spces life If could
with smaller incomes get back the soil live DOORS
could of the of pmsm the physical side
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
SLAVES CRIPPLES ONLY.
Unique Branch of Business Built Up
by an Enterprising Chicago
Barber.

Chicago has a coiored barber who
makes speciality of shaving men who
are manned or whose faces are Scared.
Every day dozens of cripples hobble
around to the shop where he works,
and If he happens to be busy they wait
patiently until their turn comes, re-
ports the Inter Ocean.
I've made a speciality out of this
thing for the last three years" said the
barber the other day. 1T was never
my intention to attend to cripples.
The trade just came to me, and when
L saw L had a good thing cultivated
it.
II came up here from Arkansas, and
at my first shop where l found place
didn't make enough to even give me
policy money. One day while 1 was
Droodlng over my woes a man with
out any legs came shutting into the
shop. The other BARRIERS turned their
backs to him, but l leaned over and
gave him pleasant smile.
He told me he wanted to get his
face fixed up, and lifted him into my
chair. Well, sir, before that fellow
left the shop he had told me all of his
troubles and incidentally had been
given shave, a hair cut, a face mas
sage and a shampoo. He seemed to
take great fancy to me, because 1
sympathized with him.
L used to be in the railroad bust
ness he said, but one day while was
out in the freight yards an engine ran
over me and cut off both of my legs
The company pensioned me for life,
and now l don't have anything to worry
about. What ! don't like, though is
the way the BARRIERS treat me. Be-
cause l am cripple and don't wear
good clothes they think I'm beggar."
That fellow gave me a 25-cent tip
as he left the shop, and promised to
come around again the next day. In
about an hour one-legged man came
into the shop. He made his way over
to me and asked me if I had attended
to legless chap little while before.
L told him l had, and he began climb
ing into my chair. He was good for a
shave and 4 hair cut, with some hair
tonic on the side.
While l was working on him he
told me the legless man, who was a
friend of his, had told him about me.
tie said he knew lot of crippled peo-
pie and that he was going to send
them around.
That was the beginning of big
trade for me. Fellows without arms
or legs, and some with half their faces
missing, began trailing into the shop,
and they all picked me out. saw that
L had chance to build up good thing
and | nursed it. Now l make between
% and Sc day, and l don't have time
to shave anyone but cripples.'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
LAWMAKERS BRIEF FAME.
Few of Them Have Survived the
Celebrity of the Bills Known
by Their Names.

There are few men in public life in
the United States at present who
have survived the celebrity of having
legislative measures called after
them, says the New York Sun.
The Wilson tariff bill is remem-
bered, but except in the very limited
circles of his political or professional
acquaintance Prof. Wilson is forgot
ten. The Dingley bill, which super
seeded the Wilson bill as the claw of
the land as to customs duties, re-
mains. but Mr.. Dingley has been sue
ceeded in congress as a representa-
tive of Maine by another and less dis
tinguished lawmaker.
The Morrill, bill, the Morrison bill.
the Mckinley bill were the three pre-
ceding tariff measures which held
popular attention, mostly through
the names of those who presented
them, with whom their names were
almost inseparably connected for
some years at least.
In liquor license agitations the
Dow law is, perhaps, the best re-
membered, but there were two Dow
laws by two different Bows repre-
senting Numerically different ideas
the Dow law in Maine being pro-
hibition measure, advocated by the
father of temperance, Neal Dow, who
ran for president on the prohibition
ticket in 1880, and the Dow law in
Ohio, adopted in 1886, being a meas
ure for authorizing the sale of LIQUOR
through tax instead of license.
The Pond law and the Scott law
in Ohio ere forgotten, but the Raines
law remains in popular estimate con-
nected with the name of Senator
John Raines of Canandaigua, who in.
PRODUCED it. Mr.. Raines is now the
leader of the republican majority in
the senate at Albany, and is one of
the few survivors of the celebrity of
the measure which has given him his
chief fame. The Saxton ballot law
in New York is in force here, but
the political identity of Mr.. Saxton
has been lost.
That is the rule generally when a
law becomes, in use, part of the
political life of a community, when
the agitation for its repeal ceases.
the name of its sponsor is forgotten.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
The Hot Snndhnn

