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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-09-29

stand that one Mr.. Thomas Carter is
the very incest boy among your ac-
quaintances, eh?"
Hes really nice and the very incest"
Esther answered. red flush spreading
to the roots of her fair hair. MAY l.
auntie. pIease?"
IF all the other girls are of the same
| opinion. perhaps you would be wise to
get your note written at once" leased
her aunt.
The girl gave her an impulsive kiss
and then looked at her with twinkle
in her eye.
81 would like awfully to write it on a
sheet of your best paper" she coaxed.
After her siXtcen-year-old niece had
disappeared. having taken some of the
best paper and the sealing wax to
match. Miss Sewer went back to the
window and stood gazing abstractedly
at the house across the street
The house had been there for years,
but she seemed to study it with intense
interest.
Il know he loves me-" she murmured
and she may or may not have referred
to the grocery boy that was just then
ringing the bell of the house opposite.
She went to her writing desk and cut
a very creditable looking heart out of
piece of the best paper that had been
the object of Esthers admiration
Across the face of the heart she print
ed in faint scrawling letters. ITO you
1t is Il rose" then rang for her maid to
get out her street dress and tell James
to have the carriage at the door in
twenty minutes.
When John Darlington reached home
after a trying day in his downtown
law office he found that his landlady
had put n long florists box on the win
dow ledge. where it would keep cool
He opened the box with an expression
of curiosity that the masculine counte-
nance often wears when its owner is
sure there is no one to see it. There
was one long stemmed American Beau
ty, and CarringtOn's sensitive face
( turned crimson when he saw that its
stem was thrust through hastily cut
paper heart
That night Miss Sewers listless
mood seemed to have passed away, and
she showed an unusual amount of in
terest every time the doorbell rang.
When she had almost decided that it
was too late to expect caller Caring
ton walked into the room. He had let
himself in without ringing and stood
before her. still in his overcoat, his hat
in his hand. On the lapel of his coat
was the half blown American Beauty.
'Frances. | have never had the cheek
necessary to ask if you could care for
so unsuccessful lawyer as l have
proved" he said slowly, "but l would
like better than anything on earth tc
know that you sent me this rose"
She drew Il paper from the folds of
her dress and showed him the sheet
from which the heart had been cut.
A second later she rubbed her slen-
der patrician nose against the rough
shoulder of his overcoat.
81 think it would be pleasanter if you
would hang this rough cont on the hall
rack for an hour or so, John. l wish
had told you three years ago that
never had much regard for law"
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bunch in front of her on the dresser,
unless her maid suggested that it
would improve madam's toilet.
She sighed in recognition of the fact
that real life doesn't work out like nov
els.
The book was new one and in its
second edition, and her lack of interest
in it proved conclusively to Miss Sc
bvier'S mind that her trouble was real
and deep rooted
Some of her energy finally communi-
Gated itself to the other hand. She
threw the book on the table near and
commenced an energetic rocking that
kept pace with her thoughts.
"Money is the root of all evil and
I've always had too much of it. l
wonder which is the worse, deficit or
an excess. l believe that as child it
was pleasanter feeling to want more
candy than to have eaten too much
"The worst feature of this money is
that it has always attracted a crowd
of fatterers and worthless friends and
has caused so many that 1 really cared
for to let their pride come between me
and them. l have known John Car
rington for five years and would cata-
logue his possessions-one estate in Vir-
ginia, yielding an uncertain income:
one fine tenor voice and enough proud
reticence to supply all the f. f. VS.
ever heard Of
When she mentioned Carrington's
name, the hero of the discarded novel
gracefully acknowledged the better
man and accepted her lack of interest
in him with a humility uncommon to a
star of a second edition.
Miss Sewers restless glance took in
the novel.
"That fool in the novel had a tenor
voice, too, but he wasn't handicapped
by lack of self appreciation.
"If 1 had asked him to sing For you
it is rose; for nett is my heart
ut least 300 times in the last three
years, if l had played his accompani-
ment and put in it all the feeling a
longing heart could possibly show
when supplemented by my poor tech
nique, that hero would have forgotten
oil about my money and asked me to
marry him.
Il know he loves me, but | don't be-
lieve he will ever master enough cour-
age to tell me so unless l donate all my
money to a hospital or do the proposing
myself"
There was a tap at the door, and
Miss Sewers young niece came rushing
in.
Esther always rushed so her immedi-
ate family were never much startled
by her sudden entrances and exits.
"Auntie"-she tried to make her re-
quest and explain her plan all at once
may l write and ask Tom Carter to
take me to the party tomorrow night?
The girls are all going to ask and 1
wanted to know if might"
whats the cause of Mr.. Carriers
sudden popularity" her aunt asked,
with a decided amount of astonish-
ment in her eyes.
"Now, auntie, you know we are not
all going to ask him. but any one we
would like to take. It's a leap year
party, you know"
II see," returned Miss Sewer slowly,
"and you slTply want me TO under
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-16
BROOKLYN DAY AT ST. LOUIS.
An Eight Days Trip for sIlO-Joseph C.
Hendrix the Orator.

