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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23
REFORM BY SURGERY.
By Simple Skull Operation n Degen-
crate Lad Was Transformed
Into n Useful Citizen.

London is just now much interest
ed in two surgical cases, giving re-
suits in changing the nature of the
subjects which promise to render val
liable assistance in pointing the way
to the reformation of criminals. One
of the patients was boy of good
family, who had developed brutal in
stincts which seemed to be beyond
control. He gave his time to the in
vention of malicious mischief, de-
lighted in killing or wounding, was
the terror of the neighborhood in
which he lived, and promised to grow
up desperate and criminal. A clev-
er surgeon took him in hand, exam
ined his head with care, located what
he considered the seat of the trouble.
removed a portion of the skull. and
thus relieved the deforming pressure.
The change was immediate. The lad
forgot his previous tastes and habits
and was restored to his parents a
normal and lovable boy, the complete
antithesis of his former self. The
other was a soldier who was injured
in a skirmish, and after his discharge
for disability became thief and bur
glar. His previous character had been
uneXceptionabl bic, his military record
was the best, and the change was
naturally attributed to the injury to
his head, caused by blow from the
butt of musket When he was taken
in hand by the surgeons he had about
come to the end of a career of crime,
being paralyzed on one side and I'M
able to get about except on crutches.
A depression in the skull sufficient to
bring an abnormal local pressure
upon the brain was found, and an OPP
Grafton was decided upon, which re-
stored his physical powers as well
as his mental and moral faculties. His
discharge was secured and he has
since lived an industrious and honest
life, with no evidence of disposition
to go wrong.-N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23
WONDERFUL MACHINE.
Blows Glass Better Than Men, and
Will Drive Many WOrkmen
Out of Their Jobs.

The accompanying photograph is the
first ever taken of machine-made win
dow glass in the world. These three
rollers were produced a few days ago
at the Alexandria Qnd. branch of the
American Window Glass company's
plant, and where the Lubbers machine,
the first successful of many made, was
completed and experimental with I'M
til perfected.
So perfect has this machine been
made that the company is risking mil
lions of dollars in the proposition to in
stall it in its Al plants distributed over
the country, and dispense with hand
blowers entirely. The men were at
first skeptical when told that the ma
chine would destroy their trade, which
has yielded many of them $3.50 to 5000
per month; but they have at last been
forced to admit that it has been but too
true, and as a result many of the best
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23

around among the shrubhery and climb
trees in perfect confidence that no ami
NAL can easily drive them away from
their home. The mother porcupine
made her nest in some nearby hollow
log. The little ones, to the number
of two or three in each home, were
born early last month, and by this time
are able to go out with their mother
and seek food as she does.
Then there is that home in mid-air,
the nest of the Baltimore oriole. The
home surely looks enough like a hor-
nets nest to deceive a bird of prev.
Some naturalists regard it as an ex-
ample of real prot ective mimicry."
In marked contrast to this bird home
swaying in even the slightest breeze
is that of the kingfsher, in a hole in
the solid bank of earth by the pond
side. Not far away from this bank
down in the deepest water, is the fam
ilv of the bullheads-in some localities
called catfish or horned pouts. How
fierce and persistent is the mother in
protecting her little ones! In spite of
this little bullhead does now and then
disappear, and some perch swims off
less hungry than before.-St. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23
WASHING THE DISHES.

Our Polly goes a-fishing, be the weather
what 1t may,
Not less than twice, and often thrice, on
every holiday;
She always starts right after meals, and
singing merrily,
She fishes and she fishes in her little Soapy
Sea.
She'll catch the best pink china cups, and
play that they are trout,
And when she drops her line again she'll
draw spoon minnows out;
The plates, of course, are founders $50
round and fiat, you know,
The kitchen knives are hungry sharks out
watching for a foe;
Each saucepan is pollywog, with handle
for tail,
And-"There she blows"'-the frying-pan!
how very like a whale!
There's nothing left-pour out the sea, and
put the fish away,
All high and dry, and waiting to be caught
another day.
Hannah G. Fernald, In Youths Com
panion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23
BLOWN BY MACHINERY.