Get some clean, fine sand and dry il
thoroughly in a kettle on the stove:
make a bag about eight inches square
of flannel. fill it with the dry sand. sew
the opening carefully together. and
cover the bag with cotton or linen
cloth. This will prevent the sand from
sitting out, and also enable YOU to
heat the bag quickly by placing it in
the oven or on the top of the stove.
After once using this, you will never
again attempt to warm the feet or
hands of a sick person with a bottle
or brick. The sand holds the heat
for long time, and the bag can be
tucked up to the back without hurting
the invalid.-Health Culture.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

would be well with documents of the
Chinese trade restrictions of
ing commerce with his nation. At present possess abstracts
Authorities upon these subjects proved great Importance
times
To those interested national life the Chinese language
with interest.
Chinese literature is practically the only of information
concerning the history geography and language the nations
of Persia and north of India
Chinese records the history Of the
and medieval times between
In vain do look to the literature of Asia for information
garding this
The Huns and other hosts of wanderers who swept
OF Asia to Euopewho they? What Turks
history of their mgratons? These Chinese
The history and geography of India during the centuries of its
development would be blank pilgrims
who Travelled through Buddis
and wrote elaborate accounts of what they and
Scholars interested in Asia excited the of
cities found Tukestan Russian English Swedish
travellers Manuscripts languages long forgotten
collected and to the the inscriptions
numerous that difficult decipfer A CLEAR IN
SIGHT INTO ALL THESE PROBLEMS CAN BE BROUGHT
ABOUT ONLY BY A CAREFUL PERUSAL. OF CHINESE LIT
ERATURE
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
HOUSEHOLD WISDOM.
items OF Information Cleaned from
Reliable Sources for the
Busy Housewife.

When black calicoes have to he
starched use weak coffee instead of
water.
If windows have to be cleaned in
zero weather, dampen the cloth with
alcohol instead of water. 1t will pre-
vent an ice film forming on the glass.
When potatoes have been slightly
touched by frost, soak them an hour
OF two before cooking in cold water.
A chemist calls gelatine, milk and
onions scavengers of the air. 1t is
a wise plan never to leave them I'M
covered for the attraction of germs.
A good thing for cleaning brass or
copper is sweet oil and putty powder.
Afterward, wash in hot water and
soap, then polish.
Do not starch curtains while thew
are wet; they will soil much faster
than if allowed to dry beforehand.
When you wish to keep boiled or
baked potatoes warm for some time,
lay towel into colander, wrap it
snugly about the potatoes, covering
them closely, and set inside a sauce
pan with a little water at the bottom
kept just at the boil.
When making bags to put away sill
verware, always use the unbleached
material. Sulphur is used for bleach
ing, and its influence will quickly tar
nish the silver.
Stewed stoned prunes with dash
of lemon in them and dro;noJ - .
little of their juice make one of the
most delicious of shortcakes.
Whipped cream adds much to their
goodness.
Every sauce containing butter and
flour is made after the same formula:
Melt the butter, add the -four and
cook to a paste, then add whatever
liquor is required, milk, stock,
strained tomato or cream, and cook,
beating constantly. The result will
be smooth, creamy sauce.
Macaroni or spaghetti will be much
tenderer if put in cold water and
slowly brought to a boil than if
dropped raw into boiling water.
In baking puff paste, have very
hot oven and have the heat come
from below until the paste is risen
as high as it will go. Then allow it
to brown, setting it on a higher
CRATE, if necessary.
Raisins ought never to be washed
for pudding, or it will be heavy.
Rub them clean between dry towels.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
Great Expectations.

