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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
THE AGE OF A HORSE.
An Old New York ROrseman's Advice
as How Not to Make Mis-
take About 1t.

"The groom that came to Chester
with Old Abdallah, the sire of Ham
bletonian, So years ago." said a vet
eran Orange county horseman to a
New York Sun reporter, ''told me
how to tell the age of a horse, and
1t has run in my head ever since.
This is the way it ram" and he re-
peated the following rhyme:
To tell the age of any horse,
Inspect the lower jaw, of course
The six front teeth the tale will tell,
And every doubt and fear dispel
The middle 'nippers' you behold
Before the colt is two weeks old;
Before eight weeks two more will come;
Eight months, the corners" cut the gum
The outside grooves will disappear
From middle two in just one year;
in two years from the second pair;
In three the corners" too are bare
At two, the middle ''nippers" drop:
AT three. the second pair can't stop:
When four years old, the third pair goes:
AT five, full new set he shows
The deep black spots will pass from view.
At six years from the middle two;
The second pair at seven years;
AT eight, the spot each corner" clears
From middle "nippers' upper Jaw,
At nine the black spots will withdraw
The second pair at ten are white;
Eleven finds the corners light
As time goes on the horsemen know
The oval teeth three-sided grow;
Ihey longer get, project before
I'LL twenty, when we know no more,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
GREAT BRITAIN'S DRINK BILL.
Statistics Which show Plainly the
Tendencies of the Race andthe
Source of Its Crimes.

Sumptuary like criminal statistics
show the tendencies of a race, and il a
large way the source of its moralities.
Yearly the so-called drink bill of Great
Britain is computed. The bill for 1902
has now been made out, and along side
it is placed a similar reckoning. dur
ing the same period, for the American
people. The figures are vast, and
might well awaken the lamentation of
all that strive for popular sobriety;
but it behooves us also to regard the
ideals, public order. social and politi-
cal progress of the great twin peoples
who have consumed these oceans of
strong drink before we denounce and
despair. Is the AnglO-SaXon march
ing onward? If so let us take hope,
though in no wise abaiting our warfare
against the colossal temptations that
beset him. Great Britain spent on
spirituous drinks, in 1902. 1897. 499 .0s5.
or S20.S2 head. Our own people
spent S1.172. 5Gj.2 35. or ST. 80 head.
AS great as is the British bill it is less
than the bill of 1901 by S11,192, 14O. BY
the head Scotland drinks nearly as
much spirits as England and Ireland
combined, while England drinks more
ale and beer than Scotland and Ireland
combined. Could Great Britain have
abstained for twenty-three years from
the food and stimulant of strong drink
it would have saved drink bill of over
S1S,OO0.00 600. a sum that would pay
the national debts of France. Ger
many, Austria-Hungary. Italy. Russia
and Great Britain. We Americans are
coffee drinkers. We drink more of it
than of spirits, beer, tea, or wine: and
yet since 1880 our use of alcoholic bev-
erages has nearly doubled. At retail
our coffee cost $40 1881 .O3O: our tea.
$39,642.011; our cocoa. $7.0O0OOO But
our strong drinks-oyer 81 900 900, 900
worth.-Baptist Standard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

The drink seller is always ashamed
of the products of his trade.--Na-
tional Advocate.
There are 1875 parishes in Scotland
without public house. Seven hun
dred congregations in Scotland have
discarded the use of fermented wine
at the sacrament of the Lords Sip
per.
In Belgium statistics indicate that.
whereas for 10 years the population
has only increased IA per cent, the
consumption of alcohol has increased
81 per cent, and with it insanity has
increased As per cent, crime "A per
cent. suicide so per cent. and poverty
$50 per cent.-Journal of Inebriety.
The presbytery of Kalamazoo,
Mich, at its annual meeting adopted
strong resolutions urging the use of
unfermented wine at communions,
and asking the general assembly to
include-a temperance department in
every Sunday school paper published
by the denomination.
III Is cheering TO note the cOntln-
uous reports of local option victories
in various states. McLeansboro, FL
dorado, Ridgway. Flora, Fairfield and
Benton, in Illinois; Tunstall and
Wytheville districts, in Virginia;
Whitesville, in Tennessee, and Cen
terville, Mineola and Grayson coun-
ty, in Texas, are the last ones re-
ported.
DR.. Delbruck. of Bremen. president
of the Anti-Alcoholic congress, has
furnished some striking informa ton
with regard to the injurious conse-
quences of excessive beer drinking
in Germany He said the idea that
beer drinking was a means of COM
batting alcoholism was erroneous.
THE belief that delirium tremens is
unknown among beer drinkers is a
mistake. 1t is impossible to convey
by statistics the extent of the mis-
cry caused by Leer alcoholism"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
DANGER TO ALL PIPE SMOKERS
English Doctor Explains How So
Many of Them Have Cancer
on the Lip.