double-ring Belgian blowers are going
back to the old country, and others
are seeking other pursuits.
The machine is the patent of John
H. Lubbers, of Allegheny, Pa, prac-
teal glassblower, who has also made
several other labor-saving inventions.
Lubbers will reap millions as hisNshare
of the proceeds of the invention.
Skilled mechanics from the Westing-
house works, Pittsburg, Pa, have been
working behind high walls and barred
gates for months in the erection and
installation of the machines, which no
man other than old and skilled en-
ployes of the company was allowed to
see. The gates are yet closed to out
siders, and the photos were made at
the request of the company, but that
of the machines was denied, as the
latest improvements, to them have not
been patented. When all have been
allowed the company will let the pub
lie see the machines work, but not
until then. These rollers are respec-
lively 10 and 10 feet in length and 80
inches in diameter-larger than any
hand blower could possibly make. The
glass is perfect in temper and free
from blisters.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23
BIZ DIS AND ANIMALS
piness of Their Home Life Is
at Its Height.

You will recall James Russell Low
ellis tribute to June, which begins with
those familiar lines:
"And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever come perfect days"
These expressions also linger in our
memories: THE little bird sits at his
door" THE high tide of the year"
and Everything is happy now" We
all agree with Lowell that everywhere
in June there is home-life and happi-
ness. And what a host and variety of
homes there are! We find them of
many forms and down in queer places
Perhaps one of the queerest is the
home of the swifts inside chimney at
the farmhouse. All DAY these soot-col-
ored little birds have been racing
through the air, twittering socially
and gathering insects for the little ones
in the many homes down in that big
chimney. Perhaps there may be as
many as thousand birds living in one
of these large, oldfashioned chimneys
"a bird village in SCOT and smoke.
Did you ever see chimney swift alight
on tree? Did you ever see him alight
anywhere? What persistent workers
they are!
Another family gathering that in
terests us is that of the porcupines
feeding on water plants at the pond
side by moonlight. Altogether fam
lily of dull wits we might call them. for
it would be difficult to find animals
more intensely stupid. But they prize
their pondsiSe home, and wander
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23

direction and then in the other anc
makes the clapper strike at short in
tervals.
A full description of the mechanism
employed in the new buoy is not yet al
hand, but one can easily fancy how il
is arranged. a small dynamo is oper-
ated by the motion of the apparatus
and the current is first fed into stor-
age battery, so that the supply to the
lamp may be kept uniform. If the
brilliancy of this light varied with the
condition of the sea the system would
be unsatisfactory, Hence it would not
do to lead the electricity directly to the
lamp. 1t is said that experiments with
the invention are already in progress
on the German coast.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23

ever since beginning the practice
of law" said Detroit lawyer, who
begged that his name be suppressed,
81 have made it rule not to take
cases in which l could not promise my
client a percentage of gain over my
fees. One day not long ago business
man came to me with a request to sue
a debtor. | found that it would cost
far more than could be recovered, and
told him so. He was indignant, and
left vowing to get lawyer to press
the case regardless of expenses. A
few weeks later he came to me again
Well said he, 4 took your advice and
saved $3.50 by it. Now l want you to
take charge of all legal matters affect
ing the Blank corporation. Your re-
tainer will be $4,000 per year l took
It. it is needless to say. "-Detroit
News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23

