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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22

showed from statistical studies that
deaths from alcoholism, both direct
ly and indirectly, far exceeded that of
tuberculosis, and urged that an anti
alcoholic movement was far more
practical than an anti-tuberculous
crusade. These and other pepers less
prominent intimate a new held of
causation which deserves more active
study. In a recent examination of the
histories of 100 fatal cases of tuber-
culosis, the following significant facts
appeared: Forty-fOur of the 100 had
been moderate or excessive users of
alcohol before tuberculosis appeared;
80 of the 100 were descendants of in
ebriate ancestors, hence had inherited
a strong predisposition to exhaustion
with low resistant power; ten of the
100 had received alcoholic treatment
at the onset of the disease. which had
increased its activity rather than di-
minished it. From observations col
lected by two Italian authorities it
was found that occupation and pro-
fessional work. in which alcoholism
was common, had very high mortal
ity from tuberculosis. In another
study made in Paris of As cases, 1922
proved to be alcoholics. In this coun-
try it appears that the descendants of
alcoholic parents show an excessive
mortality in which tuberculosis and
meningitis is the most common form
of disease. These are only hints and
limitations of the intimate associa-
ton of alcohol in the production of
tuberculosis. Clinical studies of the
previous habits of tuberculous pa
tients, particularly concerning the
use of spirits among their ancestors,
would throw much light on this most
interesting study.-Journal of In
ebriety.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
ITEMS.

The Anti-Saloon league, of Illinois,
has arranged to establish a weekly
paper.
The town board of Fulton, Kalama-
700, Mich, is wrestling with an I'M
usual problem, which involves their
right to grant a license for a saloon
within so rods of cemetery.
The British lunacy commission re
ports that the cases for which al
cohol is assigned as the cause of in
sanity average 21.S per cent. of the
whole number for males and 9.5 per
cent. in females in England.
The smuggling Of liquor, on an ex-
tensive scale. has been discovered
by Collector Cruzen, of San Juan,
Porto Rico. Army and navy officers,
as well as several prominent citizens
of San Juan, are Union
Signal.
THE world has less and less use,"
remarks the Nebraska State Jour
nal, for the young man who drinks
whisky" and the Chicago Tribune
adds: while the young man. if he
drinks enough whisky, has no use
whatever for the world.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
PITH AND POINT.

Money creates more wants than it
satisfies.-Ram's Horn.
Remedy the follies of the past by
emitting them from the future.-Chi-
cago Journal.
You can interest any man by saying
to him: you work too hard. At
Gibson Globe
Two good listeners may be friends,
but two good talkers-never.-Chicago
Daily News.
Evidence.-'They say that man
can't tell lie with his hands open"
"Yes, and l have evidence of il"
''What?" You clenched your fists
when you called me a scoundrel the
other day. Chicago Post.
Refined zabeth-"Begone, Ho-
ratio, me mudder says yer amt re-
fined enough ter go in our set" Ho-
ratio-"You're crazy, you are. Amt
me fodder workin' in a lard refinery
dis very minnet ?"-Detroit Free Press.
A Natural QuestioR.-"Have you any
two-cent stamps?" inquired the victim
after paying his bill at the Bong Tong
hotel. Il think So" replied the clerk.
Glow much are they apiece? "-Phila-
delphia Press.
College of Young men from
universities who have only classical
educations taught Dialect in from two
to six weeks. Those who intend to be-
come magazine writer's would do well
to take term with us. Any quantity
of professors, and all sorts of Dialect.
Atlanta Constitution.
Keeping Her Down.-Mrs. Lowerten
We'll, Sally, l s'pose we've got to ca /
on that new neighbOr. Just take your
scissors and cut some sort of hole in
the middle of our visitin' card" Daugh-
ter-"What fer, NAV? What does
that signify?" Mrs. Lowerten-"It
don't mean anything that | knows of,
but she'll think it does, ar. feel mighty
cheap to find she don't ] w as much
about society ways as VIZ les" N. Y.
Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
A CAUSE OF TUBERCULOSIS.
That Alcohol lis Most Active
Agent in Producing the Disease.