Her Former Mistress (admiringly)
He certainly is bright baby, Nor
ah. l expect he will make his mark
some day.
Mrs. Mulcaughy (fondly) - Ssre,
nam, an we expect he'll be able
to do more than make his mark
we want him to be able to write his
namei-N Y Times
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
SquaTly weather.

81 am afraid, said the commodore's
small son, as he saw his mother APP
preaching with frown and slipper,
that those clouds on mas face in
dictate a spanking breeze"
Thereupon he scuttled himself.
Smart Set.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
Wanted a Professor of Professions
By MRS. ANNA CARLIN SPENCER
GARLIN SPENCER,
Noted Lecturer on Philanthropy.

n SOMETIMES think colleges need Professor of
IL ] Professions,
Exx1 Year by social
the community, there being created
organization calling for personal service professions
Organized charity offering positions agents.
gators and managers of departments More
being drafted factory sanitary inspection
The medical inspection of schools drawing physicians the
inspection OF foods will draw chemists and
AS the ndetemnate system parole
patton officers are being sought Women
are common and being appointed superintendent
tant schools Women superintendent of women
must soon Supersede mere keepers of jai
Every police building in enlightened communities has
maon, and officers needed time train and raise the
standard of these
The social secretary official established the
store to stand between employer
nave become necessity numbeess volunteer
work. the details of which peculiarly suited educated able
All these professions training which
cases hardly outlined The work has developed before
for it. and the call to-day
duties In order to students for the
service colleges need special elective economies
They need too department be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

Three trains a day Oh cago to Califor-
MIA, Oregon and Washington. Chicago,
Union Pacific & Northwestern Line.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

Experience is keen knife that hurts.
while 1t extracts the cataract that blinds
De Linod
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

''The Klean, Kool Kitchen Kind" of
stoves make no smoke, smell. SCOT, ashes or
excessive heat. Always look for trade mark
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

But few people seriously consider the proposition
to teach the Chinese language in American col
eges. Yet there is much in Chinese literature and
history that would prove valuable to the western
world especially now that China is being developed
and European and American influences are creeping
in.
Why study Chinese?
1t would be we'll for to understand the mys-
teries of modern government life in China. To do
we must know the native literature
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

~ lndolence never tires of doing nothing
Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

Three solid through trains daily Chicago
to California. Chicago, Uni)n Pacific x
Northwestern Line.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

A schoolmaster was giving his class a les
son in grammar when he asked the boys to
tell him the longest sentence they had ever
read. There was silence for minute or
two, but at last small boy stood up and
said he could remember the longest SEN
tente he had ever read.
well, Tommy" said the teacher, what
"Imprisonmentsf for life" replied the boy.
N Y, Tribune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

Every man is the architect of his own
character
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
Mrs. E. B. Bradshaw, of
Guthrie, Okla, cured of a severe
case by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

A great many women suffer with
form of Indigestion or dyspepsia which
does not seem to yield to ordinary
medical treatment. While the symp-
toms seem to be similar to those of
ordinary indigestion, yet the medi-
cines universally prescribed do not
seem to restore the patients normal
condition.
Mrs. Pinkham claims that there
is kind of dyspepsia that is caused
by arrangement of the female organ
ism, and which, while it causes dis
turbance similar to ordinary indiges-
ton, cannot be relieved without a
medicine which not only acts as
stomach tonic, but has peculiar uterine
tonic effects as well.
Thousands of testimonial let
tiers prove beyond question that
nothing will relieve this Distress
ing condition so surely as Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. 1t always works in har-
mOny with the female system.
Mrs. Pinkham advises sick
women free. Address Lynn, Mass.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
Why Americans Should Study Chinese
BY FRIEDRICH HIRSH.