Thousands of English pipe smokers
are hearing things these days about
their favorite method of INDUCING in
tobacco that makes them thought full.
The Practitioner prints an article by
Sir Thornley, Stoker on cancer on the
lips, of which the following is an ex-
tract:
1.-The use of the pipe is the excit-
rig cause of lip cancer in almost
every case. The disease is rarely
found in nousmokers. The few causes
of epithelioma of the lips which have
been seen in women were all in peas
ants who smoked. The great bulk of
cases of this class in Richmond hos.
pital come from the more remote parts
of Ireland"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
AN AID TO RELIGION.
Lord Kelvin. Distinguished Scholar.
Pays Tribute 10 Science.


Lord Kelvin, the distinguished
scientist, in moving a vote of thanks
to Prof. HensIow for his lecture be-
fore the University College Christian
association, demurred to the profess
sor's assertion that, with regard to
the origin of life, science neither af-
firmed nor denied the creative
power.
On the contrary, he said, science
positively affirmed the creative pow
er. Science made everyone feel that
he was a miracle in himself. Mod
ern biologists were once more com
ing to the firm acceptance of a vital
principle. They had been absolutely
forced by science to admit and be-
lieve in directive power. In an in
tluence other than physical, dynam-
zeal and electrical forces, there was
nothing between absolute scientific
belief in a creative power and the
acceptance of the theory of the for
tuitous concourse of atoms.
Was there" he asked. anything
so absurd as to believe that a num-
Der of atoms falling together of
their own accord could make a crys-
tai, or sprig of moss the microbe of
n living animal? Nobody could think
that anything like that even in mil
lions and millions of years could un-
aided, give us a beautiful world like
ours. Let nobody be afraid of true
freedom of thought. Let us be free
in thought and criticisms, but with
freedom we are bound to come to
the conclusion that science is not
antagonistic, but is help to reli-
oi ON -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

. Sedgwiek, Ark, June 22d.-Mr. W. S.
Taylor of this place says:
My little boy had Dropsy. Two doc.
tors-the best in this part of the country
told me he would never get better, and
to have seen him anyone else would have
said they were right. His feet and limbs
were swollen so that he could not wall;
nor put on his shoes.
when the doctors told me he would
surely die, stopped giving him their med
icine and began giving him Dodd's Kidney
Pills. ! gave him three pills day and al
the end of eight days the swelling was all
gone, but as wanted to be sure, kept on
with the pills for some time, gradually re
ducing the quantity, till finally | stopped
altogether.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly saved my
child's life. Before using them he was
a helpless invalid in his mothers arms
from morning till night. Now he is a
healthy, happy child, running and dancing
and singing. | can never express om
gratitude.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills entirely cured oul
boy after everybody, doctors and all, had
given him up to die"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
SMALL GERMAN FARMS.
Owner of Quarter Section Is Con-
sidered Wealthy Person in
the Old Country.

G. w. Grimmer, a farmer and feed
err at Greeley. Kan, who is a native of
Germany, in commenting on the visit
of the German student of agriculture
to this country at this time said 20 a
Drovers' Telegram representative:
'If a German farmer; that is. the av-
erage countryman, has a ten or IS
somebody, Many farmers own only
five acres. but they plant so many diff
ferent kinds of grains, vegetables and
the like and till and fertilize the
ground so well that the five acres is
ample to support a generous-sized
family throughout the year. A quar-
ter section of land is a moderate-sized
farm in America, but in Germany the
owner of such tract of land would
be considered a very wealthy person.
Another thing in which American and
German farm life is different is that
the Germans farm is rarely in one
body. The land there is so valuable
and it is divided into such small tracts
that a farmer often finds himself own
ing couple of acres in a body. an acre
or two half a mile away and four or
five acres in another direction. The
farms are thus nothing more than
good-sized gardens. Many a western
Kansas farm has larger garden and
family orchard than the average Ger
man farm. A farm in the old country
costs from 5000 an acre up
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
Flavor Depends on Food.

The food animals consume modi-
fies the character of their flesh. >Tur-
nips yield a peculiar flavor to NUT
ton. The flavor of mutton from
sheep that have lived upon the high
land is different from that of sheen
which have obtained their food chief
ly from the lowlands. The garlic of
the meadows and some fragrant
herbs modify the flavor of the meat.
Oily food tends to make the fat
soft Hens partly fed on scraps of
decayed meat yield eggs that are at
once unpleasant to the taste and I'M
healthy. Feeding the animals for
human food is then of great impor-
lance and demands experience. 1t is
not enough that food makes fat
it should also impart an agreeable
flavor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
ARTISTIC TOMB IN CARTHAGE.
An Interesting Discovery Recently
Made in the Ruins OF the Ancients