not getting back till six in the even
ing.
ers" you have read of who have to
keep house and mind whole families of
children while their parents go out to
earn a living. She had never been in
the beautiful country and had never
seen grass except in a city park, where
she only knew it was beautiful and
something she and her baby sisters
must keep off. But she knew how to
keep house in the fashion of very poor
people and how TO mind the babies all
day. She loved them and devoted her.
self to them. She had had so much
care and hard work in her life of lug
ging babies around that she did not
look like a child at all, but like tiny
woman with her pale face and serious
ways. And she was a real woman,
too, as you will find.
In the pleasant weather she took the
children to the park in the afternoon
and kept them till nearly six o'clock,
Then she trundled Nellie home in the
baby cart while Mary trudged beside
her. At home Katie lit the fame of
the gas stove, boiled some water and
made tea, all ready for poor, tired
Mrs. Murphy.
But one afternoon there was a pro-
cession and a great crowd in the street,
so Katie could not era with her baby
cart and little sister. She had to wait
so long that it was long past six ere
she reached home In the hall at the
door of their tiny fiat frightful smell
of gas seemed to come from under the
Murphys' closed door. Katie knew
that was something dangerous.
"Stay by the baby" she said to
Mary.
Then she dashed into the outer
room. The gas fumes nearly suffocat-
ed her, but she sped on into the
kitchen. Her mother lay unconscious
on the floor, with the gas turned full
on in the stove, but not yet lighted.
Katie herself nearly swooned, but she
knew enough to turn off the gas and
had Just strength enough left to run
to the window and dash it open to let
the air in. She put her head out, took
a long, deep breath and screamed and
called with all her might for help.
MANY woman would have lacked the
level-headedness to do that, but Katie
had more presence of mind than half
the grown girls have.
People from the street and neigh
bors ran in in answer to her call. Some
threw open the other doors and win
dows, others lifted her mother and
one tore out for the doctor.
1t was an hour before the physician
brought Mrs. Murphy to conscious
ness. He told them that only Katie's
prompt action had saved her life.
Even half a minute more and it would
have been too late. Mrs. Murphy had
been taken i'll in 4 aop where she
worked and had con home in the
afternoon. Feeling very weary, she
thought she would make the tea her
self. She remembered lighting a
match and turning on the gas-that
was all. She must have tainted just at
that moment and fallen upon the floor.
The gas, flowing out, overpowered her
so she could not regain her senses, and
she would have been suffocated but for
her heroic little daughter.
People could not say enough in
praise of Katie. But as for Katie her
self-well, as soon as the people ran
in to look after her mother she wens
back at once to see the baby and Mary
and the gocart.-Cincinnat CONNER
cial-Tibune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23
Snowfall in n PCrlOr,

There was an indoor snowstorm on
a very clear, cold evening recently at
party given at Stockholm, Sweden.
Many people were gathered in a single
room. which became so warm as to be
insufferable. The window sashes were
found frozen andsa pane of glass was
smashed out A cold air current rushed
in and at the same instant flakes of
snow were seen to fall to the floor in
all parts of the room. The atmosphere
was so saturated with moisture that
the sudden fall in temperature pro-
duced a snowfall indoors.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23
MAKES ITS OWN LIGHT
Buoy, Invented by II German Genius,
Is Lighted by Direct Action
of the Waves.

An inventor in Germany has pro-
posed a novel method of supplying
electricity to light a harbor buoy at
night. He dispenses with a cable from
a power-house on land and generates
his own current by the rocking of the
buoy. The audible signals given by
bell buoys in fog are produced in the
same manner. The motion of the
waves tits the apparatus first in one
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23
Health in Strawberries.

The late discovery in Strawberries
of salicylic acid, specific in acute
rheumatism, has seemed to confirm
the idea that these berries are a de-
sirable article of food for rheumatics.
The effect of the fruit cannot be due
to the salcylic acid, however, as less
than the hundredth of grain per
,,Dund is found
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-23

A bacteriolog:st recently made NIL
croscopical examination of the wash
ings from a woman's train worn on
the streets of London, and found it
to contain 1862, 900 microbes of dis
ease.
, 1903-09-30

81 understand you said | was a fool
"You are mistaken. l always keep
my thoughts to myself"
, 1903-09-30

to become solicitor general OF the Unit
ed States i'm the Harrison administra-
ton.
In 1892 President Harrison appoint
ed Judge Taft United States circuit
judge for the Sixth circuit, the duties
of which Office lie performed until ap-
pointed in 1900 president of the COM
mission to the Philippines to organize
a civil government for the islands.
Governor Taft is Il hard worker, a
clear thinker and has a high standing
in the legal profession. Physically he
is an athlete and a man of fine pres
ence. He knows when to enforce his
words with acts, as the following Incl
dent shows:
Some years ago a sensational Cinein-
natl newspaper printed what purpOrt-
ed to be a Washington letter written
by a woman. II was a letter which no
decent Woma would write. In some
way the paper left the impression that
Mrs. Taft, the judges mother, was the
author of the article. The wretched
trick aroused the ire of Judge Taft,
and he invaded the editorial sanctum
and mopped up the floor with the edi-
tor. After the judge had made a clean
job of the office Hoor the mop was TAX
en- to the hospital.
General Luke E. Wright, who is to
succeed Governor Taft, has already
had considerable executive experience
in the Philippines. He has been a men,
Der of the Philippines commission for
several years, having been appointed
by President Mckinley, and last year
conducted the government of the is
, 1903-09-30