Professor Chinese columbia
a regular o
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07

HE, American is an unqualified boaster. There is
him. He has the figures. What nation has sucl
such export trade, such mechanical ingenuity su
living? We are the biggest nation out of door
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11

Mrs. Jennings ana her city cousin
We're exchanging news of their old
school friends. "Ilow about Lucy
Morse" asked the cousin, Has she
kept on growing fattor and fattcr?"
well, all I'll say is this" said Mrs
Jennings: "Annic Fail told me last
year that when Lucy sent home from
Nashua, where She was nursing her
uncle, to have 4 silk waist made, Annie
realized SHE hadn't cot any measures
and then She remembered that the last
time Lucy was there she stood up by
the big air tight stove. and Annie re
marked IN to herself the resemblance
between EN-. Ana she took the meas
ure Of that mir tight ana out in mite
for the waist linC-'hoUt rs much as i
knife marks warm moa~ScS candy
and made the waist accordingly, sent
it on, ANA Lucy wrote back it was an
elegant fit" Youths Companion
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11
Confederate Flags.

In March, 1861, the Confederate con-
gress adopted as the national emblem
the "stars and bars" 1t was made up
of three horizontal bars of red. white
and red, with blue union in the upper
left hand corner, on which were dis
played thirteen white stars in circle.
thus giving the historic red, white and
blue, which tricolor appeared in all
the succeeding changes.
The resemblance of this to the stars
and stripes led to confusion. mistakes
and loss of life at the battle of Ma
nassas, and shortly after that action an
other flag was born to the Confederacy,
in September, 1861.
The battle flag was then adopted
This. in the language of heraldry, was
q red field charged with a blue salter.
with narrow border Of white, on
which We're displayed thirteen white
stars-in other words. 4 blue st. An
drew's cross on a red ground. This
was easily distinguishablc and was
never changed.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11
The Black Death In ENGLAND.

In England the black death in the
fourteenth century made it's first ap-
pearance in Dorsetshire and quickly
spreading over the west it reached Lon
don by way of oxford, leaving death
and desolation behind it everywhere.
1t was as fatal in the country as in the
town. Whole villages We're depopuat-
ed and small towns almost wiped out
of existence. The dead lay unburied
as they had died. for priests had been
swept away with their flocks, and in
many parishes there was no one left to
celebrate mass. while every trade and
craft was suspended in the universal
terror and suspense.
To add to the horror of the times
bands of marauders roamed about I'M
molested robbing alike the dead and
the living, and dogs, deprived of their
masters by death, came together in
packs, made fcrOcious by hunger, and
secured the country like so many bands
of wolves
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11

\ titled kleptomaniac of three quar-
tcrs Of n century ago was the Countess
Of Cork. She had a reputation for
stealing anything she could lay her
hands on, whether it was useful or
valuable or not. once, when leaving Il
country house where she had been
staying, she saw and quietly picked up
a hedgehog that was crossing n hall,
Il pet OF the porter's, and took it away
in her carriage. Finding it an I'M
comfortable foot warmer she decided
To dispose of ii ut the first town where
she changed horses and then offered
it to a confectioner in return for a
sponge cake.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11
Freaks of n Genius.

One day bulky, tall. pale faced gen
tleman with bushy, restless eyebrows,
entered London tavern. The waiter
did not ask him for his order, but i'm
mediately brought him plate of bread
and cheese and a glass of ale. Having
consumed his lunch. the guest sat up
right in his chair for awhile, leaning
his hands on heavy walking cane
and staring bankly at the opposite
wall. as if in a dream. OF a sudden
he gave Il start He seized the empty
glass and dashed it to the floor with
all his might. smashing it to atoms.
He then reflected for 4 moment, laid
4 coin on the table, got up and left
the inn without 4 word to any one.
After his departure another guest had
the curiosity to ask the waiter whether
the gentleman who had just gone out
was not wrong in his head. Quoth the
waiter:
"Oh, no, sir. That's nothink I'M
usual with i'm, sir. 'E's broke maybe
a hundred glasses since 'e's been a
comm to this 'ousc. Il don't seem to
know it when e does it, , l. just gifts
a thinkin' and seems to cit hangry
at somethinll 'es thinkin' about. It's
Lord Macaulay, SIT" Golfers Weekly.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11
The Spectroscopc.