The Hon. Joseph e. Hendrix has been
chosen as orator at the celebration of
Brooklyn Day" at the St. Louis fair on Nov.
Is, The special train on the Pennsylva-
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MIA Railroad conveying the Brooklyn party
will leave at 9:55 A. NJ, Nov. IL. The re-
turn will be by the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, with side trip to Virginia Hot
Springs and Washington. 1t Is expected
that the delegation will arrive in New
York on Sunday afternoon. Nov. 20. The
cost Of the trip. including the mex essary
expenses, has been fxed at tll0.
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FIRE CHIEF MUsHAM WILL SUE.
VIII ASK $50 900 for Defamation Of Char.
actor, Causing His Retirement.

CHICAGO, Oct. ls.--william II. Mushafh
Will mark his retirement a. chief Of the
fire department by instituting o $4,000
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Take Your Choice.

How should Cirencester be pro
nounced?' am asked.
Well. this is rather a difficult ques
ton to nswer. 1t probably has ~
many versions as the town of Rheims
or the name of the Immortal Samues
Pepys. Having sojourned so frequent
ly in that plcasantest Of Gloucester
shire towns, | suppose ought to know
something about it. But when l come
to think about it, l confess l am some
what puzzled.
First of all, there is the name as
spelled. That is in general use in
London. and usually adopted by those
who never visit the township.
Then you have Chester. This Ger,
tainly has antiquity to recommend it
An earnest Shakesperian reminds me
that Bolingbroke says toward the
conclusion of king Richard H." "Oul
town of Chester in Gloucestershire."
Furthermore, you have the name pro
nounced as rhyming both to blister
and to visitor, and there is also the
latest version wherein in harmony
with the time-saving and word-clippins
habits of the day-the title of. the town
is shortened to Ciren. New York
News.
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On the tenth Of September, while the
roundup was on the head of James
Greek, w. e. Templeton started up a
large cinnamon bear, but drew off,
stroked his beard and said: Let him
go, boys; we haven't got time to fool
with him." Tug Wilson soon spied
the bear and at once took down his
rope and began to make a loop, intend
ing to have bear steak for supper.
When Rusty got to the top of the
ridge Tug let the string fly and got him
by the neck and one front leg, which
temporarily d~isarranged the bears re-
treat. Seeing that he was caught
bruin began to walk up on the rope.
Tug sent in a wireless summons for
assistance, but the boys failed to IN
derstand the message. The bear got
near land larger and nearer (much
larger, and finally landed ON the pony,
infiicting an ugly wound on the thigh
and also tearing the bosom out of
Tugs 0veralls. He then sent in for a
bottle Of Green River linimept and a
new pair of overalls, and will now con-
fine himself to roping cattle horses
during the rest of this roundup. =
Meeker (Col.) Review.
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An Absent Minded Man.

Mortimer Smith was late in joining
an opera party OH Wednesday night,
and, in explanation of his delay, told
the following story:
You know Sampson, of course" he
said. well, it was his fault. Fine
fellow, but terribly absent minded.
I've just been to his house. He won't
be out for a week. Got run over and
kicked by a horse this afternoon.
II said he was absent minded, but
what do you think of this? About 4
o'clock this afternoon he drove down
Fifth avenue in a runabout to which
Marshalfs chestnut colt was hitched.
He meant to go to the garage and get
his car. That colt of Marshall's is a
peculiar animal. Lots Of style, but has
"a habit of acting queerly. 1t was the
first time Sampson had been behind a
horse since he took to motoring. Near
Sherry's the colt stopped and wouldn't
go a step further. Sampson got out Of
the rig and crawled under the run
about with a monkey wrench in one
hand and an oil can in the other. 1
don't know whether he tried to screw
up the colts hoofs or put gasoline on
his %coronet, but when they picked
Sampson up he was a sight. Foolish
fellow, isn't he?"-New York Press.
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A New Multsnlex Tala,rans