a Missouri corncrib. You will notice
that his ears are the size of t1apjacks,
his nose stuck on most any way and
his toes turn in, but you will also OBJ
serve the human expression of thef face.
You can see sentiment there. You
can bet money that he smiled in his
dreams and cussed when things went
wrong during the day. | have had
men say of this picture that they could
trace the sentiments of love in it, and
that the original was probably looking
around for an eligible party with some
cash or cattle back of her.
My fourth picture represents Il well
known Biblical character-Cain. He
has been held up to the scorn of man
kind for thousands of years because
he killed his brother Abel; but do any
of us know what provocation he had?
Perhaps Abel ought to have been
killed long before he was. With that,
however, | have nothing to do. | made
it a rule twenty years ago not to go
back beyond General Jackson's admin
istration, and l shall stick to it.
l simply ask you to note the i'm
proyement in man. The ears have been
pared down and set on at Il new angle.
the nose has some shape to it. and the
chin has come up out of the neck to see
what it's all about. The back is a little
too bumped for manly beauty. and the
toes turn in too much for good football
work, but let us look at the face. Even
if he has killed Abel you can see 80
per cent more of humanity. Cain felt
that he had a soul in him-that he was
something above the believing bulls
and lowing COWS around him. We
agree that it wasn't exactly the square
thing for him to kill his brother, bat
we will also agree that he was the only
man who could travel on his shape up
to that date.
My next picture represents man fifty
years later than Cain. Nature had been
experimenting and learning wisdom.
She had reduced height and bulk again
and done some pairing down. In fact,
in this picture she has produced a
fairly perfect man. We of today can
find fault with the length of the neck,
the width of the mouth and the hump
in the middle of the nose, but there
was no doubt that he was called per-
feet in his day and may have taken the
prize at a beauty show.
1 now call your attention to a series
Of pictures bringing man down from
the garden of Eden TO the year of our
Lord. Nature progressed slowly, but
surely. There was a heap of tinkering
, 1903-09-30

and touching up, but she had patience
and Il deft hand. Humanity was also
getting in its work, and mems faces nc
longer looked like a pound of butter on
q platter. Improvement did not stop at
the year l, however. Nature con
tinued to improve and alter right along
to ~thirty-fiye years ago. when she WIS
satisfied with her work and sat back
In her rocking chair to rest.
Ladies and gentlemen, | now place on
the easel the portrait Of a perfect man,
and | stand aside that all may see it.
Thanks. Thanks. Your applause tells
me that in this picture you recognize
@. Hope Jones. l do not wish to be
charged with conceit or egotism, but nc
man can help his looks.
On the one easel you behold Adam,
on the other Q. Hope. | make this COM
parison that you may see the beginning
and the end-the crude sample and the
finished specimen. Thanks some more.
Applause is always welcome when
spontaneously given.
While my lecture may seem super
fetal to some, the thinkers will discoy-
er the moral lying beneath the surface
and profit by it. 1t is with the kindest
feeling on my part that say to n and
all of you, be honest-be truthful-be
upright. Don't wallop your childrtD or
larrup your wives. You may be tempt
ed to lie forty times per day, but don't
do it. Other liars are sure to catch you
at it.
There are daily temptations to steal.
but keep your hands off other peoples
corn. BY stealing with yigor and in
dustry you may get a few dollars ahead
of the game, but along comes the sher-
if some day, and where are you? Don't
loaf about. There is a delicious salts.
faction in sitting down in the shade of
a grocery and whiting a pine single
and trying to outlie everybody in the
crowd, but 1t doesn't buy potatoes for
next winter.
Don't poison your neighbours well,
shoot his hogs, steal his wife or burn
his barn. Live at peace with all, and
let your motto be, Onward and up
ward.'
This closes the regular lecture, and If
there is anything more to say l will
say it after the hat has been passed
around and returned to me. l may pa
renthetically and p%athetically observe
that the mar who don't chip in at least
10 cents had better adopt the motto of
Backward and downward"
NJ. QUAD.
, 1903-09-30
Q. HOPE JONES
He Lectures at Bold Valley
on the Progressive Man ~
copyright, 1903. by c. B. Lewis