Originally the spcctroScopc was ap-
piled only TO chemistry and in that
limited field proved itself an invaluable
aid in accurate analysis. Ry holding in
a bunsen flame platinum wire mois-
tened by contact with the skin the
presence of 4 few grains of salt swal-
lowed a few minutes previously can be
detected with the spectroscopc. In
deed, SO wonderfully refined is the
work of the spectroScopic chemist that
he can discover in substance the
presence of one three millionth of a.
grain of metal
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11
ONE ARMED MANS SKILL.


How He Managed to Hutton His CuH
to His Shirt Sleeve.
"When and how did you lose your
leC. armf'
give years ago. I was working in a
factory and got my arm caught III some
betting
Has ,your right arm become more
serviceable since you lost its mater
'Oh. yes l can do almost anything
with my one arm. l used TO have Il
great deal of trouble in dressing my
self. but it comes easy now. l can tie
my shoes. put on a fourin-hand tie put
collar buttons in a new SHIRT: in fact.
do everything required iuSS as well as
l could when l had two hands,
ut certainly is wonderful what one
can do if he only has to-
Eyes; it is. There's only one thing,
however. that l really pride myself OH
being able to do with my one hand. and
that is to fasten my cuff. How do you
suppose do this?"
II hadn't thought of this. For the
life of me l don't see how you do it.
Do you fasten your cuff with your
teeth?"
mo" And the one armed fellow
smiled.
"Have you some contrivance of your
own that you use?'
mo-
"Well. 1 don't see how you do it. It's
beyond me-
"Why. I put the cuff on the shirt be-
fore putting on the shirt
And he smiled more broadly than
ever.-lndianapoli News.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11
IhN ShnrIS FIies the Feather.


Speaking Of sharks to an old sailor,
first heard the proverb THE shark
dies the feather 1t appears to be
true. We are acquaiNed with the
voracity of the shark When follow
ing Il ship it will devour without dis
elimination any article that may be
thrown overheard, such as cordage,
cans, cloth. wood, shoes. knives. spoons,
forks, plates, etc, but sailors declare
that it will never touch Il pilot fish or
a fowl, either alive or dead. 1t avoids
sea gulls, sea news, petrcls and every
feathered thing. Such being the case,
why do not people who battle in shark
infested waters wear suit made Of
feathers New York Press.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11
THE TREATING HABIT.
1t Costs It's Victims Many Dollar
and Many Hnng.

Is it not fact that men really spend
In treating amounts that tney would
hesitate to give away no matter how
deserving the charity? 1t is Il trait of
human character that comes through
this all absorbing disposition to hold
your end up" when with Il friend. Hun
dreds of men take thousands of drinks
that they do not want. and other hun
dreds pay for thousands that are not
desired.
Two men meet. and one says: Mighty
glad to see you. Let's have something"
Neither generally needs or even wants
q drink. But the man who offers it
wants to show that he is generous. He
takes this method of proving that he is
glad to meet his friend. The friend
after he has taken the drink that ht
did not want, to prove that he. too, is
a good fellow, insists upon second
round.
The German custom Of entering sa
loon, taking drink and paying for it
and for no others if adopted in Amer
lea would prove blessing. The Amer
lean custom of treating is decidedly
curse. What we do for friendships
sake costs us many a dollar and many
a pang.-Springfield Union.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-11
a story of "OId frOnsiles."

One Of the most famous Of the Con
stitution's exploits was during the war
Of 1872, when she escaped from Brolle's
squadron, among which she had acct
dentally fallen. The sea was almost a
dead calm. 50 Captain Hull had to re-
sort to towing. All her boats We're
lowered. With long lines attached. and
il addition Hull had ropes spliccd to-
gether TO make a line half a mile long,
10 Which he attached 4 kedge anchor.
This was carried in Il boat half a mile
ahead and dropped, when the crew
hauled tie ship rapidly forward. The
commodore OF the English squadron
soon adopted the same tactics, and if
it had not been for breeze springing
up the Constitution would have been
captured.