Pere Delattre, for % years engaged
in scientific research in Carthage.
where he has made many eXcava
tions, has just discovered a singular
Iy interesting tomb of white marble.
1t is extremely ancient and curl
GUS, and is marvelously preserved.
The sides are decorated with paint
ings. On the lid of the tomb is fash
toned in bas-relief the figure of &
young woman, Tanit, the high priest
ess and great protecting deity of
Carthage. She is clothed in plated
green tunic and is half enveloped by
two long vulture wings. On her head
is a bird arranged as a sort OF head
dress and in her hand she holds a
dove. She wears great gold earrings
and a double gold necklace. Differ
ent parts of the dress are relieved
by very brilliant coloring. The eyes
are extraordinary in their animation.
This treasure has been transported
to the Lavigerie museum.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
SWING FOR HANDLING KETTLE.

SWING FOR HANDLING KETTLE.
chain can turn easily; d is chain run
ming from to e, which is a one-half-
inch hook for hanging chain. On the
other hook, e, at other end of rod, b,
hang the kettle. This arrangement al
lows the kettle to be swung off the
fire easily at any moment, and with
out legs or anything under the kettle
to interfere with building fire. Such
hanger is easy to make. but should
be made of only good. strong material
and put up substantial and firm.-E.
c. Beergisser, in Farm and Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
ITO YOUNG MEN. ,
Testimony of IL United states Sena-
tor as to the Ruinous Infu-
eHce of Alcohol

Some time ago, in a prominent social
club in an adjoining city, attended a
distinguished gathering in Zebra
ton of the twenty-tifth anniversary of
political event. During the even
ing very well-known United States
senator, being called upon to speak,
began by indulging in "reminiscences
of the time when this political event
had taken place. He recalled the
men, who, with himself. had entered
public life shortly before that time
men OF brilliant talents and high ed
ucation, some of whom had been class
mates with him in college, many of
whom We're members of distinguished
families, who began with high pros
poets and noble ambitions; and then
he said; almost all these men are
dead, and the majority of them died
OF drink! The remark was made in
company of men who had been
drinking, and some of whom were
drinking in the intervals of the talk.
There were hundred wine glasses
around him, and, unless my memory is
at fault, the senator had a wine glass
before him, if not in his hand. when
he said it; but it seemed to me that
j had never heard so strong tenn
perance lecture as was that. These
young men were the flower of the
community. the highest and the best
according to all our. standards of Sc
lection, fit to join in society and pub
lie life, fit to- be useful for their fell
low men and their country. and with
sincere purpose to make the best of
their opportunity and of themselves
and the ma jority had died of drink
Not one of them had ever contem-
plated or dreamed of SUCH a thing.
when they began their career. Prob
ably if such an ending had been held
up before them they would have
shrunk from it with the utmost hor-
TOR. Every one of them would have
resented with Indignation the sugges-
ton that such an end could possibly
come to his career. But there was the
awful fact, the majority of them had
diNl of drink. The lights had gone
Otts NliO 'litiHpIhS Hit luIllttl 10 aSllPS,
the usefulness to waste, the brilliant
careers to disgrace. the hopes of them
selves and their friends had been de-
stroyed, the talents and the education.
the ability and the strength. and the
manhood, had been overthrow.
quepched in everlas ting darkness. and
buried out of sight. The majority Of
them had died of drink. 1t was not
what they had expected; it was not
what they wished; it was not what
they deemed possible. But this insid-
tous foe had deceived them. and the
saying of the wise man comes back
with an awful significance. "Whoso-
ever is deceived thereby is not wise"
Hon. John |. Platt, in NATIONAL Advo-
cate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

Mr.. T. p. O'Connor, a noted Irish
politician and brilliant writer, closes
an article in the Royal Magazine with
this good advice, to which we wish
every young man would give heed:
"And let me whisper this word final
ly in your ear. 1t won't do you the
least harm if you are teetotaler.
You may lose something, but you gain
tenfold. | believe in half a century
from now no man will rise to the
height of any profession, in the field,
in the forum or at the desk, who is
not a teetotaler."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

Gen. Joseph E. Elwell, commandant
at the state soldiers and sailors home,
has hit upon plan 10 put saloons just
outside the soldiers home out of exist
ence. He said: 81 am>gradually abolish
ing the five p. m. to nine p. m. passes to
riod in which those seeking liquor
usually get it. Every delinquent's
pass is taken away for good, now, and
no new ones are being issued, The
business at the saloons has fallen oil
greatly"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
The ILaI of Arms.