In the recent discussions of the
causes of tuberculosis alcohol has not
been considered as either an active or
predisposing cause requiring special
mention. An exception to this was
noted in the London congress for the
study of tuberculosis, in which one of
the papers read emphasized the i'm
portance of alcohol as a cause. In
other similar gatherings little or no
reference was made to alcohol as an
etiologic factor of this disease. lie
Gently DR.. Larsen, of Copenhagen, has
published pamphlet in which he de-
scribes alcohol as one of the most
prominent and active causes of tuber-
culosis. He shows from results of
modern research that alcohol is one
of the most dangerous poisons in COM
mon use, not only by impairing oxida-
ton of the blood, but favoring and en-
couraging fibroid, sclerotic and fatty
changes of cell and tissue. Also it di-
minishes force, nerve energy, and is
a special protoplasmic poison.
He asserts that its narcotic and
anaesthetic action dimipshes meta
bolism and lowers vitality. In this
way, it favors the growth of the
bacillus of consumption. He also
proves that all persons who use alco-
hol have feeble powers of resistance
with increased susceptibility to the
formation of toxic states and the en-
couragement of bacterial growths.
DR.. Little, OF Paris, in a paper read at
medical congress in Vienna, de-
clared that the use of alcohol
was very intimately associated
with and very frequently pre-
ceded tuberculosis He declared an
axiom that all chest diseases were
durable when they occurred in total
abstainers, but in alcoholics and mod
crate drinkers they were practically
fatal. He asserted that nearly all
Partisan workmen were alcoholics be-
fore they became tuberculous. and
that alcohol always prepares the way
and makes the soil more fertile for
the growth of tuberculosis. He
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
INTO THE FORBIDDEN CITY.
The Unparalleled Achievement of
Three Daring Young Japanese
Explorers of Hos tile Land.

The Sacred City of Lassa, the capt.
tai city of Tibet. hitherto forbid
den city to all foreigners, has been
entered recently by three daring
Japanese explorers. They are Capts.
1oshiteru Martha, Hiroshi Nomi and
keikai kawaguchi, Buddhist priest
OF Honganji, kyoto, says Japan and
America.
Capt. Y. Martha is promising
young soldier and a son of a Samurai
of the Satsuma clan. He went to
China several years ago, staying in
that country for several months while
he was preparing for his arduous ex-
petition. After many dangers and
hardships he succeeded in reaching
Lassa, having taken several years to
accomplish his self-appointed task.
He stayed in the holy city for is days,
and then returned to Japan about
two months ago. About the same
time that Capt. Martha visited Lassa
Mr. Hiroshi Nomi reached the in
terror of Tibet. There has been no
news from him for some time, and
he is supposed to be on his way home.
he is very young man, but brave
and cool and quiet in his ways. Mr..
Keikai Kawaguchi, the third of the
Japanese explorers, had the hardest
experience. He went by way of tie
Himalaya mountains, and suffered
severe attack of snow blindness. He
was totally blind for some time, but
has entirely recovered from this
mountain disease. Once he was mis-
taken for a rvbber by the Tibetans,
Who came very near making him pay
She penalty, which is in Tibet to put
The robber on a horse and then shoot
him. Mr.. Kawaguchi, who is a Budd-
hist priest, at last succeeded in reach
ing I.assa, and is still residing in that
city.
These achievements, remarkable in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22

The baby clutched the bit of blue, it mid
her paythings hid,
And listened trembling to the oaths with
which her father child
Her thoughts were deeper than her years.
she knew the meaning then,
She thought: IF father wore this blue
he'd never drink again."
To her, the drink meant oaths and blows
and hunger, want and dread;
While keeping from the public house meant
peace, ana clothes, and bread.
And baby kept the treasure blue, after that
stormy night;
And none beheld the badge until she'd
faced from their sight.
For hunger dire wrought fatal work, it
made her fade and sink,
She was martyr to the cup, and muir
dered by the drink
She'd starved and pinned, while day by day
the landlord had her share;
To her, the crumbs his table lost haG been
- as princes fare"
Her fathers heart was not all stone some
" bitter tears he shed,
while gazing on the thin dead form laid
on the wretched bed.
He took the icy hand in his; he kissed the
brow SO calm,
And 10, he found the bit of blue in baby's
palm.
1t was a voice heard from grave, it cried
SO sad and clear:
"Oh, father, if you'd worn this blue. I'd
not be lying here"
The drunkard dropped the lifeless hand,
the cord was touched at last.
Conscience and memory smote him sore
and showed his sin-stained past.
And sorrows rain fell from his eyes his
sobs came unrepressed,
He took the babys bit of blue, and pinned
it on his breast
Ane crying nightly for strength, for Gods
restraining power,
He signed that day the Temperance pledge
and keeps it to this hour.
Harriet A. Beavan, in National Advo-
cate
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
4 PoIicema1 MS Testimony.