copyright, 1903, by c. B. Lewis.1
- ITIZENS of Bald Alley-With-
out waiting to express my sur
" prise and delight e the fact
that twenty-eight citizens Of
This progressive, go ahead town have
bought tickets and are now seated be-
fore me, l plunge ut once into the sub
ject of my lecture by exhibiting to you
a picture of Adam.
This was not drawn from life, but
you ear depend upon its being so near
| the original that Eve would hello at it
if she Were among the audience.
Adam, as we all know, was the first
man. Nature had got through with the
rhinoceros, the kangaroo and the dOdo
and wanted to produce something Il lit
tie finer. She therefore handed out
Adam.
AS you here behold him he is nine
feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and has
hands like hams and feet like wash
boards. His shoulders are bumped up
to his ears, his knees sprung inward,
and it would take ten porous plasters
10 cover the length of his back.
He was the only thing like it or the
face of the earth at the time, but how
Eve could have fallen in love with him
is beyond my time. l ask you to partic-
ularly observe his countenance. 1t is a
cross between Il bulldog and Il buffalo,
and he betrays no sentiment beyond fe-
rocity.
As near as we can make out, Adam
held the boards alone for about thirty
years, and her there came a second
man. Notice natures progress. She
had reduced the weight and bulk and
shortened up the length. The ferocious
expression of Adams face has been
softened up in this. Sentiment had be-
gun to find Judgment in the human
breast. This second man didn't go
around %uprooting trees and bowling
elephants over, nor did he live on raw
meat alone. He built a hut and sat
down and whistled and had thoughts.
He is lop shouldered, k%nockkneed and
cock eyed, and he couldn't have found
his way from J%onesville to Hobson's
Corners, but he was an improvement
on Adam.
In due time the third mar came
along, and the artist has done him full
credit. His length is down to seven
feet, and his bulk is no longer that of
, 1903-09-30
THE WAR PORTFOLIO
CHANGES INVOLVED BY RETIREMENT
OF ELlHU ROOT.

Governor Taft rs Secretary of War
VIII Occupy Position Once Held
by His Father-The New Governor
of the Philippines.
Judge William II. Taft, governor of
the Philippines, who is to succeed Eli
hu Root as secretary Of war when the
latter retires from the cabinet about
Jan. l next, was appointed civil gov
ernor of the islands in June, 1901, and
was the first to hold that Office after the
American occupation. Governor Taft
will be succeeded in the Philippines by
General Luke L. Wright, the present
vice governor.
When Governor Taft enters the cabi-
net as head of the war department he
will be the second member of his fami-
ly who has held that position, his IA
Their, the late Alphonso Taft of Ohio,
having been secretary OF war under
General Grant.
Governor Taft is Il native of Gncin-
matt and a graduate of Yale In the
class of rs. He studied law, was adj
mitted to the bar Of Cincinnati and in
1872 was assistant prosecuting attor-
ney Of Hamilton county. Two years
later President Arthur appointed him
collector of internal revenue for the
First Ohio district. but after serving
one year he resigned and resumed the
practice of law. III 1887 he was APP
pointed by Governor Foraker to the
Superior bench of Cincinnati and the
following year was elected to the same
position. Two years later be resigned
, 1903-09-30

The girls father was Il physician, not
in the least given to sentiment, and he
did not want his daughter to marry.
So the young fellows had rather a hard
time of it. One day a particularly
reckless chap sem her a song entitled
"There's a Sigh In the Heart"
By some chance it fell into the hands
of the father.
"Who ever heard of such wretchedly
unscientifc stuff as thisf' he said.
So he wrote on the outside this mes
sage and sent it back:
mistaken diagnosis; no sigh in the
heart possible. Signs relate almost en-
tirely to the lungs and d~iaphragmr'-
Philadelphia Press.
, 1903-09-30

The young husband shook his head
disapprOyingly.
Il nm afraid, Maud" he said, that
you will never understand mothers
method of utilizing trifes. Why, moth
er, with just a scrap or two, would
make as nice a pie as you ever saw"
The young Wife's eyes sparkled.
"Well John Bifflinger," she said in
chilly accents, you can make up your
mind once and for all that there II be
a good many scraps in this little do
nestle circus of ours before 1 attempt
any pies of that sort.'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.