The young cadet on leave from West
Point was being entertained by one of Bal
timore's beauties.
They were alone on the veranda, and he
was very stiff and military.
"Of course" she said you are quite
proficient in the manual of arms"
"Oh, YES" he replied We're being
constantly drilled in every known method
of handling then"
''If you have your arms with you," she
said coyly, would you mind showing me
just few of the methods of handling
them?"
I'VE never carry arms" he began, and
then the electric lights were turned on in
his mental department
1t is needless to say, gentle reader, that
the exhibition was most satisfactory
Baltimore American.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
HANGER FOR A KETTLE.
should BE Made of Strong Material
and Put Up Firmly and with
Considerable Care.

An exceedingly simple yet conven,
lent hanger for a kettle is shown. Let
a represent a post 4x36 inches; b q
piece 3X4 edgewise, with three-quarter-
inch bolt through it and the post, so
b can turn easily; c is small iron
loOp-lille rod on wagon end gate, so
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
summerservice of California Limited

The Santa Fe announces that the usual
semi-weekly summer service of its Cali
fornia Limited train was inaugurated June
2 west-bound from Chicago, and June s
east-bound from San Francisco and Los
Angeles. The time card is approximately
the same as heretofore. 1t is stated that
the California Limited was a very profita-
bic train the past season, bookings being
made in many cases weeks ahead in order
to get the space wanted Daily service
will be resumed next fall.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

She Didn't Cole latter a titf)-"Go-
ing home to your mother, eh?" She
Eyes, | am He-"Huh! What do yon
suppose she'll say to you?" She-"SheR
say: I told you So" Gle made up
n. Y. Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
Worth Something.

The new metal, radium, is said to be
worth $30OO,O0O a pound. Don't neglect
to save up your scraps of radium.-Chi-
cago Record Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

'To tell you the truth Shshsh! Don t
try it, old man! George Washington did
that once. and look at him now-he S
dead !"-Baltimor News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

Doing His Best-"You should always do
your best said the CHEEKY philosopher;
Oats what I'm dom now, answered
to keep from workin'. Washington Star
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09
Con fused.

Did you say a chicken chews its food
with its gizzard?" asked the little boy
with the high forehead.
yes; that is practically the process
IF that is the case he queried, sweet
ly, "how can a chicken tell whether it
has the toothache or the stomach ache?'
Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

Toni can't help asking my fiancee
occasionally why she loved me-" Dick
Me, too. Mine always gives me very
satisfactory answer" Tom-"That so?
What does she say?" Dick-"Because. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

Coddies-"Whenever | see you you are
reading a novel You don't mean to say
you remember all of them?" Short-"Dear
me, no! It's because | don't remember
them | like to read them. Boston Tran
script.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-09

Sunshine is like love-it makes
everything shine with it's own
aeauty.-Wilson
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
HOMEMADE

Just the thing to make the ground
smooth for the reaper or mower. It.
levels up uneven places without so
much packing and can be used on
any soil.
1t is made of planks about II
inches wide. If hardwood is used 1M
inch planls ire desirable, but if hem
lock two-inch thick is best. 1t should
be three planks wide and eight or
nine feet long. The front plank
should be turned slightly up and Sc
cured by 2x6-inch joists nailed
or bolted across, as illustrated. 1t
can be drawn by chain or tongue as
preferred. This planker can be
loaded with the larger stones as it is
drawn over the field and emptied at
fence turn. The material need not
cost yer $3.50 for the outfit
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
"They waated. and 4snv..

Warren's Corners, N. Y, April 2oth.-
Wait and see-you're better now, of course,
but the cure won't last"
This was what the doctors said to Mr..
a. 3. Smith, Of this place. These doctors
had been treating him for years, and he got
no better. They thought that nothing could
permanently cure him. He says:
My kidneys seemed to be so large that
there wasn't room for them, and at times
it seemed, as if ten thousand needles were
running through, them. / could not sleep
on my left side for years, the pain was 50
great in that position I had to get up many
times to %urinate, and my urine was some.
times clear and white as spring water, and
again it would be high coforedp and would
stain my linen. The pain across my backwas
awful: l was ravenously hungry all the time.
after | had taken Dodd's Kidney Pills
for four days my kidneys panied me 50 bad
could hardly sit down. On the morning
Of the fifth day I felt some better. and the
Improvement continued. till / was complete
~ cured.
"As this wa months ago, and I am still
feeling splendid, l know that my cure was
permanent and genuine"
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
Drnamite In Tree Planting.

When transplanting young trees
success is half insured if the ground
is perfectly prepared in advance. We
fnd that thorough subsoilng is a sure
way Of obtaining success. This can
be best accomplished by making q
hole. with q long crowrbar, in the
ground where the tree is to stan
IL L BE three or four feet deep.
Place one-ifth Of q stick q. dynamite
deep down IN he hole and fire y on.
After the firing you viii And the E
~loosened up quite deep, naklng =
seasieear Tor the roots Ct the Tree .
spenetrate into the soil.-L0 9. FOLIO,
u HRIEneEss Yoice.