Capt. NottBower, commissioner of
police in Liverpool, and who for 20
years had been chief constable of Liv-
erpool, while speaking of the appalling
amount of Saturday night drinking in
that city made a statement to the eff
feet that if the money spent in the
public houses on that single evening
of the week were only spent on the
necessaries of life, the ordinary stocks
of the grocers and bakers and provi-
sion dealers in the city would not be
able to supply the demands that would
be made upon them. This indicates
something of the amount of starvation
that is occasioned by the vice of i'll
temperance, according to the expert
ence of man who, from the position
he has held, is well able to form an ac-
curate opinion ON the matter
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
TOBACCO LEGISLATION.
Some Old-Time Laws in New Eng
land which Hhrnsseh the User
of the Weed.

1t is one of the curiosities of old
time legislation in New England that
the use of tobacco was in early
colonial days regarded by the magis-
trates and elders as far more iniuri-
Gus, degrading, and sinful than that
of Intoxicating liquors. Both the use
and the planting of the weed were for
hidden, the cultivation of it being per-
mitted only in small quantities for
meere necessitie, for phisick, for
preservation of the health. and that
the same be taken privately by aun-
cient men" But the Creature called
Tobacko" seemed to have an indie
structible life. Mrs. Alice NJ. Earle
writes of these early restrictions
about tobacco in "Stage-Coach and
Tavern Days"
Landlords were ordered not to
''suffer any tobacco to be taken into
their houses" on a penalty of a fine to
the ''victualler,' and another to "the
party that takes it," The laws were
constantly altered and enforced; and
still tobacco was grown, and was
smoked. No one could take it pub
liquely," nor in his own house or any
where else before strangers. Two
men were forbidden to smoke to-
gether.
No one could smoke within two
miles of the Westinghouse on the
Sabbath day. There were wicked
backsliders who were caught smoking
around the corner of the meeting
house, and others on the street, and
they were fined, and set in the stocks
and in cages.
Until within few years there were
New England towns where tobacco
smoking in the streets was prohibited,
AID innocent cigar-loving travellers
We're astounded at being requested to
cease smoking.
Mr.. Drake wrote in 1856 that he
knew men then living who had had
to plead guilty or not guilty in a Bos
ton police court for smoking in the
streets of Boston.
In Connecticut, in early days, d
great indulgence was permitted to
travelers-a man could smoke once
during a journey CT ten miles.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
BRAIN-EATING OCTOPUS.
Hideous Creatures of an African
River That XIII Men and DevOur
Their Brains.

A Belgian officer just returned from
the Kongo Free State reports that in
the caverns of the UelIe river there
dwells a species of octopus that pre-
sents a grave danger to all who navi-
gate river in small boats. The
strange beasts are called ''megwe" by
the natives, and are numerous in the
neighborhood of the station of the
Amadis, owing to the number of rocks
and caves in that region. They attack
the native canoes, capsizing them cas-
lily with their tentacles, and, accord
ing to their state of hunger, Selling
one or two men. The octopus drags
his human prey to his cavern, and
there, without intiicting the slightest
external wound, feeds on his victims
brains by inserting the points of his
tentacles in his hostrils. He generally
keeps his prey Is hours and then lets
the body float out on the river.
Il was an eyewitness of a disaster of
this kind says the Belgian, according
to the New York Tribune. "A canoe
was capsized in the river. and one of
the three occupants disappeared.
When the survivors swan ashore they
told us that an octopus had turned
their boat over and carried off their
companion. The next morning about
nine o'clock the body was found float
ing, and no trace of any wound could
be found, while the only abnormal APP
pearance was the swollen state of the
nostrils. On examination it was found
that the brain had been extracted The
natives of the Uelle all dread the meg
we while those of the Itimbri know
NOTHING of its pXiStence
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
9l5SA4Ms>iaatgYI!ys;!II5I:
E@S> Il
BABYS BIT OF BLUE.