The invention of new methods for
sending a number of messages stimuli
taneously v e the same wire contin.
ues, and one of the most recent of
these is due to Professor Mercadier, Of
the French High School for Post and
Telegraph. In this method an alter
mating current is employed whose fire.
quency depends upon a tuning fork
having a certain definite number Of vi
brations.
The current Of such an interrupted
circuit can be broken by an ordinary
key, and signals transmitted over the
wire by an induction transmitter. On
the line at the distant station are a
number OF so-called <monotelephones
which respond tAcurrent Of one fire.
quency, and are tuned to the forks in
the circuits at tile sending station.
Thus each particular circuit has its
own telephone. which is connected by
tubes with the ears Of the receiving
operator and responds to the signals
made at the sending station. In all
twelve transmission circuits are pro-
vided, so that twenty-four messages
may be sent over the line simulta.
neouslys-Harper's Weekly,
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The watch az a Commas.

Under the above heading / have re
Gently seen a new formula published
by you for determining the points OF
the compass from a watch. 1t is az
follows: "Get the number Of hours
from midnight, divide by two, and
point the hour at the sun, so that the
shadow of a match or lead pencil falls
directly cross the centre of the watch
Twelve o'clock will be north, 6 south,
8 west and 8 east"
l have for many years used another
formula, which is as follows: "Point
the small hand of the watch to the
sun, and half way between that and IL
o'clock will be due south"
have submitted both mernods to the
Director Of the Meteorological Service
here for his opinion, and he says: 81
prefer your method, as it is expressed
in fewer words and is about as accur
ate as the other. Neither method gives
direction with exactness except at the
e%quinoxes, and the error will be great.
est at the solstices (midwinter and mid
summer)." l may say that the second
method I have found convenient and
sufficiently accurate for ordinary pur-
poses.-Forest and Stream.
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qOnce there was a long, slim. Ian
tern-jawed customer that used to come
to my place once a day to get a five
or ten~cent lunch" the retired restau-
rant man was saying, "and after he
had paid for it he always took a match,
put it In his pocket and went out. I
used to wonder what he did it for, as
they were of no account to him. They
wouldn't light anywhere but on the
box. Safety matches, you know. One
day, after he had been doing it for six
months. l thought to surprise him. Just
before he'd finished his feed 1 took all
the matches out of the box and slipped
them in d drawer. A minute later he
came around to the cashiers desk,
handed over his dime, and reached for
a match. as usual. There wasn't my.
His face lighted up q~uicker'n you
could say scat!
"'Hellor he said. You don't need
this empty box, do your
"sNo, Isguess not / said.
"'Well,' says he, I'll just take it, II
you don't mind
"'Take it along 1 says. 4 reckon
you've earned it,
"Think of it, gentlemen. The old
tightwad had about two hundred safe.
ty matches laid away somewhere, wait
ing for a chance to get a box he could
light 'em on. Now he'd got the box
and the outfit hadn't cost him a cent
Some men are too mean to liver
Chicago Tribune.
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Electricity in the Household.

OF electric cooking apparatus there
are now in use innumerable devices,
such as portable stoves, saucepans,
tea kettles, blazers, boilers, b~roilers,
coffee pots, electric ovens, griddle cake
cookers, waffle irons and water urns.
And outside the list of kitchen uten-
sils, but also useful in the household,
are such devices as ship food warmers,
immersion coil heaters, which may be
inserted in any kind of a vessel and
used for heating liquids.
Electric heating pads for the appli-
cation Of heat to the human body are
a great improvement over the hot wa
ter bottle. In the 'electrotherm'' the
heating units are covered with soft
lambs wool and as high a tempera-
ture as $50 degrees Fahrenheit may be
maintained.
Electric curling irons for the lady
traveller are a dainty toilet accessory.
More than $4,000 Of these appliances
are now in use. They draw their en-
ergy from an incandescent lamp.
Cigar lighters, which use the cur
rent only while the cigar is being lit,
is another unique adaptation Of the
electric unit. Pressing the button, the
current strikes a little arc between two
carbons.-New York World.
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From the Seat of War.

Mukden reported 1900 Japanese killed
In an ambuscade.
The double-tracking of the TRANSIT
berian Galway has begun.
After four days fighting the Japan
csc in North Manchuria fell bac'. be-
low S~antsentsin.
British golfers were warned by Lord
Lansdown of the risk they run in sup
plying the belligerents.
1t is reported that Russia has ordered
an army division to proceed from the
Caucasus to the Afghan frontier.
Japanese General Nakamura's
wounded leg was amputated.
A German steamer, laden with cloth
Ing. medicine and food, was seized by
a Japanese warship near Port Arthur.
The Mikado said in opening the sec.
ond war Diet: "Our expeditionary
forces have been victorious in every
battle"
Skirmishing was reported from the
Russian front at Mukden and failure
on the part of the japanese to cut com
munications.
The Russian War Office was reported
MS having received information thai
Field Marshal Oyama's army does not
exceed 10000 men.
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Russian brasses are possibly the
heaviest and finest in quality and
color. One may find them in the queer
little Russian shops in the lower part
of New York and Boston. The grow
ing interest in brasses has encouraged
their importation, and if one has pa
tience to barter, many artistic treas
ures may be obtained at very reasona-
Bile prices. The most characteristic
piece is the samovar. These are treas
ured very highly by those who are for
tunate enough to possess them. They
are found in innumerable shapes and
sizes, a witness to the tea drinking.
habits of the Russians. Every Russian
peasant who is prosperous enough TO
enjoy the luxury of tea has his sam
ovar. At all inns each visitor is sup
piled with one. They invariably ac-
company the traveller and the pic
nicker, and even the officers starting
out for a campaign find room for a
small one in their baggage. Samovar
signifies "self-boiler." 1t is made of
brass, lined with tin, and with a tube
in the centre in which the hot cinders
of charcoal are placed after having
been ignited. often a pipe connects
it with the chimney, and two friends
will sit for hours drinking the boiling
hot weak tea.-Harper's Bazaar.
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only Word From Letters In Order.

1T seems odd that the English al
phabet, out of which can be construct
ed several hundred thousand words,
contains just one word formed by the
letters in their present ORDER" re-
marked the Observant young man.
THAT word is No You a look the
alphabet over, and you won't find any
other combination of vowel and con-
sonant characters that will form a
word.
The nearest approach is ABB which
by straining q point might be consid-
cred an abbreviation of Abraham or
Hi which might answer as short for
Hiram But No one of the shortest
words in the language, is the only
bona fide word formed in the arrange
ment of the alphabet's twenty-six
characters philadelphia Record.
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CARS FLEET DESTROYED
Port Arthur Squadron Annihilated
by Metre Hill Guns.
NEARLY EVERY VESSEL is SUNK.