One night within our Temperance Hall,
men both of mark and mind,
Were teaching Gospel Temperance truths
in worCg both wise and kind
The people sat in breathless crowds, by
love of Gospel brought;
They listened with attentive ears to truths
by Christians taught
6runkard's wife amid that throng, had
donned bit of blue
All! she from drink had suffered. so all
its horrors knew.
She thought that her example might Ger
John some hold obtain.
That when he saw her wear the blue, he
would from drink abstain.
Alas, alas! her hopes were vain, and
doomed to fly distressed,
For when her husband saw the blue, he
tore it from her breast
To him it was a stern reprOach, and solemn
words it said;
He could not look upon that blue and hold
an upright head.
The badge of blue fell to the ground where
in thin rags arraye6,
The drunkard's sick and only child with
broken playthings played,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
WIFE'S DREAM CAME TRUE.
st. Joseph, Mo-, Woman Warns Hus-
band Against Going to Work. hut
he Goes and Is Killed.

John, don't go to work. I feel
sure that something is going to hap
pen to you" Mrs. Mary johnson, of
st. Joseph, Mo-, gave that warning to
her husband the other morning as he
started to work in the terminal
yards.
so, bother" he replied. Nothing
is going to happen to me. I'm all
right, and in no danger"
Three hours later John was picked
up from the Santa Fe track in the
terminal yards at Hickory street, af-
ter the inbound Santa Fe train had
cut off both legs, crushed his hand,
mangled his body, and cut a cash in
his head. He died later.
His wife dreamed during the night
before that he would be killed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
SAYS BIBLE FoRBIDS ORGAN.
Preacher Who Left Kentucky Church
Owing TO Question of Music Defends
His Action.


Rev. DIR. j. w. McGarvey. president
of the Bible college of Kentucky uni
versity and a noted writer, has caus-
ed stir throughout the south by his
withdrawal from the Broadway Chris
tian church because the congregation
voted to install instrumental music.
He has Travelled extensively in the old
world in search of Biblical curios, of
which he has probably the largest
collection of any man in the south.
He gave out a statement supporting
his withdrawal, in which he declared
that the use of instrumental music
in church was contrary to the teach
ings of the Scriptures.
DR.. McGarvey was supported by j.
w. Zachry, an elder and missionary,
who in the last campaign headed the
prohibition party as candidate for
congress in this district. He was
supported also by 20 other members
of the congregation. These latter
have taken their letters to the Chest
nut Street church, which has no
organ.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22

SAFE PLACE FOR THE SEAL.
That Is What the United states Gov.
eminent should Provide and
Guard StrenuOuSIye

The suggestion that Boulder island,
the newly-discovered seal rookery, be
made reserve, in order that the herd
which resorts there for breeding pur-
poses, may be protected, is a good one.
1t could probably be supplemented in
the same direction by making the
Pribilof islands also sanctuaries for
the seal herd, says the Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
When it comes to sealing, the man
who hunts the fur seal on the high
seas, who. in a frail boat, braves the
storms and the fogs of the northern
Pacific ocean, and who kills his quarry
by his skill in the use of weapons, a
pursuit which requires the highest
qualities of skill and daring, is brand-
ed as a poacher; while the only legiti-
mate method of sealing, over which
the protection of the law is extended,
is the clubbing of the seal to death in
his breeding sanctuary; where, being
on land, the seal is unable to escape or
to put up the slightest resistance to
his assailant.
1t is strenUously asserted that the
seal herd will be eXtinguished if seal
ers are permitted to hunt in the open
waters of the ocesn, where each seal
has a fair chance to evade his pursuer;
and that the annual murder of all the
vigorous young males of the herd, on
land and in sanctuary, leaving but the
hoary old veteran bulls to perpetuate
the race, has no influence toward
weakening the herds. Scientific gem
tlemen of high standing so assert; and
the whole sealing question revolves
around these points.
Nevertheless, and Notwithstanding
if the government of the United States
should try the scheme suggested, the
truth or falsity of these theories would
then rest on practical demonstration,
and not upon the ipse diXit of some
scientific gent" 1t must not be for
gotten that the large pecuniary inter-
ests of the lessees of the PTibilOf
islands, the men who have always
aimed at an absolute monopoly of the
market for seal skins, are involved in
the retention of the present system,
whereby they and they alone are per-
mitted to butcher helpless seals on the
islands to which they resort for breed
ing purposes. The American people
have had some recent experiences
which have created distrust of expert
opinion OF matters at least as impor-
tant as the preservation or the eXtinc-
ton of the seal herd.
There is no question of the right of
the government of the United States
to protect the breeding islands of the
seal, and the waters adjacent thereto,
Now, if the government should simply
refrain from granting to any handful
of spectators the privilege of butch
ering fur seals in sanctuary, and
should rigidly protect every island to
which the fur seals resort for breed
ing purposes from intrusion under any
pretense; while permitting American
citizens to do what the citizens of
every other country can do. hunt the
fur seal on the high seas, outside the
iurisdictional limits of any country,
there is a fair reason to believe that
the fur seal fishery would last as long
as the Goldfish industry, or any other
pursuit carried on upon the waters of
the ocean
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22