-four Naval Gums of the JAPANESE Army
on 203 Metre Hill Accomplish Task
Begun by Their Navy Weeks Ago-En-
tire Harbor Now at Mercy of Foes Cam
n~on-Jap Losses Heavy. e-ta
Toxic, Japan.-A bulletin from Gen
eral Nogi's headquarters indicates that
the Russian feet in Port Arthur has
been wholly destroyed. The army has
accomplished that which Admiral To-
go's ships could not do. The destruc-
fion of the fleet makes it unnecessary
Tor the commander of the Third Army
to sacrifice his soldiers in storming the
remaining land forts. There is now no
refuge in the East for the Baltic war
Ships sent to assist Russia's naval pow
er at the scene of hostilities. The three
N~ladivostok cruisers are shut in by ice,
II with the japanese guns domin-
ating Port Arthur harbor the Baltic
heet Will have no place of refuge and
no base from which to fight.
The announcement from the Third
Army Corps headquarters that the bat
tleship Seyastopol was sunk by the
stern and that the battleship Peres-
Wet was under water to her tunnels
settled all question of danger from the
once formidable warships in the har-
Dor. Admiral Togo has now four bat
fleShips, seven armored cruisers and
fourteen protected cruisers in addition
TO a feet of torpedo boat destroyers
n torpedo boats, and with these he
can either wait for the Baltic fleet or
sail to meet the division which has
come through the Suez Canal. In any
event, Port Arthur has ceased to be the
main objective of Japan. The 1000 or
1900 Russian soldiers imprisoned there
are not a menace in the Japanese stu
htion, and with the fleet destroyed
there is little doubt that two-thirds of
General Nogi's army either is on the
way or soon will be despatched to rein
force Marshal Oyama's divisions on the
left bank of the Sha.
In five days four naval guns on 2O3-
lletre Hill have destroyed battleships
and first class cruisers whose estimated
value is $1O,000,000 in money. 1t was
impossible for these ships to escape to
sea. ror q month past the entire outer
harbor has been so mined that no war
ship could avoid destruction in an at
tempt to pass out. All the small JAP
anese warships were engaged in this
work, and so successfully, it now turns
out, that the three Russian ships which
attempted to drag the mines were de-
stroyed. A bulletin announced that
the famous cruiser Bayan was on fire.
Another dispatch said that the Bayan
was sunk to her topmasts and that the
Pallada. a cruiser Of the first class,
had also gone down by her stern. In
this dispatch the news was confirmed
that the Retvizan was under water and
that the battleship Poltava had shown
a heavy list. No account was made
OF the torpedo boats and torpedo boat.
destroyers, nor of the two harbor de-
Tense boats, but it was assumed that
they have been destroyed.
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FAMILY SLAIN, HOME BURNED.
Farmer Supposed to Have Killed Wife,
Girls and Himself.

Farmer Supposed to Have Killed Wife,
Girls and Himself.
Columbia, S. C.-Aroused by a fire
that was destroying the house of Ben
-5aI6ipB- Hughes, at 5 o'clock in the
morning, the inhabitants of Trenton
a village in Edgefield County, rushed
to the scene and found themselves in
the presence of a terrible tragedy.
Hughes, his wife, and two daughters
were found dead, the mar shot through
the head and the wife and girls with
their heads crushed in. All four bodies
were badly charred.
Emily and Hattie Hughes, aged nine
teen and fifteen respectively, had been
murdered as they slept in the same
bed. The wife, in a room across the
hall, vas also killed in her bed. The
father lay on the floor near by, a pis-
tol, mi chamber of which had been
discharged, resting near his right hand.
Hughes was fOrty-two years old, and
a merchant and farmer, supposed to be
prosperous. There is no reason known
why he should have been murdered, as
he was on good terms with the people
Of the community. The circumstances
would seem to indicate that he slew
his family and after setting fire to the
house committed suicide. Bloodhounds
were brought to the Dcene, but could
find no trail, and in the absence of a
motive those who hold to the theory
of murder could not solve the mystery.
There was no sign that anybody left
the house after the fire started.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-12-16

Anyone who has tried the sub-sur-
face system of watering house plants
knows that it is much better than sur
face watering. 1t can be done by set
ting the pots in a shallow tank or pan
of water, each day allowing the water
to be drawn up through the soil by
capillary attraction. Or water can be
poured into the saucers under the pots.
The soil should not be thoroughly sat
urated, at least not often, as the ex-
cessive moisture will drive out the air,
robbing the plant roots of hydrogen.
The surface soil should be kept loose
to the depth of half an inch. Char
coal is very useful in the soil for house
plants. 1t helps drainage and keeps
the soil sweet.
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s5o,ooo,ooo yearly For Golf.

Would you imagine that something
like S50,GOO,000 could be spent yearly
on the game of golf? To begin with,
there are $40 golf clubs in England,
T69 in the United States, 632 in canny
Scotland, 1874 in Ireland, 43 in Wales,
and SO in different parts of the CONT
nent. There are, all told. probably not
less than 1000 organizations devoted
to golf playing
These clubs, counting their grounds,
buildings and preliminary expenses,
represent a permanent investment of
$40,0OO,O00 or $50,O00,O00; and com
p%aratively few of them can be run at
a yearly expense of less than $4,000.
The average membership is about 200,
and the average yearly subscriptions
of these 100000 golf players amounts
to nearly $2O,000,O 900. Each of the
players is equipped with an outfit
that costs on an average about $40;
and the yearly purchase of golf clubs,
all oyer the world, amounts, therefore,
to several millions of dollars.-Spring-
field Union.