themselves, are significant in an
other way. In the first place they
show the tremendous energy and in
domitable bearing of the Japanese.
1t will be found in the case of others
who have tried to reach Lassa, that
they were men who had fitted them
selves by long study and experience
for the attempt, and who made the
final effort under the most favora-
BILE conditions possible. All of them,
with one or two rare exceptions,
failed lamentably. Missionaries, who
have won the confidence of the Thi-
betans, and who have learned their
language, failed to penetrate even to
the vicinity of the sacred city. Some
succeeded in getting within a days
march, and were tortured or turned
back or killed. Even the most accom-
plished explorer of modern times,
Sven Hedin, the Incompatible Swede,
who had fitted himself for his work
by years of study and travel, could
not pass the Thibetan guards that
protected the sacred precincts of Lag
sa. Yet the japanese, young and I'M
tried adyenturers, with the exception
of Capt Martha, who prepared for
this expedition by living in China for
several months, succeeded in attain
ing goal that has been denied to
the most daring and experienced tray
elers in the world
But the chief significance of these
remarkable achievements is the rela-
ton of a new force and energy in
the world of action. 1t reveals an
awakening in Japan such as occurred
in Spain when there dawned upon
her early greatness, and when she
was preparing to send forth into the
world her explorers and conquerors
Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, De Soto.
or in England when Drake and How
ard and Hawke led the way to the
glories of England on sea and land
and transformed her into a world
explorer and world conqueror. 1t re-
veals the birth of tremendous nation
al energy and an indomitabl nation
al spirit. Japan is no longer a group
of islands, collection of people, but
nation, possessed by a fiery nation
al spirit. These things reveal it Just
as it was revealed by the greater
doings of the war with China. and
by the splendid heroism of her sol
diers in the advance on Picking, and
by their more than splendid chivalry
and courtesy toward the conquered
Chinese.
We must now look to Japan for the
Spekes, Burtons, Magellans, Living
stones, Cooks, Marco Polos. We find
some of these tardy and daring ex-
plorers penetrating into portions of
China forbidden to foreigners for CEN
turtles; we find more of them passing
the cordons of Tibetan guards
around Lassa and calmly residing
within the holy limits of the capital
of Lamaism, mistaken and unafraid.
while the English explorers still find
the Himalaya the bounds of their
explorations from their neighboring
possessions in India; and we NAV
soon find them penetrating to the
north pole with the same noncha-
lance with which they advanced to
the walls of Tientsin ard Picking I'M
der fire, scaled the walls of Ping Yang
or sank the Chinese warships in the
harbor of Wei-hai-wei. A new, nation
has been born into the world
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
Why He Kicked.

81 don't see why Shoddyman is kick
ing so about the way the iremen
deluged his factory with water. They
got the fire out all right before it did
much damage"
Eyes, but the water ruined his
stock"
What does he manufacture p"
Umbrellas. "-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
The MaterilaliSts.

Il have often wondered" said the
Sweet Young Thing, what was meant
by the poets who speak of Jewels
rare"
Probably" said the Materialist,
taking another helping of fudge, they
refer to pigeon-blood rubies and blood
stones. Cincinnati Commercial Trih-
une.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22

Somebody has figured out that the
average man utters 11,SOO,OOO words
in the course of year. Of course it
would be utter nonsense to figure out
the number the wife of the average
man would use.-Baltimore Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22
Need of New Stntnte.

A New York magistrate has de-
cided that it is not an offense pun
ishable by law ITO smoke cigarettes.
His honor intimated that it ought to
be, however, says the Chicago
and THE inltimation stamps
him a most wise and upright judge.